US07752227B2
A method and system for managing risk by indicating links between one or more persons or entities which can include a process that gathers information about individuals and organizations into a computerized system where it can be analyzed to associate one or more individuals or organizations with links to other individuals or organizations. A user can designate a person or entity and the system will provide an indication of linkages associated with the designated person. Some embodiments can include a user specifying a particular type of link or limit links to a specified degree of separation between the designated person and any other person or entity.
US07752226B1
Information identifying the inode of the parent directory of a file may be stored in that file's inode. A reverse pathname lookup from the file's inode identifier may be performed by reading a parent directory inode identifier of the file's parent directory from the file's inode and using the parent directory inode identifier to generate a pathname for the file. Generating the pathname may involve identifying the filename of the file by searching the parent directory identified by the parent inode identifier for the file's filename. A file's inode may include more than one parent directory inode identifier.
US07752213B2
A system and computer readable medium for processing a request to retrieve data from a database is disclosed. The system and computer readable medium of the present invention comprises receiving the request which comprises a function that processes at least one data item specified in the request, retrieving the at least one data item from a database, and invoking the function. When the function is invoked, at least one parameter comprising information related to the at least one data item is passed to the function. Thus, a function can be written independently of the data which they are called to process.
US07752207B2
Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for a computer based method for crawling application data from an application data store. The applications data store has business objects of an application stored thereon. The method may include identifying a first request for application data received from a search engine as a seed universal resource locator (URL). A crawlable definition for the identified business object is accessed, the crawlable definition including a query selecting one or more attributes of the business object. Moreover, the method can include sending the query to the application data store and receiving query results in response thereto. Additionally, the method can include forming a crawlable document which includes the retrieved results of the business object.
US07752195B1
A universal query result set is generated from several different search index result sets by including identifications of items from the different search index result sets in an accurate manner. After a query has been submitted, search index result sets are received from several different search indexes, an allocation score for each search index is computed and a universal item score for the top-level item identified in each search index is computed. The allocation score and the universal item score are combined for the top level item for each search index result set. The item with the highest combined score is added to the universal query result set.
US07752191B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for quantifying the value of purchasing a particular search keyword, so that a particular search result is presented in a sponsored search results list for that particular search term, as compared to not purchasing the particular search keyword. In example embodiments, the quantified value of the particular search term indicates the particular search term's incremental value when the particular search result is presented in the sponsored search result list, as compared to when the same particular search result is not presented in such sponsored search result list. The particular search term's incremental value is based on a difference between the sum of the number of searchers who select the particular search result from the sponsored search list and the algorithmic search list, if any, versus the number of searchers who select the particular search result when it is not presented in the sponsored search list and may be only presented in the algorithmic search results.
US07752190B2
A computer-implemented method and system for managing keyword bidding prices are disclosed. An example system embodiment includes an automatic keyword bidding module, operably coupled with a processor and a memory, operable to determine a revenue per click value associated with a keyword, obtain bidding information associated with the keyword, obtain automatic bid controls associated with the keyword, and automatically generate a bid value for the keyword based on the revenue per click value, the bidding information, and the automatic bid controls.
US07752178B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method to indicate context synchronization of applications on a computer desktop that polls information from disparate applications and provides an indication of whether or not the information is synchronized. The disclosure uses an application located on each workstation that performs the “polling” and displays the synchronization state. The present disclosure does not involve a server process. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims.
US07752176B1
Identifying a file system element for restoration is disclosed. The technique comprises of receiving a request to restore a file system element; determining an offset indicating where a record associated with the file system element is located within a collection of records, wherein the record includes metadata related to stored data to be used to restore the file system element; and using the determined offset to retrieve the record from the collection of records.
US07752172B2
A processor (2) in a transaction processing system (1) has an event engine and a scenario engine. The event engine stores a framework (20) for each entity or type of service. The framework (20) has a parent class (21) and subsidiary classes (22-27). In real time the event engine instantiates an event object from a relevant class (22-27), giving it an effective time on a timeline of the parent class (21). The event objects many subsequently be handled as autonomous units for generation of reports or batch processing. The event engine moves the event objects between states of a finite state machine. A scenario engine also manipulates objects according to a finite state machine with future dates as the effective times. There is a state transition from the scenario environment to the event engine (live) environment.
US07752166B2
Aspects of the invention provide for information to be synchronized in an asynchronous manner among two or more computing devices.
US07752158B2
A knowledge generation machine (KGM) that collects information of varying types from a plurality of different sources is provided. Because information about a software component may come from third parties or external information, the KGM is configured to find and store the new information from these sources. The KGM detects this new information quickly and automatically, and extends a knowledge model using this new information. The KGM generates a knowledge model that expands and adapts as new information is acquired, without the need for manual intervention.
US07752154B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database at which a query regarding the inference is received. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of data has associated metadata and an associated key. The associated metadata includes data regarding cohorts associated with the corresponding datum, data regarding hierarchies associated with the corresponding datum, data regarding a corresponding source of the datum, and data regarding probabilities associated with integrity, reliability, and importance of each associated datum. The query is used as a frame of reference for the search. The database returns a probability of the correctness of the first inference based on the query and on the data.
US07752151B2
A method for and system for training a connection network located between neuron layers within a multi-layer physical neural network. A multi-layer physical neural network can be formed having a plurality of inputs and a plurality outputs thereof, wherein the multi-layer physical neural network comprises a plurality of layers, wherein each layer comprises one or more connection networks and associated neurons. Thereafter, a training wave can be initiated across the connection networks associated with an initial layer of the multi-layer physical neural network which propagates thereafter through succeeding connection networks of succeeding layers of the neural network by successively closing and opening switches associated with each layer. One or more feedback signals thereof can be automatically provided to strengthen or weaken nanoconnections associated with each connection network.
US07752150B2
In an embodiment, a system and method provide a constraint on a genetic algorithm, and further provide dynamic programming capability to the genetic algorithm. The system and method then allocate load demand over a finite number of time intervals among a number of power generating units as a function of the constraint on the genetic algorithm and the dynamic programming capability of the genetic algorithm.
US07752149B2
A method and an apparatus for determining variable dependency are disclosed. In the present invention, a variable dependency is determined in advance arbitrarily; partial variables are selected from the current variable dependency, and a legitimate superior variable set is re-selected for each of the partial variables, and the new variable dependency is stored only if it meets the criterion of acceptance; when the termination criterion for establishing variable dependency is met, the optimal variable dependency is determined from all variable dependencies. Because the existing variable dependency is not taken as a reference when the new variable dependency is created, the new variable dependency is not misled by the existing variable dependency, and the time for finding the globally optimal variable dependency can be shortened.
US07752145B2
A system and method provide emergency back-up power for communications, security and other systems of an electric power consumer, and for peak-shifting of the electrical load so that electricity is generated and stored when demand is low, and the stored power is used when demand is high. Embodiments include providing an electric power management device having a battery and a communication system at the premises of a consumer of electricity, and connecting the power management device to an electric power provider. The battery is charged at an off-peak time when a demand for electricity is low, as determined by the electric power provider; and discharged to provide electricity to the consumer at a time when the demand for electricity is high, as determined by the electric power provider. The charging and discharging is controlled by the electric power provider.
US07752143B2
The present invention enables users to access shipping information pertaining to the shipment of parcels by utilizing an add-in module that is distributed from a remote server to the users. Specifically, the add-in module is invoked by merely selecting an action from a tool bar or menu associated with a text string in a document or spreadsheet either recognized by a MICROSOFT OFFICE® smart tag or highlighted by the user. The actions from which to select include but are not limited to tracking, time in transit, or shipping history. The add-in module is adapted to recognize the text string located in the document or spreadsheet and to transmit the text string to a database server connected to the network and adapted for receiving the text string, querying a database to retrieve shipping information corresponding to the text string, and transmitting the shipping information to the user via the communications network.
US07752129B2
Providing interest to clients' deposited funds without limitation on the number of demand withdrawals from deposit accounts is accomplished by an administration system that keeps all of the records for the clients' deposits and withdrawals, calculates the total of the deposits and withdrawals for all clients, and uses the calculation to determine whether funds are deposited to or withdrawn from one or more deposit accounts in which all clients' deposit funds are kept. Clients can make unlimited withdrawals, such as by check, credit card, debit card, or electronic transfer, through the administrator. By placing the administrator as the holder of the deposit account(s), exemptions to the limitation on earning interest in demand accounts is facilitated; additionally, dispersing the deposit account funds among multiple banks allows the client to obtain FDIC insurance for all of the deposited funds, which may amount to insurance in excess of the statutory maximum allowed (presently $100,000.00).
US07752123B2
A system includes a communication module to communicate with at least one client; and a server to process a task identified by the client, the task associated with an account, the server including a plurality of account-centric pipelines, one or more account-centric pipelines each configured to process the task.
US07752122B2
A user interface for an electronic trading exchange is provided which allows a remote trader to view in real time bid orders, offer orders, and trades for an item, and optionally one or more sources of contextual data. Individual traders place orders on remote client terminals, and this information is routed to a transaction server. The transaction server receives order information from the remote terminals, matches a bid for an item to an offer for an item responsive to the bid corresponding with the offer, and communicates outstanding bid and offer information, and additional information (such as trades and contextual data) back to the client terminals. Each client terminal displays all of the outstanding bids and offers for an item, allowing the trader to view trends in orders for an item. A priority view is provided in which orders are displayed as tokens at locations corresponding to the values of the orders. The size of the tokens reflects the quantity of the orders. An alternate view positions order icons at a location which reflects the value and quantity of the order. Additionally, contextual data for the item is also displayed to allow the trader to consider as much information as possible while making transaction decisions. A pit panel view is also provided in which traders connected to the pit are represented by icons, and are displayed corresponding to an activity level of the trader.
US07752120B2
A system determines insurance parameters for insuring online auctions. The insurance parameters may be based on predicted auction results. An insurance policy reflecting the insurance parameters may be offered to an online auction buyer, seller, or other market participant. The insurance policy may insure, for example, that an item for sale will obtain at least a price specified by the insurance policy.
US07752114B2
A seat ticket auction method and system using the Internet is provided. A user submits a tender for the auction of each seat while referring to a seating table, and also performs a search of an exhibition before submitting a tender during the auction. Further, when the seating table is referred to, information for a seat appropriate for a person in a wheelchair, and a simulation (view) of what a user will see of the stage from a seat are displayed on the terminal of the user. Three tender types, a personal tender, a complete group tender and an incomplete group tender can be selected. For the complete group tender, when a bid is not successful for all the members of the group, the bid is abandoned.
US07752112B2
A system and method is provided for identifying peer securities relative to a primary security based, at least in part, on analyst coverage. Peer securities may be identified for the primary security by identifying one or more analysts associated with the primary security, and generating a set of candidate peer securities, each of which are associated with at least one of the primary security's analysts. A set of peer securities may be generated based on a degree of analyst overlap among the candidate peer securities. In some implementations, the set of peer securities may be customizable. Thus, investors, analysts, or other users may compare data for comparable securities based on degrees of overlapping analyst coverage, or the comparable securities may be analyzed in other ways, such as creating a classification system based on degrees of overlapping analyst coverage.
US07752108B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for an asset backed purchase card. The present invention includes a house account comprising one or more assets, each of the one or more assets having a substantially continually updated spot purchase price. The invention receives funds from a consumer in exchange for a portion of the one or more assets from the house account based on an internal spot price of the asset, increasing a balance in a purchase account of the consumer. The purchase account is debited by selling a quantity of the asset backing the purchase account balance to the house account based on the internal spot price of the asset in response to a transaction based on a purchase card purchase by the consumer.
US07752103B2
Methods and systems for auctioning units of securities research resources from a supplier of securities research services to potential consumers of the supplier's securities research are disclosed. According to various embodiments, the method includes the steps of receiving from a plurality of the potential consumers at least one bid for at least one unit of the securities research resources services of the supplier in at least one bidding stage, and allocating units of securities research resources services of the supplier to certain of the potential consumers (i.e., winning bidders) based on the received bids of the potential consumers. The units may be, for example, research time units of a research team of the supplier of the securities research. Also, the units may be a preferred service access level to a member of a research team of the supplier of the securities research. The preferred access level may entitle a holder thereof to direct enhanced consultative contact with the member of the research team.
US07752097B2
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for providing a payment plan to credit card customers. A customer may be offered membership into a payment plan that allows the customer to pay past due penalty fees included in a balance associated with the customer's credit card account. Once a customer is member of the plan, a new segment is created for the customer's account. The penalty fees are removed from the balance and applied to a balance associated with the new segment. Thereafter, each time payment is received for the financial account, the payment may be applied in whole or part to the new segment's balance until it reaches zero. Subsequent payments are applied to the balance of the financial account. In one configuration, the financial account may not be charged any penalty fees while the customer is a member of the plan.
US07752095B1
In a system and method for enabling electronic bill presentment and payment and account and billing distribution, one or more intermediaries are provided to coordinate and control account and billing information transfer among multiple supplying entities and multiple recipient entities including billing portals and consolidators. The distributor provides software to the suppliers and recipients including billing portals that includes a user interface to a billable entity associated with a billing portal. The user interface presents account and billing information to the billable entity and enables payment of bills in response to receiving instructions from the billable entity. Billing information can include the combination of summary billing information and detailed billing contact information. The distributor also provides software to billing entities to expedite the gathering of billing information from the billing entities.
US07752084B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed, where first information that is related to a current commercial transaction that is being evaluated for fraud is received, either directly or indirectly, from a consumer through an online service or internet. The computer obtains an internet address from which the first information is received from the consumer. In response to obtaining the internet address, the computer accesses at least one database to obtain a second information on a plurality of commercial transactions that have been previously associated with the internet address from which the first information is received from the consumer. An indication is produced on whether the current commercial transaction is fraudulent based on correlating at least one subset of the second information and at least one subset of the first information.
US07752083B2
A method and system for providing a transactional environment including a server and one or more set-top boxes in communication with the server. The server stores product information data, which is updated in the server as soon as the product information data changes. The set-top boxes receive the product information data as well as navigable displays in a single transmission, which guide a user through a product ordering process on his or her television. The user may navigate and complete the ordering process in a real-time basis using a television remote control. The product information, e.g., available inventory, is updated as soon as the product information changes, and the set-top boxes replaces outdated navigable page data on a real-time basis.
US07752071B2
A process and system for generating a job value for a job that can be used to provide a definitive measure of contribution of the job to an entity. The process involves generating an impact value representing effect of the job on an entity, generating an input value representing attributes of the job, and generating the job value on the basis of the impact value and the input value. The impact value is determined on the basis of an accountability value and a job type value. The accountability value represents results expected from the job by the entity, and the type value represents the significance of the job to the entity. The input value is determined on the basis of a knowledge value, and an integration value, and an interpersonal value. The knowledge value represents the level of knowledge required to perform the job. The integration value represents the level the job requires the coordination, integration and direction of resources. The interpersonal value represents the level of skill required to relate to and lead other parties.
US07752069B1
After defining a relevant market area around a selected geographical point, a map is generated using stored geographical map information around a selected geographical point and a geographical area is selected around that point. Multiple bands are formed on the map around the geographical point and market information is gathered from a database for the defined geographical area. The bands are weighted based according to empirical data drawn from within the market area, if available, or from data from a demographically matched location. A net demand model is constructed to perform point studies, comparison studies, area studies, and multi-unit simulations for the selected geographical area.
US07752068B1
Disclosed herein is a synergy tracking tool and method for tracking target, forecast, and actual synergies created by a merger or other activity. The tool provides a disciplined method for synergy tracking relative to an implementation plan for executing the merger or other activity. This tool provides a formal way for reporting savings and lining up the savings with an implementation plan to explain why the savings are occurring.
US07752065B2
A method for tracking progress of a construction project is described. The method includes storing a digital representation of a construction project; and monitoring progress of the project. The method also includes comparing the progress with the digital representation and generating a graphical representation of the progress as a function of the digital representation. The progress includes a physical completion of said project and labor and material costs incurred for said physical completion.
US07752063B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer systems, are provided for securitizing a mortality risk. A premium is received by an issuer from a counterparty, and the issuer provides coverage of a mortality risk to the counterparty. An investment is received by the issuer from an investor, and the issuer provides a risk instrument to the investor. The risk instrument provides a contingent return of the investment to the investor, where if a first condition is satisfied then the entire investment is returned, if a second condition is satisfied then none of the investment is returned, and if neither the first nor the second conditions are satisfied then a portion of the investment is returned. The first and second conditions are related to the mortality risk.
US07752059B2
Advanced patient management systems include a unit for collecting data from a device associated with a patient, and a host in communication with the unit, the host identifying a time for the device to update data on the device. The system can identify a time for the device to update data associated with the device by developing a histogram of the availability of the device for interrogation. The system can also optimize processing loads for the system by developing a histogram of the time at which the caregiver is most likely to access the system to review the collected and processed data. Methods for optimizing device data update and processing times are also included.
US07752057B2
System and method of continuously analyzing trial data of an ongoing clinical trial is provided. A statistical analysis is performed on a trial database containing subject trial data without suspending the ongoing clinical trial. If the result of the statistical analysis does not exceed a predetermined threshold value, then the statistical analysis is repeated while the clinical trial is ongoing. In a blinded clinical trial, a grouped database is generated from the trial database and a blinding database prior to performing the statistical analysis. The grouped database groups the subject trial data according to the study groups. The ability to continuously monitor and analyze the trial data for statistical significance in tandem with data collection while the trial is ongoing provides many benefits to the researchers because the trial database no longer becomes the bottleneck in obtaining useful results and statistical analysis can be conducted on a near real-time basis without having to wait until completion of the trial.
US07752045B2
A method for comparing a first audio data source with a plurality of audio data sources, wherein the first audio data source has an utterance spoken by a first person and the plurality of audio data sources have the same utterance spoken by a second person. The method includes performing a speech recognition function on the first audio data source to isolate at least one element of the first audio data source. The method also includes comparing the isolated element with a corresponding element in the plurality of audio data sources and determining whether the utterance spoken by the first person contained an error based on the comparison.
US07752042B2
Methods and apparatus to operate an audience metering device with voice commands are described herein. An example method to identify audience members based on voice, includes: obtaining an audio input signal including a program audio signal and a human voice signal; receiving an audio line signal from an audio output line of a monitored media device; processing the audio line signal with a filter having adaptive weights to generate a delayed and attenuated line signal; subtracting the delayed and attenuated line signal from the audio input signal to develop a residual audio signal; identifying a person that spoke to create the human voice signal based on the residual audio signal; and logging an identity of the person as an audience member.
US07752039B2
A method for coding speech or other generic signals includes dividing a speech signal into a plurality of frames, and dividing at least one of the plurality of frames into at least two subframe units. A search for a fixed codebook contribution and an adaptive codebook contribution for subframe units is conducted. At least one subframe unit is selected to be coded without the fixed codebook contribution. The encoder may iteratively arrange and encode subframes differently for the same frame, and select for transmission that arrangement that minimizes an error measure across the frame. Various embodiments are shown, as are embodied computer programs, a decoder, and a communication system.
US07752036B2
Recognizing a stream of speech received as speech vectors over a lossy communications link includes constructing for a speech recognizer a series of speech vectors from packets received over a lossy packetized transmission link, wherein some of the packets associated with each speech vector are lost or corrupted during transmission. Each constructed speech vector is multi-dimensional and includes associated features. After waiting for a predetermined time, speech vectors are generated and potentially corrupted features within the speech vector are indicated to the speech recognizer when present. Speech recognition is attempted at the speech recognizer on the speech vectors when corrupted features are present. This recognition may be based only on certain or valid features within each speech vector. Retransmission of a missing or corrupted packet is requested when corrupted values are indicated by the indicating step and when the attempted recognition step fails.
US07752035B2
The present invention relates to a message structure for electronically exchanging medical information between applications utilizing disparate medical coding systems and record architectures, the message structure comprising an optional storyline keyword that sets the context for one or more subsequent statements, each of which statements comprise a genre selected from a set of genre keywords representing message categories, a subject, comprising either a natural language string of one or more words or a nested statement, and, optionally, one or more parametrized predicates comprising a context joiner selected from a set of context joiner keywords, and a parameter comprising a natural language string of one or more words or a nested statement.
US07752034B2
A system is configured to provide writing assistance within a monolingual input environment based on statistical machine translation techniques typically utilized to translate from an input language to a different target language.
US07752025B2
A device and a method for identifying parameters of at least one field device used in automation technology are provided. To simplify the assignment of parameters to field devices in automated systems, the behavior of the field device is monitored and operating information that describes the field device behavior is recorded. The operating information is stored in a first memory area, a manufacturer-independent field device model is stored in a second memory area and model parameters belonging to the manufacturer-independent field device model are identified on the basis of the operating information with the aid of a processing unit.
US07752021B2
A method of controlling hydraulic pressure to a torque converter is provided. The method includes: determining a slip error from a target slip value and a measured slip; integrating said slip error; determining a state space feedback control matrix for said measured slip; determining a state space feedback control matrix for said integrated slip error; and controlling pressure based on said state space feedback control matrix for said measured slip and said state space feedback control matrix for said integrated slip error.
US07752019B2
Output feedback pole placement problems with parameter drift are solved with stabilizing solutions. Changes in system parameters trigger alerts in an automated manner. A representative method includes determining a set of solutions for an output feed pole placement problem, based on parameters of a physical system. The solutions are stable and well-conditioned for monitoring changes to the parameters of the physical system. The physical system is adjusted, or controlled, based on the solutions determined. Updated parameters of the physical system are acquired. A set of updated solutions for the output feedback pole placement problem are determined based on the updated parameters. The physical system is then adjusted, or controlled, based on the updated solutions determined. A system manager may also be notified of the updated parameters and/or the updated solutions. Furthermore, changes within the system may be monitored, and/or potentially critical changes within the system may be detected.
US07751996B1
A D/U ratio is measured for desired and undesired signals in a wireless video transmission system at a shared channel frequency based on a received signal at a geographic location in proximity to regions within respective service areas for the desired and undesired signals. A video tuner demodulates the received signal to generate a baseband video signal. A leveling circuit normalizes the baseband signal. A video processor identifies horizontal sync pulses within the baseband signal, generates a sampled signal comprising the horizontal sync pulses, and removes components of the desired signal from the sampled signal to generate an undesired signal component. A D/U analyzer determines a Fourier transform having a plurality of bins in response to the undesired signal component, identifies at least one of the bins having a spectral peak corresponding to an undesired signal, and calculates the D/U ratio in response to a magnitude of the identified peak.
US07751993B2
Systems and methods for detecting ground fault at the common DC bus in a high impedance ground system. A fault detection component can detect characteristics of an electrical signal including phase number (n) and fundamental frequency (H). A fast Fourier transform is performed at (n×H) and (2n×H), and the two values are compared. A healthy system (no ground fault) can display a large difference between (n×H) and (2n×H), while in an unhealthy system the difference can be minimal. A system and method of detecting variable phase number and fundamental frequency can be used in the calculation to perform the ground fault detection when these characteristics are variable.
US07751986B2
The present invention generally relates to methods of rapidly and efficiently searching biologically-related data space. More specifically, the invention includes methods of identifying bio-molecules with desired properties, or which are most suitable for acquiring such properties, from complex bio-molecule libraries or sets of such libraries. The invention also provides methods of modeling sequence-activity relationships. As many of the methods are computer-implemented, the invention additionally provides digital systems and software for performing these methods.
US07751980B2
A method of TI formation evaluation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of borehole measurements; deriving a correlation between a first TI stiffness parameter and other TI stiffness parameters where the first and other TI stiffness parameters representing mechanical behavior of the TI formation; and computing the first and other TI stiffness parameters based on the borehole measurements and the derived correlation. The method further comprises evaluating TI formation elastic properties based on the computed first and other TI stiffness parameters. The method further comprises assuming that the shear modulus parallel to TI symmetric axis can be approximated from other moduli.
US07751979B2
A method of determining in-situ a relation between the seismic velocity and the state of stress in an underground formation located under a surface subjected to time-changing surface loading conditions. A relation is selected between the seismic velocity and the state of stress containing at least one unknown parameter. A seismic source is arranged at surface or in a borehole penetrating the underground formation, and a seismic receiver is arranged at a distance from the seismic source at surface or in a second borehole. At two different times the seismic velocity of the formation along a path from the seismic source to the seismic receiver is determined. The difference in surface loading conditions at the two times is converted in a difference in states of stress in the underground formation. The unknown parameter(s) are calculated to obtain the relation between the seismic velocity and the state of stress in the underground formation.
US07751976B2
A method of obstacle avoidance for a rotary wing aircraft includes detecting an obstacle proximate to the aircraft and commanding a servo to generate a force to an input control device in a direction that tends to preclude the aircraft from contacting the detected obstacle, the command having lesser authority than a pilot input command.
US07751973B2
An in-vehicle system and method for warning a driver of upcoming curves in a road including. In general, a vehicle positioning module determines the vehicle's position in a global positioning system and a map matching module determines the vehicle's position on a map based on the position in the global positioning system. A look ahead module looks ahead on the map for a curve, determines a candidate list of probable driving paths through the curve, and from this candidate list determines the most likely path of the vehicle around the curve. A warning module then assesses the threat the upcoming curve poses to the vehicle.
US07751967B2
One embodiment of the invention includes a method for managing a system. The method includes providing a plurality of system values and generating an event signal if one of the plurality of system values is logically related to a compare value. At least two of the plurality of system values are captured at a time that is related to the event signal. Other systems and methods are also disclosed.
US07751964B2
A control unit and method are provided for controlling an automatic shut-off process of a vehicle power plant in a motor vehicle, wherein the control unit emits a shut-off signal for initiating corresponding shut-off measures for automatically shutting off the vehicle power plant, when predetermined shut-off request conditions are fulfilled, and no predetermined shut-off inhibiting condition is fulfilled. The control unit sends to a memory unit a memory signal for storing at least one memory entry, allocated to a shut-off inhibiting condition, when predetermined conditions are fulfilled. In an analogous manner, a control unit and method are designed for controlling an automatic start-up process.
US07751955B2
Diagnostics data collection and analysis method and apparatus to diagnose vehicle component failures
A vehicle diagnostic data collector/analyzer compiles historical vehicle diagnostic data, including measured operating parameters from a number of different vehicles operating under a variety of normal vehicle operating conditions and vehicle component failure conditions, and performs statistical analyses on various vehicle type/operating condition combinations to establish operating parameter ranges corresponding to normal operating conditions and various failure conditions. The diagnostic data collector/analyzer also measures real-time operating parameters on specific test-subject vehicles and evaluates similarities and differences between the measured operating parameters and the established ranges, and correlates the test data with known operating conditions in order to diagnose potential failure modes of vehicle components.
US07751952B2
A system for computing car switching solutions in a railway switch yard. The system is computer based and has an input for receiving data conveying information about one or more arrival trains arriving at the switch yard and data conveying information about departure trains to depart the switch yard. A processing entity processes the data and computes car switching solutions for the railcars.
US07751949B2
The invention relates to a time and location dependent atmosphere model and especially determining the altitude of a mobile terminal based on this model and the measured barometric pressure at the location of the terminal. The atmosphere model provides a long term, wide area barometric pressure model estimate.
US07751943B2
In a process for protection of a gas turbine (1) from damage caused by pressure pulsations (P), pressure pulsations (P) occurring during the operation of the gas turbine (1) are measured, from the measured pressure pulsations (P), a pulsation-time signal (PZS) is generated, the pulsation-time signal (PZS) is transformed into a pulsation-frequency signal (PFS), from the pulsation-frequency signal (PFS), a pulsation level (PL) is determined for at least one specified monitoring frequency band (12), the pulsation level (PL) is monitored for the occurrence of at least one specified trigger condition, and, when the at least one trigger condition occurs, a specified protective action (16) is carried out.
US07751937B2
A behavior control apparatus to control behavior of a device capable of sensing a state of an environment and selecting an action on the basis of a sensing result is provided. The behavior control apparatus includes a predicting unit configured to learn the action and change in the state of the environment and predict change in the state of the environment caused by a predetermined action on the basis of the learning; a planning unit configured to plan a behavior sequence to achieve a goal state from a present state on the basis of the prediction made by the predicting unit; and a control unit configured to control each action of the behavior sequence planned by the planning unit and learn an input/output relationship if the goal state is achieved through the action.
US07751930B2
The present invention relates to pneumatic tube systems generally. More specifically, it relates to an automated system for the storage and distribution of empty carriers for a pneumatic tube system. The system comprises an easy to use one-touch process and includes the following apparatus: storage cabinets and pneumatic tube system comprising a blower, controller, retrieval cabinets, and main station.According to the invention there is provided an automated storage and distribution system comprising a pneumatic tube system, a first diverter with blower, and a storage cabinet with a second diverter. The system comprises several methods which are currently in the market place, and is useful in many places, such as hospitals, where the automated processing of pharmaceutical products via robot devices is used. Such a system is disclosed in co-pending application Parenteral Products Automation System (PPAS), application Ser. No. 08/513,569.
US07751927B2
A method for loading a dumper with broken rock or the like and an apparatus for implementing the method. In the method, a loading area is defined for the dumper. The dumper is stopped at the loading area at a predefined position for loading. An emptying area is correspondingly defined in advance for a loader for transporting the material in its bucket onto the dumper box. The apparatus includes a controller for controlling the dumper at least during loading, and the controller includes means for stopping the dumper for loading at the predefined position so that the material transported by the loader can be emptied onto the dumper box in a predefined location in the longitudinal direction.
US07751922B2
A processing furnace for performing prescribed heat treatment on plural substrates, a boat for carrying the plural substrates that are laid one over another in the boat into and out of the processing furnace, a substrate detecting sensor for detecting the plural substrates laid one over another in the boat by changing a relative position of the substrate detecting sensor with respect to each of the plural substrates, and a control section for registering reference positions of the plural substrates and an allowable range of positional deviations from the reference positions of the plural substrates are provided. The control section receives pieces of position information of the plural substrates measured by the substrate detecting sensor, compares a maximum value of pieces of position information of substrates with an average thereof and compares a minimum value of pieces of position information of substrates with an average thereof if the pieces of position information of the plural substrates are out of the allowable range of positional deviations from the reference positions of the plural substrates, and judges that deviation has occurred in a boat stop position if differences determined by the respective comparisons are within the allowable range of deviations of the substrates.
US07751917B2
A method of optimising the design of a component is provided, in which a set of principal design variants is generated, the variants having design parameters which are common to all design variants of the set and some which differ between variants. Subsets of secondary design variants are generated by a computer executed rule based geometry engine, the subsets comprising at least one secondary design variant, generated by modifying at least one design parameter or design variable of the principal design variant.
US07751905B2
An active fixation cardiac electrode lead having a fixation helix movably placed in a housing at the electrode lead's distal end so as to be extended out of the housing's distal end and retraced into an inner space enclosed by the housing. The housing has a wall and a protrusion formed in the wall that protrudes into the inner space into interspaces between windings of the fixation helix. The protrusion causes an axial movement of the helix when the helix is rotated around its longitudinal axis. The protrusion is an integral part of the housing's wall which is bent or embossed to form the protrusion.
