US07747825B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for reducing the number of unnecessarily broadcast local requests to reduce the latency to access data from remote nodes in an SMP computer system. A shared invalid cache coherency protocol state is defined that predicts whether a memory read request to read data in a shared cache line can be satisfied within a local node. When a cache line is in the shared invalid state, a valid copy of the data is predicted to be located in the local node. When a cache line is in the invalid state and not in the shared invalid state, a valid copy of the data is predicted to be located in one of the remote nodes.Memory read requests to read data in a cache line that is not currently in the shared invalid state are broadcast first to remote nodes. Memory read requests to read data in a cache line that is currently in the shared invalid state are broadcast first to a local node, and in response to being unable to satisfy the memory read requests within the local node, the memory read requests are broadcast to the remote nodes.
US07747823B2
Cache management strategies are described for retrieving information from a storage medium, such as an optical disc, using a cache memory including multiple cache segments. A first group of cache segments can be devoted to handling the streaming transfer of a first type of information, and a second group of cache segments can be devoted to handling the bulk transfer of a second type of information. A host system can provide hinting information that identifies which group of cache segments that a particular read request targets. A circular wrap-around fill strategy can be used to iteratively supply new information to the cache segments upon cache hits by performing pre-fetching. Various eviction algorithms can be used to select a cache segment for flushing and refilling upon a cache miss, such as a least recently used (LRU) algorithm or a least frequently used (LFU) algorithm.
US07747822B1
A method and system for maintaining memory coherence in a trace cache is disclosed. The method and system comprises monitoring a plurality of entries in a trace cache. The method and system includes selectively invalidating at least one trace cache entry based upon detection of a modification of the at least one trace cache entry.If modifications are detected, then corresponding trace cache entries are selectively invalidated (rather than invalidating the entire trace cache). Thus trace cache coherency is maintained with respect to memory in a performance and power-efficient manner. The monitoring further accounts for situations where more than one trace cache entry is dependent on a single cache line, such that modifications to the single cache line result in invalidations of a plurality of trace cache entries.
US07747821B1
A compression device recognizes patterns of data and compressing the data, and sends the compressed data to a decompression device that identifies a cached version of the data to decompress the data. In this way, the compression device need not resend high bandwidth traffic over the network. Both the compression device and the decompression device cache the data in packets they receive. Each device has a disk, on which each device writes the data in the same order. The compression device looks for repetitions of any block of data between multiple packets or datagrams that are transmitted across the network. The compression device encodes the repeated blocks of data by replacing them with a pointer to a location on disk. The decompression device receives the pointer and replaces the pointer with the contents of the data block that it reads from its disk.
US07747820B2
A processor cache is indexed by a group of distinct page colors. The use of this cache by different working sets is controlled using page coloring. Translations of virtual addresses of the instructions and/or data of a working set are constrained to physical addresses the page colors of which are in a subgroup of the group of distinct page colors.
US07747817B2
Performing data operations using non-volatile third dimension memory is described, including a storage system having a non-volatile third dimension memory array configured to store data, the data including an address indicating a file location on a disk drive, and a controller configured to process an access request associated with the disk drive, the access request being routed to the non-volatile third dimension memory array to perform a data operation, wherein data from the data operation is used to create a map of the disk drive. In some examples, an address in the non-volatile third dimension memory array provides an alias for another address in a disk drive.
US07747807B2
A host controller includes a disconnection detection circuit 52 which compares a voltage level of a first differential signal DP of first and second differential signals DP and DM making up a differential signal pair corresponding to a given range in a frame packet with a comparison voltage CV, compares a voltage level of the second differential signal DM corresponding to a given range in the frame packet with the comparison voltage CV, and detects that a host and a device have been disconnected when the voltage level of at least one of the first and second differential signals DP and DM corresponding to the given range is higher than the comparison voltage CV.
US07747805B2
A method and computer system for dynamically selecting an optimal synchronization mechanism for a data structure in a multiprocessor environment. The method determines a quantity of read-side and write-side acquisitions, and evaluates the data to determine an optimal mode for efficiently operating the computer system while maintaining reduced overhead. The method incorporates data received from the individual units within a central processing system, the quantity of write-side acquisitions in the system, and data which has been subject to secondary measures, such as formatives of digital filters. The data subject to secondary measures includes, but is not limited to, a quantity of read-side acquisitions, a quantity of write-side acquisitions, and a quantity of read-hold durations. Based upon the individual unit data and the system-wide data, including the secondary measures, the operating system may select the most efficient synchronization mechanism from among the mechanisms available. Accordingly, efficiency of a computer system may be enhanced with the ability to selectively choose an optimal synchronization mechanism based upon selected and calculated parameters.
US07747798B2
A portable media encoder is disclosed. The portable media encoder comprises a video input port configured to receive a video input from a video source, an audio input port configured to receive an audio input from an audio source, and a digital output port for providing a digitized output stream corresponding to the received video input and audio input. The encoder has an encoding processor that converts the video input and the audio input into a streamable digital output format for transmitting through the digital output port, a set of control buttons communicatively coupled to the encoding processor and operable to provide encoding parameters to thereto, and a housing enclosing the encoding processor and providing at least one access panel providing user access to the video input port, the audio input port, the digital output port, and the set of control buttons. The housing having a size and configuration that allows the encoder to be hand carried by a single individual.
US07747797B2
A memory device may comprise a nonvolatile computer readable medium, a near field communication wireless transmitter, a nonvolatile near field communication tag memory, a data input device and a controller. The nonvolatile computer readable medium is adapted to store data in a data block format. The near field communication wireless transmitter is adapted to wireless transmit data to an external near field communication receiver. The nonvolatile near field communication tag memory is adapted to store data in a tag memory format.
US07747787B2
A Kitchen Display System (KDS) includes a workstation including a first Personal Computer (PC)-based controller, a fanless workstation including a second PC-based or a non-PC-based controller having lower cost than the first PC-based controller, an Ethernet network operatively coupling the controllers, and a bump bar, keyboard, touchscreen, or keypad operatively coupled to at least one of the controllers. The first PC-based controller stores and displays video, multimedia, or a build card. At least one of the controllers includes a rugged computing module, which includes a circuit board including an outer perimeter and traces associated therewith, an integrated circuit mounted on the circuit board, at least one interface connector, a housing, and a thermal transfer device.
US07747780B2
A method, system and apparatus including receiving a request from a network device, the request including an IP address of said network device, generating and sending to the network device a domain name for locating a device configured to process a DNS query, the domain name corresponding to the IP address, the network device generating and sending a DNS query including the domain name and at least one local DNS setting of the network device to the device configured to the process the DNS query, and the device processing an association between the IP address and the at least one local DNS setting of the network device.
US07747775B2
Methods and apparatus for relaying data in a peer-to-peer network. In one implementation, a wireless device includes: an antenna; a wireless communication interface connected to said antenna and supporting wireless communication across a wireless connection provided by said antenna; storage supporting storing data; and a controller connected to said wireless interface and to said storage, supporting an application service, a message service, and a relay service for relay messages; wherein said application service provides execution and management of one or more application programs accessible by said controller using application data stored in said storage, said message service provides building messages and processing received messages, and said relay service provides building a new relay message indicating a selected recipient to which the wireless device does not have a direct wireless connection, sending a built new relay message, and sending a received relay message that indicates a recipient other than the wireless device.
US07747764B2
A new industrial control system and method are disclosed allowing for communication between multiple control devices of the system and remote devices via the Internet. The system includes a web access interface that is capable of being coupled to the remote devices via the Internet, and is coupled to the control devices by way of a network. A program executed by the interface receives an Internet signal having socket API data and formatted in accordance with the TCP/IP protocol, and extracts the data from the Internet signal. Another program executed by the interface receives the data and transmits a network signal, which includes the data but is not formatted in accordance with the TCP/IP protocol, to an appropriate one of the control devices, each of which has a respective web server program. The data is processed by the server program at the appropriate control device.
US07747757B2
A method of identifying a plurality of nodes on a network, includes receiving at at least one of the plurality of nodes on the network a query posed by a caller node determining at the at least one of the plurality of nodes on the network an answer to the query, forwarding the answer to the query from the at least one of the plurality of nodes on the network to the caller node and receiving, at the caller node, the answer to the query from the at least one of the plurality of nodes on the network and maintaining a list of nodes which responded to the query.
US07747755B2
A method and apparatus to provide a general-purpose timeout management system for client-specific session objects. In one embodiment a timeout service is created that may be used by more than one Java Enterprise EJB container simultaneously, avoiding unnecessary duplication of timeout management services. Each EJB container may instantiate an “invalidation agent” which registers a callback interface with the timeout service. The timeout service invokes a timeout callback method on registered invalidation agents at specified time intervals. The time intervals correspond to the timeout values associated with the client-specific objects, obviating the need for the EJB container to make time-consuming queries to the system clock. The invention discloses a “timeout marker” data element associated with each client-specific session object created by the EJB container. Whenever a client accesses a client-specific session object, the timeout marker associated with that object is cleared. Then, when the invalidation agent's timeout callback is invoked, the invalidation agent checks the timeout marker on each registered object to determine whether it was accessed since the last timeout period. If the object was not accessed it may be terminated; otherwise it may be retained and re-marked.
US07747752B2
Systems and methods for negotiating a future communication are provided to facilitate interaction between persons who wish to interact but who presently may not be in a position or find it desirable to do so. Each party may be provided with an interaction manager that allows the parties to negotiate future time(s) for future communication by ascertaining mutually available free time and selecting from among these times. The parties may also elect to defer a communication until a particular communication channel becomes available.
US07747747B1
A duplicate suppression protocol is introduced in order to suppress duplicate entries from appearing in a list of available network resources. With the duplicate suppression protocol of the present invention, a computer that wishes to query for network resources also asks for duplicate suppression information from the responding network resources. The duplicate suppression information for a particular network resource specifies identifiers associated with that network resource for various protocols. Thus, if a particular network resource responds to more than one network resource request from a single requesting entity, that requesting entity will be able to locate duplicate network resource information. Thus, a single unified list of network resources available for various different protocols may be presented with all duplicate network resources removed.
US07747745B2
Media properties selection method and system based on expected profit from profile-based ad delivery
An automatic system facilitates selection of media properties on which to display an advertisement, responsive to a profile collected on a first media property, where a behavioral-targeting company calculates expected profit for an ad correlated with the profile and arranges for the visitor to be tagged with a tag readable by the selected media property. The profit can be calculated by deducting, from the revenues that are expected to be generated from an ad delivered based on the collected profile, at least the price of ad space at a media property where the BT company might like to deliver ads to the profiled visitor. When the calculated profit is positive (i.e., not a loss), the BT company arranges for the visitor to be tagged with a tag readable by the selected media property through which the BT company expects to profit.
US07747742B2
Exemplary methods, computer-readable media, and systems describe detecting a performance bug or a nontrivial correctness in a distributed system. The techniques describe using an online predicate checker by specifying a predicate on distributed properties of the distributed system. The process describes monitoring and checking the predicate when the system is deployed and providing a service. In response to detection of the performance bug, the process describes performing modifications of the predicate or installing new predicate.
US07747726B2
A method and apparatus for obtaining a local performance measure for a particular server in a particular tier in a transaction environment in which transactions pass through multiple tiers with multiple servers at each tier. The contribution from the particular server to the total end-to-end response time for a set of transactions is scaled by the ratio of transactions passing through the particular tier to transactions passing through the particular server to obtain a scaled contribution from the particular tier. This is added to the contribution from outside the particular tier to obtain a modified total end-to-end response time from the perspective of the particular server. The modified total end-to-end response time is divided by the number of transactions in the set to obtain a modified average end-to-end response time from the perspective of the particular server, which is used to control allocation of resources to the server.
US07747725B2
A networked system is provided for transporting digital media packets, such as audio and video. The network includes network devices interconnected to send and receive packets. Each network device can receive and transmit media signals from media devices. A master clock generates a system time signal that the network devices use, together with a network time protocol to generate a local clock signal synchronized to the system time signal for both rate and offset. The local clock signal governs both the rate and offset of the received or transmitted media signals. The system, which can be implemented using conventional network equipment enables media signals to be transported to meet quality and timing requirements for high quality audio and video reproduction.
US07747721B2
A broadband residential gateway (BRG) management system (101) has a communications interface (102) coupled to one or more BRGs 120 and one or more content service providers (CSPs) (110), a memory (104), and a processor (106). The processor can be programmed to establish (202) a content profile for each of the BRGs according to one or more attributes of the BRGs and the CSPs, receive (204) a content access request from one or more BRGs, and supply (206) each BRG access to selectable content from one or more of the CSPs according to the content profile.
US07747719B1
A system for optimizing the value of communications between communicating parties is provided. The system includes a communication group manager that facilitates specifying policies, preferences and/or automated analysis of ideal communication channels, routing and/or scheduling in terms of communicating party groups that can be pre-populated clusters of communicating parties, assembled based on relationships (e.g., organizational), and/or assembled based on satisfying inclusion criteria (e.g., age, location, competence, communication history, meeting history). The communication group manager maps communicating parties into predefined and/or dynamically created groups that facilitate specifying and/or automatically computing ideal communication actions like selecting a channel, displaying lists of potential channels sorted by communicating party preferences, and (re)scheduling communications to different channels and/or times. Ideal communication actions can be identified by maximizing a measure of expected communication utility, where groups provide simplifying abstractions to facilitate assessment of outcome utilities. The method can employ representations of preferences of the contactor and contactee that allow for group-specific preference considerations that weight differentially contactor and/or contactee preference considerations in communication action optimization. The system includes a group wise communication coordinator that identifies optimal group communication sets. The method facilitates a recipient communicating with a group member where the communication utility is optimized based on a preference, and a context associated with the group to which the member belongs.
US07747714B1
Communication networks are automatically tested from a superordinate producer-independently managing network management center, such as when subordinate, producer-specific operation and maintenance centers (OMCs) are not occupied. Producer-dependent information is transmitted when an alarm report is sent and producer-specific hardware tests are automatically generated in the network management center (NMC). It is unnecessary for producer-specific object classes to be completely defined in the information model of the OMC-NMC interface. The tests automatically generated in the network management center can be triggered in response to errors, e.g. for a particular hardware board, or preventively, for example for the entire hardware of a network unit.
US07747704B2
Context-aware computing systems and methods are described. In particular embodiments, location aware systems and methods are described. In the described embodiments, hierarchical tree structures are utilized to ascertain a device context or location. The tree structures can be stored on or accessible to mobile computing devices so that the devices can determine their own particular context or location. A computing device can automatically determine its context or location by ascertaining a node on one or more of the tree structures and then traversing the tree structure to ascertain the complete context.
US07747701B2
Methods and systems for generic adaptive multimedia content delivery are described. In one embodiment, a novel framework features an abstract content model and an abstract adaptive delivery decision engine. The abstract content model recognizes important aspects of contents while hiding their physical details from other parts of the framework. The decision engine then makes content adaptation plans based on the abstracted model of the contents and needs little knowledge of any physical details of the actual contents. Thus, under the same framework, adaptive delivery of generic contents is possible.
US07747695B1
A system, method and computer readable medium for providing automated notifications generates a list of recipients. The notification preferences of the recipients is determined and a notification generated and formatted in accordance with the recipients' preferences is communicated to the recipient. The notification preferences include a notification type, such as voice, email, SMS etc. The notification may be a notification of an overdue debt which provides the recipient with an avenue to make payment of the debt.
US07747687B2
An information processing device connected via a network to another information processing device that recognizes action of a user on a basis of an output of a sensor incorporated in the other information processing device and transmits action information indicating the recognized action of the user includes: a table DB configured to manage correspondence relation between each action recognizable in the other information processing device and communication tools; and a communication means selection processing unit configured to select a communication tool corresponding to the action of the user of the other information processing device, the action of the user being indicated by the action information, as a tool used for communication with the user of the other information processing device on a basis of the correspondence relation managed by the table DB, and execute an application that manages the selected communication tool.
US07747685B2
A method and apparatus is provided for automatically detecting display sharing, setting display sharing status, and generating alerts in instant messaging. If the display is shared, the present invention intercepts an instant message before it is displayed and generates alerts to senders. Senders have options to display the message, delete the message, or allow the message to be queued until display is no longer shared. Alternatively, if the sender's instant messaging application supports the functionality, the mechanism of the present invention may present the user with options to display the message or allow the message to be queued until display is no longer shared without sending an alert message. A privacy list of contacts may be automatically built when integrated with a calendar system for controlling instant messaging access and behavior.
US07747684B2
An information processing method of the invention comprises generating first relational data representing a relation between a document and a user by referring to access logs generated in response to accesses to documents; and generating second relational data representing a relation between documents, between users and between the documents and the users by using the first relational data. By the second relational data as stated above, the relation between the users though the documents can be represented. That is, it becomes easy for a user having referred to a specific document to recognize another user referring to the same specific document.
US07747672B1
The present invention is directed to the recovery of a call signaling channel in connection with a realtime communication established using a packet data network. Specifically, in the event of the failure of an endpoint's current gatekeeper, this invention provides a fast mechanism for searching for an alternate gatekeeper with which the endpoint can re-establish its call signaling channel and hence can regain call service, including call features on existing calls. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a lightweight registration request message is sent on the RAS channel to an alternate gatekeeper in response to the loss of an established call signaling channel, even though a keep alive signal is not then due. The lightweight RRQ message may be sent to individual gatekeepers on an alternate gatekeeper list, until a registration confirmation message is received. Alternatively, a lightweight RRQ message may be sent to all or a number of the gatekeepers on the alternate gatekeeper list simultaneously. A call signaling channel is then established between the first alternate gatekeeper to respond with a registration confirmation message, or to a selected gatekeeper where a number of gatekeepers provide an RCF message.
US07747670B2
Creating a customized item cover comprises receiving customization data and creating at least one customization segment using the customization data. In addition, creating a customized item cover includes producing the customized item cover including the at least one customization segment. Producing the customized item cover may comprise printing the at least one customization segment on the customized item cover or embossing the at least one customization segment on the customized item cover.
US07747669B2
Methods and apparatus to provide rounding of a binary integer are described. In one embodiment, a value that indicates whether a divisor divides a binary integer is extracted from a product of the binary integer and a scaled approximate reciprocal of the divisor.
US07747667B2
A data processing apparatus and method generate an initial estimate of a result value that would be produced by performing a reciprocal operation on an input value. The input value and the result value are either fixed point values or floating point values. The data processing apparatus comprises processing logic for executing instructions to perform data processing operations on data, and a lookup table referenced by the processing logic during generation of the initial estimate of the result value. The processing logic is responsive to an estimate instruction to reference the lookup table to generate, dependent on a modified input value that is within a predetermined range of values, a table output value. For a particular modified input value, the same table output value is generated irrespective of whether the input value is a fixed point value or a floating point value. The initial estimate of the result value is then derivable from the table output value. This provides a particularly efficient technique for performing the initial estimate generation within a data processing apparatus where the reciprocal operation may be performed on either fixed point values or floating point values.
US07747665B2
A method and a circuit for standardizing a noise source providing an initial bit flow, including dividing the initial bit flow into bit words of identical lengths, and assigning an output state according to the states of the bits of the current word and to a pre-established assignment rule, the assignment rule being inverted according to the occurrence, in the initial bit flow, of words, all the bits of which have identical states.
US07747659B2
A garbage collection system that needs to meet real-time requirements uses an eager read barrier that performs a forwarding operation as soon as a quantity is loaded. The barrier maintains a to-space invariant by including a forwarding pointer in the header of objects to be moved or accessed that normally points to the object itself. However, if the object has been moved, the forwarding pointer points to the new object location. The eager read barrier maintains the registers and stack cells such that the registers and stack cells always point into to-space. Barrier-sinking and common sub-expression elimination are used to minimize the overhead associated with the read barrier.
US07747657B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for mapping hierarchical data from a query result into a tabular display, such as a spreadsheet. The tabular display allows some (or all) of the elements included in the hierarchical display to be mapped to positions on the report. In one embodiment, a field of the result that stores hierarchical data with repeating elements (e.g., an XML document) is mapped into the tabular report using jagged rows. This approach allows a user to map both the hierarchical and relational data in the result set to cells in the spreadsheet, and in the process, handle any embedded collection (repeated element) in the hierarchical data.
US07747656B2
The present invention is concerned with a data management apparatus, in which data recorded by dubbing from a CD-DA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) to a hard disc drive (HDD) (31) as a second recording medium are supervised by a hard disc recording and/or reproducing unit (3), which hard disc recording and/or reproducing unit (3) supervises the identification information of the CD-DA to enable the supplementary information to be obtained via communication means from a network server, and in which the so produced supplementary information is automatically registered in the hard disc recording and/or reproducing unit (3) to permit the supplementary information, such as the name of music airs, to be produced even in the absence of a user's input.
US07747654B2
A method of and apparatus for applying a parametric search methodology to a searchable database formatted in a directory tree structure. The directory tree structure includes nodes comprising a collection of related data and branches comprising links between the nodes. Each specific node provides a corresponding set of parameters by which each related item of data corresponding to the specific node is defined by initializing the value of each parameter for each related data. The method accesses a particular node within the directory tree structure and performs a parametric search using one or more set search parameters corresponding to the specific node to generate one or more matching discrete data items, wherein each matching item corresponds to related data of the particular node. The parameters can be customizable and specific to the specific node. The method can also include accessing a particular node utilizing a selective one or more search methodologies including keyword search, hierarchical search, and dichotomous key search.
US07747652B2
Backend data is received from a computer program product such as a hard disk or other long term data storage. The backend data is structured using nodes that are associated with a unique identifier such as a GUID. The nodes are addressable using the unique identifier, and backend data items are associated with corresponding addressable nodes such that the backend nodes can be quickly accessed. Front-end data can be received from a computer program product such as a hard disk or other long term data storage. The front-end data is structured using nodes that are associated with a unique identifier such as a GUID. The nodes are addressable using the unique identifier, and front-end data items are associated with corresponding addressable nodes such that the front-end nodes can be quickly accessed.
US07747646B2
A system is provided having first and second integrated circuits. The first integrated circuit implements a first entity which stores an encryption or decryption function, one or more secret keys for use with the function, and an identity of each of the secret keys which are each indicative of an access permission to the first entity associated with each of the secret keys. The second integrated circuit implements a second entity which stores the function and is programmed and configured to issue a request to the first integrated circuit for one or more of the access permissions and associated key identities for one or more of the secret keys stored in the first entity. The first integrated circuit being programmed and configured to respond to the request by outputting the access permissions and key identities to the second entity for use with the function without outputting the secret keys.
US07747642B2
A system generates an output of documents having with a particular relevance range. The system receives an initial document comprising text, a list of documents for matching, each document comprising text, and a minimum substring match length. The system normalizes the text of the documents of the list of documents. The system searches common sub-strings between the text of the initial document and the text of each document of the list of documents. The system calculates a match percentage based on the search common sub-strings and outputs documents having a match percentage corresponding to a predetermined value. Also disclosed is a process for generating an output of documents within a particular relevance range.
US07747637B2
The subject disclosure pertains to a loop enumerator. The enumerator includes its own collection of items that can be generated manually or loaded from a file. Further, the items themselves can be collections of variable size. These collections of items can be customized to enable enumeration over non-uniform data and/or data that cannot otherwise be logically filtered easily.
US07747630B2
A facility for determining article influence and author authority based upon cites of the author's articles by other authors is described. Authors post new articles to their blog covering one or more memes, which describe the content of the article. The facility determines other web pages that share the same memes as the articles to form a context set, and then identifies those authors, called stakeholders, that commonly cite posts from web pages within the context set. Stakeholders are those with some knowledge about a particular topic that also write articles on the topic. Articles cited by stakeholders are considered more influential than those that are not cited, and a frequently cited author will have more authority for a given meme than one who is largely ignored, as indicated by receiving few article citations.
US07747628B2
System and method for automated construction, retrieval and display of multiple level visual indexes
A method for displaying a multiple level visual index representing data records, comprises storing a plurality of data records and receiving a request to access the stored data records. The method continues by using index parameters to generate a multiple level visual index for the stored data records to be accessed. The method concludes by transmitting a graphical representation of the generated multiple level visual index.
US07747626B2
Search results can be clustered into useable groups and provided to a user. The search results can be categorized according to a clustering algorithm associated with a search engine. The clustered search results can be categorized and provided into separate tabs for each category. In another aspect, multiple tab windows can automatically be opened which allows the user to operate simultaneously multiple tab windows whereby the inputs in one tab window provides results in another tab window.
US07747623B2
A product design support method and system are disclosed in which assuming that a globally distributed commodity is disposed of as a waste product by different recycle methods in different regions or countries, the recycle cost and environmental load accrued by different processing methods are quantified using the product design information thereby to assist in the design improvement. The product information and the regional recycle characteristics are input to determine the recycle method by region. Further, the recycle cost/environmental load by region are quantified based on the product design information using the basic unit information of the recycle cost and environmental load by region.
US07747622B2
A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage, distribution, and/or the like. The method includes storing model and model variable data within a relational database system, receiving a request from a user interfacing with the system via a web interface, extracting search criteria and presentation preferences from the request, formulating and executing one or more queries on the database to retrieve the required data, formatting the data in accordance with the request, and retuning the data to the requesting user in the form of a web page.
US07747620B2
A system and method of generating a playlist of affinity related media files using affinity relationship data. In one aspect the relationship affinity data is based upon a user rating score obtained from a population of user's ratings associated with media file attributes. In one aspect, a media file attribute which can include an artist, album, title, and genre information associated with a media file is received from a user, indicating the user's desire to create an affinity playlist of media files having an affinity relationship based upon the selected media file attribute.
US07747616B2
According to the present invention, there are provided a file search method and a system therefor with which it is possible to display files including a keyword specified by a user in an importance descending order by monitoring a file operation by the user, creating reference relation between files, and arranging search results on the basis of the importance calculated from the reference relation.
US07747614B2
The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating and displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set. According to the present invention, a method for displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set for a query comprises generating a primary result set and a secondary result set, the primary result set and secondary result set generated according to one or more respective disparate search algorithms. A difference result set is determined according to a difference between items in the primary result set and second result set, which is displayed to a user.
US07747613B2
The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating and displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set. According to the present invention, a method for displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set for a query comprises generating a primary result set and a secondary result set, the primary result set and secondary result set generated according to one or more respective disparate search algorithms. A difference result set is determined according to a difference between items in the primary result set and second result set, which is displayed to a user.
US07747610B2
A system and methodology for processing of path based queries is described. In one embodiment, a method for processing a path based query requesting data from a markup language document comprises steps of: parsing the path based query requesting data to generate a query tree corresponding to the path based query; identifying all paths which may be utilized for obtaining data requested by the path based query from the markup language document; creating a transformed query tree to represent all identified paths; generating a query plan for obtaining data requested by the path based query based on the transformed query tree; and executing the query plan to obtain and return the data requested by the path based query.
US07747609B1
Deriving join cost demographics for a binary join, i.e., a join between two relations each having a join column, includes using a correlation factor related to the ratio of unique join column values stored in each of a plurality of units of storage to the total number of unique values in the join column.
US07747595B2
The experience of an end user of a work is enhanced by incrementally distributing the work and supplementing the work by adding an additional interactive component. Installments of works are delivered to the end user on a scheduled basis (and may optionally be delivered upon demand by the end user), or as a benefit delivered in exchange for end user interaction fulfilling certain criteria. The end user is requested or required to perform a task associated with the installment before a subsequent installment is delivered. The user's response (or lack thereof) to the task is recorded, and the user is optionally enabled to later review his or her responses. Each task may have correct or incorrect answers, or the task may require an ad hoc response(s). Optionally, an administrator may review the responses of the tasks of various users assigned to a particular administrator.
US07747593B2
A method of determining cluster attractors for a plurality of documents comprising at least one term. The method comprises calculating, in respect of each term, a probability distribution indicative of the frequency of occurrence of the, or each, other term that co-occurs with said term in at least one of said documents. Then, the entropy of the respective probability distribution is calculated. Finally, at least one of said probability distributions is selected as a cluster attractor depending on the respective entropy value. The method facilitates very small clusters to be formed enabling more focused retrieval during a document search.
US07747592B2
Improved approaches to domain name monitoring are disclosed. The monitoring of domain names, e.g., registrations therefor, is beneficial to holders of similar domain names, trademark owners, and competitors. Such monitoring can be automatically performed.
US07747591B2
Locking feature instances in a web feature service by processing a web feature service data transformation request; identifying a table associated with the web feature service data transformation request from a feature type identified in the request; determining if the table associated with the web feature service data transformation request is enabled for long transaction locking; and, if the table is long transaction lock enabled, locking at least one feature instance associated with a filter condition of the web feature service data transformation request by associating a session transferable identifier with the at least one feature instance and identifying the client session as owner of the session transferable identifier; and enabling a transfer of the long transaction lock to another client session in response to a lock transfer request from the another client session that references the session transferable identifier in a web feature service transaction request.
US07747589B2
A system and method that facilitates and effectuates transaction time indexing with version compression. The system includes an indexing component that partitions a database page containing multiple temporally related versions of a record into a historical page and a current page based at least in part on a time or a key. The system includes a compression component that constructs backward deltas for compressing earlier (historical) versions of records that are stored on the page. Because there is always an uncompressed version for each record on each page, decompression can be done based solely on information stored on the record's page.
US07747582B1
Surrogate hashing is described, including running a first hashing algorithm against a first portion of a first file to generate a first hash value, and running a second hashing algorithm against the first portion of the first file to generate a second hash value, determining whether the first hash value and the second hash value are substantially similar to one or more stored hash values associated with a second portion of a second file, wherein the second portion is identified by one or more attributes that are substantially similar to one or more corresponding attributes associated with the first portion, and identifying a location of the second file if the first hash value and the second hash value are substantially similar to the one or more stored hash values associated with the second portion of the second file.
US07747580B2
Techniques and systems are disclosed for storing instances of an opaque type in a database according to a direct path loading approach. According to one aspect, an opaque type implementor registers, with a loader application, routines that the opaque type implementor implements. In response, the loader application associates the opaque type with the routines. The loader application reads data that comprises instances of the opaque type. The loader application determines which routines are associated with the opaque type. The loader application invokes the routines, which create an array for storing instances of the opaque type and populate the array with values specified in the data. The loader application converts the array into a data stream that conforms to the format of the database's data blocks. The loader application then streams the data to a database server, which writes the data directly into data blocks in the database.
US07747579B2
Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or more storage devices. In various embodiments, such processing of the index and storing of the metadata can facilitate, for example, enhanced data management operations, enhanced data identification operations, enhanced storage operations, data classification for organizing and storing the metadata, cataloging of metadata for the stored metadata, and/or user interfaces for managing data. In various embodiments, the metabase can be configured in different ways. For example, the metabase can be stored separately from the data objects so as to allow obtaining of information about the data objects without accessing the data objects or a data structure used by a file system.
US07747577B2
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture wherein one client node is selected from a plurality of client nodes. A determination is made that an object corresponding to a client node has to be stored. A determination is made as to whether the object has already been stored in the server node by the one selected client node. The object is stored at the server node, in response to determining that the object has not already been stored in the server node by the one selected client node.
US07747574B1
A network based system for archiving digital assets based on keywords associated with the digital assets is provided. In general, digital assets residing at a client node are each tagged with one or more keywords. One or more of the keywords are then identified as archiving keywords, thereby creating a list of archiving keywords. The list of archiving keywords is provided from the client node to a central node. The central node then provides a request to the client node for the digital assets tagged with the keywords in the list of archiving keywords. In response, the client node uploads the digital assets tagged with the keywords in the list of archiving keywords to the central node.
