US07703144B2
A mechanism is provided to declaratively identify objects that are sensitive and requiring encryption on logging. A user interface allows an administrator to identify the objects that are deemed to be sensitive log objects and the logging class that provides the logging functionality. The user interface may also allow the administrator to identify the public key to be used for encryption. The mechanism of the present invention dynamically generates logic for encryption of sensitive objects to be logged with declarative identification of sensitive objects.
US07703138B2
Provided are techniques for monitoring communication packets. A communication packet is received. A communication packet signature of the communication packet is determined. The communication packet signature is compared to one or more site-specific application signatures. In response to determining that the communication packet signature matches at least of the one or more site-specific application signatures, it is determined that the communication packet is to be trusted.
US07703135B2
A multi-identity security environment is created for use in controlling access to resources. The multi-identity security environment enables one process that is spawned by another process to access resources security accessible to the one process, as well as resources security accessible to the another process. The multi-identity security environment includes an identity of the one process and an identity of the another process.
US07703125B2
An approach is provided for deleting electronic documents using a document retention policy that specifies one or more deletion criteria for documents belonging to each of a plurality of document classifications. The document retention policy is defined by document retention policy data that is managed by a document retention policy manager. The document retention policy manager disseminates the document retention policy data to network elements over a communications network. The document retention policy manager determines whether a retention policy audit should be performed and if so, signals the network elements to conduct a retention policy audit. The network elements are configured to conduct the retention policy audit by deleting electronic documents in accordance with the document retention policy. Automatic or manual loading or auto-destruction code may be used to handle deleting electronic documents from removable media.
US07703123B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing security for an organization is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of requests from a plurality of parties. Each request is a request for permission to implement a deviation from a security rule. Each request includes a statement describing a benefit associated with the deviation. The method also includes determining a risk associated with the deviation. The method also includes deciding whether to approve each request based on the determined risk and the statement. The method also includes storing the requests and a status of each request. The status indicates whether the request is approved. The stored requests includes at least one approved request. The method also includes deciding, after a predetermined time period, whether to continue an approval of the approved request.
US07703121B2
A method of distributing multimedia data from a central distribution station to local equipment including: linking one image characteristic (32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48) with at least one set of multimedia data stored by the central distribution station respectively; making available to at least one user of a support (10) having at least one selection image (12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22) in response to the capture of at least one image of the support by the local equipment, and calculating a characteristic of the captured image; searching for a multimedia data set of the central station linked to the image characteristic closest to the characteristic calculated; transferring of the corresponding multimedia data to the local equipment.
US07703119B2
Method and system for enabling users to perform self-service operations in interactive TV environments. In one embodiment, the method enables users to select and activate programming packages via a set-top box, thereby eliminating the need for the users to have to call a call center to activate the unit. Using a set of interactive screens, the user is enabled to view various programming package information, including comparative information. In one embodiment, the method assists users who are moving to activate/reactive broadcast services. For example, options are provided to enable the user to schedule service work, disconnect and activate services, and other activities connected with the move. In another embodiment, the method enables a user to select a programming package based on packages that are recommended by the system. Historic usage patterns, including viewing habits and attempts to access unavailable content are analyzed to determine which programming packages should be recommended for the user.
US07703116B1
A user interface allows for blending of television program choices from which a viewer may select, the blending representing options for linear and non-linear programming presented together within a single hierarchy of a designated category. The blending may further include managed content relevant to the designated category, where desired. Such designated categories may include television programming categories and/or content categories. The options for linear and non-linear programming may be presented together within a single screen of the user interface.
US07703115B2
An electronic program guide (EPG) having a variable indicator to focus a user's attention upon a corresponding field of a selectable program instance The EPG includes a user interface screen for providing a plurality of television program instances by time and channel in a grid menu. Each television program becomes selectable from the EPG based upon user interaction. The indicator is depicted in association with each television program when it becomes selectable as a result of user interaction. The indicator is configured based upon attributes of the currently selectable program instance.
US07703114B2
Television system targeted advertising is described. In an embodiment, a content provider monitors a real-time state of television-based systems for a power on/off state and a tuning configuration. The content provider delivers advertising content to one or more of the television-based systems when they are powered-on and configured to receive the advertising content. The one or more television-based systems then receive the advertising content to display a targeted advertisement for viewing. The content provider records how many of the television-based systems receive the advertising content, and records how many of the television-based systems that receive the advertising content then display the targeted advertisement for viewing.
US07703103B2
A method for facilitating network communications from one or more independent execution threads by a dedicated worker thread. Because an operating system is not designed for use with a large number of threads, such a system requires the use of multiple computers for simulating a large number of virtual users. This increases complexity, as well as cost. The present invention reduces the number of threads needed, which reduces resource needs, and in turn increases the number of virtual users that can be simulated. According to the present invention, a worker thread uses non-blocking function calls to efficiently handle requests for network operations.
US07703099B2
Transforming one or more of a collection of electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions. A type of EDI transactions is identified to be transformed from a source format to a destination format. The collection of the EDI transactions is received according to the source format. A particular one or more of the collection of the EDI transactions is identified corresponding to the identified type of EDI transactions. A transformation map is defined to transform the identified particular one or more of the transactions from the source format to the destination format. The identified particular one or more transactions is transformed according to the defined transformation map.
US07703094B2
A method and apparatus for adaptive and dynamic filtering of threaded programs. An embodiment of a method comprises analyzing the operation of a computer program, the computer program comprising a plurality of program threads; tracking overhead for the computer program; observing program events for the computer program; rationing overhead between program threads in inter-thread program events; and filtering program events based on a dynamic threshold.
US07703090B2
Uninstalling a patch applied to a software product installed on a computer. A current state of a software product is identified. A desired state of the software product is determined. The desired state of the software product represents a state of the software product when a patch applied to the software product is removed from the software product. The patch is removed from the software product to transition the software product from the identified current state to the determined desired state.
US07703089B2
A method and system for performing version-based class loading. In one embodiment, a first version is sought to continue running an application, where a first class is associated with the first version being sought. A first class loader capable of loading the first class is created. The first class is then loaded using the first class loader.
US07703082B2
A computer program implemented method controls interruption of execution of tasks running in a multi-processing computer system to permit user intervention. The system includes a repository of data identifying preselected tasks for interruption and identifying the user defined circumstances for such interruption. It also has a plurality of task caches for storing subsets of the repository data for respective tasks. According to the method, the repository is scanned during an initiation phase of any task for data relevant to the task. Any such relevant data is stored in the respective task cache. The task is then executed and if a defined circumstance for the task arises by reference to the task cache, the task is interrupted to enable user intervention. This can include updating the repository to redefine the circumstances for interruption. Execution is then resumed and the respective task cache refreshed with any relevant repository updates.
US07703081B1
A new system service table is dynamically generated to allow dynamic insertion of code between the caller of a native operating system function, in user or kernel mode, and the operating system's implementation of the native operating system function. The dynamically inserted code has full access to the function parameters, such as arguments. The new system service table has encoded values that are relative to the base address of the new system service table and which include the function addresses of the native operating system functions corresponding to original system service table entries in the original system service table.
US07703080B2
The invention relates to a computer program interpreter and a method for the same, using statistics to group (SR89, SR17 . . . SR6; SR4, SR34 . . . SR16) frequently used service routines (SR) in the same program function and to control encoding of instructions. Frequently used service routines are assigned shorter codes thus enhancing the performance of a simulator or emulator.
US07703071B2
A method for modeling business transformation includes steps of: constructing a first analysis model based on at least one legacy-business-process-model; and analyzing the first analysis model in conjunction with at least one business-process-reference-model. The method further includes deriving a second analysis model in response to analyzing the first analysis model in conjunction with the at least one business-process-reference-model and refining the second analysis model to obtain a design model.
US07703066B2
A method of manufacturing an exposure mask includes generating or preparing flatness variation data relating to a mask blanks substrate to be processed into an exposure mask, the flatness variation data being data relating to change of flatness of the mask blank substrate caused when the mask blank substrate is chucked by a chuck unit of an exposure apparatus, generating position correction data of a pattern to be drawn on the mask blanks substrate based on the flatness variation data such that a mask pattern of the exposure mask comes to a predetermined position in a state that the exposure mask is chucked by the chuck unit, and drawing a pattern on the mask blanks substrate, the drawing the pattern including drawing the pattern with correcting a drawing position of the pattern and inputting drawing data corresponding to the pattern and the position correction data into a drawing apparatus.
US07703065B2
An Application-Specific Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device or fabric is described for use in applications requiring fast reconfigurability of devices in the field, enabling multiple personalities for re-using silicon resources (like arrays of large multipliers in DSP applications) from moment-to-moment for implementing different hardware algorithms. In a general purpose FPGA device or fabric, this fast reconfigurability is normally implemented by special reconfiguration support circuitry and/or additional configuration memory. Unfortunately, this flexibility requires a large amount of programmable routing resource and silicon area—limiting the viability in volume production applications. This invention describes how multi-program FPGA functionalities may be migrated to smaller die by constructing implementations with a hybrid FPGA/ASIC interconnect structure. These implementations retain multi-program capability while requiring a much smaller silicon area than a conventional FPGA when customized for a particular set of user applications.
US07703059B2
A method and apparatus for floor-plan region creation and placement is provided. Design information may be received. Module area may be estimated for each module in an integrated circuit. Individual module may be selected for regioning, and region size and dimensions for module may be determined. Region parameters may be adjusted prior to final placement and placement may be verified.
US07703058B2
The invention relates to a method and system for the design and implementation of state machine engines. A first constraints checking step checks a state transition function created by a designer against constraints imposed by the implementation technology in order to detect all portions of the state transition function that are in conflict with the constraints. A subsequent conflict resolution step tries to determine one or more suggested ways to meet the conflicting constraints, by investigating how the original state transition function can be modified such that all constraints are met. A final presentation and selection step provides the designer textual and/or graphically results of the constraints check and suggested modifications. The modifications can be accepted interactively, or the state transition function can be changed manually. In the latter case, the modified state transition function will be processed starting again with the constraints checking step.
US07703057B2
Some aspects provide determination of mutual capacitances among a plurality of floating nets and a plurality of non-floating nets, determination of a self-capacitance of each of the plurality of non-floating nets based on the mutual capacitances, and, for each of the plurality of non-floating nets, association of a ground capacitance with a non-floating net that is substantially equal to a determined self-capacitance of the non-floating net. Aspects may further provide performance of a timing study of a capacitor network including the plurality of non-floating nets using the ground capacitance determined for each of the plurality of non-floating nets.
US07703055B2
A method of enhancing yield of semiconductor integrated circuit includes determining multiple experimental values, each experimental value corresponding to a distance from a side of a hole to an opposing side of a shape surrounding the hole, forming test patterns representing each of the experimental values on a wafer and calculating experimental value-based systematic fault rates from the test patterns; converting the experimental value-based systematic fault rates of the hole into the experimental value-based systematic fault rates, calculating a length of a side of the hole for which a distance between the side of the hole and the opposing side of the shape corresponds to each of experimental values, and calculating a systematic fault rate of the hole using the experimental value-based systematic fault rates per unit hole length and the length of the sides of the hole calculated for the respective experimental values in the desired layout.
US07703044B2
Techniques for generating a static representation of time-based media information. A static representation is generated that comprises a timeline representing the duration of the time-based media information. Occurrences of one or more events that occur in the time-based representation are indicated along the timeline in the static representation. The static representation may be printed on a paper medium.
US07703040B2
A search engine user interface that reduces the need for explicit search rules; dynamically responds as user input is entered to give immediate feedback to a user; is not limited to searching data residing in a single store; and may be used with a plurality of search engines, is provided. The search engine user interface provides search functions for a plurality of types of file metadata and types of file content. The search engine user interface provides an active query box, query editing, word-wheeling, and query narrowing and broadening. The user interface provides accordion behavior for visual elements of the user interface, integrated custom tagging, multiple independent search parameters, and filtering and integrated custom tagging in a common file dialog box.
US07703036B2
An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls that are relevant to a selected object and that remain visibly available for use while the selected object is being edited. Upon selection of a particular object for editing, functionality available for editing the object is presented in a ribbon-shaped user interface above the software application workspace to allow the user ready and efficient access to functionality needed for editing the selected object. The display of relevant functionality controls is persisted until the user dismisses the display, selects another top-level functionality control or selects another object for editing.
US07703032B2
A system and method for binding a GUI element to a data source of live measurement data are described. A data source component may be included in a program and may be configured with a binding to a data source of live measurement data in response to user input. A GUI element may also be included in the program, and the binding configured for the data source component may be associated with the GUI element in response to user input. Associating the binding with the GUI element may effectively bind the GUI element to the data source of live measurement data and may enable the GUI element to automatically display the live measurement data from the data source during execution of the program. A system and method for binding a GUI element in a program to a data target for live measurement data are also described. A GUI element may be included in a program, and the GUI element may be configured to display live measurement data during execution of the program. A data target component may also be included in the program and may be configured with a binding to a data target in response to user input. The binding configured for the data target component may then be associated with the GUI element in response to user input. Associating the binding with the GUI element may enable the program to automatically send the live measurement data displayed by the GUI element to the data target during execution of the program.
US07703017B2
A template file defines a video material data, a first still picture material data, a second still picture material data and text data, and a display area for each of the material data. A presentation file defines the template file and a correlation between each of the display areas and each material data. Based on the template file and the presentation file, an information display device combines and displays as a program the video material data, the first still picture material data, the second still picture material data, and the text data in their respective display areas.
US07703013B1
To create a thumbnail version of an image associated with respective content (e.g., a web page), a computer process herein receives an identification of content formatted according to a first format. Based on the identification of the content to be converted into a thumbnail, the computer invokes a first service to utilize the content formatted according to the first format (e.g., HTML) and produce a rendition of the content according to a second format (e.g., a PDF format). The computer then invokes a second service to produce a rendition of the content according to a third format based on the rendition of the content according to the second format. The format of the thumbnail has a lower resolution compared to a respective imaging resolution associated with the PDF format to reduce network resources required to transfer the thumbnail rendition of the content to other users in a collaborative whiteboard session.
US07703012B2
An adaptable method for facilitating user interaction with digital media objects. Representations of substantially-reduced data size of each of the digital media objects are transferred before the transfer of copies of the original data size of each of the digital media objects so as to enable earlier user interaction. The user interaction includes, for example, requesting modifications to the object. The method provides feedback of any requested action from the user interaction with the substantially-reduced data size representations and in response thereto, determines as a function of the requested action whether to reprioritize transfer of untransferred original data size copies of the corresponding digital media object. The method provides for modification of copies that are to be transferred according to modifications requested by the user with respect to the transferred substantially-reduced data size representations. The method can be used for audio, video, image, and other digital media objects.
US07703005B2
An XML document can use tags such that scripts can be generated from the documents. The scripts can be start up scripts for different operating systems. For example, the same XML document can be used to produce a UNIX shell script as well as a Windows command file.
US07703002B2
A document sharing system includes producing an updatable collection of multimedia documents. A collection overview sheet provides a facile medium for handling and distributing large collections of documents. The system includes techniques for subsequent access to the collection, including printing all or portions of the collection.
US07703001B2
A storage medium readable by a computer stores a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function. The function comprises comparing input image data with reference image data, extracting an annotation contained in the input image data based on a result of comparing, discriminating a geometry of the annotation, and classifying the annotation according to the geometry of the annotation.
US07702992B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of flip-flop sets, and a logic circuit configured to consolidate error-detection signals output from the flip-flop sets into one output signal, wherein each of the flip-flop sets includes one or more flip-flops configured to latch input data in synchronization with a common clock signal, and an error detection-&-correction circuit configured to detect and correct an error in data stored in the flip-flops, and to produce one of the error-detection signals indicative of the detection of the error upon the detection of the error.
US07702987B2
A method for decoding data stored in a disk is achieved by demodulating a physical cluster read out from the disk and outputting LDC (long distance code) data and BIS (burst indicator subcode) data included in the physical cluster, temporarily storing part of the LDC data and BIS data of the data included in the physical cluster in a first memory portion, reading out the LDC data and BIS data stored in the first memory portion and storing the read out data in a second memory portion, reading out LDC data and BIS data requiring error correction from the second memory portion and temporarily storing the read out data in the first memory portion, and storing LDC data and BIS data for which data processing operation including the error correction operation is completed in the second memory portion.
US07702980B2
A scan-load-based (SLB) dynamic scan configuration reconfigures scan structures via scan-load operation, thereby eliminating interconnect network distributing configuration signals, and employs common scan circuitry identical for designs at mask level and is suitable for ASIC implementations. The architecture includes reconfigurable scan cells, apparatus for distributing configuration data to the reconfigurable scan cells and for determining desired reconfiguration data for each of the reconfigurable scan cells, and a configuration-set (CS) signal. Each of the reconfigurable scan cells has a pass-through (PT) mode in which data input, either a scan-in (SI) or a system-data (SD) of the scan cell, is transparently passed to a scan-out (SO) terminal of the scan cell without requiring a pulse on a shift clock (SC). The configuration-set (CS) signal communicates with each of the reconfigurable scan cells. A pulse on the configuration-set (CS) signal triggers PT Hold latches to capture configuration data from corresponding slave latches, which in turn set configurations of each of the reconfigurable scan cells.
US07702976B2
A method, an integrated circuit structure, and an associated design structure for the integrated circuit structure have a plurality of logic blocks, at least one of which is a redundant logic block. In addition, the structure includes a logic built-in self test device (LBIST) operatively connected to the logic blocks that determines the functionality of each of the logic blocks. An array of memory elements is included within the structure and is operatively connected to the logic blocks. At least one of the memory elements comprises a redundant memory element. The structure also includes an array built-in self test device (ABIST) operatively connected to the array of memory elements that determines the functionality of each of the memory elements. One feature is the use of a single controller operatively connected to the register, the logic blocks, and the memory elements. The single controller repairs both the logic blocks elements that have failing functionality and the memory elements that have failing functionality.
US07702974B2
An integrated circuit comprising (i) a plurality of portions, each portion including test control circuitry; and (ii) at least one test input arranged to receive test signals, the circuit having a test mode in which one or more of the plurality of portions are testable, wherein the circuit has a reset mode which has priority over the test mode.
US07702957B2
The present invention supports container-provided EJB timer service that allows EJB instances dealing with timed events to create and register for a timer, which is scheduled to send notifications either at a specific time and/or after a specific elapsed duration, or at specific recurring intervals. When the timer expires, certain business logic inside the EJB instance will be invoked to handle the timeout event. When the cancel method of a timer is called, the timer may cease to exist. The timer is capable of retrying failed timeout under certain conditions when the current invocation of timeout logic fails. In addition, the timer is capable of monitoring the access from multiple registered EJB instances enrolled in transactions under multi-threaded environment, and restricting the access to the timer from EJB instances in certain threads until the current transaction accessing the timer commits to prevent a potential conflicting situation. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures, and the claims.
US07702951B2
Provided is an environment that storage device configuration management can be efficiently done in a data center having a virtualization device. A SAN manager acquires configuration information from a device constituting a SAN and prepares a correspondence relationship between a host computer and a virtual volume in the SAN, and a corresponding relationship between the host computer and a real volume, depending upon the acquired information. Based on the corresponding relationship, the SAN manager outputs a correspondence relationship of between virtual and real volumes. Meanwhile, by interpreting a failure-notification message received from the devices of the SAN, detected and outputted is an influence upon an access to a real or virtual volume as to the failure. Furthermore, when a plurality of failure notifications are received from the devices connected to the SAN, a plurality of failure notifications are associatively outputted depending upon a correspondence relationship of between real and virtual volumes.
US07702942B2
A variable timing system for a magnetoresistive random access memory circuit (MRAM IC) is embedded in an MRAM IC and includes a number of timing control circuits, where each timing control circuit generates a timing control signal. A number of variable timing circuits are each coupled to receive at least two of the timing control signals, and each of the number of timing circuits outputs a variable timing in response to the timing control signals. At least one MRAM timing driver is connected to receive the variable timing.
US07702938B2
A method of implementing a hybrid mode of a multi-core processor includes setting a hybrid mode as a power management mode of the multi-core processor. The hybrid mode includes operating more than one core of the processor and alternately operating only a single core of the processor. The hybrid mode includes operating a first core of the processor and alternately operating a second core of the processor. The hybrid mode of a method, apparatus or computer readable medium includes alternate operation between two or more processor cores of a multi-core processor according to a preset or adjustable operating ratio.
US07702936B2
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing a set of processors. A call from an operating system is received. The call indicates that a selected processor in the set of processors is unneeded for a period of time. In response to receiving this call, the operation of the selected processor is altered to reduce power usage during the period of time.
US07702929B2
A processing system comprises a first processing module and a second processing module that communicates with the first processing module. The first and second processing modules are connected in series between first and second reference potentials. An operating system communicates with the first and second processing modules and performs at least one of load balancing and/or throttling of the first and second processing modules to reduce a difference in current consumption between the first and second processing modules.
US07702923B2
The invention concerns a method of providing a client (21, 22, 23, 24) transparent access to storage space administrated by a storage service, as well as a client (21, 22, 23, 24) and a storage system for performing this method. Data are exchanged between the client (21, 22, 23, 24) and the storage system (5) providing the storage service via a communication network (1). A client (24) invokes the storage service for providing the storage space. The storage space associated with the client (24) is located within the storage system (5). A secure connection is established between the client (24) and a storage device (51) of the storage system (5) dedicated to store data assigned to said storage space. Data assigned to the storage space is stored in encrypted form in said storage device (51).
US07702922B2
A physical encryption key system binds an encryption key to a physical key and denies decryption of secured information if the physical key is not present to a particular computing device. In one implementation, the physical key comprises a convenient removable pen drive on which a .NET isolated storage space is created to store the encryption key. The .NET isolated storage space can only be accessed by concurrence of the same user, domain, computing device, application, and physical key that participated in creating the isolated storage space. The user enjoys the security of knowing that protected information cannot be decrypted without the physical key; cannot be decrypted without the user's credentials even if the physical key is stolen; and cannot be decrypted if the protected information is pirated to a different computing device.
US07702916B2
A system and method configured to provide secure Personal Identification Number (PIN) based authentication is disclosed. A passcode or PIN associated with a customer value card can be securely authenticated by an issuer prior to authorizing payment. An Access Control Server (ACS) can receive the PIN or passcode from a customer via a secure connection over a public network. The ACS can generate an encrypted PIN and can communicate the encrypted PIN to a remote issuer for authentication. The ACS can use one or more hardware security modules to generate the encrypted PIN. The hardware security modules can be emulated in software or implemented in hardware. The system can be configured such that the PIN is not exposed in an unencrypted form in a communication link or in hardware other than the originating customer terminal.
US07702915B2
To gain visiting access to a wireless local area network (W-LAN), the operator of which administers a visitor authentication, authorization and accounting (VAAA) server, a user requesting such access must have a valid cellular mobile account, a portable computing device with a browser and a valid W-LAN card from another operation that administers a home authentication, authorization and accounting (HAAA) server. The user, inputs, via the VAAA server, identity information that enables the HAAA to issue a personal identification number (PIN) which is encoded and forwarded to the user's mobile telephone. This encoded PIN is transferred to the browser to authenticate the requested visiting access, and the costs of such access are billed to the user's cellular mobile account. The requested access is achieved via the user's browser. The user may employ the browser to convey the identity information, to the VAAA via the W-LAN, or via the mobile telephone.
US07702909B2
Improved techniques for validating timestamps used in a client-server environment are disclosed. A client can associate client-provided timestamps with events that occur at the client. The client can then send event information as well as the timestamps to a server. Preferably, the event information and timestamps are sent in a batch pertaining to a plurality of events that have occurred at the client. The server, which has greater time accuracy, can then validate the client-provided timestamps. The server can also modify the client-provided timestamps so as to improve accuracy of the timestamps. Once modified, the timestamps can pertain to a range (e.g., window) of time during which the associated events can be known to have reliably occurred. In one embodiment, the client-server environment is a distributed file security system in which the events and event information pertain to audit files. The distributed file security system provides efficient and reliable techniques to ensure accuracy of client-provided timestamps.
US07702879B2
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for assigning alias addresses to base addresses. An assignment is provided of base addresses to the devices. The base addresses are used to access the devices assigned to the base addresses. An assignment is provided of a plurality of alias addresses to an alias address pool. The alias addresses in the alias address pool are capable of being dynamically assigned to the devices to service I/O requests to the devices. An Input/Output (I/O) request to access one target device comprising one of the devices is processed. A determination is made as to whether the base address assigned to the target device is available. One alias address is assigned to the target device in response to determining that the base address is not available. The I/O request is issued to the assigned alias address to transmit the request to the target device.
US07702874B2
A memory device may determine its device ID in response to the order of a received training pattern. The training pattern may be transmitted over swizzled signal lines to multiple memory devices arranged in a logical stack. Each memory device may be packaged on a substrate having the swizzled signal lines. The memory devices may be physically stacked or planar. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07702868B1
Restoring data, without suspending access to the data for the entire time that the data is being restored. Access is suspended only while a portion of the data is restored, before access to all of the data is permitted. A driver virtualizes any remaining unrestored data. To accomplish this, the driver maintains a list of data yet to be restored. If a request to read a portion of the data is then received, and the requested portion is on the list, the driver restores the requested portion before permitting the read request to be fulfilled. The restored portion is then removed from the list of unrestored data. If a request to write a portion of the data is received, the write is permitted, and the location just written to is removed from the list without restoring.
US07702865B2
A storage system and a data migration method that enable most suitable data migration with the correlation between data managed by particular applications being taken into account. The above storage system and data migration method are configured to collect operational information for each volume; respectively calculate a required volume performance level that is a level of performance required of the volume storing data that is a migration target, and an actual volume performance level that is a level of performance for each volume established in a storage apparatus, based on the collected information; and, in accordance with the calculated required volume performance level and each of the actual volume performance levels, when necessary, migrate the data that is a migration target to another volume having an actual volume performance level corresponding to the required volume performance level of the volume storing that data.
US07702863B1
Data from a first mirror of a data volume is returned to the computer system in response to receiving the first read request. Additionally, data from second mirror of the data volume is read in response to receiving the first read request. The data read from the second mirror may be stored in a cache memory. The computer system may check the returned data to determine whether it is corrupted. If corrupted, the computer system sends a second read request for the same data. Rather than returning the same corrupted data stored in the first mirror, a copy of the requested data is returned from the cache memory.
US07702862B2
A processing system includes a processing circuit having one or more buses, a memory interface unit to control access by the processing circuit to a memory, and a metrics module. The metrics module includes one or more metrics registers and a metrics controller to monitor one or more operations selected from memory interface unit operations and bus operations, and to store metrics information corresponding to the monitored operations in the metrics registers. The monitored operations can include memory access operations, arbitration operations, bus operations, and the like. The metrics information can be analyzed to provide a basis for improving performance of a program that is executed on the processing system.
US07702861B2
A drive device and method of reading from or writing to a record carrier are provided, where data is input or output via an interface using a first format according to a first file system. In the drive device, the first format is mapped to a second format according to a second file system used on the record carrier. This allows using different storage technology with the same interface, such as using a hard-disc based Microdrive with a Compact Flash interface.
US07702853B2
Disclosed are a redundant data storage system (e.g., a RAID system) and a method of operating such a redundant data storage system that provides significant power savings with minimal reduction in reliability. The system and method allow up to half of the memory devices in any of the memory arrays in the system to be placed in standby without significantly impacting the read accesses. The system and method further designate reserved areas in the active memory devices as write-journals, which have at least the same level of protection as the main arrays. The write-journals allow data to be written without powering up a standby memory device. Thus, power consumption is minimized without impacting reliability.
US07702848B2
Various types of data storage systems employ low power disk drives to cache data to/from high power disk drives to reduce power consumption and access times. Some of the disk drives may communicate with a host device via a non-volatile semiconductor memory interface such as a flash memory interface.
US07702834B2
In a serial bus system data in the form of telegrams, representing process images of control tasks of the active station, are transmitted to the connected passive stations, and the process data are allocated to the process images in the passive station.
US07702795B2
A device hosting framework provides hosting for software-implemented logical devices (including peripheral devices bridges) on a computer to expose their services as controlled devices per a peer networking protocol. The device hosting framework encapsulates discovery, description and control protocol operations of the peer networking protocol, which frees the developers of the hosted devices from having to individually implement the peer networking protocol in the hosted devices' software and need implement only the core functionality of the hosted device. The device hosting framework operates as a host supporting device interoperability via the peer networking protocol for multiple hosted devices.
US07702794B1
A system and method is provided for a distributed computing system where a user can login to a client computer and access a number of different applications installed on web servers. These applications are then provided access to data in mainframe systems without a user having to enter mainframe user id or password information for gaining access to the mainframe system. The system and method can utilize a sign on object which is installed onto the client computer. The sign on object operates to obtain and transmit a security token which authorizes access to the mainframe system, and the security token does not require the use of the cookie data. This system and method can pass the security token through the web server and the web application in an encrypted form which limits security risks.
US07702790B2
There is provided a network system and its associated devices and techniques which allow a terminal device to utilize functions of another terminal device without the need to provide any dedicated interface or system switch. A server 12 receives a service request from a first terminal device 13 or a second terminal device 16 while the first and second terminal devices 13 and 16 are in voice communication with each other. Upon receipt of the service request, the server 12 searches position information on the second terminal device 16 from an identifier contained in the service request to specify a processor 18 located in the neighborhood of the second terminal device 16 on the basis of the position information. Then the server 12 establishes a new connection (communication lines 2B and 2C) for image communication. Thus the image data is transferred from the first terminal device 13 to a reception device 17 through the communication lines 2B and 2C, and displayed on a large screen of the processor 18.
US07702788B2
One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for performance and policy analysis in distributed computing systems includes representing a distributed computing system as a state transition model. A queuing network is then superimposed upon the state transition model, and the effects of one or more policies on the distributed computing system performance are identified in accordance with a solution to the queuing network.
US07702782B1
Methods and systems for using watermarks to indicate alerts in a storage area network management console are disclosed. An alert provides notification of the occurrence of an event in a storage area network. An event associated with a component of the storage area network is detected. An alert level corresponding to the detected event is determined. A watermark is placed on the graphical user interface to indicate an alert. An initial characteristic of the watermark depends on the determined alert level, and the watermark is oriented to be visible at a distance from the graphical user interface. Multiple alerts may be indicated through changes in a characteristic of the watermark or by changing a watermark initially placed on the graphical user interface upon initiation of the graphical user interface.
