US08744656B2
A running control device for an electric vehicle includes: a first calculation unit that calculates a predetermined reference torque required for braking/driving the motor that provides a beneficial effect with regard to power consumption of the electric vehicle; a second calculation unit that calculates interval allocation between a first interval in which the electric vehicle is propelled by braking/driving the motor at the predetermined reference torque and a second interval in which the electric vehicle is coasted without the motor being braked or driven; a third calculation unit that calculates a control requested torque for braking/driving the motor intermittently, so as alternatingly to repeat running of the electric vehicle in the first intervals and coasting of the electric vehicle in the second intervals; and a running control unit that performs running control of the electric vehicle by braking/driving the motor intermittently according to the control requested torque.
US08744648B2
Various types and levels of operator assistance are performed within a unified, configurable framework. A model of the device with a model of the environment and the current state of the device and the environment are used to iteratively generate a sequence of optimal device control inputs that, when applied to a model of the device, generate an optimal device trajectory through a constraint-bounded corridor or region within the state space. This optimal trajectory and the sequence of device control inputs that generates it is used to generate a threat assessment metric. An appropriate type and level of operator assistance is generated based on this threat assessment. Operator assistance modes include warnings, decision support, operator feedback, vehicle stability control, and autonomous or semi-autonomous hazard avoidance. The responses generated by each assistance mode are mutually consistent because they are generated using the same optimal trajectory.
US08744645B1
A system and method for combining two separate types of human machine interfaces, e.g., a voice signal and a gesture signal, performing voice recognition to a voice signal and gesture recognition to the gesture signal. Based on a confidence determination using the voice recognition result and the gesture recognition result the system can, for example, immediately perform the command/request, request confirmation of the command/request or determine that the command/request was not identified.
US08744642B2
A system for identifying a driver comprises an image capturing device, a processor, and a memory. The image is captured during vehicle operation and of an expected driver location. The processor is configured to detect a face of a driver in the image, determine a set of face data from the image, and identify the driver based at least in part on the set of face data. The memory is coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
US08744638B2
A method and system for controlling load in a utility distribution network are provided that initiates a shed event for a node in the distribution network by selecting premisess associated with the node that are participating in a demand response program to reduce the load at the node to desired levels. More specifically, the system and method provide for selecting only enough participating premisess associated with the node that are necessary to reduce the load to desired levels.
US08744631B2
A system and method for manipulating environmental conditions in an infrastructure containing a fluid moving device are disclosed that include identifying correlations between operational settings of the fluid moving device and environmental conditions resulting from changes to the operational settings. In addition, an environmental condition detected at a location proximate to or within the plenum following supply of fluid into the plenum by the fluid moving device is received and errors between the received environmental condition and a reference environmental condition are identified. Operational settings for the fluid moving device to achieve the reference environmental condition are determined based upon the identified correlations and errors.
US08744629B2
The disclosure provides systems and methods of use of an HVAC graphical interface dashboard. In various embodiments, the dashboard includes a weather tab, wherein invoking the weather tab advances to a weather screen. The dashboard also includes an indoor humidity tab. A programs tab and a home tab are also provided. The indoor humidity tab can further be used to set current indoor humidity setpoints.
US08744627B2
A system of distributed control of an interactive animatronic show includes a plurality of animatronic actors, at least one of the actors a processor and one or more motors controlled by the processor. The system also includes a network interconnecting each of the actors, and a plurality of sensors providing messages to the network, where the messages are indicative of processed information. Each processor executed software that schedules and/or coordinates an action of the actor corresponding to the processor in accordance with the sensor messages representative of attributes of an audience viewing the show and the readiness of the corresponding actor. Actions of the corresponding actor can include animation movements of the actor, responding to another actor and/or responding to a member of the audience. The actions can result in movement of at least a component of the actor caused by control of the motor.
US08744625B2
In the control of a multi-joint robot main body, it is necessary to execute intricate track calculations and synchronous operations in parallel, even if the track calculations are intricate and times required for the calculations are indefinite. For this purpose, a robot controlling device of the present invention includes a shared memory, and first and second processing units connected to the shared memory. The first processing unit performs track calculation processing which includes calculating operation command data indicating a series of command values to be output to arm motors, based on a command to operate the multi-joint robot main body to a desired position posture, and storing the calculated operation command data in the shared memory. The second processing unit performs synchronous processing which includes acquiring the operation command data stored in the shared memory, and synchronously outputting the command values to the arm motors at predetermined time intervals.
US08744624B1
A substrate loading system, having a vision system adapted to view a substrate and provide position signals indicative of substrate position. A controller receives the position signals from the vision system, determines the substrate position, and sends transport signals to a robot arm. The robot arm engages the substrate in a beginning location and a beginning position and transports the substrate to a desired location and a desired position, based at least in part on the transport signals received from the controller.
US08744620B2
This invention provides a system and method for dispensing medication and a dispensing apparatus that comprises a plurality of compartments in an array within a housing, the compartments having respective lids, each of the lids being movable from a closed position to an open position, the respective lids each having a latch that secures the lid in a locked configuration in the closed position. The apparatus has an actuator mechanism that selectively unlocks the latch of each of the lids at a predetermined time so as to place the unlocked lid in an unlocked configuration that enables the lid to be moved to the open position. The compartments of the medication dispenser each receive a removable cup therein that is accessible when a respective of the lids associated therewith is in the open position. Other features, such as communication and messaging and/or audible/visual displays can also be provided.
US08744616B2
A storage tray populator configured to populate a storage rack with a plurality of biological sample containers is provided. The storage tray populator may include a randomizer configured to receive the biological sample containers and randomly distribute the biological sample containers. Further, a transport apparatus may transport the biological sample containers from the randomizer to the storage rack. Additionally, a controller may control at least the transport apparatus. Thereby storage trays may be populated, and access to a desired biological sample may be improved. Methods for populating storage racks with a plurality of biological sample containers are also provided.
US08744611B2
An apparatus for controlling operational functions of a machine tool, comprising a device for switching on or off a main power supply and at least one device for determining a switch-off time of an operational function of the machine tool in dependence of a selectable criterion.
US08744606B2
A receiving device for mobile reception of a receive signal including an audio signal associated with a currently received piece of music, and a method for playback in a mobile receiver are disclosed. A receiving circuit receives the receive signal and outputs the audio signal and information associated with the audio signal. The information includes one or more information fields associated with the currently received piece of music. An arithmetic unit evaluates the information associated with the audio signal. A database is configured for storing database entries. Each database entry includes data fields and associated audio data. The arithmetic unit assigns the information to an assigned database entry by comparing the information fields with the data fields. The arithmetic unit outputs the audio data of the assigned database entry based on a detected disturbance in the reception of the audio signal.
US08744604B2
A diagnostic system and method for a field device in a process plant is provided. The diagnostic apparatus includes a processor operatively connected to the field device and a calendar having a proscribed period stored in memory. A diagnostic check is executed on the field device if an occurrence of a diagnostic event is detected and execution of the diagnostic check does not coincide with the proscribed period.
US08744599B2
The present invention is directed to a high density mapping catheter including a number of shape memory electrode fibers and associated methods of construction and operation. The invention ensures good electrical contact between a large number of mapping electrodes and cardiac tissue in relation to a number of cardiac tissue approach angles, including head-on approaches. In addition, the invention allows for a reduced range of deflection angles in relation to deployment and retraction of the electrode fibers, thereby reducing resistance to retraction and reducing stress on the fibers and associated concerns regarding patient safety. The catheter of the present invention allows for rapid acquisition of a large amount of mapping data and allows for a variety of different geometries in relation to sweeping of the catheter across the cardiac tissue.
US08744597B2
Techniques for selecting electrode combinations for stimulation therapy include delivering stimulation via each of at least two electrode combination classes during a therapy evaluation period. A first one of the classes comprises one or more electrode combinations that include electrodes within one or two columns of an implantable array of electrodes. The array may include at least three electrode columns. A second one of the classes comprises one or more electrode combinations that include electrodes within at least three electrode columns of the implantable array of electrodes. A preferred one of the electrode combination classes for a patient, and/or a number of leads to implant within the patient, may by selected based on feedback collected from the patient during the therapy evaluation period.
US08744586B2
Devices and methods for use of identification, treatment and/or management of heart failure and/or associated conditions. Methods may include providing a baroreflex therapy system, providing an implantable measurement device proximate a blood vessel of a patient, the implantable measurement device including a plurality of electrodes, determining an impedance of the blood vessel with the implantable measurement device over a time period of at least one cardiac cycle, generating at least one signal representative of a pressure waveform based on the impedance, activating, deactivating or otherwise modulating the baroreflex therapy system to deliver a therapy to treat heart failure based at least in part on the at least one signal representative of the pressure waveform.
US08744582B2
The disclosure describes an implantable neurostimulator device for delivery of neurostimulation to treat head, neck, or facial pain or tension, including pain or tension caused by occipital neuralgia. The device may be a neurostimulation device having a miniaturized housing with a low profile that permits subcutaneous implantation at a stimulation site directly adjacent a neuralgic region at the back of the neck of a patient. For example, the device may be subcutaneously implanted at the back of the neck of a patient to relieve symptoms of occipital neuralgia.
US08744575B2
One aspect provides a capacitor feedthrough assembly having an electrically conductive member dimensioned to extend at least partially through a feedthrough hole of a case of the capacitor, the conductive member having a passage therethrough.
US08744574B2
Defibrillators, software and methods are provided, for issued verbal prompts to rescuers. A defibrillator may receive a muting input and, responsive thereto, cause a verbal prompt to not be issued or to be issued less loudly relative another verbal prompt.
US08744573B2
A resuscitation system that includes at least two defibrillation electrodes configured to be applied to the exterior of the chest of a patient for delivering a defibrillation shock, a source of one or more ECG signals from the patient, a defibrillation circuit for delivering a defibrillation shock to the defibrillation electrodes, a control box that receives and processes the ECG signals to determine whether a defibrillation shock should be delivered or whether CPR should be performed, and that issues instructions to the user either to deliver a defibrillation shock or to perform CPR, wherein the determination of whether CPR should be performed and the instructions to perform CPR can occur at substantially any point during a rescue. The control box may include a user operable control for initiating delivery of a defibrillation shock, and the instructions to deliver a defibrillation shock include instructions to activate the user operable control. The user operable control may be a button configured to be pushed by the user. The determination of whether CPR should be performed and the instructions to perform CPR may occur before a determination to deliver any defibrillation shock. The source of the ECG signals may be the defibrillation electrodes. The defibrillation circuit may be contained in the control box.
US08744571B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining an increased likelihood of the occurrence of a cardiac arrhythmia, myocardial ischemia, congestive heart failure and other diseased conditions of the heart associated with elevated sympathetic neural discharges in a patient. The methods and systems comprise monitoring the sympathetic neural discharges of a patient from the stellate ganglia, the thoracic ganglia, or both, and detecting increases in the sympathetic neural discharges. The methods and systems may further comprise delivering therapy to the patient in response to a detected increase in the sympathetic neural discharge, such as delivering one or more pharmacological agents; stimulating myocardial hyperinnervation in the sinus node and right ventricle of the heart of the patient; and applying cardiac pacing, cardioversion or defibrillation shocks. Pharmacologic agents which may be used in connection with the delivery of include those which are known to exert anti-arrhythmic effect and anti-convulsant agents, such as phenytoin, carbamazepine, valproate, and phenobarbitone. Other pharmacologic agents may be used to treat impending myocardial ischemia and other diseased conditions of the heart associated with elevated sympathetic neural discharges.
US08744567B2
A galvanic device for treatment of skin is provided. The device comprises a substrate comprising a plurality of discrete galvanic couples, each galvanic couple comprising a first conductive electrode that is an anode in electronic communication with a second conductive electrode that is a cathode.
US08744555B2
Methods and implantable devices for cardiac signal analysis. The methods and devices make use of waveform appraisal techniques to distinguish event detections into categories for suspect events and waveform appraisal passing events. When adjustments are made to the data entering analysis for waveform appraisal, the waveform appraisal thresholds applied are modified as well. For example, when the data analysis window for waveform appraisal changes in length, a waveform appraisal threshold is modified. Other changes, including changes in sensing characteristics with which waveform appraisal operates may also result in changes to the waveform appraisal threshold including changes in gain, sensing vector, activation of other devices, implantee posture and other examples which are explained.
US08744553B2
The invention relates to a real time radiation treatment planning system for use in effecting radiation therapy of a pre-selected anatomical portion of an animal body using hollow needles. According to embodiments of the invention, the system may include a processing means processing means-configured to perform a three-dimensional imaging algorithm and a three-dimensional image segmentation algorithm, with respect to one or more specific organs within the pre-selected anatomical portion and with respect to the needles, for converting the image data obtained with an imaging means into a three-dimensional image of the anatomical portion, using at least one single or multi-objective anatomy-based genetic optimization algorithm. For pre-planning or virtual simulation purposes, the processing means is arranged to determine in real time the optimal number and position of at least one of the needles, positions of energy emitting sources within the needles, and the dwell times of the energy emitting sources at the positions. For post-planning purposes, the processing means is arranged to determine, based on three-dimensional image information, in real time the real needle positions and the dwell times of the energy emitting sources for the positions.
US08744550B2
An assembly for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a patient and a method of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a patient using different MRI scanners is disclosed. In one example, the assembly includes a plurality of RF coils, wherein the RF coils are configured to be positioned adjacent to an anatomy of interest, a patient support structure configured to support of the patient, a base removably coupled to the patient support structure, the base and the patient support being configured for receipt in the bore of an MRI scanner, and an interface coupled to the plurality of RF coils and to the MRI scanner and configured to connect the plurality of RF coils and the MRI scanner and to selectively control a first RF coil and a second RF coil included in the plurality of RF coils.
US08744545B2
An analyte monitor includes a sensor, a sensor control unit, and a display unit. The sensor has, for example, a substrate, a recessed channel formed in the substrate, and conductive material disposed in the recessed channel to form a working electrode. The sensor control unit typically has a housing adapted for placement on skin and is adapted to receive a portion of an electrochemical sensor. The sensor control unit also includes two or more conductive contacts disposed on the housing and configured for coupling to two or more contact pads on the sensor. A transmitter is disposed in the housing and coupled to the plurality of conductive contacts for transmitting data obtained using the sensor. The display unit has a receiver for receiving data transmitted by the transmitter of the sensor control unit and a display coupled to the receiver for displaying an indication of a level of an analyte. The analyte monitor may also be part of a drug delivery system to alter the level of the analyte based on the data obtained using the sensor.
US08744542B2
A cardiopulmonary resuscitation monitoring apparatus includes: a detecting unit configured to obtain a detection signal of a timing of chest compression during execution of cardiopulmonary resuscitation; a pulse oximeter configured to detect a change of a blood volume at the timing of the chest compression based on the detection signal, and configured to obtain an oxygen saturation from the change of the blood volume; an evaluating unit configured to perform evaluation related to the cardiopulmonary resuscitation based on the oxygen saturation; and an outputting unit configured to perform an outputting operation in accordance with a result of the evaluation.
US08744534B2
Preserving battery resources in a wireless device in communication with a wireless network by dynamically aligning a RRC connection status of a mobile wireless communication device in communication with a wireless network with a data traffic profile. The data traffic profile indicating a pattern of data transfer between the mobile wireless communication device and the wireless network.
US08744532B2
There is provided a device for alerting a user of an occurrence of an event. The device comprises a memory configured to store alert data and a media stream having a beginning and an end, the alert data designating a plurality of points for the media stream, the plurality of points including a start point and an end point after the start point, wherein at least one of the start point and the end point is different from the beginning and the end of the media stream. The device further comprises a processor configured to detect the occurrence of the event; retrieve the alert data from the memory in response to the occurrence of the event; begin playback of the media stream from the start point; and stop playback of the media stream at the end point.
US08744529B2
An apparatus comprises a first housing having a top surface and a bottom surface, a second housing having a top surface and a bottom surface, and one or more supports coupling the first housing to the second housing such that the first and second housings are electrically connected and the bottom surface of the first housing overlays the top surface of the second housing. The one or more supports are configurable in at least a first configuration wherein the bottom surface of the first housing and the top surface of the second housing are substantially contiguous with one another and a second configuration wherein the bottom surface of the first housing and the top surface of the second housing are separated by a space.
US08744528B2
An electronic device is provided comprising a camera obtaining an image, and a controller that performs a control operation based on a gesture recognized from the obtained image, wherein the controller performs a predetermined function of an application being executed when a predetermined gesture of a user is recognized, wherein the user does not have a control right and the predetermined gesture corresponds to the predetermined function.
US08744520B2
There is provided a radio communication apparatus including a first radio communication unit that performs proximity communication by first radio communication, a second radio communication unit that performs the proximity communication by second radio communication via a magnetic field, a detection unit that detects the magnetic field generated in the second radio communication, and a control unit that controls radio communication by the first radio communication unit based on a detection result detected by the detection unit.
US08744510B2
Power control for wireless communication may involve determining the transmit power to be used by a wireless device. A wireless device using open loop power control may select a transmit power based on an open loop power equation where a parameter of the power equation may be based on one or more power control messages received from another wireless device. In some aspects, path loss may be estimated for open loop power control and a value for Offset_BSperSS may be obtained from information provided by a base station for closed loop power control. To facilitate a stable combined open-closed loop algorithm, open loop power control may be used to compensate channel changes based on reciprocity, and closed loop power control may be used to compensate interference variations (e.g., as compared to NI provided by a DCD message).
US08744506B2
A method of wireless communication includes receiving a first signal on a first channel, determining a second channel based on the first signal, receiving a second signal on the second channel, and communicating with a wireless device on the second channel based on a quality of the second signal.
US08744504B2
A method of deploying a distributed antenna system (DAS) is provided. The method comprises outputting first and second signals from a multiple-input and multiple-output base station (MIMO BTS) and coupling a master unit to the MIMO BTS. The method further comprises coupling first and second remote units to the master unit, the first remote unit communicating the first signal over a first air interface located within the environment at a first location, the second remote unit communicating the second signal over a second air interface within the environment at a second location. The first and second remote units are arranged at the first and second locations within the environment and configured to provide signal coverage of both the first signal and the second signal at a third location in the environment to provide the capacity for MIMO communications through the system at the third location.
US08744498B2
A cordless communication system includes a base unit and a handset. The base unit is connectable to a communication line. The handset includes a handset wireless communicating unit, a handset communicating unit, a handset switching unit, and a handset starting unit. The handset wireless communicating unit implements wireless communications with the base unit wireless communicating unit. The handset communicating unit is capable of communicating signals with the base unit. The handset switching unit switches between a handset normal mode in which power is supplied to the handset wireless communicating unit and a handset power-saving mode in which power to the handset wireless communicating unit is interrupted. The handset starting unit controls the handset switching unit to supply power to the handset wireless communicating unit in order to switch to the handset normal mode from the handset power-saving mode if the handset communicating unit receives a handset start signal instructing the handset to cancel the handset power-saving mode during the handset power-saving mode.
US08744493B2
A system and method for creating a localized silence area. A mobile device may be registered with an access point base station. Any direct communication links from the mobile device to any other base stations may be removed. An indication may be given to the mobile device that the mobile device is in a localized silence zone. The indication may include a request that the mobile device operate in a silent mode, information about making outgoing calls, information about receiving incoming calls, or a combination of these. Procedures for incoming voice calls to the mobile device may be different for different priority levels.
US08744484B2
A method of estimating wireless network coverage includes receiving location data from a plurality of mobile devices located within range of an antenna in a wireless network. The location data is mapped onto a grid of districts and down-sampled for respective districts of the grid. An approximate coverage region of the antenna is calculated based at least in part on the down-sampled location data.
US08744479B2
The present invention relates to a method for locating at least one mobile radio subscriber in a mobile radio network. The mobile radio subscriber transmits a measurement report that includes an itemization identifying at least two transmitting stations. A value correlated with the receive field strength of a signal from the transmitting stations is allocated to each transmitting station. A table is organized according to geographic units of a presettable area. A pre-calculated value correlated with the receive field strength of a signal from a transmitting station is allocated to each transmitting station. The transmitting stations are organized according to the values correlated with the receive field strength of the signal from the respective transmitting station. The location of the mobile radio subscriber is determined based on the geographic unit meeting at least one presettable criterion.
US08744462B2
The present invention discloses a method for improving the call success rate and a base station system thereof, which send reverse power control bits by using a specific parameter value according to the distance between a user and a base station, so as to improve the probability that the base station captures the mobile station and thereby improve the call success rate. The method includes the following steps of: distinguishing user type according to information in an origination message from a mobile station, and setting an initial value of a forward transmission power; and a base station sending a forward traffic channel null frame to the mobile station according to the initial value of the forward transmission power, wherein the forward traffic channel null frame contains reverse power control bits information.
US08744457B2
The present invention is related to a method for radio resource handling in a wireless communication network comprising the steps:—receiving via a transport network interface a request for assignment of one or more radio resources over an air interface of the wireless communication network;—transmitting via the air interface a radio resource assignment message for one or more one radio resources in the wireless communication network;—receiving a radio resource assignment confirmation message over the air interface;—transmitting a radio resource assignment confirmation message over the transport network interface, wherein the radio resource assignment message transmitted via the air interface comprises a single radio resource assignment message configured to simultaneously perform establishment, release and modification of one or more radio resources provided by over the air interface. This method may be implemented by a computer program comprising instruction sets for each method step. Also, the present invention comprises a radio base station and a mobile terminal where the method according to the present invention may be executed.
US08744456B2
To reduce power consumption of a mobile station, this invention provides a wireless communication method for communicating between a base station and a plurality of terminals using a plurality of channels, the channels being slots obtained by dividing frequency-divided carriers by time, in which the base station allocates a set of the channels which is composed of a plurality of neighboring carriers and/or a plurality of successive slots for the each terminal, and the base station allocates at least one of the channels included in the channel sets for packet transmission the terminals.
US08744445B2
A method of handling handover message decoding for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes via a first radio access technology (RAT), receiving a handover message associated with a handover from the first RAT to a second RAT supporting services of a packet switched (PS) domain and a circuit switched (CS) domain, wherein the handover message comprises type information and an inter-RAT message generated based on the second RAT, and determining a switched domain type of the inter-RAT message according to the type information.
US08744444B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a PilotReport message is provided, comprising generating the PilotReport message and determining if an Active Set Size value is greater than one. In an embodiment, the access terminal will send a PilotReport message if one of the following conditions occurs: If the Active Set Size is greater than one, and EnhancedPilotReportEnabled=1, and The strength of a pilot in the active set has changed by more than an EnhancedPilotReportThreshold since the last PilotReport was sent. If the Active Set Size is one, and EnhancedPilot ReportEnabled=1, and The strongest current non-active pilot (for example, pilot j) has strength more than the EnhancedPilotReportRatio fraction of the total interference, and The strength of pilot j is more than EnhancedPilotReportThreshold away than the strength of the second strongest pilot at the time the last pilot report was sent.
US08744436B2
Management of native subscriber registrations on a foreign network is accomplished via an approach that advantageously offers dynamic roaming, that is, the capability to send data over-the-air to populate a customer subscriber identity module (SIM) card with specific networks, in a specific order of preference, according to the characteristics and capabilities of the subscriber mobile station, the subscriber's home network, the foreign territory roamed, and the like. The approach also provides an SS7 service-based solution including the capability of the home network to control the roaming mobile station from registering on a non-preferred visited network, based on configurable rules. The approach provides the ability to segment subscribers, increased/assured quality of service, no limits on designation of carrier preferences, the ability to apportion roaming traffic across numerous operators in a given foreign territory, capability for real-time changes of preferred network, and preservation of manual network selection capabilities.
US08744434B2
An area entertainment system includes an antenna for receiving digital satellite radio signals, and an intermediate frequency (IF) down converter connected to the antenna for down converting the digital satellite radio signals. Electronic boxes are spaced throughout the area, and each electronic box includes at least one IF tuner in communications with the IF down converter.
US08744427B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method in a radio base station (12) for communicating with a user equipment (10) over a channel structured in transmission time intervals in a radio communications network. The radio base station (12) identifies an interference situation, associated with a transmission time interval, in the cell (15) from a set of interference situations. The radio base station (12) selects a correction value associated with the identified interference situation. Furthermore, the radio base station (12) determines a radio transmission parameter using the correction value; and transmits information, to the user equipment (10), based on the radio transmission parameter.
US08744426B2
The present invention relates to a field of mobile communication, a profile adjusting method based on mobile phone WIFI is disclosed herein. An acquired SSID of the WLAN is compared with a pre-stored SSID, when the acquired SSID of the WLAN and the pre-stored SSID are determined to be the same, a user is prompted and the profile of the mobile phone which corresponds to the pre-stored SSID is activated. The profile switching method based on mobile phone WIFI provided in the present invention utilizes the existing mobile phone WIFI under the control of the mobile phone software to prompt that the user's mobile phone is in different locations based on the different WIFI connecting statuses, and automatically switching the profiles which correspond to locations which is pre-set by the user is achieved, as well as the user is provided convenience.
US08744422B2
Systems and methods for terminating telephony communications to a mobile telephony device that is roaming outside of its native service area make use of a mobile roaming termination service. The mobile roaming termination service causes the native mobile telephony service provider that provides service to the mobile telephony device to forward incoming telephony communications directed the native telephone number of the mobile telephony device to a forwarding access number. The mobile roaming termination service receives telephony communications directed to the forwarding access number, and then terminates the telephony communication to the mobile telephony device via any one of multiple different methods. The mobile telephony service provider can be instructed to implement and cancel call forwarding instructions by dialing a special character string on the mobile telephony device.
US08744413B2
A mobile terminal includes an input unit for receiving a command input by a user; a location information generator for generating location information on the mobile terminal; a time counter; a storage unit having a command processing information table and a standby screen display information table; and a control unit for analyzing the user's behavior by using command processing information stored in the command processing information table, storing the result of the behavior analysis in the standby screen display information table, and displaying a standby screen according to the result of the behavioral analysis with respect to the current location of the mobile terminal and the current time. Accordingly, using a history of the mobile terminal use provides an advantage of improved user convenience by predicting and actively reacting to a user's manner of using the mobile terminal.
US08744410B2
A mobile application on a mobile computing device connected to a communications network is disclosed. The mobile application includes an initiation module for transmitting a request for a transaction identifier to an application server and receiving a transaction identifier from the server, a request module for transmitting to a second device an SMS message including a URL, a first receiving module for receiving an SMS message and activating a URL embedded in the SMS message, wherein upon activation of the URL, the first receiving module is further configured for transmitting an HTTP request to the server, a processing module for receiving program code from the server and executing the program code configured for reading position data of the device and transmitting the position data and the transaction identifier to the server, and a second receiving module for receiving position data of the second device and displaying the position data.
US08744402B2
A method for preventing overload and blocking of a mobile network when sending of alert messages to a plurality of mobile phone users located in a specific geographical area, independently of any user preferences on mobile phones, wherein the method is performed in an optimizing message distribution component (A-SMSC) connected to the mobile network, has an alert initiating message receiving step of receiving an alert initiation message having information about content of the message and where the message is to be sent, represented as relevant cells, performed as a request from an LBAS Server to A-SMSC, and information about the relevant cells is determined by a LBAS GT by converting information of a specific geographical area to corresponding cell ids.
US08744398B2
A method for receiving an emergency broadcast message comprises the following steps: after receiving multiplex frames, a terminal determines whether there exists an emergency broadcast message according to a frame header of a multiplex frame corresponding to a control channel, and if so, the terminal parses the multiplex frame which corresponds to the control channel and has a multiplex frame identity of 0, to obtain the emergency broadcast message, and displays the obtained emergency broadcast message to a terminal user; while processing the emergency broadcast message, the terminal parses all the multiplex frames, plays mobile telephone TV programs and displays them to the terminal user. To implement the method, a terminal for receiving an emergency broadcast message and a chip for receiving and processing an emergency broadcast message are also disclosed.
US08744396B2
A software-defined tactical radio solution meets the original JTRS SWaP goals by providing four complete software-defined 125 W (peak) radio channels in four modules that replace the four UT modules of the current GMR design, while retaining the GVA and NIU of the GMR. Two dual transceiver modules each include two transceivers based on OMAP processors. Two dual-channel power amplifier modules each include two 125 W (peak) amplifiers, each amplifier combining two GaN transistors combined in parallel. In embodiments, the OMAP processors include TM320C64xx DSP cores. In some embodiments, the OMAP processors are DM3730 processors. In various embodiments, each dual transceiver module includes a five Watt power amplifier. In embodiments, SINCGAR, SRW, and/or WNW waveforms are supported by software configuration. In some embodiments transceivers can be transitioned by software between waveforms.
US08744394B1
A system including a diversity module and an antenna selection module. The diversity module is configured to measure (i) a first signal-to-noise ratio and a first error rate associated with a first antenna, and (ii) a second signal-to-noise ratio and a second error rate associated with a second antenna. The antenna selection module is configured to select the first antenna or the second antenna by comparing (i) the first signal-to-noise ratio to the second signal-to-noise ratio, and (ii) the first error rate to the second error rate.
US08744390B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide improved systems and methods for adjusting system tests based on detected interference. In one embodiment, a system comprises a host unit; a system test controller to control the performance of system tests, wherein a system test to detect the reception of an interfering signal comprises disabling the generation of tones for transmission through the communication system. The system also comprises multiple remote antenna units communicatively coupled to the system test controller to transmit signals to multiple wireless terminals, wherein a remote antenna unit comprises: an antenna; a transceiver, coupled to the antenna; a signal detector that measures reverse and forward power of signals transmitted to and received from the antenna; and a microcontroller to control the antenna unit, wherein upon receiving a command to perform interference testing, the microcontroller adjusts a subsequent test based on measurements of the reverse power by the signal detector.
US08744388B2
A broadcast radio event such as a song or a concert promotion, and a plurality of radio data fields corresponding to the event such as RTplus information, are received at a device. A user selects to display broadcast radio options simultaneous with receiving the broadcast radio event. Then is displayed a set of user-selectable options, at least one o which is derived from at least one of the radio data fields. In various embodiments, each time a new set of radio data fields are received, the set of displayed options is updated, with certain provisions to ‘freeze’ the displayed set of options. Examples of a derived option include a link to an Internet page, a phone number or email address, and posting a time and place of an advertised event to a calendar. A method, device, computer program product, and apparatus are detailed.