US07747559B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for automated criteria and attribute generation, searching, auditing and reporting of data. One aspect of an embodiment of the invention includes a method for translating a request for filtering data in a plurality of credit data sources. The method includes receiving a request based on at least one attribute and on at least one modeling criteria, wherein the at least one attribute and the at least one modeling criteria are each associated with a portion of data in a plurality of credit data sources, automatically generating executable computer code associated with the at least one attribute and at least one modeling criteria, wherein the executable computer code is adapted to filter the portion of data in the plurality of credit data sources based at least in part on the at least one attribute and at least one modeling criteria, and storing at least a portion of the executable computer code for use with another request based in part on the at least one attribute and based in part on the at least one modeling criteria.
US07747558B2
A method for embedding metadata into a media file (100) comprises providing (204) a metadata schema file (204) and a metadata instance file (206). Providing a media file having a binary capable user field. Then compressing (208) the metadata schema by a first compression method; and assembling (210) the compressed metadata schema fragments. Also, compressing (212) the metadata instance file and assembling (210) the compressed metadata instance fragments. Setting a media file header (214) or footer to indicate binary data payload. The method further comprises appending (216) a data start label to the assembled metadata schema and the assembled metadata instance and inserting (218) the assembled metadata schema and the metadata instance into the binary capable user field of the media file.
US07747556B2
A data repository monitoring system that utilizes queries to generate notifications in response to the identification of new and changed content. The system includes a monitoring component that monitors a plurality of disparate repositories in order to identify the receipt of new or modified content. The monitoring component includes a query component(s) that identifies metadata of imported content. The query can be generated and communicated to the monitoring component via a graphical user interface. A notification component is also provided to generate a prompt upon the receipt of incoming content as identified by the query component. The invention employs a centralized store (e.g., change queue) that maintains metadata corresponding to imported (e.g., new) metadata.
US07747553B2
The present invention provides a rule set partitioning based packet classification method for Internet. The method comprising: performing Horizontal Cut for the rule set, determining the field for partitioning a rule layer based on a target algorithm and selecting the partition manner of the Horizontal Cut, performing Horizontal Cut according to the selected partition manner of the Horizontal Cut, thereby obtaining more than one rule layers, each rule layer being a Horizontal subset, combining the rule layers to obtain a plurality of Horizontal subsets according to the total number of the pre-designated Horizontal subsets and a predefined principle, wherein the total number of said combined plurality of Horizontal subsets equals to the total number of said pre-designated Horizontal subsets; performing Vertical Cut in each of the Horizontal subsets; then forming a Hash table that can index the Vertical subsets, so that it can be used in a lookup; and realizing rule storage in each Vertical subset respectively according to the target algorithm.
US07747539B2
Methods and apparatus process a financial transaction initiated by a consumer with a contactless transaction device. An electromagnetic transmission identifying a financial account and an adjunct identifier is received from the device. Transaction data are electromagnetically transmitted to the device. Another electromagnetic transmission providing authentication data and a digital signature originated from the transaction data is received from the device. The device is authenticated with an analysis of the authentication data and digital signature. An authorization request for approval of the financial transaction is transmitted over a payment network to an issuer system, and a response is received. The adjunct identifier is transmitted to an adjunct system distinct from the issuer system for implementation of functions adjunct to the financial transaction. The financial transaction is acted on in accordance with the response to the authorization request.
US07747536B2
The invention provides improved security for stored-value instruments. For example, a point-of-sale device may receive a request to process a transaction (such as an activation, redemption, funds recharge, etc.) with a presentation instrument. The point-of-sale device may receive a first identifier associated with the instrument. Merely by way of example, the first identifier may be encoded on a magnetic stripe disposed on the instrument, and receiving the first identifier may comprise swiping the magnetic stripe through a reader in communication with the point-of-sale device. The point-of-sale device may also receive a second identifier associated with the instrument. In some embodiments, the first and second identifiers may be correlated, e.g., to determine whether they are consistent. Merely by way of example, the second identifier may be derived from the first identifier in a specified manner, and the correlation of the first and second identifiers may comprise determining that the second identifier comprises the properly derived information. If the first and second identifiers are successfully correlated, the transaction may be performed.
US07747535B2
Credit card transaction authorization is performed using ad-hoc, short-range wireless links to obtain item identification information from items that include ad-hoc short range wireless link transmitters and that are carried by a user who is associated with a prospective credit card transaction. Authorization information for the prospective credit card transaction is generated based on the item identification information that was obtained. Location information for a wireless terminal that is associated with the user and/or Internet Protocol (IP) address information for a transaction terminal that is associated with the transaction may also be used. Related systems, devices and computer program products are also described.
US07747531B2
A system and method for delivery of secure software license information to authorize the use of a software program is disclosed. The method and system comprises a computer system for executing the software program and the authorizing program, and a license server, connected to the computer system over a network. The method and system include associating a publisher certificate and a signed product key pair with the program to be authorized, generating a license request containing user and product information and signed by the private key from the product key pair, transmitting the license request to a license server, generating a license using data extracted from the license request and license terms, signing the license with the publisher private key associated with the publisher certificate, transmitting the license to the authorization program, validating the license using the publisher certificate, and using the license terms to control the use of the software program.
US07747522B1
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for issuing and redeeming a gift certificate drawn on a credit card or other financial account. The present invention includes a first aspect directed to a merchant card authorization terminal and a second aspect directed to a credit card issuer central controller. According to the first aspect, a method for redeeming a gift certificate drawn on a financial account is disclosed including the steps of receiving a gift certificate for payment of an identified value, transmitting a request for authorization to a central server, receiving an authorization signal, representing an indication that redemption of the gift certificate is authorized, from said central server and receiving a payment from the account issuer based on said identified value. A system is also disclosed for implementing the methods in all aspects of the present invention.
US07747520B2
A computer-based method of monitoring for and reporting of a lien distress event relatable to a property within a client loan portfolio includes inputting property data from the portfolio, standardizing the data for querying a lien distress event database, monitoring the database for lien distress events relatable to the standardized property data, and notifying the client if a lien distress event is detected. The monitoring period and the type of lien distress events to be monitored may be specified by the client. Notifying the client may include generating and delivering a lien distress report including a property valuation. The method may be executed automatically as a service periodically updating and monitoring a loan portfolio of a subscribing client.
US07747511B1
In a system and method for managing risk of fluctuation on company share prices, a financial institution sells a put to a company on a specified number of shares of stock of the company, the put including a strike price that is a predetermined percentage less than a market price of the shares of stock of the company. The financial institution also purchases a call from the company on the specified number of shares of stock of the company, the call including a strike price that is a predetermined percentage greater than the market price of the shares of stock of the company.
US07747506B2
An indicator signal monitoring process receives the sequential transmission of an indicator signal that is repeatedly broadcast by a primary intended recipient of attributable security interest messages. A recipient offline determination process determines that the primary intended recipient is offline whenever the indicator signal is not received for a defined failure period.
US07747495B2
The invention features a business method that takes advantage of the ability to convert unorganized information in the form of paper documents, document images, and electronic documents and converts the information to an organized electronic form referred to as Knowledge Objects. The invention further encompasses forming electronic Business Objects, such as documents and data sets, useful for business decision making and information exchange. The methods of the invention may utilize computerized storage and computerized decision-making systems to enable making more rapid critical business decisions.
US07747492B2
Installation and method for performing a financial service comprising the following steps: (a) calculation of at least one inflation correction value for a desired coupon value CV in a year i making use of the coupon value CV and of future index data Ii; (b) calculation of a cash value of the at least one inflation correction value for the coupon value CV in year i making use of the coupon value CV, the future index data Ii and the interest rates inti; (c) presentation of a purchase price to a purchaser at which the at least one inflation correction value for the coupon value CV, or a portion thereof, can be purchased.
US07747491B2
An anonymous information system is capable of maintaining anonymity of data while improving safety with regard to loss of anonymity caused by hacking of secret information, or the like. Conversion processing for converting from individual specifying information to anonymous individual information is split between an information providing device and an anonymity server device. Further, the manner in which the conversion processing is split is varied for each information providing device. A parameter generating device calculates Xinv to satisfy Xi×Xinv=1 mod q, a first characteristic parameter KAi=G^Xinv mod q, and a second characteristic parameter KBi=Xi. The information providing device generates a semi-anonymous individual identifier C=(KAi)^D mod P. The anonymity server device calculates an anonymous individual identifier E=(C)^KBi mod P.
US07747480B1
Systems and methods for managing data assets in an enterprise computing environment are provided. Data assets associated with a plurality of source systems operating within the enterprise computing environment may be registered with an asset repository hub. The asset repository hub receives a registration request from a source system for a particular data asset and determines whether the data asset is unique within the enterprise computing environment. If the data asset is unique, then the data asset is stored at the asset repository hub and a unique enterprise identifier is associated with the data asset. In determining whether the asset is unique, the asset repository hub may cleanse the data asset against a set of business rules; generate a plurality of match codes that describe the content of the data asset; and cluster the generated match codes against clusters of previously generated match codes. Also provided herein is a mechanism for searching and locating data assets stored within the enterprise computing environment by submitting queries to the asset repository hub.
US07747473B1
The demand aggregation system includes buyer sponsored DealRooms, seller sponsored DealRooms, and multiple buyer and multiple seller sponsored DealRooms. Moreover, the demand aggregation system includes a customer relations management (CRM) package. In the CRM package, information on buyer and prospective buyers are loaded into a database that can include information such as: individual name; company name and address; email address; phone number; cell number; products purchased; volumes; time of purchase. Further the CRM package can be integrated with the demand aggregation system as well as a customer resource planning system (e.g., MRP, ERP).
US07747464B2
A method of promoting and playing a motion picture at a theater in which the motion picture is not scheduled to begin at any particular time, the patron may visit the theater when convenient, and the motion picture begins a pre-determined period of time after the first patron arrives. The motion picture may begin earlier if a pre-determine level of patrons arrive. Various system are also described to support this process, including systems that delay the determination of the motion picture that will be played by a particular theater until after a visiting patron selects that motion picture. Applying these concepts to purchased or rented offices, apartments and condominiums is also disclosed.
US07747461B2
A system and method are disclosed for providing a complete architectural and procedural solution to wireless subscriber loyalty issues. A flexible promotion creation environment allows mobile phone operators to rapidly create and deploy various incentive programs and other such loyalty schemes; together with a data mining and profiling method for tracking, monitoring and analysing subscriber (or aggregate) usage information associated with given promotions. The proposed data mining and profiling method purposely incents specific subscriber behaviors by triggering a point-based reward scheme based on the dynamic screening of event records which are correlated with incented behaviors. Wherein a threshold is assigned based on usage information for a particular promotion; upon realization of which, the subscriber is, immediately notified of the reward through a plurality of means including e-mail, voice notification and by way of Short Message Service (SMS) at their wireless handset.
US07747460B2
A system, and method for making and using the same, for an on-site evaluation of flooring materials, condition, and value, and further, for providing replacement flooring. The system includes an interconnected system which includes estimation logic, project management logic and installation logic for managing an insurance claim from start to finish in a just in time fashion.
US07747458B2
A system and method for event resolution. The method includes determining whether a post-scheduled event or a pre-scheduled event conflicts with a scheduled event. The method further includes extracting details of the post-scheduled event or the pre-scheduled event and automatically populating a response with at least some of the extracted details. The method further includes sending the response with an accept indication when the post-scheduled event or the pre-scheduled event does not conflict with the scheduled event, or sending the response with a cancel indication when the post-scheduled event or the pre-scheduled event conflicts with the scheduled event, or sending the response with a tentatively accept indication when the post-scheduled event or the pre-scheduled event conflicts with the scheduled event.
US07747457B2
A comprehensive, web-enabled computer system and method is provided for facilitating and managing all aspects of project work, while synchronizing communications, data and transaction processing across multiple user platforms. To implement the computer system and method, a bid item list is utilized to create configurable and scalable customized bid templates premised on the specific type of project work required. Bid requests are generated from the customized bid templates for solicitation of vendor bid responses to the selected bid items provided by the bid template. One or more bid items within the vendor bid responses can be selected for vendor grading purposes, and comparison of the vendor bid responses can be conducted using the graded bid item responses. In addition, project tracking parameters can be entered into the computer system for tracking the performance of the project.
US07747446B2
A system and method for voice recognition interaction is provided. The system can have a processor for receiving a voice signal and determining a command based on the voice signal. The system can also have a confirmation interface operably connected to the processor, where the confirmation interface is capable of receiving a confirmation signal from a user and providing the confirmation signal to the processor. The system can have a user identifying device for determining an identity of the user. The processor can determine a confirmation criteria based at least in part on the identity of the user or a type of the command. The satisfaction of the confirmation criteria can be applied to allow or prevent performance of the command.
US07747439B2
A method of correctly segmenting phonemes by determining a boundary indicating a start point and an end point of each of the segmented phonemes, and correctly finding the phoneme in the speech signal by determining which phoneme in a phoneme recognition standard table corresponds to each of the segmented phonemes. Using this phoneme recognition method, an amount of computation can be significantly reduced, and the phoneme in the speech signal can be easily found by calculating probability distances between phonemes.
US07747433B2
A high quality speech is reproduced with a small data amount in speech coding and decoding for performing compression coding and decoding of a speech signal to a digital signal. In speech coding method according to a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coding, a noise level of a speech in a concerning coding period is evaluated by using a code or coding result of at least one of spectrum information, power information, and pitch information, and various excitation codebooks are used based on an evaluation result.
US07747410B2
A measurement system and method to determine the operating characteristics of a door closure sensor technology and others. The objective of the device is to obtain in a simple manipulation, accurate, high speed data. Among the identified metrics are elements such as speed, three dimensional position, hinge orientation, cabin pressure, sound quality, inertia, work, input energy and others. Another part elaborates the methodology for data acquisition and analysis to obtain reliable results reducing user dependency.
US07747405B2
This invention relates to line frequency synchronisation for use in diagnostics for alternating current electrical circuits. The invention provides a method of synchronising measurement system frequency with an alternating current line frequency comprising the steps of: adjusting the frequency of the measurement system frequency using a frequency locked loop until the measurement system frequency is within a predetermined range of said alternating current line frequency; and when the measurement system frequency is within a predetermined range of said alternating current line frequency adjusting the phase and the frequency of the measurement system frequency using a phase and frequency locked loop.
US07747401B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for decomposing a signal using a sawtooth, or triangle wave, transform. Specific embodiments transform an input signal into a piecewise-linear sawtooth or triangle wave function, and construct upper and lower envelopes for the input signal in sawtooth space. A component function for the input signal (e.g., an Intrinsic Mode Function (IMF)) is then generated based on the sawtooth or triangle wave function and the upper and lower envelopes. In various embodiments, the results generated in sawtooth space are reversely transformed into the original data space of the input signal. In this manner, an input signal may be decomposed into one or more component functions without the time-consuming and relatively unpredictable sifting process of the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) method.
US07747399B2
A system for monitoring electricity consumption in a building, comprising a transmitter connected to the primary electricity input of the building for wirelessly transmitting consumption data to at least one display device. The display device is adapted to receive data from the Internet for analysis and comparison to the consumption data generated by the transmitter. The transmitter includes an electricity detection circuit that comprises a diode bridge and a difference amplifier connected to a microprocessor.
US07747398B2
At least one exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a method comprising obtaining a first frequency and a second frequency. The method also comprises creating a table of values comprising a plurality of target frequencies intermediate to the first and second pulse width corresponding to each of the target frequencies from the plurality of target frequencies. The method further comprises outputting at least a portion of the values to a motion device.
US07747392B2
A physiogenomics method for predicting an individual's response to an environmental stimulus comprises producing and recording a physiogenomic model. The model is produced b a method including selecting a plurality of genetic markers, identifying significant covariates among demographic data to produce correlated markers for use as a covariate in an unadjusted association test; performing for the plurality each selected genetic markers an unadjusted association test; using permutation testing to select a plurality of model building markers; identifying one or more genes not associated with a particular outcome in the individual to serve as a physiogenomic control; and presenting a display of the individual's predicted physiological response. One can then compare the genetic markers of the individual to the physiogenomic database and convey to the individual an appropriate treatment intervention.
US07747381B2
An object of the invention is to provide a traffic information provision system which can arbitrarily set a position resolution and a traffic representation resolution and flexibly support a traffic information prediction service. The traffic information provision system of the invention quantizes the state quantity of traffic information changing along a road, converts said quantized state quantity to a value having statistical deviation, performs encoding of said value, and provides the encoded value to traffic information utilization apparatus such as a car navigation system. The traffic information utilization apparatus decodes said encoded state quantity to reproduce the traffic information on said road.
US07747379B2
When engine rotation speed is increasing in a compression stroke injection mode, a control device determines that a crank angle at injection end timing of an injector deviates toward a delayed crank angle side and performs additional ignition at timing when (or immediately before or after) a crank angle at actual injection end timing of the injector of a present injection cylinder is reached. Thus, even when the crank angle at the injection end timing deviates toward the delayed crank angle side with respect to preset original ignition timing, a combustion state can be stabilized by performing the additional ignition at timing, at which a suitable stratified mixture gas is formed in a cylinder, through the execution of the additional ignition at the timing substantially the same as the actual injection end timing.
US07747360B2
An aircraft cockpit display device for information concerning surrounding traffic includes devices to receive information coming from outside the aircraft, to know the flight parameters of the aircraft, to calculate projected trajectories of the aircraft and of a detected aircraft in the immediate vicinity, and to display a representation of the surrounding traffic through symbols and potential messages based on instructions received. A display command device is connected to an on-board calculator to know the flight phase of the aircraft. The display command device has a filtering device to define for each flight phase and/or crew task the nature and the level of information to be displayed.
US07747358B2
A method of accommodating an element in a building equipment component. The presence of the element may be detected, and whether the element is required may be determined. The building equipment component may be operated if the element is present and required, or if the element not required. If the element is absent but required, the building equipment component may be stopped. In some instances, the building equipment component may include a required first sensor, and the element may be an optional second sensor.
US07747354B2
A circuit protection system is provided that provides dynamic zones of protection for the circuit. The zones of protection can be based in part upon the topology of the circuit. The protection system can perform various dynamic zone protective functions for the zones of protection.
US07747349B2
A mobile robot platform and a method for sensing movement of the same are disclosed, which utilize two omni-directional meter wheels perpendicular to each other and a magnetic sensing module for detecting a moving condition of the platform moving on a planar surface while transmitting the detected moving condition to a signal processing unit to calculate the position, velocity, angular position and angular velocity of the platform.
US07747342B2
An item location directory method and system involves the use of item-identifying bar codes on the items to be included in the directory, and location-identifying bar codes physically applied to the corresponding locations. These are read in a preset manner with a bar code reader and inputted into a processor for creation of item/corresponding location data for the directories.
US07747338B2
An audio reproduction system includes a plurality of mobile devices, such as mobiles phones. Each of the mobile devices includes a loudspeaker, memory for storing audio data, and instructions, stored in memory, for prompting the plurality of mobile devices to each output at least a portion of an audio data file to the loudspeaker of the respective mobile device. A processor is configured for executing the instructions, thereby enabling contemporaneous play of the audio data file by the plurality of mobile devices.
US07747336B2
One element is taken from a machined shape. When the element is a straight line element, whether or not the distance D between the start point and the end point of the element in a direction orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the workpiece is equal to or greater than a preset value Ds is determined. In addition, whether or not an angle A that the straight line element makes with the Z-axis is equal to or greater than a preset angle Aa is determined. When the distance D is equal to or greater than the preset value Ds and the angle A is equal to or greater than the preset angle Aa, a program is created with the cutting direction reversed from the profile direction.
US07747334B2
A lead for sensing and pacing a left ventricle of the heart includes a lead body having a proximal portion and a distal portion, a lumen extending through the lead body, a conductor extending through the lead body from the proximal end to the distal end and an electrode disposed on the distal portion of the lead body and electrically coupled to the conductor. A distal tip of the lead body is continuously deflectable upon advancement and withdrawal of a stylet through the lumen at the distal portion to access a selected branch of the coronary sinus. The distal tip of the lead body may be offset before or after continuously deflecting the distal tip.
US07747333B2
A lead assembly includes an elongate body having a conductor electrically coupled with an electrode coupled to the elongate body. The lead assembly includes a push tube extending along at least a portion of the elongate body. A distal tip is coupled to the elongate body substantially adjacent to the distal end of the elongate body. The distal tip is sized and shaped to couple with a push tube distal end. In one option, the distal tip includes a seat to receive the push tube distal end. In another option, the seat is a side rail seat and a guide wire extends along the elongate body and is slidably coupled with the side rail seat. The lead assembly includes, optionally, an active fixation device slidably coupled with a portion of the elongate body, and the active fixation device is sized and shaped to couple with the push tube.
US07747331B2
An active implantable medical device having an RF telemetry circuit. The device is in particular a stimulation, resynchronization, defibrillation and/or cardioversion device. It includes a principal circuit, an RF telemetry auxiliary circuit and a supply battery for the principal and auxiliary circuits. It is envisaged to have between the supply battery and the auxiliary circuit a regulating circuit including an accumulator of electric power coupled with the auxiliary circuit to deliver a current ready to feed the auxiliary circuit, and a load circuit coupled with the supply battery to maintain the accumulator on a predetermined level of load.
US07747308B2
Methods, systems and circuits predict cardiotoxicity induced cardiac injury prior to an irreversible state by electronically generating at least one histogram of mean intensities of voxels/pixels in an MRI image of a left ventricle myocardium and electronically determining a likelihood of cardiac injury due to cardiotoxicity based on data from the at least one histogram.
US07747303B2
This invention relates to an electrode arrangement (1), in particular for electroimpedance tomography, having multiple electrodes (4) for electric contacting of measurement object and a belt-shaped electrode carrier (3.1-3.4) for encompassing the measurement object, with the electrodes (4) being attached to the belt-shaped electrode carrier (3.1-3.4). It is proposed that the electrodes (4) be positionable on the belt-shaped electrode carrier (3.1-3.4) in the longitudinal direction of the belt-shaped electrode carrier (3.1-3.4). In addition, this invention relates to a method for applying such an electrode arrangement to a measurement object.
US07747295B2
An earphone jack for a mobile communication terminal and a driving method thereof, wherein the earphone jack includes a first speaker terminal for providing a positive (+) differential call voice signal when a call voice signal is output, a second speaker terminal for providing a negative (−) differential call voice signal when the call voice signal is output, and a switchable ground terminal for maintaining a ground on state when a media sound source is output, and becoming a ground off state when the call voice signal is output. The method includes the steps of determining whether an audio signal to be currently output is a media sound source signal (that is, a sound source media data signal), or a call voice signal (that is, a wireless call voice signal), and when the media sound source signal is output, maintaining a ground on state and outputting the media sound source signal in stereo, and when the call voice signal is output, maintaining a ground off state and outputting a differential signal.
US07747291B2
Methods of communicating with a mobile unit using a wireless communication system are described. In one embodiment, a signal is received from a transmitting mobile unit. The status of the mobile unit is determined and a communication is constructed. The communication comprises at least one communication packet comprising a plurality of information fields. The communication is transmitted to the mobile unit.
US07747284B2
The bandwidth for transmission and reception in a bi-directional radio relay link with two simultaneous broadcasts and receptions is reduced by half. Each terminal device comprises a first broadcaster for broadcasting a first data signal, via a first antenna, in a first used frequency band identical to that in which a first receiver receives a second data signal via a second antenna. A second receiver receives, via the first antenna, a third data signal with a second frequency band and a second broadcaster broadcasts, via a second antenna, a fourth data signal with the second frequency band.
US07747280B2
A method of retrieving a product using a print medium, comprising the steps of: determining a print media identifier from the print medium using a sensor module of a mobile telecommunications device, the print media identifier having been linked to the product; and, retrieving, using the mobile telecommunications device and the print media identifier, the product.
US07747278B2
A method for transmitting a message from a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system. The method includes displaying a list of messages attempted to be transmitted, selecting a message from the list of transmitted messages that was unsuccessfully transmitted, and displaying detailed information about the selected message that was unsuccessfully transmitted.
US07747274B2
Amplitude modulation of multiple carriers provides a pulse width modulated train resulting in a novel and effective communication mechanism to overcome difficulties in certain RF applications, particularly in the area of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). A novel conceptual pulse is formed and developed using a set of RF frequencies, such as ultra wideband frequencies, amplitude modulated to form a pulse width modulated binary coded signal. The concept is to wirelessly convey information only to a receiver at a specified distance or range. The RF energy may continue on in space, but receivers of the same design would only receive information from a transmitter if the receivers are located at a specified distance. Equivalent receivers at all other distances would see noise.
US07747271B2
To meet a radiated power limit, a transmitting station determines a synthesized antenna pattern based on steering vectors used for spatial processing and estimates an array gain based on the synthesized antenna pattern. Different spatial processing modes (e.g., eigensteering and spatial spreading) result in different synthesized antenna patterns. The array gain may be estimated based on the spatial processing mode used for the data transmission and applicable parameters (e.g., eigenvalues) for that mode. An element gain for each antenna used for data transmission may also be estimated. The transmitting station then limits the transmit power for the data transmission based on the array gain, the element gain, and the radiated power limit, which may be an effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) limit imposed by a regulatory agency.
US07747270B2
A plurality of communication conference sessions coupled to one another such that when a communication right is requested, a check is made to ascertain whether the communication right has already been allotted to subscribers in a different, coupled communication conference session. In such a case, the communication right is denied, and otherwise, the communication right is granted.
US07747265B1
A communication session between a wireless communication device and one or more recipient communication devices is initiated in response to user input received at a separate computing device. The intended parties of the call are identified at the computing device in response to the user input. Once the intended parties have been identified, the calling instructions are generated and transmitted to the wireless communication device or a server, which cause a call to be initiated between a wireless communication device and one or more recipient communication devices. This allows a caller to utilize the functionality and resources available on a computer to initiate a call, while enabling the caller to utilize the functionality and resources available on the caller's wireless communication device to engage in and complete the call, without requiring the caller to communicate through the telephony applications of a computer.
US07747262B2
A paging apparatus and method in a mobile communication system providing an MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service). In the mobile communication system, to page a UE for a first service through a primary carrier during a second service in progress through a secondary carrier, a PICH (Paging Indication Channel) transmitter in a Node B transmits paging indication information to the UE through the primary carrier by oscillating the primary carrier as a transmission frequency. A PCH (Paging Channel) transmitter transmits paging information to the UE through the primary carrier or the secondary carrier by oscillating the primary carrier or the secondary carrier as the transmission frequency under a predetermined control. A PBMSCH (Physical Broadcast Multicast Shared Channel) transmitter transmits data of the second service through the secondary carrier by oscillating the secondary carrier as the transmission frequency. A controller controls the primary carrier or the secondary carrier to be oscillated as the transmission frequency of the PCH transmitter if the paging indication information indicates paging.
US07747259B2
A system is described that utilizes an imager in a wireless device (102) in a wireless network (100) and transmits a digital image to a service center (120) that assists in identifying the location of the wireless device (102) within a cell site (104).
US07747257B2
GPS assistance message and data issue identifiers for transmission to GPS enabled mobile stations in cellular communications networks and methods therefore. The GPS data issue identifiers indicate whether GPS data, for example corresponding ephemeris and almanac data, stored at the mobile station requires updating. In the exemplary 3rd generation (W-CDMA/UMTS) architecture, the GPS assistance message is a System Information Block (SIB), and the GPS ephemeris data identifier and corresponding satellite identifier is encoded in a value tag included in a Master Information Block (MIB).
US07747255B2
Disclosed is a system, apparatus, and method for dynamically estimating the bandwidth of a network link in a wireless network. The system includes at least one client device capable of receiving data over the wireless network and a server capable of transceiving data over a link of a wireless channel of the wireless network. The server identifies the at least one client device in the wireless network and identifies applications that are being utilized in the wireless network by the at least one client device, in which each application has an associated link between the server and the client device and an associated data stream transmitted over the link. The server passively estimates the bandwidth being used by an application over the link based upon measuring the throughput of the associated data stream and based upon determining channel utilization of the link.
US07747248B2
A testing system for testing the radio software stack (40) of a radio device (16) is described. The system comprises test control means (10) and perturbation means (38) connected to said radio device. The perturbation means enables perturbation and subsequent monitoring of a radio stack operation. The perturbation means may also directly alter data in a radio message en-route through the software stack. In a further aspect of the present invention a distributed testing system is described enabling a wider range of environmental and real world situations to be simulated to enable thorough testing of the software stack in design for an application.
US07747246B2
Included are embodiments of a method for communicating user preferences to at least one environment. At least one embodiment includes receiving a request from an environment for preference information related to a user and receiving a user identifier from the environment, the user identifier obtained via a portable user device. Other embodiments include determining at least one user preference related to the user, determining capabilities related to the environment, and communicating at least one user preference to the environment.
US07747244B2
Several related methods and apparatus for re-establishing communication for a wireless communication device after a communication loss between the wireless device and a wireless communication network are disclosed. In one illustrative example, the wireless network broadcasts identifiers of wireless devices associated with communication losses in the wireless network over a control channel. After regaining signal coverage, a wireless device monitors the control channel to decode and compare each broadcasted identifier with an identifier of the wireless device. Based on a match between a broadcasted identifier and the identifier of the wireless device, the wireless device transmits a control message which informs the wireless network of the presence of the wireless device. Otherwise, the wireless device normally refrains from transmitting the control message to the wireless network. Advantageously, communication with the wireless network is re-established (if at all necessary) without overburdening the wireless link with unnecessary traffic.
US07747242B2
A communications system which performs accounting according to the actual provided communication quality in a QoS authentication service. A radio system has mobile stations, a radio base station, a packet function control apparatus, a node apparatus and an accounting server, performs user accounting according to an actual communication quality. At least one of the wireless base station, packet control function apparatus and node apparatus has a memory unit which stores a granted communication quality, the communication quality which can be provided and accounting data. Further, at least one of the wireless base station, packet control function apparatus and node apparatus has a control unit which measures the communication quality, and transmits a message when the present accounting differs from the accounting for the measured communication quality, and the accounting server has a control unit which performs accounting using the measured communication quality.
US07747239B1
SMS based alert messages are routed to subscribers via a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) such that SMS alert messages can be provided to specific cell sites. Also, SMS alert message can be provided to all subscribers registered in a specific cell site, including roamers. When an MSC receives one alert message, it routes that one message to all subscribers known to the MSC. In an example embodiment, an emergency alert message along with an indication of the alert area is received by an emergency alert server. MSCs capable of facilitating cellular coverage for the alert area are determined. Cell ID (cell sites) associated with the MSC are determined, and the alert message is routed to subscribers currently registered in the cell ID.
US07747233B2
An apparatus and method for supplying information so that power consumption in a digital broadcast receiving terminal can be reduced and a user can use an appropriate antenna depending on a situation. The digital broadcast receiving terminal includes an external antenna detachably assembled with the outside of the terminal a switch unit for selecting any one among the internal antennas and the external antenna, and a signal-receiving condition sensing unit capable of sensing the signal-receiving condition of the internal antennas and the external antenna. If it is impossible to receive the digital broadcast signal by using the internal antennas, the external antenna is used. If the external antenna is mounted, power is supplied only to an RF unit connected to the external antenna and the power supply to the remaining RF unit is cut off, reducing power consumption.
US07747227B2
A transmission module includes: a power amplifier amplifies power of a radio frequency signal that is to be transmitted via an antenna; a coupler that allows the radio frequency signal from the power amplifier to travel toward the antenna and causes adverse radio frequency power to ground; and a substrate provided with the power amplifier and the coupler.
US07747221B2
A method for controlling uplink radio resource which can improve the capacity and coverage of a mobile communication network includes the steps of: measuring, at base stations, both total interference and intra-cell interference values; reporting measured values to a radio network controller; calculating, at the radio network controller, allowed total interference for individual cells in response to the reporting from the base stations; sending information about the allowed total interference to the base stations; and scheduling, in response to the allowed total interference by the base stations, uplink data packet transmission of mobile stations not to exceed the allowed total interference calculated for the respective cells.
