US08903584B2
The disclosed vehicle, control method, and program lead to improved fuel consumption, durability, and stability. When the vehicle starts to move, a clutch control performs controls so as to set the clutch to a half clutch state, in which a part of the motive force is transmitted, and thereafter to a connected state, in which the entire motive power is transmitted. When the clutch is the half clutch state, an electric motor control unit controls an electric motor to generate an assist torque when the vehicle starts to move equal to the difference between the torque requested by the driver and the idling torque generated when the engine is idling. The disclosed invention can be applied to hybrid vehicles.
US08903579B2
A vehicle and a method of controlling the vehicle are provided. The vehicle controller is configured to (i) in response to the user interface receiving input selecting an electric-only operating (EV) mode, disable the engine such that the vehicle is propelled by the electric machine, (ii) in response to the user interface receiving input overriding EV mode, re-enabling the engine for a predetermined time period. A vehicle is provided with a controller. In response to input selecting an electric-only operating (EV) mode, an engine is disabled such that the vehicle is propelled by an electric machine. In response to user power demand being greater than power available during the EV mode, a prompt is generated inquiring whether to override the EV mode. In response to user confirmation to override the EV mode, the engine is re-enabled to satisfy the user power demand.
US08903571B2
Systems and methods communicate sensor data pertaining to detected weather between aircraft. An exemplary system has at least one sensor on a transmitting aircraft, wherein the sensor is configured to detect weather and configured to output sensor data. The system has a first transceiver on the transmitting aircraft that is configured to transmit a signal with the sensor data. And the system has a second transceiver on a receiving aircraft that is configured to receive the signal containing the sensor data transmitted by the first transceiver. The sensor data of the transmitting aircraft is fused with sensor data of the receiving aircraft for a geographic region of interest to extend the effective sensor coverage and to resolve at least one of a location conflict and a severity conflict between the sensor data of the transmitting aircraft and the receiving aircraft.
US08903570B2
A standby instrument (10) for an aircraft, the instrument comprising at least one inertial sensor (1), at least one pressure sensor (2), calculation means (3) connected to said inertial and pressure sensors (1, 2), a display unit (4). Said calculation means (3) are suitable for determining critical flight information for said aircraft, and for displaying said critical flight information on the display unit (4) in the event of a main information system of said aircraft failing. In addition, said standby instrument (10) also incorporates stabilization relationships enabling said calculation means (3) to determine control relationships in order to control the actuators (15) of an autopilot of said aircraft in the event of said autopilot failing. Finally, said calculation means (3) are connected to at least one engine operation computer (5) enabling said instrument (10) to display information about a first limit of the engine on said display unit (4).
US08903569B2
The present invention discloses a method for controlling a high-lift device or a flight control surface of an aircraft or spacecraft, especially with a system according to the present invention, comprising the steps of receiving, at least one first control unit, a command signal from a commander unit via a data network, providing a primary control signal to at least one secondary control unit via the data network, wherein the primary control signal depends on the received command signal, receiving, at the at least one second control unit, a sensor signal of one or more sensors of the high-lift device or flight control surface, and providing a secondary control signal to one or more actuators of the high-lift device or flight control surface, wherein the secondary control signal depends on the received sensor signal. Furthermore, the present invention discloses a system and an aircraft or spacecraft.
US08903558B2
A method of detecting and responding to a threat condition includes receiving, at a sensing module, an input acquired in proximity to a pipeline of a fluid distribution system, the input including data associated with a vibration measurement of the pipeline acquired by a sensor exterior of the pipeline. The method also includes determining whether the input indicates a threat condition by comparing the data to a previously recorded baseline vibration measurement. The method further includes automatically closing a first fluid transmission valve in response to a determined threat condition, thereby restricting flow of fluid through the pipeline in a vicinity of the first fluid transmission valve, and wirelessly transmitting a message for receipt by a control module that is remote from the sensing module, the message including indications of the determined threat condition, the first fluid transmission valve, and an identifier associated with the sensing module.
US08903553B1
A method and system for controlling a unitary room air conditioner and for reducing peak loads can comprise a communications transceiver coupled to a relay or switch. This relay or switch can control the flow of electricity to a compressor of the air conditioner. The communications transceiver can receive signals which may direct the communications transceiver to open or close the relay or switch. In this way, the compressor can be controlled independent of the air conditioner's control logic. In other words, the operation of the compressor can be controlled with signals which originate outside of the unitary air conditioner and independent of the air conditioner's own internal control logic.
US08903550B2
A robot gripper is provided comprising two robot arms, upper contact parts, and lower contact parts disposed at the ends of each of the two robot arms. The upper and lower contact parts are in contact with a top and a bottom of an article when gripping the article, The upper and lower contact parts are semispherical shaped and have predetermined radii. Sensor units are mounted on the upper contact parts and the lower contact parts. The sensor units measure vertical or horizontal forces applied to the upper contact parts or the lower contact parts when gripping the article. A control unit configured to determine whether the center of gravity of the article is located at a center position between the ends of the arms using vertical and horizontal distances between the ends of the arms and vertical components of the forces measured by the sensor units when gripping the article is provided.
US08903537B2
A disclosed example method for generating control data for forming a tooth of a spur gear toothing which has an intended widthwise crowning by milling a workpiece at a numerically controlled machine tool having at least 5 axes, at a universal machine tool, by successively moving a milling cutter of the machine tool along a plurality of machining paths based on the generated control data, involves providing a tooth flank geometry of at least one tooth flank of the tooth of the spur gear toothing. The method also involves determining parameters for specifying a change of the provided tooth flank geometry according to the intended widthwise crowing of the tooth. In addition, the method involves generating control data based on a tooth flank geometry which is changed based on the determined parameters, wherein the changed tooth flank geometry corresponds to a tooth flank geometry of the tooth having the intended widthwise crowing.
US08903534B2
A set of two-dimensional layers is determined based on a digital three-dimensional model. An image corresponding to each of the layers is rendered on each of a corresponding number of sheets of at least partially transparent material. The sheets of material are assembled together to produce a three-dimensional structure corresponding to the digital model.
US08903520B2
Systems and methods are provided for converting Sequential Function Chart (SFC) logic to function block logic for execution by a programmable controller. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving Sequential Function Chart (SFC) logic comprising Steps and Transition on a physical computing device, converting the Steps and Transitions of the Sequential Function Chart logic to function block logic on the physical computing device, and uploading the function block logic from the physical computing device to a controller.
US08903518B2
A control apparatus for a motor includes, a position detection unit which detects the position of a driven body, a positional error acquiring unit which acquires for each sampling cycle a positional error representing a deviation between the position command given to the motor and the position of the driven body detected by the position detection unit, a dead-zone processing unit which outputs the positional error by replacing the positional error with zero if the positional error acquired by the positional error acquiring unit lies within a predetermined dead-zone range, and a repetitive control unit which calculates an amount of correction such that the positional error output from the dead-zone processing unit is reduced to zero, and wherein: the motor is controlled based on the positional error acquired by the positional error acquiring unit and the amount of correction calculated by the repetitive control unit.
US08903513B2
A system and method for implantation of an autonomous intracardiac capsule. The autonomous capsule includes a cylindrical body with an anchoring screw for penetrating a tissue wall, and at least one coupling finger radially projecting outwards. An implantation accessory includes a lead body and a helical guide, for guiding and driving by rotation the capsule. This helical guide is integral with the lead body, and its inner diameter is sufficient to contain that cylindrical body of the capsule therein. The helix direction of the helical guide is opposite to that of the anchoring screw such that continued rotational motion imparted on the lead body drives the anchoring screw into the target tissue and then emerges the capsule from the helical guide. The helical guide is resiliently compressible in axial direction, and its helix pitch is increased in the free distal end portion.
US08903508B2
An implantable stimulation system including an epidural lead for spinal cord stimulation that includes a paddle having an array of electrodes coupled to conductors within the lead body. The paddle includes score lines that extend along the length and width of either the front or back facets of the paddle portion. The score lines increase the flexibility of the paddle in both the length and width directions which facilitate the implantation of the paddle within the epidural space of the spinal cord, and further permits the paddle to conform more uniformly to the target area of implantation to minimize the gap between the electrodes and targeted fibers.
US08903507B2
The present invention provides medical devices that contain polyisobutylene urethane copolymers, polyisobutylene urea copolymers and polyisobutylene urethane/urea copolymers. More particularly, the present invention provides medical leads that contain such copolymer.
US08903499B2
An apparatus (10) for applying stimulation therapy to a patient includes an implantable medical device (20) and a remote controller (50a) for inductively powering the medical device and communicating with the medical device. The remote controller (50a) includes an improved coil configuration to improve communication performance between the remote controller (50a) and an implanted medical device (20).
US08903497B2
System and method for making an antenna. An implantable medical device has a housing, a bobbin and a coil. The housing has an interior generally tubular cross-section with a longitudinal axis, the housing having a lateral portion of a segment of the tubular cross-section along the longitudinal axis. The bobbin has a first side nearest to the interior of the housing and a second side opposite the first side. The coil, wound around the bobbin on a winding axis orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the tubular cross-section, has a greater number of complete turns proximate the second side of the bobbin than proximate the first side of the bobbin, with the coil having a cross-sectional shape selected for a space between the bobbin and the interior of the housing in the lateral portion of the segment of the tubular cross-section along the longitudinal axis of the housing.
US08903489B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems, methods and devices for cardiac applications including those relating to pacing devices. One such device is directed to a cardiac rhythm therapy (CRT) device designed for dual chamber pacing using two pacing signals each having a positive and negative component that has been modified for single chamber pacing. The device comprises a first output that connects to a pacing lead; a second output that connects to the pacing lead; a third output that connects to a reference point; and electrical circuitry connecting the second electrical connection to the first output, the third electrical connection to the second output, and the first and fourth electrical connections to the third output.
US08903483B2
Described here are implantable devices and methods for monitoring physiological information relating to sleep. The implantable devices are generally designed to include at least one sensor for sensing physiological information, a processor for processing the physiological information using low computational power to detect a sleep stage, and a battery. The detected sleep stage information may then be used to indicate sleep quality, identify or monitor a medical condition, or guide treatment thereof.
US08903468B2
An integral laser imaging and coagulation apparatus, and associated systems and methods that allow an ophthalmologist to perform laser retinal surgical procedures with an integral laser imaging and coagulation apparatus disposed at a first (i.e. local) location from a control system disposed at a second (i.e. remote) location, e.g., a physician's office. In some embodiments, communication between the integral laser imaging and coagulation apparatus and control system is achieved via the Internet®.
US08903464B1
An apparatus and process for the production of a niobium cavity exhibiting high quality factors at high gradients is provided. The apparatus comprises a first chamber positioned within a second chamber, an RF generator and vacuum pumping systems. The process comprises placing the niobium cavity in a first chamber of the apparatus; thermally treating the cavity by high temperature in the first chamber while maintaining high vacuum in the first and second chambers; and applying a passivating thin film layer to a surface of the cavity in the presence of a gaseous mixture and an RF field.Further a niobium cavity exhibiting high quality factors at high gradients produced by the method of the invention is provided.
US08903462B2
A folder type mobile telephone and control method therefor are provided which utilize an auxiliary display unit viewable whether the folder is opened or closed. The folder type mobile telephone includes an auxiliary display unit and a main body having a main display unit. The folder type mobile telephone includes an opening at a position corresponding to the auxiliary display unit. The folder type mobile telephone may include a wheel button formed at one side of the main body to input user commands to the auxiliary display unit. A transparent window may be formed at the opening to protect the auxiliary display unit. Regardless of whether the folder is opened or closed, a user can view, and control the auxiliary display unit via wheel button inputs. Since the auxiliary display unit is formed on the main body, the relative thickness of the folder can be reduced to make the folder type mobile telephone compact.
US08903458B1
The frequency with which data is refreshed for an application executed by a mobile device may be dynamically set based on one or more of the state of the battery or the network access of the device, or the frequency with which the application is used. The data refresh frequency may also be dynamically set based on additional parameters, including, e.g., the strength of the signal of the network over which the mobile device is communicating.
US08903456B2
A terminal can include a wireless charger configured to wirelessly receive a power signal from a charging pad to charge power; and a controller configured to control an incoming call notification mode to be changed from a vibration mode to a bell sound mode or silent mode when an event is generated on the charging pad.
US08903455B2
The present invention relates to a signal-transceiving apparatus for a base station in a distributed antenna system (DAS), comprising: a transmitting module for transmitting a signal; an antenna module which includes a plurality of antennas, and in which a predetermined number of pilot patterns are used in accordance with the size of the coverage area, which is a signal-transmitting range for each of the plurality of antennas, and in accordance with the number of overlapping antenna coverage areas; and a processor which transmits, via the transmitting module, a signal to a terminal using a pilot pattern corresponding to a portion of the plurality of antennas. The same pilot pattern is used for the antennas, the antenna coverage areas of which do not overlap, from among the plurality of antennas.
US08903448B2
Transmit power for an access point is controlled based on measurement reports received by the access point from one or more access terminals that are not currently being served by the access point. In some aspects, transmit power is controlled based on the number of received messages that correspond to a particular event. In some aspects, transmit power is controlled based on the contents of the received messages. For example, the access point may use signal strength information included in the messages to determine a level of transmit power that mitigates interference at a defined subset of reporting access terminals.
US08903440B2
An ad hoc network with distributed hierarchical scheduling is disclosed. In one aspect, stations in a network mesh detect interfering neighbor stations and form interference lists. Stations transmit their interference lists. Scheduling stations schedule allocations for child stations in response to interference lists, received remote allocations, or a combination thereof. Coordination messages are transmitted including frame structure, allocations, and interference lists, among others. In another aspect, an ad hoc mesh network may be organized into a tree topology. In an example wireless backhaul network, this matches traffic flow. Distributed, hierarchical scheduling is provided where parents schedule communication with children while respecting already scheduled transmissions to/from interferers and to/from interferers of their respective children. Procedures to construct interference constraints for distributed, hierarchical scheduling are described, resulting in efficient scheduling and reuse in an ad hoc wireless network, without centralized scheduling. Various other aspects are also disclosed.
US08903436B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for SMS or MMS policy control are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for controlling short message service SMS or MMS resources in a telecommunications network includes, at a policy node, generating a message that includes an SMS or MMS policy rule and communicating the message to a network element that performs SMS or MMS routing or processing, and, at the network element, enforcing the SMS or MMS policy rule. In one embodiment, the SMS or MMS policy rule applies to SMS or MMS messages that are associated with a particular subscriber, a particular class of subscribers, and/or a particular network provider or set of network providers.
US08903432B2
A wireless network component comprising: a processor configured to implement steps including: receiving a request to establish communications with a wireless terminal, generating a paging list comprising a plurality of cells using a location data for a wireless terminal, and paging the wireless terminal using the cells in the paging list is disclosed.
US08903431B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for the detection, location stamping, and logging of electronic events and subsequent generation of habitat information. According to implementations, electronic events are detected and location stamped. Associated descriptions and other data corresponding to the electronic events is retrieved and stored along with the geographic locations of the electronic events in an activity log. The information in the activity log is used to generate visual representations of one or more geographic areas in which electronic events that meet user-defined or default criteria occurred within a predetermined frequency.
US08903428B2
A modular data processing system (200) for processing communication session data from a cellular mobile communications system (210) comprises at least two autonomous data processing units (340). The autonomous data processing units (340) are arranged in parallel, and are operable simultaneously. Each data processing unit (340) receives and processes raw communication session data from an associated set of controllers of the cellular mobile communications system (210). At least one data collection subsystem (215) supplies the raw communication session data to the at least two autonomous data processing units (340), for calls made within the coverage area of the set of controllers associated with the data processing unit. Processed data may be available more rapidly with the invention. The invention is scalable, and the system may expand as a cellular mobile communications system grows.
US08903426B2
A system that provides content and/or ad publishers the ability to sell and target content, including “deals,” to mobile devices of users when those users and their mobile devices are located within the defined geographic zone. The content may be targeted and mass distributed to all mobile devices having a registered address within the defined geographic area. The content creator and/or content distributor can manually define the regions where they desire to distribute content by plotting vertices on a map to form a polygon enclosing a geographic region. Regions may be defined by population, retail locations, content and/or ad categories and other relevant criteria. The System User can manage the type of message delivered based upon the time of day and day of the week. Such options provide the content creator with granular management of its content based upon the defined regions established by the content creator and/or content distributor.
US08903424B2
A method and system for reporting a location of an asset. The method includes: receiving a location tracking request for the asset; dynamically determining a status of the asset; and allowing acquisition of the location of the asset based on the determined status. The method further includes: obtaining the location of the asset responsive to the received request and said allowing; and reporting the obtained location of the asset. The system includes: a reporting module for receiving a location tracking request for the asset; a status module for dynamically determining a status of the asset; and a tracking module for obtaining the location of the asset responsive to the determined status. The reporting module reports the location of the asset responsive to the received location tracking request.
US08903423B2
A data communication apparatus capable of creating a new type of communication is provided. Motion information obtaining means 33 obtains information on the motion of an arbitrary apparatus. An other-party apparatus motion determination section 21 makes a determination as to the motion of the arbitrary apparatus on the basis of the information on the motion of the arbitrary apparatus, the information being obtained by the motion information obtaining means 33. A communication determination section 22 determines whether or not communication is to be performed with an arbitrary apparatus on the basis of the motion determination output by the other-party apparatus motion determination section 21. When it is determined by the communication determination section 22 that communication is to be performed, predetermined data communication is started with the arbitrary apparatus.
US08903421B2
A wireless terminal, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The wireless terminal includes circuitry configured to receive a wireless signal transmitted from a base station; perform signal intensity measurement of the received wireless signal; receive, via a graphical user interface, section information that identifies a section of a building structure for which the signal intensity measurement is to be performed; and transmit measurement information acquired by the signal intensity measurement of the received wireless signal, base station identification information that indicates a base station of a transmission source of the wireless signal, and the section information. The measurement information is associated with the base station identification information and the section information. The circuitry is further configured to perform the signal intensity measurement of the received wireless signal in response to a predetermined user input operation that is received after the section information.
US08903407B2
Apparatus and methods provide for a way to intelligently maximizing capability for a media download service over a wireless network. An available bandwidth of the wireless network is estimated and compared against a threshold. If the available bandwidth is above a predetermined threshold, the service is operated in a high bandwidth mode. If the bandwidth is not above a predetermined threshold, the service is operated in a low bandwidth mode.
US08903392B2
A method, device and system for indicating availability of services to a communication device is provided. The method comprises: receiving a service indication of availability of a communication service from a first communications network and a second communications network via a non-traffic channel of each of the first and the second communications networks; when the communication service is available to the communication device from both the second communications network and the first communications network, issuing a service information request to the second communications network over the non-traffic channel of the second communications network; and flashing an indicator on the communication device at a first rate when the communication device roams from a first geographic region into a second geographic region and the second geographic region provides a communication mode for the communication device that is not available to the communication device in the first geographic region.
US08903391B2
A method and a portable device for supporting an adaptive data communication control are provided. The device includes a memory unit, a control unit, and a radio frequency unit. The memory unit stores a table that contains data communication setting information corresponding to each service operator network. The control unit performs a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) selection after entering into a service area of specific service operator network, and receives Mobile Country Code/Mobile Network Code (MCC/MNC) information from the specific service operator network while the PLMN selection is being performed. The control unit extracts the data communication setting information corresponding to the MCC/MNC information from the table, and establishes a data communication connection with the specific service operator network according to the extracted data communication setting information. The radio frequency unit performs the established data communication with the specific service operator network under the control of the control unit.
US08903388B2
Provided is compact base station device that reduces the processing load with an upper layer network device by reducing the amount of signaling with an upper layer network device. In the device, a CSG member management device (102) stores CSG member information beforehand. A network message generation unit (107) generates a message used for collectively registering the CSG member terminals stored in the CSG member management unit (102), in an upper layer network device. At startup, a network interface unit (108) transmits a message generated by the network message generation unit (107) to the upper layer network device. In response to the message transmitted by the network interface unit (108), a network message analysis unit (106) acquires from the upper layer network device parameter information for connecting to the CSG member terminals.
US08903387B2
A user device may receive an identifier without prior provisioning from a server. The server may be configured to: receive, from a user device a first identifier, a first value of a second identifier, and an instruction to register the first value with the first identifier; register the first value with the first identifier based on determining that the second identifier is available for registration; receive request for subscription to receive a notification when a second user device registers with the first identifier; provide, to the user device, a list of unavailable or available second values of the second identifiers; receive, from the user device, a second instruction to register one of the available second values with the first identifier and with the user device; and receive, from the user device, a third instruction including an instruction to unregister the first value with the first identifier.
US08903384B2
A method includes determining at least one time interval for an access node of a group of neighboring access nodes. The at least one time interval is one in which said access node has substantially no transmission and one or more other access nodes of said group transmit. The method further includes performing, by said access node, radio measurements in said at least one determined time interval of said one or more other access nodes of said group which transmit and configuring radio resources in dependence on said radio measurements.
US08903381B2
A mobile device roaming architecture for use with a mobile device, such as a cellular phone, roaming a WiFi network. In instances where the mobile device attempts to roam to a different wireless access point managed by a controller using a different authentication key, the roam process can be excessively long such that the voice signal is disrupted or fails entirely. A detection component detects the roaming attempt, and a connection component switches the call back to the original access point controller before the call has a chance to drop. In this way, a connection is maintained to the network. A mitigation component performs an operation to maintain a connection to the call as the mobile device moves out of range of the original access point.
US08903367B2
A method and apparatus for enabling backward compatibility in open market handsets (OMH) is provided. The method may include determining a type of an identity module based on one or more internal parameters of the identity module, and obtaining one or more credentials based at least in part on the determined the type identity module.
US08903364B2
Aspects of a method and system for processing and delivery of multimedia content by an integrated femtocell and set-top-box device are provided. In this regard, a cellular enabled communication device may communicate its capabilities, preferences, and/or settings to an integrated femtocell and set-top-box device, wherein the integrated femtocell and set-top-box device may processes multimedia content for the cellular enabled communication device based on the capabilities, preferences, and/or settings of the cellular enabled communication device. Additionally, the cellular enabled communication device may receive the processed multimedia content from the integrated femtocell and set-top-box device by the cellular enabled communication device. The capabilities, preferences, and/or settings may comprise multimedia processing capabilities, preferences, and/or settings, communication capabilities, preferences, and/or settings, and/or power conditions, preferences, and/or settings. The integrated femtocell and set-top-box device may process the multimedia content to generate a plurality of subset datastreams.
US08903344B2
Disclosed are circuits, techniques and methods for implementing an attenuator in a signal transmission path. In one particular implementation, an attenuation may be adjusted based, at least in part, on a control signal. In another implementation, such an attenuation may be adjusted in coarse increments by varying one or more gate voltages applied one or more transistors. In yet another implementation, adjusting said attenuation in fine increments by varying a bias voltage applied to at least one level shifter.
US08903339B2
A gain adjustment device for a wireless communication circuit comprising a transmission circuit and a reception circuit includes a signal generator and a gain adjustment circuit. The signal generator is coupled to the transmission circuit, and arranged for generating a test signal to the transmission circuit. The test signal transmitted through a printed circuit board such that the reception circuit coupled to the transmission circuit generates a corresponding reception signal in response to the test signal. The gain adjustment circuit is coupled to the reception circuit and the transmission circuit, and arranged for adjusting a transmitter gain configuration and a receiver gain configuration of the wireless communication circuit according to the reception signal.
US08903336B2
A method for compensating signal distortions in multiple transmitting branches entering a composite amplifier.
US08903331B2
A radio communication apparatus includes a baseband processing unit and a radio unit. The baseband processing unit transmits, to the radio unit, first data indicating a plurality of candidates for instructions corresponding to a plurality of values to be taken by the control information before obtaining the control information on radio communication. Furthermore, the baseband processing unit transmits, to the radio unit, second data for identifying the instruction corresponding to the value of the obtained control information of the plurality of candidates for instructions, after obtaining the control information. The radio unit performs processing in accordance with the instruction identified by the received second data of the plurality of candidates for instructions indicated by the received first data.
US08903330B2
A method, device, and system for communication signal transmission are provided, which relate to the field of communications, so as to improve reception performance of the network. The method includes dividing, by a multi-frequency receiver, Radio Frequency (RF) signals by frequency bands received from an antenna to obtain RF signals of different frequency bands; sending a first group of RF signals of a predetermined frequency band to an RF unit so that the RF unit converts the received first group of the RF signals of the predetermined frequency band into first baseband digital signals and sends the first baseband digital signals to a baseband processing unit; and converting a second group of the RF signals of the predetermined frequency band into second baseband digital signals and sending the second baseband digital signals to the baseband processing unit by using a digital baseband interface.
US08903326B2
A test station may include a test host, a signal generator, and a test chamber. Multiple devices under test (DUTs) may be placed in the test chamber during production testing. Radio-frequency signals may be conveyed from the signal generator to the multiple DUTs using a conducted arrangement through a radio-frequency signal splitter circuit or using a radiated arrangement through an antenna in the test chamber. The signal generator may broadcast initialization downlink signals. The multiple DUTs may synchronize with the initialing downlink signals. The signal generator may broadcast test downlink signals at a target output power level. The multiple DUTs may receive the test downlink signals and compute a corresponding downlink transmission performance level based on the received downlink signals. A given DUT is marked as a passing DUT if the downlink performance level is satisfactory. A given DUT may be retested if the downlink performance level fails design criteria.
US08903324B1
An embodiment of a method in accordance with the present invention for determining a distance to a source of passive intermodulation (PIM) in a radio frequency (RF) transmit/receive system comprises a two step process. As a first step, a first and second signal with frequencies in a transmit band are generated at a first power and a third order harmonic signal generated by a source of PIM within the system is obtained in the receive band. If the magnitude of the PIM exceeds a noise threshold, a second step is performed. The second step includes generating a third and fourth signal at a second power higher than the first power to obtain a higher order harmonic signal generated by the source of PIM. The PIM magnitude and a distance to the source of the PIM are calculated using the higher order harmonic signal.
US08903312B2
Modified connection establishment for reducing power consumption in near field communication systems
A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption associated with establishing a connection in a near field communication system is disclosed. According to some embodiments, when requesting an active mode NFC connection, the initiator device can selectively extend transmission of its NFC carrier signal by an extended time period after transmitting a request frame to the target device. The extended time period, a value for which is embedded into the request frame, allows the target device additional time to stabilize its clock signal and transmit its own NFC carrier signal back to the initiator device. As a result, the initiator device may enable its NFC clock generator according to the value of the extended time period.
US08903310B2
A wireless communication apparatus is capable of generating a gain/noise characteristics control signal for an amplifier and a filter without degrading an amount of electrical power, or distance information contained in the electrical power. The wireless communication apparatus includes: a rectifier circuit; a circuit power supply for receiving electrical power from the rectifier circuit so as to supply required electrical power; a sampling circuit for performing sampling on an output of the rectifier circuit; a discrete filter capable of performing discrete processing on an output of the sampling circuit so as to selectively remove a frequency component contained in the output of the sampling circuit; and power control for controlling a bias required for a radio transmitter and/or a radio receiver based on the DC component output from the discrete filter.
US08903308B2
A patient monitoring system for remote monitoring of medical devices. The system includes a medical device, a patient identification device and a wireless relay module. The relay module receives patient identification information from the patient identification device and medical device identification from the medical device via a wireless relay network, and transmits this information to the remote monitoring device via an internet-accessible wireless communications network. The remote monitoring device returns an acknowledgement status to the relay module, which the relay module transmits to the medical device. Upon receipt of an acknowledgment status indicating that the patient's use of the medical device is authorized, the medical device transmits medical device data to the relay module via the wireless relay network, and the relay module relays the medical device data to the remote monitoring device via the internet-accessible wireless communications network.
US08903304B2
A dynamically-reconfigurable multiband multiprotocol communications jamming system and method is provided that are particularly suited for the generation of effective radio-frequency waveforms/noise output that successively translates up and down the RF spectrum. The system and method are particularly suited for strategically targeting specific frequencies in order to disrupt a communications network or networks, and can be rapidly deployed via delivery platforms, such as artillery and other projectile mechanisms, remote operated vehicles (unmanned aerial, sea or land systems) or targeted air or land delivery via manned assets or automated or robotic support means, or manual delivery by personnel.
US08903299B2
An image forming apparatus capable of reducing a space required to install a transfer unit to achieve a compact body size. The image forming apparatus can include a body, a frame installed in the body, a transfer unit installed inside the frame, and a waste toner recovery device to recover waste toner collected from the transfer unit. The waste toner recovery device can include a first delivery unit to deliver the waste toner in a first direction, and a second delivery unit to deliver the waste toner, delivered from the first delivery unit, in a second direction. The second delivery unit can be movably installed to the frame and can be coupled to or detached from the first delivery unit via movement thereof.
US08903291B2
When an arm member 50 moves a pressure roller 36 away from a fixing roller 33, a guide mechanism 60 moves an air nozzle 40 in synchronization with the motion of the arm member 50 in order that a nozzle tip 40a moves an operating position near a fixing nip portion NP and a parking position to which the nozzle tip 40a is retracted from the operating position.
US08903288B2
An intermediate transfer belt that temporarily holds a toner image which is formed on an image carrier and transferred to the intermediate transfer belt includes a base member, an elastic layer laminated on the base member and a surface layer covering the elastic layer. With respect to the intermediate transfer belt, a volume resistivity of the surface layer is lower than a volume resistivity of an entirety of the intermediate transfer belt.
US08903277B2
A drive transmitter, including a first rotational axis transmitting a drive force of a drive source to a first rotator, a second rotational axis transmitting a drive force of the drive source to a second rotator, and an idler gear configured to transmit a drive force to the second rotational axis; wherein the first rotational axis penetrates the idler gear with a gap therebetween.
US08903268B2
An image forming apparatus includes vertically connected units, first and second fitting portions, and first and second fitted portions. These fitting portions are provided at a lower portion of an upper unit. These fitted portions are provided at an upper portion of a lower unit downwardly adjacent to the upper unit. The first fitted portion corresponds to the first fitting portion and the second fitted portion corresponds to the second fitting portion. The upper unit is restricted from displacing vertically relative to the lower unit when the first fitting portion engages with the first fitted portion. The second fitting portion engages with the second fitted portion such that the upper unit is restricted from moving horizontally relative to the lower unit, when a user pivots the upper unit downwardly about the first fitting portion while the first fitting portion is engaged with the first fitted portion.
US08903267B2
A developing device including a first frame including a first welding surface and a second frame including a second welding surface, wherein the first frame and the second frame are welded so that the first welding surface and the second welding surface are opposite to each other, and wherein the developing device further includes: a seal member that is adhered to a first adhesion surface of the first frame and a second adhesion surface of the second frame, wherein the seal member covers a first side end portion from a first side in an orthogonal direction at an opposite part, where the first welding surface and the second welding surface are disposed opposite one another; and a filling agent that is filled between the seal member and the first side end portion in the orthogonal direction at the opposite part.
