US07778905B2
A computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium may enable a computer processor to perform a method for generating a correlated investment. The method may include the steps of: discounting to present value one or more future liabilities at a discount rate of a bond that matures at the same time as the future liabilities; generating a correlated investment using an original investment amount and leverage funds; monitoring market information about a bond market using a computer; and recalibrating the correlated investment using the computer according to the market information, including: recommending at least one of buying or selling portions of the correlated investment as indicated by the market information. The future liabilities may be of a duration greater than the duration of the longest available bond issued by a sovereign.
US07778893B2
A methodology for optimizing the cost associated with access charges incurred by network service providers when leasing communications facilities from a local service provider has been developed that incorporates physical reconfiguration of the access network topology as a cost-saving measure, where and when appropriate. The methodology identifies opportunities to reduce access charges by performing the following functions: (1) moving T1 facilities from one hub location to another; (2) moving T1 facilities from one T3 facility to another (at the same hub location) in order to disconnect unneeded T3 facilities; and (3) adding new T3 facilities in order to reduce overall access expenses and/or to provide new capacity for future growth, including adding potential new hub locations. The methodology is appropriate for use with various types of network facilities, T1 and T3 being considered as exemplary only.
US07778892B2
A system has been invented that enables recording and proposing bonus depreciations, with a variety of advantageous features. The system enables a computing device to receive user-defined bonus depreciations, receive records of assets, and propose values for the bonus depreciations as applied to the assets. Bonus depreciations may be recorded and associated with several different classifications of assets, enabling the right bonus depreciations to be proposed for the right assets as they are recorded. This may include applying several bonus depreciations to the same assets while maximizing bonus depreciations within statutory requirements.
US07778886B1
Price searching via a mobile device reading display screen graphics is provided. A system for obtaining pricing information comprises at least one subsystem that electronically reads a price of a product using a mobile device scanning a display screen, at least one subsystem that searches for other available products and price data to compare to the electronically read price and product data, at least one subsystem that compares the price data of the other products to the electronically read price data, and at least one subsystem that presents purchase options based upon results of the comparison of the price and product data.
US07778885B1
A consumer lead enhancement system comprises a vendor criteria database, a web server, and a matching engine. The vendor criteria database is configured to store vendor criteria for receiving leads regarding consumers. The web server is configured to request from a consumer a first set of consumer characteristics and a second set of consumer characteristics. The matching engine is configured to compare the consumer characteristics with information in the vendor criteria database in order to match the consumer with one or more vendors so that the system is capable of generating a lead and transmitting the lead to the vendors. If the consumer provides the second set of consumer characteristics, the consumer may be matched to vendors based on the second set of consumer characteristics. Otherwise the consumer may be matched to vendors based on the first set of consumer characteristics.
US07778884B2
The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing complete electronic commerce (“E-Commerce”) transactions and solutions for a marketing company's products via the World Wide Web, including facilities for signing up new customers and recruiting, training and supporting new Independent Business Owners through an interactive online process. In another aspect, the present invention relates to the combination of a marketing business with a membership buying opportunity using both electronic commerce and face-to-face transactions. The present invention is also directed to a system and method for combining a marketing business with a membership buying opportunity, so that Independent Business Owners participating in the marketing plan can introduce customers to a membership buying opportunity and earn bonuses or commissions based on the purchases by those members, while Members in the buying opportunity can consume products or, at their option, qualify to become Independent Business Owners.
US07778882B2
A method of communications network shopping by buyers of products and services for purchasing such from sellers in which buyers request an automatic reverse auctioneer or auction controller to initiate a reverse auction in real time amongst willing sellers and to solicit their automatic real-time iterative bidding price quotations for such products and services to be returned automatically over the network back to the controller under the iterative processing guidance of the controller to assure a best bid price quotation for the buyer; and automatically effecting buyer notification or purchase at such best price, all while the buyer may remain on-line, and without any manual intervention.
US07778873B2
A method of advertising is disclosed an includes monitoring at least one Wi-Fi access point of a Wi-Fi network. Also, the method includes identifying at least one Wi-Fi device after the at least one Wi-Fi device associates with the Wi-Fi access point and determining at least one type of media file that is supported by the Wi-Fi device. Further, the method includes transmitting at least one advertisement to the device that is specific to the location of the Wi-Fi access point. The advertisement is transmitted in a format that corresponds to the at least one type of media file supported by the Wi-Fi device.
US07778866B2
This invention relates to methods and a system for developing software. In one embodiment, a method for developing software includes communicating a specification for the design of a software program to a first plurality of developers, in response to the specification, receiving a design from a subset of the developers to a subset of the developers, facilitating a design review process for scoring the designs, selecting one design based on its score, communicating the selected design to a second plurality of software developers, in response to the design, receiving software programs from a subset of the second plurality of developers, facilitating a software review process for scoring the programs, and selecting one program based on its score. In another embodiment, a method for the distributed development of software includes providing a software development system to a distributed community of developers, the system including software development software that utilizes a structured development methodology, a communication server, and a review board for determining the quality of submitted software; accepting a request to create a software program; and facilitating the development of the program by a subset of the distributed community of developers using the software development system.
US07778859B2
A method is disclosed for performing economic calculations in petro-technical workflows, comprising: designing an economic model including, building and running an economic calculation, the building and running step including, opening an economics dialog box, clicking an economics calculation tab in the economics dialog box, clicking a settings tab in the economics dialog box and configuring a set of settings for the economic calculation, and clicking a run button in the economics dialog box to perform the economic calculation.
US07778852B2
A remotely programmable and accessible medical device system including an interface unit and a medical device connected to a patient is disclosed. Through a transceiver, such as a telephone or computer, a person may obtain status reports from a remotely located medical device in audible, electronic or paper form. In addition, the person may change a protocol associated with the medical device or be alerted at a remote location of an alarm associated with the medical device.
US07778850B2
The software of the present invention provides a means for creating a file of unpaid claims for a service provider. The software is used to create one or more queries to compare information in the file of claims against records in a benefit provider's database to determine the eligibility status of the claim. A file is created containing each claim for which a matching record in the benefit provider's database is found, and the information from that matching record. A report can be generated from the file of matching claims and benefit provider records, so the claims can be submitted for payment by the service provider.
US07778845B2
A system and method for monitoring a group of patients having a chronic disease or ongoing health condition. The method includes the step of collecting from each patient a corresponding set of measurements of a control parameter of the health condition. Each set of measurements has a collection date. A control value is calculated for each patient from the corresponding set of measurements. The method further includes the steps of generating and displaying a group overview chart having one data point for each patient. Each data point indicates the control value calculated for the corresponding patient and a time period which has elapsed since the collection date of the patient's corresponding set of measurements. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the additional steps of selecting from the group overview chart at least one of the patients represented thereon and transmitting supervisory instructions to the at least one selected patient.
US07778842B2
A system dynamically displays graphic identifier information, such as corporate logos, and value information for financial instruments, such as recent trade information, on a video wall having several monitors arranged to form a larger display. The system has input ports to receive feeds with identifiers and corresponding values of financial instruments, a filter to extract the identifiers and corresponding values of the financial instruments, a memory to store the extracted information and a table associating the financial instrument identifiers with graphic symbols, and processors to form a display signal with the graphic symbols and values.
US07778840B2
This disclosure describes systems and methods for collecting and processing change of address data and providing change of address services to a customer using a computer network. The address data can include a physical address, an electronic address, or both. The systems and methods may also provide additional services to the customer to assist in changing addresses.
US07778839B2
To locate an encoded audio frame boundary and begin decoding audio at a point corresponding to that frame boundary, an audio decoder generates a matching pattern containing a syncword and additional bits related to a header of an encoded audio frame, detects an audio frame boundary by searching a data stream of encoded audio frame for instances of the matching pattern, and begins decoding audio frames at a point in the data stream corresponding to the detected frame boundary.
US07778827B2
The present invention relates to a gain quantization method and device for implementation in a technique for coding a sampled sound signal processed, during coding, by successive frames of L samples, wherein each frame is divided into a number of subframes and each subframe comprises a number N of samples, where N
US07778826B2
A codebook generation system and associated methods are generally described herein. For instance, a codebook generation agent (CGA) may implement techniques for generating one or more matrix codebooks from vector codebooks. The CGA may be implemented in mobile devices (e.g., stations, subscriber units, handsets, laptops, etc.). In this regard, the dynamic generation of matrix codebooks rather than having them stored on the mobile device enables the mobile device to utilize the memory normally consumed by the matrix codebooks in support of other features and/or services.
US07778821B2
A method and system for manipulating characters displayed on a display screen is provided wherein the method includes identifying a selected word, wherein the selected word includes at least one character to be modified. The method further includes correlating each of the at least one character with a unique numerical value and receiving a selection command and a modification command, wherein the selection command is the unique numerical value corresponding to a selected character. Furthermore, the method includes modifying the selected character responsive to the modification command to generate a modified word.
US07778814B2
A method and a device for simulating an automation system are disclosed. The aim of the invention is to allow an automation system to be simulated in such a way that simulation components operating at very different computing speeds can be combined into an overall simulation. Said aim is achieved by a method comprising a control component that can be clocked using an external timing source and at least one simulation component which can be clocked using an external timing source. A coordinated clock system is provided for the control component and the at least one simulation component by means of a control component-independent timing coordinator.
US07778812B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for generating write and read commands used to test hardware device models. The method is able to generate multiple write commands to a location without having to generate intervening read commands to validate the data. In addition, the method enables read commands to be generated in a different sequence from the sequence of generated write commands, having different sizes than the sizes of the write commands, and that maximize the amount of data read (verified) and minimize the amount of unnecessary reads (re-verification).
US07778811B2
Methods and systems are provided for displaying and forecasting the lithology and wellbore conditions to be encountered while conducting drill string operations are conducted in a wellbore. A method and system is described for predicting and modeling lithology while operating a drill string in a wellbore, comprising: developing a 3-D lithological model of a subsurface area; projecting a well path through said subsurface area; determining an open cylinder lithology display of said projected well path; and recording said determined open cylinder display. The open cylinder lithology display (the Predictive Stratigraphy Image) may be displayed with geological or structural cross-sections to compare the well path and the predicted well path, with the actual subsurface environment. Data acquired during drilling operations can be used in real time to update the model or the Predictive Stratigraphy Image, and the results compared with Predictive Image Logs and other wellbore images and data.
US07778810B2
A method for evaluating fluid flows within a heterogeneous formation, crossed by one or more geometric discontinuities, comprising generating a hybrid grid from a CPG type grid and from structured grids having application, for example, in simulation of hydrocarbon reservoirs. The first stage locally deforms a CPG type grid into a non-uniform Cartesian grid. These local grid cell deformations correspond to the change from a so-called “CPG” frame of reference to a so-called “Cartesian” frame of reference defined by the deformation. These deformations are then quantified and applied to the structured grids so as to shift to the “Cartesian” frame. A hybrid grid is then generated in the “Cartesian” frame from the two thus deformed grids. Finally, the hybrid grid is deformed to return to the “CPG” frame, prior to improving the grid quality, by optimization under quality control in the numerical scheme sense.
US07778807B2
A simulation model generator presents a screen view which defines causality between phenomena and events using nodes and links to support user's input operation. The generator includes a database for storing and controlling in a centralized way, metric information representing, for each of the registered phenomena and events, a quantity indicating a magnitude of the phenomenon or the event; unit information including, for each unit, a unit name, a conversion coefficient, and a time flag determining whether the unit is associated with time; coefficient information including coefficient name and coefficient value to be used in a metrics calculation formula, and a simulation time bucket representing a period of time per time step in the simulation; and a simulation model generating module for generating a simulation model using data registered to the database.
US07778802B2
A system that utilizes wireless devices as guard tour checkpoint data collection and checkpoint data communication devices is disclosed. The wireless devices have the capability of reading various types of checkpoints and communicating the collected checkpoint data with a computer via a cellular telephone communication system and either a land-based telephone network or the Internet or a cellular data communication device. Alternatively, a Wi-Fi network or the Wi-Fi network and the Internet can be used to communicate collected checkpoint data with the computer. The computer stores and processes the data according to guard tour expected performance parameters, such as rules, schedules, and exceptions, and then generates the necessary commands to produce exception notifications and reports at various types of peripheral equipment.
US07778795B2
A position indicator (100) has a variable capacitor 200, a resonant circuit (36) configured with a position indicating coil (13) and a resonant capacitor (15a), and a rod (11). The variable capacitor (200) has a flat disc-shaped dielectric (1) having two mutually opposite surfaces (1a, 1b), an electrode (2) provided on one surface (1a) of the dielectric (1), a hole (1c) extending between the two mutually opposite surfaces of the dielectric, a conductive portion electrically connecting both ends of the hole, and a conductive elastic member (3) provided near the other surface (1b) of the dielectric (1). The conductive elastic member (3) is arranged on one end of the rod (11). When a pen pressure in the direction of arrow “a” is applied to the other end of the rod (11), the conductive elastic member (3) is pressed against the dielectric (1) so as to be flattened, and the capacitance of the variable capacitor (200) changes in response to the change in the contact area between the conductive elastic member (3) and the dielectric (1).
US07778791B2
An electronic clinical thermometer capable of high-precision measurement within a shorter period of time. The electronic clinical thermometer for predicting an equilibrium temperature based on a temporal change in actual measurement value of a measurement target temperature detected by a temperature detection element includes a prediction value derivation unit which derives a plurality of prediction values from actual measurement values in accordance with a plurality of prediction equations, a selection unit which selects one of the plurality of prediction equations based on the selected prediction equation, and a display output which displays a prediction value result based on the selected prediction equation.
US07778777B2
Methods and systems may be provided simulating forming a wide variety of directional wellbores including wellbores with variable tilt rates and/or relatively constant tilt rates. The methods and systems may also be used to simulate forming a wellbore in subterranean formations having a combination of soft, medium and hard formation materials, multiple layers of formation materials and relatively hard stringers disposed throughout one or more layers of formation material. Values of bit walk rate from such simulations may be used to design and/or select drilling equipment for use in forming a directional wellbore.
US07778771B2
A travel control system for controlling a travel vehicle to advance from a first travel course toward a predetermined one of a plurality of second travel courses includes a destination information provider providing to the travel vehicle destination information indicating the predetermined one of the plurality of second travel courses before the travel vehicle reaches the junction and a first junction information provider providing to the travel vehicle junction information indicating one of the plurality of second travel courses before the travel vehicle reaches the junction. The travel vehicle obtains the destination information from the destination information provider and the junction information from the first junction information provider before reaching a junction between the first and second travel courses. The travel vehicle collates the destination information with the junction information and advances to the predetermined one of the plurality of second travel courses based on a result of the collation.
US07778763B2
The fuel injection amounts into each cylinder are set on the assumption that a heavy fuel will be injected during the engine starting process, and a specific torque is allowed to be generated by combustion in a specific cylinder when a fuel with a specific property between those of the heaviest fuel and the lightest fuel is injected thereinto. When the torque generated in the specific cylinder is in a range at or around the specific torque, the property level of fuel to be injected during the engine starting process is determined to be in a level range at or around the specific property. When the torque generated in the specific cylinder is higher than the range around the specific torque, the property level is determined to be in a level range on the light fuel side of the level range around the specific property.
US07778762B2
Operating a self-igniting internal combustion engine includes: specifying a setpoint combustion position and a setpoint combustion noise feature; operating at least one cylinder of internal combustion engine for at least one cycle while maintaining a first injector control variable and/or an air valve control variable and a second injector control variable and/or a second air valve control variable; ascertaining actual combustion position and actual combustion noise feature of the at least one cylinder; comparing the actual combustion position to the setpoint combustion position and, in case the actual combustion position deviates from the setpoint combustion position, determining anew the first injector control variable and/or the air valve control variable; and comparing the actual combustion noise feature to the setpoint combustion noise feature and, in case the actual combustion noise feature deviates from the setpoint combustion noise feature, determining anew the second injector control variable and/or the air valve control variable.
US07778759B2
A lane deviation avoidance system is arranged to execute a lane deviation avoidance control of controlling a vehicle behavior of the host vehicle so as to avoid the host vehicle from deviating from a traveling lane when the lane deviation tendency is detected, to suppress the driving force when the lane deviation tendency is detected, and to set a controlled variable of the lane deviation avoidance control according to a degree of the suppression of the driving force.
US07778757B2
Method and arrangement for controlling movements of a work vehicle. The positional or geometric state of an equipment assembly for handling objects or material is determined and the control scheme which governs operation of at least one driveline component of the vehicle is varied depending on the determined equipment assembly state.
US07778755B2
A deployment decision for a vehicle restraint system is reached as a function of vehicle dynamics data, at least one vehicle transverse acceleration and one yaw rate about the longitudinal axis of the vehicle being linked to one another as the vehicle dynamics data to reach the deployment decision. The vehicle transverse acceleration is then additionally subjected to a threshold value decision for reaching the deployment decision, the threshold value being set as a function of the integrated vehicle transverse acceleration and the integrated yaw rate.
US07778754B2
Method and system for preventing mixing of materials in two-shot molding for production of crash pad
Disclosed is a method and system for preventing mixing of materials upon two-shot molding for the production of a crash pad, in which, in the course of the production of a crash pad through the simultaneous injection of two types of resins, the penetration of one type of resin into the region of the crash pad, which is filled with another type of resin, is effectively prevented by a flow-retarding dam that is formed at a portion of an injection mold which is positioned outside the passenger-side airbag door region.
US07778748B2
A systems and method for testing a vehicle suspension may include a kinematics rig and a main control unit having a graphical user interface (GUI). The system can provide for automated testing, control, data acquisition and analysis, and sensor handling for conducting comprehensive performance testing of vehicle chassis and suspension systems in a contained solution. All requisite tests for suspension systems analysis may be user-selectable and configurable from the GUI and executed via software based on test procedures stored in memory. The system's data acquisition capabilities may be easily integrated into standard industry analysis tools.
US07778747B2
A system and method for controlling adhesion of a wheel of an off-highway vehicle to a surface supporting the wheel measures a parameter of a traction motor of the off-highway vehicle driving the wheel. The parameter is analyzed to determine if wheel slip is present and the severity of the wheel slip. Some embodiments of the invention include adjusting a duty cycle of the traction motor as a function of the severity of the detected wheel slip.
US07778739B2
A multiprocessor system used in a car, home, or office environment includes multiple processors that run different real-time applications. A dynamic configuration system runs on the multiple processors and includes a device manager, configuration manager, and data manager. The device manager automatically detects and adds new devices to the multiprocessor system, and the configuration manager automatically reconfigures which processors run the real-time applications. The data manager identifies the type of data generated by the new devices and identifies which devices in the multiprocessor system are able to process the data.
US07778738B2
A system and method that analyzes at least one aspect of the power grid for demand response in order to reduce feeder circuit losses is provided. The system and method may use a demand response model to select one or more factors for the demand response, such as selecting a subset of customers for demand response from a larger pool of available demand response customers. The demand response model may include a grid structure component, such as an indication of the particular customer's position in the grid and a dynamic operation component, such as a real-time measurement of current in the feeder circuit. By using the demand response model, feeder circuit losses may thereby reduced.
US07778728B2
An apparatus and method for positioning objects at a desired reference position, including a sensor for determining the length of each object/mailpiece from a leading to a trailing edge, a transport mechanism having a positionable drive element for transporting the object/mailpiece, and a controller or processor for controlling the position of the drive element to release the object/mailpiece at a desired reference position. The described embodiments of the invention relate to positioning an object/mailpiece in a clamp assembly of a mixed mail sorter. The jaws of the clamp assembly are separated to receive the object/mailpiece by a pair of spiral cams. The spiral cams interpose and engage tabs of each jaw to open and close the clamp assembly as they concomitantly effect translation of the clamp assembly linearly past the positioning apparatus. The apparatus and method ensures predictable conveyance and release of objects/mailpieces while being manipulated by automated handling equipment.
US07778727B2
An electronic component inspection apparatus includes an inspection socket which inspects a component, a tray disposition area in which a component waits before it is inspected, tray disposition areas which store a component after it has been inspected, components transfer mechanisms each of which has a vacuum or suction nozzle that can pick up and hold a component to transfer the component, a component position confirmation camera which can capture an image of the component that is being transferred, and a controller which transfers a component to the inspection socket, via a position in which the component position confirmation camera captures an image of the component being held by the suction nozzle while the component is being transferred from the tray disposition area to the inspection socket, and based on that captured image, controls the drive of the components transfer mechanisms so that the component is set in the inspection socket.
US07778719B2
A system, method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for generating a code for a semiconductor manufacturing system are provided. A first code segment is derived from a customer code uniquely associated with a customer. At least one additional code segment is derived from at least one attribute selected for a semiconductor product ordered by the customer. A configure-to-service code is generated in a service guide system from the first code segment and the at least one additional code segment.
US07778712B1
A novel bulb and bulb assembly. In an embodiment, the present invention comprises a shell enclosing a hollow interior, and a tube intersecting with the shell such that the ends of the tube reside outside the shell and a portion of the tube resides within the shell. Each intersection of the tube and the shell in this embodiment is accomplished so that any contents of the hollow interior of the shell are sealed within the shell and any contents of the hollow interior of the shell are segregated from any contents of the portion of the tube residing within the shell. This embodiment may further comprise at least one electrode having at least one end terminating inside the shell. This embodiment may further comprise a source of electromagnetic waves positioned such that electromagnetic waves emanating from the source of electromagnetic waves pass through the shell.
US07778703B2
Apparatus for treating a heart condition of a subject is provided, including an electrode device, which is adapted to be coupled to a vagus nerve of the subject. A control unit is adapted to drive the electrode device to apply to the vagus nerve a stimulating current, which is capable of inducing action potentials in a therapeutic direction in a first set and a second set of nerve fibers of the vagus nerve. The control unit is also adapted to drive the electrode device to apply to the vagus nerve an inhibiting current, which is capable of inhibiting the induced action potentials traveling in the therapeutic direction in the second set of nerve fibers, the nerve fibers in the second set having generally larger diameters than the nerve fibers in the first set.
US07778700B2
A method for measuring a brain wave comprises extracting positive and negative peaks from an electrocardiogram (EKG) signal reflecting heartbeat information, and positive peaks from an electroencephalogram (EEG) signal reflecting heartbeat-caused noise information and brain wave information. The positive peaks of the EEG signal are classified into a first peak group and a second peak group based on the positive peaks of the EKG signal. The first peak group is affected more greatly by the heartbeat than by the brain wave, and the second peak group is affected more greatly by the brain wave than by the heartbeat. Noise of the first and second peak groups is removed from the EEG signal.
US07778697B2
In an ischemia detection method, and in an ischemia detector and a cardiac stimulator embodying an ischemia detector, a workload of a patient is measured, as is an ejection fraction (EF) associated with the heart of the patient is determined. A predetermined reference relation between EF and workload for the patient is stored, and an analysis unit detects a state of ischemia of the patient from deviation in the determined EF for various workloads from the stored reference relation.
US07778696B2
Systems and methods provide for selection of automatic capture verification modes. A number of capture verification modes are evaluated, wherein at least one of the capture verification modes has a distinct temporal relationship between delivery of a pacing pulse and detection of capture of heart tissue by the pacing pulse than the other capture verification modes. One or more capture verification modes are selected based on the evaluation. Capture verification is implemented using the selected one or more capture verification modes.
US07778695B2
Methods, systems, devices and computer program product include: (i) administering a fluorescent analyte to a subject; (ii) repetitively emitting excitation light from an implanted sensor over a desired monitoring period; (iii) detecting fluorescence intensity in response to the excitation light using the implanted sensor that outputs the excitation light; and (iv) using data associated with the detected fluorescence intensity to perform at least one of: (a) calculate the concentration or dose of the analyte received proximate to the implanted sensor site; (b) evaluate the pharmacodynamic or pharmacokinetic activity of the fluorescent analyte; (c) confirm Ab attachment to a tumor site; (d) monitor a non-target site to confirm it is not unduly affected by a therapy; (e) monitor for changes in cellular properties; (f) use the calculated dose or concentration data to adjust or customize a therapeutic amount of the analyte administered to the subject; (g) confirm micelle concentration at a target site and then stimulate toxin release based on the confirmation; and (h) monitor for the expression of a protein produced from a gene therapy modification.In particular embodiments, the intensity of the excitation signals emitted to the localized tissue can be varied in a predetermined manner to generate optical profiling data of the response of the tissue proximate the sensor.
US07778694B2
A biological optical measurement instrument including: a measurement probe positionable to a surface of a subject, which irradiates light beams having a plurality of wavelengths from a light beam source through optical fibers onto the subject, and collects the light beams passed inside the subject from a plurality of positions to facilitate production of diagnostics from collected light beams of the subject, wherein the measurement probe is provided with probe casings which hold the optical fibers, fixing members where each respective fixing member is mateable with a respective probe casing to position the probe casings in a predetermined interval, and a support member which supports the fixing members, and wherein at least one of the respective probe casing or the respective fixing member is provided with a stopper claw to permit fixed engagement of the respective probe casing with the respective fixing member upon mating thereof.
US07778681B2
The invention relates to a method of determining the spatial distribution of magnetic particles in an examination zone. According to this method a spatially inhomogeneous magnetic field is generated which includes at least one zone (301) in which the magnetization of the particles is in a non-saturated state whereas the particles in the remaining zone are in a saturated state. Shifting this zone within the examination zone produces a change of the magnetization which can be externally detected and contains information concerning the spatial distribution of the magnetic particles in the examination zone.
US07778671B2
A mobile communication terminal having a display with an application area thereon. The application area is partitioned into at least two unequally sized sections. The size of the application area allocated to the respective application area sections is dynamically controlled in response to user input.
US07778666B2
A system for printing a gambling ticket on a print medium, the system comprising: a mobile telecommunications device which comprises: a printer module to print the ticket on the print medium; and, a sensor module to sense a print media identifier of the print medium.
US07778664B1
A communication device, such as a mobile phone, which implements a voice communication mode, a digital mirror mode, a video phone mode, and a call blocking mode.
US07778662B2
The processing of tasks in a mobile communication terminal that contains two or more microprocessors is disclosed. The processing rate of tasks is increased by redistribution of the tasks between the microprocessors as a function of the operating mode. Particularly in situations in which no conversation and/or no other type of payload signal transmission is taking place, tasks may be redistributed from the application processor to the modem processor and/or to the DSP, so that applications such as compression and/or decompression of video data can be processed more quickly.
US07778655B2
A mobile communications terminal, and method and system for controlling a floor during a PT session, are discussed. According to one aspect of the present invention, the terminal includes a PT client. The PT client includes a controller to request a user's confirmation of media burst for a PT session when the PT client receives a media burst confirmation request. The controller selectively starts encoding of media data of the PT session depending on the user's response to the controller's request.
US07778654B2
Disclosed are a system and method for controlling home appliances using a short message service. When receiving a short message including an access code from a mobile terminal, the home server checks the status of the connected home appliances and sends a short message including control codes corresponding to the status of the home appliances to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal checks the control codes to confirm the status of the home appliances, and displays corresponding images. When the user requests to control the status of a specific home appliance, the mobile terminal automatically generates a corresponding short message and sends the short message to the home server. The home server checks the message, controls the corresponding home appliance, and then sends a short message including current status information of the controlled home appliance to the mobile terminal.
US07778644B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for managing resources in a mobile communication system. The method includes classifying an overall frequency band into a plurality of segment types defined in time and frequency domains by considering a channel condition between a mobile station and the base station and a QoS level required by the mobile station, if data to be transmitted is data to be transmitted in real time, allocating the data to real-time type segments in such a manner as to satisfy a minimum QoS level for the data, and when there are real-time data remaining after allocating the data, and non-real-time type segments for allocating data to be transmitted in non-real time, diverting and allocating the real-time data to the non-real-time type segments.
US07778643B2
The use of multiple states of mobile communication device operation to allow a single base station to support a relatively large number of mobile nodes is described. The various states require different amounts of communications resources, e.g., bandwidth. Four supported states of operation are an on-state, a hold-state, a sleep-state, and an access-state. Each mobile node in the on-state is allocated communication resources to perform transmission power control signaling, transmission timing control signaling and to transmit data as part of a data uplink communications operation. Each mobile node in the hold-state is allocated communication resources to perform transmission timing control signaling and is provided a dedicated uplink for requesting a state transition and a shared resource for transmitting acknowledgements. In the sleep state a mobile node is allocated minimal resources and does not conduct power control signaling or timing control signaling. Data may be received in the on and hold states.
US07778642B2
A method and system determines whether the receiving subscriber unit is also part of a digital wireless telephone system that has compatible vocoding capability. If so, vocoded data is converted into tones that are introduced into a wire-based telephone system for routing to the appropriate receiving digital wireless telephone system. When these tones are received by the receiving digital wireless telephone system, the vocoded data is regenerated based on the tones and then transmitted to the receiving subscriber unit. If the originating and receiving wireless subscriber units are part of the same digital wireless telephone system, the steps of conversion to tones and introduction into the wire-based telephone system may be omitted, and the vocoded data is passed between the two digital wireless telephone systems via an all-digital connection such as an ATM packet network or a wire-based telephone connection where the integrity of digital information is assured.
US07778640B2
A method of communicating data in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a method discloses transmitting a request by a mobile subscriber station (MSS) to a network entity via a de-registration request message requesting the network entity to retain a preferred session information, and receiving a selected session information via a de-registration command response from the network entity.
US07778628B2
A mobile communication terminal and corresponding method, the method including (a) attempting origination of a call to a first terminal, (b) receiving a call from a second terminal, (c) stopping the call origination attempt at the step (a), and storing information as to the call origination, and (d) outputting information in relation to the stopped call origination when the call received at the step (b) is terminated.
US07778623B2
According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a first terminal to be connected to a first communication network, assigned a terminal ID and driven by power supplied from a battery, a server apparatus to be connected to a second communication network differing from the first network, to periodically confirm presences of the first terminal and a second terminal to be connected to the second communication network, and to communication-connect between the first and the second terminals in the case of presences thereof, and a controller which makes the server apparatus monitor that the first terminal is present on the first communication network by a second period longer than a first period monitoring that the second terminal is present on the second communication network.