US07747210B2
Document processing systems and methods are presented in which one or more pages of a print job are segmented into two or more parts, with the first part being transferred and affixed to the printed medium prior to transferring and affixing the second part, in order to facilitate high TMA (pile height) printing while mitigating adverse retransfer, blur, fusing, and hollow character effects.
US07747206B2
A fixing apparatus includes: a fixing roller and a pressure roller which transport a recording paper while sandwiching the recording paper P therebetween so that an unfixed toner image formed on the recording paper is fixed thereon under heat and pressure; two support rollers; an endless belt which is set over the support rollers and comes into contact with a surface of the fixing roller; and heater lamps which are provided respectively inside the support rollers. A fixing apparatus satisfies a relationship indicated by (C2+C3)/C1≧2 where C1 is a heat capacity of each of the heater lamps, C2 is a heat capacity of each of the support rollers, and C3 is a heat capacity of the endless belt in each of areas where the endless belt is in contact with the support rollers. This realizes an external belt heat fixing apparatus which suppresses (a) heat damage to the endless belt and the surface of the fixing member and (b) unevenness of an image.
US07747204B2
A developing roller is provided which is soft enough to enable toners to be kept from deteriorating with time and cannot easily cause permanent set. The developing roller includes a mandrel, an elastic-material layer and a cover layer as a surface layer which covers the elastic-material layer. Asker-C hardness at the surface of the cover layer is from 40° to 85°. The cover layer has a thickness of from 15 nm to 5,000 nm. Martens hardness H1 (N/mm2) at the surface of the developing roller, Martens hardness H2 (N/mm2) of the elastic-material layer and the thickness d (mm) of the cover layer satisfy the relationship of the following expression (1): 400≦(H1−H2)/d≦2,000 (1).
US07747200B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a developing device, and a toner container. The toner container is attachable to and detachable from the main body, and a rotating shaft is installed in the interior thereof. A first joint is on one end of the toner container and is coupled to the rotating shaft. A second joint is provided to the main body opposite the first joint. A coupling guide mechanism couples the first and second joints to each other, and a driving source transmits a driving force to the first joint via the second joint. The coupling guide mechanism couples the first joint and the second joint to each other whether the toner container is loaded into the main body in an axial direction or in a radial direction of the rotating shaft.
US07747195B2
A fixing device for fixing a toner image onto a recording medium, includes: a belt member rotatably provided; a heating section that heats the belt member; a pressurization member, placed so as to be pressed against the belt member, that forms a nip portion to allow the recording medium to pass through between the pressurization member and the belt member; and an uniforming section that uniforms a temperature distribution in a longitudinal direction of the pressurization member.
US07747191B2
A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of the image forming apparatus. The cartridge includes an image bearing member, a developing device developing an electrostatic image formed on the member with a developer, a first receiver receiving a driving force rotating the member from a first transmitter of the main assembly, a second receiver receiving a driving force driving the developing device from a second transmitter of the main assembly. The first receiver and the transmitter are engaged with each other with play in a mounting and demounting direction of the process cartridge, when the driving force is inputted from the first transmitter to the first receiver. When the driving force is inputted from the second transmitter to the second receiver, a part of the process cartridge is urged toward a positioning portion for positioning of the process cartridge relative to the main assembly.
US07747179B2
An image forming apparatus manages information regarding the lifetimes of a plurality of photosensitive media or developing units using a single storage. The image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive unit comprising a photosensitive medium, a developing unit comprising a developing roller that applies developer to the photosensitive medium and a developing device that is removable and contains the developer supplied to the developing roller. A storage is included in one of the photosensitive unit or the developing unit, whichever has a longer lifetime, and stores information regarding at least one of the photosensitive unit and the developing unit. A controller controls the information stored in the storage. The image forming apparatus has a plurality of photosensitive units and/or developing units.
US07747176B2
A receiver for a differentially phase shift keying formatted optical signal, such as an RZ-DPSK formatted optical signal. Dither control loops are provided for controlling path length in a demodulator and/or for controlling the center wavelength of an optical band pass filter. A feedback loop is provided for controlling the gain of a pre-amplifier, and a method of protecting against optical transients by disabling a pre-amplifier is also provided. A preset delay may be provided to compensate for the differential delay in paths associated with the demodulator arms. When the signal is an RZ-DPSK modulated signal, a clock for retiming data from the optical signal may be derived from a signal on the data path.
US07747175B2
To compensate a waveform distortion by using a nature that a spectral shape is perfectly retained even if all the linear distortions occur on a time-axis. An optical pulse transmitted from an optical pulse transmitter (1) via an optical fiber transmission line (2) is transmitted. An optical Fourier transformer (3) receives an optical pulse, and optically Fourier-transforms an optical pulse on a time-axis onto a frequency-axis to reproduce the frequency spectrum of an optical pulse on a time-axis be effecting switching between frequency and time, thereby compensating a waveform distortion by a linear effect on the optical fiber transmission line (2). A photodetector (4) receives an optical pulse from the optical Fourier transformer (3) and transforms this into an electrical signal to thereby obtain a pulse waveform before a transmission over the optical fiber transmission line (2).
US07747172B2
An optical communication system combines strong electrical pre-filtering of data at the transmitter and digital feedback equalization (DFE) at the receiver to enhance spectral efficiency. The system can be applied to optical networking and digital communication systems, including binary modulated systems optical network systems.
US07747164B2
A wavelength division multiplexing transmission system that comprises an input/output terminal station for an optical signal, and an intermediate station located between the terminal stations and connected by an optical transmission line for performing wavelength division multiplexing and transmission of the optical signal, wherein the signal transmission system comprising the terminal station and the intermediate station has a redundant configuration comprising the active system and standby system, and an input/output means for the optical signal to be transmitted through the active system and the standby system is provided on both the active system and the standby system on the side of the active system of the terminal station.
US07747161B2
A camera includes a frame and a flash unit. The frame is provided with a first retainer and a second retainer at two different places thereof. The flash unit is alternatively attached to the two places via one of the first retainer and the second retainer.
US07747157B2
A face-image area is decided with comparatively good accuracy. An (N−1)th frame of a subject image α1 and an Nth frame of a subject image α2 are obtained by sensing the image of a subject successively. Face-image detection processing is applied to the frames of the subject images α1 and α2 to detect face-image areas C1, C2 and C3. The face-image area C2 is construed to be linked to the face-image area C1, which is the corresponding face-image area. Since a face-image area that corresponds to the face-image area C3 does not exist, the face-image area C3 is construed as not being linked. The linked face-image area C2 in the Nth frame of the subject image α2 is decided upon as a face-image area. Thus, face areas can be decided with comparatively good accuracy.
US07747156B2
A digital single-lens reflex camera includes a first mirror for reflecting part of a light beam coming from a subject through a photographing optical system and transmitting the remaining light beam. The reflected light beam is used for detecting the focus state of an imaging light beam, and the transmitted light beam is used for performing live view display. For example, the first mirror can be configured as a movable mirror in the digital single-lens reflex camera. This enables continuous live view display using the transmitted light beam on condition that the movable mirror is down while detecting the focus state using the reflected light beam. In addition, phase-contrast AF can be adopted for detecting the focus state.
US07747152B2
A lens barrel includes: a vibration reduction mechanism comprising a vibration reduction lens and a drive device that drives the vibration reduction lens, so as to compensate for image vibration; and a shutter unit for exposure control. The drive device and the shutter unit are arranged so as at least partially to overlap in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens barrel.
US07747151B2
An image processing device is provided that can precisely measure the photographing position or posture of a photographing device or the coordinates of an object based on sequentially changing photographed images. A series of sequentially photographed images are acquired, from which feature points are extracted. The feature points are tracked and correlated to each other. Stereo images are selected from the series of photographed images correlated, and subjected to an orientation and a 3D measurement. The error range of corresponding points obtained by the 3D measurement is calculated. Based on the calculated error range, it is determined whether or not the corresponding points are appropriate for 3D measurement. Those corresponding points determined as inappropriate are deleted. Another orientation and another 3D measurement are performed using those corresponding points excluding the deleted ones, thus improving the measurement precision.
US07747149B2
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image-blur correction/reduction system miniaturized by arranging support guiding devices of a movable member and a rotation restricting device configured for restricting the rotation of the movable member about the optical axis so as to overlap each other viewed from the optical axial direction, a lens barrel, which can have the image-blur correction/reduction system, and an optical apparatus, which can have the same.
US07747132B2
A method and system for displaying multiple media content instances during a single viewing session. The method includes displaying a recorded program list graphical user interface (GUI) listing a number of recorded media content instances, selecting one of the recorded media content instances to be displayed on a display device, and displaying the selected media content instance and one or more additional recorded media content instances during the single viewing session.
US07747130B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for extracting representative still images from Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) video. The apparatus includes a video curve generation unit for calculating the distances between the adjacent frames of all intra frames of input video and generating a video curve that is a cumulative curve of the distances; a video curve division unit for dividing the video curve into a certain number of segments; a still image selection unit for selecting video images corresponding to certain points of the divided video curve as representative still images; and a video output unit for outputting the still images selected by the still image generation unit. Accordingly, the present invention can summarize the video and provide representative still images to a user at high speed.
US07747124B2
A system and method for automatically inserting optical-fiber (fiber-optics) cable jumpers into a patch panel to connect optical signal source equipment to optical signal destination equipment, and for automatically removing those jumpers from that patch panel to disconnect that equipment. This is accomplished robotically under computer control. Large scale fiber-optical splicings can be made, on the order often thousand (10,000) separate optical splices or more. Previous embodiments required hand insertion of these jumpers. Embodiments of the present invention permit any un-occupied port to be connected to any other un-occupied port, regardless of their input or output port status, where previous embodiments required only unoccupied input ports to be connected to unoccupied output ports.
US07747122B2
A method and apparatus for high speed silicon optical modulation is described using a PN diode. In one example, an optical waveguide has adjoining first and second doped semiconductor regions. The first and second regions have opposite doping types and the first doped region extends in two perpendicular directions through the waveguide.
US07747118B2
In a connectored optical fiber sheet according to the present invention, a connector is fitted around both optical fibers and sheet base.
US07747117B2
An optical tube assembly having at least one optical waveguide, at least one dry insert, and a tube. In one embodiment, the dry insert has a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is a polyurethane foam and the second layer is a water-swellable layer, wherein the dry insert is disposed within the tube and generally surrounds the at least one optical waveguide.
US07747116B2
A flexible optoelectric interconnect including an optoelectric film, a driving IC, an optical semiconductor device, a heat dissipation plate and a thermally conductive material. The optoelectric film has an electrical interconnect layer made of a single layer and an optical interconnect layer including an optical waveguide core and an optical waveguide clad. The optoelectric film has a through hole extending from a major surface thereof to a rear surface opposite to the major surface. The driving IC is provided on the major surface of the optoelectric film and electrically connected to the electrical interconnect layer, and provided above the through hole in the optoelectric film. The optical semiconductor device is provided on the major surface of the optoelectric film and driven by the driving IC.
US07747115B2
An optical waveguide device includes: a waveguide core that guides light; a mirror surface that deflects light coming from the waveguide core by 90°; a main waveguide core that guides light deflected at the mirror surface; a waveguide core for monitoring that branches the light deflected at the mirror surface off from the main waveguide core, and guides the light in a different direction, the mirror surface being disposed at a branching portion of the waveguide core for monitoring; and a clad portion that surrounds the waveguide core, the main waveguide core and the waveguide core for monitoring.
US07747111B2
Openings are disposed in an insulating layer to expose a conductor layer. A lower cladding layer is formed, and a resist layer is formed on an insulating layer and the lower cladding layer. Electrolytic plating is performed with using the conductor layer which is connected to the external, as an electrode, to fill openings passing through the lower cladding layer and the resist layer with Cu. The resist layer is removed away to form projections configured by the filled Cu. The projections are processed to have an inclined face. Au layers are formed on the inclined faces of the projection. A core layer and an upper cladding layer are stacked.
US07747109B2
Embodiments of MEMS devices include a movable layer supported by overlying support structures, and may also include underlying support structures. In one embodiment, the residual stresses within the overlying support structures and the movable layer are substantially equal. In another embodiment, the residual stresses within the overlying support structures and the underlying support structures are substantially equal. In certain embodiments, substantially equal residual stresses are be obtained through the use of layers made from the same materials having the same thicknesses. In further embodiments, substantially equal residual stresses are obtained through the use of support structures and/or movable layers which are mirror images of one another.
US07747095B2
Methods and systems for compressing an image are described. A plurality of transformed and quantized values associated with a block of image data is accessed. The block corresponds to a position within the image. A count of the number of bits encoded during run-length encoding of the block is made. Run-length encoding of the block is concluded should the count reach a limit.
US07747092B2
An image encoding apparatus and method, and an image decoding apparatus and method. An image encoding apparatus includes: an image input unit receiving an image to be encoded; a transform encoding unit transform coding the image provided from the image input unit to generate a first bitstream; a pulse code modulation (PCM) encoding unit PCM coding the image provided from the image input unit to generate a second bitstream; and a selector selecting and outputting one of the first bitstream and the second bitstream depending on characteristics of the image.
US07747077B2
An image processing apparatus that are capable of reducing the time required for image formation processing to generate image data from drawing data. A block segmentation section determines an encompassing region encompasses an object to be drawn and determines whether or not each of segments into which one page is segmented in a grid pattern overlaps the encompassing region. Image processing sections process segment by segment an object encompassed by an overlapped encompassing region.
US07747075B2
An apparatus and method of identifying objects with salient motion in a scene and program product therefor. A region of change is identified within a scene. Optical flow is determined for the region of change. Pixels moving in a common direction are identified as seed pixels. Seed pixels are expanded to form pixel clusters. Temporal imaging results are fused to identify those objects with salient motion.
US07747074B2
A system and method for adding decorative images to a plurality of input images allows the decorative images to be easily selected. An image processing device includes a decorative image storage unit configured to store a plurality of decorative images, and a representative color acquisition unit configured to acquire a representative color for each of the input images by analyzing the input images. A decorative image selecting unit selects a decorative image to be added to each of the input images based on the representative color of the input image. An output image generating unit generates an output image by individually synthesizing the decorative images with a same pattern and the input images.
US07747050B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for correlating an acquired image with an historical image. Certain embodiments include registering an acquired image and at least one historical image according to a coordinate system, applying a metric to the acquired image and each of the historical image(s), and identifying a correlation between the acquired image and one of the historical image(s) based on the metric. Certain embodiments further include storing the correlation between the acquired image and an historical image for automatic linking of the acquired image and the historical image upon display. In certain embodiments, the acquired image and the historical image may be displayed based on the correlation. In certain embodiments, the acquired image and the historical image may be automatically linked based on the correlation. In certain embodiments, the metric analyzes the acquired image and at least one historical image based on anatomy.
US07747049B2
The invention relates principally to the statistical analysis of protein separation patterns. The invention solves the problems associated with producing models which are predictive of classification using unreduced data. The invention provides a method of analysing a representation of a separation pattern, the representation including a neighborhood representing a region of the separation pattern, the neighborhood including a plurality of data points, the method comprising augmenting data by representing the entire region using each data point of the neighborhood; and building a classification model using some or all of the data points.
US07747048B2
The present invention relates principally to the statistical analysis of protein separation patterns. Specifically, the invention provides a method of performing operations on protein samples for the analysis of separation patterns, the method including separating a plurality of protein samples to produce a plurality of respective separation patterns; forming a representation of each separation pattern; building an importance map by iteratively recording performance values of classification models against locations in the importance map which correspond to locations in representations of separation patterns of data points used to build the classification models; and processing the importance map to identify important areas. Parts of the map which include high performance values indicate regions of the separation pattern which are statistically important in predicting a classification of the pattern.
US07747047B2
A method for planning left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion for a patient includes obtaining acquisition data from a medical imaging system, and generating a 3D model of the left atrium of the patient. One or more left atrial anatomical landmarks are identified on the 3D model, and saved views of the 3D model are registered on an interventional system. One or more of the registered saved views are visualized with the interventional system.
US07747045B2
An exemplary illumination normalization method is provided which includes receiving an input image having at least one spurious edge directly resulting from illumination, performing anisotropic diffusion on the input image to form a diffusion image, and removing at the least one spurious edge using the diffusion image. Another embodiment consistent with the invention is an apparatus for performing illumination normalization in an image which includes a processor operably coupled to a memory storing input image data which contains an object of interest having at least one spurious edge directly resulting from illumination, a model of a representative object of interest, and functional processing units for controlling image processing, wherein the functional processing units further include a model based anisotropic diffusion module which predicts edge information regarding the object of interest based upon the model, and produces a reflectance estimation utilizing the predicted edge information.
US07747025B1
Decryptor is utilized in a dual role to maintain privacy of data decryption keys used in configuration bitstream decryption. In a first role, decryptor receives a data decryption key in an encrypted format (ENCRYPTED KEY DATA), which is then decrypted using a mask programmed decryption key. The decrypted key is then stored into one or more of key storage blocks. In a second role, decryptor is utilized to decrypt the encrypted configuration bitstream (ENCRYPTED CONFIGURATION DATA) using the previously decrypted data decryption key.
US07747021B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for secure communication techniques in a communication system. The system can include a first device which communicates with a second device over a channel. A security association can be established during a first session between the devices via an asymmetric key exchange. The security association comprises a Traffic Encryption Key (TEK) and a first state vector. The TEK comprises a shared, secret symmetric key. The security association is stored in each of the devices for use during a second session between the devices to expedite security association establishment during call set-up of the second session. The security association can be associated with the second device in the first device, and with the first device in the second device. An updated state vector can be generated at the first device. A second session can be established between the first device and the second device by using the TEKs from the first session and the updated state vector. The security association can be used to encrypt voice packets being sent from the first device to the second device. The security association and updated state vector can then be used to decrypt the encrypted voice packets received by the second device from the first device.
US07747020B2
Performing a hash algorithm in a processor architecture to alleviate performance bottlenecks and improve overall algorithm performance. In one embodiment of the invention, the hash algorithm is pipelined within the processor architecture.
US07747005B2
An opening and closing mechanism includes a fixed member which has a fixed cam on its side face; a movable member which has a movable cam on an opposing face to the fixed cam, and which is rotatably disposed relative to the fixed member; a case housing the fixed member and the movable member; and a spring applying a force toward the fixed member to the movable member. The movable member has a recess at its radial center, and the first end of the spring is inserted in this recess.
US07747000B2
Various embodiments are configured to transform characteristics of a communication signal. One embodiment is a method comprising decreasing amplitude of a first detected portion of the communication signal so that the decreased amplitude is in close proximity to a predefined specification; and increasing amplitude of a second portion of the communication signal so that the increased amplitude is in close proximity to the predefined specification, thereby resulting in a transformed communication signal.
US07746997B2
A telephony trainer and exerciser allows a user of the telephony system to practice and train using the telephony system and its various features. The telephony trainer and exerciser system provides at least one automated responder, and more preferably, a plurality of automated responders that can be called by the user, thereby allowing the user to practice different operating features of the telephony system. Using a recognizer agent, the automated responders are able to distinguish between commands given by the user and similar statements given by another automated responder. The trainer and exerciser system optionally includes a correlator agent to provide an audio and/or written transcript of the practice session. A coaching feature is also optionally provided to assist a user in operating the trainer and exerciser and/or the telephony system.
US07746979B2
A method of assisting recovery of an injury site of the central nervous system (CNS) or treating a disease includes providing a therapeutic dose of X-ray radiation to a target volume through an array of parallel microplanar beams. The dose to treat CNS injury temporarily removes regeneration inhibitors from the irradiated site. Substantially unirradiated cells surviving between beams migrate to the in-beam portion and assist recovery. The dose may be staggered in fractions over sessions using angle-variable intersecting microbeam arrays (AVIMA). Additional doses are administered by varying the orientation of the beams. The method is enhanced by injecting stem cells into the injury site. One array or the AVIMA method is applied to ablate selected cells in a target volume associated with disease for palliative or curative effect. Atrial fibrillation is treated by irradiating the atrial wall to destroy myocardial cells while continuously rotating the subject.
US07746973B2
A signal detection circuit comprising: a differential amplifier to which an output voltage of a detection coil of a magnetic sensor is to be applied; a comparator to output a digital signal being at one logic level in a period between two spike-shaped voltages adjacent to each other in the output voltage of the differential amplifier; and a count circuit to perform a count operation in a period during which the comparator outputs the digital signal of the one logic level, the count circuit including a first counter to count a first clock having a predetermined frequency, a second counter to count a second clock being equal in frequency to and different in phase from the first clock, the second counter having the same number of bits as the number of bits of the first counter, and an adder to add count values of the first and the second counter.
US07746972B1
A numerically-controlled phase-lock loop with input clock dependent ratio adjustment provides for narrower-bandwidth loops that lock to a wide range of frequencies and/or operation with an absent or degraded input timing reference. A timing reference characteristic detector determines an input frequency range of the input timing reference signal, the data type of the timing reference, and/or whether a timing reference signal of sufficient quality is present. A numerically controlled oscillator is controlled by a numeric ratio that is adjusted to provide the desired clock frequency output in conformity with the detected frequency range and/or data type. If the timing reference signal is absent or degraded, then the numeric ratio can be set to a fixed value or a local timing reference can be applied in order to generate the desired clock output frequency.
US07746971B2
Serially transferred data is over sampled with a multiphase clock signal generated as a result of shifting a predetermined frequency clock signal by a predetermined phase each, to obtain over sampling data; generating clock patterns, having mutually different phase states according to a data phase state of the over sampling data. A first phase pattern generated from the over sampling data is compared with a second phase pattern generated from the clock pattern, and the number of bits to extract from the over sampling data is controlled. A phase error of the over sampling data is detected based on the first phase pattern and the second phase pattern. Bits to extract from the over sampling data is selected to restore the data based on the phase state of the clock pattern and the phase error.
US07746969B2
A receiver for a multi-channel system such as a HDMI system is presented. In accordance with the present invention, the receiver receives one of the plurality of channels and includes an analog portion, a digital-to-analog converter, and a digital control block that provides digital control signals to the analog portion. Equalization can be accomplished partially or wholly in the analog domain and digitally controlled by a digital control loop. A digital equalizer can also be included. A decision feedback equalizer can be implemented that sums an analog output signal into the analog data stream. Timing recovery can be accomplished by digital control of a phase interpolator or delay locked loop that receives a plurality of phases from a timing circuit coupled to receive a clock signal.
US07746953B1
Information is coded and segmented into a plurality of sub-packets. Each sub-packet contains identification information and a one-bit information status flag indicating whether the information is ‘new’ information or ‘continue’ information. The information to be transmitted is then applied to a scheduling algorithm that determines when the information is to be transmitted, how much information is to be transmitted and how many attempts at a successful transmission of the information is allowed. In this manner, the transmission of information can be performed in an asynchronous manner.
US07746951B2
A Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) generating apparatus and method in a communication system using a spatial multiplexing scheme. The reception method includes acquiring at least one estimated transmit vector by demodulating a receive vector using at least one Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) detection process; selecting one of the at least one estimated transmit vector as an optimum estimated transmit vector; calculating LLRs with respect to the optimum estimated transmit vector; calculating a weight to be applied to each of elements constructing the optimum estimated transmit vector; and applying the weight to each of the calculated LLRs. Accordingly, the present invention can generate the LLRs with high reliability similar to the LLRs of a Maximum Likelihood receiver by applying the weight to the LLRs generated from the estimated transmit vector.
US07746939B2
A spectral notch modulation technique for encoding information in a signal involves transforming the signal into the frequency domain via a fast Fourier transform (FFT) of length N, such that the signal is represented by N frequency bins, selectively nulling M of the N frequency bins, where nulled combinations of M frequency bins respectively correspond to encoded information bits, transforming the selectively nulled signal to the time domain via an inverse FFT, and transmitting the selectively nulled signal. At the receiving end, the signal is demodulated to recover the encoded information by transforming the signal into the frequency domain via a fast Fourier transform (FFT) of length N, identifying the set of M nulled frequency bins among the N frequency bins, and converting the set of M nulled frequency bins to corresponding information bits.
US07746935B2
A digital amplifier system for driving a capacitive load includes a digital amplifier controller responsive to a digital input command for producing a pulse density modulation signal representative of the digital input command; a switching amplifier for amplifying the pulse density modulation signal and an inductive filter for demodulating the amplified pulse density modulation signal to provide a drive current to drive a capacitive load in response to the digital input command.
US07746933B2
In the method for decoding a video signal, at least a portion of a current image in a current layer is predicted based on at least a portion of a reference image and offset information. The offset information may indicate a position offset between at least one boundary pixel of the reference image and at least one boundary pixel of the current image.
US07746932B2
A vector coding apparatus includes a decomposing unit to obtain a sign vector and an initial absolute vector, a sign coding unit to code the sign to obtain a sign code, a multi-level permutation-based coding unit to perform multi-level permutation-based coding to obtain an absolute vector code, a combining unit to combine the sign and absolute vector codes to obtain an initial vector code. A vector decoding apparatus includes a decomposing unit to decompose a code of an initial vector to obtain a sign code and an absolute vector code, a sign decoding unit to decode the sign code to obtain a sign vector, a multi-level permutation-based decoding unit to perform multi-level permutation-based decoding on the absolute vector code to obtain an initial absolute vector, and a combining unit to combine the sign and initial absolute vectors to obtain an initial vector. A media player includes the vector decoding apparatus.
US07746931B2
As an embodiment of a moving picture encoding apparatus, a moving picture type judgment section judges whether an input moving picture is a stereoscopic picture and, when the moving picture is a stereoscopic picture, a stereoscopic picture identifier is set to “1” and a moving picture rotation section rotates the moving picture clockwise by +90 degrees or −90 degrees. On the other hand, when the moving picture is not a stereoscopic picture, the stereoscopic picture identifier is set to “0” and the moving picture is not rotated. Then, a moving picture interlaced encoding section produces an encoded bit stream by performing interlaced encoding of the moving picture and a stereoscopic picture identifier encoding section produces encoded information by encoding the stereoscopic picture identifier. Further, a multiplexing section produces a multiplexed encoded bit stream by multiplexing the above-mentioned encoded bit stream and encoded information.
US07746928B2
The present invention discloses a system and method for providing a rate control to an encoder, e.g., a H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compliant encoder. Specifically, the rate control method computes a target rate for a segment, where the segment comprises at least one slice of macroblocks. In turn, a target rate is computed for the at least one slice of macroblocks from the target rate for the segment. In turn, a quantization parameter (QPj) is computed for a macroblock (j) of the macroblocks from the target rate for the at least one slice. Finally, the macroblock (j) is encoded in accordance with said quantization parameter (QPj).
US07746917B2
A receiver of a communication system includes means for receiving repetition-coded data. The receiver also includes means for generating symbol information from the received repetition-coded data. The receiver also includes means for storing symbol information over a predetermined period and means for making tentative symbol decisions by combining the stored symbol information.
US07746915B1
A wireless network employs at least a base station (1 to 3) and a plurality of assigned terminals (4 to 14) for exchanging user data and control data. That base station (1 to 3) includes a device (21, 22) for correlating a signaling sequence transmitted by at least one terminal (4 to 14) to indicate the wish to use a contention channel and for detecting the pulse evolved from a received and correlated signaling sequence. After a signaling sequence has been detected, the base station (1 to 3) transmits a provision message over a contention channel to be utilized by the assigned terminals (4 to 14).
US07746910B2
A semiconductor laser diode device with small driving current and no distortion in the projected image. The semiconductor laser diode includes an n-GaAs substrate and, an n-cladding layer on the n-GaAs substrate, an active layer, a p-clad layer, a multilayer formed from sequentially laminated p-contact layers, and a ridge formed by selectively etching from the upper surface of the p-contact active layer to a specified depth on the p-contact layer, and an insulating film deposited on the upper surface side of the n-GaAs substrate, and formed from the side surface of the ridge to the edge periphery of the n-GaAs substrate, and a p-electrode formed on the insulating layer deposited on the ridge of the P-contact layer, and an n-type electrode formed on the lower surface of the n-GaAs substrate; and the n-GaAs substrate structure possesses a side edge serving as an absorption layer to absorb light emitted at the active layer wavelength; and a groove is fabricated at the side edge forming the front facet (forward emission side), to a depth from the p-cladding layer exceeding the active layer, from a p-cladding layer section a specified distance away from the side of the ridge along the edge, to the side of the active layer; and the groove is covered by the insulating layer.
US07746908B2
A high-repetition laser system for generating ultra-short pulses according to the principle of pulse decoupling is described. This is achieved by the use of an amplifying laser medium, a laser resonator with at least one resonator mirror and at least one pulse decoupling component, a saturable absorber mirror, and a pump source for pumping the laser medium wherein the pulse decoupling component is an electro-optical modulator.
US07746905B2
In conjunction with a data communication network (53) carrying multiple telephony signals and allowing for connection of telephone sets (17), a system and method in which two external feeders (55a, 55b) connect to the data network (53) at two distinct points via two distinct devices. The data network can be based on dedicated wiring or can use existing in premises medium such as telephone, powerlines or CATV wiring. In the latter case, the wiring can still carry the original service for which it was installed. The external telephone connections can be based on the traditional PSTN, CATV network, cellular telephone network or any other telephone service provider network, using specific adapter for any medium used. In the case of connection to a POTS telephone signal, VoIP gateway (or any other converter) is required.
US07746898B2
A band allocation method in a communication system in which nodes and a managing apparatus are coupled via a network and each node requests a transfer band with respect to the managing apparatus is provided. The method includes sending tolerable values of a transfer rate and a compression rate sent from each node to the managing apparatus at a time of a resetting, and a transfer rate and a compression rate that are to be actually used are sent from each node to the managing apparatus when making a request for a transfer band after the resetting. The includes detecting a node that cannot secure the transfer band and calculates a lacking bandwidth with respect to the request for the transfer band, and detects a node that can reduce a transfer band thereof and specifies a transfer rate and a compression rate with respect to the node that can reduce the transfer band thereof. The transfer band, the transfer rate and the compression rate are specified as requested by the request for the transfer band with respect to the node that cannot secure the transfer band.
US07746895B2
Guided discovery of content in a device. A device such as a satellite radio can received multiple data streams at least over networks including a satellite network or other wireless networks. The device includes filters that are based on the history of the device, the advertising history of the device, or on lists obtained from other devices. The data streams available to the device are filtered using the filters to discover content in the data streams. Content, including metadata or a portion of the content itself, discovered by the results of the filters can be stored at the device. The device notifies the user of the discovered content. The filters guide the discovery of content that may be of interest to the user of the device.
US07746891B2
A mobile IPv6 dual-stack node engages in IPv6 communication while roaming within an IPv4-only network, for example using ISATAP. First, the node determines that it has moved Bnd obtains a new IPv4 address. After determining that the visited network contains no IPv6-enabled components, the node uses an IPv6 connect agent to engage in IPv6 communication. The node configures its care-of address using the IPv6 connect agent's routing information and the node's newly-obtained IPv4 address. In one embodiment, the node and the connect agent optimize the handoff when the nodes has moved but still uses the same connect agent. The node sends a binding updates to the connect agents comprising the node's old care-of address and the node's new care-of address. When the connect agent receives a packet destined for the node's previous care-of address, it forwards the packet to the node's currents care-of address, thereby reducing packet loss.
US07746888B2
A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed in a data processing system for avoiding data loss during network port recovery. A first network port is linked to a second network port via a network. The second network port transmits data to the first network port via the network. A determination is made that the first network port needs to be reinitialized. Prior to the first network port executing a re-initialization process, the first network port notifies the second network port to pause its data transmissions to the first network port.
US07746883B2
Systems, methodologies, media, computing devices, network adapters, and other embodiments associated with network communications are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a multi-drop Ethernet network.