US08903264B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first roller and a second roller spaced apart from the first roller, a belt being endless and extending around the first roller and the second roller, a photosensitive member, a transfer member, and a conductor. The belt is configured to move in a moving direction. The belt has a first surface and a second surface. The first surface extends from the first roller to the second roller in the moving direction, and the second surface extends from the second roller to the first roller in the moving direction. The photosensitive member is disposed facing the first surface of the belt and configured to carry a developer image thereon. The transfer member is disposed facing toward the photosensitive member and configured to transfer the developer image on the photosensitive member. The conductor is electrically grounded and disposed facing the second surface of the belt.
US08903262B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a decision unit, an output unit, a control unit, and a setting unit. The image forming unit forms an image on an image bearing member. The decision unit decides a first image forming condition of the image forming unit for forming the image at a width that is wider than a predetermined width. The output unit outputs a signal in accordance with the thickness of the image. The control unit causes the image forming unit to form a measurement image having a width that is narrower than or equal to the predetermined width. The setting unit sets a second image forming condition of the image forming unit so that the thickness of the image that is narrower than or equal to the predetermined width becomes thinner than or equal to the predetermined thickness.
US08903259B2
A method controls the timing of conveying a recording material to a conveyance belt so that a leading edge position of the recording material overlaps with a separation assisting toner image transferred on the conveyance belt in advance to prevent failure of recording material detachment from the conveyance belt.
US08903254B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical transceiver for use in optical fiber communications and/or telecommunications systems and, more specifically, a low power consumption, long range pluggable transceiver. The transceiver generally comprises a photodiode with a transimpedance amplifier (PIN-TIA); an electro-absorption modulated laser (EML); an optical detector; and a directly modulated laser (DML) driving module connected between the PIN-TIA and EML laser configured to drive the EML laser. A low power-consumption DML driving module is utilized to drive the EML laser, so as to further reduce power consumption. An impedance matching circuit can be applied to modulate an electro-absorption (EA) modulator of the EML laser with maximum efficiency.
US08903248B2
A transmission apparatus includes: a data signal processor to add first data of a control signal to a data signal received, and transmit the data signal; a first signal output module to output second data of the control signal; an update controller to control an update of a function included in the first signal output module; and a second signal output module, when receiving a notice of an instruction for updating the function from the update controller, to output the first data that is the second data held therein when the notice thereof is received, wherein the second signal output module, when receiving a notice of a completion for updating the function from the update controller, outputs the first data that is the second data received from the first signal output module updated by the update controller.
US08903244B2
Example modular optical network terminals (ONTs) and methods to implement the same are disclosed. A disclosed example ONT includes a base unit having an integral optical interface to optically couple the ONT to an optical network, and to convert an optical signal received from the optical network to form an electrical signal, a plug-in service module to distribute the electrical signal within a customer premises, and a modular interface connector configured to receive the plug-in service module and to couple the electrical signal from the base unit to the plug-in service module.
US08903240B2
An apparatus includes a first optical switching complex, a second optical switching complex in optical communication with the first optical switching complex, and an optical add/drop module in optical communication with the first optical switching complex and the second optical switching complex. At least one of the optical switching complexes includes a wavelength selective switch that is configured to be arranged in a cascaded configuration that, when so configured, results in an increase in a number of available transmit and receive ports available per degree of the apparatus.
US08903239B2
An optical modulator includes: a modulator including an optical waveguide provided in a semiconductor substrate having an electro-optical effect and an electrode to apply an electric field depending on a bias voltage and a modulation signal to the optical waveguide; a driver circuit to generate a modulation signal in accordance with an input signal; a superimposer to superimpose a reference signal on the bias voltage, the reference signal having lower frequency than the modulation signal; and a controller to control a bias voltage in a direction orthogonal to a modulation direction of the modulator based on the frequency component of the reference signal extracted from a modulated optical signal generated by the modulator.
US08903237B2
There is provided a method for determining a signal transfer characteristic along a light path between a first point and a second point in an optical network. The optical network comprises at least one optical element situated in the light path. The method comprises transmitting a plurality of optical test signals of different bandwidths from the first point along the light path. Each signal has a known bandwidth and a known power. The method further comprises receiving the optical test signals at the second point after they have travelled along the light path and measuring the power of each received optical test signal. The method also comprises determining the signal transfer characteristic along the light path from the power measurements.
US08903234B2
A novel micro camera module that is manually adjustable between a close-up mode and an infinite mode includes a lens assembly adjustably mounted within a sleeve that is adjustably mounted into a housing. In a particular embodiment the sleeve includes a channel (cam groove) that is engaged by a plurality of pins fixed to the housing. Further, a biasing member is disposed between the sleeve and the housing such that an upward force will enable the pins to firmly engage the lower portion of the channel. In a more particular embodiment, the channel defines two detents that secure the sleeve into predetermined positions with respect to the housing. In an even more particular embodiment, the channel is sloped such that upon rotation of the sleeve, the distance between the lens assembly and an image capture device is changed. In another particular embodiment, the camera module includes an electrical mode detecting switch that is indicative of the position of the camera module.
US08903232B1
An optical attachment having five or six elements and configured to be operably arranged on the image side of an objective lens to reduce the focal length and focal ratio of the objective lens is disclosed. The optical attachment is particularly suitable for adapting objective lenses designed with a relatively large working distance for a large format size to cameras having a smaller format size and relatively small permissible working distance. The optical attachments disclosed herein have high image quality at large aperture over a large field of view, and can be well-corrected for all major aberrations.
US08903230B2
A tilt correction unit includes: an inner frame, inside which an optical unit is held; an outer frame surrounding the inner frame, with a gap formed between the inner frame and the outer frame around an entire perimeter of the inner frame; an elastic part which is disposed between the outer frame and the inner frame and elastically supports the inner frame inside the outer frame; a rotational movement support part that connects a part of an outer peripheral surface of the inner frame to a part of an inner peripheral surface of the outer frame; and a drive unit that comprises a magnet and a coil disposed opposite each other with a gap therebetween, wherein the inner frame is driven by the drive unit and rotates about the rotational support part, in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the optical unit.
US08903228B2
In a vapor delivery device, a carrier or an expedient for an active ingredient is a liquid that can be vaporized by exposure to a concentrated, focused heating point using an efficient electrical power source. The device may have a vaporizing element and an electrical power source in a housing. A switch controls supply of electrical power to the vaporizing element from the electrical power source. A tube connects a liquid reservoir to the vaporizing element. A first valve, a second valve, and a pump are generally associated with the tube. A lever pivotally supported on or in the housing may be positioned to operate the first valve, the second valve, the pump and the switch, via pivoting movement of the lever. The device efficiently provides a uniform dose of vapor with each actuation.
US08903227B2
In processing of recording data on a recording medium, three-dimensional image discrimination data representing whether or not there is a possibility of a three-dimensional image being included in recorded data is recorded as management information. The three-dimensional image discrimination data is recorded in a clip information file set in association with a stream file as a storage file of image data, a playlist file including reproduction section designating information for the clip information file, a disc management file which directly or indirectly designates the playlist file, or the like. A reproducing apparatus can thereby easily determine the presence/absence of a three-dimensional image without performing analysis on reproduction target data.
US08903226B2
Described herein are techniques for displaying conflicts between two or more recording timers. Recording conflicts are displayed graphically for the user to resolve.
US08903216B2
A clamping device for connecting a cable to a strain relief member includes a housing having a retention member extending therefrom. The retention member is configured to be inserted in a mating opening in the strain relief member and to be secured thereto. A connector is configured to connect the cable to the housing.
US08903214B2
A single-mode optical fiber for guiding an optical signal, wherein the core region is capable of guiding an optical signal in a fundamental core mode at an optical signal wavelength. A cladding region is arranged to surround the core region and includes an inner cladding region and an outer cladding region. The inner cladding region includes a background material and a plurality of inner cladding features arranged in the background material, wherein a plurality of the plurality of inner cladding features are of a first type of feature that includes an air hole surrounded by a high-index region comprising a high-index material that is larger than the refractive index of the inner cladding background material.
US08903209B2
A method of spectral beam combining comprising the steps of projecting a plurality of laser beamlets of different wavelengths onto a first spectrally dispersive element, spatially chirping the plurality of beamlets via the first spectrally dispersive element, rearranging the spatially chirped beamlets with a beam redirecting element, and combining the beamlets into a single output beam via a second spectrally dispersive element.
US08903208B2
Provided are a waveguide with a reduced phase error and a photonics device including the same. The waveguide structure may include a lower clad, a core pattern with at least one bending region, on the lower clad, a beam deflecting pattern on the core pattern, and an upper clad covering the core pattern provided with the beam deflecting pattern. The beam deflecting pattern may be formed of a material, whose refractive index may be higher than that of the upper clad and may be lower than or equivalent to that of the core pattern, and the beam deflecting pattern has an increasing and decreasing width or an oscillating width, when measured along the bending region.
US08903205B2
An optical arrangement includes a plurality of planar substrates with at least one planar integrated optical waveguide on each planar substrate. At least one optical waveguide structure has at least one end connected via an optical connecting structure to one of the planar integrated optical waveguides. The optical waveguide structure is positioned at least partly outside the integration plane for the planar integrated optical waveguide and a refractive index contrast between a core region and a cladding region of the optical waveguide structure is at least 0.01.
US08903200B2
The image processing device divides images into groups, generates image analysis information of the images, extracts a predetermined number of images from each group based on the image analysis information and arranges the images extracted from each group on a corresponding page of a photo book. The image display section displays an image editing area for displaying images arranged on a page to be edited and a candidate image display area for displaying candidate images included in a group corresponding to the page to be edited and being usable for editing the image, and the image editing section uses the candidate images displayed in the candidate image display area to edit the image layout on the page to be edited based on the user's instruction.
US08903195B2
An image processing system produces highly accurate determination of a local area that does not conform to an assumed change. Positional displacement amount calculation element 91 calculates a positional displacement amount between a target image and a reference image. Pixel operation element 95 relates a pixel in the target image to a pixel in the reference image by specifying the pixel in the reference image nearest a position of the pixel in the target image when the target image is corrected so as to resolve the positional displacement, calculates a relative pixel differential vector which is a differential vector of respective vectors of the relative pixels, and determines whether or not the pixel in the target image is a pixel of the local area, based on the relative pixel differential vector and an ellipsoid in a predetermined space, the ellipsoid relating to the pixel in the reference image.
US08903185B2
A method of embedding a binary watermark into an image and a computer applied such are disclosed. The binary watermark is transformed to a watermark sequence consisting of K binary numbers and the image is converted into a grayscale image, being segmented into several sections. K sections are selected randomly while each selected section corresponds to one of the binary numbers of the watermark sequence. In relation to each selected section, a sum of a first part of the pixels and a sum of a second part of the pixels is compared. Each of the selected sections having their result of comparison being made to correspond to corresponding binary number in accordance with a predefined correlation results in the binary watermark being embedded into the image.
US08903182B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for classifying images. In one aspect, a method includes receiving training samples for a particular data dimension. Each training sample specifies a training value for the data dimension and a measure of relevance between the training sample and a phrase. A value range is determined for the data dimension. The value range is segmented into two or more segments. A predictive model is trained for each segment. The predictive model for each segment is trained to predict an output based on an input value that is within the segment. A classification sample specifying an input value is received. A classification output is computed based on the input value, the predictive model for the segment in which the input value is included, and the predictive model for an adjacent segment.
US08903177B2
The invention in particular relates to the hybrid tracking of representations of objects in a sequence of images using at least one key image. After acquiring a first and second images including a representation of the tracked object, a first image portion is identified in the first image, and a second image portion is retrieved from the key image. A relative pose of a first image portion of said second image, similar to the first image portion of the first image, is estimated. A second image portion of the first or second image, similar to the second image portion of the key image, is sought. The relative pose of the object is then estimated according to the relative poses of the first image portions and the second image portions.
US08903174B2
Various embodiments are disclosed that relate to serially displaying text on an electronic display using techniques for placement of an optimal recognition position of words at a fixed display location. In some embodiments, an optimal recognition position character is displayed at the fixed display location. In other embodiments, an optimal recognition proportionate position is displayed at the fixed display location. Various related techniques for processing and displaying text are further disclosed herein.
US08903171B2
The invention relates to a method, device and computer-program product for detection of undesired temporal variations (flicker) in a sequence of video frames. In one embodiment, frame-wise luminance means are compared with a reference level and the crossing frequency is compared with expected variation frequencies, such as frequencies associated with an illumination frequency through aliasing. The crossings count can be refined by introducing a latency zone around the reference level. In case of a positive detection of an undesired temporal variation, there is further provided a correction method, device and computer-program product using cumulated distribution functions. The visual detriment of flicker-induced saturation of pixels is alleviated either by brightening non-saturated pixels or by replacing the saturated pixels by randomly sampled values in accordance with a reference cumulated distribution function. The invention provides embodiments suitable for real-time processing of streamed video sequences.
US08903164B2
A disparity calculating apparatus which calculates a disparity value from a stereo image including first and second images includes: an image dividing unit which divides the first image into segments; a reference point determining unit which sets reference points to the first image; a corresponding point detecting unit which (i) calculates, for each reference point, a corresponding point which is included in the second image and corresponds to the reference point, based on phase information of images obtained by performing Fourier transform on the first image and the second image, (ii) calculates a disparity value using the reference point and each corresponding point, and (iii) calculates a reliability of the disparity value; and a disparity assigning unit which assigns each of the segments which includes a corresponding one of the reference points the disparity value and the reliability calculated by the corresponding point detecting unit.
US08903163B2
A method for determining a location of a target includes, at a first location, determining first location coordinates of a measuring device using one or more GNSS signals, determining a first gravitational direction, and capturing a first image using the camera. The method also includes, at a second location, determining second location coordinates of the measuring device, and capturing a second image. The method further includes determining a plurality of correspondence points between the first and second images, determining a first plurality of image coordinates for the plurality of correspondence points in the first image, determining a second plurality of image coordinates for the plurality of correspondence points in the second image, and determining the location of the target using at least the first plurality of image coordinates, the second plurality of image coordinates, and the first gravitational direction.
US08903160B2
An apparatus and method of planning a traveling path of a mobile robot, the apparatus and method including a pattern extracting unit, a pattern direction extracting unit, and a path generating unit. The pattern extracting unit may extract at least one pattern from an image of a ceiling captured in a ceiling direction. The pattern direction extracting unit may extract a pattern direction of the image in the form of a line from the at least one extracted pattern. The path generating unit may generate a traveling path of the mobile robot based on the extracted pattern direction.
US08903153B2
The invention relates to a system (100) for extracting an object (Ob) from a source image, said object being delineated by a contour (C), the system (100) comprising a gradient unit (110) for computing the source image gradient field, based on the source image, a smoothing unit (120) for smoothing the source image gradient field, and an integration unit (130) for calculating an object image by integrating the smoothed source image gradient field, thereby extracting the object (Ob) from the source image. At each point of the source image, the smoothing is defined by a 2-dimensional convolution kernel which is a product of a first 1-dimensional convolution kernel in the first direction substantially parallel to the contour (C), and a second 1-dimensional convolution kernel in the second direction substantially normal to the contour (C). The first 1-dimensional convolution kernel defines smoothing within each region separated by the contour, while the second 1-dimensional convolution kernel defines smoothing across the contour separating two regions, independently of the orientation of the object and the contour curvature.
US08903148B2
An X-ray imaging apparatus and a method of updating a pixel map correct a bad pixel of an X-ray transmission image. An X-ray transmission image is generated by detecting an X-ray penetrating an object, and it is determined whether a difference between a value of each one of the pixels forming the X-ray transmission image and a value of a nearby pixel adjacent to the each one of the pixels is equal to or greater than a reference value. A pixel having a value representing a difference equal to or greater than the reference value is determined as a candidate for a bad pixel. A message is displayed which requests a selection of whether to determine if the candidate is a bad pixel. The pixel map is updated by reflecting the determined bad pixel on the pixel map.
US08903146B2
According to one embodiment, an image diagnosis apparatus includes a line shape information generating unit and a comparing unit. The line shape information generating unit is configured to generate first line shape information corresponding to a first medical image and second line shape information corresponding to a second medical image, respectively. The comparing unit is configured to compare the generated first line shape information with the second line shape information.
US08903144B2
An endoscope apparatus including: an image pickup portion that picks up an image of an object; and a measurement portion that measures the object based on the image of the object obtained by the image pickup portion, in which the measurement portion includes: a specification portion that specifies three base points on the image; a composing point calculation portion that calculates composing points forming an object region of the object, based on an image region that is based on a plurality of points, the points set on a line determined by the three base points that are specified by the specification portion; and a size calculation portion that calculates a size of the object based on the composing points.
US08903141B2
An electronic device may include a housing, and a finger sensor carried by the housing to sense a user's finger placement at different rotational angles. The electronic device may also include an orientation sensor carried by the housing to sense an orientation thereof, and a processor coupled to the finger sensor and the orientation sensor. The processor may acquire finger-matching biometric data of the user's finger at an unknown rotational angle relative to a known rotational angle of finger-enrollment data, generate an estimated rotational angle of the acquired finger-matching biometric data and based upon a sensed orientation of the housing, and attempt an authentication of the user based upon the estimated acquired rotational angle.
US08903134B2
Systems and methods for acquiring accurate maps of near-shore depth and surface currents are disclosed. An imaging platform is provided which is able to obtain a time series of overhead images of an area of a body of water having pixel intensity correlated with wave height. The platform may be on a tower, or may be airborne, space-borne, or ship-borne. The imaging modality may be optical, radar, or LIDAR. Image processing corrects the images, as and if needed, such they are mapped onto a grid of fixed coordinates, and the pixel intensities have a near linear relationship to wave height. A two-dimensional Fourier transform of each image is obtained, then the extremum of an objective function is found, wherein the objective function is a function of the depth and surface current (velocity) vector at each pixel location, and the extremum is sharply peaked at a particular set of depth and a particular set of surface current vector values. A pixel-by-pixel map of depths and or currents can be produced.
US08903130B1
A method and apparatus for virtual camera operation is disclosed. Virtual camera operation may include identifying potential subjects of a video stream by identifying faces of participants in the input video stream. Virtual camera operation may include determining a speaking state of each participant in the input video stream based on their respective identified face. Virtual camera operation may include identifying a subject of the input video stream based on the speaking state. Virtual camera operation may include generating, using a processor, an output video stream including a portion of the input video stream based on the subject.
US08903118B2
The present invention provides a dome diaphragm having high strength wholly and uniformly while maintaining a small thickness of a dome portion. A diaphragm 1 according to the present invention is a dome diaphragm including a dome portion 2. The dome portion 2 is divided into a plurality of small portions 4, and a ridge portion 7 is formed at a boundary of the small portions 4. In accordance with this configuration, the ridge portions 7 exist over the entire dome portion 2, and the ridge portions 7 can serve as frames for reinforcing the dome portion 2.
US08903114B2
An in-ear device comprises a main body for placement in the outer ear of a wearer and has at least two derivative canals each containing a filtering medium differing from one another in terms of their frequency suppression capabilities, and a preferably rotatable knob enabling selection of the respective filtering canal without the need for removal of the device from the ear.
US08903108B2
Devices and methods are disclosed that allow for selective acoustic near-field nulls for microphone arrays. One embodiment may take the form of an electronic device including a speaker and a microphone array. The microphone array may include a first microphone positioned a first distance from the speaker and a second microphone positioned a second distance from the speaker. The first and second microphones are configured to receive an acoustic signal. The microphone array further includes a complex vector filter coupled to the second microphone. The complex vector filter is applied to an output signal of the second microphone to generate an acoustic sensitivity pattern for the array that provides an acoustic null at the location of the speaker.
US08903104B2
A three-dimensional (3D) sound gaming application can include an ultrasonic sound system, one or more gamers, a gaming console and a throat microphone set. The ultrasonic sound system can include a digital signal processing (DSP) that can adjust the phase, delay, reverb, echo, gain, magnitude or other audio signal component of an audio signal or audio signal components received from the gaming console; an amplifier which can amplify the processed audio signal; and a pair of emitters which can emit ultrasonic signals to each of the gamer's ears to produce a 3D sound effect. The throat microphone set can include a throat microphone which can integrate a low pass filter to attenuate any picked up, ultrasonic carrier frequency signals from the emitted ultrasonic waves. In addition, the throat microphone set can also include an ear speaker piece with one or more apertures for allowing sound produced by ultrasonic waves to enter the gamer's ear canal.
US08903103B2
A receiving device includes a receiving unit receiving a transmission signal of audio data sampled by a first clock from a transmitting device, a received data processing unit selectively executing an asynchronous mode process for executing demodulation of the audio data with respect to the transmission signal received in the receiving unit with a second clock which is asynchronous with the first clock and has the same frequency as the first clock and outputting the demodulated audio data and a re-sampling mode process for performing re-sampling with respect to the audio data obtained from the transmission signal received in the receiving unit and outputting the audio data re-sampled with the second clock, and a control unit controlling the received data processing unit to execute any one of the asynchronous mode process and the re-sampling mode process.
US08903081B2
When receiving Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) information, we provide a way to determine whether to store such, which may include sensitive user input information. More specifically, a media gateway (MG) obtains DTMF digit mask control information, which indicates whether DTMF digit information may include sensitive user input information not suitable for storage. Based thereon, it decides, whether to store the received DTMF digit information. In this way, the DTMF digit mask control information controls whether to store the user input information on the DTMF digit information processing device in the architecture with the service function being separated from the bearing function; thus, avoiding information security risks brought by indiscriminate storage of sensitive contents in the user input information.
US08903073B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a system for generating an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) database, the system comprising a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory comprising a list of telephone numbers associated with one or more destinations implementing IVR menus, wherein the one or more destinations are grouped based on a plurality of categories of the IVR menus. Further the memory includes instructions executable by said processor for automatically communicating with the one of more destinations, and receiving at least one customization record from said at least one destination to store in the IVR database.
US08903065B2
A call interlocking system according to the present invention includes a plurality of in-house control apparatuses each including, data relay means for relaying communication data between a telephone and a call control server and communication data between an information display terminal and an information providing server respectively, and interlocking means for determining whether or not it is possible to interlock a telephone call performed by the telephone with a service that the information display terminal requests to start, and for notifying, when the interlocking means determines that the interlocking is possible, a start request of the service including information for specifying the telephone call to the information providing server, and an information providing server that interlocks the service with the telephone call and provides the interlocked service based on the start request of the service notified from the in-house control apparatus.
US08903056B2
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for responding to a communication. The communication is received from a sender's address and is destined for a recipient's address. An audible message associated with the sender's address is retrieved. The audible message is sent to a server that stores messages associated with the sender.
US08903050B2
A particular method includes receiving first data indicating a measured strength of an ambient electromagnetic signal in a particular frequency range during a particular time period and at a particular location. The method also includes receiving second data indicating a bit loading within a portion of a wireline network in the particular frequency range during the particular time period. The portion of the wireline network provides service within a service area proximate to the particular location. The method also includes determining a correlation of changes in the second data during the particular time period to changes in the first data during the particular time period. The method further includes identifying at least one issue associated with the wireline network based on the correlation.
US08903043B2
In an X-ray detector operating in a rolling shutter read out mode, by precisely synchronizing sample rotation with the detector readout, the effects of timing skew on the image intensities and angular positions caused by the rolling shutter read out can be compensated by interpolation or calculation, thus allowing the data to be accurately integrated with conventional software. In one embodiment, the reflection intensities are interpolated with respect to time to recreate data that is synchronized to a predetermined time. This interpolated data can then be processed by any conventional integration routine to generate a 3D model of the sample. In another embodiment a 3D integration routine is specially adapted to allow the time-skewed data to be processed directly and generate a 3D model of the sample.
US08903042B2
In a radiographic system and a radiographic image generating method that generate a phase contrast image and an absorption image of an subject, the absorption image in which density irregularity is removed or reduced is generated on the basis of a plurality of pieces of image data obtained for generating the phase contrast image.
US08903041B2
According to one embodiment, an image generation unit generates a first image during a large aperture period and a second image during a small aperture period. An image combining unit generates a composite image based on the latest second image and the specific first image. A display unit displays the composite image in real time. A determination unit determines whether to update the first image based on an index associated with the anatomical positional shift between the first image and the second image. A driving control unit enlarges a aperture to the large aperture, when the determination unit determines to update, and maintains the aperture at the small aperture, when the determination unit determines not to update.
US08903029B2
A method for minimizing unwanted signal harmonics from at least one signal in a channel received through a monobit receiver, comprising: conditioning (312) the channel, determining (318, 320) relative strength between two frequency components of a signal within the channel, and using that relative strength (322) to control (324) how the channel is conditioned. In other embodiments, a system for receiving signals in a channel and minimizing unwanted harmonics from those signals has a monobit receiver (104, 204), a channel conditioner (124, 228, 230), and a feedback driver (114, 118, 208, 216, 218, 224) determining relative strength (116, 122, 220, 222, 226) between two frequency components of a received signal and using that determination to control the channel conditioner in a way that urges the relative strength toward a desired value.
US08903020B2
A radio signal receiving system for providing a signal to a transceiver includes a signal retrieving module and a signal processing module. The signal retrieving module retrieves a radio signal through one of a conducting wire in an electrical outlet, a conducting wire in a vehicular cigarette lighter, and a metallic vehicular casing. The radio signal receiving system operates without any conventional self-contained antenna and includes a radio signal receiving carrier which is either made from a conventional conducting wire or made of a metal to thereby enhance the efficiency of signal reception.
US08903016B2
Spatial spreading is performed in a multi-antenna system to randomize an “effective” channel observed by a receiving entity for each transmitted data symbol block. For a MIMO system, at a transmitting entity, data is processed (e.g., encoded, interleaved, and modulated) to obtain ND data symbol blocks to be transmitted in NM transmission spans, where ND≧1 and NM>1. The ND blocks are partitioned into NM data symbol subblocks, one subblock for each transmission span. A steering matrix is selected (e.g., in a deterministic or pseudo-random manner from among a set of L steering matrices, where L>1) for each subblock. Each data symbol subblock is spatially processed with the steering matrix selected for that subblock to obtain transmit symbols, which are further processed and transmitted via NT transmit antennas in one transmission span. The ND data symbol blocks are thus spatially processed with NM steering matrices and observe an ensemble of channels.
US08903015B2
A method used in a transmitting device comprising a non-linear amplifier and a digital predistortion (DPD) circuit. The method updates real and imaginary look-up tables used by the DPD. The method comprises: i) time-aligning a complex input signal, A, and a complex output signal, E. Signal A is a scan from 0 to a maximum value comprising N discrete points and signal E also comprises N discrete points. The method comprises: ii) performing an array division of A/E=(Yr, Yi), where Yr and Yi are the real and imaginary components, respectively; and iii) computing a real curve and an imaginary curve using curve-fitting algorithms that best fit the data with coordinates (|A|, Yr) and (|A|, Yi). The method stores the real curve in a real lookup table (LUT) and the imaginary curve in an imaginary lookup table (LUT). The method iteratively updates the real LUT and the imaginary LUT.
US08903005B2
The present invention discloses a method for sending channel information, and a terminal, a base station and an LTE-A system. The method comprises: a mobile terminal acquiring channel information; determining, in a codebook space, an RI and a PMI corresponding to the channel information according to the channel information; and sending the RI and the PMI to a base station. By way of the present invention, the effects of improving the throughput of an LTE-A system and the frequency spectrum efficiency thereof are achieved.
US08903001B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a method for estimating a channel between a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver are described. According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving a signal that includes non-pilot data that is not known to a receiver of the signal; determining an estimated channel for the signal based, at least in part, on the non-pilot data; processing the signal based, at least in part, on the estimated channel to produce an equalized signal; and decoding the equalized signal to produce output data.
US08902993B2
A signal transmission apparatus includes: a multiplex unit generating B/Rch by multiplexing image signals read from B, R pixels arranged in the same sample alternately on active regions corresponding to Cch in HD-SDI with a start code similar to SAV or EAV, in which image signals sequentially read in a line direction and inputted with a given number of samples from an imaging device having an RGB full pixel structure in which R, G and B pixels disposed in one sample respectively output R, G and B image signals, as well as generating Gch by sequentially multiplexing image signals read from samples of G pixels adjacent in the line direction on active regions corresponding to Ych in HD-SDI with the start code; and an 8B/10B encoder outputting serial digital data obtained by 8B/10B encoding and converting active regions in the B/R ch and the Gch having the data structure corresponding to HD-SDI as well as auxiliary data regions including SAV, EAV, LN and CRCC.
US08902992B2
A decoder (100) is disclosed, which selectively reconstructs at least one predetermined data unit out of a coded bit stream (c). The decoder (100) includes a parsing unit (120) to search and parse unambiguous information (up) characterizing the at least one predetermined data unit uniquely. Next, the parsing unit (120) provides this parsed information (up) either directly to a decoding unit (130) or to a look-up table (140) such that the decoding unit (130) could reconstruct the predetermined data unit directly out of the coded bit stream (c) based on the parsed information (up) without decoding and reconstructing the coded bit stream (c) completely. Optionally, a specification unit (110) provides an start position (us) of the coded bit stream (c) to the parsing unit (120) used for starting the search. Therewith, data traffic, computation time and memory resources could be saved for decoding and displaying e.g. compressed JPEG pictures.
US08902980B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for encoding a high fidelity video, and an apparatus and a method for decoding a high fidelity video. A video encoding method for encoding first to third planes having different color components includes performing intra prediction in the first plane or inter prediction between each frame for a block of the first plane, and generating a first residue corresponding to a difference between the block of the first plane and the predicted block of the first plane, predicting a block of the second plane using a reconstructed pixel peripheral to the block of the second plane and a reconstructed pixel peripheral to the block of the first plane corresponding to the reconstructed pixel peripheral to the block of the second plane, and generating a second residue corresponding to a difference between the block of the second plane and the predicted block of the second plane, predicting a block of the third plane using a reconstructed pixel peripheral to the block of the third plane and any one of a reconstructed pixel peripheral to the block of the first plane corresponding to the reconstructed pixel peripheral to the block of the third plane and a reconstructed pixel peripheral to the block of the second plane corresponding to the reconstructed pixel peripheral to the block of the third plane, and generating a third residue corresponding to a difference between the block of the third plane and the predicted block of the third plane, and encoding the first to third residues.
US08902979B2
A video encoding method and apparatus and a video decoding method and apparatus. In the video encoding method, a first predicted coding unit of a current coding unit that is to be encoded is produced, a second predicted coding unit is produced by changing a value of each pixel of the first predicted coding unit by using each pixel of the first predicted coding unit and at least one neighboring pixel of each pixel, and the difference between the current coding unit and the second predicted coding unit is encoded, thereby improving video prediction efficiency.
US08902978B2
A method and apparatus for signaling and receiving a video signal for processing is disclosed. Methods for determining a most probable mode for predicting a current prediction block are provided as well as new methods for grouping intra prediction modes into prediction groups. Methods for predicting a prediction block of video data as well as signaling intra prediction modes are also provided.
US08902966B2
A video decoding circuit comprising: a first video data processor; a second video data processor; and a connection connecting the first video data processor and the second data processor; wherein the first video data processor is arranged to receive a first signal comprising encoded video data, process the first signal to provide a second signal and output the second signal. The first video data processor being arranged to process the first signal dependent on at least part of the received first signal. The second video data processor is arranged to receive at least a part of the second signal, process the at least a part of the second signal to provide a third signal, and output the third signal, the second and third signals comprising a decoded video image stream. The second video data processor is arranged to process the at least part of the second signal dependent on at least part of the at least part of second signal.
