US08387503B2
The invention relates to a pyrotechnic device for the destruction of munitions by an explosive at least partially surrounding the munitions having walls for confining the active products. The device includes an igniter for the controlled ignition of the explosive, the igniter configured to couple explosive detonation waves into the walls of the munitions along at least two opening lines of said walls of the munitions. Application of embodiments of the invention includes controlled destruction of munitions or objects containing pyrotechnic and/or chemical substances.
US08387501B2
A method and apparatus for rapidly severing a decoy towline extending from an aircraft by a mechanical spring actuated cutting blade and a thermal fuse type of release mechanism eliminating a pyrotechnic actuation device. The cutting blade is biased toward cutting engagement with the towline by a preloaded coil compression spring retained in the loaded position by a length of a polymer cord. The polymer cord has a heater wire wrapped about a portion of the cord which is connected to a DC voltage supply. The heater wire melts the cords when electrically connected to the DC power supply which releases the restraint on the spring which then drives the cutting blade into severing engagement with the towline.
US08387491B2
A fastener system is constructed wherein the installation and removal drive surfaces intersect an enlarged core diameter in a transitional surface that extends between the installation and removal surfaces of adjacent wings. The transitional surface has a concave form that conforms to the core diameter. The projections of the driver in the system are formed in a blunt shape.
US08387484B2
A gear change control device for a bicycle having a handlebar with straight end portions, comprises a first control lever with a control portion arranged behind the end portion of the handlebar, with reference to the longitudinal direction of the bicycle, and extending at least partially at a position lying substantially at the same level of the handlebar, with respect to a vertical direction in the condition of use of the handlebar and a second control lever with a control portion arranged at the same level, below or upper the control portion of the first control lever.
US08387483B2
Disclosed are a steering column for a vehicle and a steering apparatus for a vehicle having the same. According to the present invention, since a coupling position of a tilt bolt is positioned on the central axis of a steering shaft, bending is not caused and an adjustment lever does not hit a driver on the knee at the time of vehicle collision, and the nut opposite to the adjustment lever can be prevented from being loosened at the time of manipulating the adjustment lever.
US08387481B2
A horizontal multijoint type robot is so constructed that it comprises a first arm connected through a first joint shaft to a base, a second arm connected through a second joint shaft to the first arm, and a working shaft provided rotatably and movably up and down on the distal end of the second arm, and that the arm length L1 of the first arm and the arm length L2 of the second arm are equal to each other so that the second arm is able to overlap the first arm.
US08387475B2
A continuously variable transmission comprises an input shaft and an output shaft, a drive wheel, a toothed wheel or a chain wheel, an endless sleeve, a ring wheel, at least one linking member, wedge teeth or a chain, wherein the drive wheel is provided with an annular recess in which a plurality of reversal wedge teeth run, and the wedge teeth are connected with a head portion of the linking member connected with the ring wheel, the spread of axles between the drive wheel and the ring wheel is adjusted via the swinging of the endless sleeve; and with the aid of the locking and releasing operations of the wedge teeth, the linking members are urged to drive the ring wheel, whereby changing the input and output transmission ratio. The continuously variable transmission can be used in a bicycle, wherein the spread of axles between the ring wheel and the drive wheel can be adjusted by regulating a wire, and the magnitude of speed variation is not restricted, the variation range is large, and the power could be synchronously input during the speed variation.
US08387463B2
A process transmitter for measuring a process variable in an industrial process comprises a gauge pressure sensor, an excitation source and transmitter circuitry. The gauge pressure sensor measures a pressure difference between a process fluid and a reference volume, and generates a pressure sensor signal representing the pressure difference. The excitation source generates a pressure pulse within the reference volume to influence generation of the pressure sensor signal. The transmitter circuitry is connected to the gauge pressure sensor to provide an output related to a change in the pressure sensor signal due to the pressure pulse.
US08387462B2
Provided are an ultrasonic testing method and an ultrasonic testing apparatus capable of accurately detecting flaws present in a weld zone of a test object, such as a welded pipe, regardless of the position of the flaws. An ultrasonic testing apparatus 100 includes an ultrasonic probe 1 which is provided with n (n≧2) transducers 11 arranged along a direction orthogonal to the weld line of a weld zone P1 of a test object P and is arranged so as to face the weld zone, and transmission/reception control means 2 which selects m (n>m≧1) transducers from the n transducers, causes the selected transducers to transmit and receive ultrasonic waves to and from the weld zone, and switches the selected transducers one after another. The transmission/reception control means switches the selected transducers one after another so that the range of an effective beam width of each of the selected transducers that have been switched for a flaw to be detected has an overlapping portion, and in the transmission/reception control means, the flaw detection sensitivity is adjusted beforehand for each of the selected transducers so that maximum echo intensities from a flaw to be detected, which are each received by each of the selected transducers that have been switched, become substantially equal to each other.
US08387460B2
A vibration dosimeter (2) for determining the vibrational loading of people includes a determination device (6) for determining the operating period duration, a calculation device (6) for calculating the permitted work time as a function of a tool-specific characteristic vibration value, a comparison device (6) for comparing the effective operating period duration with the permitted work time, and an interface (3) for reading in the characteristic vibration value from the tool (1).
US08387441B2
A method for determining the amount of fuel flow from a high pressure gas tank to the anode side of a fuel cell stack through pulsed injector. The anode sub-system pressure is measured just before the injector pulse and just after injector pulse and a difference between the pressures is determined. The difference between the pressures, the volume of the anode sub-system, the ideal gas constant, the anode sub-system temperature, the fuel consumed from the reaction in the fuel cell stack during the injection event and the fuel cross-over through membranes in the fuel cells of the fuel cell stack are used to determine the amount of hydrogen gas injected by the injector.
US08387438B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for differential pressure meters having a constant beta edge boundary defined by fluid displacement members of the meter. In some embodiments, a differential pressure meter may have an interchangeable fluid displacement member, such that each fluid displacement member replaced in the meter maintains a constant beta edge boundary. In other embodiments, a family of differential pressure meters having permanent fluid displacement members may maintain a constant beta edge boundary for each meter of the family of differential pressure meters.
US08387426B2
A method of forming a flexible conduit including: providing an elongated flexible metallic strip having a central portion disposed between a first and a second end portion, wherein at least a portion of the central portion includes a cross-sectional thickness TC which is less than a maximum cross-sectional thickness TM of the elongated shaped strip; rolling the first end portion in a first direction and the second end portion in a second direction generally opposite the first direction to form a shaped flexible strip; and helically winding the shaped flexible strip upon itself.
US08387424B2
The invention relates to a method for making a rotating lock (10) for the locking system of an automotive vehicle, that comprises at least first and second complementary parts (5, 6) that can be assembled in at least one overlap area (7) for defining a stator (12) inside which a rotor (11) can be rotated, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: a first step for assembling the two parts (5, 6) in order to position in said overlap area (7) at least one opening (32) formed in the first part of the stator (6) opposite the opening of a corresponding cavity (34) formed in the second part of the stator (5); a second crimping step during which a crimping punch (22) is introduced in each opening (32) for at least partially deforming the wall of the opening (32) in the direction of the corresponding cavity (34) in order to crimp the assembly of the two parts of the stator (5, 6).
US08387414B2
A method for bending a glass sheet is provided wherein the glass sheet is put on a bending surface of a frame unit to be preliminarily bent by gravity before the glass sheet is pressed by an upper mold and frame unit. The method is utilized for controlling the amount of preliminary bending so as to control deformation of the glass sheet caused by the preliminary bending and pressing occurs on the preliminary bent glass sheet by the upper mold and the frame unit.
US08387410B2
An air-cooling type chiller is provided. The chiller may include a plurality of fans, and an intermediate device provided between adjacent fans of the plurality of fans. When one of the fans is disabled, air is not drawn in through the disabled fan due to the intermediate device, but instead may pass through a condenser, thereby minimizing degradation in condensing efficiency. The intermediate device may be formed as an auxiliary condenser so that any air drawn in through a disabled fan passes through the auxiliary condenser, also minimizing impact on condensing efficiency.
US08387409B2
A method and apparatus for sanitizing a water dispenser that dispenses water for human consumption is disclosed. The dispenser can be in the form of any dispenser that dispenses water for human consumption employing a reservoir that dispenses water through one or more spigots. Water in the reservoir is sanitized with an air/ozone gas mixture that is transmitted to a porous polymeric diffuser having a central bore and a porous wall. The porosity of the porous wall defines bubble size.
US08387397B2
A gas turbine component in which combustion occurs. The gas turbine component includes a liner, including a first surface facing a first space and a second surface facing a second space, the liner being interposed between the first and second spaces and having a through-hole defined therein extending from the first to the second surface by which incoming flows proceed from the first space and to the second space. At least the first surface is formed to flow condition the incoming flows to resist separating from sidewalls of the through-hole.
US08387395B2
An annular combustion chamber for a turbomachine is disclosed. The chamber includes an inner wall, an outer wall, and a chamber end wall disposed between the inner and outer walls in the upstream region of the chamber. The chamber end wall presents an outer fastener rim and/or an inner fastener rim, and the outer and/or inner wall presents a respective upstream fastener rim. The chamber end wall and the outer and/or inner wall are fastened together via their fastener rims. Cooling channels are made between the fastener rims and open out to the inside of the combustion chamber. Advantageously, a spacer is placed between the fastener rims, and the channels are formed in the thickness or in the sides of the spacer.
US08387390B2
In accordance with certain embodiments, a system includes a counterflow injection mechanism. The counterflow injection mechanism includes a fuel-air injection mechanism having fuel and air passages leading to fuel and air injection openings, wherein the fuel and air injection openings are disposed at an off-center position and a generally counterflow direction relative to a generally lengthwise flow axis of a gas turbine combustor.
US08387387B1
A horizontal structure defines an expansive floating solar pond underlain by an open-ended chamber, and a distributed network of heat engines produce electricity based on the temperature differential between the heated solar pond water and ambient seawater. Each heat engine includes a heat exchanger disposed near the bottom of the solar pond, a working fluid boiler at least partially submerged in the solar pond, a turbine-generator, and a working vapor condenser disposed under the solar pond in the open-ended chamber. A heat exchange fluid is circulated through the heat exchanger and the boiler to vaporize working fluid for powering the turbine-generator, and cold ambient seawater is passed through the condenser to condense working vapor downstream of the turbine-generator. Warmed seawater from the condenser is exhausted into the open-ended chamber, where it is naturally retained by convection to minimize heat transfer from the solar pond to the ambient seawater.
US08387378B2
A hydraulic system for a mobile machine having an implement is disclosed. The hydraulic system may have a hydraulic actuator configured to move the implement, a storage device configured to store pressurized fluid, and a valve operable to fluidly communicate the storage device with the hydraulic actuator. The hydraulic system may also have a sensor associated with the mobile machine to generate a signal indicative of a speed of the mobile machine, and a controller in communication with the valve and the sensor. The controller may be configured to compare the speed of the mobile machine to a setpoint and to determine an amount of time elapsed while the speed of the mobile machine exceeds the setpoint. The controller may further be configured to selectively operate the valve to fluidly communicate the storage device with the actuator based on the elapsed amount of time and the speed to cushion movement of the implement.
US08387371B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus for controlling the heating of diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) in a DEF delivery system includes a temperature comparison module that compares a difference between a sensed ambient air temperature and a sensed DEF tank temperature with a predetermined temperature difference threshold. Additionally, the apparatus includes a DEF heating status module that is configured to generate a DEF heating command according to (i) the sensed ambient air temperature if the difference between the sensed ambient air temperature and sensed DEF tank temperature is less than the predetermined temperature threshold; and (ii) the sensed DEF tank temperature if the difference between the sensed ambient air temperature and sensed DEF tank temperature is more than the predetermined temperature threshold. The apparatus also includes a DEF heating control module that is configured to control the heating of the DEF according to the DEF heating command.
US08387370B2
A system for regenerating a particulate filter is disclosed. In one example, oxygen is pumped from the intake system of a direct injection turbocharged gasoline engine to the exhaust system by a compressor. Simultaneously, exhaust gases may be pumped from the exhaust system to the intake system for the purpose of reducing NOx while regenerating a particulate filter.
US08387367B2
The present invention relates to a method of reducing coking over a Ag/Al2O3 hydrocarbon selective catalytic reduction catalyst in an exhaust stream of a lean burn internal combustion engine, the exhaust stream including hydrocarbon and NOx. The method includes controlling the hydrocarbon to molar NOx ratio of the exhaust stream so as to be within certain limits at certain temperatures. An exhaust system for a lean burn engine suited to the above method, and a lean burn internal combustion engine, or a vehicle or stationary power source including such an exhaust system are also included.
US08387363B2
An arrangement for removal of particulates in a gas flow includes at least one gas passage that is at least partly surrounded by a porous material. An arrangement for exposing the gas passage to sound that induces gas movements in a direction towards the porous material is provided. A method for removal of particulates in a gas flow is also provided.
US08387362B2
A method for assembling a turbine engine includes assembling a heat exchanger assembly that includes at least a radially inner plate, a radially outer plate, and a heat exchanger coupled between the radially inner and outer plates, forming the heat exchanger assembly such that the heat exchanger assembly has a substantially arcuate shape, and coupling the heat exchanger to a fan casing such that the heat exchanger is positioned upstream or downstream from the fan assembly.
US08387360B2
An apparatus for vectoring the thrust of a motor that produces thrust along a longitudinal axis by expelling combustion gases through a nozzle may include a plurality of linearly-positionable non-rotatable thrust deflectors. The thrust deflectors may be disposed at around a perimeter of the nozzle. Each thrust deflector may be independently extended to simultaneously generate both a force transverse to the longitudinal axis and a torque about the longitudinal axis.
US08387359B2
The electrolytic ignitor comprises an injector constituting a first electrode, a second electrode that is electrically insulated from the injector and that extends downstream beyond the injector, and a distribution channel to deliver a first mono-propellant to a first mono-propellant injector device constituted by at least one injection hole opening out in the vicinity of the second electrode, and an electrical power supply circuit adapted to raise the second electrode to a potential lying in the range 50 V to 1000 V relative to the potential of the first electrode. The electrical power dissipated by ionic conduction in the free jet of the first mono-propellant is suitable for giving rise to spontaneous decomposition of the first mono-propellant and for producing combustion gas that ensures ignition of jets of a second mono-propellant coming from a main injector situated in the vicinity of the second electrode.
US08387357B2
A by-pass turbofan gas turbine engine, has a by-pass fan, a generally annular core engine duct, a generally annular by-pass duct situated in a generally coaxial relationship with the core engine duct coupled to the by-pass fan, an upstream axial compressor coupled to the core engine duct, a downstream radial compressor coupled to the upstream compressor, a generally annular recuperator with a cool side inlet coupled to the downstream compressor, a generally annular combustor coupled to a cool side outlet of the recuperator, a radial turbine coupled to the combustor and a warm side inlet of the recuperator coupled to the radial turbine, at least one exhaust nozzle coupled to a warm side outlet of the recuperator that discharges into the by-pass duct and a propelling nozzle coupled to the by-pass duct.
US08387353B2
A steel cord (10) adapted for the reinforcement of rubber products, the steel cord (10) comprises a core (12) and three or more outer strands (14) twisted around the core (12) in a cord twisting direction. The outer strands (14) comprise outer filaments (16) twisted in a strand twisting direction which is the same as the cord twisting direction. The outer strands (14) have a wavy form which makes spaces between the core (12) and the outer strands. The steel cord (10) has improvements on elongation at break and impact resistance capacity.
US08387336B2
A method of assembling an exterior wall or roof structure of a building with a water-resistive barrier includes covering a surface of an inner sheathing member of a wall or roof structure with a series of partially overlapping courses of water-resistive sheet material. Each overlapping section of the courses of water-resistive sheet material is bonded together with a continuous strip of adhesive to form an air-tight seam. The strip of adhesive is carried integrally on the water-resistive sheet material thereby eliminating a need for separately applying construction tape to seal the seams. A water-resistive barrier and assembly of an exterior wall or roof assembly of a building is also provided.
US08387324B2
The present invention concerns a substructure for aligning a building cover structure for an insulated wall (1), wherein said wall (1) is provided with a layer of insulation material (2), which is mounted to the wall (1) by a plurality of elongated insulation mounting members (3) and cover support profiles (4), which are mounted on the mounting members (2), comprises adjustment means for adjusting the distance between the mounting members (3) and the cover support profiles (4), wherein said adjustment means comprises two or more assembly brackets (5) mounted on at least one side of the cover support profile (4), and wherein each assembly bracket (5) comprises a cover support profile receiving first end (5A) and a distal second end (5B) adapted for penetration into the insulation material (2) on one or both sides of the insulation mounting member (3) and that the bracket is provided with apertures (11, 12) between said first and second ends (5A, 5B) receiving associated fasteners for securing the assembly bracket (5) to the cover support profile (4) and the insulation mounting members (3). This allows for a large amount of adjustment of the distance between the insulation mounting members and the cover support profiles. The adjustment system of the substructure is suitable for relative large insulation material layers, such as fibrous insulation thickness of up to 400 mm or more and the substructure according to the invention does not provide any or only a few thermal bridges as no full penetration of the insulation is needed for providing the adjustment of the cover support profile.
US08387318B2
An open-air parking shelter comprises a canopy structure, photovoltaic elements, a power output, and a support structure. The canopy structure comprises a plurality of elongated shading members arranged in spaced apart relation. The spaced apart relation being such that airflow is permitted between the elongated members. The photovoltaic elements are provided on the elongated shading members for receiving solar radiation and converting the solar radiation to electricity. The power output is coupled to each of the photovoltaic elements for outputting the electricity converted by the photovoltaic elements. The support structure is provided for supporting the canopy structure in spaced relation above a ground surface.
US08387314B2
A storage cabinet with two electrified back-to back, separated compartments extending through an office partition with a first compartment open to a first side of the partition and another, second compartment open to a second side of the partition, and with one lockable door on each side of the partition to close the compartment opening on that side. The electrified back to back compartments have a depth less than the side to side depth of the cabinet and, preferably have a cavity intermediate the two compartments via which electrical power is directed to an electrical outlet in each compartment.
US08387306B2
In a method of monitoring and/or controlling termite populations in an area accessible to the termites a wood that has been heat-treated to a temperature of greater than about 150 degrees C. (302 degrees F.) is located in the area and monitored. A toxic bait may also be located in the area. In another method, a toxic bait that contains a toxicant and wood that has been heat-treated to a temperature of at least about 150 degrees C. (302 degrees F.) may be located in the area.
US08387301B2
A deer attractant including: an expandable visual indicator; and a cover adapted to slide over the visual indicator. The device is transitionable between a first state and a second state, so that when the device is in the first state, the cover compresses and encloses the visual indicator, and when the device is in the second state, the visual indicator is expanded and exposed, thereby attracting the animal. The visual indicator is a compressible bellows that urges itself to expand when not compressed by the cover. The device includes a vocal call that produces an audio signal when the device transitions from the first state into the second state.
US08387294B2
The handgun identification light is a device attachable to a handgun, the device illuminating the handgun with flashing blue and red lights to provide advanced real-time early warning to police officers who encounter a fellow off-duty plainclothes or undercover officer during their response to the commission of a crime. The device has an on-off switch connected to a battery and flashing LED's disposed along opposing sides of the device. The device includes a tilt switch, grip switch, or gun motion sensor that detects when a user draws the weapon. By activation of the flashing red and blue light device on his weapon, an off-duty plainclothes or undercover police officer who draws the weapon becomes readily identifiable by other officers in proximity as a fellow law officer, thus avoiding misidentification and tragically resultant friendly fire incidents.
US08387292B1
A rotatable pennant assembly comprising a pennant formed of planar material having a grommet of predetermined diameter “d” proximate an edge, said grommet providing a circular hub having a bearing surface. An elongated, unitary molded member terminating in a bulbous first stop member having a diameter greater than the diameter “d,” an axle portion of diameter less than “d” proximate said bulbous portion, and a second stop member spaced from said first stop member adjacent said axle. Said elongated member including a handle portion adapted to be gripped by a user and said second stop member being sufficiently flexible to permit said grommet to pass over it and thereafter to trap said grommet over said axle portion between the first and second stop members, whereby said pennant may be attached to said elongated member through said grommet by a quick-connect snap action for rotation about the axis of said elongated member.
US08387291B2
A steam iron having a boiling compartment (15) for producing steam and a steam distribution circuit with a smoothing brush (3) including a head (31) equipped with at least one hole (32) for emitting a flow of steam, characterized in that it contains a steam flow acceleration device (4) that generates a puff of air to increase the steam flow rate at the outlet of the smoothing brush (3).
US08387283B2
An ice crampon including a metal armature, the metal armature being composed of a horizontal support plate, at least one front spike in the form of a blade, and an adjustment device for adjusting the length of said front spike between a withdrawn position and an advanced position. In the intermediate part, each front spike comprises two circular apertures for passage of a fixing screw in both the withdrawn and advanced positions, and in the rear part comprises a sliding link operating in conjunction with a positioning cross-member securely attached to the armature when adjustment is performed. The sliding travel corresponds to the longitudinal distance between the two apertures, and the positioning cross-member is notched over its whole width with a succession of rectangular notches and indentations further enabling transverse positioning of the front spike.
US08387278B2
A sole (12) for an item of footwear such as a shoe (10) includes a heel part (18) and a forefoot part (16), the forefoot part (16) including a rocker region (20). The rocker region (20) has a length extending transversely across the sole (12) and a width extending along the sole (12). The sole (12) is arranged so that in use during a gait cycle in which the sole (12) contacts a substantially planar support surface (38), a region of contact between the sole (12) and the support surface (38) moves across the width of the rocker region (20).
US08387271B2
A hair dryer apparatus and method for use in hair care. The apparatus preferably includes a therapeutic housing having at least one near infrared emitting diode, a nozzle, and a housing. Further, disposed within the apparatus may be a circuit board, which is in electronic communication with at least three control buttons, a microprocessor, a liquid crystal display, and a voltage regulator.
US08387263B1
A utensil in the form of a spoon having a spill resistant bowl. The bowl may have an angled tip at the front portion of the bowl and a secondary reservoir at or near the rear portion of the bowl. In some embodiments, portions of the inner surface of the bowl may be textured near the perimeter edge along the sides of the bowl. The utensil may also have an ergonomic handle having a depression on the top and concavity on the bottom with a flattened portion at the rear end. The flattened portion allows the utensil to stand upright.
US08387261B2
A rotating cutting head includes multiple, separate, spaced-apart, parallel loops of chainsaw chains positioned around a central hub. The hub is attached to a spindle of a lawn edger. A safety shield is provided adjacent to the rotating cutting head. As the cutting head rotates, the chainsaw chains cut the tree roots. The rotating cutting head is used for resurfacing exposed tree roots to avoid tripping hazards and tree root strike damage to residential and commercial lawn maintenance equipment.
US08387258B2
Insulation assemblies that are useful with bearing assemblies that fit in openings in bearing brackets of rotating machines, such as large synchronous motors or generators.
US08387251B2
There is provided a production method of an internally ribbed steel tube, capable of forming spiral ribs stably so as to reduce troubles at the time of cold drawing for forming the spiral ribs of the steel tube. In this production method, the spiral ribs can be formed stably so as to reduce troubles at the time of cold drawing for forming the spiral ribs by straightening bends of a blank tube before the cold drawing for forming the spiral ribs, by optimizing the direction of the spiral rib formation after the bend straightening, and by correcting the drawing schedule depending on the blank tube. The obtained internally ribbed steel tube is well applicable to an increased capacity and a higher temperature/higher pressure operation of a boiler because the steel tube is provided with high formability and excellent quality as a boiler steel tube.
US08387248B2
A heat exchanger is provided in which heat exchanger shells are formed by electro forming about a mandrel. The shells are attached and joined to provide a heat exchanger module. As the shells are not press formed problems with respect to material elongation to achieve deep grooves in the shells are potentially avoided and shells can be created with more desirable thickness to achieve more efficient heat exchange. Furthermore, reduced shell thickness will also reduce weight and therefore improve the acceptability of heat exchangers in particular applications such as those associated with aerospace and automotive sports.
US08387244B2
The assembly method includes packaging of items for shipment and secures components of the assembly in a fashion and in the related position required for further assembly, as a unit, to an engine that is in the process of being assembled. The timed assembly arrives at the engine plant secured together such that it allows handling, at least in part, as a single component and with its parts arranged in the relative position required for proper timing and for securing to other components of the engine. The chain (44) is pinned between a tensioner pin (66) and the tensioner chain contacting surface (60) and between a guide pin (74) and the guide or snubber chain contacting surface (88). The tensioner is preferably pinned in a state of minimum extension.
US08387243B2
A method of manufacturing a multistage exhaust turbocharger having a high-pressure stage turbocharger and a low-pressure stage turbocharger includes providing a high-pressure turbine housing of the high-pressure stage turbocharger, the high-pressure turbine housing being integrally formed with the exhaust manifold by casting or welding, assembling constituent parts of the high-pressure stage turbocharger using the high-pressure turbine housing as a reference, after the assembling constituent parts of the high-pressure stage turbocharger, attaching the low-pressure stage turbocharger to the high-pressure stage turbocharger by attaching a low-pressure turbine housing to a low-pressure turbine connection flange, and after the attaching the low-pressure stage turbocharger, attaching an air supply channel to connect between a supply air outlet of the low-pressure stage turbocharger and a supply air inlet of the high-pressure stage turbocharger, wherein the low-pressure turbocharger is disposed below the high-pressure turbocharger.
US08387233B2
A circuit board assembling system includes a circuit board whereon a slot is formed. The circuit board includes a first region and a second region. The circuit board assembling system further includes a component placement machine, a positioning rod, wherein a first width of the unadjusted positioning rod is larger than a width of the slot so that the unadjusted positioning rod can not pass through the slot, a conveying device for driving the circuit board to a positioning point in a first direction and driving the circuit board to an assembling position in a second direction, and a control unit for controlling the conveying device to drive the circuit board to the assembling position in the second direction and controlling the component placement machine to assemble a first component set and a second component set on the first region and the second region respectively.
US08387231B2
A stator coil producing method and a stator coil production machine. The stator coil is used in an electric rotating machine. The stator coil production machine includes a rotary retainer which rotates to move shaping press pairs along a looped path. The rotary retainer has retaining holes through which the shaping press pairs are retained. The retaining holes are shaped to permit the shaping press pairs to move along the looped path, thereby pressing or shaping portions of a conductor wire into in-slot portions to be disposed in slots of a stator core and coil-end portions each of which is to extend between adjacent two of the in-slot portions outside the slots. The method comprises an in-slot portion shaping step of shaping portions of the insulator-coated conductor wire into the in-slot portions and a coil-end portion shaping step of shaping portions of the insulator-coated conductor wire into the coil-end portions.
US08387227B2
A method for making a TEM micro-grid is provided. The method includes the following steps. A carrier, a carbon nanotube structure, and a protector are provided. The carrier defines a first through opening. The protector defines a second through opening. The protector, the carbon nanotube structure and the carrier are stacked such that the carbon nanotube structure is located between the carrier and the protector. The second through opening at least partly overlaps with the first through opening.
US08387221B2
The invention relates to a device for finishworking of a forming tool for an auto body sheet metal part in which, in a first working step for identifying a surface region of a tool surface to be remachined, a sheet metal part which has been coated with a marking paint can be formed in a pressing process by means of the tool and, using the color impression of the sheet metal part on the tool surface, the surface region which is to be remachined is acquired, and then in a second working step the surface region to be remachined can be remachined by a corresponding surface treatment. According to the invention, the device has a machining apparatus which electronically acquires the tool surface with the color impression and, depending on the intensity of the color impression, determines the location and/or dimension of the surface area to be remachined and remachines it accordingly.
US08387214B2
A hidden type hood gas lifter device may include a gas lifter, a hood hinge arm having one end portion fixed to a hood, a hinge bracket having one end portion fixed to a vehicle body, wherein the other end portion of the hood hinge arm is rotatably coupled to the other end portion of the hinge bracket, and a gear unit coupling the other end portion of the hood hinge arm and one end portion of the gas lifter.
US08387213B2
A furniture hinge, comprising a fitting part, a hinge cup that is articulated thereto for fastening to furniture parts, and a cushioning apparatus for cushioning a relative movement between the fitting part and the hinge cup, wherein the cushioning apparatus is disposed in or on the hinge cup, wherein the cushioning apparatus comprises a housing having first fastening means, and second fastening means are disposed on the hinge cup, wherein the housing of the cushioning apparatus can be inserted from above into the hinge cup and in the installed position is disposed substantially completely inside the hinge cup, wherein the housing of the cushioning apparatus and the hinge cup can be connected to each other in said installed position by the first and second fastening means.
US08387199B2
A device and method for coupling a cleaning implement to a floor cleaning machine. The device includes a plate that has a first edge, a second edge, and a main body portion extending between the first edge and the second edge. The device also includes projections and recesses positioned to releasably engage with each other to releasably couple the plate with the cleaning implement, and a channel that is coupled to one of the first edge and the second edge of the plate to receive an edge of the cleaning implement. The channel has a first end for initially receiving the edge of the cleaning implement during insertion, and a second end positioned opposite the first end. A retainer is in communication with the channel to selectively prevent the cleaning implement from disengaging relative to the coupling device.
US08387191B2
A bearing retainer plate for fall restraint equipment made from a single, continuous piece of sheet metal, where the metal is lasered, cut, and/or butterflied to define a plurality of apertures. A bearing, preferably possessing a self-centering characteristic, is inserted into one of the apertures, while an adapter or bracket for an over-travel stop is inserted into another. A foot lock stud is inserted into another aperture defined by the bearing retainer plate and welded into place. The piece of metal may also define apertures configured to receive fasteners for attaching the plate to the fall restraint equipment, such as to a support structure of a gangway.
US08387188B2
A multipurpose tool (10) can comprise a shovel (14) on a top center area, a hatchet or ax (18) on a lower area adjacent to the shovel, a hammer (16) on an opposing side of the hatchet or ax on the lower area, and a handle (24) protruding from the lower area; The shovel, hatchet or ax, and hammer are integrated as a single piece. The handle can also be integrated with the shovel, ax or hatchet, and hammer as a single or unitary piece. An accessory handle or tool 20 can selectively attach to the multipurpose tool 10. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08387184B2
A patient support apparatus includes a frame and seat, thigh, and head sections coupled to the frame. A linkage is coupled to the head, seat, and thigh sections. The linkage has a first mode of operation in which the seat and thigh sections remain substantially parallel to each other as the head section is raised and lowered and the linkage has a second mode of operation in which the thigh section tilts relative to the seat section as the head section is raised and lowered. A handle is movable relative to the head section between a first position in which the linkage is in the first mode of operation and a second position in which the linkage is in the second mode of operation.
US08387181B1
A sheet system having a sheet with a top and bottom surface, a first, second, third and fourth side, the second side being opposite the first side, the sides are adapted to hug sides of a mattress, an elastic band lines a portion of bottom edges of each side, a first handle on the top surface of the sheet near the first side and near the third side, a second handle on the top surface of the sheet near the first side and about halfway between the third side and fourth side, a third handle on the top surface of the sheet near the second side and near the third side, and a fourth handle on the top surface of the sheet near the second side and about halfway between the third side and fourth side.
US08387180B1
The present invention relates to a bed having a rigid deck supported over the base. Four sections can be provided, with three of the sections comprising rigid grids that lie in respective planes. The sections can be coplanar when the deck is in a flat position. Several cross members can be provided to support the deck sections. Holders, which can be comprised of slots that are formed in the cross members, provide bidirectional support to side rails. In this regard, the bed rails can be removably positioned within the slots to maintain the position of the bed rails and eliminate rail migration.
