US09282307B2
Systems and methods that for searching and displaying ontology-based data structures so that the essential and relevant qualities of searched subject matters may be categorized by subject indices. The system and methods described below utilize ontology-based data systems to enable a more integrated and tighter search experience while at the same time providing a natural search experience.
US09282306B2
It is desired to obtain a more valuable picture from the viewpoint of a person seeing the picture. An imaging device (100) includes an imaging unit (40), a position/posture detection unit (60) that detects a spatial displacement, and a data processing unit (50) that processes image data supplied from the imaging unit (40) in a format in accordance with the displacement detected by the position/posture detection unit (60). The imaging device (100) is built in a mobile phone or the like, for example. A lens unit (30) is often disposed on an imager included in the imaging unit (40).
US09282302B2
A stripe noise correction method of a captured image includes: storing a value calculated by rounding off a portion below the decimal point of a stripe noise value into a memory as correction data of an integer part that corrects a stripe noise for each color; and storing the magnitude of a quantization error calculated by rounding off for each color and for each pixel column or each pixel row into the memory as correction data of a fractional part; and correcting captured image signals of the image captured by a image sensor with the correction data of the integer part and the fractional part read from the memory.
US09282301B1
A system for projecting an image onto a common surface location from multiple augmented reality functional nodes is provided. Projecting an image from multiple environments provides an overall brighter image for a user and provides the ability to utilize small and/or lower power projectors in an augmented reality environment while still having the ability to display a bright image.
US09282298B2
The present invention provides an automated camera assembly comprising a camera (e.g., a digital camera) having a field of vision and a detector for detecting a subject and triggering the camera. The detector has an adjustable field of view and includes a sensor (e.g., an IR sensor) having a maximum field of view, and a curtain for reducing the maximum field of view to an adjusted field of view. The curtain comprises at least two sections (e.g., opaque members) coupled to move together from a first position corresponding with the maximum field of view to a second position corresponding with the adjusted field of view smaller than the maximum field of view. Movement of the curtain relative to the sensor can be linear, pivotal, radial, or any other suitable movement.
US09282295B2
The invention relates to an imaging apparatus for imaging an object (3) being preferentially a catheter. A kinematics model (12) of a robot representing the object (3), which is defined by kinematics parameters, and projection data of the object (3), which correspond to different projection directions, are provided. The kinematics model (12) is modified by modifying the kinematics parameters such that a difference between simulated projection data, which are determined by simulating a forward projection of the kinematics model (12), and the provided projection data is minimized. Since the object (3) is represented by a kinematics model (12) of a robot, movements of the object (3), in particular, deformations of the object (3), can be described in a simple way by few kinematics parameters, thereby allowing modifying the model (12) and, thus, following a movement of the object fast by modifying the few kinematics parameters, in particular, in real-time.
US09282292B2
A verbal request for an action to be performed in connection with a user's set-top box may be received by a Program Content Manager (PCM) from a voice-enabled input/output device such as a VoIP-enabled device or a mobile communication device. Alternatively, the user may request an action via email, text message, and the like. The PCM receiving the action request may execute, or schedule the request for later execution, depending on whether the request is for a real-time or future action. The user may also request to send an alert or a program recording request to others. Recipients may be able to request further alerts or confirm a program recording invitation if certain criteria are met.
US09282291B2
The present invention provides an audio video recording device which can easily post video contents on a video-sharing website without editing the video data to be posted. The audio video data recording device for recording audio and video data includes: a camera unit to which a captured moving image is inputted; a high-quality coding unit for compressing the moving image captured by the camera unit with a high image quality; a high-quality data storage unit for recording therein data of the compressed moving image outputted from the high-quality coding unit; a low-quality coding controller for starting or suspending a low-quality recording process during the high-quality recording process; a low-quality coding unit for compressing the moving image captured by the camera unit with a low image quality in accordance with an instruction by the low-quality coding controller; a low-quality data storage unit for recording therein data of the compressed moving image outputted from the low-quality coding unit; and a communication unit for transferring the moving image data recorded in the low-quality data storage unit to a different apparatus.
US09282278B2
The present invention provides a method for recording programs, a multimedia system and a network side device. The multimedia system includes a network side device and a plurality of nodes, wherein the network side device is configured to generate a recording task after receiving a recording request, and send in advance the recording task to each node in which a channel specified in the recording task is stored, and the nodes are configured to record a program on the channel specified in the recording task after receiving the recording task, and return recording result information to the network side device. According to the recording method of the present invention, when the recording is failed, inter-node mutual reconstruction and complementary recording can be performed, which greatly decreases the possibility of failure in the recording of the program, and provides the quality of service of more fluent TVOD for users.
US09282269B2
The present invention is to provide an A/D conversion device, a solid-state image-capturing device, and an electronic device capable of removing fixed pattern noise, capable of preventing an image from being corrupted, capable of generating an appropriate carry signal during bit shift, and capable of avoiding bit inconsistency even when the frequency of the carry signal increases due to the bit shift. A reading unit includes a comparator configured to compare the analog signal potential with a reference signal of which slope is variable, a counter latch unit capable of AD conversion based on processing according to the output of the comparator, and a bit shift function unit capable of bit-shifting the digital data obtained by the counter latch unit, and when digital Correlated Double Sampling (CDS) is performed with a first signal and a second signal having different bit precisions obtained from the comparison with reference signals of different slopes, the bit shift function unit bit-shifts the first signal or the second signal.
US09282251B2
A digital camera is provided with a vertically long camera body having an approximately rectangular solid shape. An LCD panel provided in a rear surface of the camera body is arranged such that longitudinal directions of the display screen and the camera body correspond to each other. The digital camera is operated through a touch panel provided in a lower portion of the display screen. In a taking mode, an image is displayed in a small size on an upper portion of the display screen. In reproducing, the camera body is rotated sideways by 90 degree. In a reproducing mode, display posture of the image is also rotated by 90 degree, and the image is displayed in a large size on the entire display screen.
US09282249B2
An image processing apparatus includes generating means for generating image data, transmitting means for transmitting predetermined image data to an external device, the predetermined image data being generated by performing a predetermined process for pixel range conversion on the image data, and control means for performing control such that predetermined data relating to the predetermined image data generated by the predetermined process and the predetermined image data are transmitted to the external device.
US09282242B2
A method for an electric device to take a panoramic photograph is provided and the method includes following steps. A first image is captured. A first line is displayed on a preview window. A first graphical object and a second graphical object are displayed on the first line. Posture information of the electric device is obtained. The second graphical object is moved along the first line according to the posture information. It is determined if the electric device is panned horizontally or tilted vertically according to the first line. A second image is captured if the second graphical object reaches the first graphical object and the electric device is panned horizontally or tilted vertically. The panoramic photograph is generated according to the first image and the second image. Accordingly, a user obtains a panoramic photograph easily.
US09282232B2
Systems and methods of conducting collaborative sessions between mobile devices may provide for determining a time delay associated with a set of participating mobile devices, and determining a command execution time based at least in part on a clock of a managing device and the time delay. One or more control messages may be transmitted to the participating mobile devices, wherein the control messages include the command and the command execution time. Upon receiving a control message, each participating mobile device may determine a local execution time based at least in part on the command execution time and an offset of the clock of the managing device relative to a local clock. Execution of the command can therefore be coordinated across the set of participating mobile devices.
US09282220B2
An image scanning apparatus includes a scanner which scans a document and generates a scan image, a sensor which senses vertical streaks, a detector which detects a contents area on the scan image, and a corrector which corrects the vertical streaks on the scan image while protecting the contents area. The sensor may sense pole points in a main scan direction on the scan image, sense vertical streak suspected pixels based on a brightness difference and/or a color difference between the sensed pole points and surrounding pixels of the pole points, and may further sense vertical streaks based on the consecutiveness of the vertical streak suspected pixels toward a sub scan direction.
US09282219B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that performs a print job. During operation, the system obtains one or more available media attributes, including a media size, a border size, and/or a media type, from a printer associated with the print job. Next, the system provides the available media attributes to an application and uses the application to automatically generate and format print data for the print job based on the available media attributes. Finally, the system sends the print job to the printer, where the print job is executed using the printer.
US09282218B2
An image forming apparatus is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes a scanner, a display device, processing circuitry configured to activate a secure application program, read a code for user authentication from a card medium that stores the code, conduct the user authentication using the read code, and display, on the display device, when the user authentication is successful, a function selection screen that receives a selection of a function among a plurality of functions, the plurality of functions including at least a scanner function.
US09282212B2
An object of the present invention is to exclusively enable both a resume function and an auto-clear function. To achieve the object, there are provided a resume unit configured to reproduce setting based on stored setting information, an auto-clear unit configured to clear the setting information, and a switching unit configured to switch from an operation of enabling either one of the resume unit and the auto-clear unit to an operation of enabling the other of the resume unit and the auto-clear unit.
US09282210B2
An image processing apparatus includes an internal obtaining device configured to obtain authentication information, a communication unit configured to perform communication with an external obtaining device that is configured to obtain authentication information, an image processing unit configured to execute at least one of image reading and image formation, and a controller configured to execute determination processing including granting a permission for executing image processing by the image processing unit when the controller determines that the authentication based on the authentication information obtained from the internal obtaining device and first reference information is successful, and granting the permission for executing the image processing when the controller determines that the authentication based on the authentication information obtained from the external obtaining device and second reference information is successful, the second reference information being different from the first reference information.
US09282209B2
An image reading device includes a sheet setting portion, a reading unit, a detecting unit, and a controller. The conveying unit is configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction at a first velocity. The reading unit is configured to read the sheet at a reading position. The detecting unit is configured to detect the sheet at a detection position upstream of the reading position in the conveying direction. The controller is configured to control the conveying unit to initiate conveyance of sheet, and configured to control the reading unit to start reading the sheet when the sheet is detected. The controller controls the conveying unit to convey the sheet at a second velocity slower than the first velocity when the sheet is not detected after a prescribed period of time has elapsed since the conveying unit initiates the conveyance of sheet.
US09282208B2
One or more option units connecting with a communication system that includes a control part configured to control a communication are provided with an upper side signal line connecting with a lower side signal line of an option unit connected in an upper position, a lower side signal line connecting with an upper side signal line of an option unit connected in a lower position; and a control circuit. A potential of the upper side signal line is changed from the second potential in response to a potential change from a potential in a normal state which is different from a potential in an initial state of the lower side signal line.
US09282207B2
When a first remote panel accepts an operation to move a display screen, the first remote panel transmits information on the operation to a relay server. The relay server determines a destination display screen based on the received information, and transmits information on the destination display screen to each of an MFP (Multifunction Peripheral), the first remote panel, and a second remote panel. The relay server transmits data on the destination display screen to each of the first and second remote panels. After transmitting the information on the destination display screen, the relay server receives data on a neighboring screen of the destination display screen from the MFP.
US09282206B2
Provided is a portable information terminal capable of selectively displaying a display screen based on a single application, from among display screens of a plurality of applications, the portable information terminal including: a display unit which displays a display screen of a cooperation source application; a generation unit which generates, based on a start instruction which instructs to start a cooperation destination application, an image for background for the cooperation destination application by capturing the display screen of the cooperation source application. The cooperation destination application has, as a main display area, a display area smaller than an entire display area of the display screen of the cooperation source application. The display unit displays the image for background given from the cooperation source application to the cooperation destination application, in a peripheral area of the main display area of the cooperation destination application.
US09282205B2
Provided is an electronic apparatus including a first controller, a second controller controlled by the first controller, a device controlled by the second controller, and a storage area, wherein the second controller includes a detector, a situation data writing unit, an update notification transmission unit that transmits an update notification to the first controller, and a situation image data writing unit, and wherein the first controller includes a reading unit, a generating unit, a display unit, and a display completion notification transmission unit.
US09282203B2
A communication apparatus comprises a modem configured to performed FAX communication, and a connection unit configured to connect a telephone apparatus. The communication apparatus detects a CNG signal, and controls, in a case where there is an incoming call in a state in which FAX communication is being performed by the modem, if the CNG signal is not detected in the detecting, so that a signal is supplied from a line to the telephone apparatus, and controls, in a case where there is an incoming call in a state in which FAX communication is not being performed by the modem, if the CNG signal is detected in the detecting, so that FAX communication by the modem is initiated.
US09282197B2
A data management system and method of managing call data for at least one radio network element within a cellular communication network. The method comprises receiving geolocation associated call data for at least one call within the at least one cellular communication network, arranging the received geolocation associated call data for the call into at least one call data record, and writing the at least one call data record to at least one data storage device, The geolocation associated call data for the at least one call comprises at least two spatial coordinate values for an at least two dimensional spatial reference, and the method comprises indexing the at least one call data record within the at least one data storage device using a single dimensional coordinate value.
US09282194B2
In one embodiment, a state center operates as a repository and exchange point for telephony state information that would not typically be accessible from an Internet Protocol private branch exchange (IP PBX), and control state information that would not typically be accessible from a programmable multimedia controller. In such manner, the state center enables telephony responsive audio/video (A/V) and home automation device control, and A/V and home automation device responsive telephony control.
US09282188B2
Disclosed is a voice message exchange system and method for improving communication between an inmate and a third party by enabling the inmate to leave a message when a call is not answered and further allowing the third party who receives the message to reply with a message to the inmate. Additionally, outside parties that meet the institution's requirements can leave messages for inmates at any time. The present invention can be used as an add-on to legacy inmate call management systems or incorporated internally into an inmate call management system. The system also provides monitoring, controlling, recording, and billing means.
US09282180B2
This invention provides a mechanism for restricting invocation of wireless mobile terminal (Smartphone) apps whose execution creates a vehicular driving hazard. Events that cause such hazards are included. An event example is “being a vehicle's driver” and attempting to do the app of texting. Events to restrict an app invocation are also included. These include remote restrictions, such as parents remotely turning off the texting app of their children driving an automobile. Spatial parameters, such as driving on high speed and/or heavy traffic roads, also represent restricting events. Events are inserted within an Invoke facility service's Boolean expression by the builder of an Invoke facility service. The Boolean expression determines whether the invocation of its related app takes place.
US09282179B2
Control means of a wearable electronic communication device for control purpose and use thereof are claimed. The wearable electronic communication device comprises a flexible loop being at least partly flattened and comprising non-twistable rigid members; an electronic unit; and push buttons disposed on the rigid members at such a distance from each other so as to avoid possibility of pushing two push buttons simultaneously with one finger, wherein the push surface of each push button does not project beyond the surface of the rigid member bearing the push button, and a control signal is generated only when two push buttons are pushed simultaneously.
US09282175B2
A mobile terminal includes a display, an input unit and a controller. The display is configured to display three-dimensional (3D) content having first and second images for viewing by a left eye and a right eye, respectively. A same object depicted in each of the first and second images includes a common point. A position of the common point in relation to the first and second images is separated by a distance based on a 3D depth of the object. The controller is configured to cause displaying of the 3D content; select the object in response to detection of a first input; and change a position of the object in at least the first or second image in response to a detection of a second input related to changing the 3D depth of the object such that the distance between the common point in the first and second images changes.
US09282167B2
A display device and a control method thereof are provided. The display device includes: a touch screen which displays a screen and senses a gesture of a user on the screen; a video processor which process an image for displaying the screen; a communication unit which performs communication with at least one neighboring device; and a controller which performs control to display a miniature image of a screen of contents being displayed and a first user interface (UI) item showing a connected neighboring device of the at least one neighboring device if a first gesture of a user is made while displaying the screen corresponding to predetermined contents, and to transmit information for sharing the contents to the corresponding neighboring device in accordance with a second gesture of a user with regard to the miniature image and the first UI item.
US09282164B2
A user application may provide a hint which may be used by a compute device to select a tag to be inserted into the packets generated by the user application. Upon some event, the application transmits a hint associated with a network flow generated by the user application to a stack associated with the computing device. One of the layers of the stack—e.g., the operating system in the computing device—may include a hint database that contains rules for selecting tags using a received hint as input. The layer may then insert the tag into one or more packets of the network flow. When processing the packet, network devices in the SDN enabled network recognize the tag and perform an action corresponding to the tag.
US09282163B2
Managing a Personal Security Device (PSD) includes retrieving proprietary information from a remote storage location using a first Remote Computer System, providing at least one Client as a host to the PSD and establishing a communications pipe over a first network between the PSD and the Remote Computer System. The communications pipe communicates with the PSD through the Client. Managing a PSD also includes transmitting the proprietary information from the Remote Computer System to the PSD by sending a PSD-formatted message through the communications pipe, where the proprietary information provided in the PSD-formatted message and passing through the Client is at least partially inaccessible by the Client, processing the PSD-formatted messages at the PSD to extract the proprietary information and storing the proprietary information in the PSD.
US09282160B2
A cache management apparatus, method, and computer readable medium which manages caching of resources. The method includes analyzing a structure of a resource in a system which exposes resources to clients, generating a dependency graph of objects linked to a resource based on the analyzed structure of the resource, and managing caching of resources based on the generated dependency graphs. A generated dependency graph includes hierarchical dependency information with respect to the objects of the resource.
US09282154B2
Methods, systems and devices for selecting an end-user device from a plurality of end-user devices to satisfy a user request. The method comprises storing at a portal aggregator data identifying a user device group comprising a plurality of end-user devices, wherein the data identifying the device group comprises the capabilities of each end-user device. When the portal aggregator receives a request from the user the portal aggregator generates a list of end-user devices from the device group that are capable of satisfying the user request. The portal aggregator then selects an end-user device from the list of capable end-user devices and then transmits a command to the selected end-user device to satisfy the request. In some cases the list of capable end-user devices may be sorted and/or filtered prior to selecting an end-user device from the list.
US09282149B2
A reading group that is associated with an ebook is defined, the reading group including a master device and one or more follower devices. A synchronization command is received from the master device to synchronize the reading location of the one or more follower devices to a read section, the read section specifying a portion of the ebook. The synchronization command is provided to the one or more follower devices, and in response to receiving the synchronization command the one or more follower devices are configured to present the ebook in accordance with the read section.
US09282147B2
A method, system and computer program product for managing hardware components in a cloud computing environment. Each hardware component in a data center of the cloud computing environment detects and identifies other hardware components within a communication range of the hardware component using a wireless protocol. Furthermore, each hardware component determines its actual location as well as its relative location with respect to the detected hardware components, such as based on a triangulation of the wireless signals. Such information is transmitted to an administrative server. An inventory of the hardware components in the data center, including their current location, is then compiled by the administrative server. In this manner, a hardware component can be more easily located after being relocated in the data center. Furthermore, the administrative server will be able to balance a workload across these hardware components based on their location.
US09282144B2
A data transfer system is disclosed for an unmanned vehicle on a mission. The data transfer system can include a first sensor associated with the unmanned vehicle for collecting a first data set, and a second sensor associated with the unmanned vehicle and for collecting a second data set, wherein the second data set is associated with the first data set by a predetermined association. A transceiver can transmit data from the unmanned vehicle to a remote data storage system. A mass data storage computer located on the unmanned vehicle can store the first and second data sets based on the predetermined association, and execute requests from the remote data storage system to transmit the first data set from the unmanned vehicle to the remote data storage system, and to transmit selected ones of the second data set from the unmanned vehicle to the remote data storage system.
US09282143B2
Method, apparatuses and computer programs for handling data related to users of a communications system comprising: a database server storing data related to users of the system, and a plurality of service servers. The database server modifies (1103) a first data stored therein for a user according to a received request (1101), and sends a second message (1109) notifying the data modification to a first service server comprising: an identifier of the user, the first data after the modification, and an identifier of a second service server of the system that handle data related to the user. The first service server sends a third message (2105) to the second service server requesting to modify a data held therein in relationship with said user. Features of the invention help in reducing signaling in layered systems, since additional data are communicated in the second message.
US09282141B2
The present invention provides a method and a system for loading a file. The method includes: a browser sends a pre-download request to a pre-publish server beforehand, receives a download link fed back by the pre-publish server, downloads a file from a data source server through the download link, and sends a first file identifier of the pre-downloaded file and a user terminal address of a user terminal that runs the browser to a query server for storing. The browser receives a load instruction that carries a second file identifier of a file, and queries whether the file is stored locally, if the file is stored locally, reads the file locally, if the file is not stored locally, sends the load instruction to the query server, receives a user terminal address returned by the query server, sends the load instruction to a user terminal corresponding to the user terminal address according to the received user terminal address, and receives a file fed back by the user terminal.
US09282140B2
A first information processor executes a program or a routine which uses wireless communication and transmits, while the program or the routine is being executed, identification information for identifying the program or the routine to an unspecified apparatus. A second information processor receives the identification information transmitted from the first information processor to the unspecified apparatus and selects, from among a plurality of programs or a plurality of routines stored in the second information processor, a program or a routine corresponding to the identification information as a program or a routine to be executed.
US09282134B2
The server device 100 transmits media data of a media rate, calculated by the rate output means 102, to the client device 200 at a transmission rate calculated by the rate output means 102. The rate output means 102 uses an objective function, which uses a media rate and a transmission rate as variables and determines an evaluation value evaluating a combination of QoE and a delivery cost so as to correspond to the variables, and predetermined constrains, to calculate a combination of a media rate and a transmission rate with which the evaluation value is the highest. The client device 200 reproduces content based on the media data transmitted from the server device 100.
US09282133B2
Providing control information is disclosed. A real-time streaming communication channel is established with a communication party using a real-time streaming protocol. It is determined that control information is to be provided to the communication party. The control information is encapsulated using the real-time streaming protocol. The encapsulated control information is marked as including control information content. Streaming content is provided to the communication party via the real-time streaming communication channel using the real-time streaming protocol. The marked encapsulated control information is provided via the real-time streaming communication channel.
US09282129B2
A system and method for providing interactive graphical and multi-media connectivity between a plurality of users, especially in the context of shared content. In aspects, the users are placed into common virtual rooms or virtual interactive environments to permit sharing of content and chat between the individuals in a same virtual interactive environment. Participating users can thereby exchange social layer content as an enhanced content layer beyond a common broadcast content they are experiencing together. Other features and associated functions are also described.
US09282128B2
Techniques for architected data transfer are described. A controller maintains a network information database representing overarching knowledge of the network, such as the underlying communication infrastructure, resource consumption limits, and segment locations. The controller uses the information stored in the network information database to direct transmitters to transfer data segments to receivers in a manner that ensures relatively predictable resource consumption. In one approach, the controller receives a request to transfer data to a receiver. The controller, based on the information contained in the network information database, computes an optimal set of transmitters to participate in the transfer. The controller sends each transmitter in the optimal set an instruction assigning that transmitter to transfer one or more segments of the data to the receiver. Each transmitter, upon receiving the instructions, sends their respectively assigned data segments to the receiver.
US09282120B2
A method for protecting application servers from network-based attacks and verifying the security posture of end client systems is disclosed. A trust broker system receives a request from a user agent associated with a client system remote from the trust broker to connect to applications and resources associated with the trust broker. The trust broker system verifies the integrity of the client system and verifies the identity of a user of the client system. The trust broker system then determines the access level permitted to the identified user and based on the access level. The trust broker system establishes a connection with the user agent and transmits session information to the server system. The trust broker system sends the user agent connection information, wherein the connection information enables the requesting user agent to connect to the requested server system.
US09282115B1
A computer-implemented method for detecting cache-poisoning attacks in networks using SDPs may include maintaining a cache of service information that identifies services provided by client devices connected to a network using an SDP. The method may also include detecting a cache-poisoning attack by (1) receiving, from a client device connected to the network, an SDP message related to a service allegedly provided via the network, (2) identifying, within the SDP message, an attribute of the service allegedly provided via the network, and then (3) determining that the client device is attempting to corrupt the cache of service information by determining that the identified attribute of the service suggests that the service is illegitimate. Finally, the method may include performing a security action to mitigate the cache-poisoning attack in response to detecting the cache-poisoning attack. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09282112B2
Disclose dare systems and method for determining category of trust of software applications. An example method includes monitoring a first application to detect an overlay of at least one interface element of the first application by at least one interface element of a second application; collecting information about the second application, wherein the information includes at least a danger status of the second application, wherein the danger status determines a danger caused by the second application to the first application; determining a category of trust of the second application based on an analysis of the collected information; and determining, based on the category of trust of the second application, whether to allow or prohibit overlay of the at least one interface element of the first application by the at least one interface element of the second application.
US09282109B1
A system is provided with an interface and controller. The interface is configured to receive packets transmitted over a network between a first device and a second device. Transmitted over the network in accordance with a packet protocol, the packets include at least one packet transmitted from the first device and at least one packet transmitted from the second device. Coupled to the interface, the controller is configured to determine whether a plurality of packets have suspicious characteristics of malware and transmit the suspicious packets to an analysis environment. The analysis environment is configured to receive the plurality of packets that have suspicious characteristics of malware, modify at least a portion of these suspicious packets, and transmit at least the modified portion of the plurality of packets that have suspicious characteristics of malware to a virtual machine in accordance with a sequence of the packet protocol.
US09282107B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates use of a website. During operation, the system enrolls a claim containing an assertion of a characteristic of the website with a central authority. To enroll the claim, the system obtains the claim from an issuer of the claim and includes a first secure attribute with the claim, wherein the first secure attribute is signed with a first private key of the central authority. Next, the system enables verification of the claim using the first secure attribute and a first public key of the central authority.
US09282106B2
Apparatuses, computer readable media, and methods establishing and maintaining trust between security devices for distributing media content are provided. Two security devices bind to establish an initial trust so that security information can be exchanged. Subsequently, trust is refreshed to verify the source of a message is valid. In an embodiment, the security devices may comprise a security processor and a system on a chip (SoC) in a downloadable conditional access system. Trust may be refreshed by a security device inserting authentication information in a message to another security device, where authentication information may assume different forms, including a digital signature (asymmetric key) or a hash message authentication code (HMAC). Trust may also be refreshed by extracting header information from the message, determining state information from at least one parameter contained in the header information, and acting on message content only when the state information is valid.
US09282105B1
A system and method for connecting a classified internet protocol (IP) network to a public IP network including an unclassified computing device. The unclassified computing device is a wide area network access management computer which directly connects to a National Security Agency (NSA) High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE) device and interfaces between the IP network and the classified IP network. The wide area network access management computer includes a graphical user interface, an internal data network communications interface, an external data network communications interface and a processing unit. The processing unit operates the network interfaces and presents information to the graphical user interface and interprets user input from the graphical user interface. The processing unit also performs the processing and protocols associated with the internal and external networks, performs client processing and allows the user to interact with services on any of the attached networks.
US09282104B2
An access management service system that manages use of a service provided by a resource service system, comprises: a holding unit which holds information of a user and information of a client system in a storage unit; a determination unit which, if an authorization request for use of the service is received from the client system due to an instruction from a user having authority to use the service, determines whether a group to which the user belongs and a group to which the client system belongs match based on the information held in the storage unit; and a presentation unit which, if the determination unit determines that the groups match, presents, to the user, a screen for instructing whether or not to permit delegation of the authority of the user to the client system.
US09282102B2
A secure front-end interface for a PLC, RTU or similar device is disclosed. A first server is coupled to the PLC via a communications link and is configured to receive status information from the device and transmit the information to a second server via a one-way data link. The second server has a network interface for coupling to a network and receives the information from the first server via the one-way data link and outputs the information via the network interface based upon a user request. The front-end interface may further include a second one-way data link coupled from the second server to the first server to allow user command entry. The secure front-end interface may alternatively consist only of a single server coupled between the device and the network which requires a user to enter a password before obtaining access to the status information.
US09282096B2
A method and system for persona authentication includes obtaining from a server a presence list of devices at a location, refining the presence list according to a user profile of the devices thereby forming a dynamic presence list, capturing at least one biometric input from at least one of the devices, authenticating a persona of an individual at the location according to the biometric input and the user profiles in the dynamic presence list, and presenting at least one descriptor of the persona of the individual. In one embodiment, voice authentication uses a centralized voice id database service in conjunction with a Bluetooth 4.0 UUID service to obtain multi-modal biometric user data.
US09282090B2
The disclosed embodiment relates to identity verification and identity management, and in particular, to methods and systems for identifying individuals, identifying users accessing one or more services over a network, determining member identity ratings, and based on member identity ratings that restrict access to identity rating-restricted services and certain user-to-user interactions. Further, the user experience in performing identity management is simplified and enhanced as disclosed herein.
US09282087B1
Systems and methods for providing authorization of user-generated content are described, including a computer-implemented method for providing content by a first user is provided, including receiving, by one or more computing devices, content from the first user, analyzing context data associated with the content received from the first user, providing the content received from the first user to an authorizer based on a result of the analyzing the context data associated with the content, and providing the content of the first user to a second user in response to receiving an authorization from the authorizer.
US09282079B2
A gateway server includes a first subsystem including a media level, a communication level and a control level; a microkernel; an IPC controller configured to manage communication between the server resources allocated to the first subsystem a second subsystem including a second media level, a second communication level and a second control level such that the microkernel and the IPC controller also manage communication between the server resources allocated to the second subsystem; and a memory with shared reading and writing, established under the control of the microkernel and the IPC controller, between the control level of the first subsystem and the control level of the second subsystem.
US09282076B2
Various embodiments provide for the use of analytics to determine a number of key factors prior to a user sending a communication (e.g., an email or instant message, making an online social media post, or accepting or requesting friendship on a social media site). The analytics may determine content, subject, emotion, relationships, and other relevant details when users interact (e.g., with email or other social software). Any alerts/suggestions provided can be provided in real-time as the person types.
US09282073B1
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product and a computerized apparatus, the method comprising: receiving a communication message transmitted to a user and at least one other recipient; providing to the user a display of a set of communication messages comprising the communication message; after said providing, receiving information of actions related to the communication message performed by the at least one other recipient of the communication message; scoring the communication message based on the actions to obtain a priority; and modifying the display based on the priority, whereby the display is modified dynamically upon an additional action of the at least one of the other recipients of the communication message.
US09282071B1
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving a message from a first user associated with a network, wherein the message is associated with a location. A notification is sent to a second user associated with a network that the message is available for viewing. Whether the second user is at the location is determined. A computing device associated with the second user is enabled to view only a portion of the message based upon determining that the second user is not at the location. The computing device associated with the second user is enabled to view the message in full based upon determining that the second user is at the location.
US09282062B2
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing every local I2C bus device, using a local processor of a distributed fabric protocol (DFP) system member, to ascertain which local I2C bus devices are present, receiving a request from a remote DFP system master, using a dedicated processor of the DFP system member, to register local I2C devices on the DFP system member in order to allow the DFP system master to have access to the local I2C devices, sending an acknowledgement to the request back to the DFP system master, receiving a read request from the DFP system master to read the local I2C bus devices and authenticating the read request, encapsulating details of the local I2C bus devices into a packet similar to that in which the read request was received, and sending the packet to a local network switch to be switched to the DFP system master.
US09282039B2
An address resolution method uniformly processing ARP broadcast packets by an address server to avoid broadcasting in the network, so that the occupied bandwidth is reduced. The method also includes storing by a network device and terminal address correspondence information of local and remote terminals in communication with one another, which reduces the size of the MAC table in the data center network, reduces the load of the network device, and improves the processing capabilities of the network device, so that it is possible to deploy a large layer-2 network to thereby solve real-time relocation problems of a virtual machine.