US07751904B2
An electrode lead for implantation into a small heart vessel, especially into a coronary sinus, is provided with an elongated outer insulating lead body (1), having a proximal end (2), a distal end (3) and at least one electrode pole (4) at the distal end (3). At least one electrical conductor unit (6, 6′) leads to said electrode pole (4), each of said electrical conductor units (6, 6′) having a conductor core (7) and a separate insulating sheath (8) surrounding said conductor core (7). A lumen (9) is provided in said insulating lead body (1), being defined by a tubular envelope (10), to accommodate a guide wire means (11). The at least one electrical conductor unit (6, 6′) and the envelope (10) of the lumen (9) are each slidable relative to each other along their longitudinal direction (L) and fixed relative to each other at least in the vicinity of the distal end (3) of the lead body (1).
US07751901B2
An advanced patient management system including at least one device that is implanted in a patient, the device being configured to measure physiological attributes of the patient and provide therapy to the patient. The advanced patient management system may also include an interrogator/transceiver unit in communication with the device and a network, the unit being positioned relative to the device to facility communication between the repeater and the device. The advanced patient management system also includes a host, in communication with the device through the network, to store data from the device and to provide a predictive diagnosis of an oncoming event. The interrogator/transceiver unit may include programmable or updateable with software from a computer system or remote host.
US07751900B2
Methods of selecting a number of channels for stimulation within a neural stimulation system include determining an amplitude of a multiplicity of stimulation signals each corresponding to a channel within a multiplicity of channels in the implantable stimulation system, using the amplitudes of the stimulation signals to determine a probability of each of the stimulation signals, and using the probabilities of one or more of the stimulation signals to randomly select a predetermined number of channels from the multiplicity of channels through which one or more of the stimulation signals are applied to a patient during a stimulation frame.
US07751895B2
A device for imparting therapeutic doses to living tissue is disclosed. The device includes a planar carrier including or structured to adjustably accommodate a multitude of electrodes. Positions of the electrodes may be altered by a user during a treatment procedure involving the impartation of therapeutic doses to the living tissue.
US07751890B2
A self-diagnostic system for an implantable cardiac device such as a pacemaker, cardioverter, or resynchronization device which utilizes a subcutaneous ECG channel is described. The subcutaneous ECG channel allows the device to, in real time and independent of the standard pacing and sensing circuitry, verify the presence of pacing spikes, chamber senses, and other device outputs and hence establish and verify device integrity.
US07751888B1
Techniques are described for delivering inotropic electrical therapy to myocardial tissue using an implantable cardiac stimulation device such as a pacemaker. In one example, electrical stimulation is applied by a pacemaker to the heart of a patient while taking into account dynamic trans-cardiac impedance waveforms measured within the patient. In another example, a series of subthreshold inotropic stimulation pulses are delivered just prior to delivery of a suprathreshold depolarizing pulse that triggers systole. Additional subthreshold inotropic stimulation pulses can also be delivered following the suprathreshold pulse. Preferably, the magnitudes of the inotropic pulses are incrementally increased prior to systole then decremented thereafter, thereby gradually recruiting myocardium that has differing thresholds for depolarization. Both techniques seek to improve myocardial contractility of diseased tissue by improving calcium flux. Both techniques may additionally exploit the use of “multidimensional forced fusion”, described herein.
US07751882B1
An electro-mechanical activation probe obtains information pertaining to both myocardial electrical activity and myocardial mechanical activity at each of a plurality of locations relative to the myocardium of a heart chamber. For each location, the temporal difference between a feature of the electrical activity, such as the QRS complex of an IEGM, and a feature of the mechanical activity, such as the onset of myocardial contraction, is compared to obtain a mechanical activation delay. A stimulation electrode is then positioned at one of the locations based on the comparison. The electrode may be positioned at the location having the greatest mechanical activation delay. Other mechanical activity, such as contractual force, may be used in conjunction with the mechanical activation delay to determine the optimal electrode location.
US07751881B2
An acoustic transmitter produces a pulsed ultrasound waveform which is transmitted through body tissues to an implanted receiver-stimulator device. The waveform has an acoustic amplitude, pulse width, and pulse repetition period, which corresponds to a pacing pulse electrical amplitude, pacing pulse width, and pacing cycle length, respectively. The receiver-stimulator device intercepts at least a portion of the transmitted acoustic energy and coverts that acoustic energy into electrical energy using piezoelectric or other devices. This electrical energy is applied to circuitry, which produces a desired stimulating pulse waveform, which is then applied to tissue-contacting electrodes.
US07751879B2
In one embodiment, an implantable pulse generator comprises: pulse generating circuitry for generating pulses and delivering the pulses to outputs of the implantable pulse generator; a controller; wherein the pulse generating circuitry comprises a voltage multiplier for multiplying a battery voltage, the voltage multiplier including multiple outputs, wherein a first output of the multiple outputs provides a voltage that is programmably selectable from a plurality of voltages including non-integer multiples of the battery voltage, wherein a second output of the multiple outputs provides a voltage that is a fixed multiple of the battery voltage; wherein the controller controls the pulse generator circuitry to generate a first pulse for stimulation of the patient using a first output of the multiple outputs and controls the pulse generator circuitry to generate a second pulse to discharge output capacitors of residual charge from the first pulse using a second output of the multiple outputs.
US07751869B2
A system and method for treating a target tissue region (e.g., malignant tissue) is provided. A hyperthermic probe is placed into contact with the target tissue region, and the target tissue region is exposed to a therapeutic x-ray radiation beam. The probe is operated to increase the temperature of the target tissue region, thereby facilitating a therapeutic effect of the radiation beam. Image data of the probe containing a fiducial datum is acquired while in contact with the target tissue region, a position of the target tissue region within a treatment coordinate system is determined based on the fiducial datum, and the radiation beam is spatially adjusted relative to the target tissue region based on the determined position of the target tissue region.
US07751858B2
Embodiments of sleep-mode statistics apparatus, systems, and methods are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US07751855B2
A method and apparatus for permitting different treatment of calls from different callers. Favored callers who receive preferred treatment, the preferred treatment including the ability to complete calls, are provided with a private number. If the callers use the private number, they are subject to an incoming class of service to the called party that is substituted for the class of service provided to callers who use the public telephone number of the called station. Advantageously, at the discretion of the called party different callers may be provided with different private numbers and their calls may be blocked or completed with special alerting tones.
US07751853B2
A media player system is disclosed. One aspect of the media player system pertains to a docking station that allows a media player to communicate with other media devices. Another aspect of the media player system pertains to a wireless media player system that includes a hand held media player capable of transmitting information over a wireless connection and one or more media devices capable of receiving information over the wireless connection. Another aspect of the media player system pertains to a method of wirelessly connecting the hand held media player to another device. The method includes selecting a media item on the hand held media player; selecting one or more remote recipients on the hand held media player; and transmitting the media item locally to the hand held media player, and wirelessly to the selected remote recipients. Another aspect of the media player system pertains to a hand held music player that includes a transmitter for transmitting information over a wireless connection. The transmitter is configured to at least transmit a continuous music feed to one or more personal tuning devices that each include a receiver capable of receiving information from the transmitter over the wireless connection. Yet another aspect of the media player system pertains to a connector that includes a housing and a plurality of spatially separated contacts mounted within the housing. A first set of contacts are directed at a first functionality and a second set of contacts are directed at a second functionality that is different than the first functionality.
US07751849B2
A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability and convenience. Cellular phone includes a first display portion at a surface of a first body opposed to a second body in the folded state, and includes a second display portion, an image taking portion and a plurality of operation portions arranged at a rear surface of the first body remote from the first display portion.
US07751847B2
A radio access network node and method of allocating cell downlink power to a set of channels (e.g., DPCH channels) and to a high-speed shared channel such as a high-speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) or a high-speed shared control channel (HS_SCCH). After allocating part of the cell downlink power to the set of channels, the node allocates only a portion of the remainder of the cell downlink power to the high-speed shared channel. The node reserves a power margin for possible use during a future timeslot of a channel of the set.
US07751846B2
The present invention relates to a mobile station apparatus and a transmission power control method for the same apparatus, capable of improving the decision accuracy in a mobile station with respect to a TPC command from a base station to the mobile station and of maintaining the optimum transmission power. In the mobile station which is made to control the transmission power to the base station on the basis of a TPC command received from the base station, a plurality of TPC commands received from a plurality of base stations are weighting-combined so as to control the transmission power to the base stations on the basis of a result of the weighting combination.
US07751841B2
Disclosed is a method and system for establishing a session for a Push to Talk (PTT) over Cellular call (PoC). In the method, when an answer (response) mode of a PoC server and a PoC client are not in accordance with each other, an error message is transmitted to the receiving PoC server Moreover, call processing for a PoC call is improved by inserting a new data field indicating an automatic answer of a server into a payload of a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTCP) message, and a function of the terminal is extended using an added data field when the answer modes of the corresponding PoC server and PoC client are not in accordance with each other.
US07751831B2
In cellular telephony mobile equipment location-based services data transmission an application carries out measures on Base Transceiver Stations or associated cells by detecting, storing and transmitting respective information to a remote Service Center by means of messages, and a processing system, applying calculation procedures and a Base Transceiver Stations geographic position database, computes data associated with the location-based services. In the application at least one message is generated containing a set of data in compressed format, the set of data being selected from a set comprising specific data on each single message, specific data on the message set, specific data on measurements and specific data on the cells monitored by the mobile equipment. The dimensions of the specific data on the measurements generated in compressed format depend on results of the measurements made at a current instant and those obtained at an earlier time.
US07751825B2
Methods and apparatus are presented herein for controlling the degree of precision with which geographic information is reported to a requesting entity. A precise geographic location is used to determine an adjusted geographic location, which is then transmitted to the requesting entity rather than the precise geographic location.
US07751822B2
A frequency reuse scheme that provides high spectral efficiency and reduced interference in areas where cell sites overlap is provided. Three frequencies are allocated per cell site, with each sector employing two frequencies, one frequency being transmitted at a higher power and the second frequency being transmitted at a lower power. The higher power frequency in one sector differs from the higher power frequency employed in the other two sectors, and the lower power frequency used in one sector differs from the lower power frequency used in the other two sectors.
US07751819B2
A mobile communication system of the present invention includes a handover control unit and a packet transfer network, which are independent of each other. The handover control unit selects a handover control system in accordance with a QoS. The handover control unit issues an instruction to the packet transfer network in accordance with the selected handover control system.
US07751811B2
A data acquisition system that comprises several mobile terminals, each comprising a broadcast receiver for receiving the broadcast signals that are unidirectionally transmitted from a broadcasting station via an air interface, and a mobile radio module for the communication via a mobile network. Furthermore, the mobile terminals each include means for providing data accountings; their contents depending on the broadcast signals received and, for example, on data relating to the signal quality of the received broadcast signals. The data acquisition system comprises a memory connected to the mobile network. The data accountings provided are transmitted from the mobile terminals by means of the mobile radio modules via the mobile network where they are stored in the memory.
US07751804B2
A method of developing a visual/audio campaign for delivery to a device having a radio wave receiver is disclosed. The method includes a managing node receiving broadcast specific information from a plurality of radio stations, the managing node receiving broadcast non-specific information, the managing node creating the visual/audio campaign at least partly by matching an item of broadcast non-specific information with an item of broadcast specific information, and delivering the visual/audio campaign to the device via radio waves.
US07751802B2
A method of obtaining a response to associated announcement files. The method includes associating a first announcement file including an attribute of a tangible item with an email and associating an interactive information file with the email. The email is sent with the associated announcement file and the associated interactive information file to the recipient to a recipient. The announcement file causes presentation of the attribute of the tangible item to the recipient upon receipt of the email by the recipient. The interactive information file causes presentation of the interactive information file to the recipient upon receipt of the email by the recipient.
US07751792B2
Transmission of a high frequency signal is provided by a passive mixer. The passive mixer receives a low frequency signal as an input. The passive mixer includes a plurality of transistors each with a gate, a source, and a drain. The passive mixer also includes a local oscillator connected to the gates of the transistors. The gates of the transistors are also connected to a DC bias proportional to the threshold voltage of the transistors. In addition, an output of the passive mixer may be attenuated by a passive attenuator wherein both the passive attenuator and passive mixer are substantially free of quiescent current.
US07751791B2
In a system and method for simultaneously receiving or switching between dual frequency carrier signals in a GPS receiver, the GPS receiver is adapted to utilize different harmonics of a sub-harmonic frequency generator, which may include a lower frequency voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) to detect the L1 and L2 GPS carriers. A sub-harmonic mixer may be used to simultaneously down convert the L1 and L2 signals to a lower intermediate frequency (IF). A second mixer may be an image reject (IR) mixer used to separate the downconverted L1 and L2 signals. This mixer may be configured to simultaneously monitor the L1 and L2 signals, or to switch between the L1 and L2 signals. High frequency switching is not required of the radio frequency (RF) input or local oscillator signals, and simultaneous L1 and L2 reception is enabled without and 3 dB image noise degradation. This system and method minimizes the RF components and power dissipation in a dual frequency GPS receiver, while optimizing the functionality and performance.
US07751786B2
A signal processing system according to various aspects of the present invention includes an excursion signal generator, a scaling system and a filter system. The excursion signal generator identifies a peak portion of a signal that exceeds a threshold and generates a corresponding excursion signal. The scaling system applies a real scale factor to contiguous sets of excursion samples in order to optimize peak-reduction performance. The filter system filters the excursion signal to remove unwanted frequency components from the excursion signal. The filtered excursion signal may then be subtracted from a delayed version of the original signal to reduce the peak. The signal processing system may also control power consumption by adjusting the threshold. The signal processing system may additionally adjust the scale of the excursion signal and/or individual channel signals, such as to meet constraints on channel noise and output spectrum, or to optimize peak reduction. The magnitude threshold, excursion signal and/or individual channel signals may also be adaptively adjusted based on, for example, a channel signal quality such as a noise level specification.
US07751784B2
In a power amplifier, techniques are provided for protecting the power amplifier from temperature extremes resulting from conditions such as load mismatches. After sensing the temperature of the power amplifier, the operation of the RF power amplifier is controlled accordingly. In one example, the power amplifier is shut down when the sensed temperature reaches a threshold value, which can be set to a value just below the point where permanent damage would occur. In another example, when a threshold temperature is reached, the operation of the power amplifier is changed, to prevent the temperature of the power amplifier from rising to a level that would damage the power amplifier.
US07751783B2
In a power amplifier, techniques are provided for protecting the power amplifier from temperature extremes resulting from conditions such as load mismatches. After sensing the temperature of the power amplifier, the operation of the RF power amplifier is controlled accordingly. In one example, the power amplifier is shut down when the sensed temperature reaches a threshold value, which can be set to a value just below the point where permanent damage would occur. In another example, when a threshold temperature is reached, the operation of the power amplifier is changed, to prevent the temperature of the power amplifier from rising to a level that would damage the power amplifier.
US07751780B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate remotely monitoring and/or controlling a media device that obtains broadcast and/or multicast transmission(s). According to various aspects, systems and methods are described that facilitate remotely controlling media device(s) that operate in connection with broadcast and/or multicast transmission(s) with limited or no reverse link (e.g., employing Forward Link Only (FLO) technology, . . . ). Such systems and methods may monitor various service issues, device performance, network performance, and the like.
US07751777B2
Disclosed is a system and method for transmitting data from a first base station to a first destination subscriber station (DSS). The first base station is capable of transmitting data directly to the first DSS through a direct route. Co-channel interference is present at neighboring cells during the transmission of the data through the direct route. The method includes selecting a relay station from a plurality of relay stations for transmitting data to the first DSS via a relay route. The relay route includes a route from the first base station to the relay station and further from the relay station to the first DSS. A height of the relay station is lower than a height of the first base station. Further, the method includes transmitting the data through the relay route when a throughput of the relay route is greater than a throughput of the direct route by a predetermined threshold.
US07751775B2
A method transmits a message by radio from a transmitter to a receiver. In a first step, the transmitter transmits the message to a forwarding station. In a second step, the message is subsequently transmitted at the same time from the transmitter and the forwarding station to the receiver. A transmitter carries out the method.
US07751773B2
A portable communication device includes a media time controller that facilitates searching for and viewing media content based on user-selected time constraints. The media time controller causes the portable communication device to prompt a user for a time constraint value and to receive user input indicative of the time constraint value. The portable communication device queries a media content database for media content files with durations that are consistent with the time constraint value. The portable communication device with a media time controller allows the user to quickly find suitable media for the time available at the moment.
US07751769B2
A fixing device for image forming apparatus includes: a first nip member in a shape of an endless belt and a second nip member that rotates while pressed against the first nip member. A heat source heats at least one of the nip members. A pressure receiver receives pressure applied to the first nip member from the second nip member. A sliding contact has a contact surface that makes sliding contact with an inner surface of an axial end of the first nip member. A supporting mechanism supports the sliding contact to displace the contact surface thereof away from the pressure receiver as the first nip member moves away from the sliding contact along the axial direction. The displacement increases frictional forces between the contact surface and the inner surface of the first nip member, thus suppressing axial displacement of the first nip member from the sliding contact.
US07751763B2
The image forming apparatus has: a unit including a transfer medium that circularly moves; an image forming section provided along a circulation direction of the transfer medium; a movement mechanism that moves the unit in a direction substantially perpendicular to a moving direction of the transfer medium, and enables the unit to move in a first direction so as to bring the unit into contact with the image forming apparatus and in a second direction so as to move the unit apart from the image forming apparatus; and a cushioning component for applying a load in directions opposite to moving directions of the unit when the unit is moved in the first and second directions, respectively, thereby to relax impact caused by motion of the unit.
US07751762B2
A transfer device including an intermediate transfer belt provided to extend in an arranged direction of a plurality of photosensitive drums, and primary transfer rollers each transferring a toner image formed on a corresponding one of the plurality of photosensitive drums to the intermediate transfer belt, each of the primary transfer rollers being moved between a position causing the intermediate transfer belt to be in contact with the photosensitive drums and a position causing the intermediate transfer belt to be separated from the photosensitive drums, each of the primary transfer rollers being rotatably supported by a movable member which includes an abutting portion which regulates a position of the primary transfer roller, the abutting portion abutting on an abutted member whose positional relationship with the photosensitive drum is defined such that the position of the abutted member causes the intermediate transfer belt to be in contact with the photosensitive drum.
US07751753B2
A cleanerless image forming apparatus configured to reduce the density unevenness of halftone images. The apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging roller device for uniformly charging the surface of the photosensitive member, an optical writing unit for forming latent images on the surface of the photosensitive member after uniform charging, a developing device for developing the latent toner image on the photosensitive member, a transfer unit for transferring the toner image to an intermediate transfer belt, and a brush member for trapping post-transfer residual toner adhering to the surface of the photosensitive member after passing through the transfer process by the transfer unit and before entering the developing process by the developing device, wherein the post-transfer residual toner is recovered within the developing device after re-transfer of the post-transfer residual toner within the brush member to the surface of the photosensitive member.
US07751750B2
A belt unit installed apparatus includes an apparatus frame; a belt unit attached to the apparatus frame, said belt unit having a first roller, a second roller, a belt placed between the first roller and the second roller, and a belt frame for supporting the first roller and the second roller; an engaging member disposed on the belt frame for engaging the apparatus frame; a receiving portion formed in the apparatus frame for engaging the engaging member; and an urging member disposed on the apparatus frame for urging the engaging member. The engaging member maintains an engagement state relative to the receiving portion when the engaging member engages the receiving portion.
US07751747B2
A process cartridge unit and an image forming apparatus having the same. The image forming apparatus includes a main body, a process cartridge unit removably mounted in the main body, an opening provided in the main body to permit the process cartridge unit to be installed or removed, and a cover rotatably mounted to the main body so as to expose or shield the opening. The process cartridge unit includes a container to store a developer and at least one knob coupled to the container. When the cover is closed, the knob is folded by the cover, and when the cover is opened, the knob is unfolded. Accordingly, since the position of the knob is changed, a mounting space of the process cartridge unit can be decreased, and a user can easily grasp the knob.
US07751745B2
A developing apparatus usable with an image forming apparatus includes a developer receptacle having a sidewall on which a shaft hole is formed, a rotation shaft having a length shorter than a distance between opposite sidewalls of the developer receptacle and an end on which a connection hole is formed, and a driving member rotatably supported by the shaft hole of the developer receptacle and having a connecting shaft inserted into the connection hole of the rotation shaft.
US07751724B2
An optical modulator is provided which includes: an optical splitting part that splits an input light wave into two light waves; two optical waveguides that propagate the two light waves into which the input light wave is split, respectively; a first SSB modulating part that is provided in one of the two optical waveguides and modulates a light wave, which propagates into the first SSB modulating part, with a carrier frequency so that the light wave is converted into a different light wave having a single side band; a second SSB modulating part that is provided in the other of the two optical waveguides and modulates a light wave, which propagates into the second SSB modulating part, with a data signal in order to generate a signal light wave having a different single side band; and an optical combining part that combines the light wave modulated by the first SSB modulating part with the signal light wave generated by the second SSB modulating part.
US07751722B2
To provide an optical transmission system which cancels out noise components and whose construction cost is lower than that of the conventional system, the present invention is an optical transmission system for transmitting an optical signal from an optical transmitter to an optical receiver and outputting an output electrical signal after a noise canceling process is performed. The optical receiver and transmitter are connected by one optical fiber, through which an optical signal is transmitted before being intensity-modulated. The optical receiver includes; a first processing unit receiving an optical signal, intensity-modulating the received optical signal, and splitting the intensity-modulated optical signal into two optical signals whose respective intensity-modulated components are in antiphase; first and second optical transmission fibers transmitting the two optical signals respectively; and a second processing unit converting the two optical signals into electrical signals respectively, and generating an output electrical signal by performing differential amplification.
US07751718B2
An efficient means for transmitting digitized return path signals over a cable television return path is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, the cable television return path includes a node that receives an analog return signal from a subtree of the cable television system and generates a digital transport signal representative of the analog return path signal. The digital transport signal, however, is not a digitized form of the analog return signal. Rather, the digital transport signal is encoded such that fewer bits are used to represent the analog return signal without substantially impacting the accuracy and dynamic range of the signal. At the hub, the digital transport signal is decoded and converted to produce an analog signal that is a close approximation of the analog return signal.
US07751716B2
An open-path/free-space optical communication system using reflected light has modulated optical or laser sources and provides communication between the modulated source and a detector in an obstructed line-of-sight relationship. The system detects backscattered light impinging on a target illuminated by the source of light. Barrier objects positioned in a line-of-sight path between the source and detector are circumvented and a first device that provides the modulation signal for the source controls a remote second device.
US07751714B2
A Centralized Resource Management (CRM) system that supports the sharing of all the transponders in a WXC node, i.e., any spare transponder can be reconfigured to accommodate any drop channel, regardless of wavelength or input port. Consequently, network restoration in case of network failures is supported as well as the ability to reconfigure as a result of dynamic traffic requirements in the network. CRM advantageously is applied to conventional WXC node as well as WSS-based WXC nodes in the WDM networks. Three CTM schemes which manage the transponders in the WSS-based WXC node are described along with reconfiguration algorithms for an optical switchless CRM solution.
US07751712B2
A Passive Optical Network includes: an Optical Line Terminal, an Optical Distribution Network, and an Optical Network Unit or an Optical Network Terminal, wherein the Optical Line Terminal is adapted to exchange data with the Optical Network Unit or the Optical Network Terminal by using an optical module via the Optical Distribution Network, and the optical module is an optical module sending data in a continuous mode. Further, a method for data communication based on the Passive Optical Network includes: sending data by using an optical module sending data in a continuous mode; receiving the data by an optical module based on a set optical power threshold of data “0” and a set optical power threshold of data “1”.
US07751711B2
Optical network terminal (ONT) power failure management. A system for permitting a customer of a telecommunication company, for whom fiber to the premises (FTTP) has been installed, to control operating features associated with operation of a battery backup unit (BBU) which is used, during power failure, for powering the ONT associated with the FTTP installation and the customer's telephone(s). The controlling of these features includes utilization of signal-controlled switches, which are manually over-rideable by the customer, thereby providing the desired operating feature control.
US07751710B2
Provided are a photonic cross-connector system, a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system using the photonic cross-connector system, and an optical communication network based on the WDM system. The photonic cross-connector system includes: an optical coupler branching an input optical signal into a plurality of paths; a wavelength selective switch (WSS) extracting at least one wavelength signal from the input optical signal and outputting the extracted wavelength signal to at least one port; a WDM multi-casting apparatus simultaneously copying and reproducing the input optical signal into different wavelengths and changing modulation methods of the input optical signal into different types of modulation methods; an optical transmitter and/or receiver branching and coupling the input optical signal; and a control system controlling the optical coupler, the WSS, the WDM multicasting apparatus, and the optical transmitter and/or receiver.
US07751707B2
A technique is described for controlling and optical network composed of network elements (NEs), with the aid of a network controller (NC) being in communication with the network elements. The technique includes collecting, by the network controller NC, information on the NEs therefrom, and, whenever a change in the network is requested, simulating within the NC operation of the network with the requested change and based on the collected information. The NC makes a decision on acceptability of the requested change, and may then cause implementation of the requested change in the network.
US07751702B2
The digital camera capable of printing shot images by directly connecting a digital camera to the printing device, and even if the printing device does not support at least one of the index printing and the multiple printing, a synthetic image corresponding to the printing mode not supported by the printing device is generated by the digital camera and is sent to the printing device. Thereby, even if the printing device does not support one of, or both of the index printing and the multiple printing, the index printing and/or the multiple printing can be conducted.
US07751700B2
A focus adjustment device includes an image sensor that includes imaging pixels for capturing an image formed via an imaging optical system and focus detection pixels for detecting a focus adjustment state at the imaging optical system through a first pupil division-type image shift detection method, a focus detector that detects a focus adjustment state at the imaging optical system through a second pupil division-type image shift detection method different from the first pupil division-type image shift detection method, and a focus adjustment controller that executes focus adjustment for the imaging optical system based upon the focus adjustment states detected by the image sensor and the focus detector.
US07751699B2
A image blur correcting mechanism for effecting image blur correction by moving a lens group in directions orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens group, includes a first guide shaft extending in a first direction which is a predetermined direction orthogonal to an optical axis direction of the lens group, a base frame supporting the first guide shaft, a first correcting moving frame supported by the base frame through the first guide shaft movably in the first direction, a second guide shaft extending in a second direction orthogonal to both of the optical axis direction and the first direction and supported by the first correcting moving frame, and a second correcting moving frame having a lens holding part holding the lens group, the second correcting moving frame being supported by the first correcting moving frame through the second guide shaft movably in the second direction, while being movable in the first direction along movement of the first correcting moving frame with respect to the base frame in the first direction.
US07751698B2
A photographic device, according to the present invention, includes a shake detector, a shake mitigator, a shake mitigation commander, an operation member, and a controller. The shake detector detects a device shake that is a shake of the photographic device. The shake mitigator mitigates the effects of the device shake to reduce an image shake that is a shake of a photographed subject image. The shake mitigation commander commands the shake mitigator to mitigate the effects of the device shake. The operation member is operated for carrying out a predetermined operation. The controller assigns the role related to mitigating the effects of the device shake to the operation member, when the shake mitigation commander commands to mitigate the effects of the device shake.
US07751695B2
A new technique for recording a series of images of a high-speed event (such as, but not limited to: ballistics, explosives, laser induced changes in materials, etc.) is presented. Such technique(s) makes use of a lenslet array to take image picture elements (pixels) and concentrate light from each pixel into a spot that is much smaller than the pixel. This array of spots illuminates a detector region (e.g., film, as one embodiment) which is scanned transverse to the light, creating tracks of exposed regions. Each track is a time history of the light intensity for a single pixel. By appropriately configuring the array of concentrated spots with respect to the scanning direction of the detection material, different tracks fit between pixels and sufficient lengths are possible which can be of interest in several high-speed imaging applications.
US07751685B2
The present invention relates to a recording medium having data structure including graphic data to be used for a menu page etc. of main video data recorded thereon as well as methods and apparatuses for reproducing and recording the data structure. A recording medium of the present invention comprises: a main data stream including at least video data; and a graphic data stream being used for graphic presentation for the recorded main data stream, wherein the graphic data stream includes at least one display set; the display set includes at least one composition segment and at least two definition segments; and a decoding time stamp written in a definition segment within the display set is equal to or greater than a presentation time stamp written in a preceding definition segment.
US07751680B2
Component assemblies and methods of making component assemblies are disclosed. An exemplary component assembly may generally include a capsule defining a cavity for receiving a component. The component assembly may additionally include at least one lead extending from the component and through the capsule to allow communication between the component and a network or device. The lead may generally define a sealed length within the capsule that is at least as great as a predetermined or expected intrusion distance of an external contaminant along the sealed length over an expected lifetime or service interval associated with the component encapsulated in the cavity.
US07751673B2
A splice tray holder includes a body with a first portion, a second portion, and a front surface. A retention portion is disposed on an outer periphery of each of the first and second portions and defines a receiving groove having an inner surface that faces toward the front surface of the body. A spring portion is disposed on each of the first and second portions, wherein the spring portion is adapted to provide a biasing force in a direction from the front surface of the body toward the inner surface of the receiving groove.
US07751668B2
The invention relates to a method for microstructuring an optical waveguide having a first cross-sectional region with a first refractive index, a second cross-sectional region with a second refractive index, and a boundary region in the transition from the first to the second cross-sectional region, in which the optical waveguide is exposed to laser radiation in the form of at least one ultra-short single pulse or a sequence of pulses with a defined energy input, whereby the radiant exposure takes place in such a manner that a modification of at least one optical property of the optical waveguide takes place at at least one defined portion of the boundary region.
US07751662B2
An optical display device, in particular for use in a head-up display or a head-mounted display, comprises an essentially planar light guide, an image-generating system, a first diffraction grating by which light that comes from the image-generating system can be coupled into the light guide, and a second diffraction grating, by which the light can be coupled out again from the light guide. At least one of the two diffraction gratings is a binary-blazed grating having a multiplicity of diffraction structures, which are composed of a multiplicity of individual substructures that ensure a blaze effect and in plan view have the shape of a closed geometrical surface.
US07751657B2
Disclosed is an inclinometer system capable of detecting the inclination of the ground using a fiber bragg grating sensor to precisely measure the deformation of the ground. The inclinometer system includes at least one measuring unit, and the measuring unit includes a body provided therein with a receiving part, a frame inserted into the body, a weight member inserted in to the frame and having one end hinged to the frame, the weight member rotating in cooperation to inclination of the body, an optical fiber 5 passing through both the body and the frame such that one end of the optical fiber is fixed to the weight member, a fixing member installed into the frame to fix an opposite end of the optical fiber, and a fiber bragg grating (FBG) sensor attached to the optical fiber.
