US08935363B2
A system and method that transmits multimedia content over a long distance through network for prompt display of the transmitted multimedia content, wherein multimedia content are encoded into streaming format data files that enables smooth transmission and continuous display of multimedia content, said streaming format reflects inherent temporal characteristic of multimedia content, said streaming data files are arranged in a way that allows access and retrieval through hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP, and the transmission of multimedia content is regulated in a way that adapts to the inherent characteristics and/or real-time traffic condition of the network or display progress.
US08935362B2
An emulation device is used to stream media content from a digital media server to a digital media renderer. The emulation system receives a pulse code modulation data stream from the digital media server via a network interface, and stores the data in a buffer. The emulation system is attachable to the digital media renderer, and is recognized as a storage device containing an emulated media file. When the digital media renderer plays the emulated media file, the emulation device reads the PCM data from the buffer to use as sound or video data of the emulated media file.
US08935355B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to data backup and archival tools and provide a method, system and computer program product for periodically shuffling data fragments in a data backup set across different storage media in a peer-to-peer data backup and archival network. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for periodic shuffling of data fragments in a data backup set across different storage media in a peer-to-peer data backup and archival network can be provided. The method can include partitioning a file into multiple, different fragments for storage in a peer-to-peer data backup and archival network, storing the fragments in different peer hosts in the peer-to-peer data backup and archival network, and periodically shuffling the stored fragments to different peer hosts. In an aspect of the embodiment, the method also can include encrypting the fragments before storage in the different peer hosts.
US08935346B2
Based on information associated with users, a social networking system recommends one or more groups for a target user to join or to create. Characteristics of the target user, characteristics of users connected to the target user, characteristics of candidate groups in the social networking system may be used to identify groups for recommendation. The social networking system may provide questions to the target user and recommend a group to the target user based on received answers to the questions. For example, the answers to the provided question identify one or more characteristics of the target user, which are used to select a group for recommendation. Additionally, the social networking system may recommend additional users for the target user to add or invite to a group based on characteristics of the target user, the additional users, and/or the group.
US08935339B2
News feed techniques are described. In implementations, content is parsed from one or more emails that are addressed to a user. The parsed content from the email is exposed, automatically and without user intervention, for output in a news feed of the user.
US08935338B2
Techniques are disclosed for improving management of user information in instant messaging systems. Expiration criteria are defined, whereby one or more users or user groups may be considered as having “expired” from consideration by instant messaging functions such as presence determination. In particular, instant messaging activity is preferably used as an expiration criterion. Absence of inbound or outbound messages for a specified amount of time (or since a particular date/time) can therefore be used as a trigger for treating a user or group of users as expired. As a result, efficiency of an instant messaging system is improved by omitting the expired users and groups from subsequent management operations. Optionally, an expired user or group may be revived upon occurrence of certain events (such as a newly-arriving instant message from, or a change in presence status of, the user or group). “On-demand” expiration and revival are preferably provided as well.
US08935334B2
The present invention relates a method, computer system and a computer readable medium for creating a collaborative workflow process in a shared network space wherein the shared space is created by interaction of executable codes in a host and a user application and the shared space is described by a session attribute list; loading a media application with a plurality of tools into one or more user computers; inputting multi type content into the shared space; and displaying the content by computers in one of a synchronous or asynchronous mode; selecting a procedural framework template for the creation of a workflow process; and adding a content process section, a discussion point section, an approval section, a hand-off section; and storing state of the procedural framework.
US08935331B2
This invention relates to information science, and discloses a friend matching and meeting-up management system and its operation method. In this invention, a meeting check-in portion of the friend matching and meeting-up management system includes a meeting site portion and a meeting confirming portion. In the whole meeting check-in process, users utilize communicators to communicate with a system manager, and the system manager assists and manages the meeting process of the users expecting to meet after the object is determined. It has higher safety, helps ensure that users meet successfully, and saves a lot of people and material resources. In this invention, the check-in function is formed by combining positioning technology and information transmitting technology based on smart phones and mobile communication technology, or the Internet and wireless technology, which brings people together to meet in person, beyond the virtual world, breaks down barriers and narrows the distance between people.
US08935319B2
A common infrastructure collects diverse data and information from large numbers of mobile devices and traditional sensors at Internet scale to support multiple different applications simultaneously. The infrastructure includes a backend phenomenon layer that provides high level abstractions to applications such that they can express their data and information needs in a declarative fashion and coordinate the data collection and processing activities for all applications. An edge layer that manages devices, receives collection requirements from the backend layer, configures and instructs devices for data collection, and conducts aggregation and primitive processing of the data. This layer contains network edge nodes, such as base stations in a cellular network. Each node manages a set of local data generating networked devices. The device agent data layer using common agents on the data generating networked devices receives data collection instructions from the edge layer, performs data collection.
US08935314B2
A CRM system enables access to data for client and agent interactions with any component of an unaffiliated web domain hosting common service pool platform, wherein the CRM system includes a module for reporting data relevant to a business function.
US08935307B1
A first file server for use with a distributed-file system includes a processor configured to determine that an incoming file system communication is associated with a first portion of the distributed-file system associated with a second file server, send a first authorization request to the second file server to request authorization to directly access the first portion of the distributed-file system, analyze a first authorization response from the second file server to determine at least one storage location associated with the first portion of the distributed-file system, determine that an incoming second authorization request received from a third file server is associated with a second portion of the distributed-file system associated with the first file server, obtain data indicative of the second portion of the distributed-file system, and send a second authorization response that includes the data.
US08935301B2
A method for changing data context in a business analytics report is described herein. In one embodiment, such a method includes providing a business analytics report, wherein the report contains data and current metadata categories describing the data. The method enables selection of a current metadata category directly on the business analytics report. The method displays a metadata hierarchy associated with the current metadata category. This metadata hierarchy may include the current metadata category as well as related metadata categories arranged in a tree-like structure. The method further enables selection of a related metadata category from the metadata hierarchy to apply to the business analytics report. The method automatically updates the business analytics report with the metadata category and populates the report with the associated data. A corresponding computer program product and apparatus are also disclosed.
US08935295B2
A method of identifying differences between activity data files includes determining a difference between the activity data files. Causal analysis may be performed to identify a cause of the difference. The difference and/or the cause of the difference may be rendered based on a rendering template. Tier pairs between the activity data files may be matched and a user may be queried to confirm the tier pair match. Statistical and/or protocol differences between each of the activity files may be presented. Transactions between each of the activity data files may be matched including comparing the content files in each of the activity data files that account for the transactions. Client side differences between each of the activity data files may be identified. A categorization may be assigned to each of the determined differences. Determined differences may be excluded from the rendering.
US08935279B2
Various aspects described or referenced herein are directed to different methods, systems, and computer program products relating to multi-media management and streaming techniques implemented over a computer network, including, for example, one or more features and/or functions relation to one or more of the following (or combinations thereof): venue-based streaming radio stations, mobile user graphical user interfaces, creation and streaming of dynamic streaming radio stations based on a user's geolocation, ticketing and reservations, etc.
US08935278B2
A method for searching a web service registry system by use of a search controller. A first search of a service registry program product is performed with a service name received by the search controller from a user. It is determined that the received service name does not have a service description associated with the received service name in the service registry program product. A second search of the service registry program product is coordinated with a candidate service name by use of the search module, wherein the candidate service name is semantically and syntactically interchangeable with the received service name such that the candidate service name identifies the service description associated with the received service name within the service registry program product. The service description is discovered to be associated with the candidate service name within the service registry program product and is subsequently returned to the user.
US08935277B2
A question is received to be answered by a question answering (QA) system. The question may be a business intelligence question that is expressed in a natural language. The question is parsed. The parsed question is matched to a pattern from a number of patterns. A technical query associated with the matched pattern is processed to retrieve data relevant to the question from a number of data sources. The QA system generates an answer to the question based on retrieved data. In one aspect, the QA system generates answers based contextual information.
US08935276B2
A method and apparatus for handling data analysis. The apparatus includes an editing device which adds user-specified one of a plurality of operation units to a user-specified layer in a data analysis in response to a user operation, each of the operation units performing a predetermined processing on an associated data source, a connecting device which connects at least one user-specified operation unit in the data analysis to an analysis path in response to a user operation, and a user interface. The user interface receives the user operations and displays the data analysis by representing layers in the data analysis, operation units in the layers and connections on the analysis path in a visual manner.
US08935270B1
A content search system for determining whether an input string matches one or more of a number of patterns embodied by a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) includes a plurality of DFA engines that simultaneously compare sequential overlapping segments of the input string. The overlap region shared by adjacent pairs of input string segments is of a predetermined size. Initially, the first DFA engine is designated as the master engine, and the remaining DFA engines are designated as slave engines whose state results are speculative. Resolution logic compares the state results of the master engine with the state results of the adjacent slave engine to selectively validate the state results of the successor engine, which upon validation becomes the new master engine.
US08935269B2
A method and a system for searching for information using an electronic device, such as a consumer electronic device, that can be connected to a network. Such searching for information involves determining a context for a search for information, forming a search query based on the context of search for information, and performing a contextual search based on the search query. Performing the contextual search further includes performing a query refinement.
US08935260B2
A computer-implemented method of extracting key phrases from a document is disclosed comprising the steps of accessing a repository comprising linked subjects, the repository comprising first and second data structures representing the relationship between said subjects using different representation criteria; pruning the first data structure by removing links between subjects based on a further relationship between said subjects in the second data structure; matching phrases in said document to subjects in the pruned first data structure; further pruning the pruned first data structure by removing unmatched subjects that are not linked to matched subjects; determining a ranking for each matched subject; and selecting key phrases using the determined subject rankings. A computer program for implementing the steps of this method when executed on a computer is also disclosed.
US08935258B2
Described is a technology for identifying sample data items (e.g., documents corresponding to query-URL pairs) having the greatest likelihood of being mislabeled when previously judged, and selecting those data items for re-judging. In one aspect, lambda gradient scores (information associated with ranked sample data items that indicates a relative direction and how “strongly” to move each data item for lowering a ranking cost) are summed for pairs of sample data items to compute re-judgment scores for each of those sample data items. The re-judgment scores indicate a relative likelihood of mislabeling. Once the selected sample data items are re-judged, a new training set is available, whereby a new ranker may be trained.
US08935257B1
A system, method, and apparatus are provided for organizing and joining massive sets of data (e.g., tens or hundreds of millions of event records). A dataset is Blocked by first identifying a partition key, which comprises one or more columns of the data. Each Block will contain all dataset records that have partition key values assigned to that Block. A cost constraint (e.g., a maximum size, a maximum number of records) may also be applied to the Blocks. A Block index is generated to identify all Blocks, their corresponding (sequential) partition key values, and their locations. A second dataset that includes the partition key column(s) and that must be correlated with the first dataset may then be Blocked according to the same ranges of partition key values (but without the cost constraint). Corresponding Blocks of the datasets may then be Joined/Aggregated, and analyzed as necessary.
US08935256B2
A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module determining to expand a hierarchical ordered index structure and retrieving a root index node. The method continues with the DS processing module identifying immediate children index nodes, dividing the immediate children index nodes into sets of children index nodes, creating, for each of the sets of children index nodes, a sub-root index node to produce a set of sub-root index nodes, creating a new root index node to include entries for each of the sub-root index nodes of the set of sub-root index nodes, and temporarily storing the new root index node and the set of sub-root index nodes in a dispersed storage network (DSN). When the root index node has not changed, the method continues with the DS processing module updating the hierarchical ordered index structure with the new root index node and the set of sub-root index nodes.
US08935254B2
Embodiments are directed towards organizing heterogeneous information items as nodes within a graph structure and/or a category, where each information item is implemented as a folder and each information item may be in more than one folder. An information management application residing within a computing device enables a user to integrate various information items of various types and sources using a many-to-many relationship for each information item. Information items include notes, events, contacts, geo-coordinates, hyperlinks such as Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and messages (including emails, text messages). The application further allows the user to perform a variety of activities on the structure(s) and the information items, including, but not limited to creating an information item, creating one or more structures or relationship between information items, managing various views of the structure(s), and modifying the structure(s).
US08935251B2
A system and method for generating cluster spines is provided. Clusters of documents are maintained. Each document is associated with a document concept that is formed from one or more terms extracted from that document. At least one cluster concept is determined for each cluster. The document concepts are ranked and at least one of the document concepts that is highly ranked is selected as the cluster concept. One or more spines are formed. Each spine includes two or more clusters that share at least one of the cluster concepts. The shared cluster concept is identified as a spine concept. One or more of the remaining clusters is assigned to the spines based on a similarity between the cluster concepts for the remaining clusters and the spine concepts for the formed spines.
US08935229B1
The present inventor devised systems, methods, interfaces, and software that can facilitate generation and presentation of legal trend data based on legal documents, such as caselaw documents or court docket documents.
US08935227B2
In a consumer-producer distributed model of computing, consumers request data from producers and perform computing work on the data received from the producers, thereby transforming the data. At least some of the computing work performed by a consumer on data provided by the producer is commutable between the consumer and producer, that is, either the producer as well as the consumer can perform the computing work on the data. A producer redistributes commutable based on the work load of the producer and consumer as well as other factors.
US08935223B2
A highly flexible and extensible structure is provided for physically storing tabular data. The structure, referred to as a compression unit, may be used to store tabular data that logically resides in any type of table-like structure. According to one embodiment, compression units are recursive. Thus, a compression unit may have a “parent” compression unit to which it belongs, and may have one or more “child” compression units that belong to it. In one embodiment, compression units include metadata that indicates how the tabular data is stored within them. The metadata for a compression unit may indicate, for example, whether the data is stored in row-major or column major-format, the order of the columns within the compression unit (which may differ from the logical order of the columns dictated by the definition of their logical container), a compression technique for the compression unit, the child compression units (if any), etc.
US08935220B2
The present invention involves a Universal Geographic Database (“UGD”). The UGD is an automated, central or distributed, registry of real-world locations and location-related information for businesses and other entities, analogous to the registry of domain names for Internet and web sites. By this central registry, businesses and other entities are facilitated to post their location and location-related information in a single place, for all users who need or want it; and users can refer to this single place, via the Internet, Web, and other telecommunications devices, to obtain accurate, complete and timely location and location-based information about the registered businesses and other entities. Each record of the UGD is keyed by a proprietary location address (PLA) based on the World Geographic Referencing System (WGRS), and optionally may have one or more proprietary location addresses (PLAs), which also may serve as keys. Associated with the PLA keys, each UGD record generally includes the full name for the business or other entity, its street address, and miscellaneous contact information (e.g., telephone number, facsimile number, e-mail address, internet website address, wireless website address). Other more dynamic, customized information (e.g., store hours, credit cards accepted, inventory, prices, specials, hours, parking) also may be available in the UGD record or linked to the UGD record. Users of any device or service can access the UGD through one or more location name servers (LNS), which can provide access to the UGD or other location-based information linked to the UGD or LNS. Based on the WGRS, PLAs provide, in addition to unique keys for UGD records, a user-friendly notation for location naming in the real-world and on all types of location-sensitive electronic devices, from web phones to in-car navigation systems. Given the UGD, these ULA/PLAs are as important to real-world businesses as their domain names because these WGRS addresses drive real-world commerce to physical business locations just as domain names drive e-commerce Internet or web sites.
US08935218B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods to provide multi-client generic persistence for extension nodes are described herein. A standard field value and an extension field value specific to a client of a business data object are separated. Further, an extension node instance key associated with the extension field value is segregated. Furthermore, the standard field value and associated standard node instance key are stored in a standard persistence unit, and the extension field value is stored in an extension data persistence unit. Also, the extension node instance key and a relation between the standard node instance key and the extension node instance key are stored in an extension key persistence unit.
US08935212B2
The identifying folder paths for backup techniques include a method, a system, and/or a computer software product. In some embodiments of these techniques, the method includes scanning a client device for folders. The method further includes identifying one or more folder paths on a client device according to a pre-defined criteria associated with a backup policy for the client device. The method further includes consolidating the one or more folder paths into a consolidated list of folder paths. The method further includes presenting the consolidated list of one or more folder paths to a user. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules. This Abstract is submitted with the explicit understanding that it will not be used to interpret or to limit the scope or the meaning of the claims.
US08935211B2
An archival storage cluster of symmetric nodes includes a metadata management system that organizes metadata objects. Each metadata object may have a unique name, and metadata objects are organized into regions. A region is selected by hashing one or more object attributes and extracting a given number of bits of the resulting hash value. The number of bits may be controlled by a configuration parameter. Each region is stored redundantly. A region comprises a set of region copies. In particular, there is one authoritative copy of the region, and zero or more backup copies. The number of backup copies may be controlled by a configuration parameter. Region copies are distributed across the nodes of the cluster to balance the number of authoritative region copies per node, and the number of total region copies per node. Backup region copies are maintained synchronized to their associated authoritative region copy.
US08935210B2
A system and method are provided for performing storage operations relating to a first secondary copy of electronic data. A storage policy or storage preferences may dictate that a replication copy should be used in storage operations performed to a particular client, sub-client, data, media or other item. Based on the storage policy, when a new client, sub-client, data, media or other item is received, a media agent determines whether there is a replication copy of the item. In the absence of a replication copy, one may be created. The replication copy may be provided by a third party application, or created by the client or a storage management system component. Information regarding the replication copy and its corresponding first secondary copy may be stored in a database. To optimize use of system resources, storage operations relating to the first secondary copy may be performed using the replication copy instead of the first secondary copy.
US08935206B2
Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for snapshots in distributed storage systems. One method of software execution includes using a version tree to determine what data blocks are shared between various storage nodes in the version tree in order to create a clone or a snapshot of a storage volume in a distributed storage system that uses quorum-based replication.
US08935199B2
A system and a method for linking textual and physical concepts are disclosed. The method includes extracting candidate phrases from a knowledge base for a device, the candidate phrases including noun phrases. A set of candidate concepts is generated, based on the extracted noun phrases. Provision is made, e.g., on a graphical user interface, for a user to generate mapped concepts for physical components of the device by selecting, for each concept to be mapped, a physical component shown in a graphical representation of the device and at least one of the candidate concepts which is to be linked to that physical component. The knowledge base is indexed, based on the mapped concepts. In this way, textual expressions in the knowledge base are linked to a respective physical component through one of the mapped concepts.
US08935198B1
Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for forecasting information. One representative embodiment involves obtaining data that has been provided by each of a number of individual people; dividing the people into clusters by utilizing a statistical clustering technique; calculating statistics of the data in each of at least some of the clusters; and combining the statistics for such clusters so as to obtain a combination forecast.
US08935195B2
Portable wireless devices are ubiquitous in modern society and many of these have integral sensors such as accelerometers, microphones, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) that can collect data. This creates potential for intelligent applications to recognize the user, or aspects of the user and take appropriate action. According to embodiments of the invention there are presented techniques for representing such time series data which reduce the memory and computational complexity of performing the analysis and classifying the results. The techniques exploit time-delay embedding is to reconstruct the state and dynamics of an unknown dynamical system, Geometric Template Matching to build nonparametric classifiers, and algorithms to address the problem of selecting segments of data from which to build the time-delay models for classification problems.
US08935191B2
Systems and methods allow sharing and reuse of acquired customization knowledge of enterprise systems, utilizing collective customization experience. Particular embodiments employ Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) principles to manage customization experience in the context of both Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments. Collective customization knowledge may be explicitly retrieved, adapted, shared, reused, and/or traded between tenants, partners, and optionally provider(s), of on-demand enterprise systems. A previous customization case stored within an experience base, may include one or more of the following: information allowing annotation of price information for trading the previous customization case (e.g. to another tenant); information restricting visibility of the previous customization case within the experience base; information defining a rating for the previous customization case within a community; information capturing a reuse frequency of the previous customization case; and/or information rendering anonymous at least a portion of the previous customization case.
US08935187B2
The present invention provides a payment system that allows a mobile communications device (MCD) to interact with a merchant processing device (MPD) and a payment engine. A communications component associated with the payment engine can send requested barcodes to the MPD, receive barcodes or alphanumeric Universal Product Codes from customer MCDs, and handle payment authorizations and settlements. A barcode management component can generate and interpret barcodes based upon merchant offerings and client requests. A security algorithms component can employ an offset pair algorithm to convert each digit from a payment card information into an offset pair of digits to facilitate security in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
US08935186B2
A portable device receives an account information request signal from a merchant machine. The portable device transmits a response message to the merchant machine. The response message comprises the account information for a purchase. The portable device transmits a first message to an account server. The first message comprises a request to get information comprising the purchase amount. The portable device receives a second message comprising the information from the account server. The portable device sends the purchase amount to a display.
US08935182B2
The present invention is directed to a transaction network that facilitates and simplifies purchase transactions between any number of customers and any number of merchants. The transaction network is primarily utilized in the sale and purchase of digital content via a network such as the Internet. The transaction network registers and authenticates customer purchase activities and maintains customer account data including payment information. Once registered, a customer will generally not register again for further purchase activities at participating merchant sites. Additionally, the transaction network provides a single, central authentication mechanism for all participating merchant sites using a single customer identifier and password. Further, the transaction network accumulates purchase information across all of the merchant sites and the ultimate payment processing of those purchase transactions. Payment processing generally occurs on a periodic basis, enabling the accumulation of multiple purchase transactions within a participating customer's account. The network additionally preferably provides customers with centralized, automated services for customer account management, product refunds, subscription management, and multiple purchasing accounts linked to the same payment account.
US08935181B2
The present invention relates to a web-application that gathers raw data and meta data, matches debt related data with corresponding meta data, marks the debt data so that the resulting data stream can be used to create various analytical reports on variable rate securities for Users.
US08935179B2
A system includes a proposal engine configured to present quotes and/or proposals to customers at a network site.
US08935174B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are present for analyzing voyage efficiency. Historical data for a completed voyage of a ship is obtained. A baseline voyage solution for a completed voyage is generated with a software application executing on a processor unit using a model of the ship and the historical data. The baseline voyage solution is compared to an actual voyage solution used for the completed voyage to form a comparison.
US08935171B1
A system for providing feedback regarding detectability of a watermark message produced by a watermarking encoder includes a simulation module configured to combine at least one of a watermarked signal or an enhanced watermarked signal with a simulated environment signal that corresponds to an expected listening environment of the at least one of the watermarked signal or the enhanced watermarked signal, and output a simulated environment-modified watermarked signal corresponding to the combination of the at least one of the watermarked signal or the enhanced watermarked signal with the simulated environment signal, and a monitoring module configured to generate a watermark detectability indication based on the simulated environment-modified watermarked signal.
US08935169B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an acquiring module and a display process module. The acquiring module is configured to acquire information regarding a plurality of persons using information of video content data, the plurality of persons appearing in a plurality of sections in the video content data. The display process module is configured to display (i) a time bar representative of a sequence of the video content data, (ii) information regarding a first person appearing in a first section of the sections, and (iii) information regarding a second person different from the first person, the second person appearing in a second section of the sections. The first area of the time bar corresponds to the first section is displayed in a first form, and a second area of the time bar corresponds to the second section is displayed in a second form different from the first form.
US08935159B2
Disclosed is the system and method to remove noises in voice signals in a voice communication. The at least one embodiment of the present disclosure performs a spectral subtraction (SS) for voice signals based on a gain function by a spectral subtraction apparatus, performs clustering of voice signals consecutive on a frequency axis of a spectrogram for the voice signals in which the spectral subtraction has been already performed to designate one or more clusters, and extracts musical noises by determining continuity of each of the designated clusters on the frequency axis and a time axis of the spectrogram to extract musical noises.
US08935155B2
A method for processing medical reports includes applying natural language processing methods to perform an initial segmentation of at least parts of textual contents of each medical report into information units, thereby identifying information units, such as text fragments, sentences or text passages, within the medical reports. The information units are classified into at least one context class to determine their appropriate context classes for a particular situation or application. The context classifications are created using a grammar, e.g., a context-free grammar, and can then be used for automatically assigning each information unit to an appropriate context meta-information. The medical report may be annotated by assigning the information units to context meta-information determined by the context class, and the context meta-information may be used by other applications, e.g., dedicated mechanisms for clinical data integration, how to efficiently handle the available information units within medical reports.
US08935150B2
The present technology dynamically generates auto-suggest dictionary data from translation data stored in memory at a server. The auto-suggest dictionary data may be transmitted to a remote device by the server for use in language translation. The auto-suggest dictionary data may be transferred as part of a package which includes content to be translated, translation meta-data, and various other data. The auto-suggest dictionary data may be generated at a first computing device, periodically or in response to an event, from translation data stored in memory. The auto-suggest dictionary may be transferred to a remote device along with content to be translated and other data, as part of a package, for use in translation of the content at the remote device.
US08935145B2
A battery system simulation apparatus that enables a battery system to be stably driven by using simulation data. The battery system simulation apparatus includes a voltage simulator that outputs an imaginary simulation voltage corresponding to a battery included in a battery system, to a battery management unit for controlling the battery, and a simulation verification unit that receives control results of the battery which is generated in dependence upon the imaginary simulation voltage. The control results are transmitted by the battery management unit.
US08935142B2
A computer-implemented method may include receiving transition information indicative of transition rates associated with a plurality of communication links in a network, wherein the network includes a plurality of nodes, the plurality of communication links, and a communication path between a first node and a second node of the plurality of nodes. In one embodiment, the communication path uses at least two of the plurality of communication links. The method may include generating biased transition information indicative of biased transition rates, wherein the biased transition rates are greater or less than the indicated transition rates and simulating the network, based on the biased transition information, until a transition associated with one of the communication links causes the communication path to transition to a different state. A network reliability parameter may be determined based on the simulation of the network.
US08935135B2
Methods, an apparatus, and a computer program product for determining whether or not a particle belongs to free surface particles, in a calculation process of a particle method in which a continuum subjected to calculation analysis is collectively modeled with a free surface by a plurality of particles. One of the methods includes the steps of: determining whether any other particle exists within a predetermined range with respect to the particle by referencing to identification information stored in a memory, where the other particle belongs to the free surface, and storing in the memory near free surface identification information which is set as near free surface if the other particle belonging to the free surface exists and set as sufficiently inside if the other free surface particle belonging to the free surface does not exist.
US08935131B2
When model expressions of objective functions are generated at vertexes of a quadrilateral on a plane concerning P and N channels of transistors in SRAM, the initial number of times of simulation is allocated to each objective function at each designated vertex according to weight values set based on relationships presumed among the objective functions at each designated vertex. For each objective function at each designated vertex, first simulation is executed the allocated number of times. Furthermore, a model expression is generated from the first simulation result, and an evaluation indicator of an approximation accuracy of the model expression is calculated. Then, for each model expression, it is determined whether the corresponding model expression has influence on the yield, and based on the evaluation indicator of the corresponding model expression and presence or absence of the influence, it is determined whether additional simulation is required for the corresponding objective function.
US08935127B2
A method for recording pulse signals which allows the reconstruction of a time reference. The time of every pulse signal event can be determined by counting sampling result bits preceding the respective sampling result bit using the known sampling frequency. For this purpose, every period of the sampling frequency is associated with a bit representing the respective sampling result and the sampling result bits are stored one by one and per channel in data blocks. The sampling frequency is preferably higher than a pixel clock, a sampling result bit associated with a flank of the pixel clock being marked. The pixel clock can thus be synchronized with the individual events exactly per sampling period. The invention further relates to the field of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy using confocal microscopes or laser scanning microscopes.
US08935125B1
Systems and methods are provided to calibrate and compensate for signal impairments from the use of cables in data communication devices. Signal impairments such as intra-pair skew of differential signals and frequency dependent insertion loss are measured during a calibration phase. One end of the cable is connected to a communication device. The other end of the cable is configured to loop back calibration signals transmitted from the communication device. The calibration signals looped back from the communication device are received and measured by the communication device. The measured impairments are used to determine transmit and receive impairment compensation settings to compensate for impairments caused by the cable. These settings are stored and used to adjust signals transmitted from the communication device to compensate for the transmit impairment. These setting are also used to adjust signals received by the communication device to compensate for the receive impairment.
US08935123B2
A method includes receiving activity of a monitoring device that is configured to be worn by a user having a user account. The activity includes an amount of movement of the monitoring device and occurs for a period of time. The method further includes receiving geo-location data for the monitoring device and processing the activity data and geo-location data received for the period of time. The operation of processing is performed to segment the period of time into at least two events. The method includes assigning an identifier to each event. The identifier has a default description for the geo-location data. The default description is selected from a plurality of descriptions based on the activity data obtained by the movement of the monitoring device for the geo-location data.
US08935118B2
The present invention is directed to wetting agent compositions and methods for making and using the wetting agent compositions. The compositions of the invention include a sheeting agent, a defoaming agent, and an association disruption agent. The wetting agent compositions of the present invention result in a faster draining/drying time on most substrates compared to conventional wetting agents. The wetting agent compositions of the present invention are especially suitable for use on plastic substrates.
US08935117B2
A testing circuit in an integrated circuit indirectly measures a voltage at a node of other circuitry in the integrated circuit. The testing circuit includes a transistor having a control electrode, a first conducting electrode coupled to a first pad, a second conducting electrode coupled to a terminal of a power supply, and one or more switches for selectively coupling the control electrode to one of the node and a second pad. A method includes determining a relationship between drain current and gate voltage of the transistor when the control electrode is coupled to the second pad. A voltage at the node is determined by relating the current through the first conducting electrode of the transistor when control electrode is coupled to the node.
US08935115B2
A method and apparatus for compensating nonlinear damage are disclosed. The method for compensating nonlinear damage, including: determining an additive parameter indicating an amount of nonlinear damage based on a plurality of sampled signal sets among which a sampling time of an input signal varies according to different time; and subtracting the additive parameter from the input signal.
US08935110B2
A system for analyzing an interior energy system including: at least one detachable sensor arranged to monitor a portion of the interior energy system; and an apparatus including a processor configured to receive data of a first parameter of the interior energy system from the at least one detachable sensor and determine a second parameter of the interior energy which is inferred on the basis of the received data of the first parameter; and determine a characteristic of the interior energy system from the determined second parameter. The system may provide analysis of the interior energy system and recommend improvements.
US08935108B2
The invention relates to a rheometer (100) for high-viscosity materials and to a device and a method for estimating, by means of such a rheometer (100), the feeding pressure to be applied in order to overcome the feeding resistance of high-viscosity material in a pipe. The rheometer (100) has a receptacle for holding high-viscosity material in the receptacle. The receptacle is designed as a standard pipe section (102) that can be filled with high-viscosity material (300). In the rheometer (100), the standard pipe section (102) and high-viscosity material (300) filled into the standard pipe section (102) can be made to linearly move relative to each other at a first rate and at another rate differing from the first rate. A unit (146, 147, 148) for determining a rate of the relative movement of the high-viscosity material (300) and the standard pipe section (102) as well as a unit (160) for determining a pressure applied to the high-viscosity material (300) as a result of the relative movement of the high-viscosity material (300) and the standard pipe section (102) are provided as a measuring instrument.
US08935106B2
A portable test apparatus is for performing a pressure test of a vessel into which a liquid is being forced by a pump. The test apparatus includes a pressure sensor configured to measure pressure in the vessel. A processor is configured to monitor, during the test, stroke counts communicated from the pump and the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor. A graphical user interface includes input fields to receive user-input of test parameter information, and further includes a graphical representation of the stroke counts and measured pressure in real time during the test.
