US08667821B2
A fence control feature described herein may be used with a combination lock. The fence control feature includes a trigger plate having an overcenter arm, a stop arm, and a cam follower arm disposed around a common pivot point. A bracket is preferably vertically elevated above the overcenter arm. An apron is preferably formed on the overcenter arm. The apron may be for preventing a nose of a pivotable fence lever arm from catching on the trigger plate. The apron may be a half-moon-shaped apron.
US08667820B2
A lock mechanism for manually or automatically fixing a slide bar in either of two positions. A lock body has a key barrel adapted to rotate a lock cam in a first rotational direction. A latch is biased in a closed position, the latch being adapted to move to an open position when the lock cam is rotated in the first rotational direction. A slide bar is fixable in a locked position and an unlocked position, wherein the slide bar is biased in the unlocked position. A knob slider is adapted to move the slide bar into the locked position such that the latch moves to the closed position and engages a notch of the slide bar to fix the slide bar in the locked position. A servo motor is adapted to rotate a servo cam in a second rotational direction to move the slide bar into the locked position, and is adapted to rotate the lock cam in the first rotational direction to move the slide bar into the unlocked position. The key barrel is adapted to rotate in the first rotational direction to move the slide bar into the unlocked position. The lock mechanism can be made smaller, more compact, less expensive, have fewer parts, and be easier to manufacture.
US08667818B1
A lock assembly for retail packaging, having a lock assembly, a key assembly, a hinge assembly, and packaging comprising at least one wall. The lock assembly mounts exteriorly onto the packaging. The packaging lock assembly may further have a rail assembly mounted onto a display rack. The rail assembly comprises rail members and a transversal member. The packaging lock assembly may further have a plate assembly positioned in between the lock assembly and the plate. The lock assembly suspended from the rail members is placed in a locked position, whereby a locking shaft assembly is blocked by the transversal member to prevent removal of the packaging from the rail assembly. The key assembly is presented into a latch assembly comprising a key hole to cause the locking shaft assembly to shift from the locked position, to an unlocked position.
US08667814B2
The invention relates to a method and to a device for force-fit connecting glass-like components to metals, particularly for connecting a glass plate (2) to a large-scale mounting element (19) as a central connecting element, particularly made of metal, having the following characteristics: a) an input and control device (6) for inputting process data, b) a storage and positioning device (15) for supplying individual fastener elements (1) as support elements of a central connection element (20), c) having mounting and fixing means (3) for fixing a glass plate (2), d) a thickness measuring device (7) for measuring the thickness of each of the components to be connected and layers of the same, e) a measuring machine (8) for measuring the resonant frequency of the glass plate (2) and a surface sensor (10) for determining the roughness of the glass plate (2), f) a sliding device (11) for pressing together the components to be connected by means of an ultrasonic horn (4), g) a device for generating ultrasonics by means of an ultrasonic horn (4), and a computer program for performing the method.
US08667803B2
A turbine starter including a valve to modulate an amount of air permitted to flow to a turbine section, a sensor to detect a characteristic of the air at locations defined between the valve and the turbine section and downstream from the turbine section and an electrically powered motor coupled to the valve and the sensor to control the valve to modulate the amount of the air permitted to flow to the turbine section in accordance with the detected characteristic.
US08667798B2
A method for generating energy from low-density fluids is provided. The method includes placing a first object in a first portion of fluid having a first density, injecting low-density fluids into the first portion of fluid in order to reduce the density thereof to a second density less than the density of the first object and thereby induce buoyancy-dependent translation of the first object in response thereto, and generating energy based upon buoyancy-dependent translation of the first object. Related apparatuses and systems are also disclosed.
US08667786B2
The present invention relates to a converter comprising a pump which is driven directly or indirectly by a natural force such as a water swell, it being possible for a hydraulic machine to be driven by the pump. The hydraulic machine is force-coupled to an electrical machine which may function as a generator or a motor. According to the present invention, the force acting on the pump is regulated via a control loop as a function of oscillation parameters of the natural force.
US08667777B2
A bypass aeronautical engine including a fan, an LP compressor, an HP compressor, a combustion chamber, an HP turbine, and at least one LP turbine stage is disclosed. The LP turbine stage includes a first movable bladed wheel carried by a first turbine shaft and a second movable bladed wheel turning in the opposite direction to the first wheel. The fan is driven by the second wheel via a second turbine shaft and by the first shaft via a module for reversing its direction of rotation. The reversing module includes two bevel pinions carried respectively by the first and second LP turbine shafts, and a reversing pinion.
US08667776B2
There is disclosed an apparatus which may include a common nozzle and a plurality of combustion chambers coupled to the nozzle. Each of the plurality of combustion chambers may include a case, a solid fuel propellant charge in the form of a plurality of fuel pellets, and an igniter disposed to ignite the propellant charge. Each of the plurality of combustion chambers may also include a pellet retainer disposed to retain unignited fuel pellets within the case and a burst disk disposed between the propellant charge and the nozzle. Each burst disk may adapted to rupture when the associated propellant charge is ignited and to not rupture when a propellant charge of any of the other combustion chambers is ignited.
US08667773B2
A turbomachine comprises a flow duct with coaxially arranged radially inner and outer endwalls, first and second sets of axially spaced rotor stages arranged between the inner and outer endwalls, and a plurality of variable endwall segments arranged along the inner endwall. The first set of rotor stages rotates in a first direction, and the second set rotates in a second direction. The first and second sets alternate in axial series along the flow duct, such that axially adjacent rotor stages rotate in different directions. The variable endwall segments are radially positionable, in order to regulate loading on the first and second sets of rotor stages by changing a cross-sectional flow area between the inner and outer endwalls.
US08667772B2
Solutions for clutching turbine wheels are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a turbine rotor shaft; a plurality of turbine wheels affixed to the turbine rotor shaft; an independent turbine wheel engagably attached to the turbine rotor shaft; and a clutch operably connected to the turbine rotor shaft, the clutch configured to couple and decouple the independent turbine wheel from the turbine rotor shaft.
US08667766B2
A mast is erected to support a load. At least one stay cable supports the mast. The stay cable is oriented to the mast within a radial distance of the blade from the mast. The stay cable is stressed to support the mast while the wind drives the blade without collision of the stay cable.
US08667760B2
A modular building block has a first load-bearing surface with a key. There is a recess in the key. The recess has a shoulder disposed therein and side walls extending from the shoulder to a mouth thereof. A reinforcement rod extends into the recess and a coupling for connecting vertically aligned reinforcement rods is disposed in the recess. The reinforcement rod threadedly engages the coupling. A locking plate engages the coupling to prevent the coupling from rotating relative to the locking plate. The locking plate sits on the shoulder and rotation of the locking plate within the recess is prevented by the side walls of the recess.
US08667759B2
In some embodiments, a wall block system has at least one block, multiples of the at least one block being suitable for use in constructing a wall from multiple courses of the blocks stacked one upon the other. For example, the wall block system can comprise at least one block having opposed first and second faces, the area of the first face being greater than the area of the second face, wherein the first face or second face can serve as an exposed face on one side of the wall, and each block having an upper surface and lower formed with a single central slot to receive a three-way block-connecting element thereby allowing vertically adjacent blocks in a wall to be interconnected in three different positions to establish a neutral batter, negative batter or a positive batter between blocks in adjacent courses.
US08667743B2
The present invention relates to a panel for use in the assembly of a modular hot work habitat so as to form an enclosure to facilitate hot working. The panels comprise a first layer of flexible structural material, and a second layer of flexible fireproof material fixed to the structural layer. A habitat comprising a plurality of interconnected panels is described.
US08667742B2
A wall assembly includes at least one horizontally extending rail having a rear surface adapted to engage the wall. A plurality of horizontally spaced and vertically extending stiles are coupled to the rail, with the stiles disposed forwardly of the rear surface of the rail. A plurality of interface components are coupled to the plurality of stiles. In various embodiments, the stiles may be interconnected to draw together adjacent interface components. The interface components also may include overlapping upper and lower edges. The stiles may be vertically and/or horizontally (laterally and longitudinally) adjustable relative to the rail. A lock member may be provided to secure at least one of the stiles to the rail. Various systems and methods of assembly and use are also provided.
US08667740B1
A weather strip mounted along a circumferential edge of a door opening of an automobile body comprises: an installation base member having a substantially U-shape in cross-section; and a hollow seal member provided on an outer-cabin side of the installation base member, which makes elastic contact with a protrudingly curved surface having a substantially U-shape in cross-section of the door; in which the hollow seal member includes: a first hollow wall having a substantially reversed V-shape in cross-section and a second hollow wall having a substantially V-shape in cross-section, which are connected with each other; a seal wall swelled and curved toward an inner side of the hollow seal member; and a protrusion protrudingly provided toward the outer-cabin side in succession to the seal wall, which makes elastic contact with the protrudingly curved surface.
US08667736B2
A barrier apparatus and method are provided to reciprocate a gate or barrier between an open or closed position with one or more linear drives having one or more traveler mechanisms where at least one motor rotates the one or more shafts and moves the traveler mechanisms to move the barrier. The moving traveler mechanisms are coupled to one or more connecting arms which are coupled to the gate and the movement traveler mechanisms push and pull the arms which in turn push and pull the barrier to reciprocate the barrier between and open and closed position. The gate may be rotated and reciprocated around a horizontal axis from a generally vertical position (i.e., generally perpendicular to the ground where access to a controlled area is open) to a generally horizontal position (i.e., generally parallel to the ground where the gate extends across the entryway to the controlled area).
US08667730B1
A fishing hook remover with a V (10D) shape on the front end. Used to position and secure fishing hooks. The back end of the de-hooker has handle (20) is attached to body (12) and trigger (22) is attached to handle (20). V (10D) is part of jay (10), which is attached to the front end of tubular body (12). Shaft (14) is position in the center of body (12) by front space (26) and back spacer (28). The two spacers (26) and (28) have holes in their centers, which allow shaft (14) to slide. The back end of shaft (14) has a pivotal connection to front link (16). The back end of front link (16) has a pivotal connection to back link (18) and the back end of back link (18) has a pivotal connection to body (12). When trigger (22) is fully out front link (16) and back link (18) form proximately a 90-degree angle at their common connection. When trigger (22) is depressed it causes the angle between front link (16) and back link (18) to increase this in turn push shaft (14) towards point (10A). When trigger (22) is fully depressed shaft (14), front link (16) and back link (18) are in a straight line and the front end of shaft (14) is touching jay (10) at point (10A). Spring (24) pushes trigger (22) out when it is released. Fishing hooks are secured by being pushed against point (10A) by shaft (14).
US08667729B2
The present invention provides a device for grinding and dispersing aquatic life including a tube having a first end and a second end, and a cap positioned on the first end. A second end includes a motor and a blade for grinding and dispersing aquatic life, wherein the aquatic life is inserted into the cylindrical tube through the cap, and the aquatic life moves down the tube towards the blade, whereby the aquatic life is ground and then dispersed into the water.
US08667722B2
The invention comprises improved designs in a recoil control device comprising a bolt and slider for use in a variety of firearms. In one embodiment, the bolt and slider are articulated so that the displacement of the bolt results in a force component accompanying the slider as it moves along a slider path that traverses a line formed by a linear firing axis of the barrel of the firearm. The slider can have additional structural and functional features, including stabilizing features, vibrational damping elements, elements of the fire control mechanism, and devices to manage the peak impulse of the slider movement as it contacts a base or terminus point.
US08667721B2
An apparatus and method for displaying an item such as a vinyl record album on a wall. The apparatus includes first and second parts (6, 4) pivotably mounted to one another, one part including a window through which the item to be displayed may be viewed, one part including a catch element (18) for limiting relative rotation of the two parts, and one part including a hook or screw for mounting the apparatus on a wall.
US08667720B2
A product highlighter includes a frame configured to surround merchandise located on a first display shelf of a display shelving unit. The frame includes an upper frame member, a lower frame member spaced apart from the upper frame member, a first side frame member coupling the upper frame member to the lower frame member, and a second side frame member spaced apart from the first side frame member and coupling the upper frame member to the lower frame member. The lower frame member is attached to an underside of the first display shelf with at least one first bracket and the upper frame member is attached to an underside of a second display shelf located directly above the first display shelf with at least one second bracket.
US08667715B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an orthotic device used for controlling motion of a human foot in a functionally corrected anatomical position from heel strike through toe off. The orthotic device may include at least one of rearfoot, midfoot, forefoot, and toe regions. In each region corresponding medial and lateral wedges may be employed. In the rearfoot region, the medial and lateral wedges intersect at an expected contact location of a medial side of a midline of a heel of the human foot. In the midfoot region, the medial and lateral wedges intersect inclusively between expected contact locations of a first cuneiform bone and a cuboid bone. In the forefoot region, the medial and lateral wedges intersect inclusively between expected contact locations of first and fifth metatarsal bones. In the toe region, the medial and lateral wedges intersect inclusively between expected contact locations of first and fifth toes.
US08667714B2
A thinner shoe mounted receptacle results from a thin cleat attachment flange received in a shallow receptacle cavity. An angled interface between the cleat and receptacle provide a friction fit engagement to minimize inadvertent disengagement of the cleat and receptacle. Rotational locking occurring inside or outside the cavity further prevents inadvertent cleat rotation. Multiple positionally synchronized angular stops positively define the final angular orientation of the cleat in the receptacle.
US08667712B2
An article of footwear and a method making it. The footwear is configured for personalized design changes with the article of footwear comprising a base anchoring element with a first plurality of fastening elements. The base anchoring element is formed separately from existing footwear and then permanently attached to at least a portion of an outer surface of the existing footwear. The article of footwear further comprises at least two decorative elements each with a second plurality of fastening elements configured to individually releasably matingly engage with the first plurality of fastening elements. The first and second plurality of fastening elements are formed on the respective base anchoring element and each of the decorative elements, in mating registration with each other.
US08667701B1
A template tool is provided for locating sites for fixing to walls hardware for mounting a wire shelf. The tool has two legs perpendicular to each other along a bend locatable along a corner of two walls in which the legs each extend along one of two walls from the corner to enable hole(s) or opening(s) along each of the legs to align over locations of sites for fixing shelf support hardware to the walls to horizontally install a shelf. One leg has a horizontal bubble level and is adjustable or non-adjustable in length in accordance with shelf depth. An aperture along one leg is preset a distance from one end thereof for use in successively locating sites along the back wall. Sites are thus locatable along each of two corners formed by two opposite side walls and a common back wall, and along the back wall between such corners.
US08667700B2
A method for checking the diameter of a cylindrical part, such as a crankpin of a crankshaft, in orbital motion in a numerical control grinding machine, by means of a checking apparatus with a Vee-shaped reference device for cooperating with the crankpin, a support device movably carrying the Vee-shaped reference device, and a measuring device movable with the Vee-shaped reference device. The Vee-shaped reference device is brought, from a rest position, into contact with the crankpin, and the contact, that defines a checking condition, is maintained by gravity during the orbital motion of the crankpin.
US08667694B2
A power tool includes a power source, a speed change mechanism and a tip tool wherein the speed change mechanism has first and second rotating shafts arranged in parallel, a first power transmission passage equipped with a first gear train and a first clutch, and a second power transmission passage equipped with a second gear train and a second clutch. The speed change mechanism is constituted to switch the transmission passage between the first power transmission passage and the second power transmission passage while keeping the first and second gear trains in meshed state by switching the first and second clutches between power transmission state and power interruption state depending on a load applied to the tip tool.
US08667692B2
An electric hair removal apparatus for removing hair from the human skin. The hair removal apparatus includes a housing adapted to be held in the hand, a mechanically working hair removal device and a motor for driving the hair removal device. Provision is made for a sensor device for generating a signal that depends on the speed at which the hair removal device is moved over the skin during the hair removal.
US08667690B2
A method of constructing a modular, commercial unit includes arranging components of said commercial unit in separate modules, each of the separate modules having a frame assembly. The modules are then transported to a predetermined location where certain of said separate modules are connected together, via the frame assemblies, to form an operation superstructure. The components are not removed from the separate modules prior to the separate modules being connected via their respective frame assemblies.
US08667686B2
A method for producing tubes for use in a heat exchanger that includes providing first and second metallic strips on a rolling mill train with predetermined breaking points using a device, deforming the strips to form the a tube, separating individual tubes from the tube at the predetermined breaking points, sensing positions of the predetermined breaking points in the strips using a sensing element which the strips pass through, transmitting signals relating to sensed positions of the predetermined breaking points of the strips to a computer, comparing the positions of the predetermined breaking points in the first and the second strips using the computer on the basis of the signals transmitted, and sending signals to the device using the computer which lead to the alignment of the positions of the predetermined breaking points in the first and the second strips.
US08667679B2
In a method of making a turbocharger housing surfaces of a sheet-metal shell which bound a gap towards the turbine wheel are measured, after the sheet-metal shell has been joined with a bearing flange provided for support of a turbine wheel, to generate measuring values. Subsequently, the bearing flange is machined in dependence on the measuring values for establishing a position of the turbine wheel in relation to the bearing flange and thus of the sheet-metal shell.
US08667675B2
Systems and methods for simultaneously partitioning a plurality of via structures into electrically isolated portions by using plating resist within a PCB stackup are disclosed. Such via structures are made by selectively depositing plating resist in one or more locations in a sub-composite structure. A plurality of sub-composite structures with plating resist deposited in varying locations are laminated to form a PCB stackup of a desired PCB design. Through-holes are drilled through the PCB stackup through conductive layers, dielectric layers and through the plating resist. Thus, the PCB panel has multiple through-holes that can then be plated simultaneously by placing the PCB panel into a seed bath, followed by immersion in an electroless copper bath. Such partitioned vias increase wiring density and limit stub formation in via structures. Such partitioned vias allow a plurality of electrical signals to traverse each electrically isolated portion without interference from each other.
US08667671B2
A vacuum nozzle control apparatus includes a nozzle module having a vacuum hole, a vacuum providing module configured to provide a vacuum to the vacuum hole through a vacuum line, and a vacuum control module configured to selectively form the vacuum in the vacuum hole through the vacuum line, or release the vacuum formed in the vacuum hole through a release line branched off from the vacuum line to expose the vacuum hole to air.
US08667668B2
A method of sheathing a stent including the steps of providing a stent assembly including a catheter member and a stent member disposed about the catheter member; placing a first sheath film adjacent one side of the stent assembly; placing a second sheath film adjacent an opposite side of the stent assembly, and compressing the stent assembly, whereby the first and second sheath films move toward each other and substantially surround the stent assembly. The first and second sheath films are provided in rolls. Compressing is implemented by a radial compression mechanism. The first and second sheath films pass through the radial compression mechanism. Compressing sheaths the stent assembly and crimps the stent onto the catheter. As an alternative to two sheath films, a single film may be used, whereby compressing surrounds the stent assembly with the single sheath film. Also disclosed is an apparatus for sheathing a stent.
US08667667B1
A disk drive includes a disk drive base comprising a first metal material. The disk drive base may include a first opening and a first attachment feature to which a head actuator assembly pivot may be attached. A motor support may be embedded in the first opening in the disk drive base. The motor support consists of a second metal material having a damping coefficient higher than that of the first metal material. A rotary spindle may be attached to the motor support, and a disk may be attached to the rotary spindle.
US08667656B1
A punching tool for attaching adjacent steel deck panels along a side-lapped seam positions first and second jaws on one side of the seam, and positions third, fourth and fifth jaws on the other side. An actuator compresses the two sets of jaws; blades on the ends of such jaws shear the seam to create two louvers extending in one direction separated by a third louver extending in the other direction. The first jaw blade passes between the third and fourth jaw blades, and the second jaw blade passes between the fourth and fifth jaw blades. The blades are tapered to prevent binding upon release. The blades may include semi-cylindrical punching portions, and can be formed as detachable inserts coupled to the jaws, as by dovetail joints. The jaws may be made of a metal having a hardness rating less than that of the detachable blade inserts.
US08667653B2
A casket comprises a casket shell adapted to receive the remains of a deceased having a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls, and a bottom wall, and a casket cap. The cap includes a dish assembly mounted to an underside of the cap. The dish assembly includes a cap panel, a pair of opposed puffings attached to opposed longer sides of the cap panel, a pair of opposed puffings attached to opposed shorter sides of the cap panel, and at least a pair of generally horizontally spaced apart and generally vertically extending pleats. An appliqué panel overlies the cap panel and is sized and configured such that its opposite side edges are removably received and retained by respective ones of the pair of pleats. The appliqué panel is transparent to allow viewing of the cap panel behind it, and includes an embroidered appliqué applied on its front face. The appliqué panel thereby creates a three-dimensional appearance of the embroidery floating in front of the cap panel.
US08667649B2
A Boutonniere mounting device for Wearing Floral Arrangements. The device is comprised of a flexible panel with features, a means to attach the panel to a floral arrangement, and one or more securing means such as pins to complete mounting device and floral arrangement clothing or other supportable means. It provides a manner for the affixing of flowers or other objects to clothing.
US08667647B2
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.
US08667642B2
An accessory tool for use with a suction source has a housing having a suction outlet and a suction nozzle. A hair collection element is pivotally mounted within the suction nozzle for movement between a forward position and a rearward position. The hair collection element can be in the form of a blade and a hair collecting material mounted to the blade for contacting a surface to be cleaned. Alternatively, an elastomeric material can be coated onto the blade or form the blade itself. Also, the hair collecting material can be formed into the form of the blade without any support other than a rod for mounting the fabric.
US08667640B2
Several alternate improvements of a vacuum cleaner are provided. In one aspect, the vacuum cleaner utilizes interchangeable components. In another aspect, the vacuum cleaner comprises a chamber having a top, and a first cleaning stage and suction motor are provided on the top. In another aspect, the vacuum cleaner utilizes a reconfigurable divider plate.
US08667637B2
A diffuser with an absorbent substrate for holding a steam diffusible composition, such as a fragrance for mounting on a steam frame of a steam appliance is provided. The steam appliance has a water pump for selectively injecting water from a reservoir to a boiler to generate steam fed into a steam frame with a fabric pad or steam pocket mounted thereon. The steam envelopes the diffuser to dispense a fragrance or other material in the absorbable substrate into the generated steam in response to a user use or movement of the appliance. When steam is generated and passes the diffuser, the composition is heated to a temperature it will vaporize and be distributed with the steam through the fabric pad or steam pocket.
US08667618B2
A helmet (1, 100, 200) for protecting a user's head (90), comprising a cap (2) for protecting the user's cranium (92) and a chin guard (3) for protecting the user's chin (93), wherein the chin guard (3) is adapted to move between a first protecting position (31) and a second protecting position (32) under the action of a force (50) acting in the direction of the chin (93) of a user wearing on said helmet (1), the chin guard (3) in said second protecting position (32) being nearer to the user's chin (93) with respect to the chin guard (3) in said first protecting position (31).
US08667614B1
A hairstylist cape device prevents runoff down a person's shirt. The device includes a flexible panel. An aperture is positioned in the panel between first and second ends and between lateral sides of the panel. A dorsal portion of the panel extends from the aperture to the first end of the panel. A flap is coupled to the panel proximate the aperture wherein the flap extends from the aperture over the dorsal section of the panel. Lateral edges of the flap extend freely away from the panel wherein the flap is configured to extend into a basin inhibiting water from coming out of the basin between the basin and the dorsal section of the panel.
US08671459B2
A piece of software code, as well as a series of semi-random character strings are embedded into a copy of a software application. The application executes the embedded code on activation and may also invoke the embedded code periodically thereafter. The embedded code generates a knowledge string from a seed string and then generates an activation code from the seed string and the knowledge string. The activation code is checked against an externally-supplied code to ensure that the codes match, indicating a non-pirated copy of the software application.
US08671448B1
A method for implementing a mandatory access control model in operating systems which natively use a discretionary access control scheme. A method for implementing mandatory access control for a plurality of computers, the system comprising information assets, stored as files on the computers, and a network communicatively connecting the computers, wherein each of the computers includes an operating system that uses a discretionary access control policy, and wherein each of a subset of computers includes a software agent component operable to intercept a request for a file operation on a file from a user of one of the computers including the software agent, determining whether the file is protected, if the file is protected, altering ownership of the file from the user to another owner, and providing access based on a mandatory access control policy.
US08671446B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product embodying computer readable code for configuring a rule file for a Web application firewall. The method includes: blocking a response created by a Web application; modifying the response by adding capturing code for capturing a regular expression and an associated parameter value embedded in the response while being executed; sending the modified response to the browser; receiving a request submitted by the browser and at least one regular expression and an associated parameter value captured by the capturing code; determining a parameter name and a regular expression associated with the same parameter value, and configuring the rule file of the firewall by use of the determined parameter name and regular expression associated with one another as a filtering rule.
US08671441B2
Provided is a method of registering an unregistered device in an access point (AP) by using a registered device registered in the AP, the method including: transmitting a control signal for controlling the registered device to the registered device so as to transmit a mode change request, which requests the AP to change a mode to an authentication approval mode approving an authentication operation with the unregistered device, to the AP; transmitting a mode confirm request, which confirms whether an operation mode of the AP is the authentication approval mode, to the AP; receiving a mode confirm response as a response to the mode confirm request from the AP that receives the mode change request; and selectively performing an authentication operation with the AP, based on the received mode confirm response.
US08671436B2
A dynamic service group discovery and mapping approach avoids manual assignment of stream channels for transporting video services to the client devices that provide the video services to an end user. Client devices, such as set-top boxes, receive video services such as video on demand (VOD), switched digital video (SDV), pay-per view (PPV) and other narrowcast types of video for selective transmission. Each client device scans for visible stream channels, and sends a report indicative of visible stream channels to a dynamic mapping server. The dynamic mapping server applies aggregation rules for determining, based on the reported stream channels, which client devices are in the same service group. By receiving reports from each client device, the dynamic mapping server identifies groupings of service groups by combining sets of client devices receiving common channels, and “builds” the service groups as additional reports indicate common stream channels visible to multiple set top boxes.
US08671432B2
An aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system for an aircraft includes a radome to be carried by the aircraft, and a dual-beam satellite antenna and at least one positioner coupled thereto to be carried by the aircraft and protected by the radome. The dual-beam satellite antenna is to generate dual antenna beams for television programming and Internet data from respective spaced apart satellites. The dual-beam satellite antenna includes a first aperture for receiving the television programming, and a second aperture adjacent the first aperture for receiving the Internet data. A television programming distribution system is to be carried by the aircraft and coupled to the dual-beam satellite antenna to provide television programming within the aircraft. At least one access point is to be carried by the aircraft and coupled to the dual-beam satellite antenna to provide a wireless local area network (WLAN) within the aircraft for the Internet data.
US08671431B2
A system and method for providing communications service to individual units of a multiple dwelling unit (“MDU”) is disclosed. The system may comprise a communications service unit configured to distribute communications signal to at least one unit of a MDU via at least one cable, wherein the at least one cable are distributed along the exterior of the MDU, one or more network interface elements communicatively coupled to the at least one cable, wherein each of the one or more network interface elements are positioned near a window of the MDU, and an antenna communicatively coupled to each of the one or more network interface elements, wherein the antenna is configured to transmit the communications signal to one or more network elements in at least one unit of the MDU.
US08671426B2
A method and system whereby conventional television advertisements (i.e., those delivered to viewers while they watch television programming) can be delivered in conjunction with and correlated with advertisements that are presented to viewers in the Interactive Program Guide (IPG). Moreover, the invention described herein provides for delivering highly targeted ads to viewers in both conventional programming avails and in the IPG, and for linking the targeted ads in these two media to provide for enhanced and highly effective advertising campaigns.
US08671422B2
Systems and methods according to the exemplary embodiments provide for bookmarking of content in IPTV systems. An IPTV control server can subscribe to receive notifications associated with the insertion of advertisements into other content. Upon receipt of a bookmark storing request, the IPTV control server can determine whether the bookmark storing request is associated with an advertisement or with the other content. A bookmark can then be stored by the IPTV control server including a content identifier based on the determination.
US08671417B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to developing a web application using a scripting language-based framework. A call can be received via an interface of the scripting language-based framework. The call can manage a control included in the scripting language-based framework. Further, the call can be provided by an application that references the scripting language based framework. Moreover, a user interface can be generated based on the control managed by the call, and backend cloud-based services provided by a distributed data store on a cloud platform can be accessed based on the control managed by the call.
US08671412B2
During performance of a specified computing task data concerning resource consumption regarding that specified computing task is gathered and stored. Upon completion of the specified computing task, the amount of carbon offset required to compensate for resource consumption associated with performance of the completed specified computing task is calculated based upon stored or known resource consumption data. The calculated amount of carbon offset information may be transmitted to a carbon offset function provider, and a carbon offset function provider implements the specified amount of carbon offset based upon the calculated amounts communicated for the completed specified computing task.
US08671409B2
A scheduler device schedules executions of jobs using resources of a computational grid. The scheduler is configured for identifying an equilibrium threshold between resources and jobs. Below the equilibrium threshold, the scheduler schedules the execution of the jobs using the resources of the computational grid according to Pareto-optimal strategies. Above the equilibrium threshold, the scheduler schedules the execution of the jobs using the resources of the computational grid according to Nash-equilibrium strategies.
US08671407B2
Methods of offering network performance guarantees in multi-tenant datacenters are described. In an embodiment, a request for resources received at a datacenter from a tenant comprises a number of virtual machines and a performance requirement, such as a bandwidth requirement, specified by the tenant. A network manager within the datacenter maps the request onto the datacenter topology and allocates virtual machines within the datacenter based on the available slots for virtual machines within the topology and such that the performance requirement is satisfied. Following allocation, stored residual capacity values for elements within the topology are updated according to the new allocation and this updated stored data is used in mapping subsequent requests onto the datacenter. The allocated virtual machines form part of a virtual network within the datacenter which is allocated in response to the request and two virtual network abstractions are described: virtual clusters and virtual oversubscribed clusters.
US08671399B2
A compiler includes a register allocator for allocating registers for instructions in a program to be compiled, and a code generator for generating object code based on the register allocation results performed by the register allocator. The register allocator allocates logical registers for instructions in the program to be compiled. The register allocation further allocates, to physical registers, the logical registers that are allocated to the instructions of the program, so that the physical registers that are live at a procedure call in the program to be compiled are allocated from the bottom of the register stack.