US07702777B2
A method and system are disclosed in which a management module (MM) designates an idle blade in a client blade farm to be an “administrative blade” that has administrator access to the virtual images of all users. The MM identifies when a particular user image is, or is not, in use and conveys this information to the administrative blade. The administrative blade performs virus scans, backups, defrags, patch installs, software upgrades, and other such maintenance functions on user images when they are inactive, thereby eliminating the performance impact to active users.
US07702767B2
A system is disclosed according to the present invention that manages the process of providing a client access to a secured service. In the exemplary embodiment, the secured service is a computer system that allows the client to trade financial instruments. Management of this process includes managing execution of tasks that can be automatically executed and delegating tasks that require manual execution; communicating with entities outside of the process management system; and handling “demands,” or unexpected problems that arise in the middle of the client connectivity process.
US07702766B2
The invention concerns a testing framework, comprising a first computer system, adapted for communication with nodes in a distributed node environment, first code, capable of creating a task manager, second code adapted for defining tasks, including test tasks, third code, capable of creating a task agent, test related data, a test launcher capable of interacting with said first code for starting a task manager in said first computer system, of delivering test related data to said task manager, and, upon the sending of the third code to remote nodes, capable of requesting the starting of one or more task agents on said remote nodes, the task manager responding to the test related data for providing said one or more task agents with said test related data, said one or more task agents responding to said test related data for retrieving respective tasks available in the second code, said task manager being capable of thereafter monitoring the execution of such tasks.
US07702756B2
In a domain containing one of many computing devices, the computing device transmits a query and receives back a response from one or more neighbor-casting groups in the domain each including one or more of the computing devices. Predetermined criteria are applied by the computing device to select one of the groups to which it is joined as a group member. The predetermined criteria can be the number of computing devices in the selected group, a length of time between the query and the response from the selected group, or a combination of thereof. When the selected group has few computing devices, the computing device can send a query and receive back a response from one or more groups. By applying criteria similar to the predetermined criteria, the computing device can select one other group, remove itself from its current group, and join the other selected group.
US07702753B2
A subscriber profile access management system for a telecommunications service provider or telecommunications operator provides technical solutions to providing a single point of access to telecommunications subscriber profile information. As the products and services offered by the service provider grow, and given the many different access mechanisms through which a subscriber connects to services, the single point of access eliminates the inefficient proliferation of custom interfaces between the many support systems and applications which need access to subscriber profile information. The single point of access provides a universal and personalized access to telecommunications services. Access may be made to the subscriber profile regardless of the particular type of access mechanism (e.g., WiFi, or DSL access), while the personalized access allows services to be customized based upon static and dynamically maintained information in the subscriber profile.
US07702751B1
A system for accessing a plurality of portals is provided. The system includes a user interface, a back office system maintaining information, and a first portal coupled to access at least a portion of the back office system. The first portal having a first portal user interface to enable a user to access at least portions of the information of the back office system. The system includes a second portal having a second portal user interface, and a metaportal in communication with the first and second portals and the user interface, the metaportal is operable to collect at least a portion of the first and second portal user interfaces for display via the user interface to enable the user to access at least a portion of the information maintained by the back office system. A method for migrating from disparate portals to the metaportal is also provided.
US07702747B1
A method for identity synchronization across multiple domains includes obtaining identity data from a source channel, wherein the identity data is associated with a source channel protocol, decoupling the identity data from the source channel protocol to obtain decoupled identity data, creating a normalized event object using the decoupled identity data, placing the normalized event object into an event bus, coupling the normalized event object with a target channel protocol to create a target-specific change object for a target channel, and forwarding the target-specific change object to the target channel.
US07702737B2
The present invention relates to workflow systems and methods. In one embodiment, the invention relates to integration of a calendar system with a workflow system where a calendar event can initiate a workflow by sending a message to a form route manager. The completion of a workflow or step in the workflow can result in sending a message to a calendar system to generate an event. In another embodiment, the invention relates to the integration of workflow with a project management system that includes project segments, which are processes that can be defined and controlled by workflow routes. The project management system sends a message to the workflow system to initiate workflow and the workflow system sends a message to the project management system, for example, at the completion of the workflow route. The relationship between the workflow routes can maintain the relationship between the project segments. If the relationships between project segments change, the relationship between the workflow routes changes without added effort.
US07702723B2
Methods and systems are provided for efficiently providing content to a client in a massively multiplayer game.
US07702713B2
A novel technique for providing high speed FFT architecture for OFDM processors that reduces silicon area while maintaining the high speed requirement. In one example embodiment, this is accomplished by pipelined and/or sequential implementation of two or more FFT stages so that each stage performs a small portion of the FFT.
US07702712B2
A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) hardware implementation and method provides efficient FFT processing while minimizing the die area needed in an Integrated Circuit (IC). The FFT hardware can implement an N point FFT, where N=rn is a function of a radix (r). The hardware implementation includes a sample memory having N/r rows, each storing r samples. A twiddle factor memory can store k twiddle factors per row, where 0
US07702701B2
A random bit generator and a method thereof are provided. The random bit generator includes an amplifier, a comparing circuit, an oscillator, a sampler, and a storage circuit. The amplifier amplifies a difference between input signals generated based on thermal noise. The comparing circuit compares an alternating current (AC) signal output from the amplifier with a direct current (DC) signal obtained by low-pass filtering the AC signal and outputs a signal according to the comparison result. The oscillator may be implemented with a resistor-capacitor (R-C) oscillator. The oscillator consumes lower current and occupies a smaller layout area than a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and outputs an oscillation signal. The sampler samples the oscillation signal output from the oscillator in response to the output signal of the comparing circuit. The storage circuit stores an output signal of the sampler in response to a clock signal.
US07702697B2
Described is a method comprising initializing a first set of bits corresponding to a first plurality of predicate indices to a first value, and initializing a second set of bits corresponding to a second plurality of predicate indices to a second value. A subscription is processed. The subscription includes a plurality of subscription predicates, each of the subscription predicates associated with corresponding predicate indices in one of the first and second pluralities. An event is processed. The event includes an event predicate. When the event predicate matches a first predicate index in the first plurality, a first bit associated with the first predicate index is toggled to the second value. When the event predicate matches a second predicate index in the second plurality, a second bit associated with the second predicate index is toggled to the first value. When each bit associated with the corresponding predicate indices is the second value, the event is outputted to a source of the subscription.
US07702692B2
A system is provided to prevent unauthorized access to computer system resources. The system operates by receiving a section of programming language code to execute on a computer system. This programming language code includes a pragma that defines a set of resources that the programming language code has permission to access. The system analyzes the pragma to determine the set of resources. After analyzing the pragma, the system processes the programming language code in accordance with the pragma. The system can further process the program in accordance with the pragma involves creating a sandbox that includes the set of resources defined by the pragma. The system then executes the programming language code within the boundaries of the sandbox.
US07702687B2
A system and method for typing resources in a distributed system is provided which enables flexible searching mechanisms for finding distributed resources. The distributed system includes at least three types of resources: service, vocabulary and contract resources. The service resource includes the implementation logic for the service. A contract resource contains interface data used for accessing resources. The vocabulary resource contains an attribute schema defining attributes used to describe resources. Each resource—including service, vocabulary and contract resources—is typed by associating one or more vocabulary resources and one or more contract resources with the resource. The vocabulary resources explain the meaning of attribute lists describing the resource and enable the resource to be discovered. The contract resources provide data for accessing the resource. Because vocabulary and contract resources are themselves resources, they are also typed by vocabulary and contract resources and are, accordingly, discoverable and accessible. Typing resources with vocabularies and contracts that are themselves discoverable resources, provides a structural mechanism for supporting robust resource discovery processes suitable for large, loosely-coupled distributed systems.
US07702683B1
A method for estimating similarity between two collections of information is described herein. The method includes comparing a first Bloom filter representing a first collection of information and a second Bloom filter representing a second collection of information, and determining a measure of similarity between the first collection of information and the second collection of information based on the comparing.
US07702680B2
Document summarization is performed by scoring individual words in sentences in a document or document cluster. Sentences from the document or document cluster are selected to form a summary based on the scores of the words contained in those sentences.
US07702679B2
A mind mapping system uploads mind map data to an external system and tracks changes to such data in the external system through the mind map. The invention enables a user to create data objects in an external system through the mind map by classifying topics in a mind map, where the mind map is generated through a mind mapping system. The mind mapping system presents the user with classification categories that correspond to data types in the external system. By classifying a topic in accordance with such classification categories, a user is essentially mapping the topic to a data type in the external system. The mind mapping system interfaces with the external system to upload data in classified topics to the external system. At a later point, the user can then track any changes made to the data in the external system through the mind map.
US07702677B2
A method of accessing information from a collection of data includes receiving a query, generating an inverse index of the collection of data and generating results to the query in conjunction with the inverse index.
US07702675B1
A method and system for creating a database of categorized web feeds for facilitating web feed organization is disclosed. One exemplary method includes ascertaining a web feed identifier and searching a categorized collection of websites to determine a hierarchical folder path for the web feed identifier. For example, the Open Directory Project may be searched to determine an appropriate hierarchical folder path for the web feed identifier. The web feed identifier is placed in a corresponding hierarchical folder path within the database of categorized web feeds. The database of categorized web feeds can then be used as a tool for organizing web feeds on a client computer.
US07702671B2
A search mechanism is evaluated or a relevance model checked using session level and result level diagnostics based on user behavior during a search session with respect to queries entered and user responses to result lists. Tracking occurs of when content desired by a user exists, but is not returned in a search result list when a query is made by the user with intent to find the desired content, when content desired by the user does not exist, when content desired by a user exists, but is not recognized by the user in a result list or is too low in a result list. A user's intent and search context is also taken into consideration when performing search mechanism diagnostics.
US07702666B2
When a number of document data registered in one of full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage parts reaches a predetermined number, or when a capacity of the full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage part reaches a predetermined capacity, a merge processing is performed for merging data from the full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage part to a full-text index-for-search storage part. While this merge processing is performed, a registration/deletion processing is performed by using another full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage part.
US07702658B2
A method for optimistic locking. An integer column is added to a database table. A Structured Query Language statement is constructed and prepared to form a prepared Structured Query Language statement, wherein a result set of the prepared Structured Query Language statement includes the integer column. Any required parameter information is set in the prepared Structured Query Language statement. The prepared Structured Query Language statement is executed in a database transaction. A unique key associated with an element of the result set of the prepared Structured Query Language statement is determined. The row of the database table that the unique key is associated with is determined. A value in the integer column of the determined row is determined. The value in the integer column of the determined row is stored to form a stored value associated with the unique key, wherein the stored value ceases to exist when the database transaction ends.
US07702653B1
Systems and methods for triggering actions are set forth. According to one embodiment, a method comprising determining at least one triggering condition associated with an article, correlating the triggering condition with information associated with a user, and providing the user with a notification relating to the triggering condition is described.
US07702652B2
A method for doing business, wherein a web server maintains a commercial subscriber database including a plurality of records each containing data relating to commercial subscribers including at least name, address and category, and imposes a periodic subscription fee on at least some of the commercial subscribers. On receiving from a client machine connected thereto a request to download data relating to at least one specified category of commercial subscriber, it extracts from the commercial subscriber database respective records and sends to the client machine for display thereby, allows receipt of an update from one or more commercial subscribers in respect of substitute or supplementary data to that contained in the respective database record of the commercial subscribers, and updates the commercial subscriber database as required.
US07702627B2
During query optimization, when a particular type of transformation is considered, the effect of performing one or more subsequent kinds of transformations is also considered in conjunction with the first. When applying a transformation, which forecloses applying another, both are considered independently.
US07702626B2
In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes receiving a validity statement including a range and an identifier from a user interface. The method further includes determining the identifier indicates a validity range statement. The method also includes looking up the range of the validity statement in a validity range table. Additionally, the method includes translating the range of the validity statement into a validity from parameter and a validity to parameter. Moreover, the method includes submitting a database select statement including the validity from parameter and the validity to parameter to a database interface. Furthermore, the method includes receiving a set of records from the database interface responsive to the database select statement. Also, the method includes transmitting the set of records to the user interface.
US07702623B2
Techniques for sharing cursors are provided. When a new query is issued, a database server determines whether the new query is semantically equivalent to a previous query. If so, then database server computes statistics associated with the new query. Based on the statistics, the database server determines whether compiling the new query would produce an execution plan that satisfies certain criteria. If so, then the cursor is used to execute the new query. In another approach, one cursor sharing technique (CST) is used to determine which cursor to use to execute a first set of semantically-equivalent queries. Statistics are gathered during execution of the first set of queries. The database server determines, based on the statistics, when to switch from using the first CST to a different CST. The different CST is used to determine which cursor to use to execute a second set of queries that are semantically-equivalent to the first set.
US07702614B1
An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are extracted from the document collection. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases, using phrase posting lists. The phrase posting lists are stored in an cluster of index servers. The phrase posting lists can be tiered into groups, and sharded into partitions. Phrases in a query are identified based on possible phrasifications. A query schedule based on the phrases is created from the phrases, and then optimized to reduce query processing and communication costs. The execution of the query schedule is managed to further reduce or eliminate query processing operations at various ones of the index servers.
US07702606B1
Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for facilitating user thinking about an arbitrary problem, as well as providing capabilities to output to and interface with external or additional computer systems, resources, or devices, or any combination thereof. The system includes logic to facilitate user specification of a user model structure for the arbitrary problem, and may utilize an archetype structure or an archetype process or both. Some embodiments of the system and method include a presentation or other output creation engine in conjunction with the system and method for facilitating development of thinking about the arbitrary problem. The system includes output and interface logic to accomplish interfacing with and/or incorporation of a plurality of external or additional computer systems, information sources, resources, or devices.
US07702605B2
Inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of data has associated metadata and an associated key. The associated metadata includes data regarding cohorts associated with the corresponding datum, data regarding hierarchies associated with the corresponding datum, data regarding a corresponding source of the datum, and data regarding probabilities associated with integrity, reliability, and importance of each associated datum. The query is used as a frame of reference for the search. The database returns a probability of the correctness of the first inference based on the query and on the data. Security filtering is performed based on at least one of a significance level of the probability of the first inference, the probability itself exceeding a pre-selected value, and a security level possessed by a user.
US07702602B1
A method for moving an agent with a canonical rule set from a first execution environment to a second execution environment, comprising encoding the agent including the canonical rule set into transferable form in the first execution environment, sending the encoded agent to the second execution environment, and decoding the agent including the canonical rule set at the second execution environment.
US07702597B2
Crop yield may be assessed and predicted using a piecewise linear regression method with break point and various weather and agricultural parameters, such as NDVI, surface parameters (soil moisture and surface temperature) and rainfall data. These parameters may help aid in estimating and predicting crop conditions. The overall crop production environment can include inherent sources of heterogeneity and their nonlinear behavior. A non-linear multivariate optimization method may be used to derive an empirical crop yield prediction equation. Quasi-Newton method may be used in optimization for minimizing inconsistencies and errors in yield prediction. Minimization of least square loss function through iterative convergence of pre-defined empirical equation can be based on piecewise linear regression method with break point. This non-linear method can achieve acceptable lower residual values with predicted values very close to the observed values. The present invention can be modified and tailored for different crops worldwide.
US07702590B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for sharing media files. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes a file sharing application configured to initiate a communication session with a file server, where the file server manages download requests for media files listed on a dynamic list. Use of the media files is subject to a trial period that corresponds to a period that the media files remain on the dynamic list. The system further includes trial period checking logic configured to retrieve a new dynamic list and check whether a trial period for a media file has expired by determining whether the media file is listed on the new dynamic list and offer presentation logic configured to offer a user a license for continued use of a media file that has an expired trial period. Other systems and methods are also provided.
US07702588B2
The present invention provides a digitally originated check (DOC) through an electronic payment system (EPS) which captures payor metadata instructions regarding the intended payment to a payee. The metadata is stored in a database or the like for further processing instead of printing a paper check. The DOC can be cleared either electronically or through a paper substitute check through Check 21 clearing methods. The present invention further provides a true check card operable to provide DOCs at point-of-sale terminals.
US07702584B2
A method and a system facilitate micropayments between a plurality of parties. A first plurality of micropayment commitments made by a first party are registered, the first plurality of payment commitments contributing towards a total commitment payable value for the first party. A second plurality of payment commitment made to a second party is registered, the second plurality of payment commitments contributing towards a total commitment receivable value for the second party. The total commitment receivable value for the second party is calculated utilizing a risk indication. The total commitment receivable value for the second party is identified as being satisfiable by the total commitment payable value for the first party. Responsive to this determination, a payment process, for payment of the total commitment receivable value by the first party to the second party, is initiated.
US07702582B2
Payment system and method, server apparatus, payment processing method, and computer program product
A payment system having a server apparatus (50) capable of transmitting and receiving information via a communication network (1), a first terminal apparatus (10) for a purchase application, a second terminal apparatus (20) for an installment payment organization and a third terminal apparatus (30) for a settlement service organization. The first terminal apparatus includes an inputting device (104) for prompting to input desirable one of a plurality of payment plan informations each indicating a combination of (i) a part of an installment payment for a purchase price of a product, and (ii) a part of a settlement service for a price of a service, as well as for prompting to input personal information and the credit card number. The server apparatus includes a processing device (502) for extracting (i) information relating to items for an installment payment application and (ii) information relating to items for a settlement service application, separately from among the information inputted via the inputting device.
US07702580B1
Systems and methods for optimizing servicing fees for a set of loans are disclosed. A system for optimizing servicing fees for a set of loans may include a processing unit and a storage device coupled to the processing unit having stored therein information for configuring the processing unit to obtain a minimum servicing fee and a maximum servicing fee, identify net benefits of increasing servicing fees for the loans in the set of loans, and iteratively adjust the servicing fee until the optimal servicing fee is attained.
US07702577B1
The invention comprises a system and method for converting initial financial transactions into final financial transactions entailing lower transaction fees or which are otherwise more advantageous. According to one embodiment of the invention, a card not present (CNP) transaction is conducted for a remote consumer buying goods/services. When the consumer later arrives at a point of authentication (POA), the consumer is presented with an opportunity to have the CNP transaction effectively converted to a card present (CP) transaction using the same card instrument or a different card instrument. The merchant benefits because the transaction fees are much reduced for the CP transaction compared to the CNP transaction. The consumer may benefit from rewards/rebates or other inducements to authorizing the subsequent transaction. One preferred embodiment implements the invention in the airlines environment, wherein tickets ordered over the phone or on-line using a first CNP transaction are converted to a CP transaction when the consumer swipes his/her card at an airport kiosk card reader device.
US07702576B2
A computer-implemented simulator models the entire analytic value chain so that data generation, model fitting and strategy optimization are an integral part of the simulation. Data collection efforts, data mining algorithms, predictive modeling technologies and strategy development methodologies define the analytic value chain of a business operation: data→models→strategies→profit. Inputs to the simulator include consumer data and potential actions to be taken regarding a consumer or account. The invention maps what is known about a consumer or an account and the potential actions that the business can take on that consumer or account to potential future financial performance. After iteratively performing simulations using varying inputs, modeling the effect of the innovation on a profit model, the simulator outputs a prediction of the commercial value of an analytic innovation.
US07702571B2
Financial instruments may be electronically traded according to any of three modes, including single instrument mode, correlated mode, and aggregated mode. One of more market depth representations showing current market price levels, Bids and Asks of the financial instrument(s) to be traded are displayed on a GUI window. The user mouses parallel to the market depth representation to a price level at which the user wishes to initiate a trade, and the moused-over price level is selected and highlighted for all correlated market depth representations displayed on the GUI. All trade order parameters are pre-constructed either prior to selecting or upon selecting of a price level. The user then clicks a mouse button or initiates some other action of a user input device to place an order.
US07702570B2
A system for providing an operator interface having a radar display comprises a memory and a processor. The memory stores trader designated requirements. The processor generates a radar display comprising a trader requirements block that corresponds to the trader designated requirements. The processor receives market data and performs the following for each trader designated requirement: determines a probability of the market data satisfying a trader designated requirement, and displays a market data circle on the radar display, where a distance between the market data circle and the trader requirements block indicates the probability.
US07702548B2
A preferred embodiment comprises a method for obtaining predictive information (e.g., volatility) for inhomogeneous financial time series. Major steps of the method comprise the following: (1) financial market transaction data is electronically received by a computer over an electronic network; (2) the received financial market transaction data is electronically stored in a computer-readable medium accessible to the computer; (3) a time series z is constructed that models the received financial market transaction data; (4) an exponential moving average operator is constructed; (5) an iterated exponential moving average operator is constructed that is based on the exponential moving average operator; (6) a linear, time-translation-invariant, causal operator Ω[z] is constructed that is based on the iterated exponential moving average operator; (7) values of one or more predictive factors relating to the time series z and defined in terms of the operator Ω[z] are calculated by the computer; and (8) the values calculated by the computer are stored in a computer readable medium.
US07702546B2
An article storage apparatus which enables categories to be subsequently assigned to storage sections or categories given to storage sections to be changed according to the progress of the user's storing operation or the user's desire. A plurality of storage shelves are provided to store articles. A RFID reader reads out a category assigned to an article to be stored in each of the storage shelves. A controller sets a category to be assigned to each storage shelf according to the category assigned to the article stored in the storage shelf.
US07702537B2
A system and method for enabling information providers using a computer network to influence a position for a search listing within a search result list generated by an Internet search engine. A database stores accounts for the network information providers. Each account contains at least one search listing having a description, a search term of keywords, and a bid amount. The network information provider may add, delete, or modify a search listing after authenticated login. A bidding process occurs when the network information provider enters a new bid amount for a search listing. The system and method compares the bid amount with all other bid amounts for the same search term, and generates a rank value for all search listings having that search term. The rank value determines where the listing will appear on the search results list page generated in response to a query of the search term.
US07702536B1
A method is provided for using referral data to track software product sell-through and compensate software product distributors. A referral identifier (ID), that identifies a product distributor, is associated with a product. The referral ID may be placed on or within the product container, or in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) case, directly written to the registry or other storage of a new computer. During product activation, the referral ID is sent, along with other referral data, to a server computer where it is stored. Once the server computer determines that a purchase related to the product has occurred, the server retrieves the referral data to identify the referring product distributor, the product involved, the date the product was activated, the date the related purchase was activated, and other related parameters. The referral data may then be audited and used to determine compensation for the identified product distributor.
US07702529B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems for estimating liability for a vehicle accident are provided. In an embodiment, claim data may be accessed for one or more claims relating to a vehicle accident from a first database on a computer system. In some embodiments, the claim data may be accessed if the claim data is not stored on a second database. In other embodiments, the accessed claim data may be stored on a second database on the computer system. The second database may be associated with a method and system for estimating liability in the vehicle accident. In further embodiments, the stored claim data for one or more of the claims may be accessed on the second database for use by the method and system for estimating liability in the vehicle accident.
US07702526B2
An episode classification system including a multitude of diagnosis records. Each of the diagnosis records includes diagnoses information, time of diagnoses information, and patient information. A patient grouper generates at least one patient group by grouping patient records having similar patient information. A diagnosis grouper generates at least one diagnosis group from a patient group by grouping patient records from a patient group that have similar diagnosis information. An episode analyzer includes a probability analyzer, an episode grouper, and a severity analyzer. The probability analyzer performs probability calculations capable of generating a probability value using at least two of the diagnosis records as input entries. The probability value represents the probability that the input entries belong to a single episode. The episode grouper groups diagnosis records determined to belong to a single episode. The severity analyzer performs episode severity calculations capable of generating an episode severity value.
US07702522B1
Methods and apparatus for tracking and evaluating the relative value, such as the net present value, of medical services provided to patients associated with third party payors (“TPPs”). Under various embodiments of the present invention, the relative value of medical services is considered in evaluating whether to enter into an agreement with a TPP, whether to accept a new patient, when and for how long to schedule a patient appointment, and how long a physician should meet with the patient. Methods and apparatus for improving the efficiency of a medical office are also disclosed whereby a physician may more effectively supply a patient with relevant information and provide prescriptions, record billing information, order supplies, and collect payment for services provided. Methods and apparatus for improving security within a medical office and reducing employee fraud are also disclosed.
US07702517B2
A risk management system may include a memory system that may contain a plurality of risk software objects, each of which represents a risk associated with an enterprise and which is configured to contain attributes and methods. The memory system may include a plurality of non-risk software objects, each of which represent something associated with the enterprise other than a risk, as well as a relationship between one of the risk software objects and one of the non-risk software objects. A computer processing system may be configured to manage the software objects and the relationship. Relationships may also be with workflow processes. Numerous variations, as well as related processes and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US07702512B2
A user interface, and associated techniques, that permit a fast and efficient way of correcting speech recognition errors, or of diminishing their impact. The user may correct mistakes in a natural way, essentially by repeating the information that was incorrectly recognized previously. Such a mechanism closely approximates what human-to-human dialogue would be in similar circumstances. Such a system fully takes advantage of all the information provided by the user, and on its own estimates the quality of the recognition in order to determine the correct sequence of words in the fewest number of steps.
US07702495B2
A method for performing a simulation of an electrosurgical procedure is provided. The method includes the step of generating a three-dimensional model of a medium comprising one or more material regions representing a physical object or a region of the tissue. The method also includes the step of calculating one of an electrical energy solution and a thermal transport solution based on one of a mathematical model and finite element method. The method further includes the step of updating one or more property values of the material region in response to temperature changes based on an empirically derived value, wherein one of the electrical energy solution and the thermal transport solution is updated as a function of the updated property value.
US07702493B2
A method for quality assurance of screw joint tightening results when tightening a screw joint to a needed pretension condition (FN) by means of a torque delivering power tool, wherein one or more simulation procedures of a screw joint tightening process via a specific algorithm aiming at the needed pretension condition (FN) by using programmed data relating to the screw joint geometry, expected frictional conditions, power tool characteristics, a tightening strategy and suitable tightening parameter values, thereby arriving at a simulated pretension condition (FS) which is compared to the resultant pretension condition (FP) of a practically performed tightening process performed via the same specific algorithm, and evaluating the outcome of the comparison for quality acceptance or refusal.
US07702489B2
The present invention provides a method of constructing recognition models. Under the method, a set of probabilities is estimated for values of a hidden variable. A Fourier transform is determined for the set of probabilities and is used to determine a Fourier transform of an estimated prototype pattern. The inverse Fourier transform is then determined for the Fourier transform of the estimated prototype pattern to form an estimated prototype pattern.
US07702486B2
A liquid crystal substrate managing apparatus comprises a data management section with a database for recording a defect information acquired from a liquid crystal testing device, and an image information and a repair information acquired from a liquid crystal repair device. The data management section performs the reidentification of a defect and/or the redetermination of a panel and/or a substrate based on the defect information, the image information and the repair information recorded in the database.
US07702485B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for predicting a remaining useful life (RUL) for a computer system. The system starts by collecting values for at least one telemetry metric from the computer system while the computer system is operating. The system then uses the collected values to generate a RUL prediction for the computer system or a component within the computer system.
US07702479B2
A method and system for testing a computer is presented. The temperature of the computer is controlled by one or more on-board fans inside the computer's enclosure. Voltages are controlled at the Voltage Regulator Module (VRM) level. A test program is then run under varying temperature and VRM voltages, and the results of the test program are logged. The present invention can be used either at the manufacturer's location or the customer's site, either under local or remote control.
US07702478B2
A process coupling for coupling a diagnostic device to process fluid of an industrial process includes a process interface configured to physically couple to the process fluid. A fluid pathway extending from the process interface configured to couple a process interface element of the process device to the process fluid. The fluid pathway is configured to optimize transmission of process noise from the process fluid to the process device for use by the diagnostic device.
US07702471B2
Provided is a method of determining one or more profile parameters of a photomask covered with a pellicle, the method comprising developing an optical metrology model of a pellicle covering a photomask, developing an optical metrology model of the photomask, the photomask separated from the pellicle by a medium and having a structure, the structure having profile parameters, the optical metrology model of the photomask taking into account the optical effects on the illumination beam transmitted through the pellicle and diffracted by the photomask structure. The optical metrology model of the pellicle and the optical metrology model of the photomask structure are integrated and optimized. At least one profile parameters of the photomask structure is determined using the optimized integrated optical metrology model.
US07702465B2
The present invention relates to a method for structure-based prediction of properties of peptides and peptide analogs in complex with major histocompatibility (MHC) class I and class II molecules. The properties mainly relate to the three-dimensional structure of an MHC/peptide complex and the binding affinity of a peptide for an MHC receptor. The invention further relates to a computer program and a device therefor. The invention further relates to data produced by a method of the invention. The invention further relates to peptides and peptide analogs predicted to bind to target-MHC molecules. The present invention thus relates to the field of immunology, with possible applications in manufacture of vaccinates, de-immunization of proteins, and manufacture of therapeutic agents, especially immunotherapeutic agents.
US07702459B2
A method of GPS accuracy adjustment for an integrated INS/GPS navigation system which utilizes microelectro mechanical systems (MEMS) based inertial sensors to mitigate multipath problems arising when a vehicle is in an area with many high-rise buildings is disclosed. Even when GPS measurement output values are deviated from that expected, the INS/GPS navigation system uses as many measurement outliers as possible without discarding, unless they are obvious error values, thereby maintaining a practical level of accuracy. The measurement outliers typically occur when the integrated INS/GPS navigation system receives GPS signals which have transmitted through multipaths such as reflection by buildings, since the signal path lengths vary.
US07702457B2
A pedestrian navigation system, an information delivery server, and a program for naturally guiding (such as speech-guiding) the user of a portable terminal at an intersection are disclosed. An information delivery server includes a map database containing data such as nodes including paths constituting intersections, links, and costs of the links, a path seeking section, an intersection path judging section for detecting a path passing through an intersection from guidance paths which the path seeking section has sought, a guidance point determining section which determines a guidance point for path guidance, a guidance data creating section which determines a guidance pattern of path guidance according to the guidance point, and a data delivering section for delivering map data, guidance path data, and guidance data to a portable terminal. The guidance point determining section selects a specific node out of all the nodes constituting intersections as a guidance point.
