US07665134B1
Profiling a user is disclosed. The user's behavior with respect to specially designed content comprised of one or more units of content is monitored. The specially designed content is designed such that one or more characteristics of the user may be inferred based at least in part on the user's behavior with respect to the content. One or more characteristics of the user is/are inferred based at least in part on the user's behavior with respect to the specially designed content.
US07665125B2
In a particular embodiment, a wireless security system is disclosed. The wireless security system includes a client module deployed on a wireless device, a network module, and a server module. The client module is adapted to authenticate a wireless device while the wireless device is operating independently from the network module and the server module.In another embodiment, a method of distributing security policy information from a server to a mobile computing device is disclosed. The method includes authentication of a connection between the server and a gatekeeper, sending a policy package to the gatekeeper, initiating data synchronization between the mobile computing device and the gatekeeper, authenticating the mobile computing device, and sending the policy package from the gatekeeper to the mobile computing device.
US07665122B2
An authentication apparatus for solving problems involving convenience and security is disclosed. The authentication apparatus according to the present invention is an authentication apparatus having a plurality of authentication mechanisms, the apparatus determining (S23) whether authentication information that has been input by a card reader for inputting authentication information of an object of authentication is that of a user who is capable of changing over the plurality of authentication mechanisms, displaying (S24) a list of the plurality of authentication mechanisms if it is determined that the user is capable of making the changeover, and registering (S26) the authentication mechanism, which has been selected in the display list, as the effective authentication mechanism.
US07665118B2
In a particular embodiment, a server module deployed on a server is disclosed. The server module is connected to a wireless network access node. The server module includes a database containing user information for multiple wireless devices. Each element in the database is attributable to at least one authorized wireless device and contains at least one type of data file from the following group: (i) wireless connectivity permissions, (ii) authorized wireless device identification, and (iii) authorized network access node information.
US07665116B2
A method for content delivery comprising transmitting content via a first network to a content aggregation point and transmitting the content from the content aggregation point via a second network to a receiver at the request of the receiver. A system for content delivery comprising a content provider, a content aggregation point operatively coupled to the content provider via a first network wherein the content aggregation point receives content from the content provider, and a receiver operatively coupled to the content aggregation point via a second network wherein the receiver is configured to request content from the content aggregation point. Also disclosed are methods for improving the network functionality through in-band measurement of network statistics, multi-constraint based QoS routing, and back up path determination.
US07665113B1
The present invention, in particular embodiments, is directed to methods, apparatuses and systems directed to rate adaptive video transmission. In a particular implementation, the present invention provides a video server that delivers video frames received from a video source in response to video frame requests transmitted by one or more video clients. In such a configuration, video clients essentially pull video frames of a video stream at a rate adapted to various attributes of the client and/or the client application consuming the video stream, such as bandwidth available to the client the video client application requirements, and the like. Additional embodiments also provide for novel video data compression techniques that use client pull mechanisms to achieve an adaptive video streaming mechanism. In one implementation, only lower levels of a multi-resolution or wavelet video stream are requested to optimally utilize system bandwidth. In combination with client frame pull, a temporally and spatially scalable multi-resolution image codec, that utilizes wavelet compression, is realized. In yet another implementation, a differencing codec is utilized for compression wherein successive predictive frames are dependent on a reference frame. In combination with client frame pull, the differencing codec is also temporally and spatially scalable. Furthermore, the present invention provides an efficient way to transmit video over wired and wireless networks, particularly mixed networks that contain both wired and wireless networks.
US07665110B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention, a reproduction engine for reproducing A/V data stored on an interactive DVD comprises a navigator connected to a temporary data storage unit for loading A/V data from the interactive DVD into a first section of the temporary data storage unit, and for loading enhanced data associated with the A/V data into a second section of the temporary data storage unit; a decoder for decoding the A/V data and the enhanced data loaded into the temporary data storage unit; and a presentation engine for reproducing the decoded A/V data and the enhanced data in accordance with control information stored on the interactive DVD.
US07665109B2
An electronic programming guide (EPG) resides in a user interface unit memory and is executable on the processor of the user interface unit to organize programming information that is descriptive of the programs supplied over an interactive entertainment system. The EPG supports a user interface (UI) which visually correlates programs titles to scheduled viewing times. A hyperlink browser also resides in memory and is executable on the processor. One or more hyperlinks, which reference target resources containing interactive content related to the video programs, are integrated as part of the EPG UI. When a viewer activates a hyperlink within the EPG, the user interface unit launches the browser to activate the target resource specified by the hyperlink. The instruction might cause the visual display unit to tune to the program or channel represented by the particular label, or to initiate procedures to record the program when it begins playing, or to jump to a related target resource, such as a Web site.
US07665107B2
The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates propagating selected advertisements among users of interactive services. Interactive service users can be targeted for specific types of advertisements for particular products or services. When a user selects at least one advertisement for more detailed viewing, the advertisement can be distributed to or shared with one or more other users. These other users may be part of the original user's social network. Thus user-selected advertisements can be shared among users who are familiar with each other's current or future interests. In some cases, user-selected advertisements can replace system-selected advertisements. As a result, advertisers can benefit from increased exposure of and interest in their advertisements.
US07665104B2
In a conventional content transmission system, there has been a problem that it takes a long time from when a user, who tries to start viewing and listening of content, issues a command to a receiver by using a remote controller or the like until when the user can actually view and listen to the content from content viewing and listening equipment (content starting time). To this end, a content transmission system according to the present invention has a transmitter and a receiver including a human sensor and has a configuration that the state of the receiver is changed corresponding to a detection result of the human sensor so as to reduce the content starting time and power consumption.
US07665102B2
A heat-assisted magnetic recording method is provided for implementing information recording on a recording magnetic film of a magnetic recording medium rotated around a rotation center. The method includes the steps of: illuminating a recording region in the magnetic film with a laser beam for locally heating the recording region; and applying a recording magnetic field to the heated recording region. The power of the laser beam illuminating the recording region is selected in accordance with the distance between the rotation center and the recording region.
US07665082B2
The present invention adapts, diagnoses, optimizes, and prescribes a network-based application between a client and a host system. Some or all components of the network-based application, including configuration information may be installed on the client. The components and configuration information may be installed as the network-based application is executed. Alternatively, the components and configuration information may be installed in advance of the network-based application. To launch the network-based application, a user via the client sends an application request to the host system. The host system sends program code to the client. Upon executing the program code, the client attempts to establish a session with the host system and determines configuration information for the network-based application. Upon establishing the session and determining the configuration information, the client then launches the network-based application.
US07665079B1
It is one object of the present invention to provide a program execution method for performing greater optimization. A program execution apparatus according to the present invention performs a transfer from an interpreter process to a compiled code process in the course of the execution of a method. At this time, if no problem occurs when a transfer point is moved to the top of a loop, the transfer point for code is so moved. And when a transfer point is located inside a loop, a point that post-dominates the top of the loop and the transfer point is copied to a position immediately preceding the loop. Then, information for generating recalculation code is provided for the transfer point, and a recalculation is performed.
US07665078B2
A method for optimizing a code sequence by tuning the representations of an instruction set based on the frequency of operations performed by the code sequence. For example, the number of bit symbols used to represent a code sequence may be reduced using the present invention.
US07665075B1
A method for sharing dynamically compiled code between different class loaders is provided. In this method, loader-reentrant compiled code is produced from bytecodes by generating native code implementing a class initialization barrier when compiling bytecodes that require a class to be initialized, by generating native code implementing a link resolution barrier when compiling bytecodes that require a symbolic link to be resolved, and by generating code to retrieve loader-dependent data from a loader-dependent table when compiling bytecodes that use data computed from a resolved symbolic link.
US07665072B2
Techniques and tools for generating test cases for methods or programs with input preconditions are described. For example, after finding feasible control flow paths for a tested method along with each path's associated input conditions, a new program is created which tests these conditions along with the precondition. By analyzing this new program's control flow graph, a class of test cases is found while avoiding inefficiencies created by doing complete searches of paths through the combined control flow graph of the precondition and the method. Additional efficiencies are introduced by partitioning a control flow graph for the precondition into branched and straight sections.
US07665071B1
A management system is provided for the generation of a management object model for performing management of a computer system. The object model includes a structured hierarchy of objects representing components of a computer system. The management system can include component modules operable to define mappings from instrumentation of the components to objects representing those components and configuration modules operable to configure associations between the component modules for the generation of the management object model.
US07665070B2
A method (and apparatus) for executing a main program having a series of machine-executable instructions in one of a program binary representation and an object code representation, including establishing a first pipeline for executing the main program and establishing a second pipeline for executing a meta-program to at least one of fetch and store meta-program information of the executing of the main program and a result of an analysis of the executing the main program. The program binary representation or object code representation of the main program is not modified by establishing the second pipeline or by executing the meta-program.
US07665059B2
A Hardware Description Language (HDL) utilizing a Term Rewriting System (TRS) is provided that simplifies handling of clocks, and signaling between various clock domains of a multi-clock domain circuit specification. A specific clock data type is supplied for use with clock signals. Using the clock data type, and other requirements of a circuit specification, clock domain crossing between domains of clocks of the same clock family is handled implicitly. For clock domain crossing between clock domains driven by clocks of different clock families, a “hardware approach” and a “linguistic approach” are provided. A “hardware approach” provides facilities to explicitly specify a synchronizer, using, in part, TRS rules. A “linguistic approach” allows a designer to abstracts the instantiation of synchronizers and instead specify a circuit specification in terms of differently clocked interfaces.
US07665052B1
A method and system to insert redundant vias while preserving timing is disclosed. The system and method preserve the timing during redundant via insertion, which utilizes incremental timing and extraction updates. A budgeting based approach and a path based approach to the method are disclosed. The budgeting approach is faster, while the path based method has a better insight of the worst slack/slew for the entire design.
US07665044B1
A method and a system to pre-scan a file, analyze data and create the Condensed Macro Library (CML) file. The method used is to find macros or cells of certain classes that are defined by rules. After a suitable macro or cell is identified, a parser scans the macro or cell pins and finds pins which have ports with the shapes defined on the specific layers defined by the rules and user data. Further processing is then performed based on a set of rules and the pin data to generate a CML file that contains relevant information regarding relevant pins.
US07665040B2
An information processing apparatus has a first section for specifying a selection range with respect to a real image displayed on a display screen, a second section for acquiring image data corresponding to the real image in the specified selection range, a third section for obtaining a spot specified by user based on an input item when the user inputs a specific item such as name and location by which the spot such as a facility can be determined, and a fourth section means for obtaining a display position of a real image of the obtained spot. Based on the obtained position, an area containing the real image of the spot specified by the user is specified as the selection range.
US07665028B2
In an electronic file system, preview information is provided to the user during a drag operation of a selected object onto a target object. The information indicates what type(s) of action is to be taken should the selected object be dropped onto the target object. The action(s) to be taken may depend upon the type of the selected object and/or the type of the target object. For example, where the selected object is an item and the target object is a persisted auto-list, the action may include adding, removing, or modifying one or more properties of the selected object to conform to one or more criteria defined by the persisted auto-list. Also, numerical feedback may be provided to the user where multiple objects are selected. For example, where seven objects are selected, the textual number “7” may appear next to the cursor.
US07665021B2
An integrated and interactive real-time media creation system and method are disclosed that visually link the order and execution of media events to a scrolling on-screen text script that is spoken. As the user speaks, the on-screen text script scrolls under user control. Adjacent to the script text are visual images which represent associated media events. The visual images maintain a constant relative spatial relationship with the text. When the text reaches a predetermined region of the screen it is spoken out loud by the user and the media events are caused to occur at that time. The invention allows a single user with a single personal computer to easily self-produce a multimedia presentation of undetermined and variable length, featuring media events appropriately inserted in real-time without the assistance of a director or other operator.
US07665020B2
A method and system for providing help information for a computer program. The help system provides help information based on a schema that specifies the structure of a valid computer program. The schema provides definitions of program element types that are specific instances of a program element type derived from more general program element types. The help system identifies a “derivation” of program element types relating to the selected program element. The help system then displays the derivation to the user. The user can then select to display documentation associated with the displayed program element types.
US07665019B2
A method for recording and replaying operations in a computer environment utilizes initial conditions of the computer environment at the start of a recording to configure a replay computer environment during replay. The initial conditions of the computer environment are saved prior to recording of user inputs to the computer environment. The saved initial conditions and the recorded user inputs can then be used to actively operate the replay computer environment from a state substantially identical to the initial state of the computer environment to replay the recorded operations in the replay computer environment. The replay computer environment may be a copy of a current computer environment from which a replay of the recorded operations has been initiated.
US07665016B2
A method and apparatus for performing virtualized parsing of an XML document. A document is divided into multiple segments, which may correspond to separate packets containing portions of the document, disk blocks, memory pages, etc. For each segment, a processor operating within an XML accelerator initiates parsing by identifying to a hardware parsing unit the document segment, a symbol table for the document and a location for storing state information regarding the parsing. Each segment is parsed in sequence, and the state information of the parsing is stored after each segment is completed, for retrieval when the next segment is to be parsed.
US07665014B2
A method, computer readable medium and system are provided which generate model driven forms that represent data models. Using the method, to generate a form that represents a data model, such as a business model, a selection is made to identify which of a plurality of different logical form types is to be used to generate the form to represent the data model. Then, a logical form is generated at run-time using the data model and the selected logical form type.
US07665012B2
In a signal transmission medium such as an ac power line, impulse noise in the line may be dealt with by detecting impulse noise in the transmission medium, determining whether the impulse noise is periodic or complex, and, at least approximately, correlating the time at which periodic impulse noise occurs in the transmission medium to the phase of the ac power line frequency. One or more noise mitigation techniques may be applied with respect to the impulse noise. Methods also include predicting at least the approximate time of the next periodic noise impulse, and at least its approximate occurrence in the phase of the ac power line frequency. Methods also address impulse noise in complex impulse conditions.
US07665009B2
A device for processing data read from a memory, the data including a word and a parity element with respect to the word, the device including a data recovery circuit that corrects error data in the word using a correction code generated from the parity element.
US07664979B2
An exemplary method for adjusting clock phase of a monitor includes: setting a reference threshold voltage, when an input voltage of image signals is greater than the reference threshold voltage, a scaler begins to receive clock phases generated by a Phase Locked Loop; dividing the clock phase into a plurality of equal periods, recording a corresponding input voltage at each point dividing two adjacent period, and setting the corresponding input voltage as a threshold voltage of the next period; recording a quantity of the clock pulses in each period; evaluating whether a period of the clock phase is a regular period according to whether the quantity of clock pulse in the period is equal to a reference quantity or not, while the input voltage is generating retardation; and selecting the input voltage of the image signals corresponding to a regular period as a threshold voltage of the scaler.
US07664977B2
The present invention provides a method for cooling a CPU. The method includes the steps of: setting a passive cooling mode; setting a critical temperature and a reference temperature that is lower than the critical temperature; setting a plurality of temperature intervals between the reference temperature and the critical temperature; predetermining a duty cycle corresponding to each temperature interval; detecting a current temperature of the CPU; comparing the current temperature with the reference temperature and the critical temperature; entering into the passive cooling mode if the current temperature is between the reference temperature and the critical temperature; confirming which temperature interval the current temperature falls in; confirming a corresponding predetermined duty cycle according to the temperature interval; and switching the CPU between a working status and a sleeping status according to the confirmed predetermined duty cycle. A related system is also disclosed.
US07664970B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a method and apparatus for a zero voltage processor sleep state. A processor may include a dedicated cache memory. A voltage regulator may be coupled to the processor to provide an operating voltage to the processor. During a transition to a zero voltage power management state for the processor, the operational voltage applied to the processor by the voltage regulator may be reduced to approximately zero and the state variables associated with the processor may be saved to the dedicated cache memory.
US07664966B2
An application on a computing device to write data to a storage medium associated therewith. The data is to be written to a secure storage area associated with an object on the storage medium, and the secure storage area has a value storage area associated therewith. The application generates a nonce and employs a shared session key (KS) to encrypt the nonce to result in (KS(nonce)). The storage medium receives same and decrypts with (KS) to result in the nonce, locates the value storage area associated with the secure storage area, and stores such nonce in the located value storage area. The application employs the nonce to generate a key (KH), encrypts the data with (KH) to result in (KH(data)), and sends same to the storage medium for storage in the secure storage area. Thus, (KH(data)) is associated with the nonce in the value storage area.
US07664965B2
Multiple trusted platform modules within a data processing system are used in a redundant manner that provides a reliable mechanism for securely storing secret data at rest that is used to bootstrap a system trusted platform module. A hypervisor requests each trusted platform module to encrypt a copy of the secret data, thereby generating multiple versions of encrypted secret data values, which are then stored within a non-volatile memory within the trusted platform. At some later point in time, the encrypted secret data values are retrieved, decrypted by the trusted platform module that performed the previous encryption, and then compared to each other. If any of the decrypted values do not match a quorum of values from the comparison operation, then a corresponding trusted platform module for a non-matching decrypted value is designated as defective because it has not been able to correctly decrypt a value that it previously encrypted.
US07664954B2
A providing apparatus that provides information required for a secure communication to first and second devices includes a receiving unit for receiving candidates for parameters used for the secure communication from the first and second devices; a generating unit for generating the information required for the secure communication based on the candidates for the parameters received from the first and second devices; and a transmitting unit for transmitting the information required for the secure communication, generated by the generating unit, to the first and second devices.
US07664953B2
A data processing device, in a system performing authentication among a plurality of storage device (IC cards etc.), able to maintain security of authentication at other device even when secrecy of key data held by part of the devices is lost, wherein a key generation unit generates individual key data unique to an IC card based on identification data unique to the IC cards received from the ICs of the IC cards and a card processing unit performs mutual authentication with the IC based on the individual key data.
US07664946B2
A system and method for permitting viewership behavior on a cable television system, or satellite system, to be analyzed while guaranteeing the anonymity of the individual viewers. Using this system and method, the content of the message initiated by a consumer device, that is configured to receive television programming content, cannot be known by the cable operator even though the cable operator can identify the source of the message; alternatively, the entity that analyzes viewership behavior cannot know the source of the message but can know the content of the message.
US07664945B2
In investigating the cause of a fault in a computer storage system, it is considered useful to previously prepare maintenance logical units (LUs) of a simple structure, the operation of which has been confirmed. If the same number of LUs as servers are prepared for each server as in the prior art, the efficiency is low. Furthermore, securing these LUs complicates assignment of the LUs for construction of a system and a work for addressing the fault. The present invention provides a computer system free of these problems. The computer system has a first computer for executing a first OS (operating system), a second computer for executing a second OS, and a storage array system. The storage array system uses a disk device having a logical unit (LU) for storing a boot loader, as well as the first and second OSes. The boot loader is executed on any one of the two computers, reads in any of the OSes corresponding to the currently operating computer into this operating computer, and executes the read OS.
US07664929B2
A program of instruction words is executed with a VLIW data processing apparatus. The apparatus comprises a plurality of functional units capable of executing a plurality of instructions from each instruction word in parallel. The instructions from each of at least some of the instruction words are fetched from respective memory units in parallel, addressed with an instruction address that is common for the functional units. Translation of the instruction address into a physical address can be modified for one or more particular ones of the memory units. Modification is controlled by modification update instructions in the program. Thus, it can be selected dependent on program execution which instructions from the memory units will be combined into the instruction word in response to the instruction address.
US07664924B2
A system and method to securing a computer system from software viruses and other malicious code by intercepting attempts by the malicious code to write data to a storage medium. The invention intercepts the write access requests made by programs and verifies that the program is authorized to write before letting the write proceed. Authorization is determined by using the identity of the program as a query element into a database where permission values are stored. Depending on the presence or value of the permission value, write access is permitted or denied. Permission values can be set by the user, downloaded from a central server, or loaded into the central server by a group of users in order to collectively determine a permission value. The interception code can operate in kernel mode.
US07664922B2
When a concentration of access requests on a specific bank occurs, the delay time is caused due to the competition among the accesses, thereby lowering the processing speed of an information processing apparatus as a whole. A data transfer arbitration unit 172 sequentially transfers data to be recorded to a memory controller 160 that records data in memory having a plurality of banks. A selector 174 selects any DMAC 170 from among a plurality of DMACs, irrespective of priority sequence of transfer service for the DMAC. A transmitter 176 transmits, to a control-side transfer unit 114, data requested to be transferred by the selected DMAC 170. The selector 174 selects consecutively the DMAC 170 so that the transfer service for the same DMAC is consecutively executed, and determines the number of consecutive selections so that a transfer across the banks of the DMAC 170 occurs by a plurality of the transfer services.
US07664920B2
A microprocessor includes a hierarchical memory subsystem, an instruction decoder, and a stream prefetch unit. The decoder decodes an instruction that specifies a locality characteristic parameter. In one embodiment, the parameter specifies a relative urgency with which a data stream specified by the instruction is needed rather than specifying exactly which of the cache memories in the hierarchy to prefetch the data stream into. The prefetch unit selects one of the cache memory levels in the hierarchy for prefetching the data stream into based on the memory subsystem configuration and on the relative urgency. In another embodiment, the prefetch unit instructs the memory subsystem to mark the prefetched cache line for early, late, or normal eviction according to its cache line replacement policy based on the parameter value.
US07664916B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for use with smartcards or other like shared computing resources. A global smartcard cache is maintained on one or more computers to reduce the burden on the smartcard. The global smartcard cache data is associated with a freshness indicator that is compared to the current freshness indicator from the smartcard to verify that the cached item data is current.
US07664914B2
A control unit of a hierarchical control apparatus holds information in which one of duplexed library apparatuses is set as a master and the other is set as a slave for each medium in each of the duplexed library apparatuses, and statistical information about each of the library apparatuses. The control unit includes an automatic redundant copy unit detecting that a statistical information of a medium reaches a predetermined amount, replacing the medium with a free medium, and copying data to the free medium, a master/slave setting unit setting the medium to which the data is copied and the other medium as a master or a slave such that a load is even between the duplexed library apparatuses according to the statistical information, and a unit copying and reading the requested data to the disk array apparatus by prioritizing one of the duplexed library apparatuses including the medium set as a master when there is no requested data in the disk array apparatus.
US07664908B2
A semiconductor memory device adapted to burst transmission is provided for improving flexibility of data write operation. The semiconductor memory device is composed of a memory array, a set of write registers, and an input buffer designed to sequentially receive a series of write data during a burst cycle, and to write the write data into the associated write registers. The device also includes a write release register containing a set of write release flags associated with the write registers, respectively, and a write release register controller asserting the associated write release flags in response to the write data being written into the associated write registers. The device also contains a write amplifier designed to concurrently write the write data contained in the write registers associated with the asserted write release flags, selectively, when the burst cycle is aborted in response to a control signal.
US07664905B2
In some applications, such as video motion compression processing for example, a request pattern or “stream” of requests for accesses to memory (e.g., DRAM) may have, over a large number of requests, a relatively small number of requests to the same page. Due to the small number of requests to the same page, conventionally sorting to aggregate page hits may not be very effective. Reordering the stream can be used to “bury” or “hide” much of the necessary precharge/activate time, which can have a highly positive impact on overall throughput. For example, separating accesses to different rows of the same bank by at least a predetermined number of clocks can effectively hide the overhead involved in precharging/activating the rows.
US07664898B2
A framing mechanism may be provided that enables passing of messages over an addressed bus. This creates a form of information hiding, which passes information by converting an addressed bus interface to a message-based bus interface. Address-based information in a transaction may be replaced with additional information that specifies framing details comprising, for example, a check pattern and length information. The check pattern provides a mechanism for determining whether frame information may be valid. An end device may utilize this length information to determine an actual length of an incoming frame. The combination of the check pattern and the length information may provide a pattern for resynchronizing a data stream when errors are detected. The framing mechanism may operate over existing addressed buses without requiring host side controller hardware modifications and additional host side software driver may be utilized to add the framing information.
US07664894B2
A method relating to wireless human interface device (HID) coordination is disclosed. A first human interface device (HID) is wirelessly coupled to two or more computing devices, wherein the first HID is configured to toggle between interactions with each of the two or more computing devices. An inquiry or paging message is broadcast to one or more HIDs, including a second HID wirelessly coupled to the two or more computing devices, wherein the second HID is configured to receive and provide a response to the inquiry or paging message. The second HID is located based on the response to the inquiry or paging message. A wireless link is established between the first HID and the second HID based on the locating, wherein the first HID is configured to coordinate, via the wireless link, interactions with the two or more computing devices by both the first HID and the second HID based on the toggle.
US07664893B2
Media drive control system and method. The media drive control system comprises a player console, a user operation filter, and a plurality of playback management devices. The player console provides an instant user operation (UOP) according to a received user command. The user operation filter comprises a queue and a management device. The queue receives and stores a plurality of UOPs, and outputs stored UOPs as control instructions on a first-in-first-out basis. The management device determines whether the queue is full. If the queue is full, the management device discards at least one of the stored UOPs prior to storing the instant UOP in the queue. Each playback management device receives control instructions for controlling corresponding playback devices.
US07664891B2
A system on chip (SoC) integrated circuit includes a plurality of computational blocks. A modular data transfer architecture interconnects the computational blocks for intra-chip communications. The computational blocks include an initiator block and a target block, with the initiator block originating a data communication having a global address associated with the target block. The modular data transfer architecture includes a first peripheral module having an initiator port connected to the initiator block to receive the data communication and a second peripheral module having a target port connected to the target block. A first port mapper within the first peripheral module maps the global address to a first peripheral module target port along a data path towards the second peripheral module. A second port mapper within the second peripheral module maps the global address to the target port connected to the target block. The modular data transfer architecture further includes a plurality of internal modules support intra-chip communications. Each internal module has a plurality of initiator ports connected to target ports of other modules and a plurality of target ports connected to initiator ports of other modules. An internal port mapper for each internal module maps the global address to a certain internal module target port along the data path towards the second peripheral module.
US07664890B2
A system control device comprises a system LSI section having a plurality of functional blocks, a system control microcomputer section for controlling the control register of each of the functional blocks, an address decoding section for decoding an access address to a predetermined byte in a control register which the system control microcomputer section attempts to access, and issuing an access control signal to the whole of a single control register including the predetermined byte, an access control section for changing the access control signal to the whole of the single control register to an access control signal to the predetermined bytes of the plurality of control registers included in the system LSI section, with respect to access to an address to the predetermined byte, and an access mode control register for indicating whether or not the changing by the access control section is to be performed.
US07664880B2
Delivery of a message over a communications network from a sender based on a single delivery address. The single delivery address is generated as one unit for the message. The single delivery address has a collection of recipient addresses including one or more recipient addresses each identifying at least one recipient of the message. Each of the one or more recipient addresses includes a user level information and a domain level information. The generated single delivery address with the collection of recipient addresses is included in the message. A copy of the message is provided to the identified recipient(s) as a function of the domain level information of the one or more recipient addresses. The message is transmitted over the communications network to the identified recipient(s) recipient based on the collection of recipient addresses.
US07664879B2
Methods are disclosed for caching content and state data at a network element. In one embodiment, data packets are intercepted at a network element. An application layer message, which specifies a request for specified data from a server application, is determined from the data packets. A first portion of the specified data contained in the network element's cache is determined. A message that requests a second portion of the data not contained in the cache is sent toward a server application. A first response that contains the second portion, but not the first portion, is received. A second response, which contains the first and second portions, is sent toward a client application.In one embodiment, data packets are intercepted at the network element. An application layer message, which specifies session or database connection state information, is determined from the data packets. The state information is cached at the network element.
US07664874B2
In a node having first, second, and third layers, a packet (or a cell) is mapped in the first layer. The first layer judges whether the packet (or the cell) is to be dropped at the node or to be hopped to a next node. The first layer transmits the packet to the third layer through the second layer when the first layer judges that the packet is to be dropped at the node. The first layer transmits, when the first layer judges that the packet is to be hopped to the next node, the packet to the next node by making the packet cut through the first layer.
US07664872B2
A computer device selected as a media server is connected to a consumer electronic (CE) device over multiple media transfer channels. The multiple media transfer channels together with an improved media transfer protocol allow for efficient, real-time transfer of different types of digital media, in various combinations, for playing on the CE device. Each type of media is transferred over its own dedicated channel according to its individual data rate. The improved media transfer protocol allows the data to be transmitted in either an asynchronous mode or a synchronous stream or timestamp mode depending on whether synchronization is desired. A dedicated control channel allows for the transfer of control information from the CE device to the media server as well as for resynchronizing media position of the server upon a change in play mode of the corresponding media.
US07664863B2
The data transfer between an initiator and a target, interconnected over an IEEE1394 interface, is to be improved in efficiency. At the time of login, the buffer information of the targets 11 to 14 is acquired by an initiator 10. Based on the buffer information, acquired by the initiator 10, a data transfer table, at least including the node ID information of the targets 11 to 14, address information of the buffer memory and the data transmission/receipt specifying information for specifying the transmission or receipt of the data, is formulated. The data transfer table, formulated by the initiator, is supplied to each target. When a signal instructing the transfer of the data is input, handshaking is performed between the initiator 10 and the targets 11 to 14, based on the predetermined information appended to the transfer protocol of the interface, to effect the data transfer based on the data transfer table.
US07664862B2
A system, method and computer program product for executing at least one client computer software application by embedding a web browser in a proxy server, thereby forming a proxy browser. The proxy browser is used to execute the application inside the proxy server. In one embodiment of the invention, each client browser that connects to the proxy server is assigned an instance of the proxy browser and session information is maintained for the client browser. When the client browser makes a request to the proxy server, the request is linked to the instance of the proxy browser.
US07664856B2
A media experience policy engine includes three components: an information manager, a policy evaluator, and an enforcement module. The information manager collects information regarding the current state of a media delivery system, such as, for example, usage of a CPU, memory, hard disk, (I/O) interface, and a network. This collected data is then verified by the policy evaluator to see if resource contention is, or is close to, occurring. If so, existing or potential conflicts are dealt with by the enforcement module, which applies corrections, such as, for example, limiting the access of later chronologic users, or degrading the user experience of all users, in accordance with a desired policy in order to vitiate the resource contention and maintain a user experience consistent with the desired policy.
US07664853B2
A system, system, and program for automatically inferring and updating an availability status of a user are provided. At least one current activity of a user is detected, where the current activity includes at least one system level event within a computer environment accessible to the user. A current availability status for a particular communication request is inferred from the current activity of the user in view of multiple availability rules, where the multiple availability rules map current activity to multiple possible availability statuses. In addition, inference of the current availability status is determined based on the identity of the requester of communication with the user, where the multiple availability rules map the requester identity in combination with the current activity to multiple availability rules. Output of the current availability status is controlled, such that the requester of the particular communication request is notified of an availability of the user to respond to the particular communication request.
US07664851B2
Systems, methods, and computer products for event driven and timer-driven network service switching. Exemplary embodiments include a network-switching method, including establishing a connection with a network via a network adapter, monitoring the adapter for a connection status with the network, generating a first block of network traffic over the network adapter and blocking a second block of network traffic over the network adapter.
US07664850B2
A system for measuring a communication quality and a method thereof are disclosed. The system includes: a first communication quality measuring unit for requesting a second communication quality measuring unit to transmit a test traffic, measuring a communication quality from the test traffic received from the second communication quality measuring unit as a response of the request, and controlling a generation frequency and an amount of test traffic for a next communication quality measuring stage by analyzing the measured communication quality; and the second communication quality measuring unit for generating a test traffic by controlling a generation frequency and an amount of the test traffic according to a request of the first communication quality measuring unit.
