US08122091B2
A plurality of relationships of a user are analyzed. A social network of the user based upon, at least in part, the plurality of relationships of the user, is analyzed, the social network identifying one or more relationship users. A collaborative user is identified based upon, at least in part, a name input received from the user and the social network of the user.
US08122084B2
Systems and techniques to facilitate communications among individuals in an enterprise may use collaborative conversation channels that are associated with specific communities within the enterprise. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes defining communities within an enterprise and providing access to collaborative conversation channels through a user interface. Each collaborative conversation channel is associated with a specific community and has an associated set of message types. A request to send a message of a selected message type within one of the collaborative conversation channels may be received through the user interface. In response to the request, the message may be sent through the collaborative conversation channel.
US08122082B2
A method and system for determining whether a proxy is present in a communication link between a client and a server, and if so, certain characteristics of the proxy.
US08122081B2
A method and system for providing enhanced intelligent agents that are moveable by a user from a browser application to a desktop. In specific embodiments, agents provide advanced interactive graphics and communications back to a server.
US08122067B2
A data storage system for storing a number of versions of a number of objects, the versions of the objects being arranged in branch groups, wherein at least one version of at least one object defines a branch group, and wherein the versions of the objects are stored in accordance with their branch group, the system comprising an object versions table operable to include information relating to each version of each object and identifying, for each version of each object, a branch group to which the version of the object belongs and an object branches table operable to include information relating to each branch group and identifying, for each branch group, each version of each object that belongs to the branch group.
US08122064B2
A data sorting program that is capable of performing a data sorting process by using a small capacity of memory at a fast speed. A computer executing the data sorting program has the following functions. A concise ordered TRIE creator creates a root, sequentially reads the characters of each data, and when a prescribed number of data passed a certain node connected to the root before and a child node corresponding to a character next to a character associated with the certain node has not been created, creates the child node so that the child nodes of the certain node have a prescribed arrangement. A partition determination unit sets partitions between prescribed nodes. A data grouping unit groups the data into a plurality of data groups according to the partitions.
US08122058B2
System and method for creating, configuring, representing, and using variables in programs. A graphical user interface (GUI) may be displayed in response to user input requesting creation and/or configuration of a variable for use in or comprised in one or more programs, e.g., on various devices. User input is received to the GUI configuring attributes of the variable, including: name, data type, and/or scope (e.g., local, global, or network). The configured attributes are stored and optionally displayed, e.g., in a resource tree, and the variable in each of the programs updated in accordance with the configured attributes. When at least one of the programs is incompatible with the configured variable, an error condition may be indicated, e.g., by providing information relating to portions of the program that are incompatible with the configured variable. The program may be modified in response to user input for compatibility with the configured variable.
US08122055B2
Technologies are described herein for providing a hosted multi-tenant application that utilizes per-tenant unshared private databases. A shared middle-tier is utilized in conjunction with private, unshared databases for each of the tenants. The private, unshared databases are utilized to store application data for an associated tenant, along with any customizations to the application implemented by the tenant. A shared configuration database is also utilized that stores application data that is shared among the tenants. When a request is received from a tenant to access the hosted application, the shared configuration database is utilized to locate the private, unshared database associated with the tenant making the request. The contents of the private, unshared database associated with the tenant making the request are then utilized to response to the request.
US08122051B2
Identifying a source of user referral for a media publishing website includes: storing a referring URL in a cookie variable; retrieving the referring URL from the cookie variable during a registration process to enter the media publishing website; dynamically customizing a home page of the media publishing website according to the referring URL; and adding a distinction between original and current session referrals.
US08122044B2
The present invention automatically generates an object model from a dimensional model. The object model can then be queried using object oriented expressions.
US08122033B2
A method, system, and computer program product for optimizing database queries in a data processing system. A query optimization (QO) utility maximizes the query coverage of Materialized Query Tables (MQTs) in order to efficiently process various types of incoming queries to a database engine. In particular, the QO utility enables MQT technology for nullable foreign key columns in a number of table joins involving fact tables and dimension tables, in which the fact tables and dimension tables have column data which are not null. The QO utility also enables MQT query matching for a relational database engine for non-additive measures, and improves the performance of existing query-matching capabilities for a relational database engine for additive measures. The QO utility specifies a number of functionally dependent relationships between the columns of a table in order to enhance the query matching abilities of the database engine.
US08122025B2
A communication log storage section stores a communication log of emails exchanged with an external device over an external network. An acquisition destination-selecting section reads out the communication log and identifies an other-end party with whom a target user has performed transmission and reception of emails not less than a predetermined number of times to select the other-end party as an information acquisition destination. An information location-generating section extracts key information related to a location of information at the information acquisition destination contained in the emails transmitted and received to and from the information acquisition destination, to generate information location information. The information location information is stored in an information location-accumulating section. An information acquisition device acquires the information based on the information location information accumulated in the information location-accumulating section.
US08122022B1
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for determining an abbreviation for a term. During operation, the system receives a candidate abbreviation for the term. If the term is a compound term comprised of a number of constituent terms, the system then determines if the candidate abbreviation is substantially equal to at least one of the constituent terms. If so, the system determines that the candidate abbreviation is not an abbreviation for the term.
US08122019B2
A universal distributed search system allows users to find and distribute search results (possibly including advertisements) to those with whom they communicate. The search results can be easily distributed by the user via a simple interface that allows the search results to be easily added to the user's content. In one implementation, the search results may be automatically generated by the system based on user input to a content creation application.
US08122008B2
A method for joining tables in multiple heterogeneous distributed databases implemented by at least two data sources accessible to a federal database server over a network includes: transmitting from the federated database server a sub-command to a first of the data sources responsive to the federated database server receiving a data query; retrieving, with the federated database server, block data from the first data source related to the data query using block fetching according to the sub-command; transmitting, with the federated database server, at least a portion of the block data to a second of the data sources together with an instruction for the second data source to perform a join operation on the portion of the block data and a data table stored by the second data source related to the query; and retrieving a result of the join operation with the federated database server.
US08121995B2
The invention provides a support system for searching for a function, including: a first storage for storing a history of at least one output parameter of each of a plurality of functions; an input section for receiving an input of an output parameter expected as an output of a function for a search; a calculating section for calculating first indexes respectively indicating proximity of the output parameter as inputted to each of those stored in the first storage, and summing the calculated first indexes for each function; and an output section for selecting, from among the plurality of functions, a function having a sum of the first indexes larger than a predetermined value, and outputting the selected function.
US08121992B2
A mechanism works in conjunction with a DB2® Log and an analysis tool, such as BMC's Log Master™, to handle logged data for Large Objects (LOBs) stored in tables of a DB2 database system. A plurality of controls track data logged for the LOBs. The mechanism reads log records from a DB2 Log and uses the controls to determine which of the tracked LOBs is associated with the log records and obtains data from those associated log records. The mechanism builds keys to index the data and stores the keys and the data in a Virtual Storage Access Method store having Key Sequenced Data Sets maintained separate from the log record store for the DB2 Log. When requested by the analysis tool, the data in the store can be reassembled using the keys and map records in the first store that map the logged data for the tracked LOBs.
US08121991B1
Systems, methods and computer readable media for identifying transient paths within websites. Transient paths can be identified, for example, by identifying a path associated with known transient content and determining that the path exists on other pages associated with the website. If the path exists in other web pages associated with the website, the content associated with the path can be identified as transient content.
US08121986B2
A processor selects file system metadata. A processor identifies each unit of data in a file system. The processor determines if the unit of data contains file system metadata. The processor writes a unit of data of metadata to a diagnostic file system, provided it was determined that the unit of data contains file system metadata. The processor then determines if the unit of data contains user data. If the unit of data contains user data, the processor writes a sparse object to the diagnostic file.
US08121974B2
Provided are a method of generating a node identifier including padding information and location information, in a tree structure, a computer-readable storage medium storing a program for executing a method of generating a node identifier in a tree structure, and a terminal apparatus using the tree structure. The location information is generated by using branch identifiers, each of the branch identifiers being allocated for each branch from a root node to a target node. The padding information is generated by a padding code, which includes information about a group of the target node, and depth information, which includes information about a level of the target node in the tree structure.
US08121973B2
An event handling system to schedule and translate semantic deductions form Intelligent Agents and sensors into events capable of being made observable by a Recipient system such as monitor that provides a particular view of virtual objects and events is disclosed. The event handling system also encapsulates the system's notion of time. In fact, a human observer can shift the system along the temporal axis (up to the present) in order to replay events, or undertake analyses as a result of speeded-up or slowed-down notions of system time. The event handling system receives events from Clients/Sources via connections through the event handling system Input Portals, and uses Shared Memory as its form of inter-process communication with the Monitors. The event handling system makes events available for a recipient observation sub-system to read and provide their particular view. There can be many Clients and Recipient systems connected to the event handling system at the same time.
US08121957B1
In a computing system, in response to an order placed by a customer, a request for verification information is received from a merchant. Customer information is communicated to an issuing organization associated with the customer, while the information is withheld from the merchant. The merchant is connected for communication with the issuing organization for verification of information associated with the order.
US08121949B2
A method for providing a warranty relating to a transaction between two parties, each party having a data communications device, in a system which includes an infrastructure composed of a plurality of locations each associated with a respective institution which provides services to clients, each location having a computer system, a database coupled to the computer system and storing information about each client of the institution and a data communications device coupled to the computer system for communication with the data communications device of any one party, each party being a client of at least one of the institutions, the method containing the steps of: transmitting a request for a warranty from one party to the transaction which is a client of the respective institution to a respective location associated with the respective institution, which request includes information identifying the other party to the transaction and information about the nature of the transaction; conducting an exchange of information between the respective location and a location associated with a institution of which the other party is a client; and transmitting a response to the request from the respective location to the one party.
US08121944B2
An exemplary method and system may include receiving one or more payment items from a plurality of payment entities, at a centralized agent, wherein the one or more payment items comprise one or more electronic images and paper instruments; aggregating the payment items into one or more categories; identifying a payee financial institution and a payor financial institution for each payment items, wherein the payee financial institution and the payor financial institution are different; determining whether the payee financial institution and the payor financial institution are within the network of financial institutions; for the payee and payor within the network, determining at the centralized agent a settlement path within the network of financial institutions for each payment item; and for the payee and payor that are not within the network, forwarding the payment items to a third party settlement entity by the centralized agent for settlement processing.
US08121939B2
A computer implemented method for assessing different expected payment behavior of a debtor with respect to different creditors.
US08121937B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means for gathering, organizing and presenting on a real time basis information pertinent to Risks associated with subjects related to the Gaming Industry. Risks associated with the Gaming Industry can be managed by gathering data relevant to the Gaming Industry from multiple sources and aggregating the gathered data according to one or more risk variables. An inquiry relating to a risk subject can be received and portions of the aggregated data can be associated with the risk subject. The associated portions of the aggregated data can be transmitted to an entity placing the inquiry or other designated destination.
US08121934B2
A method of creating and trading packaged standard option collars on an exchange is provided, as well as a trading facility for trading such packaged standard option collars. Collars are created by identifying an underlying asset, a first leg of a collar is determined by determining the desired strike price for the first leg and selecting a standard option contract traded on the exchange having a strike price closest to the desired strike price. The second leg is determined by selecting another standard option, the opposite of the first leg, having an option price substantially offsetting the option price of the first leg. Once the legs of the collar have been selected the collar package may be listed on the exchange, and orders for the collars may be processed by matching orders for opposite positions in the collar.
US08121933B1
System, method, and program for preventing gaming in a trading system. The systems, methods and programs can receive an order from a trader to trade securities in an alternative trading system, determine if gaming is occurring, set a price collar for the order, and submit the order to the alternative trading system with the price collar.
US08121932B2
The present disclosure is directed towards apparatuses, systems and methods to facilitate the pricing, sales and delivery of a commodity fuel to a Customer. In one embodiment, the disclosure teaches a Fuel Offer Generator that facilitates the purchase and management of fuel offerings. The Fuel Offer Generator allows Customers interested in securing fuel to obtain an offer for fuel at lock-in prices for various tenors. Fuel Customers can buy these fuel offers such that they may later exercise the fuel offers so their fuel costs are locked-in at desired levels (e.g., they may be set to strike prices). The Fuel Offer Generator also can establish a Premium Price that will be part of the fuel offer. The Fuel Offer Generator may generate hedges to counteract fuel related risks stemming from fuel offer purchases. Ultimately, a customer that purchases a fuel offering can exercise their fuel offering order at a specified price and redeem any difference between the market price for their purchased fuel and the price specified in their fuel offering order. The Fuel Offer Generator employs a geographical fuel pump location metric as well as consumer redemption to establish the pricing of fuel offerings.
US08121931B2
The present disclosure is directed towards apparatuses, systems and methods to facilitate the pricing, sales and delivery of a commodity fuel to a Customer. In one embodiment, the disclosure teaches a Fuel Offer Generator that facilitates the purchase and management of fuel offerings. The Fuel Offer Generator allows Customers interested in securing fuel to obtain an offer for fuel at lock-in prices for various tenors. Fuel Customers can buy these fuel offers such that they may later exercise the fuel offers so their fuel costs are locked-in at desired levels (e.g., they may be set to strike prices). The Fuel Offer Generator also can establish a Premium Price that will be part of the fuel offer. The Fuel Offer Generator may generate hedges to counteract fuel related risks stemming from fuel offer purchases. Ultimately, a customer that purchases a fuel offering can exercise their fuel offering order at a specified price and redeem any difference between the market price for their purchased fuel and the price specified in their fuel offering order. The Fuel Offer Generator employs a geographical fuel pump location metric as well as consumer purchasing behavior to establish the pricing of fuel offerings.
US08121928B2
Disclosed herein are methods of automatically reimbursing a customs broker for payments made to a customs agency on behalf of an importer. The methods include procedures for balancing broker payments and for automatically verifying that data provided by the broker coincides with data provided with shipments of imported goods. The methods further include procedures for adjusting broker payments where deviations are detected in the verification processes.
US08121894B2
An Early Payment Discount (EPD) mechanism that enables customers to automatically receive an early payment discount for paying their invoice electronically, e.g., via electronic funds transfer (EFT), through an e-Billing system within a designated number of days from on-line invoice post date.
US08121864B2
Methods and systems for adjudicating claims in health services environments are presented. An exemplary method for processing service provider claims for payment includes receiving a claim for payment, automatically identifying candidate appointments from a plurality of scheduled appointments based on a degree of similarity between service information associated with the received claim and appointment information associated with the scheduled appointments, analyzing the candidate appointments to determine whether to flag the received claim for resolution, and presenting the received claim for payment when at least one of the candidate appointments corresponds to the received claim. Optionally, the method includes automatically identifying already processed claims based on a degree of similarity between service information associated with the already processed claims and the service information associated with the received claim, analyzing the identified already processed claims to determine whether the received claim is a duplicate claim, and flagging potentially duplicate claims for resolution.
US08121856B2
A method and system for remote diagnostic monitoring of a healthcare device, for example, a patient support system. The system includes a communication device configured to transmit sensor data received from a sensor system coupled to the patient support system and configured to generate sensor data relating to diagnostic information of the healthcare device. The communication device can also be configured to receive configuration data for configuring at least one of the healthcare device and the sensor system. The monitoring device is located geographically distant from the healthcare device, is coupled to the communication adapter by a datalink, for example, a telecommunication network, and is configured to receive the sensor data. The monitoring device is configured to determine, based on the received data, whether service or replacement of the healthcare device or a portion thereof is indicated.
US08121852B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for intellectual property asset selection and protection. In an embodiment, an intellectual property selection system receives from an innovator an innovation submission describing an innovation. An intellectual property protection system receives at least a portion of the innovation submission and manages obtaining an intellectual property legal right related to the innovation. An intellectual property asset management system receives and stores at least one of an innovation description is based at least in part on the at least a portion of the innovation submission and the intellectual property legal right description is based at least in part on the intellectual property legal right.
US08121848B2
Embodiments related to utilizing substantially optimal entries for a relatively low complexity dictionary for matching pursuits coding is disclosed. In various embodiments, methods are invoked for determining a substantially optimal entry from a bases dictionary comprising a plurality of entries; and utilizing the substantially optimal entry in a relatively low complexity matching pursuits data coding. In various embodiments, a system is provided comprising a bases dictionary comprising a plurality of entries each with a width of 15 or less; a signal to be coded; and a selection module configured to receive at least one of the plurality of entries from the bases dictionary, to calculate an inner product between the at least one of the plurality of entries and the signal to be coded, and to select the entry from the at least one of the plurality of entries that produces a maximum inner product for use in at least partially coding the signal to be coded. In various embodiments, instructions for the invoked methods are stored in computer-readable media.
US08121842B2
Architecture for playing a document converted into an audio format to a user of an audio-output capable device. The user can interact with the device to control play of the audio document such as pause, rewind, forward, etc. In more robust implementation, the audio-output capable device is a mobile device (e.g., cell phone) having a microphone for processing voice input. Voice commands can then be input to control play (“reading”) of the document audio file to pause, rewind, read paragraph, read next chapter, fast forward, etc. A communications server (e.g., email, attachments to email, etc.) transcodes text-based document content into an audio format by leveraging a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. The transcoded audio files are then transferred to mobile devices through viable transmission channels. Users can then play the audio-formatted document while freeing hand and eye usage for other tasks.
US08121841B2
A text-to-speech system adapted to operate on text in a first language including sections in a second language, includes a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor for converting the sections in the second language into phonemes of the second language; a mapping module configured for mapping at least part of the phonemes of the second language onto sets of phonemes of the first language; and a speech-synthesis module adapted to be fed with a resulting stream of phonemes including the sets of phonemes of the first language resulting from mapping and the stream of phonemes of the first language representative of the text, and to generate a speech signal from the resulting stream of phonemes.
US08121837B2
Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for adjusting a speech engine for a mobile computing device based on background noise, the mobile computing device operatively coupled to a microphone, that include: sampling, through the microphone, background noise for a plurality of operating environments in which the mobile computing device operates; generating, for each operating environment, a noise model in dependence upon the sampled background noise for that operating environment; and configuring the speech engine for the mobile computing device with the noise model for the operating environment in which the mobile computing device currently operates.
US08121832B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a high frequency signal by using a low frequency signal. The high frequency signal can be encoded by extracting a coefficient by linear predicting a high frequency signal, and encoding the coefficient, generating a signal by using the extracted coefficient and a low frequency signal, and encoding the high frequency signal by calculating a ratio between the high frequency signal and an energy value of the generated signal. Also, the high frequency signal can be decoded by decoding a coefficient, which is extracted by linear predicting a high frequency signal, and a low frequency signal, and generating a signal by using the decoded coefficient and the decoded low frequency signal, and adjusting the generated signal by decoding a ratio between the generated signal and an energy value of the high frequency signal.
US08121831B2
Provided are a method, apparatus, and medium for encoding/decoding a high frequency band signal by using a low frequency band signal corresponding to an audio signal or a speech signal. Accordingly, since the high frequency band signal is encoded and decoded by using the low frequency band signal, encoding and decoding can be carried out with a small data size while avoiding deterioration of sound quality.
US08121826B1
A design tool for designing a system includes a display device with a first visualization pane showing a symbolic representation of a connection between a first port and a second port of the system and a second visualization pane showing an unconnected port of the system. A text entry pane on the display device shows a textual definition of the connection. An optional status pane shows a textual log of user-performed actions relating to construction of the system.
US08121816B2
A computer-implemented method may include measuring a performance of a virtual channel carrying packets through a transport network for a time period, measuring a performance of an ingress interface to the transport network carrying the virtual channel packets for the time period, and measuring a performance of an internal interface carrying the virtual channel packets internal to the transport network for the time period. The computer-implemented method may determine that the performance of the virtual channel during the time period does not meet a first performance standard, and, when the performance of the virtual channel does not meet the first performance standard, may automatically determine whether the performance of the ingress interface meets a second performance standard and whether the performance of the internal interface meets a third performance standard.
US08121810B2
A method for reducing the receipt of multiple signals in a portable information handling system (IHS) is closed including receiving a first signal corresponding to a detected lid position of the portable IHS. The method further includes determining if a first predetermined amount of time has elapsed and if the first predetermined amount of time has not elapsed, preventing the receipt of an additional signal corresponding to a change in the detected lid position. Further, a portable information handling system may include a lid, a base coupled to the lid and a sensor disposed on the lid or base, wherein the sensor detects a lid position. The system further includes a processor coupled to the sensor, wherein the processor generates a first signal corresponding to the lid position and the processor is operable to generate an additional signal corresponding to a change in the lid position.
US08121809B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for use in a device, such as a handheld printer or scanner, having functionality that requires information of its position relative to an origin and initial orientation. The module includes two sensors to generate movement data indicative of movement direction and orientation changes of the device. The location and orientation of the device relative to the origin and initial orientation is derived based on the movement data. A handheld printer or scanner implementing the device may thus be moved in different directions across a media to print or scan images, text, or other objects.
US08121808B2
Systems and methods for location, motion, and contact detection and tracking in a portable networked device are disclosed. A portable device may include a motion detection unit including an accelerometer for detecting accelerations in one or more axes. Signals associated with the detected motion are processed to generate estimates of device acceleration, velocity, and relative and absolute locations. Additional processing may be performed to detect user gestures or other user input relevant to portable device control. Particular motion or vibrational characteristics may be also be detected and used by other processes in the portable device.
US08121804B2
A method for determining characteristics of a multi-material object is provided. The method includes determining an electric element matrix representing the multi-material object. The electric element matrix is pre-multiplied by a first mathematical transformation matrix to obtain a first transformed electric element matrix. The first transformed electric element matrix is post-multiplied with a second mathematical transformation matrix to obtain a second transformed electric element matrix. The method further includes determining the characteristics of the multi-material object based on the second transformed electric element matrix.
US08121801B2
Systems and methods are provided for use in an IED that perform high resolution waveform capture to generate multi-rate waveform data in real-time. In one embodiment, high-resolution sampled data is dynamically pre-ordered into separate high resolution and low resolution data streams for presentation and storage. This pre-ordering of data is optimized so as to minimize the amount of data manipulation required to prepare the sampled data for eventual presentation and storage in the IED. Pre-ordering of data facilitates minimum performance impact so that continuous real-time data capture can be achieved.
US08121799B2
A method of estimating the life of a heater wire, including the steps of: detecting a maximum value of electric power supplied to the heater wire during a temperature rising period during which a temperature is elevated to a preset heating temperature, obtaining an index indicative of the amplitude of the electric power, and giving a notice that the heater wire is approaching the end of its life when the electric power and the index indicative of the of amplitude of the electric power exceed threshold values respectively provided thereto.
US08121784B2
Automatically presenting content to an occupant of a vehicle as the vehicle traverses a route (e.g., during a test drive or other drive event). Content items are associated with GPS coordinates the route. A GPS device on the vehicle identifies the vehicle location as the vehicle traverses the route, and content item associated with particular locations is presented to the occupant of the vehicle. Audio and/or video of the occupant may be captured and stored on a computing device remote from the vehicle. The captured audio and/or video represents feedback from the occupant during the drive event.
US08121783B2
The present invention relates to a method for selective filtering of a flight plan according to the operational needs, and it is characterized in that elements specific to the structure of the flight plan are added by the flight management system according to the nature of the elements inserted by the operator onto the flight plan, in order to determine whether these elements should or should not be taken into account for their use in the computations relating to the flight plan. This operator may, on his MMI (man-machine interface) carry out visual filterings of certain characteristic points or portions of the flight plan. This method makes it possible to add elements to a flight plan without modifying its essence and above all the maneuvers that are associated therewith.
US08121782B2
A system for providing information is disclosed. The system has a server which stores page descriptors. A printer is also includes which prints a printed page with visible and invisible data. The invisible data is indicative of one or more of the page descriptors. A sensing device senses the invisible data when placed in an operative position relative to the printed page, and transmits information extracted from sensed invisible data to the server. The server is configured to interpret the positioning of the sensing device based upon the page descriptors indicated by sensed invisible data and to provide information associated with the page descriptors.
US08121776B2
An incident resolution judgment system and method are provided which reduce processing load on a traffic information center included in an incident detection system. When an incident occurs, the traffic information center generates an incident resolution judgment condition, which is used by each vehicle to judge whether the incident is resolved, and transmits the generated incident resolution judgment condition to each vehicle. Each vehicle judges in accordance with its travel history information and the received incident resolution judgment condition whether the incident is resolved. When the incident is judged to be resolved, each vehicle notifies the traffic information center that the incident is resolved. In accordance with incident resolution detection results produced by a plurality of vehicles, the traffic information center forms a final judgment to indicate that the incident is actually resolved and notifies each vehicle of incident resolution.
US08121774B2
An exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system for an engine and a method of operating that system is disclosed. The system has a conduit arrangement for conducting exhaust gas from an exhaust side of the engine to an intake side of the engine, a valve arrangement configured for controlling the amount of exhaust gas to be recirculated and a conduit arrangement for providing intake air to the intake side of the engine. A sensor arrangement is provided and is configured to sense at least one parameter indicative of the humidity of the recirculated exhaust gas and the intake air at the intake side of the engine. A control arrangement is configured to receive a signal from the first sensor arrangement and further is configured to control the valve arrangement in response to a determination by the control arrangement that the first parameter is outside a desired range for low-NOx emission during a subsequent combustion period.
US08121773B2
The present invention relates to a method and to an instrument for determining the limiting margin of a surveillance parameter of a turboshaft engine. During a preliminary stage, a secondary processor means (11) determines a preliminary comfort margin. Thereafter, during a main stage, it estimates a useful comfort margin from the preliminary comfort margin, and then an apparent difference between the current value and the limit value of the surveillance parameter, and finally the limiting margin by subtracting the useful comfort margin from the apparent difference.
US08121769B2
Vehicle descent is controlled in at least one implementation by comparing an engine braking torque to a target engine braking torque, and controlling one or more vehicle brakes to maintain the engine braking torque substantially at the target engine braking torque. The target engine braking torque may be varied as a function of one or more factors or conditions, such as accelerator position or brake application pressure.
US08121756B2
Disclosed is a device for influencing the driving dynamics of a vehicle with an electronic brake system. The device includes a brake actuator for adjusting a brake torque at least one wheel brake of the vehicle. The brake torque can be determined in a torque distributing device according to a yaw torque requirement. A first control unit can be activated in the presence of a critical driving condition as is used to determine a first yaw torque requirement due to driving dynamics control. A management device (12) has a second control unit, which can be activated in the presence of a subcritical driving condition, and a second yaw torque requirement (R:D_GM) can be determined by the second control unit due to driving dynamics control, and the second yaw torque requirement (R:D_GM) can be sent to the torque distributing device (20), and an activated state of the first control unit a signal (I:EBS_Status; R: D_GM; R:[S1, S2, . . . ]) can be sent from the electronic brake system (2) to the management device (12), which causes deactivation of the second control unit.
US08121754B2
Apparatus and methodology for inductively coupling tire rotations related signals to a tire electronics module associated with a tire are provided. The tire electronics module is configured to receive the tire rotation related signals through inductive transmission from a signal transmission module that includes at least a piezoelectric element and a transmitter inductor. The signal transmitter module and the tire electronics module may be physically separated from each other and may be separately or collectively encased in a protective coating.
US08121752B2
A flight recorder includes an information input device, heat sensitive memory device electrically connected to the information input device, and housing enclosing the heat sensitive memory device. The housing is made with a first material and having a plurality of openings made through the housing. A sacrificial material is disposed between the housing and heat sensitive memory device. The sacrificial material having a lower melting temperature than the first material such that the sacrificial material changes state and egresses through the openings in the housing when exposed to heat to create an air gap between the housing and heat sensitive memory device. The first material includes nickel and the sacrificial material includes aluminum. A heat insulating layer is disposed between the sacrificial material and heat sensitive memory device. A second sacrificial material is disposed between the heat insulating layer and heat sensitive memory device.
US08121749B1
Methods and systems of controlling an autonomous vehicle are provided. A method comprises controlling operations of the vehicle based at least in part on edge costs. An edge is a representation of a path the vehicle can traverse. Edge costs are determined by an estimation system and are based on at least one of an estimated travel time for an edge and a traverse-ability of the edge. The method further comprises sensing conditions of edges the vehicle is traversing and based on the sensed conditions, dynamically updating the edge costs.
US08121745B2
Methods and apparatuses for displaying and receiving tactical and strategic flight guidance information are disclosed. A method in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes displaying at least one first indicator to an operator of the aircraft, with a first indicator corresponding to a first instruction input by the operator for directing a first aircraft behavior and implemented upon receiving an activation instruction from the operator. At least one second indicator corresponding to a second instruction for directing a second aircraft behavior at least proximately the same as the first aircraft behavior is displayed, with the at least one second instruction to be automatically implemented at a future time. The at least one second indicator is at least approximately the same as the at least one first indicator. Indicators can be hierarchically organized to simplify presentation and reduce pilot training time.
US08121744B2
The present disclosure provides a control system for a heating element used in an oxygen sensor. The control system comprises a rate module that periodically determines a rate of change of current through the heating element and a temperature adjustment module that periodically compares the rate of change and a rate value. The temperature adjustment module selectively adjusts an operating temperature of the oxygen sensor between a normal temperature and a remedial temperature lower than the normal temperature based on the comparison of the rate of change and the rate value. The present disclosure also provides a related control method for the heating element.
US08121740B2
A soft PLC technology based computer-implemented method includes updating a system configuration incidence matrix for an electric power distribution system based on both a depth-first search of a connectivity matrix for the electric power distribution system and information about the electric power distribution system, wherein the information includes at least status information about one or more switches of the electric power distribution system. The method further includes detecting a fault in the system based on the incidence matrix. The method further includes generating isolation control logic based on the incidence matrix and isolating the fault based on isolation control logic. The method further includes generating restoration control logic based on a breadth-first search of the incidence matrix and restoring the system based on the restoration control logic.
US08121730B2
The present invention relates to an obstacle detection device, adapted for an autonomous mobile system, which comprises: a conducting wire, a first unit and a second unit. The first unit further comprises a first conducting part, electrically connected to an end of the conducting wire; and the second unit further comprises a second conducting part, electrically connected to another end of the conducting wire other than that connecting to the first conducting part. As an abnormality, such as the autonomous mobile system comes into contact with an obstacle, or misses a step, is happening and detected by the obstacle detection device, a reactive force will be generated to force the two conducting parts to contact with each other so as to enable an electrical conduction for issuing an electrical signal to the control unit of the autonomous mobile system and thus enabling the autonomous mobile system to react with respect to the abnormality.