US07751649B2
To enable obtainment of a composite image including a movement trajectory of a moving body, even from a moving image including a background. Sampling means samples frames from moving image data. First mask frame calculating means calculates mask frames including mask regions, which correspond to positions of the moving body on the frames. Second mask frame calculating means accumulates and binarizes the mask frames to calculate a reference mask frame. Region cutout means masks the frames by using the mask frames and the reference mask frame to cut out moving body regions, which correspond to a moving body, from the frames. Composing means overwrites moving body regions on one of the frames in chronological order to obtain a composite image, which includes the movement trajectory of the moving body.
US07751647B2
A system having a camera (18) for capturing video images of a scene in successive image frames, and a computer system (14 or 20) for receiving such video images. The computer system periodically generates a background image of the scene from multiple successive image frames (23) and extracts features in the background image (26), and extracts features for each new image frame received from the camera (28). For each new image frames, the new image frame and the last periodically generated background image are correlated at common locations (parts or regions) associated with the features extracted from the last periodically generated background image and features of the new image frame (30), to determine non-correlated features in the new image frame with respect to the last periodically generated background image (31). If the number and/or percentage of non-correlated features are sufficiently high, and/or the spatial distribution of non-correlated features is sufficiently low, the image frame is determined to have an invalid background (32, 33). When multiple successive frames are determined as having invalid backgrounds, the camera (20) represents an invalid camera.
US07751646B2
There is provided an image processing method that performs an image transformation operation on input image data using a computer to generate output image data for display, the image processing method including: acquiring input image data, generating transformed image data corresponding to a transformation process by performing each of a plurality of the transformation processes which are set corresponding to a transformation parameter representing a transformation operation on the acquired input image data; generating inverse-transformed image data by inverse-transforming the generated transformed image data into a shape corresponding to the input image data; determining deterioration of an image for each transformation process by comparing the generated inverse-transformed image data to the input image data, selecting an optimal transformation process among the plurality of transformation processes based on a result of the deterioration determination, and generating the output image data by performing a transformation operation on the input image data based on the optimal transformation process.
US07751645B2
A camera for aerial photography includes a reference projector that projects collimated beams of light into the optical system entrance aperture which are imaged by an image recording device. The beams produce fiducial images present in every image captured by the imaging recording device. The fiducial images can be used to characterize the performance of the optical system and derive distortion correction coefficients. The distortion correction coefficients can be applied to a portion of an image, such as a group of pixels, or to the entire image, to thereby compensate for distortions in the optical system. In some embodiments, e.g., airborne cameras, the projector is rigidly coupled to an inertial measurement unit. The ability of the airborne camera to perform object geolocation from imagery is improved. The fiducial images enable optical system performance to be characterized and distortion correction coefficients to be obtained and thereby improve the accuracy of a ray angle calculation to the object of interest. Furthermore, the ray angle can be related to an inertial measurement system coordinate system using a direction cosine matrix.
US07751644B2
A CPU 200 extracts ornamental image data and layout control information from an ornamental image file FF. When the layout control information does not include characteristic values, the CPU 200 analyzes the ornamental image data to acquire characteristic values representing a tendency of image quality of the ornamental image data. The CPU 200 may additionally compute correction rates for correcting values of image quality-relating parameters of objective image data from the acquired characteristic values of the ornamental image data. The CPU 200 writes either the acquired characteristic values or the computed correction rates into the layout control information. The layout control information including the acquired characteristic values or the computed correction rates is output together with the ornamental image data in the form of the ornamental image file FF.
US07751639B1
In a method for the recovery of an invariant image from a 3-band colour image, information relating to the angle for an “invariant direction” in a log-chromaticity space is obtained on the basis that the correction projection is that which minimizes entropy in the resulting invariant image. The method is applied to remove shadows from unsourced imagery.
US07751634B2
An imaging system incorporating adaptive compression which includes determining linear predictive differential residuals from an imager array pixel row. The differential residuals are classified into categories, each category having a range of differential residuals associated with it. The categories are analyzed to produce an ordered list having categories with most to least frequent residuals falling within a respective residual range associated with a respective category. The ordered list is then used to select a variable length encoding table with a matching ordered list. Variable length encoded category and range position offset data is output to a serializer unit, where the range position offset refers to a position in a range associated with a particular category.
US07751628B1
A system for managing storage space on an electronic storage medium is provided in which a file format for stored data allows for progressive deletion of low-significance data, for example in a video or audio file, while allowing the remaining portions of the file to be subsequently retrieved. The file format allows for the ready deletion of low-significance data without having to open, edit and subsequently rewrite the data. Furthermore, rules-based algorithms for the deletion of low-significance data allow a user to store and progressively delete such low-significance data in accordance with time parameters, available storage space and the like, without having to delete the full file.
US07751627B2
In a method of evaluating an image for a dominant line, warped mesh information regarding saliency of the image is received. Displacements of components of the warped mesh information are determined relative to corresponding components in un-warped mesh information. Statistical representations of the displacements are utilized to evaluate the image for a dominant line.
US07751626B2
Methods and apparatuses process images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an image including an object; generates a connected graph associated with the image, the generating step including representing pixels of the image in a higher than two dimensional space to obtain pixel representations, generating a pixel representation graph using the pixel representations, and assigning weights to edges between the pixel representations in the pixel representation graph, based on a gradient characteristic between the pixel representations, to obtain a connected graph; and segments the connected graph using an energy minimizing function, to obtain pixels of the image associated with the object.
US07751604B2
Disclosed is medical intelligent server architecture for computer aided detection that is capable of scaling up for increasing number of patients, and that facilitates modifications and additions of detection services based on various modalities. The architecture is a dedicated server configuration capable of providing services for detecting diseases upon being provided a set of medical images. The architecture is capable of being integrated into existing medical information systems. The architecture for computer aided detection is adaptable to variations in demand for computer aided detection serves, is easily expandable to include new or modified detection services, and is scaleable to accommodate an increasing number of patients and patient images of various types.
US07751588B2
A form of error processing is used to decode steganographic messages embedded in image and audio signals in the presence of distortion, which tends to introduce errors in steganographic data communication. Content signals with auxiliary embedded data are analyzed to detect embedded message signals. Confidence values are assigned to the message signals and used to ascertain whether a message has been accurately detected. Error processing enables accurate message extraction in the presence of “soft errors” in the embedded message signal. This error processing enables more effective recovery of the steganographic message from content signals that undergo distortion and/or loss transformations after being embedded with steganographic data.
US07751586B2
An image processing apparatus includes a determining unit that determines at least one embed area in an area that is not accessed by an application in an image. An embedding unit embeds at least one piece of embed information into the embed area. A quantizer quantizes the image embedded with the embed information. An encoder encodes the image quantized.
US07751584B2
Methods for providing and extracting hidden information in firmware images using steganographic processes. Information is hidden in binary firmware images, such as drivers, using a steganographic process in which the functionality of the binaries do not change, and the size is not increased. During a pre-boot phase of a computer system, binary firmware drivers containing hidden steganographic data are identified, and a steganographic extraction process is performed to extract the hidden data. In one embodiment, a hash is employed on an authentic binary image to uniquely identify the op code content. The digest from the hash is stored in the steganographic data. In one embodiment, a vendor's private key and optional signature is used to encrypt the hash. A similar hash is performed on the binary image of a discovered binary firmware driver, and the authentic hash digest is extracted from the steganographic data. The hash digests are compared to authenticate the binary firmware driver.
US07751583B2
In a condenser microphone having a microphone case formed by a casting, the resistivity of the surface of the microphone case is decreased surely, and the shielding function of the microphone case is made stable. In a condenser microphone in which a substrate including an audio output circuit connected to a condenser microphone unit is housed therein, and a cylindrical microphone case 10 mounted with an output connector is provided on one end side, the microphone case 10 being formed by casting, a conductive layer 10b having a lower resistivity than that of a raw material of the microphone case 10 is formed integrally on a casting surface 10a on the outer surface side of the microphone case 10.
US07751582B2
A microphone with narrow directivity capable of obtaining high directivity and reducing wind noise is obtained. A cylindrical acoustic tube, a microphone unit arranged in the acoustic tube, a front acoustic chamber and a rear acoustic chamber formed by partitioning the acoustic tube by the microphone unit, a front acoustic terminal for causing the front acoustic chamber to communicate with an external space, a rear acoustic terminal for causing the rear acoustic chamber to communicate with an external space, and a film that covers the front acoustic terminal are comprised. It is recommended that the rear acoustic terminal be also covered with a film. Further, it is recommended that the films be made of vinyl chloride and formed into a corrugated shape.
US07751581B2
The invention relates to a public address system including one or more loudspeakers, each of which is in particular equipped with a section for reproducing high-frequency sounds, including a wave expansion guide, which receives, at its input sound waves coming from a transducer and having, projecting in a plane, a form opening outwards from its input to its output for distributing, in a solid transmission angle, the sound waves coming from the expansion guide. According to the invention, the expansion guide includes one or more mobile flaps that can be moved by a movement made parallel to the plane, so as to enable the solid transmission angle of the sound waves to be adjusted.
US07751577B2
Once a mixer is set in a predetermined operation, an input-logical-channel selecting section supplies sound signals, input via a cascade input terminal, to an input signal processing section via an input patch section, so that the sound signals can be mixing-processed as sound signals of normal input channels. At the same time, a portion of sound signals input via an input terminal are supplied to mixing buses, so that these sound signals can be handled as cascade-related signals. In accordance with a model of another, or cascaded-to, mixer, arrangements are made such that normal-input/output-channel input terminals can be assigned to cascade input/output purposes. With a block diagram display section indicating what signals the individual input/output terminals are currently assigned to within the mixer, a user can grasp at a glance the current assignment state.
US07751573B2
A clip state display method which is capable of quickly identifying a clipping point and changing settings of signal processing. It is detected whether a clip occurs in any of signals of a plurality of input channels on which at least one of signal processing and mixing processing is performed. A block diagram showing functions of at least one of the signal processing and the mixing processing is displayed. Functions of at least one of the signal processing and the mixing processing in which the clip has occurred are displayed on the block diagram.
US07751551B2
A method of processing a call is disclosed. The method can transform speech input from a caller of a call into text and convert the text into an object and an action. The method determines a call destination based on the object and the action. The method can route the call to a destination when a caller is not in compliance with at least one business rule. The method can further route the call to the call destination when the caller is in compliance.
US07751533B2
A device and method provide a user with a template for a message having fields that can be pre-filled with data to reduce the manual entry of data into the message. The method includes, but is not limited to, executing an application at a device, wherein context data including context data items is associated with the executing application, selecting a messaging technology to send a message from the device, selecting a template for the message, wherein the template comprises one or more dynamic fields, selecting a context data item from the context data associated with the executing application, and inserting the selected context data item in the dynamic field to facilitate the creation of a message.
US07751528B2
Stationary x-ray digital breast tomosynthesis systems and related methods are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein can include an x-ray tomosynthesis system having a plurality of stationary field emission x-ray sources configured to irradiate a location for positioning an object to be imaged with x-ray beams to generate projection images of the object. An x-ray detector can be configured to detect the projection images of the object. A projection image reconstruction function can be configured to reconstruct tomography images of the object based on the projection images of the object.
US07751520B1
Techniques are disclosed for detecting a packet. One technique includes sampling a received signal to produce a sequence of samples wherein the sequence of samples includes a plurality of subsequences of samples; cross correlating the subsequences of samples with a known form of the subsequence to produce cross correlations; self correlating the cross correlations to produce a plurality of self correlations; summing the self correlations; and processing the sum of the self correlations.
US07751516B2
Inter-device adaptable interfacing clock skewing. The invention is operable in either one of both of a transmit mode and a receive mode to perform skewing of a transmitted and/or a received signal. The operational parameters including frequency and phase may be determined during auto detect/auto negotiation, they may be programmed externally, or they may be user selected in various embodiments. A device may include a clock generator, one or more divider, and one or more delay cells internally to the device. If desired, a high frequency clock is generated within the device and then divided down to generate the appropriate clock signal that supports the communication and interaction between multiple devices. Registers and/or pins may be used to select the clock frequency and phase of output clock signals. The present invention supports multiple Ethernet protocols between multiple devices including 10BaseT, 100BaseT, and 1000BaseT.
US07751515B2
Mobile handheld terminals receiving DVB transmission require relatively low power consumption and TDM based transmission can be used to reduce power of the terminals. In order find pilot carrier position at least two symbols are accessed which are adapted to establish a correspondence pattern for pilot carriers in a matrix of the at least two symbols. Carriers of the first symbol are correlated with the corresponding carriers of the second symbol within the matrix for determining a correlation maximum for indicating a pilot carrier position.
US07751514B2
A communication system and a method which can reduce the effect of burst noise. The communication system comprises a controllable oscillator, a mixer, a decision circuit, a comparator, a loop filter, and a controller. The controllable oscillator generates an oscillating signal. The mixer coupled to the controllable receives input data and mixes the input data with the oscillating signal. The decision circuit receives the mixed input data and generates an estimated symbol. The comparator generates a decision error between the estimated symbol and the mixed input data. The loop filter coupled to the controllable oscillator filters the decision error, and generates a filtered decision error, and the controllable oscillator generates the oscillating signal according to the filtered decision error. The controller reduces a bandwidth of the loop filter according to the decision error.
US07751511B2
A subset of modeled impairment correlation terms are selected for use in received signal processing. According to one embodiment, a subset of modeled impairment correlation terms is selected and a composite impairment correlation term is determined based on the subset of modeled impairment correlation terms. The composite impairment correlation term may be determined by scaling the modeled impairment correlation terms included in the subset by respective model fitting parameters. The scaled modeled impairment correlation terms are then combined to form the composite impairment correlation term. The subset of modeled impairment correlation terms may be selected based on their respective model fitting parameters. In one embodiment, the modeled impairment terms having a model fitting parameter that satisfy a threshold are included in the subset while those that do not are excluded. The composite impairment correlation term may be used for received signal processing, e.g., demodulation or signal-to-interference estimation.
US07751506B2
A MIMO receiver implements a method for the soft bit metric calculation with linear MIMO detection for LDPC codes, after linear matrix inversion MIMO detection. In the receiver, a detector detects the estimated symbol and the noise variance. Further, a soft metric calculation unit computes the distance between the estimated symbol and the constellation point, and then divides the distance by the noise variance to determine the soft bit metrics.
US07751492B2
For certain embodiments of this application, a method and apparatus for generating pilots in a wireless multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) communication system is disclosed. The certain embodiments can include obtaining at least one pilot symbol for each antenna of a plurality of antennas, obtaining an orthogonal sequence for each antenna in the plurality of antennas, and covering the at least one pilot symbol for each antenna with the orthogonal sequence to obtain a sequence of covered pilot symbols for each antenna to obtain at least one covered pilot symbols for each of the plurality of antennas.
US07751481B2
A video processing system is provided with video encoding apparatus 1 and video decoding apparatus 2. The encoding apparatus 1 outputs a maximum delay time that is incurred by backward prediction, in addition to encoded data D1 resulting from encoding of video data D0. The decoding apparatus 2 effects input of the maximum delay time that is incurred by backward prediction, in addition to encoded data D1 from the encoding apparatus 1. Then the decoding apparatus 2 decodes the encoded data D1 with reference to the input maximum delay time to generate motion video data D2.
US07751480B2
The present invention provides a buffer architecture and latency reduction mechanism for buffering uncompressed/compressed information. This combination provides for a proficient division of the encoding task and quicker through-put time. The invention teaches a single chip digital signal processing device for real time video/audio compression comprising a plurality of processors, including a video input processor, a motion estimation processor, a digital signal processor, and a bitstream processor, wherein processing and transfer of the signals within the device is done in a macroblock-by-macroblock manner. The device can include a multiplexing processor that is comprised of a storage unit which buffers a compressed video bitstream and a processor which retrieves the compressed video bitstream from the storage unit and produces a multiplexed data stream whereby the compressed video bitstream is processed in a pipeline manner.
US07751475B1
Image data to be compressed is first converted from the RGB domain into a gamma-powered YUV domain. A wavelet transform then separates image data into high- and low-detail sectors, incorporating a dynamic scaling method, allowing for optimal resolution. The output data from the wavelet transform is then quantized according to an entropy-prediction algorithm that tightly controls the final size of the processed image. An adaptive Golomb engine compresses the data using an adaptive form of Golomb encoding in which mean values are variable across the data. Using variable mean values reduces the deleterious effects found in conventional Golomb encoding in which localized regions of similar data are inefficiently coded if their bit values are uncommon in the data as a whole. Inverse functions are applied to uncompress the image, and a fractal dithering engine can additionally be applied to display an image on a display of lower color depth.
US07751473B2
A method of encoding a video signal representing a sequence of pictures, which comprises receiving a current picture for encoding, forming a temporal prediction of the current picture or a part thereof from a first reference picture or a part thereof associated with the current picture, and further comprising associating a second reference picture or a part thereof with the current picture for forming a temporal prediction of the current picture or a part thereof based on a similarity measure. The similarity measure is selected from a group which includes a measure indicative of the similarity between the first reference picture or a part thereof and the second reference picture or a part thereof and a measure indicative of a similarity between the current picture or a part thereof and the second reference picture or a part thereof. A corresponding video decoding method, video encoder and video decoder are presented.
US07751470B2
Time correlation of signal to distortion characteristics is achieved by acquiring time domain data for a frequency band representing a communication signal, the communication signal having multiple channels. The time domain data is simultaneously converted to frequency and demodulation domain data in sequential time blocks. The frequency and demodulation domain data are processed to obtain respectively frequency and demodulation domain measurements. The resulting measurements are displayed simultaneously as a function of time for all the time blocks and/or for a selected one of the time blocks. An ACLRogram display provides a display having a time axis and a frequency axis in the form of bars spanning the frequency band for each time block with each bar being divided into frequency sub-bands representing a main channel and adjacent side channels, the shading of each segment of the bar representing a measurement value for that segment.
US07751454B2
A semiconductor laser device including: semiconductor layers including an n-type semiconductor layer, an active layer and a p-type semiconductor layer, the semiconductor layers having a stripe-shaped waveguide region formed therein; end face protective film formed on the end face of the semiconductor layer that is substantially perpendicular to the waveguide region; wherein a p-side protruding portion is formed in the vicinity of the end portion of a p-electrode or n-electrode.
US07751453B2
A laser control system contains an oscillator gas chamber and an amplifier gas chamber. A first voltage input is operatively connected to deliver electrical pulses to a first pair of electrodes within the oscillator gas chamber and a second pair of electrodes within the amplifier gas chamber. An output of the gas chambers is an energy dose calculated by a trapezoidal window. A control circuit connects to the first voltage input for modifying the first voltage input. A feedback control loop communicates an output of the gas chambers to the control circuit for modifying the first voltage input.
US07751451B2
A system and method is disclosed allowing a cable network provider to dynamically allocate a network resource, in the form of channel bandwidth, for conveying either analog or digital assets. Certain assets are distributed in a cable network in an analog manner but only during certain time periods. The network resources could be used for offering digital services at other times. A programmable RF switch allows network resources to be switched to convey digital assets when the analog channels are not required. The digital assets conveyed may comprise movies, games, or music and can be transferred during ‘off-hours’ for local storage in the set top box in anticipation of future requests by a user. When the asset is requested, the set top box first checks if the asset is locally available, and if so, spools it out locally.
US07751448B2
Symbol timing synchronization in OFDM communication systems where multiple wireless terminals communicate with a single base station is described. Base station transmitter and receiver symbol timing is fixed. Each wireless terminal operates to independently adjust its transmitter timing. Transmitter timing synchronization at the wireless terminal is slaved to the terminal's receiver timing synchronization. Each wireless terminal first corrects its receiver symbol timing based on a signal received from the base station. The wireless terminal then adjusts its transmitter symbol timing as a function of its receiver symbol timing. When the receiver symbol timing is to be advanced or delayed by some amount, the transmitter symbol timing is also advanced or delayed, respectively, by the same, or substantially the same, amount. Symbol timing adjustment can be made by adding or deleting digital samples from the first or last symbol in a dwell.
US07751447B2
Due to emerging cellular standards, such as UMTS, TDMA and WLAN, there is more and more need for so-called multi-mode mobile phones, i.e. phones which support not only one air interface but at least two. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a simplified synchronization of a plurality of time base units in a receiving station, such as a multi-mode mobile phone, is provided, in which the plurality of time base units is synchronized by performing a calibration of one first time base unit only and then using the calibration for synchronizing the other time base units with the calibrated first time base unit. Since the synchronization of the various time base units can be performed by software, the number of hardware components for synchronization may be significantly reduced.
US07751446B2
A DTV transmitting system includes two pre-processors. The first pre-processor codes high-priority enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expands the FEC-coded data. The second pre-processor codes low-priority enhanced data for FEC and expands the FEC-coded low-priority enhanced data. The DTV transmitting system further includes a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including the pre-processed data, a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets, an RS encoder RS-coding the multiplexed data packets, a data interleaver interleaving the RS-coded data packets, and a block processor which codes each block of enhanced data in the interleaved enhanced data packets and bypasses the interleaved main data packets.
US07751444B2
A method and system for processing buffer status reports (BSRs) such that when BSR triggering is performed, the size(s) of the necessary sub-header(s) are also to be considered together in addition to the BSR size. The steps of checking whether any padding region is available in a MAC PDU that was constructed, comparing the number of padding bits with the size of the BSR plus its sub-header, and if the number of padding bits is larger than the size of the BSR plus its sub-header, triggering BSR are performed. Doing so allows the sub-header(s) to be inserted or included into the MAC PDU or transport block (TB) or other type of data unit.
US07751442B2
Described are a device and system to transmit 8B/10B code groups including Ethernet data frames in a device-to-device interconnection. Control messages may be interleaved among the 8B/10B code groups for transmission to a destination device.
US07751439B2
A method for the allocation of resources for the transmission, in a communications network, of a data stream from an intermediate device to a sink device, said data stream comprising a plurality of data applications packets and being transmitted from a source device to the intermediate device in the form of data transport packets according to a communications protocol.The intermediate device performs the following steps: reception of data transport packets according to the communications protocol; obtaining application time-stamp information included in the data of the data stream contained in the data transport packets received; determining a bit rate, called an application bit rate, from said application time-stamp information obtained and a piece of information on quantity of data of the data stream received by the intermediate device; determining a value of bandwidth to be allocated as a function of the application bit rate to transmit the data stream from the intermediate device to the sink device; allocation of the value of bandwidth to be allocated to the transmission of the data stream from the intermediate device to the sink device.
US07751423B2
A scheduler in a communication network comprising a communication channel which is shared by a plurality of user nodes, the communication channel having a succession of slots. The scheduler has a quality unit for receiving an indication of the quality of the communication channel for each user node. A delay unit for receiving a predetermined delay factor for each of at least some of the user nodes, the delay factor representing a level of tolerance to a time delay. A selection unit connected to the quality and delay units and being arranged to determine, for each slot, which of the user nodes is to use that slot based on the channel quality indication and the delay factors.
US07751417B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an accelerated system and methods for gathering business information, augmenting that information to conform to requirements for sharing the information and for synchronizing, managing and publishing the information across the supply chain. Through use of a control module business information is gathered from a variety of enterprise wide systems and stored via an acceleration engine. After augmenting and/or altering the information to conform to the requirements of a desired repository of information known as a data pool, the information is published to the data pool and registered by the data pool with a registry for looking up the published information. One or more embodiments of the invention allow for the rapid publication and modification of publication related data using advanced querying mechanisms of the acceleration engine.
US07751408B2
A method of circuit emulation over an IP interworking VLL, and related system, the method including one or more of the following: configuring a circuit emulation port with one or more logical interfaces; configuring one or more channels on each of the one or more logical interfaces; configuring the one or more channels with a destination IP address; configuring the one or more channels with a destination UDP port number; specifying an Ipipe VLL for each of the one or more channels; determining TDM traffic to go onto the specified Ipipe; packetizing TDM traffic; encapsulating the TDM traffic with encapsulation; inserting one or more packets of the TDM traffic into an IP interworking VLL; sending the one or more packets through the Ipipe; stripping the encapsulation from the one or more packets of the TDM traffic; and forwarding the one or more packets to a destination.
US07751406B2
A level of trust is determined for a consumer equipment. Based on the determined level of trust, a level of QoS is controlled for information packets that are associated with the consumer equipment and communicated through a packet switched network and/or access by the consumer equipment to communicate through the packet switched network is controlled. The consumer equipment may be selectively allowed to communicate through the packet switched network based on the determined level of trust and based on available resources of the packet switched network. Access to the packet switched network and allowed QoS for information packets communicated there through may thereby be based on a level of trust of the associated consumer equipment.
US07751405B1
Techniques are described for automatically establishing network tunnels among a set of routers. For example, the techniques allow a routing protocol, such as the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), to be extended to generate routing advertisements that direct a receiving device to automatically establish a particular type of tunnel, e.g., a Resource Reservation Protocol with Traffic Engineering extensions (RSVP-TE) Label Switched Path (LSP), and automatically direct particular network traffic onto the tunnel. A method comprises receiving a routing advertisement from a network device, wherein the routing advertisement includes a destination reachable by the network device, and a tunnel attribute that specifies a type of network tunnel to be established to the network device for forwarding traffic to the destination, automatically establishing a network tunnel to the network device in accordance with the tunnel attribute, and forwarding network traffic to the destination using the established network tunnel.
US07751404B2
A method, system, and computer program product for receiving and resequencing a plurality of data segments received on a plurality of channels of a bonding channel set, comprising determining if a sequence number of a received segment matches an expected sequence number. If so, the process includes forwarding the segment for further processing, incrementing the expected sequence number; and forwarding any queued packets corresponding to the expected sequence number and immediately succeeding sequence numbers less than a sequence number of annexed missing segment. If the sequence number of the received segment does not match the expected sequence number, the received segment is queued at a memory location. The address of this location is converted to a segment index. The segment index is stored in a sparse array.
US07751392B1
A system having a data retriever and a database manager is provided. The data retriever retrieves router configurations from data stores for routers. The database manager parses the router configurations to determine port data for each port on each router, and integrates the port data with customer data to create an integrated database. The database manager also determines a customer link diversity based on the integrated database and displays the customer link diversity. The database manager can recommend reassignment of a customer link when the customer link diversity is less than a corresponding target customer link diversity. The database manager can also determine the customer link diversity when adding a card and determine the customer link diversity when adding a customer link.
US07751389B2
A message-forwarding mobility management (e.g. home location register) component includes a forwarding logic component adapted to receive a message and operates to determine whether to process or forward the message from the subscriber or user identification information in the message. The message may be a TCAP message and the forwarding logic component may include a look-up table containing a plurality of records, each record defining a rule of whether to forward or process corresponding received messages. The subscriber or user identification information in the message may one or both of an IMSI identifier and a MSISDN identifier.
US07751383B2
One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is a method for facilitating mediated communication. In accordance with such method, an operation is performed for maintaining a database including a plurality of Quality-Of-Service (QOS) factors and an operation is performed for assessing at least a portion of said QOS factors for determining a capability for offering mediated communication. In response to determining that mediated communication is capable of being implemented, an operation is performed for facilitating transmission of a communication request notification for reception by a mediation subscriber communication device.
US07751377B2
Wireless network interference is mitigated with client devices having wireless network interference mitigation logic and/or utilizing a usable bandwidth channel quality metric. In a described example implementation, a client device includes wireless network interference mitigation logic that monitors at least one channel condition of a wireless network and participates in a wireless network interference mitigation procedure based on the at least one channel condition. In another described example implementation, a usable bandwidth of a wireless channel is ascertained with respect to a native network, the usable bandwidth reflecting a difference between (i) a total channel capacity of the wireless channel and (ii) a portion of the total channel capacity that is consumed by wireless communications of one or more foreign networks. By way of example only, the at least one channel condition may be usable bandwidth. The wireless network interference mitigation logic may also be employed in non-client devices.
US07751362B2
A communication device for gracefully extending the range and/or capacity of voice communication systems. The communication device includes a persistent storage device configured persistently store the voice media either generated when using the communication device or received over the network at the communication device. When the usable bit rate on the network is poor and below that necessary for conducting a live conversation, the communication device transmits voice media from persistent storage and stores received voice media in persistent storage at the available usable bit rate on the network. Although latency may be introduced during the back and forth transmissions of a conversation, the persistent storage of both transmitted and received media of a conversation provides the ability to extend the useful range of wireless networks beyond what is required for live conversations. In addition, the capacity and robustness in not being affected by external interferences for both wired and wireless communications is improved.
US07751355B2
A beacon frame (5) for transmission during a beacon period for a wireless device to maintain synchronization with other wireless devices of a community in a wireless communications network, the frame (5) comprising: a header (8) containing routing information for the frame (5); beacon parameters (9) to indicate signaling methods in use by the wireless devices; at least one information element (7) comprising at least one identifier to identify the wireless device; wherein the at least one identifier comprises a signature identifier (104) for the frame (5), an interface version, and a name and unique identifier for the device.
US07751343B2
The present invention discloses a data transmission method for transmitting real-time data from a server to plural terminals via a network having plural local area networks connected to a wide area network. The method includes the steps of grouping plural terminals connected to a same switching hub into a single terminal group, generating a table indicating a rank and an address of each terminal in the terminal group, and transferring the real-time data from a first terminal to a second terminal that is one rank lower than the first terminal in accordance with the ranks indicated in the table.
US07751341B2
According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to allow for distribution of fiber channel messages. Messages associated with a variety of applications can be distributed within a single logical fabric to physical connected but logically disconnected fabrics. Interconnecting switches forward messages to neighboring fabrics and aggregate responses before replying to a first fabric.
US07751336B2
A technique efficiently avoids transient routing disturbances in link state routing protocols with fragmented link state packets (LSPs) in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a link state router (LSR) specifies which of two or more links are to be advertised in each of two or more corresponding LSP fragments. The LSR advertises the states of the specified links in the corresponding LSP fragments to one or more other LSRs. In other words, each link of the LSR is assigned to a particular LSP fragment, and the state of the link is always to be advertised in that particular LSP fragment (i.e., no fragment wrapping). Upon receiving the LSP fragments, the other LSRs may update the correct link states based on the individual LSP fragments, i.e., without transient routing disturbances caused by fragment wrapping.
US07751330B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for dynamically managing hierarchical flows that more efficiently process packet traffic while maintaining compatibility with an existing packet data network in transferring both circuit traffic and packet traffic in a packet switched network. The method for dynamically managing hierarchical flows includes: receiving data packets, classifying the data packets according to attributes of the received data packets, and producing first flows; determining whether traffic of each of the first flows exceeds a predetermined bandwidth limit, and performing a packet drop process or producing second flows for first flows that exceed the bandwidth limit, according to a flow-specific policy; and performing second flow processing on the second flows according to a second flow policy. Only flows exceeding the bandwidth limit or causing congestion are hierarchically divided for management. This makes it possible to finely manage the flows without complex operations.
