US07882716B2
A vaporized solvent emitted from the laundry in the drum during the drying process is condensed within an air passage. From this passage a liquid mixture (solvent and water) is guided to a first liquid storage tank 50 through a liquid mixture line 51. An air relief pipe 52 is connected to an intermediate point of this line so that air coming from the air passage is released through an activated carbon filter 53 to the outside. The outlet end 51a of the liquid mixture line 51 is immersed in the solvent in the upper layer within the first liquid storage tank 50. Due to the hydraulic pressure acting on the outlet end 51a, the air tends to flow toward the air relief pipe 5. This reduces the current pressure of the air coming from the air passage and alleviates its influence within the first liquid storage tank 50, so that a vertical motion of the interface between the solvent and water due to the current pressure is suppressed. Thus, unwanted matter gathering around the interface is prevented from sticking to a filter, and the solvent is prevented from being discharged.
US07882715B2
In a method for cleaning the foreign materials filtering, foreign materials collected in a foreign materials filtering space can be easily removed under a filter unit is separated from or is mounted at a filter cover unit. As a result, can be solved the conventional problems that a net filter has to be kept inside out at the time of a cleaning process to cause a user's hands to become dirty, and there is a difficulty in removing foreign materials from the net filter due to a fibrous characteristic of the net filter. Accordingly, a cleaning operation for the foreign materials filtering apparatus can be facilitated.
US07882706B2
The present invention provides an easy and convenient way of cooling or chilling beverage containers. An ice mold is filled with water. The water is froze in the ice mold to form a block of ice having at least one beverage recess formed therein. The block of ice is removed from the ice mold and placed in the basin of the sink such that the block of ice is closely supported by the basin of the sink and beverage containers can be received in the beverage recesses in the block of ice.
US07882688B2
A unique formulation for yarn from a novel combination of fibers of polyester and silver which is made by a special manufacturing process including proprietary individual steps. The formed yarn product is durable and useful and can be used to make various fabrics and/or materials and, most particularly, to make final products that possess highly advanced characteristics, particularly fire retardant properties and antimicrobial properties.
US07882683B2
Waste-processing and transportation systems and methods are described. An exemplary waste processing and transportation system (10) comprises a receiving area (20) where loose waste (28) is delivered, a baler (22) for processing the loose waste (28) into waste bales (34), and a loading area (26) where the waste bales (34) are loaded onto a transport vehicle (e.g., a barge 36). A loader (32a) may operate in the receiving area (20) to load the loose waste (28) into the baler (22). At least one material handler (42a) may be configured to move the waste bales (34) onto the transport vehicle (36) for transport to a waste transfer facility (14). The waste bales (34) are configured such that the waste bales are unloaded from the transport vehicle (36) at the waste transfer facility (14) and loaded onto other transport vehicles (e.g., railcars 38) without further processing of the waste bales (34).
US07882681B2
Rotary screwtop container capping arrangement designed to screw screw caps onto screwtop containers having neck rings which support the containers during capping. The capping arrangement has a cam arrangement having a guide roller located in a control groove having top and bottom guide surfaces. A lifting element or rod is connected to the cam arrangement and is moved up and down in a controlled manner to control the lifting and lowering of a container.
US07882680B2
An automated pharmaceutical product packaging machine simultaneously fills a plurality of product package templates in parallel with desired pharmaceutical dosing requirements. The templates are subsequently positioned over a temporary storage template having cavities for receiving solid pharmaceutical doses. A collector member is subsequently placed beneath the temporary storage template for receiving the pharmaceuticals which in turn is positioned over a solid pharmaceutical product package having a plurality of cavities which correspond to openings on the templates and wherein each of the templates fills a pharmaceutical package.
US07882669B2
A composite concrete shear wall for heat insulation comprises a wall (1) and a link beam (2). The wall (1) is composed of a prefabricated concrete wall for heat insulation (11) and a cast-in-place concrete wall. The prefabricated concrete wall (11) is a concrete panel (5), one surface of which is covered with heat insulation layer (4), and steel members (14) are embedded in the prefabricated concrete wall (11). One end of the steel members is embedded in concrete panels, and the other is projected from the heat insulation layer. The steel members are connected and located along the prefabricated concrete wall to form a framework of steel reinforcement. The prefabricated concrete wall (11) and the cast-in-place concrete wall (12) are cast and folded to be an integral.
US07882664B2
Provided herein is a unitary U-shaped cladding component that surrounds three sides of a deck-mounted skylight frame. In one embodiment, the frame includes a pair of longitudinal members, each of which has a locking mechanism (such as a bendable tab or rotatable latch) on its exterior side near one end. The locking mechanism engages a corresponding lock-receiving slot of the side panels of the cladding component. In another embodiment, the cladding component includes a locking mechanism (such as a bendable tab) on the exterior surface of each end. The locking mechanisms engage corresponding apertures in a head flashing member. Skylight including these cladding components are also provided, as are methods of installing such cladding components.
US07882663B2
A water runoff deflector for use at a loading dock includes a seal suspended from a wall-mounted frame. A truck can back underneath the deflector so that the seal rests atop the truck's roof. The seal helps prevent water (snow, rain, ice, slush, etc.) on the truck's roof from flowing off the back end of the truck and spilling into the building. The seal helps block any water flowing along the truck's roof toward the doorway of the dock and redirects the flow off to either side of the truck. The deflector can be used in conjunction with or without a conventional dock seal or dock shelter. Unique front and rear bumper designs along with a pivotally yieldable frame make the runoff deflector particularly useful in adapting to trucks of various heights. In some cases, the front bumper includes multiple panels of different rigidity to ensure smooth truck departures.
US07882658B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are directed towards improved mounting structures and methods for formation of window regulator systems for vehicles. In one exemplary embodiment, a mounting structure for a window regulator system is provided. The mounting structure includes a main body defining cavity for rotatably receiving a portion of a pulley; and an engagement feature depending away from the main body, the engagement feature engaging the portion of the pulley and preventing movement of the pulley away from the main body, the engagement feature being substantially free of fasteners for preventing movement of the portion of the pulley away from the main body.
US07882656B2
An artificial seed is provided. The artificial seed includes a seed shell having a live end, a dead end and a perimeter. A nutritive media disposed within the seed shell. The artificial seed also includes a restraint disposed within the seed shell and having a cavity housing an embryo. A primary end seal is attached to the live end of the seed shell. The artificial seed further includes an end seal disposed on the dead end of the seed shell and the end seal has at least three closure axes forming a seal in a direction extending along each one of the closure axes.
US07882651B2
A slide-out card configuration is provided. A presentation section slides outwardly and laterally along the back cover of the card as it is opened. The card may be provided in a packaged form for use as a mailer to deliver advertising to specific recipients by mail. Alternatively, in card form, the present invention provides an integrated gift and greeting card.
US07882650B2
A luggage tag having a card case, a connecting part, and at least one cover is described. A first end of the cover is disposed with an engaging element, the engaging element is slightly larger than the body of the cover, two sides of the body of the cover each forms a locking corner at a position to which the engaging element is connected. The engaging element includes a groove or pressed line where the body can be lifted, which connects with the two sides thereof, and the cover is divided along the groove or pressed line into two parts, namely the engaging element and the body. The card case has at least one open face; a first end thereof corresponding to the engaging element includes an engaging cavity in a limiting unit. The engaging cavity corresponding to the locking corners is disposed with a lock, and the second end of the open face is disposed with a locking groove. When assembled, the cover will cover the open face thereby avoiding direct exposure of the information on the card.
US07882638B2
A process for manufacturing a bearing. The bearing may be used in a tool disposed within a bore hole. The process comprises providing a tubular sleeve and applying a hard facing material on the outer diameter of the tubular sleeve so that the hard facing material is fused onto the outer diameter, and thereafter applying a material layer on the outer diameter so that the material layer is fused onto the outer diameter. The method further includes machining the outer diameter so that a portion of the material layer is removed, and then machining the inner diameter so that only the hard facing material is left as an inner diameter. The method further includes machining the outer diameter and the inner diameter in order to form the bearing. In the most preferred embodiment, the method further includes placing the bearing into a housing, and inserting a mandrel into the bearing, and wherein a hard coating of the mandrel abuts the bearing. A mud motor for rotating a bit in a well bore is also disclosed.
US07882633B2
Disclosed is a method for machining the bearing seats (HL, PL) of shafts (1), especially crankshafts. According to said method, the bearing seats (HL, PL) are subjected to the following machining operations after initially shaping a shaft (1) in a forging or casting process: the bearing seats (HL, PL) are preformed by cutting the same using a specific cutting edge; they are hardened; they are passed through dressing rollers; they are subjected to a preliminary rotary milling process; and they are subjected to a final rotary milling process. The preliminary and the final rotary milling process are carried out during substantially an entire rotation of the shaft (1) without longitudinally or tangentially advancing the milling cutter (12).
US07882622B2
An apparatus and method for fabricating continuous cathode collecters for use in lithium/thionyl chloride and lithium/sulfuryl chloride cells is described. The preferred electrically conductive material is acetylene black mixed with a polytetrafluroethylene (PTFE) binder in a dry, powderized form. The collector substrate is a nickel or stainless steel foil that has been expanded into a mesh or otherwise provided with perforations. A centering adjustment of the collector substrate controls loading of the electrically conductive mixture onto each side thereof. The dry, powdered electrically conductive mixture is then continuously fed into the calender and formed into a collector structure by locking to itself through the collector substrate perforations before being cut to size.
US07882619B2
Stator coils are inclined with respect to the axial direction of annularly arranged coil holding portions and such that at least parts of the stator coils overlap one another. In setting the stator coils on the coil holder, the stator coils are sequentially set on the coil holder in a predetermined direction, which is a coil setting direction, from the starting stator coil so as to overlap one another. The second section of the ending stator coil is set at the same position as a position where the first section of the starting stator coil is set in the circumferential direction or at a position advanced from the position where the first section of the starting stator coil is set in the circumferential direction. The ending stator coil is set on the coil holder to be further inward than the starting stator coil. Therefore, stator coils are evenly arranged.
US07882618B2
Methods of fabricating magnetic read heads are provided which reduce the width of the scratch exposure region of a read head. During normal fabrication processes, a read head is formed with a first shield, a read element formed on the first shield, and hard bias layers formed on either side of the read element. The width of the read elements and the hard bias layers define an initial scratch exposure region. According to embodiments herein, a mask structure is formed to protect the read element and first portions of the hard bias layers proximate to the read element. A removal process is then performed to remove second portions of the hard bias layers that are not protected by the mask structure, which defines a final scratch exposure region that is smaller than the initial scratch exposure region.
US07882611B2
A thin film sensor, such as a glucose sensor, is provided for transcutaneous placement at a selected site within the body of a patient. The sensor includes several sensor layers that include conductive layers and includes a proximal segment defining conductive contacts adapted for electrical connection to a suitable monitor, and a distal segment with sensor electrodes for transcutaneous placement. The sensor electrode layers are disposed generally above each other, for example with the reference electrode above the working electrode and the working electrode above the counter electrode. The electrode layers are separated by dielectric layer.
US07882597B2
A clip is described for securing a strap to a housing having a slot for receiving the clip and a feature near the slot. The clip comprises a tab, a loop and a cover. The tab is shaped to fit in the slot on the housing. The loop defines an opening to receive a strap, at least a portion of the loop extending away from the housing to provide clearance for the strap. The cover is shaped to fit over the feature when the tab is inserted in the slot, the cover extending at an angle to the tab. In another embodiment, a clip is described as comprising a loop and tab. The loop defines an opening to receive a strap. The tab is shaped to fit in a slot on a housing, the tab having a first end attached to and spaced from a first edge of the loop, a second end of the tab extending in the same general direction as the loop, wherein the gap between a portion of the loop closest to the second end of the tab and the second end of the tab is less than the gap between the first edge of the loop and the first end of the tab such that when the tab is pressed into the slot, the second end of the tab is flexed away from the second end of the loop.
US07882577B2
A mobile sanitary system has a transportable platform, in particular a chassis, on which a plurality of sanitary elements are arranged. A number of technical supply devices are situated on the platform. According to one aspect of the invention, the technical supply devices are arranged in a central region of the platform, which region is surrounded all the way around by the plurality of sanitary elements.
US07882571B2
A golf glove has a number of regions formed of a leather-like material, connected with a more flexible region of spandex-like material. A thumb region has a base portion at least substantially surrounded by the flexible region. The thumb region further includes an auxiliary support structure on a portion of the thumb region providing additional support to the thumb of a user and anti-twist functionality reducing or eliminating movement of the glove relative to the thumb of a user. In addition, a grip region can extend from a wrist end of the glove substantially to finger tips of a little finger portion, a ring finger portion, and a middle finger portion of the glove.
US07886366B2
The amplitude control of a cantilever based on the van der Pol model is performed through feedback using measurement data on a deflection of the cantilever. A self-oscillating circuit integrates a deflection angle signal of a cantilever detected by a deflection angle measuring mechanism using an integrator, multiplies a resulting integral value by linear feedback gain generated by a gain generator, and an output corresponding to the linear feedback signal is generated. Also, the self-oscillating circuit cubes the deflection angle signal using analog multipliers, integrates the resulting values using integrators, multiplies the resulting integral values by a nonlinear feedback gain generated by a gain generator, and an output corresponding to the nonlinear feedback signal is generated. Furthermore, the self-oscillating circuit adds the outputs together using an adder, and a voltage signal for a piezo element is generated.
US07886362B2
An optical disc is authenticated by measuring physical attributes of the disc. A challenge is presented to the drive comprising the disc. The challenge includes locations on the disc to be used for authentication. The locations are determined each time the disc is to be authenticated. No restriction is placed on the locations on the medium, and no restriction is placed on the number of locations. Locations on the disc are accessed and an answer to the challenge is calculated in accordance with a physical attribute pertaining to the locations. The answer can include an angle between the locations, the physical separation between the locations, an amount of time elapsed between detection of the locations, an amount of time taken to read data between written between the locations, or a number of rotations occurring between detection of the locations. The answer is analyzed to determine the validity of the disc.
US07886350B2
Testing of Internet-Protocol packet network perimeter protection devices, e.g., Border Gateways such as Session Border Controllers, including dynamic pinhole capable firewalls are discussed. Analysis and testing of these network perimeter protection devices is performed to evaluate the ability of such device to perform at carrier class levels while being subjected to many different protocol test cases. The efficiency of state look table functions as well as call signaling processing capacity, implemented in a particular perimeter protection device, are determined and evaluated. Proper performance and efficiency of such perimeter protection devices are evaluated as a function of: incoming call rate, total pre-existing active calls, and different protocol test cases. Various different network perimeter protection devices, e.g., of different types and/or from different manufactures, can be benchmarked for degree of protocol stack implementation/suitability to carrier class environments and comparatively evaluated. Test equipment devices, e.g., Integrated Intelligent End Points (IIEPs), for fault testing, evaluating and stressing the network perimeter protection devices in a system environment are described. Typically these specialized test devices are used in pairs, one on each side of the firewall under test. These test equipment devices include a traffic generator module, a protocol compliance testing module, monitoring and analysis capability including a CPU utilization analysis module, a protocol analysis module, and a graphical output capability.
US07886348B2
A test method for Internet-Protocol packet networks that verifies the proper functioning of a dynamic pinhole filtering implementation as well as quantifying network vulnerability statistically, as pinholes are opened and closed is described. Specific potential security vulnerabilities that may be addressed through testing include: 1) excessive delay in opening pinholes, resulting in an unintentional denial of service; 2) excessive delay in closing pinholes, creating a closing delay window of vulnerability; 3) measurement of the length of various windows of vulnerability; 4) setting a threshold on a window of vulnerability such that it triggers an alert when a predetermined value is exceeded; 5) determination of incorrectly allocated pinholes, resulting in a denial of service; 6) determining the opening of extraneous pinhole/IP address combinations through a firewall which increase the network vulnerability through unrecognized backdoors; and 7) determining the inability to correlate call state information with dynamically established rules in the firewall.
US07886345B2
A method of protecting a password being used to establish interaction between a user and an application includes detecting a request for the password from the application by receiving a notification from the user indicating the request. The method further includes combining the password with information identifying the application, so as to produce a protected password, and authenticating to the application using the protected password. The method may also include a mutual authentication capability between user and the application.
US07886336B2
A method for initiating a security procedure within a building whereby a virtual key is generated by a certain event and transmitted to a selected person. If the selected person identifies himself by means of the virtual key, a security procedure, for example making an elevator available, is initiated within the building.
US07886331B2
A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
US07886327B2
A media content sharing concept wherein users are able to share highlights or other portions of content with friends. The concept may be used in any number of environments where electronic media, such as but not limited to audio, video, and multi-media, is transferable between a number of users. Bookmarks or other features may be used to facilitate accessing the video clips for subsequent viewing.
US07886323B2
There are provided a method and apparatus for providing and receiving a video service in digital audio broadcasting (DAB). The video service providing method includes: storing information related to encoding of a provided video service stream and information related to packetization of the video service stream in a channel different from a service data channel; and multiplexing the information related to encoding of the video service stream and the information related to packetization of the video service stream to create a DAB transmission frame, and transmitting the DAB transmission frame. Therefore, by allowing different types of DAB receivers to uniformly process video services, it is possible to achieve high efficiency in video service processing and controlling.
US07886316B2
A disk unit capable of suppressing damage of a recording surface of a disk and preventing a torsion spring from coming off is obtained. This disk unit comprises a housing portion including a disk slot, a door portion mounted on the housing portion in an openable/closable manner with respect to the disk slot and a torsion spring urging the door portion in an opening direction when the opening angle of the door portion with respect to the housing portion is larger than a prescribed angle. The torsion spring is set between a first support portion of the door portion and a second support portion of the housing portion.
US07886313B2
An optical disc drive is suitable to read data of an optical disc. The optical disc drive includes a housing, a turntable and an ejecting mechanism. The turntable has a chuck claw holds at an opening of the optical disc. The ejecting mechanism includes a button, a reposition assembly and at least an ejecting assembly. The button is configured at the turntable and has an operating portion and a connecting portion. The reposition assembly is adjacent to the button and provides the button with a return force along a first direction. Moreover, the ejecting assembly has a first portion connected to the connecting portion, a second portion connected to the turntable and a third portion protruding out the turntable. When the operating portion is forced and moves along a second direction, the connecting portion drives the third portion to move along the first direction and push the optical disc.
US07886311B2
A hardware-independent proxy layer for synchronous processing of commands in a mobile telephone is disclosed. Such synchronous processing may include receiving a function call of an application program interface (API) that is associated with a function to be performed by a mobile telephone, waiting to receive from a driver layer a result notify event indicating that the function has been performed, and, after receiving the result notify event from the driver layer, passing to the client first result data associated with the first result notify event. The API may be translated into an input/output control (IOCTL) code, which may be sent to the driver layer.
US07886308B2
The present disclosure prevents unnecessary delays during a notification delivery process in an event driven system. The unnecessary delays may be caused by waiting for event completion acknowledgments for an unbounded time. Notifications (event handle requests) may be dispatched to all interested parties in parallel. Then, handling acknowledgments from the interested parties may be gathered after a specific delay. Termination requests may be sent to non-responding parties in order to prevent indefinite waiting or an advertent notification cycle. Alternatively, non-responding parties may be removed from a list of listeners which have been registered as interesting parties for a software component in the event driven system.
US07886297B2
In an information processing apparatus which executes first and second threads which executes methods, the first thread transmits a stop instruction for terminating execution of the second thread to the second thread. In response to the reception of the stop instruction, the second thread terminates execution of a first method in execution and initiates execution of the second method which should be executed subsequent to the first method.
US07886285B2
The present invention provides a method, data processing system and computer program product in which a plurality of software executable libraries (sub-libraries) are combined into a single software executable library. The single library comprises a plurality of register functions, each associated with a particular sub-library and each sub-library comprises one or more functions. When the library receives a request to register from a library manager it calls each of the register functions, each of which register the one or more functions of its associated sub-library with the library manager. Advantageously the library manager can subsequently interface with each sub-library as if the sub-library was a standalone library. Further a register function can be used for a library whether the library is sub-library or a standalone library, thereby reducing the effort to switch from one to the other.
US07886284B2
A solution for developing XForms projects can bind an XForms template to a backend simulator, during a development or test stage of a software development. The XForms template can be developed by an interface designer, such as a business analyst. The XForms template can be conveyed to remotely located clients. Data instances associated with the XForms template can be received and routed to the backend simulator for processing. An integration code developer can later integrate the XForms templates to a backend server instead of to the backend simulator. Accordingly, the solution accelerates XForms based development projects by decoupling XForms interface development from XForms system integration development, which are typically handled by different people having different skill sets.
US07886282B1
Techniques for verifying a signature of an executable file are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a computer-implemented method for verifying a signature of a first executable file, comprising creating a first functional flow graph from the first executable file, storing the first functional flow graph, receiving, using a processor, a rule for the first executable file, and storing the rule. The techniques may also comprise receiving a second executable file, creating a second functional flow graph from the second executable file, determining whether a difference between the first functional flow graph and the second functional flow graph is less than a tolerance, and when it is determined that the difference between the first functional flow graph and the second functional flow graph is less than the tolerance, applying the rule to the second executable file.
US07886271B2
When events are traced, the timing stream is used to associate events with instructions and indicate pipeline advances precluding the recording of stall cycles. Additional information is needed in the trace stream to identify an overlay whose execution of code is in a system where overlays or a memory management unit are used. In the case of PC trace, additional information is added when the memory system contents is changed. Information describing the configuration change is inserted into the export streams by placing this information in a message buffer. As long as a message word is available for output, it becomes the next export word as the output of message words is continuous.
US07886252B2
A same sub-graph detection apparatus for data flow graph is disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention detects a sub-graph at a high speed, in which an area-size reduction effect is large. The same sub-graph detection apparatus for data flow graph according to an embodiment of the present invention includes for a digital circuit behaviour, a conditional branching selection section for selecting one conditional branching from one or a plurality of conditional branchings in a data flow graph; a node set selection section for selecting a node set included in the selected conditional branching; a node grouping section for dividing the selected node set into several groups; and using each of the divided groups as a sub-graph, a sub-graph comparison section for detecting the same sub-graphs by comparing a plurality of sub-graphs obtained as a result of each processing performed on the one or the plurality of conditional branchings by the conditional branching selection section, the node set selection section and the node grouping section. The same sub-graph detection apparatus for data flow graph according to an embodiment of the present invention divides nodes included in each conditional branching in the data flow graph into groups in accordance with a prescribed rule, uses each of the groups as a sub-graph and detects the same sub-graphs by comparing the subgraphs.
US07886241B2
A system for the automated formation and control and execution of an electronic device design flow is disclosed which can enable more efficient electronic device design methodology with higher quality of results. Such a system as analysis methods, techniques, and tools, a knowledge database, a design database a controller and reasoner, are described.
US07886239B2
Phase-coherent differential structures contain a phase-coherent transformer having two pairs of phase-coherent coupled differential inductors.
US07886237B2
A method in a computer-aided design system for generating a functional design model of a circuit that compensates for changes in resistance of a buried resistor by using a waveform that is representative of the thermal characteristics of the buried resistor.
US07886225B2
A system of translating a first schema of data having one structure or semantics into a second schema of data having a second structure or semantics by using a computer-implemented ontology deconstruction and reconstruction transfer mechanism which automatically creates an ‘interlanguage’ document type definition (interlanguage DTD) in which the interlanguage DTD automatically manages the structure and semantics of the structure and semantics of data to allow an automatic interlanguage definition of the first schema and translation into the second schema by the transfer mechanism. Such use can be in the publishing industry to translate data from any one of a number of key XML-based schemas such as DocBook, HTML4, Open eBook, Digital Talking Book, ONIX, MARC, etc to another of such schemas. The system can also be used to translate queries made on documents in the interlanguage DTD as queries on any of the schemas mapped to that interlanguage DTD.
US07886223B2
A method and apparatus for generating a statistical tree representing an extensible markup language Schema (XSD) is disclosed. Components of the XSD are prioritized according to predefined rules. A root node representing the XSD is created. Pairs of child nodes are generated from the root node. Each pair comprises at least one genuine node, and each pair of generated child nodes is appended to a parent node which is a genuine node. The path to each of the child nodes from a respective parent genuine node is represented with a binary sequence. At least one genuine node is allocated to a corresponding component of the XSD, the allocation being based on the prioritization of the component. Methods, apparatus and computer program products for generating a statistical tree representing XSD, for encoding an extensible markup language (XML) document utilizing a statistical tree representing XSD, and for decoding an XML document represented by a binary encoded sequence also are disclosed.
US07886217B1
Web sites are analyzed to determine whether the web sites are embedding session identifiers in web documents. The analysis is based on a comparison of in-host links of multiple copies of a document from a web site. Rules governing the insertion of session identifiers for the web site may be determined and used to assist in crawling the web site.
US07886216B2
An IC card reader/writer is connected to an image forming apparatus in advance. The image forming apparatus is provided with a job database for storing job information for one or more jobs in association with the number of reads of a user card respectively, a number of reads count portion for counting the number of reads that a user continually made the IC card reader/writer read the user ID, and a job execution control portion for performing control processing so that execution of a job for processing contents is started. The processing contents correspond to the number of reads that was counted and are stored in the job database.
US07886212B2
A NAND controller for interfacing between a host device and a flash memory device (e.g. a NAND flash memory device) fabricated on a flash die is disclosed. In some embodiments, the presently disclosed NAND controller includes electronic circuitry fabricated on a controller die, the controller die being distinct from the flash die, a first interface (e.g. a host-type interface, for example, a NAND interface) for interfacing between the electronic circuitry and the flash memory device, and a second interface (e.g. a flash-type interface) for interfacing between the controller and the host device, wherein the second interface is a NAND interface. According to some embodiments, the first interface is an inter-die interface. According to some embodiments, the first interface is a NAND interface. Systems including the presently disclosed NAND controller are also disclosed. Methods for assembling the aforementioned systems, and for reading and writing data using NAND controllers are also disclosed.
US07886194B2
An information carrier medium containing debugging software that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to generate an event signal and an event code and provide the event signal and the event code to an event detection logic coupled to the processor. The event detection logic is adapted to generate a plurality of events, where a number of events generated corresponds to the event code.
US07886188B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for the distributed monitoring of a SOAP service is provided. A test configuration file specifying a test input is distributed from a central reporting location to at least one remote data processing system that has access to a SOAP service to be tested. The test configuration file is created without accessing the SOAP service to be tested. Furthermore, the user that created the test configuration file is not allowed access to the SOAP service to be tested.
US07886176B1
Circuits for measuring a clock signal include a variable digital delay line that is configured to delay the clock signal by variable amounts in response to variable values of a digital control word that are applied thereto, to produce a variably delayed clock signal. A capture stage is responsive to the variably delayed clock signal and to the clock signal to capture a logic state of the variably delayed clock signal during transitions of the clock signal. A controller is configured to generate the variable values of the digital control word that are applied to the variable digital delay line and to identify a value of the digital control word in response to the capture stage capturing a change in the logic state of the variably delayed clock signal during a transition of the clock signal. Related methods and memory devices are also described.
US07886174B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus trains a memory link using a signal alignment unit. The signal alignment unit aligns a read data strobe signal that is transmitted on the link with the center of a read data eye transmitted on the link. Next, the signal alignment unit aligns a receive enable signal that is transmitted on the link with the absolute time that data returns the data lines of the link a column address strobe signal is sent to the memory coupled to the link. Next, the signal alignment unit aligns a write data strobe signal transmitted on the link with the link's clock signal. Finally, the signal alignment unit aligns the center of the write data eye transmitted on the link with the write data strobe transmitted on the link.
US07886173B2
A method for powering a system is described. The method includes receiving a signal that indicates availability of a primary power source to supply operating power to a plurality of computing devices, and responsive to the received signal, transitioning each of the plurality of computing devices from a secondary power source to receiving power from the primary power source after a delay time that is a function of a substantially unique seed value for each computing device.
US07886169B2
An apparatus and a method for dynamic backlight-control in an electronic device are provided. The apparatus includes a battery power-level detection unit and a controlling unit. The battery power-level detection unit is used for detecting the power level of a battery in the electronic device. The controlling unit is coupled to a backlight unit of a display device in the electronic device and the battery power-level detection unit for adjusting the illumination of the backlight unit according to the power level of the battery and an image-content lightness of an image inputted into the display device.
US07886163B2
The invention relates to a method of supplying a private quantity (s) in an integrated circuit involved in an authentication procedure by means of an external device that takes said private quantity into account. In order to verify the integrity of said memory element, the private quantity is a function of a signature (SIGN) of at least one memory element (4, 10, 11, 12) associated with the integrated circuit.
US07886158B2
A system and method for remote copy of encrypted data where a primary storage system receives data, encrypts the data with a first cryptographic method, and stores the encrypted data. A secondary storage system connected to the primary storage system receives and stores a remote copy of the encrypted data. When a block of the stored encrypted data is converted using a second cryptographic method, the converted block and a pointer containing an address at which the conversion has finished is transferred to the second storage system and stored. The pointer is incremented for each block converted. A backup copy of the first cryptographic method and the second cryptographic method are stored at a backup system remote from the primary storage system. If the primary system fails, the backup system can decrypt the data using the first cryptographic method or the second cryptographic method based on the pointer.
US07886155B2
The security of an entity is protected by using passcodes. A passcode device generates a passcode. In an embodiment, the passcode is generated in response to receipt of user information. The passcode is received by another system, which authenticates the passcode by at least generating a passcode from a passcode generator, and comparing the generated passcode with the received passcode. The passcode is temporary. At a later use a different passcode is generated from a different passcode generator.
US07886134B2
This invention combines a loop support mechanism and a branch prediction mechanism. After an instruction execution unit executes an end block instruction of a block repeat, the loop control unit branches to the first instruction in the loop and sends a pseudo branch instruction to the instruction execution unit. The instruction execution unit acts as if the last instruction in the block is an instruction for branching to the start address of the block. This is stored in the branch prediction unit and branch prediction is performed thereafter.
US07886131B1
A multithreaded processor with dynamic thread based throttling, more specifically, based at least in part on the aggregated execution bandwidth requests of the threads, is disclosed herein. In various embodiments, the multithreaded processor may throttle by scaling clock frequency and/or voltage provided to the processor, based at least in part on the aggregated execution bandwidth requests of the threads. The aggregation and scaling may be performed when a bandwidth allocation request of an instruction execution thread is modified or when a computation intensive instruction execution thread is activated or re-activated. Other embodiments and/or features may also be described and claimed.
US07886126B2
A processor including a virtualization system of the processor with a memory virtualization support system to map a reference to guest-physical memory made by guest software executable on a virtual machine which in turn is executable on a host machine in which the processor is operable to a reference to host-physical memory of the host machine.
US07886125B2
Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for determining memory requirements for a partition manager based on a given configuration. In one embodiment, a quantity of memory required for each of a plurality of components is determined, where each component is a collection of function-related code portions. Then, a total quantity of memory required for the partition manager based on the quantities of memory required for the plurality of components is determined.
US07886118B2
A method, computer program product, and data processing system for preventing the occurrence of undetectable dangling pointers through memory reallocation are disclosed. Allocated memory regions that are no longer needed are deallocated but are not immediately freed for reallocation, being designated as “retained.” A memory retention metric is computed as a measure of an extent of the retained memory regions in the computer's memory space. Once the memory retention metric exceeds a pre-determined threshold, some or all of the retained memory regions are freed for reuse. In this manner, improper accesses to deallocated memory regions can be detected more easily, since reuse of those regions is delayed, while at the same time excessive resource usage and heap fragmentation is avoided by only retaining deallocated regions for a limited time (determined by the threshold and retention metric chosen).
