US07769844B2
An apparatus, program product and method locally track protocol progress information within each member of a group in a clustered computer system that is capable of identifying at least one problematic member of the group. By locally tracking such information, any member of the group may be directed to provide such information on demand in response to a query directed to such member.
US07769843B2
A server migration tool used to construct data center migration scenarios allowing for a user to rapidly manipulate a large number of input parameters required to describe a transformation from one data center configuration to a new data center configuration. The tool then performs the transformation and allows the user to interact with new data center configuration to understand its performance. A novel parameterization, speed independent service demand (SISD), greatly facilitates scaling performance metrics between different hardware platforms.
US07769841B2
A method, system and/or computer program product for managing the use of media content ratings information by a media content receiver, including communicating media content for presentation by a media content receiver; communicating media content ratings information for the media content, the media content ratings information being communicated discretely from the media content. The communicating operations include one or both of transmitting and receiving the content and/or ratings information.
US07769839B2
A method (and structure) for automatically configuring a network including a plurality of interconnected computers, includes configuring more than one of the plurality of computers to assume a role as a designated router which determines a current network configuration by determining which computers are currently on-line, using this determined current network configuration to determine a current network topology that defines a neighborhood relationship among the interconnected computers currently on-line, and communicating the current network topology to the network. The method also includes defining a priority criterion and automatically selecting one of the computers according to the priority criterion to serve the role as designated router.
US07769827B2
A system and method that provide a hosted application and associated services for encoding, indexing, publishing and searching video media to content owners on a public network. The system and method allow the user interface to be customized and injected into the content-owner's website using dynamic HTML and template-based presentation mechanisms, thereby greatly enhancing the website's branding, advertising, and community building capabilities.
US07769826B2
Systems and methods of determining DNS information, such as an IP address, associated with a domain name. The methods using a cache segregated to store various domain name system (DNS) data in different data structures. The data structures are configured for minimization of data retrieval times. In some embodiments, answer information is stored in a hash table. In these and other embodiments, times required to search for answers are essentially constant as a function of the number of labels comprising the domain name.
US07769811B2
Controlling the volume of an audible alert associated with an instant messaging communications session includes rendering, on a first instant messaging user system, an instant messaging application user interface for an instant messaging communications session involving at least a first instant messaging user and a second instant messaging user, receiving notification of an event related to the instant messaging communications session, determining a characteristic of the event, accessing an audible alert to be rendered to signal existence of the event, adjusting based upon the determined characteristic of the event a volume of the audible alert corresponding to the event, and rendering the audible alert to signal existence of the event.
US07769797B2
Apparatus and method of multiplication using a plurality of identical partial multiplication modules
A multiplication apparatus including a multiplier and multiplicand extractor for dividing the multiplicand into partial multiplicands and dividing the multiplier into partial multipliers, and for generating partial input pairs by combining the partial multiplicands with the partial multipliers, and a multiplication executor including identical partial multiplication modules for receiving the partial input pairs and outputting partial carries and partial products. The apparatus further includes an output generator for combining the partial carries with the partial products according to the execution instruction to generate a final output. For simple multiplications, each of the partial multiplication modules can pass data to and from an adjacent partial multiplication module to calculate the partial carry and the partial product, and pass bits exceeding its own multiplication coverage.
US07769795B1
End-to-end residue-based protection of an execution pipeline that supports floating point operations
An end-to-end residue-based protection scheme protects multiple units/blocks of a floating point execution pipeline without the complexity and cost of having multiple protection schemes for the execution pipeline. Protecting an execution pipeline that supports floating point operations includes factoring in component operations, such as normalization and rounding, into a residue generated for a result. In addition, residues of operands are distilled to extract their corresponding mantissa residues, thus allowing the floating point operations (e.g., multiplication, addition, etc.) to be applied to the mantissa residues.
US07769787B2
A method and system for maintaining originality-related information about elements in an editable object. It is determined that an element has been edited in the editable object. The originality-related information about the element, including the element's creator, is identified and recorded by embedding the originality-related information in the editable object, storing the originality-related information in an attached file, or storing the originality-related information in association with the element in a repository configured to be shared by different editable objects and further configured to be queried for elements of the different editable objects in association with originality-related information pertaining to the elements of the different editable objects. Whether the element is in compliance with a policy relating to the originality-related information about the element is assessed, and a result of the assessing (indicating compliance or non-compliance of the element with the policy) may be transmitted to a user.
US07769786B2
In an embodiment of the present invention, two or more metrics may be measured from the group consisting of: the user's age, the user's gender, the user's race, the user's geographic location, the user's annual income, the user's profession, types of areas of the search engine that the user frequents, types of searches that the user typically conducts, and the user's prior history (short and/or long-term) of clicking on advertisements. A propensity-to-click score may then be calculated for the user based on the two or more measured metrics. Then this score may be used to dynamically determine how to present advertising in response to a search by the user.
US07769783B2
Methods and systems for computing algebraic equations are disclosed, with particular relevance to financial analytics. Analytic formulas may be represented as data, and the analytic system may be structured as a kind of an analytic interpretation engine in a database layer of a system. Because analytic formulas may be represented as data in some table or tables, analytics can be added, deleted or modified without having to make changes to the analytic engine's source code. The analytic engine may be implemented in some relational language, such as a dialect of SQL, to manipulate and compute the analytic formulas stored in the database.
US07769781B1
A method for calculating numerical values in a manner which can be interpreted as encoding places in a hierarchy, and are in a format convenient for storage and retrieval on computer systems. The numerical values are calculated by associating paths in a hierarchy with sub-sequences of terms of a mathematical series where an ordering of the sub-sequences according to the occurrence of the first terms of the sub-sequences in the mathematical series is the same as an ordering of the magnitude of the sums of the terms of the sub-sequences. Said numerical values can be conveniently stored as integer or floating-point data types commonly used in computer systems and as such assigned to appropriate data elements in a data structure which defines serial relationships between the items it stores. Thus this invention enables sequential data structures such as arrays, linked lists and databases to store and retrieve tree structure data efficiently.
US07769780B2
An information processing apparatus that configures an operation screen formed by one or more user interface components in which a parameter value is a base of displaying the user component, the apparatus includes: a meta-information storage that stores meta-information in which a user having a privilege to change a parameter value and an influence range which is under influence of the changed parameter are stored; a parameter storage that stores a parameter value set by a user; a parameter change section that changes the parameter value stored in the parameter storage in accordance with a request from a user; and an operation screen configuration section that configures the operation screen to display by specifying the influence range based on the meta-information of each parameter contained in the user interface component, and acquiring the parameter value from the parameter storage.
US07769776B2
System and methodology for performing Bayesian-based distributed query processing is provided that solves the problem of how to get each server participating in a Bayesian distributed search system to return the same accurate relevance score for different documents. By performing calculations in a two-step process, accurate Bayesian calculation results are obtained whilst distributing the document indexing and query processing.
US07769771B2
When a search request is input, an initial search result that matches the search request is displayed to a user. When a seed document set is selected by the user from the initial search result, an extension word set is extracted from the seed document set. Using the extension word set in addition to the search request, another search is performed.
US07769765B2
A method and system for sorting mail includes the steps of imaging a face surface of the mailpieces to acquire mailpiece delivery information and distributing the mailpiece image to a virtual sorting station. The virtual sorting station is operative to sort each mailpiece image into one of a plurality of database files based upon common mailpiece delivery information. Depending upon the number of virtual sorting stations required to perform the sorting operation, the mailpiece delivery information contained in each database file may be processed by a system controller and/or transmitted to an automated mailpiece sorting device where each mailpiece is physically sorted into one of a plurality of mailpiece containers. The system for sorting mail includes an imaging device, a virtual sorting station for virtually sorting the mailpiece images and an automated sorting station for physically sorting the actual mailpieces. The system may include a plurality of virtual sorting stations wherein operators at each station provide address interpretation data to sort the mailpieces.
US07769758B2
A bundle database management system comprises a search server including a bundle definition unit for defining a core word and a relevant word connected to the core word, and connection relation between the core and relevant words to generate and store bundle data; a description definition unit for defining description data corresponding to the core and relevant words; a search request receiving unit for receiving a search request including a specific search word input by a user; a search result page generating unit for generating a search result page including the bundle data retrieved by the search word as a core word and the description data retrieved by the core word; and a search result page transmitting unit for transmitting the search result page to the user; and a user terminal connected to the search server for transmitting the search request and receiving the search result page.
US07769743B2
A media management system for and method of increasing value of media content are provided wherein content attributes associated with media content are stored, a target entry list is generated, and a resultant scenario calculated with an associated financial figure.
US07769740B2
The disclosure describes systems and methods of ranking user interest in physical entities based on the attention given to those entities as determined by an analysis of communications from devices over multiple communication channels. The attention ranking systems allow any “Who, What, When, Where” entity to be defined and ranked based, at least in part, on information obtained from communications between users and user proxy devices. An entity rank is generated for entity known to the system in which the entity rank is derived from the information in communications that are indicative of user actions related to the entity. The entity ranks are then used to modify the display of information or data associated with the entities. The system may also generate a personal rank for each entity based on the relation of the entity to a specified user.
US07769733B2
Systems and computer products that improve the techniques used to search multidimensional databases over techniques of the past. The preferred embodiment of the present invention advantageously improves the technique of determining a grid index that is used to locate a geometric shape in a spatial database. More particularly, the preferred embodiment of the present invention improves the technique of defining the grid cell size in a grid for a given data set, thereby improving the grid indexing process that locates a particular minimum-bounding rectangle and the associated geometric shape.
US07769727B2
Update-delete conflicts detected during synchronization can be resolved in favor of the update or the deletion. Resolving the conflict in favor of the deletion results in the entity deleted on one replica being deleted on all selected replicas. Resolving the conflict in favor of the update results in the updated entity, which includes an entity moved from one hierarchy to another, being replicated on all selected replicas. To resolve the conflict in favor of the update, the deletion is treated as though it were reported erroneously. The deleted entity is resurrected in the form of the updated entity. Change version information is maintained in all replicas. Update-delete conflicts are resolvable in accordance with various resolution policies such as the update wins, deletion wins, changes occurring on a particular device wins, and most recent event wins, for example.
US07769717B2
A method for transferring data from a source computer to a destination computer, and restarting the source computer transmission after a halt of the transmission, has the following steps. The source computer inserts a checkpoint number into a data stream, the data flowing in the data stream. The checkpoint number is stored at the source computer. The data stream is halted in response to an error in a path of the data stream. The destination computer locates the last checkpoint number successfully received before halting the data stream. The last checkpoint number successfully received before halting the data stream is transferred to the source computer; and the source computer compares it with checkpoint numbers stored in the source computer to determine where in the data stream to resume transfer of the data. Transfer of the data is resumed in response to the last checkpoint number.
US07769715B2
A system, method, and computer program product is disclosed for synchronizing access permissions across at least two disparate database systems. A source database system is coupled to a destination database system, using an asynchronous parallel processing system with a set of processing engines whereby each of the processing engines has independent access, separate from each other processing engines, to both the source database and the destination database. A set of self-contained synchronization rules for synchronizing access permissions from the source database system to the destination database system is distributed to execute on the set of processing engines, wherein each of the self-contained synchronization rules are XML formatted data to define a conversion mapping for access permissions from the source database system to analogous access permissions on a destination database and each of the self-contained synchronization rules are able to execute on a processing engine independently.
US07769714B2
An approach is provided to automatically resolve conflict between instantiation and ongoing data replication operations. In an embodiment, incremental change records that describe one or more database operations are received at a sink entity. Here, all of the one or more database operations have occurred in a second database after a particular time. A first database operation in the one or more database operations to a particular row in the first database is applied. When a conflict with a second database operation that operates on the particular row is detected, one or more compensating actions, which may, but are not limited to, be a different database operation and/or an operation that creates a conflict log entry, may be performed. Here, the second database operation has occurred in the second database prior to the particular time. When the second database operation is to be performed, an appropriate operation may be performed.
US07769710B2
A method and system for generating data reports are provided. An offset parameter is received. A reporting length is determined from the offset parameter. A query is executed based upon the reporting length. A data record is extracted from a database based upon the query.
US07769707B2
Privacy of data can be preserved while utility of the output is maximized by selecting from an appropriately calculated distribution of noise values to add to an output. A distribution that includes a high likelihood of large noise values may lead to less useful output data. Conversely, a distribution that includes very low likelihood of large noise values may lead to less privacy. A distribution should be calculated to provide an appropriate level of output utility and privacy based on the query that is performed and the desired privacy level.
US07769700B1
A method and a system for collecting, segregating, and transmitting data relating to the use of a value metering system are described. A system and a method for dynamically updating collection, segregation, and/or transmission rules are also described.
US07769693B2
In one embodiment, a licensing authority receives a rehost ticket indicating proof of removal of a license from a first device. The licensing authority receives a request for a license for a second device. The licensing authority validates the rehost ticket to ensure that the license on the first device has been removed from the first device. The licensing authority provides a license for the second device if the rehost ticket is successfully validated, wherein the license that has been removed from the first device and the license for the second device provide the same license capabilities. The first device and the second device are associated with the same customer. Payment has been received for the license associated with the first device but payment has not been received for a separate license capable of being applied to the second device.
US07769691B2
Modern enterprises, particularly technology companies, often provide benefits that are sold or given to their customers or partners. For example, an enterprise's customers, or selected subsets of customers, may be entitled to receive product upgrades, product updates or product support. The types and levels of service to which a particular customer is entitled may vary across services and customers. A mechanism is provided to determine, in response to a request for a service, often, but not necessarily, to be delivered electronically, if the requesting recipient is entitled to the service. In determining if the recipient is entitled to the service, an administrator-configurable set of profile attributes values associated with a package of services containing the requested service is compared with corresponding values for said recipient.
US07769676B2
An exchange offer for securities where the exchange ratio is determined at or shortly after the end of the initial tender period. The exchange ratio can be determined based on a formula using trading data (and/or other variables) for the involved or other securities over a look-back period that covers the end or final portion of the tender period.
US07769645B1
A financial services outsourcing method or system facilitates a direct service provider's ability to outsource financial services to numerous ultimate clients. The financial services are outsourced to an outsourcing group abroad. Ultimate client specific financial files and corresponding reference materials are loaded onto a remotely accessible part of a host server located in the United States. The host server provides access to a remote client computer of information concerning the ultimate client specific financial files and corresponding reference materials. The access may be limited to limited screen shot access. Outsourced personnel are retained to perform financial service projects (e.g., prepare individual tax returns) for ultimate clients of direct financial services firms. The outsourced personnel perform the financial service projects while located outside the United States. The status of the financial service project is monitored and reported.
US07769643B2
A system for providing products to a customer operates with an open purchase order having an acceptable inventory range bounded by a lower and an upper limit for each product supplied to the customer. The system includes a storage unit, a first processing unit that maintains a product inventory count, and a second processing unit that monitors the product inventory count. A system for transferring electronic files includes a first processing unit that stores and transfers the electronic file, generates a pointer associated with the transferred electronic file, generates a reference electronic file and thereafter includes the pointer in the reference electronic file. A second processing unit then displays the reference electronic file. A system for generating composite electronic files includes a first processing unit having composite locations including component electronic files, and generating the composite electronic files when the respective composite location is accessed from a second processing unit.
US07769640B2
In an online marketplace environment, a connection provider can provide various strategies to a seller of items on one or more online sales channels. In one implementation, a method for selling one or more items on an online sales channel includes measuring product activity on the online sales channel and assessing an average selling price for the one or more items. The method includes comparing a target recovery price for the one or more items for sale with the average selling price and adjusting one or more selling factors to cause the average selling price to approach or exceed the target recovery price. The one or more auction factors can be adjusted to affect product activity on the online sales channel.
US07769639B2
A technique for the allocation and pricing of a resource among n buying agents during an auction bid. A bid sent by each buying agent in the form of a resource demand function si(p) is received, and a datum corresponding to the equilibrium price p* is calculated from the sum S of the n demand functions si(p), by means of the relation: S(p*)=Q. All of the bids received during a predetermined period corresponding to a round of bidding are processed in order to determine the quantity of a resource to be allocated to each buying agent. This is followed by the calculation of the data corresponding to the quantity ai to be allocated for this equilibrium price p* to each buying agent i based on its demand function si such that ai=si(p*). The management system utilizes the calculated data to allocate the corresponding quantities of the resource, and this data is stored in order to calculate the price to be billed to each buying agent.
US07769636B1
A printing service system comprises a portal site computer connected to a portable terminal and a print station via a network. The portal site computer transmits the contents of which reservation for printing has been made by the portable terminal to the print station via the network, and prints out them. The portal site computer establishes a printing reservation site for reserving printing of contents via the network, and stores reservation information on contents in which the portable terminal accesses to the printing reservation site, thereby making a reservation for printing, corresponding to user identification information on the portable terminal. When the portal site computer receives the user identification information transmitted from the print station, it reads the reservation information on the contents corresponding to the received user identification information. Then, the portal site computer transmits the contents corresponding to the read reservation information to the print station. Thus, a place for requesting contents and a place for reserving contents printout are not constrained.
US07769634B2
A conditional e-coupon distribution method distributes e-coupons predefined by sellers to mobile users only if the number of mobile users requesting such e-coupons equals or exceeds a threshold. The method receives a request to browse e-coupons from a mobile user. The method receives the location of the mobile user and determines a plurality of sellers local to the mobile electronic device and a plurality of corresponding e-coupons available from the local sellers. The method receives a request for a particular e-coupon from a seller and authorizes the provision of said e-coupon to the mobile user. At the end of a processing cycle, the mobile user receives the requested e-coupon if all conditions, such as a period of time and threshold, have been met. A computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein allows for storage of the method.
US07769633B2
Advertising messages are provided to mobile terminals of those users identified by user information as meeting certain criteria, such as users fitting particular user profiles and/or users located in a particular desired location. The content of the advertising messages is dynamically generated based on the number of mobile terminals to whom the advertising message is to be sent and the advertising message is sent to the identified mobile terminals over a mobile network or a short range communication signal. In the latter case, location information may be sent to the mobile terminal along with an advertising message. Where the content of an advertising message comprises an electronic coupon, the value of the coupon depends on the number of mobile terminals to whom the advertising message is to be sent. A mobile terminal user can redeem an electronic coupon by transmitting it from his mobile terminal to a coupon redemption terminal.
US07769625B2
A method of and system for defining a sales promotion including consolidating sales promotion data in a data warehouse are disclosed. The method includes receiving in a computerized system first and second sales promotion data corresponding to first and second sales promotions from the data warehouse, and grouping the first and second sales promotion data to define third promotion data corresponding to a third sales promotion. The system includes means for receiving first and second sales promotion data corresponding to first and second sales promotions from the data warehouse, and means for grouping the first and second sales promotion data to define third promotion data corresponding to a third sales promotion.
US07769622B2
New functions for a contact center system include: testing user's comprehension of informational messages with a quiz; capturing insight of superior users having a KPI score above a threshold by having those users submit information on why they perform so well; dynamically ordering solutions to issues by re-ranking the solutions periodically based on recency and frequency; integrating information for use by a contact center representative while online with a customer and information for use when not online; storing content items in a telecommunications industry taxonomy; directing user feedback on a content item to the proper owner/manager of that content; communicating solution information using a solutions taxonomy; displaying a dual information system having a CRM application as well as reference material that is context-appropriate; enforcing completion of a group of templates when creating a content item to be published; ensuring a group of templates for a content item are complete before publishing them; and searching within a contact center system portal using a continuum of search functions.
US07769621B2
A system and method of collecting and trading statistical information between users is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the information is traded via a network, such as the Internet. The method for trading information includes the step of collecting information from a user at a first location, having a confidential data portion and an exchange data portion. Only the exchange data portion is transmitted to a central location. An exchanged data set is defined at the central location. The exchange data set is updated using the exchange data portion. An output data set is determined from the exchange data set, wherein the output data set is accessible by one or more users.
US07769610B2
A system and method of booking an itinerary on at least one of a multiplicity of host environments include a plurality of host adaptor modules. Each host adaptor module is configured to interact with one of the plurality of host ticketing environments. A booking engine is provided for receiving commands related to booking the air travel itinerary and determining an appropriate host ticketing environment for processing the commands based on a number of predefined criteria. When the booking engine receives a command it forwards the command to a first host adaptor module which is associated with first host ticketing environment selected by the booking engine for processing the command. The host adaptor module receives the command and issues the command to said first host ticketing environment. The first host adaptor module in turn receives a response from the first host ticketing environment and determines whether the response comports with an expected response. If the response does not comport with the expected response, the booking engine identifies a second appropriate host environment for processing the command and forwards the command to a second host adaptor module associated with the second host ticketing environment. The second host adaptor module then issues the command to the second host ticketing environment.
US07769602B2
In a controller which controls a reader for reading a radiographic image recorded in a cassette, a display controlling device is provided for the user to select one of three modes. The three modes are a pre-registration, a post-registration mode, and a non-registration mode. In the pre-registration mode, radiographing is conducted to acquire an image after the relationship between information of the body part to be radiographed and the cassette has been registered as radiographing reservation information. In the post-registration mode, an image is acquired after the relationship between information of the body part to be radiographed and the cassette insertion order has been registered as radiographing reservation information. In the non-registration mode, an image is acquired without registration of any relationship as radiographing reservation information and the following processes are continued according to the user's selected mode.
US07769596B1
Computer implemented methods and systems are provided for intelligent service traffic management. A request is received from a mobile device for mobile device service. A location of the mobile device is determined. One or more retail service centers is identified based on the location of the mobile device. A wait for the mobile device service is estimated at each of the retail service centers. The estimated wait and each location of the retail service centers are provided to the mobile device.
US07769589B2
Disclosed is a system for providing an electronic program guide and a method of providing the same, the electronic program guide (EPG) being about a plurality of programs supplied through a digital broadcasting system, including the steps of receiving service information transmitted from the digital broadcasting system, and extracting the EPG information from the service information to store the EPG information; analyzing a user's request and extracting EPG information that meets the user's request from the stored EPG information to produce tailored EPG information; converting the tailored EPG information into speech EPG information; and reproducing the speech EPG information as speech to provide users with the EPG information.
US07769588B2
The method of operating a man-machine interface unit includes classifying at least one utterance of a speaker to be of a first type or of a second type. If the utterance is classified to be of the first type, the utterance belongs to a known speaker of a speaker data base, and if the utterance is classified to be of the second type, the utterance belongs to an unknown speaker that is not included in the speaker data base. The method also includes storing a set of utterances of the second type, clustering the set of utterances into clusters, wherein each cluster comprises utterances having similar features, and automatically adding a new speaker to the speaker data base based on utterances of one of the clusters.
US07769584B2
An encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method enabling acquisition of high-quality decoded signal in scalable encoding of an original signal in first and second layers even if the second or upper layer section performs low bit-rate encoding. In the encoder, a spectrum residue shape codebook (305) stores candidates of spectrum residue shape vectors, a spectrum residue gain codebook (307) stores candidates of spectrum residue gains, and a spectrum residue shape vector and a spectrum residue gain are sequentially outputted from the candidates according to the instruction from a search section (306). A multiplier (308) multiplies a candidate of the spectrum residue shape vector by a candidate of the spectrum residue gain and outputs the result to a filtering section (303). The filtering section (303) performs filtering by using a pitch filter internal state set by a filter state setting section (302), a lag T outputted by a lag setting section (304), and a spectrum residue shape vector which has undergone gain adjustment.
US07769572B2
This invention relates generally to a method of simulating the signal of an electromagnetic source using one or more dipole sources. In the method a dipole source is located at an excitation location corresponding to a segment of the electromagnetic source to be simulated. The dipole source is activated, and an electromagnetic signal recorded at one or more receiver locations. This process is repeated for additional excitation locations corresponding to additional segments of the electromagnetic source. The data from the sequence of dipole source excitation locations is processed to determine the simulated signal of the electromagnetic source.
US07769570B2
Methods and systems for making a reference to a resource in modeling environments are disclosed. The resource to which the reference is made includes the data of the system designed and/or executed in the modeling environments. The system includes subsystems and hierarchical references are made to the data of the subsystems. In response to users' action to select one of the hierarchical references to the resource, the hierarchical references included in the selected hierarchical reference are provided to users so that the users may navigate the data of the subsystems and select one of the subsystems. If users activate the selected hierarchical reference, the data corresponding to the selected hierarchical reference is retrieved and provided to the users.
US07769568B2
Initial assumptions related to the service life of a particular item, such as a component section of a building, are mathematically modeled to construct an initial lifecycle condition relationship as condition index (CI) v. time. To update the model, empirical data may be input at any time. As modeled in an engineering management system, for example, inspections are performed on the item to verify actual condition with that predicted. Quantitative inspection data are then used to update the initial curve. As inspections are performed and data recorded, the curve is updated to accurately capture observed condition and provide realistic estimates of predicted condition, and expected service life. In select embodiments of the present invention, empirical data, such as that from inspections, are weighted, e.g., inspection data may be weighted based on type, level of detail, time in service, time since last inspection and the like.
US07769567B2
A method of designing a pitch noise pitch sequence includes the steps of first defining the characteristics of the tire noise generated by tire tread lug stiffness variations and then defining a tire noise pitch sequence that yields the defined characteristics to provide preferred modulation characteristics and good level characteristics. A tire is provided having a pitch sequence designed from this method. The tire has five different pitches with pitch ratios of 1.00, 1.10, 1.25, 1.40, and 1.50.
US07769557B2
A multi-gas/gas-mixture or liquid flow sensor apparatus utilizing a specific media calibration capability. The flow sensor can be coupled with an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) that incorporates a signal conditioner and a memory module. The signal conditioner provides a high order calibration and signal processing of flow signals from the sensor to a processed signal output representative of the flow. The processed signal output can be stored in the memory module. A correction factor can be calculated and stored in the memory module in response to the stored values of the processed signal output, which tends to linearize the relationship between the flow rate and the processed signal output of a measuring system. The correction factor and/or the processed signal output provided by the signal conditioner can be utilized by the measuring system.
US07769554B2
There is implemented an instrument check system for storing check data of an instrument for a long period of time in an instrument body in a stylized format. The instrument check system comprises an instrument provided with an AD converter for converting a voltage value applied to an input terminal into a digital value, a checking PC connected to the instrument so as to communicate with the instrument, a voltage generation unit for applying a checking voltage value to the input terminal, a check data storage unit formed in the instrument, wherein the checking PC comprises an input check means for acquiring data that is converted from the voltage value into the digital value by the AD converter upon giving an instruction to the voltage generation unit, and storing the data in the check data storage unit.
US07769553B2
Method for compensating for phase errors in electromagnetic data by exploiting the frequency scaling properties of electromagnetic fields. The data are obtained at various source-receiver offsets. Then, temporal frequency components of the data at each offset R are determined. Next, the phase spectrum (phase vs. offset) for each of the frequency components is determined. Then, the phase spectra for the different frequencies f are displayed vs. scaled offset R√ω, where ω=2πf . Finally, the phase spectra are then adjusted such that the differences in phases for the different frequencies are reduced. The adjustment process can be repeated until phase differences are reduced to an acceptable level.
US07769543B2
A system for automated control of a refueling boom coupled to a tanker aircraft is provided. The system includes sensors such as electro-optical sensor or GPS sensors that provide measurements used by the system to automatically control the refueling boom so as to mate with a receiver aircraft. The system is configured to monitor the health of the sensors and to reconfigure itself if any of the sensor are faulty.
US07769540B2
An in-car navigation device has a route preview or simulation function. The name of the actual road along which the vehicle is simulated as moving is also displayed, just as it would be if the vehicle were actually travelling along the route. The status bar, or actually on the road itself. This ‘demonstrate route’ function is achievable because the device stores a database sequence of road names, together with the vectors and actions which define the roads of the calculated route (this route has been fully calculated in advance and stored in device memory). Records in this database that define the route can then be sequentially selected (say simulating progress at a rate that allows the entire journey to be completed in 15 seconds) and the device can then display simulated progress of the car along the vectors which define the roads of the calculated route on the map image.
US07769535B2
Method for dosing fuel injected into an engine, with a fuel quantity for an injector, the fuel quantity being divided into pilot and main injections for respective activation duration having activation duration corrective value, the method may include storing correlation data between fuel injection quantity and activation time under at least a state parameter of the injector, wherein the fuel injection quantity includes reference total injection quantities determined for predetermined operating states of the engine, determining a present operating state of the engine, placing the engine into one of the predetermined operating states, determining a present total injection quantity and a reference total injection quantity in one of the at least a state parameter of the injector, and defining the respective activation duration corrective value for the pilot and main injection considering a difference between the reference total injection quantity and the present total injection quantity.
US07769525B2
In a homogeneous charge compression-ignited internal-combustion engine, based on information regarding the operational state of the engine, a combustion mode switching discriminator selects a homogeneous charge compression-ignited combustion mode if engine operating conditions allow homogeneous charge compression-ignited combustion. If not, the combustion mode switching discriminator selects a spark-ignited combustion mode. Immediately after switching from spark-ignited combustion to homogeneous charge compression-ignited combustion, a combustion mode switching corrector outputs switching correction values for operating quantities for homogeneous charge compression-ignited combustion. The correction values are used to adjust the operating quantities for homogeneous charge compression-ignited combustion, and new operating quantities obtained from the adjustments are output as control quantities from a combustion mode selector.
US07769524B2
A system and method comprises receiving a mass air flow signal having a frequency that varies based on mass air flow in an intake manifold of an engine, determining first period data from the mass air flow signal, deriving first mass data for the mass air flow signal based on the first period data, cumulating the first period data and the first mass data for N cylinder events, wherein N is an integer greater than 1, and calculating a mass air flow between the N cylinder events from the cumulated first period data and the cumulated first mass data.
US07769523B2
A method of estimating an air-intake amount of an internal combustion engine is provided. The method may comprise detecting a fluid energy amount in an interior of an air-intake passage at first and second points in time while an intake valve is closed from a compression stroke to an exhaust stroke, and calculating a predicted air-intake amount using the values of the fluid energy amounts at the first and second points with reference to an air-intake amount calculation map showing a correlation between the values of the fluid energy amounts at the first and second points and the predicted air-intake amount in the intake stroke, the air-intake amount calculation map being pre-created by finding the values of the fluid energy amounts in the air-intake passage at the first and second points and the air-intake amount, for plural running states of the internal combustion engine.