US07664835B2
A communication control unit receives destination terminal identification information and communication software from a source communication terminal. The communication control unit installs software. Address information of another communication control unit is acquired from an externally located apparatus. The another communication control unit can be connected to a destination communication terminal corresponding to the destination terminal identification information. The destination terminal identification information and software identification information uniquely identifying the installed software is transmitted to an address of the another communication control unit included in the address information. Software identification data is transmitted to the another communication control unit. Software corresponding to the software identification data is received and installed to control a network connection of the another communication control unit.
US07664829B2
A document managing system is provided with a plurality of document managing apparatuses each configured to retrieve a document stored in a storage according to a document ID and to judge whether or not an operation with respect to the retrieved document is possible according to a user ID that is generated with respect to each document managing apparatus, and a user ID generating apparatus provided externally to the document managing apparatuses and configured to generate a common user ID that is used in common among each of the document managing apparatuses. Each document managing apparatus has an export and import part configured to export and import data of an arbitrary document and an access control list (ACL).
US07664824B2
A mail gateway generates an identifier for each attached file included in the e-mail addressed to a user and held in a mail server, and notifies a mail terminal belonging to the user of a list of generated IDs. When the user selects attached files that the user wants to attach to the e-mail from the list of IDs that is notified from the mail gateway, the mail gateway constructs e-mail including the selected attached files and the mail server transmits the constructed e-mail to addresses of the receivers of the e-mail.
US07664821B1
A pool of messages, e.g., e-mails and/or other electronic documents that each correspond to a communication from a sender to a recipient, is analyzed to identify communication chains between a source and a target. Sender and recipient identifiers extracted from the messages are used to detect communication links between pairs of entities. Indirect chains of any desired length can be found by iteratively tracing a communication path one step forward from the source, then one step backward from the target, and so on; at each new step, entities at end points of the forward paths and backward paths are compared to detect any entities that complete a communication chain from source to target. Information related to the identified communication chains can be presented to a user via an interactive report that supports iterative analysis of the communication-chain data.
US07664819B2
The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates incrementally updating spam filters in near real time or real time. Incremental updates can be generated in part by difference learning. Difference learning involves training a new spam filter based on new data and then looking for the differences between the new spam filter and the existing spam filter. Differences can be determined at least in part by comparing the absolute values of parameter changes (weight changes of a feature between the two filters). Other factors such as frequency of parameters can be employed as well. In addition, available updates with respect to particular features or messages can be looked up using one or more lookup tables or databases. When incremental and/or feature-specific updates are available, they can be downloaded such as by a client for example. Incremental updates can be automatically provided or can be provided by request according to client or server preferences.
US07664816B2
Multi-participant online activities are described. In one or more implementations, a protocol is described which ties an online activity (e.g., an online game) to an instant messaging infrastructure. For example, an online game may leverage the instant messaging infrastructure to form rosters of participants for participation in the online game, Once the roster is formed, the instant messaging infrastructure may further manage the presence of the participants in the online activity, such as which users join and cease participation in the online activity and notify other users of these changes. Further, the state of participation in the online activity may be stored such that the users may continue between sessions.
US07664812B2
Several embodiments, among others, provided in the present disclosure teach a filtering of email messages for spam based on phonetic equivalents of words found in the email message. In some embodiments, an email message having a word is received, and a phonetic equivalent of the word is generated. Thereafter, the phonetic equivalent of the word is tokenized to generate a token representative of the phonetic equivalent. The generated token is then used to determine a spam probability.
US07664793B1
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for transforming unrelated data volumes into related data volumes. The present invention is employed after creation of first and second unrelated data volumes. In one embodiment, the second data volume is refreshed to the data contents of the first data volume so that the second data becomes a PIT copy of the first data volume. Refreshing the second data volume includes overwriting all data of the second data volume with data copied from the first data volume. However, before all data of the second data volume is overwritten with data copied from the first data volume, data of the first data volume can be modified.
US07664779B1
A method, computer program product, and system for creating transaction instructions. A description of a set of objects is received. For each of at least a subset of objects in the set of objects, a description of one or more associated relationships is received. The description of the set of objects and the descriptions of the one or more associated relationships for each object in the at least a subset of the set of objects are processed to create an ordered list of transaction instructions for storing the set of objects and the one or more associated relationships for each object in the at least a subset of the set of objects.
US07664767B2
A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which published the document, and assigning a code to the document based on whether data associated with the document published by the source matches with data contained in a database. An intelligent geographic- and business topic-specific resource discovery system facilitates local commerce on the World-Wide Web and also reduces search time by accurately isolating information for end-users. Distinguishing and classifying business pages on the Web by business categories using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes is achieved through an automatic iterative process.
US07664762B2
A semantically aware relational database management system includes suitable programming to relate attributes of the relational database to semantic equivalents of such attributes. In response to receiving a query, the relational database management system performs at least one semantically aware operation on the data in the relational database in order to determine what data is to be retrieved in response to the query. Results of the query presented to a user may include data derived from performing the semantically aware operations.
US07664757B1
A multiply-integrated system for inventory, sales, and distribution of products comprises a supplier database, an order database, and a programmed order processor. The supplier database includes inventory/pricing information for multiple independent participating product suppliers, which may include: product manufacturers, distributors, and/or retailers. The order database includes order information received by the multiple participating product suppliers from multiple independent product purchasers. The multiple product purchasers may include any or all of: product manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and/or purchasers. The order processor is linked to the databases and programmed for implementing a multiply-integrated method comprising the steps of: a) receiving/entering pricing/inventory information for the supplier database; b/c) receiving/entering order information for multiple product purchasers into the order database; d) searching for ordered products available from a supplier; e) issuing instructions for delivery of each ordered and located product; f) updating the order database; and g) creating a financial accounting record for delivered products.
US07664756B1
A system for end-to-end configuration management is provided. The system includes, a server component, a network component, an application component, a resources component, and a services component each operable to identify servers, communication network hardware, applications, human resources, and services, respectively, of the enterprise. The system further includes a management component operable to identify an end-to-end relationship between at least some of the communication network hardware to at least some of the servers, and from at least some of the servers to at least some of the applications, and from at least some of the applications to at least some of the human resources, and from at least some of the applications to at least some of the services.
US07664753B2
An internet and/or intranet based database search system and method for conducting searches of highly confidential records such as individual patient medical records and to automate the process of securing required approvals to make such records available to a properly authorized and authenticated requesting party. The system's central premise is that the patient has a fundamental right to the confidentiality of their personal medical records and should control that right through specific, informed consent each time that a party requests to receive them. It reinforces the widely held conception of privacy in general as well as of the sanctity of the doctor/patient relationship by granting the doctor the right, subject to the patient's express permission, to initiate a search request. At the same time, it provides an expedited and cost-efficient means for transfer of such records as demanded by many healthcare reform proposals and gives the repositories where these records are held the right to stipulate the specific terms and conditions that must be fulfilled before they will release litigation alleging breaches of patient confidentiality. And it carries out all of documents entrusted to their care, thereby substantially reducing the risk of these legitimate interests in a way that is fast, simple to use and easy to audit. The system optionally includes a billing mechanism to pay for any added cost associated with providing this additional protection; and in its preferred embodiment, is applicable to both digital as well as non-digital records.
US07664751B2
Users may be presented with different viewing interfaces for a document based on a combination of factors relating to display rights possessed for the document and user specific information. In one implementation, the user's location is used to determine portions of the document that can be displayed to the user. More particularly, access privileges to a document for a user are determined based on geographical location information of the user and based on access rights possessed for the document. Portions of the document may then be formatted for display to the user based on the determined access privileges.
US07664737B2
Audience specific document targeted at a particular media type are generated by accessing data from an audience hierarchy. When obtaining a data value for a particular audience, if that value does not exist for that audience then the audience hierarchy may be utilized to find the data value for an inherited audience. By adding regional, cultural or regulatory subdivisions within the audience hierarchy and inheriting large portions of existing audience specific data entries, a large number of audience specific documents may be generated with a minimal amount of data entry required. Audiences may be specified in a given order for traversal within the hierarchy and displayed in a data entry and editing application utilizing visual characteristics to inform a user if the value for a particular piece of data is inherited from another layer or utilized from the particular layer in use. Audience specific documents may be masked and accessed by payment.
US07664730B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product with a persistent data structure for storing a profile of tuning information for a query statement separately from the query statement. The profile in the persistent data structure includes a statement signature to identify the query statement, and an action to tune the statement.
US07664728B2
Implementations described herein relate to evaluating multiple queries represented in an opcode tree having opcode nodes and branch nodes. Each opcode node comprises an opcode that is a part of an opcode block derived from compilation of a query, the opcode block consisting of a linear sequence of opcodes. Opcode nodes are arranged in the tree according to location of its corresponding opcode in the opcode block with opcodes that occur earlier in the opcode block being represented at a higher tree level than subsequent opcodes. Only one opcode node corresponds to a common opcode block segment that is included in multiple queries. Executing the opcode tree against an input evaluates each of the multiple queries represented in the opcode tree.
US07664722B2
A method for optimizing an explicative rule including constructing an explicative rule including at least one logical combination of at least one elementary conclusion, each elementary conclusion including a restriction of the domain of a variable; calculating at least one modified explicative rule optimizing the value of one or more quality indicators on a database of examples; and displaying a representation of the rules and corresponding quality indicators.
US07664715B2
There are provided an apparatus and a method for compressing data, an apparatus and a method for analyzing data and a data management system, which are capable of compressing huge data and accurately reproducing the characteristics of the original data from the compressed data.The data compressing apparatus includes detection means for detecting a multiplicity of data sets, each including n parameter values that vary according to an operation of an object, where n is a natural number; and data compressing means for compressing the data sets by inputting the data sets into an n-dimensional space, arranging neurons smaller in number than the data sets in the n-dimensional space, carrying out unsupervised learning for a neural network on the neurons, and converting the data sets into a neuron model parameter characterizing a neuron model obtained by the unsupervised learning.
US07664708B2
A method, system and software for controlling the number of times that a usage right associated with a digital work can be exercised, including creating a digital work; determining a usage right for the digital work, the usage right specifying a digital ticket, the digital ticket indicating a number of times the usage right may be exercised; requesting access to the digital work including an identification of the usage right; determining the validity of the usage right based on a number of times the digital ticket has been used; granting or denying access to the digital work based on the result of the determining step; and updating the digital ticket if access to the digital work is granted.
US07664706B2
Example embodiments relate to a method for granting customers access to a product or a set of products. The method may include providing by the customer through a secured communication network, a code to a registration center, wherein the code being unique, transmitting the code from the registration center to an authorization center, retrieving the identifier of the product or the set products from the code, by requesting a data base or calculating the identifier, and transmitting, by the authorization center, an authorization code to the customer terminal, wherein the authorization code allows access to the product or the set of products.
US07664703B2
One method involves the use of stored value account that may be used, for example, to make internet payments, and that can be credited using a variety of payment techniques. Such a method involves receiving money at a money transfer location from a potential purchaser. The money is then stored as an electronic record in a stored value account of the purchaser. This money is then available for transfer at the request of the purchaser. Upon such a request, the money may be electronically sent to a recipient and the stored value account may be debited.
US07664697B2
According to the present invention provided is an accounting means that is superior in safety and usability. The accounting means comprises: payment means including a plurality of systems of communication means; charging means including a plurality of systems of communication means; and settlement means including a plurality of systems of communication means. Since the payment means and the settlement means exchange transaction data by communicating with each other, it is possible to prevent the assessment of an illegal charge by the charging means. In addition, since a signature (a digital signature) and an accounting statement are exchanged by communication between the payment means and the charging means, the efficiency of the sale can be improved.
US07664696B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for defining financial transaction components; defining mapping rules for taking individual financial transactions and breaking them down into their components, such as production services, billing services and settlement services. A data processing system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, creates a transaction instance corresponding to a financial transaction, creates a production service instance linked to the transaction instance by a first relation instance, and creates a billing service instance linked to the production service instance by a second relation instance. The data processing system, may also create other production service instances linked to the transaction instance using other relation instances, as well as, other billing service instances linked to the production service instances.
US07664688B2
A method and system for managing information in a multi-hub system for supply chain management and collaborative planning. A technique is presented from managing communications in a multi-hub model. First, consistency of data throughout the system is maintained by limiting which entities in the supply chain have the authority to write to the data. Various techniques for determining which entity has such authority are presented. Second, the relative complexity of transactions is determined by identifying how much computer processing is required. Transactions that require little processing are handled by lightweight servers; transactions that required moderate to extensive processing are sent to heavyweight servers. The end user receives information about the transaction more rapidly because the transactions are processed more efficiently.
US07664685B1
A system for recording oil and gas inspection data comprising an inspection database server; a server-side vendor inspection database; at least one inspector client device; an inspector-side vendor inspection database; at least one customer client device; wherein at least one inspector inputs oil and gas inspection data to the inspection database server; wherein the inspection database server comprises computer instructions for instructing the inspection database server to provide at least one report; wherein the at least one inspector client device and the at least one customer client device are operable to access the oil and gas inspection data, the at least one report, or combinations thereof; and wherein the computer instructions instruct the inspection database server to formulate the at least one report for selected oil and gas inspection data and communicate the at least one report for viewing by at least one customer upon demand.
US07664683B2
Computer implemented system for determining a distribution policy for a single period inventory system on the basis of the relative merit of allocating a draw unit of one of a multitude of different consumer items to one of a multitude of different locations in accordance with an allocation decision criterion subject to one or more constraints, an optimization application therefor, and method therefor, and including a Decision Support Tool for facilitating user determination of a distribution policy for a single period inventory system.
US07664679B2
A method and a system for dispensing software programs from a networked software dispensing kiosk device or ATM. Software developers can place software for sale within the network thereby causing various remote software ATMs to offer the software. The user causes a display of a list of different categories of software titles available through a remotely located software ATM, e.g., located in a retail market place, or other public place. The user makes a selection from the list and may optionally execute the selected software using an on-screen emulation of the user's device. If the user is satisfied with the execution of the selected software, the user can purchase or rent the selected software using automated vending equipment of the software ATM. Purchased or rented software titles are electronically communicated from the software ATM to the user's portable computer system. The software ATM can also provide backup and archiving services for a portable computer user.
US07664668B2
Techniques are described that provide automated sales-related assistance to sales organizations, such as for multi-tiered sales organizations that are clients of a multi-tenanted network-accessible server hosting a sales lead management service. The automated assistance may include assisting first-tier sales development representatives to qualify leads as sufficiently developed to allow a second-tier sales representatives to efficiently develop sales from them, and by further assisting the second-tier sales representatives to provide meaningful feedback that addresses problems in the lead qualifying process, such as by notifying a sales development representative of the reasons that one of their qualified sales lead was rejected by a sales representative and prompting resolution by that sales development representative. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US07664663B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for displaying airline seats. The system or method transmits data to an application running on a general purpose computer, the data including information descriptive of available individual seats on one or more airplanes, the data processed by the application to generate a graphical user interface on the general purpose computer that comprises an interactive seating map representing individual seats on the one or more airplanes, the data processed by the application to generate an additional display of information about one or more of the individual seats in response to a user interaction with the graphical user interface, the interaction being triggered when placing a mouse over a portion of the graphical user interface.
US07664653B2
Systems and methods for correcting addresses to contain a code representing a delivery segment (ZIP+4™ code) within a defined geographic location (ZIP Code™) include determining whether the address is already matched with a ZIP+4™ code and contains a valid delivery point. Further, if a match the address cannot be made, the systems and method may correct or adjust the address and check if a match can be made after correcting and/or adjusting the address. If no match can be made after correcting and/or adjusting, the systems and methods may send the address to a district office and/or delivery unit to determine the ZIP+4™ code and the delivery point.
US07664649B2
A control apparatus for enabling a user to communicate by speech with a processor-controlled apparatus, 1) controls a display of text data which includes a speech link that can be activated by a spoken command, 2) determines the location of a cursor displayed on a display from gaze input information, 3) changes a shape of the cursor when the cursor is located over the speech link, and 4) outputs a prompt identifying speech commands that can be used to activate the speech link when the cursor is displayed on the display in a changed state for a predetermined time located over the speech link.
US07664646B1
The present invention is a system and method that improves upon voice activity detection by packetizing actual noise signals, typically background noise. In accordance with the present invention an access network receives an input voice signal (including noise) and converts the input voice signal into a packetized voice signal. The packetized voice signal is transmitted via a network to an egress network. The egress network receives the packetized voice signal, converts the packetized voice signal into an output voice signal, and outputs the output voice signal. The egress network also extracts and stores noise packets from the received packetized voice signal and converts the packetized noise signal into an output noise signal. When the access network ceases to receive the input voice signal while the call is still ongoing, the access network instructs the egress network to continually output the output noise signal.
US07664633B2
Coding of an audio signal represented by a respective set of sampled signal values for each of a plurality of sequential segments is disclosed. The sampled signal values are analyzed (40) to determine one or more sinusoidal components for each of the plurality of sequential segments. The sinusoidal components are linked (42) across a plurality of sequential segments to provide sinusoidal tracks. For each sinusoidal track, a phase comprising a generally monotonically changing value is determined and an encoded audio stream including sinusoidal codes (r) representing said phase is generated (46).
US07664625B2
A method for designing a metal ion for use in a molecular dynamics simulation can include the steps of building a metal ion molecule having a center atom and a dummy atom, assigning a van der Waals radius to the center atom, and assigning a charge to the dummy atom. A metal ion molecule may have the center atom covalently linked to one or more dummy atoms resulting in the metal ion molecule having a polyhedron geometry. New force field parameters may be used in methods for designing metal ions for use in molecular dynamics simulations.
US07664624B2
Method for determining acid gas storage capacities of an underground geologic medium by means of a multiphase reactive transport model.The geologic medium is divided into a set of sub-volumes for which connections are defined. A multiphase reactive transport model is then defined by dividing, according to a transfer rate principle, the phenomena involved in the behaviour of said geologic medium into two parts. A first part is treated by a first sub-model of “compositional multiphase reservoir” type allowing the transfer rates linked with the gas phase to be determined. A second part is treated by a model of “single-phase reactive transport” type allowing the transfer rates linked with the water and the solid to be determined. The model is initialized by means of data acquired in the field or in the laboratory. The acid gas storage capacities of the medium are determined from the reactive transport model.Application: acid gas storage in a natural reservoir.
US07664612B2
First and second complementary voltage signals are operatively coupled across a series circuit comprising first and second sense resistors and a circuit element therebetween. An output signal responsive to the self-impedance of the circuit element is generated responsive at least one of a voltage across the first sense resistor and a voltage across the second sense resistor, and at least one of the first and second complementary voltage signals is controlled responsive to the output signal so as to provide for attenuating at least one noise signal having a frequency that is substantially different from a frequency of the first and second complementary voltage signals.
US07664607B2
A pre-calibrated gas sensor is disclosed. The gas sensor includes a cathode and an anode for outputting a current signal responsive to a sensed oxygen concentration and a signal processing module in communication with the cathode and the anode and configured to receive the current signal and to output a pre-calibrated signal representative of the sensed gas concentration based on a value of the received current signal.
US07664592B2
The fuel injection control apparatus includes a function of making a determination of whether learning conditions are satisfied to allow a fuel injection amount learning to be performed, a function of directing a commanded fuel injection amount in the fuel injection amount learning to a fuel injection valve if result of the determination is affirmative, a function of setting an upper limit value of an injection pressure in the fuel injection amount learning, a function of setting a target injection pressure in the fuel injection amount learning, a function of setting the injection pressure to the target injection pressure, a function of detecting an actual fuel injection amount, and a function of correcting an amount of fuel injected by the fuel injection valve on the basis of a difference between the commanded fuel injection amount and the actual fuel injection amount at the target injection pressure.
US07664584B2
A steering control system comprises a steering component, a turning component, and a backup mechanism for alternately mechanically separating and linking steering and turning components. A steer-by-wire control unit is provided for executing steer-by-wire control of a turning actuator to a turning angle corresponding to a steering condition and control of a steering reaction force actuator for imparting steering reaction force corresponding to the turning condition. A steering assistance control unit is selectively linked to the backup mechanism to executing steering assistance control for at least one of the steering reaction force actuator and the turning actuator. A control switching unit is provided for controlling a shift, under predetermined conditions, between control by the steer-by-wire control unit and control by the steering assistance control unit.
US07664581B2
A method and a system for switching between a first operating mode and a second operating mode of a target control device connected to a data bus are provided. After activation of the target control device, a test device generates a predefined signal to be transmitted on the data bus, the predefined signal having a predefined frequency and a predefined pulse-duty factor. The target control device is switched from the first operating mode to the second operating mode in response to detecting the predefined signal transmitted on the data bus.
US07664580B2
A method for operating power train side components of a motor vehicle. Using a control device of a motor, at least one motor parameter is issued and delivered via a databus to at least one control device of one other power drive side component working independently of the motor control device in order to operate all or each one of the power drive side components dependent. in a first inventive aspect, a behavior of the respective other power drive side components that adjusts itself according to the motor torque actually made available by the motor is evaluated. In second inventive aspect, the motor torque issued by the motor control device is compared with a torque stored according to motor operation parameters in the control device working independently of the motor control device.
US07664569B2
A ZMP equilibrium equation stating the relationship of various moments applied to a robot body of a robot, based on desirable motion data made up by trajectories of respective parts, imaginarily divided from the robot body, is generated, and moment errors in a ZMP equilibrium equation are calculated. A priority sequence of the parts, the target trajectories of which are corrected to cancel out the moment errors, is set. The target trajectories are corrected from one part to another, in a sequence corresponding to the priority sequence, to compensate the moment errors.
US07664563B2
A system for making custom prototypes including devices for making the prototype, logic, software, firmware, hardware, circuitry or other components and responsive to user input.
US07664543B2
A CT scanner and method are designed to scan a preselected portion of a patient's lower abdomen. The scanner may include a source and detector array designed to rotate about a rotation axis oriented substantially parallel to or coincident with the hips of the a patient so that a scanning plane does not pass through the patient's pelvic bones Higher-resolution image CT images can be achieved by using a detector array of the type used for digital radiography. The presence of prostatic cancer can be detected by first injecting the patient with a material including a high contrast material for X-ray imaging and a material for binding the high contrast material to a specific biological site if present in the preselected portion of the lower abdomen of the patient; and generating a CT image of the preselected portion of the lower abdomen.
US07664541B2
In a multi-channel magnetic resonance imaging reconstruction method for water-fat separation, one in-phase image and two opposed-phase images are acquired with multiple reception coils in respective channels. The sensitivity distribution of the coils of the respective channels is calculated. The images of respective channels are merged dependent on the sensitivity distribution. A phase difference between the two opposed-phase images is calculated. At lease one characteristic region of the in-phase image is detected, which is used as a criterion for phase correction. The phases of the opposed-phase images are corrected and images of water and fat are calculated. The method provides stable and reliable imaging, has a short reconstruction time and also solves the problem that images of water and fat may be exchanged.
US07664540B2
A Bluetooth earphone set, which includes a main unit that houses an auto-reversible first winding mechanism and an auto-reversible second winding mechanism, an earphone cable coupled to the auto-reversible first winding mechanism for voice output, a signal connector cable coupled to the auto-reversible second winding mechanism and connectable to a cell phone, a switch, which is switched between a first position for enabling the earphone cable to output voice signal that is received wirelessly from a cell phone by the main unit and a second position for enabling the earphone to output voice signal that is received from a cell phone through the signal connector cable.
US07664537B2
A wireless input device may negotiate a predefined transmit/receive schedule with a receiving device (i.e., PC, PDA, cellular device). To conserve power, the wireless components of the input device are powered down during periods of non-transmission. The wireless input device detects intermediate user input and corresponding data according to a detection rate during periods of non-transmission. The intermediate data is then transmitted to the receiving device during a transmission period along with a current data detected at the time of transmission. The wireless device may further discard any intermediate data which does not reflect a significant change. Additionally, the system and method may include a detection rate that adapts to degrees of user activity detected by the wireless input device.
US07664526B2
A radio device from which communication is started transmits a confirmation signal to a counterpart, and if an acknowledgement signal is not returned from the counterpart, switches a communication mode to another communication mode. This operation is repeated until the acknowledgement signal is returned from the counterpart. Thus, the communication mode is matched with that of the counterpart, thereby establishing a communication link with the counterpart. A radio device caused to start communication by a second radio device receives a signal from the second radio device. The radio device switches a communication mode to another communication mode if synchronization is failed to be established. This operation is repeated until the synchronization is succeeded to be established. Thus, the communication mode is matched with that of the second radio device to be a communication counterpart, thereby establishing a link with the second radio device.
US07664521B2
In the mobile communication system, a total reception quality between a terminal and a base station is converged into a target quality, thereby suppressing a period in which the transmission power of a distant station becomes excessive.In a mobile communication terminal, when a target SIR for the transmission power control in a down link from a radio base station is controlled, when a transmission power control system using a moving average is adopted, an error occurrence situation is detected by a reception quality calculating unit, and when many errors occur in the short time in the shadow of a building and the like, the number of errors is replaced with a predetermined upper limit value, and the reception quality of the moving average is calculated by an up/down adjusting unit, and when this calculating result is better than a target reception quality, the going down timing and down width of the target SIR are changed, and the target SIR at that time is decided and controlled by a target SIR deciding unit. In this way, the period in which the transmission power of the radio station becomes excessive can be suppressed.
US07664517B2
A system and method for minimizing latency for direct group communications, such as push-to-talk (PTT) calls, among a group of wireless telecommunication devices on a wireless telecommunication network. The wireless telecommunication device selectively requests and then receives an open dedicated broadcast channel for an outgoing communication, which can include a group communication stream to a communication server that receives and creates a group communication to all wireless telecommunication devices of the designated group. The wireless telecommunication device selectively receives a broadcast channel based upon a predetermined probability, and assigns a greater probability of receiving an open broadcast channel for requests to transmit group communication streams than for requests to open a broadcast channel that are not for a group communication.
US07664492B1
A and collects provides various types of information therefrom, including E911 location information, Hand Off (HO) information, and Power information, as well as other Measurements and System Parameters. This information is analyzed by a Data Collection and Filtering system and the results of this analysis are provided to a Network Control system to dynamically control the operation of the wireless network. The various optimizations that can be achieved include: (1) dynamically allocating radio frequency (RF) signal power in the wireless network, (2) setting dynamic dedicated handoff (HO) thresholds for individual mobile transceivers; and (3) intelligently forming or steering radio frequency (RF) signal beams. Moreover, the collected and analyzed information can be used to identify and resolve problems in the wireless network, especially when the identified problems are correlating with E911 location information.
US07664473B2
A bias control signal generation unit detects ON and OFF of a transmission signal input to an amplifier and having a property of a burst according to burst information. The bias control signal generation unit controls a bias voltage to be applied to an amplifier such that an idle current flowing through the amplifier can be flowing in a larger amount in a transmission OFF period, and can return to a normal level in a transmission ON period.
US07664468B2
A wireless transceiver system, for compensating a transport loss, includes an antenna (300), a transceiver (100), a tower mounted amplifier (TMA) (200), and a transport loss detector (400). The transceiver transmits a first signal at a transmit power. The first signal is changed into a second signal after the cable attenuation from the transceiver. The TMA, connected to the transceiver via a cable, receives the second signal and amplifies the second signal. The transport loss detector, connected between the TMA and the transceiver, detects a transmission state of the transceiver, and calculates a transport loss between the transceiver and the TMA. The TMA transmits signals to the antenna or receives signals from the antenna according to the detected result of the transport loss detector, and compensates the transport loss according to the calculated result of the transport loss detector.
US07664461B2
A highly integrated and low-cost reader for a radio frequency identification (RFID) system is realized by providing a transmitter operable to generate an outbound radio frequency (RF) signal and a receiver operable to receive an inbound RF signal having a frequency similar to a frequency of the outbound RF signal on a single integrated circuit. Since the inbound RF signal may include not only a modulated RF signal produced by an RFID tag responsive to the outbound RF signal, but also a blocking signal corresponding to the outbound RF signal, the receiver additionally includes a block cancellation module operable to substantially cancel the blocking signal from the inbound RF signal using the outbound RF signal and to substantially pass the modulated RF signal before down-conversion of the modulated RF signal.
US07664446B2
A fixing device for fixing a toner image on a sheet with heat while conveying the sheet of the present invention includes a heat roller or rotatable heating member and a press roller or rotatable pressing member. The heat roller includes a heat-generating layer and a rigid heat-insulting layer positioned inward of the heat-generating layer. The press roller conveys the sheet by nipping it in cooperation with the heat roller.
US07664443B2
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt having a light penetrating portion formed at one side of an edge portion of the transfer belt, a protection tape adhered to both sides of the edge portion to cover the light penetrating portion, and a guide member attached to one side of the protection tape. A plurality of rotation rollers drive the transfer belt in a caterpillar-type manner and include a guide groove formed at both ends of each rotation roller such that the guide member is inserted therein. A sensing body receives one end of the transfer belt to be positioned therein. A first sensing element and a second sensing element are disposed at both sides of the transfer belt such that a second distance from a transfer surface of the transfer belt to the second sensing element is longer than a first distance from the other surface of the transfer belt to the first sensing element.
US07664442B2
A developing apparatus including: a developer carrying member carrying a developer with which an electrostatic image on an image bearing member is developed; a developer supplying/removing member having a conductive member and an insulating member on the surface thereof, and provided apart from the developer carrying member to supply and remove the developer to and from the developer carrying member, and moving directions of the developer carrying member and the developer supplying/removing member being opposed in a developer supplying position; and an electric field producing device producing between the developer carrying member and the developer supplying/removing member an oscillating electric field, in which direct potentials of the conductive member and the developer carrying member are the same, or the direct potential of the conductive member, with respect to the direct potential of the developer carrying member, is on the opposite side to a normal charging polarity of the developer.
US07664438B2
A device for transferring toner along a flow path extending sequentially through an upstream stirring chamber(s) and a downstream stirring chamber(s). Toner transfer control apparatus controls toner transfer into the flow path, and a transfer of a developer including toner and a carrier between and from the upstream stirring chamber(s) to and between the downstream stirring chamber(s) to the latent image carrier whereby toner density along the flow path is controlled such that (i) a weight percentage of toner relative to developer in the upstream stirring chamber(s) is equal to or less than a first threshold value governing a time required to uniformly charge the toner; and (ii) the weight percentage of the toner to developer in the downstream stirring chamber(s) is greater than the first threshold value and equal to or less than a second threshold value necessary for the avoidance of uncharged toner.
US07664431B2
A photoconductive drum driving gear usable with an image forming apparatus includes a driving shaft, a driving gear to rotate with the driving shaft in connection with the driving shaft and meshed with a photoconductive drum gear of a process cartridge of the image forming apparatus, and a connection unit to connect the driving gear and the driving shaft so that the driving gear rotates with respect to the driving shaft by a predetermined angle when mounting the process cartridge to a main body of the image forming apparatus. The connection unit includes a plurality of connection projections formed at one of the driving shaft and the driving gear, a plurality of connection recesses formed at the other one of the driving shaft and the driving gear to correspond with the connection projections and having a greater width than the connection projections, and an elastic member interposed between the connection projections and the connection recesses to elastically bias the driving gear in a certain direction with respect to the driving shaft.
