US08095582B2
A method and apparatus for dynamically modifying search results “on the fly” based on the behavior of the user currently conducting a search. In one embodiment, data regarding user behavior is gathered from virtually any activity, including clicks on links, dwell times, downloads, transactions and cursor movements. Subordinate keywords are generated to reflect the intent of the user as inferred from the user's behavior. Subordinate keywords, as opposed to traditional primary keywords, are keywords that are identified as important to the search, but are not necessarily essential for a matched document. They are automatically generated by the system from a variety of places, such as documents clicked on by the user as well as documents that are skipped. The system uses the subordinate keywords to dynamically re-rank thatched documents and advertisements to best reflect the inferred intent of the user in order to continuously provide the most relevant results.
US08095569B2
Techniques include customizing a context structure such as a context menu based on content associated with an object such as a computer file. For example, a computer-implemented method for customizing a context structure associated with an object comprises the following steps. A content analysis is performed on the object. The context structure associated with the object is modified based on at least a portion of results of the content analysis.
US08095566B2
Apparatus and methods to manage media files from multiple sources provide a mechanism to enhance user interaction with multimedia devices. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US08095563B2
A configuration server includes a configuration repository that stores a wide range of configuration information for possible use by application programs. The configuration repository may include configuration parameters, settings for the parameters, and meta-data of definitions and descriptions of the parameters. Configuration information is selected from the configuration repository and stored in a configuration directory for later use by application programs at runtime. The configuration information is accessed from the configuration directory when needed by an application program or a component thereof.
US08095558B2
One embodiment of a system for logging and reporting access to content includes a content addressable storage manager configured to control storing of data elements to the content storage and retrieving of data elements from the content storage, the content addressable storage manager including a content identifier generator configured to generate a content identifier for each data element stored in the content storage, and an access log module configured to record access data for each data element stored in the content storage and to associate the access data for each data element with a content identifier of that data element. The access log module is also configured to generate an access report that includes access data for one or more data elements stored in the content storage.
US08095549B2
A network device to determine the presence of one or more of the pre-defined strings in a message based on searching for a suffix and a reverse prefix in response to receiving a key search data indicating possible presence of any of the plurality of pre-defined strings. The network device indicates the presence or absence of one or more of the pre-defined strings in the message based on the suffix and prefix search results.
US08095547B2
A method includes receiving user-created content, as well as at least one of a service identifier (ID) and a content category ID of the user-created content. At least one of a plurality of key information databases is selected based on at least one of the received service ID and the received content category ID. Second key information is extracted from the received user-created content. The selected key information database is searched to retrieve first key information related to the second key information. The user-created content may be classified as spam content based on the extracted second key information and/or the retrieved first key information. The user-created content is conditionally stored in a network accessible data store, available to users of the user-created content hosting site, based upon the classification.
US08095542B1
In one aspect, two ways of accessing a content unit stored on a CAS are provided, wherein the content unit has a content address that is computed based, at least in part, on at least a portion of its content. A first interface is provided to a file system in which the content unit is logically stored as a logical unit identified by a logical identifier, wherein the content unit is accessed in response to a request to the first interface to access the logical unit and identifying the content unit via the logical identifier. A second interface is provided through which the content unit can be accessed via the content address, wherein the content unit is accessed in response to a request to the second interface to access the content unit and identifying the content unit by the content address.
US08095539B2
Objects, such as documents, are classified according to a taxonomy. The taxonomy includes nodes, corresponding to object classes, arranged in a hierarchy. Class keywords are associated with the nodes. Search strings are formed for the classes by traversing the taxonomic branches and concatenating the keywords associated with the classes. For each object to be classified, a search engine is used to perform searches on the object using the search strings. The searches produce search scores for each search string. Each object is classified by identifying the class(es) corresponding to the highest search score(s) for the object, and classifying the object into the identified class(es).
US08095538B2
A method of encoding on a computer system for information retrieval in an inverted list structure of annotation includes collecting a group of documents and storing them in a digital format, determining a group of annotations referencing the group of documents, and forming a snippet index by grouping the group of annotations by unique annotation identifier. The method also includes forming a snippet dictionary which, for each unique annotation identifier, indexes a corresponding position in the snippet index for the group of annotations having that unique annotation identifier.
US08095537B2
A method and an apparatus for log integrity verification are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a first log and determining whether checkpoint hashes after each entry are consistent.
US08095536B1
A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, for example, third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Potential suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers over a network coupling (e.g., the Internet and/or an intranet). The queries may include one or more requests for information. One or more responses may be received from the suppliers, and the responses may be used to generate a result list for the user. The result list may include information and/or query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a website of one or more of the supplies from which the information was derived.
US08095535B2
Updating an indexing tables in a database system comprising a database storing item tables of items appended by timestamps. Each of items is further categorized by timestamp into said tables, and said item tables being indexed by indexing data. The database system further comprises an indexing table for said indexing data, listing the earliest timestamp of said item table together with said indexing data and a system manager for searching said item tables using said indexing table and a maintenance module for said indexing table.
US08095534B1
Aspects of the disclosure include establishing a verified set of search results, as a selection of search results returned by a search engine, responsive to a pre-defined query. The verified set of search results are stored and associated with a URL. The URL can be distributed by an entity that establishes the definition of the query and the selection of search results. When the URL is activated, the selection of search results can be returned, with a link to the search engine that allows a redirect to the search engine, with the pre-defined query, so that a current set of search results is returned by the search engine responsive to the pre-defined query. The entity can be notified when the URL is used, and information concerning the party activating the URL can be provided to the entity.
US08095533B1
Disclosed are methods and systems for automatically assigning index terms to electronic documents such as Web pages or sites in a manner which may be used to facilitate the retrieval of electronic documents of interest. The method involves determining co-occurrences of terms in other documents with the electronic document, and selecting terms as index terms based upon those scores. The method permits the efficient retrieval of electronic documents.
US08095528B2
Annotations relating to web sites may be based on blog posts relating to the web sites. A user viewing a web site may concurrently view related blog posts about the web site. More particularly, in one implementation, a method includes detecting when a user visits a web page and receiving, in response to the detection, a group of blog posts that link to the web page. The method further includes displaying an indication of the group of blog posts to the user while the user is visiting the web site.
US08095525B2
An architecture and system are described that provide a unified file access service within in a managed computing environment composed of diverse networks, computing devices, and storage devices. The service provides mechanisms for remotely accessing the file systems of any managed computer or disk snapshot, independently of the computer's current state (powered on, suspended or powered off), its location within the environment, its hardware type (virtual vs. physical), its operating system type, and its file system formats. The system isolates centralized FPAs from the details of clients, proxies and storage elements by providing a service that decomposes offloaded file system access into two steps. A FPA or a requester acting on behalf of the FPA first expresses the disk set or the computer containing the file systems it wishes to access, along with requirements and preferences about the access method. The service figures out an efficient data path satisfying the FPA's needs, and then automatically configures a set of storage and computing resources to provide the data path. The service then replies with information about the resources and instructions for using them. The FPA then accesses the requested file systems using the returned information.
US08095521B2
Computer-implemented processes are disclosed for clustering items and improving the utility of item recommendations. One process involves applying a clustering algorithm to a user's collection of items. Information about the resulting clusters is then used to select items to use as recommendation sources. Another process involves displaying the clusters of items to the user via a collection management interface that enables the user to attach cluster-level metadata, such as by rating or tagging entire clusters of items. The resulting metadata may be used to improve the recommendations generated by a recommendation engine. Another process involves forming clusters of items in which a user has indicated a lack of interest, and using these clusters to filter the output of a recommendation engine. Yet another process involves applying a clustering algorithm to the output of a recommendation engine to arrange the recommended items into cluster-based categories for presentation to the user.
US08095520B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with event recording are described. One example method includes locally locking a record in an event data store corresponding to an event having a same event type as a given event when a prior occurrence of the given event has not yet been recorded. The event data store is updated to record the given event while the record is locked. One example system includes an event data store configured to store records corresponding to events, an event recorder configured to record event data in the event data store and a local lock actuable by the event recorder. The event recorder is configured to update the locked record to correspond to a received event.
US08095518B2
Various embodiments provide a mapping layer to translate DRM system requirements from one DRM system, such as a source system, to another DRM system, such as a target system. In at least some embodiments, DRM system requirement translation is performed using a signed data structure that maps DRM system requirements from one DRM system to one or more other DRM systems. By mapping DRM system requirements from one system to another, licenses associated with DRM-protected content and associated content can be safely transferred between systems.
US08095510B2
A data restoration method comprising determining whether a restoration process is in progress, in response to receiving a read request to read contents from a track on a source volume (ST[i]); reading data from ST[i], in response to determining that the restoration process is not in progress; determining whether the read request was originated from a host, in response to determining the restoration process is in progress; reading the data directly from ST[i], in response to determining the read request was not originated from a host; determining whether ST[i] is designated as remote with respect to the restore operation, in response to determining the read request was originated from a host; reading the data directly from ST[i], in response to determining ST[i] is designated as local; and reading the data from a track on a target volume (TT[i]), in response to determining ST[i] is designated as remote.
US08095505B2
Copy protected materials are backed up or restored and made available for play on electronic media players through an online retrievable system. Corrupted segments of electronic media storage files are identified and located prior to being read, executed, or played. An uncorrupted copy from the network is then located, and software instructions provide for the storage of the uncorrupted segment of the file on electronic media player, merging the uncorrupted segment into the reading, executing, or playing of the electronic storage media file to seamlessly produce an output in real-time that is indistinguishable from the uncorrupted file.
US08095504B2
A method and system for N-way synchronization of computer databases. Synchronization of computer databases is structured into three rounds, namely an agenda round, a query round and a report round. In the agenda round, a synchronization agent software module inquires of a common synchronization engine for updates to the agent's database and provides information as to the level of information in the agent's database. During a query round, a common synchronization engine may request information from databases with new information and distribute that database information to databases needing the new information during a report round. Multiple agents, each representing an associated database may participate a synchronization. In addition, various special purpose agents may also receive, provide and otherwise operate on synchronization information.
US08095503B2
A method for allowing client computers in a distributed object-based data storage system to interpret higher revision data structures. In one embodiment, clients request layout maps of objects to be accessed from respective storage managers in the system and then construct and execute directed acyclic graphs (DAG) to accomplish desired I/O operations for data access. When a client computer running an older software revision is not able to interpret a particular data organization supplied by the storage manager that was designed after that client's software was installed, the client sends to the storage manager a description of the desired data access operation. The storage manager, in turn, interprets a data layout scheme for a client on a per-access basis and returns to that client a DAG containing a data structure that describes the sequence of I/O operations necessary to effect the data access. The client can then execute the storage manager-supplied DAG to carry out the data access.
US08095502B2
The illustrative embodiments provide for automatically and proactively retrieving administrative maintenance tasks or potential issues from a set of directory servers without direct intervention from an administrator. Responsive to an operation request being sent from a requesting application to the set of directory servers and an administrative maintenance control mechanism being active, an administrative maintenance control is automatically sent to the set of directory servers. Responsive to receiving the response to the administrative maintenance control, an end user application within the data processing system is notified that the at least one of the administrative maintenance tasks or the potential issues have been received.
US08095498B2
A system, method, and program product for interpreting, optimizing, and customizing data mining models through the use of statistical techniques that utilize diagnostic measures and statistical significance testing. A data processing system is disclosed that includes a data mining system for mining data from a data warehouse in accordance with a data model, wherein the data model defines how data groups can be partitioned; and a data group analysis system that calculates a set of diagnostic measures and performs statistical significance tests for a defined data group.
US08095497B2
Aspects of the present embodiments provide an eCommerce environment adapted to accept and process various message types (e.g., cXML and mXML). In general, requests are provided from a requesting entity to an application hosting entity. Data from incoming requests are mapped to a format understandable to an appropriate application(s). Responses from the application(s) are then mapped into a response format acceptable by the requesting entity. To this end, embodiments disclosed herein provide processes for the development and execution of a data driven process for mapping multiple request/response message pairs to a single application interface or set of application interfaces. In one embodiment, these processes are driven by development time and run time documents that describe a development time view of the message pairs and the application interfaces as well as runtime instructions for providing the mappings, respectively.
US08095494B2
A method for cross-triggering transitions in independent finite state machines is provided. For a given plurality of finite state machine definitions having a plurality of states and a plurality of transitions among the states, two or more independent instances of the plurality of finite state machine definitions are created. In addition, associations between two or more of the independent finite state machine instances are identified. The method uses cross-triggering rules that identify a condition in a first one of the associated independent finite state machine instances that triggers a transition action in a second one of the associated independent finite state machine instances. Each cross-triggering rule is triggered upon an occurrence of the cross-triggering rule condition, and the transition action in the second associated independent finite state machine instance is performed in response to the triggering of the cross-triggering rule.
US08095492B2
A method and/or system that can be implemented on a computing device or tables or board game or otherwise uses a rule set to evaluate data about a situation and actors in order to provide advice regarding strategies for influencing actors and/or other outputs.
US08095491B1
A method and a corresponding computer-readable medium are provided for optimizing a decision assignment based on a sought benefit. The optimization operations include mapping agents to actors into pairs, designating a benefit to each pair for a set of nodes, arranging the nodes into heaps (with each heap corresponding to an agent), selecting the node with the sought benefit as the head of the heap for all the heaps, and summing each benefit of the heads to establish a cumulative benefit. The benefit designation further includes associating the node with the benefit, action and agent that correspond to that pair, and disposing the node into the heap that corresponds to the agent. Arranging the heap further includes comparing first and second nodes to determine which has the sought benefit within the heap, and ordering the peak node as the head of the heap. Further operations include deconflicting first and second heaps that have heads with equal benefit, and truncating tail nodes from the head of each heap.
US08095490B2
A user support device which accurately judges that a user is in a confused state and supports the user is provided. The user support device includes: a confused state judging unit which judges whether the user is in a confused state or not based on a tendency of variation in dwell time on which a decision making time until a next input action is executed is reflected in a sequence of input actions executed by the user who makes transitions between several menus arranged in a tree structure; and an operation support processing unit which provides operation support when the confused state judging unit makes a positive judgment that the user is in a confused state.
US08095487B2
A familiarity level classifier comprises a stopwords engine for conducting a stopwords analysis of stopwords, e.g., introductory level stopwords and advanced level stopwords, in a document, e.g., a website; and a familiarity level classifier module for generating a document familiarity level based on the stopwords analysis. The classifier may be in an indexing module, a search engine, a user computer, or elsewhere in a computer network. The classifier may also include a reading level engine for conducting a reading level analysis of the document, and wherein the familiarity level classifier module is configured to generate the familiarity level also based on the reading level analysis. The classifier may also include a document features engine for conducting a feature analysis of the document, and wherein the familiarity level classifier module is configured to generate the document familiarity level also based on the feature analysis.
US08095485B2
A system, method, and computer readable-media for creating a stable synthetic neural system. The method includes training an intellectual choice-driven synthetic neural system (SNS), training an emotional rule-driven SNS by generating emotions from rules, incorporating the rule-driven SNS into the choice-driven SNS through an evolvable interface, and balancing the emotional SNS and the intellectual SNS to achieve stability in a nontrivial autonomous environment with a Stability Algorithm for Neural Entities (SANE). Generating emotions from rules can include coding the rules into the rule-driven SNS in a self-consistent way. Training the emotional rule-driven SNS can occur during a training stage in parallel with training the choice-driven SNS. The training stage can include a self assessment loop which measures performance characteristics of the rule-driven SNS against core genetic code. The method uses a stability threshold to measure stability of the incorporated rule-driven SNS and choice-driven SNS using SANE.
US08095473B2
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the invention, a process and architecture may be implemented to structure bond financing or refinancing for any municipally owned transportation facilities construction and/or renovation to improve economic and business terms for involved or interested parties.
US08095472B2
This disclosure provides various embodiments of a system, method, and software for implementing a logically centralized source for collaboration on objectives. In one aspect, the method identifies one or more requirements and requirement statuses associated with a business entity for use in a business object stored within a logically centralized repository, the repository storing a plurality of business objects, identifies one or more solutions and solution statuses associated with the identified requirements for use in the business object, and notifies a party of an update to one of the statuses associated with the identified requirements and solutions.
US08095470B1
An identifier routine is described which, when executed by a host device, retrieves an identifier stored in a memory card and obtains an image using the identifier. The memory card is physically coupled to the host device. The image identifies a content provider from which the host device receives broadcast content. The identifier routine is then executed by the host device to output the image.
US08095469B2
An encrypted content and its encryption key under a copy right use condition of prohibiting a copy by the device having received a content are stored, and the encrypted content is copy-transferred with another device through the network, and at the same time, the encryption key is transferred through the network, so that it is stored in either one of the devices.Even when a high definition television broadcast signal received with a copy-once taken as a copy right use condition is recorded, an access flag that controls the presence or absence of the reproduction of the broadcast content for each broadcast content is provided. When an original broadcast content is transcoded into a low resolution, and is transfer to another device, its access flag is turned on, thereby making the reproduction possible.
US08095458B2
A system and method for matching a loan consumer with lenders via the Internet includes receiving loan consumer application information. The application information is stored in a database. An internally specified filter is applied to the information to determine if the loan consumer meets a set of loan criteria. A subset of the information is submitted to a credit bureau. A credit report is generated based on the subset of information. A lender database is searched to match the customer information and credit report to ranked lenders. A query is transmitted to one of the lenders. A response is generated and received based on the query. Subsequent query and response steps are repeated only after receipt of the previous response, until all lenders have been queried. Only lenders who responded with an approval are presented for review by the customer.
US08095456B2
An exemplary embodiment comprises a method for trading items among a plurality of traders, the method comprising: (a) receiving a first order for at least one item from one of the traders into an electronic trading system, wherein the first order provides priority for said at least one item but does not reserve said at least one item; (b) receiving, from another one of the traders, a second order into the electronic trading system that matches said first order; (c) determining that at least a portion of the first order is available to be filled by at least a portion of the second order; (d) reserving said at least a portion of said first order for execution against said at least a portion of said second order; and (e) executing said at least a portion of said first order against said at least a portion of said second order.
US08095454B2
Disclosed is a method and system for effectuating a buyer-driven and buyer-executed commerce system. The system allows prospective buyers and sellers of goods and services to anonymously exchange conditional Requests For Bids and Conditional Sales Offers based on the buyer's guaranteed ‘purchasing loyalty’ for a self-defined minimum quantity of goods or services, and/or quality of goods of services and/or the length of time or price to which the buyer would agree to be bound or any combination of those condition's. That buyer guarantee permits a seller to easily pre-determine their offers based on the calculated value of ‘capturing’ that buyer's ‘guaranteed purchasing loyalty’. In a preferred embodiment, the method and system of the present invention includes a controller which receives Requests For Bids from prospective buyers and also receives, stores and displays to prospective buyers, bindable sales proposals from a multitude of prospective sellers. Potential buyers are therefore protected from bidding too much and being bound by the bid before having an opportunity to see what the marketplace has to offer. Further, because only the buyer is permitted to bind a seller, the buyer may submit an RFB more than once, changing any or all of the condition's to which he would agree to be bound in order to explore multiple offers from sellers and to better understand how changing one or more of the conditions affects the offers from the sellers.
US08095447B2
Methods and apparatus for analyzing financial data generally includes a predictive modeling system. The predictive modeling system may include an artificial agent responsive to an input data set. The artificial agent may produce an estimated data set including a market conditions data set. The market conditions data may include an estimate of at least one of liquidity of a market, strategy of a counterparty, and an effect of information leakage. The artificial agent may determine a predictability value for the estimated data set. The predictive modeling system may also include an agent factory responsive to the input data set. The agent factory may generate an artificial agent in response to the input data set.
US08095446B2
Systems and methods are disclosed which relate to the management of asset invested in a fund. The system includes a computer connected to a network which has constantly updated fund data available to compare a current fund with a plurality of possible new funds. The system automatically transfers from one fund to another according to user predetermined criteria.
US08095445B2
A computer-implemented method for completing a transaction between a customer and at least one merchant receives, by a transaction system, an authorization request including customer data and transaction specific data from the merchant, wherein, prior to the authorization request, the customer is unknown to the transaction system; authenticates the customer by the transaction system based at least in part upon at least one of the following: at least a portion of the customer data, at least a portion of the transaction specific data or any combination thereof; authorizes the transaction by the transaction system based at least in part upon at least one of the following: at least a portion of the customer data, at least a portion of the transaction specific data or any combination thereof; and communicates the authorization response to the merchant during the transaction. An apparatus for implementing the method is disclosed.
US08095442B2
Computer-implemented methods, computer systems, and computer program products are provided for determining specified matrices. The matrices may be associated with financial institutions and the financial affairs in a banking practice. In one implementation, a base matrix is formed which may be used to create the specified matrices when processing mass data.
US08095440B2
The present invention relates to card payment systems. In particular, the present invention relates to systems and methods for processing payment card transactions in a dynamic currency conversion and/or multi-currency scheme. To operate correctly, ghost transactions are used. However to prevent duplication of debits against the Card Holder, these “ghost copy” transactions must not be processed into the card schemes with the normal transactions. Thus the Acquirer's and/or third parties host systems have to be amended, in addition to modifications to the related accounting thereof. To overcome this necessity, the present invention provides a method for effecting the performance of a payment card transaction for a first transaction amount in a first currency, between a first merchant and a first payment card holder, the method comprising the steps of a) creating a first payment card transaction record between the first merchant and a second cardholder for the first transaction amount, b) creating a second payment card transaction record between a second merchant and the first cardholder, wherein the second transaction record identifies a second transaction amount in a second currency which equates to the first transaction amount converted into the second currency, and submitting the first transaction record and the second transaction record for processing as payment card transactions.
US08095421B2
The invention organizes various pricing tables and price adjustment tables and various products and purchasing organizations based on “who” (i.e. which purchasing organization) is purchasing “what” (i.e. which product). The invention utilizes a denormalized table to relate the “who” to the “what” using denormalized numbers. The invention further organizes various purchasing organizations and products into hierarchical tables. These hierarchical tables are called organizational groups and product groups. Various price adjustments may be specified for each level of the organizational groups and product groups hierarchies. The price adjustments for a particular purchasing organization are determined by retrieving the price adjustments for that particular purchasing organization as well as the price adjustments for organizational groups above the particular purchasing organization in the organizational groups hierarchy. Likewise, the price adjustments for a particular product are determined by retrieving the price adjustments for that particular product as well as the price adjustments for product groups above the particular product in the product groups hierarchy. The invention sorts the various pricing adjustments applicable to a particular product offered to a particular purchasing group based on several criteria. After the sorting is accomplished the pricing adjustments are applied in sequence to arrive at a final price at which a particular product can be sold to a particular purchasing organization.
US08095415B1
The invention provides a human capital development framework which allows organizations to assess the business impact of human capital initiatives and guide their implementation. The invention further provides a four-tier tool for arriving at an assessment of an organization's human capital practices. The first tier includes a measurement of business results, the second tier involves key performance drivers which contribute to business results, the third tier involves human capital capabilities and the fourth tier involves human capital processes. Surveys are provided to collect data for each tier and a detailed report is generated based upon survey results.
US08095414B2
In embodiments, the present invention is directed to methods of aligning an agent's compensation with an organization's goals, incentivizing an agent to improve their performance, and managing an agent. In one embodiment, the present invention includes defining a performance metric that relates to a goal of an organization. Performance levels are then defined for the performance metric. The performance levels are associated with performance values that an agent must meet to have their performance classified within a performance level. The method also includes providing a compensation rule that defines which of the performance levels an agent must achieve to change their current compensation. The performance of an agent with respect to the performance metric is then monitored to generate an agent performance, which is compared to the previously established achievement values to determine an agent's performance level.
US08095413B1
Management information is processed. A first set of computer data is acquired that represents a model of an organization of people having fundamental components, such as processes or capabilities, that are represented in the first set of computer data by data items. The first set of computer data is associated with a second set of computer data that represents a portfolio of management concepts, such as management goals. A report of management concepts is issued based on the second set of computer data and is sorted by fundamental component.
US08095403B2
A system and method are provided for the comprehensive provision of maintenance related information and products to a client. By one approach, item information is received from a client regarding at least one of a plurality of disparate items. The method also includes receiving manufacturer information regarding the plurality of disparate items from information from manufacturers of the items. A selectively accessible database is created that includes at least in part the item information, the manufacturer information, and maintenance information derived at least in part from the manufacturer information relating to servicing at least one of the disparate items and/or to a product relating to at least one of the disparate items. The client is provided with access to the maintenance information stored on the selectively accessible database. The maintenance information can be accessed from brick and mortar hardware stores as well.
US08095392B1
A system, method, and computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium are provided. In use, an application is executed which is capable of performing decision logic. Further, information is retrieved from a database in accordance with the decision logic. Information is also received from a user in accordance with the decision logic utilizing a user interface. Still yet, the information is processed utilizing the decision logic. The executing, retrieving, receiving, and processing are carried out by a platform capable of accomplishing the executing, retrieving, receiving, and processing for different purposes by executing different applications each capable of performing different decision logic and using different databases. In one embodiment, the different applications are capable of being executed simultaneously. In another embodiment, the different applications (e.g. insurance, investments, etc.) are each related to asset risk management.
US08095383B2
Method and system for providing an orthodontic profile indexing and treatment plan including comparing an initial patient condition in each of a plurality of dentition categories with one or more reference conditions in each of the plurality of dentition categories, wherein each of the one or more reference conditions has a corresponding representation, selecting at least one reference condition in one or more of the plurality of dentition categories, where each selected reference condition is similar to the initial patient condition in a same dentition category, and generating a patient identifier based on the corresponding representations of each selected reference condition is provided.
US08095379B2
Systems and methods provide for the preemptive determination of the potential of atypical clinical event occurrence related to administering of medications to a person. One method involves receiving a list of possible medications that may be administered to the person during a medical procedure. Subsequently, the medication list is compared to information in the person's medical record. Based on this comparison, a determination is made as to whether one or more matches exist between any of the medications included in the list and the medical record information, the match relating to the potential of an atypical clinical event occurring if the associated medication were to be administered to the person. If a match in fact exists, a response is outputted relating to each match.
US08095375B2
Storing audio data encoded in any of a plurality of different audio encoding formats is enabled by parametrically defining the underlying format in which the audio data is encoded, in audio format and packet table chunks. A flag can be used to manage storage of the size of the audio data portion of the file, such that premature termination of an audio recording session does not result in an unreadable corrupted file. This capability can be enabled by initially setting the flag to a value that does not correspond to a valid audio data size and that indicates that the last chunk in the file contains the audio data. State information for the audio data, to effectively denote a version of the file, and a dependency indicator for dependent metadata, may be maintained, where the dependency indicator indicates the state of the audio data on which the metadata is dependent.
US08095373B2
The present invention provides a robot apparatus with a vocal interactive function. The robot apparatus receives a vocal input, and recognizes the vocal input. The robot apparatus stores a plurality of output data, a last output time of each of the output data, and a weighted value of each of the output data. The robot apparatus outputs output data according to the weighted values of all the output data corresponding to the vocal input, and updates the last output time of the output data. The robot apparatus calculates the weighted values of all the output data corresponding to the vocal input according to the last output time. Consequently, the robot apparatus may output different and variable output data when receiving the same vocal input. The present invention also provides a vocal interactive method adapted for the robot apparatus.
US08095363B1
A method and system for monitoring an automated dialog system for the automatic recognition of language understanding errors based on a user's input communications in a task classification system. If the user's input communication cannot be understood and a task classification decision cannot be made, then further dialog may be conducted with the user if a probability of understanding the user's input communication exceeds a first threshold. Otherwise, the user may be directed to a human for assistance. In another possible embodiment, the method operates as above except that if the probability exceeds a second threshold, then further dialog may be conducted with the user using the current dialog strategy. However, if the probability falls between a first threshold and a second threshold, the dialog strategy may be adapted in order to improve the chances of conducting a successful dialog with the user.
US08095361B2
A method and a device for tracking background noise in a communication system, where the method includes: calculating a SNR of a current frame according to input audio signals; increasing a frame counter, and calculating tone features and signal steadiness features of the current frame if the SNR of the current frame is not smaller than a first threshold; judging the possibility of a time window including a noise interval according to the calculated tone feature values and signal steadiness feature values of each frame of the time window when the frame counter is increased to the length of the time window; and extracting noise features in the time window. Existence of background noise is analyzed continuously in a time window, so that background noise that changes frequently and dramatically can be detected or tracked rapidly.
US08095360B2
There is provided a method of post-processing a speech signal. The method comprises applying a time-domain post-processing to the speech signal, using LPC coefficients, for a low-band frequency range and applying a frequency-domain post-processing to the speech signal, using MDCT coefficients, for the high-band frequency range. Applying the frequency-domain post-processing includes decoding an encoded speech signal to obtain MDCT coefficients representative of the speech signal divided into a plurality of sub-bands, generating an envelope for each sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands as an average magnitude of the MDCT coefficients of the sub-band, generating an envelope modification factor for each sub-band of the plurality of sub-band using the MDCT coefficients of the sub-band, modifying the envelope by the envelope modification factor for each sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands to provide a modified envelope, and generating the post-processed speech signal using the modified envelope.
US08095354B2
As a program tool of the embodiment estimating the peak of power consumption, primary processing is performed in which logic simulation is executed in a first time period to extract operation data of a gated clock for every predetermined section within the first time period, e.g. operation waveform data or data on the number of operations. Then, a narrowed section, which is composed of one or more sections and in which the switching activity per unit time is higher compared to other sections, is discovered, the switching activity being obtained from the operation data, and this narrowed section is taken as a second time period. Then, secondary processing is performed in which logic simulation is executed in the second time period to extract signal waveform data for every clock cycle and obtain power consumption data corresponding to the clock cycles from the extracted signal waveform data.
US08095347B2
An area in which a model of a soft medium is moved is divided into a plurality of elements. In response to an update of simulation time, parameters about the model of the soft medium are shifted to elements at a position to which the soft medium is to be conveyed. After the parameters are shifted, the shape of the model of the soft medium is calculated. The elements need not be redivided by shifting the parameters to the elements at the position, to which the soft medium is to be conveyed.
US08095345B2
A computer implemented stochastic inversion method for estimating model parameters of an earth model. In an embodiment, the method utilizes a sampling-based stochastic technique to determine the probability density functions (PDF) of the model parameters that define a boundary-based multi-dimensional model of the subsurface. In some embodiments a sampling technique known as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is utilized. MCMC techniques fall into the class of “importance sampling” techniques, in which the posterior probability distribution is sampled in proportion to the model's ability to fit or match the specified acquisition geometry. In another embodiment, the inversion includes the joint inversion of multiple geophysical data sets. Embodiments of the invention also relate to a computer system configured to perform a method for estimating model parameters for accurate interpretation of the earth's subsurface.
US08095343B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for modeling source-drain current of a TFT. The method includes receiving sample data, the sample data including a sample input value and a sample output value; adjusting modeling variables according to the sample data; calculating a current model value according to the adjusted modeling variables; when a difference between the calculated current model value and the sample output value is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, fitting a current model by applying the adjusted modeling variables to the current model; applying actual input data to the fitted current model; and outputting a result value corresponding to the actual input data, wherein the current model is a model for predicting the source-drain current of the TFT.
US08095340B2
Systems and methods for managing power usage are provided. The system includes a programmable microprocessor, at least one input mechanism, a memory having instructions and/or other information, a display, at least one power consuming power device and a remote server. The systems allows the user of a power consuming device to receive instructions or other information from the server. The method includes using stored program instructions to generate power device related information on a display, collecting power device data representative of the electrical current or power consumed, connecting to a remote computing facility having a server, and providing the data to a computer remotely located from the central server.