US08671398B2
A working set profiler can monitor an execution of a program or can monitor a user-specified portion of a program to identify methods executed within the monitored execution and associate memory page accesses with each of the identified methods. Memory page accesses are categorized as shared or exclusive, where a shared page is a page that is accessed by more than one method and where an exclusive page is a page that is accessed by only one method in the monitored portion of the program. A call tree can be constructed and augmented with the collected information regarding memory page accesses. Further, for shared pages, the name of the method with which a particular method shares the page access can be collected. The augmented call tree information can be analyzed and prioritized to identify methods whose elimination would reduce program latency.
US08671395B1
The present disclosure relates to a method for avoiding deadends in a constrained simulation. The method may include analyzing a first deadend during a simulation and a first constraint of the simulation. The method may further include determining if the first constraint causes the first deadend. If the first constraint causes the first deadend, the method may also include defining a first lookahead constraint corresponding to the first constraint. The method may additionally include rerunning a first previous cycle in the simulation while adding the first lookahead constraint to the simulation.
US08671394B1
Methods and systems for monitoring test steps to determine whether the test steps are executable in a test environment are disclosed. The test environment tests various resources, such as programs, data and functions in the electronic devices. The test environment provides a user interface that enables users to edit a sequence of test steps executed in the test environment. The test environment may provide visual representations of the test steps in the sequence of test steps. When the users select a test step in the sequence of test steps, the selected test step is monitored to inform the users whether the selected test step is executable in the test environment. The properties of the selected test step may also be provided and, if the selected test step is not executable in the test environment, users may be informed of the properties that should be specified to make the selected test step executable in the test environment.
US08671390B2
A conflict resolution system allows an end user to export customizations to an application program so that the customizations can be imported by another end user. The conflict resolution system may export a customization by outputting metadata describing the customization. When the customization is a custom property, the metadata may include the name of the entity with which the property is associated, the name of the property, the type of the property, a globally unique identifier for the property, the location on the user interface for the input field for the custom property, and so on. End users may want to share not only their customizations but also the underlying data associated with a customization. When a conflict occurs during import of a customization alone without the data, then the conflict resolution system resolves the conflict in favor of the imported property. When a conflict occurs during import of a customization with data, the conflict resolution system resolves the conflict in favor of the existing property.
US08671388B2
Methods and arrangements for employing telephonic voice commands in programming. A voice application is accessed and a program template is customized via selecting components from at least one palette. A program is created from the customized program template, and the created program is deployed and executed.
US08671378B2
The present invention introduces methods, systems, and architectures for routing clock signals in an integrated circuit layout. The introduced clock signal clock signal structures are rendered with non Manhattan routing. In a first embodiment, the traditional recursive H clock signal structure is rendered after transforming the coordinates system such that a rotated recursive H clock signal structure is rendered. In another embodiment, a recursive Y structure is used to create a clock signal structure. The recursive Y structure may also be implemented in a rotated alignment. For clock signal redundancy, non Manhattan wiring may be used to create a clock signal mesh network.
US08671376B2
A floor planning tool is provided that performs the functions that are typically performed by floor planning tools, but in addition, determines the supply of routing resources and the demand on routing resources for all routing channels while applying variable routing rules and static timing estimations to arrive at a preliminary routed floor plan. This drastically reduces the number of iterations that subsequently will need to be performed by the floor planning tool and by routing and static timing analysis tools to arrive at a final routed floor plan.
US08671375B1
A functional timing analysis method, executed in a computing device, comprises: step A: obtaining a circuit; step B: selecting a target delay time from a delay time set for a node in the circuit for verifying whether the target delay time is attainable by some input assignment; step C: generating a timed characteristic function associated with the selected target delay time for the node recursively from the timed characteristic functions associated with the corresponding delay times for its fanin nodes is generated as a target formula; step D: recursively translating the timed characteristic function into timed characteristic function clauses of the target formula by using an implication operator; step E: checking whether the target formula is satisfied by using a Boolean satisfiability solver; and step F: if the target formula is satisfied, the selected target delay time is attainable by some input assignment to the circuit.
US08671374B2
An information processing apparatus which includes a storage unit having stored a design data denoting layout and connection of a circuit, and a timing constraint data including a clock skew value denoting a delay difference allowed for a clock inputted to a pair of elements; a data read-out unit for reading out the design data and the timing constraint data; a clock skew value acquisition unit for acquiring the clock skew value set in correspondence with the pair of elements in layout in the circuit denoted by the design data from the timing constraint data; and a slack calculation unit for calculating a delay time between the pair of elements on the basis of the design data, and calculating a slack value indicating whether or not the pair of elements meets a predetermined design requirement by utilizing the acquired clock skew value and the calculated delay time with respect to the pair of elements.
US08671373B1
A first signal trace is received including signal values satisfying a target event. A first trace signature is generated describing a portion of the first signal trace that causes the target event to occur. A second signal trace is generated that includes signal values satisfying the target event. A second trace signature is generated describing a portion of the second signal trace that causes the target event to occur. Differential signal events are determined that differentiate the first trace signature from the second trace signature. The differential signal events are events from the first signal trace that cause the target event to occur, but do not appear in the second trace signature. The process can be repeated to receive a plurality of signal traces, and to generate a plurality of signal traces. The differential signal events are indexed in a datastore in association with the signal traces.
US08671370B2
Software for designing and testing types of nanoelectronic circuits and larger scale electronics renderings is described. The software designs circuits comprising only a chain/leapfrog topology. The chain/leapfrog topology permits a wide range of circuits and circuit modules to be implemented on a common shared carbon nanotube, graphene nanoribbon, or strips of other types of semiconducting material, for example as rendered in traditional printed electronics and nanoscale printed electronics or as employing semiconducting polymers. In one approach a chain/leapfrog topology circuit design software tool accesses information in a library of chain/leapfrog circuits data, and creates descriptive data pertaining to a number of approaches to rendering electronics components using a library of component data. The chain/leapfrog circuits data library includes designs for a number of different types of chain/leapfrog circuit modules. The software provides for “IP cores,” “System-on-a-Nanotube,” and other related modular design approaches.
US08671369B2
Techniques for determining and a computing device configured to determine a quantum Karnaugh map through decomposing a quantum circuit into a multiple number of sub-circuits are provided. Also, techniques for obtaining and a computing device configured to obtain a quantum circuit which includes the minimum number of gates among possible quantum circuits corresponding to a quantum Karnaugh map are also provided.
US08671367B2
Disclosed is a system, method, and computer-readable medium for designing a circuit and/or IC chip to be provided using an optical shrink technology node. Initial design data may be provided in a first technology node and through the use of embedding scaling factors in one or more EDA tools of the design flow, a design (e.g., mask data) can be generated for the circuit in an optical shrink technology node. Examples of EDA tools in which embedded scaling factors may be provided are simulation models and extraction tools including LPE decks and RC extraction technology files.
US08671366B2
The present invention aims at proposing a library creation method and a pattern shape estimation method in which it is possible, when estimating a shape based on comparison between an actual waveform and a library, to appropriately estimate the shape.As an illustrative embodiment to achieve the object, there are proposed a method of selecting a pattern by referring to a library, a method of creating a library by use of pattern cross-sectional shapes calculated through an exposure process simulation in advance, and a method for selecting a pattern shape stored in the library.
US08671363B2
A method and apparatus for rendering data on a display is provided. A configurable number of dimensions are rendered on the display in a manner that depicts a sequential relationship between the configurable number of dimensions. Each rendered dimension on the display depicts one or more dimension instances. For the rendered dimension having the lowest sequential position in the sequential relationship between the configurable number of dimensions (hereafter the “lowest sequential dimension”), a determination is made as to whether hierarchical data is associated with a particular dimension instance of the lowest sequential dimension, and if so, at least a top level node of a tree of nodes is rendered in association with the particular dimension instance of the lowest sequential dimension on the display. Each node of the tree of nodes may, but need not, comprise a row of data.
US08671354B2
A computer based method visually highlights achievements of sports teams or players in displays of statistical data, such as statistical tables, that represent the performance of sports teams or players. The achievements to be highlighted may include multiple-game streaks and single-game achievements. Multiple-game streaks occur when a team or player meets a performance objective in multiple consecutive games. Such streaks are highlighted in displays of statistical data by visually emphasizing the data values that form the streak. Visual emphasis is achieved by, for example, displaying a visual indicator, such as a line, adjacent to the data values. A single-game achievement is highlighted by visually emphasizing the data value that represents the achievement, so that users can quickly identify single-game achievements in statistical tables. Details about the streak or achievement may be displayed when the user selects or passes a mouse pointer over one of the data values or over the visual indicator.
US08671351B2
A data format provides a mechanism to dynamically change the appearance of an application. During operation, the application obtains streaming feed data for presentation to a user. The feed data may be formatted according to a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) data format. The application detects, within the feed data, branding extensions that identify branding content to be displayed concurrently with channel data and content items when a user selects a channel defined by the feed data. The application detects a user selection of the channel defined by the feed data, and in response, references the branding extensions to obtain and display the branding content within a display region of the application that is separate from the content presentation region of the application for display of content items defined within the feed data.
US08671334B2
The subject matter disclosed herein provides a mechanism for identifying packet boundaries in a data table, such as a Reed-Solomon table. The method may include receiving one or more packets for insertion into a table. A first indicator may be inserted into the table. The first indicator may be associated with one or more rows of the table and may identify whether each of the one or more rows includes one or more fragments (e.g., a packet beginning, a packet ending, and the like). In each of the rows identified by the first indicator as including one or more fragments, a second indicator may be inserted. The second indicator may represent a length in bytes of at least one of the corresponding packet fragments. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and/or articles are also described.
US08671332B2
Systems and methods implementing a protocol that provides reliable transport over a point-to-point link characterized by deep and sustained fades. Such a communications link may be a free space optical channel or may be a radio frequency point-to-point channel. Data frames are processed through a circular data buffer that operates in a round robin fashion at a transmission node. The coding and forward error correction processes allow for continued operation in spite of possible signal fades due to atmospheric turbulence or other causes. At a receive node, incoming data is also saved in a circular buffer. A re-acknowledgment list is maintained at the receive node for tracking recently received and decoded data. This allows for a new acknowledgment to be sent in the event that a previously sent acknowledgment failed to reach the transmission node.
US08671329B2
An electronic circuit (200) for use with an accessing circuit (110) that supplies a given address and a partial write data portion and also has dummy cycles. The electronic circuit (200) includes a memory circuit (230) accessible at addresses, an address buffer (410), a data buffer (440) coupled to the memory circuit (230), and a control circuit (246) operable in the dummy cycles to read data from the memory circuit (230) to the data buffer (440) from a next address location in the memory circuit (230) and to store that next address in the address buffer (410). The electronic circuit further includes a multiplexer (430), a comparing circuit (420) responsive to the given address and a stored address in the address buffer (410), to operate the multiplexer (430) to pass data from the data buffer (440) or to pass data from the memory circuit (230) instead; and a mixer circuit (450) operable to put the partial write data portion into the data taken from the selected one of the data buffer (440) or memory circuit (230). Other circuits, devices, systems, processes of operation and processes of manufacture are also disclosed.
US08671327B2
To store bits in one or more cells, an adaptive mapping of bits to ranges of a physical parameter of the cell(s) is provided, in accordance with respective initial values of the physical parameter, by steps including encoding the bits as a codeword by partitioning the bits into subsets and finding a factor bit string such that the codeword is a concatenation of the factor bit string and separate Galois field products of all the subsets with the factor bit string. The initial values of the physical parameter are adjusted accordingly as needed.
US08671326B1
A method of encoding user data into a first set of codewords using a first code, generating a first set of parity information based at least in part on the first set of codewords and at least a second code, and writing at least parity information associated with the first set of parity information to shingled magnetic recording storage. A method of performing decoding on a first set of read-back signal data read back from shingled magnetic recording storage and associated with a first set of codewords, and if decoding of at least one read-back signal in the first set of read-back signal data fails, performing decoding on at least some of a second set of read-back signal data associated with a set of parity information.
US08671320B2
An integrated circuit comprises scan test circuitry and additional circuitry subject to testing utilizing the scan test circuitry. The scan test circuitry comprises a plurality of scan chains coupled to the additional circuitry, a scan capture clock generator configured to generate a scan capture clock signal having a controllable number of capture pulses, and a clock selection circuit configured to select between at least the scan capture clock signal and a scan shift clock signal for application to clock signal inputs of the scan chains. In one embodiment, the scan capture clock generator comprises a finite state machine, a plurality of capture clock pulse circuits each generating a capture clock pulse signal comprising a different number of capture clock pulses, and logic circuitry coupled to the finite state machine and having inputs adapted to receive the outputs of the capture clock pulse circuits. The logic circuitry is configured to provide at an output thereof at least a portion of a particular one of the capture clock pulse signals based on a current state of the finite state machine.
US08671315B2
A prognostic analysis system and methods of operating the system are provided. In particular, a prognostic analysis system for the analysis of physical system health applicable to mechanical, electrical, chemical and optical systems and methods of operating the system are described herein.
US08671313B2
A management apparatus and a management method that enable parsing processing to be executed efficiently by means of a working memory of a fixed size are proposed. One or more predefined rules are divided into one or more rule segments that comprise a condition and a conclusion that each form part of the rule, and the rule segments obtained through the division are stored in the secondary storage, and when an event notification from the information processing device is received, one or more related rule segments are selected and, by linking the selected one or more rule segments in the memory as required, a rule parsing network is constructed that indicates relationships between rules in the memory, an inference is derived on the basis of the constructed rule parsing network, and rule segments that are not readily used in inference derivation are deleted from the memory.
US08671311B2
System, method and computer program product for a multiprocessing system to offer selective pairing of processor cores for increased processing reliability. A selective pairing facility is provided that selectively connects, i.e., pairs, multiple microprocessor or processor cores to provide one highly reliable thread (or thread group). Each paired microprocessor or processor cores that provide one highly reliable thread for high-reliability connect with a system components such as a memory “nest” (or memory hierarchy), an optional system controller, and optional interrupt controller, optional I/O or peripheral devices, etc. The memory nest is attached to a selective pairing facility via a switch or a bus.
US08671305B1
A circuit includes a phase detector circuit, a phase frequency detector circuit, a data detection circuit, a multiplexer circuit, and a clock signal generation circuit. The phase detector circuit is operable to generate a first phase detection signal based on a data signal and a first periodic signal. The phase frequency detector circuit is operable to generate a second phase detection signal based on second and third periodic signals. The data detection circuit is operable to generate a data detection signal based on the first phase detection signal. A multiplexer circuit is operable to provide one of the first and the second phase detection signals as a selected signal based on the data detection signal. The periodic signal generation circuit is operable to cause adjustments to phases of the first and the second periodic signals based on the selected signal.
US08671302B2
Methods and systems for operating a wireless clock system for multimedia datastream transmission and display. Source clock frames are compared with a reference clock frames and the clock difference are transmitted to a wireless clock receiver which also receives the same reference clock frames. Source clock frames are re-constructed using the reference clock frames, clock difference information and the receiver's local clock system.
US08671300B2
A processing unit is connected to another processing unit through a system bus composed of serial signal communication line and synchronization signal communication line to be able to communicate therewith. When an operation unit detects abnormal state in the processing unit, the operation unit supplies notification of detection of the abnormal state to synchronization unit. The synchronization unit transmits the received detection notification of abnormal state to the other processing unit through the synchronization signal communication line. Conversion unit receives parallel communication data from the operation unit through important signal line instead of general signal line and converts the received parallel signal into serial signal to be transmitted to the other processing unit through the serial signal communication line, thereby soundness among processing units connected to the system bus is ensured when the system bus is configured to attain serial communication.
US08671292B2
Apparatus and systems provide processing capabilities while utilizing power received via an Ethernet. A computing device has an Ethernet connector for receiving power and data, internal power supply circuitry for extracting power from the Ethernet connector, and a Central Processing Unit (CPU) for receiving the power. A housing may encompass the components of the computing device and be configured for installation in an electrical wall box. The housing may include a display or connectors for peripherals. A system includes at least two computing devices. Each device has an Ethernet connector for receiving power and communicating with other devices and are installed within a housing within an electrical wall box. One device has a display for receiving user input instructions for transmittal to another device, while another device has a peripheral connector for controlling a peripheral according to the instructions.
US08671287B2
A redundant power supply configuration for a data center is provided. A method includes receiving instructions to operate power supplies at a high current mode. An individual current for each of the power supplies is calculated to total a high current at the high current mode. The power supplies are operated at the high current mode to provide the high current at the high current mode. In response to operation at the high current mode being complete, the power supplies are operated at a normal mode to provide a normal current at the normal current mode.
US08671283B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a data processing unit that acquires content codes including a data processing program recorded in an information recording medium and executes data processing according to the content codes; and a memory that stores an apparatus certificate including an apparatus identifier of the information processing apparatus. The data processing unit is configured to execute an apparatus checking process applying the apparatus certificate stored in the memory on the basis of a code for apparatus checking process included in the content codes, acquire the apparatus identifier recorded in the apparatus certificate after the apparatus checking process, and execute data processing applying content codes corresponding to the acquired apparatus identifier.
US08671279B2
Methods and apparatuses for performing secure incremental backup and restore operations are disclosed.
US08671271B2
A system and method for a contextual control of resources of a computer. A plurality of detection modules may inform a configuration module of context changes and events. A database may store a plurality of configuration parameters and policies. A configuration module may configure a BIOS of a computer according to events, context and configuration policies. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08671265B2
An access request including a client address for data is received. A metadata server determines a mapping between the client address and storage unit identifiers for the data. Each of the one or more storage unit identifiers uniquely identifies content of a storage unit and the metadata server stores mappings on storage unit identifiers that are referenced by client addresses. The one or more storage unit identifiers are sent to one or more block servers. The one or more block servers service the request using the one or more storage unit identifiers where the one or more block servers store information on where a storage unit is stored on a block server for a storage unit identifier. Also, multiple client addresses associated with a storage unit with a same storage unit identifier are mapped to a single storage unit stored in a storage medium for a block server.
US08671264B2
A storage control device for controlling the storage device including a medium for storing data, logical address information, and address translation information and a memory for storing the address translation information read from the medium includes a first receiver for receiving a write request including logical address information, a first sending module for sending a read request including the logical address information of the write request to the storage device, a second receiver for receiving data and logical address information stored in the medium in accordance with the read request from the storage device, and a second sending module for sending an instruction to cause the storage device to write the address translation information stored in the medium into the memory when the logical address information received by the second receiver is different from logical address information included in the write request.
US08671254B2
A wireless communications device has two or more multiple port memory units operable to perform encryption/decryption shuffling and processing. Other circuits and methods of manufacture and operation are also disclosed.
US08671228B1
System and method for managing a virtual adapter instance associated with a physical adapter is provided. The method includes configuring a monitoring module for detecting change in configuration of the virtual adapter instance; detecting if the configuration has changed for the virtual adapter instance, at any given time; comparing a changed configuration with a previous configuration of the virtual adapter instance; installing a new virtual adapter instance, if new information is present in the changed configuration; and uninstalling the virtual adapter instance, if information from the previous configuration was removed.
US08671227B2
A host apparatus, into which a card having a nonvolatile semiconductor memory is inserted, issues a check command to the card. The check command instructs to send information on whether the card supports a termination process in which the card shifts into a state ready for a stop of power supply from the host apparatus.
US08671220B1
A network-on-chip system, method, and computer program product are provided for transmitting messages utilizing a centralized on-chip shared memory switch. In operation, a message is sent from one of a plurality of agents connected on a messaging network. The message is received at a central shared memory switch, the central shared memory switch being in communication with each of the plurality of agents. Further, the message is transmitted from the central shared memory switch to a destination agent, the destination agent being one of the plurality of agents.
US08671213B2
The invention generally relates to generating a display having graphical and/or media components at a client. In one aspect, a method for generating a graphical display at a client includes transmitting output from an application program executing on a server to the client, identifying a non-textual element within the application output, retrieving a compressed data format associated with the non-textual element, and transmitting to the client the compressed data format in place of the non-textual element. In another aspect, a method for generating a media presentation at a client includes transmitting output from an application program executing on a server to the client, identifying a media stream within the application output, intercepting an original compressed data set representing at least a portion of the media stream before processing by the application program, and transmitting the original compressed data set to the client.
US08671205B2
In a network supporting transactions between clients and servers and proxies that are interposable in a network path, a pair of proxies can modify a packet stream such that packet data from client to server is transformed at a client-side proxy of the pair and untransformed at a server-side of the pair and packet data from server to client is transformed at the server-side proxy and untransformed at the client-side proxy. A discovering proxy transparently discovers its position in a proxy pair by using proxy signals. A discovering proxy might determine that it is a client-side proxy by receipt of a packet from client without a proxy signal, or that it is a server-side proxy by receipt of a packet from server without a return proxy signal. Once a proxy pair is discovered, it might transform traffic from server to client or vice versa, transforming and untransforming the traffic.
US08671204B2
Apparatus and methods for managing access to a subscriber-based network by a plurality of machine-to-machine (M2M) devices include mechanisms for determining a first set of one or more subscriptions to a subscriber-based network that are provisioned on a first device, mechanisms for determining a selected subscription that is available to use from the first set of one or more subscriptions provisioned in the first device, and mechanisms for enabling the first device to use the selected subscription.
US08671194B2
A resource monitoring method may include determining, at a first monitoring node, a load level for each monitoring node of a plurality of monitoring nodes including the first monitoring node and a second monitoring node based on a namespace associated with the first monitoring node. The namespace may include an overlay namespace and a local namespace. The local namespace may identify objects being monitored by the first monitoring node. The overlay namespace may include local viewpoints for other monitoring nodes of the plurality of monitoring nodes including the second monitoring node. Each local viewpoint may identify one or more objects that are monitored by a respective other monitoring node. The method may further include prohibiting the first monitoring node from instituting a new object creation request if the load level of the second monitoring node is lower than the load level of the first monitoring node.
US08671192B2
A system for monitoring Internet use of a selected computer user includes a remote server and a computer having a monitoring program voluntarily installed thereon by the user communicatively connected to the remote server. The monitoring program is configured to monitor various Internet access activity of the computer user and record the Internet access activity on the remote server. The Internet access activity includes access of at least one Internet protocol from the group consisting of newsgroups, file sharing programs, file transfer programs, chat rooms, peer to peer chats, and electronic mail activity. A method of using a monitoring system includes the steps of a computer user voluntarily installing a monitoring program on a selected computer, recording the Internet access activity, and providing the recorded information to a third party recipient. A report may be provided that includes a variety of information and may include a plurality of portions.
US08671189B2
Disclosed is a dynamic load balancing system. The dynamic load balancing system includes a resource management master managing bare servers that do not execute services and having a hierarchical structure and a service master dynamically allocating the bare servers to a load balancing server or a service execution server or dynamically releasing the pre-allocated load balancing server or service execution server by the bare servers, in consideration of monitoring information on a state or performance of a server and service requirements to be provided.
US08671186B2
The present invention makes it possible to analyze a problem spanning multiple domains. A management apparatus stores an analysis rule. The analysis rule defines a relationship between a causal event, which constitutes a cause of a problem, and multiple relevant events, which denote problems created by the causal event. A first management apparatus acquires a relevant event related to a prescribed node apparatus, which is not under management of the first management apparatus, from a second management apparatus, which manages the prescribed node apparatus. The first management apparatus analyzes a problem by applying the relevant event acquired from the second management apparatus and another relevant event related to a node apparatus under the management of the first management apparatus to the analysis rule.
US08671183B2
A system for visualization of performance measurements is disclosed. The system may include an electronic data processor configured to receive a stream of the performance measurements and select a maximum number of leaf nodes of a plurality of nodes for use in an adaptive decision tree. Additionally, the electronic processor may be configured to determine a depth of each branch in the adaptive decision tree needed to differentiate performance among internet protocol addresses in an internet protocol prefix of each node. Each of the plurality of nodes may be annotated with a predicted latency category and the processor may be configured to generate the adaptive decision tree based on the maximum number of leaf nodes selected, the depth of each branch determined, the predicted latency category, and on the stream of performance measurements associated with the network. Moreover, the processor may display the adaptive decision tree.
US08671182B2
A system includes a processor device. The processor device is configured to receive reports of operating system identities for a single host; determine which of the operating system identities are an intersection of the reported operating system identities; and assign the intersection of the reported operating system identities as a resolved operating system identity.
US08671181B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, synchronizing records in peer devices. In one aspect, a method includes comparing, in a first peer device, a peer record received from a second peer device based on an IP address of the peer record from the second peer device and an IP address of a record stored in a host table of the first peer device. Unique agent identifiers, MAC addresses and time stamps are also compared to determine whether the peer record indicates a new host device, a new IP assignment to a known host device, or a new user logged into a known host device.
US08671176B1
A system includes a storage device to store information associated with virtual nodes that correspond to network nodes. The system also includes a server to install a virtual node that corresponds to one of the network nodes, based on the information associated with the virtual node, where installing the virtual node includes creating a logical interface for sending traffic to, or receiving traffic from, other virtual nodes; start the virtual node to create an operating virtual node based on a copy of an operating system that runs on the network node, where starting the virtual node causes the operational virtual node to execute the copy of the operating system; and cause the operating virtual node to communicate with a virtual network, that includes the other virtual nodes, to allow the operating virtual node to receive or forward traffic associated with the virtual network.
US08671169B2
A method for activating/deactivating a service is disclosed, and the method includes: when a user creates an end-to-end service, a system saves service related information of the service; when a user chooses to activate or deactivate a service, the system calculates the configuration required in activating or deactivating the service based on the service related information of the service; and the system detects whether the resources related to the service are available based on the configuration required in activating or deactivating the service, and when the resource related to the service are available, the corresponding configuration is packaged and sent to a corresponding network element device for execution. A corresponding system for activating/deactivating a service is also disclosed.
US08671161B2
A method for implementing user registration based on Diameter network protocol comprises: after receiving a network attaching request of a user, a requesting node sending an Update Location Request (ULR) message to HSS of the user, the message including information indicating whether it is necessary to download user subscription data, and also includes information indicating the capability of the requesting node when the downloading is necessary; upon receiving the ULR message, the HSS of the user returning an Update Location Ack message to the requesting node if the check of the user is passed; if the ULR message indicates that it is necessary to download the user subscription data, HSS determining the user subscription data supported by the requesting node according to the information indicating the capability of the requesting node, and including the user subscription data in the Update Location Ack message and then returning it to the requesting node.
US08671157B2
The present invention describes a system, method, and article of manufacture for resolving names received in network protocol requests by a network intermediary device coupled between a client network and a server network. A deferred trust model caching engine in the network intermediary device includes a transactor module configured to efficiently process a protocol request with a sequence of determinant criteria, although the sequence can occur in different orders. The deferred trust model caching engine includes a cacheability evaluator component configured to determine whether the protocol request is for a resource that the protocol permits to be cached by the network intermediate device, and a supplier trust evaluator component configured to compare information about the client's network protocol request and a cached object representation to determine if the object is trustworthy or not. The cached object representation associates an object with a supplier identity and a supplier trust property.
US08671144B2
A messaging system on a server computes a spamicity value (spam score) for incoming messages. The messaging system may filter the incoming messages using that spamicity value, or using any other basis. Conversely, the messaging system may not filter the messages at all. In either case, the spamicity value is communicated to a remote device prior to communicating the messages to the remote device. In this way, a messaging client at the remote device may determine whether to retrieve the messages using the calculated spamicity values from the server.
US08671143B2
A system, method, and device comprising a virtual badge are disclosed. A virtual badge can be displayed on a cell phone or in another linked portable device, and for security purposes, has images which can be scanned, and the capability to alternate colors and/or self-destruct on a pre-set schedule. Whether for after a disaster or for daily use, the system uses cell phones or mobile devices loaded with specialized software. Using plugin technologies, the system optionally can enable field collected photos and notes on customizable forms to be mapped, tracked, and time/date stamped—including in a 100% disconnected environment. A modifiable virtual badge can aid in inventory, accountability, organization, and efficiency. The system can be employed by the “Whole Community”—citizens, businesses, not-for-profits, and government agencies—for social media, business, cleanup, insurance adjusters, or personnel focused on day to day operations or on mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.
US08671142B2
Systems and methods of virtual world interaction, operation, implementation, instantiation, creation, and other functions related to virtual worlds (note that where the term “virtual world” is used herein, it is to be understood as referring to virtual world systems, virtual environments reflecting real, simulated, fantasy, or other structures, and includes information systems that utilize interaction within a 3D environment). Various embodiments facilitate interoperation between and within virtual worlds, and may provide consistent structures for operating virtual worlds. The disclosed embodiments may further enable individuals to build new virtual worlds within a framework, and allow third party users to better interact with those worlds.
US08671139B2
Media properties selection method and system based on expected profit from profile-based ad delivery
An automatic system facilitates selection of media properties on which to display an advertisement, responsive to a profile collected on a first media property, where a behavioral-targeting company calculates expected profit for an ad correlated with the profile and arranges for the visitor to be tagged with a tag readable by the selected media property. The profit can be calculated by deducting, from the revenues that are expected to be generated from an ad delivered based on the collected profile, at least the price of ad space at a media property where the BT company might like to deliver ads to the profiled visitor. When the calculated profit is positive (i.e., not a loss), the BT company arranges for the visitor to be tagged with a tag readable by the selected media property through which the BT company expects to profit.
US08671135B1
A method of providing transports for a data distribution middleware over a plurality of transport networks is provided. A data distribution middleware with a pluggable transport layer is provided. A plurality of transport plugins in the transport layer are provided. Aliases are assigned to each of the transport plugins of the plurality of transport plugins, wherein at least one of the transport plugins of the plurality of transport plugins has a plurality of aliases.
US08671133B2
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for a data processing system having an efficient network communication infrastructure. The data processing system has a plurality of data processing nodes distributed across a network. Each node comprises a processor and a memory having an application and a routing thread operatively configured to receive a message on the network. The message has an application identifier and a message group identifier. Each application has a command thread and a plurality of message group handlers. Each routing thread is operatively configured to determine whether the received message is for the application on the respective node and to notify the application's command thread of the received message in response to determining that the message is for the application. The command thread then directs the message to one of the message group handlers based on the received message's message group identifier.
US08671127B2
Electronic component resource utilization for certain digital filters may be significantly reduced by using a method for determining a set of coefficient words using a smaller word size. The disclosed method and/or apparatus may be used to determine an initial set of coefficient words for a digital filter for a predetermined frequency, a predetermined quality factor (“Q”), and a predetermined sampling frequency, and determining a gain error value for the digital filter for the set of coefficient words. If the determined gain error value is greater than a predetermined threshold, the quality factor may be modified by multiple predetermined amounts. The set of coefficient words may be redetermined using the modified quality factors as often as necessary until the gain error drops below the predetermined threshold.