US09282031B2
A network system and a routing method are disclosed herein. The routing method includes receiving a route planning request corresponding to a packet flow; calculating a corresponding value according to the route planning request; comparing the corresponding value with a plurality of matching values stored in a storage space; and under a condition that the corresponding value matches a corresponding one of the matching values, acquiring an assigning path stored in the storage and routing the packet flow along the assigning path.
US09282027B1
Techniques are described for managing communications for a managed computer network by using a defined pool of alternative computing nodes of the managed computer network that are configured to operate as intermediate destinations to handle at least some communications that are sent by and/or directed to one or more other computing nodes of the managed computer network. For example, a manager module associated with a source computing node may select a particular alternative intermediate destination computing node from a defined pool to use for one or more particular communications from the source computing node to an indicated final destination, such as based on a configured logical network topology for the managed computer network and/or on one or more other selection criteria (e.g., to enable load balancing between the alternative computing nodes). The manager module then forwards those communications to the selected intermediate destination computing node for further handling.
US09282025B2
The present disclosure discloses a MAC address protection method and switch. A switch in a layer 2 ring network obtains network topology information of the layer 2 ring network, the network topology information includes a protection MAC address of a protected device, an identifier of a switch corresponding to the protection MAC address, and an identifier of each switch in the layer 2 ring network, wherein the protection MAC address is the MAC address of the protected device; and determines a local outgoing interface of the protection MAC address of the protected device according to the network topology information, establishes and stores an outgoing interface of an MAC entry corresponding to the protection MAC address according to the local outgoing interface of the protection MAC address, thereby ensuring the protected device to correctly send and receive messages to meet the topology change of the layer 2 ring network.
US09282020B2
A method (and corresponding computer readable storage medium) of selective monitor deployment under budget constraints, wherein the mechanism includes iterating through each layer of an overlay network multiple times and wherein monitor deployment in a lower layer results in recommending adjustments of monitor deployment in an upper layer so as to reduce the overall deployment cost. Also, a method (and corresponding computer readable storage medium) of selective monitor deployment under budget constraints, wherein a deployment budget is a residual budget after deployment at higher layers of an overlay network.
US09282018B2
A network monitoring and control application suitable for use by teachers and other users is implemented using wireless access points and does not require specific software to be installed on client network devices. The application uses student and class information to organize network client information. Upon receiving a monitoring request, one or more classes assigned to the teacher are identified by accessing class data. Class data is accessed to identify students assigned to the class and the client network devices used by these students. One wireless access point providing wireless network connections to at least a portion of the students' devices is selected to collect network activity information from the students' devices and presents this information to the teacher. The teacher may also use the selected wireless access point to disable students' network access or to redirect students' devices to a network resource.
US09282015B2
In a chassis-type network relay device, fault tolerance for the continuity monitoring function of Ethernet (Registered Trademark) OAM is improved. A first management card and a second management card serving as a main management card and a backup management card have continuity monitoring units which generate monitoring frames for checking continuity between devices and transmit the monitoring frames to a given line card, respectively. Each of a plurality of line cards has a transmission source selecting unit which, when having received respective monitoring frames from both management cards, selects one of the monitoring frames and transmits the selected monitoring frame from a given port.
US09282007B2
Systems and methods for characterizing networks are disclosed. In several embodiments, a network analyzer applies a network analysis to a network that replaces components of the network in a model of the network with equivalent or bounding models. The network analyzer can then characterize the simplified model of the network and an assessment can be made concerning the accuracy of the characterization of the network.
US09282003B2
A method of configuring an arrangement has a computer system and a telephone installation, wherein the computer system connects to the telephone installation via a data interface and wherein the computer system and the telephone installation can assume at least one first and one second operating state, including generating control data with a control unit in the computer system depending on a change in operating state of the computer system, from the first operating state into the second operating state, exchanging the control data between the computer system and the telephone installation via the data interface, setting up one or more parameters for the second operating state of the telephone installation with a configuration unit in the telephone installation depending on the control data exchanged, and changing the operating state of the telephone installation from the first operating state into the configured second operating state set up.
US09281997B2
Disclosed are a building baseband unit, a baseband processing panel, and a failure processing method for the baseband processing panel. A direct path is introduced respectively for a baseband processing module and a power supply module in a baseband processing panel; when the baseband processing module has failed, the baseband processing module is directly bypassed, and a part of the baseband processing resources of a baseband processing panel in normal operation is allocated to an RRU corresponding to the failed baseband processing panel via a back panel and the direct path; and when both the baseband processing module and the power supply module have failed, both of them are directly bypassed, and a part of the baseband processing resources of a baseband processing panel in normal operation is allocated to the RRU corresponding to the failed baseband processing panel via the back panel and the direct path, and at the same time the power required for working is provided to an optical module via the back panel and another direct path. Applying the solution of the present invention can reduce implementation costs.
US09281989B2
A compensation apparatus compensates a quadrature-demodulated signal output from a quadrature demodulator 5 that performs quadrature demodulation by using a signal of a carrier frequency fc, by removing an image component caused by the quadrature demodulator 5 from the quadrature-demodulated signal. The compensation apparatus includes a signal generator 10 that generates a reference signal having a predetermined bandwidth in a reception band, and provides the reference signal to an input side of the quadrature demodulator 5. The reference signal includes a frequency band that is biased to either a higher-frequency side or a lower-frequency side with respect to the carrier frequency.
US09281982B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving a first parameter and a second parameter, which are cell specific parameters; receiving a third parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; acquiring the reference signal for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), based on the third parameter; and transmitting the reference signal on the PUSCH. Sequence hopping and group sequence hopping are disabled for the reference signal, regardless of values of the first parameter and the second parameter, if the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled. The sequence hopping includes hopping between two sequences in a group, and the group sequence hopping includes hopping among different groups.
US09281980B2
A receiving apparatus and method, a sending apparatus and method, a front-end circuit, a modulator, and a transceiving system are provided. The sending apparatus includes: a double-sideband OFDM modulator, configured to perform double-sideband OFDM modulation on a bit sequence of service data to obtain a double-sideband OFDM analog electrical signal, where the double-sideband OFDM analog electrical signal carries the service data on both positive and negative sidebands, and an IQMZ, configured to perform optical carrier modulation on the double-sideband OFDM analog electrical signal to obtain a double-sideband OFDM optical signal, where the double-sideband OFDM optical signal carries the service data on both positive and negative sidebands. In comparison with a traditional manner in which service data is only carried on a positive sideband, bandwidth utilization in the present invention doubles.
US09281972B2
Systems and methods for radio frequency digital predistortion in a multi-band transmitter are disclosed. In one embodiment, the multi-band transmitter includes a digital upconversion system configured to digitally upconvert digital input signals to provide digital radio frequency signals. Each digital input signal and thus each digital radio frequency signal corresponds to a different band of a multi-band transmit signal to be transmitted by the multi-band transmitter. The multi-band transmitter also includes a radio frequency digital predistortion system configured to digitally predistort the digital radio frequency signals to provide predistorted digital radio frequency signals, and a combiner configured to combine the predistorted digital radio frequency signals to provide a multi-band predistorted digital radio frequency signal.
US09281966B2
A method, apparatus and system for modifying a transmit diversity signal comprising receiving at least one input parameter, calculating at least one virtual parameter based on the at least one input parameter, converting the at least one virtual parameter into an actual parameter, and modifying a transmit diversity signal based on the actual parameter. Variations of the invention are possible, including mapping the input parameter to an actual parameter by various methods, for example, quantization, hysteresis and other methods. Embodiments of the invention may include an apparatus adapted to modify a transmit diversity signal comprising a processor to calculate at least one virtual parameter based on at least one input parameter, convert said at least one virtual parameter to an actual parameter, and modify said transmit diversity signal based on said actual parameter.
US09281961B2
A user of an instant messaging system may store names of other users of the instant messaging system on a participant list (which may be referred to as a “buddy list”), and the names may be categorized into one or more groups. Similarly, a user of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone, may store contact information about people on the mobile device. Information describing the on-line presence of the user within the instant messaging system or geographic location of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone associated with the user system, may be disseminated to users on the participant list or people on the contact list based on notification information that is associated with groups of users or contacts. A delegation model is used to control whether a user is permitted to make modifications to the notification information.
US09281959B2
A method of controlling a home network device by using a universal web application. In the method, the universal web application may receive control information, for controlling the home network device, from a server. A control command, which is issued to control the home network device, may be sent to a control point module by using a script application program interface (API) that is included in the received control information. Accordingly, result data that is obtained by executing the control command on the home network device may be received by the control point module.
US09281949B2
A DRM client on a device establishes trust with a DRM server for playback of digital content. The client executes in a secure execution environment, and the process includes (1) securely loading loader code from secure programmable memory and verifying it using a digital signature scheme and first key securely stored in the device; (2) by the verified loader code, loading DRM client code from the memory and verifying it using a digital signature scheme and second key included in the loader code; (3) by the verified DRM client code (a) obtaining a domain key from the memory; (b) encrypting the domain key with a device identifier using a DRM system key included in the DRM client code; and (c) sending the encrypted domain key and device identifier to the DRM server, whereby the device becomes registered to receive content licenses via secure communications encrypted using the domain key.
US09281947B2
A local area network server may issue security certificates to client devices on the network for two-way authentication across the network. The certificates may be issued through a transaction performed over the network and, in some cases, may be automated. The server may have a self signed or a trusted security certificate which may serve as a basis for issuing certificates to various clients. After a certificate is issued, future communications on the network may be authenticated by both the server and client, and the communications may be encrypted using the certificates.
US09281939B2
Systems and methods are provided for delivering e-mail, typically with time relevant content, to users, whose e-mail addresses are encrypted. Specifically, the e-mails are administered by a host or home server that is transparent to the e-mail addresses of the computers and e-mail clients, that electronic communications are being sent to and received from.
US09281928B2
Range extension within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. A given communication device designed and implemented for operation in accordance with a given communication protocol, standard, and/or recommended practice operates in accordance with a down-clocked manner to effectuate operation in accordance with at least one other communication protocol, standard, and/or recommended practice. For example, first channelization may undergo down-clocking by a particular and desired ratio to generate a second channelization. As such, at least one portion of a physical layer (PHY) of a given communication device may be leveraged for use in at least one other or additional operational mode based upon the down-clocking employed. Sub-channel and/or channel adaptation may be made based upon any of a number of considerations (e.g., independently by one device, cooperatively by two or more devices, local and/or remote operating condition(s) [or changes thereof], etc.).
US09281927B2
A method and apparatus are provided for reporting Channel State Information (CSI) in an uplink by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes reporting a first Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) to an evolved Node B (eNB); calculating a second PMI using the first PMI; and reporting the second PMI to the eNB.
US09281921B2
Disclosed in the present invention is a method for a base station to set a backhaul link subframe for a relay node in a wireless communication system, to which a carrier aggregation technique is applied. More particularly, the present invention comprises the steps of: determining one of the plurality of subframe settings as a first subframe setting for a main component carrier allocated to the relay node; composing subframe setting candidates for one or more subcomponent carriers allocated to the relay node, one the basis of the determined first subframe setting; and determining a second subframe setting for each of the one or more subcomponent carriers, using the composed subframe setting candidates, wherein a subframe aggregation according to the first subframe setting and subframe aggregations according to each of the subframe setting candidates do not overlap when downlink subframes and uplink subframes of the different component carriers are identical, and a downlink subframe aggregation according to the second subframe setting is included in a downlink subframe aggregation according to the first subframe setting.
US09281914B2
An apparatus determines, in response to demands for traffic between nodes in a network transmitting wavelength-multiplexed optical-signals, routes each providing connection between nodes, and estimates, for each link, communication-channels to be established, based on a wavelength-constraint condition that the number of communication-channels to be established be not greater than a first upper-limit for available optical-signal wavelengths. The apparatus assigns wavelengths to the communication-channels, based on a system-constraint condition that the number of optical-signals having an identical wavelength and redundantly usable be not greater than a second upper-limit for available transmission-systems. The apparatus determines a target-number of wavelengths for reducing a required number of transmission-systems. The apparatus changes the wavelength-constraint condition by defining the first upper-limit as the target-number and changes the system-constraint condition by reducing the second upper-limit, and re-estimates communication-channels based on the changed wavelength-constraint condition and re-assigns wavelengths based on the changed system-constraint condition.
US09281913B2
A signal detection circuit includes: a first optical filter configured to filter an optical signal carrying a frequency modulated signal with a first transmission band; a second optical filter configured to filter the optical signal with a second transmission band; a first photo detector configured to convert the output light of the first optical filter into a first electrical signal; a second photo detector configured to convert the output light of the second optical filter into a second electrical signal; a difference circuit configured to output a signal representing a difference between the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal; and a detector configured to detect the frequency modulated signal based on the output signal of the difference circuit.
US09281907B2
One example embodiment provides a system, apparatus, and method for using polynomial models in tone calibration for quadrature error correction in I/Q receivers. In one example embodiment, method for calibrating an I/Q receiver is provided and includes receiving a first mismatch parameter indicating a mismatch between I and Q channels of the I/Q receiver; and estimating a second mismatch parameter from the first mismatch parameter using a polynomial model.
US09281904B2
A backplane device may include an electrical bus, an optical fabric, and a plurality of card sockets. A particular one of the plurality of card sockets may include a first socket configured to receive a first electrical connector of a card and electrically connect the first electrical connector to the electrical bus; and a conversion device comprising a second socket configured to receive a second electrical connector of the card; and an optical transceiver configured to convert electrical signals received from the second electrical connector to optical signals and provide the optical signals to the optical fabric; and convert optical signals received from the optical fabric to electrical signals and provide the electrical signals to the second electrical connector.
US09281895B2
An information communication method is provided for transmitting a signal using a change in luminance. The information communication method includes determining a pattern of the change in luminance by modulating a signal to be transmitted, and transmitting the signal by a display, which comprises a light emitter that changes luminance according to the determined pattern. In the determining a pattern, the pattern of the change in luminance is determined by adjusting a first time from one change in luminance to a next change in luminance according to the signal, the one change in luminance and the next change in luminance being a same one of a rise and a fall in luminance.
US09281891B2
A method and system includes a network having a plurality of nodes including a first mobile user device at a first node. The network also includes a second node. The system also includes a first mobile user device storing content in a memory, determining a lost content segment exists, generating a request for the lost content segment at the first mobile user device, communicating the request for the lost content to a second node of the network, receiving the lost segment from the second node and storing the lost content segment in the memory of the user device.
US09281887B2
The invention concerns a method for optimizing antenna pattern assignment for a first wireless communication device forming a wireless network with at least one second wireless communication device, each of said communication device being equipped with a multi-sector antenna, an antenna pattern being a combination of said antenna sectors, said communication devices being adapted for sending a request and for receiving a response using a current antenna pattern assignment, said method comprising a step of: evaluating by said first communication device a first value; sending by said first communication device to said second communication device a broadcast request comprising said value receiving by said first communication device, a response to said broadcast request, said response being sent by said second communication device, said response depending on a second value evaluated by said second device; Switching or not, by said first communication device, to a new antenna sector assignment depending on said response; According to the invention the first value is evaluated by minimizing a first local function according to the received signal strength received by said first communication device having said current antenna pattern assignment and the second value is evaluated by minimizing a second local function according to the received signal strength received by said second communication device for its own current antenna pattern assignment.
US09281883B2
A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
US09281880B2
A wireless reception device is notified of whether a multi-user MIMO signal transmitted from a wireless transmission device has undergone linear precoding or non-linear precoding without increasing the amount of control information. A wireless transmission device having a plurality of transmit antennas 303, for transmitting spatially multiplexed signals to a plurality of wireless reception devices includes a group construction unit 307 configured to classify the wireless reception devices into a plurality of groups and to determine a precoding scheme for each of the groups, a selection unit 315 configured to select one group from among the groups, and a precoding unit 323 configured to precode transmit data addressed to each of wireless reception devices belonging to the selected group, using a precoding scheme determined for the selected group.
US09281879B1
Systems and methods for controlling power spectral density (PSD) of a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmitter are provided. Data corresponding to multiple transmission streams of the MIMO transmitter is received with precoding circuitry from a constellation encoder. The received data is precoded using the precoding circuitry. The precoded data is sent to a plurality of transmission ports of the MIMO transmitter. Power allocation of the precoded data is adjusted for a first of the plurality of transmission ports independently of adjusting power allocation of the precoded data for a second of the plurality of transmission ports.
US09281877B2
In a method for generating a preamble of a data unit for transmission via a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) communication channel, a first field of the preamble is generated. The first field provides a plurality of indicators to a plurality of receivers. Each one of the plurality of indicators indicates a set of a plurality of training sequences that corresponds to transmission of the data unit to a corresponding one of the plurality of receivers. The plurality of training sequences is included in a second field of the preamble. The preamble is formatted such that the first field of the preamble will be transmitted prior to the second field of the preamble being transmitted.
US09281869B2
A network repeater is configured to repeat data packets in a broadcast mode without generating a significant broadcast storm. The network repeater is configured to detect a characteristic of a received data packet. The data packet characteristic is compared with valid copies of packet characteristics previously stored in a packet registry. During a delay period, if a valid copy of the detected characteristic is found in the packet registry, then it is assumed that the packet is being received for the second time and the data packet is not repeated in the broadcast mode. If a valid copy of the detected characteristic of the data packet is not found in the packet registry, then the characteristic is stored in the packet registry and the data packet is repeated in a broadcast mode.
US09281864B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for scanning a radio frequency spectrum for an available frequency band, selecting an available frequency band in the radio frequency spectrum even if the available frequency band is affected by radio frequency interference, measuring a signal strength in portions of the available frequency band, correlating the signal strength of each portion to generate a correlation factor, detecting radio frequency interference in the available frequency band according to the correlation factor, and generating tuning coefficient data to cause the filter apparatus to substantially suppress the radio frequency interference in the available frequency band. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09281860B2
A wireless transmission system includes: a communication unit for transmission; and a communication unit for reception. The communication units for transmission and reception are housed in a housing of the same electronic apparatus, or the communication unit for transmission is housed in a housing of first electronic apparatus and the communication unit for reception is housed in a housing of second electronic apparatus and a wireless signal transmission path enabling wireless information transmission between the communication units is formed between the communication units when the first and the second electronic apparatus are disposed at given positions to be integrated with each other. The communication unit for transmission includes a first carrier signal generating unit and a first frequency converter, and the communication unit for reception includes a second carrier signal generating unit, and a second frequency converter.
US09281847B2
A method of protecting data with application layer forward error correction in a communication system, wherein the communication system includes first devices with legacy receivers and second devices with FEC-enabled receivers, operation of the legacy receivers is not affected by the application layer forward error correction, and the method includes: determining a duration period; assembling packets of source data into source blocks corresponding to the duration period, each source block comprising a number of packets of source data; encoding the source blocks to generate encoded blocks, each encoded block comprising a number of packets of repair data; and transmitting the packets of repair data.
US09281845B1
Techniques for optimizing data storage are disclosed herein. In particular, methods and systems for implementing redundancy encoding schemes with data storage systems are described. The redundancy encoding schemes may be scheduled according to system and data characteristics. The schemes may span multiple tiers or layers of a storage system. The schemes may be generated, for example, in accordance with a transaction rate requirement, a data durability requirement or in the context of the age of the stored data. The schemes may be designed to rectify entropy-related effects upon data storage. The schemes may include one or more erasure codes or erasure coding schemes. Additionally, methods and systems for improving and/or accounting for failure correlation of various components of the storage system, including that of storage devices such as hard disk drives, are described.
US09281844B2
A method for encoding includes receiving input data symbols to be encoded with an Error Correction Code (ECC) so as to produce a code word of the ECC including redundancy symbols. The input data symbols are applied first and second processing stages, such that the first processing stage performs a first polynomial division by a fixed-coefficient polynomial with a first degree of parallelism, and the second processing stage performs a second polynomial division by a configurable-coefficient polynomial with a second degree of parallelism that is smaller than the first degree of parallelism, so as to jointly produce the redundancy symbols.
US09281839B2
A hard-decision decoding method includes performing operations necessary for first updating of a check node while loading data, which is input to a decoder, to an input buffer; first updating the check node by using a result of the performing of the operations after storing data, corresponding to one codeword, to the input buffer; and performing low-density parity check (LDPC) decoding by using a result of the first updating of the check node.
US09281835B2
A method of providing a wide range of input currents for an analog to digital converter (ADC), the method constituted of: receiving an input current; selecting one of a plurality of selectable ratios; and generating at least one sense current, the magnitudes of the at least one generated sense current and the received input current exhibiting the selected ratio, wherein the ADC is arranged to receive a voltage representation of the at least one generated sense current.
US09281834B1
A system and method are provided for calibrating timing mismatch in an n-path time interleaved analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The method digitizes an analog signal with an n-path interleaved ADC, creating an interleaved ADC signal. In a first process, the phase of the interleaved ADC signal is rotated by 90 degrees, creating a rotated signal. This rotation may be accomplished using a finite impulse response (FIR) filter with taps at {0.5, 0, −0.5}, enabled as a derivative filter, or as a Hilbert transformation. In a parallel second process, the interleaved ADC signal is delayed, creating a delayed signal. The rotated signal is multiplied by the delayed signal to create a timing error signal. Using the timing error signal, timing errors are accumulated for the ADC signal paths, and corrections are applied that minimize timing errors in each of the n ADC signal paths.
US09281814B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method for guiding a multi-function switch guide. The apparatus for guiding a multi-function switch includes: a sensor unit that is disposed on an operating lever of a multi-function switch of a vehicle to sense an approach of a user or an operation of the operating lever; a switch state determining unit that determines a current operation state of the multi-function switch, when the approach of the user or the operation of the operating lever is sensed by the sensor unit; an information detection unit that detects a lever operation method corresponding to the current operation state of the multi-function switch; and an output control unit that performs a control to display the detected lever operation method.
US09281813B2
A circuit includes a transformer having a first winding and a second winding, an input connected to a first terminal of the first winding, a first power transistor and a second power transistor. The first power transistor has a source, a gate, and a drain connected to a second terminal of the first winding. The second power transistor has a source connected to ground, a gate connected to a pulsed voltage drive source and a drain connected to the source of the first power transistor. The gate of the first power transistor is connected to a DC source or the same pulsed voltage drive source as the gate of the second power transistor. The first power transistor actively turns off independent of load current. Other circuit embodiments and corresponding load switching methods are also provided.
US09281811B2
A circuit for generating a oscillating with a selectable frequency, comprises a delay generator configured to identify a first time instant, the first time instant being delayed with respect to a signal edge of a clock signal oscillating with a predetermined clock frequency. A delay element is configured to provide a signal edge, the signal edge being delayed with respect to the first time instant such that the signal edge is provided at a second time instant corresponding to a signal edge of the synthesized signal.
US09281807B1
Master-slave flip-flops and methods of implementing master-slave flip-flops in an integrated circuit
A master-slave flip-flop implemented in an integrated circuit comprises a master latch coupled to receive data at an input; and a slave latch coupled to an output of the master latch, wherein the slave latch comprises an SEU-enhanced latch, and the master latch is not enhanced for SEU protection. A method of implementing a master-slave flip-flop in an integrated circuit is also described.
US09281801B2
A digital filter circuit and a digital filter control method are capable of reducing circuit scale and power consumption for filter processing in a frequency domain such as an overlap FDE method. The digital filter circuit according to the present invention includes: an overlap addition unit for giving an overlap of M data (M is a positive integer) between the block and the previous block; an FFT processing unit for transforming the generated block by FFT processing; a filter computation unit for performing filter processing to the transformed block; an IFFT unit for transforming the block, which the filter processing was performed to, by IFFT processing; an overlap removal unit for removing M units of data from both ends of the transformed block; and a clock generation unit for setting the frequency of a filter processing clock signal based on a value of M, wherein the filter processing clock signal drives the data output unit of the overlap addition unit, the FFT unit, the filter computation unit, the IFFT unit, and the input unit of the overlap removal unit.
US09281798B2
A device comprises at the input a first component (PA) having a first output impedance (Z1), at the output a second component (ANT) having a second input impedance (Z2), and an impedance-matching network between said first and second components. Because the first and/or the second impedance vary/varies, said impedance-matching network comprises a filter (Fadp), with an impedance that is matchable to the first and second impedances, located between said first and second components and comprising at least two acoustic wave coupled resonators. At least one of the resonators comprises a perovskite type material and means for applying a voltage to said resonator, which enable the permittivity and the impedance thereof to be varied.
US09281794B1
The present invention provides for methods and systems for digitally processing an audio signal and setting a peak signal threshold to a level that is determined to be safe, particularly for children or listeners with sensitive hearing. In various embodiments, a method comprises adjusting a gain of the signal based upon a received profile value minus a safety parameter, filtering the signal with a low shelf filter and/or high shelf filter, passing the signal through a first compressor that sets a peak threshold based upon the profile value minus the safety parameter, filtering the signal again with a low shelf filter and/or high shelf filter, processing the signal with a graphic equalizer, passing the signal through a second compressor that sets a peak threshold based upon the profile minus the safety parameter, and outputting the signal.
US09281787B2
Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to a low-noise amplifier (LNA) having a balun configuration. The LNA includes a DC current path coupling a first DC supply node to a second DC supply node. First and second output nodes and first and second input nodes are spaced apart along a length of the DC current path. A single-ended radio frequency (RF) input terminal is configured to deliver a single-ended RF signal to the first and second input nodes. A differential RF output terminal is made up of the first and second output nodes. The first and second output nodes are configured to cooperatively establish a differential output signal based on the single-ended RF signal. Other devices and methods are also disclosed.
US09281784B2
A preamplifier includes a differential pair of transistors receiving a bias current having a differential input and a differential output, a first resistor coupled to a first differential output node, a first transistor having a current path coupled between the first resistor and a power supply, a second resistor coupled to the first differential output node, a second transistor having a current path coupled between the second resistor and the power supply, a third resistor coupled to a second differential output node, a third transistor having a current path coupled between the third resistor and the power supply, a fourth resistor coupled to the second differential output node, and a fourth transistor having a current path coupled between the fourth resistor and the power supply, wherein a source of the second and third transistors are coupled together.
US09281779B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a design structure and method for compensating for a change in frequency of oscillation (FOO) of an LC-tank VCO that includes a first node; second node; inductor; first capacitive network (FCN) that allows the design structure to obtain a target FOO; compensating capacitive (CCN) network that compensates for a change in the design structure's FOO; second capacitive network (SCN) that allows the design structure to obtain a desired FOO; a filter that supplies a voltage to the SCN and is coupled to the SCN; a transconductor that compensates for a change in the design structure's FOO; and a sub-circuit coupled to the SCN that generates and supplies voltage to the CCN sufficient to allow the CCN to compensate for a reduction in the design structure's FOO. The first and second nodes are coupled to the inductor, FCN, CCN, SCN, and sub-circuit.
US09281776B2
A power conversion apparatus includes a power-conversion circuit unit that includes at least two voltage-type bridge circuits of an upper and lower arm configuration including switching elements connected in series, each of the switching elements including a transistor and a free wheel diode connected to the transistor in inverse parallel. Each of the voltage-type bridge circuits is configured to include, as the free wheel diodes: a SiC-SBD (SiC-Schottky-Barrier Diodes) in both upper and lower arms; a SiC-SBD only in the upper arm; a SiC-SBD only in the lower arm; or a diode other than the SiC-SBD in both the upper and lower arms; and the power-conversion circuit unit is configured by combining at least two configurations among the four configurations for the voltage-type bridge circuits.
US09281773B2
A position sensorless step-wise freewheeling control method for a switched reluctance motor having dual switched-mode power converters for each phase doesn't require any additional external hardware, any rotor-position sensor, or storage of flux linkage data of the motor. After the upper and lower tubes of the main switch are switched off, and the phase of the switched reluctance motor enters into a negative voltage forced freewheeling state, the phase current is detected. When the phase current falls to a preset threshold, one of the upper or lower tubes is switched on and the phase enters into a zero voltage natural freewheeling state. When the phase current reaches a peak value, the rotor position becomes the start position of the minimum phase inductance and the rotor position is used as the switch-on position of the main switch. The upper and lower tubes are then switched on.
US09281763B2
In one embodiment, a device is provided that includes:a plurality of actuators arranged into a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; a plurality of row conductors corresponding to the plurality of rows; a plurality of column conductors corresponding to the plurality of columns; and a controller configured to select at least one of the actuators in a row by raising a voltage on the corresponding row conductor to couple each selected actuator to its corresponding column conductor.
US09281761B2
A control scheme for reducing current imbalance between parallel bridge circuits in a power converter system is provided. The power converter can include a plurality of bridge circuits coupled in parallel to increase the output power capability of the power system. The parallel bridge circuits can be controlled pursuant to a control scheme for reducing current imbalance between the parallel bridge circuits. In particular, a pulse test can be performed in which a pulse is applied to each of the plurality of bridge circuits. The switch timing of the switching elements responsive to the pulse can be measured and analyzed to determine a timing difference adjustment for one or more of the switching elements of the plurality of bridge circuits. The timing difference adjustment can be stored and used to adjust all subsequent switching events in the parallel bridge circuits.
US09281752B2
A method comprises providing a resonant converter, wherein the resonant converter comprises an input switch network coupled to a power source, wherein the input switch network comprises a plurality of power switches, a resonant tank coupled to the plurality of power switches, a transformer coupled to the resonant tank and an output stage coupled to the transformer, wherein the output stage comprises a synchronous rectifier formed by a first switch and a second switch, detecting a drain voltage of the first switch, comparing the drain voltage with a predetermined voltage threshold, wherein the drain voltage is coupled to a negative input of a comparator and the predetermined voltage threshold is coupled to a positive input of the comparator, generating a logic state based upon an output of the comparator and adjusting, by a control circuit, a switching frequency of the resonant converter based upon the logic state.
US09281750B2
A power supply device includes a transformer including primary winding and secondary winding, a sensor configured to sense at least one of output voltage and output current in the power supply device, a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller configured to perform PWM switching so that voltage is selectively provided to the primary winding based on one of the sensed output voltage and output current, and a regulator configured to stop PWM switching of the PWM controller and keep the PWM switching in stopped state when at least one of the sensed output voltage and output current exceeds a preset value.
US09281733B2
The instant invention teaches a monostable shutter with magnetic blade return using a bistable actuator with blade motion constrained to provide drive force in a single direction and permits the use of compact bistable coil for continuous use by a circuit that applies a high voltage at the beginning of drive that decays to a lower voltage to prevent coil burn out.
US09281730B2
A motor driving system that changes a rotation speed of a motor pursuant to a speed command includes a main device including a drive circuit configured to drive the motor, an input device configured to input the speed command to the drive circuit, and a signal insulating unit configured to insulate the input device from the main device and to transmit the speed command from the input device to the drive circuit of the main device.
US09281726B2
The invention relates to an actuator for operating a positioning element. A common requirement in such actuators is that the positioning element can be decoupled from the electric motor that drives the positioning element via a transmission. In some applications the actuators are so compact that the only way to decouple the actuator is to disassemble parts of the actuator. To connect the positioning element to the electric motor again, this however requires that the whole actuator is demounted so as to ensure that the disassembled parts are properly assembled. The present invention overcomes this problem by providing an actuator comprising two toothed wheels which by mutual displacement can be brought out of mesh and which each comprises at least two toothed rims positioned with a spacing corresponding to at least the width of one toothed rim. Hence the provided actuator is very compact in that the space required for disengagement of the positioning element is practically reduced to the width of the toothed wheels. Further the construction ensures a firm mesh, making the actuator highly reliable.