US08935080B2
Methods and systems are provided for adjusting an engine output delivered in response to an operator pedal actuation based at least on a grade of vehicle travel. During uphill travel, in the presence of headwinds, and/or in the presence of a vehicle payload, the output may be increased while during downhill travel or in the presence of tailwinds, the output may be decreased. In this way, driver fatigue during travel over varying elevations, varying ambient conditions, and varying loads can be reduced.
US08935078B1
A bi-fuel and dual-fuel engine variable pressure fuel system is presented facilitating individual or simultaneous use of liquid and gaseous fuels including natural gas and gasoline, through employment of a variable output pressure gaseous fuel regulator incorporating an attached hydraulic amplifying structure communicating with a relatively low pressure hydraulic servo circuit that may in turn communicate with a variable pressure automotive liquid fuel system to facilitate relatively high pressure gaseous fuel injection.
US08935072B2
A subject matter of the application relates to a method for determining a speed of a vehicle. In one embodiment, the method includes ascertaining a first value of a distance traveled by the vehicle within a time interval on the basis of data ascertained by at least one first revolution sensor of a first tire of the vehicle and a second revolution sensor of a second tire of the vehicle; ascertaining a second value of a distance traveled by the vehicle within a time interval on the basis of data ascertained by a position-determining device; and comparing the ascertained first value and the ascertained second value. If a deviation between the ascertained first value and the ascertained second value exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the method includes classifying a speed determined on the basis of the ascertained second value.
US08935060B2
A driver assistance system for an agricultural working machine includes at least one control/regulating unit designed to adjust and monitor working parameters, quality parameters or both, of the agricultural working machine in an automatable manner based on use of a family of characteristics stored in the control/regulating unit. A selectable process implementation strategy is specified in order to automatically monitor or adjust at least one working parameter or quality parameter or both of the agricultural working machine. The driver assistance system suggests that the process implementation strategy be changed at least when the specified setpoint value of one or more of the quality parameters cannot be reached within the preselected process implementation strategy.
US08935052B2
In a method for controlling at least one door of a vehicle, a movement of a mobile identification signal generator, assigned to the vehicle, relative to the vehicle is sensed as a function of time. A future position of the mobile identification signal generator is estimated at a future time based on the position, the speed of movement and the direction of movement of the mobile identification signal generator at the current time, and furthermore an unlocking condition is detected if the future position of the mobile identification signal generator is within a predetermined range. Finally, the at least one door is unlocked and/or opened based on the unlocking condition. As a result of the estimation of the position of an identification signal generator with respect to a next position measuring point, the reaction time and the susceptibility to faults of an access arrangement can be improved.
US08935049B2
A plane tractor that grips a nose gear of a plane is disclosed, which includes: a chassis; wheel modules connected to the chassis, with each wheel module including at least one actuator for inducing a vertical movement of the wheel module in relation to the chassis; a gripping platform for gripping the nose gear of a plane, with the platform together with the chassis having freedom of movement substantially in circular translation; and a damping and actuating means connecting the platform and the chassis.
US08935046B2
Techniques are described for visualizing a roadway transition along an ascertained route course for a navigation device. In an implementation, the navigation device may include a display and a data processing device to identify a roadway transition from a first road onto a second road along an ascertained route course and present navigation information in a first and second operating mode. The second operating mode may include roadway transition visualization generated by dynamically superpositioning a first visualization layer, which may include road characteristics and location information, and a second visualization layer, which may include the ascertained route course along the identified roadway transition.
US08935044B2
Methods and systems for detecting a refueling event for diagnostics are disclosed. In one example approach a method comprises discontinuing leak diagnostics in response to a temperature change in a fuel vapor canister coupled to a fuel tank in an emission control system while the leak diagnostics are being performed in the emission control system.
US08935042B2
Apparatus (4; 5) for checking the inflation pressure of a tire (3) of a vehicle (2) while the tire is being moved over the apparatus in a direction of travel (A). The apparatus comprises a base (7), a platform (8) which is mounted over the base, a first load sensor system (9) arranged between the platform and the base, and a second load sensor system (12) mounted on an upper surface of the platform and comprising a linear array of high resolution sensors (13, 25) extending across the platform. A data processing unit (6) processes data obtained by sampling the outputs of the first and second sensor system and provides an indication of the inflation pressure of the tire. The data obtained by sampling the output of the first sensor system may be used to determine the total load borne by the platform, and/or the direction of travel of the tire over the platform, and/or the speed of travel of the tire over the platform and/or the tracking angle of the vehicle tire. The data may also be used to determine a time interval during which data from the second sensor system is to be used to provide a representative sensor load value.
US08935039B2
A method for reducing data of sensor devices in a vehicle includes collecting detection data periodically from the sensor devices and calculating an average value of the data collected during a cycle. The collected data may be compared with the calculated values and a deviation with previous data may be calculated by an upper and lower value difference method. A difference between the collected data and average values may also be calculated by a deviation method. The calculated value is stored. Data from a plurality of running vehicles may be periodically transmitted to a driving control center in order to monitor devices related to operations of all of the running vehicles in near real time.
US08935036B1
Methods and systems for improving vehicular safety by utilizing a driving tip model are provided. According to embodiments, an analysis server can analyze telematics data associated with operation of one or more vehicles to identify driving tips that may be aimed to mitigate certain risks or warn of various conditions. The analysis server can provide the driving tips to the vehicles and, in response, receive updated telematics data from the vehicles that reflects operation data for the vehicles subsequent to receiving the driving tips. The analysis server can analyze the updated telematics data to associate certain driving tips with certain telematics data and identify effective driving tips and delivery techniques. The analysis server can update the driving tip model accordingly.
US08935021B1
A method of sharing power between locomotives in a consist may include receiving a power demand signal at a control computer on one of the locomotives, with the power demand signal indicative of a total power output requirement for the consist. The control computer may determine an amount of available power on an electrical power bus running through all of the locomotives in the consist, and the power generating capacity of all power sources that are electrically coupled to the electrical power bus. One or more power sources on any one of the locomotives in the consist may be activated to provide electrical power to the electrical power bus for use by a load on a different one of the locomotives in the consist.
US08935020B2
The present disclosure is directed to a distributed control system for a locomotive. The distributed system may include a network, a plurality of electronic modules and a plurality of control elements distributed within the locomotive. Each of the electronic modules is communicatively coupled to the network in a standardized scalable architecture. Each of the electronic modules may be programmatically reconfigurable to implement distributed control of the locomotive. A first electronic module and a second electronic module of the plurality of electronic modules may be communicatively connected to one of the plurality of control elements via separate communication paths. The first electronic module may be configured to control the control element, and the second electronic module may be configured to control the control element when the first electronic module enters into a failure condition.
US08935017B2
A control system and method of the anti-skid computers of an aircraft are provided. The control system comprises two IMA computers, comprising each one an Avionics Computer Control Device, an Avionics Computer Monitoring Device and at least one dual data acquisition means and at least one dual processing means. Each Avionics Computer Control Device and each Avionics Computer Monitoring Device are connected to the anti-skid computers of both sides.
US08935015B2
A flight control system and method including a primary flight control path between one or more pilot controls and control surface actuators on an associated aircraft, wherein the primary control path includes one or more flight control computers and one or more first data concentrators; and a secondary flight control path between the one or more pilot controls and the control surface actuators, wherein the secondary flight control path utilizes direct mode control laws to control the control surface actuators; wherein the primary flight control path and the secondary flight control path are independent from each other and the secondary flight control path is operative upon detection of a fault in the primary flight control path.
US08935014B2
A method and system for gathering information from and setting up a surveillance network within an earth-surface environment that includes inserting one or more mobile robotic devices having a sensing subsystem, a communications subsystem, and a navigation subsystem into an earth-surface environment. The mobile robotic device may be configured into a traveling pose selected from a plurality of available traveling poses, and directed using the navigation subsystem to a sensing location within the earth-surface environment. The environment may be monitored and sensed information collected may be stored or communicated to a remote location. The mobile robotic device may be configured to operate with a vehicle carrier to facilitate insertion and deployment of the robotic vehicle into the earth-surface environment.
US08935011B2
A load management system provides an interface between a power input and several switched power outputs and un-switched power outputs. A controller groups the switched power outputs into one or more load groups based on a switched current limit determined for the system and the measured currents of the electrical loads. The load groups are defined so that the sum of electrical load currents in each load group does not exceed the switched current limit. The controller also activates one or more switches to apply electrical power to the load groups according to a power sequence. A method for distributing electrical power to electrical loads using load groups is also provided.
US08935005B2
A method of operating a mobile robot to traverse a threshold includes detecting a threshold proximate the robot. The robot includes a holonomic drive system having first, second, and third drive elements configured to maneuver the robot omni-directionally. The method further includes moving the first drive element onto the threshold from a first side and moving the second drive element onto the threshold to place both the first and second drive elements on the threshold. The method includes moving the first drive element off a second side of the threshold, opposite to the first side of the threshold, and moving the third drive element onto the threshold, placing both the second and third drive elements on the threshold. The method includes moving both the second and third drive elements off the second side of the threshold.
US08935003B2
In a minimally invasive surgical system, a hand tracking system tracks a location of a sensor element mounted on part of a human hand. A system control parameter is generated based on the location of the part of the human hand. Operation of the minimally invasive surgical system is controlled using the system control parameter. Thus, the minimally invasive surgical system includes a hand tracking system. The hand tracking system tracks a location of part of a human hand. A controller coupled to the hand tracking system converts the location to a system control parameter, and injects into the minimally invasive surgical system a command based on the system control parameter.
US08935000B2
The invention relates to a machine tool monitoring device. It is proposed that the machine tool monitoring device comprises at least one signal unit for an ultra wide band operation.
US08934994B1
A method and apparatus are presented for automatically fabricating arbitrary materials and objects from raw components, using a combination of simple chemical, electrical, and mechanical operations. The invention will automatically generate machine control instructions for controlling automated fabrication devices and equipment from simple instructions in natural language. The invention also allows the sharing, remote execution, scheduling, and automatic ingredient ordering for such instructions to allow the creation of new materials and professional object fabrication with little or no human intervention.
US08934984B2
A BTE prosthetic device for use in a medical system or prosthesis comprises a connector configured to mechanically attach an auxiliary device of the system to the BTE prosthetic device. The connector is electrically connected to an transceiver of the BTE prosthetic device. The connector operates as an electromagnetic antenna for transmitting and/or receiving signals between the BTE prosthetic and other components of the medical system.
US08934982B2
A system and method of treating hyperactivity of an eyelid closing muscle in a subject includes providing a stimulation system in the subject with the hyperactivity of the eyelid closing muscle, sensing an activity of the eyelid closing muscle, and selectively stimulating eyelid opening muscle(s) or innervating nerves, eyelid opening reflexes, or eyelid opening reflexes in non-muscular tissue, using the stimulation system, without substantially activating the eyelid closing muscle. The system and method evokes eyelid movement in the subject.
US08934981B2
A system and method for treating pain without paresthesia by spinal cord stimulation. In one embodiment, a method comprises storing one or more operating parameters for a high frequency stimulus having a plurality of pulses, wherein the high frequency stimulus comprises at least respective pairs of pulses that have an inter-pulse separation within a range of 0.1 milliseconds to 10 milliseconds; and applying generated electrical pulses of the high frequency stimulus to the patient through a set of one or more electrodes of an electrical lead implanted within epidural space of the patient to treat the chronic pain of the patient without causing paresthesia in the patient.
US08934980B2
An implantable neurostimulator system adapted to provide therapy for various neurological disorders is capable of varying therapy delivery strategies based on the context, physiological or otherwise, into which the therapy is to be delivered. Responsive and scheduled therapies can be varied depending on various sensor measurements, calculations, inferences, and device states (including elapsed times and times of day) to deliver an appropriate course of therapy under the circumstances.
US08934979B2
An external control device, neurostimulation system, and method of programming a neurostimulator. A volume of tissue activation for each of a first one or more candidate stimulation parameter sets is simulated without conveying electrical stimulation energy into the tissue. One of the first candidate stimulation parameter set(s) is selected based on each simulated volume of tissue activation. Electrical stimulation energy is conveyed into the tissue in accordance with a second one or more candidate stimulation parameter sets, wherein the initial one of the second candidate stimulation parameter set(s) is the selected one of the first candidate stimulation parameter set(s). One of the second candidate stimulation parameter set(s) is selected based on a therapeutic efficacy of the electrical stimulation energy conveyed into the tissue. The neurostimulator is programmed with the selected one of the second candidate stimulation parameter set(s).
US08934969B2
Various systems, methods, devices and arrangements are implemented for use in pacing of the heart. One implementation is directed to methods and systems for determining a pacing location in the right ventricle of a heart and near the His bundle. A pacing signal is delivered to the location in the right ventricle. The pacing signal produces a capture of a left ventricle. Properties of the capture are monitored. Results of the monitored capture are used to assess the effectiveness of the delivered pacing signal as a function of heart function. The heart function can be, for example, at least one of a QRS width, fractionation and a timing of electrical stimulation of a late activation site of a left ventricle relative to the QRS.
US08934962B2
Electrophysiology mapping and visualization systems are described herein where such devices may be used to visualize tissue regions as well as map the electrophysiological activity of the tissue. Such a system may include a deployment catheter and an attached hood deployable into an expanded configuration. In use, the imaging hood is placed against or adjacent to a region of tissue to be imaged in a body lumen that is normally filled with an opaque bodily fluid such as blood. A translucent or transparent fluid, such as saline, can be pumped into the imaging hood until the fluid displaces any blood, thereby leaving a clear region of tissue to be imaged via an imaging element in the deployment catheter. A position of the catheter and/or hood may be tracked and the hood may also be used to detect the electrophysiological activity of the visualized tissue for mapping.
US08934956B2
An intravascular electrode device for use in neuromodulation includes an anchor expandable from a radially compressed position to a radially expanded position. A lead extends from the anchor and has at least one conductor extending through it. A flex circuit is coupled to the anchor and comprises a flexible insulative substrate, a plurality of electrodes carried by the substrate, and a plurality of conductive traces carried by the substrate, each trace electrically coupled to an electrode and a conductor. Expansion of the anchor within a blood vessel biases the electrodes into contact with the surrounding blood vessel wall. An exemplary anchor includes a first portion having expansion forces sufficient to bias the electrodes against the vessel wall for mapping and chronic stimulation, and a second portion having greater radial expansion forces sufficient to chronically engage the vessel wall once an optimal electrode location has been selected.
US08934942B2
Base station arrangement (100) adapted to receive signals from a user station; adapted to be connected to or comprises a plurality of antenna elements (1, 1, 2, 2, . . . 4,) with antenna ports (11, . . . 11) and a signal processing unit (20). The base station (21) also comprises a signal pre-processing functional unit (30) to collect channel correlation information. It is adapted to establish if there is one or more distinguishing characteristics comprising different correlation properties of different configuration properties associated with the antenna elements. Antenna elements are then assigned to different groups based on said configuration properties, and the channel correlation information is used to generate weighting information which is applied to antenna ports connected to antenna elements to control the antenna ports connected to antenna elements to control the antenna element transmit power individually or groupwise.
US08934934B1
Emergency radio communications system incorporating integral public safety radio bridging capability
A communication system and method is provided for handling emergency situations wherein complex public safety radio systems can be used to directly communicate with normally incompatible radio systems used by organizations such as schools, hospital, and other facilities. The system includes a radio communication bridge that is selectively activated by emergency personnel to contact selected organizations. The bridge is activated via a TCP/IP command sent from an organization having activation privileges to the selected communication endpoints. Computer software or firmware installed at various communication endpoints, emergency responder locations, and at an emergency call center is used to facilitate functionality of the system to include emergency notifications, dissemination of information associated with a particular emergency, and the status of the system to include activation and deactivation of the radio bridge.
US08934924B2
The present invention discloses a method for paging in a trunking system comprising: initiating a request for establishing a call by a calling user equipment UE, lookuping a location area of the called UE, paging the called UE in the location area and a location area adjacent to the location area. The present invention also discloses a paging equipment in a trunking system.
US08934923B1
A system and method provides for the real-time geo-position monitoring of a handheld device and the continual calculation of its relational position with respect to the boundary of a tract of land in which the device is situated. The invention utilizes existing geo-positioning systems within mobile devices and a software application to compare the position of the device, and thereby its user, with the boundary of a track of land having its geo-position attributes uploaded into or accessed by the device. Audible and visual cues are presented to a user to allow them to know their current position relative to a land tract's boundary or predefined buffer zone adjacent to the tract's boundary. The system accommodates the access and uploading of geo-position information of a tract of land and the recordation of movements with respect to the boundaries of the tract of land in a remote database.
US08934919B2
Techniques for performing positioning in a cellular network are described. In one design, a first base station (e.g., a home base station) determines its position based on position information for at least one user equipment (UE) within radio coverage of the first base station and a second base station. The first base station sends at least one position request for the at least one UE to the second base station, receives position information for the at least one UE from the second base station, and determines a position estimate for itself based on the position information. In another design, the second base station receives a position request for the first base station, obtains position information for at least one UE, determines a position estimate for the first base station based on the position information, and sends the position estimate to the first base station.
US08934916B2
A method and apparatus for configuring downlink scheduling information are used to control times of blind detection in multi-carrier system. The method includes that: a downlink carrier set and an uplink carrier set are allocated to a terminal which sends a service request; according to the bandwidth information of each carrier of the system, obtained terminal type information, currently received channel quality information fed back from the terminal, transmission modes which are allocated to each member carrier in the downlink carrier set and the uplink carrier set and determined carrier scheduling modes of the terminal, at least one member carrier in the downlink carrier set is selected as a member carrier of Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) activation carrier set; the times of PDCCH blind detection can not exceed the each sub frame maximum blind detection times supported by the terminal in the terminal type information, wherein the PDCCH blind detection is used for uplink and downlink scheduling, and the PDCCH activation carrier set is used to be provided for the terminal to perform the PDCCH blind detection.
US08934909B2
An apparatus for providing network assisted local communication offloading to unlicensed bands may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least receiving, via signaling associated with licensed band resources, information indicative of unlicensed band resources available in a particular area, and providing resource availability data, via signaling associated with the licensed band resources, to one or more devices within the particular area. The resource availability data may enable unlicensed band resource usage by at least one of the one or more devices. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided.
US08934897B2
When installing a femto base station device 1b, failure that may occur in wireless communication is suppressed. The femto base station device 1b includes an RF unit 4 which transmits broadcast information or paging information to a femto terminal device 2b communicating with the femto base station device 1b, and an information storage unit 31 which adds and stores, in the broadcast information or the paging information, location information that relates to the location of the femto base station device 1b and is used by another wireless communication device to suppress interference.
US08934895B1
Systems and methods for a gateway that couples two or more networks are provided. The gateway allows mobile stations with subscriptions in one network to roam and operate in another network. The networks that can be coupled by the gateway include CDMA-based networks, GSM-based networks, iDEN-based network and WiMAX-based networks.
US08934888B2
Mutual remote support between users is easily facilitated without troublesome complicated user registration. For user terminals between which remote support is performed and each of which sets a call to be an originator of remote support, a user can use an appropriate supporter user terminal to enable the supporter user terminal to access a supportee user terminal to thereby facilitate setting manipulation and check device (or terminal) status with regard to not only the supportee user terminal but also a supportee device that is communicably connected to the supportee user terminal, by merely selecting the supportee device (or terminal) from an address book stored in the corresponding user terminal.
US08934886B2
The invention provides a mobile apparatus, adapted to communicate with a cloud server. The mobile apparatus includes a voice system, a communication module, and a processing unit. The processing unit is coupled to the communication module and the voice system. The communication module transmits the first voice signal to the cloud server. The cloud server parses the first voice signal to obtain a communication target and a communication instruction. The processing unit receives the communication target and searches an address book in the mobile apparatus according to the communication target for obtaining a selection list conforming with the communication target. When the voice system receives the second voice signal, the second voice signal and the selection list are transmitted to the cloud server simultaneously by the communication module for generating a selection target, and the processing unit receives and executes the communication instruction and the selection target.
US08934885B2
Disclosed is a small cell base station managing method of a small cell base station managing system which manages a plurality of small cell base stations. The small cell base station managing method includes receiving a reconfiguration request; selecting a radio access technology (hereinafter, referred to as RAT) of a selected small cell base station according the reconfiguration request; and requesting the selected small cell base station to operate using the selected RAT.
US08934880B2
An unintentional dialing event is detected by characterizing some action of a portable phone, e.g., its movement or its surroundings. The action can be characterized by a sensor, and that sensor can be for example an accelerometer, a camera in the phone, or a microphone in the phone, or some other way. The movement can be characterized to see if it is synchronous with entries on the keyboard, which would likely represent the unintentional dialing event or “but dialing”. The environment can also be characterized other ways, for example by using a microphone in the phone to text sound profiles or to detect sounds in sync with the entries, or can be characterized using a camera in the phone to detect a light profile.
US08934877B2
In one embodiment, a first computing device communicating with a second computing device through a communications channel transmits an out-of-band message indicative of the urgency of the communication through a notification channel. In particular embodiments, a server acts as a proxy for relaying the out-of-band message from the first device to the second device. The second device calculates an implicit urgency score based on the communication characteristics, and combines the implicit score with the explicit urgency indicator to determine whether a call is urgent. In particular embodiments, the server calculates an implicit urgency score based on a number of factors, and the score is composited with the overall urgency score. In particular embodiments, communication handling may be affected by the determination of urgency.
US08934874B1
A system for transmitting voice messages from a caller location to a receiver location using a plurality of computers each coupled to another through a network such as the Internet. The system also has a plurality of handheld portable recording-delivery devices which are coupled to the network. Each handheld portable recording-delivery device can convert voice input into digital data for transmission through the network. Destination information for the digital data being transmitted is generated using speech recognition of voice input.
US08934862B2
IMS networks, subscriber databases, and methods are disclosed for providing AoC services in IMS networks. The subscriber database is provisioned with AoC indicators for IMS users that subscribe to AoC services. An S-CSCF in an IMS network receives a first register message from an IMS user, and transmits a second register message to the subscriber database. In response to the second register message, the subscriber database identifies an AoC indicator for the IMS user that is registering, inserts the AoC indicator in a third register message, and transmits the third register message to the S-CSCF. The S-CSCF then stores the AoC indicator for the IMS user. If a signaling message is received for a session involving the IMS user, then the S-CSCF will forward the AoC indicator for the IMS user to an AoC application server, which collects the appropriate AoC information and provides the information to the IMS user.
US08934847B2
Agencies oftentimes desire to monitor personnel in the field during the course of their duties. To provide flexible monitoring capabilities to agencies, a common mobile device such as a mobile phone is converted for use as a radio-based listening system to collect and transmit audio data. Phone features and accessories are leveraged to collect additional data for transmission. Collected data is streamed or otherwise transmitted to monitoring devices at the agency or in the field for operational oversight and recordation.
US08934841B2
A Bluetooth communication method and system for enabling one Bluetooth device to rapidly connect to another Bluetooth device using an audio signal, and also enabling them to transmit data to each other are provided. The system includes first and second Bluetooth devices. The first Bluetooth device transforms authentication information required to establish a Bluetooth communication connection into an audio signal, and broadcasts the audio signal. The second Bluetooth device receives the audio signal and extracts the authentication information from the received audio signal. The second Bluetooth device establishes a Bluetooth communication channel with the first Bluetooth device, using the extracted authentication information.
US08934840B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with performing arbitration among a plurality of driver circuits in a communication device are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first source configured to transmit first packets and a second source configured to transmit second packets. The arbiter logic is configured to input a thermal management mode that is selected based, at least in part, on a thermal consequence of simultaneous transmission of packets from the first source and the second source. The arbiter logic is configured to select either i) the first packets, ii) the second packets, or iii) both the first packets and the second packets for transmission based, at least in part, on the thermal management mode input by the arbiter logic.
US08934827B2
A print control apparatus includes a generating unit that generates clear-toner plane data based on gloss-control plane data, which contains a gloss control value for specifying a type of a surface effect being a visual or a tactile effect applied to the recording medium and for specifying a region to which the surface effect is applied in the recording medium, and clear plane data, which contains a density value for specifying a transparent image other than the surface effect; and an outputting unit that outputs the clear-toner plane data. When a region where the gloss control value is specified in the gloss-control plane data and a region where the density value is specified in the clear plane data overlap each other, the generating unit sets a value of the clear-toner plane data to the gloss control value or the density value, based on a predetermined condition.
US08934819B2
A developing apparatus includes a developer carrying member for carrying a developer; and a magnetic member including a plurality of magnet pieces disposed inside the developer carrying member along a circumferential direction of the developer carrying member. The magnetic member includes one or more first magnet pieces having the same magnetic polarity at a surface opposing an inner surface of the developer carrying member, and one or more second magnet pieces having the other magnetic polarity opposing the inner surface of the developer carrying member. A total sum of the first magnet pieces is larger than a total sum of the second magnet pieces, and a ratio of the total sum of a volume of the first magnet pieces to a space occupied by the magnetic member is smaller at an end portion than in a central portion with respect to a longitudinal direction of the magnetic member.
US08934818B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller that controls rotational driving of a magnetic roller and rotational driving of a developing roller. The controller is capable of performing a toner collecting mode when no image formation is performed. In the toner collecting mode, the magnetic roller and the developing roller are intermittently rotated in a direction reverse to a direction in which the magnetic roller and the developing roller are rotated during image formation, then the magnetic roller is made to rotate in a forward direction, and then, the magnetic roller is rotated in a backward direction.
US08934815B2
A gear transmission device includes a first external gear driven by a drive motor attached to a first side of a frame and a first internal gear driven by the first external gear. The first internal gear includes an outer cylinder portion, an end plate, an annular opening, and an inner cylinder portion including a shaft hole,. The outer cylinder portion includes internal teeth formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof. The inner cylinder portion is formed concentrically inside the outer cylinder portion. The end plate connects the outer cylinder portion, the inner cylinder portion, and the shaft hole at one end in an axial direction. In a state in which the annular opening faces a second side of the frame opposite the first side thereof, the first external gear is inserted to the annular opening to mesh with the internal teeth of the outer cylinder portion.
US08934810B2
The image forming apparatus is provided with: a replaceable image forming structure body including elements for image formation; a recording medium transporting structure body including elements for transporting a recording medium to the image forming structure body; an output recording medium transporting structure body transporting, to an output port, a recording medium outputted from the image forming structure body; and a connection structure body electrically connected to structure bodies. They each form at least a part of the appearance of the image forming apparatus. The latter three bodies are adjacent to each other, and attachable in a state where the image forming structure body is not attached, the image forming structure body is in contact with at least three surfaces included in surfaces of the other bodies adjacent to each other, and the image forming structure body is attachable in a state where the other bodies have been attached.
US08934807B2
An image forming apparatus has a chassis, an image forming section, a shield metal plate, and a plurality of substrates. The chassis has a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side to the first surface. The image forming section is disposed in an internal space formed between the first and second surfaces of the chassis and performs an image forming process on a sheet. The shield metal plate is provided vertically between the second surface and the image forming section and has a third surface facing a side of the first surface and a fourth surface facing a side of the second surface. The plurality of substrates are provided vertically on the third surface of the shield metal plate and have electrical components protruding toward the first surface.
US08934800B2
A transfer device includes image bearing members, an intermediate transfer belt, transfer members, a transfer bias applying unit and a bias control unit. The transfer bias applying unit applies a transfer bias to the transfer. The bias control unit causes a transfer bias having a polarity opposite to that of the toner to be applied to a first transfer member during the transfer process in the first transfer nip and during an adjacent transfer process which is the non-transfer process in the first transfer nip and the transfer process in a second transfer nip adjacent to the first transfer nip. Further, the bias control unit causes a transfer bias having the same polarity as that of the toner to be applied to the first transfer member during an adjacent non-transfer process which is the non-transfer process in the first transfer nip and the non-transfer process in the second transfer nip.
US08934794B2
A developer stirring unit is rotated and driven without driving an electrophotographic photosensitive drum according to output information of a temperature detection unit of an image forming apparatus during a non-image formation period, thereby cooling a developer near a developing roller.
US08934791B2
A fixing device includes a heat rotational member that fixes a toner, a pressure rotational member that presses the heat rotational member, a magnetic-flux generation unit, a detector, and a fixing controller. The magnetic-flux generation unit includes a switch unit for switching of power supply to a resonant circuit. The resonant circuit includes a coil that generates a magnetic flux for causing the heat rotational member to generate heat by induction heating, and a capacitor. The detector detects power consumption of the magnetic-flux generation unit. The fixing controller recognizes the power consumption in response to an instruction of target power, sets a switching frequency of the switch unit in accordance with the target power, and causes the switch unit to stop the power supply if a difference between the set switching frequency and the adjusted switching frequency exceeds a predetermined change width.
US08934789B2
An optical digital coherent receiver includes: a polarization separation circuit configured to perform polarization separation on a received signal and output polarized signals; and a determination circuit configured to trigger a start of digital signal processing in a stage subsequent to the polarization separation circuit when it is determined that a distribution of a peak of an amplitude of one of the polarized signals has a characteristic corresponding to a modulation method used on a transmitting side.
US08934786B2
An apparatus comprises an optical transmitter that comprises a processor and at least one optical modulator. The processor is configured to generate electronic representations of at least two pre-dispersion-compensated phase-conjugated optical variants carrying a same modulated payload data for transmission. The at least one optical modulator is configured to modulate the electronic representations, wherein an amount of dispersion induced on the pre-dispersion-compensated phase-conjugated optical variants depends on an accumulated dispersion (AD) of a transmission link through which the pre-dispersion-compensated phase-conjugated optical variants are to be transmitted. The amount of dispersion induced on the phase-conjugated optical variants may be approximately −AD/2, where AD is the accumulated dispersion of the transmission link. The pre-dispersion-compensated phase-conjugated optical variants are different from one another in one or more dimensions such as the polarization of light, the time of transmission, the spatial localization, the optical carrier wavelength, or the subcarrier frequency during transmission.
US08934785B2
In an optical data communication system transmitter, in which a laser is driven with a laser modulation signal in response to a serial data stream, the laser driver adds peaking to a bit other than the first bit following a bit transition.
US08934783B2
An Ethernet adapter system may include a transmitter to insert a payload type identifier sequence in a generic frame procedure header to indicate that a network is a converged enhanced Ethernet network. The transmitter may insert idle sequences in a stream of data frames transmitted along a link. The system may include a receiver to recognize a condition and to force a loss of synchronization condition on the link that will be converted by the receiver into a loss of light condition. The receiver may scan the transmitted stream of data frames for invalid data frames and introduce a code into the stream of data frames whenever an invalid data frame is detected.