US07751324B2
Transmitting media information from a transmitting device to a receiving device. To perform the transmission a media stream is encoded and packets are formed from the encoded media stream, the packets containing application data units, the application data units having a decoding order. At least two blocks are generated from the packets. The packets of the at least two blocks are organized into a first group and a second group, the first group being decodable without reception of said second group. The transmission order of the packets of said first group is arranged succeeding packets of said second group such that the application data units in the transmission order are at least partly in a different order than the decoding order.
US07751321B2
A method and system for remote access to UPnP devices is provided, which allows remote access to UPnP devices in a private network, and utilizes message forwarding at the UPnP layer. Existing UPnP control points can remotely access UPnP devices in a private network without modification to UPnP standards.
US07751303B2
Disclosed is a demodulation circuit for demodulating an IF signal which is input via an antennal and then over-sampled at a sampling rate four times a frequency of a baseband signal, the demodulation circuit including a mixer for converting the IF signal down to a baseband signal using a coefficient corresponding to either sine values or cosine values, a DEMUX for dividing the down-converted baseband signal into a plurality of signals, and a PPF having a plurality of sub-filters for filtering the divided signals input from the DEMUX and a plurality of adders for operating the output signals of the sub-filters. As a result, the demodulation circuit can be realized in a small hardware size and is capable of reducing power consumption.
US07751297B2
A pickup device includes a diffraction grating 12 for separating a light beam emitted from the light source into at least three light beams. The diffraction grating 12 is divided into four regions by straight lines extending in a direction parallel to a tangential direction of tracks of an optical information recording medium. A periodic structure of a second region 12B has a phase difference of approximately 180 degrees from a periodic structure of a third region 12C, and a periodic structure of a first region 12A has a phase difference of approximately 180 degrees from a periodic structure of a fourth region 12D.
US07751292B2
The control device (610) controls the recording of data onto an information recording medium where the number of re-writing data onto the same area is limited. The control device (610) determines whether data to be recorded is real-time data or non-real-time data (S1). When it is determined that the data to be recorded is real-time data, the real-time data is recorded in a circular manner onto a second area which is defined in advance within a first area which is assigned in advance on the information recording medium (S2 to S5). When it is determined that the data to be recorded is non-real-time data, the search for an unassigned area is performed from a predetermined address within the first area. The non-real-time data is recorded onto the unassigned area found as a result of the search (S6 and S7). The search for the unassigned area for recording the non-real-time data is also performed in the second area within the first area (S6).
US07751291B2
An optical disc identification apparatus is disclosed. The optical disc identification apparatus includes an optic pickup unit and a control unit. The optic pickup unit has a plurality of laser sources. The optic pickup unit emits any of lasers to the optical disc and detects the reflected laser from the optical disc to transduce the reflected laser to a detection signal. The control unit controls the optic pickup unit to activate any of the laser sources and moves an object lens of the optic pickup unit. When the object lens moves, the control unit obtains a sectional width value of an S-curve of a focus FE signal according to the detection signal. The control unit repeats above steps to obtain the sectional width values of the S-curves of all the laser sources and identifies the optical disc according to all the sectional width values.
US07751289B2
If a failure is detected during operation of information recording in an optical disc apparatus, the optical disc apparatus stops the recording operation, changes the number of rotations of the optical disc to a low-speed value, seeks a selected recording region, performs OPC processing and trial write operation, measures a β value as a result of the trial write operation, calculates optimal recording power based on the difference between the measured β value and a target β value and recording power set in the OPC processing, and starts the operation of information recording with the selected number of rotations for low-speed operation by use of the optimal recording power.
US07751279B2
A walkaway VSP survey is carried out with receivers located in a borehole near the base salt. Reflection tomographic inversion of data from the walkaway VSP is used to derive a velocity model for the subsurface and may be used for imaging of sub-salt reflections.
US07751276B2
A semiconductor memory device adapted to perform a page mode operation comprises a first address transition detector adapted generate a first clock signal upon detecting a transition of a start address, a second address transition detector adapted to generate a second clock signal upon detecting transition of a lower bit of the start address and after the first clock signal is generated, and an address controller adapted to sequentially increment the start address in response to a transition of the second clock signal. The address controller sequentially accesses memory cells selected by the start address and the incremented start address in response to a transition of the second clock signal.
US07751274B2
Some embodiments are directed to circuits comprising first and second PLLs. The first PLL generates a first clock signal based on a reference clock signal. The second PLL generates a second clock signal based on the reference clock signal and is synchronized with the first clock signal.
US07751269B2
Embodiments of the invention relate generally to a coupling device, to a processor arrangement, to a data processing arrangement, and to methods for transmitting data. In an embodiment of the invention, a coupling device for coupling a memory, which has a serial data output, with a processor, which has a parallel data input, is provided. The coupling device may include a serial data interface configured to receive data, a parallel data interface configured to transmit data, and a cache memory coupled to the serial data interface and to the parallel data interface, wherein the cache memory is configured to receive and store data, which have been received in a serial data format via the serial data interface, and to transmit data stored in the cache memory to the parallel data interface.
US07751268B2
A sense amplifier power supply circuit includes an overdriving unit configured to apply a first voltage to a sense amplifier in response to a first enable signal, a sense amplifier driving unit configured to apply a second voltage to the sense amplifier in response to a second enable signal, and a switching unit configured to selectively apply the first voltage or the second voltage to the sense amplifier in response to the first enable signal and the second enable signal.
US07751260B2
A memory device has data transceivers, write strobe transceivers, and read strobe transceivers. The data transceivers transfer input data to the memory device and transfer output data from the memory device. The write strobe transceivers transfer timing information of the input data. The read strobe transceivers transfer timing information of the output data. The memory device also has an auxiliary circuit for generating auxiliary information. The auxiliary information includes information different from the timing information of the input data and the output data. The auxiliary circuit uses the write and read transceivers to transfer the auxiliary information to and from the memory device.
US07751227B2
Disclosed are a phase change memory with improved retention characteristic of a phase change device, and a method for refreshing the phase change memory. The fact that a memory is a DRAM interface compatible memory is exploited. There are provided dummy cells stressed in accordance with the number of times of read and write operations. Changes in the resistance value of the dummy cells are detected by comparator circuits. If the resistance value have been changed beyond a predetermined reference value (that is, changed to a low resistance), a refresh request circuit requests an internal circuit, not shown, to effect refreshing. The memory cells and the dummy cells are transitorily refreshed and correction is made for variations in the programmed resistance value of the phase change devices to assure the margin as well as to improve retention characteristic.
US07751223B2
A magnetic memory device includes a recording layer, a reference layer, a first input portion and a second input portion. The recording layer has perpendicular magnetization direction and a plurality of magnetic domains, and the reference layer corresponds to a portion of the recording layer and has a pinned magnetization direction. The recording layer has a data storage cell wherein a plurality of data bit regions each including a magnetic domain are formed. The magnetic domain corresponds to an effective size of the reference layer. The first input portion inputs at least one of a writing signal and a reading signal. The second input portion is electrically connected to the recording layer and inputs a magnetic domain motion signal in order to move data stored in a data bit region of the recording layer to an adjoining data bit region.
US07751220B2
An associative memory device includes a magnetically responsive layer adapted to store a representation of a pattern, the magnetically responsive layer includes magnetic nanoparticles as a magnetically active component. The magnetic nanoparticles of the associative memory device are dispersed in a solvent with variable viscosity, and the magnetically responsive layer is a layer of ferrofluid.
US07751183B2
A modular device formed with USB connectors. The USB can be used for connecting different kinds of devices, for example memories, user interfaces and the like. The USB devices can be piggybacked. In an embodiment, the USB devices can be located in a cavity formed inside the computer. Another embodiment forms a modular cellular telephone.
US07751173B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit comprises an electrostatic actuator, an estimation circuit, a storage circuit and a bias circuit. The electrostatic actuator has a top electrode, a bottom electrode, and an insulating film disposed between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The estimation circuit estimates the amount of a charge accumulated in the insulating film of the electrostatic actuator. The storage circuit stores a result of the estimation of the charge amount by the estimation circuit. The bias circuit changes, on the basis of the estimation result stored in the storage circuit, a drive voltage to drive the electrostatic actuator.
US07751172B2
The present invention is directed to a system and a method for peeling a wafer off of an electrostatic clamp (ESC). The ESC removal system comprises a electrostatic clamp and a wafer electrically coupled and physically in contact with each other. A plurality of grippers or pins are arranged with respect to the wafer and the ESC to allow the wafer to be peeled off or removed section by section from the electrostatic clamp. The system and method allow the wafer to be removed with a much lower pull force than current systems and methods.
US07751170B2
Charge transfer is provided to or from an electrically isolated test body by AC modulation of the photoelectric effect. More specifically, a reference body is disposed near the test body without physical contact between the reference and test bodies. Facing surfaces of the reference and test bodies are illuminated by optical radiation having a sufficiently short wavelength that charged particles are emitted from the reference and test bodies. An electrical bias is established between the reference body and the test body. Both the optical radiation and the electrical bias are modulated at the same frequency. A magnitude and direction of a charge transfer rate between the reference and test bodies is set by selecting a phase relation between the optical radiation and the electrical bias.
US07751167B2
A protective circuit for a supersonic humidifier includes a compare circuit to obtain working voltage at two terminals of an ultrasonic vibrating member to decide whether the humidifier is to be continued to operate or stopped so as to protect it from burning up. The protective circuit does not utilize a vibration needle, a float, a magnetic switch and a HALL IC used in conventional humidifiers.
US07751160B1
The present invention is directed to a protective wiring device for use in an electrical distribution system. The device includes a plurality of line terminals and a plurality of load terminals configured to be coupled to the plurality of line terminals in a reset state. A detector circuit is coupled to the plurality of line terminals. The detector circuit is configured to generate a detection signal in response to detecting at least one predefined perturbation in the electrical distribution system. A circuit interrupter assembly is coupled between the plurality of line terminals and the plurality of load terminals. The circuit interrupter assembly is configured to decouple the plurality of line terminals from the plurality of load terminals in response to the detection signal. An end-of-life mechanism is coupled to the detector circuit. The end-of-life mechanism is configured to permanently decouple the plurality of line terminals from the plurality of load terminals in the absence of an intervening signal.
US07751150B2
A ramp for a polyoxymethylene hard resin disk drive, which has an outgas level of not more than 20 μg/g. The ramp for a polyoxymethylene resin hard disk drive comprises the steps of providing an extruder, melt kneading a polyoxymethylene resin with a colorant while degassing through one or more vents under a reduced pressure of −0.06 Mpa or less to prepare polyoxymethylene resin pellets, and injection molding the polyoxymethylene resin pellets, washing the molding with a solvent, and drying the molding.
US07751120B2
A stereomicroscope of the telescope type includes a first beam path and a second beam path, wherein in the first beam path a first telescope system and in the second beam path a second telescope system are provided, wherein the magnifications of both telescope systems are equal and can be changed synchronously to each other, and wherein a common main objective is allocated to both beam paths. In order to increase the resolution without loss in depth of field, it is proposed that at least one optical element of the first telescope system has, compared to at least one corresponding optical element of the second telescope system, a different optically effective diameter.
US07751116B2
A flexible display of a reflection type is disclosed. An electrolyte layer with a relatively high polarity and a non-electrolyte layer with a relatively low polarity are arranged between two electrodes such that an image is displayed in accordance with movements of the electrolyte layer and non-electrolyte layer caused by an electric field applied to the layers. A reflection plate is arranged on a lower surface of the display such that the color of the image may be modified in accordance with a change in the color of the reflection plate.
US07751106B2
An image forming apparatus that previously rotates a polygonal mirror drive motor before starting a job and forms a latent image by using an optical scanning unit including the polygonal mirror drive motor is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform control such that, in the determination of the presence or absence of each of color toners before a previous rotation is started, if it is determined that any one of the color toners is absent, only the polygonal mirror drive motor corresponding to a black toner is previously rotated.
US07751097B2
A method of changing driving sequence to output a charge coupled device signal, the method is applied to a scanner. The scanner has a pixel processor and a charge coupled device. A plurality of charge signals detected by the charge coupled device is sequentially output to the pixel processor according to the driving sequence. In the method of changing the driving sequence to output the charge coupled device signal, a fast driving sequence is provided. The fast driving sequence has a period equal to 1/N of the original driving sequence. According to the fast driving sequence, the charge signal is sent to the pixel processing circuit. The charge signals are sampled by the processing circuit according to a sampling sequence, and the data obtained by sampling is output.
US07751092B2
A document camera includes a stand and a digital camera attached thereto to be freely detachable, and ensures an electrical connection therebetween at an attaching time. The digital camera is structured to be usable as a single unit. Moreover, a charging circuit is provided in the stand to make it possible to charge the attached digital camera by an external power source. An image obtained by the digital camera or data of the recorded image is transferred to a PC via the stand, and the obtained (recorded) image is projected on a screen by a projector. Moreover, a mode change key, a shutter key, and the like are provided in the stand, making it possible to perform an operation for changing an operation mode, a still image shooting operation and the like in the digital camera and allow an operation from the PC via the stand.
US07751091B2
A communication terminal including a terminal interface for communicating with a first facsimile terminal dedicated to using analog facsimile communications, an analog communication part for controlling the analog facsimile communications of the terminal interface, a storage part for storing image data received from the first facsimile terminal, and a network interface part for connecting to an IP network and transmitting the image data stored in the storage part to a second facsimile terminal at a transmission rate greater than the transmission rate of the analog facsimile communication.
US07751089B2
A computer-implemented method is designed for printing on regular digital printers of a coding pattern consisting of regularly spaced code symbols. In the method, a page-describing code (e.g. in PostScript programming language) is generated for the printer. The generation of the page-describing code is based a character definition set which assigns a set of characters to represent a set of mutually unique groups of the code symbols. By mapping the set of mutually unique groups against the coding pattern, the location of corresponding groups within the coding pattern can be identified. Each of the corresponding groups is then represented by its assigned character in the page-describing code. The resulting page-describing code is small in size and has a reduced set of printer instructions that can be processed efficiently by the receiving printer.
US07751082B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first generating unit configured to generate first attribute information of an image and pixels of the image based on rendering commands, a second generating unit configured to perform image area separation processing on an image generated by the first generating unit and to generate second attribute information of the pixels of the image, and an attribute information generating unit configured to generate third attribute information of the pixels of the image based on the generated first attribute information and the second attribute information. In this image processing apparatus, the attribute information generating unit is configured to generate the third attribute information of pixels contained in an object of the image represented by the first attribute information which is identical for each pixel in the object based on a combination of the first attribute information and the second attribute information.
US07751081B2
A method of gamut mapping includes the steps of defining a mapping function establishing a continuous first derivative of change of at least one color space component from a first color gamut to a second color gamut, and applying the function to first color gamut data for the at least one color space component.
US07751080B2
A computer is provided with an application and a printer driver. A user of the computer generates image data using the application. When the image data is for a plurality of pages, the user selects a desired watermark for each of the plurality of pages. The printer driver converts the image data into print data, and combines selected watermarks with the print data for corresponding pages, thereby generating updated print data. The updated print data is output as a single print job to the printer. The printer executes printing operations based on the print job so as to print an image on a plurality of pages, each formed with a corresponding watermark.
US07751073B2
To enable the operability of image editing process to improve, the first procedure for making configurations relating to a print medium used in printing by a printing device, the second procedure for selecting an image to be printed by the printing device and specifying its print range, the third procedure for making configurations relating to image processing for the image for which the print range is specified, and the fourth procedure for performing printing process of the image data to which the configured image processing is applied are executed.
US07751067B1
Methods and apparatuses are provided for positioning a substrate having a target that may be located on either the front-side or the backside of the substrate. The optical detector that views the target contains a signal-generating material that is substantially identical to the substrate material.
US07751066B2
An apparatus is disclosed for projecting patterned electromagnetic waves onto an object. This apparatus includes: an electromagnetic-wave source; a modulating element allowing at least part of an electromagnetic wave incoming from the source to be modulated; and a selector for allowing a selected one of angular components of an electromagnetic wave outgoing from the modulating element, to pass through the selector. The modulating element is shaped to include at least one pair of two portions having different surface shapes. One of the two portions allows one of the angular components which has a radiant angle characteristic that achieves a predetermined entrance numerical aperture, to go out as a component which will be selected by the selector. The other allows one of the angular components which has a radiant angle characteristic that does not achieve the entrance numerical aperture, to go out as a component which will not be selected by the selector.
US07751064B2
An apparatus including: an interferometric objective comprising a beam splitter surface configured to separate input light into test light and reference light, and a reference surface configured to receive the reference light and direct it back to the beam splitter surface, which is configured to recombine the reference light with test light reflected from a test surface, the interferometric objective further comprising one or more optical elements positioned in the path of the input light and having positive or negative optical power, wherein the reference surface is curved and defines a window to pass the input light towards the beam splitter surface.
US07751060B2
A position measuring system includes a laser interferometer, and a wavelength detection unit detecting the wavelength change of a laser beam. A phase compensation unit compensates for the wavelength change detected by the wavelength detection unit based on the phase difference of aerial vibration between the wavelength detection unit and the optical path of the laser interferometer, which is determined based on the difference in length between a first path of the aerial vibration from the aerial vibration source of an air conditioner to the wavelength detection unit and a second path of the aerial vibration from the aerial vibration source to the optical path of the laser interferometer. A position measuring unit compensates for a measurement value obtained by the laser interferometer on the basis of the compensated wavelength change. In the position measuring system, the first path is designed to be shorter than the second path.
US07751059B2
A level sensor for determining a height of a substrate. In one configuration, the level sensor forms part of a lithographic apparatus that includes a projection lens system. The level sensor generates one or more measurement beams and directs the measurement beam to a measurement spot on a substrate having a first reflecting surface, and produces a reflected measurement beam. The level sensor also generates one or more reference beams. A detector detects both the reflected measurement beam and the reference beam, respectively, and produces a measurement signal and a reference signal, respectively, the measurement signal being indicative for the height at the measurement spot. A processor that receives these signals and corrects the measurement signal based on the reference signal. In one configuration, the level sensor has an optical element arranged to direct the reference beam towards a detection branch via an optical reference path arranged to be insensitive to the position of the projection lens system and the first reflecting surface. In one configuration, the level sensor is configured to direct the measurement beam and reference beam along optical paths that are at least partially substantially equal in at least one of the reference branch and the projection branch.
US07751044B2
A sensor for measuring in a borehole at least one of orientation, acceleration and pressure, the sensor including: a light source; a birefringent material receiving light from the source; and a photodetector for measuring light transmitted through the birefringent material to measure the at least one of orientation, acceleration and pressure.
US07751042B2
A recursive-reflective photoelectric sensor has a sensor main body and a recursive reflecting part. The sensor main body includes a light projecting part that projects first circularly polarized light and a light receiving part. When a mixture of the first circularly polarized light and second circularly polarized light which is differently polarized from the first circularly polarized light is incident to the light receiving part, only the second circularly polarized light is selectively passed. The recursive reflecting part reflects the first circularly polarized light by converting into reflected light that includes the second circularly polarized light.
US07751035B2
A method and device for determining, in a non-destructive way, at least the active carrier profile from an unknown semiconductor substrate are disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises generating 2 m independent measurement values from the m reflected signals and correlating these 2 m measurement values with 2 m independent carrier profile values. The method further comprises generating additional 2 m measurement values to allow determining the active carrier profile and a second parameter profile by correlating the 4 m measurement values with the 4 m profile values. The method further comprises generating a total of 2 m[n.k] measurement values to allow determining [n.k] independent material parameter depth profiles, each material parameter profile having m points.
US07751031B2
A light application apparatus includes an optical modulation element provided with a plurality of phase steps, a light beam which is entered into the optical modulation element being phase-modulated by the phase steps and exits from the optical modulation element as a light beam having a first light intensity distribution. An optical system is arranged between the optical modulation element and an predetermined plane. The optical system divides the phase-modulated light beam into at least two light fluxes having second and third light intensity distributions and different optical characteristics from each other, and projects a light beam including the divided two light fluxes, the light intensity distributions of the projected light fluxes being combined with each other, so that the projected light beam has a fourth light intensity distribution with an inverse peak shape on the predetermined plane and enters the predetermined plane. The first to fourth light intensity distributions are different from each other on the predetermined plane.
US07751019B2
A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate, and a column spacer formed on at least one of the first substrate or the second substrate to maintain a space between the first and second substrates, wherein the column spacer has a bottom side having a shape of a concave-sided polygon.
US07751014B2
This invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid-crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of pixels each surrounded by scan lines and signal lines arranged in a matrix format on the second substrate; with a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a first common electrode, and a second common electrode being arranged in the pixel region of the second substrate above which the liquid-crystal layer is disposed, the first pixel electrode and the first common electrode being arranged on a first layer, the second pixel electrode and the second common electrode being arranged on a second layer, the first pixel electrode and the second common electrode being overlapped upon each other in the pixel region, and the second pixel electrode and the first common electrode being overlapped upon each other in the pixel region.
US07751003B2
The invention relates to a transflective liquid crystal display capable of display in both of transmissive and reflective modes and a method of manufacturing the same and provides a transflective liquid crystal display which can achieve high display characteristics in both of the transmissive and reflective modes. A configuration is employed which includes a liquid crystal display panel having a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the substrates, a pixel region including a reflective area having a reflector for reflecting light entering from the side of one of the pair of substrates and a transmissive area for transmitting light entering from the side of the other of the pair of substrates toward the one of the pair of substrates, a backlight unit having a reflector and a light guide plate for reflecting the light which has entered the transmissive area from the side of the one of the pair of substrates and which has been transmitted by the area to cause the light to enter the transmissive area again from the side of the other of the pair of substrates, and a color filter layer formed only in the transmissive area of the pixel region.
US07751001B2
A transflective display includes pixels each including a first electrode, a second electrode, a liquid crystal layer associated with the first and second electrodes, and a conductive reflective layer between the liquid crystal layer and the second electrode to reflect ambient light. The conductive reflective layer is insulated from the second electrode and covers less than all of the second electrode to allow backlight to be transmitted through a portion of the pixel not covered by the conductive reflective layer.
US07750994B2
A flat panel display having a black mask EMI layer isolated from Vcom and tied to zero potential. The flat panel display has an integral metal heater layer and thermal sensor that are in close proximity to the liquid crystals to provide efficient heating and temperature sensing.
US07750993B2
A display device using an external light, includes: a main body including a light source; at least one auxiliary light source; and a display unit. The display unit includes a first end hinged with the main body such that the display unit can be opened and closed. The display unit also includes a transmissive display panel which forms an image. When the display unit is open, external light is incident onto the display panel and light from the at least one auxiliary light source is selectively supplied to the display panel.
US07750992B2
To prevent particles from infiltrating into a display apparatus, a liquid crystal display panel supporting member includes a first particle interceptor and a second interceptor. The first particle interceptor is formed along the top face of the first supporting member frame portion facing a bottom plate of a liquid crystal display panel that is to be mounted on the liquid crystal display panel supporting member. The first particle interceptor has at least two cut portions. The second particle interceptor is disposed between the cut portions to prevent particles from infiltrating into the first particle interceptor. Thus, the liquid crystal display apparatus may prevent deterioration of its display quality.
US07750983B2
A stereoscopic 3D display with stretched film. The display includes a liquid crystal display panel, drive electronics configured to drive the liquid crystal display panel with alternating left eye and right eye images, and a light guide and a backlight positioned to provide light to the liquid crystal display. A frame is positioned between the liquid crystal display panel and the light guide, and a 3D film is stretched over the frame.
US07750976B2
An automatic Video Detector (“AVD”) for detecting the transmission format of a received video signal is disclosed. The AVD may include a video detector array module and a state machine. The video detector array module may include a video line detector and a sub-carrier frequency detection module in signal communication with the video line detector.
US07750975B2
An integrated digital BTSC encoder with an improved pilot signal generator substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit. By digitally generating a sinusoid that is frequency locked to a two-state input reference signal using a high rate internal clock, a hardware-efficient BTSC pilot signal generator is provided with good acquisition and tracking performance. Implemented efficiently as a simple phase detector, a low-complexity loop filter, a pilot frequency offset adder, a phase accumulator and a sinusoidal generator, the invention enables lower-rate post-processing of the pilot tone without a costly variable interpolator decimator structures.
US07750973B2
A pickup 1 generates a video signal based on an arbitrarily set frame rate. A frame rate converter 2 converts a frame rate of the video signal output from the pickup 1 into a predetermined frame rate. Frame rate conversion information output units 6 and 4 output information on frame rate conversion in a manner corresponding to a video signal after the frame rate conversion.
US07750967B2
An image capturing apparatus may include a function holding unit configured to hold functions of the image capturing apparatus, the functions being classified into corresponding categories; an identifier holding unit configured to hold category identifiers indicating the categories and function identifiers indicating the functions; a category display control unit configured to allow the category identifiers to be displayed along the horizontal direction; a function display control unit configured to allow the function identifiers corresponding to the category to be operated in accordance with an operation input to be displayed along the vertical direction; and an operation accepting unit configured to accept an operation input for selecting one of the function identifiers displayed by the function display control unit.
US07750963B2
A circuit for generating a timing signal, the circuit having a memory and a pulse generator, the timing signal consisting of a number of pulses. The memory stores pulse count data, including an indication of the number of pulses in the timing signal, and rising edge and falling edge position data of the timing signal. The pulse generator produces the timing signal in accordance with the pulse count data and has a first circuit for generating rising edge signals, a second circuit for generating falling edge signals, an active control circuit for setting, in correspondence only with the pulse count data, corresponding rising edge signals as active state rising edge signals, and corresponding falling edge signals as active state falling edge signals, and a third circuit for generating said timing signal corresponding to the active state rising edge signals and the active state falling edge signals.
US07750961B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged in rows and columns; a vertical scanning section; a noise suppressing section having clamp capacitors each connected at one end thereof to output ends of the pixels and a mixing switch for connecting in parallel a plurality of the clamp capacitors in the row direction, for effecting noise suppression of signal associated with the pixel; a horizontal scanning section for outputting those signals associated with the pixels after the noise suppression; and a mode control section having in a selective manner a first mode where the noise suppressing section is caused to execute the noise suppression with the mixing switch turned OFF, and a second mode where the noise suppressing section is caused to execute the noise suppression with the mixing switch turned ON after a turning OFF of the clamp setting signal.
US07750960B2
A system and method of operating a sensor array are provided. The method includes adjusting the reverse bias voltage for the photodiode of at least one pixel in the sensor array based on previous output values of one or more pixels in the array, algorithms, and/or user inputs.
US07750954B2
A camera control circuit stores an image picked up by a CCD into an internal memory. A CPU of a main processor circuit gives an instruction of reading out image data stored in the internal memory of the camera control circuit through buses and a slave access controller. The main processor circuit displays the image data which is read out on an LCD and performs other processings. With the above construction, in the electronic equipment having an image pickup function of a camera, it is possible to reduce time for image transfer from the camera control circuit to the main processor circuit.
US07750952B2
An image data recording apparatus includes an area producing device producing a plurality of areas on a recording medium, an initialization device initializing the areas produced by the area producing device in accordance with desired forms, an area production designating device causing a user to designate a number of the areas produced by the area producing device and a recording capacity of each of the areas, and a format designating device causing the user to designate a kind of a format of each of the areas produced by the area producing device.
US07750944B2
Methods and apparatus for a video surveillance system is provided. The video surveillance system includes an input device for generating a movement command, at least one camera configured to receive the movement command, wherein the at least one camera includes a decoder configured to decode the movement command into at least one of a pan command, a tilt command, and a camera control command, a menu code segment programmed to control a menu cursor using at least one of the received pan, tilt, and camera control commands, and a memory configured to store camera configuration parameters received from the menu, and a monitor configured to display at least one of an image generated by the at least one camera and a menu display generated by the at least one camera.
US07750934B2
An image forming apparatus is capable of controlling an exposure in accordance with sensitivity variations of a photosensitive body. An actual exposure position (Pr) sometimes precedes an exposure position (Pc) recognized based on the count value (C). In this case, the correction value (Dc) of the exposure position (Pc) recognized based on the count value (C) is calculated by linear interpolation using reference correction values (D0−Dn) corresponding to the position until the home position (HP) of a photosensitive drum is detected. When the home position (HP) is detected, the correction value (Dc(Pc0)) of an exposure position (Pc) recognized after detecting the home position (HP) is so calculated as to make the difference between the correction value of the exposure position and that of a previous exposure position (Pn′) fall within a preset range (α).
US07750930B2
A printing apparatus is provided which uses, as a print head, a thermal head having heating elements arrayed in a line perpendicular to the traveling direction of a printing medium. Correspondingly pixel data, at either end, or near the end, of each line of image data going to be printed, data on heat storage in the thermal head (108) is calculated for each line on the basis of data on heat storage in the print head for a preceding line, and the data on heat storage in the print head for each line is compared with predetermined-temperature data. When any of the stored-heat data is larger than the predetermined-temperature data, energy to the heating element (113) is decreased. The image data is printed on the printing medium (104) with the energy for application to the heating element (113) being kept decreased. Thus, even when high-speed printing is done, it is possible to prevent a high temperature from developing at either end of the thermal head, to thereby preventing print-density nonuniformity from resulting in a printed image.
US07750928B2
A light source apparatus includes a substrate, cell blocks, a scan driver and a data driver. The cell blocks includes a plurality of sub-pixels located in a matrix type format at intersections between a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines on the substrate. The scan driver supplies scan signals to the cell blocks through the scan lines. The data driver supplies data signals to the cell blocks such that a summation of brightness values of the cell blocks per a frame remains constant during a period and at least one cell block among the cell blocks has a different brightness value from that of another cell block among the cell blocks during respective frame. The period is comprised a predetermined number of frame.
US07750924B2
A method and computer-readable medium are provided for generating graphics having a finite number of dynamically sized and positioned shapes. According to the method, a relative size and position are defined for each of the shapes in a graphic. The relative size and position of the shapes may be defined relative to a canvas size or relative to other shapes. Once the size and position have been defined, the size and position are translated into size and position values expressed as relative to a canvas size. A mapping is also created between specific locations in a data set and the shapes. The graphic is generated utilizing the mapping and by sizing and positioning the shapes relative to the current canvas size. If a new canvas size is detected, the size and position of the shapes may be recomputed relative to the new canvas size. The graphic may also be utilized within a dynamic graphic.
US07750920B2
A method and apparatus for generating a color reference for an image to be printed for visualizing the same on a true-color monitor is disclosed. Lower-resolution image data are generated from high-resolution raster data for the image to be printed which are obtained from page description data for the image to be printed. The lower-resolution data are converted into display data which serve as color reference for the image to be printed and which can be visualized on a true-color monitor. An actual transmission characteristic is ascertained. The actual transmission characteristic ascertained is compared with a specified (desired) transmission characteristic, where, on the basis of this comparison, a correction curve is calculated which is required to arrive at the desired transmission characteristic starting with the actual transmission characteristic. The display data are ascertained using the calculated correction curve.