US09281724B2
In a rotating electrical machine, the concentrated winding coil includes a single-layer coil, corresponding to one layer, wound in a first turn advancing mode with the wire forming sequential coil turns starting from one end of the insulating bobbin toward another end of the insulating bobbin and another single-layer coil, corresponding to one layer, wound in a second turn advancing mode with the wire forming turns starting from the other end of the insulating bobbin toward the one end of the insulating bobbin, with the single-layer coil and the other single-layer coil layered alternately to each other. The insulating bobbin includes a winding portion where the concentrated winding coil is formed, collars each formed at one of two ends of the winding portion and at least one projecting portion configured to disallow misalignment at a turn changeover start area in the first and second turn advancing modes.
US09281723B2
A rotary electric machine includes a stator; and a rotor including an iron core, which has a tubular connecting portion surrounding a shaft and 10 magnetic pole portions integrally formed with the connecting portion corresponding to a pole number, and a plurality of permanent magnets arranged between the magnetic pole portions. The iron core includes axially-penetrated magnet accommodating air gaps formed between the magnetic pole portions at the radial outer side of the connecting portion, and the permanent magnets are installed in the respective magnet accommodating air gaps such that a radial outer surface of each of the permanent magnets makes close contact with an inner surface of each of the magnet accommodating air gaps and such that a gap exists between a radial inner surface of each of the permanent magnets and the connecting portion.
US09281721B2
An electric motor (1) with permanent magnets includes a rotor (4), on which permanent magnets are fastened (6), and a stator (2). The stator includes a stator structure and coils (5) installed on the stator structure. The stator structure is realized by an assembly of at least three independent stator elements (21), assembled on a baseplate (3) with no direct mechanical linkage between them. Each stator element (21) is fastened onto the baseplate (3) of the motor by an adjusted fastener (31) and at least one anti-rotation element (32). Preferably, the stator elements (21) are made of a material that is a good heat conductor and electrical insulator, such as a ceramic.
US09281713B2
A system and a method for electricity management are disclosed. The system includes a data management unit, a cabinet, a control unit, an uninterruptible power supply apparatus and a power switch. The cabinet is powered by an external power supply. When the data management unit sends a testing instruction to the cabinet, the control unit controls the power switch to shut down the external power supply such that the cabinet is powered by the uninterruptible power supply apparatus instead. The control unit measures a set of battery parameters of the uninterruptible power supply apparatus, computes a power supply capacity of the uninterruptible power supply apparatus according to the set of battery parameters, and returns the power supply capacity to the data management unit.
US09281711B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for amplifiers for wireless power transfer. In one aspect a method is provided for controlling operation of an amplifier, such as a class E amplifier. The method may include monitoring an output of the amplifier. The method may further include adjusting a timing of an enabling switch of the amplifier based on the output of the amplifier.
US09281695B2
A method of charging a battery pack is provided. The method includes: electronically connecting a battery pack to a charger; detecting information regarding the battery pack; determining an appropriate charging regime based on the detected information; and applying the charging regime to the battery pack. A battery charger may also provided. The battery charger includes: a first terminal for connecting to a battery pack; a second terminal for connecting to a battery pack, a microprocessor operatively connected to the terminals and configured to receive a signal from at least one terminal regarding a battery pack connected to the terminal and control the charger to select and apply a charging regime to the battery pack according to the signal.
US09281690B2
A tactical smart grid system and method includes a plurality of energy generators and a plurality of loads, where the loads require energy from at least some of the energy generators. A plurality of interface units are provided, where each energy generator and load are connected to one of the plurality of interface units. Each of the interface units including a controller to thereby provide distributed intelligence and distributed system control, thereby removing the requirement of a centrally controlled system.
US09281685B2
Circuitry and a method for maximizing power from multiple serially coupled DC power sources. Electrodes provide for serial coupling of multiple DC power sources, capacitive circuitry couples to each one of the electrodes, switching circuitry couples among various ones of the electrodes, and inductive circuitry couples among various others of the electrodes and the switching circuitry.
US09281677B2
A method for protecting an electrical energy distribution box (BODP) equipped with a supply current distribution bar (BDP) intended to be connected between an electrical energy source (G) and loads (Q1, Q2, Q3 . . . Qn) to be supplied, comprising detecting an electrical fault in the distribution box (BODP). The detection step comprises: —measuring a supply current drawn on said supply current distribution bar (BDP) by the electrical energy source (G), —measuring load currents distributed from the distribution bar to each of the loads (Q1, Q2, Q3 . . . Qn), and continuous processing of said measurements of current in the course of which the supply current and the load currents are compared with load current threshold values so as to detect overloads.
US09281667B2
A wire feeding pulley A-Frame System is provided for feeding electrical, telephone, communication wires ect into manhole, transformers, switch gears ect., including a frame having four vertical rails one horizontal rail at the top which has four short pieces of square tubing welded to it which the vertical rails sleeve over and are held together by horizontal pins. The bottom of the frame has four horizontal pieces welded into a square that have four short vertical pieces welded on top of them that the vertical rails can sleeve into and be held together by horizontal pins. It has three vertical pieces of square tubing welded to the bottom side of the top horizontal rail that three pulleys can be attached to for wire to be fed through. There is also a square tube that can be attached to the bottom frame that has a smaller square tube inside of it that has a pulley that pins on the end of it, making it a snorkel attachment for feeding into devices with small doorways.
US09281660B2
The present invention provides a surface emitting laser that provides a sufficient optical output and is suitable as a light source intended for electrophotographic apparatuses, and a surface-emitting-laser array and an image forming apparatus each including the surface emitting laser. The surface emitting laser includes a first stepped structure on a front surface of a front mirror. In the first stepped structure, a difference L between an optical path length in a first area and an optical path length in a second area satisfies the following expression: (¼+N)λ<|L|<(¾+N)λ where N is an integer.
US09281652B1
A laser system includes a laser resonator having a laser resonator volume and a gain block disposed therein, the gain block being configured to emit light at a predetermined laser wavelength, and an OPO unstable resonator having an OPO unstable resonator volume, the OPO unstable resonator optically coupled to the laser resonator and configured to receive light therefrom, wherein a portion of the OPO unstable resonator volume is situated with respect to the laser resonator volume so as to form an overlapping volume.
US09281649B2
Embodiments of an air-cooled gas laser with a heat transfer assembly are disclosed herein. A laser configured in accordance with one embodiment includes a laser superstructure and a laser superstructure having an opening and a cavity accessible through the opening, and an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly is configured to be received into the cavity, and includes a frame and an electrode biasedly coupled to the frame and electrically insulated therefrom.
US09281646B2
An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing and a plurality of first conductive terminals retained in the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a mating frame running through a front face thereof. An L-shaped mating tongue extends forwardly in the mating frame. The mating frame has two opposite inner surfaces facing to the mating tongue and spaced from the mating tongue. The first conductive terminal each includes a contacting portion arranged on a mating face of the mating tongue and a connecting portion extending out of the insulative housing. The electrical connector includes second conductive terminals disposed on both inner surface of the mating frame. The second conductive terminals are used for different-voltage power transmission. Therefore, the electrical connector not only meets the specification of SATA connector, but also provides the function of signal transmission and different-voltage power transmission.
US09281641B2
A connecting device for electrically connecting two circuit boards is provided. The connecting device has a first and a second coaxial connector and a coupling member. The two coaxial connectors and the coupling member each have an outer conductor and an inner conductor. The outer conductors of the coaxial connectors are electrically interconnected via the outer conductor of the coupling member and the inner conductors of the coaxial connectors are electrically interconnected via the inner conductor of the coupling member. The coupling member is arranged between the two coaxial connectors so as to be tiltable from an axially aligned orientation and displaceable in an axial direction. The coupling member is held on an elastically deformable dielectric holding ring which surrounds the coupling member in a circumferential direction and is in contact against at least one coaxial connector.
US09281640B2
A connector includes a ground pin and a signal pin. The ground pin includes a first cylindrical part, a first cylindrical terminal telescopically movable into the first cylindrical part, and a first elastic member compressible in a first central axis direction. The signal pin includes a second cylindrical part, a second cylindrical terminal telescopically movable into the second cylindrical part, and a second elastic member compressible in a second central axis direction. The signal pin is provided concentrically with the first elastic member and the first cylindrical part, and has a one-piece structure of a single metal plate. The first and the second cylindrical parts are connected to a ground line and a signal line of a board with the first and second cylindrical terminals being in contact with the board and compressed in the first and second central axis directions, respectively.
US09281633B2
A Lightning connector compatible accessory device includes circuitry that is completely enveloped by a mobile device when the accessory device is inserted in a Lightning connector. The accessory device may include a microUSB connector on one end of a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board may be offset in a housing.
US09281628B2
A plug connector includes a plug housing (11) defining a receiving space (1110), a plurality of contacts retained in the plug housing, a cable (16) electrically connected with the contacts and a shielding member (15) enclosing on the plug housing to form a cavity. The contacts comprises a plurality of first contacts (12) and a plurality of second contacts (13), stiff contacting portions of the first contacts are exposed in the receiving space, and elastic contacting portions of the second contacts are exposed in the cavity for transmitting high speed signal. The shielding member is enclosing on the plug housing to form a cavity, the cavity is stacked on the receiving space. The slit is communicated with an exterior in the up-to-down direction, the plug connector further comprises an additional contact (18) received in the slit and extending beyond the bottom surface of the plug housing.
US09281627B2
A device connector includes device-side terminals (18), a device-side shield shell (21), harness-side terminals (40) to be fixed to a plurality of wires (71) and connected to the device-side terminals (18) by bolts (69) and a harness-side shield shell (50) connected to a braided wire (72) surrounding the wires (71). The harness-side shield shell (50) includes a first shell (51) and a second shell (61). The first shell (51) is fixed to the braided wire (72) and includes an operation cutout (60) for enabling a connecting operation of the device-side terminals (18) and the harness-side terminals (40) by the bolts (69). The operation cutout (60) is closed by the second shell (61).
US09281626B2
A mating connector includes a plastic body, a first terminal group and a second terminal group received in the plastic body, a retaining elastic sheet retained at the plastic body and located at a side of the first terminal group and the second terminal group, a middle shielding sheet located between the first terminal group and the second terminal group, and a shielding case contacting the middle shielding sheet. An urging portion is extended from the middle shielding sheet and abuts the retaining elastic sheet. The middle shielding sheet shields an interference signal between plate surfaces of the first and second terminal groups. The retaining elastic sheet shields an interference signal between side surfaces of the first and second terminal groups.
US09281625B2
A receptacle electrical connector includes a metallic shell, an insulating bracket defining a receiving cavity, an upper member including a base portion and a mating portion and a lower insulating member distinct from and assembled with the base portion. The upper member is loaded with upper contacts with contacting portions arranged on an upper surface of the mating portion and a shielding plate is located between the upper and lower surface of the upper member. The lower member is loaded with lower contacts with contacting portions extending beyond a front edge of the lower insulating member and arranged on the lower surface of the mating tongue. The assembled base portion and the lower member is received in the receiving cavity of the insulating bracket and the mating portion extends beyond a front face of the insulating bracket and surrounding by the metallic shell to define a mating cavity thereamong.
US09281614B1
A connector assembly including a housing and a cover. The cover including a locking member receiving portion and a lever retaining portion. A lever rotatable between an unlatched position and a latched position is provided. The lever is positioned in the lever retaining portion when the lever is in the latched position. A locking member is movably retained in the locking member receiving portion. The locking member is moveable between an unlocked position and a locked position. A portion of the locking member is positioned in the lever retaining portion when the locking member is in the locked position. The locking member engages the lever when the locking member is in the locked position to properly secure the lever in the latched position and to ensure continuous latching of the connector assembly.
US09281610B2
Provided is a tray type card connector that is compatible with waterproof electronic devices and that can easily perform the insertion and removal of a card into/from the electronic devices. A tray type card connector includes a card tray; a housing having a tray insertion portion; a plurality of contacts arranged in the housing so as to project within the tray insertion portion; a front cover portion fitting in a casing opening portion opened at a lateral surface portion of a casing of an electronic device A, at a front end portion of the card tray; a ring-shaped cover water-sealing member made of an elastic material at an outer periphery portion of the front cover portion.
US09281600B2
A connector (10) includes a housing (30) with a terminal accommodating portion (31) into which a plurality of differently dimensioned terminals (20) are to be accommodated, and a retainer (60) retains the terminals (20) by being inserted through a side surface of the housing (30). The retainer (60) is moved laterally by operating an operating portion (63) and is held at a partial locking position and a full locking position by locking pieces (65) of the retainer (60) that engage locked portions (44) of the housing (30). The terminals (20) include medium terminals (20M) locked by medium locking lances (56) fit into an escaping portion (68) between the operating portion (63) and the locking pieces (65) in the retainer (60). The escaping portion (68) includes a reinforcement (69) for preventing deformation of the escaping portion (68).
US09281598B2
A contact element for making electrical contact with a contact area of a mating contact element, wherein a contact region forms at least two contact points, and wherein the two contact points are distinguished from one another in the new state in respect of the distance from the contact area of the mating contact element, so that, in the new state, a first of the contact points makes contact with the contact area and, after a defined amount of wear of the first contact point, the second contact point makes contact with the contact area.
US09281597B2
A connector comprises a plurality of contacts which are formed using a plurality of conductive contact points provided on a first plate surface of an FPC as a connection object, a frame member which has an opening size and a height capable of receiving a mating connector and is attached to the first plate surface of the FPC so as to surround the contacts, and a plate-like member which is provided on a second plate surface of the FPC so as to extend over a region corresponding to the contacts. The frame member has locking holes which respectively engage with mating locking claws of the mating connector when the connector is fitted to the mating connector, thereby maintaining the fitting state of the connector and the mating connector.
US09281592B2
A female connector has a plurality of contacts to be connected to a card member having a card edge portion with a plurality of card edge terminals formed on a substrate, and a housing disposed with contact housing portions, and the housing has a flat opening portion on one side into which the card edge portion is inserted, an insertion port on the other side, and an inner space therein communicating with the flat opening portion and disposed with the card edge portion, and the contact housing portion has at least two stages of first contact housing portions formed on one side relative to the inner space of the housing and communicating with the insertion port, and a stage of second contact housing portions formed on the other side relative to the inner space of the housing and communicating with the insertion port.
US09281586B2
In a connector, a socket fitting portion of the socket housing and a header fitting portion of the header housing are fitted to each other to bring socket and header terminals and into contact with each other. In the socket housing, a socket terminal group including the plural socket terminals arranged in the longitudinal direction of the socket housing is provided only in a single line. In the header housing, a header terminal group including the plural header terminals arranged in the longitudinal direction of the header housing is provided only in a single line. It is, therefore, possible to minimize the connector in the width direction.
US09281553B2
A wearable device including a display unit, a conductive frame and a belt-like structure is provided. The conductive frame surrounds a display region of the display unit, and the conductive frame has a first open slot. Besides, a feeding point and a first ground point are disposed on two sides of an opening of the first open slot, and the conductive frame forms a first antenna element. The belt-like structure is respectively connected to a first edge and a second edge, which are opposite to each other, of the conductive frame.
US09281551B2
A multi-band whip antenna having a 30 MHz to 2 GHz bandwidth and an L-band dipole has its coverage extended up to 6 GHz by eliminating nulls and reducing VSWR problems that are cured through the utilization of a sleeve over the feedpoint of the L-band antenna. Chokes in the form of sleeves are provided at either end of the L-band dipole to shorten the L-band antenna for preventing reverse polarity currents at the L-band antenna feedpoint, with the antenna further including the use of double shielded meanderline to provide improved performance between 410-512 MHz and in which a capacitance sleeve is added at the bottom of the L-band antenna to effectively elongate the antenna below the L-band to permit operation below 700 MHz.
US09281550B2
Wave mode converters, and methods of using wave mode converters are disclosed. The wave mode converters include a radial waveguide including a generally disk-like structure to receive a radially propagating field derived from rectangular TE10 waveguide mode, and a body including a plurality of spaced apart apertures.
US09281539B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a highly efficient electrical storage device that uses a fiber positive electrode and a fiber negative electrode and in which lithium ion is used as an intercalating species, and to provide a method of fabricating the electrical storage device. The electrical storage device according to the present invention includes: a fiber positive electrode including an electrically conductive fiber, the fiber having a surface on which a positive electrode active material coating is formed, the positive electrode active material coating containing a transition metal oxide represented by a chemical formula 1 which is (Li1-xAx)aMbXcOd; a fiber negative electrode including an electrically conductive fiber, the fiber having a surface on which a negative electrode active material coating is formed; a separator; and an electrolyte (in the chemical formula 1, A is at least one kind of alkali metal selected from the group consisting of Na, K, Rb, and Cs; M is at least one kind of transition metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Nb, Mo, Ru, Pd, Ag, Ta, W, Ce, Pr, Sm, Eu, and Pb; X is at least one kind of typical elements selected from the group consisting of B, Al, Si, P, S, Ga, and Ge; and 0
US09281538B2
Disclosed is a thin battery including an electrode assembly in sheet form and a housing for accommodating the electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte layer interposed therebetween. A lubricating material with a lubricating effect is interposed between an inner surface of the housing and the electrode assembly, and is, for example, an inert gas. The inert gas includes, for example, at least one of nitrogen and argon. It is preferable that the lubricating material is present, at least, between end surfaces of the electrode assembly on both sides in the thickness direction thereof and two main flat surfaces of the inner surface of the housing which face the end surfaces, respectively.
US09281534B2
A fuel cell (1) includes a stacked body of a membrane electrode assembly (3) and of separators (2). Then, the membrane electrode assembly (3) and the separators (2) are formed into a substantially rectangular shape, the separators (2) include flow passages. Moreover, an aspect ratio R as a ratio (flow passage length/flow passage width) of a flow passage length with respect to a flow passage width is 0.01 or more to less than 2. Furthermore, a horizontal direction equivalent diameter D (mm) of the flow passages satisfies Expression (1): D=B×(R×Acat)1/3 Expression (1) where Acat is a catalyst area (cm2) of the membrane electrode assembly (3), and B is a constant of 0.005 or more to 0.2 or less.
US09281526B1
This invention provides batteries with improved calendar and cycle lifetimes. A rechargeable battery comprises an additional electrode that includes active ions, such as lithium ions. Cell capacity of the battery can be increased by supplying these active ions to the anode or the cathode. In some variations, this invention provides a lithium-ion battery comprising an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte, and an additional lithium-containing electrode, wherein the additional lithium-containing electrode is capable of supplying lithium ions to the anode or the cathode in the presence of an electrical current.
US09281525B2
The present invention refers to the conversion of gaseous or gasifiable fuels with high methane content, such as natural gas, biogas, synthesis gas or gas originated from various industrial process rejects, with or without prior desulfurization and elimination of other contaminants, in a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), with special anodes, based on mixed oxides or metal oxides with a perovskite type structure, either or not nano structured, into light hydrocarbons, primarily ethylene and ethane.
US09281523B2
A long-life battery whose properties do not deteriorate after charge-discharges cycles is provided. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution containing an electrolyte. At least one of the cathode and the anode includes a binder. The binder includes a layer having electron conductivity on a surface thereof. The binder improves the contact property between particles of the active materials of the battery and the conductivity in the electrode without impairing the binding property of the binder. Preferably, the binder includes a metal on the surface thereof and the metal does not form an alloy with lithium to further improve the lifetime of the battery.
US09281522B2
A mixed oxide containing a) a mixed-substituted lithium manganese spinel in which some of the manganese lattice sites are occupied by lithium ions and b) a boron-oxygen compound. Furthermore, a process for its preparation and the use of the mixed oxide as electrode material for lithium ion batteries.
US09281514B2
A method of forming a lithium-ion battery by spinning and a battery formed thereby are disclosed. The spinning may include electrospinning A first anode layer may be spun, followed by a first separator layer, a first cathode layer, and a second separator layer. Each layer may be spun directly onto the previously spun layer to provide a battery that does not include metal current collectors. The anode and/or cathode layers may include polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers. To render the anode and cathode layers conductive, they may be carbonized using a heat source (e.g., a laser). The disclosed method may allow for the incorporation of high capacity materials, such as sulfur and/or silicon, in the electrode active materials.
US09281508B2
An object of the invention is to provide a separator for a nonaqueous secondary battery, which has good adhesion to electrodes and is also capable of ensuring sufficient ion permeability even after attachment to electrodes. The separator for a nonaqueous secondary battery of the invention includes a porous substrate and an adhesive porous layer that is formed on at least one side of the porous substrate and contains a polyvinylidene-fluoride-based resin. The separator for a nonaqueous secondary battery is characterized in that the adhesive porous layer has a crystal size of 1 to 13 nm.
US09281504B2
A non-contact input apparatus for computer peripheral includes an induction module and a pointing module. The induction module includes an electric supply coil and an induction element, and the pointing module includes an energy coil and a non-linear element. The electric supply coil is used to send a first oscillation signal. The energy coil receives the first oscillation signal. The non-linear element converts the first oscillation signal to be a second oscillation signal having multiple higher harmonics. The induction element generates a control signal based on the second oscillation signal.
US09281496B2
A display device packaging method comprises steps of: providing a first substrate including a display region and a non-display region that surrounds the display region; providing an adhesive material which is disposed on the first substrate and formed into a closed curve surrounding the display region, wherein the closed curve has a start zone and an end zone connected to the start zone; providing a light-blocking element at least covering the end zone; providing a heating source radiating to the light-blocking element and moving the heating source to the start zone of the adhesive material; and scanning the adhesive material from the start zone to the end zone along the closed curve by the heating source. A display device is also disclosed.
US09281488B2
An organic light emitting device having a simplified structure, and a method of fabricating the same, are provided. The organic light emitting device comprises an anode, a conductive polymer layer having a surface 1A in contact with the anode and a surface 2A opposite to the surface 1A, a low molecular light emitting layer having a surface 1B in contact with the surface 2A and a surface 2B opposite to the surface 1B, and a cathode in contact with the surface 2B. The conductive polymer layer is a single layer including a conductive polymer having a conductivity of 1×10−7 S/cm to less than 0.1 S/cm, and a material having low surface energy, a concentration of the material having low surface energy of the surface 2A is greater than a concentration of the material having low surface energy of the surface 1A.
US09281484B2
A transistor and a fabrication method thereof. A transistor includes a channel region including linkers, formed on a substrate, and a metallic nanoparticle grown from metal ions bonded to the linkers, a source region disposed at one end of the channel region, a drain region disposed at the other end of the channel region opposite of the source region, and a gate coupled to the channel region and serving to control migration of at least one charges in the channel region.
US09281482B2
Discussed is an organic electroluminescent device including a first charge carrying layer being disposed adjacent to a first electrode; and a second charge carrying layer disposed adjacent to a second electrode, wherein the first charge carrying layer includes an emitting part, a hole injection part and a hole transporting part between the hole injection part and the emitting part, wherein at least one of the hole injection part, the hole transporting part and the emitting part includes a host material having an organic compound of Formula: wherein R is substituted or non-substituted C1 to C12 alkyl, and A and B are symmetrically or asymmetrically positioned in 2-position or 7-position of the fluorene core, and wherein each of A and B is independently selected from substituted or non-substituted aromatic group or substituted or non-substituted heterocyclic group.
US09281478B2
Some embodiments include methods of forming memory cells. Such methods can include forming a first electrode, a second electrode, and a memory element directly contacting the first and second electrodes. Forming the memory element can include forming a programmable portion of the memory element isolated from the first electrode by a first portion of the memory element and isolated from the second electrode by a second portion of the memory element. Other embodiments are described.
US09281464B2
To increase the strength of mounting at the time of mounting a piezoelectric vibrating piece on a package. In a piezoelectric vibrating piece having a pair of support arm portions which are provided with mount electrodes outside a pair of vibrating arm portions, concave portions to which a conductive adhesive used for mounting to the package can penetrate are formed in side end surfaces on the inner sides in a width direction of the respective support arm portions near the mount electrodes.
US09281463B2
Metal oxide tunnel barrier layers for superconducting tunnel junctions are formed by atomic layer deposition. Both precursors include a metal (which may be the same metal or may be different). The first precursor is a metal alkoxide with oxygen bonded to the metal, and the second precursor is an oxygen-free metal precursor with an alkyl-reactive ligand such as a halogen or methyl group. The alkyl-reactive ligand reacts with the alkyl group of the alkoxide, forming a detached by-product and leaving a metal oxide monolayer. The temperature is selected to promote the reaction without causing the metal alkoxide to self-decompose. The oxygen in the alkoxide precursor is bonded to a metal before entering the chamber and remains bonded throughout the reaction that forms the monolayer. Therefore, the oxygen used in this process has no opportunity to oxidize the underlying superconducting electrode.
US09281462B2
A power generating bearing assembly (100) comprises a bearing subassembly (120) retained by a bearing housing (110). During operation, friction and other factors increase a temperature of the bearing assembly (100). The housing (110) can optionally include a bearing cooling passage system comprising at least one liquid cooling passage (134) formed internally therein. The liquid cooling passage (134) would be routed proximate the bearing subassembly (120) to remove heat therefrom. A thermo-generator cavity (180) extends inward from an exterior surface of the housing (110), terminating at a cavity end wall (182). The cavity (180) is formed at a location identified having a higher temperature. A Thermo-Electric Generator (TEG) (200) is inserted within the cavity (180) and thermally coupled to the end wall (182). The Thermo-Electric Generator (TEG) (200) utilizes a temperature difference between the end wall (182) and the ambient air to generated electric power. The power can be used to operate electrically powered devices, such as condition sensors (150), communication devices, and the like.
US09281460B2
The light emitting device package has a lengthwise direction as viewed from above and a lateral or widthwise direction perpendicular to the lengthwise direction, and is provided with two lead-frames lined-up in the lengthwise direction and molded resin formed as a single unit with the two lead-frames. The package is characterized in that each of the two lead-frames has a first thin region that is thinned by establishing a recess in the lower surface and/or the upper surface of the lead-frame, and that recess is covered with molded resin. Further, each lead-frame has an extension that narrows as it extends towards the opposite lead-frame. Both extensions are entirely within first thin regions, and as viewed from above, at least parts of the opposing extensions are positioned opposite each other in the lateral direction.
US09281458B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor device including a carrier substrate and at least one semiconductor chip arranged thereon, wherein the semiconductor chip includes an active layer that generates radiation, conductor tracks electrically contacting the semiconductor chip arranged on the carrier substrate, the semiconductor chip is enclosed in a potting material, and the potting material includes at least a first potting layer, a second potting layer and a third potting layer, which differ from one another in at least one of: their material composition, their optical properties and their chemical properties.
US09281447B2
The method for synthesizing indium phosphide nanoparticles using indium trichloride as an indium raw material and tris(dimethylamino)phosphine as a phosphorus raw material, includes a preparation step of mixing the indium raw material, the phosphorus raw material, an organic solvent having a boiling point of 170° C. or higher, and a particle surface ligand to obtain a mixture solution and a synthesis step of synthesizing the indium phosphide nanoparticles by heating the mixture solution to 150° C. or higher but lower than 170° C. In the method, the particle surface ligand is an aliphatic amine having a carbon number of 18 or more, and the indium trichloride is an anhydride.
US09281444B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting layer, a substrate that is transparent to an emission wavelength of the light emitting layer and positioned to receive an emission wavelength from the light emitting layer, a convex pattern including a collection of a plurality of convex portions discretely arranged on a front surface of the substrate with a first pitch, an n type nitride semiconductor layer located on the front surface of the substrate to cover the convex pattern and a p type nitride semiconductor layer located on the light emitting layer. The light emitting layer is located on the n type semiconductor layer. Each of the convex portions includes a sub convex pattern comprising a plurality of fine convex portions discretely formed at the top of the convex portion with a second pitch smaller than the first pitch, and a base supporting the sub convex pattern.
US09281435B2
Light to current converter devices, such as solar cells, are disclosed. The devices may include via holes extending through the cell substrate and may include through-hole electrodes within the via holes. The through-hole electrodes may be made from one or more materials and may be hollow, partially hollow, or fully filled. Front and rear electrodes may also be formed on the device and can be made of the same or different materials as the through-hole electrode. The devices may include emitters located only on the top surface of the cell, located on the top surface and symmetrically or asymmetrically along a portion of the inner surface of the via holes, or located on the top surface and full inner surface of the via holes. Processes for making light to current converter devices are also disclosed.
US09281431B2
A power generating system is disclosed. The power generating system comprises a solar cell, a support structure coupled to the solar cell and adapted to adjust the position of the solar cell, a first thermal sensor coupled to the solar cell and adapted to detect a first temperature at a first location on the solar cell, a second thermal sensor coupled to the solar cell and adapted to detect a second temperature at a second location on the solar cell, the second location spaced apart from the first location, and a control system. The control system is adapted to receive a first signal from the first thermal sensor and a second signal from the second thermal sensor, compare information conveyed in the first and second signals, and adjust the position of the solar cell by operating the support structure in response to information conveyed in the first and second signals.
US09281430B2
A method for manufacturing a composite insulated panel (1) comprising the steps of: providing a first sheet (2); cutting a hole (7) in the first sheet (2) to accommodate a photovoltaic solar collector module (8); inserting the solar collector module (8) into the cut-out hole; sealing the solar collector module to the first sheet (2); providing a second sheet (3), the second sheet having an opening therein to receive a connector housing (22); leading electrical connections from the solar collector module through the connector housing; and providing a body (4) of insulating material between the inner face of the second sheet and the inner face of the first sheet and the inner face of the photovoltaic solar collector module.
US09281426B2
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method, which can comprise fabricating a system. The system can comprise a light amplification element and a charge transport element. Each of the light amplification element and a charge transport element can comprise one or more of a graphene layer, graphene oxide, graphene nano platelets, functionalized graphene, graphene/superconductor composite, tubular shaped nano carbon, semiconductor powder, thin film, nano wire, and nano rod.
US09281420B2
A chemical vapor deposited film includes silicon atoms, oxygen atoms, carbon atoms, and hydrogen atoms. The chemical vapor deposited film is formed by a plasma CVD method such that the concentration of the oxygen atoms is 10-35% by element.
US09281416B2
A Schottky diode includes first and second trenches formed in a semiconductor layer where the first and second trenches are lined with a thin dielectric layer and filled partially with a trench conductor layer with the remaining portion being filled with a first dielectric layer. Well regions are formed spaced-apart in a top portion of the semiconductor layer between the first and second trenches. A Schottky metal layer is formed on a top surface of the semiconductor layer between the first and second trenches. The Schottky diode is formed with the Schottky metal layer as the anode and the semiconductor layer between the first and second trenches as the cathode. The trench conductor layer in the first and second trenches is electrically connected to the anode of the Schottky diode. In one embodiment, the Schottky diode is formed integrated with a trench field effect transistor on the same semiconductor substrate.