US07778622B2
A positioning and recording information system for rescue at sea implemented with a multi-hopping technique. At least two stations transmit navigation information to one another in the form of data packets. The data packets are received and temporarily stored in the stations. The steps of transmitting, receiving and storing are repeated to form a network topology that records a track of a station mounted on a ship. When the ship meets with misfortune at sea, the latest data packet transmitted by the ship provides a position near the location of the ship accident. Consequently, the rescue can be started immediately, and efficiency of a rescue operation is improved when compared to traditional ways of estimating a ship's position.
US07778620B2
A method of controlling a phase locked loop in a mobile station and a mobile station of a cellular telecommunications system are provided. The mobile station comprises an integrated phase locked loop for generating output frequencies; a frequency control unit for providing a frequency control word for the phase locked loop, according to which frequency control word an output frequency is generated; and a tuning unit for providing a synchronized tuning word for the phase locked loop, the tuning unit being configured to output the synchronized tuning word to the phase locked loop in synchronization with the output of the frequency control word. The invention reduces the settling time of a mobile station when an operating frequency is changed from one to another.
US07778613B2
A dual conversion receiver architecture that converts a radio frequency signal to produce a programmable intermediate frequency whose channel bandwidth and frequency can be changed using variable low-pass filtering to accommodate multiple standards for television and other wireless standards. The dual conversion receiver uses a two stage frequency translation and continual DC offset removal. The dual conversion receiver can be completely implemented on an integrated circuit with no external adjustments.
US07778612B2
An object of the invention is to provide a polar modulation circuit capable of reducing the capacity of data stored in memory and suppressing an increase in the circuit scale related to distortion compensation while assuring the compensation accuracy. The polar modulation circuit according to the invention stores output signal characteristic relative to the control voltage at the steady state after input of the control voltage for a predetermined input amplitude of an input high frequency signal as the basis of distortion compensation of an amplifier separately into an offset storage section 101a which stores data used to add a predetermined DC offset voltage and a coefficient storage section 102 which stores data used for multiplication by a predetermined constant, thus reducing the circuit scale related to distortion compensation while assuring the compensation accuracy.
US07778607B2
A method for estimating a communication channel comprising one or more sub-channels between at least a first transceiver and at least a second transceiver is provided. The method comprises transmitting a first set of training data from the first transceiver to the second transceiver, receiving observed signals at the second transceiver, re-transmitting said observed signal back to the first transceiver, and calculating a roundtrip channel estimate at the first transceiver. The method further comprises transmitting a second set of training data from the second transceiver to the first transceiver, receiving observed signals at the first transceiver, and calculating a reverse link channel estimate. From the roundtrip channel estimate and the reverse link channel estimate, a forward link channel estimate is computed at the first transceiver.
US07778606B2
A wireless intrusion detection system (WIDS) is disclosed for monitoring both authorized and unauthorized access to a wireless portion of a network. The WIDS consists of a collector and one or more nodes that communicate via an out of band means that is separate from the network. Unauthorized access points and unauthorized clients in the network can be detected. The WIDS can be used to monitor, for example, a network implemented using the 802.11 protocol. In addition, the WIDS can be used by one company to provide a service that monitors the wireless network of another company.
US07778600B2
A controller may be provided to monitor and record various activities associated with remotely located equipment, e.g. a vending machine or a service vehicle. The controller may also be operable to communicate over multiple wireless communication paths with remotely located equipment, handheld devices and/or a network operations center over multiple wireless networks.
US07778598B2
In a wireless network using cooperative relaying, a set of messages are broadcast from a base station to a set of relay stations during a first phase of a scheduling interval. During a second phase of the scheduling interval, the set of messages from the set of relay stations are broadcasting cooperatively to a set of mobile stations, while broadcasting. While broadcasting, a time and a rate and a size of each message is optimized during the first phase, and a rate of each message is optimized during the second phase.
US07778584B2
The contact rate between a heater 1 and a heater holder 2 is made higher at both ends in the longitudinal direction of the heater than at the center. Alternatively, the per-unit-length volume of the heater holder 2 in the longitudinal direction is made larger at the both ends in the longitudinal direction of the heater. In this configuration, the heat generated by the heater can easily escape into the heater holder side at the both ends but cannot easily escape into the heater holder side at the center. Although the per-unit-length heat amount in the longitudinal direction of the heater 1 may be even, it is also possible to set the heat amount distribution in such a way that the heat amount at the both ends is larger than that at the center. The present invention prevents an improper fixing problem generated by an insufficient temperature at a particular position of a recording material and, at the same time, prevents an increase in the temperature of the non-paper-passage part that occurs when a narrow recording material is used.
US07778582B2
The image heating apparatus includes a rotary member that comes into contact with a toner image borne on a recording material, a backup member that forms a nip portion to pinch and convey the recording material with said rotary member, wherein said rotary member heats the toner image on the recording material in the nip portion, a cover member that covers a surface of said rotary member with a gap between the surface of said rotary member and the cover member and a frame that accommodates said rotary member, said backup member and said cover, wherein said cover is not in contact with said frame. This structure can suppress heat dissipation to the exterior of the image heating apparatus, thus suppressing the energy consumption.
US07778576B2
A development device includes a developer supply member that supplies a developer supporting member with liquid developer from a developer container. An agitating member is disposed in the developer container supplies the developer supply member with the liquid developer. The developer container includes a partition member partitioning between and extending above first and second developer holding sections. The partition member is aligned in parallel to an axial direction of rotation of the agitating member and allows liquid developer to move between the first and second developer holding sections.
US07778571B2
A manufacturing method of a developing unit including an OPC (organic photoconductor), a cleaning member disposed at a cleaning position in a predetermined radial direction of the OPC to clean the OPC, and a frame on which the OPC and the cleaning member are mounted. The method includes mounting the OPC on the frame to rotate in a predetermined operating direction, and mounting the cleaning member on the frame so that the cleaning member is moved toward and disposed at the cleaning position in a direction that is substantially the same as the operating direction of the OPC in a vicinity of the cleaning position.
US07778569B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body casing, a device that is positioned within a main body casing and having a function, a displacement member positioned in a main body casing and capable of displacement between an initial position and a stop position which causes the device to perform an action, a string-like connection that is connected between the displacement member and a cover member and that displaces the displacement member from the initial position to the stop position in synchronization with the opening operation of the cover member. The string-like connection, and the displacement member in the stop position, constitute an opening restricting device capable of restricting the opening angle of a cover member to a prescribed angle.
US07778568B2
An image forming apparatus includes a carrier unit including an intermediate transfer member, a detachable waste toner container, and a recording-medium directing member provided to the carrier unit. The recording-medium directing member guides a recording medium, and also prevents the waste toner container from contacting the intermediate transfer member when the waste toner container is attached to or detached from the image forming apparatus.
US07778564B2
In a fixing device of an image forming apparatus of the present invention, inner surfaces of upper and lower frames for respectively supporting a heat roller and a pressure roller are formed as a mirror surface. Between the heat roller and an infrared temperature sensor, an infrared transmission filter for cutting infrared rays beyond a wave length zone equivalent to a heatable area of the heat roller is installed. Detection results of a surface temperature of the heat roller by the infrared temperature sensor are prevented from exceeding the error tolerance due to infrared rays radiated from other than the heat roller. Temperature control for the heat roller is improved and a fixed image of high image quality is obtained.
US07778562B2
Provided is an exposure head controller that controls, via pulse width modulation control, the emission quantity of each light emitting element in an exposure head having a light emitting element array formed by arranging a plurality of light emitting elements in a main scanning direction and a sub scanning direction orthogonal thereto, comprising: a data retention unit that retains dot gathering control data showing whether to emit each light emitting element at the starting point side, terminal point side or in the middle of an emission period corresponding to a 1 pixel pitch in the sub scanning direction, or to divide and emit each light emitting element at the starting point side and terminal point side, emission time data showing the emission time of each light emitting element, and skew data showing the skew quantity of each light emitting element; a dot gathering operation circuit provided to each light emitting element and which operates the time in which the light emitting element is to be retained in a non-emission state from the starting point of the emission based on the dot gathering control data input from the data retention unit; a delay time measurement circuit that acquires the skew data from the data retention unit and acquires the non-emission time data showing the retention time in the non-emission state from the dot gathering operation circuit, adding these to seek the delay time to be set before starting the emission of the light emitting element, measuring the delay time, and outputting a prescribed signal after the lapse of the delay time; and an emission instruction circuit that outputs to a light emitting element drive circuit an emission instruction signal for instructing the emission of the light emitting element from the point in time the emission time data is acquired from the data retention unit and a prescribed signal is output from the delay time measurement circuit up to the elapse of the emission time indicated by the emission time data.
US07778561B2
In a charging device of the present invention, with reference to a state (movement speed of a charging receiving material, operating period of charging device) in which the charging device is used which state is obtained by an image formation controlling section, a voltage controlling section sets or changes an applied voltage to be applied between a discharge electrode and an inductive electrode. Accordingly, even in a case where discharge is hard to occur, a necessary amount of ions can be supplied stably.
US07778560B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier configured to carry an image and a charger to which a direct current voltage overlapped with an AC voltage is applied as a charging bias to charge the image carrier. The charger is positioned in contact or contactlessly with the image carrier. A controller performs an adjustment to the AC voltage multiple times to gradually bring the AC voltage to a target value.
US07778557B2
In a fixing apparatus that has a heating roller, and heats a sheet where an image by a developer has been transferred, to thereby fix the image on the sheet, the following are provided: a first sensor that detects the radiant heat from the heating roller; a second sensor that detects the ambient temperature of the first sensor; a computing circuit that computes a threshold value for determining whether the temperature of the heating roller is abnormal or not; and a controlling circuit that controls the operation condition of the heating roller based on output values of the first sensor and the second sensor and the threshold value computed by the computing circuit.
US07778551B2
A differential driver configured to drive an optical source. The differential driver includes an anode transistor configured to connect to a diode anode. The differential driver further includes a cathode transistor configured to connect to a diode cathode. The differential driver additionally includes a tail current transistor. The tail current transistor controls the amount of modulation current through a diode. The tail current transistor includes provisions that control the current through the tail current transistor for controlling the amount of modulation current through the diode. The provisions are dependant on a temperature in or at which the diode operates.
US07778549B1
Systems and methods for unidirectional communication in an optical network employing bidirectional transponders are provided. The modulation and amplification capabilities of the bidirectional transponder are used to forward information to the next node. In this way a highly cost-effective “drop and continue” architecture is provided. In one implementation, the client-side output of the bidirectional transponder is looped back to the client-side input using, e.g., a Y-cable fiber. In this way, a unidirectional signal present on a network-side input wavelength to the transponder is presented both on a network-side output wavelength of the transponder and at the same time to a client. The modulation and amplification capabilities of the bidirectional transponder are thus exploited in forwarding the unidirectional signal to the next node.
US07778540B2
On a recording medium serving as a verification object, a picture whose state changes in accordance with optical conditions is formed. A verification apparatus images a plurality of pictures of the recording medium while changing an optical relationship among a light source for illuminating the recording medium, a camera for imaging a picture of the recording medium, and the recording medium with a condition modifying unit. The verification apparatus displays the plurality of pictures of the recording medium imaged by the camera, on the display unit in a state in which the optical relationship has been changed. The verification apparatus determines imaging conditions for imaging a picture for verification on the basis of the optical relationship at the time of photographing selected pictures among the plurality of pictures displayed on the display unit.
US07778526B2
A system and method for generating a file container, the file container having a main structure for sample data and substructures for information data wherein the structures are defined in accordance with a standard of the second format, the standard defining a fixed number of data handler types, each data handler type declaring a process by which sample data are to be presented; converting the audio/video data to the second format including the step of generating audio/video sample data from the audio/video data and information on position and size of the audio/video sample data within the main structure; storing the audio/video sample data in the main structure, wherein the information on position and size of the audio/video sample data within the main structure is stored in a substructure for audio/video data; defining a substructure for subpicture data in accordance with the standard such that the subpicture data are storable as subpicture sample data in the main structure, wherein the substructure for subpicture data is adapted for providing information on position and size of the subpicture sample data, and is adapted for presenting a data handler type being undefined in the standard; converting the subpicture data to the second data format; and storing subpicture sample data in the main structure, and storing information on position and size of the subpicture sample data in the substructure for subpicture data.
US07778514B2
In one embodiment, a system for coupling a communications signal to a medium-voltage power line includes a surge arrester electrically coupled to a medium-voltage power line and a disconnect device electrically coupled to the surge arrester. The disconnect device is electrically coupled in parallel with a communications device and has a resistance of at least one thousand ohms and a capacitance between one picofarad and twelve picofarads. Furthermore, the disconnect device is electrically coupled to a ground without the use of ferrites.
US07778509B2
Disclosed in a method and a device in which a wave number of light in the waveguide mode of a photonic crystal optical waveguide is matched with that of the incident light, or a intensity ratio of electric field to magnetic field of the light in the waveguide mode of the photonic crystal optical waveguide is matched with that of the incident light, and furthermore, in addition to the method above, the distribution of light intensity on the incident end surface in the waveguide mode of the photonic crystal optical waveguide is matched with that of the incident light. A photonic crystal optical waveguide and channel optical waveguide are joined together, and the structure of the channel optical waveguide is wedge shaped in the joint section.
US07778503B2
The present invention provides an electronic device comprising two or more housing parts which are movable in relation to each other with an optical arrangement enabling optical data communication between electronic components located in the housing parts. The device according to the invention comprises a first housing part comprising first electronic components, a second housing part comprising second electronic components, wherein said first housing part and said second housing part are movably connected and capable of taking at least a first and a second position in relation to each other, a first optoelectronic device connected with said first electronic components, a second optoelectronic device connected with said second electronic components, and a first light duct, and a second light duct, wherein said first light duct is arranged to provide a first light path optically coupling said optoelectronic devices in said first position, and said second light duct is arranged to provide a second light path optically coupling said optoelectronic devices in said second position.
US07778498B2
A technique is described for generating a cylindrically polarized beam, e.g., a radially or azimuthally polarized beam. An input optical fiber is provided that supports signal propagation in a fundamental LP01 mode. A mode converter device converts the fundamental LP01 mode into a higher-order LP11 mode output that includes a linear combination of modes, including cylindrically polarized TM01 and TE01 modes and mixed HE21 (even) and HE21 (odd) modes. The LP11 mode output propagates through a connected phase-engineered fiber having a refractive index profile that includes a steep refractive index step proximate to a peak amplitude of a mode intensity profile of the LP11 mode, such that at least one cylindrically polarized mode has an effective refractive index that is sufficiently separated from those of the mixed modes to allow for coupling to the at least one cylindrically polarized mode with minimal cross-coupling.
US07778490B2
The present invention relates to a method of image registration comprising the steps of, a) providing at least first image data and second image data, b) selecting of sub-volumes of the first and the second image data, c) performing a registration for each one of the sub-volumes, each registration providing a transformation parameter set, d) performing a global registration for the first and second image data, the global registration providing a global transformation parameter set, e) comparing one of the transformation parameter sets to other transformation parameter sets and/or to the global transformation parameter set for identification of an outlier transformation parameter set of the transformation parameter sets, f) outputting of a signal being indicative of the sub-volume of the outlier transformation parameter set.
US07778489B1
Legibility of text in an image of a page is determined by comparing a measure of the text in the page image with a measure of the page image itself. In one aspect, a measure of the text in the page image may be the height of a line of text, while the measure derived from the page image may be the height of the page image. A text-to-page height ratio is determined and compared to one or more thresholds for determining legibility. In another aspect of the invention, a measure of the text in a page image is obtained by measuring the word density in the page image, while the measure derived from the page image comprises compressing the page image and determining the size of the compressed image file. Legibility is then determined by comparing the measure of word density with the compressed image file size.
US07778487B2
A technique for image compositing which allows a user to select the best image of an object, such as for example a person, from a set of images interactively and see how it will be assembled into a final photomontage. A user can select a source image from the set of images as an initial composite image. A region, representing a set of pixels to be replaced, is chosen by the user in the composite image. A corresponding same region is reflected in one or more source images, one of which will be selected by the user for painting into the composite image. The technique optimizes the selection of pixels around the user-chosen region or regions for cut points that will be least likely to show seams where the source images are merged in the composite image.
US07778486B2
The present invention allows for online image processing. A sample embodiment of the system comprises an Image Processing Means with one or more predetermined graphical layers, residing on the Image Processing Means The Image Processing Means has the ability to obtain one or more substitute layers and repeat a set of predetermined steps using predetermined layers and substitute layers to create a new image. A sample embodiment of the method comprises the steps of determining graphical layers (predetermined graphical layers) and steps (predetermined steps) for creating an image. A substitute layer maybe obtained from a remote User. The predetermined steps may be repeated using predetermined graphical layers and the substitute layer, thus, creating a new image. The image may be further delivered to the User. Described systems and methods may allow users to create complex digital images using remote servers, without the use of graphical tools on the user's computer. Even users without substantial technical or artistic skills may create complex digital images.
US07778485B2
Scanned image portions of virtual slide are stored in accord with a positional index metric associated to each image's location in a mosaic representation of the entire physical slide and a normalized correlation search is performed on next neighbor regional image blocks. A set of relative positional offset values and a correlation coefficient is determined for a regional image block and a next neighbor regional image block. A portion of the regional image blocks is viewed as a field of view of a display and a composite of the potion of regional image blocks is stitched together in accord with the set of relative positional offset values and the correlation coefficient, such that only the blocks comprising the portion are stitched. Moving the field of view of the display causes additional regional image blocks to be displayed, where image stitching is subsequently performed only with respect to the additional regional image blocks brought into the new field of view.
US07778483B2
A digital image processing method includes extracting chromatic information of an image taken by an image taking device and related to a human subject; detecting visually interesting regions; and exposure correcting of the taken image by normalizing a grey scale of the taken image based on the visually interesting regions. Advantageously, the method includes recognizing areas corresponding to the skin of the subject, these areas being used as the visually interesting regions for the exposure correction step.
US07778479B2
In a Gabor filter, a modified Gabor mask function is generated from an original Gabor mask function. A convolution of an image is performed with the modified Gabor mask function to generate a filtered image. The modification of the original Gabor mask function to the modified Gabor mask function reduces a number of calculations during such a convolution.
US07778474B2
A scalable encoding method for decomposing an image signal into signals assigned to layers so as to encode the image signal includes encoding an image signal of at least one target layer among the layers based on an amount of codes allocated to the target layer; outputting a residual signal of the target layer corresponding to a difference between the pre-encoded image signal and an image signal decoded from the encoded image signal; determining a target amount of codes allocated for encoding the residual signal based on the residual signal, an amount of codes allocated to an objective layer, and an image signal of the objective layer; encoding the residual signal based on the determined target amount of codes; revising the amount of codes allocated to the objective layer based on the target amount of codes; and encoding the image signal of the objective layer based on the revised amount.
US07778470B2
A moving picture processor includes a similarity calculator which calculates a similarity between shots, which refer to temporal parts of a moving picture, into which the moving picture is divided at a point where a content of the moving picture changes over, a similar shot specifying unit which specifies similar shots based on the similarity, and a grouping unit which makes groups each including the similar shots. The moving picture processor also includes a lead group selector which selects a lead group from the groups. The lead group includes a lead shot to be a head of a metashot. The moving picture processor also includes a lead shot selector which selects the lead shot from shots included in the lead group, and a metashot generator which generates the metashot including the lead shot selected at the head.
US07778461B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to techniques for detecting tampering of digital image data.
US07778453B2
In a multi-modality method for representing functional and morphological exposures of an extremity of patients exhibiting arthritis/arthrosis, and corresponding computer software, images obtained with different imaging modalities are supplied to a computer and displayed at the computer with a default line model of the extremity superimposed on each of the images. A user interacts with the computer to modify the line model as necessary, so that each of the images has a modified line model associated therewith. The images obtained from the different imaging modalities are then superimposed and registered with each other by conforming the respective modified line models with each other. One of the images can be composed of a number of sub-images, obtained at respective joints in the extremity. These individual images of the joint can be fused with the image of the complete extremity, so that in a display of such a fused image, the individual joint images can be selected and displayed.
US07778451B2
An exfoliated picture projection method and device are provided which are capable of outputting distortion information of three-dimensional picture data. A distortion amount is calculated in accordance with the difference between the position of a reference virtual ray and the position of a virtual ray projected during creating of the exfoliated picture, coloring is added to the virtual rays in accordance with the distortion amount, and the colored virtual rays are projected to generate exfoliated picture data. Then, the same virtual rays are projected to generate perspective projective picture data, and the exfoliated picture data and perspective projective picture data are subjected to post processing. Therefore, the obtained exfoliated picture and perspective projection picture are output to a monitor.
US07778448B2
An on-line method for issuing a certificate of authenticity for a collectible to a collector who has personally witnessed the collectible being signed and a verification system for authenticating a suspected signature on an object by scanning the suspected signature and transmitting to a central computer where the suspected signature is compared with a set of authentic reference signatures based on input as to the shape of the object. In embodiments, the collector provides information on the collectible via the Internet to a central computer which stores the information for future reference by potential purchasers of the collectible. The collector must sign a statement on the certificate of authenticity that declares, under penalty of perjury, the information that the collector provided regarding the collectible is correct. Subsequent purchasers can access the central computer via the Internet.
US07778432B2
A hearing aid is provided comprising a transceiver for interconnection of the hearing aid with a wireless network for communication with a plurality of other devices, and a communication controller that is adapted for controlling data exchange through the network in accordance with a simple network protocol. The hearing aid wireless network facilitates interconnection of a plurality of devices in the network, such as hearing aids, remote controllers, fitting instruments, mobile phones, headsets, door bells, alarm systems, broadcast systems, such as tele coil replacement, etc, etc. In an established network, the network master device, in a connected mode, regularly transmits synchronization data, e.g. comprised in a link management package, for synchronization of the slave devices in the network with the master device. During initialisation of the network, for example upon turn-on of two hearing aids, each device in an acquisition mode transmits interrogation data, e.g. comprised in a link management package, at a higher rate than the rate of transmission of the synchronization data in the connected mode. The provided acquisition method has low power consumption during execution and it is fast.
US07778425B2
This invention describes a method for generating noise references for adaptive interference cancellation filters for applications in generalized sidelobe canceling systems. More specifically the present invention relates to a multi-microphone beamforming system similar to a generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) structure, but the difference with the GSC is that the present invention creates noise references to the adaptive interference canceller (AIC) filters using steerable beams that block out the desired signal when the beam is steered away from the desired signal source location.
US07778423B2
A method for establishing a common key for a group of at least three subscribers includes using a publicly known mathematical number group and a higher order element of the group g∈G. In the first step, a message corresponding to Ni: =gzi mod p is sent by each subscriber to all other subscribers (Tj), (zi) being a random number chosen from the set (1, . . . , p-2) by a random number generator. In the second step, each subscriber (Ti) selects a transmission key kij:=(gzj)zi for each other subscriber (Tj) from the received message (gzj), with i≠j, for transmitting their random number (zi) to the subscribers (Tj). In the third step, the common key k is calculated as k:=f(z1, z2, . . . , zn) for each subscriber Ti.
US07778419B2
Countermeasures for differential power or electromagnetic analysis attacks are provided with the definition and use of key encryption masks and masked substitution tables in a cryptographic process. Different key encryption masks and masked substitution tables are applied to different portions of masked keys used in the cryptographic process and are rotated as the cryptographic operations are carried out. The rotation of the key encryption masks and the masked substitution tables is non-uniform. Input and output masking for the substitution tables is provided.
US07778416B2
A printing job containing printing data is transmitted to a specified image forming apparatus through a communications medium so that the printing data can be printed by the specified image forming apparatus. The printing data is encrypted in an encrypting method specified for printing the printing job, the information about the destination for the image forming apparatus is obtained, and the information about the destination obtained by the obtaining means is decrypted by the disclosed method, apparatus, and medium.
US07778406B2
A method and system of local call detection and notification are provided for a communication device that communicates with an enterprise system via a secure digital voice connection and locally with the Public Switched telephone system (PSTN) via an analog line. A dialing sequence at said communication device is detected within the enterprise system for which local call routing is to be applied. Call routing is then initiated through the enterprise system and a request message is sent to the communication device that includes the dialing sequence. The request message is received within the communication device, which in response determines availability of the analog line. In the event an analog line is available the communication device sends a response message to the enterprise system for aborting call routing through the enterprise system, and locally dials said the sequence over the analog line. In the event an analog line is not available call routing continues through the enterprise system.
US07778400B2
An apparatus and method for personalized calling party number determination and identification. The apparatus includes an interface for receiving a calling party number corresponding to a calling party, a memory for storing an alpha tag corresponding to the calling party number, and a processor coupled to the interface. The processor includes instructions to determine a character indicating presence of a character string including a unique identifier portion, a classification portion, and a calling party portion. The processor correlates the alpha tag to the calling party upon matching the calling party portion of the character string to the calling party number stored in the memory. The method of personalized calling party number determination and identification can occur for incoming or outgoing call messages relative to the communications network including the apparatus.
US07778392B1
The invention provides in one aspect methods and apparatus for use with C-arm and other CT systems, e.g., with non-rigid geometries. In such systems, by way of example, calibration can be performed to determine the exact position of the x-ray source and the exact orientation of the detector where each projection measurement is made. Next, a weighting coefficient can be determined for the voxels in each plane of a reconstruction volume at every possible projection. Finally, the order in which to process the voxels during image reconstruction can be determined. Following an actual CT scan procedure in which scans are obtained of a volume to be constructed, a system according to these and related aspects of the invention can use an optimal, pre-calculated processing method, while utilizing offsets and weighting coefficients determined during calibration, for performing backprojection image reconstruction.
US07778388B2
A tomographic image generation apparatus for generating tomographic images appropriate for diagnosis from radiation images obtained by tomosynthesis imaging. Tomographic images of a subject are generated with a first slice interval by reconstructing a plurality of radiation images obtained by the tomosynthesis imaging. A region of interest is detected from the tomographic images generated with the first slice interval. Tomographic images are generated with a second slice interval, which is smaller than the first slice interval, adjacent to the slice position of a tomographic image from which a region of interest is detected.
US07778387B2
The invention relates to a method and a system for the reconstruction of an object function (f(x)) based on projections acquired during the motion of a radiation source on a helical trajectory (17). The method is particularly suited for an n-PI+ acquisition which by definition completely comprises an n-PI and additionally some overscan data from the (n+2)-PI window. According to the method, two sets (Σ≦m, Σ>m) of filtered projections are generated from the measuring values and separately back-projected to yield two absorption functions. The first absorption function (flf(x)) is based on contributions of Radon-planes with at most m intersections with the source trajectory (17), while the second absorption function (fhf(x)) is based on Radon-planes with more than m intersections with the source trajectory (17). The two absorption functions are added to yield the final absorption function (f(x)) of an object in the examination zone. In an approximative version of the method, the sets (Σ≦m, Σ>m) of filtered projections are first added and then back-projected.
US07778379B2
A shift register apparatus is provided. The pull-down unit of each of the shift registers in the shift register apparatus is controlled by itself, previous, and next two shift registers to enhance the ability of pull-down and voltage regulating. Therefore, the circuit structure of each of the shift registers does not need to be designed a large compensation capacitor therein to substantially restrain the coupling noise effect caused by the clock signal, and thus permitting that each of the shift registers can be collocated with a small compensation capacitor to enhance the output capability thereof.
US07778372B2
Provided is a data delivery system including a transmitter which transmits data stream via a network, and a receiver which receives the data stream and stores it into a reception buffer thereof, and decodes the stored data stream. The network has predetermined therein a necessary amount of data stored in the reception buffer for decoding the received data stream continuously irrespectively of a variation of a time taken for data transfer from the transmitter to the receiver. The receiver starts, after reception of the latter and before the data has been stored up to the predetermined necessary stored amount, decoding of the data stream at a rate lower than assumed at the time of data encoding at the transmitter. When the data has been stored into the reception buffer up to the predetermined necessary stored amount, the receiver changes the decoding data to the assumed rate for decoding further data.
US07778362B2
A method and device for OFDM transmission, the method includes: (i) defining a channel estimation sequence that is characterized by a low peak to average ratio at a significant guard to information power ratio; and (ii) transmitting the channel estimation sequence over multiple over multiple sub-carriers. A method and device for OFDM transmission, the method includes: (i) providing a channel estimation sequence that is characterized by a low peak to average ratio over a significant range of guard to information power ratio; and (ii) transmitting the channel estimation sequence over multiple sub-carriers.
US07778360B2
A system operable to demodulate a PSK-ASK encoded signal encoded according to ASK modulation and PSK modulation includes one or more inversion modulators. An inversion modulator receives an ASK-decoded signal generated according to a first signal split from the PSK-ASK encoded signal. The inversion modulator includes an inverter and an amplitude modulator. The inverter inverts the ASK-decoded signal to yield an inverted ASK-decoded signal, and the amplitude modulator modulates a second signal split from the PSK-ASK encoded signal according to the inverted ASK-decoded signal prior to PSK demodulation.
US07778354B2
A communicating apparatus includes: a local signal generator, an orthogonal modulator, an orthogonal demodulator, and two orthogonal error compensators. The local signal generator generates a first local signal and a second local signal. The orthogonal modulator modulates an input signal into a modulation signal by using the first local signal. The orthogonal demodulator demodulates the modulation signal into a demodulation signal by using the second local signal. Each of the two orthogonal error compensators corrects orthogonal modulation error generated in the orthogonal modulator and an orthogonal demodulation error generated in the orthogonal demodulator respectively. Set values to be set to the orthogonal error compensators are calculated based on (1) a phase difference between the first local signal and the second local signal, (2) the input signal and (3) the demodulation signal.