US07702456B2
A method for presenting a route includes receiving a starting point and a destination point and computing a route that includes a route segment between the two points. The method further includes determining, based on a user's travel history, whether the route segment is an unfamiliar segment, and identifying, based on the user's travel history, a road that is familiar to the user and that is within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment. The computed route and the familiar road are then presented in a format that distinguishes the familiar road from the computed route, and the familiar road is represented relative to the unfamiliar segment.
US07702452B2
The present invention provides a system and method for determining the necessary departure time to allow for an on-time or desired arrival time at a particular location over a particular route based on the evaluation of historic, present, and predicted road conditions.
US07702441B2
A safety logic for vehicle rollover detection systems comprising a main rollover detection logic and at least one protection device for the occupant or occupants of the vehicle, including a vehicle lateral acceleration sensor (11), which generates an output signal indicating a near rollover event, when a lateral acceleration of a vehicle exceeds the first predefined threshold value (15) or, when a lateral acceleration of vehicle exceeds the second predefined threshold value (16) that is lower than the first predefined threshold value (15) and simultaneously at least one additional safety logic activation signal is present (1, 1′, 1″, 1′″).
US07702437B2
A method of displaying a vehicle's information, includes measuring a set values of the vehicle, comparing the set of measured values with a set of related normal values of a vehicle of the same type as the vehicle being measured, and operating within a preset normal range, and displaying on a video image a graphical depiction of the measured set of values in comparison to the normal set of values of the same type of vehicle.
US07702429B2
The invention relates to an electric flight control system for aircraft elevators. According to the invention, the flight control system can be controlled in terms of load factor or rate of pitch. The inventive system comprises built-in protections in relation to load factor, incidence and pitch attitude.
US07702412B2
A computer-based method for controlling product quality is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: detecting whether a quality of raw materials bought from at least one supplier are acceptable; detecting whether a quality of using materials used at a processing procedure are acceptable; detecting whether a quality of products being manufactured at the processing procedure are acceptable; receiving and storing a post-procedure report obtained by sampling the products after the processing procedure; repeating steps of detecting materials used at a processing procedure, detecting products being manufactured at the processing procedure, detecting the sampling products after the processing procedure, and completing the manufacturing if all the products are finished. A related system is also disclosed.
US07702410B2
A schedule is generated by which physical items to be manufactured are assigned into production slots. The physical items have constraints governing manufacture of the physical items. The method generates coefficient matrix clusters from a mathematical programming problem based on an actual scheduling problem. Each coefficient matrix cluster defines a variable cluster-constraint cluster pair. A variable cluster of each coefficient matrix cluster defines production slot-physical item pairs. A constraint cluster of each coefficient matrix cluster defines a group of constraints. Each coefficient matrix cluster includes coefficient-binary variable pairs, each pair having a binary variable multiplied by a coefficient. For each coefficient matrix cluster, the method reduces non-zero factors within the cluster. Each non-zero factor within the coefficient matrix cluster is defined as a coefficient-binary variable pair such that the binary variable of the pair multiplied by the coefficient of the pair is non-zero. The schedule is then generated.
US07702406B2
In order to obtain coded data which does not strike viewers and listeners as being incongruous, when plural audio data are to be coded, a coding program groups the respective audio data into one audio data, codes the grouped audio data in sequence with a predetermined number of samples being treated as units, and sets delimitations corresponding to the delimitations of the plural audio data in the coded data at coding units of the coded data.
US07702404B2
A method of processing a spectrally-encoded digital audio signal comprising band data components representing audio contributions in respective frequency bands comprises the steps of altering a subset comprising one or more of the band data components; and generating recovery data to allow the original values of the altered band data components to be reconstructed.
US07702397B2
A system and method for approaching the intervertebral disc through a percutaneous insertion from the back of a patient for thermal or electromagnetic treatment of an intervertebral disc, includes an elongated probe member having a guidable region adjacent its distal end with an undulating groove defined in its outer surface. The undulating groove is dimensioned to facilitate bending of the guidable region in at least one radial direction of movement relative to a longitudinal axis of the thermal probe. Preferably, the guidable region includes a plurality of undulating grooves, whereby adjacent undulating grooves are longitudinally spaced with respect to each other. The undulating grooves each define a sinusoidal configuration which may be arranged about an undulating axis extending in oblique relation to the longitudinal axis. The guidable region also includes a longitudinally extending backbone which resists bending of the guidable region in a radial direction of movement. The apparatus may also include a cannula to facilitate introduction of the thermal probe into the intervertebral disc. The cannula includes an arcuate end portion dimensioned to arrange the guidable region of the thermal probe at a desired orientation within the annulus fibrosis.
US07702391B1
Implantable systems, and methods for use therein, perform at least one of a cardiac assessment and an autonomic assessment. Short-term fluctuations in PR intervals, that follow the premature contractions in the ventricles, are monitored. At least one of a cardiac assessment and an autonomic assessment is performed based on the monitored fluctuations in PR intervals that follow the premature contractions in the ventricles. This can include assessing a patient's risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD), assessing a patient's autonomic tone and/or detecting myocardial ischemic events based on the monitored fluctuations in PR intervals that follow the premature contractions in the ventricles.
US07702388B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for tachyarrhythmia therapy involving pacing the heart to prior to the application of a cardioversion/defibrillation shock. One or more pace pulses are delivered to the arrhythmic chamber or chambers. The pace pulses may be delivered to the heart at an adaptable rate selected to organize the electrical activity of the heart. If the pace pulses produce capture, cardioversion/defibrillation stimulation is delivered.
US07702378B2
An implantable tissue marker incorporates a contrast agent sealed within a chamber in a container formed from a solid material. The contrast agent is selected to produce a change, such as an increase, in signal intensity under magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). An additional contrast agent may also be sealed within the chamber to provide visibility under another imaging modality, such as computed tomographic (CT) imaging or ultrasound imaging.
US07702371B2
A power management scheme for a wireless communications device substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. The present invention provides a method and apparatus for generating first and second clock signals for a wireless communication device, with the first and second clock signals corresponding first and second power levels, depending on the operating mode of the wireless communication unit. In the first operating state, the transceiver in the RF analog module is operational and the clock generator provides a first clock signal having the high-speed, high-accuracy characteristics necessary to maintain efficient operation of the transceiver. In a second operating state, the transceiver in the RF analog module is turned off. In this second operational state, the clock generator provides a second clock signal having a frequency and quality sufficient to maintain efficient operation of the digital modules in the wireless communication device. In the second operational state, the high-speed, high-accuracy clock is replaced by a low-power oscillator when the wireless communication unit is operating in a low power mode.
US07702355B2
Cells from which to receive information transmitted on a traffic channel that is not subject to power control in a cellular radio communications system are selected. Selection involves, for each of a plurality of candidate cells, using an offset value that indicates a relationship between a pilot channel transmission power and the traffic channel transmission power associated with the candidate cell to determine a value of quality indicative of power of a signal transmitted on the traffic channel associated with the candidate cell; and selecting, based on the values of quality indicative of power of a signal transmitted on the traffic channel, a number, N, of cells from the plurality of candidate cells.
US07702353B2
Allocate power so as to maximise the throughput of each user of a multi-user MIMO group, with the constraint that over time all users in the group have equal throughput. This differs from equal capacity per slot in that each user may be assigned multiple slots as well as unequal power. This is illustrated in FIG. 4. Total throughput is maximised on any given slot for any two users. Power is shared between the spatial modes such that the total number of slots used by the two users is minimised. The membership of the MIMO group may change between slots and thus throughput is not necessarily equalised on a slot by slot basis.
US07702347B1
Systems and methods for creating temporary dispatch talk groups are provided. A console receives a request to create a temporary dispatch talk group. The temporary dispatch talk group includes at least two existing talk groups. The console accesses a group database in a publicly-accessible wireless network. The temporary dispatch talk group is created in the group database, along with an identification of the lifetime of the temporary dispatch talk group. A temporary dispatch talk group identifier is provided to at least one member of the temporary dispatch talk group. A talk group call for the temporary dispatch talk group can then be initiated using the temporary dispatch talk group identifier.
US07702344B2
A radio communication system includes a radio network controller, base stations and mobile stations. The mobile station includes a response signal transmitter which is configured to transmit a response signal including a group ID identifying a multicast group A to a base station. The response signal responds to a control signal for the multicast group A which the mobile station is joining in. The base station includes a response signal transmitter configured to transmit at least one response signal to the radio network controller. The response signal is selected from at least one response signal transmitted from the mobile station joining in the same multicast group A.
US07702341B2
Two-way communication between a general purpose computing device, such as a PC, and a mobile terminal, such as a cell phone. The general device executes a conversation user interface through which a user enters a message. The message is sent to an intermediary communication service, such as a portal server, along with a mobile terminal identifier, such as a phone number. The intermediary service creates a mapping between the mobile identifier, a general device user identifier, and an extension to an intermediary device identifier, such as an extension to an SMS short code. The intermediary service sends the message to the mobile terminal along with the intermediary service identifier and the extension. The mobile device returns a response with the mobile identifier, the intermediary service identifier, and the extension. The intermediary service uses the mobile identifier and the extension to determine the general device user identifier and send the response.
US07702319B1
A communication apparatus includes a mechanism for reducing loss of text telephone information during normal traffic channel preempting. The communication apparatus includes a transmitter that may generate a signal including a plurality of text telephone symbols for transmission via a voice channel. The transmitter may receive a notification that indicates information transmitted via the voice channel will be replaced by control information. In response to receiving the notification, the transmitter may further selectively prevent at least a portion of the plurality of text telephone symbols from being provided for transmission.
US07702310B1
A communications management network for managing subscribers' communication sessions. The management network includes multiple sets of session management modules or servers (e.g., Intelligent Service Control Points), a services hub and a data warehouse. The network may also include a gateway for routing text messages. Each set of session management modules includes a plurality of modules, and each subscriber is assigned to one set of modules with one of the modules as a primary and another as a secondary or backup. Subscribers are grouped according to geographical area (e.g., by zip code, by area code), service area or other criteria, and all subscribers within a group are assigned to the same primary and secondary modules. Management of subscribers' communication sessions is load balanced by reassigning groups of subscribers to different sets of session management modules. Each module tracks account statuses (e.g., prepaid services balances) for its assigned subscribers.
US07702309B2
The invention proposes a method for handling services requiring location information of a user terminal, wherein the user terminal is connected to a local network, a connection to an external network is provided via a network access means, and the network access means is identified by an identity, the method comprising the steps of extracting location information of the network access means based on the identity of the network access means, and determining the location of the user terminal based on the location information of the network access means. The invention also suggests a corresponding network control element.
US07702293B2
A multi-mode I/O circuit or cell (10) is provided for transmitting and receiving data between ICs, where each IC contains at least one of the I/O circuits. Each data link includes transmitter circuitry (12) and receiver circuitry (14). The transmitter circuitry sends data to a receiver circuitry in another IC, and the receiver circuitry receives data from a transmitter circuitry in another IC. The I/O circuit is constructed with CMOS-based transistors (e.g., CMOS or BiCMOS) that are selectively interconnected together by a plurality of switches to operate as two single-ended, current or voltage mode links, or as a single differential current or voltage mode link. In the preferred embodiment the transmitter circuitry sends data to the receiver circuitry in another IC over a first pair of adjacently disposed conductors, and the receiver circuitry receives data from the transmitter circuitry in another IC over a second pair of adjacently disposed conductors. The transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry are selectively configured by the plurality of switches for operating in a double single-ended voltage mode link mode, a double single-ended current mode link mode, a mode defined by a single differential voltage mode link with a single-ended input drive, a mode defined by a single differential voltage mode link with a differential input drive, a mode defined by a single differential current mode link with a single-ended input drive mode, and a mode defined by a single differential current mode link with a differential input drive. A common I/O circuit may also be provided, and programmed into either the transmitter or the receiver circuit configuration.
US07702292B2
The jitter reduction circuit to reduce phase noise in a pulse train, comprises: —a resettable integrator (70) to integrate the pulse train, —a comparator (72) to compare the integrated pulse train with a reference level and to generate a modified pulse train with reduced phase noise, —a crossing time interval detector (94) configured to determine a discrete time interval during which the integrated pulse train crosses the reference level and to reset the integrator between two discrete time intervals determined consecutively.
US07702289B2
A system and method for fast acquisition of a communication link in a wireless broadband communication system between a mobile station and a base station includes a scheduler (100) that is informed (102) of the processing capabilities of the mobile station, preferably in an optional message field. The scheduler determines (104) a time that the mobile station can respond to a downlink message, in the same frame or in a subsequent frame, using the processing capabilities. The scheduler allocates (106) uplink bandwidth for the mobile station to respond to the downlink message at the determined time. In this way, upon sending (108) a message from the base station to the mobile station, the mobile station can immediately respond (112) at the allocated time without having to perform an explicit bandwidth request. As a result, link entry and/or handover times are reduced.
US07702281B2
A method and apparatus in which a radio frequency transceiver is controlled via a plurality of connectors including providing control information for changing a mode of operation of the receiver. The modes can be transmit and receive modes, and the connectors can be configured to perform various functions depending on the mode of operation. Control signals, time critical control signals, and other types of signals may be received at one or more of the connectors in the different modes of operation. The functions may control a power amplifier of a transmitter portion of the transceiver, read/write data from/to registers of the transceiver, and/or other functions.
US07702280B2
A mobile communication system capable of determining a communication path to implement fast communication by multihop connection. The mobile communication system includes a mobile station, at least one relay station, and a base station and implements packet transmission from the mobile station to the base station through a communication path with an intermediary of at least one relay station or through a communication path without an intermediary of a relay station. The mobile communication system is provided with a communication path determiner for determining a communication path with a largest communication speed or a communication path satisfying a required line quality, based on interference levels of respective signals received at a relay station constituting a communication path between the transmitting station and the receiving station, and at the base station.
US07702276B2
An automatic document feeder (3) has a front plate (12) located on one of opposite sides of the document feeder in a direction orthogonal to a feeding direction of documents P on a document tray (4), and on the side opposed to an operator. A rear plate (13) is on the other side opposed to the front plate (12). An intermediate transport unit (32) located between the front plate (12) and the rear plate (13) has a frame with an outer wall surface (37) serving as a lower guide surface of document transport path. The front plate (12) has an outer edge (33) at a height equal to or lower than the outer wall surface (37), so as to allow the operator to visually check the document (P) on the outer wall surface (37) from the direction orthogonal to the feeding direction of the documents (P).
US07702256B2
An image forming apparatus comprising an electrophotographic photoreceptor, a charging unit, an exposure unit, a development unit, and a transfer unit, wherein the image forming apparatus conducts charging, exposure, development, and transfer while moving a circumferential surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor in a predetermined direction, the image forming apparatus further comprises a controlling unit which controls a moving velocity of the circumferential surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor so that a time required for processes from charging to development is changeable, the electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an undercoat layer and a photosensitive layer, and the undercoat layer includes a metal oxide particle and an acceptor compound having a group capable of reacting with the metal oxide particle.
US07702253B2
A process cartridge including a main frame including a first side wall and a second side wall, and an image carrying member supported by the first side wall and the second side wall in a manner that permits the image carrying member to rotate. The image carrying member is movable between a retracted position and an extended position. When viewed from the first side wall side or the second side wall side, the image carrying member is concealed by the first side wall or the second side wall in the retracted position. When viewed from the first side wall side or the second side wall side, at least a portion of the image carrying member extends beyond a periphery of the first side wall or the second side wall in the extended position.
US07702248B2
A powder container is configured to be installed in a substantially horizontal manner in an apparatus in which the powder container is used. A powder inlet is provided, through which a powder enters into the powder container. A powder detecting unit includes a powder detector for detecting a full of the powder. A powder conveying unit is provided between the powder inlet and the powder detecting unit. A space between the powder inlet and the powder detecting unit is divided into a plurality of areas.
US07702244B1
An Improved Circuit Design and Optics System for infrared Signal Transceivers is disclosed. The preferred system includes an IR transceiver assembly that is easily grasped by assemblers. Furthermore, the primary and secondary lenses associated with the transceiver system are easier to manufacture than are current lens designs. Also, the heretofore critical lens separation between the infrared emitting and infrared detection devices and the primary lens is rendered a flexible dimension, dependent only upon the particular appliance in which the system is installed. The present invention permits the stand for infrared emitting and infrared detection devices to be eliminated as a result of exchanging a non-imaging transceiver system with the current imaging transceiver system. The present invention further comprises assembling or otherwise combining infrared emitting and infrared detection devices into a single infrared emitting/infrared detection device stack. Finally, the present invention provides an infrared transceiver assembly that has a smaller footprint by backside mounting and/or stacking the discrete devices.
US07702235B2
An improved handheld electronic device and camera apparatus upon which can be executed an improved method enable a modular camera to be used in conjunction with a flash. In one implementation, compensation parameters that are intended for use in a non-flash situation are overwritten with compensation parameters that are configured to compensate for the combined effects of the camera and the flash and are used by an embedded compensation routine executed on the camera. In another implementation, an image signal is processed by the embedded compensation routine using the original compensation parameters, but if it is determined that the image signal is a flash image signal, the image signal is further processed by the embedded compensation routine employing an additional set of parameters which compensate the image signal for the effect of the flash.
US07702232B2
Systems and methods of implementing dynamic focus zones for cameras are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method may include selecting a reference image from a scene being photographed. The method may also include selecting a plurality of difference images from regions adjacent the reference image. The method may also include comparing the reference image and the plurality of different images. The method may also include selecting a plurality of distinct focus zones based on correlation of the compared reference image and the plurality of difference images.
US07702227B2
An optical device includes a lens holding member that holds a lens and that is movable in a direction along a plane that is orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens, and an actuator that moves the lens holding member in the direction along the plane. In the optical device, the actuator includes an actuator element, formed of electroactive polymer, and a connecting member that connects the lens holding member to the actuator element.
US07702218B2
A coding/decoding part performs codes and decodes a given signal in one of a plurality of coding/decoding modes of different bit rates; and a control part sets a predetermined bit rate to be applied by the coding/decoding part in case a given signal is output after being coded and decoded by said coding/decoding part without storage thereof in a predetermined recording medium.
US07702210B2
A video signal reproducing apparatus for playing a recording medium on which a video signal is recorded and inhibited operation information is recorded which is information representing whether or not an inputted key operation is inhibited, includes a control means of displaying, if the inputted key operation is inhibited on the inhibited operation information, an alternative operation message causing a user to select whether or not an alternative key operation is used, the alternative key operation giving an alternative processing coupled with a processing required by the inputted key operation, and of making, if the user selects using the alternative key operation, on an assumption that the alternative key operation not inhibited on the inhibited operation information and giving alternative processing has been inputted by the user, control of executing a processing corresponding to the alternative key operation.
US07702209B2
An information storage medium which stores data structures supporting multi-angles includes clip AV streams for respective angle data of multi-angle motion picture data. As additional information for each clip AV stream, clip information is recorded on a separate storage area from that of the clip AV streams. The clip information includes jumping-point information for jumping into another angle. Each of the clip AV streams may be recorded in a contiguous recording area, or divided into smaller interleaved units that are interleaved with units of the other clip AV streams.
US07702202B2
An optical device and a sensor system incorporating same are disclosed. The optical device includes a microresonator that has a core with input and output ports. The output port is different than the input port. The optical device further includes first and second optical waveguides. Each optical waveguide has a core with input and output faces. The output face of the core of the first optical waveguide physically contacts the input port of the core of the microresonator. The input face of the core of the second optical waveguide physically contacts the output port of the core of the microresonator.
US07702195B2
When light is made incident to an optical waveguide path 14 formed through a main body 12 composed of silver (Ag) that is a plasmon active medium, surface plasmon is generated on a definition face 55 of the optical waveguide path 14 (including a fine aperture 16). Thus, the intensity of the light propagating in the optical waveguide path 14 is strengthened as the light propagates toward the fine aperture 16. In addition, a distal end 51 of a first protrusive piece 13a is more protrusive as compared with a distal end 52 of a second protrusive piece 13b. Thus, in a distal end part of a projection 13, the light is focused in the vicinity of the first protrusive piece 13a based on an intensity distribution of an electric field at the distal end part. Thus, the light having seeped out from the fine aperture 16 is restricted from spreading in a polarizing direction. Therefore, the light intensity of the light propagated through the optical waveguide path 14 is increased at a low cost without causing an increase of the spread of the light while maintaining a good S/N ratio.
US07702193B2
An optical crossbar switch for optically coupling optic fibers comprising: at least one first fiber (21) and a plurality of second fibers (22); a moveable fiber-end carriage (41) coupled to an end of the at least one first fiber and constrained to move along a predetermined trajectory; at least one moveable slack-control carriage (42) coupled to the body of the at least one first fiber and constrained to move along a predetermined trajectory; and at least one moving device (70, 80) controllable to move the carriages; wherein to optically couple a first fiber of the at least one first fiber to a second fiber of the plurality of second fibers, the at least one moving device moves the fiber-end carriage of the first fiber along its trajectory to a position at which the end of the first fiber is optically coupled to an end of the second fiber and moves the at least one slack-control carriage to take up slack in the first fiber generated by movement of its fiber-end carriage.
US07702188B2
A polarization beam splitter-polarization rotator-polarization beam combiner optical structure comprising a pair of polarization rotators having a polarization beam splitter associated with the input ends of the two polarization rotators, and a polarization beam combiner associated with output ends of the two polarization rotators, and a method of purifying a light signal comprising TE and TM modes by disassociating the primary TE and TM modes from first order splitter and rotation error components.
US07702187B2
A scanner for scanning items marked with near-infrared tags includes a laser configured to produce a narrowband near-infrared beam matched to a peak wavelength of near-infrared ink used to print the tags. A mirror assembly re-directs the beam. A deflecting arrangement receives the re-directed beam. A steering mirror steers the deflected beam. A scanning mirror directs the beam onto the tag to be scanned and a light collection system collects light reflected by the tags.
US07702184B2
The procedure of the present invention estimates a correction rate for elimination of a positional shift between the multiple first images, executes correction with the estimated correction rate to eliminate the positional shift between the multiple first images, and combines the multiple corrected first images to generate the second image. The procedure selects a target pixel among pixels included in the second image, and detects multiple adjacent pixels respectively in the multiple first images, which adjoin to the selected target pixel. The procedure then selects an image as a composition object or a composition object image with regard to the target pixel among the multiple first images according to the multiple adjacent pixels, and calculates a pixel value of the target pixel based on the composition object image. The procedure excludes the first image that includes a certain adjacent pixel out of the multiple adjacent pixels, which is detected to have a motion relative to one base image selected among the multiple first images, from the composition object image with regard to the target pixel. This arrangement of the invention enables generation of a high-resolution still image by taking into account motions of image parts.
US07702178B2
A method and apparatus for reducing noise in at least one frame in an image sequence is disclosed. A minimum function is applied to the at least one frame to produce a plurality of minimum values. A mask is generated in accordance with the plurality of minimum values. The mask is applied to reduce the noise in the at least one frame. In one embodiment, impulse noise is reduced. In another embodiment wideband non-linear noise is reduced.
US07702177B2
A method and apparatus for adjusting brightness of an image are provided, in which number distribution information of pixel brightness is detected, and the brightness of a specific area of the image is adjusted using characteristic values according to a distribution characteristic of the detected number distribution information. Accordingly, a decrease in an image recognition characteristic of a human being is compensated for in a specific area, such as, low-brightness area, of an image.
US07702174B2
A data distribution system in which distribution data is generated by a distribution data generation portion, a second range is specified by a specifying portion, the second range is mapped to a first range by a mapping portion, and third image data is generated by performing binarization based on a threshold value regulated in the first range by various components. In this way, binarization can be suitably performed even when pixel value distribution data differs for each subject.
US07702171B2
A screen data transmitting device for transmitting screen data to a screen display terminal through a network. A generation device generates a display image data. A storage device stores compression properties information associating a plurality of compression schemes with a plurality of classes of graphical user interface (GUI) components. A selection device selects one of the compression schemes with respect to a GUI component that is present in a region of the display image data. A compression device compresses the region of the display image data according to the selected compression scheme. Then, a transmission device transmits the screen data including the compressed display image data to the screen display terminal.
US07702170B2
A method of block encoding of an image includes partitioning an image into a plurality of blocks each having a plurality of pixels corresponding to a first matrix, obtaining a first block from the plurality of blocks, rearranging pixels of the first block for generating a second block according to an arrangement rule, performing wavelet transformation for the second block for generating a third block having a plurality of wavelet coefficients corresponding to the first matrix, rearranging the wavelet coefficients of the third block for generating a fourth block according to the arrangement rule, quantizing the fourth block, and encoding a quantized result of the fourth block.
US07702169B2
A method of processing an image includes selecting, for each of a plurality of picture element values in at least a portion of the image, one among a plurality of offset values. For each of the plurality of picture element values, an index value is obtained based on (A) the selected offset value and (B) a portion of the picture element value. For each of the plurality of picture element values, an entry is retrieved from a lookup table according to the corresponding index value.
US07702166B2
A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image sequence is a set of coded frame information of a plurality of frames of an image sequence; wherein the coded frame information includes: information related to a difference image between an image of a current frame and a prediction image of the current frame, the prediction image being synthesized by performing motion compensation, information related to motion vectors estimated in performing the motion compensation, and rounding method information specifying either a positive rounding method or a negative rounding method for interpolating intensity values of pixels in performing the motion compensation when the input image is coded as a P frame, wherein no rounding method information is included in the coded frame information when the input image is coded as an I frame.
US07702161B2
A progressive differential motion JPEG codec is disclosed. The compression encoder of the progressive differential motion JPEG codec comprises a video capture unit, a video capture buffer, a detection unit, a compression unit, and a quality level buffer. The video capture unit is used for receiving an image data and dividing a component of the image data into a plurality of image data blocks. The video capture buffer stores the image data block. The detection unit is electrically coupled to the video capture unit and the video capture buffer for detecting whether a content of the image data block input from the video capture unit is different from a content of the image data block retrieved from the video capture buffer. The compression unit is electrically coupled to the detection unit for compressing the image data block retrieved from the video capture buffer with a predetermined level compression scheme depending on the difference between the content of the image data block input from the video capture unit and the content of the image data block retrieved from the video capture buffer. The quality level buffer assigns and stores an index value indicative of level compression scheme in the quality level buffer when the compression unit compresses the image data block retrieved from the video capture buffer.
US07702154B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that identifies halftone regions within a digital image. During operation, the system receives a region from the digital image, wherein the digital image is a bi-level image, wherein each pixel has two possible color values. Next, the system computes a variation index for a region of the digital image, wherein the variation index indicates how frequently adjacent pixel values in the region differ. If the variation index for the region is greater than an upper threshold, the system determines that the region is a halftone region.
US07702152B2
A method for constructing a database having digital video data information representing a plurality of video sequence is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) partitioning each image frame of each video sequence into L number of sub images; b) generating L number of edge histograms for each image frame; c) normalizing the edge histogram bins to thereby generate M number of normalized edge histogram bins; d) calculating M representative edge histogram bins in order to generate L number of representative edge histograms based on the normalized edge histogram bins; and e) non-linearly quantizing the representative edge histogram bins to generate M number of quantization index values for the each representative edge histogram, to be stored in the database.
US07702139B2
An apparatus for imaging a tooth having a light source with a first spectral range and a second spectral range. A polarizing beamsplitter (18) light having a first polarization state toward the tooth and directs light from the tooth having a second polarization state along a return path toward a sensor (68), wherein the first and second polarization states are orthogonal. A first lens (22) in the return path directs image-bearing light from the tooth, through the polarizing beamsplitter (18), toward the sensor (68), and obtains image data from the redirected portion of the light having the second polarization state. A long-pass filter (15) in the return path attenuates light in the second spectral range. Control logic enables the sensor to obtain either the reflectance image or the fluorescence image.
US07702130B2
Provided is a user interface apparatus that can control a telematics terminal safely and comfortably while driving, by recognizing a hand gesture image received through a camera in the telematics terminal as a corresponding control signal, and a method thereof. The interface apparatus using a hand gesture recognition, includes: an input receiving block for receiving a command registration request signal and a command selection signal; a hand gesture recognizing block for storing the hand gesture image in connection with a specific command, and transforming the hand gesture image into the corresponding command by recognizing the hand gesture image from the image obtained in the image obtaining block; and a command performing block for performing an operation corresponding to a command transformed in the hand gesture recognizing block.
US07702121B2
The automatic switching of acoustic systems and especially of hearing aids into different processing programs is to be improved. To this end there is provision for the signal processing device of the acoustic system to feature a high-frequency detector for analysis of an input signal, with the output signal of said device being able to be used for processing one or more input signals by the signal processing unit. Specifically the presence of an active mobile telephone which emits electromagnetic radiation in the high-frequency range can be established in this way. This enables the system to be switched into telephone made with a high degree of certainty to suit a particular situation.
US07702120B1
The present invention utilizes switching power amplifier technology to improve the performance of self-amplified speaker system. In contrast to analog Class A and Class AB amplifiers, the present invention utilizes a digital class D amplifier. Class D amplifiers are a pulse width modulated or digital switching amplifier configuration. The Class D amplifiers of the present invention includes 2-pole compensation feedback and power supply tracking that improves stability and total harmonic distortion over conventional power amplifiers. Class D amplifiers have an average electrical efficiency value of at least 65%. This level of electrical efficiency leads to reduction in the amount of power lost in the device or systems that result in heat generation. More specifically, the present invention utilizes Class D and other switching power amplifier topologies; amplitude scaling; and 2-pole compensation to increase electrical efficiency and physical operating range; and to reduce power supply requirements, heat generation and physical size of self-amplified speaker apparatus and systems. These design characteristics of the present invention provide speaker systems with the capability to operate with less total harmonic distortion and extend the operation range to at least twice the geographical distance or utilize at least twice as many self-amplified speaker systems.
US07702109B2
A content recording/reproducing system, which records and reproduces a sub-content relating to a main content, includes a distribution device, first and second recording media, a recording device and a reproducing device. The first recording medium that is non-rewritable prestores key data based on which a public key is derivable, and the main content. The distribution device outputs verification information that includes the sub-content and is generated by applying a digital signature to relative information relating to the sub-content based on a secret key corresponding to the public key. The recording device acquires and records the verification information on the second recording medium that is rewritable. The reproducing device acquires the key data from the first recording medium and the verification information from the second recording medium, derives the public key from the key data, verifies the verification information using the public key, and reproduces the sub-content if the verification succeeds.