US08387179B2
A person-support apparatus comprises a frame, a first siderail, and a second siderail. The frame includes a first support section and a second support section. The first support section is configured to pivot between a first support position and a second support position with respect to the second support section. The first siderail is coupled to the first support section and configured to move therewith. The second siderail is coupled to the frame and is configured to move along the frame between a first position and a second position. The second siderail is configured to be positioned adjacent to the second support section in the first position, and adjacent to the first support section and below the first siderail in the second position.
US08387175B2
A soaking basin is provided having a base unit, a disposable liner, and a frame nested therebetween to enable removal of the liner from the base unit, even when filled with liquid. In this manner, a user can remove the liner filled with liquid to pour out the liquid and discard the liner, after a treatment has been completed. Thus, the user need not lift the entire soaking basin to pour out liquid. In addition, the user can use the frame to support the new liner while filling it with liquid, and to transport the filled liner to the base unit to service clients.
US08387168B2
A protective glove comprising a glove body having a padded cuff, an exterior covered with padding, finger pockets and a thumb pad, a palm flap integrally connected to the glove body adjacent the opening of the finger pockets such that the interior surface of the palm flap can be positioned to face the interior surface of the glove body, the palm flap further including a thumb pad pocket adapted to receive the thumb pad of the glove body, and an adjacent thumb pocket for receiving the wearer's thumb, flexible releasable fasteners situated along the periphery of the palm flap and at corresponding locations on the glove body for releasably connecting the palm flap to the glove body such that the palm flap and the glove body define a hand cavity when they are connected that communicates with the finger pockets.
US08387166B2
A combination of a vest and a versatile, adaptable bag allows a person to comfortably carry articles, even while physically active. The vest is contoured to the shape of a person's body, limiting the jostling of the vest and integrally attached bag as the person moves. One advantageous feature of the convertible bag is that its size can adapt to the desired contents: the upper portion of the bag acts either as a flap for the lower portion, or as a vertical extension of the lower portion when the bag contents are more voluminous. Further, the vest portion sits high on the chest of the person wearing the vest. This increases comfort to the person by distributing the weight better, and reduces sweating, particularly during physical activity such as riding a bicycle.
US08393010B2
A near-field scanning optical microscope is disclosed. The microscope includes a lighting component, a probe and an ellipsoidal mirror. The lighting component emits a light. The probe is disposed on one side of a testing sample, and the light is focused around a probe tip to draw the near-field light out. The ellipsoidal mirror has a first focal point and a second focal point, and the first focal point and the probe tip are disposed at the corresponding positions, and the near-field light drawn out from the probe tip is scattered from the first focal point inside the ellipsoidal mirror, and reflected and passed through the second focal point.
US08393003B2
A computer-implemented method of tamper-protecting computer program code. The method comprises: obtaining an input representation of the computer program code; identifying a conditional program statement for causing a data processing system to selectively execute one of at least a first and a second sets of program statements when said computer program is executed by a data processing system; replacing said identified conditional program statement and the first and second sets of program statements with a set of transformed program statements to obtain obfuscated program code, wherein the set of transformed program statements is adapted to cause the data processing system to execute at least a part of each of the transformed program statements when said computer program is executed by the data processing system.
US08393000B2
A method, apparatus, and system enable a secure location-aware platform. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention may utilize a secure processing partition on the platform to determine a location of the platform and dynamically apply and/or change security controls accordingly.
US08392994B2
A system, method and computer program product are provided for detecting unwanted data. A scan for unwanted data is performed to generate results of the scan. A context of the scan is then identified. Further, the presence of unwanted data is conditionally indicated based on both the results of the scan and the context of the scan.
US08392992B1
A method and apparatus for preventing sensitive data leakage due to input focus misappropriation is described. In one embodiment, a method for restricting a change in an input focus to protect sensitive data comprising identifying a visual representation component used to receive sensitive data, wherein the virtual representation component having an input focus of a computer and preventing a change in the input focus from the visual representation component.
US08392982B2
The present invention provides a system and method for authentication of network traffic managed by a traffic management virtual server. A traffic management virtual server may determine that a client has not been authenticated from a request of the client to access a server. Responsive to the request, the traffic management virtual server may transmit a response to the client with instructions to redirect to an authentication virtual server. The authentication virtual server may receive a second request from the client. The authentication virtual server may then authenticate credentials received from the client and establish an authentication session for the client. Further, the authentication virtual server may transmit a second response to redirect the client to the traffic management virtual server. The second response identifies the authentication session. The traffic management virtual server then receives a request from the client with an identifier to the authentication session.
US08392974B2
When a plurality of information processing apparatuses that have an authentication function cooperate to execute a job, user authentication information is transmitted from a cooperative information source processing apparatus to a destination cooperative information processing apparatus that execute the cooperative job. A user account is created at the destination cooperative information processing apparatus based on the transmitted authentication information. When the cooperative information source processing apparatus notifies execution of a cooperative job to the destination cooperative information processing apparatus, authentication information that is authenticated at the cooperative information source processing apparatus is transmitted to the destination cooperative information processing apparatus. The destination cooperative information processing apparatus creates a user account based on the authentication information, and executes the cooperative job using the created user account.
US08392968B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method comprises an operation of commencing a first phrase and transfer processing of an authentication handshaking protocol. The first state is commenced for establishing a secure communication path by a first processor within a first network device. The first phrase comprises an exchange of data during a networking protocol. The transfer of processing for the networking protocol by the first processor to a second processor is conducted to complete the networking protocol.
US08392961B2
Improved access control techniques for distributed messaging systems such as content-based publish/subscribe systems are disclosed. For example, a method for providing access control in a content-based publish/subscribe system, wherein messages are delivered from publishing clients to subscribing clients via a plurality of brokers, includes the following steps/operations. One or more changes to an access control policy are specified. An access control version identifier is associated to the one or more changes. The one or more changes are sent to one or more brokers of the plurality of brokers that have a publishing client or a subscribing client associated therewith that is affected by the one or more changes. The access control version identifier associated with the one or more changes is sent to each of the plurality of brokers.
US08392960B2
A receiving apparatus contains a local area network interface for communication, a signal-processing device that decodes program information received by the local area network interface, and an encoding device that encodes the decoded program information to reconstitute program information to which a synchronizing signal is added and to generate any one of a composite signal and a separate signal. The receiving apparatus also contains an output terminal that the encoding device supplies with any one of a composite signal and a separate signal.
US08392955B2
A content presentation system comprising content playing apparatus and content providing apparatus operative to receive an array of digitally represented numbers, representing content as P points in D-dimensional space, to generate therefrom a plurality of projections on at least one sub-space of a vector space comprising a span of at least one D-dimensional vector, and to provide the plurality of projections to the content playing apparatus, the content playing apparatus being operative to reconstruct the array of digitally represented numbers from the plurality of projections and to expose human users to content accordingly.
US08392944B2
A digital broadcasting receiving apparatus with improved start-up speed and a start-up method for the digital broadcasting receiving apparatus are provided. The start-up method for the digital broadcasting receiving apparatus includes performing a booting operation related to a central processing unit (CPU) when the digital broadcasting receiving apparatus is powered on, performing a channel decoding operation related to a channel to be displayed while the CPU booting is being performed, and displaying the channel decoded by the channel decoding operation when the CPU booting and the channel decoding are finished. Accordingly, the start-up time of the digital broadcasting receiving apparatus can be remarkably reduced.
US08392939B2
A system for estimating audience state using the video signal relative to an imaged audience and audio signal according to voices from the audience generated in an input unit. A characteristic amount detection unit detects information on a movement amount, movement periodicity, a volume, voice periodicity of the audience, and a frequency component of voices from the audience based on the video signal or the audio signal. An estimation unit estimates an audience state based on the detected result. An output unit outputs the estimated result of the audience state. The audience state can be easily estimated without observing the audience state by a person.
US08392936B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for implementing adapters for event processing systems. A particular system includes an input adapter configured to store event objects received from a source at an input queue. The system also includes a query engine configured to remove event objects from the input queue, to perform a query with respect to the removed event objects to generate result objects, and to insert result objects into an output queue. The system also includes an output adapter configured to remove result objects from the output queue and to transmit the result objects to a sink.
US08392930B2
A contention log contains data for contentions that occur during execution of a multi-threaded application, such as a timestamp of the contention, contention length, contending thread identity, contending thread call stack, and contended-for resource identity. After execution of the application ends, contention analysis data generated from the contention log shows developers information such as total number of contentions for particular resource(s), total number of contentions encountered by thread(s), a list of resources that were most contended for, a list of threads that were most contending, a plot of the number of contentions per time interval during execution of the application, and so on. A developer may pivot between details about threads and details about resources to explore relationships between thread(s) and resource(s) involved in contention(s). Other information may also be displayed, such as call stacks, program source code, and process thread ownership, for example.
US08392928B1
Automatically recommending workload placement in a data center. Historical data and workload constraints of a plurality of workloads are received. A plurality of resources of the data center available for placement of the plurality of workloads is identified. Resource constraints of the plurality of resources are received. Headroom ratings are assigned to the plurality of workloads based on the historical data, the workload constraints and the resource constraints. A consolidation recommendation of the plurality of workloads on the plurality of the resources in said the center is automatically generated based on an analysis of the historical data, the plurality of workloads, the plurality of available resources in the data center and the headroom ratings.
US08392925B2
A method and apparatus which maintain a plurality of counters to synchronize a plurality of requests for a lock independent of interlocks. The plurality of counters include a lock counter and an unlock counter. The requests wait in a wait queue maintained separately from the counters without direct access between the counters and the wait queue. The lock counter indicates a cumulative number of lock requests to acquire the lock. The unlock counter indicates a cumulative number of unlock requests to release the lock acquired. One or more requests waiting for the lock are selected according to the counters to be granted with the lock when the lock is released. A request corresponds to a task performing synchronized operations when granted with the lock.
US08392920B2
Partitioning query execution work of a sequence including a plurality of elements. A method includes a worker core requesting work from a work queue. In response, the worker core receives a task from the work queue. The task is a replicable sequence-processing task including two distinct steps: scheduling a copy of the task on the scheduler queue and processing a sequence. The worker core processes the task by: creating a replica of the task and placing the replica of the task on the work queue, and beginning processing the sequence. The acts are repeated for one or more additional worker cores, where receiving a task from the work queue is performed by receiving one or more replicas of tasks placed on the task queue by earlier performances of creating a replica of the task and placing the replica of the task on the work queue by a different worker core.
US08392917B2
A computing system in which a software component executing on a platform can reliably and efficiently obtain state information about a component supported by the platform through the use of a shared memory page. State information may be supplied by the platform, but any state translation information needed to map the state information as supplied to a format as used may be provided through the shared page. In a virtualized environment, the state translation information can be used to map the value of a virtual timer counter or other component from a value provided by a virtual processor to a normalized reference time that will yield the same result, regardless of whether the software component is migrated to or from another virtual processor. Use of a shared page avoids the inefficiency of an intercept into a virtualized environment or a system calls in native mode operation.
US08392914B2
The present invention provides a method apparatus for recognizing a process in a guest operation system by a virtual machine monitor, and the method comprises: step 101 of recording by the virtual machine monitor the page table information of a process to be executed upon process switching of the guest operating system; step 102 of acquiring by the virtual machine monitor the identification information of the currently-executed process; step 103 of storing by the virtual machine monitor the correspondence between the previously recorded page table information of the process to be executed and the identification information of the currently-executed process. By storing the correspondence between the process page directory base address and the identification information of the process, the method and apparatus of the present invention enable the virtual machine monitor to locate and monitor processes executed in the GOS, thus promoting the management granularity on GOS of the virtual machine monitor to a process level.
US08392907B2
A communication terminal includes: an update section that obtains software via a communication network from a predetermined provider so as to update the software; and a failure monitor section that monitors whether there is a failure to interfere with an update of the software by the update section. The communication terminal further includes an update record section that records, if there is the failure and the update becomes an incomplete update on an occasion of the update by the update section, the presence of the incomplete update; and an update prompting section that prompts, if a monitor result by the failure monitor section changes from that there is a failure to that there is no failure, performing by the update section the update whose presence is recorded by the update record section.
US08392890B2
Methods and systems to test of web browser enabled applications are disclosed. In one embodiment, a browser application can allow a user to perform test and analysis processes on a candidate web browser enabled application. The test enabled browser can use special functions and facilities that are built into the test enabled browser. One implementation of the invention pertains to functional testing, and another implementation of the invention pertains to pertains to site analysis.
US08392889B2
A network based algorithmic Service Objective (SO) is evaluated by defining an SO script comprising a plurality of Service Indicators (SIs), each of the SIs comprising an equation including a plurality of operands and at least one operator, instantiating the SO script into an object-oriented representation of the SO, obtaining values for each of the plurality of operands, and computing each of the SI equations using the obtained values.
US08392887B2
Systems and methods for identifying a target position on a computer display are provided. A system receives computer display data indicative of contents of a computer display and identifies a first area of interest within the computer display. Identifying the area of interest includes receiving a first image and searching the computer display for the first image. Upon finding a match for the first image, a location of the match for the first image is identified as a first point. A second image is received and searched for on the computer display. Upon finding a match for the second image, the location of the match is identified as a second point. The first point and the second point are used in defining an area of interest. A target position is located within the area of interest.
US08392884B2
The present invention relates to a method for the definition of case tests and for the automatic generation of the corresponding scripts able to validate and test the GSM applications on IC or SIM Cards, such method being also able to automatically produce the documentation relative to the designed case test, thus realising an instrument able to evolve in time simultaneously with the applications to be tested. The method has been proposed to reduce the test time, to increase the automation (both the designing and the execution), the possibility of reuse and the maintenance relatively to the instruments offered by the prior art which consist of manual tests of the GSM applications or of tests being manually coded in a script language by a programmer.
US08392883B2
An integration component assists in the integration of information distribution systems (IDSs). The integration component may help to identify the scope of the systems that are to be integrated using a multi-level top-down approach. The multi-level top-down approach may include five levels: a system software level, a business process level, a business rule level, an interface function level, and a data level. A fault detection component may then check the identified systems to identify potential faults. This check can be performed by representing the business rules as a Transition-Directed-Graph (TDG) and then processing the TDG using generic depth-first search (DFS)-based algorithms.
US08392882B2
Systems and methods provide engine state-based control of software functions. In one implementation, a system is provided that includes an engine and an engine control module. The engine control module determines a state of the engine and stores the determined state as an engine state variable. The engine state variable is interpretable by a plurality of components.
US08392874B2
A process for creating an executable configuration that can be run on a target system by selecting from a library a number of abstracted software components that are independent of the target system that implement individual functions of the target system and that are provided with a specified command interface and a specified interface to data channels, the selected software components that are independent of the target system are interconnected via their data channels for the realization of the automatization task to a model which is automatically transformed by a model transformation into a net list of nodes, attributes and edges, whereby the software components form the nodes, the initial parameters, the attributes and the data channels the edges of the net list, the software components that are independent of the target system are transformed into software components dependent on the target system, the software components that are dependent on the target system are instantiated at the target system and parameterized by their command interface and from the net list, the processing sequence of the software components is identified for processing in correct information flow.
US08392870B2
A method of generating optimized input/output (IO) pair and inter-chip connection combinations for two chips is described. In this method, first and second designs for two chips can be specified. Then inter-chip signals based on the first and second designs can be specified. IO pairs for the first and second chips can be determined based on the inter-chip signals. At this point, electrical contacts between micro-bumps (MBs) of the first and second chips can be formed. Inter-chip paths with through-silicon-vias (TSVs) and MBs of the first and second chips can also be formed. At this point, the costs of assigning the IO pairs to the inter-chip paths can be determined. A cost matrix can be built based on these costs. A bipartite matching algorithm can be applied to the cost matrix to determine the optimized IO pair and inter-chip path combinations.
US08392868B1
A method is provided to evaluate whether one or more test patterns is power safe for use during manufacturing testing of an integrated circuit that includes a nonuniform power grid and that includes a scan chain, the method comprising: assigning respective toggle count thresholds for respective power grid regions of the non-uniform power grid; and determining whether respective numbers of toggles by scan elements of the scan chain within one or more respective power grid regions meet respective toggle count thresholds for the one or more respective regions during at least one scan-shift cycle in the course of scan-in of a test pattern to the scan chain.
US08392866B2
A task-based multi-process design synthesis methodology relies on a plurality of child processes to assist a parent process in performing optimizations on an integrated circuit design. Objects from an integrated circuit design are grouped into subsets and assigned to child processes, with each child process performing a transform on each of the objects in the subset assigned to that child process and determining which of the objects in the subset are candidate objects for which performance of the transform has been successful. Each child process also provides result data to the parent process for each candidate object to reduce the overhead of the parent process when performing the transform on the candidate object. The result data, which may include, for example, a set of instructions or hints, may allow a parent process to take advantage of the efforts of the child process in performing the transform.
US08392862B1
Various methods and apparatuses are described for a power distribution structure. In an embodiment, an integrated circuit contains power gating cells that each contain Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) device switches located relative in the power distribution structure to power up and down a block of logic containing a plurality of individual cells using these MOS device switches. The MOS device switches can be tuned to requirements of a target block of logic in order to meet its optimal voltage drop requirements during its active operational state while minimizing leakage current in its off state.
US08392861B2
To considerably reduce the cell layout change after timing optimization to reduce the term of layout design by estimating timing and an area after the timing optimization. During the period of initial layout processing using a net list, a timing constraint, a floor plan, a layout library, a timing library, etc., a library for estimating timing/area for estimating the timing and area after the timing optimization is created in advance and whether the timing constraint can be met is estimated. A cell in a path that hardly meets the timing constraint is placed in proximity and conversely, a cell that easily meets the timing constraint is placed at a distance. At this time, an area increase is also estimated so that wiring congestion does not occur.
US08392857B2
A method is described that involves accepting a description of an electronic system having feedback. The method further includes expressing a real root of the electronic system's transfer function and expressing a real part of a complex root of the electronic system's transfer function. The method further includes expressing a time parameter as a maximum of the real root and the real part of a complex root. The method further involves expressing a settling time of the electronic system with the time parameter and using the settling time to automatically generate a design for the electronic system.
US08392853B2
Method, system, and software for performing independent operations with and upon N-Dimensional spatial and temporal objects displayed in virtual and real visualization systems. The technique applies user selected points or regions of interest in the visualization system to identify corresponding points or regions on transparent focus objects which describe the visualized objects, and which intersect the user's topological line of sight. The resulting set of points or regions are then used to extract information from the focus objects, which provide additional information on object content or location of related file systems. The transparent interface provides intrinsic operations which can be applied directly to the focus objects, or coupling mechanisms to external user applications, to process, manipulate or transform focus objects in either the transparent interface or the visualization system.
US08392852B2
An user interface for facilitating user operation. At time of an initial setup, the user selects a desired character, a room, images of items to be installed in the room, such as a television receiver set, a personal computer apparatus, etc. After selection, a user interface is formed in which images of the character and an item are incorporated into an image of the room, such as for example a living room selected by the user. The user may virtually reproduce his or her room at the user interface by imagining his or her room so as to select a room and install items. As a result, it becomes possible to provide the user with a user interface which allows an intuitive and simple operation.
US08392851B2
An image processing apparatus includes a thumbnail display control unit, a process display control unit, and a changing unit. The thumbnail display control unit controls a thumbnail image representing a content of the image data to display on the touch panel. The process display control unit controls process-indicating images corresponding to a plurality of candidate processes to be performed on the image data to display on the touch panel together with the thumbnail image. The changing unit changes a designated thumbnail image to a processed thumbnail image that represents a result of the designated process performed on the image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail image designated while maintaining to display the thumbnail image other than the designated thumbnail image designated each time the process designating unit designates the process.
US08392847B2
A computing device includes a display and a processor coupled to the display and configured to display a plurality of items of information in a time-sequential manner, with a predetermined time interval between items of information being displayed. At least one of the items of information includes data originating from an application operating on the computing device.
US08392844B2
An illustrative implementation is described for copying an identified portion of source content along with style information associated with the portion. The implementation allows the identified portion to be pasted into target content. By virtue of the extraction and retention of style information, the identified portion that is pasted into the target content visually resembles the identified portion as it appears in the source content. The implementation can identify relevant style information to be preserved based on a contextual analysis of style information applied to the source content. In one illustrative case, some of the style information may be revealed by parts of the content that are not directly demarcated by the identified portion.
US08392842B1
In one example embodiment a system and method is illustrated to receive image data identifying a characteristic of a portion of a first image, the first image displayed as part of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The system and method may also include generating a search request for a second image based upon the characteristic. Further, the system and method may include receiving an image search result including at least the second image, the second image displayed as part of an image array within the GUI. Moreover, the system and method may include augmenting the first image with the second image, based upon the characteristic, to create an augmented image.
US08392835B2
In an apparatus having a display for supplying parameters to a mixing system, a first display control section controls the display to present a scene list containing identifications of each scene and configuration data of the mixing system specified by first specification data contained in each scene. A scene selection acceptance section accepts selection of a scene from the scene list presented on the display. A second display control section controls the display to present operation data of the mixing system specified by second specification data contained in the selected scene, such that the display presents each portion of the operation data. Each portion contains one option of the operation data specified by the second specification data in manner distinguishable from another option not specified by the second specification data.
US08392832B2
Methods, systems, devices, and programming structures for providing temporary substitute placeholder content for rich media content in data sets downloaded to wireless communications devices. The substitute placeholder content may be logically related to the rich content for which it substitutes, and may be displayed in the same relative size and location as the rich content ultimately to be displayed.
US08392830B2
A method and system for code editing using copy and paste operations are provided. The method includes copying a section of text (111) from a source program text (101) and providing source context information (120) for the copied section of text (111). The method further includes pasting (140) the copied section of text (111) to a destination location, including: defining the pasted text (140) as separate from the destination program text (102); carrying out editing (132) to conform variables of the pasted text to the variables of the destination program text (102); and then integrating (133) the pasted text into the destination program text (102). The step of carrying out editing to conform variables of the pasted text (140) to the variables of the destination program text (102) references the source context information (120) and context information (104) of the destination program text (102). Providing source context information (120) may either provide a rich schema storable in association with the copied text (111), providing metadata information relating to the variables of the copied text, or may provide a link to the source program code context information (103).
US08392827B2
A method for dynamically converting electronically encoded HTML document from a text format to an image format. The method includes receiving a request for the content from a client, obtaining the content in text format, determining a content creation preference, and converting the content in text format to content in the image format according to the content creation preference. The method includes replying to the request, wherein the reply includes the content in the image format. The method applies a watermark to the content in the image format according to a watermarking preference. The method generates an image map in accordance with a mapping preference, wherein the image map relates selectable spatial display coordinates to external document identifiers.
US08392825B2
A method and system for implementing a document processor and re-aggregator is described herein. A document is divided into one or more sections and formatting is removed. A condensed document is generated that includes one or more links to the one or more sections. The condensed document is transmitted to a mobile device to be displayed for a user. The user may choose to download one or more of the sections by selecting one or more of the links. Once downloaded, a section may be modified by the user. The one or more modified sections may be transmitted from the mobile device. The one or more modified sections may then be re-aggregated with the unmodified sections to form a revised document.
US08392822B2
An authoring application enables an administrative user to generate, validate, and deploy one or more privacy notices and legal notices in web pages that may be retrieved by a client user via a web browser. Two or more of the privacy notices generated by the authoring application may be deployed in a web page, and may be selectively presented to the client user via the web browser in accordance with the notification setting selected at the web browser. Two or more of the legal notices generated by the authoring application may be deployed in the web page or in a second web page. The legal notices may be selectively presented to the client user via the web browser in accordance with the notification setting.
US08392811B2
A method and apparatus for decoding encoded data bits of a wireless communication transmission are provided. A set of a-priori bit values corresponding to known bit values of the encoded data bits may be generated. Decoding paths that correspond to decoded data bits that are inconsistent with the a-priori bit values may be removed from the possible decoding paths to consider, and decoding the encoded data bits by selecting a decoding path from remaining decoding paths of the possible decoding paths that were not removed. A-priori bit values may be extracted from various messages, such as DL-MAP, UL-MAP, RNG-REQ, and BW-REQ messages.
US08392803B2
To identify data losses in a video sequence transmitted between a server and at least one client over a communication network, the sequence comprising a plurality of video data containers coded using scalable video coding employing a predetermined number of hierarchical levels, the video data containers being transmitted over the network via a series of data transport packets: a process (311) is carried out of detecting losses and of locating the video data affected by those losses, without decoding the video data, by combining information coming from transport packets and information coming from video data container headers.Application for improving decoding on receiving a video sequence.
US08392801B2
A decoding device is provided, which can minimize the number of coded data addition requests by the decoding device, reduce processing time to prevent delay, and minimize frame rate reduction. The decoding device performs data reproduction by performing error correction of data of a predicted image using coded data which is an error correction code generated based on original data. The decoding device includes a coded bit receiving part, a preset value generating/updating part, a decoding part that performs a decoding process based on a preset value or a predicted value, and coded bits, and a bit addition request determining part that determines whether or not there is a need to request additional coded bits from decoding process results from the decoder. When it is determined to perform a decoding process with additional coded data, the preset value generating/updating part updates the preset value based on previous decoding process results.
US08392795B2
The present invention provides a low-complexity and multi-mode Low-density Parity-check (LDPC) codec, in which the decoding operations are divided into small tasks and a unified hardware is implemented so that the hardware resources can be reused in different modes. In addition, memory access is achieved via routing networks with fixed interconnections and memory address generators, the complexity of the hardware implementation is reduced accordingly. Further, the present invention provides an early termination function with which the iterative operations can be terminated early when a threshold is reached so that the power consumption can be thus reduced. The hardware resources for early termination shares a part of hardware resources with an encoder according to the present invention so that the complexity of the hardware implementation can also be reduced.
US08392794B2
A data processing method for a non-volatile memory device is provided. The non-volatile memory device includes a controller and a NAND flash memory. First, a target command and a corresponding target address are serially transmitted from the controller to the NAND flash memory. Then, the NAND flash memory calculates a first value according to the target address. Moreover, a cyclic redundancy check code corresponding to the target address is transmitted from the controller transmits to the NAND flash memory. Next, the NAND flash memory determines whether a transmission error has occurred by performing a cyclic redundancy check according to the first value and the cyclic redundancy check code. When the transmission error has occurred, a status register is set to inform the controller to re-transmit the target command and the corresponding target address.
US08392793B2
Methods include configuring M parallel accumulation engines, accumulating a first information bit at a first set of specific parity bit addresses using the accumulation engines, increasing a parity bit address for each member of the first set of specific parity bit addresses by a pre-determined offset for each new information bit, accumulating subsequent information bits at parity bit addresses that are offset from the specific parity bit addresses by a pre-determined offset until an M+1 information bit is reached, accumulating the next M information bits at a second set of specific parity bit addresses using the accumulation engines, increasing a parity bit address for each member of the second set of specific parity bit addresses by the pre-determined offset for each new information bit; and repeating accumulating and increasing the addresses until the information bits are exhausted. Related systems are described.
US08392791B2
A data storage system comprises a plurality of storage devices and a storage system controller. The storage system controller controls data and redundancy data stored to and read from the storage devices such that the data is stored at least in part in a region which comprises storage areas on least two of the storage devices and such that the storage devices appear as a single storage device to an entity external to the data storage system. The storage system controller comprises a redundancy data generator for generating the redundancy data, a de-duplication fingerprint definer to define a portion of the redundancy data as additionally representing a de-duplication fingerprint for the region, and a data de-duplicator to identify a duplicated region based upon finding a match to the de-duplication fingerprint within the redundancy data of the data storage system.
US08392788B2
A method of manufacture a transport network system includes: receiving input data having an input encoding; generating encoded data, having a transcode encoding, from the input data; generating an error correction redundancy for the encoded data; and sending an output frame, having the encoded data and the error correction redundancy, for increasing a net coding gain of the output frame based on the transcode encoding and the error correction redundancy.
US08392787B2
Selective merge and partial reuse LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) code construction for limited number of layers Belief Propagation (BP) decoding. Multiple LDPC matrices may be generated from a base code, such that multiple/distinct LDPC coded signals may be encoded and/or decoded within a singular communication device. Generally speaking, a first LDPC matrix is modified in accordance with one or more operations thereby generating a second LDPC matrix, and the second LDPC matrix is employed in accordance with encoding an information bit thereby generating an LDPC coded signal (alternatively performed using an LDPC generator matrix corresponding to the LDPC matrix) and/or decoding processing of an LDPC coded signal thereby generating an estimate of an information bit encoded therein. The operations performed on the first LDPC matrix may be any one of, or combination of, selectively merging, deleting, partially re-using one or more sub-matrix rows, and/or partitioning sub-matrix rows.
US08392786B2
LDPC coding systems for 60 GHz millimeter wave based physical layer extension. LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) encoding in cooperation with sub-carrier interleaving, in the context of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), and appropriate symbol mapping is performed in accordance with transmit processing as may be performed within a communication device. In a receiving communication device, receive processing may be performed on a received signal based on the type of LDPC, sub-carrier interleaving, and symbol mapping thereof. The LDPC code employed in accordance with such LDPC encoding may have a partial-tree like structure. In addition, appropriate manipulation of the bits assigned to respective sub-carriers may be performed to ensure that the bits emplaced in the MSB (Most Significant Bit) location of various symbols has some desired diversity (e.g., from different codewords, from appropriately different locations within a given codeword, etc.).
US08392782B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for processing an ARQ in a MIMO system. The apparatus includes a storing unit for storing reordering thresholds of each receiving terminal and retransmission data; a priority managing unit for assigning a priority to a plurality of antenna groups in ascending order of a bit error rate of a wireless channel of each antenna group and managing the plurality of antenna groups based on the priorities; a data transmitting unit for transmitting retransmission data; and a controlling unit for controlling the data transmitting unit to transmit retransmission data within a range not exceeding a reordering threshold of a corresponding receiving terminal sequentially using an antenna group having the highest priority first.
US08392772B2
An integrated circuit is described that has a substrate with a memory array with dedicated support hardware formed on the substrate. An access wrapper circuit is coupled to address and data lines of the memory array and to control lines of the dedicated support hardware. The wrapper circuit is configured to provide an access port to the memory array. A test controller is formed on the substrate and coupled in parallel with the access wrapper circuit to the address and data lines of the memory array and to the control lines of the dedicated support hardware, wherein the test controller is operable to perform a test of the memory array by manipulating control signals to the support hardware in addition to those required to write data patterns into the memory array and to read the contents of the memory array.
US08392769B2
A storage device according to some aspects of the invention includes a communication unit configured to perform processing for communication with a host apparatus; a storage unit configured to have a first memory area and a second memory area that store therein received data from the host apparatus, and memory area selection information; a memory control unit configured to select one of the first memory area and the second memory area as a memory area for reading, select the other one thereof as a memory area for writing, and perform control of reading and writing; and an increment determination unit configured to compare a value of data having been read out from the memory area for reading by the memory control unit and a value of the received data to determine a magnitude relation therebetween.
US08392759B2
A test method including executing a data transfer instruction with regard to transfer of data between a plurality of multiplexed storage devices and a plurality of main systems logically connected to the plurality of storage devices, storing an initial value of an operand upon execution of the data transfer instruction, re-setting the stored initial value to the operand upon occurrence of an interrupt triggered by an exception, and repeatedly executing the data transfer instruction and re-setting the stored initial value to the operand, by the main system accessing the storage device, until the data transfer instruction is completed normally.
US08392751B2
A method for recovery from uncorrectable errors in an information handling system including an operating system (OS) and one or more network interface cards (NICs) is provided. The method may include detecting an uncorrectable error; determining whether the uncorrectable error is isolated to a particular NIC; determining whether the particular NIC is teamed with one or more other NICs; and notifying the OS of a successful recovery from the uncorrectable error if it is determined that (a) the uncorrectable error is isolated to a particular NIC, and (b) the particular NIC is teamed with one or more other NICs.