US07769519B2
A motion control device for a vehicle is configured so that a hydraulic unit mounting therein a pump for generating a controlled hydraulic pressure applied to respective wheel cylinders of the vehicle is integrated with a control unit provided with a yaw rate sensor for detecting a yaw rate of the vehicle and capable of controlling the hydraulic unit. The pump is composed of a pump drive section, drivingly rotated by a motor, and pumping sections which perform a pump function with the rotation of the pump drive section. The yaw rate sensor, the motor and the pump are arranged to satisfy a positional relation that the extending direction of a detection axis of the yaw rate sensor does not coincide with both of the extending directions of a rotational axis of the motor and a rotational axis of the pump drive section.
US07769511B2
In a vehicle control apparatus having an arithmetic processing unit including an arithmetic unit, a storage unit and a communication unit, and an input/output unit including an signal input unit or a signal output unit and a communication unit, the arithmetic processing unit is connected to the input/output unit via a serial communication line, the input/output unit is equipped with an event management unit for detecting an event of a signal input or a signal output and notifying the event to the arithmetic processing unit; and the arithmetic processing unit is, equipped with an input/output management unit for performing data exchange between the signal input unit or the signal output unit and the storage unit via the communication units, in accordance with a request from the arithmetic unit and an event notice from the event management unit.
US07769509B2
A fixedly mountable event recorder for a railcar for monitoring performance of a brake system thereof includes (a) at least one port for receiving air from one or more brake system components; (b) at least one sensor for determining a pressure of the air received from the one or more brake system components; (c) a processor operative for analyzing the determined pressure to determine an operational condition of the brake system; and (d) an indicator configured to visually convey the operational condition of the brake system. The indicator includes a plurality of activatable visual indicia corresponding to a plurality of predefined operational condition status qualifiers associated with a corresponding plurality of predefined ranges of operational conditions. The predefined ranges of operational conditions are defined as a function of expected pressures associated with the respective one or more brake system components during corresponding operational conditions thereof.
US07769501B2
An electronic flight bag for use aboard an aircraft during flight is disclosed. The electronic flight bag includes an electronic storage device which acts as a container for storing various user-configurable flight-related objects, such as flight routes as defined by way-points, airport information that includes approach routes, associated fight charts or other desired charts, temporary flight restrictions, and weather information as well as any other user-defined data objects associated with the flight. For example, the electronic flight bag may be used in corporate aircraft and may include one or more data objects that relate to the corporate policies with respect to flights. The data objects may also include time-sensitive data and contain time flags that can be updated by way of a communication link during flight. In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the data objects are user-configurable so that a user can include virtually all information that is relevant to a particular flight.
US07769500B2
In a method for operating a drive unit, for at least one operating quantity of the drive unit, a deviation from an initial value is represented by an adaptation value, which adaptation value is determined at various times. In an extreme value storage unit, a first adaptation value, determined at a first point in time, is stored. A second adaptation value, determined at a second point in time after the first point in time, is compared with the first adaptation value stored in the extreme value storage unit to determine whether the second adaptation value exceeds the first adaptation value in a prespecified direction. In this case, the extreme value storage unit is overwritten by the second adaptation value.
US07769499B2
Sensors on a vehicle are used to sense different data corresponding to a plurality of metrics, which are related to a performance of driver while operating the vehicle. Values are determined for the metrics that are thus collected. These values are added together and the resulting total is normalized to produce a driver performance value or performance ranking. The metrics that are collected can include, for example, idle time data, acceleration and deceleration data, times that a speed limit is exceeded, and other metrics of interest to an owner of the vehicle for evaluating driver performance. A weighting factor can be applied to any metric considered of greater importance. The driver performance value can be displayed in real-time to the driver to provide an immediate feedback of performance, or the collected metrics can be transmitted to a remote location for determination of driver performance rankings at a later time.
US07769496B1
A method for minimizing risk of explosion using centralized communication with a decentralized hydrogen generation network to regulate hydrogen production by at least one hydrogen generating device, comprising the steps of: forming an administrator interface for centralized communication with dispatchable and/or non-dispatchable power sources and at least one hydrogen generating device, and forming a dynamic information database for collecting and storing identification and/or discretionary power consumption information of hydrogen generating devices and dispatchable and/or non-dispatchable power source information. Power is then selectively transferred from dispatchable and/or non-dispatchable power sources to hydrogen generating devices using the administrator interface to provide centralized management of hydrogen production. At least one message is transmitted to at least one hydrogen generating device for activation, deactivation, or decentralized hydrogen storage management, and at least one response is received from the hydrogen generating device for regulating hydrogen production.
US07769492B2
A robot system that includes a mobile robot and a portable control station that communicate through a cellular network. Utilizing a cellular network allows the control station to be a portable device such as a laptop computer or a personal digital assistant.
US07769486B2
A communication system for providing the ability to control, monitor or diagnose equipment such as a mobile storage system having a series of movable storage units. Each storage unit includes a controller or operational interface, and a communication interface is interconnected with the controller. The communication interface preferably provides access to the controller via the Internet, which enables access to the controller from virtually any location without the need for dedicated communication software. The communication system enables an owner to have access to information on the mobile storage system from any location, and also enables local service personnel and a manufacturer's customer service personnel to access information on the system from any location to assist in troubleshooting, servicing and maintenance.
US07769480B2
In an inspection procedure of a completed product of an automatic transmission main body at a unit factory, a control system transmits a control signal to an actuator to receive characteristic data (hardware performance information) output in response to operation of the automatic transmission main body according to the control signal. The hardware performance information of the automatic transmission main body is brought into correspondence with hardware identification information, and set in a database as learning value data. The learning value data of the automatic transmission main body is transferred to a vehicle factory to be aggregated in a database management system at the vehicle factory. When the automatic transmission main body is assembled with an electronic control device, learning value data of the automatic transmission main body is read out based on the hardware identification information from the database management system, and written into an AT_ECU during the inspection procedure of a completed vehicle at the vehicle factory.
US07769476B2
A data reproducing system includes: a receiver that receives streaming data via a network; a buffering device that buffers the received data; a reproducing unit that reproduces the data by reading the data from the buffering device; and a controller that controls a reproducing speed of the reproducing unit in response to excess and deficiency of an amount of buffer from a predetermined target value to maintain the amount of buffer of the buffering device at the target value.
US07769474B2
A method to supervise a local dynamical system having multiple preset control objectives and operating in conjunction with other dynamical systems. The method includes receiving state input from dynamical systems in an environment at a distributed soft computing level, generating weights and applying the weights to the preset control objectives using soft computing methods to form weighted control objectives. The weights are computed based on the received state input. The method also includes generating a command signal for the local dynamical system based on the weighted control objectives and transmitting the command signal to a controller in the local dynamical system.
US07769467B1
Methods of applying stimulation to a stimulation site within a patient include applying stimulation current to the stimulation site via at least one stimulating electrode, applying compensating current configured to affect at least one excitation field caused by the stimulation current via one or more additional electrodes, and dynamically adjusting the compensating current as a function of an amplitude of the stimulation current. Systems for applying stimulation to a stimulation site within a patient include an implantable stimulator, at least one stimulating electrode electrically coupled to the implantable stimulator, and one or more additional electrodes electrically coupled to the implantable stimulator. The stimulator is configured to apply stimulation current to the stimulation site via the at least one stimulating electrode, apply compensating current configured to affect at least one excitation field caused by the stimulation current via the one or more additional electrodes, and dynamically adjust the compensating current as a function of an amplitude of the stimulation current.
US07769454B2
In a patient management system, a remote monitoring device interrogates an implantable device on an intermittent basis over a wireless telemetry link, with interrogations being performed either according to a programmed schedule or upon receiving a command to do so via the user interface or the network interface. Described is a system and method for optimizing, limiting, and/or monitoring an implantable device's telemetry usage in order to avoid premature battery depletion and/or raise an alert if excessive battery depletion is beginning to occur.
US07769450B2
Various aspects of the present subject matter relate to a device. In various embodiments, the device comprises at least one port adapted to connect at least one lead, a CRM functions module connected to the port and adapted to provide at least one CRM function using the lead, a neural function module, and a controller connected to the CRM functions module and the neural function module. The at least one CRM function includes a function to provide an electrical signal to the lead to capture cardiac tissue. The neural function module includes a signal processing module connected to the port and adapted to receive and process a nerve traffic signal from the lead into a signal indicative of the nerve traffic. The controller is adapted to implement a CRM therapy based on the signal indicative of the nerve traffic. Other aspects are provided herein.
US07769449B2
An implantable medical device provides ventricular pacing capabilities and optimizes AV intervals for multiple purposes. In general, intrinsic conduction is promoted by determining when electromechanical systole (EMS) ends and setting an AV interval accordingly. EMS is determined utilizing various data including QT interval, sensor input, and algorithmic calculations.
US07769448B1
An implantable, multi-chamber cardiac stimulation device and method automatically adjust inter-chamber stimulation delays whenever stimulation rate is changed according to a patient's metabolic need. Inter-chamber stimulation delays include inter-atrial delays, inter-ventricular delays, and atrio-ventricular delays. Inter-chamber stimulation delays are defined according to whether the event which triggers the start of the delay is an intrinsic sensed event or the delivery of a stimulation pulse. Adjustment to inter-chamber stimulation delays is made as a function of the stimulation rate changes. By providing automatically adjustable inter-chamber stimulation delays optimal synchronization of heart chamber contractions may be maintained at all stimulation rates.
US07769444B2
A method of treating cardiac arrhythmias resulting from errant electrical signals conducted through the cardiac tissue from a source location. The magnitude of the errant signals is reduced by shunting electrical signals from the source location with an electrically conductive element having a sufficiently low impedance.
US07769439B2
A method and apparatus to balance the brain left side and the brain right side by using binaural beat is disclosed. The disclosed apparatus comprises an electroencephalographic (EEG) system to measure the brain left and right electrical signals, and an audio generator to generate a binaural beat to compensate for the unbalanced EEG frequencies. The disclosed method includes measuring the brain wave frequency spectrum of the individual, selecting the frequency exhibiting imbalanced behavior, and generating a binaural beat of that frequency. The binaural beat can be continuous or intermitten.
US07769438B2
A method and device for determining the location of electrical activity or hyperactivity of nerve cells in an anatomical structure of a body, wherein an electrical conductivity model of the anatomical structure is generated and electrical impulses are detected by at least one electrode. Using the model and the detected electrical impulses, the location or locations of the electrical activity in the anatomical structure are determined.
US07769435B2
An earphone sensor system for measuring electrocardiogram signals provides convenient and comfortable noninvasive electrocardiogram signal measuring for a subject. The electrocardiogram signal measuring system includes an electrocardiogram signal analyzing apparatus and an earphone sensing apparatus. The electrocardiogram signal analyzing apparatus includes an amplifier module, a microcontroller, a display, a radio module and a housing having conductive contacts. The earphone sensing apparatus includes an earphone and an electrode. The electrode is disposed in the earphone, and can be electrically connected to the subject for collecting the weak electrocardiogram signal at the head of the subject. By contacting the body surface of the testee with the housing having conductive contacts and the electrode, a basic loop for collecting the electrocardiogram signals is formed. The earphone sensor system can be associated with commercial gadgets and used for musical treatments and bio-feedback.
US07769432B2
The present invention provides a treatment method to excise a cancerous lesion, such as in the breast, with subsequent ablation of the margin. The method provides for location and excision with ablation under open guidance or guided imaging and for diagnosis by cytology. The method may be a minimally, invasive same day method with diagnosis before or immediately after excision. Also provided is a method of treating close or positive margins of an excisional site of a cancerous lesion in a breast by ablating the margin while monitoring the fluorescence of a fluorophor at the site to determine when ablation of the close or positive margin has occurred.
US07769425B2
A device performs MR imaging of a body (7) placed in a stationary and substantially homogeneous main magnetic field, with an RF transmit antenna (6) for radiating RF pulses towards the body (7), which RF transmit antenna (6) has different resonance modes. In order to improve image uniformity in high field MR imaging, the device (1) is arranged to determine the size and/or the aspect ratio of the body (7), and to acquire an MR image of the body (7) by an imaging sequence including RF pulses. The phases and amplitudes of the different resonance modes of the RF transmit antenna (6) excited during irradiation of the RF pulses are controlled on the basis of the size and/or aspect ratio of the body (7).
US07769424B2
Based on the fact that by causing an appropriate current flow on a virtual curved surface between a current source and an observation surface, an electromagnetic field generated by the current source can be recovered, and that as the curved surface comes closer to the true current source, current distribution on the curved surface becomes smaller, Bayesian estimation of the current source that recovers the observed data is performed. In this estimation, the fact that the model posterior probability attains the maximum when the curved surface includes the current source is utilized, that is, the model posterior probability is considered, to estimate the position of the current source including the depth direction. When observation data obtained by other observation means is available simultaneously, such information is incorporated in hierarchical prior distribution for Bayesian estimation, to enable estimation with higher precision.
US07769412B1
A wearable wireless telecommunications system for providing wireless telecommunications capabilities to a wearer. The wearable wireless telecommunications system includes an interface device, a microphone, and a speaker, each of which may be integrated with a garment having e-textiles. The interface device includes a long-range wireless telecommunications component for communicating with a wireless telecommunications network. In addition, the interface device includes e-textile interfaces for interfacing with the e-textiles in the garment. At least one of the microphone and speaker are communicatively coupled with the interface device via the e-textiles in the garment.
US07769409B2
Methods and apparatus for obtaining and providing status information for network devices. In one implementation, a wireless device includes: an antenna; a wireless communication interface connected to said antenna and supporting wireless communication across a wireless connection provided by said antenna; a memory supporting storing data; and a controller connected to said wireless interface and to said memory, supporting an application service and a network evaluation service; wherein said application service provides execution and management of one or more application programs accessible by said controller using application data stored in said memory, said network evaluation service provides evaluation of status information of other devices available for wireless communication through said wireless interface and provides status information of the wireless device to another device upon request, and status information provided by said network evaluation service includes information indicating at least one application program for which application data is stored in said memory.
US07769408B2
A mobile radio terminal having a housing with a loud speaker opening and an ear speaker opening and a speaker selection member coupled to and movable relative to the housing. The speaker selection member has a first audio port and a second audio port spaced such that the loud speaker opening is exposed through the first audio port when the speaker selection member is in a first position and the ear speaker opening is exposed through the second audio port when the speaker selection member is in a second position. In a third position, the loud speaker opening may be exposed through the second port or through a third audio port in the housing.
US07769403B2
A push-to-talk communication system is described in which a decision unit (chair) and/or a queue are provided for allocating the right to talk during a push-to-talk communication, and corresponding control messages, request messages and information messages are transmitted.
US07769399B2
A communication apparatus and method for an upper node in a communication system. The communication method includes assigning a Connection IDentifier (CID) set to a Relay Station (RS), generating a CID assignment message including information on the assigned CID set, and transmitting the CID assignment message to the RS.
US07769397B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary or is to receive IP traffic. Dormant mode with paging is implemented in a protocol that supports dormant functionality and paging functionality but does not itself provide methods or standards for implementing such functionality, such as the IEEE 802.11. The methods and apparatuses disclosed herein provide the methods needed to implement dormant mode with paging in such a protocol. Generally, the methods and apparatuses for implementing dormant mode with paging basically include (1) establishing paging areas; (2) communicating access group information to a computing device; and (3) locating a computing device.
US07769395B2
Systems and methods for using location information to determine a medium to use for communications to a user of a mobile device are provided. The user's mobile device provides location information to in intermediate computing device. That location information is accessed and used to determine, from a plurality of media, which to use for communications with the user. In various embodiments of the present invention, the user's mobile device can receive location-based content and commands.
US07769394B1
A system and method for location-based device control is provided. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are systems comprising a locating subsystem, a server, and a mobile device comprising a component manager. The component manager allows modifications to the operation of components of the mobile device based on a location provided by the locating subsystem. The component manager also provides confirmation of the modified operation of the components of the mobile device to the server.
US07769393B2
The position of a given mobile terminal is determined by communicating satellite positioning system information between the given mobile terminal and at least one other mobile terminal over a short-range, ad hoc wireless network, such as a Bluetooth network, to cooperatively determine the position of the given mobile terminal by the given mobile terminal and the at least one other mobile terminal that communicate over the short-range, ad hoc wireless network. Satellite positioning system information may communicated by distributing processing of the satellite positioning information, by distributing receiving of satellite positioning system information from a satellite, by communicating assistance data and/or by synchronizing timing of satellite positioning information, between the given mobile terminal and the at least one other mobile terminal over the short-range, ad hoc wireless network.
US07769391B2
The present invention relates in general to the radio communications field and, in particular, to a method and apparatus for detecting congestion in a spread spectrum Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) cellular communication system. By measuring the number of Signal-to-Interference Ratio Error reports being received at the Radio Network Controller a potential congestion can be detected in the cell when the number of reports being received is above a threshold. Further can a differentiation be made between a potential or a serious congestion and different actions be performed dependant on if a potential or a serious congestion is detected.
US07769384B2
The present invention is related to transmitting quality of service (QoS) information of a target base station for admitting service flows during a handover operation. The invention comprises providing a service to a mobile station from a serving base station and receiving at the serving base station a handover request from the mobile station. The serving base station then provides a handover notification to a target base station, wherein the handover notification comprises a QoS parameter associated with the service. The serving base station then receives from the target base station a handover notification response, wherein the handover notification response comprises service level prediction information that is determined in response to the QoS parameter associated with the service. Finally, the serving base station provides a handover response to the mobile station, the handover response comprising the service level prediction information.
US07769377B2
The present invention relates to method for providing an arbitrary sound chosen by a called subscriber instead of an ordinary tone to a calling or call-waiting subscriber. In this present invention, if a call is received, a terminating exchanger requests a trunk connection to a sound db server based on the first information on whether or not to replace an ordinary tone and the second information on a route to the sound db server that were received from a home location register (HLR) when a called was registered, and provides the called identification and call state (idle/busy or call-waiting, etc.) for the sound server. Then, the sound db server searches its db for a sound associated with the call state specified by the called, and provides the found sound for the caller instead of a conventional tone via the terminating exchanger. Through this sequential procedure of network elements, a caller can hear a sound specified by a called instead of a dry ordinary tone.
US07769376B2
A flight information communication system has a plurality of RF direct sequence spread spectrum ground data links that link respective aircraft-resident subsystems, in each of which a copy of its flight performance data is stored, with airport-located subsystems. The airport-located subsystems are coupled by way communication paths, such as land line telephone links, to a remote flight operations control center. At the flight operations control center, flight performance data downlinked from plural aircraft parked at different airports is analyzed. In addition, the flight control center may be employed to direct the uploading of in-flight data files, such as audio, video and navigation files from the airport-located subsystems to the aircraft.
US07769370B2
A method and system for facilitating communication, generally called pairing, between a wireless handheld device and a electronic communication device is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a line-of-sight signal from the wireless handheld device to a electronic communication device. The line-of-sight signal serves to identify the wireless handheld device. This transmission results in a received line-of-sight signal at the electronic communication device. The method also includes enabling a non-line-of-sight communication between the wireless handheld device and the electronic communication device. The non-line-of-sight communication is enabled on the basis of the received line-of-sight signal.
US07769364B2
A cellular telephone handset stores audio files previously recorded by the user as well as voice mail messages from other users and selectively transmitted selected ones of these files to the remote listener, or to the voice mail system of a remote user. Voice mail messages are composed, stored, transmitted, forwarded and reviewed using a voice mail system without ringing the remote party's telephone, much as email is composed, stored, transmitted and reviewed using an email server.
US07769353B2
An apparatus and method utilizing a mobile communication device including a housing, an earpiece coupled to the housing, a keypad coupled to the housing, and an array sensor coupled to the housing. The array sensor is distributed across a significant portion of a face of the housing to allow the detection of various conductive profiles in close proximity to the housing. A portion of the array sensor may be positioned underneath the keypad. The mobile communication device can sense a change in a field across the array sensor and adjust a parameter of operation of the mobile communication device based on the change in the field across the array sensor in response to a conductive profile.
US07769350B2
A method for adapting at least one system parameter (i) defining a connection between a transmitter unit and a receiver unit in a radio based communications system, wherein an adaptation frequency at which the system parameter (i) is adapted is dependent on at least one derivative of order n, n=0; 1, of a distance between the transmitter unit and the receiver unit with respect to time. Thus, the method provides an efficient way of relating the need to update system parameters in radio based communications systems to physically measured quantities in connection with constituents of the system, such that the parameter adaptation rate itself is adapted dynamically and system resources can be used in an optimized fashion.
US07769349B2
Disclosed is a mobile terminal and in particular a data storing and reading method of a mobile terminal which makes it possible to perform mutual data exchange between a mobile terminal and a personal computer (PC) by using a universal serial bus interface (USB). For this purpose, there is provided a method and apparatus for storing and reading data in a mobile terminal connected with a PC through a USB interface, wherein the method comprises steps of: detecting whether the mobile terminal is powered on and connected with the PC; recognizing the mobile terminal as a portable disc drive if it is detected that the mobile terminal is connected with the PC; at a write mode for storing data after the mobile terminal is recognized as a portable disc drive, storing data in one of a phone memory installed in the mobile terminal and an auxiliary memory according to a preset storing mode; and at a read mode for reading out and transmitting stored data after the mobile terminal is recognized as a portable disc drive, reading out and transmitting corresponding data from the phone memory or the auxiliary memory, that is stored with data desired to be read out.
US07769343B2
A radio frequency radiation module includes a beam forming network capable of applying a signal including contributions to several beams, to several channels. Each channel has a high power amplifier without redundant units, and an antenna radiating feed connected to the output of the amplifier. The beam forming network has a device for selective compensation for failure of one of the channels, increasing the power of the contribution of at least one of the signals to a beam for which the radiation is affected by the failure.
US07769323B2
Method for acoustic dampening of photoreceptor and ionographic drums using an acoustic dampening applied to and cured on the interior of a drum. Embodiments provide excellent acoustic dampening of the resonance modes, and thus, substantially eliminates the problematic sounds that are often emitted from the xerographic printing machines.
US07769310B2
An image forming apparatus in which a visible image is transferred to a transfer material includes a pre-transfer exposing unit that makes only a portion of a latent image carrier that corresponds to a leading edge of the transfer material expose, and a transfer-bias applying unit that applies a bias for transferring the visible image. The transfer-bias applying unit starts applying the bias to the transfer material, at least step-by-step, when a predetermined time is passed from a point of time at which the leading edge of the transfer material comes into a contact with the latent image carrier by controlling the pre-transfer exposing unit and a bias applying timing of the transfer-bias applying unit.
US07769302B1
The invention includes methods and apparatuses to adjust an optical signal transmitted through an optical amplifier, such as in a wavelength division multiplexed optical network. The methods and apparatus of the invention calculate polarization effects which cause degradation to the optical signal. A measurement of the polarization-related degradation of an optical signal is calculated by using at least one reference signal. In some embodiments of the invention, the reference signal is depolarized or has scrambled polarizations. The invention is typically used in long-haul optical networks.
US07769301B2
Technology is provided in which, by performing time gate processing using a clock signal with time jitter suppressed, time and intensity fluctuations which in the prior art had been observed in auto-correlated signals after time gate processing are reduced. In a decoder, received optical code division multiplexed signals are divided into two, one of which is reflected as a decoded signal, and the other of which is transmitted as an encoded signal in the encoded state. In the clock extraction circuit, encoded signals are divided into first encoded signals and second encoded signals. In the first clock signal generation portion, first clock signals are generated from the first encoded signals, and optical pulses synchronized with the first clock signals are extracted from the second encoded signals, and second clock signals are generated from the extracted optical pulses. In the time gate processor, time gate processing of the decoded signal is performed, using the second clock signals as the gate signals, and the result is output.
US07769291B2
A component for an optical communication network comprises a source (6) for an optical communication signal, an output port (11) for outputting the optical communication signal on an optical transmitting fiber (1), a light sensor (14; 15) and an optical circulator (9) for transmitting the optical communication signal from the source (6) to the output port (11) and for transmitting light reflected or received from outside at the output port (11) to the light sensor (14; 15). The light sensor (14, 15) has an evaluation circuit (13) connected to it for detecting a time delay between a time marker of a light signal from the source and the corresponding time marker of the light arriving at the light sensor (14; 15).
US07769279B2
A processing gas is prevented from entering into a space below a placement table. A supporting surface 62 for supporting the lower face of a placement table 58 is provided at an inner circumferential portion of the upper end of a support 56. A circumferentially extending purge gas groove 64 is formed outside the supporting surface 62, in an intermediate circumferential portion of the upper end of the support 56. A narrow flow path 68 is provided outside the purge gas groove 64, at a position corresponding to an outer circumferential portion of the upper end of the support 56. A purge gas fed from purge gas-feeding means 66 into the purge gas groove diffuses in the circumferential direction in the purge gas groove 64 and flows out to the outside from the narrow flow path 68. Such a flow of the purge gas prevents a processing gas from entering into the purge gas groove 64 and a space S1 below the placement table.
US07769278B2
Disclosed herein is a carbon heater. The carbon heater comprises a carbon filament disposed in a tube for serving as a heating element. The carbon filament has support parts integrally formed at the carbon filament while being protruded from the carbon filament in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the carbon filament such that the support parts are supported inside the tube. Consequently, the carbon filament is more stably supported in the tube by the support parts, whereby the service life of the carbon heater is increased, and easy and convenient design and assembly of the carbon heater is accomplished.
US07769275B2
The recording medium includes a data area storing one or more graphic segments, each of which includes graphic data, multiplied with other data.
US07769269B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for storage device access control initiated by a non-linear editor (NLE). In one embodiment, a storage device access controller can include: a storage device configured to store clips, such as audio, graphics, or video clips, arranged in frames; an NLE coupled to the storage device for requesting one or more of the clips; and a buffer engine coupled to the storage device and the NLE. The buffer engine can include: buffers for storing data from the storage device; a data index for indicating a location of data in a clip on the storage device; and a reader configured to control an access of the data using the data index in response to one or more parameters. Embodiments of the present invention can provide for improved data access performance from a disk where the data is requested in clip form from an NLE.
US07769268B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining the format of an optical recording medium (1) comprising one or more data, audio and/or video tracks in one or more sessions, and an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to optical recording media (1) using such method.It is an object of the present invention to propose a method for determining the format of an optical recording medium (1), which is robust against partially incorrect data on the recording medium (1).This object is achieved by a method comprising the steps of: reading (101) the table of contents (TOC) of a first session of the recording medium (1); checking (102, 103, 32) whether more than one track is present in the first session and/or whether at least one track is indicated as being an audio track in the table of contents (TOC); and determining (104, 36) the format of the recording medium (1) to be audio if at least one of the checking steps (102, 103, 32) yields a positive result, and determining (105, 35) the format to be data else.
US07769266B2
A mechanism that provides access to a rear termination area of a telecommunications panel. The mechanism including a slide bar that permits the panel to laterally slide, and a tilt element the permits the panel to tilt. The slide bar and tilt element positioning the tilted termination panel over lower adjacent termination panels without contacting cables associated with the lower adjacent termination panels.
US07769262B2
Provided is an ultra-short pulse light source having an optical pulse generator 111 for emitting short pulse light, an optical amplifier 112 for amplifying the short pulse light output from the optical pulse generator 111 and an optical compressor 120 for compressing the short pulse light. The optical compressor 120 has multi-step configuration of steps polarization beam splitters 1211,2, optical fibers 1221,2,1231,2 for compressing the incident pulse light, polarization rotating element 1241,2, for rotating the polarization direction of the incident light by 90 degrees to return the light to the optical fibers 1231,2, polarization maintaining optical fibers 1251,2 provided to the output side of the polarization beam splitters 1211,2, and a polarization maintaining optical fiber 1251 at the front step is connected to a polarization maintaining optical fiber 1252 at the rear step.
US07769261B2
A fiber optic distribution cable including a main cable having a plurality of branch locations. Branch cables divert from the main cable at the branch locations. The branch cables are secured to branch anchors located at the branch locations. Optical fibers are routed through the branch anchors from the main cable to the branch cables. Protective enclosures cover the branch locations.
US07769247B2
A method and method and apparatus for data re-arrangement includes the steps of receiving output pixel coordinates (X, Y) and obtaining an input pixel offset value (ΔS, ΔT), wherein the output pixel coordinate represents a location for a two dimensional matrix. The input pixel offset value is obtained in reference to initial input pixel coordinates (S, T) which may be received with the output pixel coordinates or calculated based on the input and/or output pixel coordinates. The input pixel offset value may be any type of representation that provides for a delta value, for example, (ΔS, ΔT) may represent a shift representation for the offset within a matrix array. The method and apparatus for data re-arrangement further includes retrieving an input pixel based on the initial input pixel coordinates and the offset value.
US07769246B2
A system and method for multiple map image projecting and fusing in an object oriented computer environment. The multiple map image projecting and fusing method may provide a flexible and efficient architecture for generating combined map images from one or more map data sources. One or more map image objects may be coupled to map data objects, map projection objects and other map image objects according to a contemplated use of the invention.
US07769241B2
A method of sharpening a full-color image of a scene includes capturing an image of the scene using a two-dimensional sensor array having both color and panchromatic pixels; forming the full-color image in response to the captured color pixels and forming a reference panchromatic image in response to the captured panchromatic pixels; forming a high-frequency panchromatic image from the reference panchromatic image; and providing a sharpened full-color image in response to the high-frequency panchromatic image and the full-color image.
US07769238B2
The method includes the following units: a coefficient number detecting unit (109) for detecting the number of coefficients which has a value other than 0 for each block according to the generated coefficient, a coefficient number storing unit (110) for storing the number of coefficients detected, a coefficient number coding unit (111) for selecting a table for variable length coding based on the numbers of coefficients in the coded blocks located on the periphery of a current block to be coded with reference to the selected table for variable length coding so as to perform variable length coding for the number of coefficients.
US07769236B2
This invention discloses marker detectable by visual means comprising; a polygonal border having of at least four non collinear salient points. The marker has on it a pattern in binary digital code. The binary code data contains information data, checksum and error correction. The binary code data is on two levels; a first level of binary code readable at a first given distance, a second level of binary code readable at a second given distance, where the second given distance is less than the first given distance and the second level binary code is smaller in size than the first level binary code. The second level of binary code does not interfere with the reading of the first level binary code. It also discloses a method for detecting a marker comprising the steps of detecting an image, using an edge detector to detect an edge in said image, grouping more than one edge into a polygon having salient points, calculating homography from polygon salient points, generating a list of homographies, extracting binary data from input image having homographies, identifying and verifying binary data.