US08095332B2
Disclosed is a method for pre-heating a hard disk drive of a computer device, wherein a temperature sensor and a heater are arranged at preset locations outside the computer device. The temperature sensor detects an external temperature of the hard disk drive, which is compared with an activation temperature threshold stored in a data memory unit of the computer device. The activation temperature threshold is calibrated by a preset compensation value stored in the data memory unit. When the external temperature of the hard disk drive subtracting the preset compensation value is less than the activation temperature threshold of the hard disk drive, the activation of the hard disk drive is prohibited and the heater carries out heating on the hard disk drive until the activation temperature threshold of the hard disk drive is reached; thereafter, the hard disk drive is activated again. Thus, the hard disk drive is protected from damage caused by excessively low internal temperature of the hard disk drive at the time when the hard disk drive is activated.
US08095324B2
A method and apparatus for permanent magnetic (PM) rotor crack detection includes a sensor which monitors magnetic flux distribution of the PM rotor and identifies the presence of a crack in the PM rotor when a magnetic flux distribution change or anomaly is detected.
US08095323B2
The present invention generally provides a rapid efficient method for analyzing polymorphic or biallelic markers, and arrays for carrying out these analyses. In general, the methods of the present invention employ arrays of oligonucleotide probes that are complementary to target nucleic acids which correspond to the marker sequences of an individual. The probes are typically arranged in detection blocks, each block being capable of discriminating the three genotypes for a given marker, i.e., the heterozygote or either of the two homozygotes. The method allows for rapid, automatable analysis of genetic linkage to even complex polygenic traits.
US08095322B2
Systems and methods for determining cross-talk coefficients in curves, such as sigmoid-type or growth curves, and PCR curves and nucleic acid melting curves in particular, as well as for applying the cross-talk coefficients to produce cross-talk corrected data sets using a linear subtractive model. Cross-talk signal coefficients are determined using cross-talk data acquired across the entire signal acquisition range. Analyzing across all of the signal curve data provides for a more robust cross-talk correction across the entire data acquisition range. A linear subtractive model is used to correct data sets having cross-talk components.
US08095321B2
A modeling device is disclosed that easily projects characteristic information obtained from an object onto a differently-shaped object, even if the object, from which the characteristic information is obtained, has a complex shape. A modeling device in one embodiment of the present invention includes a virtually electrifying section to calculate an electric potential at a spot in a heart at the time when a predetermined voltage is applied to the heart, and a projecting section to project a fiber orientation onto a heart model created on the basis of shape information that is input to the input section. The projecting section specifies a spot to be a target of projection on the basis of the electric potential obtained by the virtually electrifying section. Use of the electric potential in specifying the spot makes it possible to easily project the fiber orientation onto any heart having complex and various shapes.
US08095316B2
A method of normalizing well log data relating to geology of a subsurface region includes identifying a pair of markers defining a zone on each well log, determining a statistic for a property within the zone for each well log, fitting a smooth function to the statistics to create a first-iteration trend surface, determining, for each statistic, a deviation from the trend surface and eliminating those statistics that deviate from the trend surface by greater than a threshold value, fitting a smooth function to the remaining statistics to create a second-iteration trend surface, normalizing the property for each well log based on the second-iteration trend surface, and analyzing the normalized properties to determine the geology of the subsurface region.
US08095312B2
A device and method for orbit prediction of satellites are provided. An accelerometer measures non-gravity forces acting on a satellite. A processor receives measured non-gravity forces from the accelerometer, estimates the contributions of the measured non-gravity forces to the movement of the satellite, and predicts the orbit of the satellite based on the estimated contributions of the non-gravity forces to the movement of the satellite.
US08095307B2
In a method for controlling a map display in a vehicle, a display device is controlled such that a section of a geographical map is displayed in a spatially non-linear scale. A display apparatus for displaying a geographical map includes a control unit and a display device, connected to the control unit, a map section, the control unit including an arithmetic-logic unit by which data assigned to the geographical map is able to be converted into display data, taking a spatially non-linear scale into consideration. A navigation system includes such a display apparatus.
US08095306B2
A display device for displaying a graphical user interface is disclosed. The graphical user interface includes a first window configured to display a road maintenance map of a mine road network, and one or more links configured to access a second window. The second window is configured to facilitate selection of one or more data files containing data associated with the mine road network. The graphical user interface also includes one or more links configured to access a third window. The third window is configured to access to one or more analysis tools configured to analyze the data.
US08095304B2
A cargo load and visibility system and method as well as an associated delivery vehicle tracking system are provided to permit cargo to be tracked, both as the cargo is loaded upon the delivery vehicle and throughout the delivery process, thereby increasing the visibility of the shipping operations including the last stage of the shipping operations in which the goods are delivered to their intended or ultimate destination. The cargo load and visibility system and method may be configured to permit redirection of the delivery vehicle while in route in instances in which the intended destination, such as a military unit, has changed position if such redirection can be performed in a manner that is safe for the delivery vehicle.
US08095298B2
In a variable valve actuation system of an internal combustion engine employing a variable valve actuator capable of variably adjusting at least intake valve closure timing depending on engine operating conditions, a processor of a control unit is programmed to phase-advance the intake valve closure timing to a predetermined timing value after a piston top dead center position and before a piston bottom dead center position on intake stroke during at least one of an engine starting period and an engine stopping period. The variable valve actuator includes a biasing device by which the intake valve closure timing is permanently biased toward the predetermined timing value.
US08095297B2
Methods and systems are provided for addressing cylinder-to-cylinder imbalances in the incidence of pre-ignition and/or knock. Engine cylinders are fueled based on each cylinder's pre-ignition count to balance the incidence of pre-ignition in each cylinder. The fueling is adjusted to maintain engine exhaust at stoichiometry.
US08095296B2
The invention concerns a procedure and a device for an adaptation of a dynamic model of an exhaust gas probe, which is a component of an exhaust pipe of a combustion engine and with which a lambda value is determined for regulating an air-fuel composition, whereby a simulated lambda value is calculated parallel to that in a control unit or in a diagnosing unit of the combustion engine and an application function uses the simulated and the measured lambda value. According to the invention it is thereby provided that a jump behavior of the exhaust gas probe is determined during a running vehicle operation by evaluating a signal change at a stimulation of the system and that the dynamic model of the exhaust gas probe is adapted with the aid of these results.
US08095284B2
An automatic transmission control unit determines whether or not a constantly open failure, in which a switch valve cannot switch a pressure regulating valve and a second hydraulic chamber to a non-communicative state, has occurred on the basis of a parameter (an inertia phase time, for example) representing a dynamic characteristic during a shift from a first gear position to a second gear position. The determination of the constantly open failure is begun after initial variation in the parameter representing the dynamic characteristic during the shift has been eliminated through learning control in which the dynamic characteristic during the shift is caused to approach a target dynamic characteristic.
US08095280B2
A method for controlling an engine of a machine includes a step of setting an initial engine speed of the engine based on a position of an operator engine speed selection device. The machine is operated for a period of time at the initial engine speed, and a power usage value for the machine during that period of time is identified. The initial engine speed of the engine is then lowered to a reduced engine speed corresponding to the power usage value.
US08095277B2
Disclosed is a method for detecting a direction of travel in a vehicle with a protection system which avoids accidents. When an object is detected in front of the vehicle in the direction of the vehicle and contact between the vehicle and the object is possible, the method triggers a driver-independent braking and/or steering process to prevent contact with the object. In order to avoid incorrect triggering of the protection system, the method further provides that the driver-independent braking and/or steering process is prevented or aborted if reverse travel is detected.
US08095271B2
In a method for deactivating a driver assistance system that influences the steering, a driver-independent system steering variable is applied to the steering wheel by the driver assistance system, the value of a driver steering variable applied to the steering wheel by the driver is determined, and the driver assistance system is deactivated dependent on the driver steering variable.
US08095267B2
A door-lock control system includes: a door lock device; a current position detection unit; a data recording unit; a public security situation determination processing unit; and a function setting processing unit configured to set, according to the public security situation at the vehicle position, a function limit state that limits unlocking when a door-unlock operation has been performed by an operation unit.
US08095264B2
A diagnostic equipment coupled to a vehicle network makes an inquiry about internal information, e.g., yes or no whether there is a logging-available memory area, with respect to each of a plurality of ECUs, and only to any of the ECUs making a response of yes, e.g., having such a memory area, a notification is made when some defect is observed. The internal information is then gathered from the ECU, and in response to an inquiry about the internal information coming from the diagnostic equipment, the ECU forwards back information about yes or no for logging thereto. When the ECU is available for logging, log data that has been periodically accumulated is forwarded back as a response with respect to a retrieval request therefor from the diagnostic equipment.
US08095255B2
In a hybrid vehicle provided with a power dividing mechanism comprising a clutch mechanism, an ECU performs speed-change control. In the control, the ECU performs an engage preparing process if it is necessary to engage clutch plates of the clutch mechanism with each other. In the process, the ECU switches a reference value which is referred in a feedback control for performing a rotation synchronization and a position synchronization for the clutch plates from a calculated value which is calculated from a pulse signal of first rotational sensor mounted the clutch plate to an estimated value which is estimated from a pulse signal of each of second and third rotational sensors for detecting rotational speed of each motor generators if clutch rotational speed as rotational speed corresponding to the clutch plate as an engagement element decreases to less than a criterion value.
US08095246B2
A system for automatically determining a temperature tolerance range of an electronic device directs a temperature regulator to regulate a temperature equaling a previous regulated temperature plus or less a temperature difference. When a determination module determines the electronic device has failed to power on or a test of the electronic device for testing hardware of the electronic device has failed after the electronic device is powered on at a regulated temperature, a limit value of a temperature tolerance range for the electronic device is ascertained. The limit value is equal to the regulated temperature, under which the electronic device has failed to power on or test has failed, less or plus the temperature difference.
US08095241B2
An evacuation system includes at least one fluid intake, at least one fluid outlet, at least one operational component such as an evacuation motor, and a first read/write device such as an RFID tag for transmitting, receiving, or storing information. The evacuation system also includes a filter having a second read/write device for transmitting information to the first read/write device. A microcontroller, which is in functional communication with the first read/write device and the operational component, interprets the information received by said first read/write device and controls the operational component based on said interpreted information.
US08095237B2
A method of three-dimensional object location and guidance to allow robotic manipulation of an object with variable position and orientation using a sensor array which is a collection of one or more sensors capable of forming a single image.
US08095232B2
An example printer driver system and method disclosed herein includes determining a set of line segments corresponding to received image information, determining a first polygon from a first subset of the set of line segments, determining a second polygon from a second subset of the set of line segments, determining that a first line segment in the first subset and a second line segment in the second subset are collinear, removing the first line segment from the set of line segments, subtracting the first line segment from the second line segment to form a third line segment, replacing the second line segment in the set of line segments with the third line segment, determining a path corresponding to the set of line segments, determining a set of coordinates corresponding to the path, and instructing an embroidery machine to stitch the path in a substrate using the set of coordinates.
US08095231B2
A graphical programming system allows a user to place geometric shapes onto a scaled image, the shape having associated behavior that operates on the image or on the object of which the image is formed. In a preferred embodiment, the shapes are objects in the Visio program by Microsoft Corporation. The shapes are dragged from a stencil onto an image provided by ion beam or electron microscope image. The shape invokes software or hardware to locate and measure features on the image or to perform operations, such as ion beam milling, on the object that is imaged.
US08095230B2
A method for increasing overall yield in semiconductor manufacturing including routing wafers or wafer lots based on process variation data obtained from the wafers or wafer lots and on process variation data obtained from tools processing the wafers or wafer lots. A system for increasing overall yield in semiconductor manufacturing includes a module for routing wafers or wafer lots based on process variation data obtained from the wafers or wafer lots and on process variation data obtained from the tools processing the wafers or wafer lots.
US08095216B1
An implantable stimulation system includes a stimulation current generator encased in an implantable housing, one or more stimulation leads to deliver therapeutic stimulation from the generator to target patient tissue, and inductive elements arranged to condition the stimulation for delivery to the target tissue with increased efficiency and reduced pain sensation. The inductive elements are arranged external to the housing and integral with one or more of a stimulation lead or an external component of the housing, such as a header. The inductive elements serve to condition therapeutic stimulations such that varying the output of the generator allows the system to deliver arbitrary effective waveforms to the target tissue.
US08095215B2
Electrode arrangement for an electrical stimulation device, having electrode line (10) with electrical connection at proximal end of electrode line and with plurality of conductive surface areas (14, 16) in region of distal end of electrode line for emitting electrical pulses to a heart or for receiving electrical signals from the heart. Electrically conductive surface areas are at least partly electrically connected with the electrical connection at the proximal end of the electrode line. Uses switch or switching means (100), arranged within the electrical connection or within the electrode line, electrically arranged between at least one connection contact of the electrical connection and at least some of the electrically conductive surface areas (14b, 16), and which has an initially electrically conductive or non-conductive component (52), configured via a permanent configuration process by an electrical switching pulse to make permanently electrically non-conductive or conductive.
US08095208B2
System for effective training heart rate zone determination, the system comprising:—a training module adapted to determine target training heart rate zone based on at least one stored parameter;—at least one sensor for measuring core temperature of a user's body during training;—at least one sensor for measuring a user's heart rate during training;—a compensation module, which is arranged for compensating the target training heart rate zone based on said core temperature;—an indicating module adapted to compare the users heart rate to an effective training heart rate zone based on information from the compensation module and to inform the user when the heart rate exceeds or drops under the effective training heart rate zone. The invention further relates to use of such a system.
US08095206B2
A method and apparatus for adjusting a sensing parameter in a medical device that includes a sensing electrode sensing cardiac signals, a processor to determine an adjusting characteristic associated with the cardiac signals sensed over a predetermined sensing window, and a control unit to update the sensing parameter in response to the determined adjusting characteristic.
US08095194B2
A probe device includes a sheet-like probe holder, a plurality of light-emitting probes and a plurality of detection probes mounted on the probe holder at a predetermined interval, a sheet holding unit holding the probe holder at a predetermined position on the biological surface, and a fixing band mounting the sheet holding unit on the living body. Each of the plurality of light-emitting probes and the detection probes includes a probe body including a light emitting unit or a detection unit, and a probe mounting part detachably mounting the probe body to the probe holder at a predetermined position.
US08095193B2
The present invention relates generally to non-invasive methods and apparatuses for determining analyte properties of a subject and identity characteristics of a subject. Embodiments of the present invention provide analyte property determination and identity determination or verification from the same spectroscopic information, making unauthorized use or misleading results less likely that in systems that include separate analyte and identity determinations. The invention can be used to prevent operation of automobiles or other equipment unless the operator has an acceptable alcohol concentration, and to limit operation of automobiles or other equipment to authorized individuals who are not intoxicated or drug-impaired.
US08095190B2
A method and apparatus for searching for a desired directory entry in phone book data of a mobile communication terminal is disclosed. A terminal phone book directory has one or more data entry fields such as hot-key, name, and phone number. Using the terminal keypad, the user enters a sequence of numbers, and according to the number of digits in the sequence of numbers, the terminal searches for directory entries wherein one or more data fields have a matching numerical sequence. All directory entries having a matching sequence are then displayed for the user to select the desired entry. Wild-card characters may be used in the sequence of numbers.
US08095188B2
A wireless earphone includes an earphone, a microphone, a hanging portion and an adjusting portion fixed with the hanging portion. The answering portion is mounted on the junction area of the hanging portion and the adjusting portion. The microphone is mounted on the other end of the adjusting portion. The wireless earphone is made of flexible, elastic material. The bluetooth has at least one block protruding thereon, to make the wireless earphone be disassembly mounted on a portable electronic device. The invention also includes a portable electronic device using the wireless earphone.
US08095187B1
The communication device which includes a multiple & simultaneous speech-to-text mode implementor which converts a 1st voice data to a 1st text data and a 2nd voice data to a 2nd text data, wherein the conversions are performed simultaneously, and the 1st text data and the 2nd text data are displayed on the display, wherein the 1st text data includes alphanumeric data indicated by the 1st voice and the 2nd text data includes alphanumeric data indicated by the 2nd voice, and a current location identifier which identifies the current geographic location of the communication device.
US08095179B2
A system and method for the implementation of a proxy smart card application in a mobile telephone. The mobile telephone receives a smart card related message from a remote terminal. If the smart card related message is related to a function implemented by electronic device software within the mobile telephone, the electronic device software processes the message. If the smart card related message is not related to a function implemented by the electronic device software, the message is transmitted to the smart card.
US08095176B2
A Bluetooth radio which include a coexistence module. The coexistence module is able to associate the Bluetooth radio with one of a first radio and a second radio by monitoring a desired signal pattern for at least a predetermined time and associating with one of the first radio and the second radio based on a detection of the desired signal pattern.
US08095168B2
A method and apparatus for performing closed loop transmit power control of a fractional dedicated physical channel (F-DPCH) are disclosed. Transmit power control (TPC) symbols on an F-DPCH and common pilot channel (CPICH) symbols are received. A short term signal power estimate is calculated using the TPC symbols, and a short term noise power estimate is calculated using the CPICH symbols. A short term signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) on the F-DPCH is calculated. A long term signal power estimate and a long term noise power estimate are calculated using the TPC symbols. A long term SIR is calculated and compared to a TPC quality target. An SIR target is adjusted based on comparison of the long term SIR to the TPC quality target. The short term SIR is compared to the SIR target and a TPC command is generated based on comparison of the short term SIR to the SIR target.
US08095166B2
Aspects describe controlling a power level for an access terminal in a wireless communication system that utilizes multiple modulation waveforms. The power can be controlled after an Access Grant is received in response to an Access Probe until the mobile device transitions into a steady state. A reference power can be continuously monitored and a setting of a power amplifier can be modified only when the reference power changes. A digital gain of a reverse data channel can be adjusted relative to the reference power level.
US08095161B2
A method for determining a transmission timing is provided. The method includes steps of, at a first point in time, determining a first transmission timing for transmissions from a user entity to a first radio transceiver, and determining a representation of a first position of the user entity in relation to the first radio transceiver and at least a second and a third radio transceiver. The method further includes, at a second point in time, subsequent to the first point in time, determining a representation of a second position of the user entity in relation to the first, second and third radio transceivers, and adjusting the transmission timing based on a difference of the first position and the second position.
US08095158B2
Disclosed is a time setting method and apparatus for use in a mobile communication terminal. The mobile communicates terminal transmits a short message to a short message service center (SMSC). When receiving a short message service (SMS) status report message indicating if a destination side has received the short message, the mobile communication terminal extracts short message reception time information of the SMSC included in the SMS status report message. The mobile communication terminal sets a time of the mobile communication terminal on a basis of the reception time information.
US08095155B2
Accurate position capability can be quickly provided using a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). When associated with a WLAN, a wireless device can quickly determine its relative and/or coordinate position based on information provided by an access point in the WLAN. Before a wireless device disassociates with the access point, the WLAN can periodically provide time, location, and decoded GPS data to the wireless device. In this manner, the wireless device can significantly reduce the time to acquire the necessary GPS satellite data (i.e. on the order of seconds instead of minutes) to determine its coordinate position.
US08095154B1
Optimized delivery of locally applicable Internet content to users. A cache of locally applicable Internet content is maintained in a local content server, based upon a monitoring of locations of users requesting Internet content. Requests for Internet content are received from user equipment through a wireless network base station, and served from the local content server, which is logically proximate to the wireless network base station. The caching of locally applicable Internet content may be maintained on a layered basis. Secure action request receipt and corresponding performance, and item condition alerts are also described.
US08095149B2
Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for administrating GIS data dictionaries. In one embodiment, a mobile electronic device is assigned to a workgroup. The method further comprises selecting a data dictionary comprising at least one desired GIS feature type which was not originally intended for use by the mobile electronic device based upon the assigned membership of the mobile electronic device to the workgroup. The method further comprises sending the data dictionary to the mobile electronic device via a wireless communication network.
US08095148B2
A position information processing method includes: measuring, at a communication apparatus, a signal intensity of a signal transmitted from a plurality of base stations; recording a history of signal intensity information at one or more times in a history storage medium of the communication apparatus; recording, in an information storage medium of the information recording apparatus, a specific time and information matching a position environment of the information recording apparatus at the specific time, respectively correlated to each other; calculating position information of the communication apparatus based on the history of signal intensity information recorded in the history storage medium, and known base station information constituted of the base station identification information and position information of the base stations; and correlating the calculated position information to the information matching the position environment stored in the medium and correlated to the specific time.
US08095143B2
A device obtains a service change associated with a cell in a radio network, and identifies helper cells in the radio network that need new random access channel (RACH) parameters due to the service change. The device also determines a RACH parameters configuration for the helper cells, and configures the helper cells with the determined RACH parameters configuration.
US08095142B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting broadcast information in a multi-carrier communication system. The Sync Channel of the multi-carrier system is transmitted a 1.25 MHz channel bandwidth (i.e., over a single carrier), and to specify the preferred channels for the Sync Channel transmission instead of the preferred channels for the entire multi-carrier system. The Sync Channel Message will carry additional information indicating the center frequency of a multi-carrier system within a reserved set of frequency bands and indicating the frequency of a single carrier system in the reserved set of frequency bands. Considering the A block of the PCS band again, the preferred channels for Sync Channel transmission can be selected as channels 75, 150 and 225. This selection ensures that one of the preferred channels will always be used by any multi-carrier system regardless of the location of its center channel.
US08095139B2
A method and apparatus for assigning cell and resource blocks to a wireless transmit/receive units (WTRU) in a wireless communication system including a resource management unit and a plurality of cells having resource blocks are disclosed. The WTRU is currently associated with a particular one of the cells. Path losses between the WTRU and cells neighboring the particular cell are determined. The average level of inter-cell interference on each resource block at each cell neighboring the particular cell is then determined. A signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) is then determined to support a guaranteed bit rate of the WTRU on an uplink.
US08095135B2
Call handoff from an 802.1x network to a cellular network, and vice versa. A wireless device that has both cellular and 802.1x capability detects the strength of a cellular signal and of an 802.1x signal. If a call is taking place over the 802.1x network and the strength of the 802.1x signal drops below a particular level and the strength of the cellular signal is above a certain level, the call is handed off from the 802.1x network to the cellular network. If a call is taking place over the cellular network and the cellular signal strength drops below a certain level while the 802.1x signal strength is above a certain level, the call is handed off from the cellular network to the 802.1x network. In addition, the user of the wireless device can manually initiate the handoff by actuating a handoff selector of the wireless device.
US08095132B2
A data processing device including a microcontroller and configured to communicate with at least one remote system distributed on a network. The data processing device and the remote system are adapted to store a plurality of parameters identifying a user account belonging to a subscriber. The data processing device comprises a one-time parameter comprising the active account attached to the device designed for a one-time use, and a permanent parameter identifying an account attached to the data processing device, the permanent parameter being deactivated. The one-time and permanent parameter are stored in the at least one remote system, and the microcontroller is programmed to: use the one-time parameter to logon to the network when the data processing device is switched on; and exchanges the one-time parameter with the permanent parameter, upon successful logon to the network, the permanent parameter becoming the permanent active account. The first device and the at least one remote system store a parameter identifying a current active account attached to a second data processing device to replace, and upon successful logon to the network, a program automatically stored in the first device sends an activation request for exchanging the plurality of parameters from the old for the new one in the at least one remote system, with the current active account being deactivated.
US08095123B2
A wireless communication system includes a first device having a communications control circuit configured to initiate transmission of a wireless communication signal, and a second device including a communication interface circuit and a number of other circuits. The communication interface circuit may be responsive to the wireless communication signal to provide information carried by the wireless communication signal to at least one of the other circuits. Alternatively or additionally, the communication interface circuit may be responsive to the wireless communication signal to receive information specified by the wireless communication signal from at least one of the other circuits and to transmit another wireless communication signal carrying the retrieved information back to the first device. In either case, the communication interface circuit is unresponsive to control thereof by any of the number of other circuits. The communications control circuit controls all wireless communication between the first and second devices.
US08095113B2
A financial transaction card is provided according to various embodiments described herein. The financial transaction card includes a card body with at least a front surface and a back surface. The financial transaction card may also include a near field communications transponder and/or a magnetic stripe, as well as a digital display configured to display alphanumeric characters on the front surface of the card body. The financial transaction card may also include a processor that is communicatively coupled with the near field communications transponder or magnetic stripe and the digital display. The processor may be configured to calculate one-time passwords and communicate the one-time passwords to both the near filed communications transponder or magnetic stripe and the digital display.
US08095109B2
The application relates to charging of traffic from terminals and in particular of charging of traffic from GPRS mobile terminals which are roaming in a visited PLMN (not claimed). According to the applicant's acknowledged prior art, either the traffic passes the home PLMN or the Home Operator relies on the Visited Operator to generate the CDRs to be used by the Home Operator for billing. Whereas the first solution leads to tromboning and inefficient traffic routing, the second solution calls for a strong trust relationship between the Home and the Visited Operators. The present invention circumvents both problems in that the terminal generates a traffic counting information and sends it to the Visited Network. The Visited Network generates a traffic counting record comprising the traffic counting information from the terminal and traffic counting information from the Visited Network. The traffic counting record is subsequently sent to the Home Network.
US08095107B2
A voice radio communication system prioritizes radio voice communications so that higher priority voice transmission is given precedence. The communication system comprises a transmitter that inserts a digital watermark into a voice communication. Software in a receiver decodes the digital watermark to determine a priority requested by the sender, and other information about the sender and the message. The software determines the message priority based on multiple factors. Voice transmissions are digitally recorded and played in order of priority. Options exist for the user to control the playback.
US08095099B2
The present invention provides architectures and methods which use multiple radio receive chains in mobile devices to boost performance of the mobile devices. While a first set of the receive chains are assigned to a serving base station, another set of receive chains are dynamically allocated to neighbor base stations and/or to the serving base station depending upon present or expected system conditions and timing. A first synthesizer is configured to provide signals to the first and second set of receive chains. Other synthesizers are also configured to provide signals to the second set of receive chains. Thus, depending on the mode of operation, the second set of receive chains utilizes signals from a given synthesizer as needed. A priori data may be used to allocate specific receive chains to the serving base station, neighboring base stations or both. Unused synthesizers may be turned off to conserve power.
US08095095B2
A band-switch control apparatus for an intermediate-frequency filter comprising: an adjacent interference-signal detecting unit for detecting an adjacent interference-signal, having a frequency adjacent to the desired frequency, superimposed on a reception signal having a frequency tuned to a desired frequency; a modulation-degree detecting unit for detecting a modulation degree of the reception signal; a bandwidth selecting unit for selecting a pass bandwidth of the intermediate-frequency filter corresponding to the amplitude of the adjacent interference-signal; and a band-narrowing suppression control unit for selecting a lower limit value of the pass bandwidth of the intermediate-frequency filter corresponding to the demodulation degree, the intermediate-frequency filter for passing, with a variable pass bandwidth, an intermediate-frequency signal obtained by frequency converting the reception signal, and changing the pass bandwidth selected by the bandwidth selecting unit to the lower limit value, if the pass bandwidth selected by the bandwidth selecting unit is smaller than the value.
US08095094B2
A communication semiconductor integrated circuit includes a phase control loop and an amplitude control loop. A gain of a variable gain amplifier when it is detected from an output of the comparator that the amplitudes of the reference signal and the feedback signal are equal to each other while a predetermined DC voltage is applied to an amplifier which amplifies an output of a transmission oscillation circuit and is controlled by the amplitude control loop to vary the gain of the variable gain amplifier on a feedback path is held in a register. Thereafter, the DC voltage is changed to another value to detect the gain of the variable gain amplifier, so that the gain of a variable gain amplifier on the forward path is decided on the basis of the detected gain and the gain held in the register.
US08095090B2
A power amplifier controller circuit controls a power amplifier based upon an amplitude correction signal indicating the amplitude difference between the amplitude of the input signal and an attenuated amplitude of the output signal. The power amplifier controller circuit comprises an amplitude control loop and a phase control loop. The amplitude control loop adjusts the supply voltage to the power amplifier based upon the amplitude correction signal. The phase control loop adjusts the phase of the input signal based upon a phase error signal indicating a phase difference between phases of the input signal and the output signal to reduce phase distortion generated by the power amplifier. The amplitude control loop and the phase control loop may also adjust the gain and/or phase of the power amplifier, respectively.
US08095088B2
A radio frequency transmitter comprising a modem which receives one or more input data signals and an adaptive predistortion signal and provides a baseband in-phase signal and a baseband quadrature signal. The transmitter may comprise a power amplifier module which receives the in-phase and quadrature phase signals and provides a radio frequency output signal. A predistortion module receives the radio frequency signal, downconverts the radio frequency signal to an intermediate frequency signal, and downconverts the intermediate frequency signal to a baseband feedback signal. The transmitter samples the feedback signal and provides an adaptive predistortion signal to the modem.
US08095074B2
A controller controls the direction of a beam to be transmitted toward a correspondent wireless communication device to transmit a first wireless signal to the correspondent wireless communication device, and controls the direction of the beam within a predetermined shift from the direction of the first wireless signal, thereby transmitting a second wireless signal at a first timing before or a second timing after the timing of the control for the first wireless signal.
US08095071B2
The present invention relates to a method for pairing wireless communication devices through a simple process by selecting a wireless communication device desired by a user by receiving beacons of the wireless communication devices connected to IEEE 802.15.4 wireless communication network and setting pairing with a wireless communication device corresponding to a beacon with the greatest LQI (Link Quality Index) among the received beacons by a pairing request device needing pairing, and an apparatus for the same. In accordance with the present invention, the method for pairing the wireless communication devices connected to the IEEE 802.15.4 communication network in order to transceive wireless data including: a) an initial setting step of trying pairing to have access to one of the wireless communication devices by the pairing request device; b) a search step of performing active scan to search the wireless data received in the pairing request device; c) an inquiry step of requesting the beacons to the wireless communication devices and receiving the beacons from the wireless communication devices; and d) a pairing step of selecting one of the beacons received in the pairing request device in order to request the wireless data to the corresponding wireless communication device.
US08095069B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for communicating in a millimeter wave (MMWAVE) wireless personal area network (WPAN) system using a reliable low-rate omni-directional communications mode implemented as TX-RX space scanning using directional antennas; and using a high-rate directional communications mode with beamformed directional antennas.
US08095067B2
A frequency translating repeater (120) for use in a time division duplex (TDD) radio protocol communications system includes local oscillator (LO) circuits (210, 310, and 410) to facilitate repeating by providing isolation, reduced phase noise, reduced pulling, and the like. Tunable LOs (441, 442) can be directly coupled to down-converters (413, 414) and up-converters (426, 427) for increased isolation, reduced phase noise, less stringent frequency accuracy, and a reduced potential for pulling.
US08095052B2
A developer supply device, comprising a casing having: a developer reservoir at a bottom part of the casing; a developer amount adjustment chamber provided close to a side of the developer reservoir to communicate with a top portion of the developer reservoir; and a communication part through which the top portion of the developer reservoir and the developer amount adjustment chamber communicate with each other, and further comprising: a carrying substrate having electrodes arranged along a developer transport path to carry a developer through a traveling electric field, each of the electrodes having a longer side extending in a width direction of the developer reservoir, and a developer providing unit to provide the developer into the developer reservoir, and wherein the carrying substrate comprises an upper carrying substrate on an inner wall of the casing on an opposite side of the communication part to carry the developer upward.