US08671125B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided an electronic calculator, including a display device, a storage having an operator priority table in which an operator operation priority is stored, and a processor that performs causing the display device to display a formula, performing sequentially an operation of each formula element constituting the formula displayed on the display device according to the operator priority table, displaying distinctly the formula element, to which the operation is performed in the formula displayed on the display device, on the display device each time each formula element operation is sequentially performed, and displaying a solution corresponding to the formula element to which the operation is performed on the display device each time each formula element operation is sequentially performed.
US08671124B2
A computer system is used to create an application. An application is created using an authoring environment. The application is converted into a master application template by creating an application representation and creating associated metadata that define at least one allowable modification that may be made to the application representation. An application is created from the master application template, and the application and master application template are submitted to a certification body for certification. The certification process affirms that the application, with any modification to the application specified by the master application template metadata, meets all requirements for certification. The certified master application template is used to create a certified application.
US08671108B2
A method and system for detecting orphan content in a hierarchical data tree are provided. The method includes receiving, at the computer, a selection of at least one directory that includes a plurality of data files to be analyzed, analyzing all links embedded within the data files stored in the at least one selected directory, detecting files that are not referenced by a link in any other data file, determining that no other links are embedded within the data files stored in the at least one selected directory, and generating an orphan content report that includes link data for each orphan file detected.
US08671104B2
A system and method for providing orientation into digital information is provided. A plurality of evergreen indexes for subject areas are maintained. The evergreen indexes include digital information and are each organized by topics that include a topic model matched to the digital information. A user interest within the digital information is determined. The topic models for the evergreen indexes are evaluated against the user interest and those topics models that best match the user interest are identified. Access to the digital information is provided via at least one of the topic models in at least one of the evergreen indexes.
US08671100B2
A character folder generator generates one or more character folders, each of which corresponds to a specific character, at each layer of a hierarchical folder structure, and provides a terminal with information of said one or more character folders generated at each layer. A folder ID obtainer obtains identification information of the selected character folders from the terminal, when one of the character folders at each layer is selected at the terminal. A character sequence generator generates a character sequence identified based on a sequence of the character folders, each of which has been selected at each layer. A searcher searches for files by using as a keyword the generated character sequence and generates one or more files retrieved by search in the character folder finally selected at a certain layer and providing the terminal with information of the generated files in the finally selected character folder.
US08671097B2
The present invention discloses a method and a system for log file analysis based on distributed computing network. The method includes: storing user identifiers and related log information into a log file; dividing the log file into target files each including the log information having the same user identifier; separately analyzing the target files to obtain analysis results using at least two nodes; and combining the analysis results of the nodes. The method thereby establishes relationships among various log files through user identifiers, and further analyzes the relationships among the user's accesses to various contents of a website.
US08671077B2
The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in providing updating content to be played back in cooperation with a portable processor readable medium. Some of these methods receive, over a network and from a remote source, updated content to be accessed in association with a processor readable portable storage medium; receive, over the network from the remote source, in association with the received updated content a designation that the updated content is to be associated with a first placeholder title as defined in an index table being implemented in association with playback in association with the portable storage medium; and store the updated content, on a separate processor readable storage medium that is different than the portable storage medium, such that the updated content is associated with the first placeholder title and accessible in association with the first placeholder title as dictated by the index table.
US08671076B2
A copy utility creates a copy of source database objects that is transactionally consistent to a consistent point-in-time, and a recovery utility applies log records to the consistent copy to make a resulting image that is updated as of an identified point-in-time (i.e., the current time or a point-in-time after the copy was made). To effectively recover and apply the logs so that no previously in-flight transactions are lost, the copy utility registers a starting point indicating a point-in-time for logs to be applied to the copy and also registers a smallest lock size used to block access to target data when the copy was made. The recovery utility bases its recovery operations using the registered starting point and the smallest lock size when applying log records to the copy so as not to lose any previously in-flight transactions.
US08671075B1
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for protecting data. In some embodiments, this includes tracking changed blocks in a virtual machine, determining a MFT range of the virtual machine, identifying a common region between the changed blocks and MFT range, parsing the common region to determine a list of changed files, and storing the list of changed files in a file index.
US08671073B2
A method may include storing a first database including a first plurality of user identifiers (IDs) and corresponding privileges for accessing network resources associated with an organization. The method may also include storing a second database, different than the first database, including the first plurality of user IDs. The method may also include storing a third database, different than the first database and second database, including a second plurality user IDs associated with the organization. Further, the method may include removing, from the first database, privileges associated with user IDs appearing in the second database but not in the third database.
US08671072B1
A system and method for hijacking inodes based on replication operations received in an arbitrary order is used to assist a data replication operation from a source storage system to a destination storage system. The source storage system generates a set of replication operations as part of a replication process and transmits the replication operations in an arbitrary order. After receiving a replication operation, the system determines whether the operation is inconsistent with a corresponding destination inode. If an inconsistency exists, the system hijacks the destination inode by replacing the destination inode's metadata with data determined based on the replication operation. The system may also delete metadata from the inode and/or initialize metadata to default values if the metadata was not replaced based on the replication operation. The system then waits for a second replication operation that contains the remaining metadata and replaces the metadata based on the second replication operation. In addition, data blocks associated with the previous version of the inode are freed.
US08671053B2
This invention concerns direct currency conversion, that is automatic currency conversion at point of payment for card transactions. In particular it concerns a method for operating equipment associated with a financial transaction. The method includes the steps of: Presenting a card related to a customer's account. Recording a card number from the card. Applying all or part of the card number to a tree structure, and automatically processing that number by the tree one bit at a time to arrive at an end node of the tree coded with information related to the currency of the customer's card account. Determining the currency of the customer's card account. Comparing the currency of the customer's card account with one or more currencies predetermined for the equipment. Where the comparison indicates different currencies, providing direct currency conversion services. In other aspects it concerns the equipment itself, and a method of preparing a tree structure for use by the equipment.
US08671049B1
A financial instrument exchange, system and method based upon the intensity of an underlying index. The instrument having a predetermined formula for a settlement price based at least in part on the formula: AR = [ 1 N ∑ j = 1 N r j ] × C where: N=a number of total observation periods; C=a constant multiplier; and rj=a capped absolute period return calculated using the formula: rj=min(d,|xj|); where: d=a contract period observation cap; and xj=a period return based on a formula of the group consisting of: x j = ln ( I j I j - 1 ) ; and x j = ( I j I j - 1 ) - 1 ; where: Ij=a reference index reported price/level j observation periods after an initial observation date/time. The periods can variable and measured in days, weeks, months, quarters and years. The instrument is traded at a market-determined price from creation through the date of expiration.
US08671048B2
The disclosed embodiments provide pre-hedge rules and tools for creating pre-hedge rules. An example method includes receiving an indication that a first leg of a spread trade is at least partially filled; and in response to the indication and before an order associated with a second leg of the spread trade is placed, determining whether a condition defined in a rule is satisfied and, when the condition is satisfied, performing an action defined in the rule.
US08671047B2
A computerized method of implementing position-keeping in a multi-market environment is described herein. The method comprises identifying a plurality of instrument transaction parameters based on a universal instrument ID of at least one instrument. The instrument transaction parameters comprise a market level identifier and a register level identifier. Further, at least one consolidation line is generated for the instrument based on at least the plurality of instrument transaction parameters, wherein the position-keeping is achieved based on the consolidation line.
US08671043B2
The present invention is a server for supporting an exchange transaction, in which users can complete exchange transactions between and/or among themselves.
US08671033B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing personnel events functionality. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process components include a personnel administration process component, a payroll processing process component, an expense and reimbursement management process component, a time and labor process component, a compensation management process component, an employee payroll administration process component, and numerous country-specific employer regulatory compliance process components.
US08671032B2
Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a service architecture design that provides enterprise services having payment functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.
US08671024B2
A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for processing e-commerce information are presented. A business entity may transfer e-commerce agreements through an electronic marketplace. The business entity retrieves dependency information about a commercial transaction from an e-commerce agreement. The business entity incorporates the dependency information, e.g., dates, costs, deliveries, etc., as dependency relationships within a project model that represents a project for a product or service for sale by the first business entity. User input is received for manipulating a cost dependency relationship within the project model while constraining the user input to ensure that another type of dependency relationship is not incompatible with modifications to the cost dependency relationship.
US08671022B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for displaying to a user an aggregated contextual targeting advertisement using an instant messaging client having an ad line area within an instant messaging graphical user interface, and an ad pop-up area on the same display surface as the instant messaging graphical user interface. The method commences by receiving a user context profile and then selecting at least one advertisement based on characteristics of the user. The method continues by separating the advertisement into a first portion and a second portion for the purpose of displaying the first portion in an ad line area within an instant messaging graphical user interface, and for displaying the second portion in an ad pop-up area on the same display surface as the instant messaging graphical user interface. Some embodiments separate the first portion and the second portion by automatically selecting strings, and/or by automatically selecting images.
US08671017B2
A centralized information center is disclosed. The centralized information center includes a plurality of source information inputs. The centralized information center disclosed also includes a central processor configured to receive information from the source information inputs and a memory coupled to the processor. A program runs on the central processor. The program organizes information, prioritizes information and generates information flows. Selective information flows are provided to a central office for a transportation system and to a transportation vehicle. The plurality of source information inputs includes vehicle-related information, operations-related information, and external service provider information.
US08671016B2
Methods and apparatus for advertising according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with a retargeting system, multiple publisher systems, at least one advertiser, and a user's computer. The retargeting system provides retargeting information to the advertiser for storage on the user computer. The retargeting information may comprise identifiers for publisher systems authorized for retargeting and an advertiser identifier. The retargeting information may also receive user behavior information from publisher system visited by the user after visiting the advertiser's web site. The retargeting system may then transmit an advertisement corresponding to the advertiser identifier to the visited publisher system for presentation via the user computer if the visited publisher system is an authorized publisher system.
US08671013B2
A system and method for managing internal controls within a heterogeneous enterprise environment is provided. The invention may include an open and extensible standards-based architecture that may be used to create, monitor, test, or otherwise manage internal controls by capturing, organizing, translating, and exchanging controls data, tests, and test results across organizational boundaries and between an enterprise and its external auditors. By providing an automated software solution for managing internal controls, business, finance, information technology, audit, or other professionals may automate on-demand testing, or perform closed-loop remediation and continuous exception-based monitoring of controls within and across enterprise systems.
US08671004B2
A system for providing spending information in a locality by foreign visitors using transaction records of financial presentation devices such as credit and debit cards that are presentable to merchants is disclosed. A storage device stores transaction data generated from card transactions. A transaction analysis module executable by a processor generates a filtered set of transaction records that exclude, from the stored data, a set of transactions which are indicative of having been made by long term residents of the locality, rather than by residents of foreign regions, in order to improve the accuracy of true foreign visitors to the locality. For example, the system filters out from the database all transactions of accounts that have made a bill-pay transaction. As another example, the system filters out non face-to-face transactions and all transactions with mail order and catalog merchants, and schools. Based on the filtered data, the transaction analysis module generates a spending report containing an aggregated amount of the transactions for each foreign region of the holders who have performed the transactions in the locality.
US08671002B2
A computer-implemented system and method for offering merchant and shopper-friendly parking reservations through validated parking is provided. Motor vehicle parking spaces are managed through a server. Smart parking devices and vehicle occupancy sensors are interfaced to the server. Use of the parking space is managed. Occupancy of one of the parking spaces by a motor vehicle is sensed through the nearest vehicle occupancy sensor and the location of the parking space is provided to the server. An identity of the driver of the motor vehicle is determined through the nearest smart parking device and the identity of the driver is provided to the server. Use of the parking space is validated. The parking space's location and the driver's identity are retrieved at the location of a merchant. Payment for at least part of the use of the parking space from the merchant is provided through the server.
US08671000B2
Arrangement and method for providing content to multimedia devices, in particular mobile multimedia devices, wherein a content portal provides content to the devices in a form requiring a rights object to enable use thereof, a rights object portal provides rights objects to the devices and advertisements which are associated with the rights objects are also provided. Upon receipt of the rights object with an associated advertisement, the user is exposed to the advertisement in conjunction with use of the content.
US08670999B2
Systems and methods for managing medical information for medical service providers are provided. Personnel are able to manage and track workflow operations, evaluate profitability, and maintain records in an integrated and streamlined manner by executing various modules of a software application. A Dashboard module provides a unitary display of information regarding employee efficiency and operational profitability; a Virtual Will Call module allows for the virtual placement of items in storage areas reflecting the corresponding physical will call storage locations; an Rx Tracker module provides information regarding the status of prescriptions as they go through the process from ordered to dispensed; the Maintenance module allows personnel to define customized delivery methods; and the Archive Viewer module provides a way for personnel to archive images in any accessible drive or memory device, including portable storage media, and to view such images independently of the module using an archive viewer executable.
US08670998B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for providing at least one notification to a patient. In one embodiment, health-related data/information may be used to identify a patient that satisfies one or more business rules. Notifications to the patient's mobile device can then be provided based on location data.
US08670991B2
A fully online process to facilitate the fulfillment of drug samples to prescribers is described. With the present invention, a prescriber may order physical drug samples online by undergoing an authentication process that is in lieu of requiring a signature match. In the invention, the ordering of drug samples is made over a communication network without requiring a handwritten signature.
US08670990B2
Systems and methods are described that utilize dynamic time scale modification (TSM) to achieve reduced bit rate audio coding. In accordance with embodiments, different levels of TSM compression are selectively applied to segments of an input speech signal prior to encoding thereof by an encoder. Encoded TSM-compressed segments are received at a decoder which decodes such segments and then applies an appropriate level of TSM decompression to each based on information received from the encoder. By selectively applying different levels of TSM compression to segments of an input speech signal prior to encoding, a coding bit rate associated with the encoder/decoder is reduced. Furthermore, by selecting a level of TSM compression for each segment of the input speech signal that takes into account certain local characteristics of that signal, such bit rate reduction is provided without introducing unacceptable levels of distortion into an output speech signal produced by the decoder.
US08670988B2
There is provided an audio encoding device capable of causing a decoding side to freely select an audio decoding mode corresponding to a control method used for audio encoding and capable of generating data which can be decoded even when the decoding side does not correspond to the control method. The audio encoding device (100) outputs encoded data corresponding to an audio signal containing an audio component and encoded data corresponding to an audio signal containing no audio component. An audio encoding unit (102) encodes the input audio signal in a predetermined section unit and generates encoded data. An audio present/absent judgment unit (106) decides whether the input audio signal contains an audio component for each predetermined section. A bit embedding unit (104) performs synthesis of noise data only for those generated from the input audio signal of the voice absent section in the encoded data generated by the audio encoding unit (102), thereby acquiring encoded data corresponding to an audio signal containing an audio component and encoded data corresponding to an audio signal containing no audio component.
US08670986B2
A speech masking apparatus includes a microphone and a speaker. The microphone can detect a human voice. The speaker can output a masking language which can include phonemes resembling human speech. At least one component of the masking language can have a pitch, a volume, a theme, and/or a phonetic content substantially matching a pitch, a volume, a theme, and/or a phonetic content of the voice.
US08670985B2
Devices and methods for identifying a prompt corresponding to a voice input in a sequence of prompts
This is directed to processing voice inputs received by an electronic device while prompts are provided. In particular, this is directed to providing a sequence of prompts to a user (e.g., voice over prompts) while monitoring for a voice input. When the voice input is received, a characteristic time stamp can be identified for the voice input, and can be compared to periods or windows associated with each of the provided prompts. The electronic device can then determine that the prompt corresponding to a window that includes the characteristic time stamp was the prompt to which the user wished to apply the voice input. The device can process the voice input to extract a user instruction, and apply the instruction to the identified prompt (e.g., and perform an operation associated with the prompt).
US08670981B2
A method, system and program for encoding and decoding speech according to a source-filter model whereby speech is modelled to comprise a source signal filtered by a time-varying filter. The method comprises: receiving a speech signal comprising successive frames, for each of a plurality of frames of the speech signal, deriving a first line spectral frequency vector for a first portion of the frame, and a second line spectral frequency vector for a second portion of the frame, and determining a transmit line spectral frequency vector and an interpolation factor based on the first and second line spectral frequency vectors, and on the transmit line spectral frequency vector for a preceding one of the frames.
US08670980B2
A tone determination device, which determines the tonality of an input signal, is capable of reducing calculation complexity. Therein a frequency conversion unit (101) converts the frequency of an input signal; a downsampling unit (102) carries out shortening processing which shortens the vector series length of the frequency-converted signal; a constancy determination unit (107) determines the constancy of the input signal; depending on the constancy of the input signal, a vector selection unit (104) selects either the vector series of the post-frequency conversion signal or the vector series after the shortening of the vector series length; a correlation analysis unit (105) uses the vector series selected by the vector selection unit (104) to obtain correlations; and a tone determination unit (106) uses the correlations to determine the tonality of the input signal.
US08670979B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable storage medium related to operating an intelligent automated assistant are disclosed. A user request is received through a conversation interface of the intelligent automated assistant, the user request including at least a speech input received from a user. One or more candidate domains relevant to the user request are identified from a plurality of predefined domains, where each predefined domain presents a respective area of service offered by the intelligent automated assistant, and the identifying is based on respective degrees of match between words derived from the user request and words representing vocabulary and entities associated with each predefined domain. Feedback is provided to the user through the conversation interface of the intelligent automated assistant, where the feedback presents a paraphrase of the user request and elicits additional input from the user to specify one or more parameters associated with a particular candidate domain.
US08670956B2
A method for monitoring the operating health of a lighting system having a plurality of operating components, in one example includes acquiring test data from a plurality of operating components at a plurality of different operating states of the lighting system, and a data set is acquired for each operating state of the lighting system, and a plurality of data sets are acquired. A model of the lighting system may be constructed using the plurality of data sets.
US08670946B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing utility device operations. In one aspect, a utility apparatus includes a processing apparatus that manages data processing tasks for the utility apparatus. The utility apparatus also includes a communications apparatus, coupled to the processing apparatus, that is configured to transmit and receive data over a network. A metrology apparatus is coupled to the processing apparatus, the metrology apparatus being configured to measure and provide meter data that includes at least a measure of utilized utility services. A network apparatus is also coupled to the processing apparatus, the network apparatus being configured to coordinate communication between devices that belong to a home area network. A utility identification module interface is coupled to the processing apparatus, the utility identification module having an interface that removably receives a utility identification module.
US08670935B2
A method of tagging a location using a mobile device entails obtaining position data for a current location of the mobile device, detecting a proximity of another device using a short-range wireless interface, and automatically storing the position data for the current location of the mobile device in response to the detecting of the proximity of the other device. The proximity detector may comprise a near field communication (NFC) interface, a Bluetooth® transceiver or another short-range wireless technology that may be employed to detect the proximity of another device. This technology enables two devices to store a current location to facilitate a subsequent rendezvous back at that same location.
US08670931B2
Certain exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method of guiding a traveler, comprising the activities of: obtaining a route from a first approach to a destination; selecting a sequential set of way points along said route, said sequential set of way points chosen to assist a traveler in following said route; capturing a visual image of each way point from said sequential set of way points to form a set of visual images; arranging said set of visual images into a static viewable sequential order; and in response to a user's selection of said first approach from a predetermined set of approaches to said destination, providing said set of visual images to said user.
US08670919B2
A method for diagnosing a condition of a system for supplying fuel to a fuel injected controlled-ignition internal combustion engine, of a type including an electric control device that makes use of an oxygen probe for closed-loop regulation of a value of an air/fuel ratio admitted to the combustion chambers of the engine, and according to which a signal delivered by the oxygen probe is analyzed, the method a) deducing from the signal a change in injection time correction factor ALPHACL_MEAN making it possible to regulate richness of exhaust gases leaving the engine; b) comparing ALPHACL_MEAN against predetermined minimum and maximum threshold values THRESHOLD_MIN and THRESHOLD_MAX; c) diagnosing a defective condition when ALPHACL_MEAN is outside of a window included between THRESHOLD_MIN and THRESHOLD_MAX.
US08670916B2
A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine is provided which works to correct the pressure of fuel, as measured by a pressure sensor, using a pressure change corresponding to a change in quantity of the fuel in a common rail within a pressure change compensating time Tp to determine a pump discharge pressure Ptop. This compensates for an error in determining the pump discharge pressure Ptop which arises from propagation of the pressure of fuel from a pump to the pressure sensor. The pressure change compensating time Tp is the sum of a time T1 elapsed between sampling the output of the pressure sensor before a calculation start time when the pump discharge pressure is to start to be calculated and the calculation start time and a time T2 required for the pressure to transmit from the outlet of the pump to the pressure sensor.
US08670913B2
When an accelerator opening exceeds an opening threshold value, a base pedaling force of an accelerator pedal is increased. An increment to a pedaling force is changed in accordance with the accelerator opening in a manner to make the pedaling force approach a characteristic that the pedaling force increases at a constant rate with respect to increase of the accelerator opening. For example, when a mechanism is employed which has a convex-up characteristic wherein the rate of increase of base pedaling force decreases as the accelerator opening increases, the increment is set to increase as the accelerator opening increases. Conversely, when a mechanism is employed which has a convex-down characteristic wherein the rate of base pedaling force increases as the accelerator opening increases, the increment is set to decrease as the accelerator opening increases.
US08670909B2
An automotive vehicle may include one or more controllers, a braking system and an electric machine. The one or more controllers may be configured to determine whether the vehicle is about to roll over. The braking system may be configured to apply a braking torque for a time period, under the command of the one or more controllers, to a front traction wheel to cause the front traction wheel to skid or slide relative to a road if the vehicle is about to roll over. The electric machine may be configured to generate a propulsion torque, under the command of the one or more controllers, during the time period.
US08670907B2
A first acceleration gear ratio is acquired for accelerating a host vehicle in a first acceleration zone following a first zone ahead of the host vehicle, and a second acceleration gear ratio is acquired for accelerating the host vehicle in a second acceleration zone following a second zone ahead of the first zone. A control is executed to set the gear ratio of the host vehicle to the first acceleration gear ratio in a first deceleration zone in order to decelerate the host vehicle before entering the first zone. A control is executed to set the gear ratio of the host vehicle to the second acceleration gear ratio when the host vehicle must decelerate with respect to the second zone while traveling in the first acceleration gear ratio.
US08670903B2
Method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium for fail-safe performance of a lane centering system. An electrical power steering (EPS) system of a vehicle is monitored for a failure and operation of the lane centering system is switched to a differential braking controller to output differential braking commands to a differential breaking system upon determining that a failure of the EPS system has occurred, where the output braking commands direct the differential braking system to apply force a brake for a wheel of vehicle, such by the applied braking force the vehicle follows a desired path determined for a lane centering operation.
US08670899B2
A method for detection of a control event by a sensor arrangement having at least one sensor element and a sensor controller is described. The sensor controller digitizes sensor signals into sensor measured values. An operator control event is produced by a user and a first coarse evaluation for a sign of operator control is performed and a predetermined number of sensor measured values are progressively buffer-stored in a buffer store wherein detection of a sign of operator control initiates a fine evaluation of the sensor measured values to verify the occurrence of an operator control event at an initiation time. The fine evaluation is based on the buffer-stored sensor measured values and on subsequent sensor measured values, so that the fine evaluation includes sensor measured values both before and after the initiation time.
US08670893B2
A framework for supporting one or more repair processes of one or more aircraft. The repair processes are based on repair information or repair solution corresponding to the damages to one or more structural components of the aircraft. The framework includes a knowledge engine, and a deployment engine. The knowledge engine automatically generates one or more knowledge interpretation systems based on the user inputs. The knowledge interpretation systems provide the repair information corresponding to the various structural components of the aircraft based on the user inputs. The deployment engine fulfills the deployment requirements corresponding to the one or more knowledge interpretation systems.
US08670892B2
An unmanned trackless order picking forklift system includes a vehicle-driving system, a vehicle-position-adjusting system and a pallet-scanning system each of which is provided in a forklift truck and electrically connected with a CPU device. The vehicle-position-adjusting system is operated to detect a predetermined route so that the CPU device controls the vehicle-driving system to drive the forklift truck along the predetermined route from a first position to a second position. The pallet-scanning system is operated to scan a designated pallet along the predetermined route.
US08670890B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for synchronizing two or more railway assets to optimize energy consumption. For example, an embodiment of the present invention provides receipt of a timetable associated with two or more vehicles and at least one terminal. The timetable can be modified to create a modified timetable that overlaps a brake time for a first vehicle and an acceleration time for a second vehicle, wherein at least one of a departure time or a dwell time is modified. Furthermore, the second vehicle can transfer energy from the first vehicle based upon at least one of the modified timetable and the brake time overlapping with the acceleration time.
US08670886B2
A disclosed hybrid electric power source device for a crane includes an engine generator, an electric power accumulating unit, and a control unit for controlling the engine generator and the electric power accumulating unit, wherein the control unit includes an electric power load calculating part which acquires electric power loaded on the engine based on required electric power supplied to an outside and charging electric power of an electric power accumulating unit and a command signal sending part which calculates output torque and a revolution speed based on the electric power loaded on the engine calculated by the electric power load calculating part and generates a torque command signal and a revolution speed command signal.
US08670880B2
An aviation yoke HSI interface and flight deck control indicator and selector safety system enhances flight safety. The system incorporates a multi-controlled HSI with a yoke heading adjustment control, a yoke radial/course selector, and a yoke heading centering control positioned on a yoke, stick, or collective. The system may also incorporate a first officer multi-controlled HSI with a first officer yoke heading adjustment control, a first officer yoke radial/course selector, and a first officer yoke heading and course centering control. An autopilot mode indicator visually indicates whether an autopilot is flying according to a desired heading or according to a navigational aid signal, such as a VOR radial signal. A side selector-indicator control permits selection of which side controls the flight of the aircraft.
US08670877B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a request for improving vehicular energy conservation. The method further includes responsively providing at least one action to a vehicle computing system, based at least in part on received vehicle data. Also, the method includes receiving data relating to a change in vehicle energy efficiency resulting from implementation of the action. The method additionally includes analyzing the received data and action along with data resulting from similar actions to determine a generalized effect of the action.
US08670876B2
A method and apparatus for controlling electric power supplied to one or more electrical devices from a power source are disclosed. Measurements of the supplied electricity are detected. Estimated deviant voltage levels that the supplied electricity will not drop below or exceed as a result of varying electrical consumption by the one or more electrical devices is computed based on a predetermined confidence level and the detected measurements. A voltage level output of the electricity supplied to the electrical device is adjusted based on the computed deviant voltage level.
US08670875B2
Systems and methods are described that allow a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) to receive Demand Response (DR) data and process the data in a PLC Function Block (FB). Embodiments provide a PLC demand response FB that solicits DR data and a demand response load manager FB that compares the DR data with predetermined demand constraints corresponding to electrical equipment. The demand constraints provide energy consumption strategies for buildings and factories.
US08670874B2
A method of performing energy estimations operations in an intensive energy consuming site or system environment, the method comprising the steps of: (a) inputting a series of energy, emission and influencing data variables related to the intensive energy consuming site or system environment; (b) performing a first energy use prediction operation utilising a first prediction technique; (c) performing a second (simultaneous) similar energy use prediction operation utilising a second prediction technique; (d) correlating the results of the two techniques and; (e) providing a pass or fail signal depending on the level of correlation between the two techniques.
US08670873B2
Lighting devices are configured to communicate with one another and with external systems. Sensors located at such lighting devices communicate with the external systems and with others of the lighting devices. Lighting is controlled to maintain safety, to drive customer traffic within a retail facility, or to conserve energy. An application programming interface provides a common mechanism for control of various lighting device types.
US08670870B1
A system for providing positive pressure to an interior of a positive pressure facility can include an enclosure for securing to an exterior of the positive pressure facility, an evaporator motor compartment with a motor, a compressor compartment with a compressor, a fresh air intake section for bringing air in from outside, a condenser compartment with air venture, a heater compartment with a heater, and an enclosure extension for attaching to the interior of the positive pressure facility. An electrical compartment can be connected with a return air compartment of the enclosure extension. A human machine interface with a display can present controls for controlling the system and various portions of real-time information related to the system.
US08670865B2
Interactive medicine organizers and methods comprising integrated software and hardware elements and multifunctional interactive wireless devices to provide assistance to individuals who need to organize or monitor the administration of one or more medications are provided.
US08670852B2
A system and method for performing distributed audio processing within the system uses streamed audio playing satellite units of the system to perform audio processing tasks, which are assigned to the appropriate streamed audio playing satellite units by an audio streaming base unit of the system.
US08670849B2
A digital signal switching apparatus is provided. The digital signal switching apparatus inputs and outputs digital signals to which status information formed of a block including a plurality of frames is added. The digital signal switching apparatus includes: a retrieving unit configured to retrieve the status information from the digital signal to which switching processing was performed; a storing unit configured to store one or more blocks of the status information retrieved by the retrieving unit; and an adding unit configured to add again the status information stored in the storing unit by the block to a position of the status information in the digital signal to which the switching processing was performed.
US08670832B2
A system and method for delivery of selected electrical impulses to selected locations on the body of a patient. In certain embodiments, the selected electrical impulses mimic the natural impulses that travel along neurons and the inverse thereof. A system for administering the selected electrical impulses may include an input element, impulse generator, impulse shaper, circuit booster element, output control element, time and sequence controller, display element, power source, and output element.
US08670829B2
A hermetic feedthrough for an implantable medical device includes an insulator, a conduit configured to conduct electricity through the insulator, and a ferrule coupled to the insulator. The insulator is formed from a ceramic material and the conduit and insulator have a co-fired bond therebetween, which hermetically seals the conduit with the insulator. The insulator is elongate and has opposing ends that include flat surfaces and the ferrule includes a frame for receiving the insulator.
US08670818B2
A marker delivery device is configured for deploying a tissue marker. The marker delivery device includes a handle having a chamber, and a cannula. According to one aspect, the cannula has a flexible portion formed by a slot arrangement having of a plurality of spaced-apart substantially parallel peripheral slots extending through the side wall of the cannula to the lumen. A marker introducer rod is movably disposed in the lumen of the cannula for deploying the mark, and has a flexible region that corresponds to the flexible portion of the cannula. According to another aspect, a retraction mechanism is mounted to the handle and is configured to facilitate a complete retraction of both the cannula and the marker introducer rod into the chamber of the housing of the handle upon an actuation of the retraction mechanism.