US07702105B1
Executing multiple elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) point multiplications in parallel and using batched inversions allows shared computations between independent ECC operations. The point multiplications may be computed over prime integer fields or over binary polynomial fields. The batched inversion may be shared between point additions and point doublings, between point additions, or between point doublings. The batched inversions are applicable to point multiplications using projective or using affine coordinate systems.
US07702090B1
A method for processing subscriber calls is disclosed. A call agent receives signals associated with a first call from a first subscriber of a first point of presence. The first subscriber is associated with a first feature set. The call agent receives signals associated with a second call from a second subscriber of a second point of presence. The second subscriber is associated with a second feature set. A feature server is notified of the first call and the second call. A feature from the first feature set is provided to the first subscriber in response to the notification, and a feature from the second feature set is provided to the second subscriber in response to the notification.
US07702080B2
The present invention relates to a method for localizing a defect in a in-house access plant operable to carry broadband communication services.A method according to the invention further comprises the steps of: instructing a user of said in-house access plant to manipulate in-house equipment through an automated and interactive communication session, determining timing information for each manipulation that is carried out, performing remote quality measurements over said in-house access plant while said in-house equipment are being manipulated, identifying from said timing information a particular manipulation that is time-correlated with a substantial change in measured quality, thereby identifying a particular piece of in-house equipment that has been manipulated and in the neighborhood of which said defect is located. The present invention also relates to an analysis tool such as a network analyzer, a communication unit such an intelligent voice responder or a web server, and to a diagnostic system.
US07702076B2
A small X-ray laser generator including a device (1) for generating and accelerating an electron beam, a plurality of targets (2) placed on the transport trajectory of a generated electron beam (4), and X-ray mirrors (3) for monochromatizing X-rays (5) generated by making the electron beam (4) collide against the plurality of targets (2), in which the X-rays (6) generated from the respective targets (2) are made to interfere with each other to produce a hard X-ray laser beam of 1 keV or more.
US07702067B2
A method, instrument, and computer program software product for characterizing a sample with respect to the presence of a specified element, either as a constituent of a surface layer or of the bulk of the sample. Intensities of fluorescent emission at two characteristic emission lines are compared to establish whether the specified element is disposed above the bulk of the sample. In the case where the specified element is disposed above the bulk of the sample, an areal density of the specified element is determined, whereas in the case where the specified element is disposed within the bulk of the sample, a volumetric concentration of the specified element within the sample is determined.
US07702065B2
The invention relates to a digital system (1) for performing stereotaxic biopsies with a biopsy needle. The inventive system (1) comprises a series of devices which are used to: emit X-rays, detect and transform X-ray photons into electric signáis, position a tissue sample between the X-ray source and the detector, process the electric signáis, and genérate images. The system can also be equipped with a series of devices complementary to those mentioned above, as well as a means for positioning the aforementioned devices in two positions and obtaining images in two different orientations.
US07702052B2
Radio-frequency receiver contains a plurality of oscillation circuits that generates an oscillation frequency higher than that of digital broadcasting signals, selective switching circuit that selects two out of the oscillation circuits for signal output, and first and second frequency-divider sections that provide the signals with frequency dividing. The receiver receives two channels in the digital broadcasting signals at the same time by selection of oscillation signals and frequency dividing in the first and the second frequency-divider sections under the control of PLL controller.
US07702043B2
The present invention provides a passive RFID chip with on-chip charge pumps for generating electrical power for the chip from radio frequencies. The passive RFID chip comprises an analog portion and a digital portion. The analog portion primarily comprises a voltage sensor and an AM data detector. The digital portion comprises a state machine digital logic controller. Incoming RF signals enter the chip via external antennas. The RF signals are converted into regulated DC signals by RF-DC converters with the voltage sensor. The RF-DC converters provide power for all the on-chip components and hence the chip does not require external power supply. The incoming RF signals are demodulated by demodulators and enter the AM data detector where the envelope transitions are detected. A voltage alarm is provided to ensure the voltage level does not drop below an operational level of the chip. The logic signals and programming data are controlled by the state machine digital logic controller and the timing signals are provided by an on-chip oscillator.
US07702040B1
An embodiment and method of the present invention includes a frequency lock loop (FLL) having an improved frequency error estimation and a low bit error rate (BER) in data demodulation by calculating and using an improved averaged phase rotation using ‘valid’ phase rotation samples.
US07702039B2
A radio receiver for receiving digital radio signals and a method for receiving digital radio signals are used for undertaking the conversion of digital audio signals to a preset clock pulse rate or clock pulse regulation. The digital asynchronous sampling rate conversion has an input buffer, a control system, a coefficient memory, an accumulator and an interpolator. The output signals of the sampling rate conversion are either passed on for playback or switched to a multimedia bus. The radio receiver and the method are suitable for also converting digital audio signals from sound carriers to a preset clock pulse rate.
US07702038B2
A radio frequency (RF) receiver for receiving transmissions of different modulations includes cycling between a first mode for receiving transmissions of a first modulation that occurs frequently and a second mode for receiving transmission of a second modulation that occurs infrequently. The example RF receiver is cycled between a first modulation for receiving a frequency shift keyed (FSK) transmission from a tire pressure monitoring (TPM) system and a second modulation for receiving an amplitude shift keyed (ASK) transmission from a remote keyless entry (RKE) system. The RF receiver cycles between different modulations to detect the most frequent FSK modulated transmissions while also detecting and receiving the relatively infrequent ASK modulated RKE transmissions without an undesirable delay.
US07702036B2
A solution for determining in a radio receiver a data sequence indicating transmission parameters of a frame before receiving the whole frame in the radio receiver in order to speed up processing of the data in the frame. According to the provided solution data is received in one or more time intervals, the data being part of a transmitted data sequence indicating transmission parameters of a frame. The possible data sequences are known to the radio receiver. The received data is compared with corresponding data of each known data sequence, and, on the basis of the comparison, the data sequence which is determined to be closest to the received data is selected. The transmission parameters of the frame are determined based on the selection.
US07702029B2
In a closed-loop wireless communication system, a codebook-based feedback mechanism is provided to enable non-unitary precoding for multi-stream transmission, where in each stream is optimized with suitable transmission power allocation and AMC. The codebook-based feedback mechanism uses a precoding codebook having a power allocation matrix which is constrained to specify that beamforming always applies full power to a predetermined beam. With this constraint, a one-bit power allocation feedback index may be used to switch between beamforming and spatial multiplexing.
US07702028B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a preamble for frame synchronization and channel estimation in a MIMO-OFDM communication system are provided. An OFDM communication system using Q transmit antennas generates a base preamble sequence including a CP and an orthogonal sequence. If Q≦ a predetermined number M, a preamble sequence for a kth antenna is S(t−(k−1)T/M). If Q>M and k≦M the preamble sequence transmitted for the kth antenna is S(t−(k−1)T/M). If Q>M and k>M, the preamble sequence for the kth antenna is (−1)(PS−1)S(t−(k−M−1)T/M). Here, S(t) is the orthogonal sequence, T is the period of the orthogonal sequence, and PS is an index indicating a transmission period of the preamble sequence. The preamble sequences are at least twice transmitted from the Q transmit antennas.
US07702026B2
An efficient optimal maximum-likelihood output detector reducing the complexity of demodulation/decoding computations in multiple-input multiple-output communication systems. A plurality of received signals may be combined into a plurality of combined received signals by multiplication of a matrix representing the plurality of received signals with another matrix that meets certain conditions. The plurality of combined received signals may then allow for slicing operations as well as calculation of distance metrics with significantly reduced complexity.
US07702023B2
Interference mitigation strategies are presented for use within a transmitter in a wireless system. In at least one embodiment, one or more transmit signals may be generated that are capable of suppressing common channel interference effects within an associated receiver. In other embodiments, one or more transmit signals may be generated that are capable of suppressing dedicated channel interference effects within an associated receiver.
US07702019B2
A moving object detection device including a spatiotemporal data generation unit 120 generating time series data, which arranges data indicating a moving object along a temporal axis, based on an output from a camera 100, an inter-leg information unit 140 extracting based on the generated time series data, inter-leg information, which is information regarding a temporal change in an inter-leg area arising from movement of a moving object that has two or more legs, and a periodicity analysis unit 150 analyzing a periodicity within the extracted inter-leg information. Further, the moving object detection devices includes a moving object detection unit 160 generating, from the analyzed periodicity, movement information that includes the presence or lack thereof of a moving object.
US07702009B2
A timing analysis apparatus in an integrated logical circuit according to the present invention includes a jitter information generation unit for generating period jitter information of an operational clock in response to a power supply/ground noise, a jitter information storage unit for storing the generated period jitter information, and a timing analysis unit for performing a timing analysis of the integrated logical circuit based on the stored period jitter information.
US07702007B2
A device for adjusting a transmit power spectrum of a first transmit/receive device of a communication network, comprising a means for receiving a measure for an attenuation which a signal experiences on a line from the first transmit/receive means to a first subscriber device of the communication network connected to the first transmit/receive means, from the first subscriber device, and a means for determining the transmit power spectrum of the first transmit/receive means for a communication of the first transmit/receive means with the first subscriber device based on the received attenuation measure.
US07702002B2
A method and apparatus for receiving a signal from transmitters such as GPS satellites, for fixing the location of the receiver. Each of the transmitted signals includes a unique periodically-repeating sequence. A received signal is stored by the receiver for at least two repetitions of the periodically-repeating sequence. FFT operations are performed, and the resulting data frequency samples are pruned responsive to a hypothesized residual frequency, a procedure which significantly reduces the total number of subsequent calculations and therefore significantly reduces processing time. A correlation series is determined from the pruned samples and reference frequency samples corresponding to a hypothesized transmitter. If a match is found in the examination of this series, a code phase offset is determined; if not the process is repeated with another hypothesized residual frequency. Multiple correlation series similarly obtained may also be incoherently combined prior to this examination. The apparatus and method disclosed herein is particularly useful for combined position location and communication systems, especially those that are unsynchronized, such as assisted GPS (“A-GPS”) utilized on GSM and UMTS cellular telephone systems.
US07701998B2
Positioning of a mobile signal transmitter. A respective distance between the transmitter and each of a plurality of sensors is determined based on a direct sequence spread spectrum signal. A transmission delay of the signal is estimated with high accuracy by, in each sensor, cross-correlating an over-sampled representation of the signal with an appropriate local spreading sequence, which contains poly-phased symbol values being different from a set of symbols in the direct sequence used to spread the transmitted signal. The local spreading sequence has a nominal chip period, which is equivalent to the chip period of the over-sampled representation of the signal.
US07701996B1
The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for use in a spread spectrum communications system. In particular, in a method of the present invention information useful for acquiring a target signal is selected; the information is incorporated in an acquisition signal; the acquisition signal is transmitted; the target signal is spread with a spreading code; and the target signal is transmitted. At a receiving node, the acquisition information useful for acquiring the target signal is recovered from the acquisition signal and used to acquire the target signal. Apparatus in accordance with the present invention implement methods of the present invention. The methods and apparatus of the present invention can be used in node- and network-discovery situations.
US07701956B2
TFTP server address, configuration file name and relay agent address contained in a DHCPACK are recorded; the TFTP server address is overwritten with the relay agent address before forwarding.Upon receipt of a TFTP request, a transfer identifier is selected from a pool of available port values, and the source address/port pair and relay agent's address are associated therewith. The relay agent's address and the transfer identifier replace the source address/port pair, and a check is made to determine whether the cable modem is requesting the correct configuration file. Action may be taken if the CM requests an incorrect filename, or if configuration TLVs are incorrect.The relay agent retrieves the TFTP server's address/port pair from the first TFTP data packet received, and associates these with the transfer identifier before returning it to the available pool. The transfer identifier is used to lookup the CM address/port pair.
US07701947B2
A network node sets up a virtual connection in a network based on a virtual connection request initiated from an access port different from a first location previously associated with an account of a user. The network node includes a receiver for receiving a signaling message from the access port requesting the virtual connection. The signaling message has at least one field modified to include an address of the access port. The network node further includes a profile database and a registration server. The profile database stores a service policy associated with the user account. The registration server stores an address of the first location associated with the user account as a default registration, determines whether the user is authorized to establish the virtual connection based on the service policy, and replaces the first location address with the access port address when the user is authorized.
US07701945B2
A method performed in an intrusion detection/prevention system, a system or a device for analyzing segments in a transmission in a communication network. The transmission includes segments in the same transmission control protocol (TCP) session. Segments in a transmission are monitored. Data in the segments in the transmission are reassembled in an order indicated by a segment reassembly policy, the segment reassembly policy indicating an order specific to at least comprehensively overlapped segments.
US07701944B2
The present invention relates to a method for configuring a policy management protocol for a web crawler, the method further comprising the steps of determining a web space that is to be crawled by a web crawler, wherein the web space is comprised of an IP address and/or a range of IP addresses, and determining additional hostnames that are associated with the IP address and/ range of IP addresses. The method further comprises the steps of configuring the web crawler to crawl the IP address and/ range of IP addresses, and determine additional hostnames that are associated with the IP address or range of IP addresses, and performing a web crawling function upon the determined additional hostnames by the web crawler.
US07701936B2
Path information is obtained in a bridged network by generating an L2 frame with a special MAC address in the header and a target MAC address embedded in the payload of the frame. The special MAC address in the header of the frame triggers the collection of path information as the frame traverses the bridged network while the target MAC address in the payload of the frame is used to forward the frame in the bridged network. In an embodiment, the destination MAC address of the frame is set to a special MAC address that identifies the frame as a “trace-path” frame, for example, a multicast MAC address.
US07701924B1
A system for, and method for, performing state-based signaling on behalf of a stateless client. In one embodiment, the system includes a controller, couplable to a state-based terminal, that translates at least one stateless signaling message received from the stateless client to at least one state-based signaling message for presentation to the state-based terminal thereby facilitating a media stream communications session between the stateless client and the state-based terminal over an Internet Protocol (IP)-based network.
US07701922B2
A method implemented in a wireless communication system including a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), a Node-B and a radio network controller (RNC) for quantizing multiplexed data allowed by grants to closely match a selected enhanced uplink transport format combination (E-TFC) transport block size is disclosed. The amount of scheduled and non-scheduled data allowed to be transmitted is quantized so that the amount of data multiplexed into an enhanced uplink (EU) medium access control (MAC-e) protocol data unit (PDU) more closely matches the selected E-TFC transport block size. In an embodiment, the amount of buffered data allowed to be multiplexed by at least one grant, (a serving grant and/or a non-serving grant), is quantized so that the sum of scheduled and non-scheduled data including MAC header and control information multiplexed into a MAC-e PDU more closely matches the selected E-TFC transport block size.
US07701918B2
The frequency deviation of a first signal having a short cycle time contained in a received signal is detected and the frequency deviation of a second signal having a long cycle time contained in the received signal is also detected. Then, the frequency deviation of the received signal is determined on the basis of the detected frequency deviation of the first signal and the second signal. Subsequently, the frequency of the received signal is adjusted.
US07701913B2
Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a platform coexistence system of multiple wireless communication devices are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US07701908B1
A method of mapping channels in wireless communications is discussed. The method determines error rates on potential channels to be used in a frequency hopping communication system. The error rates and then used in mapping data to the channels such that isochronous data is mapped to channels having lower error rates than others of the potential channels.
US07701897B2
When a mobile communications terminal receives message data, operations by a message data processing section that processes message data are prohibited. Operations by the message data processing section may be prohibited simply when message data is received by the mobile communications terminal, or operations by the message data processing section may be prohibited when specific information, such as information including certain characters, time, sender address and the like, included in the message data matches preset information. Thus, there can be provided a message data processing method for a mobile communications terminal in which even if a user is away from the mobile communications terminal, the viewing of the contents of message data by others can be prevented, and in which security functions are enhanced so that others cannot view the contents of message data that is sent to the mobile communications terminal at times not expected by the user.
US07701896B1
In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus is presented for registering a mobile IP node with a home agent. A self-selection method is implemented in a home agent. When a home agent receives a registration request from the mobile node, the self-selection method enables each home agent to independently and randomly generate a value that falls within a range of numbers. Each range of numbers is referred to as a bin. In addition, each home agent is associated with at least one of bin. If the value falls within the bin, the home agent associated with the bin responds to the registration request. In addition, home agents are uniformly selected relative to other home agent on the network; therefore, implementing the self-selection method performs load balancing in the network.
US07701894B2
A data switching system for a satellite in a satellite data transmission system which relays from a terrestrial sending area to a terrestrial receiving area via the satellite data including payload data and associated control data which constitutes respective switching requests and provides data on the switching of the payload data. The system analyzes data on the basis of a signal conveying the control data and switches the payload data as a function of the result of the analysis of the associated control data to at least one of a plurality of sending ports for sending it to the receiving area. Only the control data is analyzed. The payload data is not analyzed.
US07701892B2
A system operable to communicate time-division multiplexed information and asynchronous transfer mode cells includes a primary rate switching fabric operable to receive a first plurality of transport signals and to switch the first plurality of transport signals at a first level, a sub-rate switching fabric operable to receive a second plurality of transport signals carrying time-division multiplexed information and to switch the second plurality of transport signals at second level that is a more granular level than the first level, and an asynchronous transfer mode switching fabric operable to receive a third plurality of transport signals carrying asynchronous transfer mode cells, and to switch asynchronous transfer mode cells among the third plurality of transport signals carrying asynchronous transfer mode cells.
US07701889B2
An apparatus is provided for allocating a transmission period in a wireless network system. An access point (AP) transmits a PSMP frame indicating a downlink period and an uplink period allocated to each station (STA), and at least one sub PSMP frame indicating an allocated downlink period for at least one of a retransmission of downlink data and a transmission of an ACK indicating successful receipt of uplink data. After exchanging data with the AP in the downlink and uplink periods indicated by the PSMP frame, an STA receives the each sub PSMP frame, and performs at least one of a reception of the retransmitted downlink data and a reception of the ACK in the downlink period indicated by the each sub MAP frame.
US07701887B2
A multiplexing apparatus comprising at least one band pass filter, a receiver filter, and a transmitter filter is disclosed. The receiver filter, the transmitter filter and each band pass filter are communicatively coupled to a cable so that the receiver filter is configured to pass signals in a first spectral region from the cable to a first-band base transceiver station, the transmitter filter is configured to pass signals in the first spectral region from the first-band base transceiver station to the cable, and each band pass filter is configured to filter and bi-directionally pass signals in a second spectral region between the cable and at least one other base transceiver station.
US07701886B2
A method for performing packet loss concealment of lost packets in Voice over IP (Internet Protocol) speech transmission. Statistical n-gram models are initially created with use of a training speech corpus, and then, packets lost during transmission are advantageously replaced based on these models. In particular, the existence of statistical patterns in successive voice over IP (VoIP) packets is advantageously exploited by first using conventional vector quantization (VQ) techniques to quantize the parameter data for each packet with use of a corresponding VQ index, and then determining statistical correlations between consecutive sequences of such VQ indices representative of the corresponding sequences of n packets. The statistic n-gram predictive models so created are then used to predict parameter data for use in representing lost data packets.
US07701869B2
System and method for generating a data flow diagram. A data flow diagram is provided that includes one or more non-input bound data flow (NIBDF) nodes, each with a respective functionality, and at least one of which is a subsystem node representing a non-input bound data flow sub-diagram comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes. All non-input bound data flow nodes in the data flow diagram are converted into input bound data flow (IBDF) nodes to produce an IBDF diagram, including: for each NIBDF subsystem node in the data flow diagram: partitioning the NIBDF sub-diagram into a plurality of IBDF sub-diagrams that operate according to input bound data flow semantics without changing data dependencies of the NIBDF sub-diagram, and including a plurality of IBDF nodes respectively representing the plurality of IBDF sub-diagrams in the IBDF diagram in lieu of the NIBDF subsystem node. The IBDF diagram is then stored.
US07701864B2
A method and system for quantifying the performance of a component adapted to function as a node in a communications network where the component is represented by a virtual distance (x) according to the following formula: x = S i + 1 - S i IS where the virtual distance x is a representation of a metric that relates to intrinsic properties of the component.
US07701847B2
Disclosed is an inter-card channel protection method in a wave-length division multiplexing system. At the transmitting end, signals from the client side are divided via a coupler into two paths which are delivered to two cards, respectively. The two paths of signal transmitted by the two cards are sent via different routes to the receiving end. At the receiving end, the two paths of signal enter two cards, respectively, and the two cards communicate with each other directly. The standby card submits the signal quality detected by a detecting device to the primary card. The switching control unit on the primary card issues the commands of switching on/off the client-side lasers to the standby card in accordance with a decision made. One of the client-side lasers on the primary card and standby card is switched on while the other is switched off. The merits of this method include: protection can be realized with failures of card or essential chips thereon; protection switching can still be conducted with failures of system control unit; and, direct transfer of switching conditions and switching commands between the two cards is faster than communications with a system control unit via mailbox respectively.
US07701842B2
A method of suppressing effects of aliasing in a system for digitally processing a high speed signal having a symbol rate of 1/T. The high speed signal is sampled at a fractional multiple (N) of the symbol rate, wherein 1
US07701840B2
Multiplex switching is disclosed for readily multiplexing and switching packet data without causing a delay. Bit widths of packets supplied from a plurality of input channels are unified to a previously set bit width. The packets unified in bit width are synchronized among the plurality of input channels. The synchronized packets are spread by multiplying them by orthogonal codes based on the input channels. The spread packets are multiplexed, and multiplexed packets are multiplied respectively by orthogonal codes for switching according to the input channels on which the packets delivered to output channels have been supplied, to reconstruct the packets supplied from the input channels. The packets are then delivered to the output channels.
US07701824B2
Before playing a digital photo slide show, both required digital photos and a guiding program are burnt on an optical disc in advance. While the disc is loaded into an optical disc play device, the guiding program triggers the optical disc play device to connect with an external network for updating media play effect packages, which are related to the digital photos, and for storing the updated media play effect packages in a preserved database of said optical disc play device. Then a corresponding digital photo slide show is dynamically generated and played according to both the updated media play effect packages, which are stored in the preserved database, and the digital photos burnt on the optical disc.
US07701822B2
A recording method recordings data on an information recording medium in units of blocks having a predetermine size, by judging whether or not a block of the data being recorded is a defective block, and newly recording the data in a block which follows the defective block and is in a vicinity of the defective block by skipping at least one block, if it is judged that the block being recorded is the defective block.
US07701820B2
An optical disc apparatus for recording information on a rewritable optical disc having a power calibration area (PCA) moves an optical pickup for optimum recording power calibration (OPC) from an innermost end to outward of the PCA, and stores an address where RF signal is first detected. If the stored address coincides with an address at the innermost end of the PCA, or if a usable area between the two addresses is smaller than to enable one-time OPC, the apparatus obtains an optimum recording power by overwriting on a used area at or near the innermost end of the PCA, and performs DC erase using the obtained optimum recording power. This enables DC erase and restoration of the PCA back to a usable area even if the PCA has no usable area at its innermost end, and even if it is difficult to detect a usable area in the PCA.
US07701817B2
An apparatus, and related method, for recording data that includes a controller to generate control information required to record a main data. The control information including at least one information unit for a specific writing speed and recording layer. The information unit includes write strategy parameters for first write strategy type to be used for the writing speed and recording layer, the first write strategy type being one of an n−1 write strategy type and an n/2 write strategy type, where n is a length of mark and each type represents a number of write pulse to form a corresponding mark. A writing/reading unit records the control information at a specific area of a recording medium, wherein the controller controls the writing/reading unit to record the control information and to record the main data on the recording layer using write strategy parameters for the first write strategy type included in the information unit, at the specific writing speed.
US07701807B2
Impact detecting resistors (141), (143) of an impact detecting circuit (104) detect a counter electromotive force of a step motor (105) generated due to an impact. This counter electromotive force is amplified applying a predetermined period and a predetermined chopper-width by a chopper-amplifying waveform shaping circuit (118). Therefore, even a light impact can be detected. Inverters (145), (146) compare these impact detecting signals (S22), (S23) with a threshold value and detect an impact when the signals exceeds the threshold value. A controlling circuit (102) provides a lock pulse to the step motor (105) through signal lines (AA), (BB) when an impact is detected, brakes rotation of a rotor (162) thereby preventing a deviation of the time displayed with a second hand (106).
US07701803B2
Methods and systems for moving seismic streamer steering devices to target positions are disclosed. One method comprises calculating forces required to steer one or more seismic streamer steering devices in a seismic spread to target positions, the calculated forces based wholly or in part on information in modulated underwater acoustic transmissions, and steering the streamer steering devices to the target positions using the calculated forces. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract, which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US07701801B2
A local on-chip programmable pulsewidth and delay generating circuit includes a clock generation circuit configured to receive a global clock signal and output a local clock signal. The clock generation circuit includes a pulse shaping portion which adjusts a pulse width of the global clock signal in accordance with at least one of a trailing edge delay and a leading edge delay. The leading edge delay is generated by a leading edge delay circuit, and the trailing edge delay is generated by a trailing edge delay circuit configured to apply a delay to a trailing edge of a pulse. The trailing edge delay circuit includes a delay chain having programmable stages of delay elements, each stage being independently controlled using control bits decoded from address latches.
US07701795B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a mode register, an additional function executer, and an additional function controller. The mode register activates an additional function control signal when a mode register set code indicates that an additional function is to be executed concurrently with a refresh operation. The additional function controller controls the additional function executer to carry out the additional function concurrently with the refresh operation when the additional function control signal is activated.
US07701782B2
Some embodiments include a number of nodes configured to receive a number of signals. The signals may represent information stored in a number of memory cells of a device such as a memory device. The device may include a number of transfer paths having storage elements coupled between the nodes and an output node. The transfer paths may be configured to transfer a selected signal of the signals from one of the nodes to the output node via one of the transfer paths. The transfer paths may be configured to hold a value of the selected signal in only one of the storage elements. Each of the transfer paths may include only one of the storage elements. Other embodiments including additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US07701780B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, devices, modules, and systems for healing non-volatile memory cells. One method includes biasing a first select gate transistor coupled to a string of memory cells at a first voltage, biasing a second select gate transistor coupled to the string at a second voltage, applying a first healing voltage to a first edge word line in order to extract charge accumulated between the first select gate transistor and a first edge memory cell stack of the string, and applying a second healing voltage to a second edge word line in order to extract charge accumulated between the second select gate transistor and a second edge memory cell stack of the string.
US07701774B2
A voltage regulator for a bit line of a semiconductor memory cell is disclosed. In one embodiment, the voltage regulator includes an inverter, a feedback transistor, and a band gap reference voltage source. The inverter includes an inverter input connected to the bit line, and an inverter output. The feedback transistor includes a feedback source connected to the inverter input, and a feedback gate connected to the inverter output. The band gap reference voltage source predetermines the voltage to which the inverter input is regulated.
US07701755B2
A memory includes a plurality of cells arranged in a matrix having a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, wherein each cell is capable of storing a bit. Each cell is coupled between a first power supply node that receives a power supply voltage and a second power supply node that receives a second voltage. A plurality of word lines are associated with the memory cells and supplied by a third voltage in read or write operation. The third voltage is a suppressed power supply voltage. The second voltage is negative in read operation and positive in write operation.
US07701751B2
A one-transistor type DRAM comprises a floating body storage element configured to store data in a floating body in a SOI wafer, a plurality of access transistors each connected between a bit line and one end of the floating body storage element, a word line configured to control the floating body storage element, and a plurality of port word lines each configured to select one of the plurality of access transistors.
US07701750B2
Memory devices are described herein along with method for operating the memory device. A memory cell as described herein includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The memory cell also comprises phase change material having first and second active regions arranged in series along an inter-electrode current path between the first and second electrode.
US07701745B2
A memory device driving circuit is disclosed which drives a memory device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a memory layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The memory device driving circuit may include a main driver connected to the memory device, to drive the memory device, and a secondary driver connected between the memory device and the main driver, to control a set resistance of the memory device. The memory device driving circuit may freely adjust the set resistance of the memory device, to maintain the resistance of the memory device at a desired value. Accordingly, an improvement in the operation reliability of the memory device may be achieved.
US07701743B2
An electronic apparatus which includes a wiring substrate which includes wiring conductors, and a plurality of semiconductor bare chips that are formed on the wiring substrate. The semiconductor bare chips include a processor for processing data and a circuit having a checking function for detecting faults of the processor.
US07701742B2
A semiconductor device includes a memory cell array area, a peripheral circuit area on a periphery of the memory cell array area, and a boundary area having a specific width between the memory cell array area and the peripheral circuit area, the memory cell array area including a cell area including nonvolatile semiconductor memory cells, linear wirings extending from inside of the cell area to an area outside the cell area, and lower layer wirings in a lower layer than the linear wirings in the boundary area and electrically connected to the linear wirings, and wiring widths of the lower layer wirings being larger than widths of the linear wirings, the peripheral circuit area including a patterns electrically connected to the linear wirings via the lower layer wirings, the boundary area failing to be provided with the linear wirings and a wiring in same layer as the linear wirings.
US07701734B2
A circuit and a method for detecting a voltage of a transformer are provided. The circuit includes a current output circuit coupled to a winding of a transformer to generate a current signal. A current-to-voltage circuit is coupled to the current output circuit to generate a voltage signal in response to the current signal. A sample-and-hold circuit generates an output signal by sampling the voltage signal. An input voltage is applied to the transformer. The output signal is correlated to the input voltage of the transformer.
US07701730B2
A system and method for power conversion synchronizes multiple phases at a desired phase angle difference. The power conversion involves variable frequency switching, fixed on-time and provides power factor correction. A relative measure of a phase angle difference between two phases permits each phase to be controlled to obtain the desired phase angle difference. The power conversion involves transition mode switching to help reduce switching losses. A phase angle difference detector may be provided for each phase. The various phases may have different inherent frequencies that vary with switching frequency, and are synchronized to an average frequency.
US07701729B2
An electric supplying holder includes a first cover, a second cover, a flexible battery unit and a third cover. The second cover has at least one first contact point. The first cover is disposed at a first side of the second cover. The flexible battery unit has at least one conducting part and is placed between the first cover and the second cover. The first contact point is electrically connected with the conducting part. The third cover is disposed at a second side of the second cover, and a first accommodating space is formed between the second cover and the third cover.