US09281411B1
A thin film transistor is disclosed in the present invention, including a substrate, a gate, an insulating layer, a source, a drain and an active layer. The gate is arranged on the substrate. The insulating layer is arranged on the gate. The source and the drain are arranged on the insulating layer. The active layer is arranged between the source and the drain, and is formed by a bottom layer, an intermediate layer and a top layer stacked together on the insulating layer. The conductivity of the intermediate layer is higher than that of the bottom layer, and the conductivity of the bottom layer is higher than that of the top layer. As such, the disadvantage of low carrier mobility as commonly seen in the conventional thin film transistor is overcome.
US09281410B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor includes the steps of forming an oxide semiconductor film, forming a gate insulating film provided over the oxide semiconductor film, forming a gate electrode in contact with the gate insulating film, a sidewall insulating film in contact with the gate electrode, and forming a source electrode and a drain electrode in contact with the oxide semiconductor film. In the method, the gate insulating film and the sidewall insulating film are formed at a temperature at which oxygen contained in the oxide semiconductor film is inhibited from being eliminated, preferably at a temperature lower than a temperature at which oxygen contained in the oxide semiconductor film is eliminated.
US09281407B2
Reducing hydrogen concentration in a channel formation region of an oxide semiconductor is important in stabilizing threshold voltage of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor and improving reliability. Hence, hydrogen is attracted from the oxide semiconductor and trapped in a region of an insulating film which overlaps with a source region and a drain region of the oxide semiconductor. Impurities such as argon, nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, or boron are added to the region of the insulating film which overlaps with the source region and the drain region of the oxide semiconductor, thereby generating a defect. Hydrogen in the oxide semiconductor is attracted to the defect in the insulating film. The defect in the insulating film is stabilized by the presence of hydrogen.
US09281400B1
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device with fin-shaped structures includes respectively forming first fin-shaped structures in a first region and a second region of a semiconductor substrate, depositing a dielectric layer to completely cover the first fin-shaped structures, removing the first fin-shaped structures in the second region so as to form trenches in the dielectric layer, and performing an in-situ doping epitaxial growth process so as to respectively form second fin-shaped structures in the trenches.
US09281398B2
The present invention discloses a semiconductor device, which comprises a substrate, a gate stack structure on the substrate, a channel region in the substrate under the gate stack structure, and source and drain regions at both sides of the channel region, wherein there is a stressed layer under and at both sides of the channel region, in which the source and drain regions are formed. According to the semiconductor device and the method for manufacturing the same of the present invention, a stressed layer is formed at both sides of and under the channel region made of a silicon-based material so as to act on the channel region, thereby effectively increasing the carrier mobility of the channel region and improving the device performance.
US09281395B2
A semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a P type well region and an N type well region formed in a substrate, a gate insulating layer having a non-uniform thickness and formed on the P type well region and the N type well region, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating layer, a P type well pick-up region formed in the P type well region, and a field relief oxide layer formed in the N type well region between the gate electrode and the drain region.
US09281380B2
A transistor structure including a gate, an insulation layer, a patterned semiconductor layer, a source, a drain and a light absorption layer and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The gate is disposed on a substrate. An area of the gate overlaps an area of the patterned semiconductor layer. The insulation layer is disposed between the gate and the patterned semiconductor layer. The source and the drain are separated from each other and in contact with the patterned semiconductor layer. The patterned semiconductor layer is disposed between the light absorption layer and the substrate. An area of the light absorption layer overlaps an area of the patterned semiconductor layer. An absorption spectrum of the light absorption layer overlaps an absorption spectrum of the patterned semiconductor layer.
US09281371B2
A number of first hard mask portions are formed on a dielectric layer to vertically shadow a respective one of a number of underlying gate structures. A number of second hard mask filaments are formed adjacent to each side surface of each first hard mask portion. A width of each second hard mask filament is set to define an active area contact-to-gate structure spacing. A first passage is etched between facing exposed side surfaces of a given pair of neighboring second hard mask filaments and through a depth of the semiconductor wafer to an active area. A second passage is etched through a given first hard mask portion and through a depth of the semiconductor wafer to a top surface of the underlying gate structure. An electrically conductive material is deposited within both the first and second passages to respectively form an active area contact and a gate contact.
US09281367B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor structure including a substrate, a transistor, a first ILD layer, a second ILD layer, a first contact plug, second contact plug and a third contact plug. The transistor is disposed on the substrate and includes a gate and a source/drain region. The first ILD layer is disposed on the transistor. The first contact plug is disposed in the first ILD layer and a top surface of the first contact plug is higher than a top surface of the gate. The second ILD layer is disposed on the first ILD layer. The second contact plug is disposed in the second ILD layer and electrically connected to the first contact plug. The third contact plug is disposed in the first ILD layer and the second ILD layer and electrically connected to the gate. The present invention further provides a method of making the same.
US09281364B2
In a semiconductor substrate preparation step, a semiconductor substrate which is made of SiC and in which a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type is formed is prepared. In a second semiconductor region forming step, a second semiconductor region is formed by implanting an impurity of a second conductivity type into a first semiconductor region through multiple ion implantation steps while varying implantation depths of the respective multiple ion implantation steps. In the second semiconductor region forming step, a dose amount of the impurity when an implantation energy of multiple ion implantation steps is the largest is smaller than a dose amount of impurity when the implantation energy is not the largest.
US09281361B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of gate structures on a substrate, the plurality of gate structures including a gate metal pattern and delimiting air gaps formed therebetween, an insulating layer on the plurality of gate structures, and a porous insulating layer between the plurality of gate structures and the insulating layer, the porous insulating layer configured to cross the plurality of gate structures to delimit the air gaps.
US09281359B2
One embodiment of a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body with a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The semiconductor device further includes a first contact trench extending into the semiconductor body at the first side. The first contact trench includes a first conductive material electrically coupled to the semiconductor body adjoining the first contact trench. The semiconductor further includes a second contact trench extending into the semiconductor body at the second side. The second contact trench includes a second conductive material electrically coupled to the semiconductor body adjoining the second contact trench.
US09281352B2
Provided are an organic light emitting display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The organic light emitting display device includes: an emission unit including an organic light emitting diode, a pixel circuit unit including: a circuit configured to drive the emission unit, and a line configured to apply a signal to the circuit, and a light blocking layer covering the pixel circuit unit, and configured to block light input to the pixel circuit unit, and a repair part disposed in the light blocking layer, the repair part being configured for repairing the line when a defect occurs in a pixel that includes the pixel circuit unit.
US09281351B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus may include a substrate; a thin-film transistor (TFT) disposed on the substrate, and having an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode; a signal line formed on the same layer as the source electrode and the drain electrode; a first insulating layer covers the signal line, the source electrode, and the drain electrode; a pixel electrode formed on the first insulating layer, and electrically connected to the TFT; a pixel-defining layer formed on the first insulating layer, includes an opening exposing the pixel electrode; an intermediate layer formed on the pixel electrode, and includes a light-emitting layer; and an opposite electrode formed on the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer is formed on the pixel-defining layer so as to overlap with the signal line.
US09281349B2
The organic light emitting display device includes a substrate including a thin film transistor (TFT) formed thereon, the TFT including a first insulating layer disposed between an active layer and a gate electrode, and a second insulating layer disposed between the gate electrode and source and drain electrodes; a pad electrode including a first pad layer disposed on a same layer as that where the source and drain electrodes are formed, and a second pad layer on the first pad layer; a bonding assistant layer on the substrate; a third insulating layer on the bonding assistant layer and including a first opening; a pixel electrode disposed in the first opening and electrically coupled to one of the source and drain electrodes; and a fourth insulating layer on the pixel electrode to cover a peripheral end portion of the pixel electrode and defining a pixel through a second opening.
US09281338B2
A semiconductor image sensor includes a substrate having a first side and a second side that is opposite the first side. An interconnect structure is disposed over the first side of the substrate. A plurality of radiation-sensing regions is located in the substrate. The radiation-sensing regions are configured to sense radiation that enters the substrate from the second side. The radiation-sensing regions are separated by a plurality of gaps. A plurality of radiation-blocking structures is disposed over the second side of the substrate. Each of the radiation-blocking structures is aligned with a respective one of the gaps. A plurality of color filters are disposed in between the radiation-blocking structures.
US09281320B2
An array substrate includes a substrate, a switching element, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode. The substrate includes a plurality of gate lines, data lines insulated from the gate lines, and the data lines extend in a direction crossing the gate lines. The switching element is connected to the gate lines and data lines. The pixel electrode is arranged in a pixel area which is defined on the substrate, and is connected to an output electrode of the switching element. The common electrode corresponds to the pixel area and is insulated from the pixel electrode, and the common electrode has at least one first slit corresponding to the data line.
US09281305B1
A transistor device structure includes a substrate, a first transistor layer and a second transistor layer. The second transistor layer is disposed between the substrate and the first transistor layer. The first transistor layer includes an insulating structure and a first transistor unit. The insulating structure is disposed on the second transistor layer and has a protruding portion. The first transistor unit includes a gate structure, a source/drain structure, an embedded source/drain structure and a channel. The source/drain structure is disposed beside the gate structure and over the insulating structure. The embedded source/drain structure is disposed underneath the source/drain structure and in the insulating structure. The channel is defined between the protruding portion and the gate structure.
US09281298B2
A flexible light sheet includes a bottom conductor layer overlying a flexible substrate. An array of vertical light emitting diodes (VLEDs) is printed as an ink over the bottom conductor layer so that bottom electrodes of the VLEDs electrically contact the bottom conductor layer. A top electrode of the VLEDs is formed of a first transparent conductor layer, and a temporary hydrophobic layer is formed over the first transparent conductor layer. A dielectric material is deposited between the VLEDs but is automatically de-wetted off the hydrophobic layer. The hydrophobic layer is then removed, and a second transparent conductor layer is deposited to electrically contact the top electrode of the VLEDs. The VLEDs can be made less than 10 microns in diameter since no top metal bump electrode is used. The VLEDs are illuminated by a voltage differential between the bottom conductor layer and the second transparent conductor layer.
US09281296B2
A microelectronic package can include a substrate comprising a dielectric element having first and second opposite surfaces, and a microelectronic element having a face extending parallel to the first surface. The substrate can also include a plurality of peripheral edges extending between the first and second surfaces defining a generally rectangular or square periphery of the substrate. The substrate can further include a plurality of contacts and terminals, the contacts being at the first surface, the terminals being at at least one of the first or second surfaces. The microelectronic elements can have a plurality of edges bounding the face, and a plurality of element contacts at the face electrically coupled with the terminals through the contacts of the substrate. Each edge of the microelectronic element can be oriented at an oblique angle with respect to the peripheral edges of the substrate.
US09281281B2
Embodiments of shielding apparatuses are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a shielding apparatus may include first and second conductive regions and a plurality of vias disposed between the first and second conductive regions. The first and second conductive regions and the plurality of vias may surround an integrated circuit (IC) component and individual vias of the plurality of vias are spaced relative to one another to shield incoming or outgoing electromagnetic interference (EMI). Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09281276B2
A semiconductor device includes an interlayer insulating film INS2, adjacent Cu wirings M1W formed in the interlayer insulating film INS2, and an insulating barrier film BR1 which is in contact with a surface of the interlayer insulating film INS2 and surfaces of the Cu wirings M1W and covers the interlayer insulating film INS2 and the Cu wirings M1W. Between the adjacent Cu wirings M1W, the interlayer insulating film INS2 has a damage layer DM1 on its surface, and has an electric field relaxation layer ER1 having a higher nitrogen concentration than a nitrogen concentration of the damage layer DM1 at a position deeper than the damage layer DM1.
US09281271B2
A microelectronic assembly can include a circuit panel having first and second panel contacts at respective first and second surfaces thereof, and first and second microelectronic packages each having terminals mounted to the respective panel contacts. Each package can include a microelectronic element having a face and contacts thereon, a substrate having first and second surfaces, and terminals on the second surface configured for connecting the package with an external component. The terminals can include first terminals at positions within first and second parallel grids. The first terminals can be configured to carry address information usable by circuitry within the package to determine an addressable memory location from among all the available addressable memory locations of a memory storage array within the microelectronic element. Signal assignments of the first terminals in the first grid can be a mirror image of signal assignments of the first terminals in the second grid.
US09281269B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package, device, including a substrate having a top surface with an IC die mounting area and a peripheral area surrounding the mounting area, a plurality of parallel conductor layers, a plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of plated through holes (PTHs) extending through the conductor layers and insulating layers. Various substrate structures in which certain of the PTHs and/or conductor layers and/or insulating layers have different CTE's than the others is disclosed. The various structures may reduce circuit failures due to substrate warpage and/or solder joint damage associated with a CTE mismatch between the substrate and the IC die.
US09281264B2
An electronics package is disclosed. The electronics package is disclosed as including a substrate core, a metal layer established on top of the substrate core, the metal layer being etched so as to include a die attachment anchor and at least one gap that separates a die bonding pad from at least one of a trace and wire bonding pad, for example. The die attachment anchor is established on top of the die bonding pad and has a depth that does not extend all the way through the die bonding pad.
US09281261B2
An integrated circuit (IC) stack device for thermal management is disclosed. The IC stack device can include a primary IC having a first set of cores with a ratio of first enabled cores and first disabled cores. The IC stack device can also have a supplementary IC interfaced with the primary IC, and having a second set of cores with a second ratio of second enabled cores and second disabled cores, with the second ratio being less than the first ratio. The integrated circuit stack device can also include a cooling element located such that the primary integrated circuit is between the cooling element and the supplementary integrated circuit. The cooling element can be designed to facilitate heat dissipation of the first and second enabled cores of the primary integrated circuit and the supplementary integrated circuit.
US09281258B1
A chip scale package (CSP) includes a die and a first lead mechanically and electrically coupled to a first surface of the die at a first surface of the first lead. The first surface of the first lead forms a first plane. A second lead is mechanically coupled to a second surface of the die at a first surface of the second lead. The first surface of the second lead forms a second plane. A mold compound at least partially encapsulates the die, forming a CSP. The first plane and the second plane are oriented substantially perpendicularly to a third plane formed by a motherboard surface when the CSP is coupled to the motherboard surface. The CSP includes no wirebonds and the first lead and second lead are on opposing surfaces of the CSP. The third plane of the motherboard may be a largest planar surface of the motherboard.
US09281254B2
A method for forming integrated circuit packages is presented. A first plurality of first tier stacks are mounted to the substrate, wherein the substrate has one or more contact pads corresponding to each of the first tier stacks and has one or more probing pads associated with each of the first tier stacks. Each of the first tier stacks is electrically tested to identify known good first tier stacks and known bad first tier stacks. A first plurality of stacking substrates are mounted to the known good first tier stacks, thereby forming a plurality of second tier stacks. Each of the second tier stacks is electrically tested to identify known good second tier stacks and known bad second tier stacks.
US09281251B2
Embodiments described relate to a method and apparatus for reducing lithographic distortion. A backside of a semiconductor substrate may be texturized. Then a lithographic process may be performed on the semiconductor substrate having the texturized backside.
US09281246B2
A method includes forming a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate, and forming a gate spacer on a sidewall of the gate stack. After the step of forming the gate spacer, the gate spacer is etched to reduce a thickness of the gate spacer. A strained layer is then formed. The strained layer includes a portion on an outer sidewall of the gate spacer, and a portion over the gate stack.
US09281235B2
A semiconductor package may include a substrate including a substrate connection terminal, at least one semiconductor chip stacked on the substrate and having a chip connection terminal, a first insulating layer covering at least portions of the substrate and the at least one semiconductor chip, and/or an interconnection penetrating the first insulating layer to connect the substrate connection terminal to the chip connection terminal. A semiconductor package may include stacked semiconductor chips, edge portions of the semiconductor chips constituting a stepped structure, and each of the semiconductor chips including a chip connection terminal; at least one insulating layer covering at least the edge portions of the semiconductor chips; and/or an interconnection penetrating the at least one insulating layer to connect to the chip connection terminal of each of the semiconductor chips.
US09281227B2
A Johnsen-Rahbek (J-R) electrostatic clamp is provided for clamping a workpiece, wherein the J-R clamp has a dielectric layer having a clamping surface associated with the workpiece and a backside surface generally opposing the clamping surface. The dielectric layer has a plurality of regions, wherein each of the plurality of regions comprises one of a plurality of dielectric materials. Each of the plurality of dielectric materials has a baseline resistivity that is different from the remainder of the plurality of dielectric materials, and each of the plurality of regions of the dielectric layer has a baseline resistivity that is different from the remainder of the plurality of regions of the dielectric layer. A plurality of electrically conductive electrodes are associated with the backside surface of the dielectric layer, wherein each of the plurality of electrically conductive electrodes are associated with one or more of the plurality of regions of the dielectric layer.
US09281226B2
Embodiments of the invention generally relate to an electrostatic chuck having reduced power loss, and methods and apparatus for reducing power loss in an electrostatic chuck, as well as methods for testing and manufacture thereof. In one embodiment, an electrostatic chuck is provided. The electrostatic chuck includes a conductive base, and a ceramic body disposed on the conductive base, the ceramic body comprising an electrode and one or more heating elements embedded therein, wherein the ceramic body comprises a dissipation factor of about 0.11 to about 0.16 and a capacitance of about 750 picoFarads to about 950 picoFarads between the electrode and the one or more heating elements.
US09281223B2
In a transfer system for wafers, etc., a coupling chamber corresponding to a port is formed only when a transfer box comes in tight contact with an apparatus as a transfer target in the transfer box is transferred into the apparatus, so that the transfer target will be transferred into the apparatus together with the coupling chamber, thereby simplifying the structures of the transfer box and apparatus and also allowing the transfer target to be transferred into the apparatus without fail.
US09281211B2
An interconnect structure includes a first dielectric material having an undercut region located at an upper surface thereof. A first conductive structure is located above a first area of the undercut region. The first conductive structure comprises a first conductive metal portion having a diffusion barrier portion located on one sidewall surface of the first conductive metal portion and having a metal liner located on another sidewall surface and a bottom surface of the first conductive metal portion. A second conductive structure is located above a second area of the undercut region. The second conductive structure comprises a second conductive material portion having a diffusion barrier portion located on one sidewall surface of the second conductive material portion and having a metal liner located on another sidewall surface and a bottom surface of the second conductive metal portion. A gap is located between the first and second conductive structures.
US09281206B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for slicing and shaping materials using magnetically guided chemical etching. In one aspect, a method includes forming a pattern on a substrate by a mask, depositing a catalytic etcher layer on the patterned substrate, a magnetic guide layer on the etcher layer, and a protection layer on the guide layer, etching the substrate by applying an etching solution to the substrate that chemically reacts with the etcher layer and etches material from the substrate at exposed regions not covered by the mask, steering the composite etching structure into the substrate during the etching by an applied magnetic field that creates a force on the guide layer to direct the etching, in which the steering defines the shape of the sliced regions of the etched substrate, and removing the etched material, the mask, and the composite etching structure to produce a sliced material structure.
US09281194B2
An ohmic electrode (6) of a silicon carbide semiconductor apparatus is fabricated by forming an ohmic metal film on a silicon carbide substrate (1) by sputtering a target including a mixture or an alloy having therein nickel, and a metal(s) reducing the magnetic permeability of nickel and producing a carbide, where compositional ratios of the mixture or alloy are adjusted to predetermined compositional ratios, and by executing heat treatment for the ohmic metal film to calcinate the ohmic metal film. Thus, the ohmic electrode (6) that is for the silicon carbide semiconductor apparatus and capable of improving the use efficiency of the target can be manufactured, whose film thickness is even and that does not peel off.
US09281191B2
To improve the performance of a semiconductor device, a semiconductor device manufacturing method includes an exposing process of performing pattern exposure of a resist film formed on a substrate by using EUV light reflected from a front surface of an EUV mask as a reflective mask. In this exposing process, the resist film is subjected to pattern exposure by repeating a process of irradiating the resist film with the EUV light by changing a focal position of the EUV light with which the resist film is irradiated, along a film thickness direction of the resist film. After this exposing process, the resist film subjected to pattern exposure is developed to form a resist pattern.
US09281184B2
The invention is directed to a method for forming a nitride on a silicon substrate. In the method of the present invention, a silicon substrate is provided and a buffer layer is formed on the silicon substrate. The formation of the buffer layer includes a multi-level temperature modulation process having a plurality temperature levels and a plurality of temperature modulations. For each of the temperature modulations, the temperature is gradually decreased. A nitride is formed on the buffer layer.
US09281182B2
A method for preparing a semiconductor with preapplied underfill comprises providing a semiconductor wafer with a plurality of metallic bumps on its top side and, optionally, through-silica-vias vertically through the silicon wafer; laminating a back grinding tape to the top of the wafer covering the metallic bumps and through silicon vias; thinning the back side of the wafer; mounting a dicing tape to the back side of the thinned wafer and mounting the silicon wafer and dicing tape to a dicing frame; removing the back grinding tape; providing an underfill material precut into the shape of the wafer; aligning the underfill on with the wafer and laminating the underfill to the wafer.
US09281173B2
An ion processing device includes electrically conductive vacuum manifold segments serially positioned and enclosing a volume along an axis. The segments are electrically isolated from each other and independently addressable by a voltage source. An ion optics device is positioned in the volume. A voltage differential between each manifold segment and the ion optics device is maintained below a maximum value by applying different voltages to respective manifold segments. The voltage differential may be controlled to avoid voltage breakdown in a low-pressure, high-voltage gas environment. The ion optics device may in some cases be an ion mobility drift cell.
US09281164B2
One embodiment relates to a method of automated inspection of scattered hot spot areas on a manufactured substrate using an electron beam apparatus. A stage holding the substrate is moved along a swath path so as to move a field of view of the electron beam apparatus such that the moving field of view covers a target area on the substrate. Off-axis imaging of the hot spot areas within the moving field of view is performed. A number of hot spot areas within the moving field of view may be determined, and the speed of the stage movement may be adjusted based on the number of hot spot areas within the moving field of view. Another embodiment relates to an electron beam apparatus for inspecting scattered areas on a manufactured substrate. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
US09281163B2
A TEM grid provides posts having steps, the steps increasing the number of samples that can be attached to the grid. In some embodiments, each post includes a one sided stair step configuration. A method of extracting multiple samples includes extracting samples and attaching the samples to the different stair steps on the posts.
US09281162B2
A single bend energy filter for controlling deflection of a charged particle beam is provided. It includes a first array of electrodes and a second array of electrodes to define a beam channel for the charged particle beam to pass through; an unmatched steering electrode among the first array of electrodes for tuning the bend angle of the charged particle beam; and a plurality of electrical biases applied to the first array of electrodes, the second array of electrodes and the unmatched steering electrode, wherein portion or all of the electrodes have different shapes. A method for controlling deflection of a charged particle beam is also provided. Depending on use of an unmatched steering electrode, the bend angle of the charged particle beam may be fine-tuned, so as to effectively control the deflection of the charged particle beam to achieve a centered beam at the wafer plane.
US09281156B2
A device for producing x-rays includes: a housing that includes a folded high-voltage multiplier coupled to a filament transformer, the transformer coupled to an x-ray tube for producing the x-rays. A method of fabrication and an x-ray source are disclosed.
US09281155B2
A radiation generating apparatus has a radiation generating tube held in a holding container 12 and a cooling medium between the holding container and the radiation generating tube. The radiation generating tube includes an envelope with an aperture, an electron emitting source arranged in the envelope, a target arranged facing the source, for generating radiation responsive to irradiation with an electron beam emitted from the source, and a tubular shield for holding the target by an inner wall thereof and shielding part of the radiation emitted from the target. The shield is arranged to protrude outward of the envelope so that the target is positioned on an outer side of the aperture, and the cooling medium contacts at least a part of the shield.
US09281153B1
A gas filled detector shell for the detection of high energy transmissions, including microwaves, lasers, electromagnetic signals, RF waves, radiation, and/or other transmissions emitted by a source including a weapon system. The shell may also be used as a safety device to warn and alert personnel working around high energy devices of electromagnetic leaks. In one embodiment, the shell is made of a substance that detects or senses energy transmission.
US09281152B2
A fuse includes a body, a first conductive terminal coupled with a first end of the body, and a second conductive terminal coupled with a second end of the body. The body, the first conductive terminal, and the second conductive terminal define an exterior of the fuse. The fuse also includes an interruption assembly including a fusible element. The fusible element includes carbon fiber, is disposed on a conductive path between the first conductive terminal and the second conductive terminal, and is configured to break when a current through the fusible element exceeds a predetermined current.
US09281151B2
A shunt trip device for a circuit breaker having a trip bar for tripping the circuit breaker. The device includes a housing having a slot and a bottom wall having a pivot pocket. The device also includes a lever arm having a lever projection portion and a pivot portion. The pivot portion is located in the pivot pocket to enable rotation of the lever arm in the slot about a lever rotation axis between first and second positions. When the lever arm is in the second position, the lever projection portion moves the trip bar and trips the circuit breaker. The device further includes an actuation device that moves the lever arm to the second position. The pivot portion and pivot pocket form a configuration that increases a perpendicular distance between a force generated by the actuation device and the lever rotation axis.
US09281148B2
An electromagnet device is configured to generate a magnetic attractive force between a stationary core and a movable core when electricity is applied to a coil, so that the movable core is moved in a direction for coming into contact with the stationary core, and a movable shaft is moved in a direction in which a first end face of the movable shaft separates from a movable terminal. After the movable contact comes in contact with the fixed contact, the movable core moves further in a direction for coming into contact with the stationary core. A yoke made of a magnetic body is disposed between the movable terminal and the first end of the movable shaft.
US09281147B2
Method and apparatus for a mechanical latching of at least one pole of a relay selected from SPST, SPDT, DPDT, reversing DPDT, multi pole MPST and MPDT using a mechanical latching device attached to or actuated by an armature for pulling a springy element for maintaining engagement between at least one pole contact and at least one of a terminal contact, including PCB assembly for controlling the relay and operating electrical loads by feeding electric power pulse to a relay coil for pulling the armature including a CPU program for providing communication and controlling for the relay to switch on-off or change over, or from cross to straight and straight to cross.
US09281133B2
An electrode for an electrochemical device includes a current collector and an electrode layer. The current collector has a main face and a side face. The side face has a concave-convex shape whose convex part is constituted by a projection extending along the main face. The projection is formed along a periphery of the electrode layer, forming a support portion. The electrode layer contains active material and is formed on and in contact with the main face including a surface formed by the support portion. The electrode is capable of mitigating the concentration of current at the edges of the electrode layer.
US09281107B2
There are provided a rare-earth permanent magnet and a manufacturing method thereof capable of preventing deterioration of magnet properties. In the method, magnet material is milled into magnet powder. Next, a mixture is prepared by mixing the magnet powder and a binder made of long-chain hydrocarbon and/or of a polymer or a copolymer consisting of monomers having no oxygen atoms. Next, the mixture is formed into a sheet-like shape so as to obtain a green sheet. After that, the green sheet is held for a predetermined length of time at binder decomposition temperature in a non-oxidizing atmosphere so as to remove the binder by causing depolymerization reaction or the like to the binder, which turns into monomer. The green sheet from which the binder has been removed is sintered by raising temperature up to sintering temperature. Thereby a permanent magnet 1 is obtained.
US09281102B2
An electric power cable for medium or high voltage without lead sheath is provided having at least one diffusion barrier (7) based on a metallized layer or a layer of polymer (HDPE). In addition there is a polymer (PUR) layer (6) for absorbing limited amounts of water that might after all pass through the diffusion barrier layer.
US09281093B2
Known operating processes for an irradiation device for irradiating a substrate by a UV emitter include the process steps of: (a) operating the UV emitter at a nominal operating radiation power; (b) continuously feeding the substrate at a feed rate into the irradiation field; and (c) irradiating the substrate in the irradiation field defined by the UV emitter. In order to devise, on this basis, a simple and inexpensive operating process for an irradiation device, which makes a short start-up time feasible after an interruption of the production process, the UV emitter is switched off when there is an interruption of the continuous substrate feed. The emitter temperature of the switched-off UV emitter is measured, and provisions are made for counter-measures to counteract a decrease of the emitter temperature by more than 10° C. below the nominal operating temperature.
US09281088B2
In a nuclear installation, an instrument includes a sensor module connected to a process flange. The sensor module includes a support conduit with support conduit threads. An electronic circuit is wired to a connector that includes a key that is aligned with field circuit contacts of the connector. A thermal and nuclear radiation shield encloses the electronic circuit and includes a shock protection annulus. The connector is secured inside the shock protection annulus. The thermal and nuclear radiation shield includes shield threads that rotatably engage the support conduit threads to rotate an alignment of the key relative to the process flange.
US09281082B1
Disclosed herein is a fuse circuit including a storage unit capable of storing defective address information corresponding to mat information when a boot-up operation is performed, a driving control unit coupled between the storage unit and a first power source terminal, and capable of forming a current path between the storage unit and the first power source terminal in response to the defective address information transferred through a first data line and the mat information transferred through a second data line while blocking the current path between the storage unit and the first power source terminal when a normal operation is performed, and an output unit capable of outputting the defective address information stored in the storage unit when the normal operation is performed.
US09281078B2
Methods of operating a memory device having embedded leak checks may mitigate data loss events due to access line defects, and may facilitate improved power consumption characteristics. Such methods might include applying a program pulse to a selected access line coupled to a memory cell selected for programming, verifying whether the selected memory cell has reached a desired data state, bringing the selected access line to a first voltage, applying a second voltage to an unselected access line, applying a reference current to the selected access line, and determining if a current flow between the selected access line and the unselected access line is greater than the reference current.
US09281073B2
Memory devices are disclosed, such as those that include a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) NAND memory array having a boosting plate. The boosting plate may be disposed in an insulator layer of the SOI substrate such that the boosting plate exerts a capacitive coupling effect on a p-well of the memory array. Such a boosting plate may be used to boost the p-well during program and erase operations of the memory array. During a read operation, the boosting plate may be grounded to minimize interaction with p-well. Systems including the memory array and methods of operating the memory array are also disclosed.
US09281072B2
A flash memory device including: a memory cell array; a signal generator inputting a first data fetch signal and outputting a second data fetch signal; and an output buffer circuit configured to output data from the memory cell array in sync with rising and falling edges of the second data fetch signal, wherein second data fetch signal is output along with data output from the output buffer circuit.
US09281064B2
In an embodiment of a memory device including a matrix of memory cells wherein the memory cells are arranged in a plurality of memory cells strings each one including at least two serially-connected memory cells, groups of at least two memory cells strings being connected to a respective bit line, and wherein said memory cells are adapted to be programmed into at least a first programming state and a second programming state, a method of storing data comprising exploiting a single memory cell for each of the memory cells string for writing the data, wherein said exploiting includes bringing the single memory cell to the second programming state, the remaining memory cells of the string being left in the first programming state.
US09281063B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a flash memory which has high operating efficiency and a longer service life, and relate to the field of electronic technologies. The flash memory includes a control circuit and a plurality of memory cells, where the memory cell is a floating-gate MOS transistor which includes a source, a gate, a drain, and a substrate; the control circuit is separately connected to the source, the gate, the drain, and the substrate and configured to output a control signal to them, so as to implement a bitwise overwrite operation on the memory cell; and the control circuit is further configured to generate a control signal when data stored by any one of the memory cells is 0, so that the memory cell overwrites the data stored by the memory cell from 0 to 1 according to the control signal.
US09281062B2
Embodiments disclosed herein may relate to programming a memory cell with a programming pulse that comprises a quenching period having different portions.