US07746864B1
A message originates from a mobile station which is operable within a wireless network. In disclosed examples, the wireless network has a Messaging Service Center (MSC). The MSC determines whether the MSC stores a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) corresponding to a destination mobile directory number (MDN) that is inputted via the mobile station. Then, the MSC sends the message to the URI corresponding to the MDN if the first MSC stores the URI corresponding to the MDN. The MSC sends a request to find the URI corresponding to the destination MDN to an external tElephone NUmber Mapping (ENUM) server, if the first MSC does not store the URI corresponding to the destination MDN. The MSC sends the message to the URI corresponding to the destination MDN if the external ENUM server sends the URI corresponding to the destination MDN. The MSC also indicates charging policy for delivery of message based on a billing identification corresponding to the destination MDN or URI that is stored in the MSC in the same table.
US07746854B2
A method of filtering data packets in a network device is disclosed. An incoming packet is received from a port and the incoming packet is inspected and packet fields are extracted. The incoming packet is classified based on the extracted packet fields and action instructions are generated. The incoming packet is then modified based on the action instructions. Further, the inspection and extraction includes applying inspection mask windows to any portion of the incoming packet to extract programmable packet fields.
US07746852B2
A communication system using PPP in which a plurality of layer 3 protocols are defined has a problem. PDSN cannot judge which of layer 3 protocols is equipped in a terminal, and NCP phase processes corresponding to all layer 3 protocols of the system are executed. This increases the number of PPP packets transmitted/received between the terminal and PDSN, which prolongs a connection time. In the invention, a new procedure of the NCP phase process is established in a communication system, by which the terminal firstly notifies a layer 3 protocol to PDSN and thereafter the NCP phase process is executed. PDSN waits for a notice of the layer 3 protocol from the terminal, selects the corresponding layer 3 protocol from the layer 3 protocols according to the notice, and executes the NCP phase.
US07746848B2
A virtual private branch exchange is formed by a plurality of interconnected feature server modules, each having an integral feature server that is configured and operates independently of the other feature server modules. Within a virtual private branch exchange, the feature server modules may be logically arranged in a hierarchy having at least a main feature server module and one or more subordinate feature server modules. A particular feature server module may operate in multiple virtual private branch exchanges, and may have a distinct set of rules for handling calls originating in different virtual private branch exchanges.
US07746841B2
Data packets of a data flow are identified for transmission in a radio communication system with a data flow and/or individual service indicator enabling them to be allocated to the corresponding data flow for reception. A sequence number for the data packets in each data flow is added upon transmission to the data packet in order to reestablish the original order of the data packets of a data flow; the advantage thereof being that the data flows of several services can use a common HARQ process, whereupon the memory used for reception according to said HARQ process can be reduced.
US07746830B2
A subscriber access unit includes a transceiver for providing wireless communication of digital signals. The digital signals are communicated to a base station using at least one radio frequency (RF) channel via Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) modulated radio signals defined by orthogonal codes. Orthogonal subchannels are made available by the base station within each CDMA RF channel. A bandwidth manager is connected to the transceiver, and when the transceiver is actively sending data, at least one orthogonal subchannel is allocated by the base station on an as-needed basis. The number of orthogonal subchannels being allocated changes during a given session. The transceiver, when powered on but not actively sending data, provides an idling mode connection on a reverse link. The idling mode connection is based on an orthogonal subchannel shared with at least one other subscriber access unit, but utilizes different time slots of the shared orthogonal subchannel.
US07746828B2
Aeronautical broadband communication is enhanced by providing an apparatus having a first antenna configured to communicate using a signal orientation corresponding to a first polarization, and a second antenna configured to communicate using a signal orientation corresponding to a second polarization, where the second polarization has at least one characteristic difference from the first polarization. Additional antennas may be used, where multiple antennas share one polarization, and multiple other antennas share a different polarization, and signals from like-polarized antennas are combined for beam-formation.
US07746827B2
Methods and arrangements for wireless communications are contemplated. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to determine the signal to noise ratios (SNRs) of multiple stations associated with an access point in a wireless network. The embodiments may also include selecting whether one of the stations communicates with the access point by an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission method or a multiple-access joint coding/decoding transmission method, the selecting based upon the SNRs and communicating the selected transmission method to the station of the multiple stations. Some embodiments may include determining an SNR threshold level, selecting the MAC transmission method if the SNR of at least one of the multiple stations is below the SNR threshold level, and selecting the OFDM transmission method if the SNRs of all of the multiple stations are above the SNR threshold level. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07746812B2
A wireless receiver operating in a wireless communication environment in which a beginning of a packet contains a repetitive sequence. The wireless receiver may compute a variance (example of a measure of variations in the cross correlation values) of cross-correlation values obtained by cross correlating a received signal and a copy of the preamble sequence starting at different time instances. When a valid packet is received, the variance of the values resulting from the cross correlation is high, otherwise the variance is low. As a result packet detection is made robust, and false packet detection due to interference signals is reduced. In an embodiment, the wireless receiver is implemented in the context of WLAN 802.11 a/g network.
US07746805B2
In a communication network which performs transmission from a plurality of first communication devices to a single second communication device using a synchronous code division multiplexing technique, the phases of signals transmitted from the first communication devices are synchronized easily. The first communication devices control the transmission phase of spread modulated signals using phase control information received from the second communication device. A repeater generates a code division multiplexed signal by superposing the spread modulated signals transmitted respectively from the first transmission devices. The second transmission device demultiplexes the code division multiplexed signal received from the repeater, determines the optimum phase of the demultiplexed signals, and transmits the determined optimum phase to the first transmission devices as the phase control information.
US07746802B2
Disclosed are the design and implementation of a CSI feedback channel in a multi-carrier wireless communication system. An apparatus and a method for channel state feedback using arithmetic coding are provided to ensure efficiency and reliability of a system by transmitting the CSI while compressing the CSI with a predetermined compression rate selected depending on a channel state. The apparatus for CSI feedback in a wireless communication system performing channel estimation at a transmitter or a receiver by using a communication channel includes a transmitter terminal transmitting a signal for CSI measurement by using the communication channel, and a receiver terminal receiving the signal from the transmitter terminal, checking a channel state based on the received signal, and transmitting the signal to the transmitter terminal after compressing the signal according to the channel state.
US07746797B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for objectively and non-intrusively measuring voice quality on live calls without disrupting the call session or the network. A communication system includes plural communities each including a switch that controls access to a packet-based data network for call sessions. Each of the communities is coupled to the data network by respective packet-based trunks. Quality of service (QoS) monitoring devices are coupled to the respective packet-based trunks to monitor quality levels of routes between any two given communities. Each QoS monitoring device receives packets containing streaming data (which may be actual packets or test packets). From the received packets, the QoS monitoring device can derive QoS parameters, particularly for audio and speech signals on live calls without disrupting the call session.
US07746786B2
In a retransmission control method and device which can suppress or expedite a retransmission of user data depending on a processing congestion status or the like on a receiving side, a user equipment on a data receiving side transmits to a radio network control device on a data transmitting side, when redundantly receiving an ACK request included in same user data, control data for extending a timeout period of a polling timer which is a retransmission time interval of user data for a subsequent ACK request by e.g. 10 ms. The radio network control device having received the control data extends the timeout period based on the control data. Alternatively, the radio network control device reduces, when receiving an ACK response from the user equipment within the timeout period, a timeout period of user data for a subsequent ACK request to less than the timeout period presently set.
US07746784B2
The invention includes a method and apparatus for balancing traffic in a load-balancing network having a plurality of nodes. The method includes splitting a traffic flow into a plurality of traffic flow parts associated with designated ones of the plurality of nodes and distributing the traffic flow parts to the designated ones of the plurality of nodes in a first traffic distribution round, wherein each of the designated nodes routes at least a portion of the received traffic flow part to one or more of the plurality of nodes in a second traffic distribution round. The traffic flow is split according to a congestion status associated with each of the plurality of nodes. The congestion status associated with each of the plurality of nodes is determined using congestion status messages distributed by each of the plurality of nodes in response to congestion conditions.
US07746768B2
An Ethernet PHY hardware device supports Ethernet MAC SDH/SONET Automatic Protection Switching (APS) functionality for managing protection from failures and recovery from failures on an Ethernet network. An Ethernet PHY sublayer stored on the Ethernet PHY hardware device is configured to monitor working and protect channels and generate an interrupt upon detection of a hard failure or a soft failure. Upon detection of port failures or link failures, the Ethernet PHY sublayer generates the interrupt to invoke an Ethernet MAC Client APS Controller configured to generate and terminate APS requests on working and protect channels to manage protection of working and protect channels from failures and recovery from failures on the Ethernet network. The Ethernet PHY hardware device is configurable for use with a plurality of different network topologies to manage protection from hard or soft failures and recovery from hard or soft failures on the Ethernet network using the Ethernet PHY sublayer.
US07746764B2
The present invention provides an approach for quadrature signal generation, which does not require orthogonal reference signals or nearly orthogonal reference signals as an input or given condition. The techniques provided herein can utilize a reference phase shift less than 90° but greater than 0°, along with an inversion to create orthogonal signals. The techniques provided here reduce the number of critical manipulations required from a hardware perspective.
US07746763B2
The invention relates to a method for transmitting data over a carrier current using a frequency band. According to said method: the frequency band is divided into N sub-bands, N being a whole number higher than, or equal to, two; an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technique is carried out on each of said sub-bands; and calculations are carried out based on each sub-band. The inventive method is characterised in that the calculations based on each sub-band are independent from the calculations based on the other sub-bands, and said sub-bands are dynamically activated and allocated. The invention also relates to modulation and demodulation devices for carrying out said method.
US07746754B2
Recording areas in an optical disc having a plurality of recording layers allocated so each recording layer includes a data area for recording data, a connection area in which a predetermined pattern of data for indicating that no data area is recorded therein, and a remaining area, wherein a size and location of the data area of each recording layer is determined according to an amount of user data to be recorded. The connection area and the remaining area are allocated next to the data area of each recording layer in a direction from the inner circumference to the outer circumference of the disc. Accordingly, a recording time is reducible, and exclusive areas for recording information except user data can be additionally allocated to outer circumference areas of the optical disc or the sizes of the exclusive areas can be increased, increasing recording medium efficiency.
US07746748B2
Due to the axial runout of an optical disc, a frequency of a high-frequency current to be superimposed onto a DC current could not be maintained. In order to solve the problem described above, a drive signal is generated by superimposing a high-frequency signal onto a DC current, the drive signal is applied to a laser beam light source, thereby the light source is driven; and a servo signal at a signal level corresponding to a defocus amount of the laser beam relative to the surface of the optical disc is generated based on a reflected light of the laser beam from the recording surface of the optical disc, and a low-frequency component of the servo signal is extracted, and thereby the frequency of the high-frequency signal to be superimposed onto the DC current in the light source driver is controlled based on the low-frequency component of the servo signal.
US07746737B2
A method of recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from an information recording medium including a compatibility information area in which compatibility information, which specifies whether each area on the information recording medium is recordable and/or reproducible, is recorded, the method includes reading the compatibility information, which specifies whether each area on the information recording medium is recordable and/or reproducible; and recording and/or reproducing the data on and/or from the information recording medium with reference to the compatibility information, wherein if other write protection forms of the information recording medium exist, write protection of the information recording medium is determined, based on a result of performing an OR function on the compatibility information and the other write protection forms.
US07746733B2
An optical pickup unit is disclosed which comprises: an objective lens that focuses laser light on an optical disc; a lens holder that holds the objective lens; a coil that is fitted on the lens holder and capable of driving the lens holder; and a heat transfer improving member that is fitted on the holder to cause heat to be radiated, wherein the heat is generated in the coil when the coil is energized.
US07746721B2
A sector of a word line driver circuit is provided, comprising a local reset signal generator module and m word line clusters. The m word line clusters are coupled to the local reset signal generator module. The local reset signal generator module is used to generate j reset signals. The x-th reset signal is determined according to an x-th pre-decoding signal, a bank selectable signal and a sector selectable signal, wherein j is a nature number, and x is an integer from 1 to j. Each of the m word line clusters comprises j row drivers. The x-th row driver of the y-th word line cluster determines a [x+j*(y−1)]-th word line signal according to the x-th reset signal, the x-th pre-decoding signal, the sector selectable signal, and a y-th cluster select signal, wherein m is a nature number, and y is an integer from 1 to m.
US07746718B2
A refresh register stores disable block information indicating a memory block whose refresh operation is to be disabled. A refresh control circuit periodically executes the refresh operation of a memory block except the memory block corresponding to the disable block information. During an access cycle to one of the memory blocks, the register control circuit writes the disable block information to the refresh register according to an external input. Consequently, in order to rewrite the refresh register, it is not necessary to use an additional operation cycle to the access cycle. Since there is no need to insert an extra operation cycle, it is possible to change a memory area to be refreshed without lowering effective efficiency of access cycles. As a result, power consumption can be reduced.
US07746708B2
A nonvolatile latch circuit and a system on a chip are provided with the same feature detection of change of latch data in an active period to store new data in a latch without an additional data storage time. The nonvolatile latch circuit does not require an additional data storage period but detects change of latch data in the active period to store new data in a nonvolatile latch unit. When power is accidentally off, new data are constantly stored in the nonvolatile latch unit, thereby preventing data loss and improving an operating speed without a booting time for restoring data.
US07746706B2
One embodiment of the invention relates to a method for accessing a memory cell. In this method, at least one bit of the memory cell is erased. After erasing the at least one bit, a soft program operation is performed to bias the memory cell thereby improving the reliability of data stored in the memory cell.Other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US07746705B2
A memory device comprising an optimization component that facilitates erasing memory cells in a substantially homogeneous electromagnetic field and methods that facilitate erasing memory cells in a substantially homogeneous electromagnetic field are presented. The optimization component facilitates selecting a subset of memory cells to be erased at the same time, such that a memory cell in the subset of memory cells has two neighbor memory cells adjacent thereto that are in the subset of memory, or one neighbor memory cell adjacent thereto when the memory cell is an end-row memory cell. The optimization component facilitates performing a Fowler-Nordheim channel erase to erase the subset of memory cells, and a predetermined voltage potential associated with an erase command is applied to each cell of the subset of memory cells to facilitate reducing fringing effect associated with the electromagnetic fields applied to the cells during the erase.
US07746703B2
A flash memory device and a method of programming the same include a memory cell array, a pass/fail check circuit and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes multiple memory cells arranged in rows and columns. The pass/fail check circuit verifies whether data bits selected by a column address during a column scan operation have program data values. The control logic circuit detects fail data bits from the selected data bits and stores the column address in response to the verification result of the pass/fail check circuit. The control logic circuit also compares a number of the fail data bits with a reference value and controls generation of the column address according to the comparison result.
US07746702B2
Memory devices and/or methods that may estimate characteristics of multi-bit cell are provided. A memory device may include: a multi-bit cell array; a monitoring unit to extract a threshold voltage change over time value for reference threshold voltage states selected from a plurality of threshold voltage states corresponding to data stored in the multi-bit cell array; and an estimation unit to estimate a threshold voltage change over time values for the plurality of threshold voltage states based on the extracted threshold voltage change. Through this, it is possible to monitor a change over time of threshold voltages of a memory cell.
US07746700B2
Non-volatile memory devices utilizing a modified NAND architecture where both ends of the NAND string of memory cells are selectively coupled to the same bit line may facilitate increased memory densities, reduced fabrication steps and faster read operations when compared to traditional NAND memory array architectures. Programming and erasing of the memory cells can be accomplished in the same manner as a traditional NAND memory array. However, reading of the memory cells may be accomplished using charge sharing techniques similar to read operations in a DRAM device.
US07746699B1
An integrated circuit system (120) includes a memory array (122) storing a configuration data set to configure an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit (121) includes a configuration memory (128) and a configuration controller state machine (126). The configuration controller state machine operates so as to read a read-check signature at a read-check address of the memory array (122) and to compare the read-check signature with a standard signature stored in the integrated circuit (121). If the read-check signature passes the comparison, the configuration controller state machine (126) loads the configuration data set from the memory array to the configuration memory (128) of the integrated circuit.
US07746694B2
The technology relates to nonvolatile memory with a modified channel region interface, such as a raised source and drain or a recessed channel region.
US07746693B2
A nonvolatile analog memory has a floating gate point. The nonvolatile analog memory includes a first current source, a second current source, and a current adjuster. The first current source generates a first current, and the second current source generates a second current. The current adjuster turns on or turns off a current path of the second current according to a reference current and the first current. Furthermore, when the current path of the second current is turned on, the first current is adjusted according to the second current, such that the first current is equal to the reference current.
US07746689B2
Apparatus, systems and methods for implementing molecular quantum memory are disclosed. In one implementation, a source of polarized electrons and a source of oppositely polarized electrons may be selectively coupled to at least one probe tip of a probe assembly. The at least one probe tip may, in turn, be electrically coupled to a molecule so that information may be written to the molecule using a time-varying polarized electron current selectively derived from the polarized electron current sources.
US07746682B2
Apparatus and methods for reducing single-event upsets (SEUs) in latch-based circuitry (e.g., static random access memory (SRAM) cells) and other digital circuitry. According to an exemplary embodiment, a latch-based circuit includes a radiation-hardened latch having first and second cross-coupled inverters and first and second programmable resistance devices (PRDs). The first PRD is coupled between the output of the first inverter and the input of the second inverter. The second PRD is coupled between the output of the second inverter and the input of the first inverter. The PRDs may be programmed to low or high-resistance states. When SET to a low-resistance state, the latch of the latch-based circuitry may be accessed to read the current logic state stored by the latch or to write a new logic state into the latch. When RESET to a high-resistance state, the latch is in a radiation-hard state, thereby preventing the latch from generating SEUs.
US07746673B2
A flyback AC/DC switching converter has a constant voltage (CV) mode. The CV mode has sub-modes. In one sub-mode (“mid output power sub-mode”), the output voltage (VOUT) of the converter is regulated using both pulse width modulation and pulse frequency modulation. Both types of modulation are used simultaneously. In a second sub-mode (“low output power sub-mode”), VOUT is regulated using pulse width modulation, but the converter switching frequency is fixed at a first frequency. By setting the first frequency at a frequency above the frequency limit of human hearing, an undesirable audible transformer humming that might otherwise occur is avoided. In some embodiments, the converter has a third sub-mode (“high output power sub-mode”), in which pulse width modulation is used but the switching frequency is fixed at a second frequency. By proper setting of the second frequency, undesirable EMI radiation and other problems that might otherwise occur are avoided.
US07746668B2
The invention relates to a switching device for galvanically isolated 1:1 transmission of a direct current signal, with a transformer comprising a primary coil and a secondary coil, wherein the primary coil is powered with alternating current derived from an input direct current and the current induced in the secondary coil is rectified, and with a correction device for compensating transmission losses. To provide a DC transducer free of auxiliary energy, in which the output current is as close to equaling the input current as possible, it is proposed that the number of turns on the primary coil should be greater than the number of turns on the secondary coil.
US07746666B2
A shield case is fixed to a surface of a circuit board with a conductive joining material so as to cover a shielded portion on the circuit board surface. The shield case includes joint terminals extending outward and inclined upward from a lower edge thereof that is in contact with the circuit board surface. The joint terminals are joined to the circuit board surface with the conductive joining material provided therebetween. The shield case can thereby be fixed to the circuit board surface, and grounded to a ground portion provided on the circuit board.
US07746656B2
An offset integrated circuit package-on-package stacking system is provided including providing a base substrate, providing an array of contact pads on the base substrate, mounting an active component and an optional passive component on the base substrate, injecting a mold cap on the base substrate, mounting an offset package on the base substrate and the mold cap, and singulating a package-on-package from the base substrate.
US07746652B2
The present invention relates to a cooling module retentioner, which includes a fixing base and a flexible frame. The fixing base surrounds a heat-generating electronic component at a center and allows the placement of a cooling module therein, and a rising corner column is disposed at each of four corners thereof and each corner column has a snap hole; the flexible frame is composed of two M-like retention brackets whose bottom sides are mounted with a retention hook respectively for the corresponding snap hole, a lever is pivotally disposed at a lower center location thereof and pertains to a metal rod whose one end is integrally bent to form a protruded portion. The production process requires no mold so as to simplify the production process and reduce the production cost.
US07746646B2
A securing device (30) is used for securing a heat sink (10) to a printed circuit board (40) with a heat-generating electronic component (41) mounted thereon. The securing device includes a V-shaped elongated main body (31), a first locking leg (34), a second locking leg (332) and a resilient member (32). The first locking leg and second locking leg are connected to two opposite ends of the main body respectively for engaging with a retention frame (20) on the printed circuit board. The resilient member includes a planar-shaped supporting plate (321) engaging with a bottom portion of the main body and at least one resilient foot (322) extending downwardly from the supporting plate. The resilient foot deforms to exert a resilient force on the heat sink when the heat sink is assembled to the electronic component by the securing device.
US07746642B2
A heat sink for cooling an electronic component includes a lower plate, an upper plate, an upper fin set and a lower fin set respectively fixed on the upper plate and the lower plate, and a plurality of heat pipes sandwiched between the upper plate and the lower plate. The lower plate forms a protrusion projecting downwardly therefrom. A bottom surface of the protrusion is milled to be flat and smooth, whereby the bottom surface can intimately contact the electronic component. A method for manufacturing the heat sink comprising milling a bottom surface of a protrusion punched downwardly from a lower plate, whereby the bottom surface can be flat and smooth sufficiently to have an intimate contact with an electronic component, and sequentially welding an upper plate on the lower plate and a plurality of fins on the lower plate and the upper plate, respectively.
US07746634B2
The rear panel of an electronics enclosure includes one or more heat exchangers. The rear panel can be cooling door configured to provide access to the cables and equipment located within the electronics enclosure. Such access can be provided by swinging the door open on hinges like a standard door. In the case where there are multiple heat exchangers, the door can be configured into segments, one segment per heat exchanger, and each segment includes hinges so as to be opened independently from the other segments. In some embodiments, each segment swivels open like a standard door. In other embodiments, each segment is configured to swivel up or down about a horizontal axis. In still other embodiments, each segment is configured to be disconnected from the electronics enclosure and moved out of the way, in which case each heat exchanger is connected using either flexible tubing that can be bent out of the way or quick disconnects. In other embodiments, the entire rear door, or each segment of the rear door, can be configured to slide open and closed like a drawer.
US07746628B2
The present invention relates to an electronic device having two casings connected with each other through a hinge member such that the casings can open and close with respect to each other. The electronic device includes a hinge member suitable for mounting a large size display panel. The second casing includes a back face and a sidewall having a projection which projects inward between the back face and the sidewall, the hinge member includes a first fixing member fixed to the first casing and a second fixing member fixed to the second casing, and one end of the second fixing member is engaged with and fixed to the second casing in a state where the one end enters a gap between the back face and the projection.
US07746626B2
A moving element having secondary keyboard for a portable electronic device is placed between a first member and a second member of the device for providing different keyboard sets to improve readability of text when in different operating configurations. When the second member slides out laterally relative to the first member, the moving element remains stayed in the first member, not moving with the second member. When the second member slides out vertically relative to the first member, the moving element slides with the second member along the sliding groove on the first member, and the moving element is exposed on top of the second member to present a concise dialing keyboard. The secondary keyboard contacts corresponding buttons of a primary keyboard directly. Thus, there is no need to provide additional circuit module exclusively for the secondary keyboard such that the cost and volume can be reduced.
US07746617B2
An overload relay, which trips a current flow between a power source and a load, includes a trip capacitor that stores therein an electric charge to excite a trip coil so as to trip the current flow, a reset capacitor that stores therein an electric charge to excite a reset coil so as to reset the tripped current flow, an energizing unit that energizes the coils, and a capacitor-diagnosing unit that diagnoses the capacitors. The energizing unit forcibly energizes the trip coil by using the trip charge when the capacitor-diagnosing unit diagnoses that there is a degradation of a property of the trip capacitor.
US07746614B2
A drive circuit that controls a switching device ON/OFF and a soft cutoff command circuit that gradually decreases the gate terminal voltage of the switching device when short circuit of the switching device is detected. Additionally, an ON-pulse retention command circuit retains the output of the drive circuit ON when the gate terminal voltage is judged to have exceeded a specified value by a gate voltage judgment comparator that detects the gate terminal voltage of the switching device.
US07746611B2
An ESD protective circuit having a contact terminal, a first supply voltage terminal for a first supply potential, a second supply voltage terminal for a second supply potential, a transistor chain having several transistors, wherein drain terminals of the transistors are connected to one of the supply voltage terminals, wherein the control terminal of a first transistor of the transistor chain is connected to the other supply voltage terminal, wherein the source terminal of the last transistor of the transistor chain is connected to the contact terminal, and a current source which is connected to a source terminal of at least one of the transistors of the transistor chain and is able to provide a current which compensates, up to a maximum tolerable voltage deviation from the first or second supply potential at the contact terminal, a current flowing into or from the source terminal.
US07746607B2
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device and process for protecting a conventional FET. The device includes at least one FET body forming a resistance, and a triggering circuit coupled to a protection FET and the resistance. The resistance raises a voltage of the at least one body, such that the protection FET is triggered at a voltage lower than the conventional FET.
US07746605B2
An arc fault circuit interrupter includes line and load terminals, separable contacts in series between the terminals, a neutral conductor, and an operating mechanism opening and closing the contacts and tripping open the contacts in response to a trip signal. A current transformer senses current flowing through the contacts. A voltage sensor detects voltage zero crossings between the load terminal and the neutral conductor. A processor detects a resistive series arc in series with the contacts. A processor routine determines, for each half cycle, samples of the sensed current, an offset value from an average of sensed current samples proximate the voltage zero crossings for the corresponding half cycle, adjusted sensed current samples as adjusted by the offset value, a profile corresponding to a resistive series arc as a function of the sensed current samples and the adjusted samples, and the trip signal in response to occurrences of the profile.
US07746596B2
A linear tape drive system includes a tape having a path direction, a data track having data transitions at an azimuthal orientation relative to the path direction, and a servo track having servo positioning transitions. A linear tape drive module is configured to read and/or write to the data track at the azimuthal orientation and read the servo positioning transitions.
US07746572B2
An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side: a first lens that has a negative refractive power and is convex toward the object side; a second lens that has a positive refractive power and is a meniscus lens convex toward the object side; a stop; a third lens that has a positive refractive power and is convex toward an image side; and a cemented lens that has a positive refractive power as a whole and is formed by cementing a fourth lens and a fifth lens, wherein assuming that an Abbe number of the second lens with respect to d-line is ν2, a distance on an optical axis from a vertex of a surface of the first lens facing toward the object side to an image plane of the imaging lens is L, a focal length of the imaging lens is f, and a back focus of the imaging lens is Bf, the following conditional expressions (1) to (3) are satisfied: ν2>30 (1), 2.5
US07746571B2
The present invention discloses a large-field unit-magnification projection optical system. The optical system includes an optical axis, a spherical concave reflection mirror; a lens group with positive refracting power arranged adjacent the mirror with an air space therebetween. The lens group includes a first plano-convex lens, a negative meniscus lens adjacent the plano-convex lens, a positive lens adjacent the negative meniscus lens, a negative double-convex lens spaced apart far from the positive lens, and a second plano-convex lens. The optical system further includes a pair of prisms each having respective first and second surface. The second surfaces are arranged adjacent the flat surface of the plano-convex lens element on opposite sides of the optical axis and the first surfaces are arranged adjacent object planes and image planes, respectively. Each lens in the lens group and the pair of prisms provide chromatic aberration correction in a spectral region that contains at least g, h and i-line wavelengths. In this projection optical system, the object plane is parallel to the image plane.
US07746568B2
A three-dimensional imaging system uses a single primary optical lens along with three non-collinear apertures to obtain three offset optical channels each of which can be separately captured with an optical sensor.
US07746567B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a first lens for converging light incident thereto through a first field area, a first prism to which light is incident through a second field area at a right of the first field area, a second lens for converging the light emitted from the first prism, a second prism to which light is incident through a third field area at a left of the first field area, and a third lens for converging the light emitted from the second prism. The respective lenses are placed at areas corresponding to the vertices of a triangle in a front view.
US07746560B2
An illumination optical system for use in a microscope or electronic endoscope includes a solid-state lighting element that generates light having a spectral profile with peak intensities at multiple wavelengths such that the light output by said solid-state lighting element is perceived by an observer as being white in color, and a wavelength distribution conversion element having a spectral transmittance profile that includes specified wavelength regions within which the transmittance is nearly constant with increasing wavelength so as to form a step of nearly even intensity, and having specified wavelength regions within which the transmittance changes with increasing wavelength so as to form a transition region. By the combined effect of the solid-state lighting element and the wavelength distribution conversion element, the wavelength distribution of the light generated by the illumination optical system more closely resembles the wavelength distribution of daylight than the light generated by the solid-state lighting element.
US07746558B2
A method for producing a grating image, which has at least one grating field recognizable with the naked eye, in which are disposed grating elements, which are produced by a writing apparatus. In a first procedure step at least one grating element is determined, which completely lies within one working field. Then a sequence of working fields is defined, in which the grating elements are to be produced by the writing apparatus. Finally, the working fields are moved to by a relative movement of a carrier, on which is located a substrate to be inscribed, and the writing apparatus, and the grating elements are written into the substrate with the writing apparatus within the respective working fields.
US07746546B2
An amplifying optical electromagnetic wave concentrator includes an amplification focusing device and a receiver. The amplification focusing device focuses an incident optical electromagnetic wave on the receiver. The amplification focusing device is doped with active components and is subjected to an excitation wave that causes the active components to pass to an energy level such that interaction between the incident electromagnetic wave and the active components causes the active components to pass to a lower energy level and causes emission, towards the receiver, of at least one photon having the same wavelength as the incident electromagnetic wave. The focused photon or photons form an amplified wave of the incident electromagnetic wave.
US07746544B2
Disclosed herein are novel electrophoretic displays and materials useful in fabricating such displays. In particular, novel encapsulated displays are disclosed. Particles encapsulated therein are dispersed within a suspending, or electrophoretic, fluid. This fluid may be a mixture of two or more fluids or may be a single fluid. The displays may further comprise particles dispersed in a suspending fluid, wherein the particles contain a liquid. In either case, the suspending fluid may have a density or refractive index substantially matched to that of the particles dispersed therein. Finally, also disclosed herein are electro-osmotic displays. These displays comprise at least one capsule containing either a cellulosic or gel-like internal phase and a liquid phase, or containing two or more immiscible fluids. Application of electric fields to any of the electrophoretic displays described herein affects an optical property of the display.
US07746543B2
An electrophoretic display includes a lower substrate, an upper substrate, a color display layer on the lower substrate, a pixel electrode on the lower substrate, and a common electrode on the lower substrate or the upper substrate. The common electrode does not overlap the pixel electrode, and an electrophoretic active layer having a dispersion medium and electrophoretic particles is arranged between the lower substrate and the upper substrate. The electrophoretic active layer is a single-polarity electrophoretic particle system, and grayscales are generated depending on the number of electrophoretic particles arranged in a portion of the electrophoretic active layer corresponding to the pixel electrode. The position of the electrophoretic particles is controlled by the magnitude of the electric field applied between the pixel electrode and the common electrode.
US07746542B2
The present invention provides a multicolor display optical composition comprising a dispersion medium, a periodic structure having a porous structure inside communicated with the outside, and mobile particles contained in the dispersion medium so as to be movable and having a volume average primary particle diameter from 1 nm to 80 nm in a dispersion state in the dispersion medium, a volume average particle diameter of coagulated particles of 100 nm or larger in optical coagulation state by stimulation application, and having a refractive index different from that of the dispersion medium by 0.1 or more, wherein the mobile particles show no coloration in the dispersion state when the particles are dispersed in the dispersion medium and show white coloration with a predetermined whiteness value or higher in the coagulation state when the particles are coagulated, an optical device, and a display method of the optical device.