US07778351B2
A CMOS receiver system having a tunable receiver having a tunable gain and a bandwidth system is provided. The tunable receiver includes means for receiving input signals; and a control circuit controlled by a control signal for tuning at least one of the gain and the bandwidth of the tunable receiver, wherein the control signal is indicative of a data rate of the input signals. Furthermore, a method is provided for tuning a CMOS receiver receiving input signals. The method includes the steps of receiving at least one control signal, and controlling one of gain and bandwidth of the CMOS receiver in accordance with the at least one control signal, wherein the at least one control signal is indicative of a data rate of the received input signals.
US07778342B2
Communication in a MIMO network is optimized by selecting a first set of users comprising at least one user, selecting a second set of users not comprised in the first set, adapting communication parameters for the first set of users according to a first principle suitable, e.g. SVD, adapting communication parameters for the second set of users according to a second principle, e.g. opportunistic MIMO, and transmitting to the first set of user terminals according to the first communication parameters and to the second set of user terminals according to the second communication parameters. In this way, communication with one or a few users can be optimized while network resources can be used in an efficient way also for other users.
US07778339B2
A method of transmitting a plurality of sub-carriers in a plurality of OFDM signals. During a given transmission time, an OFDM signal transmits a plurality of sub-carriers which act as synchronizing pilot symbols. The transmission of the pilot sub-carriers in a given OFDM signal at a given time are coordinated as not to interfere with sub-carriers transmitted by other OFDM signals. The OFDM signals are transmitted in the same frequency band from a plurality of antennas.
US07778320B2
A system includes a time-interleaved device. An equalizer effectively can apply different equalization to different interleaved channels. For convenience, these equalizers will be referred to as multi-channel equalizers. In one aspect, an apparatus includes an interleaved device having M interleaved channels, and a multi-channel equalizer coupled to the interleaved device. The multi-channel equalizer is capable of applying a different equalization to different interleaved channels, thus compensating for channel-dependent impairments.
US07778317B2
A method for detecting inductive elements in a communication line, including the processes of: inputting a detecting signal to an end of the communication line; sampling the time domain voltage vector of one end of the communication line; generating the amplitude-frequency characteristic curve of the differential input impedance of one end of the communication line according to the time domain voltage vector; determining the number of the inductive elements in the communication line according to the number of the apexes or zeros on the curve. The present invention also discloses a device for detecting inductive elements in a communication line. By the present invention, the automatic detections of the number of inductive elements such as load coils or phone splitters in the communication line are implemented with the exact detection and the high efficiency, thereby lowering the cost of detecting failures of communication line.
US07778316B2
A system and method of detecting the location and magnitude of multi-path echoes in a channel impulse response by going through the channel impulse magnitude response only once and detecting all the multi-path echoes, both location and magnitude, according to certain threshold criteria. The impulse magnitude response samples are processed on-the-fly (on demand) and do not require the storage of the entire channel impulse magnitude response which makes it ideal for ASIC implementation.
US07778315B2
A method of measuring instantaneous signal-dependent nonlinear distortion in a system under test in response to a test signal having a varying frequency sinusoidal component, such as a swept frequency signal or a multi-burst signal, uses a time window to locate a frequency of interest in the corresponding varying frequency component of a signal output from the system under test. Once the location of the frequency of interest is located in the output signal, a spectrum of the portion of the output signal within the time window is generated and the magnitudes of the spectral peaks, including the spectral peak for the frequency of interest or nominal frequency and all isolated peaks representing distortion frequencies, are measured. The amount of distortion is calculated as a ratio of the square-root of the sum of the magnitudes of the distortion frequencies to the magnitude of the nominal frequency.
US07778309B2
An apparatus and method for canceling an interference signal in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A receiver of a wireless communication system includes at least two receive antennas for receiving a target signal of a serving base station and interference signals of at least one neighbor base station; a channel estimator for estimating channels of the signals received through the receive antennas; and a detector for detecting the target signal using channel estimation values of the received signals. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce error propagation caused by the incorrect estimation and detection of the interference signal. In addition, time delay for detecting/restoring/removing the interference signal does not occur. Moreover, the increase of additional buffers can be prevented. Consequently, the increase of hardware complexity can be prevented.
US07778298B2
An object of the invention is to achieve a high output gain waveguide semiconductor laser device exhibiting high reliability by suppressing growth of <100>DLD. A semiconductor laser device includes a semiconductor laser structure of a gain waveguide formed on a semiconductor substrate in which two grooves extending in an oscillation direction thereof are formed, wherein a current injection stripe is arranged between the two grooves. Preferably, a quantum well constituting an active layer of the semiconductor laser device is composed of GaAs.
US07778284B2
The invention relates to a method and a packet switch for synchronising port controllers (1) with cross-connection means (40). By switching cross-connection means from loopback configurations (41a, 43a) to no-transmission configurations, consecutively an offset counter (32) in a port controller (1) may be altered until transmission of cells is synchronised, so as cells are switched within said cross-connection means (40) within transmission periods.
US07778281B2
A wireless communication apparatus is provided which is capable of performing synchronous transmission of a stream such as a video signal and therefore performing high-quality video transmission. The sending side generates time information based on a count of a beacon timer, adds the time information to a data packet of a video signal and sends the data packet. The receiving side, using PLL based on a timer count contained in a beacon, generates a clock having a higher frequency every time a beacon signal is received. The receiving side counts the clocks and accordingly generates new time information. This time information is compared with the time information added to the received data packet of the video signal, and the data packet is outputted only when the two match with each other.
US07778277B2
A timing recovery method includes receiving a plurality of data packets via a transmission channel, wherein at least a data packet is attached with a timestamp generated according to a channel clock of the transmission channel at a source end; calculating a compensation value according to the timestamp and a channel timer value upon receipt of the data packet, wherein the channel timer value is generated by the channel clock of the transmission channel at a destination end; and utilizing the calculated compensation value to adjust processing timing of the received data packets.
US07778274B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for addressing compatibility in a session protocol environment is provided that includes a communications platform operable to communicate with a first endpoint and a second endpoint and to recognize signaling capabilities of the first and second endpoints. The apparatus also includes a media termination point (MTP) operable to communicate with the endpoints and the communications platform, the media termination point being provisioned by the communications platform in a stream that involves the first and second endpoints if a signaling compatibility issue is present amongst the endpoints. If an out-of-band digit from the first endpoint is received by the communications platform, the out-of-band digit is sent to the MTP, which is operable to inject a digit associated with the second protocol into the communication session such that a mapping occurs between the digits for the first and second protocols.
US07778269B2
Methods and devices are provided to aid in the control of a channel used in communicating data packets between a first communication device and a communication device with which the first communication device is communicating. For an open session occurring on the channel, the channel can be in an active state or a dormant state. Controlling when the channel is brought down to the dormant state can help improve operating conditions such as battery life of a communication device. Time-out parameters associated with the communication device, each open session and packets being sent and received on the channel are used in determining when the channel is brought up to the active state or brought down to the dormant state.
US07778266B2
A first switch flashes an FDB upon receiving an FDB flash frame and then floods a multicast group join query message (QRY1). A terminal sends a group join message (RP1) back to the first switch. A second switch, a third switch and the first switch receive RP1 and perform IGMP/MLD snooping, respectively.
US07778265B2
A method (300) and apparatus (200) for local adaptive provisioning at a node is disclosed. The method may include determining (320) a per packet latency for a class of packet network traffic in a queue of a plurality of queues for a plurality of classes of packet network traffic at a node, establishing (330) a reward function for the class of packet network traffic based on a packet latency limit, based on the per packet latency, and based on a source rate for the class of packet network traffic, and adjusting (340) provisioning of a queue at the node based on the reward function.
US07778264B2
A method of setting a timer value and a counter value depending on Radio Signal Strength (RSS) information according to a communication protocol is provided. In the method of determining the counter value and the timer value of a Mobile Station (MS) in a protocol negotiation process includes measuring a Round Trip Delay (RTD) and an RSS with respect to a counterpart MS, determining a timer value and a counter value according to the measured RTD and RSS, and exchanging a signaling message according to the determined timer value and counter value.
US07778261B2
A first device uses a PSTN to send its public IP address to a second device to setup point-to-point communication over the Internet. The first device calls the second device over the PSTN. In one embodiment, the second device answers the call and the first device transmits its public IP address over the connected call to the second device. In another embodiment, the second device does not answer and the PSTN transmits the public IP address as signals in several intervals between telephone rings to the second device. The second device then sends a connection request to the first device over the Internet using the IP address. Once the connection over the Internet has been established, the first and the second devices point-to-point exchange data packets carrying text, voice, video, or data communications between their users.
US07778249B2
A system is provided for controlling the transmission of best-effort filed data or programs on channels from one of plural controllers to one or more client nodes. A program is a group of files and has program information indicating to a client node how to use the files of the program. A channel is a virtual path, wherein a client node can receive program files from different channels in a separable fashion. Channels also have channel information. Multiple controllers are provided which self configure in rank order to control the scheduled transmission of programs files on channels. Client nodes receive announcements of programs and channels from the controllers and selectively subscribe to the channels and programs. Client nodes can be instructed to positively acknowledge receipt of programs and also send back negative acknowledgements for ranges of data words in program files not received. The negative acknowledgements can be consolidated to reduce the number of packets on the network. The format of packets carrying program files and acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement messages are specified.
US07778245B2
A method of adjusting fields of a datagram in the handling of the datagram in a network device is disclosed. The method includes receiving a datagram, with the datagram having at least module identifier fields and port identifier fields, at a port of a network device, determining whether the received datagram is a unicast datagram, adjusting the module and port identifier fields of the datagram based on data registers in the network device when the received datagram is a unicast datagram and forwarding the datagram based on the module and port identifier fields of the datagram. The port of the network device is connected to a legacy device, where the legacy device has a reduced handling capacity when compared to the network device.
US07778240B1
Network resources for a call between a calling party and a called party are allocated. The network resources for the call are reserved based on a reservation request. The network resources are reserved before any one network resource from the reserved network resources is committed. The reserved network resources for the call are committed when a called party indicates acceptance for the call.
US07778239B2
A communication apparatus operates to realize multiple communication functions in accordance with multiple client applications. The multiple functions include a step of causing the communication apparatus to function as a client that obtains data from an external server device through the networks and processes the obtained data or to process other data the communication apparatus stores and to transmit the processed data to the external server device, multiple communication interfaces respectively connected to the networks, an interface priority storage storing priority information representing priorities, in usage, of the multiple communication interfaces when each of the multiple client applications is executed for each of the multiple client applications, a communication interface determining system determines a communication interface to be used in accordance with the priority information retrieved from the interface priority storage. The client application is executed using the communication interface determined to be used by the communication interface determining system.
US07778233B2
Disclosed herein is a time synchronizing apparatus for a mobile WiMAX analyzer. The time synchronizing apparatus includes a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and a synchronization control unit. The GPS receiver outputs a GPS signal that is synchronized with the GPS time using information received from a GPS satellite. The synchronization control unit compares the GPS signal and a reference signal, which is generated using an internal clock, and controls synchronization according to the result of the comparison. The synchronization control unit includes an oscillator, a divider, an offset comparison unit and a processor. The oscillator outputs an oscillation signal having a predetermined frequency. The divider divides the oscillation signal into the reference signal. The offset comparison unit compares the differences between the GPS signal and the reference signal, and outputs the result value of the comparison. The processor controls the oscillation frequency of the oscillator until the result value satisfies a predetermined reference value.
US07778229B2
Methods and apparatus for initiating the release of an IP address allocated for use by a Mobile Node supporting Mobile IP are disclosed. The IP address may be a collocated care-of address or a dynamically assigned home address. The release of the IP address may be initiated by the Home Agent based upon information it has received in a registration request or, alternatively, may be initiated by the Home Agent in response to a de-registration request. In this manner, a Home Agent may initiate the release of an IP address that is no longer in use by a Mobile Node.
US07778228B2
A network communication system includes a wireless independent secure local area network design (ISLAND) LAN-to-LAN tunnel terminal that provides a communications link to an access point of a primary network. A network control center, connected to the primary network, continuously monitors the wireless ISLAND LAN-to-LAN tunnel terminal and an alarm is set off when an outage occurs—such as caused by the wireless ISLAND being powered down. The wireless ISLAND may be enclosed in a hardened, portable case subject to security procedures. A method for establishing a secure communications link using a wireless ISLAND LAN-to-LAN tunnel terminal may include providing requirements that consider the wireless ISLAND to be a component of network infrastructure and not an end user client device, providing controls for physical access to the wireless ISLAND, and providing procedures for ensuring the security of the wireless ISLAND and the communications link that it provides.
US07778223B2
Whether the reception electric field level of the antenna #1 is higher than the predetermined level is judged. If the reception electric field level of the antenna #1 is not higher than the predetermined level, the communication mode is to be set to the multi-slot mode, and then whether the reception electric field level of the antenna #1 is higher is judged by comparison of the reception electric field level of the antenna #1 and the reception electric field level of the antenna #2. If the reception electric field level of the antenna #1 is higher, the call mode is to be set to the antenna #1 for executing transmission and reception, or if the reception electric field level of the antenna #1 is not higher, the communication mode is to be set to the antenna #2 for executing transmission and reception.
US07778219B2
Directional transmission and reception in mobile wireless ad hoc networks may include a number of nodes, in which there is at least a first node and a second node. Each node is associated with a time multiplex frame structure having multiple sub-frames. The sub-frames includes at least a first sub-frame, a second sub-frame, and a third sub-frame. Each of the sub-frames includes multiple time slots. The network further includes one or more directional antennas associated with each of the nodes. The first node of the network is configured to establish communication with the second node within one or more time slots corresponding to the first sub-frame in the time multiplex structure. The first node is also configured to reserve one or more time slots for data transmission with the second node within one or more time slots corresponding to the second sub-frame in the time multiplex structure. The first node is further configured to transmit data to the second node based on the one or more reserved time slots corresponding to the third sub-frame in the time multiplex structure. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding techniques, apparatus, and computer program products.
US07778217B2
An uplink scheduling system and method in a wireless broadband internet communication system includes calculating priorities of mobile stations (MSs) taking into account headroom size indicating transmission power additionally available for each of the MSs; and determining a transmission format of an MS selected to be preferentially allocated a slot as a result of the priority calculation, taking into account headroom size reported by the selected MS and a margin determined depending on a variation in channel state between the selected MS and a base station (BS).
US07778214B2
A relay apparatus for relaying a packet in radio communication by a wireless terminal in a communication area includes a packet monitoring part for obtaining data on a bandwidth to be used in the radio communication by the wireless terminal from a packet to be relayed, a bandwidth managing part for calculating and recording a total bandwidth in use used for the radio communication by the wireless terminal from the obtained data on a bandwidth, a retransmission adjusting part for determining an upper limit of a packet retransmission number, in accordance with an amount of an available bandwidth obtained by excluding a total bandwidth in use from a maximum bandwidth, and a retransmitting part for retransmitting a packet in a range not exceeding the upper limit of the packet retransmission number. Consequently, the relay apparatus enables retransmission appropriately adaptable to a use situation of a bandwidth by wireless communication of a wireless terminal in a communication area.
US07778213B2
There is provided a method for selectively communicating from a remote system to a subset of a plurality of vehicles. Each of the vehicles is equipped with a first wireless communications device and a second wireless communication device. The method comprises broadcasting a common message from the remote system to the vehicles via the first wireless communication device. A subset of the plurality of vehicles is selected based upon the common message. A communications link is established between the remote system and the second wireless communication device of each of the selected subset of vehicles to transmit formatted electronic data therebetween.
US07778210B2
Bridge circuit for echo suppression for a reception signal of a communication device connected to a transmission line, to which can be supplied a reception signal received via the transmission line and a transmission signal to be transmitted by the communication device via the transmission line. The bridge circuit is designed such that on balancing the bridge circuit, the reception signal there can be tapped echo-compensated with a transmission signal part generated by the transmission signal being suppressed. To balance the bridge circuit a variable simulation device is provided to simulate at least one circuit section of at least one bridge branch and connect with the at least one bridge branch. By such an arrangement, the signal level in the simulation device may be reduced so far that this can be designed as an integrated circuit and to be programmable.
US07778208B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication system applicable to a time-division duplex transceiver system. The time-division duplex mobile communication system can achieve miniaturization, low power consumption and low costs by using a frequency conversion circuit including a mixer and an intermediate frequency (IF) circuit for both transmitter and receiver, and also can cope with multi-band, multi-application systems by using a broadband amplifier, a variable IF filter and a variable gain amplifier.
US07778206B2
A method for providing a conference service using speaker selection includes hosting a conference between a plurality of endpoints and receiving from the plurality of endpoints a plurality of media streams. The plurality of media streams each include a power indicator. The method includes normalizing the power indicators to determine a normalized power indicator for each of the plurality of media streams and selecting, based on the normalized power indicators of the plurality of media streams, a first number of the plurality of media streams for processing into a conference stream. The method also includes processing the selected first number of the plurality of media streams into the conference stream and communicating the conference stream to at least some of the plurality of endpoints.
US07778205B2
Various systems and methods for implementing virtual ports within ring networks are disclosed. For example, one method involves allocating a logical port that corresponds to a first port and a second port and instantiating a spanning tree protocol instance. The first port and the second port are both assigned to a first ring network. The spanning tree protocol instance selectively blocks the logical port; however, the spanning tree protocol instance is unable to block the first port independently of blocking the second port. Events (e.g., link failures and recoveries) that occur within the ring network are communicated to spanning tree by transitioning the state of the logical port in response to receiving a ring protocol control packet. The spanning tree protocol instance initiates a bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) exchange from the logical port in response to a transition in the state of the logical port.
US07778195B2
A network includes Internet protocol (IP) terminals for establishing communication using an initiation protocol used in connection-oriented communication in which connection to a destination is confirmed over an IP network for the communication; and a server apparatus constituting the network along with the IP terminals. The server apparatus includes a detecting unit for detecting a speech quality between the IP terminals; a calculating unit for calculating an optimal speech quality based on the detected speech quality information; and a notifying unit for notifying the IP terminals establishing communication of the calculated optimal speech quality. The IP terminals establish communication with the speech quality being set to the optimal speech quality, which the server apparatus notifies to the IP terminals.
US07778191B2
A system and methods for reducing detection time of path failures in a communications network is disclosed. Computing devices are organized into at least three groups based on their connectivity. The computing devices are assigned three identification values based on their group assignments. The identification values for each computing device are stored in a router connected to the communications network. Heartbeat packets are sent from the computing devices to the router on a periodic basis. If the router fails to receive a heartbeat packet from a particular computing device, a communication path from the router to the computing device is determined based on the three identification values.
US07778189B2
Methods and systems for maintaining a connection between a first node and a second node communicating via a connection within a communication network. Data is communicated between the nodes on the basis of addresses assigned to the respective nodes. The addresses are managed by an address management node of the communication network. The system includes a detector unit, at the first node, configured to detect an outage of the existing connection between the nodes, a consulting unit, at the first node, configured to consult after detecting the outage of the connection, the address management node to verify the address assigned to the second node, a transceiver unit, at the address management node, configured to return a current address assigned to the second node, and a connection re-establisher unit, at the first node, configured to re-establish the connection based on the current address assigned to the second node.
US07778188B2
A networking system is provided. The networking system may include a network diagnostic component. The network diagnostic component may perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions. The network diagnostic component may include a diagnostic module. The network diagnostic component may also include at least one transceiver. The transceiver may receive a signal from a first node. The signal may form one or more network messages, for example. The transceiver may send the signal to a second node. The transceiver may send the signal to the diagnostic module, which may alter the signal. For example, the diagnostic module may digitally retime the signal, may alter the content of the messages themselves, and/or may alter the signal in other suitable ways. The transceiver may send the altered signal to the second node.
US07778187B2
An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method provides for dynamic stability.
US07778181B2
The invention describes a method for transmitting data packets by a router, whereby the ports of the router are assigned to affinity values. The data packets also comprise affinity values. Depending on a match of the affinity values of the data packets and the affinity values of the ports, the router forwards the data packets to selected ports. Furthermore, the data of the payload of the data packets are attenuated depending on the affinity value that is used for selecting the port.
US07778177B2
An apparatus and method of variable bandwidth multi-codec quality of service (QoS) control are provided. The apparatus for controlling the QoS of a variable bandwidth multi-codec includes: a network state detection unit detecting a network state including at least one of a packet loss ratio, a packet loss interval, and a packet delay time based on an RTP packet transmitted to and received from a destination for which a call connection is established; and a codec control unit updating a transmission rate by comparing the detected resultant value with an already set reference value and increasing or decreasing the transmission rate, and controlling the variable bandwidth multi-codec to code data with the updated transmission rate. According to the apparatus and method, data can be coded with a codec transmission rate suitable for a network state identified during a voice call after the call is set up.
US07778158B2
Apparatus and method providing improved fault tolerance through redundancy of hardware and software suitable for use in a head-end of an interactive information distribution system. Communications between each of a head-end controllers and each of the server modules are coincidentally sent along at least two signal paths to provide to additional fault tolerance in the event one of the signal paths becomes inoperable. In one embodiment, a video switch comprises a plurality of I/O ports coupled between a plurality of server modules and a plurality of subscriber equipment for transferring video information between the server and the subscriber equipment. A primary and secondary switch controller are each coupled to the head-end controllers and the plurality of I/O ports. The primary switch controller is used for routing data packets containing said video information between the plurality of I/O ports. The secondary switch controller monitors status of the primary switch controller and I/O ports, and initiates a switchover event in an instance where the primary switch controller exhibits a failure.
US07778153B2
There is provided a receiver for processing a ranging channel. The receiver includes a Fourier transformer for transforming a received signal into a frequency domain signal, a ranging channel extraction and ranging code elimination unit for extracting a ranging channel from the frequency domain signal, and eliminating a code of a ranging code from the ranging channel and a ranging channel processor for estimating transmission delay or transmission power from a time domain signal. By estimating transmission delay and/or transmission power in a time domain, it is possible to rapidly and accurately adjust the transmission delay and transmission power intensity in the ranging procedure.
US07778134B2
A waveform equalization control device includes a waveform equalizer that has a filter provided with a plurality of taps, updates the tap coefficient of each of the plurality of taps in accordance with a tap coefficient signal inputted thereto, causes the plurality of taps to respectively receive a plurality of values sampled at different time points from an input signal, performs waveform equalization with respect to the input signal, and outputs the signal after the waveform equalization, an equalization target value generation unit for determining an equalization target value, an error estimation unit for obtaining the error between the equalization target value and the signal after the waveform equalization, and a coefficient update unit for determining an amount of updating the coefficient of each of the taps of the filter of the waveform equalizer based on the error signal and on the input value to each of the taps and outputting the amount of updating the tap coefficient as the tap coefficient signal. The equalization target value generation unit obtains sign signals each showing whether the signal after the waveform equalization has a positive value or a negative value for first to fifth time points and determines a value corresponding to a total sum which is a sum of respective results of multiplying the sign signals for the first to fifth time points by θ, β, α, β, and θ (where each of α, β, and θ is a predetermined real number) as the equalization target value.
US07778126B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a light source for use with an optical disc having optimum power values for different stages in a writing signal for the optical disc, includes comparing current operational characteristics of the light source to previous operational characteristics, and, when the current operational characteristics differ from the previous operational characteristics and a stage in the writing signal has overlapping power, determining a compensation voltage based on the current operational characteristics and an optimum power value for that stage.
US07778125B2
A system for generating an output signal indicating a specific area on an optical disc is disclosed. The system includes: a detecting circuit, a header signal generator, a protection circuit, a counter and an output signal generator. The detecting circuit detects pre-recorded address information on the optical disc to generate a detection signal. The header signal generator detects headers on the optical disc to generate a header signal. The protection circuit computes a first counter value and reloads the first counter value according to the detection signal and the header signal, wherein the protection circuit does not reload the first counter value twice successively due to the header signal. The counter computes a second counter value and reloads the second counter value according to the first counter value. The output signal generator generates the output signal according to the first counter value.
US07778124B2
Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, fluid-mediated modification of information or access to information is utilized. According to various embodiments, data storage devices designed for rotating access are described which include rotation-activated fluid control mechanisms.
US07778114B2
A housing for a seismic sensing element (3) for use on the earth's surface comprises connecting means (5) for connecting the housing (3) to a support cable (2) so as to allow relative movement between the sensor housing (3) and the cable (2). This de-couples the sensor housing from the support cable, and improves the fidelity of the sensor.The connecting means (5) preferably comprises resilient connecting elements, to prevent the transmission of vibrations between the support cable and the sensor housing.The sensor housing (3) preferably has a flat base (1), so that there is good coupling between the sensor housing and the earth. Alternatively, the sensor housing can be fitted with a base member ((24a, 24b, 24c) that has at least one flat face (26, 26a, 26b, 26c).
US07778100B2
An internal voltage generation circuit of a semiconductor memory device controls a dead zone voltage, in which the driving unit that supplies a power supply voltage, does not need to operate. An internal voltage having a dead zone is determined by first and second driving signals based on a level of a reference voltage, and by selectively supplying first and second voltages by means of the first and second driving signals.
US07778095B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a delay locked loop (DLL) unit configured to generate a plurality of DLL clocks, each having a different phase according to delay values predefined by a DLL operation; a data output buffering unit configured to output data in response to the DLL clocks; and a skew compensating unit disposed between the DLL unit and the data output buffering unit to remove a clock skew occurring when the DLL clocks are transferred to the data output buffering unit.
US07778092B2
A processor-based system includes a processor coupled to core logic through a processor bus. This includes a dynamic random access memory (“DRAM”) memory buffer controller. The DRAM memory buffer controller is coupled through a memory bus to a plurality of a dynamic random access memory (“DRAM”) modules and a flash memory module, which are at the same hierarchical level from the processor. Each of the DRAM modules includes a memory buffer to the memory bus and to a plurality of dynamic random access memory devices. The flash memory module includes a flash memory buffer coupled to the memory bus and to at least one flash memory device. The flash memory buffer includes a DRAM-to-flash memory converter operable to convert the DRAM memory requests to flash memory requests, which are then applied to the flash memory device.
US07778088B2
A hot hole erase operation as described herein can be utilized for a flash memory device having an array of memory cells. The erase operation employs an adaptive erase bias voltage scheme where the drain bias voltage (and/or the gate bias voltage) is dynamically adjusted in response to an erase pulse count corresponding to a preliminary erase operation during which a relatively small portion of a sector is erased. The adjustment of the erase bias voltage in this manner enables the rest of the sector to be erased using erase bias voltages that are better suited to the current erase characteristics of the sector.
US07778087B2
A memory programming method is provided. A first programming operation is performed to program a multi level cell from an initial state to a first target state, which corresponds to a storage data and has a first threshold voltage range. A flag bit of the NAND flash is set to a first state to indicate that the first programming operation has been performed. A second programming operation is performed to program the multi level cell from the first target state to a second target state, which corresponds to the storage data and has a second threshold voltage range. The flag bit is set to a second state to indicate that the second programming operation has been performed.
US07778082B2
Provided are a non-volatile memory device and a programming method. The programming method includes applying a program voltage to a selected word line, applying an elevated pass voltage to word lines adjacent to the selected word line in a plurality of word lines, and applying a pass voltage to remaining word lines in the plurality of word lines.
US07778079B2
In a memory device and in a method of programming the same, a memory device comprises: a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell comprising a resistance-changeable material that has an initial resistance that is determined in response to an applied programming current in a programming operation; and a modification circuit that modifies the resistance of the memory cell following a programming operation of the memory cell to vary the resistance of the memory cell from the initial resistance to a second resistance by applying a saturation current in a saturation operation. Each memory cell is connected to a conduction line of the memory device that is used to apply the programming current to program the resistance of the corresponding memory cell in the programming operation, that is used to apply the saturation current to the corresponding memory cell in the saturation operation and that is used to apply a read current to read the resistance of the corresponding memory cell in a subsequent read operation.
US07778075B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell having a circuit configuration in which a potential supplied to sources of load transistors 108 and 111 included in a latch section is different from at least one of a potential supplied to a word line 105 and a potential supplied to bit lines 106 and 107; a latch potential control circuit 101 for switching a normal operation mode and a test mode to each other in accordance with a signal applied to a test mode setting pin 102; and a read/write control circuit 103 for controlling the potential supplied to the sources of the load transistors 108 and 111 to be lower than at least one of the potential supplied to the word line 105 and the potential supplied to the bit lines 106 and 107, during an arbitrary period of at least a read operation in the test mode.
US07778067B2
Provided is a magnetic memory device that uses a current induced switching (CID) method. The magnetic memory device that uses a CID method includes a lower electrode, a magnetic resistance structure that is formed on the lower electrode which comprises a free layer whose widths of two sides are varied, and an upper electrode formed on the magnetic resistance structure.
US07778062B2
A resistance change memory device including: a semiconductor substrate; at least one cell array formed above the semiconductor substrate, each memory cell having a stack structure of a variable resistance element and an access element, the access element having such an off-state resistance value in a certain voltage range that is ten times or more as high as that in a select state; and a read/write circuit formed on the semiconductor substrate as underlying the cell array for data reading and writing, wherein the variable resistance element comprises a recording layer composed of a composite compound containing at least two types of cation elements, at least one type of the cation element being a transition element having “d” orbit, in which electrons are incompletely filled, the shortest distance between adjacent cation elements being 0.32 nm or less.
US07778061B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to crossbar-memory systems to methods for writing information to and reading information stored in such systems. In one embodiment of the present invention, a crossbar-memory system comprises a first layer of microscale signal lines, a second layer of microscale signal lines, a first layer of nanowires configured so that each first layer nanowire overlaps each first layer microscale signal line, and a second layer of nanowires configured so that each second layer nanowire overlaps each second layer microscale signal line and overlaps each first layer nanowire. The crossbar-memory system includes nonlinear-tunneling resistors configured to selectively connect first layer nanowires to first layer microscale signal lines and to selectively connect second layer nanowires to second layer microscale signal lines. The crossbar-memory system also includes nonlinear tunneling-hysteretic resistors configured to connect each first layer nanowire to each second layer nanowire at each crossbar intersection.