US09281054B2
A static read-only memory (SRAM) includes one or more bit cell rows that each includes a collection of bit cells. Each bit cell row is coupled to two or more different wordlines, where each wordline associated with a given bit cell row provides memory access to a different subset of bit cells within that bit cell row.
US09281047B2
A dynamic random access memory device includes a plurality of memory subblocks. Each subblock has a plurality of wordlines whereto a plurality of data store cells are connected. Partial array self-refresh (PASR) configuration settings are independently made. In accordance with the PASR settings, the memory subblocks are addressed for refreshing. The PASR settings are made by a memory controller. Any kind of combinations of subblock addresses may be selected. Thus, the memory subblocks are fully independently refreshed. User selectable memory arrays for data retention provide effective memory control programming especially for low power mobile application.
US09281043B1
An apparatus is described that includes a bit line. The apparatus also includes first and second storage cells coupled to the bit line. The first storage cell has a first access transistor. The first access transistor is coupled to a first line resistance. The second storage cell has a second access transistor. The second access transistor is coupled to a second line resistance. The second line resistance is greater than the first line resistance. The apparatus also includes first and second drivers that are coupled to the bit line. The second driver is a stronger driver than the first driver. The apparatus also includes circuitry to select the first driver to write information into the first storage cell and select the second driver to write information into the second storage cell.
US09281030B2
Embodiments relate to preventing or mitigating excessive drop in the negative voltage level of a bitline of memory bitcells by controlling the delay of a trigger signal for initiating injection of negative charge into the bitline. A write assist circuit causes negative charge to drop gradually in response to receiving a data input indicating a negative value of the bitline. When supply voltage is high, the timed delay of trigger signal is reduced, thereby causing negative charge to be injected into the bitline while bitline voltage remains at a higher voltage level and before the bitline voltage drops close to ground voltage. Since the negative charge is injected while the bitline voltage level is relatively high, the bitline is prevented from being pulled down to an excessively negative voltage level even when the supply voltage is relatively high.
US09281028B1
A method and circuit for reducing a glitch in a memory read latch is disclosed. A read latch circuit includes a first logic gate having a first input coupled to a read bit line and a second input. The read latch circuit further includes a second logic gate coupled to receive as inputs a first enable signal and a delayed version of the first enable signal. The second logic gate is configured to provide a second enable signal to the second input of the first logic gate. The second logic gate is configured to provide a rising edge of the second enable signal after a predetermined delay without a corresponding delay of a falling edge of the second enable signal. The first logic gate provides an output corresponding to a data value received on the read bit line responsive to receiving the rising edge of the second enable signal.
US09281026B2
A parallel processing computing system includes an ordered set of m memory banks and a processor core. The ordered set of m memory banks includes a first and a last memory bank, wherein m is an integer greater than 1. The processor core implements n virtual processors, a pipeline having p ordered stages, including a memory operation stage, and a virtual processor selector function.
US09281019B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes bit lines provided on a substrate, a gate structure provided between the substrate and the bit lines, a common source line provided between the gate structure and the bit lines, and channel pipes connecting the bit lines to the common source line. Each of the channel pipes may include a pair of vertical portions extending through the gate structure and a horizontal portion connecting the vertical portions. The pair of vertical portions are provided under a pair of the bit lines arranged adjacent to each other, respectively.
US09281017B2
A semiconductor device with a memory unit of which the variations in the operation timing are reduced is provided. For example, the semiconductor device is provided with dummy bit lines which are arranged collaterally with a proper bit line, and column direction load circuits which are sequentially coupled to the dummy bit lines. Each column direction load circuit is provided with plural NMOS transistors fixed to an off state, predetermined ones of which have the source and the drain suitably coupled to any of the dummy bit lines. Load capacitance accompanying diffusion layer capacitance of the predetermined NMOS transistors is added to the dummy bit lines, and corresponding to the load capacitance, the delay time from a decode activation signal to a dummy bit line signal is set up. The dummy bit line signal is employed when setting the start-up timing of a sense amplifier.
US09281015B1
A storage media conversion device includes a mounting bracket (100) and a holder (200). The mounting bracket (100) includes a first baseplate (110) and two corresponding side plates (120) extending perpendicularly from the first baseplate (110). The first baseplate (110) and the two side plates (120) enclose a first loading space (130). Any of the side plates (120) includes a first resilient positioning portion (150) for positioning a first size hard disk (A). A holder (200) includes a pivot shaft (210) pivotally connected to one side of the first baseplate (110), a handle (220) rotatable with respect to the pivot shaft (210), and a contact portion (230) disposed close to the pivot shaft (210). The length from the handle (220) to the pivot shaft (210) is greater than the length from the contact portion (230) to the pivot shaft (210).
US09281004B2
A content assessment apparatus, content assessment method, information reproducing apparatus, and information recording medium are provided that can determine whether digital content has been processed abnormally. The information reproducing apparatus includes a drive (101) that reads content from an information recording medium (102) on which content including an electronic watermark, indicating an attribute denoting whether or not the content is encrypted, is recorded, a decryptor (103), a decryptor status monitor (104), a stream attribute monitor (106), a decision means (107) that determines that the content has been abnormally processed when a decryption status signal indicates otherwise than that decryption processing is being performed and an attribute detection signal indicates that the content is encrypted, or when the decryption status signal indicates that decryption processing is being performed and the attribute detection signal indicates that the content is non-encrypted, a video decoder (105), and an output control means (108) that is not allowed to output the video signal if the content has been abnormally processed.
US09280997B2
Provided is a tape recording medium including: a base layer having a first surface and a second surface; a first recording layer disposed over the first surface of the base layer and capable of optically recording first data; an imprinted layer disposed between the base layer and the first recording layer; and a second recording layer. The second recording layer is disposed over the second surface of the base layer, contains a magnetic material, and has recorded second data different from the first data.
US09280993B2
A method, apparatus, and system for implementing enhanced asymmetric degauss control for a write head for hard disk drives. A degauss period is provided at the end of a write. The write head is driven asymmetrically with respect to the positive and negative driving currents during the degauss period. The average value of the write current during the degauss period is non-zero.
US09280991B1
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a transducer structure having: a lower shield having recesses in an upper surface thereof; an upper shield formed above the lower shield; a current-perpendicular-to-plane sensor between the upper and lower shields, the recesses being positioned on opposite sides of the sensor; and a first insulating layer in the recesses in the upper surface of the lower shield. An apparatus according to another embodiment includes a transducer structure having: a lower shield; an upper shield formed above the lower shield, the upper shield having recesses in a lower surface thereof; a current-perpendicular-to-plane sensor between the upper and lower shields, the recesses being positioned on opposite sides of the sensor; and a first insulating layer in the recesses in the lower surface of the upper shield.
US09280978B2
Disclosed is a speech receiving apparatus. A low-band PLC module and a synthesis filter reconstructs a low-band speech signal of a lost frame from a previous good frame. A high-band PLC module reconstructs a high-band speech signal of the lost frame from the previous good frame. A transforming part transforms the low-band speech signal into a frequency range. A bandwidth extending part generates at least an extended MDCT coefficient as information for the high-band speech signal from the low-band speech signal transformed by the transforming part. A smoothing part smoothes the extended MDCT coefficient. An inverse transforming part inversely transforms the extended MDCT coefficient smoothed by the smoothing part to a time domain. A synthesizing part synthesizes the low-band speech signal, and the high-band speech signal which is inverse-transformed by the inverse transforming part and reconstructed, to output a wideband speech signal.
US09280977B2
Content fingerprints and watermarks are combined in various ways for content identification applications. Fingerprints are used to identify content generally while watermarks provide more detailed localization of parts within the content, and vice versa. Fingerprint techniques are further used for signal synchronization and other pre-processing steps to assist in digital watermark decoding. A variety of fingerprint/watermark techniques identify characteristics of the channel of content from content samples.
US09280967B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus for supporting reading of a document includes a model storage unit, a document acquisition unit, a feature information extraction, and an utterance style estimation unit. The model storage unit is configured to store a model which has trained a correspondence relationship between first feature information and an utterance style. The first feature information is extracted from a plurality of sentences in a training document. The document acquisition unit is configured to acquire a document to be read. The feature information extraction unit is configured to extract second feature information from each sentence in the document to be read. The utterance style estimation unit is configured to compare the second feature information of a plurality of sentences in the document to be read with the model, and to estimate an utterance style of the each sentence of the document to be read.
US09280964B2
A method and device may color or modify the tone or sound quality of audio input signals. A processor such as a DSP, may apply two or more filters to the audio input signal, each filter comprising a set of filter coefficients. The processor may combine finite impulse response (FIR) filters of the two or more filters into a power-saving filter. A speaker or sound emitter may emitting an output audio signal from the filtered audio input signal. The output audio signal has a different tone quality than that of the input audio signal.
US09280955B2
In a linked waveform update mode, an impulse-driven, particle-based electrophoretic display may be updated using a first waveform and then automatically up-dated using a second drive scheme when the update using the first waveform finishes. The display may be automatically up-dated using a third drive scheme when the update using the second drive scheme finishes. The automatic updating using a subsequent drive scheme may be interrupted if the desired display states for the region changes after performing the first update. Waveforms may be selected using: (a) the desired display state of a pixel if the desired display state is a valid display state for the specified drive scheme, or (b) a mapped display state of the pixel if the desired display state is an invalid display state for the drive scheme.
US09280947B2
A display device includes a display panel and a data driver. The display panel includes at least one gate line, at least two data lines, a display area including a pixel connected to the at least one gate line and the at least two data lines, and a peripheral area outside the display area, the peripheral area including a pair of fan-out wiring structures. The data driver is configured to apply data voltage to the at least two data lines. Each of the pair of fan-out wiring structures includes a bent structure, the bent structure of one of the pair of fan-out wiring structures includes the same material as the at least one gate line, and the bent structure of the remaining one of the pair of fan-out wiring structures includes the same material as the at least two data lines.
US09280935B2
A mobile image display apparatus comprising a backlit display device, an ambient light collector, an image forming device for outputting image signals to form images on an image display screen of the backlit display device, and an image viewing chamber defined by an opaque housing; wherein the ambient light collector is for collecting ambient light from exterior surroundings to provide back illumination to the backlit display device.
US09280934B2
To reduce the number of sub-frames and perform high resolution display with low power consumption, each of the pixels has a digital emission period Td and an analog emission period Ta, and is driven in a time-divided fashion in a digital manner or in an analog manner. Each of the pixels performs high resolution display when being driven in an analog manner, and performs display with low power consumption when being driven in a digital manner.
US09280933B2
A system extracts effective parameters from a pixel circuit that includes a light emitting device, a drive device to provide a programmable drive current to the light emitting device, a programming input, and a storage device to store a programming signal. The system measures the value of at least one operating parameter of the pixel circuit at a plurality of levels, and then extracts the value of at least one related parameter of the pixel circuit, based on the measured values of the at least one operating parameter. The measured values of the operating parameter are translated to effective values for driving the pixel circuit, based on the extracted value. Then effective parameters for driving effective devices in the pixel circuit are extracted, based on the translated values, and stored for use in compensating input signals to the pixel circuit.
US09280929B2
Each pixel of a display device includes: an organic light emitting diode between a first and a second power supply; a first transistor to transmit a drive current based on data signals; a second transistor to couple a gate electrode of the first transistor to the data line in response to a scan signal; a first capacitor between the first power supply and the gate electrode of the first transistor; a light receiving element coupled to a third power supply; a second capacitor between the light receiving element and a fourth power supply; a third transistor between the data line and a first electrode of the second capacitor, the third transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a selection signal line; and a fourth transistor between the fourth power supply and the third transistor, the fourth transistor including a gate electrode coupled to the first electrode of the second capacitor.
US09280923B2
A display device includes a first scan line, a second scan line, a third scan line, a data line, a pixel, a low color-shifting circuit, and a black zone generation circuit. In the low color-shifting circuit, a low color-shifting switch receives a third scan signal from the third scan line to selectively couple a compensating capacitor to the second sub-pixel electrode. The black zone generation circuit receives a black zone generation signal to selectively couple either the first sub-pixel electrode or the second sub-pixel electrode to a common node such that either the first sub-pixel or the second sub-pixel becomes a black zone.
US09280919B2
A method of generating anthropomorphic vehicle images for a vehicle owner is shown that includes providing a plurality of anthropomorphic vehicle images on a visual display for a vehicle owner to select; receiving a selection of an anthropomorphic vehicle image from the vehicle owner using a wireless device; obtaining vehicle data using one or more vehicle sensors located on the vehicle; altering at least a portion of the selected anthropomorphic vehicle image based on the accessed vehicle data; and displaying the altered anthropomorphic vehicle image on a wireless device to the vehicle owner.
US09280918B2
The invention relates to a machine that simulates movement during transport, for the testing of packaging elements. The machine comprises: a load platform (1), the lower part of said platform having attached thereto a plurality of upper ball joints (3, 61,71) with a ±30° rotation angle, coplanar with the axis of rotation of a rotating support (5, 5′, 5″); and a lower platform (6) which is located opposite the load platform (1) and which is provided with anchors for attaching same to a vertical vibration table (25,26). Additionally, a central support (7) is located between the load platform (1) and the lower platform (6). Furthermore, a plurality of mutually independent hydraulic servo-actuators (8,8′,8″) are attached between the upper spherical ball joints (3) and the lower ball joints (4), said servo-actuators (8,8′,8″) being placed along two perpendicular planes that pass through the center of the rotating support (5, 5′, 5″), forming a 90° angle.
US09280916B2
A healthcare simulation system includes a mannequin with active physiological characteristics, a display monitor adapted for displaying physiological parameters and a computer for controlling the mannequin and the monitor. A healthcare simulation method includes the steps of programming the computer with healthcare scenarios, operating active characteristics of the mannequin and dynamically displaying physiological parameters corresponding to patient vital signs. Alternative aspects of the invention include tools, such as computers and other equipment, for obtaining and displaying information and for interconnecting and interfacing participants, subjects and controllers in training systems and methods.
US09280912B2
A training apparatus for training a child how to blow his or her nose includes a tapered chute having proximal and distal ends. The tapered chute defines an internal passageway connecting the proximal and distal ends. The proximal end includes a proximal opening that is sufficiently wide to fit over a child's nose. The distal end includes a distal opening that is smaller than the proximal opening. The internal passageway includes a narrow portion, adjoining the distal opening, and sized to snugly accommodate a projectile lodged therein. When air is exhaled into the proximal opening, the exhaled air passes through the internal passageway and builds pressure behind the projectile such that the projectile is forcefully ejectable from the distal opening.
US09280910B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for improving human learning by providing multi-sensory stimulus. A system narrates a text to a user at a narration pace, while determining a focal point of the user's gaze using both a camera and eye tracking analysis. The system determines a user pace based on a shift in the gaze focal point during narration of the text, then adjusts the narration pace based on the user pace. The adjustment is performed based on a selection of a retention mode and a development mode. The retention mode maintains the narration pace with the user pace for maximal user retention of the text. The development mode increases the narration pace with respect to the user pace for user reading rate acceleration.
US09280908B2
Mechanisms are provided for modifying an operation of a question answering (QA) system. An input question is received and processed to generate at least one query to be applied to a corpus of information. The at least one query is applied to the corpus of information to generate candidate answers to the input question from which a final answer is selected for output. A training engine modifies, using a machine learning technique that compares the final answer to a known correct answer for the input question, at least one of logic or configuration parameters of the QA system for at least one of the processing of the input question to generate the at least one query, applying of the at least one query to the corpus of information to generate the candidate answers, or the selecting of the final answer from the candidate answers.
US09280907B2
Systems and methods described herein provide for administering and proctoring of a secure online exam that allows for complex testing utilizing practical examination tasks. The practical examination tasks provide for evaluation of the knowledge of the exam taker, as well as the exam taker's ability to apply that knowledge in a real-world environment. By performing the practical examination tasks in the context of a secure online exam, the competence of the test taker can be readily determined without worrying about the exam taker illicitly accessing information on their computer or via a remote source of data. The exam taker may perform the practical examination tasks through manipulation of an evaluation application executing on the exam taker's secured computer. The practical examination tasks may also be carried out through manipulation by the exam taker of an evaluation apparatus coupled to the exam taker's secured computer.
US09280898B1
A object detection assembly for remotely sensing an underground object includes a mount that is operationally coupled to an excavator bucket. An upper plate is coupled to the mount. A transceiver is coupled to the upper plate. The transceiver may detect an object when the excavator bucket excavates Earth. The transceiver is operationally coupled to a vehicle. The transceiver alerts a driver of the vehicle to the presence of the object. A lower plate is coupled to the mount.
US09280894B2
Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads and/or from one or more other sources (such as physical sensors near to or embedded in the roads). The road traffic conditions assessment based on obtained data samples may include various filtering and/or conditioning of the data samples, and various inferences and probabilistic determinations of traffic-related characteristics of interest from the data samples. In some situations, the inferences include repeatedly determining current traffic flow characteristics and/or predicted future traffic flow characteristics for road segments of interest during time periods of interest, such as to determine average traffic speed, traffic volume and/or occupancy, and include weighting various data samples in various ways (e.g., based on a latency of the data samples and/or a source of the data samples).
US09280890B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for access and control of networked devices. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for access to a security system device; determining whether the device is set to a first mode or a second mode; and in response to determining that the device is in the second mode, generating one or more notifications to authorized users identifying the access to the security device.
US09280886B2
The circuit monitoring device is disclosed. The device is for monitoring circuit resistance. At configurable thresholds digital flags are triggered, the device can be used as a Security/Building management system. The device uses open technology is fully scaleable and allows programmable logic controllers to be used as security management systems. Using a soft logic option a PC could take the place of the PLC.
US09280882B2
A terminal device controlling method that provides a haptic effect using a haptic engine is provided, which includes sensing a haptic event, executing a non-physical parameter-based haptic function in a haptic engine so as to determine a vibration pattern corresponding to the haptic event, transferring the vibration pattern from the haptic engine to a device driver, and driving, through the device driver, a vibrator based on the vibration pattern so as to embody a haptic effect.
US09280872B2
Various embodiments are directed to a gaming system capable of providing progressive level alerts or promotions when a progressive jackpot reaches a predetermined value. In one embodiment, the user is able to register for a progressive level alert. In another embodiment, the progressive level alert is presented on an affiliated or third party website. By providing progressive jackpot amount information, the user, who may not otherwise patronize a casino, is encouraged to visit the particular casino offering games capable of awarding a progressive jackpot prize of a predetermined amount.
US09280869B2
Method and apparatus are described for conducting a secondary game at a gaming device. In various embodiments, a player may acquire equity in the secondary game in such forms as a location of a game character, a number of symbols aggregated, a degree of completion of a puzzle, or a defensive provision. Certain symbols or outcomes in a primary game, however, may cause the player to lose equity in the secondary game.
US09280868B2
A mobile gaming device may be a player's own personal tablet, smartphone, PDA, etc., with an application program installed via the internet for carrying out a remote gaming session. All gaming functions are carried out by a stationary gaming terminal communicating with the mobile device, such as by using WiFi. The mobile device operates as a user interface. If the communications link is temporarily broken during a game, the mobile device will create the appearance that the game is continuous, such as by continuing to spin reels, until communications are re-established. The reels will stop once the mobile device receives the final outcome from the gaming terminal. The player may pause the game to temporarily suspend the minimum game frequency rules. The mobile device may switch between gaming terminals. For 3D video, the original format may be adjusted for the mobile device. The gaming terminal may be a gaming machine.
US09280858B2
A method is disclosed that comprises severing an I/O channel between an EMAC and an aircraft component; sending a test signal to the brake system controller; receiving, from the brake system controller, a feedback signal to the test signal; and determining an appropriateness of the feedback signal.
US09280855B2
A computerized method for intelligently distributing computer processing of mail piece scan images across a plurality of mail piece scan image processors. The method can include receiving a mail piece scan image from a mail piece scan image job requestor and selecting one of a plurality of scan mail piece scan image processors to process said mail piece scan image. The mail piece scan image can be transmitted to said one of a plurality of plurality of mail piece scan image processors and a mail piece scan image processing result can be received from said one of a plurality of plurality of mail piece scan image processors. Post-processing operations can be performed based on said mail piece scan image processing result. The mail piece scan image processing result can be transmitted to said mail piece scan image processing requestor.
US09280854B2
A system and method of making an at least partially customized figure emulating a subject is disclosed which involves obtaining at least two two-dimensional images of the face of the subject from different perspectives; and processing the images of the face with a computer processor to create a three dimensional model of the subject's face; scaling the three dimensional model and applying the three dimensional model to a predetermined template adapted to interfit with the head of a figure preform that comprises at least a head. The template is printed and installed on the head portion of the figure preform.
US09280853B2
Technologies are generally described for systems, devices and methods effective to implement virtual and augmented reality. In an example, a first device may send data to a second device. The first device may include a processor and a memory. The processor may receive first image data based on a first real image from a third device. The first real image may include a fourth device image that relates to a fourth device. The processor may receive second image based on a second real image from the fourth device. The processor may send the first image data to the second device. The processor may receive a first request from the second device to receive the second image data. The processor may send a second request to the fourth device for the second image data, receive the second image data, and send the second image data to the second device.
US09280848B1
Rendering a scene with participating media is done by generating a depth map from a camera viewpoint and a shadow map from a light source, converting the shadow map using epipolar rectification to form a rectified shadow map (or generating the rectified shadow map directly), generating an approximation to visibility terms in a scattering integral, then computing a 1D min-max mipmap or other acceleration data structure for rectified shadow map rows and traversing that mipmap/data structure to find lit segments to accumulate values for the scattering integral for specific camera rays, and generating rendered pixel values that take into account accumulated values for the scattering integral for the camera rays. The scattering near an epipole of the rectified shadow map might be done using brute force ray marching when the epipole is on or near the screen. The process can be implemented using a GPU for parallel operations.
US09280845B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for multi-path rendering on tile based architectures including executing, with a graphics processing unit (GPU), a query pass, executing, with the GPU, a condition true pass based on the query pass without executing a flush operation, executing, with the GPU, a condition false pass based on the query pass without executing a flush operation, and responsive to executing the condition true pass and the condition false pass, executing, with the GPU, a flush operation.
US09280841B2
An event chain visualization of performance data may show the execution of monitored elements as bars on a timeline, with connections or other relationships connecting the various bars into a sequential view of an application. The visualization may include color, shading, or other highlighting to show resource utilization or performance metrics. The visualization may be generated by monitoring many events processed by an application, where each bar on a timeline may reflect multiple instances of a monitored element and, in some case, the aggregated performance.
US09280840B2
A figure display device, a figure display method and a storage medium having a figure display program are described. According to one implementation, a figure display device includes a figure display section; an assumed equation input section; and a figure assumed portion discrimination display control section. The figure display section displays a figure. The assumed equation input section is used to input an assumed equation of the figure according to user operation. The figure assumed portion discrimination display control section deforms a corresponding portion of the assumed equation in the figure to match a figure portion obtained by the assumed equation, and illustrates a content represented by the assumed equation in the figure displayed with discrimination.
US09280834B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and arrangement for texture compression. An image block is divided into two half-blocks which are either living, also referred to as flipped configuration, or standing, also referred to as the non-flipped configuration. An estimate is generated for whether the flipped or the non-flipped configuration provides the best result for compressing a block. Compression is only executed for the configuration that is estimated to give the best result for the block.
US09280832B2
The subject matter described herein includes methods for visual odometry using rigid structures identified by an antipodal transform. One exemplary method includes receiving a sequence of images captured by a camera. The method further includes identifying rigid structures in the images using an antipodal transform. The method further includes identifying correspondence between rigid structures in different image frames. The method further includes estimating motion of the camera based on motion of corresponding rigid structures among the different image frames.
US09280816B2
The invention relates to the adaptation of a 3D-surface model to boundaries of an anatomical structure, especially the right ventricle. A first viewing plane is defined corresponding to a default view, especially a four chamber view. A long axis is defined. Then a second, third and optionally a fourth viewing plane are represented intersecting the axis in predefined distances from the starting point and end point thereof. On the viewing planes different markers are represented, controlled and, if required, the position thereof is adapted, especially the position of the intersection points of the axis with the second and third viewing planes, as well as the position of a characteristic line, which together with the end point of the axis spans a characteristic plane of the structure. The 3D-surface model is adapted to the structure by way of the long axis and the position of the characteristic plane.
US09280813B2
An image is partitioned into a foreground area, a background area, and optionally a transitional area. The partitioning may be pre-defined, or it may be based on user inputs and configuration data. The partitioning may also be refined based on an initial partitioning. Blur measures are determined respectively for the partitioned areas. A blur measure for the whole image can then be determined from a weighted average of the blur measures for the partitioned areas. The blur measure for the image can be used in a video quality monitor.
US09280810B2
A method for correcting a distorted input image comprises determining a local region of an image to be displayed and dividing said region into an array of rectangular tiles, each tile corresponding to a distorted tile with a non-rectangular boundary within said input image. For each tile of the local region, maximum and minimum memory address locations of successive rows of said input image sufficient to span said boundary of said distorted tile are determined. Successive rows of the distorted input from between said maximum and minimum addresses are read. Distortion of the non-rectangular portion of said distorted input image is corrected to provide a tile of a corrected output image which is stored.
US09280806B2
Aspects of an edge smoothing block filter and combinations of the filter with a motion compensated temporal filter are described. In one embodiment, edge smoothing block filtering includes selecting a current pixel to be filtered and selecting a candidate pixel within a search area about the current pixel. The edge smoothing block filtering generally seeks to identify candidate pixels having surrounding pixels similar to pixels surrounding the current pixel. The edge smoothing block filtering further computes a cost difference between pixels within a candidate pixel neighborhood and pixels within a current pixel neighborhood, and filters the current pixel based on the cost difference. Aspects of the filters and filter element combinations may preserve edges and textures adaptively based on image content. For example, diagonal or curved image edges may be filtered along edges while texture is preserved along the edges.
US09280804B2
In some implementations, a method rotates images based on image content to correct image orientation. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining one or more identifications of content depicted in an image and determining a current orientation of the content depicted in the image. The current orientation is determined based on the one or more identifications of the content. An amount of rotation for the image is determined that orients the content closer to a predetermined reference orientation than to the current orientation. The image is rotated by the determined amount.
US09280793B2
A system and method are disclosed herein for maintaining an inventory of assets located at an insured property covered under an insurance policy based on data received from IP-addressable devices located at the property. The system includes an inventory database for storing inventory information about assets located at an insured property, a communication interface for receiving registration and operational data associated with an IP-addressable device, and a business logic computer. The business logic computer creates a data structure for storing inventory information about assets located at the insured property in the inventory database for each insured property. The business logic computer determines, for the insured property, the inventory information about the insured property's assets based on registration and operational data received from its IP-addressable devices located at the property. The business logic computer stores the insured property's inventory information in its associated data structure in the inventory database.
US09280788B2
Systems and methods for information retrieval are provided that permit users and/or processing entities to access and define synthetic data, synthetic objects, and/or synthetic groupings of data in one or more collections of information. In one embodiment, data access on an information retrieval system can occur through an interpretation layer which interprets any synthetic data against data physically stored in the collection. Synthetic data can define virtual data objects, virtual data elements, virtual data attributes, virtual data groupings, and/or data entities that can be interpreted against data that may be stored physically in the collection of information. The system and methods for information retrieval can return results from the one or more collections of information based not only on the data stored, but also on the virtual data generated from interpretation of the stored data.
US09280787B2
A method of substituting digital alternative media for a physical media article at an article dispensing machine to a customer is provided. The method includes receiving a request related to the media article through a user interface from the customer, identifying an associated content provider, and determining the alternative media selection at the associated content provider that corresponds to the media article. The method also includes receiving a unique customer identifier and identifying the associated content provider based on the unique customer identifier. The method further includes mapping the media article to the alternative media selection based on metadata. The media article may be available at the article dispensing machine or may be unavailable due to being out-of-stock or reserved to another customer. The associated content provider may be linked to the customer based on a subscription. The digital alternative media selection may be accessed by an audio/visual display interface.
US09280782B1
Architectures and techniques are described to provide a number of options to exchange information related to deals via a plurality of channels. Each of the communication channels may be utilized to exchange communications about different aspects of acquiring and redeeming deals. The channel options may be related to categories of computing devices, operating systems executed by computing devices, one or more sites, various forms of communication, client device applications, etc. A service provider that offers deals on behalf of merchants may determine one or more options for each communication channel with respect to merchants offering deals and with respect individuals that may participate in deals offered by the service provider. After determining the channel options for a deal offered by a particular merchant and for individuals designated to receive information about the deal, communications with respect to the deal may be exchanged over the channels via certain channel options.
US09280780B2
Systems and methods of generating and using a bitmap index are disclosed. The bitmap index stores bit strings. In a particular implementation, each bit string in the bitmap index corresponds to an attribute of an audience. Each location in each bit string corresponds to the same audience member. The bitmap index supports parallelized and distributed execution of queries with respect to data indexed by the bitmap index. For example, the described bitmap index can be used to index advertising data, healthcare data, financial data, etc.
US09280779B2
A system and method for increasing displaying time of online advertisements. Upon receiving a search request, a search engine identifies a list of search results and displays them on one side of a result page. The search engine also obtains a list of advertisements and displays them on the other side of the result page. When a user scrolls down to look at search results at a lower portion of the result page, the list of advertisements are moved down, following the movement of the screen. Thus, at least a part of the list of advertisements continue to be displayed on the current screen. Since online advertisements are visible to the user for a longer time, there are more opportunities for the online advertisements to get the user's attention, and consequently more opportunities for the user to click on an advertisement. Thus, the efficiency of online advertising may be improved.
US09280777B2
An operations dashboard may be used to present recommended solutions to various challenges faced by a retail store that is part of an enterprise. In some implementations, a metrics engine may be used to track and diagnose challenges related to various performance metrics, such as inventory, pricing, customer satisfaction, and the like at one or more of the enterprise's retail store locations. The operations dashboard may, in certain embodiments, display one or more of the retail stores along with their corresponding diagnosed business challenges. A knowledge engine may be used to identify one or more solutions to the diagnosed business challenges, and the solutions may also be displayed on the dashboard. In some implementations, each of these solutions may have a corresponding recommendation score relating to the expected efficacy of the solution to solve the challenge.
US09280766B2
Electronic data interchange (EDI) documents are validated by creating an inventory of all rules, dynamically adjusting the inventory based upon entity specific rules derived from a plurality of companion guides, determining a profile containing pointers to select rules in the inventory for each companion guide and storing the profile for each companion guide in a storage. A runtime checker can then be used to check a received EDI document with a corresponding rule set, forward the EDI document if the EDI document matches its current rule set and return the EDI document if the EDI document does not match its current rule set. EDI rules may be enforced, for example, by determining entity-specific rules from corresponding companion guides, by expressing each rule in a neutral and machine readable format, by classifying the rules and/or by creating an inventory of rules and pointers to entity-specific rules.
US09280764B2
A gateway service platform is disclosed that provides access to a payment processing system via an open network such as the internet. The gateway service platform also provides access to service systems that provide a variety of services and applications offered by or affiliated with the payment processing system. The gateway service platform allows the payment processing system to reach users and to facilitate transactions on a wide variety of devices that may not otherwise be able to connect to payment processing system. Other devices, such as payment terminal devices, can also interact with a payment processing system through the gateway service platform using the same network and protocol. Embodiments of the invention allow devices on these open networks to connect with the payment processing system without having to change the existing infrastructure of the payment processing system.