US08095040B2
In an embodiment of the present invention, an image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt that primarily transfers a toner image formed on a photosensitive drum; a secondary transfer unit including a transfer mechanism portion that secondarily transfers the primarily transferred toner image to a paper; an optical sensor that detects a reference toner image on the transfer belt; and a shutter that protects a detection face of the optical sensor, wherein a separation/contact mechanism portion disposed so as to be brought into contact with both of the shutter and the secondary transfer unit is provided, and the separation/contact mechanism portion allows the shutter to move so as to open and allows the secondary transfer unit to move so as to separate from the transfer belt when the reference toner image is detected by the optical sensor, and allows the shutter to move so as to separate from the transfer belt when the secondary transfer unit is drawn out from an apparatus main body.
US08095038B2
An imaging cartridge includes an image carrier, a developing device, a cleaning device, a waste toner box, a communication section and transporter means. A communication section formed by positioning a first joint section of the cleaning device and a second joint section of the waste toner box in overlapping positions. Opposed faces of the first joint section and the second joint section are formed such that the first extended regions are gradually extended toward the image carrier and the second extended regions are gradually extended toward the opposed side of the image carrier.
US08095028B2
A driving motor for a color black is shared between a photosensitive body for the color black and a driving roller that drives an intermediate transfer belt not shown. Furthermore, a driving motor for colors yellow, magenta, and cyan is shared between photosensitive bodies for the colors yellow, magenta, and cyan. Driving of the driving motor for the colors yellow, magenta, and cyan is controlled based on a first waveform as a speed fluctuation waveform of the photosensitive body for the color black obtained when the driving motor for the color black is driven at a predetermined speed and second waveforms as speed fluctuation waveforms of the photosensitive bodies for the colors yellow, magenta, and cyan obtained when the driving motor for the colors yellow, magenta, and cyan is driven at a predetermined speed.
US08095026B2
A developing device and image forming apparatus are provided, wherein high quality images, in which generation of development hysteresis (ghost image) is alleviated, are obtained over a long period using a hybrid development method including a toner-supplying developer supporting member and a toner-collecting developer supporting member. Bias voltage is applied in the direction in which the toner is supplied to the toner supporting member in the toner supply region and the toner collection region of the toner-supplying developer supporting member and the toner-collecting developer supporting member respectively so that the toner collecting capability in the toner collection region is higher than the toner collecting capability in the toner supply region.
US08095024B2
An image forming device that transfers a plurality of toner images of different colors in layers, onto an intermediate transfer member by controlling a timing of forming each of the plurality of toner images, based on a reference position on a surface of the intermediate transfer member, the image forming device comprising: an uneven part detecting unit operable to detect at least one uneven part that is any of a depression and a projection, on the surface of the intermediate transfer member; and a reference uneven part setting unit operable to set a reference uneven part that defines the reference position, from among the at least one uneven part detected by the uneven part detecting unit.
US08095023B2
An image forming apparatus having a heating roller and a pressing roller includes a temperature sensing unit provided to be broken when the heating roller is overheated and a pressure releasing control unit provided to release the pressing roller from the heating roller when the temperature sensing unit is broken, when a microcomputer erroneously operates due to a damage of an A/D port of the microcomputer, such that the pressing roller is forcibly released from the heating roller by the pressure releasing control unit, thereby preventing the heating roller and the pressing roller from being fused to each other.
US08095022B2
A forming-dot counting section counts a number of dots of a subject color based on dot pattern data of the subject color. An overlapping-dot counting section compares the dot pattern data of the subject color and the dot pattern data of at least one other color of which dots are formed prior to the subject color, and counts a number of overlapping dots of the subject color that are formed in an overlapping relation with the dots of the at least one other color. A calculating section calculates the amount of adhering toner of the subject color by subtracting an estimated amount of non-adhering toner from an estimated amount of adhering toner. The estimated amount of adhering toner is estimated based on the number of dots of the subject color. The estimated amount of non-adhering toner is estimated based on the number of overlapping dots.
US08095020B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a wavelength-to-transmission quality characteristic obtaining unit for obtaining a wavelength-to-transmission quality characteristic; a residual dispersion-to-transmission quality characteristic saving unit for saving a residual dispersion-to-transmission quality characteristic; a wavelength-to-residual dispersion characteristic generating unit for generating a wavelength-to-residual dispersion characteristic from a relationship between the wavelengths of the other channels and the residual dispersion based on the wavelength-to-transmission quality characteristic and the residual dispersion-to-transmission quality characteristic; a variable dispersion compensator for providing variable dispersion compensation to another channel,; and a variable dispersion compensation controlling unit for performing setting control on a dispersion compensation amount.
US08095018B2
In a quaternary phase modulator including two phase modulators disposed in parallel and a phase adjuster that adjusts a phase difference when the outputs of the two phase modulators are combined, there are provided a second light source that introduces light propagated in a backward direction, a first controller that controls the bias of the two phase modulators so that the intensity of the backward light is a minimum on the input side of the quaternary phase modulator, and a second controller that controls the bias of the phase adjuster so that a result monitored by a photodiode having a bandwidth not exceeding the bit rate on the output side of the quaternary phase modulator is a minimum, the first controller being implemented after the second controller is implemented.
US08095008B2
The present invention provides systems and methods to convert a reconfigurable optical node multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system to a single-input single-output (SISO) system suitable for a proportional-integral-differential (PID) control process. Advantageously, the present invention allows PID control to apply to a MIMO optical node by modeling the node as two SISO systems. The present invention optimizes the division of gain and loss between components in the reconfigurable optical node. This provides means to control the net gain and loss of a series of components when the component chain being controlled includes those components that have a single action affecting multiple channels and components that affect only one channel. The present invention utilizes control of a single quantity of amplifier gain minus attenuation for each channel, and the coupling together of all channels in the amplifier which makes the channels inter-dependent.
US08095003B2
Systems are provided for gathering location data pertaining to a fiber optic network. One system includes a sensor, a geolocation system, a processor in communication with the sensor and the geolocation system, and a user control panel. The sensor is configured to receive an operational input indicating the condition of a network, and the geolocation system is configured to determine the location, such as a latitude and longitude, of the optical fiber. The processor is configured to associate outputs from the sensor and the geolocation system. The processor may be configured to store the outputs on a storage media. A transmitter may also be provided to transmit the data to a remote location for analysis and display. An associated method for gathering location data is also provided.
US08094999B2
An imaging apparatus comprising: a light receiving element having a micro lens array provided with a plurality of micro lenses 111a arranged two-dimensionally, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements 112a provided for the plurality of micro lenses, and outputting a light receiving signal obtained by receiving a light beam from an optical system via the micro lens array; a detector 152 that detects a shift amount of image plane by the optical system for a plurality of focus detecting positions set at a plurality of positions in the image plane by the optical system; and a controller 160 that determines a focus adjusting range for the optical system based on the shift amount detected for each of the plurality of focus detecting positions, and obtains the light receiving signal at each of different positions within the focus adjusting range with the light receiving element.
US08094995B2
The present invention is equipped with a plurality of low-cost middle-capacity hard disks that are combined together to realize a large capacity at the same level as a large-capacity hard disk, and performs power-saving management to minimize the power consumption by the hard disks. At the same time, the present invention eliminates delays for accessing the separate hard disks. For this purpose, the present invention puts any of a plurality of drive devices other than a current access-target drive into a power-saving state, and puts the next access-target drive into a stand-by state from the power-saving state during the access to the current access-target drive, by calculating a remaining time until completion of the access to the current access-target drive.
US08094994B2
Provided is an information recording medium which achieves high speed conversion of a signal input from external from MPEG-TS to MPEG-PS complying with DVD standard. An apparatus and a method for recording information to the information recording medium are also provided. A constrained format which enables conversion from a first stream (for example, MPEG transport stream) to a second stream (for example, MPEG program stream) is provided. The constrained format defines that a first packet (for example, TS packet) is grouped and managed in multiplexing unit. The first one (AF#8) of complete audio frames in the multiplexing unit (402) is the first one of audio frames in a payload of a second packet (for example, PES packet) (413).
US08094990B2
An information processing apparatus includes a timing specifying unit that allows a user to specify a timing to execute video printing of a video file at least including first image data based on which a video frame is generated and second image data based on which a video frame is generated by additionally referring to image data of another video frame; a reference frame selecting unit that selects, on the basis of the timing specified by the timing specifying unit, the video frame generated from the first image data as a reference frame; an additional frame selecting unit that selects, on the basis of the reference frame selected by the reference frame selecting unit, one or a plurality of video frames generated from the first image data as additional frames; and an extracted image displaying unit that generates a plurality of extracted images on the basis of the first image data of the reference frame and the first image data of the additional frames and displays a group of the generated extracted images on a screen.
US08094988B2
Apparatus and methods for verifying an acceptable splice termination include propagating light energy into the stub optical fiber of a fiber optic connector, detecting and collecting the amount of optical power emanating from the stub optical fiber at a termination area of the connector, converting the optical power to an electrical signal proportional to the amount of collected optical power, and displaying the electrical signal on a feedback monitor, such as an optical power meter, an LCD bar graph, or an LED. An initial (i.e., reference) value is obtained with the field optical fiber not in physical contact with the stub optical fiber. A final (i.e., terminated) value is obtained with the field optical fiber in physical contact with the stub optical fiber and terminated to the connector. The final value is compared to the initial value to determine whether the change (i.e., difference) is sufficient. Alternatively, the final value is compared to a predetermined limit or threshold.
US08094986B2
A double clad fiber includes a core, a first cladding provided so as to cover the core, and a second cladding provided so as to cover the first cladding. The second cladding has a plurality of pores extending in a length direction and arranged so as to surround the first cladding. In at least one fiber end, the second cladding has been removed by mechanical processing so that the at least one fiber end is formed by the core and the first cladding.
US08094982B2
A fiber lens assembly is configured to optically couple an optical fiber to a signal processing device having free-space optical elements. The fiber lens assembly includes a diverging lens having a focal length that may be around 2 to 6 times the diameter of the optical fiber core. Sensitivity of the fiber lens assembly to angular misalignment and positional displacement is reduced by coupling the optical fiber to the signal processing device using a diverging lens rather than a collimating lens, and by configuring the diverging lens with a suitable focal length.
US08094981B2
A system of digitally controlling light output by producing separate control signals for different colors of light. The light is contained in an optical waveguide, either prior to shaping or after shaping. Each of the control signals is coupled to a digitally controlled device which controls the shape of the light output. The digital controlling device can be digital mirror devices, for example.
US08094976B2
Systems and methods of reconciling data from an imaged document. In one embodiment, a business document is scanned to create a business document image. A set of extracted data is extracted from the business document image via optical character recognition (OCR). The set of OCR extracted data is then compared with data in business information management or enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. A set of ERP data is retrieved from the ERP system that relates to the set of OCR extracted data. The retrieved ERP data is than assigned to the set of OCR extracted data to create a set of assigned data. The business document image is then displayed in a business document image pane, the set of OCR extracted data is displayed in the OCR data pane, and the retrieved ERP data is displayed in the ERP data pane. The set of assigned data is validated, and the ERP system is updated with the set of validated, assigned data. In other embodiments, data is extracted from text files without using OCR.
US08094975B2
Provided is an information processing system which has a plurality of tags, a tag reader, a digital-pen, and a server. The plurality of tags each hold a tag identifier. The tag reader reads the tag identifier held in each of the plurality of tags. The digital-pen reads location information, which identifies a location where handwriting is made on paper. The server keeps work record including information that associates the tag identifier recorded in the server in advance with the location on paper. When it is judged that the read tag identifier and a handwriting location identified by the location information are associated with each other, the server judges whether or not the read tag identifier matches the tag identifier recorded in advance that is associated by the work record with the handwriting location identified by the location information. The server outputs a result of the judging.
US08094974B2
A relevance ratio adding unit (107) provides each landmark with a weight value according to the degree of relevancy with a shot still picture, using: the distance between each landmark and the shooting location, received from the landmark distance calculating unit (105); and a distance HL between the shooting location and the photographer's residential address, received from the parameter obtaining unit 106. A landmark identifying unit (108): designates one or several landmarks to be added to the still picture out of the landmarks with a weight value provided by the relevance ratio adding unit 107; and writes the designated landmark in a predetermined position of the picture data of the still pictures.
US08094972B2
Separations or images relating to film or other fields may be registered using a variety of features, such as, for example: (1) correcting one or more film distortions; (2) automatically determining a transformation to reduce a film distortion; (3) applying multiple criteria of merit to a set of features to determine a set of features to use in determining a transformation; (4) determining transformations for areas in an image or a separation in a radial order; (5) comparing areas in images or separations by weighting feature pixels differently than non-feature pixels; (6) determining distortion values for transformations by applying a partial distortion measure and/or using a spiral search configuration; (7) determining transformations by using different sets of features to determine corresponding transformation parameters in an iterative manner; and (8) applying a feathering technique to neighboring areas within an image or separation.
US08094971B2
A method of automatically determining orientation of a digital image comprises extracting features of the digital image and processing the extracted features using diverse classifiers to determine orientation of the digital image based on the combined output of the diverse classifiers.
US08094943B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a module for identifying a background of a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a video-analysis system. For each pixel or block of pixels in an acquired video frame a comparison measure is determined. The comparison measure depends on difference of color values exhibited in the acquired video frame and in a background image respectively by the pixel or block of pixels and a corresponding pixel and block of pixels in the background image. To determine the comparison measure, the resulting difference is considered in relation to a range of possible color values. If the comparison measure is above a dynamically adjusted threshold, the pixel or the block of pixels is classified as a part of the background of the scene.
US08094934B2
An object detection system is provided a plurality of image capture units for capturing images of surroundings of the system, a distance information calculation unit for dividing a captured image which constitutes a reference of captured images captured by the plurality of image capture units into a plurality of pixel blocks, individually retrieving corresponding pixel positions within the other captured image for the pixel blocks, and individually calculating distance information, and a histogram generation module for dividing a range image representing the individual distance information of the pixel blocks calculated by the distance information calculation unit into a plurality of segments having predetermined sizes, providing histograms relating to the distance information for the respective divided segments, and casting the distance information of the pixel blocks to the histograms of the respective segments.
US08094918B2
A system for determining a plurality of reflectance values for an item design representing a physical item having at least one area of interest on a surface of the physical item for containing critical data and a background feature positioned on the surface, the physical item suitable for positioning in a digital image recorder, the system comprising: an input module configured for receiving one or more material reflectance values of a substrate for providing said surface and design parameters for said background feature, the design parameters including a color and a color density of said background feature; a memory configured for storing a plurality of color reflectance values assigned to a corresponding plurality of selected combinations of specified design parameters; a look-up module configured for determining from the memory one or more color reflectance values having the specified design parameters matching the design parameters for said background feature; a combination module configured for combining the one or more material reflectance values with the corresponding one or more color reflectance values to produce resultant one or more design reflectance values representative of the reflectance of physical item when having the background feature positioned on said surface of the substrate; wherein the one or more design reflectance values of the item design are for use in determining whether the design parameters would produce the physical item having an acceptable digital image when processed by the digital image recorder.
US08094914B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a microscope system and an image processing method which are practical and capable of imaging a specimen efficiently in a short period of time and also ensuring reduction of the data amount of a generated image. Accordingly, the microscope system includes a storage section 24, 27 which stores identification information of a specimen 10A, a macro image and a micro image in a correlated manner, a stage member 11 on which the specimen as an observation target is mounted, an acquiring section 39B, 40 which acquires identification information of the specimen, a first display section 16, 22, 40, 47, 24 which displays a macro image of the specimen by reading a macro image correlated with the identification information from the storage section (or by imaging the specimen), a second display section 12 to 22, 47, 40, 24 which displays a micro image of the specimen by imaging the specimen, and an additional storing section 40 which additionally stores in the storage section in accordance with instruction from outside a micro image displayed on the second display section in a correlated manner with the macro image displayed on the first display section and the identification information acquired by the acquiring section.
US08094913B2
An image processing device by which a user can operate a window level value without being conscious of a photometric interpretation of an image is provided. In the image processing device, the operation direction for increasing or decreasing the window level value is reversed according to the photometric interpretation of the input image, according to whether the window level operation direction is the right-and-left direction or the up-and-down direction, and according to whether or not to execute the grayscale inversion.
US08094906B2
A method of automatically identifying bone components in a medical image data set of voxels, the method comprising: a) applying a first set of one or more tests to accept voxels as belonging to seeds, wherein none of the tests examine an extent to which the image density has a local maximum at or near a voxel and falls steeply going away from the local maximum in both directions along an axis; b) applying a second set of one or more tests to accept seeds as bone seeds, at least one of the tests requiring at least one voxel belonging to the seed to have a local maximum in image density at or near said voxel, with the image density falling sufficiently steeply in both directions along at least one axis; and c) expanding the bone seeds into bone components by progressively identifying candidate bone voxels, adjacent to the bone seeds or to other previously identified bone voxels, as bone voxels, responsive to predetermined criteria which distinguish bone voxels from voxels of other body tissue.
US08094905B2
The present invention relates to a system for providing information to a user, said system comprising a screen for showing the information to the user, information generating means for generating at least one graphical and/or textual information, first selecting means for enabling the user to select at least one of said graphical and/or textual information, first generating means for generating first data which are related to said selected information, wherein said first data are grouped according to a criterion, changing means for changing said criterion to at least one further criterion, and triggering means which are adapted to trigger said changing means upon activation by the user of the system.
US08094903B2
A method and system for extracting coronary vessels fluoroscopic image sequences using coronary digital subtraction angiography (DSA) are disclosed. A set of mask images of a coronary region is received, and a sequence of contrast images for the coronary region is received. For each contrast image, vessel regions are detected in the contrast image using learning-based vessel segment detection and a background region of the contrast image is determined based on the detected vessel regions. Background motion is estimated between one of the mask images and the background region of the contrast image, and the mask image is warped based on the estimated background motion to generate an estimated background layer. The estimated background layer is subtracted from the contrast image to extract a coronary vessel layer for the contrast image.
US08094900B2
In accordance with the present invention there is provided methods for generating an isotropic or near-isotropic three-dimensional images from two-dimensional images. In accordance with the present invention the method includes, obtaining a first image of a body part in a first plane, wherein the first image generates a first image data volume; obtaining a second image of the body part in a second plane, wherein the second image generates a second image data volume; and combining the first and second image data volumes to form a resultant image data volume, wherein the resultant image data volume is isotropic or near-isotropic.
US08094899B2
A medical diagnostic imaging apparatus is provided that is capable of accurately tracking motions of a moving organ that moves periodically over a plurality of periods. The medical diagnostic imaging apparatus includes a matching computation unit for performing a matching computation between a template extracted containing a tracking point on one image and another image, and a template extracting unit for extracting, from the other image, a region correlated with the template as a template of the other image by the matching computation, whereby a movement of the tracking point is tracked based on the extracted template. The template extracting unit extracts, as a key template, a region containing one or more tracking points set on an image at least one time phase within a motion cycle of the moving organ. The matching computation unit performs the matching computation using the key template in the vicinity of the time phase at which the key template is extracted.
US08094895B2
A method for selecting vertices for performing deformable registration of imaged objects is provided. The selected vertices form corresponding pairs, each pair including a vertex from a first imaged object and a vertex from a second imaged object. The corresponding vertex pairs are sorted in order of distance between the vertices making up the corresponding vertex pair. The corresponding vertex pair with the greatest distance is given top priority. Corresponding vertex pairs that lie within a selected distance from the selected corresponding vertex pair are discarded. In this manner, the number of vertex pairs used for deformable registration of the imaged objects is reduced and therefore allows for processing times that are clinically acceptable.
US08094889B2
Procedure for verifying the integrity of documents which comprises a characterization of the original document to obtain a hash (508) and a stage of integrity verification, this stage comprising in turn, representing (601) the digital document to be verified in a matrix format; adapting (602) said document to a determined resolution in the characterization and correcting (603) the inclination, obtaining a corrected image (604); obtaining (605), the displacement produced between the contents in the original document and the document to be verified; obtaining (610) optimal displacement coordinates for each one of the regions of the corrected image; obtaining (611) one metric from the quantified coefficients of the corrected image and the corresponding ones in the original document; deciding (612) on the integrity of each region of the digitalized document using the previous metrics; and finally deciding (613) on the integrity of the document based on the results of the previous step.
US08094888B2
An image processor, includes: an image pickup part configured to pick up a pickup image of a certain area; an irradiator configured to irradiate at least a part of the certain area for the pickup image picked up by the image pickup part; an extractor configured to extract, as an irradiation image, a light irradiated from the irradiator, the irradiation image being extracted from the pickup image picked up by the image pickup part; an image generating part configured to generate an irradiation removed image which is obtained by removing the irradiation image from the pickup image; an object recognizer configured to recognize an object in the certain area, based on the irradiation removed image generated by the image generating part; and a distance sensor configured to sense a distance to the object sensed by the object recognizer.
US08094881B2
An action recognition apparatus includes an input unit for inputting image data, a moving-object detection unit for detecting a moving object from the image data, a moving-object identification unit for identifying the detected moving object based on the image data, a state detection unit for detecting a state or an action of the moving object from the image data, and a learning unit for learning the detected state or action by associating the detected state or action with meaning information specific to the identified moving object.
US08094876B2
A process for distributing a video stream to a multitude of destinations including marking by adding to the video stream at least a visual element such that the marking is applied to an original video stream common to selected recipients, and personalized for a least portion of the recipients by addition of a visual element specific to destination equipment.
US08094875B1
A home entertainment device eliminates the need to use multiple remotes. The device is connected (by wired and/or wireless links) to electronic consumer devices (ECDs) to be controlled. A user uses a portable display device to view pages served by the device, and thereby to communicate with the device and indirectly control the ECDs. In a first aspect, a HDMI-CEC communication is used to identify a codeset from a codeset database. In a second aspect, the codeset of a remote is identified by serving pictures of remotes to the user. The user selects a picture and the system looks up its codeset. In a third aspect, keys on an illustration of a remote are dragged and dropped to create a new custom remote. In a fourth aspect, the user supplies a digital photograph of a remote. The system performs optical recognition and identifies the type of remote and its codeset.
US08094873B2
Mobile video-based therapy, using a portable therapy device that includes a camera, a therapy application database, a processor, and a display. The camera is configured to generate images of a user, and the therapy application database is configured to store therapy applications. The processor is configured to select, from the therapy application database, a therapy application appropriate for assisting in physical or cognitive rehabilitation or therapy of the user, to invoke the therapy application, to recognize a gesture of the user from the generated images, and to control the invoked therapy application based on the recognized gesture. The display is configured to display an output of the controlled therapy application.
US08094869B2
This disclosure describes methods for using embedded auxiliary signals in documents for copy detection. In one implementation we embed an auxiliary signal with a first color that is out of gamut with process color inks or with a particular range of printers. A process color approximation of the first color yields a relatively different contrast when, e.g., viewed with an interference filter. A copy is determined based on the relative presence or absence of the auxiliary signal. In another implementation, we provide a first auxiliary signal with a first color and a second auxiliary signal with a second color. A filter is matched according to the spectral response of the first color. The second color preferably includes a spectral response that is inversely related to the matched filter. The first signal is then detectable in a process color copy, but less so in the original. However, the second signal is detectable in the original, but less so in the copy. In still other implementations we compare relative contrast of a signal to determine an original from a copy.
US08094864B2
A diaphragm unit is arranged to be used in a loudspeaker including a frame. The diaphragm includes a diaphragm and an edge joined to an outer periphery of the diaphragm. The diaphragm extends in a longitudinal direction and has a first center line extends along the longitudinal direction. The edge has an outer periphery being arranged to join to the frame, and an inner periphery joined to the outer periphery of the diaphragm. The edge has a convex surface having substantially a semi-circular cross section. The convex surface of the edge has grooves provided therein. The grooves extend from the inner periphery of the edge to the outer periphery of the edge. The grooves have cross sections each having a U-shape or a V-shape, and are arranged symmetrically about the first center line of the diaphragm. This diaphragm unit provides an elongated loudspeaker reproducing bass sounds with small distortions.
US08094858B2
What is provided is an eyewear retention device comprising two ends, wherein each end is adapted for removable connection to an earpiece of an eyewear device; an audio device located at or substantially near at least one of the ends, wherein the audio device is adapted to play one or more audio signals for transmission to one or more surfaces of a human auditory passage at a location proximate to and outside of the ear, if the strap is connected to the earpiece of the eyewear device and worn in combination with the eyewear device; a receiver electrically connected to the audio device, wherein the receiver is adapted to receive the one or more audio signals, wherein the receiver is further adapted to remotely communicate with a sound transmission device; and a power source electrically connected to the audio device and to the receiver that is adapted to supply power to the audio device and the receiver. In one embodiment the audio device is adapted to connect the strap to the earpiece of the eyewear.
US08094854B2
A loudspeaker comprises a horn waveguide having a waveguide surface, and a transducer located in, or adjacent to, a throat of the horn waveguide. The transducer has a substantially rigid convex dome-shaped acoustically radiating surface. A horn angle subtended between a longitudinal axis of the horn waveguide and the waveguide surface at the throat of the horn, is in the range 20 to 60 degrees. An intersection angle subtended between a plane tangential to the dome shape of the acoustically radiating surface and a plane tangential to the waveguide surface at a point where the dome shape or an extrapolation of the dome shape meets the waveguide surface or an extrapolation of the waveguide surface, is in the range 85 to 110 degrees.
US08094853B2
A speaker system includes a cabinet, a front baffle, a speaker unit, a rear baffle, and a fitting member fitted in the rear baffle. The front baffle includes a front duct segment extending backward from the rear thereof. The rear baffle includes an opening portion, a duct connecting portion, and a receiving portion having a semicircular cross section. The receiving portion extends from the opening portion to the duct connecting portion while protruding backward. The opening portion, the receiving portion, and the duct connecting portion have a groove. The receiving portion has an engagement hole. The fitting member having a semicircular cross section is formed by double molding. The frame of the member is made of relatively rigid resin and the rim thereof is made of relatively flexible resin. The frame has an engagement projection. The receiving portion and the fitting member constitute a sealed rear duct segment.
US08094852B2
A headset for using an electronic device worn on a head, includes an ear clip formed to have a shape conforming to and wearable on a root of auricle. The ear clip includes a core that can plastically be deformed according to a difference between shapes of the root of auricle and a protecting material that covers the core.
US08094845B2
The invention concerns a mobile terminal with at least two transducers (LSm, LSs1, LSS2) used simultaneously as loudspeakers for stereophonic effect. According to the invention, one of said transducers is a main transducer (LSm) with a main working frequency band (Bm) corresponding to at least the phone frequency band, while the other transducer is a secondary transducer (LSs1; LSs2) with a secondary working frequency band (Bs1; Bs2) band different from said main frequency band, the lowest frequencies of said secondary working frequency band (Bs1; Bs2) being greater than the lowest frequencies of said main working frequency band.
US08094841B2
The illustrated embodiment of the invention includes a capacitive detection method in a MEMS resonator comprising the steps of: vibrating a resonator with a drive signal; sensing vibration of the resonator by detecting a plurality of sidebands of an electromechanical amplitude modulation signal in a capacitive detector; and extracting amplitude of motion from a ratio of two simultaneously sensed sidebands of different order.
US08094835B2
A signal processing apparatus includes first and second extracting units extracting frequency components having a first frequency band and a second frequency band, respectively, from an input audio signal, a first-harmonic-component generating unit generating a first-harmonic-component signal including a frequency component whose frequency is N1 times that of the frequency component extracted in the first extracting unit, a second-harmonic-component generating unit generating a second-harmonic-component signal including a frequency component whose frequency is N2 times that of the frequency component extracted in the second extracting unit, and a combining unit combining the input audio signal, and the first- and the second-harmonic-component signals in a predetermined ratio. The first frequency band is higher than the second frequency band. N1 and N2 are positive integers, and N1 is smaller than N2.
US08094815B2
Provided are an arithmetic method and apparatus for supporting Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Academy, Research Institute and Agency (ARIA) encryption/decryption functions. The apparatus includes: a key scheduler for generating a round key using an input key; and a round function calculator for generating encrypted/decrypted data using input data and the round key. Here, the round function calculator includes an integrated substitution layer and an integrated diffusion layer capable of performing both AES and ARIA algorithms.
US08094807B2
A true person can be verified with ease and a high degree of reliability. An ATM communicates with a server installed in a data center to carry out a true-person verification such as an organism authentication on the basis of an operation carried out by a user prior to a transaction process to be carried out on an account assigned to the user. When the user touches a predetermined contact area provided on an operation panel of the ATM, the ATM communicates with a portable device attached to the body of the user by using the body of the user as a communication medium. The transaction process is carried out only if the true-person verification such as an organism authentication is successful and a communication with the portable device can be performed.
US08094800B1
A method is described for call treatment based on user association with one or more user groups. The method includes receiving a phone call from a call source that is directed to a call recipient, identifying a user group associated with the call recipient, and determining a number of received indications assigned to the user group. The received indications are assigned to the user group by users associated with the user group, and the received indications reflect a desire by the users for a special treatment of future calls from the call source. The method also includes distinguishing treatment of the phone call from the call source based on the number of received indications.
US08094792B2
A facsimile apparatus is disclosed that includes a register unit that registers transmission destination information in an internal address book. The register unit receives a number input at least a first time and a second time, and upon determining that a number input the first time and a number input the second time correspond to a same input number, registers the same input number as a valid facsimile number.
US08094788B1
A system and method for the creation and delivery of automated, personal information service gathers news, weather, financial and other data for transmission by telephone or other media. The recipient of a given voice broadcast may be detected and discriminated to adjust the content delivery. For instance, if a machine pick-up is detected, the call may be terminated or the message curtailed. Secondary recipients may be authorized in a subscriber's service profile, and other delivery preferences may be registered.
US08094785B2
The invention specifies a radiation collimator, in particular an x-ray collimator, which can be arranged between a radiation source outputting radiation and an object. The radiation collimator includes absorber channels arranged adjacent to one another which form a two-dimensional collimator aperture in the form of a matrix and a first absorber element arranged in the absorber channel. The first absorber element blocks the radiation in a first position and allows the radiation at least partially through the absorber channel in at least one second position. The first absorber element is rod-shaped and can be moved in the absorber channel by a rotation about its longitudinal axis and/or by a longitudinal and/or transverse displacement from the first into the at least one second position. This is advantageous in that the two-dimensional collimator aperture can be modulated easily, rapidly and with high resolution.
US08094776B2
Providing a radiation emission unit having multiple radiation sources for emitting radiation onto a subject, in which the multiple radiation sources are distributed such that the radiation emitted from each radiation source and transmitted through the subject forms a part of a projected image of the subject. Each radiation source is a source that emits fan beam radiation and is disposed such that a plane of the fan beam having a wider spread angle intersects with an arrangement direction of the multiple radiation sources and is arranged parallel to each other.
US08094768B2
The present invention discloses a novel multi-channel timing recovery scheme that utilizes a shared CORDIC to accurately compute the phase for each tone. Then a hardware-based linear combiner module is used to reconstruct the best phase estimate from multiple phase measurements. The firmware monitors the noise variance for the pilot tones and determines the corresponding weight for each tone to ensure that the minimum phase jitter noise is achieved through the linear combiner. Then a hardware-based second-order timing recovery control loop generates the frequency reference signal for VCXO or DCXO. A single sequentially controlled multiplier is used for all multiplications in the control loop.
US08094767B1
The present invention provides methods and systems for allowing a receiver in a (wireless) communication system to synchronize its timing and frequency subsystems in accordance with a received signal. In accordance with one aspect, a method is provided in which a relative time of arrival of sync values provided in a received signal are determined and used to align the receiver's reference signal(s) accordingly. Other aspects of the invention will become apparent from the detailed description of exemplary embodiments that follows.