US08392743B2
A master clock generation unit for satellite navigation systems, comprises a plurality of frequency inputs for receiving a respective atomic clock signal, each having a first or a second reference frequency, and a number of frequency converters each having an input connected to one of the frequency inputs and an output. Each of the frequency converters receives an offset frequency (selected according to the first and second reference frequency at the assigned frequency input) from at least one frequency synthesizer, for providing the same intermediate frequency at each of the converter outputs. A switching matrix is connected to each of the converter outputs for selecting one of the intermediate frequencies as a primary clock provided at a first matrix output, and another of the intermediate frequencies as a secondary clock provided at a second matrix output. A frequency generator having an input connected to the first matrix output and connected to a number of frequency outputs of the master clock generation unit, derives an output reference frequency from the primary clock, and provides it at the frequency outputs. A phase meter having a first meter input connected to the first matrix output and a second meter input connected to the second matrix output, determines a phase difference between the primary and the secondary clock for detecting abnormal behavior.
US08392742B2
A method of synchronizing cyclemasters over a distributed bridge is disclosed. The method comprises: a local portal sending a synchronization signal to a peer portal through a bridge fabric upon occurrence of a cycle synchronization event on the local portal; the peer portal sampling its local cycle timer to obtain a sample value when the peer portal receives the synchronization signal; a bridge manager at an upstream portal communicating the sample value to a bridge manager at an alpha portal; the bridge manager at the alpha portal using the sampled time value to compensate for delays through a bridge fabric, calculate the correction to be applied to a cycle timer associated with the alpha portal, and correct the cycle timer.
US08392731B2
Power supply of ECUs connected to a communication network is optimally controlled so that power consumption is reduced. A transceiver/receiver converts a message of a differential signal received via a CAN bus into a digital signal. A select circuit determines whether the converted message is in a CAN format or a UART format. If it is in the UART format, the select circuit outputs a message to the UART circuit. A UART circuit determines whether the message matches a UART format. If matched, an ID determination circuit determines whether the input message is specifying a CAN ID of its own ECU. If it is the CAN ID of the ECU, the ID determination circuit outputs an enable signal to turn on a regulator and supply power to an MCU and an actuator.
US08392711B2
A multi-stage technique of establishing a plurality of secure strings of symbols is disclosed. In the first stage, the illustrative embodiment establishes a first-stage string of symbols with each other node. The first-stage strings are chosen from a first, small, key space, which means that they can be established more quickly than a highly secure key from a large key space. The advantage of the first-stage strings is that it enables the user to transmit secure messages more quickly than messages secured with highly secure strings. The disadvantage of the illustrative embodiment is that the first-stage strings are not as secure as strings from a larger key space. This disadvantage is mitigated, however, by the fact that the first-stage strings are only used for a short amount of time—until the second-stage strings are established in the second stage.
US08392704B2
An approach for improving input/output control and efficiency in an encrypted file system (EFS) is provided. In this approach, a software application writes data to a first buffer and then requests that an encrypted file system save the data onto a nonvolatile storage device. The encrypted file system encrypts the data and stores the encrypted data in a second buffer and then writes the encrypted data from the second buffer to the nonvolatile storage area. Meanwhile, the software application is able to resume writing additional data to the buffer after the data has been copied to the second buffer even if the data has not yet been written to the nonvolatile storage area.
US08392703B2
An electronic signature verification method implemented by SKI infrastructure adopts a secret key infrastructure (SKI) system for registering a secret key and issuing a signature key and a verification key. After a signer has completed a signature, a signature data, a verification data and a verification key encrypted by the secret key of a signature verification unit are sent to a recipient. After the recipient has received the data, a user needs to send the verification data and the encrypted verification key to a signature verification unit if the user wants to confirm the signature on the signature data. The signature verification unit uses a secret key authorized by the SKI for the decryption to obtain the verification key and uses the verification key to verify the verification data and confirm the existence of the signature of the signature data, so as to authenticate the signature of the signature data.
US08392701B2
An apparatus and method for ensuring distributed packet transmission security are provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, a main control board allocates SA information to multiple processing boards according to a pre-defined criterion, so that each processing board which receives and stores the SA information may implement IPSec processing. As such, the IPSec processing is shared by the multiple processing boards. Accordingly, when there are a large number of IPSec tunnels on one interface, the IPSec processing to the packets passing the IPSec tunnels will not completely rely on only the processing board where the interface is located. Instead, the IPSec processing is allocated to different processing boards. Therefore, the multiple processing boards effectively share the IPSec processing corresponding to multiple SAs. The efficiency of the IPSec processing is increased.
US08392695B1
Microprocessor-based devices may experience crashes due to failures in software, hardware, or a combination thereof. Details about a crash may provide valuable information for determining cause of the crash. Devices may save crash information in volatile memory, place the volatile memory into a self-refresh mode, power cycle the remainder of the device, reboot, and retrieve the crash information. Other information to be persisted across a power cycle may also be saved to volatile memory in this fashion as well.
US08392691B2
A data management method, a memory controller and a memory storage apparatus are provided. The method includes grouping physical units of a rewritable non-volatile memory module into at least a data area and a free area. The method also includes configuring logical units for mapping to the physical units of the data area and writing update data belonging to the logical pages of the logical units orderly into the physical pages of physical units gotten from the free area. The method further includes configuring root units for the logical pages, configuring an entry chain for each of the root units and building entries on the entry chains for recording update information of the updated logical pages, wherein each of the logical pages corresponds to a root unit. Accordingly, the table size for storing the update information is effectively reduced and the time for searching valid data is effectively shortened.
US08392689B1
In one embodiment, a data storage device comprises a buffer, a buffer manager, and a buffer client. The buffer client is configured to receive data to be stored in the buffer, to compute a difference between a bank boundary address of the buffer and a starting buffer address for the data, to generate a first data burst having a length equal to the computed difference and including a first portion of the data, and to send the first data burst to the buffer manager, wherein the buffer manager is configured to write the first data burst to the buffer.
US08392687B2
The present disclosure includes methods and devices for solid state drive formatting. One device embodiment includes control circuitry coupled to a number of memory arrays, wherein each memory array has multiple physical blocks of memory cells. The memory arrays are formatted by the control circuitry that is configured to write system data to the number of memory arrays, where the system data ends at a physical block boundary; and write user data to the number of memory arrays, where the user data starts at a physical block boundary.
US08392682B2
Methods and systems for administrative management of a secure data storage network are disclosed. One system includes a secure storage appliance configured to host a plurality of volumes, each volume associated with a plurality of shares stored on a corresponding plurality of physical storage devices and having a plurality of volume management settings, wherein each volume is accessible by a group of one or more users, each user assigned an administrative access level, the volume management settings are editable by a first user from the group of one or more users associated with the volume and assigned an administrative access level sufficient to edit the volume management settings, and the volume management settings are inaccessible by a second user from outside the group of one or more users associated with the volume and assigned an administrative access level at least equal to that of the first user.
US08392678B2
A storage system and data management method is provided that improves the reliability and fault tolerance of the hard disks saving data utilizing an AOU function.A storage system comprises a first correlating section for correlating a plurality of RAID groups composed of a plurality of physical disks, and the pool region, a second correlating section for correlating the pool region and the storage regions of the virtual volumes, a first allocation section for allocating first data from the host apparatus to the first storage region of the first RAID group based on write requests from the host apparatus, and a second allocation section for distributing second data from the host apparatus at and allocating the second data to any storage regions of the RAID group, with the exception of the first storage region of the first RAID group allocated by the first allocation section, based on write requests.
US08392676B2
A management method and management apparatus that can prevent deterioration of response performance of an entire system is suggested.A management method and apparatus for managing a storage apparatus to which a hierarchical pool configuration technique is applied is designed to: select a migration-candidate virtual volume(s) from among virtual volumes to which a page(s) is allocated from a pool constituted from a storage tier(s) whose number of accesses per unit time has reached a performance threshold and whose used capacity has not reached a capacity threshold; select a pool(s) from which a page(s) is allocated to the virtual volume, as a migration source pool; also select a pool(s) constituted from a storage tier whose number of accesses per unit time has not reached the performance threshold, as a migration destination pool; decide a migration candidate pair(s) by combining the migration-candidate virtual volume(s) with the migration destination pool(s); calculate response performance of the entire system before and after migration respectively; and decide a migration candidate pair which is a migration object, based on the calculation result.
US08392674B1
Methods and apparatus are provided for allowing a component such as a processor on a programmable chip efficient access to properly transformed data an embedded memory. Circuitry is provided with the read data port associated with an embedded memory. The circuitry can be used to perform both static bit width configuration of an embedded memory as well as perform data transformation or data alignment of embedded memory read data. The circuitry can allow efficient data transformations including selection of half words and bytes as well as perform sign extension and zero extension of memory read data.
US08392670B2
The present invention aims to improve the performance of accessing flash memory used as a storage medium in a storage device. In the storage device in accordance with the present invention, a storage controller, before accessing the flash memory, queries a flash controller as to whether the flash memory is accessible.
US08392668B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to distributed data-storage systems that provide non-distributed-data-storage-device-like interfaces to host computers that access the distributed data-storage systems. Distributed data-storage systems generally rely on state information used for execution of commands, received from host computers, by component data-storage systems. Command-executing component data-storage systems may access and modify state information shared among many or all of the component data-storage systems. Embodiment methods of the present invention provide methods for partitioning state information within a distributed data-storage system as well as communications protocols and methods for managing shared state information among the component data-storage systems within a distributed data-storage system. In certain embodiments of the present invention, state information is partitioned into one or more of: (1) local state information that is managed, accessed, and modified separately by each component data storage system; (2) shared state information that is locally cached on component data storage systems for immediate read access, that is periodically refreshed, but that is kept globally consistent among component data storage systems by distributing state-modifying operations; and (3) continuously consistent, shared state information.
US08392661B1
Managing data in a computing system comprising a plurality of cores includes assigning home cache locations of at least a first type of data associated with a first process executing on a first core to respective caches of one or more of the plurality of cores. Cores other than a home core, whose cache includes a home cache location for given cached data, access the given cached data by communicating with the home core. Home cache locations of at least a second type of data associated with the first process are assigned to a local cache of the first core. In response to migrating the first process to execute on a second core, home cache locations of the second type of data associated with the first process are re-assigned to a local cache of the second core.
US08392652B2
A virtual tape system includes an actual tape device having a magnetic tape which stores data. The virtual tape system includes a virtual tape storage device which stores data stored in the actual tape device as a virtual tape volume, first computers to be connected to a host computer which instructs a storing of data in the actual tape device, and a reading of data from the actual tape device, control an interface with the host computer, second computers which control the virtual tape volume of the virtual tape storage device, third computers which control a writing of the data into the actual tape device, and a local disk controller which stores the data in one of storage devices mounted one in each of the first computers, each of the second computers, and each of the third computers.
US08392646B2
A programmable controlled computer switch is disclosed. Console devices and universal serial bus devices of the computer switch can be switched as having a controlling function or a hub function. The computer switch includes a console port interface having console ports for connecting console devices, which initially have a controlling function; a universal serial bus hub port interface having hub ports for connecting universal serial bus devices, which initially have a hub function; plural computer interfaces having a computer port respectively for connecting a computer device; a matrix switching circuit connected to the console port interface, the universal serial bus hub port interface and the plural computer interfaces; and a main controlling circuit connected between the matrix switching circuit and the plural computer interfaces.
US08392641B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a system having a particularly-configured microcontroller. In one embodiment, the microcontroller includes the following: a processor; a processor data bus connected to the processor; a set of peripherals; a peripheral data bus connected to the peripherals; a peripheral bus bridge providing an interface between the processor data bus and the peripheral data base and including a plurality of special function register bank blocks that are internal to the microcontroller, each register bank block having a respective output; and a register bank block decoder circuit for decoding interrupts to provide a selection output for activation of one of the plurality of register bank blocks.
US08392629B1
A system comprising a plurality of virtual machines executed by a computing system; and an adapter; wherein the adapter includes a direct memory access (DMA) module for transferring control blocks to and from a computing system memory to an adapter memory, where the computing system memory has dedicated memory locations for each virtual machine to place the control blocks and the adapter memory has dedicated memory locations for storing the control blocks generated by each of the plurality of virtual machines.
US08392622B2
A method of handling internal operations of a storage device includes in response to information derived from one or more commands received from a host device when the storage device is coupled to the host device, determining whether a sequence of commands is in one of an active state, and a first transition state, where in the first transition state the sequence of commands is transitioning from an inactive state to the active state. The method includes, while the sequence of commands is in the active state or in the first transition state, refraining from executing any operation of a first set of internal memory management operations, each of the first set of internal memory management operations being an extra-sequence operation.
US08392621B2
A method of managing a temporary memory includes: receiving a request to transfer data from a source location to a destination location, the data transfer request associated with an operation to be performed, the operation selected from an input into an intermediate temporary memory and an output; checking a two-state indicator associated with the temporary memory, the two-state indicator having a first state indicating that an immediately preceding operation on the temporary memory was an input to the temporary memory and a second state indicating that the immediately preceding operation was an output from the temporary memory; and performing the operation responsive to one of: the operation being an input operation and the two-state indicator being in the second state, indicating that the immediately preceding operation was an output; and the operation being an output operation and the two-state indicator being in the first state, indicating that the immediately preceding operation was an input.
US08392613B2
In a non-limiting and exemplary embodiment, a method is provided for network address assignment. A network address request is received with an indication of a specific network address space. A network address belonging to the specific network address space may be assigned in response to detecting the indication in the received request. A response to the network address request is transmitted, the response indicating the assigned network address.
US08392610B2
A system, apparatus, and method dynamically manages logical path resources by adding, removing, and establishing logic paths based on specified priority schemes associated with the logical path resources. Information associated with the logical path resources is updated in a logical path resource table.
US08392605B2
The present invention discloses a method for implementing fast multicast and a system thereof. The system comprises multicast protocol, forwarding plane and fast multicast control plane, and the fast multicast control plane further comprises management module and agent module. The method comprises steps of: determining an edge node of time domain overlapping sub-tree of corresponding multicast tree in the multicast service according to the analysis of time domain; initiating the static multicast member of multicast service on said edge node, so that an interface at which the static multicast member is initiated generates a requirement for multicast service; generating the multicast overlapping sub-tree from said edge node to a multicast root node, so that the multicast service flow is transmitted to said edge node in advance; after sending out the requirement for the multicast service flow through any receiver at said edge node, multicast tree path establishes a multicast forwarding tree from the receiver to the edge node, the multicast service flow will be transmitted from this edge node to the receiver. The present invention can effectively reduce the delay of multicast application.
US08392596B2
Method and apparatus for improving streaming data of graphics remoting applications are described herein. According to one embodiment, a stream of data objects is generated, each data object representing graphics data associated with an image to be rendered at a client over a network. For each data object, it is detected whether the associated image includes a first region and a second region having content with different types of contents based on a changing rate of display output regions. The first region is compressed using a first compression method and the second region is compressed using a second compression method different than the first compression method. The graphics data associated with the compressed first region and second region is transmitted to the client over the network to be rendered at the client. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US08392595B2
The invention relates to a method of adapting a scalable data stream organized in blocks of data units, each comprising at least one basic data unit and at least one enhancement data unit, making it possible to define a plurality of quality and bit rate levels (N1 to N3) depending on the number and the type of data units used, each data unit being initially classified in an initial level selected from said plurality of levels. According to the invention, the method implements a regulation mechanism (8) such that, if a data unit is reclassified in a reclassification level of lower priority than the initial level of said data unit, all the data units that depend on the decoding of said reclassified data unit are also reclassified in reclassification levels where all the data units essential to their decoding are accessible.
US08392594B2
A system and method for effectively supporting content distribution in an electronic network includes a content server and a peer-to-peer network of client devices. The content server stores content items received from a content provider. A recommendation engine of the content server creates a global recommendation list to identify an optimal global candidate from among the stored content items for performing an automatic and transparent content download procedure. The recommendation engine creates the global recommendation list by analyzing selectable content-ranking criteria from a plurality of device users of the client devices. The content server then downloads the optimal global candidate from the stored content items to one or more identified target devices during the content download procedure.
US08392592B2
A DCS protocol message addressed to a remote DCS station is generated at a local distributed control system (DCS). The DCS protocol message is received at a local tunneling device. The local tunneling device packages the DCS protocol message into a SCADA protocol message. The SCADA protocol message is transmitted from the local tunneling device to a remote tunneling device. The remote tunneling device receives the SCADA protocol message. The SCADA protocol message is unpackaged into a DCS protocol message at the remote tunneling device, and the DCS protocol message is placed on to a remote DCS such that it flows to the remote station. The DCS protocol message is received at the remote station.
US08392586B2
An apparatus and method for managing a number of transactions at a network storage device (e.g., a NAS device). The network storage device is identified on the network and a usage policy is generated. The usage policy defines a number of rules comprising conditions and corresponding priorities. A transaction preferably comprises meta data associated therewith. The meta data is read from the transaction and compared to the conditions of the rules defined in the usage policy. The transactions are prioritized at the network storage device based on the rules.
US08392574B1
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to provide services based on an environmental metric are disclosed herein. An example method disclosed herein to provide a service based on an environmental metric comprises assigning, with a processor, a workload distribution to distribute a processing workload for the service among first and second processing containers to meet an environmental target, the first and second processing containers to provide the service at respective individual environmental metrics, and combining, with the processor and based on the workload distribution, individual costs incurred by the first and second processing containers to provide the service at the respective individual environmental metrics to determine an overall cost to provide the service using the determined workload distribution.
US08392569B2
A data delivery system and method include storing software resources in a central equipment, receiving and storing software resources sent from the central equipment, and communicating with the central equipment, terminal devices and with the intermediate server. The central equipment includes a registration-accepting unit for accepting registration of software resources, a resource information storage unit for storing resource information having a version number corresponding to the software resources accepted by the registration-accepting unit, a resource transfer unit for sending the software resources accepted and the resource information stored in the resource information storage unit to the intermediate server, a server list-creating unit for creating a server list of the intermediate servers to be sent to the terminal devices, and a sending unit for sending the server list created by the server list-creating unit.
US08392563B1
A method and apparatus for inserting and examining Cookies in the data streams of HTTP connections for the purpose of persistently directing HTTP connections to the same destination. A network device directs subsequent HTTP connections from the same client to the same server (destination) for accessing the requested resources. There are four modes for employing the Cookie to persistently direct HTTP connections. The associated mode inserts a Cookie that uniquely identifies the client into an HTTP response. The passive mode inserts Cookie information that uniquely identifies a previously selected destination into an HTTP response. In the rewrite mode, a network device manages the destination information that is rewritten over blank Cookie information generated by the destination producing the HTTP response. The insert mode inserts and removes Cookie information in the data packets for HTTP requests and response prior to processing by the destination.
US08392558B1
A computer system that provides services to clients may be configured to determine whether it is operating in an overloaded state based on the percentage of client-specified quality of service (QoS) expectations that are not met. For example, if the percentage of service requests in a group of recently serviced requests for which client-specified expectations of a maximum response time were not met is greater than a pre-determined overload threshold, the system may be considered to be in an overloaded state. The overload threshold may be configurable. The overload state may be determined periodically by determining the percentage of service requests in a moving window of time for which client-specified QoS expectations were not met. In response to determining that the system is operating in an overloaded state, it may be configured to throttle at least a portion of incoming service requests in an attempt to exit the overloaded state.
US08392556B2
Technology for monitoring transactions in a computing environment is disclosed. Execution of a transaction by a first application is monitored by a first software entity executing on a first computing device. Performance data that relates to execution of the transaction by a first application is generated. Execution of the transaction by a second application is monitored by a second software entity. The transaction is executed by the second application based on a request from the first application. A determination is made, based on the monitoring, that the first software entity should report the performance data to a third software entity that executes on a second computing device. Based on determining that the first software entity should report the performance data, data is propagated that indicates that the first software entity should report the performance data. The first software entity reports the performance data to the third software entity.
US08392552B2
A system and method for implementing an integrated information system are provided. A premises server is in communication with a variety of information sources that produce monitoring data for a premises. The premises server collects, presents, and transmits the monitoring device data to a central server capable of processing data from multiple premises servers. The central server receives the data and traverses one or more logical rule sets to determine whether the inputted data violates the rules. Based on an evaluation of the rules, the central server generates outputs in the form of communication to one or more authorized users via a variety of communication mediums and devices and/or the instigation of a variety of acts corresponding to the evaluation of the rules.
US08392550B2
A content delivery system includes an analyzer module, a content request data collection module, and a domain name server. The collection module receives request sent to a tracking address, collects information about the request, and provides the information to the analyzer. The server receives an address request from a local domain name server associated with an autonomous system for the cache server address, provides the tracking address to the local server because the local server is associated with the second autonomous system, collects address request information about the address, and provides the address request information to the analyzer module. The analyzer module receives the address request and content request information, and determines information about clients served by the autonomous system based on the address request and content request information.
US08392546B2
A distributed managed system including targets, clients, and a management processor. Each client is adapted to originate commands with at least some commands having a desired destination of one or more targets. The management processor is adapted to receive commands originated by the clients and generate a context value for each received command having a desired destination. The context value indicates a particular client that originated the command. The management processor adds the context value to each corresponding command to create commands with context and dispatches commands with context to the desired destination. At least one target is adapted to receive the commands with context, interpret the context value to identify the particular client that originated the command, and process the commands with context.
US08392540B2
An approach for designing a service specific service oriented architecture (SOA) shared services solution is provided. In one embodiment, there is a service solution tool, including a refinement component configured to receive a set of service requirements for a set of SOA shared services that are developed as part of a potential SOA shared services project, and refine the set of service requirements for the set of SOA shared services. A design component is configured to design a service specific SOA shared services solution based on a refined set of service requirements for the set of service requirements for the set of SOA shared services.
US08392539B1
A user is able to save his operating system settings to a web server. The user may then download these known, clean operating system over the Internet to the same computer in the future or to a different computer. Or, a user is able to save a known, good restore point to a secure site on the web. If the user suspects that his computer has been compromised by malware, the user downloads this original restore point from over the Internet. The computer is then restored to a known, good state prior to the malware infection. In addition, an entire operating system is present on a USB drive and the user runs his computer from the USB drive. The USB drive is inserted into a publicly-accessible computer. Drivers and network settings from the computer are installed on the USB drive and the operating system on the USB drive then reboots and executes on the computer.
US08392535B2
The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a device, and a system for controlling multichannel cascade between two media control servers. The method comprises: receiving a service request message; choosing a target channel among all the channels multichannel-cascaded with an opposite cascaded media control server according to the service request message and a preset channel usage rule; and sending information about the determined target channel to the opposite cascaded media control server so as to enable the opposite cascaded media control server to carry out code stream switching according to the information about the target channel. The method disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention saves cascaded channels and improves the utilization of cascaded channels, thereby saving channel resources.
US08392531B2
A unified device management method and system for unified management of a fixed and mobile device includes a command execution controller which receives a device management command, sends a query message to the device, receives a response message transmitted by the device, creates a command execution policy based on the settings contained in the response message, and executes the device management command according to a policy, the device which generates and sends the response message to the command execution controller according to user inputs, and a remote access server which connects the device and the command execution controller by using a remote access protocol.
US08392527B2
A System including a first WEB client, a second WEB Client, and a remote computer is described. The remote computer is operable to pool cookies received by both the first and the second WEB clients. In one implementation, the system is used by multiple users to purchase items, such as printer cartridges, from an online shopping system.
US08392525B2
A mobile electronic device includes a communication unit connected to a network to which one or more content playback devices and one or more content holding devices are connected, a location query request sending unit that sends to the content playback devices on the network a location query request about content being played back by a content playback device connected to the network, a location query response receiving unit that receives a location query response about the content through the communication unit via the network in accordance with the location query request, a provision request sending unit that sends a provision request for providing the content through the communication unit to a content holding device that holds the content in accordance with the received location query response, and a content receiving unit that receives the content through the communication unit via the network in accordance with the provision request.
US08392521B2
The invention concerns a device dedicated to the management of data between at least one user mobile station (MS) equipped with a communication module (1), stationary terminals (3) associated with at least one service, and a plurality of mobile service means (8) equipped with a communication module (9) and adapted to ensure said service. Said device comprises i) first control means (2) designed to be implanted in the user mobile station (MS) and adapted, upon the user's instruction to generate a primary request including data defining a request for obtaining a service selected at a terminal (3) installed proximate to the mobile station (MS) and associated with the service, ii) second control means (7) adapted, upon reception of a primary request, to generate a secondary request including data defining a request for ensuring the selected'service at the terminal (3), and iii) third control means (10) implanted in each of the mobile service means (8) and adapted, upon reception of a secondary request by the associated communication module (9), to order stoppage of the associated mobile service means (8) at the terminal (3), so as to ensure the service requested by the user of the mobile station (MS).
US08392520B2
A controller of a mobile communication apparatus, such as a cellular phone, that determines whether a received email is urgent by comparing words and phrases contained in the received email with keywords and phrases in a database. The controller generates notice information, such as an icon, when the received email is determined to be urgent, so that a user can recognize that there is an email whose sender wants to contact the user. When the notice information is selected by manipulating a key input device, the controller makes a communication with the sender of the received email.
US08392517B2
A computer implemented method and system is provided for clarifying electronic communication between an originator and a recipient. The originator declares characteristics of an originating message by specifying intent and linguistic type of communication using an application software provided on an originator communication device. The originator transmits the originating message to the recipient via a communication network. The application software on the recipient communication device recognizes the properties and declared characteristics for classification and categorization of the transmitted originating message. The application software determines requirement of a first response message as a reply to the transmitted originating message and generates response message templates that declare characteristics of the first response message based on the categorization. The recipient creates the first response message by selecting one of the response message templates and transmits the first response message to the originator. The communication loop continues until the electronic communication is declared complete.
US08392496B2
A computing device may be joined to a cluster by discovering the device, determining whether the device is eligible to join the cluster, configuring the device, and assigning the device a cluster role. A device may be assigned to act as a cluster master, backup master, active device, standby device, or another role. The cluster master may be configured to assign tasks, such as network flow processing to the cluster devices. The cluster master and backup master may maintain global, run-time synchronization data pertaining to each of the network flows, shared resources, cluster configuration, and the like. The devices within the cluster may monitor one another. Monitoring may include transmitting status messages comprising indicators of device health to the other devices in the cluster. In the event a device satisfies failover conditions, a failover operation to replace the device with another standby device, may be performed.
US08392494B2
A time-invariant method and apparatus for performing modular reduction that is protected against cache-based and branch-based attacks is provided. The modular reduction technique adds no performance penalty and is side-channel resistant. The side-channel resistance is provided through the use of lazy evaluation of carry bits, elimination of data-dependent branches and use of even cache accesses for all memory references.
US08392493B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide techniques which allow for easier change in filter characteristics of a digital filter. Then, in order to attain this object, in a weighing device according to the present invention, a filter coefficient calculator (6) calculates a filter coefficient using a predetermined mathematical expression and outputs the result to a signal processor (5). The signal processor (5) carries out a filtering process on a weight signal (DS) of a digital signal using the filter coefficient. The mathematical expression includes a first parameter which specifies an amount of attenuation in at least one attenuation band where attenuation should be locally intensified in a stopband of amplitude characteristics of the filtering process, a second parameter which specifies the band position of the at least one attenuation band, and a third parameter which specifies a starting frequency of the stopband.
US08392489B2
A system, method, and apparatus for converting a decimal real number in ASCII format to a decimal real number in floating point binary decimal format in a vector processor are described. The method results in the performance of the conversion in a branchless manner and in a constant-time regardless of the size of the ASCII string, within a given range of sizes provided for by the vector processor architecture. The method may take advantage of the single instruction multiple data (SIMD) feature of the vector processor, although it is not restricted to a single instruction.
US08392488B1
Circuitry for adding together three long numbers may include the formation of redundant form sum bit signals and redundant form carry bit signals. These signals may be finally combined in a ripple carry adder chain that produces sum bit output signals and ripple carry bit signals. Both a ripple carry bit signal and a redundant form carry bit signal must be passed from the circuitry performing each place of the addition to the circuitry performing the next-more-significant place of the addition. Various techniques are disclosed for facilitating subdividing long chains of such circuitry, as well as possibly including (between such subdivisions) “pipeline” registers for both ripple and redundant form carry bit signals.
US08392483B2
An Ontological database having a memory for storing data and a data structure stored in the memory that operates with ontological inferencing rules. The ontological database is characterized by a relational database incorporated in the data structure, along with a temporal and a transactional framework imposed upon the ontological inferencing rules.
US08392463B2
Methods for parallel query execution of a database operation on a database utilizing a graphics processing unit (GPU) are presented including: receiving query by a host, the query including database relations; starting a GPU kernel, where the GPU kernels include a GPU memory; hash partitioning the database relations by the GPU kernel; loading the partitioned database relations into the GPU memory; loading keyed partitions corresponding the hash partitioned database relations into the GPU memory; building a hash table for a smaller of the hash partitioned database relations; and executing the query. In some embodiments, methods further include returning a result of the query. In some embodiments, methods further include when the query is a long query including a number of operators, parsing the long query into a number of sub-queries; for each of the sub-queries, starting one of the GPU kernels such that the sub-queries are processed in parallel.
US08392459B2
A system for distributed information processing and interaction includes a plurality of output devices arranged to produce a respective output portion of a system output, a plurality of application processors and a state server in data communication with the plurality of application processors. Each respective output portion is defined by context information. Each application processor is configured to process one or more respective application programs and is responsive to the context information. Each application processor is coupled with an associated respective output device for controlling the output device in producing the respective output portion. The state server provides the context information to the plurality of application processors. The architecture is extended to a more general system in which output devices produce a variety of outputs including device actuations, as well as video displays, and receive a variety of inputs.
US08392455B2
Methods and systems for solving a target value search problem using a multi-interval heuristic are presented. The methods and system identity a path, or paths, in a graph, whereby a connection graph is created and range sets are generated for each vertex in the connection graph. Range sets include one or more intervals. Thereafter, a best search is performed to identify a path, or paths, from a starting vertex to a goal vertex having a path value closest to a target value.
US08392451B1
What is disclosed is a method of operating a communication system. The method includes receiving a registration request for a user device and processing the registration request to associate a network address with domain name information for the user device. The method also includes transferring an update message for delivery to a local domain name database with the association between the network address and the domain name information for the user device, and withholding an update of the association in a master domain name database. The method also includes receiving a first query for the association between the network address and the domain name information for the user device into the master domain name database, and in response, transferring a second query for delivery to the local domain name database. The method also includes receiving the second query in the local domain name database, and in response, transferring the association between the network address and the domain name information for the user device for delivery to the master domain name database.
US08392445B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying query refinements from sibling queries. In one aspect, a method includes associating each of a plurality of parent queries with a respective group of one or more child queries for the parent query, identifying one or more candidate sibling queries for a particular child query, selecting one or more final sibling queries for the particular child query from the one or more candidate sibling queries, and associating the final sibling queries with the particular child query as query refinements.
US08392440B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for query synonym expansion. One method includes receiving a query including a first compound term, and in response to receiving the query, performing the following operations before search results responsive to the query are identified: generating one or more splits of the first compound term, wherein each split divides the compound term into two or more subterms, assigning a score to each subterm of each split, determining an overall score for each split from the scores for the subterms of the split, selecting one or more of the one or more splits according to the overall score for each split, and augmenting the query with the subterms of each selected split.
US08392434B1
Described herein are methods, systems, apparatuses and products for random sampling from distributed streams. An aspect provides a method for distributed sampling on a network with a plurality of sites and a coordinator, including: receiving at the coordinator a data element from a site of the plurality of sites, said data element having a weight randomly associated therewith deemed reportable by comparison at the site to a locally stored global value; comparing the weight of the data element received with a global value stored at the coordinator; and performing one of: updating the global value stored at the coordinator to the weight of the data element received; and communicating the global value stored at the coordinator back to the site of the plurality of sites. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08392432B2
Systems and methods for assigning a product category and/or classification to user data based on a taxonomy of makes and models is provided. User data is received and converted to plain text. A taxonomy is provided, having a plurality of categories corresponding with product descriptions based on product makes and models. Rules are associated with the categories in the taxonomy and used to generate a category score for categories in the taxonomy. The category scores are used to assign at least one category from the taxonomy to the user data. A product class may also be assigned to the user data based on the assigned product category.