US08670813B2
Systems and methods are provided for probing an occluded body lumen, including a flexible conduit insertable into the body lumen, at least one delivery waveguide and at least one collection waveguide integrated with the flexible conduit and arranged to deliver and collect radiation about a distal end of said flexible conduit, at least one radiation source connected to a transmission input of the at least one delivery waveguide, at least one optical detector connected to a transmission output of at least one collection waveguide, a spectrometer connected with the at least one optical detector, and constructed and arranged to scan radiation and perform spectroscopy, and a controller programmed to process data from said spectrometer and provide information for directing said flexible conduit through obstacles within the occluded body lumen.
US08670792B2
A network communication device located on a Push To Talk (PTT) communication network and configured to provide time-shifting capabilities to a user of a PTT communication device is disclosed. The network communication device includes a receiver configured to progressively receive time-based media. The network communication device also includes a time-shifting buffer for progressively storing the received time based media as the time-based media is received and a time-shifting buffer controller configured to control the rendering of the time-based media at the PTT device.
US08670791B2
Techniques for sending communications with automatic address or device selection and content conversion are provided. A recipient and addresses and/or devices associated with the recipient are determined for a communication. A destination is selected and the format of the communication may be converted based on the selected destination, if necessary. The communication then can be sent to the selected destination using any of a number of appropriate channels.
US08670783B2
An infield radio communication device (100) operates in a communication system (200, 300) to dynamically identify and/or share location information to form and update a geo-fence or border. A single infield radio device (100) can be used to provide electronic location markers which can be updated in real time to create a geographical fence or border as the device (100) changes location. Additional infield radio device(s) (100) can also be used to share location markers for the creation of the geographical fence or border.
US08670781B2
A selection associated with a service provider is received at a user device, the service provider being associated with a first location. A second location that is associated with the user is determined at the user device. A service request and the determined second location associated with the user are sent from the user device and to a destination associated with the service provider. A route between the first and second locations to be used by the service provider is received from the service provider. A map including the route between the first and second locations to be used by the service provider is rendered on the user device.
US08670778B2
A method for dynamic sector creation is disclosed. The method may include determining that a first sector of a cell is overloaded. The method may also include creating a second sector within the first sector. The method may further include transferring one or more mobile stations from the first sector to the second sector.
US08670777B2
Systems and methods that facilitate management of interference and communication resources are provided. A differential approach is devised in which other-sector interference (OSI) and communication resources are managed by adjusting an offset (delta) value associated with the resources in response to receiving an indication of other-sector interference. An OSI indication can be issued based on a short and a long time scale, and effective interference metrics over time-frequency resources. The adjusted delta value is communicated to a serving access point, which reassigns communication resources in order to mitigate other-sector interference.
US08670771B2
The location of a mobile terminal associated with a user is determined using GPS or by monitoring signals generated and received by the mobile terminal, etc. Coordinates for at least one hot spot defined by the user are accessed to determine whether the location of the mobile terminal is within the hot spot. When an incoming contact is received for the user, a determination is made as to whether there are any contact routing rules associates with the user. If so, the record of contact routing rules associated with the user is accessed. If the record of contact routing rules includes at least one contact routing rule assigned to a hot spot, the contact is routed according to the at least one contact routing rule, based on whether or not the mobile terminal is determined to be within the hot spot.
US08670770B2
A method of operation of a mobile network (1) comprising network core central nodes including a switching node and at least one remote node (4, 5) linked with the central nodes via a remote backhaul communication link (3). The method performs local connection of data or voice sessions. A remote node (4, 5) extracts, from signals, information concerning said devices to populate a database, and accesses said database when deciding whether to connect the call locally. The information includes device capability information including codec capabilities of the originating and terminating devices (MS-A, B, C). A remote node alters signalling information concerning codec capabilities of at least one of the devices (MS-A, B, C) to force use of the same codecs during the session. In one example, the information is extracted from a Bearer Capability field in a Call Confirmed message sent back from the terminating device and stored in the database for use in subsequent decisions concerning local connections of sessions. The invention allows legal intercept operations and is adaptive to handover conditions.
US08670760B2
A converged mobile-Web communications solution interfaces to both a mobile phone network and an Internet or Intranet network, so that services that are provided to mobile phones in the mobile phone network are also provided to web clients or web widgets in the Internet or Intranet network.
US08670756B2
A mobile terminal for communicating with an in-vehicle apparatus includes: a mobile connection detection device for detecting connection between the mobile terminal and the in-vehicle apparatus; and a mobile control device for controlling a plurality of functions, each of which is executed by consuming electric power of the mobile terminal. When the mobile connection detection device detects the connection, the mobile control device suppresses or stops executing one of the functions in the mobile terminal. This enables to save power consumption of the mobile terminal without turning off the mobile terminal when it is brought into a vehicle compartment.
US08670750B2
A system for accessing multi-media content is provided, which is adapted to be accessed by a mobile terminal through a radio net work. The system comprises storage means adapted to store a plurality of multi-media content files having different digital formats. The system further comprises a mobile terminal characterizing unit, which is adapted to provide mobile terminal capabilities information indicating at least one capability of the mobile terminal, and a matching unit, which is adapted to identify a subset of the plurality of multi-media content files having at least one specific digital format wherein the at least one specific digital format is supported by the at least one capability of the mobile terminal, wherein the system is adapted to provide the subject of the plurality of multi-media content files having the at least one supported digital format to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal characterizing unit is further adapted to receive terminal identification information from the mobile terminal and to provide the terminal capabilities information based on the terminal identification information, and wherein the matching unit is further adapted to identify the subset of the plurality of multi-media content files based on the terminal capabilities information.
US08670742B2
A radio communication system having functions of replying status information and remote control, includes a console and a plurality of radio terminals, wherein each of the radio terminal is capable of transmitting corresponding Ack message about an operation status thereof to the console over a mobile communication system, if the operation status is changed. After receiving the Ack message, the console automatically or manually transmits corresponding message or a control command to the radio terminal to change the operation status of the radio terminal. Furthermore, when transmitting dispatch message, the console is capable of storing the dispatch message simultaneously in a server so as to allow the radio terminal to access the server and retrieve the stored dispatch message.
US08670738B2
An imbalance compensator includes a phase/filter mismatch correction circuit and a gain mismatch correction circuit. The phase/filter mismatch correction circuit includes an adjustable filter and a processing unit. The adjustable filter is arranged for adjusting a filter coefficient setting according to a first input signal of a first signal branch and a second input signal of a second signal branch, and generating a first compensated signal to the first signal branch according to the filter coefficient setting and the first input signal. The processing unit is arranged for processing the second input signal according to the first compensated signal and generating a second compensated signal to the second signal branch. The gain mismatch correction circuit is arranged for referring to the first and second compensated signals to configure gain compensation, and applying the configured gain compensation to one of the first and second compensated signals.
US08670734B2
Methods and apparatus for determining a reference sequence and timing based on normalized correlations are described. One example method generally includes receiving, at a first antenna of an apparatus, a first signal comprising a reference sequence; receiving, at a second antenna of the apparatus, a second signal comprising the same reference sequence; sampling the first and second signals to form first and second signal sequences; correlating the first and second signal sequences with each of one or more candidate sequences for the reference sequence using normalization; and determining the reference sequence and timing for the first and second signals based on the normalized correlations.
US08670732B2
Systems and methods are provided for modulating a radio frequency (RF) carrier signal with a baseband input signal and amplifying the modulated RF carrier signal to provide an amplified RF signal. A quadrature combiner is configured to provide the amplified RF signal at an associated output port. A main amplifier is configured to receive a first modulated RF signal and provide a main output to one of a through port and a coupled port of the quadrature combiner. An auxiliary amplifier is configured to receive a second modulated RF signal and provide an auxiliary output to an isolation port of the quadrature combiner.
US08670728B2
A phase correction apparatus in a wireless transmitter includes a modulator configured to modulate an in-phase component and a quadrature component of a first signal by a first carrier wave signal, a demodulator configured to demodulate a returned signal by a second carrier wave signal and generate a second signal that includes an in-phase component and a quadrature component, a phase detector configured to binarize the in-phase components and the quadrature components of the first and second signals according to signal levels, and detect a phase error between the first signal and the second signal based on combinations of the binarized signal components in the first signal and the second signal, and a phase shifter configured to phase-shift the first signal, the second signal, the first carrier wave signal, or the second carrier wave signal, based on the phase error.
US08670725B2
A system and method for improving radio performance through automatic channel selection utilizing a closed-channel model is disclosed. A measurement engine records maximum user throughput on a per station basis during normal traffic operation. The measurement engine further records throughput metrics based on test traffic sent to all associated stations during idle operation. A policy logic engine utilizes the measurements to determine an optimal transmission channel for transmission and receipt of data.
US08670724B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that allows a wireless communication connection to be disconnected even when an application program that requires continuation of the communication connection is being executed. The wireless communication terminal transmits data to a communication target in response to a transmission processing request from an application execution section for executing the application program. The wireless communication terminal is configured to: establish the wireless communication connection to the communication target; disconnect, based on a given condition, the wireless communication connection to the communication target to cause a shift to a communication interrupted state; re-establish the wireless communication connection to the communication target when the transmission processing request is received in the communication interrupted state from the application execution section; and transmit, to the communication target, the data relating to the transmission processing request after the re-establishment of the wireless communication connection.
US08670705B2
First radio signals are received by a first satellite, the received first radio signals including a desired satellite uplink signal transmitted from a first source using a frequency assigned to the first source and an interfering signal transmitted from a second source using the frequency assigned to the first source. The first radio signals are combined based on a first performance criterion to generate a first output signal. Second radio signals are received by a second satellite, the received second radio signals including a measure of the desired signal. The second radio signals are combined based on a second performance criterion to produce a second output signal. The first and second output signals are combined to generate an estimate of the desired satellite uplink signal.
US08670700B2
A developing roller is provided, which is particularly used in an image forming apparatus of a highly durable design and is free from toner leakage even after formation of a predetermined number of images. Opposite end regions (5a) of an outer peripheral surface (5) of a roller body (2) of the developing roller (1) to be respectively kept in sliding contact with seal members each have a friction coefficient μ of not greater than 0.15.
US08670699B2
A developing device that is provided in an image forming device that forms an image includes an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developer carrier that is configured to form a developer image on a surface of the image carrier by attaching developer on the electrostatic latent image; and a contact member that is configured to contact the developer carrier. The contact member contacts the developer carrier and exerts a contact pressure per unit area thereon, the contact pressure per unit area being based on charging characteristics of the developer being used.
US08670696B2
A developing device usable with an image forming apparatus, which has an improved configuration to allow smooth flow of developer stored therein. The developing device includes a housing in which a developer receiving chamber is defined, a partition to divide the developer receiving chamber into a first developer receiving chamber and a second developer receiving chamber, and a first developer delivery member arranged in the first developer receiving chamber to deliver developer in a first direction. The partition includes at least one opening to communicate the first developer receiving chamber and the second developer receiving chamber with each other, and a shield to block between the first developer receiving chamber and the second developer receiving chamber at an upstream position of the first direction so as to isolate the two developer receiving chambers from each other.
US08670688B2
A developing cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus by passing through a mounting guide provided in the main assembly. The developing cartridge includes a frame; a developer carrying member for carrying a developer for developing an electrostatic latent image; a portion to be guided for being guided by the mounting guide when the developing cartridge passes through the mounting guide; an accommodating portion for accommodating the developer; a seal member for unsealably sealing an opening for permitting supply of the developer from the accommodating portion to the developer carrying member; and a grip member, provided at a longitudinal end portion of the seal member, including a fixed portion dismountably fixed on the frame and a grip portion to be gripped when the seal member is removed. The grip portion is disposed in a state in which the grip portion is bent relative to the fixed portion in a direction crossing a mounting direction of the developing cartridge. The grip portion prevents mounting of the developing cartridge by contacting a part of the image forming apparatus when the developing cartridge is mounted in the main assembly of the image forming apparatus.
US08670683B2
An image forming apparatus including: a photoreceptor for bearing a toner image; a transfer body onto which the toner image borne by the photoreceptor is transferred; a drive section for driving the photoreceptor and transfer body respectively, and a control section for controlling the drive section so as to drive the photoreceptor and transfer body at a predetermined driving speed, wherein the control section, under a state in which the control section controls to drive the transfer body at the predetermined driving speed, controls to: a) drive the photoreceptor while changing the driving speed of the photoreceptor within a range of driving speeds between low speed and high speed, including the predetermined driving speed, b) extract torque characteristics under the control which includes the change of driving speed of the photoreceptor, and c) determine the driving speed of the photoreceptor based on the extracted torque characteristics.
US08670676B2
The invention relates to an optical modulator control system implemented in an optical burst mode transmitter, said control system comprising means for measuring a plurality of optical power sample values and associated optical wavelength data values from a modulator at a first sampling rate, wherein an average power table is generated from said values for each sample period and stored in a memory. The control system also comprises means for performing a control error calculation from two or more stored average power tables at a second sampling rate to calculate a single error value to provide gain and/or bias control signals, wherein the second sample rate is sampled at a slower rate than the first sample rate. The control system described optimises the modulator performance over temperature and lifetime in an optical network.
US08670663B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for notifying an optical line termination (OLT) of a power failure. According to embodiments, a method for notifying an OLT of a power failure is provided. According to the method, a notification of a power failure at an optical network termination (ONT) is received. In response to receiving the notification, power is retrieved from a dedicated power storage unit dedicated to providing power for the transmission of a dying gasp alarm. The dying gasp alarm is transmitted to the OLT utilizing at least a portion of the power from the dedicated power storage unit. The dying gasp alarm notifies the OLT of the power failure.
US08670662B2
The present invention relates to a method of and apparatus for evaluating the position of a time-varying disturbance on an optical waveguide. The steps include: transmitting sensing signals onto the optical waveguide, which sensing signals have imposed thereon a modulation which is dependent, at least in part, on their time of transmission; receiving returned sensing signals, which signals have been exposed to the disturbance; and, from the previously imposed modulation on the returned sensing signals, evaluating the position of the disturbance. Because the sensing signals have a modulation that is dependent at least in part on their transmission time, the round-trip time for the signals to travel to and from a disturbance can be inferred. From this round trip time, or a value related thereto, it is possible to directly or indirectly evaluate the position of the disturbance.
US08670656B2
Disclosed are a liquid heating unit capable of monitoring the temperature of the liquid storage tank or pipe in which liquid is heated by transmission of the radiated light, a liquid processing apparatus including the same, and a liquid processing method. The liquid heating unit includes: a lamp heater radiating light; a cylindrical member made of material transmitting the radiated light and having a cylindrical shape in which the lamp heater is able to be inserted and penetrated into an internal space thereof; a liquid pipe placed along an outer periphery of the cylindrical member and configured to heat liquid flowing therein using the radiated light; a reflection plate that covers the liquid pipe from the outside and reflects the radiated light; and a first temperature sensor attached to an outer surface of the reflection plate.
US08670655B2
The present invention relates to method and apparatus of providing supplementary service information for A/V contents written in a recording medium. This method has a recording medium containing Presentation Language data, which have to be included like as in a digital television signal for supplementary service information in accordance with Advanced TV Enhancement Forum or Digital TV Application Software Environment standard, and reproduces, if a disk reproduction is requested, the Presentation Language data as well as requested A/V data and provides them for a connected external device such as a digital television. As a result, various video information and functions provided with Presentation Language data by a recording medium can be realized at a digital television set being able to accept Presentation Language data.
US08670653B2
An encoding method includes controlling recording of frame-position information representing the position of a frame in a video stream, and controlling recording of unit-region-position information representing the position of a unit region serving as a processing unit used when the video stream is decoded.
US08670645B2
[Object] To promptly decode and reproduce content of any encoding formats.[Solving Means] If a TV (1) judges that it cannot decode content to be viewed by a user, the TV (1) asks another apparatus such as a game apparatus (3) or PC (4) whether it can decode the content via a high-speed data line (150) capable of performing bidirectional IP communication in expanded HDMI and transmits the content and decoding request command thereof to an apparatus which has answered that it can perform decoding, via the high-speed data line (150). The game apparatus (3) or the PC (4) which has received the decoding request decodes the content and transmits the decoded content as a baseline signal to the TV (1) via TMDS channels in expanded HDMI so that the content is reproduced.
US08670640B2
The invention provides an optical fiber, a method for the preparation thereof, and a device. An optical fiber, wherein a distal end of the optical fiber is provided with an optical mask adapted for projecting a predetermined pattern on a target surface by radiation transmitted from the distal end of the optical fiber, allows for the rapid application of patterns and three-dimensional structures on target surfaces, in particular on the ends of optical fibers.
US08670638B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for wirelessly communicating among integrated circuits and/or functional modules within the integrated circuits. A semiconductor device fabrication operation uses a predetermined sequence of photographic and/or chemical processing steps to form one or more functional modules onto a semiconductor substrate. The functional modules are coupled to an integrated waveguide that is formed onto the semiconductor substrate and/or attached thereto to form an integrated circuit. The functional modules communicate with each other as well as to other integrated circuits using a multiple access transmission scheme via the integrated waveguide. One or more integrated circuits may be coupled to an integrated circuit carrier to form Multichip Module. The Multichip Module may be coupled to a semiconductor package to form a packaged integrated circuit.
US08670631B2
An image processing apparatus which performs reduction processing for rendering data in accordance with a reduction ratio, the apparatus comprises edge extraction unit that extracts edges from a contour of an object in the rendering data; saved line specification unit that specifies, out of lines including the edges extracted by the edge extraction unit, lines each having an outer shape feature of the object as saved lines which are lines not subjected to thinning processing; and thinning processing unit that thins out lines other than the saved lines in the object, thereby performing the reduction processing for the rendering data, wherein the saved line specification unit specifies saved lines by determining the outer shape feature of the object in accordance with characteristics of the edges.
US08670630B1
An image processing module performs efficient image enhancement according to a multi-scale energy minimization process. One or more input images are progressively downsampled to generate a pyramid of downsampled images of varying resolution. Starting with the coarsest downsampled image, a label map is generated that maps output pixel positions to pixel positions in the downsampled input images. The label map is then progressively upsampled. At each upsampling stage, the labels are refined according to an energy function configured to produce the desired enhancements. Using the multi-scale energy minimization, the image processing module enhances image via hole-filling and/or super-resolution.
US08670625B2
An image coding method including: binarizing a first component and a second component which are included in last position information, to generate a first binary signal and a second binary signal, respectively; coding, by first arithmetic coding, a first partial signal which is a part of the first binary signal and a second partial signal which a part of the second binary signal, and coding, by second arithmetic coding, a third partial signal which is another part of the first binary signal and a fourth partial signal which is another part of the second binary signal; and placing the coded first through fourth partial signals in a bit stream, wherein in the placing, (i) the coded second partial signal is placed next to the coded first partial signal, or (ii) the coded fourth partial signal is placed next to the coded third partial signal.
US08670619B2
A method for operating on images is described for interest point detection and/or description working under different scales and with different rotations, e.g. for scale-invariant and rotation-invariant interest point detection and/or description.
US08670615B2
Systems for refinement of a segmentation of an image using spray-paint markup are disclosed, with methods and processes for making and using the same. Spray-paint markup allows for easy markup of errors in a segmentation. The markup's data may be correlated or harmonized with the representation of the segmentation, such that it may be applied to the segmentation. The markup's data is utilized to refine the segmentation errors. To assist in the refinement process, the resolutions may be scaled down so as to exert less computation burden during the process.
US08670608B2
The present invention is directed generally toward atom probe and TEM data and associated systems and methods. Other aspects of the invention are directed toward combining APT data and TEM data into a unified data set. Other aspects of the invention are directed toward using the data from one instrument to improve the quality of data obtained from another instrument.
US08670606B2
A computer-implemented method for generating a three-dimensional model of an object. The method includes generating a coarse geometry mesh of the object; calculating an optimization for the coarse geometry mesh based on photometric consistency and surface consistency associated with the coarse geometry mesh; and refining the coarse geometry mesh with the optimization to generate the three-dimensional model for the object.
US08670603B2
Apparatus and methods are described for imaging a portion of a body of a subject that undergoes a motion cycle, including acquiring a plurality of image frames of the portion of the subject's body. A given feature is identified in at least some of the image frames. At least some image frames are image tracked with respect to the feature, and the image frames that have been image tracked with respect to the given feature are displayed as a stream of image frames. Visibility of a periphery of the displayed stream of image frames is at least partially reduced, by applying a mask to the displayed stream of image frames. Other applications are also described.
US08670600B2
The present invention provides methods and systems to protect an organization's secure image information from unauthorized disclosure. In one embodiment, methods and systems to generate image fingerprints are provided. The fingerprints are generated for each feature point of an image data. Because the fingerprints take into account the neighborhood features around each feature point, the image fingerprints are robust against derivative images where the original image may have been altered. Methods and systems to maintain a fingerprint database for an organization's secure image data is also provided. In one embodiment, client fingerprints are generated for image data that a user intends to transmit outside of the organization. In some embodiments, suitable security actions are initiated if any of the client fingerprints match any of the fingerprints in the fingerprint database.
US08670599B2
A fingerprint authentication apparatus and method which processes fingerprint data input through a plurality of fingerprint sensors and uses the processed fingerprint data in authentication to thereby increase security and performance. The fingerprint authentication apparatus includes a first sensor configured to acquire first fingerprint data from a user; a second sensor configured to acquire second fingerprint data that is different from the first fingerprint data; and a control unit configured to determine whether or not to authenticate the user based on similarities obtained from the comparison of each of the first fingerprint data and the second fingerprint data with registered fingerprint data.
US08670594B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of plant breeding and concerns a method for determining the point at which a plant starts to flower. More specifically, the invention concerns a method for determining the start of flowering on an individual plant basis by measuring the reproductive structures of plants from digital images of these structures and deducing the start of flowering from the measurements and average growth rates. The invention also concerns apparatus for determining the start of flowering in plants, particularly in a high-throughput manner.
US08670583B2
Disclosed is a hearing aid system capable of increasing the clearness of sound spoken by a speaker while reproducing the incoming direction of the sound spoken by the speaker without using an inverse mapping rule. The hearing aid system includes a sound source input section which receives sounds coming from sound sources as input to convert the input sounds to first acoustic signals, a sound source separating section which separates the first acoustic signals converted by the sound source input section into sound source signals corresponding to the sound sources, a binaural microphone which is disposed on left and right ears, and receives the sounds coming from the sound sources as input to convert the input sounds to second acoustic signals, a directional sense component calculating section which calculates directional sense components representing the directional sense of the sound sources with the binaural microphone as a base point from the left and right second acoustic signals converted by the binaural microphone, an output signal generating section which generates left and right output acoustic signals on the basis of the sound source signals and the directional sense components, and a binaural speaker which outputs the left and right output acoustic signals generated by the output signal generating section.
US08670579B2
A MEMS microphone includes a cover, a housing engaging with the cover for forming a cavity, at least one transducer accommodated in the cavity, and a conductive case covering the cover and the sidewall of the housing. The housing includes a cover and a sidewall extending from the base. The conductive case defines a first part covering the cover, a second part extending from the first part for covering the sidewall and a third part perpendicularly extending from the second part for covering a periphery part of the base, the third part forming an opening.
US08670573B2
A wireless communication system for use in aircraft includes a wireless headset having at least one ear cup with a housing. A first ultra wideband transceiver is disposed in the ear cup housing. A base station includes a second ultra wideband transceiver. The second ultra wideband transceiver wirelessly communicates with the first ultra wideband transceiver.
US08670568B2
A computer platform is provided that comprises a processor and a cryptographic co-processor coupled to the processor. The computer platform further comprises a platform entity coupled to the processor. The platform entity establishes a secure relationship with the cryptographic co-processor that enables the platform entity to utilize cryptographic functions provided by the cryptographic co-processor.
US08670567B2
At least one expired decryption key intended to be used for asymmetrical decryption of encrypted data is recovered in a terminal after generation of a cryptographic encryption key/decryption key pair stored in a cryptographic medium such as a microchip card. The expired decryption key is stored in a database accessible to a user of the terminal and encrypted beforehand as a function of the new generated encryption key. In the terminal connected to the cryptographic medium, the encrypted expired encryption key is decrypted as a function of the decryption key stored in the cryptographic medium so that the encrypted data is decrypted as a function of the thus decrypted expired decryption key.
US08670561B1
Use of a megafunction, IP core or other IP in a configurable device is controlled by a combination of a protection circuit implemented in the configurable device with the IP and a secure device. The protection circuit includes an authorization code generator having a sequence generator and an encryption core implementing an encryption algorithm. The secure device uses an identical sequence generator and encryption core in its own authorization code generator. The sequence generators in the devices generate identical streams of values that are encrypted using the encryption algorithm. The encrypted values are compared in the protection circuit. When the streams of encrypted values are not identical, the IP and/or configurable device are prevented from operating. Where the period of the sequence generated by the sequence generators is long, the output of the encryption cores will contain that many different encrypted values, a substantial amount of highly randomized output used as authorization code for the protection of the electronic design. The run time of the IP core can be limited and/or set in various ways.
US08670560B2
There is described a method of encrypting a set of 2D input data, preferably image data. The method comprises obtaining the hash value of a password and re-sizing the hash value to fit the size of the 2D input data. The re-sized data is transformed using an irreversible transform, and the output of the transform is then used to encode the 2D data.
US08670549B2
Processing a communication received at a communications center over a communications network includes determining whether a sender of the communication sent previous communications to a communications center based on identification information obtained from the communication. Communication is routed to an agent, from a first group of agents, when it is determined that the sender did not send previous communications to the communications center. The communication is processed by generating a report by the agent from the first group of agents. Communication is routed to an agent, from a second group of agents, when it is determined that the sender sent send previous communications to the communications center. The communication is re-processed by retrieving an existing report by the agent from the second group of agents.
US08670543B2
A method for handling an on-hold communication includes receiving an incoming communication from an initiating party directed to a communication destination address assigned to a receiving party. When the incoming communication is placed on-hold, the initiating party is provided a menu of selectable options including an option to obtain information particular to a physical geographic location identified during the incoming communication. The on-hold initiating party selects the option to obtain the information particular to the physical geographic location, and the information particular to the physical geographical location is provided while the incoming communication is on-hold.
US08670540B1
A system, method, and computer readable medium for redirecting a call via centralized bridges comprises a first conferencing platform based in a first country, a second conferencing platform based in a second country, and a third conferencing platform based in a third country, wherein the first conferencing platform dials the second conferencing platform and the third conferencing platform to provide a conference call between the second conferencing platform and the third conferencing platform.
US08670533B1
Dissemination of information from a controlled environment facility employs facility information management functionality managing resident information and facility information, and call manager functionality selectively providing at least a portion of the resident information and/or the facility information to an outside party and/or professionals associated with the facility in an automated manner. The invention may employ outgoing IVR functionality to provide select portions of the resident information to appropriate professionals at the time of intake of a new resident. The invention may conduct a reverse auction among professionals offering a particular good or service, manage information related to providers of services or goods for residents of a facility, provide an outside party this information including results of a reverse auction, and notify a selected provider of selection of that provider by the outside party to provide goods or services for a resident.
US08670529B1
A context aware help system generates context data for web sessions. The context data may be used either by a human operator or by an automated response system to help resolve user web session problems. For example, a user may initiate a telephone call to the context aware help during a web session. The context data may be displayed to a telephone operator in response to the telephone call. The telephone operator may use the context data to determine what web pages and user inputs were previously entered during the web session. This allows the telephone operator to quickly analyze web session problems and provide more effective and efficient web session support. The help system may alternatively, or in addition, provide other types of automated audio or data support.
US08670522B2
A stereo x-ray inspection apparatus and a method for forming a three-dimensional image through volume reconstruction of an image acquired from the same are disclosed. The apparatus includes one x-ray generator and two detectors to acquire two images. The x-ray generator and detectors are arranged in the form of a right-angled triangle, to easily achieve mathematical development and analysis. One of the detectors, which does not just oppose the x-ray generator, is movable and rotatable, to acquire images under the condition that only one detector is moved in accordance with the size of an object, and thus to simplify control operation for the apparatus, so that a more accurate image from an object moving at high speed is acquired.
US08670518B2
Disclosed herein is a fully passive decay heat removal system utilizing a partially immersed heat exchanger, the system comprising: a hot pool; an intermediate heat exchanger which heat-exchanges with the sodium of the hot pool; a cold pool; a support barrel extending vertically through the boundary between the hot pool and the cold pool; a sodium-sodium decay heat exchanger received in the support barrel; a sodium-air heat exchanger provided at a position higher than the sodium-sodium decay heat exchanger; an intermediate sodium loop connecting the sodium-sodium decay heat exchanger with the sodium-air heat exchanger; and a primary pump, wherein a portion of the effective heat transfer tube of the sodium-sodium decay heat exchanger is immersed in the cold pool, particularly in a normal operating state, and the surface of the lower end of a shroud for the sodium-sodium decay heat exchanger, the lower end being immersed in the sodium of the cold pool, has perforated holes.
US08670511B2
A system and method for calibrating a local radio reference clock for a radio operating in a radio network having a network reference clock. The method comprises determining at the radio an offset between the local clock and the network clock, placing the local clock in a calibration mode, and calibrating the local clock using a radio link to reduce the offset.
US08670508B2
An approach for Soft-output K-Best MIMO detection comprises computing an estimated symbol vector and Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) values for transmitted bits. The approach includes a relevant discarded paths selection process, a last-stage on-demand expansion process, and a relaxed LLR computation process. The relevant discarded paths selection process includes analyzing the K-Best paths and discarded paths at each intermediate tree level and selecting only those discarded paths for further processing that will help in LLR computation for at least one of the transmitted bits. The last-stage on-demand expansion process includes expanding K paths at the tree level 2NT−1 (NT=number of transmit antennas) on-demand to only 2K−1 lowest Partial Euclidean Distance (PED) paths at last tree level 2NT. The relaxed LLR computation scheme includes approximating LLR computations by assuming that discarded path PED is greater than or equal K-Best path PED.
US08670499B2
A method for communication includes, in a transmitter having a first number of transmit antenna ports, setting an upper limit on a second number of spatial layers to be used by the transmitter to be less than the first number. An actual number of the spatial layers, which does not exceed the upper limit, is allocated for transmission to a given receiver. One or more streams of modulated symbols are mapped onto the allocated actual number of the spatial layers. The actual number of the spatial layers are transmitted from the transmitter to the given receiver.