US07778047B2
Primary and secondary regions are electrically insulated from each other. The first and second pulse transformers are provided to the respective transistors in the switching circuit. Secondary windings of the first and second pulse transformers are connected to control terminals of the transistors. The control circuit supplies switching voltages to primary windings of the pulse transformers based on a feedback signal fed back through a feedback line. A primary winding of a transformer, the switching circuit, and the secondary windings are disposed on the primary region. A secondary winding of the transformer, the primary windings, the feedback line, and the control circuit are disposed on the secondary region.
US07778045B2
Methods and systems for transforming electric power between two or more portals. Any or all portals can be DC, single phase AC, or multi-phase AC. Conversion is accomplished by a plurality of bi-directional conducting and blocking semiconductor switches which alternately connect an inductor and parallel capacitor between said portals, such that energy is transferred into the inductor from one or more input portals and/or phases, then the energy is transferred out of the inductor to one or more output portals and/or phases, with said parallel capacitor facilitating “soft” turn-off, and with any excess inductor energy being returned back to the input. Soft turn-on and reverse recovery is also facilitated. Said bi-directional switches allow for two power transfers per inductor/capacitor cycle, thereby maximizing inductor/capacitor utilization as well as providing for optimum converter operation with high input/output voltage ratios. Control means coordinate the switches to accomplish the desired power transfers.
US07778037B2
The present invention discloses a dual interface data storage apparatus, including: a memory module, a first interface and a second interface connected with the memory module, a housing, and a movable carriage for carrying the memory module, the first interface, and the second interface. The housing accommodates the memory module, the first interface and the second interface, and has a first opening at one end and a second opening at the other end for either allowing the first interface or the second interface to pass through the first opening or the second opening.
US07778035B2
A portable electronic apparatus comprises a housing, a circuit board, a heat-conduction structure and a heat-dissipation structure. The circuit board is disposed in the housing and comprises a substrate and a first electronic device, wherein the first electronic device is disposed on the substrate. The heat-conduction structure is disposed on the circuit board, and dissipates heat from the first electronic device. The heat-dissipation structure is disposed on the housing and connected to the heat-conduction structure, wherein the heat passes the heat-conduction structure and the heat-dissipation structure, and is dissipated out of the housing.
US07778034B2
A power amplification device includes a first power amplification unit having the positions of connectors thereof reversed, a second power amplification unit not having the positions of connectors thereof reversed, and a heat sink having a first flank thereof abutted on the heat radiation surface of the first power amplification unit, and having a second flank abutted on the heat radiation surface of the second power amplification unit. A transmitter using the power amplification device includes a plurality of power amplification devices, a distributor directly coupled to the input connectors of the power amplification devices, and a synthesizer directly coupled to the output connectors of the power amplification devices.
US07778031B1
A test slot cooling system for a storage device testing system includes a storage device transporter having first and second portions. The first portion of the storage device transporter includes an air director and the second portion of the storage device transporter is configured to receive a storage device. The test slot cooling system includes a test slot housing defining an air entrance and a transporter opening for receiving the storage device transporter. The air entrance is in pneumatic communication with the air director of the received storage device transporter. The test slot cooling system also includes an air mover in pneumatic communication with the air entrance of the test slot housing for delivering air to the air director. The air director directs air substantially simultaneously over at least top and bottom surfaces of the storage device received in the storage device transporter.
US07778029B2
A system comprises: a plurality of heat-generators; at least one cooler that cools the heat-generators by letting a cooling medium flow; and at least one cooling medium flow regulator that regulates the amount of the flow of said cooling mediums in accordance to the heat of said heat-generators; wherein the heat of said heat-generators is transmitted to said cooling medium flow regulator without recourse to transmitting through said cooling medium or air. The system may be a disk array system.
US07778023B1
Sleeves for different portable electronic devices (portable media players, wireless telephones, handheld computers, etc.) adapt the outer contours of the devices such that all can fit within the pocket of a standard device dock. Each sleeve situates its portable electronic device within the pocket of the dock such that at least one of its power/communications ports is situated at a standard location. The device dock then also accommodates a connector which fits within the dock pocket, and which has power/communications ports situated at the standard location, such that when the sleeved device is inserted into the pocket, its power/communications ports interface with the power/communications ports of the connector. The connector can incorporate data storage devices, power supplies, interface cables extending to other devices (such as personal computers, stereo systems, etc.) such that it lends the functionality of these devices to the sleeved device situated within the pocket.
US07778019B2
A shock-absorbing structure includes a housing including a base and a lateral wall connected to the base, and a fragment component for wedging with the lateral wall. The fragment component includes a first end and a second end. The shock-absorbing structure further includes a supporting component connected to a display panel for pressing the first end of the fragment component, and a frame installed on a side of the display panel for covering the display panel with the housing and for pressing the second end of the fragment component so that the fragment component supports the display panel elastically.
US07778011B2
A chip type solid electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element-laminate. In the capacitor element-laminate, a plurality of capacitor elements, each having an anode portion and a cathode portion, are laminated so that the anode portions of the adjacent capacitor elements are disposed in the direction opposite to each other. Anode lead terminals are joined to the bottom faces of the anode portions of the capacitor elements disposed at both ends of the capacitor element-laminate. A cathode lead terminal is joined to the bottom face of the cathode portion of the capacitor element disposed in the center of the capacitor element-laminate. An Electrically insulating exterior resin coats the capacitor element-laminate so as to expose at least a part of the bottom faces of the anode lead terminals and a part of the cathode lead terminal.
US07778005B2
A capacitive discharge stun-gun uses a flyback output circuit in which a semiconductor switch operates under control of a controller or suitable logic circuitry. The flyback circuit can deliver 50-65 kV pulses to a pair of electrodes in order to ionize air adjacent a target in order to initiate good electrical contact. When the electrodes are in good contact with the target, the flyback circuit delivers current at a lower voltage. In one mode of operation the stun-gun is controlled to initially deliver wider pulses optimized for causing air breakdown and to then deliver a series of shorter pulses in pulse groups optimized for causing involuntary muscle cramping.
US07778000B2
An overcurrent protection arrangement for aircraft to protect an electric element from an overcurrent, the overcurrent protection arrangement including an overcurrent protection device designed for detecting the overcurrent of a current through the electric element to be protected via the overcurrent protection device in such a way that the current through the element to be protected does not exceed an upper current limit.
US07777995B2
A medical electrical equipment power supply is configured to satisfy at least one industry standard for patient leakage current. The power supply is provided with a plurality of electrical sockets into which IV pumps, patient monitors and other equipment may be plugged in. In one embodiment, the power supply has a housing configured to be mounted on an IV pole. An isolation transformer within the housing helps reduce the total patient leakage current to a value that satisfies at least one industry standard for patient leakage current. In another embodiment devoid of an isolation transformer, the power supply's electrical circuit detects whether the patient leakage current exceeds a predetermined value based on the industry standard, and disconnects power to one or more sockets so as to maintain the patient leakage current below this predetermined value.
US07777992B2
Motor start circuit for an induction motor, particularly a single-phase AC induction motor, with a main winding (4) and an auxiliary winding (5), which are supplied with current, particularly alternating current, via current supply connections (24, 25), and with a start switching device (15) serving the purpose of interrupting the current flow through the auxiliary winding (5) after the start of the motor, the start switching device (15) being connected to a control device (20) via a connector (18), the control device (20) being connected between the current supply connections (24, 25), and with a winding protection switch (28), which is normally closed and which opens on the occurrence of a fault. The invention is characterized in that the control device (20) is connected to the winding protection switch (28) via at least one further connector (22, 17), preferably via at least one further connector (22, 17) and the auxiliary winding (5).
US07777986B2
A cartridge library (30) comprises at least one drive (60); a cartridge magazine (52); and, a transport mechanism (54) configured to transport the cartridge between the magazine and the drive. The transport mechanism (54) is configured to transport the cartridge between, e.g., cells of the magazine (52) and/or between the magazine (52) and the drive (60). The transport mechanism (54) comprises a robot (300) and a robot motive system. The robot comprises a robot carriage (308) and a robot tray (302). The robot carriage (308) carries or comprises cartridge engagement elements (310) configured to selectively engage and release the cartridge. The robot tray (302) facilitates linear motion of the robot carriage, the robot carriage being situated on a first side of the robot tray. The robot motive system comprises three robot motive subsystems (312, 360, 450) and a (robot) carriage motive subsystem (380). At least one of the robot motive subsystems and the carriage motive subsystem comprise hardware situated on a second side of the robot tray (302), the hardware extending from the second side of the robot tray in the second direction to an extent not substantially greater than the plank height. Locating the hardware of plural subsystems on the second side of the robot tray and within a volume defined by the robot tray and the plank height facilitate not only a transport mechanism, but also a compact and efficient library.
US07777980B2
Phase-error combination for a multi-channel data detection system with a phase locked loop for each channel, comprises receiving phase error information with respect to each channel; combination logic configured to combine the received phase error information and generate a combined phase error; and a phase-error output configured to apply the combined phase error to at least one channel phase locked loop. Additionally, error signal combination comprises receiving error information of a signal relevant to a phase locked loop with respect to each channel; combination logic configured to combine the received error signal information and generate a combined error signal, weighting the received error signal information from each channel, for example with reliability information. An error compensation output is configured to apply the combined, weighted error signal to at least one channel phase locked loop.
US07777977B2
A flame scanner collimator, which monitors flames produced by a fossil fuel fired combustion chamber, includes: a substantially cylindrical collimator body defining a hollow portion; a first chamber connected to a second chamber, the first and second chambers defining the hollow portion, the second chamber having a larger diameter than the first chamber; and a plurality of slots each extending in substantially a same direction as a longitudinal axis defining the body. Each slot extends through the body to the first and second chambers to allow cooling/purge air flow therethrough.
US07777976B2
An imaging device includes a rectangular image sensor, and an imaging optical system which includes an on-axis lens element and a radially-retractable lens element. The radially-retractable lens element is supported by a free end of a swingable arm pivoted about an axis eccentric from the imaging optical axis. The on-axis lens element is non-circular, defined by a removed portion from a reference circle thereof along a long side of the image sensor. When in the off-axis displaced position, the radially-retractable lens element utilizes the removed portion of the on-axis lens element and the radially-retractable lens element is offset from a plane through the imaging optical axis and parallel to the short sides of the rectangular imaging surface. The swing axis is on the on-axis lens element side, in the long side direction, closer to the optical axis of the radially-retractable lens element in the off-axis displaced position.
US07777959B2
The present invention provides a Micromirror Array Lens (MMAL) with fixed focal length to reproduce a designed surface having optical focusing power. The micro mechanical structures with surface profile shape memory are fabricated and released after fabrication. Each micromirror in the MMAL has its own motion by stiction force and/or electrostatic force while and/or after the releasing process. Once the designed surface is formed, the MMAL has an optical power as a lens.
US07777954B2
Various embodiments of the invention include an interferometric optical modulator comprising a substrate layer and a light direction layer. Such an interferometric modulator may be integrated with a diffuser layer in a display device in a way that physically integrates the diffuser layer into the light direction layer in a way where the diff-user layer does not interact with light propagating within the light direction layer. As a result, most of the light propagating within the light direction layer does not penetrate into the diffuser which would inhibit performance of the display. In some embodiments, the interface between the diffuser layer and the light direction layer has a lower index of refraction than the light direction layer and the transparent substrate so that total internal reflection occurs at the interface.
US07777951B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, a third lens unit having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having positive refractive power. The zoom lens performs zooming by moving each of the lens units. The first lens unit and the third lens unit are positioned closer to the object at a telephoto end than at a wide-angle end. The zoom lens satisfies the following conditions: 0.3<|m1/m2|<1.5 0.3<|m3/m2|<0.8 where m1, m2, and m3 are the amounts of movement of the first lens unit, the second lens unit, and the third lens unit, respectively, along an optical axis during zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end.
US07777938B2
Electrophoretic display unit and display device having the same and method of manufacturing the same
An electrophoretic display unit includes a transparent base film, a transparent electrode disposed on the base film, an electrophoretic display layer disposed on the transparent electrode to display an image in response to an electric field, and an opaque electrophoretic protection layer disposed on the electrophoretic display layer.
US07777931B2
An electro-optic element includes an electro-optic crystal having a birefringent property, and in which a refractive index distribution is generated in accordance with an intensity of an electric field caused inside, a pair of intensity modulating electrodes for applying a voltage for varying the birefringent property of the electro-optic crystal, a pair of scanning electrodes for applying a voltage for varying the refractive index distribution of the electro-optic crystal, and a polarization selection member provided at least on a side of a laser beam emission end face out of a laser beam entrance end face and the laser beam emission end face of the electro-optic crystal, and for selectively transmitting a part with a specific vibration direction out of a light beam emitted from the electro-optic crystal.
US07777928B2
A method of creating very large flat panel displays uses fiber and tubes containing wire electrodes to create the structure in a panel. However, there are several display types, especially those involving an electro-optic material like a liquid crystal, which require the electric field to be spread across the entire surface of the pixel or fiber. A method disclosed herein uses a conductive layer to spread the voltage applied to the wire electrodes in the fiber across the surface of the fiber. The conductive layer may be capacitively or resistively coupled to the wire electrode. In most display applications, a transparent conductive layer is required. The easiest and most cost effective methods to fabricate a transparent conductive layer use a transparent conductive polymer or carbon nanotubes.
US07777926B2
An image processing apparatus for converting inputted image data to image data in accordance with characteristics of an image forming unit, including: a first gradation correction unit which performs a gradation correction processing of the inputted image data in accordance with the characteristics of the image forming unit; a total toner amount control unit which performs a total toner amount control processing of the image data which has undergone at least the gradation correction processing executed by the first gradation correction unit; and a second gradation correction unit which performs a gradation correction processing in accordance with the characteristics of the image forming unit with respect to the image data which has undergone at least the total toner amount control processing executed by the total toner amount control unit.
US07777916B2
A printer is operated under a first set of conditions to create a first set of M number of samples and under a target set of conditions to create a second set of K samples. Each sample is produced using the same colorant(s). The actual spectral reflectance for each sample is measured.In accordance with the present invention the actual spectral reflectances for corresponding samples in the first and second sets are used to create a cross-validated, partial-least-squares transform that maps a reflectance from a sample produced under the first set of conditions to a reflectance from a sample produced under the target set of conditions.The transform and the actual spectral reflectance measured from the M number of samples in the first set are used to produce a set of M number of predicted reflectances, where each predicted reflectance represents a sample producible by the printer under the target set of operating conditions using one of the M colorant(s).Using the set of M predicted reflectances and the M colorant(s) used to produce the samples in the first set, a table predicting a color value producible by the printer on a substrate using a predetermined colorant(s) when the printer is operable under the target set of operating conditions is generated.
US07777913B2
An image reading apparatus includes a plurality of light emitting units, an activation unit, a plurality of light receiving units and a determination unit. The determination unit retrieves at least one output signal from the plurality of light receiving units in accordance with a predetermined retrieving procedure each time each of the plurality of light emitting units is activated, and determines, based on the at least one output signal, whether or not at least one of at least one of the plurality of light emitting units and at least one of the plurality of light receiving units is normal. The predetermined retrieving procedure is configured such that at least one output signal is retrieved from a part of the plurality of light receiving unite in response to an activation of at least one of the plurality of light emitting units.
US07777903B2
In data transmission apparatus, a transmission device transmits data to a destination when a user instructs data transmission. A storage device stores user information to relate destinations to users. The apparatus can communicate with a server having destination information. When the user logs in, automatic retrieval is requested to the server to retrieve a destination related to the user in the user information in the storage device. A result of retrieval executed by the server is received and stored in the storage device.
US07777900B2
A method and system for optically inspecting parts are provided. The method includes the step of supporting a part along a measurement axis. The method includes scanning the part with an array of spaced planes of radiation so that the part occludes each of the planes of radiation at spaced locations along the axis to create a corresponding array of unobstructed planar portions of the planes of radiation. Each of the unobstructed planar portions contains an amount of radiation which is representative of a respective geometric dimension of the part. The method still further includes measuring the amount of radiation present in each of the unobstructed planar portions to obtain measurement signals. The method includes processing the measurement signals to obtain raw data. The method further includes providing calibration data and processing the calibration data and the raw data to obtain measurements of the part.
US07777897B1
A sample surface such as a surface of a wood veneer sheet is illuminated by a dual color light system and electronically scanned with a color line scan camera. The light system provides red and green light fluxes that are incident to a veneer surface from different directions, and corresponding line images associated with the red and green light fluxes are processed by rescaling, linear to log conversion, edge filtering, and/or thresholding to provide binary surface maps associated with veneer surface roughness.
US07777888B1
A system and method for testing telescope optics are disclosed. The telescope optics can be testing in-situ, thus more accurately revealing the as-used optical conditions. The optical conditions are input to a test system which, by objective analysis, reveals a condition of the optics and an indication of the need for corrective action. A test bench for testing optics and for validating the test system using modeled telescope optics is also disclosed.
US07777877B2
The invention provides a high efficiency coupling structure for extracting illumination such as fluorescent radiation from a chemical reaction vessel such as a cuvette. The cuvette is provided with a mirrored surface. An end cap for the cuvette includes a probe portion that exhibits total internal reflection. Lenses are provided in various embodiments that improve the light collection and directing properties of the end cap. A fast optical system for free space coupling of optical radiation emanating from a chemical processing cuvette that uses the end cap as an element is also described.
US07777875B2
Inspection systems, circuits and methods are provided to enhance defect detection by addressing anode saturation as a limiting factor of the measurement detection range of a photomultiplier tube (PMT) detector. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method for inspecting a specimen includes directing light to the specimen and detecting light scattered from the specimen. The step of detecting may include monitoring an anode current of the PMT detector, and detecting features, defects or light scattering properties of the specimen using the anode current until the anode current reaches a predetermined threshold. Thereafter, the method may use a dynode current of the PMT for detecting the features, defects or light scattering properties of the specimen.
US07777861B2
A method, system, and computer program product are provided for printing a pattern on a photosensitive surface using a maskless lithography system including a spatial light modulator (SLM). The method, system, and computer program product define two or more exposure areas within a predetermined region of the surface, each area corresponding to selected pixels of the SLM. An overlap region is formed between the two or more exposure areas, the overlapping region being defined by respective overlapping edges of the exposure areas, the overlapping edges corresponding to overlapping pairs of the selected pixels from each area. The pixels within each pair are alternately activated such that only one of the pixels within the pair is used to produce the pattern.
US07777860B2
An exposure apparatus for a flat panel display device includes: a light source; a stage having a horizontal support surface on which a substrate may be disposed; a mask vertically arranged with respect to the horizontal support surface; a frame surrounding an edge of the mask; and an optical system between the light source and the stage, the optical system controlling a direction of a light from the light source through the mask to irradiate the light onto the stage. The invention also includes a method for exposing including disposing a substrate on the stage, the substrate including a thin film and a photoresist layer on the thin film; and irradiating light from the light source through the mask and via the optical system onto a portion of the photoresist layer on the substrate.
US07777855B2
A thin film transistor substrate and a fabricating method that includes an opening hole that separates a gate shorting line connected to a gate shorting bar used upon a lighting-inspecting of a gate line into an odd and an even gate shorting line is provided.
US07777852B2
In a liquid crystal display unit where a matrix pattern of pixels are defined by gate lines and crosswise data lines, transparent pixel electrodes are formed on the same layer as the data lines and corresponding transparent common electrodes are formed above the transparent pixel electrodes. On the common electrodes the liquid crystal layer is provided. In the aperture of each pixel, the common electrode has a pattern of parallel stripe portions and a peripheral portion outside of the aperture for shielding the field of the corresponding data line. Each pixel electrode cooperates with that parallel stripe portions of the corresponding common electrode to produce inner fringe fields along such parallel stripe portions and has portions that overlap the peripheral portions of the common electrode to produce peripheral fringe fields so that liquid-crystal cells can be uniformly in-plane switched by the inner fringe fields as well as by the peripheral fringe fields.
US07777848B2
In order to improve the state of image irregularities of a liquid crystal panel, a plasma treatment is performed for an alignment film using a treatment gas such as hydrogen and/or deuterium, or a surface treatment is performed in which an alignment film is immersed in deuterium oxide. As a result, moisture contained in the alignment film is removed, and re-adsorption of moisture is also suppressed, thereby reducing image irregularities.
US07777847B2
A liquid crystal display including two alignment substrates, each having, in this order, a substrate, an electrode layer and an alignment layer, with a ferroelectric liquid crystal interposed therebetween. At least one of the two alignment layers is a columnar alignment layer having a column structure with plate-like molecules laminated with the normal directions of the plate-like molecules aligned in a certain direction of the substrate.
US07777841B2
A transflective liquid crystal display panel having a single gap is provided. The liquid crystal display panel has a first substrate, a second substrate substantially corresponding to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween. The first substrate includes a plurality of pixel regions, and each pixel region has at least one reflection region covered with a reflective electrode and at least one transmission region. When voltage is not applied, the liquid crystal layer in the transmission regions and in the reflection regions has a phase difference of half wavelength, and when a voltage is applied, the liquid crystal layer in the transmission regions has no phase difference, and the liquid crystal layer in the reflection regions has a phase difference of quarter wavelength.
US07777831B2
An optical sheet includes a first plane, a second plane facing the first plane and a plurality of optical patterns. The optical patterns are formed on the second plane along a plurality of columns. An optical pattern includes a plurality of convex light-condensing portions. End portions of the light-condensing portions are connected to each other continuously and form crests and troughs. The optical patterns disposed in adjacent columns share a common side.
US07777826B2
An active matrix substrate including a substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixel units is provide. All of the scan lines, the data lines, the pixel units are disposed on the substrate. Each of the pixel units is electrically connected with the corresponding scan line and data line. In addition, at least a part of the pixel units further includes a plurality of active devices and a pixel electrode. The active devices are respectively electrically connected with the corresponding scan lines and data lines and the pixel unit is electrically connected with one of the active devices. In summary, each of the pixel units of the active matrix substrate provided by the invention includes more than one active device. When an active device is damaged under normal operation, another active device may be employed for repairing the pixel unit.
US07777817B2
A digital broadcast receiving system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a broadcast signal having mobile service data and main service data multiplexed therein, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information and fast information channel (FIC) signaling information from a data group within the received mobile service data, wherein the FIC signaling information includes a current/next (C/N) indicator, and wherein the TPC signaling information includes FIC version information, and detecting ensemble configuration information of a current MH frame.
US07777815B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a video image quality control apparatus including: a video processing module configured to adjust image quality based on a control signal; a data table holder configured to hold a data table representing information of a start time and an end time of a daytime in each area; a determination module configured to determine a current location of the apparatus based on areal setting information of a receiving channel; a specifying module configured to specify a start time and an end time of a daytime at the current location by referring to the data table based on information of the current location; and an adjusting module configured to output the control signal based on a start time and an end time of a daytime specified by the specifying module.
US07777813B2
A synchronization separation circuit extracts a synchronization timing signal from a video signal, and a burst gate pulse generator generates a timing pulse signal for gating a color burst signal period. In the color burst signal period restricted by the timing pulse signal, a first counter counts up cycles of a color burst signal at a first timing as a rising edge of the color burst signal and a second counter counts up cycles of the color burst signal at a second timing as a falling edge of the color burst signal. A color burst determination circuit receives count values to determine presence/absence of a color burst signal superimposed on the video signal.
US07777810B2
A rotatable camera has a lens unit comprising a photographing head and an oblique driving shaft arranged in oblique position with the photographing head, a bearing support for pivotally mounting the photographing head inside, a motor and a driving gear set driven by the motor to in turn drive the oblique driving shaft to generate rotating motion, when the oblique shaft is in rotating motion, the photographing head of the lens unit immediately rotates and changes the angle of photographing so that the rotatable camera employs only a single motor to drive the photographing head of the lens unit to rapidly move to the direction to be monitored, particularly, due to no time delay any corners shall be monitored by the rotatable camera.
US07777805B2
This invention allows executing proper photometry within a short time even when a single-lens reflex type image capturing apparatus performs flash photography using an electronic viewfinder. When performing photography from a live view display state using a flash unit which illuminates an object, a shutter front curtain is closed, and a quick return mirror is driven into a photographing optical path. After a photometry sensor near an optical viewfinder temporarily measures reflected light from the object, photography is executed.
US07777803B2
This invention discloses an adjusting apparatus for adjusting the brightness of an image including a plurality of pixels having a center pixel and an initial pixel. The adjusting apparatus includes a detecting module, a calculating module and a gain module. The detecting module receives the image and detects the brightness of each pixel of the image. The calculating module calculates the distance between each pixel and the center pixel according the distance between initial pixel and the center pixel. The gain module respectively adjusts the brightness of each pixel among the plural pixels according to the distance between each pixel and the center pixel of the image.
US07777802B2
An AF controlling unit (83) starts an outside light AF operation controlled by an outside AF unit (81) by a half-pressing of a shutter release button (61), and a change over between the outside AF operation and a CCDAF operation controlled by a CCDAF unit (82) is controlled corresponding to an elapsed time t (timer 84) from a starting of the operation of the outside light AF operation and a pressing condition (a detection of the half-pressing by a half-pressed detecting unit (62), the detection of a full-pressing by a full-pressed detecting unit (63) or a press-in releasing) of a shutter release button (61) after the starting of the outside light AF operation controlled by the outside AF unit (81) by the half-pressing of the shutter release button (61).
US07777801B2
A method of evaluating effective sampling steps of auto focus is provided. By utilizing the depth-of-field feature, many sampling steps are ignored and some representative steps in the depth-of-field range are used as the effective sampling steps. Since the sampling steps are minimized, the search time is largely reduced without deteriorating the search effectiveness.
US07777783B1
A video tracking system includes a user interface configured to facilitate tracking of a target between video cameras. The user interface includes user controls configured to assist a user in selecting video cameras as the target moves between fields of view of the video cameras. These user controls are automatically associated with specific cameras based on a camera topology relative to a point of view of a camera whose video data is currently being viewed. The video tracking system further includes systems and methods of synchronizing video data generated using the video cameras and of automatically generating a stitched video sequence based on the user selection of video cameras. The target may be tracked in real-time or in previously recorded video and may be track forward or backwards in time.
US07777780B2
In a display apparatus connected to an image processing apparatus which detects the change amount in an input image and stores, as a detected image, an image during a period with a change amount equal to or more than a predetermined amount, the change log of the change amount and the detected image are received, the change log is displayed by using a graph, and information related to the detected image is displayed on the graph in a superposed manner.
US07777766B2
An image display unit has a display region with a higher resolution than a number of pixels of an image. A base information storage unit stores viewing position information of a viewer and size information of the display region. A wide-angle transformation unit calculates a central area including a viewing center of the viewer of the display region using the viewing position information and the size information, divides the image into a first pixel area corresponding to the central area and a second pixel area corresponding to a peripheral area other than the central area, and transforms the first pixel area and the second pixel area by magnifying. A magnification ratio of the first pixel area is less than a magnification ratio of the second pixel area. The image display unit displays an image including the transformed first pixel area and the transformed second pixel area.
US07777752B2
Method of implementing an accelerated graphics port for a multiple memory controller computer system
An architecture for storing, addressing and retrieving graphics data from one of multiple memory controllers. In a first embodiment of the invention, one of the memory controllers having an accelerated graphics port (AGP) includes a set of registers defining a range of addresses handled by the memory controller that are preferably to be used for all AGP transactions. The AGP uses a graphics address remapping table (GART) for mapping memory. The GART includes page table entries having translation information to remap virtual addresses falling within the GART range to their corresponding physical addresses. In a second embodiment of the invention, a plurality of the memory controllers have an AGP, wherein each of the plurality of the memory controllers supplies a set of registers defining a range of addresses that is preferably used for AGP transactions. In a third embodiment of the invention, a plurality of memory controllers implemented on a single chip each contain an AGP and a set of configuration registers identifying a range of addresses that are preferably used for AGP transactions.
US07777741B2
An apparatus for determining visibility of agents in a scene from multiple viewpoints in a there-dimensional environment. The apparatus comprises a programmable vertex processor operable to execute a plurality of vertex programs. A programmable fragment processor is provided that is operable to execute a plurality of pixel shaders programs, said vertex programs and said pixel shaders programs operable to render each object in the scene multiple times from multiple viewpoints. A processing unit is provided that is operable to analyze the rendered viewpoints to determine visibility area of the agents.
US07777739B2
A signal line drive circuit according to the present invention has: a latch circuit which latches digital pixel data; a D/A converter which converts a latch output from the latch circuit into an analog video signal; an AMP which amplifies the analog video signal converted by the D/A converter; and a signal selection circuit which selects a signal line to which the analog video signal amplified by the AMP is supplied. The AMP has: an odd number of inverters which are cascade-connected; capacitor elements which are respectively connected between stages of the inverters and between an input terminal of the inverter on a first stage and an output terminal of the inverter on a last stage; a first power supply line which supplies a power supply voltage to the inverter on the first stage; and a second power supply line which supplies a power supply voltage to inverters other than the inverter on the first stage. The accuracy of the AMP can be improved by separating the power supply line for only the inverter on the first stage.
US07777735B2
A data driving integrated circuit to display an image with a desired brightness includes: a shift register adapted to generate sampling signals in sequence; a latch adapted to store external data in response to the sampling signal; a register adapted to temporarily store the data stored in the latch; a voltage digital-analog converter adapted to generate a gradation voltage corresponding to the data stored in the register; a current digital-analog converter adapted to generate a gradation current corresponding to the data stored in the register; a buffer adapted to supply the gradation voltage as a data signal to a pixel; and a data controller adapted to receive a pixel current flowing in the pixel in correspondence to the gradation voltage and fed back from the pixel and to adjust a bit value of the data stored in the register.