US07769233B2
A particular-region such as red-eye region of a person in an image is detected at a high speed by a particular-region detection apparatus, as follows. At first, a region of the image satisfying detection conditions for particular region candidates is detected as a particular region candidate. Next, a face region of a first person is detected and the particular region candidate is specified as a particular region to be detected on condition that the particular region candidate is included in the detected face region. Then, face information regarding a face of the first person obtained when the face region is detected is stored. When a face region of a second person is further detected in the image or other image after storing of the face information, the face information is accessed and recalled and the face region of the second person is detected by using the face information as a face detection condition.
US07769232B2
A sensing system for determining the rank and suit of playing cards is disclosed. The system includes a sensing module capable of reading a line of data from a printed image, a position sensor and a hardware component that combines the signals from the sensing module and position sensor, converts the signal to binary values and compares the converted signal to stored signals. The comparisons are correlated to identify card rank and Suit. The system can be used in a playing card delivery shoe used to control the game of baccarat. The shoe may be a customary dealing shoe equipped with a sensing module, or may be a mechanized shoe. The mechanized shoe may comprise a) an area for receiving a first set of playing cards useful in the play of the casino table card game of baccarat; b) first card mover that moves playing cards from the first set to a playing card staging area wherein at least one playing card is staged in an order by which playing cards are removed from the first set of and moved to the playing card staging area; c) second playing card mover that moves playing cards from the playing card staging area to a delivery area wherein playing cards removed from the staging area to the delivery shoe are moved in the same order by which playing cards were removed from the first set of playing cards and moved to the playing card staging area; and d) playing card reading sensors that read at least one playing card value of each playing card separately after each playing card has been removed from the area for receiving the first set of playing cards and before removal from the playing card delivery area One exemplary sensing system is a CIS line scanning system with an associated card position sensor and a FPGA hardware element.
US07769231B2
A method and apparatus for enhancing the quality of images using complementary color contrast are provided. The method includes (a) extracting color information of each of a plurality of pixels of an input image, (b) determining whether the input image includes both a first pixel belonging to a first group and a second pixel belonging to a second group with reference to the extracted color information, (c) converting a first hue of the first pixel into an optimum point of the first group, and (d) converting a second hue of the second pixel into an optimum point of the second group, wherein the first hue corresponding to the optimum point of the first group and the second hue corresponding to the optimum point of the second group are complementary to each other.
US07769229B2
A method of processing an array of pixels captured by an image capture device, having a first two-dimensional array of pixels from the image capture device, some of which are color pixels, and some of which are panchromatic pixels; determining in response to ambient lighting conditions, whether panchromatic pixels are to be combined with color pixels; combining pixels to produce a second two-dimensional array of pixels which has fewer pixels than the first two-dimensional array of pixels; and correcting the color pixels.
US07769208B2
User attribute data, such as a retinal scan or fingerprint data, is encoded into a media signal as it is captured in media capture device, such as a camera, video recorder, etc. The user attribute data uniquely associates the creator with the content he or she creates. By steganographically embedding the user attribute data into the content at or near the time of capture, the creator of the content can be authenticated at a subsequent time. In addition, alteration of the content can be detected.
US07769202B2
Novel methods and systems for quantization based data embedding and reading in host signals, such as image, audio and video signals. To embed auxiliary data in a host signal, an embedder maps the host signal from a first domain into a mapped signal in a second domain. The embedder performs quantization based embedding of auxiliary data into the host signal using quantizers. The quantizers are adapted such that the relationship between corresponding quantizers in the first and second domains satisfies a predetermined constraint. The mapping improves the robustness of the data embedding method by increasing the chances that the embedded data can be recovered by an auxiliary data reader after modifications. A related embedding method projects the mapped signal unto a vector, and specifically, a pseudorandom vector. It performs quantization based embedding on the projected signal. The use of this projection provides added robustness of the embedded data to noise and other forms of distortion.
US07769200B2
In an apparatus for embedding an electronic watermark, a determining unit determines whether a specified area that is specified is present in image data. A text/non-text detecting unit detects a text area and a non-text area in the image. The specified area is at least one of the text area and the non-text area as an area. The embedding unit embeds an electronic watermark into the specified area.
US07769199B2
A method and apparatus for using a reference in a watermarking application is disclosed. Watermarked content and a reduced resolution reference are registered such that registration parameters are calculated. The watermarked content is processed using the registration parameters. A watermark is recovered using the processed watermarked content and the reduced resolution reference.
US07769197B2
An electronic image into which an electronic watermark is to be embedded is divided into a plurality of image regions spatially, and pixels each having a property of being difficult to visually recognize a variation in a pixel value are extracted as adaptive pixels from each of the plurality of image regions. A variation between the pixel values of the adaptive pixels in one of the plurality of image regions and those of the adaptive pixels in an adjacent one of the plurality of image regions is produced, and the pixel values of the adaptive pixels of the plurality of image regions are varied in a time direction according to the value of an embedded bit set of the electronic watermark. An electronic-watermark-embedded image is then generated by making the variation in the pixel values of the adaptive pixels vary step by step at a boundary between the two of the plurality of image regions and/or in the time direction so that the variation makes a slow transition.
US07769191B2
A flat panel audio output apparatus including a plurality of flat panels; and one or more vibrators respectively provided to each of the flat panels to vibrate the flat panels to make a sound; wherein the one or more vibrators of each one of the respective flat panels receives audio signals of a different channel and/or a different frequency band than those received by the one or more vibrators of at least one of the remaining flat panels.
US07769187B1
Hybrid circuits for electronic devices and accessories for electronic devices are provided. One or more pairs of hybrid circuits may convey audio signals, noise cancellation audio signals, microphone signals, control signals, and other signals between an electronic device and an accessory. The hybrid circuits may include a voltage controlled current source, a differential amplifier, separate signal and ground pins, multiple ground lines, an amplifier on a ground noise sense input line that can sense ground noise that may result from parasitic resistance, and other circuitry.
US07769186B2
A system and method facilitating acoustic echo cancellation convergence detection is provided. The invention includes an acoustic echo cancellation convergence detector having a center clipping component, a convergence calculator, a convergence filter and a convergence statistic component. The invention provides for the acoustic echo cancellation convergence detector to provide an output regarding convergence of an adaptive filter based, at least in part, upon a filtered convergence statistic. Optionally, the acoustic echo cancellation convergence detector can provide an output associated with convergence history.
US07769185B2
A system and method for testing and measuring hearing assistance devices using a plane wave tube is provided. According to an embodiment, a hearing assistance device is mounted proximal to an acoustic waveguide having a soundfield with acoustic waves propagating down the waveguide. A microphone of the hearing assistance device is placed in the soundfield of the acoustic waveguide to increase a direct acoustic component and to reduce reflected acoustic components and scattered acoustic components of sound sensed by the microphone. Sound is generated using a sound generator to propagate sound of desired frequencies down the waveguide.
US07769183B2
A system and a method for correcting, simultaneously at multiple-listener positions, distortions introduced by the acoustical characteristics includes intelligently weighing the room acoustical responses to form a room acoustical correction filter.
US07769176B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing secure, captured data in a customer center. In one embodiment, the method comprises: capturing data with a recording system; receiving a request to retrieve electronic keys for encrypting the data; responsive to receiving the request, transmitting the electronic keys to the recording system; encrypting the data using the electronic keys; associating the electronic keys with the encrypted data; and storing the encrypted data in the recording system.
US07769173B2
Various method and system embodiments of the present invention are directed to executing bit-commitment protocols. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for executing a bit-commitment protocol for transmitting a bit from a first party to a second party comprises preparing a three qubits are entangled in a W-state, and storing a first of the three qubits in a first storage device controlled by the first party, a second of the three qubits is stored in a second storage device controlled by the second party, and a third of the three qubits is stored in a third storage device controlled by a third party. The bit is revealed to the second party by transmitting the first and third qubits to the second party and measuring the states of the three qubits to which of the entangled W-states the three qubits are in.
US07769169B2
A method of generating a key stream for a precomputed state information table. The method comprises initialising a counter and an accumulator with non-zero values; combining state information identified by the counter with the accumulator; swapping state information identified by the counter with state information identified by the accumulator; combining the two pieces of state information; outputting the state information identified by the combination as a byte of the key stream; adding a predetermined number odd number to the counter; and repeating the above steps to produce each byte of the key stream.
US07769168B2
A fast and secure syntax compliant encryption schema, “locally iterative encryption,” can produce compliant ciphertext for a general syntax specification. In one implementation, an engine partitions a data stream into blocks, and encrypts each block iteratively until syntax compliance conditions are met. A system using the schema can utilize either stream ciphers or block ciphers in different modes. Locally iterative encryption methods are fast and remain at approximately the same speed even as the length of the data stream to be encrypted increases. Besides providing superior processing speed, the locally iterative encryption schema is also more robust to errors in the resulting ciphertext and in the resulting decrypted plaintext than conventional syntax compliant encryption techniques. Locally iterative encryption is secure as long as an underlying encryption cipher selected for use in the schema is secure.
US07769165B2
A computer-implemented system and method for configuring and operating a white-box cipher is disclosed. In one implementation, the system employs a method for configuring pseudorandom data derived from a key to perform key-scheduling functionality associated with rounds of the cipher. Additionally, the system employs a method for generating white-box executable code, wherein the code hides the pseudorandom data by incorporating it into mathematical operations performed during execution of the rounds. Accordingly, the cipher is suited for white-box applications managing digital rights, such as decoding audio, video and other content.
US07769164B2
When encryption processing means is decided in encryption print communication which is made between a PC and a printer, a transmission/reception control unit of a printer receives information of encryption processing means from the PC and stores into a list storing unit of a RAM. A list of encryption processing means which are used in the printer is read out from a flash memory. An upper apparatus encryption processing means list is compared with the encryption processing means list. If the coincident encryption processing means exists, it is decided that this means is used for communication and the PC is notified of it. Since the PC transmits the print data encrypted by the notified encryption processing means to the control unit, the printing is executed on the basis of the decrypted print data.
US07769141B2
A method, system and device for visually spatial caller identification includes a caller identification visual alerting device configured to capture current caller identification information from an incoming call. A stored caller identification list stores a plurality of entries of reference caller identification information and a corresponding respective plurality of entries of spatial visual indicator patterns. The reference caller identification information is matched with the current caller identification information. The caller identification visual alerting device further includes a spatial visual indicator configured to activate a plurality of illuminatable elements according to one of the plurality of spatial visual indicator patterns.
US07769136B2
A positioning technique for aligning an X-ray lens (28) is described. A positioning apparatus (16) comprises a lens mounting component (44) and a positioning component (42). The positioning component (42) includes at least one goniometer stage (64, 66) having a center of rotation that substantially coincides with the X-ray emitting portion (36) (“hot spot”) of the X-ray source (12). The provision of one or more goniometer stages (64, 66) and, if required, one or more additional translation stages (60, 62) facilitates the adjustment of the X-ray lens (28) and makes the adjustment more intuitive.
US07769109B2
A method and apparatus to improve modulation efficiency for chip to chip interconnects. Modulation objects that are integer multiples of a fundamental time unit (FTU) are used to populate a symbol period that is also an integer multiple of the FTU. A possible symbol set is established as the set in which the modulation object occupies every possible combination of slots within the symbol period. By permitting the modulation object to overlap positions in different symbols of the set, greater modulation efficiency is achieved.
US07769107B2
Complex antennas weights for use in beamforming in a multiple-antenna system are determined based upon clear channel assessment (CCA) information in a wireless networking environment.
US07769103B2
A predistortion linearized amplifier system that uses analog polynomial based predistortion is disclosed. An analog polynomial function generator receives polynomial parameter updates from a polynomial parameter generator. The polynomial parameter generator uses a combination of analog and digital signal processing to create the parameter updates. This processing is performed on input signal amplitude, detected using analog circuits, and RF coupled samples of the input signal, and the output signal. By using a combination of analog and digital signal processing means, digital processing can be performed at sub-Nyquist rates, significantly reducing the cost of digital circuits. Also, since the predistortion modulation signal is created with an analog function generator, time correlating delay is minimized reducing circuit costs.
US07769102B2
A power efficient and reduced electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions transmitter for unshielded twisted pair (UTP) data communication applications. Transmit data is processed by a digital filter. The digital filter output data is converted to a current-mode analog waveform by a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The digital filter is integrated with the DAC binary decoder in a memory device such as a ROM with time multiplexed output. DAC line driver cells are adaptively configurable to operate in either a class-A or a class-B mode depending on the desired operational modality. A discrete-time analog filter is integrated with the DAC line driver to provide additional EMI emissions suppression. An adaptive electronic transmission signal cancellation circuit separates transmit data from receive data in a bidirectional communication system operating in full duplex mode. For a multi-transmitter system, timing circuitry staggers the time base of each transmitter to reduce the aggregate EMI emissions of the multi-transmitter system.
US07769083B2
In an image processing method of sequentially loading, compressing, and transmitting images to thereby display the images, there is provided the image processing method capable of preventing the images from degradation while keeping the responsibility until the image is displayed. When a changed region is determined to be present, the image is compressed using a method with a high compression ratio, while when there is no changed region and a predetermined period of time elapses, the image is determined to be static to thereby be compressed using a method with a low compression ratio and very little distortion.
US07769082B2
A Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver includes a RF front end and a baseband processing module coupled to the RF front end that is operable to receive a time domain signal that includes time domain training symbols and time domain data symbols. The baseband processing module processes the time domain training symbols to produce a time domain channel estimate, Fast Fourier Transformer operations that convert the time domain channel estimate to the frequency domain to produce a frequency domain channel estimate, weight calculation operations that produce frequency domain equalizer coefficients based upon the frequency domain channel estimate, Inverse Fast Fourier Transformer operations that convert the frequency domain equalizer coefficients to the time domain to produce time domain equalizer coefficients, and equalization operations that equalize the time domain data symbols using the time domain equalizer coefficients.
US07769081B2
Transmission power relative to a propagation path having a variation in gain is controlled to increase communication channel capacity, and a data rate is controlled in accordance with the variation of the increased communication channel capacity. In order to increase the communication channel capacity, the transmission power is determined so that the sum of noise power (=received noise power/propagation path gain) converted into one at a transmitter and the transmission power becomes constant. As a result, contrary to the background art, the transmission power is controlled to be reduced when the propagation path gain decreases and to be increased when the propagation path gain increases.
US07769076B2
A method and apparatus for performing frequency analysis of sub-epoch correlations to estimate an unknown frequency of a received signal is provided. The method includes forming a sequence of correlation values from a plurality of correlations performed over a period less than a repeating period of a code, and analyzing the sequence of correlation values to estimate the frequency that is used to receive a signal comprising the code.
US07769067B2
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser device includes a first reflective mirror layer, a second reflective mirror layer, and an active layer disposed therebetween, wherein at least one of the first reflective mirror layer and the second reflective mirror layer includes a periodic-refractive-index structure in which the refractive index periodically changes in the in-plane direction and a part of the periodic-refractive-index structure includes a plurality of parts that disorder the periodicity.
US07769063B2
The present invention relates generally to semiconductor lasers and laser projection systems. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of correcting output power variations in a semiconductor laser is provided. According to the method, an output power feedback loop is utilized to generate optical intensity feedback signals representing actual output power of the laser source for discrete portions V1, Vi, . . . Vj of the image signal. Error signals E1, Ei, . . . Ej are generated representing the degree to which actual projected output power varies from a target projected output power for the discrete portions V1, Vi, . . . Vj of the image signal. These error signals E1, Ei, . . . Ej are utilized to apply corrected control signals G1′, Gi′, . . . Gj′ to the gain section of the semiconductor laser for projection of compatible discrete portions V1′, Vi′, . . . Vj′ of the image signal. According to another embodiment of the present invention, a system is provided for generating a projected laser image.
US07769062B2
Methods and devices for providing a multiwavelength laser which may be used for multicasting and other optical communications uses. The present invention provides a quantum dot based multiwavelength laser with a monolithic gain block. The Fabry-Perot gain block has both upper and lower InP cladding layers. The laser system has a middle quantum dot layer with multiple stacked layers of InAs quantum dots embedded in InGaAsP. When provided with a CW injection current, the laser system produces an output spectra with equally spaced multiple emission peaks. With an input optical data signal applied to the laser system, the laser system duplicates the data in the input signal across multiple different wavelengths.
US07769057B2
A high speed serial link structure and method are provided, comprising a data driver and a replica driver structure, the replica driver structure comprising a replica driver, a calibration engine and a peak level detector. The calibration engine compares a peak level detector output to a reference value and responsively performs a data driver adjustment, wherein the data driver adjustment comprises at least one of a driver biasing adjustment, a driver intermediate stage bandwidth adjustment and a driver equalization setting adjustment. In some embodiments, the calibration engine incorporates a comparator and a digital state machine; in other embodiments, it incorporates an analog operational amplifier.
US07769052B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a network device. The network device includes a receiver configured to be coupled to a transmission medium supporting a multi-carrier channel over which data is communicated as symbols in a first communication state according to an initial bit-loading configuration. The receiver is further configured to detect noise that can corrupt the symbols on the multi-carrier channel. In addition, the receiver is configured to, in response to the detected noise, allocate at least part of the multi-carrier channel to a transient robust channel that facilitates adaptive communication. Other methods and devices are also disclosed.
US07769050B2
Disclosed are systems and methods which provide interference mitigation by making alternative resources available within areas served by wireless communication links. Embodiments provide multiple channel availability in establishing wireless communication links to facilitate interference mitigation. Time domain techniques, spatial processing techniques, and/or frequency domain techniques may be implemented for spectrum management. Embodiments provide wireless base station configurations in which all or a plurality of base station sectors use a same frequency channel and/or in which each sector or a plurality of sectors use all frequency channels. Multi-channel strategies may be implemented such as to provide dynamic selection of a “best” frequency channel, to provide transmission of identical data on multiple channels for combining/selection at the receiver, and/or to provide for dividing the data for transmission on multiple channels.
US07769036B2
Disclosed is a device and method for processing a frame including overhead and payload, the device comprising: a first hardware module for processing the payload, the payload processing comprising termination/adaptation and cross-connection functions; and a second hardware module for processing at least a part of overhead, wherein said second hardware module cooperates with the first hardware module for controlling the payload cross-connection and consequent actions.
US07769035B1
Techniques are provided for facilitating a channel change between multiple data streams. Such techniques provide for receiving and processing a first stream of data packets within a buffer. The method also includes receiving buffer control header with a data packet of a second stream. The buffer control header includes a buffer clearance indicator that indicates whether the second data stream request for the first data stream to be cleared from the buffer. Moreover, the method includes clearing the first data stream from the buffer based on the buffer clearance indicator. Furthermore, the method includes immediately processing the second stream through the buffer once the first stream is cleared.
US07769031B2
A plurality of machine systems constituted by different VLAN constitution methods are integrated on one machine system by using virtual machines. An operation can be switched for virtual network interface cards to VLAN communication corresponding to VLAN ID set to a virtual network interface card or to VLAN communication corresponding to VLAN ID set by OS on a virtual machine using the virtual network interface card depending on whether or not VLAN ID is set.
US07769028B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for communicating data including prioritizing data by assigning a priority to the data, analyzing a network to determine a status of the network, and communicating the data based at least in part on the priority of the data and the status of the network. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for communicating data including a data prioritization component, a network analysis component, and a data communications component. The data prioritization component is adapted to prioritize data by assigning a priority to the data. The network analysis component is adapted to analyze a network to determine a status of the network. The data communications component is adapted to communicate the data based at least in part on the priority of the data and the status of the network.
US07769025B2
Load balancing apparatus for a data communications network comprises hash logic for computing a hash function on incoming data packets. A threshold detector is connected to the hash logic for triggering, in response to utilization of the downstream objects exceeding a predefined threshold, redefinition in the hash logic of parameters of the hash function from a first set of parameters to a second set of parameters for redistributing the data packets amongst the downstream objects. In use, the hash logic, directs the packets for routing to downstream objects in the network via a first routing path based on a hash computation using the first set of parameters, and, if the threshold is exceeded, selectively directs the packets to one of the first routing path and a second routing path in dependence on separate hash computations using the first and the second sets of parameters for subsequent routing of the packets via the selected one of the first and second routing paths based on the results of one of the separate hash computations.
US07769021B1
The present invention is a system and method for failing over from a current network access medium to an alternative network access medium. A customer premises equipment (CPE) box has ports for connections to a network through several network access media, such as high speed cable connections, DSL connections and dial-up connections. QoS parameters for each of the connections are monitored from a bandwidth manager remote from the CPE box. When it is determined that a fail-over would be beneficial, a message is sent from the bandwidth manager to the CPE box containing a command to fail-over and an identity of the alternate network access media.
US07769015B2
A high performance network adapter is provided for forwarding traffic and providing adaptation between packetized memory fragment based processor links of multiple CPUs and multiple switch planes of a packet switching network. Low latency for short and long packets is provided by innovative packet reassembly, overlapping transmission, and reverse order transmission in the upstream direction, and cut through operation in the downstream direction.
US07769007B2
A method of providing multicast services in a virtual private local area network (LAN) is provided. The method of providing multicast services, which is used by a provider edge in a virtual private LAN in which the provider edge, a customer edge, and a management system are connected to each other, includes: establishing a VPLS table used to transmit a received Ethernet frame to a destination; after receiving an Ethernet frame from the customer edge, searching the VPLS table in order to determine whether or not group information related to the destination of the Ethernet frame exists in the VPLS table; if the group information does not exist, requesting the group information from the management system, receiving the information, and then, updating the VPLS table by adding the received group information; and determining an output interface by referring to the group information, and transmitting the Ethernet frame. According to the method, when multicast traffic, such as Internet protocol (IP) broadcasting, is transmitted in a VPLS network, the VPLS management system for managing groups of customers is linked, thereby solving the problem that multicast traffic is transmitted to unauthorized customers.
US07769004B2
A network abstraction and isolation layer (NAIL) for masquerading the machine identity of a computer in a network to enable the computer to communicate in the network with a different machine identity including an isolated network interface for communicating with the computer, an abstraction network interface for communicating with a network device coupled to the network, and control logic. The control logic is coupled to the isolated and abstraction network interfaces and performs machine identity translation to masquerade machine identity of the computer relative to the network. Machine identity masquerading includes selectively translating any one or more of an IP address, a MAC address, a machine name, a system identifier, and a DNS Name in the header or payload of communication packets.
US07769003B2
A high speed data packet switch comprising input and output ports and a switch fabric to link each input port to each output port wherein each connection between input and output ports comprises a dynamic buffer memory for storing at least one data packet for a minimum specified storing time is disclosed. When a data packet is received through an input port, it is written in all individual dynamic memory buffers connected to this input port so as to have a copy of the incoming data packet ready to go through any output port to support unicast, multicast and broadcast traffic. Given the architecture of the data packet switch and its control algorithm, dynamic memory buffers neither need to be refreshed nor their contents have to be restored after reading.
US07768997B2
A backup public switched telephone network (PSTN) line is provided to a broadband network connection by detecting unavailability of the broadband network connection and automatically connecting local site wiring to the PSTN line responsive to detecting unavailability of the broadband network connection and disconnecting local site wiring from the PSTN line if unavailability is not detected.
US07768995B2
Techniques for synchronizing routing data include determining whether conditions are satisfied for one-way transfer with an adjacent router. If it is determined that conditions are satisfied for one-way transfer of routing table data with the adjacent router, then a refresh-notice message is sent from the initiating router to the adjacent router. The refresh-notice message includes data that indicates a particular direction for transfer of routing table data. If the particular direction is inbound, then a copy of an adjacent routing table is received without sending a copy of the initiating router's own routing table. If the particular direction is outbound, then a copy of the own routing table is sent without receiving a copy of the adjacent routing table.
US07768993B2
A radio access network includes a transport network layer; a radio network layer having a layer 2 network for communicating between entities within the radio network layer by exchanging datagrams having a predetermined format used only within the radio network layer. Accordingly, the present invention provides for a true decoupling at layer 2 between the radio network layer and the transport network layer. Addressing at layer 2 can enable both connectionless and connection oriented using an overlay connectivity model. Layer 2 in the radio network layer is implemented as an Ethernet network.
US07768991B2
A method and system for determining a state of a first node in a wireless network consisting of a plurality of nodes. The first node determines one of at least two power sensitivity levels by considering at least one of an available power and a standby packet. The first node determines whether it remains in active state or inactive state by considering a power sensitivity level transmitted from at least one second node which corresponds to the first node and the determined power sensitivity level. Also, the corresponding node has an identical state to the first node, so that unnecessary power consumption can be prevented.
US07768989B2
The present invention protocol offers guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) for concurrent calls in a highly dynamic, scalable network. The invention employs a TDMA reservation technique to transmit voice traffic to multiple destinations and a CSMA/CA contention scheme to support data traffic. The present invention operates over a link-state based routing protocol that reliably floods routing and resource reservation information to network nodes. The present invention is suitable for general networking applications that require QoS for multimedia traffic in a mobile, Ad-Hoc network and enables conference calls to be established and operated in that type of network under various conditions. Moreover, the present invention capitalizes on certain properties of a radio, such as a RAKE type receiver, that sums up multiple, identical transmissions from multiple sources. In addition, the present invention enables roaming between and/or within a group or island of network nodes during the lifetime of a call.
US07768988B2
Techniques and structures are provided to support a short-NAV type wireless medium reservation scheme in a network that utilizes adaptive modulation techniques. The conventional long-NAV medium reservation technique uses a medium reservation period that reserves a wireless medium until the end of a present frame exchange. The short-NAV medium reservation technique, on the other hand, uses a medium reservation period that reserves the wireless medium until the end of the next transmission of the other communicating node involved in a frame exchange. In some embodiments, a short-NAV technique is provided where a medium reservation period is determined based upon a suggested data rate. If a device decides not to use the suggested data rate, the device may utilize packet fragmentation techniques to ensure that a subsequent data transmission does not exceed the specified medium reservation period.
US07768983B2
Methods and apparatus enable a femto radio base station (28f) to be connected to an appropriate radio network controller node (26) of a radio access network (24) for use as an active radio network controller node for the femto radio base station. The connection is accomplished the femto radio base station (28f) preparing a node address inquiry and for using the node address inquiry for obtaining an internet protocol (IP) address of an appropriate radio network controller node. The femto radio base station (28f) further uses the internet protocol (IP) address of an appropriate radio network controller node for connecting to the appropriate radio network controller node as its active radio network controller node.
US07768982B2
This application sets forth, among other things, a new approach for real time collection, discovery, and sharing of network and user information, which we refer to as Autonomous Collaborative Information Collection, Discovery, and Sharing (AC-CDS). It is autonomous because regular mobile users and devices act autonomously to collect information and make the information available to others. It is collaborative as the autonomous actions of the mobile users and devices help each other to discover the information they want.
US07768980B1
A method and apparatus to enable IP networking for mobile hosts without requiring changes to be made to the TCP/IP stack in the operating system installed on the mobile hosts. The apparatus is an “intelligent device” that can be installed on or connected to a mobile host, and may comprise a software-only logical module, physical hardware, or a combination of both. To a mobile host, the intelligent device emulates a network interface such as an Ethernet card or a telephone modem. The intelligent device appears to an access network just like any regular IP host connected to the access network through a physical network interface device. The intelligent device handles all mobile networking functions for the mobile host, and may control multiple different physical network interface devices to enable a connection to the “best” access network available to the mobile user at his location.
US07768979B2
Transmission patterns for pilot symbols transmitted from a mobile station or base station are provided. The patterns may be selected according to a location of the mobile station with respect to one or more antennas are provided. In some aspects, the pattern may be selected based upon the distance between the mobile station and the one or more antennas. In other aspect, the pattern may be based upon whether the mobile station is in handoff.
US07768977B2
A first transceiver in a wireless terminal receives a communication request from a first wireless network. Based on the received communication request, power is selectively provided to a second transceiver in the wireless terminal, and the second transceiver is used to establish a communication link with a second wireless terminal. The first transceiver may be a TDMA transceiver, CDMA transceiver, wireless local area network transceiver, Bluetooth transceiver, or a digital television receiver that receives the communication request from a corresponding type of network, and the second transceiver may be a different one of the receiver types that establishes a communication link with a corresponding type of network. The first transceiver may receive assistance information from the first wireless network. The assistance information may include information that can be used to establish a communication link through the second transceiver with the second wireless network.
US07768966B2
The traffic indication and channel adaptation apparatus for a subscriber station in a sleep mode according to the present invention includes: a channel resource allocator for generating resource allocation information allocating an uplink channel resource to the subscriber station; a traffic indication and channel adaptation controller for generating a traffic indication message transmitted with the resource allocation information to the subscriber station, and providing a downlink data having a transmission level determined by applying an AMC level according to a CQI report message transmitted from the subscriber station; a transmitter for transmitting the uplink resource allocation information, the traffic indication message, and the downlink data to the subscriber station; and a receiver from receiving a CQI codeword or a CQI report message.
US07768953B2
A system and method that achieve power savings by turning off all or some of the baseband processing for codes and timeslots that have not been transmitted due to full DTX. When full DTX is detected by reception of a Special Burst (SB), the receiver is turned off for all timeslots and frames for the duration of the Special Burst Scheduling Period (SBSP). The transmitter schedules transmissions following any idle period to start on the boundary of the SBSP. The receiver determines the SBSP and if the transmitter initiates transmissions according to SBSP by reception of several initial full DTX cycles.
US07768951B2
A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mobile computing devices. The network accommodates real time voice transmission both through dedicated, scheduled bandwidth and through a packet-based routing within the confines and constraints of a data network. Conversion and call processing circuitry is also disclosed which enables access devices and personal computers to adapt voice information between analog voice stream and digital voice packet formats as proves necessary. Routing pathways include wireless spanning tree networks, wide area networks, telephone switching networks, internet, etc., in a manner virtually transparent to the user. A voice session and associate call setup simulates that of conventional telephone switching network, providing well-understood functionality common to any mobile, remote or stationary terminal, phone, computer, etc.