US08392431B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining a level of importance of an entity. In use, an identifier of an entity is identified. Additionally, at least one source publishing entity information is searched for the identifier to determine at least one source publishing information associated with the entity. Further, the information associated with the entity is identified from the at least one source publishing the information associated with the entity. Still yet, the information is scored utilizing at least one predefined algorithm to generate at least one score, each score generated for a different one of the at least one predefined algorithm. Moreover, a value indicative of a level of importance of the entity is calculated, utilizing the at least one score.
US08392422B2
A computer implemented method of indexing a plurality of responses for later retrieval and presentation to a user in response to queries, includes, for each of the plurality of responses, receiving at least one representative query for that response. The representative query(s) represent text (e.g. natural language) query(s) to be input by an end user searching for information addressed by that response. Each representative query is parsed into terms. The terms are analyzed to determine which of these terms are more likely to uniquely identify queries for the particular response among terms in representative queries for all indexed responses. Boolean expression(s) satisfied by a text query containing one of the terms determined to more likely uniquely identify that response, and another one of the parsed terms are formed.
US08392416B2
The present invention relates to a method for the dynamic creation or reconfiguration of a contact group listing based upon retrieved metadata. The method comprising identifying a contact that is to be added to a primary contact list, the primary contact list being configured to be accessed by at least one sub-list group, wherein sub-list groups are associated with predetermined metadata classification criteria. The method further comprises interrogating data sources in order to identify metadata that is associated with the contact, and retrieving from the data sources all metadata that has been associated with the contact. The retrieved metadata is subsequently utilized to dynamically generate or reconfigure sub-list groupings in accordance with the information that is retrieved from the metadata.
US08392414B2
Meta-data (tags) for an audiovisual file can be generated by producing an initial estimate of the tags and then revising the estimate (notably to expand it and/or render it more precise) based on the assumption that the relationships which hold between the different tags for a set of manually-tagged training examples will also hold for the tags of the input file now being tagged. A fully-automatic method and system is a hybrid between signal-based and machine-learning approaches, because the initial tag estimate is based on the physical properties of the signal representing the audiovisual file. The initial tag estimate may be produced by inferring that the input content will have the same tags as those files of the same kind, in the training database, which have a global similarity to the input audiovisual file in terms of signal properties.
US08392408B1
A search server system having one or more processors and memory receives a first search query from a client and, in response, generates a first set of search results corresponding to the first search query by searching in a first set of one or more index portions and generates a query cursor indicating a location in the first set of index portions. The server sends the first set of search results and the query cursor to the client. Subsequently the server receives, from the client, a second search query including the query cursor. The first search query is different from the second search query and/or different index portions are used to perform the second search query. In response to the second search query the server generates a second set of search results identified using the query cursor and sends the second set of search results to the client.
US08392407B2
A method of searching for and downloading a mobile telephone file is disclosed, and in the method, a server in a domain where a mobile terminal is located receives a keyword in a searching request, searches for resources in the mobile communication network, and returns a list of resources searched out to the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal receives data resource information selected by a user according to the list of the resources the mobile terminal sends a request for downloading resources to the server in the domain, and the server sends the resources to the mobile terminal. An apparatus of searching for and downloading a mobile telephone file is provided also, which includes a storage module, a receiving module, a sending module, a query module, and can also include a data base, a communication interface and a statistic module. A system of searching for and downloading a mobile telephone file is provided.
US08392405B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing a cost-based optimization of authorization checks in a database system. During operation, the system receives a query at the database system. Next, the system estimates a cost for executing the query, which involves estimating a cost for evaluating authorization checks, which involve functional evaluations of access rights for data accessed by the query. The system then rewrites the query to include evaluating authorization checks within the query. The system also estimates a cost for executing the rewritten query. Next, the system determines if executing the rewritten query has a lower cost than executing the query and performing the authorization checks. If so, the system executes the rewritten query. However, if not, the system executes the query.
US08392400B1
Method and apparatus for stress management in a searchable data service. The searchable data service may provide a searchable index to a backend data store, and an interface to build and query the searchable index, that enables client applications to search for and retrieve locators for stored entities in the backend data store. Embodiments of the searchable data service may implement a distributed stress management mechanism that may provide functionality including, but not limited to, the automated monitoring of critical resources, analysis of resource usage, and decisions on and performance of actions to keep resource usage within comfort zones. In one embodiment, in response to usage of a particular resource being detected as out of the comfort zone on a node, an action may be performed to transfer at least part of the resource usage for the local resource to another node that provides a similar resource.
US08392386B2
A method, system, and computer usable program product for tracking file contents are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A content inode corresponding to a content is created, the content being in a file, the file being stored in a computer memory, and the file being locatable using a file system executing under an operating system in a data processing system. An operation, a component, an application, or a combination thereof, is detected operating with respect to the content. A descriptor and a location corresponding to the operation, the component, the application, or the combination thereof, is determined and added to the content inode. A location identifier corresponding to the location is added to the content inode. The content inode with the added descriptor and location identifier enables an application to learn about the operation, the component, the application, or the combination thereof, having operated with respect to the content.
US08392355B2
A computer system for visualizing recombination events in a group of individuals is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, high-density SNP genotype data is obtained from related individuals in a family. A pedigree is created, haplotypes are reconstructed and likely recombination breakpoints are identified with the use of publicly available computer programs. A software tool is then used facilitate the visualization of the recombination events in the family.
US08392349B2
A method and system that provides an “atlas” on global adaptation providing mapping, analysis, and reporting for scientists and decision-makers, of the best-available science on climate impacts and up-to-date information on adaptation projects. The atlas may be web-based. A method of displaying climate change data includes: collecting existing climate data; consolidating the collected data by designed attribute categories; filtering the collected data by attribute(s); presenting climate data to a user based on selected attribute categories; and archiving climate data.
US08392344B2
Methods, systems, and devices for providing one or more virtual networks for a plurality of services are disclosed. The device may include a secure access node coupled to a wide area communication network and a premises communication network. The secure access node may have a node software platform, one or more node processors, a node storage device, and one or more node communication interfaces. Further, the secure access node may receive a plurality of data packets through one of the one or more node communication interfaces. The node software platform may execute on one of the node processors and may include a node deep packet inspection engine, a node rules generation engine, a node rule check and notification generation engine, a node service segregation engine, a node communication software application, and a node service adapter software application.
US08392331B2
According to one or more aspects, financial transactions may be conducted using a financial card product, such as a hybrid secured credit card that permits transactions up to a predetermined total credit limit, and then allows transactions in excess using a security interest in assets. The asset may be the available balance in an interest-bearing checking account (e.g., a DDA account), a brokerage account, or other type of account that may hold funds/assets. The available balance of the asset(s) may be monitored in real-time (or near real-time) such that the available spending limit on the hybrid secured credit card may be floating (e.g., dynamic). In one example, backend systems may be configured to monitor in real-time an available balance in security accounts in order to prevent spending over the amount of secured funds. In addition, in some examples, more than one account may be associated with the card such that the total spending limit on the card is greater. The total spending limit may be calculated through arithmetic (e.g., sum) of the available balance of each of the associated accounts.
US08392330B2
A financial institution computer maintains one or more lists of account identifiers for accounts enrolled in a prioritized payment program including pre-authorization of certain payment requests by select creditors. The computer estimates a value of one or more prioritized payments associated with a first account and authorizes a first sweep payment to a second account at a second financial institution from a third stand-in account at a payroll processor, so that the estimated value is held back in the stand-in account. Then the computer receives an automatic deposit associated with an account identifier for a first account. The financial institution computer generates prioritized payments from the first account to select creditors and generates a second sweep payment, if necessary, from the first account to the second account, responsive to the incoming automatic deposit. The second account can be, for example, a demand deposit account or a prepaid card account.
US08392327B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for rewarding mortgage customers of a financial institution with a reward payment amount. The method includes providing enrollment in a mortgage matching system to eligible mortgage customers, wherein eligibility requirements include the requirement that eligible mortgage customers hold both a mortgage account and a checking account with the financial institution. The method additionally includes enabling the customer to make periodic mortgage payments from the checking account to the mortgage account and monitoring continued compliance with the eligibility requirements and submission of the periodic payments using a monitoring engine implemented by at least one computer processor. The method further includes determining a reward payment amount to be made by the financial institution to each complying mortgage customer using a fulfillment engine implemented by the at least one computer processor, wherein the reward payment amount is a predetermined percentage of principal and interest.
US08392326B2
This disclosure describes a payment and disbursement system, wherein an initiator authorizes a payment and disbursement to a collector and the collector processes the payment and disbursement through an accumulator agency. The accumulator agency processes the payment as a debit-based transaction and processes the disbursement as an addendum-based transaction. The processing of a debit-based transaction generally occurs by electronic funds transfer (EFT) or by financial electronic data interchange (FEDI). The processing of an addendum-based transaction generally occurs by electronic data interchange (EDI).
US08392319B2
In one aspect, the present invention provides an order slicer that receives an order that to trade a financial instrument. The order associates a trading strategy with said order. The trading strategy is replaceable. In another aspect, an interface accepts a trading strategy of an order to trade a financial instrument. A transmitter transmits the trading strategy to an order slicer.
US08392318B2
Beehive Planet Method is a computerized method spanning Real Estate and Finance fields. It creates an investment avenue for the registered investor base of a real estate brokerage through mass securitization of investment real estate into single property, no to low leverage, tradable securities created through the brokerage's services leading to a new demand based trading environment where collective purchasing creates real estate securities in primary market that trade on an inseparably linked Securities Exchange in secondary market. It uses Property Management standardization with operation and leverage classifications and exchange determined valuations and limits to convert single properties into tradable financial instruments. Complete computerization with automated property selection and collective purchasing conduct data transformation of investment criteria within buyer groups into trade transactions on an electronic exchange. Finally, it fills a void by opening up large scale investment in properties with complete investor control over choice of invested property.
US08392313B2
A method and system that allows the valuation of financial, exotic, employee, and strategic real options using a family of highly flexible and customizable lattices, where the method can be used to solve real-life situations and conditions or to value financially engineered situations. The method uses specialized algorithms to solve complex and large models very quickly, and also allow simulation to be run on the inputs.
US08392305B2
A system for transferring a customer's account information from one account to a new account is described. The system utilizes a switch kit application and associated system that can determine services at the old account and facilitate the transfer of these services to the new account.
US08392297B2
A system and method for facilitating acquisition of automotive core parts from automotive recyclers for remanufacture includes identifying automotive cores and determining the value of the cores with a core fulfillment system. The system identifies automotive cores for an auction house and uses an aggregate value of the cores to determine a value of a vehicle up for bidding. Vehicle or part type information is compared to automotive core descriptions, automotive interchange numbers, and core supplier indicators to identify the automotive cores. A core value is assigned to the identified automotive cores, and an aggregate value of core inventory is determined based upon a total of assigned core values. A vehicle evaluation page can be displayed to the bidder showing the identified automotive cores and an aggregate core value indicating an offer for purchase price that a core supplier will pay to the bidder for the vehicle up for bidding.
US08392290B2
Various embodiments include a method and system for a seller conversion factor to ranking score for presented item listings. In an online marketplace with sellers and item listings, a first sum may be calculated by identifying a first set of item listings associated with the seller. A second sum may also be calculated by identifying a second set of item listings, where the second set is a subset of the first set and are successful item listings. Further, a conversion factor may be calculated from the first and second sums by dividing the second sum by the first sum. The conversion factor may then be used as a component in an item listing quality score for a third set of item listings associated with the seller.
US08392286B2
A method for multi-selection gifting, including identifying a multi-selection gift, the multi-selection gift including a plurality of items of merchandise, and at least one selection rule governing selection of at least two of the items of merchandise, and interactively guiding a gift recipient in selecting at least one item of merchandise in accordance with the at least one selection rule, wherein each selection rule is a member of the group including allowing the gift recipient to select up to a specified total number of items of merchandise in the multi-selection gift, allowing the gift recipient to select items of merchandise in the multi-selection gift up to a specified total cost, and allowing the gift recipient to select items of merchandise in the multi-selection gift up to a specified total measure. A system and a computer-readable storage medium are also described and claimed.
US08392284B2
A method and system for automatically generating a naturally reading narrative product summary including assertions about a selected product. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of determining at least one attribute associated with said specific product; selecting an alternative product based on said at least one attribute; and generating a naturally reading narrative including assertions about the specific product and a recommendation of the alternative product.
US08392267B1
The present invention provides a system, method, and software application for providing a link to an online procurement site from within a supported software application. In one embodiment, when a user starts up a supported software application on a client computer, the client computer sends a request to a server for the Universal Resource Locator (URL) to use in the link. The server, which may be a server associated with a software vendor or the supported client application, determines whether or not the user of the client computer is associated with a business that has a procurement site from which the user can purchase a related application. If the server determines that the user is associated with a business that has a procurement site from which the user can purchase a related software application, then the server provides the client computer with the URL for the procurement site, and the supported client application generates a link to the procurement site.
US08392256B2
A computer system, computer program, and related methods product for selecting one or more targeted advertisements to be displayed along with a set of search results. In general, a computer system and database storage system store one or more campaigns associated with a set of documents and at least one advertisement. The computer system is programmed with an ad targeting module to: identify all campaigns that have at least one document relating to a search result set; analyze the search results set to calculate at least one intersection score between the search result set and at least one of the one or more campaigns; select a matching campaign from the one or more campaigns based on the at least one intersection score, select at least one advertisement from the matching campaign; and cause the at least one advertisement selected from the matching campaign to be displayed with the search result set.
US08392252B2
The invention is a computer-aided method of optimizing advertisements and content by grouping viewers into scientific segments, optimizing an advertisement and pieces of content by scientific segments, selecting an advertisement or content to display to a scientific segment, and creating a scientific targeted advertisement or piece of content.
US08392246B2
A review for a content publisher is received, the content publisher publishing content to which advertisements are targeted over a distribution network. An aggregated approval score for the content publisher is generated based on the received review and other reviews for the content publisher. The aggregated approval score is provide to an advertiser. An indication to accept or reject the targeting of the advertisements to the publisher content is received, the indication being received after providing the aggregated approval score to the advertiser.
US08392244B1
A method of diagnosis-specific advertisement within a prescription writing software system to enable prescription companies to purchase specific diagnoses for which to have their prescription products advertised.
US08392237B2
Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for evaluating compliance with laws, regulations, and/or policies are presented. A metric definition for a metric may be received, the metric measuring an aspect of a business process. The measured aspect may represent a compliance concern. A first sigma score for the metric may be determined based on a number of opportunities and a number of defects. A second sigma score for the business process may be determined. A third sigma score for a business unit may be determined, the business unit implementing the business process. A fourth sigma score for a business segment may be determined, the business segment managing the business unit. A report may be generated, the report including the first sigma score, the second sigma score, the third sigma score, and the fourth sigma score.
US08392223B2
An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and is configured to extract the health care data from, the first computer system. The rules engine normalizes the extracted health care data to a predefined format.
US08392221B1
A method of providing insurance (including professional malpractice liability insurance) to consumers against unfavorable outcomes resulting from services, methods of rating risks associated with services, and a method of reducing the risk of unfavorable outcomes. In the twelfth preferred embodiment, hand-held (or other) electronic data processing devices are used throughout a process of providing health insurance. The patient (or another person) inputs initial information into the device. The cost of insurance for a first office visit is determined, and a menu of coverages is outputted. The patient then selects a particular coverage for a first office visit, and pays the premium for it. The doctor (or other health care provider) then evaluates the patient. Complete information is then inputted. The cost of insurance for one year is then determined, and a menu of coverages is outputted. The patient then selects a particular coverage for one year, and pays its premium.
US08392217B2
A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain health state measurements from the patient, to evaluate and assess the progress of the patient's disease, to review and adjust therapy to optimal levels, and to give the patient medical advice for administering treatment and handling symptom flare-ups and acute episodes of the disease. The medical records are updated, the progression of the disease is stored and tracked, and the patient's preferences for treatment are stored and then used to offer medical advice based on the current state of the disease. A prestored general disease trend curve is compared against a patient specific disease trend curve, and the system makes an automated response such as adjusting therapy.
US08392212B2
A medical claim fraud prevention system includes a first controller positioned at a medical facility and including a user interface and a second controller positioned at a patient information collection center and adapted to be in communication with the first controller. The first controller may send a first signal to the second controller responsive to an occurrence of a predetermined event. The second controller may request identification information from a patient in response to the first signal received from the first controller, and the patient may enter the identification information using the user interface in communication with the second controller to verify their location. The second controller may transmit an indication to the first controller in response to the first signal received from the first controller regarding whether the patient is within a predetermined vicinity of the medical facility based on the identification information entered by the user using the user interface to verify their location.
US08392211B2
A medical claim fraud prevention system includes a first controller positioned at a medical facility and a second controller positioned at a patient information collection center and adapted to be in communication with the first controller. The first controller may transmit a first signal to the second controller responsive to an occurrence of a predetermined event. The second controller may initiate contact with a patient via the patient's mobile phone in response to the first signal received from the first controller, and the patient may be prompted to enter predetermined information to verify their location. The second controller may transmit an indication to the first controller in response to the first signal received from the first controller regarding whether the patient is within a predetermined vicinity of the medical facility based on the predetermined information entered by the patient to verify their location.
US08392207B2
A system and method for managing insurance claim denials. The system and method reviews a denial of claim from an insurer and a patient medical record received from a healthcare provider to determine if an appeal should be filed for the denial. It prepares an appeal to the denial comprising an appeals overturn letter and supporting document and submits the appeal to the insurer if it determines that an appeal should be filed. The system then tracks and monitors the progress of the appeal and process the appeal determination received from the insurer. The system utilizes these tracking and monitoring information to streamline and improve the insurance claim process of the healthcare provider, such as developing and implementing claim denial reduction program.
US08392205B2
A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: providing one or more relevant reported aspects associated with one or more source users that are relevant to achieving one or more target outcomes, the providing of the one or more relevant reported aspects being based, at least in part, on the one or more relevant reported aspects' association with the one or more source users; and developing one or more personalized plans designed to facilitate an end user to achieve the one or more target outcomes when one or more emulatable aspects indicated by the one or more personalized plans are emulated, the development of the one or more personalized plans being based, at least in part, on the providing In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US08392195B2
A multiple audio/video data stream simulation method and system. A computing system receives first audio and/or video data streams. The first audio and/or video data streams include data associated with a first person and a second person. The computing system monitors the first audio and/or video data streams. The computing system identifies emotional attributes comprised by the first audio and/or video data streams. The computing system generates second audio and/or video data streams associated with the first audio and/or video data streams. The second audio and/or video data streams include the first audio and/or video data streams data without the emotional attributes. The computing system stores the second audio and/or video data streams.
US08392190B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for assessing non-native spontaneous speech pronunciation. Speech recognition on digitized speech is performed using a non-native acoustic model trained with non-native speech to generate word hypotheses for the digitized speech. Time alignment is performed between the digitized speech and the word hypotheses using a reference acoustic model trained with native-quality speech. Statistics are calculated regarding individual words and phonemes in the word hypotheses based on the alignment. A plurality of features for use in assessing pronunciation of the speech are calculated based on the statistics, an assessment score is calculated based on one or more of the calculated features, and the assessment score is stored in a computer-readable memory.
US08392181B2
A system and methods of subtraction of a shaped component of a noise reduction spectrum from a combined signal are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes identifying a selected frequency component using a corresponding frequency component of a noise sample spectrum. A noise set is comprised of the noise sample spectrum. The method further includes forming a shaped component of a noise reduction spectrum using a processor and a memory based on a combined signal spectrum and the selected frequency component. The method also includes subtracting the shaped component of the noise reduction spectrum from the combined signal spectrum.
US08392177B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding the frequency of a continuation sinusoidal signal and a method and apparatus for decoding the same. In the encoding method, a continuation sinusoidal signal successive to a sinusoidal signal in a previous section is extracted from a current section; a frequency of the continuation sinusoidal signal at the boundary between the current and previous sections is changed to a first frequency, based on representative frequencies of the continuation sinusoidal signal and at least one sinusoidal signal that belongs to a section adjacent to the current section and is successive to the continuation sinusoidal signal; and the first frequency is encoded.
US08392176B2
In an apparatus and method, time-varying signals are processed and encoded via a frequency domain linear prediction (FDLP) scheme to arrive at an all-pole model. Residual signals resulted from the scheme are estimated and transformed into a time domain signal. Through the process of heterodyning, the time domain signal is frequency shifted toward the baseband level as a downshifted carrier signal. Quantized values of the all-pole model and the frequency transform of the downshifted carrier signal are packetized as encoded signals suitable for transmission or storage. To reconstruct the time-varying signals, the encoded signals are decoded. The decoding process is basically the reverse of the encoding process.
US08392175B2
Meaningful phrases are distinguished from chance word sequences statistically, by analyzing a large number of documents and using a statistical metric such as a mutual information metric to distinguish meaningful phrases from groups of words that co-occur by chance. In some embodiments, multiple lists of candidate phrases are maintained to optimize the storage requirement of the phrase-identification algorithm. After phrase identification, a combination of words and meaningful phrases can be used to construct clusters of documents.
US08392170B2
An emulation system and emulation method for a no longer available microcontroller, having a supplyable microcontroller and emulation software able to be run thereon, and having an interpreter, the emulation software forming a software layer between the hardware of the available microcontroller and an operating software of the no longer available microcontroller, and the software being adapted in such a way that the hardware of the available microcontroller in conjunction with the additional emulation software behaves like the hardware of the no longer available microcontroller, and the interpreter is adapted in order to represent address, code and data information of the operating software of the no longer available microcontroller to functionally equivalent address, code and data information of the available microcontroller.
US08392155B2
A particle behavior analysis system includes a calculation section that, regarding a decomposition portion decomposed in accordance with a decomposition method in a range to be analyzed, considers interaction force with another substance that acts on a particle and calculates behavior of the particle, while performing information communication with other devices; and an output processing section that switches output advisability of an analysis result obtained by the calculation section based on priority of the decomposition portion corresponding to the advisability of output processing of the analysis result.
US08392152B2
A method is provided for automatically identifying a disease outbreak indicative of a potential bio-terror attack. Patient records are mined from structured and unstructured clinical sources. The patient records are then analyzed by correlating selected patient data contained in the patient records with disease indicia for each of a plurality of diseases. A probability of a disease outbreak is estimated at least in part based on these correlations. Suspicion may also be indicated if anomalous disease clusters are found. If any of the estimated probabilities exceeds a threshold value, a disease outbreak alert is outputted. The disease indicia may be defined by disease progression models, which may be stored in a disease knowledge base.
US08392139B2
Multi-point calibration method for the depth of a horizontal directional drilling guiding instrument
A multi-point calibration method for the depth of a horizontal directional drilling guiding instrument comprises: maintaining a constant power output of a normal power transmitter in a specific power supply condition; selecting at least two depth calibrations; receiving a signal transmitted from a transmitter and an intensity of a signal at a depth calibration position by a receiving instrument; performing a signal shaping and an analog/digital conversion to the signal received by a signal receiving instrument; and entering the signal into a central digital signal processor, and performing a depth calibration by any compensation method to obtain a required measuring depth. The invention improves the accuracy of the depth measurement of the horizontal directional drilling guiding instrument by using a plurality of compensation methods to compensate any error caused by the electric fields and environmental noises and occurred in the depth measurement of horizontal directional drilling guiding instrument.
US08392131B2
Provided are a portable electronic device which accurately judges service life of a battery even when the battery is replaced, and a method for controlling such portable electronic device. A control block (48) is provided with a voltage measuring section (100), which is connected to a rechargeable battery (32) and measures a voltage value of the rechargeable battery (32); and a control section (101), which measures the voltage of the rechargeable battery (32) by means of the voltage measuring section (100) each time recharging of the rechargeable battery (32) is started and ended, and controls to store recharge count information specified based on the measured voltage value in a storage section (42). The control section (101) performs prescribed information updating, based on the recharge count information, in the case where the recharge count information is acquired by means of an information acquiring section (49) which acquires the recharge count information relating to the rechargeable battery (32) from the external.
US08392119B2
Methods and related systems are described for analyzing electromagnetic survey data. Electromagnetic survey data of a subterranean formation is obtained using at least a downhole transceiver deployed in a borehole and a transceiver positioned on the surface, or in the same or another borehole. Limits are defined for casing correction coefficients that account for effects of the borehole casing. A constrained inversion process is performed solving for the casing correction coefficients within the defined limits, and for one or more parameters of a model representing attributes, such as resistivity, of the subterranean formation.
US08392118B2
The invention comprises a method of locating a vehicle, comprising: a) connecting a removable locator device to the vehicle, said locator device automatically noting when it has been connected to the vehicle and then using locating technology to retrieve, at regular intervals, location coordinates for the current location of said locator device, said location coordinates approximating the location of the vehicle; b) sensing a loss of connection between the locator device and the vehicle; c) automatically storing, as a waypoint on the locator device, the last location coordinates retrieved prior to sensing said loss of connection; and, d) removing the locator device from the vehicle to enable use of the locator device to return to the stored waypoint, wherein the stored waypoint represents the approximate location of the vehicle.
US08392115B2
A road surface division mark recognition apparatus includes: a vehicle-mounted camera that takes an image of a road surface ahead of a vehicle; an image processing portion which has a plurality of image processing modes that correspond respectively to a plurality of kinds of road surface division marks, and which recognizes a road surface division mark in a selected image processing mode; a temperature measurement portion that measures the temperature of the vehicle-mounted camera; and a restriction portion that restricts the action of the vehicle-mounted camera if the temperature measured by the temperature measurement portion is higher than or equal to a threshold value. The threshold value differs between the image processing modes.
US08392114B2
Provided are a computer system and methods related to a map display. A method includes but is not limited to receiving a request for the map, the map illustrating one or more locations; determining a status associated with at least one of the one or more locations on the map, the status being a function of one or more location interaction rules associated with the at least one of the one or more locations on the map; and generating a signal related to indicating on the map the status associated with the at least one of the one or more locations.
US08392109B2
Disclosed is a methodology for the collection, processing and distribution of traffic data and delivering more accurate routing in GPS-based Personal Navigation Assistants (PNAs). The methodology includes a) Data Collection Methodology (DCM), b) a Data Incorporation Methodology (DIM), and c) a Routing Methodology (RM). The DCM regards the collection of information related to the traffic flow in each road. The DIM includes a procedure executed at a central system (CS), outside the PNA, performing the incorporation of the “trace data” (i.e. user-submitted route-related information, including a list of periodically collected, time-stamped GPS samples, augmented with other parameter values defining the vehicle-type, weather-conditions, road-type, holiday-type), collected by the DCM. The RM determines, by means of suitable PNA software, the shortest route from a starting point to a final destination, through the combining the static data from existing maps residing inside the PNA, with the dynamic (time-variant) data derived by the DIM.
US08392108B2
An apparatus for allocating a current measurement value for a geographical position to a map object of a geographical map, wherein the current measurement value originates from a series of adjacent measurement values for adjacent geographical positions, having a processor for determining a first probability measure indicating whether the current measurement value can be allocated to a first map object to which at least one adjacent measurement value of the series has already been allocated previously, and for determining a second probability measure indicating whether the current measurement value can be allocated to a second map object having an intersection with the first map object, if the first probability measure indicates that an allocation of the current measurement value to the first map object is unlikely.
US08392105B2
Operating a vehicle includes receiving, by a central controller, positional data related to the vehicle and environmental data related to a current route of the vehicle. The central controller calculates a desired energy allocation based on the positional data and the environmental data, and transmits the desired energy allocation to the vehicle for use in controlling engine function.
US08392096B2
An engine control system includes a disturbance module, a misfire threshold determination module, a disturbance ratio module, and a spark control module. The disturbance module determines a disturbance value for a past combustion stroke of a cylinder based on rotation of a crankshaft. The misfire threshold determination module determines a jerk value indicative of a misfire within the cylinder. The disturbance ratio module determines a disturbance ratio for the past combustion stroke based on the disturbance value and the jerk value. The spark control module determines a spark timing for a future combustion stroke of the cylinder, determines a spark timing correction for the future combustion stroke based on the disturbance ratio, determines a corrected spark timing based on the spark timing and the spark timing correction, and generates spark during the future combustion stroke based on the corrected spark timing.
US08392095B2
In an internal combustion engine, a variable compression ratio mechanism able to change a mechanical compression ratio, a variable valve timing mechanism able to control the closing timing of the intake valve, and an electronic control unit that predicts the temperature of the catalyst arranged in the engine exhaust passage are provided. When it is predicted that the temperature of the catalyst will fall to less than the activation temperature, the actual expansion ratio is lowered while maintaining the actual compression ratio the same or while increasing the actual compression ratio.
US08392069B2
A system and method for managing faults occurring in a power steering system in a vehicle is disclosed that has particular application for an MRHPS system to provide reliable functioning of the power steering system. The method includes detecting a fault condition in the MRHPS system and selecting a safe mode from a plurality of predetermined safe modes based on the fault condition. The plurality of predetermined safe modes include a normal operation mode, an engine speed follow mode, a manual mode, a fixed duty cycle mode and a voltage control mode. If a fault condition is detected, the method applies the safe mode to manage the fault condition.
US08392066B2
An electric power-assist steering system that provides a steering assist control in accordance with the steering angle right after the idle stop to reduce an unpleasant steering feeling and is installed in a vehicle having an idle stop mechanism (engine controller) that automatically performs an idle stop operation in a predetermined condition. The electric power-assist steering system includes a torque sensor, a steering angle sensor for detecting a steering angle relative to a midpoint of a steering angle that is learned, an electric motor whose assist force is controlled based on the steering torque and the steering angle, and a resolver for detecting a rotational angle of the electric motor. A steering angle right after the idle stop is determined based on the steering angle detected by the steering angle sensor right before the idle stop and variation in the rotational angle detected by the resolver during the idle stop.
US08392053B2
To display patient information, a computing device receives a set of diagnostic values for a patient, a processor of the computing device compares the set of diagnostic values with a set of predetermined normal values, and a video image is displayed having a graphical depiction of the diagnostic values in comparison to the related normal values. The related set of normal values is displayed at a predetermined region of the video image and the set of diagnostic values is displayed on the video image in relation to the certain region of the normal values. Varying levels of relative health of the patient are indicated according the placement of an icon relative to areas of the graphical depiction of the diagnostic values. The video image is a plurality of concentric circles with the diagnostic values being displayed relatively closer to a center of the display in response to the diagnostic values being relatively closer to the values of the related normal values.
US08392050B2
A vehicle load control device comprises a battery that supplies power to an electrical load of the vehicle; a battery sensor that detects a consumption state of the battery; and a control unit that cuts off power supply to the electrical load when the consumption state of the battery reaches a predetermined state. The control unit detects a consumption state of the battery at a relatively short first time interval, in a case where a consumption amount of the battery after the engine stops is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, and detects a consumption state of the battery at a relatively long second time interval, in a case where the consumption amount of the battery after the engine stops is less than a predetermined value, and cuts off power supply to the electrical load depending on the consumption state of the battery detected by the battery sensor.
US08392042B2
The control method for a hybrid drive system of a vehicle includes (1) acquiring the driver's acceleration desire for determining the power for the corresponding wheel (Pwheel), the charge level of the battery (SOC) between a minimum (SOCmin) and a maximum (SOCmax) thresholds for a predetermined traction mode, and the available braking power (Pfrein) for deciding between electric or dissipative braking; (2) managing the charge (SOC) for, based on a first (SOC1 bmin) and a second (SOC2 bmin) minimum thresholds of the charge (SOC) and the driver's requested wheel power (Pwheel), either imposing a battery recharge or setting input parameters for the traction mode selection; and (3) selecting the traction mode, based on the battery power actually available (Pbat), the driver's requested wheel power (Pwheel), and the maximum power available at the thermal engine output (Pmthmax), for selecting the traction mode most adapted to the actual situation of the vehicle.