US07886115B2
Some embodiments include a storage device with a storage medium having a memory capacity. The storage device also includes virtual storage device firmware that is configured to directly respond to commands from a guest operating system in a virtual machine for accesses to a subset of the memory capacity of the storage medium when a virtual storage device is enabled.
US07886113B2
A method for managing access to a data element involves storing a first copy of the data element in a cache location, obtaining a request to modify the data element, where the request to modify the data element is associated with a first execution thread, marking the cache location as dirty based on the request to modify the data element, modifying the cache location according to the request to modify the data element once the cache location is marked as dirty, obtaining a request to read the data element while the cache location is marked as dirty, where the request to read the data element is associated with a second execution thread, providing a second copy of the data element in response to the request to read the data element based on the cache location being marked as dirty, and marking the cache location as clean after modifying the cache location is complete.
US07886110B2
A dynamic cache policy manager for a mass memory may be used to decide whether a data request is to be routed to the cache or directly to the mass memory, based on estimated delays in processing the request. The choice may be based, at least partially, on the size of the respectively queues for the cache and mass memory. For write requests, the choice may be based on how many erase blocks are available in the cache.
US07886109B2
A computer system, storage system, and device control method which keep and operate long-term data stored in a disk device using its characteristics for a long time and at low cost, in a storage system or in a storage system using an external storage connection method. A computer system comprises a host computer, a storage system, and a management server, which are connected to one another via a network. The storage system receives a request to detach a logical device, specifies a logical device to be processed with information included in the request and a physical device corresponding to the relevant logical device, releases a definition of a host path of the logical device, and stops the physical device.
US07886104B2
A detachable adapter is provided for being detachably connected to a data bus of a receptacle of a portable device to form a portable system. The adapter includes a conversion circuit and can inform the portable device that whether a power source is available and inform the portable device of connection status of the adapter through the data bus. The portable device can be connected to the power source through one of the receptacles of the adapter so that the portable device is powered or charged, and the portable device can be connected to at least one client device through the other receptacle of the adapter simultaneously.
US07886099B2
In some embodiments, a system comprises a system memory module and an access card. The system memory module connects to a memory bus on a motherboard for a personal computer, while the access card connects to an expansion bus. The access card couples to the system memory module to provide power when the personal computer is unpowered. When the personal computer boots, the system memory module operates in a cloaked mode that hides the system memory module from a memory bus. The access card switches the system memory module from the cloaked mode to a normal mode in response to a command received via the expansion bus. For long-term power outages, the access card may copy data from the system memory module to a nonvolatile information storage device. Energy storage and nonvolatile information storage may be provided by a separate longevity unit that couples to the access card.
US07886097B2
A bus arbitration system, medium, and method. The bus arbitration system can arbitrate access to a bus for a plurality of masters, requesting the use of a bus to which at least one slave is connected, and may include a bus use granting unit that outputs a plurality of bus grant signals for granting the use of the bus to the plurality of masters that request the use of the bus at the same time, a simultaneous processing available signal selecting unit that selects a predetermined number of operation instruction signals having a predetermined similarity, from among a plurality of operation instruction signals that are input from the masters, in response to the bus grant signals, and an operation instructing unit that simultaneously transmits the selected operation instruction signals to the slave through the bus.
US07886095B2
To minimize the restriction on the number of available PCI devices although the assignable size of I/O space is limited, an arithmetic unit is provided with a configuration information acquisition device for acquiring the configuration information about PCI devices, an available space determination device for determining available space for each PCI device, and a configuration information notification device for notifying an operating system of the configuration information.
US07886082B2
An Extended Input/output (I/O) measurement word facility is provided. Provision is made for emulation of the Extended I/O measurement word facility. The facility provides for storing measurement data associated with a single I/O operation in an extended measurement word associated with an I/O response block. In a further aspect, the stored data may have a resolution of approximately one-half microsecond.
US07886058B2
A method and apparatus for controlling multicast group subscriptions in a multicast distribution circuit is presented. When a router included in the multicast circuit receives notification to terminate support of a particular multicast group (group leave request), data flow with respect to that multicast group is initially maintained on the communication link coupling the router to the hosts. Queries are issued to hosts on the communication link to determine whether continued support of the particular group is desired by any hosts coupled to the communication link. If, while waiting for a positive response to the queries issued, a request to join an additional multicast group is received, bandwidth availability on the communication link is examined to determine if adequate bandwidth is available for supporting the newly requested group addition. If adequate bandwidth is available, the newly requested group is added to those groups supported on the communication link. However, if adequate bandwidth for support of the newly requested group is not available, one or more groups that are pending termination (group specific queries have been issued for these groups) are selected for early termination in order to make enough bandwidth available to support the newly requested group addition. The selection criteria utilized to determine the groups to be terminated may be based on a variety of parameters.
US07886042B2
Scheduling searchable items such as web pages for crawling involves dynamically scheduling items for downloading based on capacity based on time. The workload is distributed over time, in advance, by anticipating and accounting for the discovery of new links on the particular host. Respective times to download items can be determined based on the current size of the host's crawl corpus relative to the maximum size of the host's crawl corpus. The respective times may be determined based additionally on respective freshness targets for the searchable items, which characterize how often an item's content should be refreshed by re-downloading the item, and on respective politeness factors for the host, which characterize the delay time between consecutive download requests to that host. As such, one can know precisely how the system is performing at any point in time and predict future performance.
US07886033B2
A tool for managing a network of interconnected devices. The tool may provide a user with an interface that allows the user to view the type and status of each network device (that is, each device connected to the network), and even the status of the network itself. The tool may alternately or additionally provide a user with services related to the network. such as allowing a user to perform one or more tasks associated with devices in the network.
US07886031B1
A SAN (storage area network) configuration utility may be used to automatically configure a SAN management system for SAN discovery and management. The SAN configuration utility may be used to identify and verify SAN devices, device firmware, device drivers, etc. for the SAN management system, and to configure the SAN management system to support one or more previously incompatible SAN devices. In one embodiment, the SAN configuration utility may automatically configure the SAN management system to use only the SAN devices that are known to be compatible with the SAN management system. In one embodiment, the SAN configuration utility may automatically modify one or more SAN management system configuration files to support the discovered SAN devices and/or automatically modify one or more SAN devices for support by the SAN management system (e.g. by updating firmware). In one embodiment, the SAN configuration utility may generate one or more SAN configuration reports.
US07886030B2
A method to configure a service providing system having a service providing device and a service requesting device in a network is provided. The method includes steps of obtaining function parameters, which indicate specific values configurable in the service requesting device for receiving the data processing service, when the service requesting device becomes connected to communicate with the service providing device, determining service receiving parameters, which indicate parameters to configure the service requesting device to become receivable of the data processing service, configuring the service receiving device with the service receiving parameters determined in the service receiving parameter determining step, registering the service receiving parameters in association with the service requesting device, and implementing the data processing service for the service requesting device based on the service receiving parameters being associated with the service requesting device, when the service requesting device accesses the service providing device.
US07886026B2
A method of configuring a hard copy output engine includes receiving an electronic message including configuration data and configuring the hard copy output engine using the configuration data.
US07886020B2
A computer peripheral device is provided comprising a housing, a plurality of figures each having a unique physical appearance and a unique structural characteristic, an identifying portion that is configured to identify one of the plurality of figures, at a time, based on the unique structural characteristic of the figure. The computer peripheral device comprises a controller coupled to the identifying portion that generates an identifier associating with the figure identified by the identifying portion. Connection of the computer peripheral device to a computer is made by a standard connection cable, such as a USB cable. Computer software is installed in the computer to store data associating a web site address with an identifier for each of the plurality of figures. A web browser application is activated to retrieve content from a web site having a web site address corresponding to an identifier received from the controller in the computer peripheral device.
US07886018B2
A method is provided. The method determines a set of components to include in an enterprise module. Further, the set of components is divided into a set of platform dependent components and a set of platform independent components. In addition, abstract computer code is prepared for each of the components in the set of platform dependent components according to at least one of a plurality of high-level abstract computer languages. Further, the abstract computer code is provided to a transmogrifier to automatically generate platform dependent source code. In addition, the platform independent source code is prepared for the set of platform independent components. The enterprise object code is generated by compiling and linking the platform dependent source code and the platform independent source code.
US07886014B2
On a client electronic device, a message in a first format configured to be communicated over a first communication channel. The message in the first format is modified, on the client electronic device, to form a message in a second format, in which the message in the second format is based upon the message in the first format. The message in the second format is transmitted, from the client electronic device, over a second communication channel.
US07886011B2
A method for specifying email recipients that includes specifying a first set of email recipients, a second set of email recipients, and a set operation. A third set of email recipients can be automatically is generated by performing the set operation upon the first set and the second set. Email can then be sent to this automatically generated third set of email recipients.
US07886007B2
A multimedia messaging center is arranged to receive multimedia messages addressed to a terminal. In response to the receipt of such messages, the message center transmits a notification to the terminal regarding the received message. A wireless message is transmitted, from the terminal to the message center, requesting notification messages that have not been acknowledged as received by the terminal.
US07886002B2
An application collaboration system for allowing a portal application executed on a Web server and a client application executed on a client terminal to collaborate with each other, the application collaboration system including: a collaboration information storage unit that stores collaboration information including information indicating an application and call information used to call a process to be executed by the application in association with information indicating a condition to extract the collaboration information; an execution location information storage unit that stores execution location information indicating an apparatus where the application is executed in association with the information indicating an application; an information extraction unit that executes a process to extract collaboration information matching said condition from said collaboration information storage unit and acquires execution location information corresponding to the information indicating an application included in the extracted collaboration information from said execution location information storage unit; and a collaboration information notification unit that notifies the apparatus indicated by the execution location information acquired by said information extraction unit of the process indicated by the extracted collaboration information.
US07886001B2
Disclosed are conferencing systems, devices, architectures, and methods for implementing a trigger-based conferencing system to facilitate increased productivity meeting participation. An exemplary method, in accordance with embodiments, of managing a workflow application in a conference, where the conference includes a plurality of events, can include: (i) creating a trigger by defining a predicate and action for the trigger; (ii) registering the trigger to at least one of a plurality of detection points; (iii) evaluating the trigger's predicate each time any of the detection points against which it is registered are encountered; and (iv) executing actions associated with the trigger if the predicate evaluation is positive, where execution of the actions can result in a state change in the conference.
US07885998B2
A method for a first healthcare provider to consult a second healthcare provider regarding at least one of diagnosis of a patient and treatment of a patient includes the first healthcare provider submitting a request for consultation on a machine, and the second healthcare provider submitting a consultation response on a machine.
US07885991B2
A digital filter includes at least a first and a second delayed summation line. One of the delay lines includes a warped finite impulse response (FIR) filter and the other line is a FIR filter. Midpoint elements from the first delayed summation line are used as input to the second delayed summation line. Output from the first delayed summation line is delayed with a delay corresponding to the total delay of the second delayed summation line and the delayed output from the first delayed summation line is added to output from the second delayed summation line to faun a new output.
US07885989B2
An encoding circuit is disclosed which comprises: a data-for-encoding storing register that stores n-bit data for encoding; a data-for-calculation storing register that stores m-bit data for calculation generated by shifting the data for encoding; a shifter that shifts the data for encoding stored in the data-for-encoding storing register, and shifts and inputs the shifted data into the data-for-calculation storing register; a first coefficient register that stores m-bit first coefficient data indicating a first coefficient for executing encoding; a first logic circuit that is inputted with the data for calculation stored in the data-for-calculation storing register and the first coefficient data stored in the first coefficient register and outputs the logical product for each bit of the data for calculation and the first coefficient data; and a second logic circuit that is inputted with m-bit data outputted from the first logic circuit and outputs the exclusive logical sum of the m-bit data as the encoded data.
US07885982B2
The invention provides a method for configuring a database system to store information regarding a plurality of items, the method comprising: establishing a database on a computer system; establishing within the database a first object corresponding to a first item of the plurality of items; generating within the first object at least one field; associating a field identifier with each the field; and storing at least a portion of the information within each the field; the database system configured to store information regarding a plurality of items, each item in the plurality of items having at least one item attribute, the database system comprising a computer having memory, a database stored in said memory, a first object in said database corresponding to one item of the plurality of items, said first object corresponding to the first item, at least one field in said first object, a field identifier associated with each said field, and information regarding said first item stored in said first object.
US07885972B2
A computer automated method of aggregating and presenting data includes the steps of inputting a set of user-defined instructions into a computer database system, inputting a user query into the computer database system, mining the computer database system for data relevant to the user query, creating a data set comprising said data relevant to the user query, and aggregating data in the data set using domain metrics selected based on any of predefined and configurable rules and past user usage, selecting at least one presentation report for compiling the aggregated data, wherein the selection is based on any of predefined and configurable rules and past user usage, and displaying the at least one presentation report to the user, wherein the displaying process comprises graphically arranging the at least one presentation report based on an available viewing area of a device accessing the at least one presentation report.
US07885967B2
Managing a table as multiple ordered blocks of entries. Each block has a local index value for each entry, and each entry has an associated element value. The entries in the table are monotonically ordered, and the table is searchable by element value and entry index value. Each block has an offset based on the number of entries in the blocks preceding it in order. The global index of an entry in a block is the offset combined with the local offset value, such as by adding the two values together.
US07885964B2
A system for updating a list. A first list associated with a first platform includes a first plurality and a second plurality of keys. A second list associated with a second platform includes a third plurality of keys. The first and second platforms sort a first subset of characters differently. The second plurality and third plurality of keys are formed from a second subset of n characters sorted identically on the first and second platforms. An initial key in the first plurality of keys is converted to a neutral key to be included in the second plurality of keys by converting a character in the initial key to a number represented in a number system having a base b where n≧b. After the first list is updated, the lists are sorted and compared, and the second list is updated.
US07885949B2
Managing terminology among multiple users. Terminology data relating to one or more projects in an organization is received from one or more users. The received terminology data is stored in a central memory area associated with the one or more users. The central memory area is accessible by one or more of the users. The one or more users are allowed to access and use the terminology data stored in the central memory area according to a permissions structure for managing the stored terminology data as a function of a project associated with each user.
US07885943B1
Compliance rules are created that can be used to help detect violations of compliance policies imposed on an IT infrastructure. Each of one or more compliance rules associated with a respective IT-infrastructure compliance policy is defined by specifying three items: 1) the type of configuration items to which the rule is to be applied, 2) the rule scope that determines which configuration items of the configuration type are to be checked for compliance, and 3) a desired state that each configuration item checked must satisfy in order to be considered in compliance.
US07885940B2
A method and system for monitoring objects in a plurality of management information bases (MIBs) is provided. The objects required for functioning of an application are identified from the MIBs. The application identifies these objects. The identified OIDs are grouped in a group depending on grouping rules provided by the application. A rate for detecting changes in the group is provided. The changes in the group are detected at the provided rate. A notification is generated on detecting a change in the group. The notification is sent to the application. The notification reports a change in the identified OIDs in the group.
US07885929B2
A system of developing and monitoring a business intelligence environment that utilizes automatic version control and continuous integration techniques to produce tested, reliable business intelligence. Errors are detected and corrected continuously to reduce the time needed by report authors to locate and correct errors in report specifications, metadata models, analysis cubes, and other business intelligence artifacts. Further, by storing previous versions of the artifacts in the source control system, the artifacts can be updated to accommodate revisions needed by the customers, and if revisions damage other parts of the artifacts the revisions can be undone.
US07885923B1
In distributed storage environments, nodes may send replicated writes for temporal volumes and may be configured to request on-demand consistency intervals in order to allow multiple nodes to transition between timestamps for temporal data in a uniform and coordinated manner. In response to a request from a node for a consistency interval transition, a consistency interval coordinator may end a current consistency interval and start another and may provide coordination to various nodes to enable the nodes to transition from one timestamp to another, and thus from one temporal version to another, while prevent data corruption or inconsistency between the temporal versions. Additionally, periodic consistency intervals may be utilized to provide consistent and coordinated transitions between temporal timestamps. In some embodiments, replicated writes including temporal timestamp information may be stored persistent spillover logs allowing offline updating and versioning of data to temporal volumes.
US07885918B2
A method and system is provided for managing business taxonomy. The system comprises an indexing engine for indexing content of source business oriented metadata. The indexing engine has a content scanner for reading the business oriented metadata, defining taxonomy of the business oriented metadata, and building a content index of the business oriented metadata including a subject index representing the taxonomy of the business oriented metadata. The system also comprises an index store for storing the content index of the business oriented metadata, and a taxonomy engine for providing taxonomy services to users using the content index.
US07885916B2
The present invention discloses a system for providing real-time validation of text input fields in a Web page during text entry. Such a system can include a validation-enhanced text input element and an input text validator. The validation-enhanced text input element can be configured to contain a validation expression for a text field in a Web page. The validation-enhanced text input element can be contained in the source code document that corresponds to the Web page. The input text validator can be configured to validate a character entered into the text field against the validation expression in real-time. Characters determined as invalid can be visually indicated by the input text validator in the text field.
US07885911B2
The first fast solution to the problem of tracking wavelet representations of one-dimensional and multi-dimensional data streams based on a stream synopsis, the Group-Count Sketch (GCS) is provided. By imposing a hierarchical structure of groups over the data and applying the GCS, our algorithms can quickly recover the most important wavelet coefficients with guaranteed accuracy. A tradeoff between query time and update time is established, by varying the hierarchical structure of groups, allowing the right balance to be found for specific data streams. Experimental analysis confirmed this tradeoff, and showed that all the methods significantly outperformed previously known methods in terms of both update time and query time, while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
US07885910B2
An instant messaging system for securing chat sessions containing confidential subject matter during instant messaging from external entities, the system comprising: a rules engine module configured to continuously build and update a set of rules used to determine when a chat session between a first chat party and a second chat party during an instant messaging session contains confidential or uniquely classified subject matter by loading at least one default rules or previous session rules and enabling a user to provide user-defined rules until the instant message session is ended; and an instant messaging module configured to secure the contents in the chat session based on pre-defined user settings, the contents in the chat session being secured when the contents in the chat session is determined to contain confidential subject matter derived from the set of rules, the chat session is further secured by limiting the exposure of the contents in the chat session to third parties when the chat session is determined to contain confidential subject matter while enabling the first chat party and the second chat party to view the contents in the chat session.
US07885908B2
A risk assessment method and system. The method includes receiving by an inference engine, first sensor cohort data associated with a first cohort located within an aircraft. The inference engine receives first group technology inferences associated with the first cohort. The inference engine generates first risk cohort inferences based on the first group technology inferences and the first sensor cohort data. The inference engine receives first inference data comprising a first plurality of inferences associated with the first cohort. The inference engine generates second inference data comprising a second plurality of inferences associated with the first cohort. The second inference data is based on the first inference data and the first risk cohort inferences. The inference engine generates a first associated risk level score for the first cohort. The computing system stores the second inference data and the first associated risk level score.
US07885905B2
The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that determines a number of non-spurious arcs associated with a learned graphical model. The system can include devices and mechanisms that utilize learning algorithms and datasets to generate learned graphical models and graphical models associated with null permutations of the datasets, ascertaining the average number of arcs associated with the graphical models associated with null permutations of the datasets, enumerating the total number of arcs affiliated with the learned graphical model, and presenting a ratio of the average number of arcs to the total number of arcs, the ratio indicative of the number of non-spurious arcs associated the learned graphical model.
US07885902B1
Computer-implemented methods for providing recommendations for a given user. The computer-implemented method employs some or all of machine learning, collaborative filtering, clustering, profile data from the given user, profile data from other users, feedback data from the given user from past interactions, and feedback data from other users from past interactions to more accurately provide recommendations to the given user.
US07885900B1
A web-based grant management application and method is described. Registration information pertaining to a grant requestor is received at a web-based portal. A local, computer readable compliance database is maintained. The compliance database includes an exclusion list of grant requestors that have been excluded from receiving a grant. The grant management application determines an exclusion status for the grant requestor by comparing the registration information to the exclusion list. The grant requestor is informed of its exclusion status via the web-based portal. If the grant requestor's exclusion status is satisfactory, then the web-based portal receives grant information pertaining to a grant sought. Based on the grant information and the registration information, a custom set of business rules is derived to automatically manage the receipt, review, tracking, reconciliation and analysis of the grant sought. The business rules are implemented by a grant management application coupled to the web-based portal.
US07885893B2
Methods and systems provide power to a mobile recipient and allow the recipient to pay for the power obtained by having it charged to an account other than the account for the location at which the power is provided.
US07885892B1
A method and system for evaluating loan repurchase risk are disclosed. The method includes receiving information related to the loan and determining a loan repurchase risk based on the information. The information may be used to determine a joint probability of an underwriting discrepancy sufficient to trigger a repurchase request and an adverse event in connection with the loan, such as default or delinquency. A repurchase report may provide feedback regarding factors contributing to a repurchase risk. In one embodiment, depending on the repurchase risk, the purchaser may waive repurchase rights in connection with the loan, thereby reducing the requirements of the seller to reserve capital for the loan.
US07885885B1
The present invention discloses apparatuses, systems and methods for providing optimal hedge portfolios that minimize single stock idiosyncratic risk for a given level of transactional costs. This is accomplished by deriving hedge portfolios with the maximum effective n for various levels of transaction costs. In one exemplary embodiment the maximum effective n portfolios are derived by starting with a sample portfolio, such as a capital weighted index, and using a hill climbing algorithm to iteratively modify the sample portfolio to map out the optimal effective n portfolios.
US07885873B2
A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual is prompted by the computer to consent to the computer-aided delivery of additional compliance information. Once consent is indicated, it is communicated from the individual's computer to another computer such as a server over, for example, a modem connection. Having secured the individual's consent, the additional compliance information can be delivered to the individual's computer as, for example, a file attachment to an email message.
US07885871B2
A method and system for managing at least one DRM agent intending to join or leave a user domain in a Digital Rights Management (DRM) is provided, in which a Domain Enforcement Agent (DEA) manages the joining and leaving of the DRM agent resident in a home network it manages, and a Domain Authority (DA) provides a domain key to a DRM agent joining the user domain.
US07885857B1
A computer-implemented system and method for coordinating apparel production. In preferred embodiments, the invention is a business model and system for the apparel industry in which production channels and marketing channels are comprehensively coordinated by a central operating center via the Internet. By interacting with a website, registered clients (e.g., apparel businesses, wholesalers, retailers, etc.) articulate what their specific detailed requirements are in terms of production, delivery and other aspects. Then, data on these clients' orders are forwarded to each of the production channels through the central operation center which performs the tasks of comprehensive coordination, management and business operation.
US07885853B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for aggregating sales of a product. The aggregated sales provide that a rebate based upon the sales of the product within a window of time is later provided to the buyer.
US07885848B2
Disclosed are a method, a system and a computer program for managing services of human resources. The method comprises the steps of modeling human resources delivery services from a services provider to a client company to determine outputs from inputs and constraints; and constructing an objective function representative of services resources at said services provider. The method also comprises the steps of determining optimum levels of human resources based on said modeling, said constraints, and said objective function; and allocating said human resources based upon said optimum levels. Preferably, said optimum levels of resources are determined over tiers, sites and time periods. The preferred embodiment of the invention is a system and a method for resource allocation on BTO projects. This preferred system includes an optimization model, along with its inputs and outputs. This system may be used to address dynamic client needs before and during BTO projects.
US07885847B2
In a structured workflow system, a configurable workflow engine provides mechanisms for executing and scheduling the work items in a defined way. End users use their discretion and define their own “local” processes and “local” rules for processing work items, or deviate from predefined processes. The configurable workflow engine might be installed at a server to organize workflows and business processes where end users can define processing steps for incoming work items by setting up rules and defining workflows as part of a local workflow structure. By defining these rules and workflows, the further processing steps of future incoming work items can be automated. When an administrator directs the workflow engine to move from a current phase to a next phase, the workflow engine deals with the incomplete items by allowing the administrator to carry over work items (or might do it automatically). End-user consultation might be included in the carry-over decisions. The carried over work items are added as parallel activities to the next phase. The workflow engine handles imposing and executing control flow dependencies between tasks, thus providing a smooth transition from totally unstructured work to semi-structured or completely structured work. When the workflow engine encounters semantically correlated work items/tasks, the process engine assumes that these work items/tasks belong to the same process instance.
US07885844B1
Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between task requesters who have tasks that are available to be performed and task performers who are available to perform tasks, such as via an electronic marketplace acting as an intermediary for task performance. In some situations, the facilitating of the interactions includes automatically matching available tasks to task performer users, such as to automatically generate recommendations for task performer users of available tasks that are appropriate for those task performer users to perform. Such generated task recommendations for task performer users may then be provided to those task performer users in various ways, including via one or more Web pages or electronic communications sent to devices of the task performer users. The task recommendations may be generated in various ways, including based on previous tasks performed by the task performer users and on other prior activities of the task performer users.
US07885840B2
A flexible workflow is described that includes a pocket of flexibility. The pocket of flexibility may include workflow fragments that may be joined together, subject to pre-defined constraints. In implementing the flexible workflow, a user may encounter the pocket of flexibility, and select from the fragments to construct a workflow that is consistent with the user's current needs. The fragments may be incrementally presented to the user on a user interface, such that only those fragments determined to be combinable in a valid way may be selected by the user. In this way, a user who may have little experience with workflow languages or terminology may be able to use the flexible workflow, and be confident that the result is valid. Thus, difficulties in dealing with change in workflow systems may be mitigated, and this mitigation may be achieved without compromising the simplicity and generic nature of a workflow language.
US07885838B2
A system and method for grouping and selling products or services using a computer system, potentially connected to a network. The computer system includes a computer with multiple terminals, potentially instantiated as a server computer or computers and distributed client computers. The computer system presents a sales interface on some terminals. The sales interface shows products or services and groups of products and/or services that are for sale. The computer system presents a back end interface on some terminals, which can be used to enter new products, services and groupings of products and/or services to be offered for sale on the sales interface. Descriptions of the products or service offerings are entered into the computer system either by data entry operators using the back end interface or by a program reading product or service descriptions from external computer systems. The method groups these products or services according to an affinity algorithm. The groupings may then potentially be reviewed and approved or selected by human operators using the back end interface before being offered for sale on the sales interface. One advantageous application is the dynamic packaging of perishable items such as travel goods and services (e.g., airline tickets, rental cars, hotel rooms, entertainment opportunities, etc.).
US07885833B2
An interactive system and a method for diagnosing, evaluating and treating the condition of Temporomandibular Disorder, where through a series of steps, consultations, procedures and protocols associated with individual appointments, information is gathered and entered into a database by a user through a personal computing device, which is added to or updated as treatment progresses in future appointments. The information gained during the appointments is used to generate printed or electronic reports, letters and insurance claim forms supporting the services rendered, reduce the errors involved in manual insurance claim form coding, supply consistent and proven successful treatment codes to insure payment, and which seek reimbursement from medical insurance coverage by the dentist as opposed to dental insurance coverage in order to maximize the benefits received and allow the patient to avail themselves of the generally higher coverage limits and lower deductibles associated with medical insurance.
US07885829B2
The invention is a method and system useful in determining the degree of comparative negligence of an insured person involved in an accident as compared to the comparable negligence of other parties involved in the accident, in particular the insurance claimant. The method and system of the invention include, at a minimum, the steps of gathering preliminary information concerning accident type, applying preliminary rules to the preliminary information to determine accident type, gathering additional information specific to the accident type, and applying accident-type-specific rules to the additional information to determine the degree comparative negligence of said insured person and/or the claimant.
US07885825B2
A clinical trial data management system (1) receives clinical trial data in Case Record Forms (CRFs), which are scanned by a document management system (3) to provide an indexed image file. Client workstations and the document management system (3) communicate via a local area network (LAN) 4 with clinical data management application servers (5) in turn linked with database servers (7) which manage a clinical data database (8) in a storage area network (SAN). There is a separate path for work flow data, namely from the document management system and workstations (3) via LANs (4, 6, 9) to a cluster of work flow engine application and database servers 10. The work flow servers (10) perform work flow processing and manage work flow databases (11) in a second SAN. The work servers (10) execute a snapshot process comprising copying a portion of each of the clinical response data and of the work flow data from their respective databases (8, 11) to a temporary file in which said data is merged, and automatically generate reports exclusively from the temporary file without accesses to the clinical data or work flow databases (8, 11). The data is copied according to dynamically-set criteria, including metric requirements, and the data is copied from the full databases (8, 11) irrespective of data age. The snapshot process is executed only be applications on the work flow servers (10).
US07885824B1
A method for delivering a to a patient a medical therapy, which was previously characterized as a high-risk medical therapy, with restricted distribution or access under one or more restricted access programs, including programs with little or no restricted access. The medical therapy previously required a restricted distribution program that included registration of the physician, patient, or distributor in a computer readable medium prior to distribution. The method involves providing to a distributor or third party reviewer prescription data authorizing distribution of the medical therapy to a specific patient in need of the medical therapy and confirming the patient is eligible to receive the medical therapy and understands the risks associated with the medical therapy by the distributor or third party reviewer. The distributor or third party reviewer determines the qualified patient's eligibility for access to the medical therapy determines if the patient is eligible independent of requiring a registration of either the physician, patient, or distributor, in a computer readable medium, or a validation code. Over time, the patient's risk level may be reassessed by the patient's physician, a distributor, or a third party reviewer. In addition, the medical therapy itself may be re-characterized to a lower or higher risk level, requiring the adjustment of the previously required controls placed on the product.
US07885823B2
The invention relates to a system and method in a computing environment for managing healthcare personnel data elements for at least one healthcare professional. In accordance with one method of the invention, first and second healthcare personnel data elements for a healthcare professional are received from first and second primary source providers. The first and second healthcare personnel data elements are associated with a profile for the healthcare professional. The profile is a repository for numerous pieces of healthcare personnel data elements for the healthcare professional and may be continuously updated with current healthcare personnel data elements. The first and second healthcare personnel data elements are stored with the profile for the healthcare professional.
US07885821B2
A package pickup indicator system is disclosed. The system includes a monitoring system and an indicator capable of being detected by a route driver for a shipping carrier in a shipping carrier vehicle. The monitoring system is in communication with at least one shipping carrier customer package tracking system and is in communication with the indicator. The monitoring system is configured to activate the indicator when a package at a place of business is ready to be picked up for shipment by the shipping carrier and is further configured to query the shipping carrier customer package tracking system about a status of the package to be shipped. The monitoring system automatically deactivates the indicator upon a response from the shipping carrier customer package system that the package to be shipped is in possession of the shipping carrier.
US07885818B2
An apparatus with a speech control unit includes a microphone array having multiple microphones for receiving respective audio signals, and a beam forming module for extracting a speech signal of a user, from the audio signals. A keyword recognition system recognizes a predetermined keyword that is spoken by the user and which is represented by a particular audio signal and is arranged to control the beam forming module, on basis of tie recognition. A speech recognition unit creates an instruction for the apparatus based on recognized speech items of the speech signal. As a consequence, the speech control unit is more selective for those parts of the audio signals for speech recognition which correspond to speech items spoken by the user.
US07885816B2
A method, a system, and an apparatus for efficiently presenting correction options. The present invention is capable of analyzing user voice commands and sorting multiple input requests based on user selection probability to determine whether a confirmation step should be presented and, if so, the manner in which the confirmation step should be presented. In particular, the method requests an information input from the user and then assigns a confidence level to the information input. If the confidence level is LOW, then the system performs an immediate confirmation step. If the confidence level assigned is MEDIUM or HIGH, then the information is placed into a data set that is confirmed in a batch confirmation step. The batch confirmation step presents the captured information to the user for confirmation. If any of the information is incorrect, then the method sorts the information in ascending order by confidence level and creates a menu of items that may be changed. The user then makes the change. Once all changes have been made, the batch confirmation is complete as well as the information collection process.