US08934782B2
A polarization state of a transmission signal can be changed at a high speed based on a symbol-rate By switching a first switch, a second switch, and a third switch with time, one of an X-polarized wave_I-signal as a Y-polarized wave_I-signal, a signal caused by performing logical inversion for an X-polarized wave_I-signal, an X-polarized wave_Q-signal and a signal caused by logical inversion for an X-polarized wave_Q-signal is input to a second modulator. Further, by switching the first switch, the second switch and the third switch with time, the second modulator is input one of the X-polarized wave_I-signal as the Y-polarized wave_Q-signal, the X-polarized wave_I-signal, the signal caused by performing logical inversion for the X-polarized wave_I-signal, the X-polarized wave_Q-signal and the signal caused by performing logical inversion for the X-polarized wave_Q-signal. Thereby, a polarization state of a transmission signal can be changed at high speed based on a symbol-rate speed.
US08934776B2
A plurality of optical transmission sources provide data communication from a transmitting module to a common detector cooperative with a receiving module, the modules being subject to relative rotation about a shared axis. The detector can be located on the shared axis, each of the sources directing a beam onto the detector regardless of relative module orientation, and/or the light can be diffused, so that it is detected regardless of source and detector placement and relative module orientations. Transmissions can be distinguished according to synchronized timing, differing optical frequencies, differing baud rates, and/or differing circular polarizations. The detector can split the light into a plurality of beams which pass through different optical filters and are thereby distinguished. Cut-off circuits can prevent failed sources from transmitting. A diffused second light source and a second plurality of detectors can provide reverse communication from the receiving module to the transmitting module.
US08934775B2
A system for signaling between elements in an undersea optical communication system including a cable signal generator. The signal generator includes line current modulation circuitry configured to impart modulation in line current provided on a power conductor of the transmission cable. A method of signaling between elements in an undersea optical communication system includes modulating a line current through an element and detecting the modulated current.
US08934772B2
A method for upstream bandwidth allocation in a passive optical network is provided by the disclosure. The method includes the following steps: an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) allocates an upstream bandwidth for an Optical Network Unit (ONU) through an upstream bandwidth mapping (US BWmap) domain, wherein the total length B of payloads transmitted by consecutive Transmission Containers (T-CONTs) allocated for the ONU is: the product of the positive integer n and the data byte length L contained in a code word when the ONU uses Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoding, minus the byte length R of the contents protected by FEC, except the payloads, in an upstream burst slot transmitted by the ONU, i.e. B=L×n−R bytes (401); and the ONU encapsulates the upstream data according to the size of the T-CONT total bandwidth allocated by the OLT and transmits it to the OLT (402). A system for upstream bandwidth allocation in a passive optical network is also provided by the disclosure. Application of the disclosure reduces the complexity of processing FEC-encoded data by the ONU and the OLT, and improves the encoding efficiency of the ONU and the decoding efficiency of the OLT.
US08934771B2
An optical network has an optical line termination coupled to a backbone network, in particular to an optical long haul network and a local exchange coupled to an optical access network. The local exchange provides an optical connection between an optical network unit of a tree topology and the optical line termination, which is part of a ring topology. There is also described a method for processing data in such an optical network.
US08934770B2
An optical communication system connects a plurality of user-side optical line terminating apparatuses (hereinafter referred to as ONUs) to a station-side optical line terminating apparatus (hereinafter referred to as OLT) using a common optical fiber. At least a part of the ONUs includes a transceiver having a power saving function for inactivating a transmitting unit while supplying electric power to a receiving unit and a control apparatus that transmits support information of the power saving function to the OLT via the transceiver, and the OLT includes a control apparatus that generates transmission allowance information of upstream communication based on the support information of the power saving function and a transceiver that receives the support information of the power saving function and transmits the transmission allowance information to the ONU.
US08934769B2
An optical transport network signal (OTM) comprising at least one optical channel is received at a first network equipment. The optical transport network signal (OTM) is processed to extract optical data units (ODUk) for each optical channel (OCh). There is detection for defects during the processing. The optical data units are retransmitted within optical transport units (OTUk) towards a second network equipment. When a defect has been detected, the retransmitting comprises inserting an optical channel transport unit alarm indication signal (OTUk-AIS) in an optical channel transport unit (OTUk) containing optical channel data units (ODUk) that are affected by the detected defect. The second network equipment detects for the presence of the optical channel transport unit alarm indication signal (OTUk-AIS) and generation of an alarm is inhibited for any optical channel data units (ODUk) contained within the optical channel transport unit that comprises the optical channel transport unit alarm indication signal (OTUk-AIS). The network equipments can comprise a WDM or DWDM equipment and a cross-connect.
US08934767B2
An imaging apparatus includes a usable time calculation unit which calculates a usable time of a battery device having a secondary battery, wherein the usable time calculation unit measures an average power level while a component is performed at a predetermined operation mode, wherein the power consumption of the component is unknown in advance before the component is initially connected, and when power is supplied for the second and subsequent times while the component is continuously connected, the usable time calculation unit calculates the usable time of the battery device using the average power level and a current integration value which is an integration value of current flowing during charging and discharging of the battery device.
US08934766B2
An image pickup apparatus comprising: a lens apparatus having: an image pickup optical system including a focus lens unit and a zoom lens unit; a zoom state detector; and a controller; a camera apparatus having: a light receiving unit; and an image display unit; an AF frame operation unit; and a distance measuring unit installed with a parallax with respect to an optical axis of the image pickup optical system, in which the controller is configured to: select, from among measured distances obtained by the distance measuring unit, a measured distance obtained in an angle of field of the AF frame, based on a position of the zoom lens unit detected by the zoom state detector and a position of the AF frame set in the display; and perform the focusing by driving the focus lens unit based on the selected measured distance.
US08934765B2
A portable photo booth is disclosed which emphasizes reduced size and increased portability by utilizing a two-piece case which can be quickly assembled and disassembled. When assembled, the case will expose a camera and touch screen for taking photos in series, which can then be printed using a photo printer. When disassembled, the case will provide a very secure and robust environment, protecting the internal components from the elements.
US08934750B2
The invention relates to a holder (1) for at least one cassette, with the holder (1) having at least one shaft holder (100), at least one shaft element (200, 250) and at least one cassette, with the at least one cassette being attached to the shaft element (200, 250) such that it can pivot about a pivoting axis, with the at least one shaft element (200, 250) being attached to the shaft holder (100), with the at least one shaft element (200, 250) having a guidance channel (212, 212a; 253, 253a; 254, 254a), with the guidance channel (212, 212a; 253, 253a; 254, 254a) running at least partially parallel to the pivoting axis, with the cassette having at least one element (515, 515a) for rotatable mounting, wherein at least one element (515, 515a) is mounted, for rotatable mounting, such that it can rotate on the at least one shaft element (200, 250).
US08934749B2
The invention relates to a fiber structure (700), which has one or more refractive index disturbances (750, 760) outside a fiber core (710) for discriminating one or more high order modes in the fiber structure. The invention also relates to a method for discriminating one or more high order modes, an arrangement having the high order modes discriminating fiber structure, and a device having the high order mode discriminating fiber structure.
US08934747B2
A breakout cable includes a polymer jacket and a plurality of micromodules enclosed within the jacket. Each micromodule has a plurality of bend resistant optical fibers and a polymer sheath comprising PVC surrounding the bend resistant optical fibers. Each of the plurality of bend resistant optical fibers is a multimode optical fiber including a glass cladding region surrounding and directly adjacent to a glass core region. The core region is a graded-index glass core region, where the refractive index of the core region has a profile having a parabolic or substantially curved shape. The cladding includes a first annular portion having a lesser refractive index relative to a second annular portion of the cladding. The first annular portion is interior to the second annular portion. The cladding is surrounded by a low modulus primary coating and a high modulus secondary coating.
US08934743B2
A light-receiving device of the present disclosure includes a light-trapping sheet, and a photoelectric conversion section optically coupled thereto. The light-trapping sheet includes: a light-transmitting sheet; and a plurality of light-coupling structures arranged in an inner portion of the light-transmitting sheet. The light-coupling structure includes first, second and third light-transmitting layers. A refractive index of the first and second light-transmitting layers is smaller than that of the light-transmitting sheet; and a refractive index of the third light-transmitting layer is larger than those of the first and second light-transmitting layers. The third light-transmitting layer has a diffraction grating parallel to the light-transmitting sheet. At least a part of the photoelectric conversion section is located along an outer edge of at least one of the surfaces of the light-transmitting sheet.
US08934742B2
An optical beam switch includes at least one input optical wave guide, multiple output optical wave guides and an optical switching element for selectively switching a light beam guided in the at least one input optical wave guide to one of the output optical wave guides, in which the switching element is between the at least one input optical waveguide and the multiple output optical waveguides. The optical switching element includes a beam propagation element and an optical focusing system, where the beam propagation element has two mutually opposed end faces and where either the beam propagation element or the optical focusing system can be deflected and/or twisted transversely to an optical axis. The at least one input optical wave guide is attached to a first end face of the beam propagation element, and the output optical wave guides are attached to a second end face.
US08934731B2
Computer-implemented arrangements for adjusting the focus in original electron microscope image data are described. In an implementation, a fractional Fourier transform operation and a phase restoration operation, both responsive to a fractional power, are collectively applied to original electron microscope image data to produce computationally-focused image data. A parameter adjuster is used to provide a range of variation of the power, and can be adjusted by a user or under the direction of a control system. The fractional Fourier transform operation and the phase restoration operation can be realized by at least one numerical algorithm and can comprise an approximation.
US08934723B2
Embodiments are provided for organization and presentation of content. In some embodiments, a plurality of images and a plurality of similarity rules for image categorization are received. For each image in the plurality of images, that image and each remaining image from the plurality is compared by: applying each similarity rule to the image and a remaining image from the plurality to obtain a numeric result, and recording the numeric result for the pair of images in a numeric representation, the numeric representation embodying similarities. The numeric representation is used as a reference for clustering the plurality of images into clusters of similar images, and each image is stored with a marker denoting a cluster to which it has been assigned.
US08934722B2
A system and method for classification of images of an image stream may include receiving an image stream of unclassified images, for example produced by an in-vivo imaging device, and based on indirect user input, adapting an initial classification algorithm to classify images to groups based on at least a subset of the received image stream of unclassified images. The indirect user input may be used to generate user-based indications for the classification.
US08934721B2
The present disclosure provides a microscopic vision measurement method based on the adaptive positioning of the camera coordinate frame which includes: calibrating parameters of a microscopic stereo vision measurement model (201); acquiring pairs of synchronical images and transmitting the acquired images to a computer through an image acquisition card (202); calculating 3D coordinates of feature points in a scene according to the matched pairs of feature points in the scene obtained from the synchronical images and the calibrated parameters of the microscopic stereo vision measurement model (203); and performing specific measurement according to the 3D coordinates of the feature points in the scene (204). With the method, the nonlinearity of the objective function in the microscopic vision calibration optimization is effectively decreased and a better calibration result is obtained.
US08934718B2
Methods and systems for interactive image analysis include receiving a selection of a region of an image and a request for analysis of the selection at an interface layer, transferring the selection and the request to an interpretation layer for analysis, dividing the selected region of the image into a plurality of sub-sections optimized for parallel computation to provide an analysis result that minimizes perceptible delay between receiving the request and receipt of results, analyzing the sub-sections using one or more execution nodes using a copy of the image stored in a shared memory, and providing combined analysis results to the interface layer for display.
US08934716B2
Disclosed is a method of sequencing character information in order to increase precision of character recognition. The method includes: a pre-processing that extracts character information from an image to binarize the extracted character information through a predetermined threshold and extracts and thins a center line of the binarized character information; normalizing the pre-processed character information to character information according to a predetermined criteria; and sequencing the normalized character information using structural features including an end point or a divergence point of the character information. The present invention suggests an angle normalization method of input character information, a structural feature position determining method, and a structural feature numeral string generating method to strongly recognize characters configured by various fonts obtained from a natural scene regardless of an angle or a size of the characters.
US08934712B2
An image processing apparatus for applying a color balance correction to input image data, comprises a holding unit which holds information indicating a locus of a change in highlight color when a color temperature for image data is changed on a color space; a highlight color calculation unit which calculates a highlight color from the image data; a distance calculation unit which calculates a distance between the highlight color and the highlight color locus held in the holding unit on the color space; a reliability calculation unit which calculates a reliability for a value of the highlight color calculated by the highlight color calculation unit in accordance with the distance calculated by the distance calculation unit; and a color balance correction unit which applies the color balance correction to the image data using the highlight color and the reliability.
US08934700B2
The invention provides a method and apparatus for isolating individual target cells. The apparatus includes a body structure comprising a main channel, a collection channel, and a waste channel fluidly coupled at a first fluid junction. A plurality of trapping channels intersect the collection channel, each trapping channel having a diameter at a location adjacent to the intersection of the trapping channel with the collection channel that is less than a diameter of an individual target cell. The apparatus also includes an imaging system configured to image individual target and non-target cells within the main channel, thereby producing imaging data; a processor configured to perform real-time, multivariate analyzes of the imaging data; and a directing system configured to direct the individual target cells. A pressure source is in fluid communication with one or more of the collection channel, the waste channel, the first side channel, and the second side channel.
US08934699B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a control unit. The memory stores a first image. The control unit divides the first image into a plurality of regions. Further, the control unit calculates a likelihood of an existence of a sample in the plurality of regions thus divided for each of the plurality of regions. Further, the control unit generates an existence map based on the calculated likelihood, the existence map having the plurality of regions classified into first regions, second regions, and third regions. Further, the control unit generates imaging sequence information based on the generated existence map, the imaging sequence information indicating imaging sequences such that the first regions are imaged prior to the second regions and a total movement distance of a stage for imaging the first and second regions becomes minimum.
US08934697B2
Image processing apparatus (100) for creating an overlaid presentation of a first input image (101) and a second input image (102) in an output image (108), the first input image comprising input values, the output image comprising vectors of output values, the vectors of output values representing colors of the output image, and the apparatus comprising an input (110) for obtaining the first input put image and the second input image, a rendering unit (140) configured for rendering the first input image in the output image by using a first mapping function for representing the input values in the vectors of output values, a predictor (120) configured for predicting the second input image from the first input image for obtaining a predicted second input image (104), a residual calculator (130) configured for calculating a residual image (106) from the second input image and the predicted second input image, the residual image comprising residual values representing prediction errors of the predicted second input image, and the rendering unit being further configured for rendering the residual image in the output image by using a second mapping function for representing the residual values in the vectors of output values, the second mapping function being different from the first mapping function for distinguishing the residual image from the first input image.
US08934696B2
A method includes receiving a signal indicative of a single user selected imaging protocol for scanning a patient. The imaging protocol includes parameters for two or more of a bone mineral density, a fat composition, or an aortic calcium imaging procedures. The method further includes performing a single scan of the patient using the single user selected protocol. The method further includes generating a single set of image data for the two or more of a bone mineral density, a fat composition, or an aortic calcium imaging procedures.
US08934695B2
A similar case searching apparatus includes: an image feature quantity extracting unit which extracts image feature quantities from an interpretation target image; a reference expression extracting unit which extracts a reference expression from a description related to a second test in a target image interpretation report; a weight determining unit which determines, for each image feature quantity, a weight which is larger as the correlation between the image feature quantity and the reference expression is higher, based on two-data correlation information; and a similar case searching unit which searches a case database for a similar case data item including a medical image similar to the interpretation target image, by weighting the image feature quantity extracted from the interpretation target image and a corresponding image feature quantity extracted from the medical image and comparing the weighted image feature quantities.
US08934682B2
Providing an ID-verified blood test, in one aspect, may include enabling a user to press a finger against a fingerprint-reading panel and reading a fingerprint of the user. A blood sampling device coupled to the fingerprint-reading panel may be activated while the user has the finger against the fingerprint-reading panel to sample blood from the finger. Blood may be sampled from the user via the blood sampling device while the user has the finger against the fingerprint-reading panel. A test may be performed on the sampled blood to determine a level of specified chemical in the blood. User identification may be determined based on the fingerprint. The determined user identification and the level of the specified chemical may be returned.
US08934670B2
A method and system for real time processing of a sequence of video frames. A current frame in the sequence and at least one frame in the sequence occurring prior to the current frame is analyzed. Each frame includes a two-dimensional array of pixels. The sequence of video frames is received in synchronization with a recording of the video frames in real time. The analyzing includes performing a background subtraction on the at least one frame, which determines a background image and a static region mask associated with a static region consisting of a contiguous distribution of pixels in the current frame. The static region mask identifies each pixel in the static region upon the static region mask being superimposed on the current frame. The background image includes the array of pixels and a background model of the at least one frame and does not include any moving object.
US08934667B2
A tracking system for improving observability of a marker in an image. The tracking system includes a memory unit that stores data; an imaging unit that images the marker and the image; a processor unit that detects the marker in the image; and a communication unit that transmits and receives data. The processor unit determines a first confidence level indicating a visibility of the marker to a user.
US08934656B2
A surround that is generally arched in shape and that includes a radial exterior flange that extends downward from exterior side of the arched portion of the surround and that adhesively attaches to the inner wall or edge of the mounting ring of the frame of the loudspeaker.
US08934654B2
Embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, and wearable computing devices, audio devices, and communication devices for facilitating the presentation of personal audio. More specifically, disclosed are an apparatus and method to form directional audio personal to a user in a non-occluded manner. In one embodiment, a personal audio and communication devices can include a first directional speaker disposed at a first mounting region of a first support member. The first support member is configured to position the first directional speaker adjacent a first ear in substantial alignment with the first ear. Also included is a second directional speaker disposed at a second mounting region of a second support member. The second support member is configured to position the second directional speaker adjacent a second ear in substantial alignment with the second ear.
US08934650B1
A low profile ultrasonic emitter comprises a support member operable to support an ultrasonic emittive material, the support member including a plurality of support ribs, each support rib being spaced from adjacent support ribs and extending longitudinally along the support member. An ultrasonic emittive film is coupled to upper portions of the support ribs so as to be carried by the support member. A first electric lead is coupled to a first face of the emittive film and a second electric lead coupled to an opposing face of the emittive film. The first and second leads are coupled to their respective faces adjacent one another but staggered from one another so as to not overlap one another when the film is positioned between the leads.
US08934647B2
An audio device incorporates a first acoustic driver having a first direction of maximum acoustic radiation and a second acoustic driver having a second direction of maximum acoustic radiation, where the first and second directions of maximum acoustic radiation are not in parallel, and where the audio device employs the first acoustic driver or the second acoustic driver in acoustically outputting a sound of a predetermined range of frequencies in response to the orientation of the casing of the audio device relative to the direction of the force of gravity.
US08934636B2
A device for converting acoustic data collected by a stethoscope into digital data for transmission to a processor for storage and/or comparison with data stored in a database, and to optionally provide computer generated suggestions for diagnosis, is provided in the form of an in-line device interposable between a head of the stethoscope and an acoustic transmission portion of the stethoscope, or is integral with the head, and advantageously has the appearance of an icon of pleasing appearance, for example, a butterfly, in which are incorporated the structural requisites of a functioning stethoscope and/or capabilities for receiving and transmitting to a diagnostician, audio signals gathered from patient examination, and optionally also other data collected at examination and/or following the examination. The butterfly-shaped device, includes a central body advantageously serving as a conduit for transmitting sound received from the patient to the physician or a remote system for analysis and diagnosis.
US08934629B2
After connection to another communication apparatus using the first communication-parameter set fails, and thereafter, connection to the other communication apparatus using the second communication-parameter set is successfully established, the connection to the other communication apparatus using the first communication-parameter set is attempted again.
US08934627B2
Generating a still image from a sequence of video frames comprises the steps of receiving a sequence of video frames and storing a predetermined number of the sequence of video frames temporally adjacent to an user initiated capture event, the predetermined number of frames being defined as a cliplet. Video capture is performed using cliplets, which are short video segments, preferably in compressed data format. A crop-and-process instruction is added to the cliplet. All processing, handling or storage of the data is cliplet based. Editing instructions are stored with the cliplet allowing editing to be performed by a user at one resolution and then re-performed at a higher resolution at a server where it is printed. Modified reprints of an image can be obtained without resending the images and adequate storage for the cliplets can be assured. Encryption of the cliplets during transmission and storage is facilitated by cliplet-based processing.
US08934626B2
The present invention concerns the field of broadcast encryptionmethod, i.e. a method to organize the distribution of keys into a group of users so that it is possible to manage the revocation of one member of the group in an efficient way. The proposed solution is a private encryption key ciphertext constant collusion-resistant broadcast encryption. The main idea behind the invention is to mix the notion of efficient tree-based key derivation (also called subset management) with individual and personalized key blinding thus achieving a full collusion-resistant broadcast encryption system. The key de-blinding is performed at the last moment thanks to a cryptographic technique called pairings (also known as bilinear maps) resulting in a global key commonly shared by all authorized (non-revoked) devices. It should be noted that only non-revoked devices can compute the final key (this is achieved through subset management and related subset key derivation technique) and perform the de-blinding (which is performed with one pairing).
US08934616B1
In a call center, a caller's geographical position may be mapped together with a geographical position of a call agent allocated to handle the call. A map may display tags depicting the respective positions of the caller and the call agent with a visual link indicating the call connection. The call agent may be selected dependent on the relative proximity to the caller.
US08934602B2
An apparatus for dental and facial imaging including a rotatable gantry having an axis of rotation generally in the direction of local gravitational vertical; a source of penetrating radiation mounted on the gantry; an elongated detector for detecting radiation and producing image data, the detector mounted opposite the source on the gantry, and having a length, a long axis, and a short axis The gantry, source, and detector configured to receive the head of a patient between the source and the detector, with the axis of rotation of the gantry passing through the patient's head. The detector is mounted rotatably to the gantry and movable between a first position where the long axis of the detector is generally perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the gantry and a second position where the long axis of the detector is generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the gantry.
US08934600B2
A pressurizer is for a pressurized water nuclear power plant and it includes an upper cap provided with a tube; an end piece connected to the tube using a weld; and a sleeve protecting the weld, disposed inside the tube. The protective sleeve is mounted in a removable manner, such that the thermal sleeve is removed.
US08934598B2
An integrated system for adaptive equalization and jitter reduction of a video signal that includes an adaptive equalizer and a jitter cleaner located on one integrated circuit within a single package. An adaptive equalizer applies frequency specific signal modification to the received signal. A bit rate detector determines a bit rate of the video signal or the equalized signal. The jitter cleaner couples to the adaptive equalizer output and processes the equalized signal to reduce jitter in the equalized signal. A multiplexer receives the equalized signal and the jitter cleaner output and, responsive to a control signal, outputs either the equalized signal or the jitter cleaner output signal. A status monitor may optionally be included to compare the detected bit rate to a bit rate threshold, and a responsive to the comparing activate or deactivate the jitter cleaner and output either the equalized signal or jitter cleaner output.
US08934596B2
To maintain a synchronized wireless peer group, timing signals may be periodically transmitted by one or more devices in the wireless peer group. These periodic timing signals may be transmitted by different wireless devices in the peer group, distributing (sharing) the transmit power burden among the different wireless devices, increasing the useful operation time of the individual wireless devices. Similarly, the wireless peer group may monitor for timing signals received from devices that are not part of the wireless peer group. This monitoring burden may also be distributed (shared) among the devices in the peer group allowing for a greater sleep time for individual wireless devices, increasing the useful operation time of the individual wireless devices.
US08934593B2
The invention provides a device including a binary pulse input signal converter, the output of which is connected to a counter and to a delay line that includes a plurality of delay elements. The counter and the delay line also receive a clock signal as an input. The delay line is combined with a sampler and analog memory that includes a plurality of storage cells that receive the input signal as input. Each element of the a delay line includes an output connected to a corresponding storage cell of the analog so as to sequentially control the sampling and storage of the input signal in the storage cells.
US08934590B2
A signal receiver may comprise a first sampling circuitry that is operable to sample in a first level at a particular main sampling rate; a second sampling circuitry that is operable to sample in a second level, an output of the first sampling circuitry, at a second sampling rate that is reduced compared to the main sampling rate; a third sampling circuitry that is operable to sample in a third level, one or more outputs of the second sampling circuitry, at a third sampling rate that is reduced compared to the second sampling rate; and an analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) circuitry for applying analog-to-digital conversion to one or more outputs of the third sampling circuitry.
US08934586B2
Method and apparatuses are disclosed to substantially compensate for various unwanted interferences and/or distortions within a communications receiver. Each of these apparatuses and methods estimate the various unwanted interferences and/or distortions within the communications receiver. Each of these apparatuses and methods remove the estimates of the various unwanted interferences and/or distortions within the communications receiver from one or more communications signals within the communications receiver to substantially compensate for the various unwanted interferences and/or distortions.
US08934584B2
An automatic gain control (AGC) method and system for a radio receiver are proposed in which the ACG comprises two AGC loops; a first loop controlling signal gain in the analog portion of the radio receiver, a second loop controlling gain in the digital domain after digitization of the received signal. The analog AGC loop has a slower response time than the digital AGC loop. When applied to a multi-branch diversity receiver, each branch has its own digital AGC loop, but the analog gain can be common to all branches, based on measurement of the analog signal in each branch.
US08934577B1
A bias current utilized in a unit of a radio frequency (RF) receiver device of a network interface is controlled. A modulation scheme utilized in a packet being received by the network interface is determined. It is determined, based on the determined modulation scheme, whether a level of the bias current should be changed. When it is determined that the level of the bias current should be changed, a control signal to change the level of the bias current is generated.
US08934575B2
Variation in received signal qualities at positions in a frame is estimated so as to improve a communication quality. In communication from a transmitting station to a receiving station, a received signal quality is estimated per data position in a data frame received by the receiving station, thus to grasp situations of the received signal quality varied depending on a position which is caused by various factors of property deterioration in a process from transmitting communication data from the transmitting station to receiving it by the receiving station via a transmission path. Further, an estimating result is supplied to a data processing unit and used at a latter stage. The estimating result is notified to the transmitting station and arrangement of transmitting data is reconstructed on the transmitting station side. The arrangement of the transmitting data is properly changed in accordance with importance of the communication data. Further, the rearranged transmitting data is properly restored on the receiving station side, thereby obtaining received data and improving a quality of a communication service.
US08934568B2
The invention provides a method of puncturing an encoded data bit stream, and an equivalent apparatus. The method applies one or more puncturing patterns to puncture the encoded data bit stream to reduce the number of transmitted bits. In one aspect there is provided a method of puncturing an encoded data bit-stream in a wireless transmitter, the encoded data bit-stream including one or more information bits, the method including receiving the encoded data bit-stream, puncturing a first group of encoded data bits and a second remaining group of encoded data bits in the encoded data bit stream using a first puncturing code rate and a second puncturing code rate respectively, wherein the first puncturing code rate is predefined, and the second puncturing code rate is determined based on the number of data bits in the second remaining group of encoded data bits.
US08934564B2
A multi-user multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) downlink beamforming system is provided to enable transmit beamforming vectors to be efficiently provided to a subset of user equipment devices, where spatial separation or zero-forcing transmit beamformers (wi) are computed at the base station and used to generate precoded reference signals. The precoded reference signals are fed forward to the user equipment devices, which apply one or more hypothesis tests to the precoded reference signals to extract the precoding matrix (W), including the specific transmit beamforming vector (WUE) designed for the user equipment, and this extracted information is used to generate receive beamformers (vi).
US08934557B2
A network node jointly precodes multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions simultaneously sent from geographically distributed base stations to a plurality of mobile terminals over associated downlink MU-MIMO channels. The node receives feedback that describes statistics of the downlink MU-MIMO channels, including channel mean and covariance. The node then computes, based on the channel means and covariances, uplink input covariances for the mobile terminals that would collectively maximize a first or second-order approximation of the ergodic capacity of dual uplink MU-MIMO channels, subject to a global transmit power constraint that comprises the sum of individual transmit power constraints for the base stations. Notably, the node adjusts the uplink input covariances as needed to satisfy the individual transmit power constraints for the base stations, maps the uplink input covariances to corresponding downlink input covariances, and jointly precodes MU-MIMO transmissions sent over the downlink MU-MIMO channels based on those downlink input covariances.
US08934553B2
One system described herein, among others, comprises receiving a plurality of slice groups created by converting a plurality of video stream using flexible macroblock ordering (FMO); compositing a plurality of slice groups to create a sequence of composite pictures, wherein the sequential progression of compositing pictures from the source video streams is according to pictures having a presentation time within a time interval corresponding to the composition operation; adding pad slice groups to the source slice groups to create a composite image compatible with a video standard, wherein the pad slice groups are added to create a rectangular composite picture size compatible with an output display format, and wherein the pad slice groups are keyed with a distinct pattern indicative of padding for the composite pictures; and transmitting a single composite output stream comprised of reordered source slice groups and pad slice groups.
US08934550B2
A data processing apparatus that processes image data of a moving image is disclosed. The data processing apparatus includes: acquiring means for acquiring variations representing degrees of change in the image data, in a unit of picture; display-type determining means for determining, on the basis of the variations, display types, which represent display methods in displaying pictures, in a unit of picture; and display control means for causing a display to display type information representing display types of pictures and position information representing a position of a picture designated by picture-designation operating means operated in designating a picture to be displayed.
US08934547B2
A method and apparatus for performing motion estimation in a digital video system is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that quickly calculates estimated motion vectors in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, a first multiplicand is determined by multiplying a first display time difference between a first video picture and a second video picture by a power of two scale value. This step scales up a numerator for a ratio. Next, the system determines a scaled ratio by dividing that scaled numerator by a second first display time difference between said second video picture and a third video picture. The scaled ratio is then stored calculating motion vector estimations. By storing the scaled ratio, all the estimated motion vectors can be calculated quickly with good precision since the scaled ratio saves significant bits and reducing the scale is performed by simple shifts.
US08934542B2
A more efficient way of enabling scalability in terms of pixel value resolution is achieved by temporally predicting a first and a second representation of a video material separately to each other with the first representation being of a lower pixel value resolution than the second representation, with mapping the first prediction residual or a reconstructed version thereof from the first pixel value resolution to the second pixel value resolution dependent on the second prediction signal obtained from temporally predicting the second representation, and by coding a second prediction residual being of the second pixel value resolution as representing a deviation between a combination of the second and third prediction signals and the second representation.
US08934527B2
A method for providing a next-cycle input sample from a decision feedback equalizer to a symbol decoder using look-ahead computations such that timing contention between the decision feedback equalizer and the symbol decoder is reduced. During a symbol period, a set of possible values is computed in the decision feedback equalizer and a set of path memory symbols is computed in the symbol decoder, the set of path memory symbols being based on a current input sample. During the same symbol period, one of the possible values is selected as the next-cycle input sample based on at least one of the next-cycle path memory symbols produced from the symbol decoder.
US08934526B2
Methods and apparatus adapting equalizers for compensating for signal distortion of a received digital signal are disclosed. The method comprises deriving equalizer settings for a received signal, determining at least one signal parameter of said received signal; and storing the derived equalizer settings together with an indication of the signal parameter. The signal parameter could, for instance, comprise the data rate of the signal. If the signal parameter changes the equalizer is configured to use any stored settings which are appropriate for the new signal parameter. Thus, rather than start an entirely new equalizer adaptation routine every time the signal parameter changes the equalizer will use any stored settings which are appropriate for the changed parameter.