US07701713B2
An electronic device enclosure includes a chassis having a base plate, a number of fans, a number of securing boards mounted on the corresponding fans, and a number of pivot members. The receiving bracket includes a first sidewall, a second sidewall parallel to the first sidewall, and a bottom wall secured to the base plate and connecting the first sidewall to the second sidewall together such that the first sidewall, the second sidewall, and the bottom wall cooperatively define a receiving housing configured for receiving the fans. The pivot members each has a pivot end attached to the corresponding securing boards and a securing end secured to the first sidewall of the receiving bracket. Each pivot member is capable of rotating about a pivot axis of the securing board and configured for securing the corresponding fan to the receiving housing.
US07701710B2
According to the storage control device of the present invention, individual cooling passages are formed for each region in the enclosure and the respective cooling passages are formed bent so as to bypass the connection substrate. As a result, the interior of the enclosure is cooled efficiently. The interior of the enclosure is divided in the front-rear direction by the connection substrate. Logic substrates and battery devices are provided on the front side of the connection substrate and logic substrates and power supply devices are provided on the rear side of the connection substrate. The battery devices and power supply devices located on the left and right sides of the enclosure are each cooled by means of individual cooling passages. The logic substrates are cooled by means of different cooling passages.
US07701708B2
A heat dissipation assembly for dissipating heat from a heat-generating component includes a first heat sink mounted on the heat-generating component for dissipating heat therefrom, and a second heat sink movably mounted to the first heat sink, to be adjustable relative to the first heat sink. The second heat sink can be moved to a desired position to fit a need of heat dissipation.
US07701704B2
The present invention relates to a data storage device and a support therein. The support is provided with a hollow portion. The hollow portion is provided with a damping spacer therein for attenuating vibration, thereby to reduce the lateral space occupied by the lateral sides of the support, and to increase the usable lateral space for accommodating electronic device and thus to increase the number of the accommodated electronic devices.
US07701700B2
A system and method for an improved multiple hard-disk-drive data-storage enclosure. Some embodiments position drives in counter-rotating pairs, each simultaneously accessing half the data, such that seek-caused actuator rotational-acceleration vibration cause simultaneous canceling rotational torque. Some embodiments position the edge of a first drive (or drive pair) at an angle to the actuator midpoint of a nearby second drive (or drive pair), such that rotational-acceleration vibration from a seek-caused actuator rotation in the first drive does not cause a rotational movement into the second drive that affects the tracking or seek operation. Some further embodiments position drives in a herringbone pattern to redirect air flow in addition to reducing rotational-acceleration vibration interaction. Other embodiments include a printed wire circuit board mounted to reduce the rotational-acceleration vibration interaction.
US07701686B2
In a power supply controller 10 having a self-protective mechanism for performing, intermittently or periodically, a forced ON-OFF operation which causes a power MOSFET 15 to perform an automatically restorable primary disconnecting operation and a restoring operation when an overcurrent anomaly or an short-circuiting anomaly is detected, an automatically unrestorable secondary disconnecting operation is performed when the accumulated amount of the duration of the forced ON-OFF operation reaches an accumulation threshold.
US07701685B2
An apparatus for providing over current protection for a digital pulse width modulator is disclosed. The apparatus includes first logic circuitry for generating a primary interrupt indicating that a detected output current is greater than a threshold current. Second logic circuitry generates a secondary input responsive to the occurrence to the primary interrupt for a predetermined number of times.
US07701682B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device (61, 71), coupled across input-output (I/O) (22) and common (23) terminals of a core circuit (24) that it is intended to protect from ESD events, comprises, multiple serially coupled ESD clamp stages (41, 41′), each stage (41, 41′) comprising an interior node (52, 52′) and first (32, 32′) and second terminal (42, 42′) nodes wherein the first terminal node (42) of the first clamp stage (41) is coupled to the common terminal (23) and the second terminal node (42′) of the last clamp stages (41′) is coupled to the I/O terminals (22). A resistance-capacitance ladder (60) is provided in parallel with some of the clamp stages (41, 41′), with a resistance (R1, R2, R3 etc.) coupled to each of the nodes (32, 52, 65 (42; 32′)) of one of the ESD clamp stages (41, 41′) by first terminals thereof and capacitors (C1, C2, etc.) are coupled between second terminals of the resistances (R1, R2, R3 etc.). The clamp stages (41, 41′) are desirably bi-directional and a diode (D1) may bridge one or more of the clamp stages (e.g., 41) to provide different clamp voltages for different polarity ESD events.
US07701675B2
A micro-actuator frame for a head gimbal assembly includes a bottom support adapted to be connected to a suspension of the head gimbal assembly, a top support adapted to support a slider of the head gimbal assembly, a pair of side arms that interconnect the bottom support and the top support, and a micro-actuator mounting structure provided to the bottom support. The micro-actuator mounting structure is constructed and arranged to maintain a substantially constant gap between the top support and the suspension of the head gimbal assembly in use.
US07701674B2
A head suspension includes a load beam to apply load onto a head that writes and reads information to and from the hard disk and a flexure attached to the load beam and supporting the head. The flexure has write wires and read wires connected to the head. The flexure includes a substrate made of a conductive thin plate, a base insulating layer made of flexible resin and formed on the substrate, and the wires are arranged on the base insulating film. A ground layer is formed at least partly between the substrate and the base insulating layer. The ground layer only corresponds to the write wires in a width direction of the flexure. The conductivity of the ground layer is higher than that of the substrate that is made of a conductive thin plate.
US07701671B2
A head slider, of a disk apparatus, flying over a rotary magnetic recording disk, having a characteristic less dependent on the atmospheric pressure. The head slider of a disk apparatus comprises: a magnetic element adapted to fly over a magnetic recording medium; a medium opposing surface being formed with, with respect to the direction in which the medium moves, an inflow pad portion at the upstream end and a pair of side rail portions extending downstream from the inflow pad portion, and a center pad at the central part and a pair of side pads on the sides of the center pad and upstream of the center pad at the downstream end of the head slider. The center pad and the side pads are constituted so that a positive pressure generated by the side pads is greater than a positive pressure generated by the center pad.
US07701661B1
A disk drive is disclosed including a disk having a plurality of servo tracks. The servo tracks are banded together to form a plurality of servo track bands, and each servo sector comprises a fine track address that identifies one of the servo tracks. The disk drive further comprises a head attached to a distal end of an actuator arm operable to generate a read signal by reading the disk, and a mechanical position sensor operable to detect a coarse position of the actuator arm. The coarse position is processed to identify one of the servo track bands, and the read signal is processed to detect one of the fine track addresses, wherein the detected fine track address identifies a servo track within the identified servo track band. The identified servo track band is combined with the detected fine track address to generate a servo track address.
US07701660B1
A control system includes a difference generating module for a rotating storage system that generates a position error signal based on a target position signal and a current position signal. A control module of the control system generates an output response based on the position error signal. A noise equalizer module of the control system generates a noise equalization signal that is based on a sensor signal, the output response and the position error signal. A compensation module of the control system adjusts at least one of the current position signal, the position error signal, and the output response based on the noise equalization signal.
US07701659B2
A hard disk device has a temperature detection device operable to detect a temperature in the hard disk device. A controlling section is operable to control functions of an electronic apparatus. A notifying section is operable to notify an abnormality of the electronic apparatus. The controlling section acquires the temperature detected by the temperature detection device from the hard disk device. The controlling section controls the notifying section to notify the abnormality of the electronic apparatus when the acquired temperature is higher than a reference temperature.
US07701655B2
The present invention is a servo signal recording method for recording a servo signal on a magnetic tape having a data band and a servo band, wherein erasure is performed based on a pulse having a duty ratio varied so that a driving time of the AC erasing head with respect to one polarity is longer than a driving time thereof with respect to the other polarity, and then, the servo band is magnetized so as to have a magnetization direction opposite to magnetization direction caused by the erasure to record a servo signal in the servo band. According to this configuration, the influence of an information recording signal recorded on the surface of a magnetic recording medium on a reproduction output is reduced, whereby the reproduction output of a servo signal can be enhanced easily.
US07701648B2
When using an acrylic resin with a refractive index of 1.494, for example, the structure of the Fresnel lens is such that in a segment where a deviation angle of 19.5° or less is required, refraction-only prisms which do not cause any reflections are used, while in a segment where a deviation angle of 31.0° or larger is required, single-step total reflection prisms in which light is totally internally reflected once and then refracted are used and, in a segment where a deviation angle not smaller than 19.5° but not larger than 31.0° is required, two-step total reflection prisms in which light is totally internally reflected twice and then refracted are used.
US07701647B2
A compact, optically fast catadioptric imager. In one embodiment, the catadioptric imager of this invention includes a first group of optical elements optically disposed to receive electromagnetic radiation from an object and having positive optical power, a second group of optical elements, optically disposed between the first group of optical elements and an image plane, having at least one optical surface and having positive optical power, a third group of optical elements, optically disposed between the object and the second group of optical elements, having at least one optical surface and having negative optical power, a fourth group of optical elements substantially centered along an optical axis of said second group of optical elements and having negative optical power, and a fifth group of optical elements having positive optical power.
US07701642B2
There is provided a liquid lens in which a voltage is applied to control the shape of the interface between a polar liquid and a nonpolar liquid so as to control a transmitted light path at the interface. The liquid lens has a cavity with a polygonal upper side, into which the polar liquid and the nonpolar liquid are injected to form the interface.
US07701630B2
The invention relates to an external optical modulator comprising a Mach-Zehnder having a signal electrode including at least four sections of unequal length to one another positioned over an alternating domain structure in an electrooptic substrate, and including a center section, or center pair of sections disposed asymmetrically between pairs surrounding sections. The surrounding pairs, comprise the two sections adjacent the center section or pair of sections, and each two sections adjacent the previous pair of sections, moving outwardly from the center to the final outermost pair, L1 and LN at the RF input 2 and RF output 4. In each pair, the section lengths are equal, or the section closer to the RF output 4 has a longer length than the section closer to the RF input 2. The surrounding pairs have lengths that decrease from the innermost pair to the outermost pair. For a zero chirp structure, the section lengths are selected to maintain an equivalent length for the inverted and uninverted domain sections. The present invention has found that constant chirp solutions can be found for all frequencies.
US07701627B2
A holographic recording medium includes a recording layer on a substrate, which records data information in a light interference pattern. Information on a thermal expansion characteristic of a recording material contained in the recording layer and/or information on temperature dependency of the refractive index of the recording material are recorded within the holographic recording medium in advance.
US07701626B2
An image print system for printing a picture from an image file having additional information, which enables high-quality image printing to be achieved using various types of image data and their additional information. Image data obtained by taking subjects are sent, together with their additional information, to an image reproduction system in a photographic laboratory. The image reproduction system carries out processing of the image data in accordance with the additional information, and produces its resultant images in the form of image prints. The additional information includes post-processing information for temporally or spatially correlating a series of images to combine them or to select some of them.
US07701623B2
An image reading device includes: a first light source that irradiates light on a first side of an object; a memory that stores a plurality of parameters for controlling an intensity of the light emitting devices, each of the plurality of parameters corresponding to one of a plurality of groups; a controller that controls an intensity of the light emitting devices in response to one of the plurality of parameters stored in the memory; a first image reading unit that reads reflected light from the first side and generates monochrome image data on the basis of the read reflected light; and a second image reading unit that reads reflected light from the second side and generates monochrome image data on the basis of the read reflected light.
US07701615B2
Whether or not a density of black is a predetermined value or more is judged, and when it is judged to be the predetermined value or more, a resolution characteristic is changed to an improved resolution characteristic compared to the resolution characteristic used in a case in which a judgment result shows a value under the predetermined value. When the density of black is deeper, the resolution characteristic is improved, and therefore black is prevented from becoming in a so-called void state. Accordingly, the color close to black such as four-color black can be stably and excellently formed. In addition, when the density of black is the value under the predetermined value, the resolution characteristic lower than this value is used, and therefore dots can be stably formed and an excellent gradation property can be achieved.
US07701607B2
A method and device for managing images stored in a plurality of storage media by using a display unit included in an image forming apparatus to prints the images are provided. The method includes: displaying identification names of a plurality of storage media included in or connected to the image forming apparatus; and linking information on images stored in the plurality of storage media with the identification names of the plurality of storage media and displaying the information on images stored in the plurality of storage media. Accordingly, the identification names of the plurality of storage media included in or connected to the image forming apparatus are displayed by linking information on images with the identification names in order to manage the images stored in the storage media. Therefore, a user can conveniently and promptly recognize and manage the storage media and the images stored in the storage media. In addition, since the plurality of storage media are controlled concurrently, image data can be promptly read from or written to the storage media, and data transfer speed between the storage media can be increased.
US07701606B2
A method of communicating with a printer, including: receiving, at the printer, a request for a printer control interface from a remote computer; sending, from the printer, the printer control interface to the remote computer, wherein the printer control interface is in a form of a web page; receiving, at the printer, printer control information from the computer, said printer control information being set using the printer control interface; and updating a memory of the printer based on the printer control information.
US07701604B2
A printing system includes: a printing device that prints, using ink, an image including a plurality of pixels each assigned with any one of a plurality of tone values; a server device that distributes printing data of a printing image, and first data that represents a total number of pixels of the printing image on a tone value basis; and a client device that receives the printing data and the first data, and based on the first data and second data that represents an amount of ink per pixel needed for the printing device to print each of the tone values, calculates a required amount of ink needed for the printing device to print the printing image.
US07701600B2
An image processing apparatus includes an information processor that is controlled by a general-purpose operating system, and an image processor. The information processor performs a function in a category different from an image processing function performed in the image processor. As a result, a general purpose application program can be used as software for making effective use of the image processing function. Therefore, it is possible to facilitate development of the software to allow the image processing apparatus to perform the function in a category different from the image processing function performed in the image processor, in addition to the image processing function as a basic function.
US07701593B2
An optical position measuring arrangement including a source of illumination that generates one or several bundles of illuminating beams, a measuring graduation that is illuminated by the source of illumination so as to generate a periodic fringe pattern of a defined fringe pattern period and a fiber-optical scanning head, wherein the fiber-optical scanning head scans the periodic fringe pattern. A scanning plate is arranged in the fiber-optical scanning head, wherein the scanning plate is matched to the fringe pattern period and scans the periodic fringe pattern. Fringe patterns, which are phase-shifted in relation to each other, are generated within a fringe pattern period in bundles of partial signal beams in the one or several bundles of illuminating beams via a wavelength-dependent local separation, and the bundles of partial signal beams are employed for conversion into position-dependent phase-shifted scanning signals.
US07701586B2
Stresses and strains on a solid surface subject to a fluid flow are dynamically measured based on a shift of optical resonances of a micro-resonator. The elastic deformation and refractive index change of a micro-resonator due to mechanical stress is exploited. With this approach, mechanical deformations in the order of a nanometer can be detected and related to shear stress.
US07701581B2
The present invention (HBX) describes a system and device design for measuring and analysis of properties in liquids with suspensions, preferably human body fluids e.g. whole blood and in the fluid existing substances and particles. By penetrating a sample of the liquid suspension with specifically calibrated light passing through a thin well defined layer of the liquid placed in a non added cuvette where the transmitted outgoing light from a measuring area is registered in a spectrophotometer adapted for the specific light and the optic geometrical system arranged for elimination of scattered light. The registered data points in the photometer is then processed in a series of steps for corrections and calculation of the values/results of the desired parameters by use of different algorithms in the microprocessor of the device for final presentation on a display, be stored in a memory and possible communication to other information receiving unit.
US07701579B2
A fluorescence sensor comprises a sensor section for collecting a fluorescent substance, which acts to represent presence of a substance to be detected in a sample, and an exciting light source, which produces exciting light for exciting the fluorescent substance to produce fluorescence. Besides the exciting light source, at least one different non-exciting light source is located for irradiating different non-exciting light, which varies in wavelength from the exciting light and which is substantially free from capability of exciting the fluorescent substance, to the sensor section.
US07701574B2
A diffractive optical element device for use in spectroscopy, where broadband light is emitted from a light source towards the optical element and from there is transmitted to at least one detector. The optical element has a plurality of diffractive dispersively focusing patterns, preferably partly integrated into each other, whose respective centers are two-dimensionally offset relative to each other in order to produce a plurality of spectra, where at least two are separate, but offset relative to each other and/or partly overlapping. In an alternative embodiment, the optical element consists of either one diffractive optical element that is related to a wavelength and produces a spectrum, or at least two diffractive optical elements which are related to respective wavelengths and which produce at least two mutually partly overlapping spectra to give a composite spectrum. The optical element is capable of producing at least one indication of upper and/or lower wavelength value in the spectrum.
US07701567B2
An optoelectronic distance sensor with slant component 200 having a spacer 202 bonded on a mother substrate 201 is disclosed. The spacer 202 has slant surface for receiving one or more optoelectronic components 204, such as an optical sensor, that are mounted at an angle to the mother substrate 201. Such electronic components 204 are bonded on a daughter substrate 203 which attaches to the spacer 202 at the slant surface. The optoelectronic assembly 200 can be manufactured at chip-level, including by one ore more of exemplary methods disclosed herein.
US07701565B2
An optical navigation system having an illuminator housing and a sensor housing that are movably connected at a connection point with a connection mechanism, which may include a pivot. The illuminator housing and the sensor housing may be rotated about the connection point relative to each other so that the optical navigation system may be configured with a desired operating Z-height. The optical navigation system may also include a locking mechanism to lock the illuminator housing and the sensor housing in a predetermined fixed position after the desired operating Z-height has been selected.
US07701562B2
A method of measuring a front surface profile and a back surface profile of a target object includes: mounting the target object in such a posture that a first measuring surface (front surface) is measurable by a probe; first measuring a contour of the target object; measuring the first measuring surface of the target object; reversing the target object; second measuring the contour of the target object with the reversed posture of the target object being maintained; obtaining a measurement position of a second measuring surface by comparison of contour data obtained through the first and second measuring of the contour, the measurement position of the second measuring surface corresponding to a measurement position of the first measuring surface at which the measuring of the first measuring surface is conducted; and measuring a profile of the second measuring surface along the obtained measurement position of the second measuring surface.
US07701560B2
The measurement method of the displacement speed of a moving element with respect to a fixed element is performed by means of an optic measuring device comprising a first reference sensor and a plurality of distinct second measurement sensors substantially aligned along the axis of movement of the moving element. The measurement method comprises determination of estimated speeds by correlation of the signals supplied by the reference sensor and each of the measurement sensors, and calculation of a mean speed of said estimated speeds.
US07701558B2
Methods for using spectrally separated light pulses to collect more LIDAR information are presented. In one embodiment, a monochromatic pulse is transmitted to collect range information and a white pulse is transmitted a short time afterwards to collect spectral responsivity information or color of the target. In another embodiment, the white light pulse is used to collect both range and spectral responsivity information of the target. In another embodiment, the spectral separated laser is spatially spread in order to collect range information over more than one point at a time.
US07701557B2
A monitoring device for spatial areas comprises a receiver, to which an anamorphotic optical system, is assigned. The monitoring device also has a transmitter which scans a field of view assigned to the receiver using radiation pulse beams. A distance image of an object in the field of view can be produced by way of a radiation transit time determination with short-term integration carried out in an evaluation unit.
US07701555B2
An exposure apparatus is equipped with a laser unit that emits a laser beam, a memory that stores a first information which shows a first relation indicating a relation between a linewidth error of a pattern formed on a wafer and a spectral characteristic of the laser beam emitted from the laser unit, and a main controller that controls the spectral width of the laser beam via a laser controller, based on the first information and on information related to a reticle that is to be used. Main controller performs spectral width control of the laser beam so as to suppress linewidth error, based on the first information and on the information related to the reticle that is to be used.
US07701553B2
A wafer surface level detection method includes a first level measurement step of measuring a level of a surface of a substrate having a plurality of shot regions, a position measurement step of measuring a position along the surface of the substrate, a first movement step of moving the substrate in at least a vertical direction on the basis of the measurement result obtained in the first level measurement step and the measurement result obtained in the position measurement step, and a second level measurement step of measuring the level of the surface of the substrate after the first movement step, wherein each of the plurality of shot regions has a measurement region. In the first movement step, the substrate is moved such that a relative position of the measurement region of each of the plurality of shot regions and each of the plurality of shot regions along the surface is constant, and, in the second level measurement step, the measurement region of each of the plurality of shot regions is measured.
US07701552B2
The present invention presents an exposure device, which includes an optical source for emitting a UV ray, a first lighting system for shaping the UV ray into a collimated light beam, an aperture member for producing rectangular first and second light beams based on the light beam from first lighting system by using the first and second rectangular windows, first and second spatial light modulators for spatially modulating the first and second light beams, respectively, and first and second projection lighting systems for guiding the modulated first and second light beams to the object.
US07701550B2
A porous member is used in a liquid removal system of an immersion lithographic projection apparatus to smooth uneven flows. A pressure differential across the porous member may be maintained at below the bubble point of the porous member so that a single-phase liquid flow is obtained. Alternatively, the porous member may be used to reduce unevenness in a two-phase flow.
US07701547B2
A manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal dripping device for the liquid crystal dripping and panel pasting method, by which residual moisture, gas constituents, and foreign substances mixed in the liquid crystal can be removed assuredly, and an occurrence of display fault can be suppressed, and can also improve display quality and a yield of the liquid crystal display panel, is provided. In this manufacturing method, prior to drip the liquid crystal on the substrate, pre-treatments, which combines suitably vacuum treatment which removes residual moisture and gas constituents from the liquid crystal maintaining the liquid crystal in a reduced pressure environment, filtration treatment which removes foreign substances from the liquid crystal, and heat treatment which heats the liquid crystal as required for carrying out distributed removal of the organic substances, are performed.
US07701529B2
The present invention provides a housing structure for a lighting device, including a molded product having a thickness of 1.5 to 3.5 mm produced from a polycarbonate-based resin composition containing 20 to 60% by mass of titanium oxide, and a method of producing a housing structure for a lighting device, including: subjecting a polycarbonate-based resin composition containing 20 to 60% by mass of titanium oxide into a sheet; and subjecting the sheet to vacuum forming or pressing to produce a box-type molded product in which a fixing portion of a terminal of a light source is molded integrally to an inner side portion of the molded product. Also provided are a housing structure for a lighting device, which is lightweight and requires small man-hour for assembling, a method of manufacturing the same, a backlight device using the housing for a lighting device, and a liquid crystal display member.
US07701518B2
Systems and methods which can shift video to the edge of the display screen. The user can electrically and mechanically roll up or down the projection screen to fit the opposite edge. Further, the electrically shifted position can be memorized in memory, which will be easily recalled during future use. Also, to avoid displaying visible noise near the top edge of the video, the video may be shifted to avoid such noise being visible. The shifted position may be stored in memory to be recalled for future use.
US07701512B1
We describe and claim a system and method for horizontal and vertical sync detection and processing. A method comprises detecting synchronization information within a video signal, estimating stability of the video signal according to the detected synchronization information, and generating one or more synchronization signals according to the detected synchronization information and the estimated stability of the video signal.
US07701511B2
In a digital television broadcast signal receiver (TV receiver), when closed caption information of digital TV (DTV-CC) is detected, a DTV-CC logo (first annunciation image) 31 is displayed with superimposing on an image of TV program for announcing that the DTV-CC is included in the digital TV signal, and when closed caption information of NTSC (NTSC-CC) is detected, an NTSC-CC logo (second annunciation image) 32 is displayed with superimposing on the image of TV program for announcing that the NTSC-CC is included in the digital TV signal. Thus, a user can easily recognize whether the DTV-CC and/or NTSC-CC are/is included in the digital TV signal or not.
US07701503B2
Disclosed is a method for controlling a light source and optical input device using the same. The light source controlling method includes setting a shutter ON time of an image sensor using a statistical value of an image obtained through the image sensor, and setting a light source ON time in accordance with the shutter ON time and turning on/off the light source and the shutter in response to the set light source ON time and the set shutter ON time.Thus, undesired consumption of electric power of the light source is prevented to increase energy efficiency by actively setting an ON/OFF period of the light source consuming the maximum electric current in the optical input device according to a shutter ON/OFF period. Further, availability of the light source and its electric current is enhanced by controlling the light source for the shutter OFF period and by allowing the light source to be used as a source for the data transmission.
US07701498B2
The solid-state image pickup device of the invention includes: a plurality of optoelectronic transducers arranged in an array; a plurality of vertical transfer sections each for reading charges from optoelectronic transducers and vertically transferring the read charges; a horizontal transfer section; a charge detection section for converting the horizontally transferred charges to signal voltages and the like; and a control section. The control section outputs signals so as to obtain either a signal corresponding to the sum of charges from an optoelectronic transducer belonging to one column and belonging to one of alternately selected rows and an optoelectronic transducer belonging to a column adjacent to the one column and belonging to a row other than the alternately selected rows, or a signal corresponding to the sum of charges from optoelectronic transducers belonging to a same column, every predetermined even number of continuous rows of optoelectronic transducers.
US07701494B2
An image pickup device having an electron multiplying-charge coupled device has: an electron multiplying magnification control unit of the electron multiplying-charge coupled device; an obtaining unit for obtaining signals which are outputted from light-shielded pixels of the electron multiplying-charge coupled device; an averaging unit for executing an inter-line averaging process to the signals obtained by the obtaining unit; a suppression unit for performing a predetermined low-level suppression and a predetermined high-level suppression to the signal averaged by the averaging unit in accordance with the electron multiplying magnification of the electron multiplying magnification control unit; a deriving unit for deriving image signals which are outputted from light-unshielded pixels of the electron multiplying-charge coupled device; and a subtraction unit for subtracting the signal suppressed by the suppression unit from the image signals derived by the deriving unit.
US07701489B1
Methods and apparatuses for color correction using diffusers. At least one embodiment of the present invention seeks to perform color correction using color signals detected for the light passing through a diffuser. While typically software-based color correction methods rely on predetermined assumptions about the properties of an image, such as the averaged and/or profiled color information, at least one embodiment of the present invention utilizes the color signals for the light passing through a diffuser to determine the properties of the lightening environment. Instead of depending on the predetermined assumptions about the lightening environment or the image of the scene, at least one embodiment of the present invention performs the color correction according to the color information detected for the actual lightening environment.
US07701482B2
A feature amount of an inter-mobile unit relative movement are detected as an observation amount by an observation amount detecting section 26, time series of the observation amounts are stored as an observation series into a storage section 27 to calculate a similarity of the observation series to a predetermined collision observation series by a classification section 28. A determination section 29 determines to be a collision accident if, in a case where the similarity is larger than a predetermined value, a mobile unit associated with the similarity is at rest in a stoppage prohibition area set in a storage section 30 and another mobile unit is moving, and to be a mobile unit failure if collision determination conditions except for the similarity are met. By consisting of not only a first scalar obtained by quantizing a relative velocity vector between mobile units but also a second scalar obtained by quantizing a relative position vector between mobile units as the observation amount, a relative movement between mobile units is classified in more detail. A mobile unit is tracked in units of block by a mobile unit tracking section 25 to discriminate overlapped mobile units in pictures.
US07701480B2
A circuit for driving a plurality of light emitting units includes a current biasing unit that biases a light emitting current with an overshoot current and supplies the resultant current to each of the light emitting units. The light emitting current is determined based on an amount of light emitted from each of the light emitting units.
US07701479B2
Systems and methods for calibrating laser write power in a digital media drive are disclosed. The method includes writing to a calibration portion on a digital media labeling layer with energy from a laser. The writing includes using at least two different laser power settings within the calibration portion. The method also includes measuring a parameter in the calibration segment, the parameter being indicative of the reflectivity of the labeling layer, and determining a calibrated laser write power setting based on the measured parameter and the at least two different laser write power settings.
US07701477B2
A scanning system is adapted to scan an image beam across a photoconductive surface. The scanning system includes an oscillating mirror and is operable to generate an image beam and to reflect the image beam off the oscillating mirror to bidirectionally scan the image beam across the photoconductive surface and thereby discharge regions on the surface. The system is further operable to dynamically scale an intensity of the image beam as a function of a position of the image beam on the photoconductive surface.
US07701475B2
With the aim of offering a video display technique by which stable and high contrast video images are reproduced, contrast adjusting circuitry is constructed. The contrast adjusting circuitry detects a maximum picture level (MPL) and an average picture level (APL) of luminance signals for a predetermined period, determines one of the predefined luminance regions within which the MPL falls and one of the predefined luminance regions within which the APL falls, and, based on the thus determined luminance regions of both MPL and APL, carries out a contrast adjustment of video images by changing the gain of luminance signals and color depth correction by changing the gain of color signals.
US07701474B2
The present invention provides a method and a circuit for driving a color liquid crystal display in a normal driving mode and a power saving mode, wherein in the normal driving mode, voltages corresponding to image display data are applied to data electrodes of the color liquid crystal display, and wherein in the power saving mode, voltages corresponding to highly significant bit signals of the image display data are applied as display data signals to the data electrodes.
US07701470B2
A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for combining raster image masks in a digital image. A first raster image mask may be generated that comprises a first set of one or more pixels having a first intermediate value for membership in the first raster image mask. A second raster image mask may be generated that comprises the first set of one or more pixels having a second intermediate value for membership in the second raster image mask. The first raster image mask and the second raster image mask may be combined to generate a third raster image mask, wherein a boundary of the third raster image mask is not greater than a combined boundary of the first raster image mask and the second raster image mask.
US07701465B2
It is desired to adopt gamut mapping using a color appearance space in the processing system of an ICC profile. Upon generating an LUT complying with the ICC profile format, when CIEL*a*b* values are converted into CIEXYZ values, and the XYZ values are converted into color appearance space values using color appearance conversion formulas, a point which can be converted and becomes a nearest neighboring point for a point that satisfies a predetermined condition is retrieved, and corresponding color appearance space values are calculated. The obtained color appearance space values are mapped on a predetermined device gamut.
US07701464B1
A computer implemented image editing tool and method for using the tool for color-selective editing of a digital image including multiple shapes with different color fills displayed on a display. The image editing tool includes a modified group color mixer which has a plurality of markers representing the colors of the plurality of shapes in the digital image. By dragging the markers, multiple shapes can be edited with the same group color mixer. The image editing tool also includes a color organizer which has swatches corresponding to the number of shapes and the color fills of shapes in the digital image. The swatches are positioned according to the positions of the corresponding shapes in the digital image for easy identification. Users can drag and drop swatches to swap colors between shapes, add new colors, discard colors, store colors for reference, edit multiple swatches simultaneously, and organize colors.