US08094748B2
A method, apparatus, and electronic device for using digital predistortion are disclosed. A first transmitter 212 may send a first signal. A second transmitter 212 may send a second signal. A multipurpose calibration transceiver 902 may execute a first distortion observation of the first signal to be a basis for a first digital predistortion on the first signal and execute a second distortion observation of the second signal to be a basis for a second digital predistortion on the second signal. The multipurpose calibration transceiver may execute a first calibration observation of the first signal and a second calibration observation of the second signal to calibrate the first transmitter and the second transmitter.
US08094746B2
A transmission method and system of the discrete multi-tone modulation data, the method includes: generating, at a transmitting side, a first bit table according to data to be transmitted, wherein items of the first bit table include carrying data information on each line during this data transmission; modulating and transmitting, at the transmitting side, the data according to the first bit table to a receiving side; and demodulating, at the receiving side, the received data according to the first bit table to obtain corresponding data. With the transmission method and system for discrete multi-tone modulation data provided in embodiments of the present invention, the line rate and the transmission power on lines can be dynamically and timely adjusted according to information ratio of the line transmission, by using a dynamic bit table (BIT table) to carry variable information on the data carried by lines, thereby saving power resource.
US08094743B2
A spatial modulation method and transmitting and receiving apparatuses using the spatial modulation method in a MIMO system are provided. The spatial modulation method uses an index of an activated antenna and a signal modulation constellation as an information source. The spatial modulation method is applied to the transmitting apparatus. The receiving apparatus uses a spatial modulation detection method in which a channel path gain is repeatedly multiplied to detect the spatially modulated signal efficiently.
US08094742B2
A digital television (DTV) transmitter and a method of processing known data in the DTV transmitter are disclosed. The method of processing known data in a digital television (DTV) transmitter includes generating a known data sequence, trellis-encoding the known data sequence, the trellis-encoded known data sequence having upper, middle, and lower bits, wherein at least one of the upper, middle, and lower bits has an m-sequence property, and mapping the trellis-encoded known data sequence into one of 2-level, 4-level, and 8-level data sequences, wherein the mapped data sequence has substantially an m-sequence property, wherein a data sequence has an m-sequence property when a peak value among auto-correlation values of the data sequence having a length of N is 1 and all the off-peak auto-correlation values are −1/N.
US08094741B2
A wireless communication apparatus and a wireless communication method wherein even when the permissible delay amount of data is small, the permissible delay thereof can be satisfied. A data type determining part (101) determines whether the delay of transport data or control information should be allowed or not. A pilot signal insertion control part (102) decides, based on pilot insertion interval information and allowable delay information, that a pilot signal is placed adjacently to data that is not allowed to delay. A multiplexing part (106) multiplexes encoded and modulated transport data with the pilot signal generated by a pilot signal generating part (105) in such a manner that realizes the placement decided by the pilot signal insertion control part (102).
US08094739B2
A modulation parameter selecting method in a system including, as a scheduler portion, a temporal coding rate determining portion that determines a coding rate temporarily, a temporal modulation rate determining portion for selecting a modulation method that satisfies required quality and has a maximum transmission rate in each channel, under the temporarily determined coding rate, and a transmission rate computing portion that calculates a transmission rate from the coding rate determined at the temporal coding rate determining portion and the modulation method in each of the channels selected at the temporal modulation method determining portion, in which processing from the temporal coding rate determining portion to the transmission rate computing portion is performed repeatedly with respect to selectable coding rates and a coding rate with a maximum transmission rate and a modulation method in each of the channels are determined.
US08094732B2
A method is provided for estimating a propagation channel composed of successive symbols of a multicarrier signal, each comprising at least one reference pilot and a plurality of data-carrying frequencies. Such a method comprises, in particular, at least one step consisting of correcting the at least one reference pilot on the basis of a first estimation of a propagation channel, in order to provide a second, more precise estimation of the channel.
US08094730B2
Disclosed herein is a hybrid error concealment method. The hybrid error concealment method of the present invention includes a first step of calculating a side match distortion, measured when a motion vector for an arbitrary intra-frame is assumed to be zero, and the intra-frame is temporally reconstructed, a second step of applying temporal error concealment when the side match distortion, calculated at the first step, is less than a predetermined low threshold value, a third step of applying spatial error concealment when the side match distortion, calculated at the first step, is greater than a predetermined high threshold value, and a fourth step of performing error concealment based on (x,y)=α·t(x,y)+β·s(x,y) when the side match distortion, calculated at the first step, exists between the low threshold value and the high threshold value. According to the present invention, the hybrid error concealment method improves PSNR performance compared to a conventional spatial error concealment algorithm used in H.264, and obtains greatly improved performance characteristics, particularly when motion is small and the value of a quantization parameter is relatively low.
US08094729B2
A method and apparatus for performing motion estimation in a digital video system is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that quickly calculates estimated motion vectors in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, a first multiplicand is determined by multiplying a first display time difference between a first video picture and a second video picture by a power of two scale value. This step scales up a numerator for a ratio. Next, the system determines a scaled ratio by dividing that scaled numerator by a second first display time difference between said second video picture and a third video picture. The scaled ratio is then stored calculating motion vector estimations. By storing the scaled ratio, all the estimated motion vectors can be calculated quickly with good precision since the scaled ratio saves significant bits and reducing the scale is performed by simple shifts.
US08094723B2
An apparatus is described comprising: logic circuitry to take an absolute difference between: 1) less than all of the bits of an uncompressed video data value from a reference macro block and 2) less than all of the bits of an uncompressed video data value from a macro block worth of data within a search window. The apparatus further includes a register to store the reference macro block. The register is coupled to the logic circuitry. The apparatus further include a random access memory to store the search window. The random access memory is coupled to the logic circuitry.
US08094709B2
A correction coefficient calculating section 20 calculates a correction coefficient β so as to obtain a noise power equivalent to detected path and adjacent path transmission channel estimation values. A noise power correcting section 21 calculates a corrected noise power βN0. A weight calculating section 8 receives as its input a frequency-domain transmission channel estimation value H(f) being an output of an FFT section 7 and the noise power βN0 corrected by the noise power correcting section 21 and calculates a weight of an equalization filter by MMSE.
US08094704B2
Systems and methods of detecting wireless channel status from acoustic discrimination of spectral content are described. In one aspect, a wireless system includes a spectrum analyzer, a detector, and a controller. The spectrum analyzer is operable to acoustically discriminate spectral content of an input electrical signal in multiple discrete frequency channels. The detector is operable to determine respective statuses of the frequency channels from the acoustically discriminated spectral content. The controller is operable to select one of the frequency channels based on the determined statuses of the frequency channels.
US08094695B2
A current drive circuit according to the present invention includes: a first current source and a second current source (I101, I102); a first current mirror (CM103) for generating a first mirror current of a current (I2) generated by the second current source (I102); a second current mirror (CM106) for generating a second mirror current of the current (I2) generated by the second current source (I102); and a third current mirror (CM101) for generating a mirror current (IOUT1) of a current which is generated by the first current source (I101) and which is corrected according to a difference between the first mirror current and the second mirror current, to supply the current to a load (LD101).
US08094693B2
A laser control method includes the steps of: using a laser control circuit which includes a constant current circuit that maintains a constant current flowing through a semiconductor laser element, and which includes an adder and a multiplier connected to a stage preceding the constant current circuit, and using detection means for calibration for detecting an applied laser output; calculating, on the basis of a detection signal output from the detection means, a reference bias value and a reference gain value for obtaining a specified laser output with respect to a specified input to the multiplier; inputting the reference bias value and the reference gain value to the adder and the multiplier, respectively; and controlling the applied laser output from the semiconductor laser element by performing calibration.
US08094689B1
A laser apparatus includes a plurality of pumps each of which is configured to emit a corresponding pump laser beam having a unique peak wavelength. The laser apparatus includes a spectral beam combiner configured to combine the corresponding pump laser beams into a substantially spatially-coherent pump laser beam having a pump spectrum that includes the unique peak wavelengths, and first and second selectively reflective elements spaced from each other to define a lasing cavity including a lasing medium therein. The lasing medium generates a plurality of gain spectra responsive to absorbing the pump laser beam. Each gain spectrum corresponds to a respective one of the unique peak wavelengths of the substantially spatially-coherent pump laser beam and partially overlaps with all other ones of the gain spectra. The reflective elements are configured to promote emission of a laser beam from the lasing medium with a peak wavelength common to each gain spectrum.
US08094672B2
A first aspect of the invention is a method of transmitting data packets over a transmission channel shared by a plurality of users, based on the time and/or frequency diversity slotted Aloha technique, in which at least two replicas of each packet to be transmitted are sent over said transmission channel, wherein each replica transports signaling information enabling the other replica(s) of the same packet to be located in the time and/or frequency domain. A second aspect of the invention is a method of recovering packets in the receiver, the method exploiting said signaling information to execute an interference cancellation algorithm for recovering packets corrupted by collisions caused by access conflicts. Other aspects of the invention are a transmitter equipment and a receiver packet recovery equipment adapted to use said methods.
US08094671B2
The object can be achieved by providing a base station apparatus with: priority calculation means configured to calculate priority of a user in packet scheduling; priority correction means configured to correct priority calculated by the priority calculation means according to a discontinuous reception state; and a scheduler configured to determine a user to which data should be transmitted based on the priority corrected by the priority correction means.
US08094653B2
A physical layer transport composite processing system used in a wireless communication system. A plurality of interconnected processing blocks are provided. The blocks are interconnected by a read data bus, a write data bus and a control bus. The blocks include a transport channel processing block, a composite channel processing block and a chip rate processing block. At least two of the blocks are capable of processing data for a plurality of wireless formats. A first set of parameters is programmed into the blocks for a particular wireless mode. The blocks are operated to process data in the particular wireless format mode.
US08094649B2
The present invention relates to the network architecture and billing method of the packet switch data service of the CDMA Intelligent Network (IN) user. Because the CDMA mobile switch uses the 3G1x packet switch data service, the billing of the service bypasses the MSC calling control layer, the billing can only be implemented by the PCF. In the PCF, there are only two billing methods: by amount of data method and the post service method. The non-real time post billing methods are not suitable for the IN prepaid users. Thus, the present invention illustrates new network architecture and billing method of the packet switch data service. The billing interface (PCF-SCP) is provided between the PCF and the SCP. The billing interface transfers at least three messages between the PCF and the SCP, to implement the real time or periodic billing for packet switch data service.
US08094644B2
A system and method for configuring a Traffic Flow Template, TFT, in real time. The present invention dynamically adapts the TFT to control the routing of downlink data packets from a GGSN to an MS. When the MS sends an uplink data packet on a premium bearer channel, a TFT controller extracts from the uplink data packet, parameters which include at least the destination address of the uplink data packet. A downlink packet filter subset for filtering downlink data packets is then defined as a function of the extracted parameters. For example, the downlink packet filter subset may identify downlink data packets having a source address that matches the destination address of the uplink data packet. The TFT is then modified as a function of the downlink packet filter subset to route the identified downlink packets through the premium bearer channel to the MS, and to route differently, downlink data packets having source addresses that do not match the destination address of the uplink data packet.
US08094636B2
Provided is a wireless communication system, comprising: a base station providing communication by a plurality of communication methods; and a mobile node for communicating with the base station by the plurality of communication methods. The mobile node calculates a first distance between a wireless LAN access point and the mobile node; and judges whether the communication by the wireless LAN is possible by comparing the calculated first distance and a second distance that is a distance within which communication by a wireless LAN is available.
US08094634B2
Wireless protocols that employ a helper node are adapted so that they may take advantage of authentication security (and perhaps encryption security). Thus, such protocols may be used with security protocols such as 802.11i protocol (or the like) for example.
US08094626B2
A method for a Code Division Multiple Access telecommunication system implemented by a mobile station. The Code Division Multiple Access telecommunication system implementing a phase of communicating data conveyed by a plurality of transport channels. The Code Division Multiple Access telecommunication system includes at least one base station and at least the mobile station with the mobile station performing a plurality of rate matching steps. Each of the rate matching steps executing a transformation of an input block of an initial size into an output block of a final size by puncturing or repeating at least one bit of the input block.
US08094616B2
Short spreading is used within a random access channel in an OFDM based network to spread data for transmission through the channel. The resource allocation of the random access channel is divided into a number of resource blocks in frequency, time, or both frequency and time. Each resource block has a dimension that is only a portion of the overall size of the resource allocation. During contention, a randomly selected short spreading code may be used to provide data spreading within a randomly selected resource block.
US08094610B2
High quality communications among a diverse set of cognitive radio (CR) nodes is permitted while minimizing interference to primary and other secondary users by employing Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) in a Dynamic Cellular Cognitive System (DCCS). Diverse device types interoperate, cooperate, and communicate with high spectrum efficiency and do not require infrastructure to form the network. The dynamic cellular cognitive system can expand to a wider geographical distribution via linking to existing infrastructure.
US08094605B2
A communications system for an aircraft carrying at least some personnel having personal electronic devices (PEDs) for wireless data communications outside the aircraft includes a ground-based communications network, and a satellite-based communications network. An access point is in the aircraft for providing a WLAN for data communications with the PEDs. An air-to-ground transceiver in the aircraft cooperates with the access point for data communications with the ground-based communications network. A satellite receiver in the aircraft cooperates with the access point for data communications with the satellite-based communications network to the PEDs. At least one network selection controller determines whether to send data communications to the PEDs through the air-to-ground transceiver or the satellite receiver.
US08094603B2
Provided is a modulating apparatus and method of an on-channel repeater. An object of the present invention is to provide a modulating apparatus of an on-channel repeater for reducing time delay by configuring and up-sampling a baseband signal, filtering the up-sampled baseband signal with an Equi-Ripple (ER) filter or in a window method, and converting the filtered baseband signal into an RF signal. The modulating apparatus includes: a baseband signal configuring unit for configuring a baseband. signal by combining an input field and a segment sync signal; a pilot adding unit for adding a pilot signal to the baseband signal; a filtering unit for filtering the baseband signal with the pilot signal; and an RF up-converting unit for up-converting the filtered signal into an RF signal. The present invention is used to form an on-channel repeating network in a transmitting system including a digital TV broadcasting system.
US08094602B2
A method for managing multicast traffic in a data network, and devices using said method. The hosts store for each multicast group an included source record and an excluded source record, and the network interfaces of the hosts send to the router a message containing information about the included source record and information about the excluded source record. The router also stores for each multicast group an included source record and an excluded source record, and updates them when it receives through its network interface a message from the hosts containing information about an included source list and/or information about an excluded source list. The devices are a router, host equipment and network equipment compatible with the method.
US08094600B2
A radio communication system including: ANs (Access Networks) for wirelessly communicating with an AT (Access Terminal); and a communication control apparatus for controlling the AN, wherein the communication control apparatus includes: a control unit for sending transmission cycle information and control information to the AN, and wherein the AN includes: a memory for storing information necessary for transmitting the communication information to the AT; a control unit for transmitting the transmission cycle information received from the communication control apparatus to the AT, calculating a transmission slot number necessary for sending the communication information in the transmission cycle, determining a transmission timing indicating a period in the predetermined transmission cycle allocated for the communication information, and transmitting the communication information in the determined transmission timing to the AT.
US08094597B1
A beginning of a Bluetooth inquiry phase or a Bluetooth paging phase is determined. In response to determining that the Bluetooth inquiry phase or the Bluetooth paging phase is beginning, a power save (PS) mode signal is sent from a first device to a second device via a wireless local area network (WLAN) communication link, wherein the PS mode signal indicates that the first device is in a WLAN PS mode. A PS poll signal is sent from the first device to the second device via the WLAN communication link in a gap between Bluetooth inquiry phase message transmissions during the Bluetooth inquiry phase or between Bluetooth paging phase message transmissions during the Bluetooth paging phase.
US08094591B1
A data carrier detector for a packet-switched communication network. The detector includes an envelope detector to provide peak-to-peak amplitude of an incoming waveform at any given time, a peak-to-peak amplitude monitor to monitor peak-to-peak amplitude, and to set a trigger when the peak-to-peak amplitude changes by a predetermined amount. The detector also includes a data packet searcher to start searching for a data packet when the peak-to-peak amplitude monitor issues the trigger. The detector further includes a data packet processor to process and extract information from the recovered data packet.
US08094590B2
A cross link multiplexer bus comprising a plurality of cross link multiplexers and a plurality of interconnects. The plurality of cross link multiplexers has a destination port configured to receive a signal and an origin port configured to produce the signal. The plurality of interconnects has a set of interconnects coupled between a pair of adjacent cross link multiplexers. Preferably, the destination port is in a first cross link multiplexer, the origin port is in a second cross link multiplexer, and the first cross link multiplexer is configured to convey the signal toward the second cross link multiplexer in more than one direction. In an embodiment, the signal is capable of being represented as a series of characters, and a character is capable of being represented as a number of bits. Preferably, the plurality of cross link multiplexers includes a delay buffer to delay conveyance of a first bit so that it remains substantially synchronized with a second bit. Preferably, the set of interconnects includes a first interconnect to convey the first bit and a second interconnect to convey the second bit. The lengths of the first and the second interconnects are substantially equal.
US08094584B2
For eliminating a reduction in throughput in a network as a whole according to optimum path transfer technique which is the expansion of spanning tree protocol, a frame switching unit of the network has an STP control unit for, when a port state of a spanning tree is changed, notifying a table control unit of an identifier of the spanning tree and a port number of a predetermined port among the respective ports, the table control unit for setting, in a forwarding table storage unit, a received port number of a predetermined port as an output port in an entry in which a node ID is equivalent to a spanning tree identifier, and a table search unit for determining an output destination from among output ports obtained by acquisition of received frame information from a frame analysis unit.
US08094581B2
In the inventive configuration of a communication relationship, a data packet includes the respective address information of the communication unit is generated by at least one remote communication device or by at least one communication unit that is assigned to the device and is transmitted to a central communication device via a communication network. The central communication device selects an assigned communication unit and generates a data packet, which includes the respective address information of the selected communication unit, the data packet being transmitted to the remote communication device. The communication relationship between the addressed communication units is configured with the aid of the transmitted or exchanged address information via the communications network. The inventive method can be advantageously used during the initialization of a communications network, e.g. a booting of the system, as no communication with a management system (central or remote) is possible during this period.
US08094579B2
A controlling node for a cell in a cellular system, arranged to measure a performance indicator of the communication between the node and at least one user and to aggregate the measured performance indicator for at least one user over an amount of time. The performance indicator is measured as the amount of data bits successfully transferred as data blocks in uplink and/or downlink between the controlling node and the at least one user during said defined amount of time, divided by the number of smallest physical resources in the system in terms of time and frequency used during said defined amount of time. One or more predefined combinations of one or more data blocks and one or more said smallest physical resources in the system is/are excluded from the aggregated measurement.
US08094573B2
The method includes sending a request for permission to transmit by each ready node in the wireless network. Each ready node is a node of the wireless network ready to transmit, each request identifies a node in the network that is the destination, and each request is sent over a control channel. An iterative process based on priorities determined for the ready nodes is then performed to determine which ready nodes to block from transmission and which ready nodes to clear for transmission. Transmissions are sent over a payload channel from ready nodes in the clear to transmit state.
US08094572B2
A method of maintaining a communication link between a network node and a mobile node of a communications network comprises providing at least two downlink transmission beams (A to D) and designating a first of the at least two beams as a primary transmission beam (e.g. B). The beams are used in accordance with a schedule. Received signal quality or signal strength measurements are taken at the mobile node and signaled to the network node. A quality of link on the primary transmission beam (e.g. B) and at least one other of the at least two transmission beams (e.g. A, C) is determined from the measurements signaled from the mobile node to the network node and the quality of link for the beams is compared to provide a comparison and the schedule varied in accordance with the comparison.
US08094562B1
A network interface to transport a continuous datastream over a frame-based transport network. The network interface includes a data input, an egress buffer circuit, a phase locked loop, and a data output. The data input receives frames carrying the continuous datastream from the frame-based transport network. The egress buffer circuit is coupled to buffer the continuous datastream and to generate a feedback signal based at least in part on a fill-level of the egress buffer. The phase locked loop is coupled to receive the feedback signal from the egress buffer and to recover a clock signal from the continuous datastream. The data output is coupled to output the data of the continuous datastream from the egress buffer circuit based on the clock signal.
US08094558B2
To control a bandwidth without the need for a large-capacity buffer. This invention provides a packet transfer apparatus connected to first device and second device, with a network therebetween, including: an input unit that receives a packet from the first device; a packet storage unit that stores the packet; a packet processing unit that stores the packet in the packet storage unit; a packet checking unit that checks whether the packet is related to data request; a packet analyzing unit that analyzes the amount of data requested by the data request; a transfer control unit that controls transfer of the packet on the basis of the analyzed amount of data; and an output unit that sends the received packet to the second device.
US08094555B2
In one embodiment, a node identifies a plurality of equal cost best paths to a destination, the best paths having one or more associated links. The node receives dynamic link utilization information for the associated links, and determines an amount of traffic to the destination to forward over each of the equal cost best paths, the amount being dynamically dependent upon the dynamic link utilization of the associated links for each equal cost best path.
US08094554B2
Techniques to support operation in a compressed mode and/or a continuous packet connectivity (CPC) mode are described. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may obtain an assignment of enabled subframes for the CPC mode and an assignment of transmission gaps for the compressed mode. The transmission gaps may be aligned with idle times between the enabled subframes. The UE may exchange data during enabled subframes not overlapping the transmission gaps and may skip data exchanges during enabled subframes overlapping the transmission gaps. The UE may make cell measurements during the transmission gaps. In another aspect, the UE may obtain enabled subframes and skipped subframes, exchange data during enabled subframes not corresponding to the skipped subframes, and skip data exchanges during the skipped subframes. In yet another aspect, the UE may receive orders on a shared control channel to quickly enable and disable the compressed mode.
US08094551B2
System(s) and method(s) provide access management to femto cell service through access control list(s) (e.g., white list(s), or black list(s)). White list(s) includes a set of subscriber station(s) identifier numbers, codes, or tokens, and also can include additional fields for femto cell access management based on desired complexity. White list(s) can have associated white list profile(s) therewith to establish logic of femto coverage access based on the white list(s). Access lists exchange among subscribers that posses provisioned femto access points and elect to share access lists also is provided. Transference of access list(s) among subscribers is secured and based at least in part on subscriber privacy policy. Subscribers can be prompted to opt in access list sharing, or to update privacy policies to allow reciprocate sharing and update privacy settings. Based at least in part on association criteria, component identifies femto access points for a subscriber to access lists with.
US08094545B2
A recording medium, and a method and apparatus for recording data in the recording medium. The recording medium including an inner area, a data area, and an outer area includes a first test area contained in the inner area, and a second test area contained in the outer area, wherein the first and second test areas are formed by a predetermined wobble modulation method equal to that of the data area. Therefore, the recording medium can be applied to a method for manufacturing a Blu-ray disc, and data can be effectively recorded/reproduced in/from the recording medium, such as the Blu-ray disc.
US08094541B2
An optical pickup free from tracking error signal variation when playing back a double-layered disc, and coping with incompatible optical discs, such as BDs and HD DVDs, includes a laser light source, a first polarization rotation element for rotating a polarization direction of an optical beam from the source, an optical branching element disposed in a position after the polarization rotation element to reflect or transmit an optical beam according to polarization of the beam, first and second object lenses for focusing the reflected and transmitted optical beams onto first and second optical discs, respectively, a photodetector for sensing reflected light from the first and second optical discs, and a second polarization rotation element disposed after reflection or transmission of the reflected light from the first and second optical discs conducted by the branching element, to rotate a polarization direction of the reflected light.
US08094535B2
A write type optical disk device with the PRML mode allows accuracy in the trial writing to be improved accompanied with the high speed processing while assuring the readout compatibility. A readout signal that has been A/D converted at timing that interposes the edge has its phase compensated with the even numbered FIR filter. The level at the edge point and the absolute values thereof are accumulated respectively so as to provide a circuit for detecting the edge shift and jitter. Coping with the high speed processing, the edge shift of the readout signal is detected at the position where the edge shift is around zero, thus improving the accuracy in learning of trial writing.
US08094533B2
A hybrid LDD includes a read channel to selectively output a read current, a plurality of write channels, each to selectively output a different write current, and an oscillator channel to selectively output an oscillator current. Additionally, the hybrid LDD includes programmable LDD controller that receives the plurality of enable signals from the external controller, and based on the enable signals, controls timing of the currents output by at least the write channels. The programmable LDD controller can also control timing of the currents output by the read and oscillator channels, based on the enable signals. Further and alternative embodiments are also provided.
US08094532B2
In an interlayer movement apparatus for moving the focal point of the laser light to an arbitrary layer, there are provided an objective lens which collects the laser light from an optical source, a focus actuator which makes the objective lens move in its optical axis direction, a focus error detection means for detecting the convergent state of the laser light on the information layer of the optical disc, and an interlayer movement control system for making the focal point of the laser light move to an information layer two or more layers apart by controlling the focus actuator according to a relative speed between the information layer of the optical disc and the focal point which was calculated using the time required for the focal point of the laser light passing through the respective layers which was measured on the basis of the output signal of the focus error detection means and the respective interlayer distances which are specified by the optical disc specifications.
US08094531B2
An apparatus for detecting a tracking error signal includes an optical detector to receive light beams reflected from an optical disc and having a plurality of detecting regions; and a phase difference extracting unit to extract a phase difference between a pair of optical signals output from the optical detector, wherein the phase difference extracting unit repeatedly moves a first graph representing one optical signal from among the pair of optical signals by a predetermined distance with respect to a second graph representing another optical signal from among the pair of optical signals, the first and second graph represent optical signal values with respect to t-axis, adds differences between optical signal values of the first graph and optical signal values of the second graph corresponding to predetermined positions of the t-axis, the adding differences is repeated for each of the repeatedly moved positions of the first graph, and outputs a moved distance of a position where the added value is smallest as a phase difference.
US08094529B2
With an object of executing excellent finishing processing when information is recorded to a rewritable type record medium or a write once type record medium, the finishing processing is switched by whether a kind of a medium for recording information is the rewritable type record medium or the write once type record medium and a method of executing the finishing processing is switched based on a state of supplying power.
US08094527B2
An optical disc apparatus includes: a first signal generating portion which generates a first signal that is obtained by processing signal which is output from the photo detecting portion, and which shows a peak in case where a focus position of an objective lens is matched on a recording surface of an optical disc; a second signal generating portion which generates a second signal that is obtained by slicing the first signal at a prescribed level to be digitalized; and a movement stopping portion which stops moving of the objective lens if the second signal is asserted by existence of the recording surface that is a target to be reproduced or to be recorded, then it is negated, and the state to be negated is continued for a prescribed time interval when focus control is performed.
US08094521B2
The present invention relates to a portable caregiver personal alert device to facilitate the improvement in the delivery of bedside patient care. The device assists caregivers in ensuring time-sensitive tasks are performed within a specific time frame and in a specific sequence to ensure efficiency, compliance with standard of care or regulation and patient comfort. The device of the present invention comprises a display, a microprocessor that monitors various tasks for multiple patients, and at least one user input feature and at least one alarm, capable of alerting a caregiver when it is time to perform the task. The device preferably includes various functions such as a bed assignment mode, a task mode for choosing applicable tasks associated with the needs of one or more bed numbers, and at least one clock for coordinating a plurality of alarms to one or more corresponding bed number and associated task.
US08094519B2
A fiber optic hydrophone has a reflective diaphragm having an exposed face and a reflective protected face, at least one transmitting multimode optical fiber having an end spaced apart from the protected face of the diaphragm positioned to emit light toward the diaphragm housing, and a reservoir. A cavity is defined by the diaphragm and the interior surface of the housing. Silicone oil and a compliant elastomeric material with embedded air bubbles are located in the cavity. Ports between the cavity and the reservoir and the reservoir and the exterior of the hydrophone allow static pressure communication between the cavity and the exterior of the hydrophone. The fiber optic probe can have one transmitting multimode optical fiber and six receiving multimode optical fibers, or more or fewer optical fibers. A grating can protect the diaphragm from environmental damage.
US08094517B2
A flasher sonar device includes a motor driven flasher that produces light output pulses at angular positions along a flasher ring lens based upon sonar returns. A liquid crystal display (LCD) positioned concentrically with the flasher ring lens displays a dynamic annotated range scale associated with the flasher ring lens. A controller coordinates operation of the motor driven flasher and the LCD.
US08094512B2
A conventional semiconductor memory device may be in need of a special refresh sequence if it is desired to reduce the current consumption in connection with a refresh operation. With this in view, there is disclosed a semiconductor memory device 1 that has a recording area 30 formed by a plurality of memory banks 31 to 3n. The refreshing operation for this semiconductor memory device 1 may be performed on the memory bank basis. The semiconductor memory device 1 includes refresh control circuits 21 to 2n and holding circuits 11 to 1n in association individually with the memory banks 31 to 3n. The holding circuits 11 to 1n are set when data has been written in associated ones of the memory banks 31 to 3n following resetting of the semiconductor memory device. The refresh control circuits 21 to 2n set the associated memory banks 31 to 3n to a refresh enabling state in case the associated holding circuits 11 to 1n are in a set state (FIG. 1).
US08094508B2
A memory block of a memory device is tested by programming a plurality of pages of the memory block, passing the memory block if a number of pages, each programmed in a first programming time, is greater than or equal to a first predetermined number and a number of pages, each programmed in a second programming time, is less than or equal to a second predetermined number, and failing the memory block if a programming time of any one of the pages exceeds a predetermined programming time or if the number of pages programmed in the first programming time is less than the first predetermined number or if the number of pages programmed in the second programming time exceeds the second predetermined number.
US08094503B2
A method for programming and erasing an array of NMOS electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) cells that minimizes bit disturbances and high voltage requirements for the memory array cells and supporting circuits. In addition, the array of N-channel memory cells may be separated into independently programmable memory segments by creating multiple, electrically isolated P-wells upon which the memory segments are fabricated. The multiple, electrically isolated P-wells may be created, for example, by p-n junction isolation or dielectric isolation.
US08094494B2
In an operation method for a memory including a plurality of memory cells, a first reading is performed on the memory cells by applying a reference voltage; the reference voltage is moved if it is checked that the first reading result is not correct; a second reading is performed on the memory cells by applying the moved reference voltage; a first total number of a first logic state in the first reading is compared with a second total number of the first logic state in the second reading if it is checked that the second reading result is not correct; and the moving of the reference voltage is stopped if the first reading result has the same number of the first logic state as the second reading result, and the moved reference voltage is stored as a target reference voltage.
US08094491B2
A semiconductor device includes a memory cell including a thyristor element with a gate having a pnpn structure formed in a semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of access transistors formed on the semiconductor substrate and each connected at a first terminal thereof to a storage node at one terminal of the thyristor element such that a potential at the storage node can be transmitted to bit lines different from each other, the gate of the thyristor element and the gates of the plurality of access transistors of the memory cell being connected to word lines different from one another.