US08121727B2
The invention is an article vending machine comprising a plurality of article storage compartments covered by displaceable thermal barriers that are opened by an opener. The invention further comprises a cooling unit, an article extractor for extracting selected articles from the storage compartments, and a control center. Each article storage compartment has a displaceable thermal barrier that is opened and closed by an opener. Each displaceable thermal barrier is capable of being opened and closed independently of all other displaceable thermal barriers. During the vending cycle, only the displaceable thermal barrier covering the storage compartment accessed by the article extractor is opened, which prevents ambient air from mixing with cooled air in storage compartments not accessed by the article extractor. If a displaceable thermal barrier cannot be opened because it has frozen shut or the opener has broken, the remaining displaceable thermal barriers with functioning openers still can be opened.
US08121724B2
In response to a transfer request, for which a loading time at a transfer source and a loading time at a transfer target are designated by a production controller, there is created a transfer scenario, which contains a basic transfer (From) from the transfer source to a buffer near the transfer target, for example, and a basic transfer (To) from the buffer to the transfer target. In order that the basic transfers (From, To) may be able to be executed, the buffer is reserved, and a transfer vehicle is allocated. The time period for the transfer vehicle to run to the transfer source or the buffer and the time period for the transfer vehicle to run from the transfer source or the buffer are estimated to assign a transfer command to the transfer vehicle. The possibility that the loading and the loading time may deviate from a designated period is evaluated. In case this possibility is high, a production controller is informed that a just-in-time transfer is difficult.
US08121723B2
A substrate transfer system includes a substrate storing apparatus for storing therein one or more substrates; at least one substrate processing apparatus for performing a predetermined processing on the substrate; and a substrate transfer apparatus for transferring the substrate by moving between the substrate storing apparatus and the substrate processing apparatus, the substrate transfer apparatus including at least one substrate transfer unit for supporting the substrate, unloading the substrate from the substrate storing apparatus or the substrate processing apparatus, and loading the substrate into the substrate storing apparatus of the substrate processing apparatus. The substrate transfer apparatus moves while supporting the substrate by the substrate transfer unit.
US08121720B2
A tool-path calculation apparatus for a numerical controlled system and a method for operating the same are applied to a CNC tool machine. The tool-path calculation apparatus includes an upper controller and a servo driver. Firstly, an interpreter is provided to interpret the tool paths to produce a plurality of executable instructions. Afterward, the executable instructions are sent from the upper controller to the servo driver through a serial communication interface and stored in a queue buffer. Finally, the executable instructions are received and calculated by a tool path calculator to produce a plurality of points along the tool paths.
US08121719B2
A method of electronically representing manufacturing flow is provided. The method allows a manufacturer to electronically track an infinite number of attributes related to components used in the production of a finished product. Using these attributes, the manufacturer can perform product recalls based upon information pertinent to a malfunctioning part, rather than a statistical recall. This allows a manufacturer to perform a recall without having to recall substantially more products than necessary.
US08121717B2
A three-dimensional processing data setting system comprises an information input device for inputting information on a shape of a three-dimensional work surface to be processed and information on a processing pattern to be specified, a display for displaying a work surface representing the shape information virtually in three dimensions thereon, and a coordinate conversion means for converting data describing the pattern information in two dimensions to three-dimensional space coordinate data so that a pattern representing the pattern information virtually matches with the work surface on the display, thereby generating and setting the three-dimensional processing data.
US08121710B2
The present invention is a system for electronically controlling the movement of a pin assembly used in a valve gate mechanism of an injection molding machine. The system of the present invention includes at least one valve which is part of an injection molding machine, as well as a graphical user interface which is operable for controlling the injection molding machine and the valve. Additionally, the present invention also includes controlling the injection molding machine electronically for improving the control over the opening and closing of the valves.
US08121709B2
The invention relates to a method for comparing variable values obtained from different versions of an application program in an automated system. An input signal obtained from an automated process is inputted to at least two different versions of the application program residing within a same controller. The same tasks are executed based on the input signal for the different versions, and process related variable values obtained from the execution of the versions are stored in memory locations known by the controller. Variable values from the different versions and derived from corresponding execution steps of the versions are retrieved from the memory locations, and compared during an idle time. An improved way of revising an automation system is thereby achieved. The invention also relates to such controller and an automation system.
US08121705B2
The present invention reduces patient risks associated with RF-induced thermogenic tissue damage and with pulsed gradient-field-induced arrhythmias by using a defibrillator lead having a self-healing dielectric material that prevents induced voltages from MRI equipment from damaging an ICD or causing unintended defibrillation shocks to a patient. Another aspect of the present invention utilizes a sliding contact arrangement to prevent induced voltages from MRI equipment from being electrically coupled to an ICD thereby reducing patient risks associated with RF-induced thermogenic tissue damage and with pulsed gradient-field-induced arrhythmias.
US08121698B2
Contrast between various frequency components of sound is enhanced through a lateral suppression strategy to provide increased speech perception in the electrically stimulated cochlea. A received audio signal is divided into a plurality of input signals, wherein each input signal is associated with a frequency band. A plurality of envelope signals are generated by determining the envelope of each of a plurality of the input signals. At least one of the envelope signals is scaled in accordance with a scaling factor to generate at least one scaled envelope signal. An output signal is generated by combining at least one envelope signal with at least one scaled envelope signal, and the cochlea is stimulated based on the generated output signal. The lateral suppression strategy can be applied to one or more frequency bands using scaled amplitude signals associated with one or more neighboring frequency bands.
US08121689B2
An external device includes a communication circuit, a programming interface including a display, and a processor. The processor includes a parameter analyzer to apply a rule to a combination of operating parameter values of the IMD to determine operating parameter interaction. The display includes a first warning that is displayed when the parameter analyzer determines that a combination of operating parameter values entered via the programming interface is not allowed, and a second warning that is displayed when the parameter analyzer determines that a combination of operating parameters values entered via the programming interface is allowable but not recommended. The processor is configured to program the operating parameter values associated with the second warning into the IMD only after a user acknowledgement of the second warning is received from a user via the programming interface.
US08121683B2
An external automatic defibrillator including an attachment device that can be externally attached and carried by a patient, an identification device for detecting an abnormal event in the cardiac activity, which can be treated by an electric shock, as well as a defibrillator allowing to exert a shock upon the patient after having detected the abnormal event. In order to ensure reliable functioning over a longer period of time, the identification device is configured so that the identification device can detect an abnormal event in an interval of not more than 90 seconds or one minute.
US08121679B2
A Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator (TENS) and electrode pad that is capable simultaneously of delivering hot or cold thermal therapy for the relief of pain.
US08121678B2
An operating mode of an implantable medical device can be selected using at least one of a current or a voltage provided in response to a magnetic field sensed using a Hall effect sensor.
US08121675B2
Detection of atrial fibrillation involves detecting a plurality of ventricular events and obtaining a series of probabilities of AF, each corresponding to a probability of AF for a different beat window having a plurality of ventricular events. AF onset is detected when one or each of a plurality of consecutive AF probabilities satisfies an AF trigger threshold. AF termination is detected when one or each of a plurality of consecutive AF probabilities does not satisfy the AF trigger threshold. Upon detection of AF onset, ventricular events are processed to detect for a sudden onset of irregularity of the ventricular events. AF onset is confirmed when sudden onset is detected and overturned when sudden onset is not detected.
US08121674B2
A method and system for characterizing one beat of a patient's supraventricular rhythm are described. A plurality of templates is provided and updated using a plurality of qualified beats. Updating occurs by temporally aligning the shock channel waveforms of the template beats using rate channel fiducial points. The template beats are combined by point-by-point addition of the shock channel waveforms. The resultant updated template characterizes one of the patient's supraventricular conducted cardiac beats.
US08121669B2
Region of interest (ROI) corresponding to a soft tissue mass are tracked in a training video acquired by sonography. The locations of the ROI are used to construct a directed graph in which each node represents a location of the tracked ROI, and the edges represent temporal relations of the ROIs. The soft tissue mass can also be tracked using the graph, and appropriate treatment can be delivered.
US08121664B2
A sensor for sensing physiological signal from outside the human body, said sensor comprising an electrode for abutment against the skin; and a transmission conductor electrically connected to said electrode, said transmission conductor formed from a flexible material, wherein in use a substrate is disposed between the skin and said transmission conductor, and said substrate is permeable to moisture and air thereby exposing said transmission conductor to said moisture.
US08121663B2
In one aspect, the invention features a method and device for measuring blood concentration of a substance such as glucose in the aqueous humor by illuminating the aqueous humor with a light source at a frequency that is absorbed by the substance to the measured, and then sensing photoacoustically generated sound waves originated within the aqueous humor as a consequence of illumination by the light source. The blood concentration can be estimated from the amplitude of the sound waves received. The method may be combined with other optical techniques for glucose measurement and/or with optical or ultrasonic techniques for topographic mapping of eye structures.
US08121660B2
A semi-automatically sliding mobile terminal includes a first main body, a second main body, a hinge unit, and a guide line. The second main body slides on the upper side of the first main body. The hinge unit includes a coupler coupled to the first main body and a spring unit compressing and expanding in a lateral direction. The guide unit includes a curved line having an ascending curved line, a crest, and a descending curved line that are formed in a longitudinal direction. When the second main body moves, the spring unit compresses or expands along the guide line. The spring unit compresses before passing over the crest and expands after passing over the crest. After the crest, the second main body moves semi-automatically due to elastic force of the spring unit.
US08121654B2
A method and apparatus for removing an echo signal in a signal transmission/reception apparatus of a communication system is provided. A signal transmission/reception apparatus estimates an input channel response using a training sequence, generates a first signal by removing the input channel response from a first reception signal, detects an echo channel impulse response using the first signal, detects an echo signal removing coefficient using the echo channel impulse response, generates a second signal in which an echo signal is removed by applying the echo signal removing coefficient to a second reception signal, and removes the second signal from a third signal, wherein the first signal is received prior to receiving the second signal and the second signal is received prior to receiving the third signal.
US08121653B2
Apparatus for handling an incoming telephone call including a call processor coupled to a wired or wireless telephone network for receiving an incoming telephone call directed to a called person, a conversation detector for determining whether a conversation is currently taking place between said called person and one or more other persons who are near to said called person, and a call inhibitor for inhibiting the delivery of, delaying or rerouting said incoming call if said conversation detector determines that a conversation is taking place. Each participant in the conversation is provided with a speech detector, and vibrator for producing a tactile alert when incoming calls directed to a participant arrive, and a manually operated control for issuing a veto command that inhibits the delivery of, delays, or reroutes the incoming call so that the conversation is not interrupted.
US08121648B2
In one illustrative example, a technique for use in operating a wireless access point (AP) for serving as a handoff indication mechanism in a first wireless network is described. The handoff indication mechanism is configured to communicate handoff indications in response to mobile devices leaving coverage of the first wireless network, via an RF coverage region of the AP, for mobile device handoff to a second wireless network. The AP is provided in an ingress or egress region of the first wireless network, where it receives RF signals from one or more communication devices and determines and sets wireless transceiver parameters for adjusting boundaries of its RF coverage region. The AP also operates with the adjusted RF coverage region to serve as part of the handoff indication mechanism in the first wireless network, so that the handoff indications are communicated in response to the mobile devices leaving coverage of the first wireless network, via the adjusted RF coverage region, for mobile device handoff to the second wireless network.
US08121640B2
A dual module portable device may be provided. A motion of a first module of the dual module portable device may be detected. Based at least in part on the detected motion, a position of the first module may be determined relative to the second module of the portable device. Once the relative position of the first module has been determined, a portion of a user interface associated with the relative position may be displayed at the first module.
US08121629B2
Radio devices (31 to 43) receive a prescribed number of Hello packets from each of n radio devices existing within one hop from each radio device, detects six pairs of maximum and minimum values MAX[1] and MIN[1] to MAX[6] and MIN[6] based on the plurality of reception signal strengths of the plurality of received Hello packets, detects two adjacent maximum values having the largest difference among six pairs of maximum and minimum values D_MAX[1] and D_MIN[1] to D_MAX[6] and D_MIN[6] when the six maximum values MAX[1] to MAX[6] are in descending order, and determines the average of two minimum values corresponding to the detected two maximum values as a threshold. The radio devices (31 to 43) each produce a routing table including routes having reception signal strengths equal to or more than the threshold.
US08121618B2
A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user's environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of a scene viewed by the phone's camera. The image processing tasks applied to the scene can be selected from among various alternatives by reference to resource costs, resource constraints, other stimulus information (e.g., audio), task substitutability, etc. The phone can apply more or less resources to an image processing task depending on how successfully the task is proceeding, or based on the user's apparent interest in the task. In some arrangements, data may be referred to the cloud for analysis, or for gleaning. Cognition, and identification of appropriate device response(s), can be aided by collateral information, such as context. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US08121615B2
A mobile station (105, 200) operable in a wireless communication system (100), the mobile station including means (218, 202 of 105) for reporting to a location server (104) of the system a current location of the mobile station and a controller (201 of 105) for controlling the means for reporting to report to the location server a current location of a second mobile station (107) detected to be near to the mobile station. A wireless communication system (100) in which the mobile station is operable and a method (500) operable in the system are also described.
US08121613B1
Methods and systems for obtaining the location of a caller during an emergency or other telephone call. Before or during a call, a phone system can obtain from one or more sources a subscriber access line identity associated with a subscriber location record that includes a subscriber access line identity attribute and a subscriber location attribute. A phone system can send a query that includes the subscriber access line identity to a subscriber location query system that returns a subscriber location record or a subscriber location to the phone system. The phone system can then display the caller location information to a phone system, an agent or operator so that emergency services can be quickly and accurately dispatched. Using similar procedure and a memory, phone systems can also determine if a subscriber phone has or is changing location. Methods for testing the emergency call capabilities of a subscriber access line.
US08121605B2
There is provided a method for improving an allocation of resources, i.e., frequency and power, to terrestrial services and satellite services that use a same frequency band. The method includes determining a demand (DS) for a resource by users of a satellite system, determining a demand (DT) for the resource by users of a terrestrial system, and allocating the resource between the satellite system and the terrestrial system based on a ratio of DS to DT.
US08121603B2
A method for mobile communication handover and a system and a base station thereof are disclosed in the embodiments of present invention, wherein the method includes steps: on the basis of first link which only bears DCH service and has already existed, adding a second link bearing DCH and E-DCH services and a third link bearing any service; making softer combining for the DCH service of the first link and the second link; in the case of failing to add the third link, informing radio network controller by carrying the DCH softer combining information and E-DCH service addition information which are not in a same diversity indication choice field in link addition failure message. The embodiment of present invention could enhance the successful ratio of communication handover, and maintain communication continuously.
US08121599B2
A device includes a processor configured to determine a number of users in each of a plurality of wireless telephone cells of a trajectory in a wireless telephone network. The processor is also configured to determine handoff data between each adjacent pair of the wireless telephone cells, and to determine a first number of users traveling along the trajectory in the wireless telephone network while on a telephone call. The processor also calculates a total number of users associated with the trajectory in the wireless telephone network based on the handoff data between each adjacent pair of the wireless telephone cells, and based on the first number of users traveling along the trajectory while on the telephone call.
US08121596B1
Exemplary methods and systems are disclosed that may help a mobile station to conserve power by reducing the number of active sectors being scanned in certain scenarios. An exemplary method involves a mobile station (a) initially operating in a first scanning mode, wherein operation in the first scanning mode comprises the mobile station scanning all sectors in an active set comprising a plurality of sectors; (b) determining signal strength of each sector in the active set; (c) selecting, from the active set, one or more transparent sectors having the lowest signal strengths relative to the other sectors in the active set; and (d) operating in a second scanning mode, wherein operation in the second scanning mode comprises the mobile station scanning a subset of the sectors in the active set, wherein the subset excludes the one or more transparent sectors.
US08121584B2
A communication apparatus is provided. A first subscriber identity card camps on a first cell belonging to a first wireless network capable of providing a conference communication service for the first subscriber identity card with at most N peer communication entities via a first radio transceiver module. A second subscriber identity card camps on a second cell belonging to a second wireless network via a second radio transceiver module. A processor builds a conference communication for the first subscriber identity card with at most (N−1) peer communication entities via the first cell, receives an add request to add a new peer communication entity to the conference communication, adds the second subscriber identity card to the conference communication via the first cell, and adds the new peer communication entity to the conference communication via the second cell.
US08121564B2
A radio receiver is described that processes multiple wireless standards using a single antenna according to embodiments of the invention. The radio receiver includes a single antenna, and a low noise amplifier that is connected to the antenna, without an intervening power divider or power splitter. The output of the low noise amplifier feeds multiple wireless receivers in a parallel arrangement that are operating according to different communications standards, including for example a Bluetooth and a WLAN 802.11. Additional wireless standards and their corresponding receivers could be added as well. The input impedance of the low noise amplifier defines the impedance seen by the antenna, regardless of which operational standard is actually in use. Each signal path includes an additional low noise amplifier having a gain that can be customized for the particular signal path and receiver in use, and which also improves the reverse isolation between signal paths. Further, a switch can be added to one or more of the signal paths so as to further improve isolation when a particular path is not being used.
US08121552B2
A wireless communication system that provides periodic channel quality feedback adjusts a channel condition reporting period for a subscriber station based on the multiple channel condition information reports, such as CQI messages, received from the subscriber station.
US08121545B2
A household appliance, such as a microwave oven or cordless phone, reduces interference with a wireless network by requesting control of the network's channel during a period of time when the appliance will be emitting signals that may interfere with network communications on that channel. Some embodiments contend for the channel before transmitting the request by using standard protocols, while other embodiments simply transmit the request during a detected idle period. Some embodiments don't bother sending a request if no activity is detected on the channel.
US08121539B2
A multi-part, distributed antenna arrangement including: an antenna element as a first part; and a semiconductor chip as a second part, separated from the first part, wherein the semiconductor chip comprises integrated radio frequency circuitry and a coupling element for wirelessly coupling the integrated radio frequency circuitry with the antenna element.
US08121529B2
A sheet transport technique of clamping and transporting a sheet by a roller and a belt abutted against the roller, the technique capable of suppressing shift of the belt in the rotation axis direction of the roller without hindering downsizing of the apparatus is provided. A sheet transport apparatus is made up of a roller 101 being formed with a tubular cavity having a predetermined length in a rotation direction and covered with an elastic body on the outer periphery in the rotation radius direction of the cavity and a belt unit 102 for abutting a belt 102c of a width narrower than the width of the cavity in the rotation axis direction of the roller 101 against the roller face of the roller 101 so that it is positioned inside the range in which the cavity is formed in the rotation axis direction of the roller 101, and sandwiching a sheet 7 between the belt 102c and the roller 101 and transporting the sheet.
US08121523B2
A developer station and method for an electrographic printer is provided that reduces developer agitation. The developer station includes a sump for holding a reservoir of magnetic developer including a toner and carrier and a magnetic auger mounted above the sump and including a rotatable magnetic core surrounded by a substantially cylindrical rotatable toning shell rotatably mounted with respect to the core, the shell being adjacent to the photoconductor member and defining a nip and a conveyance device for transporting developer in the developer station in a flow direction. The conveyance device has a tapered auger including a shaft and one or more blades such that the developer volume in the flow direction is controlled to maintain a uniform developer level in the sump as well as a conveyance controller for controlling the conveying device, including the tapered auger such that the tapered auger preferentially creates an uniform layer of developer on the toning shell.
US08121521B2
A drum support structure of a production printing system is disclosed. The drum support structure secures a photoconductive drum within a printing system during operation. The drum support structure includes a plurality of ring members spaced in parallel along a longitudinal axis. The ring members have an outside diameter that corresponds with an inside diameter of the drum so that the ring members fit within the drum. The drum support structure also includes a plurality of connecting members that affix the ring members to one another. The drum support structure also includes an inner end cap that connects to an inner-most ring member through one or more connecting members and is adapted to contact one end of the drum. The drum support structure also includes an outer end cap that is adapted to fasten to an outer-most ring member and is further adapted to contact another end of the drum.
US08121518B2
An image forming apparatus is provided which can be switched between states in which a developing roller is attached to an image carrier body by applying a pressing force to a developing cartridge and a state in which the developing roller can be released from attachment from the image carrier body. When an operation part of a toner cartridge is arranged at an installation position a pressing force can be applied to a developing cartridge by protruding parts fitting with spring parts, and a developing roller can be attached to a photoconductor drum by the applied pressure. When the operation part is arranged at a removal position, the fitting can be undone, causing the applied pressure to be released.
US08121515B2
An image-forming apparatus includes: first and second frame members opposing each other; image-holding members each having a rotation shaft; a supporting unit provided to the first frame member and having insertion holes each supporting an end portion of a rotation shaft of a corresponding image-holding member inserted in an insertion direction from the second frame member to the first frame member; and flat elastic bodies provided to the respective insertion holes, each flat elastic body having a plate member bent to form: an attachment part attached to the supporting unit; a leg part extending from the attachment part in the direction opposite to the insertion direction; and an elastic part extending from the leg part in the insertion direction through the insertion hole to press the end portion of the rotation shaft at a position spaced apart from the insertion hole in the insertion direction.
US08121513B2
A cleanable electrophotographic printer that meets the requirement for high speed printing on a continuous web of paper as the printing medium and which minimizes the amount of toner that remains on the surface of a rotating transfer roller even in high-speed production, wherein the electrophotographic printer is provided with a carrier solution supply device disposed in an area upstream of a transfer roller cleaning device in the rotation direction of the rotating transfer roller for supplying the surface of the rotating transfer roller with a carrier solution.
US08121512B2
Provided is a method of orienting a printer chip to enable interoperation between the printer chip and more than one type of printer. The printer chip has a plurality of sets of contacts, each set of contacts capable of interoperation with a different type of printer, cartridge, or photoconductor unit. The chip is installed on the cartridge with the chosen set of contacts oriented to mate with the electrical contacts in the printer cartridge receiving cavity of the printer. The result is a printer chip that can be installed on a printer cartridge or photoconductor unit in a plurality of orientations in order to allow the printer cartridge or photoconductor unit to interoperate with a plurality of types of printers, or allow a plurality of types of printer cartridges or photoconductor units to interoperate with a printer.
US08121511B2
The present invention includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to a network, and a server which controls the operation state of the image forming apparatuses via the network. The image forming apparatuses are operable in a normal operation mode and in one of plural power-saving modes with different power consumption. The server individually sets the operation mode of the image forming apparatuses in accordance with a preset power-saving operation policy, and controls the image forming apparatuses so that each of the image forming apparatuses operates in the preset operation mode in each predetermined time band.
US08121508B2
The image forming apparatus includes: an image former which, upon receiving a first instruction, feeds a sheet and performs an image forming operation to form an image on the sheet; a fixing part which (i) secures a fixing nip by bringing outer circumferential surfaces of first and second rotating bodies into contact with each other, (ii) upon receiving a second instruction, heats the first and second rotating bodies until a temperature thereof reaches a target temperature, and (iii) thermally fixes the image onto the sheet passing through the fixing nip; and a determiner which determines output timings of the first and second instructions such that a timing at which a leading end, in a sheet convey direction, of the image formed on the sheet reaches the fixing nip and a timing at which the temperature of the first and second rotating bodies reaches the target temperature match each other.
US08121504B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for measuring the concentration of liquid developer, and an apparatus and method for controlling the concentration of liquid developer in which the concentration of a highly concentrated developer is easily and accurately measured or controlled without controlling the liquid amount. An opening is provided in the developer container for concentration measurement in which a liquid developer for concentration measurement is stored and stirred for concentration measurement. The developer container for concentration measurement is configured such that the stored liquid developer for concentration measurement overflows through the opening at the time of stirring.
US08121503B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image supporting member; a developer supporting member for attaching developer to the image supporting member to form a developer image; a regulation member for forming a thin layer of the developer on the developer supporting member; a charge adjustment member for receiving a charge adjustment voltage and contacting with the thin layer of the developer formed on the developer supporting member to adjust a charge amount of the developer; and a charge adjustment voltage switching unit for switching the charge adjustment voltage applied to the charge adjustment member between an image forming voltage upon forming an image and a non-image forming voltage during a preparation operation.
US08121495B2
A current mirror circuit and an optical receiver circuit implementing with the current mirror circuit are disclosed. The current mirror circuit provides two MOSFETs and two differential amplifiers. The MOSFETs are operated under the same bias condition even the power supply voltage decreases due to the virtual short-circuit characteristic between two inputs of the differential amplifier. One of the differential amplifiers provides a variable gain and output impedance characteristic to stabilize the feedback loop formed by this differential amplifier and one of the MOSFETs.
US08121489B2
Signals can be superimposed on optical phase even when low-coherency light is used, and a bit rate and a signal coding format similar to those used in ordinary optical communications can be used. A transmitter includes an asymmetric interferometer or an antisqueezed light generator to convert a train of single pulses into a train of dual pulses. A receiver also includes an asymmetric interferometer that provides the same delay time as that between the dual pulses. The receiver allows pulses originating in the same light source to interfere, so that signals can be superimposed on the phase even when a low-coherency light source is used. The delay time (optical path length difference) provided in the asymmetric interferometer is set to be longer than half the period of the pulses outputted from the optical pulse source. In the transmitter, two pulses are modulated as a unit, one of the two pulses being the rear pulse of a pair of dual pulses and the other pulse being the front pulse of the next pair of dual pulses. In the receiver, a balanced detector receives the modulated pulses, and the balanced detector only outputs interference pulses but does not output non-interference pulses.
US08121486B2
An optical transmission apparatus is arranged by: means for demultiplexing monitoring light for received wavelength-multiplexed signal light so as to detect optical intensity of the monitoring light; means for detecting optical intensity of wavelength-multiplexed signal light after the monitoring light has been demultiplexed therefrom; a gain controlling type optical amplifier for amplifying the wavelength-multiplexed signal light; an optical attenuating unit for adjusting optical intensity of the amplified wavelength-multiplexed signal light; and a monitoring control unit for controlling the gain controlling type optical amplifier in such a manner that the gain of the optical amplifier becomes constant, and for controlling an attenuating amount of the optical attenuating unit in such a manner that the optical intensity of the wavelength-multiplexed signal light becomes a predetermined target value.
US08121484B2
A bi-directional optical module with an improved optical crosstalk between the transmitter unit and the receiver unit is disclosed. The optical module provides the LD, the PD, the WDM filter secured with the block, and the package with the co-axial shape. The block provides a slant surface, where the WDM filter is secured thereon, the bottom surface facing the PD mounted on the package, and an aperture connecting the slant surface and the bottom surface. The PD is enclosed within a space formed by the bottom surface and the primary surface, which electrically and optically isolates the PD from the LD.
US08121483B2
A hermetically packaged, MEMS array-based ROADM module is disclosed. The enclosure sidewalls and a top lid are made of Kovar, and the base is made of alumina ceramic AuSn-soldered to the enclosure sidewalls. The MEMS array is attached to the ceramic base. The optics are passively pre-aligned using a removable template and epoxied to an optical bench. The optical bench is actively aligned as a whole and attached to the ceramic base. A plurality of electrical feedthrough contact pins extend from the bottom of the ceramic base for connecting the MEMS to a connector on a printed circuit board. In one embodiment of the invention, the ceramic base extends beyond the footprint of the sidewalls of the enclosure of the module, for mounting additional electronic components, for example MEMS driver circuitry chips, directly to the ceramic base of the enclosure.
US08121479B2
A network component is disclosed that includes a memory comprising a data structure comprising an optical network terminal management and control interface (OMCI) comprising a plurality of managed entities (MEs), wherein one of the MEs is a description of the OMCI. Also disclosed is a network component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising promoting the sending of an OMCI Description to an optical line terminal (OLT), wherein the OMCI Description comprises an OMCI Object, whose instance describes the types of MEs supported by an OMCI, a plurality of Managed Entity Objects, whose instances describe each ME supported by the OMCI, and a plurality of Attribute Objects, whose instances describe each attribute supported by the OMCI.
US08121476B2
An all-optical carrier sense multiple access collision detection apparatus and method for checking by using mutual gain saturation whether distortion occurs in two or more optical signals due to mutual interference when the optical signals pass through a semiconductor optical amplifier.
US08121474B2
Techniques are disclosed for a broadband service provider to maintain continuity of service in the event that a broadband light source fails in a passive optical network which uses injection-locked transmitters. Generally, a first broadband light source is connected to a passive optical network. Should the first broadband light source fails, it is disconnected from the network, and a second broadband light source is connected to the network.
US08121470B2
A focusing device includes a first focus-position determining unit configured to determine a focus position based on a change in a radio-frequency component in an image signal obtained with movement of a focusing lens, a second focus-position determining unit configured to determine a focus position by using a different process from a process performed by the first focus-position determining unit, a mode setting unit configured to select at least a first mode which uses a result with the first focusing-position determining unit together with the second focusing-position determining unit or a second mode which uses a result with the first focus-position determining unit without the second focus-position determining unit, and a control unit configured to control driving of the focusing lens according to selection by the mode setting unit such that the focusing lens is driven in the first mode at a higher speed than in the second mode.
US08121466B2
A system for preventing a deicer from being removed from a liquid receptacle includes a deicer, an anchoring assembly and a tether. The deicer includes a main body and a heating element. The heating element is configured to heat liquid within the liquid receptacle. The anchoring assembly is configured to be secured to or within the liquid receptacle. The tether has first and second ends. The first end is securely fastened to a portion of the deicer. The second end is securely fastened to the anchoring assembly. The anchoring assembly is configured to ensure that the deicer remains within the liquid receptacle.
US08121464B1
An improved vapor generator and control system includes a vaporization chamber for generating superheated vapor from liquid therein and at least one input connectable to liquid supply and adjustable control for controlling input of liquid into the vaporization chamber whereby output of superheated vapor is controllable while the system is in operation. A method for fabricating vapor generators includes the steps of providing at least two separate parts of a vapor generator, fastening the parts together to form a vapor generator defining a vaporization chamber and providing a capability to connect input control for control of input of liquid to the vaporization chamber. A method for cleaning selected objects comprises the steps of generating superheated vapor and controlling output of superheated vapor terms of volume and/or pressure and/or direction by adjustably controlling in an ongoing manner volume, pressure, and velocity of the liquid being subjected to vaporization. A method of propulsion comprises the steps of generating superheated vapor and adjustably controlling output of superheated vapor to provide propulsion.