US07885812B2
Parameters for a feature extractor and acoustic model of a speech recognition module are trained. An objective function is utilized to determine values for the feature extractor parameters and the acoustic model parameters.
US07885809B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for a quantizing parameters using partial information on atypical subsequences. In one embodiment, the method comprises partially classifying a first plurality of subsequences in a target vector into a number of selected groups, creating a refined fidelity criterion for each subsequence of the first plurality of subsequences based on information derived from classification, dividing a target vector into a second plurality of subsequences, and encoding the second plurality of subsequences, including quantizing the second plurality of subsequences given the refined fidelity criterion.
US07885807B2
A system for translating a body of text in an initial language into a target language, that comprises an input device for imputing a body of text comprising a plurality of elements, a first analyzer for analyzing said text and identifying one or more possible characters of said initial language corresponding to respective said elements, a second analyzer for analyzing a stream of said identified characters to identify known characters or recognizable patterns thereof and assign thereto one or more potential translations into said target language, a third analyzer for analyzing the potential translations in conjunction with one or more determinatives representative of a conceptual framework of said text to determine which potential translations correspond with said conceptual framework, and an output device for outputting one or more potential translations determined to correspond with said conceptual framework.
US07885805B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for simulating multiple hosts. An object module creates a plurality of host object instances. Each host object instance simulates a host to a storage device connection. In addition, each host object instance includes a unique identifier. A traffic generator serially establishes communications between each host object instance and a storage device using the unique identifier. The traffic generator serially establishes communications until a number of host object instances in communication with the storage device is greater than a host threshold. A verification module verifies that the storage device established communications with each host object instance according to a specified connection protocol. The verification module communicates a pass if each host object instance communication is verified.
US07885799B2
The present invention discloses a method for building an MOS transistor model enclosing statistical variation of noise, including: measuring noise in MOS transistors from different dies; creating a noise distribution diagram in accordance with the obtained noise data of the MOS transistors; adding a variation of noise parameter in at least one noise model file into a library file of MOS transistor to simulate noise in MOS transistors; if a simulation result does not cover the noise data in the noise distribution diagram, changing the variation of the noise parameter until the simulation result covers the noise data in the noise distribution diagram; if the simulation result covers the noise data in the noise distribution diagram, adding corresponding variation of the noise parameter into the library file of MOS transistor as the MOS transistor model enclosing statistical variation of noise. The model obtained by the present invention is more precise.
US07885798B2
A method for circuit simulation using a netlist in which a first device having an unmodeled, nonlinear behavior is modified by inserting a second device which has a nonlinear response approximating the unmodeled nonlinear behavior. The first device may be for example a first transistor and the second device may be a variable current source, in particular one whose current is modeled after a floating transistor template which represents gate leakage current of the first transistor (gate-to-source or gate-to-drain). During simulation of the circuit a parameter such as a gate-to-source voltage of the second transistor is controlled to model gate leakage. The model parameters can be a function of an effective quantum mechanical oxide thickness value of a gate of the first transistor technology.
US07885792B2
A method includes combining functionality from a matrix language programming environment, a statechart programming environment and a block diagram programming environment into an integrated programming environment. The method can also include generating computer instructions from the integrated programming environment in a single user action. The integrated programming environment can support fixed-point arithmetic.
US07885790B2
A method and system of determining forthcoming failure of transducers. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising creating a first electrical signal representative of acoustic energy propagating between a first pair of transducers of a fluid meter, creating a second electrical signal representative of acoustic energy propagating between a second pair of transducers of the fluid meter (the creating the second electrical signal substantially concurrently with create the first electrical signal), calculating a value indicative of a relationship between a parameter of the first electrical signal a parameter of the second electrical signal, and determining whether performance of the first pair of transducers indicates upcoming failure of at least one transducer of the first pair of transducers, the determining using the value.
US07885784B2
A situation analysis system for detecting and tracking moving objects within a limited space over a predetermined time period and for analyzing object combinations and episodes in relation to time as well as situations during the period of time, includes at least one tracking unit which has at least one sub-unit which is arranged and oriented to detect the limited space and moving and stationary objects disposed therein, and a central position data processing unit which for each real object determines a global position of the object in the detected space and generates a global object identification and an associated time-dependent global position data set. Each tracking unit has a data transmission unit connected to the central position data processing unit and allows bidirectional communication so that the central position data processing unit can simultaneously transmit data to each at least one tracking unit.
US07885783B2
A remaining gas amount calculating device includes a hydrogen tank, an opening/closing valve arranged to deliver hydrogen gas from inside the hydrogen tank, a decompression valve arranged to decompress hydrogen gas delivered from the hydrogen tank, a pressure sensor arranged to measure the pressure of hydrogen gas decompressed with the decompression valve, and a power source system controller arranged to determine the remaining gas amount in the hydrogen tank by calculating the gas pressure in the hydrogen tank based on the hydrogen gas pressure measured with the pressure sensor. The relationship between pressures in a primary chamber and a secondary chamber of the decompression valve is monotonical such that when the pressure in the primary chamber increases, the pressure in the secondary chamber also increases; and when the pressure in the primary chamber decreases, the pressure in the secondary chamber also decreases. The remaining gas amount calculating device makes it possible to calculate the amount of gas remaining in a gas container without using a gas pressure measuring device that measures directly the pressure in the gas container.
US07885774B2
A system and method for measuring and analyzing power flow parameters in RF-based excitation systems for semi-conductor plasma generators. A measuring probe (8) is connected to an RF transmission line for receiving and measuring voltage (10) and current signals (12) from the transmission line (4). A high-speed sampling process converts the measured RF voltage and current signals into digital signals. The digital signals are then processed so as to reveal fundamental and harmonic amplitude and phase information corresponding to the original RF signals. Multiple measuring probes may be inserted in the power transmission path to measure two-port parameters, and the networked probes may be interrogated to determine input impedance, output impedance, insertion loss, internal dissipation, power flow efficiency, scattering, and the effect of plasma non-linearity on the RF signal.
US07885766B2
A vehicle departure determination apparatus includes: an object detection device which detects objects present in a direction of travel of a subject vehicle, and detects a relative position and relative speed of the objects and the subject vehicle; a running state detection device which detects a running state of the subject vehicle; a speed detection device which detects a speed of the subject vehicle; an oncoming vehicle determination device which determines whether any of the objects serving as oncoming vehicles for the subject vehicle are present, based on the relative speed detected by the object detection device, and the speed of the subject vehicle detected by the speed detection device; and a departure determination device which determines whether or not the subject vehicle has departed from an appropriate route for the subject vehicle, or the oncoming vehicle has departed from an appropriate route for the oncoming vehicle.
US07885765B2
A method and an apparatus for estimating behaviors of a vehicle are provided. At least two GPS antennas are located along a longitudinal axis of a vehicle so that speed vectors at the positions where the GPS antennas are located can be determined based on GPS signals received by the GPS antennas. The speed vectors are known to be estimated with high accuracy based on the GPS signals. The positions of the GPS antennas on the local coordinate system are estimated based on such highly accurate speed vectors, so that the estimated positions may also have high accuracy. Based on a line connecting these highly accurate positions of the GPS antennas, an inclination of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle is estimated. Use of the high-accuracy speed vectors enables high-accuracy estimation on the positions of the GPS antennas and the vehicle direction on the local coordinate system.
US07885759B2
A traffic monitoring system comprises a cellular phone system that communicates with a plurality of cellular phones and that generates vector and location data for the plurality of cellular phones. A traffic monitoring module generates traffic reports based on the vector and location data and selectively enables use of the vector and location data from at least one of the cellular phones when at least one of a speed of the at least one of the cellular phones is greater than a predetermined speed and the traffic monitoring module receives vector and location data from a second one of the cellular phones and the second one of the cellular phones is traveling in the same or an opposite direction as the first one of the cellular phones and has a speed that is within a predetermined difference of a speed of the first one of the cellular phones.
US07885754B2
A fuel injector is coupled to an engine. The fuel injector includes an injection opening configured to vary in cross-section between a open state and a fully closed state. The fuel injector is configured to provide a plurality of discrete commanded fuel injections into an engine cylinder by modulating the size of the injection opening without completely closing the opening to the fully closed state.
US07885748B2
A vehicle control system for regulating operation of a vehicle having a transmission includes a first module that processes an output shaft signal which is based on rotation of an output shaft of the transmission through a third order Kalman filter to determine an acceleration of the output shaft A second module calculates the acceleration of the vehicle based on the acceleration of said output shaft. A third module regulates operation of the vehicle based on the acceleration of the vehicle.
US07885745B2
A GNSS control system and method are provided for guiding, navigating and controlling a motive component, such as a tractor, and a working component, such as an implement. A vector position/heading sensor is mounted on the motive component and includes multiple antennas connected to a GNSS receiver. The sensor also includes inertial sensors and a direction sensor, which are connected to a microprocessor of a steering control module (SCM). The SCM can be hot swapped among different vehicles and can interface with their respective original, onboard control systems. The implement can be provided with an optional GNSS antenna, receiver or both, and can be guided independently of the motive component. The SCM can be preprogrammed to guide the vehicle over a field in operating modes including straight line, contour, concentric circle and point+direction. A spray boom with multiple nozzles can be installed on the implement and the nozzles can be independently activated based upon a location of the implement as determined from a log of GNSS data.
US07885741B2
In a vehicle equipped with a power steering device for assisting the steering of the steered wheels by the steering wheel, when the steering angle of the steered wheels reaches the maximum steering angle, a steering control device restricts a target steering angle for operating the power steering device so that the steering angle or a reaction force acting against the power steering device does not exceed a value determined therefor, so to maintain the steering condition of the steered wheels stably without applying an excessive load on the power steering device. The target steering angle may be calculated as a value based upon rotational angle of the steering wheel and turning behavior control of the vehicle.
US07885726B2
This invention relates generally to systems and methods for delivering products-on-demand to individuals and, more particularly, to delivery via vending machines. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the method of the instant invention is initiated when a customer makes an initial product selection. Based the customer's product choice, a determination is made as to whether or not that product qualifies for an alternate product offer. If it does not so qualify, the customer's original selection will be dispensed and the transaction ends. On the other hand, if the product does so qualify, the customer will be presented with an offer message that suggests that he or she should try an alternative product. Typically, the product that is offered as an alternative will be the one whose sale is most beneficial to the vending machine operator, e.g., the one yielding the greatest profit. If the customer accepts the alternate offer, the alternate product will be dispensed. However, if the customer declines the alternate product offer, the originally requested item will be vended. The particular circumstances under which an alternate product offer is presented to the customer are quantified by representing them as a collection of rules, the evaluation of which depends preferably on previously collected sales data.
US07885720B2
The decoder includes a memory to store the jump time for a seek operation. The decoder affords frame numbers to the frames and saves in the memory the current frame number of a frame being read out. The decoder saves a frame number of a jump destination calculated on the basis of the current frame number and the jump time as read out from the memory. The decoder reverts to the header on a seek operation accepted, and affords provisional frame numbers to the frames. The decoder further decodes the compressed data from the frame following the frame the provisional frame number of which coincides with the frame number of the jump destination, in fast feed, or from the frame following the frame the provisional frame number of which coincides with a frame number by one before the frame number of jump destination, in rewind.
US07885713B2
The method of treating decreased laryngeal elevation uses a neuro-orthotic device in combination with electrical stimulation of the submandibular muscles to treat the laryngeal elevator musculature. Muscle re-education and rehabilitation is provided using a neuro-orthotic device in combination with electrical stimulation of the submandibular muscles to treat laryngeal elevator musculature.
US07885696B2
A method of searching for a material fated to generate an interband phase difference soliton includes the steps of generating an AC in a soliton candidate material, identifying a loss of AC magnetic susceptibility of the siliton candidate material due to a turn and a twist cut of a vortex line and judging whether or not the soliton candidate material is capable of generating soliton.
US07885692B2
A cellphone or wireless phone device has separate components which are carried or mounted in corresponding parts of a hat, cap, or other headgear worn by the user. The cellphone microphone or voice pickup component, preferably as a unidirectional device, may be carried in the forward brim of a hat or visor of a cap, the antenna may be lined in the rear part of the hat or cap, the speaker earpiece may be attached to one or both sides of the hat, the keypad may be mounted between the fabric layers of the visor of a cap or the inner liner of a hat or headgear, and the electronic circuitry, including parts such as amplifier, signal processor and switcher, and battery may be mounted in an internal part or inner liner of the hat.
US07885689B2
The present invention provides a method for suppressing interference using beamforming of uplink signals received at multiple base stations. The method may include accessing information indicative of a plurality of signals received over a plurality of uplink channels between a plurality of mobile units and a plurality of base stations. The method may also include forming a plurality of weighted signals by applying a plurality of beamforming weights to the plurality of signals. The plurality of beamforming weights are determined based on estimates of the channels from the plurality of users to the plurality of base stations and estimated interference between the signals. The method may further include combining subsets of the plurality of weighted signals associated with each of the plurality of mobile units.
US07885686B2
A method of accomplishing a transaction by a user equipment. Transaction information is inserted in at least one data field of an information entity that associates with the transaction based on information available at the user equipment. The information entity is then transmitted from the user equipment over a wireless interface. The insertion may require authorisation. The insertion may occur automatically in response to a predefined event.
US07885679B2
The mobile communication terminal includes a first unit which measures a SIR of a signal received from a base station, a second unit which determines a target SIR, and a third unit which compares the SIR measured by the first unit to the target SIR, and produces TPC data in accordance with the result of the comparison, the TPC data being used for controlling signal-transmission power by which the base station transmits a signal to the mobile communication terminal, the TPC data being transmitted to the base station together with a signal to be transmitted to the base station from the mobile communication terminal. The second unit lowers the target SIR if a signal for calling is not received from the base station by a predetermined period of time, and further if communication quality between the mobile communication terminal and the base station is equal to or greater than threshold quality.
US07885673B2
The present invention concerns a transmission method in a wireless telecommunication system including at least a base station intended to communicate with terminals over bidirectional communication channels, each channel supporting frames being divided into downlink sub frames and uplink sub frames, each downlink sub frame including a number of symbols intended to be transmitted to at least two terminals, wherein the transfer of at least one supplementary symbol between the base station and at least one terminal that can receive or transmit said at least one supplementary symbol is enabled. The base station forms a first group of terminals and at least another group of at least one terminal, the first group of terminals comprising at least terminals which can not receive and/or transmit said at least supplementary symbol, the other group of at least one terminal comprising at least a terminal which can receive and/or transmit said at least supplementary symbol during the time delay, allocates multiplexing resources of the wireless telecommunication network to at least a part of the terminals comprised in the first group, allocates all the multiplexing resources allocated to the terminals comprised in the first group to one terminal comprised in the other group for at least one supplementary symbol.
US07885668B2
Reliably identifying an AP through which a user device is accessing one or more networks, and reliably determining the current network location of the user device. An AP and network location may be reliably identified using a set of transmitter fingerprints unique to the AP or network location, respectively. In response to a user device receiving at least one signal from at least one unknown entity, a transmitter fingerprint set of the at least one entity may be determined from the at least one signal. It then may be determined whether the at least one entity is an AP having an ID known to the user device, and/or whether the current network location is known by the user device. The user device may determine information that may be divulged with the at least one entity based on this determination.
US07885667B2
The invention relates to a method, system and service for processing at a remote device a request from a first device, the method has the steps of receiving a request message to obtain information on location based services available at the physical location of the remote device from the first device, determining a user defined query in the request message, routing the query to an appropriate response service, formulating the response from the response service into a response message, and routing the response message to the first device.
US07885665B2
A telecommunications system includes a plurality of network clients (150) including a positioning controller (504) and a communications controller (502); and a positioning server (152) configured to receive position information from said positioning controller (504); wherein said positioning server includes a timer (1804) for determining when said position information is to be received from associated ones of said plurality of network clients.
US07885663B2
A method for communicating between a network and a dual receiver UE includes receiving first signaling from a first network node at a first frequency, and receiving second signaling via a PtM control channel from a second network node at a second frequency. The method further includes receiving a request from the second network node at the second frequency, such that the request is carried on the PtM control channel, and transmitting to the first network node a response to the request from the second network node. An alternative method includes receiving communications from a first network node, and identifying that the first network node lacks uplink capabilities. This method may further include identifying that the first network node provides a MBMS service, and receiving the MBMS service from the first network node despite the identification of the lack of uplink capabilities.
US07885657B2
A computer implemented method includes determining, at a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) base station, that a mobile device capable of communicating via a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) and via the WLAN is within a range of the WLAN base station. The computer implemented method includes sending a registration message including an Internet Protocol (IP) address from the WLAN base station to the mobile phone device. The mobile device sends a call forwarding message from the mobile phone device to a network element of the WWAN after receiving the registration message. The call forwarding message redirects a call destined for the mobile phone device to the WLAN base station for transmission to the mobile phone device. The computer implemented method includes receiving the redirected call from the WWAN. The computer implemented method includes sending the redirected call to the mobile phone device when the mobile phone device is within the range of the WLAN base station, but not sending the redirected call from the WLAN to the mobile phone device when the mobile phone device is outside the range of the WLAN base station.
US07885656B2
Handover execution and communication resumption in a wireless access system is provided. Performing a handover includes communicating with a serving base station through a first communication link and receiving from the serving base station, handover information associated with at least one candidate target base station. The method also includes transmitting handover indicator to the serving base station indicating a handover operation to a selected target base station and performing a ranging procedure with the selected target base station to establish a second communication link with the selected target base station while maintaining the first communication link with the serving base station. The method also includes being released from the serving base station in response to a handover complete status message from the selected target base station to the serving base station, or resuming normal communication with the serving base station if the handover fails with the selected target base station.
US07885652B2
A mobile station includes; a retransmission control section configured to perform retransmission control of user data in a physical layer and a MAC sublayer with one or more radio base stations; and a threshold setting section configured to set a threshold used for determining presence or absence of an acknowledgement signal of the user data, according to the number of the radio base stations to which the mobile station connects.
US07885649B2
Methods and apparatus for efficiently managing the storage of e-mail message information for a mobile station are described. In one illustrative example, a plurality of e-mail messages are received by the mobile station through a wireless network and stored in memory. If a size of the e-mail messages reaches a predetermined limit of the memory, e-mail message bodies of some of the e-mail messages (e.g. relatively “old” e-mails) are automatically deleted from the memory while e-mail message headers of the e-mail messages are retained. E-mail message headers of e-mail messages having deleted e-mail message bodies may still be visually displayed in a list at the mobile station. Subsequently, if a user selection of one of these e-mail messages in the list is identified, an e-mail message body of the e-mail message is requested by the mobile station and received from a server through the wireless network. Thus, the e-mail message body of the selected e-mail message may still be visually displayed at the mobile station.
US07885642B2
A method for scheduling the delivery of a plurality of data portions to respective recipients in a data distribution network, wherein the recipients are commonly utilizing a bottleneck element limiting the performance of the data distribution network.A proportion of recipients automatically requesting a respective data portion is determined upon receiving a respective notification message. A preferred time span for delivering the data portions is determined according to a capacity of the bottleneck element, the amount of data that is to be delivered and the proportion of recipients automatically requesting the respective data portion. The delivery of a data portion is delayed according to the preferred time span for delivering.
US07885638B2
A method for causing GSM location information and UMA billing information to be encapsulated in a single CGI structural element during a standalone UMA network access session comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is provided for applying at least one algorithm to location information of a Mobile Station (MS) serving a subscriber device during a standalone UMA network access session for causing at least one of compressing, re-aligning and repackaging the MS location information whereby an amount of MS location information holding space of a GSM Edge Radio Access Network (GERAN) Cell Global Identity (CGI) structural element occupied by the MS location information is reduced such that a portion of the MS location information holding space becomes unused. An operation is performed for inserting UMA billing information into at least a portion of the unused portion of the MS location information holding space.
US07885629B2
Various embodiments are disclosed relating to Q-enhancement cells. According to an example embodiment, a circuit may include an inductor with a quality factor (Q), and a Q-enhancement cell coupled to the inductor. The Q-enhancement cell may include a current source having a variable bias current slope. Stability may, for example, be improved by providing a variable or programmable bias current slope for the Q-enhancement cell. In another example embodiment, a Q-enhancement cell may be used to compensate for Q degradation due to one or more switched capacitors in a circuit. The switched capacitors may be used, for example, for channel or frequency selection for the circuit. In another example embodiment, a Q-enhancement cell may be used to compensate for Q degradation caused by a transmission line.
US07885627B2
An OFDM wireless transceiver uses a digital automatic gain control (AGC) module. The digital AGC module is configured for setting a gain to an initial gain value for mapping a received wireless signal to a first power value for an input circuit having a prescribed input range. The initial gain value is set relative to the prescribed input range and a prescribed signal to noise ratio. If the digital AGC module determines that the first power value of the received wireless signal does not exceed the prescribed input range, the digital AGC module calculates an optimum gain for the received wireless signal relative to the initial gain value and the first power value; if the first power value exceeds the prescribed input range, the AGC module determines the optimum gain based on setting the gain to a minimum gain value.
US07885622B2
An entertainment system comprising a base unit with a transceiver for interacting, at times, with a control unit via a communications link, and a control unit for controlling the base unit, the control unit being dockable with the base unit to establish direct electrical connection between them, and including a transceiver for interacting with the control unit via said link when undocked. The control unit is a separate aspect of the invention or system. The base unit may contain a tuner, preferably with bandless tuning capability, and may be designed to receive into a universal docking arrangement a digitally controllable auxiliary audio source such as a portable MP3 player or other device. The base unit may further provide alarm clock functionality with numerous features including a “fail-safe” volume control system and fail-safe alarm time setting capability.
US07885620B2
A receiver circuit comprising a quadrature passive mixer having an input and an output, and an input impedance of the quadrature passive mixer provides a band-pass response. One or more output impedances coupled to the output of the quadrature passive mixer. A low noise amplifier (LNA) having an input and an output coupled to the quadrature passive mixer, the LNA configured to provide substantially linear transconductance over a predetermined input range.
US07885618B1
Collecting calibration data includes receiving signals, where each signal is transmitted from a channel of a plurality of channels of a transmit diversity device. The signals are generated according to command points, where a command point comprises command parameter values of command parameters. A signal feature value is determined for each command point to yield a plurality of signal feature values. At least one signal feature value is associated with a command point that substantially yields the signal feature value.
US07885616B2
A method and apparatus for sending an event from user equipment operating in a mobile network, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring whether an unrelated opportunistic event has occurred; and sending said event with said unrelated opportunistic event.
US07885605B2
A communication terminal apparatus, communication system, communication method, and program are provided that enable a decoding section of a mobile communication apparatus to be controlled and operated only when necessary even when receive data retransmission occurs. A radio communication apparatus is equipped with a radio antenna, a demodulation section that performs demodulation of receive data, a data combining section that combines the demodulated data with past data, a decoding section that decodes the combined data, an error correction section that performs error correction processing using the decoded data, an error determination section that determines a data error using the data on which error correction processing has been performed, a transmitting section, a retransmission determination section that determines data reliability and the number of retransmission requests based on the communication state of receive data, and a control section that controls each of the above sections, and control section stops the operation of decoding section and subsequent sections until data reliability determined by retransmission determination section exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
US07885602B1
Providing network security includes detecting network traffic associated with an ad hoc network that includes a first station and a second station, and preventing data sent by the first station from reaching the second station.
US07885593B2
In a fixing unit which drivingly rotates an endless fixing belt having a lubricant applied to an inside surface thereof and which presses the fixing belt against a recording medium formed with a toner image thereon thereby fixing the toner image to the recording medium, the inside surface of the fixing belt is formed with a plurality of grooves extended along a circumferential direction of the fixing belt or extended from a widthwise center of the fixing belt toward the opposite ends thereof as inclined in a moving direction of the fixing belt.
US07885582B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image holder; a developing device that develops a latent image formed on the image holder with developing material; a developing material cartridge that has a supply developing material container to contain developing material; and a developing material conveyance unit, having a connection portion connected to the developing device, that conveys the developing material from the supply developing material container to the developing device. The developing material cartridge is provided in a direction approximately orthogonal to the developing device. At least a part of the connection portion is provided within a heightwise directional width of the developing material cartridge.
US07885581B2
An image forming apparatus capable of reducing the number of toner concentration detection errors caused by variation in the volume of a toner includes a reverse vane for transferring developer in an opposite direction and protruding from the rotary shaft member in a region where a lower side faces a bottom wall of a first transfer chamber and two lateral sides that are orthogonal to the rotary axis direction face respective side walls of the first transfer chamber, and a toner concentration detection sensor is disposed to detect the toner concentration of the developer as the developer is transferred between the reverse transfer vane and a location of the screw vane adjacent to the reverse transfer vane.
US07885576B2
A tool for installation of intermediate belts by a customer includes a lightweight frame structure that is collapsible for handling and ease of belt loading onto the tool itself. The frame structure includes linkage such that when a handle connected to the frame structure is rotated; the framework will expand into the hanging belt and force the belt to take the shape of an intermediate belt transfer module profile. The intermediate transfer belt is then slid onto rollers of the intermediate belt transfer module.
US07885571B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism configured to form a toner image on a recording medium with a toner according to image data and a fixing unit configured to fix the toner image on the recording medium. The fixing unit includes first and second heating members and a first heater. The first and second heating members are configured to apply heat to the recording medium having the toner image. The first heater is configured to heat the second heating member. The image forming apparatus further includes an auxiliary power source configured to drive the first heater.
US07885570B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a carrier; a forming unit which forms an image on a carrier; a cleaning unit which cleans the carrier; a detection unit which detects a correction pattern formed on the carrier; and a control unit which performs a correction processing including cleaning a pattern forming region in the carrier by the cleaning unit, forming the correction pattern in the pattern forming region by the forming unit after finishing the cleaning by the cleaning unit, and correcting an image forming characteristic of the forming unit based on a detection result of the correction pattern by the detection unit.
US07885565B2
A development device includes a developer carrier 20Y that carries liquid developer containing toner liquid and carrier liquid, a developer supply member 32Y that supplies liquid developer to the developer carrier 20Y, a developer carrier cleaning member 21Y that collects liquid developer from the developer carrier 20Y, a collection reservoir 31bY that stores the liquid developer collected by the developer carrier cleaning member 21Y, a supply section 31aY that makes liquid developer flow to the collection reservoir 31bY, a conveyance member 34Y that conveys the liquid developer collected in the collection reservoir 31bY in a first direction X and a conveyance capacity regulation section 100 that regulates the conveyance capacity of the conveyance member 34Y.
US07885562B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body; a plurality of image carrying members; a plurality of developing members; a translation member that reciprocates in a straight line in a direction in which the image carrying members are aligned to move the developing members between an engagement position where the developing members are brought into contact with the image carrying members and a disengagement position where the developing members are disengaged from the image carrying members; and a force imparting mechanism, when at least one of the developing members is moved from the disengagement position to the engagement position by a movement of the translation member in a first direction, the force imparting mechanism imparting a force that includes a force component directed to a second direction opposite to the first direction into the translation member.
US07885553B2
An image forming apparatus that includes: an image forming apparatus main body; a replaceable unit which is attached to the image forming apparatus main body in a detachable manner; a storage unit provided in the replaceable unit, the storage unit storing information with respect to the replaceable unit; a first detecting unit that detects a first-stage operation for replacing the replaceable unit and other operation at a first stage of replacing the replaceable unit; a second detecting unit that detects a second-stage operation for replacing the replaceable unit at a second stage of replacing the replaceable unit; and a control unit that controls access to the storage unit in accordance with whether the second detecting unit detects the second-stage operation, when the first detecting unit detects the first-stage operation.
US07885549B1
One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is a method for activating services in a Passive Optical Networking (PON) system. In accordance with such an embodiment, an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) within the PON system is pre-provisioned with PON services and with at least a portion of information required for facilitating automatic activation of the PON services. Pre-provisioning is defined herein to mean that such provisioning is performed prior to installing an ONT (i.e., a network interface device) that will serve such to services at the service subscriber's site and that is controlled by the OLT. After installation of the ONT is complete, the PON services served by the ONT are automatically activated using at least a portion of the pre-provisioned information and information discovered about the ONT during a post-installation discovery process. For example, to enable the PON services to be automatically activated after the ONT is installed, network element management software of the PON system is adapted to automatically check the ONT selected for installation against a database of legitimate units. After the installed ONT is verified as a legitimate unit, the PON services are automatically activated. By providing such an automated mechanism for supporting the activation of PON services at the ONT, resources utilization for performing various system management activities (e.g., provisioning at the central office, ONT install, etc) are advantageously reduced.
US07885548B1
Free space optical communication systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided. A free space optical communication system embodiment includes a light source for emitting a light beam toward a receiver, where the light beam includes a signal to be transmitted, an output lens through which the light beam is directed toward the receiver, and an actuator coupled to the light source for moving the light source to adjust the diameter of the light beam.
US07885545B2
A dispersion compensation method comprising the steps of: a) providing a compensation node for each predetermined number of in-line repeaters; b) carrying out dispersion compensation for the in-line repeaters with the different bit rates in common; c) carrying out wavelength demultiplexing on the optical signal for each of the different bit rates in the compensation node; and d) setting an optimum dispersion compensation amount for the optical signal of each bit rate.
US07885536B1
Systems and techniques for improving the dynamic range of infrared detection systems and for determining physical properties of a graybody are disclosed. For example, a mechanical superframing technique may comprise positioning a first set of filters in the optical path of an infrared camera at a first time, receiving infrared light from an object through the first set of filters at a detector array, acquiring first subframe image data for the object, positioning a second set of filters in the optical path of the infrared camera at a later time, receiving infrared light from the object through the second set of filters, acquiring second subframe image data for the object, and generating first superframe data based on at least some of the first subframe image data and at least some of the second subframe image data.
US07885534B2
The light-amount adjusting system includes a light-amount adjusting unit that changes a size of an aperture through which light passes, an actuator that drives the light-amount adjusting unit, and a detector that detects an aperture state of the light-amount adjusting unit. The system further includes a deviation signal generator that generates a signal corresponding to a deviation between a target aperture state of the light-amount adjusting unit and an aperture state thereof detected by the detector, a driving signal generator that provides an offset to the signal corresponding to the deviation to generate a driving signal for driving the actuator, and a filter which perform a low-pass-filter processing on the driving signal. An output from the filter is used as the offset. The system can control the light-amount adjusting unit with high stability and accuracy at any position and in any driving direction thereof.
US07885528B2
A positioning system and method for focusing a charge coupled device (CCD) lens on a selected surface of an object to be measured is provided. The positioning system and method moves the CCD lens downwards to approximate an estimate Z-axis coordinate of the CCD lens, and moves the CCD lens upwards to find an accurate Z-axis coordinate of the CCD lens according to the selected surface of the object. The system and method further moves the CCD lens to a position corresponding to the accurate Z-axis coordinate to focus the CCD lens on the selected surface.
US07885527B2
A focusing apparatus and method are provided for a digital image processing apparatus. The focusing apparatus and method control an image sensor to read only pixels within a preset region of an image, calculate a focus value using only the read pixels, and apply the focus value to the entire image. The focusing apparatus includes: a region setting unit setting an arbitrary focus region of an image; a set region pixel reading unit reading only pixels within the set focus region; a focus value calculating unit calculating a maximum focus value according to a moving distance of a focus lens for achieving an in-focus state with respect to the pixels within the focus region read by the set region pixel reading unit; and a control unit applying the calculated maximum focus value to the entire image.