US08094485B2
The variable resistance nonvolatile storage device includes a memory cell (300) that is formed by connecting in series a variable resistance element (309) including a variable resistance layer (309b) which reversibly changes based on electrical signals each having a different polarity and a transistor (317) including a semiconductor substrate (301) and two N-type diffusion layer regions (302a, 302b), wherein the variable resistance layer (309b) includes an oxygen-deficient oxide of a transition metal, lower and upper electrodes (309a, 309c) are made of materials of different elements, a standard electrode potential V1 of the lower electrode (309a), a standard electrode potential V2 of the upper electrode (309c), and a standard electrode potential Vt of the transition metal satisfy Vt
US08094483B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first read/write amplifier; a second read/write amplifier; a first group of bit lines belonging to the first read/write amplifier; a second group of bit lines belonging to the second read/write amplifier and mixed with the first group of bit lines. One of the first group of bit lines and one of the second group of bit lines are selected in parallel. A reference potential is supplied to at least one of the first non-selected bit lines adjacent to the first selected bit line selected from the first group of bit lines, and to at least one of the second non-selected bit lines adjacent to the second selected bit line selected from the first group of bit lines. At least one of remaining ones of the first and second non-selected bit lines is set into a floating state.
US08094466B2
The invention relates to a resonant converter (1) which has multiple outputs (7a, 7b) and contains a transformer (4) with a primary winding (5) and at least two secondary windings (6a, 6b) having different winding directions. In this way it is possible to design as cost-effectively as possible a resonant converter with multiple outputs, two of which can be controlled separately from each other.
US08094462B2
Disclosed is a high frequency tuner module, including: a circuit component; signal lines; a GND line; and a multilayer board formed by laminating a plurality of layers, wherein the circuit component is placed on a top layer surface of the multilayer board; the signal lines and the GND line are formed inside the multilayer board; and among the signal lines, high frequency signal transmitting signal lines to transmit a high frequency signal are formed on a single layer inside the multilayer board.
US08094453B2
Compliant conduction rail assembly and method are provided for facilitating cooling of an electronics structure. The rail assembly includes a first thermally conductive rail mounted to a surface of the electronics structure, a second thermally conductive rail thermally conductively interfaced to the first rail, and a biasing mechanism biasing the second rail away from the first rail. The first and second rails and the biasing mechanism are configured for slidable insertion into a housing with the electronics structure, the housing containing a liquid-cooled cold plate(s). With insertion of the electronics structure into the housing, the second rail engages the liquid-cooled cold plate and is forced by the biasing mechanism into thermal contact with the cold plate, and is forced by the cold plate towards the first rail, which results in a compliant thermal interface between the electronics structure and the liquid-cooled cold plate of the housing.
US08094450B2
A vent cover is provided for use with a gaming machine. The vent cover comprises a body for location over a vent in a housing of the gaming machine. The vent cover cooperates with the housing to define a vent space through which air flows to and from an interior of the gaming machine via the vent. The vent cover has air ports in communication with the vent space. The vent cover also has one or more drains which direct water from the vent space. The vent cover is preferably used with an exhaust vent of a gaming machine, directing heated air upwardly away from the gaming machine and preventing foreign material from entering the gaming machine through the vent.
US08094446B2
A HDD assembly comprises a HDD defining a plurality of mounting holes therein and a bracket for fixing the HDD. The bracket comprises a fixing plate and a holding frame connected with the fixing plate. The holding frame defines a receiving space for receiving the HDD therein. The holding frame comprises a resilient clip. The resilient clip forms a plurality of poles engaging in the mounting holes of the HDD, to firmly fix the HDD in the receiving space of the bracket.
US08094441B2
A method includes the steps of: (a) wrapping a stack of composite prepregs around a plate-shaped mold core to obtain a bag-like preform; (b) removing the mold core from the preform so that a receiving space is left in the preform; (c) inserting an airbag into the receiving space; (d) placing the preform together with the airbag in a mold; (e) inflating the airbag and hot pressing the preform within the mold until the preform is cured so that the receiving space is formed into a motherboard receiving space with a size sufficient to receive a motherboard of the notebook computer and so that the preform is formed into a one-piece flat housing body for the base of the notebook computer; and (f) removing the flat housing body from the mold and the airbag.
US08094426B2
An electrical switching apparatus includes a number of separable contacts, an operating mechanism structured to open and close the separable contacts, a number of sensors structured to sense at least current flowing through the separable contacts, and a processor structured to cooperate with the operating mechanism to open and close the separable contacts. The processor determines a fault from the sensed current flowing through the separable contacts. The processor further responsively opens the separable contacts if the sensed current associated with the fault is less than the interrupting rating of the electrical switching apparatus. The processor keeps the separable contacts closed and waits for another circuit interrupter to interrupt the fault if the sensed current associated with the fault is greater than the interrupting rating.
US08094414B1
An apparatus for detachably mounting a head gimbal assembly to an actuator coil assembly is described. The apparatus includes a lever pivotally connected to an upper surface of an arm of the actuator coil assembly and operable to pivot between a release position and a mount position. A capture pin extends from the lever into a mounting hole of the arm. The capture pin is substantially perpendicular to the lever and is collectively pivotable with the lever between the release position and the mount position. A spring is arranged to exert a force on the lever in a direction from the release position to the mount position. The capture pin is configured to engage the head gimbal assembly positioned on a lower mounting surface of the arm opposite the upper surface of the arm via the mounting hole and to press the head gimbal assembly into the arm when in the mount position.
US08094407B2
A digital control system, and in particular a tape drive system having a track-following servomechanism with a predictor (also referred to herein as a predictor filter), is described. In certain embodiments, the servomechanism includes an actuator, a servo channel, and a predictor coupled to the servo channel. The predictor receives from the servo channel a lateral position estimate signal and determines a modified lateral position estimate signal that reduces a difference, introduced by a tape velocity-dependent delay, e.g., introduced by the servo channel, between the modified lateral position estimate signal and an actual lateral position. The modified lateral position estimate may be used to modify a control signal sent to the actuator.
US08094397B2
A system in one embodiment includes multiple analog inputs for receiving readback signals, an analog to digital converter coupled to each of the analog inputs for converting the readback signals to digital signals, a buffer coupled to outputs of the analog to digital converters for at least temporarily storing the digital signals, and a digital processing section also coupled to outputs of the analog to digital converters for processing the digital signals for reconstructing data therefrom. A method in one embodiment includes receiving multiple channels of analog readback signals from a magnetic head, converting the analog signals in each channel to digital signals, buffering the digital signals, and outputting the buffered digital signals. A method in another embodiment includes receiving a readback waveform from a magnetic storage device, reducing a frequency offset of the readback waveform, and generating a synchronized, oversampled waveform from the readback waveform.
US08094385B2
An image pickup lens includes: a first lens group including a single negative lens and a single positive lens disposed in order from the object side to the image side and having a positive refracting power; and a second lens group having a positive refracting power. The first and second lens groups are disposed in order from the object side to the image side. The first lens group is fixed, when the image pickup object distance varies from the infinity to the proximity, with respect to an image surface while the second lens group is moved from the image side to the object side to carry out focusing.
US08094382B2
A zoom lens system includes a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group and a positive third lens group, in this order from the object. The second lens group includes a cemented lens having a positive first lens element and a negative second lens element, and a meniscus lens element having the concave surface facing toward the image. The zoom lens system satisfies the following conditions: −0.4
US08094376B2
Described is a multi-layer body for viewing from the front and rear sides in transillumination mode, wherein the multi-layer body (1) comprises one or more transparent first layers (10) and a second layer (14) with a micro-pattern comprising opaque first partial regions and transparent second partial regions. One of the first layers (10) on its surface remote from the second layer (14) has a surface profile forming an arrangement of a plurality of first micro-lenses (12). The thickness of that first layer (1) or that first layer (1) and arranged between that first layer (1) and the second layer (14) one or more further first layers (1) approximately corresponds to the focal length of the first micro-lenses.
US08094375B2
There is provided a method for producing a polarizer having improved cross transmittance. The method for producing a polarizer includes: dyeing a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-based film with molecular iodine by immersing the PVA-based film in an aqueous iodine solution (a dyeing step); absorbing the molecular iodine into the PVA-based film using an aqueous boric acid solution (a cross-linking step); arranging the molecular iodine in the certain direction by stretching the PVA-based film in a certain direction (an stretching step); and drying, in an oven, the PVA-based film in which the molecular iodine is oriented; wherein a phosphate compound is added to the iodine aqueous solution (the dyeing step) or the aqueous boric acid solution (the stretching step) so that a weight ratio of the boric acid: the phosphate compound is in a range of 1:0.1 to 1:10.
US08094369B2
The invention relates to a regulatable optical amplifier which has at least two series-connected amplifier groups, each amplifier group having a regulating device. Connected upstream of the optical amplifier is a power monitor device for detecting changes in the input power, whose electrical output is connected both to the first regulating device and to the second regulating device. In line with the invention, the first and second regulating devices have a control line inserted between them which comprises a series circuit containing a high-pass filter, a delay and signal-shaping unit and a feed-forward control unit for generating a correction signal for the second regulating device. In this arrangement, the high-pass filter has a cut-off frequency which corresponds approximately to the cut-off frequency of the first amplifier group. The inventive control line optimizes the regulating response such that power transients in the output signal from the optical amplifier are reduced particularly after an abrupt change in the input power.
US08094361B2
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to compositions and devices operable for infra-red transmission and blocking comprising a layered structure having a first electrically conducting layer, a conjugated electrochromic polymer layer, an electrolyte layer and a second electrically conducting layer, wherein the first and second electrically conducting layers have an infrared transparency and the conjugated electrochromic polymers may be operable to be electrically switched between a transparent state that transmits infrared light to an opaque state that does not transmit infrared light. In some embodiments, a device of the disclosure may also have one or more outer substrates sandwiching the other layers. Some embodiments relate to single-layered devices. Some embodiments relate to combined layers. Compositions and devices of the disclosure may be integrated into a wide variety of infrared systems for transmission, shuttering and calibration applications.
US08094358B2
A dimming mirror comprises an array of interferometric light modulators is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, the dimming mirror comprises a plurality of interferometric light modulators and a control circuit adapted to configure the plurality of interferometric light modulators to at least one of a plurality of predefined states, including a first state having a substantially reflective appearance and a second state having a dimmed visual appearance as contrasted with the first state. Additional features may include additional states having an appearance with a dimmed visual appearance as contrasted with the first state and a reflective appearance as contrasted with the second state.
US08094349B2
A recording apparatus has a buffer for dividing a storage area into a plurality of areas in a scanning direction of a recording head to record data by allowing a carriage loaded with the recording head to scan data on a record medium, and storing the divided image data in a divided area unit, and includes: a write control unit for controlling write address information about image data in the area unit for data of each color for storage of the image data divided in an area unit in the buffer; a read control unit for controlling for data of each color read address information for a read of image data stored in the buffer; and a record data generation unit for generating record data in a unit of the divided area based on the read image data according to the read address information.
US08094346B2
An image reading apparatus includes an image pickup element that emits an electrical signal based on received light, a document table including a reading window, a document cover, a base plate including a flat portion that opposes the reading window, the base plate being displaceable in a direction of separating from the document cover and a direction of approaching the document cover, a spring portion that is integrally formed with the base plate, and a document presser that presses the document placed on the document table toward the reading window and includes an elastic member that is elastically deformable and is adhered to a reading window side of the base plate. The document cover includes a first pressing portion that conveys force due to a weight of the document cover acting to press the spring portion toward the reading window when the document cover covers the reading window.
US08094340B2
Disclosed herein is a method of operating a printing system including determining a time of a print problem, accessing a database containing a timeline of print-related attribute changes, modifying one or more print-related attributes, and resubmitting print jobs. In another embodiment, a method of operating a printing system involves storing sets of print-related attributes in a settings repository, the stored sets being available for use in processing future print jobs. Corresponding printing systems also are disclosed. The methods and systems can be used to improve the efficiency and/or quality of high volume printing operations.
US08094335B2
An image processing apparatus is provided that can accurately and rapidly perform color/monochrome judgment for print image data. In the image forming apparatus, a command analyzing unit interprets externally received PDL data, and a first color/monochrome judging unit performs the color/monochrome judgment based on an attribute of an image object. When a data type of the attribute is not raster image data and color information is monochrome, it is immediately judged that the image is monochrome. Only when the first color/monochrome judging unit judges that the image is color, a second color/monochrome judging unit performs the color/monochrome judgment every time a rendering unit generates band data. If at least one pixel of color data exists, it is judged that the image is color. With such a configuration, the color/monochrome judgment can be performed accurately and rapidly.
US08094326B2
An image processing apparatus executes an image process by using a sheet feeding unit or a sheet discharging unit selected from a plurality of sheet feeding units and sheet discharging units. The image processing apparatus stores attribute information for specifying one of the sheet feeding units or one of the sheet discharging units to correspond to an application generating a print job and controls a selection of one of the sheet feeding units or one of the sheet discharging units so as to execute a print job based on the stored attribute information.
US08094325B2
An interactive system including a printed substrate having coded data disposed thereon an an electronic pen for interacting with the substrate. The pen includes an infrared light source; an image sensor; a cartridge having a nib for contacting said substrate; a retraction mechanism for slidably moving the cartridge between a retracted position and an extended position; a force sensor cooperating with the retraction mechanism; and a processor configured to generate indicating data indicative of the interaction with the substrate. The image sensor is configured to sense said coded data only when said force sensor detects that said nib is in contact with said substrate.
US08094324B2
An imaging method enabling spontaneous, single-site implementation of, and control over, the execution of an imaging job employing the combinable native functionalities and related user-accessible controls of plural, currently available, imaging-related instrumentalities. This method features the steps of (a) establishing, with respect to a selected plurality of such instrumentalities, an appropriate instrumentality-intercommunication capability, (b) utilizing that established capability, enabling the suitable presentation, adjacent the location of at least one of such instrumentalities, of an active user combinational interface which, in relation to a user-intended imaging job, provides, via that interface, user-chooseable selection access to different functionalities and control combinations drawn from the availability of all of such instrumentalities' functionalities and controls, and (c) in response to interface designation-invocation by a user of such presented and combined functionalities and controls, executing the imaging job in the context of utilizing all of the so-user-chosen functionalities.
US08094316B1
A surface plasmon resonance coupler and disperser system is provided. A sensor element includes a diffraction grating having a periodically modulated surface. A light source faces the sensor element and emits an optical wave through a collimating element, which is provided in optical alignment with the light source. The optical wave is projected directly onto the periodically modulated surface of the diffraction grating. A detector faces the diffracting grating and is in receipt of the optical wave that is diffracted off the sensor element.
US08094307B2
Test equipment determines the contents of medical fluids to be delivered to a patient by a medication delivery system by measuring optical properties of the fluids. One system provides a non-invasive test that uses optical rotation caused by optically active pharmaceutical substances to determine the presence or absence of the pharmaceutical substances within a medical fluid. Another system provides a non-invasive test that uses refractive index properties to determine the concentration of a pharmaceutical substance within the fluid. A method for use is also disclosed.
US08094306B2
A spectrometer includes a micro-ring grating device having coaxially-aligned ring gratings for diffracting incident light onto a target focal point, a detection device for detecting light intensity, one or more actuators, and an adjustable aperture device defining a circular aperture. The aperture circumscribes a target focal point, and directs a light to the detection device. The aperture device is selectively adjustable using the actuators to select a portion of a frequency band for transmission to the detection device. A method of detecting intensity of a selected band of incident light includes directing incident light onto coaxially-aligned ring gratings of a micro-ring grating device, and diffracting the selected band onto a target focal point using the ring gratings. The method includes using an actuator to adjust an aperture device and pass a selected portion of the frequency band to a detection device for measuring the intensity of the selected portion.
US08094304B2
A microscope for generating an image of a sample, the microscope includes a light source for generating a pulsed light; an optical scanner receiving the pulsed light and transmitting the pulsed light to the sample to be imaged causing the sample to emit energy; a dispersive element that receives the emitted energy from the sample, disperses the energy into its spectral elements and transmits the spectrally dispersed energy; and a camera that generates a spectrally resolved image of the sample based on the spectrally dispersed energy from the dispersive element. Also described is a method of generating spectrally resolved images of the sample.
US08094301B2
A system and method for real-time monitoring of the interior of a combustor or gasifier wherein light emitted by the interior surface of a refractory wall of the combustor or gasifier is collected using an imaging fiber optic bundle having a light receiving end and a light output end. Color information in the light is captured with primary color (RGB) filters or complimentary color (GMCY) filters placed over individual pixels of color sensors disposed within a digital color camera in a BAYER mosaic layout, producing RGB signal outputs or GMCY signal outputs. The signal outputs are processed using intensity ratios of the primary color filters or the complimentary color filters, producing video images and/or thermal images of the interior of the combustor or gasifier.
US08094297B2
A surface inspecting method for inspecting a flaw of a test object using a surface wave and estimating a depth of the flaw of the test object from an attenuation ratio of a frequency of a generation wave, the surface inspecting method including calculating a power spectrum of generation wave generating the flaw of the test object; integrating the power spectrum of the generation wave passing the flaw of the test object and calculating an integration value thereof; converting the integration value into a flaw depth based on a calibration created beforehand and calculating the flaw depth of the test object; and displaying the calculated flaw depth of the test object.
US08094295B2
The present invention provides an inspection apparatus and inspection method. The inspection apparatus includes a stage mechanism for supporting an object under inspection. A spatial filter is provided in the detection optical system to inspect the object. A printer is used to print the results of the spatial filter. The spatial filter can be provided in the form of a Fourier transformed image.
US08094291B2
The invention relates to a device for a length measurement providing a housing, a sending device for producing an optical measuring beam, a receiving device for detecting parts of the measuring beam that have beam scattered back from the measuring object and a redirecting device for redirecting the measuring beam that has been send out by the sending device and/or the receiving area of the receiving device. The invention relates also to an adapter for accommodating a device for a length measurement with a housing, a sending device for producing an optical measuring beam and a receiving device for detecting parts of the measuring beam that is scattered back from the measuring object, whereby the adapter provides frame for accommodating the device and a redirecting device for redirecting the measuring beam that has been send out by sending device and/or the receiving area of the receiving device.
US08094288B2
A lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system configured to transmit a beam of radiation, the beam of radiation comprising desired radiation having a predetermined wavelength or a predetermined wavelength range, and undesired radiation having another wavelength or another wavelength range; a support structure configured to support a patterning structure, the patterning structure being configured to impart the beam of radiation with a pattern in its cross-section; a substrate table configured to hold a substrate; and a projection system configured to project the patterned beam of radiation onto a target portion of the substrate; wherein at least part of the lithographic apparatus, in use, includes a gas substantially transmissive for at least part of the desired radiation and substantially less transmissive for at least part of the undesired radiation.
US08094280B2
An array substrate includes a gate line disposed along a first direction on a substrate; a gate electrode extending from the gate line; a gate insulating layer over the substrate, including the gate line; a first plane layer on first portions of the gate insulating layer; a semiconductor layer on second portions of the gate insulating layer and on the first plane layer; a second plane layer over the first plane layer; a data line; a source electrode and a drain electrode on the semiconductor layer and on the second plane layer, the source electrode extending from the data line; a passivation layer on the second plane layer, the source electrode, the drain electrode and the semiconductor layer; and a pixel electrode on the passivation layer, the pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode via a first contact hole.
US08094279B2
An exemplary display screen includes a display module and an anti-reflective module at one side thereof. The anti-reflective module includes a plurality of refraction structures connected in sequence. Each refraction structure includes a connection section and a plurality of refraction sections. The refraction sections are connected to both sides of the connection section and form an included angle with the connection section to form indented anti-reflection structures.
US08094274B2
A super large wide-angle high-speed response liquid crystal display apparatus manufactured by using a photolithographic procedure for three times. The invention adopts a halftone exposure technology to form a gate electrode, a common electrode, a pixel electrode and a contact pad, and then uses the halftone exposure technology to form a silicon (Si) island and a contact hole, and a general exposure technology to form a source electrode, a drain electrode and an orientation control electrode. A passivation layer uses a masking deposition method. A film is formed by using a P-CVD method, or a protective area is formed at a local area by using an ink coating method or spray method, and a TFT array substrate used for the super large wide-angle high-speed response liquid crystal display apparatus manufactured by using a photolithographic procedure for three times can be produced.
US08094270B2
An oblique angle deposition is used to provide an A-plate optical retarder having at least one dense, form-birefringent layer. According to one embodiment, the dense, form-birefringent layer(s) are deposited as part of an FBAR stack to provide an all-dielectric full-function A/−C-plate trim retarder for LCD birefringence compensation. Advantageously, the dense structure of the full-function A/−C-plate trim retarder offers high durability and/or stability, thus making it well suited for providing polarization compensation in high light flux polarization-based projection systems.
US08094269B2
In a transflective liquid crystal panel having an in-cell retarder, for improving a layer structure of poor adhesion, an alignment film for the retardation layer is not applied to a portion of disposing a sealing material at the main surface of a substrate of the liquid crystal panel in the step of applying the alignment film to the main surface.
US08094267B2
A liquid crystal display device whose sub-pixel region has a reflective display region that displays an image in a reflective mode and a transmissive display region that displays an image in a transmissive mode includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer has a smaller thickness in the reflective display region than in the transmissive display region. One of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a reflection layer in the reflective display region, and the other substrate includes on the liquid crystal layer side a functional resin layer having a first functional resin sub layer in the reflective display region and a second functional resin sub layer in the transmissive display region. The first functional resin sub layer and the second functional resin sub layer serve as retardation layers with different optical axes from each other.
US08094253B2
Disclosed herein is a driving method of a display device. The display device includes display elements arranged in a form of a two-dimensional matrix and each have a driving circuit and a light emitting section. The driving circuit includes a driving transistor having a gate electrode and source/drain regions and a capacitance section, and a current flowing through the light emitting section via the source/drain regions of the driving transistor. The driving method includes the step of performing a first writing process, a second writing process, and then setting the gate electrode of the driving transistor in a floating state. A current corresponding to a value of a voltage retained in the capacitance section for retaining a voltage of the gate electrode of the driving transistor with respect to a source region of the driving transistor flows through the light emitting section, so that the light emitting section emits light.
US08094246B2
A polarizing split layer and a reflection layer are alternately provided on bonding surfaces between prism rods which constitute a polarized beam splitter array. Polarization conversion devices are bonded to emission surfaces of the prism rods from which linearly polarized light being reflected by the polarizing split layers and being reflected by the reflection layer are emitted. In the polarization conversion device, each edge line of a rectangular prism element is inclined by 45° with respect to a polarization direction of linearly polarized light being incident. On each inclined surface of the rectangular prism element, a retardation film whose optical axis matches the normal line of the inclined surface is formed. The retardation film serves as a uniaxial negative C plate which gives a phase difference of a ½ wavelength to incident light.
US08094237B2
A signal separation apparatus applied in an image transmission system for extracting a chrominance signal from an analog composite video signal and a related method are disclosed. The signal separation apparatus includes an analog-to-digital converter for generating a digital composite video signal by sampling the analog composite video signal; a median filter, coupled to the analog to digital converter, for generating a reference luminance signal according to the digital composite video signal; and a subtractor, coupled to the analog to digital converter and the median filter, for generating the chrominance signal according to a difference between the digital composite video signal and the reference luminance signal.
US08094234B2
System and method for multistage frame rate conversion. A method comprises receiving an incoming frame at a first frame rate, and determining whether a fault condition exists. The method also includes if the fault condition does not exist, toggling a write buffer pointer from a first frame buffer to a second frame buffer, and storing the incoming frame in the second frame buffer. The method additionally includes if the fault condition exists, determining whether a previously received frame was repeated, discarding the incoming frame if the previously received incoming frame was not repeated, and storing the incoming frame in one of the frame buffers pointed to by the write buffer pointer if the previously received incoming frame was repeated.
US08094225B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixels, with each of the pixels including a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge accumulating unit, an amplifying unit, and a transfer electrode. The apparatus further includes a light shielding portion covering the charge accumulating unit, and a connecting unit for electrically connecting the control electrode and the light shielding portion, and wherein the light shielding portion of a pixel in one row is electrically connected to the other light shielding portions of other pixels in the same one row and adjacent to the pixel in the one row, and is electrically insulated from other light shielding portions of pixels in rows different from the one row.
US08094219B2
An image-sensing module. A base includes a plurality of sidewalls and an accommodation hole encompassed by the sidewalls. A flexible printed circuit board includes an installation portion and a through hole formed on the installation portion. A heat-dissipation board is fixed to a bottom surface of the installation portion of the flexible printed circuit board and is aligned with the through hole. An image sensor is fixed to a top surface of the installation portion of the flexible printed circuit board and is aligned with the through hole. The heat-dissipation board, flexible printed circuit board, and image sensor are accommodated in the accommodation hole of the base.
US08094217B2
Provided is an image capturing apparatus comprising a plurality of first light receiving elements that are arranged on substantially the same plane and that each receive light of a first color component from a subject; a plurality of second light receiving elements that are arranged on substantially the same plane and with a higher surface density than the plurality of first light receiving elements, and that each receive light of a second color component from the subject; and a polarizing section that blocks polarized light components from the subject except for a first polarized light component so that first-polarized-light receiving elements, which are a portion of the plurality of second light receiving elements, receive the first polarized light component from the subject, the first-polarized-light receiving elements transmitting the light from the subject to be received by the plurality of first light receiving elements.
US08094211B2
An image obtaining method and apparatus are provided. The method of obtaining an image by an image obtaining apparatus includes calculating entropy of an input image, determining an optimal exposure time at which the entropy reaches a maximum value, and obtaining an image based on the determined optimal exposure time.
US08094209B2
An image signal processing apparatus includes a sensing section which includes R, G, and B pixels and produces R, G, and B color signals, a first adding section which adds, while weighting pixels, a color signal of a center pixel of a pixel arrangement and color signals of the peripheral pixels to produce a first addition signal, a contour signal generating section which generates a contour signal from the color signals before the addition, a second adding section which adds the contour signal to the first addition signal to produce a second addition signal, a ratio coefficient calculation section which calculates a ratio coefficient of an average value of the R, G, and B color signals to a sum-up value of the average values, and an RGB signal generating section which generates new R, G, and B signals using the ratio coefficients and the first or second addition signal.
US08094197B2
An image recording system includes an image supply apparatus compatible with a first image recording service standard, an image recording apparatus compatible with a second image recording service standard, and a conversion apparatus connected, as a pseudo image recording apparatus compatible with the first standard, to the image supply apparatus via a communication medium compatible with the first standard and connected, as a pseudo image supply apparatus compatible with the second standard, to the image recording apparatus via a communication medium compatible with the second standard. The conversion apparatus converts a command received from the image supply apparatus into a command complying with the second standard before transmitting it to the image recording apparatus, and converts a command received from the image recording apparatus or event information relating to an image recording process into a message complying with the first standard before transmitting it to the image supply apparatus.
US08094193B2
The present invention is a camera control system designed for video capture of a presentation made in a lecture hall or similar place. The system combines preset views triggered by presence-sensing devices at fixed locations with views tracking the motion of the presenter elsewhere. A tracking camera displays a preset view when the presenter steps on a switch mat or enters into the region of detection of some other presence sensor such as an infrared sensor. At other times, the tracking camera is guided by motion detection logic that uses a wide field of vision provided by a reference camera. The reference camera, the tracking camera, and the presence-sensing devices are integrated by a controller. Various parameters can be configured by a user through a graphical user interface on a computer, manual controls on the box housing the controller, or a hand-held remote control device.
US08094189B2
The invention relates to an operating device that includes: an operating portion in which an operation switch is disposed; a display portion that allows stereoscopic vision to be viewed by naked-eye; an image pickup mechanism that takes pictures of a hand of a user operating the operating portion, from a plurality of directions; and a displayed image generation device that generates a stereoscopic image of the hand based on parallax images obtained from the image pickup device. An operation menu image that depicts a position of the operation switch in the operating portion and a function of the operation switch, and a stereoscopic image of the hand generated by the displayed image generation device, and the compounded image is displayed in the display.
US08094183B2
A panoramic imaging device comprises: a photodetector array; a lens array having, on one plane, a center lens for receiving light in a front range of 36° to form a central unit image on the photodetector array, and left and right side lenses for receiving lights in left and right ranges each of 72° in capture angle of 180°; and four prisms in two pairs placed facing the side lenses. The two pairs of left and right prisms (more inclined and less inclined pairs) collect lights in divided two pairs of left and right ranges each of 36° in the 72° range (pairs closer to, and farther from, the front range), respectively, to form four side unit images on the photodetector array which are combined with the central unit image to reproduce a panoramic image without using wide-angle lenses or complex image correction process.
US08094182B2
A panoramic imaging system includes a plurality of separated video cameras that may be distributed around an object. A series of images captured by at least one of the separated video cameras is stored in a predetermined file format. The panoramic system further includes a viewer module that may render the series of images using the first file format. Moreover, the panoramic system includes a calibration module capable of modifying information associated with at least one of the series of images, where the modification results in calibration data stored in a configuration file and/or in the predetermined file format. The viewer module may also be capable of rendering the series of images in accordance with the predetermined file format.
US08094171B2
A rotation driving method of a LCD device includes a first step of rotating the LCD device 180° such that source driving units are disposed at a lower portion of the liquid crystal panel, a second step of outputting scan signals from gate driving units in reverse order, a third step of reestablishing image data provided to the source driving units, a fourth step of reversing arrangement of the image data outputted to sub-pixels, a fifth step of shifting and outputting the image data corresponding to selected odd horizontal lines and even horizontal lines by one sub-pixel, a sixth step of exchanging the image data for the first and third sub-pixels with each other, and a seventh step of outputting the image data rearranged by the third to sixth steps to the liquid crystal panel such that the image data synchronize with the scan signals according to the second step.
US08094170B2
A composite image-generating device includes: a geometric transformation table that assigns coordinates corresponding to positions of pixels of an output image on an input image received from a capturing section; and an output image-generating section that generates the output image by superimposing an overlay image based on overlay data associated with the positions of the pixels of the output image in the geometric transformation table on an image obtained by geometrically transforming the input image according to the geometric transformation table.
US08094166B2
A method for correcting color characteristics of a flat panel display comprises the steps of using a signal generating device to generate an input signal to the display and a color measurement instrument to measure color displayed by the display to obtain an output value; obtaining corrected color characteristic values necessary for the display to display a target output value Txyz through the relation of an inverse function RGB=f−1(XYZ) between the input signal RGB and output value XYZ, and storing the corrected color characteristic values and an identification code of the display into a storage medium. The corrected color characteristic values are downloaded to a hard disk of a computer from the storage medium according to the identification code; and the computer uses a driver of the display to activate the flat panel display to display a corrected color according to the corrected color characteristic values.
US08094164B1
Systems and methods that decompress block compressed texture data may decompress the texture data while simplifying computations to reduce die area while maintaining the required accuracy. Reducing the die area permits more texture data to be decompressed in the same die area compared with a more accurate decompression, thereby increasing texture decompression throughput. Computations are simplified by combining denominators for linear interpolation with format conversion to decompress texture data components compressed using conventional block compression formats.
US08094158B1
Systems and methods for using multiple versions of programmable constants within a multi-threaded processor allow a programmable constant to be changed before a program using the constants has completed execution. Processing performance may be improved since programs using different values for a programmable constant may execute simultaneously. The programmable constants are stored in a constant buffer and an entry of a constant buffer table is bound to the constant buffer. When a programmable constant is changed it is copied to an entry in a page pool and address translation for the page pool is updated to correspond to the old version (copy) of the programmable constant. An advantage is that the constant buffer stores the newest version of the programmable constant.
US08094151B1
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing dual depth peeling, which is useful for order-independent transparency blending. Multiple rendering passes are performed on a graphics scene. After each rendering pass, the front-most and back-most layer of pixels are peeled away by computing a reference window. In subsequent rendering passes, only pixels within the reference window survive depth sorting. In each subsequent rendering pass, the reference window is narrowed by the front most and back most surviving pixels. By performing depth peeling in two directions simultaneously, the number of rendering passes needed to generate a completed graphics image is reduced from L to 1+L/2, which results in improved rendering performance.