US08744386B2
A method of tuning a receiver includes: providing a tunable Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) having a plurality of LNAs and a plurality of LC loads coupled to the plurality of LNAs; selecting a desired LNA and a LC load corresponding to the desired LNA; isolating the desired LNA from the selected LC load; generating a local oscillation (LO) signal; routing the LO signal to the output of the tunable LNA to generate a filtered LO signal; determining a first signal power level of the filtered LO signal; changing the capacitance in the selected LC load and determining a second signal power level of the filtered LO signal; comparing the first filtered signal power level to the second filtered signal power level; and according to the comparison result, determining whether or not to adjust the capacitance in the selected LC load.
US08744381B2
An adjustment module, an electronic device with the adjustment module, and an antenna performance adjusting method thereof are disclosed. The adjustment module is used for adjusting an antenna module. The antenna module is disposed in the electronic device and used for radiating a wireless signal. The adjustment module includes a monitoring module, a determining module, and a capacitance adjusting unit. The monitoring module is used for detecting an alternating current signal waveform when the antenna module radiates the wireless signal. The determining module receives the alternating current signal waveform and is used for generating an adjusting voltage value when the alternating current signal waveform is a non-constant amplitude. The capacitance adjusting unit is used for changing a capacitance value according to the adjusting voltage value to adjust a resonance point coordinate of the antenna module.
US08744379B1
A power detector circuit, comprising a first section configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) input signal and to generate a first voltage, wherein the first voltage comprises a voltage proportional to the sum of a mean-square of the RF input signal and a voltage characteristic of the first section, and wherein the first voltage is an input to a third section, a second section configured to generate a second voltage, wherein the second voltage comprises a combination of an output voltage and a voltage proportional to the voltage characteristic of the first section, wherein the output voltage is proportional to a root-mean-square of the RF input signal, the third section configured to generate the output voltage by combining the first voltage and the second voltage, wherein the second section creates a negative feedback loop for the third section and the output voltage generated by the third section is an output of the power detector circuit.
US08744378B2
A radio frequency (RF) transmitter is provided. The RF transmitter includes first and second drivers that are configured to receive first and second sets of complementary RF signals. Restoration circuits are coupled to the first and second drivers, and a bridge circuit is coupled to the first and second restoration circuits. By having the restoration circuits and the bridge circuit, a common mode impedance and a differential impedance can be provided, where the common mode impedance is lower than the differential impedance.
US08744374B2
Methods and apparatus for uplink data transmission in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) compliant communication system use beam-forming in the uplink to increase the range of LTE compliant wireless communication terminals. Methods are provided for steering the beam in an optimal direction towards the base station, both for time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) communication schemes.
US08744371B2
A wireless communication system which performs data transmission using spatially multiplexed streams from a first terminal including N antennas to a second terminal including M antennas (N is an integer of 2 or more and M is an integer of 1 or more) is disclosed. The system includes notifying means, training means, channel matrix estimation means, beamforming information feedback means, transmission weight matrix setting means, and beamforming means.
US08744370B2
A network analyzer comprises: a signal source configured to supply an input signal to a device, wherein the device is configured to generate a phase reference signal; a receiver configured to receive the phase reference signal from the device and to measure a phase response of the device according to the phase reference signal; and a calibration component configured to compare the measured phase response of the device with an actual phase response of the device to identify a tracking parameter for the receiver.
US08744358B2
The communication module 13 detects, in a predetermined operation mode in which the main processor 11 stops operation, another portable communication terminal existing in a range in which a communication connection is possible, determines the detected portable communication terminal as a target terminal from which target data is obtained, obtains the target data transmitted from the determined target terminal, and stores identification information for identifying the target terminal into the internal memory 13b. The main processor 11 executes processing using the obtained target data. The communication module 13 determines, while the main processor remains stopped, whether or not the identification information of the detected portable communication terminal is already stored in the internal memory 13b, and, under a condition that the identification information is determined to be stored, does not determine the detected portable communication terminal as the target terminal.
US08744354B2
A wireless communication terminal includes a tentative determination unit for tentatively determining a role of a display terminal, a transmission unit for transmitting wireless data including information indicating the result of the tentative determination and first information on presence or absence of a display unit and an input unit of the wireless communication terminal, a receiving unit for receiving response data including information indicating a terminal as a display terminal and second information on presence or absence of a display unit and an input unit of a wireless communication terminal having received the wireless data, and a determination unit for determining the role of the display terminal based on the information indicating a terminal as the display terminal and the second information.
US08744345B2
To detect a provider of communication parameters, a communication apparatus executes control so that when a signal for searching for the provider of the communication parameters is sent, an apparatus which does not serve as the provider decreases the frequency of responding to the search signal and the provider increases the frequency of responding to the search signal.
US08744342B2
A method for identifying at least one terminal for which signals transferred between the at least one terminal and a base station of a wireless cellular telecommunication network have to be relayed by a relay, the base station providing a random access channel enabling a terminal to notify to the base station the presence of the terminal by transferring a random access signal to the base station. The relay device transfers the random access signal to the base station, receives the list, identifies, from the received list, at least one terminal for which signals transferred between the at least one identified terminal and the base station have to be relayed by the relay, and relays signals between the at least one identified terminal and the base station.
US08744336B2
Techniques for detecting jammers in a received signal are described. A jammer detector includes a jammer filter for attenuating transmit signals leaked into the receive path, a pulse generator for converting the interference signals into discrete-level pulses, and a pulse processor for determining the presence of jammers in the discrete-level pulses. In an exemplary embodiment, the pulse processor is configured to further discriminate among close-in jammers that are close to the desired receive frequency, far-away jammers, and jammers arising from the transmit signals leaked into the receive path. In another exemplary embodiment, hysteresis is provided in the pulse generator to enable the generation of reliable pulses. Further aspects include configuring the jammer detector for operation in a plurality of frequency bands and/or according to a plurality of communications standards.
US08744332B2
Printers are provided having wax management systems. In one aspect, a printer has a print engine provides a toner image on a receiver using a toner having a binder polymer and a wax and a fuser having a contact surface that heats the toner at least to a glass transition temperature for the toner and the wax at least to an incorporated melting temperature to cause at least some of the wax to separate from the toner. A controller allows the toner image to cool to form a fused toner image having a viewing surface and the wax to cool to form first portions of the viewing surface with wax globules and second portions without wax globules. A wiping system wipes the viewing surface to move at least some of the wax from the wax globules onto the second portion when the toner image and wax are cooled.
US08744330B2
A fixing device includes a heat conductive member; a flexible fixing belt looped around the heat conductive member, an inner circumference of the flexible fixing belt slidably contacting a portion of an outer circumferential surface of the heat conductive member; a rotary pressing member disposed opposing the heat conductive member; heat sources disposed in a circumferential direction of the fixing belt at a predetermined interval to heat the heat conductive member; and temperature detectors provided to detect a surface temperature of the fixing belt at a detection position at which heating intensity of a corresponding one of the heat sources is not affected by any other one. In operation, the inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt contacts the heat conductive member at a position at which each temperature detector contacts the fixing belt as the detection position or a position proximal to the detection position of each temperature detector.
US08744317B2
An electrification apparatus includes: an electrification roller that rotates touching An image carrier to electrify a surface of the image carrier; a support member that by a bearing portion, supports rotatably a rotation shaft which is disposed at an end portion in a shaft direction of the electrification roller; and a cover member that is disposed on the rotation shaft and covers a portion of the rotation shaft which is near the bearing portion.
US08744314B2
A drive gear for a generally cylindrical imaging component. The drive gear includes a body for engaging the generally cylindrical imaging component; a cylindrical shaft attached to the body, the cylindrical shaft having an end surface; and three prongs extending longitudinally outward from the end surface.
US08744306B2
An image forming apparatus includes a guide member to guide movement of a developing device receiving member, which receives a plurality of developing devices, between the exterior and the interior of an image forming apparatus body. The guide member supports the developing device receiving member to enable rotation of the developing device receiving member within the body.
US08744304B2
A developing device includes a developer carrying member for carrying a magnetic developer to form a developer image on an image bearing member; a developing device frame including a first accommodating chamber for accommodating the magnetic developer and including a second accommodating chamber, in which the developer carrying member is provided, for accommodating the magnetic developer supplied from the first accommodating chamber through a first opening; a removable sealing member for sealing the first opening; and a magnetic seal, provided between a longitudinal end portion of the developer carrying member and the developing device frame. The sealing member is removable through a second opening which is defined at least partly by the magnetic seal.
US08744297B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a toner image forming unit, a sensor, and a control unit. The toner image forming unit is configured to form a toner image on the image bearing member. The sensor includes a light-emitting unit for emitting light, a light-receiving unit for receiving reflected light, an electrical circuit board in which the light-emitting unit is attached, and a frame supporting the electrical circuit board with the electrical circuit board bonded with three supporting portions. The sensor is configured to detect the toner image formed on the image bearing member. The control unit is configured to control a toner image forming condition of the toner image forming unit according to an output of the sensor.
US08744295B2
A transparent toner image printing apparatus includes a photosensitive member, an exposing device to expose the photosensitive member based on image information to form an electrostatic image, a developing device to develop the electrostatic image on the photosensitive member to form a transparent toner image using a two component developer, and a voltage applying device to apply a DC voltage biased with an AC voltage to the developing device. In addition, a transferring device transfers the transparent toner image on the photosensitive member onto a non-preprinted sheet or a preprinted sheet, a fixing device heat-fixes the transparent toner image on the non-preprinted sheet or the preprinted sheet in a fixing nip thereof, and a selecting device selects a first mode in which the transparent toner image is formed on the preprinted sheet or a second mode in which the transparent toner image is formed on the non-preprinted sheet. A controlling device controls an operation of the voltage applying device so that an amplitude of the AC voltage in the first mode is larger than an amplitude of the AC voltage in the second mode.
US08744278B2
In a digital signal processing circuit of an optical receiver applicable to this method for electric power supply control, tap coefficients of a filter used in a waveform equalization section are calculated in a tap coefficient calculating section, based on a state of an optical fiber transmission line. Then, among the calculated tap coefficients, a tap coefficient for which an absolute value is less than a previously determined threshold is determined, and electric power supply to a circuit part of a filter corresponding to the tap coefficient is stopped. As a result, for an optical receiver that performs digital signal processing, it is possible to reduce the power consumption, while realizing waveform equalization at a high accuracy.
US08744262B2
The present invention includes novel techniques, apparatus, and systems for optical WDM communications. Tunable lasers are employed to generate subcarrier frequencies representing subchannels of an ITU channel to which client signals can be mapped. Client circuits can be divided and combined before being mapped, independent of one another, to individual subchannels within and across ITU channels. Subchannels may be independently routed to a single subchannel receiver filter, such that each subchannel detected at the receiver may come from a different source location. Network architectures and subchannel transponders, muxponders and crossponders are disclosed, and techniques are employed (at the subchannel level/layer), to facilitate the desired optical routing, switching, concatenation and protection of client circuits mapped to these subchannels across the nodes of a WDM network. Subchannel hopping may also be used to increase the optical network security.
US08744261B2
A system and method for reducing power consumption in a Passive Optic Network (PON). The system comprises an optical line terminal (OLT), an optical network unit (ONU), a traffic-detection module configured to detect status of traffic to and from the ONU, and a power-management module configured to place the ONU in sleep mode based on the detected traffic status. The ONU includes transmitting and receiving components that are selectively powered down during the sleep mode based on a type of traffic in the ONU.
US08744259B2
A pop-up flash assembly including a main body comprising an opening; a moving unit linearly movable between a first position and a second position, wherein the moving unit is received in the opening at the first position and protrudes from the opening at the second position; a flash installed on the moving unit and generates light; a first link that has an end that is rotatably coupled to the main body; a second link that has an end that is rotatably coupled to another end of the first link, and another end of the second link being rotatably coupled to the moving unit; and a driver for rotating the first link.
US08744256B2
A camera includes: a first sensor of a storage type that has a plurality of pixels; a focus detection unit that detects a focus adjustment state of a photographic optical system based upon a detection signal from the first sensor for a photographic subject; a second sensor that acquires an image of the photographic subject; an extraction unit that extracts a main photographic subject region from image information acquired by the second sensor; and a control unit that controls accumulation of electrical charge by the first sensor, based upon values outputted from pixels of the first sensor that correspond to the main photographic subject region.
US08744252B1
The invention includes a tankless liquid heater that employs a series of chambers, each having a plurality of heating tubes, with heating elements positioned thereon, and a control unit comprising a switch, controller, and power distributor to control the flow and heating of liquid in the system. In one embodiment, the control unit takes input from a liquid flow sensor that monitors the passage of liquid through the system, a temperature sensor adapted to monitor liquid temperature, and a current leakage sensor adapted to monitor the current leakage in the system. In response to these sensors, the control controller actuates the relay between an closed position, which allows current from the power distributor to pass to a plurality of heating elements, and an open position, which prevents the current from flowing from the power distributer to the plurality of heating elements.
US08744250B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an edge ring for supporting a substrate with increased temperature uniformity. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide an edge ring having one or more surface area increasing structures formed on an energy receiving surface of the edge ring.
US08744247B2
Methods, apparatuses and program logic in storage media to process media data for quality enhancement. Information is accepted from a resource constrained device, e.g., a wireless portable device related to the quality enhancement and/or environmental quantities such as background noise and/or ambient lighting for the device. Media data is data processed to achieve quality enhancement using at least some of the accepted information to generate processed output. The data processing of the media data includes processing when or where one or more resources sufficient for the processing are available.
US08744243B2
A method of storing video content is disclosed and includes storing video content associated with a video content selection at a personal video recording (PVR) device. The method also includes associating an indicator of the video content selection with a file folder at the PVR device. Further, the method includes sending a graphical user interface (GUI) from the PVR device to a display device in response to receiving a selection of the file folder at the PVR device, wherein the GUI includes the indicator of the video content selection and wherein the indicator of the video content selection is marked as viewed or unviewed.
US08744241B2
A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record a file on a recording medium, a management unit configured to store the file recorded on the recording medium in a folder to manage the file, and a control unit configured to control the management unit to move a file which is different from a file to be divided and is stored in a folder which stores the file to be divided, to a folder other than the folder which stores the file to be divided according to an instruction to divide the file recorded on the recording medium and then store a new file created by the division in the folder which stores the file to be divided.
US08744233B2
An image signal processing apparatus converts an input image signal such that the number of pixels in the horizontal direction is converted into 2n pixels, to store the thus-converted into a memory, samples the pixels of the stored image signal in accordance with a predetermined pixel arrangement of a display apparatus to convert the number of pixels in the horizontal direction into n pixels and convert the number of pixels in the vertical direction into m pixels, subsequently converts the image signal converted into n×m pixels into a plurality of color component signals corresponding to the pixels of the display apparatus, further, corrects a center of gravity in accordance with the predetermined pixel arrangement of the display apparatus to output the corrected signals to the display apparatus.
US08744222B2
This patent disclosure is based on silicon instead of LiNbO3, waveguide chip. The disclosed silicon-based multi-function integrated-optic chip comprises of unique design and fabrication features onto it. First, a unique polarization-diversity coupler is designed and fabricated to couple the external light into the silicon waveguide structure. Then TE mode is guided into a silicon slab waveguide, but TM mode is confined and diverted 90 degree in a silicon carbide structure till the chip edges for TM-mode suppression. Second, a unique two-step (vertical and lateral) taper waveguide region is designed and fabricated to bridge the polarization-diversity coupler output with the input of a multi-mode interferometer (MMI) splitter for power loss reduction. In this configuration, MMI may be a 1×2 or 2×2 structure to divide the input TE mode into a 50/50 splitting ratio output to form a Y-junction. Third, at either end of the Y-junction output, there is a phase modulator to achieve optical phase modulation through various physics mechanisms such as plasma dispersion, electro-optics, thermo-optics, or photo-elastic effect. With this newly-developed silicon-based multi-function integrated optic chip, the size and cost of fiber sensors including FOG's can be greatly reduced.
US08744221B1
An apparatus consisting of stacked slab waveguides whose outputs are vertically staggered is disclosed. At the input to the stacked waveguides, the entrances to each slab lie in approximately the same vertical plane. A spot which is imaged onto the input will be transformed approximately to a set of staggered rectangles at the output, without substantial loss in brightness, which staggered rectangles can serve as a convenient input to a spectroscopic apparatus. A slit mask can be added to spatially filter the outputs so as to present the desired transverse width in the plane of the spectroscopic apparatus parallel to its dispersion.
US08744213B2
Provided herein are systems methods including a design of a microscope slide scanner for digital pathology applications which provides high quality images and automated batch-mode operation at low cost. The instrument architecture is advantageously based on a convergence of high performance, yet low cost, computing technologies, interfaces and software standards to enable high quality digital microscopy at very low cost. Also provided is a method based in part on a stitching method that allows for dividing an image into a number of overlapping tiles and reconstituting the image with a magnification without substantial loss of accuracy. A scanner is employed in capturing snapshot images. The method allows for overlapping images captured in consecutive snapshots.
US08744211B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are described for automatically generating a transformation matrix for correlating images from an ultrasound modality with images from another modality (or with ultrasound images acquired at a different point in time). Ultrasound volumetric data and volumetric data yielded from another image modality are examined to identify and/or extract features. The transformation matrix is automatically generated, or populated, based at least in part upon common features that are identified in both the ultrasound volumetric data and the volumetric data yielded from the other image modality. The transformation matrix can then be used to correlate images from the different modalities (e.g., to display a CT image of an object next to an ultrasound image of the object, where the images are substantially similar to one another even though they were acquired using different modalities).
US08744192B2
A personal hygiene device includes a personal hygiene implement and a first position member. The personal hygiene device is capable of providing the user with feedback which can assist the user in his/her personal hygiene routines.
US08744190B2
A system for efficient image feature extraction comprises a buffer for storing a slice of at least n lines of gradient direction pixel values of a directional gradient image. The buffer has an input for receiving the first plurality n of lines and an output for providing a second plurality m of columns of gradient direction pixel values of the slice to an input of a score network, which comprises comparators for comparing the gradient direction pixel values of the second plurality of columns with corresponding reference values of a reference directional gradient pattern of a shape and adders for providing partial scores depending on output values of the comparators to score network outputs which are coupled to corresponding inputs of an accumulation network having an output for providing a final score depending on the partial scores.
US08744183B2
Techniques for identifying documents sharing common underlying structures in a large collection of documents and processing the documents using the identified structures are disclosed. Images of the document collection are processed to detect occurrences of a predetermined set of image features that are common or similar among forms. The images are then indexed in an image index based on the detected image features. A graph of nodes is built. Nodes in the graph represent images and are connected to nodes representing similar document images by edges. Documents sharing common underlying structures are identified by gathering strongly inter-connected nodes in the graph. The identified documents are processed based at least in part on the resulting clusters.
US08744175B2
Even a mosaic image in an uncompleted state, it makes a mosaic image having high recognizability of a picture of an original image displayed. An image providing device includes an image acquisition means that acquires an image specified by a user, a candidate determination means that, on the basis of color information of the acquired image and color information of the regions, determines regions to be candidates for a region to which the acquired image is assigned, an edge degree acquisition means that acquires edge degrees indicating degrees of edges in the regions determined as the candidates, an assignment determination means that, on the basis of the acquired edge degrees, determines a region to which the acquired image is assigned from the regions determined as the candidates, and a presentation means that, on the basis of assignment determined by the assignment determination means, causes a mosaic image in which the acquired image is placed to be presented.
US08744172B2
A method of performing image retrieval includes training a random forest RF classifier based on low-level features of training images and a high-level feature, using similarity values generated by the RF classifier to determine a subset of the training images that are most similar to one another, and classifying input images for the high-level feature using the RF classifier and the determined subset of images.
US08744170B2
An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining section, a detection section, a first identification section and a second identification section. The obtaining section obtains image data of a first picked-up image and a second picked-up image picked up by an image pickup section. The detection section detects a brightness change region where brightness changes at predetermined time intervals in the first picked-up image on the basis of the obtained image data of the first picked-up image. The first identification section performs straight line detection processing on the obtained image data of the second picked-up image to detect a straight line, so as to identify a candidate straight line in a corresponding region corresponding to the brightness change region. The second identification section identifies a quadrilateral region including the candidate straight line as an extraction candidate region in the second picked-up image.
US08744166B2
A system and method for performing automated defect detection using multiple image capture devices is disclosed. The system and method may include providing a plurality of image capture devices, the plurality of image capture devices capturing and transmitting a plurality of images of an object. The system and method may further include determining a feature correspondence between the plurality of images of the plurality of image capture devices, creating mosaiced images of the plurality of images if the feature correspondence is found or known and performing at least of an automated analysis and a manual inspection on the mosaiced images to find any defects in the object.
US08744158B2
An ophthalmologic image display apparatus for displaying information about an eye includes an input unit configured to input a tomographic image of the eye, an acquisition unit configured to acquire diagnostic supporting information associated with positional information about the tomographic image of the eye, a processing unit configured to perform processing for assigning a voxel value to volume data constituting the tomographic image based on a reflection intensity value indicating the tomographic image and the diagnostic supporting information, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display an image processed by the processing unit.
US08744152B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for echocardiogram view classification is provided. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises: obtaining a plurality of video images of a subject; aligning the plurality images; using the aligned images to generate a motion magnitude image; filtering the motion magnitude image using an edge map on image intensity; detecting features on the motion magnitude image, retaining only those features which lie in the neighborhood of intensity edges; encoding the remaining features by generating, x, y image coordinates, a motion magnitude histogram in a window around the feature point, and a histogram of intensity values near the feature point; and using the encoded features to classify the video images of the subject into a predetermined classification.
US08744150B2
A layer orientation is determined for a 2D layer image that is to be generated from 3D image data of an anatomical object in the body of a patient. First, a model resembling the object that is imaged in the 3D image data is selected from a model pool. The model has an assigned default orientation in a permanently selected relative position with respect to the model. While the relative position is being maintained, the model is aligned with the 3D image data so as to match the model to the object with maximum coincidence. The default orientation established relative to the 3D image data is then selected as the layer orientation for the 3D image data.
US08744145B2
An image processing apparatus for tracking faces in an image stream iteratively receives an acquired image from the image stream including one or more face regions. The acquired image is sub-sampled at a specified resolution to provide a sub-sampled image. An integral image is then calculated for a least a portion of the sub-sampled image. Fixed size face detection is applied to at least a portion of the integral image to provide a set of candidate face regions. Responsive to the set of candidate face regions produced and any previously detected candidate face regions, the resolution is adjusted for sub-sampling a subsequent acquired image.
US08744138B2
A biometric-information processing device includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a biometric object using light reflected from the biometric object. The biometric-information processing device further includes an extracting unit configured to extract a frequency component having a frequency higher than a predetermined spatial frequency at the image acquired by the image acquisition unit.
US08744137B2
A processing device and method is provided. According to an illustrative embodiment, the device and method is implemented by detecting a face region of an image, setting at least one action region according to the position of the face region, comparing image data corresponding to the at least one action region to the detection information for purposes of determining whether or not a predetermined action has been performed, and generating a notification when it is determined that the predetermined action has been performed.
US08744134B2
A device, system, and method for displaying seismic image data may include computing, from a wide-azimuth data set, a discrete data set associated with an image function at a seismic image point. The discrete data set may be mapped onto a continuous curved three-dimensional surface. The mapped data set may be projected onto a continuous planar surface. The projected data may be displayed as a planar disk. A plurality of continuous planar surfaces, each representing a single image point, may be assembled to form a three-dimensional body, representing a seismic gather of image points. The three-dimensional body may be displayed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08744130B2
There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit that stores object identification data for identifying an object operable by a user and feature data indicating a feature of appearance of each object; an environment map storage unit that stores an environment map representing a position of one or more objects existing in a real space and generated based on an input image obtained by imaging the real space using an imaging device and the feature data stored in the data storage unit; and a selecting unit that selects at least one object recognized as being operable based on the object identification data, out of the objects included in the environment map stored in the environment map storage unit, as a candidate object being a possible operation target by a user.
US08744121B2
A system recognizes human beings in their natural environment, without special sensing devices attached to the subjects, uniquely identifies them and tracks them in three dimensional space. The resulting representation is presented directly to applications as a multi-point skeletal model delivered in real-time. The device efficiently tracks humans and their natural movements by understanding the natural mechanics and capabilities of the human muscular-skeletal system. The device also uniquely recognizes individuals in order to allow multiple people to interact with the system via natural movements of their limbs and body as well as voice commands/responses.
US08744118B2
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for indexing a digital scene in digital media. The digital media is stored in memory and a uniform resource locator is assigned to a digital scene within the digital media. The uniform resource locator uniquely identifies a resource from which the digital scene may be retrieved, and the uniform resource locator also uniquely identifies the digital scene from other scenes in the digital media. When a query is received for the uniform resource locator, then the digital scene is retrieved from the memory.
US08744113B1
A communication eyewear assembly is configured to identify a zone of safety about a wearer and to notify the wearer and/or others of same. A frame assembly is worn to maintain at least one transparent eye panel in front of the wearer's eyes. A processor coupled to the frame assembly receives incoming data from at least one data source. Utilizing the received data, the processor generates zone of safety information in least one spatial dimension relative to a hazardous area. The assembly can also determine existence of extraordinary circumstances based on changes or lack of changes in the data, and notify the wearer and/or others of same, particularly with regard to the status of the wearer. In accordance with the monitoring of the wearer and/or the communication eyewear itself, a unique ID is assigned to the communication eyewear assembly.
US08744107B2
A hearing device has reduced acoustic wind sensitivity. For that purpose, the hearing device has a surface formed with a shark skin structure.
US08744104B2
A system of signal processing an input signal in a hearing assistance device to avoid entrainment wherein the hearing assistance device including a receiver and a microphone, the method comprising using an adaptive filter to estimate an acoustic feedback path from the receiver to the microphone, generating one or more estimated future pole positions of a transfer function of the adaptive filter, analyzing stability of the one or more estimated pole positions for an indication of entrainment and adjusting the adaptation of the adaptive filter based on the stability.
US08744096B2
Once a human operator operates a fader knob of a desired channel downwardly toward a predetermined position, resistance force against the fader knob is generated. As the human operator further lowers the fader knob beyond another predetermined position against the resistance force, the channel is set in a CUE-ON state, so that an audio signal (pre-fader signal) of the channel can be test-listened to as a CUE signal. Then, once the human operator operates the fader knob upwardly, the CUE-ON state of the signal is canceled, so that a sound volume level of the channel can be controlled in accordance with an operating position of the fader knob.
US08744087B2
Various methods and devices are provided for a wireless audio system for a number of users. The system includes a base unit that is adapted to removably store, recharge and communicate with various communication modules, including personal microphone modules, table-top microphones, and audio adapters. The system also includes a plurality of personal microphone modules that are each adapted to be removable and coupled, for example, to a user's clothing, and further, are adapted to communicate wirelessly with the base unit, and table-top microphones that are adapted to communicate wirelessly with the base unit.
US08744084B2
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable medium for scrambled communication of data to, from, or over a medium. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for communicating data in scrambled form to or over a medium. The method includes receiving analog or digital data to be transmitted to or over a medium. The method further includes modulating samples representing at least signal using the analog or digital data to produce data modulated signal samples. The method further includes scrambling the data modulated signal samples using a predetermined scrambling algorithm. The method further includes transmitting the scrambled data modulated signal samples to or over the medium. The method further includes descrambling samples received from the medium using the inverse of the predetermined scrambling algorithm to obtain the unscrambled modulated signal samples, which can then be demodulated to retrieve original data.
US08744081B2
A system includes a line-based receiver for receiving protected content from a source and a line-based transmitter for providing the protected content to a destination. The protected content is secure, such as by using a High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) mechanism. Between the line-based transmitter and receiver is a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. The wireless transmitter establishes an encrypted wireless link with the wireless receiver according to a second encryption mechanism. The wireless transmitter is further configured for receiving the protected content from the line-based receiver, encrypting the protected content according to the second encryption mechanism, and wirelessly transmitting the encrypted protected content. The wireless receiver is further configured for receiving the wirelessly transmitted protected content from the wireless transmitter and decrypting the protected content according to the second encryption mechanism.
US08744079B2
A method of encrypting data to be accessed only by a group of users comprises a user in the group receiving a user secret si=ƒ1(R, ui), the user secret having been created by operating a first one-way function f1 on parameters comprising a root key R and a public identifier ui for the user. The user in the group receives a public identifier ui for each of the other users in the group. The user in the group obtains a group key by operating a second one-way function ƒ2 on parameters comprising the user secret s, and the public identifiers for the other users in the group u1, u2, . . . , uj−1, uj+1 . . . un−1, un, wherein said second one-way function/band said first one-way function ƒ1 satisfy: ƒ2(ƒ1(R,u1), u2, . . . , un)=ƒ2(ƒ1(R,u2), u1, u3, u4 . . . , un)= . . . =ƒ2(ƒ1(R,un), u1, u2 . . . , un−1). The user in the group encrypts the data using the group key.
US08744074B2
The public exponent e of an RSA key is embedded in a RSA key object that lacks this exponent. During exponentiation, the public exponent e may be extracted and used to verify that the result of the exponentiation is correct. The result is output only if this is the case. The invention counters fault-attacks. Also provided are an apparatus and a computer program product.
US08744073B2
A system for random number generation includes a digital oscillator circuit, which has a set of available configurations and is operative to generate a random number sequence in accordance with a current configuration selected from the set. The system further includes a randomization circuit, which is operative to produce a pseudo-random stream of values corresponding to the available configurations of the digital oscillator circuit, and to control the digital oscillator circuit to alternate among the available configurations in accordance with the pseudo-random stream of values.
US08744071B2
A computing system securely stores data to a dispersed data storage system. The computing system includes a processing module and a plurality of storage units. The processing module includes an encryptor and error encoder to encrypt and encode the data for dispersal utilizing a write command to the storage units. The storage units store the encrypted and encoded data when receiving the write command and the encrypted and encoded data.
US08744066B1
A computerized system and related method for assisting a user with placing a telephonic call, comprising a user interface, computerized processing, and computerized storage for: a user specifying an originally-specified telephone number to place an intended telephonic call, which telephone number, as originally-specified, for at least one particular reason, cannot be used to successfully complete the intended telephonic call; the user, after specifying the originally-specified telephone number, later specifying later-specified telephone number elements, including the possible deleting or ignoring of part of the originally-specified telephone number; and causing the telephonic call to be successfully signaled using the originally-specified telephone number in combination with the later-specified telephone number elements, without the user having to re-specify the originally-specified telephone number.