US07768945B2
The present invention provides a method for accessing broadband video service, including: determining a port of an access apparatus, wherein the port receives a video program request carrying a requested multicast program IP address; determining a permissible program list corresponding to the port of the access apparatus according to preset relations between ports and permissible program lists, wherein at least one of program numbers is recorded in the permissible program list; determining multicast program IP addresses corresponding to the program numbers; and requesting a video flow from the requested multicast program IP address when the requested multicast program IP address is in the multicast program IP addresses corresponding to the program numbers. The present invention also provides an access apparatus. Using of the method and the access apparatus allows taking control of user accessing video program under the broadband video service.
US07768943B1
A system comprising a plurality of nodes forming a network, the plurality of nodes comprising source nodes and destination nodes; wherein a propagation limit restricts the travel of link-state information transmitted by the sources nodes to a subset of destination nodes within the network. A network-layer protocol provided at a layer above that of the network facilitates communication between nodes within and outside of this subset of nodes.
US07768933B2
Without using additional probing packets, estimates of the narrow link bandwidth and available bandwidth of a network path are computed based on existing traffic. The network can be of different types such as a wireless battlefield network context or a wired or wireless commercial network environment. “Fast packets”, i.e. those packets which do not experience any queuing delay in the network, are identified. Fast packets are identified to resolve end-to-end packet delay into its constituent components (deterministic, transmission and queuing delays), estimate path utilization and eliminate the uncertainty (false alarms) that causes the prior art method to lose its effectiveness. An estimation algorithm computes end-to-end transmission delay and end-to-end deterministic delay of fast packets traveling along a path in a network. Examples of deterministic delay include satellite propagation delays and clock effects. Then, based on the results of the fast packet identifying algorithm, two logic branches are followed. A first branch calculates utilization and a second branch calculates narrow link bandwidth. The narrow link bandwidth is determined from the packet pair dispersion. The available bandwidth is obtained from the narrow link bandwidth and the utilization. Estimation of available bandwidth for an end-to-end network path allows traffic sources to judiciously regulate the volume of application traffic injected into the network.
US07768928B2
A maintenance entity for an Ethernet Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) domain. The maintenance entity comprises a port definer module and a connection which is connected to a group of aggregated link. The port definer module examines a designated link of the group by forwarding CFM messages via the designated link.
US07768924B2
In one embodiment, informing nodes of traffic management resource availability includes establishing whether there is an available traffic management resource at a first node, where a traffic management resource tracks usage of bandwidth by a tunnel at the first node. Whether there is an available traffic management resource is recorded in a traffic management link attribute. The traffic management link attribute is sent to second nodes to inform the second nodes of whether there is an available traffic management resource at the first node.
US07768923B2
A method and software to cause a processor to implement a method to set a packet age limit in an access point of a wireless network for communicating time-sensitive data with an associated wireless client station. One method includes the client station sending feedback to the access point so that the access point can set its packet age limit. Another method includes the access point setting its packet age limit according to feedback from the associated client station and/or according to information determined at the access point about the network.
US07768921B2
In general, the invention is directed to techniques of identifying an infected network device in a computer network where traffic to and from the infected network device is not necessarily routed through a single point on the computer network. For example, individual line cards in network devices count incoming network flows from network devices in host tables. The host tables of all line cards of all participating network devices are then correlated. It is then determined whether the number of flows from a network device outweighs the number of flows to the network device to a significant degree. If so, the network device may be considered suspicious. Packets from a suspicious network device may be rerouted to a network security device for more thorough inspection.
US07768914B2
A switch at a transmission end of a system including a number of memory devices defining queues for receiving traffic to be switched, each queue having an associated predetermined priority classification, and a processor for controlling the transmission of traffic from the queues. The processor transmits traffic from the higher priority queues before traffic from lower priority queues. The processor monitors the queues to determine whether traffic has arrived at a queue having a higher priority classification than the queue from which traffic is currently being transmitted. The processor suspends the current transmission after transmission of the current minimum transmittable element if traffic has arrived at a higher priority queue, transmits traffic from the higher priority queue, and then resumes the suspended transmission. At a receiving end, a switch that includes a processor separates the interleaved traffic into output queues for reassembly of individual traffic streams from the data stream.
US07768910B2
The present invention relates to on-line admission-control decisions. Specifically, the invention concerns general delay bounds for both deterministic and statistical cases for Differentiated Services (DiffServ) networks. More specifically, a detailed method of calculation in each case is followed by simpler methods of calculation that are more appropriate for on-line admission-control decisions. Relatively involved occupancy bound calculations for various service classes take place only at the time of network configuration or reconfiguration. At the time of admission control only simple occupancy threshold compliance calculations need to be performed. Concrete illustrations are provided for deriving bounds for the EF and AF classes provided by DiffServ. These results are applicable to both layer-3 networks that support DiffServ and layer-2 networks that support the more restricted class of service functions.
US07768907B2
A method for Ethernet packet load balancing includes receiving a transmit packet for transmission on an Ethernet network. An offload adapter identifies a least busy port from a plurality of ports indicated in a port list, based on a byte count associated with each of the plurality of ports. The offload adapter determines whether the identified least busy port is in a working status. In the event an identified least busy port is in a working status, the offload adapter assigns the transmit packet to the identified least busy port and increments the byte count associated with the identified least busy port. In the event an identified least busy port is not in a working status, the offload adapter updates the port list and, based on a determination that there are additional working ports, assigns the transmit packet to one of the additional working ports.
US07768897B2
A phonograph turntable slip mat (200) includes a circular surface (201) extending around the perimeter of the mat for supporting a phonograph record. A recessed section (203) is located within the circular surface and extends below the circular surface (203) for contacting the surface of a turntable platter (204). The invention exhibits less friction and surface resistance when in contact with the turntable platter (204), providing superior performance when compared with conventional slip mats.
US07768886B2
A method for detecting a utilization status of an optical disc is disclosed. The method includes: accessing the optical disc to generate a radio frequency signal; generating an estimated blank signal according to the radio frequency signal; generating a first reference signal to indicate a DC level of the radio frequency signal according to the radio frequency signal; and detecting a true overwrite area of the optical disc according to said blank signal and the first reference signal.
US07768883B2
An optical disk device includes an optical pickup, a measurement unit and a control unit. The optical pickup is configured to emit laser light to a disk to record data. The measurement unit is operatively coupled to the optical pickup to measure a peak value of a RF signal outputted from the optical pickup, a fluctuation amplitude of the peak value of the RF signal and an amplitude of the focus drive signal of the optical pickup. The control unit is operatively coupled to the measurement unit to correct the peak value of the RF signal measured during a second recording based on the fluctuation amplitude of the peak value of the RF signal and the amplitude of the focus drive signal measured during a first recording prior to the second recording.
US07768880B2
A reproducing apparatus includes a head unit operable to direct a laser light beam onto a recording medium, the head unit having a focus servo mechanism and a spherical aberration correction mechanism for laser light; an evaluation signal generating unit operable to generate an evaluation signal serving as an index of quality of a reproduced signal; a focus servo unit operable to perform a focus servo operation by driving the focus servo mechanism in response to a focus error signal; a spherical aberration correction unit operable to perform spherical aberration correction by driving the spherical aberration correction mechanism in response to a spherical aberration correction value; a focus bias unit operable to add a focus bias to a focus loop containing the focus servo unit; and a control unit operable to control adjustment of a spherical aberration correction value and a focus bias value to be set in the spherical aberration correction unit and the focus bias unit, respectively.
US07768866B2
A memory device comprises a memory cell and a sense amplifier which has a sensing interval. An output circuit is coupled to the sense amplifier and responsive to a clock signal to accept the signal from the sense amplifier. A first source of timing signals generates a first timing signal in response to an enable signal which is asynchronous relative to the clock signal. A second source of timing signals generates a second timing signal based on the clock signal. A switch selects one of the first and second timing signals at the timing signals for use to define pre-charge and sensing intervals for the sense amplifier. The first source of timing signals is selected during an interval of time corresponding to a clock latency, so that the timing signals define a sensing interval where transitions in the clock signal are outside of the sensing interval.
US07768861B2
A software refreshed memory device comprises a plurality of memory cells that must be periodically refreshed to avoid losing data. Preferably, the memory cells can avoid losing data even though the time interval between successive memory refresh operations is relatively long, as compared to the time interval between successive memory refresh operations in a conventional volatile memory device, such as a DRAM. A processor can perform periodic memory refresh operations by executing a set of memory refresh instructions implemented in software, rather than in hardware. Accordingly, the memory device can advantageously be simplified, because the need for memory refresh circuitry and for a unique refresh control signal are advantageously eliminated. Moreover, the processor executing the memory refresh instructions can typically perform more sophisticated algorithms, as compared to memory refresh circuitry implemented in hardware, for determining when to perform a memory refresh operation. For example, the processor can determine whether each individual memory cell needs to be refreshed, thereby advantageously avoiding performing unnecessary refresh operations on memory cells that do not need to be refreshed.
US07768853B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a substrate with first and second memory-cell array regions disposed on first and second substrate sides and first and second sense-circuit regions disposed on the first and second substrate sides between the first and second memory-cell array regions; first and second bitlines coupled to a plurality of memory cells in the first memory-cell array region; first and second complementary bitlines coupled to a plurality of memory cells in the second memory-cell array region; first and second column-selection transistors formed in the first sense-circuit region, and selectively couple the first bitline and the first complementary bitline to a first input/output (I/O) line and a first complementary I/O line; and third and fourth column-selection transistors formed in the second sense-circuit region, and selectively couple the second bitline and the second complementary bitline to a second I/O line and a second complementary I/O line.
US07768849B2
A semiconductor memory device can automatically control signal transmission power on-chip based on a wireless signal transmission. The semiconductor memory device can have a multi-chip stack structure. A power initializing method of the semiconductor memory device can comprise providing a test signal generated by a signal-providing chip to a first chip, checking whether the test signal provided to the first chip has an error, providing the checking result to the signal-providing chip, setting the power of a first signal provided to the first chip according to the checking result, and setting the power of a signal provided to a second chip adjacent to the first chip and close to the signal-providing chip using the power of the first signal.
US07768839B2
Some embodiments include first memory cells and a first line used to access the first memory cells, second memory cells and at least one second line used to access the second memory cells. The first and second memory cells have a number of threshold voltage values corresponding to a number of states. The states represent values of information stored in the memory cells. During a read operation to read the first memory cells, a first voltage may be applied to the first line and a second voltage may be applied to the second line. At least one of the first and second voltages may include a value based on a change of at least one of the threshold voltage values changing from a first value to a second value. The first and second values may correspond to a unique state selected from all of the states. Other embodiments including additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US07768833B2
A method of programming a non-volatile memory device includes, a bit line, to which a program-inhibited cell is connected, being precharged. After precharging the bit line, a program voltage is applied to a first word line selected for program. When a memory cell connected to a second word line, which is adjacent to the first word line in a direction of a drain select line, is a cell to be programmed, a first pass voltage is applied to the second word line and a second pass voltage is applied to the remaining word lines other than the first and second word lines.
US07768832B2
A memory array in a memory device is coupled to an analog I/O data interface that enables analog voltage levels to be written to the memory array. The I/O interface is comprised of a plurality of analog data paths that each includes a capacitor for storing charge corresponding to a target voltage to which a selected memory cell, coupled to its respective data path, is to be programmed. A plurality of comparators can be included in the I/O interface, with each such comparator coupled to a respective bit line. Such a comparator can compare a threshold voltage of a selected memory cell to its target voltage and inhibits further programming when the threshold voltage equals or exceeds the target voltage.
US07768827B2
A semiconductor memory device storing multi-bit write data and a related method of verifying data programmed to a memory cell are disclosed. The method compares a write data reference bit selected from the write data with a corresponding external data bit indicative of an intended write data bit value, and verifies a target bit selected from the write data only upon a positive comparison between the write data reference bit and the corresponding external data bit.
US07768823B2
A phase change memory device and operation is described where the phase change memory device includes a phase change resistance cell storing data corresponding to a sensed crystallization state. The phase change memory device operates by reading data of a selected phase change resistance cell when in a write mode. The data to be written is compared to the read data. If the read data is different from the data to be written, it is determined whether the data to be written is a first data. An operation writing and verifying the first data in the cell under a first operating condition when the is data to be written is the first data is then performed. After performing verification, if the read data is different from the first data, the first data is written and verified in the selected phase change resistance cell under a second operating condition.
US07768822B2
One embodiment of the invention provides a compensation circuit. The compensation circuit comprises a writing driver, a distance detection circuit, an operating element and an auxiliary writing driver. The writing driver provides a writing current to a writing path. The distance detection circuit is coupled to the writing path to detect a distance that the writing current has travelled and outputs a control signal based on the distance. The operating element is coupled to the writing path. The auxiliary writing driver provides an auxiliary current to the writing path based on the control signal.
US07768818B1
Memory elements for integrated circuit are provided that have efficient transistor layouts. The integrated circuits may be programmable logic device integrated circuits on which memory elements are formed into arrays. Each memory element may have a pair of cross-coupled inverters, an address transistor, and a clear transistor. The transistors in each memory element may be formed from n-type and p-type semiconductor regions that are crossed by only three gate conductor fingers. Programmable transistors on the integrated circuit may be controlled by static output signals from the memory elements. The programmable transistors may be used to form multiplexers. The multiplexers may be formed from n-type regions that are crossed by only three gate fingers each. The gate fingers of the multiplexers may be aligned with the gate fingers of the transistor structures of the memory elements.
US07768807B2
A method of operating an isolated bi-directional dc/dc converter to provide voltage regulation at a no-load condition over a wide voltage range and also provide overshoot protection for the boost mode main switching transistors uses new boost mode drive waveforms. The new waveforms drive switches S2 and S4 to be turned off during boost mode and only S1 and S3 are switched to provide reverse energy flow at no-load. In boost mode, C1 and C2 provide overshoot protection caused by leakage inductance of the isolation transformer when boost mode drive transistors turn off during forward energy flow and provide stored energy for reverse energy flow during reverse energy flow periods used for voltage regulation in the boost mode. In buck mode, C1 and C2 provide soft switching for buck mode main switching transistors S2 and S4.
US07768800B2
An ac/ac converter for accepting a pulsating dc input with encoded sinusoidal modulation and providing a multiphase modulated output. The converter comprises a bridge including a plurality of switches having switch legs for modulating the pulsating dc input at a carrier frequency over a plurality of phases. The bridge is coupled at one end to a pulsating dc source and coupled at another end to a modulated signal output. A controller is provided for the plurality of switches for causing, for each of the plurality of phases, under unity power factor, one of the switch legs to modulate the pulsating dc input at the carrier frequency while the other switch legs do not modulate the pulsating dc input at the carrier frequency.
US07768799B2
The invention is directed to an apparatus (1) for accommodating a plurality of individual inverters (2), comprising a rack, the individual inverters (2) being removably mountable to the side elements of said rack, said rack having at least one terminal block (10) for receiving cables for current supply and evacuation.
US07768798B2
A component accommodating case for accommodating an electronic component that is connected to a wire includes a cutout portion that passes the wire therethrough, an external case that covers at least a surface where the cutout portion is disposed, and a plate member that covers the cutout portion and that is mounted to the external case.
US07768793B2
According to one embodiment of, a multilayer printed wiring board comprises an electronic part, a mount layer where the electronic part is mounted, a mount layer conductor pattern formed in the mount layer, an opposite layer containing the electronic part between itself and the mount layer, an opposite layer conductor pattern formed on the opposite layer and an electrically conductive connector contained between the mount layer and the opposite layer and electrically connecting the mount layer conductor pattern and the opposite layer conductor pattern to each other.
US07768787B2
A modular bezel for an electronic device can include a front panel and a connection device. The connection device can be configured to connect the modular bezel to a front portion of the electronic device and be configured to be disposed in a plurality of locations on the front portion of the electronic device, such as receptors of the electronic device that are not occupied by an electronic component or are not configured to receive or be occupied by an electronic component. Thus, the electronic device can be configured in a variety of different ways using the modular bezel.
US07768785B2
A memory module assembly includes a heat-sink plate attached to one or more of the integrated circuits (e.g., memory devices) of a memory module PCBA by adhesive. The heat-sink plate includes an elongated base structure, a first contact plate extending away from the base structure such that a step-like positioning surface is defined therebetween, and heat-exchange fins extending from the opposite side of the base structure. An optional upper heat-sink plate is secured to a second side of the PCBA by a second adhesive layer, and contacts the lower heat-sink plate to facilitate heat transfer to the heat-exchange fins. The adhesive is either heat-activated or heat-cured. The adhesive is applied to either the memory devices or the heat-sink plates, and then compressed between the heat-sink plates and memory module using a fixture. The fixture is then passed through an oven to activate/cure the adhesive.
US07768777B2
A cooling assembly includes a package with one or more dies cooled by direct cooling. The cooled package includes one or more dies with active electronic components. A coolant port allows a coolant to enter the package and directly cool the active electronic components of the dies.
US07768774B2
According to one embodiment, a hard disk drive comprises a housing, a drive main unit contained in the housing, a frame which supports the drive main unit to keep the drive main unit away from the housing, a projection contained in the housing and inwardly projecting, the frame being mounted on the projection, and a bush provided between the frame and the projection. The bush radially receives the weight of the drive main unit. The frame includes a frame main body, a holding portion incorporated in the frame main body and supporting the bush, and a contact portion provided independently of the holding portion and radially contacting the bush.
US07768765B2
A support for a substrate processing chamber comprises a fluid circulating reservoir comprising a channel having serpentine convolutions. A fluid inlet supplies a heat transfer fluid to the fluid circulating reservoir and a fluid outlet discharges the heat transfer fluid. In one version, the channel is doubled over to turn back upon itself.
US07768764B2
Electrostatic discharge protection for guided wave microwave structures is provided by a protection device that imposes minimal disruption on the microwave structures and negligible interference with the normal operation of the structures. The protection device provides a discharge path between a signal conductor and a ground conductor when electrostatic charges on the signal conductor reach a predetermined voltage level. The protection device includes an insulating base that bridges a space between the signal conductor and the ground conductor and that supports a dispersion of metal particles adhered to the base.
US07768756B2
Systems and methods are provided for substantially mitigating leakage current. One embodiment includes an integrated circuit (IC). The IC comprises a monitoring circuit configured to control switching of one of a first voltage source and a second voltage source to an output. The IC also comprises a leakage current protection circuit configured to substantially mitigate leakage current flow between the first voltage source and the second voltage source due to an undershoot condition caused by the switching between the first and second voltage sources to the output.
US07768754B2
A metal oxide varistor comprising one or more zinc oxide layers is formed integral to a ceramic substrate to provide ESD protection of a semiconductor device mounted to the substrate. The portion of the ceramic substrate not forming the varistor may be aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride, silicon carbide, or boron nitride. The varistor portion may form any part of the ceramic substrate, including all of the ceramic substrate.
US07768744B2
A perpendicular magnetic recording write head has a main pole and return poles that are substantially coplanar. The write head includes a main pole, two return poles and a connecting stud that are all formed as a single layer in a single deposition and patterning step. The coplanar main and return poles lie in a plane parallel to the cross-track direction. The two return poles are thus spaced from the main pole in the cross-track direction. The main pole includes a write pole connected to it but lying in a plane spaced in the along-the-track direction from the plane of the main pole. The write head includes a helical coil wrapped around the main pole. The magnetic flux path is from the write pole to the disk recording layer in a data track aligned with the write pole, to the disk underlayer beneath the recording layer, through the underlayer to data tracks spaced cross-track from the data track aligned with the write pole, and back through the return poles.
US07768735B2
In accordance with various embodiments, an angular location of a first servo field along an annular track is determined in relation to a difference between a first code value of the first servo field and a second code value of a second servo field along the track. A radial location of the track is obtained in relation to the determined angular location of the first servo field.
US07768725B2
A light shielding piece is supported by a second lens holding frame such that the light shielding piece can rotate and move on a plane which is perpendicular to an optical axis. In a shooting state, a through hole formed in the second lens holding frame is closed to establish a light shielding state. In a retracted state, on the other hand, a first auxiliary shaft passing through a through hole of the second lens holding frame pushes the light shielding piece to generate a component force. The generated component force rotates and moves the light shielding piece on a plane which is perpendicular to the optical axis, and the lens barrel is brought into an opened state where the through hole is not blocked.
US07768722B2
There is provided a lens barrel including an imaging optical system, and an image blur correction unit moving a shift lens forming the imaging optical system in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the imaging optical system. The image blur correction unit includes a second movable body holding the shift lens and provided to be movable in two directions perpendicular to each other on a plane perpendicular to the optical axis. A fixed lens holding frame holding a fixed lens forming the imaging optical system is placed in front of the second movable body. A movement control structure is provided in a region ranging from the second movable body to the fixed lens holding frame to allow movement of the second movable body in the two directions and control a range of movement of the second movable body.
US07768716B2
A zoom optical system that comprising: a first lens unit having a negative refractive power; a second lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power which are arranged in order from an object side, a space between the lens units being changed to perform variation of magnification, the first lens unit includes a negative lens, the second lens unit includes a positive lens and a negative lens in order from the object side, the third lens unit includes a positive lens, and an electronic equipment provided with the zoom optical system.
US07768715B2
A lens system for forming a final image of an object, said system having an object side and an image side and forming a first intermediate real image between the object and final image, said system comprising a moving lens group containing the intermediate real image as the magnification of the final image is changed. The lens system is configured as a whole system so that optical aberrations at the intermediate real image, including field curvature, focus, astigmatism, distortion and color separation, are allowed to be of substantially greater magnitude than the corresponding optical aberrations of the final image.
US07768709B2
An optical tapped delay line device in accordance with the present invention is a method for and device for spatially resolving the spectral components of an optical signal, i.e., channelizing or spectrum analyzing the wavelength content of an optical signal. The device is based on a tapped optical delay line and enables numerous related optical signal processing functions.
US07768708B1
A light source includes a first set of first beam sources having parallel output beams lying in a first-beam-source plane and a second set of second beam sources having parallel output beams lying in a second-beam-source plane. The first-beam-source output beams are parallel to the second-beam-source output beams, but are spatially offset in a direction perpendicular to the first-beam-source output beams. A spatial optical interleaver disposed receives the first-beam-source output beams and the second-beam-source output beams. The first-beam-source output beams pass unimpeded through a set of first-beam openings in the spatial optical interleaver, and the second-beam-source output beams are reflected parallel to the first-beam-source output beams and in the first-beam-source plane.
US07768706B1
An optical fiber micro array lens is provided along with an associated fabrication method. The micro array lens is fabricated from a mesh of optical fibers. The mesh includes a first plurality of cylindrical optical fibers. Each fiber from the first plurality has a flat bottom surface and a hemicylindrical top surface. The top and bottom surfaces are aligned in parallel with a central fiber axis. The mesh also includes a second plurality of cylindrical optical fibers. Each fiber from the second plurality has a hemicylindrical bottom surface overlying and in contact with the top surfaces of the first plurality of optical fibers, and a flat top surface. The top and bottom surfaces are aligned in parallel with a central fiber axis. Each contact of the first and second plurality of optical fibers forms a lens assembly in a micro array of lenses.
US07768701B2
By adding perspective information in addition to binocular parallax, the invention provides a three-dimensional medical imaging apparatus that allows surgery to be performed with a more natural three-dimensional view, similar to that achieved with the naked eye. The three-dimensional medical imaging apparatus includes an image-acquisition optical system and an imaging device for acquiring three-dimensional images of a subject. The image-acquisition optical system includes an objective optical system for forming an image of the subject at an image-forming plane, and an entrance pupil position of the image-acquisition optical system is disposed between the objective optical system and the subject.
US07768700B1
Apparatus and method for amplifying laser signals using segments of fibers of differing core diameters and/or differing cladding diameters to suppress amplified spontaneous emission and non-linear effects such as four-wave mixing (FWM), self-phase modulation, and stimulated Brillouin and/or Raman scattering (SBS/SRS). In some embodiments, different core sizes have different sideband spacings (spacing between the desired signal and wavelength-shifted lobes). Changing core sizes and providing phase mismatches prevent buildup of non-linear effects. Some embodiments further include a bandpass filter to remove signal other than the desired signal wavelength and/or a time gate to remove signal at times other than during the desired signal pulse. Some embodiments include photonic-crystal structures to define the core for the signal and/or the inner cladding for the pump. Some embodiments include an inner glass cladding to confine the signal in the core and an outer glass cladding to confine pump light in the inner cladding.
US07768695B2
A parametric device having a non-linear material (4) for generating an idler wave and a signal wave (16) in response to a pump wave (14), the pump, idler and signal waves being non-collinear, the device having a cavity (10, 11) resonant at the pump wavelength and means for varying the angle between the propagation directions of the pump and idler waves.
US07768677B2
A solid-state image sensor produces an image including plural sub-images, which are rapidly read out and outputted via output circuits. The image sensor has its imaging surface divided into corresponding plural sub-areas producing image data, which is transferred by the horizontal transfer path in both left and right directions and outputted from the output circuits, whose amplifier characteristics are determined as follows. Optical black (OB) data from an OB area on the imaging surface is transferred in the left direction by the horizontal transfer path and outputted from one output circuit as total OB data. OB data is transferred by the horizontal transfer path in both left and right direction and outputted from the output circuits as left and right OB data. An output circuit characteristics determiner uses the total, and left and right OB data to determine the amplifier characteristics of the output circuits.
US07768676B2
An image reading apparatus has a scan quality parameter extraction part, a scan quality evaluation part and a notification part. The scan quality parameter extraction part extracts scan quality parameters representing the quality of a scanned image from image data based on a scan error detection algorithm. The scan quality evaluation part determines whether a scan error occurs, based on the scan error detection algorithm and the scan quality parameters. Also, the notification part notifies a result determined by the scan quality evaluation part to a user.
US07768669B2
In a printer to which a printer consumable material holder for supplying a printing medium is detachably mounted or in a digital camera which integrally includes this printer, image processes suitable for various printing media capable of being supplied can be performed. To do so, an information memory unit for storing information of the printing media is provided in the printer consumable material holder. In association with this, a unit for receiving the information, and a unit for analyzing the received information and determining an optimum image processing method for performing printing on the printing medium are provided in the printer. In a system structured by combining these units, the optimum image process is automatically adopted on the basis of the information stored in the printer consumable material holder.
US07768663B2
A system and method for efficiently copying books. According to the system and method, a user inputs a book identification into a peripheral device to cause the peripheral device to access an electronic version of the book. Upon so accessing, the peripheral is adapted to print the electronic version as specified. The book identification may be any suitable identification, such as a book ISBN number, a bar code, a title, etc.
US07768660B1
Disclosed is the use of a focused electromagnetic beam which is caused to impinge on the top surface of a tube shaped sample, to investigate a film coating on its inner surface during fabrication thereof and/or thereafter.
US07768657B2
An optical fly height measurement system includes a planar waveguide, a first diffraction grating for coupling an electromagnetic wave into the planar waveguide wherein the first diffraction grating is positioned for directing the electromagnetic wave towards an air bearing surface of a slider. A second diffraction grating is provided for receiving the electromagnetic wave reflected from the air bearing surface. A detector module and processor are provided to determine the fly height.
US07768656B2
A system and method are provided for the 3D measurement of the shape of material objects using non-contact structured light triangulation. The system includes a light projector for projecting a structured light pattern onto the surface of any object and a camera for capturing an image of the structured light pattern acting on the surface of the object. The system further includes computing device for determining the 3D measurement of the surface shape of the illuminated object through a triangulation algorithm employed based on a calculated correspondence between the projected structured light and the captured image. The structured light includes coded elements that lie within planes passing through vertices of the central projection areas of both the projector and the camera also that pass through the space of the object being measured.
US07768650B2
The present invention provides a biochip for testing biological substances comprising a plurality of binding sites, optical means for determining a specific binding event at each binding site, wherein the plurality of binding sites and the means for determining a specific binding event at each binding site are monolithically integrated into a single chip which is electrically powered and produces electrical signals in response to binding events at each binding site. The means for determining a specific binding event can include a micro-cavity light source formed in a semiconductor layer and a photodetector formed in the same semiconductor layer and further include a grating assisted vertical planar waveguide coupler for in-situ monitoring hybridization dynamics at each binding site via associated changes in refractive index. The invention further provides a method of manufacturing a biochip containing light sources, photodetectors, binding sites and optical means for determining a specific binding event at each binding site wherein said light sources, photodetectors, binding sites and optical means for determining a specific binding event at each binding site are produced by processing a single planar substrate in a sequence of deposition, photolithography and etching steps.
US07768648B2
Aberrations in an optical system can be detected and measured using a method comprised of a test target in the object plane of a projection system and imaging onto the image plane with the system. The test target comprises at least one open figure which comprises a multiple component array of phase zones, where the multiple zones are arranged within the open figure so that their response to lens aberration is interrelated and the zones respond uniquely to specific aberrations depending on their location within the figure. This is a unique and new method of detecting a variety of aberration types including coma, spherical, astigmatism, and three-point through the imaging onto photosensitive material or image detector placed in the image plane of the system and the evaluation of these images. The method of the invention offers an advantage over other methods because of the sensitivity to particular aberration types, the unique response of the multiple zones of the test target to aberrations, and the ease with which aberrations can be distinguished.
US07768646B1
Methods and systems detect the presence of a fluid, such as water, based on a reflection of optical energy from the fluid. Methods and systems also determine the concentration of a constituent element in a mixture based on a reflection of optical energy from the mixture.
US07768639B1
A method for detecting and correcting inaccurate results in inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES). ICP-AES analysis is performed across a plurality of selected locations in the plasma on an unknown sample, collecting the light intensity at one or more selected wavelengths of one or more sought-for analytes, creating a first dataset. The first dataset is then calibrated with a calibration dataset creating a calibrated first dataset curve. If the calibrated first dataset curve has a variability along the location within the plasma for a selected wavelength, errors are present. Plasma-related errors are then corrected by diluting the unknown sample and performing the same ICP-AES analysis on the diluted unknown sample creating a calibrated second dataset curve (accounting for the dilution) for the one or more sought-for analytes. The cross-over point of the calibrated dataset curves yields the corrected value (free from plasma related errors) for each sought-for analyte.
US07768628B2
A contact lithography apparatus and a method use one or both of spacers and a mesa to facilitate pattern transfer. The apparatus and the method include one or both of a spacer that provides a spaced apart orientation of lithographic elements, such as a patterning tool and a substrate, when in mutual contact with the spacer and a mesa between the patterning tool and the substrate. The mesa supports a contact surface of one or both of the mold and the substrate. One or both of the spacers and the mesa may be non-uniform. One or more of the patterning tool, the substrate and the spacer is deformable, such that deformation thereof facilitates the pattern transfer.