US07664430B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that rotates in a predetermined direction so as to carry a toner image, a charging member that charges the image carrier by a discharge operation, a toner holding member that is disposed to be in contact with the image carrier so as to hold toner in a portion being in contact with the image carrier and that removes a discharge product generated on the image carrier, and a holding amount adjusting unit that adjusts a toner holding amount of the toner holding member. The holding amount adjusting unit includes an estimation unit that estimates a current toner holding amount of the toner holding member, and a correction unit that corrects the toner holding amount of the toner holding member on a basis of an estimation result obtained from the estimation unit.
US07664427B2
The image forming apparatus of this invention comprises: an image bearing member bearing a toner image to be transferred to a recording material; a unit including the image bearing member and capable of being pulled out from an apparatus main body; a transfer member which contacts the image bearing member and transfers the toner image on the image bearing member onto the recording material; an opening/closing member including the transfer member and capable of being opened and closed with respect to the apparatus main body; a first locking means which locks the unit to the apparatus main body; and a second locking means which locks the opening/closing member in a closed state; wherein the second locking means is released in conjunction with the releasing operation of the first locking means.
US07664422B2
An image forming system, comprises an image forming section to form an image on a sheet; a fixing section to fix the image formed on the sheet; a sheet conveying passage to convey the fixed sheet; a humidifying roller arranged on the sheet passage and to humidify the sheet; a water supplying tank to feed water to the humidifying roller; an electric component; and a waterproofing member to protect the electric component from water.
US07664416B2
An image apparatus which minimizes temperature differences between end portions and a central portion of a print medium includes heater members having different heat distributions, a temperature detecting unit for detecting a temperature of an area where a print medium passes through, a heat controlling unit for controlling a fusing unit temperature by an individual heat controlling of the heater members based on the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit, and a rate determination unit for determining a divisional rate of heat to be charged per unit time to the fusing unit by means of the heater members. The rate determination unit determines the divisional rate based on the fusing condition input and the heat controlling unit which controls the heater members individually on the basis of the divisional rate determined by the rate determination unit.
US07664413B2
An image forming device includes a toner pattern forming unit that forms a first toner pattern and a second toner pattern downstream of the first toner pattern along a direction of advance of an intermediate transfer belt on the intermediate transfer belt. The first toner pattern is configured to include color patches of which a color density gradually differs so that, when detected by a sensor, a fluctuation of a toner density is adjusted by a feedback data. The second toner pattern is configured to prevent a cleaning blade from being twisted by a friction of the intermediate transfer belt due to the toner lubrication.
US07664404B2
The invention relates to a rear panel bus, with a number of plugs which may be plugged into the modules and a fibre optic cable, for guiding light signals, whereby the fibre optic cable has a number of interruptions in the propagation direction of the light signals, into which means, for injection and decoupling of light signals running in the fibre optic cable may be inserted. The interruptions in the fibre optic cable are arranged such that a plug may be allocated to an interruption. The invention further comprises a module which may be plugged into an optical rear panel bus and means for injection and decoupling of light signals running in an optical fibre cable whereby the means for injecting and decoupling are arranged such as to be able to be inserted in interruptions in the fibre optic cable, to decouple light signals from the fibre optic cable and to inject light signals into the fibre optic cable in the propagation direction.
US07664396B2
A 1+1 protection method of service in optical burst switching (OBS) networks, an intersection node apparatus, and protection system of service are provided. The method discloses that burst packets bearing service are transferred through two risk-independent routes, and each burst packet corresponds to a control packet. The intersection node receives a first control packet transferred through either route with a sequence number, and then, when it continues to receive the second control packet, which is transferred through the other route with the same sequence number as the first control packet carries within the waiting time of the first control packet, the intersection node selects the burst packet corresponding to the control packet with a smaller quality loss field value of the first and second control packets. The present invention prevents the services from being cut down, and remarkably reduces the packet loss ratio of the service.
US07664375B2
In an information signal editing device, when a user specifies a desired reproduction section or reproduction start position, a management information file recorded in a memory is rewritten into a second management information file which is created on the basis of the specified information, and a second information file is set on the basis of the second management information file. The information signal editing device constructed as described performs arbitrary virtual editing when a DVD-RAM disk is non-rewritable, whereby the user can obtain a desired reproduction signal.
US07664373B2
A program capable of individually decoding video data and audio data from data storing, mixed together, the video data, the audio data, and attribute data interleaved, wherein an SYS parse routine parses data MXF_D to extract system data SYS; a PIC parse routine parses the data MXF_D to extract video data PIC and decodes the related extracted video data PIC based on system data SYS extracted by the SYS parse routine 61, and an SOU parse routine parses the data MXF_D to extract audio data SOU and decodes the related extracted audio data SOU based on the system data SYS extracted by the SYS parse routine.
US07664369B2
In the known color stripe process for preventing recording of video signals, the color burst present on each line of active video is modified so that any subsequent video tape recording of the video signal shows variations in the color fidelity that appear as undesirable bands or stripes of color error. This color stripe process is improved by a combination of modifying the phase of the color burst on only part of the color burst. Additional improvements were obtained by incorporating techniques of widening the normal color burst envelope towards the trailing edge of horizontal sync and towards the beginning of active video. These techniques are useful in improving the performance of the color stripe process in both the NTSC and PAL color systems. However, additional improvements are described in the PAL system whereby the phase modifications are controlled so as to avoid disturbing the so-called PAL ID pulse. Such avoidance of the PAL ID pulse improves the playability of the color stripe signal in the PAL format.
US07664368B2
It is possible to save power in an HDD/optical disc combination camera. During a normal recording operated by a battery, only the hard disk is operated and operation of the optical drive is stopped. Alternatively, only the optical drive is operated and the operation of the hard disk is stopped. During dubbing, both of the HDD and the optical drive are operated when performing play-back/display during the dubbing and a large current is consumed. Accordingly, the operation is permitted only by external power supply. In the case of dubbing not performing play-back/display, the battery remaining amount is checked and dubbing is permitted only if the amount is equal to or greater than a threshold value.
US07664364B2
One aspect of the invention relates to a waveguide assembly. The waveguide assembly comprises a waveguide (120) provided on a substrate (126), a waveguide housing (100) and an embedding layer (138) embedding at 5 least part of the waveguide housing (100). The waveguide housing (100) comprises a waveguide channel (102) for guiding the waveguide (120) from the substrate (126) through the embedding layer (138).
US07664356B2
A hollow waveguide has a metal-clad pipe having an inside metal layer and an outside metal layer, and a hollow region formed inside of the metal-clad pipe. The metal-clad pipe is formed by pressure-bonding metal pipes each of which is made of a metal material different from each other.
US07664348B2
An optical switch provides the ability to broadcast one input signal to multiple output channels and to combine multiple input signals into single output channel. The signal broadcast pattern is reconfigurable. One or more diffractive optical elements are used in the switch.
US07664331B2
The present invention provides a log data recording device which records log data concerning a processing of image data. The log data recording device includes a compression unit and a recording unit. If the image data is judged to be a pre-specified document image, the compression unit compresses the image data with a first compression ratio, the first compression ratio is different from a second compression ratio for compressing image data other than the pre-specified document image. The recording unit records the log data including the compressed image data.
US07664328B2
A program storage device is provided readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for classification of biological tissue by gene expression profiling. The method steps include providing a training set of gene expression profiles of known tissue samples, providing a first-layer strong classifier of the known tissue samples by combining weak classifiers using boosting, creating two sample sets based on the first classifier, populating the two sample sets with a next-layer of classifiers based on a previous-layer classifier, organizing the classifiers in a tree data structure, and outputting the tree data structure as a probabilistic boosting tree classifier for tissue sample classification and disease subtype discovery. A multi-class diagnosis problem is transformed to a two-class diagnosis process by finding an optimal feature and dividing the multi-class problem into two-classes.
US07664322B1
Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for adjusting the color of pixels in an image. The technique includes identifying a target region of pixels in the image that represent an object, the object having a shape and a predefined set of features; and adjusting the color of one or more pixels in the target region by an amount determined based on one or more probability functions and one or more spatial profile functions, each probability function defining a probability value at each of the one or more pixels in the target region, the probability value representing the probability that the pixel corresponds to one or more features of the object, each spatial profile function being defined based on one or more spatial properties of the object or one or more of its features.
US07664321B2
This invention provides the following environment. That is, an original document file corresponding to a document to be copied is specified from image data of that document to be copied, and a print process is made based on the specified file so as to prevent deterioration of image quality. Also, when a document to be copied is not registered, a registration process is executed to suppress deterioration of image quality in an early stage. Furthermore, since the document is converted into vector data, re-use of such document is facilitated, and deterioration of image quality can be suppressed even when an image process such as enlargement or the like is made. To this end, when an original digital file cannot be specified, an apparatus of this embodiment executes a vectorization process (S54), converts the obtained vector data into a data format that can be re-used by an application (S55), and registers the converted file in a file server (S56). With this registration process, since the location of the file is settled, that location information is composited on an image to be scanned using an identifier such as a two-dimensional barcode or the like (S48), and the composite image can be printed (S49). Even when the printed document is scanned again, a registered digital file can be easily specified.
US07664319B2
A color balance correction device includes a histogram generating unit that generates histograms of a gradation level of pixels for R, G, and B; a decreasing-tendency-area identifying unit that identifies a range that the frequency tends to decrease first from a highlight side of each of histograms generated by the histogram generating unit as the catch light area; and a correction-amount calculating unit that calculates a correction amount of the color balance using data of pixels except for those in the catch light area specified by the decreasing-tendency-area identifying unit.
US07664315B2
An integrated image processor implemented on a substrate is disclosed. An input interface is configured to receive pixel data from two or more images. A pixel handling processor disposed on the substrate is configured to convert the pixel data into depth and intensity pixel data. In some embodiments, a foreground detector processor disposed on the substrate is configured to classify pixels as background or not background. In some embodiments, a projection generator disposed on the substrate is configured to generate a projection in space of the depth and intensity pixel data.
US07664314B2
Processing of image data relating to moving scenarios, especially for recognizing and tracking objects located therein, requires identifying corresponding pixels or image areas in the individual successive image data sets. Likewise, processing of stereo images requires identifying the data areas which correspond to each other in two images that are recorded substantially at the same time from different angles of vision. According to the novel method of analyzing correspondences in image data sets, the image data sets that are to be compared are transformed using a signature operator such that a signature string is calculated for each pixel and is stored in a signature table allocated to the individual image data sets along with the pixel coordinates in a first step. A correspondence hypothesis is then generated for the signature strings identified in both tables and is stored in a list of hypothesis is then generated for the signature strings identified in both tables and is stored in a list of hypotheses for further processing. The inventive method advantageously makes it possible to analyze correspondences in a very efficient manner regarding the computing time while allowing fast processing of image pairs even when individual objects are presented at very different points in the two data sets.
US07664307B2
A drawing data inputting/interpreting section of a data processing device reads in hierarchical structured drawing data from a first memory device and stores interpreted drawing data information extracted as graphic information in a second memory device. A data analysis section reads in the interpreted drawing data information, analyzes information necessary for a drawing step, and stores the same as drawing analysis results in the second memory device. In addition, a data conversion section reads in the interpreted drawing data information, and after a format conversion to inspection data, stores the converted inspection data in the second memory device. Thereby, a drawing data analysis step and an inspecting data conversion step can be carried out in parallel.
US07664306B2
In a visual inspection method and apparatus, a picture processing unit converts an original picture, obtained by taking a photograph of a BGA illuminated by a ring illuminator from above, by using a camera, and labels a binary picture obtained by this binary conversion. Then, it forms a circumscribing rectangle circumscribing an outer circumference of a labeling picture obtained by the labeling, and inverts a labeling picture within the formed rectangle, and removes a portion of a region formed by the outer circumference and the circumscribing rectangle in a picture obtained by the inversion, and then generates an inspection picture by adding a picture obtained by the removal to the labeling picture, and accordingly judges a pass or rejection of the inspection target sample based on the generated inspection picture. Thus, the inspection can be carried out at a high accuracy irrespectively of a low cost.
US07664302B2
Simultaneous grayscale and geometric registration of images, such as mammograms, facilitates temporal comparison and enhances the speed and reliability of computer aided diagnosis (CAD) detection of medical abnormalities. The method generally includes optimizing a merit function, e.g., sum of squared errors, containing parameters associated with a transformation function for simultaneous geometric and grayscale registering of the images, the optimizing of the merit function being performed by determining optimal values of the parameters using data in the images and registering one image to the other by applying the geometric and grayscale transformation function using the optimal values of the parameters. The optimizing may be performed iteratively from coarse to fine resolutions using a modified Levenberg-Marquardt method for optimizing nonlinear parameters with linear regression for optimizing linear parameters. A final iteration may be performed after removing pixel value pairs from the images that correspond to outliers of a joint pixel value histogram.
US07664297B2
A method enabling a destroyed part of a joint or joint cartilage to be extracted accurately and at a high speed with a good repeatability and enabling quantitative and simple 3D analysis of the joint and the destroyed part, that is, a method of 3D image processing comprising filling in a medullary cavity region, comprised of a hollow region inside a joint, of a digitalized image of a cross-section of the examined joint using the Expansion and Shrinkage method, performing 3D labeling by a 3D image obtained by stacking digitalized images of cross-sections of the examined joint generated at a step of extracting a contour of the cross-sectional image of the joint or digitalized images of cross-sections of the examined joint not pre-processed, and defining the joint image to be evaluated.
US07664296B2
An input apparatus reads a patient ID from an ID card and transmits it to a computer. On the basis of the patient ID, the computer obtains corresponding patient information containing a photograph of the patient's face and the patient's name, from a medical database, and then transmits the patient information to the digital camera together with the patient ID. The digital camera displays the patient information to enable confirmation of the patient to be photographed. After the patient has been confirmed, the patient ID is filled in a header part of an image file for the image photographed using the digital camera, and the image file is transmitted to the medical database or the like. Thus, the input of the identification information input before photographing and the subject to be photographed can be easily confirmed.
US07664287B2
A headset capable of receiving signals from an electronic device includes a body (110), a neck (120) protruding from the body, a speaker (130) coupled to the neck, an ear loop (140) removably attached to the neck, and an earplug (150) removably attached to the neck. The ear loop can include an attachment portion (810) including a substantially circular arc, and an ear engagement portion (820) coupled to the headset attachment portion and including a flexible wire (821) surrounded by a coating (822). The earplug can include a neck attachment portion (1110) and an ear engaging portion (1120) adjacent to the headset engaging portion and having a protruding lip (1121).
US07664273B2
An example embodiment is directed to use in a facility benefiting from the distribution of audio throughout different facility zones (“audio zones”), with each audio zone receiving an audio signal from a remotely-located audio distribution controller. For controlling audio at a user-controlled speaker load located in one of the audio zones, a circuit arrangement includes isolation circuit, speaker load circuit, user-input device and an audio control unit. The isolation circuit generates a transformed audio signal by provide an impedance-matched termination and by permitting one of a number of impedance-matching circuits to be set wherein each impedance-matching circuit provides a different amount of electrical power to the speaker load. The speaker load circuit delivers, in response to the transformed audio signal, audible signals in the audio zone. The audio control unit has a microprocessor adapted to control the delivery of the audible signals in response to the input commands generated via the user-input device.
US07664272B2
A sound image control device filters transfer functions H3 and H1 indicating transfer characteristics of a sound from an acoustic transducer (8) to entrances to respective ear canals (1) and (2) as well as filtering transfer functions H4 and H2 from an acoustic transducer (9) to the entrances to the respective ear canals (1) and (2) and generates second transfer functions H6 and H5 indicating transfer characteristics of a sound to the entrances to the respective ear canals (1) and (2) from a target sound source (11) at a location different from the sound sources, the sound image control device being equipped with correction filters (13) and (14) that (i) store characteristic functions E1 and E2 for performing filtering operations on the first transfer functions H1, H2, H3, and H4 and (ii) generate the second transfer functions H5 and H6 from the first transfer functions H1, H2, H3, and H4 using such characteristic functions E1 and E2.
US07664264B2
The present invention relates to methods for protecting a data signal using the following techniques: applying a data reduction technique to reduce the data signal into a reduced data signal; subtracting the reduced data signal from the data signal to produce a remainder signal; embedding a first watermark into the reduced data signal to produce a watermarked, reduced data signal; and adding the watermarked, reduced data signal to the remainder signal to produce an output signal. A second watermark may be embedded into the remainder signal before the final addition step. Further, cryptographic techniques may be used to encrypt the reduced data signals and to encrypt the remainder signals before the final addition step. The present invention also relates to a system for securing a data signal including: computer devices for applying a data reduction technique to reduce the data signal into a reduced data signal; means to subtract the reduced data signal from the data signal to produce a remainder signal; means to apply a first cryptographic technique to encrypt the reduced data signal to produce an encrypted, reduced data signal; means to apply a second cryptographic technique to encrypt the remainder signal to produce an encrypted remainder signal; and means to add the encrypted, reduced data signal to the encrypted remainder signal to produce an output signal.
US07664263B2
A method for combining transfer functions with predetermined key creation. In one embodiment, digital information, including a digital sample and format information, is protected by identifying and encoding a portion of the format information. Encoded digital information, including the digital sample and the encoded format information, is generated to protect the original digital information. In another embodiment, a digital signal, including digital samples in a file format having an inherent granularity, is protected by creating a predetermined key. The predetermined key is comprised of a transfer function-based mask set to manipulate data at the inherent granularity of the file format of the underlying digitized samples.
US07664257B2
An authentication method for authenticating an article in a device includes the steps of (a) reading an identification number stored on the article, (b) reading an authentication number stored on the article, (c) determining an input number based at least in part on the identification number, (d) applying an authentication function to the input number to calculate an output number, (e) determining that the article is authentic only if the authentication number corresponds to the output number, and (f) permitting use of the article in the device if the article is authentic, and disabling use of the article in the device if the article is not authentic.
US07664248B2
A method and system is presented to route calls to a voicemail system. The method includes receiving a call from an originating device at a first redirecting device and forwarding the call from the first redirecting device to a second redirecting device. The forwarded call has an associated data message that includes a calling number of the originating device and the first redirecting number of the first redirecting device. The method also includes forwarding the call from the second redirecting device to a destination voice mailbox. The destination voice mailbox is selected based on an evaluation of the first redirecting number and the second redirecting number.
US07664242B2
The present invention comprises a system and method for masking the identity of a user of a calling telephone. Preferably an information processor is provided to receive over a public switched telephone network a telephone call from the calling telephone. The information processor receives from the user of the calling telephone a destination telephone number and a user-defined telephone number that is to be transmitted to a telephone at the destination telephone number. When the destination telephone answers, the user-defined telephone number is displayed.
US07664238B2
A method of transmitting one text message to a plurality of receivers is disclosed. The method includes inputting numbers of the receivers and a text message to be transmitted, determining a type of a transmission speed of the inputted text message, and transmitting the inputted text message of the determined type to numbers of the respective receivers. If the text message transmission succeeds, the method further includes confirming whether any further receivers of the text message exist and, if so, inputting new numbers of the further receivers and re-transmitting the corresponding text message to the new numbers of the further receivers. In inputting the phone numbers of the receivers, the sender can transmit the text message more rapidly and conveniently using the phonebook function and one-touch dial function.
US07664230B2
The present invention is directed to an X-ray tube that has an electron source in the form of a cathode and an anode within a housing. The anode is a thin film anode, so that most of the electrons which do not interact with it to produce X-rays pass directly through it. A retardation electrode is located behind the anode and is held at a potential which is negative with respect to the anode and slightly positive with respect to the cathode.
US07664229B2
The present invention relates to an X-ray tube, having a structure enabling capturing of a clear magnified transmission image and enabling increase of a magnification factor of the magnified transmission image, and an X-ray source including the X-ray tube. In the X-ray tube, X-rays are generated by making electrons from an electron gun incident onto an X-ray target of an anode, disposed inside an anode housing unit, and the generated X-rays are taken out from an X-ray emission window. In particular, the anode housing unit has a pair of conductive flat portions disposed parallel to a reference plane, orthogonal to an electron incidence surface of the X-ray target, and so as to sandwich the X-ray target. The reference plane contains a first reference line, joining an electron emission exit center of the electron gun and an electron incidence surface center of the X-ray target, and a second reference line, being a straight line intersecting the first reference line on the electron incidence surface of the X-ray target and joining the electron incidence surface center and an X-ray emission window center.
US07664223B1
A beam collimator arrangement for scanned-slot x-ray imaging having one or several collimators in an x-ray apparatus is disclosed. The beam collimator arrangement includes an x-ray source; an x-ray image receiver positioned to receive x-rays from the x-ray source; a compressor or means for compressing a female breast to be examined where the compressor is positionable between the x-ray source and the x-ray image receiver; and the beam collimator is positioned between the x-ray source and the compressor. The beam collimator arrangement is arranged on a carrying structure to displace the beam collimator arrangement between a first position when no x-ray exposure is conducted and a second position before x-ray exposure is initiated.
US07664218B2
A shift register includes a first transistor supplying an output terminal with a clock signal input to a first clock terminal and a second transistor discharging the output terminal. Defining the gate node of the first transistor as a first node, and the gate node of the second transistor as a second node, the shift register includes an inverter circuit in which the first node serves as its input node and a capacitive element serves as a load, and a buffer circuit receiving the output from the inverter circuit and outputting a signal to the second node.
US07664216B2
A device includes a signal generator having a delay locked circuit for providing a of output signals based on an input signal. The output signals have a fixed signal relationship with each other and with the input signal. The signal generator also includes a selector for selecting an enable signal from a range of signals formed by the output signals. The device further includes a transceiver circuit in which the transceiver circuit uses the enable signal for data processing.
US07664214B2
A communication system, clock generation circuit, and method are provided for receiving jitter upon data and to generate a clock reference that does not contain the received jitter. The clock reference can be used either by a digital subsystem of a communication system node, or can be transmitted as substantially jitter-free data from that node to a downstream node of the communication system. Instead of recovering the clock reference from the data having jitter, a pattern is regularly defined within the data stream preferably at periodic, timed intervals. The data pattern may be made up of a series of non-transitions which, regardless of any jitter in the data itself, does not impute any jitter onto a phase-locked loop triggered from an edge of the non-transitioning data pattern. Using the edge as a reference point, a jitter-free clocking signal can be derived at the same frequency as a clocking signal which would normally be produced from the jitter-induced data.
US07664212B2
A apparatus (700) and method (600) are presented for preventing glitches and data loss in an Digital Base Band (DBB) portion (110) of an Ultra Wideband (UWB) receiver. a first and a second recovered clock (111, 112) and an external clock (109) can be input to a switch (116). Logical rules (490) can be used to determine conditions under which to hold the state of an output clock (310, 320) based on the states of a first clock (410, 420, 430, 440) and a second clock (450, 460, 470, 480) and the state of a switch request signal (312). In addition to holding the state of the output clock, a first data stream (501) associated with the first clock and a second data stream (502) associated with the second clock can be synchronized such that when switching from the first to the second clock no data loss will be experienced in the data stream.
US07664209B2
A method and apparatus for coordinating the time at which a mobile station performs searches for alternative systems to which a hard handoff will occur. The mobile station receives a command which instructs the mobile station as to when to tune to alternative frequencies in order to search for indicates of the presence of an alternative system. In another system which includes the present invention, predetermined times are defined with respect to a reference point in time that is common to both the origination base station and a mobile station. The mobile station tunes to alternative frequencies to perform searches only during these predetermined times. In addition, the mobile station coordinates the transmission of reports, which indicate the results of searches for alternative systems such that these reports are only transmitted from the mobile station when the mobile station is tuned to the origination frequency.
US07664201B2
An automatic gain control system prevents input overload by precisely controlling the input level of a received, digitally modulated signal without variable gain amplification. Limiting amplification in conjunction with a logarithmic detection splits an input signal path in two, providing separate phase and amplitude information for downstream digital signal processing, where the separate phase and amplitude information is processed without variable gain artifacts. The separated phase information may further be divided into I and Q signals.
US07664199B2
Transmission power control for mobile telecommunication: terminal device, method and control program
A mobile telecommunication terminal device is provided which is capable of preventing an excessive increase in transmitting power to be fed from a base station even if a burst error occurs in a mobile unit. The mobile telecommunication terminal device has an error frequency calculating section to calculate a frequency of detection of errors in received data, a target transmitting power setting section to decrease a set value of a target SIR (Signal to Interference Power Ratio) when the frequency of detection of errors is not larger than the target SIR, while the frequency of detection of errors exceeds the target detection frequency value, to increase the set value of the target SIR, an SIR measuring section, an SIR comparing section, a transmitting power requesting section, and an error frequency correcting section.
US07664198B2
A system and method for broadcasting content data to a plurality of mobile devices. The content data is arranged into data blocks, and each data block is broadcast using an initial set of rateless transmission symbols. Mobile devices that did not receive a sufficient number of initial symbols respond with a no acknowledgment (“NACK”) message, and a NACK rate for the broadcast system is monitored. Responsive to the NACK rate, additional symbols may be broadcast or otherwise transmitted to mobile devices, and, the NACK rate is used to determine when to terminate transmission of additional symbols for a particular data block. An initial set of symbols for the next data block may be transmitted concurrently with the additional symbols for one or more previous data blocks. The NACK rate may also be used as feedback to the broadcast system to adjust the transmission scheme.
US07664194B2
A STBC-based transmission method and transmission system provides equal protection on all data streams such that all streams operate at the same SNR. STBC and spatial multiplexing are combined in a transmitter which provides equal STBC coding protection on all data streams. Such a combination of STBC with spatial multiplexing for MIMO transmission results in performance enhancements, such as in high throughput WLANs.
US07664189B2
An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) demodulator demodulates an OFDM signal constituted by OFDM symbols each including at least an effective symbol and a scattered known signal. The OFDM demodulator includes a Fourier transform performing unit, a known signal extracting unit, a time dimension interpolation unit, a delay spread generating unit, a frequency dimension interpolation unit, and a waveform equalizing unit. The delay spread generating unit employs a time difference between a time point for a starting position of the Fourier transform operation performed by the Fourier transform performing unit and a time point at which a latest arriving path arrived as the delay spread.
US07664188B2
A space-time signal processing system with advantageously reduced complexity. The system may take advantage of multiple transmitter antenna elements and/or multiple receiver antenna elements, or multiple polarizations of a single transmitter antenna element and/or single receiver antenna element. The system is not restricted to wireless contexts and may exploit any channel having multiple inputs or multiple outputs and certain other characteristics. Multi-path effects in a transmission medium cause a multiplicative increase in capacity.
US07664186B2
The influence of a DC offset with a carrier-frequency offset at the same time is reduced in that the values of the assumed or determined DC offset and of the assumed or determined carrier-frequency offset are included in the determination of reliability information for one sub-carrier in the multicarrier system, and the reliability information is corrected in this way. A factor M, where M<1, is defined for each sub-carrier on the basis of the values for the DC offset and for the carrier-frequency offset, and the reliability information for the sub-carriers is multiplied by these factors M.
US07664175B1
A method for modulating mark (20) within content signal (18) that has frames, where each of the frames has content lines and one or more measurable parameters, where each of the content lines has pixels, and where each of the pixels has a value, the method comprising selecting framesets from among the frames of the content signal; modulating at least two of the framesets; and causing mark (20) to be present within content signal (18) by at least modulating at least two of the framesets.
US07664171B2
A method for uplink burst equalization in broad wide access system, using the form of combining pre-training and burst equalization, that is, before transmitting user data, training the equalizer, then starting transmitting user data, in which, the equalizer uses decision user data as reference to track the changed wireless channel; if the change of channel exceeds the tracking region of equalizer, for example, the error rate exceeds threshold 1 but doesn't exceed threshold 2, the burst equalization will be performed; if the channel change exceeds the equalization region of equalizer, for example, the error rate exceeds threshold 2, the training will be performed again. By using the form of combining pre-training and burst equalization, setting different thresholds for handoff, the present invention greatly prolongs the intervals of subsequent pre-training process, thereby reducing the times of pre-training and increasing the effective bandwidth; By introducing burst equalization process, the present invention also decreases the requirement of system on operation occasion (for example, the static channel or the interval of bursts should be short), thereby increasing the application occasions of product.
US07664169B2
A method controls performance of modem arrangements wherein a plurality of tones having associated gains with a maximum reachable value are used for carrying respective bitstreams. The method includes at least one of selectively swapping bits between the tones in the plurality and selectively changing the tone gains to optimized an error parameter. The method also includes: determining the current values for the associated gain, determining the gain margins between the maximum reachable values and the current values, and performing, to optimize the error parameter as a function of the margins, at least one of: varying the number of bits allocated to the tones, and performing a transmitted power variation by varying the gains.
US07664165B2
Provided is a correlation apparatus based on symmetry of a correlation coefficient that can reduce complexity of hardware by reducing the number of adders and multipliers. Accordingly, when values of a real number part and an imaginary number part are exchanged with respect to a middle point of a correlation coefficient sequence and divided into two parts of left and right by the middle point of the correlation coefficient sequence, the values of the real number part and the imaginary number part are even-symmetrical with respect to the middle point of the divided two parts. Therefore, the number of the adders required for forming the correlation apparatus is reduced by at least 20% and the number of the multipliers is reduced by at least 70% in comparison with the 62 adders and the 64 multipliers required for a conventional correlation apparatus.
US07664161B2
A pulse generator for UWB transmission, lower power consumption, and suppression of LO leakage by nonuse of the LO signal. The pulse generator includes a clock generator (CLK) for giving clock of a predetermined period; a delay circuit (DLY) equipped with a function of controlling a delay time and for delaying the clock; a square-wave pulse generation circuit (SWPG) that receives information being spread by a spread code and modulates phases of square wave pulses that have a pulse width corresponding to a differential delay for one stage of the delay circuit; and an amplitude control unit (AMPC) that outputs an impulse sequence having the pulse width of the square wave in a predetermined amplitude and combines the impulses; and outputs pulses that have a predetermined envelope form.
US07664158B2
A two-dimensional photonic crystal formed by arranging in a lattice pattern a medium having a refractive index different from that of a medium layer formed near an active layer. The two-dimensional photonic crystal includes a distributed-feedback control photonic crystal in which a light propagating through the active layer as a core is subjected to a two-dimensional distributed feedback within a plane of the active layer, and the light is not radiated in a direction normal to the plane of the active layer, and a surface-emission control photonic crystal in which the light is radiated in the direction normal to the plane of the active layer, which are superimposed with each other.
US07664156B2
A wavelength tunable laser comprises a multiple ring resonator, an input/output side waveguide coupled to a ring resonator, a reflection side waveguide coupled to a ring resonator, a multiple ring resonator, a PLC substrate where the input/output side waveguide and the reflection side waveguide are formed, a high reflection film set on the reflection side waveguide, a SOA connected to the input/output side waveguide through a anti-reflection film, a film heater which is placed above a ring waveguide for wavelength tuning in the PLC substrate and provides heat to the ring waveguide for wavelength tuning, and a adiabatic groove, which restrain conducting heat provided by the film heater to the PLC substrate except the ring waveguide for wavelength tuning.