US08670490B2
A signal transmission apparatus that transmits a 1-bit signal obtained by delta-sigma modulation is provided. In the signal transmission apparatus, a pseudo-random noise pattern having a data rate equal to that of the delta-sigma modulated 1-bit signal is generated, and the 1-bit signal is code-modulated using the generated pseudo-random noise pattern. The generated pseudo-random noise pattern and the code-modulated signal obtained through code modulation are transmitted via a transmission line. The transmitted code-modulated signal is demodulated using the transmitted pseudo-random noise pattern.
US08670482B2
A picture coding method of the present invention codes a picture signal and a ratio of a number of luminance pixels and a number of chrominance pixels for the picture signal, and then one coding method out of at least two coding methods is selected depending on the ratio. Next, data related to a picture size is coded in accordance with the selected coding method. The data related to the picture size indicates a size of the picture corresponding to the picture signal or an output area, which is a pixel area to be outputted in decoding in a whole pixel area coded in the picture signal coding.
US08670479B2
The present invention relates to a communication system comprising a transmitter and receiver in communication for transmitting signals through one or more communications channels, wherein at least one of the transmitter and the receiver each comprise a quality measure, which contributes to an overall quality measure for the system and wherein the or each communications channel comprises a plurality of sub-bands between at least two nodes, wherein the plurality of sub-bands each having a specific maximum power spectral densities (PSDs) and wherein one or more sub-bands between the transmitter and the receiver are identified as having a higher maximum PSD than other sub-bands and wherein the PSD of the one or more identified sub-bands is reduced in a predetermined manner to thereby increase the overall quality measure for the system.
US08670477B2
An apparatus and technique for measuring and coping with interfering signals in a wireless communications system. The apparatus and technique rapidly and regularly measures the signals present in the wireless communication system's band of operation. The apparatus and technique then makes this information available to all the transceivers on the network, so that each transceiver has information the interference other transceivers see, and the system can make intelligent decisions about radio transmission parameters to optimize the network performance.
US08670472B2
An optical scanning device includes a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser light source that emits laser beams perpendicular to a top surface thereof; a first optical system that couples the beams from the light source; a deflecting unit that deflects the beams; a second optical system that guides the beams from the first optical system to the deflecting unit; a third optical system that focuses the beams deflected by the deflecting unit into an optical spot on a scanned surface; and a light-quantity adjusting element disposed between the light source and the deflecting unit and having a substrate formed of a first and second surfaces. The first surface of the light-quantity adjusting element is coated with neutral density coating and the second surface is coated with antireflection coating so that reflectance of the second surface is made smaller than reflectance of the first surface.
US08670467B2
A system and method are provided for synchronizing a programmable timer time base and external time signal. The method either accepts or supplies an external time signal (e.g., IEEE 1588) at an external interface, links a synchronized time base to the external time signal, and clocks a channel time base with the synchronized time base. Then, a timer channel can be used to perform programmable timer functions in response to the channel time base. Some programmable timer functions include input capture, output compare, quadrature decoding, pulse measurement, frequency measurement, and pulse width modulation (PWM) functions, in one aspect, accepting the external time signal at the external interface includes detecting a packet with a time value, in another aspect, the method uses the channel to detect an event at a channel external interface, and compares the channel time base counter value with an expected value to modify the synchronized time base.
US08670466B1
A system and method are provided for residence time calculations in a network communications local device. A network interface module in the local device receives a first packet from a network-connected remote device. A timing module in the local device records an arrival time of the first packet with respect to a local reference clock. The timing module tracks adjustments in the local reference clock and records a known departure time, with respect to the local reference clock, of when the first packet will be transmitted from the network interface. The timing module adds a residence time field to the first packet representing the difference between the arrival and departure times, taking into account adjustments in the local reference clock.
US08670464B2
A multi-view video coding method includes the following steps: an un-coded group of pictures (GOP) is obtained from an un-coded multi-view video. Wherein, the un-coded GOP includes picture sets of several un-coded views. Several present coding views are selected from the un-coded views according to view levels of the un-coded views. Wherein, picture sets of the present coding views includes several present coding pictures. A target coding picture is selected from the present coding pictures according to view levels of and temporal levels of the present coding pictures. At least a coded reference picture, which is referenced by the target coding picture for prediction, is obtained. The target coding picture is coded according to the coded reference picture. In addition, a multi-view video decoding method is also disclosed.
US08670460B2
The invention relates to a method for optimized transmission of data between a control device and a plurality of field devices that are connected to one another via an IP-based communications network, wherein the data transmission is controlled using a Profinet protocol. The invention further relates to a control and data transmission installation (10) that is particularly suited to the performance of the method. With the control and data transmission installation (10), it is possible to transmit the data to be transmitted from a control device (20) to a group of field devices (30, 40, 50) in a single sum frame subdivided into data fields, and to transmit the data to be transmitted from a plurality of field devices to a control device likewise in only one common sum frame subdivided into data fields. In this manner, the transmission rate can be optimized with respect to standard Profinet frames.
US08670454B2
Embodiments of a system that includes a switch and a buffer-management technique for storing signals in the system are described. In this system, data cells are dynamically assigned from a host buffer to at least a subset of switch-ingress buffers in the switch based at least in part on the occupancy of the switch-ingress buffers. This buffer-management technique may reduce the number of switch-ingress buffers relative to the number of input and output ports to the switch, which in turn may overcome the limitations posed by the amount of memory available on chips, thereby facilitating large switches.
US08670452B2
A method for transmitting and receiving a message is provided. The method includes steps of providing a bridge device having a bridge hardware address and a first end, receiving a first message including a first hardware address, a first protocol address and a second protocol address from the first end, recording the first hardware address and the first protocol address on a table, replacing the first hardware address with the bridge hardware address, transmitting the first message to a second end having a second hardware address corresponding to the second protocol address; transmitting a second message including the first protocol address, the second protocol address, the bridge hardware address, and the second hardware address from the second end to the bridge device, replacing the bridge hardware address with the first hardware address according to the table; and transmitting the second message to the first end.
US08670451B2
A virtual interface having a global address of a physical interface on an Internet side of a gateway is provided in a terminal. An application unit of the terminal transmits a packet to the Internet using the virtual interface. The packet is transferred to the gateway through a downlink transfer path. The gateway transmits the packet from the physical interface on the Internet side to the Internet.
US08670446B2
An Ethernet Metropolitan Area Network (10) provides connectivity to one or more customer premises (161, 162, 163) to packet-bases services, such as ATM, Frame Relay, or IP while advantageously providing a mechanism for assuring security and regulation of customer traffic. Upon receipt of each customer-generated information frame (20), an ingress Multi-Service Platform (MSP) (122) “tags” the frame with a customer descriptor (22′) that specifically identifies the recipient customer. In practice, the MSP tags each frame by overwriting the Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) identifier (22) with the routing descriptor. Using the customer descriptor in each frame, a recipient Provider Edge Router (PER) (18) or ATM switch can map the information as appropriate to direct the information to the specific customer. In addition, the customer descriptor (22′) may also include Quality of Service (QoS) allowing the recipient Provider Edge Router (PER) (18) or ATM switch to vary the QoS level accordingly.
US08670441B2
A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include receiving account data associated with one or more accounts scheduled to be migrated from one or more first VoIP phone systems to a second VoIP phone system via a network, organizing the one or more accounts based on at least one customer service records and one system log, migrating the one or more accounts into one or more shell accounts provided by the second VoIP phone system, configuring each customer device associated with the one or more accounts to receive data from the second VoIP phone system, and migrating account settings data and account call history data associated with the one or more accounts from the one or more first VoIP phone systems to the second VoIP phone system.
US08670438B2
Utilizing a frequency-bandwidth limited IMT frequency band of 3 GHz, requirements of IMT-Advanced; that is, 100 Mbps for high speed movement and 1 Gbps for low speed movement in the downlink are satisfied. A communication system performs radio communication between a base station apparatus 40a and a mobile station apparatus 50 using a plurality of frequency layers having frequency bands different from each other, wherein the base station apparatus 40a assigns a downlink cell common control channel and a downlink cell common traffic channel to a low-frequency layer, and assigns a downlink cell dedicated control channel and a downlink cell dedicated traffic channel to a low-frequency layer and/or a high-frequency layer according to a downlink channel status and a communication requirement of the mobile station apparatus 50.
US08670431B2
A disclosed base station is used in a radio communication system where sounding reference signals from user terminals are multiplexed using distributed FDMA in which distributed frequency blocks each including frequency subcarriers discretely distributed in a system bandwidth are allocated to the user terminals, and the system bandwidth is repeatedly halved into frequency band segments according to a binary-tree structure. The base station includes a transmission bandwidth determining unit for determining transmission bandwidths to be allocated to the respective user terminals for transmission of the sounding reference signals based on path losses between the user terminals and the base station; a transmission frequency determining unit for allocating the frequency band segments corresponding to the determined transmission bandwidths as transmission frequency bands for the sounding reference signals; and a transmission method reporting unit for reporting the transmission bandwidths and the transmission frequency bands to the respective user terminals.
US08670428B2
Methods and mobile stations for transmitting, receiving and processing peer-to-peer communication signals without a base station or network element. A transmitting mobile station may alternate two or more long code masks to generate one or more pseudorandom noise (PN) codes to spread data for transmission. A receiving mobile station receives the spread data and achieves synchronization with the transmitting mobile station.
US08670427B2
Methods and systems that support, for example, canceling or trimming reservations of a shared communication medium are described. In one embodiment, a method that adapts a network time reservation in a communication network may include, for example, one or more of the following: transmitting a preamble field; transmitting a legacy signal field; transmitting at least one paired field, each paired field comprising a signal field and a protocol data unit; and generating an interframe gap.
US08670426B2
A method and system for transferring user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system are disclosed. According to the method, a source core (CN) network determines to transfer a UE that it serves and sends a transfer instruction carrying UE transfer restriction information to the UE; an access network receives a transfer request that is sent by the UE according to the restriction information carried in the transfer instruction; the access network selects a target CN entity that is different from the source CN entity for the UE; and the UE is transferred to the target CN entity. The method and system provided by the present invention are applicable to user transferring between CN entities in any communication network. The transferring is initiated by a network side entity, and a more preferable CN entity is selected for the UE to provide a better service.
US08670423B2
The present invention provides a system (600), device (500) and method (400) for automatic partner selection in an existing Cooperative MAC (CMAC) protocol, which uses the Ready-to-Send (RTS), Clear-to-Send (CTS) and Partner-Clear-to-Send (PCTS) handshaking to establish cooperation. The present invention enables a “best” partner/relay (500.R.k) who is also willing to cooperate to relay information to a destination (500.D.J) for the transmitting device (i.e., the source), without the source (500.S.i) making a decision on partner selection. That is, the present invention provides a new mechanism by which the best partner/relay (500.R.k) that is also willing to cooperate will “step in” automatically without the source's involvement in selection of the partner/relay (500.R.k). This mechanism is contention-based and the partner is “selected” using local information only in a fully distributed manner.
US08670421B2
Described is a system which includes a first radio transceiver operating in accordance with a first communication protocol and a second radio transceiver operating in accordance with a second communication protocol. The first radio transceiver transmits a first signal to the second transceiver, the first signal including data related to operation of the first radio transceiver. The second radio transceiver adjusts operation as a function of the data.
US08670419B2
A method for intra-user quality of service (QoS) uplink scheduling may include determining scheduling types associated with active uplink connections that are maintained by the subscriber station. The method may also include determining QoS parameters corresponding to the different scheduling types. The method may also include scheduling the active uplink connections for uplink transmissions based on the different scheduling types and their corresponding QoS parameters.
US08670415B2
A method is provided for performing handoff in a communication system including a serving base station (BS) in communication with a mobile station (MS), at least one neighbor BS using a communication scheme different from a communication scheme of the serving BS, and the MS capable of communicating with the neighbor BS. The method includes compensating a signal strength of one of the serving BS and the neighbor BS, received at the MS, such that handoff decision is possible, and determining whether to perform a handoff of the MS, using the compensated signal strengths.
US08670410B2
In a multi-carrier wireless communication system, component carrier configuration and reconfiguration uses uplink control channel resource mapping with fallback configurations to maintain alignment between a user equipment and a base station during reconfiguration.
US08670409B2
The present invention discloses a node (207, 217) for achieving co-existence of single radio voice call continuity, SR-VCC, solutions in a communication system between a source cell of a first radio access network that supports packet switched voice and a target cell of a second radio access network that supports at least circuit switched voice. The node (207, 217) is operable to perform bearer splitting by separating voice bearers from non-voice bearers based on information about support for dual transfer mode, packet switched handovers and voice over internet protocol related enhancements in the target cell.
US08670405B1
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for network access for consumers in both wired and wireless environments. Multiple-interface/multiple-connections are used to support high-speed handoff and seamless roaming between different networks (wired and wireless). The present invention is implemented by using multiple interfaces and connections to interface a mobile PC unit, providing additional functions, and enhancing current PC device drivers and software.
US08670400B2
The present invention discloses a method and system for acquiring an address of a Serving General Radio Packet Service support node (SGSN). The method comprises: a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) entity providing a SGSN change event trigger to a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) entity; and the PCRF entity reporting a SGSN change event and a new address of the SGSN to the PCEF entity after receiving the SGSN change event trigger. The method solves the problem that credit control management cannot be carried out for different general radio packet service support nodes during online charging.
US08670396B2
Systems and methods for resource allocation for an uplink control channel for a user equipment (UE) using multiple transmit antennas in a wireless communication network are disclosed. A plurality of orthogonal resources for use by the UE on the uplink control channel is selected. Control information is transmitted from the UE on the uplink control channel on the plurality of orthogonal resources with transmit diversity.
US08670387B2
Within an access services network (ASN) providing wireless access services to an access terminal and a base station communicatively coupled to an ASN gateway, a new functional process identified as an “R6 controller” is provided within the framework. The R6 controller includes both a controlling entity process residing and executing within the ASN gateway and an agent entity process residing and executing within the base station. The R6 controller entities monitor the R6 reference point therebetween and may execute a keep-alive procedure for determining the status of the R6 interface. If a problem is detected, interested client applications are notified and further actions (e.g., initiate handover process, notify ATs, etc.) may be taken. Optionally, the R6 controller entities function as gateways enabling centralized processing for messages transmitted between peer instances of other client application processes spanning the base station—ASN gateway pair.
US08670385B2
A device may receive, from a base station, information that identifies traffic conditions within the base station; and may assign one or more different frequency bands to each of one or more applications being provisioned, by the base station, to one or more user devices based on the information that identifies the traffic conditions within the base station. The device may also generate allocation information that identifies how the different frequency bands are allocated to each of the applications; and transmit, via the base station, the allocation information to the user devices, where transmitting the allocation information allows a user device to identify a frequency band with which to obtain an application.
US08670374B2
A wireless mesh network with dynamic back off for reduced power consumption is generally described herein. In some embodiments, the wireless mesh network includes a network controller to configure a data frame comprising a sync period followed by at least one data period and a plurality of network nodes configured to operate in at least one of a network-running mode and a sleep/RF quiet mode. The network controller is configured to transmit synchronization messages during a first portion of the sync period and receive upstream requests from the network nodes during a second portion of the sync period. During the sleep/RF quiet mode, the network nodes are configured to wake up periodically during a listening interval for detection of a synchronization message from the network controller, and return to the sleep/RF quiet mode and increase a back-off time between listening intervals for increasingly longer periods when no synchronization message is detected.
US08670371B2
Stations in standby mode periodically wake up to check for buffered data at the access points. Traditionally, the information is available by checking the periodic beacon frame for a traffic indication map (TIM). Unfortunately, the length of beacons has steadily increased with the progression of the various wireless standards requiring stations to wake up for longer periods to merely check for buffered data. Several approaches are disclosed which address this shortcoming, including the broadcast of TIM frames, the partial reception of beacon frames and the use of an embedded TIM frame within a beacon frame.
US08670369B2
A method, a device, and a system for processing data in a relay link are provided. A method for processing data in a relay link includes: processing, by a relay node by using a first protocol stack, data received by the relay node, where the first protocol stack includes a first MAC layer that is configured to define a media access protocol and an RLC layer that is configured to define a radio link layer, and the first MAC layer is configured to perform tunnel processing on the data. Processing data by using the protocol stacks provided in embodiments of the present invention implements flexible scheduling in the relay link and reduces scheduling overhead in the relay link.
US08670364B2
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for supporting multicast and broadcast services (MBS) with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capabilities. This can be achieved by adding specific MIMO information into existing MBS-MAP messages while providing backward compatibility.
US08670356B1
A system for radio communication is disclosed. The radio system includes a plurality of radio transceivers and a switch. Each transceiver cannot be used alone to meet an operational requirement. The switch configured to switch between the plurality of transceivers to provide the operational requirement.
US08670354B2
The present invention discloses a solution for performing a sharing an ongoing data session between a first user and a group of at least one additional user in a telecommunication system. The basic idea of this invention is to provide a network integration node with a shared streaming session logic, replication logic and group membership management functions of a conference node, like for example the “Push to-talk over Cellular (PoC)” application. Using this functionality the conference system is to be included into the ongoing streaming session, shall invite additional members and forward the streaming traffic to them as well. This results into a shared streaming service using unicast communication resources.
US08670351B2
An example method involves for a first virtual private network (VPN) installed on a candidate hub router, selecting a first spoke-to-hub assignment solution having a first least memory utilization cost to assign the candidate hub router a quantity of first virtual private edge (VPE) routers serving the first VPN; for a second VPN installed on the candidate hub router, selecting a second spoke-to-hub assignment solution having a second least memory utilization cost to assign the candidate hub router a quantity of second VPE routers serving the second VPN; determining third least memory utilization costs to assign the candidate hub router to a quantity of the first VPE routers, and fourth least memory utilization costs to assign the candidate hub router to a quantity of the second VPE routers; and selecting the first or second spoke-to-hub assignment solution for the candidate hub router based on the least memory utilization costs.
US08670348B2
A customer order is received for routing data for a time period. A logical circuit is provisioned for routing the data during the time period. The logical circuit is provisioned through a first LATA, an IEC, and a second LATA. The logical circuit includes first variable communication paths that automatically reroute from a first set of switches to a second set of switches of the first LATA while maintaining the logical circuit, second variable communication paths to route the data through the second LATA, and fixed communication paths to route the data between the first LATA, the second LATA, and the IEC. The second set of switches forms a route associated with the first variable communication paths that is not predefined and that is dynamically defined at a time of automatic rerouting. The logical circuit is added to a deletion batch for deletion after the time period.
US08670343B2
A system and method for configuring a variable Channel Quality Information (CQI) reporting period based on a User Equipment's (UE) Doppler frequency or speed. Mobile users are divided into three Doppler frequency regions based on their speed—for example, low, medium, and high Doppler users—and are assigned the CQI reporting periods accordingly by the base station. The users in the low and high Doppler regions (i.e., UEs with low and high speeds) receive a high value for the CQI reporting period, whereas—the users in the medium Doppler region (i.e., UEs with medium speeds) receive a low value for the CQI reporting period. The UE speed-specific CQI reporting period improves the uplink capacity by adaptively controlling a UE's CQI-related uplink transmissions, without compromising on the downlink capacity/throughput.
US08670330B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for performing measurement of reference signals in the proper subframes of a first radio access technology (RAT) while operating in a second RAT. For certain aspects, the first and second RATs may be Time Division Duplex Long Term Evolution (TDD-LTE) and Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA), respectively. By knowing the correct TDD-LTE downlink and uplink subframe configurations, a user equipment device (UE) may temporarily leave the TD-SCDMA network during an idle interval and perform expedited and accurate measurement of TDD-LTE reference signals without errors from trying to measure reference signals during uplink subframes.
US08670325B1
A system and method changes a rate at which routing information is sent to increase it upon the detection of one or more events, maintaining the then current rate for an amount of time, or dropping it, otherwise.
US08670314B2
A vehicular distributed embedded real-time controller area network system includes ECUs that function in an event-triggered mode to initiate a transmission of the message to the communication bus. Each ECU includes a sender buffer for storing the generated message. A bus controller interfaces with the ECUs and manages the transfer of messages to and from the communication bus. The transfer of messages onto the communication bus is executed by the controller area network controller on an interrupt basis. The bus controller being unavailable to receive a message from the ECU when a previous message stored within a memory of the bus controller is awaiting transmission on the communication bus. The bus controller is available to receive a message from the ECU when the memory is empty. The sender buffer stores messages received from the electronic control unit when the bus controller is unavailable. The ECU further includes a traffic shaping module for selectably delaying a transfer of messages to the bus controller.
US08670310B2
A priority queue assignment technique for quality-of-service (“QoS”) network flows in a network is provided. A network path is determined for an incoming flow including a plurality of network switches associated, with a plurality of priority queue levels. A priority queue level is determined for the incoming flow for at least one of the plurality of network switches in the network path based on priority queue levels of existing flows. The priority queue level of the incoming flow is adjusted, to dynamically balance flows over the plurality of priority queue levels for at least one of the plurality of network switches in the network path based on quality-of-service (“QoS”) requirements associated with the incoming flow.
US08670296B2
An optical information recording medium includes: a recording layer 12 comprising a multi-photon absorption compound and a one-photon absorption compound; and a supporting member (base layer 11) configured to support the recording layer 12. In this optical information recording medium, absorption of multiple photons by the multi-photon absorption compound and absorption of one photon by the one-photon absorption compound cause a void to be generated in the recording layer, whereby information is recordable by modulation based on a presence or absence of a void.
US08670292B2
Disclosed are electromagnetic linear actuators used in acoustic vibratory sources for marine seismic surveying. An embodiment discloses a linear actuator for acoustic sources, comprising: magnetic circuitry comprising a gap; and a coil assembly comprising: a drive coil, wherein at least a first portion of the drive coil is configured to be moved in a linear path in the gap; a pair of ferromagnetic coil guides positioned on either side of the linear path; a first ferromagnetic extension extending laterally from the first portion of the drive coil; and a transmission element coupled to a top side of the first portion of the drive coil. Embodiments also disclose acoustic vibratory sources, marine seismic survey systems, and methods of marine seismic surveying.
US08670280B2
Improvement technology of a charge pump circuit is provided for avoiding device destruction due to electrification of an intermediate node of plural capacitors coupled in series to form one step-up capacitor, and avoiding reduction of pump efficiency due to leakage current which flows through a leakage path of the intermediate node concerned. A charge pump circuit includes a step-up capacitor configured by a first capacitance and a second capacitance coupled in series, a capacitance driver, and a protection circuit. The protection circuit is set at a conductive state and discharges a stored charge at the series coupling node of the first capacitance and the second capacitance, when the step-up voltage is not generated, and the protection circuit is maintained in a non-conductive state, when the step-up voltage is generated. Accordingly, relaxation of the withstand voltage of the step-up capacitor is achieved, and reduction of the pump efficiency is avoided.
US08670277B2
A memory includes a memory cell including a first terminal, a second terminal and a channel extending between the first terminal and the second terminal. The memory further includes an energy storage element configured to support a programming of the memory cell, the energy storage element being coupled to the first terminal, an energy supply coupled to the energy storage element, and a controller. The controller is configured to activate the energy supply and to bring the channel of the memory cell into a non-conductive state for energizing the energy storage element, and to subsequently bring the channel of the memory cell into a conductive state for programming the memory cell based on the energy stored in the energy storage element.
US08670275B2
The apparatuses and methods described herein may comprise a memory array formed on a semiconductor substrate and including a plurality of cells associated with a plurality of word lines. The memory array may comprise a plurality of sub-blocks including a first sub-block and a second sub-block. Each sub-block may comprise a memory cell portion of the plurality of memory cells associated with a corresponding word line portion of the plurality of word lines. The memory cell portions in the first and second sub-blocks may be independently addressable with respect to each other such that a second operation can be performed on at least one memory cell of the memory cell portion of the second sub-block responsive to suspending a first operation directed to at least one memory cell of the memory cell portion of the first sub-block.
US08670262B2
A hybrid solid-state memory system is provided for storing data. The solid-state memory system comprises a volatile solid-state memory, a non-volatile solid-state memory, and a memory controller. Further, a method is provided for storing data in the solid-state memory system. The method comprises the following steps. A write command is received by the memory controller. Write data is stored in the volatile memory in response to the write command. Data is transferred from the volatile memory to the non-volatile memory in response to a data transfer request.
US08670255B2
An embodiment of the invention relates to a power converter including an inductor coupled in series with a power switch and a resistor coupled to a winding of the inductor. Input and output power converter voltages including an input brownout condition or an output overvoltage condition are estimated, and the output voltage may be regulated, by sensing a current in the resistor. An input current waveform can thereby be controlled to replicate substantially the input voltage waveform. The controller adjusts an on time and terminates an off time of the power switch by sensing respectively a current and a change of current in the resistor. The controller may sense a current flowing in the resistor to select a line voltage range of the input voltage to the power converter. The controller may estimate an input current to the power converter employing the current flowing in the resistor.
US08670251B2
A regulating apparatus with soft-start and fast-shutdown function is applied to a voltage-supplying apparatus. The regulating apparatus includes a soft-start and fast-shutdown circuit, a regulating circuit, and a ground circuit. When voltages are supplied from the voltage-supplying apparatus to the soft-start and fast-shutdown circuit, the regulating circuit, and the ground circuit, the ground circuit is connected to ground, so that the starting time of the regulating circuit is delayed by the soft-start and fast-shutdown circuit. When voltages are not supplied from the voltage-supplying apparatus to the soft-start and fast-shutdown circuit, the regulating circuit, and the ground circuit, the ground circuit is not connected to ground, so that the regulating circuit is shut down fast by the soft-start and fast-shutdown circuit.
US08670244B2
Electronic devices which are selected by a user are coupled together through a coupler to provide a portable electronic apparatus. At least one of the electronic devices is provided with a pair of first connection terminal groups whose polarities are symmetric with respect to one rotation axis. The coupler is provided with a second connection terminal group. In addition, since the electronic device is detachable from the spindle through the coupler, the electronic device can be coupled to the coupler after the electronic device is reversed by the rotation about one rotation axis. A plurality of electronic devices can be connected to each other through the first connection terminal group and the second connection terminal group of the coupler.
US08670237B2
In a power conversion apparatus including a rectifying module mounted with a power conversion device, an inverter module, and a direct-current reactor, a rectifying module and an inverter module 5B are mounted on a base section of a cooling fin, a direct-current reactor (DCL) is arranged in a lower layer of a vane section attached to the lower surface of the base section of the cooling fin 3A, an air gap section is provided in the cooling fin 3A, and a terminal block for obtaining electrical connection between the rectifying module and the inverter module and the direct-current reactor (DCL) is arranged making use of a space of the air gap section.
US08670230B2
A handheld device docking station has a base, two supporting arms and a pillow. The base has a socket. The socket has a flat bottom. Each supporting arm is formed on the base and has a first assembling part and a supporting plane. The supporting plane is in front of the supporting arm. The pillow is pivotally connected to the first assembling parts of the supporting arms. The pillow has a first surface and a second surface. By rotating the pillow to make the first surface face forward or make the second surface face forward to protrude from the supporting plane, the docking station is adapted for multiple handheld devices in different thicknesses.
US08670221B2
A terminal block is disclosed that integrates a surge protection base, a disconnect and connection points to provide a Kelvin connection in which a surge protection element is in electrical communication with the ground and the connection points for incoming and outgoing wires. The terminal block includes a terminal body having a terminal body housing, a plurality of conductive elements arranged within the terminal body to create a continuous electrical path therethrough and a disconnect switch integral the terminal body, the switch arranged to open the continuous electrical path and expose a terminal. The terminal body is configured to receive a surge protection element and the surge protection element, when received in the terminal body, forms a portion of the continuous electrical path.
US08670220B2
A circuit arrangement is disclosed comprising: a normally-on transistor (such as a HEMT) having first and second transistor main terminals and a non-insulated control terminal, the non-insulated control terminal being electrically coupled to a ground; a normally-off switch having first and second switch main terminals and a switch control terminal, the normally-off switch being arranged in a cascode configuration with the normally-on transistor, the first switch main terminal being electrically coupled to the second transistor main terminal, the switch control terminal being electrically coupled to the second switch main terminal and to the ground; and a control circuit configured to switch on the normally-off switch in response to the voltage at the first switch main terminal being negative relative to the ground.A method of controlling such a circuit is also disclosed.
US08670219B2
The present technology discloses a high-voltage device comprising a high-voltage transistor and an integrated over-voltage protection circuit. The over-voltage protection circuit monitors a voltage across the high-voltage transistor to detect an over-voltage condition of the high-voltage transistor, and turns the high-voltage transistor ON when the over-voltage condition is detected. Thus, once the high-voltage transistor is in over-voltage condition, the high-voltage transistor is turned ON and can dissipate the power from the over-voltage event through its channel.
US08670207B2
Embodiments described herein provide for robust servo patterns that comply with planarization constraints and also allow use of a single master template for manufacture of both the front and back of a magnetic disk. Planarization constraints are met because only a portion of servo data is hard patterned on the magnetic disk and the hard patterned servo data areas comply with planarization constraints. The servo pattern has two symmetrical servo write assist patterns, one on each side of a central burst pattern. The servo sync, SAM, track-ID, sector-ID, and/or RRO values can be written magnetically by the write head onto these servo write assist patterns after the completion of the planarization process. The symmetric design of the servo pattern allows both a left-to-right and a right-to-left servo write and read back, thereby enabling use of a single master template in magnetic disk manufacture.
US08670201B2
In a magnetic recording device adopting a microwave assisted recording method, a microwave frequency on a positive polarity side and a microwave frequency on a negative polarity side are adjusted to be optimal.The magnetic recording device of the invention supplies to a magnetic head a write current of which a current waveform on the positive polarity side and a current waveform on the negative polarity side are asymmetric.
US08670200B2
Servo pattern read-back signal processing for storage devices is described. In an example, a method of processing a read-back signal derived from a servo pattern on a storage medium in a storage device includes differentiating the read-back signal in an analog domain to produce a differentiated signal; and converting the differentiated signal into digital samples.
US08670195B2
A lens actuator includes a carrier that is configured to retain a lens; a first AF coil that is disposed in the carrier while wound about an axis perpendicular to a lens retaining surface; first to fourth magnets that are disposed opposite the first AF coil in four directions parallel to the lens retaining surface; a first OIS coil that is disposed opposite the first magnet; and a second OIS coil that is disposed opposite the second magnet. A current is passed through the first AF coil to move the carrier in a vertical direction along an axis. The currents are passed through the first and second OIS coils to a movable unit in front-back and left-right directions. Therefore, weight reduction of the movable unit can be achieved to provide a lens actuator, in which electric power saving can be achieved.