US07746524B2
According to one aspect of this disclosure, a printing apparatus and method is provided. The printing apparatus comprising a media sheet first inverter and a media sheet second inverter, the first inverter and second inverter operatively connected to provide a media sheet pass-through route, wherein the media sheet pass-through route transports a media sheet through the first inverter and the second inverter.According to another aspect of this disclosure, a printing system is disclosed. The printing system comprising an inverter module. The inverter module comprising a first media sheet input/output zone, and a second media sheet input/output zone, the first and second media sheet input/output zones operatively connected to provide a media sheet pass-through route. The inverter module is configured to selectably route a media sheet to a printing device for image transfer and the inverter module is configured to invert a media sheet from the printing device media sheet output.
US07746520B2
A document illuminator comprising a light-transmissive element having an embedded side emitting LED fitted in a cavity formed therein. The light-transmissive element is formed with one or more optical notches and is totally encased in a white surround to yield total internal reflection of the light rays emanating from the LED. The reflected light rays are collected at an aperture which in turn transmits high power and highly uniform illumination profile to illuminate a document.
US07746515B2
A circuit for detecting a phase error between a clock signal and a beam position includes a beam generator, sensor, and phase detector. The beam generator directs a beam toward a beam sweeper in response to a clock signal. The sensor, which is disposed at a mid line of a region that the beam sweeper scans, detects the beam from the beam sweeper, and the phase detector detects an error in the clock phase from the detected beam. Such a circuit can automatically detect the phase error in the pixel clock and correct this error, thus eliminating the need for a manual phase-error corrector.
US07746512B2
First, an image ordering rule is selected from among multiple image ordering rules that use mutually different types of image characteristic values to determine the order of arrangement of images. The image characteristic value used by the selected image ordering rule is then obtained for each of a plurality of images. The order of arrangement of a plurality of images is determined based on the selected image ordering rule and the image characteristic values for a plurality of images. Furthermore, the number of images to be placed on each page is determined based on the maximum number of images that can be included in each page of the electronic album. Finally, an electronic album in which a plurality of images are laid out on multiple pages in sequential order is created in accordance with the order of arrangement of a plurality of images and the number of images to be placed on each page.
US07746509B2
A method for removing show-through defects in scanned document images is provided by adjusting the scanner's image sensor calibration gain in the area of a drive roll gap. The method will also compensate for drive roll contamination. The invention uses a modified calibration scheme in conjunction with a document transmission sensor in the document handler to measure radiant energy transmitted through the document, i.e., transmission. The scanner adjusts the calibration gain factors to simulate a uniform background with knowledge of the gap and the input document's transmission thus a uniform scanner response is determined and presented to the image processing. A device for carrying out the method is also provided.
US07746505B2
An image quality improving apparatus and method that distinguish an edge of an actual outline imagely recognized in an image inputted via an image input unit from those printed according to dither patterns, to emphasize the actual outline, and thereby acquire the image without distortion. The image quality improving apparatus comprises: a first unit estimating edge pixels of a text area in a predetermined detection area to be edge-detected from an input picture data containing a text and an image; and a second unit judging actual edge pixels based upon a number of edge-estimated pixels in a multiple window area and saturation values of individual edge-estimated pixels, and emphasizing individual actual edge pixels with different edge emphasis coefficients according to saturation values of the actual edge pixels.
US07746491B2
There are provided an information processing method and apparatus, which can composite an image at a link destination into document data upon printing document data that describes address information as a link to an image file, can obviate the need for additional access by the user, and can improve user's convenience. This information processing apparatus prints document data that describes address information of an image on a server which can be accessed via the Internet. An operation unit (107) issues a print instruction of an image, and makes its setups. Address information is detected from document data, and that image is accessed via the Internet. It is checked if the accessed image can be embedded in the document data. If the accessed image can be embedded, that image is downloaded. The downloaded image is embedded at a predetermined position in the document upon printing the document data.
US07746490B2
A printed document managing method, a printed document managing program, an image forming apparatus, and a printed document managing system are provided. In the system of the present invention, a complex device reads a sheet ID recorded on a wireless IC chip attached to an original paper sheet, using a first reading unit. The complex device also reads a sheet ID recorded on a wireless IC chip attached to a paper sheet on which copying is to be performed. The complex device then records output history data having the sheet ID of the original paper sheet associated with the sheet ID of the paper sheet on which copying is to be performed, and transmits the output history data to a managing computer. The managing computer then records the output history data in an output history data storing unit.
US07746488B2
A network-based image forming device and method for storing and printing files sent from at least one user terminal connected through a network is disclosed. The network-based image forming device and method comprises an interface unit for providing a communication interface with the user terminal; a storage unit for storing a protected file and the print-authorized user information if the protected file having print-authorized user information set therein is sent from the user terminal through the interface unit; and a control unit for displaying a list of the files stored in the storage unit in response to a display request signal, and if a file selected out of the displayed list of files is a protected file, displaying a request message to request an input of user information and determine whether the user is an authorized user, and, if the user information input in response to the message matches the print-authorized user's information set in the selected file, printing the selected file.
US07746487B2
For generating a photo album of an event such as wedding, images to be inserted in image insertion areas in a template of the photo album can be selected easily. A professional photographer photographs the bride and groom of a wedding. Images are read from a developed film and stored in a file server. An editing screen is displayed including a template display field having the template therein and a catalog display field having a catalog of the images therein. When an operator selects any one of the image insertion areas in the template, a condition specification information set representing a state of the image to be inserted in the selected image insertion area is referred to, and appropriate images that agree with the condition specification information set are sifted from the catalog of the images.
US07746483B2
The invention relates to a method and a device (1) for adjusting the gap dimensions and/or an offset between a movable hood (2) of a motor vehicle and the remaining body (3) of said motor vehicle. The hood (2) is first fitted and retained in a roughly adjusted assembly position so as to be as flush as possible with the body (3), whereupon the hood (2) is finely adjusted such that predefined values are matched as closely as possible for the gap dimensions and/or the offset. In order to be able to adjust the gap dimensions and/or the offset as simply, quickly and flexibly as possible in a contactless manner, actual values (21 ist) for the gap dimensions and/or the offset between the hood (2) and the remaining body (3) are optically detected for the fine adjustment. Triggering signals (24) for at least one actuating member (12) are determined in accordance with the detected actual values (21 ist) and predefined set point values (21-soll) for the gap dimensions and/or the offset.
US07746468B2
Analysis system including a central control section for generally controlling the analysis that sends a command to perform a pre-injection operation, to an automatic sampler together with information designating a sample to be selected, such as an identification number, and simultaneously sends a command to perform an operation of measuring a dark current in a photodiode array (PDA) detector, to a multi-channel spectrophotometer. Thus, the automatic sampler performs the pre-injection operation, such as an operation of moving a needle to a position of a designated vial container to suck a sample, and the spectrophotometer performs the dark-current measurement operation during a time period of the pre-injection operation. After the sample is actually introduced into the column, in response to a command to perform a normal measurement operation, an operation of acquiring absorption data of an eluate from the column is started without performing the dark-current measurement operation.
US07746458B2
A method of diagnosing or determining parameters for an installation for detecting open defects in the surfaces of parts by sweating, the method including passing at least one standard testpiece through the installation, the testpiece having a surface possessing at least one pattern representative of the type of defect that is to be detected, applying to the surface of the testpiece a penetrating composition including an indicator substance, washing, drying, applying to the surface of the testpiece a composition including a developer, and illuminating the surface of the testpiece to illuminate any remaining indicator substance so as to form a developed image of the or each pattern and deduce therefrom an indication about the quality of the operation of the installation. Prior to passing through the installation, the standard testpiece is subjected to preparatory treatment including immersion in a bath containing an emulsifier, a first rinse under pressure, drying, applying a developer at the location(s) of the pattern(s), and a second rinse under pressure.
US07746446B2
Alignment parameters determination method with less overlay error after exposure without tremendous expending time and cost is provided. Provision is made of a fetching unit performing position measurement and statistical processing to obtain reference computation results. Another fetching unit obtains reference processing results by positioning and exposing shots at a predetermined exposure apparatus based on the reference computation results, then measuring overlay error for the shots. Another fetching unit changes at least parts of the predetermined alignment parameters and performs position measurement and statistical processing to obtain comparative computation results. A controller 650 calculates estimated overlay error when assuming positioning and exposure of shots at a predetermined exposure apparatus based on the comparative computation results using the reference computation results, comparative computation results, and reference processing results.
US07746442B2
A liquid crystal display device including opposite first and second substrates, and column spacers between the first and second substrates, the column spacers formed such that the column spacers differ in size as positions of the column spacers differ, thereby accommodating the variation in gap between substrates when liquid crystal is concentrated at a lower end of the display due to gravity when a large LCD panel is in a vertical position.
US07746436B2
A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a plurality of pixel electrodes in a plurality of lower pixel portions, respectively, and each of the pixel electrodes includes a plurality of lower openings spaced apart from each other. The second substrate includes a common electrode including a plurality of upper openings spaced apart from each other in a plurality of upper pixel portions corresponding to the lower pixel portions, respectively. The upper openings are connected to each other between adjacent upper pixel portions in a first direction. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first and second substrates.
US07746435B2
To provide a liquid crystal panel suitable for a liquid crystal display apparatus and capable of providing colorless neutral displays in all directions, and a liquid crystal display apparatus using the liquid crystal panel, the liquid crystal panel of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal cell; a first polarizer arranged on one side of the liquid crystal cell; a first birefringent layer arranged between the liquid crystal cell and the first polarizer; a second polarizer arranged on another side of the liquid crystal cell; and a second birefringent layer arranged between the liquid crystal cell and the second polarizer; in which: the first birefringent layer has a relationship of 1
US07746433B2
A liquid crystal display includes an element substrate, pixel electrodes and a common electrode that are formed on the element substrate, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer that is formed between the counter substrate and the element substrate, first and second polarizing plates that are provided on an emitting side of display light and an opposite side, respectively, and a retardation film that is provided in a reflective region to be disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the first polarizing plate. Each pixel has a transmissive region where transmissive display light is emitted and a reflective region where reflective display light is emitted. The retardation of the retardation film has smaller temperature dependency than the retardation of the liquid crystal layer.
US07746430B2
A high-contrast reflective liquid crystal display device of a lamination type in which scattering in the focal conic state of cholesteric liquid crystal has been reduced is described. The reflective liquid crystal display device has two or more laminated liquid crystal panels respectively having a liquid crystal layer of the cholesteric liquid crystal having different selective reflection wavelengths and the liquid crystal panel having a liquid crystal layer into which the liquid crystal having a longer selective reflection wavelength has been implanted has a smaller orientation regulating force of the liquid crystal layer applied to the panel.
US07746416B2
A display device has a pixel array substrate that contains a support substrate and a plurality of pixel areas arranged on the support substrate. Each pixel area contains a pixel electrode and a capacitor electrode. Scan lines and common lines are also provided, where each common line has portions provided in respective pixel areas. Each pixel area has a storage capacitance defined by an overlapping area between a respective capacitor electrode and a respective one of a scan line and common line, where the storage capacitances of pixel areas along each scan line varies along the scan line.
US07746413B2
A controlling method of an operation screen for operations of a remote control device, includes the steps of acquiring an attribute of a remote control device, and determining an operation form corresponding to the remote control device from among a plurality of operation forms previously stored based on the acquired attribute of the remote control device. An additional step includes displaying an operation screen related to the determined operation form displayed.
US07746412B2
A broadband integrated receiver for receiving input signals and outputting composite video and audio signals is disclosed. The receiver employs an up-conversion mixer and a down-conversion mixer in series to produce an intermediate signal. An intermediate filter between the mixers performs coarse channel selection. The down-conversion mixer may be an image rejection mixer to provide additional filtering.
US07746404B2
A method for generating a panoramic image that enables a user to obtain panoramic photographs with a digital camera without the aid of a computer system or specialized lenses. A digital camera according to the present techniques captures a series of image frames as a user pans the digital camera through a panoramic image scene and combines the captured image frames while the image frames are being captured.
US07746402B2
A fiber optical block 110 having a light outputting end face 112 which is tilted at a predetermined angle θ of an acute angle with respect to the optical axes of optical fibers 113 and a solid-state image pickup device 210 are provided, and the fiber optical block 110 is arranged so that, in terms of a light-receiving surface 212e, the optical axes of the optical fibers 113 are tilted at the predetermined angle θ toward a first side 212a out of four sides 212a-212d. And, in the solid-state image pickup device 210, each of a plurality of electrode pads 211 is provided on two outer peripheral portions 210b and 210d adjacent to the first outer peripheral portion 210a. Thus, an image sensing device which can favorably combine both the electrode pads and connection wires of the solid-state image pickup device and the fiber optical block tilted with respect to the light receiving surface can be realized.
US07746401B2
A method is used with a document camera and an image display device for adjusting the image display range. The document camera includes an image synthesis controller and a graphics buffer. In the method, a first image frame and a second image frame are received by the image synthesis controller. In response to the image parallel display information, the graphics buffer is divided into a first region and a second region, and the image synthesis controller fills partial data of the first image frame and second image frame into the first region and the second region, respectively. In response to a change of the image parallel display information made by the user, the graphics buffer is divided into a third region and a fourth region, and the image synthesis controller fills partial data of the first image frame and second image frame into the third region and the fourth region, respectively. The data filled in the graphics buffer is then outputted to the image display device as a synthesized frame to be displayed.
US07746398B2
A pixel circuit, and a method for operating a pixel circuit, to provide a multiple knee response characteristic. In one embodiment a pixel circuit comprises a photoconversion device for accumulating charge during a first integration period and second integration period, an integration node connected to the photoconversion device, a first transistor having one terminal connected to said integration node and another terminal connected to a reset signal line and a feed-through pulse capacitor. The feed-through pulse capacitor has one terminal coupled to a feed-through pulse signal line, and a second terminal coupled to the integration node, said feed-through pulse signal line providing an intermediate pulse between the first and second integration periods to generate an overflow current in said the transistor.
US07746383B2
The present invention provides a CMOS imager with a reset scheme, by which a CMOS imager generates a sub-kTC noise so that read noise does not depend on the sense node capacitance. By using a column feedback circuit, reset noise can be suppressed to a negligible amount so that photogate APS or CCD-like circuits can achieve noise performance to very efficient value. This scheme allows increasing sense node capacitance without increasing the noise and also achieves a large full-well value without sacrificing read noise performance. The feedback circuit in one of the embodiment of the present invention is located at the column side of the circuit. This design provides a minimal change to the pixel. As a result quantum efficiency or pixel size is not compromised. The present invention allows a CMOS imager to capture scene with high intra-scene contracts under low illumination with high dynamic range.
US07746369B2
A lens array, includes: a clear substrate; and a plurality of plastic lens substrates each of which includes a plurality of lenses and which are arranged on at least one of surfaces of the clear substrate.
US07746365B2
An image display device comprises a frame arranged along the periphery of display screen and a plurality of detectors mounted on the frame, each for generating a detection signal in response to an object positioned outside of the frame. Each of detectors generates a detection signal indicative of the distance to an object that is present in a direction associated therewith. A control circuit selects a detection signal indicative of the shortest distance of the detection signals. The control circuit controls the direction of an image that is displayed on a display screen such that the bottom of the image is moved to a side corresponding to the detector that generates the selected detection signal.
US07746362B2
Multiple communication types are integrated into a call center. The communication types can be chat, email, Internet Protocol (IP) voice, traditional telephone, web page, digital image, digital video and other types. Features of the invention include allowing a single agent to handle multiple customers on multiple channels, or “endpoints.” Prioritizing and assigning calls to agents based on a specific criteria such as the number of endpoints assigned to an agent, the agents availability, the priority of a customer call, the efficiency of a given agent and the agent's efficiency at handling a particular communication type call. An agent user interface is described that allows the agent to have control over accepting multiple calls. The agent can drag and drop canned responses, images, URLs, or other information into a window for immediate display on a customer's computer. The system provides for detailed agent performance tracking. The system provides failure recovery by using a backup system. If the network server fails, then the customer is connected directly to an agent. When a failed computer comes back on line, the statistics gathered are then used to synchronize the returned computer. The system provides extensive call recording or “data wake” information gathering. The system provides flexibility in transferring large amounts of historic and current data from one agent to another, and from storage to an active agent. The system integrates human agents' knowledge with an automated knowledge base. The system provides for an agent updating, or adding, to the knowledge base in real time. The system also provides for “blending” of different communication types.
US07746358B2
A system and method for allowing a user to exercise control over a first image that is not directly accessible because it is covered by a second image. Electronic product designs for online user editing are assembled from multiple overlying images. If a content image in a design is positioned beneath a second image, such as an image that adds a visual effect to the content image, a transparent surrogate image of the same size and the same position in the product design as the content image is positioned above the second image. The surrogate image is linked to the content image such that user selection of the surrogate image is interpreted by the system as a request by the user to select the content image, giving the user the impression that the user is directly accessing the content image.
US07746348B2
A graphics processing system comprises a command processing engine capable of processing pixel command threads and vertex command threads. The command processing engine is coupled to both a renderer and a scan converter. Upon completing processing of a command thread, which may comprise a pixel command thread or a vertex command thread, the command engine provides the command thread to either the renderer or the scan converter.
US07746346B2
A three-dimensional graphics data rendering method. The method divides initially inputted first graphics data into a static object and a dynamic object, performs a rendering process with respect to the static object, and updates a predetermined buffer with the rendering result. Then the method performs a transformation process, a portion of the rendering process with respect to the dynamic object, determines an updating area, and stores a rendering result of the buffer corresponding to the updating area in a predetermined storage unit; performs a remaining rendering process with respect to the dynamic object, updates the buffer and outputs a first image whose rendering is completed. Finally, the method restores a rendering result of the updating area to the buffer by referring to the storage unit and utilizes a rendering result of the restored buffer as a rendering result of subsequently inputted second graphics data.
US07746345B2
A system and method are disclosed for generating an animatable object. A skeleton of the desired character is constructed by the user utilizing various predetermined components. These predetermined components include a various selection of rods and joints. The rods are static components which remain rigid during motion, while the various joints are moveable components. A static digitized image, for example, an image of the user, is utilized and a constructed skeleton is superimposed onto it. The desired object, such as the image of the user, can then be extracted from the background of the digital image and the resulting personal character can then be animated, for instance by selecting and dragging one of the hands with a mouse.
US07746342B2
A drawing processing apparatus for performing tessellation processing, comprising a pixel shader and a texture unit. An internal division operation part of the pixel shader issues texture load instructions to the texture unit, specifying parametric coordinate values of a patch of a parametric surface, and thereby acquires internal division factors interpolated based on the parametric coordinate values from the texture unit. The internal division operation part issues texture load instructions to the texture unit further, specifying the internal division factors acquired from the texture unit as new interpolation factors, and thereby acquires control points internally divided based on the internal division factors in advance from the texture unit. Based on the internal division factors corresponding to the parametric coordinate values, the internal division operation part performs recursive internal division operations on the control points acquired from the texture unit, thereby determining a point on the parametric surface corresponding to the parametric coordinate values.
US07746340B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for generating a two dimensional (2D) image of a structure (e.g., an organ) that has at least one pixel corresponding to at least one voxel of a three dimensional (3D) image of the structure. First, the surface of the structure in the 3D image is modeled by a geometrical volume such as an ellipsoid. Next, normal maximum intensity projection (MIP) rays are cast (i.e., projected) for voxels of the geometrical volume. The 2D image is then generated using the rays. The 2D image has at least one pixel that corresponds to at least one voxel of the 3D image.
US07746337B2
An inverter circuit includes a first driving transformer, a second driving transformer, a power voltage circuit, a high-side FET connected to a secondary winding of the first driving transformer, a low-side FET connected to a secondary winding of the second driving transformer and an inverter transformer connected to a driving node between the high-side FET and the low-side FET. Thus, a direct current path does not exist between a gate of the high-side FET and the driving node, so that a gate voltage of the high-side FET is biased more to a negative polarity.
US07746331B2
A source-follower-type analogue buffer with an active load, a new compensating operation and a display with the source-follower-type analogue buffers are developed to minimize the variation from both the charging time and the device characteristics and maximize the range of the input voltage. In the source-follower-type analogue buffer, during a compensation period, a voltage drop is stored in a proposed storage capacitor, and during a data-input period, the output voltage is compensated by the voltage stored in the storage capacitor.
US07746326B2
A coordinate input apparatus is provided. A photo transmission/reception unit includes a phototransmitter which projects light along a plane of an input region, and a photoreceptor which detects incoming light. A reflector is arranged on a rim portion of the input region, and reflects incident light from the phototransmitter toward the photoreceptor. A detection unit detects a shade formed by the pointing operation of a pointing device using the photo transmission/reception unit. And an output unit calculates a coordinate value of the position based on a state of the detected shade, and outputs information of the coordinate value. The pointing device includes a transmission unit configured to transmit a control signal including information of a unique identifier based on the pointing operation, and the output unit extracts the information of the identifier from the control signal transmitted based on the pointing operation associated with the shade, and appends the information of the coordinate value when that information is output.
US07746315B2
An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) (20) includes an LCD panel (24), a timing control circuit (21), a plurality of gate drivers (23) connected to the LCD panel, and a plurality of data drivers (22) connected to the LCD panel. The timing control circuit includes a plurality of reduced swing differential signaling (RSDS) output terminals. Each data driver is electrically connected to a respective RSDS output terminal of the timing control circuit via an independent conducting line.
US07746302B2
A reference voltage generating circuit for an LCD device includes a main pumping section, a sub-pumping section, an input section inputting a level designating signal periodically and alternately designating a first reference level and a second reference level, and a control section alternately comparing an output voltage with the first and second reference levels in response to the level designating signal, wherein the control section outputs a first logic level and the main pumping section selectively lowers the output voltage in a fast negative pumping and the sub-pumping section selectively raises the output voltage in a slower positive pumping.
US07746299B2
A display includes pixels arrange in a matrix. Each pixel includes a display element, a first drive current control circuit which is supplied with a first video signal and outputs a first drive current to the display element at magnitude corresponding to magnitude of the first video signal, and a second drive current control circuit which is supplied with a second video signal and outputs a second drive current to the display element at magnitude corresponding to magnitude of the second video signal. The display can set a ratio T1/T2 larger than 1, wherein T1 represents a time period over which the first drive current control circuit can output the first drive current to the display element, and T2 represents a time period over which the second drive current control circuit can output the second drive current to the display element.
US07746292B2
A method and device bracket are presented for reconfigurable radiation desensitivity. The method includes: accepting a radiated wave from a source such as a transmitter, antenna, microprocessor, electrical component, integrated circuit, camera, connector, or signal cable; in response to the radiated wave, creating a first current per units square (I/units2) through a groundplane of an electrical circuit such as a printed circuit board (PCB), display, connector, or keypad; accepting a control signal; and, in response to the control signal, creating a second I/units2 through the groundplane. This step couples the groundplane to a bracket having a selectable effective electrical length. Typically, the groundplane is coupled to a bracket with a fixed physical length section to provide a combined effective electrical length responsive to the fixed physical length and the selectable effective electrical length. The coupling mechanism can result from transistor coupling, p/n junction coupling, selectable capacitive coupling, or mechanically bridging.
US07746284B2
The present invention relates to a cross dipole including a plurality of dipole elements respectively corresponding to a plurality of frequency bands and reconfiguring the plurality of frequency bands. A cross dipole module includes a circuit for controlling a signal of the cross dipole according the cross dipole and an external control signal. An array antenna includes a plurality of cross dipole modules arranged in one dimension or two dimensions. A multiple input multiple output antenna includes a plurality of array antennas for independently operating and an indoor supporting system for respectively applying a control signal to the plurality of array antennas, and reconfigures a distance between the neighboring array antennas.
US07746283B2
Exemplary embodiments are provided of RFID antenna assemblies having folded patch-antenna structures and that are configured with circular polarization or dual linear polarization. An antenna assembly may generally include two folded patch-antenna structures oriented generally perpendicularly to each other. Each folded patch may create a linear polarization wave. When each folded patch is fed independently, the antenna assembly radiates two independent waves that are perpendicularly polarized to each other, therefore providing a dual polarized antenna. In other embodiments, the antenna assembly may include two folded patch-antenna structures again oriented generally perpendicularly to each other. By feeding each folded patch with a 90-degree phase delay between them, a circular polarization wave is radiated. A power divider network may be used to feed the two folded patches with the 90-degree phase delay. The two folded patches may be integrated so as to form a cavity or housing for a printed circuit board.
US07746279B2
Composite structures having an integral intelligent skin are made of one or more plies of a structural base material and an intelligent or smart film by molding one or more plies and the film into an integral unitary body with the intelligent film outermost. The intelligent or smart film contains or bears a functionally active or interactive component such as antennae, electronic sensors, electric and/or electronic circuitry, and/or spectrally tailored coatings. A method of making the composite structure in a very economical manner is disclosed.
US07746261B2
A variable gain amplifier for amplifying an input voltage at a gain defined by a binary code includes: a signal input terminal; a signal output terminal; a charge division means that accumulates a charge, divides an accumulated charge, and accumulates a divided charge; a charge cumulation means that accumulates a charge, adds or subtracts an accumulated charge with or from the divided charge in the charge division means, and accumulates a resultant charge; and a controller that initially executes to accumulate the charge corresponding to the input voltage in the charge division means, executes to accumulate the charge corresponding to the input voltage or a predetermined voltage in the charge cumulation means, executes a charge dividing operation according to each bit of the binary code sequentially from a most significant bit, and executes a charge adding or subtracting operation according to an data value in each bit.
US07746259B2
A digital-to-analog converter, comprising: a first field-effect transistor; a second field-effect transistor; and adjusting means for adjusting a bulk voltage applied to at least one of the first and second field-effect transistors so as to tend to equalise respective switching delays of the transistors.
US07746252B2
An analog front-end circuit includes an analog processing circuit, an A/D converter, a target register in which a lower limit target value of an input image signal is set, and a calculation circuit. The analog processing circuit includes an offset control circuit which performs offset control based on an offset control value set in an offset control register. The calculation circuit monitors the A/D-converted value in a lower limit value output period when the A/D-converted value corresponding to a lower limit value of an input range is output from the A/D converter, and sets the offset control value that causes the A/D-converted value to become closer to the lower limit target value set in the target register in the offset control register.
US07746239B2
A light scattering type smoke sensor includes a sensor body, light-emitter for emitting light toward an open smoke-sensing space and outputting a light-received signal according to the amount of scattering light received, and a fire judging unit for judging whether fire occurs or not on the basis of the amount of received light determined on the basis of the outputted light-received signal.
US07746235B2
A system and method are provided for monitoring an eye to determine eye closure. The system includes a video imaging camera oriented to generate images of an eye, and a video processor for processing the images. The processor includes an edge detector for detecting edges of the eye in the image, and a line selector for generating lines at any of select angles representative of the detected edges. The processor determines the state of eye closure, such as an open eye or closed eye, based on an angle between two of the lines that select angles. The system may be employed on a vehicle to determine the eye closure state of a driver of the vehicle.
US07746224B2
A method of operating a security system by generating an instant message at a first location, the instant message including security system data, then transmitting the instant message from the first location over a computer network to a second location via an instant message server computer. The instant message is received at the second location, and a security system function is initiated at the second location based on the security system data from the instant message.
US07746213B2
A method of producing a device initially includes providing a component. The component includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, a first contact formed on the first surface, a second contact formed on the second surface, and an electrical circuit disposed between the first contact and the second contact. The component further includes a conductive connection between the first contact on the first surface of the component and the second surface of the component. A first conductive layer serving as the pad of the device is formed on the second surface of the component such that same is in contact with the conductive connection.
US07746200B2
A drive device has a rotatable driving shaft and a driven shaft. The driving shaft, or input shaft, and the driven shaft, or output shaft, are joined to each other by way of a magnetic coupling. The driven shaft can be blocked in a direction of rotation such that magnetic forces emanating from the magnetic coupling cause the driven shaft to move in a direction opposite that of the direction of blocking. The driven shaft moves in a springing manner.
US07746199B2
An acoustic wave device includes first and second 3-IDT acoustic wave filters provided on a piezoelectric substrate. A second IDT in the first acoustic wave filter is electrically connected to a second IDT in the second acoustic wave filter and a third IDT in the first acoustic wave filter is electrically connected to a third IDT in the second acoustic wave filter to cascade the first acoustic wave filter with the second acoustic wave filter. An acoustic wave resonator is connected to a first IDT in the first acoustic wave filter. In the acoustic wave device, NA/NB is in a range from about 2.6 to about 3.5 and fB/fa is in a range from about 0.995 to about 1.010.
US07746198B2
Electric circuit device comprises electric element and two conductive plates. The electric element includes two anode electrodes and two cathode electrodes and has relatively low impedance in a frequency range between 1×10−5 to 10 GHz. The one conductive plate has lower impedance than that of the conductive plate comprising the electric element and is connected between two anode electrodes. The other conductive plate has lower impedance than that of the conductive plate comprising the electric element and is connected between two cathode electrodes. As a result, the electric circuit device which has relatively low impedance and is capable of preventing the temperature rise is provided.
US07746196B2
An arrangement for providing communication between a radio antenna and a radio base station in a cellular communication system. A waveguide is configured to connect the radio base station to the antenna. The waveguide may be connected directly or indirectly to the radio base station and/or the antenna. The waveguide is configured with a number of compartments, each compartment acting as a waveguide for a particular signal. The arrangement is thus able to convey a large number of signals, for example, for sector antennas of dual polarization type and for more than one frequency band.
US07746194B2
A signal splitter comprising an input and a plurality of outputs is provided, wherein alternate outputs are connected to phase shifting devices. The phase shifting devices preferably comprise phase shifting transformers and introduce a phase shift of 180°, so that noise components of alternate outputs are antiphase and cancel one another out almost entirely when the signals are summed. Also provided is a cable television network comprising a plurality of such signal splitters to ensure that noise ingress in upstream signals passing into the network is substantially reduced.
US07746191B2
The present invention relates to an element of transition between a waveguide and a transition line on a substrate. The element of transition comprises a securing flange on the substrate, the flange being dimensioned so that at least, in the direction microstrip line, the width d of the flange is selected in such a manner as to shift the resonant modes away from the useful band. The invention is used particularly for circuits using SMD techniques at millimeter frequencies.
US07746187B2
A self-calibrating modulator apparatus includes a modulator having a controlled oscillator and an oscillator gain calibration circuit. The oscillator gain calibration circuit includes an oscillator gain coefficient calculator configured to calculate a plurality of frequency dependent oscillator gain coefficients from results of measurements taken at the output of the controlled oscillator in response to a test pattern signal representing a plurality of different reference frequencies. The plurality of frequency dependent gain coefficients determined from the calibration process are stored in a look up table (LUT), where they are made available after the calibration process ends to scale a modulation signal applied to the modulator. By scaling the modulation signal prior to it being applied to the control input of the controlled oscillator, the nonlinear response of the controlled oscillator is countered and the modulation accuracy of the modulator is thereby improved.
US07746182B2
Various systems, methods and apparatus for calibrating a clock generating circuit are discussed herein. As one example, a method for calibrating a voltage controlled oscillator is disclosed. The method includes fixing the control voltage of a fine tune capacitor in the voltage controlled oscillator at a predetermined level. A binary search is performed in a digital circuit for a value of a calibration word that is used to enable switched capacitors in a coarse tune capacitor bank in the voltage controlled oscillator. The calibration word is fixed at the value determined by the binary search, and the control voltage of the fine tune capacitor is released to enable adjustment of the control voltage by a feedback signal to the voltage controlled oscillator.