US07664153B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a laser diode array including: a laser array chip including: a substrate; and at least three of laser diodes that are formed on the substrate; first electrodes that are formed on each of the laser diodes so as to be isolated from one another; a sub-mount; and second electrodes that are formed on the sub-mount so as to correspond to the first electrodes and so as to be isolated from one another, wherein the laser array chip is mounted on the sub-mount through the first electrodes and the second electrodes, and wherein, among contacting surfaces between each of the first electrodes and a corresponding one of the second electrodes, a contacting area of a central one of the contacting surfaces is larger than that of an end one of the contacting surfaces.
US07664152B2
A semiconductor laser device has a front surface electrode formed by Au plating, a rear surface electrode formed by Au plating, an anti-adhesive film on the front surface electrode or the rear surface electrode and made of a material that does not react with Au, and a coating film that covers an end face on a light emitting side and an end face opposite the light emitting side. The anti-adhesive films may be located at least at the four corners of the front or rear surface electrode.
US07664144B2
A synchronization system and method for use in a packet switched communication network are provided. The synchronization system comprises a transmitter-identification system, a packet-boundary detection system and a storage-access system. The transmitter-identification system enables each receiving terminal within the network to know the identity of the originating transmitter terminal for a given packet of information, prior to the reception of this packet of information. The packet-boundary detection system enables detection of packet synchronization parameters for all transmitter-receiver pairs of terminals within the network. The storage-access system stores the detected packet synchronization parameters and allows the receiver to access the packet synchronization parameters. According to one embodiment of the invention, the synchronization method comprises the step of detecting synchronization parameters and, for a given receiver terminal, establishing the identity of the originating transmitter for an incoming packet of information, accessing synchronization parameters corresponding to the identified transmitter, adjusting receiver based on accessed synchronization parameters and decoding the incoming packet of information.
US07664132B2
Using low PF values in conjunction with traffic-adapted contention windows leads to substantial decreases in delay and jitter. In general, adaptation to traffic reduces contention or delay: opening up the contention window in congestion and closing it on relief. Residual backoff adaptation provides for the reduction of the already decremented backoff values of stations that interrupted the backoff countdown process due to a transmission. It is good to adapt both the contention window and the residual backoff in order to avoid jitter. Otherwise, if the contention window is reduced but residual backoffs stay unchanged, new arrivals will enjoy shorter backoff delays than older ones, resulting in greater jitter. Adjusting both preserves the relative ordering of backoff counter values, which implies also some form of age ordering. Different adjustments can be applied to different priority traffic.
US07664125B1
Described are techniques for performing indication forwarding. At an indication consolidator, a request is received from a client to receive indications about a plurality of nodes in accordance with first filter information. A communication structure for forwarding indications is determined. Subscription requests including said first filter information are forwarded from said indication consolidator to others of said plurality of nodes to establish communication connections between said plurality of nodes in accordance with said communication structure. Indications fired from any of said plurality of nodes in accordance with said first filter information are forwarded to said indication consolidator node in accordance with said communication structure. The client is notified of any indications received at said indication consolidator node in accordance with said first filter information.
US07664118B2
An innovative system and method for achieving high precision clock recovery, i.e. reconstruction of the clock signal having the same frequency, over a packet switched network. The proposed method utilizes a minimum network delay approach, which overcomes the problems caused by delay variation of the network and filters out network jitter, such as noise jitter and other “singular” anomalies causing latency deviations. Minimum network delay is defined herein as the time delay in which a packet remains in the network under assumption that all transmission queues through which the packet passes are empty.
US07664114B1
Systems in the current art provide capacity planning for packet networks. These systems require input data that characterizes traffic demands. The demands may be expressed as matrixes that record the number of bytes and packets exchanged between access routers or service nodes for each type-of-service. This invention defines a system and method to calculate these traffic matrixes. Access routers in a service node export flow records to a Record Collector. The flow records are processed to create ingress and egress records that are stored on the Record Collector. This data is uploaded to a Capacity Planning Server at which the traffic matrixes are generated. The egress access router(s) for a flow are determined by searching for matching ingress and egress records. Matching records have identical source and destination addresses. This algorithm requires no knowledge of the complex topology and routing protocols that are used within packet networks. Sampled or non-sampled flow records may be used. The concepts in this invention may also be used to calculate traffic matrixes for virtual private networks (VPNs).
US07664112B2
A packet processing apparatus includes a packet processing engine and a search engine connected through a bus having a bandwidth which is equal to or greater than a total transmission bandwidth of one or more receiving ports. The packet processing engine is configured to append a device internal header containing a search key to each of the packets, transfer the packets to the search engine through the bus, and receive the packets whose device internal headers are provided with search result information from the search engine through the bus. The search engine includes a packet buffer for temporarily storing the packets, a search processing part for performing search processing on the basis of the search key in the device internal header, and means for transferring the search result information from the search processing part and the packets stored in the packet buffer to the packet processing engine.
US07664110B1
A hybrid server and multi-layer switch system architecture, referred to hereinafter as the Enterprise Fabric (EF) architecture, forms the basis for a number of Enterprise Server (ES) chassis embodiments. Each ES embodiment generally includes one or more Processor Memory Modules (PMMs, each generally having one or more symmetric multiprocessor complexes), one or more Network Modules, and a System Control Module (SCM). The SCM includes a cellified switching-fabric core (SF) and a System Intelligence Module (SIM). Each PMM has one or more resident Virtual IO Controller (VIOC) adapters. Each VIOC is a specialized I/O controller that includes embedded layer-2 forwarding and filtering functions and tightly couples the PMM to the SF. Thus the layer-2 switch functionality within the ES chassis is distributed over all of the SCM, NM, and PMM modules. Through the use of VIOC/VNIC device drivers, host operating system software (Host O/S) running on the PMMs is presented with a plurality of Virtual Network Interface Cards (VNICs). In some embodiments, each VNIC behaves as a high-performance Ethernet interface at the full disposal of the Host O/S. In other embodiments, at least some of the VNICs behave as high-performance Fiber Channel Host Bus Adapters.
US07664108B2
The present invention relates generally to high-speed packet forwarding (switching/routing) system such as the present IP (Internet Protocol). More particularly, the invention encompasses a protocol that includes having the capabilities of high-speed IP packet forwarding to over come network delays. The invention further includes a protocol that allows for an easy and transparent implementation on current IP networks or any packet switching system/device so that one can route once (at a certain level) and cross-connect many (at a lower layer) (ROACM).
US07664104B2
In a PPP terminating equipment 100 connected with a switch fabric and terminating PPP link, the PPP terminating equipment 100 has an LCP echo requirement detecting section 20 detecting whether or not a received packet is the LCP echo requirement packet, and an LCP echo response producing section 40 producing a response packet to the LCP echo requirement by rewriting the LCP header of the received LCP echo requirement packet. The PPP terminating equipment 100 thereby produces and returns the response packet to the LCP echo requirement.
US07664096B2
A connection between an external host and a host internal to a network (e.g., VPN or LAN) and located behind a firewall and/or NAT-enabled device is established and maintained. A dynamic DNS server is updated with the remote location (RL) information associated with the internal host. This information includes the dialed number (i.e. the number assigned to the internal host), the physical address of the internal host, the private IP address corresponding to the internal host, the public IP address corresponding to the firewall, and the port on which voice data is to be communicated. Each time the internal host's location changes, a new and updated record is sent to the dynamic DNS server. The call placed by an external host reaches its final destination based on the record information in the DNS server table. Once the connection between the external host and the internal host is established, voice traffic is “cut-through” the firewall on this channel associate with the port designated by the RL record.
US07664092B2
A method for encoding network data, such as Internet Protocol (IP) data, into a format for transmission over a satellite system is described. The network data is configured in a packet having a data block and header information. The network data packet is encoded into a variable-length multi-packet transport (MPT) frame. The MPT frame comprises a data frame to hold data and header information. The IP packet in inserted its entirety into the data frame of the MPT frame. The variable-length MTP frame is then encoded into one or more fixed-length MTP packets. Each MPT packet has a data fragment block comprising a portion of the MTP frame and associated header information to designate what portion of the MTP frame is contained in the data fragment block.
US07664089B2
A system comprises a network congestion monitoring module for monitoring a congestion-related metric of a wireless medium, the congestion-related metric being based on traffic class, e.g., average contention window; a contention-period/contention-free-period (CP/CFP) adaptation module coupled to the network congestion monitoring module for generating CP/CFP information, e.g., CP/CFP duration information and/or traffic class shifting information, in response to the at least one congestion-related metric; a point coordinator module coupled to the CP/CFP adaptation module for coordinating access to the wireless medium using a point coordination function, e.g., HCCA, based on the CP/CFP information; and a distributed coordinator module coupled to the CP/CFP adaptation module for coordinating access to the wireless medium using a distributed coordination function, e.g., EDCA, based on the CP/CFP information.
US07664085B2
Embodiments of methods for coordinating communications among wireless networks and a co-located wireless communication device are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, frame-timing parameters are reported by a broadband wireless access (BWA) network node to a node of a wireless local area network (WLAN), and the WLAN node may transmit the frame-timing parameters to an access point ad the WLAN. The BWA network node and the WLAN node may be co-located within the wireless communication device. The transmission time of downlink transmissions for receipt by the WLAN node may be selected by the access point based on the frame-timing parameters to reduce interference caused by concurrent uplink transmissions by the BWA network node.
US07664084B2
A wireless station that includes an access point apparatus detection section which detects a usable access point apparatus from among a plurality of access point apparatuses; an allowance area calculation section which calculates an allowance area according to received signal strength indicator, frequency, and frequency bandwidth of a radio wave transmitted by a rogue access point apparatus whose frequency bandwidth overlaps with that of the usable access point apparatus, as well as according to received signal strength indicator, frequency, and frequency bandwidth of a radio wave transmitted by the usable access point apparatus; and an access point apparatus selection section which selects one access point apparatus based on the allowance area.
US07664078B2
A method for accessing a reverse channel for communication from a remote unit to a base station is disclosed. The method includes waiting a random period of time in response to determining that the reverse channel is available at a first time. The method also includes monitoring a forward channel after expiration of the random period of time to determine whether the reverse channel is available at a second time. The method further includes transmitting a first portion of data on the reverse channel in response to determining that the reverse channel is available at the second time.
US07664070B2
A method of providing a multicast and/or broadcast service in a mobile telecommunications network, wherein transmission times for the services are scheduled and scheduling information is transmitted from a network node to a mobile terminal, and wherein the scheduling information is provided according to a predefined schedule.
US07664058B1
The present invention provides a method for simultaneously broadcasting a message to a plurality of end-point devices. More specifically, the present invention receives a request to initiate a teleconference from a subscriber. The plurality of end-point devices is then invited to join the teleconference.
US07664055B2
A method includes receiving a first message at a router in a mesh network and synchronizing the router to a plurality of time slots using the first message. The method also includes repeatedly incrementing a network reference value at each time slot up to a maximum value and then decrementing the network reference value at each time slot down to a minimum value. In addition, the method includes broadcasting a second message at the router when the network reference value has a specific value that is associated with a unique identifier of the router.
US07664050B2
A method to automatically configure a network device is provided. Without user intervention, configuration messages are generated and transmitted on physical interfaces associated with the network device. Acknowledgements to the configuration messages provide connectivity information that is utilized to instruct the network device to operate in a first, second, or third operational mode. The network device loads instructions associated with each mode to allow the network device to automatically provide connectivity based on the network configuration or topology of the domain or segment associated with the network device.
US07664047B2
An apparatus and corresponding method for deciding whether to perform link adaptation for communication transmitted from a first communication device to a second communication device, where the second communication device examines a signal received from the first communication device and provides a first indication of the quality of the signal. The method includes the steps of: recording at least one first indication of the quality of the signal as received by the second communication device; providing a second indication of the quality of the signal based on the at least one first indication of the quality of the signal; and deciding to perform link adaptation based on the second indication of the quality of the signal. The first indication of the quality of the signal is for example a signal to interference ratio (SIR) estimate. Often, the second indication of the quality of the signal is a changed SIR target value.
US07664044B2
A method of failure detection on an Internet Protocol (IP) forwarding plane, which includes: IP nodes of the two ends obtain Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) identifier information which is used in the BFD, moreover start a BFD session, encapsulate and transport a BFD packet between the IP nodes running the BFD session and implement the failure detection according to the BFD packet transported between the IP nodes. The method of this invention realizes the failure detection via starting the BFD session and via transporting the BFD packet between the inter-domain IP nodes or the intra-domain IP nodes.
US07664041B2
Methods and apparatuses for directing data transferred in a network to multiple analysis processors for network analysis processing. A network processor is configured to receive network data transferred in a network link. The network processor is configured to transmit the network data and a path control signal to a distribution module coupled to the network processor. The distribution module is configured to receive the path control signal and receive the network data from the network processor. The distribution module is further configured to route the network data to multiple outputs based on the path control signal received. A plurality of analysis processors are coupled to the distribution module for receiving the network data from a different output of the distribution module. Each analysis processor analyzes the network data received by the analysis processor for errors, purposes of detecting or measuring errors, performance, security, compliance, statistics, or patterns.
US07664039B2
A method and apparatus for calculating a cost index in a communication network are described. In one embodiment, a plurality of cost factors associated with a first network operation mode is obtained. A plurality of second cost factors associated with a second network operation mode is subsequently obtained. A first cost index is then determined based on the plurality of cost factors associated with the first network operation mode. Likewise, a second cost index is determined based on the plurality of cost factors associated with the second network operation mode. Afterwards, the first cost index is compared to the second cost index to determine whether a recommendation for an implementation of the second operation mode is warranted.
US07664036B2
The present invention provides a dynamic real-time quality management of packetized communications in a network environment. Packetized communications are monitored by and exchanged between wireless Access Points (APs) and wireless terminals or by quality monitoring modules located within network segments or at network vertices. The processing unit analyzes the packetized communications to identify communication signatures associated with the packetized communications. The processor then uses these signatures to identify network impediments to the exchange of the packetized communications. These impediments may take the form of coding problems in which case an appropriate coding scheme is employed by the programmable COder/DECoder (CODEC) to convert incoming packetized communications to incoming user communications, and outgoing user communications to outgoing packetized communications. These impediments may also take the form of communication problems along and between the various network segments. In these cases, the processor may choose a more appropriate communication pathway with which to route the packetized communications.
US07664032B2
Each node or terminal in a communication network is capable of generating routing information for routing packets from an arbitrary source terminal to an arbitrary destination terminal on both a single-path route and a multipath route. The routing information is placed in packets transmitted to neighboring communication terminals, and analyzed in packets received from neighboring terminals. The single-path route is spatially or temporally separated from the multipath route so that the single-path route does not receive interference from the multipath route. Temporal separation may be effected by suspending the transmission of packets temporarily at each communication terminal on the multipath route. Spatial separation may be effected by using the routing information to designate different zones in the network, the single-path route being disposed in one zone, the multipath route in another zone.
US07664031B2
The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications and more particularly to systems and methods for monitoring wireless traffic in wireless local area networks. The present invention addresses shortcomings of the prior art by providing methods and apparatus for the calculation of more meaningful performance values for a wireless network reflective of the consumption of time on the wireless medium. These performance values may then, for example, be used to control access to the network or displayed graphically to show a user the performance of the network.
US07664028B1
A system and/or method for metering and marking packets of data incoming into a communication system having in some embodiments primary and secondary meter selectors, primary and secondary metering processors and a pipeline and wrapper interface controller. Further methods involve measuring an incoming microflow against one or two specified temporal profiles using a two-level metering hierarchy.
US07664027B2
A method for controlling data packet flow through an infrared adapter is provided and includes receiving a data stream from an infrared device. The data stream has a first data transmission rate. Further, the rate of transmission of the data stream is modified within the infrared adapter to produce an output data stream having a second data transmission rate. Also, the output data stream is transmitted from the infrared adapter. In a particular embodiment, the first data transmission rate is different from the second data transmission rate. Particularly, the second data transmission rate is less than the first data transmission rate.
US07664025B2
Packet network telecommunication systems, especially Internet Protocol (IP) telephony removes the need of explicit installing of TSP (TAPI service provider) software or other telephony software at each workstation. Application server software or corresponding control software is arranged to take care of all call control actions on behalf of the phone client software so that the phone client software only needs to receive and transmit speech data streams, and to communicate all control messaging from and to the particular phone client software via the communication link between the control software and the phone client software. Since modern operating systems include support for the user interface devices as well as transmitting and receiving real-time data streams, the phone client software does not require any specific interfacing software to be installed on the client workstation.
US07664007B2
In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3.
US07664003B2
An objective lens for use in an optical pickup apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information on a first optical information recording medium having a protective substrate with a thickness t1 using a light flux with a wavelength λ1, on a second optical information recording medium having a protective substrate with a thickness t2 using a light flux with a wave length λ2 and a third optical information recording medium having a protective substrate with a thickness t3 using a light flux with a wavelength λ2, the objective lens includes: an optical surface including a central area and a peripheral area, wherein when the objective optical lens forms the portion of the light flux with the wavelength λ2 passed the central area into a converged spot through a substrate with a thickness t4, the objective optical lens makes a spherical aberration of the converged spot a minimum value.
US07664002B2
A conventional broadband quarter-wave plate has not completely solved the wavelength dependence and has different efficiencies of shifting the phase by 90° depending on the wavelengths, and therefore has a problem that it cannot fulfill the strict specifications on the optical characteristics which are demanded of a wave plate from a viewpoint of the optical efficiency and the like in an optical pickup device compatible with a plurality of different wavelengths. To provide a wave plate which completely functions as a quarter-wave plate with respect to a plurality of different wavelengths and an optical pickup using that wave plate to solve the problem, the present invention provides a laminated wave plate, wherein a wave plate with a phase difference α and a wave plate with a phase difference β with respect to monochromatic light with a wavelength λ are laminated in such a way that directions of optical axes of said plates intersect each other, so that the laminated wave plate, as a whole, functions as a quarter-wave plate, and which is characterized in that a relationship between the α and the β satisfies the following formulas: (3/2)×π≠α−2×π×(m−1) π≠β−2×π×(n−1), wherein: each of m and n is a positive integer.
US07663994B2
A frequency characteristics compensation method that can be applied to various waveforms (strategies). When determining the amount of frequency compensation, a deteriorated part by frequency characteristics is compensated for with respect to the difference between the pulse power to be compensated and the power level immediately before it. The present invention can also be applied to variations in the performance, aged deterioration, and temperature characteristics.
US07663988B2
An optical disc apparatus is disclosed that comprises a jitter value detecting circuit that detects a jitter value based on the signal read out from an optical disc; and a defocus value setting circuit that adjusts a defocus value used for moving an objective lens along the direction of a light axis when focusing of the objective lens to the optical disc is performed, based on the signal that has gone through the jitter value detecting circuit, and causes a defocus adjustment to be made based on the defocus value.
US07663987B2
A method for calibrating a recording track offset of an optical storage device accessing an optical storage medium of a land and groove recording/reproduction type includes: setting at least one control parameter of a track offset control loop of the optical storage device to drive the track offset control loop to enter an first state; and recording data onto the optical storage medium with the track offset control loop being enabled to derive the latest value of the recording track offset, where the track offset control loop is utilized for controlling the recording track offset. The method further includes setting the control parameter to drive the track offset control loop to enter a second state, where a loop response of the track offset control loop in the first state is different from that in the second state.
US07663980B2
A audio data collection and management system is provided for extracting music data from an optical media and managing the music data. The system is configured to extract at least a portion of an initial track of music data at an extracting rate that is different than the recording rate. The system simultaneously records the extracted portion of the initial track of music data to a storage media at the extracting rate while performing the extracting. The system is configured to be implemented in an automobile, a home stereo system, or a personal computer system.
US07663976B2
Dynamic positioning of a vessel 10 connected to the seafloor 14 by a riser 12 utilizes a measurement of riser 12 bottom angle combined with a measurement of vessel 10 velocity, optionally obtained from a Doppler log 16. These two signals are combined to produce a single position estimate using an algorithm such as a Kalman filter. Using riser bottom angle only would result in an unstable control system, since the bottom angle lags the vessel motion by a considerable amount and the relationship is non-linear. Using the velocity measurement alone would result in a slow drift of position. The combination of the two eliminates the disadvantages of the individual measurements.
US07663974B2
A fishfinder is provided for identifying with high precision a single fish under the ship and for measuring the length of the fish precisely. An operator of the fishfinder is assisted to grasp the depth and the length of the fish. A fishfinder transmits an ultrasound pulse having a high carrier frequency and an ultrasound pulse having a low carrier frequency by means of a pulse transmission and reception device at predetermined time intervals. A single fish echo is determined and tracked for a plurality of transmission intervals of ultrasound pulses emitted into the water. A target strength of single fish is measured based on the signal strength of a low carrier frequency echo signal from the single fish. The length of the fish is measured based on the target strength. A fish mark is displayed on the screen of an indicator, with the size of the fish mark depending on the fish length.
US07663971B2
Resonance scattering analysis of at least 3-component (3-C) VSP data detects heterogeneities in the proximity of a borehole. A method for seismic exploration of a pre-determined volume of the earth for assessing features of the volume using at least 3-C VSP data generated for the volume comprises: computing a resonance spectra indicating resonance scattering of the at least 3-C VSP data; and determining a lateral continuity of said features in accordance with the resonance spectra. Zero amplitude in a resonance spectrum indicates definite polarization of the direct pressure wave into the ray direction and very weak lateral heterogeneity along the path of the direct wave. High amplitudes in a resonance spectrum are observed if energy of the direct wave is observed on the horizontal components due to scattering at small-scale lateral heterogeneities near the receiver. Peak frequency provides information on the size and location of the scattering structure.
US07663963B2
An apparatus and method are provided for reading a plurality of consecutive entries and writing a plurality of consecutive entries with only one read address and one write address using a 2Read/2Write register file. In one exemplary embodiment, a 64 entry register file array is partitioned into four sub-arrays. Each sub-array contains sixteen entries having one or more 2Read/2Write SRAM cells. The apparatus and method provide a mechanism to write the consecutive entries by only having a 4 to 16 decode of one address. In addition, the apparatus and method provide a mechanism for reading data from the register file array using a starting read word address and two read word lines generated based on the starting read word address. The two read word lines are used to access the two read ports of the entries in the sub-arrays.
US07663959B2
A method for controlling a word line signal for a memory device during a power down process, comprising: pulling the word line signal down to a low logic state; disconnecting a current path from an external power supply to an internal power supply after the word line signal has been pulled down to the low logic state; and disconnecting a current path from an external ground voltage to an internal ground voltage after a current path from an external power supply to an internal power supply has been completely disconnected.
US07663956B2
A semiconductor memory device performs a refresh operation sequentially for a word line selected based on a row address when receiving a refresh request, and comprises: a memory cell array divided into M banks; a refresh counter for sequentially outputting a count value corresponding to the word line to be refreshed in response to the refresh request; and a row address converter for supplying row addresses different from one anther in at lest two banks among the M banks by converting the count value. In the semiconductor memory device, a predetermined number of selected word lines are refreshed at the same time in the banks in accordance with different patterns from one another, and the maximum value of the total number of the selected word lines refreshed at the same time for all the M banks is controlled to be lower than 2M.
US07663951B2
A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a main bank configured to combine a first sub bank and a second sub bank. A center bitline sense amplifier array is arranged in a region where the first sub bank meets the second sub bank. A first precharge section is arranged above the first sub bank and a second precharge section is arranged below the second sub bank. The first precharge section precharges local input/output lines of the first sub bank and the second sub bank and the second precharge section precharges the local input/output lines.
US07663948B2
A semiconductor memory device which has a normal memory cell array and a redundant memory cell array for replacing a failure bit in the normal memory cell array, having: a memory cell array having a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit line pairs crossing the word lines, and a plurality of memory cells placed at the crossing positions; and a plurality of sense amplifier circuits which are placed between adjacent memory cell arrays and are shared by bit line pairs of memory cell arrays on both sides. And a current interrupting circuit for disconnecting the sense amplifier and the bit line pairs in a column having a failure is formed respectively between the sense amplifier circuit and the bit line pairs on both sides. By this current interrupting circuit, short-circuit current from the sense amplifier circuit to the shorted area can be suppressed.
US07663945B2
A cell core unit and its peripheral circuit are driven by a relatively low voltage power supply. A constant voltage that does not depend on the power supply voltage is provided as a boosted voltage (VBOOST) to be supplied to a control signal for a word line of the cell core unit. A sense amplifier amplifies a higher voltage level of a bit line to the power supply voltage. Then, a circuit for generating a signal for defining the transition timing and/or the pulse width of a control signal from the peripheral circuit to the cell core unit performs signal delay using a delay circuit having a characteristic in which a delay time thereof decreases with reduction of the provided power supply voltage.
US07663936B2
A semiconductor circuit of the invention comprises: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells formed at intersections between a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines; a plurality of sense amplifiers each for amplifying data of the memory cell connected to a selected word line through the bit line; a plurality of data holding circuits each for holding data transferred from the plurality of sense amplifiers; and a plurality of selectors each for selecting a data holding circuit from a unit group including a predetermined number of the data holding circuits based on logic input data, and for externally connecting one end of the selected data holding circuit.
US07663932B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device capable of reading and verifying a negative threshold cell by biasing a source line and a well line to a positive voltage. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a precharge circuit which precharges a bit line to the same voltage as that of the source line in reading and verifying the negative threshold cell.
US07663931B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a low voltage supplier for supplying a low voltage lower than a ground voltage; a voltage selector for selecting one of the low voltage and the ground voltage; and a word line driving circuit for driving a word line in response to an output of the voltage selector. The voltage selector operates when a self refresh signal is inputted, and supplies the low voltage as a voltage of logic low level used in the word line driving circuit in a self refresh mode and supplies the ground voltage as a voltage of logic low level used in the word line driving circuit in modes other than the self refresh mode.
US07663930B2
A non-volatile memory device that changes the programming step voltage between the source side of the array and the drain side of the array. After the initial programming pulse, a verify operation determines if the cell has been programmed. If the cell is still erased, the initial programming voltage is increased by the step voltage. The step voltage for the lowest word line near the source line is lower than the step voltage for the word line closest to the drain line.
US07663922B2
A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a page buffer comprising a lower latch block and an upper latch block, and a memory array that is connected to the lower latch block via a lower common bit line and that is connected to the upper latch block via an upper common bit line. The memory array includes a plurality of non-volatile memory cells, a lower even bit line and a lower odd bit line that are selectively connectable to the lower common bit line, an upper even bit line and an upper odd bit line that are selectively connectable to the upper common bit line, a first switch that electrically connects the lower even bit line to the upper even bit line in response to a first connection control signal and a second switch that electrically connects the lower odd bit line to the upper odd bit line in response to a second connection control signal.
US07663920B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a memory system that offers enhanced security of ROM code that is data whose contents can be utilized for a given purpose in its intact form. In a memory system, data is read from a memory according to at least two or more addresses outputted from an address generator, from individual pages uniquely specified respectively by the addresses. A data generator generates one piece of data on the basis of the at least two or more pieces of data read from the individual pages.
US07663918B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a first memory block including a plurality of memory cells provided between a first drain selection transistor and a source selection transistor; and a second memory block including a plurality of memory cells provided between a second drain selection transistor and the source selection transistor. The first and second memory blocks share the same source selection transistor that is supplied with a voltage via a source selection line.
US07663916B2
An array of memory cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns are provided. The array includes a first program line in a first direction, wherein the first program line is connected to program gates of memory cells in a first row of the array; a first erase line in the first direction, wherein the first erase line is connected to erase gates of the memory cells in the first row of the array; and a first word-line in the first direction, wherein the first word-line is connected to word-line nodes of the memory cells in the first row of the array.
US07663909B2
A memory cell includes a first electrode and an opposing second electrode, and a memory stack between the first and second electrodes. The memory stack includes a first layer of thermal isolation material contacting the first electrode, a second layer of thermal isolation material contacting the second electrode, and a phase change material between the first layer of thermal isolation material and the second layer of thermal isolation material. In this regard, the phase change material defines an active region width that is less than a width of either of the first layer of thermal isolation material and the second layer of thermal isolation material.
US07663901B2
Memory modules and methods for fabricating and implementing memory modules wherein unique device parameters corresponding to specific memory devices on the memory modules are accessed from a database such that the device parameters may be implemented to improve system performance. The device parameters may include sizes, speeds, operating voltages, or timing parameters of the memory modules. Memory modules comprising a number of volatile memory devices may be fabricated. Device parameters corresponding to the specific memory devices on the memory module may be stored in a database and accessed during fabrication or during implementation of the memory modules in a system. System performance may be optimized by implementing the unique device parameters corresponding to the specific memory devices on the memory modules.
US07663900B2
A tree-structure memory device. A tree-structure memory device comprises a plurality of bit lines formed on a substrate and arranged in at least one plane substantially parallel to a substrate surface and extending substantially in a first direction. A plurality of layers having a plurality of memory cells is arranged in a first array. At least one tree structure corresponds to a plurality of layers and a bit line, and has a trunk portion and at least one branch portion that corresponds to one of the layers. A word-line group includes at least one word line crossing with the branch portion of the tree structure at a first intersection region. A memory cell of the first array is located at the first intersection region in a layer of the layers. The first array of memory cells includes at least one memory cell comprising a phase-change-material layer disposed between the word line and the branch portion of the tree structure at the first intersection region without an intervening current-steering element.
US07663898B2
A power supply circuit, comprising a first reverse blocking transistor coupled to an AC power line; a second reverse blocking transistor coupled to the AC power line; a first inductor provided between the first reverse blocking transistor and the AC power line and configured to store energy; a first diode having a first terminal that is coupled to one end of the first inductor; a first capacitor having a terminal that is coupled to a second terminal of the first diode; and a first output terminal provided between the first diode and the first capacitor. The first and second transistors are arranged in an anti-parallel configuration and together define an AC switch.
US07663889B2
An assembly is disclosed which enables a printed circuit board (PCB) to be added to or removed from a computer system without deactivating other parts of the system. The assembly, which holds the PCB, translates lateral motion into vertical motion to enable lateral motion to be applied to derive the vertical motion needed to plug and unplug a PCB into and out of an expansion slot. This motion translation makes it possible to insert or remove a PCB via a rear, front, or side access portal of a housing rather than through the top of the housing. Thus, the assembly eliminates the need to remove the housing from a rack, or to remove a top from the housing, which in turn eliminates the need to shut down any other parts of the system. Thus, the assembly enables a PCB to be “hot swapped” into and out of a computer system.
US07663886B2
An electronic circuit device includes a lower-side substrate formed with a main circuit; an upper-side substrate formed with a drive control circuit that drivingly controls the main circuit; a support body positionally fixed above the lower-side substrate with resin in a hardened state; and a case having a peripheral portion with an outer surface that has at least a portion of an external lead-out terminal of the drive control circuit and the main circuit thereon, and a substrate storage space that accommodates the lower-side substrate on a side inward from the peripheral portion.
US07663884B2
A heat dissipation device attached to a top surface of an electronic device mounted on a printed circuit board, includes a heat sink and a retainer securing the heat sink onto the electronic device. The retainer includes a frame, a plurality of baffle walls and protrusion posts extending downwardly from the frame. Lower ends of the baffle walls of the retainer extend downwardly through the heat sink and engage with engaging edges of the electronic device. The heat dissipation device is further provided with a plurality of elastic members which respectively surround the protrusion posts of the retainer and are compressed between the retainer and the heat sink, thereby pushing the heat sink downwardly toward the electronic device.