US07777729B2
A system and method are provided for editing handwritten data using a pen enabled computing device having a writing surface and a writing stylus selectively communicable with the writing surface. The method includes detecting the position and movement of the writing stylus with respect to the writing surface to form a handwritten input, and defining a bounding box encompassing at least a portion of each stroke of the handwritten input. In addition, the method includes storing the handwritten input and the bounding box encompassing at least a portion of each stroke thereof. The handwritten input may be edited to add textual data to the handwritten input, insert textual data between strokes encompassed by adjacent bounding boxes, delete at least one stroke encompassed by a bounding box, and/or replace at least one stroke encompassed by a bounding box with alternate textual data.
US07777724B2
A dustfree and waterproof rolling-ball optical mouse includes a concave housing; a rolling ball movably engaged with the concave housing; a dustproof gasket fixed on the concave surface of the concave housing; a leakage hole of a conduit defined in a center of the concave surface of the concave housing; an aperture for allowing light through which is eccentrically defined in the bottom of the concave surface of the concave housing; and a waterproof tab formed around the edge of the aperture.
US07777718B2
A flight portal apparatus for displaying a virtual view of a surface of the earth below an aircraft. The apparatus comprises a data processing system and a display device, connected to the data processing system, wherein the display device is positioned to generate a display that is substantially horizontal relative to a floor of an aircraft in a manner that simulates a portal in the aircraft. A camera system is connected to the data processing system, wherein the camera system generates video data of the surface of the earth below the aircraft. A user input system is connected to the data processing system. Video processing software executed by the data processing system receives video data from the camera system, identifies a location of the aircraft using a global positioning system, identifies a map from the location, overlays the map onto the video data to form display image data, and sends the display image data to the display device, wherein a virtual view of the surface of the earth below the aircraft is displayed on the display device.
US07777708B2
A method for reducing cross-talk on a liquid crystal display begins by receiving pixel data defining an image comprising a plurality of pixels; the received pixel data includes an intensity value associated with each pixel. The image is compressed by reducing the range of the intensity values of all the pixels in the image; the compressing step comprising arithmetically adjusting the intensity values of the pixels. Lines in the compressed image that are disposed to create cross-talk are identified. The image is then decompressed by applying a scale factor to the adjusted intensity value associated only with the pixels in the identified lines. The scale factor is selected such that a display image rendered on a liquid crystal display from the pixel data of the decompressed image has less cross-talk than a display image rendered on a liquid crystal display from the received pixel data.
US07777704B2
The present invention relates to displays that use LED strings for backlighting. A lead string is provided with continuous drive voltage and the non-lead strings are provided with pulsed drive pulses. The string having the highest forward voltage is selected as the lead string. Feedback information indicative of the currents flowing through the non-lead strings is used to determine the duty cycles of the voltage pulses provided to drive the non-lead strings. The non-lead strings are controlled using pulsed drive voltages to minimize power dissipation in the circuit.
US07777703B2
An illuminating device and a luminance switching device thereof for controlling luminance of light emitting states of LED light source are provided. The luminance switching device includes a changeover switch which is electrically connected to the luminance switching device for switching the light-emitting states of the LED light source and has switching modes corresponding to the light-emitting states, a detecting circuit for detecting the switching mode corresponding to the changeover switch, a memory unit for storing luminance values of the LED light source corresponding to the switching modes detected by the detecting circuit, converting the luminance values of the LED light source into a luminance control signal, and transmitting the luminance control signal to the detecting circuit, and a power conversion circuit for receiving the luminance control signal transmitted from the detecting circuit, such that the LED light source produces luminance of the light-emitting states corresponding to the switching modes.
US07777692B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a multi-screen video reproducing system capable of performing synchronized video reproduction for a long time by using a simple system without recognizing an absolute time. The multi-screen video reproducing system comprises a LAN functioning as a network; a plurality of rendering units RU1 to RU4 connected to the LAN to output video data to a corresponding display device of a plurality of display devices D1 to D4; and a video distribution server VS which is connected to the LAN and which distributes the video data to the plurality of rendering units RU1 to RU4 and distributes timing information to the plurality of rendering units RU1 to RU4 through a simultaneous broadcast communication.
US07777689B2
An attached protective cover of a USB device, a USB device and a method of wirelessly transmitting data. In one embodiment, the attached protective cover of a USB device includes a cap with an associated antenna and is configured to protect a USB plug of the USB device. Additionally, the cap includes a link configured to provide a physical connection between the cap and a body of the USB device and an electrical connection between the antenna and a wireless connection system included within the body.
US07777684B2
A multi-band antenna includes a planar conductive layer that comprises a conductive region and a non-conductive region. The conductive region and the non-conductive region together define a first slot-strip structure, a second slot-strip structure coupled to the first slot-strip structure, and a third slot-strip structure coupled to the second slot-strip structure. The first slot-strip structure includes a signal feed portion. The second slot-strip structure includes a first signal grounding portion. The third slot-strip structure includes a second signal grounding portion.
US07777673B2
A positioning method includes: executing a first positioning mode or a second positioning mode, a first positioning process that is performed using a least-square method based on a positioning signal and a second positioning process that is performed using a Kalman filter based on the positioning signal utilizing a positioning result obtained by the first positioning process as a base value being performed in the first positioning mode, and the second positioning process being further performed in the second positioning mode utilizing a positioning result obtained by the second positioning process as a base value; determining accuracy of a positioning result obtained by the second positioning process performed in the executed positioning mode; and changing the positioning mode to be executed to the first positioning mode or the second positioning mode corresponding to the accuracy.
US07777669B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an object detection apparatus capable of detecting an object at high precision in accordance with the type of the object. The object detection apparatus of the present invention comprises: object position detection means 2, 22, 3, 23 for detecting the positions of objects; object type estimating means 24 for estimating the types of the objects; and object estimating means 24 for integrating a plurality of detection results for positions within a search area obtained by the object position detection means 2, 22, 3, 23 and thereby estimating the sizes of the objects, the object detection apparatus of the present invention being characterized in that the search area is set based on the types of the objects estimated by the object type estimating means 24. Moreover, the object detection apparatus of the present invention is characterized in that the object position detection means 2, 22, 3, 23 detects the positions of the objects by using a plurality of position detection criteria, that the object type estimating means 24 estimates the types of the objects based on the position detection criteria, according to which the object position detection means 2, 22, 3, 23 have been able to detect the positions of the objects, and that the search area is set based on the position detection criteria, according to which the positions of the objects have been detected.
US07777665B1
Motion measurement errors that extend beyond the range resolution of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can be corrected by effectively decreasing the range resolution of the SAR in order to permit measurement of the error. Range profiles can be compared across the slow-time dimension of the input data in order to estimate the error. Once the error has been determined, appropriate frequency and phase correction can be applied to the uncompressed input data, after which range and azimuth compression can be performed to produce a desired SAR image.
US07777664B2
A wave absorber of the present invention includes a sequentially laminated structure including an conductor layer (11) made of a conductive material; a first dielectric layer (polycarbonate substrate (12) and bismaleimide-triazine substrate (13)) made of one layer or a multilayer of a dielectric material; and a patterned layer (14) including a plurality of a pattern made of the conductive material, wherein the conductor layer, the first dielectric layer, and the patterned layer are laminated sequentially, and each pattern in the patterned layer (14) is different from other adjacent patterns with respect to at least one of size and shape. Therefore, the wave absorber has sufficient reflection-attenuating capability to prevent communication failure caused by a reflection of a radio wave and so on, can be thin-sized and reduced in weight, and has a wide-band attenuation property.
US07777661B2
Intermediate digital signals Fi(α), Gi(α), i=1, . . . I, are generated, which result from a comparison of reference potentials of the first input analogue signal at a shifted value of its observed argument and with a suitably reduced amplitude to the potential, which is inverse to said potential, of the third input analogue signal at the same shifted value of the observed argument and with the amplitude reduced in said way, the shifted argument values being uniformly distributed within the first half-period. A value U of the voltage is measured at any value of the observed argument as at that time the highest one of the voltages at terminals with said reference potentials. An actual peak amplitude A of the input analogue signals is determined as A=kI,mU where the factor kI,m is a quotient of the peak amplitude of said input analogue signals and of the mean value of the voltage waveform envelope of the reference potentials pertaining to said peak amplitude.When the proposed method is used to automatically control the gain, said voltage U is conducted directly to the input of an automatic gain control circuit, whereat the input voltage of this circuit is set to the mean value of the voltage waveform envelope of the reference potentials.
US07777653B2
An information handling system includes a processor that may perform decoding of a variable-length code (VLC) bitstream after preprocessing the bitstream. The bitstream includes multiple VLC symbols as binary codewords. The processor analyzes incoming VLC bitstream information and generates VLC codeword symbol information in conformance with a VLC lookup table. The processor may access a 2 dimensional VLC lookup table in real time or on-the-fly. The VLC lookup table may reside in a system memory of the IHS. The single VLC lookup table may exhibit two dimensional indexing by leading zero count and bit-length possibility.
US07777650B2
A key system utilizes two operation nodes to detect the status of a plurality of keys, and each operation node can output and read a high, a low, and a clock signal. When an operation node outputs a high signal and reads a return signal and then outputs a low signal and reads a return signal, the other operation node outputs a clock signal. Therefore, the two operation nodes can detect the status of six keys.
US07777648B2
Provided is a single repository for capturing, connecting, sharing, and visualizing information based on a geographic location, for example. Detailed information about a structure or other object information can be displayed as mode information. An object of interest can be identified by monitoring a user activity or inactivity with regard to a displayed map. If the user hovers a pointing device over an object within the displayed map for longer than a predetermined amount of time, it can be inferred that the user should be presented with additional information regarding the object.
US07777646B2
System and method alerting drivers approaching a pedestrian crossing and notifying them of the presence of a pedestrian on the pedestrian crossing or any other accidents-prone road sections. By this, an additional traffic safety measure is provided. The presence of the pedestrian crossing marking is not always sufficient. Thus, the proposed system and method are also directed at providing a forgiving infrastructure for both inattentive drivers and jaywalking pedestrians. The system and method utilize movement and weight sensors to detect a movement upon a pedestrian crossing and its vicinity. After negating a possibility that this movement is caused by a passing vehicle, the system invokes illuminating indicators directed at approaching drivers, alerting them to the presence of a pedestrian on the pedestrian crossing. The system may be calibrated to optimize the detection rate, minimizing false alarm and no detection.
US07777629B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for preventing air baggage from getting lost using a radio frequency identification (RFID) system. The apparatus for preventing baggage from getting lost, change, or stolen in which a baggage tag storing baggage management information is attached to the baggage and a receipt tag storing the baggage management information is issued to a baggage owner, the apparatus includes: a tag reader reading the receipt tag and the baggage tag in a predetermined area; and a determiner determining whether the tag reader reads the receipt tag including the same baggage management information as the baggage management information of the baggage tag within a predetermined time before and after the tag reader reads the baggage tag. As a result, air baggage is quickly and exactly managed, costs is reduced, and foreign confidence of an airport is increased, thereby preventing baggage from getting lost and exchanged.
US07777623B2
A sensor system has a least one voltage generator for conversion of non-electrical energy to electrical energy. At least one energy store is connected downstream from the voltage generator. At least one voltage converter is connected to the energy store such that its output signal is suitable for operation of a processor controller. At least one sensor is provided, and at least one transmitter enables wire-free transmission of transmission messages produced by the processor controller and containing at least one measured value from the at least one sensor. A timer circuit is triggered as a function of a voltage level of the at least one energy store, and activates the sensor system to transmit at least one transmission message after a specific time interval.
US07777620B2
A vehicle wheel arch having an electrical circuit for communicating with an electronic component installed in a tire of the vehicle. The wheel arch comprising an electrical circuit embedded within or installed on a surface of the wheel arch. The electrical circuit includes an antenna formed by a substantially flat arrangement of an electrical conductor and configured to communicate at least one of power and data to the electronic component installed in the tire.
US07777614B2
A vehicle theft prevention apparatus has a gyro, a G sensor, and a microcomputer in a case, thereby being capable of detecting a tilt of a vehicle and of detecting inertia applied to the vehicle. An outer surface of the case has a light detector that detects an approach of a suspicious person toward the vehicle. The vehicle theft prevention apparatus has an improved characteristic in terms of ease of installation in the vehicle and cost effectiveness.
US07777608B2
One embodiment provides a wireless communications device comprising a processing unit; a location-determining subsystem communicatively coupled to the processing unit, the location-determining subsystem to determine a current location of the wireless communications device using a global positioning system (GPS); a first wireless communications subsystem coupled to the processing unit, the first wireless communications subsystem to communicate location information using a cellular communications system; and a second wireless communications subsystem coupled to the processing unit, the second wireless communications subsystem to modulate a radio frequency (RE) field provided by a remote interrogator to wirelessly provide a random number generated on the wireless communications device as an identifier of the wireless communications device; wherein the second wireless communications subsystem is switchable between transmitting in a passive mode and transmitting in an active mode.
US07777606B2
Method for identifying one or more fracture clusters in an area of interest. In one implementation, the method may include determining a first inclination of each fracture cluster using borehole data. The first inclination refers to a first average angle with respect to horizontal. The method may further include extracting a first set of fracture clusters from seismic data using a filter based on the first inclination and a strike azimuth of each fracture cluster.
US07777604B2
A high-strength ignition coil that can prevent distortion arising from pin marks formed on a surface of a core and makes it less likely for insulating resin to be cracked. The coil assembly is housed in a coil case. A casting material is filled into a gap between the coil case and the coil assembly and gaps which the coil assembly has. The coil assembly is comprised of a coil pair including a cylindrical primary coil and a secondary coil disposed concentrically with the primary coil, and a core. The core is fitted into a central space of the coil pair and forms a magnetic path. The core is coated with mold resin. Concave portions of pin marks formed on a mold resin coating by removal of core fixing pins when the mold resin coating is formed are filled with mold resin.
US07777603B2
An armature for a solenoid assembly is disclosed. The armature includes a first portion, a second portion, and a fin. The first portion has a first axial length and a first diameter, and the first portion is configured for operative connection with a pole piece. The second portion has a second axial length and a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter. The fin extends radially from the second portion and has an axial length that is less than the axial length of the second portion. A solenoid assembly is also disclosed.
US07777596B2
A microelectromechanical resonator may include one or more resonator masses that oscillates in a bulk mode and that includes a first plurality of regions each having a density, and a second plurality of regions each having a density, the density of each of the second plurality of regions differing from the density of each of the first plurality of regions. The second plurality of regions may be disposed in a non-uniform arrangement. The oscillation may include a first state in which the resonator mass is contracted, at least in part, in a first and/or a second direction, and expanded, at least in part, in a third and/or a fourth direction, the second direction being opposite the first direction, the fourth direction being opposite the third direction.
US07777595B2
A filter assembly includes an electrically conductive input member, an electrically conductive output member, and filter elements. Each filter element includes a connection disposed in an open or closed configuration, and a band filter, which may be a band-pass filter or a band-stop filter. A generic filter assembly is first manufactured having all connections in their open or closed configurations. A channel-selective filter assembly is then further manufactured by structural modification of one or more of the connections. Each connection of the channel-selective filter assembly is in its open or closed configuration independently of each other connection of each other filter element. Each frequency channel in a cable television (CATV) network, for example, is restricted or permitted by the channel-selective filter assembly.
US07777593B2
An improved high frequency filter displays the following features: the high frequency filter displays transmission behavior with a coupling impedance resonance having at least one blocking point at a frequency, the blocking point at the frequency being adjustable by presetting and/or preselecting a defined capacitive and inductive coupling between two coaxial resonators, one immediately following the other on a signal path.
US07777588B2
A transmission path (13) for transmitting high frequency (RF) signals is disclosed, which comprises a plurality of lead segments (20, 21, 22) which are coupled to one another on one end by a capacitive coupling element (30) and on the other end by an inductive coupling element (31) and which each have an effective length of approximately λi/4, wherein λi is the wavelength of a differential mode signal to be transmitted over the path (13). By providing these element (30, 31) in the form of distributed elements which electrically extend over at least a part of adjacent lead segments (20, 21; 21, 22) a very thin transmission path (13) can be realized, which is especially suitable for use with invasive catheters. Furthermore, this path (13) can be guided through RF fields of a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system because common mode resonances are effectively suppressed.
US07777586B2
A multi-band electronic apparatus and method thereof is provided. The method comprises outputting a first output signal in the first band by a first voltage controlled oscillator according to a switch control signal and a control voltage, outputting a second output signal in the second band by a second voltage controlled oscillator according to the switch control signal and the control voltage, the second band being not completely overlapped by the first band, performing frequency division selectively on the first output signal or the second frequency divided signal according to the switch control signal, and outputting a first frequency divided signal, determining a phase difference between the first frequency divided signal and a reference signal to output a phase difference signal, outputting the control voltage according to the phase difference signal, and selectively driving the first or the second voltage controlled oscillators by the control voltage according to the switch control signal.
US07777583B2
A whispering gallery mode dielectric resonator includes a conductive enclosure comprising a top, a bottom and walls. The resonator also includes a dielectric element disposed in the enclosure and operative to support a desired resonant mode that is dependent on a shape and dimensions of the dielectric resonator; and a mode selective coupling structure disposed over the enclosure and configured to selectively couple electromagnetic energy of the desired mode and configured not to substantially couple electromagnetic energy of a spurious mode supported in a region between the enclosure and the dielectric element.
US07777571B2
A high frequency power amplifier comprises: a multi-finger transistor with transistor cells electrically connected in parallel; an input side matching circuit connected to gate electrodes of the transistor cells; and resonant circuits respectively connected between the gate electrode of a transistor cell and the input side matching circuit. The resonant circuit resonates at a second harmonic of the operating frequency of the transistor or within a predetermined range of frequencies having a center at the second harmonic of the operating frequency, and becomes a high-impedance load at the second harmonic, or an open load.
US07777566B1
An RF power amplifier system adjusts the supply voltage to the power amplifier based upon an amplitude correction signal indicating the amplitude difference between the amplitude of the RF input signal and an attenuated amplitude of the RF output signal of the power amplifier. A variable gain amplifier (VGA) adjusts the amplitude of the RF input signal, thus providing a second means of adjusting the amplitude of the output of the power amplifier. The gain of the VGA or the supply voltage to the power amplifier is controlled based on the AC components of the amplitude correction signal, while the DC components of the amplitude correction signal are blocked from controlling the VGA or the supply voltage to the power amplifier. The DC level of the gain control of the VGA, the average supply voltage to the power amplifier, or the closed loop gain of the overall amplitude correction loop is controlled separately by a compression control signal.
US07777564B2
An amplifier includes a sigma-delta modulating circuit, a power stage circuit, two feedback components, an error suppressing circuit, and a selecting circuit. The sigma-delta modulating circuit generates two input voltages according to two input signals or one single-ended signal. The power stage circuit provides two output voltages according to the two input voltages or an error adjusting voltage. The two feedback components are respectively coupled to two output terminals of the power stage circuit and two input terminals of the sigma-delta modulating circuits. The error suppressing circuit is used for providing the error adjusting voltage according to the two input voltages. The selecting circuit selects outputs depending on whether the two input voltages corresponding to different logic levels or an identical logic level for adjusting the power stage circuit to suppress a mismatch error between the two feedback components.
US07777556B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first power supply whose potential is controlled under control operation from an external control circuit, a second power supply whose potential is controlled under control operation from the external control circuit, and whose potential can be set independently of the first power supply, a first power-supply system comprising a circuit driven by the first power supply, a second power-supply system comprising a circuit driven by the second power supply, and a connecting circuit that performs connecting operation between a first high-potential line of the first power-supply system and a second high-potential line of the second power-supply system in response to a potential-matching signal indicating that the first power-supply system and the second power-supply system are operated by the same potential from the external control circuit.
US07777552B1
An RF measurement system includes an envelope detector to extract the modulation envelope of the RF input signal. The resulting baseband envelope signal is then applied to a statistics extraction circuit which provides a precise measure of the modulation envelope. The statistics extraction circuit can be implemented with any number of lower-frequency precision measurement technologies because the high-frequency carrier portion of the signal is removed, and thus, the demands on the post-envelope extraction circuit are greatly reduced. In one embodiment, the envelope detector and statistics extraction circuit may be implemented as a logarithmic amplifier followed by an RMS-responding post-processing circuit to provide accurate power measurement. Because the envelope signal is represented in the logarithmic domain, the square-law function required for RMS conversion can be accomplished by scaling the envelope signal by an appropriate factor before introducing it into a translinear loop in the RMS post-processing circuit.
US07777544B2
A method comprises applying a first delay to a first signal that is ahead of a second signal in a series of signals and determining a first number of delay units that provides the first delay to change an order between the delayed first signal and the second signal that has a phase difference with the first signal. The method further comprises determining a similar number for any other pair of signals in the series of signals that have the phase difference. The method further comprises determining a maximum and a minimum from the obtained numbers and determining linearity of the seriels of signals based on a difference between the maximum and the minimum.
US07777536B2
A synchronization circuit includes a first flip-flop circuit to hold an input signal which is asynchronous to a clock signal by the clock signal, and output an output signal, a second flip-flop circuit to hold the input signal by a signal of an opposite phase to the clock signal and output a signal, a comparing unit to compare the input signal and the output signal of the first flip-flop circuit and output a signal with a high or low level depending on whether the input signal and the output signal of the first flip-flop circuit have the same level, a selection unit to select one of the output signal of the first flip-flop circuit and the output signal of the second flip-flop circuit depending on the level of the signal outputted by the comparing unit, and a third flip-flop circuit to output the output signal selected by the selection unit.
US07777535B1
In various embodiments, an apparatus for down-converting a first signal having a first frequency to a lower frequency is disclosed. The apparatus can include one or more arrays of N over-damped, bi-stable circuits unidirectionally-coupled from element to element.
US07777534B2
A fraction-N frequency divider includes a multi-phase clock generator, a first phase selector, a second phase selector, a glitch-free multiplexer, a control circuit, and a counter. The multi-phase clock generator is used for generating a plurality of clock signals with different phases. The first phase selector selects one of the clock signals as a first clock signal according to a first phase selecting signal. The second phase selector selects one of the clock signals as a second clock signal according to a second phase selecting signal. The glitch-free multiplexer is used for selectively outputting one of the first and second clock signals. The control circuit generates the first and second phase selecting signals and controls the clock switching timing of the glitch-free multiplexer according to a divisor setting. The counter is used for generating a frequency-divided signal according to the output of the glitch-free multiplexer.
US07777530B2
A comparator module applied to a voltage level clamping circuit which can be implemented in an integrated circuit (IC) is provided. The IC includes a parasitic diode coupled between a first voltage source and a second voltage source. The voltage level clamping circuit includes a switch module and a comparator module. The comparator module has an output terminal, a first input terminal coupled to a first voltage source, and a second input terminal coupled to a second voltage source. The comparator module includes a current source module, a first voltage level adjusting circuit module, a second voltage level adjusting circuit module, and a comparing circuit module.
US07777527B2
There is provided a phase detection apparatus that can accurately detect a phase difference between an input signal and a reference signal even when the input signal and the reference signal have different duty cycles. A phase detection apparatus according to an aspect of the invention may include: a pulse generation unit generating a first pulse signal on an edge of an input pulse signal, and a second pulse signal based on an edge of a reference pulse signal having a predetermined phase; and a detection unit detecting a phase difference between the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal from the pulse generation unit.
US07777511B2
An inspection apparatus includes a movable mounting table for mounting thereon a target object, a probe card disposed above the mounting table and a control unit for controlling the mounting table. The target object is inspected by bringing a plurality of electrode pads of the target object mounted on the mounting table into contact with a plurality of probes of the probe card with a predetermined contact load by overdriving the mounting table. Further, the mounting table includes a mounting body whose temperature is controllable, a support body for supporting the mounting body, an elevation driving mechanism provided in the support body and pressure sensors provided between the mounting body and the support body to thereby detect the contact load. The control unit controls the elevation driving mechanism in accordance with detection signals from the pressure sensors.
US07777510B2
There is provided a wafer inspecting apparatus which reduces a preheating time of a probe, and prevents the probe and a wafer from being damaged. The apparatus has a stage (10) which allows a semiconductor wafer (W) to be mounted on a top face thereof and heats or cools it, a drive mechanism (11) which drives the stage up and down, a probe card (9) disposed upward the stage, and having a probe needle (9A) that contacts a bonding pad of the semiconductor wafer to transmit a signal, a position control device (2) which controls the drive mechanism in such a way that the bonding pad of the semiconductor wafer contacts the probe needle of the probe card, and clock means (28) for measuring an elapsed time after the probe needle is caused to contact the bonding pad, and the position control device controls the position of the drive mechanism by adding a position correction value in such a way that the bonding pad contacts the probe needle with a predetermined distortion amount based on a predetermined temperature at which the semiconductor wafer is inspected, and the elapsed time after the probe needle is caused to contact the bonding pad.
US07777505B2
A nanopore device includes a membrane having a nanopore extending there through forming a channel from a first side of the membrane to a second side of the membrane. The surface of the channel and first side of the membrane are modified with a hydrophobic coating. A first lipid monolayer is deposited on the first side of the membrane, and a second lipid monolayer is deposited on the second side of the membrane, wherein the hydrophobic coating causes spontaneous generation of a lipid bilayer across the nanopore orifice. Sensing entities, such as a protein ion channel, can be inserted and removed from the bilayer by adjusting transmembrane pressure, and adapter molecules can be electrostatically trapped in the ion channel by applying high transmembrane voltages, while resistance or current flow through the sensing entity can be measured electrically.
US07777502B2
A capacitive proximity switch has an electrically conductive sensor surface, which is covered by an electrically non-conductive covering plate and which serves as a part of a capacitor with a capacitance that varies with proximity. A household appliance is equipped with a proximity switch of this type. The sensor surface has an active shielding, which is formed by a shielding surface to which a clock signal is applied at the same time as it is applied to the sensor surface.
US07777500B2
Characterizing dielectric properties of a part includes placing a full-sized part within a dielectric property measurement apparatus. In one embodiment, the full-sized part is a dielectric part of a plasma processing system. The dielectric property measurement apparatus is operated to determine a dielectric constant value of the full-sized part and a loss tangent value of the full-sized part. The determined dielectric constant and loss tangent values are affixed to the full-sized part.
US07777498B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining power line parameter of a system. Specifically, there is provided a system for determining comprising a networked device including a voltage perturbation circuit coupled to a voltage source and configured to perturb the waveform of the voltage source, and a voltage measurement circuit coupled to the voltage source and configured to transmit voltage measurements of the waveform over a network and a remote monitoring unit, coupled to the network, and configured to receive the voltage measurements over the network and to calculate an incident energy using the voltage measurements.
US07777496B2
A system and associated method permit remote monitoring of subsurface structure for purposes of early detection and location of hidden anomalies, e.g., water seepage in levees. Anomalies may be due to sand boils or displacement of underlying soil. Representative systems provide continuous monitoring via two complementary means: parallel pairs of ported (leaky) coaxial cables and a fiber optic cable, each pair of coaxial cables associated with a fiber optic cable. A fiber optic system, with associated light source, processor and display, together with an RF system, provides data to a remote location via telemetry or cellular phone, or both. The fiber optic cable(s) allow monitoring of displacement and vibrations within the structure. The ported coaxial cables, with associated RF source, using the same processor, display and telemetry used with the fiber optic sub-system, provide data for monitoring moisture change correlated to changes in the dielectric constant of surrounding material.
US07777495B2
Provided are a device and a method of detecting signal lamps in a vehicle, in particular in a large vehicle, being provided with a plurality of signal lamps each being capable of switching between an OFF-phase and an ON-phase. The method includes the steps of during the OFF-phase of a vehicle signal lamp to be probed inducing a probing current by connecting an electric current generator to said vehicle signal lamp circuit, where the probing current is lower than the nominal current for the lamp in question. The next step is to detect the electric voltage level over the lamp circuit and determining vehicle signal lamp characteristics such as type and condition based on said electric voltage level detection. The result of the determination is that the signal lamp is a LED lamp being connected, when the detected voltage level is within a predetermined interval between a first voltage level and a second voltage level.
US07777488B2
In another aspect, the present invention relates to a method for NMR measurements of an arbitrarily shaped region of interest of a living subject. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of applying a broad bandwidth of RF pulses to the arbitrarily shaped region of interest to obtain a corresponding spectrum, wherein substantially entire range of chemical shifts in the spectrum is excited from the arbitrarily shaped region of interest, interleaving a plurality of radial k-lines in radial k-space per excitation with non-selective refocusing pulses and obtaining spatial localization for the spectrum of the arbitrarily shaped region of interest.
US07777476B2
The present invention generally relates to a method for rapidly counting micron and/or submicron particles by passing such particles through any of a plurality of microfluidic channels simultaneously with an ion current and measuring the signal generated thereby. The present invention also generally relates to a device for practicing the method of the present invention. Some embodiments can include methods and/or devices for distinguishing between and counting particles in mixtures. Still other embodiments can include methods and/or devices for identifying and/or counting bioparticles and/or bioactive particles such as pollen.
US07777474B2
A DC-DC converter for converting an input voltage and generating an output voltage. The DC-DC converter includes an adjustment resistor. A control circuit generates a control signal and includes an external terminal to which the adjustment resistor is externally connected. A switching transistor is connected to the control circuit and turned on or off in accordance with the control signal. The control circuit includes an oscillator that generates an oscillation signal. The control circuit generates the control signal based on the oscillation signal and a signal that is in accordance with an output voltage or output current of the DC-DC converter. The oscillator monitors a first amount of current flowing through the external terminal of the control circuit and generates the oscillation signal in a cycle that is accordance with the monitoring result.
US07777468B2
A semiconductor apparatus that constitutes a step-down type switching regulator is disclosed.The semiconductor apparatus includes a switching transistor, an inductor, a transistor for rectification, and a transistor for synchronous rectification. The transistor for rectification is connected between a connecting point where the switching transistor and the inductor L1 are connected and ground potential; and a gate of this transistor is connected to the connecting point.The transistor for synchronous rectification is connected parallel to the transistor for rectification. A control signal is provided to a gate of the transistor for synchronous rectification so that a switching operation that is opposite to an operation of the switching transistor may be performed. The transistor for synchronous rectification is arranged closer to the connecting point than the transistor for rectification.