US07768627B2
A lithographic apparatus in which beams of radiation are projected onto an array of individually controllable elements, such that the beams interfere. Radiation that is further modulated by the array of individually controllable elements is projected onto a substrate.
US07768625B2
An exposure apparatus includes (a) a projection optical system to project a reticle pattern onto a plate by using a light from a light source, and (b) a photo detector unit to detect the light via the projection optical system. The photo detector unit includes (i) a substrate, which is patterned with a wiring pattern and transmits the light, (ii) a detector to detect the light, and (iii) a bump to space the substrate from the detector, and to electrically connect the detector and the wiring pattern of the substrate.
US07768616B2
A pixel structure including an active device, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a coupling line, a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode have a plurality of sets of stripped electrode patterns extending along different directions, respectively, and the first pixel electrode is electrically insulated from the second pixel electrode. The coupling line is disposed under the first and the second pixel electrode and electrically insulated from the second pixel electrode. The first pixel electrode is electrically connected to the active device through the coupling line. The common electrode is disposed over the first and the second pixel electrode. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the common electrode and the first and second pixel electrodes. Moreover, the liquid crystal layer has two polymer layers and a liquid crystal molecule layer disposed between the polymer layers.
US07768614B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can reduce the difference in brightness between an image obtained from a reflection region and an image obtained from a transmission region. The liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode and a counter electrode in each pixel region on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of respective substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween. The pixel region includes a transmission region and a reflection region. A gap between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode in the reflection region is set larger than the gap between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode in the transmission region.
US07768610B2
Two electrodes parallel to each other are formed on one of two substrates, homeotropic alignment films are formed on the substrates and a liquid crystal material having positive dielectric anisotropy is injected between the substrates. When a voltage is applied to the two electrodes, a parabolic electric field between the electrodes drives the liquid crystal molecules. Since the generated electric field is symmetrical with respect to the boundary-plane equal distance from each of the two electrodes, the liquid crystal molecules are symmetrically aligned with respect to the boundary-plane, and the optical characteristic is compensated in both regions divided by the boundary-plane, thereby obtaining a wide viewing angle. The electric field does not exert influences on the liquid crystal molecules on the boundary-plane since the electric field on the boundary-plane is parallel to the substrates and perpendicular to the two electrodes and thus, it is perpendicular to the liquid crystal molecules. Here, the polarization of the light is changed while passing through the liquid crystal layer and as a result, only a part of the light passes through the polarizing plate The transmittance of the light can be varied by controlling the magnitude of voltage applied to the two electrodes. The alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules is changed in both regions of a bent portion of the electrodes by forming the electrodes in the saw shape in a pixel or in by pixel, and the retardation of the light is compensated, thereby obtaining a wider viewing angle.
US07768607B2
An exemplary transflective liquid crystal display panel (2) includes a first substrate (21) with a glass base (210), a second substrate (22) opposite to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer (23) between the first and second substrates, and an insulating layer (211), a first passivation layer (212), a first electrode layer (213), and a second passivation layer (216) successively disposed at an inner side of the glass base. The first electrode layer has an uneven surface (2131), the second passivation layer is provided only at reflective areas of the transflective liquid crystal display panel, the second passivation layer has a reflection characteristic, and the second passivation layer has a plurality of bumps (2161) at an inmost side thereof.
US07768600B2
Provided is an optical filter having a light-transmitting region of transmitting light having a predetermined wavelength and a light-blocking region disposed adjacent to the light-transmitting region to block out the light, wherein the light-blocking region has an optical density gradation relative to light in the normal direction, from the contact point to the light-transmitting region along an in-plane direction, and the optical density is the smallest at the contact point to the light-transmitting region.
US07768596B2
A liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least two liquid crystal display panels; a lamp to irradiate light on each of the liquid crystal display panels; a transparent case to cover the lamp; and a hinge part to provide a hinge function to each of the liquid crystal display panels.
US07768594B2
To shorten the distance from a point light source to an effective light emitting area and reduce the size of a back light. A liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal display panel and a back light disposed on the back face of the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the back light has a light guide plate, a point light source disposed on a side face of the light guide plate, and an outgoing light control board disposed on the light guide plate on the side of the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the outgoing light control board has a plurality of convex portions at least partly circular in cross-sectional shape on the surface of the light guide plate, and is disposed on the surface of the light guide plate on the side of the liquid crystal display panel with the convex portions made adherent to the surface of the light guide plate on the side of the liquid crystal display panel, and wherein the convex portions of the outgoing light control board are also formed in an area corresponding to a non-effective area of the back light.
US07768592B2
A backlight unit includes at least one light emitting diode; and a diffusion plate over the at least one light emitting diode and including at least one opening portion corresponding to the at least one light emitting diode, wherein the at least one opening portion has a disconnected ring shape, and the diffusion plate further includes a first portion directly above the at least one light emitting diode and surrounded by the at least one opening portion, a second portion surrounding the at least one opening portion, and a third portion coupling the first and second portions.
US07768587B2
An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a gate line on the substrate, a data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region, a thin film transistor including a gate electrode, an active layer, an ohmic contact layer, a buffer metallic layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, the thin film transistor being electrically connected to the gate line and the data line and a pixel electrode in the pixel region and connected to the thin film transistor, wherein the active layer is disposed over and within the gate electrode.
US07768586B2
Disclosed is a method for fabricating a liquid crystal display. The method includes the steps of: forming a lower substrate and an upper substrate, the lower substrate including a data drive circuit connected with data lines of a thin film transistor array and a gate drive circuit connected with gate lines of the thin film transistor array, a pad part connected with the gate drive circuit and the data drive circuit, and a shorting bar connected with the pad part, the upper substrate including a color filter and a black matrix; dispensing a spacer on the lower substrate and forming a seal pattern at a display region on the upper substrate; attaching the lower substrate and the upper substrate to face with each other and then forming holes at an inner upper portion of the pads at a predetermined distance; scribing the holes-formed-portion of the pads to remove the shorting bar and dividing the attached upper and lower substrates into a plurality of LCD panels; and providing a liquid crystal layer between the upper and lower substrates.
US07768573B2
An optical apparatus is disclosed which provides good usability and operability. The optical apparatus comprises a first memory storing a default setting data set for controlling functions of the apparatus and a second memory storing a user setting data set for controlling the functions. The default setting values included in the default setting data set are non-rewritable, and the user setting values included in the user setting data set are rewritable based on the default setting values.
US07768570B2
An image pickup apparatus includes an objective optical system, an image pickup element having a surface at an image formed by the objective optical system, and an etalon positioned between the objective optical system and the surface of the image pickup element. The etalon includes a gap, an optical path length of which is controllable for scanning the wavelengths transmitted by the etalon to thereby select the wavelengths that reach the surface. An optical filter is positioned between the objective optical system and the surface and has a first wavelength range over which incident light is reflected, a second wavelength range over which incident light is transmitted, and a boundary wavelength range that is bounded by the first and second wavelength ranges. The boundary wavelength range lies entirely within the wavelength range the peak transmission of the etalon can be scanned. A method of calibrating the etalon is also disclosed.
US07768562B2
A method, apparatus and system are disclosed for digitizing a plurality of analog pixel signals of a pixel array in a manner which produces a digital signal representing the combination of said plurality of analog pixel signals. A readout architecture performs at least some binning and/or scaling operations in the readout and analog to digital conversion circuits relieving an image processor from the task of performing these operations.
US07768561B2
A drive mode is switched after readout for one frame is completed, and the reset operation for the following frame is started. In this manner, the reset operation for the following frame will not be performed during the readout period for the preceding frame. Therefore, the accumulation period for the following frame can be made consistent in that frame.
US07768554B2
An electronic device includes an imaging unit configured for capturing an image of a subject, a memory unit configured for storing data and images; a processing unit configured for processing data and images; a display unit configured for displaying data and images; and a central processing unit configured for processing various signals and images. The processing unit includes a replay module, a selection module, a function module, a menu module and an input/output unit. The input/output unit is configured for activating anyone of the replay module, the selection module, the function module and the menu module. The application system for the electronic device through activating each module via the input/output interface unit can allow the use of the electronic device to be more convenient and simplified.
US07768546B1
An integrated security system includes a video camera operable to collect real-time video information and an identification reader operable to collect real-time character-based information corresponding to the video information. The character-based information is received from an identifier unit proximate to the identification reader. The system also includes an integrator operable to integrate the video information and the character-based information.
US07768545B2
A panoramic image management system and method is disclosed. The system provides for improved calibration of a 360 degree panoramic camera, as well as improved means for manipulating the images, and correlating images from conventional video cameras with the images from the 360 degree panoramic camera. The system also provides means for archiving and retrieving stored images. The present invention contributes to an improved video surveillance system.
US07768544B2
Techniques are described for embedding a panoramic image in standard resolution. A panoramic image is received from a panoramic camera and a location of a speaker is determined, either automatically or manually. A portion of the panoramic image is cropped to isolate the speaker and the cropped portion of the image is enlarged to standard video resolution. The panoramic image is combined with the cropped portion and transmitted via a standard video streaming format. In at least one implementation, the panoramic image is normalized so that face sizes of persons in the image appear approximately equal regardless of the distance each person is situated relative to the camera.
US07768538B2
One embodiment provides a method that includes displaying Boolean combinations of two or more bit planes.
US07768535B2
To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an integrated system for the acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication of digital images by amateur digital photography enthusiasts. The system of the present invention first acquires images from a number of different image sources. Images acquired in the same image importing session are marked as coming from the same conceptual film roll. Next, a user is empowered to organize and manipulate the acquired images. The images may be organized by tagging the images with informative keywords and grouping images together into conceptual photo albums. Furthermore, the images may be manipulated by rotating, cropping, and removing red-eye. Finally, the system of the present invention provides simple intuitive image publish systems. A selected group of images may be published in a photobook, published onto the World Wide Web, or published as individual image prints with minimal computer knowledge on the part of the user.
US07768525B2
A color attribute picked up from a pickup surface of a graphics design application document may be used to contaminate a paint data store. An injection color attribute may be re-injected into the paint data store. The resulting contaminated and re-injected paint data store may be used to tint one or more stamps in a stroke drawn on a target surface of the document. Thus, a color attribute of an existing pixel may be sampled and combined with an injection color attribute, such that the color attribute data applied by a graphics data manipulation tool is dynamic over the stroke of the graphics data manipulation tool in response to the picked-up color attributes and the injection color attributes.
US07768507B2
According to the present disclosure, a transmitter for transmitting control characters to a display device over an interface includes a transmitter portion configured to transmit a control character having a plurality of bit values to the display device. The transmitter also includes logic configured to determine values of the bits in the control character and construct a corresponding plurality of rebalancing control characters based on the determination of the values of the plurality of bits in the control character to have bit values selected such that the combination of the control character and rebalancing control character is DC balanced. As such, the transmitter provides DC balance correction to non-DC balanced control characters in such a way as to allow DVI and HDMI to operate properly on an AC-coupled connection.
US07768503B2
A capacitive touchpad provides operational modes including key input, graphical input, handwriting input, and mouse control. The touchpad comprises a panel having several programmed regions thereon, several patterns in the regions are programmed for the operational modes, and a pattern on the panel is programmed as a mode switch to switch the touchpad between the operational modes. In the graphical input mode, the regions include a graphical input region for graphical input. In the key input mode, the patterns include ones for keys to simulate a keyboard. In the handwriting input mode, the regions include a handwriting region for handwriting input. In the mouse control mode, the regions include a cursor control region as well as horizontal and vertical scroll regions.
US07768498B2
An input device with three-dimensional, six-degrees-of-freedom data input for a computer having a tracker with an array of tracking points defining a first axis and a second axis or plane is described. Light reflected from, or given off from the tracking points, is captured by a camera. From the two-dimensional images captured, three-dimensional data relating to the position and orientation of the input device may be obtained from the relative positions of the tracking points by a provided algorithm and lookup table. The use of one of the tracking points as an on-off indicator of the tracker's orientation towards or away from the camera greatly expands the use of such technology from limited hemispherical tracking to all-round, full-spherical tracking. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, tracking points on the input device which is in the form of a planar “T”-shape wand with a cross piece and a camera allow computer users to input natural swinging movements into a virtual environment for gaming or other three-dimensional applications.
US07768497B2
A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; a backlight unit supplying light to the liquid crystal panel; a photo sensor detecting an ambient luminance surrounding the liquid crystal panel and generating a current analog-type sense signal; and a signal processor adjusting a brightness of the backlight unit.
US07768483B2
A pixel and a display panel using the pixel are provided. In the pixel, a driving element provides a driving circuit according to a data signal and a reference voltage to drive a light-emitting element to emit light. The electrical difference of the driving elements due to the fabrication process thereof does not affect the brightness of the light-emitting elements. Moreover, unequal brightness resulted from the equivalent resistance of the power lines is also prevented.
US07768481B2
A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. A scan driver of the plasma display apparatus supplies a voltage of a scan signal of a negative polarity direction and a voltage of a sustain signal to a scan electrode using one voltage source. Further, a sustain driver of the plasma display apparatus supplies a voltage of a sustain signal and a sustain bias voltage to a sustain electrode using one voltage source.
US07768471B2
A dipole antenna device includes a first metal piece including at least one bending part and a first feeding point; a second metal piece including a second bending part and a second feeding point; and a third metal piece electrically connected to a first connection point of the first metal piece and a second connection point of the second metal piece; wherein the first metal piece and the second metal piece are not electrically connected to each other except the first connection point and the second connection point.
US07768452B2
A wide-angle null-fill antenna with no null in the depression angle range, an omni antenna using the same, and radio communication equipment. A null-fill antenna comprises a first antenna array including antenna elements arranged with a prescribed point as the center, and a second antenna array having amplitude characteristics substantially equal to those of the antenna elements forming the first antenna array. The first antenna array is excited so that the excitation amplitude distribution is to have symmetry with respect to the prescribed point, while the excitation phase distribution is to have point symmetry with respect to the prescribed point. The phase center of the first antenna array is substantially coincident with that of the second antenna array.
US07768450B2
A combined radio and laser positioning system comprising: a network of ground based radio communication devices, a laser transmitter configured to generate at least one laser beam, and at least one user unit. Each user unit comprises a radio receiver configured to receive at least one ranging radio signal transmitted by at least one ground based radio communication device, a laser detector configured to receive at least one laser beam generated by the laser transmitter, and a processor configured to convert a set of data including: {a set of data transmitted by at least one ranging radio signal, and a set of data transmitted by said at least one laser beam} into position coordinates of the user unit, wherein a set of vertical coordinates of the user unit is obtained with a laser-assisted (LA) accuracy.
US07768446B2
The invention discloses a simulating measurement apparatus. The simulating measurement apparatus comprises a storing module, a controlling module, and a simulating module. The storing module is used for storing simulating parameter information. The simulating parameter information comprises at least one emitting simulating parameter, at least one receiving simulating parameter, and a radio beam channel transmitting simulating parameter. The controlling module generates a controlling signal according to the simulating parameter information. The simulating module generates a simulating measurement result of radio beams transmitted in the space between an emitting antenna and a receiving antenna by simulating the transmitting behavior of a plurality of RF signals according to the controlling signal.
US07768444B1
A system for detecting weapons is provided. The system includes a radar system transmitting electromagnetic radiation, analyzing reflected signals to detect a weapon, and generating reflected signal data. An energy field parameter system receives the reflected signal data and sets a plurality of energy field parameters. An energy field system transmits energy at a location associated with the detected weapon.
US07768443B2
The vessel monitoring system has, in a trial navigation by provisionally setting a value of the speed of the own vessel arbitrarily, a display unit immediately display an Obstacle Zone by Targets (OZT) corresponding to the speed of the own vessel.The vessel monitoring system includes a calculator for calculating an Obstacle Zone by Targets, a display unit for displaying the Obstacle Zone by Targets obtained by the calculation by the calculator, and an integrated controller for processing trial navigation that integrally controls mutually cooperated processing of calculation by the calculator and display by the display unit, in a trial navigation by provisionally setting a value of the speed of the own vessel arbitrarily, so that the calculator calculates an Obstacle Zone by Targets corresponding to the arbitrarily and provisionally set value of the speed of the own vessel, and the display unit displays the result of the calculation.
US07768442B2
A method of error handling in a slope monitoring system that generates slope movement data from interferometric signal processing of radar images of the slope monitoring system. The error handling occurs in two steps. The movement data is corrected for changes in atmospheric conditions and disturbances are identified. It is convenient to mask the regions identified as disturbed in the display of the corrected movement data. Typical disturbances include short term disturbances, such as trucks, and long term disturbances, such as vegetation.
US07768435B2
The apparatus described is a multi-core processor 505 adapted to provide digital to analog conversion. At least one 2010 of the cores 510 is used to make the conversion, another group of cores 2005 can provide the source of a digital stream of information such as audio visual signals. The stream is conveyed to processor 2010 optionally by a transfer processor 2015. The method of the invention divides each word of an incoming digital stream of information into a most significant and least significant portions. The most and least significant portions control the production of electrical charges which are added together to produce an analog electrical signal proportional to the values of the words in the digital stream.
US07768430B1
An integrated circuit (IC) having selectable memory elements is provided. The IC includes a logic array block (LAB) disposed within the IC. A plurality of logic elements, having look-up tables functioning as the selectable memory elements is included in the LAB. Within a logic element, a data path that shares multiplexers and drivers when the look-up tables of the logic elements are operated as one of a memory element or a combinational logic device is provided. In addition, a write address decoder is interconnected with the plurality of logic elements through a write bus.
US07768426B2
The system described is an integrated parking management system which makes use of patented vehicle detectors to collect and transmit data, essentially in near real time, as to all events happening as to single or multiple parking spaces (e.g. current and historic use, length of time of occupancy of current occupant) to a central clearing device for which patent application has been made which serves as a logic core and repository, making use of proprietary software, analyzing, displaying and distributing the data so developed as to a parking plant and all of its components to allow all parties (including prospective users) who are concerned with the various aspects of a parking plant and its components (e.g. determination as to availability of spaces, maintenance and repair of meters, collection of revenues and enforcement of parking regulations) not only to access and make passive use of the information developed, in near real time, to permit them to identify what's happening to the plant and its components as to their own particular interest in such plant and so maximize the efficient use both of the resources of the plant and their own resources directed to the particular aspect of their interface with the plant and its components but also to access and make active use of such information for whatever purpose and in whatever fashion using whatever means of access they may wish. While others have made claim to certain of the individual functions described, e.g. vehicle detection, nobody has identified or patented.
US07768425B2
A sensing system for sensing conditions or characteristics associated with a process or thing. The sensing system includes one or more energy converters and a sensor, which are coupled to the process or thing. A node is coupled to the sensor and the energy-converter, and the node is powered by output from the energy converter. In a more specific embodiment, the node includes a controller that implements one or more routines for selectively powering a wireless transmitter of the node based on a predetermined condition. The predetermined condition may specify that sensor output values are within a predetermined range or are below or above a predetermined threshold. Alternatively, the predetermined condition may specify that electrical energy output from the energy converter is below a predetermined threshold. A remote computer may be wirelessly connected to node and may include software and/or hardware that is adapted to process information output by the sensor and relayed to the computer via the node.
US07768423B2
A method whereby a downhole drilling transmission device that communicates to the surface automatically modifies its transmission parameters in order that it substantially improves its ability to adequately communicate with a surface receiver despite increasing signal attenuation between the two as the length of drillpipe increases. This utilizes a simple measure of localized downhole pressure that then relies upon a look-up table or similar that provides a correspondence between said pressure and measured depth. Such a look-up table or similar can be readily built by incorporating appropriate features of the planned well such as drilling fluid flow rate, drilling fluid density, drilling fluid viscosity, well profile, bottom hole assembly component geometry, drillpipe geometry, and indications as to whether the fluid is flowing or stationary.Upon determining the measured depth the tool then can attempt to modify or augment appropriate telemetry parameters in order to keep the signal received at surface within required parameters, thus offsetting the degradation due to increasing attenuation.
US07768417B2
Provided are a moving apparatus and an apparatus, method, and medium for compensating position based on a position recognition technology. The moving apparatus which provides a function for correcting a position includes a sensing unit obtaining multiple state information reflecting one or more abnormal movement states generated by movements of the moving apparatus; a state determination unit determining whether or not the abnormal movement state is generated by self-contained navigation, by referring to the obtained multiple state information; and a position information calculation unit calculating final position information of the moving apparatus, by correcting the multiple state information as the abnormal movement state occurs.
US07768395B2
A user uses a portable electronic device to select an image representative of a brand. In response to the user's selection of the image representative of the brand, the device automatically presents the user with an image of a map that indicates a current location of the device and shows one or more images representative of brand purchase sites where the selected brand may be accessed by the user.
US07768382B2
A method is provided to indicate improper fuel filling in a vehicle. An indicator is actuated if a proportion of alcohol in the fuel is outside a range of expected proportions. In some examples, the range corresponds to a non-flex fuel vehicle recommended range, or to a normal range for a low alcohol-content fuel, which may be between 0 and 15 percent alcohol by volume. The indicator may include a diagnostic code or a dash light. Further, the indicator may be actuated in combination with a mitigating action, which may involve adjustment of a fuel injector pulse width or an ignition spark timing, as examples.
US07768371B2
Optimal operating techniques are disclosed for using coreless printed-circuit-board (PCB) transformers under (1) minimum input power conditions and (2) maximum energy efficiency conditions. The coreless PCB transformers should be operated at or near the ‘maximum impedance frequency’ (MIF) in order to reduce input power requirement. For maximum energy efficiency, the transformers should be at or near the “maximum efficiency frequency” (MEF) which is below the MIF. The operating principle has been confirmed by measurement and simulation. The proposed operating techniques can be applied to coreless PCB transformers in many circuits that have to meet stringent height requirements, for example to isolate the gates of power MOSFET and IGBT devices from the input power supply.
US07768369B2
Apparatus for reducing electrical earth displacement current flow generated by wound components is disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a plurality of layers of an input winding wound around an energy transfer element core. An outer layer of the plurality of layers of the input winding is wound with a number of turns different than the number of turns in substantially each of the inner layers of the plurality of layers of the input winding. An output winding is wound around the energy transfer element core with substantially the same number of turns as the number of turns of the outer layer of the plurality of layers of the input winding to reduce substantially a capacitive displacement current flowing between the input and output windings.
US07768362B2
There is provided a comb polarizer suitable for millimeter band applications including: a waveguide having an aperture side formed of two separable half waveguides, and a comb shaped conductive unit having a plurality of cogs interposed between two half waveguides for transforming a linear polarized signal to a circular polarized signal.
US07768358B2
Oscillatory signal output circuitry includes a bias circuit generating a bias voltage, which is applied to an amplifier and an oscillatory circuit to generate an oscillatory signal. The oscillatory signal is capacitively coupled and level-shifted up by the bias voltage to produce output signals. The produced output signals are operatively applied to PMOS and NMOS transistors of an output part. When the voltages of the output signals decrease at the same time, the drain current of the NMOS transistor decreases to output a high level. When the voltages of the output signals increase at the same time, the drain current of the NMOS transistor increases to output a low level. Therefore, the output part attains its large gain, and is ensured to operate to develop the output signal. A variation in threshold voltage would cause the bias voltages to change accordingly, thus being ensured to output the output signal.
US07768356B2
A dynamic oscillating ring circuit is described, which has multiple non-inverting domino circuits, each having a signal input, a trigger input, inputs for charge state clock and clocked cutoff and an output inverter. A number of the domino circuits are coupled in series, the output of one feeding the input of the next, to form a chain, which form stages of the ring. A number of the stages are coupled in series, the output of one feeding the input of the next, to form the ring. The first domino circuit of said chain receives a logic signal input and a single trigger input for the chain. Within the ring, the output of each stage feeds the input signal to the next stage and is fed back to clock an earlier stage to allow the ring to oscillate.
US07768355B2
A polyphase numerically controlled oscillator is disclosed. An input signal is received at a phase accumulator. The phase accumulator provides a phase to a phase interpolator. The phase interpolator then provides a plurality of output phases. The plurality of output phases are provided to a plurality of phase to amplitude converters. Each of said plurality of phase to amplitude converters process one of said plurality of output phases.
US07768346B1
An amplifier with linearization feedback includes an amplification stage that receives a feedback control signal from an envelope detection feedback network. The envelope detection feedback network controls the gain of the amplification stage based on an envelope of an input signal of the amplification stage, an envelope of an attenuated version of an amplified output signal of the amplification stage, and an offset adjustment signal generated by an offset calibration block. The envelope detection feedback network can include single stage or multiple stage envelope detectors. The amplification stage can include multiple, serially connected amplifiers. The gain of at least one amplifier in the amplification stage may be controlled by the feedback control signal. Additionally, the gain of some of the amplifiers in the amplification stage may be controlled digitally by gain adjustment signals based on comparing the feedback control signal to one or more reference signals.
US07768345B2
The present invention provides compensation for distortions in a multi-stage amplifier having a gain expansion characteristic. The present invention also provides an approach for using an amplification stage biased in a state close to B-class, which exhibits high power with added efficiency at low output, in order to have a gain expansion characteristic in all stages of a multi-stage amplifier. The amplifier of the present invention has a gain expansion characteristic which presents an increase in gain in response to an increase in input power or output power in a certain range of the input power or the output power. The amplifier is characterized in that an emitter grounded amplifier circuit comprising a first bipolar transistor has a base terminal to which an input matching circuit and a cathode of a first diode for supplying a bias voltage are connected through a first impedance element which does not block a direct current, and the first diode has an anode which is connected to a reference power supply which presents a sufficiently low impedance at high frequencies.
US07768341B2
A semiconductor charge pump includes a plurality of P-channel MOS transistors being connected in series, a plurality of first pumping capacitors one electrode of each of which is connected to a connection point of each of the P-channel MOS transistors, a clock signal generating circuit which generates first and second clock signals whose phases are different from each other by 180 degrees, the first and second clock signals being alternately supplied to the other electrodes of the first pumping capacitors. The semiconductor charge pump further includes a plurality of dynamic level converter circuits each including a resistor element and a second pumping capacitor and connected to each of gates of the P-channel MOS transistors.
US07768340B2
A voltage pumping device is provided which includes a source voltage generator for generating a source voltage which has a first voltage level for a predetermined period and a second voltage level after a lapse of the predetermined period, the second voltage level being constant, and a pumping circuit configured to receive the source voltage and pump a predetermined voltage.
US07768337B2
A driver circuit comprising an insulated gate bipolar transistor having a collector coupled to a voltage supply, an emitter coupled to a source of reference potential, and a gate configured to receive a control signal from a driver circuit, and a desaturation circuit conductively coupled between an insulated gate and a collector of the insulated gate bipolar transistor to desaturate the insulated gate. The desaturation circuit includes a series coupled bias voltage source, uni-directionally conducting element and switch.
US07768334B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit has a plurality of clock tree cells arranged in a tree structure on clock signal lines transmitting a clock signal, the plurality of clock tree cells forming a clock tree. The clock tree cells include first power supply lines connected to the clock tree cells, second power supply lines connected to logic circuits receiving a clock signal supplied from the clock tree, and a plurality of power supply pads connected to the first power supply lines and the second power supply lines.
US07768327B2
A delay locked loop (DLL) of a semiconductor device includes: a first delay line for delaying a first clock signal in synchronization with a first edge of an external clock signal to output a first delayed clock signal; a second delay line for delaying a second clock signal in synchronization with a second edge of the external clock to output a second delayed clock signal; a duty cycle corrector (DCC) for mixing phases of the first and second delayed clock signals to output a DLL clock signal with a corrected duty cycle; and a DCC controller for disabling the duty cycle corrector in a section during which a phase difference between the first and second delayed clock signals is greater than a preset time after a delay locking.
US07768326B2
A charge pump that includes cascode transistors and current mirror circuitry to form a folded cascode structure that isolates the control inputs from the charge pump output and also increases the range of the output. The charge pump includes inputs to receive UP and DN (down) control signals and provides an output current that is based on the control signals. The charge pump may be configured as either a differential or non-differential device. The switching transistors that receive the control signals may use a lower voltage than the current source transistors in the charge pump In differential-type embodiments of the present charge pump, an amplifier can be used to control current source transistors based on differences between the output voltages of the charge pump, thereby adjusting the current flowing through the current source transistors and driving the average of the output voltages to a desired common mode voltage.
US07768325B2
Disclosed is a circuit configured to synchronize multiple signals received by one clock domain from a different asynchronous clock domain, when simultaneous movement of the signals between the clock domains is intended. In the circuit multiple essentially identical pipelined signal paths receive digital input signals. XOR gates are associated with each of the signal paths. Each XOR gate monitors activity in a given signal path and controls, directly or indirectly (depending upon the embodiment), advancement of signal processing in the other signal path(s) to ensure that, if warranted, output signals at the circuit output nodes are synchronized. In a two-signal path embodiment, advancement of signal processing in one signal path is triggered, whenever transitioning digital signals are detected within the other signal path. In an n-signal path advancement of signal processing is triggered in all signal paths, whenever transitioning digital signals are detected on at least one signal path.
US07768324B1
A voltage buffer with current reuse is described. This voltage buffer can advantageously provide a relatively wide voltage differential using a relatively low current. In one embodiment, a slave branch can be used to minimize potential spikes/glitches in the voltage buffer.
US07768322B2
The present invention provides a driving circuit (100) in particular for driving a laser diode (700) or a modulator, at data speed in the order of Gb/s. The driving circuit (10) has a low-voltage, high-speed output stage capable of driving efficiently a laser diode (700) or a modulator The driver circuit (10) comprises a chain of circuits, said chain comprising a slew-rate control circuit, at least one translinear amplifier (200, 201, 202), a push/pull stage (300), and an output stage (400) for driving the load current. Due to its versatility, the driver can be used in other applications e.g. line drivers, cable drivers, high-speed serial interfaces for back-plane interconnect, etc. The driver can work at low supply voltages, e.g. 3.3V nominal down to 2.7V, with high power efficiency. One major clue is to use entirely the large signal current produced by the output stage, e.g. in the driven laser diode, without wasting current in supply lines.
US07768315B2
A circuit for a multiplexer includes a pair of NAND gates with outputs coupled to an OAI gate constructed from a complementary circuit formed from solid state devices. A current flow controller formed from solid state devices is coupled to one of the NAND gates. When activated the controller inhibits the flow of current through the NAND gate and a portion of the OAI gate to which the controller is connected. As a consequence, leakage power is not consumed within the multiplexer. Several of the applications in which the circuit is used are also demonstrated in the specification.