US08744056B2
A device is provided that may initiate a communication with a communication device; log the communications initiated with respective communication devices; determine a likelihood that any one of the communication devices will be a next communication device with which communication will be initiated based on the logged information; and order, in a displayable list based on the determined likelihoods, identifiers associated with at least two of the communication devices.
US08744051B2
A method (300) for translating fees for a value added service in a communication network, and a charging gateway (116) that translates fees for a value added service in a communication network. A request (130, 134) for a communication device to access the value added service can be received and, in real time, translated to a first pseudo telephone number. In real time, a first telephone call (136) to the first pseudo telephone number can be simulated to generate a first call request (138) that inquires whether credit for the value added service is available. An acknowledgement (140) to the first call request can be received that indicates whether a sufficient amount of credit to access the value added services is available. Access or denial to the value added services can be based on whether the sufficient amount of credit is available.
US08744031B1
Provided are a device and method for estimating carrier frequency offset of OFDM signals transmitted and received through a plurality of polarized antennas that may accurately estimate carrier frequency offset used for carrier frequency synchronization acquisition when there is interference between polarized waves.
US08744028B2
A data communication system comprises a transmitting device which transmits data and a receiving device which receives the data. The transmitting device comprises a clock generating circuit and a transmitting unit. The clock generating circuit generates a clock having a temperature characteristic in that a clock frequency varies with temperature. The transmitting unit transmits data generated in synchronization with the clock to the receiving device. The receiving device comprises a receiving unit, a detecting unit, a storage unit, and a calculating unit. The receiving unit receives the data. The detecting unit detects the clock frequency from the data. The storage unit stores temperature characteristic information regarding the temperature characteristic of the clock frequency. The calculating unit calculates a temperature corresponding to the clock frequency based on the clock frequency and the temperature characteristic information.
US08744025B2
Methods, systems and other embodiments associated with pre-processing a signal for spectral analysis are presented. A system for pre-processing a digital input signal includes a digital down converter (DDC), an interpolator, and a series of down samplers. The DDC modulates the digital input signal to create a down converted signal. The interpolator re-samples the down converted signal to produce a re-sampled signal. The series of down samplers produces down sampled signals. The multiplexer selects one of the digital input signal, the down converted signal, and the down sampled signals and routes the selected signal to an output line.
US08744024B2
In a receiver circuit, a node receives a signal that carries data from a transmitter circuit. Moreover, a clock-data-recovery (CDR) circuit in the receiver circuit recovers an at-rate clock signal from the received signal. The CDR circuit recovers the clock signal without converging a first pulse-response precursor of the signal relative to a pulse-response cursor of the signal to approximately zero (e.g., with the first pulse-response precursor h(−1) converged to a non-zero value). Furthermore, the first pulse-response precursor corresponds to at least one precurosor or postcursor of the pulse-response other than the current sample.
US08744007B2
A multi-transport stream (TS) generating apparatus and method, and digital broadcasting transmission and reception apparatuses and method are provided. The multi-TS generating apparatus includes an adaptor to generate an adaptation field in some packets of a normal stream; an interleaver to interleave the normal stream; a turbo processor to turbo-code a plurality of turbo streams; a stuffer to generate a multi-TS by stuffing the plurality of the turbo streams into the adaptation field; and a deinterleaver to deinterleave the multi-TS. Accordingly, the plurality of the turbo streams can be transmitted far more easily.
US08744004B2
A systems, pulse generators, apparatus and methods for generating a high power signal are presented. A pulse generator includes a generator and a modulator unit. The generator generates a bipolar signal. The modulator unit modulates the bipolar signal with oscillating signals to generate a modulated bipolar signal with oscillating portions. The frequency spectrum of the modulated bipolar signal contains very little to no direct current (DC) component.
US08744002B2
A peak power suppressing circuit can suppress a peak power of an IQ (In-phase and Quadrature-phase) baseband signal more assuredly. In particular, the peak power suppressing circuit performs a clipping process on an IQ baseband signal. The suppressing circuit includes a power calculation section that calculates an instantaneous power P of an IQ baseband signal, a pulse retention section that retains a cancellation pulse S that has a frequency component in a frequency band B of the IQ baseband signal and a frequency component outside the frequency band, and a clipping processing section that subtracts, from an IQ baseband signal whose instantaneous power P that has been calculated is greater than a predetermined threshold Pth, cancellation signals Ic and Qc obtained by multiplying increments ΔI and ΔQ of the IQ baseband signal from the threshold Pth by the cancellation pulse S.
US08743996B2
Disclosed is a digital broadcasting transmission/reception system having an improved reception performance and in a signal-processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter comprises a TS stream generator for inputting robust and normal packets having stuff bytes in predetermined positions and generating dual TS stream by inserting the robust packets between the normal packets; a randomizer for randomizing the dual TS stream; a stuff byte exchanger for replacing the stuff bytes of a randomized data streams from the randomizer to a predetermined known data; and an encoder for encoding a data streams to which the known data is inserted. Accordingly, the present invention detects the known data from a signal received from a reception side and uses the detected known data for synchronization and equalization, so that the digital broadcasting reception performance can be improved at poor multipath channels.
US08743991B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive beamforming). A first embodiment provides the optimal approach with high complexity. An alternative embodiment provides successive beamforming for near optimal precoding selection with medium complexity. A low complexity method for precoder selection is also provided wherein a channel representative matrix for the set of parallel channels is determined and successive beamforming on the calculated channel representative is applied.
US08743990B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive beamforming). A first embodiment provides the optimal approach with high complexity. An alternative embodiment provides successive beamforming for near optimal precoding selection with medium complexity. A low complexity method for precoder selection is also provided wherein a channel representative matrix for the set of parallel channels is determined and successive beamforming on the calculated channel representative is applied.
US08743984B2
Systems and methods are disclosed with a spatial-domain-based multi-dimensional coded-modulation scheme that improves dramatically OSNR sensitivity and tolerance to fiber nonlinearities by using D-dimensional signal constellations, where D=2(2+M)N. The factor 2 originates from two polarizations, 2+M electrical basis functions are selected (2 in-phase/quadrature channels and M pulse-position like basis functions), and N represents the number of orbital angular momentum (OAM) states used in FMFs/MMFs. For single mode fiber applications N is 1.
US08743980B2
A method of designing a reference signal pattern for a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting a plurality of cell-specific reference signal (CRSs) in a subframe, the subframe comprising a plurality of resource elements that are divided in time across a plurality of subcarriers to form a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, each of the plurality of resource element occupying a predetermined amount of time on a respective one of the plurality of subcarriers. wherein, a first set of the plurality of CRSs is allocated to a first set of the plurality resource elements on a first symbol and a second symbol over a third subcarrier, a sixth subcarrier, a ninth subcarrier and a twelfth subcarrier.
US08743976B2
Techniques, apparatuses and systems for providing communications based on time reversal of a channel impulse response of a pulse in a transmission channel between a transmitter and a receiver to enhance reception and detection of a pulse at the receiver against various effects that can adversely affect and complicate the reception and detection of the pulse at the receiver.
US08743969B2
The image decoding method includes: determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts; and performing arithmetic decoding on a bit sequence corresponding to the current block, using the determined context, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a condition that control parameters of neighboring blocks of the current block are used, when the signal type is a first type, the neighboring blocks being a left block and an upper block of the current block; and the context is determined under a condition that the control parameter of the upper block is not used, when the signal type is a second type.
US08743966B2
An apparatus and method are provided for compensating a block error in an image frame. This may include a video codec decoder for decoding an inputted image frame, and outputting a decoded image frame. An error concealment block may detect an error-generated block in the decoded image frame and compensate the detected error block through a median filter, and output the compensated image frame.
US08743960B2
In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining reference picture information, and determining a first reference picture of the bi-predictive image block. The first reference picture has a co-located image block with respect to the bi-predictive image block. A second reference picture is determined based on a motion vector of the co-located image block. At least one motion vector of the bi-predictive image block is obtained according to the motion vector of the co-located image block and the reference picture type of at least one of the first reference picture and the second reference picture. The reference picture information indicates reference picture types of reference pictures, and the reference picture type being based on temporal distance between a current picture including the bi-predictive image block and the reference picture. The bi-predictive image block is decoded by motion-estimating the bi-predictive image block using the motion vector of the bi-predictive image block.
US08743954B1
A system and method includes adjusting bit rate based on measured quality in a video conversion module. The video conversion module may be, for example, an encoder or a transcoder. In one embodiment, the video conversion module receives an input stream in a first format and converts the input stream to an output stream in a second format. The video conversion module is coupled to a bit rate controller that controls the bit rate of the output stream. A bit rate controller compares the output quality of the output stream to a target quality, and adjusts the output bit rate responsive to the comparison having a difference greater than a predetermined value.
US08743948B2
Decoding tasks are identified for decoding encoded video. Decoding tasks may include entropy decoding tasks, motion compensation tasks, inverse frequency transform tasks, inverse quantization tasks, intra decoding tasks, loop filtering tasks, or other tasks. Task dependencies are identified for the video decoding tasks. For example, one or more decoding tasks may depend on prior completion of entropy decoding tasks. The decoding tasks are prioritized based at least in part on the task dependencies. For example, a higher priority may be assigned to tasks that must be completed before other tasks that depend on them can begin. Prioritized decoding tasks are selected to be performed by hardware threads. For example, a first hardware thread may perform a first decoding task that does not depend on any uncompleted tasks while a second hardware thread performs a second decoding task that does not depend on any uncompleted tasks.
US08743946B2
A communication receiver including a time domain receive filter to provide a filtered output, the filtered output including colored noise. The receiver also includes a frequency domain, fractionally-spaced equalizer (FSE) unit to receive the filtered output from the receive filter. The FSE unit determines a separate weighting factor for each subcarrier, and the weighting factor is determined based on a noise variance of the subcarrier.
US08743945B2
Described embodiments receive a signal by a set of fixed taps and a set of floating taps of a receiver, each tap corresponding to a detected symbol. Each of the floating taps is stored in a corresponding shift register to account for process, operating voltage and temperature (PVT) variations of the receiver without calibration of delay elements. Multiplexing logic selects (i) corresponding floating taps for equalization by coupling selected floating taps to the outputs of the fixed taps, and (ii) different phases of each possible floating tap position. The multiplexing logic prunes and/or amalgamates the phases of each possible floating tap position and selects floating taps based on a magnitude of each phase. A combiner adjusts each output value of the fixed taps and the selected floating taps by a corresponding tap-weight, combines the adjusted values into an output signal and subtracts the output signal from the input signal.
US08743944B2
A decision feedback equalizer is provided for correcting ISI on a first postcursor without using received decision data of a preceding bit. The decision feedback equalizer includes an amplifying circuit that is to be supplied with received data, a duobinary signal decision device for determining an output signal from the amplifying circuit, the duobinary signal decision device including a flip-flop, a shift register for successively shifting a decision result held by the flip-flop, and a plurality of current control blocks that are to be supplied with respective output signals from the shift register, and feeding back output signals to an output terminal of the amplifier to control the potential thereof.
US08743940B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with adaptively determining settings of a transmit equalizer are described. According to one embodiment, a signal is received from a transmitter and a signal contribution of the transmit equalizer is removed from the signal to produce a residual signal. Revised tap coefficients are computed based, at least in part, on the residual signal. Revised tap coefficient settings, that are based, at least in part, on the revised tap coefficients, are provided to the transmit equalizer.
US08743929B2
A device for bit-demultiplexing in a multicarrier MIMO communication system (e.g. precoded spatial multiplexing MIMO communication systems using adaptive OFDM), including a multicarrier MIMO transmitter and a multicarrier MIMO receiver. The multicarrier MIMO transmitter includes a demultiplexer and symbol mapper unit receiving an input bit stream and generating a plurality of symbol streams, each symbol stream being associated with a different transmission channel and including a plurality of data symbols, each data symbol being attributed to a different carrier; one or more multicarrier modulators generating at least two multicarrier modulated signals based on the symbol streams; and at least two transmit ports respectively transmitting the at least two multicarrier modulated signals, wherein a data throughput rate of each transmission channel is separately variable.
US08743926B2
In various embodiments, an electrode has a shaft extending from an electrode head and a cooling passage extending from an open end disposed at an attachment end of the shaft to a closed end disposed within the electrode head.
US08743900B2
An apparatus and a method for operating as a virtual terminal to participate in competition for medium access while a mobile terminal operates as an access point are provided. In a case where the mobile terminal accesses a medium while competing with a terminal that transmits data of low priority, an apparatus and a method for entering a low power mode to resolve a power consumption problem of the mobile terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a medium competing unit, which allows the mobile terminal to operate as a virtual terminal and participate in competition for a medium access when data to be transmitted does not exist in the mobile terminal operating as an Access Point (AP).
US08743896B2
A method of RLC reconfiguration for a communication device of a wireless communication system includes receiving a dedicated signaling including a reconfiguration value corresponding to a RLC-related parameter when the RLC-related parameter is in-use, and not immediately starting to use the reconfiguration value on the in-use RLC-related parameter when the reconfiguration value is extracted from the dedicated signaling.
US08743894B2
A method of operating a computer system comprising a bridge port between a hardware local area network (LAN) and a virtual switch includes providing a first hash table by the hardware LAN to the virtual switch via the bridge port, wherein the first hash table comprises addresses of a first plurality of VMs that comprise the hardware LAN, wherein the first plurality of VMs communicate with the hardware LAN via respective hardware network interface cards (NICs); and updating a second hash table in the virtual switch to include the addresses of the first hash table, wherein the second hash table further comprises addresses of a second plurality of VMs of the virtual switch, wherein the second plurality of VMs communicate with the virtual switch via respective virtual NICs.
US08743878B2
Methods and systems for path resolving in a symmetric InfiniBand network are provided. One method includes transmitting, from a first node, a Management Datagram (MAD) to a second node, the MAD including a query for a Global Unique Identifier (GUID) for a port in the second node. The method further includes receiving the GUID for the port in response to the MAD and determining a Global Identifier (GID) for the port based on the received GUID. One system includes first and second nodes in communication with each other. The first node is configured to transmit a MAD to the second node, the MAD including a query for a GUID for a port in the second node. The first node is further configured to receive the GUID for the port in response to the MAD and determine a GID for the port based on the received GUID.
US08743876B2
There is provided a multicast router comprising a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent and an SNMP database and a method of monitoring the router. In some embodiments the method comprises the multicast router receiving, via a downstream network interface, multicast data requests made by one or more hosts; the multicast router reading data contained in the multicast data request; the multicast router storing first data in the SNMP database for a downstream network interface, a multicast group address and a first host that requests multicast data, wherein the first data comprises information of the multicast groups and multicast channels requested by the first host; and the SNMP agent of the multicast router transmitting to an SNMP control station, using a version of the SNMP protocol, at least a part of the first data stored in the SNMP database.
US08743875B2
Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for improving efficiency of multicast state generation within Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) networks. Techniques include using an IS-IS TLV structure with new multicast state computation rules for SPB Networks. SPB Networks use a TLV field for the I-SID Address (and equivalent TLV fields defined in different IETF/IEEE drafts) and node nicknames to signal information that is used to compute a multicast state required to provide L2 Services over a given SPB Network. The I-SID Address TLV is set or filled to carry various items of information. These items of information can include Backbone Media Access Control (B-MAC), Virtual Local Area Network Identifier (VID), I-SID[Transmit, Receive Bit], etc.
US08743872B2
A plurality of SMP modules and an IOP module communicate storage traffic via respective corresponding I/O controllers coupled to respective physical ports of a switch fabric by addressing cells to physical port addresses corresponding to the physical ports. One of the SMPs executes initiator software to partially manage the storage traffic and the IOP executes target software to partially manage the storage traffic. Storage controllers are coupled to the IOP, enabling communication with storage devices, such as disk drives, tape drives, and/or networks of same. Respective network identification registers are included in each of the I/O controller corresponding to the SMP executing the initiator software and the I/O controller corresponding to the IOP. Transport of the storage traffic in accordance with a particular VLAN is enabled by writing a same particular value into each of the network identification registers.
US08743869B2
An approach is provided for supporting telephony services over a data network. A communication network establishes a voice session from a calling station to a called station associated with a user. A service platform, in communication with the communication network, obtains Caller ID information corresponding to the voice session, and determines an instant communication client of the user. The Caller ID information is transmitted over the data network to the instant communication client for display of the Caller ID information.
US08743864B2
Acknowledging a source terminal data message from a destination terminal in an in-band communication system is disclosed. A first synchronization sequence followed by a low layer acknowledgement message and a second synchronization sequence followed by a high layer acknowledgement message is transmitted.
US08743863B2
Methods and apparatus for using code-division multiple access (CDMA) to transmit information via orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) to convey information from user terminals to an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) are provided. By using CDMA to convey information, a propagation delay between an access point (AP) and a user terminal may be determined by the AP, and timing adjustment information based on the delay may be sent to the user terminal. In this manner, subsequent uplink (UL) transmissions from multiple user terminals may be received simultaneously by the AP, despite the multiple user terminals having potentially different propagation delays.
US08743862B2
In a wireless 802.15.4 communication system (300), a high-speed data frame structure (340) is provided which uses the 802.15.4 SHR structure that is spread modulated to obtain the synchronization benefits of the 802.15.4 protocol, but which uses a modified data frame structure for the payload portion without using spreading to thereby improve its transmission efficiency. The transmission efficiency can be further increased by increasing the size of the data payload (and correspondingly, the frame length size).
US08743858B2
Systems and methods of uniquely identifying communication nodes in a wireless communication system are described herein. One embodiment of the disclosure provides a wireless apparatus comprising a transceiver configured to receive a first identifier during at least one time slot. The first identifier identifies a first communication node. The apparatus further comprises a processing circuit configured to determine if the first identifier is received during a first time slot that is different from at least one pre-assigned time slot.
US08743856B2
Systems, circuits, and devices for wirelessly charging a mobile device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system of a mobile device comprises a low power PAN module and a controller for the low power PAN module configured to monitor a connection request signal communicated from an external device while the mobile device is in a sleep mode, where the controller is supplied with quiescent current from a battery of the mobile device during the sleep mode. In addition, the system comprises an AP of the mobile device configured to wake up from the sleep mode when the connection request signal is validated by the controller, forward to the external device an equipment identity data of the mobile device and a charging status of the battery, and charge the battery of the mobile device with energy received from a wireless charging module associated with the external device.
US08743854B1
An apparatus and method for signal separation and SINR improvement is disclosed. In particular, disclosed is an iterative technique whereby a noisy signal, that may include signals from one or more distinct emitters, is first improved through an SINR improvement technique. Next, one signal from the noisy signal is identified and a reference signal substantially free of noise and interference is generated for this signal, and then this reference signal is subtracted from the noisy signal. This process is repeated until no other signals may be identified. In this way, the signal with the highest SINR may be identified first and then removed from the original signal. As such, the identified signal is no longer present as interference for the remaining signals, thus improving each of the remaining signals' respective SINRs.
US08743851B2
Systems and techniques relating to wireless communications are described. A described technique includes monitoring wireless communication channels, including a first channel and a second channel, to produce a monitoring output, determining a first transmission period for the first channel by applying a first waiting period duration and a second waiting period duration to the monitoring output, determining a second transmission period for the second channel by applying the first waiting period duration and the second waiting period duration to the monitoring output, causing, based on the first transmission period, a first transmission on the first channel to reserve the group of wireless communication channels; causing, based on the second transmission period, a second transmission on the second channel; and monitoring, after the end of the first transmission period, for an acknowledgement(s). An end of the second transmission period can be aligned with an end of the first transmission period.
US08743849B2
A method for performing, for a plurality of applications, data communication on a wireless medium accessible for a plurality of nodes used by the applications is disclosed. Each application is assigned to one of a plurality of application classes. In one aspect, the method includes sending, at one of the plurality of nodes, a resource request for an application via a control channel dedicated to the application class which the application is assigned to, wherein the resource request is sent employing an access method available for the application class. The method also includes taking a decision on allocating resource on the wireless medium for the application. The method also includes performing data communication for the application via a conflict-free data channel, the data channel being separated in time from the dedicated control channel.
US08743835B2
A communication system may include a serving base station and neighboring base stations. Each of the serving base station and the neighboring base stations may have a corresponding user group. Terminals belonging to a particular user group may feed back information associated with interference channels, and reasonably generate a precoding matrix. Through this, it is possible to perform an accurate interference alignment and to enhance a throughput. In this instance, terminals belonging to the other user groups may feed back information associated with a throughput, and a corresponding base station may perform the interference alignment using a user selection resulting in decreased overhead.
US08743832B2
A device, system and method for performing an uncontrolled handover in a mobile station, a ranging request message including an identifier of a serving base station and a first identifier used in the serving base station is transmitted to a first target base station to perform network (re)entry to the first target base station, and a ranging response message including security information and a second identifier for identifying the mobile station is received from the first target base station.
US08743829B2
A method and device for establishing or modifying a local IP access bearer are provided by the embodiments of the present invention, said method includes: a handover request message transmitted by an evolved Node Base station is received, said handover request message carries an evolved Node Base station identifier, said evolved Node Base station identifier is the same as the local packet data network gateway identifier; the local breakout ability of said evolved Node Base station is obtained; according to said evolved Node Base station identifier, the local breakout ability of said evolved Node Base station and the local IP access point name, the local IP access bearer is established or modified between a serving gateway and the local packet data network gateway, said serving gateway is located in the core network or the evolved Node Base station.
US08743821B2
A radio communication system includes a base station device and a plurality of mobile station devices which radio-communicate with the base station device. The base station device allocates random access signal identifiers for identifying random access signals to the mobile station devices and decides an allocation period for each of the random access signal identifiers used by the mobile base stations. During the allocation period, each of the mobile station devices transmits a random access signal corresponding to the allocated random access signal identifier. Thus, it is possible to suppress a delay until the random access procedure using a dedicated preamble is complete.
US08743820B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and instructions for receiving at a user equipment (UE) of a third generation partnership project (3GPP) network an offset value selected from a plurality of offset values in downlink control information. The UE also receives one or more enhanced control channel elements (eCCEs) of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH). The UE may then determine an allocation of an uplink resource for a transmission on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) based at least in part on the index of a first eCCE and the offset value.
US08743808B2
Method for reducing collisions between a first station and a second station in a CSMA/CA system. The method may be performed by the first station. Medium access to transmit to the second station may be obtained according to a first procedure for obtaining medium access. It may be determined that the second station is configured to grant transmit opportunity to the first station. Medium access to transmit to the second station may be obtained according to a second procedure for obtaining medium access based on determining that the second station is configured to grant transmit opportunity to the first station. The first procedure may include contending for medium access, while the second procedure may include delaying contention for medium access relative to the first procedure.
US08743803B2
A dual band spectrum allocation system and method for wireless data communications uses discrete bands for upstream and downstream data communications. A preferred embodiment uses unlicensed UNII bands for license-free data transmissions from a subscriber to a hub, and uses relatively interference free licensed bands for data transmissions from a hub to subscribers, thereby allowing use of greater bandwidth, simplifying system licensing and reducing filtering requirements for subscribers.
US08743798B2
When radar/radio signals are detected by one of two access points establishing communication in a WDS mode, the one access point notifies the other access point of a change of a communication channel to a newly allocated channel and actually changes the communication channel to the newly allocated channel. The other access point notified of the newly allocated channel performs a passive scan at the notified newly allocated channel to detect a beacon broadcasted by the one access point. In response to detection of the beacon, the other access point resets the communication channel to the notified newly allocated channel. The two access points can accordingly reestablish communication in the WDS mode within a short time period. This arrangement allows for a quick channel change in response to detection of radar/radio signals, such as a weather radar, during communication of a 5 GHz frequency band in the WDS mode.
US08743795B2
A method is provided for improving reliability in detection of an identifier for a user agent is provided. The method includes the user agent attempting to decode semi-persistent scheduling activation/reconfiguration signaling over a physical downlink control channel only during a discontinuous reception (DRX) on-duration.
US08743793B2
A method for providing uplink spatial division multiple access (SDMA) transmission opportunities (TXOP) is described. A demarcation indication may be sent to one or more subscriber stations. An SDMA contention window may be started. An allocation indication may be received. Requested uplink SDMA TXOP resources may be allocated according to the allocation indication.
US08743789B2
[Issues] To provide: a radio access device, a radio access system, a network selection method and a recording medium which is capable of: in an environment where a plurality of radio access networks is intermingled, evading cut off of a communication accompanied by a movement of a radio access device; and continuing the communication more stably.[Solution method] The radio access device includes: an acquisition means which acquires network information about a network to be used for communication from an administration entity which administers the information; and a selection means which obtains, based on the network information acquired; first information which indicates availability of a network at a current position of its own and second information which indicates availability of a network at a position other than the current position of its own, and selects a network to be used for communication using the first and the second information obtained.
US08743781B2
An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to send a reverse invitation in response to an incoming call. The reverse invitation may be used to set up an alternate communication session rather than maintaining the incoming call.
US08743777B2
In a wireless communication system including a wireless terminal, a plurality of wireless base stations that wirelessly communicate with the wireless terminal, and a controller that changes the path used for communication with the wireless terminal from a first path via a first wireless base station to a second path via a second wireless base station, the controller monitors the amount of remaining data to the wireless terminal at the first wireless base station, controls to the timing to change to the second path according to the monitor result.
US08743775B2
Apparatus and a method are described for handling inter-radio access technology measurement reports in a radio telecommunications device, the device being operable with a first cellular radio access technology (e.g. UTRAN, E-UTRAN), GERAN and Generic Access Network, the radio telecommunications device being capable of adopting a cellular preferred mode. The method comprises, in the radio telecommunications device, when the radio telecommunications device is in cellular preferred mode and operating with the first cellular radio access technology and the radio telecommunications device is registered with a Generic Access Network Controller that operates as a GERAN network component, and a quality of a signal from the first cellular radio access technology is below a certain threshold and a quality of a signal from the GAN is above a certain threshold and a request has been received to send an inter-RAT measurement report, generating inter-radio access technology measurements and, when there is at least one GERAN cell that satisfies a triggering condition, transmitting a measurement report in respect of the GERAN cell(s) and a measurement report in respect of the generic access network.
US08743772B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatuses for wireless communications. The techniques generally include intercepting a report message from a relay node destined for a target base station, modifying the report message based on information not available at the relay node, and sending the modified report message to the target base station.
US08743770B2
An apparatus processes a first data packet header element of fixed length which identifies a bearer or a logical channel, as well as a configuration parameter indicating the length of an additional second data packet header element inclusive of a length of zero. A combination of the first data packet header element and the second data packet header element identifies a bearer or a logical channel of a user equipment. Data of different user equipments is processed in a transport block data packet by utilizing a packet header of the transport block data packet including combination of the first data packet header element and the second data packet header element for each different combination of bearer or logical channel and user equipment.
US08743767B2
Provided are a method of obtaining service information to receive a broadcasting service in a user equipment (UE), and service information announcement methods performable in a service center in charge of multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) control and a server interoperable with the service center. The method of obtaining MBMS information in a UE includes checking whether or not a previously defined event occurs in order to obtain service information, requesting an external server announcing service information to transmit service information according to whether or not the event occurs, and receiving service information transmitted in response to the service information transmission request and outputting the service information through a user interface (UI).
US08743760B2
A method including receiving data in at least one link layer message from a first access node at a second access node, the first access node being associated with the second node; determining if said data is to be sent to a third access node; and, sending the data in at least one internet protocol message to the third access node. The first access node may be a relay node.
US08743757B2
A mobile communication system includes a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. The base station apparatus is configured to provide, to the mobile station apparatus via paging, a notification of updating of system information corresponding to a first component carrier, and provide, to the mobile station apparatus via radio resource control signaling, updated system information corresponding to a second component carrier. The mobile station apparatus is configured to detect, from the base station apparatus via the paging, the notification of updating of the system information corresponding to the first component carrier, and obtain, from the base station apparatus, the updated system information broadcasted in the first component carrier, and obtain, from the base station apparatus via the radio resource control signaling, the updated system information corresponding to the second component carrier.
US08743756B2
A hybrid expansion unit includes at least one digital communication interface adapted to communicate first and second sets of N-bit words of digitized spectrum with an upstream device. The hybrid expansion unit further includes at least one analog communication interface adapted to communicate first and second sets of bands of analog spectrum with a downstream device. The hybrid expansion unit is adapted to convert between the first set of N-bit words of digitized spectrum and the first set of bands of analog spectrum. The hybrid expansion unit is further adapted to convert between the second set of N-bit words of digitized spectrum and the second set of bands of analog spectrum. The first set of bands of analog spectrum occupy a first frequency range and the second set of bands of analog spectrum occupy a second frequency range. The first frequency range and the second frequency range do not overlap.
US08743750B2
The invention relates to a method of evaluating the reliability of a route in a cooperative network for transmitting packets of data between a source node and a destination node of the network. It includes, on reception by the destination node of a message indicating a route between the two nodes: a step of associating the indicated route with a reliability indicator parameter evaluated by the destination node; and a step of sending the source node a response including the parameter associated with the indicated route.
US08743746B2
A radio transceiver including a transmitter and a receiver. A filter coupled to an output of the transmitter, the filter has one or more inductors and one or more capacitors, where the filter is tuned by varying one or more capacitance values of the one or more capacitors in the filter to tune the filter. The one or more capacitors are Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) ceramic integrated capacitors that are each tuned by application of a bias voltage thereto. A filter tuner circuit is configured to apply the bias voltage to the one or more capacitors, where the bias voltage is initially established as a stored initial value, and where the bias voltage is refined by a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller configured to optimize a power within the transceiver. This abstract is not to be considered limiting since various implementations may incorporate more, fewer or different elements.
US08743727B2
A wireless local area network (WLAN) positioning system is disclosed that allows the WLAN system to determine the location attributes of a client device operating in a power save mode, operating on a different channel than the WLAN's access points, and/or operating in an ad-hoc mode. The client device periodically performs scanning operations during which beacon frames broadcast by a selected AP(s) can be received. The client device parses information embedded in the beacon frames, and in response thereto selectively initiates ranging operations to determine its location attributes. After determining its location attributes, the client devices sends the location attributes back to the selected AP(s).
US08743726B2
A method and system for wireless communication with a mobile device in which wireless communication is established with the mobile device. A base station is used to transmit directly to the mobile device in a downlink direction. A relay node is used to transmit to the base station communications received in an uplink direction from the mobile station. The relay node relays at least a portion of the uplink traffic received from the mobile station to the base station.