US07663878B2
A peripherals device for coupling with a handheld communication device includes an interface to the handheld communication device and a processor for performing functions complementary to the communications device. According to another embodiment, the peripherals device includes a conformal cavity for receiving a handheld communications device in a secure fashion. According to yet another embodiment, the peripherals device includes a data collection device for collecting data and using the interface for sending the collected data to a remote processor for further processing. The data collection device can include an image reader, a barcode reader, a signature capture device, an optical character recognition. In yet another embodiment, there is a power subsystem that powers the peripherals device and the handheld communications device. The power system has a low power state to conserve energy. In another embodiment, the peripherals device comprises a plurality of processors that automatically reconfigure themselves to work with the communication device to which the peripherals device is connected.
US07663875B2
A computer enclosure includes a chassis, an airflow-guiding device, and a mounting mechanism. The chassis includes a mounting bracket. The mounting bracket defines a receiving slot therein. The airflow-guiding device is mounted to the chassis adjacent to the mounting bracket. The mounting mechanism is installed on the airflow-guiding device. The mounting mechanism includes a hook received in the receiving slot and configured to mount the airflow-guiding device to the chassis. The mounting mechanism is configured to slide on the airflow-guiding device to disengage the hook from the receiving slot.
US07663872B2
A sliding mechanism includes: a slidable intermediate member having first and second guide holes; a first shaft that is slidably inserted into the first guide hole, the first shaft having first and second end portions; a first spring member that is interposed between the first end portion of the first shaft and the slidable intermediate member to urge the slidable intermediate member toward the second end portion of the first shaft; a second shaft that is slidably inserted into the second guide hole, the second shaft having third and fourth end portions, the third end portion being disposed at a position opposite to the first end portion; and a second spring member that is interposed between the third end portion of the second shaft and the slidable intermediate member to urge the slidable intermediate member toward the fourth end portion of the second shaft.
US07663871B2
Disclosed is a computer that includes: a system body having an input device; a display module having a display surface and a rear surface; a display case having a side wall surface; and a hinge pivotally coupling the body to the display module, the hinge including a hinge frame having first and second surfaces, the first surface coupled with the rear surface of the display module, the second surface coupled with the side wall surface of the display case.
US07663868B1
A mounting system for display devices provides for easy shipping, installation, and adjustment. First and second brackets are respectively mounted to the display device and the vertical supporting surface, such as a wall or otherwise. The two mounting brackets are then attached to one another in articulating fashion so that adjustment can be made for the mounted display device with respect to the stationary vertical surface. In an optional embodiment, a pan bracket assembly allows for additional angular adjustment of the mounted display device along different axes so as to provide greater adjustment for one or more axes, including an axis normal, or perpendicular, to the display device so that those viewing the display device are better able to see it.
US07663866B2
A remote control duo power set comprises one first power outlet which has one first housing, a plurality of first sockets being set on one surface of said first housing, a power cord extending from one side of said first housing; one connecting cord of which one end is connected to the other side of said first housing; and one second power outlet, which is connected to the other side of said connecting cord and has one second housing, a plurality of second sockets and at least one power switch being provided at a side of the second housing. User can easily supply power to the electronic devices by said second power outlet. Furthermore, users can also easily control the supply of power by said power switch.
US07663861B2
An MIM capacitance element (capacitance lower electrode, capacitance insulation film and capacitance upper electrode) is provided on a first insulation film on a semiconductor substrate. An interlayer insulation film is provided so as to cover the MIM capacitance element and flattened. The interlayer insulation film is provided with a first connection plug connected to the capacitance upper electrode, a first wiring layer, and a second wiring layer. A second insulation film is provided on the interlayer insulation film. The second insulation film is provided with first and second openings. A wiring pull-out portion which connects the first connection plug and the second wiring layer to each other is provided on the second insulation film.
US07663859B1
Electrostatic footwear in the form of a cover with a sole and an upper having an opening to receive the foot or shoe of a user. The opening may be provided with elastic or an elastic cuff for retention about the user. The cover may be worn over the foot or the shoe of a user. The cover has an excess electrical charge to attract particulate matter including but not limited to dust, dirt, pollen, and dander. The electrostatic charge causes the particulate matter to be drawn and held thereon as the user moves about. The sole may include anti-skid material over a limited portion thereof to prevent the user from sliding or slipping.
US07663858B2
A control device (2) for an electro-actuator (3) comprising a first and a second input terminal (4, 5) connected to an electrical energy source (6); a first and a second output terminal (10, 11) connected to the electro-actuator (3); and selectively controlled switches (16, 17, 18) which can be activated in order to connect the first and second output terminals (10, 11) to the first and second input terminals (4, 5) in predetermined operative conditions; the controlled switches (17, 18) comprise first controlled switches (17) which are connected between the first input terminal (4) and the first output terminal (10) and second controlled switches (18) which are connected between the second input terminal (5) and the second output terminal (11); the control device (2) additionally comprises first sensors (31) which are connected to the ends of the first controlled switches (17) and provide a first signal (VHS) which is indicative of the current flowing in the first controlled switches (17).
US07663848B1
A method and system for providing a magnetic memory are described. The method and system include providing a plurality of magnetic storage cells. Each of the magnetic storage cells includes at least one magnetic element. The magnetic element(s) includes a pinned layer, a barrier layer that is a crystalline insulator and has a first crystalline orientation, and a free layer. The free layer includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and an intermediate layer between the first and second ferromagnetic layer. The barrier layer resides between the pinned and free layers. The first ferromagnetic layer resides between the barrier layer and the intermediate layer and is ferromagnetically coupled with the second ferromagnetic layer. The intermediate layer is configured such that the first ferromagnetic layer has the first crystalline orientation and the second ferromagnetic layer has a second crystalline orientation different from the first ferromagnetic layer. The magnetic element is configured to allow the free layer to be switched utilizing spin transfer when a write current is passed through the magnetic element.
US07663833B2
A controller controls movement of a head mounted in a storage apparatus based on a signal output from an acceleration sensor. A head movement control section which controls movement of the head to a target position on a storage medium and a head unload control section unloads the head to an unload position based on (1) the time at which a drop or initial impact is first detected based on a signal output from the acceleration sensor and (2) threshold information, which includes a first threshold representing a standard strength of the signal output from the acceleration sensor at the time of drop and a second threshold representing a standard strength of the signal output from the acceleration sensor at the time of initially receiving impact.
US07663830B2
A method of forming servo data, and a self-servo write method using the same, the method including partial response maximum likelihood (PRML)-coding servo data into m bits in n-bit units; multiplying each bit of the PRML-coded result by an o multiple; and converting a bitsream obtained in the multiplying to ((m/n)−p) bits in m/n-bit units.
US07663824B2
The present invention relates to a voice coil module (VCM), and more particularly, to a VCM used for lens fixation and displacement measurement in order to prevent and control power consumption. Accordingly, in the VCM, power is not additionally consumed in order to maintain a specific position of the lens in a state that a focus of the lens is adjusted. Further, the lens is not moved and an optical axis is not distorted when a vibration occurs while an image is captured. Furthermore, the lens can be accurately controlled by measuring the present position of the lens.
US07663818B2
By maintaining a relative position of coils of a movable unit with respect to fixed magnets in a normal state to stabilize a relative position of the movable unit with respect to the whole of a lens drive assembly, the lens drive assembly is provided as an assembly capable of adjusting the focus of a lens in a satisfactory manner. In a voice coil type lens drive assembly for adjusting the focus of a lens, a spring 6, a yoke 6 with magnets 5 and a movable unit M1 attached thereto, and electrically conductive springs 2, are accommodated in this order on a base 1 and a connecting portion of a cover frame 8 and that of the base 1 are connected together to unite the two components. At the same time, cut-in portions 6d formed in end portions of the yoke 6, which is a metallic yoke, are fitted on projections 1e of the base 1 and both are joined together with connections to the cover frame 8 as guide.
US07663805B2
An eyewear display and media device interconnection system enables a user to connect various media devices and various eyewear or other displays to each other, by using a common interface. The integrated system offers improved ergonomics, lower size, lower power consumption and lower cost.
US07663804B2
An exemplary optical plate includes a transparent plate unit. The transparent plate unit includes a light output surface, a bottom surface, a diffusion layer, and a lamp-receiving portion. The bottom surface is opposite to the light output surface. The diffusion layer is formed on the light output surface. The lamp-receiving portion is defined in the bottom surface. A backlight module using the present optical plate is also provided.
US07663801B2
A method of managing gain tilt in an optical transmission segment including providing an optical transmission segment having a plurality of fiber optic cable spans and a plurality of repeaters coupled to the fiber optic cable spans. Gain tilt in the optical transmission segment is monitored. If negative gain tilt is accumulated at a repeater location in the transmission segment, the repeater at the repeater location is replaced with a higher gain repeater having a higher nominal gain value than the nominal gain value of the repeater being replaced.
US07663794B2
Interferometric modulators having a separable modulator architecture are disclosed having a reflective layer suspended from a flexible layer over a cavity. The interferometric modulators have one or more anti-tilt members that inhibit undesirable movement of the reflective layer, such as curling and/or tilting. The stabilization of the reflective layer by the anti-tilt members can improve the quality of the optical output of the interferometric modulators, as well as displays comprising such interferometric modulators.
US07663787B2
A document deciding apparatus includes: a light source; a light-quantity detection unit detecting a reference light quantity based on irradiation of the light source, and respective light quantities of plural colors based on reflection from or transmission through a document; a decision unit deciding whether the document is colorless or colored, in accordance with a predetermined criterion on the basis of the light quantities of plural colors detected by the light-quantity detection unit; and a control unit performing a control so as to alter the criterion of the decision unit or a value corresponding to the light quantities detected by the light-quantity detection unit, on the basis of a change of the reference light quantity detected by the light-quantity detection unit.
US07663779B2
When the size output for an image is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value (e.g., index printing), a printing apparatus performs an image expansion/reduction process by using an interpolation method whereby high speed processing is enabled while an inferior image quality is provided, or when the output size is greater than a predetermined value (e.g., the normal printing of a single sheet), employs an interpolation method for a high quality image to perform the expansion/reduction. Further, when the output image size is equal to or smaller than the predetermined value, the printing apparatus 1 skips the noise reduction process and the sharpening process to increase the processing speed.
US07663778B2
In a multifunction product including a plurality of input sources and a plurality of output destinations corresponding to the function thereof, there are an input document class that fits an input document input from the input source to a common format regardless of the input sources and manages the input document, a user document class that obtains user images of a predetermined size to be processed from the input document and manages the user document formed of the obtained user images, and an output document class that uses the output image created from the user images constituting the user document to create an output document reshaped in a format to be output to the output destination and output the output document.
US07663777B2
A method for customizing a print device to a specific user including prompting a user of the device to indicate whether the device is intended for a first type of use or a second, different type of use, receiving an indication of intended use and, in response to the indication, automatically establishing at least one device default setting.
US07663771B2
A device is used for controlling an installation that is comprised of several units. A common control system, that is provided with a central data memory, in which current real values and/or set points are filed as process variables for several units, is allocated to several of these units. The data memory encompasses a storage area for the process variables. The data structure of this storage area can be configured even by using a set of data that describes the projected installation.
US07663770B2
A method for shopping for one or more consumables for a device includes requesting with the device the identity of at least one supplier for the at least one consumable for the device, identifying the supplier for the consumable based on the request, and displaying with the device the identified supplier. A system for shopping for one or more consumables for a device includes a requesting system, an identification system, and a display system. The requesting system with the device requests the identity of at least one supplier for the consumable for the device. The identification system identifies the supplier for the consumable based on the request. The display system with the device displays the identified supplier.
US07663768B2
A method and system are presented for determining a line profile in a patterned structure, aimed at controlling a process of manufacture of the structure. The patterned structure comprises a plurality of different layers, the pattern in the structure being formed by patterned regions and un-patterned regions. At least first and second measurements are carried out, each utilizing illumination of the structure with a broad wavelengths band of incident light directed on the structure at a certain angle of incidence, detection of spectral characteristics of light returned from the structure, and generation of measured data representative thereof. The measured data obtained with the first measurement is analyzed, and at least one parameter of the structure is thereby determined. Then, this determined parameter is utilized, while analyzing the measured data obtained with the second measurements enabling the determination of the profile of the structure.
US07663754B2
This document discusses, among other things, systems, devices and methods for fluid flow analysis for example, in an education environment. The light source, for example, a laser, is housed to illuminate particles in a fluid while minimizing exposure to the user. A control unit is provided that is remote from the fluid flow device. The fluid flow device further includes a removable fluid obstacle such that different fluid flow effects can be obtained.
US07663748B2
An autofocus mechanism for a spectroscopic system determines a time varying optical property of a volume of interest. The mechanism measures the fluctuations of the optical property of the volume of interest for determining the position of the volume of interest. The spectroscopic system focuses an excitation beam into the determined volume of interest and collects return radiation emanating from the volume of interest for spectroscopic analysis. Preferably, inelastically scattered radiation of an excitation beam is separated from elastically scattered radiation for spectroscopic analysis. The elastically scattered radiation of the excitation beam is measured for fluctuations of the optical property of the volume of interest. A control loop maximizes the amplitude and/or intensity of the fluctuations and specifies the position of a volume of interest e.g. the center of a capillary vessel.
US07663745B2
A method for detecting specular surface flaws on a coated substrate includes impinging visible non-integrated electromagnetic radiation from a first source onto the coated substrate, reflecting the visible non-integrated electromagnetic radiation off the coated substrate into a first photosensitive device, forming a recorded high frequency surface flaw image, and impinging visible coherent electromagnetic radiation from a second source onto a coated substrate at an oblique angle. The visible non-integrated electromagnetic radiation and the visible coherent electromagnetic radiation on the coated substrate are collocated but not combined on the substrate. The visible coherent electromagnetic radiation is reflected off the coated substrate onto a screen material to form a low frequency surface flaw image. The low frequency surface flaw image is recorded to form a recorded low frequency surface flaw image.
US07663739B2
Methods for generating a customized spectral profile, which can be used to generate a corresponding filter. A trial source spectrum is generated. An uncorrected lamp source spectrum is determined. One or more optical indices are calculated using the trial source spectrum or the uncorrected lamp source spectrum, and one or more of the optical indices are optimized by varying the trial source spectrum to generate the customized spectral profile.
US07663736B2
A laser radar driving apparatus applying a laser beam to a target object and detecting the laser beam reflected and returned from the target object to measure a distance to the target object, at least comprising: an optical member that the laser beam is applied to; a main body member that the optical member is mounted to; and a coil capable of manipulating the main body member, a drive assembly being configured with mounting the optical member and the coil to the main body member.
US07663733B2
A method of illuminating at least two illumination points by means of at least one spatial light modulator, said at least one spatial light modulator comprising a plurality of light modulators, whereby a predefined amount of energy transmitted to said points is at least partly controlled by varying the number of said light modulators illuminating said point.
US07663727B2
A display device includes a display panel; plural first semiconductor chips mounted on the periphery of a first side of a substrate forming the display panel in a first direction; and first power source wiring layer provided on the periphery of the first side substrate. A location of a bump electrode of the first semiconductor chip provided on one end in the first direction, the bump electrode being connected to the first power source wiring layer, is different from a location of a bump electrode of the first semiconductor chip provided on the other end in the first direction, the bump electrode thereof being connected to the first power source wiring layer.
US07663720B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can decrease lowering of light utilization efficiency attributed to a light absorption axis of an alignment film. A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel includes liquid crystal, and a first substrate and a second substrate arranged to face each other in an opposed manner with the liquid crystal therebetween. The first substrate is arranged between the second substrate and the backlight. The first substrate includes a first polarizer and a first alignment film arranged between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal. The second substrate includes a second polarizer and a second alignment film arranged between the second polarizer and the liquid crystal. The second alignment film has a light absorption axis, and an angle made by the light absorption axis of the second alignment film and a light absorption axis of the second polarizer is set to a value which falls within ±1°. The first alignment film has a light absorption axis, and an angle made by the light absorption axis of the first alignment film and a light absorption axis of the first polarizer is set to a value not less than 89° and not more than 91°. (degree of polarization of the first alignment film)/(degree of polarization of the second alignment film) is set to a value not more than 0.9.
US07663716B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the liquid crystal display device having a dot region as an image display unit, the dot region including a transmissive display region and a reflective display region, wherein a thickness adjustment layer for adjusting the thickness of the liquid crystal layer is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, the thickness adjustment layer decreasing the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the reflective display region compared with the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the transmissive display region, and a metal line is placed on the second substrate so as to overlap, in plan view, an inclined region of the thickness adjustment layer disposed between the transmissive display region and the reflective display region.
US07663715B2
A tiled display device includes a plurality of display devices defining an image display part, the image display part divided into a central portion and an outer edge portion, a support frame tiling the plurality of display devices side by side, and a plurality of light guides, each light guide disposed on each of the display devices, wherein the brightness of an image displayed at the outer edge portion is higher than that of an image disposed at the central portion.
US07663708B2
A multi-domain liquid crystal display includes a plurality of first and second picture elements and a plurality of first and second auxiliary electrodes. The first and second picture elements have opposite polarities under the same frame of an inversion drive scheme. The first auxiliary electrodes are connected to the first picture elements and at least partially surround each of the second picture elements, and the second auxiliary electrodes are connected to the second picture elements and at least partially surround each of the first picture elements.
US07663707B2
A three-dimensional display device includes a liquid crystal display which has an image display surface which emits display light, a plurality of optical fibers, each of the optical fibers having a light-receiving end which receives the display light emitted from the image display surface and an emitting end which emits the display light, and a rotation device which rotates the optical fibers around a rotation axis perpendicular to the image display surface. The rotation radius of the light-receiving end and the rotation path of the emitting end of each of the optical fibers are set to have a one-to-one relationship.
US07663696B2
A digital television signal receiver (20) processes a digital television signal and auxiliary information contained in the digital television signal regardless of whether the auxiliary information is analog auxiliary information (36) or digital auxiliary information (34) and produces a television display signal (44) suitable for displaying the processed auxiliary information. In the case of the auxiliary information being closed caption information, the digital television signal receiver extracts and processes digital closed captioning information according to standard EIA-708 or extracts and processes analog closed caption information according to standard EIA-608. The television signal processing receiver thus allows the user the option of selecting a fallback method of obtaining captioning for a digital program signal if the digital program signal does not include digital closed captioning. Thus, if a digital television signal does not include digital closed caption information, the digital television signal receiver automatically processes any analog auxiliary information and provides a television signal having closed caption information suitable for display.
US07663691B2
A digital image capture system and method uses a display device to illuminate a target with light for improved image capture under poor lighting conditions. Various characteristics of the flash (e.g., brightness, color, duration, etc.) can be adjusted to improve image capture. Users are provided with feedback (e.g., live video feed, audio and/or visual countdowns, etc.) to assist them in preparing for image capture. The captured images are seamlessly integrated with existing applications (e.g., video conferencing, instant text messaging, etc.).
US07663685B2
A solid-state image pickup element has: a photoelectric converting film which is stacked above a semiconductor substrate; plural photoelectric converting elements which are arranged in the row direction and the column direction on the semiconductor substrate, and signal charge accumulating portions in which signal charges generated in the photoelectric converting film are accumulated; vertical transfer paths which are formed in the semiconductor substrate, and which transfer signal charges accumulated in the photoelectric converting elements and the signal charge accumulating portions, in the column direction; a horizontal transfer path which transfers the signal charges transferred from the vertical transfer paths, in the row direction; and an output section which outputs color signals corresponding to the signal charges transferred from the horizontal transfer path. The vertical transfer paths are formed so that two of them are disposed between the photoelectric converting elements adjacent to each other in the row direction, and between the signal charge accumulating portions, and they are formed so as to meander in the column direction between the columns.
US07663672B2
In an electronic camera, an image file can be erased, and when the image file is erased, a state of notification to the user is changed in accordance with the data attached to an image. In the electronic camera, the data attached to the image indicates whether or not the image file previously has been transferred from a storing area where the image is stored at present to another storing area.
US07663669B2
An imaging apparatus includes an integrating unit to integrate pixel values of pixels in each of a plurality of areas of an image; a holding unit to hold integration values generated by the integrating unit; an operating unit to operate a waveform of a differential value between integration values of the same areas in two images having a phase difference of flicker of 180 degrees; an extracting unit to extract phase and amplitude of the flicker on the basis of the waveform operated by the operating unit; a selecting unit to select a waveform of the flicker on the basis of shutter speed of the imaging apparatus; and a correcting unit configured to correct the pixel values of the pixels by using a correction value based on the flicker waveform selected by the selecting unit and the phase and amplitude extracted by the extracting unit.
US07663659B2
An image forming apparatus forms an image by laser beams from a plurality of lasers. The image forming apparatus includes a light amount control circuit that detects displacement in a sub-scanning direction of the main scanning line of a laser beam from the predetermined laser, from a reference position. The apparatus decides an allotted amount of light for each of the plurality of lasers in accordance with the detected displacement and controls to drive each of the plurality of lasers in accordance with the decided allotted amount of light for each laser.
US07663650B2
A brightness level frequency indicated on a frame basis by an input video signal is accumulated in decreasing order or increasing order of the brightness level so that an accumulated brightness level frequency is calculated for every brightness level. The brightness level corresponding to the accumulated brightness level frequency smaller by a predetermined value than any one of the accumulated brightness level frequencies indicated as maximum is regarded as an effective maximum brightness level. Based on this effective maximum brightness level, the number of sub-fields is determined for assignment to each different brightness segment region. With such a configuration, the resulting display device can lead to favorable halftone representation without causing viewers to feel something is wrong no matter what type of display images.
US07663644B2
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture are configured to substitute an element in a vector-based computer generated illustration. A computer generated illustration comprised of vector geometry is obtained. A block that consists of one or more referenced first ancillary elements is also obtained. An instance of the block is then placed into the illustration. The instance identifies one of the first ancillary elements in the block. Further, the identified first ancillary element is displayed in the illustration at a location where the instance was placed. The block may also be placed over an existing ancillary element which would cause the replacement of all similar ancillary elements with instances of the block.
US07663641B2
Gamut-mapping from a source device to a destination device is performed in a perceptually linear color space such as CIECAM02 by separating a source image into primary color components and processing each primary component separately by mapping a source cusp point with a destination cusp point. The mapped primary components are then summed and a resultant destination image is obtained. Alternatively, hue rotation is performed by determining a relative position of an input color between the nearest primary and the nearest secondary color in a source hue wheel. The determined relative position in the source hue wheel is used to find a corresponding location in a destination hue wheel so that a hue angle for the destination point can be obtained. In either process, the source and destination points are mapped using a cusp-to-cusp mapping process, and if the source point lies outside of the destination boundary after the cusp mapping, the point is mapped to the three-dimensional surface of the destination gamut. Finally, results of the mapping process are converted from device-independent color appearance space values to tristimulus values, and from tristimulus values to a color space of the destination device.
US07663640B2
Methods and systems are provided for displaying images onto an arbitrary surface, using a projector, such that the quality of the images is preserved despite surface imperfections or color variations. Methods and systems are also provided for controlling the appearance of a projection surface. Various embodiments use a detailed radiometric model and a calibration method to determine the pixel values required to be projected by a projector in order for a camera to observe a desired image. Other embodiments use a compensation algorithm that uses a feedback approach to provide the desired image compensation. Geometric mapping may be used to establish a correspondence between points in the images to be displayed by the projector and the corresponding points in the images that are captured by the camera.
US07663636B2
An apparatus and method for automatically analyzing digital video quality are provided. The apparatus for automatically analyzing digital video quality includes a video analyzing unit and a result displaying unit. The video analyzing unit analyzes a texture attribute of an input video and analyzes a color attribute of the input video, thereby obtaining a texture attribute analysis result and a color attribute analysis result. The result displaying unit determines whether a reference video for video quality analysis exists or not. When the reference video exists, the result displaying unit determines the texture attribute analysis result as a main component analysis result and the color attribute analysis result as a minor component analysis result, respectively, and displays the determined analysis results on a screen in a form of numerical values and graphs together with the input video. On the contrary, when the reference video does not exist, the result displaying unit determines the texture attribute analysis result as the minor component analysis result and the color attribute analysis result as the major component analysis result, respectively, and displays the determined analysis results on the screen in a form of numerical values and graphs together with the input video. Accordingly, the digital video quality can be automatically analyzed and displayed.
US07663635B2
A system and method for memory mapping in a multiple video processor (multi VPU) system is described. In various embodiments, rendering tasks are shared among multiple VPUs in parallel to provide improved performance and capability with minimal increased cost. In various embodiments, multiple VPUs in a system access each other's local memories to facilitate cooperative video processing. In one embodiment, each VPU in the system has the local memories of each other VPU mapped to its own graphics aperture relocation table (GART) table to facilitate access via a virtual addressing scheme. Each VPU uses the same virtual addresses for this mapping to other VPU local memories. This allows the driver to send exactly the same write commands to each VPU, including the numeric value of the destination address for operations such as writing rendered data. Thus, unique addresses need not be generated for each VPU.
US07663634B2
A drawing processing apparatus capable of executing a drawing processing program having conditional branches efficiently by multipass rendering. The drawing processing apparatus comprises arithmetic processing parts including an object input part, a primitive generating part, a raster part, a pixelation part, a distribution part, and a shader which constitute pipeline stages. The shader divides the program into and executes the same in a plurality of passes depending on conditional branches. The shader generates enable flags determining whether or not respective pixels satisfy branch conditions. The flag generating part generates bind enable flags which are the enable flags on the pixels bound into the processing granularities of the pipeline stages, and feeds back the same to the respective pipeline stages. The arithmetic processing parts in the individual pipeline stages refer to the bind enable flags and limit the submission of data not targeted for arithmetic processing in the branched passes.
US07663627B2
A graphic drawing apparatus for drawing a graphic representation in which a plurality of evaluation objects are drawn by lines connecting scores with respect to a plurality of evaluation items executes a drawing-position adjusting to adjust drawing positions for each of the evaluation items where the scores of the evaluation objects are plotted with respect to each of the evaluation items so that the drawing positions do not overlap each other according to the scores of the evaluation objects with respect to an evaluation item.
US07663625B2
A method, system and apparatus for use in computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing, computer-aided engineering and product lifecycle management. An efficient, non-centralized communications framework makes “synchronous” collaborative design possible. Users are resident at workstations that are connected in a peer-to-peer arrangement. In a collaborative design session, the model is resident in memory at each workstation. Modifications are made at any workstation, and commands, which are interpreted at each workstation to effect the modifications, are transmitted over the network. In addition, cell descriptors may be used to identify one or more geometric cells of a model. The cell descriptors are in the form of scripts specifying constraints or filters for identifying cells. The constraints are based on characteristics of items in the model, or associations between items in a model, that are readily discernable to the user, and are therefore easily written and susceptible to easy distribution to other systems.
US07663622B2
There are provided a unified framework based on extensible styles for 3D non-photorealistic rendering and a method of configuring the framework. The unified framework includes: 3D model data processing means for generating a scene graph by converting a 3D model input into 3D data and organizing the scene graph using vertexes, faces, and edges; face painting means for selecting a brusher to paint faces (interiors) of the 3D model using the scene graph; line drawing means for extracting line information from the 3D model using the scene graph and managing the extracted line information; style expressing means for generating a rendering style for the 3D model and storing the rendering style as a stroke, the rendering style being equally applied to a face-painting method and a line-drawing method; and rendering means for combining the stroke and the selected brusher to render the 3D model using both the face-painting method and the line-drawing method. The framework can be used to develop tools and new rendering styles for non-photorealistic rendering and animation.
US07663621B1
Circuits, methods, and apparatus that perform cylindrical wrapping in software without the need for a dedicated hardware circuit. One example performs cylindrical wrapping in software running on shader hardware. In one specific example, the shader hardware is a unified shader that alternately processes geometry, vertex, and fragment information. This unified shader is formed using a number of single-instruction, multiple-data units. Another example provides a method of performing a cylindrical wrap that ensures that a correct texture portion is used for a triangle that is divided by a “seam” of the wrap. To achieve this, primitive vertices are sorted such that results are vertex order invariant. One vertex is selected as a reference. For the other vertices, a difference is found for each coordinate and a corresponding coordinate of the reference vertex. If the coordinates are near, no change is made. If the coordinates are distant, the coordinate is adjusted.
US07663617B2
A thin film transistor array panel according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a substrate; a gate line disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction; a capacitive electrode separated from the gate line and elongated in a second direction, a data line intersecting the gate line; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line and including a drain electrode; a coupling electrode overlapping the capacitive electrode and connected to the drain electrode; and a pixel electrode including at least one first subpixel electrode connected to the drain electrode and a second subpixel electrode connected to the capacitive electrode and spaced apart from the at least first subpixel electrode by a gap that overlaps the capacitive electrode or the coupling electrode.
US07663613B2
An occupying area of a digital system signal line driver circuit in an image display device is large and this hinders the miniaturization of the display device. A memory circuit and a D/A converter circuit in the signal line driver circuit are commonly used for n (“n” is a natural number equal to or larger than 2) signal lines. One horizontal scanning period is divided into n periods and the memory circuit and the D/A converter circuit each perform processing for different signal lines during each of the divided periods. Thus, all the signal lines can be driven. Therefore, the number of memory circuits and the number of D/A converter circuits in the signal line driver circuit can be reduced to one n-th in a conventional case.
US07663610B2
A method of displaying an object and terminal capable of implementing the same are disclosed, by which various objects attributed to various functions provided within the terminal can be displayed to maximize facilitation and convenience of a user of the terminal. The present invention includes an object displaying step of displaying the object movable on the touchscreen on a first position on the touchscreen and an object position fixing step of if a first touch action is carried out on the object, fixing a position of the object to the first position.
US07663599B1
A driving circuit for an LED backlight system is disclosed. The driving circuit includes an input voltage, an input resistor, an operational amplifier, a first transistor and a current calculation unit. The operational amplifier has a positive input terminal electrically connected to the input voltage through the input resistor, and an output terminal electrically connected to its negative input terminal thorough a feedback network. The first transistor is utilized for draining a reference current to control an output voltage of the operational amplifier according to the input voltage and the input resistor. The current calculation unit is utilized for generating a plurality of working currents proportional to the reference current to drive a plurality of LED strings according to the output voltage of the operational amplifier.
US07663597B2
Described herein are power conservation systems and methods that reduce power consumption for an electronics device including a liquid crystal display (LCD). The LCD includes a backlight that offers multiple luminance levels, where each level consumes a different amount of power. The systems and methods alter video information while the backlight remains at a backlight luminance level. The alteration reduces luminance for the video information to produce new video information that can be presented at a lower backlight luminance level. Change to the lower backlight luminance level may then occur without significantly affecting aggregate luminance of the new video information, as perceived by a user. The LCD and electronics device consume less power at the lower luminance level.
US07663596B2
The trans-reflective liquid crystal display device of this invention includes a plurality of data and gate lines defining a plurality of pixels, the pixels having a reflection region and a transmission region; a timing controller that receives, converts, and outputs image data; a switching unit that determines the output signal of the timing controller according to a transmission mode or reflection mode; a gate driver that receives a gate signal from the timing controller; a data driver that receives a data signal from the timing controller; a liquid crystal display panel with a TFT array substrate and a color filter substrate, the liquid crystal display panel displaying the image according to a gate pulse and a data voltage applied by the gate driver and the data driver; a sequential backlight including red, green, and blue lamps wherein, the backlight is turned on in a transmission mode to sequentially transmit the light into the transmission region and is turned off in a reflection mode.