US09280763B2
In some embodiments, electronic data may be automatically captured to provide a user with a universal Internet identity and e-mail address, comprehensive e-mail filtering and forwarding services, and e-receipt identification and data extraction. Detailed user e-mail preferences data stored at a central server may be selectively altered such that incoming correspondence is redirected in accordance with the user's preferences. Computer program code at the central server may parse incoming e-mail header information and data content, selectively extract data from identified types of correspondence, and forward the extracted data in accordance with the user's preferences. Additional computer program code may manipulate the extracted data in accordance with format requirements and display the manipulated data to a user in a desired format.
US09280756B2
Various embodiments of a system and method for managing shipment release from a storage area in a materials handling facility are described. Embodiments may include a system configured to determine that a shipment including multiple units is expected to be conveyed from a storage area to a packing station in a materials handling facility. The system may also be configured to evaluate each respective unit of the shipment according to one or more criteria related to physical characteristics of the unit in order to generate an order in which the units of the shipment are to be provided to the packing station. The system may also be configured to generate an instruction to provide the units of the shipment to the packing station according to the generated order.
US09280746B2
The likelihood of a disorder can be determined using a variety of techniques. One or more exhibited symptoms may be obtained for a patient. The likelihood that each symptom will be exhibited for the disorder can be computed, and a posterior probability of the disorder given the exhibited symptoms can be computed from the likelihood of the symptoms. Based on the resulting posterior probability of the disorder, a more accurate determination can be made of whether the patient is suffering from the disorder.
US09280745B1
An artificial intelligence expert system for screening provides characteristic profiles to candidates to perform a particular task. The profiles have individual screening items within them that are expected to be related to whether or not a person is suitable for the task. The responses from the persons to the items are received by a computer implemented expert system. The expert system applies a combined model to the responses to generate a forecasted performance of the person to the task. The combined model is a linear combination of two or more path dependent regressions performed on data from a set of N training persons with known abilities to do the task. The number of parameters in each path dependent model is limited to a fraction of the number N so that the path dependent models are not over fit to the data. A suitable fraction is ⅕.
US09280744B2
A method determines a power flow of a power grid by optimizing an objective function representing an operation of the power grid using a spatial branch and bound (BB) framework for determining iteratively upper and lower bounds of the objective function. During the optimization, the lower bounds are determined using a semi-definite programming (SDP) relaxation of an optimal power flow (OPF) problem.
US09280741B2
An improved technique involves a device monitoring system providing alerting rules for a particular computing environment automatically based on existing alerting rules sets for other computing environments. Along these lines, when an IT professional monitors a computing environment through the device monitoring system, the device monitoring system stores alerting rules sets for that computing environment in a database. In storing rules sets and other information about that and other computing environments, the device monitoring system acquires intelligence from a wealth of data concerning how other IT professionals react to configuration changes in their computing environments. In this way, the device monitoring system then suggests alerting rules for a particular computing environment whose alerting rules are found to be suboptimal based on performance data from the particular computing environment.
US09280740B1
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for translating a boosting algorithm includes an interface communicatively coupled to a processor. The interface is operable to receive a trained boosting model. The processor is operable to identify a plurality of split-node variables associated with the trained boosting model. Each of the plurality of split-node variables comprises a variable name, a cutoff point, and a weight. The processor may aggregate the split-node variables by variable name and cutoff point and then combine the weights of each of the plurality of split-node variables having the same variable name and cutoff point. The processor may then create a linear model based on the combined variables.
US09280733B2
Provided is an image interpolating unit including: a first interpolation pixel generator that generates a first pixel value; a second interpolation pixel generator that detects, based on a total of differences between pixel values in a pixel group centered around a lost pixel and pixel values in pixel groups centered around a single pixel around the lost pixel, reference pixels of the lost pixel, and generate, based on the reference pixels, a second pixel value on the lost pixel; a reference pixel edge amount calculator; and an interpolator that inserts, as an interpolation pixel value, one of the first and the second pixel values into a position corresponding to the lost pixel, based on edge amounts of the reference pixels and a total of differences between pixel values in a pixel group centered around the reference pixels and the pixel values in the pixel group centered around the lost pixel.
US09280732B2
A LAN control unit receives print data from a client device or the like. An input job storage unit registered on a hard disk a series of PDL commands included in the print data received. An input job queue management unit registers print job specifying information specifying a print job represented by the print data received to the end of an input job queue. A PDL interpretation/execution unit successively executes from the head of the series of PDL commands stored on the hard disk device. When it is determined that the PDL command that has been executed is a re-execution unnecessary command, the PDL interpretation/execution unit overwrites the PDL command stored on the hard disk with a NOP command.
US09280730B2
There are provided a printing apparatus which holds a job, determines whether attribution information of a sheet to be used by the stored job is registered for a sheet storage unit, judges whether a sheet exists in a sheet storage unit to be used by the job, and notifies a result of the determination and a result of the judgment.
US09280721B2
A method for ascertaining the position of an edge in or on an object surface region of interest by optical scanning. The reflectivity of the object surface region is evaluated. Light is emitted onto the object surface region under different illumination conditions, in particular different light incidence directions, and in each illumination condition a sequence S1 to Sn of camera images B is recorded. Each camera image B of a sequence S1 to Sn is recorded at another illumination intensity I. Subsequently in each case one reflectivity image R1 to Rn is produced from a plurality of or from all camera images B of a sequence S1 to Sn. Thereafter, a resulting reflectivity image E is produced from a plurality of or from all reflectivity images R1 to Rn by weighted addition, in which resulting reflectivity image E the position of an edge is determined.
US09280710B1
Methods and systems are provided that may allow an autonomous vehicle to discern a school bus from image data. An example method may include receiving image data indicative of a vehicles operating in an environment. The image data may depict sizes of the vehicles. The method may also include, based on relative sizes of the vehicles, determining a vehicle that is larger in size as compared the other vehicles. The method may additionally include comparing a size of the determined vehicle to a size of a school bus and based on the size of vehicle being within a threshold size of the school bus, comparing a color of the vehicle to a color of the school bus. The method may further include based on the vehicle being substantially the same color as the school bus, determining that the vehicle is representative of the school bus.
US09280708B2
An approach is provided for providing collaborative recognition using media segments. The recognition platform causes, at least in part, a generation of a request to determine recognition information for one or more media items associated with a device, one or more segments of the one or more media items, or a combination thereof. Next, the recognition platform determines to transmit the request to one or more other devices based, at least in part, on one or more device selection criteria. Then, the recognition platform receives the recognition information in response to the request. Further, the recognition platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of the recognition information to determine one or more identities of one or more users, one or more objects, or a combination thereof represented in the one or more media items.
US09280707B2
The average value calculation section acquires luminance information and color information, from captured images continuously captured in frame as a unit by an image capture unit. The detection method determination section determines either one or both among the luminance information and color information to use in order to detect movement of the predetermined object, based on the luminance information and color information acquired. The motion detection section detects movement of the predetermined object using either one or both among the luminance information and color information based on the result determined.
US09280704B2
During a pairing procedure between an electronic device and a host system, the host system may output audiovisual data that communicates wireless pairing information. The electronic device may detect the audiovisual data and determine the wireless pairing information by processing the audiovisual data that it detects. The wireless pairing information may facilitate pairing the electronic device to the host system in accordance with the short-range wireless communication protocol.
US09280699B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for mapping coordinates of various imaging stations are described. In some implementations, cells (e.g., red blood cells) in a biological specimen can be used for determining the mapping information between the imaging stations. The use of cells allows a target image (e.g., an image of a sub-region of cells in the biological specimen) taken by one imaging station to be pattern-matched to a reference image (e.g., an image showing a larger region of cells in the biological specimen that also includes the sub-region) taken by another imaging station. Once the target image is matched to the reference image, point by point correspondence (and therefore coordinates) between the target image and the reference image can be established for computing the coordinate transformation to map the imaging stations.
US09280695B2
An apparatus (10) for capturing fingerprint images having a platen (21) sized for at most two fingers of a hand, and an imaging system for enabling capture of fingerprint images presented to the platen (21), in which images of two different finger pairs are captured for each hand of a subject when presented to the platen. At least one processor (27) which determines for each of the images captured a difference in height of at least one characteristic of the fingers in the image. Using said difference in height of the fingers in each of the images, the processor (27) verifies that the correct sequence of specific ones of finger pair was provided by the subject to the platen when images were captured. Fingerprint images acquired from the images may be stored in an electronic record along with thumb prints and subject information, and optionally the height differences for the images.
US09280693B2
An imaging engine for an indicia reader that includes a dual-purposed housing is disclosed. The housing is configured to provide support and alignment for the imaging engine's optical modules. In addition, the housing includes an integrated optical structure to focus or project light to or from the various optical modules.
US09280688B2
A method to assess and predict pressurized water stress corrosion cracking in operational nuclear power plants and the effect of adding zinc compounds into a reactor coolant system of the nuclear power plant.
US09280680B2
Method and system for providing an augmented photobook that includes at least one interactive feature. An image of a symbology printed on a page of a photobook is captured, and address information contained therein is decoded. A web browser of an electronic device is directed to a website identified by the address information, and additional information related to the photobook is received from a remote computing device associated with the website. The additional information related to the photobook is displayed on the electronic device. Additionally, a level of access to the website is determined for a user of the electronic device. A user request to transmit new content to the website is received it is determined whether the level of access corresponds to permission rights for the website. If the level of access corresponds to the permission rights then the new content is transmitted and aggregated at the website.
US09280672B2
A method for printing a composite document creates a fixed data unit for a composite document, the fixed data unit being a portion of an individual document which is consistent in each individual document within the composite document. A variable data unit is created for each individual document to be represented by the composite document, a variable data unit being a portion of the individual document which is unique to that individual document. The data within each created variable data unit is analyzed to determine a set of rights for each created variable data unit, and the determined set of rights are embedded into the appropriated created variable data unit. A composite document is created by bundling the fixed data unit with the embedded variable data units and submitted for printing. A plurality of individual documents for printing is created, each individual document being a merger of the fixed data unit with an embedded variable data unit wherein each individual document is printed based upon the set of rights embedded in the corresponding variable data unit.
US09280668B2
A method of detecting correlated operations in a common storage. The method comprises providing at least one input operation, each the input operation being designated to write uniquely identifiable data on a memory unit of an application, monitoring a plurality of output operations of the application, each the output operation includes data read from the memory unit, comparing between the at least one input operation and the plurality of output operations to identify at least one matching group of input and output operations wherein each member of the at least one matching group has correlated written or read data in a common correlated target address in the memory unit, and outputting an indication of the at least one matching group.
US09280667B1
A system comprises a security manager to scan a network for host instances representing hosts on the network at that time, and record characteristics of the host instances in a host record. The security manager subsequently scans the network for host instances in order to identify persistent hosts. A host profiling module takes snapshots of the network to generate host instances based on characteristics such as an IP address, a NetBIOS name, a DNS name, a MAC address. A host matching module correlates host instances from different snapshots using weighted rules (predetermined or customized) to discriminate between multiple potential matching host instances. Also, security logic makes security decisions based on data including persistent host information.
US09280660B2
A system and method are disclosed for mobile information management using a code injection approach. The method for information management of applications includes the steps of: receiving, by a computer, one or more compiled applications, and receiving, by a computer, one or more security policies, wherein each security policy indicates one or more use cases and one or more security actions associated with each use case. The method also includes the step of associating the received applications with the one or more received security policies. Additionally, the method includes the step of automatically wrapping the received applications with the associated security policy using a code injection script.
US09280657B2
A method for managing passwords for a user. A processor of an apparatus storing at least one received, incorrect password proposal receives via a user interface a further password proposal from a user; generates a hash value for the further password proposal; sends the hash value to the authentication server; receives from the authentication server a message indicative of whether the hash value corresponds to a correct password or to an incorrect password. In case the message indicates that the hash value corresponds to a correct password, the processor uses a distance function on each incorrect password proposal to obtain a distance value representative of a distance between the incorrect password proposal and the correct password; and sending to the authentication server hash values for password proposals for which the distance value is lower than or equal to a threshold value. Also provided are the apparatus and a computer program support. The disclosure can provide resistance to typing errors in the password proposals.
US09280644B2
In response to a request for launching a program, a list of one or more application frameworks to be accessed by the program during execution of the program is determined. Zero or more entitlements representing one or more resources entitled by the program during the execution are determined. A set of one or more rules based on the entitlements of the program is obtained from at least one of the application frameworks. The set of one or more rules specifies one or more constraints of resources associated with the at least one application framework. A security profile is dynamically compiled for the program based on the set of one or more rules associated with the at least one application framework. The compiled security profile is used to restrict the program from accessing at least one resource of the at least one application frameworks during the execution of the program.
US09280632B2
In one aspect of an embodiment, a method implemented on a data processing system for circuit design, includes identifying one or more first portions of a design of a circuit, each of the one or more first portions containing a set of elements interconnected via timing nets and generating weights for the timing critical nets, the weights being generated after identifying the one or more first portions and executing a placer algorithm which uses the weights for the timing critical nets to place the set of elements on a representation of the design. In this method, in one embodiment, the weights for the timing critical nets can be generated to have values that differ from weights for non-critical nets. The placer algorithm can be any one of a variety of conventional placer algorithms such as a weighted wire length driven placer algorithm or a force directed timing driven placer algorithm or a min-cut placer algorithm.
US09280629B2
A method for generating a circuit description for a multi-die field-programmable gate array, FPGA, comprising a first FPGA die and at least one further FPGA die is described. The method is performed in an FPGA design tool and comprises automatically evaluating a first and a second partition of a partitioned circuit description, the partitions being associated with respective ones of the FPGA dies. At least one multiplexing element is inserted into the first partition and a corresponding de-multiplexing element is inserted into the second partition based on the automated evaluation.
US09280617B2
A system may include a model library configured to model a system, wherein the model library includes a plurality of subsystem models, and each of the plurality of subsystem models is configured to derive a reliability measure. The system further includes a fault tolerance input and a maintenance policy input. The system further includes a dynamic risk calculation engine (DRCE) configured to use a user-defined set of the plurality of subsystem models, the fault tolerance input and the maintenance policy input, to derive a system risk for an apparatus.
US09280613B2
Techniques are disclosed for methods, architectures and security mechanisms for a third-party application to access content in a cloud-based platform. In one embodiment, a method includes, receiving, at the third-party application, metadata that identifies the file. The method further includes transmitting the metadata to a server which is associated with the third-party application. The metadata enables the server to request the file from the cloud-based environment.
US09280612B2
For plural categorical values of a first attribute, more relevant categorical values of a second attribute are selected from among candidate categorical values of the second attribute, where the selecting uses a relevance determination process that considers frequencies of occurrence of respective pairs of the categorical values of the first and second attributes. A visualization that includes groups of cells corresponding to the respective pairs of categorical values of the first and second attributes is generated. At least one of the groups includes cells assigned visual indicators based on values of a third attribute.
US09280599B1
An audio recognition service recognizes an audio sample across multiple content types. At least a partial set of results generated by the service are returned to a client while the audio sample is still being recorded and/or transmitted. The client additionally displays the results in real-time or near real-time to the user. The audio sample can be sent over a first HTTP connection and the results can be returned over a second HTTP connection. The audio recognition service further processes check-in selections received from the client for content items indicated by the results. Responsive to receiving the check-in selections, the service determines whether a user is eligible for a reward. If the user is eligible, the service provides the reward.
US09280597B2
A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to generate customized subjective search results from the perspective of a user who conducts the search or any other subject entity of chosen by the user. A scored subject list is created from the user's network of sources/subjects/contacts, where each element on the list is a subject/source and the score reflects the subject's potential influence or closeness of its connection/relation with the user. Once created, the subject list is then used as a bias filter on the list of citations from search results. With such influence-weighted citation scores, objects and/or subjects from citations of subjects that have big influence on or enjoy high respect from the user will be ranked prominently in the search result presented to the user, thus biasing the search results from the user's perspective.
US09280596B2
A method for scoring and ranking knowledge articles in an on-demand service environment in a database network system. The scoring allows users to have input into the scoring to determine relevancy and authenticity to solve particular problems.
US09280592B1
A computer-implemented method, including identifying user subscriptions that meet at least one criterion of a plurality of criteria for detecting subscriptions that are no longer active, classifying the user subscriptions into a first group and a second group, where user subscriptions in the first group have at least one context factor associated with the at least one criterion, matching the user subscriptions of the second group with data of unavailable users to produce a third group of user subscriptions, where the user subscriptions of the third group are successfully matched with some of the data of unavailable users.
US09280590B1
Systems and methods for attribute-based user data visualizations are described, including determining that an event is associated with a category, the event is one of a plurality of events that are associated with a user using one or more products; clustering the event with a group of events that are associated with the category; identifying at least a portion of the group of events and at least a portion of another group of events of another category, based on one or more time periods; and providing the at least the portion of the group of events and the at least the portion of the another group of events of the another category for visual presentation.
US09280582B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for optimizing execution of a query that includes a JOIN against a system utilizing data relationship concepts. A computer determines whether one or more data structures in JOIN include a parent/child relationship. The one or more data structures can be one or more tables. Responsive to determining that the one or more data structures in JOIN include a parent/child relationship, the computer determines whether the query that includes the JOIN includes a filter applied on one or more data structures in the JOIN with an OR condition between filters. Responsive to determining that the query that includes the JOIN does not include the filter applied on one or more data structures in JOIN with an OR condition between filters, the computer modifies the query that includes the JOIN into a query utilizing relationship constructs.
US09280578B1
Techniques are provided involving combining several concurrent changes into one consistent condensed transaction within a metadata transaction log using an accumulation list that can be processed to generate a single transaction which may be quickly stored in the metadata transaction log. The improved techniques thus reduce latencies for later concurrent changes and save space within the metadata transaction log.
US09280562B1
Systems and Methods for multi-modal or multimedia image retrieval are provided. Automatic image annotation is achieved based on a probabilistic semantic model in which visual features and textual words are connected via a hidden layer comprising the semantic concepts to be discovered, to explicitly exploit the synergy between the two modalities. The association of visual features and textual words is determined in a Bayesian framework to provide confidence of the association. A hidden concept layer which connects the visual feature(s) and the words is discovered by fitting a generative model to the training image and annotation words. An Expectation-Maximization (EM) based iterative learning procedure determines the conditional probabilities of the visual features and the textual words given a hidden concept class. Based on the discovered hidden concept layer and the corresponding conditional probabilities, the image annotation and the text-to-image retrieval are performed using the Bayesian framework.
US09280561B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatically extracting logos from images. Methods include generating a query list including a plurality of logo search queries, for each logo search query of the plurality of logo search queries: generating a plurality of image search results, each image search result including image data, and clustering the plurality of image search results into a plurality of clusters, each cluster including a plurality of images of the plurality of image search results, extracting, for each cluster of the plurality of clusters, a representative image to provide a plurality of representative images, and a name corresponding to the representative image to provide a plurality of names, and providing the plurality of representative images and the plurality of names to a logo index, the logo index being accessible to identify one or more logo images in a query image.
US09280550B1
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for transferring data from a source tier to a target tier. In some embodiments, this may include dividing an object stored in the source tier into a plurality of segments, determining if the target tier is missing at least one of the segments, writing the missing segments to the target tier, and deleting the object from the source tier. In some embodiments, the object's metadata is updated to indicate that the object is in the target tier.
US09280546B2
A content-presenting system present digital content for a local user, and facilitates sharing a presentation state for digital content with remote devices. During operation, the system can detect a presentation-controlling event, which alters the presentation of the digital content at the content-presenting device. In response to detecting the presentation-controlling event, the system generates content-control information for the digital content. This content-control information can include a location-independent structured name associated with the digital content, and includes a presentation state for the digital content.
US09280542B2
A process for creating a media sequence, for example video or audio, and an associated device includes the stages of: obtaining a selection of media files; regrouping the chosen media files into a plurality of groups according to at least one coherence criterion; selecting, for each group of media files assembled in this way, a media motif among a plurality of predefined media motifs, the chosen media motif being able to define a media rendering for the set of media files of the group; and assembling the media motifs selected in this way and their associated media files in such a way as to form at least one definition of the media sequence. The process can relate to automated video editing as implemented on Web servers.
US09280533B2
A distributed spreadsheet application executes at a server and a client in a network. The networked spreadsheet application can generally be used without requiring a user to install any specific spreadsheet software prior to using the application. In one implementation, the spreadsheet application may include a client engine that executes within browser programs of a plurality of client computing devices and server logic. The server logic may be configured to distribute the client engines to the plurality of client computing devices of the spreadsheet application when requested through the browser programs of each of the plurality of client computing devices. The server logic synchronizes a single spreadsheet document that is simultaneously open at the plurality of client computing devices.
US09280532B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for providing access to a data object from within a spreadsheet included in a spreadsheet application. The method includes associating the data object with a first cell of the spreadsheet, wherein the data object is related to a parameter, and the first cell is identified by a cell reference, receiving an input that is related to a second cell of the spreadsheet and includes an expression that specifies the parameter and the first cell reference, and replacing the first cell reference specified by the expression with the data object, wherein a value for the second cell may be determined by applying the parameter to the data object specified in the expression.
US09280531B2
Visitors that abandon electronic or computer-generated forms before completing and submitting the form are lost to business entities. Data obtained from abandoned electronic or computer-generated forms is used to identify these lost visitors. Sometimes a unique script embedded on the webpages scrapes the data from the forms. The obtained data is further utilized to market or remarket to the lost consumers by sending personalized messages via a preferred communication medium. Electronic form events can be tracked and the obtained data and the event tracking information can be compiled into reports. Patterns in the obtained data can be evaluated to provide revisions to the electronic forms.
US09280524B2
A first rendering of symbols is generated with typeset font, and the first rendering is displayed by a display device. From among the symbols, a selection is received from a user. A second rendering of the selection is generated with ink font, and the second rendering is displayed by the display device. At least one handwritten edit to the second rendering is received from the user, and recognition of the handwritten edit is performed. The selection is updated to incorporate the recognized handwritten edit. A third rendering of the updated selection is generated with typeset font, and the third rendering is displayed by the display device for replacing at least a portion of the first rendering.
US09280523B2
A system and method for converting website content is presented. Design elements in a graphical representation of a web page are identified. The design elements are ordered according to a position of each of the design elements with respect to a top of the graphical representation of the web page. One or more of the ordered design elements are grouped into one or more groups of design elements, and the design elements are stacked by rearranging each group of design elements into a single column. The single column of the groups of design elements are rendered into a converted web page for display on a device. In one implementation, the device is a mobile device.
US09280515B2
A party that is not the source or originator of a QR code is enabled to provide a consumer a selection of related alternate content rather than content identified in the QR code. A method is implemented on a computer system to receive additional content information represented by a QR code extracted by a consumer's QR reader device from a media presentation containing the QR code. The QR code is generated by a source of the media presentation. A location of alternate content from a captive environment related to the additional content information is identified. The location of the alternate content may be identified based upon the decoded information from the QR code. The location of the alternate content is transmitted to the QR reader device.
US09280512B2
A computerized system for remote access to a computer program, the system comprising a computerized segmenting tool to create a segmented representation of a computer program by creating virtual objects that correspond to objects of the program and clustering the virtual objects to segments of the segmented representation and a remote access application to receive information about the segmented representation from the segmenting tool and to display the segments of the segmented representation, wherein each segment is controllable separately.
US09280511B1
A user may make a digital item available to other users of a computer network, such as an instant messaging system, a chat environment, or a subscription-based computer network. Examples of digital items that may be shared with other users include digital representations of graphic images, photographs, audio segments, songs, video segments, movies, and text (such as lists of favorites (e.g., a list of favorite books, a list of favorite movies, and a list of favorite places to visit)). On-line presence information is provided to indicate the on-line presence of users with whom a digital item has been shared, may be shared or is being shared. For instance, an indication of the on-line or offline status of a user with whom an item has been shared or is being shared may be presented.
US09280509B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a rising edge detector to detect a rising edge in a signal. The apparatus may also include a counter to perform a count to a first value based on an input clock signal. The apparatus may also include an output unit to generate a sleep signal after the first value is reached if the rising edge detector does not detect the rising edge in the signal.
US09280502B1
An apparatus including a first register, a second register, and a control logic. The first register may be configured to store requests from a plurality of clients for a current cycle. The second register may be configured to store an indicator value indicating which of the plurality of clients received a grant in a previous cycle. The control logic may be configured to determine which of the plurality of clients having a request in the current cycle receives a grant based upon (i) a pointer value and (ii) the indicator value.
US09280499B2
Embodiments of the invention include electronic communications devices having a memory in near field communication device, a memory arbitrator and a host processor. The near field communication (NFC) devices are configured to receive data and drive power from the communication signal. The memory arbitrator is connected to the NFC device and the memory. The memory arbitrator is also configured to access the memory in response to an access request from the NFC device. Additionally, the memory is configurable to be accessed by both the host processor and the NFC device according to embodiments of the present invention.
US09280497B2
Systems and methods are provided for supporting use of non-volatile memory (NVM) on a double data rate (DDR) memory channel for an information handling system so that non-volatile memory devices (e.g., such as Phase Change Memory “PCM” devices) may be employed for main memory usage. In one possible implementation, information handling system memory reads may be managed directly in hardware as memory semantics via use code, while memory writes may be separately handled, e.g., via an operating system (OS)/driver. In another possible implementation, both DRAM-based and NVM-based memory systems may be populated for an information handling system.
US09280493B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and a device for enumerating input/output devices (IO devices). The method for enumerating input/output devices includes: acquiring an identifier of each processor and an identifier of each input/output (IO) centralized controller in a system; separately instructing processors to simultaneously enumerate a specific IO centralized controller and an input/output IO device connected to the specific IO centralized controller, according to the identifier of each processor and the identifier of each IO centralized controller; and acquiring related information of IO devices enumerated by the instructed processors. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the work of enumerating the system IO devices may be allocated to multiple processors to be carried out simultaneously, so as to greatly reduce time consumed in the enumeration process, and to accelerate a system initialization process.
US09280492B2
Embodiments of an invention for a load instruction for code conversion are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes an instruction unit and an execution unit. The instruction unit is to receive an instruction having a source operand to indicate a source location and a destination operand to indicate a destination location. The execution unit is to execute the instruction. Execution of the instruction includes checking the access permissions of the source location and loading content from the source location into the destination location if the access permissions of the source location indicate that the content is executable.
US09280491B2
A first storage location at a memory management unit stores physical address information mapping logical physical addresses to actual physical addresses. A second storage location stores an allowed address range of actual physical addresses. A memory management unit determines whether a write access to the first storage location is allowable. The access is to store memory mapping information relating to a first actual physical address. The memory management unit prevents the write access if the first actual physical address is not in the allowed address range, and does not prevent the write access if the first actual physical address is in the allowed address range. The memory management unit prevents a write access to the second storage location by a process that is not running in a hypervisor mode.
US09280483B1
A portable electronic device may be rebranded, this rebranding may cause a plurality of data files in a user memory partition on the portable electronic device to be deleted when the device is returned to factory settings or otherwise wiped during the rebranding. Rebranding may be desirable in order for the user to receive better and/or more cost-effective services from a telecommunications service provider. Therefore, a user may want to rebrand their device without losing the data in the user memory partition. The user may specify or configure the device to copy or move the plurality of data to a carrier memory partition or a system memory partition on the device, or to a remote server, or to a removable memory such as an SD card.
US09280477B2
The disclosure is related to systems and methods of managing data storage in a memory device. In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving, in a data storage device, at least one data packet that has a size that is different from an allocated storage capacity of at least one physical destination location on a data storage medium in the data storage device for the at least one data packet. The method also includes storing the at least one received data packet in a non-volatile cache memory prior to transferring the at least one received data packet to the at least one physical destination location.
US09280474B2
A system and method for adaptive data prefetching in a processor enables adaptive modification of parameters associated with a prefetch operation. A stride pattern in successive addresses of a memory operation may be detected, including determining a stride length (L). Prefetching of memory operations may be based on a prefetch address determined from a base memory address, the stride length L, and a prefetch distance (D). A number of prefetch misses may be counted at a miss prefetch count (C). Based on the value of the miss prefetch count C, the prefetch distance D may be modified. As a result of adaptive modification of the prefetch distance D, an improved rate of cache hits may be realized.
US09280470B2
An information processing system and computer program storage product for managing objects stored in a shared memory cache. The system includes at least a plurality of cache readers accessing data from the shared memory cache. The system updates data in the shared memory cache using a cache writer. The system maintains a cache replacement process collocated with a cache writer. The cache replacement process makes a plurality of decisions on objects to store in the shared memory cache. Each of the plurality of cache readers maintains information on frequencies with which it accesses cached objects. Each of the plurality of cache readers communicates the maintained information to the cache replacement process. The cache replacement process uses the communicated information on frequencies to make at least one decision on replacing at least one object currently stored in the shared memory cache.
US09280469B1
A technique manages data within a data storage apparatus having a cache of volatile memory and non-volatile storage. The technique involves receiving a set of write commands to write data to the non-volatile storage. The technique further involves acknowledging, in a write-back caching manner, completion of the set of write commands after the data reaches the cache of volatile memory and prior to the data reaching the non-volatile storage. The data includes host data as well as critical metadata. The technique further involves saving, after acknowledging completion of the set of write commands, the data from the cache of volatile memory to the non-volatile storage, the critical metadata being saved from the cache of volatile memory to the non-volatile storage at a quicker rate than that of the host data (i.e., accelerated synchronization of the critical metadata).
US09280468B2
A system and method are disclosed for communicating coherency information between initiator and target agents on semiconductor chips. Sufficient information communication to support full coherency is performed through a socket interface using only three channels. Transaction requests are issued on one channel with responses given on a second. Intervention requests are issued on the same channel as transaction responses. Intervention responses are given on a third channel. Such an approach drastically reduces the complexity of cache coherent socket interfaces compared to conventional approaches. The net effect is faster logic, smaller silicon area, improved architecture performance, and a reduced probability of bugs by the designers of coherent initiators and targets.
US09280467B1
A method and a system to dynamically determine how much of the total IO bandwidth may be used for flushing dirty metadata from the cache to the main memory without increasing the host memory access latency time, includes increasing the number of IO processes by adding a number of IO processes at short intervals and measuring host latency. If the host latency is acceptable, then increasing the number of IO processes again by the same number, and repeating until the host latency period reaches a limit. When the limit has been reached, reducing the number of IO processes by a multiplicative factor, and repeating the additive process from the reduced number of IO processes. The number of IO processes used for flushing dirty metadata may resemble a series of saw teeth, rising gradually and declining rapidly in response to the number of host IO processes needed.
US09280466B2
A device according to an example of the invention comprises a section which accepts a write destination logical address and write target data from a processor, the write destination logical address indicating a write position to write the write target data into a composite memory which includes a first memory and a nonvolatile second memory, a section which determines a write destination physical address corresponding to the write destination logical address so that the number of times of access to the second memory is smaller than the number of times of access to the first memory, a section which stores, in a storage section, address conversion data associating the write destination logical address with the write destination physical address, and a section which writes the write target data into a position in the composite memory indicated by the write destination physical address.