US07768313B2
A nonvolatile programmable logic circuit using a ferroelectric memory performs a nonvolatile memory function and an operation function without additional memory devices, thereby reducing power consumption. Also, a nonvolatile ferroelectric memory is applied to a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), thereby preventing leakage of internal data and reducing the area of a chip.
US07768311B2
An output buffer circuit for improving an output during state transitions of CMOS buffers driving transmission line loads. The circuit generates variable output impedance proportional to the load transmission line impedance. The buffer includes an output stage, such as pull up/pull down drivers for receiving an input signal and generating an output signal. The pull up/pull down drivers are biased by a circuit that generates a control signal and varies its conductivity according to the control signal. The pull up/pull down drivers initially provide a relatively low impedance to reach a desired level during the initial transition period of the output and then slowly varies its impedance in response to the control signal to suppress the ringing effect. The control circuit coupled to the input node, output node and the power supply node to generate a control signal that biases the pull up/pull down driver.
US07768305B2
Quad-state logic elements and quad-state memory elements are used to reduce the wiring density of integrated circuits. The resulting reduction in wiring interconnects between memories and logic elements results in higher speed, higher density, and lower power integrated circuit designs.
US07768284B2
A test apparatus for testing a semiconductor device having contact pads on its top and its back, and to a method for testing the semiconductor device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the test apparatus has a test socket which is mounted on a test printed circuit board. Internal through-contact elements of the test socket can be used to test contact pads on the top of the semiconductor device. The contact pads on the back of the semiconductor device can be connected for the purpose of testing the semiconductor device using external through-contact elements which are arranged outside of the locating seat.
US07768280B1
A system for testing a device under test (DUT), in which electrical coupling among a module board, a low profile connector, and, a DIB is established by applying a pressure on the module board toward the DUT, is provided. The system includes a test head bracket secured inside a test head, the test head bracket includes the module board having a first section including a plurality of connectors to couple a test analyzer to the module board, a second section including a plurality of contacts pads to electrically couple the module board to the DUT, and, a flexible board to enable the first section to be placed at an angle with respect to the second section. The test head bracket also includes a module board stiffener mechanically securing the first section and the second section to the test head and the low profile connector electrically couples the module board to the DUT.
US07768273B1
A planar fingerprint pattern detecting array includes a large number of individual skin-distance sensing cells that are arranged in a row/column configuration. Each sensing cell includes a first capacitor plate placed vertically under the upper surface of a dielectric layer and a second capacitor plate that is placed vertically under the upper surface of the dielectric layer in close horizontal spatial relation to the first capacitor plate. Electrostatic discharge protection relative to electrostatic potential that may be carried by an ungrounded fingertip is provided by placing a number of grounded metal paths within the dielectric layer to spatially surround each of the first and second capacitor plates, this being done in a manner that does not disturb the ungrounded state of the fingertip.
US07768266B2
A battery monitor apparatus and method for an automotive battery system including a battery for supplying power to in-vehicle electrical equipment and sensors for detecting battery voltage, the charge/discharge current and the battery temperature are disclosed. The capacitance and the internal actual resistance of the battery are calculated at the time of starting the engine. Further, the theoretical internal resistance of the battery corresponding to the ambient temperature and the battery open-circuit voltage during the stationary engine state are detected in advance. Based on the change in the battery open-circuit voltage, the battery change is provisionally determined. After that, battery change or degeneration can be determined based on battery capacitance, the actual and theoretical internal resistance values of the battery, the battery open-circuit voltage and the provisional battery change determination value.
US07768262B2
Apparatus and methods for locating a nuclear quadrupole resonance are described. In an example method, a search frequency is adjusted using a blind search until a resonance absorption of an analyte is detected, and then an extremum seeking search to be used to locate an extremum frequency.
US07768250B2
A method for locating a device, which produces a field, with a probe assembly affected by the field. The method may involve: placing a device on a first side of a work piece; producing a field with the device through the work piece; using a robot to hold and to place a probe assembly adjacent a second side of the work piece; providing information from the probe assembly to the robot that is used by the robot to move the probe assembly to substantially determine a position of the device; determining a location of a center field axis of the field with the probe assembly; and providing a physical confirmation of the center field axis to a user.
US07768241B2
A device (8), for adjusting the impedance of a high voltage line (9), supplying an alternating current, has at least one control coil (2), which may be inserted in series in the high voltage line (9) and at least one switching device (3,10), provided for each control coil (2). The device is compact and economical. A control unit (4) for controlling each switching device (3,10) is also provided, such that the reactance of the control coil (2), acting in the device may be adjusted by the switching of the switching device (3,10), whereby each switching device (3,10) is arranged parallel to the corresponding control coil (2) in a parallel branch (5).
US07768240B2
A power generator includes a magnetic pole rotor in which a plurality of N magnetic pole cores and S magnetic pole cores are arranged alternately at regular intervals and that is rotatably supported, stator coils that oppose the magnetic pole rotor and are wound round pole portions of poles of stator poles so as to generate AC power, full-wave rectifying circuits 18 for respective stator coils, and smoothing circuits that are connected to the output sides of the respective full-wave rectifying circuits. The power generator is so structured as to convert multiphase AC generated electric power into DC electric power. Further, line ends of positive (+) poles at the output side of the smoothing circuits are connected to the input side of rectifiers that make only current in the forward direction pass through, and the output side (+) line ends of the rectifiers are connected to a (+) combination line.
US07768238B2
A battery monitoring system may be configured to interface with a first battery monitoring unit and a second battery monitoring unit. The first battery monitoring unit may be configured to output data in a first format. The second battery monitoring unit may be configured to output data in a second format, the second format being different than the first format. The battery monitoring system may include a first polling agent, the first polling agent may be configured to receive data from the first battery monitoring unit and normalize the data into a predetermined data format and store the data in a database. The battery monitoring system may also include a second polling agent. The second polling agent may be configured to receive data from the second battery monitoring unit and normalize the data into the predetermined data format and store the data in a database. Furthermore, the battery monitoring system may be configured to output data associated with the condition of a respective battery unit coupled to at least the first battery monitoring unit and the second battery monitoring unit.
US07768232B2
A system and method for providing a communication port integral with a battery pack assembly is disclosed. The system provides a pathway between an external unit and a host unit via a printed circuit board of the battery pack. The battery pack can include communication ports mounted on the printed circuit board for interfacing with external units. The printed circuit board further includes a substrate(s) formed with a predetermined wiring pattern electrically and/or mechanically joined to the CPU of the host unit, as well as the battery cell(s).
US07768231B2
Disclosed herein is a battery pack wherein ultrasonic welding is performed at side walls extending from an upper case and a lower case, each of the side walls having a predetermined thickness, and a film-shaped label is formed at the upper surface and/or the lower surface of the case, whereby the coupling force due to the ultrasonic welding is very large although the thickness is very small, the structural stability against being dropped or external impacts is high, and interface area of the coupling regions is large, with the result that the attachment of any label for increasing the coupling force and preventing the introduction of foreign matters is not necessary.
US07768222B2
Automated control is provided of rotational velocity of an air-moving device cooling an electronics subsystem of an electronics rack. The automated control includes: automatically responding to a failure event associated with the electronics subsystem of the rack by setting rotational velocity of the air-moving device to a first upper limit (RPM1) above a normal operating limit; sensing motor temperature of a motor of the air-moving device; automatically increasing rotational velocity of the air-moving device to a second upper limit (RPM2) if the sensed motor temperature is below a first predefined temperature threshold (T1), wherein RPM2>RPM 1; maintaining rotational velocity of the air-moving device at the second upper limit while the sensed motor temperature is below a second predefined temperature threshold (T2), wherein T2>T1; and returning to normal operating rotational velocity of the air-moving device subsequent to servicing of the electronics rack responsive to the event.
US07768220B2
Methods and systems are provided for reducing torque ripple in an electric motor. A method comprises receiving a torque command and determining a cancellation current command based on the torque command. The method further comprises generating a harmonic cancellation command based on the cancellation current command, wherein the harmonic cancellation command compensates for a phase shift and an attenuation introduced by a current regulated control module coupled to an inverter coupled to the electric motor. The method further comprises providing the harmonic cancellation command to the current regulated control module, wherein the current regulated control module is configured to control the inverter in response to the harmonic cancellation command and the torque command.
US07768216B2
A control circuit for controlling light emitting diodes comprises a switch for turning on or off a string of light emitting diodes. A combiner generates a control signal from a data signal and a noise signal. A sigma delta modulator receives the control signal and a clock signal with a clock period and generates a switching signal for controlling the switch.
US07768207B2
The invention relates to a high temperature material modified to exhibit enhanced IR emittance in the wavelength range where a black body operating at the same high temperature exhibits peak emittance, to a light-transmissive body comprising the high temperature material, to a high intensity lamp comprising the high temperature material, and to a method of preparing the same.
US07768198B2
An electroluminescent light source having a substrate (1), a layer structure applied on the substrate (1) for emitting light (10) at least on the other side from the substrate, having at least one electrode as an anode (3), at least one electrode as a cathode (4) and at least one organic electroluminescent layer (2) lying between them, the electrode (4) on the other side from the substrate being at least partially transparent, and an at least partially transparent encapsulation device (5) for forming a closed volume (6) around the layer structure, which is filled with a dielectric liquid (11) that is substantially chemically inert with respect to the layer structure and which contains particles (12), in particular of a non-absorbent material, for scattering light, the density of which is selected so that the particles (12) are in the suspended state in the dielectric liquid (11).
US07768196B2
A top emission organic EL light-emitting device on a substrate is provided which emits light from the side opposite the substrate. The organic EL light-emitting device includes a light reflection layer, a first electrode made of a transparent conductive material, a function layer including an organic EL luminescent layer that emits light, and a second electrode disposed in that order on the substrate. The second electrode includes a semi-transparent semi-reflective layer that transmits part of the light emitted from the organic EL luminescent layer and reflects the rest of the light. The organic EL light-emitting device also includes a dielectric mirror disposed between the function layer and the light reflection layer. The dielectric mirror acts as an optical resonator that strengthens light having a specific wavelength.
US07768191B2
An iridium complex Ir(III)L 1L2L3 for emitting light with a central iridium ion Ir(III), with a ligand L3 as dionate from the group comprising pentane-2,4-dionate (acac), 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptandionate (thd), 7,7-dimethyl-1,1,1,2,2,3,3-heptyfluoro-4,6-octandionate (fod), 4,4,4-trifluorol-(2-thienyl)butane-1,3-dionate (ttfa), 1,3-diphenylpropane-1,3-dionate (dbm), 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(2-naphthyl)butane-1,3-dionate (tfnb) or 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(1-naphthyl)butane-1,3-dionate and with two rigid aromatic ligands L1 and L2 with one nitrogen and one carbon atom, sharing in the ligand bond, preferably dibenzo[f,h]chinoline, benzo[h]chinoline or 5,6-dihydro-benzo[h]chinoline, characterized in that the iridium complex Ir(III)L1L2L3 is a first isomer (71), in which the nitrogen atom of the ligand L1 sharing in the ligand bonding and the nitrogen atom of the ligand L2 sharing in the ligand bonding are juxtaposed relative to the central iridium ion. The invention further relates to a method for the separation of the first isomer (71,81) of the iridium complexes (7,8) and an electroluminescent device with an electroluminescent layer (4) comprising light-emitting materials, wherein the component of the first isomer (71,81) in the total quantity of the light-emitting materials is greater than 90%, preferably greater than 95%.
US07768185B2
The present invention discloses a new type of electrodeless light sources, which can be achieved by radiating microwave on an inorganic carbide with electrical conductivity. The inorganic carbide can be carbon nanotubes (CNTs), or graphite-related fiber materials with well-order crystalline structure. The inorganic carbides of the present invention also emit high-brightness white light source in low vacuum condition (less than 10 torr) and induce plasma gas discharge emission in the presence of a trace of inert gas molecules such as nitrogen and argon. The electrodeless light source of the present invention not only emits high-brightness light emissions but also performs low thermal-radiation conversion.
US07768181B2
Provided are an electron multiplier electrode using a secondary electron extraction electrode and a terahertz radiation source using the electron multiplier electrode. The electron multiplier electrode includes: a cathode; an emitter disposed on the cathode and extracting electron beams; a gate electrode for switching the electron beams, the gate electrode being disposed on the cathode to surround the emitter; and a secondary electron extraction electrode disposed on the gate electrode and including a secondary electron extraction layer extracting secondary electrons due to collision of the electron beams.
US07768168B2
The present invention relates to an electrical machine having a rotor, a stator, and a permanent magnet located on the rotor. The permanent magnet is embodied essentially as a hollow cylinder with axial and/or radial contact faces and is secured to the rotor at the axial and/or radial contact faces by means of retaining elements; the permanent magnet is elastically supported in the axial direction (X-X) and/or the radial direction of the rotor by means of the retaining elements.
US07768161B2
A device comprising an element to be driven and a driving element designed to be urged into engagement with the element to be driven and an actuating element adapted to generate a reciprocating movement to move the driving element, the driving element and the actuating element being formed by etching in a semiconductor material block, are provided. During a first alternation (a) of the movement generated by the actuating element, the driving element is urged into engagement with the element to be driven to pull the element to be driven. During a second alternation (b) in the opposite direction generated by the actuating element, the driving element slides on the element to be driven, such that the element to be driven is displaced in a step-by-step movement by the driving element.
US07768152B2
An automatic sensing power system automatically determines a power requirement for an electrical device, converts power to the required level, and outputs the power to the electrical device when the electrical device is connected to the automatic sensing power system.
US07768146B2
There is provided a power generation and distribution system for use in combination with a utility conduit having fluid passing therethrough. The power generation and distribution system includes a rotation element disposable within the utility conduit. The rotation element rotates in response to fluid passing within the utility conduit. A power generator is in mechanical communication with the rotation element, and generates power in response to rotation of the rotation element. This system also includes a power distributor in electrical communication with the power generator and electrically connectable to a power outlet to distribute power thereto.
US07768144B2
A method for generating electrical current indirectly from ocean wave action based on the reciprocating surge of the ocean that directly results from the overhead wave action. The method includes (a) positioning an energy transducer below overhead wave action and at a depth and orientation substantially responsive to reciprocating water surges arising from the overhead wave action; and (b) powering the energy transducer by the surges in alternating first and second directions to generate electrical current.
US07768142B2
A gravity motor wherein a beam is pivotally mounted intermediate its opposite ends for oscillation in a vertical plane about a pivot point on a support structure. A moveable weight is slidably connected to the beam for reciprocal movement between the opposite ends of the beam past the pivot point. A drive unit is mounted and engaged for driving the weight back and forth between opposite ends of the beam thereby causing reciprocation of the beam about the pivot point by gravity to rotate a shaft in order to generate electricity or to provide other motor functions.
US07768136B2
A semiconductor device such as a COF or the like is provided on a semiconductor chip on a film-like shaped flexile wiring substrate on which a wiring pattern is formed. Between the semiconductor chip and the flexile wiring substrate, a sealing resin is filled for protecting the semiconductor chip. In the semiconductor device, a resin trace is 0.1 to 1.0 mm in width and 10 μm in thickness, the resin trace being formed when applying the sealing resin along a longitudinal side of the semiconductor chip.
US07768130B2
A method for fabricating and back-end-of-line (BEOL) metalization structures includes simultaneous high-k and low-k dielectric regions. An interconnect structure includes a first inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer and a second ILD layer with the first ILD layer underlying the second ILD layer. A plurality of columnar air gaps is formed in the first ILD. The columnar air gap structure is created using a two-phase photoresist material for providing different etching selectivity during subsequent processing.
US07768129B2
A metal interconnects structure, comprises a substrate (11), a dielectric layer (12) lying above the substrate, a stop layer (13) for metal etching lying above the dielectric layer, a metal layer (15′) lying above the stop layer, said metal layer being patterned according to a desired pattern.
US07768121B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for thermally coupling a semiconductor chip directly to a heat conducting device (e.g., a copper heat sink) using a thermal joint that provides increased thermal conductivity between the heat conducting device and high power density regions of the semiconductor chip, while minimizing or eliminating mechanical stress due to the relative displacement due to the difference in thermal expansion between the semiconductor chip and the heat conducting device.
US07768120B2
The present invention provides a heat spreader 1 which includes a substrate 7 composed of a metal-containing material and in which a second-component connection surface 6 of the substrate 7 is provided with wettability with a solder and a solder block layer 14 is formed in at least one of respective regions, adjacent to each other, of the second-component connection surface 6 and a side surface 13. When a semiconductor device 4 is manufactured by connecting a semiconductor laser 2 to the element connection surface 5 through an element connecting layer 8, and then connecting a heat sink 3 to the second-component connection surface 6 through a second-component connecting layer 9 having a melting point lower than that of the element connecting layer 8, the semiconductor block layer 14 can inhibit the melted solder from creeping up along the side surface 13, which can prevent defects that the solder that has crept up short-circuits the semiconductor laser 2 and blocks a luminous flux of laser light emitted from an emission surface 12 of the semiconductor laser 2.
US07768119B2
A carrier structure embedded with semiconductor chips is disclosed, which comprises a core board and a plurality of semiconductor chips mounted therein. The core board comprises two metal plates between which an adhesive material is disposed. An etching stop layer is deposited on the both surfaces of the core board. Pluralities of cavities are formed to penetrate through the core board. The semiconductor chips each have an active surface on which a plurality of electrode pads are disposed, and those are embedded in the cavities and mounted in the core board. An etching groove formed on the core board between the neighboring semiconductor chips is filled with the adhesive material. The present invention avoids the production of metal burrs when the carrier structure is cut.
US07768113B2
A stackable tier structure comprising one or more integrated circuit die and one or more feedthrough structures is disclosed. The I/O pads of the integrated circuit die are electrically rerouted using conductive traces from the first side of the tier structure to a feedthrough structure comprising one ore more conductive structures. The conductive structures electrically route the integrated die pads to predetermined locations on the second side of the tier structure. The predetermined locations, such as exposed conductive pads or conductive posts, in turn, may be interconnected to a second tier structure or other circuitry to permit the fabrication of a three-dimensional microelectronic module comprising one or more stacked tiers.
US07768099B2
This invention provides for the integration of metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors with the damascene interconnect structure and process. The method includes forming a damascene interconnect structure and a MIM capacitor damascene structure wherein a diffusion barrier material forms the capacitor electrodes. The method includes forming a MIM capacitor damascene structure through an interlevel dielectric layer and terminating on a diffusion barrier material instead of a conventional dielectric etch stop layer. In alternative embodiments, the integrated damascene MIM capacitor makes up part of semiconductor device such as DRAM memory, CMOS, or a high frequency device.
US07768095B2
A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit (IC) can utilize a shallow trench isolation (STI) technique. The shallow trench isolation technique can be used in an IC process. Separate liners for the trench are used for NMOS and PMOS regions. The liners can induce strain in the substrate.
US07768088B2
In a solid-state imaging device including an on-chip microlens and a light-receiving part to receive incident light condensed by the on-chip microlens, an optical waveguide extending from an undersurface part of the microlens to the light-receiving part and for guiding the incident light condensed by the microlens to the light-receiving part is formed to be integrated with the microlens. By this, since the incident light condensed by the microlens is incident on the light-receiving part with little loss, the sensitivity is improved.
US07768086B2
The present invention is directed to provide a back illuminated photodetector having a sufficiently small package as well as being capable of suppressing the scattering of to-be-detected light. A back illuminated photodiode 1 comprises an N-type semiconductor substrate 10, a P+-type impurity semiconductor region 11, a recessed portion 12, a coating layer 13, and a window plate 14. In the surface layer on the upper surface S1 side of the N-type semiconductor substrate 10 is formed the P+-type impurity semiconductor region 11. In the rear surface S2 of the N-type semiconductor substrate 10 and in an area opposite the P+-type impurity semiconductor region 11 is formed the recessed portion 12 that functions as an incident part for to-be-detected light. Also, the coating layer 13 having a substantially flat surface is provided on the rear surface S2 of the N-type semiconductor substrate 10. Further, the window plate 14 is provided on the coating layer 13.
US07768082B2
According to the present embodiment, a surface-shape sensor is provided. The surface-shape sensor includes a silicon substrate, an interlayer insulating film formed over the silicon substrate, a first moisture-barrier insulating film formed on the interlayer insulating film, a detection-electrode film formed on the first moisture-barrier insulating film, a second moisture-barrier insulating film formed on the detection-electrode film and a protection insulating film formed on the second moisture-barrier insulating film and provided with a window on the detection electrode film.
US07768078B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device is formed in a body of semiconductor material. The semiconductor device includes a counter-doped drain region spaced apart from a channel region.
US07768077B2
A semiconductor device includes: an n-channel MIS transistor and a p-channel MIS transistor. An n-channel MIS transistor includes: a first gate insulating film having an amorphous layer or an epitaxial layer formed on a p-type semiconductor region between a first source/drain regions; and a first gate electrode having a stack structure formed with a first metal layer and a first compound layer. The first metal layer is formed on the first gate insulating film and made of a first metal having a work function of 4.3 eV or smaller, and the first compound layer is formed on the first metal layer and contains a compound of a second metal and a IV-group semiconductor. The second metal is different from the first metal. A p-channel MIS transistor includes a second gate electrode having a second compound layer containing a compound of the same composition as the first compound layer.
US07768076B2
A semiconductor device has an n-channel MISFET having first diffusion layers formed in a first region of a surface portion of a semiconductor substrate so as to sandwich a first channel region therebetween, a first gate insulating film formed on the first channel region, and a first gate electrode including a first metal layer formed on the first gate insulating film, and a first n-type polysilicon film formed on the first metal layer, and a p-channel MISFET having second diffusion layers containing boron as a dopant and formed in a second region of the surface portion of the semiconductor substrate so as to sandwich a second channel region therebetween, a second gate insulating film formed on the second channel region, and a second gate electrode including a second metal layer containing nitrogen or carbon and formed on the second gate insulating film and a second n-type polysilicon film formed on the second metal layer and having a boron concentration of not more than 5×1019 cm−3 in a portion adjacent an interface with the second metal layer.
US07768072B2
A PMOS (p-channel metal oxide semiconductor) device having at low voltage threshold MOSFET (MOS field effect transistor) with an improved work function and favorable DIBL (drain-induced barrier lowering) and SCE (short channel effect) characteristics, and a method for making such a device. The PMOS device includes a gate structure that is disposed on a substrate and includes a silicided gate electrode. The silicide is preferably nickel-rich and includes a peak platinum concentration at or near the interface between the gate electrode and a dielectric layer that separates the gate electrode from the substrate. The platinum peak region is produced by a multi-step rapid thermal annealing or similar process. The PMOS device may also include two such MOSFETs, one of which is boron-doped and one of which is not.
US07768064B2
A field effect transistor is disclosed. In one embodiment, the field effect transistor includes a trench extending into a drift region of the field effect transistor. A shield electrode in a lower portion of the trench is insulated from the drift region by a shield dielectric. A gate electrode in the trench over the shield electrode is insulated from the shield electrode by an inter-electrode dielectric. A source region is formed adjacent the trench. A resistive element is coupled to the shield electrode and to a source region in the field effective transistor.
US07768059B2
A non-volatile single-poly memory device is disclosed. The non-volatile single-poly memory device includes two mirror symmetric unit cells, which is capable of providing improved data correctness. Further, the non-volatile single-poly memory device is operated at low voltages and is fully compatible with logic processes.
US07768038B2
A method to form a vertical interconnect advantageous for high-density semiconductor devices. A conductive etch stop layer, preferably of cobalt silicide, is formed. The etch stop layer may be in the form of patterned lines or wires. A layer of contact material is formed on and in contact with the etch stop layer. The layer of contact material is patterned to form posts. Dielectric is deposited over and between the posts, then the dielectric planarized to expose the tops of the posts. The posts can serve as vertical interconnects which electrically connect a next conductive layer formed on and in contact with the vertical interconnects with the underlying etch stop layer. The patterned dimension of vertical interconnects formed according to the present disclosure can be substantially the same as the minimum feature size, even at very small minimum feature size.
US07768033B2
A single-chip common-drain JFET device comprises a drain, two gates and two source arranged such that two common-drain JFETs are formed therewith. Due to the two JFETs merged within a single chip, no wire bonding connection is needed therebetween, thereby without parasitic inductance and resistance caused by bonding wire, and therefore improving the performance and reducing the package cost. The single-chip common-drain JFET device may be applied in buck converter, boost converter, inverting converter, switch, and two-step DC-to-DC converter to improve their performance and efficiency. Alternative single-chip common-drain JFET devices are also provided for current sense or proportional current generation.
US07768032B2
A light-emitting device comprises first and second dot members. The first dot member is formed so that it makes contact with the second dot member. The first dot member comprises a plurality of first quantum dot layers. Each of the plurality of first quantum dot layers comprises a plurality of first quantum dots and a silicon dioxide film. The first quantum dot comprises an n-type silicon dot. The second dot member comprises a plurality of second quantum dot layers. Each of the plurality of second quantum dot layers comprises a plurality of second quantum dots and a silicon dioxide film. The second quantum dot comprises a p-type silicon dot.
US07768030B2
A GaN layer is grown on a sapphire substrate, an SiO2 film is formed on the GaN layer, and a GaN semiconductor layer including an MQW active layer is then grown on the GaN layer and the SiO2 film using epitaxial lateral overgrowth. The GaN based semiconductor layer is removed by etching except in a region on the SiO2 film, and a p electrode is then formed on the top surface of the GaN based semiconductor layer on the SiO2 film, to join the p electrode on the GaN based semiconductor layer to an ohmic electrode on a GaAs substrate. An n electrode is formed on the top surface of the GaN based semiconductor layer.
US07768024B2
A structure using integrated optical elements is comprised of a substrate, a buffer layer grown on the substrate, one or more first patterned layers deposited on top of the buffer layer, wherein each of the first patterned layers is comprised of a bottom lateral epitaxial overgrowth (LEO) mask layer and a LEO nitride layer filling holes in the bottom LEO mask layer, one or more active layers formed on the first patterned layers, and one or more second patterned layers deposited on top of the active layer, wherein each of the second patterned layers is comprised of a top LEO mask layer and a LEO nitride layer filling holes in the top LEO mask layer, wherein the top and/or bottom LEO mask layers act as a mirror, optical confinement layer, grating, wavelength selective element, beam shaping element or beam directing element for the active layers.
US07768018B2
The preferred embodiment provides for development and use of an array of nanowires with a period smaller then 150 nm for applications such as an optical polarizer. To manufacture such structures the preferred embodiment employs a hard nanomask. This nanomask includes a substantially periodic array of substantially parallel elongated elements having a wavelike cross-section.
US07768013B2
A vertical structure thin film transistor is provided. The vertical structure thin film transistor has a stacked structure of a substrate, a first electrode, a dielectric thin film, a second electrode, a semiconductor thin film, and a third electrode, wherein current flows between the second and third electrodes perpendicularly to the substrate and is modulated by an electric field generated from the first electrode parallel to the current.
US07768011B2
An electro-luminescence device including an electro-luminescence element and a thin film transistor electrically connected to the electro-luminescence element. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode formed over a substrate, an insulating layer formed over the gate electrode, and a first semiconductor pattern formed over the insulating layer. An etch stop layer is formed over the first semiconductor layer. A second semiconductor pattern is formed over the etch stop layer at one side of the etch stop layer, and a third semiconductor pattern is formed over the etch stop layer at another side of the etch stop layer. A source electrode is formed over the second semiconductor pattern, and a drain electrode is formed over the third semiconductor pattern.
US07768006B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the semiconductor structure provide a field effect device, such as a field effect transistor, that includes a spacer shaped metal gate located over a channel within a semiconductor substrate that separates a plurality of source and drain regions within the semiconductor substrate. Within the semiconductor structure, the plurality of source and drain regions is asymmetric with respect to the spacer shaped metal gate. The particular semiconductor structure may be fabricated using a self aligned dummy gate method that uses a portion of a spacer as a self alignment feature when forming the spacer shaped metal gate, which may have a sub-lithographic linewidth.
US07768005B2
A physically secure processing assembly is provided that includes dies mounted on a substrate so as to sandwich the electrical contacts of the dies between the dies and the substrate. The substrate is provided with substrate contacts and conductive pathways that are electrically coupled to the die contacts and extend through the substrate. Electrical conductors surround the conductive pathways. A monitoring circuit detects a break in continuity of one or more of the electrical conductors, and preferably renders the assembly inoperable. Preferably, an epoxy encapsulation is provided to prevent probing tools from being able to reach the die or substrate contacts.
US07768002B2
A transparent organic thin film transistor, which contains a p-type organic semiconductor material employed in a semiconductor active layer of the transparent organic thin film transistor, wherein the p-type organic semiconductor material has a maximum absorbance of 0.2 or less in a visible range of 400 to 700 nm, in which the maximum absorbance is determined in the case where the thin film is made to have a film thickness of 30 nm.
US07768001B2
An off-current is reduced in an organic transistor, with which an organic transistor array is formed. A display apparatus is constructed using the organic transistor array. The organic transistor includes a substrate, a gate electrode, a separating electrode, a gate insulating film, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and an organic semiconductor layer. The organic transistor has a region in which the separating electrode and the organic semiconductor layer are laminated. A power supply is connected to the separating electrode.
US07767999B2
An electronic device containing a polythiophene wherein R represents a side chain, m represents the number of R substituents; A is a divalent linkage; x, y and z represent, respectively, the number of Rm substituted thienylenes, unsubstituted thienylenes, and divalent linkages A, respectively, in the monomer segment subject to z being 0 or 1, and n represents the number of repeating monomer segments in the polymer or the degree of polymerization.
US07767987B2
There are provided an electron beam application method and an electron beam application device capable of uniformly applying electron beams to an object even if the electron beams have a low energy. For this, electron beams (EB) are applied to a beverage container (30) (object) within a magnetic barrier (MF) formed by combining a plurality of magnetic fields generated in an electron beam application region.
US07767978B1
An ultraviolet (UV) water treatment device includes a housing with an inlet and an outlet. Water flows into the housing through the inlet, is exposed to the UV light, and the treated water then flows out of the housing through the outlet. The UV light source is inserted into a quartz tube from above so that the UV lamp can be changed without draining the system. A lower access port is provided in the bottom of the housing. The lower access port includes a seat that contains the lower end of the quartz tube, and further allows a user of the system to remove debris from a broken quartz tube quickly and safely.