US07663582B2
An exemplary embodiment for an electric paper application is provided. The embodiment utilizes a disordered percolation layer for forming conductive islands on electric paper. The percolation layer is comprised of a disordered mixture of conductive and non-conductive particles that are attached to a non-conductive surface to provide conductive islands therein so that the electric charge can be appropriately held near the media plane of the electric paper.
US07663580B2
A driving device for a light emitting display, which includes a plurality of scan lines for transferring a selection signal, comprises: a first driver for shifting a first signal having a first integer multiple of first pulses by a first period, and sequentially outputting the first signal; a second driver for shifting a second signal having a second pulse by a second period, and sequentially outputting the second signal; and a third driver for sequentially outputting the selection signal having a second integer multiple of third pulses corresponding to at least one of the first integer multiple of first pulses, and a fourth pulse corresponding to the second pulse, in response to the first signal and the second signal.
US07663577B2
An organic light emitting display (OLED) device including a plurality of electroluminescent (EL) panels that are coupled with one another. In order to facilitate the coupling of the EL panels, respective data drivers are disposed at one side of pixels, and a scan driver and an emission control driver are formed in each of the EL panels. Thus, surfaces of the EL panels that are not connected to data drivers may be coupled with one another to form the OLED device. In the OLED device, a data driver is not formed at interfaces between the EL panels, and uniform pixels are arranged, so that non-uniformity in luminance may be prevented.
US07663574B2
A problem is to be solved in that there is to be provided a display device and a display method allowing two or more sorts of sustaining pulses to be employed by switching over the pulses depending on the state of display in such a manner as to achieve characteristics including high light emission efficiency/decrease in streaking and high luminance and the like. The display device is provided wherein one frame image contains a plurality of sub-frames, including: a detection section detecting a state of display: a sustaining pulse output section to select and output one out of two or more sorts of sustaining pulses for a display for each sub-frame depending on the state of display.
US07663568B2
An antenna apparatus is disclosed that includes a synthetic resin case having an antenna element accommodating portion and a ground element accommodating portion, an antenna element made of punched sheet metal that is accommodated within the antenna element accommodating portion, a ground element made of punched sheet metal that is accommodated within the ground element accommodating portion and aligned with the antenna element, a surface mount coaxial connector that is mounted over an interface between the antenna element and the ground element, and a cover that covers the antenna element and the ground element.
US07663552B2
A printed antenna (10) disposed on a substrate (90) includes a feeding portion (12), an antenna body (16), a first grounded portion (20), a second grounded portion (30), and a matching portion (14). The feeding portion feeds electromagnetic signals. The antenna body electronically connected to the feeding portion transmits and receives electromagnetic signals, and includes a first radiation portion (162), a pair of second radiation portions (164), and a pair of third radiation portions (166). The first radiation portion, the second radiation portions, and the third radiation portions co-form, a “D” shape with an indentation in a straight side of the “D” shape which extends into a middle of the “D” shape. The first grounded portion and the second grounded portion are respectively disposed on opposite sides of the feeding portion. The matching portion is disposed on one side of the feeding portion, and located adjacent to the first grounded portion.
US07663546B1
A phased array satellite communication (SATCOM) system for ground stations receives information signals and a beam from a satellite and autonomously steers communication signals by phase information toward a satellite extracted from the received satellite beam. The new phased array eliminates the need for phase shifters to control a beam. The new phased array satellite communications system avoids delay in digital signal processing or feedback systems to find satellite locations, enabling autonomous real-time electronic beam steering with no delay. The new system is also used to handle signals from and to multiple satellites simultaneously. The new system is useful in other applications where an enhanced point-to-point communication link is required.
US07663539B2
A method of and computer-readable medium containing instructions for high accuracy, reliable position determination. The ADAPT-RTK Technology (Automatic Decorrelation and Parameter Tuning Real-Time Kinematic technology) is described using an innovative decorrelation algorithm to decorrelate the correlation between L1 and L2 measurements through a functional model and a stochastic model reducing the impact on performance of distance dependent biases.
US07663531B2
A secondary surveillance radar system comprising a including a ground system which observes an observation area where an aircraft equipped with a mode S transponder and an aircraft equipped with an ATCRBS transponder possibly coexist, wherein the ground system comprises includes a transmit processor which transmits to the observation area an all-call interrogation signal specific for mode S including an identification code of the ground system, a receive processor which receives a reply signal to the interrogation signal transmitted by the transmit processor, and a recognition processor which recognizes the reply signal as a processing target when identification information included in the reply signal received by the receive processor coincides with the identification code of the ground system, and wherein the recognition processor recognizes the reply signal as the processing target also when the identification information included in the reply signal received by the receive processor coincides with null information.
US07663526B1
An analog-to-digital converter circuit and method with reduced non-linearity are described. The circuit includes an amplifier module having at least one active input coupled to at least three capacitor devices. The circuit further includes multiple switches coupled to each respective capacitor device. One switch coupled to each capacitor device is further coupled to an output of the amplifier module, such that each capacitor device can be selectively coupled to the output of the amplifier module. At least one switch coupled to each capacitor device is further coupled to a reference voltage source to receive at least one reference voltage signal. Finally, at least one switch coupled to each capacitor device is further coupled to receive an input voltage signal.
US07663521B2
An embodiment of the invention relates to a controller that includes a delta-sigma modulator to produce a one-bit, oversampled signal representing a measured characteristic of a process, and a delta-sigma modulator to produce a one-bit, oversampled signal representing a set-point value for the characteristic. A multiplexer selects a partial sum based on a difference of the oversampled signals to produce a control signal for the process. The controller that produces the control signal for the process can be a PID controller.
US07663516B1
In a method and apparatus for compensating non-linearity of a gain of a residual amplifier (RA), a pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) converts an analog input to a digital output (DO). The ADC includes a plurality of pipelined stages (PPS). Each stage, which includes an instance of the RA, provides a digital code corresponding to an output of the RA included in a preceding stage. A memory stores a piecewise linear representation for modeling the non-linearity of the gain. A calibrated gain of the RA corresponding to each region of a plurality of linear operating regions of the RA is stored in the memory. A gain adjuster adjusts the digital code for each one of the PPS in accordance with a gain factor derived from the calibrated gain for each one of the PPS. A constructor constructs the DO from the adjusted digital code received from each one of the PPS.
US07663509B2
A hand-held electronic equipment adapted to receive data input is disclosed, comprising an oblong main body, a display arranged on said main body, said display being adapted to display a keyboard with a plurality of symbols, and a selecting device arranged on said main body, said selecting device enabling a user to select and input a symbol from said keyboard.
US07663508B2
When searching of a location of a vehicle is commanded, a vehicle search signal is transmitted from a portable device. The vehicle search signal includes an ID code of the portable device. When a vehicle side communication unit receives the valid ID code, the vehicle side communication unit transmits a vehicle side response signal to the portable device. The portable device computes a distance from the portable device to the vehicle based on a signal level of the received vehicle side response signal. A notifying device notifies the computed distance.
US07663503B2
A water meter has a meter register having an encoder having electromagnetic wave emitters, e.g., infrared emitters to measure water flow and direction of water flow through the meter. The encoder has two of three spaced emitters directing infrared rays at predetermined time intervals toward a rotating detector wheel having a reflective surface portion and a non-reflective surface portion facing the emitters and an infrared sensor. The reflective surface portion of the detecting wheel reflects the infrared rays incident thereon toward the sensor. A microprocessor connected to the sensor acts on signals from the sensor to determine material flow. The meter register transmits the signal to a distant receiver. The microprocessor of a meter register has an algorithm to prevent the meter register from sending signals until after the meter register or a water meter having a meter register is installed and water moved through the meter.
US07663502B2
System and method for wirelessly controlling systems in an asset, such as a house or trailer, in which a movable device, such as a PDA, cellular telephone or vehicle, includes a transmitter arranged to transmit signals, and a control unit is arranged on or in connection with the asset and includes a receiver which communicates with the transmitter and a processor coupled to the receiver and which generates different command signals based on signals generated by the transmitter and received by the receiver. Each system is arranged on or in connection with the asset and coupled to the control unit and is responsive to command signals from the processor to perform a function relating to or affecting the asset.
US07663495B2
A vigilance monitoring system to determine the alertness of a driver of a vehicle. The system uses one or multiple sensors located at the driver-vehicle interface (steering wheel, accelerator, brakes). The sensor monitors the magnitude and frequency of the force (or displacement) exerted by a driver at the driver interface. A time derivative of the force or displacement profile is created. The variability of the time derivative of the force/displacement data from the general trend of the data as obtained by an optimized moving average of the data. An intelligent control system measures the variability and compares with an alertness rating scale to determine the alertness score of the driver and issue warning signals and actions as appropriate.
US07663493B2
A system and method to warn that a child has been left unattended in the vehicle when the ignition is off. The system includes a sensing device to detect if a child is in the infant seat, an ignition detection device to detect that the ignition is off, a delay timer to provide a certain period of time for the caregiver to remove the child from the car seat or put the child in the infant/booster seat and then to generate an alarm, a speaker to sound the alarm, and a switching assembly to detect when the dome light goes on, or if the dome light is operable.
US07663487B2
Biological reagent carrier devices and methods are disclosed, which employ RFID techniques to associate information with biological reagents.
US07663475B2
a vehicle surrounding monitoring system including a vehicle travel information detecting unit for detecting travel information of an own vehicle, a solid object recognizing unit for detecting solid objects existing in front of the own vehicle and recognizing at least a preceding vehicle from the solid objects, a target route calculating unit for calculating a target route for the own vehicle in accordance with the present position of the preceding vehicle and the present position of the own vehicle, an alarm area setting unit for setting an alarm area on the basis of the target route, and an alarm control unit for giving an alarm in accordance with an existing state of solid objects existing in the alarm area.
US07663471B2
In an in-vehicle device remote control system, a vehicle-side device determines in which detection area an electronic key exists based on a response signal transmitted from the key in response to request signals, and a control door to be operated in correspondence to the detection area in which the key exists. The vehicle-side device notifies a user that the key is an authorized one by light, sound, display or the like on the determined control door. With this operation, it is readily recognized by the user because the user is approaching the control door.
US07663462B2
The invention relates to an inductive rotating transmitter, comprising a fixed piece and a rotating piece, whereby the fixed piece and the rotating pierce have a common virtual rotational axis and the rotating piece rotates about the fixed piece. The data transmission is carried out over at least one data transmission path by means of at least one inductive element and the data transmission path is arranged outside the rotational axis of the rotating transmitter.
US07663444B2
An apparatus for amplifying an input signal is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first amplifying circuit and a first resonating circuit. The first amplifying circuit includes a first transistor having a first gate for receiving the input signal. The first amplifying circuit amplifies the input signal to generate a first output signal. The first resonating circuit is coupled to the first amplifying circuit, wherein a first resonating frequency of the first resonating circuit is not equal to the operating frequency.
US07663441B2
A low noise amplifier includes a main amplifier configured to amplify a first input signal to generate a first output signal and an auxiliary amplifier configured to amplify a second input signal to generate a second output signal. The auxiliary amplifier is coupled to the main amplifier for superposing the second output signal and the first output signal. The low noise amplifier also includes an adjusting unit configured to adjust a time constant for reducing a third order intermodulation distortion of the superposed signal in response to a control signal. The adjusting unit is configured to generate the second input signal based on the time constant and the first input signal.
US07663430B2
In all electronic products, the voltage supply circuit is an essential component for providing a stable supply voltage into the application device. The present invention provides a multi-level voltage supply circuit for solving some problems existing in the application device, in which the multi-level voltage supply circuit includes a first voltage drop component, a second voltage drop component, and a control module. When the first voltage drop component is controlled by the control module in the conducting state, the output voltage is substantially equal to the input voltage minus the first voltage drop. When the first voltage drop component is controlled by the control module in the non-conducting state, the output voltage is substantially equal to the input voltage minus the second voltage drop.
US07663421B2
An electronic circuit arrangement is disclosed for converting an input voltage signal having a first voltage level into an output signal having a second voltage level. An input unit is provided for inputting the input voltage signal at the first voltage level, while an output unit is arranged for outputting the output signal at the output of the electronic circuit arrangement. A threshold value comparison unit serves for comparing the first voltage level of the input signal with a switch-on threshold value. The circuit arrangement furthermore contains an input impedance changeover unit for changing over an input impedance of the circuit arrangement from a low value to a high value after a predetermined delay duration after the first voltage level of the input voltage signal exceeded the switch-on threshold value.
US07663405B2
An organic TFT (OTFT) inverter arrangement comprises an inverter stage including a series arrangement of first and second MOS OTFTs (T1, T2) connected between first and second supply terminals (VDD), the first and second OTFTs having first and second gates, respectively. An input terminal (VIN) is connected to the first gate, while an output terminal (VOUT) is connected to the node interconnecting the first and second OTFTs (T1, T2). A bias-control stage is connected between the first gate and the second gate. The bias-control stage is an inverting stage, such that, when an input voltage on the first gate rises, a voltage on the second gate falls, and vice-versa. The bias-control stage comprises a series arrangement of third and fourth OTFTs (T3, T4) connected between the first and second supply terminals (VDD, VSS), and a series arrangement of fifth and sixth OTFTs (T11, T12) connected between the first and second supply terminals (VDD, VSS). The fifth and sixth OTFTs (T11, T12) are controlled by the third and fourth OTFTs (T3, T4) and feed the first and second gates, respectively. The OTFT inverter arrangement may be used as the basis of an OTFT logic-gate arrangement.
US07663401B1
A programmable logic device, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, includes a plurality of multiplexers, having fuse input terminals and input signal terminals, and a plurality of associated fuses providing fuse signals to the fuse input terminals to control selection of the input signal terminals. The fuses in a first state select a first input signal terminal of the input signal terminals, with a first multiplexer from the plurality of multiplexers receiving a first logic level signal at the first input signal terminal and providing the first logic level signal to the first input signal terminal of a first set of the plurality of multiplexers. The fuses associated with the first set are adapted to be programmed before the fuses associated with the first multiplexer.
US07663397B2
A semiconductor device according to example embodiments that may include an on-die termination (ODT) control circuit having a pipe line structure which changes in response to a frequency of a clock signal and a termination resistance generator for generating termination resistance in response to a termination resistance control signal.
US07663392B2
The present invention provides a synchronous semiconductor device suitable for improving the efficiency of application of electrical stresses to the device, an inspection system and an inspection method thereof in order to efficiently carrying out a burn-in stress test. A command latch circuit having an access command input will output a low-level pulse in synchronism with an external clock. The pulse will pass through a NAND gate of test mode sequence circuit and a common NAND gate to output a low-level internal precharge signal, which will reset a word line activating signal from the control circuit. Simultaneously, an internal precharge signal passing through the NAND gate will be delayed by an internal timer a predetermined period of time to output through the NAND gate a low-level internal active signal, which will set a word line activating signal from the control circuit.
US07663391B2
An integrated circuit test system includes a probe card, a driver, a receiver, and a first switch. The driver is coupled to the probe card via a first signal line. The receiver is coupled to the probe card via a second signal line. The first switch is coupled between the probe card and the first signal line. After the driver outputs a test signal to a device under test via the first signal line, the first switch is turned off, and then the receiver reads the test signal via the second signal line. Thus, the test signal loss can be reduced.
US07663376B2
A printed circuit board (PCB) having capabilities to measure a voltage drop of current flowing therethrough. The PCB may optionally include other capabilities for measuring, calculating, sensing, or other processing of information and data associated with the current flow or other operating conditions associated with the PCB, such as but not limited to those associated with battery monitoring systems.
US07663362B2
A detecting device includes a viscoelastic magnet obtained by kneading and molding a magnet material and a viscoelastic material and a magnetic-flux detecting unit that detects a change in a magnetic flux density vector due to deformation of the viscoelastic magnet.
US07663360B2
A rotation angle detecting device includes a magnetic member for providing a magnetic field, a magnetic sensor for sensing a change in the magnetic field when the magnetic member rotates relative to the magnetic sensor about a rotation axis. The magnetic sensor is disposed at a single position and includes a pair of sensor elements. The pair of sensor elements is disposed on an imaginary plane that is perpendicular to the rotation axis so that sensing surfaces of the sensor elements have 90 degrees in angle to each other and so that each of the sensing surfaces inclines by 45 degrees in angle to a line intersecting the rotation axis at right angles.
US07663356B2
The invention includes a flip-flop circuit that controls a main switching element of a DC-DC converter by switching and an oscillation circuit that is connected to a set terminal of the flip-flop circuit and outputs an oscillation signal that gradually increases and decreases in oscillation frequency in accordance with an increase and decrease in output voltage value of the DC-DC converter when the DC-DC converter is in a transition state between a stop state and a steady operation state. In a process that the output voltage gradually rises and gradually falls, the oscillation frequency of the oscillation signal gradually rises and gradually falls, a time interval at which the main switching element is set into a conductive state is extended. No excess electric power is supplied to the output voltage, and the output voltage can be made to have a smooth ramp waveform.
US07663355B2
In a power supply apparatus that is so configured as to produce from an input voltage an output voltage Vo within a predetermined permissible variation range, the output voltage Vo is so controlled as to decrease within the permissible variation range as the output current Io increases. This configuration offers an output voltage with an improved transient characteristic against an abrupt variation in the output current and simultaneously permits reduction of the power consumed when the output current increases.
US07663352B2
A switching control circuit is provided for measuring and regulating an output current of a power converter. The power converter is operated under continuous current mode. A detection circuit generates a continuous-current signal and a peak-current signal by detecting a switching current of an inductive device. An integration circuit generates an average-current signal in response to the continuous-current signal, the peak-current signal and an off time of a switching signal. The switching control circuit generates the switching signal in response to the average-current signal. The switching signal is coupled to switch the inductive device and regulate the output current of the power converter. A time constant of the integration circuit is correlated to the switching period of the switching signal, therefore the average-current signal will be proportional to the output current.
US07663346B2
A battery charger for charging a battery through controlling a charging regulation circuit is provided. The battery charger includes a current sensing unit and an operational amplifier. The current sensing unit monitors a charging current applied to the battery when the battery charger operates under a constant current mode, thereby generating a first regulation signal to the charging regulation circuit. The operational amplifier compares a battery voltage of the battery with a first reference voltage to generate a comparison result. When the battery charger operates under the constant current mode, the comparison result controls a charging mode transition from the constant current mode to a constant voltage mode. When the battery charger operates under the constant voltage mode, the comparison result acts as a second regulation signal to control the charging regulation circuit.
US07663345B2
A DC-DC converter for generating a stable output voltage and being applicable to a transient load fluctuation. The DC-DC converter detects an input current, and compares the input current with a rated current of an external power supply. The DC-DC converter controls a positive charging current that is supplied to a secondary battery in accordance with a consumption current of a load so that the input current does not exceed the rated current. The DC-DC converter further controls a negative charging current that is supplied from the secondary battery to the load when the load requires an input current exceeding the rated current.
US07663344B2
The management of a pool of batteries is an intelligent management taking account of the state of health of all the batteries of the pool and of the evolution thereof with time. The method for managing includes determination of priority criteria and charging of a battery selected according to the priority criteria. After the selected battery has been charged, electrical parameters representative of the battery are measured, then the state of health of the selected battery is analyzed according to the measured electrical parameters. The priority criteria are then updated according to the state of health of the battery. Selection of the next battery to be recharged is performed according to the updated priority criteria. The measured parameters used for analyzing the state of health are preferably representative of a coup de fouet effect during a partial discharge of a fully charged battery.
US07663341B2
Disclosed are system and method for adjusting a voltage balancing of cell in a lithium ion multicell battery pack, the system comprising; a multicell battery pack including a master module and a slave module, a CPU located in the system controller and outputting a synchronization signal for each of the cells in the master module and the slave module, a first vertical interface transmitting the synchronization signal outputted from the CPU to the master module, and a second vertical interface transmitting the synchronization signal to the slave module through the first vertical interface.
US07663333B2
A control system for a mobile robot (10) is provided to effectively cover a given area by operating in a plurality of modes, including an obstacle following mode (51) and a random bounce mode (49). In other embodiments, spot coverage, such as spiraling (45), or other modes are also used to increase effectiveness. In addition, a behavior based architecture is used to implement the control system, and various escape behaviors are used to ensure full coverage.
US07663331B2
The present invention relates to an adjuster for adjusting drink temperature, including a base, a container arranged on the base, a stay bar seating fixed on the base and extending into the container from the base of the container and secured to the container, a stay bar device arranged in the stay bar seating and formed as a muff coupling with the stay bar seating without liquid leakage, one end of thereof extending out of the stay bar seating and the other end forming the driving end, and an actuating device cooperating with the driving end of the stay bar device to drive the stay bar device.
US07663329B2
A motor unit and a vehicle equipped with the unit according to the invention includes a control unit that selects a switching frequency, that is, a carrier frequency, in accordance with a rotation speed of the motor and a torque required from a motor. When an inverter temperature becomes high, the control unit limits the torque of the motor to suppress further increase in the inverter temperature. A limit value used in restricted operation is determined in accordance with the temperature and the carrier frequency of the inverter.
US07663326B2
The present invention provides a controller for regulating current in LEDs in electronic displays. The controller uses temperature sensing diodes to detect changes in the LED ambient temperature. As the LED ambient temperature changes, the forward voltage of the temperature sensing diode decreases. A signal processor adjusts the current passing through the LEDs based on the temperature induced changes in the forward voltage of the temperature sensing diodes. The present invention can reduce costs over the present methods of regulating current in LEDs and may more easily be integrated into a single integrated circuit chip. The temperature sensing may also be implemented outside the integrated circuit chip.
US07663316B2
A plasma display panel and a manufacture method thereof are disclosed. The plasma display panel having a plurality of discharge pixels, the panel includes a first barrier rib, with a first width, formed to function as a boundary between the discharge pixels, a second barrier rib, with a second width, formed to function as a boundary between the discharge pixels, wherein the second width is more than the first width, and a black matrix formed over the second barrier rib.
US07663314B2
An organic EL display panel has a multi-layered structure in which a first electrode and a second electrode are formed on a transparent panel and an organic EL layer is formed between the first and second electrodes. A method for sealing the organic EL display panel includes the steps of forming a buffer layer of an organic matter such as silicon oxide and silicon nitride on the transparent panel, and locating a shield cover on the buffer layer. Thus, adhesive strength between the panel and an adhesive is enhanced to prevent external humidity and oxygen from being permeated into the panel, thereby increasing life span of the display.
US07663307B2
A light-emitting device is provided, which includes a supporting member, a light-emitting element disposed on the supporting member to emit a light, the light-emitting element having a semiconductor substrate and a polygonal top surface, an electrode pad formed on the top surface of the light-emitting element, a first lead electrode formed on the supporting member, a conductive wire connecting the electrode pad with the first lead electrode, the conductive wire being arranged to pass over one of corners of the polygonal top surface of the light-emitting element and along a ridge formed contiguous to the one of corners and corresponding to a boundary between neighboring side surfaces of the light-emitting element, and a fluorescent layer containing a light-transmitting member and a fluorescent substance.
US07663305B2
In a top emission structure, there has been a problem in that a wiring, a TFT, or the like is provided in regions other than a light emitting region so that light reflected by the wiring reaches eyes of an observer. The present invention prevents light that is reflected by a wire from reaching eyes of an observer by providing a light-absorbing multilayer film (61) in regions other than a light emitting region. Specifically, the light-absorbing multilayer film (61) is used as an upper layer of a partition wall (also called as a bank or a barrier) that covers ends of a first electrode (66b) whereas an organic resin film (67) is used as a lower layer of the partition wall. The partition wall in the present invention is characterized by being a laminate of three or more layers formed of different materials.
US07663304B2
An organic electroluminescence element comprising: an anode; a first emitting layer comprising at least a first host material and a first dopant; a second emitting layer comprising at least a second host material and a second dopant; and a cathode in the order mentioned: wherein the energy gap Egh1 of the first host material, the energy gap Egd1 of the first dopant, the energy gap Egh2 of the second host material, and the energy gap Egd2 of the second dopant satisfy the following formulas; and the luminescent intensity I1 at the maximum luminescent wavelength of an emission spectrum derived from the first emitting layer, and the luminescent intensity I2 at the maximum luminescent wavelength of an emission spectrum derived from the second emitting layer satisfy the following formula: Egh1>Egd1 Egh2>Egd2 Egd1>Egd2 I1>3.5×I2.
US07663303B2
An organic electroluminescent device having a pair of electrodes and a luminescent layer including an organic compound interposed between the pair of electrodes. The luminescent layer contains at least one element selected from the group consisting of argon, krypton, xenon and radon.
US07663297B2
A light emission device and a display device using the light emission device as a light source are provided. The light emission device includes a vacuum envelope formed by first and second substrates and a sealing member, first electrodes formed on the first substrate in a first direction, an insulating layer formed on the first substrate and covering the first electrodes, second electrodes formed on the insulating layer in a second direction crossing the first direction, electron emission regions electrically connected to the first electrodes or the second electrodes, a resistive layer for covering a first surface of the insulating layer, the first surface facing the second substrate, a phosphor layer formed on the second substrate, and an anode electrode formed on the phosphor layer.
US07663294B2
A mechanical energy generating apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a shape changing flexure beam connected at opposing distal ends to first lever arms of a pair of opposing tilt connectors. The apparatus additionally includes a bias beam connected at opposing ends to second lever of the tilt connectors. The tilt connectors are pivotally connected to an adjustable length base such that a distance between the tilt connectors can be adjusted to flex the bias beam and exert a force on the second lever arms of the tilt connectors. The force exerted by the bias beam is transferred to the first lever arms and flexes the flexure beam to approximately a critical buckling stress point of the flexure beam. The flexure beam has a center portion configured to oscillate between a first displacement position beyond the critical buckling stress point, in a first direction, and a second displacement position beyond the buckling stress point, in the an opposing second direction, in response to an oscillating energy field applied across the flexure beam.
US07663279B2
A motor module includes a bearing housing having a loading base, an electric unit, a bearing, and a magnetic rotor unit disposed on the bearing. In addition, a protruding portion is extending from the loading base, and the electric unit includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and sensing elements, wherein the PCB is utilized for disposing the loading base thereon. Moreover, signal circuits and motor windings are formed on the PCB around the loading base, the sensing elements are disposed around the motor windings, and the bearing is disposed at the protruding portion. Besides, the magnetic rotor unit is disposed on the motor windings, keeping a gap with the PCB; therefore, when electric current passes the motor windings, the magnetic rotor unit and the motor windings generate a flux linkage induction, so as to drive the magnetic rotor unit to rotate relative to the PCB.
US07663273B2
A motor control apparatus includes a motor, and a control system board supporting a control circuit to control the motor. The apparatus may further include a power system board supporting a power supply circuit to supply power to the motor. The control system board includes a first board portion facing in a direction along a rotation axis of the motor, and a second board portion extending radially from the first board portion.
US07663271B2
An actuator including magnets arranged on a plane on a plane, coils respectively arranged to face the magnets and move relatively with facing the magnets when a current is applied thereto, a moving member connected to either the magnets or coils, a guide member that guides the moving member to move in a given two-dimensional range; and a hit prevention mechanism to prevent the moving member from hitting a movable limit in the given two-dimensional range. The hit prevention mechanism is provided at the movable limit (edge) in the two-dimensional range. It is thus possible to prevent the moving member from hitting the movable limit. This can prevent damage or any hitting sound. The actuator can be used in a comfortable manner and stably for a long period.
US07663269B2
A printed circuit board (PCB) coil linear actuator is disclosed. The actuator includes a coil assembly and a magnet assembly. The coil assembly includes a plurality of PCB coils electrically connected in series. The PCB coils arranged in a row and adjacent PCB coils are separated by a gap. Each PCB coil includes a low aspect ratio, multi-layer coil member disposed on a board member. The actuator assembly includes a plurality of magnet units arranged in a row, wherein adjacent magnet units are separated by a gap. When the actuator is assembled, the PCB coils arranged in alternating sequence with the magnet units. The PCB coil linear actuator is intended to replace traditional slotted bobbin voice coil actuators (VCAs) and is particularly useful in fast steering mirror (FSM) applications. The PCB coil linear actuator provides many advantages over a VCA of an equivalent motor constant, including improved performance, lower weight and a lower profile.
US07663268B2
Multilevel high power converters, referred to as hexagram converters, which preferably include a combination of six three-phase converter modules, are provided herein. The three-phase converter modules are interconnected and can be configured as any three-phase converter for any given application. One or more inductors can be used in the interconnections between the six modules to suppress potential circulating currents. Numerous applications exist in which the described converters can be implemented.
US07663262B2
A system for converting an airflow into mechanical or electrical energy and dimensioned to be attachable to a structure. The system includes a leading edge member, a pair of drawtube arrays, and an energy conversion device located between the pair of drawtube arrays and configured to convert an airflow through the channel into mechanical or electrical energy.
US07663252B2
An electric power semiconductor device including first and second circuit patterns formed on main surfaces of first and second insulating substrates, respectively, first and second semiconductor chips mounted on the first and second circuit patterns, respectively, a multilayer electrode plate assembly disposed between the first and second insulating substrates, having first, second and third electrode terminals provided with a distance from each other, a first connecting conductor made by wire bonding for connecting the first and second semiconductor chips to the first and second electrode terminals, and a second connecting conductor having an extending portion extended from a part of the third electrode terminal to be connected to the second circuit pattern, and the connection between the extending portion of the third electrode terminal and the second circuit pattern is implemented by a solder.
US07663249B2
An embedded chip package process is disclosed. First, a first substrate having a first patterned circuit layer thereon is provided. Then, a first chip is disposed on the first patterned circuit layer and electrically connected to the first patterned circuit layer. A second substrate having a second patterned circuit layer thereon is provided. A second chip is disposed on the second patterned circuit layer and electrically connected to the second patterned circuit layer. Afterwards, a dielectric material layer is formed and covers the first chip and the first patterned circuit layer. Then, a compression process is performed to cover the second substrate over the dielectric material layer so that the second patterned circuit layer and the second chip on the second substrate are embedded into the dielectric material layer.
US07663242B2
A solder preform having multiple layers including a solder layer filled with additives interposed between two unfilled layers for improved wettability. A solder preform having a sphere which contains a solder material filled with additives, and an unfilled surface layer for improved wettability. A thermal interface material having a bonding component and an additive component which is a CTE modifying component and/or a thermal conductivity enhancement component. Active solders containing intrinsic oxygen getters.
US07663238B2
An object of the present invention is to realize a semiconductor device having a high TFT characteristic. In manufacturing an active matrix display device, electric resistivity of the electrode material is kept low by preventing penetration of oxygen ion into the electrode in doping of an impurity ion. A display device having a low electric resistivity can be obtained.
US07663236B2
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor electrode with improved power conversion efficiency through inhibition of recombination reactions of electrons. The semiconductor electrode comprises a transparent electrode consisting of a substrate and a conductive material coated on the substrate, and a metal oxide layer formed on the transparent electrode wherein the metal oxide layer contains a phosphate.Further disclosed is a solar cell employing the semiconductor electrode.
US07663235B2
According to one exemplary embodiment, a semiconductor die includes at least one pad ring situated on an active surface of the semiconductor die, where the at least one pad ring includes a number of pads. The semiconductor die further includes a number of bumps including at least one shared bump. The at least one shared bump is shared by at least two pads, thereby causing the number of bumps to be fewer than the number of pads. The at least two pads can be at least two ground pads, at least two power pads, or at least two reference voltage pads.
