A portable vacuum pressure graphing gauge device enabling users of vacuum systems the ability to see trends of vacuum systems through real time plotting of a pressure vs. time curve on a hand held instrument, enabling them to understand what is going on in their system, or the like. A device may include several graphical modes designed to even more easily interpret vacuum data, and packaging that is rugged and versatile including a magnet, kickstand, wireless connectivity, visual and audible set points, automatic sensor fault detection, and several vacuum pressure measurement units to choose from, or the like.

The invention relates to a capacitive vacuum measuring cell having a first housing body (1) with a membrane (2) which is arranged at a distance therefrom so as to form a seal in the edge region (3) in such a way that a reference vacuum space (9) is formed therebetween, wherein opposite surfaces (7, 8) of the first housing body and of the membrane (2) comprise at least one electrode (G, G1, G2, . . . Gn, M1, M2, . . . Mn). A second housing body (4) is provided so as to form a seal with respect to the membrane (2) in the edge region and forms, with said membrane, a measuring vacuum space (10) in which connection means (5) are provided for connection to a process space.

The invention relates to a capacitive vacuum measuring cell having a first housing body (1) with a membrane (2) which is arranged at a distance therefrom so as to form a seal in the edge region (3) in such a way that a reference vacuum space (9) is formed therebetween, wherein opposite surfaces (7, 8) of the first housing body and of the membrane (2) comprise at least one electrode (G, G1, G2, . . . Gn, M1, M2, . . . Mn). A second housing body (4) is provided so as to form a seal with respect to the membrane (2) in the edge region and forms, with said membrane, a measuring vacuum space (10) in which connection means (5) are provided for connection to a process space.

Speech recognition of a stream of spoken utterances is initiated. Thereafter, a spoken utterance stop event to stop the speech recognition is detected, such as in in relation to the stream. The spoken utterance stop event is other than a pause or cessation in the stream of spoken utterances. In response to the spoken utterance stop event being detected, the speech recognition of the stream of spoken utterances is stopped, while the stream of spoken utterances continues. After stopping the speech recognition of the stream of spoken utterances has been stopped, an action is caused to be performed that corresponds to the spoken utterances from a beginning of the stream through and until the spoken utterance stop event.

A notification system includes: detection means (110) for detecting an acoustic event from voice data transmitted from a communication terminal held by a target person; and notification means (120) for sending a predetermined notification when the detection means (110) has detected the acoustic event. Accordingly, it is possible to determine the state of a target person regardless of the state of this person. Further, when the difference between an acoustic pattern of the voice data transmitted from the communication terminal and acoustic patterns registered in advance is outside a predetermined range, a management server (101) does not send a notification, whereby it is possible to prevent communication traffic from being increased based on unnecessary notifications.

A load lock pressure gauge comprises a housing configured to be coupled to a load lock vacuum chamber. The housing supports an absolute vacuum pressure sensor that provides instantaneous high vacuum pressure signal over a range of high vacuum pressures and a differential diaphragm pressure sensor that provides an instantaneous differential pressure signal between load lock pressure and ambient pressure. The housing further supports an absolute ambient pressure sensor. A low vacuum absolute pressure is computed from the instantaneous differential pressure signal and the instantaneous ambient pressure signal. A controller in the housing is able to recalibrate the differential diaphragm pressure sensor based on measured voltages of the sensor and a measured ambient pressure during normal operation of the pressure gauge with routine cycling of pressure in the load lock.

A computing device may be configured to receive a content asset and to determine whether the content asset comprises one or more triggers. The trigger may be a word, phrase, or passcode that alerts a voice activated device to the presence of a voice command and may serve as an instruction to the voice activated device to cause execution of the voice command. In response to determining that the content asset comprises one or more triggers, the computing device may be configured to insert one or more signal markers into the content asset at a location corresponding to the one or more triggers, and to cause transmission and/or presentation of the content asset with the one or more signal markers. The signal markers may cause a voice activated device to ignore a voice command in the content asset, despite the presence of one or more triggers.

Voice input is received from a user. An ASR system generates in memory a set of words it has identified in the voice input, and update the set each time it identifies a new word in the voice input to add the new word to the set, during at least one interval of speech activity. Information is pre-retrieved whilst the speech activity interval is still ongoing, for conveying in a response to be outputted at the end of the speech activity interval.

A pressure step is applied to the interior of a compartment. A sensor which measures the pressure within compartment, in response of the prevailing pressure level, and the transient step response oscillation frequency is used to identify the gas or gas mixture present in the compartment.

A pressure step is applied to the interior of a compartment. A sensor which measures the pressure within compartment, in response of the prevailing pressure level, and the transient step response oscillation frequency is used to identify the gas or gas mixture present in the compartment.