US08743717B2
A method and apparatus for allocating subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating at least one diversity cluster of subcarriers to a first subscriber and allocating at least one coherence cluster to a second subscriber.
US08743709B1
Services are provided to a multi-mode mobile station that is attachable to a packet-switched access network and a circuit-switched access network. A first message indicating a service relating to the multi-mode mobile station is received, and in response to the first message, a control message is sent over a signaling interface from a first node in a circuit-switched domain to a second node in a packet-switched domain. The control message contains a circuit-switched control indication to enable the service to be performed.
US08743706B2
In a transmission circuit used in a TDD scheme, a preset current is supplied from a current source to a detection diode via a switch that is made conductive during a reception period and made non-conductive during a transmission period. A determination is made if the output of the detection diode is within a predetermined specified range and, if the output is out of the specified range, a judgment is made that the detection diode is faulty.
US08743697B2
An apparatus and method for routing IP traffic in real time from at least one network user to a plurality of internet links. Embodiments include assigning different ranks to different internet links based on network monitoring. In one embodiment, a system for routing internet traffic includes a route optimizer to generate routing instructions using a ranked list of the internet links, based on financial costs of routing over the internet links and traffic condition information associated with the links. In another embodiment, a method to generate a routing instruction includes (i) determining a delay for the internet links which is an amount of time between when a packet is sent over the internet link and when it arrives at the destination, and (ii) generating a ranked list of internet links using financial costs of routing data packets and the delay associated with the links.
US08743690B1
At least one first frame of a first data flow is inspected by a general processing unit to at least determine whether a subsequent portion of the first data flow can be delegated to a network processing unit for accelerated processing. A deceleration trigger is defined for the first data flow from the inspection of the first frame. A first subsequent portion of the first data flow is delegated to a network processing unit for accelerated processing based, at least in part, on the defining of the first deceleration trigger. The first deceleration trigger defines at least one first condition that, when met during accelerated processing of the first data flow, prompts returning processing of the first data flow from the network processing unit to the general processing unit for further inspection of subsequent packets.
US08743683B1
A method, system, and computer program are provided for quality of service using multiple flows. At a first digital device, a plurality of inter-device flows is established between the first digital device and a second digital device via a communication network. At least one flow metric associated with each of the inter-device flows is determined, which may include, for example, a latency metric, a loss metric, and/or a re-ordering metric. According to various embodiments, flow metrics may form a basis for categorizing the inter-device flows. One or more preferred flows are selected based on the flow metrics. Finally, a packet to be sent to the second device is directed to one of the preferred flows.
US08743674B2
A cancellation system is disclosed for processing incoming and outgoing signals in a transform domain to create a cancellation signal for reducing or removing unwanted interference. Data is ordered based on Good-Thomas indexing into a two dimensional array in a buffer. The two dimensional array may have lr rows and lw columns. From the buffer, the columns of data undergo a Winograd small transform. The rows of data undergo a Cooley-Tukey operation to complete the transform operation into the frequency domain. Multipliers scale the transformed data to generate a cancellation signal in the frequency domain. Inverse (Cooley-Tukey) and Winograd transforms perform inverse processing on the cancellation signal to return the cancellation signal or data to the time domain. Re-ordering the data and combination of the cancellation signal or data with incoming or outgoing signals achieve interference cancellation.
US08743671B2
A recording adjustment method capable of controlling an edge position of a mark with high accuracy. Based on an acquired read-out signal waveform, a starting position of a last pulse is adjusted such that a so-called L-SEAT shift value for an end edge of the mark becomes minimum.
US08743647B2
An electronic device comprises a semiconductor memory cell having a bistable bit storage circuit having first and second power contact points. A first switch is coupled to the first power contact point to receive a first voltage. A second switch coupled to the second power contact point to receive a second voltage. Circuitry is provided for turning off the first and second switches to decouple the respective first and second voltages from the respective first and second power contact points, during stand-by operation of the electronic device.
US08743639B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a switching unit coupled between a local sense amplifier and a bit line sense amplifier and configured to be turned on in response to a switching signal which is enabled in synchronization with an enable signal for enabling the local sense amplifier and disabled at a time point where a preset period passes after a first power for enabling the bit line sense amplifier is precharged.
US08743624B2
A non-volatile storage system performs programming for a plurality of non-volatile storage elements and selectively performs re-erasing of at least a subset of the non-volatile storage elements that were supposed to remain erased, without intentionally erasing programmed data.
US08743623B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed, including an apparatus that has a memory cell array with a memory cell selectively coupled to a bit line. A control circuit is configured to provide a control signal. A voltage generator is configured to provide a sense signal and a precharge signal in response to the control signal. The apparatus further includes a page buffer configured to provide a bit line voltage to the bit line based on the sense signal and the precharge signal, to thereby control a programming of the memory cell.
US08743620B2
A program verify method of the nonvolatile memory device includes supplying a first program verify voltage to a word line coupled to memory cells of a memory cell array, sensing a voltage of a bit line coupled to the memory cells in response to a first sense signal, supplying a second program verify voltage higher than the first program verify voltage to the word line, and sensing a voltage of the bit line in response to a second sense signal having a lower voltage level than the first sense signal.
US08743614B2
Nonvolatile memory devices utilize vertically-stacked strings of nonvolatile memory cells (e.g., NAND-type strings) that can be selectively coupled to common source lines within a substrate. This selective coupling may be provided by lateral ground select transistors having different threshold voltages that account for different lateral spacings between the vertically-stacked strings of nonvolatile memory cells and the common source lines.
US08743606B2
In a non-volatile memory system, a programming operation applies programming pulses to a target word line, determines when a specified number of the non-volatile storage elements reach a defined verify level, and counts a specified number of the programming pulses after the specified number of the non-volatile storage elements reach the defined verify level. Upon completion of the counting, faster-programming storage elements are distinguished from slower-programming storage elements. Programming continues for of at least some of the faster-programming non-volatile storage elements, with an associated programming speed-based slow down measure imposed thereon, and for at least some of the slower-programming non-volatile storage elements without imposing a programming speed-based slow down measure.
US08743590B2
A memory device whose speed at the time of operation such as writing or reading is high and whose number of semiconductor elements per memory cell is small is provided. The memory device includes a control unit, an arithmetic unit, and a buffer memory device. The buffer memory device stores data sent from a main memory device and/or the arithmetic unit, in accordance with an instruction from the control unit. The buffer memory device includes a plurality of memory cells. The memory cells each include a transistor including a channel formation region including an oxide semiconductor, and a memory element to which charge with an amount in accordance with a value of the data is supplied through the transistor. Further, a data retention time of the memory cell corresponding to a valid bit is shorter than a data retention time of the memory cell corresponding to a data field.
US08743587B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes first cells, first lines, second lines, a first cell array, and a signal driver. The first cell has in either a first state or a second state. Retention time in the second state is longer than in the first state. The first cell array has the first cells formed in a matrix the individuals. The first cells are electrically connected by the first, second lines. The signal driver drives the first cells. The signal driver causes the first cells to transition to either the first state or the second state by controlling any one of a voltage, a current, and a charge amount applied to the first cells, or a combination of these, and waveforms of the voltage, current, and charge amount and/or the length of transfer time of at least one of the voltage, current, and charge amount.
US08743576B2
A switching power supply device includes: a fundamental wave component extraction circuit for extracting a fundamental wave component of a voltage induced across a first winding; an oscillator for generating a clock signal having an oscillation frequency that changes according to a change in the fundamental wave component; and a control circuit for (i) generating a control signal for controlling a switching element to be in an ON state or OFF state, the switching signal having a duty that changes according to a change in the oscillation frequency of the clock signal or a change in a voltage of a smoothing capacitor and (ii) supplying the control signal to a gate of the switching element.
US08743571B2
A distributed power supply system in which no simultaneous disconnection from the system occurs when a system voltage momentarily drops is provided. It includes an inverter circuit that converts a direct current power generated by a direct current power supply and that supplies the alternating current power to an alternating current power supply power system, and an inverter control circuit for carrying out PWM control of the inverter circuit, wherein the inverter control circuit includes a three-phase voltage command signal generation unit, that is configured of a three-phase fundamental wave signal generation unit that generates three-phase fundamental wave signals from two phase components of voltage detected by a voltage detector, and a third harmonic signal generation unit that adds together third harmonic components of respective phases, having a predetermined amplitude, generated based on the three-phase fundamental wave signals.
US08743557B2
A printed wiring board has a packaging substrate having multiple pads, and a transmission substrate mounted on the multiple pads of the packaging substrate. The packaging substrate has a pad group constituted of pads which mount an electronic component, the multiple pads mounting the transmission substrate includes a first pad positioned in a peripheral portion of the packaging substrate and a second pad positioned between the first pad and the pad group, the second pad is electrically connected to a signal pad of the pads in the pad group, and the transmission substrate includes a horizontal wiring which electrically connects the second pad and the first pad and which transmits a signal between the second pad and the first pad.
US08743554B2
Embedding a power modification component such as a capacitance inside of an adaptor board located to extend over and beyond the vias of the main circuit board so that a portion of the interposer board containing the embedded capacitance is located beyond where the vias or blinds are located. This permits that via to conduct through the opening. In this way, the capacitance and the resistance will have a closer contact point to the electrical component. A resistance can also be embedded in an opening in the adaptor board and be vertically aligned within the opening to make contact with a pad on top of the adaptor board and a pad at the bottom of the adaptor board so that electricity conducts through the embedded component.
US08743553B2
An apparatus having a power converter circuit having a first active layer having a first set of active devices disposed on a face thereof, a first passive layer having first set of passive devices disposed on a face thereof, and interconnection to enable the active devices disposed on the face of the first active layer to be interconnected with the non-active devices disposed on the face of the first passive layer, wherein the face on which the first set of active devices on the first active layer is disposed faces the face on which the first set of passive devices on the first passive layer is disposed.
US08743550B2
An interface device for electronic equipment including at least one port electronically connected to an external device; a housing disposed in the electronic equipment and includes an opening through which the port is drawn in and out; a door which accommodates the port and performs a first motion and a second motion, the first motion being rotation between an open position, in which the opening of the housing is open, and a close position, in which the opening is closed, the second motion being sliding between the open position and a projecting position, in which the door projects from the open position in a transverse direction to a rotation axis of the first motion parallel with an installation surface of the electronic equipment; and a driving unit which provides driving force to the door in the close position of the first motion of the door and in the second motion.
US08743547B2
An electronic device having a heat dissipating component is provided. The electronic device includes a circuit board, a heat pipe which is disposed on a first side of the circuit board, a heat generating device which is disposed on a second side of the circuit board opposite to the first side, a heat sink placed which is disposed on a surface of the heat generating device and absorbs heat of the heat generating device, and a connecting member which penetrates through the circuit board and thermoconductively connects the heat pipe and the heat sink.
US08743544B2
A cardlock clamp is described that is used to secure an electronics module in a channel of a card cage. The cardlock clamp is configured to convert an input compression force into clamping forces in at least two radial directions perpendicular to the input compression force. The described cardlock clamp also provides self-alignment and self-center functions for the electronics module inserted into the channel. Further, variations of the cardlock clamp are described that provide more effective heat transfer from the electronics module to the card cage.
US08743539B2
A accessory securing mechanism includes a housing member, a cover member, and an engaging member. The housing member defines a cutout and forms a pole unit protruding from the bottom of the cutout. The engaging member includes an elastic washer, the washer is sleeved into the pole unit.
US08743535B2
A keypad suitable for use with a mobile communication or a handheld device. The keypad includes an actuator component formed from multiple materials and comprises a plurality of actuators, a sealing bead and/or a light guide. The sealing bead is formed from a flexible or compressible material such as silicone rubber. When the keypad is installed the sealing bead is compressed against the mounting surface in the device and provides a seal for the keypad against environmental agents such as moisture, dust and/or electrostatic discharges.
US08743530B2
In an electronic component and a substrate module, a laminated body includes a first capacitor conductor and a second capacitor conductor embedded therein, which define a capacitor. First and second external electrodes are connected to the first capacitor conductor and the second capacitor conductor through extraction conductors, respectively. Third and fourth external electrodes are connected to the first capacitor conductor through extraction conductors. Fifth and sixth external electrodes are connected to the second capacitor conductor through extraction conductors. On a first side surface, no external electrode having an electrical potential different from the electrical potential of the third external electrode is provided between a first end surface and the third external electrode. On the first side surface, no external electrode having an electrical potential different from the electrical potential of the fifth external electrode is provided between a second end surface and the fifth external electrode.
US08743529B2
A capacitor having a stem that is designed to be inserted into a single, large-diameter via hole drilled in a printed circuit board is provided, wherein the stem may have conductive rings for making the positive and negative connections to the printed circuit board power distribution planes. Inside the capacitive stem, current, or at least a portion thereof, may be carried to the main body of the capacitor through low-inductance plates that are interleaved to maximize their own mutual inductance and, therefore, minimize the connection inductance. Alternatively, the capacitor may include a coaxial stem that forms a coaxial transmission line with the anode and cathode terminals forming the inner and outer conductors.
US08743527B2
An apparatus interferes with voluntary locomotion of a target by conducting a current through the target. The apparatus includes a current delivery circuit, a detector, and a processor. The current delivery circuit delivers the current in accordance with a goal for causing pain or skeletal muscle contractions that interfere with voluntary locomotion by the target. The detector detects the current delivered through the target to provide a result. The processor adjusts the goal in accordance with a binary search in response to the result.
US08743522B2
A monitoring circuit for use with a monitored circuit having a power supply input and a load output. The monitoring circuit having a biasing module, a reference generator coupled to the power supply input and the biasing module, a comparator coupled to the monitored circuit and the reference generator and an output device coupled to the load output and activated at a predetermined signal threshold.
US08743519B2
The reclosing control device configured to perform a reclosing control in case of a fault in a transmission line. Further, the reclosing control device includes a voltage detection unit configured to detect a faulted phase voltage waveform and extract a harmonic component contained in the faulted phase voltage waveform; a HR calculating unit configured to calculate ratio values between even harmonics and odd harmonics based on the extracted harmonic component; and a reclosing control unit configured to determine whether or not an arc is finally extinguished based on the calculated ratio value and perform a reclosing control depending on a result of the determination.
US08743517B2
ESD protection circuit including a resistor and at least one protection transistor; the resistor coupled between an I/O signal node and an internal node of internal circuit, the protection transistors serially coupled between the internal node and a voltage node with each protection transistor comprising a gate and a drain which is coupled to the gate.
US08743516B2
An area-efficient, high voltage, dual polarity ESD protection device (200) is provided for protecting multiple pins (30, 40) against ESD events by using a plurality of stacked NPN devices (38, 48, 39) which have separately controllable breakdown voltages and which share one or common NPN devices (39), thereby reducing the footprint of the high voltage ESD protection circuits without reducing robustness and functionality.
US08743505B2
A fluid dynamic bearing apparatus includes a first minute gap, a second minute gap, a third minute gap, a fourth minute gap, and a fifth minute gap. A flow of a lubricating oil from the fifth minute gap to the fourth minute gap is caused by a plurality of dynamic pressure generating grooves arranged within the fluid dynamic bearing apparatus. This flow causes air bubbles mixed in the lubricating oil within the fifth minute gap to flow toward the third minute gap and be discharged to an outside of the fluid dynamic bearing apparatus through the third minute gap. The fluid dynamic bearing apparatus further includes a plurality of dynamic pressure generating grooves and an annular groove.
US08743503B1
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of servo tracks defined by servo sectors. The head is positioned over a first servo track, and a first position error signal (PES) by reading a first servo sector during a first revolution of the disk and in response to a first compensation value. A second compensation value is updated for a second servo sector based on the first PES during the first revolution of the disk. A second PES is generated by reading the second servo sector during the first revolution of the disk and in response to the updated second compensation value. The first compensation value is updated for the first servo sector based on the second PES during the first revolution of the disk. The head is actuated over the disk in response to the first PES and the second PES.
US08743495B1
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of non-circular servo tracks for defining a plurality of substantially circular tracks. Each non-circular servo track comprises a plurality of servo sectors defining a plurality of servo wedges. The head is positioned at a first offset relative to a first circular track and a relationship of servo bursts for each servo wedge is first generated. The head is positioned at a second offset relative to the first circular track and the relationship of the servo bursts for each servo wedge is second generated. For each servo wedge, a selection is made between the first generated relationship at the first offset and the second generated relationship at the second offset, and the servo bursts at the selected offset are evaluated to generate a track squeeze indicator.
US08743488B2
An apparatus includes a prism mount that retains a prism. The mount includes a ledge that engages a first side of the prism, a support surface structured that engages a second side of the prism, a retaining member that slidably engages a third side of the prism, and a biasing member that biases the retaining member to an engaged position with the prism. The mount further includes a slot disposed between the ledge and the support surface. The retaining member includes a machine screw, and a nut confines the biasing member between the nut and a prism mount body. The biasing member is retained in a counterbore in the prism mount body, and an end of the machine screw protrudes from the counterbore. The prism mount body further includes an alignment slot at a fixed azimuthal angle, and the laser deposition device includes a protrusion that engages the alignment slot.
US08743484B2
A five-piece optical lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a first lens element with a positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and at least one aspheric surface; a second lens element with a negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface and at least one aspheric surface; a third lens element with a positive refractive power having at least one aspheric surface; a fourth lens element with a positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and at least one aspheric surface; a fifth lens element with a negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface and at least one aspheric surface. Thereby, such a system not only can be applied to a high resolution mobile phone, but also has a wide field of view, big stop, high pixel, high resolution and low height.
US08743477B2
An optical photographing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power, wherein at least one surface of the fourth lens element is aspheric. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power has a convex image-side surface and both of the surfaces are aspheric. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface changing from concave at a paraxial region to convex at a peripheral region, and both of the surfaces are aspheric.
US08743473B2
A miniature lens auto-focusing structure includes a housing having a top plate; a base plate connectable to the housing to define an inner space between them; a lens module wound around by a coil; and at least one spring member holding and suspending the lens module in the inner space without causing the lens module to contact with the top plate and the base plate. With these arrangements, the spring member is not in a pre-tensioning state when the miniature lens auto-focusing structure is in a non-actuated state. Therefore, the miniature lens auto-focusing structure requires less actuating current and has smaller lens tilt angle than the conventional VCM auto-focusing structure, and can be manufactured at further reduced component cost.
US08743472B2
An adjustment jig is inserted into an opening and an opening, and a screw provided on an inner lens frame holding a correcting lens is rotated. With the rotation of the screw, a front end of the inner lens frame moves in a direction toward an optical axis or radially outside the correcting lens. With this, the inner lens frame is moved in a direction toward the optical axis or radially outside the correcting lens, and the tilt of the correcting lens is decreased.
US08743466B2
A display device has a display element that makes a display and a viewing angle widening member that is provided on the viewing side of the display element, and that causes light to exit in a condition in which the angle distribution is widened relative to before incidence of the viewing angle widening member to the display element. The viewing angle widening member includes a base material, and a refractive index change layer formed over the base material. The refractive index change layer includes a plurality of high refractive index portions and low refractive index portions having a refractive index that is lower than the refractive index of the high refractive index portions. Each of the plurality of high refractive index portions includes a light emission surface on the base material side, and a light incidence surface having a larger surface area than that of the light emission surface on the opposing side of the base material side. The refractive index change layer faces the display element. The base material is disposed on the display side.
US08743465B2
A thickness of a tapered part provided at the deeper side (−X side) in a light guide direction of a light transmission member is smaller toward the deeper side, and thus, a reflection angle of ghost light that has passed through a fourth reflection surface provided with a half mirror layer and reached the light transmission member gradually becomes smaller within the tapered part and no longer satisfies a total reflection condition, and the light is ejected to the outside in the position diverging from an eye of an observer. That is, the tapered part may prevent the ghost light from reaching the eye and good see-through observation can be realized.
US08743460B2
An element includes a first resin layer and a second resin layer disposed between a first glass lens substrate and a second glass lens substrate, a boundary surface between the first resin layer and the second resin layer having a diffraction grating shape including a plurality of inclined surfaces and wall surfaces. The second resin layer is composed of a fluororesin in which fine metal oxide particles are dispersed. Since a refractive index distribution easily occurs in this material during curing by application of ultraviolet light, by applying ultraviolet light substantially perpendicular to the inclined surfaces of the diffraction grating shape, a refractive index distribution is formed in the thickness direction perpendicularly to the inclined surfaces.
US08743458B2
The present invention relates to an optical insulator for high power optical radiation. The arrangement of the optical insulator comprises a Faraday rotator, comprising one or more Faraday media (4) and a magnet assembly (1) that allows for the receiving of multiple Faraday media (4). A polarizer assembly is arranged both in front of and behind the Faraday media (4). The magnet assembly (1) is formed by magnets (2) shaped in such a way that at least the outer-lying magnets are parallelepiped. The free aperture (3) is surrounded by three magnetic levels (12, 12′, 12″).
US08743447B2
An electrochromic device is provided. The electrochromic device includes a first substrate, an electrochromic layer, an electrode, an electrolyte layer and a second substrate. The electrochromic layer is formed on the first substrate, the electrode is disposed on the electrochromic layer, and the electrolyte layer is disposed between the electrode and the second substrate.
US08743421B1
A system and method for matching spot colors in a PDL document with actual printed output is disclosed. A pre-press workflow application identifies spot colors in a PDL document and creates a table of potential substitute color tiles, each having color characteristics similar to the original spot color. These tiles are then printed in a “swatch page” of numerically assigned colors and reviewed by the user for potential selection over the original spot color values. A substitute color may then be selected from the swatch page and the pre-assigned numerical value for the selected color tile input into the workflow application. The PDL document is then altered to record the color change. The resulting printed document more closely matches the desired spot color and the process can be repeated for any print environment to allow for more consistent printing results and lower print job costs.
US08743417B2
An image forming apparatus is for forming an image with the use of image data items having different resolutions that are input to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a controller unit configured to store the image data items having different resolutions, and report image format information of the image data items; resolution conversion units configured to convert the image data items having different resolutions acquired from the controller unit to have the same resolution, based on the image format information reported from the controller unit; and an image forming unit configured to form the image with the use of the image data items that have been converted by the resolution conversion units to have the same resolution.
US08743398B2
A method and apparatus for setting up a wireless LAN. The method includes receiving a packet, which informs a user that a WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) button of an access point is operated, from the access point; activating a button provided in an image forming apparatus as a WPS button; selecting a button activated as the WPS button; and if the button activated as the WPS button is selected, establishing a wireless network with the access point.
US08743393B2
A printing management apparatus includes a memory device storing information and having a shared folder for storing a print job from the outside of the apparatus, a standby folder for storing print data to be output to a predetermined printing mechanism, and a converter having a plurality of conversion modules performing a conversion process in which the print job is converted into the print data which is printed in the predetermined printing mechanism to store the data in the standby folder when the format of the print job in the shared folder is supported; an obtaining unit for obtaining the print job stored in the shared folder; and conversion control means for selecting a compliant conversion module from the plurality of conversion modules in the converter, the compliant conversion module performing the conversion process to the print job obtained by the obtaining unit, the compliant conversion module being the conversion module which supports the format of the print job obtained by the obtaining unit.
US08743384B2
An image forming apparatus is provided with a processing unit that performs a predetermined process, a power-supply shutting unit that shuts off power supply to the processing unit when a predetermined door is opened, a voltage detecting unit that detects a decrease in voltage at a point located posterior to the power-supply shutting unit, and a communication control unit that does not initiate communication with the processing unit if the decrease in voltage is detected by the voltage detecting unit before a start of the communication with the processing unit, and judges the just-ended communication as abnormal if the decrease in voltage is detected by the voltage detecting unit after the end of the communication with the processing unit.
US08743383B2
In an image processing apparatus, when converting an input image into vector data, converting the vectorized image into data in a file format which can be used in application software, and transferring the converted data in the file format, the image processing apparatus acquires information specifying a destination of the transfer and determines the file format into which the vectorized image is to be converted according to the acquired information specifying the destination. With this configuration, it is possible to provide the image processing apparatus and a control method for the same that allow transfer after conversion into an appropriate file format for each use case.
US08743381B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus including: a connection portion for performing communication with a keyboard; and a display portion for performing displaying of disabled keys when the keyboard is connected to the connection portion, the disabled keys being unusable keys among keys provided to the keyboard.
US08743380B2
An object of this invention is to reduce the burden of setting work when setting the correspondence between printing media and paper feed stages in a printing apparatus which selects a predetermined printing medium and prints image data. To achieve this object, according to this invention, an information processing method in a printing apparatus capable of selecting a desired printing medium as a printing condition in selecting a printing medium set on the paper feed stage and printing includes the display step of displaying a medium setting template, the step of selecting an arbitrary template name from the template names of the displayed medium setting template, and the step of setting the correspondence between the set medium contents and the paper feed tray in correspondence with the selected template name. A printing process is performed on the set medium for each paper feed tray.
US08743378B2
A measuring apparatus for automatically measuring the height, the dimensions of the inner and outer surfaces, and the shape of a cylindrically-shaped object. The measuring apparatus includes a measuring head vertically moving along a positioning guide supported by a support post integral with a measuring table, a height displacement measuring device, which comprises a laser distance meter provided on the measuring table, and an arithmetic processing unit. The measurement starts as the measuring head is raised by a weight from a measuring start position of the measuring table. The inner and outer surfaces of a tire are measured based on the measurements by an inner surface measuring device provided with three laser distance meters mounted to the measuring head and an outer surface measuring device having a laser distance meter and the displacement change measurement of the measuring head by the height displacement measuring device. Required dimensional values are calculated from the measured values, using the arithmetic processing unit.
US08743374B2
The invention provide a shape measuring device, a shape measuring method, and a shape measuring program capable of clearly observing a surface state of a measuring object while measuring a shape of the measuring object at high accuracy. Light irradiated by a light projecting unit is reflected by a measuring object and received by a light receiving unit. Stereoscopic shape data of the measuring object is generated by a triangular distance measuring method. The light irradiated by the light projecting unit is reflected by the measuring object and received by the light receiving unit. All-focus texture image data of the measuring object is generated by synthesizing texture image data of a plurality of portions of the measuring object while changing a focus position of the light receiving unit. The stereoscopic shape data and the all-focus texture image data are synthesized to generate synthesized data.
US08743369B2
An SPR sensor comprising a thin conducting layer comprising at least one conductive element formed on a surface of a transparent substrate, a light source that illuminates an interface between the conducting layer and the substrate, a photosensitive surface that generates signals from light reflected from the interface, a flow cell formed with at least one flow channel having a lumen defined by a wall formed from an elastic material and from a region of the conducting layer, and at least one hollow fluid-providing flow control apparatus having a lumen and an orifice communicating with its lumen. Fluid flow is enabled between the flow channel and the lumen of the flow control apparatus by forcing an end of the flow control apparatus through the elastic material so that the orifice communicates with the flow channel lumen.
US08743359B2
The present invention relates to a non-invasive method for surveilling mixing and separation of a suspension in an analytical system using solid phase particles for separation of an analyte by measuring particle distribution with a camera attached to a pipetting device.
US08743356B1
A man portable device for detecting the presence of hazardous material includes a pulsed or time-modulated light source and an objective scannable across the surface of a sample for projecting light from the light source onto a succession of spots on the surface of the sample. A spectrometer performs a spectral analysis of the induced fluorescence to create a first dataset defining a first vector as a function of wavelength. A time domain detector for measuring the time decay of the induced fluorescence collected simultaneously creates a second dataset defining a second vector as a function of time. A computer identifies hazardous material by performing independent multivariate analysis on the first and second vectors as the objective is scanned across the sample surface based on fluorescent signal models for hazardous materials in the spectral and time domains.
US08743352B2
A method for directly illuminating a Coulter aperture so light scattering can be incorporated into the classical Coulter aperture and 3-diff blood analyzer to realize full functional hematology analyzer by providing a flow chamber which is separated into two portions by a plate having a Coulter aperture; and using a light source to directly coaxial illuminate the Coulter aperture wherein the illuminating beam propagates in the same direction as the axis of the Coulter aperture and the cell's moving direction.
US08743348B2
There is provided an optical distance detection system which includes a light source and a detection device. The light source is configured to illuminate a surface of an object. The detection device is configured to receive a reflected light from the surface of the object and to output a distance of the object according to the reflected light. The detection device includes a sensing module and a calculation module. The sensing module is configured to receive the reflected light to accordingly generate an image. The calculation module is for outputting the distance according to a light spot position and a light spot size of the reflected light forming on the image.
US08743347B1
In a staring infrared countermeasures system, wherein the improvement comprises a semiconductor material emitter for providing a specific infrared wavelength to provide protection against an infrared radiation guided missile.
US08743344B2
A cable connection between a first object and a second object includes a cable bundle of one or more cables having a certain length. One end of the cable bundle is fixed to the first object and another end of the bundle is fixed to the second object. A cable bundle holder configured to hold the cable bundle at a certain location along the length of the cable bundle, and a control system configured to control the position of the cable bundle holder with respect to the second object are presented. A control system for cable connection, and a method of reducing the transfer of vibrations from a first object to a second object via a cable connection are presented.
US08743343B2
A lithographic projection apparatus includes a projection optical assembly having a final optical element, a stage assembly including a substrate table on which a substrate is supported, the substrate supported by the substrate table being exposed with an exposure beam from the final optical element of the projection optical assembly through an immersion liquid, a confinement member which encircles a portion of a path of the exposure beam, and a movable member which is movable in a space between the confinement member and the substrate, the substrate table, or both, the space being divided by the movable member into a first portion between the confinement member and the movable member and a second portion between the movable member and the substrate, the substrate table, or both. The movable member has a recovery outlet from which the immersion liquid in the second portion is removed.
US08743341B2
An immersion type exposure apparatus comprises: an optical member from which an exposure beam is emitted; a first movable member that is movable while holding a substrate, in a predetermined region including a first region including a position facing the optical member and a second region different from the first region; a second movable member that is movable while holding the substrate independently from a first movable member, in a predetermined region including the first region and the second region; a first connection member that is releasably and alternately connected with the first movable member and the second movable member, and moves one movable member in the first region; a second connection member that is releasably and alternately connected with the first movable member and the second movable member, and moves the other movable member in the second region; and a third movable member that is provided on the first connection member and is movable to a position facing the optical member; and at least one of the first movable member, the second movable member, and the third movable member is moved to the position facing the optical member so that a beam path on the emitting side of the optical member is kept filled with a liquid.