US08121462B2
A video editing device 100 includes a partial digest generation unit 102 acquiring first scene specification information, selecting, from a selection table, one or more pieces of identification information in correspondence with a piece of situation information included in the acquired first scene specification information, extracting one or more pieces of the second scene specification information each specifying a second scene matching a type identified by the selected one or more pieces of the identification information and having a storage time closest to the storage time of the first scene. The video edit device also includes a whole digest generation unit 104 extracting, based on the first scene specification information and the extracted one or more pieces of the second scene specification information, the first scene and the specified one or more second scenes from the video stream, and reproducing the extracted scenes.
US08121461B2
Playback device for playing back graphics stream according to stream selection table recorded on recording medium. Stream number register stores, as current stream number, one of a plurality of stream numbers written in the stream selection table. Capability register indicates capability to play back graphics. Procedure means determines playback type of graphics corresponding to the current stream number, based on the playback capability indicated by the capability register. Playback of graphics streams falls into two types: first playback type in which a monoscopic graphics stream is used; and second playback type in which a pair of left-eye graphics stream and right-eye graphics stream is used to perform a stereoscopic playback. The capability register indicates whether capability to perform the stereoscopic playback using the pair of left-eye and right-eye graphics streams is present in graphics decoder.
US08121455B2
The invention relates to a support system (5) for fixing telecommunication and data systems technology resources, comprising at least one profiled support (72), wherein the at least one profiled support (72) is constructed with fixing means on at least one side and with further fixing means (135) by means of which resources can be fixed to the front and/or rear (V, R) of the support system (5).
US08121452B2
A hollow fiber has a hollow tube, a reflecting film formed on an inner wall of the hollow tube, and the reflecting film is a first metal film formed by baking a first metal nano particle solution including a first metal nano particle. The hollow fiber may have a transparent film on the first metal film. The transparent film is formed by baking or chemically reacting from a second metal nano particle included in a second metal nano particle solution.
US08121449B2
A planar photonic waveguide incorporating a Bragg grating having an asymmetric reflectance spectrum (200). In one embodiment, “red” side lobes (210) are suppressed relative to “blue” side lobes (220). In another embodiment, blue side lobes are suppressed relative to red side lobes. The waveguide has a core with dimensions which vary along the length of the grating so as to produce the asymmetric reflectance spectrum. Where red side lobes are suppressed, the width of the core is greatest in the middle of the grating and decreases symmetrically towards each end.
US08121442B2
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosed technology, a fiber surveillance system includes a single optical fiber, used, for example, in the detection of acoustic signals associated with vibrations or other activity. In one embodiment of the disclosed technology, the fiber is arranged in a two dimensional topology to improve the spatial resolution of the system. With such a topology the spatial monitoring resolution of the surveillance system is significantly improved over systems in which the fiber is deployed in an essentially straight line topology. In a further embodiment of the disclosed technology, two or more such oriented fibers are juxtaposed or overlapped to yield even greater resolution.
US08121439B2
A unified design strategy takes into account different subsystems within an overall electro-optic imaging system. In one implementation, the design methodology predicts end-to-end imaging performance using a spatial model for the source and models for the optical subsystem, the detector subsystem and the digital image processing subsystem. The optical subsystem and digital image processing subsystems are jointly designed taking into account the entire system. Unconventional techniques such as the nonequidistant DFT (nDFT) are used to accelerate the design process.
US08121438B2
An alarm system for an aircraft door is disclosed. The alarm system comprises a sensor for sensing when the door operating handle is about to be gripped by an operator and an aural alarm associated with the sensor. The oral alarm sounds when the sensor detects that the handle is about to be gripped. Means are provided for arming the sensor and/or the aural alarm when the aircraft door is armed.
US08121430B2
A technique for processing a digital image uses face detection to achieve one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that corresponds to a face image within the digital image. A skin tone is detected for the face image by determining one or more default color or tonal values, or combinations thereof, for the group of pixels. Values of one or more parameters are adjusted for the group of pixels that correspond to the face image based on the detected skin tone.
US08121426B2
A method of compressing a sequence of strokes input at an input device of a processing system is provided in which each stroke input at the input device is represented as a series of digital words representing x and y co-ordinates, a reference co-ordinate of each stroke is expressed in absolute terms, and a co-ordinate other than the reference co-ordinate is expressed as an offset from a preceding co-ordinate by combining a residual error value and an estimate calculated from the previous m co-ordinates using the formula: a ~ n = ∑ i = 1 m c i a n - i where ci are coefficients selected to model characteristics of the input strokes, and α represents either an x or a y co-ordinate.
US08121422B2
Disclosed is an image encoding method in which a series of decoded images are generated from a series of original images with the aid of a first encoding process. Furthermore, a series of second images are generated from an image group of the series of original images with the aid of an INTER encoding mode of the second encoding process, at least one decoded image being used as a reference image. The reference image represents an original image area is to be encoded. A image decoding method decodes second images generated by the image encoding method.
US08121414B2
The number of pixels in an identified pixel region is counted, a feature point of the pixel region is extracted and the number of the feature points is counted when the number of the pixels counted has been determined to be equal to or higher than a first threshold value, whether the counted number of the feature points is equal to or lower than a second threshold value is determined, features is calculated based on the feature point extracted from the pixel region when the number of the feature points has been determined to be above the second threshold value, and the first threshold value is changed when the number of the feature points has been determined to be equal to or lower than the second threshold value. Image similarity determination process can be stably performed without any degradation in determination accuracy.
US08121411B2
A linear transformation matrix calculating apparatus linearly transforms a plurality of dictionary subspaces which belong to respective categories by a linear transformation matrix respectively, selects a plurality of sets of two dictionary subspaces from the plurality of linearly transformed dictionary subspaces, calculates a loss function using similarities among the selected sets of dictionary subspaces respectively, calculates a differential parameter obtained by differentiating the loss function by the linear transformation matrix, calculates a new linear transformation matrix from the differential parameter and the linear transformation matrix by Deepest Descent Method, and updates the new linear transformation matrix as the linear transformation matrix used in the linear transformation unit.
US08121409B2
To handle static text and logos in stabilized images without destabilizing the static text and logos, a method of handling overlay subpictures in stabilized images includes detecting an overlay subpicture in an input image, separating the overlay subpicture from the input image, stabilizing the input image to form a stabilized image, and merging the overlay subpicture with the stabilized image to obtain an output image.
US08121406B2
A preference color adjusting system includes a saturation calculator, a hue calculator, a first lookup table device, a second lookup table device, a mixer, and a UV converter. The saturation calculator receives an RGB pixel and produces a saturation of the pixel. The hue calculator receives the RGB pixel and produces a hue of the pixel. The first lookup table device stores plural first adjustment coefficient pairs for outputting a first adjustment coefficient pair according to the hue. The second lookup table device stores plural second adjustment coefficient pairs for outputting a second adjustment coefficient pair according to the hue. The mixer performs a weighting operation on the first and second adjustment coefficient pairs according to the saturation to thereby output an output coefficient pair. The UV converter adjusts U and V values of a YUV pixel corresponding to the RGB pixel according to the output coefficient pair.
US08121405B2
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for adjusting image color values to accommodate a different color gamut. In some embodiments, colors within a skin-color region are preserved while colors outside the skin-color region are stretched to fill the new color gamut.
US08121392B2
A stand alone imaging system is disclosed that captures undistorted, high resolution, stop-action images of objects (e.g., medicine pills) moving at automation speeds, processes the images in real time, and then performs real-time I/O based control that is a function of the image processing results. The imaging system has a form factor that enables it to be embedded inside a product (e.g., a pill dispenser). The imaging system also has a flexible I/O system so that a variety of different applications can be handled by changing only the programming and the external hardware connected to the device in which the imaging system is embedded. In the case of pill dispensing and quality control, a miniature, low cost imaging system can be embedded in a pill dispenser to obtain a pill image and then process the image in real time as the pill moves through a counting system. The embedded imaging system processes the images fast enough and with sufficient quality and resolution so as to command a pill counting mechanism to dispense or reject the pill based on the image processing results. Images of the pills can also be sent to a remote location or an archive. The embedded imaging system has sufficient processing power and I/O to control the entire pill counting mechanism. Lighting may be provided by a separate solid state lighting source which may be controlled by the embedded imaging system's camera or operated independently. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims.
US08121377B2
A method and a correspondingly configured tomography scanner are disclosed for normalizing image data with respect to a contrast in the image data produced by a contrast agent, the image data illustrating a tissue structure to be examined and at least part of a blood vessel system of an examination region connected to the tissue structure, which are at least in part permeated by the contrast agent. In an embodiment of the method, image data of the examination region is provided with the aid of the tomography scanner. At least one section of a reference vessel permeated by contrast agent is selected in the image data. The image data is normalized on the basis of image data from the section of the reference vessel such that the contrast in the image data as a result of the contrast agent is almost independent of patient-specific and examination-specific parameters in order to ensure that image data from different times can be compared.
US08121376B2
A diagnostic imaging support processing apparatus includes a nodular region determination unit which determines a nodular region included in an image showing the inside of a subject, a polygonal line approximation processing unit which obtains a plurality of nodes constituting a polygonal line that approximates a contour of the nodular region, a reference position determination unit which determines a position of a reference point, and a circularity computation unit which computes the degree of circularity by using areas of a plurality of regions determined based on the plurality of nodes and the reference point.
US08121373B2
An image diagnostic processing device includes peripheral region specifying means which specifies a peripheral region connecting to an abnormal candidate region included in an image representing the inside of a subject, and judging means which judges whether the abnormal candidate region is an anatomic abnormal region or not, based on a first feature quantity of the abnormal candidate region and a second feature quantity of the peripheral region.
US08121362B2
A method for registering a medical image includes acquiring a first medical image of a subject. One or more simulated medical images are synthesized based on the acquired first medical image. One or more matching functions are trained using the first medical image and the simulated medical images. A second medical image of the subject is acquired. The first medical image and the second medical image are registered using the one or more trained matching functions.
US08121357B2
[PROBLEMS] To provide a feature extracting method for quickly extracting a feature while preventing lowering of the identification performance of the kernel judgment analysis, a feature extracting system, and a feature extracting program.[MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] Judgment feature extracting device (104) computes an interclass covariance matrix SB and an intraclass covariance matrix SW about a learning face image prepared in advance, determines optimum vectors η, γ which maximizes the ratio of the interclass covariance to the intraclass covariance, derives a conversion formula for converting an inputted frequency feature vector x into a frequency feature vector y in a judgment space, and extracts judgment features of a face image for record and a face image for check by using a restructured conversion formula. Similarity computing device (105) computes the similarity by comparing the judgment features. Check judging device judges whether or not the persons are the same by comparing the similarity with a threshold.
US08121349B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an image extraction module, a display control module, and a file processing module. The image extraction module extracts face images including a plurality of face images of persons in a video obtained by playing back a video data file from each of video data files. The display control module displays a selection screen which allows a user to select one or more video data files from the video data files, and displays the extracted face images on the selection screen to lay out the face images in correspondence with the video data files. The file processing module executes a process for the one or more video data files selected on the selection screen.
US08121341B2
A water marking system generates a water marked image frame for conveying a payload data word by combining at least one image frame with a two-dimensional water mark pattern. The water mark pattern includes plural regions each associated with one of symbols of the payload data word. Each region includes a two dimensional water mark block selected from a predetermined set of possible water mark blocks to represent the value of the payload data symbol associated with that region. A detecting data processing apparatus detects the payload data from a received water marked image frame, which has been encoded by utilizing a block match prior probability calculator operable to correlate each region of the water marked image frame with each of the water mark blocks from the set of water marked blocks) to form for each region a set of probability surfaces.
US08121339B2
A method of encoding a message into a document containing known information is disclosed. The method comprises identifying (1502) a plurality of logical information content categories associated with the known information, establishing (1503) a priority order in which said message is to be added to each of the categories, determining (1504) an amount of said message to be added to each of the categories, and encoding (1506) the message into the document according to the established priority order and the determined amount.
US08121321B2
The hearing aids comprise a microphone, a signal processor, and a receiver, and have a constitution in which the microphone generates an input signal from an input sound and generate an output signal and send it to the ear on the opposite side only when a specific condition is satisfied with respect to the input signal at the signal processor, and the receiver reproduces an output sound from the output signal.
US08121320B2
A hearing aid includes a first portion adapted for behind-the-ear placement having a microphone, a second portion adapted for in-the-canal placement having a receiver and a cable that couples the first portion to the second portion, the cable having an adjustable length.
US08121316B2
A phase plug comprises a body having an input side for receiving acoustic waves and an output side for transmitting acoustic waves, the body including a plurality of channels extending from the input side to the output side for propagating acoustic waves through the body. The input side comprises an input surface which includes a plurality of slots constituting entrances for the channels, each slot being arranged in a substantially radial orientation on the input surface about a central axis extending through the input surface. Substantially the entire input surface situated between the slots is concave and substantially part of a sphere or an ellipsoid in shape.
US08121315B2
Disclosed is a condenser microphone chip, comprising: a substrate (21); a diaphragm (26) spaced from the substrate; a curved beam (27) connected with the diaphragm (26) to anchor the diaphragm (26) to the substrate (21); a curved beam connecting part (29) having a shape of a substantially circular plate. The curved beam (27) is arranged in the diaphragm (26). The curved beam (27) includes a plurality of sub beams, each of the plurality of sub beams including a first sub beam portion extending in a substantially radial direction from a circumference of the curved beam connecting part (29); a second sub beam portion extending in a substantially circumferential direction from an end of the first sub beam portion away from the circumference of the curved beam connecting part (29) and having a shape of a substantial arc; and a third sub beam portion extending in the radial direction from an end of the second sub beam portion away from the first sub beam portion and connected to the diaphragm (26). The condenser microphone chip according to the present invention is high in sensitivity, low in noise, wide in frequency band, simple in manufacturing process, and high in reliability. In addition, the condenser microphone chip can be easily manufactured in mass production.
US08121302B2
A device and method for improving the performance of an electro-acoustic transducer. An acoustic test signal is generated through the electro-acoustic transducer. The acoustic test signal is measured at multiple points on an ambient surface around the electro-acoustic transducer to create measured acoustic data. Based on the measured acoustic data, an acoustic power frequency response of the electro-acoustic transducer is calculated. A correction impulse response for the electro-acoustic transducer is determined based on the acoustic power frequency response. A correction filter applies the correction impulse response to a sound signal input to generate a sound signal output for playback through the electro-acoustic transducer.
US08121299B2
Methods, digital systems, and computer readable media are provided for detection of music in an audio signal. Music is detected by partitioning the audio signal into overlapping frames, determining a fundamental frequency of a frame in the overlapping frames, including the fundamental frequency of the frame in a histogram of fundamental frequency values of frames occurring in the audio signal prior to the frame, and indicating that music is present in the audio signal when a number of occurrences of a fundamental frequency value in the histogram exceeds a threshold.
US08121295B1
To manage playout of digital media by a media player, a wireless communication device (WCD) will include partitioned data storage including discrete partitions having distributor-modules corresponding with various media distributors, and including a digital rights management (DRM) controller. When the media player seeks to play media, it will request a DRM key from the WCD. The DRM controller may then identify the appropriate distributor-module and request the key from the distributor-module. If the distributor-module possesses the key, it will return it for transmission to the media player. Otherwise, the distributor-module may engage in secure communication with a provisioning system to obtain the DRM key and may then return the key. Upon receipt of the key, the media player may then play the media.
US08121289B2
A first entity (1) includes a secret encryption key (g1, γ) of an encryption diagram which can accept a plurality of encryption keys. A plurality of decoders have respective encryption keys, each incorporating a respective key index. The method comprises an encryption operation, wherein a value is taken as a variable element (s) and a ciphertext (C′) is calculated from the data to be transmitted (K) and at least from the value taken as the variable element and the secret encryption key. An operation for revoking a decryption key is integrated into an encryption operation performed with a value of the variable element (s) based on the index key (x′) of one of the decryption keys, which will be used during an operation for tracking illegitimate decoders.
US08121287B2
A unified broadcast encryption system divides a media key tree into S subtrees, divides digital content into segments, and converts some of the segments into variations; the number of segments and variations is q. The system subdivides each of the subtrees into q/|S| subdivided subtrees, assigns a key media variant to each of the subdivided subtrees, and generates a unified media key block (MKBu). The system decrypts digital content by obtaining required key media variants from the MKBu, using the key media variant to find an entry in a variant key table, decrypt a title key, and locate a variant number from the variant key table. The system uses the variant number to identify which of the variations may be decrypted by the title key and uses the title key to decrypt segments and variations.
US08121283B2
A touchpad has interleaved conductive traces across a touchpad surface. Each conductive trace has a first end and a second end. The width of the first end is larger than the width of the second end. The interleaved conductive traces have a first group of conductive traces alternated with a second group of conductive traces.
US08121276B2
A multicast call processing unit receives a request from a requester, determines if the request is associated with a multicast function, identifies a plurality of destinations defined by the multicast function and establishes communication link between the requester and the plurality of destinations. In one embodiment, the call processing unit authenticates the plurality of destinations before establishing a communication link between them and the requester. If the request from the requester is not associated with the multicast function, then the call processing unit establishes a communication link between the requester and a single destination. In another embodiment, a supervisor manages the plurality of destinations.
US08121271B2
The present invention is directed to a node for transmitting data over a network. The node includes a first ascertaining element configured to ascertain the need to transmit one or more data streams from the node to a second node over the network, the one or more data streams including time-based media that is generated either locally or remotely on the network. The node also includes a second ascertaining element configured to ascertain a timeliness preference for reviewing the one or more data streams by one or more recipients respectively. The ascertained timeliness preference for each one of the data streams is either (a) time-sensitive where at least one recipient of the one data stream has indicated an intent to review the one data stream in a near real-time mode as received by the recipient over the network while the time-based media of the one data stream is being generated or (b) less-than time-sensitive.
US08121255B2
A diagnostic imaging system includes a generation unit which generates a fluoroscopic image of X-rays that irradiate a subject, a setting unit which, when displaying the fluoroscopic image superimposed on a field image of a head mounted display, sets the display ratio of the field image and the fluoroscopic image in accordance with a display condition, an image composition unit which generates a composite image by superimposing the fluoroscopic image on the field image on the basis of the ratio set by the setting unit, and an image display unit which displays the composite image on the display unit of the head mounted display.
US08121243B2
Monitor-guide-tube fixing sections are fixed to portions on a core support plate side of a plurality of in-core monitor guide tubes disposed in a reactor vessel. The monitor-guide-tube fixing sections are fixed to the core support plate disposed in the reactor vessel to fix the in-core monitor guide tubes to the core support plate. This makes it possible to realize improvement of rigidity of the fixed sections of the in-core monitor guide tubes. A tie plate is fixed to the in-core monitor guide tubes. The in-core monitor guide tubes are coupled by the tie plate. This makes it possible to realize improvement of rigidity of the entire in-core monitor guide tubes. As a result, it is possible to realize vibration damping for the in-core monitor guide tubes.
US08121242B2
A system and method are provided for frequency lock stability in a receiver using overlapping voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) bands. An input communication signal is accepted and an initial VCO is selected. Using a phase-locked loop (PLL) and the initial VCO, the frequency of the input communication signal is acquired and the acquired signal tuning voltage of the initial VCO is measured. Then, the initial VCO is disengaged and a plurality of adjacent band VCOs is sequentially engaged. The acquired signal tuning voltage of each VCO is measured and a final VCO is selected that is able to generate the input communication signal frequency using an acquired signal tuning voltage closest to a midpoint of a predetermined tuning voltage range.
US08121239B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a receiver having a delay lock loop (DLL) to receive a clock signal and to generate a plurality of clock phases therefrom, and an offset controller including a first register set for a first phase interpolator and a second register set for a second phase interpolator. At initiation of a track pre-tune process, both phase interpolators are controlled to generate sampling signals at a common clock phase. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08121235B1
Systems are provided for searching for a codeword from a plurality of codewords in a codebook for use in precoding, for example, as used in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission system. Dimension reduction techniques may be utilized to reduce the complexity and enhance the efficiency of the codebooks search. Null-spaces of an optimal codeword and codewords in a codebook may be computed. Distance values may be computed based on the null=spaces of the codewords. A codeword may be selected from the codebook based on a minimum distance value from the optimal codeword.
US08121231B2
A method and a device for channel response determination for a wireless communication system. The method comprises generating a first vector of channel responses from channel estimations obtained by using a training signal. A second vector of regularized channel responses is generated by applying to the first vector a regularization algorithm. The algorithm is operative such that a second difference between consecutive regularized channel responses of the second vector is less than a first difference between consecutive channel responses of the first vector.
US08121230B2
A method for correcting mismatches between a digital signal in phase and a digital signal in quadrature originating from a signal broadcast by terrestrial channel, comprising a phase correction method. A set of first error values is measured during a first period. A current value of a second error is determined based on a sum of the first error values. The current value is compared with a previous second error value stored in memory. The value of a current phase shift correction is chosen from two phase shift correction values, based on the result of the comparison and the value of a previous phase shift correction. The value of the chosen current phase shift correction is added to the previous phase shift to obtain a current phase shift. This current phase shift is introduced between the digital signal in phase and the digital signal in quadrature.
US08121226B2
A method and optical disc apparatus for evaluating a quality of a read signal adapted to the PRML method by evaluating a binary code decoded from the read signal obtained by a head, in which an error bit sequence having one bit edge shift from the binary code is generated, a Euclidian distance is calculated on both a correct bit sequence and the error bit sequence with respect to a predetermined target signal level, assuming that the binary code is the correct bit sequence, a Euclidian distance difference between the Euclidian distance on the correct bit sequence and the Euclidian distance on the error bit sequence is calculated, an average Euclidian distance from the target signal level is calculated, a normalized sequence error is calculated, the binary code is evaluated using the normalized sequence error.
US08121225B1
The angle of arrival is estimated for a received signal received by an array of commutated antenna elements, wherein there is a temporal boundary at the instant of commutation between antenna elements. Samples of the signal received by the elements of the array are preprocessed to construct maximum-likelihood-estimates of the received signal for points in time that are immediately adjacent the temporal boundaries and thereby provide a preprocessed signal. A maximum-likelihood-estimation of the angle of arrival of the received signal is made for the array of commutated antenna elements by processing the preprocessed signal.
US08121210B2
A Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system is provided. A receiving end apparatus includes an estimator for estimating a channel between a plurality of Transmit (Tx) antennas of a transmitting end and a plurality of Receive (Rx) antennas of a receiving end; a filter for extracting a sum between interference and noise included in an Rx signal by using the estimated channel value and for computing a covariance matrix for the sum between the interference and the noise; and a detector for detecting a Tx signal by using a signal processing matrix generated from the covariance matrix.
US08121198B2
Content-based analysis is performed on multimedia content prior to encoding the multimedia content in the rendering chain of processing. A content-based index stream is generated based on the content-based analysis and the content-based index stream is embedded in the multimedia file during rendering. The content-based index stream can be used to generate a content-based searchable index when necessary.
US08121197B2
A method is disclosed for the decoding and encoding of a block-based video bit-stream such as MPEG2, H.264-AVC, VC1, or VP6 using a system containing one or more high speed sequential processors, a homogenous array of software configurable general purpose parallel processors, and a high speed memory system to transfer data between processors or processor sets. This disclosure includes a method for load balancing between the two sets of processors.
US08121195B2
A method for reducing memory utilization in a digital video codec. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a second reference picture by downsampling a first reference picture using a pattern, wherein the pattern (i) comprises a two-dimensional grid and (ii) is unachievable by performing a vertical downsampling and separately performing a horizontal downsampling, (B) generating a third reference picture by upsampling the second reference picture and (C) processing an image in a video signal using the third reference picture.
US08121186B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for signal equalization, and in some cases analog to digital conversion. For example, an analog to digital converter is disclosed that includes a comparator bank that receives a reference indicator and is operable to provide a decision output based at least in part on a comparison of an analog input with a reference threshold corresponding to the reference indicator. A range selection filter is included that has a first adjustment calculation circuit and a second adjustment calculation circuit. The first adjustment calculation circuit is operable to calculate a first adjustment feedback value based at least in part on a speculation that the decision output is a first logic level, and the second adjustment calculation circuit is operable to calculate a second adjustment feedback value based at least in part on a speculation that the decision output is a second logic level. A selector circuit selects the first adjustment feedback to generate the reference indicator when the decision output is the first logic level, and selects the second adjustment feedback to generate the reference indicator when the decision output is the second logic level.
US08121179B2
A device and a process which enable use of transmission diversity in transmission to a receiving station when wirelessly relaying wireless signals from a transmitting station to the receiving station. A reception antenna RA in a wireless relay device (RS) receives from the transmitting station such as a base station (BS) a signal in which data signals are respectively allocated to carriers at adjacent radio frequencies. The wireless relay device performs space frequency block coding (SFBC) of the received signal. Then, the wireless relay device transmits SFBC-encoded signals through two transmission antennas SA0 and SA1 to the receiving station such as a mobile station (MS).
US08121175B2
Provided is a radio communication device which can suppress inter-code interference between an ACK/NACK signal and a CQI signal which are code-multiplexed. In this device, a diffusion unit (214) diffuses the ACK/NACK signal inputted from a judgment unit (208) by using a ZC sequence. A diffusion unit (219) diffuses the CQI signal by using a cyclic shift ZC sequence. By using a Walsh sequence, a diffusion unit (216) further diffuses the ACK/NACK signal which has been diffused by using the ZC sequence. A control unit (209) controls the diffusion unit (214), the diffusion unit (216), and the diffusion unit (219) so that the minimum value of the difference between the CQI signals from a plurality of mobile stations and a cyclic shift amount of the ACK/NACK signal is not smaller than the minimum value of the difference between the cyclic shift amounts of the ACK/NACK signals from the plurality of mobile stations.
US08121174B2
This disclosure relates to method, device and system for measuring signal quality in a communication system. An access point receives an uplink signal from a transmitter. The uplink signal contains a data portion and a result of a hash function. The uplink signal is received at a time based on a slot start time and a random timing offset and is received while a portion of a second signal is received from a second transmitter. The access point measures a noncoherent energy metric for the uplink signal. The access point computes a local result of the hash function using the data portion. The uplink signal is then discarded if the result of the hash function matches the local result of the hash function but the noncoherent energy metric is below a threshold value.
US08121173B2
A method for converting source data to a channel-modulated signal having a plurality of pairs of in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) data in a mobile station, wherein the mobile station uses at least one channel, includes the steps of: a) encoding the source data to generate at least one data part and a control part; b) generating at least one spreading code to be allocated to the channel, wherein each spreading code is selected on the basis of a data rate of the data part and the control part and spreading codes are selected so that two consecutive pairs of the I and Q data are correspondent to two points located on same point or symmetrical with respect to a zero point on a phase domain; and c) spreading the control part and the data part by using the spreading code, to thereby generate the channel-modulated signal. The method is capable of improving a power efficiency of a mobile station by reducing a peak-to-average power ratio in a mobile communication system.
US08121170B2
A gain-coupled distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor laser includes a grating formed by grooves through at least a part of an active region of a laser cavity. The DFB laser may be configured with a substantially pure gain-coupled grating and may be configured to provide facet power asymmetry. The grating may include at least a first-order grating section and a second-order grating section. A lasing wavelength may be obtained at the Bragg wavelength of the second-order grating section by substantially eliminating index coupling in the grating. The first-order grating section may act as a reflector for the lasing wavelength, thereby producing asymmetric power distribution in the laser cavity.
US08121167B2
A dual wavelength laser device including a cap, a header, a first laser chip and a second laser chip. The cap includes a cap body and a lens embedded on the cap body. The header forms an accommodating space with the cap. The first laser chip is arranged in the accommodating space and emitting a first laser beam toward the lens. The second laser chip is arranged in the accommodating space and emitting a second laser beam toward the lens.
US08121166B2
This invention relates to a side-emitting light device comprising two sub-assemblies which are optically bonded together. Each sub-assembly comprises a substrate, at least one light source disposed on the substrate, and a luminescent plate optically bonded with the at least one light source. The light source emits light of a wavelength capable of exciting luminescence light from the luminescent plate. The two sub-assemblies are arranged having the free surface of the luminescent plates facing each other. The side-emitting light device is for instance applicable for light sources comprising naked dies arranged with Thin Film Flip Chip (TFFC) technique or laser diodes.
US08121161B2
A laser driver to drive an LD in the shunt mode and driven with signals complementary to each other is disclosed. The driver includes two FETs of the enhancement and a terminator. Two FETs are connected in parallel with the LD and driven by the complementary signals but have sizes different from each other. The terminator is connected between respective gate terminals of the FET. The driver further includes a capacitor that compensates the difference in the size of two FETs, which is substantially equal to a magnitude of the junction capacitance of the FET. The capacitor is integrated with the FETs.
US08121156B2
A semiconductor laser light source emits a laser beam for pumping. An optical resonator includes a solid laser crystal to be excited by the incident of a laser beam to oscillate a fundamental wave and a pair of fundamental wave reflective coats arranged at the opposite sides of the solid laser crystal. A wavelength conversion element converts the fundamental wave into a plurality of harmonics. The wavelength conversion element is so arranged in the optical resonator that the optical axis of at least one of the plurality of harmonics, generated in the optical resonator is made different from that of the fundamental wave and the at least one harmonic whose optical axis is made different is output substantially in the same direction as the other harmonic. By this construction, it is possible to stabilize a harmonic output and utilize a plurality of harmonics without increasing the number of parts.
US08121152B2
A method for encoding a broadcast channel protocol data unit (BCH PDU) based on a broadcast control channel (BCCH) scheduling error in a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) having a Node B and a radio network controller includes setting up a call between the radio network controller and the Node B to receive system information and scheduling information for a system information update from the radio network controller; initializing broadcast channel protocol data units and control information for every system frame number (SFN) at the Node B; and detecting the broadcast control channel scheduling error on the scheduling information for the system information update based on segment types of the system information when combining the system information for every system frame number. In case the broadcast control channel scheduling error is not detected, the broadcast channel protocol data units are encoded to be incorporated therein the system information.