US07663225B2
In a manufacturing process of electronic components which include conductive patterns laminated with insulating layers provided therebetween, conductive pattern layers having conductive patterns formed at intervals therebetween along layer surfaces and insulating layers are alternately laminated to each other. The laminate is pressed by applying a force thereto in the lamination direction, followed by cutting of the laminate along cutting lines provided along boundaries between the electronic components, so that the electronic components are separated from each other. In a cutting-removal region of a mother substrate from which the electronic components are separated from each other by cutting, removal dummy patterns having a size allowing it to be disposed within the above region are formed. In the electronic component, floating dummy patterns which are not electrically connected to the conductive patterns are formed at intervals from the cutting-removal region.
US07663224B2
A semiconductor device assembly and method of making the device are disclosed. The assembly comprises a semiconductor die attached to an electrically conductive layer, which is, in turn, connected to a dielectric layer carrying conductive traces of an electrical connection layer. The conductive traces provide connection between an array of discrete conductive elements and bonding wires connected to bond pads of the die. The conductive layer enhances thermal conduction and structural stiffness for the assembly. In addition, the conductive layer provides a voltage reference plane that may be connected to a power source, a ground source, or an intermediate reference voltage. The conductive layer also includes at least one electrical current isolation slot, which segments the conductive layer to help isolate noise induced in one segment of the conductive layer from the other segments.
US07663220B2
A semiconductor module includes: a semiconductor element (13) having a working unit (11) and a guard ring unit (12); and heat radiation members (15, 14) arranged on an upper surface and a lower surface of the semiconductor element for cooling the semiconductor element. A passivation film (20) covers the guard ring but does not cover the working unit. The upper heat radiation member (15) is made of a flat metal plate connected to the working unit without contact with the passivation film. The upper heat radiation member is connected to the lower heat radiation member (14) in the thermo-conducting way.
US07663218B2
A semiconductor component including a surface-mount housing and a method for producing the same are described herein. The semiconductor component includes lead pieces embedded into a plastic housing composition and arranged on an underside of the housing. External contact areas of the lead pieces are free of the plastic housing composition. A structured solderable coating is arranged on the external contact areas that have been kept free of the plastic housing composition, the coating includes a plurality of electrically conductive and mechanically elastic contact elements.
US07663214B2
A memory card assembly with a simplified structure. The memory card assembly has a memory card assembly a printed wiring board substrate and at least one integrated circuit unit mounted and electrically connected to the printed wiring board substrate. A rigid ring is fitted over a periphery of the printed wiring board substrate to encircle the integrated circuit die therein. Thereby, a dam with an open top is constructed over the printed wiring board substrate. A filler resin material is then filled within the open dam to cover the printed wiring board substrate and integrated circuit unit.
US07663208B2
A punch type substrate strip includes a plurality of substrate units, a plurality of slots and at least one plating-trace collecting hole. The slots are formed around the substrate units. The plating-trace collecting hole is located outside the substrate units. The substrate strip is provided with a plurality of connecting pads, a plurality of first plating traces and at least one second plating trace. The connecting pads are disposed in each substrate unit, and the first plating traces and the second plating trace are electrically connected to the connecting pads. The first plating traces have a plurality of first broken ends located in the slots. The second plating trace is extended across a region located between the slots, and has a second broken end located in the plating-trace collecting hole. Accordingly, more extensive space for plating traces can be provided.
US07663202B2
Nanowire-based photodiodes are disclosed. The photodiodes include a first optical waveguide having a tapered first end, a second optical waveguide having a tapered second end, and at least one nanowire comprising at least one semiconductor material connecting the first and second ends in a bridging configuration. Methods of making the photodiodes are also disclosed.
US07663198B2
An arrangement of magnetic liners for the bit lines or word lines of an MRAM device that reduces or eliminates stray magnetic fields at the ends of the magnetic liners, thereby reducing the occurrence of offset fields over portions of the MRAM device due to the magnetic liners is described. The orientation of magnetization of adjacent magnetic liners is alternated, causing the end poles of the magnetic liners to cancel each other. The shapes of the ends of the magnetic liners are alternated to vary their switching fields. Methods are described that use this ability to vary the switching fields to alternate the orientation of magnetization of the magnetic liners.
US07663194B2
A pixel of a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor includes a plurality of photodiodes for sensing light to thereby generate photoelectric charges in different regions; a plurality of transfer transistors for transferring photoelectric charges of corresponding photodiodes in response to a first control signal; a floating diffusion region for receiving photoelectric charges transferred by the plurality of transfer transistors; a rest transistor connected between a power supply voltage and the floating diffusion region for resetting the floating diffusion region by controlling a voltage loaded on the floating diffusion region in response to a second control signal; a drive transistor connected between the power supply voltage and the floating diffusion region to serve as a source follower buffer amplifier; and a select transistor connected between the drive transistor and a pixel output terminal for performing an addressing operation in response to a third control signal.
US07663193B2
A structure is adopted for a layout of an SRAM cell which provides a local wiring 3a between a gate 2a and gate 2b and connects an active region 1a and an active region 1b. This eliminates the necessity for providing a contact between the gate 2a and the gate 2b. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the size of a memory cell region C in a short side direction. Furthermore, a structure whereby a left end of a gate 2c is retreated from the gate 2a and a local wiring 3b which connects the active region 1b and gate 2c disposed in a diagonal direction is adopted. This allows the gate 2a to be shifted toward the center of the memory cell region C.
US07663191B2
In order that a top surface of a gate electrode does not have sharp portions, ends of the top surface of the gate electrode are rounded before refractory metal is deposited for silicidation. This reduces intensive application of film stresses which are generated in heat treatment, enabling formation of a silicide layer with a uniform, sufficient thickness.
US07663188B2
A semiconductor device includes a tube-type channel formed over a semiconductor substrate. The tube-type channel is connected to first and second conductive lines. A bias electrode is formed in the tube-type channel. The bias electrode is connected to the semiconductor substrate. An insulating film is disposed between the tube-type channel and the bias electrode. A surrounding gate electrode is formed over the tube-type channel.
US07663185B2
A fin-FET device and a method for fabrication thereof both employ a bulk semiconductor substrate. A fin and an adjoining trough are formed within the bulk semiconductor substrate. The trough is partially backfilled with a deposited dielectric layer to form an exposed fin region and an unexposed fin region. A gate dielectric layer is formed upon the exposed fin region and a gate electrode is formed upon the gate dielectric layer. By employing a bulk semiconductor substrate the fin-FET device is fabricated cost effectively.
US07663184B1
A memory and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The memory is disposed on a substrate in which a plurality of trenches is arranged in parallel. The memory includes a gate structure and a doped region. The gate structure is disposed between the trenches. The doped region is disposed at one side of the gate structure, in the substrate between the trenches and in the sidewalls and bottoms of the trenches. The top surface of the doped region in the substrate between the trenches is lower than the surface of the substrate under the gate structure by a distance, and the distance is greater than 300 Å.
US07663180B2
A semiconductor device including: a well layer that is formed on a semiconductor substrate; a first impurity diffusion layer that is formed on the well layer; a floating gate that is formed on the well layer in one region isolated from the first impurity diffusion layer, with a gate insulating film therebetween, and that is drawn over the first impurity diffusion layer and over the well layer in other region isolated from the first impurity diffusion layer, respectively; a source or drain layer that is formed on the well layer in such a manner that the source or drain layer sandwiches the floating gate disposed on the gate insulation film with another source or drain layer and in isolation from the first impurity diffusion layer; and a second impurity diffusion layer that is formed on the well layer adjacently to the other region, the well layer being of a first conductivity type while the source or drain layer, the first impurity diffusion layer and the second impurity diffusion layer being each of a second conductivity type.
US07663172B2
Method and apparatus are described for a memory cell includes a substrate, a body extending vertically from the substrate, a first gate having a vertical member and a horizontal member and a second gate comprising a vertical member and a horizontal member. The first gate is disposed laterally from the body and the second gate is disposed laterally from the first gate.
US07663168B2
In a pixel part, in a first active region, a photodiode and a transferring transistor are formed. In a second active region, a resetting transistor is formed. In a pixel part, in a first active region, a photodiode and a transferring transistor are formed. In a second active region, an amplifying transistor is formed. The first and second active regions are respectively the same in shape in image pixel parts. The resetting transistor and the amplifying transistor are shared by the pixel parts.
US07663167B2
A pixel with a photosensor and a transfer transistor having a split transfer gate. A first section of the transfer gate is connectable to a first voltage source while a second section of the transfer gate is connectable to a second voltage source. Thus, during a charge integration period of a photosensor, the two sections of the transfer gate may be oppositely biased to decrease dark current while controlling blooming of electrons within and out of the pixel cell. During charge transfer the two gate sections may be commonly connected to a positive voltage sufficient to transfer charge from the photosensor to a floating diffusion region.
US07663166B2
Provided are relatively higher-performance wire-type semiconductor devices and relatively economical methods of fabricating the same. A wire-type semiconductor device may include at least one pair of support pillars protruding above a semiconductor substrate, at least one fin protruding above the semiconductor substrate and having ends connected to the at least one pair of support pillars, at least one semiconductor wire having ends connected to the at least one pair of support pillars and being separated from the at least one fin, a common gate electrode surrounding the surface of the at least one semiconductor wire, and a gate insulating layer between the at least one semiconductor wire and the common gate electrode.
US07663159B2
Techniques for an integrated circuit device are provided. The integrated circuit device includes a substrate, an active circuit area, and a dielectric layer. A seal ring surrounds the active circuit area. At least one corner area of the integrated circuit includes a plurality of corner band stacks. Each of the plurality of corner band stacks is oriented at about a predetermined angle and extends from a first sawing trace to a second sawing trace. In a specific embodiment, if a structural fault in the at least one corner area occurs, the structural fault is predisposed to extend at about the predetermined angle.
US07663155B2
A luminescent diode chip for flip-chip mounting on a carrier, having a conductive substrate (12), a semiconductor body (14) that contains a photon-emitting active zone and that is joined by an underside to the substrate (12), and a contact (18), disposed on a top side of the semiconductor body (14), for making an electrically conductive connection with the carrier (30) upon the flip-chip mounting of the chip, whereby either the carrier is solder covered or a layer of solder is applied to the contact. An insulating means (40, 42, 44, 46, 48) is provided on the chip, for electrically insulating free faces of the semiconductor body (14) and free surfaces of the substrate (12) from the solder.
US07663149B2
An organic compound film is composed of a hole transporting region, a first mixed region, a light emitting region, a second mixed region, and an electron transporting region that are connected to one another. With the organic compound film thus structured, the blue organic light emitting device obtained is free from interfaces between layers which are present in the conventional laminate structure. When pigment doping is added to this device structure, a white organic light emitting device is obtained. A blue or white organic light emitting device having high light emission efficiency and long lifetime is provided by this method. When this organic light emitting device is combined with color conversion layers or color filters, a full color display device that consumes less power and lasts long can be obtained.
US07663144B2
A solid-state imaging device is provided and has a plurality of pixel parts including three photoelectric conversion layers stacked above a semiconductor substrate, the plurality of pixel parts being arranged above the semiconductor substrate. The three photoelectric conversion layers, respectively, included in one pixel part are interposed between pixel electrode layers and opposing electrode layers. A region thus interposed is made a pixel region that generates a signal charge for formation of one pixel data. The pixel region includes a convex portion and a concave portion as viewed in plane view, and a part of the convex portion is arranged in a manner to put in a concave portion in a pixel region of an adjacent pixel part.
US07663141B2
An organic memory device may include a stack of an organic material layer and a fullerene layer to provide a data storage element between first and second electrodes. The data storage element may include an organic material layer formed on the first electrode, and a fullerene layer between the organic material layer and the second electrode. Methods of fabricating organic memory devices are also discussed.
US07663140B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a high-efficiency white light emitting element having a spectrum in a wide wavelength range. Another object is to provide a white light emitting element in which chromaticity of white color is hard to change over time. Still another object is to provide a white light emitting element in which the shape of an emission spectrum does not tend to depend on current density. A first light emitting element 310 and a second light emitting element 320 are serially laminated over a substrate 300. The first light emitting element 310 has a light emitting layer 312 between a first anode 311 and a first cathode 313, and the second light emitting element 320 has a light emitting layer 322 between a second anode 321 and a second cathode 323. Here, the light emitting layer 312 shows a first emission spectrum 330 having peaks both in a blue to blue green wavelength range and in a yellow to orange wavelength range, and the light emitting layer 322 shows a second emission spectrum 340 having peaks both in a blue green to green wavelength range and in an orange to red wavelength range.
US07663137B2
A phase change memory element and methods for forming the same are provided. The memory element includes a first electrode and a chalcogenide comprising phase change material layer over the first electrode. A metal-chalcogenide layer is over the phase change material layer. The metal chalcogenide layer is tin-telluride. A second electrode is over the metal-chalcogenide layer. The memory element is configured to have reduced current requirements.
US07663136B2
Example embodiments relate to a method of manufacturing amorphous NiO thin films and nonvolatile memory devices including amorphous thin films that use a resistance material. Other example embodiments relate to a method of manufacturing amorphous NiO thin films having improved switching and resistance characteristics by reducing a leakage current and non-volatile memory devices using an amorphous NiO thin film. Provided is a method of manufacturing an amorphous NiO thin film having improved switching behavior by reducing leakage current and improving resistance characteristics. The method may include preparing a substrate in a vacuum chamber, preparing a nickel precursor material, preparing a source gas by vaporizing the nickel precursor material, preparing a reaction gas, preparing a purge gas and forming a monolayer NiO thin film on the substrate by performing one cycle of sequentially supplying the source gas, the purge gas, the reaction gas and the purge gas into the vacuum chamber.
US07663133B2
A memory element having a resistance variable material and methods for forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a plurality of first electrodes over a substrate and forming a blanket material stack over the first electrodes. The stack includes a plurality of layers, at least one layer of the stack includes a resistance variable material. The method also includes forming a first conductive layer on the stack and etching the conductive layer and at least one of the layers of the stack to form a first pattern of material stacks. The etched first conductive layer forming a plurality of second electrodes with a portion of the resistance variable material located between each of the first and second electrodes.
US07663123B2
A dosimeter (100) for radiation fields is described. The dosimeter includes a scintillator (1) a light pipe (2) having a first end in optical communication with the scintillator (1) and a light detector (6). The light pipe (2) may have a hollow core (3) with a light reflective material about the periphery of the hollow core (3). The dosimeter (100) may further include a light source (61) that generates light for use as a calibrating signal for a measurement signal and/or for use to check the light pipe (2).
US07663122B2
Laser light generated from laser light generating means (10) is fed through laser light transfer means (11) including a demagnification optical system (23) so as to be condensed in a part Ex where an object gas of analysis exists. The laser light is imparted with energy for causing a multiple photon excitation phenomenon or a multiple photon ionization phenomenon of gas in the condensed part Ex. The energy of the laser light is large enough for 17 eV or higher energy to be injected into a hydrogen molecule when the object gas of analysis is hydrogen and for 23 eV or higher energy to be injected into a helium atom when the object gas of analysis is helium. For example, the intensity of the laser light in the condensed part Ex is 1014 W/cm2 or higher. This provides a laser analytical instrument capable of observing various types of gas through an inexpensive and simple arrangement.
US07663119B2
The invention relates to the fact that a common industrial neutron interrogation screening requirement is that a high throughput rate be accommodated by the screening system. The accumulation of elemental abundance ratio spectral data to minimize statistical uncertainty is a function of the neutron flux passing through the subject. If the subject passes through a neutron beam, with a strictly limited time window for exposure, the flux must be sufficient to accumulate the required statistics. The level of neutron flux necessary may exceed the cost effective limits of the selected neutron source means. Exposure time window dilation is disclosed through a class of system configurations which become practical for reduction to practice by utilization of linear neutron source topology neutron generators. This disclosure is concerned with example embodiments which utilize the length, width, thickness and segmentation of the source emission zone within an appropriate neutron source.
US07663118B2
A scintillator panel comprising: (a) a scintillator sheet comprising: (i) a substrate, and (ii) a phosphor layer formed on the substrate; (b) a first protective film provided on a phosphor layer side surface of the scintillator sheet; and (c) a second protective film provided on a substrate side surface of the scintillator sheet, wherein (d) the scintillator sheet is sealed by the first protective film and the second protective film; and (e) the first protective film is not substantially coherent with the phosphor layer.
US07663116B2
A sensor for detecting a received electromagnetic wave comprising a first electrode, a second electrode and an amorphous oxide layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US07663114B2
A cassette type radiation image detector having a box-shaped cassette housing configured by engaging a front member that is light-shielding and radiation-transmissive, with a light-shielding back member, and a two-dimensional array type radiation detection sensor for detecting radiation images incorporated in the radiation image detector, the radiation image detector including: a sensor supporting member that supports the radiation detection sensor; a first engaging member provided at the sensor supporting member; a second engaging member provided at the back member; and a shock absorbing member positioned between the first engaging member and the second engaging member, wherein the box-shaped cassette housing is formed by engaging the first engaging member with the second engaging member via the shock absorbing member.
US07663110B2
A scintillator panel comprising a scintillator plate containing a substrate having thereon a reflective layer, a sublayer and a scintillator layer in that order, wherein the scintillator plate is sealed with: a first protective film provided on a side of the scintillator layer; and a second protective film provided on a side of the substrate opposite the scintillator layer, wherein the first protective layer is not adhered to the scintillator layer, and the second protective layer contains an aluminum layer.
US07663108B2
A system for analyzing a bulk material including a tube for transporting a stream of a bulk material, a plurality of illuminators for directing radiation through the stream and arranged about a circumference of the tube, a plurality of detectors arranged substantially opposite the illuminators, and at least one spectrometer for receiving and analyzing data from the plurality of detectors.
US07663104B2
An object of the present invention is to obtain a clear absorbed current image without involving the difference in gain of amplifier between inputs, from absorbed currents detected by using a plurality of probes and to improve measurement efficiency.In the present invention, a plurality of probes are brought in contact with a specimen. While irradiating the specimen with an electron beam, currents flowing in the probes are measured. Signals from at least two probes are input to a differential amplifier. An output of the differential amplifier is amplified. On the basis of the amplified output and scanning information of the electron beam, an absorbed current image is generated. According to the invention, a clear absorbed current image can be obtained without involving the difference in gain of amplifier between inputs. Thus, measurement efficiency in a failure analysis of a semiconductor device can be improved.
US07663100B2
The TOF mass spectrometer disclosed places an even number of ion mirrors in close proximity to a MALDI ion source and a field-free drift space between the exit from the mirrors and an ion detector. This “reversed geometry” configuration may be distinguished from a conventional reflecting TOF analyzer employing a single ion mirror where a large fraction of the total drift space is located between the ion source and the mirror.
US07663081B2
The present invention provides a digital imaging photodetector with a gas electron multiplier. The digital imaging photodetector comprises a gas electron multiplier detector. The gas electron multiplier detector includes a photoelectric converter for converting incident light into photoelectrons or Compton electrons; a gas electron multiplier (GEM) for receiving the photoelectrons or Compton electrons from the photoelectric converter and multiplying them; and a readout unit for receiving an electrical signal indicating a position where an electron cloud multiplied in the gas electron multiplier arrives on an anode, recognizing coordinates of the electron cloud based on the received signal, and outputting the coordinates of the electron cloud. According to the digital imaging photodetector of the present invention, real-time imaging of image information can be achieved by multiplying photoelectrons or Compton electrons, which are discharged due to a photoelectric effect or a Compton effect induced by visible rays, ultraviolet rays or X-rays, using the gas electron multiplier.
US07663071B2
A keypad assembly having three-dimensional patterns includes a bottom layer, a light-guiding plate, a pattern layer, a coating layer and a surface layer. The light-guiding plate is overlapped on the bottom layer. The pattern layer is provided on the light-guiding plate. A plurality of three-dimensional patterns is provided on the pattern layer. The coating layer is coated on the upper surface of the pattern layer. The surface layer is overlapped on the coating layer. The surface layer is formed with a plurality of keycaps to correspond to the three-dimensional patterns. Via the above arrangement, patterns such as characters, symbols or icons can be displayed in the keycaps in a three-dimensional manner, thereby increasing recognition and visual effect.
US07663060B2
A method for cable management in an electronics enclosure is disclosed. The method involves extruding at least one length of material that forms a cable guide having a plurality of partitions defined by one or more cable dividers and two end clip flanges, where the end clip flanges each have at least one snap guide and at least one locking clip channel. The method further involves sizing at least one cable guide assembly from the length of material, based on a predetermined length for the cable guide assembly, and preparing one or more ends of the at least one cable guide assembly.
US07663052B2
Generating a digital waveform for a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) voice using a set of machine-code instructions that is specialized for the generation of digital waveforms for MIDI voices. For example, a processor may execute a software program that generates a digital waveform for a MIDI voice. The instructions of the software program may be machine code instructions from an instruction set that is specialized for the generation of digital waveforms for MIDI voices.
US07663049B2
Multiple kernel-mode audio processing modules or filters are combined to form a module or filter graph. The graph is implemented in kernel-mode, reducing latency and jitter when handling audio data (e.g., MIDI data) by avoiding transfers of the audio data to user-mode applications for processing. A variety of different audio processing modules can be used to provide various pieces of functionality when processing audio data.
US07663045B2
A user of a game system can replace background music from a game with the user's selected background music, while still hearing any other audio streams (e.g. sound effects related to gameplay). A music engine and system audio mixer allow the playback of the user's requested replacement music. The game tags background music streams with an identifier indicating that they are background music, and such streams are muted at the music engine and system audio mixer (if the game is using the provided music engine in order to play the game's audio streams) or by the game if the game is using a game music engine and has received information indicating that a mute request has been issued.
US07663032B1
A novel inbred maize line designated PHEWW and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize line PHEWW with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHEWW through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the inbred line PHEWW or a trait conversion of PHEWW with another maize line. Inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PHEWW, methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PHEWW and the inbred maize lines and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07663026B2
This invention relates to marine algae, and more particularly, to a method for producing improved seaweed strains by genetic engineering. The vector for transformation were constructed by inserting the high-plant or algae-derived promoters upstream of foreign reporter genes or such cassettes that functional genes are fused with antibiotics or herbicide-resistant genes. The genetic seaweed was generated by natural development process by recombinated plasmid DNA introduction to seaweed spore with Biolostics as transformation methods. Introduced traits of antibiotics or herbicide-resistance were used to select the transgenic seaweed individuals when foreign functional genes are transformed. Stable transformation could be obtained following this invention.
US07663018B2
Animal model involving transgenic manipulation of amyloid precursor protein, useful for testing potential therapeutic agents for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, in particular Alzheimer's disease.
US07663016B2
A disposable absorbent article 10 that includes an absorbent mat 13 between a liquid permeable top sheet 11 and a liquid impermeable back sheet 12, the absorbent mat 13 including a sheet-like water absorbent layer 15 that contains water absorbent resin powders 14 but that does not contain pulp fibers therein, and fiber assembly layers 17A and 17B each of which mainly consists of the pulp fibers 16, sequentially from the side of the top sheet 11, the sheet-like water absorbent layer 15 alternately including a plurality of water absorbent resin powder existing regions 15a, in each of which the water absorbent resin powders 14 are wrapped in two non-woven fabric sheets 20 and 21, and a plurality of water absorbent resin powder non-existing regions 15b, in each of which the water absorbent resin powders 14 are not wrapped in the two non-woven fabric sheets 20 and 21, in a width direction, wherein rising flaps 18 are provided on both sides of the sheet-like water absorbent layer 15, respectively. Bottom ends 18a of the rising flaps 18 are bonded to the top sheet 11 corresponding to the water absorbent resin powder non-existing regions 15b-1 and 15b-2 located on both lateral ends of the sheet-like water absorbent layer 15, respectively.
US07663013B2
A porous solid acid catalyst for producing light olefins is prepared through pillaring and a solid state reaction of a raw material mixture. The catalyst is made of a porous material having a crystalline structure that is different from that of the raw material mixture. The catalyst exhibits excellent catalytic activity (i.e., conversion and selectivity) in the production of light olefins from hydrocarbon feeds such as full range naphthas.
US07663012B2
The average cycle propylene selectivity of an oxygenate to propylene (OTP) process using one or more fixed beds of a dual-function oxygenate conversion catalyst is substantially enhanced by the use of moving bed reactor technology in the hydrocarbon synthesis portion of the OTP flow scheme in lieu of fixed bed technology coupled with the selection of a catalyst on-stream cycle time of 200 hours or less. Those provisions hold the build-up of coke deposits on the catalyst to a level which does not substantially degrade dual-function catalyst activity, oxygenate conversion and propylene selectivity, thereby enabling maintenance of propylene average cycle yield at essentially start-of-cycle levels. The propylene average cycle yield improvement enabled by the present invention over that achieved by the fixed bed system of the prior art using the same or a similar catalyst system is of the order of about 1.5 to 5.5 wt-% or more.
US07663011B2
A process for treating organic compounds includes providing a composition which includes a substantially mesoporous structure of refractory oxide containing at least 97% by volume of pores having a pore size ranging from about 15 Å to about 30 Å and having a micropore volume of at least about 0.01 cc/g, wherein the mesoporous structure has incorporated therewith at least about 0.02% by weight of at least one catalytically and/or chemically active heteroatom selected from the group consisting of Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zn, Fe, Sn, Mo, Ga, Ni, Co, In, Zr, Mn, Cu, Mg, Pd, Pt and W, and the catalyst has an X-ray diffraction pattern with one peak at 0.3° to about 3.5° at 2 theta (θ). The catalyst is contacted with an organic feed under reaction conditions wherein the treating process is selected from alkylation, acylation, oligomerization, selective oxidation, hydrotreating, isomerization, demetalation, catalytic dewaxing, hydroxylation, hydrogenation, ammoximation, isomerization, dehydrogenation, cracking and adsorption.
US07663001B2
A process is described for preparing isoxazoles of the formula I where the substituents are as defined below: R1 is hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl, R2 is C1-C6-alkyl, R3, R4, R5 are hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl, or R4 and R5 together form a bond, R6 is a heterocyclic ring, n is 0, 1 or 2; which comprises preparing an intermediate of the formula VI where R1, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined above, followed by halogenation, thiomethylation, oxidation and acylation to give compounds of the formula I. Also novel intermediates for preparing the compounds of the formula I and novel processes for preparing the intermediates are described.
US07662995B2
1-Phenylalkanecarboxylic acid derivatives, the processes for the preparation thereof and the use thereof in the treatment and/or prevention of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.
US07662994B2
The present invention describes a novel method for the purification of dexloxiglumide by crystallization from isopropyl ether which permits the production, in a reproducible manner, of a product with morphological and particle-size characteristics such as to favor its use in the preparation of oral pharmaceutical forms on an industrial scale.
US07662993B2
The present invention is directed to labeled compounds of the formulae wherein Q is selected from the group consisting of —S(═O)—, and —S(═O)2—, Z is selected from the group consisting of 1-naphthyl, substituted 1-naphthyl, 2-naphthyl, substituted 2-naphthyl, and phenyl groups with the structure wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, a C1-C4 lower alkyl, a halogen, and an amino group selected from the group consisting of NH2, NHR and NRR′ where R and R′ are each independently selected from the group consisting of a C1-C4 lower alkyl, an aryl, and an alkoxy group, and X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, a C1-C4 lower alkyl group, and a fully-deuterated C1-C4 lower alkyl group.
US07662991B2
A beneficial method for the manufacture of amino polyalkylene phosphonic acids, under substantial absence of hydrohalogenic acid, is disclosed. The method, in essence, is based on reacting narrowly defined ratios of phosphorous acid, an amine and a formaldehyde in presence of a heterogeneous Broensted acid catalyst. The inventive method is capable of yielding economically and quality operational/capacity advantages, in particular significantly reduced one-step cycle duration under exclusion of corrosion disadvantages and also is environmentally friendly without requiring, in that respect, anything more than nominal capital expenditures.
US07662990B2
The invention relates to a novel multi step synthesis of 3-(N-methyl-N-pentyl)amino-1-hydroxypropane-1,1-diphosphonic acid, monosodium salt, monohydrate, of the formula
US07662987B2
Disclosed herein are methods for synthesizing 1-(acyloxy)-alkyl prodrug derivatives of drugs through oxidation of 1-acyl-alkyl derivatives of drugs under anhydrous reaction conditions. The methods typically proceed stereospecifically, in high yield, do not require the use of activated intermediates and/or toxic compounds and are readily amenable to scale-up.
US07662984B2
Si—Si bond-bearing compounds are effectively prepared by irradiating with radiation or heating Si—H group-bearing silicon compounds in organic solvents in the presence of iron complex catalysts. The Si—Si bond-bearing compounds are useful as a base material in photoresist compositions, ceramic precursor compositions, and conductive compositions.
US07662983B2
Disclosed are modified inorganic particles and methods of preparing the same. The modified inorganic particle comprises an inorganic particle with hydroxyl groups, and a surface modifier coupled to the inorganic particle via a urethane linkage, wherein the surface modifier has an ethylenically unsaturated end group. The method comprises providing an inorganic particle with hydroxyl groups; providing a surface modifier with an isocyanate group at one end and an ethylenically unsaturated group at the other end; and mixing the inorganic particle with the surface modifier for reaction such that the surface modifier is coupled to the inorganic particle.
US07662978B2
The present invention relates to dibenzylidene sorbitol (“DBS”)-based compounds. The compounds of this invention are particularly advantageous in that they are characterized by one or more of improved transparency (reduced haze), reduced yellowing and/or improved organoleptics (taste). According to one embodiment, the present invention provides a disubstituted DBS-based compound having an allyl group or a propyl group substituted on the first carbon of the sorbitol chain. The present invention also relates to compositions comprising such DBS-based compounds and methods for using them.
US07662973B2
Disclosed is a method for increasing the fluorescence of a Cyanine dye molecule comprising at least one NO2 group characterized by the reduction of the at least one NO2 group to NHOH or NH2 by the action of a nitroreductase. The cyanine dye molecule comprising at least one NO2 group can be used as a substrate for detecting nitroreductase enzyme activity in a composition and allows for the use of a nitroreductase enzyme in an enzyme-reporter system for the detection of analytes, binding reactions or gene expression.
US07662972B2
An isoxazoline-substituted benzamide compound of formula (1) or a salt thereof: wherein A1, A2 and A3 independently of one another are carbon atom or nitrogen atom, G is benzene ring, etc., X is halogen atom, C1-C6haloalkyl, etc., Y is halogen atom, C1-C6alkyl, etc., R1 is C1-C12alkyl arbitrarily substituted with R16, C3-C2alkenyl, arbitrarily substituted with R16 is oxygen atom or sulfur atom, —N(R20)R19, etc., R2 is hydrogen atom, C1-C4alkoxy C1-C6alkyl, etc., R3 is C1-C6haloalkyl, etc., R16 is halogen atom, cyano, phenyl substituted with (Z)p1, D-1 to D-60, E-1 to E-49, etc., R19 is phenyl, phenyl substituted with (Z)p1, etc., R20 is hydrogen atom, C1-C6alkyl, etc., Z is halogen atom, nitro, C1-C4alkoxy, etc., D-1 to D-60 are 5- or 6-membered aromatic heterocyclic rings, E-1 to E-49 are 5- or 6-membered saturated heterocyclic rings, m is an integer of 0 to 5, n is an integer of 0 to 4, p1 is an integer of 1 to 5. The pesticide containing these compounds.