US08392039B2
An aircraft display system (100) for illustrating a suggested crab angle has a processor (104) adapted to receive data representative of a desired ground tract (214) and representative of a ground tract deviation, and is configured upon receipt of these data to supply a ground tract rendering display command. A display device (116) coupled to receive the ground tract image rendering display commands is operable to render an icon (222) representative of the desired aircraft heading to maintain the desired ground tract (214). The method of how to maneuver an aircraft to correct for crosswind includes determining (306) a difference between a current ground track (224) and a current heading (218), determining a desired heading to maintain the desired ground track (214) based on the difference, and rendering on a display an aircraft icon (222) that is representative of the desired heading.
US08392037B2
A flight control system includes a fly by wire system operable to provide predictive termination point symbology overlaid on a synthetic imagery displayed by a display system in response to a control system and a sensor system. A method to facilitate a VTOL aircraft approach to a terminal point includes integrating a flight director mode with a control system to provide a stabilized approach path to a termination point.
US08392036B2
A remote operator console provides point and go navigation of a robotic vehicle. The remote operator console provides a display for visual representation of the environment in which the robotic vehicle is operating based on sensor information received from the robotic vehicle. An operator may designate a target point on the display. The robotic vehicle is automatically navigated toward a location in the environment corresponding to the designated target point.
US08392032B2
A method is provided to heat a target device of a computer system by a heater equipped therein. The target device is heated to reach a target temperature through multiple temperature intervals. The method senses the current device temperature of the target device to compare with the preset interval temperature of the temperature interval and obtain a phase difference for adjusting a heating power. When heating the target device by the heating power, the current preset interval temperature of the current temperature interval is increased progressively by a preset temperature rising value to obtain the next preset interval temperature of the next temperature interval. Repeat the foregoing steps in every temperature interval until the preset interval temperature or the device temperature reaching the target temperature.
US08392030B2
A device and system that can dynamically provide variable load on a generator and intelligently distribute generated power to loads and energy storage devices is disclosed. One system includes load profile controllers that employ a switching strategy to dynamically vary the load the generator induces while producing regenerative energy. This switching strategy may allow for a wide dynamic range of configurable damping characteristics, as well as decouple generator damping and the system output power. Multiple load profile controllers can be used together via a communications network, such as a vehicle controller area network (CAN) bus. A central regeneration controller or existing electronic control unit (ECU) can issue commands to change damping performance in different load profile controllers. By networking multiple load profile controllers together in either a distributed or centralized manner, the system may allow for intelligent power routing, coordination of multiple energy-generating devices (such as regenerative shocks and brakes), and improved utilization of on-board energy storage devices.
US08392025B2
A smart, adaptive control system that monitors and influences physical conditions of an architectural setting. The architectural setting in which the system is deployed typically includes a plurality of private spaces and at least one community space. The individual private spaces, and the community spaces, may include an environmental control device that affects one or more physical conditions of the individual private space. Each private space may also include an environmental sensor that measures a particular physical condition of the private space. The private spaces may also include one or more occupant sensors, which measure either behavioral or physiological parameters of an occupant. The environmental control devices, environmental sensors, and occupant sensors are in communication with a computer. The computer is also in communication with a database, which houses a data set that describes how to best modify the physical conditions of the architectural setting.
US08392023B2
A robotic system includes a robot for moving a payload in response to a calculated input force. Sensors in respective sensor housings are connected to a handle, each sensor including a light emitter and receiver. The sensors measure a light beam received by a respective receiver. A controller calculates the calculated input force using received light. Each sensor housing modifies an interruption of the light beam in a sensor when the actual input force is applied, and the controller controls the robot using the calculated input force. A method of controlling the robot includes emitting the light beam, flexing a portion of the sensor housing(s) using the actual input force to interrupt the light beam, and using a host machine to calculate the calculated input force as a function of the portion of the light beam received by the light receiver. The robot is controlled using the calculated input force.
US08392017B2
Apparatus for grouping a number of units, such as packaging units, when palleting the units, comprising a feed belt for conveying the units (10) and a grouping belt, which defines a grouping plane, said feed and grouping belts being driven for movement parallel to one another, and a robot, which is designed to group the units by positioning and orienting the units on the grouping plane. At least one part of the feed belt (1) runs beside and adjacent to the grouping belt (2). The robot (3) is a multi-axial industrial robot having a robotic arm on which a pusher element (5) is arranged, rotatable about an axis (6) perpendicular to the grouping plane, in order to allow the transfer of at least one unit from the feed belt to the grouping belt under a pushing action supplied by the pushing element, together with orientation and positioning of the unit on the grouping belt.
US08392012B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a first sequence of current spectra of reflected light from a first zone of a substrate. A second sequence of current spectra of reflected light from a second zone of the substrate is received. Each current spectrum from the first sequence of current spectra is compared to a plurality of reference spectra from a first reference spectra library to generate a first sequence of best-match reference spectra. Each current spectrum from the second sequence of current spectra is compared to a plurality of reference spectra from a second reference spectra library to generate a second sequence of best-match reference spectra. The second reference spectra library is distinct from the first reference spectra library.
US08392011B2
A semiconductor wafer processing tape sticking apparatus is provided and is capable of sticking a semiconductor wafer processing tape to a semiconductor wafer under the optimum conditions based on the processing data that has been written to a data carrier member and that has been read from the data carrier member without accessing the host computer unlike a conventional method. The semiconductor wafer processing tape sticking apparatus includes: a feeding apparatus provided with a feeding shaft to which a semiconductor wafer processing tape winding body can be detachably attached; a tape data read/write device for reading and writing the processing data that has been written to a data carrier member of the semiconductor wafer processing tape winding body; and a tape sticking apparatus for sticking a semiconductor wafer processing tape that has been fed out from the feeding apparatus to the semiconductor wafer based on the processing data that has been read by the tape data read/write device.
US08392008B2
Arbitrating access to industrial resources as a function of controller identify is provided herein. For example, a unique identifier can be associated with a control module that can distinguish the module from other components of a system. Upon receiving a request to control a resource, the identifier of the requesting module can be associated with that resource. In a case of multiple requests, an arbitrated ID can be chosen and added to an owner queue. The chosen ID is then published and, if the published identifier matches the module identifier, the module can assume control of the resource; if not, the module's request is placed into a request queue for further arbitration. The subject innovation provides for generally applicable arbitration that can reduce redundant code crafted for each module of a system, greatly reducing overhead costs associated with such redundancy.
US08392006B2
The disclosed technology provides for determining whether an audio stream is monophonic or polyphonic. An exemplary method includes analyzing and detecting frequency peaks in a portion of the audio stream. The method includes determining whether the portion of the audio stream is monophonic, by determining if all detected peaks are integer intervals of a lowest detected frequency peak. The method then includes determining that the audio stream portion is monophonic if a greatest common devisor frequency exists between a threshold frequency and the lowest detected frequency peak, wherein each detected peak is an integer multiple of the greatest common devisor frequency. The method includes determining that the portion of the audio stream is polyphonic if any one of the detected peaks is not substantially an integer multiple of the lowest detected frequency and if no greatest common devisor frequency exists between the threshold frequency and the lowest detected frequency peak.
US08392002B2
Presently disclosed is a method and system for processing standard part description programs in real time into the tool position control data appropriate to a CNC machine's standard and high bandwidth mechanisms, respectively. The result is precise tool tip control that tracks the programmed path at all times while maintaining the appropriate feed rates and accelerations for each type of mechanism. In one exemplary embodiment, a hybrid mechanism employing a high bandwidth mechanism mounted on and moved by a standard mechanism is employed. The command vector for the high-bandwidth mechanism is computed by subtracting the tool tip vector filtered to comprise only the tool tip positions and trajectories realizable by the standard mechanism from an ideal tool tip trajectory vector that represents the complete programmed path. These calculations produce a synchronous set of movements for both standard and high bandwidth mechanisms.
US08391993B2
Assessment of neuron excitation is implemented by quantifying the interaction between focused and unfocused stimulation applied to a cochlear array. By applying focused and unfocused stimulation to the electrode array and comparing the difference in the responses to the two types of stimulation the interaction may be determined. The magnitude of the interaction may be related to neural excitation and using this data a neural excitation profile may be determined.
US08391990B2
This document discusses, among other things, a modular antitachyarrhythmia therapy system. In an example, a modular antitachyarrhythmia system includes at least two separate modules that coordinate delivery an antitachyarrhythmia therapy, such as a defibrillation therapy. In another example, a modular antitachyarrhythmia therapy system includes a sensing module, an analysis module, and a therapy module.
US08391978B2
A method and apparatus for adjusting the electrogram (EGM) sensitivity level of an implantable medical device using intracardiac pressure data. An EGM is monitored to detect electrical events and intracardiac pressure is monitored to detect pressure waves. The electrical waves and pressure waves are analyzed to determine the presence of a one-to-one correlation, with the absence of a one-to-one correlation indicating the need to adjust the sensitivity level.
US08391977B2
An exemplary method includes delivering a cardiac pacing therapy that includes an atrio-ventricular delay and an interventricular delay, providing a paced propagation delay associated with delivery of a stimulus to a ventricle, delivering a stimulus to the ventricle, sensing an event in the other ventricle caused by the stimulus, determining an interventricular conduction delay value based on the delivering and the sensing, determining a interventricular delay (ΔSur) based on the interventricular conduction delay and the paced propagation delay and determining an atrio-ventricular delay based at least in part on the interventricular delay (ΔSur). Other exemplary methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed.
US08391974B2
A method for operating a cardiac pacemaker in which the mode of operation of the pacemaker is altered in response to detecting an episode of atrial tachycardia. In accordance with the invention, the pacemaker's pacing mode is altered in a manner that attempts to maintain hemodynamic stability during the atrial tachycardia. Such a mode switch is particularly applicable to pacemaker patients suffering from some degree of congestive heart failure.
US08391970B2
Described herein are methods, devices and systems for inhibition of granulocyte activation by appropriate stimulation of the vagus nerve. Methods of treating granulocyte-mediated disorders (including inflammatory disorders) by stimulating the vagus nerve to inhibit granulocyte activation (particularly neutrophil activation) are also described. Appropriate stimulation may be very low levels of stimulation, including stimulation that does not result in desensitization. The level of granulocyte activation may be detected and used to at least partially control stimulation.
US08391967B2
Apparatus and methods for monitoring electrical activity within the brain of a person (“brainwaves”) employing electrodes or other sensors connected or placed proximate to portions of the body below the head to develop raw signals. The raw signals are filtered to produce analysis signals including frequency components relevant to brain electrical activity while attenuating unrelated frequency components. Purposes include but are not limited to, biofeedback-based attention training, human performance training, gaming, and relaxation training. Either wired or wireless signal connections are made to electronic circuitry, typically including a digital computer, for performing signal processing and analysis functions.
US08391965B2
A volume of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional location of the electrode at the time of the sensing or measurement. Therefore, a map of a volume can be determined based upon the sensing of the plurality of points without the use of other imaging devices. An implantable medical device can then be navigated relative to the mapping data.
US08391964B2
Techniques are described for detecting conduction abnormalities in a heart of a patient. In particular, an IMD may be configured to obtain electrical signals corresponding to cardiac activity of the heart of the patient and periodically analyze a most recent electrical signal of the obtained electrical signals to detect an electrical conduction abnormality of the heart. The IMD adjusts a frequency at which the most recent electrical signal is analyzed based on at least one physiological parameter of the patient. For example, the IMD may increase the frequency at which the most recent electrical signal is analyzed when a heart rate parameter has significantly changed and the number of detected premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) is greater than or equal to a threshold number. In this manner, the most recent electrical signal is analyzed at a higher frequency in situations in which conduction abnormalities are more likely.
US08391959B2
Method and composition suitable for administering by direct convective interstitial infusion are disclosed. The method comprises: placing at least one direct convective interstitial infusion catheter in contact with the tissue, and pressuring the composition through the catheter. The composition is in a liquefied form having a viscosity above a predetermined value. The predetermined value is selected so as to improve infusion of the compositions into interstitial volumes of the tissue, while minimizing backflow of the compositions along an outer wall of the catheter or leakage into low resistance paths. It is demonstrated that high viscosity results in higher treatment efficiency.
US08391949B2
A system and method to map a biological tissue of alternating electrical polarity having a boundary between a depolarized portion and a polarized portion is provided. The system includes a computer, a transducer probe, and a receiver. The transducer probe is in communication with the computer and configured to transmit acoustic waves at a frequency through the biological tissue of alternating electrical polarity. The receiver is in communication with the computer and operable to detect a variation in an electrical activity at approximately the frequency of the acoustic waves. The computer creates a display of at least a portion of the variation in the electrical activity at approximately the frequency of the acoustic waves.
US08391946B2
In a measurement computation device arranged in a measurement device, an elapse of a predetermined time is detected after acceleration of perspiration, and a concentration of a first component in the perspiration obtained thereafter is converted to concentration of the first component in blood.
US08391941B2
A system is provided that includes a monitor, a multiple configuration sensor having a first configuration and a second configuration, and a sensor connector. The sensor connector includes a first memory device and a second memory device, such that the first memory device is accessible by the monitor in the first sensor configuration and the second memory device is accessible by the monitor in the second sensor configuration. Another system is provided that includes a sensor adaptor having a processing circuit that reads a memory of a multiple configuration sensor and provides a first set of calibration data of a first sensor configuration and a second set of calibration data for a second sensor configuration.
US08391934B1
A mobile phone is provided. The mobile phone includes a shell and a hardware component coupled to the shell, wherein the hardware component is selected from a set of interchangeable components having substantially the same size but different functions.
US08391931B2
A mobile communication terminal and a communication method are provided which can reduce consumed power at the time of intermittent reception operation. The mobile communication terminal according to the present invention includes a RAM, an internal memory operable in a higher speed then the RAM, an arithmetic processing unit for performing a communication operation by using a communication program loaded in the RAM, an intermittent control unit, and a storage unit for storing an intermittent operation program. The intermittent control unit transfers the intermittent operation program stored in the storage unit to the internal memory in response to an intermittent operation start signal issued from the communication arithmetic processing unit. The communication arithmetic processing unit stops the communication operation when the transfer is completed and performs the intermittent reception operation by using the intermittent operation program stored in the internal memory.
US08391928B2
A user may simultaneously access sources of multimedia information via multiple wireless networks using a handheld multimedia gateway. A user interface may support the selection of information services that are each provided separate, but possibly overlapping, viewing spaces. Circuitry in the multimedia gateway manages the operation of the multiple wireless communication paths, and enables the display of visual information through two or more display devices. The user may customize the display, the size, and the location within a display of regions in which the information is presented.
US08391927B2
An antenna structure includes first and second antennas. The first antenna has a first geometry corresponding to a first frequency. The second antenna has a second geometry corresponding to a second frequency. The second antenna is proximal to the first antenna and utilizes electrical-magnetic properties of the first antenna to transceive signals at the second frequency.
US08391924B2
A system for connecting an add-on device to a network device is provided. The system includes a network device, an additional network module, and a socket cover. The additional network module may be disposed in an add-on module of the network device. The add-on module may be separate from a network module that supports a network device circuit of the network device. The socket cover may include an add-on device that is operated by the additional network module.
US08391917B2
Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal and system access method for supporting a dual-standby mode, that can access at least two radio communication systems for receiving a system access request signal and attempting, when the system access request signal is received, to access a system of a preset system preference mode.
US08391905B2
A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting, from a mobile station (UE) to a radio base station (eNB), a connection re-establishment request signal to re-establish the connection between the radio base station (eNB) and the mobile station (UE), when the mobile station (UE) detects a failure in the connection; and transmitting, from the mobile station (UE) to the radio base station (eNB), a connection reconfiguration completion signal notifying that processing corresponding to a connection reconfiguration signal is completed, when the mobile station (UE) receives the connection reconfiguration signal from the radio base station (eNB), and when the connection reconfiguration signal contains a release request of a data radio bearer which is not established between the mobile station (UE) and the radio base station (eNB).
US08391903B2
An initialization method for a wireless network is disclosed with at least one receiver node and/or switching node and transmitter node in which one transmitter node is allocated to at least one receiver node. An operating method is also disclosed for a wireless network with at least one receiver node and/or switching node and transmitter node. At least one allocation is made between a transmitter node and a receiver node after such an initialization method with the steps of: transmission of a wireless message at the transmitter node, reception of the wireless message at one or more switching nodes, and if the switching node is not the receiver node, transmission of the wireless message at the switching node and reception of the message at the preset receiver node.
US08391895B2
A method and apparatus for providing location-based information to a wireless communication device is disclosed. The wireless communication device receives its geographic position information and provides its geographic position information to a web server while accessing a web service provided by the web server. Based on the geographic position information received from the wireless communication device, the web server provides geographic coordinates of locations relevant to the web service in the form of web geo-cookies. The wireless communication device maintains a database of the received geographic coordinates. When the wireless communication accesses a geographic map of a route or region, the wireless communication device determines if the geographic coordinates in the database lie within boundaries of the accessed map. The geographic coordinates that lie within boundaries of the received map are annotated and displayed on the wireless communication device.
US08391884B2
A system and method for handling a location request for a target device using a location uniform resource identifier (“URI”). A location request may be received for a target device from a requesting entity, the target device having a location context information represented by a location URI and including starting information, initial validating information and policy information. The form of the location URI may be verified by a location information server (“LIS”), the form including at least an encrypted context string. This string may be extracted and decrypted by the LIS and it may be determined whether the request can continue as a function of the policy information. If the request can continue, then an estimated location of the target device may be determined as a function of the starting information. Additional validating information may be collected and correlated the initial validating information. If these validating information correlate, then the estimated location of the target device may be provided to the requesting entity.
US08391880B2
Devices, methods and computer-readable media for providing broad quality of service optimization using policy-based selective quality degradation. Data associated with a quality of service for customers and QoS policy rules are stored. Customers are grouped for potential degradation. Levels of degradation are defined for each type of user device. Degradation for the group of customers is optimized using policy rules. Degradation is adjusted to account for variations in user treatment within the group. The adjusted degradation is then implemented.
US08391874B2
A method for updating location of a user equipment in a cellular system is disclosed. The method comprises the user equipment receiving route update radius information 220. The user equipment further calculates a route update radius from the received route update radius information 230 by using a random number generated by the user equipment. The user equipment then transmits the calculated route update radius to a cellular network 240. Alternatively, the method comprises the cellular network receiving a route update message from a user equipment 420. The cellular network further calculates a route update radius 430 using a random number generated by the cellular network. The cellular network then unicasts the calculated route update radius to the user equipment 440.
US08391865B2
An exemplary method for selecting one of a plurality of systems on a multi-mode device capable of communicating on a first air interface technology and a second air interface technology is disclosed. Initially, a carrier input associated with one of the first and second air interface technologies is received. The carrier input typically defines at least one system selection event. Next, a first network acquisition attempt of the other one of the first and second air interface technologies is triggered responsive to the system selection event. The results of the first network acquisition attempt are determined and stored, and subsequently used for subsequent system selection determinations between the first and second air interface technologies.
US08391858B1
Methods and devices for mitigating the impact of handoffs to non-preferred wireless coverage areas are presented. In particular, a RAN may determine that a first wireless communication device (WCD) and a second WCD are contending for a resource of a preferred wireless coverage area, and that both of the WCDs are likely to be handed off to different non-preferred wireless coverage areas if they are not granted the resource. Both WCDs may be subscribed to a home wireless service provider that also controls and/or operates the preferred wireless coverage area. The RAN may compare the roaming fees of a first non-preferred wireless coverage area with the roaming fees of a second non-preferred wireless coverage area. Based on the outcome of this comparison, the RAN may allocate the resource to the WCD that would likely incur higher roaming fees to the home wireless service provider if that WCD were to roam to a non-preferred wireless coverage area.
US08391853B2
The invention relates to a cellular mobile radio telephone system and to a method for operating a cellular mobile radio network, in which mobile radio terminals can be checked in order to use the services of the mobile radio network. According to the invention, each mobile radio terminal that is checked into the mobile radio network can be uniquely identified by a subscriber identity, the subscriber identity of a checked-in mobile radio terminal is compared with a list of released subscriber identities and if there is a match, the use of services of the mobile radio network is released. If no match is found for the subscriber identity on the list of released subscriber identities, the use of the services of this mobile radio network is blocked and/or a general block is placed on the use of all mobile radio networks for said mobile radio terminal.
US08391848B2
A system and method for achieving or assisting dynamic transfer of call support information across a network including at least a wireless portion coupled to a wireless communication device. The call support information providing the wireless communication device with updated caller identification and status or presence information by way of a service or server provisioned product and method.
US08391847B2
Location-blocking and identity-blocking services that can be commercially offered by a service promoter, e.g., a cellular service provider or a web advertiser. In the identity-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the current physical location of a mobile subscriber (i.e., a cellular phone operator) to a third party (e.g., a web advertiser) subscribing to the identity-blocking service. However, the service promoter may not send any identity information for the mobile subscriber to the third party. On the other hand, in the location-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the mobile subscriber's identity information to the third party, but not the current physical location of the mobile subscriber. Blocking of the mobile subscriber's identity or location information may be desirable for privacy reasons, to comply with a government regulation, or to implement a telecommunication service option selected by the mobile subscriber.
US08391841B2
A mutual authentication method is provided for securely agreeing application-security keys with mobile terminals supporting legacy Subscriber Identity Modules (e.g., GSM SIM and CDMA2000 R-UIM, which do not support 3G AKA mechanisms). A challenge-response key exchange is implemented between a bootstrapping server function (BSF) and mobile terminal (MT). The BSF generates an authentication challenge and sends it to the MT under a server-authenticated public key mechanism. The MT receives the challenge and determines whether it originates from the BSF based on a bootstrapping server certificate. The MT formulates a response to the authentication challenge based on keys derived from the authentication challenge and a pre-shared secret key. The BSF receives the authentication response and verifies whether it originates from the MT. Once verified, the BSF and MT independently calculate an application security key that the BSF sends to a requesting network application function to establish secure communications with the MT.
US08391837B2
A Trusted Service Manager (TSM) receives via a first communication channel from a Service Provider (SP) a request (REQ(MIA)) that contains an application (MIA) together with a unique identifier of a mobile phone (MOB), particularly its telephone number. The mobile phone (MOB) is equipped with a memory device (MIF) that comprises multiple memory sectors being protected by sector keys. Preferably the memory device (MIF) is a MIFARE device. The TSM extracts the application (MIA) and the unique identifier from the received request, assigns destination sector(s) and associated sector key(s) of the memory device (MIF), compiles the application (MIA), the sector key(s) and the sector number(s) of the destination sector(s) into a setup-message (SU(MIA)), encrypts the setup-message and transmits it to either the mobile phone via a second communication channel or the Service Provider via the first communication channel (CN). If the setup-message (SU(MIA)) is transmitted to the Service Provider, the Service Provider sends it over the second communication channel to the mobile phone.
US08391830B1
A mobile phone is configured to detect emergency events and control services enabled on the mobile phone in response to the emergency events. The mobile phone may be configured to detect events such as the mobile phone being turned off or a battery being removed. When the mobile phone detects an event, the mobile phone enables one or more emergency services on the mobile phone to collect and transmit data that may be used by emergency personnel. Other services may be disabled on the mobile phone to conserve battery power.
US08391820B2
GPS functionality is added to a wireless communication device in an efficient and cost effective manner. Disclosed is a wireless communications device that has a common mixer constructed to be used for a GPS signal and another signal, a common IF filter constructed to be used for a GPS signal and another signal, in addition to other cost effective embodiments.
US08391819B2
An active filter circuit includes an inductance-capacitance (LC) circuit (110) for wireless frequency input, a bi-directional mixer (120) and a filter impedance (130) series-coupled across at least part of the LC circuit (110), and another mixer (420) coupled to at least some portion of the LC circuit. Other circuits, processes, receivers, transmitters and transceivers are disclosed.
US08391816B2
A power supply device includes: a power supply unit configured to output the power of a mainframe; and a power transmission cable configured to supply the power output from the power supply unit to the mainframe via a connector; with the power transmission cable including a mainframe side high-frequency cutoff portion disposed between the power supply terminal of the connector, a power supply unit side high-frequency cutoff portion, which is disposed on the power supply unit side at a predetermined length from the connector, configured to restrict the length of a portion serving as an antenna, a first transmission line used for power supply to the mainframe via the mainframe side high-frequency cutoff portion, and a second transmission line to be connected to a tuner of the mainframe via the connector.
US08391814B2
A power control loop includes a low-frequency signal path and a high-frequency signal path with the delay compensation block. The delay compensation block is used to determine a correlation between an average reference level and an average measured power level. The result may control a delay line to compensate a time misalignment in the power control loop.
US08391811B2
Embodiments of circuits, apparatuses, and systems for a protection circuit having a control element with an attenuation state to protect against overload conditions. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08391801B2
A Radio Equipment Controller connected, via a plurality of transmission paths, to a plurality of pieces of Radio Equipment for performing communication with a mobile station, and also connected to an upper-level device is provided. The Radio Equipment Controller includes a required time measurement portion that measures, for each piece of Radio Equipment, required time for the Radio Equipment and the Radio Equipment Controller to relay data that has a predetermined size and is transmitted and received between the upper-level device and the mobile station, and a relaying portion that relays target data that is data to be transmitted and received between the upper-level device and the mobile station by delaying a time to transmit the target data based on the required time for the Radio Equipment relaying the target data.
US08391800B2
Disclosed is a multiple sensor system including a plurality of different sensor devices to acquire respective signals sensed from a single signal source, and a signal acquisition apparatus to recover an original signal generated from the signal source. The signal acquisition apparatus recovers the original signal by applying joint recovery, based on characteristics and correlations between the respective sensor devices, to compressive sensing signals independently compressively sensed and transmitted from the respective sensor devices. At this time, a sensing matrix F prearranged with the respective sensor devices and channel information C between the original signal and each sensor device are used for joint recovery.
US08391790B2
A communication device includes a proximity wireless communication antenna for contactless proximity wireless communication with a counterpart instrument antenna in proximity, a first wireless communication processing unit to conduct contactless proximity wireless communication using the proximity wireless communication antenna, a second wireless communication processing unit to conduct wireless communication in a wireless communication format different from that of the first processing unit, a ground potential to be disposed in a surrounding area of the proximity wireless communication antenna and to be connected to a counterpart instrument ground potential when the instrument is in proximity, a detection unit to detect that the counterpart instrument is connected while allowing contactless proximity wireless communication, and a control unit to restrict wireless communication with the second processing unit when the detection unit detects connection and to remove the restriction after connected to the counterpart instrument ground potential with the ground potential during the restriction.
US08391785B2
RFID tags, tag circuits, and methods are provided that reject at least in part the distortion caused to wireless signals by interference in the environment. When the received RF wave is converted into an unfiltered input (971), a filtered output (972) is generated that does not include an artifact feature deriving from the distortion. The filtered output is used instead of the unfiltered input, which results in tag operation as if there were less interference in the environment, or none at all.
US08391780B2
A system and method of communicating signals is provided. The system includes a plurality of satellites, at least one receiver, and at least one satellite uplink station. The plurality of satellites include at least one active satellite. The at least one receiver is in communication with the plurality of satellites, and receives a signal from the at least one active satellite. The at least one satellite uplink station is in communication with the plurality of satellites, and transmits the signal and alters a frequency of the signal based upon a location of the at least one active satellite to reduce a Doppler frequency shift when activating and deactivating the plurality of satellites.
US08391773B2
A handheld electronic device for use at a venue hosting a live sporting event, having a receiver for receiving a wireless RF transmission conveying a plurality of video streams derived from video cameras filming the live sporting event, a display and a user interface for selecting a video stream among the plurality of video streams to be displayed on the display. The handheld electronic device is capable to acquire a locked mode of operation and an unlocked mode of operation, in the locked mode of operation the handheld electronic device being precluded from displaying the video streams to a spectator, in the unlocked mode of operation the handheld electronic device being enabled to display the video streams to the spectator, the handheld electronic device capable to acquire the unlocked mode of operation in response to reception of authentication data wirelessly transmitted to the handheld electronic device.
US08391771B2
The present invention involves a system and method that facilitate identifying human interaction by utilizing HIPs such as order-based HIPs and determining a difficulty rating of any type of HIPs in an automated fashion. Order-based HIPs require a user to identify elements in the sequence as well as to identify a correct order of the elements in the sequence. The invention involves presenting a user with at least two HIPs such that the HIP can be of known and/or unknown difficulty. A user that correctly answers the HIP of known difficulty gains access to the HIP-controlled resource, action or application. The user's response to the HIP of unknown difficulty can then be examined and employed to determine whether that HIP is too difficult for humans to solve. Alternatively, at least one HIP can be presented. Difficulty of individual HIP parameters can also be determined.
US08391757B2
An image forming method includes forming an image on a latent image bearing member by developing a latent image formed on the latent image bearing member using a liquid developing agent having toner and a carrier liquid, transferring the image onto an image bearing belt that cyclically moves while forming a winding portion by being wound upon the latent image bearing member, detecting positions of the image bearing belt using a first sensor and a second sensor disposed in a different position from that of the first sensor, and adjusting a formation position of the latent image based on the results of the detection, wherein at the winding portion, the transfer member makes contact with the latent image bearing member through the image bearing belt, and a transfer bias of a constant voltage is applied to the transfer member.
US08391750B2
A rotary driving device includes a rotary shaft supported rotatably about an axis thereof on a predetermined supporting member, a rotary load body mounted on the rotary shaft to project radially outward from the rotary shaft in such a manner that the rotary load body can rotate integrally with the rotary shaft about the axis thereof, a driver for rotating the rotary shaft about the axis thereof, a disk mounted on the rotary shaft coaxially therewith for integral rotation with the rotary shaft, the disk having a mounting hole formed therein, a pendulum loosely fitted in the mounting hole, and an adjustment mechanism for adjusting a relative position relationship between a central axis position of the mounting hole and a center of gravity position of the pendulum under conditions where the disk is rotating.
US08391749B2
Electric charge remaining on a photoreceptor after transfer causes image deterioration. According to one conventional method widely used in view of this problem, erase light is emitted onto a photoreceptor after the transfer to remove the electric charge remaining on the photoreceptor. However, such a method poses the following problem: emission of erase light leads to light-induced fatigue of the photoreceptor, and as a result, the photoreceptor which has deteriorated from the light-induced fatigue wears down due to abrasion and the like with a cleaner blade, resulting in a shorter lifetime of the photoreceptor. Thus, the thickness of the photosensitive layer is detected to acquire the amount of thickness decrease, and the amount of the erase light is reduced according to the acquired amount of thickness decrease.
US08391744B2
A charger includes: a first electrode; a second electrode that has a mesh pattern and is arranged on a side closer to a photoconductor than the first electrode; a cleaner that moves along the second electrode to clean the second electrode by a brush thereof. The second electrode has the mesh pattern successively arranged in a certain direction, and a peripheral region of the mesh pattern of the second electrode has been changed to prevent catching of the brush of the cleaner.
US08391735B2
A recording material determination apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect a characteristic corresponding to a surface condition of a recording material based on a captured image of a surface of the recording material, a second detection unit configured to detect a characteristic corresponding to a grammage of the recording material based on an ultrasonic wave detected via the recording material by irradiating the recording material with an ultrasonic wave, and a conveyance unit configured to convey the recording material. The first detection unit and the second detection unit are located opposite each other with respect to the conveyance unit.