US08934516B2
Techniques are provided to support soft handoff in a frequency hopping OFDMA system. Each sector concurrently supports “non-handoff” users and “soft-handoff” users. A non-handoff user communicates with only one sector, and a soft-handoff user communicates with multiple sectors simultaneously. Non-handoff users are assigned traffic channels by their sole sectors, and soft-handoff users are assigned traffic channels by their “serving” sectors. For each sector, the traffic channels assigned to the non-handoff users are orthogonal to one another and may or may not be orthogonal to the traffic channels assigned to the soft-handoff users. Each sector processes its received signal and recovers the data transmissions from the non-handoff users of that sector. Each sector then estimates the interference due to the non-handoff users and cancels the interference from the received signal. Each sector further processes its interference-canceled signal to recover the data transmissions from the soft-handoff users.
US08934512B2
A laser chip having a substrate, an epitaxial structure on the substrate, the epitaxial structure including an active region and the active region generating light, a waveguide formed in the epitaxial structure extending in a first direction, the waveguide having a front etched facet and a back etched facet that define an edge-emitting laser, and a first recessed region formed in said epitaxial structure, the first recessed region being arranged at a distance from the waveguide and having an opening adjacent to the back etched facet, the first recessed region facilitating testing of an adjacent laser chip prior to singulation of the laser chip.
US08934511B1
A method and device for providing a laser interlock having a first optical source, a first beam splitter, a second optical source, a detector, an interlock control system, and a means for producing dangerous optical energy. The first beam splitter is optically connected to the first optical source, the first detector and the second optical source. The detector is connected to the interlock control system. The interlock control system is connected to the means for producing dangerous optical energy and configured to terminate its optical energy production upon the detection of optical energy at the detector from the second optical source below a predetermined detector threshold. The second optical source produces an optical energy in response to optical energy from the first optical source. The optical energy from the second optical source has a different wavelength, polarization, modulation or combination thereof from the optical energy of the first optical source.
US08934510B2
A wavelength converter may include a non-linear optical crystal, and an optical member bonded to a region of a contact surface of the non-linear optical crystal, located a predetermined distance or more on an inner side from an outer periphery of the contact surface. The wavelength converter may receive laser light and stably output light having a wavelength different from that of the laser light.
US08934509B2
An apparatus, method and system that uses a Q-switched laser or a Q-seed source for a seed pulse signal having a controlled high-dynamic-range amplitude that avoids and/or compensates for pulse steepening in high-gain optical-fiber and/or optical-rod amplification of optical pulses. Optionally, the optical output is used for LIDAR or illumination purposes (e.g., for image acquisition). In some embodiments, well-controlled pulse shapes are obtained having a wide dynamic range, long duration, and not-too-narrow linewidth. In some embodiments, upon the opening of a Q-switch in an optical cavity having a gain medium, the amplification builds relatively slowly, wherein each round trip through the gain medium increases the amplitude of the optical pulse. Other embodiments use quasi-Q-switch devices or a plurality of amplitude modulators to obtain Q-seed pulses. These configurations provide optical pulses having wide dynamic ranges that ameliorate problems of pulse steepening, non-linear spectral broadening and the like in very-high-power MOPA devices.
US08934501B2
A method, system and computer readable medium for bidirectional translation of edge network virtualization encapsulation and core network virtualization encapsulation are described. The method can include receiving a customer data frame and removing an edge network virtualization encapsulation header (e.g., VXLAN, NVGRE or VLAN header) and adding a core network virtualization encapsulation header (e.g., a MAC-in-MAC header). The customer data frame can be forwarded in a core network (e.g., an SPBm network) utilizing the core network virtualization encapsulation header, which can be translated back to an edge network virtualization encapsulation header at a receiving switch.
US08934496B2
In one embodiment, a border node between a reactive routing network and a proactive routing network may receive an inter-domain route request (RREQ) from a requestor for a destination, and determines whether it knows the destination. In response to knowing the destination, the border node responds to the requestor. However, in response to not knowing the destination at the border node, when the border node is ingressing the inter-domain RREQ into the proactive routing network, it sends the inter-domain RREQ to each other border node of the proactive routing network. Alternatively, when the border node is ingressing the inter-domain RREQ into the reactive routing network, it sends the inter-domain RREQ into the reactive routing network.
US08934493B2
Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for implementing an inter-channel ring interface in a communication device. A communication device can include communication channels to carry data at respective first data throughputs. An inter-channel ring interface connects at least some of the communication channels in a ring configuration to form an aggregated group of channels that operates as a single channel at a second data throughput.
US08934490B2
A method is executed by a router for improved Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol and Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol execution to avoid dropped data traffic caused by Media Access Control (MAC) address resolution for next hops of routes determined by the IS-IS protocol. An IS-IS adjacency is established between the router and a neighbor router over a link, where a MAC address for the neighbor router is received from the neighbor router. A routing information base (RIB) is updated to include the neighbor router as a next hop for at least one destination address by the IS-IS process. The MAC address of the neighbor router is provided to an ND process to update the RIB, a forwarding information base (FIB) or L2 forwarding table of at least one line card of the router to include the MAC address of the neighbor router in response to the providing of the MAC address to the ND process.
US08934488B2
A packet classification system, methods, and corresponding apparatus are provided for enabling packet classification. A processor of a security appliance coupled to a network uses a classifier table having a plurality of rules, the plurality of rules having at least one field, to build a decision tree structure including a plurality of nodes, the plurality of nodes including a subset of the plurality of rules. By identifying duplication in decision trees, the methods may produce wider, shallower trees that result in shorter search times and reduced memory requirements for storing the trees.
US08934475B1
In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) routing a primary call from a transferor to a transferee; (ii) routing a consultation call from the transferor to a transfer target; and (iii) forwarding a sequence of session initiation protocol (SIP) messages to a third-party device for SIP media renegotiation for transferring between the transfer target and the transferee.
US08934468B2
Each station makes a transition to a power saving state autonomously in response to the reception of signals from the other stations in the same group and the transmission of its own signal. Each station sets its transmission timing such that it does not overlap the transmission timing of the other stations, by referring to data elements included in a beacon signal. The transmission timing in the stations is determined for each transmission.
US08934461B2
Method for re-assignment of S-CSCF services to registered IMS users of a home subscriber servers HSS
Re-assigning Serving Call Session Control Function, S-CSCF, services to a user of a Home Subscriber Server, HSS (200), in a Third Generation Partnership Program, 3GPP, telecommunications network is provided. In the case that S-CSCF services to the user including a registration procedure are previously assigned and access by the user to the S-CSCF services is erroneously lost, the proposal is to provide a method and means to re-assign those services. First, dynamic registration information (204) is uploaded from S-CSCF to the HSS (200) during the registration procedure. Then, the dynamic registration information (204) is stored from HSS (200) to S-CSCF (203) during a re-assignment procedure of the user.
US08934449B2
Example embodiments of methods and apparatus for neighboring cell signal measurement and reporting are disclosed. An example method includes operating a first wireless communication cell in accordance with a first radio access technology (RAT). The example method further includes transmitting, to one or more mobile devices in the first wireless communication cell, information regarding one or more neighboring wireless communication cells. The one or more neighboring wireless communication cells are operated in accordance with a second RAT. The example method also includes establishing an active communication channel in the first wireless communication cell with a mobile device of the one or more mobile devices. The example method still further includes receiving capability information of the mobile device, the capability information including an indication if the mobile device is compatible with the second RAT. The example method additionally includes, in the event the mobile device is compatible with the second RAT, providing instructions to the mobile device regarding whether or not to provide measurement reports for signals received from the one or more neighboring cells.
US08934441B2
Systems and techniques for communications include forming a data packet, selecting a plurality of transmission parameters for the data packet, generating information having one of a plurality of codes identifying the transmission parameters, and transmitting the data packet on a first channel and the information on a second channel. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or the meaning of the claims.
US08934440B2
A method for allocating a resource for response information transmission and transmitting according to transmission conditions in a wireless communication system according to the present invention comprises the steps of: setting a specific field value of a control channel depending on the allocation method by determining a transmission method or transmission quantity of data to be transmitted to a user's terminal from a data channel, a method of generating response information of the data according to the transmission quantity or transmission method, and an allocation method for indicating the response information resource; transmitting the data channel including the transmitting data and the control channel to the user's terminal; confirming the response information, which is transmitted from a resource allocated by the allocation method, for the data transmitted from the user's terminal; and determining whether the transmitted data area retransmitted according to the confirmed response information.
US08934437B2
An apparatus and method that allow user equipment (UE) to transmit information directly with other user equipment, using a device-to-device (D2D) mode is disclosed herein. A first D2D UE (dUE1) that wishes so communicate to a second D2D UE (dUE2) in D2D mode makes various communications requests to an Evolved Node B (eNB), which can facilitate the connection between the dUE1 and the dUE2. Among these requests are to make the D2D connection via WiFi instead of via Long Term Evolution (LTE). The eNB determines the WiFi capabilities of dUE1 and dUE2, then assigns a subset of available channels to be scanned by dUE1 and a separate subset of available channels to be scanned by dUE2. Thereafter, the eNB can assign a WiFi channel based on the scans performed by dUE1 and dUE2.
US08934430B2
A method of notifying resource allocation for Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) is provided. A base station notifies to a user equipment a power offset value between an average EPRE value for data symbols and an average EPRE value for the DMRS at each layer in a semi-static or static manner. Also, the base station dynamically notifies to the user equipment a current channel rank or a current DMRS distribution pattern for the user equipment. The user equipment determines an allocated DMRS antenna port based on a correspondence between the received channel rank and an allocation of DMRS antenna port, thereby obtaining resource allocation information for the DMRS. The signaling overhead for power allocation in the system can be reduced, the efficiency of power amplifier can be improved and the flexibility of system scheduling can be increased. A method of notifying antenna port resource allocation for DMRS is also provided.
US08934426B2
In order to minimize the control signaling overhead associated with transmitting CQI data from mobile stations to base stations in wireless communication networks supporting MU-MIMO, the CQI during MU-MIMO operation is estimated based on SU-MIMO CQI data, mobile station geometry data, and mobile station PMI (Precoding Matrix Index) data. More particularly, the base station maintains and updates a knowledge pool that correlates geometry data and learned impact of interfering precoder data to degradation of CQI values responsive to switching from SU-MIMO operation to MU-MIMO operations. Then, when the base station switches from SU-MIMO operation to MU-MIMO operation, it consults the knowledge pool to predict the degradation in CQI and subtracts them from the known, pre-switching SU-MIMO CQI feedback data for each relevant mobile station to predict the post-switching MU-MIMO CQIs for that mobile station.
US08934423B2
A central resource manager is communicatively coupled to a broadcast/multicast service (BMS) capable system. The BMS capable system has a radio access network that includes at least one BMS service area and a total number of BMS bearers for transporting media streams. Each BMS service area has associated therewith a portion of the total number of BMS bearers. The central resource manager allocates, to a first local call controller of a plurality of local call controllers, a first portion of the total number of BMS bearers to be managed locally by the first local call controller, and identifies the first portion of the total number of BMS bearer to the first local call controller. The central resource manager also manages a second portion of the total number of BMS bearers for a subsequent allocation to at least one local call controller of the plurality of local call controllers.
US08934421B2
In release 8 of the LTE standard (“Rel-8”), downlink data transmissions of one or more user equipments (UEs) in one subframe may be scheduled by control channels of different subframes. The resources for use in acknowledging whether or not a downlink data transmission was successfully received by a UE may be based on a starting control channel element (CCE) of a corresponding control channel. Two or more control channels of different subframes may have the same starting CCE, which may lead to acknowledgment resource collisions between the one or more UEs. Therefore, certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques to avoid acknowledgment resource collisions between the one or more UEs.
US08934414B2
Systems and methods for cellular or WIFI mobile traffic optimization based on public or private network destination are disclosed. One embodiment includes a mobile device whose traffic is optimized based on destination IP network type where the mobile device includes a local proxy which detects outgoing traffic and determines whether the outgoing traffic is directed towards a public IP network or private IP network. In general, the outgoing traffic is categorized as optimizable for mobile device battery conservation and/or network resource conservation if the outgoing traffic is directed towards the public IP network. Optimization of the outgoing traffic can be performed by a native operating system of the mobile device or an application that is non-native to the native operating system of the mobile device. The optimization can also be in part or in whole performed by a remote proxy in communication with the local proxy on the mobile device.
US08934413B2
Systems and methods for communicating packets having a plurality of formats are described herein. In some aspects, a signal (SIG) field in the preamble of a packet may indicate whether an extension field, such as an extension SIG field or SIG-B field, is included in the packet. In another aspect, one or more detectors may be used to auto-detect packets formatted as one of at least two different formats based on a short training field (STF) of a received packet. In some aspects, along training field (LTF) in the preamble of a packet may indicate whether the payload is repetition coded.
US08934405B2
In one embodiment, a method of scheduling transmissions for a base station in a multi-carrier wireless communication network comprises scheduling initial transmissions of data packets for one or more users on a first carrier, without reserving scheduling capacity on the first carrier for retransmissions. Doing so increases the scheduled capacity of the first carrier for initial transmissions. The method further includes scheduling retransmissions, as needed, for given ones of the data packets on one or more second carriers. The method allows more traffic to be scheduled on the first carrier, meaning that multi-carrier transmissions are less frequently needed to convey all of the traffic targeted to one or more receivers. Those receivers therefore spend more time operating with a reduced receiver bandwidth (as compared to the bandwidth required for receiving more than one carrier), which reduces operating power.
US08934404B2
A novel power conservation scheme is provided for conserving power in client terminals by using a proxy server. The client terminal, having a low-power communication interface and a high-power communication interface, may power down its high-power communication interface, to conserve power. Prior to shutting off its high-power communication interface, the client terminal may assign an access point to act as a proxy for the client terminal. The access point monitors the paging channels for the client terminal. If the access point detects a paging message for the client terminal, it forwards at least a portion of the paging message to the client terminal via a low-power communication interface. Upon receipt of the paging message from the access point via its low-power communication interface, the client terminal may power up its high-power communication interface and directly respond to the access terminal.
US08934401B2
A terminal device is arranged to communicate with a base station via a relay device in a wireless communications system. The terminal device comprises: a transmitter arranged to transmit an access request message to the base station, wherein the access request message comprises one from a set of access preambles that indicate relay device uplink assistance is required; a receiver arranged to receive an access request grant response from the base station; and a control processor operably coupled to the transmitter and receiver and arranged to: process the access request grant response and determine from a timing advance part thereof transmit power control (TPC) information for transmitting to the base station via the relay device.
US08934399B2
An LTE mobile communication system in which relays RN (14), each in communication with a donor eNB (13) are used to improve the coverage of high data rates, the cell-edge throughput and/or to increase system throughput. The problem addressed is that in the RN←→DeNB (13) Un interface, all the S1-AP and/or X2-AP messages with different QoS requirements (for example different S1-AP/X2-AP messages that have different time criticalities) have to be delivered in a limited number of Data or Signalling Radio Bearers. A multiplexing mechanism enables the categorization of different types of S1-AP and/or X2-AP messages and the mapping of these to a limited number of Radio Bearers over the Un radio interface.
US08934388B2
The present invention relates to a communication system and a method thereof, an information processing apparatus and a method thereof, an information processing terminal and a method thereof, which can start wireless communication easily and promptly. When an electromagnetic wave radiated from a reader/writer of a PDA 2 is received in a reader/writer of a personal computer 1, the personal computer 1 notifies the PDA 2 of device information stored therein. The PDA 2 establishes synchronization for Bluetooth communication with the personal computer 1 in accordance with a Bluetooth address contained in the device information and selects a service in accordance with a service record contained in the device information to establish communication via Bluetooth. The present invention can be applied to various information processing apparatuses such as a personal computer or a PDA.
US08934375B2
A method and apparatus for allocating subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating at least one diversity cluster of subcarriers to a first subscriber and allocating at least one coherence cluster to a second subscriber.
US08934373B2
Methods and system are provided for managing and monitoring allocation of RF spectrum resources based on time, space and frequency. A network may be enabled to allocate excess spectrum resources for use by other network providers on a real-time basis. Allocated resources may be transferred from one provider with excess resources to another in need of additional resources based on contractual terms or on a real-time purchase negotiations and settlements. A network may be enabled to monitor the use of allocated resources on real-time basis and off-load or allow additional users depending on the spectrum resources availability. Public safety networks may be enabled to make spectrum resources available to general public by allocating spectrum resources and monitoring the use of those resources. During an emergency, when traffic increases on a public safety network, the public safety networks may off-load bandwidth traffic to make available necessary resources for public safety users.
US08934364B2
The present invention discloses a method for aligning each scheduling service in an optical transport network. When a cross scheduling unit in a cross board sends service data to each service board, inserts a frame header indication signal into the sent service data, data frames in the sent service data are aligned according to the frame header indication signal, each service board performs a delay to the above service data according to a service delay time when receiving the service data and extracting the frame header indication signal, after the delay time is up, encapsulates the service data to be scheduled and sends to the cross broad to be cached, aligned and scheduled. The present invention also discloses a system for aligning each scheduling service in an optical transport network.
US08934357B2
Domains (multiple collaborating service providers) create service offerings between pairs of edge nodes that interconnect with other domains in the network. The service offerings may specify the available bandwidth, quality of service, reliability, available security, price, subscriber and service contextual specific and other SLA information. When a new service is to be created, the service definition is used along with information about the available service offerings to determine a set of networks to implement the service. Information associated with the service offerings may be flooded to all other networks. Alternatively, the service offering information may be provided to a trusted third party (SLA broker) which may provide SLA services on the network to select sets of domains to implement inter-domain services, and may also proxy to set up the service for the SLA requesting party. A hybrid approach may also be used wherein some SLA information is flooded and other information is retained in secret and provided only to the SLA broker.
US08934346B2
A cellular station with a wireless module and a controller module is provided for handling random access procedures in a multi-carrier system. The wireless module performs wireless transceiving to and from a mobile communication device on a first SCell and a second SCell of a timing reference group. The controller module waits for a predetermined period of time subsequent to an expiry of a deactivation timer for the first SCell maintained in the cellular station, and transmits, to the mobile communication device via the wireless module, a PDCCH order for initiating a random access procedure on the second SCell or an activation command for activating the first SCell, in response to the predetermined period of time being elapsed.
US08934342B2
System and method to obviate a conferencing hub, in one embodiment the method including: subscribing to a meet-me conference call that comprises a plurality of endpoints; monitoring for a triggering condition related to the meet-me conference call; and if the triggering condition is triggered then, for each endpoint of the conference call, redirecting a media stream produced by the endpoint from the conferencing hub to another endpoint. In another embodiment, the method includes: receiving a call from a first endpoint to join a new meet-me conference; waiting a predetermined waiting-time; if no other endpoints have joined the meet-me conference during the waiting-time, disconnecting the first endpoint from the meet-me conference in order to obviate the meet-me conference hub; receiving a call from a second endpoint to join the meet-me conference; calling back the first endpoint; and bridging together the first endpoint and the second endpoint to reassemble the meet-me conference.
US08934340B1
A switch includes a connector, a port, and an indicator. The connector is configured to connect via a cable to a computer. The port is attached to the connector. While the connector is connected to the computer via the cable, the port is configured to: transmit a command signal from the switch to the computer via the cable, wherein the command signal requests identification of the port; and detect a response to the command signal as received from the computer. The indicator is connected to the port. The indicator is configured to identify the port based on an alternating pattern of the response to the command signal.
US08934334B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for processing a NAS signaling request. A method for performing a non-access stratum (NAS) signaling process by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of receiving a first message that includes information indicating a network failure from a network node of a first network; a step of starting a timer relating to a network selection; and a step of selecting a second network from among network candidates excluding the first network during the operation of the timer relating to a network selection.
US08934333B2
The present description relates to a method for transmitting data from a base station according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step for transmitting to the relay node a signal having a first data to be delivered to a user equipment via the relay node; a step for transmitting to the user equipment a signal having a second data; and a step for receiving from the user equipment a HARQ confirmation response information regarding the first data delivered to the user equipment through the relay node, wherein the first data is retransmitted to the user equipment from the relay node when the HARQ confirmation response information is NACK, and scheduling information for transmitting the first data from the relay node to the user equipment and scheduling information for retransmitting the first data can be designated in advance by the base station.
US08934328B2
System and method for dimension reduction and for channel and interference condition feedback in a Multi-User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MU MIMO) wireless communication systems are provided herein. The method for dimension reduction includes determining a number of virtual antennas, vk, for beamformees pertaining to a multi user (MU) transmission group, reducing the dimension of the matrix by selecting a sub-set of antennas or by Eigen mode selection and sending a reduced dimension candidate transmit beamforming matrix or an effective channel matrix to a beamformer. The method for channel and interference condition feedback Interference condition includes sending to a beamformee metric indicative of the interference level from other streams.
US08934323B2
Provided is an optical disc device capable of correcting a value of a control parameter during an operation of reading information from an optical disc medium. The optical disc device for reading the information recorded on the optical disc medium under an operation condition corresponding to a value set with respect to a predetermined control parameter corrects the value of the predetermined control parameter by repeatedly executing, while an operation of reading the information from the optical disc medium is being performed, processing of: acquiring, with respect to two values of the predetermined control parameter, evaluation values indicating accuracy of the reading of the information from the optical disc medium, respectively; and updating the value of the predetermined control parameter based on the two acquired evaluation values.
US08934322B2
An electronic timepiece with a solar cell is provided with a solar cell, a solar cell holding member, a light-transmissive character plate, a ground plate, and a ring-shaped calendar wheel. The solar cell includes a base material that is made of an insulating material, and a light-receiving unit that is arranged on a first surface of the base material. The solar cell holding member is fixedly attached to a second surface of the base material. The light-transmissive character plate is arranged on a timepiece front side of the solar cell. The ground plate is arranged on a back surface of the solar cell. The ring-shaped calendar wheel is disposed between the character plate and the ground plate. The solar cell holding member is arranged on a character plate side of the calendar wheel to position the calendar wheel.
US08934320B2
An electronic timepiece includes: a timekeeping section which counts time; a time display section which displays time; an illuminating section which performs illumination; a wireless communication section which performs wireless communication by transmitting/receiving a wireless signal intermittently; and a drive control section which performs duty drive of the illuminating section when a period in which wireless communication is conducted by the wireless communication section and a period in which the illuminating section is driven overlap with each other.
US08934319B2
An animal deterrent has a housing and a power source, a processor, and a sound emitter. The deterrent can be programmed by a user to perform one or more tasks. The deterrent can be manipulated via a touch-screen, a button, or a remote control and receiver. A sensor can be included to send a sensor signal when a temperature, sound, light, or other environmental condition is detected.
US08934311B2
A semiconductor device includes a first memory region including a plurality of memory cells; a test unit configured to test the first memory region, and detect a weak bit from among the plurality of memory cells; and a second memory region configured to store a weak bit address (WBA) of the first memory region, and data intended to be stored in the weak bit, wherein the first memory region and the second memory region include different types of memory cells.
US08934310B2
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to accessing memory, and more particularly to operation of a partitioned bitline.
US08934307B2
A voltage generator of a nonvolatile memory device includes a pump circuit for generating a pump output voltage by performing a pumping operation and raise or maintain the output voltage in response to a double enable signal or a single enable signal, a first regulator for comparing a first division voltage with a first reference voltage and generating the double enable signal according to a result of the comparison, a second regulator for comparing a second division voltage with a second reference voltage and outputting the voltage of the first level as a first regulation voltage, and a third regulator for comparing the second division voltage with the second reference voltage and generating the single enable signal according to a result of the comparison.
US08934303B2
A semiconductor memory device is operated by, inter alia: precharging a bit line, providing a first voltage to a coupling circuit for coupling the bit lines and cell strings of a plurality of memory cells, providing a program voltage to a selected word line coupled to a memory cell on which a program operation will be performed among the plurality of memory cells, providing a pass voltage to unselected word lines, providing a second voltage lower than the first voltage to the coupling circuit, discharging the bit line by loading program data, and providing a third voltage lower than the second voltage to the coupling circuit.
US08934302B2
A method is provided for operating a nonvolatile memory comprising memory cells stacked on a substrate. The method comprises counting a number of program loops performed in a first program operation of selected memory cells connected to a selected wordline, and controlling an increment of a program voltage between successive program loops of a second program operation of the selected memory cells according to the counted number.
US08934297B2
A multi-level non-volatile memory device programs cells in each row in a manner that takes into account the coupling from the programming of cells that are proximate the row to be programmed. In one example of the invention, after the row has been programmed, the proximate cells are verified by read, comparison, and, if necessary, reprogramming operations to compensate for charge added to proximate memory cells resulting from programming the row. In another example of the invention, a row of memory cells is programmed with charge levels that take into account the charge that will be added to the memory cells when proximate memory cells are subsequently programmed.
US08934290B2
A magnetoresistance effect device including a multilayer structure having a pair of ferromagnetic layers and a barrier layer positioned between them, wherein at least one ferromagnetic layer has at least the part contacting the barrier layer made amorphous and the barrier layer is an MgO layer having a highly oriented texture structure.
US08934288B2
Magnetic memory devices are provided, the devices include at least memory cell and a reference cell on a substrate. The memory cells include a first base magnetic layer, a free layer, and a first tunnel barrier layer between the first base magnetic layer and free layer. The reference memory cell includes a second base magnetic layer, a reference magnetic layer, and a second tunnel barrier layer between the second base magnetic layer and reference magnetic layer. The reference magnetic layer has a magnetic direction substantially perpendicular to that of the free layer.
US08934287B2
A method for providing a SRAM cell having a dedicated read port separated from a write port includes providing a first and a second bit-line placed in parallel forming a complementary bit-line pair for the dedicated read port, and providing a third and a fourth bit-line placed in parallel forming a complementary bit-line pair for the write port. The method further includes providing a positive voltage supply line disposed between a first and a second ground line placed in parallel, providing a first and a second metal line adjacently flanking and in parallel to the first bit-line, and providing a third and a fourth metal line adjacently flanking and in parallel to the second bit-line to provide a new SRAM cell structure having a balanced read and write operation speed and an improved noise margin.
US08934284B2
Two or more workload indicators affecting a memory cell of a resistance-based, non-volatile memory are measured. The two or more workload indicators are applied to a transfer function that predicts a resistance shift and/or resistance noise variance in response to the two or more workload indicators. A result of the transfer function is applied to shift and/or determine a threshold resistance used for at least one of a program operation and a read operation affecting the memory cell. An error rate of the memory cell is reduced as a result.
US08934282B2
A method of forming a circuitry includes providing a substrate comprising a plurality of die. Each die includes a plurality of resistive random access memory (RRAM) storage cells. The method further includes concurrently initializing substantially all of the RRAM storage cells on the same wafer. Initializing can include applying a voltage potential across the RRAM storage cells.
US08934276B2
A method for balancing a voltage of an inverter determines an expected voltage of a capacitor based on a voltage of the capacitor at a start of a switching cycle and determines a duty cycle minimizing a value of an objective function representing a difference between the expected voltage of the capacitor and a desired voltage of the capacitor. A switching sequence controlling the inverter is selected based on the duty cycle.
US08934262B2
A wiring board including a first rigid wiring board having an accommodation portion and a conductor, a second rigid wiring board accommodated in the accommodation portion of the first rigid wiring board and having a conductor electrically connected to the conductor of the first rigid wiring board, and an insulation layer formed on the first rigid wiring board and the second rigid wiring board. The accommodation portion of the first rigid wiring board has wall surfaces tapering from a first surface of the first rigid wiring board to a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface, and the second rigid wiring board has side surfaces tapering such that the side surfaces of the second rigid wiring board substantially fit into the wall surfaces of the accommodation portion of the first rigid wiring board.
US08934257B1
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first coupler, and a second coupler. The first substrate is formed from a first material and includes an electrical pad. The second substrate is formed from a second material and includes an electrical pad. The first coupler is configured to mechanically couple the first substrate to the second substrate without a soldered connection. The second coupler includes a first end portion, configured to be soldered to the electrical pad of the first substrate, and a second end portion, configured to be soldered to the electrical pad of the second substrate. The second coupler configured to electrically couple the first substrate to the second substrate.
US08934245B2
A heat conveying structure for an electronic device according to the present invention includes: an evaporating section that has a chamber structure with first fins erected therein, is thermally connected to the electronic device, evaporates a liquid coolant on the surfaces of the first fins to thereby change the liquid coolant to a vapor coolant, and sends out liquid coolant present near the first fins along with the vapor coolant as a gas-liquid two-phase flow coolant; a condensing section that has a chamber structure with second fins erected therein, is thermally connected to a radiator provided outside the electronic device, and changes the gas-liquid two-phase flow coolant in contact with the second fins to a liquid coolant; a vapor pipe that connects the evaporating section and the condensing section, and moves the gas-liquid two-phase flow coolant sent out from the evaporating section to the condensing section; and a liquid pipe that connects the evaporating section and the condensing section, and moves the liquid coolant from the condensing section to the evaporating section.
US08934230B2
A portable computer includes a display module, and a hinge module. One end of the hinge module is connected to the display module. The portable computer further includes a host module. The host module includes a housing whereon an accommodating space is formed. The other end of the hinge module is fixed inside the accommodating space. The portable computer further includes a battery component installed on the housing for covering the accommodating space so as to cover the hinge module.
US08934227B2
A display device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display device includes a display panel, a housing which houses the display panel and a frame which is disposed under the housing and comprises a first bottom portion. The first bottom portion includes a first bottom surface which is an upper surface thereof and a first base surface which is a lower surface thereof, and the frame includes a groove recessed from the first bottom surface.
US08934226B2
A mountable device is configured to house a computer processor. The mountable device has an input device support. The input device support is pivotable.
US08934211B2
A solenoid control device executes feedback control such that a drive current for a solenoid follows a target current, by driving, through PWM, a MOSFET provided on a power supply line to the solenoid. An overcurrent detection circuit that outputs an overcurrent detection signal when the drive current for the solenoid reaches an overcurrent determination current value is provided, and it is determined whether an overcurrent is generated. Whether a short-circuit occurs between both terminals of the solenoid is determined by monitoring whether the overcurrent detection circuit is repeating an output of the overcurrent detection signal and a stop of the output of the overcurrent detection signal.
US08934207B2
A protective circuit for protecting an input or an output of an electrical apparatus against an overvoltage, wherein a series circuit is arranged at the input or the output, the series circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor, each transistor comprises a gate terminal, a drain terminal and a source terminal, and the drain terminal of the first transistor is connected to a first terminal point and the source terminal of the second transistor is connected to the input or the output and the source terminal of the first transistor is connected to the drain terminal of the second transistor. In addition, the gate terminal of the first transistor is connected via a first resistor to a first pole of a voltage source and the gate terminal of the second transistor is connected via a second resistor to a second pole of the voltage source.
US08934170B2
Provided is a photochromic polarizing plate exhibiting reduced tint. The photochromic polarizing plate contains a laminate including at least one film, a polarizer, and an optically transparent substrate, wherein the photochromic polarizing plate has a single-plate transmittance T1(λ)% and a crossed transmittance T2(λ)% at a wavelength of λ nm satisfying Formulae (1) to (4): Formula (1) 55%≧T1(430)≧38%; Formula (2) 60%≧T1(590)≧42.5%; Formula (3) 1.0≧T1(430)/T1(590)≧0.9; and Formula (4) T2(430)≧0.02%.