US08902962B2
A method for compensating frequency response of a filter unit in remote radio unit in real time, said remote radio unit comprises filter unit equalizer, transmitter observation receiver and antenna calibration receiver, said method comprising the steps of: receiving input signal of said filter unit by transmitter observation receiver; receiving output signal of said filter unit by antenna calibration receiver; calculating coefficients of filter unit equalizer in real time based on said input signal and said output signal; updating said filter unit equalizer based on said calculated coefficients in order to compensate frequency response of said filter unit. A device to carry out the above method, remote radio unit comprising said device and a telecommunication system comprising said remote radio unit are also provided.
US08902961B1
A method in a wireless communication system having a forward channel corresponding to transmissions from a first device to a second device, and a reverse channel corresponding to transmissions from the second device to the first device, includes initiating, at the first device, a first update of a steering matrix. The steering matrix is used to beamform transmissions on the forward channel. The method also includes monitoring, at the first device, a plurality of reverse channel estimates corresponding to the reverse channel, determining, at the first device, a metric indicative of a rate of change in the reverse channel based on the plurality of reverse channel estimates, and initiating, at the first device, a second update of the steering matrix based on a comparison between (i) the metric indicative of the rate of change in the reverse channel and (ii) a threshold.
US08902959B2
The present invention includes receiving a signal from an output of a dispersive communication channel established between a transmitter and a receiver, determining normalized Nyquist energy of the signal transmitted along the dispersive communication channel established between the transmitter and the receiver, and generating a mapping table configured to identify peaking value at or above a selected tolerance level at or near the Nyquist frequency for a signal received by the receiver based on the normalized Nyquist energy.
US08902957B2
A power line communication modem is provided, including a connection element configured to connect the power line communication modem to at least three wires of a power line network; a transmitter configured to transmit a first signal via a first combination of at least two wires of the at least three wires and to transmit a second signal via a second combination of at least two wires of the at least three wires; a controller adapted to individually control a transmit power of the first signal and the second signal. A corresponding power line communication system and a power line communication method are provided as well.
US08902952B2
A method for acquiring a code phase shift between an input sequence and a reference sequence is provided. The method is to be implemented using an acquisition device that includes a mapping unit configured to transform the input sequence and the reference sequence respectively into an input signal and a reference signal each with a complex phase, a comparison unit configured to compare the input signal with the reference signal so as to obtain a phase coherent indicator, and calculating unit configured to obtain the code phase shift between the input sequence and the reference sequence based on a phase of the phase coherent indicator and a number of bits of the input sequence.
US08902950B2
Methods and apparatus for wireless communication in a wireless communication network that includes receiving a synchronization channel (SCH) signal (including a primary synchronization channel (PSCH) signal, a secondary synchronization channel (SSCH) signal, and a primary scrambling code (PCH) signal) and a part of a common pilot channel (CPICH) signal in the same portion of the slot of the frame. The aspects include determining and summing the PSCH signal, SSCH signal, and PCH signal corresponding to the portion of the slot of the frame. The aspects also include de-spreading the pilot symbol over the portion of the slot of the frame based on the summed PSCH signal, the SSCH signal, and the PCH signal and estimating an estimated pilot symbol for the portion of the slot of the frame, where the estimated pilot symbol is a sum of the de-spread PSCH signal, de-spread SSCH signal, and de-spread PCH signal.
US08902943B2
A system for cooling electronic components is provided, the system comprising: a first electronic component having a first operating temperature; a second electronic component having a second operating temperature greater than the first operating temperature; a vapor compression loop configured to cool the first electronic component to the first operating temperature; a pumped cooling loop configured to cool the second electronic component to the second operating temperature; and a heat exchanger between the vapor compression loop and the pumped cooling loop, the heat exchanger configured to transfer heat from the pumped cooling loop to the vapor compression loop before the second electronic component is cooled and after the first electronic component is cooled.
US08902940B2
The present invention relates to a light source control method capable of decreasing the dependence of a pulse width (FWHM) of an output pulsed light on a repetition frequency. A pulsed light source has an MOPA structure, and has a seed light source and an optical fiber amplifier. The seed light source includes a semiconductor laser which is directly modulated and outputs a pulsed light. By adjusting a temperature of the seed light source and a pumping light power of the optical fiber amplifier, a predetermined full width half maximum of a pulse at a predetermined repetition frequency is implemented for the pulsed light outputted from the optical fiber amplifier.
US08902936B2
A sensor event assessor input/output controller is disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-channel sensor input configuration provides two-way communication with a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors having its own channel. An electronic signal receiver receives electronic signals from one or more of the plurality of sensors at a pre-defined sample rate. A signal combiner bundles the electronic signals from one or more of the plurality of sensors into a single electronic signal. A single channel output is used to provide the single electronic signal to the sensor event assessor.
US08902929B2
An approximate enumerative coding method (100, 200) and apparatus (300) employ a cardinality-approximating (C-A) lower bound in mapping a message M to a 2-dimensional (2-D) codeword array that satisfies a 2-D constraint. The method (100) includes encoding the message M as a codeword array X using an encoder apparatus. The encoding determines entries in a codeword array X using the C-A lower bound. The C-A lower bound is a function of several terms, namely a memory term k, a cardinality of a set of sequences satisfying a horizontal constraint, a columnar extension probability of the 2-D constraint, and a non-negative constant that is a function of the columnar extension probability. The apparatus (300) includes an encoder processor (310), memory (320) and a computer program (330) stored in the memory (320) and executed by the encoder processor (310).
US08902927B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing a variety of medium access control (MAC) header formats in wireless communications. The MAC header formats can be specialized for a particular type of data included in a protocol data unit (PDU). In addition, the MAC headers can have a variable length to accommodate payloads of varying sizes without incurring unnecessary overhead. Further, mechanisms are provided to enable direct access and delivery of control PDUs to associated protocol layers to ensure better quality of service treatment.
US08902926B2
Various embodiments are directed to a portable voice and data radio base station to couple to a mobile computing device. When coupled, the portable voice and data radio base station and the mobile computing device may cooperatively form a wireless access point to enable communications among a network and other local wireless communication devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08902925B2
A method for determining an initial alignment for a frame of input data is provided. A frame for the input data is set, and the frame is synchronized. Specifically, a syndrome check of the frame is performed using a first predetermined number of bits, and a slip of a second predetermined number of bits is requested following the syndrome check. Evaluation of the syndrome check to determine whether the frame is aligned can then be performed in parallel with the slipping. The evaluation and slipping can then be repeated if the frame is misaligned. When the frame is aligned, a lock condition can be indicated, and the slip performed in parallel with the evaluation indicating that the frame is aligned can be deasserted. In addition, when the frame is aligned, error correction on the frame can be performed, and the error corrected frame can be formatted.
US08902923B2
A wireless device which operates according to a first protocol specification in active durations specified by the first protocol, and according to a second protocol specification in the idle durations specified by the first protocol specification. In an embodiment, the first protocol specification corresponds to IEEE 802.15.4 standard and the second protocol specification corresponds to IEEE 802.11 family of standards.
US08902918B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a high speed uplink packet access adaptive retransmission method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a resource limitation state; performing adjustment decision according to the resource limitation state and a current target number of retransmissions of a UE; and adjusting the target number of retransmissions of the UE between a preset large target number of retransmissions and a preset small target number of retransmissions, where the large target number of retransmissions is greater than the small target number of retransmissions. The utilization rate of resources may be effectively improved.
US08902913B2
A relay device with efficient service change handling, and method there for, is provided. The relay comprises: a processor; a memory; a communication interface; and a plurality of connection objects, each of the plurality of connection objects comprising a respective queue of messages, each of the messages for relay in association with respective devices via the communication interface, the processor enabled to maintain, in the memory, a cache of associations between respective identifiers of the connection objects and identifiers associated with respective messages respectively queued therein; receive an indication of a service change to a given device; determine, from the cache, a subset of the plurality of connection objects comprising given messages associated with the given device; and, communicate only with the subset to apply an action associated with the service change to the given messages, while ignoring the remaining connection objects.
US08902907B2
Virtualized group-wise communications between a wireless network and a plurality of user equipments (UEs) are supported using UE cooperation. UE cooperation includes receiving, at a cooperating UE (CUE), downlink information from the wireless network destined for a target UE (TUE) and associated with a group identifier (ID). The group ID indicates a virtual multi-point (ViMP) node that includes the TUE and the CUE. The UE cooperation also includes sending the downlink information to the TUE. The UE or UE component can have a processor configured to forward between the wireless network and a TUE at least some information that is associated with a group ID indicating a ViMP node that groups the TUE and the UE.
US08902906B2
In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides receiving indication of an event at a platform operating in shared address mode, the platform having an auxiliary entity, in response to the indication of the event, switching operation of the platform to multi address mode by acquiring a second address, and assigning the second address to the auxiliary entity, and receiving one or more packets directed to the second address.
US08902904B2
Systems and methods for network assignment based on priority are described in this application. In one aspect, a technique for network assignment based on priority relates to establishing a connection between a client and a virtual local area network (VLAN), based on an explicit or implicit network priority preference of the client. In an embodiment, multiple VLANs can be combined into one network bundle, the network bundle being a unit network for priority specification. In addition, multiple network bundles may be available for network assignment on a particular network controller (e.g., network switch). For example, the preferred network of a client may be comprised of several individual VLANs. Thus, the client can be assigned to any of the constituent VLANs included in the preferred network bundle.
US08902901B2
Techniques for converting communication packets in a network having multiple nodes are described herein. A node may receive communication packets from one or more neighboring nodes. Each communication packet may include control data and payload data. The node may extract the payload data and store the payload data for a time period. The node may determine whether to concatenate the extracted payload data of the communication packets (e.g., based on destinations to where each of the extracted payload data are to be sent, a supported data rate, an application type associated with the extracted payload data, etc.). The node may concatenate the extracted payload data of the communication packets and send the concatenated payload data to another node in a communication packet.
US08902896B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a switching processor that includes logic configured for receiving a packet having a header and a payload, logic configured for determining, without using a look-up table, a destination port based on a destination address stored in the header, and logic configured for sending the packet to the destination port. In another embodiment, a system includes a processor adapted for executing logic, logic configured for creating an address allocation table having a plurality of values, each value being associated with a plurality of interne protocol (IP) addresses which, when an algorithm is applied thereto, result in the associated value, logic configured for receiving a request for an IP address from a device electrically connected to a switch, and logic configured for determining a port to which the device is electrically connected to the switch based on the port on which the request is received.
US08902895B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that allow for improved management and control of packet forwarding in network systems. Network devices and tool optimizers and a related systems and methods are disclosed for improved packet forwarding between input ports and output ports. The input ports and output ports are configured to be connected to source devices and destination devices, for example, network sources and destination tools in a network monitoring environment. The network devices and tool optimizers disclosed can use a packet processing system whereby forwarding behavior is governed by matching packets in parallel against multiple user-specified packet filtering criteria, and by performing forwarding actions associated with all such matching filter criteria. The multi-action packet forwarding can be implemented using hardware configured to directly provide multi-action packet forwarding and/or hardware configured to provide single-packet-forwarding that has been subsequently configured using filter engines to provide multi-action packet forwarding.
US08902878B2
Methods, systems and computer program products to synchronize timing of data transmissions between wireless and wired networks using a combined wireless gateway and cable modem are provided herein. The method includes the step of generating an indicator prior to a look-ahead time period and transmitting a poll to a wireless device upon sending the indicator. The look-ahead time period is a time period from transmitting the indicator to transmitting the DOCSIS frame. The method further includes the step of receiving data from the wireless device and encapsulating the data in a DOCSIS format to generate a DOCSIS frame. The method also includes transmitting the DOCSIS frame at a start of a next transmit opportunity to a cable modem termination system (CMTS).
US08902870B2
A wireless station within a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) includes a processor, a radio and a directional antenna. The radio gathers participatory data based on communications involving the wireless station and non-participatory data based on communications the wireless station listens to, but does not participate in. The processor produces an operational report based on the participatory data and the non-participatory data and provides the operational report to the WLAN. The processor further alters a gain vector of the directional antenna based on instructions received from the WLAN in response to the operational report.
US08902866B2
Wireless devices, e.g., in a cognitive radio network, discover and use locally available usable spectrum for communication. Beacon signaling facilitates available spectrum discovery, spectrum usage coordination, and device identification. A wireless terminal, which may have entered a new area and powered up, monitors to detect for the presence of beacon signals in a communications band. When the wireless terminal fails to detect a beacon, the wireless terminal assumes that the spectrum is available and transmits its user beacon signal thereby providing notification of its presence in the area to other wireless terminals. The wireless terminal maintains a coordinated timing relationship between its beacon transmit interval and beacon detect interval, which are performed on an ongoing basis. The combination of beacon TX interval and beacon monitoring interval represents a small fraction of total time, allowing for power conservation. The coordinated timing relationship, known to peers, facilitates efficient peer-peer communications session establishment.
US08902862B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting two signals on a single channel comprising a single frequency and a single time slot are disclosed. The method includes: generating a first training sequence from a first set of training sequences; generating a second training sequence from a second set of training sequences. The first and second training sequences have a low cross-correlation ratio with respect to each other; and the second set of training sequences is different from the first set of training sequences. First and second data are generated. The first data is combined with the first training sequence to produce first combined data and the second data is combined with the second training sequence to produce second combined data. The first and second combined data are transmitted on the single channel by a single transmitting apparatus.
US08902861B2
Techniques for sending signaling for data transmission in a wireless communication system are described. A transmitter may process signaling for a data transmission based on a block code, a convolutional code, a transformation, etc. The signaling may comprise an identifier of an intended receiver for the data transmission and/or other information such as data rate, resource assignment, etc. The signaling for the data transmission may be mapped to a first set of tones in a time slot. Data for the data transmission may be mapped to a second set of tones in the time slot. The entire signaling may be sent on the first set of tones. Alternatively, the first set of tones may be selected from among multiple sets of tones or pseudo-randomly selected from among available tones based on a first part of the signaling. A second part of the signaling may be sent on the first set of tones.
US08902857B2
In the method, communication is established between a mobile device and access points in a wireless local area network by first connecting to a first access point on a first channel. After the first connection is established, the method determines whether a second access point is available before disconnecting from the first connection. If a signal strength of the first connection drops below a signal strength threshold, the method second connects to the second access point on a second channel. The above-described method is an example of a make-before-break or soft handoff methodology.
US08902856B2
A method for assisting a wireless communication device to return to a first network from a second network subsequent to termination of a voice call for which a Circuit Switched Fallback procedure was performed to transition from the first network to the second network for servicing of the voice call is provided. The method can include preventing transmission of a data flow for a data service after termination of the voice call. The method can further include searching for the first network while transmission of the data flow is prevented. If the first network is found, the method can additionally include reverting to the first network and servicing the data service on the first network. If the first network is not found, the method can also include remaining on the second network and servicing the data service on the second network.
US08902853B2
Implementations and techniques for maintaining service priority for mobile devices during network handoffs are generally discussed.
US08902849B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting a reference signal in a multi-antenna system. A terminal generates a plurality of reference signal sequences in which cyclic shift values different from each other are allocated to the respective plurality of layers, and generates a single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbol to which the plurality of reference signal sequences are mapped. The SC-FDMA symbol is transmitted to a base station via a plurality of antennas. The cyclic shift values allocated to the respective layers are determined on the basis of a first cyclic shift value, which is a cyclic shift value allocated to a first layer from among the plurality of layers, and cyclic shift offsets which are allocated to the respective layers and which are different from each other.
US08902848B2
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for processing data sending and a method and an apparatus for processing data receiving, wherein, the method for processing data sending includes: allocating the number of spatial transmission layers and a pilot resource for transmission at each spatial transmission layer; generating pilot resource information according to the number of spatial transmission layers and the pilot resource for transmission at each spatial transmission layer; and sending the pilot resource information to user equipment (UE). According to the embodiments of the present invention, the UE is enabled to determine a specific pilot resource to be used so as to effectively distinguish between user channels, obtain a correct channel estimation value, improve channel estimation performance, and thus, obtain correct service data.
US08902847B2
A radio communication apparatus to perform communication with another radio communication apparatus by using a plurality of pairs of a downlink frequency band and an uplink frequency band, the apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a control message by using a downlink frequency band of a first pair among downlink frequency bands of the pairs during a random access procedure to said another radio communication apparatus, the control message including identification information indicating use of an uplink frequency band of a second pair different from the first pair, the downlink frequency band of the first pair being monitored for control messages by the radio communication apparatus; and a control unit configured to control the radio communication apparatus to perform data communication with said another radio communication apparatus by using the uplink frequency band of the second pair indicated by the identification information included in the control message.
US08902846B2
A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wireless communication system.
US08902837B2
Random access in a wireless communication system including a base station and a wireless terminal, whereby at the wireless terminal, performing first random access scheme using a first random access preamble or second random access scheme using a second random access preamble which is received from the base station.
US08902836B2
A system and method for random access in a wireless communication system including a base station and a wireless terminal, whereby at the wireless terminal, selecting, as information to perform random access using the information, first information used for first random access or second information used for second random access.
US08902832B2
A method (400) for coordinating access to a wireless medium among multiple co-located body area networks (BANs). The method comprises detecting, by a master device of a first BAN, at least one alien BAN using beacons received from at least one co-located BAN, wherein an alien BAN is a BAN having its round start time (RST) misaligned with a RST of the first BAN (S410); recording a RST offset between the first BAN and the at least one alien BAN (S420); based on the RST offset determining which of the first BAN and the at least one alien BAN is an initiator BAN and which is a target BAN (S430); and realigning the RST of the initiator BAN with the RST of the target BAN (S460).
US08902816B1
A communication system includes a transmitter. The transmitter transmits information by using a plurality of pre-coding codebooks.
US08902814B2
Provided is a multimedia broadcast and multicast service controlling apparatus and method based on a user location. The multimedia broadcast and multicast service controlling apparatus may receive MCCH information, may periodically update a service list of a mobile terminal based on the received MCCH information, the service list listing services that are providable, may register a service in a pending list when the service is not included in the updated service list and is requested to be provided, and may provide the service registered in the pending list when the mobile terminal reaches a location where the mobile terminal may provide the service registered in the pending list.
US08902812B1
A system is described for providing backhaul over an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON). The backhaul may be backhaul for EV-DO and/or EV-DO Rev. A communications. The system for includes at least one cell site. At least two base transceiver stations are located at the cell site. The base transceiver stations receive radio signals from respective mobile stations. A first one of the base transceiver stations provides a first backhaul signal, and a second one of the base transceiver stations provides a second backhaul signal. The cell site multiplexes these backhaul signals together onto an Ethernet passive optical network. In one embodiment, these signals are provided on different pseudowire connections within a single wavelength lambda on the passive optical network. In another embodiment, the signals are provided on different lambdas of the network.
US08902803B2
Systems, methods, and devices for reducing collisions in a wireless communications network are described herein. In some aspects, a receiver receives a paging message. The paging message includes an ordering and a multiplier. A processor determines a first wake-up time based on the ordering and the multiplier. The wireless device wakes up at the determined wake-up time. The wireless device receives data via the receiver.
US08902795B2
The present invention discloses a system and a method for improving service subscription or unsubscription speed for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) roaming users, wherein the system comprises a national WAP portal protocol conversion module and provincial WAP portal protocol conversion modules. The national WAP portal protocol conversion module and each provincial WAP portal protocol conversion module are configured to, through performing conversion between a synchronous message and an asynchronous message, inform a corresponding provincial WAP portal of a subscription or unsubscription request sent by a national WAP portal through a long connection link between the national WAP portal protocol conversion module and the provincial WAP portal protocol conversion module, and inform the national WAP portal of a processing result of subscription or unsubscription performed by the provincial WAP portal through the long connection link. The present invention accomplishes the conversion transmission of the synchronous message and asynchronous message through protocol conversion modules, reduces the load of the national WAP portal greatly, and makes it quite obvious that the service subscription or unsubscription speed for users is improved.
US08902787B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller adapted to determine at least one network element to be designated as being in a probation mode where the network element is operably coupled to an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network and is adapted to utilize Session Initiation Protocol, and determine communication devices to be designated as testing devices where the communication devices are user end point devices, wherein use of the network element for communication between user end points over the IMS network is limited to the testing devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08902772B2
A magnetic induction system is disclosed, which has antenna diversity at the transmitter side, but which does not require a bidirectional link to pass information regarding received signal quality back to the transmitter. The system uses a time division multiplexing access (TDMA) arrangement, to transmit the same, or correlated, information with a level of redundancy, from two, or more, antenna to at least a receiver. The or each receiver is configured to determine a received signal quality from the channel received from one antenna, and, in response to inadequate signal quality, to switch to another antenna. A receiver, and a transmitter for such a magnetic induction system are also disclosed, as is an associated method. A non-limiting application of such a system is in binaural hearing aids, in which antenna diversity is preferred at the transmitter because of space limitations.
US08902770B2
Format of a downlink control channel for a user equipment UE is changed in conjunction with switching the UE between being enabled for cross carrier scheduling and being disabled for cross carrier scheduling. The changed format is used on at least one serving cell of the UE's configured set of component carriers CCs. In one embodiment the changed format comprises an explicit carrier indicator field CIF for the case in which the switching is from disabled to enabled; and the changed format has no explicit CIF when the switching is from enabled to disabled. In another embodiment switching from disabled to enabled comprises the UE's configured set of CCs being changed from one to multiple cells; and switching from enabled to disabled comprises the UE's configured set of CCs being changed from multiple cells to one cell. In one embodiment the changed format is implicit.
US08902769B1
A wireless access point configured to support a wireless home network among multiple wireless devices contending with one another for access to a shared wireless communication medium. The wireless access point comprises a link monitor and a link manager. The link monitor monitors communication links with each of the wireless devices and for detects oversubscription of the wireless communication medium by the communication links. The link manager couples to the link monitor and is responsive to an oversubscription indication therefrom to arbitrate access to the shared wireless communication medium among the contending wireless devices.
US08902765B1
A method and apparatus for congestion and fault management with time-to-live (TTL) have been disclosed. Each time a packet is transferred into an Egress Port's Final Buffer, an associated TTL Timeout Counter will be loaded with a value. If the packet cannot be transferred out of the Egress Port before TTL timeout, it will be purged by removing a memory buffer pointer from the corresponding Virtual Output Queue (VOQ) entry.
US08902761B2
A method and apparatus providing a network topology management of a wireless communication network are disclosed. The method discovers network topology data of the wireless communication network, wherein the wireless communication network comprises a self-healing capability, and identifies a difference between the network topology data that is discovered against a stored network topology data of the wireless communication network. The method updates the stored network topology data with the difference that is identified.
US08902756B2
The end of a communication period can be detected reliably and efficiently by a control unit and validity/invalidity of search rules in a search table can be effectively managed. A timer is provided so as to correspond to each entry area of the search table. Then, under control of a timer managing unit, the timer starts a counting operation whenever information is written in a validity management table or a packet in which a communication parameter matches a packet search condition corresponding to information on the validity management table that is set as valid is received. In addition, when a counting time of the timer exceeds a preset time-out time, information indicating the time-out is stored in a time-out management table.
US08902751B1
A system and method provides for delivering substantially uniform performance to all hosts in a network while minimizing a total number of switches required to deliver that performance. In a multi-stage network having a plurality of switches in a first tier and a plurality of switches in a second tier, additional switches may be deployed in the second tier to alleviate problems occurring as a result of uneven striping. A minimum number of second tier switches to be deployed may be determined as a function of a target level of throughput, for example, when using WCMP flow distribution.
US08902741B2
Embodiments of user equipment and methods for reducing delay in a radio-access network (RAN) are generally described herein. Embodiments disclosed herein provide enhancements that may be applicable to a 3GPP LTE RAN for reducing delay that may be particularly beneficial for real-time over-the-top (OTT) applications. Some embodiments provide for an uplink delayed buffer status report. Some embodiments provide for a downlink congestion and buffer report. Some embodiments provide for traffic characteristic based inter-UE prioritization.
US08902739B2
A wireless communication system (20) includes backhaul congestion control. Whenever congestion is detected on the backhaul, a flow control message sets a window size to a reduced window size to reduce or eliminate packet drops and to facilitate alleviating the congestion condition. A disclosed example includes detecting backhaul congestion and responsively reducing an available backhaul receiver buffer space factor used for setting the window size for a subsequent backhaul transmission. In a disclosed example, the buffer space factor is gradually increased back toward an actual available buffer space as the congestion status improves.
US08902738B2
In one embodiment, active links are added to, and removed from, a multichassis link bundle with one side of the multichassis link bundle terminated on multiple devices of a multichassis device. In one embodiment, adding active links includes selecting which particular device to which to add an active link to the multichassis link bundle based on a device priority of each of the multiple devices, with a device priority of a given device being based on a current number of active links associated with the given device.
US08902728B2
A method is described of constructing a transition route in a data communication network having as components nodes and links. Upon receipt of a transition notification identifying a first component a non-neighboring node constructs a transition route around the first component. In an embodiment, a node performs detecting the first component transition; issuing a transition notification identifying the first component and recognizable by nodes configured to construct a transition route around the first component; and upon expiry of a notification transition period, issuing a transition advertisement recognizable by all nodes on the network.
US08902727B2
Systems and methods for transmitting and receiving OFDM symbols are provided which enable the otherwise wasted transmission time normally used as a prefix for each OFDM symbol to contain useful information. At the receiver, the received signal is processed to convert received OFDM symbols from a linear convolution with the channel to a cyclic convolution.
US08902726B1
Frame synchronization techniques are described. In an implementation, a method implemented by a device includes using an objective function to form a list of values for a plurality of time trials, the time trials taken from a scan of a wireless signal having a plurality of channels. A single one of the values is selected for each of the plurality of channels to detect a preamble of a frame in the wireless signal. If the preamble is not detected as a result of the selecting, at least one additional value is chosen from the list for a respective channel to detect the preamble of the frame in the wireless signal.
US08902721B1
A method and device for determining frequency error to extend the pull-in range of a timing recovery circuit for a storage device such as an optical disc drive. A code associated with a storage format of the storage device is detected, and the distance between occurrences of the code is determined. The calculated distance is compared with the expected distance to determine the difference. Based on the difference, the frequency error is determined.
US08902717B1
A clock assembly containing a specialized clockwork. The clockwork contains a hub of three concentric posts upon which are mounted the second hand, minute hand, and hour hand of the clock. The post that connects to the second hand is the widest and shortest post on the hub. Consequently, when a second hand is connected to this outer-most post, the second hand can rotate under the minute hand and the hour hand closest to the clock face. By positioning the second hand post on the exterior of the hub, a 1:1 ratio can be maintained between the rotations of the clock motor and the rotations of the second hand post. This enables the full power of the motor to be transferred to the second hand post. Accordingly, the clockwork is capable of move, large, heavy, and unbalanced second hands.
US08902709B2
In various embodiments, the present disclosure describes methods for processing seismic data to concurrently produce a velocity model and a depth image. Various embodiments of the methods include: a) acquiring seismic data; b) generating a shallow velocity model from the seismic data; c) generating a stacking velocity model using the shallow velocity model as a guide; d) generating an initial interval velocity model from the stacking velocity model; and e) generating an initial depth image using the initial interval velocity model. The methods also include iterative improvement of the initial depth image and the initial interval velocity model to produce improved depth images and improved interval velocity models. Improvement of the depth images and the interval velocity models is evaluated by using a congruency test.
US08902702B2
Methods of and apparatus to image one or more subsurface formation features are disclosed. An example method includes generating acoustic waves with a transmitter and receiving the acoustic waves and acoustic data contained therein at one or more receivers. The example method also includes extracting one or more S-S, P-S or S-P reflected waveform data from the acoustic data, estimating a dip of the one or more subsurface formation features, migrating the one or more S-S, P-S or S-P reflected waveform data with the estimated dip and mapping the migrated one or more S-S, P-S or S-P reflected waveform data. In addition, the example method includes identifying one or more permeable subsurface formation features using the mapped migrated one or more S-S, P-S or S-P reflected waveform data.
US08902701B2
Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to determine anisotropy indicators for subterranean formations are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes computing a first shear slowness value from measured quadrupole waves, computing a second shear slowness value from measured Stoneley waves, and comparing the first and second shear slowness values to determine an anisotropy indicator representative of anisotropy of a subterranean formation.
US08902697B2
A technique includes providing seismic data that is indicative of energy that is sensed in response to a first operation of at least one seismic source in a first seismic survey and a second operation of at least one seismic source in a second seismic survey. The technique includes processing the seismic data to determine a timing of the second operation relative to the first operation, and the technique includes based at least in part of the determined timing, processing the seismic data to generate a dataset, which is indicative of the sensed energy that is attributable to the first operation and is not attributable to the second operation.
US08902692B2
A dynamic random access memory device may include DRAM memory cells including several lines of memory cells, and line selection circuitry associated with each line. The line selection circuitry may include a first voltage-elevator stage configured to receive two initial control logic signals each having an initial voltage level corresponding to a first logic state, and to deliver two intermediate control logic signals each having an intermediate voltage level above the initial level and corresponding to the first logic state. The line selection circuitry may also include a control circuit to be supplied by PMOS transistors with a supply voltage having a second voltage level greater than the intermediate voltage level, and configured to, in the presence of the two intermediate control logic signals have their first logic state deliver to the gates of the memory cell transistors, a selection logic signal having the second voltage level.
US08902680B2
Various embodiments comprise apparatuses to assign unique device identifier values to addressable devices in a stacked package. In one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed including a stacked package with at least two addressable devices. Each of the addressable devices includes data input and switch path circuitry, a shift register coupled to the data input and switch path circuitry, and a single through-substrate via (TSV) through which the unique device identifier values can be assigned. The single TSV is coupled to the data input and switch path circuitry and between adjacent ones of the at least two addressable devices. Additional apparatuses, systems, and methods are described.
US08902679B2
Disclosed is a memory array structure, where a wordline driver selectively applies a high on-state voltage (VWLH) or a low off-state voltage (VWLL) to a wordline. VWLH has a slightly negative temperature coefficient so that it is regulated as high as the gate dielectric reliability limits allow, whereas VWLL has a substantially neutral temperature coefficient. To accomplish this, the wordline driver is coupled to one or more voltage regulation circuits. In one embodiment, the wordline driver is coupled to a single voltage regulation circuit, which incorporates a single voltage reference circuit having a single output stage that outputs multiple reference voltages. Also disclosed is a voltage reference circuit, which can be incorporated into the voltage regulation circuit of a memory array structure, as described, or, alternatively, into any other integrated circuit structure requiring voltages with different temperature coefficients. Also disclosed is a method of operating a memory array structure.
US08902675B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a memory cell array that includes a plurality of cell columns each configured by a plurality of memory cells, and a column control circuit that includes a plurality of sense amplifier-data latch units each including a plurality of sense amplifiers that detect and amplify data of the memory cells and a plurality of data latches. One of the plurality of sense amplifier-data latch units is a first sense amplifier-data latch unit and another of the plurality of sense amplifier-data latch units is a second sense amplifier-data latch unit, the first sense amplifier-data latch unit and the second sense amplifier-data latch unit having different numbers of the cell columns capable of being handled.