US07767975B2
An ionizing radiation detector comprising a housing includes a scintillator material, an avalanche photodiode in contact with the scintillator material via optical coupling, and a preamplifier.
US07767971B2
The invention concerns a material comprising a compound of formula Pr(1-x-y)LnyCexX3 wherein—Ln is chosen from the elements or mixtures of at least two elements, of the group: La, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Y, —X is chosen from the halides or mixtures of at least two halides, of the group: Cl, Br, I, —x is above 0.0005 and is lower than 1, —y is from 0 to less than 1 and—x+y) is less than 1, and its use as scintillation detector, for example in PET scanner with time of flight capabilities.
US07767958B2
A gamma-ray detector comprising: a housing having a window through which gamma rays can enter; the housing comprising; a two-dimensional array of electrically conducting carbon nanotubes, which act as a cathode, on a substrate; a metal plate electrode, which acts as an anode, positioned opposite the substrate so that there is a gap containing a gas between the electrode and the nanotubes; and a voltage source connected to the substrate and the electrode such that when in use the voltage between the substrate and the electrode is maintained below the arc-threshold voltage so that no electric current can flow through the gap between the nanotubes and the electrode; wherein the electrode and the substrate are arranged such that when a gamma ray enters the housing and hits one of the nanotubes a spark discharge is triggered between the nanotubes and the plate electrode creating an electrical current that can be measured.
US07767956B2
Methods and systems for evaluating and controlling a lithography process are provided. For example, a method for reducing within wafer variation of a critical metric of a lithography process may include measuring at least one property of a resist disposed upon a wafer during the lithography process. A critical metric of a lithography process may include, but may not be limited to, a critical dimension of a feature formed during the lithography process. The method may also include altering at least one parameter of a process module configured to perform a step of the lithography process to reduce within wafer variation of the critical metric. The parameter of the process module may be altered in response to at least the one measured property of the resist.
US07767948B2
A system to provide radiant energy of selectable spectral characteristic (e.g. a selectable color combination) uses an integrating cavity to combine energy of different wavelengths from different sources. The cavity has a diffusely reflective interior surface and an aperture for allowing emission of combined radiant energy. Sources of radiant energy of different wavelengths, typically different-color LEDs, supply radiant energy into the interior of the integrating cavity. In the examples, the points of entry of the energy into the cavity typically are located so that they are not directly visible through the aperture. The cavity effectively integrates the energy of different wavelengths, so that the combined radiant energy emitted through the aperture includes the radiant energy of the various wavelengths. The apparatus also includes a control circuit coupled to the sources for establishing output intensity of radiant energy of each of the sources. Control of the intensity of emission of the sources sets the amount of each wavelength of energy in the combined output and thus determines a spectral characteristic of the radiant energy output through the aperture.
US07767943B2
An apparatus for heat treating manufactured components using microwave energy and microwave susceptor material. Heat treating medium such as eutectic salts may be employed. A fluidized bed introduces process gases which may include carburizing or nitriding gases. The process may be operated in a batch mode or continuous process mode. A microwave heating probe may be used to restart a frozen eutectic salt bath.
US07767934B2
A torch and a welder having a torch constructed to pull a consumable weld wire thereto are disclosed. The torch includes a wire feeder assembly having a first feed roll and a second feed roll. Operation of the feed rolls pulls a consumable weld wire to the torch. A lever selectively separates the first and the second feed rolls and is securable to allow a hands-free separation of the feed rolls.
US07767926B2
A method and system for the dry development of a multi-layer mask is described. A first passivation gas comprises as an incipient ingredient a hydrocarbon gas, while a second passivation gas comprises as an incipient ingredient an oxygen-containing gas.
US07767922B2
An exemplary key module includes a elastic assembly, a light guide plate, and a key cap. The elastic assembly is including a flat plate and a resilient member. The light guide plate is defining at least one through hole for the resilient member to extend through. The light guide plate is disposed above and in parallel to the flat plate. The key cap is resiliently supported by the resilient member. The light guide plate transmits light through at least a portion of the key cap.
US07767921B2
The invention relates to a circuit breaker for electric supply lines, in particular energy lines or battery cables of motor vehicles. Said circuit breaker comprises a first connection element (2) and a second connection element (4), the current path running between the first connection element (2) and the second connection element (4), when the circuit breaker (6) is in a conductive state. The aim of the invention is to provide a cost-effective, fail-safe circuit breaker. To achieve this, the first connection element (2) comprises a cavity (8) and the second connection element (4) is configured from an electrically conductive flat part and the second connection element (4) has a projection (10) that corresponds to the shape of the cavity (8), in such a way that in the conductive state of the circuit breaker (1), the projection (10) rests in the cavity (8) in a non-positive fit.
US07767918B2
A power tool has a power supply unit that can be removed on a device side for supplying electrical power, at least one indirectly actuatable switch for switching a drive machine on and off, a decoupling device for decoupling the switch, and a switching unit that actuates the switch at least indirectly.
US07767910B2
A polymer composite is made from or containing: (i) a phase I material consisting essentially of a polar copolymer of ethylene and an unsaturated ester having 4 to 20 carbon atoms; (ii) a phase II material consisting essentially of a nonpolar, low density polyethylene; and (iii) a conducting filler material dispersed in the phase I material and/or the phase II material in an amount sufficient to be equal to or greater than the amount required to generate a continuous conducting network in the phase I and phase II materials. Articles are made from the polymer composite.
US07767909B2
The tubular terminal for a cable, in particular a medium or high voltage cable, comprises a first connector having at least one terminal end for connecting to at least one mating second connector adapted to be connected to a cable and engaged with the first connector for making electrical contact therewith upon connection of the second connector to the at least one terminal end of the first connector. Furthermore, the tubular terminal comprises a shrinkable sleeve having a first tubular portion and a second tubular portion extending from the first tubular portion. The first tubular portion of the shrinkable sleeve is fixedly arranged around the first connector. The second tubular portion of the shrinkable sleeve is adapted to extend beyond the at least one terminal end of the first connector for covering a mating second connector and cable attached thereto when the second connector is connected to the at least one terminal end of the first connector.
US07767901B2
A music playing system includes a computer and user interface to access a media database. A wireless base station device has a line out port providing two channel output. An automatic player piano has analog MIDI inputs, and a piano keyboard mechanism. The computer communicates wirelessly with the base station device, and the line out of the base station device outputs two channels which are connected to the analog MIDI inputs. A musical work, including related audio and MIDI data codes, is stored in the media database, with the different data codes in association with two different channels. The music data is sent via the wireless base station to the corresponding inputs of the piano. The piano sound system produces sound from the audio data codes and sends actuation signals to the keyboard mechanism, based on the MIDI codes.
US07767898B2
A display system for an electronic musical instrument includes an automatic performance information storage device for storing automatic performance information. The display system also includes a display device for displaying formulated musical notation based on the automatic performance information stored by that automatic performance information storage device. A performance tempo-setting device is provided for setting performance tempo. The length of a graphic corresponding to the length of a musical note displayed on said display device is set according to the performance tempo set by the performance tempo setting device. The display system also includes a scroll device that is adapted to scroll at a set speed regardless of the performance tempo.
US07767895B2
A music notation system uses a grid with vertical columns representing musical notes and horizontal rows representing time intervals. Each note of a musical piece is indicated by a selected note symbol in the appropriate column, and extending across multiple rows if intended to be sounded for more than one time interval. Different note symbol shapes are used to indicate different tone qualities or playing styles. Note symbols are colored or graphically textured to indicate different sound intensities. Suggested fingerings may be indicated by numbers marked the note symbols, or by lines connecting notes to be played with the same finger. Other graphical design elements may be used to display rhythmic or harmonic context and, in computerized applications, to show or hide selected musical information, or to activate and listen to a sound recording of a piece of music or individually selected notes.
US07767888B2
A novel hybrid maize variety designated X4T962 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X4T962 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X4T962 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize hybrid variety X4T962, the hybrid seed, the hybrid plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of hybrid maize variety X4T962. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from hybrid maize variety X4T962 and to the maize varieties derived by the use of those methods.
US07767882B2
The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying soybean plants that are tolerant, have improved tolerance or are susceptible to Fusarium solani infection (the causative agent of sudden death syndrome or SDS). The methods use molecular genetic markers to identify, select and/or construct disease-tolerant plants or identify and counterselect disease-susceptible plants. Soybean plants that display tolerance or improved tolerance to Fusarium solani infection that are generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention.
US07767866B2
The invention provides alkene fluoroalkanol and fluorinated polyol precursors to fluoroalkanol-substituted α,β-unsaturated esters. The fluoroalkanol-substituted α,β-unsaturated esters are olefins that can be readily polymerized to provide fluoroalkanol-substituted polymers useful in lithographic photoresist compositions. Also provided are methods for synthesizing the alkene fluoroalkanol and fluorinated polyol precursors.
US07767854B2
The invention provides the following compound (I): wherein R1 is methoxy group, hydroxyl group or hydrogen atom; R2 is hydrogen atom, C1-4 alkyl group, C1-4 alkylcarbonyl group or arylcarbonyl group; D is a group of the following formula (A), (B), or (C). The compound is useful as a medicament for treating neuropathic pain or pain caused by various diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, and inflammation.
US07767853B2
The present invention is directed to a compound represented by Structural Formula I: wherein the variables are described herein. Also included are methods of making the compounds of Structural Formula (I) and methods of using the compounds as antioxidants.
US07767849B2
The present invention is directed to using methyl acetate from a vinyl acetate-based or a vinyl-or ethylene-alcohol based polymer or copolymer process directly for use in a methanol carbonylation production process to produce acetic acid, acetic anhydride, or a coproduction of each. Methyl acetate is a by-product of commercial polyvinyl-alcohol or alkene vinyl alcohol copolymer-based processes. Generally, this material is processed to recover methanol and acetic acid. Discussed herein is a cost-saving scheme to by-pass the methyl acetate processing at production or plant facilities and utilize the methyl acetate in an integrated methanol carbonylation unit. The scheme discussed eliminates an expensive hydrolysis step often associated with the polymer process.
US07767846B2
A novel class of compounds that includes HPTS-Cys-MA, and methods of making them are disclosed herein. The class of compounds including HPTS-Cys-MA are useful as fluorescent dyes for analyte detection.
US07767845B2
A process for producing an optically active 2-hydroxybutyric ester represented by formula (1): by reacting an optically active 2,3-epoxypropionic ester represented by formula (2): with a methyl Grignard reagent CH3MgX in the presence of a copper catalyst in an amount of 0.05 to 0.5 mol with respect to 1 mol of the 2,3-epoxypropionic ester.
US07767836B2
A process for removing oil from an agricultural substrate, including a dry grind corn. An ethanol solution with a concentration in the range of from about 90% to about 100% ethanol is mixed with the dry grind corn in a ratio of from about 10:1 to about 1:1 to form an extraction solution including the ethanol solution, oil, and corn solids. The extraction solution is separated into the corn solids and a filtrate, the filtrate including the ethanol solution and oil. The filtrate is membrane filtered, including nanofiltration, to restrain an oil concentrate from the filtrate and pass a permeate of the ethanol solution. The oil contained within the oil concentrate is purified.
US07767833B2
A stabilized borane-tetrahydrofuran complex is disclosed. Also disclosed are processes for the preparation of the borane-tetrahydrofuran complex and methods of storing and transporting the prepared complex. The borane-tetrahydrofuran complexes exhibit enhanced shelf life and increased self-accelerated decomposition temperatures.
US07767832B2
Disclosed herein is a method of producing an optically active thiophene-based compound using a simulated moving bed adsorption separation process, and more specifically, a method of continuously separating a racemic thiophene-based compound into its optically active thiophene-based compounds having high purity, through optical resolution using the simulated moving bed process. According to the method of the current invention, a racemic mixture of a thiophene-based compound can be continuously separated into its optically active thiophene-based compounds having high purity, which is an intermediate of optically active dorzolamide acting as a topical therapeutic agent for glaucoma, using a simulated moving bed adsorption separation technique, thereby increasing industrial usability.
US07767830B2
Aminocyclohexyl ether compounds are disclosed. The compounds of the present invention may be incorporated in compositions and kits. The present invention also discloses uses for the compounds and compositions, including the treatment of arrhythmia.
US07767828B2
The present invention is directed to pyrrolidinylaminoacetyl pyrrolidine boronic acid compounds that display selective, potent dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitory activity. These compounds are useful for the treatment of disorders that can be regulated or normalized via inhibition of DPP-IV including those characterized by impaired glycemic control such as Diabetes Mellitus and related conditions. The compounds can be administered alone or with another medicament that displays pharmacological activity for treatment of these and other diseases.
US07767823B2
A process in which a salt of clavulanic acid, typically an amine salt or an alkali metal salt is exposed to conditions, particularly a pH of less than 6.0, which reduces the quantity of contaminating impurities. The process may be a washing process, a recrystallisation process or a preparative process.
US07767822B2
Thiazolyl tetrazolium salts with increased solubility in aqueous solutions have alkylammonium alkoxy substituents, preferably trimethyl ammonium propoxy groups substituents, on phenyl rings attached to the tetrazolium ring. Thiazolyl tetrazolium salts with increased solubility in aqueous solutions have alkyl ammonium alkoxy substituents, preferably trimethyl ammonium propoxy groups substituents, on phenyl rings attached to the tetrazolium ring, e.g. the compounds of the general formula shown below. Formula (A-)a.
US07767819B2
The present invention relates to thiazolylimidazole derivatives of the general formula (I) in which: G represents a bond or a divalent radical chosen from the groups g1, g2 and g3; and R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Y and Z are as defined in the description. Application of the compounds of the formula (I) to the treatment of hypertriglyceridaemia, hypercholesterolaemia and dyslipidaemia.
US07767811B2
One aspect of the present invention relates to a method for the kinetic resolution of racemic and diastereomeric mixtures of chiral compounds. The critical elements of the method are: a non-racemic chiral tertiary-amine-containing catalyst; a racemic or diastereomeric mixture of a chiral substrate, e.g., a cyclic carbonate or cyclic carbamate; and a nucleophile, e.g., an alcohol, amine or thiol. A preferred embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for achieving the kinetic resolution of racemic and diastereomeric mixtures of derivatives of α- and β-amino, hydroxy, and thio carboxylic acids. In certain embodiments, the methods of the present invention achieve dynamic kinetic resolution of a racemic or diastereomeric mixture of a substrate, i.e., a kinetic resolution wherein the yield of the resolved enantiomer or diastereomer, respectively, exceeds the amount present in the original mixture due to the in situ equilibration of the enantiomers or diastereomers under the reaction conditions prior to the resolution step.
US07767809B2
The disclosed invention relates to a solvate of the compound (I) of the formula: or a crystal thereof.
US07767805B2
The invention provides nucleotide analogs and methods of using them in sequencing reactions.
US07767802B2
The present invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of an anti-apoptotic gene, comprising an antisense strand having a nucleotide sequence which is less that 25 nucleotides in length and which is substantially complementary to at least a part of an apoptotic gene, such as a Bcl gene. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; methods for treating diseases caused by the expression of an anti-apoptotic gene using the pharmaceutical composition; and methods for inhibiting the expression of an anti-apoptotic gene in a cell.
US07767801B2
The invention relates to tissue specific promoters which can be used in plants for one or more of the following purposes: a. altering carbohydrate metabolism b. preventing memory substance loss c. expression of an invertase inhibitor d. expression of a fructosyl transferase e. expression of a levan sucrase f. expression of genes coding for transported proteins for N-compounds g. expression of characteristics which increase resistance/tolerance with respect to pathogens.
US07767800B2
A variant of a LAV virus, designated LAVMAL and capable of causing AIDS. The cDNA and antigens of the LAVMAL virus can be used for the diagnosis of AIDS and pre-AIDS.
US07767799B2
The present invention provides IFNα2 mutants and active fragments, analogs, derivatives, and variants thereof that have improved specific agonist or antagonist activity as compared to wild-type IFNα2. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising IFNα2 mutants useful for treating or preventing cancer, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases or disorders associated with increased expression of IFNα2.
US07767791B2
The invention involves assays, diagnostics, kits, and assay components for determining levels of K41-glycated CD59 in subjects. Treatments for subjects based upon levels of K41-glycated CD59 also are provided.
US07767786B2
Neural regeneration peptides and methods for their use in treatment of neural injury or degeneration
The invention discloses a family of neuronal migration-inducing, proliferation-promoting and neurite outgrowth promoting factors, termed NRP compounds, and provides compositions and methods for the use of NRP compounds in the treatment of brain injury and neurodegenerative disease. NRP compounds induce neurons and neuroblasts to proliferate and migrate into areas of damage caused by acute brain injury or chronic neurodegenerative disease, such as stroke, trauma, nervous system infections, demyelinating diseases, dementias, and metabolic disorders. NRP compounds may be administered directly to a subject or to a subject's cells by a variety of means including orally, intraperitoneally, intravascularly, and directly into the nervous system of a patient.
US07767775B2
The present invention discloses an emulsion polymerization process that comprises: (1) preparing an aqueous polymerization medium which is comprised of (a) at least one monomer, (b) a polymerization control agent, and an emulsifier, wherein the emulsifier is prepared in-situ within the aqueous polymerization medium; and (2) initiating polymerization of said monomer within the aqueous polymerization medium. The subject invention more specifically reveals an emulsion polymerization process that comprises: (1) preparing a monomer solution which is comprised of (a) at least one monomer, (b) a conjugate acid of a surfactant with a pKa of less than 14, and (c) a controlled free radical polymerization agent; (2) preparing an aqueous medium which is comprised of (a) water, and (b) a conjugate base of a weak acid wherein the pKb of the base is less than 14; and (3) mixing the monomer solution with the aqueous medium under conditions that result in the in-situ formation of an emulsifier, and (4) initiating free radical polymerization.
US07767765B2
Process for modifying a polyolefin grafted with acid or anhydride groups, by at least partial neutralization of these groups with at least one neutralizing agent comprising an organic salt (1) that releases an organic acid (I) during the neutralization, according to which the organic acid (I) derived from the neutralization of the grafted polyolefin is reacted with at least one inorganic salt (2).Modified polyolefin (that can be) obtained by the process described above.Polymeric composition containing (A) at least one polymer, and (B) at least one modified polyolefin (that can be) obtained by the process above.Article comprising the modified polyolefin or the composition described above.
US07767764B2
VDF curable fluoroelastomers, ionically cured, having a compression set after a time of 24 h (ASTM D 39/B) at −10° C. lower than 60%, preferably lower than 50% and at −25° C. lower than 90%, preferably lower than 75%, comprising hexafluoropropene (HFP) in amounts higher than 10% by moles and one vinylether of formula: CF2═CFOCF2OCF3 (a), an amount of —COF and groups in the polymer lower than the sensitivity limit of the method using the FT-IR spectroscopy described in the present application.
US07767757B2
The present invention relates to a thermoset material with improved impact resistance comprising, by weight: •99 to 20% of a thermoset resin, •1 to 80% of an impact modifier comprising at least one copolymer chosen from copolymers comprising A-B-C and A-B blocks, in which: each block is connected to the other by means of a covalent bond or of an intermediate molecule connected to one of the blocks via a covalent bond and to the other block via another covalent bond, A is a copolymer of methyl methacrylate and of at least one water-soluble monomer, C is either (i) a PMMA (homopolymer or copolymer) this PMMA comprising optionally a water-soluble monomer or (ii) a polymer based on vinyl monomers or mixture of vinyl monomers, B is incompatible or partially compatible with the thermoset resin and incompatible with the A block and the optional C block and its glass transition temperature Tg is less than the operating temperature of the thermoset material. The invention also relates to the use of these impact modifiers in thermosets.
US07767753B2
A binder resin composition which shows no “stringing” when used in printing and can disappear without leaving any residue upon burning at a relatively low temperature; a glass paste; and a ceramic paste. The binder composition contains as a matrix resin, a copolymer (A) comprising a segment derived from an alkyl(meth)acrylate monomer and a polyalkylene oxide segment composed of repeating units represented by the following chemical formula (1), —(OR)n- wherein R is C3 or higher alkylene and n is an integer.
US07767749B2
Cured rubber compositions with reduced divalent metal levels and improved physical properties are prepared using methods that limit or avoid a deleterious side reaction, and that make activator compounds available only during cure and not earlier during mixing. Specifically, the presence of activator soap (or of components that can form the activator soap in situ) and silica filler together is avoided or minimized in process steps where the temperature would tend to be above 100° C. or 110° C. The use of ZnO for example can be reduced by as much as 90˜95% in a typical rubber compound.
US07767740B2
An alkyltin compound of specified formula which has utility as an excellent stabilizer for a halogen-containing resin. The alkyltin compound has from 1-3 terminal thiol groups.
US07767736B2
A composition is described comprising an organic polymer or a polymerizable monomer, having dispersed therein a surface-modified particle phase, in an amount sufficient to reduce the flammability of the polymer.
US07767735B2
Provided is an ink composition containing a pigment, an aqueous medium, a copolymer resin of a hydrophobic monomer and a hydrophilic monomer, and a urethane resin, wherein the weight ratio of the copolymer resin to the urethane resin (copolymer resin/urethane resin) being from 1/2 to 2/1, and wherein the pigment having an area average particle diameter of from 150 to 350 nm. Also disclosed are a production process of the ink composition, an ink set and a recording process using the ink composition, and a recorded image formed by the recording process.
US07767723B2
According to the present invention, there is provided expandable beads of a styrene-modified linear low-density polyethylene-based resin comprising a volatile blowing agent and a base resin, the base resin containing more than 50 to 1000 parts by weight of a polystyrene-based resin component relative to 100 parts by weight of a non-crosslinked linear low-density polyethylene-based resin component, wherein the base resin contains less than 2 wt % of a gel component comprising a graft polymer of the polystyrene-based resin component and the low-density polyethylene-based resin component.
US07767719B2
This invention relates compositions containing compounds of formula (I) below: Each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8 is defined in the specification.
US07767718B2
The present invention provides methods of treating chronic pain in a mammal by administering to the mammal an effective amount of a selective persistent sodium channel antagonist that has at least 20-fold selectivity for persistent sodium current relative to transient sodium current.
US07767713B2
The present invention is directed to a methods and compositions for enhancing the probability that a subject will become pregnant. The method comprises administering to a subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of a linoleic acid active agent, e.g., linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated fatty acid analog thereof, etc. Also provided are kits that find use in practicing the subject methods. The subject methods and compositions find use in a variety of different applications, including but not limited to the treatment of infertility conditions.
US07767711B2
The present invention relates to synthetic green tea derived polyphenolic compounds, their modes of syntheses, and their use in inhibiting proteasomal activity and in treating cancers. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions useful in methods of inhibiting proteasomes and of treating cancers.
US07767710B2
A method and composition for treating osteoarthritis with ion-channel regulators is disclosed. The ion-channel regulators are used alone or in combination with other osteoarthritis treatment agents, including but not limited to injectable agents such as viscosupplements and steroids. A composition comprising one or more ion-channel regulator(s) and one or more osteoarthritis treatment agent(s) is also disclosed.
US07767706B2
The invention provides compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of Formula I wherein the variables A1, A2, R1, R2, V, W, X, Y, and Z are defined herein. Certain compounds of Formula I described herein which possess potent antiviral activity. The invention particularly provides compounds of Formula I that are potent and/or selective inhibitors of Hepatitis C virus replication. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more compound of Formula I, or a salt, solvate, or acylated prodrug of such compounds, and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, excipients, or diluents. The invention further comprises methods of treating patients suffering from certain infectious diseases by administering to such patients an amount of a compound of Formula I effective to reduce signs or symptoms of the disease or disorder. These infectious diseases include viral infections, particularly HCV infections. The invention is particularly includes methods of treating human patients suffering from an infectious disease, but also encompasses methods of treating other animals, including livestock and domesticated companion animals, suffering from an infectious disease.Methods of treatment include administering a compound of Formula I as a single active agent or administering a compound of Formula I in combination with on or more other therapeutic agent.
US07767705B2
Compounds of formula (I) wherein R3, R7, R9 and L are defined in the description are TRPV1 antagonists that exhibit low inhibitory activity against CYP3A4. Compositions comprising such compounds and methods for treating conditions and disorders using such compounds and compositions are also disclosed.
US07767702B2
The invention relates to combinations of A) oxazolidinones of formula (I) and B) other active ingredients, to a method for producing said combinations and to the use thereof as medicaments, in particular for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of thrombo-embolic diseases.
US07767695B2
A novel class of substituted piperidines, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and use thereof in the treatment and/or prevention of diseases and disorders related to the histamine H3 receptor. More particularly, the compounds are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases and disorders in which an interaction with the histamine H3 receptor is beneficial.
US07767688B2
The invention provides a pharmaceutical combination comprising: a) a pyrimidylaminobenzamide compound, and b) imatinib. and a method for treating or preventing a proliferative disease, especially GIST, using such a combination.
US07767675B2
The present invention is directed to imidazo[1,2-b][1,2,4]triazines and imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidines, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, which are inhibitors of kinases such as c-Met and are useful in the treatment of cancer and other diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase pathways.
US07767673B2
Compounds represented by Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or N-Oxide thereof, are useful in the treatment of cancer.
US07767670B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for treating conditions mediated by various kinases wherein substituted 3-carboxamido isoxazoles compounds are employed. The invention also provides methods of using the compounds and/or compositions in the treatment of a variety of diseases and unwanted conditions in subjects.
US07767663B2
The present invention provides analogs of benzoquinone-containing ansamycins and uses thereof for treating and modulating disorders associated with hyperproliferation, such as cancer. The present invention provides analogs of benzoquinone-containing ansamycins where the benzoquinone is reduced to a hydroquinone and trapped by reaction with a suitable acid, preferably ones that increase the solubility and air stability of the resulting 17-ammonium hydroquinone ansamycin analog.
US07767662B2
The present invention provides analogs of benzoquinone-containing ansamycins and uses thereof for treating and modulating disorders associated with hyperproliferation, such as cancer. The present invention provides analogs of benzoquinone-containing ansamycins where the benzoquinone is reduced to a hydroquinone and trapped by reaction with a suitable acid, preferably ones that increase the solubility and air stability of the resulting 17-ammonium hydroquinone ansamycin analog.
US07767640B2
The present invention relates to novel mixtures of macrocyclic musk fragrances, the use of these mixtures in fragrance compositions and perfumed products containing these mixtures.
US07767632B2
Lubricated surfaces, lubricant compositions for lubricating a surface, and methods for increasing antiwear properties in lubricants. The lubricated surface is provided by a lubricant composition containing a base oil of lubricating viscosity and an amount of at least one hydrocarbon soluble titanium compound effective to provide an increase in antiwear properties of the lubricant composition greater than an increase in antiwear properties of the lubricant composition devoid of the hydrocarbon soluble titanium compound.
US07767628B2
A hydrocarbon drilling fluid system is disclosed including a hydrocarbon fluid and a foaming composition, where the foaming composition includes a polymer, a gelling agent and its cross-linking agent, an optional foaming agent, or mixtures or combinations thereof. Uses of this drilling fluid system in a variety of downhole application are also disclosed.
US07767620B2
The present invention provides a synthetic strategy for creating a new class of materials called hybrid mesoporous, macroporous, or mesoporous-macroporous organometaloxide materials, exemplified but not limited to hybrid mesoporous organosilicas. This strategy involves taking a pre-assembled mesoporous material having a porous framework and then attaching an organic, inorganic or biological guest molecule to the pore walls of the framework material through two or more chemical linkages. The unusual combination of inorganic and organic components organized into a material with mesoscale porosity and having bridge bonded organic, organometallic, or biological functionalized surfaces suggests a myriad of uses for these composite materials, such as the controlled release and uptake of chemicals and drugs, chiral separations and catalysis, electronic printing and microelectronic packaging, thermal and acoustical insulation.
US07767618B2
A bi-phase platinum catalyst, a method of manufacturing the same, an electrode including the bi-phase platinum catalyst, and a solar cell including the electrode. The bi-phase platinum catalyst includes platinum particles and an amorphous metal oxide.
US07767617B2
A composition is based on zirconium oxide and cerium oxide with a proportion of zirconium oxide amounting to at least 50% by mass, having a maximum reducibility temperature of no more than 500° C. and a specific surface of at least 40 m2/g after 6 hours calcination at 500° C. in the form of a tetragonal phase. The composition can be used as a catalyst.
US07767602B2
A flameproof artificial leather comprising an artificial leather base fabric in which thermoplastic synthetic fibers are three dimensionally interlaced with each other and a water-soluble polyurethane resin, and having a layer (A) that is a surface layer and a layer (B) that is other than the layer (A), the fiber forming the layer (A) is an extremely fine thermoplastic synthetic fiber having a size of 0.5 dtex or less and excellent in a resistance to abrasion and/or a resistance to light, the extremely fine thermoplastic synthetic fiber being formed from a polyester homopolymer that has an intrinsic viscosity (IV) of 0.50 to 0.70, the content of the extremely fine thermoplastic synthetic fiber being from 10 to 60% by weight based on the artificial leather base fabric, at least one layer of the layer (B) having a phosphorus-containing flameproof thermoplastic synthetic fiber, the content of phosphorus being 0.09% by weight or more based on the artificial leather base fabric, the content of the water-soluble polyurethane resin being from 5 to 20% by weight based on the artificial leather base fabric.
US07767600B1
The present invention relates to a detachable three-dimensional design or image for industrial wash that may be applied to a fabric. The three-dimensional design or image is formed by performing a doming process on a two-dimensional design or image. The three-dimensional design or image may be attached to the fabric by heat sealing.
US07767598B2
A liquid acquisition layer having a multitude of fibers and a binder is useful in a variety of absorbent articles, such as diapers and sanitary napkins. The liquid acquisition layer has a caliper which decreases in response to external pressure and increases upon removal of said external pressure. The increase in caliper is measured by a recovery value, wherein the liquid acquisition layer recovery value at 45° C. is at least 65% of the recovery value at 20° C.
US07767592B2
A method for forming a mask pattern for ion-implantation comprises: forming a gate line pattern over a semiconductor substrate; forming a coating layer on the surface of gate line pattern; performing a plasma treatment on the top portion of the gate line pattern; forming a photoresist layer over the resulting structure; and performing an exposure and a developing processes to form a photoresist pattern on the gate line pattern.