US08670194B2
A single focal length lens system comprising a front lens unit, an aperture diaphragm, and a rear lens unit, wherein the front lens unit is composed of three or less lenses including a negative lens located closest to the object side and a positive lens located on the image side relative to the negative lens, and does not move along an axis in focusing, the rear lens unit includes a focusing lens unit moving along the axis and a fixed lens unit not moving along the axis in focusing, and the conditions: 0.4
US08670186B2
Disposing from an object side in the order of a positive first lens group which is fixed at the time of zooming, a negative second lens group which is moved at the time of zooming, an aperture stop, a positive third lens group which is fixed at the time of zooming, and a fourth lens group which is moved along the optical axis at the time of zooming to correct a change in image plane position arising from the zooming for focusing. When a refractive index of the third group first lens with respect to d-line, a focal length of the third group, and focal lengths of the overall lens system at a wide angle end and a telephoto end are taken as Nd31, f3, fw, and ft respectively, conditional expressions (1): 1.77
US08670184B2
A zoom lens system includes a negative first lens group, positive second and third lens groups, wherein upon zooming from the short to long focal length extremities, the distance between the first and second lens groups decreases and the distance between the second and third lens groups changes. The second lens group includes a biconvex positive lens element with an aspherical surface on each side, and a negative meniscus lens element with an aspherical surface, and a concave surface on the image side. Conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied: νd>80 (1), and Pg—F>0.53 (2), wherein νd designates the Abbe number at the d-line of the biconvex positive lens element within the second lens group, and Pg_F designates the partial dispersion ratio of the biconvex positive lens element within the second lens group.
US08670169B2
An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided which are capable of selecting an image to be printed in a user's intended color. The image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a selecting condition setting unit configured to prepare an image selecting condition depending on set output color in printing; a selection DB specifying unit configured to specify a group of images for image selection based on the image selecting condition; and further an image selecting unit configured to select an image from the specified group of images based on the image selecting condition.
US08670163B2
An image reader includes an original transport device to transport an original, and an image reading device including multiple image sensor arrays having image reading areas staggered relative to the transport direction of the original in such a manner that the multiple image sensor arrays are offset at least partially, in the main scanning direction of the original with a predetermined gap therebetween in the transport direction. There is at least one original transport speed detector to detect the transport speed of the original transported by the original transport device, a storing device to store a reference delay time period which is between when the image sensor arrays on the upstream side read a predetermined position relative to the transport direction and when the image sensor arrays on the downstream side read the predetermined position. Further, there is a misalignment amount calculator, and an image synthesizer to synthesize an image read by the image sensor arrays.
US08670160B2
The printing device includes a reading unit, a printing unit, an operation mode setting unit, a personal information determining unit that determines the kind of the personal information, such as an address, a personal name, or a telephone number, from image data read by the reading unit when the operation mode setting unit sets the operation mode to be a reading mode, a printing data setting unit, a concealing-pattern-data generating unit that generates concealing pattern data, and a printing control unit that activates the printing unit to perform printing on the printed object based on the concealing pattern data generated by the concealing-pattern-data generating unit when the operation mode setting unit sets the operation mode to be a printing mode.
US08670144B2
Apparatus, and an associated method, for a communication device operable pursuant to a push content communication scheme. An instruction detector detects a message containing a instruction by which to operate upon push content. The message is, for instance, generated by a mobile station at which an application associated with the content is resident. Once detected by the instruction detector, a content operator operates upon the content in a manner corresponding to the instruction contained in the detected message. Once operated upon, the content is stored at a storage element, available when an application of which the content is associated, becomes active.
US08670143B2
An update control unit of an image forming apparatus notifies a start of application of firmware to a distribution server in a case where the application of the firmware delivered from the distribution server and stored in a HDD is started in response to an instruction from a user. The update control unit applies the firmware in a case where the response to permit the application of the firmware is received from the distribution server in reply to the notification, and does not apply the firmware in a case where the response prohibiting the application of the firmware is received from the distribution server in reply to the notification. The monitoring agent unit of the image forming apparatus periodically confirms to the monitoring server whether the firmware stored in the HDD before it is applied is to be deleted.
US08670141B2
A printing system including: a print management system that includes a first type of printer, and a printer management client device that periodically reads data about first type of printer from the first type of printer; and an environment management system that includes an integration device that periodically retrieves the data about the first type of printer from the printer management system, a data storage unit that receives the data about the first type of printer from the integration device, and a second type of printer that provides data about the second type of printer to the data storage unit, wherein the second type of printer has a management function that is configured to provide the data about the second type of printer to the data storage unit in the environment management system, and the first type of printer does not have the management function.
US08670134B2
A print control apparatus may include a determination unit, a division unit, and a rearrangement unit to process print data impositioned by an application program. The determination unit determines whether at least one of an impositioned appearance indicating an arrangement of logical pages in respective physical pages of the impositioned print data, and a print output attribute, which is an attribute of an output of the impositioned print data, satisfies a division condition set in advance. If the determining unit determines that the impositioned appearance or the print output attribute satisfies the division condition, the division unit divides the impositioned print data in logical-page unit. The rearrangement unit rearranges divided logical pages in an order according to the impositioned appearance. If neither the impositioned appearance nor the print output attribute satisfies the division condition, the impositioned print data is prevented from being divided in logical-page unit.
US08670133B2
A print mode selecting unit configured to select a print mode based on user input to be either a normal print mode or a saving print mode including print settings associated with less paper consumption than the normal print mode, a document reading unit configured to read documents in a document containing unit and to generate read images, a document detecting unit configured to detect documents in the document containing unit, a confirmation window displaying unit configured to display a confirmation window having a mode change button based on a detection result from the document detecting unit, and an image forming unit configured to form output images from the read images based on the print mode. The confirmation window displaying unit determines whether the confirmation window is to be displayed based on the print mode, and the print mode selecting unit selects the normal print mode in response to an input through the mode change button.
US08670130B2
The invention provides a laser scanner, comprising a main unit and a rotating unit rotatably mounted on the main unit, wherein the rotating unit has a deflection member for projecting the pulsed beams by deflecting the beams perpendicularly to center axis of the rotating unit. The main unit comprises a plurality of light emitting sources disposed in a two-dimensional arrangement for emitting a plurality of pulsed beams, an optical system for projecting and receiving the pulsed beams, a rotation angle detecting unit, a plurality of photodetectors for receiving a reflection light from an object via the deflection member and being disposed respectively at positions conjugate to the light emitting sources, a distance measuring unit for measuring a distance based on a photodetection signal from the photodetector, and a control arithmetic unit for calculating projecting directions of the pulsed laser beams projected from the deflection member.
US08670123B2
The invention relates to focusing optics (100) for a biosensor (10) which allow with simple means to accurately image an extended investigation region (13) onto a detector plane (P). To this end, the focusing optics (100) comprises at least two focusing lenslets (LL) that are arranged adjacent to each other such that they image an incident parallel light beam (L2) that is directed along a main optical axis (MOA) onto a common plane (P). The output light beam (L2) that is received by the focusing optics (100) may preferably originate from total internal reflection of a parallel input light beam (L1) at the investigation region (13) of a transparent carrier.
US08670105B2
A liquid immersion photolithography system includes an exposure system that exposes a substrate with electromagnetic radiation and includes a projection optical system that focuses the electromagnetic radiation on the substrate. A liquid supply system provides liquid flow between the projection optical system and the substrate. A liquid confinement structure of the liquid supply system confines the liquid to a space adjacent the substrate at least during projection of the pattern, the liquid confinement structure including an extractor to remove liquid from the space, the extractor including a two dimensional array of extraction openings.
US08670091B2
An object of the invention is to provide a display device having a high contrast ratio. Another object of the invention is to manufacture such a high-performance display device at low cost. In a display device having a display element between a pair of light-transmissive substrates, polarizer-including layers, which have different wavelength distributions of extinction coefficients, are stacked so that absorption axes are in a parallel nicol state, over each light-transmissive substrate. Absorption axes of one of a pair of stacks of polarizers and the other together which interpose the display element are deviated from a cross nicol state. A retardation plate may be provided between the stack of polarizing plates and the substrate.
US08670076B2
A networking device for multimedia applications including self-configurable asymmetric ports. The networking device is coupled to end-devices configured to use multimedia control messages to control their operation. The networking device monitors the multimedia control messages transmitted through it and sets the direction of at least one of the self-configurable asymmetric ports according to the monitored multimedia control messages. Also disclosed a wired switch supporting uncompressed video including self-configurable asymmetric ports. The switch is coupled to end-devices configured to use control messages to control their operation, and the switch is configured to: monitor the control messages transmitted through it, change at least some of the monitored control messages transmitted through it or create spoofed control messages, and automatically set the direction of at least one of the self-configurable asymmetric ports according to the monitored control messages.
US08670069B2
The present invention relates to a digital camera which comprises a sensor holder on which an image sensor is mounted and at least one adjustment ring. The adjustment ring is configured to rotate around an optical axis (OA) of the camera. The sensor holder and the at least one adjustment ring are configured to interact via at least one cam surface such that when the at least one adjustment ring is rotated with respect to the sensor holder, a normal direction of the sensor is adjusted in relation to a direction of the optical axis.
US08670068B2
An electronic device includes a housing, a circuit board, and a camera module. The camera module includes a camera unit, a flash device, and a protective cover. The camera unit records and stores images, and the protective cover protects the camera unit and the flash device. The protective cover includes an opening, a light hole, and a separation portion located between the opening and the light hole. The light from the flash device is diffused and passes through the light hole. The camera unit and the flash device are separated by the separation portion to prevent the light of the flash device from entering camera unit through the opening.
US08670063B2
A focus detection apparatus comprises: an image sensor that receives images that are formed by light that passes through different pupil regions of a photographing optical system including a focus lens, and outputs a pair of image signals; a control unit that controls to acquire a pair of image signals from the image sensor at first and second lens positions of the focus lens; a conversion unit that, by multiplying a shift amount between a pair of images representing the pair of image signals by a conversion coefficient, converts the shift amount to a defocus amount; and a calculation unit that calculates the conversion coefficient based on displacement amounts of respective ones of the pair of images representing the pair of image signals acquired at the first and second lens positions, and a displacement amount of the focus lens from the first lens position to the second lens position.
US08670061B2
There is provided a photography device including: a display control section; a guiding section; and a guiding control section that, in a state in which the optical image has been guided to the eyepiece portion and the electronic image and the composite image have not been guided to the eyepiece portion, if the photographing conditions are changed, carries out first control that controls the guiding section such that the composite image is guided to the eyepiece portion, and, if a predetermined time elapses after the first control or a predetermined operation is carried out by a user after the first control, carries out second control that controls the guiding section such that the optical image is guided to the eyepiece portion and the electronic image and the composite image are not guided to the eyepiece portion.
US08670060B2
Several methods for operating a built-in digital camera of a portable, handheld electronic device are described. In one embodiment, the device receives a user selection (e.g., tap, tap and hold, gesture) of a region displayed on the display screen (e.g., touch sensitive screen). A touch to focus mode may then be initiated in response to the user selection and exposure and focus parameters determined and adjusted. Then, an automatic scene detection mechanism can determine whether a scene has changed. If the scene has changed, then the touch to focus mode ends and a default automatic focus mode initiates. This mode sets a new exposure metering area and focus area prior to determining and adjusting exposure and focus parameters, respectively.
US08670055B2
An image pickup lens is provided that includes a substrate; resin layers formed on both respective opposite surfaces of the substrate; a lens portion formed on at least any one of the surfaces of the substrate; and a spacer formed on at least any one of the surfaces of the substrate at an area surrounding the lens portion.
US08670052B2
A color image sensor includes a pixel array including a CFA overlaying an array of photo-sensors for acquiring a color image. The CFA includes first color filter elements of a first color overlaying a first group of the photo-sensors, second color filter elements of a second color overlaying a second group of the photo-sensors, and a plurality of filter stacks overlaying a third group of the photo-sensors. The first group generates first color signals of a first color channel and the second group generates second color signals of a second color channel. Each of the filter stacks includes a first stacked filter of the first color and a second stacked filter of the second color. A sensitivity of the filter stacks equals a product of sensitivities of the first and the second stacked filters and the filter stacks generate a third color channel.
US08670048B2
An image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup section that picks up images to obtain picked-up-image-data items, a temporarily retaining section that temporarily retains the picked-up-image-data items, a storage-process section that performs a storage process on the picked-up-image-data items, a movement-detecting section that detects a movement of the image-pickup apparatus, an operation section that performs a shutter operation, and a control section that causes the temporarily retaining section to retain picked-up-image-data items in a shutter-operation period, that selects, on the basis of detection results obtained by the movement-detecting section in the shutter-operation period, a picked-up-image-data item from among the retained picked-up-image-data items, and that causes the storage-process section to perform the storage process on the selected picked-up-image-data item.
US08670045B2
An information processing apparatus which acquires, from another information processing apparatus, data stored in the other information processing apparatus, comprising, a storage unit storing data, a selection unit selecting data stored in the storage unit, a generation unit generating, based on the selected data, condition information that determines a condition for specifying data to be requested to the other information processing apparatus, and a communication unit transmitting the condition information to the other information processing apparatus and receiving, from the other information processing apparatus, data that satisfies the determined condition. The storage unit stores information about a generation location of the data in association with the data, and the generation unit generates, based on information about generation locations of the selected data, condition information that determines a condition regarding a range of locations where data to be acquired from the other information processing apparatus were generated.
US08670042B2
A blinking-signal device 1 includes a light receiving section 10, a row selecting section 20, a readout section 30, a detecting section 40, and a control section 50. By the row selecting section 20, charge generated in its photodiode of each pixel unit P2i-1,n of the (2i−1)-th row in the light receiving section 10 is accumulated in its charge accumulating section during a first period, and charge generated in its photodiode of each pixel unit P2i,n of the 2i-th row in the light receiving section 10 is accumulated in its charge accumulating section during a second period. With the detecting section 40, it is detected whether or not light reaching the pixel units P2i-1,n and P2i,n is a blinking signal on the basis of a difference between data D2i-1,n and D2i,n of the pixel units P2i-1,n and P2i output from the readout section 30.
US08670040B2
In an image processing method of processing an image obtained from an image sensor, the resolution distribution of the image sensor is held in a memory, and a resolution corresponding to a pixel of interest of the image is acquired from the resolution distribution of the image sensor which is held in the memory. Sharpening processing having the sharpening level selected on the basis of the acquired resolution is executed for the pixel of interest.
US08670037B2
A method of obtaining imaging data from a tissue region is provided. The method is effected by associating imaging data with a surface contour of the tissue region and utilizing a model of contour changes in the tissue region to transform the data to reflect changes in the surface contour.
US08670030B2
A photographing device includes a pressure sensor that detects a pressure received by the photographing device; a detection unit that detects whether the photographing device is placed in the water or in the air; and a storage unit that stores image information. A controller of the photographing device starts an operation of generating time-series pressure data on the basis of an output of the pressure sensor when a first state, in which the photographing device is placed from the air into the water, is detected. The controller stops the operation of generating the time-series pressure data when a second state, in which the photographing device is placed from the water into the air, is detected, associate the image file stored in the storage unit from the first state to the second state with the time-series pressure data, and store again the image file in the storage unit.
US08670029B2
A depth camera illuminator with a superluminescent light-emitting diode (SLED) in a motion tracking system. One or more SLEDs have a sufficient power, such as 75-200 milliwatts, to extend in a field of view in an area such as a room in a home. To correct for chromatic aberration which would otherwise exist due to the wider range of wavelengths which are emitted by an SLED compared to a laser, an achromatic diffractive optical element is used to disperse the light over the field of view. The achromatic diffractive optical element can have a stepped multi-level profile with three or more levels, or a continuous profile. Based on a tracked movement of a human target, an input is provided to an application in a motion tracking system, and the application performs a corresponding action such as updating a position of an on-screen avatar.
US08670019B2
An apparatus is provided in one example and includes first and second cameras configured to capture image data associated with an end user involved in a video session. The can further include a display configured to interface with the cameras, and a shaft coupled to a rotor. The cameras are secured to the shaft, and the shaft receives a rotational force such that during rotation of the shaft, the cameras pass over the display in order to capture particular image data associated with the end user's face in such a way as to improve eye gaze alignment.
US08670016B2
An exposure device includes: an optical system member that causes light irradiated from a light emitting element to converge; an optical system support part that supports the optical system member; and a fixing member for fixing the optical system member to the optical system holding part. An elongation of the fixing member is in a range of 40% to 80% inclusive.
US08670014B2
This invention has as its object to improve an image formation throughput. An image forming apparatus of this invention times a time required until an image formation is ready to start after a reference signal is output, and executes the image formation when the image formation is ready to start (for example, initial processes are complete). Furthermore, when the next reference signal is output during the image formation, the image forming apparatus executes an image formation of the next color after a waiting process based on the timed time.
US08670012B2
According to one embodiment, an erasing apparatus includes a paper feeding unit configured to feed a sheet having an image recorded, an erasing unit including a pressing roller and a heater that has a shape following the outer circumference of the pressing roller and includes a contact area with the pressing roller, the erasing unit being configured to erase the image formed on the sheet fed to a contact section of the pressing roller and the heater from the paper feeding unit, a temperature detecting unit configured to detect the temperature of the heater, a controller configured to control the heater according to the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit, and a paper discharge unit configured to discharge the sheet on which the image is erased by the erasing unit.
US08670002B2
A portable electronic device adapted to change its operation mode is disclosed. When a rotation of the portable electronic device is detected, the operation mode is changed according to the angle of rotation, and a user interface corresponding to the changed operation mode is output by a display unit. This method intuitively changes the mode based on a rotation of the device without requiring a complicated and unnecessary key input, and provides a more convenient and faster user interface.
US08670001B2
A system and method are disclosed for converting a region of a Fish-Eye or other wide-angle image into a rectilinear image. According to an illustrative embodiment of the present disclosure, a Fish-Eye to rectilinear image conversion block is defined for use in a block diagram of a diagrammatic programming environment. The Fish-Eye to rectilinear image conversion block may use any of a variety of models for Fish-Eye systems, and thus is “model-independent.” Further, intuitive zoom, pan, tilt, and attitude adjustment parameters may be used with the image conversion block, to allow control of the conversion by users lacking advanced understanding of optics.
US08669998B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating the selection of colors. An initial set of colors from a color space is rendered in a user interface. A selection of at least one of the initial set of colors is received. A subsequent set of colors from the color space is rendered in the user interface in response to the selection. The subsequent set of colors is related to the selected colors.
US08669990B2
A technique to share execution resources. In one embodiment, a CPU and a GPU share resources according to workload, power considerations, or available resources by scheduling or transferring instructions and information between the CPU and GPU.
US08669989B2
System and method for a parallel image processing mechanism for applying mask data patterns to substrate in a lithography manufacturing process are disclosed. In one embodiment, the parallel image processing system includes a graphics engine configured to partition an object into a plurality of trapezoids and form an edge list for representing each of the plurality of trapezoids, and a distributor configured to receive the edge list from the graphics engine and distribute the edge list to a plurality of scan line image processing units. The system further includes a sentinel configured to synchronize operations of the plurality of scan line image processing units, and a plurality of buffers configured to store image data from corresponding scan line image processing units and outputs the stored image data using the sentinel.
US08669988B2
A data interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protocol is used by link controllers configured to generate, transmit, and receive packets forming the communications protocol, and to form digital data into one or more types of data packets, with at least one residing in the host device and being coupled to the client through the communications path. The interface provides a cost-effective, low power, bi-directional, high-speed data transfer mechanism over a short-range “serial” type data link, which lends itself to implementation with miniature connectors and thin flexible cables which are especially useful in connecting display elements such as wearable micro-displays to portable computers and wireless communication devices.
US08669987B2
Memory management system and method for use with systems for generating 3-dimensional computer generated images are provided. The system includes a) a device for subdividing the image into rectangular areas, b) a memory for storing object data for each rectangular area and depth data derived from the object data, c) a device for storing the object data in the memory, d) a device for deriving the depth data for each rectangular area from the object data, e) a device for storing the depth data for each rectangular area in the memory, f) a device for loading further object data into the memory to replace part of the existing contents, g) a device for retrieving the stored depth data, h) a device for deriving updated depth data for each picture element of each rectangular area from the new object and stored depth data, and storing the updated depth data to replace the previously stored depth data, i) a device for causing features e), f), g) and h) to repeatedly perform the functions until there is no further object data to load to the 1 memory, and j) a device for deriving image data and shading data from the depth data for display.
US08669984B2
A preferred location and a preferred orientation of a tile shape are determined with respect to a current shape based on scores at multiple locations and orientations. A new shape is generated by subtracting from the current shape a tile area. The tile area includes the tile shape in the preferred orientation of the tile shape at the preferred location of the tile shape with respect to the current shape. The determining and generating are repeated with respect to the new shape.
US08669980B1
Methods and techniques are provided for procedurally editing hierarchical subdivision surfaces. A procedure set and a parameter set may be received. The procedure set may include one or more produces for generating detail coefficients. The parameter set may include one or more parameters, such as granularity and sharpness, while further specifying deltas or other jitter in parameter values or locations. A hierarchical subdivision surface description can be generated based on a mesh, the procedure set, and the parameter set.
US08669970B2
In an embodiment, a display apparatus includes multiple physical interface circuits (PHYs) couple to respective displays. In a mirror mode, the PHYs may operate as masters. A primary master PHY may control a synchronization interface to one or more secondary master PHYs. The synchronization interface may include a start of frame signal that the primary master PHY may generate to indicate the beginning of a new frame. The secondary master PHYs may be configured to generate internal start of frame signals while independently processing the same display data as the primary master. If the internally-generated start of frame and the received start of frame occur within a window of tolerance of each other, then the secondary masters may continue to process the display data stream independently. A secondary master that detects the start of frames occur outside of the window of tolerance may resynchronize.
US08669962B2
A method for avoiding an erroneous touch on a touch panel in a portable electronic device includes the steps of: determining whether a triggering event is received; enabling a sensor when the triggering event is received; detecting a distance between the portable electronic device and an object by the sensor; and determining a predetermined touch pressure threshold of the touch panel according to the detected distance.
US08669960B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of methods and devices for operating a processor or host controller in a mutual capacitance sensing device. Methods and devices for sorting motion reports provided to a host controller or other processor in a mutual capacitance sensing device, reporting touch points to a host controller or other processor in a mutual capacitance sensing device, improving noise robustness and navigation performance in a mutual capacitance sensing device, determining a touch area of a user's finger on a touch panel or touchpad of a mutual capacitance sensing device, and avoiding false wakeups and minimizing power consumption in a mutual capacitance sensing device having a touch panel or touchpad are described.
US08669959B2
A passive touch system includes a passive touch surface and at least two cameras associated with the touch surface. The at least two cameras acquire images of the touch surface from different locations and have overlapping fields of view. A processor receives and processes images acquired by the at least two cameras to detect the existence of a pointer therein and to determine the location of the pointer relative to the touch surface. Actual pointer contact with the touch surface and pointer hover above the touch surface can be determined.
US08669952B2
An electrical pressure sensor is provided with a method for measuring pressure applied to a sensor surface. The method provides an electrical pressure sensor including a sealed chamber with a top surface, first electrode, second electrode, an elastic polymer medium, and metallic nanoparticles distributed in the elastic polymer medium. When the top surface of the sensor is deformed in response to an applied pressure, the elastic polymer medium is compressed. In response to decreasing the metallic nanoparticle-to-metallic nanoparticle mean distance between metallic nanoparticles, the electrical resistance is decreased between the first and second electrodes through the elastic polymer medium.
US08669945B2
Various embodiments related to a hand-held mobile computing device are disclosed. One disclosed embodiment comprises a hand-held mobile computing device having a touch-sensitive display forming a surface of the hand-held mobile computing device configured to receive touch input. The hand-held mobile computing device further comprises a processor and memory comprising code executable by the processor to display a scrollable list of items in a first content viewing mode having a first set of content for each of the items in the scrollable list, to detect a dynamic multi-touch gesture over the scrollable list of items, and to change the scrollable list of items to a second content viewing mode responsive to detection of the dynamic multi-touch gesture, wherein the second content viewing mode comprises a second set of content for each item in the scrollable list of items.
US08669939B2
A system comprising an input device includes a detector coupled to a processor. The detector detects an orientation of the input device. The input device has multiple modal orientations corresponding to the orientation. The modal orientations correspond to multiple input modes of a gestural control system. The detector is coupled to the gestural control system and automatically controls selection of an input mode in response to the orientation.
US08669938B2
A system for controlling a computing device. The system includes, a plurality of sensed locations corresponding to a sensed object, a sensing apparatus to sense a position of the sensed locations relative to the sensing apparatus, and a motion control engine executable on a computing device, in response to the motion control engine receiving position data indicative of the position of the sensed locations from the sensing apparatus, the motion control engine to generate an adjusted position based on the position data, wherein the adjusted position is offset from the position of the sensed locations, and wherein the adjusted position is fixed relative to the position of the sensed locations.
US08669934B2
A driving circuit is provided, which is configured to supply a driving voltage and a driving current to an LED string. A first detection resistor is arranged on a path of the LED string. A voltage source outputs a control voltage having a level that corresponds to the target luminance level of the LED string, and a first threshold voltage that is proportional to the control voltage. A controller generates a gate pulse signal having a duty ratio that is adjusted such that the voltage drop across the first detection resistor matches the control voltage. A first driver drives a switching transistor of a DC/DC converter according to the gate pulse signal. When the voltage drop across the first detection resistor exceeds the first threshold voltage, a first comparator stops the switching operation of the switching transistor.
US08669930B2
A liquid crystal display and a method for driving the same, wherein one or more horizontal lines carrying no data among horizontal lines of a progressive-processed frame can be compensated with data, are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a frame processor, a timing controller, and a data driver. The frame processor performs data compensation of at least one horizontal line carrying no data among horizontal lines of an input frame. The timing controller controls a driving operation of the frame compensated by the frame processor. The data driver drives the frame compensated by the frame processor on a liquid crystal display panel under control of the timing controller.
US08669924B2
In one aspect, the present invention relates to a display. In one embodiment, the display has a substrate, and a plurality of pixels formed on the substrate and arranged in an array. Each pixel includes a driving transistor and a read-out transistor spatially formed on the substrate, where each transistor has a gate electrode, a drain electrode and a source electrode, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) having a cathode layer, a anode layer and an emissive layer formed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, and formed over the driving transistor and the read-out transistor such that the anode layer of the OLED is electrically connected to the source electrode of the driving transistor, and a photo sensor having a photosensitive layer formed between the anode layer of the OLED and the source electrode of the read-out transistor.
US08669922B2
An image display panel includes: a lower substrate; self-light emitting elements for image display that are arranged on the lower substrate in a matrix shape and form an image display unit; a self-light emitting element for monitoring that is arranged on the lower substrate and emits monitoring light for the image display unit; and an upper substrate that holds the self-light emitting elements for image display and the self-light emitting element for monitoring in conjunction with the lower substrate, wherein the self-light emitting elements for image display emit emission light to the lower substrate side or the upper substrate side, and the self-light emitting element for monitoring emits the monitoring light to at least the upper substrate side or the lower substrate side.
US08669920B2
A pixel array including scan lines, data lines and pixels is provided. The data lines and the scan lines are intersected so as to define sub-pixel regions arranged in array. Each pixel is disposed in a pixel region including (m×n) sub-pixel regions, wherein m is a positive integral and n is a positive integral larger than one. Each pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels, wherein each sub-pixel includes an active device, a pixel electrode and a storage capacitor. At least a portion of the storage capacitors of the sub-pixels within the same pixel is concentrically disposed in one of the sub-pixel regions.
US08669919B2
A head mounted display device including: an image display that is mounted on the head of a user to permit the user to visually recognize an image; a determination unit that, when any other unitary moving images correlated with the same unitary display image corresponding to one of the unitary moving images are generated, determines whether to replace the one of the unitary moving images with the any other unitary moving images; and a continual moving image display that, when the determination unit determines that the one of the unitary moving images should be replaced with the any other unitary moving images, replaces the one of the unitary moving images with the any other unitary moving images to generate those replaced unitary moving images as one coherent continual moving image.
US08669918B2
Various configurations of an electronic display, and devices incorporating the display, are provided. The display may have multiple portions connected along one or more axes, lines, points, or other connecting areas. The portions are movable about the connections. In various configurations, the display portions emulate different media and/or communication and computing devices. Two or more of the display devices may be coupled in an array.
US08669915B2
One or more frame components that each comprise 1/Xth of a 360 degree RFID tag reader antenna array can be physically coupled to one another to thereby form a multi-frame component. One or more RFID tag reader antenna mounts can comprise a part of such frame components and can be configured to aim a corresponding RFID tag reader antenna outwardly of the frame component. These teachings also accommodate disposing a plurality of RFID tag reader antenna units within a facility such that these antenna units are disposed higher than an expected location of, say, at least 90% of the RFID tags when the latter are in the facility. By one approach these antenna units can all be disposed at a substantially same height within the facility. These antenna units may, or may not, be visually concealed as desired.
US08669912B2
Techniques for providing multi-directional receiving antenna arrays are described herein. According to an embodiment, an apparatus includes an antenna array including multiple antennas and an orientation system. The orientation system includes multiple orientation marks and multiple alignment marks. At least one of the multiple antennas is configured to be positioned toward a respective station transmitter location based at least partially on an alignment of one of the multiple orientation marks relative to one of the multiple alignment marks.
US08669908B2
A broadband antenna element for RF transmission and reception over cellular frequencies. The antenna element is formed of conductive material on a substrate surface of conductive material in the form of a pair of half portions extending in opposite directions to distal tips defining the widest distance of a mouth of a cavity. The mouth converges to reduce in cross-section to a narrowest point at a plurality of different flare angles defined by the edges of the two half portions in between the pair of half portions forming the element. The resulting antenna element radiates and receives a wide band cellular frequencies enabling a single element to serve different providers operating on different frequency bands in the cellular spectrum between 680 MHz to 1900 MHz.
US08669903B2
A dual frequency band antenna has a first section with a dielectric material separating parallel first and second conductive layers. An electrical shunt extends between the first and second electrically conductive layers. A second section includes an inverted F element electrically connected to the second electrically conductive layer. A transmission medium carries signals between the antenna assembly and a communication circuit and has a first electrical conductor connected to the first electrically conductive layer and a second electrical conductor connected to the inverted F element.