US08902673B2
A method of testing a semiconductor memory device includes writing first data to a memory cell array in the semiconductor memory device, loading second data from the memory cell array onto a plurality of data pads of the semiconductor memory device, rewriting the second data to the memory cell array, and outputting test result data through one or more test pads. The first data is received from an external device through the one or more test pads, which correspond to one or more of the plurality of data pads. The test result data is based on the rewritten data in the memory cell array.
US08902671B2
A method for programming data is provided for a memory storage device having a rewritable non-volatile memory module and a buffer memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of data including a first-type data and at least one second-type data, and a size of the first-type data is smaller than a data size threshold. The method includes temporarily storing the plurality of data into the buffer memory, and programming the first-type data and at least one part of the at least one second-type data stored in the buffer memory into a physical program unit set if it is determined that the plurality of data are complied with a predetermined condition. The method includes obtaining writing statuses of the first-type data and the at least one part of the at least one second-type data at the same time.
US08902670B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes memory cell arrays each including blocks. The block is unit of erase and includes string-groups. Each string-group includes strings each including a first transistor, memory cell transistors, a second transistor coupled in series. The first transistor is connected to different bit line and the second transistor is connected to same source line. The memory cell arrays are provided with different respective block address signals. The memory cell arrays are provided with different respective string address signals. Each of the block address signals specifies one block. Each of the string address signals specifies one string-group.
US08902668B1
Memory cells which have read noise are identified during a programming pass and an amount of programming is increased for noisy memory cells compared to non-noisy cells. The read noise is indicated by a decrease in the threshold voltage of a cell when the cell is repeatedly read. During the programming pass, a cell enters a temporary lockout state when it passes a first verify test. In this state, the cell is subject to one or more additional verify tests. If the one or more additional verify tests indicate that the threshold voltage of a cell has decreased, the cell is noisy and is soft programmed before being permanently locked out. In contrast, programming of a non-noisy cell is concluded after the first verify test without further programming.
US08902658B1
Erasing memory cells in certain 3-D NAND charge-storage memory arrays is achieved by rapidly charging vertical conductors using Gate Induced Drain Leakage (GIDL) current generated in select transistors. When bit line voltage drops below its nominal value, select line voltage is controlled to maintain a constant voltage difference between bit line voltage and select line voltage thus maintaining a gate-drain voltage difference in select transistors that provides sufficient GIDL current for erase.
US08902656B2
An integrated circuit device comprises a semiconductor substrate, a first memory block on the substrate comprising NAND memory cells, a second memory block on the substrate comprising NAND memory cells, and controller circuitry. The first and second memory blocks are configurable to store data for a first pattern of data usage in response to a first operation algorithm to read, program and erase data, and for a second pattern of data usage in response to a second operation algorithm to read, program and erase data, respectively. The controller circuitry is coupled to the first and second memory blocks, and is configured to execute the first and second operation algorithms, wherein a word line pass voltage for read operations applied in the first operation algorithm is at a lower voltage level than a second word line pass voltage for read operations applied in the second operation algorithm.
US08902654B2
In a writing operation, a control circuit raises the voltage of a writing-prohibited bit line among a plurality of bit lines to a first voltage, and thereafter brings the writing-prohibited bit line into a floating state. Then, the control circuit raises the voltage of a writing bit line other than the writing-prohibited bit line to a second voltage. In this way, the control circuit prohibits writing into a memory transistor corresponding to the writing-prohibited bit line. On the other hand, the control circuit executes writing into a memory transistor corresponding to the writing bit line.
US08902649B2
A memory device comprises a nonvolatile memory device and a controller. The nonvolatile memory comprises a first memory area comprising single-bit memory cells and a second memory area comprising multi-bit memory cells. The controller is configured to receive a first unit of write data, determine a type of the first unit of write data, and based on the type, temporarily store the first unit of write data in the first memory area and subsequently migrate the temporarily stored first unit of write data to the second memory area or to directly store the first unit of write data in the second memory area, and is further configured to migrate a second unit of write data temporarily stored in the first memory area to the second memory area where the first unit of write data is directly stored in the second memory area.
US08902645B2
Provided is a semiconductor memory circuit excellent in long-term reliability and reading characteristics and having low current consumption. The semiconductor memory circuit includes: a first inverter; a first non-volatile memory, which is electrically writable; a second inverter; and a second non-volatile memory, the first inverter having an output connected to a source of the first non-volatile memory, the first non-volatile memory having a drain connected to an input of the second inverter, the second inverter having an output connected to a source of the second non-volatile memory, the second non-volatile memory having a drain connected to an input of the first inverter, the drain of the second non-volatile memory serving as an output of the semiconductor memory circuit.
US08902644B2
A magnetoresistive element 10 having a memory cell 100 according to the present invention contains a first lower terminal n1 and a second lower terminal n2 respectively connected to both ends of a conductive layer 3 whose longitudinal direction is different from the column direction (X direction). Further, the gates of the first transistors M1 respectively included in two memory cells among the plurality of memory cells 100 and adjacent to each other in a row direction (Y direction) are commonly connected to a first word line 14. As a result, without increase of the cell area, it becomes possible to reserve a margin in the dimension of the cell structure or in the process for MRMA.
US08902637B2
A novel semiconductor memory device whose power consumption is low is provided. A source of a writing transistor WTr_n_m, a gate of a reading transistor RTr_n_m, and one electrode of a capacitor CS_n_m are connected to each other. A gate and a drain of the writing transistor WTr_n_m are connected to a writing word line WWL_n and a writing bit line WBL_m, respectively. The other electrode of the capacitor CS_n_m is connected to a reading word line RWL_n. A drain of the reading transistor RTr_n_m is connected to a reading bit line RBL_m. Here, the potential of the reading bit line RBL_m is input to an inverting amplifier circuit such as a flip-flop circuit FF_m to be inverted by the inverting amplifier circuit. This inverted potential is output to the writing bit line WBL_m.
US08902624B2
The present invention provides a content addressable memory capable of higher frequency operation than conventional. When a search enable signal supplied from a search control circuit is asserted, each of search line drivers transfers search data to each CAM cell of a CAM memory array via a search line pair. The search line enable signal is transmitted to the search line drivers via a single control signal line coupled to the search control circuit. The control signal line is coupled to the search line drivers in such a manner that the search line enable signal passes through coupling nodes between the search line drivers and the control signal line in an arrangement order of the search line drivers from the side far away as viewed from match amplifiers.
US08902618B2
A method of operating an inverter for converting a DC power into AC power by use of a pulse width modulation switching scheme is provided is disclosed. The inverter is controlled by use of the pulse width modulation switching scheme to provide an alternating current based on a current demand signal defining an alternating current provided by the inverter. An upper current threshold and a lower current threshold are provided. An instantaneous value of the alternating current is measured. When the instantaneous value of the alternating current overshoots the upper current threshold or undershoots the lower current threshold, the pulse width modulation switching scheme is replaced by an amended switching scheme which controls the instantaneous value of the alternating current to be between the upper current threshold and the lower current threshold. The upper current threshold and the lower current threshold oscillate with at least one alternating phase.
US08902614B2
A method and circuit for suppressing a bias current and decreasing power consumption. A current suppression circuit is coupled to a circuit element, which is capable of conducting the bias current. Coupling the current suppression circuit to the circuit element forms a node. In one operating mode, the current suppression circuit applies a voltage to the node in response to a heavy load. In another operating mode, the current suppression circuit lowers the voltage at the node in response to a light load or no load. Lowering the voltage at the node decreases the flow of bias current through the circuit element thereby lowering power loss.
US08902609B2
A portable electronic device includes a housing defining a mounting slot; and a chip card holding mechanism assembled within the housing for holding a chip card. The chip card holding mechanism includes a receiving tray slidably mounted on the housing, and an unlocking assembly for unlocking and ejecting the receiving tray. The receiving tray includes a tray body and a draw-off portion formed at one end of the tray body. The draw-off portion has an inclined resisting surface towards the tray body. The unlocking assembly is mounted in the housing and capable of resisting the inclined resisting surface to drive the receiving tray to move relative to the housing, and thereby eject the receiving tray.
US08902604B2
A component support allows cost-effective, space-saving and low-stress packaging of MEMS components having a sensitive structure. The component support is suited, in particular, for MEMS components, which are mounted in the cavity of a housing and are intended to be electrically contacted. The component support is produced as a composite part in the form of a hollow body open on one side, the composite part being made essentially of a three-dimensionally shaped carrier foil flexible in its shaping, and an encasing material. The encasing material is molded onto one side of the carrier foil, so that the carrier foil is situated on the inner wall of the component support. At least one mounting surface for at least one component is formed on the inner wall having the carrier foil. The carrier foil is also provided with contact surfaces and insulated conductive paths for electrically contacting the at least one component.
US08902599B2
An external structure of an outdoor electronic apparatus for packaging a circuit board having a power line is provided. The external structure includes a housing having an opening and a waterproof gasket. The waterproof gasket includes a main body, a platform portion, a first protrusion, and a bushing portion. The main body covers the opening. The platform portion, located at the inner side of the main body, extends into the housing from the opening. The platform portion seals the opening and tightly fits with the housing. The first protrusion is located on the platform portion for abutting against the circuit board. The bushing portion, located at the outer side of the main body, has a channel. The channel passes through the main body and the platform portion and can be passed through by the power line. The bushing portion and the power line tightly fit to each other.
US08902598B2
A programmable logic controller (PLC) assembly includes a bottom housing with a base, a first plurality of elongate alignment features extending from the bottom housing transverse to the base, and a first connection feature. The PLC assembly includes a central processing unit with a circuit board and at least two receptacles therethrough configured to engage and slide along at least two of the first plurality of alignment features. The at least two of the first plurality of alignment features are positioned asymmetrically with respect to the base. The PLC assembly includes an upper housing with a second connection feature configured to slidably couple with the first connection feature and a second plurality of elongate alignment features configured to slidably engage at least two of the first plurality of alignment features, which are positioned asymmetrically with respect to the base.
US08902595B2
An image display device which is provided with an image display panel, and a housing which houses the image display panel. In the front wall of the housing, an image display window makes the screen of the image display panel viewable from the outside. In the rear wall of the housing are two housing sections, each being configured by connecting together a recessed section provided in the rear wall, and a cover which covers the opening of the recessed section. On the recessed section-side connecting surface from the surfaces on which the recessed section and the cover of each housing section are connected, screw members are screwed at a plurality of areas along the inner circumference of the connecting surface by penetrating the cover. The distances between the adjacent screw members in the two housing sections are different from each other.
US08902593B2
A system may include a chassis and a chassis backplane integral to the chassis. The chassis may be configured to receive a plurality of server backplanes, each server backplane integral to a respective modular sled configured to removably engage with the chassis. The server backplane may include a plurality of information handling systems, a switch communicatively coupled to each of the information handling systems, at least one external network port communicatively coupled to the switch for coupling the switch to an external network external to the chassis, and a plurality of internal network ports communicatively coupled to the switch. The chassis backplane may have a topology configured to couple the switch from each server backplane to switches from two or more other server backplanes such that an internal chassis network is formed comprising the information handling systems and switches of the plurality of server backplanes engaged with the chassis.
US08902589B2
A semiconductor module and a cooler capable of cooling a semiconductor element efficiently. The semiconductor module supplies a refrigerant to a water jacket configuring the cooler, to cool a circuit element part disposed on an outer surface of a fin base. This semiconductor module has: a fin connected thermally to the circuit element part; a refrigerant introducing passage in the water jacket, which has a guide part that has one surface and another surface inclined to guide the refrigerant toward one side surface of the fin; a refrigerant discharge passage disposed in the water jacket to be parallel to the refrigerant introducing passage, which has a side wall parallel to another side surface of the fin; and a cooling passage formed in a position for communicating the refrigerant introducing passage and the refrigerant discharge passage with each other in the water jacket. The fin is disposed in the cooling passage.
US08902588B2
The set-top box includes an outer casing having micro-perforations, an interior bottom frame having a centrally located heatsink, a circuit board on the bottom frame and a louvered heatsinking element over the circuit board and in thermal contact with the heatsink.
US08902584B2
A portable device includes a first unit including a guide member with a groove; a second unit including a sliding member that slides in the groove of each guide member; and a shield member that shields a boundary portion formed when the second unit is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the first unit in an extended state. The groove of the guide member includes a curved section that makes the first unit incline at a predetermined angle with respect to the second unit. One end of the shield member is rotatably supported at an end of the second unit, and the other end is slidably engaged with the groove of the guide member.
US08902581B2
A notebook computer is provided with: a casing in which electronic components including a CPU are accommodated; and a heat-dissipating unit including a heat-dissipating component 37 having plural fins, and a fan 31 for supplying air to the heat-dissipating component 37. A communicating path 35 is formed between an air outlet 32b of the fan 31 and a surface 37b of the heat-dissipating component 37 on a side thereof that opposes the fan 31, so as to communicate them. An opening 32c is formed in a fan case 32 between the air outlet 32b and a main unit 33 of the fan. A duct 36 is provided so as to communicate the opening 32c with the heat-dissipating component 37. With this structure, an electronic device can be provided which has a built-in heat-dissipating unit that can restrain increase in cost and weight, and remove dust on the heat-dissipating component.
US08902575B2
An exemplary support assembly is provided for supporting an electronic device on a supporting surface. The support assembly includes a shell receiving the electronic device, and a back-support. The shell defines an elongated sliding rail. The back-support includes a prop stand, and a prop seat slidable in the sliding rail. One side of the prop stand is rotatably engaged in the prop seat and serves as a spindle. The other sides of the prop stand are thus movable between a folded position substantially coplanar with the prop seat and a supporting position angled relative to the prop seat. When the other sides of the prop stand are in the supporting position, a tilt angle of the electronic device on the supporting surface is adjustable by sliding the prop seat in the sliding rail.
US08902568B2
A power supply interface system for a medical device may include a battery compartment and a battery interlocking system. The battery compartment may define at least a first battery area and a second battery area, the first battery area configured to receive a first battery and the second battery area configured to receive a second battery. The battery interlocking system may include a first interlock mechanism including a first locking portion and a first selector. The first locking portion may be configured to move between a locking position and a non-locking position, the locking position substantially preventing removal of the first battery from the first battery area, and the non-locking position not preventing removal of the first battery from the first battery area. The first selector may be configured to move the first locking portion from the locking position to the non-locking position in response to the second battery being received in the second battery area.
US08902564B2
In a multilayer ceramic electronic component, when a region of a ceramic body in layers where neither of a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode is provided as viewed in a direction in which a plurality of ceramic layers are stacked on one another is defined as a non-effective layer region, a dummy lead-through conductor is arranged in the non-effective layer region so as to lead to at least two locations on portions of superficies of the ceramic body and be electrically connected to a second external electrode. When a conductive medium is brought into contact with one of a plurality of exposed edges of the dummy lead-through conductor, a current is also applied to the other exposed edges.
US08902561B2
An electrostatic chuck for clamping a warped workpiece has a clamping surface comprising a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer has a field and one or more zones formed of differing dielectric materials. One or more electrodes are coupled to a power supply, and a controller controls a clamping voltage supplied to the one or more electrodes via the power supply. An electrostatic attraction force associated with each of the field and one or more zones of the dielectric layer of the electrostatic chuck is induced, wherein the electrostatic attraction force varies based on the dielectric material of each of the field and one or more zones. The electrostatic attraction force is greater in the one or more zones than in the field, therein attracting warped regions of the workpiece to the clamping surface and clamping the warped workpiece to the clamping surface across a surface of the warped workpiece.
US08902559B2
A portable grid for creating an equipotential zone that comprises at least two portable conductive elements. Each element comprises an electrically conducting platform forming a separation barrier with a working surface such as a ground surface. The elements may be joined electrically and mechanically. By joining multiple such elements, a variable size equipotential zone can be created. The portability of the zone is ensured as the zone can be disassembled to individual elements that can be carried and stored by the workers.
US08902554B1
Over-voltage tolerant circuits and methods are provided. In one embodiment, the circuit includes a pull-up transistor coupled to an I/O pad, a sensing circuit coupled to the I/O pad and to a voltage supply (Vcc), the sensing circuit configured to sense a voltage applied to the pad (Vpad), a latch coupled to the sensing circuit to retain an output of the sensing circuit, and a selection circuit coupled to the sensing circuit through the latch. The selection circuit includes a first bias circuit to apply Vcc to a well and gate of the pull-up transistor, a second bias circuit to apply Vpad to the gate and the well of the pull-up transistor, and a non-overlap circuit configured to ensure the gate and the well of the pull-up transistor is substantially always driven by either the first or the second bias circuit depending on the output of the sensing circuit.
US08902548B2
An apparatus that includes a first read shield and a second read shield and a reader stack between the first and second read shields. The first and second read shields each include a thin high permeability layer closest to the reader stack and a low permeability layer and/or a geometric feature to control magnetic field flux lines in a free layer of the reader stack.
US08902542B2
In a disk drive device, a magnetic recording disk is to be mounted on a hub. A base plate rotatably supports the hub through a bearing unit. A laminated core is formed by laminating magnetic steel sheets, the laminated core having a ring portion and a plurality of teeth that extend radially from the ring portion, with coils wound around the plurality of teeth. A projecting portion is formed along the bearing unit, which axially extends toward the inner surface of the hub and by which the core is supported. The laminated core is fixed by sandwiching the ring portion between a seat formed on the base and an extending portion extending radially outward from the projecting portion.
US08902535B1
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising servo information. A position error signal is generated while executing a first plurality of seek operations to seek the head over a seek length, and first feed-forward compensation values are adapted for a first segment of the seek length using an iterative learning control algorithm based on the position error signal. During a second plurality of seeks, second feed-forward compensation values are adapted for a second segment of the seek length using the iterative learning control algorithm based on the position error signal. The servo control system is operable to execute the second plurality of seek operations using the first feed-forward compensation generated for the first segment of the seek length.
US08902524B2
Hardware-based methods and apparatus are provided for inter-track interference mitigation in magnetic recording systems using averaged values. Inter-track interference (ITI) is mitigated in a magnetic recording system by obtaining ITI cancellation data; and providing the ITI cancellation data for ITI mitigation, wherein the ITI mitigation is performed in combination with an averaging procedure for one or more of ITI mitigation of averaged data and averaging of ITI mitigated data. The sector is optionally decoded using the ITI mitigated samples. Samples for one or more side track sectors can also be averaged. The averaged side track samples can be provided as ITI cancellation data for ITI mitigation. The averaging procedure optionally applies a scaling factor to each read value.
US08902521B2
A lens barrel forming a substantially annular positioning portion on the inner surface thereof is provided. As such, a lens received in the lens barrel can be positioned by the positioning portion to a predetermined longitudinal position of the lens barrel and to be coaxial with the lens to form a lens module and to archive an excellent coaxiality between the lens barrel and the lens.
US08902519B2
A replacement apparatus for an optical element mounted between two adjacent optical elements in a lithography objective has a holder for the optical element to be replaced, which holder can be moved into the lithography objective through a lateral opening in a housing of the same.
US08902517B2
Arranging a negative first lens, a positive second lens, a negative third lens, a positive fourth lens, and a positive fifth lens from the object side, in which the image side surface of the fifth lens has an aspherical shape with one or more inflection points and a concave shape toward the image side in a paraxial region, and, when the overall optical length, focal length of the entire lens system, focal length of the first lens, distance between image side surface of the second lens and object side surface of the third lens, refractive index of the second lens, and refractive index of the third lens are taken as TL, f, f1, Dg2-3, N2, and N3 respectively, the image capturing lens is configured to simultaneously satisfy conditional expressions (1a): 1.0≦TL/f≦1.8, (2a): 0.09
US08902516B2
An imaging lens substantially consists of six lenses of a negative first lens, a negative second lens, a positive third lens, a positive fourth lens, a negative fifth lens and a positive sixth lens in this order from an object side. An object-side surface of the second lens has a shape having negative refractive power at a center, and including a part having positive refractive power in an area between the center and an effective diameter edge, and having negative refractive power at the effective diameter edge (concave shape facing the object side), and the refractive power at the effective diameter edge being weaker than the refractive power at the center. Further, an object-side surface of the third lens is convex toward the object side. Further, a predetermined conditional formula about a combined focal length of the first lens, the second lens and the third lens is satisfied.
US08902515B2
An objective optical system includes: a first lens group having a negative power; an aperture stop; and a second lens group having a positive power, provided in this order from an object side. The first lens group includes a first lens, which is a negative single lens, and a cemented lens formed by a positive lens and a negative lens, provided in this order from the object side. The second lens group includes a fourth lens, which is a positive single lens, and a cemented lens formed by a positive lens and a negative lens, provided in this order from the object side. The objective optical system simultaneously satisfies Conditional Formulae (1) −1.5
US08902514B2
A diffractive lens according to the present invention has the function of focusing light. The diffractive lens has a side on which a diffraction grating is arranged on either an aspheric surface or a spherical surface in its effective area. The diffraction grating has n0 phase steps, which are arranged concentrically around the optical axis of the diffractive lens. And the radius rn of the circle formed by an nth one (where n is an integer that falls within the range of 0 through n0) of the phase steps as counted from the optical axis of the diffractive lens satisfies rn=√{square root over (a{(n+c+dn)−b(n+c+dn)m})}{square root over (a{(n+c+dn)−b(n+c+dn)m})} where a, b, c and m are constants that satisfy a>0, 0≦c<1, m>1, and 0.05 b 0 < b < b 0 b 0 = 1 mn 0 m - 1 and dn is an arbitrary value that satisfies −0.25
US08902512B2
An imaging lens assembly comprises a fixing diaphragm and an optical set including five lenses. An arranging order from an object side to an image side is: a first lens; the fixing diaphragm; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; and a fifth lens. At least one surface of the five lenses is aspheric. By the concatenation between the lenses and the adapted curvature radius, thickness/interval, refractivity, and Abbe numbers, the assembly attains a big diaphragm with wide-angle, a shorter height, and a better optical aberration.
US08902507B2
The present invention relates to a man-made composite material and a man-made composite material antenna. The man-made composite material is divided into a plurality of regions. An electromagnetic wave is incident on a first surface exits from a second surface of the man-made composite material opposite to the first surface. A line connecting a radiation source to a point on the bottom surface of the ith region and a line perpendicular to the man-made composite material form an angle θ therebetween, which uniquely corresponds to a curved surface in the ith region. A set formed by points on the bottom surface of the ith region that have the same angle θ forms a boundary of the curved surface to which the angle θ uniquely corresponds. The refraction, diffraction and reflection of the present invention at the abrupt transition points can be reduced.
US08902506B2
Despeckle elements, laser beam homogenizers and methods for despeckling are provided. The despeckle element includes a transparent material having a first surface including a plural number of optical steps and a second surface having a plural number of microlenses. Each of the number of optical steps is in a one-to-one correspondence with at least one of the microlenses. One of the first surface and the second surface is configured to receive collimated light having a coherence length and a remaining one of the first surface and the second surface is configured to pass the collimated light separated into a plurality of beamlets corresponding to the number of microlenses. A height of each step of at least two of the optical steps is configured to produce an optical path difference of the collimated light longer than the coherence length.
US08902495B2
An optical source configured for providing output light for providing input signal light or pump light can comprise pump source for pumping a four wave mixing (FWM) process with light pulses (“FWM pump light”); a FWM element in optical communication with the pump source, the FWM element configured for hosting the FWM process to generate, responsive to the FWM pump light, pulses of FWM signal light and FWM idler light having different wavelengths. The optical source can be configured such that the output light comprises pump light having a pumping wavelength or as input signal light having a gain wavelength for pumping or seeding an amplifying optical device comprising a gain material for providing optical gain. The gain material can have absorption and emission spectra defining gain and pumping wavelengths at which, respectively, the gain material is arranged in the device to provide optical gain via a process of stimulated emission responsive to being pumped.
US08902487B2
The present invention relates to a photochromic lens, which comprises a photochromic layer comprising a photochromic dye and a resin component, and an organic hardcoat layer in this order, wherein the resin component is an acrylic resin, and the photochromic layer further comprises a piperidine ring-containing compound having a molecular weight of equal to or greater than 1,000.
US08902481B2
In a method for document digitization, an apparatus generates a first image of a document sheet by irradiating the document sheet using a first light source and detecting the document sheet irradiated with light from the first light source, which enables detection of ink on the document sheet that defines a marked portion. The apparatus further generates a second image of the document sheet by irradiating the document sheet using a second light source and detecting the document sheet irradiated with light from the second light source, which enables detection of content on the document sheet. The apparatus further obtains a region of the second image that corresponds to the marked portion of the document sheet based on the first image.
US08902479B2
An image processing apparatus configured to form an image on a recording medium using a light emitting unit including a plurality of light emitting elements includes a determination unit configured to determine a referential position of a threshold matrix corresponding to input image data based on a usage situation of each of the plurality of light emitting elements, for each processing target block, and a quantization unit configured to compare the threshold matrix determined by the determination unit with the input image data to quantize the input image data.
US08902478B2
An image scanning device includes a bottom wall, a surrounding wall extending upwardly from the bottom wall, a frame connected to the surrounding wall and having a first side plate, and a transparent panel fixed to the frame and having a lateral side supported by an upper part of the first side plate. A contact image sensor module is disposed on the bottom wall transverse to the first side plate, and includes a housing having a first short side wall spaced apart from the first side plate by a first distance less than or equal to 2 mm, and a plurality of sensors, one of which that is closest to the first short side wall is spaced apart from an outer surface of the first short side wall by a second distance less than or equal to 2.5 mm.
US08902477B2
A sheet feeding device includes a feeding guide configured to guide a sheet, a separation unit configured to separate the sheet from a plurality of sheets, and a holding portion configured to hold the separation unit. The separation unit may be configured to be removably attached to the holding portion. Further, the holding portion may be configured to move from a first position where the holding portion holds the separation unit in contact with a pressing portion to a second position where the holding portion holds the separation unit away from the pressing portion while remaining connected to the feeding guide. The pressing portion may be configured to press the separation unit toward a feeding roller when the holding portion is in the first position.
US08902474B2
An image processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises an input unit sequentially scanning first image data having first resolution, in units of a predetermined number of pixels that are contiguous in a first direction, in a second direction crossing the first direction at right angles, thereby inputting a pixel group corresponding to each unit of pixels, a computation unit calculating pixel values of second image data having second resolution using pixels in a reference area having a predetermined range in the first image data, a storage unit storing pixel values of a range of the first image data that is larger than the reference area in the first direction, and a control unit controlling the computation unit so as to successively output pixels of the second resolution in the first direction in units of the predetermined number of pixels using the stored pixels.
US08902472B2
A printer includes a recording unit that executes on a recording medium, a recording operation under a sublimation transfer scheme; a conveying unit that using a protrusion roller having protrusions protruding toward an outer periphery and abutting a first surface of the recording medium, conveys the recording medium to a recording position for the recording operation; a pseudo recorded image data producing unit that produces pseudo recorded image data that includes pseudo pixels obtained by correcting a density of each predetermined pixel that is determined corresponding to an arrangement pattern of the protrusions on the protrusion roller and is determined from among pixels to be recorded in a second area that excludes a first area that is in contact with the protrusions, on the first surface of the conveyed recording medium; and a recording control unit that controls the recording unit based on the pseudo recorded image data.
US08902469B2
A print setting apparatus of the present invention displays a first preview image and a second preview image each showing output results of print data obtained by the first print setting and the second print setting, respectively (S8 and S10); receives operation instructions to the displayed first preview image (S11 and S13); and modifies the first preview image in accordance with the received operational instructions (S15) and then modifies the second preview image in accordance with the first preview image after being modified (S16).
US08902465B2
The present invention provides a mechanism that more appropriately evaluates an image defect caused by a specific process in an image forming apparatus. An image forming apparatus of this invention performs colorimetry of a patch image at a spatial resolution corresponding to the spatial frequency of color unevenness caused by a specific process included in an image forming process. A statistic value based on the n-th (n is an integer of 2 or more) order central moment of a specific color component of a colorimetric value obtained by performing colorimetry at the spatial resolution is compared with a reference value, thereby detecting that the color unevenness caused by the specific process has occurred in the patch image.
US08902458B2
An information processing apparatus is operable to be connected to a first external apparatus and one or more second external apparatuses. The first external apparatus receives and stores therein a job and first identification information. The one or more second external apparatus transmits second identification information to the first external apparatus, acquires and executes the job associated with the first identification information specified based on the second identification information. The information processing apparatus includes: a job transmitting unit that transmits the job and the first identification information to the first external apparatus; a requesting unit that requests state information from the first external apparatus; and a state receiving unit that receives state information, indicating a first stage in which the job is accumulated in the first external apparatus and a second stage in which the job is executed, as the state information.
US08902456B2
The present disclosure is directed toward method for enabling use of PDL metadata to drive printing outcomes. The method includes receiving a selection for a file in a first format. The method further includes parsing the file for metadata and displaying attributes included in the metadata. The method next assigns each attribute to a print-rendering condition. The method then provides the file in a second format.
US08902446B2
A printing system, in which a printing job based on a same printing target is registered in each of a plurality of printers and one of the plurality of printers performs printing in response to a print instruction of the printing job thereto, the printing system including; a determination unit that determines, when registering the printing job in each of the plurality of printers, a registration destination of the printing job for each of the plurality of printers such that both a printer having the printing job registered in a volatile memory and a printer having the printing job registered in a non-volatile memory exist.
US08902441B2
A plurality of image forming apparatuses is connectable to a plurality of host apparatuses via a network. The image forming apparatus includes an apparatus information collection unit to obtain print history and function information as apparatus information of each image forming apparatus; a priority order determination unit to determine a priority order for setting a master image forming apparatus; a master determination unit to determine an image forming apparatus among the currently operating image forming apparatuses; a host information collection unit to collect print history and current print settings as host information of a power-ON host apparatus; a required-printing-capacity computing unit to compute required network printing capacity based on the host information; and a power save control unit to control the power save mode of each image forming apparatus. The power save control unit of the master image forming apparatus controls the power save mode of each image forming apparatus.
US08902438B2
This invention relates to a digital combined apparatus including an operation panel, a reader/writer which writes/reads data on/from a recording medium, and a controller which controls the operations of the operation panel and reader/writer. When the reader/writer reads out ID information of the user from the recording medium on which at least the ID information is recorded, the operation panel displays a user authentication window which prompts the user to input a password for identifying himself or herself.
US08902433B2
The present disclosure relates to an accommodating device for a dispensing or infusion device, comprising: a displaceable element which is displaced within the accommodating device when a cartridge is inserted into the accommodating device; and at least one sensor which can detect the presence or absence of the displaceable element or a detection element disposed on or in the displaceable element.
US08902431B2
A system includes an interference microscope having one or more optical elements arranged to image a test object to an image plane by combining test light from the test object with reference light from a reference object to form an interference pattern at the image plane, wherein the test and reference light are derived from a common broadband light source. The system includes a scanning stage configured to scan an optical path difference (OPD) between the test and reference light, a multi-element detector positioned at the image plane and configured to record the interference pattern for each of a series of OPD increments and to generate multiple interferometry signals each having a fringe carrier frequency indicative of changes in the OPD as the OPD is scanned, where there is phase diversity among the interferometry signals, and an electronic processor coupled to the multi-element detector and scanning stage and configured to process the interference signals based on the phase diversity to determine information about the OPD increments having sensitivity to perturbations to the OPD increments at frequencies greater than the fringe carrier frequency.