US08743340B2
A system is disclosed including an image sensor positioned at a first specified angle relative to a projected image plane. The system includes a projector that projects a test pattern onto the projected image plane. A controller is structured to iteratively adjust the projector focus until an image focus index is maximized, where the image focus index is a function of an amplitude of at least one harmonic frequency of a scan of the test pattern. The controller is further structured to determine a skew indicator value and adjust a projector skew adjustment. The controller is further structured to compare a current zoom level to a target zoom level and adjust a projector zoom. The projected image plane is a manufacturing surface, where the projected image is utilized in a manufacturing process.
US08743338B2
A liquid crystal display device is discussed. A liquid crystal display device includes according to an embodiment a liquid crystal panel having a liquid crystal layer formed between a first substrate and a second substrate, a backlight unit comprising a light source part located adjacent to a short side of the liquid crystal panel and a light guide plate configured to transmit a light emitted from the light source part to the liquid crystal panel, a supporting member configured to support the backlight unit, and a first heat radiating member radiating heat generated from the light source part, wherein the first heat radiating member is provided at one side of the supporting member, and is positioned between the light source part and the supporting member. According to the present invention, material cost for the light source part is reduced and production cost may be lowered accordingly.
US08743336B2
A color filter substrate includes a substrate, a light-shielding layer, a color filter layer, at least one padding structure, a passivation layer, a transparent conductive layer and at least one spacer. The substrate has a light-shielding region and pixel regions. The light-shielding layer is located in the light-shielding region. The color filter layer is located in the pixel regions. The padding structure disposed on the light-shielding layer and the color filter layer are in the same layer. The passivation layer covers the padding structure, a portion of the light-shielding layer and the color filter layer. The spacer is disposed on the transparent conductive layer which covers the passivation layer and located above the color filter layer. A height of the spacer and a thickness of the color filter layer in total are less than a height of the padding structure and a thickness of the light-shielding layer in total.
US08743332B2
In one embodiment, a first substrate includes a pixel electrode having a first main electrode in a belt-like shape extending along a first cross line direction which crosses at an acute angle in a counterclockwise direction with respect to an initial alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules, and a second main electrode in the belt-like shape extending along a second cross line direction which crosses at an acute angle in a clockwise direction with respect to the initial alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules. A second substrate includes a counter electrode having a pair of third main electrodes in the belt-like shape arranged above a pair of regions sandwiching the first main electrode extending along a first cross line direction and a pair of fourth main electrodes in the belt-like shape arranged above a pair of regions sandwiching the second main electrode extending along the second cross line direction.
US08743331B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided, which includes: first and second gate lines, a data line intersecting the gate lines, first to fourth drain electrodes located near the intersections between the first and second gate lines and the data line, and a coupling electrode. First to fourth pixel electrodes respectively connected to the first to fourth drain electrodes are also provided, and the first pixel electrode is connected to the coupling electrode while the fourth pixel electrode overlaps the coupling electrode. The LCD further includes a common electrode opposite the pixel electrodes, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode, and a domain partitioning member formed on at least one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode. Two long edges of the domains are angled with respect to the first and the second gate lines or the data line substantially by about 45°.
US08743330B2
A liquid crystal display device is provided which can enhance a numerical aperture. The display has a pixel transparent conductive film electrode and a transparent conductive film counter electrode formed on an insulation film, which in turn is formed on a first substrate to cover the pixel electrode. A plurality of linear portions of the counter electrode are arranged on the pixel electrode. A gate-signal-line side of the pixel electrode of the first pixel is formed on a first-pixel side of the gate signal line and a gate-signal-line side of the pixel electrode of the second pixel is formed on a second-pixel side of the gate signal line. The gate-signal-line-side frame portion of the counter electrode of the first pixel and the gate-signal-line-side frame portion of the counter electrode of the second pixel are formed in common on the gate signal line in a striding manner.
US08743320B2
An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a first polarizing plate including a supporting layer, a first polarizing layer and a first protecting layer sequentially on an outer surface of the first substrate; a second polarizing plate including a first compensating layer, a second compensating layer, a second polarizing layer and a second protecting layer sequentially on an outer surface of the second substrate, the first and second compensating layers including positive and negative biaxial retardation films, respectively; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.
US08743313B2
A front frame of a flat panel display having positioning structure allows a LCD cell to be positioned and mounted thereon along an assembly direction. A restraining frame may be further incorporated for positioning and spacing purposes for each component of the display. Optical films, a light guide component, a backlight unit, and a reflector of the flat panel display are then mounted in a row along the assembly direction on the restraining frame or the front frame, where the backlight unit and/or the reflector may be fixed to a back cover of the backlight module in advance. Finally, a speaker, wiring of the display, circuit boards, and a board cover are assembled to the front frame and the back cover.
US08743308B2
A lamp socket, a liquid crystal display, and a method of manufacturing the same, which facilitate assembly and testing of a lamp. The lamp socket includes a housing including connection terminals electrically connected to lamp terminals, a cover hinge-engaged with the housing, a fixing part fixing the housing and the cover to each other, and an angle maintenance part maintaining an angle of the cover in an open position, wherein the angle is an acute angle.
US08743301B2
A liquid crystal display device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display device comprises gate and data lines arranged to cross each other on a substrate to define a plurality of pixels; a pixel electrode formed in each of the plurality of pixels; a common electrode forming an electric field together with the pixel electrode, patterned to sense a touch of a user; a sensing line discontinuously formed on the common electrode and electrically connected with the common electrode; a jump line formed below the common electrode to electrically connect discontinuous portions of the sensing line with one another; and first and second connection electrodes for electrically connecting the jump line with the sensing line, wherein the first connection electrode is connected with the jump line, and the second connection electrode is connected with the sensing line and the first connection electrode respectively.
US08743283B2
A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
US08743278B2
Provided is a portable magnifying apparatus that can be easily carried around. More particularly, provided is a portable magnifying apparatus which is conveniently used for users either left-handed or right-handed and has a multi angular positioned handle that can be manipulated without putting strain on the wrist.
US08743270B2
Focus adjustment apparatus and methods for effectively auto-focusing on a subject by adaptively changing a shape of a focus area according to a determined image condition, and in particular, setting the focus area in a shape of which a width of an upper part is narrow according to the condition.
US08743268B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit, a motion vector detection unit which detects a motion vector quantity representing a shift amount between images from image signals successively obtained by the image capturing unit, an angle conversion unit which converts the motion vector quantity into an angular displacement amount between the images on the basis of a zoom position of the zoom lens, a shift angle calculation unit which calculates a shift angle from an optical axis of the imaging optical system by calculating the angular displacement amount, a shift amount conversion unit which converts the shift angle into a shift amount on an image plane of the image capturing unit on the basis of the zoom position of the zoom lens, and a correction unit which corrects a shift on the basis of the shift amount on the image plane.
US08743262B2
An image capturing apparatus includes a setting unit for enabling a user to set control values, a display unit for displaying the control values, an obtaining unit for obtaining an aperture value of a lens unit based on luminous information of an object image and the control values set by the user, and a calculation unit for calculating a signal for controlling an aperture of the lens unit according to the aperture value, wherein when the aperture value of the lens unit is a first aperture value, a value based on the first aperture value is displayed and a signal corresponding to the first aperture value is calculated, and when the aperture value of the lens unit is a second aperture value, a value based on the second aperture value is displayed and a signal corresponding to a third aperture value which is different from the second aperture value is calculated.
US08743260B2
An information processing apparatus including: a GUI generation unit configured to generate GUI data in which one of two mutually-orthogonal directions on a screen is allocated as a direction in which information flows, a plurality of processing systems for information processing are expressed as a plurality of lines along the one direction, and one or more blocks in which a name and setting value of one or more setting items of the processing system corresponding to at least one of the lines are displayed on the line are arranged; and a display processing unit configured to display the generated GUI data on the screen.
US08743258B2
A CDS circuit is provided. The CDS circuit includes a signal compressor which compresses each of a pixel signal and a ramp signal using capacitive dividing and outputs a compressed pixel signal and a compressed ramp signal, and a comparator which compares the compressed pixel signal with the compressed ramp signal and outputs a comparative signal corresponding to a comparison result.
US08743255B2
A solid-state image pickup apparatus including a pixel section, a column circuit, and a column circuit controlling section. The pixel section includes a plurality of unit pixels arranged in a matrix and converts an input optical signal to an electric signal. The column circuit processes the electric signal which is outputted from the pixel section column by column. The column circuit current controlling section reduces current of the column circuit, whose electric signal is not read out, than current of column circuit whose electric signal is read out, when a first mode which thins out and reads out electric signals of column circuits is set.
US08743252B2
A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes plural pixels, in which each pixel includes: a transfer transistor that transfers electric charge from a photoelectric conversion section to a floating diffusion section; a reset transistor that resets the floating diffusion section; a amplifying transistor that outputs a signal based on the electric charge held by the floating diffusion section; a selection transistor that is provided at the output side of the amplifying transistor and selects a pixel; and a charge storage capacitor that is provided between the amplifying transistor and the selection transistor and stores the quantity of electric charge on the basis the quantity of the electric charge held by the floating diffusion section through the charge-discharge behavior of electric charge through a current source.
US08743248B2
An image processing device comprising: first A/D converters that receive output signals of respective columns of a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, convert the output signals into first digital signals, and output the first digital signals; a second A/D converter that receives a correction signal, converts the correction signal into a second digital signal, and outputs the second digital signal; a first correction calculation unit that produces a first correction formula; a second correction calculation unit that produces a second correction formula based on the second digital signal; a determination unit that compares a coefficient of the second correction formula and a coefficient of a second correction formula produced before the second correction formula, and determines whether or not to produce the first correction formula based on the comparison result; and a signal output unit that outputs an update signal when it is determined to produce the first correction formula.
US08743246B2
A color filter array includes a basic array pattern P1 constituted by a square array pattern corresponding to 3×3 pixels. In the color filter array, basic array pattern P1 is arranged in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction repeatedly. G filters that are brightness system pixels are arranged at the four corners and the center, that is, arranged on the both diagonal lines. The G filters are in each line of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal directions of the color filter array, and the color filter array includes a square array that corresponds to 2×2 pixels that are constituted by the G filters. A ratio of the number of G pixels that help most to obtain a brightness signal of the basic array pattern P1 is greater than each ratio of the number of R pixels and the number of B pixels that correspond to the color other than G.
US08743245B2
An image processing method includes the steps of obtaining an input image that is an image in which information of an object space is obtained from a plurality of points of view using an image pickup apparatus that includes an image pickup element having a plurality of pixels and an imaging optical system, calculating a first position of a virtual imaging plane that corresponds to a specified focus position, setting the virtual imaging plane to a second position that is in a range of a depth of focus of the imaging optical system with reference to the first position so that a maximum value of an apparent pixel pitch that is formed by reconstructing the input image is decreased, and generating an output image in a state where the virtual imaging plane is set to the second position.
US08743240B2
Disclosed is an imaging apparatus with a flicker detector that restrains an increased calculation amount and image quality degradation. The apparatus includes a frame rate controller for setting a frame rate of an acquired image to a first frame rate or different second frame rate, a luminance calculator for calculating a first luminance difference between two images of a first group continuously acquired at the first frame rate and a second luminance difference between two images of a second group continuously acquired at the second frame rate, and a flicker detector for comparing the first and second luminance differences with first and second threshold, respectively, and determining whether flickers of a first frequency and a different second frequency are generated or not.
US08743238B2
In an image processing method according to an aspect of the presently disclosed subject matter, a captured image obtained by continuous imaging is acquired, the captured image is divided into a plurality of divided areas, a flicker that flashes is detected for each of the divided areas, it is detected, for each of the divided areas where the flicker has been detected, whether a divided area is an LED area including light from a light emitting diode (LED) based on a luminance difference between a luminance in a turn-on state and a luminance in an turn-off state, and LED area information is output.
US08743232B2
An image processing device includes a dimension information acquisition unit that acquires dimension information specifying dimensions of a target image formed by extracting a region of a target of an image containing the target, picked up by image pickup unit. The image processing device further includes a pickup image quality information acquisition unit that acquires pickup image quality information indicating an image quality of the region of the target in the pickup image picked up by the image pickup unit; and a resolution acquisition unit that acquires a resolution of the region of the target when the region of the target is formed in the dimensions based on the dimension information and the pickup image quality information.
US08743231B2
An electronic camera comprises an image processing unit that performs image quality adjustment using a plurality of adjustment parameters, an information acquisition unit that acquires from an external device first image quality adjustment information including a parameter group for use with the image quality adjustment and an image quality adjustment algorithm that applies the parameter group, and a control unit that controls the image processing unit so that it performs image quality adjustment while applying the parameter group included in the first image quality adjustment information that has been acquired to the image quality adjustment algorithm included in the first image quality adjustment information that has been acquired.
US08743226B2
An exposure adjustment method for night-vision camera includes the following steps. A first image and a second image are shot with an infrared light source of different intensity; the shot first image and second image are divided into a plurality of image blocks, in which positions of the image blocks in the first image are respectively corresponding to those in the second image; a light reflectivity of the image blocks of the first image is compared with a light reflectivity of the image blocks of the second image, and object distances of image objects are determined; the image object having greater object distance obtains a lower light measuring weight, and the image object having smaller object distance obtains a higher light measuring weight; and an exposure parameter of image images is adjusted according to the image weights of the two images and light measuring weights of the blocks.
US08743223B2
Methods and apparatus for linking captured images using short range communications or a personal area network are described. In an embodiment, an image capture device is described which detects devices in proximity to the device and stores data identifying the devices and the times when they were in proximity. In another embodiment, a computing-based device is described which uses the data stored by an image capture device to identify sequences of images which were captured by a group of devices in proximity to each other and to present these sequences to a viewer concurrently and in temporal alignment.
US08743222B2
A method including receiving cropping information for a current video frame; capturing at a camera sensor the current video frame; performing a first crop of the current video frame using a first cropping window to form a cropped video frame, wherein the first cropping window has been dynamically adjusted in response to the received cropping information; and sending the cropped video frame for digital image stabilization.
US08743219B1
An apparatus includes an image capture sensor, a gyroscope, an accelerometer, a feedback module, a rotation module, a correction module, and a restoration module. The image capture sensor captures an image. The gyroscope makes a first measurement that indicates an orientation of the image capture sensor relative to a reference orientation. The accelerometer makes a second measurement. The feedback module generates a corrected first measurement to correct for drift of the gyroscope in response to the second measurement. The rotation module generates a rotation matrix based on the corrected first measurement. The correction module corrects the image captured by the image capture sensor based on the rotation matrix. The restoration module selectively restores the image captured by the image capture sensor based on (i) the image as corrected by the correction module and (ii) the rotation matrix.
US08743215B1
Disclosed is a mura detection apparatus and method of a display device. The mura detection method includes analyzing image information acquired from a test image displayed by a display panel to detect a plurality of mura candidate areas, extracting feature information and position information of the mura candidate areas, removing non-mura according to the features of the mura candidate areas, detecting white spot mura and black spot mura on the basis of the feature information of the mura candidate areas, detecting black-and-white spot mura on the basis of the position information of the mura candidate areas, and detecting the white spot mura, the black spot mura, and the black-and-white spot mura as final mura to classify a kind, size, and position of the final mura.
US08743191B2
A system and method may allow editing of an image stream, which may be produced by, for example, an ingestible capsule. A workstation accepts images acquired by the capsule and displays the images on a monitor as a moving image. The editing method may include, for example, selecting images which follow predetermined criteria. A shortened movie may thus be created.
US08743190B2
Unwanted information contained in a reference image is reduced, thus acquiring a fluorescence image having quantitative intensity information, regardless of the angle and distance of excitation light. The invention provides a fluoroscopy apparatus including an illumination portion that irradiates an observation target with illumination light containing excitation light; a first image-acquisition section that acquires a fluorescence image in a prescribed observation region of the observation target; a second image-acquisition section that acquires an out-of-focus reference image of the observation target in the observation region; and an image correction section that corrects the fluorescence image acquired by the first image-acquisition section using the reference image acquired by the second image-acquisition section.
US08743186B2
A depth expansion apparatus includes an image-pickup-optical-system and an image-pickup-device (hereinafter, IPS) configured to form and pick up images A and B in different focus positions, and a depth-expanded-image forming section configured to generate, based on the images A and B, a depth-expanded-image that maintains a relation between a distance from an object point to the image-pickup-optical-system and luminance. When an image side NA of the image A is represented as NA′, a resolution determined by the IPS, as R, an optical path interval between image forming surfaces for the images A and B, as d, NA of an image at a near photographing distance among the images A and B, as NAn, and NA of an image at a far photographing distance among the images A and B, as NAf, the IPS satisfy the following conditional expressions (1) and (2): R×NA′/2≦d (1) 0.05≦(NAf/NAn)2≦0.9 (2).
US08743185B2
A stereoscopic imaging optical system having a function to adjust a stereo base, an imaging device that includes the stereoscopic imaging optical system, and a camera that includes the imaging device, are provided. The stereoscopic imaging optical system includes two imaging lens systems arranged in parallel, and two diaphragms arranged in the imaging lens systems, respectively. At least one of the diaphragms is decentered with respect to an optical axis to adjust the stereo base. Further, a condition (1.8≦SBmax/(fT×tan(ωT))≦45, where SBmax is a maximum value of the stereo base, fT is a focal length of the optical system at a telephoto limit, and ωT is a half view angle (°) at the telephoto limit) is satisfied.
US08743184B2
A photographing apparatus is provided that accurately determines focus positions of two photographing sections in the same degree of time as in the past and a focus position determining method. A search range setting section 121 calculates one boundary value Pn′ of a second search area and calculates the other boundary value Pf′ of the second search area on the basis of a focus position P1 of a first focus lens FLA detected by an AF detecting section 120 and a boundary value N of a search area on a near side and a boundary value F of a search area on a far side. The AF detecting section 120 searches for a focus position P2 while instructing a second F lens driving section 104B to move a second focus lens FLB in a second search area (Pn′ to Pf′) narrower than a first search area.
US08743174B2
A stereo camera is provided with two imaging units. A CPU detects a position of a CCD provided in each of the imaging units. Based on detection results, the CPU checks whether the CCD has reached an edge of a corresponding correctable area for each of the imaging units. The CPU starts to move the CCDs to their respective reference positions when one of the CCDs has reached the edge of the corresponding correctable area. The CPU controls actuations of CCD shifters such that the CCDs reach their respective reference positions simultaneously.
US08743169B2
A high-frequency clock generating circuit generates a plurality of high-frequency clock signals having different phases. A modulation-signal generating circuit generates a pulse modulation signal based on transition timing data including data pertaining to a turn-on timing at which a state of a light source is changed from a turn-off state to a turn-on state and a turn-off timing at which the state of the light source is changed from the turn-on state to the turn-off state by inputting any one of the high-frequency clock signals for a predetermined period including the turn-on timing and the turn-off timing.
US08743153B2
A display device for a vehicle includes a liquid crystal panel (10), a light source (40), and a controlling means (50). The liquid crystal panel includes a particular display pixel (72) and a normal display pixel (62). The controlling means controls the ratio of the gradation value of the normal display pixel to a set gradation value of the normal display pixel as a gradation ratio of the normal display pixel. At the same time, it controls the ratio of the gradation value of the particular display pixel to a set gradation value of the particular display pixel as a gradation ratio of the particular display pixel. Further, the controlling means sets first and second modes as a control mode, the first mode in which the light source emits light, and the second mode in which the light source emits light with brightness lower than in the first mode. In the first mode, the controlling means sets the gradation ratio of the normal display pixel and the gradation ratio of the particular display pixel at a particular time to a maximum ratio. In the second mode, the controlling means executes a gradation processing for making the gradation ratio of the particular display pixel at a particular time higher than the gradation ratio of the normal display pixel.
US08743148B2
A presentation on a display screen of objects of a user interface which can be freely positioned and scaled by means of control elements is optimized. This is realized by a predetermined calculation rule in such a manner that the objects can be automatically varied between a still readable minimum size and a selected maximum size in dependence on the object contents, selected preferred settings and the available display resource on the display screen, and that the available display screen surface is optimally filled, possibly while eliminating less important details of the object contents and while changing the display mode of the object contents and/or the object as well as while avoiding mutual overlapping of the objects.
US08743120B2
A controller remote-controlling a digital mixer which performs signal processing to an input signal by a DSP to output the processed signal is provided with functions of: accepting the setting of level of a dummy signal; calculating a gain of the signal processing at each stage in the DSP based on a value of a parameter used for the remote controlling; calculating level that the dummy signal would have at a reference point selected by a reference point selection button if the dummy signal is assumed to be inputted to the DSP, based on the level of the dummy signal and the calculated gain; and displaying the calculated level in a level display portion.
US08743116B1
A system and methods for providing shading effects include a shading network possessing the ability to create, maintain, and incrementally evolve shading techniques and effects. The shader network provides the ability to encapsulate CPU and GPU code into a self-contained node that can be transported between renderers. As a result, authors can develop reusable shading techniques that can express the wide range of effects available via utilization of CPU and GPU code. The shader network also provides the capability to compose multiple nodes into a reusable “macro” node that affords authors the ability to build derivative shading effects without the need to modify an application's renderer or constituent nodes.
US08743115B1
A system and method may model physical geological structures. Seismic and geologic data may be accepted. A three-dimensional (3D) transformation may be generated between a 3D present day model having points representing present locations of the physical geological structures and a 3D past depositional model having points representing locations where the physical geological structures were originally deposited. An indication may be accepted to locally change the 3D transformation for a subset of sampling points in a first model of the models. The 3D transformation may be locally changed to fit the updated subset of sampling points. A locally altered or updated version of the first model and, e.g., second model, may be displayed where local changes to the first model are defined by the locally changed 3D transformation. The transformation may also be used to extract geobodies in the past depositional model.
US08743095B2
A display device as an electronic apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a clock signal wiring (104) for connecting to a source driver circuit; a power supply wiring (105) formed at a position where the power supply wiring (105) does not overlap with a projection plane of the clock signal wiring (104), so as to sandwich at least an insulating layer with a layer in which the clock signal wiring (104) is formed; and a capacitive electrode (109) electrically connected to the clock signal wiring (104). The capacitive electrode (109) is formed so as to overlap at least partially with a projection plane of the power supply wiring (105). A capacitance (301) is formed between the capacitive electrode (109) and the power supply wiring (105).
US08743088B2
A pointing device including a touching surface, a light emitting diode, an imaging element, and a first light control part. A fingertip is placed on the touching surface. The light emitting diode illuminates the touching surface from a side opposite to a side where the fingertip is placed. The imaging element receives light reflected from the fingertip. The first light control part controls light, which is emitted from the light emitting diode and reaches the touching surface, so that the light is evenly incident to the touching surface. The pointing device improves detection accuracy and prevents malfunctions, even when there is deviation in an output from a light source. In addition, an electronic apparatus including an input device can be provided.
US08743084B2
An input apparatus includes a base material facing the outside and configured to serve as an operation surface of the input apparatus; a substrate arranged so as to be on the inner side, i.e., the opposite side to the operation surface of the input apparatus, and so as to face the base material; at least one first pad arranged on the substrate so as to face the base material via a dielectric member and configured to detect a capacitance; at least one second pad arranged on the substrate so as to face the base material with an air layer therebetween and configured to detect a capacitance; and a control section connected to the first and second pads, and configured to control the first and second pads.
US08743081B2
A touch panel includes a plurality of X-directional sensing lines and a plurality of Y-directional sensing lines. The X-directional sensing lines and the Y-directional sensing lines are arranged in a staggered manner. The control device includes a clock generation circuit, a selection module, a drive signal generation circuit, a digital to analog conversion module, first and second capacitors and a differential detection circuit. The X-directional sensing lines and Y-directional sensing lines on the touch panel operate according to a predetermined scanning sequence. According to the control device and the predetermined scanning sequence of the present invention, the sensing speed of the touch panel can be improved.
US08743078B2
A display apparatus having an improved optical efficiency and a touch panel function, the display apparatus including a substrate; a display unit formed on the substrate and including a plurality of pixels; an encapsulation substrate disposed facing the display unit to encapsulate the display unit; an electrostatic capacitive pattern layer formed on the encapsulation substrate; and a black matrix layer formed between the substrate and the encapsulation substrate, and disposed to surround the plurality of pixels, wherein the plurality of pixels are disposed to correspond to the electrostatic capacitive pattern layer.
US08743076B1
Touch screen user interfaces configured to detect a touch gesture for controlling software applications, computers, devices, machinery, and process environments. Such user interfaces can be manipulated by users and provide a wide range of uses with computer applications, assistance to the disabled, and control of electronic devices, machines, and processes. Enhancements can include velocity and pressure sensing capabilities. The touch screen can be realized with a transparent touch sensor array positioned over a visual display. The touch screen can be configured to measure a spatial pressure distribution profile from a touch on the touch screen and recognize gestures based on dynamics among spatial pressure distribution profiles. In an example implementation, the gesture recognition may rely solely on dynamics of shape differences between hand contact patterns and omit the use of pressure, as the shape of the spatial pressure distribution profile does not vary much by pressure.
US08743075B2
An information processing apparatus comprising a touch screen which detects a touch input by a user detects the position and pressure of each of a plurality of pressed points corresponding to a plurality of touch inputs existing at the same time on a touch screen. Then, the front/rear overlap relationship of the plurality of objects displayed on the touch screen is changed based on the difference in pressure between the detected plurality of pressed points.
US08743073B2
Embodiments of the disclosure generally set forth a two-way touch screen based communication system. One example method may include receiving an order for an item from a first touch screen device via a first network, wherein the order is associated with a first identification for a merchant, a second identification for the customer, and a negotiable parameter reflective of a preference of the customer. The method may also include making available the order for a second touch screen device of the merchant to retrieve via a second network and to display and prior to completing processing of the order, transmitting a first response to the preference of the customer to the first touch screen device via the first network.
US08743067B2
A touch sensing apparatus is disclosed. The touch sensing apparatus includes a logic control module, at least one storage control module, and at least one decoding control module. The logic control module is used to generate a plurality of control signals having different control timings. The plurality of control signals includes a storage control signal and a decoding control signal. Each storage control module includes a plurality of storage capacitors, and respectively stores each of sensed voltages in different storage capacitors at different times according to a storage control timing of the storage control signal. The sensed voltages are analog data sensed from scan lines of an ITO sensor. The decoding control module performs analog adding process to the sensed voltages stored in the storage capacitors according to a decoding control timing of the decoding control signal to output decoded analog data with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
US08743064B2
A computing apparatus and method of manipulating a displayed orbit of an object by detecting a gesture having a correspondence between body movements as the gesture and a resulting change to one or more orbital parameters within a displayed orbit system, changing an orbital parameter of the displayed orbit system according to detection of the gesture, and changing visualization on the computer display screen of the orbit system according to the change to the orbital parameter.
US08743063B2
A liquid crystal display with an integrated touch screen panel is disclosed. According to some aspects, conductive patterns or conducting patterns provided to the LCD are used as driving electrodes of the touch screen panel. A driving electrode of the touch screen panel may be formed on one surface of a polarizing plate or window attached to the LCD so as to be positioned close to a contact point, thereby improving touch sensitivity.
US08743047B2
At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including: pixels each of which includes a plurality of sub-pixels; and scanning signal lines provided in a display area, the scanning signal lines being divided into groups each of which includes a plurality of scanning signal lines, the groups being sequentially selected, the polarity POL of signal electric potentials being inverted when the selected group is changed from a preceding group to a succeeding group which is selected immediately after the preceding group, a plurality of (for example, two) dummy scanning periods being inserted between a horizontal scanning period corresponding to last horizontal scanning (scanning of G23) in the preceding group and a horizontal scanning period corresponding to first horizontal scanning (scanning of G2) in the succeeding group, and a scanning signal line (for example, G2) which belongs to a group selected after the preceding group being subjected to dummy scanning during each dummy scanning period so as to be made active for a predetermined period of time, and then deactivated. With the arrangement, it is possible to suppress horizontal-shaped unevenness that occurs in a case where block inversion driving is carried out in a multi-pixel mode liquid crystal display device.
US08743031B2
An aspect of the present invention provides the dibenzothiophene compound expressed by General Formula 1 in Claim 1. In General Formula 1, R1 is either a hydrogen atom or an unsubstituted phenyl group, and Ar1 is any of phenanthrenyl, fluorenyl, triphenylenyl, naphthyl, chrysenyl, and pyrenyl groups. The options for the Ar1 substituents, namely the phenanthrenyl, fluorenyl, triphenylenyl, naphthyl, chrysenyl, and pyrenyl groups, may contain at least one of an alkyl group having one to four carbon atoms and an aryl group as a substituent.
US08743030B2
One feature of the present invention includes first to third steps of holding a voltage, corresponding to a difference between a voltage applied to a first power supply line and a threshold voltage of a first transistor, between both electrodes of first and second storage capacitors; holding a voltage, corresponding to a difference between a voltage applied to the first power supply line and a gate-source voltage of the first transistor, which is necessary to supply a light-emitting element with a current equivalent to a video signal current inputted into a signal line, between both the electrodes of the second storage capacitor; and applying a voltage based on the voltage held in the first and second storage capacitors in the first and second steps to a gate electrode of the first transistor; therefore, a current is supplied to the light-emitting element through the first transistor.
US08743027B2
An OLED driving circuit is provided. The OLED driving circuit comprises a switch transistor, a storage capacitor, a driving transistor and a control module. In a charging time period, a charging switch of the control module is conducted to connect the storage capacitor and a first voltage end and a data signal is transmitted from the switch transistor to the storage capacitor. In a memory time period, a memory switch of the control module is conducted to connect the storage capacitor and an OLED and the data signal is transmitted from the switch transistor to the storage capacitor. In a light-emitting time period, three light-emitting switches are conducted to connect the driving transistor to the storage capacitor, the first voltage end and the OLED.
US08743024B2
There is provided an emission control driver including a first signal processing unit for receiving an input power from an input power source, a main input signal, and a sub input signal, and for outputting a first output signal and a second output signal, a second signal processing unit for receiving the first output signal, the second output signal, and a clock signal, and for outputting a third output signal, and a third signal processing unit for receiving the first output signal and the second output signal, and for outputting an emission control signal. The width of the emission control signals may be freely controlled and the emission control driver having a simple structure, and the organic light emitting display using the same, may be provided.