US08391731B2
An apparatus in which a plurality of consumable items are loadable to the apparatus. The apparatus includes a consumption status detecting unit to detect a respective consumption status of each of the consumable items, a consumption information output setting unit to set whether an exchange message for each of the consumable items is to be output, and a consumable item information output unit to output the exchange message, which is indicative of an exchange time of the respective consumable item, based on the respective consumption statuses detected by the consumption status detecting unit and the setting of the consumption information output setting unit.
US08391727B2
A detector module for the reception of optical signals (SE) including a module housing having at least one electrical and at least one optical bushing, at least one electrical assembly connected to the electrical bushing, and at least one optical assembly connected to the optical bushing, the electrical and optical assemblies being arranged within the module housing, the optical and electrical assemblies being connected to one another via at least one optical interface, and the electrical assembly having at least one photodiode for converting the optical output signals of the optical assembly into electrical signals. The optical assembly has at least one collimator and on the output side transmits at least one beam comprising collimated electromagnetic rays running parallel to one another via a free-radiating connection as optical interface to the electrical assembly, and the electrical assembly receives the beam from the optical assembly via the free-radiating connection.
US08391726B2
An optical receiver comprising a frame detector configured to receive a polarized signal comprising a first bit stream and a second bit stream, and further configured to identify a plurality of frames in the first bit stream and the second bit stream using a composite header, and a time-domain equalizer (TDEQ) configured to separate the first bit stream and the second bit stream using a portion of the composite header.
US08391724B2
Included are a first modulator, a second modulator, a first optical amplifier that amplifies an output of the first modulator at an amplification factor based on a first bias signal, a second optical amplifier that amplifies an output of the second modulator at an amplification factor based on a second bias signal, an optical phase adjuster that phase-rotates an output of the second optical amplifier, an optical multiplexer that multiplexes an output of the first optical amplifier with an output of the optical phase adjuster, and a second bias corrector that generates a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal, which are complementary to each other, and obtains a first bias value and a second bias value based on a change of strength of an output signal of the optical multiplexer. The first and second pulse signals are superimposed on the first and second bias signals, respectively.
US08391723B2
A system includes an optical transmitter portion, an optical fiber, an optical receiver portion, a laser portion and a combiner portion. Optical signals may be launched by the optical transmitter portion at very low power levels to avoid Raman-induced interactions between the co-propagating signals along the optical fiber. The laser portion and the combiner portion may apply a back-pumped laser signal to the optical fiber. The back-pumped laser signal provides a Raman gain that amplifies the co-propagating signals to a minimum power level such that the optical receiver portion can detect the co-propagating signals within a predetermined acceptable carrier-to-noise ratio.
US08391721B2
A method for remote communication using the interpretation of thermoluminescence or photoluminescence signals uses a property of photoluminescence or of thermoluminescence when it is caused by entangled trapped electrons. In this case, stimulation of deexcitation of trapped electrons by heat or radiation occurs when the deexcitation thermal energy is approximately equal to the trap-emptying energy. Stimulation by a temperature rise of a “master” sample induces luminescence of a remote “slave” “entangled” sample, which is reproduced on lowering the temperature of the “master” sample whatever the distance and the media separating the “master” sample and the “slave” sample. This teaching and its generalization to other forms of stimulation is used by the method of interpreting the quantum reception measurements so as to determine, using a correlation method, the transmission of information or commands. This method is particularly suitable for carrying out communication with submarines, communication in mine galleries, or communication with space probes.
US08391708B1
Provided herein is a novel approach to simultaneous fiber presence detection and improved laser eye safety of an optical transceiver. The subject optical transceiver is fitted with at least one switch in its receptacle that controls the laser diode and indicates the presence of a fiber (or fibers) within such a receptacle. If a fiber is present within the subject module receptacle, the laser switch is permitted to be “on”, whereas the absence of a fiber will prevent the laser switch from turning on, thereby permitting effective control of the laser at a single point of failure within the entire optical transceiver system. The typical optical transceivers of today exhibit limited optical power output due to eye safety limit criteria. With this novel approach, however, a module's output power can be increased to higher level since the only way a person's eye may be exposed to the laser is the removal of the fiber receptacle from the subject module and once the fiber is absent from the module, the laser turns off and/or put optical transceiver into standby mode automatically to save power.
US08391699B2
There are provided a focus adjusting apparatus and method in which a look of an image plane can be improved when an object area to be focused in the image plane is judged and focused prior to image-taking preparation operation. A first operation for determining the object area to be focused is performed prior to the image-taking preparation operation, and a second operation for performing the focus adjusting operation is performed at the time of the image-taking preparation operation.
US08391696B2
A feed gas conditioner includes a passageway with a plurality of heating elements positioned within the passageway. A plurality of baffle assemblies can cause a fluid flowing through the feed gas conditioner to flow in a serpentine flow pattern so that the fluid flows transverse to at least a portion of the heating elements. The baffle assemblies can each include two or more baffle elements, the baffle elements being positioned at an angle relative to each other. The heating elements can pass through passages within one or more of the baffle elements.
US08391691B2
An optical disk for recording stereoscopic videos and high-quality video signals and a system for reproducing the videos and signals from the optical disk are made compatible with the conventional video reproducing system. A reproducing device which is used for reproducing stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains stereoscopic video or high-quality videos by reproducing both first and second interleaved blocks on the optical disk in which first and second video signals are alternately recorded on the left and right sides by dividing the first and second video signals into frame groups of one GOP or more and a reproducing device which is not used for reproducing the stereoscopic videos and high-quality videos obtains ordinary videos by only reproducing either the first or second interleaved block by jumping tracks.
US08391688B2
Systems and methods for smooth rewind playback of streamed media are provided. The media includes relatively-encoded frames and independently-encoded frames. The method includes receiving a rewind request indicating a rewind speed for rewind playback of the media, selectively dropping relatively-encoded frame(s) based on a receipt constraint and a decoding constraint to form a subset of the media, and receiving frames of the subset. The method further includes selecting, in a reverse order, a selected group of pictures (GOP) included within the subset, and decoding relatively-encoded frame(s) of the GOP in a forward sequential frame order. The method further includes caching relatively-encoded frame(s) of the GOP in the forward sequential frame order, and when caching, dropping and overwriting relatively-encoded frame(s) of the GOP selectively according to a memory constraint and/or a display constraint. The method further includes displaying relatively-encoded frame(s) of the GOP in a reverse sequential frame order.
US08391687B2
An information storage medium which stores data structures supporting multi-angles includes clip AV streams for respective angle data of multi-angle motion picture data. As additional information for each clip AV stream, clip information is recorded on a separate storage area from that of the clip AV streams. The clip information includes jumping-point information for jumping into another angle. Each of the clip AV streams may be recorded in a contiguous recording area, or divided into smaller interleaved units that are interleaved with units of the other clip AV streams.
US08391682B2
A recording method of recording received digital broadcasting on a medium, wherein a stream other than first and last portions is recorded with a predetermined number of recording packets, and the number of recording packets of the first and last portions of an AV stream file is recorded as management data. This method, which records an AV stream basically with a specified number of recording packets in order to improve the performance of access to a medium, thereby makes it possible to improve the splitting accuracy when the user splits a program, overcoming a restriction caused by the specified number of recording packets.
US08391674B2
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information storage medium. This realizes a data structure that causes the recording and deleting places on the information storage medium to correspond spuriously to places on a single tape, such as a VTR tape. Use of the data structure provides users with an easy-to-use interface.
US08391671B2
Content that is simultaneously viewed by users of remotely located communication apparatuses is recorded along with images and sound corresponding to the users, for a synthesized reproduction. Synthesis information including parameters relating to setting a synthesis situation of an image and sound of the content and an image and sound of the users, along with information representative of a standard time, is produced and stored. The content being played back is recorded with the standard time added thereto. Similarly, real-time recording of the users includes the standard time. The synthesis information is produced again and stored when a parameter relating to setting the synthesis situation is changed.
US08391668B2
Briefly, in accordance with one more embodiments, a substrate guided relay comprises a slab guide having an absorbing edge at a first end of the slab guide. An input coupler is disposed on a surface of the slab guide at an angle with respect to a first edge of the slab guide. An output coupler is disposed on the surface at a second end of the slab guide. Light rays that enter the slab guide toward the first end are absorbed by the absorbing edge, and light rays that enter the slab guide toward the output coupler exit the slab guide via the output coupler. The absorbing edge on the first edge of the slab guide allows the input coupler to be placed on the slab guide without regard to alignment of the input coupler with the first end of the slab guide.
US08391658B2
A fiber optic cable assembly includes a fiber optic cable and a connector assembly. The fiber optic cable includes an optical fiber, having a core surrounded by a cladding, and a jacket, which surrounds the optical fiber. The jacket includes a plurality of reinforcement members integrated into a matrix material of the jacket. The connector assembly includes a rear housing having a connector end that is directly engaged with an end portion of the jacket. A fiber optic cable includes an optical fiber with a core surrounded by a cladding. The fiber optic cable also includes a jacket that surrounds the optical fiber. The jacket includes about 40% to about 70% by weight of a plurality of reinforcement members integrated into a matrix material of the jacket.
US08391655B2
An optical coupler for coupling a multimode waveguide and two or more other waveguides. In one embodiment, the optical coupler has an optical phase mask disposed between the multimode waveguide and two or more other waveguides. The optical phase mask imposes on the light passing therethrough a spatial phase pattern that causes selective mode-to-waveguide coupling between the multimode waveguide and the other waveguides. The optical coupler can be used, e.g., in transmitters and receivers of optical transverse-mode-multiplexed signals.
US08391654B2
A wavelength selection switch that includes an optical component for adjusting an optical path with an image magnification of M that is provided between a second imaging position and a mirror array. Therefore, it is possible to provide a small wavelength selection optical switch with a short optical path length that is capable of reducing the focal length of each of a first lens and a second lens to 1/M while maintaining the structure of the spectral element, the fiber array, and the mirror array according to the related art. Since the optical path length is reduced, it is possible to reduce the number of reflecting mirrors used to convert an optical path and thus reduce the size of a housing. Therefore, it is possible to reduce manufacturing costs.
US08391637B2
Tap coefficients of a filter include one reference tap coefficient having a maximum value that is applied to a pixel of interest in a pixel signal array, and negative tap coefficients having negative values that are applied to surrounding pixels around the pixel of interest located in an image height direction. In a tap coefficient array in which the tap coefficients to be applied to pixel signals located sequentially in the image height direction are sequentially arranged, the reference tap coefficient is positioned off center at a position other than the center of the tap coefficients. Among the negative tap coefficients located on both sides of the reference tap coefficient in the tap coefficient array, the number of the negative tap coefficient on a first side is one, and the number of the negative tap coefficients on a second side is two or more.
US08391628B2
A directional anti-aliasing filter circuit includes an input node and an output node, a directional anti-aliasing filter having an input coupled to the input node, an adaptive gain control having an input coupled to an output of the directional anti-aliasing filter, a summer having a first input coupled to an output of the adaptive gain control, a second input coupled to the input node, and an output coupled to the output node, a texture detector for providing a texture adjust signal to the directional anti-aliasing filter and a texture adaptive gain signal to the adaptive gain control, an edge detector for providing an edge direction signal to the directional anti-aliasing filter, and a corner detector for providing a corner adaptive gain signal to the adaptive gain control.
US08391624B2
The value of a diffusing error for an interest pixel is added to image data of the interest pixel, and is calculated from error data occurred in quantization of pixels adjacent to the interest pixel. The image data, to which the value of the diffusing error is added, is quantized using a quantization threshold. Error data of the interest pixel is calculated from the result of the quantization and the image data to which the value of the diffusing error is added. Pixels which are adjacent to the interest pixel and have quantization results corresponding to the image data of the interest pixel are detected, and information between pixels is calculated based on differences between the image data and quantization results of adjacent pixels which fall within ranges corresponding to the detected adjacent pixels. The quantization threshold for the interest pixel is set based on the information between pixels.
US08391620B2
An image processing apparatus divides an input image data string into a first data string and a second data string, and generates a sliding dictionary and a code value, which indicates correspondence between the first data string and the sliding dictionary, from the first data string. The image processing apparatus converts data that has been registered in the sliding dictionary and interpolates the data, which has been obtained by the conversion, at a weighting conforming to the second data string in accordance with a code value.
US08391618B1
A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for categorizing digital images. A plurality of semantic category scores for a digital image are determined via application of a corresponding plurality of classifiers. A semantic category profile for the image is automatically determined based on the plurality of semantic category scores, where the semantic category profile characterizes semantic content of the image, and is useable to perform semantic based operations with respect to the image.
US08391617B2
A method of recognizing an event depicted in an image from the image and a location information associated with the image is disclosed. The method includes acquiring the image and its associated location information; using the location information to acquire an aerial image(s) correlated to the location information; identifying the event using both the image and the acquired aerial image(s); and storing the event in association with the image for subsequent use.
US08391604B2
Systems and devices for, and methods of, image-based processing where a device embodiment comprises: (a) a processor; (b) an addressable memory, the memory comprising a set one or more image references, and where the set of image references comprises a rule of interpretation and a rule of execution; and the processor is configured to: (1) compare captured surface indicia of a sheet with the set of at least one image reference; (2) determine the image reference associated with the surface indicia based on the comparison of the surface indicia and the set of at least one image reference; (3) extract a marking by differencing the surface indicia and the image reference; (4) interpret the extracted marking based on the rule of interpretation associated with the image reference; and (5) invoke the rule of execution based on the rule of interpretation.
US08391598B2
Adaptive local tone mapping may be used to convert a high dynamic range image to a low dynamic range image. Tone mapping may be performed on an on a Bayer domain image. A high dynamic range image may be filtered to produce a luminance signal. An illumination component of the luminance signal may be compressed. A reflectance component of the luminance signal may be sharpened. After the luminance signal has been processed, it may be used in producing an output image in the Bayer domain that has a lower dynamic range than the input image. The output Bayer domain image may be demosaiced to produce an RGB image. Tone-mapping may be performed with a tone-mapping processor.
US08391596B2
Methods and apparatuses for detecting and correcting red-eye in an image are provided. In one aspect, red-eye can be detected without detecting faces. Red-eye candidates are identified and eliminated by evaluating a series of statistics, including color, size, shape, distance, etc. A plurality of regions, including an eye region, a pupil region, an iris region, and a sclera region can be associated with each red-eye candidate. Color distribution statistics are computed with respect to the presence of target color, glint, skin, or other-color pixels in the plurality of regions. Red-eye candidates may be paired with other red-eye candidates for further processing. Further statistics may be computed based on the location of the red-eye candidates in the image, and the location of each red-eye candidate relative to other red-eye candidates. Pixels associated with selected red-eye candidates may be color adjusted.
US08391592B2
The present invention provides a computer implemented process for detecting multi-view multi-pose objects. The process comprises training of a classifier for each intra-class exemplar, training of a strong classifier and combining the individual exemplar-based classifiers with a single objective function. This function is optimized using the two nested AdaBoost loops. The first loop is the outer loop that selects discriminative candidate exemplars. The second loop, the inner loop selects the discriminative candidate features on the selected exemplars to compute all weak classifiers for a specific position such as a view/pose. Then all the computed weak classifiers are automatically combined into a final classifier (strong classifier) which is the object to be detected.
US08391582B2
An embodiment of a scanning system is described including optical elements that direct an excitation beam at a probe array, detectors that receive reflected intensity data responsive to the excitation beam, where the reflected intensity data is responsive to a focusing distance between an optical element and the probe array, a transport frame that adjusts the focusing distance in a direction with respect to the probe array, an auto-focuser that determines a best plane of focus based upon characteristics of the reflected intensity data of at least two focusing distances where the detectors further receive pixel intensity values based upon detected emissions from a plurality of probe features disposed on the probe array at the best plane of focus, and an image generator that associates each of the pixel intensity values with at least one image pixel position of a probe array based upon one or more position correction values.
US08391581B2
An X-ray inspecting apparatus capable of high-speed inspection of a prescribed inspection area of an object of inspection is provided. The X-ray inspecting apparatus includes: a scanning X-ray source for outputting X-ray; an X-ray detector driving unit on which a plurality of X-ray detectors are mounted, and capable of driving the plurality of X-ray detectors independently; and an image acquisition control mechanism controlling acquisition of image data by X-ray detector driving unit and X-ray detectors. A scanning X-ray source emits X-ray while moving the X-ray focal point of the X-ray source to each of X-ray emission originating positions set for each X-ray detector such that the X-ray passes through a prescribed inspection area of an object of inspection and enters each X-ray detector. Image pick-up by some of the X-ray detectors and movement of other X-ray detectors to an image pick-up position are executed in parallel and alternately. An image acquisition control unit acquires the image data picked-up by X-ray detectors, and a computing unit reconstructs an image in the inspection area based on the image data.
US08391577B2
A radiation image processing apparatus which improves contrast and sharpness of radiation images is provided. According to this radiation image processing apparatus, comparison is made between a first image data obtained by radiation imaging without going through the subject but through a grid for removing scattered radiation from a subject, and a second image data which is obtained by radiation imaging through the subject and the grid, and a two-dimensional distribution of abundance of scattered component is calculated. Using this two-dimensional distribution of scattered component, abundance of scattered radiation is locally determined at each position, and a sharpening process is performed with sharpening intensities that are increased in response to abundance of scattered radiation.
US08391576B2
A normal image representing a normal structure of a predetermined structure in an input medical image is generated with higher accuracy. Further, an abnormal component in the input medical image is separated with higher accuracy. A supervised learned filtering unit inputs an input image representing a predetermined structure to a supervised learned filter to generate an image representing a normal structure of the predetermined structure. The supervised learned filter is obtained through a learning process using supervisor images, each representing a normal structure of the predetermined structure in a subject (individual), and corresponding training images, each containing an abnormal component in the corresponding subject (individual). Further, a difference processing unit separates an abnormal component in the input image by calculating a difference between the input image and the image representing the normal structure.
US08391575B2
An analysis system automatically analyzes and counts fluorescence signals present in biopsy tissue marked using Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH). The user of the system specifies classes of a class network and process steps of a process hierarchy. Then pixel values in image slices of biopsy tissue are acquired in three dimensions. A computer-implemented network structure is generated by linking pixel values to objects of a data network according to the class network and process hierarchy. Objects associated with pixel values at different depths of the biopsy tissue are used to determine the number, volume and distance between cell components. In one application, fluorescence signals that mark Her2/neural genes and centromeres of chromosome seventeen are counted to diagnose breast cancer. Her2/neural genes that overlap one another or that are covered by centromeres can be accurately counted. Signal artifacts that do not mark genes can be identified by their excessive volume.
US08391571B2
A device for detecting a surgical tool in an image, the surgical tool going through an incision made in a patient's skin or one of his organs, the device including: means for storing shape parameters of the surgical tool. means for determining the position of the projection of the incision in the image plane and means for determining points and/or straight lines characteristic of the projection of the surgical tool on the image based on the shape parameters and on the position of the projection of the incision.
US08391570B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for guiding an irradiation equipment (2) located outside a human body (1) or an animal body. The method comprises the steps of identifying, in an image (4), a three-dimensional element (7) visible in the image (4), said three-dimensional element (7) has been in position in, or being inserted into, a cavity of the human body (1) or the animal body, establishing, in the image (4), a preliminary position of the three-dimensional element (7) visible in the image (4) in relation to a reference, establishing a preliminary position of the irradiation equipment (2) in relation to the reference, and adjusting the irradiation equipment (2) in response to the position the three-dimensional element (7).
US08391568B2
A fingerprint analysis method for partial fingerprint scanners that has an improved ability to resolve fingerprints from the tips of fingers, as well as an improved ability to cope with suboptimal finger swipes. The method uses various extrapolation methods to more accurately determine the position of a scanned fingertip is as the tip of the finger passes a partial fingerprint scanner. The method also monitors the image characteristics of the partial fingerprint image returned by the partial fingerprint scanner, and uses these image characteristics to determine exactly where the image of the fingertip itself is lost, and imaging of non-fingerprint data begins. By combining the most probable fingertip position as a function of time data obtained from extrapolated finger motion data, with image analyzed fingerprint images more precisely determined to be near the fingertip edges, superior fingerprint images extending closer to the edge of the fingerprint may be obtained.
US08391564B2
To perform imaging of a subterranean structure, an imaging operator is generated through the design of a weight, where the weight is computed according to a design criterion, where the design criterion is selected from the group consisting of: (1) the imaging operator provides a true amplitude image; (2) the imaging operator minimizes mean square error; and (3) the imaging operator corresponds to a least squares inverse of a forward modeling operator. The weighted filter as defined by the computed weights is applied to produce an image of a subterranean structure.
US08391561B2
The present invention relates to a tension monitoring system comprising: —at least one camera for acquiring at least one image of at least one pattern located on an object of interest, wherein the pattern comprises a plurality of points and where each point is arranged on the object in such as way as to follow the movement of the object; —a computational device; wherein the computational device is arranged to analyze the acquired image for detecting the position of each pattern point using an image analysis algorithm arranged to determine the geometrical center of a point using a contrast detection method, determining the distance between at least two pattern portions, and calculating the tension induced in the object using a reference value of distance between the two pattern portions when the object is mechanically relaxed.
US08391560B2
The present invention provides a method and a system for image identification and identification result output, which determines a location coordinate with respect to an image and a rotating angle based on at least one direction of the image according to features of the image. The image is compared to a plurality of sample images stored in a database according to the rotating angle so as to obtain at least one identification result. By means of the method and the system of the present invention, identification can be achieved with respect to various rotating angles and distances so as to improve the identification rate.
US08391556B2
A method and system for video-based road lane curvature measurement is provided. An image processing system receives roadway scene images from a vehicle-mounted video camera to measure road curvature. Road boundary indicators, such as lane markings, are used for identifying the road boundaries. The road curvature is approximated using a relation between the slope of a line connecting two points on a lane marking, and the average longitudinal distance from the camera to the line.
US08391550B2
According to one aspect, the invention provides a method for detecting pest infestation within a body. The method comprises the steps of a) providing an imaging system comprising at least a radiation source, a detector, a processing station and a display monitor; b) positioning at least a section of the body between the radiation source and the detector; c) acquiring a first image of said section of said body; d) acquiring at least one second image of the section of the body; e) removing the common portion of the images by subtracting the first image from the second image, thereby resulting in a digitally subtracted image; and f) observing determining from the digitally subtracted image and determining whether at least one pest is present within the body. Pest infestation may be detected without physical contact with the tree.
US08391548B1
Tracking multiple targets can include making different observations based on multiple different frames of one or more digital video feeds, determining an initial cover based on the observations, performing one or more modifications to the initial cover to generate a final cover, and using the final cover to track multiple targets in the one or more digital video feeds. Performing one or more modifications to generate a final cover can include selecting one or more adjustments from a group that includes temporal cover adjustments and spatial cover adjustments, and can include using likelihood information indicative of similarities in motion and appearance to distinguish different targets in the frames.
US08391542B2
Provided is an iterative method of estimating the pose of a moving PTZ camera. The first step is to use an image registration method on a reference image and a current image to calculate a matrix that estimates the motion of sets of points corresponding to the same object in both images. Information about the absolute camera pose, embedded in the matrix obtained in the first step, is used to simultaneously recalculate both the starting positions in the reference image and the motion estimate. The recalculated starting positions and motion estimate are used to determine the pose of the camera in the current image. The current image is taken as a new reference image, a new current image is selected and the process is repeated in order to determine the pose of the camera in the new current image. The entire process is repeated until the camera stops moving.
US08391536B2
An earphone device includes a case main body, a sound conduit, and an ear tip. The sound conduit is formed in a substantially tubular shape and protrudes from the case main body. The sound conduit has a flange disposed at the end on the opposite side from the case main body, and a first restrictor disposed between the flange and the case main body. The ear tip has a ring part formed of a resilient material and configured to be engaged to the sound conduit. The ear tip is configured to be in a first state in which movement in the direction of removal from the sound conduit is restricted by the flange, and is configured to be in a second state in which movement in the direction of removal from the sound conduit is restricted by the first restrictor.
US08391518B2
There is provided a condenser microphone in which even if strong electromagnetic waves are applied from a cellular phone or the like, the balance between a filter circuit for a No. 2 pin on the hot side and a filter circuit for a No. 3 pin on the cold side is maintained. The condenser microphone includes a printed wiring board 200 housed in a microphone casing and a three-pin type output connector, and is configured so that a No. 1 pin of the output connector is connected directly to the microphone casing and is connected to a ground electrode of the printed wiring board 200 via a high-frequency choke coil IL; on the printed wiring board, a first filter circuit 401 connected to the No. 2 pin on the hot side and a second filter circuit 501 connected to the No. 3 pin on the cold side, both filter circuits each including capacitor devices C and inductor devices L, are mounted; and the first and second filter circuits 401 and 501 are disposed so as to be substantially symmetrical with each other with respect to an imaginary centerline X1-X1. In the condenser microphone, the high-frequency choke coil IL is provided in the number of two, and these choke coils IL1 and IL2, together with the first and second filter circuits 401 and 501, are disposed so as to be substantially symmetrical with each other with respect to the imaginary centerline X1-X1.
US08391511B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a digital audio circuit which converts an input digital signal into an analog audio signal, a DC-DC converter having a switching power source circuit, and an audible frequency determining circuit. In order that a difference between a frequency of a first clock signal for digital to analog conversion which is used in the digital audio circuit and a frequency of a second clock signal for switching control which is used in a DC-DC converter exceeds a maximum audible frequency, a frequency comparing circuit in the audible frequency determining circuit outputs a signal to a frequency changing circuit in the DC-DC converter. The frequency changing circuit causes a second oscillating circuit to change the second frequency.
US08391506B1
Audible crosstalk can be mitigated in a low-cost three-wire device having audio capability and/or voice applications. In some embodiments, a voltage can be introduced in a microphone power supply that is approximately the same as a measured noise voltage and the resulting voltage appearing at a microphone output can be optimized to mitigate the noise voltage and, thus, the presence of crosstalk. In some embodiments, a microphone within a circuit can be isolated to mitigate crosstalk by introducing current into a circuit that is approximately the same as a measured current, but having a flow in an opposite direction.
US08391497B2
A method for importing or moving a rights object (RO) is provided, which includes the following steps. A rights issuer (RI) receives a request message of importing or moving an RO to a target device, the request message including key information encapsulated by a public key of the target device; the RI generates the RO according to the request message, the RO including the key information encapsulated by the public key of the target device; and the RI provides the RO for the target device. An RI is also provided. In the present invention, the key information encapsulated by the public key of the target device is provided for the RI, and the real key is hidden from the RI, such that the un-trust RI cannot generate the illegal RO for other devices except the target device, thereby enhancing the security of importing or moving the RO through the RI.
US08391493B2
An embodiment includes methods that generate random cryptographic keys, and send the keys to client devices. These methods may send representations of channel locator functions to the client devices, which may use the channel locator functions to locate particular control channels, using the random keys as input.
US08391483B2
A device for locating a DES key value that corresponds to a packet identification (PID) contained at a variable possible location which comprises part only of a 32-bit packet header. A table stored in memory contains for each DES key: (i) a packet header having 32 bits with a PID of either 12, 9 or 8 bits contained at a defined location and with zero values elsewhere, and (ii) a mask value also having 32 bits with ones contained at the said defined location of the PID and zeros elsewhere. The table is divided into regions for respective packet format types. An incoming packet header at an input is combined with a first one of the mask values from the table to provide a combined value that consists of the value held in the input packet header at the defined location and zeros elsewhere. This combined value is compared with the corresponding packet header stored in the table. When they are not equal, the combining and comparison is repeated for the next row of the table. When they are equal, the corresponding DES key value is read from the table and provided as an output. The system can cope with variable PID formats within the packet header without alteration to the hardware but merely with re-programming of the table contents.
US08391479B2
An Elliptic Curve scalar multiplication product involving a scalar and a base point is determined in a manner that acts as a countermeasure to side channel attacks. A key splitting strategy called Additive Splitting Using Division involves selecting a random integer and determining an integer quotient and a remainder by dividing the scalar by the random integer. The product may then be expressed as a sum of scalar multiplications, which may be evaluated using a combination of a fixed-sequence window method with the known Interleaving method. When the integer quotient and remainder are odd, major collisions may be avoided when determining the product. Accordingly, the random integer that determines whether the integer quotient and remainder are odd may be subject to some control.
US08391475B2
The speed at which encrypt and decrypt operations may be performed in a general purpose processor is increased by providing a separate encrypt data path and decrypt data path. With separate data paths, each of the data paths may be individually optimized in order to reduce delays in a critical path. In addition, delays may be hidden in a non-critical last round.
US08391472B2
Echo cancellation for audio/video conferencing uses an inaudible tone added at an originating conference site to the transmitted voice signal, for echo cancellation. The tone, upon receipt with the voice signal at a remote conferencing site and retransmission back to the originating site, is used to determine both the round trip delay of the conferencing link and the acoustic characteristics of the remote site, so as generate an echo cancellation signal for better audio performance.
US08391470B2
A system and method for measuring a characteristic impedance of a transmission-line comprises transmitting energy to the line, and shortly after measuring the voltage/current involved and thus measuring the equivalent impedance. The measured characteristic impedance may then be used in order to determine the termination value required to minimize reflections. In another embodiment, the proper termination is set or measured by adjusting the termination value to achieve maximum power dissipation in the terminating device. The equivalent characteristic impedance measurement may be used to count the number of metallic conductors connected to a single connection point. This abstract is not intended to limit or construe the scope of the claims.
US08391465B1
A system for automatically collecting, displaying, analyzing and projecting data associated with inbound and outbound calls at a plurality of customer care call centers is presented. The system comprises a computer system, a memory, and an application stored in the memory that, when executed by the computer system, stores inbound call metrics about calls to a plurality of customer care call centers, and stores outbound call metrics about calls directed outbound from the plurality of customer care call centers. The system further determines a current call handling status of the plurality of customer care call centers, projects a future status of the plurality of customer care call centers based on the inbound call metrics, on the outbound call metrics, on the current call handling status, and on a call handling plan, and performs an action based on the projected future status of the plurality of customer care call centers.
US08391462B2
A communication platform for providing computer/telephony integration services to remote subscribers comprises: a hosted call switching unit in communication with an external telephone network or interconnected networks through a communications trunk; for each subscriber, a subscriber telephony component, such as an intelligent agent, executed by processing means belonging to the communication platform and connected to an external subscriber's information system through a permanent private secure data channel, whereby said subscriber telephony component can communicate in a private manner with other information system components of said subscriber so as to be logically part of said information system, each subscriber component being capable of controlling said switching unit according to subscriber data; resources available to each subscriber telephony component in association with call processing or routing; means for allocating resources to each telephone call handled by a subscriber telephony component in response to data communication with said component through a secure interface.
US08391458B1
A system and method of operating a communication system is described. A communication interface receives a first user request for a voice service from a communication device. In response to receiving the first user request, the communication interface transfers an initial message requesting access to the voice service. The communication interface receives a response to the initial message that indicates that the voice service is not available. After receiving the response, the communication interface receives a second user request from the communication device. A processing system processes the second user request to determine if the second user request indicates an emergency service. If the second user request indicates the emergency service, then the communication interface transfers a call request for the emergency service. If the second user request does not indicate the emergency service, then the communication interface notifies the communication device that the voice service is not available.
US08391444B2
An IP telephone set 4 is provided with a power failure adapter 5. During power failure, a function of the power failure adapter 5 is enabled so that the IP telephone set 4 is connected to an analog network 3 via the power failure adapter 5. As a result, the IP telephone set 4 is allowed to perform telephone communication via the analog network 3. The IP telephone set 4 includes an emergency call detecting portion 40a and a transmitting portion 40b. The emergency call detection portion 40a detects that an emergency telephone number is dialed as a dialed emergency telephone number. The transmitting portion 40b enables the function of the power failure adapter 5 when the emergency call detecting portion 40a detects that the emergency telephone number is dialed and transmits the dialed emergency telephone number to the analog network 3 via the power failure adapter 5.