US08934164B2
A tunable optical filter is formed in the structure of an etalon. A thin electro-optic ceramic substrate is fixed between two end substrates. Each end substrate has an inner parallel surface toward said electro-optic ceramic substrate covered by an electrode layer and a reflecting layer. An adhesive which attaches the electro-optic ceramic substrate to each first and second end substrates has a consistency so as to avoid stress on the electro-optic ceramic substrate. A voltage imposed on the electro-optic ceramic substrate by the electrode layers on the inner parallel surfaces of the first and second end substrates effectively controls an optical distance between the reflective coating layers on the inner parallel surfaces of the first and second end substrates of the etalon structure. The electro-optic ceramic substrate is preferably PMN-PT ((1-x)Pb(Mg⅓Nb⅔)O3-x—PbTiO3) and no more than 160 μm thick.
US08934160B2
An optical head-mounted display includes an eyeglass frame, a holographic optical element supported by the eyeglass frame to be confronted by an eye of a wearer, and a projector mounted on the eyeglass frame to project image information on the holographic optical element. The projector includes a LED light source, a beam-splitting polarizer, a spatial light modulator, a lens set and a mechanical one-dimensional scanner. The mechanical one-dimensional scanner reflects the transformed light beam from the lens set onto the holographic optical element in one dimension at a time. When the reflective sheet is rotated at a range of angle in a brief moment of time, the holographic optical element receives from the rotating reflective sheet an array of one-dimensional modulated light beams and reflects the latter to form a two-dimensional image in the eye because of persistence of vision.
US08934159B2
A see-through display including a light source for emitting light, a projection optical system for projecting the light emitted by the light source, and a volume hologram for deflecting the light projected by the projection optical system. The volume hologram has a linear expansion coefficient of α (/° C.) and interference fringes recorded with recording light having a wavelength of Λ (nm). The wavelength of the light emitted by the light source has a temperature dependency of K (nm/° C.), and the wavelength Λ (nm) and the temperature dependency K (nm/° C.) satisfy the relationship of 0≦K/Λ≦2α.
US08934156B2
In an image processing apparatus and an image processing method according to the present invention, a gradation correction table creation unit prints stored chart data on a print paper by an image forming device, determines a target color from the color measuring result of the printed chart by a color measuring device, and creates a gray reproduction estimation model function according to the measured color result of the chart. Next, after the gradation correction table is created such that the gray of each gradation is adequately close to the target color, the gradation correction table is changed such that the color difference of neighboring gradations is included in a predetermined range.
US08934150B2
There is provided an image processing system including an image acquisition mechanism configured to acquire an image data; a first generator configured to generate, according to one image based on the image data acquired by the image acquisition mechanism, a first data in a first format in which there are arranged a plurality of elements generated based on the image data and which is different from the image data; a second generator configured to generate a second data in a second format in which there is arranged the one image based on the image data as one element and which is different from the image data; and a storage control section configured to associate the first data generated by the first generator with the second data generated by the second generator, and to store the associated first data and second data into a storage section.
US08934141B2
A system includes a receiving unit and a controller. The receiving unit receives data about the number of processes performed in an image forming unit to form an image with a decolorable color material and data about the number of processes performed in a decolorizing unit to decolorize an image formed with the decolorable color material. Based on the data received by the receiving unit the controller calculates the number of media in user's use in a condition after they are subjected to image formation by the image forming unit and before they are decolorized by the decolorizing unit. The controller deters image formation by the image forming unit if the number of the media in user's use exceeds a first threshold, and allows the image forming unit to form an image if the number of the media in user's use does not exceed the first threshold.
US08934140B2
A color gamut of image data is appropriately subjected to a smoothing processing to print an image of favorable color reproduction and gradation reproduction. Specifically, when an average lightness is equal to or lower than a blacking lightness, the object pixel is not subjected to the smoothing processing. This can conserve the signal value of the object pixel to prevent a pixel originally having a signal value higher than the blacking lightness from being converted by the gamut compression to a black point. In this manner, a pixel for which the object pixel has the average lightness equal to or lower than the blacking lightness is blacked and a pixel having a signal value higher than the blacking lightness is not compressed to the black point. The resultant image has no deteriorated gradation characteristic when being macroscopically observed.
US08934138B2
A color processing apparatus includes a correction unit. When, among colors on a color gamut boundary from a lowest-lightness color on an achromatic color axis to a highest-chroma color in a predetermined color space in an output color gamut of an output device in the color space, there exist a high-lightness color whose lightness is higher than that of the highest-chroma color and a color with the same lightness as that of the high-lightness color but with different chroma, and when there exists a low-lightness color whose lightness is lower than that of the lowest-lightness color on the achromatic color axis in the color space, the correction units corrects the low-lightness color to a higher lightness side higher than that of the lowest-lightness color on the achromatic color axis.
US08934118B2
When a user uses an image processing device, the image processing device accesses a private PC of the user connected to a network to request acquisition of environmental information. A printer driver in the private PC collects various settings (including desktop theme, application settings, and device driver settings) from within the private PC. The settings are transmitted to the image processing device. The image processing device, based on the acquired setting information, changes the panel display, application settings, and others. This simplifies setting of the image processing device.
US08934117B2
Systems and methods of management of electronic office equipment through automated monitoring and reporting of usage and status are disclosed. A monitoring agent monitors electronic office equipment on a network and collects usage and status information to send to a control system. The control system can use the usage and status information to compile various reports responsive to the received information. The system allows for the automatic assessment, monitoring, re-supply, maintenance, and billing of networks of printing devices from a variety of different manufacturers. In some embodiments, the system enables a pay per use lease arrangement.
US08934113B2
Local operation of an image forming apparatus is permitted from a tablet terminal only in a case where the tablet terminal is in the vicinity of the image forming apparatus. To achieve this, the position of the tablet terminal is determined by GPS. Alternatively, the position of a user holding a tablet terminal is determined using a local authentication unit of the image forming apparatus. Local operation is permitted if the user of the tablet terminal is within a predetermined range with respect to the image forming apparatus.
US08934112B1
A method of determining a cell configuration in a print production environment may include identifying a set of print devices to assign to a cell, identifying a print device number, identifying one or more subsets of print devices from the set, where each subset includes a unique portion of the print devices in the set, and each subset includes a number of print devices equal to the print device number, performing a simulation of operation on each subset to determiner a subset performance metric for each subset, selecting one of the subsets based on the associated subset performance metric, decrementing the print device number by an amount, updating the set with the selected subset, and repeating the identifying one or more subsets, performing the simulation, selecting one of the subsets, decrementing the print device number and updating until no subset performance metric satisfies a performance constraint.
US08934109B2
In partially editing a given image displayed on a display section, a selection receiving section receives selection of an editing target in the display image, displayed on the display section, based on the direction of a straight line connecting two points detected by a position detecting section for detecting a position of contact with a display screen of the display section, and then an editing section partially edits the target.
US08934107B2
A multifunction apparatus includes: a second storage section for storing display image data for displaying an image on the display section, the second storage section storing the display image data corresponding to the processing target image data; and an apparatus control section for generating location information indicating a location of the display image data. Further, in accordance with operation screen data including the location information, a web browser section obtains the display image data indicated by the location information from the second storage section and performs the display section to display an operation screen including an image indicated by the display image data.
US08934106B2
An image processing device includes a processing unit that performs processing on image data, an obtaining unit that obtains a number of users, and a control unit that executes a job by controlling the processing unit to perform the processing in one of control modes. The control unit switches between the control modes based on the number of users.
US08934104B2
An arrangement and a method are provided for robust interferometry for detecting distance, depth, profile, form, undulation, flatness deviation and/or roughness or the optical path length in or on technical or biological objects, including in layered form, or else for optical coherence tomography (OCT), with a source of electromagnetic radiation and with an interferometer, in particular also in the form of an interference microscope, having an object beam path and having a reference beam path, in which an end reflector is arranged, and a line-scan detector for detecting electromagnetic radiation in the form of at least one spatial interferogram.
US08934103B2
Systems and methods described herein employ multiple phase-contrast images with various relative phase shifts between light diffracted by a sample and light not diffracted by the sample to produce a quantitative phase image. The produced quantitative phase image may have sufficient contrast for label-free auto-segmentation of cell bodies and nuclei.
US08934100B2
Disclosed is a multi-band multiplexing intra-cavity gas sensing system and method. The system consists of a laser resonant cavity subsystem, a gas sensing subsystem and a detection-demodulation subsystem. The laser resonant cavity subsystem consists of the first beam splitter, two ways of gain paths composed of a pump light source, a wavelength division multiplexer, a rare earth doped fiber, an optical isolator and a tunable optical attenuator, a beam combiner and an F-P tunable optical filter. The gas sensing subsystem consists of a gas cell and an optical reflective mirror. The detection-demodulation subsystem consists of an optical coupler, the second beam splitter, two optical detectors, a data acquisition module and a computer. In this invention, different rare-earth doped fibers are multiplexing into one system, in order to cover more maser bands of different rare earth, which greatly expands the scanning range of wavelength, and is capable of detecting various gases simultaneously. New gain paths can be added to the system, to further expand the scanning range of wavelength. Hence, the present invention has strong expandability.
US08934097B2
An optical instrument aligns an optical beam without the need for physical intervention of the instrument within the apparatus or platforms from which the trajectory of the beam to be ascertained. The alignment apparatus and method enable the desired function to be realized without the placement of physical apertures or sensors directly in the path of the beam through the system whose spatial position and slope is to be sought. An image plane provides the observer with a pair of well-defined images that are indicative of the beam centering and pointing alignment parameters. The optical alignment can be realized without the need for referencing to an external or fixed set of coordinates or fiducials. The instrument can therefore service situations where adverse environments would otherwise prohibit the use of such instruments, including regions of high radiation, high temperature, vacuum and/or cryogenic atmospheres.
US08934092B2
A surface defect inspection apparatus and method for irradiating a beam multiple times to a same region on a surface of an inspection sample, detecting each scattered light from the same region by detection optical systems individually to produce plural signals, and wherein irradiating the beam includes performing a line illumination of the beam on a line illumination region of the sample surface. The line illumination region is moved in a longitudinal direction at a pitch shorter than a length of the line illumination region in the longitudinal direction.
US08934088B2
A sound-creation interface is used to create a sound-creation instrument such as a musical instrument. The musical instrument includes a mechanical-human interface such as a set of keys, strings or breathing pipe for user actuation and control of the system, a mechanical-electrical interface receiving inputs from the mechanical-human interface and for converting those inputs to a machine comprehensible signal and an electrical/processor interface receiving signals from the mechanical electrical interface and converting those signals into a processor comprehensible form. A processor receives processor comprehensible signals from the electrical-processor interface and includes a processor component and a memory component. The system allows simplified interaction between the user using the mechanical interface and the processor providing an improved sound-creation interface.
US08934085B2
A bundle-guiding optical collector collects an emission of a radiation source and forms a radiation bundle from the collected emission. A reflective surface of the collector is the first bundle-forming surface downstream of the radiation source. The reflective surface is formed such that it converts the radiation source into a family of images in a downstream plane. The family of images includes a plurality of radiation source images which are offset to each other in two dimensions (x, y) in a direction perpendicular to the beam direction of the transformed radiation bundle and are arranged relative to each other in a non-rotationally symmetric manner relative to the beam direction of the transformed radiation bundle. The transformed radiation bundle in the downstream plane has a non-rotationally symmetric bundle edge contour relative to the beam direction of the transformed radiation bundle. The result is a collector in which the radiation bundle shape generated by the collector. In other words, the illumination distribution generated by the collector in a defined manner in the plane downstream of the collector has a shape which is freely selectable to the greatest possible extent.
US08934084B2
An interferometric lithography system produces a pattern having a sharp field edge and minimal optical path length difference. Light passes through a beamsplitter into an input prism. The two beams produced by the beamsplitter are reflected off respective surfaces of the input prism toward a substrate prism. The substrate prism is symmetric to the input prism such that the incidence angle at an image plane is approximately equal to the beamsplitter diffraction angle. Alternatively, light passes through a beamsplitter into a prism. The two beams produced by the beamsplitter are reflected off respective surfaces of the prism toward an output surface of the prism, such that the incidence angle at the output surface is approximately equal to the beamsplitter diffraction angle. A plurality of these interferometers can be stacked, each being optimized for a given pitch, such that the stack provides a variable pitch interferometry system.
US08934070B2
Disclosed are a backlight assembly including a light guide plate having at least one slit, at least one light source unit disposed at a side of the light guide plate, and a lower cover which accommodates the light source unit and has at least one support coupled with the at least one slit.
US08934068B2
A backlight assembly includes a light source unit including a circuit board, a light source disposed on a first plane of the circuit board, and at least one connection unit disposed on a second plane opposite to the first plane of the circuit board and electrically connected to the light source, a receiving container having a bottom plate and sidewalls extending from edges of the bottom plate and receiving the light source unit, the bottom plate including at least one opening portion in which the connection unit is inserted and exposed to the outside, and at least one driving unit disposed at a rear surface of the receiving container and connected to the connection unit for driving the light source unit.
US08934061B1
Mounting systems can allow users to couple a digital media player to a display screen. Some mount embodiments position the digital media player over the display screen. In several embodiments, the digital media player is positioned approximately horizontally such that the digital media player is oriented approximately parallel to the floor of the room while an arm supports the digital media player over the display screen.
US08934059B2
An application for a bezel with internal lighting includes at least one illuminated element situated behind a monitor/television bezel. The brightness and color of the illuminating elements and hence the bezel appearance are modified based upon either user preference or an internal or external parameters such as time, content being viewed, recording status, etc.
US08934056B2
An audio-video synchronization detection device and a method thereof are provided. The audio-video synchronization detection device detects an object under test which is capable of generating an image signal and an audio signal. The audio-video synchronization detection device includes a delay circuit, an optical sensor, and a signal processor. The delay circuit delays the audio signal for a predetermined time and generates an audio correction signal accordingly. The optical sensor senses a light emitted by a display panel when the display panel displays the image signal and generates an image sensing signal accordingly. The signal processor calculates a delay time between the audio correction signal and the image sensing signal to obtain a synchronization state between the image signal and the audio signal.
US08934045B2
A digital camera system includes an image capture module and a remote control module. The image capture module includes an image capture system and a first wireless communication system. The remote control module includes a status display with one or more status display elements for displaying status information pertaining to the image capture module, a battery-operated power supply, one or more user controls, a second wireless communication, and a power management system providing a normal-power state and a low-power state. The system is configured such that when a user activates one of the user controls while the remote control module is in the low-power state the remote control module is set to operate in the normal-power state, a status inquiry is sent to the image capture module, and returned status information is displayed on the status display.
US08934031B2
A light intensity control device includes a fixed opening 261, an aperture stop part 26 for controlling a light flux of incident light, a light intensity aperture part 24 for changing the size of an opening by moving a plurality of aperture blades to limit a light intensity of transmitted light and a ND filter 25 having a transparent area 253 and a light blocking area 254, which is arranged to be movable between a first light blocking state where the transparent area 253 faces the fixed opening 261 of the aperture stop part 26 and a second light blocking state where the light blocking area 254 faces the fixed opening. The moving of the ND filter 25 is carried out when the opening area of the light intensity aperture part 24 is a maximum.
US08934028B2
Disclosed is an imaging apparatus which performs efficient JPEG compression encoding by dividing an image after an image processing into a plurality of blocks and then performing JPEG compression, and also generates a natural compressed image. The imaging apparatus includes an image processor for generating image data from a light input into an imaging device, an encoder for encoding the image data to generate encoded image data, and a storage unit for storing the encoded image data.
US08934019B2
An omnidirectional camera comprises two or more camera units, a camera assembly in which the two or more camera units are mounted, a heat shield cover to accommodate the camera assembly, a heat insulating member interposed between the camera assembly and the heat shield cover, a space formed between the camera assembly and the heat shield cover, a required number of slits formed in the heat shield cover and extending in up-and-down direction, and in the omnidirectional camera, the space communicates with an outside through the slit.
US08934016B2
A client PC receives video data distributed from a plurality of camera units and displays a plurality of video images as multiple screens on a screen of a display. At this time, the reception rate of the video data distributed from the camera unit to be controlled in pan, tilt, etc., is increased and the reception rate of the video data distributed from the different camera unit is decreased, whereby the frame rate of a split screen for displaying the video image picked up by the camera unit to be controlled is made higher than the frame rate of the different camera unit and it is made possible to visually recognize the video image clearly during the camera control.
US08934015B1
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for experience sharing for emergency situations. A wearable computing device can receive an indication of an emergency situation. In response to the indication, the wearable computing device can initiate an experience sharing session with one or more emergency contacts. During the experience sharing session, the wearable computing device can capture video data, add text to the captured video data, and transmit the captured video data and added text to the one or more emergency contacts.
US08934014B2
A method for switching a monitored location of a plurality of image capture devices using an electronic device obtains a current direction of the electronic device, and determines a current image capture device corresponding to the current direction of the electronic device from the plurality of image capture devices. The method further sends a switch command to the current image capture device, receives captured images from the current image capture device, and displays the received captured images on a display screen of the electronic device.
US08934013B2
A video camera system includes: a video sensor providing image data; a low power imminent event detector coupled to the sensor which receives the image data from the video sensor and processes the received image data to detect changes in the image data and thereby detect an imminent event and produces an event signal on detection of an imminent event; and a main event processor also coupled to the video sensor to receive the image data, the main event processor being a higher power device than the imminent event detector, the main event detector having a dormant mode in which the main event detector consumes little or no power and a fully active powered up mode, wherein: the main event processor switches from the dormant mode to the fully active mode in response to the event signal.
US08934005B2
A system and method that measures an optical focus of a distant optical imaging system (EYE), in particular the ocular accommodation of a distant human subject. A luminous pattern of light (P1, A1) is projected by a projector (P) in focus (A2) at a known focal plane (FPL1) in front of the distant optical imaging system (EYE), and an image of the reflection of the pattern (A3) on a sensor surface of the distant optical imaging system (EYE), for instance the retina of an eye, is recorded by a camera (CAM) having an optical axis (AXCAM) coinciding at least partly with or situated close to the optical axis (AXP) of the projection device (P). The sharpness of the luminous pattern (A3) reflected from the sensor surface (retina) is determined.
US08933987B2
A contents reproduction device can concurrently switch a video image and a graphics image from 2D to 3D. A contents reproduction device includes a program execution unit that outputs a graphics image used for 2D to a left graphics plane and outputs a graphics image used for 3D to left and right graphics planes; an AV reproduction unit outputs a video image used for 2D to the left video plane and outputs a video image used for 3D to the left and right video planes; and a switch unit outputs a first synthesized image of images stored at the left video plane and the left graphics plane at the 2D reproduction time and switches to output a second synthesized image of images stored at the right video plane and the right graphics plane and the first synthesized image at the 3D reproduction time.
US08933980B2
A light scanning unit and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus are provided. The light scanning unit includes a light source unit for emitting a light beam, a light deflector for scanning and deflecting the light beam, an imaging optical system having an imaging lens for imaging the scanned and deflected light beam, and first and second reflection members arranged on an optical path, a housing, and first and second assembly members for pressing and fixing the first and second reflection members on the housing. The assembly members press and fix the reflection members on the housing by pressing the reflection members in a direction in which curvature of a scanning line due to the inclination of the first reflection member and curvature of a scanning line due to the inclination of the second reflection member are offset with each other.
US08933968B2
An entertainment device generates a composite image with a combiner that combines camera-captured images with a computer-generated image of an object resting on a virtual surface. The device also includes a detector that detects image movement in the captured images in one or more contact point regions corresponding to image positions at which the object contacts the virtual surface. The device further comprises an initiator for initiating movement of the object to a new position with respect to the virtual surface in response to detected motion in the contact point regions. The detector detects whether a first image area corresponding to a captured image feature is greater than a predetermined proportion of a second image area corresponding to a full field of view of the camera. If the first image area is greater than the predetermined proportion, the initiator initiates movement of the object to an avoidance position.
US08933961B2
A video processing system may include a video ingest module for receiving a plurality of georeferenced video feeds each including a sequence of video frames and initial geospatial metadata associated therewith, and each georeferenced video feed having a respective different geospatial accuracy level associated therewith. The system may further include a video processor coupled to the video ingest module and configured to perform image registration among the plurality of georeferenced video feeds, and generate corrected geospatial metadata for at least one of the georeferenced video feeds based upon the initial geospatial metadata, the image registration and the different geospatial accuracy levels.
US08933959B2
Display devices and systems are configured with display panels substantially comprising one of several embodiments of three primary color or multi-primary color subpixel repeating groups that are particularly suitable for directional display devices which produce at least two images simultaneously, such as autostereoscopic three-dimensional display devices or multi-view devices. Input image data indicating an image is rendered to a device configured with one of the illustrated subpixel repeating groups using a subpixel rendering operation.
US08933958B2
Embodiments of enhanced user interface elements in ambient light are described. Sensor inputs can be received from light sensors that detect ambient light proximate an integrated display of a portable device. A determination is made that the ambient light detracts from the visibility of user interface elements displayed in a user interface on the integrated display. Display properties of graphic components of a user interface element are interpolated through a light range from approximately complete darkness to full sunlight, and the graphic components of a user interface element can be modified based on interpolating the display properties within the light range to enhance the visibility of the user interface element for display in the ambient light.
US08933954B2
In general, aspects of this disclosure describe a compiler for allocation of physical registers for storing constituent scalar values of a non-scalar value. In some example, the compiler, executing on a processor, may receive an instruction for operation on a non-scalar value. The compiler may divide the instruction into a plurality of instructions for operation on constituent scalar values of the non-scalar value. The compiler may allocate a plurality of physical registers to store the constituent scalar values.
US08933951B2
Techniques are described that track the lines and pixels in a frame buffer in the host system that are being modified and transmit these modified scan lines and modified pixel locations to the self refresh display instead of entire contents of the frame buffer. The graphics adapter informs the self refresh display of the modified scan lines or pixel information and then sends the pixel data over the communications channel to the display. Custom codes can be used to identify and transmit modified scan lines and pixels to the self refresh display logic.
US08933950B2
When a display target determination unit determines image data to be displayed, a reproduction control unit identifies the type of the image data to be displayed. The reproduction control unit divides the region of a display buffer according to the identified type. While an image display control unit displays an image, on a display device, by using image data stored in a spare buffer, a decoding execution unit decodes said image data and stores the decoded image data in a divided region of the display buffer.
US08933942B2
Embodiments describe herein provide an apparatus, a computer readable medium and a method for simultaneously processing tasks within an APD. The method includes processing a first task within an APD. The method also includes reducing utilization of the APD by the first task to facilitate simultaneous processing of the second task, such that the utilization remains below a threshold.
US08933939B2
A method and apparatus for evaluating attention degree in 3D virtual world are provided, the 3D virtual world comprising at least one virtual object and at least one avatar controlled by user, the at least one avatar having corresponding avatar view field. The method comprises: obtaining geometrical information about the avatar view field and geometrical information about the virtual object; determining the association between the avatar view field and the virtual object based on the geometrical information; evaluating attention degree of the virtual object based on the association; and providing evaluation result on attention degree of the virtual object. Corresponding apparatus is also provided. The above method and apparatus have provided attention degree related statistic collection and search feature for the virtual world.
US08933937B2
A graph processing module is described for producing a visualization of a layered graph. The graph processing module operates by: bundling edges in the layered graph to produce respective edge bundles; ordering the edges associated with the edge bundles to reduce edge crossings; straightening the edges; and separating the edges in the edges bundles with respect to each other. The graph processing module can operate on a layered graph produced by the Sugiyama algorithm or some other technique, reducing clutter in the layered graph and thus improving a user's understanding of the layered graph.
US08933928B2
New views of a 2D image are generated by identifying an object class within the image, such as through a face detector. The face is then fitted to a model face by means of an AAM, and the results extended to a fitted 3D polygon mesh face. A boundary perimeter with predefined anchor points and a predefined triangulation with the 3D polygon mesh is defined a predefined depth distance from the depth center of known landmarks within the 3D polygon mesh face. By rotating the 3D polygon mesh face relative to the boundary perimeter, which may follow the perimeter of the input image, new views of the input image are generated.
US08933924B2
A display device includes: a display section including a plurality of pixels, the display section allocating N-number of perspective images to the pixels to display the N-number of perspective images, where N is an integer representing number of the perspective images; a display drive circuit cyclically changing a correspondence relationship between the perspective images and the pixels from one to another of first to Mth states, where M is an integer representing number of the states; a plurality of selectors each selecting any from among traveling angle directions of a perspective image from the pixels; and a selector drive circuit controlling positions of the selectors to be cyclically changed from one to another of first to Mth states, the selector drive circuit operating in synchronization with the display drive circuit. A relationship 0
US08933910B2
An information input apparatus includes: a touch pad; a touch information detecting unit which detects touch information that is information resulting from an operator contacting the touch sensor with a finger; a touch operation start position detecting unit which detects, using the touch information, a touch operation start position that is a start position of a touch operation performed by the operator; a touch operation recognition condition storage unit which stores a plurality of touch operation recognition conditions each for recognizing one of types of touch operation, in association with each of touch operation start positions; and a touch recognizing unit, which recognizes the touch operation, using the touch operation recognition conditions stored in association with the touch operation start position detected by the touch operation start position detecting unit, to determine a type of the touch operation.
US08933904B2
A transaction automation and archival system is provided for controlling, real-time logging, and archiving complex commercial transactions such as the purchase and financing of an automobile. An electronic contract disclosure unit or ECDU includes a digitizing video display for imaging the various documents involved in the transaction and a digitizer for allowing participants to sign, indicate choices, and otherwise interact directly on documents and images presented on the display. A computer controls the progress of the transaction, controlling, for example, the order of presentation of documents to a vehicle purchaser, receiving signatures on the displayed documents, offering choices of various packages to the purchaser, and insuring that the transaction is carried out properly. The transaction is logged for future review which may include a video record. One or more fingerprint readers allow participants to select between options while simultaneously verifying the identity of the individual making the selection.
US08933901B2
A method and system for enabling a near field communication antenna to be disposed adjacent to electrodes of a touch sensing device, the near field communication antenna being operated, and the magnetic field inductance and electric field coupling between the electrodes and the near field communication antenna being minimized in order to substantially reduce or eliminate induced currents on the electrodes.
US08933899B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors in or on a stylus, the stylus including one or more electrodes and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic for wirelessly transmitting signals to a device through a touch sensor of the device. The method includes generating a carrier signal and modulating the carrier signal to communicate the sensor data and wirelessly transmitting from the stylus to the device the carrier signal as modulated through the touch sensor of the device.
US08933895B2
A display device with a touch detection function includes a plurality of common drive electrodes arranged side by side to extend in one direction, a display element performing display, based on a pixel signal and a display drive signal, a touch detection element of electrostatic capacitance type detecting an external proximity object based on a touch detection drive signal with an amplitude larger than that of the display drive signal, and a scan drive section performing first scan drive and second scan drive, the first scan drive allowing the plurality of common drive electrodes to be sequentially supplied with the display drive signal in a time-divisional manner, and the second scan drive allowing the plurality of common drive electrodes to be sequentially supplied with the touch detection drive signal in a time-divisional manner.
US08933891B2
A terminal and a method of controlling the terminal are provided. The method of controlling a terminal receives a touch input while performing real-time communication, and transmits the input data to another party's terminal. Therefore, while performing real-time communication with another party, an operation of user may be transmitted to another party's terminal. Further, after the operation of the user is transmitted to another party's terminal, operation of another party may be fed back from another party's terminal.
US08933888B2
Some embodiments provide a meta touch interface (MTI) with multiple position indicators with each position indicator operating as a separate pointing tool that can be activated (i) using taps on a touchpad or other touch sensitive surface or (ii) by pressing certain keyboard keys. The MT pointer allows for adjacent UI elements to be selected without having to reposition the MT pointer for each selection or activation. Some embodiments provide a multi-device UI that comprises at least two UIs, wherein the first UI is presented on an essentially horizontal plane that is aligned with operational focus and the second UI that is presented on an essentially vertical plane that is aligned with visual focus of the user. Some embodiments provide a precision pointer that includes an adjustable magnified region to better present underlying on-screen content, thereby allowing the user to more precisely position the pointer.
US08933884B2
In a motion capture system, a unitary input is provided to an application based on detected movement and/or location of a group of people. Audio information from the group can also be used as an input. The application can provide real-time feedback to the person or group via a display and audio output. The group can control the movement of an avatar in a virtual space based on the movement of each person in the group, such as in a steering or balancing game. To avoid a discontinuous or confusing output by the application, missing data can be generated for a person who is occluded or partially out of the field of view. A wait time can be set for activating a new person and deactivating a currently-active person. The wait time can be adaptive based on a first detected position or a last detected position of the person.
US08933867B2
An organic light-emitting substrate includes a base substrate, a gate line, a data line, a bias line, an organic light-emitting diode, a switching transistor, a driving transistor and a repair line. The bias line is spaced apart from the gate line and the data line. The organic light-emitting diode includes a pixel electrode, a common electrode and an organic light-emitting part. The switching transistor is connected to the gate line and the data line. The driving transistor is connected to the bias line, the pixel electrode and the switching transistor. The repair line is formed from a pixel metal layer that is identical to the pixel electrode to be spaced apart from the pixel electrode, and is formed along the first direction to be overlapped with the gate line. Therefore, the repair line may repair electric defects of the gate line.
US08933866B2
A multiple pixel display and method of driving same. Each pixel in the display has a light emitting element and a drive current controller. A control terminal of the drive current controller receives an intensity control input and drives the light emitting element with an amount of electrical current based upon the intensity control input. Each pixel also has a voltage storage device that is charged with a programmed voltage between with a first terminal that is electrically coupled to the control terminal, and a second terminal that is electrically opposite the first terminal of the voltage storage device. An intensity reduction input of each pixel is electrically coupled to the second terminal of the voltage storage device and to respective intensity reduction inputs of other pixels within the plurality of pixels.
US08933865B2
Provided is a display device that can sufficiently secure a period for threshold value detection with a simple configuration and that can inhibit occurrence of luminance non-uniformity. The display device includes a plurality of pixel circuits; a gate driver circuit connected to a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of control lines; and a power control circuit connected to a plurality of power lines through a common power line. Each pixel circuit includes an organic EL element, a plurality of TFTs, and a capacitor. During each frame period, after initialization and threshold value detection are collectively performed on a plurality of rows, writing and light emission are performed sequentially on a row-by-row basis. Here, in a preceding frame (first frame) of two consecutive frame periods, writing is performed in order from the first row to the nth row (ascending order). In a subsequent frame (second frame) of the two frame periods, writing is performed in order from the nth row to the first row (descending order).
US08933863B2
A portable unit is for video communication to select a user name in a user name network. A transceiver wirelessly accesses a communication network through a wireless connection to a general purpose node coupled to the communication network. A user interface can receive user input to log on to a user name network through the communication network. The user name network has a plurality of user names, at least one of the plurality of user names is associated with a remote portable unit, logged on to the user name network and available for video communication.
