COMPUTER PROGRAMS OPTIMIZATION

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
BLEND	Honeywell International Inc.	855 S. Mint Street Charlotte NC 28202	Computer programs for optimization and scheduling of product blending and instruction manuals that accompany the programs;
BLEND 2000	BONNER & MOORE ASSOCIATES, INC.	2727 Allen Parkway Houston TX 77019	computer programs for optimization and scheduling of product blending and instruction manuals that accompany the programs;
OPTRAC	HYDRO-QUEBEC	Department of Legal Affairs 75, René-Lévesque Boulevard West Montreal, Quebec H2Z1A4 Canada	computer programs for optimization of linear infrastructure routing, namely, roads, railroads, powerlines, pipelines, communication lines and waterlines;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

The shape of windows used during linear predictive analysis can be optimized through the use of gradient-descent based window optimization procedures. Window optimization may be achieved fairly precisely through the use of a primary optimization procedure, or less precisely through the use of an alternate optimization procedure. Both optimization procedures use the principle of gradient-descent to find a window sequence that will either minimize the prediction error energy or maximize the segmental prediction gain. However, the primary optimization procedure uses a Levinson-Durbin based algorithm to determine the gradient while the alternate optimization procedure uses an estimate of the gradient based on the basic definition of a derivative. These optimization procedures can be implemented as computer readable software code. Additionally, the optimization procedures may be implemented in a window optimization device which generally includes a window optimization unit and may also include an interface unit.