US08391440B2
A curtain assembly includes at least one curtain including at least one slat. The at least one curtain is configured to be rotatably coupled to a housing of a scanning system having a radiation source and a detector. The at least one curtain is further configured to facilitate drawing an object into the scanning system housing while substantially preventing radiation emitted from the radiation source from exiting the housing through the at least one curtain.
US08391438B2
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for clock frequency division, the method comprises: determining a current frequency division coefficient in real time according to input clock signals and output clock information; then, performing counting on the input clock signals according to an integer portion and a decimal portion of the frequency division coefficient and a decimal scale threshold of the decimal portion; and performing accumulation on the decimal portion according to the counting result; finally, controlling the output clock according to the counting result and the accumulation result. With the method and the apparatus, output signals can be adjusted dynamically according to input signals, and the bit width of the integer portion and the decimal portion of the frequency division coefficient and the decimal scale threshold of the decimal portion can be increased on demand, so that the precision of the frequency division coefficient can be adjusted.
US08391434B2
A receiver for clock reconstitution in a semiconductor field includes a termination resistor arranged between two input stages, to which a pair of input signals are input, the termination resistor including a first resistor and a second resistor; a strobe signal generator for generating a strobe signal, using a first signal corresponding to a differential voltage output from a node between the first resistor and the second resistor; and a clock reconstitutor for generating a clock signal in response to the strobe signal generated from the strobe signal generator.
US08391430B2
A communication device is provided for receiving a packet including a preamble part having a continuous waveform, a sync part having a specific pattern and a data part, which has been modulated by changing electrical load. The communication device includes: a preamble detection unit for detecting the preamble part from a received signal to extract sampling timing based on the continuous waveform; a sync detection unit for detecting the sync part from the received signal based on the sampling timing to output a timing signal indicating a start position of the sync part; a delay buffer for giving a delay to the received signal so that the head of the sync part is not outputted until the detection of the sync part is determined; an adaptive equalization unit for performing adaptive equalization using the sync part based on the timing signal by inputting the delayed received signal; and a decoding unit for performing decoding processing of an equalized output signal from the adaptive equalization unit.
US08391428B2
Provided is an auto gain control method in a digital communication system. The auto gain control method checks a distribution of a signal and a distribution of a signal envelope during a regular check interval, and determines a state of a current gain value from the distribution of the signal and the distribution of the signal envelope which are obtained through the checking of the distribution. The auto gain control method controls a gain value for auto gain control according to the determined state of the current gain value.
US08391417B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for calibrating and operating a receiver circuit. An exemplary method comprises the steps of applying a first voltage offset to a first input of an amplifier circuit, generating an output signal at an output of the amplifier circuit based on the first voltage offset and a second voltage offset at a second input of the amplifier circuit, adjusting the second voltage offset based on the output signal, and maintaining the second voltage offset at a constant voltage when the output signal is indicative of the second voltage offset cancelling the first voltage offset.
US08391410B2
Methods and apparatus for constructing a pilot symbol for a communication frame transmitted in a wireless communication system, such as an OFDM system, are disclosed. In particular, the methods and apparatus generate at least one pseudo-random noise sequence having at least a predetermined length, where the at least one pseudo-random noise sequence represents a system configuration of a wireless system. A time domain symbol sequence is modulated with the at least one pseudo-random noise sequence to create a timing acquisition pilot symbol. The modulated acquisition pilot symbol is further masked to a prescribed frequency profile and placed in a frame for wireless transmission. Accordingly, different system configurations can be communicated from a transmitter to a receiver with the acquisition pilot symbol modulated with correspondingly different pseudo-random noise sequences, while affording low complexity required to process the acquisition pilot symbol and a minimum peak to average power ratio when using QPSK modulation.
US08391408B2
A spatial mapping matrix searching apparatus may include a plurality of antennae configured to receive a plurality of transmission signals, a post-coding module configured to generate a post-coding information according to the received plurality of transmission signals and generate a received signal from the received plurality of transmission signals, and a pre-coding module configured to generate a pre-coding information according to the post-coding information.
US08391405B2
A symbol mapping method for repetition coding is disclosed. The symbol mapping method comprises performing repetition coding on codeword to output repeated codeword symbols, and mapping the repeated codeword symbols with subcarriers located in different localized resource blocks. According to the embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to obtain maximum reliability in a receiving side by mapping codeword bits with subcarriers to reduce the number of bits having low reliability when a transmitting side uses repetition coding. Also, it is possible to improve decoding throughput and obtain channel diversity.
US08391404B2
A method of processing a digital broadcast signal in a transmitter includes encoding signaling information including a transmission parameter channel, including transmission parameters and a fast information channel (FIC) including cross layer information for mobile service acquisition, and transmitting the broadcast signal including ensembles including the encoded signaling information. The FIC is divided into FIC segments, each FIC segment including a FIC segment header and a FIC segment payload. The FIC segment header includes type information indicating a type of the FIC segment, the FIC further including a first ensemble identifier identifying a specific ensemble including a service map table (SMT). The SMT includes a header including a second ensemble identifier corresponding to the first ensemble identifier, a payload including service acquisition information of the specific ensemble, and IP access information of a mobile service for acquiring an IP datagram of the mobile service from the specific ensemble.
US08391397B2
A transmitter beamforming technique for use in a MIMO wireless communication system determines a partial description of a reverse channel without determining a full dimensional description of the reverse channel. A correction matrix is developed from the partial description of the reverse channel and a description of the forward channel. The correction matrix is used to process signals to be transmitted via the forward channel, and a steering matrix is used to perform beamforming in the forward channel.
US08391395B2
A precoder for an effective channel linking a wireless receiver to a wireless transmitter includes a precoder report and a precoder update report, the effective channel including a propagation channel, transmit filters and receive filters. A structured frequency-selectivity of the effective channel is determined, the structured frequency-selectivity being induced by one or more long term and/or persistent parameters of the effective channel. The precoder update report is generated based on the structured frequency-selectivity. The precoder update report includes frequency-dependent phase compensation which accounts for the structured frequency-selectivity. The precoder report is generated for the effective channel based on channel state information determined for the effective channel. The precoder report and the precoder update report are transmitted to the wireless transmitter. The transmitter determines a transmission operation based on the precoder report and the precoder update report, and transmits data to the wireless receiver in accordance with the transmission operation.
US08391388B2
A digital television (DTV) transmitter and a method of coding data in the DTV transmitter are disclosed. A data formatter generates an enhanced data packet including the enhanced data and a known data sequence. A data randomizer randomizes the enhanced data packet. A RS encoder RS-codes the randomized data packet by adding first parity data, and a data interleaver interleaves the RS-coded data packet. A trellis encoding unit trellis-encodes the interleaved data packet. Herein the trellis encoding unit includes a TCM encoder for generating a first output bit by trellis-encoding a first input bit and generating a second output bit by bypassing the first input bit, and a pre-coder for generating a third output bit by pre-coding a second input bit, wherein memories included in the TCM encoder and the pre-coder are initialized when the known data sequence is inputted to the trellis encoding unit.
US08391386B2
Radio transmission is performed even to a communication party whose bandwidth that can be used for transmission and reception is limited without having an influence of an offset of a DC component. A radio transmitter applied to an OFDMA communication system in which a plurality of different terminals performs communication using OFDM signals at the same time that includes a mapping part that allocates transmission power to each subcarrier, and also selects a subcarrier to which minimum power of the transmission power to be allocated is allocated and modulates transmission data in units of communication slots to output the modulated data; and a transmission part for transmitting radio signals including the modulated data using each of the subcarriers.
US08391378B2
Included are embodiments of method for method for computing metrics. At least one embodiment includes searching a MIMO detection tree, the detection tree configuration being formed by a plurality of nodes and a plurality of leaves connected via a plurality of branches, the computational complexity associated with computing a node metric decreases with the node depth in the tree configuration and providing an estimate on a transmitted signal.
US08391368B2
A system and method of compressing a video signal can include the steps of: receiving a video signal, the video signal including frames; analyzing, for each frame, the video signal on a macroblock-by-macroblock level; determining whether to downsample a macroblock residual for each of the macroblocks; selectively downsampling a macroblock residual for some of the macroblocks; and coding the macroblocks. A system and method of decompressing a video signal can include the steps of receiving a compressed video signal, the video signal including frames; analyzing, for each frame, the video signal on a macroblock-by-macroblock level; determining whether to upsample a macroblock residual for each of the macroblocks; selectively upsampling a macroblock residual for some of the macroblocks; and decoding the macroblocks.
US08391364B2
An object of the present invention is to express a predicted picture signal with light overheads, and to provide motion compensation of different pixel accuracy. A moving picture encoding device 20 according to the present invention includes a motion vector detection means 32 for detecting a motion vector of a predetermined area to be encoded in a frame picture, a prediction means 33c for predicting the motion vector of the predetermined area to be encoded by using an encoded motion vector of a predetermined area in the frame picture, a determination means 33d for determining whether or not the motion vector detected by the motion vector detection means 32 is a predetermined motion vector set in accordance with the motion vector predicted by the prediction means 33c, and a switching means 33e for switching a method of calculating a motion compensation value of the predetermined area to be encoded depending on whether or not the motion vector detected by the motion vector detection means 32 is the predetermined motion vector.
US08391360B2
A multiplexing method for multiplexing a bit stream in a multiplexing apparatus. The method includes encoding, in an encoding unit in the multiplexing apparatus, a chroma component of image data using a chroma quantization parameter calculated on the basis of a luma quantization parameter weighted by an addition operation that adds a weight parameter and generating the bit stream. The method further includes multiplexing, in an multiplexing unit in the multiplexing apparatus, the bit stream and generating a system stream.
US08391359B2
A packetizing method for packetizing a bit stream in a packetizing apparatus. The packetizing method includes encoding, in an encoding unit in the multiplexing apparatus, a chroma component of image data using a chroma quantization parameter calculated on the basis of a luma quantization parameter weighted by an addition operation that adds a weight parameter and generating the bit stream. The method further includes packetizing, in a packetizing unit in the packetizing apparatus, the bit stream and generating a packetized stream.
US08391349B1
A combination equalizer and automatic gain control (AGC) is provided for high-speed receivers. The combination circuit comprises a first AGC having an input to accept a communication signal and an input to accept a first control signal. The first AGC modifies the communication signal gain in response to the first control signal, to supply a first stage signal at an output. An equalizer has an input to accept the first stage signal and an input to accept a second control signal. The equalizer modifies the frequency characteristics of the first stage signal in response to the second control signal, to supply an equalized signal at an output. A second AGC has an input to accept the equalized signal and an input to accept a third control signal. The second AGC modifies the equalized signal gain in response to the third control signal, to supply a second stage signal at an output.
US08391340B2
A low-cost GPS/GNSS receiver receives a satellite signal at an RF frequency (fRF). The GPS/GNSS receiver includes a front end section for receiving the satellite signal and generating a digital complex signal having a first bandwidth, the received satellite signal being converted into a complex signal before digitizing, a signal capturing section for searching for and acquiring the satellite signal, the signal capturing section including a capture memory, a baseband processor for tracking the acquired satellite signal, and a signal splitter coupled to the front end section. The signal splitter splits the digital complex signal into two bandwidths, by generating a narrowband digital complex signal having a second bandwidth substantially smaller than the first bandwidth. The signal splitter provides the narrowband digital signal to the capture memory and the wider first bandwidth digital complex signal to the baseband processor.
US08391330B2
Metallization patterns are provided to reduce the probability of chip fracture in semiconductor lasers. According to one embodiment disclosed herein, the pad edges of a metallization pattern extend across a plurality of crystallographic planes in the laser substrate. In this manner, cracks initiated at any given stress concentration would need to propagate across many crystallographic planes in the substrate to reach a significant size. Additional embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the respective geometries and orientations of adjacent pairs of contact pads. Still further embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US08391317B2
A system is described for transmitting data in a serial bidirectional bus with a control device (1) comprising a send and receiving unit (34) for data fields (7, 8 and 9) combined into a data frame (6), and with bus subscribers (2, 3 and 4) which comprise an evaluation circuit (10) for reading in and reading out data fields (7, 8, 9, 14, 15 or 16) in data frames (6, 11), with at least the bus subscriber (4) at the bus end opposite of the control device (1) comprising a send device (12) for a data frame (11). In order to provide simple constructional conditions it is proposed that at least the bus subscriber (4) at the end of the bus comprises a control stage (13) which is activated by a received data frame (6) and triggers the send device (12) depending on the receipt of a data frame (6) within the terms of the transmission of a data frame (11) for at least the data fields (14, 15 and 16) of the bus subscribers (2, 3 and 4).
US08391316B2
According to one exemplary embodiment, a front-end system for processing a composite wideband signal comprises a pre-receiving unit including a multiplexer for separating the composite wideband signal into a plurality of filtered signals. The front-end system further comprises a plurality of discrete frequency band outputs corresponding to the plurality of filtered signals, and a tuner/down-converter coupled to at least one of the plurality of discrete frequency band outputs. In one embodiment, the pre-receiving unit of the front-end system further comprises a second multiplexer for separating at least one of the plurality of filtered signals into a second plurality of filtered signals. In one embodiment, the pre-receiving unit may further comprise a low noise amplifier for processing at least one of the plurality of filtered signals before it is input to the second multiplexer.
US08391304B2
An Ethernet-MOST gateway apparatus for exchanging data between a MOST network transferring multimedia data within a vehicle and a packet network for a computer and Internet communications. The Ethernet-MOS gateway apparatus including: an Ethernet frame interface unit connected with a packet network to transmit and receive an Ethernet frame, and converting the Ethernet frame into a MOST frame; a MOST frame interface unit connected with a MOST network to transmit and receive the MOST frame, and converting the MOST frame into the Ethernet frame; and a switch fabric connecting the Ethernet frame interface unit and the MOST frame interface unit.
US08391285B2
A communication apparatus configured to transmit data by configuring a plurality of virtual communication pathways in a physical communication pathway established with another communication apparatus, the communication apparatus includes a configuration unit that configures information related to an order of priority of the virtual communication pathways, a first storage unit that stores the configured information, a second storage unit that stores data, which includes signals, based on the configured information, and a transmission processing unit that carries out transmission processing on the stored data based on the configured information.
US08391277B2
A base station and system configured to support interfacing digital and analog devices with a legacy alarm system in a manner that allows messages from the legacy alarm system to pre-empt other messaging, if needed, when the messaging takes place through the same gateway as that which is used by the legacy alarm system.
US08391275B2
A method and apparatus are provided for providing calling party information in a request to establish a call session. The method comprises receiving a call request from an entity to establish an interactive call session. The method comprises receiving information associated with the entity. The method further comprises providing the information in the call request.
US08391266B2
Provided are a Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) establishment procedure for a TDLS initiator and a station supporting the establishment procedure. In the establishment procedure, a requesting Non-AP QSTA transmits a TDLS setup request frame via an access point (AP) to an intended peer Non-AP QSTA. And, the requesting Non-AP QSTA receives a TDLS setup response frame via the AP from the intended peer station in response to the TDLS setup request frame. And, the requesting Non-AP QSTA transmits a TDLS setup confirm frame via the AP to the intended peer station in response to the TDLS setup response frame.
US08391247B2
A base station device of the present invention includes a base-station main body connected to a network, and multiple antenna units connected in series to the base-station main body. The base-station main body multiplexes signals acquired from the network and outputs the multiplexed signals to an antenna unit. The antenna unit demultiplexes the multiplexed signals into a signal to be transmitted by the antenna unit and another signals to be transmitted by another antenna unit, and transmits the other signal to the other antenna unit. The antenna unit multiplexes a signal received by the antenna unit and a signal received by the other antenna unit, and outputs the multiplexed signals to the base-station main body. The base-station main body demultiplexes the multiplexed signals, and transmits the demultiplexed signals to the network. Each antenna unit includes a demultiplexer of a single-input and three-outputs and a multiplexer of three-inputs and a single-output.
US08391245B2
It is possible to realize reduction of inter-cell interference by an adaptive FFR with a low delay. A terminal (200) includes: an interference condition detection unit (209) which detects an interference condition of other cell to the local cell; a cell identification unit (210) which acquires signals for cell identification of each base station; and a sub-band selection unit (211) which selects a sub-band used for the downstream line transmission to the local station according to the interference condition detected by the interference condition detection unit (209) and the signals for cell identification of each base station obtained by the cell identification unit (210). Thus, the terminal (200) can autonomously select a small sub-band of inter-cell interference and to realize reduction of the inter-cell interference by the adaptive FFR with a low delay.
US08391233B2
A method for mapping downlink dedicated pilots to resource elements in an Extended Cyclic Prefix frame structure, applied in a long term evolution system, includes the following steps: the first downlink dedicated pilot of each port is mapped to the specific position of a physical resource block; other downlink dedicated pilots of the port are mapping-processed according to the time-domain interval, frequency-domain interval and a preset regulation; the time-domain interval is two or three OFDM symbols, and the frequency-domain interval is two subcarriers of the same time domain. By defining the positions of pilots in the physical resource block, downlink dedicated pilots can obtain the information of all channels when a base station uses a beamforming of more than four antennas. Making the channel information obtained by dedicated pilots contain the real channel information and the process-weight-value of a beamforming, a UE does not need to obtain the transmission-weight-value of a beamforming, thereby avoiding the feedback overhead of beamforming weight-values.
US08391214B2
A method and apparatus are provided for assigning radio channels to a set of base stations in a wireless network, including determining a plurality of available radio channels that the set of base stations have at their disposal for communications, selecting at least one of the plurality of available radio channels for a first plurality of the base stations, selecting at least another one of the plurality of available radio channels for at least a second plurality of the base stations, and assigning the selected radio channels to the corresponding pluralities of base stations.
US08391210B2
An IP address is assigned to each of IP bearers, and a mobile anchor device (GWN) 33, which serves as an anchor in a mobile communication system, manages association among an identifier of a mobile terminal 7, those IP addresses, and identifiers that identify radio access means. A handover between different radio access networks 1 and 3 is implemented by assigning an IP address already used in a handover source IP bearer to a handover destination IP bearer. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a mobile communication system and a communication method for enabling a handover between radio transmission paths respectively established by different radio communication methods in a next generation mobile communication system.
US08391207B2
A method and system for transmitting data from a base station to a mobile station in a wireless communication system using a multiple hop relay scheme is In a multi-hop system having a plurality of nodes, performing bidirectional data transmission between the nodes comprises: grouping the plurality of nodes into a first node group to a fourth node group, and assigning data transmission intervals to the grouped node groups at each frame, the data transmission intervals dividing each frame in time; receiving, by a second group node, data from an upper group node at a first frame and, at the same time, receiving, by a third group node, data from a lower group node; and transmitting by the second group node data to the upper group node at a second frame and, at the same time, transmitting by the third group node data to the lower group node.
US08391204B2
The details of an apparatus and method are disclosed for setting the Uplink RRC message sequence number for a new integrity protection configuration to be applied for signalling radio bearer RB0, on completion of a UTRAN MOBILITY INFORMATION procedure. The sequence number is set to a value such that the next RRC message to be sent on uplink RB0 will use the new integrity protection configuration.
US08391203B1
A wireless device may establish a data connection with a 2G or 3G wireless network, which the wireless device can then use to engage in packet data communications with other devices on packet data networks. The wireless device may then roam from one wireless network to the other wireless network, such by roaming from the 2G wireless network to the 3G wireless network or vice versa. The wireless device may then transfer its data connection between the networks, thereby allowing the wireless device to continue in any established data sessions with other devices.
US08391198B2
A reliable synchronization apparatus and method within a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) zone having m sync executers (SEs) belonging to n retransmission zones is provided. Each retransmission zone has a selected leader SE and other member SEs. The apparatus comprises a sync controller and the n selected leader SEs. When the Sync controller multicasts a sync ruler to all SEs in a retransmission zone, the leader SE that loses the Sync ruler sends a NACK message to request the sync controller to retransmit the sync ruler. An election is triggered for updating leader information and announcing election to all SEs. The member SE that loses the sync ruler sends a NACK message to request its leader or the Sync controller to retransmit the sync ruler.
US08391195B1
What is disclosed is a method of operating a wireless communication device. The method includes establishing an assisted wireless link between the wireless communication device and an assisted wireless communication device, where the assisted wireless link comprises a first wireless communication mode that requires tuning to a first frequency spectrum, and establishing a transport wireless link between the wireless communication device and a wireless access node, where the transport wireless link comprises a second wireless communication mode that requires tuning to a second frequency spectrum. The method includes receiving forward communications for the assisted wireless communication device from the wireless access node over the transport wireless link, transferring the forward communications over the assisted wireless link for receipt by the assisted wireless communication device, receiving reverse communications transferred by the assisted wireless communication device over the assisted wireless link, and transferring the reverse communications for receipt by the wireless access node over the transport wireless link.
US08391193B2
There is provided a wireless communication device including a beacon signal exchanging unit for exchanging a beacon signal with another wireless communication device, a connection management unit for establishing a connection relationship with the another wireless communication device by exchanging the beacon signal, a pause management unit for exchanging information on a predetermined pause period with the another wireless communication device, with which the connection relationship is established, and pausing the own operation until the predetermined pause period has elapsed from the predetermined time, and a beacon slot management unit for setting a beacon slot to be used for transmission of the beacon signal. The beacon slot management unit sets the beacon slot after elapse of the predetermined pause period, and the beacon signal exchanging unit transmits the signal for a predetermined period using the beacon slot after the predetermined pause period has elapsed and the beacon slot is set.
US08391186B2
A computer implemented method that analyzes and improves a dial plan. A dial plan design template system receives an existing dial plan. The dial plan design template system models the existing dial plan as a directed graph. The dial plan design template system analyzes the directed graph to determine compliance with a set of edge rules. The dial plan design template system analyzes the directed graph to determine compliance with a set of connectivity type rules.
US08391177B2
The present technology relates to protocols relative to utility meters associated with an open operational framework. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to protocol subject matter for advanced metering infrastructure, adaptable to various international standards, while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as for operating in a residential electricity meter field. The present subject matter supports meters within an ANSI standard C12.22/C12.19 system while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as for operating in a residential electricity meter field, all to permit cell-based adaptive insertion of C12.22 meters within an open framework. Particular present features relate to the use of minimal propagation delay path to optimize a mesh network.
US08391167B2
A system and method for determining a propagation delay between nodes in a packet network are provided. The system and method include sending a ping packet from a source node to a destination node, determining an intermediate node delay of the ping packet at an intermediate node and recording the intermediate node delay in the ping packet and determining the propagation delay at the destination node by using the intermediate node delay.
US08391166B2
A system and method for reducing end-to-end delay associated with telephone calls carried over a voice over packet network in a manner that avoids overloading of the network. The system and method involves monitoring one or more parameters indicative of an amount of bandwidth being utilized on the voice over packet network, responsive to the monitoring, determining that a level of bandwidth utilization on the voice over packet network has changed, responsive to the determination that the level of bandwidth utilization on the voice over packet network has changed, issuing a command to a telephony device, and responsive to receipt of the command by the telephony device, changing the size of packets used for carrying frames of encoded voice signals associated with a telephone call from a first packet size to a second packet size.
US08391164B2
Aggregates are calculated from a data stream in which data is sent in a sequence of tuples, in which each tuple comprises an item identifier and a timestamp indicating when the tuple was transmitted. The tuples may arrive out-of-order, that is, the sequence in which the tuples arrive are not necessarily in the sequence of their corresponding timestamps. In calculating aggregates, more recent data may be given more weight by multiplying each tuple by a decay function which is a function of the timestamp associated with the tuple and the current time. The tuples are recorded in a quantile-digest data structure. Aggregates are calculated from the data stored in the quantile-digest data structure.
US08391143B2
Classification and verification of static file transfer protocols is provided. A network node sitting in the path of packets classifies traffic according to its content, and then statistically verifies that the content actually matches the initial classification. Classification and verification are standard building blocks in networks systems that provide quality-of-service. However, unlike traditional quality-of-service building blocks, a system of the present invention takes a trust-but-verify approach, and thus can rely on longer-timescale statistical online or offline verification to reduce computational requirements. This improves scalability and reduces the cost and complexity that in part has prevented prior service differentiation systems from succeeding in the Internet. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can combine the classification and verification building blocks with a networked directory service to allow further classification as to whether particular content is for pay.
US08391140B2
A plurality of workers is configured for parallel processing of deduplicated data entities in a plurality of chunks. The deduplicated data processing rate is regulated using a rate control mechanism. The rate control mechanism incorporates a debt/credit algorithm specifying which of the plurality of workers processing the deduplicated data entities must wait for each of a plurality of calculated required sleep times. The rate control mechanism is adapted to limit a data flow rate based on a penalty acquired during a last processing of one of the plurality of chunks in a retroactive manner, and further adapted to operate on at least one vector representation of at least one limit specification to accommodate a variety of available dimensions corresponding to the at least one limit specification.
US08391130B2
Methods and apparatuses for estimating and reducing interference in wireless communication systems are disclosed. As one example, a method for reducing interference in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of generating a tile for transmission, the tile including a first portion and a second portion, inserting small message information into the first portion or the second portion, if the small message information is inserted into the first portion, inserting data into the second portion, and if the small message information is inserted into the second portion, inserting the data into the first portion.
US08391128B2
A transmitter in a mobile communication system code-multiplexes transmission symbols together with spreading codes, performs inverse Fourier transform and transmits the result from multiple transmit antennas. A receiver in the mobile communication system performs Fourier transform on signals received at multiple receive antennas, extracts signal components of individual subcarriers and estimates symbols in accordance with a QR decomposition algorithm. A unitary matrix is derived such that a product of a spreading matrix including spreading elements as its elements and a channel matrix representing radio channel states is equal to a product of the unitary matrix and a triangular matrix. A reception vector, a unitary matrix and a triangular matrix are used to estimate symbol candidates transmitted from individual transmit antennas.
US08391125B2
A method for managing a channel matrix is provided. The method includes: obtaining whether a user logs on or logs off; adding a history record of channel information of the user to a channel matrix when the user logs on; recording current channel information of the user in the channel matrix and deleting the channel information of the user from the channel matrix when the user logs off. The channel matrix may be timely updated based on when the user logs on or off. Accordingly, the channel crosstalk is eliminated timely and correctly according to the channel matrix, and the affection on the crosstalk eliminating capacity caused by the user logs on or logs off can be avoided.
US08391123B2
An optical recording medium provided with one or a plurality of recording layers includes an adjustment data recording area for recording therein adjustment data used for adjusting focus or spherical aberration of laser light used for recording/reproduction, the adjustment data recording area being disposed at a predetermined position on each of the one or plurality of recording layers, and a determination information recording area for recording therein determination information indicating whether or not the adjustment data has been recorded in the adjustment data recording area in each of the one or plurality of recording layers.
US08391121B2
A recording and reading system for a multi-layered optical recording medium includes: a multi-layered optical recording medium including a plurality of recording layers and a single servo layer; and an optical head. The optical head includes a recording and reading objective lens of a signal recording and reading optical system and a servo objective lens of a servo signal detection optical system that are disposed on a common actuator. The recording and reading objective lens is mounted on the common actuator through a minute-drive apparatus so as to be minutely driven in a focusing direction relative to the servo objective lens. When the servo objective lens is focused on the servo layer, a reading light beam is quickly focused on a target one of the plurality of recording layers.
US08391107B2
An apparatus includes a slider including an air bearing surface and a waveguide configured to receive light from a light source, a sensor positioned to receive a portion of light emitted by the light source prior to the light exiting the slider at the air bearing surface, and a controller controlling the light source power in response to a characteristic of the sensor.
US08391103B2
A method for evaluating subsurface formations includes deploying at least two intersecting seismic transducer lines above an area of the subsurface to be surveyed. Each line includes spaced apart seismic transmitters on one side of the intersection and spaced apart seismic receivers on the other side. On each line, one of the transmitters is actuated and signals are detected at one of the receivers. The foregoing is repeated for each of the remaining receivers. The foregoing is then repeated for each of the remaining transmitters on each line. The detected signals are processed to enhance both specular and non-specular seismic events in the subsurface. The enhanced events may be stored and/or displayed.
US08391100B2
A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a counting control circuit and an address counting circuit. The counting control circuit is configured to generate a first counting start signal, a second counting start signal and a counting count signal in response to an auto-refresh signal, a voltage stabilization signal and a fuse control signal. The address counting circuit is configured to count a plurality of count addresses in response to the first counting start signal, and to count one or more specified count addresses from among the plurality of count addresses in response to the second counting start signal and the counting control signal.
US08391098B2
A first timing control unit controls an active timing of a first control signal to output a first driving control signal. A first data input/output unit transmits write data from a data input/output buffer to a global input/output line or transmits read data from the global input/output line to the data input/output buffer, in response to the first driving control signal. A second timing control unit controls an active timing of a second control signal to output a second driving control signal. A second data input/output unit transmits the write data from the global input/output line to a local input/output line or transmits the read data from the local input/output line to the global input/output line, in response to the second driving control signal.
US08391097B2
A word-line driving circuit for driving a word-line in a memory array includes a NAND circuit having a pair of address inputs and an output, an output inverter circuit having an inverter power supply node, an input coupled to the output of the NAND circuit and an output for providing a word line signal, a power gate coupled between a first power supply node and the inverter power supply node, and a control circuit coupled to the power gate. The control circuit controls the power gate to place the word line driver circuit in active or standby mode in response to the output of the NAND circuit.
US08391088B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an output driver having a pseudo-open drain (POD) structure and providing read data from the memory cell array in a de-emphasis mode, and control logic controlling the output driver in response to a read command to activate the de-emphasis mode. The control logic activates the de-emphasis mode only during an output period during which the read data is output by the output driver.
US08391076B2
A nonvolatile memory device using interleaving technology is provided. The nonvolatile memory device includes a first controller configured to allocate one of 2N threshold voltage states to N-bit data where N is 2 or a natural number greater than 2, a second controller configured to set a difference between adjacent threshold voltage states among the 2N threshold voltage states so that the difference increases as a threshold voltage increases, and a programming unit configured to form a threshold voltage distribution state corresponding to the allocated threshold voltage state and to program the N-bit data to a multi-level cell. The second controller controls the difference between the adjacent threshold voltage states to equalize the number of read errors for all intersections among the 2N threshold voltage states at the end of life.
US08391071B2
A readout circuit has a sense amplifier to compare a cell current which changes according to whether a memory cell is on or off to a reference current to output a comparison signal of a first logic value upon detecting that the cell current is smaller than the reference current, and to output a comparison signal of a second logic value upon detecting that the cell current is greater than the reference current, the readout circuit outputting a data output signal depending upon an output of the sense amplifier. The reference current is set to be greater than a middle value between a first cell current, which flows when the memory cell is in an off-state, and a second cell current, which flows when the memory cell is in an on-state, the reference current is greater than the first cell current and is smaller than the second cell current. The sense amplifier outputs the comparison signal of the second logic value unless the sense amplifier detects that the cell current is smaller than the reference current as a result of a comparison made between the cell current and the reference current, wherein the sense amplifier outputs the comparison signal of the second logic value regardless of whether the sense amplifier detects that the cell current is greater than the reference current.
US08391062B2
A method of programming a nonvolatile memory device comprises pre-programming multi-bit data in a plurality of multi-level memory cells, reading the pre-programmed multi-bit data from the plurality of multi-level cells based on state group codes indicating state groups of the plurality of multi-level cells, and re-programming the read multi-bit data to the plurality of multi-level cells.
US08391061B2
In a method of operation, a flash memory cell coupled to a bit-line is programmed, a word-line voltage is coupled to the flash memory cell, a first voltage pulse is coupled to a bias transistor coupled between the bit-line and a sense capacitance at a first time to couple the bit-line to the sense capacitance to generate data to indicate the state of the flash memory cell, a second voltage pulse is coupled to the bias transistor at a second time having a second magnitude that is different from a first magnitude of the first voltage pulse, and a third voltage pulse is coupled to the bias transistor at a third time having a third magnitude that is different from the second magnitude of the second voltage pulse. In a method of operation, the second voltage pulse occurs a first delay period after the first voltage pulse and the third voltage pulse occurs a second delay period after the second voltage pulse, the second delay period being different from the first delay period.