US07885523B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a gyro sensor 1240 that detects camera shakes, a feed forward value is calculated by multiplying a first coefficient c1 to an output value of the gyro sensor 1240 when the output value of the gyro sensor 1240 is less than a first predetermined value, another feed forward value is calculated by multiplying a second coefficient c2 smaller than the first coefficient c1 to an output value of the gyro sensor 1240 when the output value of the gyro sensor 1240 is greater than or equal to the first predetermined value, each of the products is respectively added by an addition device to an output value of a drive signal.
US07885522B2
Photo booth systems and methods of using photo booth systems, such as those that provide photo booths and interaction between the photo booths and one or more user groups.
US07885521B2
A commercial device and method for cooking food product in cooking oil includes a fry vat containing an amount of cooking oil used to cook discrete batches of uncooked food in discrete batches of a weight relative to the amount of cooking oil in the range of from about 0.0375 to about 0.1, with the total amount of food being cooked at any one time relative to the amount of oil in the fry vat being about 0.1 or less. Cooking the food results in an uptake of oil by the food in an amount of from about 5.5% to about 13% by weight of the uncooked food, and an oil turnover ratio of from about 0.0026 to about 0.007 per discrete batch. Replacement oil is periodically added, and a sufficient number of batches are cooked over 60 hours of operation to achieve at least one vat oil turnover.Automated intermittent filtration is employed in the device and method that can include monitoring the elapsed time since the last filtration of the cooking oil, monitoring the amount of food by number of batches or by weight of food product cooked in the oil since the last filtration, and filtering the oil when a predetermined threshold value is reached based on the elapsed time since the last filtration and the amount of food cooked.
US07885516B2
When playing an AV Clip recorded on a BD-ROM, a judgment is made, for each elementary stream, which of a plurality of predetermined conditions the elementary stream satisfies. The plurality of predetermined conditions include (a) a condition that a playback apparatus has a capability of playing the elementary stream, (b) a language attribute of the elementary stream matches a language setting of the playback apparatus, and (c) a channel attribute of the elementary stream is surround sound and the playback apparatus has a surround output capability. The playback apparatus assigns a priority to each elementary stream based on which conditions the elementary stream satisfies, selects an elementary stream having a highest priority, and plays the selected elementary stream.
US07885515B2
In a recording/reproduction device, a type of recording medium which is currently selected is shown to the user on its small built-in monitor screen in a user-friendly manner and, for more user convenience, a background color of the screen is changed depending on the type of recording medium selected by the user. The user can know the currently selected type of recording medium from the screen's background color so it is possible to identify very quickly the type of recording medium even on a small monitor screen.
US07885512B2
An information processing apparatus plays back content including a plurality of divided playback zones, a playlist being associated with each of the divided playback zones. The information processing apparatus includes a playlist selection information obtaining unit obtaining a plurality of pieces of playlist selection information including information concerning a playback sequence of play items which are set as content playback unit data, the plurality of pieces of playlist selection information being obtained in accordance with the number of playback zones included in the content, a playlist selector selecting a plurality of playlists on the basis of the plurality of pieces of playlist selection information obtained by the playlist selection information obtaining unit, a playlist integrating processor generating an integrated playlist by integrating the plurality of playlists selected by the playlist selector, and a content playback unit playing back the content on the basis of the integrated playlist.
US07885505B2
A telecommunications module includes a main housing portion and a cover, the main housing portion defining a first sidewall, a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, and a bottom wall, the cover defining a second sidewall when mounted on the main housing portion. An optical component located within the module receives an input signal from a signal input location of the housing and outputs an output signal toward a signal output location on the front wall. The telecommunications module is configured such that the signal input location can be selected to be either on the front wall or the rear wall of the main housing. The cover defines a protrusion extending from the second sidewall toward the main housing portion, the protrusion being selectively breakable to expose a recess on the front wall of the main housing portion that defines a signal input location.
US07885504B2
Disclosed herein is an optical fiber coupler enclosure. The optical fiber coupler enclosure includes a lid member, a base member, and a first end cap. The lid member includes two lid side walls and a first open end. The base member is opposite the lid member. The base member includes two base side walls and a first open end. The base member includes at least one mounting channel proximate to each of the base side walls. The mounting channels are configured to fixedly dispose at least two fiber optic couplers adjacent to one another. The first end cap is disposed between the lid member first open end and the base member first open end.
US07885500B2
The invention relates to a method for adjusting an optical rotating data transmission device having two units that are rotatable with respect to each other about a rotation axis, and that each have a coaxial collimator for coupling light in or out, and relates also to an optical rotating data transmission device that is adjustable by means of the method. For an adjustment, a deviation of a light beam from the rotation axis is determined by means of two detectors at different distances, and from this a positional deviation and also a tilt of the light beam is calculated and suitably compensated.
US07885497B2
An exemplary thin film transistor array substrate (200) includes a transparent substrate (261), a plurality of gate lines (201) and a plurality of data lines (202) formed at the transparent substrate, the gate lines and the data lines crossing each other thereby defining a plurality of pixel regions (230). Each of the pixel regions includes a storage capacitor (220). The storage capacitor includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor aligned along a direction generally perpendicular to the transparent substrate, and the first capacitor and the second capacitor are electrically connected in parallel.
US07885493B2
Two Mach-Zehnder optical interferometer circuits 13a and 13b are accurately point-symmetrically connected to each other to form a first point-symmetrically connected optical interferometer circuit 5 constituting a light input side circuit 1. Optical signals having a plurality of wavelengths are input to a light input terminal 17. A second point-symmetrically connected optical interferometer circuit 7 having the same functional structure as the first point-symmetrically connected optical interferometer circuit 5 is connected to a through port 18, which is an output terminal of the light input side circuit 1, as a first light output side circuit 2. A cross port 19, which is the other output terminal of the light input side circuit 1, is connected to a second light output side circuit 3 having at least one of Mach-Zehnder optical interferometer circuits 13c and 13d whose transmittance characteristics are different from those of the Mach-Zehnder optical interferometer circuits 13a and 13b.
US07885487B2
A method and an apparatus for efficiently enlarging an image, where the outermost Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) components from a DC value are regarded as high frequency components in DCT components expressed in one two-dimensional coordinate system, the edge signals of an image are restored by means of only the high frequency components, and then a binary edge mask, which represents the distribution of high frequency components within the image, is generated from the restored edge signals. Accordingly, an interpolation order can be determined based on the binary edge mask and interpolation can be performed. A higher order low pass filter is applied to an area having many high frequency signal components, so that it is possible to output more precisely enlarged image signals. In this way, that it is possible to improve the overall picture quality of an enlarged image, and to properly adjust the amount of calculation and buffer capacity, which are used when interpolation is performed.
US07885486B2
An image processing system includes a frequency conversion section, a frequency component generation section, an enlarged image area generation section and an enlarged image generation section. The frequency conversion section converts neighboring areas of each area in question into plural frequency components. The areas in question and the neighboring areas of the areas in question are included in an input image. The frequency component generation section generates predetermined frequency components from the frequency components of each neighboring area. The enlarged image area generation section generates an enlarged image area for each area in question, using (i) an image region which contains each area in question and which has a predetermined size and (ii) the predetermined frequency components. The enlarged image generation section places the enlarged image areas to generate an enlarged image for the input image.
US07885479B2
A reduced-image creating portion creates a reduced image from an original image. A reduced-retinex-image forming portion calculates reflectance of each pixel in the reduced image, thereby forming a reduced retinex image. A normalizing-parameter setting portion obtains frequencies of the reflectance in the reduced retinex image and sets upper and lower limits for normalization. A first normalizing portion obtains a normalized reflectance for each pixel in the reduced image. A first correcting portion obtains a corrected reduced image. A preview-image displaying portion displays the corrected reduced image on a display unit. A retinex-image forming portion calculates reflectance of each pixel in the original image. A second normalizing portion normalizes the reflectance of the original image based on the upper limit and the lower limit, thereby obtaining a normalized reflectance for each pixel in the original image. A second correcting portion corrects the original image, thereby obtaining a corrected original image.
US07885476B2
A system and method for effectively performing an adaptive encoding procedure includes a texture analyzer that initially determines texture characteristics for blocks of input image data. An image transformer converts the blocks of image data into sets of coefficients that represent the various blocks. A block categorizer utilizes the texture characteristics to associate texture categories with the sets of coefficients from the various blocks. Deadzone tables are provided for storing deadzone values that define deadzone regions for performing appropriate quantization procedures. A quantizer may then access the deadzone values from the deadzone tables to adaptively convert the coefficients into quantized coefficients according to their corresponding texture characteristics.
US07885473B2
This invention decodes coefficient magnitudes in compressed video data using a selected context and speculatively decodes a coefficient sign. The next context selection depends upon a number of iterations. This invention confirms the speculatively decoded coefficient sign upon completion of the magnitude decode. This invention operates in a loop until reaching the number of significant coefficients within the block. The method exits the loop and decodes an escape code if an iteration count is greater than a predetermined number. An embodiment of this invention collects both a count up and a count down in an escape code decode in one loop. An embodiment of this invention estimates the number of significant coefficients in a block and selects the inventive or a prior art decode.
US07885461B2
Signals are provided which allow colors in a wider color range than predetermined standards, which can be handled by apparatus according to such predetermined standards. A primary color converter converts first color signals having primary color points in a wider color range than the primary color points according to BT.709 into second color signals based on the primary colors according to BT.709. A photoelectric transducer converts the second color signals into third color signals according to photoelectric transducer characteristics defined in a numerical range wider than a range from 0 to 1.0 of color signals corresponding to a luminance signal and color difference signals according to BT.709. A color signal converter converts the third color signals into a luminance signal and color difference signals. A corrector incorporated in the color signal converter corrects the color difference signals into color difference signals.
US07885453B1
Digital image processing methods are applied to an image of a semiconductor interconnection pad to preprocess the image prior to an inspection or registration. An image of a semiconductor pads exhibiting spatial patterns from structure, texture or features are filtered without affecting features in the image not associated with structure or texture. The filtered image is inspected in a probe mark inspection operation.
US07885452B2
A utility is presented that may be used to extract check images and/or other information directly from a Common Import Format File (CIFF) file for presentation to a user. The utility may be used in addition to, and indeed in spite of, an existing check management database system that stores information from an original CIFF file in an alternate form.
US07885446B2
A system and method may detect a transition in an image stream captured within a body lumen. One or more parameters may be computed at points corresponding to a time scale of the image stream. Transition in the values of the parameters may be identified and may indicate a location along the body lumen. The image stream may be segmented at the transition points identified.
US07885423B2
A microphone includes a diaphragm assembly supported by a substrate. The diaphragm assembly includes at least one carrier, a diaphragm, and at least one spring coupling the diaphragm to the at least one carrier such that the diaphragm is spaced from the at least one carrier. An insulator (or separate insulators) between the substrate and the at least one carrier electrically isolates the diaphragm and the substrate.
US07885421B2
An approach is provided for measuring, identifying, and removing at least one sinusoidal interference signal (Ak·ej(ωkt+φk), Ak·ej(μ·ωkΔt+φk)) in a noise signal (w(t), w(μ·Δt)). A frequency range to be measured is split into a plurality of frequency bands (ν) via a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) filter bank. For each of the frequency bands (ν), an autocorrelation matrix ({circumflex over (R)}ν) is determined, wherein parameters of the autocorrelation matrices ({circumflex over (R)}ν) are variably adjusted based on whether the at least one sinusoidal interference signal (Ak·ej(ωkt+φk), Ak·ej(μ·ωkΔt+φk)) is to be measured, identified, or removed and further based on at least one averaging. The autocorrelation matrices ({circumflex over (R)}ν) are jointly utilized for one or more of measuring, identifying, or removing the at least one sinusoidal interference signal (Ak·ej(ωkt+φk), Ak·ej(μ·ωkΔt+φk)) in the noise signal (w(t), w(μ·Δt)).
US07885417B2
Active noise control system and method for controlling an acoustic noise generated by a noise source at a listening location, in which system and method sound is picked up in the surroundings of the listening location by a sound sensor; an electrical noise signal which corresponds to the acoustic noise of the noise source is generated and filtered adaptively in accordance with control signals. The adaptively filtered noise signal is irradiated into the surroundings of the listening location by a sound reproduction device, where a secondary path transfer function extends between the sound reproduction device and sound sensor. The noise signal is filtered with a transfer function that models the secondary path transfer function. The signals which are provided by the sound sensor after first filtering serve as control signals for the adaptive filtering.
US07885394B2
A method (10) and system (200, 400, or 500) of call reverse can include initiating (12) a call by an originating party (204) to a terminating party (208), comparing (14) rate plans, and automatically reversing (26) the call if a rate plan for the terminating party is currently more economical than a rate plan for the originating party. The method can compare (22) rate plans at a server (206) having rate plan information for the parties. Alternatively, the method can send (16) rate plan information for the originating to the terminating party and compare rate plans at the terminating party. The method can pre-store (20) rate plan information for the originating party at a memory at the terminating party. The method can also use (24) Caller ID to detect a call from the originating party and compare pre-stored rate plan information for the originating party stored at the terminating party.
US07885373B2
The present invention provides a material decomposition method capable of determining the distribution of density and constituent material concentration throughout an imaged object. The concentration, in the form of a mass fraction, mass percent, weight fraction, or weight percent, is determined from CT images acquired at different energy levels. The ratio of attenuation coefficients associated with one energy level to attenuation coefficients associated with another energy level is determined and used as an index in a lookup table to determine the concentration of a given material throughout the imaged object.
US07885356B2
A receiver includes a receiving section configured to receive digital broadcasts; a demodulating section configured to demodulate a signal received by the receiving section and output a frame-based signal including a plurality of symbols; a detecting section configured to detect a symbol position in a frame-based signal provided from the demodulating section; a decoding section configured to decode a frame-based signal from the demodulating section in accordance with a symbol position; a symbol counter configured to output a count output specifying a symbol position in a signal decoded in the decoding section; and a control section configured to control counting of the symbol counter on the basis of a symbol position detected by the detecting section and on a count value of the symbol counter.
US07885353B2
Disclosed is an SSC controller that exercises control to supply a control signal to a phase interpolator which receives an input clock signal and varies the phase of an output clock signal in accordance with the control signal, and to frequency-modulate the output clock signal. In an SSC controller, a counting operation control circuit outputs a counting operation control signal that controls count enable and disable. A p-counter receives a frequency-divided clock signal from a frequency divider and counts the signal when the counting operation control signal from the counting operation control circuit indicates count enable. Upon counting up to a predetermined first value, the counting operation control circuit generates a first output signal and sets its count value to zero. When the counting operation control signal indicates count disable, the p-counter stops counting. An up/down counter receives the first output signal from the p-counter and counts this signal up and down between a predetermined initial value (=0) and a predetermined second value. On the basis of count values from the two counters, a controller outputs the phase control signal to the phase interpolator. The counting operation control circuit, which receives the count values from the two counters and is supplied with a control signal from an SSC control terminal, sets the counting operation control signal to a value indicative of count disable when the supplied control signal indicates count disable and both of the count values from the two counters are at their initial values (=0).
US07885352B2
A method for determining transmit power spectral density (PSD), includes: calculating time sharing parameters corresponding to transmission patterns for all users in each frequency band; and determining transmit PSD according to the transmission patterns and the time sharing parameters. A device for determining a transmit PSD including a calculation module and a PSD determining module is disclosed as well. Using the solution, the time for determining the transmit PSD can be saved.
US07885351B2
Method of correcting a gain and phase imbalance of an analogue modulator (32) for multiple channels (CHi) of a multi-carrier transmission signal, the method comprising the steps of determining a gain imbalance correction factor (GCFi) and phase imbalance correction factor (PCFi) for each channel individually and applying said correction factors (GCFi, PCFi) to the corresponding channel (CHi) individually, before the multi-carrier synthesis of the channels is done, whereas step a) for each one of the multiple channels (CHi) is performed in a time-multiplexed manner with step a) for the other ones of the multiple channels (CHi).
US07885349B2
A method for performing a precoding based on a generalized phase shift or a precoding based on an extended phase shift in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system employing several sub-carriers, and a transceiver for supporting the same are disclosed. A phase-shift-based precoding matrix is generalized by multiplying a diagonal matrix for a phase shift by a unitary matrix for maintaining orthogonality between sub-carriers. In this case, a diagonal matrix part may be extended by multiplying a precoding matrix for removing interference between sub-carriers by a diagonal matrix for a phase shift. By generalization and extension of the phase-shift-based precoding, a transceiver is more simplified, and communication efficiency increases.
US07885347B2
A DTV receiver includes a tuner tuning to a channel to receive a broadcast signal, and a demodulator demodulating the broadcast signal. The receiver further includes a first decoder which decodes main and enhanced data included in the demodulated signal by calculating soft decision values for the enhanced data and hard decision values for the main data. The receiver further includes a second decoder for decoding the main and enhanced data for first forward error correction, and a third decoder for decoding the FEC-decoded enhanced data for second forward error correction.
US07885346B2
A multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) transmitter for transmitting a group of sequential orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols on a time-division duplexed (TDD) channel in accordance with an IEEE 802.16 standard using a plurality of antennas. The MIMO transmitter comprises a spatial-frequency parser to parse a block of bits into spatial-frequency blocks of a variable number of coded bits, and subcarrier modulators to individually modulate OFDM subcarriers with the spatial-frequency blocks in accordance with spatial-frequency subcarrier modulation assignments to generate groups of symbol-modulated subcarriers. The TDD channel comprises a plurality of the groups of the OFDM subcarriers, and the OFDM subcarriers within each group of subcarriers and within each group of sequential OFDM symbols have the same spatial-frequency subcarrier modulation assignments.
US07885339B2
Systems and methods for bi-directional temporal error concealment are described. In one aspect, a lost frame is detected during encoded video decoding operations. Bi-directional estimations for each pixel of the lost frame are calculated to generate a current frame for bi-directional temporal error concealment of the lost frame.
US07885335B2
A method of creating a variable-shaped block in a target image includes generating an initial pattern of target blocks, identifying allowable combinations of target blocks, calculating a combination value for each allowable combination, using the combination value to select one of the allowable combinations, and performing the selected allowable combination to create a variable-shaped block.
US07885331B2
A moving picture processor includes a first detector configured to detect a reference block most similar to a target block for which motion is to be detected and which is set in a current picture, and to generate a first motion vector candidate indicating a relative position between the target block and the reference block. A second detector is configured to detect a first reference area most similar to a first target area obtained by combining the target block and a first adjacent block adjacent to the target block, and to generate a second motion vector candidate indicating a relative position between the first target area and the first reference area. A determination circuit is configured to determine a motion vector for the target block, based on the first and second motion vector candidates.
US07885330B2
A method for selecting a compression setting to use during a communications session to compress streaming video data includes the steps of determining processor performance data for at least one processor, determining a video data acquisition rate, and using the processor performance data and the acquisition rate to identify a compression setting for the data communications session.
US07885327B2
A method and apparatus for video coding and decoding with hierarchical temporal filtering structure are disclosed. A video encoding method in a temporal level having a hierarchical temporal filtering structure, includes generating prediction frames from two or more reference frames that temporally precede the current frame; generating a residual frame by subtracting the prediction frames from the current frame; and encoding and transmitting the residual frame.
US07885323B2
An apparatus is disclosed to compensate for non-linear effects resulting from the transmitter, the receiver, and/or the communication channel in a communication system. A receiver of the communication system contains an image cancellation module that compensates for images generated during the modulation and/or demodulation process. The image cancellation module includes a fine carrier correction loop to correct for frequency offsets between the transmitter and receiver. The image cancellation module includes a coarse acquisition mode and a decision directed mode. The decision directed mode allows for a larger signal-to-noise ratio for the receiver when compared against the coarse acquisition mode.
US07885319B2
A wireless terminal is operable to receive a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal from a base station and includes clock circuitry, a wireless interface, and a Primary Synchronization (PSYNC) module. The clock circuitry generates a wireless terminal clock using a wireless terminal oscillator. The wireless interface receives the WCDMA signal, which is produced by the base station using a base station clock that is produced using a base station oscillator that is more accurate than the wireless terminal oscillator. The PSYNC module includes a plurality of PSYNC correlation branches. Each PSYNC correlation branch phase rotates the WCDMA signal based upon a respective frequency offset, correlates the phase rotated WCDMA signal with a Primary Synchronization Channel (PSCH) code over a plurality of sampling positions, and produces PSYNC correlation energies based upon the correlations for each of the plurality of sampling positions.
US07885318B2
A method, mobile device, network device, system, and software are devised for soft value scaling with a single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) receiver, or with an interference rejection combining (IRC) receiver, in an unsynchronized network. A signal is received having interference that is caused by a non-synchronized network. A desired power level of that signal is calculated. Then the desired power is compared to a total power of the signal, in order to identify a portion of a received burst having substantial interference. Then that portion of the received burst is weighted, to reduce its importance during decoding.
US07885313B2
A method and apparatus of reducing interference between subsystems implementing wireless communication protocols is disclosed. The method comprises reducing interference in a first subsystem implementing a first wireless communication protocol operating in a first frequency band caused by a second subsystem implementing a second wireless communication protocol operating in a second frequency band, the second wireless communication protocol employing Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH), the method comprising calculating one or more frequencies to be avoided by the second subsystem on the basis of one or more frequencies in use by the first subsystem.
US07885310B2
The invention relates to a gas slab laser comprising a gas-filled chamber limited by a housing (1, 2, 3). The laser is provided with at least two high-frequency excited electrodes (5, 6) that extend into the housing and overlap. The electrodes define a discharge chamber (14). The laser is additionally provided with resonator mirrors (12, 13). In order to adjust the laser, the spatial arrangement of the electrodes and the resonator mirrors is optimized. Adjustment is carried out by applying a force (F) in the housing so that the spatial arrangement of the resonator mirrors is optimized as a result of the bending of the housing caused by the application of force. Deformation of the housing can occur plastically or elastically by maintaining the deforming forces.
US07885308B2
A gas discharge laser includes a laser housing including a laser gas and an electrode-assembly for lighting a discharge in the laser gas. The electrode assembly has a first resonant frequency when the discharge is not lit and a second resonant frequency when the discharge is lit. RF power delivering circuitry of the laser includes an arrangement for determining and recording the two resonant frequencies. RF power is applied to the electrodes at the first recorded resonant frequency to facilitate lighting of the discharge, and thereafter at the second resonant frequency to light and sustain the discharge.
US07885304B2
A nitride-based semiconductor laser device includes a nitride-based semiconductor layer formed on a main surface of a substrate and having an emission layer, wherein the nitride-based semiconductor layer includes a first side surface formed by a (000-1) plane and a second side surface inclined with respect to the first side surface, and a ridge having an optical waveguide extending perpendicular to a [0001] direction in an in-plane direction of the main surface of the substrate is formed by a region held between the first side surface and the second side surface.
US07885301B2
A computer may include a database and a power reducing routine. The database may be configured to store an input power level of an input laser beam transmitted onto and storing power within a gain module. The database may be further configured to store a discharge power level of at least partially discharged stored power discharged from the gain module through an output laser beam. The database may also be configured to store a power safety differential limit. The power reducing routine may include an algorithm. The algorithm may be configured to calculate a power differential by subtracting the discharge power level from the input power level, and to at least one of reduce power to and shut down the input laser beam if the calculated power differential exceeds the power safety differential limit.
US07885295B2
The invention involves management of communication resources (40, 45) in a network (1) utilizing multi-node-adapted resources (40) for transmission of multi-node-associated information and single-node-adapted resources (45) for transmission of single-node-associated information. A default resource allocation (60) specifying, for all transmitter nodes (10, 15) in the network (1), when the respective resource type is available for usage is defined. A subset (10) of the nodes in the network (1) estimates an expected amount of multi and/or single-node-associated information to be transmitted by the node subset (10). The default resource allocation (60) is then dynamically adjusted, for the node subset (10), based on the estimated expected information amount, implying that the physical resources (40, 45) defined by the default time structure (60) are dynamically shared in the frequency domain. According to the adjusted default resource allocation (65), a multi/single-node-adapted resource (40) will be allocated for transmission, by the node subset (10), of single/multi-node-associated information.
US07885291B2
An ad hoc emergency interoperability communication network is established by providing universal temporary incident area network modules that communicate with each other on an open network, with the network being established when vehicles containing the temporary incident area network modules are within range of each other.
US07885289B2
Systems and/or methods for relaying messages between nodes in a network (e.g. a wireless network) are provided. In accordance with certain exemplary embodiments, substantially simultaneous communications between nodes may be accomplished. At least one secondary turbo-coded message may be piggybacked onto a turbo-coded primary message. Messages in the network may be queued and sent from a transmitter to at least one receiver based at least in part on the signal-to-noise ratio(s) of the receiver nodes with respect to the transmitter. Thus, it may be possible to realize a network that reduces collision problems, reduces delays in communications, and/or increases throughput.
US07885287B2
A method and apparatus for adaptive network allocation are described herein. In some embodiments, a node may receive a request-to-send (RTS) packet that includes duration information and a basic service set identifier (BSSID). The network node may update a network allocation vector based at least in part on a received signal strength of the RTS packet and the BSSID. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US07885281B2
A system determines bandwidth use by queues in a network device. To do this, the system determines an instantaneous amount of bandwidth used by each of the queues and an average amount of bandwidth used by each of the queues. The system then identifies bandwidth use by each of the queues based on the instantaneous bandwidth used and the average bandwidth used by each of the queues.
US07885277B2
Methods and apparatus to analyze autonomous system (AS) peering policies are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises obtaining routing information from two or more border routers of a first AS, wherein the routing information identifies two or more routes to a prefix associated with a second AS, and wherein the second AS is a peer of the first AS, identifying one of the two or more routes as an inferior route advertised by the second AS based on the routing information, and determining whether a routing impact is present within the first AS due to the advertised inferior route.
US07885276B1
Managing data in a server system includes providing a plurality of servers, each having an internal gateway/switch that is accessible from outside the server, providing a plurality of virtual servers on at least some of the servers, where each of the virtual servers is accessible by the internal gateway/switch of the corresponding server, and accessing the data using the internal gateway/switch, where the internal gateway/switch determines which particular one of the virtual servers contain the data and then accesses the particular virtual server to provide the data. Managing data in a server system may also include associating portions of the data to tenants of the server system. Each of the servers may maintain a table that correlates tenants with the virtual servers maintained thereby and the internal gateway/switch may use the table to determine which particular one of the virtual servers contains data for a particular tenant.
US07885275B2
An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted on a messaging server of a network. The interface module pulls various user information from the messaging server, including information relevant to at least the network that includes the messaging server. A cache couples to the communication server and to the interface module to hold information from the communication server and/or the user information pulled from messaging server. The interface module directs a message from the messaging server and/or the cache to at least one device on the networks using the user information.
US07885268B2
Aspects of a method and system for hash table based routing via table and prefix aggregation are provided. Aspects of the invention may enable aggregating prefixes of varying lengths into a single hash table, wherein each entry in the hash table comprises one or more encoded bits to uniquely identify said prefixes. Additionally, an entry in a hash table may be formatted based on a length of one or more representations of said prefixes in the entry. Aggregating prefixes into a hash table may comprise truncating the prefixes to a common length. In this regard, the encoded bits may indicate the length of the prefixes prior to and/or subsequent to truncation. Additionally, the encoded bits may represent bits removed from the prefix during truncation. In this regard, an encoded bit may represent a possible combination of removed bits and may be asserted when the removed bits are equal to that combination.
US07885257B2
A method for processing packets that includes receiving a first packet for a first target by a network interface card (NIC), classifying the first packet, sending the first packet to a first receive ring in the NIC based on the classification of the first packet, sending the first packet to a Network Layer from the first receive ring, sending a first virtual network stack (VNS) Instance ID associated with the first receive ring to the Network Layer, obtaining a first VNS Instance parameter using the first VNS Instance ID, and processing the first packet in the Network Layer using the first VNS Instance parameter to obtain a first network processed packet.
US07885254B2
Provided is a delay insensitive (DI) data transfer apparatus with low power consumption. The apparatus, includes: N number of encoders configured to receive and encode input request and data signals, where each of the N number of encoders includes: a reference current source circuit configured to generate a current; and a voltage-to-current converter circuit configured to output a current having a level of 0, output the current having the level of I, and output the current having the level of 2I; and N number of decoders configured to recover the current-level signals, where each of the decoders includes: a threshold current source circuit configured to generate first and second threshold currents; an input current mirror circuit configured to differentiate the first and second threshold currents; and a current-to-voltage converter circuit configured to detect the threshold current, recover a voltage input value, and extract data and request signals.
US07885249B2
The present invention relates to a communication system and a communication method for simply and quickly starting communication. A cellular phone 52 is loaded with a non-contact IC card that communicates with a reader/writer of a personal computer 51 using an electromagnetic wave. When the non-contact IC card receives the electromagnetic wave emitted from the reader/writer with the cellular phone 52 placed close to the personal computer 51, the cellular phone 52 notifies the personal computer 51 of a card ID set in the non-contact IC card. When the personal computer 51 acquires Bluetooth device names of the cellular phone 52 and PDA 53 with intra-piconet synchronization established between the cellular phone 52 and the PDA 53, the personal computer 51 identifies the cellular phone 52 as a communication partner based on the Bluetooth device names already notified of as the card ID. The present invention is applicable to an information processing apparatus such as a personal computer and a cellular phone.
US07885248B2
Systems and methods for bridging packet flows to bypass call legs and/or tunnels are provided. A tunnel initiator, which can be an access gateway, a foreign agent, and a mobility anchor point, for example, provides a bypass for certain packets that have a destination serviced by the same tunnel initiator. The bridge allows the packets to bypass a backhaul loop and reduces latency and frees bandwidth for other purposes in the network. The bridging can be implemented in a tunnel initiator for mobile to mobile packet flows, mobile to land line packet flows, and land line to mobile packet flows. Route optimization can also be provided in certain embodiments.
US07885237B2
A wireless terminal is operable to receive a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal from a base station and includes clock circuitry, a wireless interface, and a Primary Synchronization (PSYNC) module. The clock circuitry generates a wireless terminal clock using a wireless terminal oscillator. The wireless interface receives the WCDMA signal, which is produced by the base station using a base station clock that is produced using a base station oscillator that is more accurate than the wireless terminal oscillator. The PSYNC module includes a plurality of PSYNC correlation branches. Each PSYNC correlation branch phase rotates the WCDMA signal based upon a respective frequency offset, correlates the phase rotated WCDMA signal with a Primary Synchronization Channel (PSCH) code over a plurality of sampling positions, and produces PSYNC correlation energies based upon the correlations for each of the plurality of sampling positions.
US07885227B2
Various embodiments include wireless client device comprising an application subsystem including a processor and a storage device coupled to the processor, a communication subsystem coupled to the application subsystem, the communication subsystem including a media access control (MAC) device and a physical (PHY) device, wherein the physical device is operably coupled to the processor of the application subsystem, wherein the physical device is operable to receive a wireless signal, to analyze the wireless signal for at least one aspect of wireless performance, and to determine if the at least one aspect of wireless performance can be improved, wherein, if it is determined that the at least one aspect of wireless performance can be improved, the physical device is operable to pass the wireless signal to the processor of the application subsystem for processing of the wireless signal within the processor.
US07885224B2
A method of updating an IP address of an idle mode mobile subscriber station in an IP based broadband wireless access system and method of transmitting information for updating the IP address are disclosed. In updating an IP address of a mobile subscriber moving away into a second base station area from a first base station area in a broadband wireless access system, the present invention includes the steps of in the first base station area, entering an idle mode, in the second base station area, receiving information about an IP address update in the idle mode, and according to the received information, changing or retaining an IP address.