US08669890B2
A method of estimating mismatches of a time-to-digital converter (TDC) includes: capturing phase error samples; calculating difference between the phase error samples and an expected value of the phase error samples; and adjusting correction gain of the TDC based on the calculating step. Another method of estimating mismatches of a TDC includes: capturing TDC output code samples; storing a plurality of accumulation values corresponding to different TDC values respectively, wherein each accumulation value records a number of times a TDC value is carried by the TDC output code samples; calculating a desired value based on the accumulation values; calculating difference between the accumulation values and the desired value; and adjusting correction gain of the TDC based on the calculating step.
US08669881B2
A container data center includes a container, a plurality of power supplies, an electric switch system, a plurality of normally closed switches, an alarm device, and a controller. The electric switch system is received in the container. The plurality of normally closed switches are connected between the power supplies and the electric switch system. Each normally closed switch is connected with a corresponding one of the power supplies in series. The controller is connected to the normally closed switches and the alarm device, configured for receiving earthquake information containing an earthquake intensity, and configured for controlling the alarm device to activate alarms and controlling some of the normally closed switches or all the normally closed switches to open when the earthquake intensity is equal to or greater than a predetermined earthquake intensity.
US08669878B1
A carbon monoxide activated garage door opening system including a garage door opening system connected to an existing garage door and a user interface communicatively coupled to the garage door opening system for toggling the garage door between open and closed positions based upon receiving a corresponding user input at the user interface. Such a user interface preferably has a first carbon monoxide detector located therein for detecting an initial carbon monoxide level in the ambient air surrounding the user interface. A second carbon monoxide detector is attached to a rear side of the user interface for confirming whether the initial carbon monoxide level is an unsafe carbon monoxide level. In this manner, upon validating the unsafe carbon monoxide level, the user interface is adapted to automatically override the user input and thereby open the garage door.
US08669875B1
A business method includes a system for providing notification to a designated pet care provider to ensure that care will be provided to a subscriber's pets, animals, or livestock in the event the subscriber is unable to care for his/her pets due to an injury, hospitalization, death or unexpected delay. The system includes a card that is provided to the subscriber with a unique ID number and telephone number on the card. An authorized person, upon finding the card, calls the telephone number to inform the system of an incapacitation or death of the subscriber. After confirming the validity of the call the system then attempts to contact the designated pet care provider. If a willing pet care provider is not reached within a predetermined period of time a local authority could be contacted to provide temporary care for the subscriber's pets. Optional levels of service are also described.
US08669867B2
A multi-function printer (MFP) and an alarm method thereof are provided. The provided method includes determining whether the MFP has accomplished printing a document; and when the MFP has accomplished printing the document, determining whether to produce an alarm message to an electronic device corresponding to the document in response to a comparison result between an input speech and a database. Thus, in response to the generation of the alarm message, not only to warn a user who forgot to take away the printed document, but also further to indicate the location of the printed document.
US08669861B1
A system and method for establishing a weight related risk profile using RFID technology is provided. While the cargo container is in transit, a RFID reader inside a cargo container polls the contents of the container by reading RFID data from each RFID tagged item and calculate the payload weight. When the truck transporting the cargo container passes a weigh station, or a high-speed scale embedded in the road, a payload weight is measured by a scale. A risk factor is assessed by comparing the estimated weight by the RFID reader with the measured weight by the scale. According to one aspect of the invention, the RFID based polling system has the ability to map the weight and location for each tagged item and estimate a container weight distribution. The estimated weight distribution is compared with the weight distribution measured by the scale to determine potential anomalies.
US08669855B2
An indicator portion (55) includes a first indicator portion (110) and a second indicator portion (112). The first indicator portion (110) indicates an accelerator pedal opening degree that changes in accordance with an operated amount of the accelerator pedal by the driver. The second indicator portion (112) includes a division line (114) and regions (116, 118) divided by the division line (114). The division line (114) shows an accelerator pedal opening degree where traveling modes (EV mode and HV mode) are switched. The regions (116, 118) show the ranges of accelerator pedal opening degrees where traveling is performed in EV mode and HV mode, respectively.
US08669854B2
Described herein is a method for determining and signalling to a driver of a motor vehicle a condition of danger deriving from a potential collision of the motor vehicle itself with an obstacle. The method is able to: determine a path of travel of the motor vehicle along a stretch of road; define an area of detection of the obstacles in the stretch of road; detect the obstacles present in the area of detection in such a way as to generate a list of possible obstacles that might be hit; identify, from among the possible obstacles detected, a main obstacle; determine a level of risk associated to a condition of impact of the motor vehicle with the main obstacle detected; and finally generate a signal or alarm message regarding the level of risk determined.
US08669853B1
A light affixed to the front of a school bus directs a beam of light across a road to enhance a safe crossing of the road by children boarding the bus. At least two red warning lights are mounted upon a front surface of the bus. A controller is operatively connected to the crossing light and warning lights.
US08669852B2
A reflex speaker which provides an acoustic signal generator for acoustic alarm signals is captured in a housing through which the acoustic signals project via ports at the exit end of the housing. The housing defines a compartment at the exit end with an opening which is covered so that the acoustic signals project out of the exit end around the compartment. The cover may be a transparent cover which provides a lens through which optical signals generated by optics in the compartment provided by either LEDs to provide an optical warning signal, or a video camera, such as a CCD, which responds to visual signals as from hazards at the rear of the vehicle.
US08669850B2
A reader and method for adjusting the transmission time of a continuous wave (CW), wherein the method comprises setting an initial value for a response waiting time, sending the CW to a tag after sending a command to the tag and waiting for a response from the tag, judging whether the response from the tag is received within the response waiting time. If the response from the tag is received within the response waiting time, then sending of the CW is stopped and the response waiting time is adjusted. If the response from the tag is still not received beyond the response waiting time, then sending of the CW is stopped. The time for the reader to wait for a response from the tag is far less than 20 ms. Consequently, a command failure can be found early, so as to improve the processing efficiency of an RFID system.
US08669849B2
Biological reagent carrier devices and methods are disclosed, which employ RFID techniques to associate information with biological reagents.
US08669847B2
The directions of at least two fibers arranged at a tag are detected to identify the tag and an item intended to be attached thereto. The fibers have an impedance for high frequency electromagnetic waves, which impedance is dependent on a magnetic field at the fiber. Electromagnets generate a modulation magnetic field having an amplitude modulated magnetic component with a first frequency; and a bias magnetic field for counterbalancing any constant magnetic fields parallel to the direction of the fiber. A microwave transmitter directs a frequency modulated microwave signal towards the fiber via a transmitting antenna. The microwave reflected by the microfibers is received by a receiving antenna coaxial with the transmitting antenna and is used to identify tag by determining the orientation of the fibers.
US08669828B1
Integrated circuits with decoupling capacitor circuitry are provided. Decoupling capacitor circuitry may include multiple arrays of decoupling capacitors. Each decoupling capacitor array may have a corresponding decoupling capacitor monitoring circuit that is associated with that decoupling capacitor array. Each decoupling capacitor monitoring circuit may include a resistor and switching circuitry. Each decoupling capacitor monitoring circuit may be coupled to a comparator and control circuitry. During testing, the control circuitry may configure each decoupling capacitor array for leakage current testing one at a time. If a decoupling capacitor array is determined to exhibit excessive leakage currents, that decoupling capacitor array will be marked as defective and will be disabled from use. If the decoupling capacitor array is determined to exhibit tolerable leakage currents, that decoupling capacitor array will be enable for use to help reduce power supply noise.
US08669818B2
Apparatus and methods for wave reversing in a travelling wave oscillator are disclosed. The travelling wave oscillator includes a differential transmission line and regeneration elements connected along the differential transmission line. The differential transmission line can be used to propagate a wave traveling in either a counterclockwise or a clockwise direction. Each of the regeneration elements includes a first gain portion operable to degenerate a wave travelling in the counterclockwise direction and to regenerate a wave travelling the clockwise direction, and a second gain portion operable to degenerate a wave travelling in a clockwise direction and to regenerate a wave travelling in a counterclockwise direction.
US08669815B2
An apparatus for controlling an amplifier in a communication system includes a first shifter, a generating unit, a second shifter, and a switching bias unit. The first shifter is configured to level-shift a switching voltage of an amplifier to a first voltage. The generating unit is configured to invert the first voltage and output a second voltage. The second shifter is configured to level-shift the second voltage to a third voltage. The switching bias unit is configured to receive the third voltage and output a bias voltage for a gate switching operation of the amplifier to the amplifier.
US08669809B2
A circuit includes a first input terminal for receiving a first pulsed voltage and a second input terminal for receiving a second pulsed voltage. The circuit further includes a load and an LC filter. The LC filter includes a coupled inductor pair that includes a first winding and a second winding magnetically coupled to each other. The first winding is coupled between the first input terminal and the load, and the second winding is coupled between the second input terminal and the load. A frequency of a first current flowing through the first winding is increased by the second pulsed voltage applied to the second winding.
US08669808B2
A bias circuit for generating an output bias current includes a first transistor, a passive component, a second transistor, and a bias current generator. The first transistor has a first node coupled to a first reference voltage, a second node, and a control node. The passive component is coupled between the first reference voltage and the control node of the first transistor. The second transistor has a first node coupled to the control node of the first transistor, a control node coupled to the second node of the first transistor, and a second node for providing the output bias current according to a current passing through the passive component. The bias current generator is coupled to the second node of the first transistor, and implemented for providing the first transistor with a bias current.
US08669798B2
Designs of devices having digital phase locked loop (DPLL) circuits that include multiple digital feedback loops to generate high frequency clock signals by a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO). A time-to-digital converter (TDC) module is provided in such a DPLL circuit to receive an input reference clock signal and a first feedback clock signal from a first digital feedback loop and produces a digital TDC output indicative of a first phase error caused by a difference in time between the input reference clock signal and the first feedback clock signal. A second digital feedback loop is provided to generate a second digital feedback signal indicative of a second phase error caused by a difference in frequency between a desired clock signal and a generated clock signal generated by the DCO. The first and second digital feedback loops are coupled to the DCO to generate the high frequency clock signals.
US08669793B2
A driving circuit has output terminal connected to an ultrasonic transducer and provides an output voltage. The driving circuit includes an output transistor coupled between a voltage reference and the output terminal, a high voltage comparator coupled to said output terminal and to a threshold voltage reference), a start-up circuit controlled by a setting signal; and a switching ON/OFF circuit having an input coupled to the start-up circuit an input coupled to the comparator, and an output coupled to a control terminal of the output transistor. The start-up circuit provides an ON signal to the switching on/off circuit and the comparator provides an OFF signal to the switching on/off circuit which switches off the output transistor. The high voltage comparator generates the switching off signal in response to the output voltage reaching a desired supply voltage value which depends on the value of the first threshold voltage reference.
US08669760B2
An angle detection system of the present invention includes: a stator 200 which includes a plurality of salient pole portions which are formed on a flat sheet made of a magnetic material and are raised by bending, each salient pole portion constituting a winding magnetic core on which a winding member for excitation and a winding member for detection are mounted; and a rotor 300 which is made of a magnetic material and is configured to be rotatable relative to the stator such that gap permeance between the rotor and each salient pole portion is changed due to the rotation thereof about a rotational axis thereof. According to the angle detection device of the present invention, it is possible to provide the angle detection device which can largely reduce the number of parts and can realize the reduction of cost and the enhancement of reliability.
US08669759B2
Embodiments relate to omnipolar magnetic field switches. In one embodiment, omnipolar behavior is generated in a Hall effect switch by extracting the modulus of the electric signal generated by the Hall transducer and feeding it to a single high-precision comparator, without any sampling or additional processing steps. The modulus extraction and threshold evaluation can be done in parallel.
US08669755B2
A geometry sensor includes: a detection surface including a plurality of polymer sensor elements and configured to detect an external object, the polymer sensor elements being arranged side-by-side along one or more directions and each generating a voltage according to a deformation; and a detecting section detecting a surface geometry of a region in the external object that is in contact with the detection surface, based on the voltage obtained from each of the polymer sensor elements in the detection surface.
US08669754B2
A power supply noise rejection circuit for functional circuits, such as a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). The power supply noise rejection circuit includes an isolation transistor connected to a voltage supply for providing an output current and voltage substantially free of noise across the full frequency range. A current source, a diode connected reference transistor with resistance means connected between its gate and drain terminals, and a dummy circuit serially connected between the voltage supply and ground generate a bias voltage that is applied to the gate of the isolation transistor. The dummy circuit mimics the DC characteristics of the functional circuit such that the output current tracks with process and temperature variations. The isolation transistor and the reference transistor can have negative threshold voltages, and the circuit can include bleed means for drawing current from the gate of the reference transistor and isolation transistor.
US08669752B2
An apparatus and method are provided for controlling circuit resistance values used for detection of a device in an inline powered system. The system comprises a source device, either a current source or a voltage source, associated with an inline power device. The system also comprises a resistance control circuit comprising a transistor having an emitter, a base and a collector, and a first resistor coupled between the emitter and the collector. In response to the resistance control circuit receiving a relatively low current from the source device, the transistor is configured to be in an off state so that current from the source device flows through the first resistor have a value selected in order to maintain a sufficient resistance during an inline power device detection mode.
US08669748B2
A DC-DC converter transforms a DC input voltage to generate a DC output voltage by complementary switching control of a main switching transistor and a synchronous rectifying transistor. The DC-DC converter includes a soft-start circuit configured to generate a soft-start voltage rising from an initial voltage at start-up of the DC-DC converter; and a control circuit configured to control switching of the main switching transistor and the synchronous rectifying transistor based on the soft-start voltage to perform soft start of the DC-DC converter. The control circuit brings both of the main switching transistor and the synchronous rectifying transistor to an off state while the soft-start voltage is lower than the DC output voltage.
US08669743B2
An active damping switching system can include an active damper apparatus having a stabilization resistor, a stabilization switch coupled to the stabilization resistor, an active damper controller coupled to the stabilization switch, a current sensor coupled to the active damper controller. The system can further include a direct current power source coupled to the active damper apparatus, a constant power load and an input filter disposed between the constant power load and the active damper apparatus.
US08669740B2
A vehicle charging system includes: a vehicle (14) provided with a battery (13) and a charging control unit (53); an external power source (11); a charging cable (12) provided with an electric power line (12L) and a first communication control unit (33); an external power source line (11L); a second communication control unit (24); a consumed power acquiring unit (23) acquiring consumed power (PIF); a charging-allowable power calculating unit (23) calculating charging-allowable power (PEV), and transmitting unit (43) and a control unit (34) provided at the charging cable.
US08669737B2
An electrical charging system is provided, and includes a voltage supply and a conductive coupling element. The conductive coupling element includes a pilot circuit, a resistance element, a light-emitting diode (“LED”), and a switching element. The pilot circuit has a primary control contact and a ground contact. The pilot circuit is configured to be in communication with and receive voltage from the voltage supply. The pilot circuit is configured for supplying a control pilot voltage. The resistance element is electrically connected to the ground contact. The resistance element includes a resistance value. The LED is electrically connected to the resistance element and the ground contact, and has a forward voltage drop. The switching element is actuated to selectively connect the resistance element and the LED element to the primary control contact.
US08669736B2
A system and method include detecting whether a fast charger module is coupled to a system having a processor and a memory device. If the fast charger module is coupled to the system, a fast charging current is provided from the fast charger module at multiple selectable voltage levels via an internal charger. If the fast charger module is not detected as coupled to the system, a charging current is provided from an AC adapter via the internal charger.
US08669733B2
A power supply circuit for an electric motor, the circuit comprising a plurality of inverter bridge arms, each having means for connection to a respective winding of the motor, each inverter bridge arm comprising in series a first insulated gate bipolar transistor and a junction field effect transistor that are connected to a controller, the circuit including a second insulated gate bipolar transistor connected in series with each field effect transistor and connected to the controller, and a damping resistor connected in parallel with the second bipolar transistor. An aircraft flight control member including a movable airfoil associated with at least one drive motor connected to such a power supply circuit.
US08669729B2
A controller that controls ON/OFF of switching elements and opening/closing of an opening/closing unit based on currents detected by current detectors. The controller includes a fault detector that detects whether any of the switching elements has a short-circuit fault and outputs a signal indicating a detection result, an ON/OFF controller that sets one of the switching elements that constitutes a phase other than a first phase that involves the short-circuit fault to an ON operation state and outputs a signal for opening the opening/closing unit, and an opening/closing controller that opens an opening/closing unit connected to a third phase other than the first phase and the second phase in which one of the switching elements is set to the ON operation state by the ON/OFF controller.
US08669728B2
An angle detection apparatus for a rotor of a motor includes a period counter, a step period generator, and an angle generator. The period counter receives a rotor sensing signal, and calculates a plurality of time ranges of a plurality of pulses of the rotor sensing signal. The step period generator generates a ratio value and an error signal according to an average time range value of the time ranges and a set value. The step period generator further adjusts the ratio value according to the error signal, and generates a step time according to the adjusted ratio value and the average time range value. The angle generator receives the step time and the rotor sensing signal, and obtains an angle detection result according to the rotor sensing signal and the step time.
US08669723B2
Provided is a control apparatus of a vibration-type actuator for generating an elliptical motion of contact portions by a common alternating current signal including a frequency determining unit for setting a frequency of the alternating current signal. The frequency determining unit sets the frequency of the alternating current signal for changing an ellipticity of the elliptical motion, within a frequency range such that ellipticity changing frequency ranges set for the vibrators are overlapped, and the ellipticity changing frequency ranges are set for the vibrators as frequency ranges between an upper limit and a lower limit, such that the lower limit is a maximum resonant frequency at a time of changing the ellipticity, and the upper limit is larger than the lower limit and is a maximum frequency for the relative movement of the driving member.
US08669722B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) lamp includes a number of different color LEDs that can be turned on and off in different combinations using an external switch operable by a user. A user or a controller can adjust the color temperature of light output by the lamp. The color temperature change may be a user preference and can compensate for decreased phosphor efficiency over time.
US08669719B2
A light-emitting system includes first and second solid-state light-emitting components, a current source providing a constant current through the second solid-state light-emitting component, a first instrumentation amplifier detecting a second forward voltage across the second solid-state light-emitting component so as to generate a first detection voltage having a magnitude dependent on the second forward voltage, a compensation voltage module operable to generate a compensation voltage having a magnitude related to the second forward voltage according to the first detection voltage and two reference voltages, and a power control module detecting a first forward voltage across the first solid-state light-emitting component and providing a driving current therethrough that is dependent on the compensation voltage and the first forward voltage and that varies according to ambient temperature.
US08669715B2
Power consumed by an LED driver may be reduced by drawing, from an electronic transformer or dimmer, an input current that is constant over a plurality of input voltages. Power derived from the constant input current is provided to the LED driver.
US08669709B2
A solid state lighting driver and system having a total harmonic distortion (“THDi”) bypass circuit is disclosed. The solid state driver energizes a solid state lamp having a first lighting segment serially connected to a second lighting segment. The THDi bypass circuit bypasses a first lighting segment and energizes a second lighting segment of LEDs when the driving voltage is low. As a result, the solid state lamp will emit light over a larger portion of the power cycle and will decrease the THDi.
US08669690B2
Provided is a piezoelectric sound generating device capable of obtaining a stable connection state of lead-out conductors constituted of a conductive resin layer. A piezoelectric sound generating device 10, wherein lead-out conductors 18a, 18b are so flatly formed as to extend from surface electrodes 11a, 11b1 of a piezoelectric element 11 exposed to first openings 13a1, 13b1 to terminal electrodes 15a, 15b of a terminal portion 15 exposed to second openings 13a2, 13b2 on one main surface side of a diaphragm 12, respectively. As a result, the surface electrode 11a1 of the piezoelectric element 11 and the terminal electrode 15a of the terminal portion 15, and also the surface electrode 11b1 and a surface electrode 11c of the piezoelectric element 11, and the terminal electrode 15b of the terminal portion 15 are conductively connected. Hence, poor connection caused by cracks or the like is not likely to occur in the lead-out conductors.
US08669687B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of adjusting the resonance frequency of a vibrating element, comprising measuring the resonance frequency of the vibrating element, determining, using abacuses and as a function of the resonance frequency measured, a dimension and a position of at least one area of modified thickness to be formed on the vibrating element so that the resonance frequency thereof corresponds to a setpoint frequency, and forming on the vibrating element, an area of modified thickness of the determined dimension and position.
US08669681B2
A bar-wound stator, which is connectable to a plurality of fixed terminal points, includes a plurality of stator teeth and a plurality of magnet wires. Each of the plurality of magnet wires has a winding portion wound about at least one of the plurality of stator teeth and a junction portion extending away therefrom. A plurality of flexible leads each have a first portion ultrasonically welded directly to a respective one of the junction portions of the plurality of magnet wires. A second portion of each of the plurality of flexible leads extends flexibly away from the first portion and is configured for attachment to a respective one of the fixed terminal points.
US08669680B2
A torsional vibration damper is integrated into a rotating electrical machine. A rotatable assembly of the electrical machine includes a rotor core pack having a first end and a second end, The integrated torsional vibration damper consists of a torsional elastic coupling and a torsional elastic damper and provides mechanical damping. The integrated torsional vibration damper is mounted to the rotatable shaft of the electrical machine by a flange. The rotor core pack is mounted at the first end to the integrated torsional vibration damper by suitable structure members such as a mounting flange and is not fixedly mounted directly to the rotatable shaft. In the case where the rotor core pack is cooled by circulating coolant fluid (e.g. MIDEL) then the integrated torsional vibration damper may be a viscous damper that uses the coolant fluid as a viscous working, fluid.
US08669663B2
A wiring over a substrate capable of reducing particles between wirings and a method for manufacturing the wiring is disclosed. A wiring over a substrate capable of preventing short-circuiting between wirings due to big difference in projection and depression between wirings and a method for manufacturing the wiring is also disclosed. Further, a wiring over a substrate capable of preventing cracks in the insulating layer due to stress at the edge of a wiring or particles and a method for manufacturing the wiring is also disclosed. According to the present invention, a method for manufacturing a wiring over a substrate is provided that comprises the steps of: forming a first conductive layer over an insulating surface; forming a first mask pattern over the first conductive layer; forming a second mask pattern by etching the first mask pattern under a first condition, simultaneously, forming a second conductive layer having a side having an angle of inclination cross-sectionally by etching the first conductive layer; and forming a third conductive layer and a third mask pattern by etching the second conductive layer and the second mask pattern under a second condition; wherein a selective ratio under the first condition of the first conductive layer to the first mask pattern is in a range of 0.25 to 4, and a selective ratio under the second condition of the second conductive layer to the second mask pattern is larger than that under the first condition.
US08669662B2
A fastening device is provided that includes a semiconductor body with an integrated circuit, and a dielectric passivation layer formed on the surface of the semiconductor body, and a trace formed underneath the passivation layer, and an oxide layer formed beneath the trace, and a connecting component that forms a frictional connection between a component formed above the passivation layer and the semiconductor body, wherein a formation passing through the passivation layer and the oxide layer and having a bottom surface is formed, and a conductive layer is formed on the bottom surface and the connecting component forms an electrical connection between the conductive layer and the component.
US08669660B2
Structure and methods of making the structures. The structures include a structure, comprising: an organic dielectric passivation layer extending over a substrate; an electrically conductive current spreading pad on a top surface of the organic dielectric passivation layer; an electrically conductive solder bump pad comprising one or more layers on a top surface of the current spreading pad; and an electrically conductive solder bump containing tin, the solder bump on a top surface of the solder bump pad, the current spreading pad comprising one or more layers, at least one of the one or more layers consisting of a material that will not form an intermetallic with tin or at least one of the one or more layers is a material that is a diffusion barrier to tin and adjacent to the solder bump pad.
US08669652B2
To provide an inexpensive lead component which can be easily connected to a semiconductor chip and which has satisfactory connectability. There is provided a lead component including a base material having a connection part for connecting to a semiconductor chip, comprising: a solder part having a Zn layer made of a Zn-bonding material rolled and clad-bonded on the base material, and an Al layer made of an Al-bonding material rolled and clad-bonded on the Zn layer, in a prescribed region including the connection part on the base material; and the solder part further comprising a metal thin film composed of one kind or two kinds or more of Au, Ag, Cu, Ni, Pd, and Pt covering a surface of the Al layer.
US08669650B2
A semiconductor device package comprises a lead frame having a die paddle comprising a first chip installation area and a second chip installation area, a recess area formed in the first chip installation area, and multiple metal pillars formed in the recess area, a notch divides the first chip installation area into a transverse base extending transversely and a longitudinal base extending longitudinally, and separates the recess area into a transverse recess part formed in the transverse base and a longitudinal recess part formed in longitudinal base; a portion of a transverse extending part connecting to an external pin extends into a portion inside of the notch.
US08669647B2
A leadframe for a QFN/SON semiconductor device comprising a strip of a first metal as the leadframe core with a plurality of leads and a pad. a layer of a second metal over both surfaces of the strip. There are sidewalls normal to the surfaces. The first metal exposed at the sidewalls and at portions of a surface of the pad.
US08669646B2
Methods and apparatus for improved electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and thermal performance in integrated circuit (IC) packages are described. A die-up or die-down package includes a protective lid, a plurality of ground posts, an IC die, and a substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of ground planes. The IC die is mounted to the substrate. Plurality of ground posts is coupled to plurality of ground planes that surround IC die. Protective lid is coupled to plurality of ground posts. The plurality of ground posts and the protective lid from an enclosure structure that substantially encloses the IC die, and shields EMI from and radiating towards the IC die. The enclosure structure also dissipates heat generated by the IC die during operation.
US08669645B2
Methods of forming metal oxide structures and methods of forming metal oxide patterns on a substrate using a block copolymer system formulated for self-assembly. A block copolymer at least within a trench in the substrate and including at least one soluble block and at least one insoluble block may be annealed to form a self-assembled pattern including a plurality of repeating units of the at least one soluble block laterally aligned with the trench and positioned within a matrix of the at least one insoluble block. The self-assembled pattern may be exposed to a metal oxide precursor that impregnates the at least one soluble block. The metal oxide precursor may be oxidized to form a metal oxide. The self-assembled pattern may be removed to form a pattern of metal oxide lines on the substrate surface. Semiconductor device structures are also described.
US08669642B2
A semiconductor chip includes a substrate having a front surface and a back surface opposite the front surface, a conductive column part passing through the substrate from the front surface to the back surface, a cavity formed by removing a part of the back surface around an end portion of the conductive column part such that the end portion of the conductive column part protrudes from the cavity, a first insulation layer formed in the cavity such that a portion of the end portion of the conductive column part is exposed, and a back electrode electrically connected to the exposed end portion of the conductive column part.
US08669635B2
An electrically conductive composite material that includes an electrically conductive polymer, and at least one metal nanoparticle coated with a protective agent, wherein said protective agent includes a compound having a first part that has at least part of the molecular backbone of said electrically conductive polymer and a second part that interacts with said at least one metal nanoparticle.
US08669631B2
A solid state imaging device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate with a solid state imaging element, a first impurity layer, a plurality of external electrodes, and a translucent substrate. The first impurity layer is formed on a back surface side of the substrate, and forms a pn junction with the substrate. The plurality of external electrodes is formed on the back surface of the substrate and is electrically connected to the solid state imaging element. The translucent substrate is fixed to the substrate.
US08669622B2
A non-volatile semiconductor device includes a memory cell in a first area of a substrate, a low voltage transistor in a second area of the substrate, and a high voltage transistor in a third area of the substrate. The memory cell includes a tunnel insulation layer formed on the substrate, a charge trapping layer pattern formed on the tunnel insulation layer in the first area of the substrate, a blocking layer pattern formed on the charge trapping layer pattern and a control gate formed on the blocking layer pattern. The control gate has a width substantially smaller than a width of the blocking layer pattern and the width of the control gate is substantially smaller than a width of the charge trapping layer pattern. In addition, an offset is formed between the control gate and the blocking layer pattern such that a spacer is not formed on a sidewall of the control gate.
US08669616B2
Semiconductor devices with n-shaped bottom stress liners are formed. Embodiments include forming a protuberance on a substrate, conformally forming a sacrificial material layer over the protuberance, forming a gate stack above the sacrificial material layer on a silicon layer, removing the sacrificial material layer to form a tunnel, and forming a stress liner in the tunnel conforming to the shape of the protuberance. Embodiments further include forming a silicon layer over the sacrificial material layer and lining the tunnel with a passivation layer prior to forming the stress liner.
US08669610B2
A high-frequency power amplifier of the type to be mounted in an RF module for mobile phones having high-frequency power field effect transistors and gate protective diodes which are coupled between the gates and the sources of the high-frequency power field effect transistors. The gate protective diodes have an n type region formed over the main surface of a p type epitaxial layer, a first p type region formed at the center of the main surface of the n type region, a second p type region formed over the main surface of the epitaxial layer around the n type region from the periphery of the main surface of the n type region, and p+ type buried layers for coupling the second p type region to a substrate body. The distance between the end portions of the p+ type buried layers and the n+ type region is 7 μm or more.
US08669603B2
Some embodiments include DRAM having transistor gates extending partially over SOI, and methods of forming such DRAM. Unit cells of the DRAM may be within active region pedestals, and in some embodiments the unit cells may comprise capacitors having storage nodes in direct contact with sidewalls of the active region pedestals. Some embodiments include 0C1T memory having transistor gates entirely over SOI, and methods of forming such 0C1T memory.
US08669598B2
A unit pixel of an image sensor and a photo detector are disclosed. The photo detector of the present invention configured to absorb light can include: a light-absorbing part configured to absorb light by being formed in a floated structure; an oxide film being in contact with one surface of the light-absorbing part; a source being in contact with one side of the other surface of the oxide film and separated from the light-absorbing part with the oxide film therebetween; a drain facing the source so as to be in contact with the other side of the other surface of the oxide film and separated from the light-absorbing part with the oxide film therebetween; and a channel interposed between the source and the drain and configured to form flow of an electric current between the source and the drain.