US09280464B2
A system and method for providing high-speed memory operations is disclosed. The technique uses virtualization of memory space to map a virtual address space to a larger physical address space wherein no memory bank conflicts will occur. The larger physical address space is used to prevent memory bank conflicts from occurring by moving the virtualized memory addresses of data being written to memory to a different location in physical memory that will eliminate a memory bank conflict. This allows the memory system to both store and read data in the same cycle with no conflicts.
US09280463B2
For semiconductor memory garbage collection, an identification module identifies a garbage collection time window for at least one block of a flash memory array. A garbage collection module garbage collects a first block of the flash memory array with a highest garbage collection level and an open garbage collection time window.
US09280461B2
A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory having a plurality of nonvolatile memory chips incorporated therein, a control circuit that controls the nonvolatile memory, an MPU that controls the control circuit, and an interface circuit that communicates with a host, all of which are mounted on a board of the memory system, and the memory system further includes a bus switch that switches connection of a signal line between the control circuit and the nonvolatile memory chips.
US09280460B2
A data writing method for a rewritable non-volatile memory module having a plurality of physical erasing units, and a memory control circuit unit and the memory storage apparatus are provided. The method includes grouping the physical erasing units into at least a data area, a backup area and a spare area; and setting a value obtained by summing a minimum threshold and a predetermined number as a garbage collecting threshold. The data writing method also includes getting at least one physical erasing unit from the spare area, writing data into the gotten physical erasing unit, associating the gotten physical erasing unit with the backup area and re-adjusting the garbage collecting threshold according to the number of physical erasing units associated with the backup area and the minimum threshold.
US09280459B2
A block grouping method includes the following steps. Firstly, a link list is established. In the link list, plural blocks are classified into plural groups according to valid data counts of respective blocks. If a host refreshes a stored data of a flash memory of the solid state drive or adds a new data into the flash memory, the valid data count of the block corresponding to the refreshed data or the new data is changed, and the link list is updated according to the changed valid data count of the block. After the garbage collection is started by the solid state drive, the block to be subject to the garbage collection is selected according to the link list, and the garbage collection is performed.
US09280453B1
A method and system for test automation framework for backup and recovery applications is described. Initial data states are prepared for corresponding system components for a test host. A backup and recovery application is executed to store backup copies corresponding to the system components to a storage device. The initial data states are modified to modified data states corresponding to the system components. The backup and recovery application is executed to recover the backup copies from the storage device. The test host is rebooted based on recovering the backup copies. A comparison is output, via an output device, of the system components in the test host to the initial data states.
US09280449B2
Various embodiments for hit testing of visual objects are described herein. Data of visual objects is generated in a two-dimensional clip space. The data of visual objects includes two-dimensional projections of the visual objects. Cursor coordinates are transformed into the clip space and bounding box calculations are performed using the transformed cursor coordinates and the generated data. Hit testing is performed when there is a hit on a bounding box of at least one of the visual objects in the clip space. The hit testing is performed in a three-dimensional space. A result is then presented on a user interface based on the hit testing.
US09280447B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to modifying run-time-instrumentation controls (MRIC) from a lesser-privileged state. The MRIC instruction is fetched. The MRIC instruction includes the address of a run-time-instrumentation control block (RICCB). The RICCB is fetched based on the address included in the MRIC instruction. The RICCB includes values for modifying a subset of the processor's run-time-instrumentation controls. The subset of run-time-instrumentation controls includes a runtime instrumentation program buffer current address (RCA) of a runtime instrumentation program buffer (RIB) location. The RIB holds run-time-instrumentation information of the events recognized by the processor during program execution. The values of the RICCB are loaded into the run-time-instrumentation controls. Event information is provided to the RIB based on the values that were loaded in the run-time-instrumentation control.
US09280437B2
Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for dynamically scalable real-time system monitoring are presented. For example, according to one aspect, multiple performance metrics are received from multiple performance metric collection agents. At least some of the performance metrics are identified based on an association with a common entity. The identified performance metrics are utilized to evaluate whether performance conditions specified by rules associated with the common entity have been satisfied. Responsive to evaluating that a performance condition has been satisfied, an alert is generated and communicated to one or more subscriber devices associated with the common entity.
US09280422B2
A device comprising a data transfer channel is configured to transfer data between multiple memory devices and a host device. The channel includes multiple decoders and a buffer coupled between the multiple memory devices and the multiple decoders. The buffer is configured to store code words received from the memory devices. Channel control logic is configured to determine availability of one or more of the multiple decoders and to distribute the code words to the one or more decoders based on decoder availability.
US09280418B2
A memory device using error correction code (ECC) implements a memory array parallel read-write method to reduce the storage overhead required for storing ECC check bits. The memory array parallel read-write method stores incoming address and data into serial-in parallel-out (SIPO) address registers and write data registers, respectively. The stored data are written to the memory cells in parallel when the SIPO registers are full. ECC check bits are generated for the block of parallel input data stored in the write data registers. During the read operation, a block of read out data corresponding to the read address are read from the memory cells in parallel and stored in read registers. ECC correction is performed on the block of read out data before the desired output data is selected for output.
US09280414B2
The invention relates to a method for transmitting digital data, in particular in automation technology, in which a digital code word (R) received via a channel is corrected and verified as to its validity by means of a channel decoder (7), and an invalid code word is rejected and optionally requested once again, while a valid code word (C″) is further processed. If a metric (8) is cumulatively used with an encoding process, the probability of remaining bit errors in the whole method can be significantly reduced, thus making it possible to use the method in automation technology.
US09280401B2
Systems and methods for processing and/or presenting data are disclosed. In an aspect, one method can comprise receiving a request for information and detecting a type of data representing the information requested. The data can be processed via a type-dependent agent and the processed data can be provided via an agnostic data engine.
US09280400B2
Embodiments illustrated and described herein provide systems, methods, and software of an app system platform that enables apps to provide rich user experiences in accessing and utilizing functionality of an enterprise-class computing system, such as an ERP system. Some such embodiments include groups of mapper objects in a web framework for each supported app that handle specific data types communicated between the app and a web platform. The mapper objects transform data between app consumable formats and formats of connector objects. The connector objects operate to transform data between the respective connector object formats and data formats of consumable by an enterprise-class computing system via interfaces. These and other embodiments are illustrated and described herein.
US09280395B2
Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described including operations for runtime dispatching among a heterogeneous group of processors.
US09280391B2
Priorities of an application and/or processes associated with an application executing on a computer is determined according to user-specific usage patterns of the application and stored for subsequent use, analysis and distribution.
US09280384B2
Various embodiments provide methods, servers, and systems for processing task data. In an exemplary method, a task-data-processing request sent by a client can be received. The task-data-processing request can contain a type identifier of task data. The type identifier of the task data can include a daily-task-data identifier, a mainline-task-data identifier, a random-task-data identifier, or a combination thereof. The task data corresponding to the type identifier of the task data can be processed to generate processing results, according to the type identifier of the task data and a preset processing scheme corresponding to each type of the task data. The processing results can be returned to the client.
US09280379B2
A system and method for hibernating virtual machines (VMs) are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a computer system that executes a hypervisor and a virtual machine (VM) receives a request from a first virtual processor of the VM to put the VM to sleep. In response, the hypervisor stops a second virtual processor of the VM.
US09280371B2
A mechanism is provided n a data processing system for logical partition migration. Responsive to a virtual machine monitor initiating a logical partition migration operation to move a logical partition from a source system to a destination system, the mechanism reallocates a portion of processing resources from the logical partition to the virtual machine monitor. The virtual machine monitor uses the portion of processing resources to effect the logical partition migration operation. Responsive to completion of the logical partition migration operation, the mechanism returns the portion of processing resources to the logical partition.
US09280370B2
Physical configuration information stored in the physical configuration storage unit (110) indicates physical configuration elements of an information processing system and a connection relationship between the physical configuration elements. Virtual configuration information stored in a virtual configuration storage unit (120) indicates virtual configuration elements of a virtual system and a connection relationship between the virtual configuration elements. Here, the virtual system is a system that is functionally equivalent to the information processing system to be managed. Process configuration information stored in a process configuration storage unit (130) indicates process configuration elements of a process performed in the information processing system and a connection relationship between the process configuration elements. First correspondence information stored in a correspondence information storage unit (150) indicates a correspondence relationship between the physical configuration elements and the virtual configuration elements, and the second correspondence information indicates a correspondence relationship between the process configuration elements and the virtual configuration elements.
US09280360B2
A method of bootstrapping from a remote image file comprising loading, by a processor, an initial bootloader, employing the initial bootloader to download a final bootloader from the remote image file via a network, employing the final bootloader to mount the remote image file as a block device, downloading a kernel and root file system mounting data from the remote image, and executing the kernel to bootstrap the processor based on the root file system mounting data.
US09280355B2
A system includes a multi-node chassis including a chassis management module, a plurality of compute nodes, and a physical presence manual actuator for transmitting a physical presence signal to each compute node in response to manual actuation. Each server has a firmware interface, a trusted platform module, and an AND gate. The firmware interface has a general purpose input output pin for providing an enabling signal in response to a user instruction to a firmware interface setup program that communicates with the firmware interface. The AND gate has a first input receiving the enabling signal, a second input receiving the physical presence signal, and an output coupled to the trusted platform module, wherein the AND gate for a selected compute node asserts physical presence to the trusted platform module of the selected compute node in response to receiving both the enabling signal and the physical presence signal.
US09280353B1
Mapping logic information associating a particular type of input with a particular response may be stored in memory. Data including information regarding a display of the host device may be received. Such information may be used to identify multiple descriptions of the host device display. Each description is mapped to a response based on the stored mapping logic. For example, a status bar may be used by the host device to show status updates. The map allows for a different type of response to status updates on the client device, such as a translucent pop-up window. Instructions may be generated for the client device, such that the client device response to input information is based on the mapped description.
US09280348B2
A technique is provided for replacing an atomic sequence. A processing circuit receives the atomic sequence. The processing circuit detects the atomic sequence. The processing circuit generates an internal atomic operation to replace the atomic sequence.
US09280345B2
There is provided a processor comprising a plurality of registers, an acquisition unit, a calculation unit, a pipeline register, and a storage unit, wherein in a case in which a register indicated by source register information included in a second instruction and a register indicated by destination register information included in a first instruction match, and the second instruction or an instruction that precedes to the second instruction designates the second instruction as the last instruction that uses the calculated value obtained in accordance with the first instruction, the storage unit does not store the calculated value stored in the pipeline register in a register indicated by destination register information included in the first instruction, and stores, in other cases, the calculated value stored in the pipeline register in the register indicated by the destination register information included in the first instruction.
US09280336B2
A processor copies first and second installable binary files into first and second disk images of first and second virtual machines, respectively, before instantiating the images. The processor can copy first installation parameters and second installation parameters into the first image. The processor copies additional first installation parameters and additional second installation parameters into the second image. The processor at least partially executes a first installation process, based on the first installation parameters, to install the first installable binary files, and a second installation process, based on the additional second installation parameters, to install the second installable binary files. The processor at least partially executes the installation processes in an interleaved manner in relation to one another, based on dependencies. After instantiating the images, the processor can execute scripts based on the second installation parameters and the additional second installation parameters to complete installation.
US09280334B2
A method for controlling execution of a script program programmed to install a computer program is disclosed. An installation computer begins execution of the script program, and before a line or stanza of the script program is executed to initiate installation of the computer program, the installation computer determines that the line or stanza is programmed to initiate installation of the computer program. In response, the installation computer determines if the computer program is already installed. If the computer program is already installed, the installation computer skips the line or stanza of the script program so the script program will not attempt to install the computer program. However, if not, the installation computer continues to execute the script program including the line or stanza programmed to initiate installation of the computer program, such that the script program attempts to install the computer program.
US09280333B1
An object has an unresolved symbol corresponding with a direct first function call in a first module of the object. A loader receives a request to resolve the symbol and identifies a callee function called by the first function call, identifies a second module in which the callee function is located, and determines whether the function call corresponds with one or more properties of two or more properties. The loader returns a first callee function entry point associated with a first property when the first function call has the first property. The loader returns a second callee function entry point associated with a second property when the first function call has the second property. The first and second callee function entry points are for storing in a program linkage table. The request can be received when the first function call is first invoked or when the first module is loaded.
US09280330B2
An apparatus and method for executing code are provided. The apparatus includes a memory manager that allocates a stack in memory to store processed data that needs to be retained; a loop generator that divides program code programmed to be processed in parallel into regions based on a barrier function, transforms a region that includes the processed data that needs to be retained in the stack into a first coalescing loop, and transforms a region that uses the processed data stored in the stack into a second coalescing loop such that the transformed program code may be serially processed; and a loop changer that reverses a processing order of the second coalescing loop in comparison to a processing order of the first coalescing loop.
US09280328B2
A method for optimizing binary code in a language having access to binary coded decimal variable. The method includes: generating a first compiler expression of the binary code; analyzing a use-definition and/or a definition-use for the first compiler expression; generating a second compiler expression by identifying logical binary coded decimal (BCD) variables in the first compiler expression; assigning temporary variables to the logical BCD variables, wherein the second compiler expression includes packed decimal operations and the assigned temporary variables; and converting a packed decimal operation in the second compiler expression and an assigned temporary variable to a decimal floating point (DFP) if sign information and precision information are not lost during conversion from BCD to DFP, wherein identifying logical BCD variables includes: in the use-definition and/or definition-use of operands, regarding an operand of definition and an operand of use as the same logical BCD variables.
US09280321B2
A method, system, and/or computer program product distributes a user interface (UI) initiated system event, from a single producer of the UI-initiated system event, across multiple systems event consumers on multiple execution environments. An operating system (OS) event receiver in a server receives a user interface (UI) initiated system event on the server. In response to the OS event receiver receiving the UI-initiated system event, the UI-initiated system event is recorded and published, via messages, to multiple systems event consumers on multiple execution environments, where each message directs a receiving execution environment adapter to locally replicate and execute the UI-initiated system event from the server on each of the multiple execution environments.
US09280316B2
A hardware circuit for returning single precision denormal results to double precision. A hardware circuit component configured to count leading zeros of an unrounded single precision denormal result. A hardware circuit component configured to pre-compute a first exponent and a second exponent for the unrounded single precision denormal result. A hardware circuit component configured to perform a second normalization of the rounded single precision denormal result back to architected format.
US09280314B2
Disclosed is a method for controlling a cordless telephone device for use in a system that allows remote control of a home electric appliance. The method includes a first generation step of causing a first generation unit in a handset to encode audio input via a sound receiving unit in the handset to generate a first stream, and a first transmission step of transmitting the first stream to a base unit. The first generation step includes causing the first generation unit to generate instruction bit information and a first instruction stream when a first trigger indicating a request to start the remote control is given to the first generation unit. The first transmission step includes transmitting the instruction bit information and the first instruction stream to the base unit through a multiplexing scheme that is common to transmission of a first stream generated when the first trigger is not given.
US09280308B2
A three-dimensional object preview device includes a cross-sectional image data generation section configured to generate cross-sectional image data representing a cross-sectional shape of each layer of a three-dimensional object, a two-dimensional coordinate data acquisition section configured to acquire first two-dimensional coordinate data from the cross-sectional image data, a two-dimensional coordinate data conversion section configured to convert, using triangulation, the first two-dimensional coordinate data into second two-dimensional coordinate data, a three-dimensional coordinate data generation section configured to add Z-axis coordinate information to the second two-dimensional coordinate data to generate three-dimensional coordinate data, a layer image data generation section configured to add layer thickness information to the three-dimensional coordinate data, thus generating layer image data, a printing image data generation section configured to generate, using the layer image data, printing image data representing a three-dimensional model, and a display section configured to cause a display device to display the three-dimensional model.
US09280299B2
A method includes storing data in a non-volatile memory that includes multiple memory blocks. At least first and second regions are defined in the non-volatile memory. A definition is made of a first over-provisioning ratio between a first logical address space and a first physical memory space of the first region, and a second over-provisioning ratio, different from the first over-provisioning ratio, between a second logical address space and a second physical memory space of the second region. Portions of the data are compacted, individually within each of the first and second regions and independently of the other region, by copying the portions from one or more source memory blocks to one or more destination memory blocks using the first and second over-provisioning ratios, respectively.
US09280293B2
A computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the program instructions are executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method. The method includes storing an operating system in minor stripes on a first data storage device forming a first logical storage unit, and storing data in major stripes across a plurality of data storage devices forming a second logical data storage unit. Each major stripe includes a plurality of minor stripes storing data and a parity stripe. The method further includes calculating the parity stripe from the plurality of minor stripes within the major stripe and a corresponding one of the minor stripes on the first data storage device, wherein the minor stripes on the first data storage device match the size of the minor stripes on the array of data storage devices.
US09280291B2
A method of fetching digital data and writing the digital data into a memory of a logic analyzer, which comprises the steps: designate at least a first region and a second region in a memory; set a first triggering condition and a second triggering condition; fetch digital data continuously and write it into the memory while analyzing; and then write first test data which have an identification to satisfy the first triggering condition into the first region, and write second test data which have an identification to satisfy the second triggering condition into the second region. And once the first test data or the second test data are found, stop writing the digital data into the corresponding regions.
US09280281B2
A mechanism for allowing a user to prove their identity on touch-based devices employing the use of a touch surface in firmware-controlled environments is discussed. The user may prove his or her identity by entering a series of strokes on the touch-based device to form a word or image. Characteristics of the entered strokes such as stroke order and stroke direction are compared to stored stroke characteristics that were gathered from a drawing of the same word or image during a user enrollment process. If the stroke characteristics comparison is acceptable, the user identity is verified.
US09280279B2
A user interface method is disclosed. For a particular interface, such as a touch input device, the method involves defining an enablement protocol for a function and recording and retaining the enablement protocol of said function, such that a user enables the function by substantially reproducing the enablement protocol in the absence of spatial or temporal indication of at least a portion of the enablement protocol.
US09280271B2
An interactive programmable beverage brewing apparatus providing audible setup and control instructions for ease of use is presented. The beverage brewing apparatus includes the ability to audibly instruct a user in the steps for setup of the beverage flavor characteristics when a beverage is to be brewed, and provide audible instructions in the use of the machine during normal brewing operations. The beverage brewing apparatus also provides a visual display to present phrases and icons to assist the user in performing setup and brew operations in conjunction with the audible instructions. Visual phrases and icons presented to a user also provide instruction in how to setup and control timers and how to turn on and off one or more warming plates to keep a beverage hot during and after brewing.
US09280270B1
A system can receive and/or otherwise access information about items of content (e.g., audio tracks, video tracks, images and/or other items), information about a playlist to be generated, information about the past behavior of the target entity for the playlist and/or information about the past behavior of other entities. Examples of information about the items of content include genre, artist, album, time period, etc. Examples of information about a playlist include tempo curve, event type, playlist duration, etc. Based on all or a subset of the above-described information, the system automatically generates a playlist that identifies items of content. The playlist is presented to the target entity so that the target entity can acquire the playlist and/or the items of content identified in the playlist. In some embodiments, the target entity is also provided with an opportunity to edit the playlist.
US09280264B2
A system and method for transferring data or an image. A user-selected image or user-generated text within a word processing document is received. Displayed are: a graphic object representing a web page, and a first and second destination point within the graphic object. A user mouse selection of one of the destination points within the graphic object is received, and in response, the image or selected text is copied into the web page at the selected destination point. The first destination point and first text which is adjacent to the first destination point and describes the first destination point in a transfer map are stored. The second destination point and second text which is adjacent to the second destination point and describes the second destination point in the transfer map are stored. The user-selected text is mapped to the one of the destination points in the transfer map.
US09280257B2
A navigation system for navigating a three-dimensional (3D) scene that includes a model or object with which a user can interact. The system accommodates and helps both novice and advanced users. To do this, the system provides cursor wrapping around the view id the 3D scene with continued motion of the cursor in the direction of movement by the user.
US09280253B2
An application coordinating system may be provided with coordination rule storage device that stores coordination rule(s) pertaining to coordination source application(s) and coordination target application(s); item value acquirer that acquires item value(s) at coordination acquisition item(s) within coordination item acquisition window(s) of coordination source application(s) displayed at display device(s) during coordination; coordinated launch command generator that generates coordinated launch command(s) which include, as launch parameter(s), item value(s) acquired by item value acquirer based on coordinated launch command format(s) during coordination; and coordinated transfer protocol generator that generates coordinated transfer protocol(s) which include, as transferred data, item value(s) acquired by item value acquirer based on coordinated transfer protocol format(s) during coordination.
US09280251B2
A touch sensor panel. In some examples, a first touch pixel can be coupled to a first sense connection, and a second touch pixel can be coupled to a second sense connection. In some examples, a first portion of the first sense connection can be disposed in a first region of the touch sensor panel, a second portion of the second sense connection can be disposed in the first region, and a third portion of the second sense connection can be disposed in a second region of the touch sensor panel. In some examples, a width of the third portion of the second sense connection can be larger than a width of the second portion of the second sense connection.
US09280249B2
A position detecting method for a touchscreen panel includes the steps of (a) determining the presence or absence of contact with the touchscreen panel on a conductive film divided into multiple conductive regions; (b) measuring a time after the detection of the absence of the contact and determining whether the measured time is less than a predetermined time if step (a) determines the absence of the contact; and (c) determining the continuance of the contact if the measured time is less than the predetermined time.
US09280247B2
A display device includes a display panel, and an electrostatic capacitive type touch panel which is formed in an overlapping manner with the display panel. A plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes intersecting with the X electrodes. A first signal line supplies signals to the X electrodes, a second signal line supplies signals to the Y electrodes, and the first signal line and the second signal line are formed on a flexible printed circuit board. A dummy electrode is formed adjacent to an electrode portion of each X electrode and electrode portion of each Y electrode, the dummy electrode does not overlap the X electrode and the Y electrode, and the dummy electrode does not electrically connect with the first and second signal lines.
US09280246B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a touch sensor that includes a mesh of conductive material configured to extend across a display that includes multiple pixels that each include sub-pixels. The mesh includes multiple first and second lines of conductive material. The first lines are substantially parallel to each other, and the second lines are substantially parallel to each other. Each of the pixels has a first pixel pitch (PPx) along a first axis and a second pixel pitch (PPy) along a second axis that is substantially perpendicular to the first axis. The first pixel pitch is a distance between corresponding features of two adjacent pixels along the first axis, and the second pixel pitch is a distance between corresponding features of two adjacent pixels along the second axis. The first lines extend across the display at a first angle relative to the first axis.
US09280240B2
A processing system includes a transmitter module, a receiver module, and a determination module. The transmitter module is configured to drive a first contact, a second contact, and a third contact of a first transmitter electrode, wherein the first contact is disposed between the second contact and the third contact. This produces a first voltage gradient between the first contact and the second contact, and produces a second voltage gradient between the first contact and the third contact. The receiver module receives, with a first receiver electrode, a first resulting signal including effects of the first voltage gradient, and to receive, with a second receiver electrode, a second resulting signal comprising effects of the second voltage gradient. The determination module determines positional information for an input object located within a sensing region based on the first resulting signal and the second resulting signal.
US09280239B2
A touch activated control useful for incorporation into, e.g., a DON/DOFF sensor of a communications headset or a touch pad for a cell phone, includes a weakly conductive electrode and a sensor coupled to the electrode and operative to detect a change in parasitic capacitance caused by a change in the proximity of a body to the electrode. The electrode may include a covering made of a weakly conductive material. The weakly conductive property of the electrode enables the prevention of undesirable electrostatic discharge (ESD), user skin irritation and electrode corrosion caused by direct contact between the electrode and the user's skin and also exhibit's a substantially higher sensitivity than electrodes covered with an insulative material.
US09280236B2
A display driving circuit with photo detecting input includes pixel regions, pixel electrodes, gate lines, data lines, at least one photo detecting unit and at least one readout line. The gate lines cross the data lines. The data lines include a first data line and a second data line disposed adjacently to each other. There is no data line disposed between the first data line and the second data line. The photo detecting unit is electrically connected to one of the gate lines. The readout line is electrically connected to the photo detecting unit and disposed between the first data line and the second data line. A first spacing between first data line and the readout line is wider than or equal to a second spacing between the second data line and the readout line, and the first spacing is smaller than or equal to triple the second spacing.
US09280234B1
A system and method determines whether a finger touch on a touch screen device is outside the defined boundary of a touch target. In such situations a device may adjust the location coordinates of the finger touch to adaptively correspond to an appropriate touch target based on such factors as context, region, distance from touch target, user history, device movement, parallax, etc. The method and system may also be applied to overlapping touch targets.
US09280228B1
A hand-held control device includes a housing including first and second housing pieces and a touch pad attached to an exterior surface of the first housing piece. The second housing piece defines a coupler well containing an electrical header. A speaker retention structure on an interior surface of the second housing piece includes an annular wall extending from an interior surface of the first housing piece and including a plurality of gaps at spaced intervals, and a resilient speaker retention finger extending from the interior surface of the first housing piece in each of the gaps. A cable connector assembly includes a coupler containing a socket, and a control cable electrically connected to the socket within the coupler. The coupler is sized and shaped to fill a coupler well in the housing so that the socket is connectable to the electrical header in the coupler well.
US09280225B2
An electrode structure for a touchscreen is provided. The electrode structure includes a flexible substrate and a plurality of electrode lines, wherein the electrode line includes a first adhesive layer, a second adhesive layer, a conductive layer, a first resist layer and a second resist layer. Through the configuration above, the electrode structure of the present application adheres the flexible substrate strongly by the first adhesive layer, and the second adhesive layer strengthen the adhesion between the first adhesive layer and the conductive layer, so that the conductive layer may be firmly adhered to the flexible substrate, even change the shape of the substrate, the electrode lines are not easy to fall off. The present invention also provides an electrode structure for scattering the reflective metallic luster to make observer imperceptible and reduce the backlight interference.
US09280223B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging part for capturing a subject image, a touch panel for acquiring a touch position input by a user, and a control part for controlling an imaging operation performed by the imaging part. The control part acquires the touch position to cause the imaging part to perform the imaging operation each time the touch position is displaced on the touch panel by a predetermined amount repeatedly during a continuous touch user input.
US09280207B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for selecting symbols based on actuation of one or more keys or switches associated with a vehicle. One or more processors may interpret signals generated from the one or more keys or switches to ascertain symbols associated with the same.
US09280206B2
A method, system and computer-readable medium for providing feedback effects for an image. The method includes identifying one or more features in an area of the image. The method also includes mapping the one or more identified features to at least one of multiple modalities of feedback effects. Additionally, the method includes generating parameters for feedback effect output and storing the generated parameters in association with the image such that, in response to coordinates of an input of a user corresponding to the area of the image, a user interface associated with the image is configured to provide at least one of the multiple modalities of feedback effects to the user. The multiple modalities of feedback effects include one or more visual feedback effects, one or more haptic feedback effects and one or more audio feedback effects.
US09280189B2
A computer system is disclosed. When a user conducts different operations on a switch module, a switch module generates different clicking indication signal, and a logic control module generates a corresponding signal according to clicking indication signals so that a management control module processes a signal generated by a logic control module. As such, a single switch may be used to trigger multiple functions, whereby achieving in the efficacy of saving a design cost of a server panel.
US09280185B2
The present invention pertains to a conductive sheet and a touch panel. A first conductive pattern and a second conductive pattern are both configured from the combination of a plurality of first lattices and a plurality of second lattices having a size that is larger than that of the first lattices. Of the first conductive pattern, the portion facing the second conductive pattern is configured from a plurality of second lattices, of the second conductive pattern, the portion facing the first conductive pattern is configured from a plurality of second lattices, and when seen from the top surface, the portions at which the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern are facing have a form that combines a plurality of first lattices.
US09280184B2
A method of adjusting electromagnetic radiation transmitted by an optical element is described. The method includes sensing the electromagnetic radiation transmitted by the optical element to produce sensed electromagnetic radiation information, and adjusting the sensed electromagnetic radiation information to produce adjusted electromagnetic radiation information based on the a spectral transmission of the optical element.
US09280181B2
There is provided an electronic apparatus, including a first housing, a second housing which has a display section and a support member supporting the display section, and a housing connection section which rotatably connects the second housing with respect to the first housing. The support member includes a first support section connected to the housing connection section, a second support section which fixedly supports the display section, and a support connection section, positioned between the first support section and the second support section, which has a flexibility to rotatably connect the second support section with respect to the first support section.
US09280174B2
An electronics module for a data storage device enclosure, and, data storage device enclosures. The module comprises an enclosure connector for connecting to the enclosure, at least one bay constructed and arranged to receive a data storage device, and a controller arranged to selectively provide access to storage devices to which it is connected. The module has a communications path between the controller and the enclosure connector by which the controller can communicate with storage devices in the enclosure. The module also has a first communications path to the data storage device when received in the bay by which the controller can communicate with that data storage device. The module also has a second communications path to the data storage device when received in the bay by which that data storage device can be accessed from outside the module.
US09280173B2
According to one embodiment, electronic device includes first board, second board, first component, and second component. The first board includes first and second faces and to which opening and cutout portion is provided. The opening penetrates through the first board. The cutout portion extends to side separating from center of the opening at edge of the opening. The second board includes third and fourth faces. The second board overlaps the first board and is electrically connected to the first board in state in which the fourth face and the first face face each other. The second board covers the opening. The first electronic component is provided to the third face, and electrically connected to the second board. The second component is provided to the fourth face and electrically connected to the second board in state in which at least portion of the second component is held in the opening.
US09280170B2
A field device has a primary power supply generating circuit that generates a primary power supply from an electric current that is supplied through a pair of electric wires from a higher-level system, and a calculation processing portion and various functional circuit portions, which operate based on a supply of an operating power supply electric current produced from the primary power supply. The field device also has an operating power supply electric current supplying unit that supplies the operating power supply electric current to a calculation processing portion with maximum priority. The calculation processing portion receives the operating power supply electric current supplied with maximum priority, clears a self-reset operation after starting up itself, and then directs sequentially, following a predetermined sequence, supply of the operating power supply electric current to each of the various functional circuit portions.
US09280169B2
A voltage regulator can provide a regulated output voltage. The voltage regulator includes a regulating module that includes a resistor and a field effect transistor that has a threshold voltage. The resistor is coupled to a gate terminal and a source terminal of the field effect transistor. The regulating module provides the output voltage. A reference module is suitable for detecting a variation of the output voltage. The reference module is coupled with the regulating module. A current sink is suitable for subtracting a compensation current from the current flowing from the regulating module to the reference module. The compensation current is dependent on a variation of the threshold voltage.
US09280168B2
A highly distributed current reference for a solid-state memory comprises a centrally located current digital-to-analog converter (IDAC) and a plurality of remotely located tile current references. The IDAC comprises a first active device that generates a reference current, and a device that forms a first source degeneration resistance for the first active device. The IDAC outputs a voltage signal that represents a magnitude of the reference current. A remotely located tile current reference comprises a second active device and a device that forms a second source degeneration resistance for the second active device. The source degeneration resistances and capacitance coupled to the voltage signal output from the IDAC compensate for current, temperature, supply and process variations.