US08743021B1
The present specification relates to a display device detecting a gaze location and a method of controlling therefor, and more particularly, to a method of displaying a reading interface based on a gaze location of a user and displaying content. According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display unit configured to display content, the display unit including a first display area and a second display area, an image capturing unit configured to capture a front image of the display device, and a processor configured to control the display unit and the image capturing unit and configured to detect a gaze location of a user located at a front of the display device from the captured image.
US08743020B1
A high integrity, high availability avionics display architecture for an avionics display system. The architecture includes a plurality of display processing computers (DPC) and a plurality of display integrity feedback interfaces. Each DPC includes at least two independent processing channels. Each independent processing channel includes at least two independent lanes. Each independent lane includes an I/O section and a processor section. Furthermore, each independent processing channel comprises an operative graphics section. At least one of the independent lanes provides a critical display function that provides commands to the graphics section to drive a display signal to displays of the avionics system. A number of display integrity feedback interfaces from the displays of the avionics display system provide integrity by allowing the integrity monitor functions to detect faults within the display signals and/or originating from the displays.
US08743015B1
A device occupying a volumetric space definable within the bounds of a substantially spherical volume for realizing isotropic radiation may include a support for supporting a plurality of multi-polarization capable antenna elements. The plurality of antenna elements may include a first antenna element oriented in a first direction, a second antenna element oriented in a second direction, and a third antenna element oriented in a third direction. The support may support the first antenna element, the second antenna element, and the third antenna element in an arrangement such that the second direction is at least substantially different than the first direction, and the third direction is at least substantially different than the first direction and the second direction. The plurality of antenna elements generally occupies a volumetric space definable within the bounds of a substantially spherical volume.
US08743002B2
Methods and systems for a 60 GHz leaky wave high gain antenna are disclosed and may include communicating RF signals using one or more or more leaky wave antennas (LWAs) in a wireless device. The LWAs may be integrated in metal traces on a chip, a package, and/or a printed circuit board (PCB). The metal traces may supply voltage signals to one or more circuits on the chip, package, and/or PCB. The voltage signals may include DC bias voltages, and/or signals at a frequency that is lower than a resonant frequency of the LWAs. The LWAs may include microstrip or coplanar lines where a cavity height of the LWAs is dependent on a spacing between the lines. An angle of the wireless signals with a surface of the chip, package, and/or PCB may be dynamically configured. The LWAs may be configured via switches in the chip, package, and/or PCB.
US08742984B2
A system and method of calculating corrections to a navigation solution based on accurate data are provided. GNSS ephemeris, clock models and other navigation information are received from at least three GNSS satellites and pseudo-ranging to the GNSS satellites is performed. A PVT solution is resolved from the GNSS ephemeris, clock models, and other navigation information and the pseudo range measurements. The PVT solution includes a statistical measure. Differential GNSS data for calculating the corrections to the PVT solution is received and a corrected PVT solution is calculated based upon the differential GNSS data. The corrected PVT solution is compared to a region defined by the statistical measure and the corrected PVT solution is rejected when the corrected PVT solution is not within the region.
US08742983B2
According to one embodiment, a calculating of a weight includes which is calculating a covariance matrix by applying a process (Post-Doppler process) of selecting a plurality of banks after execution of a Doppler filter process to a specified number of pulses of the received signal, and extracting a plurality of arbitrary bank parts from among the plurality of selected banks which are used for the calculation of the covariance matrix, and calculating a plurality of weights on a phase and an amplitude, from a matrix of the plurality of extracted bank parts.
US08742979B2
This disclosure provides a range side lobe removal device, which includes a pulse compressor for acquiring a reception signal from a radar antenna and generating a pulse-compressed signal by performing a pulse compression of the reception signal, a pseudorange side lobe generator for generating a pseudo signal of range side lobes of the pulse-compressed signal based on the reception signal, and a signal remover for removing a component corresponding to the pseudo signal from the pulse-compressed signal.
US08742968B2
An analog front end (AFE) device has at least one programmable analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a serial interface switchable to operate in a bidirectional serial interface mode and in a unidirectional two wire serial interface mode, wherein the unidirectional two wire serial interface mode only uses a clock input and a data output signal line, wherein the ADC operates in the unidirectional two wire serial interface mode synchronous with a clock supplied to the clock input.
US08742965B1
Apparatus implementing a monotonic output digital to analog converter (DAC). A high resolution monotonic DAC may be built from a lower resolution DAC using weighting functions that combine the outputs of the lower resolution DAC such that monotonicity is maintained across major carry transitions. The lower resolution DAC should have a true output and a complementary output with a half LSB bias in the output. An extended resolution DAC may be built of; cascaded low resolution DACs; a low resolution DAC in a recursive arrangement with an intermediate storage of its output; or a low resolution DAC with weighting functions that adjust at each of several major carry transition.
US08742950B2
A computer-implemented method includes recognizing the initiation of a vehicle journey. The method further includes periodically storing vehicle speed data, GPS coordinate data and time data. This method also includes providing at least one option for reporting the stored speed data, GPS data and time data. The method additionally includes outputting the stored speed data, GPS data and time data for at least one portion of the vehicle journey, responsive to input requesting the reporting.
US08742944B2
An integrated, self-powered, sensing and transmitting module (300) that can be placed within an operating environment, such as by being affixed to a gas turbine engine component, in order to sense the local operating environment and to deliver real-time operating environment data to a location outside of the environment. Such a module may integrate a power element (302); a sensing element 9304); and a transmitting element (308) on a single substrate (320) within a single housing (310). Both sensors and circuitry components are formed directly on or in the substrate in novel configurations to decrease the size and weight of the module.
US08742942B2
The invention relates to a security device for a cover device of a pipe and/or for a pipe, that can be used for producing pipelines having a series of further pipes welded to each other, wherein the cover device comprises a sleeve covering an inner wall of the pipe, and the security device is designed for generating an alarm signal, wherein the security device comprises a structure-borne sound detection device comprising a structure-borne sound sensor for detecting manipulation of the pipe. The invention further relates to a system for monitoring pipes having a plurality of security devices having a receiving station for receiving the security device signals, preferably repeatable by means of a repeater, and an electronic data processor designed for analyzing the signals and for out-putting an alarm signal.
US08742938B2
A smoke detector device featuring a base for mounting to a ceiling, wall, or fixture. The base has three grooves disposed in its outer surface. Rings can wrap around each groove on the base. Each ring has at least two modules with an inner chamber and a door, wherein the inner chamber of each module can hold an item. The base can move between an expanded position wherein the three grooves are exposed and a collapsed position wherein only one groove is exposed. Flanges and set screws can secure the base in the expanded position.
US08742937B2
An alarm unit of the invention is provided with: a light emitting section; a battery power supply; a voltage booster circuit that boosts a voltage from this battery power supply to thereby generate a boosted voltage; a light emission control section that controls the voltage booster circuit to supply, with the timing at which the boosted voltage is obtained, the boosted voltage to the light emitting section, thereby intermittently driving light emission; a light receiving section that receives light from the light emitting section having been diffused by smoke; a conversion circuit that converts a received light signal from the light receiving section into received light data; a fire hazard detection section that detects a fire hazard based on the received light data from the conversion circuit; an alarm section that outputs an alarm based on a fire hazard detection signal from the fire hazard detection section; a reference voltage circuit that generates a reference voltage for the voltage booster circuit and the conversion circuit; and a clock circuit that outputs a clock signal for operating the voltage booster circuit, the light emission control section, and the conversion circuit. Furthermore, in this alarm unit, a packaged integrated circuit is provided with: a processor circuit that realizes functions of the light emission control section and the fire hazard detection section by executing a program; the voltage booster circuit; the conversion circuit; the reference voltage circuit; the clock circuit; and a control circuit of the respective circuit sections.
US08742931B2
An electronic seal includes a radio frequency identification apparatus, an antenna assembly and an impedance matching circuit. The radio frequency identification apparatus includes at least two radio frequency identification units each for providing a specific code for identification. The antenna assembly is electrically connected to the radio frequency identification units. The antenna assembly is used to receive an electromagnetic signal for identification to excite the radio frequency identification units to transmit the specific codes through the antenna assembly. The impedance matching circuit is provided between the radio frequency identification units and the antenna assembly for adjusting the impedance matching of the radio frequency identification units to the antenna assembly, thus adjusting excitation powers and feedback powers of the specific codes from the radio frequency identification units through the antenna assembly.
US08742920B2
An apparatus to provide real time anti-smash protection for monitoring systems includes a displaced server which communicates with a plurality of monitoring systems. Methods of operating the server provide assurance that alarm indicating messages are forwarded to a monitoring station for evaluation by an operator even where a local monitoring system has been damaged or compromised.
US08742919B2
A system for tracking containers and logistics using a biometric identity card and a CSD (Container Security Device). The system comprises: a container security device control unit which receives, in accordance with the result of an authentication, container biometric authentication card information from the container biometric identity card, and generates container status information including lock information obtained, and an open message obtained when the container is opened; a container tracking communication terminal unit, periodically generates current location information, and transmits the container status information and the current location information through a wireless communication system; and a container tracking server and the current location information, stores the received information, receives selected container identity information, extracts the container status information and the current location information corresponding to the container identity information, and displays the extracted information at container tracking center.
US08742915B2
In a system for monitoring the pressure of the tires of a vehicle, it is proposed to compensate the raw data of the parameters of the tires only if the comparison of the successive raw data of at least one reference parameter exhibits a deviation, in absolute value, greater than a determined threshold of variation. In a TPMS monitoring system, each wheel unit includes sensors for measuring the parameters of pressure, temperature and acceleration, and elements of storage and autonomous power supply, in conjunction with a processor. The raw data provided by the sensors are stored, compensated and transmitted as finalized data by a radiofrequency emission circuit to a central unit. It is proposed that the wheel unit also includes, in a processing module, comparison elements, external to the processor, for comparing between successive raw data of one and the same parameter that are provided by the measurement sensors.
US08742912B2
A self-powered tire pressure sensor device. The sensor device includes a power circuit, an air pressure measurement sensor, a signal circuit and a wireless transmission circuit. The power circuit converts mechanical acceleration experienced by the device into electrical potential using an electromechanical transducer. Mechanical acceleration due to collisions between the mobile sensor device and the wall of the tire while the tire is in motion cause the transducer to emit a small electrical charge. An electrical potential storage element in the power circuit accumulates and stores the charge as electrical potential. Alternatively the power circuit receives and converts electromagnetic energy into electrical potential. The electrical potential powers an air pressure measurement sensor within the tire. A signal circuit and wireless transmission circuit transmit the measurement to a chassis-mounted receiver, which makes the tire pressure measurement available to systems remote from the tire.
US08742905B2
A system and method for an easy to use and intuitive user interface on a remote control. In one embodiment, a touch sensitive area is extended beyond a screen. In one embodiment, soft buttons lie partially on the screen and partially off it (on the extended touch-sensitive area). This allows for an increased input area for the user, without the increase in cost associated with a larger screen. Moreover, this allows for a smooth, flat, and sleek upper surface of the remote control. In one embodiment, a remote control provides different user experiences based upon the context of use of the remote control. For instance, the color of the screen as well as the color of backlighting for certain buttons is dependent upon what mode the remote control is in.
US08742902B2
An information processing method includes the steps of: detecting a magnetic field variation that occurs in the vicinity of a receiving section that receives a magnetic field signal; determining whether or not a detection result satisfies a predetermined condition that is set in advance; connecting a storage section, which stores information included in the magnetic field signal received by the receiving section, to the receiving section if it is determined that the detection result does not satisfy the condition; and connecting the storage section to a reading section that reads information stored on the storage section, if it is determined that the detection result satisfies the condition.
US08742900B2
An embodiment of the invention relates to a for remote control of an electrical circuit, comprising an RFID source, a remotely-mounted switch operatively coupled to an RFID tag, and an RFID receiver operatively coupled to an electrical circuit, wherein a change in state of the remotely-mounted switch is detected by the RFID tag and transmitted to the RFID receiver to control the electrical circuit.
US08742898B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for removing a transmission leakage signal of an RFID system including a reader controller that sends a transmission signal to an RFID tag and receives a receiving signal transmitted from the RFID tag to read tag information, the apparatus including a leakage signal canceller that receives a portion of the transmission signal and the receiving signal, and performs an adjustment task to generate a cancellation signal according to an adjustment value to remove a transmission leakage signal and the portion of the transmission signal, and to remove the transmission leakage signal included in the receiving signal and a controller that continuously determines whether there is a change of an RF environment using an intensity of the receiving signal, the RFID tag being installed in the RF environment, and controls an operation of the leakage signal canceller according to the change of the RF environment.
US08742891B2
A system and method for verifying that a document is included in a document management system is disclosed. This system and method includes scanning of a scan track of a document, generating document data dependently upon the scanning, comparing the generated document data to stored document data, the stored document data generated dependently upon a prior scanning of the scan track of the document, and outputting an indication of the document being included in the document management system as determined by the comparing.
US08742882B2
The invention provides a touch panel capable of effectively preventing a distortion of an electric potential distribution, thereby increasing an input region of the touch panel. A touch panel including a resistive layer formed on one of surfaces of a substrate and a frame-shaped electrode portion 21 provided along four sides of the resistive layer, wherein each side of the frame-shaped electrode portion 21 is constituted in a broken line pattern having a first split electrode 25a disposed on both ends respectively and a plurality of second split electrodes 25b disposed between the first split electrodes 25a, second resistance values R_i between the second split electrodes 25b are set to be equal to each other, and a first resistance value R_s between the first split electrode 25a and the second split electrode 25b which is adjacent to the first split electrode 25a is different from the second resistance value R_i.
US08742880B2
An integrated circuit is disclosed. The integrated circuit includes a primary coil. The integrated circuit also includes a first secondary coil that acts as a first transformer with the primary coil. The integrated circuit further includes a second secondary coil that acts as a second transformer with the primary coil. The primary coil, the first secondary coil and the second secondary coil have a layout on the integrated circuit to minimize coupling between the first secondary coil and the second secondary coil.
US08742878B2
There are provided a thin transformer capable of being used in a thin display device such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, a light emitting diode (LED) display device, and a flat panel display device including the same. The transformer includes: a bobbin part including inner and outer bobbins each including a pipe shaped body part having a though-hole formed in an inner portion thereof and a flange part protruding outwardly from both ends of the body part; coils respectively wound around the inner and outer bobbins; and a core electromagnetically coupled to the coils to thereby form a magnetic path, wherein the inner bobbin is inserted into the through-hole of the outer bobbin to thereby be coupled to the outer bobbin and at least one of the inner and outer bobbins includes the flange part having a width larger than a thickness of the body part.
US08742877B2
Multi-winding magnetic structures and methods of making multi-winding magnetic structures are disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-winding magnetic structure includes a core constructed of a magnetic material and a plurality of windings. The core includes a core top, a core bottom, and a plurality of columns. The core top has an exterior edge defining a shape of the core top. A central section of the core top has a substantially constant thickness that defines a thickness of the core top. The core bottom is beneath the core top and has an exterior edge defining a shape of the core bottom. A central section of the core bottom has a substantially constant thickness that defines a thickness of the core bottom. The thickness of one of the core bottom and the core top decreases from an edge of its central section to its exterior edge. The plurality of columns extends from the core bottom to the core top and the plurality of windings are wound around the columns.
US08742874B2
Provided are coaxial waveguide microstructures. The microstructures include a substrate and a coaxial waveguide disposed above the substrate. The coaxial waveguide includes: a center conductor; an outer conductor including one or more walls, spaced apart from and disposed around the center conductor; one or more dielectric support members for supporting the center conductor in contact with the center conductor and enclosed within the outer conductor; and a core volume between the center conductor and the outer conductor, wherein the core volume is under vacuum or in a gas state. Also provided are methods of forming coaxial waveguide microstructures by a sequential build process and hermetic packages which include a coaxial waveguide microstructure.
US08742873B2
Embodiments are related to micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) devices, systems and methods. In one embodiment, a MEMS resonating device comprises a resonator element configured to provide timing; and at least one passive temperature compensation structure arranged on the resonator element.
US08742863B1
A communication terminal includes a crystal oscillator, a transceiver and circuitry. The crystal oscillator belongs to a specified type in which a dependence of an output frequency on temperature has one or more temperature dependence coefficients. The transceiver is arranged to operate an AFC loop having an initial frequency accuracy requirement that is more stringent than an uncompensated frequency accuracy of the crystal oscillator. The circuitry is arranged to determine output frequencies of the crystal oscillator at respective operating temperatures, to compute the temperature dependence coefficients based on the output frequencies and operating temperatures, to correct a frequency error in the output frequency using the dependence and the temperature dependence coefficients, to ascertain that the corrected frequency error meets the initial frequency accuracy requirement, and to subsequently correct a frequency of the received signal using the AFC loop.
US08742862B1
A current reuse voltage controlled oscillator with improved differential output is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a PMOS transistor and an NMOS transistor coupled together for current reuse and configured to provide differential oscillator outputs. The apparatus also includes a common mode rejection (CMR) circuit coupled between the PMOS and the NMOS transistors, the CMR circuit includes an inductor having a least one tap that can be selectively coupled to a ground to reduce common mode signals at the differential oscillator outputs.
US08742858B2
Techniques and architectures corresponding to relaxation oscillators having output frequencies that are supply voltage independent are described. In a particular embodiment, an apparatus includes a relaxation oscillator having one or more capacitors and a compensation current circuit coupled to the relaxation oscillator. The compensation current circuit is configured to regulate current provided to the one or more capacitors of the relaxation oscillator in response to changes in a supply voltage provided to the compensation current circuit and to the relaxation oscillator.
US08742857B2
A plurality of inductance enhanced interweaved rotary traveling wave oscillators (RTWO) is disclosed. Portions of the transmission line conductors are increased in length and run in parallel. Because the currents in these portions travel in the same direction, the inductance of these inductors is increased. By controlling the length of the transmission line conductors in these areas compared to the lengths where the currents in the oscillators travel in opposite directions, the overall impedance of the oscillators can be increased. Increased impedance leads to lower power and lower phase noise for the oscillators. Additionally, the interweaved oscillators are phase-locked to each other.
US08742854B1
A periodic signal generator is configured to generate high frequency signals characterized by relatively low temperature coefficients of frequency (TCF). A microelectromechanical resonator, such as concave bulk acoustic resonator (CBAR) supporting capacitive and piezoelectric transduction, may be geometrically engineered as a signal generator that produces two periodic signals having unequal resonant frequencies with unequal temperature coefficients. Circuitry is also provided for combining the two periodic signals using a mixer to thereby yield a high frequency low-TCF periodic difference signal at an output of the periodic signal generator.
US08742849B1
A linear source follower amplifier is provided with a first metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) field effect transistor (FET) having a gate to accept an ac input signal and a source to supply an ac output signal. A second MOS FET has a gate to accept the ac input signal, a source connected to the drain of the first MOS FET. A third MOS FET has a drain connected to the source of the first MOS FET, a gate connected to the drain of the second MOS FET, and a source connected to a first reference voltage. A fourth MOS FET has a drain and a gate connected to the drain of the second MOS FET and a source connected to the first reference voltage. A current source has an input connected to a second reference voltage, and an output connected to the drain of the first MOS FET.
US08742841B2
An amplifier may use pulse-width modulators controlling respective sets of switches to produce an amplified version of a source signal. A phase locked loop in the amplifier may generate a differential clock signal. A first processing element operating according to a first supply voltage may generate a PWM signal representative of the source signal, and also generate a clock enable signal corresponding to the differential clock signal. A second processing element (PE2) may receive the differential clock signal, the PWM signal, and the clock enable signal, and level shift the PWM signal and the clock enable signal to operate according to a second supply voltage, and may generate a resampling clock signal from the differential clock signal according to the level shifted clock enable signal. The PE2 may provide a PWM output signal representative of the source signal by resampling the level shifted PWM signal with the resampling clock signal.
US08742840B2
A travelling wave tube amplifier includes: a travelling wave tube comprising a cathode, a helix, an RF input, an RF output, and a plurality of collectors, and an electronic power conditioner providing power supply and electrode polarization to said travelling wave tube, wherein said electronic power conditioner comprises flexibility control means allowing to adjust, via control commands sent through a databus, the helix to cathode voltage and the collector voltages.
US08742832B2
A multi-step charge pump having a power input terminal and a power output terminal is provided. The multi-step charge pump includes a plurality of capacitors, wherein each of the capacitors has a capacitance. A plurality of switching devices is connected among the capacitors, the power input terminal and the power output terminal. A switch-controlling unit controls the on/off states of the switches, wherein a charging-phase circuit corresponding to a pumping level is formed to charge the capacitors and an output-phase circuit is formed to output a voltage from the power output terminal. At least one of the capacitors herein is changeably selected as a voltage-regulating capacitor.
US08742819B2
Circuitry (10-2) for limiting the maximum amount of current (IREF) flowing through a first electrode (DRAIN) of a first transistor (T1) includes an amplifier (14) having an output coupled by a conductor (19) to a control electrode of the first transistor and limiting circuitry (17) including reference current sensing circuitry (22,TSENSE) having a reference current source (IREF—SENSE). A reference current sensing transistor (TSENSE) has a control electrode coupled to the control electrode of the first transistor, a first electrode coupled to a terminal (20) of the reference current source, and a second electrode (SOURCE) coupled to a second electrode of the first transistor. A buffer (T2) has an input coupled to the terminal of the reference current source. The maximum amount is limited in accordance with the reference current source to prevent an increase in magnitude of voltage applied by the amplifier to the first transistor.
US08742813B2
An inverter and an antenna circuit. The inverter that receives control signals including a first control signal, a second control signal, and a third control signal, inverts the first control signal, and outputs the inverted first control signal, includes: a first MOS transistor having a gate to which the first control signal is applied and a source that is grounded; a second MOS transistor having a gate to which the third control signal is applied and a source to which the second control signal is applied; and a third MOS transistor having a gate to which the second control signal is applied and a source to which the third control signal is applied, wherein drains of the first MOS transistor, the second MOS transistor, and the third MOS transistor are connected to an output terminal.
US08742803B2
Aspects of the subject technology allow an output driver to be implemented using one or more transistors having an oxide-breakdown voltage below the output voltage swing of the output driver. The output driver can include one or more source followers, where a source follower provides voltage-level shifting of a voltage before the voltage is supplied to a gate of a transistor to prevent a source-to-gate voltage or a gate-to-source voltage of the transistor from exceeding the oxide-breakdown voltage of the transistor.
US08742792B2
Switching circuits, latches and methods are provided, such as those that may respond to an input signal that transitions from a first binary level to a second binary level. One such switching circuit may have a metastable state that is closer to a first voltage corresponding to the first binary level than it is to a second voltage corresponding to the second binary level. In other embodiments, the metastable state may be dynamically adjustable so that it is at one voltage before the circuit switches and at a different voltage after the circuit switches. As a result, the switching circuit may respond relatively quickly to the input signal transitioning from the first binary level to the second binary level.
US08742788B2
A common mode control circuit (400) for generating a control signal indicative of a common mode signal in first and second signals of a differential signal pair comprises a first charge control means (300) for varying, dependent on polarity of the first and second signals with respect to a threshold, charge on a capacitive element (250, 260, 270). The first charge control means (300) is operable to, in response to the first and second signals both switching polarity simultaneously from opposite polarities, maintain a direction of flow of the charge. The first charge control means (300) can be operable to, in response to the first and second signals both switching polarity simultaneously from opposite polarities and the flow of charge being zero, maintain the flow at zero.
US08742784B2
An organic light emitting display device having a lighting test circuit. The organic light emitting display device includes: a pixel unit including pixels at crossing regions of scan lines and data lines; a scan driving circuit configured to supply scan signals to the scan lines; and a lighting test circuit configured to supply lighting test signals to the data lines, the lighting test circuit including a plurality of transistors, the plurality of transistors including source electrodes, drain electrodes, and gate electrodes, the source electrodes being coupled, in common, to input lines to which the lighting test signals are input, the drain electrodes being coupled to the data lines, the gate electrodes being coupled, in common, to an input line of test control signals, and the gate electrodes and the source electrodes being coupled through a resistor composed of a semiconductor material.
US08742778B2
A system for testing the existing protection schemes of a power converter. The system simulates the voltage regulator producing a voltage level below an under-voltage threshold. The system simulates the voltage regulator producing a voltage level above an over-voltage threshold. The system simulates a short in the power converter pulling down the input bus. The system simulates a short in the power converter pulling down the output bus. The system measures the system responses to these simulations against responses of a properly operating system and determines if the power converter's protection schemes are operating correctly.
US08742768B1
A method and apparatus for determining at least one property of a target material is disclosed. The method is constituted of: providing a time varying signal at comprising frequency content over a range of frequencies; transducing the provided signal so as to interact with the target material; receiving the provided time varying signal after interaction with the target material; mixing the received time varying signal with a portion of the provided time varying signal; determining the propagation delay associated with the target material of the received provided time varying signal at each of a plurality of frequencies within the range of frequencies; and determining at least one property of the target material responsive to the determined propagation delay at each of the plurality of frequencies.
US08742767B2
A method of estimating stator resistance of an induction motor includes applying voltage pulses through two phase paths of the motor for a plurality of electrical cycles to inject current in the motor, wherein the voltage pulses are applied until rotor flux of the motor is substantially stabilized and measuring stator voltage and stator current in response to the applied voltage pulses for each of the plurality of electrical cycles. The method also includes calculating the stator resistance based upon the measured stator voltages and the stator currents.
US08742761B1
The present invention is a metallic sensing ground probe comprising a rod and a handle having a port for storing a power supply in electrical communication with a circuit, for generating an electric field between a sensor tip on a distal end of the rod and a logic circuit for actuating an LED in an LED display unit on the handle, when the sensor tip encounters a metal object within the ground thus completing the circuit.
US08742759B2
There is provided a high-frequency coil of an MRI device, which can easily and highly reproducibly reduce electromagnetic coupling between adjacent surface coils among a plurality of surface coils disposed with intervals. An electromagnetic decoupling coil that can generate a magnetic flux for canceling a magnetic flux generated by one of the adjacent surface coils and interlinking with the other surface coil is disposed between the adjacent surface coils. The electromagnetic decoupling coil is provided with a capacitor, and is tuned by means of the capacitor so that the electromagnetic coupling should be minimized in such a range that the resonance frequency thereof should be lower than the resonance frequency of the surface coils.
US08742752B2
A method of eddy current testing for flaws in a tube is provided that includes passing an eddy current probe through the tube and obtaining eddy current data for a number of positions along the tube, analyzing the eddy current data to generate background noise data for a number of positions along the tube, analyzing the eddy current data to generate extracted data for a number of positions along the tube, and determining whether a flaw of a particular category is present in the tube based on a set of one or more of rules applied to at least a portion of the extracted data, wherein at least one of the rules uses a particular part of the extracted data and employs a threshold that is a function a particular part of the background noise data that is associated with the particular part of the extracted data.
US08742751B2
A magnetic field measuring device includes a support base, a measuring mechanism, and a displacement sensor. The measuring mechanism is positioned on the support base, and includes a mounting plate, a swing arm, a connecting member, an elastic member, and a measuring magnet. The mounting plate is connected to the support base. The swing arm is rotatably positioned on the mounting plate. The elastic member is positioned between the connecting member and the swing arm. The measuring magnet is connected to the swing arm, opposite to the support base. The displacement sensor is positioned on the support base, opposite to the swing arm.
US08742749B2
A test and measurement instrument including a splitter configured to split an input signal having a particular bandwidth into a plurality of split signals, each split signal including substantially the entire bandwidth of the input signal; a plurality of harmonic mixers, each harmonic mixer configured to mix an associated split signal of the plurality of split signals with an associated harmonic signal to generate an associated mixed signal; and a plurality of digitizers, each digitizer configured to digitize a mixed signal of an associated harmonic mixer of the plurality of harmonic mixers. A first-order harmonic of at least one harmonic signal associated with the harmonic mixers is different from an effective sample rate of at least one of the digitizers.
US08742744B2
Generally, described herein are embodiments of control schemes for sensor-less operation and detection of CCM and DCM in a switching power converter. In one aspect, embodiments of a controller are described that utilize dual control loops and do not require sensing the inductor current or any current in the converter which eliminates or reduces the challenges and problems associated with current sensing. Advantages of embodiments of methods described herein become more significant when used in ultra high switching frequency converters since embodiments of the controller result in eliminating the need for high-speed low-noise current sensing circuitries, when used in on-chip integrated power converters where sensing accuracy may be a more significant issue compared to on-board power converters, and in power converters with paralleled modules since embodiments of the controller eliminate sensing circuitries in each of the modules.
US08742742B2
A switching-control circuit configured to keep a transistor on for a predetermined time to generate a target-level-output-voltage from an input voltage. The circuit is configured to generate, every switching period of the transistor, a slope voltage corresponding to that of a ripple voltage contained in an output voltage during a time period when the transistor is off, limit an amplitude of the slope voltage so as not to exceed a predetermined amplitude greater than the amplitude of the slope voltage when the target-level-output-voltage is generated, add the slope voltage to a reference voltage, indicating a reference of the target-level-output-voltage, or a feedback voltage corresponding to the output voltage, and keep the transistor on for a predetermined time and thereafter turn off the transistor, when a level of either one voltage, added with the slope voltage, of the reference voltage and the feedback voltage reaches a level of another voltage thereof.
US08742738B2
A method and system control the adding or dropping of phases in a multiphase voltage regulator. The regulator has an efficiency and this efficiency of the regulator is calculated for a given number of phases being activated from an output voltage, input voltage, output current, and duty cycle of the regulator. The efficiency of the regulator is also calculated if a phase is added using the derivative of the duty cycle as a function of the output current. The efficiency of the regulator is further calculated if a phase is dropped using the derivative of the duty cycle as a function of the output current. From these operations of calculating, a phase is either added, dropped, or the phase is maintained at its current value to thereby optimize the efficiency of the regulator.
US08742737B2
A controlling circuit is provided for controlling an output voltage of a main circuit of a switched-mode power supply. The controlling circuit includes components that generate a switching status selecting signal reflecting a voltage change of the main circuit, and output a reference voltage according to a voltage output status selected according to the switching status selecting signal. Other components output a pulse width modulation controlling signal according to the reference voltage and a current signal reflecting a current change of the main circuit, and output a pulse frequency modulation controlling signal with a frequency according to a frequency output status selected according to the switching status selecting signal. Yet other components output a switching controlling signal according to the controlling signals, and control a switch of the main circuit to switch-on or switch off according to the switching controlling signal to stabilize the output voltage of the main circuit.