US07750917B2
A method for selecting paints is disclosed. This method includes the steps of selecting true paint colors, displaying device-dependent colors corresponding to the true paint colors in a simulated full size room and interacting with the buyers to change the displayed colors and select the desired colors. The method also includes the step of dispensing paints corresponding to the selected colors. The displayed colors are generated by multiple color and/or white LEDs to provide a wider gamut of displayable colors and more color saturation and chromatic. A full-size apparatus for displaying paint colors using device-dependent colors is also disclosed.
US07750910B2
Monitoring events triggered by a computer network. Each event being provided with attribute values allocated to a given set of attributes, and providing an event display, determining a primary attribute and a corresponding display label of the events selected from the given set of attributes presented with attribute values on a cross plot, providing a pattern algorithm to detect whether an arrived event is part of a given pattern, providing a mapping algorithm to map attribute values on the cross plot, allocating a second display label to the events indicating the attributes uncovered as part of the given pattern, plotting events arriving and including an attribute value allocated to a primary attribute into the cross plot, and plotting events arriving within the time period and detected by the pattern algorithm as part of the given pattern into the cross plot with the second display label indicating the given pattern.
US07750908B2
Methods, systems and computer readable media for visualizing a collection of graphs, wherein each of the graphs may be aligned along one axis of a visualization. All graphs are aligned with respect to the one axis. At least one metadata value per graph is aligned in a first form of representation with each graph, respectively. Visualization of the graphs are compressed in a direction along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and visualizations of the metadata values aligned with the compressed visualizations of the graphs are represented graphically.
US07750902B2
A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model database and a processor. More particularly, the processor may cooperate with the geospatial model database for inpainting data into at least one void in geospatial model cultural feature data based upon propagating contour data from outside the at least one void into the at least one void.
US07750901B2
A telestrator system is disclosed that allows a broadcaster to annotate video during or after an event. For example, while televising a sporting event, an announcer (or other user) can use the present invention to draw over the video of the event to highlight one or more actions, features, etc. In one embodiment, when the announcer draws over the video, it appears that the announcer is drawing on the field or location of the event. Such an appearance can be performed by mapping the pixels location from the user's drawing to three dimensional locations at the event. Other embodiments include drawing on the video without obscuring persons and/or other specified objects, and/or smoothing the drawings in real time.
US07750900B2
A digital-to-analog converter of reduced number of elements and smaller area includes a reference voltage generating circuit for outputting a plurality of reference voltages having voltage values that differ from one another; a first logic circuit for outputting the result of a logical operation on a first bit group comprising even-numbered bits (or odd-numbered bits) of an input digital data signal composed of a plurality of bits; a second logic circuit for outputting the result of a logical operation on a second bit group comprising the odd-numbered bits (or even-numbered bits) of the input digital data signal composed of the plurality of bits; a switch group circuit for supplying first and second terminals with voltages selected, inclusive of voltages that are identical, from among the plurality of reference voltages, which are output from the reference voltage generating circuit, in accordance with respective outputs from the first and second logic circuits; and an amplifier circuit for outputting an output voltage that is the result of applying a predetermined operation to voltages supplied to the first and second terminals.
US07750897B2
A holding type display such as a liquid-crystal display for controlling motion blur is disclosed. A step edge detector detects an edge portion of a moving step edge in video data in an input frame or an input field. A corrector corrects a pixel value of a pixel at the edge portion of the step edge detected by the step edge detector, based on a spatial amount of motion of the corresponding pixel supplied by a motion detector.
US07750890B2
A movable barrier operator system operational component includes an integral display comprising at least one of a numeric display, an alphanumeric display, and a graphics display. The display can comprise an active display or an active interactive display and can further operate in conjunction with adjacent user-input interface opportunities. So configured, numerous user interface events can be highly leveraged to contribute to ease of installation and ease and reliability of use.
US07750888B2
A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same is capable of for preventing a difference in brightness from occurring between horizontal line blocks. A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel having liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix pattern; at least one integrated circuit for driving the liquid crystal display panel; a supply line commonly connected to the at least one integrated circuit for applying drive signals to the at least one integrated circuit; and a signal-limiting part formed at an input terminal of the supply line, wherein the supply line has a higher resistance than the sum of the line resistances of the entire supply line.
US07750881B2
A voltage conversion device has a non-linear gain, for converting analog voltage provided by an analog voltage source. The voltage conversion device comprises a gain decision module, a voltage selection module, and a voltage output module. The gain decision module comprises an analog to digital (A/D) converter and a gain selector. The A/D converter is used for converting analog voltage provided by the analog voltage source into digital signals. The gain selector is used for determining a gain. The voltage selection module is used for outputting a direct-current (DC) voltage. The voltage output module has a first input end coupled to the gain selector, an output end coupled to the gain selector, and a second input end coupled to the voltage selection module, for outputting an amplified result of the DC voltage outputted from the voltage selection module.
US07750879B2
An image display device including: a pixel group formed by arranging a plurality of pixels; a driver circuit configured to supply an image signal to each pixel in the pixel group; and a switch circuit configured to shift a destination to which the image signal is supplied in a unit of a pixel pitch by circuit switching for bus lines for transmitting the image signal from the driver circuit to each pixel in the pixel group.
US07750876B2
An electro-optical device includes a display unit that has a plurality of switching elements provided at intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines and that drives the plurality of switching elements based on image signals supplied to the plurality of data lines so as to display images, a driving unit that controls driving of the display unit through a phase expansion so as to drive the plurality of switching elements for predetermined blocks, m×n signal wiring lines that transmit image signals, the image signals being divided into m (where m is a natural number of 2 or more) parallel data sequences and each of the data sequences including n (where n is a natural number of m or less) image signals, and that have extended portions such that the m×n signal wiring lines are grouped into a plurality of groups of signal wiring lines, each of the groups including n signal wiring lines for each data sequence on a substrate, and such that the plurality of groups of signal wiring lines for each data sequence are grouped, and a shield line that is formed between two adjacent groups of signal wiring lines for each data sequence along the signal wiring lines in a portion where the signal wiring lines extend.
US07750866B2
An antenna assembly for wireless communication equipment comprises an antenna structure comprising at least a loop type antenna arranged to deliver a first current when it is used in a balanced mode and/or a second current when it is used in an unbalanced mode with respect to a ground plane from received radio signals, and current extraction device coupled to the antenna structure and arranged to be placed in at least a first state in which the current extraction device delivers the first or second current and a second state in which the current extraction device simultaneously delivers the first and second currents either separately or mixed together.
US07750852B2
An object of the present invention is to prevent electrical characteristics of circuit elements from being adversely affected by copper diffusion in a semiconductor device having an integrated circuit and an antenna formed over the same substrate, which uses copper plating for the antenna. Another object is to prevent a defect of a semiconductor device due to poor connection between an antenna and an integrated circuit in a semiconductor device having the integrated circuit and the antenna formed over the same substrate. In a semiconductor device having an integrated circuit 100 and an antenna 101 formed over one substrate 102, when a copper plating layer 108 is used for a conductor of the antenna 101, it is possible to prevent copper diffusion to circuit elements and decrease an adverse effect on electrical characteristics of circuit elements due to the copper diffusion because a base layer 107 of the antenna 101 uses a nitride film of a predetermined metal. Moreover, by the use of nickel nitride as a metal nitride for the base layer of the antenna, poor connection between the antenna and the integrated circuit can be decreased.
US07750845B2
A positioning unit and telecommunications unit wherein a reference time value from is requested from a telecommunications network to start the positioning receiver. A strobe is scheduled to be transmitted from the telecommunications unit to the positioning receiver when the positioning receiver is armed. A current and predefined value of the counter is compared and the strobe is generated when the counter current value equals the predefined value. The strobe time of generation is recorded in relation to a structure of the signal transmitted by the digital telecommunications network in the current serving cell. The reference time value from the telecommunications network is received, wherein the reference time value is related to a structure of the signal transmitted by the network. The accurate time of generation of the strobe based on said reference time value is calculated transmitted to said positioning unit.
US07750837B2
Techniques for adaptively generating bias current for a switched-capacitor circuit are described. The switched-capacitor circuit charges and discharges at least one switching capacitor at a sampling rate and may be a ΣΔ ADC that digitizes an analog signal at the sampling rate and provides digital samples. The switched-capacitor circuit may support multiple modes associated with different sampling rates. A bias circuit generates a bias current for the switched-capacitor circuit to be proportional to the sampling rate for a selected mode, to provide a bandwidth proportional to the sampling rate for an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) within the switched-capacitor circuit, and to track changes in the switching capacitor(s) due to variations in integrated circuit (IC) process and temperature. The settling time of the switched-capacitor circuit may track with the multiple modes and across IC process and temperature variations.
US07750835B1
A digital to analog converter includes a time encoder that converts an analog input signal into a asynchronous pulse sequence, a pulse asynchronous DeMUX circuit that converts the asynchronous pulse sequence into a parallel stream of pulse sequences at a relatively lower speed, a parallel pulse to asynchronous digital converter, an asynchronous digital to synchronous digital converter, a timing reference circuit to generate absolute time references, and a Digital Signal Processor. This architecture provides for analog to digital conversion based on pulse encoding with a parallel digitization scheme of the pulse encoded signal.
US07750831B2
Methods and systems are provided for an improved phase detector utilizing analog-to-digital converter (ADC) components. In an embodiment, the method includes from an ADC having a sampling clock signal that determines sampling instants, obtaining a first comparison value between an analog signal and a first threshold voltage at a first sampling instant, and obtaining a second comparison value between the analog signal and a second threshold voltage at a second sampling instant. The method further includes, from a supplemental circuit, obtaining a third comparison value between the analog signal and a third threshold voltage at a third sampling instant between the first and second sampling instants. The method further includes processing the first, second, and third comparison values to determine a phase relationship between the analog signal and the sampling clock.
US07750823B2
An apparatus allocates a channel used for inter-vehicle communications according to a traveling direction. The apparatus includes a traveling direction determiner for determining whether or not a traveling direction of a vehicle is changed; and a channel allocator for allocating the vehicle a previously allocated channel or a new channel based on a determined result of the traveling direction determiner. Further, a method allocates a channel used for inter-vehicle communications according to a traveling direction. The method includes the steps of determining whether or not a traveling direction of a vehicle is changed; and allocating the vehicle a previously allocated channel or a new channel based on a determined result in the above step.
US07750815B2
A portable monitoring apparatus includes a bracelet having a housing and a strap for connecting the bracelet with a body part of a person being monitored, and an electronic monitoring circuit disposed in the housing. The electronic monitoring circuit executes an executable program for controlling the monitoring circuit according to a control algorithm. The executable program is modifiable by over the air programming from a monitoring network having transmitting and receiving circuits in operative communication with the electronic monitoring circuit. The housing of the bracelet includes a contract portion configured to engage the skin of the person being monitored and a cavity portion having an opening defining a closed sampling volume when the base is in contact with the person. An alcohol sensor is disposed at the sampling volume for detecting a physiological condition of the human and generating a signal thereof.
US07750789B2
A breaker switch includes a connector housing having plug-in contacts and a socket housing having sockets. The connector housing has a fuse chamber having an opening through which a fuse can be inserted into the fuse chamber. A lever pivotably mounts the housings such that the connector housing is movable with the lever relative to the socket housing between starting and final positions. In the starting position the housings disengage such that the contacts and sockets disengage. In the final position the housings engage such that the contacts and sockets engage. A cover is movably connected to the connector housing to move between opened and closed positions. The cover opens the fuse chamber opening when opened and closes the fuse chamber opening when closed. When the cover is opened the cover prevents the connector housing from moving to the final position thereby preventing the contacts and sockets from electrically connecting.
US07750788B2
A dual protection device for a circuit includes a first protection unit and a second protection unit functioning independently. The first protection unit includes an elastic contact piece having a first contact point and a first conductive member having a second contact point to contact with the first contact point. When overloaded, the elastic contact piece is deformed and bent toward an opposite direction to separate the first contact point from the second contact point, thereby protecting the circuit. The second protection unit has a flexible second conductive member disposed between the first conductive member and the second terminal. A fuse member forces a free end of the second conductive member to connect with the second terminal. When the fuse member melts due to high temperature, the free end of the second conductive member is separated from the second terminal, thereby protecting the circuit.
US07750785B2
Coil frames and transformers are provided. A coil frame includes a sub-coil-frame and an extended frame. The sub-coil-frame is utilized for winding a metal coil thereon. The extended frame is attached to the sub-coil-frame. The extended frame has a hole and a protrusion. The hole of the coil frame can be connected with the protrusion of another coil frame.
US07750782B1
A polygon connected three-phase autotransformer using six windings per phase provides a reduced power rating nine-phase power source suitable for 18-pulse AC to DC power converters. The windings are selected and connected in a manner that controls harmonic currents and minimizes total kVA rating. When the autotransformer is used to power a nine-phase AC to DC converter its kVA rating is typically less than 48% of the DC load kW. Additional isolated windings can provide means for the invention to operate as an efficient double-wound transformer.
US07750780B2
An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties correspond to a desired spatial force function where spatial forces between field emission structures correspond to relative alignment, separation distance, and the spatial force function.
US07750759B1
The present invention relates to a multi-mode micro-electromechanicalsystems (MEMS) resonator system that may provide low motional resistance and a high quality factor by using a resonating structure that includes multiple parallel-coupled longitudinally resonating bodies, each of which has multiple resonating segments adjacent to one another along an axis. The multi-mode MEMS resonator system may provide high acoustic velocity by using the micro-structure of MEMS technology. The multi-mode MEMS resonator system may include electrostatic transducers, piezoelectric transducers, or both. The present invention includes multiple embodiments that may include different configurations of the resonating structure.
US07750751B2
Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus used to add high-performance phase modulation to an applied input signal with data or clock edges which overcomes limitations of range, bandwidth and operating data rate by utilizing parallel devices to singularly modulate rising and falling edges separately and then re-add them together. In an embodiment of this invention, T-type (toggle) flip flops and exclusive-OR gates are used to achieve very high-performance results.
US07750749B2
A switching circuit comprising: first and second steering switches operable to make or break a path between first and second terminals thereof, and each steering switch further having a control terminal for controlling the switch, the first and second steering switches having their control terminals driven by first and second switching signals, the first and second switching signals having a first frequency and the second switching signal being in anti-phase with the first switching signal and a first chopping switch operable to make or break a path between first and second terminals thereof and being connected in series with at least one of the first and second steering switches and receiving at its first terminal an input to be modulated, wherein the control terminal of the chopping switch is driven by a first switching control signal such that the chopping switch is non-conducting while the first and second steering switches are changing between being conducting and being non-conducting.
US07750739B2
A dual reactive shunt feedback low noise amplifier design may include a transconductance amplifier having a capacitor coupled across it and a pair of coupled inductors coupled across it. In one embodiment, the coupled inductors may be laid out as two overlapping coils.
US07750737B2
A fully differential amplifier circuit provided according to an aspect of the present invention contains a stabilization block to measure the common mode component at the output of an input stage, and to inject a current proportionate to the common mode component into each of a pair of paths forming the output of the input stage to stabilize a feedback loop formed by the input stage, an output stage and a common mode feedback block. In an embodiment, the stabilization block contains a buffer to receive the measured common mode component and to provide a buffered output. The injected current is generated based on the buffered output. Due to the presence of the buffer, the differential loop may not be affected by injection of the additional current, thereby avoiding any distortions in the output signal.
US07750735B1
A voltage-level translator includes an input node, a differential amplifier, first and second output transistors, and a constant current source. The input node receives an input signal. The differential amplifier produces a voltage swing at an amplifier node based at least in part on a difference between the input signal and a voltage supply. The first output transistor provides a substantially constant current to the output node. The voltage swing produced by the differential amplifier prevents forward biasing of the second output transistor. The constant current source provides a substantially constant current both to the differential amplifier and through the first output transistor. The translator outputs a first voltage in an output voltage range at the output node when the input signal is at a high voltage, and outputs a second voltage in the output voltage range at the output node when the input signal is at a low voltage.
US07750731B2
One embodiment of an apparatus for filtering an electrical signal includes a loop filter with an input and an output that applies a transfer function to a signal at the input. The transfer function has substantially no real part. The loop filter has a dominant pole placed substantially at or above an upper frequency in the frequency range of interest for the loop filter.
US07750730B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device provided with an input terminal supplied with a reference frequency signal from outside of the device, a bandpass filter circuit coupled to the input terminal and outputting an internal reference frequency signal and a PLL circuit coupled to the bandpass filter circuit to receive the internal reference frequency signal. The input terminal is supplied with the reference frequency signal generated by a quartz oscillator or the like mounted on the exterior of the semiconductor integrated circuit device. In response to the signal supplied to the input terminal, the bandpass filter circuit restricts components in a bandwidth except for the frequency of the reference frequency signal, and thus supplies the reference signal to the PLL circuit. The PLL circuit operates by using the reference frequency signal as the reference signal.
US07750728B2
A reference voltage circuit which is less dependent on semiconductor process variations compared to bandgap based reference voltage circuits. The circuit comprises a first amplifier having an inverting input, a non-inverting input and an output. A current biasing circuit provides first and second PTAT currents, and a CTAT current. The CTAT current is equal in value to the second PTAT at a first predetermined temperature and opposite in polarity. A first load element is coupled to the non-inverting input of the first amplifier and arranged for receiving the first PTAT current such that a PTAT voltage is developed across the first load element. A feedback load element is coupled between the inverting input and the output of the amplifier for receiving the summation of the CTAT current and the second PTAT current. The feedback load element is such that at a second predetermined temperature the voltage at the output of the amplifier is substantially equal to the voltage at the output of the amplifier at the first temperature.
US07750711B2
A phase signal select circuit includes a supporting path coupled to a tri-state inverter circuit. The supporting path reduces effects of hysteresis on signal transfer. An apparatus includes at least one input node responsive to a respective one of at least one input signal. The apparatus includes at least one circuit coupled to a respective one of the at least one input node and coupled to an output node. Individual ones of the at least one circuit are configured to provide a version of the respective input signal to the output node in response to a first state of a respective select signal. The apparatus includes at least one second circuit coupled to a respective one of the at least one circuit. The at least one second circuit is configured to toggle nodes of the at least one circuit in response to a second state of the respective select signal.
US07750708B2
A circuit arrangement for generating an IQ signal which comprises an oscillator (3) and a frequency divider (4). The oscillator (3) and the frequency divider (4) are arranged in a common current path between the supply and reference potentials (7, 5) in accordance with the proposed principle. It is possible to operate the two function blocks using a common BIAS current and additionally to save components.
US07750706B1
Circuits, systems, and methods for generating a delayed clock signal. The circuit generally includes a first ramp generator configured to produce a first ramp signal in response to a reference clock signal, a first comparison circuit configured to compare the first ramp signal to a first threshold value in response to the reference clock signal to produce a comparison signal, a second ramp generator configured to produce a second ramp signal in response to the comparison signal, and a second comparison circuit configured to compare the second ramp signal to a second threshold value to produce the delayed clock signal.
US07750703B2
A duty cycle correcting circuit includes a duty ratio control signal generating block that detects a duty ratio of input clock signals and generates a duty ratio control signal comprising a plurality of bits, a power supply block that supplies a voltage to output nodes, and a signal processing block that controls voltage levels of the output nodes to correspond to voltage levels of the input clock signals in response to the plurality of bits of duty ratio control signals.
US07750697B2
In one general embodiment, a fractional-N phased-lock-loop (PLL) structure comprises a first circuit located on an integrated circuit, where the first circuit includes a voltage controlled oscillator for generating a periodic output signal, a phase detector for controlling the voltage controlled oscillator, a charge pump for modifying an input to the voltage controlled oscillator, a frequency divider in a feedback path for modifying a frequency of the output signal, a first multiplexer, and a first random number generator. The fractional-N phased-lock-loop (PLL) structure further comprises a second circuit including a second multiplexer and a second random number generator, wherein the second circuit is a programmable circuit located off the integrated circuit and coupled to the first circuit. Additional systems and structures are also presented.
US07750688B2
An output CMOS buffer includes MOS enhancement transistors and has a second complementary pair of natural or low threshold transistors, connected respectively in parallel to transistors of opposite type of conductivity of the complementary pair of enhancement MOS transistors of the final buffer stage. The gate terminals of the pair of natural or low threshold transistors are controlled by respective inverters, each supplied through a slew rate limiter of the slope of the driving current and are respectively connected between the positive supply node of the output buffer and a negative (below ground potential) node and between the common ground node of the output buffer and a positive supply node. The negative voltage and the positive voltage on the nodes are at least equal to the absolute value of the threshold voltage of the natural or low threshold transistors.
US07750681B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a main-interconnect to which supply voltage or reference voltage is applied; a plurality of sub-interconnects; a plurality of circuit cells configured to be connected to the plurality of sub-interconnects; a power supply switch cell configured to control, in accordance with an input control signal, connection and disconnection between the main-interconnect and the sub-interconnect to which a predetermined one of the circuit cells is connected, of the plurality of sub-interconnects; and an auxiliary interconnect configured to connect the plurality of sub-interconnects to each other.
US07750675B2
A method and computer program product for running state machines by the steps of running at least a first and a second state machine in parallel, observing at least the first state machine for at least one first synchronization rule, and changing the state of the second state machine when the first synchronization rule applies.
US07750674B2
High-speed serial interface or transceiver circuitry on a programmable logic device integrated circuit (“PLD”) includes features that permit the PLD to satisfy a wide range of possible user needs or applications. This range includes both high-performance applications and applications in which reduced power consumption by the PLD is important. In the latter case, any one or more of various features can be used to help reduce power consumption.
US07750671B2
A nonvolatile programmable logic circuit using a ferroelectric memory performs a nonvolatile memory function and an operation function without additional memory devices, thereby reducing power consumption. Also, a nonvolatile ferroelectric memory is applied to a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), thereby preventing leakage of internal data and reducing the area of a chip.
US07750668B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device is composed of logic gates each provided with at least two MOS transistors. The logic gates are connected to a first potential point and a second potential point. The semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a current control device connected between the logic gate and the first potential point and/or between the logic gate and the second potential point for controlling a value of a current flowing in the logic gate depending on an operating state of the logic gate. The circuit can be used in devices that cycle in operation between high and low power consumption modes, such as microprocessors that have both an operation mode and a low power back-up or sleep mode used for power reduction.
US07750649B2
Methods, systems and devices are described for detecting a measurable capacitance using charge transfer techniques. According to various embodiments, a charge transfer process is performed for two or more times. During the charge transfer process, a pre-determined voltage is applied to the measurable capacitance, and the measurable capacitance is then allowed to share charge with a filter capacitance through a passive impedance that remains coupled to both the measurable capacitance and to the filter capacitance throughout the charge transfer process. The value of the measurable capacitance can then be determined as a function of a representation of a charge on the filter capacitance and the number of times that the charge transfer process was performed. Such a detection scheme may be readily implemented using conventional components, and can be particularly useful in sensing the position of a finger, stylus or other object with respect to an input sensor.
US07750647B2
A position detecting device serves for finding the distance between a specimen arranged in a conductive structure and a microwave antenna arrangement of the position detecting device, produced by an inventive method, on the basis of microwaves. The microwave antenna arrangement exhibits a dielectric antenna body provided at least in part with an electrically conductive coating, which constitutes a first and a second pole face on a coupling probe of the microwave antenna arrangement.
US07750645B2
A method for processing a semiconductor wafer in a plasma reactor comprises sensing transient voltages or currents on a conductor coupled to the wafer and providing a first comparator for comparing the transient voltages or currents with a threshold level stored in the comparator. The method further includes transmitting from the comparator an arc flag signal whenever a transient voltage or current is sensed that exceeds the threshold level, and deactivating the power generator in response to the arc flag signal.
US07750630B2
The invention relates to a device (1) for magnetic resonance imaging of a body (7), comprising a main magnet (2) for generation of a stationary and substantially homogeneous main magnetic field within the examination zone, a plurality of wireless receiving units (10a, 10b) placed in or near the examination zone, and sampling means (21a, 21b) operating at a variable sampling frequency for sampling the received MR signals and for converting them into digital signal samples. The invention proposes to make provision for energizing means (17) generating an RF energizing field within the examination zone for inductively supplying electric power to the wireless receiving units (10a, 10b), wherein the frequency of the RF energizing field is an integer multiple of the sampling frequency.
US07750629B2
A field detection device such as a micro-strip portion of a transmission line may detect an electric field and a magnetic field induced by current steps injected into the chassis coupled to a ground plane. The shield portions of the transmission line may be coupled to a first and a second port of an I/O connector. A measurement system coupled to the connector may determine the electric field and the magnetic field detected by the micro-strip. The measurement system may determine the electric field and magnetic field based on computing the sum and difference of the signals provided by the first port and the second port.
US07750621B1
A clamp meter is provided for measuring consumption of current and power of an electrical appliance. The clamp meter includes a power inlet port and a power outlet port that are in controlled connection with each other. A current detection element is arranged between the power inlet port and the power outlet port. When the power inlet port is connected to a power source and the power outlet port is connected to an electrical appliance to be detected, with the electrical appliance turned on, the current detection element detects and converts the current flowing through the power outlet port into a digital signal, which is displayed on a display device mounted on the clamp meter, whereby, through the data and information displayed on the display device, a user may get aware of the power consumption of the electrical appliance and abnormality of power consumption thereof.
US07750608B2
Systems and methods for increasing driver power dissipation efficiency in a low noise current supply utilizing a power supply and a voltage regulator to power an output current regulator. An analog processing circuit adjusts the voltage drop on the voltage regulator, to make it equal with the voltage drop on current regulator.
US07750605B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and circuits for controlling an electrical signal transmitted to a sample load are provided. The electrical signal produced by a capacitor is controlled via a control signal sent to a variable resistance device that is connected in parallel with the sample load. The variable resistance device includes a resistance and a switch in series. The control signal opens and closes the switch, thus providing a variable resistance based on the amount of time the switch is closed.
US07750602B2
An apparatus is provided to manage a charge/discharge current of an on-vehicle battery. The apparatus comprises a detecting unit detecting an actual amount of the charge/discharge current and a receiving unit receiving information indicating generating operations of an on-vehicle generator. The apparatus also comprises a control unit controlling the generating operations of the generator so that the charge/discharge current keeps a given value specified, on the basis of the detected actual the charge/discharge current and the received information. The apparatus also comprises determining and setting units. The determining unit determines whether a voltage of the battery satisfies a given condition for the voltage, by monitoring the voltage in a state where the generating operation of the generator is controlled. The setting unit sets, as an amount of offset of the charge/discharge current, a charge/discharge current detected when it is determined that the voltage of the battery satisfies the given condition.
US07750600B2
A method and apparatus for charging batteries includes using an input rectifier to receive an ac input and provide a dc signal. A converter receives the dc signal and provides a converter output. An output circuit receives the converter output and provides a battery charging signal. A controller preferably controls the converter to power factor correct. The system can include multiple output circuits, used either singly or at the same time, and designed for one or more voltages. They can be user removable. Preferably, the converter output has a magnitude independent of a range of frequencies and a range of magnitudes of the ac input, and the range can be, for example, at least a factor of two or at least two utility voltages. The controller includes a charging schedule module that receives feedback, such as voltage and/or current feedback and/or temperature feedback. The output circuit, such as a dc-dc converter, is controlled in response to the feedback in other embodiments. The battery type may be sensed or input by a user, and the charging done in response to the battery type. A defective battery sensor is preferably included, with a user-noticeable indicator.
US07750593B2
An active human-machine interface system is implemented without a force sensor. The system includes a user interface that is configured to receive user input and, upon receipt thereof, to move to a position. A position sensor is coupled to the user interface and is operable to sense user interface position and supply a position signal representative thereof. A motor is coupled to the user interface and to receive motor current. In response to the motor current the motor supplies a feedback force to the user interface at a magnitude proportional to the motor current. A control circuit is coupled to receive at least the position signal and a signal representative of the motor current and controls the motor current supplied to the motor.
US07750591B2
A method of controlling an operation of an induction actuated container cover includes the steps of (a) normally retaining a cover panel of the container cover in a closed position; (b) detecting a target movement of a user by a sensor; (c) generating a first actuating signal to an actuation unit when the sensor detects the target movement of the user; (d) generating an actuation output from the actuation unit to the cover panel of the container cover, wherein the actuation output contains a decelerating and torque enhancing force which moves the cover panel of the container cover at an opened position; (e) pivotally actuating the cover panel of the container cover at the opened position via the actuation output to expose a storage cavity, and (f) generating a second actuating signal to pivotally actuate the cover panel of the container cover back to the closed position.
US07750590B2
A display apparatus includes a base, a display screen part supported on the base turnably, a driving part for turning the display screen part in accordance with an inputted control signal, a turning prevention mechanism for preventing turning of the display screen part, a judgment part for judging on the basis of the inputted control signal whether the display apparatus is operated or not, and a controller for producing a signal for operating the turning prevention mechanism to prevent turning of the display screen part when it is judged that there is no operation to the display screen part and producing a signal for releasing operation of the turning prevention mechanism when it is judged that there is operation to the display screen part.
US07750578B2
A discharge lamp ballast apparatus has a reflecting mirror 2 and a power source circuit 5. The reflecting mirror 2 is disposed around a discharge light bulb 1 in such a manner as to cast light from the discharge light bulb 1 in one direction. The power source circuit 5 applies a start pulse of a negative potential with respect to the potential of the reflecting mirror 2 to an electrode 6 located at a side with the higher electric field concentration produced between electrodes 6 and 7 to which a high voltage of the start pulse is applied. This makes it possible to produce a dielectric breakdown near the electrode 6, and makes it easier to start the discharge light bulb 1.
US07750576B2
An LED light string including a first loop, which further includes a first plurality of LEDs in series successively connected by first connecting wires, and at least one first resistor connected to two first resistor wires, the first two resistor wires removably connected to two of the first connecting wires in any portion of the first loop.
US07750564B2
Provided is an organic light emitting device (OLED) having increased optical extraction efficiency. The OLED includes a transparent substrate, an optical path control layer made of an optical transmittance material on the transparent substrate, a transparent electrode, an organic light emitting layer that generated light, and a reflection electrode formed on the organic light emitting layer, which are sequentially stacked. The refractive index And thickness of the optical path control layer are optimized.
US07750563B2
Provided is a multicolor display apparatus including a plurality of organic light-emitting devices each including a pair of electrodes of an anode and a cathode; and an organic compound layer interposed between the pair of electrodes and including a light-emitting layer. The viewing angle characteristics of the organic light-emitting device showing an emission color with a highest visual sensitivity is such that a peak wavelength of emission spectrum and a peak wavelength of multiple interference spectrum due to the organic light-emitting device are offset with respect to each other so that the color shift of a display image on the multicolor display apparatus depending on a viewing angle is suppressed.