US08094141B2
A portable electronic device includes a base segment, a sliding segment, and an input module. The base segment defines more than one indicator. The sliding segment is slidably connected to the base segment and defines a pointer operable to align with an indicator. The input module includes a first magnet, a second magnet, and a sensor. The first magnet is received in the base segment. The second magnet is fixed to the sliding segment to align with the first magnet, and is configured for applying a magnetic force to the first magnet. The sensor is connected to the first magnet to sense the magnetic force and convert the magnetic force into a corresponding electrical signal. The electrical signal is inputted to the electronic device.
US08094137B2
A system for detecting contact on a display is provided. The system comprises a planar medium associated with the display and includes at least one edge facet and opposing surfaces. The system also includes one or more optical sources operatively coupled to the at least one edge facet for transmitting an optical signal into the planar medium such that the transmitted optical signal is totally internally reflected between the at least one edge facet and opposing surfaces. An optical sensing device is positioned to substantially face at least a portion of the edge facet and adapted to detect at least one object contacting a first surface of the opposing surfaces. The optical sensing device is operative to detect a portion of the optical signal emitted from the first surface at a location corresponding to the object contacting the first surface.
US08094135B2
A touch screen digitizing system comprising a touch screen unit and an analog to digital converter. The touch screen unit includes a first resistive sheet with opposing first and second terminals and a second resistive sheet with opposing third and fourth terminals. The first and second resistive sheets are alternatively energized through the first, second, third, and fourth terminals. The analog to digital converter has an input coupled to the third terminal when the first resistive sheet is energized and the second resistive sheet is not, and coupled to the first terminal when the second resistive sheet is energized and the first resistive sheet is not, a first reference terminal dynamically coupled to a first reference voltage, a second reference terminal dynamically coupled to the second reference voltage, and an output terminal providing digital output data.
US08094133B2
A touch panel device according to the present invention includes: a stylus pen including a conductive stylus pen electrode portion at a tip portion thereof; a plurality of capacitance detecting interconnections formed on a substrate in row and column directions; an oscillator circuit which outputs an oscillation signal for performing charging/discharging to each of the plurality of capacitance detecting interconnections, the oscillation signal having a cycle which changes in accordance with an amount of electric charges in the charging/discharging; and a counter circuit and a computing circuit/control circuit which compute, based on a change of the cycle being in accordance with a capacitance formed between the electrode portion of the stylus pen and the capacitance detecting interconnections, positional coordinates of the stylus pen brought in proximity to the capacitance detecting interconnections in a non-contact manner, wherein the stylus pen outputs to the electrode portion of the stylus pen an input pen signal which is in synchronization with the oscillation signal, has a phase different from a phase of the oscillation signal, and has a larger voltage amplitude compared with the oscillation signal.
US08094129B2
A touch panel is described which uses at least one infrared source and an array of infrared sensors to detect objects which are in contact with, or close to, the touchable surface of the panel. The panel may be operated in both reflective and shadow modes, in arbirary per-pixel combinations which change over time. For example, if the level of ambient infrared is detected and if that level exceeds a threshold, shadow mode is used for detection of touch events over some or all of the display. If the threshold is not exceeded, reflective mode is used to detect touch events. The touch panel includes an infrared source and an array of infrared sensors.
US08094127B2
A display device includes a display, e.g., for displaying information relevant to the operation of a motor vehicle, on the display, an actuator layer being arranged, the operating surface geometry of which is deformable as a function of a control signal.
US08094116B2
The present invention relates to a serial-parallel conversion circuit of a display device.First latch circuits for sampling and latching a serial signal in accordance with sampling pulses outputted from a shift register (31) are provided in association with stages of the shift register (31). In addition, second latch circuits for latching signals outputted from the first latch circuits are provided in association with portions of the stages of the shift register (31). In this case, of all the stages of the shift register (31), the number of stages associated with the second latch circuits is less than the total number of stages of the shift register by two or more.
US08094114B2
A display apparatus and a method for transmitting control signals are disclosed. The display apparatus comprises comparatively a fewer number of control signal lines between the timing controller and the gate driver and/or between the timing controller and the source driver to transmit control signals. Thus, problems due to system complexity, noise and electromagnetic interference may be reduced, and the overall fabrication cost may be effectively reduced.
US08094109B2
A multilevel voltage generating circuit includes first and second input nodes provided on a first resistance element and supplied with first and second reference voltages. A current substantially flows in a first specific area for a line between the first and second input nodes based on a difference between the first and second reference voltages. A first group of output nodes are provided for the first resistance element to output a portion of a plurality of level voltages. A first one of the first group of output nodes for one of the plurality of level voltages which is closest to the first reference voltage is provided outside the first specific area. The first output node, the first input node, and the second input node, are arranged on a line on the first resistance element in this order.
US08094108B2
A gradation voltage adjustment section for increasing a positive gradation voltage VHX of an X-th gradation and a negative gradation voltage of the X-th gradation so that the increment corresponds to a charge pull-in amount ΔV is provided in a gradation voltage generation circuit of each source driver. In at least one embodiment, a center value between the positive and negative gradation voltages is adjusted for each driver in accordance with a slant of the charge pull-in amount ΔV in a direction of a gate signal line, thereby suppressing a flicker without varying a gradation characteristic. Further, a center value between the positive and negative gradation voltages is adjusted for each horizontal line or for every plural lines in a single frame in accordance with a horizontal direction deviation and a vertical direction deviation of the charge pull-in amount ΔV in a transfer block, thereby suppressing a flicker without varying a gradation characteristic.
US08094105B2
A method, apparatus, and electronic device for displaying data are disclosed. A non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display 402 with a non-rectangular active area active matrix 334 may display an adjustable presentation of data. A display-integrated control key may control the presentation of data. A scrolling navigation control may scroll through the adjustable presentation of the data.
US08094100B2
A laser light source device which is used for a video display device displaying video by using plural image frame data inputted from an image generating device includes a laser light source emitting laser light, a drive circuit driving the laser light source, a target light amount acquisition unit that acquires a target light amount which is a light amount necessary for displaying the image frame data, an output light amount detecting unit that detects an output light amount of the laser light source device, a control unit that controls the drive circuit so that the output light amount will be the target light amount, and a determination unit that determinates deterioration of the laser light source by using drive conditions of the drive circuit with respect to at least two different target light amounts at the time of control.
US08094096B2
An organic electroluminescence display includes a first electrode and an auxiliary wire each either on or in a substrate. A luminescent layer is over the first electrode, and a hole transport layer is between the luminescent layer and the first electrode. The hole transport layer extends from over the first electrode to over the auxiliary wire. A second electrode is over the luminescent layer and extends from over the first electrode to over the auxiliary wire. A metal layer is over the auxiliary wire between the hole transport layer and the second electrode. The second electrode and the auxiliary wire are electrically connected via the hole transport layer and the metal layer. The metal layer comprises a metal, wherein a difference of a work function value of the metal minus an absolute value of an energy level of a lowest unoccupied molecular orbit of the hole transport layer is at most approximately 0.5 eV.
US08094093B2
A AC type plasma display apparatus has been disclosed, which satisfies various requirements such as the number of gradations that can be displayed, the display luminance, and the upper limit of power and, further, the efficiency of light emission and the luminance can be increased as much as possible and the display quality of which is not deteriorated. In the plasma display apparatus, a frame is composed of plural subfields, an image is displayed by causing a sustain discharge to occur in each subfield, the sustain discharge can be caused to occur by at least a first sustain waveform and a second sustain waveform different from the first sustain waveform, and the ratio of the first sustain waveform to the second sustain waveform changes, both waveforms being used to cause the sustain discharge to occur in each subfield.
US08094088B2
In an antenna apparatus, a radiation element includes a perturbation element. A first power feeding line has a first end connected to the radiation element and is configured to feed power to the radiation element. A second power feeding line has a first end configured to feed power to the radiation element through electromagnetic coupling. The radiation element, the first power feeding line and the second power feeding line are arranged on a same plane to constitute a balance type antenna.
US08094087B2
A portable navigation apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a multi-antenna assembly configured for including an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration. The antenna assembly includes a master antenna, and at least two auxiliary antennas. The at least two auxiliary antennas are radially distributed about the master antenna. Furthermore, the master antenna and auxiliary antennas are substantially coplanar when the antenna assembly is in the expanded configuration.
US08094075B2
A circular polarization antenna structure with a dual-layer ceramic includes a first hard dielectric body, a first metal layer, a grounding layer, an antenna feed pin, a second hard dielectric body, a second metal layer and an adhesive element. The first metal layer and the grounding layer dispose on a top surface and a bottom surface of the first hard dielectric body. The antenna feed pin passes through the through hole of the first hard dielectric body, the top side of the antenna feed pin is fixed on the top surface of the first hard dielectric body, and the bottom side of the antenna feed pin extends outwards from the bottom surface of the first hard dielectric body. The second hard dielectric body disposes above the top side of the first hard dielectric body. The second metal layer disposes on the top surface of the second hard dielectric body.
US08094044B2
A portable electronic device with scroll wheel control module includes a housing (20), a display (212) and two scroll wheel mechanisms (41,42). Two side walls (220) of the housing having a slot (222) defined therein. Each scroll wheel mechanism includes a main wheel (432), a circuit board (45) a touch switch (47) and a sensing apparatus (46). The main wheel has gratings (4322) defined therein and partially extends out from the slot of the side wall. The touch switch is below the main wheel and is positioned on a circuit board. The sensing apparatus includes a light source (462) configured for emitting light and a light sensing element (464) configured for receiving light from the gratings of the main wheel and producing a pulse signal. When the main wheel is pressed down, the touch switch produces an electronic signal.
US08094037B2
Methods and systems for identifying an appliance comprising receiving indication of an appliance coupling to a communication port on a communication network and retrieving, over the communication network, a first identification assigned to the appliance during manufacturing of the appliance. The appliance is validated using the first identification and a status of the appliance is determined.
US08094033B2
A process monitor measures the absolute value of unit sample resistors and transistors on a common Integrated Circuit (IC) substrate. This information can be used to adjust the gain of an amplifier assembly to a desired value, or to determine the true, corrected gain of such the amplifier assembly. Also, process information about process variations corresponding to the common IC substrate can be collected from the process monitor. Gain correction factors are derived and applied to the amplifier assembly to compensate for the process variations using the gain value and the process information.
US08094032B2
The present invention relates to a voltage detecting circuit for detecting a voltage range of a power source. The voltage detecting circuit includes a micro controlling unit, a boost circuit and a plurality of divider resistors. The micro controlling unit includes a general input/output port and a controlling input/output port. The boost circuit provides a constant voltage. A judgment voltage is obtained according to the divider resistors, the constant voltage and a voltage of the power source. A digital level signal is issued by the general input/output port according to the judgment voltage. In response to the digital level signal, the micro controlling unit generates a corresponding prompt associated with the voltage status of the power source.
US08094029B2
A hand hygiene behavior management system capable of monitoring and recording information generated by the operation of dispensers as a method of assessing behavior of a group as an indication of overall hygiene performance. The system generally includes a plurality of wireless communication devices with a first number of the wireless communication devices being disposed within or adjacent dispensers and operatively configured for sensing, monitoring and reporting information about the status and operation of the dispensers. A hierarchal communication network for access to a central host database; a data processor and hygiene management application software operatively configured to create hygiene management reports based upon the monitored dispenser data and a method to provide user interface.
US08094023B1
Phononic crystals that have the ability to modify and control the thermal black body phonon distribution and the phonon component of heat transport in a solid. In particular, the thermal conductivity and heat capacity can be modified by altering the phonon density of states in a phononic crystal. The present invention is directed to phononic crystal devices and materials such as radio frequency (RF) tags powered from ambient heat, dielectrics with extremely low thermal conductivity, thermoelectric materials with a higher ratio of electrical-to-thermal conductivity, materials with phononically engineered heat capacity, phononic crystal waveguides that enable accelerated cooling, and a variety of low temperature application devices.
US08094021B2
An armored carrier or other transport entity may scan a remotely-readable identification tag, such as a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag, of each monetary package being picked up and/or delivered. The scanner used by the armored carrier may notify the armored carrier if one of the monetary packages goes out of range without being checked out, such as within a period of time. Also, if that monetary package is not returned within range within a particular period of time, the scanner may automatically notify a centralized system. The scanner may further be aware of scheduled monetary packages to be picked up. If not all of the monetary packages as expected are picked up, then the scanner may also notify the armored carrier.
US08094019B1
A security device for preventing the theft of merchandise or other articles that provides for a closed loop system that is self-shunting without the need for removable shunt plugs. The preferred device comprises a plurality of jacks attached to a circuit board for receiving connector plug assemblies that are operatively connected to the articles through sensors. When the connector plug assemblies are not within a jack, a jack contact will engage a nail contact to close a circuit, thereby shunting the jack. Insertion of the connector plug assembly will deflect the jack contact away from the nail contact and create a second closed loop indicating that the jack is in use, and which will monitor and warn of any tampering with the sensor on the article.
US08094015B2
Monitoring systems with predictive failure analysis technology (e.g., Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T)) operate on the basis of correlations between the hard disk's mechanical and electronic characteristics. Using wavelet transforms to analyze electrical signals from the hard disks can help better determine changes in values and trends in various hard disk characteristics. Using wavelet transforms allows for thorough and deeper analysis of the electrical signals from the hard disks. Wavelet analysis can be performed on the electrical signal to extract time and frequency information associated with the low and high frequency components. Analyzing the extracted components of the electrical signal can indicate a presence and position of one or more mechanical defects on the hard disk.
US08094011B2
A system for tracking objects includes a radio frequency (RF) transceiver device integrated in a wireless handheld personal electronic device (e.g., cell phone, BLACKBERRY, iPHONE) having a visual display, a battery power source and a selection of distinct audible ringtones. The transceiver device communicates via RF signals with transponders installed within or attached to personal objects such as, but not limited to: keys; wallets; laptops; handbags; handheld electronic devices; cameras; video cameras; MP3 players; sunglasses and pens. The tracked objects are programed into the wireless handheld electronic device and are viewable on the display, identifying the object by name, transponder number and identifying ringtone. The transceiver device is pre-programed to trigger alarm functions (e.g., distinct ringtone, vibration and/or visual indicator) of the wireless handheld device upon any one or more of the tracked objects becoming separated from the transceiver device beyond a predetermined distance.
US08093999B2
A method is provided for attracting the attention of a motor vehicle driver to a potential hazardous spot in an image, which is illustrated in a real form on a display of the motor vehicle or in a virtual form in a region of the motor vehicle. At least one laser scanner provided in the vehicle scans the surroundings in front of the vehicle and determines the shape of an object and the distance of the object from the vehicle. At least one infrared camera, in particular a thermal imaging camera, is provided on the vehicle. It records the surroundings in front of the vehicle and makes available the real or virtual image of the surroundings for display to the driver. The object is compared with at least a first reference object within the scope of a first pattern recognition process. If there is significant correspondence between the object and the reference object, that area on the real or virtual image displayed to the driver in which the object is to be found is determined. The respective area of the image and/or the respective object is highlighted in the image.
US08093992B2
A system and method related to weapon mounted auxiliary devices that can be operated by wireless remote control, and a remote controller by which an operator can operate the auxiliary devices remotely by wireless control. This includes all means of remote control of the auxiliary devices to include but not be limited to radio frequency (RF), infrared (IR) energy, all other wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, and acoustic, pressure, or sound waves. Control of the auxiliary devices can range from simple activation to wireless control of all auxiliary device controls and adjustments. This can also include a single remote control device that can operate one or more weapon mounted auxiliary devices.
US08093991B2
An RFID tag is disposed within a hermetically sealed housing of an IMD. Low frequency RFID interrogators and tags are used, and the housing walls are made of materials, and/or are reduced in thickness, to facilitate RF communication between the RFID tag and an RFID reader/interrogator programmer. An RFID reader/interrogator may be used which has a limited transmit time and time-out period to avoid interference with the operation of the IMD.
US08093988B2
To provide an entry control system as well as an entry control method allowing for an easy entry of user, permitting a restriction to persons who have a legitimate right to enter a facility, an illuminating device (1) emits a modulated visible light signal 13 modulated by use of a door ID code into a preset illumination range, the modulated visible light signal 13 from the illuminating device (1) is received by a mobile terminal (2) portable by the user, where it is demodulated for wireless signal transmission, and the door ID code transmitted from the mobile terminal (2) is received by an authentication device (3), which judges whether or not the door ID code is legitimate, and generates an unlock command when the door ID code is judged to be legitimate, and a door (4) for a facility controlled of entry receives the unlock command from the authentication device (3), whereby it is unlocked.
US08093983B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments of narrowbody coil isolators containing multiple coil transducers, where integrated circuits are not stacked vertically over the coil transducers. The disclosed coil isolators provide high voltage isolation and high voltage breakdown performance characteristics in small packages that provide a high degree of functionality at a low price.
US08093973B2
A movable contact holder includes a movable contact holder base and a movable contact holder cover. One side of the movable contact holder base is opened to have a plurality of recesses each being formed for holding a contact pair, each contact pair include a bridge contact assembly and a contact spring inserted therein while being isolated from the other pairs. The other side of the movable contact holder base is formed as a bottom wall, and preferably includes openings through which an assembly jig can be inserted from outside the moveable contact holder. Alternatively, jig openings can be formed in lateral side walls of the recesses to allow the assembly jig to be inserted. The movable contact holder cover covers the movable contact holder base and is coupled thereto.
US08093952B2
Aspects of a method and system for precise current matching in deep sub-micron technology may include adjusting a current mirror to compensate for MOSFET gate leakage currents by using feedback circuits. The feedback circuits may be implemented from active components to create active feedback circuits. If the reference current to be mirrored is noisy, a smoothing effect may be achieved by introducing a low-pass filter coupled to the current mirror design. The active feedback may comprise amplifiers, which may comprise one or more amplifier stages. The amplifier may amplify either a bias voltage error or a bias current error. Furthermore, a transimpedance amplifier may be utilized in the feedback loop. The output bias current of the current mirror may be stabilized dynamically during adjusting. Multiple current sources may be utilized in the current mirrors.
US08093941B2
Systems and devices for dynamically scaled charge pumping are presented. Example embodiments of the disclosed systems of dynamically scaled charge pumping enable regulation of the output voltage at a particular ratio and to dynamically control the ratio based on the input voltage. A charge pumping circuit is enabled by an oscillator. The charge pump oscillator is enabled by the output of a comparator. The comparator compares an input voltage to a comparator voltage, which is a divided version of the output voltage. The output voltage is referenced to a regulated voltage and the comparison voltage is divided between the two voltages by a resistor divider. The regulated voltage remains flat until the input voltage equals the reference voltage. At that point, the regulated voltage will begin to rise and follow the input voltage. Before the reference voltage is reached, the output voltage equals the input voltage multiplied by the resistor divider ratio. Once the input voltage reaches the reference voltage, the difference between the output voltage and the input voltage becomes a constant.
US08093939B2
The level shift circuit that converts a level of an input signal into a level between a first and a second voltage, which is higher than the first voltage includes a select circuit that generates an oscillation signal, where at least a frequency or an amplitude of the oscillation signal changes according to an input signal, a filter circuit that removes a DC component of the oscillation signal output from the select circuit and outputs an AC component, a detect circuit that operates between the first voltage and an output side voltage of the filter circuit, and generates a control signal including a signal voltage that changes according to at least a frequency or an amplitude of the AC component of the oscillation signal, and an output circuit that generates an output signal having a level between the first voltage and the second voltage according to the control signal.
US08093932B2
A power-on reset signal generation circuit of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes an external voltage level detector configured to detect an external voltage and generate an external voltage detection signal; a band gap voltage generation unit configured to generate a band gap voltage in response to the external voltage detection signal; a level detection voltage dividing unit configured to divide the external voltage depending upon a level of the band gap voltage and generate a division voltage; and a power-on reset signal generation unit configured to compare the level of the band gap voltage with a level of the division voltage and generate a power-on reset signal.
US08093927B2
A semiconductor device, having a test circuit of a multivalued logic circuit without newly provision of an output terminal for a test signal, and with no increase in transmission delay in an output signal, includes an n-valued input terminal, and comparators that operate at different threshold voltages in response to input signals which have been input to the n-valued input terminal, respectively, and also includes an impedance control circuit that is connected to the n-valued input terminal and outputs of the comparators, respectively, and changes a combine resistance value in response to the output signals of the comparators to change a current flowing in the n-valued input terminal.
US08093925B2
An integrated regulated current drive circuit for driving a squib of an inflatable airbag has a current sense resistor connected in series with a load, and a reference resistor connected in series with a reference current source. Both resistors are matched to define a precise ratio of resistance values which determines the amount of current fed to the squib. Both resistors are implemented by combining a number of identical on-chip resistor elements.
US08093920B2
Surface photo-voltage measurements are used to accurately determine very long steady state diffusion length of minority carriers and to determine iron contaminant concentrations and other recombination centers in very pure wafers. Disclosed methods use multiple (e.g., at least two) non-steady state surface photovoltage measurements of diffusion length done at multiple (e.g., at least two) modulation frequencies. The measured diffusion lengths are then used to obtain a steady state diffusion length with an algorithm extrapolating diffusion length to zero frequency. The iron contaminant concentration is obtained from near steady state measurement of diffusion length at elevated frequency before and after iron activation. The concentration of other recombination centers can then be determined from the steady state diffusion length and the iron concentration measured at elevated frequency.
US08093919B2
It is possible to provide a circuit and method for carrying out a parallel test using BOST (Built Out Self Test). The circuit includes first transfer circuits (11-1, 11-2, . . . ) that extract a data pattern supplied to a complete operating article chip (10) in a BOST (3) from the BOST and that successively transmit the data pattern in response to a clock signal, and second transfer circuits (12-1, 12-2, . . . ) that extract output data from the complete operating article chip (10) as an expectation value pattern and that successively transmit the expectation value pattern in response to the clock signal. The data pattern supplied to the complete operating article chip (10) is applied to one chip to be measured (10-1) and the data pattern from a corresponding stage of the first transfer circuits (11-1, 11-2, . . . ) is applied to each of other chips to be measured (10-2, . . . ). A comparator (14-1) compares output data from the one chip to be measured (10-1) to the output data from the complete operating article chip (10) to decide whether or not they coincide. Corresponding to the other chips to be measured (10-2, . . . ), a comparator (14-2, . . . ) compares respective output data from the other chips to be measured to the expectation value pattern from the corresponding stage of the second transfer circuits (12-1, 12-2, . . . ) to decide whether or not they coincide.
US08093916B2
A method of characterizing semiconductor device includes providing a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate with at least a body-tied (BT) SOI device and a BT dummy device for measurement, respectively measuring tunneling currents (Igb) and scattering parameters (S-parameters) of the BT SOI device and the BT dummy device, subtracting Igb of BT dummy device from that of the BT SOI device to obtain Igb of a floating body (FB) SOI device, filtering characteristics of the BT dummy device out to extract S-parameters of the FB SOI device, and analyzing the S-parameters of the FB SOI device to obtain gate-related capacitances of the FB SOI device.
US08093915B2
An absolute position measuring device suitable for wide-angle range measurement and providing the advantages of high precision, high resolution, and easy data processing. The measuring device comprises a disk capacitive sensor, a measurement signal processing unit, a data processing unit, and a display unit. The disk capacitive sensor comprises a rough division sensor and a fine division sensor. The pitch point value of the fine division sensor is at least two times higher than two resolutions of the rough division sensor. The rough division sensor and the fine division sensor have the same zero position. The grids of the two rough division and fine division sensors are independent to each other, are free of electric coherence, and are fixed relatively to each other. The grid has an exclusive absolute displacement value within a single pitch measurement range.
US08093908B1
According to typical inventive practice, the relative positioning of two press members is mechanically adjustable so that their respective flat surfaces remain parallel at selectively closer or further distances apart. During immersion or partial immersion of the two press members in a fluid of interest, a fluid sample is bounded by the two opposing flat surfaces. The present invention can thus achieve small thicknesses of its fluid samples, which represent “thin fluid films” suitable for measurement of one or more electrical characteristics (e.g., impedance, or impedance-related characteristics such as permittivity). Data acquisition can be performed by generating electrical pulses and receiving data signals from probes contiguous with the fluid sample. Measurements can be taken of fluid samples characterized by varying thicknesses and/or varying pressures. As distinguished from conventional methodologies, which are beset with “bubble-bursting” transience and fragility, the inventive methodology provides thin fluid films that are stable and robust.
US08093891B2
A complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor system in one embodiment includes a doped well extending along a first axis of a doped substrate, a first electrical contact positioned within the doped well, a second electrical contact positioned within the doped well and spaced apart from the first electrical contact along the first axis, a third electrical contact positioned within the doped well and located between the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact along the first axis, and a fourth electrical contact electrically coupled to the doped well at a location of the doped well below the third electrical contact.
US08093890B2
A hall-effect switching system comprises a hall-effect switch, a voltage comparison module, and a resistance bypass module. The voltage comparison module compares a supply voltage and a reference voltage. The resistance bypass module selectively adjusts a voltage output to the hall-effect switch based on the comparison.
US08093886B2
A rotation-angle-detecting apparatus comprising a magnet rotor, a magnetic sensor detecting the direction of magnetic flux from the magnet rotor, a correction circuit, and an angle-calculating circuit, the magnetic sensor having bridge circuits X and Y each comprising four connected magnetoresistive devices, each magnetoresistive device comprising a spin-valve, giant-magnetoresistive film, the correction circuit calculating difference (Vx−Vy) and sum (Vx+Vy) from the output voltage Vx of the bridge circuit X and the output voltage Vy of the bridge circuit Y, and making their amplitudes equal to each other, and the angle-calculating circuit determining the rotation angle of the rotor by arctangent calculation from a signal (Vx−Vy)′ and a signal (Vx+Vy)′ supplied with the same amplitude from the correction circuit.
US08093875B2
A method for cable resistance cancellation. A single remote sense line and a simple cable resistance cancellation network are leveraged in a power supply unit to compensate for the total cable voltage drop, while maintaining tight output accuracy. By completely compensating for the voltage drops, the wire gauge for the main power wires can be reduced, thereby allowing the use of smaller diameter cables.
US08093874B1
A buck (with boost) switcher is provided that adds boost functionality to a buck switcher without compromising the buck's performance with extra series-coupled switches nor requiring a second inductor. The switcher has an integrated circuit that is capable of receiving a power supply voltage and a mode signal and generating on separate outputs either a boost voltage or a buck voltage based on the power supply voltage and the mode signal. The mode signal corresponds to one of a buck mode and a boost mode. The switcher also has a single inductor that is coupled to the integrated circuit and is capable of being used by the integrated circuit to generate the boost voltage (or a high voltage capable current) in the boost mode and to generate the buck voltage in the buck mode.
US08093873B2
This invention relates to a method for Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) a photovoltaic cell by a power converter that provides an output current at voltages useful to operate electronics or charge batteries.This invention also relates to a method for Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) multiple photovoltaic cells by a power combiner that combines the output of the multiple photovoltaic cells into a single output. The power combiner is comprised of multiple power converters, one for each photovoltaic cell. Each power converter used in these methods has an input-regulating element that has an output wave form with a characteristic that is related to the photovoltaic cell voltage and current. As a result only the photovoltaic cell voltage is directly measured in these methods and the photovoltaic cell current is determined indirectly.
US08093872B2
This invention relates to a method for Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) a photovoltaic cell by a power converter that provides an output current at voltages useful to operate electronics or charge batteries. This invention also relates to a method for Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) multiple photovoltaic cells by a power combiner that combines the output of the multiple photovoltaic cells into a single output. The power combiner is comprised of multiple power converters, one for each photovoltaic cell. Each power converter used in these methods has an input-regulating element that has an output wave form with a characteristic that is related to the photovoltaic cell voltage and current. As a result only the photovoltaic cell voltage is directly measured in these methods and the photovoltaic cell current is determined indirectly.
US08093871B2
In one example embodiment, a power control system includes one or more stages, a plurality of primary busbars operatively coupled to the one or more stages, and an intelligent controller operatively coupled to the one or more stages. Each of the one or more stages is configured to generate a lead current when coupled in parallel to a power distribution system, and at least one of the one or more stages comprises a notch filter and a power tank circuit. Each of the plurality of primary busbars is configured to carry one phase of a multiple phase power signal. The controller is configured to determine when to switch each of the one or more stages one and off, to count a number of times each stage is switched on, and to track one or more electrical parameters of the power distribution system, power control system, or both.
US08093866B2
The management method comprises a charging phase and may comprise an optional prior phase of estimating the state of charge of the battery. Comparison of the absolute value of the slope of the voltage at the battery terminals with a full-charge threshold at the end of each period, when a pulsed current is applied, is used as end-of-charging criterion in the charging phase and/or as full-charge criterion in the phase of estimating the state of charge. The charging phase by pulsed current is interrupted when the slope reaches the full-charge threshold. This same comparison constitutes the criterion for estimating the necessity for going to a charging step after the prior phase of estimating the state of charge of the battery.
US08093858B1
A voltage or power conditioning and control device may be used in line with a source of AC line power and a reactive load such as a single-phase induction motor. The device operates to absorb some of the power reflected by the AC load and generate a synthetic power wave to supplement and correct the applied power in level and phase. The device employs a pair of power capacitors, and a pair of electronic switch devices each with a diode in parallel. Gating or command signals are generated based on the line voltage and timing, e.g., zero crossings. The phase or timing of the command signals is selected for a normal or no-boost mode, a voltage boost mode, or a voltage reduction mode. The capacitors are considered in series with the load, and improve the power factor to the load. A variation of this device may be used in conjunction with a solar array or other local power source.
US08093856B2
In a position control apparatus that drives a feed-axis with a servomotor of a machine tool, the machine tool may be quickly accelerated or decelerated in a state where a machine structural member that supports and fixes a structural member including a driving system has a lower rigidity, or in a state where an element having a lower rigidity is present beyond a load position where the detection by a linear scale is performed. In such cases, a generated deflection may induce a displacement in a mechanical system. A relative locus error may be generated between a workpiece to be processed and a front end portion of the tool. Further, a mechanism rigidity generally changes according to a machine posture. The generated deflection amount changes in magnitude. The present embodiment estimates and compensates a displacement amount of the front end portion of the tool that may be caused by the deflection of the mechanical system. Moreover, in calculating an estimation amount, the present embodiment can change a parameter corresponding to the mechanism rigidity based on the machine posture. Thus, the front end of the tool can move accurately along a desired locus relative to the workpiece to be processed.
US08093844B2
A motor control circuit that features a smart, two-phase braking operation is presented. The motor control circuit includes a motor drive circuit to apply a brake current to a coil of an external motor for active braking of the motor. The motor control circuit further includes a braking control circuit, coupled to the motor drive circuit and responsive to an externally generated control signal, to control the active braking by the motor drive circuit so that the active braking occurs in two phases. The two phases include a first phase that includes a first portion of the active braking and a second phase that includes back electromotive force (BEMF) voltage sensing and a second portion of the active braking.
US08093843B2
By the vehicle controller of the present invention, when the economy mode is selected by a driver, boosting by a converter is limited and output torque of a motor is limited. Even in the economy mode, however, if the driver requests large torque, either the limit on boosting or the limit on output torque is cancelled. As a result, a vehicle controller for a vehicle including a battery, a converter boosting/lowering the battery voltage and a motor operating with the power from the converter is provided, by which unnecessary power consumption is reduced and the torque requested by the driver can be generated.