US08902426B2
A densitometer includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and at least one sensor. The LEDs are activated one at a time in a sequential, repeatable order. Photonic energy from each LED is reflected off an entity and is incident upon the sensor(s). Circuitry samples or acquires signaling from the sensor(s) in accordance with the respective LED activations. Signaling from the densitometer can be used in controlling ink-jetting printers or other apparatus.
US08902424B2
An apparatus and method for determining the concentration of chiral molecules in a fluid includes a first polarizer configure to polarize light in substantially a first plane to provide initially polarized light. A second polarizer is capable of polarizing the initially polarized light in a plurality of planes, at least one of the plurality of planes being different from the first plane, to provide subsequently polarized light. One or more receivers are included for measuring an intensity of the subsequently polarized light in one or more of the plurality of planes.
US08902423B2
Methods for in situ detection and classification of analyte within a fluid sample are provided. In one embodiment, the method can include: (a) continuously flowing the fluid sample through a multivariate optical computing device, wherein the multivariate optical computing device illuminates an area of the fluid sample as it flows through the multivariate optical computing device to elicit a continuous series of spectral responses; (b) continuously measuring the series of multivariate spectral responses as the fluid sample flows through the multivariate optical computing device; (c) detecting an analyte (e.g., phytoplankton) in the sample based on an multivariate spectral response of the plurality of spectral responses; and (d) classifying the analyte based on the multivariate spectral response generated by the analyte.
US08902417B2
This invention implements reduction in the amount of background-scattered light from a semiconductor wafer surface and highly sensitive inspection, without increasing the number of detectors. A surface inspection apparatus that detects defects on the surface of an object (semiconductor wafer surface) to be inspected, by irradiating the surface of the object with a beam of light such as laser light and detecting the light reflected or scattered from the surface; wherein a widely apertured lens with an optical Fourier transform function is disposed between the object to be inspected and a detector, a filter variable in position as well in aperture diameter is provided on a Fourier transform plane, and background-scattered light from the semiconductor wafer surface is effectively blocked, whereby only a signal from a defect such as a foreign substance is detected.
US08902416B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for inspecting matter (12), the apparatus comprising: an emitting device (14) adapted to emit radiation; a stop element (20) adapted to block some (16a) of the radiation emitted by the emitting device; a scanning device (26) adapted to project a dark area (24) caused by the stop element on the matter, and to redirect radiation (16b) having passed the stop element towards the matter, wherein at least some of the redirected radiation is scattered within the matter and passes out of the matter as scattered radiation (42); and a detection device (34) adapted to receive or detect the scattered radiation via the scanning device, wherein the detection device's field of view (36) coincides with the projected dark area (24). The present invention also relates to a corresponding method.
US08902409B2
An optoelectronic sensor (10) for the detection and distance determination of objects in a monitored area (18) transmits a transmission light beam (14), generates a reception signal from remitted transmission light (20), and determines an object distance from a light time of flight. A reception path between light receiver (24) and evaluation unit (30) is divided into a first and a second partial reception path (46, 48, 50, 52) at a splitter element (44) comprising filtering properties to pass higher frequency parts of the reception signal on to the first partial reception path (46, 48) and lower frequency parts on to the second partial reception path (50, 52). An object's distance is determined from the first and an opacity from the second partial reception signal.
US08902408B2
A method for measuring three-dimensional coordinates of a probe center includes: providing a spherically mounted retroreflector; providing a probe assembly; providing an orientation sensor; providing a coordinate measurement device; placing the spherically mounted retroreflector on the probe head; directing the first beam of light from the coordinate measurement device to the spherically mounted retroreflector; measuring the first distance; measuring the first angle of rotation; measuring the second angle of rotation; measuring the three orientational degrees of freedom based at least in part on information provided by the orientation sensor; calculating the three-dimensional coordinates of the probe center based at least in part on the first distance, the first angle of rotation, the second angle of rotation, and the three orientational degrees of freedom; and storing the three-dimensional coordinates of the probe center.
US08902405B2
The present invention provides a stage apparatus including a first Y-axis interferometer which is supported by a base portion, and configured to detect a position of a first end surface of a table in a Y-axis direction, a second Y-axis interferometer which is supported by the base portion, and configured to detect a position of a second end surface of the table in the Y-axis direction, and a third Y-axis interferometer which is supported by the base portion so as to be spaced apart from the first Y-axis interferometer and the second Y-axis interferometer in an X-axis direction, and configured to detect a distance according to which a distance between the first Y-axis interferometer and the second Y-axis interferometer in the Y-axis direction can be obtained.
US08902401B2
An optical imaging device, in particular for use in microlithography, includes a mask device for receiving a mask having a projection pattern, a projection device with an optical element group, a substrate device for receiving a substrate and an immersion zone. The optical element group is adapted to project the projection pattern onto the substrate and includes a plurality of optical elements with an immersion element to which the substrate is at least temporarily located adjacent to during operation. During operation, the immersion zone is located between the immersion element and the substrate and is at least temporarily filled with an immersion medium. A thermal attenuation device is provided, the thermal attenuation device being adapted to reduce fluctuations within the temperature distribution of the immersion element induced by the immersion medium.
US08902400B2
A liquid handling structure for a lithographic apparatus comprises a droplet controller configured to allow a droplet of immersion liquid to be lost from the structure and to prevent the droplet from colliding with the meniscus of the confined immersion liquid. The droplet controller may comprise gas knives arranged to overlap to block an incoming droplet. There may be extraction holes lined up with gaps between gas knives to extract liquid that passes through the gap. A droplet is allowed to escape through the gaps.
US08902386B2
A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a first substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate, a first alignment layer disposed on the first substrate and the pixel electrode, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second substrate, a second alignment layer disposed on the second substrate and the common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, in which the common electrode has a first opening having a cross shape, an edge of the first opening protrudes beyond an edge of the pixel electrode, and the pixel electrode includes a second opening disposed adjacently to at least one of the edges of the pixel electrode.
US08902384B2
A quantum rod light-emitting display device according to an embodiment of the invention includes a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a quantum rod layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein quantum rods in the quantum rod layer are arranged in one direction; a backlight unit provided under the display panel and configured to provide light to the display panel; and a short-wavelength pass filter film formed between the display panel and the backlight unit, and configured to transmit the light having a predetermined wavelength range.
US08902368B2
In a transmission device: a controller performs a control of reading, from information regarding video specification, first information indicating whether a reception device is capable of intermittent reception of receiving a video signal at a timing that causes certain number of frames to be intermittent, and, when the reception device can perform intermittent reception, multiplexing, to the video signal during a blanking period of the video signal to be updated, an enable signal indicating the present video signal is to be enabled and second information indicating that transmission of the video signal will not resume unless the video signal is updated; and a transmitter transmits the video signal that is to be updated and then does not resume transmission of the video signal unless the video signal is updated.
US08902367B2
A computer-readable storage medium storing an image processing program that causes a computer to execute a process includes, synthesizing, for each of frames included in a video image and to be processed, a synthesis image with an image of a synthesis target region existing in the frame by repeatedly executing a calculation using a Poisson's equation on the basis of the image of synthesis target region existing in the frame to be processed and the synthesis image to be replaced with the image of the synthesis target region, and thereby calculating, from an initial value image, a synthesis result image corresponding to a result obtained by synthesizing the synthesis image with the synthesis target region so as to sequentially execute a synthesis process on the frames of the video image; and setting, for each of the frames to be processed, initial values by setting, as the initial value image.
US08902365B2
Various embodiments are described herein for a universal television receiver that is capable of processing television channel signals broadcast according to a variety of analog and digital broadcast standards. In particular, various embodiments are provided for avoiding interferers in a desired television channel signal and these embodiments generally include changing sampling rate, shifting certain oscillation frequencies or changing sampling rate and shifting certain oscillation frequencies.
US08902363B2
High definition media content processing techniques are described in which enhanced media content rendering techniques may be performed to output high definition media content. In an implementation, luma keying may be provided to define clear pixels in a composite output using an optimum set of graphics processing instructions. In another implementation, techniques are described which may provide clear rectangles in a composite output of one or more video streams. Clear rectangles to appear in the composite output are configured by a media playback application. A texture is arrived at to represent a union of each of the clear rectangles and is applied to form the clear rectangles in the composite output. In another implementation, capture techniques are described in which an image to capture is resolved as strips to an intermediate texture and then from the texture to a capture buffer in system memory.
US08902361B2
A method and apparatus for displaying a plurality of secondary images based on image data of a primary image include displaying a primary image and a plurality of secondary images based on the image data of the primary image. Each of the plurality of secondary images is displayed having a size based on a relevance of each respective one of the plurality of secondary images to the primary image. The primary image can be selected from a plurality of images or a frame of a video. Subsets of secondary images can be displayed in clusters including images having content similar to particular content of the primary image.
US08902359B1
Systems and methods are provided for determining pixels in an interpolated frame. A motion vector field is determined based on movement of pixels between first and second frames. A region of the motion vector field is clustered based on similarity of motion vectors of the motion vector field within the region. A region of discontinuity is identified comprising a portion of the motion vector field not belonging to a cluster. A determination is made as to whether the region of discontinuity is an occlusion region or a reveal region. A portion of the region of discontinuity in the interpolated frame is filled using pixel data from the first frame when the region of discontinuity is an occlusion region, and a portion of the region of discontinuity in the interpolated frame is filled using pixel data from the second frame when the region of discontinuity is a reveal region.
US08902353B2
An imaging module for electro-optically imaging a target, includes an energizable illuminating light source for illuminating the target with illumination light for return from the target, an energizable solid-state imager for capturing return light from the target, and a controller for energizing the imager during an exposure time period to capture the return light at a frame rate, for deenergizing the imager during a non-exposed time period, and for energizing the illuminating light source not only during the exposure time period, but also during the non-exposed time period, to produce a plurality of illumination light pulses at an illumination rate that enables the human eye to perceive the illumination light pulses as substantially continuous. The illumination rate of one or more of the illumination light pulses produced during the non-exposed time period is substantially independent and decoupled from the frame rate.
US08902351B2
An auto-focus method to determine an optimum position of a lens module includes defining search boundaries and an allowable difference, randomly sampling current values within the search boundaries d1, d2 and d3, and obtaining sharpness m1, m2 and m3. A parabola is determined where a vertex of the parabola is used as a next input current value where three larger values of the sharpness are used along with corresponding current values to re-determine a new parabola. Three current values are sampled and a corresponding current value is used to re-determine a new parabola and according to a comparison of the sharpness values, the lens module is driven to auto-focus.
US08902343B1
Various technologies described herein pertain to controlling floating diffusion gain using a charge pump. Feedback can be utilized to control impedance of a floating diffusion region of a pixel of an image sensor, which further includes a read bus and an amplifier. The pixel includes a capacitor and a floating diffusion region, which has an intrinsic floating diffusion capacitance. The capacitor includes a first terminal and a second terminal, where the first terminal is coupled to the floating diffusion region. The amplifier includes an input terminal and an output terminal. The input terminal of the amplifier is coupled to the read bus and the output terminal of the amplifier is coupled to the second terminal of the capacitor. Gain of the amplifier is adjustable to control an equivalent capacitance of the floating diffusion region. Alteration of the equivalent capacitance can modify conversion gain and dynamic range of the pixel.
US08902337B2
An imaging apparatus 100 includes a light emitting part 103 configured to irradiate a subject(s) with light; an imaging part 101 configured to image the subject(s); the imaging part 101, a distance information acquiring part 102, and a distance calculating part 203 each configured to acquire a distance to the subject(s); a shadow estimating part 204 configured to estimate, based on the distance acquired by the imaging part 101, the distance information acquiring part 102, and the distance calculating part 203, a shadow(s) generated by the light from the light emitting part 103 in an image shot by using the imaging part 101; and a shadow correcting part 205 configured to correct the shadow(s) estimated by the shadow estimating part 204 such that the shadow(s) is lightened.
US08902332B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit that calculates two types of image data from one image data and outputs the calculated image data, a data combination unit that combines the two type of data supplied from the image processing unit and outputs the combined data to one terminal, an output buffer that adjusts an output timing of the combined data according to an instruction supplied from bus arbitration means for arbitrating a bus, and a data distribution unit that outputs the combined data output from the output buffer to the bus in a form of the combined data, or distributes the combined data and outputs the distributed data to the bus according to an external combination distribution instruction.
US08902330B2
A method for correcting image data, in particular for color correction and cross-talk reduction of image data obtained by an image sensor comprising image pixels (R, G, B) and non-image pixels (F), the image pixels (R,G,B) being overlaid with a color filter array (CFA) and having a different spectral sensitivity than the non-image pixels, comprises determining a set of color components (rold, gold, bold) for the image pixels (R,G,B) based on raw image data (rraw, graw, braw) read only from the image pixels (R,G,B) of the image sensor (10); correcting the set of color components of non-direct neighbors of the non-image pixels (F) by means of a first color correction matrix (CCM1); and correcting the set of color components of direct neighbors of the non-image pixels by means of a second color correction matrix (CCM2) different from the first color correction matrix. An image sensor (10) and an auto-focus camera using same are also disclosed.
US08902322B2
An imaging system comprises four image sensors each pointing outwardly from the vertices of a notional tetrahedron with the optical axes of the image sensors substantially collinear with respective medians of the notional tetrahedron, with the focal plane array of each image sensor positioned between the lens system of its respective image sensor and the centroid of the notional tetrahedron. The imaging system and can be used to obtain image data for generating a spherical image of the space surrounding the imaging system. A method for generating a spherical image from this image data assigns spherical coordinates to the pixels in the images according to a cylindrical projection that is individually aligned with the image plane of each image, and blends overlapping pixels and fills blank pixel spaces. The method can be applied to image data representing outward views from the vertices or centroids of faces of any Platonic solid.
US08902321B2
A camera array, an imaging device and/or a method for capturing image that employ a plurality of imagers fabricated on a substrate is provided. Each imager includes a plurality of pixels. The plurality of imagers include a first imager having a first imaging characteristics and a second imager having a second imaging characteristics. The images generated by the plurality of imagers are processed to obtain an enhanced image compared to images captured by the imagers. Each imager may be associated with an optical element fabricated using a wafer level optics (WLO) technology.
US08902316B2
Image correction methods and systems are disclosed that correct raw values, including, subsequent to closing the shutter, acquiring a current raw value table, determining an offset correction table for the current temperature of the detector as a function of the current table and a set of stored raw value tables, and correcting the stream of raw values using the offset correction table. A maintenance process includes testing a condition for replacing a table of the current set with the current table, and if the condition is met, replacing the table of the current set with the current table. This test includes determining whether there is a new set of tables obtained by replacing a table from the current set with the current table that is more relevant than the current set with regard to subsequently determining an offset table.
US08902315B2
A hands-free wireless wearable GPS enabled video camera and audio-video communications headset, mobile phone and personal media player, capable of real-time two-way and multi-feed wireless voice, data and audio-video streaming, telecommunications, and teleconferencing, coordinated applications, and shared functionality between one or more wirelessly networked headsets or other paired or networked wired or wireless devices and optimized device and data management over multiple wired and wireless network connections. The headset can operate in concert with one or more wired or wireless devices as a paired accessory, as an autonomous hands-free wide area, metro or local area and personal area wireless audio-video communications and multimedia device and/or as a wearable docking station, hot spot and wireless router supporting direct connect multi-device ad-hoc virtual private networking (VPN). The headset has built-in intelligence to choose amongst available network protocols while supporting a variety of onboard, and remote operational controls including a retractable monocular viewfinder display for real time hands-free viewing of captured or received video feed and a duplex data-streaming platform supporting multi-channel communications and optimized data management within the device, within a managed or autonomous federation of devices or other peer-to-peer network configuration.
US08902314B2
A DVD transport stream including a video and a sub-picture stream shall be transcoded to a broadcasting transport stream. For this a decoding-encoding-chain merging video and sub-picture into a single video bitstream to conserve the information of the sub-pictures although not in the broadcasting format reserved is provided. By performing a sub-picture macroblock analysis the transcoding can be controlled such that the motion estimation unit of a standard MPEG-2 encoder and/or the entire decoding loop within the encoder can be saved.
US08902311B2
A security system that can be used in a home, office, or other building in order to generate alarms or take other actions depending on conditions within the building. The security system may rely on sensors within the building which sense various conditions and collect other data. The information learned from the sensors can be communicated to a location outside the building for processing, such as, but not limited to, processing associated with a need to instigate an alarm.
US08902309B2
An apparatus for acquiring 3-dimensional (3D) information, a method for driving a light source thereof, and a system for acquiring 3D information are provided. The apparatus includes: a projector, a photographing unit, and a controller which causes a driving signal to be applied to the projector. The driving signal has a first peak current in a display mode and a second peak current, higher than the first peak current, in a 3D mode.
US08902300B2
An autostereoscopic display apparatus includes a two-dimensional display including color subpixels arranged in horizontal and vertical directions, cylindrical lenses configured to observe the color subpixels therethrough, a temperature sensor measuring an ambient temperature of the cylindrical lenses, and a parallax image changer changing the parallax images based on the measured ambient temperature. px is a horizontal pixel pitch. py is a vertical pixel pitch. Lx is a horizontal lens pitch. θ is an inclined angle of boundaries of the cylindrical lenses to the vertical direction. Ax and Ay are relatively prime natural numbers. Ax is equal to or larger than two. Bx is a minimum natural number by which a value GF indicated in the formula (2) represents an integer value. px, py, Lx and θ satisfy relational expressions represented by the formula (1) to the formula (3). θ=arctan {(Ax·px)/(Ay·py)} (1) GF=Bx·Lx/px (2) Ay≧Bx≧2 and Ax≧2 (3)
US08902299B2
In a method for adjusting a viewing angle of 3D images using an electronic device, the electronic device includes a distance sensor, a camera lens and a 3D display screen. The distance sensor senses a distance between a viewer and the 3D display screen, and the camera lens to capture a digital image of the viewer. The method calculates a viewing angle of the viewer according to the distance and a displacement between the viewer and the 3D display screen, and calculates an angle difference between the viewing angle of the viewer and a viewing angle range of the 3D display screen. The method further adjusts a viewing angle of a 3D image according to the angle difference, and displays the 3D image on the 3D display screen according to the viewing angle of the 3D image.
US08902289B2
A method for capturing a three dimensional (3D) image by using a single-lens camera is provided. First, a first image is captured. According to a focus distance of the single-lens camera in capturing the first image and an average distance between two human eyes, an overlap width between the first image and a second image required for capturing the second image of the 3D image is calculated. Then, the first image and a real-time image captured by the single-lens camera are displayed, and an overlap area is marked on the first image according to the calculated overlap width. A horizontal shift of the single-lens camera is adjusted, to locate the real-time image in the overlap area. Finally, the real-time image is captured as the second image, and the first and second images are output as the 3D image.
US08902286B2
Provided is a motion vector detecting apparatus capable of detecting a motion vector of a pulldown-converted 3D image signal with high precision. A pulldown detecting unit detects whether a 3D image signal is a pulldown-converted image signal. An LR separating unit outputs an LR separation signal separated into left and right image signals in each of frames having the same image content. A frame delay LR separating unit outputs a frame delay LR separation signal separated into left and right image signals in a frame before one repetition period. A motion vector detector detects motion vectors of the left and right image signals, An LR combination unit combines the motion vectors of the left and right image signals to output the combined motion vectors as a motion vector.
US08902280B2
Systems and methods of visually indicating one or more gestures of a user of a node (22) in the content of a media stream (24) are disclosed. A node (22) configured to transmit a media stream (24) having content to one or more other nodes (22) includes a screen configured to display the content of the media stream, a media device (36) configured to capture an image of one or more gestures of the user of the node (22), wherein the one or more gestures are adjacent to the screen and the media device (36) is positioned to capture the image without capturing more than a peripheral view of the screen in that image; a media analyzer (38) configured to generate a visual representation of the captured one or more gestures; and a compositer (40) configured to composite the visual representation of the captured one or more gestures with the content of the media stream (24).
US08902277B2
A first index corresponding to a first conversation operation and a second index corresponding to a second conversation operation are selectably displayed on a screen of a video output device. When a communicator receives a conversation request from another device, a controller determines whether the first index or the second index is selected on the screen or whether an operating member is operated. If the first index is selected, the controller performs the first conversation operation. If the second index is selected, the controller performs the second conversation operation. If the operating member is operated, the controller performs the second conversation operation.
US08902271B2
The image forming apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a polygon mirror has converged to the number of rotations that allows image formation to be performed, and the determination unit is capable of detecting a first timing and a second timing and determines that the polygon mirror has converged to a number of rotations that allows the image formation to be performed based on an earlier one of the first timing and the second timing.
US08902261B2
A light source control method of a projector is provided. The light source control method includes the following steps. A frame data of a frame period is received. Gray distributions of a plurality of colors in the frame data are obtained by analyzing the frame data. Whether to shut all or a portion of a plurality of color light sources of the projector is determined according to the gray distributions of the colors. Therefore, the power consumption of the projector can be reduced.
US08902253B2
Navigating on a display includes tracking motion of an input tool on a display, comparing a motion of the input tool to a threshold, and changing a position of the visible portion of a page of information on the display if the input tool motion exceeds the threshold. The position of the visible portion of the page of information on the display is constrained if the motion does not exceed the threshold.
US08902251B2
Managing information relating to a locate and/or marking operation to detect and/or mark a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility. At least one electronic manifest corresponding to the locate and/or marking operation is generated based on first information relating to the locate and/or marking operation. The at least one electronic manifest includes image information documenting performance of the locate and/or the marking operation. At least one limited access file comprising second information relating to the at least one electronic manifest or the image information is generated, and the at least one limited access file and/or information relating to the at least one limited access file is electronically transmitted and/or stored to facilitate selective/limited access to or viewing of the electronic manifest(s).
US08902240B2
An image processing device improves processing performance at low cost. The image processing device is provided with a memory controller that divides up and assigns banks accessed by a video inputter, a drawer, and a video outputter to multiple frame memories. The image processing device arbitrates access requests from master units, such as the video inputter, the drawer, and the video outputter, and controls data transmission so that the multiple master units can access both the frame memories in parallel.
US08902238B2
Flood-fill techniques and architecture are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, the architecture comprises a hardware primitive with a software interface which collectively allow for both data-based and task-based parallelism in executing a flood-fill process. The hardware primitive is defined to do the flood-fill function and is scalable and may be implemented with a bitwise definition that can be tuned to meet power/performance targets, in some embodiments. In executing a flood-fill operation, and in accordance with an example embodiment, the software interface produces parallel threads and issues them to processing elements, such that each of the threads can run independently until done. Each processing element in turn accesses a flood-fill hardware primitive, each of which is configured to flood a seed inside an N×M image block. In some cases, processing element commands to the flood-fill hardware primitive(s) can be queued and acted upon pursuant to an arbitration scheme.
US08902235B2
A computerized device implements an animation coding engine to analyze timeline data defining an animation sequence and generate a code package. The code package can represent the animation sequence using markup code that defines a rendered appearance of a plurality of frames and a structured data object also comprised in the code package and defining a parameter used by a scripting language in transitioning between frames. The markup code can also comprise a reference to a visual asset included within a frame. The code package further comprises a cascading style sheet defining an animation primitive as a style to be applied to the asset to reproduce one or more portions of the animation sequence without transitioning between frames.
US08902231B2
The invention includes a method and apparatus for displaying a graphical representation of a graph including nodes and edges. A layout of the graph is determined. The layout of the graph is determined by determining respective positions of each of the nodes and edges within the layout. The position of each node is determined using a first model and, optionally, a second force model, wherein the first force model comprises a substantially linear repulsive force in a first region, a substantially exponential repulsive force in a second region, and an attractive force in a third region. In one embodiment, the position of each edge may be determined using the first force model. A graphical representation of the layout is generated. The graphical representation of the layout is displayed to one or more users.
US08902230B2
Ray tracing, and more generally, graphics operations taking place in a 3-D scene, involve a plurality of constituent graphics operations. Responsibility for executing these operations can be distributed among different sets of computation units. The sets of computation units each can execute a set of instructions on a parallelized set of input data elements and produce results. These results can be that the data elements can be categorized into different subsets, where each subset requires different processing as a next step. The data elements of these different subsets can be coalesced so that they are contiguous in a results set. The results set can be used to schedule additional computation, and if there are empty locations of a scheduling vector (after accounting for the members of a given subset), then those empty locations can be filled with other data elements that require the same further processing as that subset.
US08902215B2
A method and mobile terminal are provided for focus adjustment. The mobile terminal includes a projector module for projecting an image onto an external screen. The mobile terminal also includes a motion detection sensor for detecting motion of the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal further includes a controller for determining whether the motion detected by the motion detection sensor corresponds to activation of a focus adjustment mode of the mobile terminal, displaying a focus adjustment image, and performing focus adjustment of the projector module according to focus adjustment input provided in the focus adjustment mode.
US08902206B2
Reduction in efficiency of a power supply circuit in a display device is prevented. A positive power supply generation circuit and a negative power supply generation circuit are placed close to a terminal portion to which a drive clock and a power supply electric potential are applied externally. The terminal portion 140 is formed in an edge portion of the TFT glass substrate 100. That is, the positive power supply generation circuit 131 and the negative power supply generation circuit 132 are placed closer to the terminal portion 140 than primary circuits of the liquid crystal display device, which are the pixel portion 105, the horizontal drive circuit 110 and the vertical drive circuit 120. With this, there is obtained a layout that minimizes wiring loads (resistive and capacitive loads associated with wirings to provide the power supply and the drive clock) to prevent reduction in circuit efficiency.
US08902198B1
A user can emulate touch screen events with motions and gestures that the user performs at a distance from a computing device. A user can utilize specific gestures, such as a pinch gesture, to designate portions of motion that are to be interpreted as input, to differentiate from other portions of the motion. A user can then perform actions such as text input by performing motions with the pinch gesture that correspond to words or other selections recognized by a text input program. A camera-based detection approach can be used to recognize the location of features performing the motions and gestures, such as a hand, finger, and/or thumb of the user.
US08902197B2
A combined display surface and a control device for a data processing system, wherein the position of a light beam hitting the display surface is measured and the measured result is used by the data processing system as a basis for determining a cursor position on the display surface. Several strip-shaped optical position detectors are arranged along the edge of the display surface, the measured signals of which are fed into the data processing system. The cross-sectional shape of the indicator beam is formed by several lines which protrude both the display surface and the position detectors arranged thereon. The optical position detectors are formed by a layered structure made of organic material.
US08902190B2
In a touch panel, a rectangular resistive film is formed on a substrate and electrodes are provided along the four sides of the resistive film. Each electrode includes a plurality of gaps and a plurality of divided electrodes. The divided electrodes are linearly arranged along the corresponding side of the resistive film, and the electrode, in which the divided electrodes at both ends are connected to terminals, respectively, is formed by arranging the divided electrodes of the same shape and repeating this same shape.
US08902187B2
A touch input method of a portable terminal which enables touch input to an entire region of a touch screen using a partial region of the touch screen in a state where a hand gripping of the portable terminal cannot touch all regions of the touch screen, and an apparatus thereof, are provided. The touch input method includes detecting touch input on one of divided touch regions of a touch screen, detecting a tilted state of the portable terminal when the touch input is detected, determining one of divided touch regions as a touch reflection region in which a touch event generated from a region in which the touch input is detected is reflected according to the detected tilted state of the portable terminal, and processing the touch event generated from the region in which the touch input is detected as the touch event reflected in the touch reflection region.
US08902185B2
[Problem] The present invention intends to provide a scrolling screen apparatus, a method for scrolling screen, and a game apparatus, which prevent from scrolling display screen by user's misoperation and scroll display screen with intuitive operation.[Method of solution] A control device 5 of the present invention scrolls the display screen by the amount of displacement corresponding to the displacement vector of each input coordinate, in a displacement scroll mode between the input of the touch coordinates and the input of the release coordinates to the coordinate input device 3 and, meanwhile the control device 5 scrolls the display screen by the amount of displacement corresponding to the scroll distance which is the sum total of the distances between the touch coordinates, each sampling coordinate and release coordinates read from the coordinate storage device 4, in an inertia scroll mode after the input of release coordinates. For example, the present invention scrolls the display screen by the amount of displacement corresponding to the sliding distance of the user's finger on the display.
US08902183B2
Display devices and methods for detecting user-intended touch input are provided. An example display device includes a touch-sensitive display. Further, the display device includes an impact sensor attached to the touch-sensitive display and configured to generate a signal representative of an impact of the touch-sensitive display. The display device also includes a computing device configured to receive the signal. The computing device is also configured to detect a peak of the signal. Further, the computing device is configured to determine whether a rising edge of a magnitude of the peak detected signal meet predetermined criteria. The computing device is also configured to indicate detection of user-intended touch in response to determining that the predetermined criteria are met.
US08902174B1
An apparatus for and method of resolving multiple presences over a touch sensor are described. The method includes logically grouping data from a touch sensor array in order to convert the data into X-Y coordinates.
US08902173B2
Apparatuses and methods for determining a deflection of a moveable conductive plate that is moved over a capacitive sensing device. The method may include moving the moveable conductive plate over sensor elements of the capacitive sensing device, and determining the deflection of the moveable conductive plate. In determining the deflection, a deflection magnitude and a deflection direction may be determined by calculating a vector of x- and y-directions or a vector of a radius and an angle.
US08902171B2
A handheld computer has a housing with a front face and a back face. A length of the front face and a length of the back face each extend primarily in a first direction corresponding to a length of the housing. A width of the front face and a width of the back face each extend primarily in a second direction corresponding to a width of the housing. A first surface extends between the front face and the back face. The first surface is acutely angled with respect to at least one of the front face and the back face. A component is disposed at least partially on the front surface. The component is operationally affected by a direction in which the component is oriented.
US08902169B2
A device, computer program product and method of inputting a character in a touch screen device, in which a touch area is partitioned into a plurality of array positions, and one or more letters are assigned to each of the partitioned array positions. The method comprises the steps of: partitioning a touch area of the touch panel into a plurality of array positions and assigning one or more characters to each of the partitioned array positions; sensing an expansion event of selecting one among the array positions; dividing the touch area into a plurality of selection positions and assigning the characters assigned to the array position selected by the expansion event to the respective selection positions; sensing a selection event of selecting one among the selection positions; and recognizing the character assigned to the selection position selected by the selection event as an input character.
US08902168B2
The invention is a thin, light, touch sensitive, typically portable keyboard for an electronic device, which uses walls between most adjacent keys to prevent one finger activating more than intended key. This enables packing keys extremely close to each other, yet negligible chance of false activation. Round, hexagonal or wave shaped walls enable more keys for same working surface area, compared to square keys. Variations are detachable, externals, removable walls formed by a layer over the keyboard. Sizes can be from wrist worn watch like, credit card, cell phone, pocket and more. Foldable versions enable more keys for less stowage space.
US08902167B2
An adjustable keyboard having a number of keys is formed in at least two segments which are mutually movable relative- to one another using a hinge or joint. Each of the segments of the keyboard has keys mounted thereon. The adjustable nature of the keyboard reduces stress and discomfort to the user by reducing contortion to the user's wrists. More particularly, discomfort to the user caused by pronation of the wrists and/or ulnar deviation of the wrists is reduced. The hinge or joint is in the form of a ball and socket-type joint with a locking mechanism, which preferably includes a pivoted handle, in the form of a lever, used for locking and unlocking the hinge or joint. The surface of at least one of the ball and socket of the joint define a plurality of recesses or a plurality of projections, to provide increased resistance to joint movement.