US07885220B2
A method and apparatus of coordinating Time Division Multiple Access operation of wireless communication devices is disclosed. The method comprises an access point announcing a Quiet Period to one or more clients of the access point and transmitting as part of Target Beacons and probe responses an indication to the one or more clients that the access point will be absent from the communication channel for a period of time. The method also comprises the one or more clients establishing a connection with the access point after the Quiet Period when the access point is present on the communication channel on the basis of the indication.
US07885212B2
Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for network control of interference associated with uplink transmissions by user equipments, UEs, operating in a random access state, e.g., the CELL_FACH state. A radio network controller, RNC, can determine, and then transmit, a limitation on uplink transmissions for such UEs, e.g., a maximum transport block size, TBS.
US07885205B2
A media access control (MAC) address management system, comprises logic configured to generate a MAC address for at least one network device of a computing device based on a MAC address of another network device of the computing device.
US07885201B2
An electronic device is provided comprising a multimedia play unit and a processor. The processor receives a multimedia sequence, acquires a first bitrate of a first frame header from the received multimedia sequence, predicts a first length of a first frame comprising the first frame header by a formula employing at least parameters comprising the first bitrate and a proportion of a second length to a second bitrate of a second frame header prior to the first frame header, and directs the multimedia play unit to play frame data of the first frame according to the predicted first length of the first frame.
US07885199B2
There is provided a system and method for providing group calling in a wireless network. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising receiving a request to participate a group call from a mobile device located in a wireless service area, determining whether a threshold number of other mobile devices in the wireless service area are participating in the group call, if the threshold number of the other mobile devices are participating in the group call, designating the requesting mobile device to receive a multicast transmission of the group call, and if the threshold number of other mobile devices are not participating in the group call, designating the requesting mobile device to receive a unicast transmission of the group call.
US07885198B2
A packet-network analyzer system for characterizing network conditions of a packet-network-under-test is provided. In this regard, one such system can be broadly summarized by a representative analyzer system that incorporates a data collection element to receive the raw digital data from a host analyzer, a data selection element to receive the raw digital data, a data processing element to process the selected data set to generate a normalized data set, a neural processing module to process the normalized data set to generate a set of rules and relationships, and a data mining module that uses the rules and relationships to generate a mined data set from the selected data set, the mined data set being used to characterize a packet-network-under test.
US07885197B2
A method and system for configuring a wireless network, e.g., an ad hoc wireless network having a plurality of nodes and at least one server. In the wireless network, among other things, mesh network viability is maintained as packet loss information is recorded at a plurality of individual nodes in the wireless network during packet transmission from each of the plurality of nodes. The packet loss information may be stored at the at least one server for access at a period of time other than the moment when the packet is received at the at least one server from one of the plurality of nodes.
US07885185B2
In some embodiments, a system and method for substantially real-time comparison of quality of interfaces by mobile devices over heterogeneous networks is disclosed. The method can be performed using a dynamic and rapid comparison by distributed hosts, using a minimal number of injected network packets, using minimal path quality metrics, which path quality metrics are independent of how a QoI is measured, and in a manner suitable for both wireline and wireless networks.
US07885162B2
In an information recording medium including at least a first recording layer (L0 layer) capable of recording information and a second recording layer (L1 layer) capable of recording information, an information recording device (300) records information in a predetermined area (12) of the second recording layer by a laser beam which has passed through a transmission area (11) of the first recording layer. The information recording medium (300) includes recording means (302, etc.) for recording the information in the first recording layer or the second recording layer, judgment means for judging whether an unrecorded amount indicating the size of the unrecorded area in the radial direction in the transmission area is smaller than a predetermined amount, and control means used when the unrecorded area is judged to be smaller than the predetermined amount, for controlling the recording means to record information in the predetermined area.
US07885159B2
The method prevents an optical disk from being scraped by an optical apparatus of a pickup head of an optical disc drive is disclosed, it mainly includes: moving the optical apparatus of the pickup head to a detection position in which the laser-light emitted from the pickup head focuses on the optical disk; detecting the first-detection position and setting a movement boundary according to the first-detection position, wherein the movement boundary has a upper boundary and a bottom boundary; preventing the optical apparatus from moving out of the movement boundary. The present method can be implemented without installing any additional apparatus in the original video disc player, and can prevent the optical disk and the inner apparatus of the optical disc drive from being scraped or damaged by the pickup head during a read/write process to increase the service life of the optical disk and the optical disc drive.
US07885154B2
An apparatus for controlling discrete data in a disk overwrite area or a power calibration area comprises a signal-processing unit, an address-processing unit, a control signal-processing unit, a clock recovery circuit, a signal-processing unit parameter control unit, and a clock recovery circuit parameter control unit, wherein the control signal-processing unit uses a message produced by a data on the disc to determine the control signals such as hold, load, or increasing bandwidth for holding, loading, and increasing the bandwidth of the parameters for processing the related circuits (such as the circuit of the signal-processing unit or the clock recovery circuit) of the discrete data produced between the two data clusters, so as to increase the convergent speed of the circuits for assuring the accuracy of reading data.
US07885153B2
A recording medium includes first information selected from a plurality of information patterns and second information selected from another plurality of information patterns for the true-false judgement. A true-false judging device performs a statistic analysis when any coincidence is found between the readout combination of the first and second information and registered combination patterns, to identify an inspected recording medium as a forged product based on the result of the statistic analysis.
US07885144B2
An amplifier circuit to amplify a sequence of echoes and to generate a corresponding sequence of amplified signals. In an embodiment, the amplifier includes an operational amplifier, with variable input and feedback resistances such that the ratio of the two resistances can be controlled. A gain control block controls the ratio in a time dependent manner to obtain desired gain factors for each of the echoes. The gain factors can be pre-computed such that all the echoes are gained to the same level in case of an ultra-sound system.
US07885141B2
Provided are a nonvolatile memory device and a method for setting configuration information of the nonvolatile memory device. The nonvolatile memory device can include a nonvolatile memory cell array, a configuration register and a configuration controller. The configuration controller can be configured to set configuration information in the configuration register based on the state of a select flag stored in the nonvolatile memory cell array. The nonvolatile memory device can be configured to maintain the configuration information using the select flag and a lock flag to prevent the configuration information from changing when security is utilized and reduce the likelihood of the nonvolatile memory device operating erroneously.
US07885139B2
A multi-chip package includes a plurality of memory chips and a control chip, wherein the control chip stores information about whether the memory chips are operating normally and selects chips that are operating normally according to an address signal.
US07885131B2
A semiconductor memory device of the present invention comprises a memory array and a read circuit that reads data of a selected cell. The memory array includes a plurality of memory cells and a reference cell each having a memory element that stores data based on change in resistance value. The read circuit includes: a voltage comparison unit that compares a value corresponding to a sense current from the selected cell with a value corresponding to a reference current from the reference cell; a first switch; and a second switch. Both of the first and second switches are provided at a subsequent stage of a decoder and at a preceding stage of the voltage comparison unit. The second switch circuit controls input of the value corresponding to the sense current to the voltage comparison unit, while the first switch circuit controls input of the value corresponding to the reference current to the voltage comparison unit.
US07885115B2
A non-volatile memory device, which includes a plurality of memory transistors that are coupled with a plurality of bit lines and a plurality of word lines, and methods of operating a non-volatile memory device are provided. A selected bit line for programming and unselected bit lines for preventing programming are determined from the plurality of bit lines. An inhibiting voltage is applied to at least one inhibiting word line chosen from the plurality of word lines. The at least one inhibiting word line includes a word line positioned closest to a string selection line. A programming voltage is applied to a selected word line chosen from the plurality of word lines. Data is programmed into a memory transistor coupled with the selected word line and the selected bit line while preventing data from being programming into memory transistors coupled with the unselected bit line.
US07885114B2
A NAND flash memory device includes a plurality of continuous conductors disposed on a common level of a multilayer substrate, the plurality of continuous conductors including respective conductive lines extending in parallel along a first direction, respective contact pads disposed at ends of the respective conductive lines and respective conductive dummy lines extending in parallel from the contact pads along a second direction.
US07885113B2
A flash memory device and method of controlling a program operation thereof, includes page buffers divided into a predetermined number of groups and a program operation is performed on a group basis.
US07885112B2
Features within an integrated-circuit memory chip enables scrambling or randomization of data stored in an array of nonvolatile memory cells. In one embodiment, randomization within each page helps to control source loading errors during sensing and floating gate to floating gate coupling among neighboring cells. Randomization from page to page helps to reduce program disturbs, user read disturbs, and floating gate to floating gate coupling that result from repeated and long term storage of specific data patterns. In another embodiment, randomization is implemented both within a page and between pages. The scrambling or randomization may be predetermined, or code generated pseudo randomization or user driven randomization in different embodiments. These features are accomplished within the limited resource and budget of the integrated-circuit memory chip.
US07885111B2
A flash memory device includes a cell array and a decision unit. The cell array includes multiple regions corresponding to multiple input/output lines. Initialization data are repeatedly stored in each of the regions. The decision unit determines whether the stored data are valid based on values of bits of the stored data read from each region.
US07885097B2
In accordance with various embodiments, a column of non-volatile memory cells is connected between opposing first and second control lines. A fixed reference voltage is applied to the second control line. The memory cells are simultaneously programmed to a first resistive state by applying a first voltage to the first control line that is greater than the fixed reference voltage. Less than all of the memory cells are subsequently simultaneously programmed to a different, second resistive state by applying a second voltage to the first control line that is less than the fixed reference voltage, so that at the conclusion of the respective programming steps a first portion of the memory cells along said column are at the first resistive state and a second portion of the memory cells along said column are at the second resistive state.
US07885095B2
A magnetic random access memory of the present invention includes: a plurality of first wirings and a plurality of second wirings extending in a first direction; a plurality of third wirings and a plurality of fourth wirings extending in a second direction; and a plurality of memory cells provided at intersections of the plurality of first wirings and the plurality of third wirings, respectively. Each of the plurality of memory cells includes: a first transistor and a second transistor connected in series between one of the plurality of first wirings and one of the plurality of second wirings and controlled in response to a signal on one of the plurality of third wirings, a first magnetic resistance element having one end connected to a write wiring through which the first transistor and the second transistor are connected, and the other end grounded; and a second magnetic resistance element having one end connected to the write wiring, and the other end connected to the fourth wiring.
US07885094B2
The incidence of half-select errors during MRAM programming has been significantly reduced by giving the free layer a shape that approximates an X so that, when the free layer switches, the magnetization in the arms of the X guides the magnetization in the central section (the X's intersection area) causing it to rotate towards the hard axis in two opposing directions. This raises the free layer's switching energy barrier, thereby reducing half-select errors.
US07885092B2
A semiconductor storage device includes: a bit line; a first word line; a second word line; a first inverter in which one terminal of a first load transistor is connected to a first driver transistor and their junction point forms a first node; a second inverter in which one terminal of a second load transistor is connected to a second driver transistor and their junction point forms a second node; a first write transistor one terminal of which is connected to the first load transistor and the other terminal of which is connected to a power supply voltage; a second write transistor one terminal of which is connected to the first driver transistor and the other terminal is connected to a reference potential; and an access transistor one terminal of which is connected to the first node and the other terminal of which is connected to the bit line.
US07885091B2
A memory system includes a substrate, control circuitry on the substrate, a three dimensional memory array (above the substrate) that includes a plurality of memory cells with reversible resistance-switching elements, and a circuit for detecting the setting and resetting of the reversible resistance-switching elements. In one aspect a circuit that has one or more clock inputs is run for a predetermined number of clock cycles. The circuit generates an amount of charge over the predetermined number of clock cycles. At most the amount of charge is provided to non-volatile storage element to program the non-volatile storage element. It is determined whether the non-volatile storage element is programmed to a desired state as a result of providing at most the amount of charge to the non-volatile storage element. Techniques disclosed herein can be applied to program memory cells other than memory cells with reversible resistance-switching elements.
US07885083B2
A circuit board assembly which includes an electrically insulating layer, a conductive printed wiring layer formed on the surface of the electrically insulating layer and includes a plurality of conductive paths, a conductive trace on the electrically insulating layer and apparatus for dissipating a transient in addition to a surface mount resistor fixed in relation to the trace. In some forms of the invention the surface mount resistor has opposed generally planar lips. The trace may also be generally planar. In some cases the lower lips and the trace are generally parallel. The generally planar lips of the surface mount resistor may be closer to the trace than the thickness of the surface mount resistor. A single geometric plane may extend through substantially all of the lips and all of the trace. In some cases the lower surface of the lips and the lower surface of the trace are substantially coplanar. In some cases the upper surface of the lower lip and the upper surface of the trace are substantially coplanar. In other cases the lower surface of the lower lip and the lower surface of the trace are substantially coplanar and in addition the upper surface of the lip and the upper surface of the trace are substantially coplanar.
US07885082B2
A communication cabinet and methods for installing active component into a communication cabinet, the method includes: removing at least one passive communication connector being connected by at least one wire to at least one customer connector within the communication cabinet; installing at least one printed circuit board that are connected to at least one active communication component and to at least one slim edge connector; wherein the printed circuit boards are shaped such as to be completely positioned within the communication cabinet; and connecting the at least one wire to the at least one slim edge connector.
US07885080B2
A system component of a control device, especially for a transmission or engine controller of a motor vehicle, is provided as a closed system component for a control device which can be transported, thereby allowing decentralized manufacturing of the system component. The system component has a hybrid circuit, equipped with electronic components, which is embedded in a printed circuit board, recessed in the center, in such a manner that the hybrid circuit is completely enclosed by the printed circuit board. The hybrid circuit and the printed circuit board are mounted on a base element and connected to each other via contact elements. A cover element is positioned on top of the hybrid circuit and the contact elements in such a manner that the hybrid circuit is fully encapsulated by the base element, the cover element and the printed circuit board from environmental influences. The inventive system component, and integrated systems comprising the same, are especially suitable for use in motor vehicles, for example transmission and engine controllers.
US07885077B2
A heatsink may be releasably secured to a substructure of an electronic system, such as a circuit board, in engagement with a heat-generating component, such as a processor. One embodiment provides an anchor that includes an anchor body, a hook coupled to the anchor body, a pair of flexible retention prongs extending from the anchor body in a common direction and spaced for insertion into openings on a circuit board, an optional pair of stabilization prongs extending from the anchor body adjacent to the flexible retention prongs, each having a width greater than the adjacent flexible retention prong, a barb disposed at the end of each prong and configured for retaining the anchor body on the circuit board upon insertion of the prongs into the openings on the circuit board, a spring integrated with the anchor body and having a free end spaced from the barbs a distance of less than the thickness of the circuit board, and a stop integrated with the anchor body for limiting the amount of insertion of the prongs beyond an initial contact of the free end of the spring with the circuit board. A heatsink clip releasably secures the heatsink to the hook of the anchor.
US07885070B2
Apparatus and method are provided for facilitating pumped, immersion-cooling of an electronic system having multiple different types of electronic components. The apparatus includes a container sized to receive the electronic system, a coolant inlet port and a coolant outlet port for facilitating ingress and egress of coolant through the container, and a manifold structure associated with the container. The manifold structure includes a coolant jet plenum with an inlet opening in fluid communication with the coolant inlet port, and one or more jet orifices in fluid communication with the coolant jet plenum. The jet orifices are positioned to facilitate cooling of at least one electronic component of the multiple different types of electronic components by jet impingement of coolant thereon when the electronic system is operatively positioned within the container for immersion-cooling thereof.
US07885061B2
A portable electronic device with a projection function includes a host, a display unit, a bracket, and a projection module. The display unit is pivoted to the host and has a back cover. The bracket is pivoted to the back cover. The projection module is pivoted to the bracket for outputting an image light beam along a projection direction. A pivot angle formed by the projection direction and the back cover can be adjusted by the pivot of the bracket relative to the back cover, and an elevation angle formed by the projection direction and the back cover can be adjusted by the pivot of the projection module relative to the bracket.
US07885055B2
A sliding module includes a main housing; a sliding housing on the main housing, a push rod interposed between the main housing and the sliding housing to provide an elastic force to slide the sliding housing, a support member mounted on the main housing and rotatably or slidably coupled with the push rod, and a locking member disposed on the push rod and the support member. The locking member blocks the push rod to limit the sliding of the push rod on the support member and allows the push rod to slide when the push rod rotates on the support member according to the sliding of the sliding housing.
US07885051B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit comprises an electrostatic actuator, an estimation circuit, a storage circuit and a bias circuit. The electrostatic actuator has a top electrode, a bottom electrode, and an insulating film disposed between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The estimation circuit estimates the amount of a charge accumulated in the insulating film of the electrostatic actuator. The storage circuit stores a result of the estimation of the charge amount by the estimation circuit. The bias circuit changes, on the basis of the estimation result stored in the storage circuit, a drive voltage to drive the electrostatic actuator.
US07885050B2
The present invention provides an amplifying repeater, which is constructed in such a manner that a ferrite core is inserted into a coil with a pre-determined number of winds to increase an induced electromotive force caused by an increase in flux linkage using a time-varying magnetic field of electromagnetic waves at a position distant from various electromagnetic wave generating sources by a predetermined distance and the induction coil and a variable condenser for inducing resonance are connected to each other to increase current while reducing a resistant component existing in the induction coil to intensify and amplify the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves. Furthermore, the present invention provides a wireless power conversion charging device using the magnetic field of electromagnetic waves, which is located between an electromagnetic wave generating source transmitter and a receiving coil or attached to the transmitter and receiving coil. The wireless power conversion charging device includes a rectifying diode for rectifying an electromotive force induced in a construction in which a resonance and impedance matching variable condenser is connected to a coil in series or in parallel in order to transmit maximum induced power to a charging battery that is a load using electromagnetic waves amplified by the amplifying repeater, and a smoothing condenser for smoothing the rectified voltage. Accordingly, charging power required for various small power electronic devices can be provided and power can be supplied to various loads.
US07885036B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording head which can enhance accuracy and simplify the manufacturing process. The method includes: forming a photoresist pattern having an opening part (the inclination of an inner wall); forming a non-magnetic layer (the inclination of another inner wall) so as to narrow the opening part by a dry film forming method such as ALD method; stacking a seed layer and a plating layer so as to bury the opening part provided with the non-magnetic layer; and forming a main magnetic pole layer (a front end portion having a bevel angle) by polishing the non-magnetic layer, the seed layer, and the plating layer by CMP method until the photoresist pattern is exposed. The final opening width (the forming width of the front end portion) is unsusceptible to variations, thus reducing the number of the steps of forming the main magnetic layer.
US07885034B2
A tape library is provided with a fixed coupling mechanism so that the tape library includes discrete locations via which power and communication are provided to an accessor. The use of such a coupling mechanism in a vertical tape library allows for the use of gravity to ensure that the accessor can couple with the fixed coupling mechanism even when no power is present in the accessor.
US07885029B2
A head capable of favorite thermally-assisted magnetic recording without depending on the use of a near-field light generator is provided. The head comprises a write head element formed on the trailing side from a waveguide and comprising a first main pole. The first main pole and the waveguide are opposed to each other through a first clad layer, and a second clad layer is provided on a rear side from the first main pole. This gives that the end surface of the waveguide can be placed much close to the end surface of the first main pole apart by only a thickness of the first clad layer. As a result, the end surface of the first main pole can apply a sufficient intensity of write field to the intensity center and its vicinity of the light spot formed on the magnetic recording layer.
US07885019B2
A lens drive device has (i) an objective lens and (ii) a lens holder, to a side face of which coils for drive control are attached. The surface where the coils are adhered, or the side surface, is an irregular surface where a recess/projection section for restricting the direction of flow of an adhesive is formed. The coils and the lens holder are integrally formed together by the adhesive with the recess/projection section in between.
US07885009B2
A small projection lens includes a first lens, which is a biconvex lens, an aperture, an aperture diaphragm (or an aperture), a second lens, which is a negative meniscus lens having a concave surface facing a magnification side, a third lens, which is a positive meniscus lens having a convex surface facing a reduction side, and a fourth lens, which is a biconvex lens having aspheric surfaces at both sides on an optical axis, arranged in this order from the magnification side. A minimum portion of the length of all lens elements of the small projection lens in a diametric direction vertical to the optical axis is equal to or less than 15 mm, and the small projection lens satisfies the following conditional expression: 2.5<β/S<10.0 (where S indicates the maximum length of a magnification-side image (inch) and β indicates a magnifying power).
US07885008B2
The invention relates to an optical system for the projection of digital image data comprising a fixed focal length lens and a pivotable focal length extender. The principal field of application of the invention is digital cinema projection, usually employing the wide-screen format 1.9:1 or the Cinemascope format 2.37:1 (width:height). For format changeover during projection, two different fixed focal lengths are realized by the insertion or removal of the focal length extender (1755) into the lens. The projection lens according to the invention has more favorable optical properties than the conventional zoom lenses, such as a minimal chromatic transverse aberration, high telecentricity, very small distortions and a small volume and weight.
US07884999B2
The size and production costs of an optical microscope apparatus capable of blocking light or maintaining the specimen environment are reduced. The provided optical microscope apparatus includes a microscope that has a stage for mounting a specimen (A), a transmission-illumination optical system, and a detection optical system; and a housing that surrounds the microscope, wherein the housing includes a fixed housing, and a movable housing, wherein, among optical parts constituting the transmission-illumination optical system and the image-forming optical system, at least some optical parts disposed above the stage are movable, and wherein a switching mechanism is provided, the switching mechanism being configured to retract the optical parts away from above the stage when the movable housing is disposed in an open position relative to the fixed housing and to substantially align the optical axes of both optical systems when the movable housing is disposed in a closed position relative to the fixed housing.
US07884998B2
An objective for imaging specimens is disclosed. The objective receives light energy from a light energy source configured to provide light energy in a wavelength range of approximately 480 to 660 nanometers, employs a Mangin mirror arrangement in conjunction with an immersion liquid to provide a numerical aperture in excess of 1.0 and a field size in excess of 0.05 millimeters, where every element in the objective has a diameter of less than approximately 40 millimeters.
US07884997B2
Systems and methods for coherent beam combination of lasers are provided. In one embodiment, a method for coherent beam combination is provided. The method comprises providing a plurality of secondary laser signals from a primary laser signal, amplifying the plurality of secondary signals along respective amplifier arms to provide a plurality of amplified output signals, providing a frequency-shifted reference beam from the primary laser signal, generating a plurality of optically heterodyne detected (OHD) beat signals based on combining respective amplified output signals of the plurality of amplified output signals with the frequency-shifted reference beam, and adjusting path lengths of respective amplifier arms based on respective amplitudes of the plurality of OHD beat signals to control the path length of respective amplifier arms to within a coherence length of the primary laser signal.
US07884989B2
An iterferometric modulator array is configured to reflect a broad band spectrum of optical wavelengths by arranging a reflector and a partially transparent substrate in a non-parallel relationship.
US07884987B2
A scanning display device is disclosed. The scanning display device includes: first to M-th scan mirrors (where M is an integer of at least 2), each of which scans a light signal in a first direction; and a scanning unit for scanning the light signal scanned by each of the first to M-th scan mirrors in a second direction, wherein a m-th scan mirror (where 1≦m≦M−1) scans the light signal in the first direction, and a n-th scan mirror (where 2≦n≦M) adjacent to the m-th scan mirror scans the light signal scanned by the m-th scan mirror in the first direction.
US07884983B2
An image display body in which a decorative effect is obtained more effectively by an optical diffraction structure. In an image display body, an optical diffraction structure portion constituted by the optical diffraction structure in a halftone dot state is provided in a colored region on a base material. In the image display body, a dot area percent of a halftone dot a constituting the optical diffraction structure portion to the colored region ranges from 15% to 60%, an area of each halftone dot a is smaller than 0.25 mm2. The halftone dots 21a are diffused by an error diffusion method.
US07884982B2
An imaging apparatus capable of performing image conversion such as white balance with a simple operation to obtain image data suited to user's preference, includes an imaging section, an image divider, a calculator, and an image converter. The imaging section images a subject to generate image data. The image divider divides a whole region of the generated image data into plural regions, and outputs first data including data in at least one of the divided regions and second data including data in at least one of other divided regions. The calculator calculates a first set value (for example, for correcting white balance of the image data) based on the first data, and a second set value based on the second data. The image converter generates first converted image data (for example, with corrected white balance) based on the first set value, and generates second converted image data based on the second set value.
US07884980B2
A graphical scanner for scanning a graphical image includes a source for producing an optical beam, a monochromator for dividing the optical beam into a plurality of component beams for hyperspectral bandpasses, a director for directing the component beams to illuminate portions of the graphical image, a sensor for measuring a light intensity for the one or illuminated portions, and a translator for transforming the measured light intensities for each of the one or more portions into hyperspectral traces each representing a spectral power distribution. The translator further transforms the hyperspectral traces into one or more device-independent representations of color.
US07884975B2
An image reading apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first reading unit that reads an image on a front side of a document being transferred along a transfer path; a second reading unit that reads an image on a rear side of the document; a reversing unit arranged downstream of the first and the second reading units that turns the document over and place it on the transfer path; and a controller that causes, when a error is detected in the first or second reading units, the reversing unit to turn the document over and place it on the transfer path, so that a reading unit in which the error is not detected reads the image on the side to be read by the reading unit in which the error is detected.
US07884969B2
An image processing apparatus, a printing apparatus and an image processing method are provided which can perform quantization processing on image data at high speed based on an error diffusion method while at the same time avoiding degradations in a quality of printed images. When an error value represented by error data is a particular value, the error data is converted into compressed error data with a data volume less than that of the original error data.
US07884965B2
During the process of creating a density adjustment table, when the average value avg for ink amounts of Ci(n), Mi(n), and Yi(n) is less than or equal to 2 at some density level indicated by positioning number n, a CPU sets a correction range of 1 to n, which includes the subject density level with positioning number n and gradation levels lower than the density level with positioning number n. The CPU 5 corrects the n-number of sets of ink amount data (Ci(n), Mi(n), Yi(n)) within the correction range of 1 to n, and converts each data set (Ci(n), Mi(n), Yi(n)) within the correction range into a corrected data set (Co(n), Mo(n), Yo(n)), wherein Co(n), Mo(n), and Yo(n) have the values equal to the average value avg of the original ink amounts Ci(n), Mi(n), and Yi(n).
US07884960B2
A user equipment issues a job for a plurality of documents to a printing system by one operation. The user equipment assigns attributes to the job, the attributes including the specification of collation/uncollation, the designation of processing start instruction wait, the designation of exclusive processing, and the designation of password input wait. The printing system effects printing of the plurality of documents corresponding to attributes of the documents under control of a job scheduling device. The job scheduling device carries out the pausing of documents included in the job, the modification of attributes, addressing of document receiving failures, and search of a document whose format is to be converted, thereby making it possible to efficiently print the plurality of documents.
US07884956B2
A network facsimile system is configured such that telephone numbers which a relay server can user are assigned to communication terminals. When a image is transmitted from the communication terminals to destinations outside the network facsimile system via the relaying server, the assigned telephone numbers are used as station signal numbers. When an image is transmitted to the relaying server from origins outside the network facsimile system, destination communication terminals are identified based on the telephone numbers assigned thereto and receiving telephone numbers. Then, the image received by the relaying server is transmitted to the identified communication terminals.
US07884953B1
Disclosed are methods of printing high resolution images on edible substrates with dispersed pigmented inks using a drop-on-demand ink-jet printer. Dispersed pigmented white inks useful with the inventive methods are also disclosed. White images having a resolution greater than 200 dpi can be printed on chocolate using the methods and inks disclosed herein. The inventive methods and inks may also be integrated with a consumer-driven site vending or e-commerce application in which the consumer provides the image to be printed and edibles bearing the printed image are prepared for rapid turnaround.
US07884951B2
An apparatus for measuring an internal dimension of a well-bore comprising a tool adapted to be positioned inside the well bore. The tool comprises an optical caliper comprising an optical sensor providing a response correlated to the internal dimension of the well bore, the optical sensor being coupled to an optical fiber.
US07884939B2
A gas-measuring arrangement (1) with an open optical measuring section (7) is formed by a measuring device (5) with an array of lenses (10, 12, 19, 24), a phase mask (22), an optical path mirror (16) positioned obliquely, and a reflecting mirror (3) located outside the measuring device (5) at the end of the open measuring section (7). The light is decoupled to a detector (26) via a phase mask (22) and the optical path mirror (16). The phase mask (22) diverges a light intensity spot and the light intensity ring is decoupled by an obliquely positioned optical path mirror (16) towards a detector (26).
US07884935B2
A pattern transfer apparatus transfers an imprint pattern formed on a mold, provided with an alignment mark, to a resin material on a substrate, provided with an alignment mark. A first image pickup device obtains an image of an object positioned at a first object position. A second image pickup device obtains an image of an object positioned at a second object position. The second object position is more distant from the alignment mark of the mold than the first object position. An optical system forms an image of an object positioned at the first object position and an image of an object positioned at the second object position. Alignment is performed based on first and second information obtained about positions of images of an alignment mark of a reference substrate and an alignment mark of the substrate, to transfer the imprinting pattern to the resin material.
US07884931B2
The invention describes an optical multiplexer for increasing optical data collection efficiency across at least two fields of view. The optical multiplexer includes a first optical path for operatively receiving optical data from a first field of view and at least one beam deflection system for operatively receiving optical data from at least a second field of view. The optical multiplexer also includes an optical train for focusing the optical data passing through the optical train onto adjacent sections of a focal plane array. The invention provides improvements including expanded across-track swaths, higher spatial resolution, imaging of real-time references on every frame, coincident imaging along separate paths, stereo imaging and other increases in imaging functionality.
US07884929B2
The present invention provides a blade breakage and abrasion detecting device comprising: a detecting unit including a light-emitting unit which is provided close to a side of a blade to emit a round shape light toward the blade, and a light receiving unit which is provided opposed to the light-emitting unit as sandwiching the blade to receive the round shape light from the light-emitting unit with a round shape light receiving area; a moving device which moves the detecting unit toward a rotation center of the blade; and a control unit which detects a breakage of the blade based on a change of an amount of light received by the light receiving unit of the detecting unit, and calculates an abrasion amount of the blade by accumulating a moving amount obtained by controlling the moving device to moves the detecting unit toward the rotation center of the blade.
US07884926B2
An apparatus performs colorimetric measurements of printing materials. The apparatus for the colorimetric measurement of printing materials has two measuring devices operating with different resolutions for registering the surface of the printing material. The two measuring devices permit faster registration of color measured values on a printing material and thus accelerates the measuring operations.
US07884924B2
A residual stress measuring method capable of measuring residual stress of the surface of an object to be inspected rapidly in a non-destructive non-contact manner, as well as a residual stress measuring system having such characteristics and being high in portability, are provided. The residual stress measuring system comprises a heating laser for heating an inspection area of an object to be inspected, a laser interferometer for irradiating the inspection area interferometric with laser light and measuring a deformation quantity within an elastic deformation range upon stress relief by heating in accordance with a laser interferometric method, and a data processor for measuring residual stress from the deformation quantity within the elastic deformation range upon stress relief of the object to be inspected.
US07884911B2
A FFS semi-transmissive LCD comprises a first substrate and pixel matrix. The pixel matrix is disposed on the first substrate and comprises a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit comprises a counter electrode, pixel electrode layer, reflection layer and liquid-crystal disposition layer. The counter electrode is disposed on the first substrate. The pixel electrode layer is disposed above the counter electrode. The reflection layer is disposed between the first substrate and pixel electrode layer. The reflection layer is smaller than the counter electrode in area. The liquid-crystal disposition layer is disposed on the pixel electrode layer and comprises a transparent material layer. The transparent material layer is smaller than the liquid-crystal disposition layer in thickness and has substantially the same shape and area as the reflection layer, and the transparent material layer and the reflection layer are face-to-face disposed at two opposite sides of the pixel electrode layer.