US08121145B2
The method and apparatus described herein controls transmission from a plurality of user terminals to an access point on a random access channel in a wireless communication system. An access point determines an allowed information rate for each user terminal and transmits a rate control parameter indicative of the allowed information rates to the user terminals. The access point also computes a packet transmission probability and transmits the packet transmission probability to the use terminals on a common control channel. The packet transmission probability controls the number of user terminals that transmit in a given time slot to reduce collisions and increase the departure rate. The user terminals selectively transmit one or more packets to the access point in a time slot on the random access channel based on the allowed information rate and the packet transmission probability.
US08121137B2
Methods and apparatus for communicating Fiber Channel frames between a private loop device and an Ethernet link through a Fiber Channel private loop device interconnect system. In the preferred embodiments, the Fiber Channel private loop device interconnect system I a fabric or an intelligent bridging hub. In one aspect of this invention, a Fiber Channel private loop device is storage device which contains JBOSD or RAIDS. Preferably, the interconnect system includes routing filter incoming Arbitrated Loop physical addresses (ALPAs) to determine which Fiber Channel frames must attempt to be routed through the fabric. Numerous topologies of interconnect systems may be achieved.
US08121127B2
A method for handling multiple network packets is provided. The method is suitable for an embedded system connected to a network, wherein the embedded system includes a network device driver module and a simplified TCP/IP stack module. First, a plurality of network packets are received by the network device driver module. Then, each time when the network device driver module copies one of the network packets into a buffer of the simplified TCP/IP stack module, a packet length of the copied network packet is recorded in a packet information table. Thereafter, the network packets are obtained from the buffer one at a time according to the packet lengths recorded in the packet information table and analyzed by the simplified TCP/IP stack module. Thereby, multiple network packets can be handled correctly even in an environment wherein a simplified TCP/IP stack is used.
US08121125B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides performing packet processing on one or more packets, and substantially simultaneously with said performing packet processing, using a data movement module to place one or more payloads corresponding to the one or more packets into a read buffer.
US08121124B2
In general, techniques are described for applying adaptive thresholds to multicast streams within computer networks. For example, an access node may implement the techniques to facilitate efficient delivery of multicast streams. The access node comprises an interface that couples to a subscriber network having a subscriber device. The access node also includes a control unit that determines a multicast stream count reflecting current delivery of multicast streams to the subscriber network and a threshold value based on historical multicast stream counts delivered to the subscriber. The interface receives a message requesting to join a multicast group in accordance with a multicast management protocol. In response to this message, the control unit determines a projected stream count based on the above current multicast count. The control unit then compares the projected stream count to the threshold value, and admits the subscriber device to the multicast group based on the comparison.
US08121119B2
Techniques for managing resources in a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) network are disclosed. In some examples, a root station is adapted to transmit and receive network packets and leaf stations are adapted to transmit and receive the network packets from the root station. An electrical control system can be adapted to adjust a control error toward a zero value and adjust an output toward a steady state. The electrical control system may include feedback to control the root station based, at least in part, on the output of the electrical control system.
US08121115B2
A packet scheduler reduces or “compresses” the packet transmission delay jitter or delay range where packets experience little or no scheduling delay before transmission. As a result, the number of packets that experience little or no delay is reduced. A preferred example way of compressing the packet transmission delay jitter is to reduce the transmission priority of low delay packets. Compressing the delay jitter is particularly desirable for services like VoIP that require low packet transmission delay jitter.
US08121109B2
A method of remotely controlling at least one domestic appliance, remote control of such domestic appliances is triggered automatically by detecting a mobile communications terminal entering or leaving a radio reception perimeter of a control device. The control device is a home gateway or more simply a modem provided with a radio access unit.
US08121108B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for wirelessly transmitting large data in a more efficient and stable manner. In particular, provided is a data slot allocation method used to transmit uncompressed audio/video (AV) data. The data slot allocation method includes transmitting a first superframe during a first beacon period; receiving a data slot request frame from at least one wireless device, which belongs to a network, during a data slot reservation period included in the first superframe; transmitting a response frame to the at least one wireless device during the data slot reservation period in response to the data slot request frame; and transmitting a second superframe including one or more data slots allocated to the at least one wireless device during a second beacon period.
US08121107B2
A radio transceiver comprising: a signal receiver for receiving signals in the form of bursts according to a first protocol; a transmitter for transmitting signals in the form of bursts according to a second protocol, the first and second protocols being such that signals of the first and second protocols are mutually interfering; a transmission scheduler for predicting, based on the timings of signal bursts of the first protocol received by the receiver, the timings of future bursts of the first protocol and arranged to influence the transmitter to transmit bursts according to the second protocol so as to avoid the signal bursts of the first protocol as predicted.
US08121106B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism of measuring a reference signal that is less over head consuming and less time consuming. The object is achieved by a method for managing uplink channel estimation in a base station. The base station is comprised in a radio access network using Frequency Division Duplex (FDD). The base station is associated with a first cell of a number of cells within the radio access network. The base station is adapted to connect at least one mobile terminal, being situated in the first cell, to a network infrastructure. The method comprises the step of transmitting a redirected reference signal on an uplink band to the mobile terminal. The redirected reference signal is intended for uplink channel estimation.
US08121105B2
In a radio communication system, transmission of CAZAC sequences as the pilot signal sequences by using code division multiplexing as at least one of user multiplexing schemes, is done by dividing a system band as a frequency band usable in the system into frequency blocks B1 and B2 having bandwidths W1 and W2, generating the pilot signals of the frequency blocks B1 and B2 with a single carrier, using the pilot signal sequences having sequence lengths L1 and L2 corresponding to frequency blocks B1 and B2 respectively; and, transmitting the generated pilot signals as the pilot signals corresponding individual users, with multicarriers using an arbitrary number of frequency blocks among the plural frequency blocks.
US08121104B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for blind transport format detection using Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) detection. According to one aspect of the invention, the transport format that was used to transmit information is determined by identifying a transition between a Discontinuous Transmission segment and a data segment included in the transmitted information; and determining the transport format based on a location of the transition of the Discontinuous Transmission segment. A cyclic redundancy check can optionally be performed for a plurality of possible transport formats, and then the step of identifying a transition can be limited to those transport formats having a valid cyclic redundancy check.
US08121098B2
A method and wireless communication system for transferring management information. The system includes at least one access point (AP) including a first management entity and a second management entity, and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) including a third management entity and a fourth management entity. The AP transmits a management information base (MIB) information request action frame including a category field and an action details field to the WTRU. In response to receiving the information request action frame, the WTRU determines whether or not to provide management information to the AP. When the WTRU provides management information to the AP, the WTRU compiles management information stored in a MIB located in the WTRU and transmits a MIB information report action frame to the AP. The MIB lists a plurality of tables containing information associated with radio resource management (RRM) and at least one table containing physical layer measurements.
US08121097B2
Techniques for transmitting signals using time hopping or time and frequency hopping are described. In one design, a terminal selects different slots to use for transmission in multiple frames with time hopping. Each frame includes multiple slots, and each slot covers a particular time duration. The selected slots are at different time locations in the multiple frames. In another design, a terminal selects different resource units to use for transmission in multiple frames with time and frequency hopping. The selected resource units are at different time and frequency locations in the multiple frames. For both designs, the terminal sends a signal (e.g., a peer discovery signal) in the selected slots or resource units in the multiple frames. The terminal may detect for signals (e.g., peer discovery signals) from other terminals in slots not used for transmission by the terminal.
US08121091B2
Described are systems, methods, and devices used for reducing scanning time while communicating between wireless mobile computing devices within a wireless communications network. The method includes the following step(s): receiving communication data from one or more APs within a network, the communication data being specific to each of the one or more APs and transmitting the communication data to an MU within the network. The MU is associated with a first AP and the MU associates with a second AP based on the communication data as the MU roams to the second AP. The method further includes the steps of: associating, by an MU, with a first AP within a network, receiving communication data from the first AP, the communication data including information specific to each of one or more further APs, and associating with one of the further APs based on the communication data.
US08121084B2
A transmission area is specified flexibly in accordance with the contents of a flow. An area identification number (SHOG) is specified for each interlaced stream of wireless base stations. The same flow is sent at the same timing (or substantially at the same timing) in the interlaced stream specified for the same SHOG. A wireless terminal determines a neighbor sector or a neighbor wireless base station sending the same flow, in accordance with information given from the wireless base stations, and receives and combines the flows.
US08121066B2
One objective of the present invention is to determine a location for a relay terminal in a radio network, without preparatory surveying a radio status, and to arrange the relay terminal at the location. Another objective is to provide a method for retrieving the arranged relay terminal. When a relay terminal is to be arranged, the relay terminal transmits a survey packet to examine the quality of communication with a communication terminal or other relay terminal. Where a location is appropriate, the relay terminal gives a notice. The arranged terminal relays communication. Further, when the relay terminal is to be retrieved, the relay terminal carried by a user transmits a retrieval packet to the arranged relay terminal, which notifies the user of its presence by light, sounds, or returning a packet. In this manner, a single relay terminal provides functions of arrangement, relay and retrieval.
US08121065B2
A time division multiple access (TDMA) controller and method for operating the same includes a frame position module that generates a frame position signal. The controller also includes a signal module that generates a signal-on signal and a signal-off signal and a comparison module that generates a timing control signal based on the frame position signal, the signal-on signal and the signal-off signal.
US08121064B2
A digital broadcasting system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. A method for controlling a digital broadcast receiving system includes the steps of receiving a broadcast signal having mobile service data and main service data multiplexed therein, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information and fast information channel (FIC) signaling information from a data group within the received mobile service data, by using the extracted fast information channel (FIC) signaling information, acquiring a program table describing virtual channel information and service of an ensemble, the ensemble being a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, by using the acquired program table, detecting a descriptor defining basic information required for accessing the received service, and, by using the detected descriptor, controlling the receiving system to enable access to the corresponding service.
US08121055B2
The invention relates to the field of telecommunication and more particularly, to the acquisition of a statistics related to quality related to data reception, for instance quality of service and/or quality of user experience of digital audio and/or video services. In particular, the objective of the present invention is to improve the collection of quality statistics.
US08121053B2
Techniques for providing multi-radio wireless mesh network solutions are described herein. According to one embodiment, routing information of neighboring mesh APs is monitored via a dedicated monitoring antenna of a current mesh access point (AP). The current mesh AP is one of mesh APs of a wireless mesh network, each having an uplink antenna, a downlink antenna, a local link antenna, and a monitoring antenna. Traffic of an uplink antenna of the wireless mesh AP is dynamically reconfigured and rerouted from a first routing path coupled to a first uplink mesh AP to a second routing path coupled to a second uplink mesh AP, if the second routing path has a better routing condition than the first routing path based on the monitored routing information associated with the first uplink mesh AP and the second uplink mesh AP. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US08121052B2
According to one general aspect, a method of using a customer premises equipment (CPE) to represent a mobile station (MS) to a base station (BS) is described. Wherein the CPE and the BS are part of a first wireless network based upon a first networking standard, and the MS and the CPE are part of a second wireless network based upon a second networking standard. The method comprising associating the MS with the CPE. The method further comprising indicating to the BS that the CPE is acting as an agent for the MS on the second wireless network. Also comprising acting as an agent, on the second wireless network, for the MS. And comprising, storing context information related to the MS, wherein the context information includes MS context information related the first network and MS context information related the second network.
US08121050B2
A technique for maintaining time synchronization between network nodes involves broadcasting a timing signal from a source node to its neighbors. The timing signal is transmitted in a dedicated source time slot of a super epoch comprising a number of epochs each having a number of time slots. A reply timing signal is received at the source node from a neighboring node designated as the destination node, where the reply timing signal is received in a dedicated destination time slot of the super epoch. The clock drift and propagation delay between the source and destination nodes are computed at the source node. At the neighboring nodes other than the destination node, clock drift can be computed using previous estimates of propagation delay. RTS and CTS exchanges from PTP packets can also be used to estimate the propagation delay in the source node and the clock drift in the destination node.
US08121041B2
A method and system for redundancy in Ethernet Virtual Connections (EVCs) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting continuity check messages from a node in an Ethernet Virtual Connection connecting at least one root node and a plurality of leaf nodes in a point-to-multipoint or multipoint-to-multipoint connection, identifying a failure in a primary path between the root node and the leaf nodes, switching to a backup path, and advertising the switching to the backup path to at least one node.
US08121035B2
An apparatus, computer program and method for packet buffer management in an IP network system. The apparatus includes at least one link queue buffer, a shared buffer, a buffer state detector, and a buffer manager. The at least one link queue buffer is allocated a buffer of a packet stored in a memory. The shared buffer is excessively allocated when exceeding a minimum buffer threshold value. The buffer state detector determines whether a buffer value stored in a link queue buffer of a corresponding link exceeds a preset minimum buffer threshold value. The buffer manager sets the shared buffer to be included in the link queue buffer if the stored buffer value exceeds the preset minimum buffer threshold value.
US08121034B2
A method is provided for the transmission of data flows through multiple interfaces. The method includes: comparing a maximum throughput value offered by an interface with a cumulative value resulting from a sum of the throughputs attributed to the flows effectively travelling through the interface; and switching a flow to another interface when the maximum throughput value offered is less than the cumulative value. The method can be used to redirect data flows to an interface other than the current interface when a congestion is detected in the comparison step and to perform optimum dynamic management of the resources of different interfaces as a function of the operating conditions of the interfaces.
US08121032B2
In one embodiment, one or more virtual private network (VPN) prefixes may be grouped at a network node into sets having shared network border node next-hop options, where each border node has a defined index value associated therewith. Also, a list of VPN labels associated with each VPN prefix may be maintained by the network node, where each VPN label is associated with a border node of a particular set by a corresponding index value. Further, the network node may determine a particular border node for traffic to be forwarded, along with the defined index value. The network node may then apply the index value to select an associated VPN label, and may affix the selected VPN label to the traffic for forwarding.
US08121021B2
A data transmission method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system, specifically comprises sending M, which is greater than 1, OFDM symbols included in each data transmission unit with different bandwidth, wherein each data transmission unit with different bandwidth sends two kinds of OFDM symbols with different cyclic prefix lengths: OFDM symbols with the long cyclic prefixes and OFDM symbols with the short cyclic prefixes; and the data transmission units with different bandwidths transmit the identical number of OFDM symbols with the long cyclic prefixes and the identical number of the OFDM symbols with the short cyclic prefixes.
US08121016B2
Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, fluid-mediated modification of information or access to information is utilized. According to various embodiments, data storage devices designed for rotating access are described which include rotation-activated fluid control mechanisms.
US08121002B2
A multi-layered information recording medium including a plurality of recording layers, the multi-layered information recording medium comprising: a user data area for recording user data; and a plurality of spare areas including at least one replacement region, wherein when the user data area includes at least one defect region, the at least one replacement region may be used in place of the at least one defect region, wherein a first spare area of the plurality of spare areas is positioned so as to be contiguous to a first user data area of a first recording layer, a second spare area of the plurality of spare areas is positioned so as to be contiguous to a second user data area of a second recording layer, and the first spare area and the second spare area are positioned approximately at the same radial position on the multi-layered information recording medium.
US08120998B2
An optical disk drive includes: an objective lens for converging a light beam onto an optical disk with an information storage layer; an actuator for moving the lens perpendicularly to the storage layer; an actuator driver for moving the lens at a predetermined velocity by controlling the actuator's operation; and a disk position detector for detecting the position of the lens, when the focal point of the beam is located on the storage layer, as a disk position. While the lens is being moved toward the disk to perform a focus finding operation, the moving velocity of the lens is set high until the lens reaches a velocity switching point, determined by reference to the disk position, and is set low once the lens has passed the point. The switching point is set farther away from the disk than the position of the lens is when the focal point of the beam is located on the storage layer of the disk.
US08120987B2
A random access memory circuit enabling a decodable sense amplifier array for power saving with column steering redundancy. A first decoder receives an input address and accesses at least one memory cell in the array and is capable of executing column steering redundancy. A master redundancy signal is triggered when column steering redundancy is requested. A plurality of sense amplifiers, wherein, each sense amplifier in the plurality of sense amplifiers is coupled to at least one memory cell in an array of memory cells. A second decoder receives the input address and selectively activates a first set of sense amplifiers of the plurality of sense amplifiers and selectively activates a second set of sense amplifiers in the plurality of amplifier only when the master redundancy signal is activated.
US08120986B2
A multi-port semiconductor memory device having variable access paths and a method therefor are provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of input/output ports; a memory array divided into a plurality of memory areas; and a select control unit to variably control access paths between the memory areas and the input/output ports so that each memory area is accessed through at least one of the input/output ports.
US08120982B2
A semiconductor device including a first switch coupled to a first power supply line, a second switch coupled to the first switch and to a second power supply line, and a storage part provided in a path which is between the second power supply line and the first switch, and having a high resistance state and a low resistance state, and wherein the first switch is turned on and the second switch is turned off when a resistance state of the storage part is in a high resistance state.
US08120980B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a sense amplifier, a sense amplifier driving signal driver, and a controller. The sense amplifier is configured to sense and amplify a signal of a bit line and a signal of a complementary bit line in response to a sense amplifier driving signal. The sense amplifier driving signal driver includes a first driving signal driver configured to drive via a transmission line the sense amplifier driving signal in response to a first sense amplifier control signal, and a second driving signal driver configured to drive via the transmission line the sense amplifier driving signal in response to a second sense amplifier control signal. The controller activates the first sense amplifier control signal in response to an active command, and toggles the second sense amplifier control signal while the first sense amplifier control signal is activated.
US08120972B2
A test circuit for a semiconductor memory apparatus of an open bit-line structure includes a compression part configured to, in response to test data read from a plurality of memory cells included in a test target cell mat and a compression control signal generated from a compression control signal generating part, compress the test data that are read from the memory cells that share a sense amplifier block and sequentially output compression test signals.
US08120969B1
Semi-volatile NAND flash memory systems, apparatuses, and methods for use are described herein. According to various embodiments, a semi-volatile NAND flash memory may be partitioned into various retention regions. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08120946B2
Techniques for improving magnetic device performance are provided. In one aspect, a magnetic device, e.g., a magnetic random access memory device, is provided which comprises a plurality of current carrying lines; and two or more adjacent stacked magnetic toggling devices sharing at least one of the plurality of current carrying lines in common and positioned therebetween. The magnetic device is configured such that at least one of the adjacent magnetic toggling devices toggles mutually exclusively of another of the adjacent magnetic toggling devices. In an exemplary embodiment, the magnetic device comprises a plurality of levels with each of the adjacent stacked magnetic toggling devices residing in a different level.
US08120937B2
A content addressable memory device with a plurality of memory cells storing ternary data values of high, low, and don't care. An aspect of the content addressable memory device is the use of first memory elements and second memory elements in the memory cells. The first and second memory elements are electrically coupled in parallel circuit to a match-line. The first memory elements are coupled to first word-lines and the second memory elements are coupled to second word-lines. The first memory elements are configured to store low resistance states if the ternary data value is low and high resistance states if the ternary data value is either high or don't care. The second memory elements are configured to store the low resistance states if the ternary data value is high and the high resistance states if the ternary data value is either low or don't care.
US08120932B2
A system for connecting a wind turbine generator to a utility power network includes a first power converter that converts an AC signal from the wind turbine generator to a DC signal and supplies a controlled amount of reactive current to the wind turbine generator. The system also includes a second power converter, connected in series with the first converter, which converts the DC signal from the first power converter to a line-side AC signal and supplies a controlled amount of current to the utility power network. A power dissipation element is coupled to the first and second power converters for dissipating power from the first power converter.
US08120930B2
An output node at a plus side of a diode bridge (DB2) is connected to a drain of a transistor (Q1), and a source of the transistor (Q1) is connected to an output node at a minus side the diode bridge (DB2). One end of a resister (R1) is connected to the drain of the transistor (Q1), and the other end of the resister (R1) is connected to a gate of the transistor (Q1). One end of a resister (R2) is connected to the gate of the transistor (Q1), and the other end of the resister (R2) is connected to the source of the transistor (Q1). A capacitor (C1) is connected in parallel to the resister (R2).
US08120927B2
A printed circuit board is disclosed. The printed circuit board comprises a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface. A ground plane is on the bottom surface. A signal trace is on the top surface along a first direction. At least two isolated power planes are on the top surface adjacent to opposite sides of the signal trace, respectively. A conductive connection along a second direction couples to the two power planes, across the signal trace without electrically connecting to the signal trace, wherein the signal trace doesn't pass over any split of the ground plane.
US08120920B2
A computer system includes a chassis, a motherboard secured to the chassis, and a heat sink. A chip is mounted on the motherboard. A securing component secured to the motherboard adjacent the chip. The securing component defines an opening. Two positioning posts are located on the motherboard and adjoin two opposite edges of the opening. Each positioning post defines a fastener hole. A heat sink includes a main body and a fin portion located on the fin portion. The main body defines two through holes. The main body defines two recesses to expose the through holes. The heat sink is secured to the securing component, by two fasteners engaged in the through holes and the fastener holes.
US08120918B2
An exemplary heat dissipation device includes a fan having a plurality of first fixing cylinders, a heat sink having a plurality of second fixing cylinders, and a plurality of fasteners fixing the fan to the heat sink. Each of the fasteners includes a screwing post, an elastic member encircling the screwing post, and an annular fastening collar engaging with the screwing post. Each of the fasteners extends through a corresponding first fixing cylinder of the fan and a corresponding second fixing cylinder of the heat sink. The elastic member of each fastener is compressed between the corresponding first fixing cylinder and the corresponding second fixing cylinder.
US08120916B2
A cooling apparatus and method are provided for facilitating cooling of an electronic apparatus that includes a semiconductor element. The cooling apparatus includes an evaporator containing a coolant and evaporating the coolant under a reduced pressure lower than an ambient pressure to generate a chilled coolant, a condenser regenerating the coolant from a vapor of the coolant and being fluid-communicated with the evaporator through a bypass line, and a circulating pump and a line supplying the chilled coolant to a heat exchange area of the electronic apparatus to conduct a heat exchange with an air flow passing though the semiconductor element at a hot side of the electronic apparatus and returning the coolant after the heat exchange to the condenser.
US08120908B2
A thermal management system for an embedded environment is described. The thermal management system includes a pleumo-jet that has at least one wall defining a chamber, at least one piezoelectric device on the at least one wall, and a compliant material within the at least one wall and encompassing the chamber. The compliant material has at least one opening providing fluid communication between said chamber and the embedded environment. A cooling system is also described. A method for making a pleumo-jet is also described.
US08120905B2
A latch apparatus includes a first portion having a first latch member maintained in a latched position by a first and a second resilient member. A second portion includes a second latch member maintained in a latched position by only the second resilient member. The second portion is movable both simultaneously with and independently of the first portion. An actuator is connected to move the first and second portions simultaneously.
US08120898B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a base, a first cover and a second cover. The first cover is rotatably disposed on the base between a first position and a second position. When the first cover is at the first position, the cover is closed relative to the base, and when the first cover is at the second position, the cover is open relative to the base. The second cover is movably disposed on the base between a third position and a fourth position. When the first cover is rotated from the first position to the second position, the second cover is pushed thereby from the third position to the fourth position.
US08120896B2
The present invention provides a strap device capable of, when used in a state of being attached to an electronic apparatus body including a display portion and a key input portion as an object, improving the visibility of the display portion and the operability of the key input portion and the touch panel without tilting the electronic apparatus body with the wrist. A strap device includes a substantially plate-shaped belt base to be attached to the object; and a strap belt formed in an annular shape and supported by a substantially center portion of the belt base rotatably within a plane substantially parallel to the belt base. The belt base includes a back part provided with a pivot fitting as a bearing member for supporting the strap belt rotatably and a front part facing the back part. The strap belt extends across the belt base from the front part to the back part of the belt base.
US08120882B1
The present invention is directed to an electrical wiring device that includes an illumination assembly coupled to at least one detection circuit and disposed in the housing portion. The illumination assembly includes at least one light emitting element, an illumination circuit, and at least one lens disposed in at least one lens cover opening in optical communication with at least one light emitting element. The illumination circuit is configured to selectively drive the at least one light emitting element between a deenergized state and a light emitting state in response to an ambient light condition, a miswire condition, an end-of-life condition, a reset state or a trip state. The at least one lens has a surface area such that light emitted by the at least one light emitting element is directed into a spatial volume proximate the electrical wiring device.
US08120880B2
A suspension assembly and an actuator having the same, which are of a hard disk drive (HDD). The suspension assembly includes a load beam coupled to an end of a swing arm of an actuator; a flexure attached to the load beam to support the slider; and a tip-tab which extends from a front end of the load beam to contact a ramp when the read/write head is parked, wherein a width of a contact part of the tip-tab that contacts the ramp is wider than other parts of the tip-tab. A width of a part of the tip-tab engaged with the load beam and a width of a front part of the tip-tab are smaller than the width of the contact part. The width of the tip-tab increases gradually from the front end of the load beam up to the contact part, and decreases gradually after the contact part.
US08120879B2
A method of manufacturing a load beam directly improves the finishing accuracy of the surface of the load beam having a tab and/or a dimple, and the method includes a modifying process of preparing a flat plate work serving as the load beam and irradiating a part of a surface of the work where the tab and/or the dimple is formed with a laser beam, to form a modified layer in the irradiated part and a forming process of carrying out plastic working on the part where the modifies layer is present, to form the tab and/or the dimple in the part where the modified layer is present.
US08120875B2
A magnetic recording apparatus includes a magnetic recording head having a magnetic pole and a spin torque oscillator, the spin torque oscillator being placed adjacent to the magnetic pole and includes at least two magnetic layers of a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer, and a magnetic recording medium includes two magnetic layers of a recording layer and an antenna layer, the recording layer including a hard magnetic material, such that the antenna layer is formed closer to the magnetic recording head than the recording layer, in which the antenna layer has a resonance frequency fa lower than a resonance frequency fr of the recording layer, greater than a resonance frequency of the second magnetic layer, and the recording layer and the antenna layer are ferromagnetically coupled to each other.
US08120874B2
A magnetic write head for perpendicular magnetic data recording. The write head includes an wrap around trailing shield structure for improved write field strength, reduced skew related adjacent track interference and magnetic core width. The trailing wrap around shield includes a side shield that is separated from sides of the write pole by a side gap that is narrower near the leading edge of the write pole and wider near the trailing edge of the write pole.
US08120873B2
A spindle motor includes a rotary unit, a bearing mechanism, a stator, a base member, and a connector connected to a leader line extending from the stator through a communication hole of the base member. The connector includes a pedestal and a metal pin. The leader line is connected to a first pin terminal of the metal pin on a hole-positioning lower surface of a hole-defining portion of the pedestal. An upper surface of the metal pin is separated from the pedestal at a specified separation position between the first pin terminal and a second pin terminal. A connection position of the first pin terminal and the leader line on the hole-positioning lower surface is covered with an adhesive agent. The periphery of a gap between the metal pin and the pedestal over an extent from the first pin terminal to the separation position is sealed by the adhesive agent.
US08120870B1
Systems and techniques associated with signal processing are described. A described technique includes generating asymmetry vectors that model asymmetry in a received analog signal, including an effect of asymmetry spreading in a read channel and selecting at least two different indicators of asymmetry based on the asymmetry vectors. The technique can include using the selected indicators of asymmetry to compensate for one or more asymmetries associated with the analog signal.
US08120867B2
A method of generating a test pattern of data to be written to a data storage disk medium for testing includes: rotating the disk; detecting fluctuations in the speed of rotation of the disk; producing a reference clock signal in accordance with the fluctuations so as to be synchronized with the rotation of the disk; and, generating a test pattern of data using the reference clock signal as a timing reference. An apparatus for generating a test pattern of data includes a spindle for rotating a disk; a detector arranged to detect fluctuations in the speed of rotation of the disk; a processor arranged to produce a reference clock signal in accordance with fluctuations so as to be synchronized with the rotation of the disk; and, a pattern generator arranged to generate a test pattern of data using the reference clock signal as a timing reference.
US08120862B2
A camera module includes a lens barrel, a lens holder, and a focusing spring. The lens barrel includes an operation plate and a first body, and the outer diameter of the operation plate exceeds that of the first body, thereby a staging surface is formed facing the first body. The first body includes an outer surface, and defines an external thread on the outer surface. The lens holder includes a second body, and defining a second receiving hole therethrough. The second body includes an upper surface and an inner surface, and defines an internal thread on the inner surface. The lens barrel is received in the second receiving hole, and the external thread of the lens barrel is screwed and meshed with the internal thread of the lens holder. The focusing spring is compressively interposed between the staging surface and the upper surface.
US08120855B2
A film material utilizing a regular two-dimensional array of non-cylindrical lenses to enlarge micro-images, called icons, to form a synthetically magnified image through the united performance of a multiplicity of individual lens/icon image systems. The synthetic magnification micro-optic system includes one or more optical spacers (5), a micro-image formed of a periodic planar array of a plurality of image icons (4) having an axis of symmetry about at least one of its planar axes and positioned on or next to the optical spacer (5), and a periodic planar array of image icon focusing elements (1) having an axis of symmetry about at least one of its planar axes, the axis of symmetry being the same planar axis as that of the micro-image planar array (4). A number of distinctive visual effects, such as three-dimensional and motion effects, can be provided by the present system.
US08120850B2
Provided is a zoom lens system including a compact focusing lens unit and having a suppressed change in image magnification at the time of movement of the focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system of the present invention, in order from an object side to an image side, includes a first lens unit G1 having positive optical power, a second lens unit G2 having negative optical power, a third lens unit G3 having negative optical power, and a fourth lens unit G4 having positive optical power. At the time of zooming, at least the first lens unit G1 moves from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit. The fourth lens unit G4 includes a first sub lens unit having positive optical power and a second sub lens unit having negative optical power, the second sub lens unit being arranged at the image side relative to the first sub lens unit. At the time of compensating image blur caused by vibration applied to the zoom lens system, the first sub lens unit or the second sub lens unit moves in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis.