US08933861B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a stereoscopic image display and a method for driving the same. Stereoscopic image display includes a data display unit including a first scan transistor, an active black stripe unit including a second transistor and a third transistor, and a shift register sequentially supplying the gate pulse to each of (2n−1)th gate lines and (2n)th gate lines, where n is a natural number. The first scan transistor supplies a data voltage to a pixel electrode in response to a gate pulse of a (2n−1)th gate line, the second transistor supplies the data voltage to the pixel electrode in response to the gate pulse of the (2n−1)th gate line, and the third transistor supplies a low logic level voltage or a common voltage to the pixel electrode in response to a gate pulse of a (2n)th gate line.
US08933855B2
Various exemplary embodiments relate to an antenna feed configured to receive a signal having a wavelength. They antenna feed may include a cylindrical body and four pin groups. Each pin group may include two pins in close proximity extending across the center of the cylindrical body. One of the two pins may be rotated approximately 22.5° from the angle of the other pin. Each pin group may be spaced approximately one quarter of a wavelength away from each other, and may be rotated approximately 22.5° from the angle of the previous pin group.
US08933847B2
A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing carrying a circuit board and wireless communications circuitry. An antenna assembly is carried by the housing and coupled to the wireless communications circuitry. The antenna assembly may include an electrically conductive base having a rectangular shape with opposing first and second ends and opposing first and second sides extending between the first and second ends. The electrically conductive base may have an elongate slot therein extending within a medial portion thereof and contained within the opposing first and second ends and the opposing first and second sides. The antenna assembly also may include an electrically conductive feed arm extending outwardly from the first side of the electrically conductive base adjacent the first end thereof. The electrically conductive feed arm may have a distal end with an antenna feed defined thereon.
US08933846B2
A portable electronic device is capable of transforming into first and second states, and is equipped with an antenna disposed such that in the first state the antenna is near a magnetic field-shielding part and communication is not possible and in the second state the antenna is separated from the magnetic field-shielding part and communication is possible. This portable electronic device is equipped with: an operation-unit-side chassis; a display-unit-side chassis; a connecting part that connects the operation-unit-side chassis and the display-unit-side chassis such that transformation to the first state and to the second state are possible; a magnetic field-shielding part disposed in the operation-unit-side chassis; and an antenna that is disposed in the display-unit-side chassis.
US08933844B2
There is provided an antenna pattern frame according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, including: a film radiator that includes a protective film supporting one surface or both surfaces of a radiator provided with an antenna pattern part; and a radiator frame that is an injection molded part to which the film radiator is fixed and embeds the antenna pattern part in the electronic device case.
US08933831B2
The influence of a jitter of a sampling clock of an analog-to-digital converter is digitally corrected at low power consumption. The sampling clock of the analog-to-digital converter is generated by a phase locked loop (PLL) using a reference clock, which has a lower frequency and lower jitter than the sampling clock, as a source oscillation. A time-to-digital converter (TDC) converts a timing error at a timing where the sampling clock and the reference clock are synchronized with each other into a digital value. A timing error at a sampling timing where the reference clock is not present is generated by interpolating a detected timing error. Thus, a jitter value of the sampling clock at each sampling timing is obtained. A sampling voltage error is calculated from the jitter value and the output of the analog-to-digital converter is digitally corrected.
US08933823B2
To obtain greater transcoding efficiency, a node administrator (160) distributes digital files among transcoding nodes (120, 140 and 190) based on a comparison of a transcoding profile for each digital file and the transcoding histories of the transcoding nodes. In this way, the node administrator (160) will select the transcoding node best able to undertake transcoding, taking into account the characteristics of the file to be transcoded.
US08933820B1
A method of designating and communicating a desired LZ to an aircraft includes outputting a coded laser signal at or near a desired landing zone to indicate a location of the desired landing zone. The coded laser signal is received by an aircraft that desires to land at the desired landing zone. The location of the desired landing zone and an ingress path from a current location of the aircraft to the desired landing zone are determined by a processor provided with the aircraft.
US08933813B2
An interactive electronic device shell and light source may enable personalization and increased functionality of an electronic device. The shell may at least partially cover a light source and attach to an electronic device. The shell includes at least some transparent or translucent portions (e.g., light stencils) that enable light from a matrix of the light source to emit through the shell, thus causing a display of light from the shell. In some aspects, the electronic device may be linked with the shell and/or the light source to control light emission through the shell. In various aspects, an illumined portion of the shell may have significance, such as revealing an artistic design or indicating a message based on activity of the electronic device.
US08933812B2
A signaling device that indicates actuation of a remotely located mousetrap comprises a base that supports the trap, a power supply, and a mounted electrical interface switch. The switch is held open by a non-conductive interrupter positioned between the switch contacts and connected to the bail of the trap. The bail dislodges the interrupter and closes its switch when the trap is actuated, producing a visual flashing light at the users location. The signaling device can be tested by a test actuator switch located at the users location. A tether clips the signaling device to the trap.
US08933809B2
A measurement device is provided with a sensor for detecting body motion of a subject and a CPU for executing processing for generating display data. The CPU includes a first discrimination unit for discriminating a sleeping state of the subject for each unit period, based on a sensor signal output from the sensor, a second discrimination unit for discriminating a level of the sleeping state of a predetermined period consisting of a predetermined number of continuous unit periods, based on the sleeping state for each unit period, a decision unit for deciding a display mode for each predetermined period, according to the level of the sleeping state of the predetermined period, and a generation unit for generating display data for displaying the level of the sleeping state of the subject in the predetermined period on a display device with a graph along the time axis.
US08933800B1
The third brake light accessory for use with a classic car includes a housing that resembles the front end or grille of a classic car, and which is placed against an inner surface of a rear window to operate as a third brake light. The third brake light accessory may further include turn signal lights that work in conjunction with the turn signal lights of the respective vehicle. The third brake light accessory is ideally designed for use with a particular make and model of a classic car, and which has a housing resembling the front portion of or grille of the respective vehicle, while acting as a third brake light.
US08933793B2
An active contactless information storage device includes: an operation controller that determines whether mode information of the active contactless information storage device indicates a mode in which the device communicates with a reader/writer device; a carrier-sense controller that determines whether a first frequency in a first period and determines whether a second frequency in a second period, when the mode information of the active contactless information storage device indicates the mode in which the device communicates with the reader/writer device; and a command processor that performs communication with the reader/writer device when the carrier sense controller determines that the first frequency is sensed; wherein, when the mode information of the active contactless information storage device does not indicate the mode in which the active contactless information storage device communicates with the reader/writer device, the carrier-sense controller waits for a predetermined amount of time.
US08933778B2
Systems and methods may provide for determining a first proximity status of a first mobile device with respect to a vehicle, and determining a second proximity status of a second mobile device with respect to the vehicle. Additionally, an accessibility of one or more functions of the vehicle may be configured based at least in part on the first proximity status and the second proximity status. In one example, a policy associated with one or more of the first mobile device and the second mobile device may be identified, wherein the accessibility is configured further based on the policy.
US08933769B2
Provided are three-dimensional microstructures and their methods of formation. The microstructures are formed by a sequential build process and include microstructural elements which are affixed to one another. The microstructures find use, for example, in coaxial transmission lines for electromagnetic energy.
US08933760B2
Clock synchronization error is corrected or minimized by fitting a parabolic f(T) function to the crystal's data, and compensating for sampling period drift in an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) at various temperatures.
US08933758B1
A bridge-stabilized oscillator with feedback control includes an RF amplifier connected to a first bridge path and a second bridge path. Each first and second bridge path has a variable gain amplifier to receive and modify the respective signals to maintain the resistance of a resistor in the first bridge path, so the resonator in the second bridge path oscillates. A power detector provides a control signal to each of the variable gain amplifiers to maintain the phase of the output with respect to the input and constrain the gain in each of the first and second bridge paths.
US08933751B1
A first trimming capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal is coupled in parallel between a first terminal and a second terminal of a first capacitor. The first trimming capacitor comprises a first plurality of switched capacitors having different capacitances coupled in parallel. Each of the switched capacitors comprises a switch capacitor and a switch coupled in series. In an illustrative application the first capacitor and the first trimming capacitor are coupled between an output terminal of an operational amplifier (op-amp) and an inverting input terminal of the op-amp. A second capacitor and a second trimming capacitor similar to the first capacitor and the first trimming capacitor are coupled between an input and the inverting input terminal of the op-amp.
US08933740B2
A semi-dynamic flip-flop is provided. A selecting circuit selects an input signal from a data signal and a test signal. A charging/discharging circuit charges/discharges an intermediate node according to the input signal, a clock signal and a modulation signal. A first storage circuit stores electric potential of the intermediate node. An adjusting circuit generates an adjustment signal according to the clock signal and the potential of the intermediate node. An output signal adjusts electric potential of an output node according to the clock signal and the potential of the intermediate node. A second storage circuit stores the potential of the output node. A reset circuit sets or resets the potential of the output node. A switch, connected between the adjusting circuit and the charging/discharging circuit, is turned on when the semi-dynamic flip-flop is in a normal operation mode.
US08933737B1
A variable frequency clock generator. In aspects, a clock generator includes a droop detector circuit configured to monitor a voltage supply to an integrated circuit. If the supply voltage falls below a specific threshold, a droop voltage flag may be set such that a frequency-locked loop is triggered into a droop voltage mode for handling the voltage droop at the supply voltage. In response, a current control signal that is input to an oscillator that generates a system clock signal is reduced by sinking current away from the current control signal to the oscillator. This results in an immediate reduction on the system clock frequency. Such a state remains until the voltage droop has dissipated when the current path is removed for sinking some of the current.
US08933721B2
An embodiment method of diagnosing a power source arrangement includes a plurality of n power sources connected in series between output terminals, wherein n≧2. At least two different groups of power sources are selected from the power source arrangement. A voltage of each of the at least two different groups is measured between the output terminals. During the measurement of the voltage of one group, the power sources of the power source arrangement that do not belong to the one group are bypassed. The at least two measured voltages obtained through measuring the voltage of each of the at least two different groups or at least two voltages that are dependent on these at least two measured voltages are compared.
US08933716B2
A main power supply supplies a power supply voltage to a power supply terminal of a DUT. A control pattern generator generates a control pattern including a pulse sequence. A compensation circuit intermittently injects a compensation current to the power supply terminal of the DUT via a path different from that of the main power supply. A switch is arranged between an output terminal of a voltage source and the power supply terminal of the DUT, and is turned on and off according to the control pattern.
US08933709B2
A method for determining residual coupling of an inductive, conductivity sensor, in which the conductivity sensor is surrounded by a measured medium and an equivalent impedance of the medium is calibrated with a variable compensation impedance. The variable compensation impedance and the equivalent impedance of the medium act on a measuring coil of the conductivity sensor with a phase shift of 180°. In order to be able to perform a measuring of the residual coupling with a high accuracy of measurement at any time during operation of the conductivity sensor, the variable compensation impedance is varied until an output voltage of the measuring coil of the conductivity sensor assumes a minimum voltage; wherein the minimum voltage corresponds to the residual coupling of the inductive, conductivity sensor.
US08933704B2
A device for testing capacitive loads of a power supply includes a controller, a power supply switching circuit, a capacitive load switching circuit, and a current sampling circuit. The power supply switching circuit selects one of output voltages of the power supply to be electronically connected to the capacitive load switching circuit and the current sampling circuit. The current sampling circuit samples an output current of one output of the power supply selected by the controller. The controller turns on and off switches of the capacitive load switching circuit for matching an output current of the power supply with a reference current until the output current equals to the reference current. The controller outputs a total magnitude of the capacitive loads.
US08933697B2
The use of selective RF excitation is discussed. A spectrally selective, large tip angle RF pulse is used to detect a weak signal from a first chemical species. A non-selective, small tip angle pulse is used in measuring a signal from a second chemical species in exchange with the first chemical species. The acquired resonance data provides maybe used to measure the ratio of the spectrally distinct species in exchange.
US08933692B2
An output signal V1=sin θ is output from a first magnetic sensor and an output signal V2=cos(θ+α) is output from a second magnetic sensor. An output signal correction unit in a rotation angle computing device corrects the output signal V2 from the second magnetic sensor to an output signal V2′ (=cos θ) so that a positional phase difference (90°+α) between the magnetic sensors and is made equal to a target phase difference of 90°. A rotation angle computing unit computes the rotation angle θ of a rotor based on the corrected signal V2′ (=cos θ) and the other output signal V1 (=sin θ).
US08933688B2
A fast AC voltage detector includes a bridge rectifier connected to an AC power source, a threshold detector connected to an output of the bridge rectifier, a voltage isolation circuit connected to the threshold detector, a continuous voltage averager connected to an output of the voltage isolation circuit, and a Schmidt trigger connected to the continuous voltage averager. The Schmidt trigger is operable to output a first voltage level when a load is preset on said AC power source and a second voltage level when no load is present on said AC power source.
US08933687B2
A device for attaching to an electric power line conductor includes a housing with an opening for accepting the power line conductor. The housing is configured to be grounded to the power line conductor. At least one magnetic core is configured to surround the power line conductor and power a power supply electronics module. A solar sensing element is configured to be mounted horizontally on the housing.
US08933685B2
A protection system and method for protecting a direct current to direct current voltage converter (DC-DC converter) from a potentially damaging excessive output current due to exposure to a relatively strong magnetic field is disclosed. The system includes a detector circuit configured to monitor a signal characteristic of the DC-DC converter, and a linear regulator having an output coupled to the load output of the DC-DC converter. The system further includes a control system configured to disable a load output of the DC-DC converter and enable the output of the linear regulator when the detector detects that the signal characteristic has moved outside a predetermined threshold range. Moreover, the control system is further configured to disable the output of the linear regulator after a predetermined time period, and enable the load output of the DC-DC converter after the predetermined time period.
US08933682B2
A bandgap voltage reference circuit comprising: a first P-N junction circuit generating a first voltage which changes according to a first characteristic; a second P-N junction circuit generating a second voltage which changes according to a second characteristic different from the first characteristic; an amplifier receiving the first and second voltages at a pair of input terminals and changing the amount of an output current provided from a high-voltage power supply to an output terminal according to a difference voltage between the first and second voltages, wherein an output voltage at the output terminal is provided to the first and second P-N junction circuits; and an output current controller causing the amplifier to provide the output current to the output terminal regardless of the difference voltage when the output voltage equals to or is smaller than a threshold voltage.
US08933667B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling the connection of a plurality of battery packs including a switching unit provided on a charge/discharge path of each battery pack to selectively open and close the charge/discharge path, a first control unit provided for each battery pack to determine the state of charge (SOC) of each battery pack and control the opening/closing of the switching unit, and a second control unit to receive the determined SOC of each battery pack from the first control unit, group battery packs having a predetermined range of SOCs, select a group containing a largest number of battery packs, connect the battery packs of the selected group in parallel, charge or discharge the parallel-connected battery packs so that a difference in SOC between the parallel-connected battery packs and the non-connected battery pack falls within a predetermined range, and connect the non-connected battery pack thereto in parallel.
US08933659B2
A terminal device including a solar battery panel; a panel temperature-detection unit configured to detect a temperature measured near the solar battery panel; a power generation-state determination unit configured to detect an illuminance measured near the solar battery panel; a battery temperature-detection unit configured to detect a temperature measured near a secondary battery charged through power generated through the solar battery panel; a control unit configured to estimate a change in the temperature detected through the battery temperature-detection unit based on the temperature detected through the panel temperature-detection unit and the illuminance obtained through the power generation-state determination unit, and determine a remaining time when the estimated temperature measured near the secondary battery reaches a temperature at which the charging of the secondary battery is stopped; and a notification unit configured to provide notification about the remaining time determined through the control unit.
US08933655B2
An apparatus for measuring an error in a resolver includes a first calculator that perform an inverse Park transform based on voltages Uq and Ud at an output of PI current regulators, and delivers voltage setpoint signals PWMA, PWMB, PWMC to a power stage via a line on which a DC voltage Ubus-dc is available. The power stage generates a three-phase system of voltages UA, UB, UC for energizing an electric machine. The apparatus also includes a signal processor that provides an angle measurement αm. Based on currents MesIA, MesIB, MesIC of the three phases, and on a rotor angle αr, a second calculator of the device delivers values MesId, MesIq used by the first calculator. A PI voltage regulator delivers an angle αc for correcting the error by regulating a setpoint value for the voltage Ud.
US08933653B2
A motor current detection apparatus in the present invention includes: a current detection unit, a first filter, and a second filter. The detection unit detects a conduction current flowing from a battery to a brushless motor and outputs a conduction current signal corresponding to the detected conduction current. The first filter extracts a first current signal which is included in the conduction current signal outputted from the detection unit and is a signal component in a frequency band equal to or lower than a predetermined first cutoff frequency. The second filter extracts a second current signal which is included in the conduction current signal outputted from the detection unit and is a signal component in a predetermined frequency band within a frequency band equal to or lower than a predetermined second cutoff frequency higher than the first cutoff frequency and having the second cutoff frequency as a maximum value.
US08933652B2
A method of operating a rotor-blade pitch controlling drive of a wind turbine comprising supplying electrical energy to an electrical working load by a primary electrical energy supply, charging an electrical energy storage device by means of a charger, supplying electrical energy to the electrical working load by the electrical energy storage device if the primary electrical supply fails, and temporally disconnecting the electrical energy storage device from the charger in successive intervals, while applying an electric test load to the electrical energy storage device and observing the electrical discharge of the electrical energy storage device.
US08933651B2
The invention comprises a flattened magnet coil system that reduces space between a first magnet turning section and a second magnet turning section in a synchrotron accelerator, which reduces or eliminates need for one or more quadrupole focusing elements in the accelerator. Optionally, a coil, in the flattened magnetic coil system, is wrapped about a central metal member between yoke members of a magnet. The coil has a first width and a first thickness along the length of the magnet and a second width and a second thickness along the end of the magnet where the first width is larger than the second width and the second thickness is larger than the first thickness allowing a smaller distance between the first magnet turning section and the second magnet turning section while maintaining current flow in the coil.
US08933648B1
According to systems and methods of this disclosure, a controller may be configured to: operate in a first compatibility mode of operation, determine from an input signal of the lamp assembly during operation in the first compatibility mode whether the first compatibility mode of operation provides compatibility between the lamp assembly and a power infrastructure to which it is coupled, select the first compatibility mode of operation from a plurality of modes of operation as a compatibility mode responsive to determining that the first compatibility mode of operation provides compatibility between the lamp assembly and a power infrastructure to which it is coupled, and select a second compatibility mode of operation from the plurality of modes of operation as the compatibility mode responsive to determining that the first compatibility mode of operation does not provide compatibility between the lamp assembly and the power infrastructure to which it is coupled.
US08933643B2
One embodiment of a display backlight driver integrated circuit can be configured for operation in at least two different ways. A first method transfers data from an EEPROM to hardware registers prior to regular operation. A second method also transfers data from an EEPROM to registers. However, hardware registers can be overwritten with data accepted from a control bus, prior to regular operation. A keyboard driver IC can detect the presence or absence of a cable to an LED. If the cable is absent, the driver IC will not supply power for the LED. One embodiment of a keyboard and display backlight control system can be configured to allow substantially independent operation.
US08933634B2
A distributed system for driving strings of series-connected LEDs for backlighting, display and lighting applications includes multiple intelligent satellite LED driver ICs connected to a an interface IC via serial bus. The interface IC translates information obtained from a host microcontroller into instructions for the satellite LED driver ICs pertaining to such parameters as duty factor, current levels, phase delay and fault settings. Fault conditions in the LED driver ICs can be transmitted back to the interface IC. An analog current sense feedback system which also links the LED driver ICs determines the supply voltage for the LED strings.
US08933633B1
A lamp including a primary light source and a secondary light source, and a secondary light source control circuit configured to provide an operating voltage to the secondary light source. The secondary light source control circuit including a resistance element having an initial resistance which changes in response to being exposed to a temperature above a predetermined threshold. The secondary light source control circuit including a charging branch resistance-capacitance time constant that is configured to change with a change in the resistance element resistance.
US08933617B2
A spark plug (20) for igniting a mixture of fuel and air of an internal combustion engine comprises a center electrode (22) and a ground electrode (24). At least one of the electrodes (22, 24) includes a body portion (28, 30) formed of thermally conductive material and a firing tip (32, 34) disposed on the body portion (28, 30). The firing tip (32, 34) includes a ceramic material, providing an exposed firing surface (36, 38). The ceramic material is an electrically conductive, monolithic ceramic material. Examples of preferred ceramic materials include titanium diboride, silicon carbide, ternary carbide, and ternary nitride. The ceramic material can also include oxides, borides, nitrides, carbides, silicides, or MAX phases.
US08933611B2
Electricity generated by a vibration power generator 200 can be extracted efficiently by providing the vibration power generator 200, a rectifier circuit bridge 205, an output controlling circuit 201, a load detecting circuit 202 and a frequency detecting circuit 204 and detecting a frequency of the vibration power generator 200 and then controlling an impedance of an output controlling circuit 101 depending on the frequency.
US08933605B2
A brushless motor has a stator and a rotor rotatably installed inside of the stator. The stator includes a stator core with teeth protruding inwardly and windings wound on the teeth. The rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core fixed on the shaft, and a ring magnet fixed to the circumferential outer surface of the rotor core. The magnet includes a plurality of magnetic poles radially magnetized so that north poles and south poles are arranged alternately in the circumferential direction. Boundary lines between magnetic poles are skewed by an angle relative to an axis of the shaft.
US08933601B2
A motor includes a rotary shaft and a motor housing internally housing the rotary shaft. The motor housing is provided with a mounting hole in a position corresponding to an end of the rotary shaft. A detection rotor is fixed to the end of the rotary shaft. A detection stator includes a detection part made of resin into a plate-like shape having a surface on which a planar coil is placed, an outer peripheral wall axially extending from an outer circumferential edge of the detection part, and a flange radially extending from the outer peripheral wall. The detection stator is placed so that a surface of the detection part faces the detection rotor and the surface of the detection part faces to the inside of the motor housing in the mounting hole, and fixed to outside of the motor housing with a screw to the flange.
US08933597B2
Disclose herein is a linear vibration motor including: a stator part including a coil having a power applied from the outside thereto to form a magnetic field; a vibrator part including a magnet facing the coil; and an elastic member having one end coupled to the stator part and the other end coupled to the vibrator part to elastically support linear vibration of the vibrator part, wherein the stator part includes: a cover member including a set fixing part extended to one side thereof to thereby be fixedly coupled to a set component and an extended plate extended to the other side thereof; an upper case coupled to an upper portion of the cover member so as to receive the vibrator part therein; a printed circuit board having the coil coupled thereto and coupled to the cover member and an upper portion of the extended plate; and a contact part fixedly coupled to an upper portion of the printed circuit board of which a portion is coupled to the extended plate.
US08933593B2
A distance measuring optoelectronic safety sensor (10) for monitoring a monitored zone (18) having at least one protected zone (48) is provided, wherein the safety sensor (10) has a light receiver (24) for generating a received signal on light reception from the monitored zone (18) as well as an evaluation unit (30, 32) which is designed to detect objects (52) in the monitored zone (18) with the aid of the received signal and to determine their position, including their distance from the safety sensor (10), and to output a securing signal on recognition of an unpermitted object intrusion (52) into a protected zone (48). In this respect, the evaluation unit (30, 36) is designed to determine and output the distance of detected objects (52) from the protected zone (48).
US08933590B2
A low-power high-speed asynchronous inductive-coupling transmission and reception technology is provided, in which a current signal of a single pulse is made to flow through a transmitting coil, and a voltage signal of a double pulse induced in an inductively-coupled receiving coil can be received asynchronously. A transmitting circuit for performing non-contact proximity communication adopts a configuration in which current flows through a first coil in a first direction for each change of a logical value of transmit data. A receiving circuit connected to a second coil coupled inductively to the first coil employs a comparator which determines an induced voltage of a double pulse induced in the second coil by current in the first direction and outputs a unipolar single pulse signal. Whenever the single pulse signal outputted by the comparator is inputted, the receiving circuit inverts the output in a sequential circuit and reproduces receive data.
US08933589B2
A system for wireless energy transfer includes a circuit for wireless transmission of energy, including a first, tunable resonator circuit including a transmitter coil and a variable capacitance device connected in shunt across the transmitter coil. Also disclosed is a circuit for wireless reception of energy including a tunable second resonator circuit including a receiver coil inductively coupled to the transmitter coil and a variable capacitance device connected in shunt across the receiver coil. Also disclosed is an arrangement for wireless energy transmission and reception that foregoes the necessity for separate circuits for DC rectification at the reception end of the arrangement. Also disclosed a system for wireless energy transfer where the system includes a tunable resonator circuit embedded in a surface such as piece of furniture, counter, etc., e.g., a table.
US08933585B2
The present disclosure is directed to providing voltage via a power distribution system. A computing device receives delivered voltage information from metering devices metering power distributed to sites by a controller. The computing device determines a number of metering devices to use to generate a control signal to control operation of the controller. The number can be determined based on the delivered voltage information for each site. The computing device selects, based on the delivered voltage information, at least the determined number of metering devices to form a subset of metering devices for a subset of sites. The computing device uses the delivered voltage information of the subset of metering devices to generate the control signal. The control signal can control operation of the at least one controller distributing power to the plurality of sites.
US08933578B2
A wind turbine having one or more magnets for reducing friction between the turbine support and a turbine rotor. The reduction of friction between the turbine rotor and the turbine support allows for an increase in energy production and scale of the wind turbines. The magnet configuration employs a ring of cylindrically-shaped magnets at the bottom and opposed by a corresponding number of generally rectangular-shaped magnets. Bearing magnets are also employed for axial stabilization.
US08933576B2
A drivetrain for a wind turbine is provided. The drivetrain may include a first stage speed increaser adapted for low speed operations, and a second stage speed increaser adapted for moderate and high speed operations. The first stage speed increaser may include at least one drive wheel being rotatably driven by a main shaft of the wind turbine and at least one driven wheel in frictional communication with the drive wheel. The second stage speed increaser may include a gearbox coupled to each driven wheel and a generator coupled to each gearbox.
US08933574B2
Apparatus and method is disclosed for generating usable power derived from oscillatory hydro-kinetic energy available in the movement of waves having a given height and being spaced apart by a predetermined distance at the surface of a body of water. Apparatus and method is disclosed for generating usable power derived from hydro-kinetic energy available in a body of water moving in at least one direction of movement, the at least one direction being substantially horizontal or substantially vertical. Apparatus and method is disclosed for generating usable power derived from hydro-gravitational forces available at a site having a source of water at a first elevation higher than a second elevation at a selected location where the usable power is to be derived.
US08933573B2
The present invention relates to a wave power generator, and more specifically, to a wave power generator that can promote more aggressive investment and research activities by overcoming the uncertainties of natural environment through the relatively high energy conversion efficiency thereof, and enhance the practicality and the value thereof as a clean energy source by increasing the investment-to-efficiency rate. To this end, the present invention comprises: one or more raft vessels, each having in a central point thereof a node that moves freely according to wave height and leads a flow of fluid inside of the raft vessel with a constant water level; and an energy generating unit connected in series to a vertical axis C on a cross section of the node of each raft vessel and configured to generate energy using kinetic energy of the raft vessel.
US08933570B2
A Three-Dimensional Structure (3DS) Memory allows for physical separation of the memory circuits and the control logic circuit onto different layers such that each layer may be separately optimized. One control logic circuit suffices for several memory circuits, reducing cost. Fabrication of 3DS memory involves thinning of the memory circuit to less than 50 μm in thickness and bonding the circuit to a circuit stack while still in wafer substrate form. Fine-grain high density inter-layer vertical bus connections are used. The 3DS memory manufacturing method enables several performance and physical size efficiencies, and is implemented with established semiconductor processing techniques.
US08933568B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a power semiconductor element that is a semiconductor element; bonding parts provided for bonding of an upper surface and a lower surface of the semiconductor element; and metal plates bonded to the power semiconductor element from above and below through the bonding parts, wherein the bonding part includes a mesh metal body disposed between the semiconductor element and the metal plate, and a bonding member in which the mesh metal body is embedded.
US08933564B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations associated with forming a landing structure for a through-silicon via (TSV) using interconnect structures of interconnect layers. In eon embodiment, an apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a device layer disposed on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, the device layer including one or more transistor devices, interconnect layers disposed on the device layer, the interconnect layers including a plurality of interconnect structures and one or more through-silicon vias disposed between the first surface and the second surface, wherein the plurality of interconnect structures include interconnect structures that are electrically coupled with the one or more TSVs and configured to provide one or more corresponding landing structures of the one or more TSVs. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US08933563B2
A three-dimension circuit structure includes a substrate, a first conductive layer, a filled material and a second conductive layer. The substrate has an upper surface and a cavity located at the upper surface. The first conductive layer covers the inside walls of the cavity and protrudes out the upper surface. The filled material fills the cavity and covers the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer covers the filled material and a portion of the first conductive layer, and the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer encapsulate the filled material. The material of the filled material is different from that of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.
US08933561B2
Provided is a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device may include a first semiconductor chip that includes a first through silicon via having a first protrusion height and a second through silicon via having a second protrusion height greater than the first protrusion height which are penetrating at least a portion of the first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor chip may be electrically connected to the first through silicon via, and a third semiconductor chip may be electrically connected to the second through silicon via.
US08933559B2
Disclosed are embodiments of an improved semiconductor wafer structure having protected clusters of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on the back surface and a method of forming the improved semiconductor wafer structure. Also disclosed are embodiments of a semiconductor module with exposed CNTs on the back surface for providing enhanced thermal dissipation in conjunction with a heat sink and a method of forming the semiconductor module using the disclosed semiconductor wafer structure.
US08933556B2
A wiring board includes a laminated body having first and second surfaces and including first, second and third insulation layers in the order of the first, second and third insulation layers from the first surface toward the second surface. The first insulation layer has a first hole which penetrates through the first insulation layer and includes a first conductor made of a plating in the first hole. The second insulation layer has a second hole which penetrates through the second insulation layer and includes a second conductor made of a conductive paste in the second hole. The third insulation layer has a third hole which penetrates through the third insulation layer and includes a third conductor made of a plating in the third hole. The first, second and third conductors are positioned along the same axis and are electrically continuous with each other.
US08933551B2
A package includes an interposer, which includes a first substrate free from through-vias therein, redistribution lines over the first substrate, and a first plurality of connectors over and electrically coupled to the redistribution lines. A first die is over and bonded to the first plurality of connectors. The first die includes a second substrate, and through-vias in the second substrate. A second die is over and bonded to the plurality of connectors. The first die and the second die are electrically coupled to each other through the redistribution lines. A second plurality of connectors is over the first die and the second die. The second plurality of connectors is electrically coupled to the first plurality of connectors through the through-vias in the second substrate.
US08933543B2
A nitride-based semiconductor device of the present invention includes: a nitride-based semiconductor multilayer structure 20 which includes a p-type semiconductor region with a surface 12 being inclined from the m-plane by an angle of not less than 1° and not more than 5°; and an electrode 30 provided on the p-type semiconductor region. The p-type semiconductor region is formed by an AlxInyGazN (where x+y+z=1, x≧0, y≧0, and z≧0) layer 26. The electrode 30 includes a Mg layer 32 and an Ag layer 34 provided on the Mg layer 32. The Mg layer 32 is in contact with the surface 12 of the p-type semiconductor region of the semiconductor multilayer structure 20.