US07884900B2
A color filter layer is formed on a glass substrate of a counter substrate. A bank pattern is formed of the same material as a red color-filter portion, a green color filter portion and a blue color filter portion of the color filter layer at the outside of the color filter layer on the glass substrate in the same step. A light shielding material is coated in a bank between the bank pattern and the color filter layer to form a light shielding layer. The light shielding layer can be formed so as to be continuous with the peripheral edge of the color filter layer. The light shielding layer is less likely to overlap with the inside of a display frame portion of the liquid crystal panel, and the aperture ratio is less likely to be reduced. The number of manufacturing steps of the light shielding layer is reduced.
US07884899B2
Systems for displaying images and methods for fabricating the same. A representative system includes a substrate having a display region and a peripheral region, and a mosaic color filter pattern formed in the peripheral region. The mosaic color filter pattern includes a plurality of separated pillars and a plurality of channels adjacent to the pillars. Specifically the volume ratio between the pillars and the channel is 1:5 to 2:1, preferably 1:3 to 1:1.
US07884895B2
A portable display device including a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight assembly having a light source for supplying light to the liquid crystal display panel, a mold frame included in the backlight assembly, the mold frame formed with a step unit such that the liquid crystal display panel can be mounted in the mold frame, and a light fence located in the step unit, the light fence screening light supplied from the light source to the liquid crystal display panel.
US07884883B2
A portable terminal device comprises a TV receiving unit and a TV processing unit for receiving a television broadcast, and a control unit for detecting the start and finish of channel changing, and notifying the user of a message that the channels are being changed for the time period from the start to finish of the changing. Further, the control unit displays information related to channels and information that indicates the progress of the channel changing in a display screen.
US07884881B2
Disclosed is an image pickup apparatus configured to include an image pickup unit housing in which an image pickup unit that picks up images is housed, and a handle that is disposed on an upper part of the image pickup unit housing at a predetermined gap from the image pickup unit housing and is disposed approximately in parallel with an optical axis of light incident on the image pickup unit. The image pickup apparatus further includes a display unit that is placed on a lower surface of the handle and is operable when pulled out from the lower surface to display images picked up by the image pickup unit in a viewable manner.
US07884880B2
A shutter arrangement for covering a camera lens includes a camera lens cover that is movable in a plane along a first direction between a first closed position and a second opened position. In the first closed position, the camera lens cover substantially covers the camera lens and in the second opened position, the camera lens is substantially uncovered. The shutter arrangement also includes a movable cover that moves between a first position and a second position which displaces the movable cover from the plane.
US07884877B2
In an imaging device according to one aspect of the invention, an amplitude demand Ac is specified according to a wobbling amplitude Ai required for detection of a hill-climbing direction based on an F value and a wobbling amplitude Ag required for detection of the hill-climbing direction based on an AGC gain. An allowable amplitude Am set for preventing a potential image shake caused by a magnification change with a position shift of a compensator lens in wobbling is specified corresponding to a zoom position and an object distance. When Ac>Am, the control procedure restricts the wobbling amplitude to Am and increases a sampling number of AF evaluation values to be detected at respective positions in wobbling, in order to ensure the sufficient detection performance of the hill-climbing direction. When Ac□Am on the other hand, the control procedure sets Ac to the wobbling amplitude. This arrangement of the imaging device efficiently ensures the sufficient detection performance of the hill-climbing direction for autofocusing control, while effectively preventing deterioration of the quality of a captured image due to the magnification change in the wobbling motion.
US07884876B2
An image-pickup apparatus is disclosed onto which an accessory device is detachably attached and which is capable of recognizing that an output from a light-receiving sensor is influenced by an attachment of the accessory device. The image-pickup apparatus includes a first detector which is capable of outputting a signal corresponding to an object distance. The apparatus further includes a determining device which determines an attachment of the accessory device onto the image-pickup apparatus on the basis of a predetermined signal output from the first detector.
US07884875B2
Provided are a camera module and a method of fabricating the same. The method includes preparing a lens structure including upper connection portions. Lower connection portions are formed in a predetermined region of a substrate. The lower connection portions define a chip region and fit in the upper connection portions, respectively. An image sensor chip is located on the bottom surface of the chip region. The lens structure is adhered to the substrate using the upper and lower connection portions.
US07884868B2
An image capturing element having an electric shutter function of controlling exposure time for each frame includes: a photoelectric converter that has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a matrix each of which converts light into charge and stores the converted charge; a first reading unit that reads charge exposed for a predetermined exposure time from each pixel formed by the photoelectric conversion element in the entire exposure region of the photoelectric converter by a destructive readout method; and a second reading unit that reads charge from each pixel formed by the photoelectric conversion element in a specific region, which is a portion of the entire exposure region of the photoelectric converter, plural times by a non-destructive readout method in a period in which the first reading unit reads the charge from the entire exposure region.
US07884861B2
A system for generating high resolution image data using a low resolution image sensor is provided. The system includes an image sensor array and an image size system determining a pixel resolution area. An image target system determines a desired pixel resolution area, and an image sensor array placement system determines two or more locations for an image sensor array based on the pixel resolution area and the desired pixel resolution area. An image composition system receives first image data of a target from the image sensor array at a first location and second image data of the target from the image sensor array at a second location and combines the first image data and the second image data to form composite image data having an effective pixel resolution area less than the pixel resolution area.
US07884856B2
An imaging apparatus includes a CCD sensor to perform exposure and output a plurality of captured images in response to a control signal, an image composer to combine the plurality of captured images and produce a composite image, and an exposure controller to supply a SUB signal to the CCD sensor such that an exposure start timing differs by the plurality of captured images if a timing to start exposure by the CCD sensor is included within an output period of the CCD sensor.
US07884855B2
Broadcast methods and systems for simultaneously transmitting, processing and selectively displaying more than one video camera perspectives recorded at live entertainment venues on remote video monitors. Video recording can be from more than one entertainment venue or can be more than on synchronized video camera perspective of an activity at an entertainment venue. Remote video monitors can be venue-based hand held devices or video monitors used at home. Remote video monitors can include hand held devices and high definition televisions (e.g., HDTVs) including flat panel display screens therein. Within a venue, camera views can be processed and formatted for display on display screens associated with remote video monitor. A user can select from more than one view from video cameras that the user wants displayed on the remote viewer, enabling a user of the remote video monitor to view more than one camera view through the remote viewer at a time/simultaneously.
US07884852B2
An optical device with an imaging device for forming an image of a subject with a lens device includes a lens unit, a movable member making the lens unit movable within a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens unit, an image pickup device imaging the subject image formed by the lens device, a fixed member limiting the movement of the movable member in the optical axis direction, at least three balls rolling between the movable and fixed member, a vibration detecting unit, and a pitch direction drive unit for driving the movable member in the pitch direction within the optical axis orthogonal plane and a yaw direction drive unit for driving the movable member in the yaw direction within the optical axis orthogonal plane. The pitch and yaw direction drive units press the movable member toward the fixed member side by means of magnetic pressing forces caused by magnetic attractive action between drive magnets and yokes.
US07884842B2
A multi-beam optical scanning apparatus including a light source including a plurality of radiation points disposed spaced from each other in a main scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction, a rotational polygon minor for deflecting a plurality of light beams radiated from the radiation points, and an imaging optical system for imaging the plurality of light beams deflected by a deflecting facet of the rotational polygon mirror. The deflecting facet has a width in which a light beam reaching a farthest location from a center of the deflecting facet is eclipsed by an edge of the deflecting facet if emitted prior to a light beam from a second radiation point when controlled by auto-power-control. Control is performed such that the light beam from the second radiation point is radiated prior to the light beam from the first radiation point when controlled by the auto-power-control.
US07884841B2
A line thermal printer includes a platen roller and a line thermal head including a plurality of heating elements. The heating elements are disposed to face the entire area of a recording sheet in a width direction of the recording sheet and selectively generate heat. The recording sheet is interposed between the platen roller and the line thermal head. The line thermal printer performs printing at the interposed position on the recording sheet by the selective generation of heat of the heating elements while the recording sheet is moved. The line thermal printer includes a foreign material blocking member. The foreign material blocking member is disposed upstream of the interposed position to come in contact with an upper surface of the recording sheet, and prevents foreign materials, which are placed on the upper surface of the recording sheet, from being moved toward the interposed position.
US07884832B2
A method for calibrating a display device having four or more channels, including three main channels which include in their gamut a desired display white point, and one or more further channels, said display device also having one or more individual adjustment controls for each channel. The method uses a series of targets, which are each one or more activated display settings at which the luminance and chromaticity coordinates are measured and recorded.
US07884831B2
Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide texture caches and related circuits that store and retrieve texels in a fast and efficient manner. One such texture circuit provides an increased number of bilerps for each pixel in a group of pixels, particularly when trilinear or aniso filtering is needed. For trilinear filtering, texels in a first and second level of detail are retrieved for a number of pixels during a clock cycle. When aniso filtering is performed, multiple bilerps can be retrieved for each of a number of pixels during one clock cycle.
US07884825B2
An edge function is computed from two vertex coordinates given by a rendering target line. Gradient determination is then performed on the edge function, and the functions representing two shift lines that are formed by translating the rendering target line in the y-axis direction or x-axis direction depending on the angle formed by the rendering target line and the x-axis of the rendering plane coordinate system by 0.5d and −0.5d will be computed, where d denotes the width of one pixel. Then, the number of subpixels included in a parallelogram, which has four points of the starting points and ending points of the two shift lines as vertices, is acquired so as to determine the pixel value of each pixel based on the number.
US07884820B2
Interactive relighting with dynamic reflectance involves relighting a graphical scene with dynamic changes to the reflectance(s) in the graphical scene. A graphical scene may include source radiance, regions having reflectances, a surface spot, incident radiation from the source radiance at the surface sport, an incident direction, a viewing direction, exit radiance, and so forth. In an example embodiment, a graphical scene is relighted based on at least one adjusted reflectance of the graphical scene using an incident radiance at a surface spot that is separated into respective incident radiance components corresponding to different respective numbers of interreflections in the graphical scene. In another example embodiment, a graphical scene is relighted based on at least one adjusted reflectance of the graphical scene using a tensor representation for a reflectance of a surface spot with the tensor representation being segmented into three adjustable factors for lighting, viewing, and reflectance.
US07884819B2
By merging or adding the color contributions from objects intersected by secondary rays, the image processing system may accumulate color contributions to pixels from objects intersected by secondary rays as the further color contributions are determined. Furthermore, by associating a scaling factor of color contribution with objects and with secondary rays which intersect the objects, color contributions due to secondary ray/object intersections may be calculated at a later time than the color contribution to a pixel from original ray/object intersection. Consequently, it is not necessary for a vector throughput engine or a workload manager to wait for all secondary ray/object intersections to be determined before updating the color of a pixel.
US07884818B2
Provided is an article design support system featuring enhanced degree of freedom in terms of designing articles (for example, an article of furniture). A part space P surrounding a part incorporated in a cell space S is correlated with the cell space S, which is formed by a frame constituting a unit. The position (dimensions) of the part space P in the cell space S is defined by part space data specifying a relative position and relative dimensions using the cell space S as a reference. The position (dimensions) of a part in the part space P is defined by part (element) data specifying a relative position and relative dimensions using the part space P as a reference.
US07884814B1
An apparatus and method for concealing and revealing a light emitting display. The apparatus includes a housing structure, for positioning about the display, which has an opening aligned for visual access to the display. A film is disposed within the opening, which has the optical properties of partial reflectance and partial transmittance. A shade is supported by the housing structure, and includes a means for moving the shade between a concealed position that disables visual access to the display and a revealed position that enables visual access to the display.
US07884813B2
An apparatus for driving a self-luminescent display panel is provided with a plurality of luminescent elements 14 that are arranged at intersection positions of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanning lines. One frame period is time-divided into N subframe periods (N is a positive integer). A gradation display is set by an accumulated sum of one or plural lighting control periods. The apparatus is provided with first gradation control means (21, 24, 25, 26, 30) for lighting at least two other subframe periods at a brightness level a in addition to subframe periods lit at a brightness level a−1, assuming that a is an integer satisfying 0
US07884806B2
A proximity sensor device and method is provided that facilitates improved device usability by providing a at least one control function prior to the specialized host software loading, and then switch to provide full range of functionality when the specialized host software has been loaded. In one embodiment, the proximity sensor device comprises a proximity sensor adapted to detect object presence and a controller configured to output simulated keyboard information and output object positional information. For example, when operating in a first mode prior to the specialized host software loading the controller outputs the simulated keyboard information that indicates a control function to a keyboard controller. Then, when operating in a second mode after the specialized host software has been loaded, the controller outputs object positional information to the keyboard controller. The object positional information can be used to provide a full range of user interface functions.
US07884793B2
A memory unit includes a buffer memory unit having first and second write buffer memories and first and second read buffer memories, and a frame memory section. The buffer memory unit is connected to the frame memory and a gray signal converter. The first and the second write buffer memories alternately store a sequence of data segments of current gray data from a signal source and alternately output the current data segments to the frame memory for storing. The first and the second read buffer memories read out a sequence of data segments of previous gray data from the frame memory and alternately output the previous data segments to the gray signal converter. The frame memory stores a plurality of previous and current data segments, and the total amount of the data segments stored in the frame memory is equal to or larger than those for one frame.
US07884791B2
The present invention provides an over driving circuit of a liquid crystal display is provided. The circuit comprises a buffer, a memory coupling with the buffer and a modifier coupling with the buffer, the memory and a signal line. This signal line is used to transfer a row number signal to the modifier. The modifier may generate a corrected gray level value to a pixel unit based on a gray level value of present frame from the buffer, a gray level value of previous frame from the memory and the row number signal.
US07884790B2
A digital driving display device to make gradation display by pulse width modulation includes: a pixel array unit arranging pixels having an electrooptic element and incorporating a memory in a matrix, disposing a scanning line for each row in a pixel arrangement in the matrix, and a signal line for each column; a horizontal driving section inputting display data in a block for each scanning line having a low to a high gradation level subfield for each bit of the data defining gradation levels of the pixels and in a period for weight of the bit, sampling-latching, sequentially transferring, and supplying the data to the signal line; and a vertical driving section selecting and scanning pixels of the pixel array unit in a row and performing scanning while jumping rows to write the data supplied in the block from the horizontal driving section to pixels of the pixel array unit.
US07884787B2
The invention has an object of providing a display device which can make a full use of a mirror functionality even in a dark environment. A display device comprising: image forming means (50, 60, 70, 71) for displaying information to be displayed during one state external light during the other state; input means (30) for inputting a mirror function executing instruction; and control means (82) for causing the image forming means to be switched to the other state in response to the mirror-function executing instruction. The display device further comprises an illumination unit (91) for irradiating an object to be reflected in the mirror (60) with light during the other state.
US07884785B2
An active matrix display apparatus includes a substrate having scanning lines, signal lines, and pixels thereon. Each of the pixels includes a sampling transistor for taking in a video signal, a drive transistor for generating a driving current, and a light-emitting device which emits light with luminance in accordance with the video signal. The two-terminal thin-film light-emitting device includes an anode and cathode electrodes, and a light-emitting layer arranged therebetween. At least one of the electrodes is divided into pieces whereby the light-emitting device is divided into sub-light-emitting devices. The sub-light-emitting devices receive the driving current from a driving transistor and emit light with luminance in accordance with the video signal. A sub-light-emitting devices including a short-circuit defect is separated from the corresponding one of the pixels and the driving current is supplied to the remaining sub-light-emitting devices, whereby the luminance in accordance with the video signal is maintained.
US07884774B2
The present invention provides a wireless transmit/receive unit, comprising a feeding connecting line, a first radiating line, a second radiating line, a third radiating line and a fourth radiating line, wherein the third radiating line is longer than the first radiating line and the first radiating line is longer than the second radiating line that provides different current paths for getting a broader bandwidth. The first, second and third radiating lines are connected parallel for enhancing an antenna pattern being perpendicular thereto, and form a series capacity between the first and the third radiating lines. The fourth radiating line vertically connects between the third radiating line and a grounding line for forming a grounding capacity. The printed antenna can be reduced in size by the effect of the two capacities. The wireless transmit/receive unit can provide a better isolation with others by the direction enforced pattern and the reduced size.
US07884758B2
A non-GPS capable stationary device and method thereof is presented that permits the stationary device to receive location and time information from a mobile, GPS capable device using a non-GPS wireless protocol. This permits the stationary device to make use of the location information in combination with other information from the stationary device, communicated from the mobile device and/or communicated from other devices in a network of devices connected to the stationary device, to customize features of the stationary device accordingly. The stationary device is activated through an external trigger or automatically through an internal trigger.
US07884756B2
A radar apparatus measures an azimuth angle with a calculation device that performs super-resolution angle measuring processing in which relative speeds and relative distances among target objects are calculated, when two azimuth angles are obtained for a given target object that has been detected, the calculation device performs an other-signal detection processing in which, among other detected target objects, a target object is searched whose azimuth angle is the same as one of the two azimuth angles and whose beat frequency upon frequency-increasing modification or frequency-decreasing modification is the same as that of the given target object; and when, through the other-signal detection processing, another target object that satisfies the condition is detected, the calculation device eliminates one of two azimuth angles of the detected given target object, which is equal to the azimuth angle of said another target object detected through the other-signal detection processing.
US07884750B2
In an A/D converter provided with an A/D converter circuit 101 for operationally amplifying an input signal and outputting an amplified signal, the A/D converter circuit 101 includes an initial value setting circuit 4a in addition to an amplifier 1a, a sub-A/D converter 2a, a sub-D/A converter 3a and capacitors C11 and C12. To ensure that the initial value of the output voltage of the amplifier 1a is a given voltage value close to the target value of operational amplification at the start of the operational amplification by the amplifier 1a, the initial value setting circuit 4a applies a given bias value equal to the given voltage value close to the target value to a next-stage capacitor C13 to be connected to the output side of the amplifier 1a. Such an A/D converter circuit 101 that can perform speedy convergence to the target value of operational amplification is used at each stage of a pipeline A/D converter.
US07884749B2
An A/D converting apparatus includes a first A/D converter to sample an analog input signal having a D/A converter to generate a comparative signal for successive comparison with the analog input signal, a signal generator generate a differential signal between the analog input signal and the comparative signal, and a comparator to compare the comparative signal with a standard value to generate a first digital signal exhibiting high-order bit; an amplifier to amplify the differential signal to generate a residue signal; and a second A/D converter to sample the residue signal to generate a second digital signal exhibiting low-order bit.
US07884741B2
Methods and apparatus for determining the existence of an external clock over a digital input port on a computer. In one embodiment, the external clock is validated, and a lock is performed when the clock is valid. Whenever a loss of the lock is detected, and, if a re-lock is likely, the apparatus is muted so that audio artifacts that would otherwise be heard are minimized. The methods and apparatus also provide automatic re-locking to the external clock when a sampling rate change is detected.
US07884736B2
A system and method of interfacing a drilling machine with one of a number of different walk-over guidance systems involves receiving an ID signal from a particular walk-over guidance system selected for use with the drilling machine. A protocol library associated with the particular walk-over guidance system is accessed in response to the ID signal. The protocol library is used to effect communication between the particular walk-over guidance system and a control system of the drilling machine during cooperative use of the particular walk-over guidance system and drilling machine. Using the protocol library involves converting, as prescribed by the protocol library, locator signals received from the particular walk-over guidance system from a locator protocol to a common protocol used by the control system of the drilling machine. Locator and drilling machine data of various types can be presented to a drilling machine operator via an on-board display.
US07884734B2
Methods and apparatus for uniquely identifying wireless devices in close physical proximity are described. When two wireless devices are brought into close proximity, one of the devices displays an optical indicator, such as a light pattern. This device then sends messages to other devices which are within wireless range to cause them to use any light sensor to detect a signal. In an embodiment, the light sensor is a camera and the detected signal is an image captured by the camera. Each device then sends data identifying what was detected back to the device displaying the pattern. By analyzing this data, the first device can determine which other device detected the indicator that it displayed and therefore determine that this device is in close physical proximity to it. In an example, the first device is an interactive surface arranged to identify the wireless addresses of devices which are placed on the surface.
US07884733B2
Proximity detection is accomplished by determining with a moving average calculation a moving average level of input data; setting a threshold level in response to the average level and a sensitivity factor; producing a proximity detection output when the input data meets the threshold level; and changing the weighting used by the average level calculation in response to a proximity detection output.
US07884728B2
A monitoring system and process is provided for at least two medical apparatuses, which can send at least one alarm signal each. At least one alarm unit is connected to these apparatuses, wherein the alarm unit has at least one processing unit, a memory unit and an output unit. The processing unit assigns priorities to the alarm signals, and an assignment list of the distribution of the priorities of the individual alarms is stored in the memory unit.
US07884725B2
RFID tags are used for many purpose including tracking. RFID interrogators are used to retrieve information from tags. In many applications, RFID interrogators and RFID tags remain stationary during interrogation. Regions of low energy due to interference from either additional antenna or reflections from RFID tags and objects can impede or prohibit the reading of RFID tags residing in such regions. Stirring of the generated electromagnetic field is a method of moving around the regions of low energy, where tags can not be read, during the interrogation process. Mechanical stirring is accomplished by introducing a conductor into the electromagnetic field and moving it about in the field. Solid state stirring is accomplished by introducing a variable conductor into the field and varying the conductivity of the variable conductor. Mathematical stirring is accomplished by use of a plurality of antenna and controlling the phase difference between the antenna in a configuration known as phased antenna arrays.
US07884722B2
A data carrier (2) comprises a data circuit (4) arranged on a substrate (3) and data transmission unit (10) being connected to the data circuit (4). The data carrier (2) further comprises at least one strain gauge unit (7) being adapted to measure strains exerted on the substrate (3) and to transmit a deactivating signal (DE) to the data circuit (4) if the measured strains exceed a defined deactivating strain threshold. If the data circuit (4) receives the deactivating signal (DE), the data circuit (4) interrupts a data exchange with an external data reader/writer (1) via the data transmission unit (10).
US07884713B1
In some embodiments, techniques for processing an alert may include receiving a specification of a first location, creating an alert, associating the first location with the alert, determining a first current location as a second location, wherein determining the second location follows receiving the specification of the first location and precedes determining a third location, determining that the second location does not match the specification of the first location, determining a second current location as the third location, determining that the third location matches the specification of the first location, and presenting information relating to the alert.
US07884712B2
The present invention provides a solution to mistaken location calculations based on multipath effects. The present invention utilizes tags attached to objects that transmit signals at various power levels for reception by sensors stationed throughout a facility. Sensor readings at the various power levels are utilized to determine the location of the tagged object.
US07884710B2
A method of controlling a child motion device includes the steps of determining data indicative of motion of the child motion device, and controlling an audio output of the child motion device in accordance with the data. In some cases, the controlling step includes the step of modulating the audio output in accordance with the data. For example, the modulating step may involve applying a modulation effect to an audio track available to the child motion device.
US07884708B2
The invention relates to a monitoring system for vehicle wheels and a wireless measurement module. The wireless measurement module is configured to be attached to a vehicle wheel and comprises: an acceleration measurement unit for determining acceleration information associated with wheel motion of the vehicle; a state determination unit for determining a value of at least one parameter characterizing a characteristic or state of the vehicle wheel by using the acceleration information; and a module communication unit for communicating the value of said at least one parameter by means of a wireless communication signal.
US07884704B2
A body structure of a vehicle reliably detects, with a side-collision detection sensor disposed on a pillar, a side-collision of a side door of a vehicle body against a pole and particularly a side-collision against a pole in a diagonal direction. A metal bracket that projects toward a vehicle width direction outer side is disposed on an outer side surface in a predetermined position (substantially intermediate position between a front pillar and a center pillar) of a rocker. By setting this metal bracket on the outer side of the rocker, in addition to an impact beam disposed inside a door, an acceleration (sensor G) transmitted to the side-collision detection sensor disposed inside the center pillar increases during a side-collision against a pole in a diagonal direction, so the side-collision state can be reliably and rapidly detected even at a position distant from the center pillar.
US07884702B2
A method for pipelined processing of access commands to a population of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags is provided. The method includes transmitting a first queued access command to a first tag in the population of RFID tags, transmitting a second queued access command to a second tag in the population of RFID tags, and transmitting a status request command to the first tag. The queued access command causes the first tag to perform an operation and upon completion of the operation, to suspend transaction processing. The second queued access command is transmitted while the first tag is performing the command operation. The status request command causes the first tag to resume normal processing.
US07884701B2
A receiver is adapted to receive one or more wireless signals, while also being able to provide a barrier actuation signal to a barrier operator over a signaling line. The barrier operator may then be adapted to actuate a barrier in response to receiving the barrier actuation signal. The signaling line is further used to provide power from the barrier operator to the receiver. In one embodiment, the barrier operator is a garage door opener and the signaling line is coupled to the receiver and a garage door wall button. Alternatively, the receiver may replace the garage door wall button of the barrier operator.
US07884700B2
A composite electronic apparatus that prevents misoperation of a remote control device and provides easy remote control operations for electronic devices is provided. When a DVD mode switching key is pressed, for example, in this composite electronic apparatus, a DVD recognition LED is turned on. When a VCR mode switching key is pressed, a VCR recognition LED is turned on. In addition, when one of action command keys is pressed, the DVD recognition LED or the VCR recognition LED indicating an operation target is turned on in accordance with information indicating a transmission mode stored until the action command key is operated.
US07884692B2
The present invention discloses a transformer, mounted on a circuit board, including a winding set having a bobbin, a primary winding and a secondary winding, wherein the primary and the secondary windings are wound on the bobbin, and the primary winding has at least a first output terminal; a magnetic core set including a first magnetic core and a second magnetic core, wherein the winding set is sandwiched in between the first and the second magnetic cores; and an insulation base including an accommodation space and at least a pin, wherein the winding set and the magnetic core set are accommodated in the accommodation space, and the first output terminal of the primary winding is connected with the pin for further electrically connecting to the circuit board.
US07884689B2
Systems and methods are provided that facilitate the formation of micro-mechanical structures and related systems on a laminated substrate. More particularly, a micro-mechanical device and a three-dimensional multiple frequency antenna are provided for in which the micro-mechanical device and antenna, as well as additional components, can be fabricated together concurrently on the same laminated substrate. The fabrication process includes a low temperature disposition process allowing for deposition of an insulator material at a temperature below the maximum operating temperature of the laminated substrate, as well as a planarization process allowing for the molding and planarizing of a polymer layer to be used as a form for a micro-mechanical device.
US07884688B2
A waveguide connector is provided. The connector includes a connecting portion having a plurality of conductive convex portions that are deformable by an external force. The convex portions are formed with a height and an interval less than ¼ wavelength of a propagating electromagnetic wave to be propagated inside waveguides.
US07884684B1
A multiplexer circuit for CB, AM/FM, and television splits the radio and television signals, adding impedance to the split lines, and providing an amplifier upstream of the split.
US07884683B2
A directional coupler comprising a first connection for the inlet or outlet of a shaft, a first decoupling connection which is used to decouple a coupled shaft, a second connection for the inlet or outlet of the inlet or outlet shaft from the first connection and a second decoupling connection which is used to decouple the coupled shaft. The first connection and the first decoupling connection are connected to the internal conductor and to the external conductor of a coaxial conductor on the first connection surface thereof, by means of a first network. The second connection and the second decoupling connection are connected to the internal conductor and to the external conductor of the coaxial conductor on the second connection surface thereof, by means of a second network. The coaxial conductor is curved in such a manner that it is arranged in a parallel manner in relation to the first and second connection surfaces thereof, with a planar circuit board containing the first connection, the second connection, the first decoupling connection and/or second decoupling connection.
US07884681B1
Embodiments of the present invention include amplitude-modulated or polar-modulated radio frequency (RF) power amplifier circuitry, in which an envelope power supply input to an RF power amplifier is powered by a pre-distorted amplitude modulation (AM) power supply. The pre-distorted AM power supply receives an AM signal, which is then pre-distorted and amplified to provide an AM power supply signal to the RF power amplifier. The pre-distortion of the AM signal is used to improve the linearity, the efficiency, or both, of the RF power amplifier. The pre-distortion provides a feed-forward system, which may allow use of a reduced bandwidth pre-distorted AM signal to an AM power supply and a reduced bandwidth AM power supply, which may increase efficiency.
US07884674B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a clock and data recovery circuit. The clock and data recovery circuit comprises a phase detector, a pre-accumulator, a register, an accumulator and a digital controlled oscillator. By using the transmission path formed by the pre-accumulator, the output of the phase detector can be transmitted to the digital controlled oscillator in advance to adjust the frequency of its output clock signal and the latency due to the accumulator can be reduced.
US07884671B2
An amplifier which operates with low power is provided. In the amplifier, a first input unit includes a first control circuit and a second control circuit each including one terminal connected to an output node and the other terminal connected to a respective input transistor from among the plurality of input transistors, and controls the amount of current flowing into the plurality of input transistors or flowing out of the plurality of input transistors according to operating modes of the amplifier, whereby even when an A bias current is increased in order to increase a slew rate of the amplifier, a B bias current a the quiescent current do not increase.
US07884653B2
A source driver includes four output switches, two resistors, and a charge-sharing switch. The first output switch and the first resistor are coupled in series to a first output channel of the source driver. The second output switch and the second resistor are coupled in series to a second output channel of the source driver. The third output switch is coupled in parallel to the first output switch. The fourth output switch is coupled in parallel to the second output switch. The charge-sharing switch is coupled between the first resistor and the second resistor. The third output switch and the fourth output switch are controlled to adjust the resistance of the output current path of the source driver.
US07884644B1
A level shifter circuit includes first and second transistors that receive a first input signal at control inputs. A level shifted output signal is generated by the first and the second transistors. Third and fourth transistors receive a second input signal at control inputs. The first input signal is an inverse of the second input signal. A first multiplexer circuit is configurable to couple a control input of a fifth transistor to the first and the second transistors. A second multiplexer circuit is configurable to couple a control input of a sixth transistor to the third and the fourth transistors.
US07884639B2
An apparatus and system are provided to adjust an output voltage of an integrated circuit (IC) die. For instance, the apparatus can include an on-chip source termination and a bias generator. The bias generator can be configured to provide a source current to the on-chip source termination to adjust the output voltage. In particular, when adjusting the output voltage of the IC die, the bias generator can adjust the source current using a first current with a first adjustable current gain and a second current source with a second adjustable current gain.
US07884638B1
An on-chip termination (OCT) calibration circuit includes one or more transistors coupled between a first terminal and a supply voltage, one or more transistors coupled between the first terminal and a low voltage, and a feedback loop circuit. The feedback loop circuit compares a signal from the first terminal to first and second reference signals to generate a first calibration code that controls conductive states of the one or more transistors coupled between the first terminal and the supply voltage and a second calibration code that controls conductive states of the one or more transistors coupled between the first terminal and the low voltage. The OCT calibration circuit controls an on-chip termination impedance at a pin using the first calibration code and the second calibration code.
US07884637B2
A calibration circuit is capable of correcting an error of a calibration operation by adjusting a calibration code generated thereby. The calibration circuit of a semiconductor memory device includes a code generator, a calibration resistor unit, and a variable resistor unit. The code generator is configured to generate a calibration code for determining a termination resistance in response to a voltage of a first node and a reference voltage. The calibration resistor unit, which has internal resistors turned on/off in response to the calibration code, is connected to the first node. The variable resistor unit is connected in parallel with the calibration resistor unit and has a resistance that varies with a setting value.