US07777464B2
A mixed type frequency compensating circuit is disclosed. The mixed type frequency compensating circuit includes an integral component sub-circuit of a voltage-amplifier-type frequency compensating circuit and a proportional component sub-circuit of a transconductance-amplifier-type frequency compensating circuit. The integral component sub-circuit amplifies an input voltage signal in a voltage mode. The proportional component sub-circuit amplifies the input voltage signal in a current mode. Accordingly, the mixed type frequency compensating circuit may occupy a small area in a semiconductor integrated circuit.
US07777462B2
To provide a power supply unit capable of realizing a multiphase power supply at low cost. For example, each of a plurality of semiconductor devices DEV[1]-DEV[n] comprises a trigger input terminal TRG_IN, a trigger output terminal TRG_OUT, and a timer circuit TM that delays a pulse signal input from TRG_IN and outputs it to TRG_OUT. DEV[1]-DEV[n] are mutually coupled in a ring shape by its own TRG_IN being coupled to TRG_OUT of one semiconductor device other than itself. Each of DEV[1]-DEV[n] performs switching operation by using the pulse signal from TRG_IN as a starting point, and feeds a current into an inductor L corresponding to itself. Moreover, DEV[1] generates the above-described pulse signal only once during startup by a start trigger terminal ST being set to a ground voltage GND, for example.
US07777461B2
A power supply system includes multiple power converter phases. A controller (e.g., a processor device, ASIC) monitors an output voltage generated by a combination of multiple power converter phases that supply power to a load. Based on the monitoring, the controller determines: i) a magnitude of an error signal representing a relative difference between the output voltage and a predetermined setpoint value, and ii) a rate-of-change associated with the output voltage. The controller compares the rate-of-change to threshold criteria. In response to detecting that the rate-of-change associated with the output voltage exceeds a threshold value, the controller adjusts a time of turning on of a phase switch (e.g., a power switch configured to convey an input voltage to an inductor that in turn delivers energy to the load) in one or more of the multiple power converter phases depending on the magnitude of the error signal.
US07777438B2
Motor start circuit for an induction motor-with a main winding and an auxiliary winding having two end connections supplied with current via current supply connections, and with a start circuit device serving the purpose of stopping the current flow through the auxiliary winding after the start of the motor, and being connected via a conductor to a control device connected between the current supply connections, and with a preset timer device interacting with the start circuit device to stop the current flow through the auxiliary winding, as soon as a predetermined period after the start of the current flow has lapsed. With the purpose of optimizing the motor start circuit, a voltage presetting device, with which a predetermined voltage value can be set, the start circuit device being disconnected if this value is exceeded, and a period duration presetting device, are connected to or integrated in the control device.
US07777435B2
An adjustable frequency pump control system (10) that is primarily designed for use in commercial pool filtration systems. The system (10) automatically selects one of three operating speeds that control the speed of a motor that operates a circulation pump (62). The system (10) includes a programmed logic control (PLC) (42) that is activated upon the application of select mode signal (31), a mode timing signal (35), a line pressure signal (37), a circulation pump-run signal (39) and a backwash signal (41). The output of the PLC (42) is a frequency set signal (17) that is applied to an adjustable frequency drive (AFD) (18). From the output of the AFD (18) a motor speed control signal is produced that is applied to the motor that operates the circulation pump (62). The speed of the circulation pump (12) is governed by the frequency of the motor speed control signal, wherein the frequency is determined by the motor speed that is applicable to a particular design point of the pump's filtration cycle.
US07777420B2
An electron emission device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a scan electrode formed on the first substrate and having a width Sv, and a data electrode formed on the first substrate perpendicular to and crossing the scan electrode at a crossed region. A unit pixel is disposed in an area of the crossed region and has a pitch Pv. An insulating layer is disposed between the scan electrodes and the data electrodes. An electron emission region is electrically coupled the scan electrode or the data electrode, and the scan electrode and the unit pixel satisfy the following condition: 0.5≦Sv/Pv≦0.95.
US07777418B2
An electroded high watt ceramic metal halide lamp assembly is provided which comprises a light transmissive arc-tube surrounding at least one electrode, a fill disposed in the arc-tube that includes at least one metal halide component and at least one metallic halide getter. The metallic halide getter has a Gibbs Free Energy greater than mercury halide and less than thallium halide, vapor pressure less than mercury halide, free energy of formation of oxide less than Aluminum oxide.
US07777417B2
A light emitting apparatus includes a plurality of light emitting devices. A first lead and a second lead compose a lead pair. The first and second leads are electrically connected to the light emitting devices. A plurality of the light emitting devices is mounted on the base. The lead pairs are arranged generally symmetrically with respect to the base as the center line of the light emitting apparatus. The first and second leads are electrically insulated from each other. A first resin molding member covers at least parts of the base and the lead pairs. Thus, the first resin molding member, the base, and the lead pairs are integrally formed. A recessed portion is formed in the first resin molding member. The recessed portion is filled with a second resin molding member. The first and second resin molding members are formed of a thermosetting resin material.
US07777415B2
A flat panel display including a light emitting device having a sealed image display area. An enclosure is curved to have a space in which the light emitting device is sealed, and a curved portion of the enclosure is rounded.
US07777409B2
The invention relates to a semiconductor device including a plurality of thin film transistors provided on a base member having a curved surface. The surface may be bent in either a convex shape or a concave shape. All channel length directions of the plurality of thin film transistors may also be aligned in the same direction. Further, the channel length direction may be different from the direction in which the base member is bent. A pixel portion and a driver circuit portion may also be provided on the base member. The invention also includes a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including forming a layer to be peeled including an element of a substrate, bonding a support member to the layer to be peeled, and bonding a transfer body to the layer to be peeled.
US07777407B2
The present invention relates to organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) containing an electron transport layer comprising a triazine. The triazine can be doped with at least one of organic and inorganic materials. A display device comprising the OLEDs is also disclosed.
US07777406B2
A passivation layer formed over and under a first pixel electrode is provided to prevent corrosion of the first pixel electrode of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device. The OLED display device includes: a substrate, a first passivation layer disposed on the substrate, a first pixel electrode disposed over the first passivation layer, a second passivation layer disposed over the first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode disposed over the second passivation layer, an organic layer including an emission layer disposed over the second pixel electrode, and a counter electrode disposed over the organic layer. Each of the first and second passivation layers is formed of one selected from the group consisting of NiCr, Al2O3, TiO2, ZnO and PbO2.
US07777405B2
A vehicle headlight (12) that employs a plurality of LED units (38) that emit white light. Each LED unit (38) employs chip-on-board technology where LED semiconductor chips (64) are mounted directly to a submount substrate (56) using solder or stud bumps (60). An elongated lens (28) is molded over the LED unit (38) in contact with a base substrate (48). Light emitted from the semiconductor chip (64) is reflected and directed by the lens (28) to generate a beam of light (58). Some of the light emitted from the LED semiconductor chip (64) is redirected back to the submount substrate (56) to be reflected back into the lens (28) to increase the light intensity of the LED unit (38). Several of the elongated lens (28) and associated LED units (38) are optically glued to a single prism (24) that collects all of the light beams from all of the LED units (38).
US07777400B2
A plasma display assembly having increased structural rigidity without using a reinforcing member is disclosed. The plasma display assembly includes a PDP, a chassis base and at least one or more circuit boards so as to provide the electromechanical structures to produce an image. The chassis base supporting the PDP at a rear side thereof includes a base part and at least one extended bent part. The base part is formed substantially parallel to the PDP. The extended bent part is formed in at least one of upper, lower, left and right edges of the base part, and includes a first bent part bent with respect to the base part to extend rearwardly, a second bent part bent with respect to the first bent part to extend in a direction parallel to the chassis base, and a third bent part bent with respect to the second bent part to extend forwardly. The circuit boards are arranged to be connected to at the rear side of the chassis base and drive the PDP during operation.
US07777398B2
A piezoelectric actuator includes external conductors formed on an outer surface of a piezoelectric component. The external conductors each include a thick-film conductor and a conductive reinforcer. The thick-film conductor is provided with a first thick-film conductor formed on the outer surface of the piezoelectric component, second thick-film conductors which are formed on part of an outer surface of the first thick-film conductor and which are in surface-contact with the outer surface of the first thick-film conductor. The conductive reinforcer is attached to outer surfaces of the second thick-film conductors.
US07777392B2
A thermomechanical actuation system and method includes an elongated thermomechanical actuator (TMA), which is contoured so that electrical resistance at a mid-portion of the TMA is less than at end portions thereof. A pulse generator is electrically coupled to the TMA, and is configured to supply excitation pulses to the TMA. The excitation pulses are transient, so that each pulse is terminated prior to reaching a steady state amplitude, while having sufficient energy to heat the TMA to its predetermined operational temperature range.
US07777386B2
A stator assembly adapted for use in an external rotor electric motor. The assembly includes a stator core having a hub, a plurality of teeth extending radially outward from the hub, a root tooth diameter and an outer diameter. Each tooth has a root, a neck extending from the root and a head opposite the root. The neck has a maximum width. Each adjacent pair of teeth has a pitch measured at the roots of the corresponding teeth. The assembly includes a winding wrapped around each tooth of at least three teeth of the stator core. A ratio of the root tooth diameter of the stator core to the outer diameter of the stator core is less than about 0.75. A ratio of the maximum tooth neck width to the tooth pitch measured at the root of the teeth is greater than about 0.36.
US07777385B2
An actuator assembly includes a motor assembly, a harmonic drive gearbox, an actuator, and an electromagnet brake device. The actuator assembly is fairly compact in size and the electromagnetic brake device is a non-contact type of devices, making it less prone to wear as compared to many other brake devices.
US07777384B2
A permanent magnet (PM) dynamoelectric machine with directly controllable field excitation control comprises: a drive shaft; a PM rotor assembly with multiple PMs arranged around an outer axial periphery of the rotor assembly; a stator assembly comprising a ferromagnetic stator yoke, multiple ferromagnetic stator teeth mounted to the stator yoke with distal ends proximate the outer axial periphery of the rotor assembly separated by an air gap and multiple stator coils mounted between the stator teeth; multiple saturable ferromagnetic shunts, each shunt coupling adjacent distal ends of the stator teeth to shunt air gap magnetic flux Φg generated by the PMs across the air gap through the distal ends of the stator teeth; and multiple saturation control coils, each saturation control coil wrapped about a saturable region of an associated one of the shunts; wherein application of a control current Ic to the control coils at least partially magnetically saturates the shunts to reduce shunting of air gap magnetic flux Φg, thereby increasing magnetic flux linkage ΨM between the PMs and the stator coils and increasing generated electromagnetic force (EMF) and electromagnetic torque Te to desired levels upon application of electrical power to the stator coils at lower levels of rotor assembly angular velocity.
US07777381B2
Provided is a small motor superior in weight/torque balance. A phase stator 10 and B phase stator 12 are disposed to face each other. A rotor is interpositioned between these stators. Electromagnetic coils are provided to the stators evenly in the circumferential direction. A permanent magnet is provided to the rotor evenly in the circumferential direction. The exciting polarity of the electromagnetic coil is alternately opposite, and this is the same for the permanent magnet. A signal having a prescribed frequency is input to the A phase electromagnetic coil and B phase electromagnetic coil. The rotor rotates between the stators as a result thereof.
US07777364B2
A drive arrangement for activating a car safety device activation element, such as an air bag, comprises a drive circuit, which is coupled to the car safety device activation element. The drive circuit generates an activation signal which activates the car safety device. The arrangement includes a power supply transistor which is coupled in series with a power supply input of the drive circuit and an energy reservoir such as a capacitor. The arrangement further comprises control means which controls the supply voltage to the drive circuit by controlling the power supply transistor to operate in an active region to provide a voltage drop during activation of the car safety device activation element. Hence, a significant voltage drop and thus energy dissipation may be moved from the drive circuit to the power supply transistor. The drive circuit may therefore be reduced in size and the power supply transistor may be implemented in a cheap technology suitable for energy dissipation.
US07777363B2
A wind engine has at least a central rotor (1) which has several groups of frameworks evenly distributed around it (2), each of the frameworks is provided with at least one set of power generation parts (3); the profile frame for the power generation parts is provided with a reversing and return booster (3g) for controlling the reversing speed, and each group of the frameworks is provided with a driver (8) and an opening adjustment positioner (7), and the brake releases or limits the reversing of the power generation parts by making or breaking the control circuit of the power distributor (21). The wind engine enables the power generation system to operate continuously and stably to generate power within the set varying range of different wind speed parameters and can improve power generation efficiency.
US07777355B2
Organometallic colloid(s) is dispersed in a polymer matrix to form an infrared-blocking encapsulant.
US07777346B2
In manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device, an interconnect trench and a contact hole are formed in an interlayer insulating film formed over a first-level interconnect on a semiconductor substrate, a barrier film is formed inside of the trench and contact hole so that its film thickness increases from the center of the bottom of the hole toward the sidewalls all around the bottom of the contact hole, a copper film is formed over the barrier film, and a second-level interconnect and a connector portion (plug) are formed by polishing by CMP. In this way, the geometrically shortest pathway of an electrical current flowing from the second-level interconnect toward the first-level interconnect through a connector portion (plug) does not coincide with a thin barrier film portion which has the lowest electrical resistance, so that the current pathway can be dispersed and a concentration of electrons does not occur readily.
US07777336B2
A metal line of a semiconductor device includes an insulation layer formed on a semiconductor substrate and a metal line forming region is formed in the insulation layer. A diffusion barrier is formed on a surface of the metal line forming region of the insulation layer, and the diffusion layer has a multi-layered structure of an Ru layer, an RuxOy layer, an IrxOy layer, and a Ti layer. A metal layer is formed on the diffusion barrier to fill the metal line forming region of the insulation layer.
US07777328B2
A substrate includes a inorganic material base board has a recess and at least one penetration hole provided around the recess, and a semiconductor device accommodated in the recess and including at least one electrode pad provided on a surface of the semiconductor device. A resin filling is provided in the at least one penetration hole and has at least one through-hole for electrically connecting a top surface and a back surface of the resin filling. An insulating layer covers the surfaces of the semiconductor device, the resin filling and the inorganic material base board and has a first opening corresponding to the at least one through-hole and a second opening corresponding to the at least one electrode pad. A conductive wiring is formed on a surface of the insulating layer for electrically connecting the at least one through-hole and the at least one electrode pad.
US07777326B2
A routing structure of an RDL of a chip is provided. The routing structure comprises a power route, a plurality of first stripes, a ground route, and a plurality of second stripes. The power route is arranged in a first direction and comprises a plurality of first bumps and a plurality of first line segments. Each of the first line segments connects adjacent first bumps. The first stripes are arranged in a second direction and connected to the power route. The ground route is disposed at one side of the power route in a third direction, and comprises a plurality of second bumps and a plurality of second line segments. Each of the second line segments connects adjacent second bumps. The second stripes, are arranged in a forth direction and connected to the ground route. The first stripes and the second stripes are interleaved without intersecting one another.
US07777325B2
A power semiconductor module comprising: a power semiconductor element; a case for receiving the power semiconductor element; a control terminal which is connected to a control electrode of the power semiconductor element, the control terminal is installed in a state of protruding from an upper surface of the case; and a conductive spring which is inserted into the control terminal so that an inner surface of the spring makes contact with at least a part of the side surface of the control terminal, the conductive spring is electrically connected to a printed substrate placed as opposed to the upper surface of the case by making pressurization contact with the printed substrate.
US07777324B2
Disclosed is an interposer including a polyhedral body having first and second surfaces facing each other, a plurality of electric terminals formed on the first surface; and a plurality of vias extending through the first and second surfaces. In addition, a semiconductor package includes a printed circuit board having a plurality of electric contacts formed on an upper surface and an interposer having first and second surfaces facing each other, vias extending through the first and second surfaces, and first electric terminals formed on the first surface. The interposer is seated on the printed circuit board so that the vias correspond to the electric contacts.
US07777321B2
A method for interconnecting stacked layers containing integrated circuit die and a device built from the method is disclosed. The stacked layers are bonded together to form a module whereby individual I/O pads of the integrated circuit die are rerouted to at least one edge of the module. The rerouted leads terminate at the edge. Channels are formed in a surface of the module or on the surface of a layer whereby the rerouted leads are disposed within the channel. The entire surface of the edge or layer is metalized and a predetermined portion of the metalization removed such that the rerouted leads within each channel are electrically connected to each other.
US07777318B2
A wafer-level package that employs one or more integrated hydrogen getters within the wafer-level package on a substrate wafer or a cover wafer. The hydrogen getters are provided between and among the integrated circuits on the substrate wafer or the cover wafer, and are deposited during the integrated circuit fabrication process. In one non-limiting embodiment, the substrate wafer is a group III-V semiconductor material, and the hydrogen getter includes a titanium layer, a nickel layer, and a palladium layer.
US07777315B2
An integrated power device module including a lead frame having first and second spaced pads, one or more common source-drain leads located between the first and second pads, and one or more drain leads located on the outside of the second pad. First and second transistors are flip chip attached respectively to the first and second pads, wherein the source of the second transistor is electrically connected to the one or more common source-drain leads. A first clip is attached to the drain of the first transistor and electrically connected to the one or more common source-drain leads. A second clip is attached to the drain of the second transistor and electrically connected to the one or more drain leads located on the outside of the second pad. Molding material encapsulates the lead frame, the transistors, and the clips to form the module.
US07777312B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed which includes a tab (5) for use in supporting a semiconductor chip (8), a seal section (12) as formed by sealing the semiconductor chip (8) with a resin material, more than one tab suspension lead (4) for support of the tab (5), a plurality of electrical leads (2) which have a to-be-connected portion as exposed to outer periphery on the back surface of the seal section (12) and a thickness reduced portion as formed to be thinner than said to-be-connected portion and which are provided with an inner groove (2e) and outer groove (2f) in a wire bonding surface (2d) as disposed within the seal section (12) of said to-be-connected portion, and wires (10) for electrical connection between the leads (2) and pads (7) of the semiconductor chip (8), wherein said thickness reduced portion of the leads (2) is covered by or coated with a sealing resin material while causing the wires (10) to be contacted with said to-be-connected portion at specified part lying midway between the outer groove (2f) and inner groove (2e) to thereby permit said thickness reduced portion of leads (2) and the outer groove (2f) plus the inner groove (2e) to prevent occurrence of any accidental lead drop-down detachment.
US07777311B2
Vias 7 penetrating a circuit substrate 2 or a seal ring 8 are provided on a part or the entire outer periphery of a molding semiconductor device 1 or in the cut region of the circuit substrate 2, so that adhesion between a substrate and a core 2C in the circuit substrate 2 is improved. Therefore, it is possible to suppress the exfoliation of the circuit substrate 2, improving the yields.
US07777310B2
An integrated circuit package system is provided including forming a paddle, an outer lead, and an inner lead between the paddle and the outer lead; forming a non-vertical paddle edge of the paddle and a non-vertical lead edge of the inner lead facing the non-vertical paddle edge; and encapsulating an integrated circuit die over the paddle.
US07777309B2
This invention provides a high frequency power module which is incorporated into a mobile phone and which incorporates high frequency portion analogue signal processing ICs including low noise amplifiers which amplify an extremely weak signal therein. A semiconductor device includes a sealing body which is made of insulation resin, a plurality of leads which are provided inside and outside the sealing body, a tab which is provided inside the sealing body and has a semiconductor element fixing region and a wire connection region on a main surface thereof, a semiconductor element which is fixed to the semiconductor element fixing region and includes electrode terminals on an exposed main surface, conductive wires which connect electrode terminals of the semiconductor element and the leads, and conductive wires which connect electrode terminals of the semiconductor element and the wire connecting region of the tab. In such a semiconductor device, a circuit formed in the semiconductor element in a monolithic manner is comprised of a plurality of circuit parts and, in a specified circuit part (a low noise amplifier) which forms a portion of the circuit parts, all grounding electrode terminals out of electrode terminals of the semiconductor element are not connected to the tab through wires but are connected with the leads through wires.
US07777308B2
Integrated circuit packages include an integrated circuit mounting substrate having a hole that defines an inner wall of the integrated circuit mounting substrate. An integrated circuit is provided in the hole. A sinuous lead frame extends from the integrated circuit and is connected to the inner wall. The sinuous lead frame extends back and forth along a given direction, and may include a U- and/or V-shape, and round and/or jagged portions. Related packaging methods are also disclosed.
US07777301B2
A method of mounting an electronic component on a substrate includes forming at least one trench in a surface of the substrate. The trenches formed in the substrate reduce a stiffness of the substrate, which provides less resistance to shear. Accordingly, the trenches reduce the amount of strain on the joints, which mount the electronic component to the substrate, which enhances the life of the joints.
US07777293B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit has a plurality of capacitor cells, and each capacitor cell has an upper electrode and a lower electrode. These electrodes are respectively connected to an upper electrode wiring and a lower electrode. When, for example, the upper electrode is connected to the upper electrode wiring and the electrode wiring is located at a side of the lower electrode of another capacitor cell or a side of the lower electrode wiring connecting these electrodes, a shield wiring is provided between the upper electrode wiring and the adjacently-located lower electrode of the other capacitor cell or between the upper electrode wiring and the adjacently-located lower electrode wiring. Thus, with this shield wiring, the capacitance coupling between each wiring of the capacitor cells and each upper electrode or each lower electrode of the capacitor cells are effectively suppressed.
US07777284B2
A method of forming a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor device is disclosed. A semiconductor substrate is prepared first, and the semiconductor substrate has a gate structure, a source region and a drain region. Subsequently, a stress buffer layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate, and covers the gate structure, the source region and the drain region. Thereafter, a stressed cap layer is formed on the stress buffer layer, and a tensile stress value of the stressed cap layer is higher than a tensile stress value of the stress buffer layer. Since the stress buffer layer can prevent the stressed cap layer from breaking, the MOS transistor device can be covered by a stressed cap layer having an extremely high tensile stress value in the present invention.
US07777283B2
An electric component comprising a sensor and/or actuator chip with a substrate on which a passivating layer and a sensor and/or actuator structure consisting of an active surface area is arranged. The chip is surrounded by an encapsulation having an opening which forms an access to the at least one active surface area. A layer stack is arranged on the substrate, said stack of layers comprising from the passivating layer to the substrate at least one first strip conductor layer, a first electric insulating layer, a second strip conductor layer and a second electric insulating layer. The first conductor strip layer is fully arranged outside the area of the chip covered by the opening. At least one conductor strip of the second conductor strip layer is connected to the sensor and/or actuator structure.
US07777281B2
A memory array has memory elements of identical topology or footprint arranged in rows and columns. Some of the memory elements are EEPROM cells and other memory elements are read only memory cells but all are made using a mask set having the same length and width dimensions. In the mask set for EEPROMs a principal mask is used for formation of a depletion implant. In the case of one type of read-only memory element, this mask is mainly blocked, leading to formation of a transistor with a non-conductive channel between source and drain. In the case of another read only memory element, the same mask is unblocked, leading to formation of a transistor with a highly conductive or almost shorted channel between source and drain. These two read only memory elements are designated as logic one and logic zero. By having rows of read-only memory elements with rows of EEPROMs on the same chip, a more versatile memory array chip may be built without sacrificing chip space.
US07777268B2
A memory circuit having dual-gate memory cells and a method for fabricating such a memory circuit are disclosed. The dual-gate memory cells each include a memory device and an access device sharing a semiconductor layer, with their respective channel regions provided on different surfaces of the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer has a thickness such that a sensitivity parameter relating an electrical interaction between the gate electrodes of the access device and the memory device is less than a predetermined value. The dual-gate memory cells can be used as building blocks for a non-volatile memory array, such as a memory array formed by NAND-strings. In such an array, during programming of a nearby memory device in a NAND string, in NAND-strings not to be programmed, if inversion regions are allowed to be formed in the semiconductor layer, or if the semiconductor layer is allowed to electrically float, electrical interaction exists between the access devices and the memory devices to inhibit programming of the memory devices.
US07777254B2
After creating an electron transit layer on a substrate, a baffle is formed on midpart of the surface of the electron transit layer, the surface having a pair of spaced-apart parts left on both sides of the baffle. A semiconducting material different from that of the electron transit layer is deposited on its surface thereby conjointly fabricating an electron supply layer grown continuously on the pair of spaced-apart parts of the electron transit layer surface, and a discontinuous growth layer on the baffle in the midpart of the electron transit layer surface. When no voltage is being impressed to the gate electrode on the discontinuous growth layer, this layer creates a hiatus in the two-dimensional electron gas layer generated along the heterojunction between the electron supply layer and electron transit layer. The hiatus is closed upon voltage application to the gate electrode.
US07777251B2
A lower electron supply layer is disposed over a lower electron transport layer made of compound semiconductor. The lower electron supply layer is made of n-type compound semiconductor having an electron affinity smaller than that of the lower electron transport layer. An upper electron transport layer is disposed over the lower electron supply layer. The upper electron transport layer is made of compound semiconductor having a doping concentration lower than that of the lower electron supply layer or non-doped compound semiconductor. An upper electron supply layer is disposed over the upper electron transport layer. The upper electron supply layer is made of n-type compound semiconductor having an electron affinity smaller than that of the upper electron transport layer. A source and drain electrodes are disposed over the upper electron supply layer. A gate electrode is disposed over the upper electron supply layer between the source and drain electrodes.
US07777247B2
A mounting substrate for a semiconductor light emitting device includes a thermally conductive mounting block. The mounting block has, in a first face thereof, a cavity that is configured to mount a semiconductor light emitting device therein and to reflect light that is emitted by the semiconductor light emitting device that is mounted therein away from the cavity. A conductive lead inserted into the mounting block extends into the cavity. The conductive lead is electrically isolated from the mounting block and has an exposed contact portion in the cavity. The conductive lead may be a plurality of conductive leads each having an exposed contact portion at different locations in the cavity. Related packaging methods also may be provided.
US07777234B2
A light-receiving element has a photodiode formed in part of the top surface of a semiconductor substrate so as to function as a light-receiving region, and has a light-emitting element mount electrode formed on top of the semiconductor substrate where the light-receiving region is not formed. A high concentration impurity layer is formed below the top surface of the semiconductor substrate along the peripheral edges of the light-emitting element mount electrode. This helps prevent the voltage applied to the light-emitting element mount electrode from influencing the output of the light-receiving element.Alternatively, a photonic semiconductor device has a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element, and has the light-receiving region of the light-receiving element formed parallel to the direction in which the light-emitting element emits light. The light-emitting element is arranged so that, when viewed in a plan view, the light-emitting point thereof overlaps with at least part of the light-receiving region. This permits easy fitting of the light-emitting element even with a low light-emitting point, and thus helps reduce variation in light reception sensitivity.
US07777226B2
A polycrystalline silicon thin film to be used in display devices, the thin film comprising adjacent primary grain boundaries that are not parallel to each other and do not contact each other, wherein an area surrounded by the primary grain boundaries is larger than 1 μm2, a fabrication method of the polycrystalline silicon thin film, and a thin film transistor fabricated using the method.
US07777225B2
An organic light-emitting display device. The organic light-emitting display device according to an embodiment of the present invention utilizes an N-type driving transistor, and therefore it has a drain electrode of a driving transistor electrically connected to a cathode electrode of an organic light-emitting diode, wherein the organic light-emitting display device includes a thin metal film between the cathode electrode and the organic light-emitting layer.
US07777218B1
An organic memory cell containing an organic semiconductor layer containing a copolymer is disclosed. The copolymer contains a diarylacetylene portion and at least one of an arylacetylene portion and a heterocyclic acetylene portion. The copolymer may be a random copolymer, an alternating copolymer, a random block copolymer, or a block copolymer. Methods of making an organic memory devices/cells containing the copolymer, methods of using the organic memory devices/cells, and devices such as computers containing the organic memory devices/cells are also disclosed.
US07777204B2
A system and method for improved electron beam writing that is capable of taking design intent, equipment capability and design requirements into consideration. The system and method determines an optimal writing pattern based, at least in part, on the received information.
US07777201B2
For maskless irradiating a target with a beam of energetic electrically charged particles using a pattern definition means with a plurality of apertures and imaging the apertures in the pattern definition means onto a target which moves (v) relative to the pattern definition means laterally to the axis, the location of the image is moved along with the target, for a pixel exposure period within which a distance of relative movement of the target is covered which is at least a multiple of the width (w) of the aperture images as measured on the target, and after said pixel exposure period the location of the beam image is changed, which change of location generally compensates the overall movement of the location of the beam image.
US07777194B2
A charged particle beam apparatus in which discharge is less likely to occur between a charged particle source, and an extraction electrode, and an acceleration electrode without the need for increasing the capacity of a high voltage power supply for extraction. The charged particle beam apparatus includes a charged particle source which emits charged particles, an extraction electrode which extracts the charged particles from the charge particle source and an acceleration electrode which accelerates the extracted charged particles. A surge absorber is electrically connected between at least two of the charged particle source, the extraction electrode, and the acceleration electrode.
US07777192B2
A lightweight cassette system comprises a cassette for detecting radiation image and a control unit for communicating with a console, the control unit being connected to the cassette. The control unit, which includes electronic components such as an interface circuit, a cassette controller, and a communication unit, is separably connected to the cassette which includes a radiation detector by connectors and a cable.
US07777174B2
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording medium includes a sensor including a light emitting element configured to emit light and a light receiving element configured to receive light emitted from the light emitting element. A sensor actuator is configured to cause a transition between a first state where the light emitted from the light emitting element is received at the light receiving element and a second state where the light emitted from the light emitting element is not received at the light receiving element in response to a recording medium being detected. A light shield is coupled to the sensor actuator and configured to cover at least a part of the sensor and to prevent light other than light emitted from the light emitting element from entering the light receiving element in the second state.