US08933523B2
The present invention discloses a single-chip referenced full-bridge magnetoresistive magnetic-field sensor. The single-chip sensor is a Wheatstone bridge arrangement of magnetoresistive sensing elements and reference elements. The sensing elements and reference elements are formed from either magnetic tunnel junctions or giant magnetoresistive materials. The sensitivity of the reference and sensor elements is controlled through one or a combination of magnetic bias, exchange bias, shielding, or shape anisotropy. Moreover, the bridge output is tuned by setting the ratio of the reference and sensor arm resistance values to a predetermined ratio that optimizes the bridge output for offset and symmetry. The single-chip referenced-bridge magnetic field sensor of the present invention exhibits excellent temperature stability, low offset voltage, and excellent voltage symmetry.
US08933517B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device may include first transistors that include a first gate insulating layer having a first thickness and second transistors include a second gate insulating layer having a second thickness less than the first thickness. At least one of the transistors formed on the first or second gate insulating layers may be directly over a dummy well.
US08933514B2
The orientation polarization (positive and negative) of the Si—N bonds and the Si—O bonds is canceled, thereby enabling to minimize the polarization in a capacitive insulating film. As a result, a silicon oxynitride film with a small voltage secondary coefficient is formed, and is applied as a capacitive insulating film for use in a MIM capacitor. Specifically, the refractive index “n” of the silicon oxynitride film satisfies 1.47≦n≦1.53, for light with a wavelength of 633 nm.
US08933513B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed with a protection device formed of a parasitic bipolar transistor, a parasitic diode and a parasitic resistance and operated at a lowered operating voltage to be capable of improving a blocking capability against an over voltage. The impurity concentration in a semiconductor layer as the base of a parasitic bipolar transistor is lower compared with the impurity concentration of a semiconductor layer of the same conduction type arranged adjacently to the semiconductor layer as the base and to be the anode of a parasitic diode. The lowered impurity concentration is determined to be the concentration for making the parasitic bipolar transistor have a snapback phenomenon occur.
US08933512B2
The present application discloses a MOSFET and a method for manufacturing the same. The MOSFET comprises an SOI wafer, which comprises a bottom semiconductor substrate, a first buried insulating layer on the bottom semiconductor substrate, and a first semiconductor layer on the first buried insulating layer; a source region and a drain region which are formed in a second semiconductor layer over the SOI wafer, wherein there is a second buried insulating layer between the second semiconductor layer and the SOI wafer; a channel region, which is formed in the second semiconductor layer and located between the source region and the drain regions; and a gate stack, which comprises a gate dielectric layer on the second semiconductor layer and a gate conductor on the gate dielectric layer, wherein the MOSFET further comprises a backgate formed in a portion of the first semiconductor substrate below the channel region, the backgate having a non-uniform doping profile, and the second buried insulating layer serving as a gate dielectric layer of the backgate. The MOSFET has an adjustable threshold voltage by changing the polarity of dopants and/or the doping profile in the backgate. Leakage in the semiconductor device can be reduced.
US08933504B2
The invention discloses a semiconductor structure comprising: a substrate, a conductor layer, and a dielectric layer surrounding the conductor layer on the substrate; a first insulating layer covering both of the conductor layer and the dielectric layer; a gate conductor layer formed on the first insulating layer, and a dielectric layer surrounding the gate conductor layer; and a second insulating layer covering both of the gate conductor layer and the dielectric layer surrounding the gate conductor layer; wherein a through hole filled with a semiconductor material penetrates through the gate conductor layer perpendicularly, the bottom of the through hole stops on the conductor layer, and a first conductor plug serving as a drain/source electrode is provided on the top of the through hole; and a second conductor plug serving as a source/drain electrode electrically contacts the conductor layer, and a third conductor plug serving as a gate electrode electrically contacts the gate conductor layer.
US08933488B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus and method involves a channel region, barrier layers separated by the channel region and a dielectric on one of the barrier layers. The barrier layers have band gaps that are different than a band gap of the channel region, and confine both electrons and holes in the channel region. A gate electrode applies electric field to the channel region via the dielectric. In various contexts, the apparatus and method are amenable to implementation for both electron-based and hole-based implementations, such as for nmos, pmos, and cmos applications.
US08933483B2
Provided is a semiconductor device capable of reducing a temperature-dependent variation of a current sense ratio and accurately detecting current In the semiconductor device, at least one of an impurity concentration and a thickness of each semiconductor layer is adjusted such that a value calculated by a following equation is less than a predetermined value: [ ∑ i = 1 n ( R Mi × k Mi ) - ∑ i = 1 n ( R Si × k Si ) ] / ∑ i = 1 n ( R Mi × k Mi ) where a temperature-dependent resistance changing rate of an i-th semiconductor layer (i=1 to n) of the main element domain is RMi; a resistance ratio of the i-th semiconductor layer of the main element domain relative to the entire main element domain is kMi; a temperature-dependent resistance changing rate of the i-th semiconductor layer of the sense element domain is RSi; and a resistance ratio of the i-th semiconductor layer of the sense element domain to the entire sense element domain is kSi.
US08933477B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device. The light emitting device includes a light emitting structure layer including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer, an electrode electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer, an electrode layer under the light emitting structure layer, and a conductive support member under the electrode layer. A channel layer is between the second semiconductor layer and the electrode layer. A protrusion projected from at least one of edges of the conductive support member includes and having a rough surface.
US08933461B2
A semiconductor device includes an enhancement mode GaN FET with a depletion mode GaN FET electrically coupled in series between a gate node of the enhancement mode GaN FET and a gate terminal of the semiconductor device. A gate node of the depletion mode GaN FET is electrically coupled to a source node of the enhancement mode GaN FET. A source node of said enhancement mode GaN FET is electrically coupled to a source terminal of the semiconductor device, a drain node of the enhancement mode GaN FET is electrically coupled to a drain terminal of said semiconductor device, and a drain node of the depletion mode GaN FET is electrically coupled to a gate terminal of the semiconductor device.
US08933459B2
Embodiments are directed to an organic light emitting display device, including a substrate, and a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a protrusion pattern and a trench area formed in the substrate, an organic light emitting device disposed on the substrate, a capacitor, the capacitor including a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode, a first transistor, the first transistor being coupled to a gate line extended in a row direction, a data line extended in a column direction crossing the row direction, and the first capacitor electrode, and a second transistor, the second transistor being coupled to the first capacitor electrode, a voltage line extended in the column direction, and the organic light emitting device, wherein the second capacitor electrode is branched from the voltage line, and the gate line and the first capacitor electrode are formed on and overlap the protrusion pattern.
US08933453B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure related to electronic displays and electronic devices incorporating such displays which employ a device, method, or combination thereof for reducing the width of gate lines and/or data lines in the display. The result of which allows for increased pixel aperture size. The present disclosure provides techniques for reducing the width of gate lines and/or data lines while maintaining an acceptable resistance level in the gate lines and/or data lines.
US08933449B2
Apparatus having a dielectric containing scandium and gadolinium can provide a reliable structure with a high dielectric constant (high k). In an embodiment, a monolayer or partial monolayer sequence process, such as for example atomic layer deposition (ALD), can be used to form a dielectric containing gadolinium oxide and scandium oxide. In an embodiment, a dielectric structure can be formed by depositing gadolinium oxide by atomic layer deposition onto a substrate surface using precursor chemicals, followed by depositing scandium oxide onto the substrate using precursor chemicals, and repeating to form a thin laminate structure. A dielectric containing scandium and gadolinium may be used as gate insulator of a MOSFET, a capacitor dielectric in a DRAM, as tunnel gate insulators in flash memories, as a NROM dielectric, or as a dielectric in other electronic devices, because the high dielectric constant (high k) of the film provides the functionality of a much thinner silicon dioxide film.
US08933444B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a substrate, a thin film transistor, a passivation film, a hydrogen barrier film, a pixel electrode, an organic light emitting layer, an opposite electrode, and a sealing film. The thin film transistor is provided on a major surface of the substrate. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, a semiconductor film, a first conducting portion, and a second conducting portion. The passivation film is provided on the thin film transistor. The hydrogen barrier film is provided on the passivation film. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to one of the first conducting portion and the second conducting portion. The organic light emitting layer is provided on the pixel electrode. The opposite electrode is provided on the organic light emitting layer. The sealing film is provided on the hydrogen barrier film and the opposite electrode.
US08933433B2
A method and structure for receiving a micro device on a receiving substrate are disclosed. A micro device such as a micro LED device is punched-through a passivation layer covering a conductive layer on the receiving substrate, and the passivation layer is hardened. In an embodiment the micro LED device is punched-through a B-staged thermoset material. In an embodiment the micro LED device is punched-through a thermoplastic material.
US08933430B1
A variable resistance memory device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The variable resistance memory device includes a multi-layered insulating layer including a plurality of holes formed on a semiconductor substrate, a lower electrode formed in a bottom of each of the holes, a first spacer formed on the lower electrode and a sidewall of each of the holes, a second spacer formed on an upper sidewall of the first spacer, a third spacer formed on a lower sidewall of the first spacer below the second spacer, a variable resistance part that is formed on the lower electrode has a height lower than a height of a top of each hole, and an upper electrode formed on the variable resistance part to be buried in each hole.
US08933428B2
The invention provides a phase change memory and a method for forming the phase change memory. The phase change memory includes a storage region and a peripheral circuit region. The peripheral circuit region has a peripheral substrate, a plurality of peripheral shallow trench isolation (STI) units in the peripheral substrate, and at least one MOS transistor on the peripheral substrate and between the peripheral STI units. The storage region has a storage substrate, an N-type ion buried layer on the storage substrate, a plurality of vertical LEDs on the N-type ion buried layer, a plurality of storage shallow trench isolation (STI) units between the vertical LEDs, and a plurality of phase change layers on the vertical LED and between the storage STI units. The storage STI units have thickness substantially equal to thickness of the vertical LEDs. The peripheral STI units have thickness substantially equal to thickness of the storage STI units. The N-type conductive region contains SiC. A top of P-type conductive region is flush with a top of the peripheral substrate. The N-type conductive region containing SiC reduces drain current through the vertical LED and raises current efficiency of the vertical LED. The peripheral circuit region can work normally without adverse influence on performance of the phase change memory.
US08933424B1
An ion implantation system and method are provided where an ion source generates an ion and a mass analyzer mass analyzes the ion beam. A beam profiling apparatus translates through the ion beam along a profiling plane in a predetermined time, wherein the beam profiling apparatus measures the beam current across a width of the ion beam concurrent with the translation, therein defining a time and position dependent beam current profile of the ion beam. A beam monitoring apparatus is configured to measure the ion beam current at an edge of the ion beam over the predetermined time, therein defining a time dependent ion beam current, and a controller determines a time independent ion beam profile by dividing the time and position dependent beam current profile of the ion beam by the time dependent ion beam current, therein by cancelling fluctuations in ion beam current over the predetermined time.
US08933421B2
A particle beam therapy system including an accelerator for making a beam of charged particles available, a beam guiding unit supplying the beam to a treatment location starting from the accelerator, and at least one beam property monitor arranged along the beam path. A control unit communicates with the beam property monitor and guiding unit and determines deviations of actual properties from desired properties of the beam and transmits control signals for adapting the beam properties to the guiding unit, using said deviations. Precise beam guidance is achieved by arranging the beam property monitor on the periphery of the beam perpendicular to the beam path such that the beam properties are detected due to their direct interaction with particles of the beam in the halo region and/or indirectly by electromagnetic interaction. A method for a beam of charged particles in a particle beam therapy system is also disclosed.
US08933416B2
A device includes a sheath having a lumen defined by a wall. The wall has an outer surface that is configured to emit ultraviolet light in a direction substantially normal to the wall. The lumen has a distal end configured for percutaneous placement. The lumen has a proximal end configured to receive a catheter.
US08933404B2
A concentration measurement method by an absorptiometric method which measures a concentration of a first solute component dissolved in a solution, in which the first solute component interacts with a solvent, includes: referring to an absorption coefficient (μaw(λ)) of the solvent; measuring an absorption coefficient (μa(λ)) of a first sample material, after an interaction between the solvent and the first solute component has occurred; and obtaining an unknown volume fraction (vg) of the first solute component and a volume fraction (vw) of the solvent, based on the absorption coefficient (μaw(λ)) of the solvent, a apparent absorption coefficient (μ′ag(λ)) of the first solute component, and the absorption coefficient (μa(λ)) of the first sample material.
US08933402B2
A sample is analyzed efficiently with combining a structural defect detection and a physical information measurement so as to determine whether a structural defect is the defect that degrades the device performance or not, not only by detecting the structural defect exists in the sample, but also by measuring a physical information that occurs due to the structural defect. It comprises a structural defect detection device 2 that detect a structural defect KK of a sample W, a structural defect setting device that sets up the structural defect KK for which a physical information is to be measured based on the defect information among the structural defect KK detected by the structural defect detection device 2, and a physical information measurement device 3 that measures the physical information of the defect region KR including the structural defect set up by the structural defect setting device.
US08933397B1
In one aspect of the invention, an ion trap mass analyzer includes a variable- or multi-potential type ion guide (MPIG) assembly which has been pre-configured to produce a parabolic-type potential field. Each MPIG electrode has a resistive coating of designed characteristics. In one example the coating varies in thickness long the length of an underlying uniform substrate. The MPIG assembly can be a single MPIG electrode or an array of a plurality of MPIG electrodes. An array can facilitate delocalization for improved performance. This chemical modification of a uniform underlying substrate promotes cheaper and flexible instruments. The modified MPIG electrodes also allow miniaturization (e.g. micro and perhaps even nano-scale), which allows miniaturization of the instrument in which the single or plural modified MPIG electrode(s) are placed. This promotes portability and field use instead of limitation to laboratory settings.
US08933393B2
Methods and systems for providing electromagnetic protection of optical equipment are disclosed. One assembly includes an optical device and an electromagnetically shielding enclosure including a plurality of shielding surfaces, the enclosure defining an interior volume containing the optical device. The assembly further includes a waveguide beyond cutoff extending through a shielding surface of the electromagnetically shielding enclosure. The assembly also includes a first lens located on a first side of the shielding surface, and positioned and oriented to focus light through the waveguide beyond cutoff. The assembly further includes a second lens located on a second side of the shielding surface opposite the first side, positioned and oriented to receive light transmitted through the waveguide beyond cutoff.
US08933389B2
An optical filter for filtering an electromagnetic radiation of variable angle of incidence, includes a stack of at least one dielectric or semi-conductor layer arranged between two partially reflective layers, said stack defining a set of Fabry-Pérot cavities set to a predetermined wavelength. The average refractive index of the dielectric or semi-conductor layer is variable in a plane orthogonal to the direction of the stack so as to compensate the effects of the variation in the angle of incidence of the electromagnetic radiation on the transmission spectrum of the cavities.
US08933386B2
Provided is a high-reliability, compact, and low-cost optical sensor device. The optical sensor device includes a glass lid substrate (2), a glass substrate (9) with a cavity having divided and exposed through-hole electrodes (5) on the periphery thereof, and an optical sensor element (3) mounted on the glass lid substrate, and has a structure in which the glass lid substrate and the glass substrate with a cavity are bonded together. By hermetically sealing with the glass substrates, high reliability is secured. By using the divided through-hole electrodes, the package size is reduced and the number of devices which can be produced in a batch in the manufacture increases, which enables cost reduction.
US08933379B2
A portable induction heating tool is provided as a membrane roofing tool for use in sealing anchor plates with a heat-activated adhesive to a membrane roofing member. The tool uses two different audible tones so two tools can be used simultaneously on a single roof, while allowing a user to easily distinguish between the operation of both tools. The main housing containing electronics is weather-tight, and requires no forced-cooling devices. The controller automatically performs data logging functions, such as counting the number of anchor plates per job or per day that have been properly placed, counting the number of activation events for a tool's life, tracking the number of faults which occur as the tool is being used, and the controller can identify the type of fault that occurs during operation of the tool. The controller also stores energy setting changes in memory.
US08933377B2
A control device for an electrical heating device for a cooking field with a cooking field plate comprises an electro-mechanical switching device for adjusting a power of said heating device with different power levels and comprises two different heating element. The switching device is configured so that starting from a zero-position and rotating in a first rotation direction, a power level for a first heating element is adjusted in a cooking-mode. Rotation in the other direction activates a second heating element in a warm-keeping mode with significantly lower power. A relay is closed by a thermomechanical temperature sensing device below a defined switching temperature of 60° C. to 100° C. and opened above the switching temperature. When closed, the relay connects the two heating elements to an operating voltage for common operation. When opened, the first heating element is switched off for exclusive operation of the second heating element.
US08933371B2
A tandem arc welding device in which the welding conditions and a program describing contents of operation are treated as independent to each other. It handles the welding conditions altogether simply as those parameters for the fore-going welding and those parameters for the hind-going welding. By so doing, a program can be produced without taking which of the two welders will become fore-going into consideration. Furthermore, a program and welding conditions thus provided offer superior re-usability and reproducibility to the tandem arc welding.
US08933369B2
A laser beam machining method and a laser beam machining device capable of cutting a work without producing a fusing and a cracking out of a predetermined cutting line on the surface of the work, wherein a pulse laser beam is radiated on the predetermined cut line on the surface of the work under the conditions causing a multiple photon absorption and with a condensed point aligned to the inside of the work, and a modified area is formed inside the work along the predetermined determined cut line by moving the condensed point along the predetermined cut line, whereby the work can be cut with a rather small force by cracking the work along the predetermined cut line starting from the modified area and, because the pulse laser beam radiated is not almost absorbed onto the surface of the work, the surface is not fused even if the modified area is formed.
US08933367B2
There is obtained a laser processing method by which an excellent shape of a cut surface can be achieved and an increase in cost can be suppressed. A laser processing method includes the steps of: preparing a material to be processed; and forming a modified area in the material to be processed, by irradiating the material to be processed with laser beam. In the aforementioned step, pulsed laser beam having a continuous spectrum is focused with a lens, thereby forming a focusing line constituted by a plurality of focuses that are obtained by predetermined bands forming the continuous spectrum of the laser beam, and the material to be processed is irradiated with the laser beam such that at least a part of the focusing line is located on a surface of the material to be processed, thereby forming the modified area on an axis of the focusing line.
US08933365B2
A nozzle holder for a nozzle changer that is configured for at least one of mounting nozzles to and demounting nozzles from a processing head of a laser processing machine includes a nozzle storage chamber that widens along a nozzle removal direction to a nozzle removal opening. The nozzle storage chamber includes at least two nozzle storage seats that are offset in steps from each other and that store respective nozzles. A nozzle changer includes such several nozzle holders, and a laser processing machine includes such a nozzle changer.
US08933364B2
An electrode for a plasma arc torch includes a conductive body and a plurality of emissive inserts. The conductive body includes a proximal end portion, a distal end portion and a cavity extending from the proximal end portion to the distal end portion. The distal end portion defines a distal end face. The plurality of emissive inserts extend through the distal end face. The conductive body further defines a dimple extending into the distal end face and at least partially into the emissive inserts. The dimple is positioned concentrically about a centerline of the conductive body.
US08933361B2
A microhole electric discharge machining apparatus that forms a conical inverse-tapered hole on a workpiece by a thin wire electrode, includes, an electrode holder that holds an upper part of the thin wire electrode and feeds a lower part of the thin wire electrode downward to stretch the lower part to the workpiece by rotating the thin wire electrode; a first guide member that is arranged near the workpiece upper surface and is provided with a first guide hole through which the thin wire electrode is penetrated on a hole-machining axis; a second guide member that is arranged between the first guide member and the electrode holder and is provided with a second guide hole through which the thin wire electrode is penetrated at a position eccentric from the hole-machining axis; and a swivel driving unit that circularly swivels the second guide member around the hole-machining axis.
US08933359B2
A method of manufacturing a power contactor from an existing contactor having a magnetic amplifier that comprises a blowout coil and a ferromagnetic core, and an arc chute for extinguishing an arc generated by opening the existing contactor under a current load is disclosed. The method includes removing a bolt assembly from the existing contactor and at least one side plate from the existing contactor. The method also includes removing the ferromagnetic core from the existing contactor.
US08933357B2
The present disclosure relates to a vacuum interrupter capable of easily installing a central arc shielding plate in alignment without biasing in a radial direction. The vacuum interrupter includes a protruding guide unit protruding from a stationary electrode seal cup in a perpendicular direction to guide the installation of the central arc shielding plate such that the central arc shielding plate can be aligned in a radial direction.
US08933347B2
Various components of an electronic device housing and methods for their assembly are disclosed. The housing can be formed by assembling and connecting two or more different sections together. The sections of the housing may be coupled together using one or more coupling members. The coupling members may be formed using a two-shot molding process in which the first shot forms a structural portion of the coupling members, and the second shot forms cosmetic portions of the coupling members.
US08933339B2
A differential path replacement component includes: a first signal line that comprises one end and the other end; and a second signal line that comprises one end adjacent to one end of the first signal line and the other end adjacent to the other end of the first signal line, that transmits a signal having a phase opposite to a phase of a signal transmitted through the first signal line, and that is paired with the first signal line. The first and second signal lines are twisted together such that an arranged sequence of one end of the first signal line and one end of the second signal line is reversed to an arranged sequence of the other end of the first signal line and the other end of the second signal line.
US08933336B2
A coating having a layered structure including a palladium layer is provided to a conductor. The highly stable palladium layer is amorphous and contains phosphorus in a concentration ranging from 7.3% by mass to 11.0% by mass. An electronic component may include the conductor coated with the coating. The conductor coated with the coating has superior corrosion resistance and superior reliability in electrical connection with external apparatuses.
US08933325B2
A solar cell module is disclosed. The solar cell module includes a solar cell panel, first and second holding members, a reinforcing member. The panel includes a light-receiving surface, a non-light receiving surface, a first side part and a second side part. The first and second holding members hold the first and second side parts respectively. The reinforcing member is laid across the first and second holding member on a non-light receiving surface side. The adhesive is disposed between the non-light receiving surface and the reinforcing member. The reinforcing member includes a supporting part that is disposed with a gap with the non-light receiving surface and that supports the non-light receiving surface via the adhesive. The supporting part includes a first main surface, a second main surface and a through hole. At least one part of the adhesive is located within the through hole.
US08933324B2
An electronics assembly for a photovoltaic panel includes a substrate of a thermally conductive material, wherein the substrate defines a thermal contact area for thermally contacting the electronics assembly to a photovoltaic panel; and at least one electronic component provided on the substrate and in thermal contact with the substrate, so that when the electronics assembly is in thermal contact with the photovoltaic panel. The thermal contact provides a heat conductive channel between the at least one electronic component and the photovoltaic panel, wherein the heat conductive channel enables the electronics assembly to use the photovoltaic panel as a heat sink for heat produced by the at least one electronic component.
US08933321B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically or remotely rendering a solar array safe during an emergency or maintenance. A watchdog unit is disclosed for monitoring a signal from a central controller. If the signal is lost, interrupted, or becomes irregular, or if a shutdown signal is received, then the watchdog unit can shutdown one or more solar modules. Shutting down a solar module can mean disconnecting it from a power bus of the solar array or lowering the solar module voltage to a safe level.
US08933312B2
An apparatus for synchronized digital sheet music display and audio playback comprises an electronic appliance. The apparatus includes an audio output for playing an audio recording of a piece of music and a display for displaying the piece of music in notation form, including a first portion thereof and comprising elements representing discrete segments of the piece of music that may be identified, displayed, and highlighted. The apparatus further comprises software for controllably playing the recording of and displaying the piece of music, highlighting a second portion of the piece of music within and advancing through the first, and synchronizing the highlighted second portion with the audio played from the audio output. The software further supports an electronic book format, displaying and playing book contents containing both written language and music notation. Audio playback includes both music and a voice reading the language.
US08933293B2
The invention relates to a multiple layer material that includes a film layer, a moisture-reacting composition layer and an adhesive layer. The film layer has at least one printed surface. The moisture-reacting composition layer is adjacent the printed surface of the film layer. A portion of the moisture-reacting composition layer forms a framing device. The adhesive layer is adjacent the portion of the moisture-reacting composition layer forming the framing device. The multiple layer material of the invention may be used to form a component of an absorbent article having active graphics that change in appearance in response to moisture.
US08933292B2
An absorbent article incorporating a non-contact electronic sensor array that may indicate the presence of a body exudate is disclosed. In particular, the absorbent article includes at least a non-contact electronic sensor array that may include one or more gas sensors, a controller and a signaling device. The signaling device is capable of alerting a user (wearer or caregiver) that an insult of urine or bowel movement has occurred. In accordance with the present disclosure, various attachment mechanisms are disclosed for attaching the non-contact electronic sensor array, controller and signaling device to an absorbent article.
US08933286B2
A process is described for maximization of light olefins, preferably ethylene, by the catalytic cracking of feeds of saturated hydrocarbons, with molecular size in the range from 4 to 6 carbon atoms. The process uses a catalyst based on a zeolite of type ZSM-5 with low sodium content and modified with nickel, with concentration by weight of nickel, expressed in the form of oxide, in the range from 0.1% to 20% relative to the weight of zeolite in the catalyst, and operating conditions that involve a temperature between 400° C. and 650° C. and feed partial pressure between 0.1 and 1.0 MPa, so that the product recovered is rich in light olefins, with ethylene/propylene ratio in the range from 0.25 to 2.00.
US08933284B2
Processes are provided for the production of butadiene from C4 containing feed stocks that contain isobutene and/or isobutane in addition to n-butene(s) and/or n-butane. The processes of the present invention generally comprise feeding the feed stock to a combination butenes isomerization reaction and distillation tower for conversion of 1-butene to 2-butenes and separation from isobutene and isobutane, followed by an oxydehydrogenation unit to convert n-butenes to butadiene. The processes may also include additional isomerization and/or dehydrogenation steps for the tower overhead and bottoms streams to create additional isobutene and/or n-butenes for valued/uses, which may include additional production of butadiene. The feed to the system may comprise any mixture or separate feeding of C4 olefins and C4 paraffins, at least one of which contains isobutene and/or isobutane.
US08933282B2
Methods, compositions and systems using isoprene from a bioisoprene composition derived from renewable carbon for production of a variety of hydrocarbon fuels, fuel additives, and additives for fine chemistry and other uses is described.
US08933277B2
A process is provided for recovering components from a low boiler mixture which is obtained in the distillation of hydrogenation effluents from the preparation of polymethylols, by multistage distillation of the low boiler mixture having a tertiary amine, water, methanol, a polymethylol, a methylolalkanal, an alcohol and an alkanal with a methylene group in the alpha position to the carbonyl group. A first distillation stage involves separating the low boiler mixture into a higher-boiling, predominantly water-rich fraction and into a lower-boiling aqueous organic fraction having the tertiary amine. A second distillation stage involves separating the aqueous organic fraction from the first distillation stage into a predominantly amine-containing fraction and a further amine-depleted fraction. The tertiary amine is trimethylamine or triethylamine and the bottom temperature in the second distillation stage is at least 110° C.
US08933275B2
Methods and systems are provided for converting methane in a feed stream to acetylene. The method includes processing acetylene as an intermediate stream to form a stream having oxygenates. The hydrocarbon stream is introduced into a supersonic reactor and pyrolyzed to convert at least a portion of the methane to acetylene. The reactor effluent stream may be treated to convert acetylene to oxygenates through subsequent reactors.
US08933274B2
A method for preparing a compound of formula (I) which is a vanillin derivative, of dimer type, called 3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzyl)-4-hydroxy-5-methoxybenzaldehyde, such method comprising a reaction of vanillin and vanillyl alcohol in the presence of a base.
US08933271B2
An improved process for preparing ammonium salts from fumaric or succinic acid, is described. The method consists of neutralizing the corresponding acid carbonate or ammonium bicarbonate at a molar stoichiometric or greater than the stoichiometric ratio of 4-5% in a saturated aqueous solution of the synthesized salt at a temperature not exceeding 40° C., followed by separation of the product and drying at a temperature not exceeding 70° C. After separation of the ammonium salts, the filtrate can be re-used. Isolation of the product is usually carried out by cooling the reaction mixture to a temperature of 15-18 C.°. The product comes out in almost crystalline form. Saturated aqueous solution of the synthesized salt is formed by the interaction of carbonate or ammonium bicarbonate with the appropriate acid at a temperature not exceeding 40° C. It is possible to obtain cleaner salt concentration weighing more than 99% and not yielding lower than 98%. The method allows for an increase in the yield of targeted products and ensures their consistent high quality due to their formation in crystalline form.
US08933268B2
A process is provided for the preparation of difluoroacetic acid from tetrafluoroethylene. The process comprises reacting tetrafluoroethylene with an aqueous solution of an inorganic base, optionally in the presence of an organic solvent.
US08933248B2
The present invention relates to expedient method for synthesis of 3-substituted-3-hydroxy-oxindole derivatives, which are useful as synthetic precursors to valuable pharmaceutical compounds. These are synthesized by reacting nitromethane with the corresponding isatins of formula (I). The reaction process of isatins was carried using water as a solvent at room temperature to form the corresponding 3-hydroxy-3-nitromethylindolin-2-ones of formula (II).
US08933247B2
The present invention provides a succinimide compound represented by the following formula (1-1) or (1-2), and a lubricating oil additive and a lubricating oil composition which contain the succinimide compound. wherein R represents an alkyl group or an alkenyl group having a number-average molecular weight of 500 or greater and less than 5000. wherein R represents an alkyl group or an alkenyl group having a number-average molecular weight of 500 or greater and less than 5000.
US08933242B2
This disclosure relates to new metal complexes, such as compounds of Formula 1, and their application in olefin or alkyne metathesis and to methods of carrying out olefin metathesis reactions.
US08933226B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing Bosentan Monohydrate; in particular, the present invention provides the preparation of the novel 4-tert-butyl-N-[6-(2-hydroxy-ethoxy)-5-(2-methoxy-phenoxy)-2-(2-pyrimidinyl)-pyrimidin-4-yl]-benzenesulfonamide sodium salt as an ethylene glycol solvate (Bosentan sodium salt ethylene glycol solvate), which is a useful intermediate for obtaining Bosentan Monohydrate in a pure form.
US08933215B2
The present invention is related to a ribonucleic acid comprising a double stranded structure whereby the double-stranded structure comprises a first strand and a second strand, whereby the first strand comprises a first stretch of contiguous nucleotides and whereby said first stretch is at least partially complementary to a target nucleic acid, and the second strand comprises a second stretch of contiguous nucleotides whereby said second stretch is at least partially identical to a target nucleic acid, and whereby the double stranded structure is blunt ended.
US08933207B2
The present invention relates to methods for synthesizing compounds of formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: I wherein each of X, Alk1, Alk2, and W are as defined and described herein.
US08933189B2
Disclosed are salt compositions of lysinol and dicarboxylic acids; and lysinol derived polymers including polyamide, polyimide, polyurea, cross-linked polyurea comprising urethane linkages, polyurea foams, cross-linked polyurea foams, and lysinol-epoxy thermoset.