US07750561B2
A stacked OLED device comprises a plurality of individual OLEDs in a vertical stacked arrangement separated by intermediate electrodes, wherein at least one of the individual OLEDs includes a light emitting region or zone comprising a mixed region; the mixed region comprising a mixture of a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and optionally a dopant.
US07750559B2
An organic electroluminescent (EL) element array includes a substrate, a first organic EL element emitting red light, a second organic EL element emitting green light, and a third organic EL element emitting blue light. The first, second, and third organic EL elements each include a first electrode, an organic compound layer, and a light-transmissive second electrode arranged on the substrate in that order. The second electrode of the first organic EL element has a semitransparent reflective layer. The first electrode of the first organic EL element has a reflective face and a resonant structure located between the reflective face and the semitransparent reflective layer. The second and third organic EL elements each has a resonant structure located between a reflective face of the first electrode of the second or third organic EL element and a light-extracting face of the transparent layer of the second or third organic EL element.
US07750555B2
Disclosed herein is a transparent electrode featuring the interposition of a nano-metal layer between a grid electrode on a transparent substrate and an electroconductive polymer layer, and a preparation method thereof. The transparent electrode can be produced in a continuous process at high productivity and low cost and can be applied to various display devices.
US07750534B2
Driving techniques are provided for achieving a sufficiently low-speed drive and smooth change in the drive speed. Voltage is applied to an electromechanical element by repeating an output cycle in which one voltage value out of a first voltage value is output during a first period, a second voltage value lower than the first voltage value is output during a second period, a third voltage value lower than the second voltage value is output during a third period, and finally the second voltage value is output during a fourth period. Further, a mechanism for changing the lengths of the respective periods is provided to allow for a sufficiently low-speed drive and smooth change in the drive speed.
US07750533B2
[Problem] In a SAW device using a quartz crystal substrate, prevent the deterioration of Q factor due to the difference in the peak frequency between the radiation conductance of an IDT and the reflection coefficient of a reflector.[Means to Solve the Problem] A surface acoustic wave (SAW) device includes a piezoelectric substrate made of a quartz crystal flat plate where a cut angle of a rotated Y-cut quartz substrate is set in −64.0°<θ<−49.3° with a crystalline Z axis and a propagation direction of the surface acoustic wave is set at 90°±5° with a crystalline X axis, an interdigital transducer (IDT) formed on the piezoelectric substrate and reflectors disposed at both sides of the IDT, wherein an exciting wave is SH wave, an electrode film thickness “H/λ” normalized by a wavelength of the IDT is 0.05≦H/λ≦0.07 where “λ” is a wavelength of the exciting SAW, and a ratio of an electrode pitch between the IDT and the reflector “Lt/Lr” is set to satisfy the following formula: 31.50×(H/λ)2−4.435×(H/λ)+1.133≦Lt/Lr≦−3.000×(H/λ)2+0.500×(H/λ)+0.9796 where “Lt” is the electrode pitch of the IDT and “Lr” is the electrode pitch of the reflector.
US07750532B2
Devices employing electroactive polymer actuators are disclosed. Acrylic dielectric material based actuators are optionally provided in which architectures are presented that allow for improved power output as compared with other known acrylic dielectric material based transducers. Such technology may be applied in motor-driven applications, lightweight flight applications and lighting applications among others.
US07750524B2
A magnetizing device for superconductor and a superconducting synchronous machine are provided capable of constituting more compact and simple equipment that uses a superconductor as a magnet. The magnetizing device for superconductor includes a superconductor (131); a coolant chamber (142) for cooling the superconductor (131) down to or below a critical temperature at which the transition to a superconducting state occurs; coils (111, 111′) for generating a magnetic field equal to or higher than a critical magnetic field in which the intrusion of a magnetic flux into the superconductor (131) starts, around the superconductor (131) cooled down to or below the critical temperature at which the transition to the superconducting state occurs; and position modification means capable of arranging the superconductor (131) on a disk (120) and modifying the relative positional relationship with the coils (111, 111′).
US07750522B2
A direct-drive generator and assembly procedure for that generator include a permanent magnet assembly that is partitioned and assembled piece-by-piece after the rotor and stator have been attached.The magnets are attached to a plate in columns, and adjacent columns have a N-S orientation. The air gap between the rotor and stator is variable, and application of an input torque produces a first cogging torque in a first direction due to the variable air gap that offsets a second cogging torque in a second opposite direction.
US07750520B2
A motor is disclosed. The motor in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention can include: a shaft; a bearing supporting the shaft to rotate; a thrust plate supporting a lower end of the shaft a boss joined to the shaft and having a ring-shaped groove on a side facing the bearing; and a rotor joined to the boss.
US07750516B2
An electric machine, in particular an alternator for motor vehicles, includes a stator (16), which supports a stator winding (18) that has winding ends (78), a voltage regulator assembly (65), and a rectifier. The electrical connection between the winding ends (78) and the rectifier is situated underneath the voltage regulator assembly (65). A stator for an electric machine, in particular for an alternator for motor vehicles, includes a stator (16), which supports a stator winding (18) that has winding ends (78). The winding ends (78) are connected to an additional conductor element (80), which joins a plurality of individual wires of the winding ends (78) together by means of a clamp-like junction region (81) and is embodied in the form of a sheet metal part.
US07750514B2
Disclosed is a stator of reciprocating motor comprising: a stator including two lamination assemblies formed accordingly as a plurality of lamination sheets are stacked as a cylindrical shape or a circular are shape; and a mover inserted into an air gap between said two lamination assemblies and linearly reciprocating. In the stator, the lamination sheets constituting the lamination assembly are thicker at an outer circumference side of the lamination assembly than at an inner circumference said thereof. According to this, a path of a flux applied to the lamination assembly is maximized thus to minimize a resistance of the flux.
US07750499B2
Provided is a device for limiting a current of electric appliance. The current limiting device includes: at least two loads; at least two load driving units connected to the loads to control applying power to the loads; a power detecting unit detecting a power type; a micom controlling the load driving unit according to the power type detected by the power detecting unit to drive the load using a current flowing into the load within an allowable value; and at least one current limiting unit connected to at least one control line connecting the micom and the load driving unit and limiting a current of the load driving unit connected to the control line when the micom malfunctions by using a control signal of the micom and a signal of the power type detected from the power detecting unit as an input signal.
US07750496B2
A power supply unit that provides uninterrupted power to an aircraft power bus during switchovers of the aircraft bus from one power source to another. The power supply unit includes circuitry to distinguish between loss of bus power due to switchovers between power sources and loss of bus power due to shutdown of the aircraft. The power supply unit includes a low voltage lockout circuit to interrupt the supply of power when the aircraft bus voltage falls below a minimum value.
US07750488B2
A basic building block for wafer scale stacked integrated circuits is disclosed. The building block includes an integrated circuit device having an integrated circuit substrate having a circuit layer sandwiched between a buffer layer and a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer has a top side and a bottom side, the bottom side being in contact with the circuit layer. The top surface of the dielectric layer includes a plurality of pads. Each pad extends above the top surface by a predetermined distance. The pads have dimensions that reduce irregularities in the top surface of the pads. In addition, the pads are arranged in a manner to promote planarization of the surface of the wafer via CMP.
US07750486B2
A sensor includes: a first chip; a second chip disposed on the first chip through an adhesive member; and a stopper. The second chip is connected to the first chip through a bonding wire. The stopper limits a displacement of the second chip when the adhesive member is deformed. The stopper is disposed around the second chip. Since the displacement of the second chip is restricted, deformation of the bonding wire between the first and the second chips is also restricted.
US07750479B2
An interconnect structure and method of fabricating the same in which the critical dimension of the conductive features are not altered by a plasma damaged layer are provided. In accordance with the present invention, a chemically etching dielectric material is subjected to a treatment step which modifies the density of the dielectric material such that the treated surfaces become denser than the bulk dielectric not subjected to the treatment. The treatment step is performed prior to deposition of the noble metal liner.
US07750467B2
A chip scale package structure and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes forming metal pads on a predetermined part of a carrier; mounting chips on the carrier, each of the chips having a plurality of conductive bumps soldered to the metal pads; forming an encapsulant on the carrier to encapsulate the chips and the conductive bumps; removing the carrier to expose the metal pads and even the metal pads with a surface of the encapsulant; forming on the encapsulant a plurality of first conductive traces electrically connected to the metal pads; applying a solder mask on the first conductive traces, and forming a plurality of openings on the solder mask to expose a predetermined part of the first conductive traces; forming a plurality of conductive elements on the predetermined part; and cutting the encapsulant to form a plurality of chip scale package structures.
US07750455B2
An integrated circuit package system includes: providing a first package having a first interposer mounted over a first integrated circuit and the first integrated circuit encapsulated by a first encapsulation; and connecting a second package over the first interposer and on the first encapsulation, the second package including a second integrated circuit having a wire-in-film adhesive thereover, a second interposer mounted on the wire-in-film adhesive and encapsulated by a second encapsulation encapsulating the second integrated circuit, the second interposer including an interconnection pad for connecting a third package to the top thereof.
US07750451B2
A multi-chip package system is provided including providing a first carrier having a first integrated circuit die thereover, providing a second carrier, placing the first carrier coplanar with the second carrier, and molding a package encapsulation around and exposing the first carrier.
US07750449B2
Packaged semiconductor components having substantially rigid support member are disclosed. The packages can include a semiconductor die and a support member proximate to the semiconductor die. The support member is at least substantially rigid. The packages can further include an adhesive between the support member and the semiconductor die and adhesively attaching the support member to the semiconductor die. The packages can also include a substrate carrying the semiconductor die and the support member attached to the semiconductor die.
US07750441B2
Embodiments of the invention include apparatuses and methods relating to conductive interconnects along the edges of a microelectronic device. In one embodiment, the conductive interconnect has the shape of a half cylinder.
US07750429B2
A pedestal is formed out of the pad layer such that two edges of the pedestal coincide with a border of the wells as implanted. An extended pedestal is formed over the pedestal by depositing a conformal dielectric layer. The area of the extended pedestal is exposed the semiconductor surface below is recessed to a recess depth. Other trenches including at least one intra-well isolation trench are lithographically patterned. After a reactive ion etch, both an inter-well isolation trench and at least one intra-well isolation trench are formed. The width of the inter-well isolation trench may be reduced due to the deeper bottom surface compared to the prior art structures. The boundary between the p-well and the n-well below the inter-well isolation structure is self-aligned to the middle of the inter-well isolation structure.
US07750428B2
A semiconductor device with a field ring in an edge pattern of a semiconductor body with a central cell area and with field plate discharge pattern. The edge pattern exhibits at least one horizontal field plate which is arranged with one end over the field ring and with its other end on insulating layers towards the edge of the semiconductor body. A first ring-shaped area of a type of conduction doped complementary to a drift section material exhibits a field ring effect. A second highly doped ring-shaped area which contacts the one end of the horizontal field plate and forms a pn junction with the first ring-shaped area and which is arranged within the first area exhibits a locally limited punch-through effect or a resistive contact to the drift section material.
US07750425B2
A plurality of layers of a first semiconductor material and a plurality of dots-in-a-fence barriers disposed in a stack between a first electrode and a second electrode. Each dots-in-a-fence barrier consists essentially of a plurality of quantum dots of a second semiconductor material embedded between and in direct contact with two layers of a third semiconductor material. Wave functions of the quantum dots overlap as at least one intermediate band. The layers of the third semiconductor material are arranged as tunneling barriers to require a first electron and/or a first hole in a layer of the first material to perform quantum mechanical tunneling to reach the second material within a respective quantum dot, and to require a second electron and/or a second hole in a layer of the first semiconductor material to perform quantum mechanical tunneling to reach another layer of the first semiconductor material.
US07750420B2
An integrated circuit is provided which includes one or more device elements formed above a base substrate, a structure forming a sealed cavity above at least a portion of the one or more device elements, and one or more conductive devices formed above the sealed cavity. A method for fabrication of such an integrated circuit is also provided. An exemplary embodiment of the integrated circuit includes a surface acoustic wave device having a plurality of tracks each with a first interdigitated transducer configured to convert a receiving electric field energy into mechanical wave energy and a second interdigitated transducer configured to convert the mechanical wave energy into an output electric field energy. The SAW device also includes a conductor arranged above and spanning across at least two tracks of the plurality of tracks and coupled to the first interdigitated transducers of at least the two tracks.
US07750418B2
Semiconductor structures, such as, for example, field effect transistors (FETs) and/or metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor (MOSCAPs), are provided in which the workfunction of a conductive electrode stack is changed by introducing metal impurities into a metal-containing material layer which, together with a conductive electrode, is present in the electrode stack. The choice of metal impurities depends on whether the electrode is to have an n-type workfunction or a p-type workfunction. The present invention also provides a method of fabricating such semiconductor structures. The introduction of metal impurities can be achieved by codeposition of a layer containing both a metal-containing material and workfunction altering metal impurities, forming a stack in which a layer of metal impurities is present between layers of a metal-containing material, or by forming a material layer including the metal impurities above and/or below a metal-containing material and then heating the structure so that the metal impurities are introduced into the metal-containing material.
US07750416B2
A semiconductor structure comprising an SRAM/inverter cell and a method for forming the same are provided, wherein the SRAM/inverter cell has an improved write margin. The SRAM/inverter cell includes a pull-up PMOS device comprising a gate dielectric over the semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode on the gate dielectric wherein the gate electrode comprises a p-type impurity and an n-type impurity, and a stressor formed in a source/drain region. The device drive current of the pull-up PMOS device is reduced due to the counter-doping of the gate electrode.
US07750415B2
Embodiments herein present a structure, method, etc. for making high density MOSFET circuits with different height contact lines. The MOSFET circuits include a contact line, a first gate layer situated proximate the contact line, and at least one subsequent gate layer situated over the first gate layer. The contact line includes a height that is less than a combined height of the first gate layer and the subsequent gate layer(s). The MOSFET circuits further include gate spacers situated proximate the gate layers and a single contact line spacer situated proximate the contact line. The gate spacers are taller and thicker than the contact line spacer.
US07750414B2
A structure comprises at least one transistor on a substrate, an insulator layer over the transistor, and an ion stopping layer over the insulator layer. The ion stopping layer comprises a portion of the insulator layer that is damaged and has either argon ion damage or nitrogen ion damage.
US07750412B2
A structure that includes a rectifier is formed as follows. A trench is formed in a semiconductor region of a first conductivity type. A dielectric layer is formed along opposing sidewalls of the trench but is discontinuous along the bottom of the trench. A doped liner is formed over the dielectric layer and along the bottom of the trench. The doped liner includes dopants of a second conductivity type and is in direct contact with the semiconductor region along the bottom of the trench. A portion of the dopants are diffused from the doped liner into the semiconductor region along the bottom of the trench to form a doped region. The doped region forms a PN junction with the surrounding semiconductor region.
US07750406B2
Design structure embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing a design in which the design structure includes devices formed in a hybrid substrate characterized by semiconductor islands of different crystal orientations. An insulating layer divides the islands of at least one of the different crystal orientations into mutually aligned device and body regions. The body regions may be electrically floating relative to the device regions.
US07750400B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes at least a first complementary MOS (CMOS) circuit, the first CMOS circuit comprising one or more first n-channel MOS (NMOS) transistors and one or more first p-channel MOS (PMOS) transistors, where the first NMOS transistors and the first PMOS transistors are arranged in the first CMOS circuit to drive at least a first common node of the first CMOS circuit. An average of the effective gate channel lengths of the first NMOS transistors (first NMOS average length) is at least 2% greater than an average of the effective gate channel lengths of the first PMOS transistors (first PMOS average length).
US07750396B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a source region and a drain region formed in the upper part of the semiconductor substrate so as to be spaced; a channel region formed in a part of the semiconductor substrate between the source region and the drain region; a first dielectric film formed on the channel region of the semiconductor substrate; a second dielectric film formed on the first dielectric film and having a higher permittivity than the first dielectric film; a third dielectric film formed on at least an end surface of the second dielectric film near the drain region out of end surfaces of the second dielectric film near the source and drain regions; and a gate electrode formed on the second dielectric film and the third dielectric film.
US07750394B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes: a semiconductor substrate; and a memory cell. The memory cell includes: a source region and a drain region formed at a distance from each other on the semiconductor substrate; a tunnel insulating film formed on a channel region of the semiconductor substrate, the channel region being located between the source region and the drain region; a charge storage film formed on the tunnel insulating film; a charge block film formed on the charge storage film; and a control electrode that is formed on the charge block film. The control electrode includes a Hf oxide film or a Zr oxide film having at least one element selected from the first group consisting of V, Cr, Mn, and Tc added thereto, and having at least one element selected from the second group consisting of F, H, and Ta added thereto.
US07750389B2
An array of memory cells configured to store at least one bit per one F2 includes substantially vertical structures providing an electronic memory function spaced apart a distance equal to one half of a minimum pitch of the array. The structures providing the electronic memory function are configured to store more than one bit per gate. The array also includes electrical contacts to the memory cells including the substantially vertical structures. The cells can be programmed to have one of a number of charge levels trapped in the gate insulator adjacent to the first source/drain region such that the channel region has a first voltage threshold region (Vt1) and a second voltage threshold region (Vt2) and such that the programmed cell operates at reduced drain source current.
US07750378B2
Provided are a field effect transistor and a method of fabricating the same, wherein the field effect transistor is formed which has a hyperfine channel length by employing a technique for forming a sidewall spacer and adjusting the deposition thickness of a thin film. In the field effect transistor of the present invention, a source junction and a drain junction are thin, and the overlap between the source and the gate and between the drain and the gate is prevented, thereby lowering parasitic resistance. Further, the gate electric field is easily introduced to the drain extending region, so that the carrier concentration is effectively controlled in the channel at the drain. Also, the drain extending region is formed to be thinner than the source, so that the short channel characteristic is excellent.
US07750376B2
A CCD type solid-state imaging device includes: a photoelectric conversion element (n layer 2, p layer 3) formed in a semiconductor substrate 1; a charge transfer channel 5 that transfers electric charges generated in the photoelectric conversion element; a charge read region 6 that reads out the electric charges accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element into the charge transfer channel 5; and a charge read electrode 8 formed above the charge read region 6 with a gate insulating film 10 disposed therebetween. The charge read electrode 8 controls the reading out of the electric charges into the charge transfer channel 5. A gap is formed between the photoelectric conversion element and the charge read electrode 8 in plan view.
US07750372B2
A gate driver-on-array structure integrated in a display panel includes a bar-like conductive layer, a semiconductor layer, first conductive patterns, second conductive patterns, a first electrode line and a second electrode line. The bar-like conductive layer has a plurality of regions. The semiconductor layer is disposed within the regions of the bar-like conductive layer. The first conductive patterns and the second conductive patterns are disposed on the semiconductor layer and located within the regions. The bar-like conductive layer is located between the first electrode line and the second electrode line. The first electrode line and the second electrode line are respectively spaced from the bar-like conductive layer by a first distance and a second distance. The GOA structure has first connectors connected to the corresponding first conductive patterns and the first electrode line, and second connectors connected to the second conductive patterns and the second electrode line.
US07750368B2
Disclosed is a memory device and method of operation thereof. The memory device may include a source region and a drain region of a first dopant type, the source and drain regions contain a first semiconductor material; a body region of a second dopant type, the body region being sandwiched between the source and drain regions, the body comprising a second semiconductor material; a gate dielectric layer over at least the body region; and a gate comprising a conductive material over the gate dielectric layer. Specifically, one of the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material is lattice matched with the other of the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material and has an energy gap smaller than the energy gap of the other of the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material.
US07750358B2
A semiconductor device made by mounting a light emitting element in a substrate, characterized in that an optically-transparent cover with a flat plate shape is installed on the light emitting element and a fluorescent substance film is formed on the cover.
US07750354B2
Photoelectric converters are arranged two-dimensionally in a semiconductor substrate. A planarizing layer, a light shielding film, a further planarizing layer and condenser lenses are formed sequentially on the semiconductor substrate and the photoelectric converters. The light shielding film has apertures at positions corresponding to the photoelectric conversion devices. Multilayer interference filters that transmit either a red, green or blue wavelength component of light are disposed in the apertures.
US07750351B2
An epitaxial crystal for a field effect transistor which has a nitride-based III-V group semiconductor epitaxial crystal grown on a SiC single crystal base substrate having micropipes by use of an epitaxial growth method, wherein at least a part of the micropipes spreading from the SiC single crystal base substrate into the epitaxial crystal terminate between an active layer of the transistor and the SiC single crystal base substrate.
US07750348B2
A display device with a polysilicon substrate, including a display region, a first plurality of thin film transistors in the display region, and primary crystal grain boundaries in the polysilicon substrate in the display region, wherein the primary crystal grain boundaries are inclined to a first direction of current flowing from source to drain of each of the first plurality of thin film transistors at an angle of −30° to 30°.
US07750343B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic device of a three-terminal type including, a control electrode, first and second electrodes, and an active layer provided between the first and second electrodes so as to face the control electrode with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, the active layer being formed from an aggregate of a composite material formed from inorganic semiconductor fine particles covered with a protective layer, the protective layer including an alkyl chain having, at one end thereof, a functional group bonded to an inorganic semiconductor fine particle and further having an organic semiconductor molecule bonded to the other end thereof.
US07750335B2
A structure including a phase change material and a related method are disclosed. The structure may include a first electrode; a second electrode; a third electrode; a phase change material electrically connecting the first, second and third electrodes for passing a first current through two of the first, second and third electrodes; and a refractory metal barrier heater layer about the phase change material for converting the phase change material between an amorphous, insulative state and a crystalline, conductive state by application of a second current to the phase change material. The structure may be used as a fuse or a phase change material random access memory (PRAM).
US07750329B2
An imaging device using an array of active pixels, with a readout control for outputting from selected regions of interest is disclosed. When used to detect the positions of optically trapped objects, the fast readout rate enables fine control of the optical traps to stabilize the objects. Multiple objects can be controlled while being moved relative to each other.
US07750328B2
Systems, devices, and methods for filling containers with radioactive materials are described. In certain embodiments, the systems comprise a shielding material that substantially defines a chamber and, preferably, substantially blocks radioactivity, a conduit extending through the shielding material into the chamber, and a securing unit that is disposed in the chamber proximal to the conduit and is adapted to receive a container through the conduit.
US07750327B2
The invention is directed to a device for generating flows of gas for filtering the radiation emitted in plasma-based radiation sources. It is the object of the invention to find a novel possibility for generating a gas curtain in the immediate vicinity of a radiating plasma so as to permit a simple arrangement and design and a long life of the device for generating the gas curtain under extreme thermal stress. According to the invention, this object is met in that a slit nozzle is formed of a plurality of partial bodies comprising different materials to form a supersonic nozzle profile for the generation of a broad gas curtain in order to accommodate the slit nozzle to different thermal and precision-mechanical requirements in the gas inlet region and in the gas outlet region.
US07750322B2
Ion implanters are especially suited to meet process dose and energy demands associated with fabricating photovoltaic devices by ion implantation followed by cleaving.
US07750313B2
A cathode holder of a tubular shape is inserted into an opening for a cathode of a plasma generating chamber, the cathode holder positioned such that a surface thereof opposes or surrounds a side surface of a cathode. The cathode is held in the cathode holder so that a front surface of the cathode will be positioned on the same plane as, outward from, or inward from the inner wall surface. In the cathode holder is provided a tubular first heat shield surrounding the cathode with a space provided between the first heat shield and the cathode, a surface of the first heat shield positioned to oppose or surround the side surface of the cathode. At a rear end of the cathode is provided a filament. The gap between the cathode holder and the plasma generating chamber is filled with an electrical insulating material.
US07750300B2
A thermo-optic system, which may be used for example in thermal imaging, includes an array of optical elements each having a thermally responsive optical property, the optical elements including signal elements and reference elements configured to provide (1) a common-mode response of the optical property to ambient temperature and (2) a differential-mode response of the optical property to a thermal signal appearing across the array of optical elements. The system also includes an optical readout subsystem configured to (1) illuminate the array of optical elements with optical energy at a readout wavelength corresponding to the optical property so as to generate a composite optical signal having common-mode and differential-mode signal components corresponding to the common-mode and differential-mode responses respectively of the signal and reference elements, and (2) filter the composite optical signal to generate a filtered optical signal being substantially the differential-mode image component.
US07750298B2
An interferometer is disclosed which has upper-stage, intermediate-stage, and lower-stage electron biprisms. The disclosed interferometer operates with an azimuth angle Φ among filament electrodes of the three electron biprisms to arbitrarily control an interference area and an azimuth θ of the interference fringes formed therein, eliminates Fresnel fringes generation, and allows independent control of an interference fringe spacing s and the azimuth θ of the interference fringes.
US07750292B2
A portable mass spectrometer system is described. The system includes a mass spectrometer device incorporated within an evacuated chamber. The chamber includes a permeable membrane located between the mass spectrometer device and an entrance port to the chamber. Located between the membrane and the entrance port is a valve. The valve is provided in an normally closed state and has an open state, such that, in use, the adoption of the open state allows the flow of the sample into the chamber through the membrane and into contact with the spectrometer device.
US07750290B2
The invention relates to an integrated system for microfluidic analysis of a liquid sample comprising a liquid sample preparing means (100) which is provided with a displacement means (101) for introducing the sample and reagents and for transmitting said sample and reagents to a second means (200) for chemically or biochemically treating the liquid sample drops, wherein said treating means comprises also means (201) for displacing sample drops to means (300) for drop analysis. Said invention is particularly suitable for a laser radiation desorption device comprising a system for manipulating the sample and reagents in the form of drops, which is provided with one or several loading posts, one or several transport paths consisting of interdigitated electrodes, one or several chemical or biochemical treatment areas and at least one system for switching to a conductive post on which a laser radiation desorption can be carried out.
US07750288B2
The method of making an optoelectronic module (10, 20), which includes a first light source circuit (5) and a second photoreceptor circuit (6) for picking up light from the first light source circuit reflected on an external surface. A first moulding (20) with an encapsulation material is made on one part of a lead frame (10) having several conductive paths (12) and an external frame (11) connecting all of the conductive paths. A first light source circuit (5) is placed on one portion of a first conductive path (13) of the lead frame that is not covered by the first moulding. A second photoreceptor circuit (6) is placed on one portion of a second conductive path (14) of the lead frame not covered by the first moulding. A through opening (21) is also made in the first moulding (20) between the external frame (11) and the location of the first light source circuit (5) to give access to the first connecting path (13) and to a third connecting path (15) for the first light source circuit. The contact pads of the first and second circuits (5, 6) are connected by metal wires (25) to corresponding uncovered pads of certain connecting paths (12) of the lead frame (10). The first and third connecting paths (13, 15) are then cut through the through opening (21) of the first moulding (20) in order to insulate electrically the first light source circuit (5) from the external parts. The light source circuit is thus protected from any electrostatic discharge. A second moulding can then be made on the first moulding (20) in order to close the through opening and obtain first and second apertures on the first and second circuits (5, 6) for the passage of light.
US07750276B2
In multilayer optical discs and high-speed optical discs, the amount of reproduction light per unit time greatly decreases and the reproduction signal quality (S/N) significantly drops due to the low effective reflectivity and the short read time of the medium. These problems are solved by causing reflected signal light from the optical disc and reference light, which is separated from the same light source and introduced into a detector without being shone onto the optical disc, to interference with each other on the detector. Detector outputs having four different interference states are simultaneously obtained, the interference states being displaced at intervals of 90° in terms of the phase relationship between the reference light and the signal. Based on a operation of the four detector outputs, a reproduction signal can be obtained that is stable at all times and amplified with high quality, even when there is an optical path length variation due to disc undulations.
US07750269B2
A fastener includes first and second tracks. The first track includes a first profile, and the second track includes a second profile for interlocking with the first profile. The fastener extends between opposing ends. The first and second profiles at each of the opposing ends are sealed to each other using a laser. In one embodiment, the fastener is initially continuous and is subsequently divided into segments by simultaneously cutting and sealing the fastener at spaced target locations using the laser. The segments are associated with respective plastic bags. At each of the target locations, the laser directs a laser beam at the fastener such that the laser beam cuts through the first and second profiles and simultaneously seals the first and second profiles to each other on opposite sides of the cut. The seals on the opposite sides of the cut terminate respective ends of adjacent ones of the segments.
US07750267B2
An apparatus and method for calibration of laser ablating energy versus ablating depth for a laser ablateable printing plate in relation to materials forming the printing plate, includes a memory for storing data, for each of a plurality of materials, corresponding to correlated different detected depths of each of a plurality of laser ablated areas with ablating energy levels. A first laser ablates a printing image of desired depth in a printing plate formed by a selected one of the materials. A first control device interpolates laser ablating energy levels for the printing image of desired depth in the printing plate formed by the selected material, in accordance with the stored data and the selected material, and controls the laser to laser ablate the printing image in the printing plate of the selected material in accordance with the interpolated laser ablating energy levels.
US07750263B2
An arresting device is disclosed for a drive train which, in order to close a movable contact of an electric switch, can be moved from an OFF position into an ON position. In at least one embodiment, the arresting device includes an arresting including a pivot axis which extends outside its pivoting point. When the drive train is in its OFF position, the arresting element pivots from a position of rest into an arresting the position owing to a force which acts on its pivoting point, in the closing direction of the drive train, and in its arresting position, the arresting element is operatively connected to the drive train and blocks the movement of the drive train into it ON position. In at least one embodiment, the arresting device is suitable for use on transportation device, in particular on ships, and there is provision that in its position of rest, the arresting element is under the force effect of a restoring spring, and does not pivot into its arresting position until a defined acceleration of the electric switch is acting in the closing direction of the drive train.
US07750261B2
A waterproof keyboard comprises: keys, an elastic rubber layer, a circuit board layer, a bottom board, and a sealing layer. The keys are mounted on the bottom board on which a plurality of apertures are disposed, and the sealing layer is disposed under the bottom surface of the bottom board. Corresponding to the apertures on the bottom board, respective adhesives are formed on the sealing layer so as to firmly adhere the sealing layer to the bottom surface of the bottom board.
US07750257B2
A load tap changer connected to a power source to control voltage supplied from the power source to a load includes a base assembly that includes a base element onto which multiple stationary contacts that connect to taps of a winding of an electrical control device are mounted. The load tap changer also includes a movable assembly that includes a movable element that rotates to connect at least one pair of movable contacts mounted on the movable element to a stationary contact to select a corresponding tap. The load tap changer also includes a cover assembly that includes a cover element onto which a motor that rotates the movable element relative to the base assembly is mounted.
US07750256B2
A rotary switch assembly (100; 200) is disclosed. The assembly may include a dial assembly (102; 202) having a main body (150; 250) disposed about a centre aperture (132; 232). The main body may be rotatable about a central axis (126; 226) in both a clockwise (106; 206) and counter clockwise direction (108; 208). The dial assembly includes a projecting member (138; 238) extending outward from the main body. The assembly includes a switch (114; 214) having an actuator (156; 256) moveable between a first position (158; 258) and a second position (160; 260). The actuator is positioned such that when the dial assembly is rotated clockwise, the projecting member moves the actuator to the first position, and when rotated counter clockwise, the projecting member moves the actuator to the second position.