US07701462B2
A method and system for adjusting saturation in digital images that operates as closely as possible to the long-, medium-, short-(LMS) cone spectral response space. According to the method, a sensor component image such as an RGB image from a digital imager is input and converted to the LMS space. White point adaptation and equalization are performed on the LMS data. The saturation adjustment is then performed by applying a stretching transformation to the L and S LMS components with respect to the M component of each pixel.
US07701459B1
A graphics system has parallel processing units that do not share vertex information. The graphics system constructs independent batches of work for the parallel processing units in which each batch of work has a list of vertices for a set of primitives.
US07701446B2
A method and a computer program are described for developing a product (110), and services associated with the product, which product has at least one activation area (308) which is provided with a position code (403) that codes at least one position on an imaginary surface (601), which position causes a device (710) that detects the position code (403) to initiate an operation that utilizes information recorded by the device (710). A digital representation of at least part of the product comprising image points is produced, each image point in the digital representation of the activation area (308) corresponding to a position on the imaginary surface (601). A digital template that can be used for making the digital representation of the product is also described.
US07701445B2
A pair of through-holes 41a and 41b having the same shape are formed and aligned in a flexible board 4 on which a wiring pattern 42 is formed. A piezoelectric actuator 3 made of a piezoelectric bi-morph device is inserted into the first through-hole 41a and then into the second through-hole 41b from the opposite surface side. As a result, both the ends in the longitudinal direction of the piezoelectric actuator 3 contact the same surface of the flexible board 4. The flexible board 4 is disposed so that it contacts a touch sensor portion except for a part of the flexible board 4. Thus, a high performance force sense feedback function caused by the panel that deforms corresponding to an input operation can be accomplished at low cost.
US07701443B2
An ergonomic computer mouse is provided. The mouse has at least one signaling device that is positioned to accommodate a user's fingers when they are in a relaxed, nonextended state and the user's hand is resting on the mouse. The user may actuate a signaling device by exerting pressure on the signaling device in an upward direction, toward the rear of the mouse, or both. The mouse thus reduces fatigue on the user's hand and arm.
US07701442B2
An electronic device is provided that includes a user-interface feature, a detection mechanism and one or more internal components. The user-interface feature is configurable to have a selected orientation about one or more axes. The detection mechanism can detect orientation information about the electronic device. The one or more components may select the orientation of the user-interface feature based on the detected orientation information.
US07701441B2
The present invention is a system that creates a volumetric display and a user controllable volumetric pointer within the volumetric display. The user can point by aiming a beam which is vector, planar or tangent based, positioning a device in three-dimensions in association with the display, touching a digitizing surface of the display enclosure or otherwise inputting position coordinates. The cursor can take a number of different forms including a ray, a point, a volume and a plane. The ray can include a ring, a bead, a segmented wand, a cone and a cylinder. The user designates an input position and the system maps the input position to a 3D cursor position within the volumetric display. The system also determines whether any object has been designated by the cursor by determining whether the object is within a region of influence of the cursor. The system also performs any function activated in association with the designation.
US07701440B2
A display device having a puck, a display screen, and a controller is disclosed. The puck moves in a puck field of motion on a surface, the field of motion being divided into a pointing region and a function region. The controller determines a position of the puck within the field of motion. The display screen has first and second display modes, the display screen displaying a two-dimensional scene in the first display mode and a sub-scene of the two-dimensional scene in the second display mode. A cursor that moves within the sub-scene in a manner controlled by the puck position in the pointing region is displayed in the second mode. The controller causes the display scene to change between modes when the puck moves between regions. The sub-scene position moves in response to the position of the puck in the function region in the first display mode.
US07701434B2
A method is set forth for automatically adjusting screen and keypad brightness on a mobile electronic device having a light sensor, display screen and keypad, for optimum legibility under varying lighting conditions, with minimal eye strain and distraction to the user. The method includes obtaining light level samples from the light sensor, and independently adjusting backlight intensity of the display screen and keypad responsive to the light level samples. Preferably, correct screen and keypad adjustments are made responsive to the user pulling his or her handheld device out of its holster notwithstanding non-optimal ambient light detection while the device is being removed from the holster. According to another aspect, the described method allows for ambient light detection in a handheld device where the light sensor and a message notification indicator share a common light pipe.
US07701415B2
The object is to provide a display device in which high-quality image display that is free from luminance nonuniformity can be obtained with a simplified structure.A magnitude of load corresponding to the light emission state of each pixel cell on a display line is measured for each display line based on a video signal, and correction of the luminance level according to the magnitude of load corresponding to the display line is conducted for the interval of the video signal corresponding to each display line.
US07701410B2
A dual-mode antenna device (20) includes a wireless module (207) and a second wireless module (208) transceiving signals of a first wireless network signal and a second wireless network. A first antenna (201) and a second antenna (202) transceive the signals, respectively. A first switch (203) is connected to the first antenna and a second switch (204) is connected to the second antenna. A third switch (205) is connected to the first switch, the second switch and the first wireless network module. A fourth switch (206) is connected to the first switch, the third switch and the second wireless network module. The first, third, and fourth switches collaboratively select the first antenna to transmit the wireless network signals. The second, third, and fourth switches collaboratively select the second antenna to transmit the wireless network signals.
US07701408B2
A document which includes a cover, one or more internal pages, a radiofrequency microcontroller, an antenna electrically connected to the radiofrequency microcontroller, an electromagnetic shield capable of partially disrupting wireless communication with the radiofrequency microcontroller when the document is closed, and not disrupting the wireless communication when the document is opened is described. The electromagnetic shield included in the document is implemented using metal, conductive plastic, conductive ink or magnetic ink.
US07701407B2
A slot antenna apparatus includes a grounding conductor having an outer edge including a first portion facing a radiation direction and a second portion other than the first portion, a one-end-open feed slot formed in the grounding conductor along the radiation direction such that an open end is provided at a center of the first portion, and a feed line including a strip conductor close to the grounding conductor and intersecting with the feed slot at at least a part thereof to feed a radio frequency signal to the feed slot. The slot antenna apparatus further comprises at least one one-end-open parasitic slot having an electrical length equivalent to one-quarter effective wavelength in a certain stop band, the parasitic slot having an open end at the second portion, and being formed in the grounding conductor so as not to intersect with the feed line.
US07701399B2
The chip antenna shown is provided with two chip antenna elements (the 1st chip antenna element 4, the 2nd chip antenna element 2). These chip antenna elements have the 1st magnetic base 10 and the 2nd magnetic base 8, and linear conductors 7 and 5 formed in the core, respectively. Magnetic base 10 and magnetic base 8 are separated. In the 1st chip antenna element 4, linear conductor 7 formed in the core of the 1st magnetic base 10 was formed to the end face of this magnetic base, and the end has protruded from said end face. On the other hand, in the 2nd chip antenna element 2, linear conductor 5 formed in the core of the 2nd magnetic base 8 has penetrated magnetic base 8. Furthermore, conductor 7 in the 1st chip antenna element and conductor 5 in the 2nd chip antenna element are electrically connected mutually in series by connection conductors 13 arranged among these chip antenna elements.
US07701397B2
The present invention provides a wireless communication apparatus that can maintain good and stable antenna characteristics, regardless of the change in the profile of the cabinet and that of the antenna element. The wireless communication apparatus includes a profile changeable cabinet adapted to changes its profile at least from a first cabinet profile to a second cabinet profile and vice versa and equipped with an antenna element, an antenna characteristics switching circuit section for selecting, in the profile changeable cabinet, the predetermined first antenna characteristic values specified for the first cabinet profile or the predetermined second antenna characteristic values specified for the second cabinet profile, and a cabinet profile detection unit that detects the change, if any, in the profile of the profile changeable cabinet from the first cabinet profile to the second cabinet profile or the other way round and outputting a detection signal for driving the antenna characteristics switching circuit section, the antenna characteristics switching circuit section being adapted to switch from the first antenna characteristic values to the second antenna characteristic values or the other way round according to the detection signal from the cabinet profile detecting unit in response to a change in the profile of the profile changeable cabinet.
US07701390B2
A time adjustment device having a reception unit that receives a satellite signal transmitted from a positioning information satellite; a time information generating unit that generates time information; a generated time information storage unit that stores the time information generated by the time information generating unit as generated time information; and a starting information generating unit that generates information before the beginning of a specific unit of the satellite signal that is transmitted in specific units from the positioning information satellite as before-starting information based on the generated time information. The reception unit has a starting unit that starts searching for the positioning information satellite at a predetermined timing based on the before-starting information, and a stopping unit that detects the specific unit of the satellite signal and stops searching for the positioning information satellite. The generated time information is corrected at the timing when the reception unit stops.
US07701388B2
A positioning method using global positioning system (GPS) signal and digital broadcasting system (DBS) signal. The method includes detecting a presence status of the GPS signal through a signal detector in a receiver, detecting a presence status of the DBS signal through the signal detector, determining the signal strength of the GPS signal if the GPS signal is detected, determining the signal strength of the DBS signal if the DBS signal is detected, choosing one positioning mode among a plurality of positioning modes in a signal processing unit in the receiver based on signal presence status and the signal strength of a detected signal, and determining a location of the receiver based on the chosen positioning mode. The plurality of positioning modes includes stand-alone GPS mode, assisted GPS (AGPS) mode, assisted GPS positioning with DBS assist mode, DBS positioning with GPS assist mode, stand-alone DBS mode, and assist DBS mode.
US07701387B2
For supporting a satellite based positioning of a mobile arrangement (30,40) with assistance data, a communication network converts parameters of a dedicated orbit model describing a movement of a satellite (50,60), which dedicated orbit model is defined for a particular satellite based positioning system, into parameters of a common orbit model describing a movement of a satellite (50,60). Alternatively or in addition, the network replaces a reference value that is based on a satellite based positioning system time in available parameters of an orbit model by a reference value that is based on a communication system time. After the parameter conversion and/or the reference value replacement, the parameters are provided as a part of assistance data for the satellite based positioning. Alternatively or in addition, a set of data is transmitted in one direction between the mobile arrangement and the communication network, which is independent of the employed positioning mode.
US07701385B2
A radar level gauging system for determining a filling level of a product contained in a tank by transmitting and receiving microwave signals over at least two functionally independent channels. Each channel has an electronics unit with transceiver circuitry arranged on a printed circuit board and processing circuitry connected to the transceiver circuitry for determining the filling level based on a relation between transmitted signals and received signals, and each electronics unit is electronically and galvanically separated from other electronics units. The system further comprises a single antenna for emitting microwave signals into the tank, and a hollow waveguide for guiding microwave signals between each transceiver circuitry and the antenna. Each electronics unit further comprises feeding circuitry arranged on the printed circuit board, the feeding circuitry comprising at least one feeding probe protruding into the waveguide for feeding the microwave signals into the waveguide.The present invention enables a very simple, cost-effective and reliable feeding for each channel.
US07701377B1
A current steering circuit includes a multitude of current stages each including an associated current source transistor, and first and second cascode transistors coupled in series with the associated current source transistor. The first and second cascode transistors respectively receive first and second reference voltages and are biased such that a voltage appearing across any terminal pairs of the transistors is less than a predefined value. Each current stage includes a first switch supplying the current flowing through the transistors to a first resistive load in response to a control signal, and a second switch supplying the current to a second resistive load in response to a complement of the control signal. An amplifier responsive to an analog multiplexer's output provides a biasing voltage to each of the current stages. The analog multiplexer supplies a different output voltage in response to different counts of a counter.
US07701375B1
An encoder for encoding comparator outputs of a bank of 2**N−1 comparators into an N bit binary code is provided. The comparator outputs have redundancy so that if comparator output Cw is a binary zero, then each comparator output numbered Cx wherein x is greater than w, is binary zero, and if comparator output Cy is binary one, then each comparator output numbered Cz wherein z is less than y, is binary one. The encoder for encoding an Mth bit of the N bit binary code includes N−M+1 levels of current steering switches. The Lth level has 2**(L−1) current steering switches each connected to a current steering switch in an (L−1)th level, except when the Lth level is 1. The comparator outputs are connected to the current steering switches.
US07701371B2
Techniques for performing automatic gain control are described. In some aspects, the gain control is achieved with an apparatus having an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a digital variable gain amplifier (DVGA), the DVGA configured to receive a digital signal from the ADC, the DVGA having a processor configured to compute a gain using a base n logarithm based on the power of the digital signal output from the ADC, the processor being further configured to apply the gain to the digital signal.
US07701360B1
There is disclosed systems and methods for controlling communication of navigation positioning information from a source of said information to another device for tracking purposes. In one embodiment, a user having a communicating device that maintains a record of its present location establishes a communication link to one or more selected targets and then grants permission to his/her device to continually send updates of his/her device's position to said selected other devices. These updated communications can be on a data channel of a voice communication device if desired. In one embodiment, said receiving device can deliver said coordinates (translated into street locations if desired) in an audio fashion, or said receiving device can visually display (perhaps on a grid overlay) said position of said sending device or environmental data from said sending device.
US07701350B2
The RFID tag is composed of the first antenna of metal film layer on which the IC chip is mounted and at least one second antenna of metal film layer on which the IC chip is not mounted The metal film layer is formed on the base, and the metal film layer is formed on the base. The metal film layer partially overlaps the metal film layer with the base interposed between them, so that the first antenna and the second antenna are capacitively coupled to each other.
US07701348B2
An apparatus for emulating multiple RFID tags in a supply chain/logistics network, comprising: an RFID transceiver for receiving an RF command from an interrogator, a controller for converting the received RF command into a digitized message, an RFID emulation unit for retrieving or storing identification data with respect to the multiple differing RFID tags, wherein the RFID emulation unit retrieves or stores identification data in one or more ID repositories with respect to one or more product RFID tags, one or more case RFID tags and a pallet RFID tag and the controller responding to the interrogator with a single ID retrieved from the one or more ID repositories contain information as to the one or more product RFID tags, one or more case RFID tags and a pallet RFID tag, wherein the RFID emulation unit retrieves or stores the identification data on a remote server over the Internet or locally in non-volatile memory of each apparatus. In addition, the apparatus can contain a housing, a handle and a display screen and an input device to allow a user at any point in the supply chain/logistic network to quickly determine information on the products, cases or pallet.
US07701347B2
An asset, object, person or animal monitoring system and associated method for monitoring assets, objects, people or animals utilizing impulse radio techniques. The asset, object, person or animal monitoring system of the present invention can vary the duty cycles of the impulse radio transmitters, by both manual and automatic means, to adapt to varied requirements.
US07701337B2
A hybrid-technology metal detector, using pulse-induction and sine-wave excitation of the transmitter coil alternately, in rapid succession.The energy stored in the transmitter coil, in the pulsed mode, is used to shock-excite a high-Q circuit formed by the coil and a parallel capacitor into oscillations in the sine-wave mode.The multiplicative action of the circuit Q causes high currents to flow in the transmitter coil, causing high fluxes to be impressed on the searched area, with increased sensitivity as a result.Using a linear coil-current ramp to assess and minimize the coupling between the transmitter and receiver coils permits effective separation of the reactive and resistive components of the target signals, making accurate identification of targets possible.
US07701330B2
The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in implementing security systems. Some embodiments provide methods that receive a remote alarm message broadcast across an external power line communication (PLC) network at a first internal PLC security system coupled with the external PLC network from a remote second internal PLC security system coupled with the external PLC network with the remote alarm message comprising an alarm identifier of a local alarm message from the remote second internal PLC security system, and trigger a local alert at the first internal PLC security system indicating that the remote alarm message has been received across the external PLC network.
US07701327B2
A wireless display panel for an electronic system includes a plurality of light status indicators. Each light status indicator includes a first chamber attached to the wireless display panel and having an excitable gas inside an end of thereof and a second chamber attached to a surface of the electronic system. The first and second chambers being formed of conducting material and corresponding to each other, connecting with each other to form a sealed enclosure when the wireless display panel is connected with the electronic system. Each light status indicator also includes a generator attached to the surface of the electronic system and surrounded by the second chamber, outputting alternating current (AC) power inside the sealed enclosure for wirelessly transmitting AC current to excite the excitable gas, as determined by the electronic system.
US07701319B2
An inductor element comprises: a ceramic base member; and a coil composed of a conductor having a shape complementary to the ceramic base member. In the inductor element, a prescribed plural number of steps are formed on at least an inner wall surface of the ceramic base member facing to the coil in one direction.
US07701314B2
A solenoid assembly (23) includes a coil assembly (65) having at least one coil winding (73) and an electronic circuit assembly (67), which is in electrical communication with the coil assembly (65). The electronic circuit assembly (67) has a printed circuit board (79) and at least one electronic component (81), which is surface mounted on the printed circuit board (79). A coating material (85) coats all of the plurality of external surfaces of the surface-mounted electronic component (81). A casing (87) over-molds an outer longitudinal surface (77) of the coil assembly (65) and all of a plurality of external surfaces of the electronic circuit assembly (67).
US07701312B2
An integrated device is constructed by integrating an FBAR and a tunable capacitor. The integrated device includes a substrate; a resonator formed on the substrate; a driving electrode layer formed on the substrate apart from the resonator; a first electrode layer formed upwardly apart from the substrate and facing the resonator; and a second electrode layer formed upwardly apart from the substrate and facing the driving electrode layer, the second electrode layer stepped from the first electrode layer. Accordingly, the integrated device can increase the tuning range and mitigate the parasitic resistance.
US07701302B2
An atomic frequency acquisition apparatus includes: a cell enclosing atomic gas therein; a laser light source that oscillates a laser light that enters the cell and excites the atomic gas; and a photodetecting section that detects the laser light that has passed through the cell, wherein the cell has at least a laser light reflection section inside thereof.
US07701299B2
A low phase noise PLL synthesizer is described in which an initial tuning mechanism uses a conventional divider loop to lock a VCO to a desired output frequency. Once initial lock is achieved, the divider loop is switched out of the circuit in favor of a low phase noise mixer loop. The local oscillator signal for the mixer is derived from the same low phase noise source as the phase comparison frequency.
US07701295B2
A high efficiency class-AB amplifier is disclosed. The amplifier comprises a first input stage and a second input stage, both coupled to a class-AB biasing mesh and an output stage, wherein the outputs of the first and second input stages are directly coupled to the output transistors in the output stage. In one embodiment, a first gate of the first input stage and of the second input stage are coupled together to receive the same input and a second gate of the first input stage and of the second input stage are coupled together to receive the same input. In another embodiment, the first input stage and second input stage may further comprise cascode transistors for coupling the two input stages to the class-AB biasing mesh. In yet another embodiment, a 3V supply is used and 1V transistors are used to improve gain and 3V transistors are used to protect the 1V transistors.
US07701294B1
An audio amplifier with a negative DC/DC converter is provided. The audio amplifier receives VDD and VEE as power supply signals. The negative DC/DC converter is arranged to provide VEE from VDD, such that VEE is a negative voltage that is lower in magnitude than VDD. Accordingly, the power loss can be minimal with lower Vee, even though the audio power is increased. The audio amplifier further receives an audio input signal, and a reference voltage that is the arithmetic mean of VDD and VEE.
US07701283B2
A power amplifier with noise shaping is disclosed. The power amplifier with noise shaping is able to minimize the noise interference a regular power amplifier encounters. The power amplifier includes a differential-mode integrator, a driving unit, and a low pass filter and integration unit. The differential-mode integrator receives a differential-mode input signal and a differential-mode feedback signal and performs integration operations to output a differential-mode intermediate signal. The driving unit outputs a differential-mode output signal and drives a load according to the differential-mode intermediate signal. The low pass filter and integration unit performs a filtering operation on the differential-mode output signal and integration operations to output the differential-mode feedback signal to the differential-mode integrator.
US07701272B2
A circuit, delay-locked loop, memory device, system and method of synchronizing a clock are described. A circuit generally includes a delay line configured to delay an external clock signal to produce a substantially in-phase output clock signal, a main loop configured to control delay through the delay line, and a secondary loop configured to adjust delay through the main loop. The clock synchronization method generally includes adjusting a delay along a delay line in response to a first phase difference between an input clock to the delay line and a shared clock signal delayed by a shared dynamic I/O model of an output driver. The method further includes adjusting the shared dynamic I/O model in response to a second phase difference between an output clock signal and the shared clock signal.
US07701255B2
A system for automatically transforming a given synchronous circuit description into an equivalent and provably correct desynchronized circuit description. Included in the automated transformation are techniques for synthesizing a variability-aware controller using a two-phase protocol, techniques for synthesizing a variability-aware controller using gated clocks and testability circuits, techniques for synthesizing a variability-aware controller optimized for performance, techniques for initializing the synthesized controller, techniques for dynamically minimizing power requirements, and techniques for interfacing the desynchronized circuit with external synchronous circuits. Also disclosed are techniques for implementing a system for automatically transforming a synchronous circuit description into an equivalent and provably correct desynchronized circuit description within the context of an electronic design automation design flow. Exemplary circuits used in the application of the aforementioned techniques are provided. Application of mathematical models and techniques used for proving equivalence between the input description and the resulting desynchronized circuit are presented and explained.
US07701254B2
The present disclosure involves reconfigurable circuits that include an asynchronous data path with asynchronous control and at least one logic element coupled with the asynchronous data path that allows the circuit to be configured to more than one logical implementation through data and control token. In one particular example, the asynchronous data path with asynchronous control includes an interconnection of memory elements, such as latches, with each memory element including a corresponding asynchronous control element, such as a GasP element. One or more logical elements are coupled at one or more points of the data path, such coupling may involve feed-back, feed-forward, or combinations of both, and may include external data connections. Through distribution of data items and control tokens to the asynchronous data path with asynchronous control, the fixed logical coupling to the data path may be reconfigured to provide various logical arrangements.
US07701251B1
Methods and apparatus for implementing a stacked memory-programmable integrated circuit system-in-package are described. An aspect of the invention relates to a semiconductor device. A first integrated circuit (IC) die is provided having an array of tiles that form a programmable fabric of a programmable integrated circuit. A second IC die is stacked on the first IC die and connected therewith via inter-die connections. The second IC die includes banks of memory coupled to input/output (IO) data pins. The inter-die connections couple the IO data pins to the programmable fabric such that all of the banks of memory are accessible in parallel.
US07701242B2
An electronic circuit to determine current-voltage characteristics of a plurality of electronic devices under test. The electronic circuit is comprised of a plurality of individual test cells, each of the plurality of test cells is configured to electrically couple to a first terminal of one of the plurality of electronic devices under test and to a first current source. A second terminal of each of the plurality of electronic devices under test couples to a second current source. The circuit employs a current-based measurement method.
US07701239B2
A detection circuit includes: a control signal updating circuit configured to update a digital control signal for controlling drive of a sensor based on a clock having a predetermined frequency; a digital to analog converter configured to convert the digital control signal output from the control signal updating circuit to an analog control signal for driving the sensor; a comparator configured to compare a voltage level of a detection signal from the sensor which changes depending on the analog control signal with a reference voltage having a predetermined voltage level to output a comparison result signal; and a counter configured to count to measure a time period depending on the detection signal based on the comparison result signal output from the comparator and a clock having a predetermined frequency.
US07701228B2
According to some embodiments, motor-tuned nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probes may be tuned manually without overcoming the tuning motor holding force. An NMR probe includes a switchable manual-mode/motor-driven mode capacitance-adjustment assembly for adjusting the capacitance of a variable capacitor connected to an NMR RF coil. The capacitance-adjustment assembly includes a tuning shaft coupled to the variable capacitor through a gear assembly, and a mode-switching coupler coupled to the tuning shaft. The mode-switching coupler includes a first terminal coupled to a piezoelectric motor, and a second terminal coupled to the tuning shaft. In the manual mode, a user pushes up the tuning shaft, decoupling the two terminals of the mode-switching coupler and thus decoupling the motor from the tuning shaft. The user then manually rotates the tuning shaft. In the motor-driven mode, a spring tensioner presses the two terminals of the mode-switching coupler together, coupling the motor to the tuning shaft.
US07701221B2
A device for environment detection having a first magnetic alternating field is situated in a vehicle. The device detects the at least one object in the environment of the vehicle by a second magnetic alternating field which is produced in the object as a function of the first magnetic alternating field.
US07701205B2
A method for non-contact measurement of a dimension and/or an electrical property in an electrically conducting object to be measured by using electromagnetic induction. An electromagnetic field is brought to penetrate through the object to be measured. A transmitter coil is place on one side of the object to be measured. A receiver coil is placed on the other side of the object to be measured. A magnetic field is generated in the transmitter coil. A sudden change is generated in the magnetic field generated in the transmitter coil from one level to another. The voltage induced in the receiver coil is detected. The period of time that elapses from the time of the change of the magnetic field in the transmitter coil up to the time when a voltage starts to be induced in the receiver coil is determined. The magnitude of the induced voltage is determined. The thickness and/or electrical conductivity of the object to be measured is calculated.
US07701202B2
Tactile Sensor. The sensor includes a compliant convex surface disposed above a sensor array, the sensor array adapted to respond to deformation of the convex surface to generate a signal related to an applied force vector. The applied force vector has three components to establish the direction and magnitude of an applied force. The compliant convex surface defines a dome with a hollow interior and has a linear relation between displacement and load including a magnet disposed substantially at the center of the dome above a sensor array that responds to magnetic field intensity.
US07701197B2
An electrical current sensing assembly comprises: a conductive input substrate with a generally planar contact surface; a conductive output substrate with a generally planar contact surface proximate and substantially parallel to the input substrate contact surface; a conductive current sense path extending from the input substrate contact surface to the output substrate contact surface with a sense path cross sectional area generally normal to electrical current flow; a conductive current bypass path extending from the input substrate contact surface to the output substrate contact surface with a bypass path cross sectional area generally normal to electrical current flow; and an electrical current sensing device proximate the current sense path for sensing electrical current passing through the current sense path; wherein the ratio of the current passing through the bypass path to the current passing through the sense path is proportional to the ratio of the bypass path cross sectional area to the sensing path cross sectional area to limit current in the sensing path to the measurement range of the current sensing device.
US07701193B2
A pulse height analyzer for determination of the pulse height distribution of electronic pulses includes a set of comparators with a common input for analogue to digital conversion of the electronic pulses, a set of latches wherein the inputs of the latches are connected to the outputs of respective comparators for recording passage of the corresponding threshold voltages by the rising edge of a pulse, a priority encoder connected to the latch outputs for determination of a pulse height category consisting of pulses with a pulse height within a pulse height interval defined by respective threshold voltages, and a micro controller that is adapted to count the number of pulses within each pulse height category.
US07701181B2
A LDO and a switching regulator are connected in parallel with each other. The power supply device selects and actuates either of the LDO or the switching regulator in accordance with a switching signal from the outside. When making the switch from the LDO to the switching regulator so as to be actuated, the power supply device causes operation periods of the LDO and the switching regulator to overlap each other. At least during the period in which the operation periods overlap each other, the power supply device makes current drive performance of a synchronous rectification transistor of the switching regulator lower and makes the same return to a normal state after the LDO stops its operation.
US07701178B2
A circuit for controlling charging includes a transistor provided on a charging path between a position of a charging terminal and a position of a battery, an input voltage detecting circuit configured to detect a potential of a point on the charging path coupled to the charging terminal's side of the transistor, and a drive circuit configured to control an ON resistance of the transistor between a conductive state and a nonconductive state in response to the potential detected by the input voltage detecting circuit.
US07701177B2
A battery pre-charging circuit includes a pre-charging path, a pre-charging switch and a low-voltage pre-charging circuit. The pre-charging path is coupled between a charger and a battery for providing a pre-charging current from the charger to the battery. The pre-charging switch is coupled to the pre-charging path for conducting along the pre-charging path. The low-voltage pre-charging circuit is coupled to the pre-charging switch for controlling the pre-charging switch. The low-voltage pre-charging circuit is configured to switch on the pre-charging switch when the battery voltage is below a first battery voltage level.
US07701172B2
A power tool may include a housing that supports an electrical circuit. The electrical circuit may include at least two terminal sets that are arranged in parallel to each other. The at least two terminal sets may include a first terminal set configured for engagement along a first axis to a battery pack having a first configuration and a second terminal set configured for engagement along a second axis to a battery pack having a second, different configuration. A battery charger may include a housing, and an interface that is electrically and mechanically compatible with at least two battery packs having different configurations and battery cell chemistries.
US07701168B2
A device may include a first connector configured to connect to a portable device and a second connector configured to connect to a power source. The device may also include circuitry configured to provide a first charging current to the portable device via the first connector when the second connector is connected to a power adapter coupled to a power outlet and provide a second charging current to the portable device via the first connector when the second connector is connected to a universal serial bus port of a host device.
US07701153B2
A lamp includes an arc tube and a lighting unit for lighting the arc tube. The lighting unit includes a rectifier circuit, a smoothing circuit for partial smoothing, and an inverter circuit having a pair of switching elements. The smoothing circuit smoothes portions of the output voltage of the rectifier circuit below the first voltage value and outputs a voltage that falls between the first voltage value and the second voltage value. The discharge sustaining voltage of the arc tube is set to fall between the first and second values of the voltage Vdc output from the smoothing circuit.
US07701149B2
Multiphase voltage sources are used in driving an AC_LED; different light timing is achieved by changing the relative phase or frequency of the voltage sources. Different light color mixing is also achieved when more than one AC_LED with different colors are combined to use.
US07701148B2
A circuit arrangement and associated method for splitting current in a predetermined ratio between N sub-circuits, comprising means for splitting current at one end of a each sub-circuit and at least one device at the other end of each sub-circuit adapted to become forward biased and acts as a short to ground.
US07701144B2
A vehicular lamp includes a lamp body; a plurality of LED light sources disposed inside a lamp chamber formed by a front cover positioned in front of the lamp body; and a lighting circuit portion positioned behind the LED light sources. The LED light source is electrically connected to a conductive bus bar, and forms a light-emitting surface at a position opposite the front cover. The lighting circuit portion is formed on the back side of the light-emitting surface of the LED light source with respect to the front cover, and a circuit element thereof is electrically connected to the conductive bus bar. The conductive bus bar to which the LED light source is connected and the conductive bus bar to which the circuit element is connected are conductively connected.
US07701143B2
A plasma lamp for an electrodeless plasma lamp having a compact dielectric waveguide body. Example embodiments may use a shaped body to allow operation at a lower frequency (or at the same frequency with a body of smaller volume) than a solid cylindrical or rectangular waveguide body having the same dielectric constant. The diagonal or diameter of a cross section used for a particular frequency or range of frequencies may be reduced by shaping the waveguide.