US08120840B1
An electrorheological fluid is provided. The electrorheological fluid includes polarizing particles and a dispersion medium in which the polarizing particles are dispersed. The polarizing particles may include silica particles. The dispersion medium may include silicon oil. The silicon oil may be modified silicon oil including at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group (—OH group), an amine group (—NH2 group), a mercapto group (—SH group), and a carboxy group (—COOH group).
US08120837B2
A display media particle used for an information display panel having display media constituted of particles sealed between two substrates, at least one of which is transparent, for displaying information by moving the display media, is formed of a mother particle 32 made from materials including a base resin having child particles 33 added to a surface thereof. The base resin is a thermoplastic resin having a viscosity of no more than 1000 Pa·s at 260° C. and a shear rate at 122 s−1, and a heatproof temperature at no less than 430° C. Since optimal conditions of the viscosity and the heatproof temperature are specified, it is possible to round the resin effectively by a heat treatment for spheronization as a post-treatment after manufacturing.
US08120823B2
In an optical beam scanning apparatus and an image forming apparatus equipped with the optical beam scanning apparatus of the present invention, plural optical members that irradiate scanning lines by laser beams (beams) emitted from plural light sources individually onto corresponding photoconductive drums are disposed within an optical unit housing and a housing cover, a fixing mechanism configured to fix part of a parallel plate provided within the optical unit housing and the housing cover is provided, and a twist angle adjusting mechanism configured to adjust an angle of twist of the parallel plate by rotating, in a specific direction, the parallel plate having the part thereof being fixed with the fixing mechanism is provided. According to the optical beam scanning apparatus and the image forming apparatus equipped with the optical beam scanning apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to adjust the curve and the inclination of the scanning line with ease and at high accuracy.
US08120819B2
An image processing device provided with an acquiring unit and a generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires invisible image data of an invisible image subject to forming on a recording medium with invisible coloring material and acquires source image data of a source image subject to forming on the recording medium with visible coloring material. The generating unit generates corrected-image-data of the source image data corrected according to the absorption wavelength characteristics of the invisible coloring material, such that the color of overlapping regions where both the invisible image and the source image are superimposed when formed on the recording medium approximates to the color of regions corresponding to the overlapping regions in the source image.
US08120814B2
An image processing apparatus has a printing function. A preview original-image creation part creates an original image for preview based on print data. A preview parts-image creation part creates a parts image for preview peculiar to each equipment. A preview image synthesis part synthesizes a preview image from the original image for preview and the parts image for preview. A preview image retaining part retains the preview image.
US08120803B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems for providing one or more advertisements on a printout of a print job are provided. The advertisements are selected based on dynamic selection criteria.
US08120797B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for sending content to an imaging device display using a browser and an embedded application. Some aspects relate to an interruptive process whereby a browser process is interrupted in order to display new browser content. Some aspects relate to an interruptive process whereby alarm or error content is pushed to the browser.
US08120792B2
When a user enters control information for controlling a printing device, the information is stored in a user information storage unit. All combinations of items of the control information capable of being set by the user and values of items incapable of being set by the user, these having been selected so as to be the optimum values for the combinations, are stored as preset values in a combined information storage unit. An information storage unit compares a value in the user information storage unit with a value in the combined information storage unit. If a combination for which agreement is achieved is found in the combined information storage unit, this value is stored in a printing information storage unit and transmitted to the printing device. Thus, an optimum value can be selected and sent to the printing device even with regard to an item incapable of being selected by the user.
US08120791B2
There are provided a framing assisting means for displaying as a moving picture object data as well as a profile of an area that is synthesized with a foreground of selected background data on an LCD 26 in a first magnification, a recording means for storing the object data selected by a shutter instruction in a nonvolatile memory to correlate with the selected background data, and a playing means for displaying as a still picture the object data stored in the nonvolatile memory and the background data correlated with the object data on the LCD 26 by applying a magnification varying process that is used to display the object data on the LCD 26 in a magnification smaller than the first magnification.
US08120783B2
A label-free interferometric biosensor is disclosed which is based on the self-mixing optical interferometer. Inside the biosensor, an incoming beam is divided into two beam portions which pass through a channel and bio materials, respectively. Interference of the portions is realized by the self-mixing effect and used to detect existence of an analyte, such as DNA or protein molecules. The label-free biosensor is compact and can be made on a chip using the semiconductor technology. It is also convenient to use due to moderate alignment requirement. Furthermore, an array of the interferometers fabricated on a chip enables high-throughput and highly parallel measurements.
US08120770B2
A microfluidic device comprises inlets for a sample flow and an out-of-plane focusing sheath flow, and a curved channel section configured to receive the sample flow and out-of-plane focusing sheath and to provide hydrodynamic focusing of the sample flow in an out-of-plane direction, the out-of-plane direction being normal to a plane including the curved channel.
US08120768B2
Methods and apparatus for standardizing quantitative measurements from a microscope system. The process includes a calibration procedure whereby an image of a calibration slide is obtained through the optics of the microscope system. The calibration slide produces a standard response, which can be used to determine a machine intrinsic factor for the particular system. The machine intrinsic factor can be stored for later reference. In use, images are acquired of a target sample and of the excitation light source. The excitation light source sample is obtained using a calibration instrument configured to sample intensity. The calibration instrument has an associated correction factor to compensate its performance to a universally standardized calibration instrument. The machine intrinsic factor, sampled intensity, and calibration instrument correction factor are usable to compensate a quantitative measurement of the target sample in order to normalize the results for comparison with other microscope systems.
US08120762B2
A light guide has a first surface and a second surface with diffractive structures. A slanted facet is provided at one corner of the light guide. The diffractive structures have concentric fringes centered near the slanted facet. Fringes are arranged such that a light beam directed from the first surface at a location P toward the second surface is diffracted by the fringes only if the beam encounters the diffractive structures at a certain direction. The diffracted beam is guided and exits through the slanted surface at an exiting angle, which is correlated to the location P. If the light guide is illuminated in such a way that when an object is present at the first surface, it changes the light intensity of the exiting light beam. By detecting the exiting angle and the change of light intensity, the location of the object can be determined.
US08120750B2
When a substrate stage is located in a first area, a first measurement device measures the same portion of the substrate at the plural measurement points both before and after the stage is horizontally driven. A controller calculates a first difference of the stage in the vertical direction in the first area accompanying driving of the stage horizontally, based on a first measurement result, calculates a value representing a surface shape of the substrate by subtracting the first difference from the first measurement result, calculates a second difference of the stage in the vertical direction in the second area accompanying driving of the stage horizontally by subtracting the value from a value representing a vertical position of the substrate when the stage is located in the second area, and controls a vertical position of the stage in the second area based on the second difference.
US08120747B2
A method and a device for integrating LCD monitor circuitry using a single-layered printed circuit board so as to improve the productivity and reduce the cost of manufacturing LCD monitors.
US08120744B2
A liquid crystal cell assembly includes a first substrate member on which at least first electrodes are formed on each of cell regions which respectively correspond to liquid crystal cells and are arranged to be adjacent to each other, a second substrate member on which at least a second electrode opposing the first electrodes is formed on each cell region to correspond to each cell region of the first substrate member, and frame-like seal members which are arranged between the first substrate member and second substrate member, include common sides each formed by continuously connecting at least two adjacent side, are formed into frames that respectively define the cell regions, and bond the first and second substrate members.
US08120743B2
A production method of a liquid crystal display device that is constructed by placing liquid crystals between a first substrate and a second substrate. The production method includes a step of applying seal material onto the first substrate such that the seal material surrounds a liquid crystal filling area, and a step of bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together. The layer of the seal material is formed such that the thickness becomes smaller than the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the portion corresponding to the display area when the first substrate and the second substrate are bonded together.
US08120735B2
Pixels of an LCD are divided into two sub-pixels, one for a reflective mode and one for a transmittive mode. The cell gaps of both sub-pixels are the same, improving fabrication ease. A novel photoalignment technique is used together with a shadow mask in an embodiment of the invention. Double exposure of the alignment layer with different orientations produces different alignment directions, thereby achieving the different LCD modes for the sub-pixels.
US08120734B2
A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates that face each other, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, a thin film transistor (TFT) formed on the first substrate, and a pixel electrode electrically connected with the TFT and including a reflective portion having a reflective electrode and a transmissive portion having a transmissive electrode. Furthermore, the reflective electrode includes a conductive polymer material.
US08120732B2
A full-color lateral-electric-field LCD device has an organic transparent film having three different thicknesses for the pixels having RGB colors. The thicknesses dR, dG, dB of the organic transparent film and the representative wavelengths λR, λG and λB of the color filters satisfy the following relationship: dR:dG:dB≈λR:λG:λB. The different thicknesses provide different thicknesses for the LC layer, to improve the image quality of the LCD device in a slanted viewing direction.
US08120724B2
A liquid crystal display device including a backlight module, a liquid crystal display device panel and a second frame is provided. The backlight module has a first frame. The first frame has a first body, first fasteners and baffles, wherein the first fasteners and the baffles are integrally formed on the first body, and the first fasteners have opening. The liquid crystal display device panel is arranged on the backlight module. The second frame is assembled with the first frame for fixing the liquid crystal display device panel. The second frame has a second body and second fasteners integrally formed on the second body, and the second fasteners lodge in the openings of the first fasteners to limit the relative displacement between the first and second body, and the baffles are adapted for limiting the relative displacement between the first body and second body.
US08120722B2
A display device may include a display panel, at least one optical sheet on the display panel, a light guide plate on the at least one optical sheet, and a bottom chassis having a side surface part on which the display panel is seated, an inner side part having at least one step from the side surface part, the at least one optical sheet and the light guide plate being in the inner side part.
US08120717B2
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for compensating for motion of a viewer relative to a display device.
US08120715B2
This torque limiter includes a first rotating member integrally provided with a plurality of fragment portions in a concentric manner and having a spring storage portion enclosed with the plurality of fragment portions, a second rotating member having a lid portion arranged to cover the spring storage portion of the first rotating member and a fit portion fitted with the outer peripheral surfaces of the plurality of fragment portions of the first rotating member and a spring member press-fitted into the spring storage portion enclosed with the inner peripheral surfaces of the plurality of fragment portions of the first rotating member thereby bringing the plurality of fragment portions into pressure contact with the fit portion of the second rotating member, for transmitting driving torque in response to pressure contact force applied by the spring member.
US08120710B2
A television line doubler (interlaced to progressive scan converter) incorporating the following aspects an improved field motion detector which does not treat low frequency vertical transitions as motion; a frame motion detector having an improved ability to differentiate motion from subcarrier signal components; a sawtooth artifact detector; a sawtooth artifact detector in combination with a film pattern detector, such that the artifact detector can take the film pattern detector out of film mode earlier than it would if it only were responsive to a break in the film pattern; tandem field motion detectors; an improved field based film detector; film pattern detectors and motion detectors used therewith which operate by performing end-of-field calculations; the combination of a field motion detector and a frame motion detector such that the frame motion detector provides a motion signal used as a verification by the field motion detector; an improved NTSC film detector requiring a minimum number of NTSC film pattern sequences; and an improved PAL film detector employing a minimum motion threshold detector.
US08120704B2
An image display apparatus includes an interlaced-to-progressive converter configured to receive input of interlaced signals and to convert the interlaced signals into progressive signals including interpolated pixels generated by interpolation; a level converter configured to adjust output levels of the interpolated pixels included in the progressive signals generated by the interlaced-to-progressive converter; and a display unit employing a frame-holding display method, configured to output an image obtained through the level conversion by the level converter.
US08120700B2
An image sensor may have a power supply voltage regulator controlled by a feedback loop. The feedback signal may be derived by applying the supply voltage at a point distant from the voltage regulator to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) which may be a spare channel of an ADC provided for the output of the pixel array. The digital feedback loop may be controlled via a chip I2C bus.
US08120699B2
A digital camera capable of setting a special shooting mode for shooting a plurality of images to be synthesized to form one image and comprises an imaging device, a strobe device, a storage unit temporarily storing at least one image shot by the imaging device, a shooting control circuit, an electrical battery serving as a power source, and a power source control circuit. The power source control circuit comprises a charge control unit charging the strobe device in a state where a temporary OFF mode is set, which stops electrical power supply to the imaging device, the storage unit and the shooting control circuit in the case that a strobe shooting is conducted, and the charge control unit charges the strobe device without the temporary OFF mode being set in the case that the strobe shooting is conducted in a state where the special shooting mode is set.
US08120695B2
A camera module includes a lens barrel assembly and a lens holder. The lens assembly includes a lens barrel and a lens received in the lens barrel. The lens include an optical axis. The lens barrel defines a recess in a sidewall of the lens barrel. The barrel holder includes a peripheral sidewall, an inner flange formed on an inner surface of the peripheral sidewall, and a protrusion extending from the inner flange. The peripheral sidewall of the barrel holder is threadedly engaged with the lens barrel. The protrusion extends in a direction parallel to the optical axis and is inserted in the recess.
US08120690B2
An imaging device of the present invention includes a plurality of photosensors arranged in matrix on a light-receiving surface and a readout section for adding up photo signals on the photosensors for external output in each pixel block set on the light-receiving surface. The pixel blocks each consists of N (N≧2) photosensors assembled in an array direction of the matrix and the pixel blocks in even number arrays and those in odd number arrays in the matrix are shifted from each other by half a phase in the array direction. With or without execution of the adding-up operation, it is able to switch a pattern of readout pixels from the imaging device between a grid pattern and a diagonal grid pattern.
US08120684B2
Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup device including: a photoelectric conversion section configured to convert incident light into a signal charge; a transfer transistor configured to read the signal charge from the photoelectric conversion section and transfer the signal charge; and an amplifying transistor configured to amplify the signal charge read by the transfer transistor, wherein a compressive stress film having a compressive stress is formed on the amplifying transistor.
US08120683B1
An integrated application specific integrated circuit having a detection layer, a time delayed integration capability, data acquisition electronics, and a readout function is provided for detecting breast cancer in women. The detection layer receives x-ray radiation and converts the received energy to electron pairs, one of which is received by pixels. The time delay integration is on the chip and a part of the readout architecture. The detector may be a hybrid silicon detector (SiPD), a CdZnTe detector, or a GaAs detector.
US08120679B2
An image processing method for executing edge enhancement for an original image includes: extracting edge components based upon the original image; correcting the extracted edge components by attenuating the individual edge components so that a frequency distribution related to intensity of the edge components approximates a Gaussian distribution assuming a specific width; and executing edge enhancement for the original image based upon the corrected edge components.
US08120678B2
Provided are method and apparatus for eliminating image noise caused by variation between the imaging pixels on an image sensor. Preferably, a uniform light source is provided firstly, and the image sensor records exposure values taken from the source. Method is to sum the exposure values in each channel of each line, and calculate channel's average of sum for each channel and sum for adjacent lines' channels. A channel compensation value is then obtained by subtracting the average from the sum of one channel in one line, and divided by the pixel number in one channel. A compensation average constituted of a first part and a second part for each pixel is further calculated. A pixel compensation value for each pixel is obtained by suitably allotting the two parts. The pixel compensation value is finally recorded in memory and being a reference for future photographing.
US08120677B2
An imaging apparatus according to the present invention is arranged with an OB level difference correcting unit for performing a process by sectionalizing a vertical pre-stage OB unit to a first region positioned on a side opposite to an effective pixel unit along a vertical transfer direction and a second region positioned on the effective pixel unit side and read out after the first region, and calculating a correction amount for correcting the OB level difference using a signal corresponding to a dark current obtained from the first region, and a correction table described with a relationship of a signal corresponding to the dark current generated in the vertical pre-stage OB unit and an OB level difference which is a difference between a black level in the vertical pre-stage OB unit and a black level of an image signal.
US08120674B2
By connecting to or mounting a first storage medium that stores image data as a retrieval object (e.g. first memory card 121) and a second storage medium that stores a retrieve condition (e.g. non-volatile memory 111 or second memory card 122), an imaging apparatus 100 can store image data as a retrieval object and a retrieve condition on different storage medium. By replacing the first storage medium with a third storage medium, image retrieval can be executed for a plurality of storage medium using the same retrieve condition.
US08120671B2
In a digital camera, when snapshot shooting is instructed during recording of a moving image, a shot still image is temporarily pushed aside in a memory area for use in pushing aside (7a) in a frame buffer (7). A currently shooting motion image and a still image are displayed in parallel on a display (9), so that a user can confirm a content of a snapshot. The moving image continues to be recorded even during a push-aside operation. After a moving image processing is completed, the still image is processed by an image correcting circuit (4). The frame buffer (7) comprises a plurality of frame recording areas, and is shared on the occasions of a moving image processing and a still image processing. In a normal moving image processing, these areas are utilized in a cyclic manner, and when the still image is shot, any of areas will be utilized. Thereafter, the rest of areas are utilized in the cyclic manner for the moving images. The recording function for the moving image and still image is improved at low cost, it becomes easy to take a snapshot, and the merchandise size is not increased.
US08120670B2
An apparatus for controlling gain of color signal includes an auto white balance algorithm applying unit determining a white estimation region from an input image, and calculating a first color signal gain for correcting an average color signal level of pixels of the white estimation region to white, a pixel determining unit determining a form of each pixel according to brightness and color using the color signal level of the each pixel of the input image, and a color signal gain determining unit determining a color signal gain to be applied to the each pixel according to the form of the each pixel of the input image as any one of the first color signal gain, a second color signal gain determined by the color signal level of the each pixel for correcting the each pixel to white and a unit gain.
US08120666B2
An image pickup apparatus including a chromatic aberration of magnification correction device to correct chromatic aberration of magnification of an image by converting coordinates of pixel data of multiple color components of the image using multiple first coordinate conversion memories corresponding to the multiple color components and a distortion correction device to correct distortion of the image corrected with regard to the chromatic aberration of magnification by converting coordinates of the pixel data of multiple color components of the image at one time using a second coordinate conversion memory shared by the multiple color components.
US08120660B2
Forming image information of image units (e.g. pixels) of a higher resolution by convoluting information of image units of a lower resolution with coefficients of a multiphase filter. The information of one set of higher resolution image units is formed by convoluting in a first direction the information of the lower resolution image units with a first set of four coefficients. The information of a second set of higher resolution image units is form by convoluting in the first direction the information of the lower resolution image units with a second set of four coefficients. Convolution may also be performed in a second direction with a set of four coefficients. In one example, the image information formed includes intensity information for each image unit.
US08120654B2
A device for detecting a defect on the end face of a glass sheet is provided with: an image pick-up device having at least two CCD cameras for image-picking up the end face of the glass sheet from outside the glass sheet and in two directions diagonal to both front and back surfaces thereof; an illuminating device having a nearly C-shaped ring illumination capable of applying illuminating light in its center axis direction and having an opening slit; and an image processing device for processing the image signals acquired from the CCD cameras to determine the quality of the end face. The glass sheet is loosely inserted in the opening slit so that the end face agrees with the center axis of the ring illumination; the illuminating light is applied to the end face; and the end face is image-picked up by the image pick-up device. The image signals thus acquired are processed by the image processing device, thereby detecting the presence/absence of the defect on the end face.
US08120644B2
The present invention generally provides a method of performing dynamic calibration of a stereo vision system using a specific stereo disparity algorithm adapted to provide for the determination of disparity in two dimensions, X and Y. In one embodiment of the present invention, an X/Y disparity map may be calculated using this algorithm without having to perform pre-warping or first finding the epipolar directions. Thus information related to camera misalignment and/or distortion can be preserved in the resulting X/Y disparity map and later extracted.
US08120641B2
An apparatus may take a panoramic photograph without the need to set the order in which panoramic images. The method includes taking a reference image that is a portion of the panoramic photograph, generating a plurality of guide images using portions of the reference image, detecting movement of an image-taking device and displaying a guide image selected according to the detected movement of the image-taking device, and taking a connected image to be stitched to the most recently taken reference image using the guide image.
US08120640B2
Between a display of a videophone apparatus and a cover thereof, there are disposed lenses 114, 116, 118 and a half mirror, having sufficiently small areas as compared to the surface areas of the display and the cover. The half mirror enables light from the display to transmit to the cover, and reflects light from the outside, so as to lead to a camera. The camera is disposed at a position at which the light reflected by the half mirror can be imaged. Lenses 114, 116 are disposed in opposite positions sandwiching the half mirror. Light from the display passes through lens 114, transmits through the half mirror, and further, passes through lens 116, so as to be led to the cover. Also, light from the cover passes through lens 116, and is reflected by the half mirror, and then passing through lens 118, so as to be led to the camera.
US08120638B2
Various embodiments of a method for automatically converting audio speech in a videoconference into text information are described. According to one embodiment of the method, a videoconferencing device at a first endpoint in the videoconference may receive a stream of video information and audio information from a videoconferencing device at a second endpoint in the videoconference. The audio information includes speech of a participant at the second endpoint. The videoconferencing device at the first endpoint may automatically convert the speech into text information.
US08120636B2
A method for performing a recording operation in a video communication mode of a wireless terminal are provided, where the video communication mode of the wireless terminal is switched to a recording mode for performing the recording operation, and video data are evaluated to determine if received in the recording mode of video communication. When the video data are not received, although a predetermined time passes, the recording mode of the video communication is performed while inserting preset substitution image data. When the video data are received before the predetermined time passes, the received video data is checked to determine if an error is included, and when the received video data includes abnormal video data, the recording mode of the video communication is performed while inserting preset substitution image data.
US08120634B2
The apparatus is adapted to deflect a light beam from a laser light source for each of the color components by means of a deflection mirror surface which oscillates, thereby making the light beam reciprocally scan in a main scanning direction. In this apparatus, however, only a light beam SL which scans in a first direction (+X) of the main scanning direction is irradiated in an effective image region on a photosensitive member, so as to form a latent image thereon. The resultant latent image is developed to form a toner image. Since image formation is performed using only the light beam SL which scans in the first direction (+X), the images may be formed at the consistent density irrespective of the image types. Furthermore, the scanning directions of the light beams SL for all the color components are uniformly defined to be the first direction (+X), so that the toner images of the respective colors may maintain the consistent density.
US08120626B2
A display device to change an image displayed in a display area when the display area is changed includes a memory, a location output unit and a screen display unit. The memory stores size information of a display area displayed on a screen and the image data of the displayed image. The location computing unit computes a start point of the changed display area when the display area is changed. The display unit decodes data corresponding to the size of the display area based on the computed new start point from the image data to display the decoded data in the display area. Since the start point is obtained with center point of the changed display area and its size information and then a display area to be displayed is determined based on the start point, a current search location is maintained even when the screen is swung.
US08120618B2
The present invention, an object display system, provides a system and method for positioning objects on a viewing area. One embodiment can be viewed as providing a method comprising the steps of specifying a plurality of objects, specifying a plurality of object pairs from the plurality of objects, specifying a potential function for each one of the specified object pairs, specifying a similarity value (s) for each one of the specified object pairs, determining an energy (e) for each one of the potential functions and solving for the minimum total energy (E) of the plurality of potential functions such that a distance (r) between each of the specified object pairs is determined.
US08120615B2
A method and system for generating a representation of a terrain. The method of generating a representation of a terrain comprises the steps of selecting a set of colors, the colors comprise at least a plurality of colors, determining a minimum terrain elevation, and determining a maximum terrain elevation. A plurality of terrain bands is computed based in part on the set of colors, the minimum terrain elevation, and the maximum terrain elevation. At least one of the limited set of colors is assigned to each of the plurality of the plurality of terrain bands. The representation of the terrain is generated one of the limited set of colors.
US08120613B2
The invention described in this application is an image file system for the acquisition and storage of streaming digital image data onto persistent storage media in real time and for full-rate playback of streaming digital image data stored on persistent storage media. Input/output of non-streaming digital image data is processed in system memory with write/read operations buffered by native operating system input/output support. Input/output of streaming digital data is processed in high-speed streaming digital image data I/O memory with write/read operations buffered by a high-performance image buffer thread.
US08120605B2
An image apparatus which provides a three-dimensional (3D) picture-in-picture (PIP) image, and an image display method thereof are provided. The image apparatus includes a graphic processor which adds a graphic representation to a main image to be displayed on a display, and a controller which controls the graphic processor to add a 3D form to the main image. Therefore, it is possible to provide a user with a single PIP image in which various sub-images are graphically represented in 3D.
US08120598B2
A gates-line driving circuit of a display device includes a plurality of stages that are serially connected to each other, where each stage includes a plurality of transistors and a plurality of capacitors and receives a scanning start signal, a plurality of clock signals, and first and second gate-off voltages Voff1 and Voff2 of different magnitudes, where some of the transistors are turned off with the first gate-off voltage, and others of the transistors are turned off with the second gate-off voltage.
US08120595B2
This invention relates to polymeric optical materials suitable for use in waveguide-based optical touch screen sensors. In particular, the materials should have a glass transition temperature (Tg) below a minimum operating temperature of the touch screen device. Preferably, waveguides composed of the materials are fabricated on polymer substrates, so that the waveguide assembly is flexible. In this case, the materials should have Tg below a Tg of the polymer substrate.
US08120594B2
An electronic device is formed at least partially from a deflectable material that generates an electrical signal in response to contact. The first material is integrated with a display module to provide a shaped feature on the exterior surface of the display module. The shaped feature detects contact with an external object on one or more contact points, where contact with the contact points corresponds to a defined input for a processor of the electronic device.
US08120590B2
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes allowing, via a wireless communication unit on the mobile terminal, wireless communication with at least one other terminal; displaying, on a first side of a touch screen display of the mobile terminal, a sound icon indicating whether or not a sound is output by the mobile terminal; receiving, via a controller, a touching selection signal indicating a touching of the sound icon; displaying, on the touch screen display, a first indicator corresponding to the sound icon on a second side of the touch screen display and separated from the sound icon, said first indicator indicating a direction in which a touch and drag operation should occur to turn off the sound output by the mobile terminal; receiving, via the controller, a touch and drag selection signal indicating a dragging operation along a vector from the sound icon toward an intersection with the first indicator; and turning off, via the controller, the sound output by the mobile terminal after receiving the touch and drag signal indicating the dragging operation and before the first indicator is touched. The present invention also provides a corresponding mobile terminal.
US08120585B2
A method includes defining a plurality of parameters for a vibration control pulse comprising a start pulse and a stop pulse, and outputting the vibration control pulse to a vibration element to provide tactile feedback.
US08120584B2
An apparatus and method for providing an active feedback of a position of a conductive object, manipulated by a user on a sensing device, to allow detection of a reference location on the sensing device by the user. The apparatus may include a sensing device to detect a presence of a conductive object, manipulated by a user on the sensing device, a processing device coupled to the sensing device, the processing device to determine a position of the conductive object on the sensing device, and a feedback mechanism coupled to the processing device to provide an active feedback to the user to allow detection of a reference location on the sensing device by the user.
US08120566B2
A timing controller for a display device includes a receiver, a first line memory, a serialization part, and first and second compensation parts. The receiver receives image data corresponding to unit pixels, and transmits the image data to the first line memory in a first order. The first line memory receives and stores the image data. The serialization part reads the image data in the first order from the first line memory and serially transmits the image data in a second order different from the first order. The first compensation part receives the image data in the second order and generates first compensation data of the image data, the first compensation data corresponding to a first gamma curve. The second compensation part receives the image data in the second order and generates second compensation data of the image data, the second compensation data corresponding to a second gamma curve.
US08120565B2
Display contrast in electro-optical display devices is improved using a drive circuit including pixel drive circuits and a common drive circuit. The pixel drive circuits are connected to pixel electrodes of the display device, and are operable to generate respective pixel drive signals that alternate between a first high voltage and a first low voltage differing in voltage by less than or equal to a process-limited maximum. The common drive circuit is connected to a common electrode of the display device, and is operable to generate a common drive signal alternating between a second high voltage and a second low voltage differing in voltage by more than the process-limited maximum. The common drive signal is asymmetrically bipolar with respect to the first low voltage of the pixel drive signal.
US08120560B2
A system provides an image displaying technique that provides stable high contrast even in an area having high brightness. Based on information about an average brightness level of a digital luminance signal, black-correction processing which decreases a brightness level by offsetting the brightness level to the minus side, and increase processing which increases a contrast gain within a dynamic range, are performed for an analog luminance signal or a digital luminance signal, enabling improvement in contrast even where brightness is intense.
US08120554B2
An OLED pixel, an organic light emitting display comprising the same, and a driving method thereof in which a uniform image is displayed regardless of differences among transistor characteristics are disclosed. The organic light emitting display comprises a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of power source lines. Each pixel comprises a frequency supplying line to supply a frequency signal having a frequency corresponding to a sub-frame, a pixel circuit to supply current from the power source line on the basis of a data signal and the frequency signal, and an organic light emitting diode configured to emit light depending on the output current from the pixel circuit.
US08120552B2
Problems such as insufficient brightness, caused by a reduction in duty ratio (the ratio of a light emitting period and a non-light emitting period), are improved upon in accordance with using a novel method of driving and a novel circuit in an electronic device. Signals are written into pixels of a plurality of differing lines during one gate signal line selection period. By arbitrarily setting, to a certain extent, the time from when a signal is input into the pixels of a certain line until the next signal is input to the same pixels, while ensuring the time for writing into the pixels, a sustain (turn on) period can be arbitrarily set and a high duty ratio is realized.
US08120543B2
A transmission line slot antenna is described. Although more generally applicable, the antenna is particularly adapted to conformal applications. The antenna has a ground plate with a conductive top surface having a slot with a feed whose ground reference terminal is connected to one side of the slot and whose signal terminal is connected to the other side of the slot. A conductive cylindrical screen, which can be of an arbitrary cross section and non-uniform in the longitudinal direction, is formed of one or more sections attached along the bottom surface of the ground plate, with each of the sections having a first and second edge conductively connected to the top surface of the ground plate along opposite sides of the slot. The antenna is tuned to support the fundamental mode (H00) of a slotted cylinder transmission line formed by the screen sections and a part of the ground plate with the slot.
US08120540B1
An RF antenna system for RFID tag communication includes a terminal and wire antennas extending therefrom. Each wire antenna has a first end electrically coupled to the terminal and a second end that is unencumbered. At least a portion of each wire antenna to include the second end thereof is flexible in at least one direction so that an RFID tag of an RFID-tagged object contacts at least one of the wire antennas.