US07750241B2
A distributive conductor electromagnetically shields and protects an insulated wire 10 by inserting it into a pipe 20. Heat generated in the insulated wire 10 is absorbed into a low heat-reflective layer 21 of lower heat reflectivity, transferred to the pipe 20, and then dissipated from an outer circumferential wall of the pipe 20 to atmosphere.
US07750237B2
An electronic device enclosure having a protective layer includes a shell, a first protective piece, a second protective piece and a connecting piece. The shell includes an outer surface and an inner surface, the first protective piece covers the outer surface of the shell, and the second protective piece covers the inner surface of the shell. The connecting piece connects the first protective piece to the second protective piece so that they cooperatively enclose the shell.
US07750232B2
A multi-crystalline silicon germanium bulk crystal with microscopic compositional distribution is adapted for use in solar cells to substantially increase conversion efficiency. By controlling the average Ge concentration between 0.1 and 8.0 mole percent, significant improvements are attained with respect to short circuit current density and conversion efficiency.
US07750229B2
The present synthesizer generates an underlying spectrum, pitch and loudness for a sound to be synthesized, and then combines the underlying spectrum, pitch and loudness with stored Spectral, Pitch, and Loudness Fluctuations and noise elements. The input to the synthesizer is typically a MIDI stream. A MIDI preprocess block processes the MIDI input and generates the signals needed by the synthesizer to generate output sound phrases. The synthesizer comprises a harmonic synthesizer block (which generates an output representing the tonal audio portion of the output sound), an Underlying Spectrum, Pitch, and Loudness (which takes pitch and loudness and uses stored algorithms to generate the slowly varying portion of the output sound) and a Spectral, Pitch, and Loudness Fluctuation portion (which generates the quickly varying portion of the output sound by selecting and combining Spectral, Pitch, and Loudness Fluctuation segments stored in a database). A specialized analysis process is used to derive the formulas used by the Underlying Spectrum, Pitch, and Loudness and to generate and store the Spectral, Pitch, and Loudness Fluctuation segments stored in the database.
US07750227B2
A flexible audio tone-generating device for use in a consumer appliance. The device generates pleasing musical tones. The device uses two outputs of a software-executing processor utilizing stored tone data associated with status events of the appliance to drive a tone circuit for outputting a melody using the tones to notify the user of the existence of one of the status events.
US07750226B2
A device for turning one or more pages of book comprising a plurality of pages, the device comprising: a book support; a device support for supporting: first page-flattener for flattening a first page; second page-flattener for further flattening the first page; a page ruckler for ruckling the first page to form a ruckled page having an exposed surface and an opposite, unexposed surface; a page turner for engaging with the unexposed surface of the ruckled page thereby to turn the ruckled page; positioning means for moving the device support relative to the book support.
US07750214B2
The invention relates to a pearl millet plant, seed, variety, parental line and hybrid. More specifically the invention relates to a pearl millet plant having a mutant allele that increases purple pigmentation in many plant parts. The invention relates to crossing inbreds, varieties, and hybrids containing the purple allele to produce novel types and hybrids of pearl millet and other compatible millet species, both for pigment extraction and ornamental purposes.
US07750213B2
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 04Z353. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 04Z353. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 04Z353 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 04Z353 with itself or another cotton variety and plants produced by such methods.
US07750206B2
The present invention relates to a nucleic acid sequence encoding an enzyme of the starch biosynthetic pathway in a cereal plant, wherein the enzyme is selected from the group consisting of starch branching enzyme I, starch branching enzyme II, starch soluble synthase I, and debranching enzyme, with the proviso that the enzyme is not soluble starch synthase I of rice, or starch branching enzyme I of rice or maize.
US07750200B2
A material for producing a support bandage, which comprises a support. Said support is coated and/or impregnated with a curable plastic material and at least partially configured by a leno fabric comprising warp yarns that cross between two weft yarns running in parallel. Said leno fabric comprises at least one additional warp yarn that is located between two pairs of crossing warp yarns and does not cross any other warp yarn.
US07750195B2
Process for obtaining a hydrofluoroalkane which is purified of organic impurities, according to which the hydrofluoroalkane containing organic impurities is subjected to at least one purification treatment chosen from (a) a treatment with chlorine in the presence of a initiator (b) a reaction with hydrogen fluoride (c) a distillation in which the purified hydrofluoroalkane is removed from the top of the distillation column or from the side (d) an extractive distillation (e) an adsorption onto a solid adsorbent (f) a reaction with a compound containing oxygen, and (g) a reaction with a compound containing oxygen and a gas-phase reaction with a reagent capable of reacting with at least some of the organic impurities, with the exception of a reaction with elemental chlorine.
US07750194B2
A process for preparing alkanols (I) selected from the group consisting of isopropanol and 2-butanol from the corresponding alkanes (II) selected from the group consisting of propane and n-butane, comprising the steps of: A) providing a starting gas stream a comprising the alkane (II); B) feeding the starting gas stream a comprising the alkane (II) into a dehydrogenation zone and subjecting the alkane (II) to a dehydrogenation to the alkene (III) to obtain a product gas stream b comprising the alkene (III) and unconverted alkane (II), with or without high boilers, steam, hydrogen and low boilers; C) at least compressing product gas stream b, optionally separating product gas stream b into an aqueous phase c1, a phase c2 comprising the alkene (III) and the alkane (II), with or without high boilers, and a gas phase c3 comprising hydrogen and low boilers; D) reacting product gas stream b or the phase c2 comprising alkene (III) and alkane (II) with an organic acid (IV) in an esterification zone to obtain a product mixture d comprising the corresponding alkyl ester (V) of the organic acid and the unconverted alkane (II); E) removing from product mixture d a gas stream e1 which comprises an alkane (II) and is recycled into the dehydrogenation zone if appropriate, and a product mixture e2 comprising the alkyl ester; F) reacting the product mixture e2 comprising the alkyl ester with water in an ester hydrolysis zone to give a product mixture f comprising the alkanol (I) and the organic acid (IV); G) removing the alkanol (I) and the organic acid (IV) from product mixture f and, if appropriate, recycling the organic acid into the esterification zone.
US07750191B2
The invention provides a process for continuously preparing polyether alcohols by adding alkylene oxides to H-functional starter substances using a DMC catalyst, comprising the steps of a) preparing a precursor by continuously metering an H-functional starter substance, an alkylene oxide or a mixture of at least two alkylene oxides and the required amount of DMC catalyst into a continuous reactor, b) continuously withdrawing the precursor from step a) from the reactor, c) continuously metering the product from step a), an alkylene oxide different from that in step a) or a mixture of at least two alkylene oxides different from that in step a) and, if appropriate, the required amount of DMC catalyst into a further continuous reactor.
US07750186B2
The present invention relates to a new method for the manufacture of substituted biphenyl amines, new intermediate products and their manufacture, as well as a method for the manufacture of fungicidally active carboxamides.
US07750185B2
Diamine compounds, which in particular are useful as precursors for the production of liquid crystal alignment layers, represented by general formula (I), wherein A1 represents an organic group of 1 to 40 carbon atoms; A2 represents a hydrogen atom or an organic group of 1 to 40 carbon atoms.
US07750184B2
The present invention relates to novel, non-secosteroidal, sulfonate and sulfonamide functional diaryl compounds with vitamin D receptor (VDR) modulating activity that are less hypercalcemic than 1α,25 dihydroxy vitamin D3. These compounds are useful for treating bone disease and psoriasis.
US07750182B2
Provided is a production method for an iodine compound in which iodine is reacted with a substrate in the presence of a porous material having a pore diameter of 500 nm or less or in the presence of the above porous material and an oxidizing agent and a production process for high purity 5-iodo-2-methylbenzoic acid comprising an iodination reaction step carried out by the above-mentioned, a crystal precipitation and separation step in which a product is precipitated by adding water or cooling and then separated and a purification step in which crystal separated is recrystallized using an organic solvent. According to the production method for an iodine compound described above, iodine can be introduced into various substrates at a high selectivity. Since expensive metals and specific reagents do not have to be used, it can readily be carried out in an industrially scale, and the product having a high purity can be obtained. Further, the process comprising the iodination reaction, separation and purification steps described above makes it possible to readily obtain at a high yield, 5-iodo-2-methylbenzoic acid having a high purity which is useful in uses for functional chemical products such as medicines. The process of the present invention comprising iodination reaction, separation and purification steps is characterized by that it is simple in terms of a procedure and that the purification load is smaller, and it is very advantageous in industrially carrying out.
US07750180B2
N-phosphonomethylamines are produced by reaction of an amine substrate with a halomethylphosphonic acid or salt thereof, a hydroxymethylphosphonic acid or salt thereof, or a dehydrated self-ester dimer, trimer or oligomer of hydroxymethylphosphonic acid. Among the products that may be prepared according to the process are N-phosphonomethylaminocarboxylic acids such as (e.g.) glyphosate, N-phosphonomethylaminoalkanols such as (e.g.) hydroxyethlaminomethylphosphonic acid, and N-acylaminomethylphosphonic acids such as (e.g.) N-carbamylaminomethylphosphonic acid. Certain reactions are conducted with a substantial excess of amine reactant in order to drive the conversion while avoiding excessive formation of bis(N-phosphonomethyl)amine by-products. Other reactions use a secondary amine substrate (such as iminodiacetic acid) and can be conducted at substantial equimolar ratios of halomethylaminomethylphosphonic acid or hydroxyaminomethylphosphonic acid to secondary amine reactant without significant formation of bis(phosphonomethyl)amine by-products. Further disclosed is a process for the preparation of hydroxymethylphosphonic acid self-ester dimers, trimers and oligomers by azeotropic dehydration.
US07750176B2
A multi-functional cyclic siloxane compound (A), a siloxane-based (co)polymer prepared from the compound (A), or compound (A) and at least one of a Si monomer having organic bridges (B), an acyclic alkoxy silane monomer (C), and a linear siloxane monomer (D); and a process for preparing a dielectric film using the polymer. The siloxane compound of the present invention is highly reactive, so the polymer prepared from the compound is excellent in mechanical properties, thermal stability and crack resistance, and has a low dielectric constant resulting from compatibility with conventional pore-generating materials. Furthermore, a low content of carbon and high content of SiO2 enhance its applicability to the process of producing a semiconductor, wherein it finds great use as a dielectric film.
US07750174B2
The compound is a silane surface treatment agent and is useful for modifying the surfaces of silicon oxide and other metal oxides with hexafluorodimethyl carbinol functional groups. Additionally provided is a surface treatment procedure that effectively bonds it and other alkoxysilanes via homogeneous and heterogeneous amine catalysis onto metal oxide surfaces.
US07750168B2
A stabilized deuteroborane-tetrahydrofuran complex is disclosed. Also disclosed are processes for the preparation of the deuteroborane-tetrahydrofuran complex and methods of storing and transporting the prepared complex. The deuteroborane-tetrahydrofuran complexes exhibit enhanced shelf life and increased self-accelerated decomposition temperatures.
US07750163B2
Disclosed are cyanine dyes that are useful for labeling and detecting biological and other materials. The dyes are of formula (I) in which groups R3 and R4 are attached to the Z1 ring structure and groups R5 and R6 are attached to the Z2 ring structure, and n=1, 2 or 3; Z1 and Z2 independently represent the carbon atoms necessary to complete a one ring, or two-fused ring aromatic system; at least one of groups R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 is the group -E-F where E is a single bond or a spacer group and F is a target bonding group; one or more of groups R11, R12, R13 and R14 are independently selected from the group —(CH2)k—W, where W is sulphonic acid or phosphonic acid and k is an integer from 1 to 10. The dyes may be used in fluorescence labeling applications, where the presence of one and preferably multiple water solubilising groups attached to the 3-position of the indolinium ring reduces dye-dye interactions, and hence dye-dye quenching, particularly where multiple dye molecules are attached to components such as nucleic acids, oligonucleotides, proteins and antibodies.
US07750147B2
An IR-absorbing naphthalocyanine dye of formula (I) is described: wherein M is Ga(A1); A1 is an axial ligand selected from —OH halogen, —OR3, —OC(O)R4; R1 and R2 may be the same or different and are selected from hydrogen or C1-12 alkoxy; R3 is selected from C1-12 alkyl, C5-12 aryl, C5-12 arylalkyl or Si(Rx)(Ry)(Rz); and R4 is selected from C1-12 alkyl, C5-12 aryl or C5-12 arylalkyl Rx, Ry and Rz may be the same or different and are selected from C1-12 alkyl, C5-12 aryl, C5-12 arylalkyl, C1-12 alkoxy, C5-12 aryloxy or C5-12 arylalkoxy; and W is a sulfonic acid group, including salts thereof.
US07750136B2
The invention provides modified forms of bouganin protein having biological activity and a reduced propensity to activate human T cells as compared to the non-modified bouganin protein. The invention also provides T-cell epitope peptides of bouganin, and modified T-cell epitope peptides of bouganin which have a reduced propensity to activate human T cells as compared to the non-modified T-cell epitope peptide. The invention also provides cytotoxins having the having a ligand that binds to a cancer cells attached to the modified bouganin proteins. Also provided are methods of inhibiting or destroying mammalian cancer cells using the cytotoxins of the invention and pharmaceutical compositions for treating human cancer.
US07750125B2
The present invention relates to a novel human gene that is differentially expressed in human carcinoma. More specifically, the present invention relates to a polynucleotide encoding a novel human polypeptide named C35 that is overexpressed in human breast and bladder carcinoma. This invention also relates to C35 polypeptide, in particular C35 peptide epitopes and C35 peptide epitope analogs, as well as vectors, host cells, antibodies directed to C35 polypeptides, and the recombinant methods for producing the same. The present invention further relates to diagnostic methods for detecting carcinomas, including human breast carcinomas. The present invention further relates to the formulation and use of the C35 gene and polypeptides, in particular C35 peptide epitopes and C35 peptide epitope analogs, in immunogenic compositions or vaccines, to induce antibody or cell-mediated immunity against target cells, such as tumor cells, that express the C35 gene. The invention further relates to screening methods for identifying agonists and antagonists of C35 activity.
US07750122B2
The present invention provides monoclonal antibodies for human TrkB. In certain embodiments the inventive antibodies bind and activate human TrkB. In certain embodiments the inventive antibodies are selective for human TrkB in that they do not bind (or activate) human TrkA or human TrkC. In some embodiments the inventive monoclonal antibodies cross-react with murine TrkB. Humanized or veneered versions of the inventive antibodies are also encompassed. Pharmaceutical compositions that comprise inventive antibodies are provided as are methods for preparing the inventive antibodies and methods of using these for treatment, detection or purification purposes.
US07750121B2
The invention provides compositions and methods related to human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTRT), the catalytic protein subunit of human telomerase. The polynucleotides and polypeptides of the invention are useful for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of human diseases, for changing the proliferative capacity of cells and organisms, and for identification and screening of compounds and treatments useful for treatment of diseases such as cancers.
US07750117B2
It is disclosed here that a protein with a heat-labile specific binding activity can be stabilized with a saccharide compound with regard to the binding activity. To heat-stabilize the protein, it is mixed with a saccharide compound in a liquid suspension and the suspension is then dried to produce a solid that contains the protein and the saccharide. The saccharide compounds that possess the protein heat-stabilization activity include monosaccharides, disaccharides, polysaccharides, alkylated monosaccharides, alkylated disaccharides, alkylated polysaccharides, monosaccharide alcohols and alkylated monosaccharide alcohols.
US07750115B2
It is intended to provide a novel oligopeptide which can be relatively easily produced, has not only a hair growth-stimulating effect but also an effect of promoting the growth of epithelial cells (for example, skin regeneration) and can easily pass through the horny layer to thereby reach the desired target cells in which its effects are to be exerted. Namely, water-soluble oligopeptides containing a proryl isoleucyl glycyl unit or an isoleucyl glycyl serine unit and having from 3 to 7 amino acids and water-soluble salts thereof.
US07750107B2
A description is given of the use of asymmetrically substituted urea derivatives of the general formula (I) where R1 and R2 each independently are a linear or branched aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 4 carbon atoms as accelerators in combination with dicyandiamide as latent hardener for epoxy resin systems based on unhalogenated or halogenated bisphenols of type A or F and also based on resorcinol or tetrakisphenylolethane. The advantages of the inventively proposed accelerator/hardener combination are, for example, the excellent reactivity and very good storage stability. Moreover, the mechanical properties of the resins cured accordingly are likewise outstanding.
US07750101B2
Disclosed is a polycyclic ester containing a cyano group and a lactone skeleton, represented by following Formula (1): wherein Ra represents, for example, a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having one to six carbon atoms which may have a halogen atom; R1s each represent, for example, a halogen atom or an alkyl or haloalkyl group having one to six carbon atoms; “m” is the number of R1s; “n” is the number of cyano groups; and CH2═C(Ra)COO— group may have either of an endo conformation and an exo conformation. Accordingly, there is provided a novel polycyclic ester containing a cyano group and a lactone skeleton which is useful typically as a monomeric component for highly functional polymers. A polymer, for example, derived from this compound is highly soluble in an organic solvent while remaining stable typically to chemicals and exhibits improved hydrolyzability and/or improved solubility in water after hydrolysis.
US07750100B2
Process for catalytically preparing (meth)acrylates of N-hydroxyalkylated lactams, and use thereof.
US07750087B2
A method for preparing a functionalized polymer comprising the steps of preparing a pseudo-living polymer by polymerizing conjugated diene monomer with a lanthanide-based catalyst, and reacting the pseudo-living polymer with at least one functionalizing agent defined by the formula (I) where A is a substituent that will undergo an addition reaction with a pseudo-living polymer, R1 is a divalent organic group, R2 is a monovalent organic group, and each R4, which may be the same or different, is a monovalent organic group or a substituent defined by —OR5 where R5 is a monovalent organic group, with the proviso that A, R1, R2, R4, and R5 are substituents that will not protonate a pseudo-living polymer. Also, the functionalized polymer and a vulcanizable composition containing the polymer.
US07750065B2
A flame-retardant biodegradable polymeric composition comprising: a flame-retardant biodegradable material comprising a compound represented by formula (1); and a biodegradable polymer: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R9, R10 and R11 each independently represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group; R6, R7 and R8 each independently represents an alkylene group; and n, p, and q each independently represents an integer of one or more.
US07750059B2
A method of forming features on substrates by imprinting is provided. The method comprises: (a) forming a polymer solution comprising at least one polymer dissolved in at least one polymerizable monomer; and (b) depositing the polymer solution on a substrate to form a liquid film thereon; and then either: (c) curing the liquid film by causing the monomer(s) to polymerize and optionally cross-linking the polymer(s) to thereby form a polymer film, the polymer film having a glass transition temperature (Tg); and imprinting the polymer film with a mold having a desired pattern to form a corresponding negative pattern in the polymer film, or (d) imprinting the liquid film with the mold and curing it to form the polymer film. The temperature of imprinting is as little as 10° C. above the Tg, or even less if the film is in the liquid state. The pressure of the imprinting can be within the range of 100 to 500 psi.
US07750054B2
A continuous output system makes paper coating by combining an emulsifier with ASA (alkenyl succinic anhydride) particles having a mean average size in the low to sub-micron region. A turbine, pump, blender or other device exposes the ASA to a number of repeated episodes of high shear until the resulting ASA is in the form of particles having a mean average diameter in approximately the 1μ range. The measure of the amount of high shear is identified by an energy factor index. A system for cooling the ASA enables the processing without causing a hydrolyzing of the ASA, even when a heated cooked emulsion is used.
US07750043B2
A method of minimizing or reducing the toxicity of a retinoid having a free carboxyl group and the resulting modified retinoids are described. The method comprises the step of esterifying the carboxyl group of the retinoid with a highly sterically hindered compound, which is preferably a secondary or tertiary alcohol. The resulting retinoid esters are rendered much less toxic than the starting or parent retinoid. This process provides a retinoid ester analog of reduced toxicity so that it may be administered orally with minimal side effects and with a much greater therapeutic window. The modified retinoid compounds are useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of all diseases and disorders where retinoid compounds have been shown effective.
US07750022B2
This invention relates to novel quinuclidine derivatives and their use as pharmaceuticals. Due to their pharmacological profile the compounds of the invention may be useful for the treatment of diseases or disorders as diverse as those related to the cholinergic system of the central nervous system (CNS), the peripheral nervous system (PNS), diseases or disorders related to smooth muscle contraction, endocrine diseases or disorders, diseases or disorders related to neuro-degeneration, diseases or disorders related to inflammation, pain, and withdrawal symptoms caused by the termination of abuse of chemical substances.
US07750017B2
This invention relates to novel compounds and processes for their preparation, methods of treating diseases, particularly hyperproliferative diseases such as cancer, comprising administering said compounds, and methods of making pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment or prevention of disorders, particularly hyperproliferative diseases such as cancer.
US07750013B2
The present disclosure relates to N-oxides of certain piperazine and piperidine derivatives and to methods for the preparation of these compounds. The disclosure also relates to the use of the compounds for the manufacture of a medicament giving a beneficial effect. The disclosure also relates to the use of the compounds for the manufacture of a medicament for treating a disease or condition. The disclosure further relates to the treatment of CNS-disorders, in particular the treatment of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, aggression, addiction (including craving), depression, autism, vertigo, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, Parkinson's disease and disturbances of cognition and memory. The compounds have the general formula (1) wherein the symbols have the meanings given in the specification.
US07750012B2
The present invention relates to a chemical genus of biaryl nitrogen-attached heterocycles that are inhibitors of LTA4H (leukotriene A4 hydrolase). The compounds have the general formula They are useful for the treatment and prevention and prophylaxis of inflammatory diseases and disorders.
US07750011B2
This invention relates to novel diazabicyclic aryl derivatives which are found to be cholinergic ligands at the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and modulators of the monoamine receptors and transporters. Due to their pharmacological profile the compounds of the invention may be useful for the treatment of diseases or disorders as diverse as those related to the cholinergic system of the central nervous system (CNS), the peripheral nervous system (PNS), diseases or disorders related to smooth muscle contraction, endocrine diseases or disorders, diseases or disorders related to neuro-degeneration, diseases or disorders related to inflammation, pain, and withdrawal symptoms caused by the termination of abuse of chemical substances.
US07750006B2
A method of treatment of a disease of the human or animal body mediated by PARP comprising administering to such a subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula: or an isomer, salt, solvate, chemically protected form, and prodrug thereof, wherein: A and B together represent an optionally substituted, fused aromatic ring; RC is represented by -L-RL, where L is of formula: —(CH2)n1-Qn2-(CH2)n3— wherein n1, n2 and n3 are each selected from 0, 1, 2 and 3, the sum of n1, n2 and n3 is 1, 2 or 3 and Q is selected from O, S, NH, C(═O) or —CR1R2—, where R1 and R2 are independently selected from hydrogen, halogen or optionally substituted C1-7 alkyl, or may together with the carbon atom to which they are attached form a C3-7 cyclic alkyl group, which may be saturated (a C3-7 cycloalkyl group) or unsaturated (a C3-7 cycloalkenyl group), or one of R1 and R2 may be attached to an atom in RL to form an unsaturated C3-7 cycloalkenyl group which comprises the carbon atoms to which R1 and R2 are attached in Q, —(CH2)n3— (if present) and part of RL; and RL is optionally substituted C5-20 aryl; and RN is selected from hydrogen, optionally substituted C1-7 alkyl, C3-20 heterocyclyl, and C5-20 aryl, hydroxy, ether, nitro, amino, amido, thiol, thioether, sulfoxide and sulfone.
US07750005B2
The invention relates to substituted hexahydropyrazino[1,2-a]pyrimidine-4,7-dione derivatives and to the physiologically tolerated salts and physiologically functional derivatives thereof.Compounds of the formula I in which the radicals have the stated meanings, and the physiologically tolerated salts thereof and processes for preparing them are described. The compounds are suitable for example as anorectic agents.
US07750002B2
Fused pyrimidines of formula (I): wherein R1-R3, A and n have any of the values described in the specification; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, have activity as inhibitors of PI3K and may thus be used to treat diseases and disorders arising from abnormal cell growth, function or behaviour associated with PI3 kinase such as cancer, immune disorders, cardiovascular disease, viral infection, inflammation, metabolism/endocrine disorders and neurological disorders. Processes for synthesizing the compounds are also described.
US07749991B2
The present invention is directed to metal-phthalocyanines of general formula (I) to the corresponding conjugates, the processes for their preparation and use in the photodynamic therapy of microbial infections (viral, bacterial and mycotic), tumor, pre-cancerous and proliferative pathologies and/or in the diagnosis, as well as for blood and blood derivatives sterilization.
US07749983B2
The present invention relates to phosphonate, nucleoside phosphonate or nucleoside phosphate compounds, compositions containing them, processes for obtaining them, and their use in treating a variety of medical disorders, in particular viral infections, cancers and the like.
US07749976B2
The invention identifies a novel protein tyrosine phosphatase, PTPMT1. The complete nucleic acid and amino acid sequence encoding PTPMT1 is provided. Methods are provided for preventing and/or treating type II diabetes by regulating PTPMT1 levels, which in turn regulates insulin levels.
US07749973B2
The invention relates to a defective lentivirus which is pseudotyped with a lyssavirus envelope of the PV (rabies virus) or MOK type (Mokola virus), for example, and to the use thereof, especially in the preparation of a composition for in vivo transfer of genes in astrocytes and also for the treatment of disorders of the central nervous system.
US07749967B2
Immunogenic peptides of a melanoma antigen recognized by T cells, designated gp100, bioassays using the peptides to diagnose, assess or prognose a mammal afflicted with cancer, more specifically melanoma or metastatic melanoma, and use of the proteins and peptides as immunogens to inhibit, prevent or treat melanoma.
US07749956B2
A method of treating a mammal with an adiponectin mediated disorder comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an adiponectin variant with at least a 3-fold increased solubility relative to residues 110-244 of human adiponectin.
US07749955B2
Method for purifying a racemized polypeptide by ion-exchange chromatography.
US07749951B2
Described are methods for preparing compositions that include the steps of (a) premixing a cationic guar gum in water; (b) adding a surfactant component to the premix of (a); (c) adding about 1 to about 3 weight % of salt to the mixture obtained in (b); (d) applying shear to the mixture obtained in (c) at a shear rate not exceeding about 20 sec−1 to form a spherulite composition; and (f) mixing an oil phase with the spherulite composition. Also included are compositions prepared by this process.
US07749950B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a durable excellent stain-proofing property to the surface of a coating formed on a substrate surface of a building board without deteriorating the surface of the coating. The present invention also, provides a stain-proofing agent containing silica fine particles, an aqueous solvent and, as a stain-proofing improver, an alkali metal compound and/or an alkaline earth metal compound and/or a phosphorus compound and/or a clay mineral. The present invention also provides a building board having an excellent stain-proofing property prepared by applying a coating composition onto the surface of a substrate to form a coat, and then applying a stain-proofing agent onto the coat while the coat is in an unhardened state or applying a stain-proofing agent onto the coat after subjecting the coat to a roughening treatment to enhance the adhesion of the stain-proofing layer to the coat.
US07749931B2
A ceramic material for an optical member which shows black, wherein the ceramic material comprises a reaction-sintered sintered ceramic body prepared by synthesizing a formed body of a mixture comprising a ceramic raw material and a component that accelerates blackening, making use of a reaction sintering; and wherein the ceramic material is a porous body.
US07749927B2
Tethered flange corners including at least one ply of barrier fibers and at least one fiber tow wrapped about the barrier fibers. Also included are flanges having a tethered corner containing at least one ply of barrier fibers, at least one fiber tow wrapped about the barrier fibers, at least one ply of filler fibers applied over the fiber tow, and at least one ply of flange fibers applied over the filler fibers. Additionally included are articles incorporating a composite structure having a flange with a tethered corner containing at least one ply of barrier fibers and at least one fiber tow wrapped about the barrier fibers.
US07749925B2
An industrial fabric having a composite layer, the composite layer having a non-woven mesh layer structure and a yarn layer structure being parallel to the non-woven mesh layer structure. The yarn layer structure has first and second yarns, with the first yarns being connected to the second yarns to form a mesh like structure, and the yarn layer structure being embedded into the non-woven mesh layer structure.
US07749921B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor element provided with a semiconductor layer containing a crystal of an organic semiconductor material of the invention includes the steps of (i) forming a frame (12) on a substrate (base) (11), and (ii) forming the semiconductor layer (crystal (13)) inside the frame (12). The step (ii) includes a crystal forming step in which a solution (21) containing the organic semiconductor material and a liquid medium is placed inside the frame (12) and then the crystal (13) is formed from the solution (21).
US07749918B2
Substrates in a reaction chamber are sequentially exposed to at least three gas atmospheres: a first atmosphere of a first purge gas, a second atmosphere of a process gas and a third atmosphere of a second purge gas. The gases are introduced into the reaction chamber from one end of the chamber and exit from the opposite end. Successive gases entering the chamber are selected so that a stable interface with the immediately preceding gas can be maintained. For example, when the gases are fed into the chamber at the chamber's top end and are exhausted at the bottom end, the gases are chosen with successively lower molecular weights. In effect, each gas atmosphere stays on top of and pushes the previous gas atmosphere out of the chamber from the top down. Advantageously, the gases can be more effectively and completely removed from the chamber.
US07749915B2
A method of protecting a polymeric layer from contamination by a photoresist layer. The method includes: (a) forming a polymeric layer over a substrate; (b) forming a non-photoactive protection layer over the polymeric layer; (c) forming a photoresist layer over the protection layer; (d) exposing the photoresist layer to actinic radiation and developing the photoresist layer to form a patterned photoresist layer, thereby exposing regions of the protection layer; (e) etching through the protection layer and the polymeric layer where the protection layer is not protected by the patterned photoresist layer; (f) removing the patterned photoresist layer in a first removal process; and (g) removing the protection layer in a second removal process different from the first removal process.
US07749911B2
A T-shaped gate structure and method for forming the same the method including providing a semiconductor substrate comprising at least one overlying sacrificial layer; lithographically patterning a resist layer overlying the at least one sacrificial layer for etching an opening; forming the etched opening through a thickness of the at least one sacrificial layer to expose the semiconductor substrate, said etched opening comprising a tapered cross section having a wider upper portion compared to a bottom portion; and, backfilling the etched opening with a gate electrode material to form a gate structure.
US07749905B2
A vertical FET structure with nanowire forming the FET channels is disclosed. The nanowires are formed over a conductive silicide layer. The nanowires are gated by a surrounding gate. Top and bottom insulator plugs function as gate spacers and reduce the gate-source and gate-drain capacitance.