US08093835B2
A light emitting driver circuit, system, and method are provided. The driver circuit system and method can be implemented in various ways. An embodiment includes a bypass circuit which diverts current from the LEDs whenever a switch coupled to the LEDs incurs residual current when turned off. In an additional or alternative embodiment, the residual current can be sensed and the amount of residual current used to trigger fetching of a compensation value. That compensation value can change a dimming function forwarded to the switch in order to compensate for, offset, or substantially eliminate the residual current through that switch.
US08093834B2
A ballast control integrated circuit for a ballast driving a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp. The control integrated circuit has a first circuit for controlling a DC to DC converter receiving a first DC voltage and providing an increased DC voltage. The first circuit includes a driver for providing a pulsed signal to drive a first switch coupled to a flyback transformer of the DC to DC converter. A second circuit controls a DC to AC converter, the second circuit controlling a switching circuit receiving the increased DC voltage and driving the HID lamp with an AC voltage. The second circuit has a driver circuit for driving the switching circuit. The switching circuit is an H-bridge switching circuit coupled to drive the HID lamp.
US08093823B1
A light source including at least one light emitting diode and, optionally, a housing portion surrounding the light emitting diode. The at least one light emitting diode can be an organic light-emitting diode sheet. The at least one light emitting diode is preferably enclosed in a housing portion comprising a hollow bulb-shaped portion formed of glass, plastic, etc. The housing portion can be filled partially or completely by a potting material. Alternatively, the housing portion can be formed of a potting material or a conformal coating material. At least one connector is coupled to the end of the housing portion. A power supply circuit supplies electrical current to the at least one light emitting diode through the connector.
US08093822B2
An LED driver providing an LED lighting current to an LED path, extracts the LED lighting current information from the LED path to produce a first signal including an AC component and a DC component, and extracts the DC component information of the first signal to produce a second signal to regulate an average of the LED lighting current. This LED driver implements real constant average current regulation for an LED lighting apparatus, eliminates the need of output capacitor as well as rectifier diode in most applications to simplify the circuit of the power stage, and is applicable to power stages of various modes.
US08093819B2
A light string includes a load comprising a trigger LED assembly and a lighting assembly connected in series with the trigger LED assembly, the lighting assembly comprising a plurality of series connected lamps comprising an LED; and a rectifier for converting a source of AC into DC which is supplied to the load. The trigger LED assembly is adapted to flash and cause the lamps to flash. In one embodiment the trigger LED assembly includes a trigger LED and a capacitor connected in parallel with the trigger LED. The trigger LED includes a first LED and a second LED. The cathode of the first LED is connected to the cathode of the second LED, the anode of the first LED is connected to the positive terminal of the capacitor, and the anode of the second LED is connected to the negative terminal of the capacitor respectively.
US08093815B2
A high-pressure discharge lamp and a reflector lamp including a discharge vessel enclosing a discharge space which is provided with an ionizable filling comprising one or more halides. The discharge vessel is substantially constituted by a ceramic material having first and second end portions. Current-supply conductors issue through each end portion to respective electrodes arranged in the discharge space so as to maintain a discharge. At least one of the current-supply conductors is formed as a rod including iridium. The rod is directly sealed to the ceramic material.
US08093814B2
An electrode-forming composition and a plasma display panel manufactured using the electrode-forming composition are provided. The electrode-forming composition includes: frit, a metal powder, and a vehicle, wherein the metal powder and the frit are contained in a weight ratio of 52 to 62:5 to 15; the plasma display panel including: first and second substrates that face each other with a predetermined distance between; a first electrode formed on the first substrate and extending in a first direction; a dielectric layer formed on the first substrate to cover the first electrode; a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, formed on the second substrate, and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction; a barrier rib in a space between the first substrate and the second substrate where the barrier rib defines a plurality of discharge cells; and a phosphor layer formed within each discharge cell, wherein the first electrode includes an insulating glass lager along an edge in the first direction.
US08093811B2
A technique for improving impact resistance performance of a panel is provided in a module or display apparatus with a flat display panel. In a PDP module, a filter is bonded onto a front surface side of a PDP, and a base chassis is bonded to a rear surface side with a two-sided tape. In an attaching portion for the base chassis and a casing, a spring structure portion having a sloped portion and a space is provided in an area of the base chassis so as to correspond to a connecting part of the casing. Impact to glass of the PDP is buffered to an impact force in a direction vertical to a surface of the PDP due to a spring property of the spring structure portion.
US08093810B2
A plasma display device embodying a touch panel function utilizing infrared rays that are generated when displaying an image and that are emitted in a uniform distribution manner in a display area. The plasma display device includes: a plasma display panel (PDP) for displaying an image; a chassis base attached to and supporting the PDP; an infrared ray sensor at a front surface or a rear surface of the PDP for detecting a change in amount of infrared rays emitted from the PDP; and a controller for receiving a detection signal and determining a position of the change in amount of infrared rays, the position of the change in amount of infrared rays defining a touch position.
US08093809B2
A color electroluminescent (EL) display device comprises a transparent substrate, and a transparent electrode arranged on the transparent substrate. The EL display also includes an electroluminescent layer arranged on the transparent electrode that comprises a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit comprises at least two regions comprising electroluminescent materials capable of emitting light of different colors. The EL display further comprises a plurality of opposing electrodes arranged on the electroluminescent layer. Each of the opposing electrodes cooperates with the transparent electrode to apply a voltage to one of the at least two regions of each pixel unit.
US08093808B2
An organic EL device includes: a base body; pixels that are arranged in the base body and emit light beams having either of at least two different colors from among red, green and blue; an reflection layer that has optical reflectivity and arranged on the base body; an anti-reflection layer that is arranged on the reflection layer and has optical reflectivity lower than that of the reflection layer; an insulation layer that is arranged on the anti-reflection layer and has optical transmittance; a first electrode that is arranged in each pixel on the insulation layer and has optical transmittance; an organic functional layer that is arranged on the first electrode and includes at least a luminescent layer; a second electrode that is arranged on the organic functional layer and has optical reflectivity and optical transmittance; and an optical resonator that is formed between the reflection layer and the second electrode to resonate the light from the organic functional layer, wherein the optical resonator has a resonance wavelength corresponding to the color of the light emitted from the pixels in a first area out of an area of the pixels, and the anti-reflection layer is provided in an area except for the first area out of the area of the pixels.
US08093804B2
An organic electroluminescent display device includes: a first substrate having an active area displaying images and a non-active area surrounding the active area; a switching thin film transistor and a driving thin film transistor connected to the switching thin film transistor in the active area on the first substrate; an organic electroluminescent diode connected to the driving thin film transistor; a dummy metal pattern at a corner portion of the non-active area on the first substrate; a second substrate facing and spaced apart from the first substrate, the second substrate including a groove; and a seal pattern attaching the first and second substrates, wherein the dummy metal pattern overlaps a residue at a corner portion of the groove.
US08093797B2
An electroluminescent layer for a light. The light includes a phosphor with a fluorescent pigment or dye.
US08093793B2
An object of the present invention is to provide fluorescent lamps used as a light source for liquid crystal display devices, which have excellent characteristics in terms of preventing solarization, the properties for blocking ultraviolet rays, and the physical and thermal strength, and preventing scratching. The present invention provides fluorescent lamps made of glass containing 55.0% to 75.0% of SiO2; 10.0% to 25.0% of B2O3; 1.0% to 10.0% of Al2O3; 0% to 3.8% of Na2O; 0% to 3.0% of Li2O; 3.0% to 10.0% of K2O; 3.2% to 16.0% of Na2O+Li2O+K2O; 0.5% to 8% of TiO2; 0.1% to 5% of CeO2; 0.6% to 8.1% of TiO2+CeO2; 0.001% to 0.05% of Fe2O3; 0% to 0.7% of Sb2O3; 0.1% to 3.0% of SnO2; and 0.5% to 10.0% of at least one rare earth element selected from the group consisting of Gd, Y, La, Yb and Lu by weight, and is characterized in that the coefficient of linear expansion in a temperature range of 30° C. to 380° C. is 34×10−7/° C. to 58×10−7/° C.
US08093779B2
A concentrated winding coil includes a plurality of coil layers each of which comprises a plurality of wire turns wound in alignment winding; and a bobbin including an inner flange, an outer flange and a bobbin body on which the wire is wound, wherein: each of the coil layers includes a turn shift portion where the wire is shifted from an n-th turn to an (n+1)-th turn; the turn shift portion is located only on a side of a coil end section of the coil; and the bobbin body has no guide grooves. A method of manufacturing the concentrated winding coil includes steps of: winding the wire on the bobbin; and pressing the wire by a wire guiding/holding member toward the inner flange or toward the outer flange.
US08093770B1
Cooling of the end windings on a stator of the electric motor can be made more uniform if a physically-compliant, thermally-conductive cap is placed over the end windings. In one embodiment, a liquid coolant is sprayed on the outside of the cap. The cap serves to make the temperature more uniform in the end windings. In an alternative embodiment, a cover is placed over the cap with a coolant jacket formed between the cap and the cover. A coolant, such as transmission fluid or engine coolant, can be circulated in the coolant jacket.
US08093768B2
A portable electronic device includes a housing, a plurality of buttons mounted on the housing for operating the portable electronic device, a power supply received in the housing for supplying working electric power to the portable electronic device, and a generator unit. The generator unit includes a plurality of magnetic components mounted on the buttons and a plurality of windings received in the housing and electronically connected to the power supply. Thereby induced currents for charging the power supply are generated when the magnetic components are moved with the movements of the operated buttons.
US08093765B1
Disclosed is an improved noise reducing apparatus using an anti-circuit, including a digital logic circuit and a digital anti-circuit corresponding to the digital logic circuit. The digital anti-circuit functions to cancel noise generated by the digital logic circuit. The anti-circuit includes logic to generate a similar number of switching edges as the logic circuit, where the anti-circuit edges are in the opposite direction as the logic circuit. The anti-circuit may have a circuit structure close to that of the noisy circuit, or can be formed of components different in structure but generating an output pattern similar to (and opposite from) the noisy circuit. In some embodiments, the differently structured components can include a state machine coupled to a memory or look-up-table.
US08093755B2
A power supply system includes a power supply device, a switch device, a detecting device and a wireless operating terminal. The power supply device is connected to an electric appliance via the switch device to supply electric power to the electric appliance. The detecting device is connected to the switch device to detect working electric potential of the power supply device and the electric appliance, thereby generating and recording detecting data of the power supply device and the electric appliance. The wireless operating terminal communicates with the detecting device for remotely receiving the detecting data from the detecting device.
US08093753B2
A sequential control master-slave socket device includes at least one master socket, a plurality of slave socket, a plurality of switches, a load judgment device and a controller. Each master socket is coupled to an input power source. Inlet terminals of the switches are coupled to the input power source commonly and outlet terminals of the switches are respectively correspondingly coupled with the slave sockets for controlling whether the input power source is provided for each of the slave sockets. The load judgment device is coupled with each master socket for outputting a control signal according to an electrify state of a load connected with each master socket. The controller is coupled with the load judgment device and each switch to drive the switches one by one in a preset sequence under the control of the control signal.
US08093752B2
The present disclosure relates to circuits and methods for improving the performance of plural DC-DC voltage converters.
US08093751B1
A system and method for remotely controlling power to an electrically powered device in a simple and efficient manner is disclosed herein. The system preferably comprises an apparatus, an electrically-powered device and a controller. The apparatus preferably comprises a cord, an alternating current outlet socket, an alternating current input plug, a latching relay, a processor and a transceiver. The system preferably uses a WiFi communication signal to transmit commands from the remote controller to the apparatus.
US08093743B2
A plant for producing electrical power from the movement of waves. An offshore dam has a fixed generally vertical surface which is located in open water having wave movement and located vertically at the water surface. A submerged part which is fixed relative to the dam has an opening below the waves and in close proximity to the plane of the vertical surface to receive sea water. A force exerting structure such as a hydraulic pump or a thrust arrangement receives the water through the opening and forces that water through a one-way valve beyond which it is led to a turbine for producing electric power.
US08093737B2
A method for operating a wind turbine. The method includes providing a wind turbine having a variable speed control system, the control system having an initial rotational speed set point. At least two operational parameters are obtained from one or more sensors. An adjusted rotational speed set point greater than the initial rotational speed set point is determined in response to the operational parameter. The control system is configured with the adjusted rotational speed set point. A wind turbine and wind turbine plant are also disclosed.
US08093731B2
An electric power generation system is disclosed. The electric power generation system comprises a string configured to be pulled. The electric power generation system further comprises a bobbin configured to rotate when the string is unwound from the bobbin. The electric power generation system further comprises an electric power generator having a rotor. The rotor is configured to rotate such that the ratio of number of rotations of the rotor and the bobbin is 1:1 when the string is being pulled.
US08093727B2
A method for manufacturing of an integrated circuit package-in-package system includes: mounting a first integrated circuit device over a substrate; mounting an integrated circuit package system having an inner encapsulation over the first integrated circuit device with a first offset; mounting a second integrated circuit device over the first integrated circuit device and adjacent to the integrated circuit package system; connecting the integrated circuit package system and the substrate; and forming a package encapsulation as a cover for the first integrated circuit device, the integrated circuit package system, and the second integrated circuit device.
US08093722B2
A system-in-package includes a package carrier; a first semiconductor die having a die face and a die edge, the first semiconductor die being assembled face-down to a chip side of the package carrier; a second semiconductor die mounted alongside of the first semiconductor die; a rewiring laminate structure comprising a re-routed metal layer between the first semiconductor die and the package carrier. At least a portion of the re-routed metal layer projects beyond the die edge. A plurality of bumps are arranged on the rewiring laminate structure for electrically connecting the first semiconductor die with the package carrier.
US08093719B1
In one embodiment, an integrated circuit device includes an active area encompassed by a seal ring. The seal ring may include a deep moat formed on an outer edge of the seal ring. The deep moat may have a depth that extends substantially to the substrate to prevent cracks from propagating into the active area. Alternatively or in addition, the seal ring may include redundant vias.
US08093716B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor device fuse, comprising a metal layer and a first semiconductor layer that electrically couples the metal layer to a fuse layer, wherein the fuse layer is spaced apart from the metal layer. The semiconductor device fuse further comprises a second semiconductor layer that forms a blow junction interface with the fuse layer. The blow junction interface is configured to form an open circuit when a predefined power is transmitted through the second semiconductor layer to the fuse layer.
US08093708B2
A semiconductor package has a non-uniform contact arrangement in which clustered contacts (e.g., a group of ground contacts, a group of power contacts, and/or a group of heatslug contacts) are placed closer together than I/O contacts. In one embodiment, I/O contacts near a cluster have a pitch in at least one direction that is larger than other I/O contacts. A local increase in the pitch of I/O contacts may be used to increase the line width and/or spacing of traces that fan out from corresponding pads on a printed circuit board.
US08093706B2
A mounting structure includes: at least one semiconductor device having solder bumps as outer terminals and a flexible wiring board with wiring formed thereon. The semiconductor device is structured to be wrapped by the flexible wiring board, the mounting structure is provided with outer electrodes on both sides of the flexible wiring board, one side being a side where outer terminals of the semiconductor device are formed, and the other side being an opposite side thereof. At least one wiring layer is formed on the flexible wiring board. A supporting member is provided covering side faces and a surface of the semiconductor device opposite to the side where the outer terminals are formed and protruding from the side faces of the semiconductor device and extending toward the surface on which the outer terminals are formed.
US08093705B2
A dual face package includes a semiconductor substrate including a through-electrode connected to a die pad disposed on one side of the semiconductor substrate, and a lower redistribution layer disposed on another side thereof and connected to the through-electrode, an insulating layer including a post electrode connected to the through-electrode, and an upper redistribution layer disposed on one side thereof and connected to the post electrode, and an adhesive layer disposed on the one side of the semiconductor substrate so as to attach the insulating layer to the semiconductor substrate such that the through-electrode is connected to the post electrode.
US08093704B2
In some embodiments, package on package using a bump-less build up layer (BBUL) package is presented. In this regard, an apparatus is introduced comprising a microelectronic die having an active surface, an inactive surface parallel to said active surface, and at least one side, an encapsulation material adjacent said at least one microelectronic die side, wherein said encapsulation material includes a bottom surface substantially planar to said microelectronic die active surface and a top surface substantially planar to said microelectronic die inactive surface, a through via connection in said encapsulation material extending from said top surface to said bottom surface, a first dielectric material layer disposed on at least a portion of said microelectronic die active surface and said encapsulation material surface, a plurality of build-up layers disposed on said first dielectric material layer, and a plurality of conductive traces disposed on said first dielectric material layer and said build-up layers and in electrical contact with said microelectronic die active surface. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US08093698B2
Gettering/stop layer for prevention of reduction of insulating oxide in metal-insulator-metal device
An electronic device includes a first electrode, a second electrode and an insulating layer between the first and second electrodes, which insulating layer may be susceptible to reduction by H2. A gettering layer is provided on and in contact with the first electrode, the gettering layer acting as a protective layer for substantially avoiding reduction of the insulating layer by capturing and immobilizing H2. A glue layer may be provided between the gettering layer and first electrode. An additional gettering layer may be provided on and in contact with the second electrode, and a glue layer may be provided between the second electrode and additional gettering layer.
US08093693B2
An integrated circuit package system is provided including forming an external interconnect having a lead tip and a lead body, forming a recess in the lead body from a lead body top surface, connecting an integrated circuit die and the external interconnect, and molding the external interconnect with the recess filled.
US08093689B2
A semiconductor sensor device is electrically coupled to an object. An attachment member attaches the semiconductor sensor device to the object. The attachment member comprises a first conductive contact region and a second conductive contact region. An insulating portion is electrically isolates the semiconductor sensor device from the first conductive contact region and second conductive contact region.
US08093684B2
The semiconductor of the present invention has iron sulfide and a forbidden band control element contained in the iron sulfide. The forbidden band control element has a property capable of controlling the forbidden band of iron sulfide on the basis of the number density of the forbidden band control element in the iron sulfide. An n-type semiconductor is manufactured by incorporating a group 13 element of the IUPAC system into iron sulfide. Moreover, a p-type semiconductor is manufactured by incorporating a group Ia element into iron sulfide. A semiconductor junction device or a photoelectric converter is manufactured by using the n-type semiconductor and the p-type semiconductor.
US08093675B2
To provide a photoelectric conversion element that allows connection between adjacent photoelectric conversion elements by use of an inexpensive wiring member.A photoelectric conversion element of the present invention comprises: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a first electrode arranged on the back side of the first semiconductor layer and electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, the second semiconductor layer brought into contact with the first semiconductor layer and arranged at least in part on the light-receiving side of the first semiconductor layer; a light-receiving face-side electrode provided so as to be electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer on its light-receiving side; a second electrode arranged on the back side of the first semiconductor layer, and electrically separated from the first semiconductor layer, but electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer; and a penetrating-connecting section penetrating the first semiconductor layer, and electrically separated from the first semiconductor layer, but electrically connecting the light-receiving face-side electrode with the second electrode, wherein the photoelectric conversion element is characterized in that the first electrode and the second electrode are arranged equidistantly apart from a central axis passing through a center of the photoelectric conversion element.
US08093671B2
Device and method of forming a device in which a substrate (10) is fabricated with at least part of an electronic circuit for processing signals. A bulk single crystal material (14) is formed on the substrate, either directly on the substrate (10) or with an intervening thin film layer or transition region (12). A particular application of the device is for a radiation detector.
US08093663B2
A semiconductor device. The device comprises an active region isolated by an isolation structure on a substrate. The device further comprises a gate electrode extending across the active area and overlying the substrate, a pair of source region and drain region, disposed on either side of the gate electrode on the substrate in the active area, and a gate dielectric layer disposed between the substrate and the gate electrode. The gate dielectric layer comprises a relatively-thicker high voltage (HV) dielectric portion and a relatively-thinner low voltage (LV) dielectric portion, wherein the HV dielectric portion occupies a first intersection among the drain region, the isolation structure, and the gate electrode, and a second intersection among the source region, the isolation structure, and the gate electrode.
US08093658B2
The use of strained gate electrodes in integrated circuits results in a transistor having improved carrier mobility, improved drive characteristics, and reduced source drain junction leakage. The gate electrode strain can be obtained through non symmetric placement of stress inducing structures as part of the gate electrode.
US08093656B2
The present invention provides a color filter substrate that can include color filters 12, which are formed in at least a display region and each of which are composed of colored portions, and a light shielding layer on a substrate main body. The light shielding layer can be formed on the approximately entire surface of a color filter non-forming region, in addition to the display region. Further, the colored portions can be formed by an inkjet method, and the color filter substrate can further include a resin member for partitioning pixels for forming the respective colored portions, and the resin member can be formed on the approximately entire surface of the color filter non-forming region, in addition to along the peripheries of the respective colored portions.
US08093655B2
An integrated circuit including a field effect controllable trench transistor having two-control electrodes is disclosed. One embodiment provides a trench having a first control electrode and a second control electrode. A first electrical line is provided in an edge structure for electrically contact-connecting second control electrode.
US08093644B2
A carbon nanotube based memory device comprises a set of three concentric carbon nanotubes having different diameters. The diameters of the three concentric carbon nanotubes are selected such that an inner carbon nanotube is semiconducting, and intershell electron transport occurs between adjacent carbon nanotubes. Source and drain contacts are made to the inner carbon nanotube, and a gate contact is made to the outer carbon nanotube. The carbon nanotube based memory device is programmed by storing electrons or holes in the middle carbon nanotube through intershell electron transport. Changes in conductance of the inner carbon nanotube due to the charge in the middle shell are detected to determine the charge state of the middle carbon nanotube. Thus, the carbon nanotube based memory device stores information in the middle carbon nanotube in the form of electrical charge.
US08093640B2
A method and system for fabricating a stacked capacitor and a DMOS transistor are disclosed. In one aspect, the method and system include providing a bottom plate, an insulator, and an additional layer including first and second plates. The insulator covers at least a portion of the bottom plate and resides between the first and second top plates and the bottom plate. The first and second top plates are electrically coupled through the bottom plate. In another aspect, the method and system include forming a gate oxide. The method and system also include providing SV well(s) after the gate oxide is provided. A portion of the SV well(s) resides under a field oxide region of the device. Each SV well includes first, second, and third implants having a sufficient energy to provide the portion of the SV well at a desired depth under the field oxide region without significant additional thermal processing. A gate, source, and drain are also provided.
US08093636B2
A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor includes a photodiode, a gate pattern of a transfer transistor contacting one side of the photodiode, a gate pattern of a drive transistor disposed to have a predetermined spacing distance from the gate pattern of the transfer transistor, and a floating diffusion node disposed between the gate pattern of the transfer transistor and the gate pattern of the drive transistor.
US08093632B2
A phase change memory device includes a silicon substrate including a plurality of active regions which extend in a first direction and are arranged at regular intervals in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Switching elements are formed in each active region of the silicon substrate and are spaced apart from one another. Phase change patterns are formed in the second direction and have the shape of lines in such that the phase change patterns connect side surfaces of pairs of switching elements which are placed adjacent to each other in a direction diagonal to the first direction.
US08093630B2
The invention provides a semiconductor device and a lateral diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first conductive type. A gate is disposed on the substrate. A source doped region is formed in the substrate, neighboring with a first side of the gate, wherein the source doped region has a second conductive type different from the first conductive type. A drain doped region is formed in the substrate, neighboring with a second side opposite to the first side of the gate. The drain doped region is constructed by a plurality of first doped regions with the first conductive type and a plurality of second doped regions with the second conductive type, wherein the first doped regions and the second doped regions are alternatively arranged.
US08093629B2
The present invention comprises a semiconductor chip, and a semiconductor device having a plurality of semiconductor chips, that enables ESD protection from another semiconductor chip without increasing the chip area in case the semiconductor chip is Multi-Chip-Packaged, without wasting chip area in case the semiconductor chip is not Multi-Chip-Packaged. The exemplary semiconductor chip of the present invention includes an internal circuit and a first electrode pad electrically connected to a ground bus line of the first semiconductor chip in a region where an electrode pad, which gives and receives electric signals required for an operation of the internal circuit, cannot be provided.
US08093625B2
Disclosed is a nitride semiconductor light emitting device. The nitride semiconductor light emitting device comprises a buffer layer having a super-lattice layer on a silicon substrate, a first conductive clad layer on the buffer layer, an active layer on the first conductive clad layer, and a second conductive clad layer on the active layer.
US08093621B2
In one embodiment, a power transistor device comprises a substrate that forms a PN junction with an overlying buffer layer. The power transistor device further includes a first region, a drift region that adjoins a top surface of the buffer layer, and a body region. The body region separates the first region from the drift region. First and second dielectric regions respectively adjoin opposing lateral sidewall portions of the drift region. The dielectric regions extend in a vertical direction from at least just beneath the body region down at least into the buffer layer. First and second field plates are respectively disposed in the first and second dielectric regions. A trench gate that controls forward conduction is disposed above the dielectric region adjacent to and insulated from the body region.
US08093620B2
The present invention provides a lighting head assembly that incorporates a high intensity LED package into an integral assembly including a heat sink and circuit board for further incorporation into other useful lighting devices. The present invention primarily includes a heat sink member that also serves as a mounting die and a reflector cup into which the LED package is mounted. The circuit board is placed behind the reflector cup and includes riser members that extend through holes in the rear wall of the reflector cup to facilitate electrical connections to the leads of the LED. This particular means for assembly allows the reflector cup and circuit board to cooperate to retain the LED package, provide electrical and control connections, provide integral heat sink capacity and includes an integrated reflector cup. In this manner, high intensity LED packages can be incorporated into lighting assemblies through the use of the present invention by simply installing the present invention into a housing and providing power connections thereto.
US08093610B2
An optoelectronic component with a desired color impression in the switched-off state includes, in particular, a semiconductor layer sequence with an active region, that during operation radiates electromagnetic radiation with a first spectrum, and a wavelength conversion layer that is disposed downstream from the semiconductor layer sequence in the beam path of the electromagnetic radiation with the first spectrum, and that at least partially converts a subspectrum of the electromagnetic radiation with the first spectrum into electromagnetic radiation with a second spectrum, and a filter layer that reflects at least a part of the radiation incident from outside onto the optoelectronic component.
US08093609B2
In a light emitting diode arrangement for lighting purposes, comprising a circuit board with at least one light generating semiconductor element disposed on the circuit board and conductors extending on the circuit board to the semiconductor element and being electrically connected to terminals of the semiconductor element, a light transmissive element is disposed on the circuit board and covers the semiconductor element and a flame resistant cover element is disposed below the light transmissive element and on top of the terminals to cover the terminals to provide for electrical and flame insulation thereof.
US08093601B2
In an active matrix substrate (100) of the present invention, a gate bus line (105) and a gate electrode (166) extend in the first direction (the x direction). At a contact portion (168) for electrically connecting the gate bus line (105) with the drain regions of a first-conductivity-type transistor section (162) and a second-conductivity-type transistor section (164), the direction of the straight line (L1) of the shortest distance (d1) between one of a plurality of first-conductivity-type drain connecting portions (168c) that is closest to the gate bus line (105) and the gate bus line (105) is inclined with respect to the second direction (the y direction).
US08093600B2
A light emitting diode packaging structure includes a package body, a red LED chip, a blue LED chip, a green LED chip, a package material and a yellow phosphor. Three LED chips are disposed within an accommodating room of the body package and covered by the package material. The yellow phosphor is uniformly mixed with the package material. A white light is formed by a mix of three types of light from the LED chips. Additionally, a yellow light which is generated from the excitement of the yellow phosphor with the blue light is mixed with a part of the blue light to further form the white light.
US08093597B2
In one embodiment a method enabling in situ dopant implantation during growth of a III-nitride semiconductor body, comprises establishing a growth environment for the III-nitride semiconductor body in a composite III-nitride chamber having a dopant implanter and a growth chamber, growing the III-nitride semiconductor body in the growth chamber, and implanting the III-nitride semiconductor body in situ in the growth chamber using the dopant implanter. A semiconductor device produced using the disclosed method comprises a III-nitride semiconductor body having a first conductivity type formed over a support substrate, and at least one doped region produced by in situ dopant implantation of the III-nitride semiconductor body during its growth, that at least one doped region having a second conductivity type.
US08093596B2
A pixel structure includes a patterned semiconductor layer disposed on a transistor region of the substrate, a first capacitor electrode disposed on a capacitor region of the substrate, a gate dielectric layer disposed on the first capacitor electrode, a gate disposed on a channel region of the patterned semiconductor layer, a second capacitor electrode, a dielectric layer, and an aluminum capacitor electrode sequentially disposed on the gate dielectric layer of the capacitor region, a first dielectric layer disposed on the gate and the aluminum capacitor electrode, at least one first wire disposed in the first dielectric layer for electrically connecting source/drain region of the patterned semiconductor layer and the aluminum capacitor electrode, a second dielectric layer disposed on the first wire, and a first transparent conductive layer disposed on the second dielectric layer and connected to the first wire.
US08093589B2
In a thin film transistor (1), a gate insulating layer (4) is formed on a gate electrode (3) formed on an insulating substrate (2). Formed on the gate insulating layer (4) is a semiconductor layer (5). Formed on the semiconductor layer (5) are a source electrode (6) and a drain electrode (7). A protective layer (8) covers them, so that the semiconductor layer (5) is blocked from an atmosphere. The semiconductor layer (5) (active layer) is made of, e.g., a semiconductor containing polycrystalline ZnO to which, e.g., a group V element is added. This allows practical use of a semiconductor device which has an active layer made of zinc oxide and which includes an protective layer for blocking the active layer from an atmosphere.
US08093583B2
A light emitting diode (LED) having a barrier layer with a superlattice structure is disclosed. In an LED having an active region between an GaN-based N-type compound semiconductor layer and a GaN-based P-type compound semiconductor layer, the active region comprises a well layer and a barrier layer with a superlattice structure. As the barrier layer with the superlattice structure is employed, it is possible to reduce occurrence of defects caused by lattice mismatch between the well layer and the barrier layer.
US08093571B2
An EUV light source of the present invention is capable of using a saturable absorber stably and continuously in a high heat load state. A saturable absorber (SA) device is disposed on a laser beam line to absorb feeble light, such as self-excited oscillation light, parasitic oscillation light or return light. SA gas from an SA gas cylinder and buffer gas from a buffer gas cylinder are mixed to be a mixed gas. The mixed gas is supplied to an SA gas cell via a supply pipeline, and absorbs the feeble light included in the laser beam. The mixed gas is exhausted via an exhaust pipeline, and is sent to a heat exchanger. The mixed gas, cooled down by a heat exchanger, is sent back to the SA gas cell by a circulation pump.
US08093568B2
A radiation therapy system for heavy ions employs a rocking motion of a fan beam used to treat the patient, the fan beam having individually modulated beamlets, the rocking limited in angular extent to provide improved conformance of the dose to a tumor while shielding distal tissue from radiation.
US08093550B2
Tool for drilling a borehole and method for using such tool. The tool has an apparatus for determining a change in a drilling environment around the borehole that includes a source for generating neutrons to produce a radioactive isotope in a fluid flowing down inside the tool; a detector for detecting a change in gamma-ray radiation created from decay of the radioactive isotope when the fluid flows back up outside the tool; and means for relating the detected change in the gamma-ray radiation to the change in the drilling environment that includes borehole enlargement, fluid loss from the borehole and/or fluid entry into the borehole.