US08120538B2
The invention provides a wireless chip which can secure the safety of consumers while being small in size, favorable in communication property, and inexpensive, and the invention also provides an application thereof. Further, the invention provides a wireless chip which can be recycled after being used for managing the manufacture, circulation, and retail. A wireless chip includes a layer including a semiconductor element, and an antenna. The antenna includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a dielectric layer sandwiched between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, and has a spherical shape, an ovoid shape, an oval spherical shape like a go stone, an oval spherical shape like a rugby ball, or a disc shape, or has a cylindrical shape or a polygonal prism shape in which an outer edge portion thereof has a curved surface.
US08120531B2
A signal processing apparatus for a multi-mode satellite positioning system includes a band-pass filter, a local oscillator circuit, a first mixing circuit, a second mixing circuit, an analog-to-digital converter and a baseband circuit. By properly allocating a local frequency, radio frequency (RF) signals of a Global Positioning System (GPS), a Galileo positioning system and a Global Navigation System (GLONASS) are processed via a single signal path to save hardware cost.
US08120529B2
Methods and apparatus for autonomous in-receiver prediction of orbit and clock states of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are described. Only the GNSS broadcast message is used, without need for periodic externally-communicated information. Earth orientation information is extracted from the GNSS broadcast ephemeris. With the accurate estimation of the Earth orientation parameters it is possible to propagate the best-fit GNSS orbits forward in time in an inertial reference frame. Using the estimated Earth orientation parameters, the predicted orbits are then transformed into Earth-Centered-Earth-Fixed (ECEF) coordinates to be used to assist the GNSS receiver in the acquision of the signals. GNSS satellite clock states are also extracted from the broadcast ephemeris and a parameterized model of clock behavior is fit to that data. The estimated modeled clocks are then propagated forward in time to enable, together with the predicted orbits, quicker GNSS signal acquision.
US08120528B2
A portable communication device has a first system for receiving signals from GPS satellites and a second system for communication with multiple satellites of a low orbit communications system. The device is arranged, at a time of required transmission, to monitor the elevation and azimuth of the GPS satellites in view so as to generate an elevation mask of where the sky is open at the time and to commence a required transmission only if the calculation prediction indicates that at least one of the satellites of the low earth orbit communication satellite system is in view.
US08120524B2
Whether or not the CW radar is utilized for through-the-wall detection, additional one or more sensors are used with the CW radar to confirm the motion detection result or to in fact turn on the CW radar once motion or the physical presence of an individual has been sensed, thereby to provide confirmation of a less-reliable sensor with the use of the more reliable CW radar. Thus, the addition of other sensors provides lower power consumption, lower false alarm rates and better discrimination and classification of moving objects.
US08120516B2
A method for encoding an input file into an output file that is compressed so that the number of bits required to represent the output file is less than the number of bits of the input file. The encoding method includes the parsing of the input file into a series of data items, the data items having an order and collectively corresponding to the input file. The encoding method compares the series of data items against a static dictionary having at least mappings between terminal sequence pointers and representations of data items. Each mapping has an associated length, the associated length for a mapping being the length of the data item pointed to by its terminal sequence pointer wherein the terminal sequence pointers are represented by a number of bits that is independent of the particular data items in the input file, the static dictionary being static such that the static dictionary is usable to provide a mapping between a terminal sequence pointer and its corresponding representation of data item independent of mapping of other data items.
US08120509B2
An MWD data transmission system and method for determining and transmitting the environmental properties of the downhole borehole assembly (BHA) to surface data receivers via mud pulse telemetry, EM telemetry, or both mud pulse telemetry and EM telemetry based on one or more determined properties of the downhole environment.
US08120508B2
A cable link may include a first link connector in signal communication with at least one sensor in a drill string and coupled to the drill string, a second link connector spaced apart from the first link connector and in signal communication with a telemetry system, the second connector link coupled to the drill string, and a linking cable having signal connectors at each end thereof, the linking cable having at least one of an electrical conductor and an optical fiber therein, the signal connectors each configured to latch proximate a respective one of the first and second link connector.
US08120507B2
A two-tier communication system for a seismic streamer. The communication system operates over an unshielded twisted-pair communication line extending the length of the streamer. Repeater units having a repeater function and a device controller function divide the twisted pair into line segments. Coils on each segment couple signals inductively to collocated external devices in a low-speed 2400 baud FSK data link between the devices and an associated device controller. A Gaussian 8-level FSK high-speed 60 kbit/s data link is established along all the segments with the repeaters re-transmitting boosted signals along the entire length of the communication line. The coils are transparent at the high-speed data rate. Time division multiple access (TDMA) or frequency division multiple access (FDMA) is used to accommodate the two links on the single twisted pair.
US08120502B2
To detect opening/closing of a neutral detection hydraulic switch by a detection apparatus and detect breakage of a wiring line connected between the detection apparatus and the switch. Since a second contact and an ECU are connected to each other by two wiring lines, even if one of the wiring lines is broken, opening/closing of the neutral detection hydraulic switch can be detected through the remaining one of the wiring lines. Since different voltages are applied to the wiring lines through resistance type voltage dividing circuits, the occurrence of the wire breakage can be detected making use of the fact that the voltage detected by the ECU upon opening of the neutral detection hydraulic switch when one of the wiring lines is broken is different from the voltage when none of the wiring lines is broken.
US08120485B2
A container comprising a body having embedded therein a plurality of chipless radio frequency identification elements. The chipless radio frequency identification elements comprise a plurality of categories of resonant elements. The resonant elements can be utilized in a system having a binary code feature. The combination of different resonant elements can be read and translated to identify the features of a particular product. The container can be prepared by compounding moldable compositions with the resonant elements and molding the moldable compositions containing the resonant elements into the final product. The invention also provides a system and a method for reading the binary code provided by the chipless radio frequency identification elements.
US08120484B2
A closure includes a plastic shell for securement to a container neck finish. An RFID kernel tag is disposed within the shell, and includes an RFID circuit and a low power UHF antenna coupled to the circuit. A boost antenna, electromagnetically coupled to but otherwise disconnected from the RFID kernel tag, boosts signal gain to and from the RFID kernel tag. In several exemplary embodiments of the disclosure, the RFID kernel tag is secured to an undersurface of the base wall of the closure, and the boost antenna is disposed on the undersurface of the closure base wall, on an opposing surface of a liner disk disposed within the closure shell or comprises a metal layer on an induction seal disk secured to the end of the container neck finish.
US08120478B2
An information display system for a hybrid electric vehicle configured to display one or more reasons an engine is on is provided. The information display system determines which engine on reasons are true and applies a prioritization strategy to determine which engine on reasons are displayed to an operator via an information display.
US08120468B2
A security system for inventory automatically detects removal of inventory items from an area or areas protected with security sensors. A person removing the item then scans an identifying code of the item, such as its bar code or radio-frequency identification (“RFID”) tag, with a device such as a portable shopping assistant device; if the item is not scanned in an appropriate manner, such as within a particular a time period, then theft of the item may be suspected. Information for completing a purchase transaction can be sent from the portable shopping assistant device. In this manner, items can be purchased directly from the protected areas.
US08120464B2
A radio frequency identification (RFID) reader is provided, having a transmitting circuit that generates a transmitted signal to operate an RFID tag, a receiving circuit that receives a received signal including a tag signal from the RFID tag and a transmission carrier leakage signal leaking from the transmitting circuit, and a leakage removing circuit that senses a phase and amplitude of the transmission carrier leakage signal inputted to the receiving circuit, converts the transmitted signal from the transmitting circuit into a signal having a phase opposite to that of the transmission carrier leakage signal and an amplitude equal to that of the transmission carrier leakage signal, and synthesizes the converted signal and the received signal inputted to the receiving circuit.
US08120456B2
A balancing circuit for a metal detector. The metal detector includes an oscillating power source, a transmit coil connected to the oscillating power source, first and second receive coils inductively coupled to the transmit coil, a first amplitude balancing circuit connected to the first receive coil, and a first phase balancing circuit connected to the first receive coil. The first phase balancing circuit includes a capacitor and a variable resistor.
US08120451B2
The present invention relates to a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) and, more particularly, to an electrostatic actuator, and a driving method thereof and an application device thereof. The electrostatic actuator in accordance with the present invention comprises a fixed electrode, an electric charge charging unit electrically insulated from the fixed electrode, and a moving electrode spaced apart from the fixed electrode and the electric charge charging unit. In accordance with the present invention, the electrostatic actuator with a very low driving voltage and an arbitrarily controllable driving voltage when compared with a conventional electrostatic actuator is provided. In addition, the electrostatic actuator having durability against external noise and enabling a reliable consecutive operation is provided. Further, in accordance with the present invention, non-volatile mechanical memory, a logic circuit and a switch employing the electrostatic actuator are provided.
US08120445B2
An EMI filter for use between a power source and an electronic product is formed of at least one planar element including a pair of opposed coreless spiral planar windings, and a planar capacitor. This enables the integration of common mode and differential mode filters into integrated planar structures. Furthermore the planar EMI filter may be combined with an active filter element to provide a hybrid EMI filter comprising both passive and active elements with superior performance.
US08120439B2
An exemplary fast start-up crystal oscillator with reduced start-up time. The exemplary oscillator reduces the start-up time (i.e., the time taken to attain sustained stable oscillations after the power is turned on) by increasing the negative resistance of a circuit. Increasing the negative resistance increases the rate of growth of the oscillations, thereby reducing start-up time. The exemplary crystal oscillator includes a gain stage with negative resistance. A crystal with shunt capacitance is placed in the feedback loop of the gain stage. A buffer is coupled to the gain stage such that it blocks the crystal shunt capacitance from loading the gain stage, effectively increasing the negative resistance of the gain stage. Further, an oscillation detection and control circuit is coupled between the crystal and the gain stage. The oscillation detection and control circuit connects the buffer during start-up, and disconnects the buffer once an oscillation signal attains sustained stable oscillations.
US08120424B2
A buffer stage includes a flipped voltage follower and an emitter follower. The flipped voltage follower is connected between a high voltage rail and a low voltage rail and include an input and an output. The emitter follower is also connected between the high voltage rail and the low voltage rail and includes an input and an output. A resistor connects the output of the flipped voltage follower to the output of the emitter follower. The input of the flipped voltage follower and the input of the emitter follower are connected together and provide an input of the buffer stage. The output of the emitter follower provides an output of the buffer stage. A differential buffer stage can be implemented using a pair of such buffer stages. Such a differential buffer stage can provide the output stage for a fully differential operational amplifier.
US08120423B2
An operational amplifier with two pairs of differential inputs for use with an input switch capacitor network. The operational amplifier has reset devices for resetting the second pair of differential inputs while amplifying the first pair of differential inputs, and for resetting the first pair of differential inputs while amplifying the second pair of differential inputs for reducing memory effect in electronic circuits. In an embodiment, the amplifier has an additional reset device for resetting the outputs during a prophase of amplifying the first pair of differential inputs and a prophase of amplifying the second pair of differential inputs.
US08120422B1
Ripple reduction loop for chopper amplifiers and chopper-stabilized amplifiers. The ripple reduction loop includes a first chopper, a first amplifier having an input coupled to an output of the first chopper, a second chopper having an input coupled to an output of the first amplifier, a second amplifier having an input coupled to an output of the second chopper, a third chopper, an output of the second amplifier having its output capacitively coupled to an input of the third chopper as the only input to the third chopper, a third amplifier coupled as an integrator having an input coupled to an output of the third chopper, an output of the integrator being coupled to combine with the output of the first amplifier as the input of the second chopper, and at least one Miller capacitor coupled between an output of the second amplifier and the input of the second amplifier. Various embodiments are disclosed.
US08120420B2
Disclosed herein is a demodulator, including: a splitting/matching section for carrying out a matching process of making the amplitude and phase of a first modulated signal match respectively the amplitude and phase of a second modulated signal; and a demodulation section for generating a demodulated signal on the basis of the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal, which have been subjected to the matching process carried out by the splitting/matching section, wherein the splitting/matching section has a splitting section, a first matching section, and a second matching section, the first circuit-element constants determining the first input impedance of the first matching section and the second circuit-element constants determining the second input impedance of the second matching section are set at values determined in advance in order to make the first input impedance equal to the second input impedance.
US08120418B2
A large-scale integrated circuit according to the present invention includes a plurality of functional blocks for independently performing a signal processing operation, and a selection controlling circuit for generating a first control signal to select one of the plurality of functional blocks, in which the selection controlling circuit includes a control signal generating circuit for generating a second control signal for stopping the operation of its circuit, and the selection controlling circuit generates the first and the second control signals by a command from a different control circuit.
US08120409B2
A programmable delay circuit capable of providing a delay with integer and fractional time resolution is described. In one exemplary design, an apparatus includes first and second delay circuits. The first delay circuit provides a first delay of an integer number of time units. The second delay circuit couples to the first delay circuit and provides a second delay of a fraction of one time unit. The first delay circuit may include multiple unit delay cells coupled in series. Each unit delay cell may provide a delay of one time unit when enabled. The second delay circuit may have first and second paths. The first path may provide a shorter delay when selected, and the second path may provide a longer delay when selected. The second path may be coupled to at least one dummy logic gate that provides extra loading to obtain the longer delay for the second path.
US08120405B1
A method and apparatus for an output buffer with dynamic impedance control have been disclosed.
US08120403B2
A semiconductor device includes a first duty determining circuit (20) and a second duty determining circuit (30). The first duty determining circuit (20) determines a duty correction condition for an input signal in a first predetermined cycle longer than a cycle of the input signal to obtain a first determination result and updates the duty correction condition for the input signal on the basis of the first determination result. The second duty determining circuit (30) determines the duty correction condition for the input signal in a second predetermined cycle shorter than first predetermined cycle to obtain a second determination result and updates the duty correction condition for the input signal only when the second determination result is fixed during a predetermined period.
US08120400B2
A Phase Locked Loop circuit, includes: a main path through which an input signal is propagated, and an actual signal is output; a main feedback path through which the actual signal is fed back to an input stage of the main path; and a local feedback path through which feedback is carried out from a path middle of the main path to a path middle of an input stage side; the main path including a phase detector, a loop filter, and a controlled oscillator, and the local feedback path including a replica portion, a delay portion, a first subtracter, and a second subtracter.
US08120397B2
A delay locked loop (DLL) apparatus includes a first delay unit converting a reference clock into a rising clock. A second delay unit converts the reference clock into a falling clock, and a replica delay unit replica-delays the rising clock. A first phase detector compares the phases of the reference clock and the delayed rising clock to output a first detection signal corresponding to the compared phases. A controller synchronizes the rising edge of the rising clock with the rising edge of the reference clock according to the first detection signal of the first phase detector. A second phase detector compares the phases of the synchronized rising clock and the synchronization clock to output a second detection signal corresponding to the compared phases. The DLL apparatus compensates for a skew between an external clock and data and between external and internal clocks by employing a single replica delay unit.
US08120395B2
A data receiver has a clock recovery and data sampling circuit. This has a fixed local oscillator for timing the data samples. A phase interpolator adjusts the phase of the clock signal in response to an early late detector which samples the waveform at the expected position of the edges. A further correction to the sampling position is made in response to the recent history of the data received. The correction is modelled on predictable jitter, for example, that in a transmitter caused by changes in data causing the supply voltage to drop.
US08120390B1
A low drop out voltage regulator (LDO) is capable of operating in one of two different modes based on externally connected components. In one mode, the LDO directly generates a regulated output voltage. In a second mode, the LDO drives an external PNP transistor to generate a regulated output voltage. In both modes, a relatively large bypass capacitor may be connected to the output voltage node to bypass high-frequency loading on the output voltage node. However, the bypass capacitor creates a low frequency pole in the frequency response of the LDO, which can diminish phase margin and reduce overall stability. An on chip compensation network beneficially counteracts the low frequency pole with an appropriately placed zero, thereby resulting in improved phase margin and greater stability.
US08120389B2
To make Flying-Adder architecture even more powerful, a new concept, time-average-frequency, is incorporated into the clock generation circuitry. This is a fundamental breakthrough since it attacks the clock generation problem from its root: how is the clock signal used in real systems? By investigating from this direction, a much more powerful architecture, fixed-VCO-Flying-Adder architecture, is created. Furthermore, based on fixed-VCO-Flying-Adder frequency synthesizer and time-average-frequency, a new type of component called Digital-to-Frequency Converter (DFC) is born.
US08120378B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media storing instructions for such methods relate to generating test vectors that can be used for exercising a particular area of interest in an integrated circuit. The test vectors generally include a non-overlapping repeating and/or predictable sequence of care bits (a care bit pattern) that can be used by a tester to cause the exercise of the area and collect emissions caused by exercising the area. Such emissions can be used for analysis and debugging of the circuit and/or a portion of it. Aspects can include providing a synchronization signal that can be used by a tester to allow sensor activation at appropriate times.
US08120366B2
To provide a cold cathode ionization vacuum gauge that does not have a complicated structure and can induce discharge in a short time even after the cold cathode ionization vacuum gauge is used for a long time. A cold cathode ionization vacuum gauge has a rod-like anode 2, a measuring element enclosure (cathode) 1 arranged to surround the anode, and a magnet 3 disposed on the outer periphery of the cathode 1. A discharge trigger supporting electrode 5 having a projection 21 directed toward the center axis of the anode 2 is disposed in a discharge space 9 of the cathode 1. The discharge trigger supporting electrode 5 is removably disposed on the cathode 1, and the distance between the tip of the projection 21 of the discharge trigger supporting electrode 5 and the anode 2 is equal to or more than 0.3 mm.
US08120356B2
Measurement methodology and array structure for statistical stress and test of reliabilty structures
System and method for obtaining statistics in a fast and simplified manner at the wafer level while using wafer-level test equipment. The system and method performs a parallel stress of all of the DUTs on a given chip to keep the stress time short, and then allows each DUT on that chip to be tested individually while keeping the other DUTs on that chip under stress to avoid any relaxation. In one application, the obtained statistics enable analysis of Negative Temperature Bias Instability (NTBI) phenomena of transistor devices. Although obtaining statistics may be more crucial for NBTI because of its known behavior as the device narrows, the structure and methodology, with minor appropriate adjustments, could be used for stressing multiple DUTs for many technology reliability mechanisms.
US08120355B1
A magnetic anomaly detector includes a magnetically active device which produces analog signals in response to magnetic fields. The analog signals are time quantized and then discrete-time differentiated. The differentiated signals are applied to a low-pass filter. The filtered signals are Fourier transformed into an amplitude-frequency spectrum. An error detector compares at least one reference amplitude-frequency spectrum with the reference spectrum to identify the presence or absence of a magnetic anomaly. The resulting error is displayed on a monitor or operates an alarm.
US08120346B2
Methods and apparatus for current sensing according to various aspects of the present invention sense the current in a circuit, such as an inductor circuit. The current sensing systems may comprise an RC element connected such that the RC time constant matches the L/R time constant of the inductor. The current sensor may be configured to generate voltages that are proportional to the instantaneous current in the inductor with scaled gain for a wide range of inductor self resistance (DCR) values.
US08120342B1
A voltage regulator includes a switch configured to alternately couple and decouple a voltage source through a inductor to a load, a feedback circuitry configured to generate a feedback current proportional to a difference between a desired voltage and an output voltage at an output terminal, a current sensor configured to measure the feedback current, a controller configured to receive the feedback current level from the current sensor and, in response thereto, to control a duty cycle of the switch, and a current mirror configured to generate a reporting current proportional to the feedback current.
US08120330B1
An oscillator that includes an energy storage system configured to store energy, a ramp circuit configured to generate an oscillating ramp signal having a slope that is a function of the amount of energy stored in the energy storage system, a charge circuit configured to controllably deliver energy into or remove energy from the energy storage system, a comparator circuit configured to compare the oscillating ramp signal with a reference signal; and/or a charge control circuit configured to cause the charge circuit to deliver energy into or remove energy from the energy storage system based on the comparison by the comparator circuit.
US08120325B2
A system measures a voltage of a battery of a user device, measures a temperature and an acceleration of the battery if a decrease in battery voltage is measured, and determines whether the battery is functioning properly based on one or more of the measured voltage, temperature, or acceleration of the battery.
US08120320B2
A battery control system comprises a battery control module, an averaging module, and a supervisor module. The battery control module measures voltages of N energy storage blocks, wherein N is an integer greater than one, and determines a first voltage of the voltages at a first rate. The first voltage is one of a maximum voltage and a minimum voltage. The averaging module calculates an average voltage at a second rate that is greater than the first rate. The average voltage is based on a measured total voltage of an energy storage pack including the N energy storage blocks. The supervisor module generates an updated voltage based on the first voltage and the average voltage and controls a vehicle system based on the updated voltage.
US08120302B2
A servo control apparatus capable of suppressing adverse effects of disturbance, load variation and the like, and realizing robust and high-performance speed control. The apparatus includes both of the following observers: a disturbance observer for adding a disturbance compensation torque Tf, calculated from a torque command T* and an electric motor rotational speed ωm, to a torque command basic signal T0*, calculated on the basis of a deviation between a speed command ω* and a feedback speed ωf by a PI control section, thus outputting the torque command T*; and a phase advance compensation observer for generating, from the torque command basic signal T0* and the electric motor rotational speed ωm, an output of a nominal plant serving as an element in which no delay occurs, thus outputting the output as the feedback speed ωf.
US08120300B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for fault tolerant cooling in a redundant power system. The apparatus receives power from a common power bus to power one or more power supply fans. The apparatus detects a non-functioning redundant power supply. The apparatus receives a fan control signal within a non-functioning redundant power supply. In addition, the apparatus uses the received fan control signal to synchronize a fan speed of a power supply fan within the non-functioning redundant power supply. The fan speed is synchronized with at least one fan control signal of a power supply fan within a functioning redundant power supply. Thus, the power supply fans of a non-functioning power supply continue to operate and are synchronized with power supply fans in functioning power supplies.
US08120298B2
The invention provides a control unit for at least one electric motor, wherein the control unit performs open-loop or closed-loop control of the motor speed of the electric motor in such a way that in the case of control values in specific ranges which are typical of a fault when the setpoint value is being predefined, such a fault being, for example, a line break, a voltage failure or a short circuit, the control unit drives the motor with a predefined setpoint value which differs from the current control value.
US08120296B2
A motor magnetic pole position detecting device includes a detection current command generation unit generating a detection AC current command, a current detection section detecting a current flowing into the motor, a coordinate conversion unit vector-converting the current detected by the current detection section into an excitation component and a torque component both represented by a d-q orthogonal coordinate system based on a phase angle obtained at any rotational frequency, a current control unit delivering a voltage command to current-control the motor based on the detection current command and the current converted by the coordinate conversion unit, an inductance calculation unit calculating motor inductance based on the voltage command and the current converted by the coordinate conversion unit, and a magnetic pole position detection section calculating a frequency and phase of the inductance calculated by the inductance calculation unit, converting the inductance phase into a motor magnetic pole position.
US08120294B2
The performance of a power transducer is improved while efficiently using a power semiconductor also by managing the permissible duty factor of the power semiconductor in the regenerative braking circuit provided in the power transducer. The user is allowed to set, through an operation panel provided on the power transducer, the resistance value of the regenerative braking resistor for thermally consuming the rotational energy generated during motor deceleration. The power transducer performs the steps of: calculating the current which flows in the regenerative braking circuit from the resistance value setting; obtaining the generation loss of the power semiconductor in the regenerative braking circuit with the calculated current value; and determining the permissible duty factor of the power semiconductor from the obtained generation loss.
US08120293B2
An apparatus that controls opening and closing of a roof glass is disclosed. The apparatus includes a drive motor that is actuated to selectively open and close the roof glass. The apparatus stores a count value that changes in correspondence with operation of the drive motor. The apparatus detects the number of cycles of reset starting and determines whether the detected number of the reset starting cycles is in a predetermined acceptable range. The apparatus switches initial setting, in accordance with which the relative relationship between the actual open/closed position of the roof glass and the count value is determined, to a non-set state if it is determined that the number of the reset starting cycles exceeds the acceptable range.
US08120289B2
Packaged semiconductor electronic device to be individually positioned and coupled to peripheral electronic devices, the package comprising a light emitting semiconductor device, and a switch for controlling the light emitting semiconductor device.
US08120285B2
In at least one embodiment of the disclosure, a driving device for a discharge lamp includes an alternating current supply section and a frequency switching section. The alternating current supply section supplies two electrodes of the discharge lamp with an alternating current. The alternating current includes a plurality of modulation periods with each modulation period including a highest frequency term and a lowest frequency term. The frequency switching section varies a frequency of the alternating current non-monotonically between the highest frequency term and the lowest frequency term of the modulation period in response to a predetermined condition being satisfied.
US08120283B2
A LED device having a LED array, LED driver ICs, DC-DC converter, a first feedback circuit consisting of voltage dividing resistors, and a headroom voltage monitoring circuit having controller and second feedback circuit. In second feedback circuit, headroom voltages obtained at output current terminals of the LED driver ICs, are fed back to DC-DC converter.
US08120282B2
In at least one embodiment of the disclosure a discharge lamp lighting device includes a controller configured to control an AC conversion circuit to perform AC conversion control for controlling the timings at which a polarity of the discharge lamp driving AC current is reversed. The controller is configured to control the power control circuit to perform current control for controlling a current value of the DC current. The controller changes the cumulative energy supplied to each electrode of a discharge lamp in one cycle of the AC current for the discharge lamp driving in accordance with a cyclical pattern. The cyclical pattern includes a plurality of segmented periods during each of which the cumulative energy is maintained at a same level for a plurality of cycles of the AC current for the discharge lamp driving, and a level of the cumulative energy in at least two of the segmented periods differ from each other.
US08120281B2
According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a light beam control system includes a positive intrinsic negative diode coupled to a controller circuit. The positive intrinsic negative diode receives a portion of a light beam generated by a light source and converts the portion into a measured intensity. The controller circuit receives the measured intensity, determines an output signal according to the measured intensity and a reference, and adjusts the light beam according to the output signal.
US08120269B2
A circuit arrangement for operating a high-pressure discharge lamp (12) with an electronic ballast, which is designed to provide an AC feed signal for the high-pressure discharge lamp (12). The AC feed signal comprises, in the time range as modulation period (T), a serial sequence of at least one first signal section (Sa1), one second signal section (Sa2) and one third signal section (Sa3), which are associated with a first, a second and a third color. The AC feed signal is an amplitude-modulated RF signal (IRF) with a frequency (f) of at least 500 kHz. The following applies for the envelope (E) of the signal components with a positive and/or negative amplitude: the absolute value of the envelope (E) has a mean amplitude (M); and the first signal section (Sa1) and/or the second signal section (Sa2) and/or the third signal section (Sa3) has/have at least one temporal range in which the absolute value of the envelope (E) is between 5% and 100% greater than the mean amplitude and/or in which the absolute value of the envelope (E) is between 5% and 90% less than the mean amplitude (M).
US08120248B2
A light-emitting device includes a substrate, and a light-emitting element including a lower electrode, a light-emitting function layer, and an upper electrode that are formed on the substrate in that order. At least one auxiliary electrode in a strip shape extends in a first direction on and in contact with the upper electrode. The auxiliary electrode has a cross section taken along the direction intersecting the first direction, having a shape including a tapered portion. The light-emitting device also includes a barrier layer covering the auxiliary electrode and the upper electrode. The barrier layer prevents water and oxygen from penetrating into the light-emitting element.
US08120240B2
A light emission device includes multiple electrically activated solid state emitters (e.g., LEDs) having differing spectral output from one another; and/or phosphor material including one or more phosphors arranged to receive spectral output from at least one of the solid state emitters and to responsively emit a phosphor output, to provide spectral output. In one arrangement, at least four electrically activated solid state emitters each have different spectral outputs in the visible range, with the emitters arranged in an array positioned on a single reflector cup or other support, with at least two solid state emitters differing substantially in size. Aggregated output may include white light having a color temperature in any of several desired ranges.
US08120239B2
A display device that includes an underlying excitation source, a converting layer, and an optical filter layer. The underlying excitation source emits light in a spatial pattern that may or may not be altered in time and has a short wavelength capable of being at least partially absorbed by the overlying converting layer. The converting layer can be a contiguous film or pixels of quantum dots that can be dispersed in a matrix material. This converting layer is capable of absorbing at least a portion of the wavelength(s) of the light from the underlying excitation source and emitting light at one or more different wavelengths. The optical filter layer prevents the residual light from the excitation source that was not absorbed by the converting layer from being emitted by the display device.
US08120235B2
A spark plug including a center electrode and a ground electrode. A center electrode noble metal tip is joined to a leading end portion of a center electrode, and a ground electrode noble metal tip is joined to a center-electrode-side side surface of the ground electrode. A distal end portion of the ground electrode noble metal tip protrudes from a distal-end surface of the ground electrode by 0.1 mm to 1.5 mm. A center-electrode-side side surface of the ground electrode noble metal tip projects from a center-electrode-side side surface by 0.15 mm to 0.6 mm. The ground electrode includes chamfered portions. Thickness lengths and widthwise lengths of the respective chamfered portions achieved within a cross section perpendicular to a center axis of the ground electrode are set to 0.2 mm or more.
US08120232B2
A device has a substrate, a piezo polymer layer arranged adjacent the substrate, a first electrode in contact with a first side of the layer, and a second electrode arranged adjacent the first electrode, such that when the piezo layer flexes, the first and second electrodes are arranged to detect one of a change in voltage or resistance, wherein at least one of the piezo polymer layer or the electrodes are deposited by printing. A method including depositing a spacer layer onto a substrate, depositing a piezo polymer layer onto the substrate, patterning an array of first electrodes in contact with the piezo polymer layer, and patterning an array of second electrodes adjacent the array of first electrodes, wherein depositing includes one of printing and laminating and pattering includes one of printing and etching. A method including laminating a piezo polymer layer onto a substrate, such that the layer forms at least one cantilever beam, forming a first electrode on one side of the layer, arranging a second electrode adjacent the first electrode, printing a polymer layer on the cantilever beam, and printing a proof mass on the cantilever beam.