US07777172B2
Optical sensors containing reduced amounts of cross talk, as well as methods for making and using such sensors are described. The sensors contain a light absorption coating that is placed on a portion of the external surface of the optical sensor near the detector. This absorption coating reduces the amount of cross talk by reducing the amount of light reflected inside a transparent package of the sensor. As well, the coating can also reduce the amount of ambient and/or stray light that enters the sensor. The coating adds little cost or complexity to the manufacturing process for the sensors, yet reduces the cross talk without substantially increasing the size of the sensor or without increasing any reliability risks. Other embodiments are also described.
US07777171B2
An image sensor includes (a) a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel comprises: (i) at least one photosensor; (ii) at least one transfer gate connecting the photosensor to a floating diffusion; (iii) an output transistor connected to the floating diffusion; (iv) a first reset transistor connected between the floating diffusion and a summing node; (v) a second reset transistor connected to the summing node; and (b) a first summing transistor connecting together the summing nodes of two or more pixels.
US07777170B2
A solid-state imaging device comprises a pixel array; a reference signal generation unit operable to generate a reference signal that changes monotonically for a predetermined period in a horizontal period; a comparator operable to compare the level of a pixel signal with the level of a reference signal; a counter operable to count input clock pulses; a memory operable to store the number of counts counted by the counter as a digital value; and a timing control unit operable to generate a clock that is to be input into the counter, and change frequency of the clock that is to be input into the counter based on external input data.
US07777164B2
A cooking apparatus includes a susceptor surface configured to contact a plurality of locations around greater than 180 degrees of the circumference of the food product. Such contact provides for greater surface area contact between the food product and the susceptor for more uniform cooking and crispness. Further, the weight of the food product is used in conjunction with the configuration of the cooking apparatus to increase the surface area contact between the food product and the susceptor. A line of weakness is disposed along the base of the cooking apparatus to allow the side walls of the cooking apparatus to pivot about the line of weakness to open and close the apparatus to allow for insertion and/or removal of the food product. The construction of the cooking apparatus facilitates cool handling of the cooking apparatus after microwave cooking is complete.
US07777162B2
A connector closing a heating pipe and a heating apparatus having the connector are disclosed. The connector of the present invention includes a plug unit (110), which conductive members (112) and a plug body part (111), and a socket unit (120), which includes a socket body part (121), having through holes (121a) therein, and second conductive members (122) provided in the socket body part (121). The connector further includes a coupling nut (130) and a coupling screw (140), which connect the plug unit and the socket unit to each other. In the connector having the above-mentioned construction and the heating apparatus having the connector, heating wires and electric wires are securely separated from each other, thus preventing shorts from occurring. Furthermore, a tapered part is formed on the circumferential inner surface of the coupling nut. Thus, when the coupling nut, a radiating pipe (11) and a socket unit are assembled together, the radiating pipe is reliably sealed.
US07777155B2
An integrated additive manufacturing cell (IAMC) that combines conventional manufacturing technologies with additive manufacturing processes is disclosed. Individual IAMCs may be configured and optimized for specific part families of complex components, or other industrial applications. The IAMCs incorporate features that reduce hardware cost and time and allow for local alloy tailoring for material properties optimization in complex components.
US07777154B2
A method to manufacture a divided waveplate filter by laser irradiation. A material layer is formed on the surface of a substrate material. A laser oscillator programmed to form a predetermined pattern scans light to form the divided waveplates. In some embodiments, the divided waveplate material layer may be selectively removed by laser ablation. In some embodiments, the material layer has a phase-difference characteristic and the divided waveplates may be formed by removing the phase-difference characteristic of the material layer using laser light without removing the material layer itself. The material layer may be covered by a laser absorbing layer such as titanium oxide. The divided waveplate may be protected by covering the entire surface with a protective layer 6.
US07777150B2
A three-pole apparatus, configured to be installed in a cubicle of an electric substation, comprises an air-insulated three-pole disconnector and a three-pole circuit breaker. The air-insulated three-pole disconnector is configured to isolate an electric line leaving the cubicle. The three-pole circuit breaker is configured to perform line protection functions. The three-pole apparatus comprises a casing comprised of insulating material and internally housing, at least partially, the three-pole circuit breaker. The casing is not sealingly closed and contains air. The circuit breaker comprises three vacuum circuit-breaker modules; the disconnector comprises three single-pole disconnector devices. Each of the single-pole disconnector devices in turn comprises a contact movable linearly from a service position into a disconnection position. Each of the contacts, when it is in its service position, projects at least partially from the casing. The three-pole apparatus is configured for cooperating with an earthing switch which is not enclosed into the casing.
US07777132B2
An electrical connection box includes: a body; a mounting member which is attached to the body; a shaft portion which is provided on the mounting member; and a shaft receiving portion which is provided on the body and receives the shaft portion rotatably. A first rib is formed on one of the shaft portion and the shaft receiving portion. When the mounting member is attached to the body, the first rib abuts against the other of the shaft portion and the shaft receiving portion.
US07777131B2
Composition and method for enhancing the dielectric strength of an in-service solid dielectric shielded electrical cable and preventing corrosion of a central aluminum conductor of the cable by supplying the cable with an alkoxysilane composition. In one embodiment, the alkoxysilane composition includes dimethyldi(n-butoxy)silane.
US07777130B2
A cable cooling apparatus, for dissipating heat generated by a cable, includes a housing configured for attachment to at least a portion of the cable. The housing is configured to retain a meltable material in a first state and the meltable material is configured to dissipate thermal energy from the cable during transformation to a second state.
US07777117B2
A method of instructing a user to read musical notation through interaction with a graphical user interface and an input instrument representative of a stringed instrument may include the steps of generating the graphical user interface having a first mode. The first mode may include a virtual fingerboard positioned substantially along a vertical extreme of the interface, the virtual fingerboard may include a first linear array representing a first string having a first frequency range. The virtual fingerboard may also include a second linear array representing a second string having a second frequency range, wherein the second frequency range overlaps the first frequency range associated with a string. Furthermore, the virtual fingerboard may additionally include a plurality of note positions, each note position having a corresponding fingerboard position on the input instrument.
US07777116B2
The present invention refers to a method used to automatically tune, thanks to the presence of a suitably designed electronic device, an electronic organ with the air organ pipes associated with it; it being provided, in particular, that the said operation is performed based on the tuning variations detected in real time on the air pipes based on parameters referring to the frequency of the emitted sound and to environmental temperature.
US07777111B1
A foot-operated musical percussion instrument is playable by either the left or right foot. The foot-operated device includes a hook and loop adjustable foot strap, toe-clip and frame to hold any of a wide range of percussive sound sources including tambourine jingles, maraca shakers and sleigh bells. The device is directly attached to the user's foot permitting simple, direct operation.
US07777088B2
A process comprising receiving a hydrocarbon feed stream comprising carbon dioxide, separating the hydrocarbon feed stream into a light hydrocarbon stream and a heavy hydrocarbon stream, separating the light hydrocarbon stream into a carbon dioxide-rich stream and a carbon dioxide-lean stream, and feeding the carbon dioxide-lean stream into a hydrocarbon sweetening process, thereby increasing the processing capacity of the hydrocarbon sweetening process compared to the processing capacity of the hydrocarbon sweetening process when fed the hydrocarbon feed stream. Included is an apparatus comprising a first separation unit that receives a hydrocarbon feed stream containing carbon dioxide and produces a heavy hydrocarbon stream and a light hydrocarbon stream, and a second separation unit that receives the light hydrocarbon stream and produces a carbon dioxide-rich stream and a carbon dioxide-lean stream, wherein the apparatus is configured to feed the carbon dioxide-lean stream to a physical solvent, membrane, or carbon dioxide recovery process.
US07777087B2
A process is disclosed for producing an alkylaromatic compound in a multistage reaction system comprising at least first and second series-connected alkylation reaction zones, each containing an alkylation catalyst. A first feed comprising an alkylatable aromatic compound and a second feed comprising an alkene are introduced into the first alkylation reaction zone. The first and second alkylation reaction zones are operated under conditions of temperature and pressure effective to cause alkylation of the aromatic compound with the alkene in the presence of the alkylation catalyst, the temperature and pressure being such that the aromatic compound is at least partly in the liquid phase. The alkylation catalyst in the first alkylation reaction zone, which may be a reactor guard bed, has more acid sites per unit volume of catalyst than the alkylation catalyst in the second reaction zone.
US07777085B2
The present invention relates to a process for oxidizing renewable polyunsaturated fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) to a malonic acid intermediate which is subsequently reduced to 1,3 propanediol (PDO).
US07777082B2
A process for preparing annular unsupported catalysts by thermally treating annular shaped unsupported catalyst precursor bodies, wherein the side crushing strength of the annular shaped unsupported catalyst precursor bodies is ≧12 N and ≦23 N; such precursor bodies per se; annular unsupported catalysts having a specific pore structure; and a method of using such annular unsupported catalysts for the catalytic partial oxidative preparation in the gas phase of (meth)acrolein.
US07777079B2
This invention is involved with a preparation method of 2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethyl-aniline. With this process, p-Chlorobenzotrifluoride is used as the starting material and subjected to halogenation reaction and ammoniation reaction and through separation of reaction products the desired 2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethyl-aniline is obtained. In addition, ammonia is recovered from the surplus ammonia water in ammoniation reaction. This applied invention in characterized by simple process, cheap and easy-available raw materials, high reaction yield and friendly environment.
US07777077B2
The invention is directed to compounds of formula I: wherein Ar, r, R3, X, and R5-7 are as defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds of formula I have AT1 receptor antagonist activity and neprilysin inhibition activity. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; methods of using such compounds; and a process and intermediates for preparing such compounds.
US07777073B2
This invention relates to certain hydroxyaryl alkanols, alkyl amines, alkyl amino acids, alkyl amino esters, and alkyl amino alkanols (“Hydroxyaryl compounds”) of formula (I). A method of topical application of said hydroxyaryl compounds is also disclosed. The treatment of certain enzyme dysfunctions that cause skin or hair condition such as darkened skin including age spots, dark circles around the eyes, and discoloration of skin from stretch marks; skin conditions related to acne including excess facial oil and facial pore size; premature hair aging including hair loss and graying; inflammation including intra-cellular and extra-cellular inflammation; skin aging including wrinkles and fine lines; loss of collagen including thinning skin and loss of skin pliability; malfunction of tyrosinase group of enzymes; and malfunction of matrix metalloprotease group of enzymes with said hydroxyaryl compounds is also disclosed:
US07777065B2
The present invention relates to a method of removing SO2 contaminants from dimethyl sulfate (DMS) by treatment with an oxidizing agent, and to a process for the preparation of odor free fatty acid trialkanolamine esters quaternized with DMS which is substantially free of SO2 contaminants.
US07777062B2
B-tris(silylvinyl)borazine is pyrolysed as a borazine precursor for the production of a B/N/C/Si ceramic. A high-temperature ceramic is obtained by means of a further pyrolysis at higher temperatures after a pre-pyrolysis, which is of high purity and essentially free of pores. The ceramic furthermore contains essentially no oxygen and is particularly suitable as a coating material and for the production of heating elements.
US07777058B2
In the present invention there are disclosed new derivatives of dianhydrohexite mononitrate corresponding to formula (I), tautomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs and solvates thereof: as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and uses thereof.
US07777046B2
The invention provides a method for preparing the sodium salt of the novel thiol derivative of vitamin B12, N-acetyl-L-cysteinylcobalamin (Na[NACCbl]). The method involves carrying out the reaction in aqueous solvent with a relatively small excess of ligand reactant, specifically from one to less than four molar equivalents. The cobalamin derivative formed is precipitated from the aqueous solvent, preferably by the addition of a precipitate inducing solvent. This provides a product in acceptable purity without the need for an additional chromatographic purification step.
US07777044B2
Process for the preparation of optically active derivatives of 2-(2-piridylmethylsulfinyl)-benzimidazole, or salts thereof, by resolution of the corresponding racemic derivatives of 2-(2-piridylmethylsulfinyl)-benzimidazole. The resolution is performed through the formation of inclusion complexes with (S)-(−) or (R)-(+)-[1,1′-Binaphthalene]-2,2′-diol in the presence of an amine, followed by the break of the inclusion complex by treatment with an hydroxide of an alkaline metal. The enantiomer of the derivative of 2-(2-piridylmethylsulfinyl)-benzimidazole may be obtained by extractions at a particular pH with a suitable organic solvent. The process allows to perform the resolution with high yields and high optical purity, without using neither toxic solvents nor chromatography.
US07777041B2
The invention relates to 2-acylamino-4-phenylthiazole derivatives of general formula (I): pharmaceutically acceptable acid-addition salts thereof, hydrates or solvates of such derivatives or such pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts, intermediates thereto, processes for the preparation thereof, and therapeutic application thereof.
US07777032B2
This invention concerns quinazoline analogs of Formula I: where an A group is bonded to at least one of the carbons at the 5, 6, 7 or 8 position of the bicyclic ring, and the ring is substituted by up to three independent R3 groups. The invention also includes methods of using these compounds as type I receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors and for the treatment of hyperproliferative diseases such as cancer.
US07777031B2
Processes are disclosed for making certain compounds of Formula (II): or their pharmaceutically active salts, that are histamine H3 receptor modulators useful in the treatment of histamine H3 receptor-mediated diseases. In one embodiment, the process comprises reacting a compound of formula (7-1): with a compound of formula (B3): in the presence of at least one equivalent of a first base, in a first organic solvent, to give a compound of Formula (II).
US07777021B2
The invention relates to discovery of an isolated glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase promoter in Pleurotus and a construct comprising the promoter of the invention operably linked to a heterologous transcribable polynucleotide molecule.
US07777018B2
The present invention provides CDR-grated antibodies against human tissue factor that retain the high binding affinity of rodent monoclonal antibodies against tissue factor but have reduced immunogenicity. The present humanized antibodies are potent anticoagulants and are thus useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of human thrombotic disease. The invention also provides methods of making the CFR-grafted antibodies and pharmaceutical compositions for the attenuation or prevention of coagulation.
US07777014B2
The present invention relates to decoy oligonucleotides with the nucleic acid sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 1 to 34 and their use as pharmaceutical agents. The present invention also discloses a method for diagnosis of the −786C/T-variance in the eNOS-gene.
US07777012B2
The invention relates to a method of preparing a protein aggregate, wherein an aqueous protein solution is acidified with a pH that lies above the isoelectric point of the protein. In accordance with the invention, a first protein, which through acidification is able to form a protein aggregate, is acidified in the presence of a second protein in the aqueous solution in order to form a coaggregate comprising the first and second protein, wherein the second protein under identical temperature conditions and pH does not form a protein aggregate in the absence of the first protein. Acidification preferably occurs with the aid of CO2.
US07777010B2
The invention provides a method for selecting at least one member from a library of proteinaceous molecules by providing at least one cell and/or a functional equivalent thereof, with at least part of the library under conditions that allow binding of any such member to an epitope in and/or on the cells and/or the functional equivalent thereof, removing unbound proteinaceous molecules and selecting the at least one member, wherein the library includes at least one mutant of a proteinaceous molecule capable of binding to the epitope.
US07777008B2
The present invention provides binding molecules that specifically bind to ILT3, e.g., human ILT3 (hILT3), on antigen presenting cells, such as for example, monocytes, macrophages and dendritic cells (DC), e.g., monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MDDC). The binding molecules of the invention are characterized by binding to hILT3 with high affinity and downmodulating immune responses in vitro, e.g., downmodulating alloimmune responses; the production of inflammatory cytokines by dendritic cells, e.g., monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MDDC); the upregulation of costimulatory molecules by DC, e.g., MDDC; and/or calcium flux in monocytes. In addition, the binding molecules upregulate the expression of inhibitory receptors on dendritic cells, e.g., immature dendritic cells. Surprisingly, these same binding molecules which downmodulate immune responses in vitro, are immunostimulatory in vivo. Various aspects of the invention relate to binding molecules, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Methods of using the binding molecules of the invention to detect human ILT3 or to modulate human ILT3 activity, either in vitro or in vivo, are also encompassed by the invention.
US07777005B2
The invention relates to isolated polynucleotides homologous with a portion of one strand of the human tumor suppressor gene, FEZ1, and to the tumor suppressor protein encoded thereby, Fez1. The polynucleotides are useful, for example, as probes, primers, portions of expression vectors, and the like. The invention also includes diagnostic, therapeutic, cell proliferation enhancement, and screening methods which involve these polynucleotides and protein. The invention further includes kits useful for performing the methods of the invention.
US07777002B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, computer programs and computing devices related to biologically assembling and/or synthesizing peptides and/or proteins are disclosed.
US07776999B2
A molecular probe comprises two arsenic atoms and at least one cyanine based moiety. A method of producing a molecular probe includes providing a molecule having a first formula, treating the molecule with HgOAc, and subsequently transmetallizing with AsCl3. The As is liganded to ethanedithiol to produce a probe having a second formula. A method of labeling a peptide includes providing a peptide comprising a tag sequence and contacting the peptide with a biarsenical molecular probe. A complex is formed comprising the tag sequence and the molecular probe. A method of studying a peptide includes providing a mixture containing a peptide comprising a peptide tag sequence, adding a biarsenical probe to the mixture, and monitoring the fluorescence of the mixture.
US07776995B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing polyester particles, wherein the process includes: (1) discharging a molten polyester having a melt viscosity of from 0.5 Pa·s to 50 Pa·s from a die hole thereby creating polyester strands; (2) bringing the polyester strands into contact with a liquefied fluid for cooling to lead the strands to a cutter together with the liquefied fluid; and (3) cutting the polyester strands led to the cutter; wherein steps (1) to (3) are carried out sequentially and the drawing rate ratio of the polyester strands is from 1.5 to 100 and represented by the following formula: drawing rate ratio=(linear velocity of strands immediately before cut (v2 (m/s)))/(linear velocity of molten polyester when discharged from die hole (v1 (m/s))).
US07776994B2
A resin particle dispersion liquid comprises: resin particles comprising polyester having terminal carboxyl groups, the polyester being obtained by polycondensation of a polycondensable monomer, wherein the polyester has the terminal carboxyl groups that are partially neutralized to form carboxyl anions, the resin particles in the resin particle dispersion liquid having a value of (da/(da+dc)) of from approximately 0.30 to approximately 0.90, when in an absorption spectrum of the resin particles measured with an infrared spectrometer, dc represents a peak intensity of the terminal carboxyl group in a range of from 1,780 to 1,680 cm−1, and da represents a peak intensity of the neutralized carboxyl anion in a range of from 1,670 to 1,550 cm−1, the polyester has an acid value of approximately 1 mg·KOH/g or more and less than approximately 15 mg·KOH/g before neutralization, the resin particles dispersion liquid comprises a divalent or higher organic acid in an amount of from approximately 0.1 to approximately 20 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the resin particles, and the resin particles have a median diameter of from approximately 0.1 to approximately 2.0 μm.
US07776986B2
Butene-1 (co)polymers characterized by the following properties: content of butene-1 units in the form of isotactic pentads (mmmm) from 25 to 55%; intrinsic viscosity [η] measured in tetraline at 135° C. from 1 to 3 dL/g; content of xylene insoluble fraction at 0° C. from 3 to 60%; and a ratio ES2/ES1≧1, where ES1 is the boiling diethyl ether soluble fraction determined on the polymer as such and ES2 is the boiling diethyl ether soluble fraction determined after milling the polymer. The butene-1 (co)polymers show a good balance between processability and elastomeric behavior.
US07776980B2
Monocyclopentadienyl complexes in which the cyclopentadienyl system bears at least one bridged keto, thioketo, imino or phosphino group, a catalyst system comprising at least one of the monocyclopentadienyl complexes and a process for preparing polyolefins by polymerization or copolymerization of olefins in the presence of the catalyst system.
US07776976B2
This invention puts forward a process of preparing butyl rubber. High gravity devices are used as polymerization reactor. The mixture of isomonoolefin and conjugated diolefin monomers and the diluent, and the mixture of the initiator and diluent are pumped at a certain ratio into a high-gravity reactor to conduct cationic polymerization in the high-gravity environment. After polymerization, the monomers and the diluent are removed from the product to obtain butyl rubber polymers with number-average molecular weight of 80000˜300000 and molecular weight distribution index of 1.9˜3.6. The high gravity polymerization method of this invention can tremendously intensify micro-mixing, mass transfer and heat transfer in the reaction. Compared to the conventional stirred polymerization method, this invention features small reactor volume, at least 30-fold shorter residence time of substances in the high gravity reactor, low cost, low energy consumption and high production efficiency.
US07776975B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing an aqueous polymer dispersion containing polymer particles dispersed in an aqueous medium. The process includes providing first polymer particles; adding a hydrophobic polymerization blocker or a styrenic monomer polymerization blocker to the aqueous medium containing the first polymer particles; and preparing second polymer particles in the presence of the first polymer particles. The aqueous polymer dispersion contain first polymer particles and the second polymer that differ according to at least one attribute such as particle diameter, molecular weight, composition, glass transition temperature, or morphology; or contain polymer particles having a broad polydispersity. The aqueous polymer dispersion prepared by the process of this invention is useful in a wide range of applications, including paints, adhesive, binders for nonwovens, and binders for paper coatings.
US07776974B2
A slurry process for polymerizing ethylene is disclosed. The process comprises polymerizing ethylene in a first reactor in the presence of hydrogen and a catalyst comprising an activator and a supported dimethylsilyl-bridged indeno[1,2-b]indolyl zirconium complex to produce an ethylene homopolymer, removing some of the unreacted hydrogen, and reacting the homopolymer slurry in a second reactor with ethylene and a C3-C10 α-olefin to produce polyethylene. The polyethylene has weight-average molecular weight greater than 150,000, broad molecular weight distribution, low long-chain branching, and it provides pipes or molded articles with good environmental stress crack resistance.
US07776968B2
The invention provides a thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising: (a) 100 parts by weight of a hydrogenated block copolymer; (b) 0.01 to 3 parts by weight of an organic peroxide; and (c) 1 to 80 parts by weight of a carboxylated liquid polybutadiene. Also disclosed is a thermoplastic resin composition comprising the thermoplastic elastomer composition.
US07776967B2
A tire composition is provided that may include a sulfur-functional linear polyorganosiloxane and an unsaturated elastomer. The sulfur-functional linear polyorganosiloxane may include a chemically protected sulfur group, which includes a thiocarbamate, a dithiocarbamate, or a derivative or analog of thiocarbamate or dithiocarbamate. Under certain conditions, the sulfur group may react with the unsaturated elastomer. The invention includes embodiments that may relate to methods of making and using the sulfur-functional linear polyorganosiloxane in tire compositions.
US07776962B2
Low shear-thinning polyvinyl acetals having a solution viscosity in 30% strength by weight solution in methyl ethyl ketone which changes by not more than 10% in a shear rate range from 1 to 100 s−1. The preparation of the low shear-thinning polyvinyl acetals involves acetalation of partly hydrolyzed or completely hydrolyzed vinyl ester polymers comprising ≧50 mol % of vinyl alcohol units with one or more aldehydes, optionally in the form of the hydrates, hemiacetals or full acetals, wherein from 0 to 60% by weight of the aldehyde, based on the total amount of the aldehyde, is initially introduced over the course of the first one to ten minutes of the acetalation and is prereacted over the course of from 1 to 30 minutes, and the remaining proportion is then metered in continuously over the course of at least 20 minutes.
US07776957B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing aqueous formulations (A) comprising at least one polyaromatic compound bearing acid groups, in particular a sulfonated polyaromatic compound, and also aqueous formulations (A) which have been prepared by the process of the invention. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process for preparing dried formulations (B) by removing the water from the aqueous formulations (A) and also the dried formulations (B) themselves. The present invention further provides a formulation (C) comprising the dried formulation (B) of the invention and water or the formulation A of the invention and a water-comprising formulation (D) comprising the aqueous formulation (A) or the formulation (C) of the invention and additionally at least 2% by weight of an organic solvent. Furthermore, the present invention relates to dry formulations (E) which are obtained by removing water and solvent from the water-comprising formulations (D) of the invention. The present invention further provides for the use of the water-comprising formulations (D) of the invention and of the dry formulations (E) obtained from these for producing a polymer electrolyte membrane and also the polymer electrolyte membrane itself and a membrane-electrode assembly (MEA) and also a fuel cell comprising the polymer electrolyte membrane of the invention.
US07776950B2
An antivibration rubber composition containing diene rubber (Component A) and silica (Component B). The amount of the Component B contained is set to a range from 10 to 100 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the Component A. The Component B has the following properties, i.e., a surface silanol-group density of not less than 3.0 groups/nm2 as determined by the Sears titration method, an average particle size of not more than 10 μm, and a BET specific surface area of 15 to 60 m2/g.
US07776944B2
Disclosed are composite compositions and articles prepared from such composites. The composition comprises or is produced from cellulose material, thermoplastic polymer, and a compatibilizing agent which is the reaction product of polyvinyl butyral, having hydroxyl functionality, and a second polymer which comprises or is produced from polyvinyl butyral and a second polymer wherein the polyvinyl butyral comprises a hydroxyl functionality and the second polymer reacts with at least a portion of the hydroxyl functionality.
US07776937B2
The present invention discloses a photocurable composition for forming an anti-fogging coating, comprising: (A) a urethane compound containing at least two (meth)acryloyl groups and a polyoxyalkylene chain in a molecule thereof, (B) a compound having at least two (meth)acryloyl groups and at least two hydroxyl groups in a molecule thereof, obtained by reacting at least two components consisting of an epoxy compound and (meth)acrylic acid, (C) a compound having an ethylenic unsaturated group other than the components (A) and (B), and (D) a photopolymerization initiator, and also discloses a method for forming an anti-fogging coating using this composition.
US07776922B2
The invention relates to substituted [(phenylethanoyl)amino]benzamides and methods for their preparation, and their use for the manufacture of medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular of inflammatory disorders such as, for example, cutaneous, respiratory tract and cardiovascular disorders such as, for example, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease.
US07776915B2
A topical composition comprising a lipoic acid, a carnitine, and a carnosine in a suitable vehicle for topical application and a method for treating skin is provided. The present compositions are useful in improving the appearance of aged skin characterized by wrinkles and loss of elasticity. Preferred components include R-lipoic acid or R-dihydrolipoic acid, acetyl-1-carnitine, and 1-carnosine.
US07776914B2
The invention is directed to compositions comprising lecithin, olive oil, esterified fatty acids and mixed tocophenols for use in the treatment and prevention of various types of arthritis and other inflammatory joint conditions, periodontal diseases and psoriasis, which avoid many of the side effects associated with known treatments. The compositions of the present invention have the advantage of increased stability, a reduction of arachidonic acid in cells, a reduction in eicosanoid production and enhanced cell regulation and communication. Also disclosed are methods for using the compositions for treatment and prevention.
US07776901B2
The invention provides methods of treating a memory deficiency in a subject in need of such treatment, where the methods comprise administering to a subject an effective amount of a compound of formula (1): wherein: R1 is hydrogen, fluorine or a methoxyl group, R1 being in position 2, 3, 4 or 5 of the aromatic carbocycle; R2 is hydrogen or a methyl group; R3 is hydrogen, a methyl group or an ethyl group; and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt as well as the isomers and the tautomers thereof. The memory deficiency may be correlated with a memory deficiency induced by scopolamine.
US07776899B2
Improved drug compositions and methods useful in the treatment of male erectile dysfunction. An optimized mixture of the drugs phentolamine mesylate, papaverine hydrochloride, and alprostadil in a buffer containing L-arginine and glycine is to be injected into the penile tissue to produce an erection in otherwise impotent men.
US07776882B2
The present invention is directed to 2-amino-3,4-dihydro-quinoline derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders. The compounds of the invention are inhibitors of β-secretase, also known as β-site cleaving enzyme and BACE, BACE1, Asp2 and memapsin2.
US07776876B2
Embodiments of this invention provide methods for thereapeutic use of cyclic G-2-Allyl Proline to treat disorders of dopaminergic neurons, including Parkinson's disease. Cyclic G-2Allyl P is neuroprotective and has utility as a therapeutic agent for treatment of diseases and other conditions characterised by degeneration and/or death of dopaminergic neurons and the adverse symptoms of such degeneration and/or death. Such symptoms include loss of cognition and motor function. Compounds are also useful for manufacture of medicaments including tablets, capsules and injectable solutions that are useful for treatment of such conditions.
US07776865B2
In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of amino-substituted pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine compounds as inhibitors of protein and/or checkpoint kinases, methods of preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions including one or more such compounds, methods of preparing pharmaceutical formulations including one or more such compounds, and methods of treatment, prevention, inhibition, or amelioration of one or more diseases associated with the protein or checkpoint kinases using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions. An illustrative compound is shown below:
US07776863B2
The invention encompasses pharmaceutical compositions and methods for using Compound 1 in combination with other agents for treating patients with AIDS or HIV infection.
US07776860B2
The invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of 3-amino-8-(1-piperazinyl)-2H-1-benzopyran-2-one, a broad spectrum 5-HT receptor binding ligand having potent 5-HT1A-agonistic as well as 5-HT1D-antagonistic activity. The invention also relates to novel salts and solvates, in particular hydrates of salts of said compound, as well as to their use as medicaments.The invention relates the compounds with the formula (7)
US07776853B2
The use of a compound comprising formula (I): or a salt, ester, amide or prodrug thereof in the inhibition of an enzyme whose preferred mode of action is to catalyse the hydrolysis of an ester functionality, e.g. in the control and inhibition of unwanted enzymes in products and processes. The compounds are also useful in medicine e.g. in the treatment of obesity and related conditions. The invention also relates to novel compounds within formula (I), to processes for preparing them and pharmaceutical compositions containing them. In formula (I) A is a 6-membered aromatic or heteroaromatic ring; andR1 is a branched or unbranched alkyl (optionally interrupted by one or more oxygen atoms), alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, aryl, arylalkyl, reduced arylalkyl, arylalkenyl, heteroaryl, heteroarylalkyl, heteroarylalkenyl, reduced aryl, reduced heteroaryl, reduced heteroarylalkyl or a substituted derivative of any of the foregoing groups.