US07746179B1
A method and apparatus for selecting an optimum VCO from an array of VCOs is disclosed. Each VCO in the array has an output range and a limit. In one embodiment, a search set of VCOs is designated as all VCOs in a system. The limit is compared to a tuning value which corresponds to a desired calibration frequency. The comparison divides the array of VCOs into a searched set and a non-searched set. The process is repeated until the non-searched set comprises only one VCO. In another embodiment, the VCOs are ordered such that there is a middle VCO. A VCO in the middle of the array is selected. The limit of the middle VCO is compared to a tuning limit. Based on the comparison, another VCO is selected. The process repeats N times, where N is the logarithm, base 2, of the total number of VCOs to be searched. at the end of the search, an optimum VCO will be found.
US07746176B2
The invention relates to a receiver (1) comprising an amplifier (31-34) for amplifying an antenna signal, which amplifier (31-34) comprises an amplifier input (11a) and an amplifier output (12a, 12b), the amplifier input (11a) being a single ended input for receiving the antenna signal, the amplifier output (12a, 12b) being a differential output, and the amplifier (31-34) comprising a circuit (54) for compensating a series input impedance of the amplifier (31-34).
US07746173B1
Embodiments of circuits and systems for a radio frequency (RF) power amplifier employing output harmonic resonators are disclosed. The RF power amplifiers may include amplification circuitry having unit cells and output harmonic resonators co-disposed on a chip. In some embodiments, each unit cell may be coupled with a respective output harmonic resonator. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US07746172B1
The present invention relates to a transimpedance amplifier circuit that includes a linearized differential transimpedance amplifier, a detector, and dynamic current source circuitry, which diverts common mode currents from feedback resistors in the linearized differential transimpedance amplifier to keep the linearized differential transimpedance amplifier in a linear operating range. Magnitudes of the diverted common mode currents from the feedback resistors may be based on a detected magnitude associated with differential input signals that feed the linearized differential transimpedance amplifier. The detector provides a detector output signal to the dynamic current source circuitry based on the detected magnitude associated with the differential input signals, such that the diverted common mode currents are based on the detector output signal. The transimpedance amplifier circuit provides differential output signals that are based on amplifying the differential input signals.
US07746170B2
A class AB amplifier includes an input stage having a pair of differential input terminals, first and second differential output terminals, and a local common mode feedback circuit. The input stage includes a local common mode feedback circuit having cascode transistor to achieve relatively high gain. The amplifier also includes an output stage having first and second pairs complementary transistors coupled between first and second power supply nodes. One of the complementary transistors in each pair has a gate coupled to the first and second differential output terminals, respectively. The output stage includes a pair of cascode transistor connected to one of the pairs of complementary output transistors. The amplifier can be used to supply a bias voltage to a highly capacitive load, such as voltage sampling capacitors in a CMOS imager.
US07746167B1
A method of adapting parameters for a predistortion circuit in an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, at the predistortion circuit, an input signal to be amplified by a power amplifier; determining a value associated with an information tag for the input signal; applying parameters to the predistortion circuit based upon the determined value; receiving an output of the power amplifier at an input of the integrated circuit; comparing an output of the predistortion circuit with the output of the power amplifier; and generating updated parameters to be applied to the predistortion circuit. An integrated circuit having a circuit for adapting parameters for a predistortion circuit of the integrated circuit is also disclosed.
US07746165B1
A voltage providing circuit includes: a first voltage providing circuit, for generating a first voltage; a switch device, for receiving a first voltage; a second voltage providing circuit, for providing a second voltage; a control circuit, for controlling the switch device and the second voltage providing circuit, wherein in a first mode, the control circuit turns off the switch device for allowing a target device to receive the second voltage, and in a second mode, the control circuit turns on the switch device and stops the second voltage providing circuit from providing the second voltage such that the target device can receive the first voltage; and an adjusting circuit, for providing a reference voltage to the first voltage providing circuit according to the first voltage and the second voltage for changing the first voltage, thereby making the first voltage substantially equal to the second voltage.
US07746155B2
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a circuit and method for providing a switchable strong pulldown for a power FET in an off state to avoid inadvertent or false turn ons. A strong pulldown is provided to the gate of a power FET to avoid inadvertent turn on during output swings. In other cases, the gate of the power FET is pulled down weakly to reduce EMI and voltage noise in the circuit. In a particular exemplary embodiment, the present invention provides a circuit and method for obtaining a strong pulldown on the gate of a power FET in an off state, while providing a weak pulldown during turn on to turn off transitions. The invention avoids false turn ons during fast output transitions while maintaining relatively high EMI protection.
US07746149B2
Provided is a voltage level shift circuit including: a first voltage level shift circuit formed of a P-channel enhancement type transistor (M1) and an N-channel depletion type MOS transistor (M3); and a second voltage level shift circuit formed of a P-channel enhancement type transistor (M2) and an N-channel depletion type MOS transistor (M4). In the voltage level shift circuit, a cascode circuit using an N-channel depletion type transistor (M5) is serially connected to the first voltage level shift circuit, a cascode circuit using an N-channel depletion type transistor (M6) is serially connected to the second voltage level shift circuit, and a unit for complementarily controlling bias voltages of the respective cascode circuits. As a result, an output signal of the voltage level shift circuit connected to an input of a differential amplifier circuit, for expanding an input voltage range of a signal, is not affected by fluctuations in power supply voltage.
US07746144B2
The pulse generator comprises: a delay line arranged to receive a digital input signal and to produce a plurality of delay line output signals; first and second pulse generator blocks comprising logic circuitry arranged to generate a plurality of successive first output pulses in response to said different delay line output signals; and pulse combiner circuitry arranged to combine said first output pulses to produce second output pulses. The first pulse generator block is arranged to be responsive to rising edges of said input signal, and the second pulse generator blocks is responsive to falling edges of said input signal. Thus, both rising and falling edges of said input signal are used to create pulses. The device can be used in impulse radio transmitters and receivers.
US07746142B2
Circuit and methods for automatic clock skew compensation in circuits having two power domains. When one of the power domains is operated with a lowered supply voltage, lowering the supply voltage tends to slow the clock pulse and produces clock skew. Circuitry is provided for selectively delaying the clock pulse in one of the power domains to reduce the clock skew by comparing the clock pulses, and then automatically delaying the clock pulse in one of the domains by a delay determined to minimize the skew. A method is provided where the clock skew between two clock pulses is determined and the delay needed in one of the clock pulses to reduce the skew is determined by sampling the clock skew using a plurality of delays at multiples of a minimum delay, and then automatically delaying the one clock pulse by selecting an appropriate delay. The method may be iterated.
US07746132B2
A PLL comprises a current-controlled oscillator (18) for generating an output clock signal based on a current signal generated based on a phase difference between a reference clock signal and a feedback clock signal, a current source (28), and an initialization switch (26) for performing an open/close operation based on the initialization signal, the initialization switch being inserted in series to an input terminal of the current-controlled oscillator (18) and the current source (28).
US07746129B2
A low power servo-controlled single clock ramp generator (100) includes a fast switched comparator (102), charge pump (110) and voltage-to-current converter (120) connected to provide a feedback control mechanism under control of a pulse comparison clock signal (pulse_comp) and a reset pulse clock signal (rst_pulse) that are generated from a single input clock signal (clkin) so that there are well defined time intervals between pulses in the pulse comparison clock signal and the reset pulse clock signal, thereby providing a ramp signal (Vramp_out) having a stable, frequency-independent amplitude that is not limited by the reference voltage.
US07746123B2
Various apparatuses, methods and systems for switched mode electronic circuits with reduced EMI are disclosed herein. For example, some embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses including a power supply, an output, and a composite switch connected between the power supply and the output. The composite switch includes a plurality of transistors connected in parallel, a switch closing delay line having a plurality of switch closing outputs each connected to a control input of one of the plurality of transistors, and a switch opening delay line having a plurality of switch opening outputs each connected to one of the plurality of switch closing outputs. The switch closing delay line and switch opening delay line are connected in an order that opens the plurality of transistors in a staggered order in time and closes the plurality of transistors in a reverse staggered order in time.
US07746117B2
A complementary energy path adiabatic logic (CEPAL) includes an evaluation network and a power clock network. The evaluation network is a logic circuit composed of P-type MOS transistors and N-type MOS transistors. The power clock network includes a P-type and N-type MOS transistors and additional P-type and N-type MOS transistors, with each of the transistors involved in the power clock network acting as an active diode.
US07746112B1
A cascading output structure for logic blocks in an integrated circuit. An exemplary integrated circuit includes an array of interconnected logic blocks, each including a logic circuit, an output multiplexer, and a select multiplexer. The logic circuit has an input coupled to a logic block input. The output multiplexer has first and second data inputs respectively coupled to first and second outputs of the logic circuit, a select input, and an output coupled to a logic block output. The select multiplexer has a first data input coupled to a cascade select input of the logic block, a second data input, and an output coupled to the select input of the output multiplexer. The output of the select multiplexer is also coupled to a cascade select output of the logic block. The cascade select input of the logic block is coupled to the cascade select output of an adjacent logic block.
US07746108B1
Integrated circuits having a compute-centric architecture. An integrated circuit may include an array of interconnected substantially similar logic blocks, each including a multiplier circuit and a lookup table circuit. The multiplier circuit has first and second inputs coupled to first and second data inputs of the logic block, and an output, and may include a non-uniform array of sub-circuits. The lookup table circuit has a first input coupled to a third data input of the logic block, a second input coupled to the output of the multiplier circuit, and an output coupled to a data output of the logic block. The multiplier circuits in adjacent logic blocks may be coupled together via a multi-bit partial product bus. Optional storage elements store the first and second inputs and the output of the multiplier circuit, the partial product bus, and the output of the lookup table circuit.
US07746104B1
A programmable integrated circuit includes a plurality of interconnected logic blocks, each including a logic circuit and an output multiplexer circuit. The output multiplexer circuit includes a first multiplexer having first and second data inputs respectively coupled to first and second outputs of the logic circuit, a select input coupled to an output of another logic block, and a first data output. A second output multiplexer may also have first and second data inputs respectively coupled to the first and second outputs of the logic circuit, a select input coupled to the output of the another logic block, and a second data output. The output multiplexer circuit is programmably coupled, in one of a plurality of operating modes, to provide an output token with the first output of each logic block only when the output multiplexer circuit of the logic block receives tokens indicating valid new data on each of the first, second, and select inputs of the circuit.
US07746082B2
The present invention provides a high-performance partial discharge detection device which is user-friendly and compact and which allows detection of the electromagnetic waves caused by partial discharge, over a wide bandwidth with a simple constitution and a favorable S/N ratio. The waveguide antenna which receives electromagnetic waves that leak from the insulating spacer is attached to the outer circumferential face of the insulating spacer. The waveguide antenna is constituted by a waveguide portion and a coaxial cable connector which is installed on the waveguide portion. The waveguide portion has a metal short-circuit plate provided at one end thereof, and an opening formed at the other end thereof, which covers part of the outer circumferential face of the insulating spacer.
US07746078B2
Calculating resistivity of an earth formation. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are systems including: a first current source current return (CSCR) pair, said first CSCR pair comprises a first current source and a first current return, the first current return receives current from the first current source; a second CSCR pair, the second CSCR pair disposed along a longitudinal axis of said apparatus from the first CSCR pair, the second CSCR pair comprises a second current source and a second current return, and the second current return receives current from the second current source; and a monitor electrode disposed between the first CSCR pair and the second CSCR pair, a distance between the first current source and the monitor electrode is substantially equal to the distance between the second current source and the monitor electrode, and the monitor electrode monitors a first voltage and a second voltage.
US07746076B2
A method for using a tool in a wellbore in a formation to predict an anomaly in the formation ahead of the device, the tool comprising a transmitter for transmitting electromagnetic signals through the formation and a receiver for detecting response signals. the method comprises a) bringing the tool to a first position inside the wellbore; b) energizing the transmitter to propagate a transient electromagnetic signal into the formation; c) detecting a response signal that has propagated through the formation as a result of the transient signal in step (b); d) calculating a derived quantity for the formation as a function of time based on the detected response signal for the formation; e) plotting the derived quantity for the formation against time; f) moving the tool to at least one other position within the wellbore and repeating steps (b) to (e); g) predicting an anomaly in the formation.
US07746073B2
A magnetic resonance imaging system is provided, which can provide the homogeneous magnetic field to obtain a head anatomic image with a high resolution and high SNR by coaxially disposing a receive-only phased array antenna inside a transmit-only antenna with a predetermined gap, and thereby a detailed and accurate image of a man's head can be obtained. In the present invention, the system comprises: a transmit-only antenna comprising at least two saddle quadrature antennas connected with each other to form a ring shape, one of the connections being a joint and the remaining connections being formed in an overlapping fashion; and a receive-only phased array antenna comprising a plurality of receive-only antennas connected with each other to form a ring shape, one of the connections being a joint and the remaining connections being formed in an overlapping fashion, wherein an inner diameter of the receive-only phased array antenna is shorter than that of the transmit-only antenna, and the receive-only phased array antenna is coaxially disposed inside the transmit-only antenna with a predetermined gap.
US07746072B2
The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance imaging system, to a magnetic resonance imaging method for operating a magnetic resonance imaging system and to a computer program for operating a magnetic resonance imaging system. In order to considerably reduce the number of cabling in a magnetic resonance imaging system a magnetic resonance imaging system (1) is suggested, the system comprising: an examination zone (5) arranged to receive a body for examination; magnetic field generating means (9, 10, 24) for generating a magnetic field in the examination zone (5); a receiving unit (14) located in the examination zone (5) or in the vicinity of the examination zone (5); an interface unit (17) located in the examination zone (5) or in the vicinity of the examination zone (5), and arranged separately from the receiving unit (14); and a signal processing unit (21) disposed at a location (2) remote from the receiving unit (14) and the interface unit (17); wherein the receiving unit (14) comprising a receiver (15) adapted to receive a spin resonance signal generated in the examination zone (5), and a transmitter (16) adapted to transmit the spin resonance signal to the interface unit (17); and wherein the interface unit (17) comprises a receiver (20) for receiving the spin resonance signals, an analog to digital converter (19) adapted to generate a digital signal in response to the received spin resonance signal, and a transmitter (20) for transmitting the digitized signal to the signal processing unit (21).
US07746061B2
This present invention discloses a method for performing an accurate calibration of signal measurement by a light-driving system including an automatic power control (APC) circuit which is pre-calibrated for a signal measurement process. By enlarging at least one measured pad of the APC circuit, multiple grounding paths are established via a plurality of probes of a test instrument. An impedance effect predicted on the contact between the probes and the pad is diminished greatly. A voltage value on the pad can be accurately measured. Thus, a reference voltage value input to a first input of a comparator of the APC circuit can be determined on a basis of a specific condition when a ramping voltage value input to a second input of the comparator is substantially equal to a sum of a predetermined reference voltage value and the voltage value of the pad.
US07746054B2
A method of detecting the presence of an unsafe line condition at a power metering device is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining if a disconnect switch is in the open position, and measuring a first voltage at a first load contact. The method measures a second voltage at a second load contact and determines if the first voltage is greater than a first voltage threshold or less than a second voltage threshold. The method further determines if the second voltage is greater than the first voltage threshold or less than the second voltage threshold. The method indicates that an unsafe condition exists if either the first voltage is greater than the first voltage threshold, or first voltage is less than the second voltage threshold or the second voltage is greater than the first voltage threshold or the second voltage is less than the second voltage threshold, when the disconnect switch is in the open position.
US07746053B2
For testing an RF device, such as an RF receiver/decoder chip that receives an RF signal via an antenna terminal and outputs a digital code at an output terminal, an inexpensive non-RF programmable tester is used. The programmable tester is a commercially available tester that need only generate and receive non-RF digital and analog signals. The RF signals needed for the testing of the RF device are totally supplied by RF generators on a single printed circuit board, external to the commercial tester housing. The board contains controllable RF generating circuitry whose possible output amplitudes and frequencies need be only those necessary for testing the particular DUT. The frequencies may be changed by switching in different crystal resonators mounted on the board.
US07746044B2
A power supply system for a motherboard includes a voltage regulator circuit includes a system power source, and a voltage output terminal, a sampling circuit having an input, and an output receiving a high level sleep signal from a south bridge of the motherboard, a switching circuit having an input, and an output, a power connector having a control terminal connected to the output of the switching circuit, and a power source being connected to the power connector. When the voltage regulator circuit outputs a voltage greater than a predetermined stable voltage to the sampling circuit, the sampling circuit outputs a low level signal to the switching circuit which in return outputs a high level signal to the control terminal of the power connector to cut off power supply from the power source to the system power source.
US07746027B2
In an electric power controller for vehicle mounting, an input voltage supplied through a harness and a threshold value are compared, and the input voltage applied to load is interrupted when the input voltage is smaller than the threshold value. The electric power controller for vehicle mounting includes a voltage drop detector for detecting a voltage drop amount of the harness; and a threshold value setting device in which a voltage provided by subtracting the voltage drop amount of the harness from a predetermined protecting voltage is set as the threshold value.
US07746020B2
Systems and methods for improved Variable Speed Drives having active inverters include an input filter for filtering common mode and differential mode currents. A three-phase inductor has three windings, each winding of the three-phase inductor having a center tap dividing each winding into a pair of inductor sections; and a three-phase input capacitor bank connected in a wye configuration to the three center taps at one end, and to a common point at the opposite end. The three-phase input capacitor bank provides a short circuit for frequencies above a predetermined fundamental frequency for shunting such frequencies through the three phase capacitor bank, while passing the predetermined fundamental frequency to an input AC power source.
US07746010B2
A feeder to be able to meet the requirements of positioning accuracy, long distance conveyance, remote conveyance, controllability, high precision feeding, high speed feeding, inexpensiveness, simplicity of construction, space saving, weight reduction, measure for dusting and safety for accident for being provided for multiple utilizations. This feeder comprises a forward winder (21), a reverse winder (31), a forwardly winding liner body (51), a reversely winding liner body (61) and a reciprocating body (71). The forwardly winding linear body and the reversely winding linear body are connected to the reciprocating body. The forward winder on winding rotation and the reverse winder on rewinding rotation rotate in synchronism and phase with each other in the same or reverse direction. The amount of winding the forwardly winding linear body by the forward winder and the amount of rewinding the reversely winding linear body by the reverse winder are equal to each other. The amount of rewinding the forwardly winding linear body by the forward winder and the amount of winding the reversely winding linear body by the reverse winder are equal to each other.
US07746004B2
A discharge-lamp lighting apparatus includes series circuits connected to each end of a DC power source, a transformer, FETs Qp1, Qn1, Qp2, and Qn2, and a drive circuit. The drive circuit includes transistors Q1 and Q3 to discharge gate-source capacitances of the Qp1 and Qp2, resistance elements to determine gate potentials of the transistors Q1 and Q3 when the transistors Q1 and Q3 are turned on, transistors Q2 and Q4 to charge the gate-source capacitances of the Qp1 and Qp2, constant current circuits, and switches connected in series with the series circuits of the constant current circuits and resistance elements, respectively, to turn on/off the constant current circuits.
US07745998B2
A lighting unit of the present invention comprises a light guide board, a fluorescent discharge tube provided on a side surface of the light guide board, having an electrode portion at its end portion, a lead wire having a contact connected to the electrode portion of the fluorescent discharge tube, and a holder having a cavity therein and containing the end portion of the fluorescent discharge tube and the contact of the lead wire inside the cavity. The diameter of the cavity is larger than that of the fluorescent discharge tube. With this construction, the lighting unit can suppress heat dissipation at the end portion of the fluorescent discharge tube as compared with the background art and as a result, can suppress degradation in luminance of the fluorescent discharge tube due to long term use.
US07745996B2
A film adhered on a display panel includes a black layer for preventing an external light from entering into the display panel, and a reflective layer for preventing light emitted from the display panel from being absorbed in the black layer. The film minimizes the influence of an external light and improves transmittance, thereby providing a user with a good-quality picture.
US07745995B2
A flat panel display (7) generally includes a front substrate (79) and a rear substrate (70) opposite thereto. The front substrate is formed with an anode (78). The rear substrate is formed with a cathode (71) facing the anode. Several sidewalls (72) are interposed between the front substrate and the rear substrate. A plurality of getter devices (82) are arranged on the front substrate. Thereby, a chamber between the front substrate and the rear substrate is maintained as a low-pressure vacuum. Each of the getter devices includes a base (820), a getter layer (822) comprised of non-evaporable getter material formed thereon, and securing wires (84) arranged on the base.
US07745989B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a light emitting element with a low driving voltage. In a light emitting element, a first electrode; and a first composite layer, a second composite layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transporting layer, an electron injecting layer, and a second electrode, which are stacked over the first electrode, are included. The first composite layer and the second composite layer each include metal oxide and an organic compound. A concentration of metal oxide in the first composite layer is higher than a concentration of metal oxide in the second composite layer, whereby a light emitting element with a low driving voltage can be obtained. Further, the composite layer is not limited to a two-layer structure. A multi-layer structure can be employed. However, a concentration of metal oxide in the composite layer is gradually higher from the light emitting layer to first electrode side.
US07745988B2
A 3,6-diphenylcarbazole compound, which has a specific formula and realizes an organic electroluminescent device having high durability and high luminous efficiency. An electroluminescent device which includes an anode; a cathode which faces the anode; and at least one layer including a luminescent layer, optionally a hole transporting layer and an electron transporting layer, which is located between the anode and the cathode, wherein the at least one layer includes the 3,6-diphenylcarbazole compound.
US07745968B2
A motor includes a sleeve, a sleeve holder, a rotor hub and an inner body. The sleeve has a flange portion on an outer circumference portion thereof. The sleeve holder holds the sleeve. The rotor hub has an annular wall portion. The inner body is fixed in an inside of the annular wall portion so as to surround the sleeve and the sleeve holder. The inner body has an annular protrusion portion which is sandwiched between the flange portion and one end portion of the sleeve holder on an inner circumference portion of thereof. A first thrust bearing portion in which a lubrication agent is filled is formed between the annular protrusion portion and the flange portion. A second thrust bearing portion in which the lubrication agent is filled is formed between the annular protrusion portion and the one end portion of the sleeve holder.
US07745963B2
A linear motor with an integrated guidance comprising a base plate comprising at least two side walls, and a travel plate guideably connected to the base plate in a linearly movable manner, wherein the travel plate comprises at least two rails and is connected to a plurality of rollers, wherein the plurality of rollers travel on the at least two rails.
US07745947B2
The present invention is to drive a hydraulic pump and a generator motor by an engine, to electrically charge a battery by a generator action of the generator motor, and to drive the generator motor by electric power of the battery so as to assist the engine. A governor position is changed by operations of a potentiometer for accelerator and a mode selection switch so as to control rotation speed of the engine. On the premise of the above configuration, generator output is limited by a controller at the time of accelerating the engine until the rotation speed of the engine reaches set speed determined on the basis of the operations of the potentiometer for accelerator and the mode selection switch, and hence engine load is reduced so as to assist acceleration.
US07745942B2
A semiconductor die has conductors encapsulated in a dielectric material disposed on the active surface extending across the active surface from bond pads to one or more peripheral edges where the conductor ends are disposed at a side surface of the dielectric material. Stacks of such semiconductor dice, wherein one of the dice is configured with discrete conductive elements projecting from the active surface, and the exposed ends of the dice in the stack are connected with vertical interconnects. A probe card is disclosed having bond wires extending from one or more central contacts between one or more peripheral contacts to the edge of the probe card. A probe card having an upper layer bearing contacts and at least one window therethrough, a lower layer bearing conductive traces with ends exposed through the at least one window, and conductors extending from at least some of the contacts to conductive trace ends is also provided. Methods of making the foregoing structures are disclosed.
US07745912B2
An apparatus, method, and system for providing a stress absorption layer for integrated circuits includes a stiffening layer adapted to limit flexing. A compliance layer is physically associated with the stiffening layer, with the compliance layer adapted to absorb stress caused by mismatched thermal properties between two materials. A thru hole passes through both the stiffening layer and the compliance layer, with the thru hole being adapted to receive a solder joint. The stress absorption layer contacts both a semiconductor package and a substrate. The solder joint disposed in the thru hole connects the semiconductor package to the substrate.
US07745911B2
A semiconductor chip package includes a main board; a ceramic substrate having a cavity within which at least one chip is electrically mounted, the cavity being placed at a lower portion of the ceramic substrate facing the main board; and a conductive shielding layer provided with a predetermined thickness on the outside of the ceramic substrate. The ceramic substrate includes: at least one first ground line electrically connecting the conductive shielding layer with the main board; at least one second ground line electrically connecting the conductive shielding layer with the chip; and at least one signal line electrically connecting the chip with the main board. Thus, manufacturing costs are lowered because of the reduced number of components being used, miniaturization in device design can be achieved because of the small volume of the package, and the ground performance can be improved.
US07745908B2
A Semiconductor component that contains AlxGayIn1-x-yAszSb1-z, whereby the parameters x, y, and z are selected such that a bandgap of less than 350 meV is achieved, whereby it features a mesa-structuring and a passivation layer containing AlnGa1-nAsmSb1-m is applied at least partially on at least one lateral surface of the structuring, and the parameter n is selected in the range of 0.4 to 1 and the parameter m in the range of 0 to 1.
US07745899B2
An embodiment of a photomask for forming gate lines and a method of manufacturing semiconductor devices using the photomask is disclosed. The photomask includes a photomask substrate, gate line mask patterns that define gate lines that cross at least one active region on a semiconductor substrate, and that are arranged in parallel, gate tab mask patterns formed on both sides of each gate line mask pattern, and joints formed between adjacent gate tab mask patterns, and that include a separation region. A relatively large gate tab mask pattern can be formed using the photomask. And a short channel effect at the boundary of the active region can be improved with the large gate tab mask pattern, so the characteristics and reliability of the semiconductor devices can be improved.
US07745895B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor light emitting device capable of easily realizing stable output characteristics within a wide temperature range. The semiconductor light emitting device includes a semiconductor laser element, and a semiconductor photodiode having an absorption layer disposed on a semiconductor substrate, a second conductivity type region formed in a cap layer and the absorption layer, and a transmissive reflection film disposed on the back side of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor photodiode is mounted with the epitaxial layer side down, and the transmissive reflection film is irradiated with a laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser element so that light reflected from the transmissive reflection film is used as output light, and transmitted light is received by the semiconductor photodiode and used for controlling the output of the semiconductor laser element.
US07745894B2
A semiconductor memory device includes first to third wiring layers formed above a semiconductor substrate, extending in a first direction, and sequentially arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a plurality of active areas formed in the semiconductor substrate, and extending in a direction oblique to the first direction, first and second selection transistors formed in each of the active areas, and sharing a source region electrically connected to the second wiring layer, a first magnetoresistive element having one terminal electrically connected to a drain region of the first selection transistor, and the other terminal electrically connected to the first wiring layer, and a second magnetoresistive element having one terminal electrically connected to a drain region of the second selection transistor, and the other terminal electrically connected to the third wiring layer.
US07745891B2
The microsystems are integrated in a first cavity bounded by at least a substrate and by a top wall formed by at least a part of a first cover. The component has a second cavity bounded by at least the whole of the top wall of the first cavity and by a second cover formed by a thin layer. The second cover can be covered by a coating made of plastic material molded from a casting. The fabrication process of the component comprises deposition, on the whole of the top wall of the first cavity, of a layer of polymer material and annealing of the layer of polymer material. The layer of polymer material acts as sacrificial layer for deposition of the thin layer designed to form the second cover.
US07745884B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory of an aspect of the present invention comprises a plurality of memory cell transistors which are connected in series to one another with a first gate spacing, every two adjacent transistors of the memory cell transistors sharing a source/drain diffusion layer, and a first select gate transistor which shares a source/drain diffusion layer with an endmost memory cell transistor that is located at one end of the series connection of the memory cell transistors and is adjacent to that memory cell transistor with a second gate spacing. The second gate spacing is set larger than the first gate spacing and the source/drain diffusion layer shared by the endmost memory cell transistor and the first select gate transistor contains a region which is higher in impurity concentration than the source/drain diffusion layer shared by two adjacent memory cell transistors.
US07745883B2
A family of semiconductor devices is formed in a substrate that contains no epitaxial layer. In one embodiment the family includes a 5V CMOS pair, a 12V CMOS pair, a 5V NPN, a 5V PNP, several forms of a lateral trench MOSFET, and a 30V lateral N-channel DMOS. Each of the devices is extremely compact, both laterally and vertically, and can be fully isolated from all other devices in the substrate.
US07745876B2
Provided are semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) devices including gate patterns having a step difference therebetween and a connection line interposed between the gate patterns. The semiconductor IC device includes a semiconductor substrate including a peripheral active region, a cell active region, and a device isolation layer. Cell gate patterns are disposed on the cell active region and the device isolation layer. A peripheral gate pattern is disposed on the peripheral active region. A cell electrical node is disposed on the cell active region adjacent to the cell gate patterns. Peripheral electrical nodes are disposed on the peripheral active region adjacent to the peripheral gate pattern. Connection lines are disposed on the cell gate patterns disposed on the device isolation layer. The connection lines are connected between the cell gate patterns and the peripheral gate pattern.
US07745874B2
Provided is a floating gate having multiple charge storing layers, a non-volatile memory device using the same, and a method of fabricating the floating gate and the non-volatile memory device, in which the multiple charge storing layers using metal nano-crystals of nano size is formed to thereby enhance a charge storage capacity of the memory device. The floating gate includes a polymer electrolytic film which is deposited on a tunneling oxide film, and is formed of at least one stage in which at least one thin film is deposited on each stage, and at least one metal nano-crystal film which is self-assembled on the upper surface of each stage of the polymer electrolytic film and on which a number of metal nano-crystals for trapping charges are deposited. The floating gate is made by self-assembling the metal nano-crystals on the polymer electrolytic film, and thus can be fabricated without undergoing a heat treatment process at high temperature.
US07745871B2
A method of forming a fin field effect transistor on a semiconductor substrate includes forming a fin-shaped active region vertically protruding from the substrate. An oxide layer is formed on a top surface and opposing sidewalls of the fin-shaped active region. An oxidation barrier layer is formed on the opposing sidewalls of the fin-shaped active region and is planarized to a height no greater than about a height of the oxide layer to form a fin structure. The fin structure is oxidized to form a capping oxide layer on the top surface of the fin-shaped active region and to form at least one curved sidewall portion proximate the top surface of the fin-shaped active region. The oxidation barrier layer has a height sufficient to reduce oxidation on the sidewalls of the fin-shaped active region about halfway between the top surface and a base of the fin-shaped active region. Related devices are also discussed.
US07745869B2
A thin film capacitance element composition, wherein a bismuth layer compound having a c-axis oriented vertically with respect to a substrate surface is expressed by a composition formula of (Bi2O2)2+(Am−1BmO3m+1)2− or Bi2Am−1BmO3m+3, wherein “m” is an even number, “A” is at least one element selected from Na, K, Pb, Ba, Sr, Ca and Bi, and “B” is at least one element selected from Fe, Co, Cr, Ga, Ti, Nb, Ta, Sb, V, Mo and W; and Bi in the bismuth layer compound is excessively included with respect to the composition formula of (Bi2O2)2+(Am−1BmO3m+1)2− or Bi2Am−1BmO3m+3, and the excessive content of Bi is in a range of 0
US07745854B2
It is to provide a substrate for growing a semiconductor, which is effective for suppressing an occurrence of surface defects different in type from hillock defects in case of epitaxially growing a compound semiconductor layer, particularly an Al-based compound semiconductor layer.In a substrate for growing a compound semiconductor, in which a crystal surface inclined at a predetermined off angle with respect to a (100) plane is a principal plane, an angle made by a direction of a vector obtained by projecting a normal vector of the principal plane on the (100) plane and one direction of a [0-11] direction, a [01-1] direction, a [011] direction and a [0-1-1] direction is set to be less than 35°, and the compound semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown on the substrate.