US08120228B2
A split slip ring assembly formed from first and second halves of a slip ring having a contact surface for rotational engagement with a stationary brush element for transferring electrical signals there between. The contact surface has a smooth surface at the junction of the first and second halves. A fastener locates the first and second halves to form a ring shape. An electrical contact on the ring carries electrical signals between the slip ring and the brush element. An alignment element aligns the first and second halves to form the smooth surface at their junction.
US08120225B2
A generator includes a coil disposed about a core. A first stationary magnetic field source may be disposed on a first end portion of the core and a second stationary magnetic field source may be disposed on a second end portion of core. The first and second stationary magnetic field sources apply a stationary magnetic field to the coil. An external magnetic field source may be disposed outside the coil to apply a moving magnetic field to the coil. Electrical energy is generated in response to an interaction between the coil, the moving magnetic field, and the stationary magnetic field.
US08120222B2
A rotating electrical machine includes a stator and a rotor arranged to rotate inside the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets arranged to produce a radial magnetic flux in an airgap between the rotor and the stator. The machine also includes a stationary excitation coil. The rotor also includes a plurality of low reluctance elements. A current through the stationary excitation coil causes a magnetic flux to be established in a magnetic flux path which passes into the rotor through a first low reluctance element and out of the rotor through a second low reluctance element, which magnetic flux combines with the radial magnetic flux produced by the permanent magnets in the airgap. This arrangement can allow control of the field within a permanent magnet radial flux machine.
US08120221B2
A power generation and conversion platform where power can be readily generated and converted from one form to another is disclosed. The system includes a central column having a plurality of components. These components include an electric motor, a power source for driving the motor, a flywheel coupled to the motor, a torque converter coupled to the flywheel, an electric generator that is driven by the flywheel and a number of electrical capacitors which are cyclically charged by the electric generator and discharged in the manner of a Marx generator.
US08120219B2
The production costs of electrical machines are to be reduced. To this end, it should be possible to use standard transmitters for different axis heights of the electrical machine. The invention therefore provides a transmitter cover for an electrical machine, having a pot-like hood (11) for mounting on the electrical machine and for covering a transmitter, wherein the hood (11) has a central axis. The transmitter cover also has a mounting ring (10) which engages on the hood (11) in an interlocking manner. As a result, the hood (11) is pressed against the electrical machine in the axial direction when the mounting ring (10) is fixed to the electrical machine. This can prevent fastening screws (13) colliding with other fastening screws on the motor, this possibly being the case when only the hood (11) is used to cover the transmitter.
US08120218B2
A stator core of a stator has a plurality of teeth extending radially. A plurality of connector pins project from a partition plate. Wires each have a wire connection portion drawn out from the corresponding one of coils. Each wire is electrically connected to the corresponding connector pins by winding the wire connection portions around the connector pins.
US08120212B2
Method for the control of an electric fence energizer of any given power, guaranteeing that, during each pulse emitted by the energizer, any human body that might have come into contact with the electric fence since a recent pulse does not run the risk of receiving a dangerous electric shock by reason of the pulse in progress.
US08120211B2
A timing-device equipped energy-saving socket includes an enclosure, in which the enclosure is deposed a power plug on one side, and deposed a variety of power sockets on the sides without deposing the power plug. The enclosure is deposed a control device inside. When the power plug receives the AC power, the AC power can not be transmitted to the control device and the power socket if the control device does not operate. If the control device operates, the AC power is supposed to supply power to the control device and the power socket. When the control device measures that the power supply time is out, the AC power supply ceases to supply power to the power socket. Thus the AC power can not be transmitted to the control device and the power socket, and the purpose of energy saving and zero power consumption can be achieved.
US08120209B2
A voltage sensing device with which high-precision voltage sensing is possible without the need to obtain a unique correction constant for each device. A pair of voltage input nodes NCk and NCk-1 is selected from voltage input nodes NC0-NCn in switch part 10, and they are connected to sensing input nodes NA and NB in two types of patterns with different polarity (forward connection, reverse connection). Sensing input nodes NA and NB are held at reference potential Vm by voltage sensing part 20, and current Ina and Inb corresponding to the voltage at voltage input nodes NCk and NCk-1 flows to input resistors RIk and RIk-1. Currents Ina and Inb are synthesized at different ratios in voltage sensing part 20, and sensed voltage signal S20 is generated according to the synthesized current Ic. Sensed voltage data S40 with low error is generated according to the difference between the two sensed voltage signals S20 generated in the two connection patterns.
US08120208B2
In one embodiment, a power gated circuit block includes power switches that couple at least one of the power supply grids within the block to the global power supply grids of the integrated circuit. The power switches receive an enable that indicates whether or not the power gated block is enabled or disabled. If the power gated block is enabled, the power switches are turned on and electrically connect the global power supply grid with the internal (or local) power supply grid; otherwise the power switches electrically isolate the local power supply grid from the global power supply grid. The power switches are physically distributed over an area occupied by the power gated block, including near an edge of the area. The number of power switches near the edge is greater than the number of switches included at other locations in the area to provide a worst case impedance experienced at points throughout the area that is approximately equal.
US08120207B2
This invention relates to a pulse generator circuit for delivering a short high current pulse to a load. This pulse generator comprises a junction recovery diode, a switch, a first resonant circuit and a second resonant circuit. The diode may be configured to store charges in its depletion layer when there is a forward flow of a current and to rapidly switch open after the depletion layer is discharged by a reverse flow of a current. After the diode rapidly switch opens, the pulse generator may provide a reverse current to the load. This pulse generator may be configured to generate at least one pulse that is having a length of no more than 100 nanoseconds at the full-width-at-half-maximum and an amplitude of at least 1 kilovolt. Electrodes may be connected to the pulse generator to deliver one pulse or plurality of pulses to biological cells such as tumor cells.
US08120202B2
A method of operating a wind turbine includes energizing at least a portion of a power conversion assembly via an alternating current (AC) power source. The method also includes converting AC power to direct current (DC) power having a DC component and an AC component via the power conversion assembly. The method further includes transmitting the DC component and the AC component through a DC power transmission line. The method also includes separating the DC component from the AC component. The method further includes transmitting the AC component to at least one wind turbine electrical device.
US08120200B2
A control methodology for an engine-driven electric machine of a hybrid vehicle electrical system for enabling continued operation of the vehicle electrical system under failure mode conditions that require or result in disconnection of the battery pack from the electrical system. At the onset of a fault condition requiring battery disconnection, the electric machine is controlled to drive the battery pack current toward zero before disconnecting the battery pack. Once the battery pack is disconnected, whether by relay or fuse, the electric machine is controlled to maintain the bus voltage of the electrical system at a specified value. In both operating modes, the electric machine is controlled based on a synchronous vector current command that is determined directly as a function of the control objective (zero battery pack current or maintaining bus voltage) for improved response time compared to a traditional torque-based control.
US08120188B2
An electronic component mounting structure includes an electronic component provided with a plurality of electrode terminals, and a mounting substrate provided with connector terminals in positions corresponding to the electrode terminals. An electrode terminal is connected to a connector terminal via a protrusion electrode disposed on the electrode terminal or the connector terminal, and the protrusion electrode includes a conductive filler and a photosensitive resin. The photosensitive resin varies in resin component crosslink density in the height direction of the protrusion electrode.
US08120182B2
An integrated circuit comprises a first conductive lines and second lines as well as contact structures being in contact with the first and second conductive lines. The first conductive lines are arranged in a first metallization level, and second conductive lines are arranged in a second metallization level arranged above the first metallization level. The second conductive lines are arranged above the contact structures, and a pitch of neighboring contact structures is equal to a pitch of neighboring second conductive lines. The distance between neighboring contact structures is smaller than 100 nm.
US08120175B2
A method creates a structure that comprises a carrier connected to an integrated circuit chip by pillars and openings. Thus, in this structure, at least one conductive pillar extends a distance or height from the surface of the integrated circuit chip and a barrier surrounds the lower portion of the conductive pillar such that the barrier covers at least some portion of the height of the pillar that is closest to the chip surface. There is at least one opening in the carrier that is large enough to accommodate the conductive pillar and the barrier, and the conductive pillar and the barrier are positioned in opening. A solder is used in the bottom of the opening to connect the conductive pillar to the bottom of the opening. The barrier prevents the solder from contacting the portion of the conductive pillar protected by the barrier.
US08120174B2
The present invention provides a technique capable of suppressing variations in the height of each solder ball where an NSMD is used as a structure for each land. Vias that extend through a wiring board are provided. Lands are formed at the back surface of the wiring board so as to be coupled directly to the vias respectively. The lands are respectively formed so as to be internally included in openings defined in a solder resist. Half balls are mounted over the lands respectively. Namely, the present invention has a feature in that the configuration of coupling between each of the lands and its corresponding via both formed at the back surface of the wiring board is taken as a land on via structure and a configuration form of each land is taken as an NSMD.
US08120173B2
A flexible electronic circuit member formed of a plurality of dielectric layers includes a plurality of thinned semiconductor chips embedded within the circuit member for increased levels of integration and component density. The thinned semiconductor chips may include various integrated circuits thereon. They may be formed on various substrates and using various technologies and the embedded, thinned semiconductor chips are interconnected by a patterned interconnect that extends between and through the respective dielectric layers. A method for forming the flexible circuit member includes joining conventional semiconductor chips to a mounting apparatus then grinding the semiconductor chips to form thinned semiconductor chips that are joined to respective dielectric layers that combine to form the flexible electronic circuit member. A releasable bonding layer is used to join the semiconductor chip to a mounting assembly during the grinding operation and removed after the thinned semiconductor chips are joined to the respective dielectric layers used in combination to form the electronic circuit member.
US08120142B2
An electronic circuit includes a filtering circuit implemented with a distributed inductor-and-capacitor (LC) network that includes metal oxide effect (MOS) trenches opened in a semiconductor substrate filled with dielectric material for functioning as capacitors for the distributed LC network. The electronic circuit further includes a transient voltage suppressing (TVS) circuit integrated with the filtering circuit that functions as a low pass filter wherein the TVS circuit includes a bipolar transistor triggered by a diode disposed in the semiconductor substrate. The distributed LC network further includes metal coils to function as inductors disposed on a top surface of the semiconductor electrically contacting the MOS trenches.
US08120136B2
A bipolar transistor comprising an emitter region, a base region and a collector region, and a guard region spaced from and surrounding the base. The guard region can be formed in the same steps that form the base, and can serve to spread out the depletion layer in operation.
US08120130B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a solid-state imaging device that can achieve a high sensitivity, finer pixels for increasing the number of pixels, a high-speed operation, and high image quality, and a method for manufacturing the same. There are provided a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions arranged in a matrix on a substrate, a vertical transfer channel arranged between vertical columns of the photoelectric conversion portions, a plurality of vertical transfer electrodes for transferring a charge of the photoelectric conversion portions to the vertical transfer channel, a light-shielding film that is laminated on the vertical transfer electrodes via a first insulating film and has a plurality of window portions, each defining a light-receiving portion of each of the photoelectric conversion portions, and a shunt wiring that is arranged in a region overlapping the vertical transfer channel and is insulated from the light-shielding film by a second insulating film. A driving pulse according to a drive phase of each of the vertical transfer electrodes is supplied from the shunt wiring.
US08120121B2
A semiconductor device including a first transistor in a substrate, a second transistor in the substrate, and a further device in the substrate. The second transistor and the further device are arranged to operate at a second voltage which is higher than a first voltage. The first voltage is the (normal) voltage of operation of the first transistor, and the first transistor is isolated from the second voltage.
US08120119B2
A method for forming a slot contact structure for transistor performance enhancement. A contact opening is formed to expose a contact region, and a slot contact is disposed within the contact opening in order to induce a stress on an adjacent channel region. In an embodiment, a stress inducing barrier plug is disposed within a portion of the contact opening and the remainder of the contact opening is filled with a lower resistivity contact metal. By selecting the proper materials and deposition parameters, the slot contact can be tuned to induce a tensile or compressive stress on the adjacent channel region, thus being applicable for both p-type and n-type devices.
US08120118B2
Provided is a highly reliable semiconductor device equipped with a plurality of semiconductor elements having desired properties, respectively; and a manufacturing method facilitating the manufacture of the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device is manufactured by forming a gate-electrode metal film having a thickness of from 3 to 30 nm over the entire upper surface of a gate insulating film; forming an n-side cap layer having a thickness of 10 nm or less over the entire upper surface of a portion of the gate-electrode metal film belonging to an nFET region by using a material different from that of the gate-electrode metal film; and carrying out heat treatment over the n-side cap layer to diffuse the material of the n-side cap layer into the gate-electrode metal film immediately below the n-side cap layer and react them to form an n-side gate-electrode metal film in a nFET region. A poly-Si layer is then deposited, followed by gate electrode processing.
US08120117B2
Gate electrode structures having a thin layer of ReO3 formed with high effective work function and high heat resistance are disclosed. The thin layer of ReO3 is formed by providing a semiconductor structure having an oxygen-containing metal alloy layer and a rhenium layer. A heat annealing step diffuses Re from the rhenium layer through the high-oxygen containing metal alloy layer to form a thin layer of ReO3.
US08120112B1
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit includes a first array of transistors, having source and drain doped with a first type of material, arranged in parallel in a first block, and a second array of transistors, having source and drain doped with the first type of material, arranged in parallel in a second block. The ESD protection circuit also includes an active region between the first and second array of transistors doped with a second type of material that is complementary to the first type of material.
US08120109B2
A semiconductor device for reducing junction capacitance by an additional low dose super deep source/drain implant and a method for its fabrication are disclosed. In particular, the super deep implant is performed after spacer formation to significantly reduce junction capacitance in the channel region.
US08120106B2
A LDMOS with double LDD and trenched drain is disclosed. According to some preferred embodiment of the present invention, the structure contains a double LDD region, including a high energy implantation to form lightly doped region and a low energy implantation thereon to provide a low resistance path for current flow without degrading breakdown voltage. At the same time, a P+ junction made by source mask is provided underneath source region to avoid latch-up effect from happening.
US08120096B2
A power semiconductor device capable of transmitting gate signals in all directions (e.g., up-/down-ward/right-/left-ward) on a plane and a method of manufacturing the same. The power semiconductor device includes first conductive regions, formed to a predetermined depth in a surface of a conductive low concentration epitaxial layer. The first conductive regions include linear first conductive layers spaced from each other and linear second conductive layers spaced from each other. Second conductive regions are formed to a smaller width and depth than the first and second conductive layers to form channels in the first and second conductive layers. A gate oxide layer formed on a surface of the epitaxial layer defines first windows having a smaller width than the first conductive layers and second windows having a smaller width than the second conductive layers. A gate polysilicon layer is formed on the gate oxide layer.
US08120088B1
Memory cells and arrays have reduced bit line resistance. An element conductor is disposed on the top of the bit line to reduce the resistance of the bit line while maintaining a shallow bit line junction so that 200 Ohm/square or lower sheet resistances are achieved with the bit line junctions typically 20 nanometers or shallower while the doping levels in the junctions are below about 5×1019 atoms/cm3.
US08120087B2
A semiconductor device includes an insulating film provided over a semiconductor substrate, a conductive plug buried in the insulating film, an underlying conductive film which is provided on the conductive plug and on the insulating film and which has a flat upper surface, and a ferroelectric capacitor provided on the underlying conductive film. At least in a region on the conductive plug, the concentration of nitrogen in the underlying conductive film gradually decreases from the upper surface to the inside.
US08120085B2
A semiconductor device includes: a channel region extending substantially perpendicular to a main surface of a semiconductor substrate; a first diffusion layer provided on a bottom of the channel region; a second diffusion layer provided on a top of the channel region; a first gate electrode that extends substantially perpendicular to the main surface of the semiconductor substrate and that is provided on a side of the channel region through a gate insulation film; and a second gate electrode that extends substantially parallel to the main surface of the semiconductor substrate and that is connected to the top of the first gate electrode, wherein a planar position of the second gate electrode is offset relative to a planar position of the first gate electrode.
US08120084B2
Described is a modulatable injection barrier and a semiconductor element comprising same. More particularly, the invention relates to a two-terminal, non-volatile programmable resistor. Such a resistor can be applied in non-volatile memory devices, and as an active switch e.g. in displays. The device comprises, in between electrode layers, a storage layer comprising a blend of a ferro-electric material and a semiconductor material. Preferably both materials in the blend are polymers.
US08120081B2
In a back-illuminated solid-state imaging device, a multilayer interconnect layer, a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of color filters, and a plurality of microlenses are provided in this order. A p-type region is formed so as to partition a lower portion of the semiconductor substrate into a plurality of regions, and an insulating member illustratively made of BSG is buried immediately above the p-type region. PD regions are isolated from each other by the p-type region and the insulating member. Moreover, a high-concentration region is formed in a lower portion of the PD region, and an upper portion is served as a low-concentration region.
US08120073B2
A trigate device having an extended metal gate electrode comprises a semiconductor body having a top surface and opposing sidewalls formed on a substrate, an isolation layer formed on the substrate and around the semiconductor body, wherein a portion of the semiconductor body remains exposed above the isolation layer, and a gate stack formed on the top surface and opposing sidewalls of the semiconductor body, wherein the gate stack extends a depth into the isolation layer, thereby causing a bottom surface of the gate stack to be below a top surface of the isolation layer.
US08120070B2
A wiring board with an electronic device comprising a plurality of trenches arranged in parallel on a substrate, a common trench communicating the plurality of trenches with each other at one of their ends on the substrate, a metal layer formed at the bottom of the plurality of trenches, and an electrode layer connected with the metal layer and formed on a bottom of the common trench, wherein the electrode layer on the bottom of the common trench constitutes a source electrode or a drain electrode of a field effect transistor, whereby the wiring board and an electronic circuit having a good fine wire pattern and a good narrow gap between the patterns using a coating material can be formed, and a reduction for a cost of an organic thin film electronic device and the electronic circuit can be attained since they can be realized through a development of a printing technique.
US08120061B2
A light receiving device having small dark current and capable of sensing light in the wavelength range of 2.0 μm to 3.0 μm with high sensitivity is provided. The light receiving device has an InP substrate, and a light receiving layer formed by alternately stacking a larger layer formed of GaInNAsSbP mixed crystal having nitrogen content of at most 5% in 5 group, larger lattice constant than that of InP and thickness between hc and 11hc, the critical thickness hc being determined as hc=b(1−ν cos2α){log(hc/b)+1}/8πf(1+ν)cos λ and a smaller layer formed of GaInNAsSbP mixed crystal having nitrogen content of at most 5% in 5 group, smaller lattice constant than that of InP and thickness between hc and 11hc; absolute value of lattice mismatch of the larger layer and the smaller layer to the InP substrate is at least 0.5% and at most 5%; at least one of the layers has absorption edge wavelength of 2.0 μm to 3.0 μm; total thickness of respective layers is 2.0 μm to 4.0 μm; and thickness-weighted average lattice mismatch is set to be at most ±0.2%.
US08120060B2
Methods and structures for monolithically integrating monocrystalline silicon and monocrystalline non-silicon materials and devices are provided. In one structure, a monolithically integrated semiconductor device structure comprises a silicon substrate and a first monocrystalline semiconductor layer disposed over the silicon substrate, wherein the first monocrystalline semiconductor layer has a lattice constant different from a lattice constant of relaxed silicon. The structure also includes an insulating layer disposed over the first monocrystalline semiconductor layer in a first region and a monocrystalline silicon layer disposed over the insulating layer in the first region. The structure includes at least one silicon-based electronic device comprising an element including at least a portion of the monocrystalline silicon layer. The structure includes a second monocrystalline semiconductor layer disposed over at least a portion of the first monocrystalline semiconductor layer in a second region and absent from the first region, wherein the second monocrystalline semiconductor layer has a lattice constant different from the lattice constant of relaxed silicon. The structure also includes at least one III-V electronic device comprising an element including at least a portion of the second monocrystalline semiconductor layer.
US08120056B2
An electronic assembly includes a Light Emitting Diode (LED) mounted on a top surface of a heat spreader, at least two electrical contacts co-planar with the heat spreader, and at least one heat slug mounted on the top surface of the heat spreader, where the heat slug is made of high thermal conductive plastic.
US08120049B2
A light-generating semiconductor region is grown on a substrate of electroconductive silicon or like light-absorptive material. An anode is placed atop the light-generating semiconductor region, and a cathode under the substrate. The light-generating semiconductor region and the substrate are encapsulated in an epoxy envelope. In order to prevent the substrate from absorbing the light that has been radiated from the light-generating semiconductor region and reflected back from the envelope, the substrate has its side surfaces covered by a reflector layer. The reflector layer has its surfaces roughened, as a result of the roughening of the underlying substrate surfaces by dicing, for scattering the incident light.
US08120046B2
A light-emitting element includes a semiconductor laminated structure including a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type and an active layer sandwiched by the first and second semiconductor layers, a first electrode on one surface side of the semiconductor laminated structure, a conductive reflective layer on an other surface side of the semiconductor laminated structure for reflecting light emitted from the active layer, a contact portion partially formed between the semiconductor laminated structure and the conductive reflective layer and being in ohmic contact with the semiconductor laminated structure, and a second electrode on a part of a surface of the conductive reflective layer on the semiconductor laminated structure without contacting the semiconductor laminated structure for feeding current to the contact portion.
US08120033B2
Provided is a semiconductor element including: a semiconductor having an active layer; a gate insulating film which is in contact with the semiconductor; a gate electrode opposite to the active layer through the gate insulating film; a first nitride insulating film formed over the active layer; a photosensitive organic resin film formed on the first nitride insulating film; a second nitride insulating film formed on the photosensitive organic resin film; and a wiring provided on the second nitride insulating film, in which a first opening portion is provided in the photosensitive organic resin film, an inner wall surface of the first opening portion is covered with the second nitride insulating film, a second opening portion is provided in a laminate including the gate insulating film, the first nitride insulating film, and the second nitride insulating film inside the first opening portion, and the semiconductor is connected with the wiring through the first opening portion and the second opening portion.
US08120032B2
A fabrication method of an active device array substrate is disclosed. A first metal material layer, a gate insulation material layer, a channel material layer, a second metal material layer, and a first photoresist layer are formed over a substrate sequentially. The first photoresist layer is patterned with a multi-tone mask to form a first patterned photoresist layer with two thicknesses. A first and second removing processes are performed sequentially using the first patterned photoresist layer as a mask to form a gate, a gate insulation layer, a channel layer, and a source/drain. The first patterned photoresist layer is removed. A passivation layer and a second patterned photoresist layer are formed over the substrate. A third removing process is performed to form a plurality of contact holes. A pixel electrode material layer is formed over the substrate. The second patterned photoresist layer is lifted off to form a pixel electrode.
US08120031B2
A structure for preventing deteriorations of a light-emitting device and retaining sufficient capacitor elements (condenser) required by each pixel is provided. A first passivation film, a second metal layer, a flattening film, a barrier film, and a third metal layer are stacked in this order over a transistor. A side face of a first opening provided with the flattening film is covered by the barrier film, a second opening is formed inside the first opening, and a third metal layer is connected to a semiconductor via the first opening and the second opening. A capacitor element that is formed of a lamination of a semiconductor of a transistor, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, the first passivation film, and the second metal layer is provided.
US08120030B2
Off current of a bottom gate thin film transistor in which a semiconductor layer is shielded from light by a gate electrode is reduced. A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode layer; a first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer, provided on and in contact with the first semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer between and in contact with the gate electrode layer and the first semiconductor layer; impurity semiconductor layers in contact with the second semiconductor layer; and source and drain electrode layers partially in contact with the impurity semiconductor layers and the first and second semiconductor layers. The entire surface of the first semiconductor layer on the gate electrode layer side is covered by the gate electrode layer; and a potential barrier at a portion where the first semiconductor layer is in contact with the source or drain electrode layer is 0.5 eV or more.
US08120019B2
An organic light-emitting element has an anode, a cathode, and a layer including an organic compound between the anode and the cathode. The layer including the organic compound has at least one tetracyano compound represented by at least one of Formula (1) or (2) below. In Formula (1), R1 to R4 are each a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group, a nitro group, or a cyano group. In Formula (2), n represents an integer of 1 to 2, Mn+ is a metal ion or an onium cation, and R1 to R4 are as defined in formula (1).
US08120018B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The device includes: oppositely disposed plural electrodes; a semiconductor molecule disposed such that one end part thereof binds to a surface of the electrode in each of the opposing electrodes; and a conductor for electrically connecting at least a part of the other end part of the semiconductor molecule disposed in one electrode of the opposing electrodes to at least a part of the other end part of the semiconductor molecule disposed in the other electrode of the opposing electrodes. The conductivity between the opposing electrodes is substantially determined by the conductivity of the semiconductor molecule electrically connected to the conductor between the opposing electrodes in the semiconductor molecules.
US08120015B2
A resonant structure is provided, including a first terminal, a second terminal which faces the first terminal, a wire unit which connects the first terminal and the second terminal, a third terminal which is spaced apart at a certain distance from the wire unit and which resonates the wire unit, and a potential barrier unit which is formed on the wire unit and which provides a negative resistance component. Accordingly, transduction efficiency can be enhanced.
US08120003B2
An integrated array of non volatile magnetic memory devices, each having a first magnetic layer (10) with a fixed magnetization direction; a free magnetic layer (20) with a changeable magnetization direction; a spacer layer (30) separating the first magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer, and a switch (40) for selecting the device, the layers and at least part of the switch being formed as a columnar structure such as a nanowire. The switch is preferably formed integrally with the columnar nano-structure. By incorporating the switch in the columnar structure with the magnetic layers, the device can be made smaller to enable greater integration. This can be applied to magnetic devices using external fields or those using only fields generated in the columnar structure. A write current can be coupled along the columnar structure in a forward or reverse direction to alter the direction of magnetization of the free magnetic layer according to the direction of the current.
US08119997B2
A system for imaging a fluorescently labeled sample is presented, The system comprises a capsule, which is a closable structure made of a material isolating the inside of the capsule from its surrounding environment, and which has a support stage for receiving the sample and carrying it thereinside during the imaging; and an optical device at least partly accommodated inside the capsule and operable to illuminate the sample with incident radiation to excite a fluorescent response of the sample, detect the fluorescent response, and generate data indicative thereof.
US08119983B2
One-dimensional GC-MS/olfactory analysis and two-dimensional GC-MS/olfactory analysis can be freely performed in one analyzer by a simple switching operation, without changing the device configuration. An odor component analyzer is used which includes a sample injection port equipped with a pressure control device, a GC first dimensional column connected to the sample injection port, a three-way connector T1-2 connected to the GC first dimensional column, three-way connectors T1-1, T1-3 each connected to the three-way connector T1-2, a solenoid valve connected to the three-way connectors T1-1, T1-3 and serving to adjust flow channels of the three-way connectors T1-1, T1-3, a first pressure control device connected to the solenoid valve, a three-way connector T2-1 connected to the three-way connector T1-3, a second pressure control device connected to the three-way connector T2-1, a three-way connector T2-2 connected to the three-way connector T2-1, a three-way connector T2-3 connected to the three-way connector T2-2, a mass analyzer and an olfactory device each connected to the three-way connector T2-3, and a GC second dimensional column connected to the three-way connector T1-1 and the three-way connector T2-2.
US08119976B2
A system, method, and device for re-orienting and/or deforming cells and other objects is provided. The system, method, and device may include a high-throughput setup that facilitates the ability to orient, deform, analyze, measure, and/or tag objects at a substantially higher rate than was previously possible. A relatively large number of cells and other objects can be deformed, by optical forces for example, as the cells and other objects a flowed through the system.
US08119974B2
An auto darkening eye protection device comprising a shutter assembly and a control circuit in electrical communication with the shutter assembly. The shutter assembly is adjustable between a clear state and a dark state. The control circuit comprises a microcontroller programmed to store a plurality of memory presets including at least one setting corresponding to the operation of the shutter assembly. At least two of the plurality of memory presets are individually configured for a specific type of welding.
US08119969B2
An inspection system includes a CMOS integrated circuit having integrally formed thereon an at least two dimensional array of photosensors and providing an inspection output representing an object to be inspected. A defect analyzer is operative to receive the inspection output and to provide a defect report.
US08119968B2
A multifunctional safety, information and comfort device to be mounted on a vehicle, preferably a bicycle, comprises a rear-view mirror, an alphanumeric and iconographic display, sensors for measuring kinetic and environmental parameters, electronic components for measuring time and controlling said device, and an independent power supply.
US08119965B2
An image sensor able to capture an image with a suitable dynamic range even in a case where a bright/dark difference within an imaging range is large is provided. An image sensor 1 is provided with a substrate 2, a plurality of first photodiodes 5 arranged on the substrate 2 corresponding to a plurality of pixels 3, receiving light incident upon a first principal surface S1, and generating charges in accordance with the amounts of light received, and a plurality of second photodiodes 6 arranged at positions in behind side of the plurality of first photodiodes 5 corresponding to the plurality of pixels 3, receiving light incident upon the first principal surface S1 and passing through at least one of the plurality of first photodiodes 5 and the substrate 2, and generating charges in accordance with amounts of light received. Electric signals based on charges generated in the plurality of second photodiodes 6 of the same pixels are added to electric signals based on charges generated in the plurality of first photodiodes 5.
US08119962B2
Disclosed are a system and methods of control signal generation of a solar panel orientation system with interference reduction using an infrared filter. In one embodiment, a solar panel orientation system includes a sensor that generates a control signal component when the sensor receives an ultraviolet part of a radiation signal. The system further includes an additional sensor coupled to the sensor that generates an additional control signal component when the additional sensor receives an additional ultraviolet part of the radiation signal. The control signal component and the additional control signal component each include one or more of a voltage and a current. In addition, the system includes an infrared filter that reduces an interference caused by an infrared part of the radiation signal.
US08119959B1
A missile in which a nose portion is rotatably mounted on a main body portion of the missile and is subjected to thrust to bring it to a demanded roll attitude and to apply to it a demanded lateral steering force. The thrust is produced by a propellant gas and supplied to discharge ducts in the nose portion which provide for the discharge of the propellant gas tangentially with respect to the nose portion. The discharge ducts are selectively opened and closed by relative axial displacement of the nose portion and a valve spool which controls the flow of propellant gas. An actuator responsive to guidance control signals causes a predetermined roll torque to bring the nose portion to a demanded roll attitude and a predetermined lateral steering force on the missile.