US08902165B1
A scrolling device is provided to scroll display content on a display device. The scrolling device includes a scroll ring with a sensor mechanically coupled to the scroll ring and adapted to generate an input signal for controlling the display device as a function of an angular displacement of the scroll ring. A portion of the scroll ring is circumscribed by a ring gear that is engaged by a pinion gear attached to the sensor. As the scrolling device is rotated, the ring gear rotates, which rotates the pinion gear to drive the sensor, which can be a potentiometer. A controller is adapted to receive the input signal from the sensor and select between predetermined segments in the display content or select between a plurality of pages of display content.
US08902164B2
There is provided a mouse control module including two light sources, an image sensor, a processing unit and a communication unit. The two light sources emit light of different wavelengths to illuminate a finger surface. The image sensor receives reflected light from the finger surface to generate a plurality of image frames. The processing unit detects a displacement of the finger surface and a physiological characteristic of a user according to the plurality of image frames. The communication unit encodes and/or sequences the displacement and the physiological characteristic so as to generate finger and physiology information. There is further provided an optical finger mouse.
US08902156B2
A system and computer-implemented method for managing a plurality of display devices in a multi-display computer system that includes determining in real-time input information including face direction of a user facing the plurality of display devices, selecting a primary display device of the plurality of display devices using the input information determined, and transferring information to the primary display device as desired by the user.
US08902153B2
A color display has continuous areas of a single color covering a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes. Each sub-pixel of a given color has sub-pixels of the same given color disposed along at least two of its adjacent edges. Each area of a single color may cover a 2×2 array of sub-pixel electrodes. The colors used may be red/green/blue/white (RGBW), red/green/blue/yellow (RGBY), or orange/lime/purple/white.
US08902150B2
A lighting apparatus has a plurality of light emission block group and a detection unit for each light emission block group, wherein light emission blocks selected from different light emission block groups are grouped as sets, and light emission blocks belonging to a same set are caused to emit light simultaneously. The grouping is such that a minimum value, in all the sets, of a detection value ratio becomes as large as possible, wherein the detection value ratio is a ratio between an amount of light due to a light emission from one light emission block belonging to a light emission block group corresponding to each detection unit, and an amount of light due to a light emission from another light emission block emitting light simultaneously with the one light emission block.
US08902139B2
A display device includes a housing, a screen mounted on the housing, an imagine capture unit, a distance measuring unit, and a display module assembly received in housing. The display module assembly includes a light emitting unit, a micro reflection unit, and a micro control unit; the micro control unit includes an identify module and a reflection control module. The identify module is electrically connected to the imagine capture unit and the distance measuring unit for receiving images of a viewer to identify position of eyes of viewer and sending instruction to measure distances between eyes of viewer and the display device to the distance measuring unit; the reflection control module is electrically connected to one of the light emitting unit and the micro control unit to control the micro reflection unit to rotate relative to the light emitting unit, to reflect light into eyes of the viewer.
US08902132B2
Disclosed herein is a self light emission display device includes a buffer memory configured to delay the supply of pixel data to a self light emission panel, a lookup table configured to store all gradation values corresponding to a variable range of the pixel data and electric power values to be consumed for light emission respectively at the gradation values, in association with each other, and a power consumption calculator configured to add respective power consumption values of all pixels of a frame which are determined by referring to said lookup table to calculate a power consumption value of the frame.
US08902131B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a configurable LCD driver system having a plurality of configurable LCD drivers. Each LCD driver may be configured as a common or segment driver by selecting a drive voltage from an appropriate set of drive voltages associated with a common or segment driver in accordance with certain parameters, such as whether a user may configure the LCD driver as a common driver or segment driver, a multiplex ratio, and/or bias ratio of an LCD panel. The drive time and drive strength associated with the LCD driver may also be configurable. The selected drive voltage may be provided to a drive buffer to output an LCD drive voltage waveform for driving one or more segments or pixels in an LCD panel. A memory may store appropriate display data for both the segment and common drivers to control the output drive capability of the LCD driver.
US08902130B2
An image display device includes a laser source for emitting a laser beam, an image forming element which uses the laser beam to emit image light for displaying an image, a first diffraction element for diffracting the image light, and a controller for controlling a display position of the image on the basis of a wavelength of the laser beam and a temperature of the first diffraction element.
US08902128B2
An imaging system and improvement therein for edge blending a composite image displayed by a plurality of configurable display devices in a tiled display system or between display devices and the surrounding environment, by at least one of modifying one or more light emission characteristics in a region of the composite image adjacent the gaps or generating a pattern within the composite image that coincides with the spacing of the gaps, such that the visual seam becomes camouflaged when viewed from a distance. The light emission characteristics can, for example, include brightness and/or color and the pattern can, for example, be a grid pattern that coincides with the spacing of the gaps.
US08902120B2
A radiator coupled to an antenna patch disposed along a first end of the radiator, said patch disposed on an insulator. A ground plane is connected to the insulator and a radome is disposed opposite a second end of the radiator. The radome may have a region presenting a convex surface towards the radiator, and the radome has a second region presenting a concave surface towards the radiator. The first end of the conical radiator is the apex of the cone. A ground plane is included and a portion of the ground plane is a planar surface and another portion extends away from the planar portion towards the radome. Also disclosed is a method for forming a radiation pattern by shaping the radome to effectuate a predetermined radiation pattern using localized convex and concave surfaces positioned on the radome at different points in relation to the conical radiator.
US08902119B2
Described are antenna assemblies and methods for forming antenna assemblies. An antenna assembly includes a dual polarized far-field antenna and a near-field loop antenna. The near-field loop antenna is electromagnetically coupled to the dual polarized far-field antenna. The near-field loop antenna includes two contacts for electrically connecting to a chip.
US08902106B2
A system for measuring the radial speed of a moving body in a line of sight determined for a referential position is disclosed. The system includes an emitter assembly for emitting a signal and a referential receiver assembly dedicated to reception of the signal. The emitter assembly is disposed on a first of the elements of a group formed by the moving body and the referential position. The receiver assembly is disposed on a second of the elements of the group. The emitter assembly is able to emit a signal on at least two emission frequencies, where the emission frequencies are separated by a chosen emission frequency gap. The system also includes an analyzer configured to analyze the signal received by the receiver assembly, and to measure the reception frequency gap separating the signal reception frequencies to calculate the radial speed of the moving body according to a function of the reception frequency gap and emission frequency gap.
US08902102B2
A system and methods for onboard sense and avoidance of an object are disclosed. At least one transmitter and at least one transmitter location of the at least one transmitter are selected from a database of transmitters based on a vehicle location of a vehicle, and at least one total signal is received at the vehicle. The at least one total signal comprises a direct signal of at least one broadcast signal from the at least one transmitter, and a reflection signal comprising a reflection of the broadcast signal reflected off an object. An estimated object location of the object is estimated based on the at least one total signal, the at least one transmitter location, and the vehicle location.
US08902101B1
A radar system includes an antenna. The radar system comprises a transmitter coupled to the antenna. The transmitter provides a radar signal. The radar signal includes a first set of pulses having a high bandwidth and a second set of pulses having a lower bandwidth. In one embodiment, the radar system is used for wind shear detection and the antenna is a smaller antenna.
US08902100B1
A aircraft hazard warning system or method can be utilized to determine a location of a turbulence hazard for an aircraft. The aircraft hazard warning system can utilize processing electronics coupled to an antenna. The processing electronics can determine an inferred presence of turbulence in response to lightning sensor data, radar reflectivity data, turbulence data, geographic location data, vertical structure analysis data, and/or temperature data. The system can include a display for showing the turbulence hazard and its location.
US08902093B1
An analog to digital converting system (200) includes an analog to digital converter (ADC) circuit that is formed by a plurality of parallel ADCs (ADC 1 ADC N) for continuous sequential processing of an input analog voltage signal. Each of the ADCs is a type that employs a capacitor digital to analog converter (DAC) (209, 701) therein. The system further includes a sample and hold circuit (220) coupled to the parallel ADCs by a conductive interconnect wiring pattern (203). The sample and hold circuit includes a sampling switch (207) and a hold capacitance formed by the parallel combination of a hold capacitor (205) and the distributed parasitic capacitance (204) of the conductive interconnect wiring pattern (203). During the hold phase of the sample and hold circuit, charge is redistributed from the hold capacitance to all of the capacitors (211) of the capacitor DAC, which serve as a secondary hold capacitance.
US08902088B2
A minimum energy coding method and apparatus that includes obtaining groups of bits from a bitstream and finding a mapping rule between the groups of bits and codewords that is chosen to maintain a DC balance. For example, the bitstream may be a bitstream corresponding to a biosignal.
US08902078B2
Devices capable of being disposed in a wellbore for outputting acoustical signals for monitoring downhole parameters are described. Receiving devices positioned remote from the devices and can receive the acoustical signals and determine the downhole parameters. The devices can output acoustical signals in response to fluid flow or otherwise.
US08902076B2
An LED light and communication system includes at least one optical transceiver, the optical transceiver including a light support and a processor. The light support has a plurality of light emitting diodes and at least one photodetector attached thereto, the light emitting diodes receiving power from a power source. The processor is in communication with the light emitting diodes and the at least one photodetector, the processor capable of illuminating the light emitting diodes to simultaneously create at least one first light signal, and at least one second light signal, the first light signal being observable to the unaided eyes of an individual and the second light signal not being observable to the unaided eyes of the individual. The second light signal includes at least one data packet. The at least one data packet comprises global positioning system (GPS) location information.
US08902052B2
A hitch mounted lift platform includes platform and lift base back-up sensors for detecting and alerting a vehicle occupant of a rear obstruction being approached to prevent collision and damage to the lift platform, items carried on the lift and the rear obstruction. The lift platform includes quick disconnect devices for connecting and disconnecting the associated wiring for easy attachment and detachment of the lift platform from the vehicle. The back-up sensors communicate with a visual display and/or speakers for visually and audibly alerting the vehicle occupant of any approaching rear obstructions. In operation, the visual display is activated when the vehicle is put in reverse. An audible alerting noise, such as beeping, is initiated by the back-up sensors detecting the vehicle is coming within a predetermined distance of an obstruction.
US08902046B2
RFID reading tunnel (10) comprising at least one RFID reading apparatus (12) installed at a reading zone (20) of a conveyor (14) or of a passageway for reading RFID transponders (24) in the reading zone (20) is provided, wherein the RFID reading apparatus (10) has a reading reception antenna (26) attached to the reading zone (20) for receiving RFID signals from the reading zone (20) and an evaluation unit (32) for reading RFID information from the RFID signals. In this respect, an additional reception antenna (28) which is attached so that RFID signals from the reading zone (20) cannot be received by the additional reception antenna (28) and the evaluation unit (32) is designed for a false reading check in which RFID information is discarded when the RFID signal belonging to the RFID information is received both by the reading reception antenna (26) and by the additional reception antenna (28).
US08902045B1
A technique performs an authentication operation using pulse and facial data from a user. The technique involves obtaining current pulse data from a user, and performing a comparison between the current pulse data from the user and expected pulse data for the user. The technique further involves generating an authentication result based on the comparison between the current pulse data and the expected pulse data. The authentication result may control user access to a computerized resource. Since such a technique uses pulse data, a perpetrator cannot simply submit a static image of a subject's face to circumvent the authentication process. In some arrangements, the technique involves obtaining videos of human faces and deriving cardiac pulse rates from the videos. For such arrangements, a standard webcam can be used to capture the videos. Moreover, such techniques are capable of factoring in circadian rhythms and/or aging adjustments to detect and thwart video replay attacks.
US08902041B2
In a method for unlocking an electronic device, unlocking operation having motion units are preset and are stored into a storage system. Sampled unlocking operation is stored into the storage system. When the electronic device receives a preset unlocking command to start unlocking the electronic device, three-axis acceleration values and three-axis rotation vectors are obtained continuously as an input operation from a first sensor and a second sensor. Motion units of the input operation are recorded. Sampled input operation is obtained by sampling the input operation at a preset time interval. A membership degree of the input operation is calculated. When the membership degree of the input operation conforms to a preset unlocking threshold, the electronic device is unlocked.
US08902038B2
A thermally responsive switch includes a container including a metal housing and a header plate, at least one conductive terminal pin inserted through a hole of the header plate, a fixed contact fixed to the terminal pin, a thermally responsive plate having one of two ends conductively connected via a support to an inner surface of the container and reversing a direction of curvature at a predetermined temperature, and at least one movable contact electrically conductively secured directly to the other end of the thermally responsive plate. Each contact is comprised of a silver-cadmium oxide system contact. The container is filled with a gas containing helium ranging from 50% to 95% so that an internal pressure of the container ranges from 0.38 atmosphere to 0.68 atmosphere at room temperature such that arc generated during opening of the contacts moves on surfaces of the contacts without spreading from the contacts.
US08902036B2
A ferrite clamp includes a pair of divided cores, each being formed in an open circular shape; and a pair of case parts, each being adapted to hold each of the divided cores. When the case parts are assembled with each other, the pair of divided cores held by the case parts constitute a circular magnetic core having an insertion hole to insert an electric cable therethrough. The case part includes, in a portion thereof to hold an outer peripheral surface of the divided core, a protruding portion which is outwardly convex.
US08902032B2
An induction device includes a first core made of a ferrite material, a second core made of a material having a lower magnetic permeability than the ferrite material and a higher saturation magnetic flux density than the ferrite material, a cooling device and a coil. The first core and the second core cooperate to form a closed magnetic circuit. The first core includes a contact surface cooled by the cooling device and a first magnetic leg extending so as to intersect with the contact surface and toward the second core. The second core includes a second magnetic leg extending so as to intersect with the contact surface and toward the first core and disposed to be wound around by the coil.
US08902031B2
A guide having passive gravity compensation via a magnet assembly for guiding a first body relative to a second body in a vertical direction has a spring guide which allows movements between a first and second body in the vertical direction and blocks the same in all other directions. The first body is connected to a first magnet and the second body to a second magnet. The second magnet has an opening within which the first magnet is configured, at least in part, so that a repulsion force, which counteracts the gravity of the first body, acts between the first and the second magnet that are each magnetized parallel to the vertical direction, but oppositely, the positive mechanical stiffness of the spring guide being at least partially compensated by a negative stiffness of the magnetic spring formed by the first and second magnets, and the first and second magnets being shaped such that a horizontal distance between the first and second magnet inside of the opening of the second magnet varies in the vertical direction. A platform supported by such guides is provided.
US08902027B2
The present invention relates to an electric protection apparatus comprising at least one switching module fitted on a mounting support, and a control device with an electromagnetic coil juxtaposed with one of the above-mentioned modules, this device comprising a magnetic shield arranged in a plane substantially perpendicular to the plane of the mounting support, said shield being located between the control device and the switching module situated closer to said device, facing the coil of the control device, and comprising at least one ferromagnetic part shaped in such a way that said shield performs magnetic guiding of the arc as soon as separation of the contacts takes place so as to increase the propulsion component of the Laplacian force acting on the arc as soon as separation of the contacts takes place.
US08902021B2
A Radio Frequency (RF) duplexer including Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators (BAWRs) and an RF filter including BAWRs are provided. The RF duplexer may convert the received signal into a balance signal and output the balance signal via a dual-output port. The RF duplexer may also include a BAWR receiving filter unit including an input end to receive the balance signal from the dual-output port, and an output end used for dual output. The RF duplexer may also include a BAWR transmitting filter unit to transmit a transmitted signal to the antenna via a single-output port.
US08902018B2
A control method is proposed that controls inter-component phase difference solitons by using splitting or fusion caused by the interaction between inter-component phase difference solitons themselves, without the need for application of external energy. By using a line structure (10) in which an inter-component phase difference soliton propagation line through which an inter-component phase difference soliton (So) which can exist in a superconducting environment can travel is divided into a plurality of branch lines (10-1 and 10-2) at least at a branch end (Po) set in the middle of the line, an inter-component phase difference soliton (So) in a main line (10M) which is an undivided line portion is allowed to be split and to enter the plurality of branch lines (10-1 and 10-2) without a supply of external energy, or inter-component phase difference solitons (So1 and So2) in the respective branch lines (10-1 and 10-2) are fused together without a supply of external energy, whereby an inter-component phase difference soliton (So) is allowed to propagate through the main line (10M).
US08902013B2
A dynamic range compression circuit includes an attenuator that attenuates a signal at a predetermined node in an amplifier to reduce a gain of the amplifier and a gain controller that reduces the gain of the amplifier by the attenuator so that an amplitude of an output signal of the amplifier becomes an arbitrary output limit voltage in a case where an input signal having the same amplitude as that of an input-stage maximum voltage of the amplifier is input into the amplifier, and increases the gain of the amplifier by reducing a degree of attenuation of the attenuator according to a decrease of the amplitude of the input signal of the amplifier from the input-stage maximum voltage in a case where the amplitude of the input signal of the amplifier is smaller than the input-stage maximum voltage.
US08902012B2
Systems and methods for a waveguide circulator with tapered matching component are provided. In certain embodiments, a waveguide structure comprises a plurality of waveguide arms; an internal cavity; a plurality of tapered matching components, wherein each tapered matching component in the plurality of tapered matching components has a narrow taper end that is connected to the internal cavity and a wide taper end that is connected to a waveguide arm in the plurality of waveguide arms, wherein the narrow taper end is narrower than the wide taper end; and a ferrite element having ferrite element segments disposed in the internal cavity, wherein a segment extends through the narrow taper end and the narrow taper end of the tapered matching component is narrower than the wide taper end such that a magnitude of impedance difference between each waveguide arm and the internal cavity containing the ferrite element is reduced.
US08902009B1
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first circuit of a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO). The first circuit has a loss component. A second circuit is coupled to the first circuit and configured to transform a positive impedance into a negative impedance in series with a negative resistance. The negative impedance includes an adjustable reactive component used to adjust a frequency of an output signal of the DCO. An equivalent reactance seen by the first circuit is less than a reactance of the adjustable reactive component.
US08901989B2
An adaptive gate drive circuit that can generate a gate bias voltage with temperature compensation for a MOSFET is disclosed. The adaptive gate drive circuit may generate the gate bias voltage with variable drive capability to combat higher gate leakage current of the MOSFET at higher temperature. In one design, an apparatus includes a control circuit and a gate drive circuit. The control circuit generates at least one control signal having a variable frequency determined based on a sensed temperature of the MOSFET. For example, a clock divider ratio may be determined based on the sensed temperature of the MOSFET, an input clock signal may be divided based on the clock divider ratio to obtain a variable clock signal, and the control signal(s) may be generated based on the variable clock signal. The gate drive circuit generates a bias voltage for the MOSFET based on the control signal(s).
US08901988B2
A single-balanced balun mixer circuit includes a balun with a center tap connected to a differential pair with a tail resistor. The balun receives a first input signal and a second signal at the single-ended input terminal and the center tap, respectively. Such a balun mixer may be used as an up-converter mixer by supplying a baseband or intermediate signal at the center tap and a local oscillator (LO) signal at the single-ended input terminal.
US08901976B2
A synchronizing circuit that is capable of generating a reproduced clock signal synchronized with a reference clock signal without causing a false lock and a clock data recovery circuit including the same are provided. To generate a clock signal synchronized with a reference clock signal associated with a data transition point that appears every predetermined period in an input data signal, the following false-lock avoidance processing is performed. That is, precharging of a first line is started when a phase control voltage applied to the first line by a charge pump falls below a lower-limit reference voltage, and the precharging of the first line is continued until the phase control voltage exceeds an upper-limit reference voltage.
US08901972B2
A circuit may include a controller, at least one bridge circuit, and a plurality of switches. The plurality of switches may be connected parallel to each other, each may have a switch output connected to the bridge circuit. The bridge circuit, upon receiving a current from the plurality of switches, may generate an output based on a reference voltage. The controller may generate a plurality of control signals, based on a voltage transition range, to selectively turn on the plurality of the switches in more than one combination, to supply a current to the output.
US08901971B1
Systems and methods for providing differential line drivers include a device having an input configured to receive an input signal and a driver circuit configured to generate a first output and a second output from the input signal. The second output is a complementary output to the first output, wherein the first output has a first transfer characteristic and the second output has a second transfer characteristic different than the first transfer characteristic. The first and second transfer characteristics include an offset from respective input values of the input signal. The device further includes an output configured to output as a differential signal the first output and the second output generated by the driver circuit, wherein the offset in the first and second transfer characteristics defines a fail-safe output state for the differential signal.
US08901965B2
A dual-mode logic gate, for selectable operation in either of static and dynamic modes, includes: a static gate which includes at least one logic input and a logic output; a mode selector, configured for outputting a turn-off signal to select static mode operation and for outputting a dynamic clock signal to select dynamic mode operation; and a switching element associated with the mode selector static gate, comprising a first input connected to a constant voltage, a second input for inputting the mode selection signal from the mode selector, and an output connected to a logic output of the static gate. The switching elements switches the logic gate operation from static to dynamic mode, by applying the appropriate signal to the switching element.
US08901963B2
A level shifting device is disclosed. The device includes an input unit, a control unit, a high level generating unit, a low level generating unit and an output unit. The input unit generates a level selection signal and a plurality of output selection signals by sampling serial input data. The control unit selectively generates a high level activation signal or a low level activation signal based on the input data, and generates a switching signal based on the input data. The high level generating unit generates a high level output signal in response to the high level activation signal, and the low level generating unit generates a low level output signal in response to the low level activation signal. The output unit outputs one of the high level output signal and the low level output signal to each of a plurality of output signals in response to the switching signal.
US08901955B2
This disclosure provides examples of circuits, devices, systems, and methods for providing high speed operation with high noise immunity. In one implementation, a circuit includes a first buffer configured to receive an incoming signal and to generate a first output signal. The circuit also includes a second buffer configured to receive the incoming signal and to generate a second output signal. The second buffer exhibits hysteresis with lower and upper thresholds. The circuit also includes an output block configured to receive the first and second output signals and to generate a third output signal. The output block is configured to switch a logic state of the third output signal in response to a transition of a logic state of the first output signal, and to lock the logic state of the third output signal until the output block receives a transition of a logic state of the second output signal.
US08901946B2
Apparatus and methods for identifying a signal on a printed circuit board (‘PCB’) under test, including an integrated circuit mounted on the PCB, the integrated circuit having a test signal generator that transmits a test signal to an output pin of the integrated circuit, with the output pin connected to a test point on the PCB; the integrated circuit also having signal identification logic that inserts into the test signal, an identifier of the signal; a test probe in contact with the test point; and a signal-identifying controller that receives the test signal and the identifier from the test probe and displays, in dependence upon the identifier, the identity of the signal.
US08901942B2
A system for locating and identifying at least two separate items, for example packaging, includes a capacitive first sensor detecting a first measuring region at a first position of a sensor device, for example a sensor film on a shelf bottom for packaging, a capacitive second sensor detecting a second measuring region at a second position, differing from the first position, of the sensor device, an electrically conductive first mark of a first item in the measuring region of one sensor, an electrically conductive second mark of a second item in the measuring region of the other sensor, and an evaluation device evaluating signals from the sensors, the signals caused or changed by electrical conductivity of the marks. Items can be capacitively detected and information obtained can be used to improve warehousing. The sensors and the marks can be produced quickly and cost-effectively by printing processes or film transfer.
US08901939B2
An open sensor is provided for testing a split sample of a composite medium. The open sensor generally includes a longitudinal section of a tube and a plurality of serpentine conductors which are successively layered on top of each other. The interior surface of the tube section forms a trough into which the split sample of the composite medium can be disposed. The number of serpentine conductors is two or greater.
US08901937B2
A method and a device for canceling an offset voltage in an output of a comparator circuit include applying a signal to a first input of the comparator as a function of an initial tap point in a resistor ladder. While the signal is applied to the first input, a nominal voltage is applied to a second input of the comparator, and then an output of the comparator is analyzed. The signal to the first input is changed in response to the analyzing, by accessing a different tap point in the resistor ladder.
US08901935B2
Methods and systems for detecting a change in the state of plasma confinement within a capacitively coupled RF driven plasma processing chamber are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the plasma unconfinement detection methods employ an analog or digital circuit that can actively poll the RF voltage at the powered electrode in the form of an Electrostatic Chuck (ESC) as well as the open loop response of the power supply (PSU) responsible for chucking a wafer to ESC. The circuit provides a means detecting both a change in RF voltage delivered to the ESC as well as a change in the open loop response of the PSU. By simultaneously monitoring these electrical signals, the disclosed algorithm can detect when plasma changes from a confined to an unconfined state.
US08901932B2
The invention is concerned with a tool and method for imaging a formation through a substantially non-conductive medium. The tool comprises first circuitry for injecting a current into the formation, wherein a complex impedance to the current is measured. Second circuitry for determining a phase angle of an impedance of the non-conductive medium and third circuitry for determining a component of the complex impedance that is orthogonal to the phase angle.
US08901928B2
In a MRI system housed within a room there is provided a movable magnet and additional components for other procedures on the patient, a control system is provided for the relative movement of the magnet and components. This includes a plurality of magnetic field sensors mounted on the components for measuring the magnetic field at the location of the component and an optional camera positioning system so that the control system can estimate relative positions of the components relative to the magnet from the sensed field strengths from the set of sensors to avoid collisions during the movements.
US08901920B2
A connector includes multiple probes and a first insulator part and a second insulator part joined to cover the probes. Each of the probes has a monolithic structure of a single bent metal plate. Each of the probes includes an end part configured to come into contact with an electrode terminal; a spring part having a meandering shape and connected to the end part; a housing part bent to enclose the spring part; and a bent part provided between the spring part and the housing part. The end parts of the probes are at least partially projecting outward from first openings provided in the first insulator part, and the bent parts of the probes are at least partially projecting outward from second openings provided in the second insulator part.
US08901919B2
A device for sensing electrical current or voltage in an electrical distribution system using an actively compensated current ratio transformer that includes a first magnetic core having a first permeability and a second magnetic core having a second permeability higher than the first permeability. A primary winding having P turns is coupled with the first and second magnetic cores, a measurement winding having M turns is coupled with the first and second magnetic cores so that current in the primary winding induces current in the measurement winding, and a sense winding having S turns is coupled with the second magnetic core. An amplifier coupled to the sense winding receives a voltage developed across the sense winding and produces a compensation current in response to the received voltage. The amplifier has an output coupled to the sense winding to feed the compensation current through the sense winding to reduce the voltage developed across the sense winding voltage to substantially zero. A burden resistor is coupled to the measurement winding and the sense winding for receiving the sum of the current induced in the measurement winding and the compensation current.
US08901917B2
An element measurement circuit is provided, comprising a oscillator for generating a first oscillation clock and second oscillation clock, a frequency divider for dividing the first oscillation clock to generate a third oscillation clock and for dividing the second oscillation clock to generate a fourth oscillation clock, a frequency detector for detecting the third oscillation clock to generate a first count value and for detecting the fourth oscillation clock to generate a second count value, and a controller for generating a first oscillation period according to the first count value, for generating a second oscillation period according to the second count value, and for generating a measurement value according to the first oscillation period and the second oscillation period.
US08901915B2
An external signal sensor uses a single sensing circuit to detect a DC voltage or an AC voltage or a contact closure. The circuit can sense different isolated signals with relatively low power consumption. According to various embodiments, an isolation transformer has a primary winding that is fed by an oscillator signal. A secondary winding of the isolation transformer is open when no contact closure or AC or DC voltage is present, but is closed when a contact closure is present or when an AC or DC voltage is present. When the secondary winding is open, a status signal at an output of the sensing circuit has a logical high value. When the secondary winding is closed, the status signal has a logical low value. In this way, the same sensing circuit can be used to detect either a contact closure or an AC or DC voltage.
US08901906B2
A control circuit includes: a first switching device that includes a source, a gate, and a drain; a negative voltage generating circuit that generates, from a pulse width modulation signal that controls the gate of the first switching device, a negative potential voltage which is equal to or smaller than a threshold of the first switching device; a gate control circuit that outputs a signal obtained by shifting a level of the pulse width modulation signal by an amount equal to the negative potential voltage to the gate of the first switching device; a second switching device that is disposed on a side of the drain of the first switching device; and a negative voltage detecting circuit that outputs a signal for turning ON the second switching device upon detecting that the negative potential voltage generated by the negative voltage generating circuit has reached a predetermined negative potential.
US08901903B2
The Application is directed at arrangements at which switch mode power converters share a common load. More particularly, the application provides a masterless arrangement in which no single converter controls the operation of the other converters. This is achieved by an arrangement in which each converter attempts to share its current measurement with other converters through an arbitration scheme employed on a data line, with the winning converter providing a defacto current measurement; for example, a maximum or minimum, to the overall arrangement.
US08901897B2
Operating a DC-DC converter that includes: a directly coupled inductor with a first and second coil element, the first and second coil element coupled to an output filter and a load; and power-switching phases, including: a first power-switching phase that includes a high-side and low-side switch, where the high-side switch is configured, when activated, to couple a voltage source to the first coil element and the low-side switch is configured, when activated, to couple the first coil element to a ground voltage; and a second power-switching phase that includes a high-side and low-side switch, where the high-side switch is configured, when activated, to couple the voltage source to the second coil element and the low-side switch is configured, when activated, to couple the second coil element to the ground voltage; and the switches are activated alternatively with no two switches are activated at the same time.
US08901894B2
A battery management method and apparatus. In one embodiment of the method, a source current is divided into Ic and Icr. Ic is transmitted to and charges a battery. A first voltage is generated that is related to Icr. The first voltage is converted into a first digital signal. A processing unit receives and processes the first digital signal in accordance with instructions stored in a memory. The transmission of Ic to the battery is interrupted in response to the processing unit processing the first digital signal. Current provided by the battery is divided into Idc and Idcr. Idc is transmitted to a device. A second voltage is generated that is related to Idcr. The second voltage is converted into a second digital signal. The processing unit receives and processes the second digital signal in accordance with instructions stored in the memory. The transmission of Idc to the battery is interrupted in response to the processing unit processing the second digital signal.
US08901892B2
Described are systems and methods for accurately characterizing thermodynamic and materials properties of electrodes and battery systems and for characterizing the state of health of electrodes and battery systems. Measurement of physical attributes of electrodes and batteries corresponding to thermodynamically stabilized electrode conditions permit determination of thermodynamic parameters, including state functions such as the Gibbs free energy, enthalpy and entropy of electrode/electrochemical cell reactions, that enable prediction of important performance attributes of electrode materials and battery systems, such as energy, power density, current rate, cycle life and state of health. Also provided are systems and methods for charging a battery according to its state of health.
US08901891B2
A voltage polarity determination circuit includes an integration circuit, a switch, and a time measurement circuit. The integration circuit includes an operational amplifier circuit having an input offset voltage which is larger than the maximum value of a voltage input to the integration circuit or smaller than the minimum value of the input voltage of the integration circuit. The switch switches the input voltage of the integration circuit between a voltage whose polarity is to be determined and a reference voltage. The time measurement circuit measures a time interval which it takes for the output voltage of the integration circuit to reach a set voltage, and based on the result of the measurement, determines the polarity of the input voltage of the integration circuit.