US07884636B2
A method for single event transient filtering in an integrated circuit device is described. The device comprises three sequential elements, each having a data input and a data output with each of the three data outputs coupled to one of three inputs of a voting gate. The method comprises generating first and second nominally equivalent logic signals in first and second SET domains, converting the first and second nominally equivalent logic signals into first, second and third nominally equivalent data channels, and transmitting the first, second and third nominally equivalent data channels to the data inputs of the first, second and third sequential elements.
US07884635B2
An integrated circuit includes N configurable cells each including one functional input, one output, one propagation input and one output. The circuit includes a functional mode in which the N configurable cells are coupled by their functional input and their output to logic blocks with which they cooperate to form at least one logic circuit. The disclosed circuit also includes a test mode in which the N configurable cells are coupled by their propagation input and their output to the logic blocks and in which the output of the Nth configurable cell is coupled to a functional input of the first logic block to form an oscillator.
US07884632B2
In a semiconductor inspecting device having a contact to be electrically connected to an electrode pad formed in a semiconductor device which is an object to be measured, and a substrate provided with the contact, the contact is provided obliquely to a main surface of the substrate.
US07884623B2
Provided is a detector having a transistor or resistor structure. When an electrode is exposed to a detected solution, such as blood, a variation in current flowing through the detected solution may be greater than a variation in the electrical characteristics of the detector caused by a variation in the physical properties of semiconductor so that it is difficult to detect whether a bio-particle is contained in the detected solution. In order to solve this problem, a detection portion and an electrical measurement portion are separately formed, and the detection portion is processed with the bio-particle and then post-processed. Subsequently, the detection portion and the electrical measurement portion are bonded to each other using, for example, a laminating process, and the detector measures a detection value.
US07884621B2
A capacitance measurement circuit includes a current source, a switch, and a comparator. The current source is coupled to drive a current through a circuit node. The switch is coupled to the circuit node to switch the current into a device under test (“DUT”) capacitor. The comparator includes first and second input ports. The comparator is coupled to compare a first voltage received on the first input port against a reference voltage received on the second input port. The first voltage is related to the current driven through the circuit node, a frequency at which the switch is switched, and a capacitance of the DUT capacitor.
US07884618B2
A system for testing the safety of electricity includes steps as following. First step is inserting a testing apparatus into a socket of utility power. Second step is providing a first amplifier and rectifier unit for measuring a first voltage wave as no-loading. Third step is providing a signal capturing unit at driver circuit for capturing an instant load cycle current wave. Fourth step is providing a second amplifier and rectifier unit for simulating a second voltage wave according to the instant cycle current wave. At least, a processing unit provides for comparing the first voltage wave with the second voltage wave. Therefore, the above-mentioned method is provided for determining the quality of household electricity wire and further improving the electricity safety.
US07884617B2
An electro-static discharge (ESD) detection circuit is provided. The ESD detection circuit includes: a first power pad for receiving a first supply voltage; a second power pad for receiving a second supply voltage; an RC circuit having an impedance component coupled between the first power pad and a first terminal and having an capacitive component coupled between the first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the second terminal is not directly connected to the second supply voltage; a trigger circuit couples to the first power pad, the second power pad, and the RC circuit, for generating an ESD trigger signal according to a voltage level at the first terminal and a voltage level at the second terminal, and a bias circuit coupled between the first power pad and the second power pad for providing a bias voltage to the second terminal.
US07884613B2
A system, a method, and an article of manufacture for determining an estimated battery state vector indicative of a state of a battery are provided. The method determines a first estimated battery state vector indicative of the state of the battery at a first predetermined time based on a plurality of predicted battery state vectors, a plurality of predicted battery output vectors, and a first battery output vector.
US07884610B2
Discriminating between a cable locating signal and a false cable locating signal is described. A reference signal, which contains a locating signal frequency impressed on it, is transmitted in a way which provides for detection of a phase shift between the locating signal and the false locating signal. Based on the phase shift, a receiver is used to distinguish the locating signal from the false locating signal.
US07884609B2
To provide an RF coil of an MRI apparatus and improve the irradiation efficiency and the reception sensitivity of a circular polarized magnetic field with a simple structure.An RF coil has a set of input/output terminals and two loops. The two loops are disposed and capacitors in the loops are adjusted so that the linearly polarized magnetic fields generated and detected by the loops are perpendicular to each other, and the combined magnetic field of the linearly polarized magnetic fields is a circular polarized magnetic field.
US07884605B2
A shim support guide jig includes a shim support guide pipe in which a guide passage for guiding the movement of a shim support is formed. In a state where a superconducting magnet has generated a static magnetic field, the designated shim support can be drawn out from the internal space of the superconducting magnet through the guide passage, and the designated shim support for which magnetic material shims have been arranged and adjusted can be inserted into the internal space through the guide passage. A magnetic field generation apparatus has the magnetic material shims arranged and adjusted using the shim support guide jig, and a magnetic resonance imaging equipment employs the magnetic field generation apparatus. Magnetic field adjustment methods for the magnetic field generation apparatus and for the magnetic resonance imaging equipment are performed using the shim support guide jig.
US07884591B2
A nonlinear PWM controller for switching power supplies.
US07884583B2
Circuit and method for controlling a high bridge circuit with increased efficiency is disclosed. Circuitry is provided outputting gating signals to a high side driver and a low side driver responsive to a time varying input signal. A frequency measurement circuit determines a high speed mode when the input signal is at a frequency above a threshold, and the gating signal to the high side driver is inhibited. When the input signal frequency is below the threshold, the low side driver and the high side driver gating signals switch alternately. In an exemplary implementation, the frequency measurement circuit is provided as two counters outputting signals to a decision circuit which controls the half bridge circuit. Methods are provided for efficiently providing gating signals to the drivers of a half bridge circuit based upon the frequency of the input signal.
US07884581B2
A generator control unit (GCU) provides active damping of a synchronous generator by monitoring the speed of the synchronous generator and detecting oscillations in the monitored speed. The oscillations are indicative of torsional oscillations within the mechanical drivetrain including the synchronous generator or generators. In response to detected oscillations in the monitored speed, the GCU generates a varying set-point value that is used to control the excitation voltage provided to the synchronous generator. Varying the excitation voltage provided to the synchronous generator causes a variation in synchronous generator torque. By selectively varying the torque in the synchronous generator, the GCU provides active damping in the synchronous generator that decreases or dampens the torsional oscillations.
US07884576B2
A charger protection device (20) includes an oscillator (201), a resistor (204) electronically connected to the oscillator, a capacitor (203) electronically connected to the resistor and a switch (202). The oscillator (201), the resistor (204) and the capacitor (203) form an oscillating circuit. The switch is electronically connected to the capacitor, and a voltage across the capacitor is input to the switch.
US07884573B1
A battery receptacle system is provided to accept various types or sizes of batteries in different orientations. The battery receptacle system includes a first radial notch for positioning a first positive terminal of a first battery to electrically connect with the first positive contact at a first position, and a second radial notch for positioning a second positive terminal of a second battery of a different size and/or type than the first battery to electrically connect with the first positive contact at a second position, different from the first position. The second radial notch is configured to prevent the first positive terminal of the first battery from electrically connecting with the first positive contact at the second position.
US07884569B2
A series charger (80) is provided to charge a high voltage battery (42) in an electric vehicle with a low voltage solar panel (50). The series charger (80) provides switches (841, 842) to connect the terminals of solar panel (50) across individual battery cells (341-n) in series connected battery (42) one battery cell at a time. Charging by series charger (80) can occur while the cells (341-n) of battery (42) remain connected in series. With the series charger (80), the high voltage battery (42) can be charged by the low voltage solar panel (50) without using a lossy DC-DC converter. The high voltage battery (42) charged by series charger (80) can be connected in parallel with a second high voltage battery to enable charging all cells of the second battery together. The solar panel (50) can be provided in a moon roof or truck bed cover adjustable to track the sun.
US07884562B2
The Brushless Multiphase Self-Commutation Controller or BMSCC is an adjustable speed drive for reliable, contact-less and stable self-commutation control of electric apparatus, including electric motors and generators. BMSCC transforms multiphase electrical excitation from one frequency to variable frequency that is automatically synchronized to the movement of the electric apparatus without traditional estimation methods of commutation and frequency synthesis using derivatives of electronic, electro-mechanical, and field-oriented-control. Instead, BMSCC comprises an analog electromagnetic computer with synchronous modulation techniques to first establish magnetic energy and then dynamically share packets of magnetic energy between phase windings of a multiphase, position dependent flux, high frequency transformer by direct AC-to-AC conversion without an intermediate DC conversion stage.
US07884551B2
The present invention pertains to RF (radio frequency) inductive coupling plasma (ICP) sources exciting and maintaining plasma within a closed and vacuum sealed discharge chamber filled with a gaseous medium at a controllable pressure in the range from 1 mTorr to atmospheric pressure. The inductively couple plasma source of the present invention includes a radio frequency source, a quasi-closed O-type solenoidal inductor comprised of two equal section U-shaped solenoid coil halves separated from one another to form two operating gaps between aligned spaced ends of the solenoid coil halves. Each of the U-shaped halves of the solenoid coil is sectioned to have an electrical midpoint connected to the radio frequency source and the distal outer ends of the solenoid coils, which correspond to the aforesaid aligned spaced ends of the quasi-closed solenoidal inductor, are connected to ground. A metallic housing having a discharge chamber therein is provided with two opposed walls having symmetrically opposed bone shaped ports. The ports are closed and vacuum sealed with insulating material and the ports each include two through side openings dimensionally respectively fitted to and engaging with the spaced ends of the quasi-closed solenoidal inductor. The bone shaped ports further include a through slot connecting the side openings along their center line for inductive excitation and maintenance of plasma in the operating gaps situated within the discharge chamber.
US07884550B2
A transparent sintered yttrium aluminum garnet ceramic material formed from a solid-state reaction of a mixture of yttrium oxide powder and aluminum oxide powder during sintering. The ceramic material preferably has an in-line transmission of greater than 75% so it may used to fabricate arc tubes for high intensity discharge lamps used in automotive headlamps.
US07884544B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a semiconductor light emitting element that emits light of a first wavelength, at least two kinds of phosphors that absorb the light of the first wavelength and then emit wavelength-converted light, sealing resin in which the at least two kinds of phosphors are dispersed and the semiconductor light emitting element is embedded, and binder resin. Combined bodies in which the at least two kinds of phosphors are combined by the binder resin are dispersed in the sealing resin.
US07884542B2
A display device includes; an insulating substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the insulating substrate and which comprises a drain electrode, a wall disposed on the thin film transistor and which includes an opening and a contact hole which exposes the drain electrode, a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode through the contact hole and which comprises a first part in direct contact with the insulating substrate and a second part connected to the first part, an organic layer disposed on the pixel electrode and which comprises an organic emission layer, and a common electrode disposed on the organic layer.
US07884531B2
A piezoelectric thin film device according to the present invention comprises a lower electrode, a piezoelectric thin film and a upper electrode, in which the piezoelectric thin film is formed of an alkali niobium oxide-based perovskite material expressed by (K1-xNax)NbO3 (0
US07884529B2
An acoustic transducer is disclosed that is capable of converting mechanical motion into acoustical energy may include a diaphragm and a support on one portion of the diaphragm. An actuator may then be provided that is operatively coupled to a second portion of the diaphragm. The support and actuator may be configured to be environmentally responsive to surrounding conditions of, e.g., heat and/or humidity which may then substantially maintain the diaphragm's acoustic performance.
US07884523B2
A brushless DC motor includes a base, a stator, a rotor, and a leak flux absorber. The base couples with the rotor. The stator has a coil module and is mounted on the base. The rotor has a shaft and a permanent magnet, with the rotor coupling with the base through the shaft. A gap is axially formed between the permanent magnet and the coil module. Also, the leak flux absorber is disposed around the coil module and is adjacent to, partially in, or totally in the gap. Consequently, a leak flux generated by the permanent magnet, which does not pass through the coil module, is absorbed by the leak flux absorber and forms close magnetic flux paths, so that high-frequency noise in operation is thus lowered.
US07884522B1
Embodiments of the invention relate generally to electric motors, alternators, generators and the like, and more particularly, to stator structures and rotor-stator structures for motors that can be configured to, for example, reduce detent.
US07884521B2
A rotor shaft (200) for a magnetic bearing device (1) is disclosed. The shaft comprises an inner portion on whose periphery a plurality of targets (240, 260, 280) separated by spacers (250, 270) are mounted. This is achieved exerting an axial pressing force (F, F′) to the peripheral parts, rather than applying a radial press fit. In this manner, a simplified construction, a higher stiffness and a higher stability at high rotational speed are achieved. Further disclosed is a rotor having a thrust disk (220) whose diameter decreases towards the periphery. This allows to use a larger thrust disk at a given rotational speed.
US07884509B2
A tool moving device with a linear motor is provided with a movable body which is movable bodily with a tool on a support frame through a pair of fluid bearings. A plurality of magnet constructs are circumferentially arranged on the movable body to respectively face stationary coils secured to the support frame. Each of the magnet constructs comprises at least one pair of magnet members juxtaposed in the moving direction of the magnet yoke and arranged with their polarities of magnet pole being opposite to each other, wherein respective pairs of the magnet members attached to the circumferential surface form first and second rows spaced from each other in the moving direction of the magnet yoke. Each magnet member in each of the first and second rows is arranged to be opposite in polarity of magnet pole to each of the magnet members next thereto in the circumferential direction.
US07884506B2
An electronic device having at least a loop-shaped electric conductor generating electric power by electromagnetic induction is provided. The electronic device includes a voltage-detecting unit, a voltage-comparing unit and a separating unit. The voltage-detecting unit is configured to detect a voltage generated in the electric conductor by the electromagnetic induction. The voltage-comparing unit is configured to make a comparison between the voltage detected by the voltage-detecting unit and a predetermined reference voltage and determining whether the voltage detected by the voltage-detecting unit exceeds the predetermined reference voltage. The separating unit is configured to break an electric connection between the electronic conductor and an electronic circuit connecting to the electric conductor when the voltage-comparing unit determines that the voltage detected by the voltage-detecting unit exceeds the predetermined reference voltage.
US07884503B2
The invention relates to a method and to an arrangement for harmonic-wave suppression in AC voltage-operated PTC heaters, especially in frequency-stable and frequency-variable alternating-voltage networks in aerospace applications. The problem of harmonic-wave suppression for AC voltage-operated PTC heaters, in which the harmonic waves are suppressed by superimposing a correction current, which permits a simple and economical generation of the harmonic-wave suppression signal, is solved according to the invention by generating a correction current in a correction current circuit arranged parallel to the PTC heater using an ohmic resistor (4). The correction current is generated and additively superimposed exclusively for suppressing the third harmonic of the heating current of the PTC heater.
US07884502B2
A self-contained conveyable power unit for producing 12V/24V, 110V AC, and 220V AC electricity at a desired location independent of external power sources integrates within one weather-resistant molded nonmetallic material based housing a power generating device of a selectable combination of a renewable energy type (e.g., solar), power management devices, power storage devices and management reporting devices. Additional optional power generating devices, renewable or of traditional fuel type, can be contained within or coupled to the housing. The system includes devices or an array of devices contained within the housing for the storage of electrical power. A device for power management is contained within the housing as is networking equipment of wireless or wired type for remote system observation and reporting. The system and housing are modular and configured to produce power using any combination of renewable and non-renewable energy resources. The conveyable power unit may provide easy access to different types of power outputs and inputs and be coupled with like appliances in a ‘daisy chain’ or network of power. Given its molded composite material construction and scaleable design, the appliance may be readily fabricated in a variety of sizes for varied applications. Further, the molded housing of composite material construction is designed for resistance to the elements, light weight and strength.
US07884501B2
A method for automatic operating voltage detection, in which one internal supply voltage (vdd) is selected from at least two different external supply voltages, with a first external voltage supply (VDDA) being applied permanently, is based on the object of reducing the circuit complexity for automatic operating voltage detection, the operating current caused by the selection arrangement and the required chip area, in which case the voltage ratios between the two different external supply voltages can be as required. This object is achieved in that a reference voltage (Vref) and a voltage (VDDreg) is produced from the first external supply voltage (VDDA), the reference voltage (Vref) is compared with a second external supply voltage (VDDIO), and either the voltage (VDDreg) produced from the first external supply voltage (VDDA) or the second external supply voltage (VDDIO) is released as an internal supply voltage (vdd), depending on the comparison.
US07884500B2
A direct current to pulse amplitude modulated (“PAM”) current converter, denominated a “PAMCC”, is connected to an individual source of direct current. The PAMCC receives direct current and provides pulse amplitude modulated current at its output. An array of PAMCCs constructed in accordance with the present invention form a distributed multiphase inverter whose combined output is the demodulated sum of the current pulse amplitude modulated by each PAMCC. The array is configured as a series of stages, wherein the power sources within each stage are in parallel. The series of stages provides for a high voltage AC or DC output. In some embodiments a weak power source is compensated for by adjusting the voltage or the current of the weak power source.
US07884489B1
An insulative substrate includes a plurality of flexible retaining clips and a plurality of alignment and retaining pins. A metal leadframe includes a plurality of leads. Each lead terminates in a spring contact beam portion. The leadframe is attached to the substrate (for example, by fitting a hole in each lead over a corresponding alignment and retaining pin and then thermally deforming the pin to hold the lead in place). An integrated circuit is press-fit down through the retaining clips such that pads on the face side of the integrated circuit contact and compress the spring contact beams of the leads. After the press-fit step, the retaining clips hold the integrated circuit in place. The resulting assembly is encapsulated. In a cutting and bending step, the leads are singulated and formed to have a desired shape. The resulting low-cost package involves no wire-bonding and no flip-chip bond bump forming steps.
US07884479B2
A method of closely interconnecting integrated circuits contained within a semiconductor wafer to electrical circuits surrounding the semiconductor wafer. Electrical interconnects are held to a minimum in length by making efficient use of polyimide or polymer as an inter-metal dielectric thus enabling the integration of very small integrated circuits within a larger circuit environment at a minimum cost in electrical circuit performance.
US07884477B2
A hard mask is formed on an interconnect structure comprising a low-k material layer and a metal feature embedded therein. A block polymer is applied to the hard mask layer, self-assembled, and patterned to form a polymeric matrix of a polymeric block component and containing cylindrical holes. The hard mask and the low-k material layer therebelow are etched to form cavities. A conductive material is plated on exposed metallic surfaces including portions of top surfaces of the metal feature to form metal pads. Metal silicide pads are formed by exposure of the metal pads to a silicon containing gas. An etch is performed to enlarge and merge the cavities in the low-k material layer. The metal feature is protected from the etch by the metal silicide pads. An interconnect structure having an air gap and free of defects to surfaces of the metal feature is formed.
US07884473B2
A semiconductor package provides an IC chip on at least one package substrate and including signal bond pads, ground bond pads and power bond pads. The package substrate includes signal contact pads, ground contact pads and power contact pads which are respectively coupled to signal bond pads, ground bond pads and power bond pads formed on the IC chip. The contact pads are coupled to the associated bond pads by a bonding wire. The bonding wires that connect the power and ground pads have a thickness that is greater than the thickness of the bonding wires that couple the signal pads. The various bond pads on the IC chip may be staggered to provide for enhanced compactness and integration. The package substrates may be a plurality of stacked package substrates.
US07884472B2
A semiconductor package with a substrate ID code and its manufacturing method are revealed. A circuit and a solder mask are formed on the bottom surface of a substrate where the solder mask covers most of the circuit and a circuit-free zone of the substrate. A chip is disposed on the top surface of the substrate. A substrate ID code consisting of a plurality of laser marks is inscribed in the solder mask or in a portion of an encapsulant on the bottom surface away from the circuit to show the substrate lot number on the bottom surface. Therefore, quality control and failure tracking and management can easily be implemented by tracking the substrate ID code from the semiconductor package without changing the appearance of the semiconductor package. Furthermore, the substrate ID code can be implemented by the existing laser imprinting machines for semiconductor packaging processes and be formed at the same time of formation of a product code. The complexity of the semiconductor packaging processes is not increased and the circuits of the substrates are not easily damaged.
US07884466B2
According to the present invention, a recess portion is formed in a package substrate which is formed of a multilayer organic substrate having a multilayer wiring, and an LSI chip is accommodated within the recess portion. Wiring traces are formed on the upper surface of a resin which seals the LSI chip connected to the multilayer wiring. The wiring traces are connected to terminal wiring traces connected to the multilayer wiring on the front face of the package substrate and to front-face bump electrodes for external connection on the upper surface of the resin. On the back face side of the package substrate, back-face bump electrodes for external connection are formed and connected to the multilayer wiring.
US07884465B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip having bonding pads formed on a top surface and a first via hole and a second via hole formed on both-side edges; a passive element formed within the first via hole; a via wiring formed within the second via hole; a first wiring connected to the bonding pad at one end and connected to the passive element and the via wiring on a top surface of the semiconductor chip; a second wiring formed on a back surface of the semiconductor chip and formed to connect with the passive element and the via wiring; a first passivation film formed in such a way to expose one portion of the first wiring on a top surface of the semiconductor chip; and a second passivation film formed in such a way to expose one portion of the second wiring on a bottom surface of the semiconductor chip.
US07884464B2
The present invention provides a 3D electronic packaging unit having a conductive supporting substrate that can achieve multi-chip stacking through the signal contacts on the both sides of the unit. The packaging unit can be batched manufactured on wafers or substrates, and thus reduce the manufacturing cost of each individual packaging unit; moreover, the conductive supporting substrate can be utilized to provide signal transmission of the electronic elements, and the supporting substrate can be used as a ground terminal for the carried electronic elements to enhance electric performance of the electronic elements. The supporting substrate is also a good thermal conductor that can release effectively heat energy generated by the electronic elements and accumulated inside the package to the outside of the package along the substrate to enhance reliability of the packaging structure.
US07884456B2
A semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof are provided. An opening having at least one slanted side is formed on a substrate. At least one chip and at least one passive component are mounted on the substrate. An encapsulant having a cutaway corner is formed on the substrate to encapsulate the chip and the passive component, wherein the cutaway corner of the encapsulant is spaced apart from the slanted side of the opening by a predetermined distance. A singulation process is performed to cut the encapsulant to form a package with a chamfer. The package is embedded in a lid to form the semiconductor device, wherein a portion of the substrate located between the slanted side of the opening and the cutaway corner of the encapsulant is exposed from the encapsulant to form an exposed portion. The present invention also provides a carrier for the semiconductor device.
US07884451B2
An integrated circuit package comprises an integrated circuit die comprising a first pad, a second pad adjacent to the first pad, a third pad adjacent to the second pad, and a fourth pad adjacent to the third pad. A lead frame comprising a first lead, a second lead adjacent to the first lead, a third lead adjacent to the second lead, and a fourth lead adjacent to the third lead. First, second, third and fourth bondwires connect the first, second, third and fourth leads to the first, second, third and fourth pads, respectively. The first and second leads and the third and fourth leads are spaced at a first distance and the second and third leads are spaced at a second distance that is different than the first distance.
US07884448B2
The present invention relates to high performance three-dimensional (3D) field effect transistors (FETs). Specifically, a 3D semiconductor structure having a bottom surface oriented along one of a first set of equivalent crystal planes and multiple additional surfaces oriented along a second, different set of equivalent crystal planes can be used to form a high performance 3D FET with carrier channels oriented along the second, different set of equivalent crystal planes. More importantly, such a 3D semiconductor structure can be readily formed over the same substrate with an additional 3D semiconductor structure having a bottom surface and multiple additional surfaces all oriented along the first set of equivalent crystal planes. The additional 3D semiconductor structure can be used to form an additional 3D FET, which is complementary to the above-described 3D FET and has carrier channels oriented along the first set of equivalent crystal planes.
US07884446B2
The present invention generally provides semiconductor substrates having submicron-sized surface features generated by irradiating the surface with ultra short laser pulses. In one aspect, a method of processing a semiconductor substrate is disclosed that includes placing at least a portion of a surface of the substrate in contact with a fluid, and exposing that surface portion to one or more femtosecond pulses so as to modify the topography of that portion. The modification can include, e.g., generating a plurality of submicron-sized spikes in an upper layer of the surface.
US07884442B2
An integrated circuit resistor is provided that comprises a mesa 14 between electrical contacts 16 and 18. The electrical resistance between electrical contacts 16 and 18 is selectively increased through the formation of recesses 20 and 22 in the mesa 14. The size of recesses 20and 22 can be used to tune the value of the electrical resistance between contacts 16 and 18.
US07884440B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit including digital circuits and analog circuits integrated over a single substrate includes the substrate including portions where the digital circuits and the analog circuits are to be formed, and a plurality of deep-wells formed to a certain thickness inside the substrate to surround portions where devices of the digital circuits and devices of the analog circuits are to be formed to reduce interference between the devices of the analog circuits and the digital circuits.
US07884430B2
The present invention is directed to structures and methods of fabricating electromechanical memory cells having nanotube crossbar elements. Such memory cells include a substrate having transistor with a contact that electrically contacts with the transistor. A first support layer is formed over the substrate with an opening that defines a lower chamber above the electrical contact. A nanotube crossbar element is arranged to span the lower chamber. A second support layer is formed with an opening that defines a top chamber above the lower chamber, the top chamber including an extension region that extends beyond an edge of the lower chamber to expose a portion of the top surface of the first support layer. A roof layer covers the top of the top chamber and includes an aperture that exposes a portion of the extension region of the top chamber and includes a plug that extends into the aperture in the roof layer to seal the top and bottom chambers. The memory cell further includes an electrode that overlies the crossbar element such that electrical signals can activate the electrode to attract or repel the crossbar element to set a memory state for the transistor.
US07884429B2
An impact sensor comprises a silicon substrate; an insulating layer formed over the silicon substrate; a plurality of beams having flexibility that are formed of conductive silicon material; a fixing portion to fix a fixed end of each of the beams, the fixing portion being formed of conductive silicon material; a fixed end line at whose one end is formed the fixing portion, the fixed end line being formed of conductive silicon material on the insulating layer; and a free end line having a pressing portion that faces a free end of each of the beams via a space, the free end line being formed of conductive silicon material on the insulating layer. Respective beam widths, each measured in a direction orthogonal to a length direction joining the fixed end and the free end, of the plurality of beams are set different from each other, thus reducing the space occupied by the sensor.
US07884421B2
In a high voltage MOS transistor, in a portion immediately below the gate electrode, peaks of concentration distribution in depth direction of a first conductivity type impurity and a second conductivity type impurity in the drain offset region are in the same depth, the second conductivity type impurity being higher concentrated than the first conductivity type impurity.
US07884416B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit according to an example of the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate, an element isolation insulating layer formed in a surface region of the semiconductor substrate, and first and second MIS type devices isolated from each other by the element isolation insulating layer and formed in adjacent first and second element regions in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction. Each of the first and second MIS type devices has a stack gate structure having a floating gate and a control gate electrode. The first MIS type device functions as an aging device, and the second MIS type device functions as a control device which controls an electric charge retention characteristic of the aging device.
US07884415B2
In a semiconductor device, each of a plurality of floating gate electrodes has an upper end, a lower end and an intermediate portion between the upper and lower ends and is formed so that the intermediate portion has a smaller length in a gate-length direction than each of the upper and lower ends. Each of a plurality of control gate electrodes has an upper end, a lower end and an intermediate portion between the upper and lower ends and is formed so that the intermediate portion has a smaller length in a gate-length direction than each of the upper and lower ends. Each of a plurality of inter-electrode insulating films includes a first air gap formed in a first portion corresponding to the intermediate portion of each floating gate electrode and a second air gap formed in a second portion corresponding to the intermediate portion of each control gate electrode.
US07884411B2
An area-efficient gated diode includes a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, an active region of a second conductivity type formed in the semiconductor layer proximate an upper surface thereof, and at least one trench electrode extending vertically through the active region and at least partially into the semiconductor layer. A first terminal of the gated diode is connected to the trench electrode, and a second terminal is connected to the active region. The gated diode is operative in one of at least first an second modes as a function of a voltage potential applied between the first and second terminals. The first mode is characterized by the creation of an inversion layer in the semiconductor layer surrounding the trench electrode. The gated diode has a first capacitance in the first mode and a second capacitance in the second mode, the first capacitance being greater than the second capacitance.
US07884407B2
The present invention proposes a semiconductor device, its manufacturing method and to an electronic apparatus thereof equipped with the semiconductor device where it becomes possible to make a CMOS type solid-state imaging device, an imager area formed with a MOS transistor of an LDD structure without having a metal silicide layer of a refractory metal, an area of DRAM cells and the like into a single semiconductor chip. According to the present invention, a semiconductor device is constituted such that an insulating film having a plurality of layers is used, sidewalls at the gate electrodes are formed by etching back the insulating film of the plurality of layers or a single layer film in the region where metal silicide layers are formed and in the region where the metal silicide layers are not formed, sidewalls composed of an upper layer insulating film is formed on a lower layer insulating film whose surface is coated or the insulating film of the plurality of layers remain unchanged.
US07884404B2
A ferroelectric memory device includes a field effect transistor formed over a semiconductor substrate and including first and second diffusion regions, an interlayer insulation film formed over the semiconductor substrate so as to cover the field effect transistor, a conductive plug formed in the interlayer insulation film in contact with the first diffusion region, and a ferroelectric capacitor formed over the interlayer insulation in contact with the conductive plug. The ferroelectric capacitor includes a ferroelectric film and upper and lower electrodes sandwiching the ferroelectric film respectively from above and below. The lower electrode is connected electrically to the conductive plug, and wherein a layer containing aluminum and oxygen is interposed between the conductive plug and the lower electrode, a layer containing nitrogen is interposed between the layer containing aluminum and oxygen and the lower electrode, and a self-aligned layer of a substance having a self-orientation is interposed between the layer containing nitrogen and the lower electrode.
US07884381B2
A light emitting device includes a semiconductor multilayer structure having a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, and an active layer. A reflecting layer is provided at a side of one surface of the semiconductor multilayer structure and reflects a light emitted from the active layer. A supporting substrate of Si or Ge is provided at an opposite side of the reflecting layer with respect to the side of the semiconductor multilayer structure and supports the semiconductor multilayer structure via a metal bonding layer. A back surface electrode is provided at an opposite side of the supporting substrate with respect to a side of the metal bonding layer and includes Au alloyed with the support substrate. A hardness of the back surface electrode is higher than a hardness of the Au.
US07884374B2
An LED backlight device includes a substrate having an optical transparency and an LED thin-film layered structure fixed to a first surface of the substrate. The LED thin-film layered structure is formed of epitaxially grown inorganic material layers as a P-N junction device. An anode electrode and a cathode electrode are formed on the LED thin-film layered structure. An anode driver IC and a cathode driver IC are provided for driving the LED thin-film layered structure. A wiring structure electrically connects the anode driver IC and the anode electrode of the LED thin-film layered structure and electrically connects the cathode driver IC and the cathode electrode of the LED thin-film layered structure. A phosphor is formed on the second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface.
US07884360B2
A thin-film device includes a first electrical insulator, an oxide-semiconductor film formed on the first electrical insulator, and a second electrical insulator formed on the oxide-semiconductor film, the oxide-semiconductor film defining an active layer. The oxide-semiconductor film is comprised of a first interface layer located at an interface with the first electrical insulating insulator, a second interface layer located at an interface with the second electrical insulator, and a bulk layer other than the first and second interface layers. A density of oxygen holes in at least one of the first and second interlayer layers is smaller than a density of oxygen holes in the bulk layer.
US07884359B2
Described herein is a field ionization and electron impact ionization device consisting of carbon nanotubes with microfabricated integral gates that is capable of producing short pulses of ions.