US07701142B2
An arc tube assembly (10) for a protected high intensity discharge lamp. The assembly has a ceramic arc tube (12) with a short shroud (20) surrounding at least the arc chamber (14) of the arc tube. The short shroud (20) allows the frit seal areas (46) of the arc tube capillaries (18) to project beyond the shroud (20) and thereby operate at a lower temperature, thus increasing lamp life.
US07701140B2
The invention relates to a high-pressure discharge lamp with an outer envelope (1) in which a discharge vessel (11) is arranged around a longitudinal axis (22). The discharge vessel encloses, in a gastight manner, a discharge space (13) provided with an ionizable filling. The discharge vessel has a first (2) and a second (3) mutually opposed neck-shaped portion through which a first (4) and a second (5) current-supply conductor, respectively, extend to a pair of electrodes (6, 7) arranged in the discharge space (13). The outer envelope (1) has a bulb-shaped portion (2) adjacent the discharge space with a wall thickness d1. The remainder of the outer envelope has a wall thickness d2. The ratio of d1 and d2 is in the range: Formula (I). Preferably, Formula (II), the bulb-shaped portion is formed in a mold. A simplified and compact high-pressure discharge lamp is provided by the invention.
US07701138B2
An information acquisition method for acquiring information on a target object, that includes a step of promoting ionization of the target object using a substance for promoting ionization of the target object to cause the target object to emit, and a step of acquiring information on the mass of the flew target object using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry.
US07701134B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an EL display device having a high operation performance and reliability.The switching TFT 201 formed within a pixel has a multi-gate structure, which is a structure which imposes an importance on reduction of OFF current value. Further, the current control TFT 202 has a channel width wider than that of the switching TFT to make a structure appropriate for flowing electric current. Morever, the LDD region 33 of the current control TFT 202 is formed so as to overlap a portion of the gate electrode 35 to make a structure which imposes importance on prevention of hot carrier injection and reduction of OFF current value.
US07701133B2
The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent display device and a method of repairing a defective pixel of an organic electroluminescent display device which can realize the repairing a defective pixel to a light emitting pixel by electrically separating a leak portion which generates a defective pixel. To be more specific, a peeling suppression layer is formed between an anode and an organic light emitting layer formed on a main substrate, and a cavity is formed between the main substrate and the peeling suppression layer due to the evaporation generated by an absorption of laser beams thus electrically separating a defective portion so as to repair a black-dot defective pixel to form a light emitting pixel.
US07701129B2
A polymeric fluorescent substance exhibiting fluorescence in the solid state, having a polystyrene reduced number-average molecular weight of 1×103 to 1×108, and comprising one or more repeating units of formula (1) and one or more repeating units of formula (8), —Ar1—(CR1═CR2)n— (1) —Ar2—(CR36═CR37)n— (8) wherein Ar1 represents a specific arylene or a divalent heterocyclic compound group, and Ar2 represent an arylene or a divalent heterocyclic compound group other than Ar1. By using the polymeric fluorescent substance, a high performance polymer LED can easily be obtained.
US07701128B2
A planar light unit provided with field emitters and a method for fabricating the same. According to the present invention, the planar light unit has a first substrate, a plurality of first conductive strips, a plurality of second conductive strips, a plurality of field emitters, a second substrate and a fluorescent film. The plurality of first conductive strips are formed over the first substrate, and the plurality of second conductive strips are formed over the first substrate and interposed inbetween the plurality of first conductive strips. The plurality of field emitters are formed in proximity of the plurality of first conductive strips. The second substrate is provided to be attached to and spaced apart from the first substrate to form a chamber therebetween, whereas a fluorescent film is formed over the interior surface of the second substrate facing the plurality of field emitters.
US07701126B2
A field emission display includes: a substrate (11); cathode electrodes (21) formed on the substrate; a plurality of emitters formed on the cathode electrodes; a barrier array (41) defining a plurality of openings (42) therethrough according to a pixel pattern, the barrier array comprising a shadow mask with an insulative layer (43) formed thereon, the barrier array being fixed to the substrate; gate electrodes (51) formed on the barrier array; and a phosphor screen (70) spaced from the substrate. This field emission display employs the known technology for making a shadow mask in the field of CRTs. In addition, the thickness and the material of the insulative layer can be determined according to the insulative performance required for the field emission display. In summary, the present invention provides a field emission display having a high precision, and low production cost barrier array.
US07701118B2
An ultrasonic flow rate measuring device for measuring the flow rate through a line through which a medium flows has at least one ultrasonic transducer that has a piezo element and a connecting element designed for attaching the ultrasonic transducer to the line with the piezo element attached to the connecting element. An intermediate layer including a plate is disposed between the piezo element and the connecting element that is electrically conductive and attachable to an electromagnetic shield. Thus, an ultrasonic flow rate measuring device that delivers a greater signal-to-noise ratio is achieved.
US07701115B2
A drive unit includes a control unit for controlling an ultrasonic actuator. The control unit performs switching between a normal operation mode in which the piezoelectric element unit vibrates at a frequency close to a resonance frequency of longitudinal vibration in the lengthwise direction of the piezoelectric element unit and a resonance frequency of bending vibration to let the ultrasonic actuator output a driving force and a heating mode in which the piezoelectric element unit vibrates at a frequency close to a resonance frequency of longitudinal vibration in the thickness direction of the piezoelectric element unit to heat the piezoelectric element.
US07701112B2
An apparatus to control displacement of a body spaced-apart from a surface includes a flexure system having a first flexure member defining a first axis of rotation and a second flexure member defining a second axis of rotation. A body is coupled to the flexure system to move about a plurality of axes. An actuation system is coupled to the flexure system to selectively constrain movement of the body along a subset of the plurality of axes.
US07701108B2
A collector ring unit includes a base, and a plurality of insulated spacer rings sleeved onto the base respectively and each having a ring body, a plurality of through holes through the ring body, and a notch formed on the ring body. A plurality of conductive slip rings are respectively sleeved onto the ring bodies of the insulated spacer rings and each have a socket. A plurality of conductive trips each have one end inserted into the socket of one conductive slip ring and received in the notch of one insulated spacer ring, and the other end passing through the through holes of the other insulated spacer rings and protruded out of the outermost insulated spacer ring. By means of addition or reduction of the numbers of the spacer rings, slip rings and conductive strips, the dimension of the collector ring unit of the invention can be changed.
US07701107B2
Included are a rotor, and a stator having a yoke section and a teeth section including multiple teeth. The teeth section and the yoke section are made of mutually independent configuration members, and connected to each other. At least one of the teeth section and the yoke section is formed by connecting each neighboring two of its multiple segments arranged one after another in a direction in which the rotor rotates. At least some neighboring teeth out of the multiple teeth are unified.
US07701092B1
A connector module includes a jack socket capable of receiving a communication link. The connector module also includes magnetics coupled to the jack socket for supplying power to a peripheral device coupled to the link through the jack socket. The connector module further includes Power-over-Ethernet management logic for controlling the supplying of power to the peripheral device by providing a voltage to the magnetics. In addition, the connector module includes at least one voltage isolator for isolating the voltage used by the Power-over-Ethernet management logic from at least one digitally-referenced voltage.
US07701079B2
Disclosed herein are a variety of different electrical system topologies intended to mitigate the impact of large intermittent loads on a 12 volt vehicle power distribution system. In some embodiments the intermittent load is disconnected from the remainder of the system and the voltage supplied to this load is allowed to fluctuate. In other embodiments, the voltage to critical loads is regulated independently of the voltage supplied to the remainder of the system. The different topologies described can be grouped into three categories, each corresponding to a different solution technique. One approach is to regulate the voltage to the critical loads. A second approach is to isolate the intermittent load that causes the drop in system voltage. The third approach is to use a different type of alternator that has a faster response than the conventional Lundell wound field machine.
US07701073B2
The invention discloses integrated circuits (ICs), molded IC packages, and to leadframe arrays, package arrays and methods for their manufacture. Leadframe arrays and package arrays used for the manufacture of IC packages by transfer molding processes include a locking feature adapted for encapsulation. The locking feature is situated in a strap of the leadframe array overlying a gate between mold cavities. The strap lock formed by curing encapsulant in the locking feature of the strap strengthens the resulting package array and provides improved mold extraction and handling characteristics.
US07701072B2
The semiconductor device according to an aspect of the invention includes: an internal circuit area having an internal circuit; an I/O circuit area positioned outside the internal circuit area; and an electrode pad placed across an outer edge of the I/O circuit area. In the electrode pad, an area outside the outer edge of the I/O circuit area is a bonding area, and an area inside the outer edge is a probe area.
US07701067B2
In an apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip electronically and mechanically mounted on a tape-automated bonding tape, a resin potting unit is adapted to pot thermosetting resin into a gap between the semiconductor chip and the tape-automated bonding tape while the semiconductor chip and the tape-automated bonding tape are heated.
US07701065B2
A device, including a semiconductor chip having a plurality of first electrodes is disclosed. A plurality of second electrodes is arranged on a first surface of the semiconductor chip. A first electrically conductive layer is applied over a first section of the first surface and electrically coupled to the first electrodes arranged within the first section. A second electrically conductive layer is applied over the first electrically conductive layer and electrically coupled to the second electrodes arranged within the first section.
US07701053B2
An electronic component has a portion adjacent to a surface of a base to which elements are mounted is immersed into a liquid resin or semi-solid resin such that an element surface of the base to which the elements are mounted is not immersed and in which the resin is then hardened. This causes a gap to be disposed between the hardened resin and the element surface of the base, such that a cover supported by some of the elements is formed.
US07701051B2
A power semiconductor module (1) has power semiconductor components (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12) arranged on a substrate (14), at least one portion of which components is connected in parallel and arranged symmetrically on the substrate (14). A second conduction plane (24, 26) is provided for making contact with the power semiconductor components (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12). The second conduction plane is arranged in a manner electrically insulated from the substrate surface (16) above the surfaces of the power semiconductor components (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12) that are remote from the substrate surface (16).
US07701048B2
A power module with low thermal resistance buffers the stress put on a substrate during a package molding operation to virtually always prevent a fault in the substrate of the module. The power module includes a substrate, a conductive adhesive layer formed on the substrate, a device layer comprising a support tab, a power device, and a passive device which are formed on the conductive adhesive layer, and a sealing material hermetically sealing the device layer. The support tab is buffers the stress applied by a support pin to the substrate, thereby virtually always preventing a ceramic layer included in the substrate from cracking or breaking. As a result, a reduction in the isolation breakdown voltage of the substrate is virtually always prevented and the failure of the entire power module is do to a reduction in the breakdown voltage of the substrate is virtually always prevented.
US07701044B2
A chip package for an image sensor includes a first semiconductor chip having a first surface where a photographing device and a first circuit pattern are formed and a second surface that is opposite to the first surface where a second circuit pattern is formed. The first and second circuit patterns are electrically connected. The chip package further includes a second semiconductor chip attached to a second circuit pattern on the second surface of the first semiconductor chip. A printed circuit board faces the second surface of the first semiconductor chip and transfers an electric signal between the first and second semiconductor chips and externally. A housing accommodates the first and second semiconductor chips. The housing allows light to pass through to the photographing device.
US07701040B2
A wafer level semiconductor package has a substrate and an RF module and baseband module coupled to the substrate with solder bumps. An underfill material is disposed under the RF module and baseband module. A first shielding layer is applied to a first surface of the substrate. A seed layer is deposited on the substrate and RF module and baseband module. A second shielding layer is plated over the seed layer, except over the contact pads on the substrate. The second shielding layer can be made from copper, gold, nickel, or aluminum. The first and second shielding layers substantially cover the wafer level semiconductor package to isolate the baseband module from electromagnetic interference generated by the RF module. The first and second shielding layers are grounded through the substrate.
US07701039B2
At least one high aspect ratio via is formed in the backside of a semiconductor substrate. The at least one via is closed at one end by a conductive element forming a conductive structure of the semiconductor substrate. The backside of the semiconductor substrate is exposed to an electroplating solution containing a conductive material in solution with the active surface semiconductor substrate isolated therefrom. An electric potential is applied across the conductive element through the electroplating solution and a conductive contact pad in direct or indirect electrical communication with the conductive element at the closed end of the at least one via (or forming such conductive element) to cause conductive material to electrochemically deposit from the electroplating solution and fill the at least one via. Semiconductor devices and in-process semiconductor devices are also disclosed.
US07701038B2
A lateral bipolar junction transistor having improved current gain and a method for forming the same are provided. The transistor includes a well region of a first conductivity type formed over a substrate, at least one emitter of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type in the well region wherein each of the at least one emitters are interconnected, a plurality of collectors of the second conductivity type in the well region wherein the collectors are interconnected to each other, and a plurality of base contacts of the first conductivity type in the well region wherein the base contacts are interconnected to each other. Preferably, all sides of the at least one emitters are adjacent the collectors, and none of the base contacts are adjacent the sides of the emitters. The neighboring emitter, collectors and base contacts are separated by spacings in the well region.
US07701034B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a semiconductor integrated circuit device having a dummy pattern for improving micro-loading effects. The device comprises an active region in a substrate and an isolation region in the substrate adjacent the active region. A plurality of dummy patterns are formed over the isolation region, wherein each dummy pattern is aligned parallel to and lengthwise dimension of the active region. The dummy patterns may have non-uniform spacing or non-uniform aspect ratios. The dummy pattern may have, in plan view, a rectangular shape, wherein its length is greater than the lengthwise dimension of the active region. The spacing between the dummy pattern and the active region may be less than about 1500 nm.
US07701029B2
In a rear surface incidence type CMOS image sensor having a wiring layer 720 on a first surface (front surface) of an epitaxial substrate 710 in which a photodiode, a reading circuit (an n-type region 750 and an n+ type region 760) and the like are disposed, and a light receiving plane in a second surface (rear surface), the photodiode and a P-type well region 740 on the periphery of the photodiode are disposed in a layer structure that does not reach the rear surface (light receiving surface) of the substrate, and an electric field is formed within the substrate 710 to properly lead electrons entering from the rear surface (light receiving surface) of the substrate to the photodiode. The electric field is realized by providing a concentration gradient in a direction of depth of the epitaxial substrate 710. Alternatively, the electric field can be realized by providing a rear-surface electrode 810 or 840 for sending a current.
US07701024B2
A solid-state imaging device which includes a color filter having excellent color reproduction, a manufacturing method thereof and a camera are provided.A color filter in a solid-state imaging device 1 having an optical film thickness of approximately ¼ of a set wavelength λ, being sandwiched by a third layer and a fourth layer which are spacer layers in which only 3 layers are laminated and which consist of two types of layers (first layers and a second layer) with different refractive indexes, and further, having a structure that is sandwiched by a film, a first layer, which has a film thickness approximately equal to the above λ/4. Between the two types of layers having different refractive indexes, the first layers are composed of high refractive index material, and the second layer is composed of low refractive index material. The third layer and the fourth layer have an optical film thickness according to the light which passes through, and the material film thickness of the entire color filter also differs for each color of light.
US07701016B2
A trench is formed in the surface layer of a semiconductor substrate, surrounding an active region. A lower insulating film made of insulating material fills a lower region of the trench. An upper insulating film fills a region of the trench above the lower insulating film. The upper insulating film has therein a stress generating tensile strain in a surface layer of the active region.
US07701009B2
In the case of using an analog buffer circuit, an input voltage is required to be added a voltage equal to a voltage between the gate and source of a polycrystalline silicon TFT; therefore, a power supply voltage is increased, thus a power consumption is increased with heat. In view of the foregoing problem, the invention provides a depletion mode polycrystalline silicon TFT as a polycrystalline silicon TFT used in an analog buffer circuit such as a source follower circuit. The depletion mode polycrystalline silicon TFT has a threshold voltage on its negative voltage side; therefore, an input voltage does not have to be increased as described above. As a result, a power supply voltage requires no increase, thus a low power consumption of a liquid crystal display device in particular can be realized.
US07700996B2
A tunable antifuse element (102, 202, 204, 504, 952) includes a substrate material (101) having an active area (106) formed in a surface, a gate electrode (104) having at least a portion positioned above the active area (106), and a dielectric layer (110) disposed between the gate electrode (104) and the active area (106). The dielectric layer (110) includes a tunable stepped structure (127). During operation, a voltage applied between the gate electrode (104) and the active area (106) creates a current path through the dielectric layer (110) and a rupture of the dielectric layer (110) in a rupture region (130). The dielectric layer (110) is tunable by varying the stepped layer thicknesses and the geometry of the layer.
US07700977B2
An integrated circuit includes a first and second diode connected in parallel. The first diode has a first breakdown voltage and has first P type region and first N type region adjacent to each other at the surface of the substrate of a substrate to form a lateral diode. The second diode has a second breakdown voltage less than the first breakdown voltage and has a second P type region and second N type region lateral adjacent to each other in the substrate to form a lateral diode below the surface The first and second N type regions overlap and the first and second P type region being electrically connected whereby the first and second diodes are in parallel.
US07700965B2
An LED (20) includes a base (24), a chip (21) and an encapsulation (22) made of a transparent material. The base has a concave depression (240). The chip is mounted on a bottom of the concave depression. The first encapsulation is received in the depression for sealing the chip. The chip includes a light emitting surface (210). The encapsulation includes a light output surface (25) over the light emitting surface. The light output surface defines a plurality of recesses (26). A mixture (29) formed by mixing another transparent material (27) and fluorescent powder (28) is filled in each of the recesses.
US07700957B2
The invention proposes a process for producing electrical contact connections for at least one component which is integrated in a substrate material, the substrate material having a first surface region, and at least one terminal contact being arranged at least partially in the first surface region for each component, which is distinguished in particular by application of a covering to the first surface region and production of at least one contact passage which, in the substrate material, runs transversely with respect to the first surface region, in which process, in order to form at least one contact location in a second surface region which is to be provided, at least one electrical contact connection from the contact location to at least one of the terminal contacts is produced via the respective contact passages. Very advantageously, it is in this way possible for a contact location to be produced on the terminal contact and therefore a contact location which is electrically connected to the terminal contact can be produced on that side of the substrate material which is remote from the active surface, it being possible to dispense both with trenches which run along the substrate material and with a lateral contact which leads around the component in accordance with the prior art.
US07700947B2
A metallic element is effectively removed from a semiconductor film crystallized by using the metallic element. The concentration distribution of phosphorous or antimony in the depth direction of at least one of a source and a drain of a TFT semiconductor film has: a region in which the concentration is 1×1020 atoms/cm3 or less is 5 nm or greater in thickness, and 5×1019 atoms/cm3 or greater in the maximum value. By creating this concentration distribution, and by thermal annealing at about between 500 and 650° C., the metallic element within a channel forming region diffuses to the source or the drain, and at the same time as gettering is accomplished, the region in which the concentration is 1×1020 atoms/cm3 or less is made into a nucleus and the source region/drain region is recrystallized.
US07700946B2
A method for reducing edge effect interference with critical dimension (CD) measurement of semiconductor via structures includes forming a test structure in a kerf region of a semiconductor wafer, the test structure including at least a via structure and a trench structure in contact with the via structure. The via structure is formed in accordance with a critical dimension associated with a corresponding via structure in a circuit region of the semiconductor wafer, and the trench structure is formed in accordance with a widened dimension with respect to a minimum ground rule dimension associated with a corresponding trench structure in a circuit region of the semiconductor wafer.
US07700942B2
A semiconductor device includes an active area isolated by an isolation area on a semiconductor substrate. A transistor includes a gate electrode extending across the active area, source/drain regions formed in the active area on both sides of the gate electrode, and impurity-containing contact plugs connected to the source/drain regions. The source/drain regions are formed by thermal diffusion of impurities from the impurity-containing contact plugs toward the active area.
US07700939B2
An adapted LED is provided comprising a short-wavelength LED and a re-emitting semiconductor construction, wherein the re-emitting semiconductor construction comprises at least one potential well not located within a pn junction. The potential well(s) are typically quantum well(s). The adapted LED may be a white or near-white light LED. The re-emitting semiconductor construction may additionally comprise absorbing layers surrounding or closely or immediately adjacent to the potential well(s). In addition, graphic display devices and illumination devices comprising the adapted LED according to the present invention are provided.
US07700923B2
An image acquisition device having a photoconductor, a substrate including a detector array and an interlayer between the photoconductor and the substrate is disclosed. The interlayer is formed of molecules having a first ligand selectively binding the substrate and a second ligand selectively binding the photoconductor.
US07700921B2
A SPECT system which scans over multiple separate scans and individually motion compensates the information obtained from each of these scans. The separate scans may be over different angular extents and may be for different purposes. One of the scans for example may be a scout scan, and the other scans may then be scans which concentrate on areas identified during the scout scan. Alternatively, the scans may all being exactly the same and stitched together after the individual motion compensation. Since each of the scans are shorter, the patient will presumably have moved less during each individual scan, and the amount of motion is hence presumably less.
US07700919B2
A device for detecting electromagnetic radiation, especially infrared radiation, including an array of elementary bolometers which are sensitive to the incident radiation and are referred to as “active” bolometers and an additional row of bolometers which are substantially insensitive to the radiation and are referred to as “blind” bolometers. The active and blind bolometers are formed on a substrate in which a read circuit is produced for sequential addressing of each of the rows of the array and the row of blind bolometers, each of the bolometers in the same row being biased simultaneously. The read circuit includes a source for producing a reference current (Iref) on the basis of an additional blind bolometer which is also formed on the substrate and means of copying the reference current (Iref) to each of the columns of the array consisting of a current mirror.
US07700918B2
The present invention has the object of providing a charged particle beam irradiation method ideal for reducing the focus offset, magnification fluctuation and measurement length error in charged particle beam devices. To achieve these objects, a method is disclosed in the invention for measuring the electrical potential distribution on the sample with a static electrometer while loaded by a loader mechanism. Another method is disclosed for measuring the local electrical charge at specified points on the sample, and isolating and measuring the wide area electrostatic charge quantity from those local electrostatic charges. Yet another method is disclosed for correcting the measurement length value or magnification based on fluctuations found by measuring the amount of electrostatic charge at the specified points under at least two charged particle optical conditions, and then using a charged particle beam to measure fluctuations in measurement dimensions occurring due to fluctuations in the electrostatic charge at the specified locations.
US07700917B1
An apparatus for holding a specimen to be viewed in a focused beam microscope, which can be an electron microscope or a focused ion beam microscope. The apparatus has a base and a specimen carriage with specimen mounting surface in a first plane and an ion beam screen or knife blade. The relative position between the ion beam screen and the specimen carriage are remotely adjustable while the apparatus is mounted in the focused beam microscope. In a further embodiment, the apparatus is transferable between an ion beam milling device and the focused beam microscope while the milling device and the microscope share a common vacuum.
US07700913B2
In various embodiments of the invention, a device permits more efficient collection and transmission of ions produced by the action of a carrier gas containing metastable neutral excited-state species into a mass spectrometer. In one embodiment of the invention, the device incorporates the source for ionization in combination with a jet separator to efficiently remove excess carrier gas while permitting ions to be more efficiently transferred into the vacuum chamber of the mass spectrometer. In an embodiment of the invention, improved collection of ions produced by the carrier gas containing metastable neutral excited-state species at greater distances from between the position of the analyte and the position of the mass spectrometer are enabled.
US07700910B2
A method of compensating a density log comprises the step of compensating the far density by adding a correction at a given point in the density log wherein: (a) the correction comprises at least a first correction function and optionally a second correction function; (b) when the correction includes both the first and second correction functions they respectively are corrections for “slow-moving” and “fast-moving” perturbations at the said given point; and (c) regardless of whether the correction includes the second correction function the first correction is filtered by a long filter.
US07700907B2
The invention refers to a device for determining the angular position of a compressor stator blade, which is rotatable around its longitudinal axis and arranged in a compressor, with which is associated a measuring surface which rotates synchronously with it. For a reliable, simple and approximately error-free recording of the angular positions, the angular position of the compressor stator blade can be determined via the device in an automated manner. For this purpose, it has at least one mounting unit provided for aligned fastening of the device on the compressor, and at least one measuring and evaluating unit which comprises at least two distance sensors which each record a distance to the measuring surface which is rotatable from the reference position, as a result the angular position of the measuring surface, relative to the reference position depends upon the two recorded distances, is determined by the measuring and evaluating unit.
US07700900B2
A panel arrangement for a domestic appliance, having a panel which can be fitted to the domestic appliance such that it is visible from the outside. Indicator and/or operator controls are provided which are mounted on the panel. A printed circuit board comprises control and possibly power electronics and can be arranged in the interior of the domestic appliance. The indicator and/or operator controls are connected to the printed circuit board. At least some of the indicator and/or operator controls are mounted on the panel substantially independently of the layout of the printed circuit board and are connected to the printed circuit board via at least one flexible supply line.
US07700895B2
A sheet feeding apparatus including a stacking portion for stacking a plurality of sheets thereon, a sheet feeding portion for feeding the sheets stacked on the stacking portion, a fan for sending air to the sheets to loosen the sheets stacked on the stacking portion, a heater for warming the air sent by the fan, a temperature detecting portion for detecting the temperature of the heater, and a control portion for starting the driving of the fan in conformity with the temperature detecting portion having detected a predetermined temperature after temperature control for adjusting the heater to a target temperature has been started.
US07700894B2
A food display including a container for holding a product and having at least one translucent portion that facilitates viewing the product from outside the container, a sign panel that is coupled to the container and is at least partially translucent, and a light assembly that includes a light source positioned to provide light to both the container and the sign panel. Preferably, the sign panel and the light source are both positioned above an upper plane of the container to facilitate backlighting the sign panel. The food display may further include a fan positioned above the upper plane of the container, and an air circulation system that circulates air within the container. In one embodiment, the container includes a conduit, such as a hollow corner post that supports a side panel of the container, extending from the upper portion to the lower portion.
US07700890B2
A dome assembly for use in a keyboard assembly of an electronic device is provided. The dome assembly includes a deflectable dome shaped element having a concave surface terminating at a periphery and a number of elevating members disposed on the element adjacent the periphery and protruding away from the concave surface. The elevating members serve to space the periphery from a mounting surface. The element is movable between an undeflected position and a deflected position.
US07700886B2
A rubber key device is provide with a key top member, multiple rubber keys, a click feel generating mechanism and a load transmitting mechanism. When a depression area of the key top member is depressed by a user, the key top member is rotated to depress a top face of a rubber key via the load transmitting mechanism. The load transmitting mechanism transmits the load caused by the depression of the depression area to the top face of the corresponding rubber key such that the load is transmitted to only a substantially central portion of the top face of the corresponding one of the multiple rubber keys regardless of the depression amount of the depression area.
US07700883B2
A terminal for an engaging type connector includes a punched Cu alloy strip as a base material, a coating formed on the Cu alloy strip by postplating processes and including a Sn layer, and a Cu—Sn alloy layer sandwiched between the base material and the Sn layer. The Sn layer is smoothed by a reflowing process. The terminal has an engaging part and a solder-bonding part, and the surface of a part of the base material corresponding to the engaging part has a surface roughness higher than that of the surface of the base material corresponding to the solder-bonding part. The engaging part has a low frictional property and the solder-bonding part has improved solder wettability.
US07700882B2
The cable device includes a signal line portion electrically connecting an electronic circuit board having an electronic circuit operating at a clock signal having a high frequency with the other electronic circuit board. The cable device further includes a shield portion shielding the signal line portion having a plurality of through-holes located at intervals in the length direction of the signal line portion such that the shield portion includes a plurality of length portions differing in length from the signal line portion.
US07700879B2
An improved shield connector and a method of making the same include an electric wire having a conductor with an insulation coating and a metallic pipe. The electric wire is positioned in the metallic pipe. A filler is located inside the pipe, between the electric wire and the pipe, and the filler has a heat conductivity higher than that of air.
US07700871B2
A dielectric enhancement fluid composition having at least one organoalkoxysilane and an acid catalyst having a pKA less than about 2.1 and a method for using the composition to enhance the dielectric properties of an electrical cable having a central stranded conductor encased in a polymeric insulation and having an interstitial void volume in the region of the conductor, the method comprising at least partially filling the interstitial void volume of the cable with the composition. The fluid composition may further include an organometallic catalyst and a corrosion inhibitor.
US07700859B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV761982. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV761982, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV761982 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV761982 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV761982.
US07700854B1
A novel maize variety designated 39B22 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing maize variety 39B22 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 39B22 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety 39B22, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety 39B22. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety 39B22 and to the maize varieties derived by the use of those methods.
US07700849B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5862173. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5862173. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5862173 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety D5862173 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US07700828B2
The invention relates to a transgenic wild type plant species from Nicotiana glauca transformed with the phytochelatin synthase TaPCS gene from wheat for the phytoremediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals and other pollutants.
US07700827B2
The present disclosure provides a method of producing transgenic plants which are resistant to at least one metal ion by transforming the plant with a recombinant DNA comprising a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial arsenic reductase under the control of a plant expressible promoter, and a nucleic acid encoding a nucleotide sequence encoding a phytochelatin biosynthetic enzyme under the control of a plant expressible promoter. The invention also relates a method of phytoremediation of a contaminated site by growing in the site a transgenic plant expressing a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial arsenate reductase and a nucleic acid encoding a phytochelatin biosynthetic enzyme.
US07700814B2
Acetals are formed from a mixture comprising alcohols and aldehydes and the product is distilled to yield purified alcohols and/or acetals and/or unsaturated ethers.
US07700810B2
Hydrotalcites are partially or fully thermally decomposed to provide catalysts useful for the conversion of ethanol to a reaction product comprising 1-butanol.
US07700799B2
A method for producing a (2-formyl-1-alkenyl)cyclopropane compound represented by the formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 are the same or different, and independently represent a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted alkyl group, an optionally substituted alkenyl group, an optionally substituted alkynyl group, an optionally substituted aryl group or an optionally substituted aralkyl group, which comprises reacting a formylcyclopropane compound represented by the formula (3): wherein R1 is the same as defined above, with an aldehyde compound represented by the formula (4): wherein R2 is the same as defined above, in the presence of a base.
US07700789B2
Process for producing an oxirane compound includes treating with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of either an olefin oxidation catalyst prepared from an organic compound or a polymer compound of formula (1) a tungstic acid compound, a phosphoric acid, hydrogen peroxide and a quaternary ammonium salt of formula (2) or (3) or an olefin oxidation catalyst prepared from an organic compound or a polymer compound of formula (1), a tungsten compound and a quaternary ammonium salt of formula (2) or (3). The process is useful especially industrially.