US08933185B2
An acrylic resin that can have excellent transparency, flowability and scratch-resistance property is prepared by polymerizing a monomer mixture comprising about 10 to about 25% by weight of (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester monomer, about 50 to about 80% by weight of aromatic vinyl compound, and about 10 to about 25% by weight of vinyl cyanide compound.
US08933181B2
Branched polymers including multi-branched polymers, functionalized branched polymers, star-branched polymers, and dendigraft polymers. Methods for the synthesis of branched polymers and method for the use of branched polymers in tire components are also included.
US08933175B2
A composition comprising a polyethylene wherein the composition is enriched in polymer molecules having topological variations by an enrichment factor ω and wherein the composition displays a long chain branching frequency of greater than about 0.5 long chain branches per 1000 total carbon atoms. A composition comprising an isolated Ziegler-catalyzed polyethylene having a long chain branching frequency of greater than about 0.5 long chain branches per 1000 total carbon atoms at the high molecular weight end.
US08933162B2
Biodegradable compositions containing an aliphatic-aromatic copolyester. Methods of making the compositions and articles made from the compositions.
US08933161B2
Provided is a thermoplastic resin molded article excellent in bending strength, flexural modulus and Charpy impact strength, on which the plated layer may be formed in a successful manner. The thermoplastic resin composition for laser direct structuring comprising, per 100 parts by weight of the thermoplastic resin, 10 to 150 parts by weight of an inorganic fiber and 1 to 30 parts by weight of a laser direct structuring additive, the laser direct structuring additive containing at least one of copper, antimony and tin, and having a Mohs hardness 1.5 or more smaller than the Mohs hardness of the inorganic fiber.
US08933158B2
A thermosetting silicone resin composition for reflector of LED has an organopolysiloxane represented by the following average compositional formula, and has at least two alkenyl groups in one molecule, a linear organohydrogen polysiloxane represented by the following formula and/or a branched organohydrogenpolysiloxane represented by the following formula, an addition reaction catalyst, a white pigment selected from titanium oxide, zinc oxide, magnesium oxide, barium carbonate, magnesium silicate, zinc sulfate and barium sulfate, and an inorganic filler other than Component, R1aR2bR3c(OR0)dSiO(4-a-b-c-d)/2 (1) R7eR8fHgSiO(4-e-f-g)/2 (3). There can be a thermosetting silicone resin composition which provides a cured product excellent in heat resistance and light resistance, less leakage of light to outside, and particularly suitable for a matrix array reflector.
US08933154B2
A flame retardant thermoplastic resin composition and a molded article including the same are provided. The flame retardant thermoplastic resin composition includes: (A) a thermoplastic resin; (B) a flame retardant; and (C) a filler, wherein the (C) filler has an oil absorption rate of about 0.1 ml/100 g to about 10 ml/100 g as measured in accordance with ASTM D281. With the filler having a certain range of oil absorption, the flame retardant thermoplastic resin composition can exhibit excellent stiffness and/or flame retardancy.
US08933146B2
The present invention describes the preparation of an aqueous polyurethane dispersion which is cured by radiation, and its use as binder.
US08933142B2
3-Esters and 3-amides of thioxanthone bearing alkyl chains of appropriate length and can be used as photoinitiators or sensitizers in photopolymerizable systems, in particular for the preparation of coatings compatible with the food use.
US08933140B2
Combinations of gelatinous elastomer containing one or more phase change materials, known as “phase change gel”, and polyurethane foam may be made by introducing at least partially cured phase change gel particles comprising plasticized triblock copolymer resin and/or diblock copolymer resin and one or more phase change materials, into a mixture of polyurethane foam-forming components including a polyol and an isocyanate. The phase change gel can be crosslinked to form a cured gelatinous gel, which is then reduced in size before introduction. After the foam-forming components polymerize to make polyurethane foam, the phase change gel particles are discrete visible particles dispersed throughout the foam. The polyurethane reaction is exothermic and can generate sufficient temperature to at least partially melt the styrene-portion of the triblock copolymer resin thereby extending the crosslinking. The combination of phase change gel and polyurethane foam increases the heat storage capacity and thermal conductivity of the foam.
US08933134B2
The present invention includes a composition that has (a) at least one thermo-reversible polysaccharide chosen from agar; (b) at least one softening agent chosen from a cationic surfactant, an anionic surfactant, a nonionic esterified sugar surfactant, a polyorganosiloxane-containing polymer, a sugar silicone surfactant, and mixtures thereof; (c) at least one oil; and (d) water.
US08933126B2
Mixture of fatty acids, their derivatives, ester or methyl ester derivates thereof, which may be administered to non-human mammals by diffusion in to ambient air during at least seven consecutive days, with a rapid kinetic of diffusion during the first three days of administration.
US08933125B2
A body cosmetic for application to wetted skin after bathing, and the like, which provide high moisturizing effects, spread well to all over the body, and are easy to apply.An oil-in-water body cosmetic for application to wetted skin, which contains a water-soluble polymer and the following components (A) to (C): (A) from 20 to 50% by mass of oily ingredients containing (A1) oil that is pasty at 25° C. and (A2) polar oil that is liquid at 25° C.; (B) from 11 to 50% by mass of glycerin; and (C) from 20 to 60% by mass of water; in this body cosmetic for application to wetted skin, the content of the pasty oil (A1) is from 1 to 20% by mass, and the content of the liquid polar oil (A2) is from 1 to 20% by mass.
US08933124B2
Provided herein are tri-salt compounds comprising a compound having two acidic functional groups and one basic functional groups (e.g., aspartate or glutamate), metformin, and polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as eicosapentaenoate or docosahexaenoate. The salts can be used in the treatment of diabetes, diabetes with concomitant dyslipidemia (e.g., high triglycerides) and diabetes exacerbated cardiovascular complications, such as cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac ischemia, myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy, and stroke. The compounds of this invention are also useful in treating obesity.
US08933111B2
The invention provides a crystalline form of (2S,4R)-5-biphenyl-4-yl-2-hydroxymethyl-2-methyl-4-[(1H-[1,2,3]triazole-4-carbonyl)amino]pentanoic acid 5-methyl-2-oxo-[1,3]dioxol-4-ylmethyl ester or its tautomer. This invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the crystalline compound, processes and intermediates for preparing the crystalline compound, and methods of using the crystalline compound to treat diseases.
US08933107B2
The present invention relates to aryloxy substituted phenylamidine derivatives of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as in the description, their process of preparation, their use as fungicide or insecticide active agents, particularly in the form of fungicide or insecticide compositions, and methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi or damaging insects, notably of plants, using these compounds or compositions (I).
US08933100B2
A compound represented by Formula (1), or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof retains the principal therapeutic effect of paroxetine and has an improved CYP inhibitory effect: wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or C1-6 alkyl group.
US08933095B2
Compounds of Formula I: wherein X, Y, Z, R1, R2, R3, R4 are as defined herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are described as useful for the treatment of cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia and other psychiatric, neurodegenerative and/or neurological disorders in mammals, including humans.
US08933093B2
Provided herein are novel fluoroergoline derivatives and compositions thereof. In other embodiments, provided herein are methods of treatment, prevention, or amelioration of a variety of medical disorders such as, for example, migraine using the compounds and compositions disclosed herein. In still other embodiments, provided herein are methods of agonizing receptors such as, for example, the 5-HT1D and/or the 5-HT1B receptor, without agonizing the 5-HT2B receptor using the compounds and compositions disclosed herein. In still other embodiments, provided herein are methods of antagonizing or inhibiting activity at receptors such as, for example, the adrenergic alpha2A and/or the alpha2B receptors using the compounds and compositions disclosed herein.
US08933092B2
Methods and compositions for the alleviation of pain in a patient. The methods and compositions sequentially administer a therapeutically effective amount of first compound having opioid receptor agonist activity, followed by a therapeutic effective amount of a second or subsequent compound(s) having opioid receptor agonist activity, one or more non-opioid analgesic compounds or one or more hybrid opioid compounds, or mixtures thereof. The methods and compositions effectively alleviate pain with a lower incidence of opioid-induced side effects.
US08933084B2
Compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein ring A, ring B, W, m, D, R2, R2a, R3, R3a, and Z are as defined herein, are inhibitors of Trk kinases and are useful in the treatment of pain, cancer, inflammation, neurodegenerative diseases and certain infectious diseases.
US08933083B2
The present invention relates to certain 1,2,3-trisubstituted aryl and heteroaryl derivatives of Formula (Ia) that are modulators of metabolism. Accordingly, compounds of the present invention are useful in the prophylaxis or treatment of metabolic disorders and complications thereof, such as, diabetes and obesity.
US08933076B2
The invention relates to novel chemical compounds, compositions and methods of making and using the same. In particular, the invention provides pyridazine compounds and/or related heterocyclic derivatives, compositions comprising the same, and methods of making and using pyridazine compounds and/or related heterocyclic derivatives and compositions comprising the same, for modulation of cellular pathways (e.g., signal transduction pathways), for treatment or prevention of inflammatory diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), for, research, drug screening, and therapeutic applications.
US08933071B2
Disclosed are methods for inducing polyploidization of megakaryocyte cells and for promoting differentiation of megakaryocyte cells into platelet-producing cells. The methods may be utilized for treating blood and bone marrow diseases and disorders in a subject in need thereof and for identifying agents for treating blood and bone marrow diseases and disorders.
US08933070B2
Provided herein are methods, uses and compositions for treating a patient with cancer wherein the cancer is characterized by a PTEN gene mutation. In particular embodiments, the methods comprise administering to the patient a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a PLK4 antagonist, and identifying a patient that is likely to be responsive to PLK4 antagonist therapy, if PTEN gene mutation is present.
US08933063B2
The present invention relates to processes for the crystallisation and for the preparation and isolation of a novel crystalline form of fusidic acid, to the use of said processes in the manufacture of pharmaceutical formulation or medicament, and to the use of said crystalline fusidic acid form for the treatment of bacterial infections.
US08933062B2
The invention relates to nitrooxyderivative of corticosteroids of general formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or stereoisomers thereof R—(Z)a—Rx (I) wherein R is the corticosteroid residue of formula (II): wherein: R1 is OH, R2—CH3, or R1 and R2 are taken together to form a group of formula (III) R3 is Cl or F; R4 is H or F; wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 can be linked to the correspondent carbon atoms of the steroidal structure in position α or β; with the proviso that: when R1 and R2 are the group of formula (III) then R3 is F and R4 is H or F; The compounds are useful in the treatment of respiratory diseases, inflammatory diseases, dermatological diseases and ocular diseases.
US08933058B2
The present invention relates to a complex of a bisphosphonate compound, methods of preparing such complex and uses thereof.
US08933048B2
A method of treating a cardiomyopathy in a subject includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that modulates contractile function in myocardial tissue of the subject.
US08933046B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an inhibitor of influenza virus replication. Yet another aspect is a screening method for identification of new targets for the prevention, alleviation or/and treatment of influenza.
US08933039B2
Analogs of glucagon-like peptide 2, a product of glucagon gene expression, have been identified as intestinal tissue growth factors. Their formulation as pharmaceutical, and therapeutic use in treating disorders of the small bowel, are described.
US08933037B2
The invention refers to PDGFRbeta inhibitor for use in the antiproliferative treatment of T-cell lymphoma, in particular NHL, ALCL and PTCL.
US08933035B2
A peptide of general formula (I): R1-(AA)nX1-X2-Arg-Arg-Gly-X3-X4-(AA)p-R2, and cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions are disclosed that include at least one peptide of general formula (I), in a physiologically suitable medium. Also disclosed are methods for activating human transglutaminase to reinforce the skin barrier function and to stimulate epidermal regeneration and differentiation or for cosmetic treatment to treat signs of skin ageing, which include administering a composition containing the peptide of general formula (I) as an active ingredient.
US08933034B2
Composition containing a chimeric neuregulin polypeptides and method of making such polypeptides are disclosed. The chimeric neuregulin comprises a first moiety of at least 10 amino acids, wherein the first moiety is derived from a first polypeptide; and a second moiety of at least 5 amino acids, wherein the second moiety is derived from a second polypeptide; wherein the first polypeptide is a neuregulin and the chimeric neuregulin exhibits an enhanced binding affinity to integrin, Erb 3, or Erb 4 comparing to that of the first neuregulin.
US08933033B2
The invention relates generally to chaperonin 10 N-terminal variants. More specifically, the invention relates to chaperonin 10 N-terminal variants with enhanced immunomodulatory capacity and/or enhanced binding affinity for pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and/or damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs).
US08933031B2
Provided is a low molecular polypeptide that can inhibit angiogenesis consisting of amino acid sequence YRGKKA, which is same to one portion sequence in apolipoprotein (a) Kringle V. Also provided are pharmaceutical composition and the uses for preventing or treating diseases relating to angiogenesis.
US08933021B2
The present invention relates to novel human insulin derivatives which are soluble at physiological pH values and have a prolonged profile of action. The invention also relates to methods of providing such derivatives, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, to methods of treating diabetes and hyperglycaemia using the insulin derivatives of the invention and to the use of such insulin derivatives in the treatment of diabetes and hyperglycaemia.
US08933017B2
A method for treatment of infection with Listeria spp., Plasmodium spp., or Shigella spp. includes administering a peptide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the peptide to an individual in need of treatment for the infection.
US08933015B2
Provided are compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof. The compounds, compositions, and methods provided are useful for the treatment of Flaviviridae virus infections, particularly hepatitis C infections.
US08933012B2
The present invention provides a novel glycopeptide antibiotic derivative.These derivatives are represented by the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein RA is —X1—Ar1—X2—Y—X3—Ar2 wherein X1, X2 and X3 are single bond; heteroatom-containing group selected from the group consisting of —N═, ═N—, —NR1— (R1 is hydrogen or lower alkyl), —O—, —S—, —SO— and —SO2—, or a linkage thereof; or alkylene or alkenylene optionally substituted and optionally interrupted by one or more of said heteroatom-containing group; Y is —NR2CO—, —CONR2— (R2 is hydrogen or lower alkyl), or a group of the formula (II) wherein R3 is alkylene; Ar1 and Ar2 are a carbocycle or a heterocycle which is optionally substituted and may have an unsaturated bond; RB is —NHNRXRY or —NRZORW wherein RX is hydrogen or lower alkyl; RY is hydrogen, optionally substituted lower alkyl, C(═NH)NH2, CSNH2, COCONH2, CN, optionally substituted heterocyclic group, and optionally substituted carbamoyl; RZ is hydrogen or lower alkyl; RW is hydrogen, optionally substituted lower alkyl, optionally substituted lower alkenyl, optionally substituted heterocyclic group, optionally substituted heterocyclic carbonyl or optionally substituted carbamoyl; RC is hydrogen or optionally substituted alkyl, wherein said alkyl may be interrupted by a heteroatom-containing group selected from N═, ═N—, —NR1— (R1 is hydrogen or lower alkyl), —O—, —S—, —SO— and —SO2—; and R is optionally substituted alkyl.
US08933006B1
The invention provides a contact lens cleaning composition comprising at least two nonionic surfactants and optionally including a non-Newtonian viscosity enhancing excipient.
US08933001B2
Disclosed is a method for improving compatibility of a fluorocarbon elastomer seal with a lubricating oil composition containing (a) a major amount of a base oil of lubricating viscosity; and (b) one or more dispersants containing one or more basic nitrogen atoms. The method involves adding to the lubricating oil composition an effective amount of one or more fluorocarbon elastomer compatibility improving agents of the general formula Si—X4 or a hydrolysis product thereof, wherein each X is independently a hydroxyl-containing group, hydrocarbyloxy-containing group, acyloxy-containing group, amino-containing group, monoalkyl amino-containing group or dialkyl amino-containing group.
US08932991B2
A nanoarray or microarray of antibodies includes a planar surface having an ultraflat surface, which has a planar substrate functionalized with a first monolayer of linking molecules, preferably APTES molecules, and a second monolayer of small peptides of the general formula (I) capable of binding the Fc region of antibodies. The nanoarray or microarray includes capture antibodies immobilized on the planar support, preferably in the form of a matrix of spots, and is suitable to be used for detecting antigens in a biological sample by AFM imaging. Z—HN—R1—R2—R3—R4—R5—R6—NH—X—CO-G-COOH.
US08932990B2
The present invention provides a method and a reagent for detecting a digestive organ cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, or biliary tract cancer patient by analyzing genes with expression levels (in peripheral blood) that vary in association with digestive organ cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, or biliary tract cancer cases, compared with normal healthy subjects. Specifically, the method for detecting a digestive organ cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, or biliary tract cancer patient based on expression profiles comprises obtaining the expression profile of at least one gene selected from the group consisting of probes corresponding to genes with expression levels (in peripheral blood) that vary in digestive organ cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, and biliary tract cancer cases, compared with normal healthy subjects. The reagent for detecting digestive organ cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, or biliary tract cancer contains nucleotides or partial sequences thereof consisting of the nucleotide sequence of at least one gene selected from the group consisting of probes with expression levels that vary in digestive organ cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, or biliary tract cancer, or nucleotides containing sequences complementary thereto.
US08932983B1
An adsorbent for removing compounds from a fluid comprising chitosan and one or more additional materials to enable selectivity of compounds removed. A chitosan based adsorbent is functionalized and cross linked to a predetermined degree to enhance its capacity and selectivity for various molecules and/or ions.
US08932981B2
A process which comprises providing a porous matrix, mixing said porous matrix with a precursor solution containing manganese and cerium ions dissolved therein, triggering the formation of a non-fluid phase which contains manganese and cerium in the interior of said porous matrix, separating said porous matrix from a liquid phase containing soluble metals, completing the formation of said non-fluid phase which contains manganese and cerium in the interior of said porous matrix, heat treating said porous matrix to convert said non-fluid phase containing manganese and cerium placed therein into a manganese oxide-cerium oxide composite, and isolating said composite from said porous matrix. The resulting composite, and its use as a catalyst, are also provided.
US08932976B2
An improved method of preparing an ion exchange resin catalyst by partial neutralization of the ion exchange resin catalyst with a promoter. The promoter and a fluid are introduced into a vessel or a reactor which is partially filled with the ion exchange resin catalyst forming an ion exchange resin catalyst bed in the vessel or reactor. The fluid and the promoter are recirculated in an upflow direction at a velocity sufficient to partially fluidize the ion exchange resin catalyst bed and to achieve a rapid uniform distribution of the promoter throughout the catalyst bed.
US08932970B2
Hardness, ageing resistance, wetting behavior in relating to water and high thermal conductivity are known characteristics of sintered molded bodies consisting of aluminum oxide; high strength and a high resistance to cracking, i.e., damage tolerance are known characteristics of sintered molded bodies consisting of zirconium oxide. These properties are combined in a material having a large fraction of aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide and optionally strontium aluminate.
US08932965B1
Fabrics containing camouflage patterns are produced from dyes wherein at least certain of the colors contained in the pattern contain a low reflectance dye. The low reflectance dye is added to one or more colors in the pattern in order to preserve the camouflage pattern when viewed through night vision goggles as relatively long wavelengths, such at wavelengths greater than 900 nm. In one embodiment, the low reflectance dye comprises a thiazine. The low reflectance dye is blended with other dyes to produce colors in the pattern. By altering the concentration of the low reflectance dye in each of the colors, the colors contained in the camouflage pattern remain separate and distinct even at relatively long wavelengths.
US08932960B2
Different portions of a continuous loop of semiconductor material are electrically isolated from one another. In some embodiments, the end of the loop is electrically isolated from mid-portions of the loop. In some embodiments, loops of semiconductor material, having two legs connected together at their ends, are formed by a pitch multiplication process in which loops of spacers are formed on sidewalls of mandrels. The mandrels are removed and a block of masking material is overlaid on at least one end of the spacer loops. In some embodiments, the blocks of masking material overlay each end of the spacer loops. The pattern defined by the spacers and the blocks are transferred to a layer of semiconductor material. The blocks electrically connect together all the loops. A select gate is formed along each leg of the loops. The blocks serve as sources/drains. The select gates are biased in the off state to prevent current flow from the mid-portion of the loop's legs to the blocks, thereby electrically isolating the mid-portions from the ends of the loops and also electrically isolating different legs of a loop from each other.
US08932942B2
Method of forming an electrical contact between a support wafer and a surface of a top silicon layer of a silicon-on-insulator wafer. The method comprises etching a cavity into the top silicon layer and the insulator layer. A selective epitaxial step is performed for growing an epitaxial layer of silicon inside the cavity up to the surface of the top silicon layer. An electrical device comprising an electrical contact between a support wafer and a surface of a top silicon layer of a silicon-on-insulator wafer formed according to the inventive method.
US08932937B2
Defining an oxide define region (ODR) without using a photomask is disclosed. Pad oxide and a stop layer are deposited over peaks of a substrate of a semiconductor wafer. The pad oxide may be silicon oxide, whereas the stop layer may be silicon nitride. Oxide, such as high-density plasma (HDP) oxide, is deposited over the pad oxide, the stop layer, and valleys of the substrate of the semiconductor wafer. A hard mask, such as silicon nitride, is deposited over the oxide, and photoresist is deposited over the hard mask. The photoresist is etched back until peaks of the hard mask are exposed. The peaks of the hard mask and the oxide underneath are etched through to the stop layer, and the photoresist is removed. Chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) can then be performed on the hard mask that remains and the oxide underneath through to the stop layer, and the stop layer removed.
US08932932B2
An improved trench structure, and method for its fabrication are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide a trench in which the collar portion has an air gap instead of a solid oxide collar. The air gap provides a lower dielectric constant. Embodiments of the present invention can therefore be used to make higher-performance devices (due to reduced parasitic leakage), or smaller devices, due to the ability to use a thinner collar to achieve the same performance as a thicker collar comprised only of oxide (with no air gap). Alternatively, a design choice can be made to achieve a combination of improved performance and reduced size, depending on the application.
US08932919B2
A graphene field-effect transistor is disclosed. The graphene field-effect transistor includes a first graphene sheet, a first gate layer coupled to the first graphene sheet and a second graphene sheet coupled to the first gate layer opposite the first gate layer. The first gate layer is configured to influence an electric field within the first graphene sheet as well as to influence an electric field of the second graphene sheet.
US08932915B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing method of an embodiment includes the steps of: forming a first insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming on the first insulating layer an amorphous or polycrystalline semiconductor layer having a narrow portion; forming on the semiconductor layer a second insulating layer having a thermal expansion coefficient larger than that of the semiconductor layer; performing thermal treatment; removing the second insulating layer; forming a gate insulating film on the side faces of the narrow portion; forming a gate electrode on the gate insulating film; and forming a source-drain region in the semiconductor layer.
US08932914B2
A larger substrate can be used, and a transistor having a desirably high field-effect mobility can be manufactured through formation of an oxide semiconductor layer having a high degree of crystallinity, whereby a large-sized display device, a high-performance semiconductor device, or the like can be put into practical use. A first multi-component oxide semiconductor layer is formed over a substrate and a single-component oxide semiconductor layer is formed thereover; then, crystal growth is carried out from a surface to an inside by performing heat treatment at 500° C. to 1000° C. inclusive, preferably 550° C. to 750° C. inclusive so that a first multi-component oxide semiconductor layer including single crystal regions and a single-component oxide semiconductor layer including single crystal regions are formed; and a second multi-component oxide semiconductor layer including single crystal regions is stacked over the single-component oxide semiconductor layer including single crystal regions.
US08932909B2
A method of assembling a semiconductor chip to a substrate wherein at least one of the semiconductor chip and substrate comprise solder bumps. The method includes aligning the semiconductor chip with the substrate; applying a compression force to the semiconductor chip to cause the solder bumps to deform between the semiconductor chip pads and the substrate pads, the compression force being applied while the semiconductor chip and substrate are held at a temperature above room temperature and below a temperature at which any liquid will form in at least one of the solder bumps; then applying an underfill material to fill the gap between the chip and substrate; and then heating the assembled semiconductor chip and substrate to an elevated temperature to cause the solder bumps to melt and reflow and form a metallurgical bond between the semiconductor chip pads and the substrate pads.
US08932902B2
The present disclosure relates to a thin film transistor substrate with a metal oxide semiconductor layer that has enhanced characteristics and stability. The present disclosure also relates to a method for manufacturing a thin film transistor substrate in which a thermal treatment is conducted for the metal oxide semiconductor layer and the damages to the substrate by the thermal treatment are minimized.
US08932899B2
A flexible display device manufacturing method includes preparing a substrate assembly in which a flexible substrate is formed on a carrier substrate; piling up a plurality of the prepared substrate assemblies in a heating furnace in multi-stages; performing heat treatment by providing hot blast onto each of the piled substrate assemblies in a horizontal direction; forming a display unit on the flexible substrate of the heat-treated substrate assembly; and separating the flexible substrate and the carrier substrate from each other. According to the above-described manufacturing method, since warpage of a flexible substrate after a carrier substrate and the flexible substrate are separated from each other may be suppressed, a subsequent process may be appropriately performed, productivity may be improved, and damage of products caused while the flexible substrate is handled may be reduced.
US08932894B2
Gray tone lithography is used to form curved silicon topographies for semiconductor based solid-state imaging devices. The imagers are curved to a specific curvature and shaped directly for the specific application; such as curved focal planes. The curvature of the backside is independent from the front surface, which allows thinning of the detector using standard semiconductor processing.
US08932892B2
A method for manufacturing an epitaxial wafer for a light emitting diode (LED) is provided. The method may comprise: forming a back coating layer on a back surface of a substrate; forming a buffer layer on a top surface of the substrate; forming an N-type semiconductor layer on the buffer layer; forming a multi-quantum well layer on the N-type semiconductor layer; and forming a P-type semiconductor layer on the multi-quantum well layer. An epitaxial wafer and a method for manufacturing an LED chip are also provided.
US08932890B2
The present invention relates to a vertical-structure semiconductor light emitting device and a production method thereof, more specifically, to a vertical-structure semiconductor light emitting device having a high-performance heat sink support comprising a thick metal film or metal foil. The vertical-structure semiconductor light emitting element produced in accordance with the present invention constitutes a highly reliable light emitting element with absolutely no thermal or mechanical damage since it has the high performance heatsink support and so suffers not fine micro-cracking and can be freely subjected to heat treatment and to post-processing including of a side-surface passivation thin film.
US08932882B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may include, but is not limited to the following processes. A first group identifier allocated to a first group of semiconductor wafers is detected. The first group of semiconductor wafers includes a first semiconductor wafer to be processed first among the first group. A first processor of a plurality of processors, which process respective ones of the first group of semiconductor wafers, are determined based on the first group identifier. The first processor is used for processing the first semiconductor wafer. The first semiconductor wafer is supplied to the first processor.
US08932878B2
A diagnostic test kit that employs a lateral flow assay device and a plurality of assay reagents for detecting a test analyte within a test sample is disclosed. The assay reagents include detection probes that are capable of producing a detection signal representing the presence or quantity of the test analyte in the test sample. To further enhance detection accuracy, calibration probes are also used that are capable of producing a calibration signal representing the presence or quantity of a calibration analyte. The calibration signal may be utilized to calibrate the detection signal.
US08932877B2
Disclosed are photoluminescent particles. The particles include a core nano-sized particle of carbon and a passivation agent bound to the surface of the nanoparticle. The passivation agent can be, for instance, a polymeric material. The passivation agent can also be derivatized for particular applications. For example, the photoluminescent carbon nanoparticles can be derivatized to recognize and bind to a target material, for instance a biologically active material, a pollutant, or a surface receptor on a tissue or cell surface, such as in a tagging or staining protocol.
US08932868B2
A method an system is disclosed for the detection and/or allocation of at least one point mutation in target DNA and/or RNA duplexes. The method comprises obtaining a functionalized surface which is coated with probe DNA and/or RNA whereto target DNA and/or RNA duplexes are attached, contacting said functionalized surface to an electrolytic solution having a neutral pH in a flow cell and measuring a first impedance value within said electrolytic solution, and then adding a chemical to the electrolytic solution which is able to achieve denaturation of the target DNA and/or RNA. The method further comprises measuring a second impedance value within the flow cell after completion of the denaturation of the DNA and/or RNA target, and then obtaining a value representative for the impact of the chemical on the impedance of the electrolytic solution. The amount and/or allocation of point mutation(s) within the target DNA and/or RNA is then determined by calculating the denaturation-time constant based on the difference between the first and second impedance value and taking into account the impact of the chemical by third impedance value.
US08932854B2
The invention relates to a porous material for body fluid treatment for promoting lymphocyte proliferation in lymphocyte culture which contains a high-molecular compound having an angle of contact with water within the range of 40 to 98°, and a porous material for body fluid treatment which comprises activated carbon; and also relates to a treatment device wherein the porous material is used; a method for proliferating lymphocytes; a method for producing mammalian lymphocytes; a method for producing a pharmaceutical composition; an additive body fluid to be added to a culture medium on the occasion of lymphocyte culture; a method for treating a disease against which a therapeutic effect is produced by returning extracorporeally activated mammalian lymphocytes into the body; and a method of manufacturing the porous materials for body fluid treatment for promoting the lymphocyte proliferation in lymphocyte culture.
US08932852B2
A method of treating a lymphocyte mediated inflammation in a subject including administering a therapeutically effective amount of a cell delivery composition to the subject, the cell delivery composition of the application including an immunosuppressive cell and a plurality of targeting moieties that bind to endothelial cell adhesion molecules expressed by endothelial cells as a result of a lymphocyte mediated inflammatory response in the subject, the targeting moieties coated on and linked to the immunosuppressive cell and enhancing adherence of the immunosuppressive cell to an endothelial cell at a site of lymphocyte mediated inflammation when administered to the subject systemically, wherein the cell delivery composition, suppresses lymphocyte mediated inflammation in the subject.
US08932847B2
A bioreactor designed to produce N2O from organic nitrogen and/or reactive nitrogen in waste is coupled to a hardware reactor device in which the N2O is consumed in a gas phase chemical reaction, e.g., catalytic decomposition to form oxygen and nitrogen gas. Heat from the exothermic reaction may be used to generate power. The bioreactor may use communities of autotrophic microorganisms such as those capable of nitrifier denitrification, ammonia oxidizing bacteria, and/or ammonia oxidizing archaea. A portion of the N2O dissolved in aqueous effluent from the bioreactor may be separated to increase the amount of gas phase N2O product. The amount of the gas phase N2O in a gas stream may also be concentrated prior to undergoing the chemical reaction. The N2O may alternatively be used as an oxidant or co-oxidant in a combustion reaction, e.g., in the combustion of methane.
US08932845B2
An isopropyl alcohol-producing Escherichia coli equipped with an isopropyl alcohol production system, having at least one enhanced enzyme activity selected from the group consisting of an enhanced malate dehydrogenase activity, an enhanced NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase (AB-specific) activity, and an enhanced thiolase activity, and an isopropyl alcohol producing method including producing isopropyl alcohol from a plant-derived raw material using the isopropyl alcohol-producing Escherichia coli.
US08932843B2
A buoyant device containing chromatography media performs the function of protein harvesting replacing the steps of cell separation and volume reduction; the device can be loaded into columns for further purification.