US07749901B2
A semiconductor device having a VIA hole without disconnection caused by step is achieved.A semiconductor device and its manufacturing method, the semiconductor device comprising: a semi-insulating substrate 11 in which an electrode (12) is formed on a surface (11a) of one side and in which an aperture (11c) passed through from the surface 11a of one side to a surface (11b) of another side is formed; and a conductive layer (17) formed in an inner surface of the aperture (11c), and electrically connected with the electrode (12); wherein the aperture (11c) has a tapered region (11d) where an inside diameter of a part located in the surface (11b) of another side is larger than an inside diameter of a part located in the surface (11a) of one side.
US07749898B2
A method for forming an interconnect structure includes forming a dielectric layer above a first layer having a conductive region defined therein. An opening is defined in the dielectric layer to expose at least a portion of the conductive region. A metal silicide is formed in the opening to define the interconnect structure. A semiconductor device includes a first layer having a conductive region defined therein, a dielectric layer formed above the first layer, and a metal silicide interconnect structure extending through the dielectric layer to communicate with the conductive region.
US07749894B2
An integrated circuit processing system is provided including providing a substrate having an integrated circuit, forming an interconnect layer over the integrated circuit, applying a low-K dielectric layer over the interconnect layer, applying an ultra low-K dielectric layer over the low-K dielectric layer, forming an opening through the ultra low-K dielectric layer and the low-K dielectric layer to the interconnect layer, depositing an interconnect metal in the opening, and chemical-mechanical polishing the interconnect metal and the ultra low-K dielectric layer.
US07749892B2
An interconnect in provided which comprises a copper conductor having both a top surface and a lower surface, with caps formed on the top surface of the metallic conductor. The cap is formed of dual laminations or multiple laminations of films with the laminated films including an Ultra-Violet (UV) blocking film and a diffusion barrier film. The diffusion barrier film and the UV blocking film may be separated by an intermediate film.
US07749890B2
A semiconductor structure and methods of making the same. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate having a silicide region disposed above a doped region, and a metal contact extending through the silicide region and being in direct contact with the doped region.
US07749887B2
A method is disclosed which includes forming a layer of conductive material above a substrate, forming a masking layer above the layer of conductive material, performing a first etching process on the layer of conductive material with the masking layer in place, removing the masking layer and, after removing the masking layer, performing an isotropic etching process on the layer of conductive material to thereby define a plurality of piercing bond structures positioned on the substrate.
US07749881B2
A masking layer is formed on a dielectric region of an electronic device so that, during subsequent formation of a capping layer on electrically conductive regions of the electronic device that are separated by the dielectric region, the masking layer inhibits formation of capping layer material on or in the dielectric region. The capping layer can be formed selectively on the electrically conductive regions or non-selectively; in either case (particularly in the latter), capping layer material formed over the dielectric region can subsequently be removed, thus ensuring that capping layer material is formed only on the electrically conductive regions. Silane-based materials, such as silane-based SAMs, can be used to form the masking layer. The capping layer can be formed of an electrically conductive material (e.g., a cobalt alloy, a nickel alloy, tungsten, tantalum, tantalum nitride), a semiconductor material, or an electrically insulative material, and can be formed using any appropriate process, including conventional deposition processes such as electroless deposition, chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition or atomic layer deposition.
US07749874B2
A CMOS image sensor includes a pinned photodiode and a transfer gate that are formed using a thick mask that is self-aligned to at least one edge of the polysilicon gate structure to facilitate both the formation of a deep implant and to provide proper alignment between the photodiode implant and the gate. In one embodiment a drain side implant is formed concurrently with the deep n-type implant of the photodiode. After the deep implant, the mask is removed and a shallow p+ implant is formed to complete the photodiode. In another embodiment, the polysilicon is etched to define only a drain side edge, a shallow drain side implant is performed, and then a thick mask is provided and used to complete the gate structure, and is retained during the subsequent high energy implant. Alternatively, the high energy implant is performed prior to the shallow drain side implant.
US07749871B2
The present method provides tools for growing conformal metal nitride, metal carbide and metal thin films, and nanolaminate structures incorporating these films, from aggressive chemicals. The amount of corrosive chemical compounds, such as hydrogen halides, is reduced during the deposition of transition metal, transition metal carbide and transition metal nitride thin films on various surfaces, such as metals and oxides. Getter compounds protect surfaces sensitive to hydrogen halides and ammonium halides, such as aluminum, copper, silicon oxide and the layers being deposited, against corrosion. Nanolaminate structures (20) incorporating metal nitrides, such as titanium nitride (30) and tungsten nitride (40), and metal carbides, and methods for forming the same, are also disclosed.
US07749869B2
A method for improving the minority lifetime of silicon containing wafer having metallic contaminants therein is described incorporating annealing at 1200° C. or greater and providing a gaseous ambient of oxygen, an inert gas and a chlorine containing gas such as HCl.
US07749842B2
A method and device providing a strained Si film with reduced defects is provided, where the strained Si film forms a fin vertically oriented on a surface of a non-conductive substrate. The strained Si film or fin may form a semiconductor channel having relatively small dimensions while also having few defects. The strained Si fin is formed by growing Si on the side of a relaxed SiGe block. A dielectric gate, such as, for example, an oxide, a high “k” material, or a combination of the two, may be formed on a surface of the strained Si film. Additionally, without substantially affecting the stress in the strained Si film, the relaxed SiGe block may be removed to allow a second gate oxide to be formed on the surface previously occupied by the relaxed SiGe block. Accordingly, a semiconductor device having a strained Si fin vertically oriented on a non-conductive substrate may be formed where the strained Si film is oriented such that it may form a channel of small dimensions allowing access to both sides and top in order to from single gate, double gate, or more gate MOSFETs and finFETs with a channel having a reduced number of defects and/or reduced dimensions.
US07749823B2
A thin film transistor substrate of horizontal electric field type includes: a gate line and a first common line formed on a substrate to be in parallel to each other; a data line crossing the gate line and the first common line with a gate insulating film therebetween to define a pixel area; a second common line crossing the first common line having the gate insulating film therebetween; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a common electrode extending from the second common line in said pixel area; a pixel electrode that is parallel to the common electrode and the second common line; a protective film for covering the thin film transistor; a gate pad having a lower gate pad electrode connected to an upper gate pad electrode through a first contact hole; a common pad having a lower common pad electrode connected to an upper common pad electrode through a second contact hole; and a data pad having a lower data pad electrode connected to an upper data pad electrode provided within a third contact hole.
US07749822B2
An integrated semiconductor device includes a resistor and an FET device formed from a stack of layers. The stack of layers includes a dielectric layer formed on a substrate; a metal conductor layer having lower electrical resistance formed on the dielectric layer; and a polysilicon layer formed on the metal conductor layer. A resistor stack is formed by patterning a portion of the original stack of layers into a resistor. An FET stack is formed from another portion of the original stack of layers. The FET stack is doped to form a gate electrode and the resistor stack is doped aside from the resistor portion thereof. Then terminals are formed at distal ends of the resistor in a doped portion of the polysilicon layer. Alternatively, the polysilicon layer is etched away from the resistor stack followed by forming terminals at distal ends of the metal conductor in the resistor stack.
US07749810B2
A method of packaging an integrated circuit singulates a wafer to form an integrated circuit, positions the integrated circuit on a carrier, and passivates the integrated circuit after the positioning the integrated circuit on the carrier. At this point, the integrated circuit is secured to the carrier. The method also electrically connects the integrated circuit to a plurality of exposed conductors.
US07749805B2
A method for manufacturing an electrolyte material layer with a chalcogenide material incorporated or deposited therein for use in semiconductor memory devices, in particular resistively-switching memory devices or components. The method comprises the steps of producing a semiconductor substrate, depositing a binary chalcogenide layer onto the semiconductor substrate, depositing a sulphur-containing layer onto the binary chalcogenide layer, and creating a ternary chalcogenide layer comprising at least two different chalcogenide compounds ASexSy. One component A of the chalcogenide compounds ASexSy comprises materials of the IV elements main group, e.g., Ge, Si, or of a transition metal, preferably of the group consisting of Zn, Cd, Hg, or a combination thereof.
US07749798B2
An image sensing circuit and method is disclosed, wherein a photodiode is formed in a substrate through a series of angled implants. The photodiode is formed by a first, second and third implant, wherein at least one of the implants are angled so as to allow the resulting photodiode to extend out beneath an adjoining gate. Under an alternate embodiment, a fourth implant is added, under an increased implant angle, in the region of the second implant. The resulting photodiode structure substantially reduces or eliminates transfer gate subthreshold leakage.
US07749792B2
The present disclosure is broadly directed to a method for designing new MEMS micro-movers, particularly suited for, but not limited to, CMOS fabrication techniques, that are capable of large lateral displacement for tuning capacitors, fabricating capacitors, self-assembly of small gaps in CMOS processes, fabricating latching structures and other applications where lateral micro-positioning on the order of up to 10 μm, or greater, is desired. Principles of self-assembly and electro-thermal actuation are used for designing micro-movers. In self-assembly, motion is induced in specific beams by designing a lateral effective residual stress gradient within the beams. The lateral residual stress gradient arises from purposefully offsetting certain layers of one material versus another material. For example, lower metal layers may be side by side with dielectric layers, both of which are positioned beneath a top metal layer of a CMOS-MEMS beam. In electro-thermal actuation, motion is induced in specific beams by designing a lateral gradient of temperature coefficient of expansion (TCE) within the beams. The lateral TCE gradient is achieved in the same manner as with self-assembly, by purposefully offsetting the lower metal layers with layers of dielectric with respect to the top metal layer of a CMOS-MEMS beam. A heater resistor, usually made from a CMOS polysilicon layer, is embedded into the beam or into an adjacent assembly to heat the beam. When heated, the TCE gradient will cause a stress gradient in the beam, resulting in the electro-thermal actuation. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims.
US07749789B2
A process producing a single-crystalline device fabricated on a single-sided polished wafer employing processing from only the front-side and having a significant separation between the device and substrate is provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises an upper layer and a lower substrate. A device is formed in the upper layer, defined by gaps. The gaps are filled with at least one material that has etch characteristics different from those of the device and the substrate. At least a top portion of the gap material is removed from the upper layer. The gap material is etched so that a portion of the gap-material remains on the sidewalls of the surrounding upper layer. The material beneath the device is then etched, excluding an insulating layer beneath the device, releasing the device from the substrate. The insulating material beneath the device is then etched, the etch being selective to the insulating material and the gap material.
US07749773B2
Disclosed is a test device and a method for qualitatively and/or quantitatively measuring the concentration of an analyte in a biological fluid sample. The test device includes a housing defining a sample port, a test well containing a stirrer and a conjugate, and a test strip disposed within the housing. The test well is also defined by being located between the sample port and the test strip. Fluid flows from the test well onto the test strip, which has a trapping zone which binds the analyte and allows for its detection. A control zone may also be included. The test device is generally adapted to use a sandwich assay. Also disclosed is a system comprising the test device and a signal sensing device; and a method for using the test device.
US07749768B2
The invention is a method of measuring oxygen concentration in a package having an oxygen sensitive product disposed therein. The method includes exposing a luminescent compound that is disposed in an interior of the package to light having a wavelength that is absorbed by the luminescent compound so that the luminescent compound is promoted into an excited state. When the exposure of the light is terminated, the excited luminescent compound emits light that is detectable by a detector positioned outside of the package. The intensity of the emitted light is inversely proportional to the oxygen concentration and is used in conjunction with mathematical function that describes the luminescent intensity of the luminescent compound as a function of oxygen concentration and temperature to calculate the oxygen concentration. The method may be used to verify and track the oxygen concentration of a package as it moves through a distribution system.
US07749766B2
A bilirubin sensor has a working electrode with a first chemical matrix disposed thereon that contains a binder, a substrate electrode with a second chemical matrix dispose thereon that contains a binder and a chemical agent that consumes bilirubin, a reference electrode, a sample chamber containing the working electrode, the substrate electrode and the reference electrode, and a method of measuring bilirubin in a body fluid.
US07749756B2
A microorganism strain comprises a gene coding for a recombinant protein and a mutated gene coding for a host protein that is not a protease. The recombinant protein is secreted during a fermentation and the mutated gene coding for the host protein has been mutated so as to cause reduced expression of the host protein compared to the wild-type gene on which the mutated gene is based.
US07749746B2
A novel gene (designated 238P1B2) and its encoded protein, and variants thereof, are described wherein 238P1B2 exhibits tissue specific expression in normal adult tissue, and is aberrantly expressed in the cancers listed in Table I. Consequently, 238P1B2 provides a diagnostic, prognostic, prophylactic and/or therapeutic target for cancer. The 238P1B2 gene or fragment thereof, or its encoded protein, or variants thereof, or a fragment thereof, can be used to elicit a humoral or cellular immune response; antibodies or T cells reactive with 238P1B2 can be used in active or passive immunization.
US07749741B2
A tissue dissociation device (10) includes a container (12) having a sterile interior for holding the tissue to be dissociated and a liquid medium. The device (10) also includes a dissociation element (54), inside the container (12), for engaging the tissue to cause dissociation of the tissue. The device (10) also includes a resistive element (81), inside the container (12), for resisting movement of the tissue in response to the engagement by the dissociation element (54). Relative motion between and the resulting resistance provided by the resistive element (81) allows the dissociation element (54) to effectively dissociate the tissue. A powered tissue dissociation device includes a power source operatively connected to the dissociation element (54) for causing the dissociation element (54) to move into engagement with the tissue.
US07749734B2
A nucleic acid molecule containing nucleotide sequences that encode the capsid protein, pre-membrane protein and non-structural protein of Japanese encephalitis virus, and a nucleotide sequence that encodes the envelop protein of a second flavivirus, wherein the nucleotide sequence(s) that encode(s) the pre-membrane protein and/or non-structural protein of Japanese encephalitis virus contain(s) nucleotide mutations that produce one or more amino acid mutations that attenuate the virus.
US07749732B2
Disclosed are a method of preparing an active Nanoarchaeum equitans B-type DNA polymerase (Neq DNA polymerase), an active Neq DNA polymerase prepared according to the method, and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using the active Neq DNA polymerase. The active Neq DNA polymerase may be used in various nucleic acid polymerization reactions, such as PCR.
US07749727B1
A device is described for the generation of electropotential by bacterial culture that contain magnetic inclusions. As these bacteria move within an aqueous conductive environment, the generated magnetic fields induce a voltage between electrodes immersed in the solution. Current flow and power production can be sustained for several hours.
US07749726B2
Methods and systems for a) identifying and isolating stem cells, b) assessing mitochondrial distribution and structure in living cells and c) performing fluorescence microscopy on living cells while the cells remain within a condition-controlled cell culture chamber.
US07749721B2
The invention relates to an immunoenzymatic method for the quantification of protein CETP in plasma, which requires the utilization of fusion protein GST/CETP, the synthetic peptide CETP 11486-S496 and polyclonal antibody anti-CEPT 11486-S496. The method is used in the study of pathologies involving alterations in the CETP levels in plasma or in seric lipids and makes it possible to detect, evaluate and follow-up patients suffering from dyslipidemia and/or risk of altergenesis.
US07749717B2
The present invention relates to the diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection.
US07749708B2
The invention relates to methods for identifying the sequence of one or more variant nucleotides in a nucleic acid molecule. The method involves cleaving a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule containing a mismatch with a mismatch-specific endonuclease which cleaves on the 3′ side of the mismatch, and preserving the integrity of the variant nucleotide by ligating a double-stranded linker with a 3′-overhang to said variant nucleotide. Because the variant nucleotide is immediately adjacent to the linker, PCR and/or sequence-by-synthesis analysis can be readily carried out.
US07749698B2
Provided are biomarkers for determining the sensitivity of proliferative diseases such as cancer to therapeutic agents, in particular mTOR inhibitors in combination with a cytotoxic agent, in particular a cytotoxic agent which damages or affects the integrity of DNA.
US07749694B2
This invention provides a class of binding proteins with a range of binding specificities and affinities based upon variation at select amino acid positions within a scaffold. The variable positions may be readily modified to produce a library of binding proteins with different binding specificities and affinities. The library may be screened to identify one or more as binding a ligand of interest. Compositions comprising the binding proteins, as well as methods of using the binding proteins are also provided.
US07749692B2
An object of the invention is to provide a tissue preservation solution that has excellent tissue-preserving ability and is useful in the field of medicine, medical experiment, etc. Thus, the invention relates to a tissue preservation solution including oxygen nanobubbles.
US07749687B2
A method of forming a pattern on a photosensitive resin film in lithography, a method of forming a pattern for a semiconductor device, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using the patterned film are disclosed. In an aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of forming a pattern on a photosensitive resin film, comprising forming a processing-object film above a semiconductor substrate, forming a first patterned photosensitive resin layer on the processing-object film, implanting ions into the first patterned photosensitive resin layer, the sum (Rp+3dRp) of a projected range (Rp) for the ions in the first photosensitive resin layer and three times a standard deviation (dRp) of the projected range being greater than a thickness of the first patterned photosensitive resin layer, and forming a second patterned photosensitive resin layer on the ion-implanted first patterned photosensitive resin layer.
US07749675B2
A method of preparing a toner, including: preparing a colorant dispersion by mixing a reactive emulsifier and a colorant; preparing a toner composition by mixing a macromonomer including a hydrophilic group, a hydrophobic group and at least one reactive functional group, at least one polymerizable monomer and a chain transfer agent with the colorant dispersion; emulsion polymerizing the toner composition in a medium; and separating and drying the polymerized toner, wherein the amounts of the macromonomer and the chain transfer agent are controlled to regulate the configuration of toner particles. A toner prepared using the method, an image forming method using the toner, and an image forming apparatus using the toner are also provided by the invention. According to the method, the size and configuration of toner particles are easily controlled. In addition, the method minimizes the use of a surfactant, and decreases polluted water and waste water, which is very advantageous environmentally.
US07749671B2
To provide a toner containing at least a toner base containing a binder resin and a colorant, and an inorganic fine particle, wherein the inorganic fine particle contains a compound oxide expressed by the following Composition Formula (1): [M1]aSibOc Composition Formula (1) where “M1” represents a metal element selected from Sr, Mg, Zn, Co, Mn and Ce, “a” and “b” each represents an integer of 1 to 9 and “c” represents an integer of 3 to 9, wherein an average primary particle diameter of the compound oxide is 0.02 μm to 1.5 μm, and an average secondary particle diameter of the compound oxide is 0.08 μm to 3.5 μm, where the secondary particle is an aggregate of the primary particles.
US07749670B2
Embodiments include a toner with a fractionated and/or distilled wax having from about 30 to about 64 carbon units, a degree of crystallinity as calculated by heat of melting and as measured by DSC of from about 55 to about 100, a Mw is from about 500 to about 800, and a polydispersity of from about 1 to about 1.05.
US07749662B2
The subject invention provides a system and method for improving the process margin of a lithographic imaging system. The process margin improvement is achieved through the novel placement of discrete assist features and/or the use of forbidden pitches and specific pitch orientations. Novel geometries are utilized, which take advantage of line-end pull back and/or a lack of resolution of pitches perpendicular to an axis of a dipole illumination source. The strategic placement of a series of discrete scatterbar segments on a mask near positions of critical features, such as, for example, contacts, mitigates resist residue that can result from the use of a contiguous scatterbar.
US07749659B2
The present invention uses a mixture of spherical carbonaceous materials having different average particle sizes as an anode active material in an anode composite mixture layer of an anode. The spherical carbonaceous material of large particle size decreases the reaction with non-aqueous electrolyte solution to suppress the decrease in battery capacity, form clearances having suitable sizes in the anode composite mixture layer, and retain the non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The clearances in the anode composite mixture layer are efficiently filled with the carbonaceous material of small particle size while spaces capable of suitably retaining the non-aqueous electrolyte solution are left unfilled. Thus, the volume density of the anode composite mixture layer is improved and the battery capacity is increased. Accordingly, energy density can be increased without deteriorating battery characteristics.
US07749649B2
An electrochemical cell has a container containing a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The container has a bottom face and a hole formed in the bottom face. A positive electrode current collector is embedded in the bottom face of the container so that the hole formed in the bottom face exposes a portion of the positive electrode current collector. A covering portion is adhered to the positive electrode and covers the exposed portion of the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode current collector is electrically connected to the positive electrode via the covering portion. A lid seals the container.
US07749648B2
A pouch for a secondary battery comprising indentations on a sealing area of the pouch is disclosed. At least some of the indentations are filled with the resin layers of the pouch. A secondary battery comprising the pouch, and an apparatus for sealing the pouch are also provided. The indentations in the pouch can take the shape of dots or lines, and prevent the resin layers of the pouch from leaking out of the pouch during heating and pressing of the sealing area of the pouch. Also, when the resin layers collect in the indentations, forming adhesive cores, reliability of the pouch seal is improved despite a reduction in the sealing area of the pouch.
US07749640B2
A fuel cell comprising a cathode catalyst layer, an anode catalyst layer including a conductive perfluoro-binder having a micellar structure formed by outwardly orienting hydrophilic groups and inwardly orienting hydrophobic (lipophilic) groups, and a proton conductive membrane provided between the cathode catalyst layer and the anode catalyst layer.
US07749639B2
A gas diffusion electrode includes: an electrode catalyst layer; microporous layers arranged on the electrode catalyst layer and including at least second and first microporous layers, wherein the second microporous layer disposed on the electrode catalyst layer side is composed to have higher water repellency than the first microporous layer; and an oxidant gas diffusion substrate disposed on the microporous layers and formed of carbon fiber. According to the gas diffusion electrode of the present invention, drainability of generated water from the electrode catalyst layer to the gas diffusion layer and moisture retention and gas diffusibility of the electrode catalyst layer can be enhanced. Moreover, according to a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell of the present invention, stable power generation characteristics can be obtained even under an operating condition with a wide humidity range and current density range.
US07749636B2
The present invention relates to a fuel cell arrangement, containing at least one bipolar plate layer (1) and an bonding partner—preferably an membrane electrode assembly (MEA) (5), wherein the bonding partner is bonded onto the bipolar plate layer (1) with a pressure-sensitive adhesive or a physically bonding adhesive, which are located on a three-dimensional sealing structure of the bipolar plate layer and/or edge region of the bipolar plate layer adjacent thereon.
US07749634B2
A fuel cell comprises an electrode plate having a flow field formed therein and a proton exchange membrane. A compressible permeable diffusion media is disposed adjacent the electrode plate. The diffusion media is compressed against the electrode plate so that a portion of the media intrudes into the flow field. A fuel cell stack can be made by compressing a plurality these fuel cells together. The fuel cell stack is compressed so that the diffusion media in each fuel cell is compressed against the adjacent electrode plate with a portion of the media intruding into the flow field in the adjacent electrode plate. The compression of the fuel cell stack can be adjusted so that a magnitude of intrusion of the diffusion media into the flow channels is adjusted and a pressure drop of a predetermined magnitude occurs across the fuel cell stack at a desired operational state.
US07749630B2
A polymer electrolyte membrane obtained by subjecting a sulfonated polyarylene membrane having an initial water content of 80-300 weight % to a hot-water treatment. A composite polymer electrolyte membrane comprising a matrix made of a first sulfonated aromatic polymer having a high ion exchange capacity, and a reinforcing material constituted by a second sulfonated aromatic polymer having a low ion exchange capacity in the form of fibers or a porous membrane.
US07749627B2
A fuel cell that uses one or more types of fuel comprises a fuel cell stack, a reservoir connected to the fuel cell stack, and a supply valve that controls the supply of the fuel from its fuel source. Furthermore, methods for operating a fuel cell includes the steps: supplying the fuel to the fuel cell stack and the reservoir from the fuel source, operating the fuel cell from the fuel in the fuel reservoir, supplying said fuel from the fuel source and removing the exhaust from the fuel cell stack into the reservoir. The reservoir stores fuel and exhaust and allows the fuel cell to continue operation for long periods of time without releasing any gaseous exhaust or discharging any liquid exhaust.
US07749618B2
An organic electroluminescent device having a pair of electrodes including a positive electrode and a negative electrode at least one of which is transparent or translucent, and one or more organic compound layers interposed between the pair of electrodes, at least one layer of the organic compound layers containing at least one charge transporting polyester having a repeating unit that contains at least one structure selected from structures represented by the following formula (I-1) as a partial structure.
US07749615B2
Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) which has a simple structure and utilizes phosphorescence. The organic electroluminescent device is improved in luminescent efficiency and secured of sufficient driving stability. The organic electroluminescent device includes a luminescent layer or a plurality of organic compound thin film layers containing a luminescent layer formed between a pair of electrodes. The luminescent layer contains a compound composed of an Al complex of an oxyphenylbenzoxazole which is represented by the general formula (I) below as a host material, while containing an organic metal complex including Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Re, Os, Ir, Pt or Au as a guest material: where R1 to R8 independently represent hydrogen atom, alkyl group, aromatic group or the like; n represents 2 or 4; and Z represents aromatic group, triarylsilyl group or the like when n is 2, while representing Al(III) when n is 4.
US07749602B2
A surface-finished yarn having multiple inorganic materials is provided. The surface-finished yarn comprises a yarn, a first material and a second material. The surface of the yarn comprises a plurality of the plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions wherein the plurality of first regions and the plurality of second regions are alternately disposed along an axial direction of the yarn. The first material is disposed onto the plurality of first regions while the second material different from the first material is disposed onto the plurality of second regions.
US07749595B2
A thermoformable acoustic sheet formed by a compressed fibrous web includes high melt fibers and adhesive thermoplastic fibers in which the adhesive fibers are at least partially melted so that in the compressed web the adhesive fibers at least partially coat the high melt fibers and reduce the interstitial space in the fiber matrix. Also included are methods of producing a thermoformable acoustic sheet which includes heating a fiber web including high melt and adhesive thermoplastic fibers to at least partially melt the adhesive fibers and compressing the web to form a sheet so that the adhesive fibers at least partially coat the high melt fibers to reduce the interstitial space in the fiber matrix.
US07749589B2
In one embodiment, a flocked article is provided that includes an elastomeric film and a plurality of flock fibers on a flocked surface of the film. The flock fibers are embedded in the film.
US07749581B2
The present invention includes an image transfer sheet. The image transfer sheet comprises a release layer and a polymer layer. One or more of the release layer and the polymer layer comprise titanium oxide or other white pigment.
US07749573B2
An actinic radiation curable ink-jet ink comprising: a metal complex pigment; a cationically polymerizable compound; a polymer dispersing agent having a basic functional group exhibiting an amine value of 5-40 mg/g; and a photo acid generating agent, wherein the cationically polymerizable compound comprises an oxirane ring. The aforesaid actinic radiation curable ink-jet ink enable to achieve an ink-jet ink exhibiting excellent storage stability, ejection capability, and curability after ejection, and enables formation of highly detailed images which realize high density, uniform glossiness, and excellent color reproduction, and forms no wrinkling, and provide a image forming method using the same.
US07749571B2
The invention relates to a coating device (10) comprising a coating tank (21) with an opening (22) and a coating roll (31), in which the roll (31) faces the opening (22).A further subject of the invention is a method for coating a substrate with a fluid comprising the steps of (i) supply of a substrate (40) and of a fluid, (ii) application of the fluid to the substrate (40) and (iii) shearing of the fluid by the substrate (40) set in motion in relation to the fluid.
US07749565B2
Disclosed is a coated substrate including a substrate coating applied to at least one substantially flat surface of the substrate, the coating including at least one of an axial concavity and a circumferential curvature, the substrate being configured for disposal parametrically about a moving component.
US07749564B2
The present disclosure provides a method for producing a coating. The method may include providing a substrate material and initiating a coating-deposition process to apply a coating material to the substrate material to produce a coating on the substrate material, wherein the coating includes a diamond-like carbon coating. The method may further include monitoring an intensity of hydrogen-alpha emission of a plasma produced during the coating-deposition process and adjusting at least one process variable of the coating-deposition process to facilitate production of the diamond-like carbon coating.
US07749558B2
A method for manufacturing electron emitting devices each having electrodes formed on a substrate and an electroconductive thin film connected between a pair of electrodes and having an electron emitting region is provided which can manufacture electron emitting devices having an excellent uniformity of electron emitting characteristics by improving the formation of liquid droplets to be dispensed to the substrate. In the manufacturing method, the substrate formed with the electrodes is subjected to a hydrophobic process using a silane coupling agent which contains two or more acetoxy groups in a molecule, and thereafter liquid droplets containing material for forming the electroconductive thin film are dispensed to the substrate. An image of excellent uniformity can be displayed by adopting electron emitting devices manufactured in the above manner to an image display apparatus.
US07749556B2
A method for manufacturing a field emission substrate is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: providing a substrate having a conductive layer; forming a hydrophobic layer on the conduction layer; patterning the hydrophobic layer; and removing the hydrophobic layer from the surface of the conductive layer so that the formed layer of electron-emitting materials can contact the surface of the conductive layer. The patterned hydrophobic layer can include plural bumps, and the pitches between the neighboring bumps are in a range of 1 μm to 500 μm. By way of the steps illustrated above, the emitting layer on the substrate can be made easily and arranged accurately. Hence, the electrons can be emitted homogeneously.
US07749553B2
A method and apparatus for controlling coating material deposition on to a medical device. Images of material drops in flight are captured and an average single drop volume value is calculated by conversion of the captured drop images to a volume measurement. The average single drop volume value is used to calculate a total number of drops necessary to apply a desired amount of coating. Alternately, material is applied and the amount of material deposited is accumulated and adjustments are made to deposit only a desired amount of coating material. A drop volume is determined for either every drop or a sampling of drops as the drops are being applied. Adjustments to the coating process include changing drop size and changing a number of drops to be deposited.
US07749551B2
The present invention relates to a mint composition, which comprises a mint substance and a 1,3,5,8-undecatetraene; and a fragrance-added or flavored product containing the mint composition. The mint composition has enhanced diffusing property and intensity of fragrance or flavor showing a high impact, shows excellent natural feeling and taste and also has excellent durability in fragrance or flavor.
US07749550B2
A fluid konjak material, which can be mixed with any other edible material uniformly at a high concentration while sufficiently keeping the gelling power and the biological effect intrinsic to konjak mannan, is provided by swelling and dissolving konjak flour in water, treating the resultant with alkali at a pH of at least 10, lowering the pH to less than 8, heating the composition with forced stirring and enzymatically treating the forcedly-stirred composition.
US07749545B2
Compositions and methods relating to partially hydrolyzed fucoidan for use in dietary supplements are described. Fucoidan from brown seaweeds is partially hydrolyzed and then mixed with other ingredients for use as a dietary supplement in beverage, capsule, or tablet form. The fucoidan is partially hydrolyzed with acid and heat. The partially hydrolyzed fucoidan can also be sulfonated. Other ingredients that can be included in the dietary supplement include high-ORAC-value antioxidants, minerals, pepper extract, flavoring agents, coloring agents, and preservatives. The compositions can be in the form of beverages, tablets, capsules, powders, and the like.