US07700784B2
The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of intermediates that may be used for the manufacture of ARBs (also called angiotension II receptor antagonists or AT1 receptor antagonists) comprising as a common structural feature a (1H-tetrazol-5-yl)-biphenyl ring.
US07700777B2
The invention provides crystalline forms of biphenyl-2-ylcarbamic acid 1-(2-{[4-(4-carbamoylpiperidin-1-ylmethyl)benzoyl]methylamino}ethyl)piperidin-4-yl ester, and pharmaceutically acceptable solvates thereof. The crystalline form can be a freebase, or a salt such as a diphosphate, monosulfate or dioxalate salt. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising these crystalline compounds or prepared using these compounds; processes and intermediates for preparing the crystalline compounds; and methods of using these compounds to treat a pulmonary disorder.
US07700775B2
Compounds and compositions for the delivery of active agents are provided. Methods of administration and preparation are provided as well.
US07700774B2
The present invention provides, among other things, new bicyclic heterocyclic compounds, compositions comprising these heterocyclic compounds, methods of making the heterocyclic compounds, and methods of using these heterocyclic compounds for treating or preventing a variety of conditions or diseases associated with lipoprotein metabolism.
US07700773B2
In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of 4-cyano, 4-amino, and 4-aminomethyl derivatives of pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridine, pyrazolo[1,5-c]pyrimidine, and 2H-Indazole compounds and 5-cyano, 5-amino, and 5-aminomethyl derivatives of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine and imidazo[1,5-a]pyrazine compounds as inhibitors of cyclin dependent kinases, methods of preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more such compounds, methods of preparing pharmaceutical formulations comprising one or more such compounds, and methods of treatment, prevention, inhibition, or amelioration of one or more diseases associated with the CDKs using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions.
US07700772B2
Compounds of Formula I and Formula II: (wherein n, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R15, R16, R17, R18, R19, R24, R25, R26, R27, R28, R29, R30, R33, R34, R35, R36, R37, R38, A, j, k, m, n, X, Y and Z are as defined herein) which are modulators of chemokine receptor activity and are useful in the prevention or treatment of certain inflammatory and immunoregulatory disorders and diseases, allergic diseases, atopic conditions including allergic rhinitis, dermatitis, conjunctivitis, and asthma, as well as autoimmune pathologies such as rheumatoid arthritis and atherosclerosis. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which chemokine receptors are involved.
US07700766B2
A salt of a compound of formula (I) may be made with methanesulfonic acid. The salt and salts with other acids may be prepared by recovering from methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE).
US07700762B2
A clarification system and method of using for plasmid DNA that is centrifugation-free. The system is comprised of a coarse filter, about 50 to about 200 microns pore size, followed by a prefilter of about 1 to about 2 micron pore size and then a final filter of about 0.22 micron. Preferably, the prefilter and final filter are combined into one filter housing to reduce system hold up volume and enhance recovery of the plasmid DNA. The method allows for continuous as well as batch operation.
US07700761B2
Provided are processes for preparing a 3′-deoxypentopyranosyl oligomers with linkers for linking biomolecules. The processes can the steps of: bonding a 4′-protected-3′-deoxypentopyranosyl nucleoside to a solid support by coupling the 2′-OH group with a CPG support or other similar support with an amide linkage; deprotecting the 4′-protected-3′-deoxypentopyranosyl nucleoside at the 4′ position; deprotecting the 4′-protected-3′-deoxypentopyranosyl nucleoside at the 4′ position; and conjugating a linker to the free 4′ position. The resulting product can be conjugated via the linker to a biomolecule. The method can include, prior to addition of the linker, reacting the 4′-OH group of the 4′-protected-3′-deoxypentopyranosyl nucleoside that is linked to the solid support with a 4′-protected-3′-deoxypentopyranosyl nucleoside phosphoramidite in the presence of a coupling reagent, and oxidizing the reaction product. This step can be repeated one or more times to produce an oligomer of desired length.
US07700756B2
The present invention is directed to metabolic primers for the detection of perchlorate-reducing bacteria and methods and compositions for use of the same in environmental bioremediation.
US07700755B2
This invention provides polynucleotides encoding Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin associated immunodominant antigen. The polynucleotides can be used as probes to identify the presence of complementary target nucleotide sequences. The invention also provides kits and vectors containing the polynucleotides of the invention.
US07700751B2
The invention provides improved agents and methods for treatment of diseases associated with amyloid deposits of Aβ in the brain of a patient. Preferred agents include humanized antibodies.
US07700747B2
A process for producing a polysaccharide sponge comprises the steps of (A) freezing a photoreactive polysaccharide solution, and (B) irradiating the frozen photoreactive polysaccharide solution with light to crosslink the photoreactive polysaccharide, thereby obtaining the polysaccharide sponge. The process includes simplified steps requiring no removal of solvent, and has such an advantage that impurities are easily removed therefrom.
US07700741B2
The present invention provides an anti-diacetylspermine specific monoclonal antibody which satisfies a specific measuring condition in an immunoreaction system between a solid-phased diacetylspermine and the anti-diacetylspermine specific monoclonal antibody, wherein the immunoreaction system comprises a sample diacetylspermine or sample N1-acetylspermidine to inhibit the immunoreaction; and the specific measuring condition is that the 50% inhibition activity against the immunoreaction by the diacetylspermine in the sample is at least 1,000 times as much as the 50% inhibition activity against the immunoreaction by the N1-acetylspermidine in the sample.
US07700733B2
The present invention relates to novel polypeptide variants of factor VII (FVII) or factor VIIa (FVIIa) polypeptides, where said variants comprise an amino acid substitution in position 10 and 32 and where said variants further comprise a sugar moiety covalently attached to an introduced in vivo N-glycosylation site located outside the Gla domain. Such polypeptide variants are useful in therapy, in particular for the treatment of a variety of coagulation-related disorders, such as trauma.
US07700729B2
Modified forms of naturally occurring bacteriocins, such as the R-type pyocins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, are disclosed as are methods for producing them in GRAS organisms. The bacteriocins are modified at the ends of their tail fibers in a region responsible for binding specificity and affinity to their cognate binding partners, or receptors, such as those on the surface of bacteria. Methods for the use of the modified bacteriocins, such as to bind receptors, including virulence or fitness factors, on the surfaces of bacteria, are also described.
US07700724B2
This invention relates to the novel protein, termed INSP163, herein identified as a secreted protein containing a jelly-roll fold, in particular, as a member of the TNF (tumor necrosis factor)-like family of cytokines, specifically as a C1q-like protein and to the use of this protein and nucleic acid sequence from the encoding gene in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease.
US07700722B2
The present invention provides for improved compositions comprising a PEGsTNF-R1 which, in addition to having useful higher concentrations, demonstrate decreased viscosity (<400 cP) and improved stability.
US07700721B2
There is described a material comprising ribbons, fibrils or fibres characterised in that each of the ribbons, fibrils or fibres have an antiparallel arrangement of peptides in a beta-sheet-tape-like substructure.
US07700719B2
The present invention relates to prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). More specifically, the invention relates to use of a non-wild type protofibril or compound(s) with protofibril forming activity for active immunisation in the purpose of treating or preventing AD. The invention further relates to a peptide, Aβ-Arc, with high protofibril forming activity as well as several applications thereof, such as antibodies against said peptide for passive immunisation against AD.
US07700711B2
A manufacturing method of ladder-like phosphorus-containing polysilsesquioxanes nanocomposite material is disclosed. The method uses a reaction between ladder-like phosphorus-containing polysilsesquioxanes and modified epoxy. Besides improved char yield and limiting oxygen index, thermal degradation rate of the nanocomposite material is lowered dramatically so that the nanocomposite material possesses excellent flame retardance and thermal stability. Moreover, optical transparency of the nanocomposite material according to the present invention is still good, not being reduced by increased amount of polysilsesquioxanes. Thus the nanocomposite material is applied to decorative paints or protective paints.
US07700707B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to article comprising 1) a functionalized component, 2) tackifier, and 3) an olefin polymer comprising one or more C3 to C40 olefins, optionally one or more diolefins, and less than 5 mole % of ethylene having a Dot T-Peel of 1 Newton or more, a branching index (g′) of 0.95 or less measured at the Mz of the polymer; and an Mw of 100,000 or less; where the functional component is selected from the group consisting of functionalized polymers, functionalized oligomers and beta nucleating agents; and where the Gardner color of the adhesive does not change by more than 7 Gardner units when the adhesive has been heat aged at 180° C. for 48 hours as compared to the Gardner color of the unaged composition.
US07700693B2
A conjugated diene rubber composition comprising (A) 5-95 wt. % of a conjugated diene rubber having a structure such that at least three conjugated diene polymer chains are bonded together through a specific polyorganosiloxane having groups containing alkylene glycol repeating units and (B) 95-5 wt. % of a conjugated diene rubber having reacted with a compound having in the molecule a functional group selected from >C═O, >C═S, amino, imino, epoxy, pyridyl, alkoxyl and halogeno. This rubber composition gives, when silica is incorporated therein, a vulcanizable rubber composition having good processability and giving a rubber vulcanizate exhibiting sufficiently reduced heat build up, and having good wet-grip property and good abrasion resistance.
US07700685B2
An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH) solution is introduced into a tower vessel (1) from a first inlet (2) provided at an upper portion of the tower vessel (1). Water vapor is introduced into the tower vessel (1) from a second inlet (3) provided at a lower portion of the vessel (1). The EVOH solution moves downward in the vessel (1), while the water vapor moves upward. The EVOH solution is kept in counter-flow contact with the water vapor. Water is supplied from a water supplying portion (5) located between the first inlet (2) and a tower top (4), whereby a water layer is formed above the first inlet (2). A water/methanol vapor mixture is extracted from the tower top (4) and condensed in a condenser (6) to be thereby recovered in the form of a methanol aqueous solution. Droplets of the EVOH solution contained in the water/methanol vapor mixture are trapped in the water layer formed above the first inlet (2) and, therefore, are less liable to be introduced into the condenser (6). This suppresses extraction of the droplets of the EVOH solution together with the vapor to the outside of the tower vessel (1) during replacement of the EVOH solution with water in the tower vessel (1).
US07700683B2
A colourable binder composition with both excellent durability and application properties when used in coloured paving is provided. It contains 20-40 weight % in total of hydrogenated petroleum resin and non-hydrogenated petroleum resin, 1-10 weight % of hydrogenated thermoplastic elastomer of percentage hydrogenation 95% or more and 0.1-5 weight % in total of tall oil derivative of acid value 50-300 and/or tall oil fatty acid of acid value 50-300, the remainder being made up of petroleum solvent-extracted oil, has a composition wherein the ratio of the aforesaid hydrogenated petroleum resin to the aforesaid non-hydrogenated petroleum resin (hydrogenated petroleum resin/non-hydrogenated petroleum resin) (weight ratio) is 10-30%, moreover, the viscosity at 150° C. is 500 mPa·sec or less, and the DS value of a mixture of dense granularity (13) is 1 500 times/min or more.
US07700674B2
Disclosed is a vinylpyrrolidone-based polymer composition which has improved storage stability and of which the reduction in the molecular weight (K value) under shear stress is small. The composition comprises a vinylpyrrolidone-based polymer and contains from 1 to 10000 ppm of at least one compound selected from a group consisting of biguanides and further contains from 1000 to 30000 ppm of 2-pyrrolidone and from 1 to 5000 ppm of ammonia.
US07700673B2
A reduced oil rubber composition includes (a) a silica filler, (b) a N-substituted polyalkylene succinimide derivative, and (c) a rubber matrix. In certain embodiments, the composition may comprise a reduced amount of oil, especially a reduced amount of aromatic oil or even no aromatic oil. Rubber articles manufactured from such composition, such as tires and power belts, have improved properties such as reduced rolling resistance, improved wet/snow traction and winter softness, improved dynamic stiffness, improved tensile strength, easy handling, and/or compatibility with higher environmental standard, among others.
US07700672B2
Petroleum asphalt emulsions which contain recycled tire rubber and processes for making the emulsions at temperatures above ambient or room temperature. These emulsions may contain significant quantities of recycled tire rubber and recycled and reclaimed motor oils and fluxes. All of these formulations meet current specifications for products used to make slurry seal asphalt pavement coatings, ASTM D 1227 emulsified asphalt roof coatings, and may have applications as crack fillers for asphalt and Portland cement pavements, and as parking lot seal-coat materials.
US07700667B2
A composition is disclosed comprising a polymerizable (meth)acrylate of the structure: wherein A is an anhydride; a is 0 or 1; n is 0, 1, 2, or 3; R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each independently hydrogen, hydroxy, C1-C12 alkyl, C1-C12 perhaloalkyl, C1-C12 alkoxy, C1-C12 perhaloalkoxy, C2-C12 alkenyl, C2-C12 alkynyl, (C1-C6 alkyl)-O-(C1-C6 alkylene), or hydroxy(C1-C6 alkylene); x and y are each independently an integer of 1 to 10; z is an integer of 1 to 5; R5 is hydrogen or methyl; M is wherein G and J are each independently O or NR6, wherein R6 is hydrogen or C1-C6 alkyl; m is 1, 2, 3, or 4; W is an organic group having the valency of z+1; and q is 0 or 1; and further wherein when a is 1, n+m+q is 1, 2, 3, or 4, and when a is 0, n+m+q is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. The composition finds use as a dental resin.
US07700663B2
Superabsorbent polymers having radiation activatable surface cross-linkers and method of making them
Superabsorbent polymer particles having improved surface cross-linking and their use in absorbent articles. The superabsorbent polymer particles comprise a water-absorbing resin and the reaction product of a radiation activatable surface cross-linker. The reaction product of the radiation activatable surface cross-linker is present at the surface of the superabsorbent polymer particle. The radiation activatable surface cross-linker includes at least two radiation activatable groups R, which are covalently bound to each other or to at least one spacer group S.
US07700662B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing low-viscosity, allophanate-containing and NCO-free polyurethane prepolymers curable by actinic radiation, and to the products obtainable by this process. The prepolymers have residual monomer contents of less than 0.5% by weight and an NCO content of less than 1% by weight, and are prepared by a process in which A) diisocyanates, B) hydroxy-functional compounds containing groups which react with ethylenically unsaturated compounds on exposure to actinic radiation, and C) polyester, polyether or polycarbonate polyols having a functionality of at least 1.9 and a number-average molecular weight (Mn) of at least 1000 g/mol, D) optionally in the presence of a catalyst, are reacted to form NCO-group-containing prepolymers having radiation-curing groups, which are subsequently reacted E) optionally after addition of monofunctional isocyanates in the presence F) of an allophanatization catalyst to give allophanate-containing prepolymers, the ratio of NCO groups of the compounds from A) to the OH groups of the compounds from B) and C) being 1.45:1.0 to 1.1:1.0 and the ratio of the OH groups from B) to the OH groups from C) being 8.0:1 to 1.5:1.
US07700658B2
The invention relates to substituted aryl and heteroaryl (R)-Chiral Halogenated 1-Substitutedamino-(n+1)-Alkanol compounds useful as inhibitors of cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP; plasma lipid transfer protein-I) and compounds, compositions and methods for treating atherosclerosis and other coronary artery diseases. Novel high yield, stereoselective processes for the preparation of the chiral substituted alkanol compounds from chiral and achiral intermediates are described.
US07700656B2
The invention relates to the use of aminoacetonitrile compounds of formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R8, R9, A, m and n have the significances given in claim 1, in the control of endoparasites, especially helminths, in warm-blooded productie livestock and domestic animals.
US07700652B2
Disclosed herein are methods of using prodrugs of GABA analogs and pharmaceutical compositions thereof to treat and/or prevent urinary incontinence in humans, and pharmaceutical compositions of prodrugs of GABA analogs useful in treating and/or preventing urinary incontinence.
US07700646B2
There is provided a novel compound of the general formula I in which each of R8 to R10 is hydrogen, aryl, C1-6 alkyl, trialkylsilyl or acyl; R1 to R5 are individually selected from hydrogen, hydroxy, C1-6 alkoxy and acyloxy; R6 and R7 are H, C1-4 alkyl, trialkylsilyl or acyl; X is O or NR, and R is H or Me; in which any of the alkyl groups including alkyl groups in alkoxy, acyl and acyloxy groups may be substituted by aryl, C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 alkoxy, hydroxyl, trialkylsiloxy or acyloxy groups; with the proviso that R2 and R3 are not both OH when R4 is H or OH, R1 and R5 are both H, and X is O. The amide compounds (X is NR) are analogues of epigallocatechin gallate or epicatechin galate, with an amide bond in place of the natural ester bond, with resistance to hydrolysis by esterase enzymes. The ester compounds (X is O) have a different hydroxylation pattern on the B ring as compared to the natural products. The compounds may be used to modulate the resistance to β-lactam antibiotics of various infections, especially methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Pharmaceutical compositions containing the novel compounds and combinations of the novel compounds and β-lactam antibiotics are described.
US07700645B2
New pseudopolymorphic forms of (3R,3aS,6aR)-hexahydrofuro[2,3-b]furan-3-yl(1S,2R)-3-[[(4-aminophenyl)sulfonyl](isobutyl)amino]-1-benzyl-2-hydroxypropylcarbamate and processes for producing them are disclosed.
US07700639B2
Disclosed are compounds of formula (I) or pesticidally acceptable salts thereof wherein, for example, W is ═CR8— or ═C(NR9R10)—, R8 is halogen, R9 and R10 are independently of one another hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heterocyclyl, aralkyl or heterocyclylalkyl, R1 is cyano, methyl, trifluoromethyl or —CS—NH2, R2 is C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, R3 is hydrogen, alkyl or cycloalkyl, R4 and R5 are alkenyl, alkynyl or cycloalkyl, R6 is haloalkyl, haloalkoxy, halogen or —SF5, R7 is halogen or alkyl, and n is 0, 1 or 2. These compounds can be used for controlling pests, especially by treatment of domestic animals.
US07700629B2
The present invention describes a new method for the separation of bupivacaine enantiomers consisting in a continuous separation process performed without heating, by the selective precipitation of their diastereomeric salts with tartaric acid. This heatless process avoids the degradation of the reagents granting a continuous process feature to the procedure.Another embodiment of the present invention is related to the enantiomeric manipulation of bupivacaine enantiomers in order to obtain pharmaceutical compositions presenting several enantiomeric excess of levobupivacaine to quantify and determinate the role of the dextrobupivacaine on its anesthetic and cardiotoxic effects. These enantiomeric manipulated compositions showed to present an expressive improvement on its anesthetic properties that had shown to be similar to racemic bupivacaine presenting a cardiotoxic profile similar to enantiomeric pure levobupivacaine.
US07700622B2
Compounds and compositions for modulating the activity of p38 kinases are provided, including p38α and p38β kinase. Methods for treating, preventing or ameliorating one or more symptoms of a p38 kinase mediated disease or disorder are also provided.
US07700621B2
This invention describes the new 6-alkenyl- and 6-alkinyl-epothilone derivatives of general formula (I) in which R1a, R1b, R2a, R3a, R3b, R4, R5, R6, R7, A, Y, D, E, G, Y and Z have the meanings that are indicated in the description. The new compounds interact with tubulin by stabilizing microtubuli that are formed. They are able to influence the cell-splitting in a phase-specific manner and thus find use in treating diseases or conditions associated with the need for cell growth, division and/or proliferation. Thus the compounds are suitable for treating malignant tumors, for example, ovarian, stomach, colon, adeno-, breast, lung, head and neck carcinomas, malignant melanoma, acute lymphocytic and myelocytic leukemia. In addition, they are suitable for anti-angiogenesis therapy as well as for treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases (such as psoriasis, arthritis). Methods of use and preparation of the compounds are also described.
US07700617B2
A composition comprising 7-(3-Aminomethyl-4-methoxyiminopyrrolidin-1-yl)-1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-4-oxo-1,4-dihydro-1,8-naphthyridine-3-carboxylic acid methanesulfonate hydrate and their use in antibacterial therapy.
US07700611B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing crystalline trans-N-[1-(2-fluorophenyl)-S-pyrazoly]-3-ox-ospiro[6-azaisobenzofuran-1(3H),1′-cyclohexane]-4′-carboxamide and novel salts, hydrates and polymorphs thereof.
US07700608B2
A method for the treatment of thrombocythemia in a subject comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of compounds having the formulas (I) through (III) or equilibrating forms thereof.
US07700604B2
The invention provides compounds of formula (I): wherein R1, R2, A, A1 and B are as defined in the specification; processes for their preparation; pharmaceutical compositions containing them; a process for preparing the pharmaceutical compositions; and their use in therapy. The compounds are useful as MMP inhibitors.
US07700598B2
The present invention relates to the CGRP antagonists of general formula wherein A, X, D, E, G, M, Q and R1 to R3 are defined as in claim 1, the tautomers, the isomers, the diastereomers, the enantiomers, the hydrates thereof, the mixtures thereof and the salts thereof and the hydrates of the salts, particularly the physiologically acceptable salts thereof with inorganic or organic acids, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, the use thereof and processes for the preparation thereof.
US07700591B2
Cyclopentyl compounds linked to a benzoxazinyl group through an amido moiety utilizing the ring nitrogen of the benzoxazine, and further substituted with a heterocyclic moiety, such compounds represented by formula I: which are used to modulate the CCR-2 chemokine receptor to prevent or treat inflammatory and immunoregulatory disorders and diseases, allergic diseases, atopic conditions including allergic rhinitis, dermatitis, conjunctivitis, and asthma, as well as autoimmune pathologies such as rheumatoid arthritis and atherosclerosis; and pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions.
US07700578B2
An immunogenic composition, and method of using the composition to elicit an immune response to Campylobacter jejuni. The composition is an isolated polysaccharide polymer composed of one or more forms of disaccharide polymers.
US07700572B2
The present invention relates to the use of a specific inhibitor of Smad7 expression or function for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention, amelioration or treatment of a disease of the central nervous system and/or diseases related and/or caused by said disease of the central nervous system. Furthermore, methods for preventing, ameliorating and/or treating such diseases are disclosed.
US07700565B2
Disclosed herein are transmembrane transporter compounds containing guanidinium groups to enhance transport of a polymer backbone across biomembranes. Therapeutic and other biologically active moieties may be attached to the compounds. The polymer backbone may include peptide nucleic acid monomer units.
US07700554B2
This invention provides conjugates of therapeutic or active agents with melanotransferrin or with other ligands of a melanotransferrin receptor, melanotransferrin receptor modulators, and related compositions and methods for modulating blood-brain barrier transport by providing methods of screening and selecting such conjugates, ligands, and modulators in vitro and in vivo, and methods of use of such conjugates, modulators and ligands in diagnosis and the treatment of diseases, including particularly diseases of the central nervous system or lysosomal storage diseases.
US07700553B2
The present invention relates to polypeptides that inhibit the NF-&kgr;B signaling pathway and polynucleotides encoding the same. The present invention further provides methods for the modulation of and/or treatment of inflammatory responses, oncogenesis, viral infection; the regulation of cell proliferation and apoptosis; and regulation of B or T lymphocytes in antigenic stimulation, by administering the polypeptides of the present invention to a subject in need thereof. Finally, the present invention provides a method of identifying polypeptides that modulate oligomerization of NEMO.
US07700551B2
The invention relates to Fmoc (9-fluorenyl-methoxycarbonyl)-based polymeric conjugates. These conjugates are useful for extending the in-vivo circulation of protein and peptide drugs.
US07700550B2
Disclosed are glycopeptides that are substituted with one or more substituents each comprising one or more phosphono groups; and pharmaceutical compositions containing such glycopeptide derivatives. The disclosed glycopeptide derivatives are useful as antibacterial agents.
US07700533B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous cleaning composition used to remove unwanted organic and inorganic residues and contaminants from a substrate such as, for example, a semiconductor substrate. The cleaning composition comprises from about 0.01% to about 40% by weight of a salt selected from a guanidinium salt, an acetamidinium salt, a formamidinium salt, and mixtures thereof; water; and optionally a water soluble organic solvent. Compositions according to the present invention are free of an oxidizer and abrasive particles and are capable of removing residues from a substrate and, particularly, a substrate having silicon-containing BARC and/or photoresist residue.
US07700532B2
The present invention relates to a liquid cleaner for a semiconductor substrate on which metal wiring may be provided, comprising each component of a chelating agent or a salt thereof shown by the following general formula (1), an alkaline compound and pure water, wherein pH is 8 to 13: (wherein, Y1 and Y2 are lower alkylene groups, n is an integer of 0 to 4, at least 4 of R1 to R4 and n R5s are alkyl groups having phosphonic acid group(s) and the rest are alkyl groups) and a cleaning method using the same. The present invention provides a liquid cleaner which can efficiently remove fine particles or impurities derived from various metals at semiconductor substrate surface, even when used after a process adopting an alkaline polishing agent or alkaline etching liquid, without generating problems of causing difficult-to-remove gelled particles at the substrate surface or easy generation of rough semiconductor substrate surface, and a cleaning method using the same.
US07700531B2
There is provided a cleaning agent comprising a lactone represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 is an alkylene group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms. The cleaning agent is useful for cleaning an organic electroluminescence material, photosensitive resin, liquid crystal or wax.
US07700524B2
Activated Supports, support-bound activators, strongly acidic supports, and silylating supports are provided; the activated support having the formula (I) wherein L is a linking group component; X is F, CL, OH, and trisubstituted silyloxy; and the shaded circle represents a solid or semi-solid support. Methods of using the activated supports in solid phase organic sync) thesis are also provided.
US07700515B2
Described is a novel amorphous silica-alumina composition having a high ratio of pore volume contained in large pores to pore volume contained in medium to small pores. The amorphous silica-alumina composition also may have the characteristic of a strong aluminum-NMR penta-coordinated peak representing greater than 30% of the total aluminum and a method of making such novel amorphous silica-alumina composition using a pH swing preparation method.
US07700508B1
A composition for thermal barrier coatings exhibiting improved thermal conductivity and toughness is provided. The composition is comprised of a base majority oxide, a first dopant oxide, at least one small rare earth oxide, at least one large rare earth oxide and at least one toughening oxide. Compared to traditional thermal barrier coatings, a composition of the present invention provides approximately twice the toughness one-third to one-half the thermal conductivity.
US07700506B2
The PbO-free UV-absorbing glass is made under oxidative conditions and has a composition, in % by weight, of: SiO2, 55-79; B2O3, 3-25; Al2O3, 0-10; Li2O, 0-10; Na2O, 0-10; K2O, 0-10; MgO, 0-2; CaO, 0-3; SrO, 0-3; BaO, 0-3; ZnO, 0-3; ZrO2, 0-3; CeO2, 0-1; Fe2O3, 0-1; WO3, 0-3; Bi2O3, 0-3; MoO3, 0-3; ΣLi2O+Na2O+K2O=0.5 to 16 and ΣMgO+CaO+SrO+BaO+ZnO=0-10. It also contains from 0.1 to 10% TiO2 with at least 95% of the titanium as Ti+4 so that it has a high visible transmission, reduced color centers, and a sharp UV absorption edge. It is especially useful in lamps, display devices and glass-to-metal seals
US07700504B2
Problem to be Solved: To provide an elastic nonwoven fabric with a good elasticity, adequate strength under elongation, good antiblocking property and favorable feeling, suitable for fiber products, at low cost, as well as fiber products using the same. Solution: An elastic nonwoven fabric comprising long elastomeric fiber and nonelastomeric fiber in a weight ratio within a range from 50/50 to 95/5, which has an elongation recovery rate of the elastic nonwoven fabric after 50% elongation equal to or higher than 70%, and a resistance to peel two sheets of the nonwoven fabric apart equal to or lower than the strength of the fabric under 50% elongation; as well as fiber products using the same.
US07700503B2
A ballistic-resistant material having a first exterior layer formed of a ballistic-resistant non-woven textile, a second exterior layer formed of a ballistic-resistant non-woven textile, and an interior layer of ballistic-resistant woven textile arranged between the first exterior layer and the second exterior layer. The woven textile is a tight weave. The woven layer a high occupation, high fabric density woven textile at or near the technical jamming point of fabric construction. Also disclosed are articles made from the ballistic-resistant material.
US07700487B2
To provide a semiconductor device having a structure in which a barrier metal film containing nitrogen is formed in a connection surface between a copper alloy wiring and a via, in which the electric resistance between the copper alloy wiring and the via can be prevented from rising, and the electric resistance can be prevented from varying. A semiconductor device according to the present invention comprises a first copper alloy wiring, a via and a first barrier metal film. The first copper alloy wiring is formed in an interlayer insulation film and contains a predetermined additive element in a main component Cu. The via is formed in an interlayer insulation film and electrically connected to the upper surface of the first copper alloy wiring. The first barrier metal film is formed so as to be in contact with the first copper alloy wiring in the connection part between the first copper alloy wiring and the via and contains nitrogen. The predetermined additive element reacts with nitrogen to form a high-resistance part. In addition, the concentration of the predetermined additive element is not more than 0.04 wt %.
US07700486B2
A method for seasoning a chamber and depositing a low dielectric constant layer on a substrate in the chamber is provided. In one aspect, the method includes seasoning the chamber with a first mixture comprising one or more organosilicon compounds and one or more oxidizing gases and depositing a low dielectric constant layer on a substrate in the chamber from a second mixture comprising one or more organosilicon compounds and one or more oxidizing gases, wherein a ratio of the total flow rate of the organosilicon compounds to the total flow rate of the oxidizing gases in the first mixture is lower than the total flow rate of the organosilicon compounds to the total flow rate of the oxidizing gases in the second mixture.
US07700482B2
A method of forming a patterned material layer, the method comprising: a resist layer forming step of forming a resist layer on a substrate, the resist layer including a first photosensitive resin layer, an intermediate resin layer, and a second photosensitive resin layer; an exposing step; a developing step of partly removing the resist layer so as to form a trench exposing the substrate and partly removing the intermediate resin layer so as to form a groove on a side face of the trench, thereby forming a resist frame; a vacuum coating step of forming a vacuum coating layer having a material pattern part covering the exposed part of the substrate and a part to lift off covering the resist frame; and a liftoff step of removing the part to lift off in the vacuum coating layer together with the resist frame, so as to yield a patterned material layer.