US08119955B2
The present invention relates to a device for preventing microwave leakage for a microwave oven. The present invention comprises a cavity assembly formed with an opening portion through which heating energy generated in an energy generating means is supplied into a cooking chamber provided within the cavity assembly; a cover provided on a side of the cavity assembly to cover the opening portion; and a choke member provided between the cavity assembly and the cover to prevent microwave supplied into the cooking chamber from leaking through a gap between the cavity assembly and the cover. According to the present invention, there is an advantage in that microwave is effectively prevented from leaking through a gap, which is formed when installing a heating means for providing a heating source in addition to the microwave.
US08119954B2
A coil-in-coil electric heating assembly for industrial applications heats any gas through an annular space between the coils to very high temperatures. Gas is introduced into the annular space through one open end of a tubular enclosure and leaves through an opposite end after being significantly heated. Coils may be made from several heating element materials and may be wound in the same direction or opposite direction. The opposite winding direction often gives a higher temperature of the exit gas. Temperatures even as high as 1500° C. in the exit gas have been recorded. The heating system may be utilized to generate superheated steam for industrial applications even in a recirculating manner.
US08119952B2
A system is disclosed that is designed to be connected to an electrical power supply. The system comprises a plurality of electric load component comprising stages for cooperatively producing an output (Tout), each stage in a first subset of the stages comprising at least one electrical load component having a first load and each stage in a second subset of the stages comprising at least one electrical load component having a second load, the first load being larger than the second load. The system has a controller for controlling the electrical load components. The controller is designed to estimate voltage variations on the electrical power supply from the switching frequencies of the respective electrical load components during a predefined time frame. The controller further implements an algorithm for adjusting the switching frequencies of the electrical load components having the first load and the electrical load components having the second load in response to the estimation to reduce the voltage variations on the electrical power supply during a next time frame whilst ensuring that the plurality of stages are capable of producing the output (Tout) during the next time frame. The system thus ensures that the amount of flicker generated by the system remains within acceptable limits.
US08119951B2
A low alloy or mild steel weld containing a slag-modifying additive selected from the group consisting of antimony, bismuth, germanium and compounds thereof;A weld wire for forming a low alloy or mild steel weld containing a slag-modifying additive selected from the group consisting of antimony, bismuth, germanium and compounds thereof.
US08119950B2
The present invention relates to hard coating of ferrous metal substrates using a laser beam with diamond particles in a metal matrix produced from precursor powders of metals which bond to the diamond particles and to the ferrous substrate. The hard coating is particularly useful for white iron castings for pumps (200) used in piping tar sand and water mixtures.
US08119949B2
A method of forming a plurality of shaped holes on a workpiece. The method may include rotating the workpiece about multiple axes relative to a laser beam, and positioning the laser at a first predetermined angle relative to the workpiece. The laser beam is pulsed to form a first plurality of trepan cuts defining a row of metering holes. The laser beam, after adjusting to a next predetermined angle and adjacent a previous row of trepan cuts, is pulsed to create a plurality of rows of trepan cuts wherein each cut in the previous row of trepan cuts is connected to a cut in said subsequent row of trepan cuts. The plurality of rows of trepan cuts are formed in a side-to-side sweeping formation and define a portion of each of the shaped holes. Next, the laser is pulsed in alignment with the metering hole to remove debris from therein.
US08119948B2
A method of retouching metal parts joined by brazing at high temperatures is disclosed. The brazed zones are retouched by a retouching laser. The peak power of the retouching laser is between 1500 and 3000 W. The retouching laser is used in pulsed mode.
US08119941B2
An appliance timer operable in a selection mode and an operation mode includes a shaft assembly, a switch assembly, a cam device, a bi-directional motor, and a display device. The shaft assembly is operable to select an operation cycle and to drive the display device in the selection mode. The motor rotates in a first rotational direction and a second rotational direction opposite to the first rotational direction in the operation mode. When the motor rotates in the first rotational direction, the motor drives the cam device to operate the switch assembly to actuate or deactivate a plurality of electrical circuits associated with a plurality of appliance functions. When the motor rotates in the second rotational direction, the motor drives the display device to indicate an operational status of the appliance. The rotation of the motor is controlled by a microprocessor.
US08119934B2
A combination weigher includes weighing hoppers capable of discharging weighed objects selectively in a first direction or in a second direction, a first collecting chute and a collecting hopper, a second collecting chute and a collecting hopper, and a control unit configured to determine a first discharge combination and a second discharge combination in which combination weight values fall within an allowable range with respect to a target weight value, to cause weighing hoppers belonging to the first discharge combination to discharge the weighed objects in the first direction, to cause weighing hoppers belonging to the second discharge combination to discharge the objects to be weighed in the second direction, and to cause the collecting hopper and the collecting hopper to discharge the objects to be weighed.
US08119930B2
A wiring board 10 comprises a wiring board main body 21 having a dielectric layer 25 that is the first dielectric layer, an electronic component attaching pad 24 having a connection surface 24A with which an electronic component 11 is connected, and disposed inside the dielectric layer 25, a dielectric layer 31 that is the second dielectric layer laminated on the dielectric layer 25, and the via holes 27 and 33 and a wiring pattern 28 provided on the dielectric layers 25 and 31 and electrically connected with the electronic component attaching pad 24, wherein a warp reduction member 22 for reducing a warp of the wiring board main body 21 is disposed inside the dielectric layer 25.
US08119925B2
The core layer of a core substrate is made of carbon fibers impregnated with resin. When the temperature of the core layer increases, the core layer suffers from an increase in the thickness because of thermal expansion of the resin. The core layer is sandwiched between the insulating layers containing glass fibers. The insulating layers serve to suppress an increase in the thickness of the core layer resulting from the thermal expansion of the core layer. Thermal stress is suppressed in the core substrate.
US08119919B2
Provided are a printed wiring board and a flexible printed wiring board which hardly generate radiation electromagnetic noises and are not easily affected by external noises. First and second wave-shape wirings are provided between at least two insulation substrates stacked on each other. The first and the second wave-shape wirings three-dimensionally intersect with each other in a plane direction and a thickness direction of the insulating substrates. The first and second wave-shape wirings are electrically separated from each other by a resist layer provided between the insulating substrates.
US08119915B2
A cable management patch panel system having one or more vertical ducting enclosures and typically located in an equipment rack. The vertical ducting enclosure is integral with the patch panel system and allows for vertical routing of cables connected to the patch panel system. The cables are vertically routed by the ducting enclosure to other patch panels or equipment located along with the patch panel system in a commonly shared equipment rack or located beyond the equipment rack.
US08119913B2
A first coupling of a first protector includes a U-shaped inner wall section and a cover. The inner wall section has an inner bottom wall and opposed inner side walls. The cover extends from outer surfaces of the inner bottom wall and opposed inner side walls of the inner wall section to a distal end opening in the first coupling. The cover is open at a distal end. A second coupling of a second protector includes a bottom wall and opposed side walls that are inserted through the distal end opening into a clearance defined between the inner wall section and the cover of the first protector. The first and second couplings of the first and second protectors are connected together so that the second coupling of the second protector is caught between the inner wall and the cover of the first coupling of the first protector.
US08119912B2
A cover assembly for a floor-mounted enclosure or in-floor box includes a lid that remains flush with the floor and covers the in-floor box while permitting egress of electrical cables connected to receptacles housed in the box.
US08119905B2
The present invention is a combination non-imaging concentrator in which at least one surface or volume is incorporated as an optical element to increase obliquity of reflection at walls of a light guide. The combination non-imaging concentrator may be used in a solar energy system to receive solar radiation from optical components and then output the solar radiation to a photovoltaic cell for conversion to electricity. One or more lenses may be formed integrally with the light guide, or may be used in conjunction with the light guide as separate components.
US08119900B2
An apparatus for combining input signals produced by a plurality of electric musical devices includes a plurality of audio buses and a plurality of segments. Each segment includes input circuitry configured to receive at least one input signal from at least one electric musical device and to deliver the at least one input signal to one of the plurality of audio buses; a plurality of variable adjustment devices each associated with a corresponding one of the audio buses and each configured to change at least one property of an input signal received by another of the plurality of segments and carried on the corresponding one of the audio buses independent from input signals carried on other of the plurality of audio buses; and a mixer configured to combine the input signals carried on each of the plurality of audio buses into an output signal.
US08119898B2
A method of instructing an audience to spontaneously create music at an entertainment event is disclosed. The method comprises providing noisemakers to groups of participants, the noisemakers being distinguishable between the plurality of types and each noisemaker sounding a single note. A dynamic display comprising a screen and a notice period shows instructions to the participants. The instructions direct the participants to sound their respective noisemakers at different times. The combined sound from the various noisemakers thereby produces a musical score.
US08119885B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV597869. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV597869, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV597869 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV597869 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV597869.
US08119877B2
A soybean cultivar designated S090243 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S090243, to the plants of soybean S090243, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S090243, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S090243 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety S090243, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090243, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S090243 with another soybean cultivar.
US08119876B2
A soybean cultivar designated 95092896 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 95092896, to the plants of soybean 95092896, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 95092896, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 95092896 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety 95092896, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 95092896, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 95092896 with another soybean cultivar.
US08119867B2
A soybean cultivar designated 8607481 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 8607481, to the plants of soybean 8607481, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 8607481, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 8607481 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety 8607481, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 8607481, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 8607481 with another soybean cultivar.
US08119865B2
A soybean cultivar designated 85210625 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 85210625, to the plants of soybean 85210625, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 85210625 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 85210625 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety 85210625, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 85210625 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 85210625 with another soybean cultivar.
US08119861B2
The invention relates to nucleic acid derived from Perkinsus marinus which encodes a 9-elongase, a Δ8-desaturase and a Δ5-desaturase enzyme. All of the coding sequences can be transcribed as a single transcript.
US08119853B2
Methods and apparatus for the storage of acetylene include providing an acetylene storage device which has an interior volume. A carbonaceous adsorbent is disposed in the interior volume of the storage device, and acetylene is introduced into the storage device to be reversibly adsorbed by the carbonaceous adsorbent. A pressure of less than 2 bar is maintained in the storage device.
US08119842B2
Methods for producing a compound of formula k1 or k2 by reducing a dihydronapthalene amide compound of formula i with hydrogen gas in the presence of a ruthenium catalyst of formula j1 or j2 Ru(Z)2(L) j1; Ru(E)(E′)(L)(D) j2; wherein m, n, Ar, Y, R1 E, E′, D, Z and L are as defined herein.
US08119840B2
The present invention relates generally to nitric oxide releasing pharmaceutical compounds. More particularly, the present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions that release nitric oxide under physiological conditions. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to new chemical compounds—diazeniumdiolates nitric oxide donors—that are based on ethambutol possessing physiological and biomedical activity.
US08119836B2
Derivatives of seleno-alpha amino acids, particularly selenomethionine as enhanced bioavailable sources of selenium in animal diets.
US08119833B2
Provided are a dendrimer solid acid and a polymer electrolyte membrane using the same. The polymer electrolyte membrane includes a macromolecule of a dendrimer solid acid having ionically conductive terminal groups at the surface thereof and a minimum amount of ionically conductive terminal groups required for ionic conduction, thus suppressing swelling and allowing a uniform distribution of the dendrimer solid acid, thereby improving ionic conductivity. Since the number of ionically conductive terminal groups in the polymer electrolyte membrane is minimized and the polymer matrix in which swelling is suppressed is used, methanol crossover and difficulties of outflow due to a large volume may be reduced, and a macromolecule of the dendrimer solid acid having the ionically conductive terminal groups on the surface thereof is uniformly distributed. Accordingly, ionic conductivity is high and thus, the polymer electrolyte membrane shows good ionic conductivity even in non-humidified conditions.
US08119832B2
In one embodiment, an alkyl ester production system can comprise: a first transesterification reactor comprising a liquid biomass inlet located between a liquid glycerol outlet and a liquid alkyl ester outlet, a water wash vessel comprising an alkyl ester inlet, a water inlet located near a top of the water wash vessel, and a washed alkyl ester outlet located near the top of the water wash vessel, wherein the alkyl ester inlet is located near a bottom of the water wash vessel, and a drier comprising a washed alkyl ester inlet located near a top of the drier, and a gas inlet and a dried alkyl ester outlet located near the bottom of the drier. The first transesterification reactor can be configured for laminar flow and for liquid reactants and products. The alkyl ester inlet can be in fluid communication with the washed alkyl ester outlet.
US08119830B2
Disclosed are UV absorbers that contain a labile functional group capable of initiating free radical polymerization.
US08119819B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds (I), their prodrugs, and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds useful in treating certain metabolic diseases and diseases modulated by the inhibition of the enzyme malonyl-coenzyme A decarboxylase (malonyl-CoA decarboxylase, MCD). In particular, the invention relates to compounds and compositions and the methods for the prophylaxis, management and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, acidosis, cancers, and obesity through the inhibition of malonyl-coenzyme A decarboxylase.
US08119812B2
An object of the present invention is to provide thiazolidinone derivatives. More specifically, an object of the present invention is to provide novel compounds having a CDC7 inhibitory action.The present invention provides thiazolidinone derivatives represented by the formula (I) The compounds of the present invention inhibit the CDC7 protein kinase activity, and suppress cell proliferation.
US08119807B2
Disclosed herein is a compound of the formula (I): (I). Therapeutic methods, compositions and medicaments related thereto are also disclosed.
US08119806B2
A compound having the structure wherein X is selected from the group consisting of: a bond, —NHCH2(CH2)nCH2OC(O)—, —CH2NHC(O)CH2NHC(O)—, —CH2OC(O)—, —OCH(CH3)OC(O)—, —OCH2OC(O)—, —O—, —NR1—, —CR1R3—, —(CH2)p—, —(CH2)qNR1C(O)—, —CHR5NR2C(O)—, —(CH2)qC(O)—, —(CH2)qC(O)NR1—, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of using the compounds for treating hypertension.
US08119805B2
Substituted disulfonamide compounds corresponding to formula I: In which R1, R2, R3, R4a, R4b, R5a, R5b, R8, R9a, R9b, R10, R11, a, b, s, t and A have defined meanings, pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more such compounds, processes for preparing such compounds, and a method of using such compounds for the treatment or inhibition of pain and/or other conditions mediated by the bradykinin receptor 1 (BR1).
US08119804B2
An organic semiconducting layer formulation containing an organic binder which has a permittivity, ∈, at 1,000 Hz of 3.3 or less and a polyacene compound of Formula A: and processes for the preparation thereof and uses thereof in various electronic devices.
US08119795B2
Novel triazole derivatives of the formula (I) in which R1-R6 and Y have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, are HSP90 inhibitors and can be used for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of diseases in which the inhibition, regulation and/or modulation of HSP90 plays a role.
US08119787B2
The present invention relates to antibodies that bind CD33. More particularly, the invention relates to anti-CD33 antibodies, fragments and homologues of these antibodies, humanized and resurfaced versions of these antibodies, functional equivalents and improved versions of these antibodies, immunoconjugates and compositions comprising these antibodies, and the uses of same in diagnostic, research and therapeutic applications. The invention also relates to a polynucleotide encoding these antibodies, vectors comprising the polynucleotides, host cells transformed with polynucleotides and methods of producing these antibodies.
US08119782B2
The development of the first solution-phase molecular assembly comprising over 100 molecular logic gates, which more than quadruples the complexity performed by any previous system. “MAYA-II” is a second generation molecular automaton capable of playing a complete game of tic-tac-toe against a human opponent, and encompasses 76 permissible game plays. MAYA-II is more user-friendly than MAYA-I, as it signals both players move in a two-color output system and imposes no constraints on the position of the human player's first move. MAYA-II is constructed from three classes of stem-loop controlled deoxyribozyme-based logic gates that are allosterically modulated by input oligonucleotides to produce fluorescent output signals.
US08119774B2
The present invention provides a cell marker that is characterized by binding to a GCTM-5 antibody of active fragment. The cell marker identifies a unique sub-population of stem cells that show characteristics of hepatic or pancreatic stem cells or hepatic or pancreatic progenitor cells. More specifically the marker is an early liver marker, which could prove a useful tool for the isolation and identification of liver and pancreatic progenitors for both diseased adult liver and differentiating human embryonic stem cells.
US08119758B2
Provided is a heat-conductive silicone composition, including: (A) 100 parts by volume of an organopolysiloxane having a specific structure, (B) 0.1 to 50 parts by volume of an organosilicon compound that functions as a wetter and contains a triorganooxysilyl group bonded to one terminal via an alkylene group that may be branched, (C) 100 to 2,500 parts by volume of a heat-conductive filler, and (D) an effective quantity of a curing agent. Also provided is a heat-conductive silicone cured product obtained by curing this composition. The heat-conductive silicone composition, even when filled with a large quantity of a heat-conductive filler in order to provide superior thermal conductivity, exhibits a minimal increase in viscosity or plasticity, and retains favorable handling properties and moldability. The heat-conductive silicone cured product exhibits excellent flexibility even when filled with a large quantity of a heat-conductive filler. Heat generated by a heat-generating electronic component can be dissipated into a heat-radiating component by sandwiching the cured product between the heat-generating electronic component and the heat-radiating component.
US08119740B2
The invention describes curable liquid acryloyl group containing compositions, which are produced by reacting monofunctional vinyl compounds and multifunctional acrylic esters with β-dicarbonyl group containing compounds having two activated hydrogen atoms in its methylene position. These material can be polymerized or crosslinked by free radical polymerization, UV (ultraviolet) or electron-beam radiation. The curable liquid compositions are suitable for producing curable coatings, printing inks, adhesives, or molding compositions.
US08119735B2
A golf ball having a cover having a pearlescent effect is disclosed. The cover comprises a first thermoplastic and a second thermoplastic having an index of refraction that differs from an index of refraction of the first thermoplastic by at least about 0.5 percent. The cover further comprises a compatibilizer.
US08119729B2
The invention concerns aqueous secondary polymer dispersions based on special acrylate building blocks, a process for their production and their use as binders for the production of blister-free coatings.
US08119727B2
The present invention relates to the use of comb polymers which have a carbon backbone which bears polyether groups of the formula A *—U—(C(O))k—X-(Alk-O)n—W A wherein * indicates the binding site to the carbon backbone of the comb polymer, U stands for a chemical bond or an alkylene group with 1 to 8 C atoms, X means oxygen or a NR group, k is 0 or 1, n stands for a whole number, the mean value whereof, based on the comb polymer, lies in the range from 5 to 300, Alk stands for C2-C4 alkylene, where Alk within the group (Alk-O)n can be the same or different, W means a hydrogen, a C1-C6 alkyl residue or an aryl residue or means the group Y—Z, Y stands for a linear or branched alkylene group with 2 to 8 C atoms, which may bear a phenyl ring, Z stands for a 5- to 10-membered nitrogen heterocycle bound via nitrogen, which can have as ring members, as well as the nitrogen atom and as well as carbon atoms, 1, 2 or 3 additional hetero atoms, selected from oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur, wherein the nitrogen ring members can contain a group R′, and wherein 1 or 2 carbon ring members can be present as carbonyl groups, R stands for hydrogen, C1-C4 alkyl or benzyl, and R′ stands for hydrogen, C1-C4 alkyl or benzyl; and functional groups B, which are present in the form of anionic groups at pH>12, and salts thereof as grinding aids in cement-containing preparations.
US08119720B2
A thermoplastic resin composition that can have improved flowability of the present invention comprises (A) about 1 to about 98% by weight of a functional group-containing vinyl copolymer resin reactive with polyester; (B) about 1 to about 98% by weight of an aromatic vinyl graft copolymer resin; (C) about 1 to about 98% by weight of a polyester resin; and (D) about 0.5 to about 30 parts by weight of a bromodiphenyl ethane mixture, based on the total weight of a base resin comprising (A), (B) and (C). The resin composition of the present invention can have flame retardancy, excellent impact resistance, and improved flowablity.
US08119719B2
Disclosed are an intermediate transfer belt for use in a laser printer, a fax machine and a copier, and a production method thereof. Specifically, an intermediate transfer belt including silicone modified polyimide resin and a production method thereof are provided, thereby realizing a monolayer intermediate transfer belt having excellent electrical properties, water repellency and heat dissipation properties and good mechanical strength. Further, even without the additional use of an adhesive layer for adhesion to a fluorine resin layer and fluorine resin, the intermediate transfer belt can exhibit satisfactory properties, and process efficiency can be maximized.
US08119714B2
The present invention is directed to a multi-layer golf ball comprising at least one core or core layer, at least one intermediate layer, and at least one cover layer. The core has a diameter of about 1.20 to about 1.56 in. and a PGA compression of about 40 to about 90. The intermediate layer comprises a modified ionomeric polymer, and it has a thickness of about 0.01 to about 0.10 in. and a Shore D hardness of about 30 to about 70. The cover layer has a Shore D hardness of about 40 to about 75. The multi-layer golf balls of the present invention provide high driver ball speed and/or a high Coefficient of Restitution, while maintaining excellent shot feel.
US08119709B2
An acoustic (sound or ultrasound) wave transmitter having a plurality of waveguides is described, and a method of making such a transmitter is described. Each waveguide can have a cladded core. The cladded core is capable of transmitting acoustic wave energy from a first end surface to a second end surface of the cladded core. The waveguides can be substantially fixed relative to each other by a binder. The binder can be formed by fusing the claddings together, potting a material between the waveguides and/or mechanically holding the waveguides.
US08119700B2
Disclosed is an organic aerogel including a polymer obtained from reaction an aryl alcohol compound, an aldehyde compound, and a polyol compound, a composition for forming the same, and a method of preparing the same.
US08119695B2
Disclosed are novel compositions and novel methods for the creation of both the novel compounds and known compounds. Also disclosed are methods for use of the novel compounds for treating a variety of diseases relating to decreasing or preventing activation of estrogen receptors and/or estrogen related receptors.
US08119685B2
The present invention relates to a novel class of disubstituted aniline compounds. These compounds can inhibit histone deacetylase and are suitable for use in selectively inducing terminal differentiation, and arresting cell growth and/or apoptosis of neoplastic cells, thereby inhibiting proliferation of such cells. Thus, the compounds of the present invention are useful in treating a patient having a tumor characterized by proliferation of neoplastic cells. The compounds of the invention may also be useful in the prevention and treatment of TRX-mediated diseases, such as autoimmune, allergic and inflammatory diseases, and in the prevention and/or treatment of diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), such as neurodegenerative diseases. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the instant invention and safe dosing regimens of these pharmaceutical compositions, which are easy to follow, and which result in a therapeutically effective amount of these compounds in vivo.
US08119684B2
Compounds of formula (I), compositions, methods and kits are provided. The compounds and compositions may be particularly useful for modulating immunological responses. Formula (I) wherein, R1 is alkyl, aryl, or heterocyclyl; R2 is H, alkyl, aryl, heterocyclyl, OR3 or N(R3)2, R3 is H, alkyl, aryl, or heterocyclyl; R4 is H, CN, halogen, CF3, CO2R3, or C(O)N(R3)2; X is S, SO2, O, or NR3; and Y is S, O, or NR3.
US08119674B2
Novel 4-phenylimidazole-2-thione tyrosinase inhibiting compounds corresponding to the following general formula (I): formulated into pharmaceutical or cosmetic compositions are useful for the treatment or prevention of pigmentary disorders, or for preventing and/or treating signs of skin aging, and/or for body or hair hygiene.
US08119670B2
Antimicrobial compositions useful for preserving wood, and comprising a variety of antimicrobial compounds.
US08119668B2
Methods of treating depression, binge eating disorder, narcolepsy, excessive daytime sleepiness, substance use disorders, and Prader Willi syndrome, disorders characterized at least in part by hypocortisolemia and decreased activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, and disorders related to disturbances in circadian rhythm, comprising the step of administering an effective amount of a histamine type 3 (Bb) receptor antagonist, such as betahistine or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, or its metabolites to an individual.
US08119663B2
The invention relates to novel heteroaryl-substituted piperidines, to processes for their preparation, to their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and to their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular of cardiovascular diseases and tumor diseases.
US08119661B2
Compounds of Formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: wherein R2, R3, X, m and n are as defined in the specification as well as salts and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds are prepared. They are useful in therapy, in particular in the management of pain.
US08119656B2
The present invention generally relates to compounds to treat viral infections and methods of their use. In particular, compounds of the present invention inhibit the activity of NS1 protein, thereby mitigating viral infection and, in particular, influenza virus infection. Accordingly, NS1 protein inhibitors and methods of treatment that employ such inhibitors are contemplated by the present invention.
US08119651B2
This invention relates to a method for treatment or prevention of metabolic syndrome and diseases or conditions resulting therefrom in an individual, wherein an effective amount of an amine oxidase enzyme inhibitor is administered to said individual. In addition, the invention relates to a method for inhibiting an amine oxidase enzyme or for treatment or prevention of diseases or conditions benefiting from inhibition of an amine oxidase enzyme in an individual, wherein a vitamin B1, its derivative, its precursor or metabolite is administered to said individual. Finally, the invention relates to a food product comprising an amine oxidase enzyme inhibitor in combination with a foodstuff, a food additive comprising an amine oxidase enzyme inhibitor in combination with a liquid, solid or semisolid carrier.
US08119647B2
The present invention provides transient receptor potential vanilloid (TRPV) modulators. In particular, compounds described herein are useful for treating or preventing diseases, conditions and/or disorders modulated by TRPV3. Also provided herein are processes for preparing compounds described herein, intermediates used in their synthesis, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for treating or preventing diseases, conditions and/or disorders modulated by TRPV3.
US08119637B2
Compounds active on Fms and/or Kit protein kinases are described, as well as methods of using such compounds to treat diseases and conditions associated with aberrant activity of Fms and/or Kit protein kinases, wherein the compounds have formula I:
US08119634B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to compounds having the formula: wherein: Ar, Z, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. These compounds have AT1 receptor antagonist activity and neprilysin inhibition activity. In another aspect, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; methods of using such compounds; and process and intermediates for preparing such compounds.
US08119633B2
Substituted sulfonamide compounds corresponding to formula I pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, a process for preparing them, and the use of such compounds to treat or inhibit pain and other disorders or disease states.
US08119631B2
The present invention relates to novel classes of compounds which are inhibitors of interleukin-1β converting enzyme. The ICE inhibitors of this invention are characterized by specific structural and physicochemical features. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. The compounds and pharmaceutical compositions of this invention are particularly well suited for inhibiting ICE activity and consequently, may be advantageously used as agents against IL-1-, apoptosis-, IGIF-, and IFN-γ-mediated diseases, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, destructive bone disorders, proliferative disorders, infectious diseases, degenerative diseases, and necrotic diseases. This invention also relates to methods for inhibiting ICE activity, for treating interleukin-1-, apoptosis-, IGIF- and IFN-γ-mediated diseases and decreasing IGIF and IFN-γ production using the compounds and compositions of this invention. This invention also relates to methods for preparing N-acylamino compounds.
US08119627B2
There is provided a compound having Formula (I) wherein each of rings A and B is selected from five or six membered carbon rings optionally containing one or more hetero atoms selected from N, S, and O and optionally having fused thereto a further ring; X is an optional group selected from O, S, —S═O, —S(═O)2, —C═O, —S(═O)2NR8, —C═ONR9, and —NR10, wherein n and p are independently selected from 0 and 1; Y is (R11)1-3 wherein each R11 is independently selected from —NR12, —CR13R14, —S(═O)2 and —C═O; Z is selected from (i) six or seven membered ring containing carbon and at least one nitrogen, which may be optionally substituted wherein the substituents may together form further ring fused thereto; and (ii) a —R15—NR16— group.
US08119615B2
The invention relates to methods for folding protein comprising providing an aqueous solution of a protein in non-native conformation and a linear or branched sugar polymer comprising three or more saccharide units, or a derivative thereof at a concentration suitable to permit folding of the protein and incubating the solution to permit folding of the protein.
US08119605B2
The invention pertains to methods and compositions for treating medical disorders characterized by elevated levels or abnormal expression of TNFα by administering a TNFα antagonist, such as recombinant TNFR:Fc.
US08119600B2
A composition comprising a content of a lysozyme and a content of a C-1/C-4 polysaccharide is useful in oral care, cosmetology and dermatology, contraception, urology and gynecology. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader quickly to ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the appended issued claims. 37 CFR §1.72(b).
US08119599B2
A method of treatment of native, non-denatured tissue to increase resistance to tearing, fissuring, rupturing, and/or delamination, comprising the step of: contacting at least a portion of the tissue with an effective amount of a reagent that increases crosslinks in the tissue.
US08119592B2
Macrocyclic compounds having the structures described herein are useful for inhibiting replication of the hepatitis C virus (HCV). In preferred embodiments, the compounds are active against both the NS3 protease and the NS3 helicase of HCV.
US08119590B2
Apolipoprotein A-I (ApoA-I), preferably a variant form such as Apolipoprotein A-I Milano (ApoA-IM), alone or more preferably in combination with a lipid carrier such as phospholipids or other drug, can be administered locally before or during bypass surgery on diseased coronary, peripheral, and cerebral arteries, surgery to implant grafts or transplanted organs, or angioplasty, or to stabilize unstable plaques. In an alternative embodiment, the apolipoprotein is not provided directly, but the gene encoding the apolipoprotein is provided. The gene is introduced into the blood vessel in a manner similar to that used for the protein, where the protein is then expressed. The technique can also be used for delivery of genes for treatment or prevention or restenosis or other cardiovascular diseases. In yet another embodiment, stents are coated with apolipoproteins alone, apolipoproteins formulated with lipids, genetically engineered cells expressing the apolipoproteins, naked DNA coding for an apolipoprotein, or other drugs such as anti-proliferatives for local delivery to an injury site. In a preferred embodiment, the system is used with combination therapy, with for local delivery of an agent such as an apolipoprotein in combination with systemic anti-hypertension therapy, anti-inflammatoy therapy, lipid regulation and/or anti-coagulation therapy. These treatments can begin prior to, concurrent with or following local delivery.
US08119588B2
Sulfo-estolides and formulations of sulfo-estolides in and as hard surface cleaners, glass cleaners, toilet bowl cleaners, carpet cleaners, all purpose cleaners, floor cleaners, and others are described. Further details of cleaning performance, stability of diluted and concentrated forms and contemplated cleaning applications are provided.