US08742736B2
A distributed power supply delivery network includes an analog biased circuit array having current sources for delivering current to adjacent circuits, and a resistive ladder of resistor elements, where each resistor element is disposed between adjacent current sources. A tuned IR voltage drop network is included to match voltage drops across the resistive ladder. The tuned IR voltage drop network includes series connected resistors and a static current draw to induce the IR drop. The resistors may be matched with respect to the distributed power supply delivery system. The current source providing the static current for the IR drop may be programmed based on the power supply delivery load, in order to adjust the voltage drop across the biasing delivery route and match the voltage drop in the referenced power supply.
US08742729B2
A rechargeable battery is disclosed. The rechargeable battery of the invention includes a high density capacitor and an integrated circuit. The high density capacitor is connected to a ground terminal and a first node carrying a first voltage. The integrated circuit includes a band gap circuit, a first detecting unit, a voltage divider, a second detecting unit and at least one low dropout voltage regulator. The band gap circuit generates a band gap voltage according to the first voltage. The first detecting unit measures the first voltage and determines whether to apply an input charging voltage to the high density capacitor. The voltage divider is connected in parallel with the high density capacitor and has a second node carrying a second voltage. The second detecting unit measures the second voltage according to the band gap voltage and determines whether to connect a third node to the first node. Each low dropout voltage regulator is connected to the third node and generates a specified voltage output and a specified current output according to the band gap voltage and the first voltage.
US08742724B2
A battery pack for power tool includes a battery, a monitoring circuit, and a sleep mode switching unit. The battery includes at least one battery cell. The monitoring circuit is operated by receiving power supply from the battery. The sleep mode switching unit switches the battery pack to a sleep mode by stopping at least a part or all of operations of the monitoring circuit when the monitoring circuit detects a discharge end state where a discharge current from the battery is equal to or lower than a predetermined set current value, and the monitoring circuit further detects at least one of a voltage stable state where a voltage change amount in the battery cell is within a predetermined stable range of voltage change amount and a temperature stable state where a temperature change amount in the battery is within a predetermined stable range of temperature change amount.
US08742712B2
Methods, system and apparatus are provided for controlling third harmonic voltages when operating a multi-phase machine in an overmodulation region. The multi-phase machine can be, for example, a five-phase machine in a vector controlled motor drive system that includes a five-phase PWM controlled inverter module that drives the five-phase machine. Techniques for overmodulating a reference voltage vector are provided. For example, when the reference voltage vector is determined to be within the overmodulation region, an angle of the reference voltage vector can be modified to generate a reference voltage overmodulation control angle, and a magnitude of the reference voltage vector can be modified, based on the reference voltage overmodulation control angle, to generate a modified magnitude of the reference voltage vector. By modifying the reference voltage vector, voltage command signals that control a five-phase inverter module can be optimized to increase output voltages generated by the five-phase inverter module.
US08742703B2
The invention relates to a blower apparatus (1) having a blower wheel (4) for generating a blower air flow (50). The blower wheel (4) is arranged in a housing (2), wherein the blower wheel is driven by an electric drive motor (8). A blower tube (6) via which the generated blower air flow (50) is guided connects at an outlet (5). A control unit (17) is provided for controlling the rotational speed of the electric drive motor. For a quick reduction of the blower air flow (50), it is provided that the control unit (17) supports the deceleration of the drive motor (8) through a braking current (I).
US08742702B2
In a moving magnet type linear motor including a stator with a plurality of coils placed in one direction and a mover with a permanent magnet opposed to the stator, a position detector detects the position of the mover. The position detector includes a magnetic body fixed to the mover. One or two or more coils are selected and a voltage is applied to the selected coil while a current or a voltage induced in a coil adjacent to the selected coil is measured, and the position of the magnetic body that changes in response to the position of the mover is determined based on the measured current or the measured voltage.
US08742700B1
An accelerator assembly includes a first chip and a second chip. An acceleration channel is formed into a surface of a first side of the first chip. The first side of the first chip is covalently bonded to a first side of the second chip such that the channel is a tubular void between the first and second chips. The channel has a tubular inside sidewall surface, substantially no portion of which is a metal surface. The channel has length-to-width ratio greater than five, and a channel width less than one micron. There are many substantially identical channels that extend in parallel between the first and second chips. In one specific example, the assembly is part of a Direct Write On Wafer (DWOW) printing system. The DWOW printing system is useful in semiconductor processing in that it can direct write an image onto a 300 mm diameter wafer in one minute.
US08742693B2
A switching power supply circuit includes a full-wave rectification circuit that performs full-wave rectification of an AC input voltage so as to generate a primary voltage, a transformer that transforms the primary voltage into a secondary voltage utilizing electromagnetic induction between first and second isolated windings, a rectifying and smoothing circuit that generates a DC output voltage from the secondary voltage so as to supply the DC output voltage to a load, a primary current control circuit that performs on/off control of primary current based on a result of comparison between a primary current detection voltage corresponding to the primary current flowing in the first winding and a first reference voltage, and a reference voltage correction circuit for monitoring an on-duty ratio of secondary current flowing in the second winding so as to correct the first reference voltage.
US08742692B2
An LED driving circuit, adapted to drive an LED module, is disclosed. The LED driving circuit comprises a converting circuit, a converting controller, and a short-circuit protection circuit. The converting circuit, having a capacitor coupled to the LED module, is coupled to an input power source to proceed converting operation to supply an output current for driving the LED module. The converting controller controls the converting circuit to provide a stable current flowing through the LED module. The short-circuit protection circuit is coupled to the LED module in series and cuts the current flowing through the LED module off when detecting that the current higher than a current protection value.
US08742690B2
The application relates to a circuit for operating a light-emitting means, having a half-bridge or full-bridge circuit for providing a supply voltage for the at least one light-emitting means, and a control circuit for the closed-loop control of the operation of the light-emitting means and/or fault identification. A measurement signal which represents the current through the bridge circuit and/or a measurement signal which represents the lamp current and a measurement signal which represents the voltage across the at least one light-emitting means are supplied to the control circuit at the same input.
US08742688B2
A harbor lighting control apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of slaves to perform on control or off control, and dimming control with respect to a light emitting diode (LED) array light source mounted to a lighthouse when an on control signal or off control signal, and a dimming control signal are received, and to transmit a result of the control as acknowledge signals, and a master to transmit the on control signal or off control signal and the dimming control signal to all of the plurality of slaves by a broadcast scheme, to transmit the on control signal or off control signal and the dimming control signal to an individual slave by a unicast scheme, and to recognize operational states of the plurality of slaves by receiving the acknowledge signals from the plurality of slaves. Accordingly, stable and reliably control of the harbor lighting is enabled.
US08742681B2
According to one embodiment, an LED lighting device comprises at least one normally-on type switching element, an output generation unit that generates DC output by an on-off operation of the switching element, a semiconductor light emitting element that is lit by the DC output generated by the output generation unit, and a driving control unit that causes the switching element to perform an off operation using a current passed through the semiconductor light emitting element.
US08742678B2
A discharge lamp system includes a discharge lamp; a power supply device for providing DC input voltage and current; a converter connected to the discharge lamp and the power supply device for providing power for the discharge lamp; a DC input voltage detecting unit connected to the power supply device for detecting the DC input voltage; a DC input current detecting unit connected to the power supply device for detecting the DC input current; a lamp state detecting unit for detecting a signal responsive to the lamp state; a controller connected to the converter, the DC input voltage detecting unit, the DC input current detecting unit and the lamp state detecting unit for controlling the discharge lamp according to the signal responsive to the lamp state, the DC input voltage and the DC input current. A controlling method for the discharge lamp system is also disclosed herein.
US08742674B2
Exemplary embodiments provide an apparatus, system and method for power conversion to provide power to solid state lighting, and which may be coupled to a first switch, such as a dimmer switch. An exemplary system comprises: a switching power supply; solid state lighting; a first adaptive interface circuit to provide a resistive impedance to the first switch and conduct current from the first switch in a default mode; and a second adaptive interface circuit to create a resonant process. An exemplary apparatus comprises: a switching power supply; and an adaptive interface circuit comprising a resistive impedance coupled in series to a reactive impedance to conduct current from the first switch in a first current path in a default mode, and further comprising a second switch coupled to the reactive impedance to conduct current from the first switch in a second current path, with the adaptive interface circuit further damping oscillation when the first switch turns on.
US08742652B2
Described is an HF ignition device for igniting a fuel in an internal combustion engine, comprising a ceramic insulator which carries an ignition electrode and encloses an inner conductor leading to the ignition electrode, and an outer conductor which encloses the insulator and, together with a section of the inner conductor, forms a capacitor which is part of a circuit for the HF excitation of the ignition electrode. According to the invention, the insulator is part of a ceramic body which comprises an inner region which is composed of an electrically conductive ceramic and is enclosed by the insulator, and an outer region which is composed of an electrically conductive ceramic and encloses the insulator.
US08742645B2
A surface acoustic wave sensor system includes a base substrate, a piezoelectric substrate disposed on the base substrate, inter-digital transducer (IDT) electrodes disposed along a longitudinal direction on the piezoelectric substrate, each IDT electrode including an input inter-digital transducer and an output inter-digital transducer paired with and facing the input inter-digital transducer, each pair of input and output IDTs forming a surface acoustic wave unit sensor with the piezoelectric substrate, and connection electrodes disposed in the base substrate and electrically connected to the surface acoustic wave unit sensors.
US08742644B2
A power generation apparatus includes a dielectric, a movable member being opposed to the dielectric with a predetermined distance, and an electret and an opposing electrode that are formed on the surface of the movable member facing the dielectric so as to generate a fringe electric field penetrating the dielectric between the two electrodes. When the volume occupancy of the dielectric between the electret and the opposing electrode varies in accordance with a displacement of the movable member, the power generation apparatus outputs the electric charge induced in the opposing electrode as electric current.
US08742639B2
A DC motor is disclosed which includes a motor housing and at least one connection module adapted to be installed on the motor housing. The DC motor can be compact, flexibly adaptable to customer requirements and also easily installable in the case of a confined installation space. For this purpose, the motor housing can include a front-sided centering elevation or centering recess which cooperates with a centering recess or a centering elevation on the connection module. The connection module can be freely rotatable in a mounting state on the motor housing, and non-rotatably connected to the motor housing in the mounted state.
US08742633B2
A rotary and linear motion device includes a magnetic stator assembly, opposed electromagnetic actuators, and a linear-to-rotary converter (e.g., cam). Each electromagnetic actuator includes a coil that is configured to reciprocate relative to the magnetic stator assembly or to linearly translate in a common direction relative to the magnetic stator assembly. The electromagnetic actuators are coupled to the linear-to-rotary converter and upon reciprocation or linear translation, drive the linear-to-rotary converter in rotary or linear motion. The device may be located inside a wheel, which may be part of a vehicle. If part of a wheel of a vehicle, the device can be used to provide propulsion, steering, braking, and suspension for the vehicle.
US08742632B1
A linear motor includes an assembly of two magnets separated by a non-magnetic spacer wherein the assembly is coaxially affixed inside of a housing, which results in an air gap therebetween. The magnets are positioned to have a same direction of magnetization. A first embodiment of the motor includes a coil carrier having a single electrical coil of two sections wound in the same direction and positioned into the corresponding two winding areas of the carrier. The coil carrier is movably positioned into the air gap and further to surround the assembly, thereby moving along an axial direction of the motor. A second embodiment includes two coils that wound in a same direction with the respective separated wires and positioned into the respective two winding areas of the coil carrier.
US08742618B2
A method for designing a power distribution network of a circuit system includes the following steps: determining positions of a plurality of power source nodes; estimating a current distribution condition of the circuit system; and creating a first part of the power distribution network according to at least the positions of the power source nodes.
US08742614B2
The invention is a power generator using intermittent fluid flow. The invention facilitates the harnessing of electric power from intermittent wind sources. The apparatus includes panels that are pivotally attached to a frame at a substantially horizontal orientation or are at an acute angle to the horizontal. As wind blows, the panels lift upward relative to the horizontal. Alternatively, the panels may be vertical and attached to an inclined track where the panels move up the track as the wind blows. This motion is transferred to a permanent magnet alternator either via the rotation of a shaft at the pivot point or via a connector rod attached to a leading edge of the panel. The motion may also be transferred by actuating a hydraulic cylinder. This motion pressurizes the cylinder and the pressurized hydraulic fluid may later be transferred into electric power via a hydraulic generator.
US08742612B1
In one embodiment, a turbine includes a first shaft rotatable in a first direction and a second shaft rotatable in a second direction; the second direction is generally opposite the first direction. A first propeller is coupled to the first shaft for rotating the first shaft in the first direction, and a second propeller is coupled to the second shaft for rotating the second shaft in the second direction. An armature is operatively coupled to the first shaft for rotation with the first shaft, and a field component is operatively coupled to the second shaft for rotation with the second shaft.
US08742609B2
A method for operating a wind turbine facility during for example a grid fault, the wind turbine facility comprising a power dissipation/storage being adapted to dissipate or store electrical energy exceeding an amount to be delivered to an associated power supply grid during the grid fault. The method includes operating the wind turbine facility in accordance with an allowed amount of electrical energy that can be dissipated or stored in the power dissipation/storage of the wind turbine facility by ensuring that a total amount of electrical energy generated by the wind turbine facility does not exceed a sum of the allowed amount and the amount to be delivered to the power supply grid.
US08742607B2
A system for generation of power using an apparatus in deep water is disclosed. The system includes a ballast buoy configured to achieve a desired depth in the deep water, a substantially vertical hollow tube attached to the ballast buoy that is submerged under water when the ballast buoy achieves the desired depth in the deep water, and a converter for converting the physical environment created in the substantially vertical hollow tube by placement of the ballast buoy at the desired depth in the deep water.
US08742592B2
According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a silicon oxide film on a semiconductor substrate; forming a via in the silicon oxide film; forming a contact layer inside the via; forming a silicon layer on the contact layer; and forming a tungsten film embedded in the via by making a tungsten-containing gas react with the silicon layer.
US08742588B2
The present invention provides a method of forming a via hole (9), or a via (7), from a lower side (5) of a substrate (3) for electronic devices towards an upper side (4) of a substrate (3) at least partly through the substrate (3). The method comprises the steps of: etching a first lengthwise portion (11) of the via hole (9) and etching a second lengthwise portion (12) of the via hole (9); whereby the first lengthwise portion (11) and the second lengthwise portion (12) substantially form the via hole (9) and a constriction (23) is formed in the via hole (9). The constriction (23) defines an aperture (24) of the via hole (9) and the method further comprises the step of opening the via hole (9) by etching, with the constriction (23) functioning as an etch mask. A via is formed by at least partly filling the via hole with conductive material. A substrate for electronic devices comprising a via is also provided.
US08742585B2
A semiconductor device with a connection pad in a substrate, the connection pad having an exposed surface made of a metallic material that diffuses less readily into a dielectric layer than does a metal of a wiring layer connected thereto.
US08742567B2
A circuit board structure at least includes a patterned solder mask, a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern adjacent to the first conductive pattern and in direct contact with the patterned solder mask and a passivation respectively covering the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern.
US08742564B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a chip package which includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a conducting pad structure located on the first surface; a dielectric layer located on the first surface of the substrate and the conducting pad structure, wherein the dielectric layer has an opening exposing a portion of the conducting pad structure; and a cap layer located on the dielectric layer and filled into the opening.
US08742561B2
Methods of forming a microelectronic packaging structure and associated structures formed thereby are described. Those methods may include forming a cavity in a plating material to hold a die, attaching the die in the cavity, forming a dielectric material adjacent the die, forming vias in the dielectric material adjacent the die, forming PoP lands in the vias, forming interconnects in the vias, and then removing the plating material to expose the PoP lands and die, wherein the die is disposed above the PoP lands.
US08742557B2
One method of the present invention includes preparing a die with traces and pads as desired for the intended use of the die. A MEMS device is mounted to the die. The die is then mounted to a substrate of the same material as the die. The substrate is then mounted to a package. The die and/or the substrate may be flip-chip mounted.
US08742553B2
A printed wiring board includes a core substrate, a first buildup layer laminated on a first surface of the core substrate and including the outermost interlayer resin insulation layer and the outermost conductive layer formed on the outermost interlayer resin insulation layer of the first buildup layer, and a second buildup layer laminated on a second surface of the core substrate and including the outermost interlayer resin insulation layer and the outermost conductive layer formed on the outermost interlayer resin insulation layer of the second buildup layer. The outermost conductive layer of the first buildup layer includes pads positioned to mount a semiconductor device on a surface of the first buildup layer, and the outermost interlayer resin insulation layer of the first buildup layer has a thermal expansion coefficient which is set lower than a thermal expansion coefficient of the outermost interlayer resin insulation layer of the second buildup layer.
US08742551B2
A semiconductor package including: a lead frame including a chip attachment unit and a lead unit; a semiconductor chip that is mounted on the chip attachment unit of the lead frame; a wire that electrically connects the semiconductor chip to the lead unit; an insulation layer formed in the lead frame under the chip attachment unit; and an encapsulant that seals an upper portion of the lead frame, the semiconductor chip, and the wire, wherein the lead unit does not protrude to the outside of the encapsulant.
US08742544B2
A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer covering the oxide semiconductor layer, the source electrode, and the drain electrode, and a gate electrode over the gate insulating layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode include an oxide region formed by oxidizing a side surface thereof. Note that the oxide region of the source electrode and the drain electrode is preferably formed by plasma treatment with a high frequency power of 300 MHz to 300 GHz and a mixed gas of oxygen and argon.
US08742542B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device having low depletion ratio capacitor comprising: forming hemispherical grains (HSG) on a poly-silicon; doping the hemispherical grained polysilicon in a phosphine gas; and rapid thermal oxidizing the doped hemispherical grained polysilicon at 850° C. for 10 seconds. The method further comprises nitridizing the rapid thermal oxidized hemispherical-grained polysilicon and depositing a alumina film on the silicon nitride layer. A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a low depletion ratio capacitor according to the disclosed manufacturing method is provided.
US08742535B2
A method of manufacturing an IC, comprising providing a substrate having a first side and a second opposite side, forming a STI opening in the first side of the substrate and forming a partial TSV opening in the first side of the substrate and extending the partial TSV opening. The extended partial TSV opening is deeper into the substrate than the STI opening. The method also comprises filling the STI opening with a first solid material and filling the extended partial TSV opening with a second solid material. Neither the STI opening, the partial TSV opening, nor the extended partial TSV opening penetrate an outer surface of the second side of the substrate. At least either: the STI opening and the partial TSV opening are formed simultaneously, or, the STI opening and the extended partial TSV opening are filled simultaneously.
US08742532B2
Silicon wafer processing system, apparatus and method of doping silicon wafers with hot concentrated acid dopant compositions for forming p-n junction and back contact layers during processing into PV solar cells. Highly concentrated acid dopant is atomized with pressurized gas and heated in the range of 80-200° C., then introduced into a concentrated acid vapor processing chamber to apply vapor over 1.5-6 min to wafers moving horizontally on a multi-lane conveyor system through the processing chamber. The wafers are dried and forwarded to a diffusion furnace. An optional UV pre-treatment assembly pre-conditions the wafers with UV radiation prior to dopant application, and doped wafers may be post-treated in a UV treatment module before being fired. The wafers may be cooled in the processing chamber. Post-firing, the wafers exhibit excellent sheet resistance in the 60-95Ω/sq range, and are highly uniform across the wafers and wafer-to-wafer.
US08742528B2
A photodiode array PDA1 is provided with a substrate S wherein a plurality of photodetecting channels CH have an n-type semiconductor layer 32. The photodiode array PDA1 is provided with a p− type semiconductor layer 33 formed on the n-type semiconductor layer 32, resistors 24 provided for the respective photodetecting channels CH and each having one end portion connected to a signal conducting wire 23, and an n-type separating portion 40 formed between the plurality of photodetecting channels CH. The p− type semiconductor layer 33 forms pn junctions at an interface to the n-type semiconductor layer 32 and has a plurality of multiplication regions AM for avalanche multiplication of carriers generated with incidence of detection target light, corresponding to the respective photodetecting channels. An irregular asperity 10 is formed in a surface of the n-type semiconductor layer 32 and the surface is optically exposed.
US08742525B2
A solid-state imaging device includes pixels each having a photoelectric conversion element for converting incident light to an electric signal, color filters associated with the pixels and having a plurality of color filter components, microlenses converging the incident light through the color filters to the photoelectric conversion elements, a light shielding film disposed between the color filter components of the color filters, and a nonplanarized adhesive film provided between the color filters and the light shielding film.
US08742516B2
A high frequency-MEMS switch with a bendable switching element, whose one end is placed on a high resistivity substrate provided with an insulator, furthermore with a contact electrode to supply charge carriers to the substrate, wherein an electrical field can be produced to create an electrostatic bending force on the switching element between the switching element and the substrate, wherein at least one implantation zone is formed in the substrate, essentially directly beneath the insulator, the implantation zone is contacted with the contact electrode, which is located above the insulator, through an opening in the insulator, and also has ohmic contact with the substrate.
US08742513B2
In a semiconductor device comprising sophisticated high-k metal gate structures formed in accordance with a replacement gate approach, semiconductor-based resistors may be formed above isolation structures substantially without being influenced by the replacement gate approach. Consequently, enhanced area efficiency may be achieved compared to conventional strategies, in which the resistive structures may have to be provided on the basis of a gate electrode metal, while, nevertheless, a low parasitic capacitance may be accomplished due to providing the resistive structures above the isolation structure.
US08742502B2
A method and apparatus for use in improving linearity sensitivity of MOSFET devices having an accumulated charge sink (ACS) are disclosed. The method and apparatus are adapted to address degradation in second- and third-order intermodulation harmonic distortion at a desired range of operating voltage in devices employing an accumulated charge sink.
US08742494B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a groove and an active region adjacent to the groove; a buried gate electrode in the groove; and a capacitor contact including a first portion and a second portion over the first portion. The first portion is greater in horizontal dimension than the second portion. The first portion has a bottom surface that is in contact with an upper surface of the active region.
US08742487B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first insulation layer formed on the semiconductor substrate, a charge storage layer formed on the first insulation layer, a second insulation layer formed on the charge storage layer and including a first high dielectric insulating film which has a higher relative permittivity than a silicon nitride film and a second high dielectric insulating film which has a higher relative permittivity than a silicon nitride film, the first and second high dielectric insulating films being structured so that a silicon oxide film is interposed between them, a control electrode formed on the second insulation layer, a first portion formed between the charge storage layer and the second insulation layer and containing silicon and nitrogen, and a second portion containing silicon and oxygen and located between the charge storage layer and the second insulation layer.
US08742479B2
A transistor is formed on a semiconductor substrate, and thereafter a first insulating film is formed. Subsequently, a ferroelectric capacitor is formed on the first insulating film, and then a second insulating film is formed on the ferroelectric capacitor. Thereafter, the upper surface of the second insulating film is planarized. Subsequently, a contact hole which reaches one of impurity regions of the transistor is formed, and thus a plug is formed by embedding a conductor in the contact hole. Thereafter, a hydrogen barrier layer is formed of aluminum oxide or the like. Then, a third insulating film is formed on the hydrogen barrier layer. Subsequently, contact holes which are connected to the ferroelectric capacitor and the plug are formed. Thereafter, a conductor is embedded in the contact holes, and thus interconnections are formed.
US08742474B2
A power semiconductor device of the present invention has an active region and an electric field reduction region and includes: an emitter region of a first conductivity type; a base region of a second conductivity type in contact with the emitter region; an electrical strength providing region of the first conductivity type in contact with the base region; a collector region of the second conductivity type in contact with the electrical strength providing region; and a collector electrode in contact with the collector region; wherein the collector region is disposed on both a active region and a electric field reduction region each containing a dopant of the second conductivity type, and the collector region disposed on the electric field reduction region includes a region having a lower density of carriers of the second conductivity type than the collector region disposed on the active region.
US08742473B2
Semiconductor devices are provided including a gate across an active region of a substrate; a source region and a drain region in the active region on either side of the gate and spaced apart from each other; a main channel impurity region in the active region between the source and drain regions and having a first channel impurity concentration; and a lightly doped channel impurity region in the active region adjacent to the drain region. The lightly doped channel impurity region has the same conductivity type as the main channel impurity region and a second channel impurity concentration, lower than the first channel impurity concentration. The lightly doped channel impurity region and the main channel impurity region contain a first element. The lightly doped channel impurity region also contains a second element, which is a different Group element from the first element.
US08742472B2
Methods and apparatus relating to very large scale FET arrays for analyte measurements. ChemFET (e.g., ISFET) arrays may be fabricated using conventional CMOS processing techniques based on improved FET pixel and array designs that increase measurement sensitivity and accuracy, and at the same time facilitate significantly small pixel sizes and dense arrays. Improved array control techniques provide for rapid data acquisition from large and dense arrays. Such arrays may be employed to detect a presence and/or concentration changes of various analyte types in a wide variety of chemical and/or biological processes. In one example, chemFET arrays facilitate DNA sequencing techniques based on monitoring changes in hydrogen ion concentration (pH), changes in other analyte concentration, and/or binding events associated with chemical processes relating to DNA synthesis.
US08742469B2
Methods and apparatus relating to FET arrays for monitoring chemical and/or biological reactions such as nucleic acid sequencing-by-synthesis reactions. Some methods provided herein relate to improving signal (and also signal to noise ratio) from released hydrogen ions during nucleic acid sequencing reactions.
US08742465B2
A method of cutting an electrical fuse including a first conductor and a second conductor, the first conductor including a first cutting target region, the second conductor branched from the first conductor and connected to the first conductor and including a second cutting target region, which are formed on a semiconductor substrate, the method includes flowing a current in the first conductor, causing material of the first conductor to flow outward near a coupling portion connecting the first conductor to the second conductor, and cutting the first cutting target region and the second cutting target region.
US08742458B2
A semiconductor device according to an exemplary embodiment comprises a substrate, a middle layer comprising a first semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate and comprising AlxGa1-xN (0≦x≦1) doped with a first dopant and a second semiconductor layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer and comprising undoped gallium nitride (GaN) and a drive unit disposed on the second semiconductor layer.
US08742453B2
A hybrid transistor device is provided. In one example case, the device includes a substrate, an oxide layer formed on the substrate, and a wide-bandgap body material formed between a portion of the oxide layer and a gate dielectric layer. The wide-bandgap body material has an energy bandgap higher than that of silicon. The device includes source-drain/emitter material formed on the oxide layer adjacent to the wide-bandgap body material so as to define a hetero-structure interface where the source-drain/emitter material contacts the wide-bandgap body material. The device includes a gate material formed over the gate dielectric layer, a base material formed over a portion of the source-drain/emitter material, and a collector material formed over a portion of the base material. The source-drain/emitter material is shared so as to electrically combine a drain of a first transistor type portion of the device and an emitter of a second transistor type portion.
US08742451B2
A field-effect transistor involves a drain electrode, a drift region, a body region, a source region, a gate insulator layer, and a gate electrode. The drift region is disposed above the drain electrode. The body region extends down into the drift region from a first upper semiconductor surface. The source region is ladder-shaped and extends down in the body region from a second upper semiconductor surface. The first and second upper semiconductor surfaces are substantially planar and are not coplanar. A first portion of the body region is surrounded laterally by a second portion of the body region. The second portion of the body region and the drift region meet at a body-to-drift boundary. The body-to-drift boundary has a central portion that is non-planar. A gate insulator layer is disposed over the source region and a gate electrode is disposed over the gate insulator.
US08742441B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) device is provided. The LED device has a substrate and an LED structure overlying the substrate. Embedded elements are embedded within one or more layers of the LED structure. In an embodiment, the embedded elements include a dielectric material extending through the LED structure such that the embedded elements are surrounded by the LED structure. In another embodiment, the embedded elements only extend through an upper layer of the LED structure, or alternatively, partially through the upper layer of the LED structure. Another conductive layer may be formed over the upper layer of the LED structure and the embedded elements.
US08742435B2
The LED lighting device in this invention comprises a light source, a first face sheet, and a reflection sheet. The light source comprises a plurality of LED chips which are configured to emit lights having wavelengths which are different from each other. The first face sheet has a rear surface. The rear surface is defined as a diffusing and reflecting surface which is being configured to diffuse and reflect the lights which are emitted from the LED chips. The first face sheet is provided with a plurality of apertures. The reflection sheet has a second reflecting surface. The second reflecting surface is configured to reflect the light which is reflected from the diffusing and reflecting surface of the first face sheet toward the first face sheet. Each the aperture is shaped to pass the light which is reflected from the second reflecting surface. Each the aperture is configured to prevent the light which is directly emitted by the light from being passed through the aperture without being subjected to any reflection.
US08742432B2
The invention provides a metal substrate and a light source device ensuring that a semiconductor chip working as a light source can be firmly joined by using a metal joining material, such that heat generated in the mounted semiconductor chip can be efficiently dissipated through a metal plate. The metal substrate includes a heat dissipating metal plate made of a metal except for Au, an insulating resin-made white film stacked on a part of the heat dissipating metal plate, and a light source mounting surface-forming layer stacked on another part of the heat dissipating metal plate. The metal substrate is such that the light source mounting surface-forming layer is a metal layer directly contacting the heat dissipating metal plate, and the light source mounting surface is a surface of an Au layer which is the outermost layer of the light source mounting surface-forming layer.
US08742430B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an organic light emitting element where light emitted from the light emitting layer is efficiently emitted to the outside, and thus, the efficiency of light emission is higher. The present invention provides an organic light emitting element where a first reflective electrode 22, an electron transport layer 23, a light emitting layer 24, a hole transport layer 25, a hole injection layer 26 and a second transparent electrode 27 are formed on a glass substrate 21, and a light extraction layer 28 having an average index of refraction of 1.4 made of titanium particles having an index of refraction of 2.6 and an average particle diameter of 150 nm and silica sol.