US07767586B2
Methods for forming connective elements on integrated circuits for packaging applications are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of forming connective elements on an integrated circuit for flipchip packaging may include providing a resist layer on the integrated circuit; forming a plurality of holes through the resist layer; filling the plurality of holes with conductive material; and stripping at least a portion of the resist layer using a stripping solution containing acetic anhydride and ozone to expose the connective elements.
US07767582B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes forming a sacrifice film on an etching target film, forming an etching mask on the sacrifice film, etching the etching target film using the etching mask as a mask, removing the sacrifice film to allow the etching mask to adhere to the etching target film, and removing the etching mask.
US07767581B2
The polishing fluid is useful for polishing tantalum-containing barrier materials of a semiconductor substrate. The polishing fluid includes a nitrogen-containing compound having at least two nitrogen atoms comprising imine compounds and hydrazine compounds. The nitrogen-containing compound is free of electron-withdrawing substituents; and the polishing fluid is capable of removing the tantalum-containing barrier materials from a surface of the semiconductor substrate without an abrasive.
US07767578B2
A dual damascene process is disclosed. A substrate having a base dielectric layer, a lower wiring layer inlaid in the base dielectric layer, and a cap layer capping the lower wiring layer is provided. A dielectric layer is deposited on the cap layer. A silicon oxide layer is deposited on the dielectric layer. A metal hard mask is formed on the silicon oxide layer. A trench opening is etched into the metal hard mask. A partial via feature is etched into the dielectric layer within the trench opening. The trench opening and the partial via feature are etch transferred into the dielectric layer, thereby forming a dual damascene opening, which exposes a portion of the cap layer. A liner removal step is performed to selectively remove the exposed cap layer from the dual damascene opening by employing CF4/NF3 plasma.
US07767572B2
Methods of forming a barrier layer for an interconnection structure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for forming an interconnect structure includes providing a substrate having a first conductive layer disposed thereon, incorporating oxygen into an upper portion of the first conductive layer, depositing a first barrier layer on the first conductive layer, and diffusing the oxygen incorporated into the upper portion of the first conductive layer into a lower portion of the first barrier layer. In another embodiment, a method for forming an interconnection structure includes providing a substrate having a first conductive layer disposed thereon, treating an upper surface of the first conductive layer with an oxygen containing gas, depositing a first barrier layer on the treated conductive layer, and depositing a second conductive layer on the first barrier layer while driving a portion of oxygen atoms from the treated conductive layer into the first barrier layer.
US07767565B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first vertical pillar over a semiconductor substrate. A spacer is formed over a sidewall of the first vertical pillar. A portion of the semiconductor substrate exposed between the first vertical pillars is etched to form a recess that exposes a second vertical pillar extending below from the first vertical pillar. A sacrificial film is formed over the semiconductor substrate including the recess and a sidewall of the first vertical pillar to fill the recess, the second vertical pillar and the first vertical pillar. A supporting layer is deposited over the sacrificial film and the first vertical pillar. The supporting layer is patterned to form a supporting pattern connecting the first vertical pillar with each other. The sacrificial film is removed to expose the second vertical pillar. A surrounding gate is formed over a sidewall of the second vertical pillar.
US07767554B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor chip manufacturing method capable of removing test patterns in a higher efficiency in simple steps, while a general-purpose characteristic can be secured.In a method in which a semiconductor wafer 1 having integrated circuits 3 formed in a plurality of chip regions and test patterns 4 formed in scribe lines 2a is divided by a plasma etching process so as to manufacture individual semiconductor chips, laser light 5a is irradiated from the side of a circuit forming plane 1a so as to remove the test patterns 4; and thereafter, under such a condition that a circuit protection seat 6 is adhered onto a circuit forming plane 1a, a rear plane of the circuit forming plane 1a is mechanically thinned; a mask-purpose seat is adhered onto the rear plane 1b of the semiconductor wafer 1 after the plane thinning process; and then, a plasma dicing-purpose mask is work-processed by irradiating laser light. As a consequence, the semi-conductor wafer 1 can be held by employing one set of the circuit protection seat 6 from the thinning process up to the plasma dicing process.
US07767539B2
A method and resulting structure for fabricating a FET transistor for an integrated circuit on a silicon oxide (SOI) substrate comprising the steps of forming recesses in a substrate on both sides of a gate on the substrate, implanting oxygen ions into the recesses, and annealing the substrate to convert the oxygen ions into a SOI layer below each recess.
US07767527B2
A method for producing a vertical transistor component includes steps of providing a semiconductor substrate, applying an auxiliary layer to the semiconductor substrate, and patterning the auxiliary layer for the purpose of producing at least one trench which extends as far as the semiconductor substrate and which has opposite sidewalls. The method further includes producing a monocrystalline semiconductor layer on at least one of the sidewalls of the trench, producing an electrode insulated from the monocrystalline semiconductor layer on the at least one sidewall of the trench and the semiconductor substrate.
US07767520B2
A method for making an electronic device, such as a MOS transistor, including the steps of forming a plurality of semiconductor islands on an electrically functional substrate, printing a first dielectric layer on or over a first subset of the semiconductor islands and optionally a second dielectric layer on or over a second subset of the semiconductor islands, and annealing. The first dielectric layer contains a first dopant, and the (optional) second dielectric layer contains a second dopant different from the first dopant. The dielectric layer(s), semiconductor islands and substrate are annealed sufficiently to diffuse the first dopant into the first subset of semiconductor islands and, when present, the second dopant into the second subset of semiconductor islands.
US07767517B2
A dual charge storage node memory device and methods for its fabrication are provided. In one embodiment a dielectric plug is formed comprising a first portion recessed into a semiconductor substrate and a second portion extending above the substrate. A layer of semiconductor material is formed overlying the second portion. A first layered structure is formed overlying a first side of the second portion of the dielectric plug, and a second layered structure is formed overlying a second side, each of the layered structures overlying the layer of semiconductor material and comprising a charge storage layer between first and second dielectric layers. Ions are implanted into the substrate to form a first bit line and second bit line, and a layer of conductive material is deposited and patterned to form a control gate overlying the dielectric plug and the first and second layered structures.
US07767513B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device of the present invention is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device that is provided with a step of successively forming a gate insulating film and a gate electrode on a semiconductor substrate and a step of forming a silicon nitride film that covers at least the gate insulating film and the side portions of the gate electrode, in which the silicon nitride film is formed by laminating a plurality of silicon nitride layers by repeating a step of forming a silicon nitride layer of a predetermined thickness by the low-pressure chemical vapor deposition method and a step of exposing the silicon nitride layer to nitrogen.
US07767512B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a gate insulation layer is formed on a substrate including a first channel of a first conductive type and a second channel of a second conductive type different from the first conductive type. A first conductive layer including a first metal is formed on the gate insulation layer, and a second conductive layer including a second metal different from the first metal is formed on the first conductive layer formed over the second channel. The second conductive layer is partially removed by a wet etching process to form a second conductive layer pattern over the second channel.
US07767502B2
In a thin film semiconductor device realized on a flexible substrate, an electronic device using the same, and a manufacturing method thereof, the thin film semiconductor device and an electronic device include a flexible substrate, a semiconductor chip, which is formed on the flexible substrate, and a protective cap, which seals the semiconductor chip. Durability of the thin film semiconductor device against stress due to bending of the substrate is improved by using the protective cap.
US07767494B2
A manufacturing method for a layered chip package including a stack of a plurality of layer portions includes the steps of: fabricating a layered substructure by stacking a plurality of substructures each including a plurality of layer portions corresponding to the plurality of layer portions of the layered chip package; and fabricating a plurality of layered chip packages by using the layered substructure. The step of fabricating the layered substructure includes: fabricating a first and a second pre-polishing substructure; bonding the first pre-polishing substructure to a jig such that a first surface of the first pre-polishing substructure faces the jig; forming a first substructure by polishing a second surface of the first pre-polishing substructure; bonding the second pre-polishing substructure to the first substructure such that a first surface of the second pre-polishing substructure faces the polished surface of the first substructure; and forming a second substructure by polishing a second surface of the second pre-polishing substructure.
US07767490B2
An organic light emitting device and a method for fabricating the same are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes forming a mother substrate structure including organic light emitting devices including TFTs and first electrodes, each first electrode electrically connected to the corresponding TFT and being a part of an OLED to be formed; forming first and second conductive layers to form a power line in each organic light emitting device; forming a dummy layer on the first electrodes and the second conductive layer; performing at least one of scribing and grinding processes on the mother substrate structure to divide the mother substrate structure into sub-substrate structures; removing the dummy layer from the first electrodes and the second conductive layer after the performing step; and forming a light emitting layer and a second electrode on the first electrode in one of the sub-substrate structures to form the OLED.
US07767489B2
A donor substrate for a flat panel display includes a base film, a light-to-heat conversion layer on the base film, a first buffer layer on the light-to-heat conversion layer, the first buffer layer including an emission host material, a transfer layer on the first buffer layer, and a second buffer layer on the transfer layer, the second buffer layer including an emission host material identical to the emission host material of the first buffer layer.
US07767486B2
An optical connector module complete with optoelectronic devices, supporting integrated circuitry, and connector housing may be fabricated on a wafer level. A plurality of cavities may be formed on the backside of the wafer to accommodate an optoelectronic device. Active circuitry may be formed in a front side of the wafer. Through-vias electrically connect the front side to the back side. The backside of the wafer is overmolded with a polymer layer which when singulated into individual dies forms the plastic housing of an optical connector module.
US07767482B1
Many inventions are disclosed. Some aspects are directed to MEMS, and/or methods for use with and/or for fabricating MEMS, that supply, store, and/or trap charge on a mechanical structure disposed in a chamber. Various structures may be disposed in the chamber and employed in supplying, storing and/or trapping charge on the mechanical structure. In some aspects, a breakable link, a thermionic electron source and/or a movable mechanical structure are employed. The breakable link may comprise a fuse. In one embodiment, the movable mechanical structure is driven to resonate. In some aspects, the electrical charge enables a transducer to convert vibrational energy to electrical energy, which may be used to power circuit(s), device(s) and/or other purpose(s). In some aspects, the electrical charge is employed in changing the resonant frequency of a mechanical structure and/or generating an electrostatic force, which may be repulsive.
US07767476B2
In the manufacturing method of the array substrate, an under layer having a surface with irregular irregularities is formed on a substrate, a metal film with irregularities profiling the surface of the under layer is formed on the under layer, a colored resist layer is formed on the metal film, the colored resist layer is patterned to form a regularly arranged colored resist pattern, an optical inspection is performed to optically detect a defect of the colored resist pattern, a defect of the colored resist pattern detected by the optical inspection is repaired; and the metal film is etched while using the resist pattern as a mask.
US07767475B2
Light emitting device 1 includes an LED chip 10, a mounting substrate 20 carrying the LED chip, a dome-shaped color conversion member 70, and encapsulation member 50. Color conversion member 70 is molded from a transparent resin material and a fluorescent material which is excited by a light emitted from the LED chip to emit a light of a color different from a luminescent color of the LED chip, and is bonded to the mounting substrate to surround LED chip 10. Encapsulation member 50 is made of an encapsulation resin material to encapsulate LED chip 10 and bonding wires 14 within a space confined between mounting board 20 and color conversion member 70. Encapsulation member 50 is of a convex-shape to have its light output surface 50b kept in an intimate contact with an internal surface of color conversion member 70. Since the intimate contact between the convex-lens shaped encapsulation member 50 and the color conversion member is made without the use of a conventional frame, the light emitting device can restrain the generation of voids in the encapsulation member, and therefore give improved reliability. Moreover, the light output efficiency is also improved.
US07767471B2
A method for improving within-wafer uniformity is provided. The method includes forming an electrical component by a first process step and a second process step, wherein the electrical component has a target electrical parameter. The method includes providing a first plurality of production tools for performing the first process step; providing a second plurality of production tools for performing the second process step; providing a wafer; performing the first process step on the wafer using one of the first plurality of production tools; and selecting a first route including a first production tool from the second plurality of production tools. A within-wafer uniformity of the target electrical parameter on the wafer manufactured by the first route is greater than a second route including a second production tool in the second plurality of production tools.
US07767455B2
The present invention relates to reporter systems for RNA export, methods for searching for molecules which influence RNA export, and a method, based on these methods, for detecting a viral infection.
US07767444B2
An apparatus and method for analyzing biological cells and other particles using an external laser cavity. Microfluidic channels contain and transport biological cells to be analyzed. A laser diode provides light for cell analysis. An external cavity is provided between one surface of the laser diode and a mirror opposite thereto. A microlens set focuses the light on only one cell as it passes through the external cavity. The presence of the cell in the external cavity gives a weak feedback toward the laser diode. The emission frequency and the output power of the laser are both functions of the length of the external cavity. Therefore, the variation of cavity length can be deduced from these parameters, where the variation is caused by changing the refractive index or size of the cell in the cavity.
US07767442B2
A biochemical sensor capable of detecting a prescribed target substance in a specimen in a short time period with high sensitivity and measuring the amount thereof has a surface and a rear surface, and channels formed from the surface to the rear surface, allowing influx of the specimen. An inner circumferential surface of the channels is formed of porous material. The porous material carries, in its pores, functional substance having a function of forming a reactant by the interaction with the target substance.
US07767438B2
This invention relates generally to the field of microarray reaction devices and uses thereof. In particular, the invention provides a microarray reaction device wherein a plurality of reaction spaces are formed between a first and second plurality of projections, the heights of said plurality of reaction spaces being substantially identical and controllable by a supporting structure, and the relative positions between the first and second plurality of projections being controllable by a positioning structure. Articles of manufacture comprising the microarray reaction device and methods for assaying an analyte using the microarray reaction device are also provided.
US07767437B2
The system includes a liquid transport structure configured to hold a sensor for detecting one or more components in a liquid. The liquid transport structure includes a reservoir configured to hold a liquid within the liquid transport structure and a channel configured to transport a liquid held in the reservoir to a sensor held by the liquid transport structure.
US07767416B2
The present invention relates to nucleic acids and nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. More particularly, the flavonoid biosynthetic enzyme is selected from the group consisting of chalcone isomerase (CHI), chalcone synthase (CHS), chalcone reductase (CHR), dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR), leucoanthocyanidin reductase (LCR), flavonoid 3′, 5′ hydrolase (F3′5′H), flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H), flavonoid 3′-hydroxylase (F3′H), phenylalanine ammonia-olyase (PAL) and vestitone reductase (VR), and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.
US07767415B2
This invention relates to enzymatic removal of type A and B antigens from blood group A, B, and AB reactive cells in blood products, and thereby converting these to non-A and non-B reactive cells. The invention further relates to using unique αN-acetylgalactosaminidases and α-galactosidases with superior kinetic properties for removing the immunodominant monosaccharides of the blood group A and B antigens and improved performance in enzymatic conversion of red blood cells. The preferred unique α-N-acetylgalactosaminidases and α-galactosidases exhibit the following characteristics: (i) exclusive, preferred or no less than 10% substrate specificity for the type A and B branched polysaccharide structures relative to measurable activity with simple mono- and disaccharide structures and aglycon derivatives hereof; (ii) optimal performance at neutral pH with blood group oligosaccharides and in enzymatic conversion of cells; and (iii) a favorable kinetic constant Km with mono- and oligosaccharide substrates. The conversion methods of the invention use significantly lower amounts of recombinant glycosidase enzymes than previous and result in complete sero-conversion of all blood group A and B red cells.
US07767411B2
The present invention relates to an assay system for specific inhibitors of protein kinase C-related kinases (PRKs) relating to one or more of the reactions wherein said protein kinase C-related kinases are involved under physiological conditions. The invention also relates to a process for identifying specific inhibitors for protein kinase C-related kinases.
US07767402B2
The invention features methods of enhancing whole body insulin sensitivity by modulating the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response pathway in adipose cells. In one aspect, the methods involve targeting chaperone proteins important in the ER stress response pathway, for example, BiP and ERO-1. Another aspect features targeting the upstream transcription factors (e.g., CHOP-1 and XBP-1) of the genes encoding the chaperone proteins (and/or other ER proteins). Screening assays for identification of modulators of these ER proteins and/or transcription factors are also featured.
US07767392B2
The present invention provides a novel human gene ZNFN3A1 whose expression is markedly elevated in a great majority of HCCs compared to corresponding non-cancerous liver tissues. The gene encodes a protein having a zinc finger domain as well as a SET domain and has been found to form a regulatory complex with RNA helicase and RNA polymerase.
US07767390B2
The methods of the invention detect in a qualitative or quantitative fashion drug-resistance RNA and DNA in blood plasma, serum, and other bodily fluids. The methods of the invention thereby enable the assessment of drug resistance in a neoplasm without the requirement of a tissue biopsy. The inventive methods are useful for the evaluation, monitoring, and selecting of drug treatment regimens, and for determining a predisposition for or prognosis of chemoresistant neoplastic disease.
US07767389B2
A method for determining the relative benefits of products which affect animal epithelial tissue is provided. Also provided is a method for evaluating quantitative changes on one or more affected surfaces of epithelial tissue of a subject caused by a test product.
US07767385B2
A method of lithography is disclosed, which allows for independent resist process optimization of two or more exposure steps that are performed on a single resist layer. By providing for a separate post-exposure bake after each resist exposure step, pattern resolution for each exposure can be optimized. The method can generally be used with different lithographic techniques, and is well-suited for hybrid lithography. It has been applied to the fabrication of a device, in which the active area and the gate levels are defined in separate mask levels using hybrid lithography with an e-beam source and a 248 nm source respectively. Conditions for post-exposure bakes after the two exposure steps are independently adjusted to provide for optimized results.
US07767378B2
A method for producing a resist composition including a resin component (A) that exhibits changed alkali solubility under the action of acid and an acid generator component (B) that generates acid upon exposure, the method including the steps of: obtaining the component (A) by mixing a plurality of copolymers, which are composed of the same structural units but have mutually different measured values for the contact angle.
US07767373B2
Imaging members useful in electrostatographic apparatuses, including printers, copiers, other reproductive devices, and digital apparatuses. More particularly, imaging members having a binder of high molecular weight that is included in one or more layers of an imaging member to impart coating consistency and to provide for increased mechanical strength and improved wear.
US07767366B2
A photomask blank is provided comprising an etch stop film which is disposed on a transparent substrate and is resistant to fluorine dry etching and removable by chlorine dry etching, a light-shielding film disposed on the etch stop film and including at least one layer composed of a transition metal/silicon material, and an antireflective film disposed on the light-shielding film. When the light-shielding film is dry etched to form a pattern, pattern size variation arising from pattern density dependency is reduced, so that a photomask is produced at a high accuracy.
US07767363B2
The invention includes methods for photo-processing photo-imageable material. Locations of the photo-imageable material where flare hot spots are expected to occur are ascertained. A substantially uniform dose of light intensity is provided to at least the majority of the photo-imageable material other than the hot spot locations, and is not provided to the hot spot locations. The provision of the substantially uniform dose of light intensity can occur during formation of a primary pattern in the photo-imageable material with a reticle, utilizing the same reticle as that used for making the primary pattern; or can occur at a separate processing stage than that utilized for forming the primary pattern and with a separate reticle from that utilized to form the primary pattern. The invention also includes reticle constructions which can be utilized for photo-processing of photo-imageable material.
US07767362B2
Hologram production devices can include holographic recording material deposition systems to deposit holographic recording material as needed by the hologram production device. Various nozzles, ink jets, and similar devices can be used to deposit one or more components of the holographic recording material on to an appropriate substrate. If needed, the material is pre-processed to, for example, provide material stability for the holographic recording material. Once holograms are recorded in the holographic recording material, the material can be post-processed as desired.
US07767360B2
An electrochemical cell apparatus is disclosed. The electrochemical cell apparatus includes a membrane-electrode assembly (MEA) having a membrane with a first side and a second side opposite the first side, a first electrode in contact with the first side, and a second electrode in contact with the second side. The apparatus further includes a flow field member and a protector member having a boundary partially defined by a first surface facing toward a center of the MEA. The second electrode has a boundary partially defined by a second surface facing away from the center of the MEA. A first distance from the center of the MEA to the first surface is greater than a correspondingly oriented second distance from the center of the MEA to the second surface, thereby defining a gap between the first surface and the second surface.
US07767353B2
A fuel cell system according to the invention comprises a fuel cell stack, a fuel feeder that supplies the fuel cell stack with fuel, a rechargeable battery that is an electric storage device, a bidirectional DC/DC converter that selectively performs an operation of converting the output voltage of the rechargeable battery into a predetermined voltage and then outputting it (a discharge operation), or an operation of charging the rechargeable battery using the electric power outputted from the fuel cell stack (a charge operation), and a mode control circuit. The mode control circuit detects the output voltage of the fuel cell stack so that, when it is higher than the set value, the mode control circuit makes the bidirectional DC/DC converter perform the charge operation; when it is not higher than the set value, the mode control circuit makes the bidirectional DC/DC converter perform the discharge operation.
US07767352B2
When it is detected that the ignition switch is turned off a short period of time after the ignition switch turned on at the temperature below the freezing point, the charge threshold of a capacitor is changed to a larger charge threshold C for increasing the amount of electrical energy charged in the capacitor based on the charge threshold C. The capacitor is used for performing a scavenging process for a sufficient period of time. At the time of starting operation of the fuel cell system at the temperature below the freezing point the next time, using the electrical energy of the capacitor, a fuel cell is warmed rapidly by a heater or the like to start operation of the fuel cell system.
US07767344B2
A lithium secondary battery includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector (3b) having an irregular surface and a negative electrode active material layer (3a) formed on the surface. In the lithium secondary battery, the negative electrode active material layer (3a) is composed of a material that alloys with Li; thickness of the negative electrode active material layer (3a) (μm)/10-point mean surface roughness Rz of the negative electrode current collector (3b) (μm) is in the range of from 0.5 to 4; and tensile strength of the negative electrode current collector (3b) (N/mm2) at 25° C.×the negative electrode current collector base thickness (mm)/thickness of the negative electrode active material layer (3a) (μm) on one side of current collector is 2 or greater.
US07767342B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that can restrict lowering of battery performance during battery preservation is provided. A negative electrode that a negative electrode mixture including graphite is applied on a rolled copper foil and a positive electrode that a positive electrode mixture including lithium manganate is applied on an aluminum foil are used. An oxide in which one element selected from Al, Si, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Zr, Mo, W, Pb and dissimilar to elements constituting the lithium manganate is oxidized is intermixed with the lithium manganate. An intermixture amount of the oxide is set such that a molar number of the dissimilar element contained in one gram of the positive electrode active material to a molar number of lithium contained in one gram of the positive electrode active material is not more than 5/1000. Charge transfer is restricted by the oxide during battery preservation.
US07767337B2
The present invention relates to a bipolar battery having at least two battery cells comprising: a negative end terminal, a positive end terminal and at least one biplate assembly arranged in a sandwich structure between the negative and positive end terminals. The battery also comprises a separator, with electrolyte, arranged between each negative and positive electrode forming a cell. An inner barrier of a hydrophobic material is arranged at least around one electrode on a first side of the biplate. An outer sealing, e.g. a frame, is provided around the edge of each biplate assembly and each end terminal and a hole is arranged through each biplate interconnecting each cell with adjacent cell(s) to create a common gas space for all cells in the battery. The invention also relates to a biplate assembly.
US07767336B2
There is provided an alkaline battery produced by sealing in an outer package body: a positive mixture containing at least one selected from manganese dioxide and a nickel oxide, a conducting agent, and an alkaline electrolytic solution (A) containing potassium hydroxide; a separator; and a negative mixture containing zinc alloy powder, a gelling agent, and an alkaline electrolytic solution (B) containing potassium hydroxide where a concentration of potassium hydroxide of the alkaline electrolytic solution (A) is 45 wt % or more, and a concentration of potassium hydroxide of the alkaline electrolytic solution (B) is 35 wt % or less. Because of this, an alkaline battery can be provided, which has desirable load characteristics, prevents the generation of gas, prevents a decrease in a storage property due to the reaction with an electrolytic solution, and has heat generation behavior suppressed at a time of occurrence of a short-circuit.
US07767333B2
The separator for storage battery of the present invention is a separator for storage battery mainly composed of microfibrous glass and an expanded microcapsule which has been kept in shape with its shell rendered water-permeable by expansion is incorporated in the aforesaid microfibrous glass so that an electrolyte can be retained in the gap between the glass fibers and in the expanded microcapsule to provide a high electrolyte retention and allow the aforesaid expanded microcapsule to act as a cushioning material, whereby the separator is provided with an enhanced restoring force under pressure and is thus kept the adhesion to the electrode over an extended period of time, making it possible to attain the enhancement of the storage battery capacity and the prolongation of its life and apply only a low pressure to incorporate the electrode group in the battery case during assembly of storage battery.
US07767329B2
A solid oxide fuel cell comprises a plurality of tubes, each having an anode, electrolyte and cathode. Anode and cathode current collectors are mounted on the tubes. The anode current collector electrically connects to the anode and can have a contact with the anode. The cathode current collector electrically connects to the cathode and can have a contact with the cathode. An electrically conductive sealant may be positioned between the anode of one tube and the cathode current collector of another tube.
US07767327B2
The method of activating a vehicle fuel cell for ensuring maximum performance, improves performance of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell, reduces a hydrogen usage, and has stable performance after manufactured. The method includes: placing a fuel cell in an activation device so as to be activated; changing a humidification state of a humidifier which supplies vapor to the fuel cell and a state of a cooling water; supplying a reactant gas to the fuel cell and maintaining a no-load state; maintaining a load state while changing a flow rate of the vapor and gas supplied to the fuel cell; changing the sate of the fuel cell to the no-load state, and re-supplying the reactant gas to the fuel cell; and comparing data measured when the fuel cell operates in the no-load state and data measured when the fuel cell operates in the load state respectively with a reference value.
US07767324B2
A method and device for reducing or substantially eliminating methanol crossover from the anode to the cathode of a direct methanol fuel cell and for increasing catalyst efficiency in which a catalyst ink layer comprising an electron conductive and proton conductive binder material is applied either to the anode electrode or the electrolyte layer of the direct methanol fuel cell.
US07767320B2
The invention relates to hard-coated bodies with a single- or multi-layer system containing at least one Ti1-xAlxN hard layer and a method for production thereof. The aim of the invention is to achieve a significantly improved wear resistance and oxidation resistance for such hard-coated bodies. Said hard-coated bodies are characterised in that the bodies are coated with at least one Ti1-xAlxN hard layer, generated by CVD without plasma stimulation present as a single-phase layer with cubic NaCl structure with a stoichiometric coefficient x>0.75 to x=0.93 and a lattice constant afcc between 0.412 nm and 0.405 nm, or as a multi-phase layer, the main phase being Ti1-xAlxN with a cubic NaCl structure with a stoichiometric coefficient x>0.75 to x=0.93 and a lattice constant afcc between 0.412 nm and 0.405 nm, with Ti1-xAlxN with a wurtzite structure and/or as TiNx with NaCl structure as further phase. Another feature of said hard layer is that the chlorine content is in the range of only 0.05 to 0.9 atom %. The invention further relates to a method for production of the body, characterised in that the body is coated in a reactor at temperatures from 700° C. to 900° C. by means of CVD without plasma stimulation with titanium halides, aluminium halides and reactive nitrogen compounds as precursors, mixed at elevated temperatures. Said coating can be applied to tools made from steel, hard metals, cermets and ceramics, such as drills, millers and indexable inserts.
US07767317B2
An OLED device comprises a cathode, a light emitting layer and an anode, in that order, and, having located between the cathode and the light emitting layer, a further layer containing; (a) 10 vol % or more of a carbocyclic fused ring aromatic compound, and (b) a cyclometallated complex represented by Formula (4′) wherein: Z and the dashed arc represent two or three atoms and the bonds necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered ring with M; each A represents H or a substituent and each B represents an independently selected substituent on the Z atoms, provided that two or more substituents may combine to form a fused ring or a fused ring system; j is 0-3 and k is 1 or 2; M represents a Group IA, IIA, IIIA and IIB element of the Periodic Table; and m and n are independently selected integers selected to provide a neutral charge on the complex; and provided that the complex does not contain the 8-hydroxyquinolate ligand. Such devices exhibit reduce drive voltage while maintaining good luminance.
US07767313B2
A polypropylene composite film having a propylene/1-butene random copolymer which has 60 to 90 mol % of propylene units and 10 to 40 mol % of 1-butene units and has a triad isotacticity of not less than 85% and not more than 97.5%, a molecular weight distribution of from 1 to 3, an intrinsic viscosity of from 0.1 to 12 dl/g, a melting point of from 40 to 75° C. and a crystallization rate at 45° C. of 10 minutes or less, and satisfying the following relation, 146 exp (−0.022M)≧Tm≧125 exp (−0.032M), and an olefin catalyst for preparation thereof.
US07767305B1
Tantalum-based ceramics are suitable for use in thermal protection systems. These composite structures have high efficiency surfaces (low catalytic efficiency and high emittance), thereby reducing heat flux to a spacecraft during planetary re-entry. These ceramics contain tantalum disilicide, molybdenum disilicide and borosilicate glass. The components are milled, along with a processing aid, then applied to a surface of a porous substrate, such as a fibrous silica or carbon substrate. Following application, the coating is then sintered on the substrate. The composite structure is substantially impervious to hot gas penetration and capable of surviving high heat fluxes at temperatures approaching 3000° F. and above.
US07767292B2
The invention relates to a fired, fire resistant (refractory) ceramic product.
US07767288B2
A web for the manufacture of fluid filled units with a novel machine and process is disclosed. The web includes an elongate heat sealable, flattened plastic tube comprised of face and back imperforate layers. The layers are imperforately joined together along spaced side edges. The layers include superposed longitudinal lines of weakness disposed generally transversely midway between the side edges. The web has longitudinally spaced, pairs of transverse seals. Each transverse seal extends from a respective side edge to an end near but spaced from the longitudinal lines of weakness. The transverse seal pairs include transverse lines of weakness extending from one side edge to the other generally centrally of each seal in a longitudinal direction. The side edges, transverse seals and lines of weakness together delineating two oppositely oriented strings of pouches with each pouch having three imperforate sides and a centrally located fill opening at its fourth side. The transverse lines of weakness are spaced slightly more than one half the circumference of a cylindrical fluid fill nozzle used to fill the pouches such that the web closely surrounds the nozzle during pouch fluid filling.