US08391046B2
Disclosed is a memory cell array including: word lines and first and second bit lines respectively connected to memory cells, wherein each memory cell includes a MOS transistor and a switching element formed inside a contact hole, the switching element includes first and second conductive layers and a gap in which a resistance value is changed by applying a predetermined voltage, each word line is connected to a gate electrode, each first bit line is connected to a second electrode, each second bit line is connected to the second conductive layer, and data is written by supplying a write voltage to the first bit line connected to the selected memory cell and specifying the word line connected to the memory cell, and data is read by supplying a read voltage to the first bit lines connected to the memory cell and specifying the word line connected to the memory cells.
US08391041B2
The present invention provides a magnetic memory device capable of providing high-speed access without increasing an array area. Gate word lines are respectively linearly disposed between source impurity regions and drain impurity regions within a memory cell array area. Gate word line protrusions are respectively provided at boundary regions of memory cell forming regions. Contacts relative to the gate word line protrusions are respectively provided at boundary regions of memory cells at adjacent columns. The drain impurity regions are respectively disposed with being shifted from the centers of the memory cell forming regions in such a manner that spaces between the drain impurity regions become large in the regions in which the protrusions are disposed.
US08391040B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a first memory chip, a second memory chip, and a control chip. The first chip includes a first inductor configured to transmit/receive a signal, and a memory cell. The second chip is disposed on the first chip and includes a second inductor configured to transmit/receive a signal, and a memory cell. The control chip includes a control circuit configured to control the first and second chips, and a third inductor configured to transmit/receive a signal to/from the first and second inductors. The outer peripheries of the first and second inductors are included in a closed space produced by extending the outer periphery of the third inductor in a direction perpendicular to a plane that includes the third inductor. The inductance of the third inductor is greater than at least one of the inductances of the first and second inductors.
US08391036B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for maximizing the efficiency of a power supply according to the value of a load to be powered. One embodiment provides a power supply system including a first and second stage. The first stage has at least one AC to DC conversion section for converting an AC input to DC at an upper DC voltage value. The second stage has at least one DC to DC regulation section for converting at least a portion of the DC at the upper DC voltage value to DC at a lower DC voltage value and supplying the lower DC voltage value to a DC output. One or both of the first and second stages includes more than one section operating in parallel. A controller selectively enables a selected combination of the AC to DC conversion sections and the DC to DC regulation sections according to an expected or actual value of the load.
US08391035B2
An integrated-type high step-up ratio DC-AC conversion circuit with an auxiliary step-up circuit applies to converting a low DC voltage of alternative energy into a high AC voltage. The conversion circuit uses an isolated Cuk integration unit and an auxiliary step-up unit to form a multi-phase input and uses parallel charging and cascade discharging to boost the DC voltage in the DC side with a low voltage power switches and low duty cycle and then converts the boosted DC voltage into AC voltage. The auxiliary step-up unit not only shares the entirety of power but also exempts the DC-side circuit from using high voltage power switches, whereby the cost of elements is reduced. Further, the conversion circuit can decrease the switching loss and conduction loss of the DC-side switches and promote the efficiency of the circuit.
US08391033B2
The present application discloses methods, circuits and systems for power conversion, using a universal multiport architecture. When a transient appears on the power input (which can be, for example, polyphase AC), the input and output switches are opened, and a crowbar switch shunts the inductance which is used for energy transfer. This prevents this inductance from creating an overvoltage when it is disconnected from outside lines.
US08391030B2
Switching mode power supplies and associated methods of control are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for controlling a switching mode power supply includes determining whether the switching mode power supply is in a burst mode. If the switching mode power supply is in the burst mode, the method includes recording a switching time with and without switching pulses to obtain a current value of an equivalent frequency and generating a peak current limit that decreases as a load becomes lighter based on the equivalent frequency, thereby maintaining the equivalent frequency at the current value above an audible range. If the switching mode power supply is not in the burst mode, the method includes continuing to monitor whether the switching mode power supply is in the burst mode.
US08391025B2
Among many embodiments, a power conversion apparatus and a method for converting power are disclosed. The power conversion apparatus may include switching components configured to create an alternating current; a preemptive detector arranged and configured to provide, in advance of the alternating current reaching a zero-crossing, a control signal responsive to the alternating electrical current approaching the zero-crossing; and a controller configured, at least in part, to change a state of the switching components before the zero crossing, in response to the control signal.
US08391006B2
A water jacket includes a channel which accommodates MCM and through which a coolant runs, and the channel has a throttle part of which a flow passage sectional area is smaller than other parts and which is at the upstream of the MCM.
US08390984B2
The disclosed is a capacitor substrate structure to reduce the high leakage current and low insulation resistance issue of organic/inorganic hybrid materials with ultra-high dielectric constant. The insulation layer, disposed between two conductive layers, includes multi-layered dielectric layers. At least one of the dielectric layers has high dielectric constant, including high dielectric constant ceramic powder and conductive powder evenly dispersed in organic resin. The other dielectric layers can be organic resin, or further include high dielectric constant ceramic powder dispersed in the organic resin. The substrate has an insulation resistance of about 50KΩ and leakage current of below 100 μAmp under operational voltage.
US08390982B2
A thin-film capacitor and a method for making the thin-film capacitor having a structure that can prevent vertical stress acting on outer connecting terminals, such as bumps, from concentrating on electrode layers, and capable of easily increasing the equivalent series resistance to a desired value. The thin-film capacitor includes a substrate, a capacitor unit disposed above the substrate and composed of at least one dielectric thin film and two electrode layers, a protective layer covering at least part of the capacitor unit, a lead conductor electrically connected to one of the electrode layers of the capacitor unit, and a bump disposed above the lead conductor. The lead conductor includes a connecting part disposed in an opening in the protective layer and electrically connected to one of the electrode layers of the capacitor unit, and a wiring part extending over the protective layer. The bump is disposed above the wiring part.
US08390971B2
The present invention relates to a discharge structure for an overvoltage and/or overcurrent protection, in particular to a discharge structure for an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection, for an integrated circuit (IC), and to an ESD protection device for an IC comprising such a discharge structure and to a method for making such a structure. The present invention particularly relates to such a discharge structure (50, 52) which comprises at least two discharge paths (40, 80) provided to conduct a current to a terminal (60), whereas substantially all of the discharge paths (40, 80) present substantially the same resistance for the current.
US08390965B2
An over-current protection device for multiple high-voltage motive devices is provided. The over-current protection device includes a comparison module and a logic operation module. The comparison module receives a plurality of voltages generated from a plurality of operating currents of a plurality of high-voltage motive devices and respectively compares the voltages with at least one reference voltage to generate a plurality of comparison results, wherein the high-voltage motive devices are solenoids, electronic clutches, or a combination of solenoids and electronic clutches. The logic operation module receives the comparison results and generates at least one control signal for a plurality of high-voltage motive device driving circuits according to the comparison results. The high-voltage motive device driving circuits respectively drive the high-voltage motive devices according to the control signal.
US08390958B2
A suspension substrate according to the present invention includes an insulating layer, a metallic support layer provided on one face of the insulating layer, a wiring layer provided on the other face of the insulating layer, the wiring layer including a plurality of wirings and an alignment section located in a substrate main body region and isolated from each wiring. Further, in the substrate main body region, an alignment through hole is provided to extend through the metallic support layer, insulating layer and alignment section of the wiring layer. This alignment through hole is used for alignment for the actuator elements.
US08390950B2
Embodiments of the present invention pertain to reducing the obstruction of air flow through a bypass channel associated with a disk drive. According to one embodiment, disk drive filtering system includes a selective filtering region, an electrostatic pass-by filter, and a filter free region. The selective filtering region is disposed within a bypass channel. The electrostatic pass-by filter is disposed within the selective filtering region and is used for filtering the air that flows through the selective filtering region. The filter free region is disposed proximate to the electrostatic pass-by filter so that a substantial portion of the air is allowed to flow unobstructed through the selective filtering region.
US08390938B2
A zoom lens has a plurality of lens units including, in order from its object side to image side, a first lens unit having a negative refracting power composed of two lens elements including a biconcave negative lens and a positive lens, and a second lens unit having a positive refracting power composed of four lens elements including a positive lens and a negative lens. During zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, a distance between the lens units changes, and the second lens unit moves toward the object side. The zoom lens has an aperture stop that moves integrally with the second lens during the zooming and satisfies a specific condition.
US08390936B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear lens unit including one or more lens units. An interval between respective adjacent lens units varies during zooming such that an interval between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is larger at a telephoto end than at a wide-angle end and an interval between the second lens unit and the third lens unit is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide-angle end. The third lens unit includes at least one negative lens. An Abbe number (νd3n) and a relative partial dispersion (θgF3n) of a material of the negative lens are appropriately set based on predetermined conditional expressions.
US08390935B2
A projection zoom lens includes: a first lens group that has a negative refractive power, is fixed when power varies, and has a focusing function; a second positive lens group; a third positive lens group; a fourth negative lens group; a fifth positive lens group; and a sixth lens group that has a positive refractive power, is fixed when power varies, and includes an aperture diaphragm arranged closest to a magnification side. The first to sixth lens groups are arranged in this order from the magnification side, and the second to fifth lens groups are moved when power varies. All lenses are single lenses. The ratio of the back focal length Bf of the entire system to the focal length f of the entire system at a wide angle end is more than 2.5. The Fno. is constant in the entire power variation range.
US08390930B2
An optical element and image capture lens structure. The optical element includes a substrate and an optical component with at least one effective area and non-effective area, formed on the substrate, wherein the non-effective area has a rough surface. The image capture lens structure includes a substrate, an optical component formed on the substrate, and a spacer with a micro structure, attached to the substrate by an adhesive, wherein the micro structure is located between the adhesive and the optical component to prevent the overflow of the adhesive.
US08390925B2
A laboratory slide (2) for mounting, processing or storing a laboratory sample, has a recess (3) in a surface (4) of the slide (2). An inert sheet (5) has a chip (8) applied to the sheet (5) and the sheet (5) covers the recess (3) so that the chip (8) is fully received in the recess (3). The sheet (5) includes an antenna (6) which is arranged to establish communication between the chip (8) and an electric or electronic read/write device and the sheet (5) covers both the chip (8) and antenna (6) to protect them.
US08390923B2
There is provided an optical amplifier including a pump light source to generate a pump light being capable of changing a wavelength thereof, a first rare earth doped medium to amplify an input signal light by using the pump light generated by the pump light source, a second rare earth doped medium to amplify the input signal light output from the first rare earth doped medium by using a residual pump light that is a portion of the pump light generated by the pump light source, and a wavelength controller to control a wavelength of the pump light generated by the pump light source, based on an input level of the input signal light.
US08390922B1
A high index contrast waveguide based source for radiation. In some embodiments, the radiation is in the 0.5-14 Terahertz regime. Waveguides are provided that permit the generation of radiation at the sum and/or difference frequency of two input beams. In order to control the power level within the waveguide, embodiments in which pluralities of similar or identical waveguide are provided, and the input radiation is divided among the plurality of waveguides. The output radiation can be steered by applying phased array methods and principles.
US08390919B2
There is provided an electronic paper display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The electronic paper display device includes first and second electrodes facing each other with a predetermined gap therebetween; partitions dividing a space between the first and second electrodes into a plurality of cell spaces; first and second ridge portions formed on the first and second electrodes and allowing for a streamlined electric field in the cell spaces; and rotatable balls disposed in the respective cell spaces and having electrical and optical anisotropy. The electronic paper display device controls the linear movement of the rotatable ball through a streamlined electric field, and thus the stability of an image is achieved, and a superior contrast ratio is provided.
US08390917B1
Two substantially one-dimensional scan line images are simultaneously generated by modulating a two-dimensional homogenous light field using a spatial light modulator having light modulating elements arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. An upper group of modulating elements are configured using a first scan line image data group, and a lower group of modulating elements are configured using a second scan line image data group. The homogenous light source is then pulsed (toggled) to direct the two-dimensional homogenous light field onto the spatial light modulator. The resulting two-dimensional modulated light field is directed through an anamorphic optical system, which images and concentrates the modulated light on an imaging surface such that two parallel one-dimensional scan line images are simultaneously formed on the imaging surface.
US08390913B2
Provided is a compound semiconductor nanoparticle that exhibits circularly polarized luminescence characteristics. CdS prepared inside a core of ferritin, which is a cage-like protein, exhibits a high circularly polarized luminescence (CPL). A wavelength of the circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) can be controlled by laser irradiation, thereby enabling utilization of the compound semiconductor nanoparticle in the field of bionanotechnology, for example, in creating a WORM (Write-Once Read-Many times) memory. As the cage-like protein, which is a protein with a cavity formed therein, a protein belonging to the ferritin protein family, such as apoferritin, or a recombinant thereof can be used.
US08390903B2
An image reading apparatus includes: a reading unit outputting an output value based on reflection light from a sheet or a reference member; a white reference value generating unit generating a group of white reference values based on the output value under one of the plurality of reading conditions while the light source unit is turned on; a white reference value storing unit; a white reference value converting unit converting the group of white reference values into a group of white reference values of a different reading condition based on a correlation between the reading condition and the different reading condition; a sheet reading control unit controlling the reading unit to read the sheet while turning the light source unit on with the luminosity and lighting time stored in the white reference value storing unit; and a shading correcting unit performing a shading correction for the output value.
US08390898B2
An image recording apparatus includes a sheet feed tray, a sheet feed roller, an image recording unit, an output unit, a first conveying unit configured to convey a recording medium from the sheet feed tray to the output unit via the image recording unit, and a second conveying unit configured to return the recording medium, which has conveyed via the image recording unit, to the sheet feed tray. The image recording medium further includes an image memory configured to store image data to be recorded by the image recording unit and a controller configured to control the sheet feed roller, the image recording unit, the first conveying unit, and the second conveying unit to record the image on the recording medium. The controller is configured to control the sheet feed roller to start feeding a following recording medium subsequent to a preceding recording medium fed by the sheet feed roller irrespective of whether or not the image data for the following recording medium is stored in the image memory. The controller is further configured to, when it is determined that there is no image data stored therein, return the following recording medium to the sheet feed tray via the image recording unit and via the second conveying unit.
US08390897B2
A method and system for controlled production of security documents, especially banknotes, wherein the security documents are subjected to a plurality of successive printing and processing operations on a plurality of processing stations. At least one production order is defined that may be subdivided into a plurality of production loads each being assigned a machine-readable load identifier. Selected processing stations are assigned to process the production order according to the production workflow. Each production load is selectively processed through the processing stations depending on the determined production workflow of the corresponding production order defined for each production load, whereby each production load is first subjected to a load acceptance procedure based on its machine-readable load identifier before being authorized to be processed on a selected processing station among the available processing stations.
US08390893B2
A method for encoding and screening electronic integral images in a printing system includes receiving an electronic integral image having a plurality of sub-images comprised of image data, wherein at least one sub-image is spaced apart from another sub-image by a background area; adding temporary image data to at least a portion of the background area image data based on image data of one or more surrounding sub-images so as to reduce the spatial variance across at least a portion of the electronic integral image and to make it more compatible to data compression without significant signal or data loss; and subsequently removing the temporary image data added to the electronic integral image so as to reconstruct an accurate representation of the electronic integral image. A system for encoding and screening electronic integral images is also disclosed.
US08390891B2
A quantizing unit, error detector, error diffusion matrix, and adder quantize a pixel of interest of an input image by an error diffusion method. A calculation unit and gain adjuster calculate a value to be added to the pixel of interest with reference to quantized pixels. The adder adds the calculated value to the pixel of interest. A control unit controls the calculation of the gain adjuster.
US08390890B2
A halftone image generation method used in a system including an image input module and a halftoning processing module for generating a halftone image is disclosed. First, an original image is received by the image input module and a dot diffusion process is performed to the original image to generate the halftone image using a first class matrix with a first size and a corresponding first diffused weighting matrix with a first diffused area size, wherein the first class matrix indicates a processing order of the dot diffusion process and the first class matrix with the first size, the first diffused area size and the corresponding first diffused weighting matrix with the first diffused area size are optimized results determined in advance by the halftoning processing module according to class matrixes of different sizes and diffused areas of different sizes.
US08390885B2
Methods and systems are presented for characterizing a printer, display or other color reproduction device in which parametric and nonparametric forward color transforms are generated to construct a forward color device transform to characterize the mapping of CMYK input data to La*b* data of the device, with the parametric transform adapted to compensate for drifting performance of the color reproduction device.
US08390883B2
An image processing apparatus that comprises an obtaining section that obtains data of numerical values or numerical expressions used to describe a drawing process, and a generating section that generates, based on data obtained by the obtaining section, image information including color information on a color of each of a plurality of pixels, the image information having a first set of color information that describes using a color space different from a color space defined by colors of colorants used by an image forming section, and a second set of color information that specifies an amount of black colorant used by the image forming section.
US08390882B2
A method for estimating the color of a coated print includes: measuring the color of an uncoated print with a color measuring device; and estimating the color of the print when coated by a coating process based on the uncoated color measurement using a function that correlates uncoated color measurements and coated color measurements; and adjusting at least one parameter of the printing process based on the coated color estimation. The correlating function may be derived by measuring the color of a plurality of uncoated color patches; measuring the color of the plurality of patches after the patches have been coated by the coating process; and correlating the color of the coated patches with the uncoated patches based on the coated and uncoated color patch measurements.
US08390880B2
A printing apparatus having a displaying portion, a display controlling unit, and a print controlling unit.
US08390879B2
An image forming apparatus includes a effective resolution determinator for forming a plurality of patch patterns different in resolution by the output engine, checking by sensor whether or not the patch patterns formed by the output engine are developed with developer, and determining that a resolution of the patch pattern with highest resolution recognizable by the sensor is an effective resolution which can be outputted by the output engine; and a dot counter for counting number of dots constituting an image of not less than effective resolution in the printing data, by which an error in estimated toner consumption, caused by dots too small to be developed, is reduced.
US08390870B2
A recording apparatus comprises a writing unit adapted to write data on a recording medium, a selection unit adapted to select data to be written on the recording medium from a storage medium configured to store a plurality of data, and a display control unit adapted to cause a display device to display a display screen concerning printing before the data selected by said selection unit is copied from the storage medium onto the recording medium, wherein said display control unit causes the display unit to display the display screen if there is a restriction on the number of times of copying of the data.
US08390862B2
A document data producing part produces document data in which first meta data is embedded based on a document template and a data source; a printing part prints the document data in a paper document; a scanning part obtains a scanned image from scanning the paper document after predetermined processing is carried out thereon after the printing, and obtains various sorts of information provided at the time of the scanning as second meta data; and a processing part carries out predetermined processing according to the paper document with reference to the document template, based on the first meta data obtained decoded from the scanned image and the second meta data obtained at the time of scanning.
US08390845B2
An image processing apparatus is provided with a terminal designation accepting portion that accepts a designation by a user to designate an IP address of a terminal to be connected to the image processing apparatus and a setting data control portion that sends, to the terminal, setting data that includes an IP address of the image processing apparatus itself based on the IP address of the terminal that is designated by the user. Thereby, in the case where the image processing apparatus is caused to cooperate with other apparatus via a communication line, a more user-friendly operation for the cooperation can be provided with the security of the image processing apparatus protected compared to conventional systems.
US08390836B2
A VI production system and method for automatic review of variable imaging job output includes a VI interpreter includes raster image processing for producing electronic output document images based on a variable imaging job included in a VI job stream. A proofing process includes obtaining sample document images from the output document images, and for each obtained sample document image, performing a review procedure. The review procedure includes comparing the obtained sample document image to a corresponding expected document image selected from the expected database to determine differences between the obtained sample document image and the corresponding expected document image. Based on at least one difference being determined, the differences are resolved by displaying the obtained sample document image on the user interface, indicating in the displayed sample document image each of the differences, and performing a difference procedure based on an operator input.
US08390827B2
A drawing processing apparatus is provided and includes: a plurality of character definition information memories each storing definition information on a character shape; a registering portion that, when a drawing command containing the definition information on the character shape is received, determines one of the plurality of character definition information memories for each character contained in the drawing command, depending on whether the definition information on the character shape is simple definition information that defines the character shape itself of the character or is a combinational definition information that defines a combination of simple or combinational definition information defining components of the character; and a drawing process instructing portion that instructs to read, from the plurality of character definition information memories, the definition information on the character shape corresponding to the character to be processed, to execute a drawing process of the each character contained in the drawing command.
US08390824B1
A method for adjusting an object distance for focusing upon a face of an item, including a data carrying graphical that is placed within a field-of-view of a fixed focal length imaging device. The method employs using parallax focusing techniques to produce a laser spot indicator, and further calls for providing a fixed on-screen focusing target to indicate a location to which the laser spot indicator must be moved and positioned before in-focus imaging activities can be realized. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring abstracts, and is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope and meaning of the claims.
US08390814B2
This disclosure relates generally to a sampling device, and more particularly, a sampling device that facilitates spectroscopic measurements with a variable path length and the necessary software controlled algorithms and methods for such a device.
US08390810B2
A color sensing apparatus (10) includes an optical system (16) that produces a spatially uniform light beam (18).
US08390808B1
A semiconductor wafer may include a dummy field configured to enable overlay measurements. The enhanced dummy field may include a plurality of encoding blocs that enable OVL measurements to be made throughout the enhanced dummy field.
US08390807B2
A light guiding device is operable to receive incident light emitted by a light source through a capture surface. The received light exits the light guiding device through an exit surface provided adjacent to and aligned with an aperture of light receiver. In this manner, light from the light source can be inserted into the receiver where it may be combined with additional incident light captured by the receiver. The light source might be a projector and the light projected may correspond to operational data relating to the operation of the receiver or images corresponding to data captured by a further receiver device operating with a different form of sensor or in a different region of the spectrum. In order to improve the composite image observed by a user of the light receiving device, the operation of the light source can be controlled to vary the intensity of the light emitted. In one example, this variation can be in response to the ambient light level, as sensed by a suitable sensor. An additional or alternative variation is to vary the intensity in a pulsed manner between a peak and a low level.
US08390804B2
A surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) apparatus, system and method employ a plurality of nanorods configured to vibrate. The apparatus includes the nanorods having tips at free ends opposite an end attached to a substrate. The tips are configured to adsorb an analyte and to vibrate at a vibration frequency. The apparatus further includes a vibration source configured to vibrate the free ends of the nanorods at the vibration frequency in a back-and-forth motion. Vibration of the nanorods is configured to facilitate detection of a Raman scattering signal emitted by the analyte adsorbed on the nanorod tips. The system further includes a synchronous detector configured to receive the Raman signal and to be gated cooperatively with the vibration of the nanorods. The method includes inducing a vibration of the nanorods, illuminating the vibrating tips to produce a Raman signal, and detecting the Raman signal using the detector.
US08390796B2
Disclosed are an oil state monitoring method and an oil state monitoring device which monitor the state of degradation of oil used in machinery or equipment. In monitoring the oil state by the oil state monitoring method and by the oil state monitoring device, oil used in machinery or equipment is filtered when the degradation state of the aforementioned oil is to be monitored. By means of filtration, the oil content is removed from the filter which captured contaminants that were present in oil prior to filtration. Light is projected onto the filter from which oil was removed. The projected light detects the color components of the transmitted light which penetrated the aforementioned filter.
US08390788B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, a spectral purity filter includes an aperture, the aperture being arranged to diffract a first wavelength of radiation and to allow at least a portion of a second wavelength of radiation to be transmitted through the aperture, the second wavelength of radiation being shorter than the first wavelength of radiation, wherein the aperture has a diameter greater than 20 μm.
US08390779B2
An exposure apparatus includes a projection optical system which is capable of forming an image of a first pattern in a first exposure area and which is capable of forming an image of a second pattern in a second exposure area, the second pattern being different from the first pattern, and a first detecting system which obtains at least one of position information about the image of the first pattern and position information about the image of the second pattern. A positional relationship between the images of the first and second patterns and a predetermined area on a substrate is adjusted based on a detection result to perform multiple exposure for the predetermined area on the substrate with the images of the first and second patterns. The substrate can be subjected to the multiple exposure efficiently.
US08390776B2
A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor array substrate includes: forming a gate pattern on a substrate; forming a first gate insulating film and a second gate insulating film on the substrate; forming a source/drain pattern and a semiconductor pattern on the substrate; forming a passivation film on the substrate; forming a photo-resist pattern on the passivation film; patterning the passivation film using the photo-resist pattern to form a passivation film pattern, the patterning of the passivation film including over-etching the passivation film to form an open region in the passivation film; forming a transparent electrode film on the substrate; removing the photo-resist pattern and a portion of the transparent electrode film on the photo-resist pattern; and forming a pixel electrode on the first gate insulating layer.
US08390772B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, a plurality of pixels each one of which has a tranmissive display portion for performing a tranmissive display operation and a reflective display portion for performing a reflective display operation, a first electrode provided in the first substrate, a second electrode provided in the first substrate and a third electrode provided in one of the first substrate and the second substrate. The first electrode is arranged both in the tranmissive display portion and in the reflective display portion. The second electrode is arranged in the tranmissive display portion. The first electrode and the second electrode are configured to control an alignment of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is provided with a plurality of slits formed to extend along a perpendicular axis that is perpendicular to an interface of the tranmissive display portion and the reflective display portion. The third electrode is arranged in the reflective display portion. The second electrode and the third electrode are configured to be provided with voltage independently.
US08390767B2
A method of manufacturing a display panel, the method includes forming a display panel including a first substrate, the first substrate including a pixel electrode disposed thereon, a second substrate including a common electrode disposed thereon, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and the second substrates, the liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules and a plurality of ultraviolet (“UV”)-curable particles; and curing a portion of the UV-curable particles by irradiating light on the display panel, wherein an exposure voltage, which is greater than a maximum data voltage corresponding to maximum grayscale data of the display panel, is applied between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. Also described is a display panel.
US08390766B2
A light-regulation membrane easy for installation and maintenance is disclosed to include a PDLC film having two conducting layers prepared by high-reflection black and transparent materials made by means of depositing titanium oxide on a base layer of polyethylene terephthalate by means of spattering deposition and electrically connected to an external power source and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the conducting layers, a surface structure consisting of a hard coating layer and an anti-stain layer on one side of the PDLC film, and an adhesion layer formed the opposite side of PDLC film and releasably adhered to a transparent object. So, the transparency of the light-regulation membrane can be regulated from opaque to clear or reversely while the transmittance of the PDLC film being adjusted by the power, and then any light source passing through the light-regulation membrane can be controlled.
US08390756B2
A back light unit includes a light guide plate having a rectangle shape with first and second edges and a light source having a light element to emit light to a first edge of the light guide plate. The light guide plate emits the incident light from the light source to a liquid crystal display panel as a flat light source. An elastic frame is integrally formed with first and second frame elements in a rectangle shape so as to surround the light guide plate. The light source includes a metal frame clipped by a clip shape implemented provided in the first frame element. The first edge facing the second edge of the light guide plate is fitted to the metal frame. The second edge of the light guide plate is fitted to a second frame element having a clip portion for clipping the light guide plate.
US08390754B2
A display device includes a substrate, a display region having a pixel switch, a pixel electrode which is connected to the pixel switch, and a transparent common electrode formed over the substrate, a peripheral region having a gate signal line which is connected to the pixel switch, and a common connection line which is connected to the transparent common electrode, an insulating layer which is disposed on the gate signal line and the common connection line, a conductive layer which is disposed on the insulating layer and crosses the gate signal line and crosses the common connection line in the peripheral region, a first semiconductor film which is disposed between the insulating layer and the conductive layer, and a second semiconductor film which is disposed between the insulating layer and the conductive layer and is separated from the first semiconductor film.
US08390753B2
A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a colored subsidiary light blocking member covering a space between first and second pixel electrodes. First and third shield electrodes are placed under a data line. The first and third shield electrodes are disposed parallel to the data line and across the data line from each other. A second shield electrode connects the bottom end of the first shield electrode with the top end of the third shield electrode at an angle of about 30 degrees to about 150 degrees. With this structure, light leakage at a gap between the pixel electrode and a possible short between the shield electrodes are prevented.
US08390750B2
In a liquid crystal display device where pixel electrodes and counter electrodes are arranged on one substrate in a stacked manner by way of an insulation layer, it is possible to lower a drive voltage while maintaining optical transmissivity. Pixels each of which includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode and a counter electrode are arranged on a substrate in a matrix array. A first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode in one pixel include a plurality of comb-teeth portions respectively. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are alternately arranged on the same layer in an opposed manner with a gap defined between the comb-teeth portion of the first pixel electrode and the comb-teeth portion of the second pixel electrode. The first and second pixel electrodes and the counter electrode are arranged in a stacked manner with an insulation layer sandwiched therebetween.
US08390746B2
A remote control method for a device under control which selects one of an information signal of the device under control and an information signal from at least one external device is disclosed. The device under control is inquired about an information signal selection state when a key in common with the device under control and the external device is operated on an operation section. A remote control signal corresponding to the key that has been operated is transmitted to the device under control when the information signal selection state replied from the device under control represents a signal selection state of the device under control. A remote control signal corresponding to the key that has been operated is transmitted to the external device when the information signal selection state replied from the device under control represents a signal selection state of the external device.
US08390738B2
A video apparatus for processing an input video signal in synchronization with an external reference signal is provided. The video apparatus includes a phase compensation FIFO memory and a measuring device. The phase compensation FIFO memory is configured such that the input video signal is written in synchronization with a clock demodulated from the input video signal and the video signal is read in synchronization with an internal reference clock of the apparatus generated from the external reference signal. The measuring device is configured to measure an amount of jitter/wander of the input video signal based on a calculation of a difference between data volume of the video signal obtained in the FIFO memory and a predetermined reference volume.
US08390728B2
An image processing apparatus may include an image frame determiner to determine one standard image frame and at least one reference image frame using light field data about a scene, a point spread function determiner to determine a point spread function based on sub-pixel displacement between the standard image frame and the at least one reference image frame, an image interpolator to interpolate the standard image frame into a high-resolution standard image frame having a higher resolution than the standard image frame, and an image restorer to restore a high-resolution image by updating the high-resolution standard image frame using the generated high-resolution standard image frame, the point spread function, and the at least one reference image frame.
US08390726B2
An imaging device includes a basic cell having two or more the pixels that share floating diffusion. The imaging device also includes a transistor shared by the two or more pixels in the basic cell and arranged on the outside of the two or more pixels. The imaging device further includes a light receiving unit connected to the floating diffusion shared by the pixels in the basic cell through a transfer gate. In the imaging device, on-chip lenses are arranged substantially at regular intervals. Also, an optical waveguide is formed so that the position thereof in the surface of the solid-state imaging device is located at a position shifted from the center of the light receiving unit to the transistor and in the inside of the light receiving unit and the inside of the on-chip lens.
US08390714B2
When making a potential of a floating node 0V at the time of nonselection, electrons leak from the floating node to a photodiode and noise is generated. A MOS type solid-state imaging device comprised of unit pixels 10, each having a photodiode 11, a transfer transistor 12 for transferring a signal of this photodiode 11 to a floating node N11, an amplifier transistor 13 for outputting a signal of the floating node N11 to a vertical signal line 22, and a reset transistor 14 for resetting the floating node N11, arranged in a matrix, wherein, as a buffer final stage 29 for driving a drain line 23, a buffer final stage having an inverter configuration formed by arranging a P-type MOS transistor on a ground side is used, thereby making the potential of the floating node N11 for example 0.5V at the time of nonselection and preventing electrons from leaking to the photodiode 11 through the transfer transistor 12.