US08901887B2
A mobile electric appliance is disclosed. The mobile electric appliance includes at least one battery bay for accommodating a battery with at least one voltage-generating cell and a battery-side charge status indicator, an electrical consumer, a power connector, as well as a charging device for charging the at least one battery. In addition, the mobile electric appliance includes means for detecting the charge status of the at least one battery and a device-side charge status indicator arranged on the mobile electric appliance. The battery may also include an interface, which is prepared to relay the charge status determined to an external processing unit.
US08901886B2
The present inventions, in certain aspects, are directed to techniques and/or circuitry to charge a battery the method comprises (i) charging the battery via a charging sequence, wherein charging the battery includes: (a) applying a plurality of charge signals, and (b) applying one or more discharge signals wherein, in response thereto, the battery outputs electrical energy. In certain embodiments, the electrical energy output by the battery in response to the discharge signals is stored (for example, in a capacitor and/or second battery). The present inventions are also directed to, among other things, an apparatus to charge a battery comprising charging circuitry including: (i) a current source to generate a plurality of charge signals, and (ii) a current sink to generate one or more discharge signals, wherein, in response thereto, the battery outputs electrical energy. The apparatus may also include control circuitry, a storage device (for example, in a capacitor and/or second battery), to store the energy output by the battery in response to the one or more discharge signals, and/or an ambient environmental device to adjust the ambient environment or conditions of the battery using the energy output by the battery in response to the one or more discharge signals.
US08901883B2
Disclosed herein is a charger for electric vehicles, which has a wide output voltage range. The charger is a slow charger having an improved configuration to respond to a wide output voltage range as well as output change. The charger may achieve limited switching loss and reduced noise via soft-switching operation, thereby enabling high-efficiency large-power Power Factor Correction (PFC) and increasing conversion efficiency of a DC/DC converter.
US08901880B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to wireless power transfer. A portable wireless power charger includes an antenna configured to generate a magnetic near-field for coupling of wireless power to a wireless powered device including a receiver. The antenna is substantially disposed around the perimeter of the charging pad. The portable wireless power charger further includes a feeder cable for coupling the input power to the charging pad.
US08901865B2
A current limiting device includes a switching portion, a reflux portion connected to a connection point of the switching portion and an output terminal, and supplying a current to a motor generator while the switching portion is cutting off the current, a current measurement portion that measures the current flowing from the output terminal to the motor generator, and a current control portion that controls the switching portion to switch ON/OFF according to a current value measured by the current measurement portion. When the motor generator is motor-driven using electric power of a condenser, the current control portion limits the current to the motor generator by controlling the switching portion to switch ON/OFF in a case where the measured current value is equal to or exceeds a predetermined current value.
US08901864B2
Proposed is a driver having dead-time compensation function. The driver having dead-time compensation function generates an output voltage according to a voltage command and a frequency command. The driver includes an inverter, an output current detector and a control unit. The inverter receives a DC voltage and operates with a pulse width modulation mode so that the driver outputs the output voltage and an output current. The output current detector detects the current value of the output current to generate a output current detecting signal. The control unit outputs a switching control signal to inverter according to the voltage command and the frequency command. The control unit corrects a reference command according to dead-time and the output current detecting signal related to the output current so that amplitude and waveform smoothness of the output voltage and the output current are compensated.
US08901863B2
A motor control device has a motor driving circuit for driving a motor, a current detection circuit for detecting a motor current flowing through the motor driving circuit, and a controller for calculating a detected value of the motor current based on an output of the current detection circuit, comparing the detected value with a target value of the motor current, and generating a command value for allowing a motor current of the target value to flow through the motor based on a deviation therebetween, to output the command value to a motor driving circuit. The current detection circuit is configured of a first current detection circuit having a positive first gain and a second current detection circuit having a negative second gain obtained by inverting the first gain.
US08901850B2
An adaptive anti-glare light system including a sensor, a color selection engine, a controller, and a plurality of light sources each configured to emit a source light. The sensor transmits a source color signal designating a reflected light characterized by a detected color and a discomfort glare rating. The color selection engine determines a dominant wavelength of the detected color, and a combination of the light sources that the controller may operate to emit a combined wavelength that matches the dominant wavelength of the detected color. A method of adapting light as a countermeasure to glare comprises receiving the detected color, determining a subset of the plurality of light sources that may be combined to form an adapted light that matches the detected color, and operating the light sources with a white light to emit the adapted light at or above a threshold discomfort glare level.
US08901847B2
A driving device includes a switching power supply circuit to convert input power to output power; a first switching element which opens and closes a circuit of a load; an output capacitor connected in parallel to the load and the first switching element; a selection switch disposed between the inductor and the output capacitor, the selection switch switching between a first selection state where the load is electrically connected to the inductor and the second selection state where a reference potential portion is electrically connected to the inductor; a timing controller which operates the switching power supply circuit while the first switching element is closed; and a controller which puts the selection switch into the second selection state before the first switching element is closed.
US08901843B2
A light driving apparatus includes a first rectifying unit for receiving AC power and rectifying the AC power into DC, a switching element controlled to turn on or off by a control signal, a transforming unit having a transformer and an inductor connected to a primary side of the transformer in parallel, a second rectifying unit for rectifying a secondary side output of the transforming unit and supplying an output voltage thereof to a LED unit, and a control unit provided in the primary side to give a constant-current control function so that a secondary side output is maintained consistently. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to simplify the circuit structure of the secondary side and improve the efficiency by controlling the secondary side current at the primary side without secondary side feedback information.
US08901841B2
The disclosure relates to an AC LED dimmer and dimming method thereof. The AC LED dimmer includes a rectifier receiving AC voltage from an AC voltage source and full-wave rectifying the AC voltage; a direct current (DC)/DC converter receiving the full-wave rectified voltage from the rectifier, generating a full-wave rectified stepped-up voltage, and generating a pulse enable signal; a pulse width modulation controller receiving the full-wave rectified stepped-up voltage and generating a pulse width modulation signal to dim an AC LED in response to the pulse enable signal; a switch driving the AC LED under control of the pulse width modulation signal, and an electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter to be connected between the AC voltage source and the switch to eliminate electromagnetic interference from the AC voltage source. Accordingly, the dimmer can perform an efficient and linear dimming function and suppress harmonics.
US08901835B2
LED controllers, LED lighting systems and control methods capable of providing an average luminance intensity independent from the variation of an AC voltage. LEDs are divided into LED groups electrically connected in series between a power source and a ground. A disclosed LED controller has path switches, a management center and a line waveform sensor. Each path switch is for coupling a corresponding LED group to the ground. The management center controls the path switches. When turning off an upstream path switch, the management center controls a downstream path switch for a downstream LED group to make the driving current passing the upstream LED group substantially approach a target value. The line waveform sensor is coupled to the power source, sensing the waveform of the input voltage of the power source. The line waveform sensor is configured to decrease the target value when the input voltage increases.
US08901825B2
Illumination sources are turned ON and turned OFF in response to detected levels of illumination in an ambient environment reaching respective thresholds, which may be user set. The detection of these turn ON and turn OFF events is verified, for instance against expected events or conditions for the particular location, date and/or time. An alert or log entry may be generated if a detected event or condition appears to be invalid. For instance, if an amount of illumination in the environment is different than predicted by a threshold amount or if a time that the event occurs or is detected is different than expected or predicted by more than a threshold amount. A level of illumination may be decreased to some non-zero level after a specified time after turn ON, and increased at some specified time before turnOFF. Use of information from external sources (e.g., satellites, cell towers) may allow times to be using local time, including daylight savings if applicable.
US08901822B2
The invention relates to a lighting arrangement with an operating device (3) and with an LED light source (4) which is controlled by said operating device and which is formed by at least two LEDs (4a, 4b, 4c), which emit light of different colors and together emit a white total light. The operating device (3) drives some of the LEDs (4a, 4b, 4c) forming the LED light source (4) which are intended to emit monochromatic (non-white) light in such a way that said LEDs emit light signals representing certain operating parameters.
US08901815B2
An organic light emitting device and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The organic light emitting device includes an opaque substrate having one or more holes, and an organic emissive unit interposed between first and second electrodes positioned on the opaque substrate.
US08901803B2
The present invention provides a composite substrate comprising a piezoelectric substrate that is a single-crystal lithium tantalate or lithium niobate substrate, a support substrate that is a single-crystal silicon substrate, and an amorphous layer containing argon and joining together the piezoelectric substrate and the support substrate. The amorphous layer includes, in order from the piezoelectric substrate toward the composite substrate, a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer contains a larger amount of a constituent element of the piezoelectric substrate than the second and third layers, the third layer contains a larger amount of a constituent element of the support substrate than the first and second layers, and the second layer contains a larger amount of argon than the first and third layers.
US08901779B2
A medical device-powering wireless receiver for use with a first electromagnetic resonator coupled to a power supply. The wireless receiver includes a load configured to power the medical device using electrical power, and a second electromagnetic resonator adapted to be housed within the medical device and configured to be coupled to the load, at least one other electromagnetic resonator configured with the first electromagnetic resonator and the second electromagnetic resonator in an array of electromagnetic resonators to distribute power over an area, wherein the second electromagnetic resonator is configured to be wirelessly coupled to the array to provide resonant, non-radiative wireless power to the second electromagnetic resonator from the first electromagnetic resonator.
US08901771B2
Described herein are systems, methods and apparatuses for providing power to an irrigation controller. In one implementation, an apparatus comprises an alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) voltage converter configured to convert an input AC voltage into a DC voltage. An AC voltage generator is coupled to the AC to DC voltage converter, wherein the AC voltage generator is configured to generate an output AC voltage using the DC voltage. The AC voltage generator is further coupled to the irrigation controller, and the AC voltage generator is configured to supply the output AC voltage to the irrigation controller.
US08901768B2
A wastegate control system includes a wastegate control module configured to operate in one of a first PWM mode and a second PWM mode. A first transistor includes a control terminal connected to the wastegate control module, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. A clamp circuit is connected to the first output terminal and the second output terminal of the first transistor. A second transistor includes a control terminal connected to the wastegate control module, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. A diode has an anode connected to the second output terminal of the first transistor and a cathode connected to the first output terminal of the second transistor.
US08901767B2
A preferred embodiment includes a system for power generation through movement of fluid having a variety of configurations and implementations. One preferred embodiment includes a system for power generation through movement of fluid includes a power generating cell with a generally cylindrical housing a ring for rotating disposed in said housing, one or more impellers fixedly coupled to said ring, and a generator operably coupled to said ring for receiving energy from the one or more impellers in which fluid is disposed about one or more impellers for creating energy.
US08901757B2
An efficient energy conversion system and method for converting a gas product produced by electrolysis into electricity. The system may include an electrolysis fuel cell, an engine and a generator. In an exemplary embodiment, the generator may be a superconducting generator and may be cooled using a refrigeration system.
US08901751B2
A semiconductor device, includes: a connection member including a first pad formed on a principal surface thereof; a semiconductor chip including a circuit-formed surface on which a second pad is formed, the chip mounted on the connection member so that the circuit-formed surface faces the principal surface; and a solder bump that connects the first and second pads and is made of metal containing Bi and Sn, wherein the bump includes a first interface-layer formed adjacent to the second pad, a second interface-layer formed adjacent to the first pad, a first intermediate region formed adjacent to either one of the interface-layers, and a second intermediate region formed adjacent to the other one of the interface-layers and formed adjacent to the first intermediate region; Bi-concentration in the first intermediate region is higher than a Sn-concentration; and a Sn-concentration in the second intermediate region is higher than a Bi-concentration.
US08901750B2
Provided is a semiconductor package including multiple semiconductor chips, and separate groups of leads connected to the semiconductor chips. The leads are exposed to the outside of the semiconductor package. The plurality of leads may include a first lead group for a first chip group and a second lead group for a second chip group. The first and second chip groups are part of the package.
US08901741B2
A method for forming an interconnect structure with nanocolumnar intermetal dielectric is described involving the construction of an interconnect structure using a solid dielectric, and introducing a regular array of vertically aligned nanoscale pores through stencil formation and etching to form a hole array and subsequently pinching off the tops of the hole array with a cap dielectric. Variations of the method and means to construct a multilevel nanocolumnar interconnect structure are also described.
US08901733B2
In accordance with the objectives of the invention a new method is provided for the creation of metal bumps over surfaces of I/O pads. Contact pads are provided over the surface of a layer of dielectric. The aluminum of the I/O pads, which have been used as I/O pads during wafer level semiconductor device testing, is completely or partially removed over a surface area that is smaller than the surface area of the contact pad using methods of metal dry etching or wet etching. The contact pad can be accessed either by interconnect metal created in a plane of the contact pad or by via that are provided through the layer of dielectric over which the contact pad has been deposited. The process can be further extended by the deposition, patterning and etching of a layer of polyimide over the layer of passivation that serves to protect the contact pad.
US08901724B2
Embodiments of the present invention describe a semiconductor package having an embedded die. The semiconductor package comprises a coreless substrate that contains the embedded die. The semiconductor package provides die stacking or package stacking capabilities. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention describe a method of fabricating the semiconductor package that minimizes assembly costs.
US08901715B1
Method for manufacturing a marked single-crystalline substrate and semiconductor device with marking
A method for manufacturing a marked single-crystalline substrate comprises providing a single-crystalline substrate comprising a first material, the single-crystalline substrate having a surface area; forming a marking structure on the surface area of the single-crystalline substrate, wherein the marking structure comprises a first semiconductor material; and depositing a semiconductor layer on the marking structure and at least partially on the surface area of the single-crystalline substrate, wherein the semiconductor layer comprises the second semiconductor material, and wherein the marking structure is buried under the second semiconductor material.
US08901711B1
A horizontal metal-insulator-metal capacitor including a first metal spacer and a second metal spacer laterally separated by a dielectric material portion is provided within a single opening within at least one layer of dielectric material. A diffusion barrier material portion laterally separates sidewall surfaces of each metal spacer from a corresponding sidewall surface of the at least one layer of dielectric material provided by the opening. Each diffusion barrier material portion, each metal spacer and the dielectric material portion within the opening containing the horizontal metal-insulator-metal capacitor has a bottommost surface that is in contact with a recessed surface of the at least one layer of dielectric material.
US08901708B2
This disclosure provides (a) methods of making an oxide layer (e.g., a dielectric layer) based on yttrium and titanium, to have a high dielectric constant and low leakage characteristic and (b) related devices and structures. An oxide layer having both yttrium and titanium may be fabricated either as an amorphous oxide or as an alternating series of monolayers. In several embodiments, the oxide is characterized by a yttrium contribution to total metal that is specifically controlled. The oxide layer can be produced as the result of a reactive process, if desired, via either a PVD process or, alternatively, via an atomic layer deposition process that employs specific precursor materials to allow for a common process temperature window for both titanium and yttrium reactions.
US08901707B2
A capacitor of a semiconductor device includes a capacitor structure configured to include electrode layers and dielectric layers alternately stacked, edge regions each stepwise patterned, and a central region disposed between the edge regions, sacrificial layers disposed within the respective electrode layers in the edge regions of the capacitor structure, and support plugs formed in the central region of the capacitor structure and configured to penetrate the electrode layers and the dielectric layers.
US08901706B2
A trench structure that in one embodiment includes a trench present in a substrate, and a dielectric layer that is continuously present on the sidewalls and base of the trench. The dielectric layer has a dielectric constant that is greater than 30. The dielectric layer is composed of tetragonal phase hafnium oxide with silicon present in the grain boundaries of the tetragonal phase hafnium oxide in an amount ranging from 3 wt. % to 20 wt. %.
US08901705B2
The present invention relates to an electronic component, that comprises, on a substrate, at least one integrated MIM capacitor, (114) an electrically insulating first cover layer (120) which partly or fully covers the top capacitor electrode (118) and is made of a lead-containing dielectric material, and a top barrier layer (122) on the first cover layer. The top barrier layer serves for avoiding a reduction of lead atoms comprised by the first cover layer under exposure of the first cover layer to a reducing substance. An electrically insulating second cover layer (124) on the top barrier layer has a dielectric permittivity smaller than that of the first cover layer establishes a low parasitic capacitance of the cover-layer structure. The described cover-layer structure with the intermediate top barrier layer allows to fabricate a high-accuracy resistor layer (126.1) on top.
US08901703B2
The electronic device comprises a network of at least one thin-film capacitor and at least one inductor on a first side of a substrate of a semiconductor material. The substrate has a resistivity sufficiently high to limit electrical losses of the inductor and being provided with an electrically insulating surface layer on its first side. A first and a second lateral pin diode are defined in the substrate, each of the pin diodes having a doped p-region, a doped n-region and an intermediate intrinsic region. The intrinsic region of the first pin diode is larger than that of the second pin diode.
US08901690B2
A semiconductor structure for photon detection, comprising a substrate composed of a semiconductor material having a first doping, a contact region fitted at the frontside of the substrate, a bias layer composed of a semiconductor material having a second doping, which is arranged on the backside of the substrate at a distance from the contact region, wherein the contact region at least partly lies opposite the bias layer, such that an overlap region is present in a lateral direction, a guard ring, which is arranged at the frontside of the substrate and surrounds the contact region, wherein a reverse voltage can be applied between the contact region and the guard ring. In order to enable more cost-effective production, the overlap region has a lateral extent amounting to at least one quarter of the distance between contact region and bias layer.
US08901688B2
A glass-based, high-performance 60 GHz/mm-wave antenna includes cavities disposed in a phased-array antenna (PAA) substrate. The cavities are disposed below planar antenna elements. Emitter traces are disposed on the PAA substrate opposite the planar antenna elements and the emitter traces, the cavities, and the planar antenna elements are vertically aligned.
US08901683B2
Provided is a structure for improving performance of a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) microphone by preventing deformation from occurring due to a residual stress and a package stress of a membrane and by decreasing membrane rigidity. A MEMS microphone according to the present disclosure includes a backplate formed on a substrate; an insulating layer formed on the substrate to surround the backplate; a membrane formed to be separate from above the backplate by a predetermined interval; a membrane supporting portion configured to connect the membrane to the substrate; and a buffering portion formed in a double spring structure between the membrane and the membrane supporting portion.
US08901680B2
Semiconductor nano pressure sensor devices having graphene membrane suspended over cavities formed in a semiconductor substrate. A suspended graphene membrane serves as an active electro-mechanical membrane for sensing pressure, which can be made very thin, from about one atomic layer to about 10 atomic layers in thickness, to improve the sensitivity and reliability of a semiconductor pressure sensor device.
US08901675B2
A method is provided for fabricating a CMOS device. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a first active region and a second active region. The method also includes forming a first trench on the first active region using a first barrier layer and a second substitute gate electrode layer to protect a gate region on the second active region, followed by forming a first work function layer and a first metal gate in the first trench. Further, the method includes forming a second trench on the second active region using a second barrier layer to protect the first metal gate structure, followed by forming a second work function layer and a second metal gate in the second trench.
US08901671B2
The invention relates to semiconductor components, in particular to a scalable construction for lateral semiconductor components having high current-carrying capacity. A transistor cell according to the invention comprises a control electrode (203), a plurality of source fields (201) and a plurality of drain fields (202). The control electrode completely encloses at least one of the source fields or drain fields. A transistor according to the invention comprises a plurality of transistor cells on a substrate, each of which comprises a source contact field (206) and/or a drain contact field (207). The source contact fields are conductively connected to each other on the other side of the substrate and the drain contact fields are likewise conductively connected to each other on the other side of the substrate. The method according to the invention for producing a transistor comprises the following steps: providing a substrate; forming a plurality of transistor cells on the substrate, each of which comprises a control electrode, a plurality of source fields and a plurality of drain fields; conductively connecting the control electrodes to each other; forming a source contact field and/or a drain contact field in each transistor cell; conductively connecting the source contact fields of each transistor cell to a source contact field; conductively connecting the drain fields of each transistor cell to a drain contact field; forming at least one bump (208) on each of the source contact fields and on each of the drain contact fields; providing a circuit board; conductively connecting the bumps of the source contact fields to each other by means of conductive tracks on the circuit board; and conductively connecting the bumps of the drain contact fields to each other by means of conductive tracks on the circuit board. The arrangement of the bumps and the conductive tracks on the circuit board makes a low semiconductor surface assignment by wiring possible. The arrangement according to the invention of the source fields, drain fields and control electrodes relative to the bumps makes a low heat resistance possible between the active transistor regions and the bumps.
US08901670B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device is provided that in some embodiments encapsulates a gate silicide in a continuous encapsulating material. By encapsulating the gate silicide in the encapsulating material, the present disclosure substantially eliminates shorting between the gate structure and the interconnects to the source and drain regions of the semiconductor device.
US08901664B2
A device and method for fabrication of fin devices for an integrated circuit includes forming fin structures in a semiconductor material of a semiconductor device wherein the semiconductor material is exposed on sidewalls of the fin structures. A donor material is epitaxially deposited on the exposed sidewalls of the fin structures. A condensation process is applied to move the donor material through the sidewalls into the semiconductor material such that accommodation of the donor material causes a strain in the semiconductor material of the fin structures. The donor material is removed, and a field effect transistor is formed from the fin structure.
US08901663B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a device isolation pattern and a passive circuit element. The device isolation pattern is located on the substrate, delimits an active region of the substrate, and includes a recessed portion having a bottom surface located below a plane coincident with a surface of the active region. The passive circuit element is situated in the recess so as to be disposed on the bottom surface of the recessed portion of the device isolation pattern.
US08901659B2
Non-planar semiconductor devices including at least one semiconductor nanowire having a tapered profile which widens from the source side of the device towards the drain side of the device are provided which have reduced gate to drain coupling and therefore reduced gate induced drain tunneling currents.
US08901650B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes an n-channel first thin film transistor and a p-channel second thin film transistor on one and the same substrate. The first thin film transistor has a first semiconductor layer (27), and the second thin film transistor has a second semiconductor layer (22). The first semiconductor layer (27) and the second semiconductor layer (22) are formed from one and the same film. Each of the first semiconductor layer (27) and the second semiconductor layer (22) has a slope portion (27e, 22e) positioned in the periphery and a main portion (27m, 22m) which is a portion excluding the slope portion. A p-type impurity is introduced into only a part of the slope portion (27e) of the first semiconductor layer with higher density than the main portion (27m) of the first semiconductor layer, the main portion (22m) of the second semiconductor layer, and the slope portion (22e) of the second semiconductor layer. Accordingly, a driving voltage of the semiconductor device provided with the n-type TFT and the p-type TFT can be reduced.
US08901648B2
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device comprising a drain region, a gate region surrounding the drain region and formed in a loop around the drain region, a plurality of source regions arranged around the gate region, wherein each source region is situated across from a corresponding side of the drain region, and a plurality of bulk regions arranged around the gate region, wherein one or more of the plurality of source regions separate one or more of the plurality of bulk regions from the gate region. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US08901643B2
A semiconductor device includes a channel region extending in a vertical direction perpendicular to a substrate and having a nitrogen concentration distribution, a plurality of gate electrodes arranged on a side wall of the channel region and separated from each other in a vertical direction, and a gate dielectric layer disposed between the channel region and the gate electrodes. The nitrogen concentration distribution has a first concentration near an interface between the channel region and the gate dielectric layer.
US08901640B2
The object of the invention is to provide a semiconductor device realizing high-speed operation of surrounding gate transistors (SGTs), which are three-dimensional semiconductors, by increasing the ON current of the SGTs. This object is achieved by a semiconductor element being provided in which a source, a drain and a gate are positioned in layers on a substrate, the semiconductor element being provided with: a silicon column; an insulating body surrounding the side surface of the silicon column; a gate surrounding the insulating body; a source region positioned above or below the silicon column; and a drain region positioned below or above the silicon column; wherein the contact surface of the silicon column with the source region is smaller than the contact surface of the silicon column with the drain region.
US08901625B2
Devices and methods for providing JFET transistors with improved operating characteristics are provided. Specifically, one or more embodiments of the present invention relate to JFET transistors with a higher diode turn-on voltage. For example, one or more embodiments include a JFET with a PIN gate stack. One or more embodiments also relate to systems and devices in which the improved JFET may be employed, as well as methods of manufacturing the improved JFET.
US08901623B2
According to an embodiment, a super junction semiconductor device may be manufactured by introducing impurities of a first impurity type into an exposed surface of a first semiconductor layer of the first impurity type, thus forming an implant layer. A second semiconductor layer of the first impurity type may be provided on the exposed surface and trenches may be etched through the second semiconductor layer into the first semiconductor layer. Thereby first columns with first overcompensation zones obtained from the implant layer are formed between the trenches. Second columns of the second conductivity type may be provided in the trenches. The first and second columns form a super junction structure with a vertical first section in which the first overcompensation zones overcompensate a corresponding section in the second columns.
US08901609B1
A transistor includes a substrate, wherein a top portion of the substrate is doped with p-type dopants to a dopant concentration ranging from about 1×1018 ions/cm3 to about 1×1023 ions/cm3. The transistor further includes a graded layer on the substrate and a channel layer on the graded layer. The transistor further includes an active layer on the channel layer, wherein the active layer has a band gap discontinuity with the channel layer.
US08901608B2
A high electron mobility transistor includes a T-type gate electrode disposed on a substrate between source and drain electrodes and insulating layers disposed between the substrate and the T-type gate electrode. The insulating layers include first, second, and third insulating layers. The third insulating layer is disposed between the substrate and a head portion of the T-type gate electrode such that a portion of the third insulating layer is in contact with a foot portion of the T-type gate electrode. The second insulating layer is disposed between the substrate and the head portion of the T-type gate electrode to be in contact with the third insulating layer. The first insulating layer and another portion of the third insulating layer are sequentially stacked between the substrate and the head portion of the T-type gate electrode to be in contact with the second insulating layer.
US08901603B2
A protection circuit for metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) that are used as active bypass diodes in photovoltaic solar power systems is disclosed. The protection circuit comprises, a detection circuit for detecting the start of a surge event, a switch disposed to connect the MOSFET's drain to it's gate in response to the start of the surge, a diode in series with the switch, a bistable circuit for keeping the switch closed during the surge, and a means of resetting the bistable circuit after the surge.
US08901597B2
Disclosed are a light emitting device and a light emitting device package having the same. The light emitting device includes a light emitting structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and an active layer interposed between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer, an electrode electrically connected to the first conductive semiconductor layer, a reflective layer under the second conductive semiconductor layer, a protective layer disposed around a lower surface of the second conductive semiconductor layer, and a buffer layer disposed on at least one of top and lower surfaces of the protective layer.
US08901588B2
Disclosed herein are LED devices having lenses and methods of making the devices. The LED devices are made using an optical layer comprising a plurality of lens features. The optical layer is disposed relative to the LED die such that at least one LED die is optically coupled to at least one lens feature. A lens can then be made from the lens feature and excess optical layer removed to provide the device.
US08901584B2
A light emitting diode including a compound semiconductor layer having at least a pn junction-type light emitting unit and a strain adjustment layer stacked on the light emitting unit, wherein the light emitting unit has a stacked structure containing a strained light emitting layer having a composition formula of (AlXGa1-X)YIn1-YP (wherein X and Y are numerical values that satisfy 0≦X≦0.1 and 0.39≦Y≦0.45 respectively) and a barrier layer, and the strain adjustment layer is transparent to the emission wavelength and has a lattice constant that is smaller than the lattice constants of the strained light emitting layer and the barrier layer. The light emitting diode has an emission wavelength of not less than 655 nm, exhibits excellent monochromaticity, high output and/or high efficiency, and has a fast response speed.
US08901576B2
Processing for a silicon photonics wafer is provided. A silicon photonics wafer that includes an active silicon photonics layer, a thin buried oxide layer, and a silicon substrate is received. The thin buried oxide layer is located between the active silicon photonics layer and the silicon substrate. An electrical CMOS wafer that includes an active electrical layer is also received. The active silicon photonics layer of the silicon photonics wafer is flip chip bonded to the active electrical layer of the electrical CMOS wafer. The silicon substrate is removed exposing a backside surface of the thin buried oxide layer. A low-optical refractive index backing wafer is added to the exposed backside surface of the thin buried oxide layer. The low-optical refractive index backing wafer is a glass substrate or silicon substrate wafer. The silicon substrate wafer includes a thick oxide layer that is attached to the thin buried oxide layer.
US08901573B2
A semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate, a transistor formed in a cell region of the semiconductor substrate, and a voltage-breakdown-resistant structure formed in a region which surrounds an outer periphery of the cell region. The semiconductor substrate includes a first conductivity type substrate, a first conductivity type drift layer on the first conductivity type substrate, a second conductivity type layer on the drift layer, and a first conductivity type layer on the second conductivity type layer. The voltage-breakdown-resistant structure includes a first recess which surrounds the outer periphery of the cell region and reaches the drift layer, a trench located at a side surface of the recess on an inner periphery of the recess, and a second conductivity type buried layer buried in the trench to provide the side surface of the first recess.
US08901565B2
A semiconductor device adapted for being disposed on a substrate is provided. The semiconductor device includes a pixel electrode, a drain, a semiconductor channel layer, a source, a gate insulation layer and a side-gate. The pixel electrode is disposed on the substrate. The drain is disposed on the pixel electrode and exposes a portion of pixel electrode. The semiconductor channel layer is disposed on the drain. The source is disposed on the semiconductor channel layer. The gate insulation layer is disposed on the substrate, at least covers the source and surrounds the semiconductor channel layer. The side-gate is disposed on the gate insulation layer and extendedly covers the substrate along at least one side of the gate insulation layer. An extending direction of a portion of the side-gate is identical to a stacking direction of the drain, the semiconductor channel layer and the source.
US08901562B2
There are provided a transistor and a radiation imaging device in which a shift in a threshold voltage due to radiation exposure may be suppressed. The transistor includes a first gate electrode, a first gate insulator, a semiconductor layer, a second gate insulator, and a second gate electrode in this order on a substrate. Each of the first and second gate insulators includes one or a plurality of silicon compound films having oxygen, and a total sum of thicknesses of the silicon compound films is 65 nm or less.
US08901555B2
A light sensing device is disclosed. The light sensing device includes a first light sensor and a second light sensor. The first light sensor formed on a substrate includes a first metal oxide semiconductor layer for absorbing a first light having a first waveband. The second light sensor formed on the substrate includes a second metal oxide semiconductor layer and an organic light-sensitive layer on the second metal oxide semiconductor layer for absorbing a second light having a second waveband.
US08901548B2
Provided is a dual-mode display including a substrate, and a plurality of sub pixels on the substrate. Each of the sub pixels may include an emissive device, a reflective optical filter provided on a surface of the emissive device, and an optical shutter provided on other surface of the emissive device.
US08901544B2
Articles utilizing strengthened glass substrates, for example, ion-exchanged glass substrates, in combination with organic molecules or polymers are described along with methods for making the articles. The articles are useful in electronics-based devices that utilize organic thin film transistors.
US08901535B2
A semiconductor nanoparticle assembly including semiconductor nanoparticles having a core/shell structure, and wherein the semiconductor nanoparticles are bonded by means of amide bonds.
US08901532B2
Provided is a non-volatile programmable device including a first terminal, a first threshold switching layer connected to part of the first terminal, a phase change layer connected to the first threshold switching layer, a second threshold switching layer connected to the phase change layer, a second terminal connected to the second threshold switching layer, and third and fourth terminals respectively connected to a side portion of the phase change layer and the other side portion opposite to the side portion of the phase change layer.