US08093546B2
An angle sensor for detecting an out-of-round condition includes a disc supporting angle coder rigidly attached to a rotating shaft and at least one fixed optical system including a coherent light source emitting a beam interfering with the angle coder of the support disc in order to code its angular position, a collimator of the said beam before interference and a photo detector of the modulated beam after interference. In one embodiment, two optical systems arranged 90° from each other are employed. An alternative embodiment includes one optical system and the disc includes a circular track radially centred in at least one of its angular positions relative to the incident collimated light beam, and a radially orientated photo detector.
US08093540B2
A method of focus and a focusing apparatus and a detecting module are provided. The detecting module includes an ellipse curved-surface reflection device and a light detector. The ellipse curved-surface reflection device has a beam gate, a first focus and a second focus. A light beam is focused by a light focusing device, and is projected on a surface of an object to be detected through the beam gate. The ellipse curved-surface reflection device reflects the light beams reflected or scattered by the object. The light detector is disposed on the second focus for receiving the light beam reflected by the ellipse curved-surface reflection device to generate a detecting result, by which a distance between the light focusing device and the surface of the object to be detected is adjusted, so that the light beam is correctly focused on the surface of the object.
US08093531B2
A joining of a titanium material with an aluminium material, wherein the parts made of the two substances are connected with each other in a substance-to-substance manner. Preferably, the joining is effected by a laser beam or an electron beam.
US08093529B2
A method of stably controlling the temperature of a sample placed on a sample stage to a desired temperature by estimating a sample temperature accurately, the sample stage including a refrigerant flow path to cool the sample stage, a heater to heat the sample stage, and a temperature sensor to measure the temperature of the sample stage. This method comprises the steps of: measuring in advance the variation-with-time of supply electric power to the heater, temperature of the sample, and temperature of the temperature sensor, without plasma processing; approximating the relation among the measured values using a simultaneous linear differential equation; estimating a sample temperature from the variation-with-time of sensor temperature y1, heater electric power u1, and plasma heat input by means of the Luenberger's states observer based on the simultaneous linear differential equation used for the approximation; and performing a feedback control of sample temperature using the estimated sample temperature.
US08093513B2
A device which is used to guide cables or wires through walls. The device includes a maintaining device which is connected to two or more cable maintaining elements that surround, in a frame-like manner, a mounting area which includes a through-opening, and the cable maintaining elements are arranged in the region of the through-openings. According to this invention, the mounting area has a matrix-form and includes at least two mounting lines and at least two mounting gaps which enable the mounting area to be equipped in a simple and easy manner. The mounting lines and the mounting gaps predefine, respectively, a constant modular dimension, and the cable maintaining elements are dimensioned with respect to the width and the longitudinal extension in the direction of the mounting line and direction of the mounting gap, so that the width and the length correspond to a multiple whole number of the modular dimension.
US08093508B2
A printed wiring board including a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer formed over the first insulating layer, a capacitor portion including an upper electrode, a lower electrode and a ceramic high dielectric layer formed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, the capacitor portion sandwiched by the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, an upper electrode connecting portion passing through the capacitor portion without contact and through the second insulating layer and electrically connected to the upper electrode of the capacitor portion, and a lower electrode connecting portion passing through the second insulating layer and the upper electrode of the capacitor portion without contact and electrically connected to the lower electrode in contact.
US08093507B2
A multilayer printed circuit board including a substrate board having a lower conductor circuit, a resin insulating layer formed over the substrate board and lower conductor circuit, and a conductor circuit formed over the resin insulating layer. The resin insulating layer has a via hole filled up with plating and is formed of a linear polyolefin resin formed by hot-pressing a film shaped resin.
US08093502B2
A flex-rigid printed wiring board is proposed which includes rigid substrates each formed from an insulative base material and a conductor circuit provided on the insulative base material, and a bendably flexible substrate formed from an insulative base material, conductor circuit provided on the insulative base material and a cover lay to cover the conductor circuit, the rigid and flexible substrates being connected to each other. As the insulative base material of the flexible substrate, there is adopted a bendable base material formed by impregnating a glass cloth with a resin and drying it. An conductor circuit is formed on one side of the flexible substrate while a dummy pattern is formed on the other side near a portion thereof where the flexible substrate is to be bent. Thus, the proposed flex-rigid printed wiring board is excellent in connection reliability, permitting to prevent the base material from being easily deformed near the bending portion, conductor circuit from being broken and the flexible substrate from being waved. The similar effect can also be attained with the wiring patterns of the conductor circuit on the flexible substrate being formed wide or curved in the width direction at the bending portion.
US08093501B2
A universal cable hanger or clamp that can accommodate a variety of cable sizes, and can be mounted on a variety of structures in a various ways. The hanger includes a fixed block with a movable block, where the fixed block can be clamped or attached to a fixed structure, and includes a pair of partially open curved sections adapted to receive and hold cables of various sizes. The movable block includes two curved or V-shaped or U-shaped arms that correspond to the partially open curved sections. As the movable block is inserted into the fixed block, the arms close off the curved space, in whole or in part, to grip and hold a cable in the space. Two posts on the movable block engage indentations in slots on the fixed block, thereby providing a curved space of fixed size corresponding to different cable sizes. Multiple hangers can be stacked.
US08093496B2
A cable management system or member has an optional enclosure and annular hubs defining an axis. A rotatable support frame is attached to the annular hubs, with a patching field having a plurality of ports and first and second primary sides attached to the rotatable support frame. Rotation of the rotatable support frame about the axis produces corresponding rotation of the annular hubs. When cable bundles pass through the annular hubs, they may also rotate with the support frame, reducing or eliminating the need for cable slack loops and reducing or eliminating stress at cable/port connection points.
US08093488B2
A photovoltaic apparatus includes an absorber including a p-layer having a bandgap greater than about 2 eV, an n-layer having a bandgap greater than about 2 eV, and an amorphous SiGe intrinsic layer between the p-layer and the n-layer; a first electrode adjacent to a first side of the absorber; a second electrode adjacent to a second side of the absorber; and an up-converter layer positioned adjacent to the second electrode on an opposite side of the second electrode from the absorber, wherein the up-converter layer includes a plurality of quantum dots of a first material in a matrix of a second material.
US08093482B1
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method and system for electronic sensing of string instrument input. The method includes receiving a first signal from a peak detection circuit. The peak detection circuit is operable to sense string activation. A second signal is received from one or more capacitive sensors. The second signal may include finger placement information. The method further includes processing the first and the second signals to generate an audio signal and outputting the audio signal.
US08093480B2
A keyboard device for an electronic keyboard instrument, which has a simple construction and can be manufactured at relatively low costs, and is capable of providing let-off feeling closely analogous to the let-off feeling of an acoustic piano. The keyboard device comprises keys, hammers each of which has an engaging part and pivotally moves in accordance with pivotal motion of an associated key, an unmovable holder, and let-off members each formed of an elastic material, for temporary engagement with the engaging part of an associated hammer during each of key depression and key release, to impart let-off feeling to touch feeling of an associated key during key depression. Each let-off member extends from the holder to a pivotal path along which the associated hammer performs pivotal motion, and is compressed during key depression and deflected during key release by engagement with the engaging part.
US08093477B1
A tongue drum percussion instrument comprises a cylindrical shell, a circular tone plate and a plurality of fasteners. The cylindrical shell has a plurality of mounting posts extending from one edge surface. The circular tone plate is a flat metal plate provided with a plurality of tongues having a specific angle between the edges. The plurality of tongues are different in length and extend inwardly from an outer peripheral edge of the flat metal plate. The tongues are separated by radial slits and have mounting holes arranged at the ends of the slits. Different lengths of open space is created between oppositely facing end faces of the tongues.
US08093467B2
A soybean cultivar designated S080186 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S080186, to the plants of soybean S080186, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S080186, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S080186 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety S080186, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S080186, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S080186 with another soybean cultivar.
US08093466B2
A soybean cultivar designated 8615185 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 8615185, to the plants of soybean 8615185, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 8615185, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 8615185 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety 8615185, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 8615185, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 8615185 with another soybean cultivar.
US08093464B1
According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated RJS38003. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety RJS38003, to the plants of soybean RJS38003 to plant parts of soybean variety RJS38003 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety RJS38003 with another soybean plant, using RJS38003 as either the male or the female parent.
US08093456B2
The present invention provides transgenic cover crop plants which after harvest degrade the hemicellulose and cellulose therein to fermentable sugars which can further be fermented to ethanol or other products. In particular, the transgenic plants comprise cellulase, hemicellulase and optionally ligninase genes from microbes operably linked to a DNA encoding a signal peptide which targets the fusion polypeptide produced therefrom to an organelle of the plant, in particular, the chloroplasts. When the transgenic plants are harvested, the plants are ground to release the hemicellulase and cellulase which then degrade the hemicellulose and cellulose of the transgenic plants to produce the fermentable sugars.
US08093452B2
We describe a plant lipase polypeptide and nucleic acids that encode said polypeptide which has homology to a patatin and which has phospholipase and/or triacylglycerol lipase activity.
US08093449B2
The invention includes an absorbent article 1 in which an undergarment 90 can be prevented from getting dirty with fluid that has been absorbed by an absorbent body 20, without a decrease in the amount of fluid that can be absorbed.The absorbent article 1 that is worn on a human body and used includes an absorbent body 20 having a fluid-absorbent member 22 for absorbing fluid, and having a longitudinal direction, a width direction, and a thickness direction, and a main body section 10 whose face on the side of the human body is overlapped with the absorbent body 20 in the thickness direction, one end section 20a in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent body 20 being fixed to the main body section 10, the absorbent body 20 having a portion that is closer to the main body section 10 than the fluid-absorbent member 22 in the thickness direction and a portion that is closer to the human body than the fluid-absorbent member 22, wherein the portion closer to the main body section 10, in another end section 20b in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent body 20, is covered with a fluid-impermeable layer 50, and the portion closer to the human body, in the other end section 20b, has a portion in which the fluid-impermeable layer 50 is not included.
US08093436B2
(3R,3′R,6′R)-Lutein and (3R,3′R)-zeaxanthin are two dietary carotenoids that are present in most fruits and vegetables commonly consumed in the US and accumulate in the human plasma, major organs, and ocular tissues. Another stereoisomer of (3R,3′R)-zeaxanthin that is not of dietary origin but is found in the human ocular tissues is (3R,3′S;meso)-zeaxanthin. There is growing evidence that these carotenoids play an important role in the prevention of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) that is the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. and the Western World. In view of the potential therapeutic application of dietary lutein, (3R,3′R)-zeaxanthin, and (3R,3′S;meso)-zeaxanthin, the industrial production of these carotenoids is of considerable importance. The present invention provides a process for the partial synthesis of (3R,3′R)-zeaxanthin and (3R,3′S;meso)-zeaxanthin from a readily accessible dehydration product of (3R,3′R,6′R)-lutein, namely, (3R)-3′,4′-didehydro-β,β-caroten-3-ol [(3R)-3′,4′-anhydrolutein]. The process involves regioselective hydroboration of (3R)-3′,4′-anhydrolutein to a mixture of (3R,3′R)-zeaxanthin and (3R,3′S;meso)-zeaxanthin followed by separation of these carotenoids by enzyme-mediated acylation.
US08093435B2
A reagent for organic synthesis with which a chemical reaction can be conducted in a liquid phase and unnecessary compound(s) can be easily separated at low cost from the liquid phase after completion of the reaction. The reagent for organic synthesis reversibly changes from a liquid-phase state to a solid-phase state with changes in solution composition and/or solution temperature, and is for use in organic synthesis reactions. This reagent for organic syntheses facilitates process development. With the reagent, research on and development of, e.g., medicines through, e.g., compound library synthesis, etc. can be accelerated. It can hence contribute to technical innovations in the biochemical industry and chemical industry.
US08093430B2
Methods of applying cyclopropene amine derivatives and compositions thereof to inhibit ethylene receptors in plants and plant material are disclosed. Methods include applying to the plant an effective ethylene response-inhibiting amount of at least one cyclopropene amine compound or composition thereof. Cyclopropene amine compounds, enantiomers, stereoisomers or salts thereof are also provided.
US08093419B2
A method of producing an organosilicon compound includes substituting at least an OR1 group of a compound shown by the following general formula (1) to obtain a compound shown by the following general formula (2), Si(OR1)3-mY1m—R2—Si(OR3)3-nY2n (1) Si(OR4)3-mY1m—R2—Si(OR4)3-nY2n (2).
US08093413B2
The invention relates to a method of preparation and isolation of betulin diacetate from birch bark from paper mills and its optional processing to betulin, wherein the birch bark is ground, mixed with two- to twenty-fold excess volume of water and is stirred so that all birch bark is dipped, then the fraction of the birch bark which floats on the surface is collected, said collected fraction is dried at the temperature in the range of from 50 to 85° C. and the betulin contained in the dried birch bark is then subjected to an acetylation reaction, after the acetylation the birch bark is dried at the temperature of from 50 to 100° C. and the formed betulin diacetate is then isolated from the birch bark by supercritical extraction of the birch bark with carbon dioxide at the pressure of 28-35 MPa and the temperature of from 50 to 100° C. and subsequently, the supercritical extract is recrystallized for direct use or for further processing. The further processing can be basic hydrolysis of the re-crystallized betulin diacetate to betulin.
US08093412B2
A method of purifying propylene oxide, which comprises subjecting the propylene oxide containing methyl formate as an impurity to extractive distillation using a hydrocarbon of 7 to 10 carbon atoms as an extractant with an extractive distillation column, adding water to the distillate from the overhead of the extractive distillation column to conduct oil-water separation, recycling the oil layer separated to the extractive distillation column, removing the aqueous layer outside the system thereby to obtain propylene oxide in which a methyl formate concentration is reduced as a bottom liquid of the extractive distillation column.
US08093404B2
Chemically reactive carbocyanine dyes that are intramolecularly crosslinked between the 1-position and 3′-position, their bioconjugates and their uses are described. 1,3′-crosslinked carbocyanines are superior to those of conjugates of spectrally similar 1,1′-crosslinked or non-crosslinked dyes. The invention includes derivative compounds having one or more benzo nitrogens.
US08093402B2
Provided herein are compounds in accord with Formula I: that are useful in the treatment of pain.
US08093399B2
Disclosed is a novel benzoxazole derivative which has high excitation energy, particularly high triplet excitation energy, and is a bipolar substance. A benzoxazole derivative represented by the following General Formula (G1) is provided. In the formula, R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group with 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group with 6 to 13 carbon atoms, substituents of the substituted aryl group may be bonded to form a ring which may form a spiro ring structure, R11 to R14 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen, an alkyl group with 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an unsubstituted aryl group with 6 to 10 carbon atoms, a bond formed between any two of α, β, and γ forms a carbazole skeleton, and n is 0 to 3.
US08093388B2
This invention relates to novel 3-aza-spiro[5.5]undec-8-ene derivatives useful as monoamine neurotransmitter re-uptake inhibitors.In other aspects the invention relates to the use of these compounds in a method for therapy and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention.
US08093386B2
There are described compounds having the general formula (I) below and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein E, X, m, q, R1, R2, n and ZBG have the meanings reported in the description useful, in therapy, as inhibitors of zinc metalloproteinases.
US08093385B2
Provided herein are compounds of the formula (I): as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the substituents are as those disclosed in the specification. These compounds, and the pharmaceutical compositions containing them, are useful for the treatment of diseases such as, for example, COPD.
US08093383B2
The present invention provides p70 S6 kinase inhibitors of the formula: pharmaceutical formulations comprising them, and methods for their use.
US08093381B2
The invention relates to a method of preparation of fluoroquinolones of formula (I) from compounds of formula (II): in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and X are as defined in Claim 1.
US08093377B2
The present invention relates to cephalosporin of formula (I) in crystalline form. The compound of formula (I) in crystalline form is useful as antibiotics having potent and broad antibacterial activity; especially against methicillin resistant Staphylococci (MRSA) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
US08093374B2
The present invention discloses a bismuth hyaluronate, characterized in that the bismuth content is from 0.5% to 40%, and the glucuronate content is from 20% to 45%, based on dry weight. Also provided is a method for the preparation of said bismuth hyaluronate comprising reaction of a soluble hyaluronate salt with a bismuth salt in a basic aqueous solution, followed by steps of precipitation, filtration, desalting, dehydrating and drying to obtain the product. Further disclosed is the use of the bismuth hyaluronate in the manufacture of a medicament or health foods for preventing and treating gastrointestinal disorders, in particular ulcerous disorders of the GI tract. It has been proven in animal experiments to show a better therapeutic effect than products of the same type.
US08093373B2
The present invention relates to a method of isolating at least one plasmid from other components of a liquid, which method comprises the steps of providing a separation matrix comprised of one or more porous carriers, which carrier(s) present anion exchange groups on external surfaces as well as pore surfaces and a pore size distribution that does not allow access of plasmids to pore surfaces; contacting said matrix with the liquid to allow adsorption of the plasmids to ligands present on the separation matrix; contacting an eluent with the separation matrix to release the plasmids and recovering plasmids from a fraction of said eluent. Thus, the present method allows the plasmids to adsorb to the external surfaces of the matrix, while other components such as RNA is adsorbed onto the pore surfaces. In one embodiment, the matrix presents a DNA exclusion limit of at least about 270 base pairs; such as at least about 1,000 base pairs.
US08093366B2
The invention relates to compositions and methods for interfering with the DNA repair of double strand breaks (DSBs). The invention discloses double-stranded nucleic acid molecules that act as baits and hijack the holocomplex of enzymes responsible for DNA DSB sensing, signaling and/or repair pathways, in particular the non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) pathway of DSB repair. The invention discloses the use of these molecules as a standalone anticancer drug in an efficient amount to be introduced in the tumor cell nuclei in order to trigger their death.
US08093357B2
The present invention relates to optimized Fc variants, methods for their generation, and antibodies and Fc fusions comprising optimized Fc variants.
US08093353B2
An amphipathic helix at the approximate N-terminus of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) nonstructural proteins mediates the association of these proteins with cytoplasmic membranes in infected cells. This association is essential for replication. Thus, assessing the ability of compounds or protocols to disrupt the association of such helices with cytoplasmic membranes permits identification of compounds and protocols which are useful in the treatment of HCV infection. Also useful in the invention are mimics, or function-disrupting ligands, of an amphipathic helix of the nonstructural proteins described herein and antibodies and fragments thereof immunoreactive with said helix.
US08093351B2
Copolymers of propylene oxide and carbon dioxide and homopolymers of propylene oxide are made using two dimensional double metal cyanide complexes having the formula Co[M(CN)4] or hydrated or partially dehydrated form thereof. There is no propylene carbonate by product in the copolymerization.
US08093349B2
A terminally-modified polybranched polyimide which can be efficiently complexed with an inorganic material is obtained by reacting a component (a): tetracarboxylic dianhydride; a component (b): as an amine component, a mixture of a triamine and a diamine (which may be composed of a triamine only); and a component (c): as a terminal component, a compound selected from general formulae (1-1) to (1-4). H2N—X—R1 (1-1) (In the formula, X represents a single bond or an alkylene group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and R1 represents a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group). H2N—X—R1 (1-2) (In the formula, X is as defined above, and R1 represents a sulfur-containing heterocyclic group or an aryl group having a thiol or thioether group in the molecule.) (In the formula, R represents a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group.) (In the formula, R represents a monovalent residue.)
US08093347B2
A structured organic film comprising a plurality of segments and a plurality of linkers arranged as a covalent organic framework, wherein the structured organic film may be a multi-segment thick structured organic film.
US08093346B2
Provided is a method for efficiently producing a 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid-type compound by culturing a coryneform bacterium that has a gene encoding a mutated aspartokinase not subject to feedback inhibition, and that is transformed with a recombinant vector containing a DNA encoding a protein having an activity to form 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid from dihydroxyacetone phosphate and aspartate semialdehyde.
US08093340B2
A reversible adhesive system for coupling together two objects may consist of two shape memory polymers with molecular “hooks and loops” on the surfaces (i.e. the surface away from each of the objects). Utilizing the shape memory properties of the polymers, the molecular hooks and molecular loops may be brought together to form non-covalent bonds, leading to macroscopic adhesion. Upon heating, the adhesive bond can be separated with a small peeling force. The adhesive bonding and debonding can be repeated for multiple cycles with significant adhesion retention.
US08093339B2
Silicone composites subject to reticulation or reticulated, particularly for creating a coating or water-repellent and anti-adhesive film for flexible substrates such as paper or similar in the form of natural or synthetic polymer films. These compounds contain reticulating polyorganosiloxanes that have SiH units and unsaturated polyorganosiloxanes, preferably vinylated, suitable for reacting with the reticulating agent in an addition reaction and in the presence of platinum to form the reticulated anti-adhesive coating on the flexible substrate, plus at least one additive (D) to promote adhesion to it. A new liquid silicone compound can be applied without using a solvent, which is beneficial, that can be reticulated instantly to produce an anti-adhesive and/or water-repellent coating for the flexible substrate, giving very high quality reticulated silicone coatings, particularly in terms of sticking/adhering to the substrate, being harder to rub off and the anti-adhesion profile (sufficiently increase detaching force at high speed.
US08093325B2
The present invention provides a dispersant for aqueous and non-aqueous systems which can disperse insoluble fine powders in aqueous and non-aqueous liquids in a short period of time and give long-term dispersion stability to the resulting dispersions. The dispersant is a compound of the formula wherein CY is selected from the group consisting of aliphatic monocyclic compounds having one double bond and aliphatic polycyclic compounds with or without one double bond, or with or without bridge carbons; (n+x+y+z)>1; and R═—H, —SO3M, —CO2M, —PO3M, —OCR′ wherein M=H, or Na, K, Li, Ca, Mg, NH4, NH(R1)2, NH2R1, N(R1)3 where R1 is selected from the group consisting of C1-C6 alkyl and C1-C6 hydroxyalkyl; and R′═C2-C22 alkyl or alkenyl.
US08093319B2
At least one esterified fatty acid, particularly a fatty acid from tall oil that undergoes a Diels-Alder reaction or a fatty acid from oleic sunflower oil that undergoes an epoxydation reaction, is used as a PVC plasticizer, particularly for floor coverings.
US08093315B2
A method of improving the wear resistance of a polymer is disclosed comprising the steps of evenly dispersing an ultrafine inorganic particulate material in the polymer at a loading rate of 0.01 to 20 wt % of the total weight of the particulate polymer composite. The mixing or dispersing is preferably carried out under sub-atmospheric pressure conditions to ensure little or no bubbles form in the mixture prior to curing.
US08093313B2
A method for preparing a biocompatible polymeric composite includes modifying a first biocompatible polymer with a primer group to form a modified biocompatible polymer; blending the modified biocompatible polymer with a second biocompatible polymer and an inorganic material; allowing the primer group of the modified biocompatible polymer to react with the inorganic material to form a biocompatible polymeric composite. Such biocompatible polymeric composites may be formed into medical devices such as tissue growth scaffolds and bone growth scaffolds.
US08093307B2
The invention relates to novel silane compounds corresponding to the following formula (I): in which R1 can represent a methyl group, R2 and R3 can represent a hydrogen atom, A can represent —O—, E can represent an alkylene group, X can represent a methoxysilane group, Z can represent a simple bond and Y can represent an —N2 or —N—NH2 group. Use of these silane compounds to functionalize solid supports and to immobilize biological molecules on these supports.
US08093301B2
The inventors have found that vitamin K3 and vitamin K5 which may be used in pharmaceuticals and foods or ACNQ, DHNA, or the like which can stimulate the growth of bifidobacteria can inhibit degranulation of basophil-like cells, exhibit a potent degranulation-inhibiting effect, and are useful anti-allergic agents or foods. The present invention provides an anti-allergic agent containing, as an active ingredient, one or more species selected from among 2-amino-3-carboxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoic acid, 1,4-naphthoquinone, 4-amino-2-methyl-1-naphthol, 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, 2-amino-3-chloro-1,4-naphthoquinone, and a salt thereof.
US08093292B2
Methods for treating or preventing metabolic dysregulation of adipocytes resulting from HIV-1 infection or chronic inflammation are disclosed. The compositions contain a conjugated fatty acid, a thiol-containing compound and a bioavailable form of trivalent chromium.
US08093290B2
A solution consisting essentially of menthyl lactate and menthol carboxamide dissolved in a solvent, such as propylene glycol, which solvent is acceptable for food, oral care or cosmetic products and a method of preparing it.
US08093288B2
Genipin derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that inhibit the activity of uncoupling protein-2 (UCP2) and are useful in treating deficient first-phase insulin secretion, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and ischemia in a mammal are disclosed.
US08093287B2
The present invention provides novel compounds of formulas I-IX, as described herein. Also provided are compositions of compounds of formulas I-IX, methods of making compounds of formulas I-IX, and methods of using compounds of formulas I-IX. The compounds of the invention can be used to inhibit matrix metalloproteinases, and are useful to treat conditions and diseases associated therewith.
US08093286B2
The present invention concerns the use of methods for evaluating bucindolol treatment for a patient, particularly one with heart failure. It concerns methods for determining whether to administer or prescribe bucindolol to a patient based on whether the patient is homozygous for the Arg 389 polymorphism in the β1-adrenergic receptor (AR).
US08093281B2
A compound of formula (I): wherein A1 represents 2,3-dihydro-1-benzofuran-7-yl, 5-fluoro-2-methoxy-phenyl or 5-fluoro-2-hydroxy-phenyl; X represents —C(R3)— or nitrogen; when X represents —C(R3)—, R2 represents hydrogen and R1 represents fluorine, R3 represents hydrogen or fluorine, when X represents —C(R3)— and R2 and R1 each represent hydrogen, R3 represents hydrogen, hydroxy, methoxy or fluorine, when X represents —C(R3)— and R2 represents hydroxy, methoxy, —CO2CH3 or —CO2CH2CH3, R1 and R3 each represent hydrogen, when X represents nitrogen, R1 and R2 each represent hydrogen; and Y represents H or methyl; or a physiologically functional derivative thereof.
US08093278B2
The present invention relates to substituted indoles of formula (I), useful as pharmaceutical compounds for treating respiratory disorders.
US08093277B2
Antimicrobial compositions useful for preserving wood, and comprising a variety of antimicrobial compounds.
US08093276B2
The present invention provides a method for the treatment of head trauma, traumatic brain injury, and/or dementia pugilistica comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of (2R)-2-[[(4-chlorophenyl)sulfonyl][[2-fluoro-4-(1,2,4-oxadiazol-3-yl)phenyl]methyl]amino]-5,5,5-trifluoropentanamide.
US08093265B2
Compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, pain, inflammation, traumatic injury, and others.
US08093264B2
The invention relates to the inhibition of VEGF receptor signaling and HGF receptor signaling. The invention provides compounds of general formula (A) wherein A1 is sulfur, A3 is CH, A2 is CH, D is heterocycle, Z is oxygen, SO0-2 or NR, Ar is phenyl and G is not a ring, and methods for inhibiting VEGF receptor signaling and HGF receptor signaling. The invention also provides compositions and methods for treating cell proliferative diseases and conditions.
US08093261B2
Pellets containing an analgesic uniformly dispersed in a lipid carrier such as cholesterol mixed with fatty acid esters, can be used to provide long term pain relief. 5 mg cholesterol-tryglyceride-buprenorphine pellets released the majority of drug in 24-48 hours after implant and provide clinically significant plasma levels of analgesia in mice for 3-9 days. Blood levels of analgesia peak at day-1 and are substantially complete by day-5 depending on the level of buprenorphine. These results demonstrate that post surgical implants provide clinically significant levels of analgesia in the 24-48 hour period following surgery and thus obviate the time consuming, expensive, and high-risk need to inject mice post surgery. The pellets are safe and easy to use. Placed in the surgical wound at the end of surgery, they provide 2-3 days of analgesia and obviate the need for subsequent handling of the animal for pain therapy. The implants have no detectable effect on mouse behavior, hematology, or liver chemistry. The unexpected release kinetics of the 5 mg pellet provides an ideal implant for post surgical analgesia. These implants solve a significant problem facing scientists who use rodents in research and abide by international of animal welfare.
US08093256B2
The invention relates to use of substituted-pyrimidone derivatives represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof: wherein X, Y, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, n, p and q are as defined herein. More specifically, the invention relates to a medicament comprising the said derivative or a salt thereof as an active ingredient which is used for preventive and/or therapeutic treatment of a disease caused by abnormal activity of GSK3β, such as Pick's disease among various other diseases as claimed herein.
US08093247B2
Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR2. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases, and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists.
US08093239B2
The present invention provides imidazopyridine compounds, compositions containing the same, as well as processes for the preparation and methods for their use as pharmaceutical agents.
US08093235B2
The invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein A, B, D, E, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, X, and ----- have any values defined herein, as well as salts thereof. The compounds have activity as G-quadruplex DNA stabilizers and as anti-proliferative agents.
US08093233B2
To reduce amounts of fat accumulated in abdominal cavity and to prevent or ameliorate visceral fat type obesity, considered to be a main factor of metabolic syndrome, the present invention provides an agent or a food or drink which contains a compound having a lophenol skeleton, or an organic solvent extract or a hot water extract of a Liliaceae plant, or a fraction thereof containing the compound is used as an active ingredient.
US08093231B2
Sulfonylethyl and thioethyl phosphorodiamidates, their preparation and intermediates in their preparation, formulations containing them, and their pharmaceutical use. The compounds are useful for treating cancer, alone and in combination with other anticancer therapies.
US08093230B2
The invention concerns the use of mercaptoethane sulfonate-sodium (Mesna) to increase the solubility of Ifosfamide in storage-stable, concentrated and/or highly-concentrated (supersaturated) aqueous pharmaceutical preparations, storage-stable, concentrated and/or highly-concentrated (supersaturated) aqueous pharmaceutical Ifosfamide preparations for parenteral administration as well as a process for their production.
US08093217B2
Pharmaceutical compositions and methods for sensitizing multi-drug resistant cancer or radiation resistant cancer cells to chemotherapeutic agents are provided. Compositions include ligands of hyaluronan receptors, including glycosaminoglycans such as hyaluronan oligomers and derivatives of these oligomers, hyaluronan binding proteins, antibodies specific for hyaluronan receptors, hyaluronan mimetics, inhibitors of hyaluronan synthesis, and stimulators of hyaluronan degradation.
US08093216B2
There is disclosed an initial identification of an N-terminally truncated HER-2/neu product. This product is a 95 kDa polypeptide having in vitro kinase activity (as determined by western blotting). Moreover, immunoprecipitations using domain specific antibodies was able to utilize this specific polypeptide from intracellular fragments as a diagnostic and prognostic indicator of adenomacarcinomas without the severe dilution effects encountered by measuring ECD.
US08093213B2
The invention is related to methods of protecting, preventing and reducing intestinal injury in a human subject suffering from or at risk for shock, hemorrhagic shock or hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation (HS/R) comprising administering heparin binding epidermal growth factor (HB-EGF). The invention is also related to methods of inhibiting deterioration of intestinal blood flow and methods of preserving and increasing intestinal blood flow by administering HB-EGF to a human subject. In addition, the methods of the invention should improve the clinical outcome of human subject suffering from or at risk for shock, hemorrhagic shock or hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation.
US08093209B2
Methods of suppressing the activation of microglial cells in the Central Nervous System (CNS), methods of ameliorating or treating the neurological effects of cerebral ischemia or cerebral inflammation, and methods of combating specific diseases that affect the CNS by administering a compound that binds to microglial receptors and prevents or reduces microglial activation are described. ApoE receptor binding peptides that may be used in the methods of the invention are also described, as are methods of using such peptides to treat peripheral inflammatory conditions such as sepsis. Also described are methods of screening compounds for the ability to suppress or reduce microglial activation.