US07745838B2
The invention consists of inserting electronic components into a glazing, in particular a laminated glazing, in order to create new features, in particular for automotive applications, windscreen, rear window or side windows. The inserted electronic components can be optoelectronic components such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) providing a lighting function for the glazing, e.g. interior lighting of an automobile. The electrical connections are provided by means of a conductive layer so that they are virtually invisible.
US07745833B2
The invention provides a semiconductor light emitting device and the fabrication method of the same. The semiconductor light emitting device according to the invention comprises a multi-layer light emitting structure and a heat conducting layer. The multi-layer light emitting structure comprises a first layer. The first layer has an exposed first surface, and it also has a first thermal conductivity. The heat conducting layer is formed on and covers the first layer. The heat conducting layer has a second thermal conductivity, wherein the second thermal conductivity is greater than the first thermal conductivity.
US07745827B2
Conventionally, the layer of the insulator between a cathode and an anode is formed by a droplet discharge method, vapor deposition, or the like separately from an interlayer insulating film formed over a thin film transistor, which creates problems of increase in cost and the number of manufacturing steps. A memory device of the present invention includes a first conductive film; an insulating film formed over the first conductive film; and a second conductive film formed over the insulating film, and an opening and a contact hole which are formed in the insulating film. Further, the insulating film exists between the first conductive film and the second conductive film formed in the opening, and the first conductive film and the second conductive film are electrically connected in the contact hole.
US07745820B2
A device includes: a first electrical contact; a second electrical contact; a semiconducting or semimetallic organic layer disposed at least partially between the first and second electrical contacts; and a tunneling barrier layer disposed at least partially between the semiconducting or semimetallic organic layer and the first electrical contact. The tunneling barrier layer has a thickness effective to enable flow of an electrical current through the tunneling barrier layer responsive to an operative electrical bias applied across the first and second electrical contacts, the electrical current exhibiting negative differential resistance for at least some applied electrical bias values. Circuits are also disclosed that utilize one or more negative differential resistance polymer diodes to implement logic, memory, or mixed signal applications.
US07745816B2
A semiconductor photodetector for photon detection without the use of avalanche multiplication, and capable of operating at low bias voltage and without excess noise. In one embodiment, the photodetector comprises a plurality of InP/AlInGaAs/AlGaAsSb layers, capable of spatially separating the electron and the hole of an photo-generated electron-hole pair in one layer, transporting one of the electron and the hole of the photo-generated electron-hole pair into another layer, focalizing it into a desired volume and trapping it therein, the desired volume having a dimension in a scale of nanometers to reduce its capacitance and increase the change of potential for a trapped carrier, and a nano-injector, capable of injecting carriers into the plurality of InP/AlInGaAs/AlGaAsSb layers, where the carrier transit time in the nano-injector is much shorter than the carrier recombination time therein, thereby causing a very large carrier recycling effect.
US07745815B2
A quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP) focal plane array having structures, each structure having stacked layers of quantum wells and a reflective grating to provide polarization sensitivity. The reflective grating is etched to provide electrical contacts for individual pixels. The reflective gratings comprise grooves, where the grooves for a particular structure run in a particular direction to provide polarization sensitivity. Each structure may comprise groups of quantum well layers, each group sensitive to a particular frequency band. By shorting out unwanted quantum well layers, and by forming the reflective gratings to come into contact with the quantum well layers having a particular frequency band sensitivity, the pixels in the QWIP focal plane array may provide frequency and polarization information.
US07745811B2
Phase change memory devices and methods for fabricating the same. An exemplary phase change memory device includes a conductive element formed in a dielectric layer. A phase change material layer is formed in the dielectric layer. A conductive layer extends in the dielectric layer to respectively electrically connect the phase change layer and a sidewall of the conductive element.
US07745806B2
A solid-state radiation detector with increased pixel density. The solid-state radiation detector includes multitudes of linear signal wires for detecting recorded image information as image signals, and a signal detection means disposed on an opposing side of the detector substantially orthogonal to the linear signal wires, and connected to the linear signal wires to detect the image signals from the linear signal wires. A connection section of each of the linear signal wires, extending substantially orthogonal to the opposing side, for connection to the signal detection means is disposed such that the distance from the opposing side to each of the connection sections differs with each other.
US07745802B2
A specimen holder, a specimen inspection apparatus, and a specimen inspection method permitting a specimen consisting of cultured cells to be observed or inspected. Also, a method of fabricating the holder is offered. The holder has an open specimen-holding surface. At least a part of this surface is formed by a film. A specimen cultured on the specimen-holding surface of the film can be irradiated via the film with a primary beam for observation or inspection of the specimen. Consequently, the cultured specimen (e.g., cells) can be observed or inspected in vitro. Especially, if an electron beam is used as the primary beam, the specimen in vitro can be observed or inspected by SEM. Because the specimen-holding surface is open, a manipulator can gain access to the specimen. A stimulus can be given to the specimen using the manipulator. The reaction can be observed or inspected.
US07745795B2
In a gamma camera, a plurality of radiation detector elements having a rod-shaped first electrode, a semiconductor device surrounds the first electrode to contact with it for entering a radiation, and a second electrode provided for the side surface of the semiconductor device are detachably attached to a holding member. The holding member has a first electrode contact portion contacted with the first electrode and a second electrode contact portion contacted with the second electrode. A collimator in which a plurality of radiation paths provided corresponding to the plurality of radiation detector elements are formed is arranged on the radiation entering side of the plurality of radiation detector elements. A γ-ray detection signal outputted from the first electrode contact portion is sent to a signal processing integrated circuit. A high voltage is applied to the second electrode via the second electrode contact portion.
US07745794B2
A positron emission tomography module is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the positron emission tomography module includes a gamma ray detector arrangement designed such that it can alternately be combined with a magnetic resonance tomograph and with a computed tomograph.
US07745779B2
Image sensors and methods of operating image sensors. An image sensor includes an array of pixels and an array of color filters disposed over the array of pixels such that each different color filter is disposed over multiple pixels. A method of operating an image sensor including an array of two by two blocks of single color pixels includes determining a level of incident light, determining an incident light value corresponding to the level of incident light and comparing the incident light value to a predetermined threshold value. If the incident light value is less than the predetermined threshold value, a combined signal is read from the two by two blocks. If the incident light value is less than the predetermined threshold value, an individual signal is read from each pixel.
US07745773B1
An array of multicolor CMOS pixel sensors has a plurality of photosensors per pixel, each photosensor coupled to a single sense node through a select transistor having a select input, each pixel sensor including a reset transistor coupled to the sense node and having a reset input, an amplifier coupled to the sense node and a row-select transistor coupled to the amplifier. The select inputs and the reset inputs for pixel sensors in a pair of adjacent rows are coupled to select signal lines and reset signal lines associated with the pair of rows. The amplifier transistors in individual columns of each row are coupled to a column output line through a row-select transistor having a row-select input. The row-select inputs for pixel sensors in each row of the array are coupled to a row-select line associated with the row.
US07745772B2
An image forming state detection device comprises a micro-lens array that is disposed at a position set apart from a predetermined focal plane of an image forming optical system by a specific distance and includes a plurality of micro-lenses arrayed with a predetermined pitch, a light-receiving portion array that includes a plurality of light-receiving portions each corresponding to one of the micro-lenses in the micro-lens array and receives an image on the predetermined focal plane via the individual micro-lenses, a signal string extracting means that extracts a pair of signal strings corresponding to images, formed with light fluxes having passed through different pupil areas of the image forming optical system, based upon light reception outputs obtained from the plurality of light-receiving portions, and an image forming state calculating means that calculates an image forming state at the image forming optical system by detecting an offset with regard to the phases of the pair of signal strings extracted by the signal string extracting means.
US07745771B2
In an actively illuminated imaging system, illumination of a segmented scene is synchronized with an image sensing period. A scene is segmented into a plurality of scene portions utilizing a segmented lens. In an aspect, a first scene portion is illuminated when an imager is actively collecting photogenerated charge from the first scene portion, and a second scene portion is illuminated when an imager is actively collecting photogenerated charge from the second scene portion. The sensitivity of an image sensor is maximized, while simultaneously minimizing the amount of light that must be supplied to illuminate a scene. An irradiance pattern is varied allowing a more uniform distribution of light. Bands of varying wavelength, polarization, and light intensity may be variously applied to illuminate individual scene segments, as needed to enhance an identification of an object in the scene. The present invention is particularly useful with high frame rate imaging systems.
US07745769B2
A method and system for adjusting a light source that is capable of displaying light of different colors receives inputs from various sources and provides an output color selection signal. The output color selection signal is applied to the light source to adjust the intensity and color thereof.
US07745759B2
An electrically heated water kettle comprises a vessel for holding a liquid for extraction of tea, coffee or other food material. The vessel includes a partially open immersible container sized to allow the passage of water between the walls of the vessel. The container is capable of holding the material while an opening in the container allows the entrance of water into the container upon immersion of the container in the water. The heated kettle incorporates structure to hold the container out of the water until the water reaches an appropriate extraction temperature and to immerse or withdraw the container into or from the water as is necessary to accomplish the extraction.
US07745757B2
A welding apparatus is provided for carrying a welding gun across or past a surface for making welds. The apparatus may include one or more rolling components, such as wheels for example, that do not substantially plastically deform as a result of contacting or being in close proximity to recently completed welds or preheated joints and provide adequate traction to move the apparatus across or past the surface. A portion of the contact surface of the rolling component may be configured with a given surface roughness to provide sufficient traction.
US07745752B2
An operation key 3 is fitted in a guide hole 4 of an operation section cover 2 while making contact with support pieces 12 of a film member 10a. Thus, the support pieces 12 are pressed, widened, and then bent by an operation section 3b, thus sandwiching the support pieces 12 between the operation section 3b and the guide hole 4. Here, the film member 10a has an elastic force; thus, the operation key 3 is positioned at a substantially vertical center of the guide hole 4 by restoring forces of the support pieces 12.
US07745751B2
A member for a push-button switch has key top members positioned close to each other through a distance of 1.5 mm or shorter at low cost and with high yield. The member has multiple key top members having resin key top cores and thermoplastic films covering the key top cores other than the lower surfaces thereof. The key top members are formed so that an interval between at least one set of adjacent key top members is 1.5 mm or shorter. In the key top members adjacent to each other through a distance of 1.5 mm or shorter, the maximum thickness of the thermoplastic films covering the key top cores is within the range of 75 to 350 μ, and the ratio of the minimum thickness of the thermoplastic films covering the key top cores to the maximum thickness is within the range of 0.4 to 0.9.
US07745749B2
A dial controller includes a dial, a displacement converter for converting a rotational displacement caused by a rotation operation of the dial to an axial displacement of the dial along a rotation axis of the dial, and a displacement detector for detecting and outputting information on a rotation angle of the dial based on a detection result of the axial displacement of the dial.
US07745738B2
A cable holder unit is mounted in an electronic device mounting a plurality of units connected with cables. The cable holder unit has a cable holder assembly having cable holders and a support section for supporting the cable holders and a mounting section for mounting the cable holder assembly. The support section has a groove and a movable section having a projection that is to be inserted into and penetrates through the groove. The mounting section has a pivoting section that enables the support section to pivot and an anchoring section that engages with the projection to stop the support section from pivoting. The cable holder unit also has a preventing section for preventing adjacent units under the mounting section from being pulled out.
US07745731B2
A transmission cable and method for manufacturing same are provided. A plurality of signal lines are formed on one side of an insulating layer and ground lines are formed between the signal lines. The ground lines are electrically connected with a shield layer formed on a back surface of the insulating layer through metal bumps formed and embedded in the insulating layer. Insulating layers and shield layers may be formed on opposite sides sandwiching the signal lines and the ground lines. In this case, the ground lines are electrically connected with the shield layers, respectively, through metal bumps on both sides thereof. Consequently, a highly reliable transmission cable capable of high rate transfer and large capacity transfer can be provided.
US07745729B2
A conductive connection such as a flexible printed circuit board (FPC) or flexible flat cable is disclosed. The conductive connection has a substrate and conductive wires provided on the substrate. After the conductive connection is cut to be put into application, ends of the wires extend out of an edge of the substrate due to the cutting. In accordance with the present invention, the substrate edge from which the wire ends extend out has protrusions provided. Accordingly, when the conductive connection is applied to a flat display of a mobile phone, for example, short circuit resulting from the wire ends extending out of the substrate edge improperly contacting metal portion of other phone parts is avoided.
US07745728B2
A low-voltage electrical power cable that includes of at least one uninsulated ground conductor and at least one insulated power conductor. The ground conductor and the power conductor are covered with an electrically conductive composition such that the power conductor contacts the electrical conductive composition for improving the flow of a fault current to the ground conductor and to trigger a circuit breaker when the low-voltage power cable is damaged by generating the fault current without the presence of a ground check wire.
US07745725B2
A power terminal feed-through incorporates a metallic body through which extend one or more current conducting pins that are hermetically sealed to the metallic body by a glass-to-metal seal. The metallic body includes an annular lip with a protrusion. During welding installation of the power terminal feed-through, the protrusion serves to assist in the welding process, better controlling the location and definition of the weld between the metallic body and a housing, and to focus the welding heat at the protrusion, thereby protecting the glass-to-metal seal. The glass-to-metal seal can be a single glass insert through which the current conducting pins extend, thereby reducing the pin circle diameter and the overall size of the power terminal feed-through.
US07745722B2
A system and method for installing a solar module on a roof using a mounting structure which can be adjusted after it has been fixed to the roof. The mounting structure is comprised of a plate having a slot into which an adjustable bracket is slidably positioned. The mounting structures are spaced from each other and the plates are fixed to the roof by toggle bolts or the like. A framed module is placed across the structures and one or both of the adjustable brackets are adjusted to align holes in the frame of the module with threaded chambers in the brackets. Next, threaded fasteners are passed through the holes and into the chambers to thereby secure the solar module to the roof.
US07745721B2
An optical element (11) in the form of an at least partially transparent face comprises transparent areas and essentially non-transparent areas. The transparent areas are arranged sufficiently close for the intermediate and essentially non-transparent areas to be essentially invisible to the naked eye, at least when the element is viewed from a given distance. The essentially non-transparent areas are arranged sufficiently close and have a sufficient extent at right angles to the face for the intermediate, transparent areas to have such depth/width ratio that the optical element will, at a given point on the face, allow passage of light with given angles of incidence, while light having other angles of incidence are unable to pass the element at the point in question. Hereby an optical element is obtained that is able to better reduce the heating of the interior of a building that is caused by incoming solar radiation without the direct radiation and hence the view being blocked considerably.
US07745718B2
A bibliographic-information impression word is generated from a bibliographic information segment about selected one of music pieces. An acoustic feature quantity of an audio signal representing the selected music piece is calculated. A feature-quantity impression word is generated from the calculated acoustic feature quantity. A degree of conformity between the bibliographic-information impression word and the feature-quantity impression word is determined. Both the bibliographic-information impression word and the feature-quantity impression word are selected as final impression words when the determined conformity degree is greater than a predetermined threshold value. One is selected from the bibliographic-information impression word and the feature-quantity impression word as a final impression word when the determined conformity degree is not greater than the predetermined threshold value. A signal representing the final impression word or words is stored into a storage in relation to the selected music piece.
US07745714B2
Provided is a recording or playback apparatus capable of separating a musical piece from an audio including the musical piece and a speech through a simple arithmetic process. A cut point detector detects, as a cut point, a time point at which an audio signal level or an amount of change in the audio signal level is not lower than a predetermined value. A frequency characteristic amount calculator calculates a characteristic amount in a frequency area of the audio signal only at each cut point and in its proximity. A cut point judging unit judges an attribute of the cut point on a basis of the calculated characteristic amount of the frequency. A music section detector detects a start and end points of each music section on a basis of the attribute and an interval between sampling points.
US07745711B2
The invention provides pan musical instruments, or pans, and methods of making same. Particularly, a process for mechanization and mass production of tunable pans with improved consistency, sound quality, and ease of tuning is provided.
US07745710B2
A capo for use with a stringed instrument having a plurality of strings a neck comprising a fingerboard and a back comprises a string-engaging arm, a clamping arm, and a pivotal connection to pivotally interconnect a string-engaging arm and clamping arm. The string-engaging arm adapted to in use extend across the fingerboard above the strings and in use press against the strings. The clamping arm is adapted to, in use, extend across engage the back of the neck. The pivotal connection is disposed, in generally towards one side of the neck and at a position behind the fingerboard inboard of a side edge of the fingerboard. This arrangement and location of the pivotal connection reduces the forces required in use to operate the capo.
US07745708B2
Peptide amphiphile compounds, compositions and methods for self-assembly or nanofibrous network formation under neutral or physiological conditions.
US07745703B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean cultivar S07-02RM030020 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean cultivar S07-02RM030020 and its progeny, and methods of making S07-02RM030020.
US07745685B2
A technique for incorporating odor control agent particles into an absorbent article is provided. More specifically, the odor control particles are “homogenously” distributed (e.g., in a substantially uniform manner) within an airformed fiber matrix of an absorbent core of an absorbent article. An absorbent core containing such a homogeneously distributed odor control particles may possess a greater surface area for contacting malodorous compounds, thereby increasing the likelihood of odor reduction.
US07745684B2
A nether garment for adsorbing odor to be worn close to at least one body part of a user having at least one outer fabric material layer and an inner layer of fiber fabric material for adsorbing odor, such that the nether garment conforms to a shape of the at least one body part of the user thereby providing one or more of a lightweight, flexible, breathable, washable, regenerative and reusable apparatus. Also described is a method of making an odor control nether garment and an improved method of controlling odors, including various body odors.
US07745680B1
Exemplary compositions, methods, and systems are disclosed that can be useful for reducing a concentration of a contaminant associated with a medium, which can be any substance or material, such as soil, water, air, and/or fluid. In one exemplary method, the medium is treated with Fe-MDGA and an oxidizing agent in amounts effective to oxidize at least a portion of the contaminant. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. This abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).
US07745677B2
One exemplary embodiment can be an extruded C8 alkylaromatic isomerization catalyst. The extruded catalyst can include: about 2-about 20%, by weight, of an MTW zeolite; about 80-about 98%, by weight, of a binder including an alumina; about 0.01-about 2.00%, by weight, of a noble group metal calculated on an elemental basis; and about 100 ppm-less than about 1000 ppm, by weight, of at least one alkali metal calculated on an elemental basis. Generally, the weight percents of the MTW zeolite, the binder, the noble group metal, and the at least one alkali metal are based on a weight of the extruded catalyst.
US07745674B2
A process for alkylation of benzene, including: feeding benzene, a polyalkylate, and a catalyst to a reactor comprising a first and a second reaction zone; reacting the benzene and the polyalkylate in the first reaction zone under transalkylation conditions to form a monoalkylate product; feeding a C2-C4 olefin to the reactor intermediate the first and second reaction zones; reacting benzene and the C2-C4 olefin in the second reaction zone under alkylation conditions to form additional monoalkylate product; recovering an effluent from the reactor, wherein the effluent comprises benzene, the monoalkylate product, any unreacted C2-C4 olefins, heavy hydrocarbons, and the catalyst; separating the catalyst from the effluent; separating the benzene from the monoalkylate product and the heavy hydrocarbons within the liquid effluent; separating the monoalkylate product from the heavy hydrocarbons within the liquid effluent; and recovering the monoalkylate product.
US07745662B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to compounds and methods useful in modulating angiogenesis and methods of treating or preventing diseases associated with angiogenesis by administering a polycationic compound. The present invention relates to methods of use and compositions for inhibiting angiogenesis-mediated disorders in mammals including animals and humans. Additionally, this invention relates to the combined use of polycations with other anti-angiogenesis agents for the treatment of different angiogenesis-mediated disorders. Additionally, those polycationic compounds can be used with various anti-inflammatory and cytotoxic agents as well as with radio-therapeutic agents in cancer patients to prevent and treat tumor growth and metastasis.
US07745659B2
The invention relates to a process for the production of liquid, storage-stable isocyanate mixtures with a low color index having carbodiimide-(CD) and/or uretone imine (UI) groups, the isocyanate mixtures that can be obtained by this process and their use for the production of blends with other isocyanates or for the production of isocyanate group-containing pre-polymers and also of polyurethane plastics, preferably polyurethane foamed plastics.
US07745652B2
Integrated processes of preparing industrial chemicals starting from seed oil feedstock compositions containing one or more unsaturated fatty acids or unsaturated fatty acid esters, which are essentially free of metathesis catalyst poisons, particularly hydroperoxides; metathesis of the feedstock composition with a lower olefin, such as ethylene, to form a reduced chain olefin, preferably, a reduced chain α-olefin, and a reduced chain unsaturated acid or ester, preferably, a reduced chain α,ω-unsaturated acid or ester. The reduced chain unsaturated acid or ester may be (trans)esterified to form a polyester polyolefin, which may be epoxidized to form a polyester polyepoxide. The reduced chain unsaturated acid or ester may be hydroformylated with reduction to produce an α,ω-hydroxy acid or α,ω-hydroxy ester, which may be (trans)esterified with a polyol to form an α,ω-polyester polyol. Alternatively, the reduced chain unsaturated acid or ester may be hydroformylated with reductive amination to produce an α,ω-amino acid or α,ω-amino ester, which may be (trans)esterified to form an α,ω-polyester polyamine.
US07745639B2
The present invention relates to dihydropyrazole compounds that are useful for treating cellular proliferative diseases, for treating disorders associated with KSP kinesin activity, and for inhibiting KSP kinesin. The invention also related to compositions which comprise these compounds, and methods of using them to treat cancer in mammals.
US07745638B2
The invention provides compounds of the formula (0) or salts or tautomers or N-oxides or solvates thereof for use in the prophylaxis or treatment of disease states and conditions such as cancers mediated by cyclin-dependent kinase and glycogen synthase kinase-3. In formula (0): X is a group R1—A—NR4— or a 5- or 6-membered carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring; A is a bond, SO2, C═O, NRg(C═O) or O(C═O) wherein Rg is hydrogen or C1-4 hydrocarbyl optionally substituted by hydroxy or C1-4 alkoxy; Y is a bond or an alkylene chain of 1, 2 or 3 carbon atoms in length; R1 is hydrogen; a carbocyclic or heterocyclic group having from 3 to 12 ring members; or a C1-8 hydrocarbyl group optionally substituted by one or more substituents selected from halogen (e.g. fluorine), hydroxy, C1-4 hydrocarbyloxy, amino, mono- or di-C1-4 hydrocarbylamino, and carbocyclic or heterocyclic groups having from 3 to 12 ring members, and wherein 1 or 2 of the carbon atoms of the hydrocarbyl group may optionally be replaced by an atom or group selected from O, S, NH, SO, SO2; R2 is hydrogen; halogen; C1-4 alkoxy (e.g. methoxy); or a C1-4 hydrocarbyl group optionally substituted by halogen (e.g. fluorine), hydroxyl or C1-4 alkoxy (e.g. methoxy); R3 is selected from hydrogen and carbocyclic and heterocyclic groups having from 3 to 12 ring members; and R4 is hydrogen or a C1-4 hydrocarbyl group optionally substituted by halogen (e.g. fluorine), hydroxyl or C1-4 alkoxy (e.g. methoxy).
US07745636B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds, compositions and methods for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and methods for using these compounds in the treatment of HCV infection.
US07745633B1
A linear isocyanate polymer produced by utilizing an effective amount of tetrazole diol or tetrazole polyol, reacting with an effective amount isocyanate resin, and cooling to room temperature producing a linear polyisocyanate polymer.
US07745631B2
The invention discloses an improved process for producing an intermediate to produce large quantity of 2-(Phenyl methyl thio)-3-pyridine carboxylic acid. The process comprises reacting 2-chloro-3-cyanopyridine with benzyl mercaptan in presence of a base and an aprotic solvent. The resulting intermediate 2-(phenyl methyl thio)-3-cyanopyridine is hydrolyzed in presence of a base in an autoclave and isolated under acidic condition to get the desired product.
US07745617B2
A mixed crystal consists of a first metallophthalocyanine compound selected from metallophthalocyanine compounds having at least one trifluoromethyl group and having a central metal selected from the group consisting of cobalt, nickel and copper, and a second metallophthalocyanine compound selected from metallophthalocyanine compounds optionally having at least one substituent group other than trifluoromethyl group and having a central metal selected from the group consisting of cobalt, nickel and copper. The mixed crystal exhibits a peak at 2θ of 5.9 to 6.4° in X-ray diffractometry.
US07745610B2
Efficient sequence specific gene silencing is possible through the use of siRNA technology. By selecting particular siRNAs by rational design, one can maximize the generation of an effective gene silencing reagent, as well as methods for silencing genes. Methods, compositions, and kits generated through rational design of siRNAs are disclosed including those directed to CDK11.
US07745607B2
The present invention provides a method for the selection of aptamer sequences and aptamers identified using the method. The method comprises immobilizing a library oligonucleotide by forming a duplex with an antisense oligonucleotide, reating the duplex molecule with a target and collecting oligonucleotide molecules which dissociate from the duplex structure.
US07745598B2
The present invention provides an adjuvant, which includes at least one single strand deoxynucleotide containing a CpG dinucleotide. The single strand deoxynucleotide comprises one or more CpG dinucleotides. When used in combination with rabies vaccine, HBV vaccine or other vaccines, the adjuvant can significantly improve the immune effect of the vaccine.
US07745594B2
This invention relates to nucleic acid-based logic gates. The invention further relates to circuits comprising nucleic acid-based logic gates and methods of performing operations with the gates and circuits provided herein.
US07745592B2
The invention relates to a new “gene-switch” (cumate-inducible switch) for mammalian cells. This switch is as useful in the development of expression systems and cell-based assays for functional genomics as in the generation of viral vectors for gene therapy.
US07745591B2
Nucleoside phosphinoamidite carboxylates and analogs are provided that have the structure of formula (III) wherein A is hydrogen, hydroxyl, lower alkoxy, lower alkoxy-substituted lower alkoxy, halogen, SH, NH2, azide or DL wherein D is O, S or NH and L is a heteroatom-protecting group, unsubstituted hydrocarbyl, substituted hydrocarbyl, heteroatom-containing hydrocarbyl, or substituted heteroatom-containing hydrocarbyl; B is a nucleobase; and one of R11 and R12 is a blocking group and the other is (IV) or (VI) in which W, X, Y, Z, R1 and n are as defined herein.
US07745590B1
Degradable macromolecular magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents for use in various diagnostic procedures, and methods for synthesizing, using and degrading these agents, are described. The macromolecule contrast agents disclosed in various aspects of this invention are degradable gadolinium compounds which show prolonged plasma retention, and enhanced permeability and retention in solid tumors, but are still capable of being rapidly cleared from the body.
US07745580B2
The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules related to the var2csa gene family as well as amino acid sequences encoded by such nucleic acid molecules with respect to their role in mediating adhesion of infected red blood cells to chondroitin sulphate A (CSA) in the placenta which is characteristic for the pathogenesis of pregnancy associated malaria (PAM). Accordingly, The invention provides the use compounds that are related to VAR2CSA polypeptides var2csa nucleic acid molecules as medicaments, as well as it provides pharmaceutical compositions, in particular immunological compositions and vaccines, hereunder nucleotide-based vaccines comprising these compounds. In addition, the invention provides the use of the compounds mentioned for the manufacture of compositions, such as immunogenic compositions. Other aspects of the invention relates to methods of treatment and prevention of pregnancy associated malaria wherein these methods are based on the nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides the invention. As these compounds can also be used as biotechnological tools the invention provides in vitro diagnostic methods and kits comprising reagents and IgGs/antibodies designated to the use in such methods. The invention also relates to methods of identifying agents capable of modulating the VAR2CSA dependent adhesion to CSA and agent capable of interacting with VAR2CSA. Finally, a method for identifying polypeptides, which will induce a specific IgG/antibody response upon administration to a subject is provided by the invention.
US07745579B1
The present invention relates to a protein, designated NAP (Nemo Associated Protein), that was discovered to inhibit the activation of transcription factor NF-kB by various signals that are important in inflammatory and immune processes. The DNA and the recombinant production of this protein is also disclosed as well as methods of using the protein or encoding DNA.
US07745574B2
Compounds that modulate the function of anti-apoptotic proteins such as Bcl-2 and related Bcl-2 family members are identified. These compounds have the ability to convert the activity of Bcl-2-family member proteins from anti-apoptotic to pro-apoptotic. Methods for inducing or preventing apoptosis are described, together with methods for identifying molecules that induce or prevent apoptosis through interaction with Bcl-2-family members. Methods for treatment of proliferative diseases and neurodegenerative diseases using the modulators of Bcl-2 and related family members are also disclosed.
US07745564B2
Disclosed in embodiments herein is a method of synthesizing device forming monomers using N-(Vinyloxycarbonyloxy)succinimide.
US07745560B2
The invention relates to modified silicone polymers for improving the gliding properties of sports equipment, to compositions containing the same, and to their use for this purpose. The silicone polymers are, above all, alkyl-modified silicone polymers which comprise at least one hydrocarbon group having 16 to 18 carbon atoms, and/or organofunctionalized silicone polymers which comprise at least one functionalized hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms.
US07745557B2
Methods of polymerizing at least one olefin include contacting the olefin with a catalyst comprising chromium and with a cocatalyst comprising a non-transition metal cyclopentadienyl (Cp) compound. The polymerization may be performed in the presence of hydrogen. Using the cocatalyst in conjunction with the catalyst increases several properties, such as the high load melt index (HLMI), the MW, and the MN, of the polymers produced by this polymerization method. Polymer compositions produced by such methods have various unique properties, including a PDI greater than about 30. Additional embodiments include articles of manufacture or end use articles formed from such polymer compositions.
US07745552B2
Reactor designs and processes for operating such reactor designs to minimize or eliminate fouling in homogeneous polymerization processes (solution and supercritical). The process includes providing a reactor with one or more feed entry ports, wherein the reactor feed components are fed through each of the one or more feed entry ports at a linear velocity of greater than or equal to 0.3 m/min. The one or more feed entry ports may also be optionally extended beyond the interior reactor wall by greater than or equal to 2% of the internal radius of the reactor to further decrease the propensity for fouling. A stirred reactor may also include a stirrer feed port for purging the stirrer with a stirrer purge stream at a linear velocity of greater than or equal to 0.3 m/min to decrease stirrer fouling.
US07745544B2
Disclosed are processes for preparing an epoxidized and/or hydroxylated α-olefin/diene copolymer materials such as ethylene/dicyclopentadiene. These processes comprise contacting in a reaction medium a) a copolymeric precursor component with b) a hydrogen peroxide oxidizing agent, in the presence of alkyl-trioxorhenium-based catalyst, under certain reaction conditions. The copolymeric precursor component comprises copolymers of α-olefins and dienes with these copolymers containing at least one double bond in each diene-derived comonomer. The reaction medium is maintained under reaction conditions which promote formation of oxirane rings at, and/or diol formation across, the sites of the diene-derived co-monomer double bonds in the copolymeric precursor material.Epoxidation and hydroxylation generally increases the glass transition temperature, Tg, of these copolymers and imbues polarity which imparts oil resistance. Functionalization in this manner thus provides a different balance between properties, cost, and processing range, and can make the resulting functionalized polyolefin materials especially useful as oil resistant, thermally stable elastomers or as structural engineering thermoplastics or precursors thereof.
US07745523B1
The invention includes coupling compounds, rubber compositions, and tires. The coupling compounds can, for example, be used to couple to silica filler. Rubber compositions can comprise the coupling compound and polymers. Polymers can be homopolymers, copolymers and terpolymers, and can include repeat units provided from conjugated diene monomers. Tires and various parts of tires can be made from those rubber compositions.