US08742427B2
A semiconductor element according to the present invention can perform both a transistor operation and a diode operation via its channel layer. If the potential Vgs of its gate electrode 165 with respect to that of its source electrode 150 is 0 volts, then a depletion layer with a thickness Dc, which has been depleted entirely in the thickness direction, is formed in at least a part of the channel layer 150 due to the presence of a pn junction between a portion of its body region 130 and the channel layer 150, and another depletion layer that has a thickness Db as measured from the junction surface of the pn junction is formed in that portion of the body region 130. If the dielectric constant of the wide bandgap semiconductor is identified by ∈s, the dielectric constant and the thickness of the insulating film 160 are identified by ∈i and Di, respectively, the sum of Dc and Db is identified by Ds, and the absolute value of the turn-on voltage of the diode is identified by Vf0, then Ds
US08742419B2
A display unit with which lowering of long-term reliability of a transistor is decreased is provided. The display unit includes a display section having a plurality of organic EL devices with light emitting color different from each other and a plurality of pixel circuits that are singly provided for every said organic EL device for every pixel. The pixel circuit has a first transistor for writing a video signal, a second transistor for driving the organic EL device based on the video signal written by the first transistor, and a retentive capacity, and out of the first transistor and the second transistor, a third transistor provided correspondingly to a second organic EL device adjacent to a first organic EL device is arranged farther from the first organic EL device than a first retentive capacity provided correspondingly to the second organic EL device out of the retentive capacity.
US08742418B2
A thin film transistor comprising: a substrate; a gate electrode on the substrate; a gate insulation film on the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor layer on the gate insulation film; a channel protection film on the oxide semiconductor layer; source and drain electrodes on the channel protection film; and a passivation film on the source and drain electrodes, wherein, (a) each of the gate insulation film, and passivation film comprises a laminated structure and includes a first layer made of aluminum oxide and a second layer made of an insulation material including silicon, and (b) the passivation film covers edges of the oxide semiconductor layer. The transistor is capable of suppressing desorption of oxygen and from the oxide semiconductor layer and reducing the time for film formation thereof.
US08742416B2
A display panel includes: gate lines disposed on a first substrate; signal lines extending across the gate lines and including portions, other than portions thereof that extend across the gate lines, disposed on the same surface as the gate lines, the portions that extend across the gate lines being disposed in positions facing the gate lines with an insulating film interposed therebetween; transistors having gate electrodes connected to the gate lines, source electrodes connected to the signal lines and disposed on the insulating film, and drain electrodes disposed on the insulating film; pixel electrodes connected to the drain electrode and disposed on the insulating film; a protective film covering the transistors and the pixel electrodes; and a common electrode disposed on the protective film.
US08742414B2
Provided are a composition for an oxide thin film, a preparation method of the composition, a method for forming an oxide thin film using the composition, an electronic device including the oxide thin film, and a semiconductor device including the oxide thin film. The composition for the oxide thin film includes a metal precursor and nitric acid-based stabilizer. The metal precursor includes at least one of a metal nitrate, a metal nitride, and hydrates thereof.
US08742413B2
In a photosensor and a method of manufacturing the same, the photosensor comprises: an intrinsic silicon layer formed on a substrate; a P-type doped region formed in a same plane with the intrinsic silicon layer; and an oxide semiconductor layer formed on or under the intrinsic silicon layer, and overlapping an entire region of the intrinsic silicon layer.
US08742408B2
An OLED device is discussed which includes: a drive thin film transistor formed on a substrate; an organic light emitting diode configured with first electrode, a light emission layer and a second electrode which are sequentially formed on the substrate provided with the drive thin film transistor; a barrier film disposed on the substrate with the organic light emitting element and configure to include a retardation film, an optically isotropic film and a thin layer interposed between the retardation film and the optically isotropic film; and a polarizing plate disposed on the barrier film and configured to prevent reflection of external light.
US08742399B2
A quantum dot, which is an ultrafine grain, has a core-shell structure having a core portion and a shell portion protecting the core portion. The surface of the shell portion is covered with two kinds of surfactants, a hole-transporting surfactant and an electron-transporting surfactant, which are concurrently present. Moreover, the hole-transporting surfactant has a HOMO level which tunneling-resonates with the valence band of the quantum dot and the electron-transporting surfactant has a LUMO level which tunneling-resonates with the transfer band of the quantum dot. Thus, a nanograin material which has good carrier transport efficiency and is suitable for use in a photoelectric conversion device is achieved.
US08742390B1
A memory cell and method including a first electrode conformally formed through a first opening in a first dielectric layer, a resistive layer conformally formed on the first electrode, a second electrode conformally formed on the resistive layer, and a second dielectric layer conformally formed on the second electrode, the second dielectric layer including a second opening. The first dielectric layer is formed on a substrate including a first metal layer. The first electrode and the resistive layer collectively include a first lip region that extends a first distance beyond a region defined by the first opening. The second electrode and the second dielectric layer collectively include a second lip region that extends a second distance beyond the region defined by the first opening. The second electrode is coupled to a second metal layer using a via that extends through the second opening.
US08742386B2
Methods, devices, and systems associated with oxide based memory can include a method of forming an oxide based memory cell. Forming an oxide based memory cell can include forming a first conductive element, forming a substoichiometric oxide over the first conductive element, forming a second conductive element over the substoichiometric oxide, and oxidizing edges of the substoichiometric oxide by subjecting the substoichiometric oxide to an oxidizing environment to define a controlled oxygen vacancy conduction path near a center of the oxide.
US08742385B2
Paper and continuous web scanners operate at varying and high temperature conditions that cause distortion of the support beams and ultimately misalignment of the scanner heads. Circulating a heat transfer fluid between the support beams and through segmented fluid channels within the beam allows tuning of the beam's deflection when operating in an uneven thermal environment. The heat transfer rate can be modulated through various techniques, including: (1) varying the flow rate through each channel under manual or automatic control, (2) controlling the inlet fluid temperature of each channel with fluid immersion heaters or coolers, and (3) setting up the flow sequence via distribution channels that are, for example, in parallel, serial, or mixed.
US08742383B2
The present invention relates to the protection of medical patients and personnel from harmful radiation. More specifically, this invention provides a compact, light-weight article to be worn in areas of the body most sensitive to radiation. These include, for example, the pelvic area, the genital and gonad areas, the breast area to guard against radiation to the mammary gland, the neck and throat to protect the thyroid gland, the eye area to protect the crystalline lens.
US08742378B2
A target supply unit may include: a reservoir for storing a target material; a heater provided inside the reservoir for heating the target material stored in the reservoir; a heater power supply for supplying current to the heater; and a target outlet for outputting the target material stored inside the reservoir.
US08742374B2
A hybrid ion implantation apparatus that is equipped with shaping masks that shape the two edges of a ribbon-like ion beam IB in the short-side direction, a profiler that measures the current distribution in the long-side direction of the ion beam IB shaped by the shaping masks, and an electron beam supply unit that supplies an electron beam EB across the entire region in the long-side direction of the ion beam IB prior to its shaping by the shaping masks, wherein the electron beam supply unit varies the supply dose of the electron beam EB at each location in the long-side direction of the ion beam IB according to results of measurements by the profiler.
US08742373B2
A plasma is formed from one or more gases in a plasma chamber using at least a first power and a second power. A first ion species is generated at said first power and a second ion species is generated at said second power. In one embodiment, the first ion species and second ion species are implanted into a workpiece at two different energies using at least a first bias voltage and a second bias voltage. This may enable implantation to two different depths. These ion species may be atomic ions or molecular ions. The molecular ions may be larger than the gases used to form the plasma.
US08742369B2
Value documents or other articles having authentication features, authentication apparatuses, and methods of authentication are provided that relate to the use of taggants that absorb radiation from an illumination source and emit radiation in a manner that has a maximum intensity occurring a duration of time after the illumination source has been switched off. The taggants include a crystalline composition comprising a host crystal lattice doped with a first rare earth active ion, and in some examples a second rare earth active ion.
US08742365B2
According to one embodiment, an ultraviolet water treatment apparatus includes an ultraviolet lamp unit provided with a first plumbing flange coupling on each of both ends thereof, and further provided therein with an ultraviolet irradiation tube including an ultraviolet lamp and a lamp protective tube configured to protect the ultraviolet lamp, and a cleaning device drive unit provided with a second plumbing flange coupling on each of both ends thereof and configured to drive a cleaning device configured to clean a surface of the lamp protective tube. The ultraviolet lamp unit and the cleaning device drive unit are coupled with each other on the first and second plumbing flange couplings.
US08742335B2
In one embodiment, the present invention relates generally to a rotator sample introduction interface. In one embodiment, the rotary interface for collecting an analyte includes a valve body, a rotor coupled to the valve body and a stator coupled to the rotor. In one embodiment, the rotor is channel-free and the stator includes a first channel and a second channel, wherein the first channel comprises an inlet for receiving a liquid and an outlet for expelling the liquid, wherein a carrier gas is provided via an inlet of the second channel and an outlet of the second channel is coupled to an analyzer.
US08742331B2
Imidazolium-based dicationic liquid salts and methods of using such imidazolium-based dicationic liquid salts in techniques such as ESI-MS are provided.
US08742329B2
This invention relates to nondestructive control, more specifically, to the detection of cracks, flaws and other defects in oil and gas wells and cementing quality control.
US08742324B2
An imaging device support structure includes a master flange having an opening portion through which an optical axis A passes, an imaging device which is attached to the master flange via the attachment plate and is positioned in the opening portion as viewed in an optical axis A direction, and a shielding member which shields a gap between the master flange and the imaging device in the opening portion. The shielding member is pressed against the opening edge of the first opening portion. The opening edge of the first opening portion has a substantially polygonal shape with corner portions which outwardly protrude.
US08742321B2
An origin location detection circuit in an encoder. The encoder includes a scale on which an origin pattern indicating an origin is provided and a detection head relatively displaceable with respect to the scale. The origin location detection circuit includes a comparator for generating an origin signal indicating a location of the origin from an output voltage signal, which is output from a detector of the detection head and has been affected by involvement of the origin pattern; a DC voltage detection circuit smoothing the output voltage signal; and a differential amplifier circuit performing differential amplification of the output voltage signal and a DC voltage signal output from the DC voltage detection circuit. A differential amplifier signal of the differential amplifier circuit is input to the comparator.
US08742319B2
Embodiments of an inspection system comprise a conduit that can transmit light between a sensor and a processing component. In one embodiment, the sensor comprises an element that generates an electromagnetic field in response to an input from the processing component. The input comprises a light signal that traverses the conduit to the sensor. The sensor converts the light signal to an electrical signal to operate the element. In one example, the sensor generates a plurality of light signals, which also traverse the conduit to the diagnostic component where the lights signals are processed to determine, in one example, proximity of an object to the sensor.
US08742317B2
A visible light receiver circuit, which reduces the influence of ambient light, has a simple configuration, and generates low noise, is provided. The visible light receiver circuit includes a photoelectric conversion unit. The photoelectric conversion unit includes a photodiode having a cathode connected to a power source, a resistor connected in series to an anode of the photodiode, and a nonlinear resistive circuit connected in parallel to the resistor. The nonlinear resistive circuit includes, for example, a series circuit including a Zener diode and a resistor.
US08742315B2
A system is provided that includes: a sensor device adapted to selectively monitor a plurality of sensors, wherein the sensor device includes a wireless transceiver within the sensor device adapted to transmit measurement information from the selected sensor; and a receiver indicator device adapted to wirelessly receive the measurement information from the sensor device, and provide an indication based on the measurement information to a user operating the receiver indicator device.
US08742305B2
Methods and apparatuses for thermally treating flowable materials using electromagnetic radiation, and foods and materials obtained thereby. Also provided are methods of continuous flow thermal treatment of biomaterials, apparatuses for performing the same, and products prepared using the methods and/or apparatuses.
US08742301B2
A heater apparatus includes: a heater unit including a heater resistor; a first switching unit disposed on a downstream side of the heater resistor for on/off controlling a power supply path from a supply voltage; a second switching unit disposed on an upstream side of the heater resistor for on/off controlling the power supply path from the supply voltage; and a controller outputting first and second control signals for on/off controlling the first and second switching units, respectively. The first switching unit is switched on when the first control signal is high, and the second switching unit is switched on when the second control signal is low. The heater unit is switched on when the sensor temperature is equal to or lower than a first threshold, and is switched off when the sensor temperature is equal to or higher than a second threshold.
US08742299B2
A method for heating a container (Ri) placed on a cooktop including heating elements which are associated respectively with inductors which form elements for detecting the presence of the container and are distributed along a frame which is embodied such that it is two-dimensional in a cooking area. The method includes searching (E20) a heating area (Zi) having the heating elements arrangement which are at least partially covered by the container and computing (E60) a power supplied by each heating element of the heating area (Zi) according to a total specified power (Pi) associated thereto and the degree of coverage of each detection element associated to heating element by the container (Ri). Utilization, in particular, is for an inductive cooktop.
US08742297B2
The bottle warming device of the present invention includes a housing, a heating element disposed in the housing, and a basket receivable in the housing. The basket is movable between a first position in which a bottom of the basket is positioned a first distance from a top of the housing, and a second position in which the bottom of the basket is positioned a second distance from the top of the housing, the first distance being greater than the second distance.
US08742292B2
A robot controller that controls a tandem arc welding system according to the present invention includes a leading-electrode correcting section that calculates a leading-electrode correction amount, used for correcting a displacement in a left-right direction and an up-down direction, from a leading-electrode changing amount calculated by a leading-electrode processing section; a leading-electrode correcting section that calculates a trailed-electrode correction amount, used for correcting a displacement in a rotational direction, from a trailed-electrode changing amount calculated by a trailed-electrode processing section; a rotational-displacement correction controlling processing section that calculates a rotational-center correction amount for correcting the displacement of the leading electrode; and a robot trajectory planning processing section that corrects a teaching position and a position of a rotational center of a welding torch during tracking correction. By such a structure, even if arc tracking is carried out at any rotational center, displacement of the leading electrode does not occur, so that defective welding does not occur.
US08742289B2
In order to separate a material layer from a substrate at the boundary face between the substrate and the material layer, a laser light is applied to a workpiece from the substrate side through a mask, the work having the material layer formed on the substrate. The laser beam is split into a plurality of small area laser light by the mask 44, and two or more irradiation regions are formed on the workpiece. Adjacent irradiation regions are separated from each other, and an edge part of each irradiation region and an edge part of an adjacent irradiation region, which extend in a direction parallel to the relative moving direction of the workpiece, are arranged such that the edge of the irradiation region and the edge of the adjacent irradiation region are sequentially overlapped each other as the work is moved.
US08742282B2
A plasma gun with two gap electrodes on opposite ends of a chamber of ablative material such as an ablative polymer. The gun ejects an ablative plasma at supersonic speed. A divergent nozzle spreads the plasma jet to fill a gap between electrodes of a main arc device, such as an arc crowbar or a high voltage power switch. The plasma triggers the main arc device by lowering the impedance of the main arc gap via the ablative plasma to provide a conductive path between the main electrodes. This provides faster triggering and requires less trigger energy than previous arc triggers. It also provides a more conductive initial main arc than previously possible. The initial properties of the main arc are controllable by the plasma properties, which are in turn controllable by design parameters of the ablative plasma gun.
US08742277B2
The present invention relates to a method for separating mineral impurities from calcium carbonate-containing rocks by comminuting the calcium carbonate-containing rocks to a particle size in the range of from 1 mm to 250 mm, separating the calcium carbonate particles by means of a dual energy X-ray transmission sorting device.
US08742255B2
A housing assembly to enclose an electrical subassembly includes a housing formed from a conductive polymer. The housing has a cavity sized to receive an electronic sub-assembly therein. A conductive boss is insert-molded into the housing in conductive contact with the housing. A conductive bracket is fastened to the boss in conductive connection with the boss and the housing to support and electrically ground the housing.
US08742251B2
The invention provides a photovoltaic power converter that includes a plurality of spatially separated device segments supported by a substrate, wherein the device segments are arranged in a circular pattern wherein a first group of the device segments consisting of one or more of the device segments is centrally positioned and is surrounded by a second group of the device segments comprising at least two device segments and wherein two or more of the plurality of the device segments are connected in series for developing a voltage when radiation of selected wavelengths is incident on the device.
US08742230B1
A novel maize variety designated PH12JZ and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH12JZ with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH12JZ through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH12JZ or a locus conversion of PH12JZ with another maize variety.
US08742228B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH095686. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH095686, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH095686 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH095686.
US08742225B2
The cotton variety ST 5288B2F is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 5288B2F with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ST 5288B2F and to plants of ST 5288B2F reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ST 5288B2F.
US08742223B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1035813. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1035813. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1035813 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1035813 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08742207B2
The present invention relates to a plant, which is resistant to a pathogen of viral, bacterial, fungal or oomycete origin, wherein the plant has a reduced level, reduced activity or complete absence of DMR6 protein as compared to a plant that is not resistant to the said pathogen, in particular organisms of the Fungi or the phylum Oomycota. The invention further relates to a method for obtaining a plant, which is resistant to a pathogen of viral, bacterial, fungal or oomycete origin, comprising reducing the endogenous level or activity of DMR6 protein in the plant. In addition, the invention relates to the use of a DMR6 promotor for providing disease resistant plants.
US08742202B2
Methods for the transformation of sugar cane are provided. The methods comprise utilizing sugar cane immature shoots as the source of plant material for transformation. Segments of the immature shoot are excised and transformed by any suitable transformation methodology. In some embodiments, the segments are cultured in embryogenic culture induction medium prior to transformation. Transformation can be performed via Agrobacterium-mediated gene delivery, biolistic transformation, and the like. Transgenic plants are regenerated from plantlets grown under conditions favoring growth of transformed cells while substantially inhibiting growth of non-transformed cells.
US08742200B2
This present invention provides novel methods for deriving embryonic stem cells and embryo-derived cells from an embryo without requiring destruction of the embryo. The invention further provides cells and cell lines derived without embryo destruction, and the use of the cells for therapeutic and research purposes. It also relates to novel methods of establishing and storing an autologous stem cell line prior to implantation of an embryo, e.g., in conjunction with reproductive therapies such as IVF.
US08742195B2
The present disclosure describes solid waste forms and methods of processing waste. In one particular implementation, the invention provides a method of processing waste that may be particularly suitable for processing hazardous waste. In this method, a waste component is combined with an aluminum oxide and an acidic phosphate component in a slurry. A molar ratio of aluminum to phosphorus in the slurry is greater than one. Water in the slurry may be evaporated while mixing the slurry at a temperature of about 140-200° C. The mixed slurry may be allowed to cure into a solid waste form. This solid waste form includes an anhydrous aluminum phosphate with at least a residual portion of the waste component bound therein.
US08742192B2
The conversion and run length for oligomerization of olefins over a molecular sieve catalyst in a tubular reactor is improved by controlling the peak temperature to not exceed 50 degrees C. above the temperature of the temperature control fluid exiting the shell side outlet of the reactor. A tubular reactor containing molecular sieve catalyst is provided with a multipoint thermocouple in at least one tube, and optionally with a bottom design adapted for fast unloading of the molecular sieve catalyst from the tubular reactor.
US08742184B2
Process for hydrogenating a carboxylic acid or derivative thereof by feeding a carboxylic acid or derivative thereof and hydrogen to a reactor, maintaining conditions therein such that hydrogen reacts with the carboxylic acid and/or derivative thereof to form a product stream including one or more hydrocarbons and one or more oxides of carbon and feeding the product stream to a flash separator. A vapor fraction including the one or more oxides of carbon is separated from a liquid fraction having the one or more hydrocarbons. The concentration of carbon oxides in the flash separator is at or below a predetermined value.
US08742182B2
Process for operating a distillation column for the removal of water and lower-boiling components than 1,2-dichloroethane from 1,2-dichloroethane in which at least part of the heat from condensation of the aqueous vapors from the distillation column is used to concentrate caustic soda solution by evaporation; furthermore, at least part of the 1,2-dichloroethane formed when chlorine and ethylene react in a direct chlorination unit is used to heat said distillation column and can subsequently also be used as a heat transfer fluid to concentrate caustic soda solution by evaporation.
US08742174B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing ethanolamines by reacting glycolaldehyde with monoethanolamine and/or diethanolamine in the presence of a catalyst.
US08742171B2
A process for preparing formic acid by hydrogenation of carbon dioxide in the presence of a tertiary amine (I) and a catalyst at a pressure of from 0.2 to 30 MPa abs and a temperature of from 20 to 200° C., wherein the catalyst is a heterogeneous catalyst comprising gold.
US08742159B2
To provide a fluorinated compound having an RF group with at most 6 carbon atoms, whereby a fluorinated polymer having a highly durable water/oil repellency can be produced, and an environmental load is little, and a fluorinated polymer having a highly durable water/oil repellency and presenting little environmental load, obtainable by polymerizing such a fluorinated compound. A fluorinated compound represented by the following formula (I) and its polymer: CH2═C(M)COOXPhCOO(CH2)mCrF2r+1 (I) (in the formula (I), M is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or a halogen atom, X is CHR1CH2O or CH2CHR1O, R1 is a C1-4 linear or branched alkyl group or CH2OR2, R2 is a C1-4 linear or branched alkyl group, Ph is a phenylene group, m is an integer of from 1 to 4, and r is an integer of from 1 to 6).
US08742150B2
Castor oil fatty acid based estolide esters and their derivatives as potential lubricant base stocks
Castor oil was hydrolysed to castor fatty acids and self condensed to get a ricinoleic acid-based estolide of about 95 acid value. The carboxylic group of the estolide on subsequent esterification with linear or branched chain alcohols and also on acetylation of free hydroxy group yielded castor oil fatty acids based estolide esters and their acetates. All the products were evaluated for total acid number (TAN), viscosity, viscosity index, pour point, flash point, and copper strip corrosion and found to be potential lubricant basestocks.
US08742147B2
The present invention relates to a process for improving the overall selectivity of an EO process for converting ethylene to ethylene oxide utilizing a highly selective EO silver catalyst containing a rhenium promoter wherein following normal operation a chloride strip of the chloride on the surface of the catalyst is conducted in order to remove a portion of the chlorides on the surface of the catalyst. The chloride strip involves the addition of certain saturated hydrocarbons to the feed. Following the chloride strip, the catalyst is optionally re-optimized.
US08742146B2
The present invention relates to a process for improving the overall selectivity of an EO process for converting ethylene to ethylene oxide utilizing a highly selective EO silver catalyst containing a rhenium promoter wherein following normal operation a hard strip of the chloride on the surface of the catalyst is conducted in order to remove a portion of the chlorides on the surface of the catalyst. Following the hard strip, the catalyst is optionally re-optimized. Surprisingly, it has been found that the selectivity of the catalyst following the hard strip may be substantially higher than the selectivity prior to the hard strip.
US08742144B2
A method of reducing hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) where a starting material containing HMF in a solvent comprising water is provided. H2 is provided into the reactor and the starting material is contacted with a catalyst containing at least one metal selected from Ni, Co, Cu, Pd, Pt, Ru, Ir, Re and Rh, at a temperature of less than or equal to 250° C. A method of hydrogenating HMF includes providing an aqueous solution containing HMF and fructose. H2 and a hydrogenation catalyst are provided. The HMF is selectively hydrogenated relative to the fructose at a temperature at or above 30° C. A method of producing tetrahydrofuran dimethanol (THFDM) includes providing a continuous flow reactor having first and second catalysts and providing a feed comprising HMF into the reactor. The feed is contacted with the first catalyst to produce furan dimethanol (FDM) which is contacted with the second catalyst to produce THFDM.
US08742142B2
A process for producing a perfluorinated functional compound is disclosed, which comprises: A. converting an at least partially hydrogenated alcohol into an at least partially hydrogenated fluoroformate compound; B. reacting said at least partially hydrogenated fluoroformate compound with fluorine in the presence of at least one (per)haloolefin comprising at least one carbon-carbon double bond and having at least one fluorine or chlorine atom on either one of the carbon atoms of said double bond, to obtain a perfluorinated fluoroformate compound.
US08742128B2
Provided is a process for producing a high-purity pyridine compound from a crude pyridine compound that contains a diazine compound as an impurity, the method including a reaction step of reacting the crude pyridine compound with an aluminum hydride compound, and a distillation step of distilling the product obtained from the reaction step. The aluminum hydride compound preferably contains one or more compounds selected from lithium aluminum hydride and sodium aluminum hydride.
US08742127B2
[Problem]The present invention provides an industrially advantageous production method of a 6-halogeno-3-arylpyridine derivative in which cryogenic condition is not required, production step is short, and an isomer difficult to be separated is not produced as a by-product,[Solution]A production method of a 6-halogeno-3-arylpyridine derivative represented by the general formula (III) comprising: the first step reacting a 2,5-dihalogenopyridine derivative represented by the general formula (I) with a magnesiation reagent; and the second step reacting the product obtained from the above-described first step, in the presence of a palladium compound, with a halogenoaryl derivative represented by the general formula (II).
US08742122B2
The present invention relates to a substantially a solid form of 3-(6-(1-(2,2-difluorobenzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)cyclopropanecarboxamido)-3-methylpyridin-2-yl)benzoic acid (Compound 1, Solvate Form A and Compound 1, HCl Salt Form A), processes for making such forms, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of treatment therewith.
US08742108B2
A light-emitting material comprises iridium and at least one ligand represented by the following formula: wherein R11 and R12 each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, an alkoxy group, a cyano group or a cyclic structure obtained by connection of one of a plurality of R11s to another of said plurality of R11s, or one of a plurality of R12s to another of said plurality of R12s, or one of the R11s to one of the R12s; m1 represents an integer from 0 to 4; m2 represents an integer from 0 to 6.
US08742106B2
The invention relates to compound of the formula (I′) in which the substituents are as defined in the specification; in free form or in salt form; to its preparation, to its use as medicament and to medicaments comprising it.
US08742095B2
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a cereal bran product containing beta-glucan. According to the method, a plastic mass is formed from cereal bran by means of a thermo-mechanical treatment, and the mass is brought into contact with an enzyme that breaks up beta-glucan, with or without an enzyme that breaks up starch. After inactivating the enzyme, the bran is dried and, when so needed, ground. The cereal bran product manufactured according to the method has an essentially inextensible structure in a water environment. The product is suitable to be added to aqueous foodstuffs or to foodstuffs, the manufacture of which employs water.
US08742092B2
The present invention relates to a Drosophila in vitro system which was used to demonstrate that dsRNA is processed to RNA segments 21-23 nucleotides (nt) in length. Furthermore, when these 21-23 nt fragments are purified and added back to Drosophila extracts, they mediate RNA interference in the absence of long dsRNA. Thus, these 21-23 nt fragments are the sequence-specific mediators of RNA degradation. A molecular signal, which may be their specific length, must be present in these 21-23 nt fragments to recruit cellular factors involved in RNAi. This present invention encompasses these 21-23 nt fragments and their use for specifically inactivating gene function. The use of these fragments (or chemically synthesized oligonucleotides of the same or similar nature) enables the targeting of specific mRNAs for degradation in mammalian cells, where the use of long dsRNAs to elicit RNAi is usually not practical, presumably because of the deleterious effects of the interferon response. This specific targeting of a particular gene function is useful in functional genomic and therapeutic applications.
US08742089B2
The present invention provides novel canine pol I regulatory nucleic acid sequences useful for the expression of nucleic acid sequences in canine cells such as MDCK cells. The invention further provides expression vectors and cells comprising such nucleic acids as well as methods of using such nucleic acids to make influenza viruses, including infectious influenza viruses.
US08742088B2
The present invention provides a nucleic acid which comprises a non-specific promoter and at least one sequence that encodes a polypeptide that has at least one heterologous T cell epitope therein but does not have any regulatory T cell epitopes. The polypeptide may be one chain of a heterodimer such as the heavy or light chain of an antibody molecule, the heterologous T cell epitope causing disruption of the heterodimer chain such that it cannot bind with the other chain of the heterodimer. The nucleic acid can be used to raise a T cell response against the at least one heterologous T cell epitope.
US08742083B1
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) that sensitize cancer cells to Bcl-2 family protein inhibitors are identified and described. Oligonucleotide panels, arrays and methods using the sensitizing miRNAs are also disclosed.
US08742066B2
The present invention relates to processes for recycling articles made from butyl ionomers and processes for producing recycled butyl ionomers. The invention further relates to composites comprising recycled butyl ionomers and fillers and articles made from recycled butyl ionomers. The invention also relates to uncured filled articles made from butyl ionomers having certain physical properties. Exemplary fillers include silica, carbon black, talc and clay, particularly onium substituted high aspect ratio nanoclays.
US08742063B2
A non-leaching mediator may include a polymer having a polymeric backbone, and a plurality of phenothiazine groups bonded to the polymeric backbone. The plurality of phenothiazine groups may include at least one of a phenothiazine group having the general formula (IV): and salts thereof, where n is about 9 and “R” represents the polymeric backbone to which the phenothiazine group is bonded, and a phenothiazine group having the general formula (V): and salts thereof, where n is about 9 and “R” represents the polymeric backbone to which the phenothiazine group is bonded.
US08742058B2
A biaxially oriented polyester film has a ratio of Young's modulus in the transverse direction to Young's modulus in the machine direction of 1.5 to 3, an average value of refractive indices in the machine direction, in the transverse direction, and in the thickness direction of 1.590 to 1.680, a minor melting peak temperature of 160 to 190° C., and a coefficient of hygroscopic expansion in the transverse direction of 0 to 6 ppm/% RH.
US08742057B2
A polycarbonate resin composition (X), comprises: (A) a polycarbonate resin containing (a) a structural unit derived from a dihydroxy compound having a moiety represented by the following formula (1) in a part of a structure; and (B) an aromatic polycarbonate resin, wherein a reduced viscosity of the aromatic polycarbonate resin (B) is 0.55 dl/g or less, a proportion of the aromatic polycarbonate resin (B) in the polycarbonate resin composition (X) is 30 wt % or more, and a total light transmittance of the polycarbonate resin composition (X) is 90% or less: CH2—O (1).
US08742042B2
A polymerization process comprising contacting under polymerization conditions ethylene and at least one alpha olefin of formula CH2=CHA wherein A is a C2-C20 alkyl radical to obtain a copolymer containing from 95% by mol to 50% by mol of ethylene derived units in the presence of a catalyst system obtainable by contacting: b) at least a metallocene compound of formula (I) b) alumoxane or a compound capable of forming an alkyl metallocene cation; and optionally c) an organo aluminum compound; wherein the groups R1-R4, L, M and W are described in the text.
US08742036B2
The invention relates to a catalyst metering device with a valve formed of an iron-based alloy steel hardened to a Rockwell hardness C of at least 60. The device can be used for metering of a catalyst for an ethylene polymerization reaction. The invention further relates to ethylene polymerization wherein the catalyst is metered in a catalyst metering device with a iron-based alloy steel hardened valve, as well as to a ethylene polymerization reactor comprising such a catalyst metering device.
US08742034B2
The invention provides an improved method for the production of terminal group-capped polyethers using homogeneous catalysis in the presence of Brönstedt acids.