US09280163B2
This disclosure relates to radio frequency (RF) power converters and methods of operating the same. In one embodiment, an RF power converter includes an RF switching converter, a low-drop out (LDO) regulation circuit, and an RF filter. The RF filter is coupled to receive a pulsed output voltage from the RF switching converter and a supply voltage from the LDO regulation circuit. The RF filter is operable to alternate between a first RF filter topology and a second RF filter topology. In the first RF filter topology, the RF filter is configured to convert the pulsed output voltage from a switching circuit into the supply voltage. The RF filter in the second RF filter topology is configured to filter the supply voltage from the LDO regulation circuit to reduce a ripple variation in a supply voltage level of the supply voltage. As such, the RF filter provides greater versatility.
US09280162B2
Described herein are a method and an apparatus for minimizing within-die variations in performance parameters of a processor. The apparatus comprising: a reference generator to generate an adjustable compensated reference signal; a bias generator to generate a bias signal based on the adjustable compensated reference signal; a transmitter coupled with the bias generator to transmit an output signal; and a feedback mechanism to sample the output signal from the transmitter and to provide the sampled output signal to the bias generator.
US09280158B2
Disclosed is a method of guiding a mobile robot, comprising: providing a transmitter (110), and having said transmitter transmit a guide signal (300) into a spatially bounded guide signal reception field (302); providing a mobile robot (200) including two mutually adjacently disposed guide signal sensors (210a, 210b), each configured to generate a reference signal that reflects its reception of the guide signal; and moving the robot along a boundary portion (306) of the guide signal reception field while, based on said reference signals, maintaining a tracking state in which a first of said guide signal sensors (210a) is positioned substantially on a first side of said boundary portion, and a second of said guide signal sensors (210b) is positioned substantially on an opposite, second side of said boundary portion (306). Also disclosed is a system implementing the method.
US09280154B2
In a vehicle system, an inter-vehicle distance between vehicles is controlled by periodically reporting vehicle statuses from a plurality of vehicles to a ground controller and also periodically sending travelling instructions to the plurality of vehicles from the ground controller. Each vehicle stops when detecting failed reception of an instruction from the ground controller and reporting a vehicle status including information that the vehicle has stopped to the ground controller, and the ground controller based on the report received from the stopped vehicle sends a travelling instruction to the stopped vehicle, and based on the report received from the stopped vehicle, also sends a travelling instruction to a vehicle that follows the stopped vehicle so as to avoid interference with the stopped vehicle.
US09280150B2
A numerical controller obtains a position of each driving shaft of a machine performing determination of a feeding speed, interpolation and coordinate conversion according to a relative instruction path and an instruction speed of a tool tip point relative to a work instructed to a processing program. When determining the feeding speed, a reference point is provided on a tool or a table, a translation speed of the reference point viewed from a mechanical coordinate system is set to an observation target speed, a reference feeding speed is obtained so that the observation target speed is a predetermined reference speed, and the smaller of the reference feeding speed and the instruction feeding speed is set to the feeding speed.
US09280145B2
In various embodiments, apparatus, systems, and methods for detecting an intoxicated driver of a vehicle and preventing operation of the vehicle are presented. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises an air intake configured to intake an air sample from a predetermined detection zone. The predetermined detection zone is defined as a three-dimensional zone substantially in or in proximity of an area of a vehicle occupied by a driver. An operator detection sensor detects the presence of the driver within the predetermined detection zone. The operator detection sensor automatically operates the air intake when the operator is detected. A detector module comprises a sensor configured to produce an electrical signal representative of a blood alcohol content of the driver. A control module is electrically coupled to the detector module to control at least one operation of the vehicle in response to the signal received by the control module from the sensor.
US09280143B2
A sensitivity adjustment device adjusts radio wave sensitivity of an antenna which wirelessly transmits/receives a signal to/from an external device. The sensitivity adjustment device includes: a sensitivity adjuster and an adjuster moving section. The sensitivity adjuster includes (a) a shielding part which shields a radio wave and (b) a penetration part which allows penetration of a radio wave. The adjuster moving section moves the sensitivity adjuster with respect to the antenna in such a way as (a) to change a position of the shielding part and a position of the penetration part with respect to the antenna, and (b) to adjust a covered area of the antenna covered with the sensitivity adjuster, so as to adjust the radio wave sensitivity of the antenna.
US09280139B2
An image forming apparatus including a fan cover including a wall portion disposed to overlap a rotational axis of a fan in an axis direction along the rotational axis, the wall portion extending in an orthogonal direction perpendicular to the axis direction, a first section disposed on one side relative to the wall portion in the orthogonal direction, the first section having a first opening disposed on one side relative to the fan in the axis direction and on the one side relative to the rotational axis in the orthogonal direction, and a second section disposed on an other side relative to the wall portion in the orthogonal direction, the second section having a second opening disposed on the one side relative to the fan in the axis direction and on the other side relative to the rotational axis in the orthogonal direction.
US09280128B2
An image forming apparatus including a side cover rotatably installed to open and close an opening provided at a body thereof while rotating, a first transfer unit to which a visible image of photoconductors of developing units is transferred, and a second transfer unit movably installed at the side cover to transfer the visible image to a printing medium, wherein the second transfer unit is provided at both sides thereof with a plurality of guide protrusions to perform a position restriction, and the body is provided at both sidewalls of inside thereof with a plurality of guide members to support the plurality of guide protrusions such that the second transfer unit is supported against both sidewalls of the inside of the body through the guide protrusion and the guide member, thereby reducing a reaction force applied to the side cover.
US09280123B2
A setting unit sets a high-voltage set value. A first generation unit generates a high voltage based on the set value set by the setting unit and a first reference voltage supplied from a supply unit. A second generation unit generates a second reference voltage by being supplied with the first reference voltage from the supply unit. A comparing unit compares the first reference voltage with the second reference voltage. A storage unit stores a comparison result that has been obtained in advance by the comparing unit comparing the first reference voltage with the second reference voltage. A correction unit corrects the high-voltage set value based on a comparison result that is obtained by the comparing unit when the image forming apparatus is in use and the comparison result that has been obtained in advance and is stored in the storage unit.
US09280120B2
A decolorizing apparatus includes first and second heating units, first and second heat source units, and a controller. The first and second heating units decolorize an image using decolorable colorants which are decolorized if heated. The first heating unit heats one surface of a sheet. The second heating unit heats a remaining surface which is opposite to the one surface of the sheet heated by the first heating unit. The first heat source unit heats the first heating unit. The second heat source unit heats the second heating unit. The controller includes a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the controller performs a decolorizing process on both the surfaces of the sheet by heating the first and second heating units using the first and second heat source units. In the second mode, the controller performs the decolorizing process on one surface of the sheet by heating the first heating unit using the first heat source unit, and heats the second heating unit using the second heat source unit with output which is lower than output acquired in the first mode.
US09280119B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image reading unit, an image forming unit, a discharge unit, and a discharge tray. The image reading unit is configured to read a document placed on a document placement table by moving and scanning of a scanning body in a sub-scanning direction. The image forming unit is configured to form an image read by the image reading unit on a paper sheet. The discharge unit is configured to discharge the paper sheet on which an image is formed by the image forming unit to a direction perpendicular to the sub-scanning direction. The discharge tray is on which the paper sheet from the discharge unit is to be placed with a space portion at a lower side of the image reading unit. A bottom surface of a housing of the image reading unit facing the discharge tray is constituted of a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is a surface at a front side of the discharge unit in a discharging direction and high with respect to the discharge tray. The second surface is a surface at a back side of the discharge unit in the discharging direction lower than the first surface with respect to the discharge tray. A pulling member and/or a movable wiring are/is arranged at an upper side of the second surface inside the housing. The pulling member is configured to move the scanning body back and forth in the sub-scanning direction. One end portion of the movable wiring is secured to the scanning body.
US09280115B2
An image forming apparatus comprises: a counting unit which counts the number of pixels at each tone level in a halftone image corresponding to an input image; a determination unit which determines a halftone region in the halftone image; an acquisition unit which acquires tone characteristic information of an output density of the image forming apparatus; a correction unit which obtains a density in a region to be formed by using a developing material from the number of pixels at each of the tone levels and information of the halftone region and correct the density in accordance with the tone characteristic information; and a first prediction unit which predicts a consumption amount of the developing material by using the density corrected by the correction unit.
US09280113B2
An image forming apparatus capable of stabilizing image density on a long-term basis by compensating for an error in prediction of toner particle charge amount, while reducing variation in image density on a short-term basis by the prediction. A CPU predicts an amount of electrostatic charge of toner particles in a developer container and sets an exposure condition and causes a toner image to be fixed on a recording medium and a pattern image for detecting image density, to be each formed on a photosensitive drum according to the set exposure condition, while performing gradation correction based on the gradation conversion table. The CPU updates the gradation conversion table such that a detected density of the pattern image becomes closer to a target density. The CPU sets the exposure condition based on a result of the prediction such that toner image density becomes constant.
US09280100B2
An image forming apparatus, which is capable of suitably preventing a separating discharge phenomenon from occurring at a fixing entrance guide for guiding a recording material to a fixing device, includes a control portion for controlling a transfer bias voltage and a separation bias voltage. A transfer roller transfers a toner image from a surface of a photosensitive drum onto a sheet at a transfer nip portion, and the control portion changes the transfer bias voltage applied to the transfer roller and the separation bias voltage applied to a charge eliminating needle to have larger voltage values before a trailing edge of the sheet, which is conveyed to the transfer nip portion and is subjected to transfer, passes through the transfer nip portion.
US09280094B1
A developer unit for a dual component development electrophotographic image forming device according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a reservoir for storing a developer mix that includes toner and magnetic carrier beads. An auger is positioned to convey developer mix in the reservoir toward the outer surface of a magnetic roll on a front of the housing. A ledge on an inner surface of the housing extends axially with respect to the magnetic roll along a front of the reservoir. The ledge is positioned upstream from a trim bar and downstream from a pickup pole of the magnetic roll with respect to the operative rotational direction of the magnetic roll. The ledge has a concave curved inner surface that is open to the reservoir and extends from near the trim bar to near a front side of the auger.
US09280091B2
A toner conveying device includes a first communication opening, a toner supply opening, a toner conveyance passage, an opening/closing member, and a moving member. The first communication opening communicates with a toner discharge outlet formed in a toner case in a state where the toner case is attached to a predetermined attachment position, the toner case including an operation portion. The toner conveyance passage connects the first communication opening to the toner supply opening. The opening/closing member moves between a closing position and an opening position. When the opening/closing member is at the closing position, the toner supply opening is closed, and when the opening/closing member is at the opening position, the toner supply opening is opened. The moving member is dislocated in conjunction with an operation of the operation portion in such a way as to move the opening/closing member from the closing position to the opening position.
US09280088B2
A developer container includes a developer containing part that has an cylindrical hollow shape inside and contains developer therein; and an agitation member that is elastic and rotatably provided inside the developer containing part, rotating around a rotation axis that is a center of the cylindrical hollow shape, having at least a side edge extending in the rotation axis. The developer containing part has a side wall part on one end thereof in a direction of the rotation axis of the agitation member, the side wall extending to correspond to the side edge of the agitation member and scraping a surface of the side wall while the agitation member rotates, the side wall part has a projection part that projects toward inside of the developer containing part so that the side edge of the agitation member is elastically deformed by the projection part when passing over the projection part.
US09280073B1
An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that includes a conductive substrate and an organic layer which includes a photoreceptive layer; a charging member that charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor; an electrostatic latent image forming unit; a developing unit; a transfer unit; and a cleaning member that performs cleaning on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, wherein a contact area of the electrophotographic photoreceptor with the cleaning member in an axis direction of the electrophotographic photoreceptor is wider than a contact area thereof with the charging member, and d, d′, d″ and d″max, which each are values with respect to the total film thickness of the organic layer at the respective portions as defined in the present specification, satisfy expressions 0.97≦d′/d≦1.03, 0.97≦d″/d≦1.1 and 1.03≦d″max/d≦1.1 at each of both of the end portions in the axis direction of the electrophotographic photoreceptor.
US09280070B2
Methods disclosed herein apply an electric field and/or a magnetic field during photolithography processes. The field application may control the diffusion of the charged species generated by the photoacid generator along the line and spacing direction, preventing the line edge/width roughness that results from random diffusion. The field application may additionally or alternatively control the diffusion of the charged species in a direction perpendicular to a plane formed by the photoresist layer. Such controlled perpendicular diffusion may increase the photoresist sensitivity. In other embodiments, the field may control the diffusion of the charged species within the plane of the photoresist layer but in a direction perpendicular or non-parallel to the line and spacing direction. Apparatuses for carrying out the aforementioned methods are also disclosed herein.
US09280066B2
The present invention provides a stage apparatus which holds a substrate, including a first moving stage, a second moving stage supported by the first moving stage, a linear motor including a coil arranged on the first moving stage, and a magnet arranged on the second moving stage in correspondence with the coil, a first channel formed in the first moving stage to supply a first refrigerant for recovering heat from the coil not to contact the coil, a cover member arranged on the first moving stage to surround the coil and be spaced apart from the coil, and a second channel formed in the cover member to supply a second refrigerant for recovering heat from the cover member not to contact the coil.
US09280065B2
A system detects targets located within patterns. It operates in the pupil plane by filtering the received signal from the surrounding pattern. A method includes illuminating a target and a surrounding pattern with radiation, detecting the radiation reflected by the target and the surrounding pattern and forming a first set of data based on the detected radiation, removing portions of the first set of data which correspond to the target to form reduced data, interpolating the remaining portions of the reduced data over the removed portions to form product data, and subtracting the product data from the first set of data to form target data.
US09280062B2
An exposure device can exposes a circuit pattern while information data is suitably changed. An exposure device comprises a first light source (20) for irradiating a first light including ultraviolet rays, a projection exposure unit (70) for exposing a circuit pattern drawn on a photomask on a substrate, with the first light, a substrate stage (60) for mounting the substrate, a housing (11) for arranging the substrate stage, a second light source (41) for irradiating a second light including ultraviolet rays, arranged at a position different from the first light source, a spatial light modulation unit (40) for exposing information data formed electrically using the second light on the substrate, and a spatial optical light modulation unit driving means (5) for moving the spatial light modulation unit arranged on the housing (11) in a direction parallel to a moving direction of the substrate stage.
US09280056B2
A method for printing a desired periodic pattern includes providing a mask bearing a pattern of features having a period, providing a substrate bearing a photosensitive layer, arranging the substrate with a separation from the mask, generating collimated light with a wavelength and an intensity, at least the former of which may be temporally varied to deliver a spectral distribution of energy density, illuminating the mask pattern with the light while varying at least its wavelength so as to deliver a spectral distribution of energy density, such that the light-field transmitted by the mask is instantaneously composed of a range of transversal intensity distributions between Talbot planes. The layer is exposed to a time-integrated intensity distribution that prints the desired pattern. The separation, spectral distribution and period are arranged so that the time-integrated intensity distribution corresponds to an average of the range of transversal intensity distributions.
US09280050B2
The present invention provides an exposure apparatus which exposes a substrate, the apparatus including an adjustment unit configured to adjust an oxygen concentration in a space between the projection optical system and the substrate, a measuring unit configured to measure an illuminance of light applied to the substrate, and a control unit configured to control the measuring unit so as to measure illuminances of light applied to the substrate a plurality of times during irradiation of the substrate with light from the projection optical system, configured to calculate, based on each of the illuminances measured the plurality of times, an oxygen concentration value corresponding to the measured illuminance on each time and configured to control the adjustment unit so as to set the oxygen concentration in the space to the calculated oxygen concentration value.
US09280045B2
The present invention is to provide a mask blank enabling fabrication of a photomask having a structure where electrostatic breakdown is effectively prevented. To accomplish the object, the invention discloses a mask blank comprising a mask substrate, an electrostatic breakdown prevention film fully covering one side of the mask substrate, and a shading film formed on the electrostatic breakdown prevention film. The electrostatic breakdown prevention film is made of titanium, tantalum, titanium compound or tantalum compound. The transparent rate of the electrostatic breakdown prevention film is not less than 75%, for the wavelength of light in an exposure. The sheet resistance of the electrostatic discharge prevention film is not more than 100KΩ/□.
US09280037B2
A camera mount apparatus is disclosed that allows toolless rotation with integrated detent and locking features. The apparatus has the ability to rotate a camera and lens predetermined increments. In the preferred embodiment, the camera and lens are constrained together, and rotate about the optical axis. One portion of the apparatus remains fixed while another portion rotates and slides, allowing the camera and light to be rotated in a controlled fashion. The apparatus has a hand retractable pin that locks rotational movement and that is released manually to allow rotation adjustment The apparatus has spring plungers that mate to spherical indented features to provide a function to allow a positive feel when the desired angular position is achieved during rotation. The apparatus has bearing surfaces that allow rotation and provide contact of bearing material on rotational sliding faces to metal contact.
US09280032B2
An optical frequency conversion method and device are provided by which a component other than a desired harmonic component can be eliminated with high precision and an output lightwave with the desired frequency component can be easily extracted even if the frequency of a modulation signal is changed. A plurality of phase control sections (101-1 to 101-n) that respectively generate a plurality of individual modulation signals with different phases from a modulation signal, a plurality of optical single sideband modulation sections (MOD1 to MODn) that respectively modulate an input lightwave in accordance with the plurality of individual modulation signals, and a plurality of optical phase control sections (201-1 to 201-n) that respectively give optical phase differences to a plurality of lightwaves that are respectively output from the plurality of optical single sideband modulation sections, an output lightwave is generated by multiplexing a plurality of lightwaves that are output from the plurality of optical phase control sections, wherein phase differences among the plurality of individual modulation signals and the optical phase differences are set so that a predetermined harmonic component other than a target frequency in the output lightwave will be eliminated.
US09280027B2
A liquid crystal display is disclosed. In one aspect, the liquid crystal display includes first and second display substrates and a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal display also includes a sealant interposed between the first and second display substrates and substantially sealing the liquid crystal layer. The sealant overlaps a gate metal portion formed on the first display substrate. The gate metal portion includes a first gate metal, a second gate metal opposing the first gate metal and spaced apart from the first gate metal, and a third gate metal spaced apart from the first and second gate metals. The gate metal portion further includes a first diode electrically connecting the first gate metal to the third gate metal and a second diode electrically connecting the second gate metal to the third gate metal.
US09280018B2
A multistable liquid crystal device having liquid crystal molecules in one or more cavities, wherein at least one liquid crystal region of high distortion (100, 110) is formed in each cavity, the distortion region (100, 110) being switchable between at least two stable states on application of an electric field, the device being such that at least one of the stable states may be utilized as a reflective mode.
US09280007B2
A method of manufacturing a flexible display device includes forming a buffer layer on a base substrate, wherein the buffer layer is transparent and has a optical bandgap of about 3.0 eV to about 4.0 eV; forming a flexible substrate on the buffer layer; forming display elements on the flexible substrate; and irradiating a laser to the buffer layer to detach the flexible substrate from the base substrate.
US09279997B2
An optical device with an imaging device for forming an image of a subject with a lens device, including a lens unit, a movable member making the lens unit movable within a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens unit, an image pickup device imaging the subject image formed by the lens device, a fixed member limiting the movement of the movable member in the optical axis direction, at least three balls rolling between the movable and fixed member, a vibration detecting unit, and a pitch and yaw direction drive units for driving the movable member in the pitch and yaw directions within the optical axis orthogonal plane, respectively. The pitch and yaw direction drive units press the movable member toward the fixed member side by means of magnetic pressing forces caused by magnetic attractive action between drive magnets and yokes.
US09279994B2
A stereoscopic image display device (hereinafter, referred to as a “3D device”) and polarizing glasses are provided. According to the 3D device and polarizing glasses, a three-dimensional image having excellent crosstalk ratio and color characteristics can be observed.
US09279989B2
A backlight unit of a three-dimensional (3D) display has a plurality of cells and a 3D image is formed by adjusting directions of light emitted from the cells. The backlight unit includes an emission unit that adjusts an emission direction of light from a cell with respect to other cells. The backlight unit divides view areas to provide left-eye and right-eye images, thereby generating a 3D image.
US09279986B2
There is provided a light-guide, compact collimating optical device, including a light-guide having a light-waves entrance surface, a light-waves exit surface and a plurality of external surfaces, a light-waves reflecting surface carried by the light-guide at one of the external surfaces, two retardation plates carried by light-guides on a portion of the external surfaces, a light-waves polarizing beamsplitter disposed at an angle to one of the light-waves entrance or exit surfaces, and a light-waves collimating component covering a portion of one of the retardation plates. A system including the optical device and a substrate, is also provided.
US09279975B2
A long-range optical apparatus includes an optical unit defined by lenses and an eyepiece and has at least one manually operable adjusting device for adjusting an optical unit defined by the lenses. With the adjusting device, the optical unit can be adjusted relative to a mounting device. The adjusting device is mechanically coupled to at least one optical element or the mounting device. The optical apparatus has an electronic unit including a memory and the electronic unit performs an electronic function in dependence upon a setting parameter stored in the memory. The adjusting device is coupled with a position detection unit so that actuation of the adjusting device triggers an electrical signal of the position detection unit as a function of the position of the adjusting device. The electronic unit stores or changes a setting parameter in the memory in response to the electrical signal of the position detection unit.
US09279972B2
Spatial frequency swept interference (SFSI) illumination and imaging methods and devices that interfere two collimated coherent beams to generate an interference pattern of a plurality of illuminating sheets with sweeping spatial frequency.
US09279968B2
A zoom lens and a photographing apparatus including the same. The zoom lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side: a front lens group having a negative refractive power; an aperture stop; and a rear lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein the front lens group includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a third lens group having a negative refractive power, and the third lens group includes at least one positive lens and one negative lens and performs focusing, and the rear lens group includes at least two lens groups that are moved during zooming and have a positive refractive power, wherein at least one of the lenses of the two lens groups perform hand shake correction.
US09279962B2
An imaging lens is substantially constituted by five lenses, including: a first lens having a positive refractive power and a convex surface toward the object side; a second lens having a negative refractive power and a concave surface toward the image side; a third lens having a negative refractive power and a concave surface toward the object side; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power and is of a meniscus shape with a concave surface toward the object side; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power and is of a meniscus shape having a convex surface toward the image side, provided in this order from the object side. The imaging lens satisfies a predetermined conditional formula.
US09279961B2
An imaging lens includes first to sixth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant optical parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
US09279954B2
Lens barrel capable of increasing shooting magnification while being miniaturized. A first lens group is caused to move in a direction of an optical axis by rotation of a second cam ring following rotation of a drive ring which has a focus cam groove on an inner periphery and is disposed on an outer periphery of a fixed cam ring having a cam groove and a rectilinear groove on an inner periphery. A second cam groove is disposed behind the first lens group in the direction of the optical axis. Rotation of the drive ring causes a follower of a focus group holding unit, which holds the second lens group, to follow the focus cam groove while being guided to move rectilinearly by the rectilinear groove. The follower following the focus cam groove causes the focus group holding unit to move in the direction of the optical axis.
US09279949B2
A system and method for passing a fiber cable through a fiber connector is presented. A fiber connector includes an outer body and a series of flutes inside the outer body. The outer body forms an interior chamber that has a first opening and a second opening. The first opening allows a coolant to flow into the first opening and the first and second openings allow the fiber cable to pass through the first opening and the second opening and through the fiber connector. A series of flutes are attached to an inner surface of the outer body and extend into the interior chamber. The flutes are spaced apart from each other and extend from the inner surface toward the fiber cable but do not touch the fiber cable when no liquid is flowing in the fiber connector.
US09279945B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided that enable a first array of multi-optical fiber connector modules disposed on a first structure to be blindly mated with a second array of multi-optical fiber connector modules disposed on a second structure. The arrays of modules are mounted on respective holders. One of the holders is mounted on the first structure and the other holder is mounted on the second structure. Engagement of the first and second structures with one another results in mating features of the holders being brought within a predetermined allowable misalignment tolerance of one another to ensure that the holders fully mate with one another. Mating of the holders with one another brings mating features of the connector modules of the arrays into a predetermined allowable misalignment tolerance of one another to ensure that full mating of the respective connector modules of the arrays occurs.
US09279944B1
A communication connector includes a housing having a panel flange configured to abut against a rear of a panel and a mating end configured to be positioned forward of the panel. The housing has panel nut threads and a panel nut is threadably coupled thereto. The panel nut has a tether extending therefrom with a first tether loop secured to the panel nut and a second tether loop at a second end. A protective cap is removably coupled to the mating end of the housing. The protective cap has a lanyard extending therefrom having a first lanyard loop removably coupled to the second tether loop. When the protective cap is coupled to the mating end, access to the at least one conductor is restricted, and when the protective cap is removed from the mating end, access to the at least one conductor is allowed.
US09279942B2
A compliant structure clamps the alignment pins to accurately and precisely locate the alignment pins. The compliant structure supports the alignment pins with no clearance. The compliant structure is defined by at least a flexure in the form of a cantilevered structure extending at a side of the ferrule. The cantilevered structure, with or without a complementary support structure, defines a space in which an alignment pin can be supported. The flexure may be defined by one or more slots provided on the body of the ferrule to facilitate bending of the extended cantilevered structure. In another embodiment, the ferrule comprises a ferrule insert having grooves for supporting optical fibers, and a ferrule frame that supports the ferrule insert and alignment pins. The compliant structure is provided on the frame. In a further embodiment, the ferrule insert is provided with optical fiber grooves at its perimeter.
US09279940B2
An optical fiber adapter includes a main body, two hook members, a hollow middle member and an elastic shutter member. The hook member has two hooks and two opposing walls that define a passage. The main body has an access opening on a first wall thereof for the two hook members and middle member to place within the passage of the main body. The middle member is positioned between the two hook members when the hook members and middle member are placed in the passage of the main body. The shutter member includes a fixing portion, a shutter plate and a connecting portion. The fixing portion is positioned in the accommodation recess formed on the first wall of the first hook member. The connecting portion connects the fixing portion with the shutter plate. The shutter plate extends from the connecting portion and into the passage.
US09279934B2
A backlight unit includes a light source unit supplying light, a light guide plate guiding and emitting the light provided from the light source unit to emit the guided light, a reflective sheet disposed below the light guide plate, a lower cover accommodating the light source unit, the light guide plate, and the reflective sheet, and a fixing unit fixing the light guide plate, the reflective sheet, and the lower cover. The fixing unit includes a fixing screw fixing the light guide plate, the reflective sheet, and the lower cover, and a fixing screw holder surrounding at least one portion of the fixing screw to absorb an impact due to movement of the fixing screw.
US09279927B2
A security device includes a liquid crystal layer having one of a cholesteric phase, a nematic phase, and a cholesteric phase and having molecules therein aligned volumetrically in a predetermined manner to form a predetermined diffractive optical pattern or image. The molecules of the liquid crystal layer are volumetrically aligned in the predetermined manner through at least a portion of the thickness of the liquid crystal layer.
US09279925B2
An interference filter includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, a first optical film provided to the first substrate, and a second optical film provided to the second substrate and opposed to the first optical film, at least one of the first and second optical films has a metal film having a reflecting property and a transmitting property with respect to light in a desired wavelength band, a surface and an edge portion of the metal film are covered by a barrier film, and the barrier film is formed of a material having conductivity.
US09279919B2
A viewing angle extending film (a light diffusing member) includes a base material with optical transparency, a plurality of light-shielding layers dotted on one surface of the base material, and a transparent resin layer (optically transparent material layer) provided on the one surface of the base material. At least a light-shielding layer, which is part of the plurality of light-shielding layers, has a planar shape surrounded by a first figure and a second figure contained in the first figure or a planar shape surrounded by at least part of the first figure and at least part of the second figure overlaid with the first figure. Hollow portions are provided in a formation region of the light-shielding layers, each hollow portion being shaped so that a cross-sectional area obtained by cutting along a plane parallel to the one surface of the base material is large on the light-shielding layer side and is gradually decreased as being away from the light-shielding layer. A part other than the hollow portions is taken as a light transmitting portion.
US09279913B2
An antireflective film is provided, the antireflective film including: a transparent support; and at least one low refractive index layer, wherein the low refractive index layer is formed from a composition containing at least following (A) to (C): (A) a fluorine-containing antifouling agent having at least one polymerizable unsaturated group; (B) a fluorine-containing copolymer having at least one polymerizable unsaturated group; and (C) inorganic fine particles.
US09279908B2
The present invention relates to an ink for an electrowetting element comprising colorant particles and a solvent, wherein the colorant particles have a specific gravity of 2 or less and an average particle diameter of 20 to 300 nm, and wherein the content of the colorant particles in the ink is 5 to 50% by mass.
US09279899B2
A technique includes estimating propagation parameters that are associated with a towed seismic survey based at least in part on seismic signal measurements and noise measurements.
US09279893B2
A radiation imaging control apparatus, which is communicable with a radiation imaging apparatus including a radiation sensor and capable of acquiring an X-ray moving image, includes a first communication unit configured to communicate with the radiation imaging apparatus via Ethernet communication, a second communication unit configured to communicate with the radiation imaging apparatus via at least a pair of bidirectional serial optical communication lines, a first control unit configured to cause the first communication unit to transmit a first signal for setting at least one parameter to the radiation imaging apparatus, a second control unit configured to cause the second communication unit to output data of the X-ray moving image received from the radiation imaging apparatus to an image processing unit, and transmit a second signal for some settings to the radiation imaging apparatus.
US09279890B2
A radiation image acquisition device includes: a radiation source which emits radiation; a wavelength conversion member of a flat plate shape which generates scintillation light according to incidence of the radiation emitted from the radiation source and transmitted by an object; first imaging means which condenses and images the scintillation light emitted from an entrance surface for the radiation in the wavelength conversion member in a direction of a normal to the entrance surface; and second imaging means which condenses and images the scintillation light emitted from a surface opposite to the entrance surface in the wavelength conversion member in a direction of a normal to the opposite surface.
US09279889B2
A light detecting unit of an alpha ray observation device observes an alpha ray by measuring generated light that is generated by the alpha ray produced in a region of a to-be-measured object. The light detecting unit has a travel direction changing unit that changes the direction of travel of generated light, a light detector that detects direction-changed light, which is the generated light after the direction of travel is changed, and a shielding member that shields the light detector from radiation and has a portion that is provided on the line from the to-be-measured object to the light detector. The shielding member may also surround the perimeter of the light detector and have an opening to allow generated light to reach the travel direction changing unit.
US09279887B2
A point response function (PRF) is estimated in SPECT. A 3D PRF is based on measured emissions from a point source at different distances from the detector. Rather than sampling every location in space, the 2D PRFs at a sub-set of distances are sampled. The 3D PRF is then modeled with a representative 2D PRF and a scale as a function of distance. For a given distance from the detector, the 2D PRF to be applied is formed by scaling the representative 2D PRF using the scale for that distance.
US09279884B2
A method for determining a DOA (Direction of Arrival) comprises the following steps: (a) providing at least two antennas arranged with a squint angle; (b) producing at least two base beams between two adjacent base beams; (c) every two virtual beams of the multiple virtual beams which cross together at a specific angle are define to a virtual beam set; (d) synthesizing the two virtual beams of each one of the virtual beam sets to be a monopulse; and (e) determining the DOA of the object according to comparison between magnitude of demodulated signals corresponding to the monopulses. A device for estimating a DOA is also disclosed.