US07745521B2
An acoustic (sound or ultrasound) wave transmitter having a plurality of waveguides is described, and a method of making such a transmitter is described. Each waveguide may have a cladded core. The cladded core is capable of transmitting acoustic wave energy from a first end surface to a second end surface of the cladded core. The waveguides may be substantially fixed relative to each other by a binder. The binder may be formed by fusing the claddings together, potting a material between the waveguides and/or mechanically holding the waveguides.
US07745518B2
An asphalt binder is provided, comprising 85 to 97.5 parts by weight of a bitumen and 16 to 2.5 parts by weigh of a polymer composition, wherein the polymer composition comprises: (i) from 2 to 8, preferably from 3 to 6 parts by weight of a styrenic block copolymer having at least two blocks of monovinylaromatic hydrocarbon (A) and at least one block of a conjugated diene (B), wherein the block copolymer composition has a vinyl content of at least 25% by weight, preferably from 25 to 40% by weight, based on the total diene content; (ii) from 0 to 5, preferably from 1 to 3 parts by weight of a styrenic diblock copolymer having one block of monovinylaromatic hydrocarbon (A) and one block of a conjugated diene (B); and (iii) from 0.5 to 3, preferably from 1 to 2.5 parts by weight of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, wherein the weight ratio of (i)+(ii):(iii) is from 2:1 to 6:1, preferably from 3:1 to 4:1. In addition, an asphalt mix is provided comprising 2 to 8 parts by weight of the asphalt binder of the present invention and 98 to 92 parts by weight of gap-graded aggregate or open-graded aggregate material. Furthermore, a porous pavement is claimed, produced from the open or gap-graded mixes, by compacting the asphalt mix mentioned above.
US07745505B2
UV-crosslinkable acrylic hotmelt pressure sensitive adhesives comprising acrylic and vinyl monomers, and a polymerizable UV photoinitiator. The photoinitiator comprises a spacer comprising both ethylene oxide and urethane, or urea, carbonate, or siloxane functional groups. The ethylene oxide is directly bonded to the chromophore (e.g., benzophenone) moiety, while the urethane (or urea, carbonate, siloxane) is closely linked to the polymerizable moiety (e.g., styrenic C═C double bond).
US07745497B2
An electrically neutral composition in the form of a water-in-oil or an oil-in-water emulsion is imparted with a unipolar electrostatic charge on spraying from an aerosol spray device by incorporating into the composition a non-ionic surfactant and at least one polar or ionic or aromatic or linearly conjugated compound. The amount of the polar or ionic or aromatic or linearly conjugated compound included in the composition is about 0.01 to about 80% w/w based on the non-ionic surfactant, but is such that the theoretical conductivity of the emulsion is less than the bulk conductivity of the emulsion.
US07745489B2
Specific, highly potent 2-oxo-amide based inhibitors of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) activity are provided. A role for PLA2 activity in spinally mediated inflammatory processes is established, and a method for treating hyperalgesia and other inflammatory conditions associated with PLA2 activity is provided.
US07745472B2
There is provided a compound of Formula I wherein each T is independently selected from H, hydrocarbyl, —F—R, and a bond with one of D, E, P or Q, or together with one of P and Q forms a ring; Z is a suitable atom the valency of which is m; D, E and F are each independently of each other an optional linker group, wherein when Z is nitrogen E is other than CH2 and C═O; P, Q and R are independently of each other a ring system; and at least Q comprises a sulphamate group.
US07745467B2
The invention concerns compounds of general formula (I), wherein n, X1, X2, X3, X4, Y and W are as defined herein. The invention also concerns a method for preparing said compounds and their therapeutic use.
US07745466B2
The present invention relates to a novel form of the (−)-enantiomer of 5-methoxy-2-[[(4-methoxy-3,5-dimethyl-2-pyridinyl)-methyl]sulfinyl]-1H-benzimidazole, i.e. S-omeprazole. More specifically, it relates to a novel form of the magnesium salt of the S-enantiomer of omeprazole trihydrate. The present invention also relates to processes for preparing such a form of the magnesium salt of S-omeprazole and pharmaceutical compositions containing it. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to new intermediates used in the process.
US07745461B1
The topical use of EgLN-3 inhibitors is disclosed for the treatment of dry eye.
US07745460B2
The present invention provides compounds having formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, wherein R1-R4, n, p, A, B, D, E, L and AR1 are as described generally and in classes and subclasses herein, and additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for the use thereof for the treatment of disorders mediated by the CD11/CD18 family of cellular adhesion molecules (e.g., LFA-1).
US07745459B2
A pharmaceutical agent having an anti-HIV action, particularly, a pharmaceutical agent having an integrase inhibitory action, is provided.The present invention relates to a quinolizinone compound represented by the following formula [I] wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and an anti-HIV agent containing same as an active ingredient. The compound of the present invention has an HIV integrase inhibitory action and is useful as an anti-HIV agent for the prophylaxis or therapy of AIDS. Moreover, by a combined use with other anti-HIV agents such as protease inhibitors, reverse transcriptase inhibitors and the like, the compounds can become a more effective anti-HIV agent. Since the compound has a high inhibitory activity specific for integrases, the compound can provide a safe pharmaceutical agent for human with a fewer side effects.
US07745456B2
The present invention relates to novel 2,5-bis{[alkyl (or aryl) imino] aminophenyl}furans and thiophenes of the general formula in which R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl, alkoxy, halide, and alkylhalide groups; R5 is H, alkyl or aryl; R6 is H, alkyl, aryl, or NR7R8, in which R7 and R8 are each independently selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl and aryl; and X is O, S or NR9, in which R9 is H or alkyl, and to the use of such compounds.
US07745455B2
Boosted cytidine analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor antiretroviral compound is a new therapeutic anti HIV option, in combination with another drug such as a NRTI or a protease inhibitor. It's heightened and sustained antiretroviral potency is due to the increased intracellular level of 3TC triphosphate, the active form of 3TC. This effect is obtained by combining 3TC, in usual doses, with a reduced dose of ddC, in the same pharmaceutical formulation. The product could be administered twice or even once daily, which is convenient, and does not increase the pill burden for the patient. The reduced ddC dosage prevents the occurrence of ddC related side effects. Other cytidine derivatives (racemic or negative enantiomers) could have the same effects as ddC and could probably be combined with 3TC, and have the same effect. On the other hand, low dose ddC may also increase the intracellular levels of other cytidine derivatives as it does for 3TC. Boosted cytidine analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor antiretroviral compound could also be formulated in combination with another drug such as another NRTI (e.g. abacavir) or any protease inhibitor in the same capsule or tablet. This approach offers a dual anti-HIV therapy that is as efficacious as the routine triple therapy. In this way the HIV treatment cost could be significantly reduced which is imperative for resource-poor settings. This new formulation is convenient and well tolerated with no additional toxicity than that of the combining drug (NRTI or protease inhibitor) and 3TC. Moreover, this will enable a larger number of patients to benefit from the already known 3TC effects. It will also increase the 3TC effects in those organs or HIV sanctuaries with usually reduced 3TC concentrations or activity. It could be indicated in both the initial as well as in salvage HIV therapy. It could also be used for therapy optimization or simplification. Moreover, in combination with another NRTI such as abacavir, or even alone, it could be beneficial for reducing the HIV harm in resource-poor settings.
US07745453B2
Compounds of Formula (1), pharmaceuticals containing the same, especially anti-HIV agents having anti viral activity, especially inhibitory activity against HIV integrase, wherein X represents either one of the following groups: (wherein, C ring is nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic ring in which at least one atom in atoms neighboring the atom bound to the pyrimidine ring is unsubstituted nitrogen atom; R10 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; D ring is aryl or heteroaryl) Z1 and Z3 each is independently a single bond, O, S, S(═O) or SO2; Z2 is a single bond, lower alkylene or lower alkenylene; Ar is optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; R1 is lower alkyl, substituted lower alkyl or the like; R2 is a hydrogen atom or optionally substituted lower alkyl; or R1 and R2 may form, together with an adjacent atom, an optionally substituted heterocyclic ring, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a solvate thereof.
US07745451B2
Fused heterocyclic compounds are disclosed that have formula 1: where A, B, L, N, R1, R3, R4′, Y and Z are as defined herein. The compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are useful for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, pain, inflammation, cognitive disorders, anxiety, depression, and others.
US07745450B2
The invention relates to 3-, 5-, 7-trisubstituted pyrazolo[4,3-d]pyrimidines represented by the general formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R3 is an optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloheteroalkyl, cycloalkyl alkyl, aryl or alkylaryl group; R5 is halogen, —NHNH2, —NHOH, NHCONH2, guanylo (NH—C(NH)NH2) an optionally substituted C1-C6 alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, C3-C15 cycloalkyl, Rf(C3-C15 cycloalkyl), heterocyclyl, heteroalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, arylalkylene, arylalkenylene, arylalkynylene, cycloheteroalkyl, cycloheteroalkyl alkyl, heteroarylalkylene, heteroarylalkenylene, heteroarylalkynylene group, the group —C(O)—Ra, —C(O)NRbRc, —SO3Rd, or —NHC(O)Re, wherein Ra and Rf are an optionally substituted C1-C6 alkyl, alkenyl, or alkynyl group, Rb, Rc, and Rd are independently selected from the group consisting of H, optionally substituted C1-C6 alkyl, alkenyl, or alkynyl group, and Re is a hydroxy, amino, alkoxy, alkylamino, optionally substituted C1-C6 alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group; or the group —X—R5′, wherein X is —NH—, —O—, —S— or —N(alkyl)- and R5′ is hydrogen, an optionally substituted C1-C6 alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, C3-C15 cycloalkyl, Rf(C3-C15 cycloalkyl), aryl, heterocyclyl, hetero C1-C6 alkyl, arylalkylene, arylalkenylene, arylalkynylene, heteroaryl, cycloheteroalkyl, cycloheteroalkyl alkyl, or heteroarylalkylene, heteroarylalkenylene, heteroarylalkynylene group, the group —C(O)—Ra, —C(O)NRbRc, —SO3Rd, or —NHC(O)Re, wherein Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd, Re and Rf have the above meaning, and R7 is halogen, —NHNH2, NHOH, NHCONH2, guanylo (NH—C(NH)NH2) or the group —X—R7′, wherein X has the above meaning and the meaning of R7′ is as defined for R5′.
US07745433B2
The invention relates to the compounds of formula I, their preparation and the pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds. The invention also relates to the use of the compounds of formula I in preparing medicines, which can treat sexual dysfunction of animals including human (male and female), especially erectile dysfunction of male and the diseases in which the function of phospholipase 5 (cGMP PDE5) is involved.
US07745432B2
The present invention relates to 5H-pyrazolo[1,5-c][1,3]benzoxazin-5-yl)phenyl methanone derivatives as inhibitors of the viral replication of the HIV virus, processes for their preparation as well as pharmaceutical compositions, their use as medicines, and diagnostic kits comprising them. The present invention also concerns combinations of the present HIV inhibitors with other anti-retroviral agents. It further relates to their use in assays as reference compounds or as reagents. The compounds of the present invention are useful for preventing or treating infection by HIV and for treating AIDS.
US07745431B2
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising 1-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-4-methyl-5-ethyl-7-methoxy-8-hydroxy-5H-2,3-benzodiazepine; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compositions are used for treating, preventing or delaying the onset of disorders mediated by LTB4, TXA2 or adenosine.
US07745429B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of form I of olanzapine, crystallized from a solvent mixture which comprises 2-propanol, some pseudopolymorphic forms, namely solvates of olanzapine, a new polymorphic form A of olanzapine, and processes for the preparation thereof.
US07745422B2
Bisphosphonate compounds and related methods of making and using are disclosed, including pyridinium-1-yl, quinolinium-1-yl, and related compounds. The activity of compounds is disclosed in the context of functional assays such as Leishmania major farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPPS) inhibition, Dictyostelium discoideum growth inhibition, human gamma delta T cell activation, and bone resorption. The applicability of bisphosphonate compounds in the context of parasitic infections, for example against trypanosomes, is disclosed. Further potential applications of the invention are disclosed regarding the treatment of one or more conditions such as bone resorption disorders, cancer, bone pain, infectious diseases, and in immunotherapy.
US07745415B2
The invention is directed to 3-β-D-ribofuranosylthiazolo[4,5-d]pyrimidine nucleosides and pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds that have immunomodulatory activity. The invention is also directed to the therapeutic or prophylactic use of such compounds and compositions, and to methods of treating diseases and disorders described herein, by administering effective amounts of such compounds.
US07745395B2
Disclosed herein are modified proaerolysin (PA) peptide. In some examples, the proteins include a prostate-specific protease cleavage site and can further include a prostate-tissue-specific binding domain which functionally replaces the native PA binding domain. In other examples, the proteins include a furin cleavage site and a prostate tissue-specific binding domain which functionally replaces the native PA binding domain. Methods of using such peptides to treat prostate cancer are also disclosed.
US07745393B2
The present invention provides minimalist bZIP proteins having a basic region derived from bHLH proteins fused to a leucine zipper dimerization domain derived from bZIP proteins and methods and uses thereof in the treatment of cancer. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions for treating cancer.
US07745387B2
The present invention relates to the use of erythropoietin for stimulating the physiological mobilization, proliferation and differentiation of endothelial progenitor cells, for stimulating vasculogenesis, for the therapy of diseases associated with a dysfunction of endothelial progenitor cells and for producing pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of such diseases, and pharmaceutical compositions which comprise erythropoietin and other suitable active ingredients for stimulating endothelial progenitor cells.
US07745374B2
Thermal transfer receiving sheet, production method thereof and image forming method using the sheet
A thermal transfer receiving sheet comprising a sheet-like support having sequentially formed on at least one surface thereof a hollow particle-containing intermediate layer and an image receiving layer, wherein the hollow particles have an average particle diameter of 0.2 to 35 μm and a hollow percentage by volume of 30 to 97% and the printing smoothness (Rp value) on the surface of the thermal transfer receiving sheet, as measured by using a Microtopograph under an applied pressure of 0.1 MPa 10 m-seconds after the initiation of pressure application, is 1.5 μm or less. A production method of the thermal transfer receiving sheet is also provided.
US07745359B2
Composition for dielectric layer of plasma display panel and plasma display panel including the same
A composition for a dielectric layer of a plasma display panel and a plasma display panel including the same are disclosed. The composition includes a glass frit, a binder, a dispersant, a plasticizer, and a solvent. The binder includes about 50 to 85 parts by weight of a first monomer, about 10 to 30 parts by weight of a second monomer, and about 1 to 20 parts by weight of a third monomer based on 100 parts by weight of the binder.
US07745358B2
A nonwoven fabric having abrasion resistance and absorbency suitable for cleaning printer cylinders, especially textured or rough printer cylinders, is formed by hydroentangling a fibrous nonwoven web formed from higher-melting polyester base fibers and lower-melting binder fibers, and then thermally bonding the fabric.
US07745356B2
The present invention is generally directed to adhesive compositions comprising selected ratios of crystalline and amorphous polymers. In some versions of the invention, polymers capable of existing in different configurations (e.g., a polymer such as polypropylene which can exist in an atactic, syndiotactic. or isotactic configuration) are used to prepare adhesives of the present invention. As an example, a selected amount of isotactic polypropylene is blended with a selected amount of atactic polypropylene to prepare an adhesive composition having one or more performance properties (e.g., bond strength) that are superior to the performance properties of a conventional hot-melt adhesive. The adhesive compositions of the present invention are suitable for use in the preparation of laminated disposable absorbent products.
US07745354B2
An indoor cleaning tool having a dry fibrous base material is provided. An antigenicity-reducing composition including an antigenicity-reducing component, an oil and a surfactant are applied to the fibrous base material. Preferably, the antigenicity-reducing component is an extract of an olea or a ligustrum plant extracted with water or an organic solvent.
US07745338B2
A method of forming fine pitch hardmask patterns includes forming a hardmask layer on a substrate and forming a plurality of first mask patterns on the hardmask layer. A buffer layer is formed on the plurality of first mask patterns, and has an upper surface defining recesses between adjacent first mask patterns. Second mask patterns are formed within the recesses formed in the upper surface of the buffer layer. The buffer layer is partially removed to expose upper surfaces of the plurality of first mask patterns, and the buffer layer is then partially removed using the first mask patterns and the second mask patterns as an etch mask to expose the hardmask layer between the first mask pattern and the second mask pattern. Using the first mask patterns and the second mask patterns as an etch mask, the hardmask layer is etched to form hardmask patterns.
US07745335B2
A method of fabricating an interconnect structure, comprising exposing an empty deposition chamber to a process that includes generating reactive species produced from a source gas in the presence of a plasma. The method further comprises terminating the plasma and then introducing a semiconductor substrate with a metal layer thereon into the chamber while the reactive species are present in the chamber.
US07745333B2
In one embodiment of the invention, a method for forming a tungsten-containing layer on a substrate is provided which includes positioning a substrate containing a barrier layer disposed thereon in a process chamber, exposing the substrate to a first soak process for a first time period and depositing a nucleation layer on the barrier layer by flowing a tungsten-containing precursor and a reductant into the process chamber. The method further includes exposing the nucleation layer to a second soak process for a second time period and depositing a bulk layer on the nucleation layer. In one example, the barrier layer contains titanium nitride, the first and second soak processes independently comprise at least one reducing gas selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, silane, disilane, dichlorosilane, borane, diborane, derivatives thereof and combinations thereof and the nucleation layer may be deposited by an atomic layer deposition process or a pulsed chemical vapor deposition process while the bulk layer may be deposited by a chemical vapor deposition process or a physical vapor deposition process.
US07745332B1
Recessed features on a Damascene substrate are filled with metal using plasma PVD. Recessed features having widths of less than about 300 nm, e.g., between about 30-300 nm can be filled with metals (e.g., copper and aluminum), without forming voids. In one approach, the deposition is performed by exposing the substrate to a high-density plasma characterized by high fractional ionization of metal. Under these conditions, the metal is deposited within the recess, without forming large overhang at the opening of the recess. In some embodiments, the metal is deposited within the recess, while diffusion barrier material is simultaneously etched from the field region. In a second approach, recessed features are filled by performing a plurality of profiling cycles, wherein each cycle includes a net etching and a net depositing operation. Etching and depositing parameters are adjusted such that the recessed features are filled without forming overhangs and voids.
US07745326B2
A method of producing a semiconductor device having a plurality of wiring layers forms a first interlayer-insulating film, forms a plurality of grooves for wiring in the first interlayer-insulating film, fills metallic films in the grooves to form wirings, etches the first interlayer-insulating film with the wirings as a mask and removes the interlayer-insulating film between the wirings to provide grooves to be filled, and fills a second interlayer-insulating film made of a material of low dielectric constant in the grooves to be filled.
US07745325B2
A wiring structure of a semiconductor device may include an insulation interlayer on a substrate, the insulation interlayer having a linear first trench having a first width and a linear second trench having a second width, the linear second trench being in communication with a lower portion of the linear first trench, the first width being wider than the second width, and a conductive layer pattern in the linear first and second trenches.
US07745315B1
A method for forming vertically oriented, crystallographically aligned nanowires (nanocolumns) using monolayer or submonolayer quantities of metal atoms to form uniformly sized metal islands that serve as catalysts for MOCVD growth of Group III nitride nanowires.
US07745313B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for fracturing or breaking a buried porous semiconductor layer to separate a 3-D thin-film semiconductor semiconductor (TFSS) substrate from a 3-D crystalline semiconductor template. The method involves forming a sacrificial porous semiconductor layer on the 3-D features of the template. A variety of techniques may be used to fracture and release the mechanically weak porous semiconductor layer without damaging the TFSS substrate layer or the template layer such as pressure variations, thermal stress generation, and mechanical bending. The methods also allow for processing three dimensional features not possible with current separation processes. Optional cleaning and final lift-off steps may be performed as part of the release step or after the release step.
US07745311B2
A dividing method for an optical device wafer includes a protective plate adhering step of releasably adhering the surface of an optical device wafer to the surface of a protective plate, a reverse face grinding step of grinding the reverse face of the optical device wafer, a dicing tape sticking step of sticking the reverse face of the optical device wafer on the surface of a dicing tape, a protective plate grinding step of grinding the reverse face of the protective plate adhered to the optical device wafer stuck on the dicing tape so as to have a predetermined thickness, a laser working step of irradiating a laser beam upon the protective plate along the streets formed on the optical device wafer to carry out laser working, which forms break starting points along the streets, for the protective plate, and a wafer dividing step of applying external force to the protective plate to break the protective plate along the break starting points to break the optical device wafer along the streets thereby to divide the optical device wafer into the individual optical devices.
US07745300B2
Disclosed is a capacitor and method for forming a capacitor in a semiconductor. The method includes the steps of: (a) forming a lower electrode pattern on a silicon semiconductor substrate; (b) etching a portion of the lower electrode pattern to a predetermined depth to form a step in the lower electrode pattern; (c) forming a dielectric layer and a upper electrode layer on an entire surface of the substrate including the lower electrode pattern; and (e) patterning the upper electrode layer and the dielectric layer to form a upper electrode pattern and a dielectric pattern.
US07745298B2
A method for forming a via includes forming a gate electrode over a semiconductor substrate, forming a source/drain region in the semiconductor substrate adjacent the gate electrode, forming a silicide region in the source/drain region, forming a post-silicide spacer adjacent the gate electrode after forming the silicide region, forming an interlayer dielectric layer over the gate electrode, the post-silicide spacer, and the silicide region, and forming a conductive via in the interlayer dielectric layer, extending to the silicide region.
US07745291B2
A method for fabricating a high-voltage transistor with an extended drain region includes forming in a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, first and second trenches that define a mesa having respective first and second sidewalls partially filling each of the trenches with a dielectric material that covers the first and second sidewalls. The remaining portions of the trenches are then filled with a conductive material to form first and second field plates. Source and body regions are formed in an upper portion of the mesa, with the body region separating the source from a lower portion of the mesa. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that 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. 37 CFR 1.72(b).
US07745290B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device including a fin field effect transistor (Fin-FET) includes forming sacrificial bars on a semiconductor substrate, patterning the sacrificial bars to form sacrificial islands on the semiconductor substrate, forming a device isolation layer to fill a space between the sacrificial islands, selectively removing the sacrificial islands to expose the semiconductor substrate below the sacrificial islands, and anisotropically etching the exposed semiconductor substrate using the device isolation layer as an etch mask to form a recessed channel region. The recessed channel region allows the channel width and channel length of a transistor to be increased, thereby reducing the occurrence of short channel effects and narrow channel effects in highly integrated semiconductor devices.
US07745286B2
A method of providing a memory cell comprises providing a semiconductor substrate including a body of a first conductivity type, first and second regions of a second conductivity type and a channel between the first and second regions; arranging a first insulator layer adjacent to the channel; arranging a charge storage region adjacent to the first insulator layer; arranging a second insulator layer adjacent to the charge storage region; arranging a first conductive region adjacent to the second insulator layer; arranging a filter adjacent to the first conductive region; and arranging a second conductive region adjacent to the filter. The second conductive region overlaps the first conductive region at an overlap surface. A line perpendicular to the overlap surface intersects at least a portion of the charge storage region.
US07745282B2
A structure and method of fabricating an interconnect structures with bi-layer metal cap is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes forming an interconnect feature in a dielectric material layer; and forming a bi-layer metallic cap on a top surface of the interconnect feature. The method further includes depositing a blanket layer of a dielectric capping layer, wherein the depositing covers an exposed surface of the dielectric material layer and a surface of the bi-layer metallic cap. The bi-layer metallic cap includes a metal capping layer formed on a conductive surface of the interconnect feature; and a metal nitride formed on a top portion of the metal capping layer. An interconnect structure is also described having an interconnect feature formed in a dielectric layer; a bi-layer metallic cap formed on a top portion of the interconnect feature; and a dielectric capping layer formed over the bi-layer metallic cap.
US07745267B2
A manufacturing method of an active layer of a thin film transistor is provided. The method includes following steps. First a substrate is provided, and a semiconductor precursor solution is then prepared through a liquid process. Thereafter, the semiconductor precursor solution is provided on the substrate to form a semiconductor precursor thin film. After that, a light source is used to irradiate the semiconductor precursor thin film to remove residual solvent and allow the semiconductor precursor thin film to produce semiconductor property, so as to form a semiconductor active layer.
US07745250B2
An image sensor and manufacturing process thereof are provided. An image sensor according to an embodiment comprises a first wafer formed with a photodiode cell without a microlens and a second wafer formed with a circuit part including transistor and a capacitor. The first wafer is stacked on the second wafer such that a connecting electrode can be used to electrically connect the photodiode cell of the first wafer to the circuit part of the second wafer.
US07745247B2
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a solid state image sensor including at least one antireflective layer and/or non rectangular shaped wiring layer cross section to reduce dark currents and 1/f noise.
US07745239B1
An integrated circuit having a metal interconnect layer, and also having a conductive line and a boundary defined with a uniform distance from the conductive line that defines a “keep out” distance between the boundary and the conductive line. A set of first fill elements are uniformly arranged along the boundary outside of the “keep out” distance, and a set of second fill elements further from the conductive line than the first fill elements are arranged in a pattern that would be uniform, but for having some fill elements missing from the pattern.
US07745234B2
A method of forming a semiconductor card. A semiconductor package having a damaged controller die is reclaimed. The reclaim process includes severing the electrical connections between the controller die and the semiconductor package substrate without exposing the passive component. In one embodiment, the cutting tool comprises a saw blade. An electrically insulating material is deposited over the exposed bond wires to complete the reclaim process. The reclaimed package and a new controller die are affixed to a second substrate to electrically couple the memory die of the reclaimed package with the new controller die—forming a new package. The new package is encapsulated to form a new memory card.
US07745230B2
The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having an amino acid sequence having at least 70% identity to SEQ ID NO:20, wherein the polypeptide has ER-α36 activity. The invention further provides methods for identifying agents that bind to such polypeptides, methods for detecting such polypeptides, and methods for altering the activity of such polypeptides. Also provided are antibodies that specifically bind to an amino acid sequence depicted at SEQ ID NO:1, or an immunogenic fragment thereof, and methods for making and using such antibodies.
US07745217B2
The invention provides tissue graft compositions comprising collagen-based extracellular matrices derived from renal capsules of warm-blooded vertebrates. The invention further provides a process of harvesting and purifying a renal capsule to provide an extracellular matrix material having beneficial use as a tissue graft and/or cell growth material.
US07745214B2
A transgenic, non-human mammal useful for assessing the effect of candidate chemotherapeutic drugs on the growth of brain tumors in vivo is provided. Incorporated into the genome of the transgenic mammal, which preferably is a rodent, is a transgene which comprises a promoter comprising the nuclear factor binding region of the RR2 cis acting element of a fibroblast growth factor 1B (FGF1B) promoter. Operably linked to the promoter is reporter gene comprising a sequence which encodes the SV40 large T antigen. A transgenic, non-human mammal useful for identifying and isolating FGF1 producing brain cells. Incorporated into the genome of these transgenic animals is a transgene which comprises a promoter comprising the nuclear factor binding region of the RR2 cis acting element of an fibroblast growth factor 1B (FGF1B) promoter. Operably linked to the promoter is reporter gene comprising a sequence which encodes a protein or polypeptide other than an SV40 large T antigen. A method of obtaining neural stem cells from a sample of cells obtained from an animal is also provided. Such method comprises introducing the FGF1B-detector transgene into a sample of cells that have been obtained from the animal, and assaying for expression of the detectable marker in the cells, wherein cells that express the marker are neural stem cells. The cells which express the detectable marker can then be isolated from the population to provide a sub-population of neural stem cells.
US07745211B2
Microfluidic devices having active features such as valves, peristaltic pumps, and mixing portions are fabricated to have a thin elastomeric membrane over the active features. The active features are activated by a tactile actuator external to the membrane, for example, a commercial Braille display. The display may be computer controlled, for example by simple text editor software, to activate individual Braille protrusions or a plurality of protrusions to actuate the active portions of the microfluidic device. Integral devices can incorporate the tactile actuators in a single device, but still external to the membrane.
US07745208B2
The invention is an apparatus and a process for treating biomass bearing material including municipal solid waste (MSW). The apparatus includes a reaction vessel held at an angle and configured for rotation and steam injection, with helically arranged internal flights, a self-aligning door closure, and a swing-away door assembly. It also includes a novel structure for shredding biomass bearing material attached to the edges of the flights. This structure is a number of projecting tooth like points and paddles.
US07745207B2
Methods and devices for the interfacing of microchips to various types of modules are disclosed. The technology disclosed can be used as sample preparation and analysis systems for various applications, such as DNA sequencing and genotyping, proteomics, pathogen detection, diagnostics and biodefense.
US07745203B2
A base sequence detection apparatus is provided with a channel formed on a base sequence detection chip. Working electrodes are formed along the channel and include a probe immobilized thereon, counter electrodes are formed on the inner surface of the channel and, reference electrodes are formed on the inner surface of the channel. An introduction port introduces solution or air from the upstream side of the channel, a delivery port delivers the solution or air in the channel, and the sample is injected into the channel through a sample injection port.
US07745199B2
Disclosed is a novel bacterial consortium comprise bacterial strains useful for effectively treating endocrine disrupters and a method for treating endocrine disrupters using the same. The invention provides a method for biologically restoring soils, wastes and water, etc. which are polluted with chlorinated compounds such as polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs), dioxin, pentachlorophenol (PCP), perchloroethylene (PCE), trichloroethylene (TCE) and 1,1,1-trichloroethane (1,1,1-TCA), etc., polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and petroleum-tar acids, and toluene which are all known as representative endocrine disrupters.
US07745192B2
The invention relates to snake venom protease polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding same. This invention also relates to methods of making and using the snake venom proteases, e.g., to promote haemostasis and prevent blood loss such as during surgery or for treatment of wounds resulting from accidents and other types of injury or trauma.
US07745186B2
The present invention relates to novel ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase polypeptides and the polynucleotides that encode them. The invention also provides related host cells and methods.
US07745181B2
It is an object of the invention to provide a process for easily producing a glucan, which assures a high degree of safety and which does not generate an oxidation off-flavor, without using a hydroxide of an alkali metal such as sodium hydroxide. In a process of the present invention, a physically pulverized yeast is autolyzed with an intracellular enzyme thereof, in an electrolyzed alkaline water which is obtained by electrolyzing water.
US07745176B2
The expression vectors and methods using an E. coli expression system for the large scale production of IL-21 are described. The vectors utilize the IL-21 coding sequence with specific changes in nucleotides in order to optimize codons and mRNA secondary structure for translation in E. coli. Using the expression vectors, the IL-21 gene was produced in E. coli to a level of greater than 1 g/L in fed batch fermentation. Also included are OmpT deficient E. coli strains transformed with an IL-21 expression vector.
US07745163B2
The present invention is directed to a method of identifying an acetyltransferase substrate in a sample that includes the steps of: (a) contacting the sample with (i) a reagent comprising a thiol-containing compound, a halo-acetyl-CoA or a halo-acetyl-pantetheine, and (ii) an acetyltransferase, under conditions suitable for acetyltransferase enzyme activity, and (b) identifying a substrate that has formed a base-stable covalent bond to the reagent, wherein the reagent is labeled with a label and/or the acetyltransferase is labeled with an affinity tag, and the substrate is the acetyltransferase substrate.
US07745158B2
Methods and devices for the detection of proteins secreted by the hyphal growth form of Candida species are disclosed. The disclosed devices may constitute a method for the diagnosis of acute or chronic infections, including candidiasis, caused by microorganisms of the species Candida, such as C. albicans, for example. The devices of the present invention incorporate antibodies specific to secreted aspartyl protease proteins whose expression is upregulated upon the conversion of the Candida species from the commensal to the pathogenic form. The antibodies may be used in assays to allow the diagnosis of candidal infections and disease conditions. Either monoclonal antibodies or polyclonal antibodies may be used, and in the case of the monoclonals, the specific epitopes of the SAP protein may be detected as well as the SAP protein itself.