US07662967B2
The invention relates to the use of 3-(2′,2′-dimethylpropanoylamino)-tetrahydropyridin-2-one for preparing a medicament intended to prevent or treat inflammatory disorders.
US07662966B2
Benzoimidazole compounds, compositions, and methods of using them in leukocyte recruitment inhibition, in modulating H4 receptor, and in treating conditions such as inflammation, H4 receptor-mediated conditions, and related conditions.
US07662964B2
The present invention is related to a process for the preparation of [1,4′]bipiperidinyl-1′-carbonyl chloride or its hydrochloride using methylene chloride as a solvent in the reaction of 4-piperidinopiperidine with phosgene and the removing the reaction solvent by using an additional distillation solvent to raise the distillation temperature.
US07662957B2
A high quality 3,4-dihydro-1,2,3-oxathiazin-4-one-2,2-dioxide compound or a salt thereof is obtained easily and efficiently.When the compound represented by the following formula (2)[Formula 2] (wherein, R1, R2, and R3 are hydrogen atom or an organic group inert to the reaction, and X is hydrogen atom) or a salt thereof is produced by cyclization of a mixture of β-ketoamide-N-sulfonic acid represented by the following formula (1) [Formula 1] or a salt thereof and an inert solvent and a mixture of acid anhydride and an inert solvent, and by subsequent hydrolysis of the product, a step of (A) hydrolyzing the reaction product obtained by the cyclization by mixing with an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid so as a concentration of sulfuric acid in an aqueous phase after the hydrolysis would become 30% by weight or more, and then separating an organic phase and an aqueous phase, or a step of (B) washing the organic phase liquid after the hydrolysis with an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid with a concentration of 30% by weight or more is at least carried out.
US07662945B2
The invention provides fragments of type XVIII collagen termed neostatins, and methods for their use in the treatment of ophthalmological disorders associated with angiogenesis.
US07662944B2
Peptides including HisGlyTrpSerTyrGlyGlyPheLeu; LeuAspGluAsnValHisPhePhe; GluArgHisSerIleArg and PheValIleGlnGluGluPhe which show peptidase ability and have substrate specificity for at least one of the compounds H-Ala-Pro-pNA, H-Gly-Pro-pNA and H-Arg-Pro-pNA are disclosed. Nucleic acids, vectors, antibodies and hybridoma cells are also claimed with reference to the above sequences and their abilities.
US07662938B2
A class of 2′-fluoro-nucleoside compounds are disclosed which are useful in the treatment of hepatitis B infection, hepatitis C infection, HIV and abnormal cellular proliferation, including tumors and cancer. The compounds have the general formula: wherein Base is a purine or pyrimidine base; R1 is OH, H, OR3, N3, CN, halogen, including F, or CF3, lower alkyl, amino, lower alkylamino, di(lower)alkylamino, or alkoxy, and base refers to a purine or pyrimidine base; R2 is H, phosphate, including monophosphate, diphosphate, triphosphate, or a stabilized phosphate prodrug; acyl, or other pharmaceutically acceptable leaving group which when administered in vivo, is capable of providing a compound wherein R2 is H or phosphate; sulfonate ester including alkyl or aryalkyl sulfonyl including methanesulfonyl, benzyl, wherein the phenyl group is optionally substituted with one or more substituents as described in the definition of aryl given above, a lipid, an amino acid, peptide, or cholesterol; and R3 is acyl, alkyl, phosphate, or other pharmaceutically acceptable leaving group which when administered in vivo, is capable of being cleaved to the parent compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US07662932B2
The present invention provides VEGF-D polypeptides, which among other things stimulate endothelial cell proliferation and angiogenesis and increases vascular permeability, as well as fragments, dimers, and methods of using the same.
US07662931B2
The present invention concerns compositions of matter, for example, but not limited to, modified antibodies, in which one or more biologically active peptides are incorporated into a loop region of a non-terminal domain of an immunoglobulin Fc domain.
US07662929B2
Modulation of Hyaluronan (HA) synthesis and degradation is disclosed by compounds and compositions that are capable of reducing the level of hyaluronan synthase (HAS) or hyaluronidase (HYAL) or the function or activity of HAS or HYAL. The compounds and compositions can also inhibit the expression of genetic material encoding these enzymes. The compounds and compositions comprise nucleic acid molecules and interactive molecules such as antibodies, small molecule inhibitors and substrate analogs of HAS and HYAL. The compounds and compositions are useful in the prophylaxis and/or treatment of inflammatory disorders including hyperproliferative conditions, such as but not limited to, cancer and psoriasis.
US07662928B2
Antibodies to heavy chain of human FcRn are provided which function as non-competitive inhibitors of IgG binding to FcRn. The antibodies may be polyclonal, monoclonal, chimeric or humanized, or antigen binding fragments thereof. These antibodies are useful for reducing the concentration of pathogenic IgGs in individuals and therefore used as a therapeutic tool in autoimmune and alloimmune conditions.
US07662927B2
The present invention relates to polynucleotide and polypeptide molecules for zcyto20, zcyto21, zcyto22, zycto24, and zcyto25 proteins which are most closely related to interferon-α at the amino acid sequence level. The receptor for this protein family is a class II cytokine receptor. The present invention includes methods of reducing viral infections and increasing monocyte counts. The present invention also includes antibodies to the zcyto20 polypeptides, and methods of producing the polynucleotides and polypeptides.
US07662925B2
The present invention relates to optimized Fc variants, methods for their generation, and antibodies and Fc fusions comprising optimized Fc variants.
US07662918B2
A recombinant protein is prepared comprising a polypeptide of interest and a starch binding domain (SBD). The said SBD is obtainable from glucoamylase of fungi genus Rhizopus. The said recombinant protein comprising the said SBD can be purified by contacting with an affinity matrix such as starch, the SBD binds to the affinity matrix to isolate the recombinant protein. The recombinant protein can be purified by separating the association between the SBD and the affinity matrix by acid, alkaline, salt, or sugar. The polypeptide of interest may be an antibody, an antigen, a therapeutic compound, an enzyme, or a protein and may apply in pathogen destruction, vaccine producing, and oral care product manufacturing. The SBD further provides as a tool to screen or identify polysacchrides.
US07662915B2
The present invention relates to synthetic peptides having selectively protected amines of untargeted sites and to methods for production thereof and for specifically conjugating PEG to targeted sites of the synthetic peptides using the same. The present invention provides a much higher yield of PEG conjugated peptides in which PEG is specifically combined to amines at targeted sites.
US07662913B2
Cystatin-based peptide tags, referred to here as inclusion body tags (IBTs), are disclosed useful for the generation of insoluble fusion peptides. The fusion peptides comprise at least one inclusion body tag operably linked to a peptide of interest. Expression of the fusion peptide in a host cell results in a product that is insoluble and contained within inclusion bodies in the cell and/or cell lysate. The inclusion bodies may then be purified and the protein of interest may be isolated after cleavage from the inclusion body tag.
US07662909B2
A polysulfone composition is provided having a total luminous light transmittance of 84% or greater when measured on 0.1 inch thick specimens using ASTM D-1003. The specimens also meet at least one of the following two conditions: 1) a yellowness index (YI) of less than about 5.0 as measured according to ASTM D-1925 on 0.1 inch thick specimens, or 2) a color factor (CF) of less than about 25, wherein CF is defined by the following equation: CF=270[(x+y)sample−(x+y)air]/t wherein x and y are chromaticity coordinates measured in transmittance mode and t is sample thickness in inches. Another polysulfone composition is provided comprising a polysulfone, an organic phosphorous-containing melt stabilizer, and at least one of the following additives: a blue to violet dye, and an organic optical brightener. The polysulfone composition of the present invention is used to form transparent molded articles such as ophthalmic lenses.
US07662902B2
A phenolic resin having not more than 5 wt% of free bisphenol and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of not more than 2.0 is prepared by reacting a bisphenol and aldehyde in the presence of an alkaline catalyst at a temperature of from 0° C. to 100° C., neutralizing with an acid, adding an acid to adjust the pH to from 0 to 6, heating to a temperature of from 50° C. to 200° C, and vacuuming to recover the phenolic resin.
US07662898B2
A biocompatible material having excellent biocompatibility such as small interaction with a component of a living body such as a protein or blood cell. A biocompatible material comprising a polymer obtained by polymerizing a monomer composition comprising an amino acid-type betaine monomer represented by the formula (I): wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R2 is an alkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; each of R3 and R4 is independently an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R5 is an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and Z is an oxygen atom or an —NH group; and a polymerizable monomer represented by the formula (II): wherein R1 is as defined above; and R6 is a monovalent organic group, in a weight ratio, i.e. amino acid-type betaine monomer/polymerizable monomer, of from 1/99 to 100/1. The biocompatible material can be suitably used, for example, in food, a food additive, a medicament, a quasi-drug, a medical device, cosmetics, a toiletry article, or the like.
US07662897B2
Process for producing photoresist polymeric compound having repeated units corresponding to at least one monomer selected from monomer (a) having lactone skeleton, monomer (b) having group which becomes soluble in alkali by elimination with acid, and monomer (c) having alicyclic skeleton having hydroxyl group. Process includes (A) polymerizing mixture of monomers containing at least one monomer selected from the above monomers (a), (b), and (c), and (B) extracting polymer formed in the polymerization by using organic solvent and water to partition the formed polymer into organic solvent layer and metal component impurity into aqueous layer, or passing polymer solution, which contains polymer having repeated units corresponding to at least one of the above monomers (a), (b), and (c) and metal content of which is 1000 ppb by weight or less relative to the polymer through filter comprising porous polyolefin membrane having cation-exchange group. The photoresist polymeric compounds have a metallic impurity content that is extremely low.
US07662896B2
Described are fluorochemical surfactants derived from nonafluorobutanesulfonyl fluoride that contain polyalkyleneoxy side chains and may be copolymerized with acrylic acid or methacrylic acid to form polyacrylates or polymethacrylates. The surfactants surprisingly lower the surface tension of water and other liquids in the same or similar low values achieved by premier surfactants such as those derived from perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride.
US07662892B2
This invention relates to a continuous process to prepare olefin impact copolymers comprising producing a semi-crystalline olefin polymer in a first reactor and then transferring the reactor contents to a second reactor where a low crystallinity olefin polymer is produced in the presence of the semi-crystalline polymer, where a fluorinated hydrocarbon is present in the polymerization medium of the first reactor, the second reactor or both reactors.
US07662889B2
An improved process for the metathetic degradation of nitrile rubber using catalyst systems comprising the catalyst and also a phosphane or diphosphane is provided.
US07662887B1
The residual chlorine content of a polyolefin-substituted carboxylic acylating agent formed by a halogen-assisted reaction of a polyalkene and at least one olefinic, monounsaturated mono- or dicarboxylic acid, anhydride or ester, is reduced when the reaction is conducted in the presence of a controlled amount of a metal compound.
US07662880B2
Polyester compositions are disclosed that include polyester polymers or copolymers having incorporated therein metallic nickel particles that improve the reheat properties of the compositions. Processes for making such compositions are also disclosed. The nickel particles may be incorporated in the polyester by melt compounding, or may be added at any stage of the polymerization, such as during the melt-phase of the polymerization. A range of particle sizes may be used, as well as a range of particle size distributions. The polyester compositions are suitable for use in packaging made from processes in which a reheat step is desirable.
US07662876B2
Flame retarded resin compositions comprise at least one resin selected from the group consisting of polycarbonate, polyester and mixtures thereof, and a flame retarding effective amount of at least one nonhalogenated arylalkylsilyl flame retardant, the flame retarded resin composition being substantially free of haloorganic flame retardant and phosphate flame retardant.
US07662874B2
Rubber mixtures are disclosed comprising (A) at least one styrene-butadiene rubber, (B) at least one filler and (C) at least one polysulphidic organo(alkyl polyether silane) of the general formula I [(X)(X′)(X″)Si—RI]2—Sm I. The mixtures are prepared by mixing at least one styrene-butadiene rubber, and at least one filler and one polysulphidic organo(alkyl polyether silane) of the formula (I). The rubber mixtures can be used for the production of mouldings.
US07662873B2
The present invention is directed to the preparation of fibrous substrates, including textiles, marked with colloidal particle nanobar codes, to the fibrous substrates so prepared, and to methods for detecting the nanobar codes on the fibrous substrates for use in quality control, counterfeiting, and the like.
US07662867B2
The invention relates to the use of an infrared absorber for accelerating the UV curing of a mass to be cured. The infrared absorber is preferably selected from ATO, ITO, ZnO, LaB6 and a mixture of said substances. A casting resin is preferably used as the mass to be cured, in particular a resin based on an acrylic resin or an acrylate resin. The invention permits the production of laminated panes, in which the starting mass is applied between the panes and converted to form the laminate.
US07662856B2
Antimycorbacterial compositions are disclosed comprising at least one hydroxamate or at least one hydroxamate and at least one hydroxylamine. The preferred ratio of hydroxamate to hydroxylamines is about 100:1 to about 1:1. A method for inhibiting mycobacterial growth is also disclosed comprising the step of administering the compositions of this invention to an animal including a human.
US07662854B2
The invention provides a compound of one of the formulae (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) as herein defined, or a salt thereof, for use in the treatment of a condition associated with increased or decreased HIF levels or activity, or a condition in which an increase or decrease in HIF levels or activity may be beneficial.
US07662849B2
The present invention is directed to compounds that are inhibitors of cysteine proteases, in particular, cathepsins B, K, L, F, and S and are therefore useful in treating diseases mediated by these proteases. The present invention is directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and processes for preparing them.
US07662848B2
The present invention is directed to a process for preparing Fluvastatin Sodium salt by basic hydrolysis of its alkyl ester. The reaction is performed in conditions suitable to allow a selective hydrolysis of the desired syn isomer, while the unwanted anti isomer is removed by extraction, thus reducing its content in the final product; this diastereomer is the main impurity of Fluvastatin sodium salt and its ester precursor.
US07662837B2
The invention is directed to compounds of Formula I: wherein A, X, R2 and W are set forth in the specification, as well as solvates, hydrates, tautomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that inhibit protein tyrosine kinases, especially c-fms kinase. Methods of treating autoimmune diseases; and diseases with an inflammatory component; treating metastasis from ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, stomach cancer, hairy cell leukemia and non-small lung carcinoma; and treating pain, including skeletal pain caused by tumor metastasis or osteoarthritis, or visceral, inflammatory, and neurogenic pain; as well as osteoporosis, Paget's disease, and other diseases in which bone resorption mediates morbidity including arthritis, prosthesis failure, osteolytic sarcoma, myeloma, and tumor metastasis to bone with the compounds of Formula I, are also provided.
US07662836B2
An indazole having analgesic activity, a method for the preparation thereof and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same; the indazole has the following general formula: where X, Ra, Rb, Rc and Rd have the meanings stated in the description.
US07662833B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I). These compounds are a novel type of peptide deformylase (PDF) inhibitors, and are therefore of great interest especially as new antibiotics.
US07662832B2
The present invention provides novel pyrrolo[2,3-c]pyridine derivatives or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, processes for the preparation thereof, and compositions comprising the same. The pyrrolo[2,3-c]pyridine derivatives or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof of the present invention have excellent proton pump inhibition effects and possess the ability to attain a reversible proton pump inhibitory effect.
US07662826B2
A compound represented by the formula (Ia) (wherein R1a, R2a, and R3 to R5 are the same as defined in the description), a prodrug thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or solvate thereof. The compounds are useful in the prevention of or treatment for diseases relating to NAD(P)H.
US07662816B2
Disclosed are compounds of the formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein R1 is R is —C(O)—N(R27)(R28) or and the remaining variables are as defined in the specification. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula I.Also disclosed are methods of treating cognitive or neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating cognitive or neurodegenerative diseases comprising the compounds of formula I in combination with a β-secretase inhibitor other than those of formula I, an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, a gamma-secretase inhibitor, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, a cholinesterase inhibitor or an anti-amyloid antibody.
US07662810B2
A 2-arylmethylazetidine carbapenem derivative of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof exhibits a wide spectrum of antibacterial activities against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and excellent antibacterial activities against resistant bacteria such as methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and quinolone-resistant strains (QRS):
US07662808B2
This invention relates to novel diazabicyclic aryl derivatives which are found to be cholinergic ligands at the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and modulators of the monoamine receptors and transporters. Due to their pharmacological profile the compounds of the invention may be useful for the treatment of diseases or disorders as diverse as those related to the cholinergic system of the central nervous system (CNS), the peripheral nervous system (PNS), diseases or disorders related to smooth muscle contraction, endocrine diseases or disorders, diseases or disorders related to neuro-degeneration, diseases or disorders related to inflammation, pain, and withdrawal symptoms caused by the termination of abuse of chemicals substances.
US07662805B2
Oral antidepressant formulation comprising an effective antidepressant amount of at least one pharmaceutically acceptable antidepressant active agent and an effective amount lower than 50 mg of acetylsalicylic acid, derivatives of acetylsalicylic acid, or diaspirin, for reducing the onset of antidepressant action.
US07662804B2
Disclosed herein are novel diazenyl pyrazole compounds and related compounds. Also disclosed herein are methods of using these compounds for the treatment of diseases and conditions associated with modulating a thrombopoietin activity.
US07662803B2
A method of treating a warm-blood vertebrate. The vertebrate may be a human being or a lower animal. The treatment method involves administering to the vertebrate in need of such treatment a pharmaceutically effective amount of a complex of halide-free glucosamine and a therapeutic drug having a pKa of less than 7. Preferably, the complex is stabilized by coating it with at least one pharmaceutically acceptable polymer comprising a water-soluble, water-immiscible and/or water-swellable homopolymer and/or copolymer. Suitable polymers include carboxypolymethylene homopolymers and copolymers; polyethylene glycol homopolymers and copolymers, povidone homopolymers and copolymers, polyacrylic acid homopolymers and copolymers; polyacrylamide homopolymers and copolymers; polysaccharides; and mixtures of two or more of the foregoing polymers. The resultant polymer-coated complex will be stable upon exposure to ambient temperature and/or the atmosphere. Suitable acidic therapeutic drugs may be found in one or more of the following classes of therapeutic drugs: α- and β-Adrenergic Agonists; Narcotic and Non-Narcotic Analgesics; Anorexics; Antiallergics; Antianginals; Antiarrhythmics; Antiasthmatics; Antibiotics; Anti-coagulants; Anticonvulsants; Antidepressants; Antidiabetics; Antihistaminics; Anti-hypertensives; Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatories; Antimigraines; Antineoplastics; Antiparkinsonians; Antipsychotics; Antipyretics; Antispasmodics; Antithrombotics; Anti-ulceratives; Anxiolytics; Decongestants; Diuretics; Hepatoprotectants; Sedatives; and Vasodilators.
US07662800B2
Derivatives between hyaluronic acid and at least one nitrogenated base, in particular at least one heterocyclic compound derived from purine and/or from pyrimidine and cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical compositions based on said derivatives.
US07662799B2
Dry powders of amino acids which exhibit great oral meltability and solubility, may be produced by spray drying a hydrous liquid of amino acids to produce a powder of amino acids, where the hydrous liquid of amino acids is prepared into the form of microfine liquid droplets in the presence of trehalose for spray drying, to obtain a powder having a mean particle size of 0.1 μm to 15 μm, as well as granulating and drying during the spray drying or after the spray drying, to obtain a granulated powder having a mean particle size of 20 μm to 1,000 μm.
US07662789B2
The invention refers to the pharmaceutical means for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases and can be used as a substance restoring myocardium function in the course of treatment for different forms of this pathology.There is proposed a new tetrapeptide alanyl-glutamyl-aspartyl-arginine with general formula: Ala-Glu-Asp-Arg sequence 1 [SEQ ID NO:1], revealing biological activity, which is manifested in the restoration of the myocardium function.There is proposed a pharmacological substance containing an effective amount of tetrapeptide alanyl-glutamyl-aspartyl-arginine with general formula: Ala-Glu-Asp-Arg sequence 1 [SEQ ID NO:1] as an active peptide agent, revealing biological activity, which is manifested by the restoration of myocardium function. Being included in the medication, this substance contributes to the restoration of the myocardium function.
US07662787B2
The present invention describes compounds, compositions and methods of using the same comprising lysine covalently attached to amphetamine. These compounds and compositions are useful for reducing or preventing abuse and overdose of amphetamine. These compounds and compositions find particular use in providing an abuse-resistant alternative treatment for certain disorders, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), ADD, narcolepsy, and obesity. Oral bioavailability of amphetamine is maintained at therapeutically useful doses. At higher doses bioavailability is substantially reduced, thereby providing a method of reducing oral abuse liability. Further, compounds and compositions of the invention decrease the bioavailability of amphetamine by parenteral routes, such as intravenous or intranasal administration, further limiting their abuse liability.
US07662786B2
Compounds of the present invention include cell growth inhibitors which are peptides of Formula I, A-B-D-E-F-(G)r-(K)s-L (I), and acid salts thereof, wherein A, B, D, E, F, G and K are α-amino acid residues, and s and r are each, independently, 0 or 1. L is a monovalent radical, such as, for example, an amino group, an N-substituted amino group, a β-hydroxylamino group, a hydrazido group, an alkoxy group, a thioalkoxy group, an aminoxy group, or an oximato group. The present invention also includes a method for treating cancer in a mammal, such as a human, comprising administering to the mammal an effective amount of a compound of Formula I in a pharmaceutically acceptable composition.
US07662782B2
The invention relates to methods of treatment comprising administering a compound of the general formula (1): to a patient or a healthy individual.
US07662759B1
Decontamination formulations with an additive for enhancing mold remediation. The formulations include a solubilizing agent (e.g., a cationic surfactant), a reactive compound (e.g., hydrogen peroxide), a carbonate or bicarbonate salt, a water-soluble bleaching activator (e.g., propylene glycol diacetate or glycerol diacetate), a mold remediation enhancer containing Fe or Mn, and water. The concentration of Fe2+ or Mn2+ ions in the aqueous mixture is in the range of about 0.0001% to about 0.001%. The enhanced formulations can be delivered, for example, as a foam, spray, liquid, fog, mist, or aerosol for neutralization of chemical compounds, and for killing certain biological compounds or agents and mold spores, on contaminated surfaces and materials.
US07662756B2
A fluid for use in a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore, the fluid comprising: (a) water; (b) an orthoester; and (c) a surfactant comprising a tertiary alkyl amine ethoxylate generally represented by the following formula: (CH2—CH2—O)XH R—N< (CH2—CH2—O)YH wherein R is an alkyl group or aryl group, and wherein X and Y are each independently at least one. A method of fracturing a subterranean formation, comprising the step of forming a foamed fracturing fluid comprising water; an orthoester; a surfactant comprising a tertiary alkyl amine ethoxylate generally represented by the formula above; and a gas. The method also provides the step of introducing the foamed fracturing fluid into a subterranean formation at a pressure sufficient to create a fracture in the subterranean formation.
US07662754B2
The invention relates to a composition which makes it possible to obtain a gelled aqueous foam capable of decontaminating, stripping or degreasing a surface. The composition of the present invention comprises one or more surfactants, one or more acidic or basic reactants and a gelling agent.The decontamination foam obtained from this composition exhibits long lifetimes, generally of between 1 and 10 hours, guaranteeing a prolonged time of action on the surface and a high decontamination effectiveness. These foams can be used to remove the radioactivity from an inaccessible plant, which is large in size and complex in design, by simple filling or by simple spraying over an accessible surface.
US07662750B2
The present invention relates to 1,4-disubstituted naphthalene scaffold compounds and other closely related scaffold compounds. The present invention also relates to combinatorial libraries of such compounds. In addition, the present invention relates to a method of identifying a protein-protein interaction antagonist. The method first involves providing a compound as described herein. Next, the compound is contacted with interacting proteins of a protein-protein interaction target complex, whereby the compound is allowed to compete with the interacting proteins. Then, the activity of the compound for inhibiting formation of the protein-protein interaction target complex is measured. Finally, the compound that inhibits formation of the protein-protein interaction target complex is identified as a protein-protein interaction antagonist. Also disclosed is a method for modulating a protein-protein interaction. The method involves contacting interacting proteins of a protein-protein interaction target with a compound as described herein, whereby the protein-protein interaction between the interacting proteins is modulated.
US07662747B2
The invention relates to a process for producing granular, particularly spherical activated carbon by carbonization of suitable carbonaceous polymers in the form of polymer granules, in particular polymer spherules, as a starting material, which are convertible by carbonization into carbon at least essentially, wherein the polymer granules, in particular the polymer spherules, are continuously moved through a carbonization apparatus comprising a plurality of temperature zones and/or a temperature gradient so that an at least essentially complete conversion of the starting material to carbon is effected.
US07662746B2
A gas storage material contains a metal-organic framework that includes a plurality of metal clusters and a plurality of charged multidentate linking ligands that connect adjacent metal clusters. Each metal cluster includes one or more metal ions and at least one open metal site. The metal-organic framework includes one or more sites for storing molecular hydrogen. A hydrogen storage system using the hydrogen storage material is provided.
US07662744B2
In a process for producing an SCR catalyst for the selective reduction of NOx in NOx-containing exhaust gases of internal combustion engines, a support layer is applied to a substrate body. An iron salt dissolved in a liquid is applied to the support layer in such an amount that no excess of iron salt is present.
US07662741B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of highly active silver deposited on carbon covered alumina catalyst, in controlling the microorganism in water.
US07662730B2
A method for fabricating an ultra-high tensile-stressed nitride film is disclosed. A PECVD process is first performed to deposit a transitional silicon nitride film over a substrate. The transitional silicon nitride film has a first concentration of hydrogen atoms. The transitional silicon nitride film is subjected to UV curing process for reducing the first concentration of hydrogen atoms to a second concentration of hydrogen atoms.
US07662724B2
A method for manufacturing a capacitor includes the steps of: forming a lower electrode above a base substrate; forming a dielectric film composed of ferroelectric material or piezoelectric material above the lower electrode; forming an upper electrode above the dielectric film; forming a silicon oxide film that covers at least the dielectric film and the upper electrode; and forming a hydrogen barrier film that covers the silicon oxide film.
US07662709B2
An improved surface mounting method applied in a semiconductor package process is provided, wherein the method comprises the following steps: First a substrate having at least one pad set on one surface of the substrate is provided. Then a mask having at least one opening associated with one of the at least one pad is set on the substrate, wherein each opening is separated into a plurality of sub-openings by a segregator to expose the pad. Subsequently, a printing process is conducted to form a conductive layer on each pad. After removing the mask, a passive device is set on the conductive layer over the pad, and a heating treatment is conducted to fix the passive device on the pad.
US07662707B2
Methods of forming metal silicide layers in a semiconductor device are provided in which a first metal silicide layer may be formed on a substrate, where the first metal silicide layer comprises a plurality of fragments of a metal silicide that are separated by one or more gaps. A conductive material is selectively deposited into at least some of the gaps in the first metal silicide layer in order to electrically connect at least some of the plurality of fragments.
US07662701B2
One aspect of this disclosure relates to a method for creating proximity gettering sites in a silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer. In various embodiments of this method, a relaxed silicon germanium region is formed over an insulator region of the SOI to be proximate to a device region. The relaxed silicon germanium region generates defects to getter impurities from the device region. Other aspects are provided herein.
US07662699B2
An object is to provide a technology capable of improving a manufacturing yield of semiconductor devices by preventing scattering of irregular-shaped scraps formed at the time of dicing. To achieve the above object, for dicing lines, by which an irregular-shaped outer periphery may possibly be cut off, among a plurality of dicing lines, formation of the dicing lines starts from an outside of a semiconductor wafer, and after the semiconductor wafer is cut off partway, formation of the dicing lines is ended before reaching the irregular-shaped outer periphery formed on a outer periphery of the semiconductor wafer. For other dicing lines, formation of the dicing lines starts from the outside of the semiconductor wafer, and after the semiconductor wafer is cut off, is ended outside the semiconductor wafer.
US07662686B2
A semiconductor device having a nonvolatile memory is reduced in size. In an AND type flash memory having a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells having a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of word lines crossing therewith, and a plurality of floating gate electrodes disposed at positions which respectively lie between the plurality of adjacent first electrodes and overlap the plurality of word lines, as seen in plan view, the plurality of floating gate electrodes are formed in a convex shape, as seen in cross section, so as to be higher than the first electrodes. As a result, even when nonvolatile memory cells are reduced in size, it is possible to process the floating gate electrodes with ease. In addition, it is possible to improve the coupling ratio between floating gate electrodes and control gate electrodes of the word lines without increasing the area occupied by the nonvolatile memory cells.
US07662674B2
Methods of forming a microelectronic structure are described. Embodiments of those methods include forming a metallic fuse structure by forming at least one via on a first interconnect structure, lining the at least one via with a barrier layer, and then forming a second interconnect structure on the at least one via.
US07662672B2
A manufacturing process of a leadframe-based BGA package is disclosed. A leadless leadframe with an upper layer and a lower layer is provided for the package. The upper layer includes a plurality of ball pads, and the lower layer includes a plurality of sacrificial pads aligning and connecting with the ball pads. A plurality of leads are formed in either the upper layer or the lower layer to interconnect the ball pads or the sacrificial pads. An encapsulant is formed to embed the ball pads after chip attachment and electrical connections. During manufacturing process, a half-etching process is performed after encapsulation to remove the sacrificial pads to make the ball pads electrically isolated and exposed from the encapsulant for solder ball placement where the soldering areas of the ball pads are defined without the need of solder mask(s) to solve the problem of solder bleeding of the solder balls on the leads or the undesired spots during reflow. Moreover, mold flash can easily be detected and removed.
US07662668B2
A separating device for separating a semiconductor substrate includes: a cutting element for cutting the semiconductor substrate into a plurality of chips along with a cutting line on the semiconductor substrate; an adsorbing element for adsorbing a dust on a surface of the semiconductor substrate by using electrostatic force; and a static electricity generating element for generating static electricity and for controlling the static electricity in order to remove the dust from the adsorbing element.
US07662666B2
An underfill material is provided on the surface of a wafer in such a manner as to cover bumps, then the wafer is irradiated with a laser beam from the surface thereof and along planned cutting lines so as to remove an insulation layer and the underfill material present over the planned cutting lines, and the debris generated in this instance are deposited on the underfill material and are thereby prevented from being deposited on the wafer surface and/or on the bumps. Subsequently, a surface layer of the underfill material is cut so as to make the bumps flush in height and to expose the tips of the bumps.
US07662654B2
A method for forming a vibrating micromechanical structure having a single crystal silicon (SCS) micromechanical resonator formed using a two-wafer process, including either a Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) or insulating base and resonator wafers, wherein resonator anchors, capacitive air gap, isolation trenches, and alignment marks are micromachined in an active layer of the base wafer; the active layer of the resonator wafer is bonded directly to the active layer of the base wafer; the handle and dielectric layers of the resonator wafer are removed; windows are opened in the active layer of the resonator wafer; masking the active layer of the resonator wafer with photoresist; a SCS resonator is machined in the active layer of the resonator wafer using silicon dry etch micromachining technology; and the photoresist is subsequently dry stripped. A patterned SCS cover is bonded to the resonator wafer resulting in hermetically sealed chip scale wafer level vacuum packaged devices.