US08901530B2
Embodiments of the invention generally include a method of forming a nonvolatile memory device that contains a resistive switching memory element that has improved device switching performance and lifetime, due to the addition of a current limiting component disposed therein. The electrical properties of the current limiting component are configured to lower the current flow through the variable resistance layer during the logic state programming steps by adding a fixed series resistance in the resistive switching memory element of the nonvolatile memory device. In one embodiment, the current limiting component comprises a tunnel oxide that is a current limiting material disposed within a resistive switching memory element in a nonvolatile resistive switching memory device. Typically, resistive switching memory elements may be formed as part of a high-capacity nonvolatile memory integrated circuit, which can be used in various electronic devices, such as digital cameras, mobile telephones, handheld computers, and music players.
US08901526B2
A variable resistive memory device capable of reducing contact resistance by including a contact layer having low contact resistance, the variable resistive memory device including a substrate comprising an active region; a gate line on the substrate; a first contact layer electrically connected to the active region; a memory cell contact plug electrically connected to the first contact layer; and a variable resistive memory cell electrically connected to the memory cell contact plug, wherein the first contact layer has less contact resistance with respect to the active region than the memory cell contact plug.
US08901521B2
A module for producing extreme ultraviolet radiation includes a supply configured to supply droplets of an ignition material to a predetermined target ignition position and a laser arranged to be focused on the predetermined target ignition position and to produce a plasma by hitting such a droplet which is located at the predetermined target ignition position in order to change the droplet into an extreme ultraviolet producing plasma. Also, the module includes a collector mirror having a mirror surface constructed and arranged to reflect the radiation in order to focus the radiation on a focal point. A fluid supply is constructed and arranged to form a gas flow flowing away from the mirror surface in a direction transverse with respect to the mirror surface in order to mitigate particle debris produced by the plasma.
US08901511B2
An electrostatic charged particle beam lens includes an electrode including a flat plate having a first surface having a normal line extending in a direction of an optical axis and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the electrode having a through-hole extending from the first surface to the second surface. When an opening cross section is defined as a cross section of the through-hole taken along a plane perpendicular to the normal line and a representative diameter is defined as a diameter of a circle obtained by performing regression analysis of the opening cross section, a representative diameter of the opening cross section in a first region that is on the first surface side and a representative diameter of the opening cross section in a second region that is on the second surface side are smaller than a representative diameter of the opening cross section in a third region that is a region in the electrode disposed between the first surface and the second surface.
US08901510B2
A particle beam device has a first column with a first beam axis, the first column having a first particle beam generator and a first objective lens for focusing the first particle beam on an object. A second column with a second beam axis is provided, the second column having a second particle beam generator and a second objective lens for focusing the second particle beam on the object. A detector, having a detection axis, detects interacting particles and/or radiation. The first beam axis and the second beam axis define a first angle, different from 0° and from 180°. The first and second beam axes are situated in a first plane. The detection axis of the detector and the first beam axis are situated in a second plane. The first plane and the second plane define a second angle having an absolute value in the range of 65° to 80°.
US08901503B2
A radiation detector system/method that simultaneously detects alpha/beta, beta/gamma, or alpha/beta/gamma radiation, within an integrated detector is disclosed. The system incorporates a photomultiplier tube with radiation scintillation materials to detect alpha/beta/gamma radiation. The photomultiplier tube output is then shape amplified and fed through discriminators to detect the individual radiation types. The discriminator outputs are fed to anti-coincidence and pulse width and timing analysis module that determines whether individual alpha/beta/gamma pulses are valid and should be counted by corresponding alpha/beta/gamma pulse radiation counters. The system may include a radiation detection method to affect alpha/beta/gamma radiation detection in a variety of contexts. The system/method may be implemented in a variety of applications, including but not limited to whole body radiation contamination detectors, laundry radiation scanners, tool/article radiation detectors, and the like.
US08901501B2
A scintillation device is disclosed and can include a scintillator and a pliable encapsulating barrier completely surrounding the scintillator. The scintillation device can be used within a detector device. The detector device can include a housing and a photosensor within the housing. The scintillation device can be within the housing adjacent to the photosensor.
US08901494B2
A sample analyzer is offered which creates a ternary scatter diagram representing a concentration ratio distribution of three elements out of several elements to be analyzed. This three-dimensional graph is created by adding an axis to the ternary scatter diagram and representing concentration information about the two additional elements on the added axis. The sample analyzer performs elemental analysis of a sample by scanning a primary beam over the sample and detecting a signal emanating from the sample. The added axis intersects the plane of the ternary scatter diagram.
US08901491B2
The invention proposes a method for the collective ejection of ions from a 3D RF ion trap with a ring electrode and two end cap electrodes, which comprises the following steps: (a) the RF voltage of a high-quality resonant circuit applied to the ring electrode is replaced with a second RF voltage at the two end cap electrodes which can be changed or switched faster than the high voltage at the ring electrode, keeping the ions stored, (b) the second RF voltage at the end cap electrodes is then switched down or off abruptly, releasing the ions, and (c) the released ions are ejected through an opening in one of the end cap electrodes by switching on a DC voltage on at least one of the end cap electrodes.
US08901489B2
Looped ionization sources for ion mobility spectrometers are described. The ionization sources can be used to ionize molecules from a sample of interest in order to identify the molecules based on the ions. In an implementation, an electrical ionization source includes a wire that is looped between electrical contacts. The wire is used to form a corona responsive to application of voltage between the wire and the walls of an ionization chamber. The corona can form when a sufficient voltage is applied between the wire and the walls. A difference in electrical potential between the wire and a wall forming an ionization chamber, in which wire is contained, can be used to draw the ions away from the wire. In embodiments, the wire can be heated to reduce the voltage used to strike the corona. The ions, subsequently, may ionize the molecules from the sample of interest. The looped corona source can also be used in mass spectrometers (MS).
US08901484B2
The present invention relates to a method for the quantitative determination of an impurity present in a peptide product, wherein the impurity cannot be separated from other impurities or the main product. The method particularly involves the use of high resolution mass spectrometry (MS) detection with or without high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The method can be used for the investigation of the quality of peptides and proteins, particularly of pharmaceutical peptides and proteins.
US08901478B2
An optical fiber assembly includes a prism, a light emitting element, an optical fiber, and a light detector. The prism includes an incident surface, an emergent surface, a first reflecting surface, a second reflecting surface, and a third reflecting surface. A collimating portion is positioned on the incident surface. The light emitting element faces the collimating portion for emitting light beams. The optical fiber faces the emergent surface. The light detector faces the incident surface. The collimating portion collimates the light beams to parallel first and second light beams. The first light beams are projected to the first reflecting surface, reflected to the emergent surface, and are reflected to the fiber optical. The second light beams are projected to the second reflecting surface, reflected to the third reflecting surface, and reflected to the light detector.
US08901477B2
According to the present invention, an electromagnetic wave detection device includes an optical waveguide, an electromagnetic wave input unit, and a phase difference measurement unit. According to the thus constructed electromagnetic wave detection device, an optical waveguide is a nonlinear crystal, and includes a branching portion for receiving a probe light pulse, and causing the probe light pulse to branch into two beams of branching light, and two branching light transmission portions for receiving the branching light from the branching portion, and transmitting the branching light. An electromagnetic wave input unit inputs an electromagnetic wave having a frequency equal to or more than 0.01 [THz] and equal to or less than 100 [THz] tilted by an angle generating Cherenkov phase matching with respect to a travel direction of the branching light into one of the two branching light transmission portions.
US08901469B2
An apparatus for preparing a food item in a microwave oven comprises a tray including an interior space defined by a base and an upstanding peripheral wall, and a cover pivotably connected to the tray for pivoting the cover relative to the tray between an open position and a closed position. The tray and/or cover includes a plurality of protrusions extending into the interior space. A microwave energy interactive material overlies the protrusions on the tray and/or cover.
US08901468B2
A heating system for hot water and conditioned air uses electromagnetic energy created by one or more magnetrons operated by high voltage transformers. The heating system includes oil cooled transformers and magnetrons. Using radiators in the form of heat exchangers, heat recovered from the transformers and magnetrons is dissipated directly into the path of the return air and the air handler blower. The magnetron heating system includes a coiled conduit sized to allow complete heating of the fluid flowing therethrough. The conduit has a conical shape to allow upper magnetrons to heat the outside of the conduit and lower magnetrons to heat the inside of the conduit.
US08901467B2
A multi-layer rod shaped ceramic igniter includes an elongated tapered electrode having a central core of resistant material and two annular segments. One of the segments in on one side of the core and the other on an opposite side and connected to two slightly converging facets extending along the core. The multi-layered rod shaped ceramic igniters disclosed herein may be manufactured by slip-casting, injection molding or extruding a green annular body and removing material from opposite sides of the green body to form two almost parallel but slightly converging facets that extend over the heater igniter between the back surface and the tip of the igniter. After removing material between the annular segments the igniter is air dried and then heated in a vacuum at atmospheric pressure to approximately 900° C. in order to burn off the organic binder. The ceramic is then held in an inert atmosphere and heated to a temperature of 1600° C. and under an isotatic pressure of greater than 10 mega pascales for sintering the layer into a unitary monolithic structure.
US08901464B2
A layered heater is provided that includes at least one resistive layer having a resistive circuit pattern, the resistive circuit pattern defining a length, a width, and a thickness, wherein the thickness varies along the length of the resistive circuit pattern and/or the width of the resistive circuit pattern for a variable watt density. The present disclosure also provides layered heaters having a resistive circuit pattern with a variable thickness along with a variable width and/or spacing of the resistive circuit pattern in order to produce a variable watt density.
US08901462B2
A heating unit and a method of fabricating the heating unit are provided. The heating unit includes a heating member provided in a tube, with an outer surface of the heating member spaced apart from an inner surface of the tube. The heating member may be connected to an external power source by a metal piece, rod, and a connecting unit sequentially coupled to the heating member. The heating member, connecting unit and rod provide a stable positioning of the heating member in the tube during thermal expansion of the heating member, thus preventing contact therebetween.
US08901457B2
Provided is a heat-transfer-medium heating apparatus including: a first heat-transfer-medium circulating box and a second heat-transfer-medium circulating box, which are attached to each other in a fluid-tight manner, in which heat-transfer-medium circulating paths are formed therein in close contact with both surfaces of a PTC heater; an electrical-component cooling wall member that is provided in, for example, the first heat-transfer-medium circulating box so as to be located adjacent to the heat-transfer-medium circulating path; and an electrical component that is fixed on the electrical-component cooling wall member, wherein a protruding portion is formed on the surface at the heat-transfer-medium circulating path side of the electrical-component cooling wall member so as to be positioned at exactly behind an installation position of the electrical component and to extend towards the heat-transfer-medium circulating path.
US08901456B2
The invention relates to methods and an apparatus for cutting planar substrates charged with pharmaceutically active agents. In particular, the planar substrates comprise transdermal systems or orally dissolvable films.
US08901451B2
A plasma torch is provided having an electrode with a frustoconical end portion. The electrode is received by a plunger during a contact start sequence of the plasma torch and is self-releasing from the torch. The electrode may include a shoulder portion that provides concentric alignment and centering of the electrode with respect to the central longitudinal axis of the components. Other components of the torch include a nozzle, a swirl ring, and retaining cup, such that the consumables of the torch may be toollessly removed and installed.
US08901444B2
The present invention discloses a current switching device and a method for manufacturing the same. The current switching device comprises a cover, a base, a plurality of metal terminals, a switching element, and at least two contact pieces; the base and the cover are combined with each other to form an accommodating space; the plurality of metal terminals are arranged in an asymmetrical shape and buried in the base; the switching element is disposed in the accommodating space; the two contact pieces are disposed on the switching element and comprises at least two contact points respectively, wherein all the contact points contact different metal terminals, and then each contact piece can conduct electricity between two metal terminals; the contact positions between the two contact pieces and the plurality of metal terminals can be changed by the rotary swing of the switching element, so as to switch the current direction.
US08901434B2
A board unit includes a board that has a through hole penetrating the board from a first side of the board to a second side of the board and having a conductive inner wall surface a first electronic component that has a first connection pin to be press-fitted in the through hole from the first side of the board, and a conductive member that is disposed in the through hole to connect the inner wall surface of the through hole to the first connection pin.
US08901428B2
A cover apparatus is provided for covering an electrical insulator and a conductor. The cover apparatus includes a first cover portion extending along a first axis. The first cover portion includes a first segment covering a first portion of the electrical insulator and a second segment coupled to the first segment and covering a first portion of the conductor. The cover apparatus includes a second cover portion extending along a second axis. The second cover portion includes a third segment movably attached to the first segment and a fourth segment coupled to the third segment and covering a portion of the conductor. An example method of forming a cover apparatus for covering an electrical insulator and a conductor is also provided.
US08901426B2
A flame-retardant cable includes at least one conductor and at least one coating made from a flame-retardant composition. The flame-retardant composition includes: (a) at least one crystalline propylene homopolymer or copolymer; (b) at least one copolymer of ethylene with at least one C3-C12 alpha-olefin, having a density of from 0.860 to 0.904 g/cm3 and a Molecular Weight Distribution Index not higher than 5; (c) at least one ethylene homopolymer or copolymer of ethylene with at least one C3-C12 alpha-olefin having a density of from 0.905 to 0.970 g/cm3; and (d) at least one flame-retardant filler.
US08901420B2
A housing for a connecting unit, particularly an electronic unit, includes at least one plug connector having a plug axis. The housing also includes a strip. The longitudinal axis of the strip is in a spatial plane with the plug axis of the plug connector.
US08901418B2
A frame for a cabinet is provided. The frame includes a side-to-side beam, a front-to-back beam connected to the side-to-side beam, and a vertical post connected to the side-to-side beam. The front-to-back beam is inset relative to the vertical post to form a cable-routing area along a side of the frame.
US08901410B2
An electronic system includes an electronic system cabinet housing at least one electronic system component and a power generation system. The power generation system includes a cooling system having a cooling medium that generates a cooling energy. The power generation system further includes a thermoelectric conversion element having a first side and a second side. The first side is in a heat exchange relationship with the at least one electronic system component and the second side is in a heat exchange relationship with the cooling medium. Heat energy generated by the at least one electronic system component raises a temperature of the first side and the cooling energy generated by the cooling medium lowers a temperature of the second side to establish a temperature difference. The thermoelectric conversion element produces an electro-motive force based on the temperature difference.
US08901407B2
An index calculating unit calculates a tonality index of a signal component of each area of an input signal transformed into a time frequency domain based on intensity (for example, power spectrum) of the signal component and a function (quadratic function) obtained by approximating the intensity of the signal component. A music determining unit determines whether or not each area of the input signal includes music based on the tonality index. The present technology can be applied to a music section detecting apparatus that detects a music part from an input signal in which music is mixed with noise.
US08901399B2
A novel soybean variety, designated XB32M13 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB32M13, cells from soybean variety XB32M13, plants of soybean XB32M13, and plant parts of soybean variety XB32M13. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB32M13 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB32M13, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB32M13, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB32M13. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB32M13 are further provided.
US08901394B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 97R21 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 97R21, cells from soybean variety 97R21, plants of soybean 97R21, and plant parts of soybean variety 97R21. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 97R21 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 97R21, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 97R21, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 97R21. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 97R21 are further provided.
US08901390B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1037492. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1037492. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1037492 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1037492 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08901383B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1036218. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1036218. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1036218 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1036218 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08901380B1
A novel canola variety designated VR 9559 G and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred canola varieties. Methods for producing a canola plant that comprises crossing canola variety VR 9559 G with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into VR 9559 G through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the canola variety VR 9559 G, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of canola variety VR 9559 G. This invention further relates to methods for producing canola varieties derived from canola variety VR 9559 G.
US08901379B2
According to the invention, there are provided novel canola cultivars, seeds of canola cultivars, to the plants, or plant parts, of novel canola cultivars and to methods for producing canola plants produced by crossing the novel canola cultivars with themselves or another canola cultivar, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of the canola cultivars. The novel canola cultivar(s) include canola plants having a desired trait that includes an oleic acid value of about 70%, an α-linolenic acid value of less than about 3%, and a yield greater than about 2100 kg/ha.
US08901370B1
A novel maize variety designated PH1W1F and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1W1F with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1W1F 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 PH1W1F or a locus conversion of PH1W1F with another maize variety.
US08901369B2
Methods are provided to select plants and populations of epigenetically fixed crop plants with improved yield.
US08901367B2
The present invention relates to absorbent articles, such as diapers and sanitary napkins, and cores useful for such articles. More specifically, the invention relates to an absorbent article having a longitudinal centerline and a transverse centerline, the absorbent article comprising an absorbent core, the core comprising a storage layer and a wearer facing side oriented towards a wearer when the article is being worn and an opposed garment facing side, the absorbent article further comprising a liquid pervious topsheet on the wearer facing side of the core and a liquid pervious backsheet on the garment facing side of the core, the core further comprising a first core wrap sheet covering the wearer facing side of the storage layer and a second core wrap sheet covering the garment facing side of the storage layer the first core wrap sheet being joined to the second core wrap sheet along at least one transverse stripe of juncture, wherein the stripe of juncture covers a total area and the stripe of juncture provides a bond strength of at least 1 N/cm between the first core wrap sheet and a second core wrap sheet as measured as tensile strength in the longitudinal direction and wherein the stripe of juncture comprises an open area of at least 20% of the total area.
US08901356B2
The present invention relates to methods of producing ingenol-3-angelate (I) from ingenol (II). Furthermore, the invention relates to intermediates useful for the synthesis of ingenol-3-angelate (I) from ingenol (II) and to methods of producing said intermediates.
US08901340B2
The present invention relates to compounds containing perfluoroalkyl-cyano-alkoxy-borate anions or perfluoroalkyl-cyano-alkoxy-fluoro-borate anions, ((per)fluoro)phenyl-cyano-alkoxy-borate anions or ((per)fluoro)phenyl-cyano-alkoxy-fluoro-borate anions or phenyl-cyano-alkoxy-borate anions which are monosubstituted or disubstituted with perfluoroalkyl groups having 1 to 4 C atoms or phenyl-cyano-alkoxy-fluoro-borate anions which are monosubstituted or disubstituted with perfluoroalkyl groups having 1 to 4 C atoms, the preparation thereof and the use thereof, in particular as part of electrolyte formulations for dye sensitized solar cells.
US08901338B2
Methods for preparing phosphonium salts by reacting a primary phosphine or a secondary phosphine with an ester compound selected from the group consisting of: a phosphate triester; a phosphonate diester; a sulfate diester; and a sulfonate ester; to form a phosphonium salt of formula VII wherein each of RQ, RX, RY, and RZ is independently hydrocarbyl and X− is a phosphate, phosphonate, sulfate, or sulfonate are provided herein. These phosphonium salts may find utility in a wide range of applications, including as surfactants, as polar solvents (ionic liquids), as antimicrobial agents, and as a component of spinning finish in polyamide fiber processing.
US08901335B2
A method of purifying crude organometallic compounds using a stripping column and a gas stream is provided. This method removes relatively more volatile impurities as compared to the organometallic compound.
US08901334B2
Phosphoranimide-metal catalysts are disclosed. The catalysts comprise first row transition metals such as nickel, cobalt or iron. The hydrocarbon-soluble catalysts have a metal to anionic phosphoranimide ratio of 1:1, have no inactive bulk phase and no dative ancillary ligands, and are active for a range of commercially important reductive transformations. A method of synthesis of these catalysts by reduction of a precursor of these catalysts is also disclosed.
US08901333B2
Coated fluorescent semiconductor nanoparticles having an organic surface layer of multi-functional surface ligands that include a nanocrystal binding center and one or more covalently attached functional groups or reactive functional groups are described as well as water-dispersible nanoparticles having an organic surface layer or multi-functional surface ligands and methods for the preparation and use of such coated nanoparticles.
US08901330B2
Alkyl esters boiling largely within the specification range for jet fuel may be made from triglycerides without a water-washing step, by centrifugation in a timely manner and at a sufficiently high time/G-force/distance product so as to bring about separation of a transitory second phase containing the residual catalyst. The esters or fractions thereof may be combined with jet or diesel fuels to lower the freezing and cloud points respectively.
US08901319B2
A process for the synthesis and purification of F-series prostaglandin compounds and synthetic intermediates used to prepare them. The synthetic intermediates are solid and may be purified by precipitation and therefore may form the representative F-series prostaglandin compounds such as latanoprost, bimatoprost, fluprostenol, cloprostenol, and substituted analogs therefrom in highly pure forms.
US08901317B2
The synthesis and evaluation of gastroprotective effect of different tryptamine derivatives. Tryptamine derivatives have been synthesized by formation of amide or ester with some known anti oxidant molecules. These derivatives show excellent antioxidant property in vitro. Among all the derivatives the compound SEGA (3a), that was prepared by the combination of serotonin with gallic acid shows the greater antioxidant property than the other synthesized compounds both in vivo and in vitro. SEGA(3a) shows the gastroprotective effect against NSAIDs (indomethacin or diclofenac)-induced gastropathy in dose dependent manner and also accelerates the healing from injury. It prevents the NSAIDs-induced mitochondrial oxidative stress in vivo. This derivative prevents NSAID-induced mitochondrial oxidative stress-mediated apoptosis in vivo by preventing the activation of caspase 9 and caspase-3 and restores NSAIDs-mediated collapse of mitochondroial transmembrane potential and dehydrogenase activity. SEGA (3a) plays an important role as an iron chelator as well as intra mitochondrial ROS scavenger. Thus, SEGA (3a) is a potent antioxidant antiapototic molecule, which efficiently prevents NSAID-induced gastropathy and stress or alcohol-mediated gastric damage.
US08901309B2
The present invention provides a heterocycle derivative having a superior amyloid β production inhibitory activity and/or a superior γ-secretase modulation activity, and use thereof. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the present specification, or a salt thereof.
US08901302B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a compound which is useful as a production intermediate of pyrazine carboxamide derivative such as 6-fluoro-3-hydroxy-2-pyrazine carboxamide. The present invention provides a pyrazino[2,3-d]isoxazole derivative represented by the formula (I): wherein X represents a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group or a sulfamoyloxy group, and Y represents —C(═O)R or —CN; wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkoxy group an aryloxy group, an alkyl group, an aryl group or an amino group.
US08901298B2
The present invention relates to condensed aromatic compounds with multiple ring bridging of the general formulae (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5). The invention furthermore relates to the use of the compounds according to the invention in an organic electronic device and to a process for the preparation of the compounds according to the invention. The invention furthermore relates to an electronic device which comprises the compounds according to the invention.
US08901284B2
Disclosed are methods, compositions and kits for the isolation of exosomes from biological fluids and tissues. Volume-excluding polymers are used to precipitate exosomes from biological samples thereby allowing exosome isolation by low-speed (benchtop) centrifugation or filtration. Further fractionation of exosomes after precipitation is also described.
US08901283B2
Described herein are anti-NKG2A antibodies suitable for human therapy, including humanized versions of murine anti-NKG2A antibody Z270, as well as related methods and materials for producing and using such antibodies. Exemplary complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) sequences and sites for optional amino acid back-substitutions in framework region (FR) and/or CDRs of such antibodies are also described.
US08901282B2
The present invention provides antibodies that differentially react with allelic variants of a polymorphic protein, methods of identifying same, an antigen binding fragment comprised therein, proteins, cells, viral particles, compositions, and kits comprising same. The invention also provides methods for determining a haptoglobin type of a subject and methods for testing a subject for susceptibility to diabetic complications.
US08901278B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of an epithelial tumor in a human, said pharmaceutical composition comprising an IgG1 antibody specifically binding to human CEA, wherein the variable region of said IgG1 antibody comprises at least (i) a CDR-H1 having the amino acid sequence “SYWMH” (SEQ ID NO: 29) and a CDR-H2 having the amino acid sequence “FIRNKANGGTTEYAASVKG” (SEQ ID NO: 28) and a CDR-H3 having the amino acid sequence “DRGLRFYFDY” (SEQ ID NO: 27) or (ii) a CDR-H1 having the amino acid sequence “TYAMH” (SEQ ID NO: 31) and a CDR-H2 having the amino acid sequence “LISNDGSNKYYADSVKG” (SEQ ID NO: 30) and a CDR-H3 having the amino acid sequence “DRGLRFYFDY” (SEQ ID NO: 27). Furthermore, processes for the production of said pharmaceutical compositions as well as medical/pharmaceutical uses for the IgG1 antibody molecules bearing specificities for the human CEA antigen are disclosed.
US08901273B2
An amorphous copolyester comprising the reaction product of (a) a monomer of formula I wherein R1, R2, R3, and R5 are each independently a C1-3 alkyl group, a is 0-1, b is 0-4, c is 0-4 and d is 0-3, and each R4 is independently hydrogen or a C1-3 alkyl group; (b) a terephthalyl component selected from terephthalic acid, a di(C1-3 alkyl) terephthalate, and combinations thereof, derived from a terephthalyl-containing polyester; and (c) 1,4-cyclohexane dimethanol; wherein the monomer (a) units are present in an amount from 7 to less than 12 mole % of the copolyester based on the total moles of repeat units in the copolyester; and the copolyester has a glass transition temperature of at least 107° C., an intrinsic viscosity of at least 0.7 dl/g, and a molded sample has a Notched Izod value of at least 290 J/m determined in accordance with ASTM D256.
US08901269B2
The invention relates to cross-linkable or cross-linked silicone compositions that can be used, in particular, to form a non-stick water-repellent coating for flexible substrates, for example paper or similar, in the form of natural or synthetic polymer films.
US08901264B2
To provide a copolymer which can impart sufficient dynamic water repellency, after air-drying water repellency and friction durability to a surface of an article, and which has low impact on the environment, a method for producing the same, a water repellent composition and an article excellent in dynamic water repellency, after air-drying water repellency and friction durability. A copolymer which is characterized in that it has structural units based on the following monomer (a) and structural units based on the following monomer (b), wherein the content of structural units based on the monomer (a) is from 5 to 95 mass % in the total structural units (100 mass %), the content of structural units based on the monomer (b) is from 5 to 60 mass % in the total structural units (100 mass %) and the sum of the contents of structural units based on the monomer (a) and structural units based on the monomer (b) is at least 65 mass % in the total structural units (100 mass %), and a water repellent composition which comprises the copolymer: Monomer (a): a (meth)acrylate having no Rf group and having a C20-30 alkyl group; Monomer (b): a halogenated olefin.
US08901261B2
The invention refers to a process for preparing a Group 2 metal/transition metal olefin polymerisation catalyst component in particulate form free of conventional phthalate electron donors and the use thereof in a process for polymerising olefins.
US08901257B2
Flexible members for use in imaging devices comprise a polyphenylsulfone and a polyetherimide; and optionally, a polysiloxane surfactant.
US08901251B2
A method for making an electrode active material of a lithium ion battery is disclosed. In the method, elemental sulfur is mixed with a polyacrylonitrile to form a mixture. The mixture is heated in vacuum or a protective gas at a heating temperature of about 250° C. to about 500° C., to form a sulfur containing composite. The sulfur containing composite is reacted with a reducing agent for elemental sulfur in a liquid phase medium to remove part of the elemental sulfur from the sulfur containing composite.
US08901240B2
[Object] To provide a polypropylene resin composition for use in the formation of a microporous membrane having excellent heat resistance and low thermal shrinkage ratio.[Solution] A polypropylene resin composition for use in the formation of a microporous membrane according to the present invention comprises as an essential component a propylene homopolymer (A) that satisfies the following requirements (1) to (4) and (7): (1) the intrinsic viscosity [η] is 1 dl/g or more and less than 7 dl/g; (2) the mesopentad fraction ranges from 94.0% to 99.5%; (3) the integral elution volume during heating to 100° C. is 10% or less; (4) the melting point ranges from 153° C. to 167° C.; and (7) in an elution temperature-elution volume curve, the maximum peak has a peak top temperature in the range of 105° C. to 130° C. and a half-width of 7.0° C. or less.
US08901234B2
An adhesive composition of the present invention contains, as a main composition, a polymer obtained by copolymerizing a monomer composition containing a monomer having a maleimide group, and further contains a thermal polymerization inhibitor. As a result, it is possible to provide an adhesive composition that allows forming an adhesive layer that is excellently dissolved after the adhesive layer has been subjected to a high-temperature process.
US08901226B2
A phenolic resin molding compound, which is thermally stable in a heating cylinder, is provided. By using the phenolic resin molding compound, moldings with an excellent dimensional precision can be obtained. The phenolic resin molding compound comprises: (A) a novolac phenolic resin with an o/p ratio (ortho/para ratio) of 0.7 to 0.9; (B) a novolac phenolic resin with an o/p ratio of 1.1 to 1.3; (C) talc; and (D) a polyethylene or polyethylene/polypropylene copolymer. The amount of (D) the polyethylene or polyethylene/polypropylene copolymer relative to a total weight of the phenolic resin molding compound is 0.5 to 1.5 weight %. It is preferable that the total amount of (A) and (B) is 20 to 40 weight %, and the amount of (C) is 5 to 15 weight %.
US08901225B2
A photosensitive resin composition which can impart insulating properties and light-shielding properties against light having a wavelength lying in an ultra-violet range, a visible range and a near-infrared range to a substrate more readily when applied onto the substrate, wherein the substrate has such properties that the permeability to light having a wavelength of 400 to 900 nm inclusive is less than 3.0% and the maximum value of the permeability to light having a wavelength of longer than 900 nm and not longer than 1300 nm is 3.0% or more. The photosensitive resin composition is characterized by comprising (a) an alkali soluble resin, (b) a specific tungsten oxide and/or a specific composite tungsten oxide, (c) a photopolymerizable compound having at least two polymerizable groups, (d) an oxime-type photopolymerization initiator, and (e) a solvent.
US08901220B2
Styrene-butadiene-based aqueous dispersions and methods for their preparation are described herein. The aqueous dispersions include water and a binder comprising a styrene-butadiene-based copolymer and an epoxysilane. Further described herein are binder formulations and methods for their preparation and use.
US08901203B2
The present invention relates to a stable pyrithione salt polyol dispersion containing a pyrithione salt(s) in particulate form, a polyol and a stabilizer such as a rheological additive. The dispersion can be incorporated into existing polyurethane formulations without additional formula adjustment. Polyurethane foams produced from the composition containing pyrithione salt polyol dispersion of the present invention have more open cell structures, than those produced with a typical commercially available pyrithione salt thus providing a soft comfortable feeling.
US08901202B2
Herein described is a biocompatible material comprising a polymer matrix based on hyaluronic acid derivatives and poly-εCaprolactone, the process for preparing this material, a prosthetic device constituted by this biocompatible material and a reinforcing material, the process for preparing the prosthetic device, and its use for the partial or total replacement of meniscus, and regeneration of the meniscal fibrocartilage.
US08901194B2
A durable ambient light curable waterproof liquid rubber coating with volatile organic compound (VOC) content of less than 450 grams per liter made from ethylene propylene diene terpolymer (EPDM) in a solvent, a photoinitiator, an additive, pigments, and fillers, and a co-agent and a method for making the formulation, wherein the formulation is devoid of thermally activated accelerators.