US08669585B1
A strain release layer adjoining the active layer in a blue LED is bounded on the bottom by a first relatively-highly silicon-doped region and is also bounded on the top by a second relatively-highly silicon-doped region. The second relatively-highly silicon-doped region is a sublayer of the active layer of the LED. The first relatively-highly silicon-doped region is a sublayer of the N-type layer of the LED. The first relatively-highly silicon-doped region is also separated from the remainder of the N-type layer by an intervening sublayer that is only lightly doped with silicon. The silicon doping profile promotes current spreading and high output power (lumens/watt). The LED has a low reverse leakage current and a high ESD breakdown voltage. The strain release layer has a concentration of indium that is between 5×1019 atoms/cm3 and 5×102° atoms/cm3, and the first and second relatively-highly silicon-doped regions have silicon concentrations that exceed 1×1018 atoms/cm3.
US08669583B2
A heat-curable silicone resin composition for sealing optical semiconductors including: component (A): 100 parts by mass of a silicon compound expressed by Formula (1) below; and component (B): from 0.001 to 10 parts by mass of a condensation catalyst. (R1SiO3/2)a((R2)2SiO2/2)b((R3)3SiO1/2)c(SiO4/2)d(XO1/2)e (1) In this formula, R1, R2, and R3 are identical or differing monovalent organic groups, “X” is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group, “a” is a positive number, “b” is 0 or a positive number, “c” is 0 or a positive number, “d” is 0 or a positive number, and “e” is 0 or a positive number; however “a” to “e” satisfy the following conditions: b/a is a number from 0 to 10, c/a is a number from 0 to 0.5, d/(a+b+c+d) is a number from 0 to 0.3, and e/(a+b+c+d) is a number from 0.01 to 1.5.
US08669582B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device a light transmissive substrate, a light emitting structure disposed on the light transmissive substrate, comprising a first conductive type semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second conductive type semiconductor layer, a conductive layer disposed on the second conductive type semiconductor layer, a first electrode part disposed on the conductive layer, with at least predetermined region in contact with the first conductive type semiconductor layer, passing through the conductive layer, the second conductive type semiconductor layer and the active, and a first insulation layer disposed between the conductive layer and the first electrode part, between the second conductive type semiconductor layer and the first electrode part and between the active layer and the first electrode part.
US08669581B2
Provided is a light emitting device package, which includes a ceramic body, an ultraviolet light emitting diode, a support member, and a glass film. The ceramic body defines a cavity. The ultraviolet light emitting diode is disposed within the cavity. The support member is disposed on the body, and surrounds the cavity. The glass film is coupled to the support member, and covers the cavity. Since the light emitting device package includes the ceramic body to efficiently dissipate heat, and the glass film is directly attached to the ceramic body to decrease the number of components, thereby simplifying the manufacturing process thereof, and reducing the manufacturing costs thereof.
US08669576B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer formed in contact with the first semiconductor layer, and a third semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type formed in contact with the second semiconductor layer, the first semiconductor layer provided with a first semiconductor region at a given distance from an interface between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and an impurity concentration of the first semiconductor region higher than an impurity concentration of the first semiconductor layer except where the first semiconductor region is formed.
US08669575B2
In a light emitting module 40, light wavelength conversion ceramic 58 converts the wavelength of the light emitted by a semiconductor light emitting element 52. The light wavelength conversion ceramic 58 is made so transparent that the light wavelength conversion ceramic 58 has 40 percent or more of the total light transmittance of the light with a wavelength within the conversion wavelength range. A reflective film 60 is provided on the surface of the light wavelength conversion ceramic 58 and narrows down the emission area of the light that has transmitted the light wavelength conversion ceramic 58 to an area smaller than the light emitting area of the semiconductor light emitting element 52. In the case, the reflective film 60 guides the light such that the light is emitted in the direction approximately parallel to the light emitting surface of the light emitting element 52.
US08669573B2
Methods of packaging a semiconductor light emitting device include providing a substrate having the semiconductor light emitting device on a front face thereof. A first optical element is formed from a first material on the front face proximate the semiconductor light emitting device but not covering the semiconductor light emitting device and a second optical element is formed from a second material, different from the first material, over the semiconductor light emitting device and the first optical element. Packaged semiconductor light emitting devices are also provided.
US08669563B2
Light emitting devices include an active region of semiconductor material and a first contact on the active region. The first contact is configured such that photons emitted by the active region pass through the first contact. A photon absorbing wire bond pad is provided on the first contact. The wire bond pad has an area less than the area of the first contact. A reflective structure is disposed between the first contact and the wire bond pad such that the reflective structure has substantially the same area as the wire bond pad. A second contact is provided opposite the active region from the first contact. The reflective structure may be disposed only between the first contact and the wire bond pad. Methods of fabricating such devices are also provided.
US08669562B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a silicon carbide, a metal silicide formed on the silicon carbide and including a first layer and a second layer having a carbon ratio lower than that of the first layer, and a metallic electrode formed on the metal silicide, wherein the second layer is formed on the first layer, and the second layer is in contact with the metallic electrode, and an average grain diameter of a metal silicide in the second layer is larger than an average grain diameter of a metal silicide in the first layer.
US08669558B2
A pixel structure includes a thin film transistor device, an insulating layer disposed on the thin film transistor device, and a pixel electrode disposed on the insulating layer. The thin film transistor device includes a floating conductive pad disposed at one side of a semiconductor layer, and electrically connected to a source/drain electrode. The insulating layer has a first contact hole partially exposing the floating conductive pad. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the floating conductive pad via the first contact hole.
US08669555B2
Electrode pads respectively have a probe region permitting probe contact and a non-probe region. In each of the electrode pads arranged zigzag in two or more rows, a lead interconnect for connecting another electrode pad with an internal circuit is not placed directly under the probe region but placed directly under the non-probe region.
US08669549B2
A laminated body includes a lower electrode formed on a substrate and a basic insulating film which is formed above the lower electrode and covers the lower electrode on the substrate, in which the lower electrode has a film thickness reduction section in which the film thickness of the lower electrode in a portion which is not covered by the basic insulating film is smaller than the film thickness of the lower electrode in a portion which is covered by the basic insulating film in the lower electrode.
US08669542B2
An extreme ultraviolet light source apparatus for supplying extreme ultraviolet light to a processing unit for performing processing by using the extreme ultraviolet light. The extreme ultraviolet light source apparatus includes: a chamber in which the extreme ultraviolet light to be supplied to the processing unit is generated; a collector mirror for collecting the extreme ultraviolet light generated in the chamber to output the extreme ultraviolet light to the processing unit; and an optical path connection module for defining a route of the extreme ultraviolet light between the chamber and the processing unit and isolating the route of the extreme ultraviolet light from outside.
US08669536B2
An ink composition includes a colorant visible under visible light and a tagging composition, including a carrier and a detectable marker dispersed or dissolved in the carrier. The detectable marker is an isotope of an element, the isotope being present in the ink composition in a concentration ranging from about 1 parts per billion (ppb) to about 1000 ppb.
US08669526B2
Provided are a scintillator panel and a radiation detector which give a radiation image reduced in sensitivity unevenness and sharpness unevenness. Also provided are processes for producing the scintillator and the detector. The scintillator panel comprises a support and, deposited thereon, a phosphor layer comprising columnar crystals of a phosphor which have been formed by the vapor deposition method. The panel is characterized in that the columnar crystals of a phosphor comprise cesium iodide (CsI) as a base ingredient and thallium (Tl) as an activator ingredient and have, in a root part thereof, a layer containing no thallium, and that the coefficient of variation in thallium concentration in the plane of the phosphor layer is 40% or less.
US08669523B2
One embodiment relates to a method of inspecting a site location on a target substrate. Contours are obtained, the contours having been generated from a reference image using a design clip. A target image of the site location is acquired. The contours are aligned to the target image, and contrast values are computed for pixels on the contours. A threshold is applied to the contrast values to determine contour-based defect blobs. Another embodiment relates to a method of generating contours for use in inspecting a site location for defects. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
US08669521B2
A detector for time of flight mass spectroscopy uses a microwave resonant cavity excited into resonance by the passage of charged particles as an ion detector. With proper configuration of the frequency of resonance of the cavity, its modes and its quality factor, nanosecond time resolution, should be possible.
US08669520B2
An ion trap comprises a ring electrode and opposite first and second endcap electrodes situated at opposite ends of the ring electrode. A waveform generator is configured to vary both frequency and amplitude of an AC waveform applied across the first and second endcap electrodes as a function of time, thereby exciting ions with a band of resonant secular frequencies substantially without exciting ions with adjacent secular frequencies.
US08669511B2
A pixel cell, and a method of use thereof, the pixel cell including: an output, a photosensor configured to generate a first measuring current in a first measurement cycle and a second measuring current in a second measurement cycle as a function of radiation, an output node, a power storage device configured so that in a first operating mode a current can be injected by the power storage device as a function of the first measuring current, and so that in a second operating mode the power storage device is configured to hold the injected current so that the injected current can be detected at the output node, and a switching unit configured to form a difference between the injected current and the second measuring current at the output node in a reading cycle and to couple the output node to the output.
US08669507B2
A laser scanning device includes a laser output unit, a scanner, a light splitting unit, an imaging compensation unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. A scanning focusing unit included in the scanner focuses a laser beam emitted by the laser output unit to scan an object. A visible light beam received by the canning focusing unit is reflected by the light splitting unit and is incident into the imaging compensation unit. Next, the detection unit receives the visible light beam passing through the imaging compensation unit, and outputs a detection signal. The control unit adjusts the detection signal according to the wavelength of the visible light beam, the wavelength of the laser beam, the scanning focusing unit, and the imaging compensation unit. Therefore, the laser scanning device may compensate the aberration and the dispersion caused when the visible light beam passes through the scanning focusing unit.
US08669505B2
The invention relates to a guidance system comprising estimation means able to estimate, in the course of flight, the attitude and the aerodynamic speed of a projectile, as well as the variations in the speed of the wind, on the basis of guidance orders formulated by guidance means of the guidance system, of a reference trajectory and of measurements obtained by measurement means of the system, using a model of the dynamic behavior of the projectile and a model of the dynamics of the wind.
US08669500B2
A countertop multi-function oven has a baking and a toasting mode. The oven uses a rotating input dial as a function selector. A second rotating input dial is used to allow a user selection of a bake time or a toasting load.
US08669489B2
The invention provides a high flow power cable for a welding system designed for effective cooling of the power cable while maintaining maneuverability of the cable. Provided is a power cable having two segments, the first segment being larger in diameter than the second segment. The first segment is generally coupled to the power source and the second segment is coupled to the welding torch. The first segment includes a thicker wire, which has less resistance and dissipates less heat while the second segment includes a thinner wire, allowing for easier handling. Additionally, cooling fluid is conducted through the first segment and the second segment, further cooling the cable.
US08669485B2
A reversal prevention mechanism for an electrical switching apparatus, such as a circuit breaker, includes an actuator assembly pivotably coupled to the circuit breaker housing, a first stop element for controlling movement of the actuator assembly, a stop assembly pivotably coupled to the housing, and a second stop element for controlling movement of the stop assembly. The stored energy mechanism is movable among a charged position, a discharged position, and a contact touch position corresponding to a point at which the circuit breaker separable contacts make initial electrical contact. When the stored energy mechanism is disposed in the contact touch position, the stop assembly cooperates with the actuator assembly to prevent the stored energy mechanism from moving backwards.
US08669484B1
A motion sensing switch actuator assembly is provided for automatically switching an existing light switch upon detection of motion. The assembly includes a housing having a rear face. An actuator is slidably coupled to the rear face of the housing. The actuator is configured for engaging and flipping a switch positioned adjacent to the rear face of the housing when the actuator slides relative to the housing. A motion sensor is coupled to the housing and configured for detecting motion proximate the housing. A processor is operationally coupled to the motion sensor and the actuator to selectively slide the actuator upon detection of predetermined input from the motion sensor.
US08669478B2
A wiring substrate includes a first insulating layer formed as an outermost layer on one surface side, and exhibiting a black color or a gray color, a first connection pad formed to expose from the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer formed as an outermost layer on another surface side, and exhibiting a black color or a gray color, and a second connection pad formed to expose from the second insulating layer, wherein a connection hole having a side wall surface formed like a curved surface is formed in the second insulating layer, and the second connection pad is exposed to a bottom part of the connection hole.
US08669473B2
A dry mica tape includes a base material, a binder resin layer A formed on the base material and including an epoxy resin and an accelerator, a mica paper layer formed in contact with the binder resin layer A, and a binder resin layer B formed in contact with the mica paper layer, including an epoxy resin, and providing a cured resin with a higher glass transition point than that of a cured resin of an impregnating varnish only by reacting with an impregnating varnish including an epoxy resin impregnated into the dry mica tape wound around a conductor.
US08669471B2
Electrical accessories and associated methods of use and manufacture. In one embodiment, a system includes a plurality of electrical junction boxes. Each electrical junction box includes at least one wall with a pair of spaced apart holes, wherein the holes are sized and shaped to receive a pair of corresponding mounting devices. The system also includes at least one bracket. The bracket includes a pair of spaced apart mounting devices, wherein the mounting devices are sized and shaped to protrude through the pair of corresponding spaced apart holes in the plurality of electrical junction boxes. At least one of the plurality of electrical junction boxes is maintained in a relative stationary position with respect to the at least one bracket when the pair of spaced apart mounting devices protrudes through the respective pair of spaced apart holes in the wall of the at least one electrical junction box.
US08669453B2
A foot operable percussion instrument producing jingling sounds similar to a tambourine is useable by a solo performer and possesses a wedge-shaped body with an inclined striking surface for the striking by a foot or a portion thereof. The wedge-shaped body is connected to a base plate member by a pair of rigid connectors that together define a fulcrum so that the front portion of the wedge-shaped block pivots downwardly when struck by a foot on the inclined striking surface and rights itself when the foot is lifted. The jingling sound produced is of short duration.
US08669452B2
A drum rug lays flat for a performance, and includes a rigid drum stop extending upwards from the front edge to prevent the bass drum from edging forward during a performance. The drum rug includes left and right flaps that can be releasably connected to drum rug left and right edges to form an enclosure, with the flaps forming the ends of the enclosure and the body of the drum rug forming the sides of the enclosure. Equipment can be placed in the enclosure for carrying, and the drum rug can be laid flat to support drums for performances.
US08669448B1
A wheat variety designated W020189J1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W020189J1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W020189J1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W020189J1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W020189J1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W020189J1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.
US08669447B1
A wheat variety designated W010400J3, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W010400J3, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W010400J3 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W010400J3 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W010400J3. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W010400J3 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.
US08669432B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1026033. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1026033. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1026033 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1026033 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08669429B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1025983. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1025983. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1025983 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1025983 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08669423B2
The invention provides a new Squash Leaf Curl Virus (SLCV) resistant gene slc-2 in cucurbit plants and plants comprising the slc-2 gene. The invention also provides molecular markers linked to slc-2 gene. The invention further provides methods of breeding to produce plants that are resistant to SLCV, and the resistant plants produced by such methods.
US08669421B2
A new and distinct lettuce variety designated ‘Dover’ is described. ‘Dover’ is an iceberg lettuce variety exhibiting vigorous growth, increased weight, and increased yield. ‘Dover’ is also characterized as having a large head size, a short core length, and a longer harvest period.
US08669420B2
The present invention provides a new and distinct hybrid variety of globe artichoke NUN 4060 AR. The new variety is to of the Camus type having large flat, pale green heads, and is relatively early maturing and produces heads suitable for both the fresh market and/or the processing industry.
US08669418B2
The present invention belongs to the field of functional proteomics and more particularly to the field of protein aggregation. The invention discloses a method for interfering with the function of a target protein and uses a non-naturally, user-designed molecule, designated as interferor, that has a specificity for a target protein and which induces aggregation upon contact with said target protein. The present invention also discloses such interferor molecules and their use in agrobiotech applications.
US08669409B2
Reusable cover for an absorbent article providing two or more features selected from maintaining skin condition, fitting a range of wearer shapes and sizes, being easily applied, providing conforming fit, and providing sustained fit.
US08669406B2
A process for the dehydrogenation of a paraffinic hydrocarbon compound, such as an alkane or alkylaromatic hydrocarbon compound to produce an unsaturated hydrocarbon compound, such as an olefin or vinyl aromatic compound or mixture thereof, in which a dehydrogenation catalyst contacts gaseous reactant hydrocarbons in a reactor at dehydrogenation conditions.
US08669403B2
Farnesene dimers and/or farnesane dimers and compositions thereof are described. The compositions provided comprise conventional additives. Methods of making and using the compounds and composition are also disclosed.
US08669401B2
A method and system for producing dispersed waxes, including a high shear mechanical device. In one embodiment, the method comprises forming a dispersion of wax globules in a carrier liquid in a high shear device prior to implementation in a waxy product. In another instance the system for producing waxy products comprises a high shear device for dispersing wax in a carrier liquid.
US08669394B2
The present invention relates to a method for decomposing and recovering an isocyanate compound, which comprises: continuously mixing and dispersing into water at high pressure and high temperature an isocyanate compound having at least one isocyanate group or group derived from an isocyanate group in a molten state or solution state, supplying a liquid mixture containing the isocyanate compound and the water at high pressure and high temperature continuously to a reactor, followed by subjecting the isocyanate compound to a decomposition reaction in the reactor, and recovering a raw material for the isocyanate compound or a derivative thereof; and an apparatus for decomposing and recovering an isocyanate compound, which comprises: a reactor which brings water at high pressure and high temperature into contact with an isocyanate compound having at least one isocyanate group or group derived from an isocyanate group to cause a decomposition reaction, a water supply line which continuously supplies the water at high pressure and high temperature to a reactor, a compound supply line which continuously supplies the isocyanate compound in a molten state or solution state to the water supply line, an on-off valve which communicates the compound supply line with a vicinity of a communication portion of the water supply line to the reactor, a dehydrating device which conducts a dehydration of a decomposition reaction product discharged from the reactor, and a purification device which purifies the decomposition reaction product after the dehydration.
US08669390B2
The present invention relates to: a process for producing a cyclic silane compound, which comprises subjecting a chained polysilane to pyrolysis in the presence of an oxide of a transition metal belonging to Group 8 or Group 11 of the periodic table; and a process for producing a cyclic carbosilane compound, which comprises subjecting a chained polysilane to pyrolysis in the presence of a simple substance of a metal selected from the group consisting of transition metal elements and elements belonging to Groups 12 to 15 of the periodic table or a compound thereof.
US08669378B2
The present invention relates to a process for the total synthesis of epicocconone analogs of formula (I): The invention also relates to novel epicocconone analogs.
US08669371B2
An improved process for selectively chlorinating 4,5-dihydro-1-phenyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5-ones, including 4,5-dihydro-3-alkyl-1-phenyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5-ones and4-haloalkyl-4, 5-dihydro-3-alkyl-1-phenyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5-ones in the 4-position of the phenyl ring by dissolving the compounds in a synergistic ratio of polar aprotic solvents, preferably acetonitrile and N,N-dimethylformamide in a 7:3 ratio and reacting the solution with chlorine gas.
US08669360B2
A method for converting an amorphous drug, such as everolimus, or other macrolide immunosuppressive drug, into a crystalline form. The method utilizes a slurry of the drug in organic liquid phase and ages the slurry to achieve the conversion.
US08669358B2
A vanadium phthalocyanine compound with low absorptivity in the visible light region and high absorptivity in the near-infrared light region, and represented by the following Formula:
US08669357B2
A method of localizing reproduction assisting hyaluronic acid to reproductive cell surfaces by covalently linking it to lipids is disclosed.
US08669351B2
Canavan disease, an autosomal recessive leukodystrophy, is caused by deficiency of aspartoacylase and accumulation of N-acetylaspartic acid in brain. Human aspartoacylase (ASP) cDNA spanning 1,435 bp has been cloned and expressed in E. coli. A base change, a854>c, has been found in 85% of the 34 Canavan alleles tested so far, which results in a missense glu285>ala mutation that is predicted to be part of the catalytic domain of aspartoacylase. The invention therefore provides nucleic acid sequences, genes, polypeptides, antibodies, vectors containing the gene, host cells transformed with vectors containing the gene, animal models for the disease, methods for expressing the polypeptide, genetic screening methods and kits, diagnostic methods and kits, methods of treating Canavan disease and methods of genetic therapy for the disease.
US08669348B2
The present invention relates to a novel hypoglycemic/anti-hyperglycemic protein named ADMc1 purified from the seeds of Momordica charantia for control of hyperglycemia. The process for the purification of novel hypoglycemic/anti-hyperglycemic protein named ADMc1 is also disclosed. The invention also relates to process for preparation and purification of the recombinant novel hypoglycemic/anti-hyperglycemic protein of Momordica charantia, named rADMc1. Both ADMc1 and rADMc1 are highly effective and need to be administered only once a day to maintain normal blood glucose levels. The procedure involves purification of a novel hypoglycemic/anti-hyperglycemic protein of M. charantia, construction of cDNA library from M. charantia seeds, screening of cDNA library using oligonucleotide probe designed on the basis of amino acid sequence of the tryptic fragment of the protein, cloning of the cDNA in a eukaryotic expression system, expression and purification of the recombinant protein.
US08669346B2
A peptide for targeting bone marrow consists of about 5 to about 25 amino acids and includes an amino acid sequence that targets the peptide to bone marrow.
US08669338B2
The invention relates to novel poly(meth)acrylates for producing moulding compositions. In particular, the invention relates to novel methacrylates having ester groups which, in the cleavage process, liberate at most only a very small amount of components which are not re-copolymerizable. Copolymerization of monomers of this type in the production of the novel poly(meth)acrylates for moulding compositions brings about only minimal alteration of the heat resistance of these materials or may indeed improve the same.
US08669330B2
This invention relates to a composition comprising a multiblock polyolefin represented by the formula: PO-(—C═C—Z—)n—C═C-PO* (I) or PO-(—C—C—Z—)n—C—C-PO* (Ia) wherein Z is the portion of a cyclic monomer having at least one internal double bond that remains after a ring-opening metathesis reaction; PO and PO* are each independently polyolefins; and n is 1 to 10,000; and a process to produce such comprising contacting an alkene metathesis catalyst with a dimer of vinyl terminated polyolefins, and a cyclic hydrocarbyl monomer comprising at least one internal double bond.
US08669327B2
A cross-linked composition obtained by cross-linking a polyolefin composition (I) comprising, all percentages being by weight: A) from 5 to 38% of a polypropylene; B) from 35 to 85% of a copolymer of ethylene with propylene, containing from 42 to 70% of ethylene and having solubility in xylene at room temperature greater than 50%; C) from 5 to 40% of a butene-1 homopolymer or copolymer having: a content of butene-1 derived units of 75% or more; a flexural modulus of 100 MPa or less; and optionally, D) from 5 to 35% of one or more polymers different from B) in composition, having a Shore A hardness value equal to or lower than 90 points, wherein the content of butene-1, if present, is of less than 50%; in which composition (I) the amounts of A), B), C) and D) are referred to the total weight of A)+B)+C) and optionally D), and when D) is present, the total weight of C)+D) is of 50% or less, referred to the total weight of A)+B)+C)+D).
US08669311B2
C7-C12 secondary alcohol esters of cyclohexanecarboxylic acids are especially useful as plasticizers for PVC and other plasticizable polymers. In embodiments, these plasticizers are useful in plastisol formulations to help improved processability of flexible PVC material. In other embodiments these same plasticizers can be used in blends with other plasticizers to improve processability. In preferred embodiments these same plasticizers can be used to prepare flexible PVC compounds with enhanced low temperature flexibility, low toxicity, and improved resistance to outdoor aging.
US08669310B2
There is provided a polyamide resin composition reinforced with glass fiber produced by the melt kneading of a mixture where 60 to 80 parts by weight of glass fiber bundles (B) comprising a glass fiber having a flat cross section whose flatness degree is 1.5 to 8 and having an ignition loss at 625° C. for 0.5 hour of not more than 0.8% by weight are added to 40 to 20 parts by weight of polyamide (A), characterized in that, during the above melt kneading, a polyamide-reactive silane coupling agent (C) is added to the above mixture in a rate of 0.1 to 1.0% by weight of the above glass fiber bundles (B). The polyamide resin composition of the present invention has high bending strength, bending elastic modulus and Charpy impact strength (at 23° C. and −40° C.) by a specific fracture mode which have been never achieved before, and it is excellent in productivity.
US08669298B1
A lightfast green radiation curable ink including at least one curable monomer, at least one organic gellant, at least one photoinitiator and at least one colorant, where the colorant exhibits a reflectance on a substrate at a loading of from about 2 mg/inch2 to about 7 mg/inch2 that ranges from 50% to about 60% at a wavelength of 500 nm and that ranges from 0% to about 10% at a wavelength of about 600 nm which substantially matches Pantone green.
US08669293B2
A method for preventing the adverse effects which may he associated with the administration of at least one hormone to a subject without detectable cancer comprising administering to such subject at least one carotenoid. The method of the instant invention can be utilized to prevent a variety of adverse effects associated with the administration of hormones, including for example, an increased risk for developing cancer. The instantly claimed method prevents such adverse effects without inhibiting the beneficial activity of the hormone. Further provided by the present invention are compositions which are useful for preventing the adverse effects associated with the administration of hormones. The compositions of the instant invention may be in unit dosage form suitable for daily administration to a human.
US08669292B2
The invention provides compositions and formulations comprising catechol and/or acetogenins and various combinations thereof; including various combinations with other ingredients including botanical preparations containing acetogenin, an extract of green tea or a therapeutically active flavanoid contained in green tea; and one or more quinones. The invention includes a pharmaceutical composition including a salt of rhodizonic acid, an OH anion-generating base, a non-toxic acid, a quinone, a salt-containing sulfite, catechol and optionally, an acetogenin and an extract of green tea. The compositions and formulations demonstrate positive effects against a broad variety of cancer, autoimmune diseases, viruses and provides antioxidant protection against peroxyl hydrophilic, peroxyl lipophilic, hydroxyl, peroxynitrite and super oxide radicals. The compositions and formulations can be used for nutritional and nutraceutical uses, and used as dietary supplements.
US08669289B2
Methods of treating a subject having, or at risk of having, a myeloproliferative disorder are provided according to embodiments of the present invention which include administering a therapeutically effective amount of an arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) inhibitor to the subject. Combinations of therapeutic agents are administered according to embodiments of the present invention. In some embodiments, two or more 5-LO inhibitors are administered to a subject to treat a myeloproliferative disorder. In further embodiments, at least one 5-LO inhibitor and at least one additional therapeutic agent are administered to a subject to treat a myeloproliferative disorder. Methods of inhibiting leukemia stem cells are provided according to embodiments of the present invention which include contacting leukemia stem cells with an effective amount of an arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor.
US08669275B2
The present application describes deuterium-enriched donepezil, pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms thereof, and methods of treating using the same.
US08669271B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I, wherein the groups R1, LP, LQ, X1, X2, X3, Ar and n are as defined in the application, which have valuable pharmacological properties, and in particular bind to the GPR119 receptor and modulate its activity.
US08669256B2
The invention relates to compounds according to general Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds can be used for the treatment of cancer.
US08669255B2
The present application relates to: (a) compounds of Formula (I): and salts thereof, wherein Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, R1, R2, and R3 are as defined in the specification; (b) compositions comprising such compounds and salts; and (c) methods of use of such compounds, salts, and compositions, particularly use as calcium channel inhibitors.
US08669251B2
8-Fluorophthalazin-1(2h)-one compounds of Formula II where one or two of X1, X2, and X3 are N, are provided, including stereoisomers, tautomers, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, useful for inhibiting Btk kinase, and for treating immune disorders such as inflammation mediated by Btk kinase. Methods of using compounds of Formula II for in vitro, in situ, and in vivo diagnosis, and treatment of such disorders in mammalian cells, or associated pathological conditions, are disclosed.
US08669249B2
Compounds of the following formula are provided for use in inhibiting Poly (ADP-ribose) Polymerase (PARP): wherein the variables are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising such compounds, methods and intermediates useful for making the compounds, and methods of using the compounds.
US08669244B2
Disclosed is a cucurbitane-triterpenoid compound for activating estrogen receptor activity, and a pharmaceutical composition, use and preparation method thereof. The cucurbitane-triterpenoid compound is presented as formula (I): wherein a single bond or a double bond is formed between C5 and C10, and a single bond or a double bond is fromed between C8 and C9; when a single bond is formed between C5 and C10, the R1 is oxygen; while a single bond is formed between C8 and C9, R2 is carbonyl group (—C═O), methyl hydroxyl group (—CH(OH)), methyl ketone or methyl dimethoxy group (—CH(OCH3)2); and wherein while R1 is oxygen (—O—) and R2 is carbonyl group (—C═O) or methyl hydroxyl group (—CH(OH)), a single bond is formed between R1 (—O—) and C19 of R2 such that R1 and R2 are formed tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-one or hemiacetal ring.
US08669233B2
A combination of compounds for treating skin diseases and particularly rosacea and ocular rosacea is described. The combination of a compound of the avermectin family or of the mylbemycin family with a compound of the family of the alpha-1 or alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonists is also described. In addition, a product in the form of a kit including: (a) a first composition containing a compound of the avermectin family or of the mylbemycin family, and (b) a second composition different from the first one and containing a compound of the family of the alpha-1 or alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonists, as a combination product to be used as a drug for treating and/or preventing skin diseases and particularly rosacea and ocular rosacea, wherein said first and second compositions can be applied simultaneously, separately or with a time delay is described.
US08669227B2
The invention relates to a complex between an insulin and a polysaccharide comprising carboxyl functional groups, said polysaccharide being chosen from polysaccharides functionalized with at least one phenylalanine derivative, noted Phe, said phenylalanine derivative being chosen from the group consisting of phenylalanine and its alkali metal cation salts, phenylalaninol, phenylalaninamide and ethylbenzylamine or from phenylalanine esters, and said insulin being either a human insulin or an insulin analog. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one complex according to the invention, especially in the form of an injectable solution.
US08669226B2
The present application discloses a method for treating microbial infection using an antimicrobial composition comprises antimicrobial peptide which contains at least one VGFPV motif.
US08669219B2
This invention concerns dosage elements for a ware washing machine and a method of manufacturing such dosage elements. In embodiments of the invention a dosage element comprises first (10) and second (20) joined parts, wherein the first part (10) is a part which, prior to joining with the second part (20), comprised an open receptacle and wherein the second part (20) comprises a substrate carrying a plurality of mutually separated substances A, B, C arranged in side by side relation. The second part (20) is joined to said first part (10) so as to close said receptacle and enclose said substances within it. Dosage elements produced in the inventive method are pleasant to handle, while being surprisingly resistant to damage in handling or transit.