US07884358B2
Disclosed are a novel aromatic enediyne derivative, an organic semiconductor thin film using the same, and an electronic device. Example embodiments pertain to an aromatic enediyne derivative which enables the formation of a chemically and electrically stable and reliable semiconductor thin film using a solution process, e.g., spin coating and/or spin casting, at about room temperature when applied to devices, an organic semiconductor thin film using the same, and an electronic device including the organic semiconductor thin film. A thin film having a relatively large area may be formed through a solution process, therefore simplifying the manufacturing process and decreasing the manufacturing cost. Moreover, it is possible to provide an organic semiconductor that may be effectively applied to various fields including organic thin film transistors, electroluminescent devices, solar cells, and memory.
US07884357B2
An organic electronic device which has stable physical properties and which allows easy production is provided. The organic electronic device has a conductive path including fine particles, a first organic semiconductor molecule which has a first conductive type and binds at least two of the fine particles together, and a second organic semiconductor molecule which has a second conductive type and is captured in a state of noncovalent bond in a molecule recognition site that exists among the fine particles.
US07884356B2
A donor substrate for forming a nano conductive film includes a base substrate and a transferring layer that is disposed on the base substrate. The transferring layer includes nano conductive particles and an organic semiconductor. A method of patterning a nano conductive film is provided, wherein a donor substrate in which nano conductive particles are dispersed by employing an organic semiconductor having low molecular weight as a binder is prepared, and nano conductive particles are patterned on a receptor substrate by employing the donor substrate. The method can be used to prepare patterns of various devices including a display device such as an OLED and an OTFT. Such a device can be prepared simply and economically by preparing a device comprising nano conductive particles and an organic semiconductor in wet basis even without deposition.
US07884354B2
Germanium on insulator (GOI) semiconductor substrates are generally described. In one example, a GOI semiconductor substrate comprises a semiconductor substrate comprising an insulative surface region wherein a concentration of dopant in the insulative surface region is less than a concentration of dopant in the semiconductor substrate outside of the insulative surface region and a thin film of germanium coupled to the insulative surface region of the semiconductor substrate wherein the thin film of germanium and the insulative surface region are simultaneously formed by oxidation anneal of a thin film of silicon germanium (Si1-xGex) deposited to the semiconductor substrate wherein x is a value between 0 and 1 that provides a relative amount of silicon and germanium in the thin film of Si1-xGex.
US07884353B2
Semiconductor structures and devices including strained material layers having impurity-free zones, and methods for fabricating same. Certain regions of the strained material layers are kept free of impurities that can interdiffuse from adjacent portions of the semiconductor. When impurities are present in certain regions of the strained material layers, there is degradation in device performance. By employing semiconductor structures and devices (e.g., field effect transistors or “FETs”) that have the features described, or are fabricated in accordance with the steps described, device operation is enhanced.
US07884352B2
The invention relates to a single-crystal layer of a first semiconductor material including single-crystal nanostructures of a second semiconductor material, the nanostructures being distributed in a regular crystallographic network with a centered tetragonal prism.
US07884333B2
A new type of structure for the deflection and crabbing of particle bunches in particle accelerators comprising a number of parallel transverse electromagnetic (TEM)-resonant) lines operating in opposite phase from each other. Such a structure is significantly more compact than conventional crabbing cavities operating the transverse magnetic TM mode, thus allowing low frequency designs.
US07884319B2
A data acquisition system and method are described that may be used with various spectrometers. The data acquisition system may include an ion detector, an initial/transient processing module, and a spectra processing module. The initial/transient processing module is provided for processing the ion detection signals and for supplying processed signals to the spectra processing module. The transient processing module may contiguously sample the ion detection signals at a rate of at least 1.5 GHz. The spectra processing module may generate spectra from the transients at a rate of at least 50 spectra per second. The initial processing module may be configured to have a sensitivity that is sufficient to detect a single ion received within one of over at least 100 transients and to detect and quantify a number of ions simultaneously striking said ion detector up to at least 10 simultaneously striking ions.
US07884317B2
Circuits for correcting base line shift of the detector coupling circuit of a TOFMS provide gain and impedance characteristics that compensate for the AC coupling effect of the detector. In one circuit, base line correction is achieved by injecting a current equal to that which flows due to the buildup charge in the detectors AC coupling network. In another circuit, the current source drives an integrator which is coupled to the signal path to reduce the detector AC coupling effects. In another circuit, a low noise amplifier utilizes a feedback network that reduces the detector AC coupling effects. In yet another circuit, an operational amplifier is employed to reduce the detector AC coupling effects.
US07884308B1
A power solar panel is maintained in an optimum position relative to the sun during daylight as the sun traverses a solar track elevated above the horizon and extending from a sunrise location to a sunset location during each day of consecutive days of the year by utilizing solar energy to power a sun tracker which carries the power solar panel. The sun tracker includes pairs of solar modules wherein the solar modules are arrayed in an A-shaped cross-sectional configuration for being aimed directly at the sun in response to exposure to the sun, and the pairs of solar modules power motors which tilt the solar panel about a horizontal direction and rotate the power solar panel about a vertical direction to maintain optimum alignment with the sun during the course of a day. Two of the pairs of solar modules are connected alternately to a motor that rotates the solar panel about the vertical direction and are mounted spaced apart in transverse directions, diametrically opposite one another with respect to the vertical direction, and for tilting about lateral directions to aim each of the two pairs toward the solar track such that a first one of the two pairs powers the motor during one day of consecutive days, and the second one of the two pairs powers the motor during a next-consecutive day, thereby compensating for daily changes in the solar track and providing power for effective operation during consecutive days throughout the year.
US07884306B2
A convection oven for use in a food delivery vehicle comprises an oven cavity with an air inlet and an air outlet, an air feed conduit for feeding an air feed into the oven cavity through the air inlet and a heating arrangement for heating the air feed before it is fed into the oven cavity, the heating arrangement comprising a heating device that is electrically powered and being arranged to maintain a temperature of at least 130° C. in the oven cavity. A food delivery vehicle may comprise such an oven and the oven may be heatable from an electric current provided by the engine of the vehicle.
US07884305B2
Disclosed are techniques and compositions for arc welding consumables such as electrodes that reduce the energy otherwise required for the welding. Particularly, the techniques and electrode compositions can reduce the extent of contamination of weld metal in an arc welding operation. The techniques and compositions promote exothermic reactions during the welding process which reduce the energy otherwise required of the arc. Lower energy arcs can be of shorter length, which thereby reduce the potential for weld contamination by agents from the atmosphere or shielding gas. The techniques and compositions can also be used to selectively tailor shape of the resulting weld, achieve particular weld deposition rates, achieve particular cooling rates and thus influence weld properties, and also enable formation of certain phases in the weld metal.
US07884304B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present technique relate to a welding storage structure. In one embodiment, a welding system includes a welding chassis and a storage structure that rotates outwardly from the welding chassis. In another embodiment, a welding system includes a welding storage unit having a storage base with a plurality of storage compartments, a cover removably disposed over the plurality of the storage compartments, and a rotatable chassis mount configured to couple the welding storage unit rotatably to a welding chassis.
US07884302B2
An installation for the plasma processing of a continuous material (1) includes an evacuatable discharge chamber (3a, 3b) and a device for setting a gas atmosphere in the discharge chamber (3a, 3b). The device for setting a gas atmosphere includes a prechamber system (10, 11, 12) and a postchamber system (2), with sluice openings between the chambers (2, 3a, 3b, 10, 11, 12). The continuous material (1) is guided with low friction through the prechamber system (10, 11, 12) and the postchamber system (2). The device for setting a gas atmosphere includes a recovery system wherein gas can be recirculated from a postchamber (2a . . . 2k) into a prechamber (10, 11, 12) and/or postchamber (2a . . . 2k) having a higher pressure level so that processing is effected in a gas-saving manner.
US07884301B2
A device and method for sorting microparticles including a nozzle for a separating stream, with a vibration generator for the dispersion of the separation flow into a droplet flow with a deflector device for separation of the droplet flow into a through flow and at least one side flow depending on signals from an analytical device configured to analyze the microparticles (s) contained in the droplets and to control the deflector device. Also provided is a protective chamber in which at least the nozzle, the oscillation generator and the deflector device are arranged. The analytical device is outside the safety cabinet wherein the protective chamber is part of the safety cabinet with a clean chamber and a monitoring device through which the signals of the microparticles arising from the separating stream are supplied to the detectors of the analytical device, arranged outside the safety cabinet.
US07884291B2
A pair of engaging projections is provided on a periphery of a knob mounting section projecting from an upper case 13. A substantially octagonal annular joint member is engaged with the engaging projections and has a pair of engaging projections provided in the direction of 90 degrees off the engaging projections so as to be relatively rockably engaged with the operation knob, whereby the operation knob is universally jointed through the joint member with the knob mounting section. The operation knob is capable of being rocked by pressing an optional position thereof in the circumferential direction, and by being pivoted on two axes meeting at right angles, properly controlled steady operation can be performed. A seal plate is placed on a concave portion of the upper case. Lift springs are projectingly formed on the seal plate at intervals of about 45 degrees in the circumferential direction. When pressing the optional position in the circumferential direction of the operation knob, any of the lift springs is compressed such that a switch element located below the lift springs is turned on or off.
US07884289B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an electronic assembly (50) comprising an electronic component, a cavity and a substrate which method comprises; —providing an electronic component (10) having a first pattern with a substantially closed configuration; —providing a cover (18) on a surface of the electronic component, which cover together with said surface defines a cavity (20), the closed configuration of the first pattern substantially enclosing the cover at said surface; —providing a substrate (30) having a second pattern with a substantially closed configuration, which closed configuration at least partially corresponds to the closed configuration of the first pattern and comprises a solder pad; —disposing solder material at the solder pad; —positioning the electronic component and the substrate so as to align both the substantially closed configurations of the first and second pattern, while the substrate supports a top surface (28) of the cover; —reflow-soldering the solder material, therewith providing a soldered connection (52) between the first and second pattern. Furthermore the present invention relates to an electronic assembly (50), a cover (18) and a substrate (30).
US07884282B2
A cable has a conductor and an insulator over the conductor. The conductor includes a first layer of at least one conductor element, a second layer of conductor elements, disposed over the first layer, and an intermediate water blocking layer, between the first and second conductor layers. The intermediate water block layering has at least one longitudinally applied water swellable yarn and at least one helically applied water swellable yarn.
US07884270B1
A novel maize variety designated PHWDM and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHWDM with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHWDM through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHWDM or a locus conversion of PHWDM with another maize variety.
US07884268B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5247567. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5247567. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5247567 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety D5247567 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US07884267B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5632454. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5632454. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5632454 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety D5632454 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US07884258B2
A therapeutic device for promoting the healing of a wound in a mammal is disclosed. An exemplary device comprises a permeable structure having a plurality of depressions formed in a surface thereof. In use, the surface having the depressions is disposed adjacent a surface of the wound. A method of treating a wound comprises the steps of providing a permeable structure comprising a plurality of randomly disposed fibers and having i) a plurality of wound surface contact elements disposed between end portions of the structure, and ii) a plurality of voids defined by the contact elements; and applying the permeable structure to at least one surface of the wound.
US07884256B2
Higher diamondoid derivatives capable of taking part in polymerization reactions are disclosed as well as intermediates to these derivatives, polymers formed from these derivatives and methods for preparing the polymers.
US07884254B2
The present disclosure provides methods for pre-treating activated carbon before it is used in a dehydrochlorination process. The methods can comprise mixing the activated carbon with an acid, an oxidizing agent in a liquid phase, or an oxidizing agent in a gas phase. Activated carbons undergoing one or more of these methods can exhibit improved stability during the dehydrochlorination process.
US07884242B2
New N-heterocyclylphthaldiamides of structure (I) in which n, A, Q1, Q2, R1 and X have the meanings given in the description, several methods for the preparation of these substances and their use for the control of pests, as well as new intermediates and methods for their preparation.
US07884234B2
A compound represented by the following general formula (I) or a salt thereof, or a hydrate thereof or a solvate thereof having an inhibitory action against plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1): wherein R1 represents a C6-10 aryl group; or a C6-10 aryl group substituted with a group or groups selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, cyano group, nitro group, a C1-6 alkyl group, a halogenated C1-6 alkyl group, a C1-6 alkoxy group, a halogenated C1-6 alkoxy group and a C1-6 alkylsulfanyl group, R2 represents a C6-10 aryl group; or a C6-10 aryl group substituted with a group or groups selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, hydroxy group, a C1-6 alkyl group, a halogenated C1-6 alkyl group, a C1-6 alkoxy group, a halogenated C1-6 alkoxy group, a C1-6 alkylsulfanyl group and phenyl group, X represents a single bond or oxygen atom, Z represents a phenylene group or a substituted phenylene group, m represents 0 or 1.
US07884226B2
Provided are processes for the purification of a pure rosuvastatin intermediate by thin film evaporation and chemical method, and conversion of the intermediate to rosuvastatin or salts thereof.
US07884222B2
A process for the syntheses of 17β-hydroxy-7α-methyl-19-nor-17α-pregn-5(10)-ene-20-yne-3-one (tibolone, 11) and intermediates useful for the synthesis thereof.
US07884210B2
The invention provides a compound of general formula (I) wherein the compounds are of the class ureido-thiazole glucokinase activators, useful for the treatment of various diseases, for example, type 2 diabetes.
US07884209B2
The present invention relates to the use of bora-tetraazapentalenes with the general formula A as redox-dopant and/or emitter in electronic, optoelectronic or electroluminescent structural elements.
US07884200B2
Provided herein are retroviral vectors for delivering interfering RNA into cells.
US07884198B2
The present invention encompasses monoclonal and chimeric antibodies that bind to lipoteichoic acid of Gram positive bacteria. The antibodies also bind to whole bacteria and enhance phagocytosis and killing of the bacteria in vitro and enhance protection from lethal infection in vivo. The mouse monoclonal antibody has been humanized and the resulting chimeric antibody provides a previously unknown means to diagnose, prevent and/or treat infections caused by gram positive bacteria bearing lipoteichoic acid. This invention also encompasses a peptide mimic of the lipoteichoic acid epitope binding site defined by the monoclonal antibody. This epitope or epitope peptide mimic identifies other antibodies that may bind to the lipoteichoic acid epitope. Moreover, the epitope or epitope peptide mimic provides a valuable substrate for the generation of vaccines or other therapeutics.
US07884194B2
Soluble epidermal growth factor receptors 2 and 3 (HER2 and HER3) splice variant proteins with HER2 and HER3 antagonist activity and anti-proliferative properties, as well as the corresponding nucleic acids, are provided for treatment of proliferative diseases, in particular cancer. Also provided are compositions and methods for inducing expression of these splice variants, including splice switching oligonucleotides that modulate splicing of pre-mRNA that codes for these receptors.
US07884182B2
The invention provides a method of assembling oligopeptide intermediates in a native chemical ligation reaction that eliminates self-ligation of bi-functional intermediates. An important aspect of the invention is a bi-functional intermediate with an N-terminal heterocyclic protecting group which effectively prevents self-ligation in the chemical assembly process. The present invention is useful in methods for convergent synthesis of polypeptides and proteins and improves the efficiency of native chemical ligation reactions, particularly where three or more peptide fragments are used to assemble a polypeptide or protein product.
US07884178B2
An isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule that encodes a polypeptide comprising at least eight contiguous amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 3, wherein the at least eight contiguous amino acids have anti-viral activity, as well as an isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule that encodes a polypeptide comprising at least eight contiguous amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 3, wherein the at least eight contiguous amino acids have anti-viral activity, and, when the at least eight contiguous amino acids comprise amino acids 1-121 of SEQ ID NO: 3, the at least eight contiguous amino acids have been rendered glycosylation-resistant, a vector comprising such an isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule, a host cell comprising the nucleic acid molecule, optionally in the form of a vector, a method of producing an anti-viral polypeptide or conjugate thereof, the anti-viral polypeptide itself, a conjugate or fusion protein comprising the anti-viral polypeptide, and compositions comprising an effective amount of the anti-viral polypeptide or conjugate or fusion protein thereof. Further provided are methods of inhibiting prophylactically or therapeutically a viral infection of a host.
US07884174B2
The invention is based on the discovery that a remarkable improvement in the performance of maleimide thermosets can be achieved through the incorporation of imide-extended mono-, bis-, or polymaleimide compounds. These imide-extended maleimide compounds are readily prepared by the condensation of appropriate anhydrides with appropriate diamines to give amine terminated compounds. These compounds are then condensed with excess maleic anhydride to yield imide-extended maleimide compounds.
US07884173B2
To provide an aromatic polyester which is formed into a film having excellent heat resistance, color, mechanical properties, dimensional stability and gas barrier properties and a manufacturing process thereof; the aromatic polyester comprises a dicabroxylic acid component and a diol component, wherein (i) the dicarboxylic acid component contains 50 to 100 mol % of a recurring unit represented by the following formula (A): wherein R is an alkylene group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, (ii) the aromatic polyester has an intrinsic viscosity measured at 35° C. by using a mixed solvent of P-chlorophenol and 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane (weight ratio of 40/60) of 0.4 to 3.0; (iii) the aromatic polyester has a content of a recurring unit represented by the following formula (D) of less than 10 mol %: —O—CH2CH2—O—CH2CH2—O— (D) (iv) the aromatic polyester has a terminal carboxyl group concentration of 200 eq/ton or less; and (v) the aromatic polyester has an alkali metal content of 300 ppm or less.
US07884170B2
A stable MQ resin solution with over 50% SiO2 and having viscosity of 50 cps at 25° C. to about 750 cps at 25° C. and which is essential free of monomer is disclosed. The stable resin solution is made by a two step addition of catalysts wherein a hydrolysis catalysts, as for example, hydrochloric acid is added initially and a second catalysts such as Phosphonitrilic chloride trimer is added subsequently.
US07884167B2
Provided is an easy method for production of a high-performance polyfunctional compound which can be used as an optical recording material, an optical waveguide material, a photo-alignment film material, or the like, in a simple manner. The method for production of a polyfunctional compound includes conducting a Michael addition of a compound (A) having a hydrogen atom of pKa≦15 to a (meth)acrylate or a (meth)acrylamide (B), in which at least one of the compounds (A) and (B) has a photoisomerization group and/or a liquid-crystalline group.
US07884165B2
The present invention provides polymerization catalyst compositions employing half-metallocene compounds with a heteroatom-containing ligand bound to the transition metal. Methods for making these hybrid metallocene compounds and for using such compounds in catalyst compositions for the polymerization and copolymerization of olefins are also provided.
US07884162B2
The present invention provides a copolymer that includes at least one alkene monomer, at least one acrylate monomer and at least one the unsaturated acid anhydride monomer, and a method of preparing the same.
US07884161B2
The present invention provides a method for preparation of an 1-alkene-acrylate based copolymer comprising a step of a radical polymerization reaction of 1-alkene and acrylate based monomer under presence of a metal oxide or Lewis acid, and a method for preparation of an alkene-acrylate based copolymer comprising reacting alkene with an acrylate based monomer under presence of a metal oxide. In the method of preparation according to the present invention, the process is simple and properties of the copolymer can be easily controlled by preparing the copolymer in a mild condition of 100° C. or less and 200 bar or less. In addition, the amount of the polar group of the copolymer prepared by the method is so high that the copolymer can be used for transparent optical products. Since the alkene-acrylate based copolymer prepared by the method is a random copolymer of ethylene and a polar monomer and the amount of the polar group of the polar monomer so high that the crystallinity of the ethylene monomer does not remain in the copolymer, the ethylene-acrylate based copolymer is not affected from a transparency of the polymer and thus may be used for optical products.
US07884159B2
A propylene polymer resin composition characterized in that it has a flexural modulus in the range of 200 to 1200 MPa and a melt flow rate (MFR) measured at 230° C. in the range of 0.1 to 30 g/min, and a melt tension (MT (mN)) and an MFR (g/10 min) measured at 230° C. satisfy a specific formula, and a sheet or film obtained therefrom. According to the present invention, there is provided a polyolefin film which is excellent in transparency and especially excellent in transparency and low-temperature heat shrinkable properties after stretching.
US07884156B2
An elastomer composition includes an elastomer and a carbon black, wherein the carbon black is characterized as having a COAN of between about 90 and 150 ml/100 g, a BET of between 50 and 69 m2/g and a distribution index DI that is greater than 1.15, wherein the DI is a ratio of dw to dmode. In particular embodiments, the elastomer may be selected from one or more natural rubbers, one or more synthetic rubbers or combinations thereof. For example, the one or more synthetic rubbers may be selected from styrene butadiene rubber, butadiene rubber, polyisoprene rubber, butyl rubber or combinations thereof. Products made from the elastomer composition include tires and other products, particularly tires that include a sidewall, a carcass, a carcass reinforcement, tread and/or an undertread comprising the elastomeric composition.
US07884148B2
The present invention provides a resin composition containing a filler poor in affinity for fluororesins as uniformly dispersed therein and a method of producing such resin composition and, further, a resin composition containing, as fillers, a nucleating agent for foaming and suited for producing foamed moldings with fine foam cells uniformly distributed therein and a method of producing such resin composition as well as a foamed molding formed from either of such resin compositions. The present invention is related to a resin composition comprising a fluororesin (A) and a filler (X) low in affinity for said fluororesin (A), wherein the filler (X) has a d99 value of not more than 15 μm.
US07884141B2
Biomedical devices are provided herein which are formed from a polymerization product of a monomeric mixture comprising (a) one or more esterified aminoalcohol monomers; and (b) one or more biomedical device-forming monomers.
US07884139B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst comprising particles of a cobalt and zinc co-precipitate, having a volume average particle size of less than 150 μm. Another aspect of the invention is the use of such a catalyst in a Fischer-Tropsch process.The present invention further relates to a method for preparing a catalyst comprising cobalt and zinc oxide, wherein an acidic solution comprising zinc ions and cobalt ions and a alkaline solution are contacted and the precipitate is isolated.
US07884133B2
Cannabinoid derivatives are known for their function in the central as well as peripheral nervous system. Disclosed are some novel (+)-cannabidiol (CBD) derivatives of the general formula (I) having selective activity in the peripheral, but not in the central nervous system. Use of (+)-CBD derivatives as analgesics, anti-inflammatory and anti-diarrheal agents is also disclosed.
US07884131B2
Disclosed are novel oxylipins, referred to herein as docosanoids, that are derived from C22 polyunsaturated fatty acids, and method of making and using such oxylipins. Also disclosed is the use of docosapentaenoic acid (C22:5n-6) (DPAn-6), docosapentaenoic acid (C22:5n-3) (DPAn-3), and docosatetraenoic acid (DTAn-6: C22:4n-6) as substrates for the production of novel oxylipins, and to the oxylipins produced thereby. Also disclosed is the use of DPAn-6, DPAn-3, DTAn-6, and/or the oxylipins derived therefrom, and/or novel docosanoids derived from the structures of C22 fatty acids, in therapeutic and nutritional or cosmetic applications, and particularly as anti-inflammatory or anti-neurodegenerative compounds. The invention also relates to novel ways of producing long chain polyunsaturated acid (LCPUFA)-rich oils and compositions that contain enhanced and effective amounts of LCPUFA-derived oxylipins, and particularly, docosanoids.
US07884130B2
The invention relates to a gamma-undecenolactone of formula (i), wherein a lactonic cycle can carry an unsaturation between carbon No. 2 and carbon No. 3 and is preferably saturated, RI is a possibly substituted C7 alkenyl or alkynyl group having at least one unsaturation, and preferably RI is an CH2═CH—CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2 group, the gamma-undecenolactone contains an asymetric carbon in position 4 having (R) or (S) configuration. The biosynthesis of the gamma-undecenolactone and the use thereon for perfumery and for a food flavoring agent are also disclosed.
US07884127B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds for the inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinases, and more particularly, to chromenone derivatives of formula (Ic) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and A have the meanings indicated in the claims. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of the compounds of formula (Ia), to methods of inhibiting cyclin-dependent kinases and of inhibiting cell proliferation, to the use of the compounds of formula (Ic) in the treatment and prophylaxis of diseases, which can be treated or prevented by the inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinases such as cancer, to the use of the compounds of formula (Ic) in the preparation of medicaments to be applied in such diseases. The invention further relates to compositions containing a compound of formula (Ic) either alone or in combination with another active agent, in admixture or otherwise in association with an inert carrier, in particular pharmaceutical compositions containing a compound of formula (Ic) either alone or in combination with another active agent, together with pharmaceutically acceptable carrier substances and auxiliary substances.
US07884125B2
The present invention relates to a group of substituted-7-azabicyclo-[2.2.1]heptyl derivatives with biological activity. The present invention also relates to synthetic methods for producing said substituted-7-azabicyclo-[2.2.1]heptyl derivatives. The present invention also relates to certain intermediates for producing such substituted-7-azabicyclo-[2.2.1]heptyl derivatives, as well as a synthetic method for producing such intermediates. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such substituted-7-azabicyclo-[2.2.1]heptyl derivatives, as well as their use as medicaments for the treatment of diseases mediated by a Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor or a receptor being a member of the Neurotransmitter-gated Ion Channel Superfamily, such as pain, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy and nicotine addiction.
US07884124B2
This invention provides novel inhibitors of the enzyme D-amino acid oxidase as well as pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds of the invention. The invention also provides methods for the treatment and prevention of neurological disorders, such as neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as pain, ataxia and convulsion. The compounds of the invention have the general structure: wherein A is NH or S. Q is a member selected from CR1 and N. X and Y are members independently selected from O, S, CR2, N and NH. R1, R2 and R4 are members independently selected from H and F, provided that at least one member selected from R1, R2 and R4 is F. R6 is a member selected from O−X+ and OH, wherein X+ is a positive ion, which is a member selected from inorganic positive ions and organic positive ions.
US07884120B2
The present invention provides therapeutically effective 2,4,5-trisubstituted imidazole compounds, methods of preparing the same, and compositions comprising the compounds alone or in combination with other agents. The present invention further provides for the use of the compounds as anti-microbial agents. The anti-microbial properties of the compounds include anti-bacterial and/or anti-fungal activity.
US07884101B2
The present invention relates to certain 3-phenyl-pyrazole derivatives of Formula (Ia) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that modulate the activity of the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor and are useful, optionally in combination with other pharmaceutical agents administered separately or together, in the treatment of platelet aggregation, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, transient ischemic attack, angina, stroke, atrial fibrillation, reducing the risk of blood clot formation, asthma or symptoms thereof, agitation or a symptom, behavioral disorders, drug induced psychosis, excitative psychosis, Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome, manic disorder, organic or NOS psychosis, psychotic disorder, psychosis, acute schizophrenia, chronic schizophrenia, NOS schizophrenia and related disorders, and sleep disorders, sleep disorders, diabetic-related disorders, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and the like.
US07884100B2
The present invention provides substituted 8-[6-amino-3-pyridyl]xanthines like the compound shown in the following formula: and pharmaceutical compositions that are selective antagonists of A2B adenosine receptors (ARs). These compounds and compositions are useful as pharmaceutical agents.
US07884080B2
The present invention relates to Azetidinone Derivatives of structural formula 1: and compositions comprising an Azetidinone Derivative and methods for treating or preventing a disorder of lipid metabolism, pain, diabetes, a vascular condition, demyelination or nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, comprising administering to a patient an effective amount of an Azetidinone Derivative.
US07884076B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for preventing and treating gastrointestinal disorders by administering to a subject an effective amount of secretin either alone or in combination with an effective amount of oxytocin. The invention also provides compositions and methods for preventing and treating central nervous system disorders by administering to a subject an effective amount of secretin in combination with an effective amount of oxytocin. The invention further provides compositions and methods for treating and preventing a variety of autoimmune diseases by administering to a subject an effective amount of secretin in combination with an effective amount of oxytocin. Additionally, the invention provides compositions and methods for preventing and treating pain by administering to a subject using a combination of an effective amount of secretin and an effective amount of oxytocin. The invention also provides kits for use in treating and/or preventing gastrointestinal disorders, central nervous system disorders, autoimmune diseases and pain comprising a combination of secretin and oxytocin.
US07884072B2
The present invention provides a method of increasing neural stem cell numbers or neurogenesis by using prolactin. The method can be practiced in vivo to obtain more neural stem cells in situ, which can in turn produce more neurons or glial cells to compensate for lost or dysfunctional neural cells. The method can also be practiced in vitro to produce a large number of neural stem cells in culture. The cultured stem cells can be used, for example, for transplantation treatment of patients or animals suffering from neurodegenerative diseases or conditions. In addition, since neural stem cells are a source for olfactory neurons, the present invention also provides methods of increasing olfactory neurons and enhancing olfactory functions.
US07884070B2
A peptide including a first peptide sequence of formula KLAKLAK (SEQ ID NO:11)in which K is lysine, L is leucine and A is alanine, and a second peptide sequence of formula (B) in which B is a peptide of 4 to 15 amino acids positively charged at neutral pH, including at least one peptide motif of formula βxxβ (SEQ ID NO:13)in which β is a basic amino acid and X is any amino acid, and in which the first peptide sequence is repeated n times and the second peptide sequence is repeated m times, n and m being whole numbers between 1 and 5.
US07884063B2
A perfume-containing PIT emulsion which is suited to contribute to an excellent and long-lasting scenting of textiles during the use of a dryer. The PIT emulsion is simple for the user to handle and allows the user to better control the user's individual scent experience during the handling of textiles. The PIT emulsions can also be used for aroma therapy purposes and for the scenting of rooms. In addition, a kit made of detergents and the perfume-containing PIT emulsion, which enables the user to obtain optimal laundry scenting results.
US07884061B1
The present invention provided concentrated soap compositions, particularly those where long chain (>C14) soap and fatty acid comprise >50% of soap and fatty acid. The compositions are formulated in such reasons that, quite unpredictably, despite high soap concentration, they have viscosity which allow them to be pumped from, for example, consumer packaging (e.g., bottles) and/or transit or storage points during manufacture (e.g., pipes, storage tanks, etc.).
US07884060B1
The present invention provides concentrated soap compositions formulated in such a manner that, quite unpredictably, despite high concentration of soap, they have viscosity which allows them to be pumped from, for example, consumer packaging (e.g., bottles) and/or transit or storage points during manufacture (e.g., pipes, storage tanks, etc.).
US07884058B2
A stable colloidal suspension comprising: (a) a dispersed phase comprising a major amount of one or more dispersed hydrated polymeric compounds selected from the group consisting of polymolybdates, polytungstates, polyvanadates, polyniobates, polytantalates, polyuranates, and mixtures thereof, and, (b) an oil phase comprising one or more dispersing agents and a diluent oil. Processes for preparing the stable colloidal suspensions and their use in lubricating oil compositions are also provided.
US07884050B2
A band-shaped high-temperature superconductor (HTSL) with high critical current density can be produced economically in a wet-chemical process. In the process, a first precursor solution is applied to a carrier, dried, and annealed. Additional precursor solutions may then be applied, with the first precursor solution contain little or no pinning centers, and any subsequent precursor solutions contains a higher concentration of pinning centers than the first precursor solutions.
US07884046B2
A process for hydrogenating an organic compound which has at least one carbonyl group, in which the organic compound is hydrogenated in the presence of a shaped article which contains (i) an oxidic material comprising copper oxide, aluminum oxide and lanthanum oxide, and (ii) powdered metallic copper, copper flakes, powdered cement, graphite or a mixture thereof, is provided.
US07884044B2
The present invention relates to an electrocatalytic coating and an electrode having the coating thereon, wherein the coating is a mixed metal oxide coating, preferably platinum group metal oxides with or without valve metal oxides, and containing a transition metal component such as palladium, rhodium or cobalt. The electrocatalytic coating can be used especially as an anode component of an electrolysis cell for the electrolysis of a halogen-containing solution wherein the palladium component reduces the operating potential of the anode and eliminates the necessity of a “break-in” period to obtain the lowest anode potential.