US07776852B2
Provided is a process for producing highly pure midazolam and salts thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the highly pure midazolam and/or a salt thereof.
US07776845B2
The invention provides methods to treating conditions such as prostate cancer, or for ameliorating one or more symptoms associated with prostate cancer, or for agents that modulate the biological activity of the androgen receptor. The invention also provides methods and compositions suitable for therapeutic applications.
US07776844B2
The present invention relates to an N-(phosphonoalkyl)-amino acid, a related compound or a derivative thereof, the N-(phosphonoalkyl)-amino acid, related compound or derivative thereof being in a form as a free acid, salt, partial salt, lactone, amide or ester, or in stereoisomeric or non-stereoisomeric form, other than N-(phosphonomethyl)-glycine or N,N-bis(phosphonomethyl)-glycine. Also included is a composition including an N-(phosphonoalkyl)-amino acid, a related compound or a derivative thereof in a form as a free acid, salt, partial salt, lactone, amide or ester, or in stereoisomeric or non-stereoisomeric form, and a cosmetically or pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle for topical or systemic administration to a mammalian subject, as well as a method of administering an effective amount of such a composition for alleviating or improving a condition, disorder, symptom or syndrome associated with at least one of a nervous, vascular, musculoskeletal or cutaneous system.
US07776842B2
The present invention includes amino sugar chelates and methods for preparing amino sugar chelates of the formula given below, where M is a metal; R2 and R3 are independently selected from H, OH and hydroxyl substituted C1-C8 alkyl; R4 is selected from H, CO2H, OH, and hydroxyl substituted C1-C8 alkyl; each R5 is independently selected from H, OH, and hydroxyl substituted C1-C8 alkyl; A is selected from CH and O; a is from 0-6; b is from 0-6; n is from 1 to 8. The amino sugar chelates may include matrix stabilizing salts. The compounds and compositions disclosed can be used as nutritional supplements to impart health benefits.
US07776839B2
A pharmaceutical composition is provided for use in the healing of cells containing about 0.0001 percent weight per volume (% w/v) to about 2% w/v of an alginic acid or a salt of alginic acid having a molecular weight in the range of greater than about 250,000 to about 1,000,000, provided that if the composition additionally contains an alginic acid or a salt of alginic acid having a molecular weight in the range of about 20,000 to about 250,000, it is present in an amount of less than 1% w/w. The use of the pharmaceutical composition for the healing cells in a mammal, preferably mucosal cells is also provided.
US07776833B2
The invention relates to application of compounds having a general structural formula: where R= Li, Na, K, R1=—H, —NH2, —Br, —Cl, —OH, —COOH, B=—N═, —CH═, Z=—CH═, —N═, A=—N═ at B=—N═, Z=—CH—, A=—CH═ at B=—N═, Z=—CH—, A=—CH═ at B=—N═, Z=—N═, A=—CH═ at B=—CH═, Z=—CH═, A=—CH═ at B=—CH═, Z=—N═, and/or their pharmacologically acceptable salts as an active ingredient having appropriate activity with respect to nitrergic and/or dopaminergic systems, in a pharmaceutical composition as neuroprotector for improvement of the cognitive function and for normalization of psychophysiological status, as well as for treatment of a wide spectrum of psychological diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diseases caused by substance abuse, and diseases caused by a hyperactive immune system in mammals including human beings.
US07776826B2
A method of inducing bone formation in a subject in need of such inducement comprises the steps of mechanically inducing an increase in osteoblast activity in the subject and elevating blood concentration of at least one bone anabolic agent in the subject. The method steps may be performed in any order, but in sufficient time proximity that the elevated concentration of the anabolic agent and the mechanically induced increase in osteoblast activity overlaps. The method may additionally comprise providing the subject with an elevated blood concentration of at least one antiresorptive agent, wherein the elevated concentration is sufficient to prevent resorption of new bone growth produced due to the osteoblast activity. Use of the method permits targeting of specific bones of the subject for bone production and preservation, faster bone production and earlier discontinuation of bone anabolic pharmaceuticals. Kits adapted for performing the method are provided.
US07776824B2
Use of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) as a therapeutic and in a method of treating, reducing, or ameliorating an injury selected from an ischemic injury, an ischemic-reperfusion injury, and a toxin-induced injury, to an organ in a patient. The invention includes administering to the patient NGAL in an amount effective to treat, reduce or ameliorate ischemic, ischemic-reperfusion, or toxin-induced injury to the organ, such as the kidney. A siderophore can be co-administered with the NGAL. The invention also relates to administering a sideophore to enhance a response to secretion of NGAL following an ischemic or toxin-induced injury to an organ in a patient.
US07776822B2
The presence of tumor nodules in organs often results in serious clinical manifestations and the permeation by cancer cells of sheaths surrounding organs often produces clinical manifestations of pleural effusion, ascites or cerebral edema. The present invention addresses this problem by providing a method for treating tumors comprising (a) intratumoral administration of a superantigen and/or (b) intrathecal or intracavitary administration of a superantigen directly into the sheath. Intratumoral superantigen results in significant and sustained reduction of the tumor size. Intrathecal administration produces significant sustained reduction of the fluid accumulation associated with clinical improvement and prolonged survival. Useful superantigen compositions for intrathecal and intratumoral injection include tumoricidally effective homologues, fragments and fusion proteins of native superantigens. Also disclosed is combined therapy that includes intratumoral or intrathecal superantigen compositions in combination with (i) intratumoral low, non-toxic doses of one or more chemotherapeutic drugs or (ii) systemic chemotherapy at reduced and non-toxic doses of chemotherapeutic drugs.
US07776812B2
The present invention provides a cleaning composition comprising a multiple emulsion system, wherein said emulsion system comprises at least two active ingredients separated in the emulsion system by an oily or aqueous phase. Also described is the use of such multiple emulsion systems as cleaning compositions, and a method of cleaning a surface using multiple emulsion systems.
US07776811B2
A cleaner composition comprises a surfactant, a sodium source, an odor neutralizer, a fragrance, and a biocide, wherein the odor neutralizer comprises a betaine compound, aminoalcohol, a polyol, and an ionone, and wherein the cleaner composition is stable at a pH of about 9.5 to about 11.5 when stored for 24 months at a temperature of about 25° C. A spray dispenser comprises the cleaner composition and a propellant. Also described is a method of cleaning, deodorizing, or a combination thereof, automobile interiors by applying the disclosed cleaner composition to an automobile interior.
US07776807B2
The present invention relates to personal care liquid cleansing compositions comprising bacterially produced microfibrous cellulose (MFC) suspending polymers which have not previously been used in personal care compositions.
US07776806B2
A hair cleansing composition containing the following Components (A) to (D): (A) a sulfate surfactant represented by the following formula (1): R1—O—(C2H4O)n—SO3M (1) (wherein, R1 represents a C10-18 alkyl or alkenyl, n stands for 0 or a positive integer and M represents sodium or ammonium), composed of from 30 to 45 wt. % of a sulfate exhibiting n=0, from 18 to 27 wt. % of a sulfate exhibiting n=1, from 10 to 20 wt. % of a sulfate exhibiting n=2 and the balance of sulfates exhibiting n=3 or greater, and containing the sulfates exhibiting n=0 to 2 in a total amount of 70 wt. % or greater based on the total sulfates, (B) a C6-18 hydrophobic sulfonic acid or salt thereof, (C) a hydroxycarboxylic acid, dicarboxylic acid or aromatic carboxylic acid, (D) an organic solvent; and having a pH of 2 or greater but less than 6. The hair cleansing composition according to the present invention is excellent in the hair feel during shampooing and effects for straightening the flyaway or waved hair tip, which has resulted from the accumulation of damages caused, for example, by hair coloring.
US07776798B2
This invention relates to the use of alkyl amido quaternary ammonium salts, and formulations thereof, as thickening agents in aqueous based fluids, especially those used in oil field applications. The quaternary ammonium salts of the present invention exhibit improved gelling characteristics.
US07776793B2
A polishing system and a method are presented for uniformly polishing efficiently at a fast rate the surface of a tape-like metallic base material of several hundred meters in length. The polishing system is provided not only with devices for causing the base material to travel continuously and applying a specified tension in the base material but also with a first polishing device for randomly polishing the target surface and a second polishing device for carrying out a final polishing on the target surface in the direction of travel of the base material. Polishing marks are formed in the direction of travel on the target surface by the final polishing.
US07776789B2
The present invention is directed to the provision of a thermal transfer sheet that can realize a high maximum transfer density in printing, does not cause blocking during storage in a roll form, can suppress, in a roll form, the transfer of a dye onto a backside layer, which faces the dye layer, does not cause an abnormal transfer in which, in printing on an object, the dye is transferred together with a dye layer onto the object, can further reduce the density in a highlight part in printing, and can form printed matter which is excellent in reproduction of gradation from highlight to shadow without any trouble. The thermal transfer sheet comprises a base material, a heat resistant slip layer provided on one side of the base material, and a dye layer provided on the other side of the base material, wherein the dye layer comprises a binder resin having a loss modulus at 60° C. of not less than 107 Pa, a loss modulus at 100° C. of not less than 106 Pa and a loss modulus at 150° C. in the range of 104 Pa to 105 Pa.
US07776788B2
A writing kit including a plastic sheet, a binding and a case with a closing element to hold the plastic sheet in the case. The case has at least one hole at a center portion of the case and the sheet has at least one hole in the sheet. A binding comprising a flexible cord is laced through the hole in the sheet and the case and a clasp slidingly engages the cord.
US07776787B2
An exhaust gas purifying catalyst has a front end high concentration coating area coated with a precious metal of a high concentration, and a rear end complex coating area coated at different precious metal densities according to the flowing amount of the exhaust gas and a method for manufacturing an exhaust gas purifying catalyst, which is capable of simultaneously coating a rear end complex coating area at different precious metal densities according to the flowing amount of the exhaust gas. The exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes a front end high concentration coating area coated with a precious metal of a high concentration and a rear end complex coating area having at least two areas of different coating densities on the rear side of the front end high concentration coating area.
US07776785B2
The invention provides a catalyst for carbon monoxide conversion, comprising from 10 to 90% by mass of a copper oxide ingredient, from 5 to 50% by mass of a zinc oxide ingredient and from 10 to 50% by mass of an aluminum oxide ingredient, and having a specific surface area of from 100 to 300 m2/g, a carbon monoxide adsorption of from 20 to 80 μmol/g, and a copper oxide crystallite diameter of at most 200 angstroms, as a catalyst suitable for carbon monoxide conversion for fully reducing carbon monoxide in the hydrogen gas obtained through reforming of a starting hydrocarbon material, for the purpose of enabling stable long-term operation of a fuel cell which uses hydrogen gas as a fuel and which is frequently and repeatedly started and stopped.
US07776782B2
A textured catalyst having a hydrothermally-stable support, a metal oxide and a catalyst component is described. Methods of conducting aqueous phase reactions that are catalyzed by a textured catalyst are also described. The invention also provides methods of making textured catalysts and methods of making chemical products using a textured catalyst.
US07776778B2
X-ray amorphous carbon is formed by evaporating carbonic material. The evaporation of carbonic material is conducted in a helium atmosphere at a supply energy flow in the range of 50 to 300 W/mm2. The energy is generated, for example, by means of an electric arc. The X-ray amorphous carbon has a starting temperature of an air oxidation, Tso, ≦320° C.; a temperature of maximal rate of an air oxidation, Tomr, ≦590° C.; a temperature of end of an air oxidation, Teo, ≦630° C.; an initial rate of non-catalytic hydrogenolysis by molecular hydrogen at 700° C., Vhin, ≧2.08% mass of carbon/h. Upon contact in a solution, 1 g of X-ray amorphous carbon consumes an amount equal to or greater than 16 mmole of MnO4− ions. Catalysts based on the X-ray amorphous carbon are used in hydrocarbon dehydrogenation and dehydrocyclization reactions.
US07776777B2
The present invention is directed to a porous catalyst support for maximizing an increase in catalytic reaction activity and a method of preparing a nano-metal-supported catalyst using the same. The method includes splitting cellulose fibers, thus preparing a catalyst support, growing carbon nanotubes on the prepared catalyst support, and supporting a nano-metal catalyst on the catalyst support having the carbon nanotubes grown thereon.
US07776776B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing catalyst platinum supported on lithium cobalt oxide for sodium borohydride hydrolysis. The catalyst with crystalline platinum is produced by mixing dihydrogen hexachloroplatinumate and black lithium-cobalt-oxide powder with the impregnation method, and then by a two-step sintering. Platinum is the major catalytic activity site, and lithium cobalt oxide is the support thereof. The manufacturing process of the present invention is simple, and can be applied to catalytic reactions or electrocatalytic reactions in fuel cells. Thereby, the present method is very practical to industry.
US07776770B2
Knit fabric compositions have now been discovered that often have a balanced combination of desirable properties. Said fibric compositions comprise fibers of olefin block interpolymers or homogeneous branched ethylene polymers or a combination thereof. The fibers are characterized by an amount of crosslinking such that the fabric is capable of being molded.
US07776760B2
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for nanowire growth. In an embodiment, methods for nanowire growth and doping are provided, including methods for epitaxial vertically oriented nanowire growth including providing a substrate material having one or more nucleating particles deposited thereon in a reaction chamber, introducing an etchant gas into the reaction chamber at a first temperature which gas aids in cleaning the surface of the substrate material, contacting the nucleating particles with at least a first precursor gas to initiate nanowire growth, and heating the alloy droplet to a second temperature, whereby nanowires are grown at the site of the nucleating particles. The etchant gas may also be introduced into the reaction chamber during growth of the wires to provide nanowires with low taper.
US07776745B2
A method for selectively etching single-crystal silicon-germanium in the presence of single-crystal silicon, including a chemical etch based on hydrochloric acid in gaseous phase at a temperature lower than approximately 700° C.
US07776740B2
A method for integrating low-temperature selective Ru metal deposition into manufacturing of semiconductor devices to improve electromigration and stress migration in bulk Cu metal. The method includes providing a patterned substrate containing a recessed feature in a dielectric layer, where the recessed feature is at least substantially filled with planarized bulk Cu metal, heat-treating the bulk Cu metal and the dielectric layer in the presence of H2, N2, or NH3, or a combination thereof, and selectively depositing a Ru metal film on the heat-treated planarized bulk Cu metal.
US07776739B2
A semiconductor device interconnection contact and fabrication method comprises fabricating one or more active devices on a semiconductor substrate. A diffusion barrier layer is deposited over the devices, followed by an Al-based metallization layer. The diffusion barrier and metallization layers are masked and etched to define interconnection traces. Mask and etch steps are then performed to remove interconnection trace metallization that is in close proximity to the active device regions, while leaving the traces' diffusion barrier layer intact to provide conductive paths to the devices, thereby reducing metallization-induced mechanical stress which might otherwise cause device instability.
US07776737B2
An integrated circuit which includes a semiconductor substrate, a first metal wiring level on the semiconductor substrate which includes metal wiring lines, an interconnect wiring level on the first metal wiring level which includes a via interconnect within an interlevel dielectric, a second metal wiring level on the interconnect wiring level which includes metal wiring lines, at least one metal wiring line having a plurality of dielectric fill shapes that reduces the cross sectional area of the at least one metal wiring line, and wherein the via interconnect makes electrical contact between a metal line in the first wiring level and the at least one metal wiring line in the second wiring level, the via interconnect being adjacent to and spaced from the plurality of dielectric fill shapes. Also disclosed is a method in which a plurality of dielectric fill shapes are placed adjacent to and spaced from a via contact area in a wiring line in a second wiring level.
US07776736B2
Disclosed are a substrate for electronic devices such as semiconductor devices and a method for processing the same, In the processing method, firstly a substrate for electronic devices is prepared and an insulating film (I) composed of a fluorocarbon (CF) is formed on the surface of the substrate. Then, fluorine (F) atoms exposed in the surface of the insulating film (I) are removed therefrom by bombarding the surface of the insulating film (I) with, for example, active species (KR+) produced in a krypton (Kr) gas plasma. In this connection, the substrate is kept out of contact with moisture at least from immediately after the insulating film forming step until completion of the fluorine removing step.
US07776734B2
A structure that may be used in substrate solder bumping comprises a substrate (110), a solder resist layer (120) disposed over the substrate, a plurality of solder resist openings (121) in a surface (122) of the solder resist layer, a conformal barrier layer (130) having a first portion (131) over the surface of the solder resist layer and a second portion (132) in the solder resist openings, a mask layer (140) over the first portion of the conformal barrier layer, and a solder material (150) in the solder resist openings over the metal layer. The conformal barrier layer acts as a barrier against interaction between the solder resist layer and the mask layer during solder reflow.
US07776728B2
A rapid thermal process method contains providing a substrate, performing a pre-heating process to at least a first portion of the substrate by means of a first laser beam, and performing a rapid heating process to the pre-heated first portion of the substrate by means of a second laser beam.
US07776727B2
Embodiments of the invention contemplate high efficiency emitters in solar cells and novel methods for forming the same. One embodiment of the improved emitter structure, called a high-low type emitter, optimizes the solar cell performance by equally providing low contact resistance to minimize ohmic losses and isolation of the high surface recombination metal-semiconductor interface from the junction to maximize cell voltage. Another embodiment, called an alternating doping type emitter, provides regions of alternating doping type for use with point contacts in the back-contact solar cells. One embodiment of the methods includes depositing and patterning a doped or undoped dielectric layer on a surface of a substrate, implanting a fast-diffusing dopant and/or a slow-diffusing dopant into the substrate either simultaneously or sequentially, and annealing the substrate to drive in the dopants. Another embodiment of the methods includes using a physical mask to form a patterned dopant distribution in a substrate.
US07776718B2
It is an object to form single-crystalline semiconductor layers with high mobility over approximately the entire surface of a glass substrate even when the glass substrate is increased in size. A first single-crystalline semiconductor substrate is bonded to a substrate having an insulating surface, the first single-crystalline semiconductor substrate is separated such that a first single-crystalline semiconductor layer is left remaining over the substrate having an insulating surface, a second single-crystalline semiconductor substrate is bonded to the substrate having an insulating surface so as to overlap with at least part of the first single-crystalline semiconductor layer provided over the substrate having an insulating surface, and the second single-crystalline semiconductor substrate is separated such that a second single-crystalline semiconductor layer is left remaining over the substrate having an insulating surface.
US07776710B2
A resistivity of an epitaxial layer in a trench is changed in a stepwise manner by reducing a quantity of an impurity diffused into the epitaxial layer in the trench from a semiconductor wafer in a stepwise manner, thereby suppressing an influence of auto-doping from the semiconductor wafer.An epitaxial layer 17 is grown in a trench 16 of a semiconductor wafer 10 having a trench structure by gradually reducing a temperature in a temperature in the range of 400 to 1150° C. by a vapor growth method while supplying a silane gas as a raw material gas, thereby filling the epitaxial layer 17 in the trench 16.
US07776706B2
A method of forming a trench memory cell includes forming a trench capacitor within a substrate material, the trench capacitor including a node dielectric layer formed within a trench and a conductive capacitor electrode material formed within the trench in contact with the node dielectric layer; forming a strap mask so as cover one side of the trench and removing one or more materials from an uncovered opposite side of the trench; and forming a conductive buried strap material within the trench; wherein the strap mask is patterned in a manner such that a single-sided buried strap is defined within the trench, the single-sided buried strap configured in a manner such that the deep trench capacitor is electrically accessible at only one side of the trench.
US07776694B2
A semiconductor device including vertical channel transistor and a method for forming the transistor, which can significantly decrease the resistance of a word line is provided. A vertical channel transistor includes a substrate including pillars each of which has a lower portion corresponding to a channel region. A gate insulation layer is formed over the substrate including the pillars. A metal layer having a low resistance is used for forming a surrounding gate electrode to decrease resistance of a word line. A barrier metal layer is formed between a gate insulation layer and a surrounding gate electrode so that deterioration of characteristics of the insulation layer is prevented. A world line is formed connecting gate electrodes formed over the barrier layer to surround the lower portion of each pillar.
US07776691B2
The object is simplification of a manufacturing process for nonvolatile memory by reducing additional processes for forming a charge storage structure, and downsizing of nonvolatile memory. The solution is a manufacturing method for semiconductor memory device including a process for forming sequentially a first oxide film 102, a first nitride film 103 on a semiconductor substrate 101, a process for removing the first oxide film 102 and the first nitride film 103 in an element isolating region 1010B, a process for overhanging the first nitride film 103 over the first oxide film 102 by removing the edge of the first oxide film 102 by cleaning or wet etching, a process for forming a first insulating film 105 (element isolating insulating film) so that a lower density part 105c having a lower film density than other parts thereof can be formed in the side part of the fist oxide film 102, a process for exposing the lower density part 105c, a process for forming a hole in the first insulating film 105 by eroding the lower concentration part 105c using cleaning or wet etching, and a process for forming charge storage film in the hole.
US07776685B2
The invention is directed to particular polymer compositions that may be generally characterized by the formula: wherein the variables L, M and N represent the relative molar fractions of the monomers and satisfy the expressions 0
US07776680B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method of forming a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device that has at least one high aspect ratio gate structure with a void-free and seam-free metal gate conductor layer positioned on top of a relatively thin high-k gate dielectric layer. These method embodiments incorporate a gate replacement strategy that uses an electroplating process to fill, from the bottom upward, a high-aspect ratio gate stack opening with a metal gate conductor layer. The source of electrons for the electroplating process is a current passed directly through the back side of the substrate. This eliminates the need for a seed layer and ensures that the metal gate conductor layer will be formed without voids or seams. Furthermore, depending upon the embodiment, the electroplating process is performed under illumination to enhance electron flow to a given area (i.e., to enhance plating) or in darkness to prevent electron flow to a given area (i.e., to prevent plating).
US07776677B1
In one embodiment, an EEPROM device is formed to include a metal layer having an opening therethrough. The opening overlies a portion of a floating gate of the EEPROM device.
US07776672B2
On the top surface of a thin semiconductor wafer, top surface structures forming a semiconductor chip are formed. The top surface of the wafer is affixed to a supporting substrate with a double-sided adhesive tape. Then, from the bottom surface of the thin semiconductor wafer, a trench, which becomes a scribing line, is formed by wet anisotropic etching so that side walls of the trench are exposed. On the side walls of the trench with the crystal face exposed, an isolation layer with a conductivity type different from that of the semiconductor wafer for holding a reverse breakdown voltage is formed simultaneously with a collector region of the bottom surface diffused layer by ion implantation, followed by annealing with laser irradiation. The side walls form a substantially V-shaped or trapezoidal-shaped cross section, with an angle of the side wall relative to the supporting substrate being 30-70°. The double-sided adhesive tape is then removed from the top surface to produce semiconductor chips. With such a manufacturing method, a reverse-blocking semiconductor device having high reliability can be formed.
US07776668B2
A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display includes simultaneously forming a gate electrode and a gate bus line on a transparent dielectric substrate, simultaneously forming a channel layer, an ohmic contact layer, and source/drain electrodes by forming a gate insulation film, an amorphous silicon film, a doped amorphous silicon film, and a metal film on the transparent dielectric substrate on which the gate electrode and the gate bus line are formed and etching the metal film, the amorphous silicon film, and the doped amorphous silicon film, and forming a pixel electrode by forming a protective film and a transparent metal film on the transparent dielectric substrate upon which the source/drain electrodes are formed and finely etching the transparent metal film through a lift-off process using a stripper solution.
US07776659B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a first memory cell array region and a second memory cell array region, the method includes forming an active region on a surface layer of a semiconductor substrate, forming a first word line extending in a first direction on the gate insulating film in the first memory cell array region, and forming a second word line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction on the gate insulating film in the second memory cell array region, wherein the ion implantation into the active region is performed from a direction that is inclined from a direction vertical to the surface of the semiconductor substrate and is oblique with respect to both the first direction and the second direction.
US07776654B2
To provide a method of producing an electronic apparatus that is inexpensive, contributes to high productivity, and can achieve good communication characteristics. A method of producing an electronic apparatus composed of an IC chip (100) having an external electrode formed on each of a set of opposing surfaces of the IC chip; an antenna circuit (201) having a slit formed in it; and a short circuit plate (300) for electrically connecting the IC chip (100) and the antenna circuit (201). In the method, a disc-like conveyor (703) has hands (704) on its outer periphery, and each hand (704) is capable of holding a single IC chip (100). The hands (704) hold IC chips (100) individually, and the IC chips (100) are conveyed by rotation of the disc-like conveyor (703). As a result, a plurality of IC chips (100) whose maximum number is equal to the number of the hands (704) can be simultaneously conveyed.
US07776652B2
Methods for stacking wire-bonded integrated circuit dice on flip-chip bonded integrated circuit dice
An inventive electronic device, such as a multi-chip module (MCM), a Single In-line Memory Module (SIMM), or a Dual In-line Memory Module (DIMM), includes a base, such as a printed circuit board, having a surface on which flip-chip pads and wire-bondable pads are provided. The flip-chip pads define an area on the surface of the base at least partially bounded by the wire-bondable pads. A first integrated circuit (IC) die is flip-chip bonded to the flip-chip pads, and a second IC die is back-side attached to the first IC die and then wire-bonded to the wire-bondable pads. As a result, the flip-chip mounted first IC die is stacked with the second IC die in a simple, novel manner.
US07776650B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method for fabricating a system in package. In one embodiment, the method comprises preparing a printed circuit board (PCB) strip comprising a plurality of individual PCBs, stacking a plurality of first semiconductor chips and forming an encapsulant on a first surface of a first individual PCB of the plurality of individual PCBs to form a first semiconductor chip stack structure comprising a first semiconductor chip stack, and performing a first test adapted to test one of the first semiconductor chips in the first semiconductor chip stack. The method further comprises flip chip bonding a second semiconductor chip to a second surface of the first individual PCB if the first semiconductor chip stack structure meets a test standard based on a result of the first test, and dividing the first semiconductor chip stack structure to form a system in package.
US07776637B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting diode, wherein a laser lift-off (LLO) layer and an epi-layer are formed on a nitride semiconductor substrate, and the nitride semiconductor substrate is then separated through a laser lift-off process, thereby improving the characteristics of the epi-layer and enabling to fabricate a high-grade and high-efficiency light emitting diode. Further, the LLO layer thus prepared is removed using a laser beam so that the relatively expensive nitride semiconductor substrate can be re-used, thereby reducing manufacturing costs.
US07776634B2
A semiconductor laser with a semiconductor substrate, a laser layer arranged on the semiconductor substrate, a waveguide arranged parallel to the laser layer and a strip shaped grating structure is disclosed. The laser layer, the waveguide and the grating are arranged in a configuration which results in weak coupling between the laser light and the grating structure, so that the laser light interacts with an increased number of grating elements. A process for the production of such a semiconductor laser is also disclosed.
US07776622B2
A semiconductor device fabrication method that improves the efficiency of semiconductor device production. A plurality of wafer substrates are set and a process for fabricating semiconductor devices each having a ferroelectric capacitor is begun. After ferroelectric layers are formed over the plurality of wafer substrates, the ferroelectric layers formed are damaged. The plurality of wafer substrates are then rearranged and treatment is performed. In each step in which the ferroelectric layers formed may be damaged, the plurality of wafer substrates are rearranged and treatment is performed. As a result, retention characteristic variations among wafer substrates in the same lot are reduced and the productivity of semiconductor devices is improved.
US07776620B2
Novel hapten-carrier conjugates are capable of inducing the production of antibodies, in vivo, that specifically bind to nicotine. These conjugates comprise a nicotine hapten conjugated to an immunogenic carrier protein. The novel conjugates preserve the chirality of nicotine in its native (S)-(−) state, and have good stability properties. The conjugates are useful in formulating vaccines for active immunization, that are used to prevent and treat nicotine addiction. The antibodies raised in response to the nicotine hapten-carrier conjugate are used for passive immunization. These antibodies are administered for prevention and treatment of nicotine addiction.
US07776607B2
A 15 kDa selenium-containing protein (“selenoprotein”) is disclosed. The protein is shown to be differentially expressed in cancer cells, such as prostate cancer cells. There is a correlation between the presence of a polymorphism at nucleotide positions 811 and 1125 of the 15 kDa selenoprotein gene, and the presence of cancer. This polymorphism is more prevalent in the African American population. The determination of an individual's genotype may be used as an indicator of the need for dietary selenium supplementation to inhibit tumor development. Compositions including the isolated protein, specific binding agents that recognize the protein, as well as underlying nucleic acid sequences are presented, as are methods of using such compositions.
US07776604B2
The present invention relates to a method of selecting and/or developing particulate material for a composition comprising the particulate material and a matrix by using at least one homogeneous interaction parameter alone or in combination with at least one heterogeneous interaction parameter. These parameters may comprise at least one interfacial potential property value, at least one value derived from an interfacial potential property value, at least one component of an interfacial potential property value, or combinations thereof for a particulate material and for the matrix. Process and performance maps, as well as methods for mapping, are also disclosed.
US07776601B2
The invention concerns a method which consists in determining ageing an ageing index of a blood bag (11, 62), to determine whether the blood bag is or not suitable for transfusion to a patient. The ageing index is calculated by connecting a silicon chip provided with a loop antenna integral with the blood bag (11, 62) with an electronic communication device (2, 8, 17, 12, 20, 24), itself equipped with a loop antenna, connected to a computer (9, 13) containing appropriate computing software elements. Said ageing index is regularly calculated at the blood transfusion center (16) from the sample (1), until it is removed from storage (7) to be sent to the health-care institution (18) and to the operating theatre (19).
US07776600B2
Provided is a method for production of nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite particles, and nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite particles produced according to the method. The nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite particles exhibit substantially superior cell transformation abilities as compared to known and commercially-available calcium phosphate kits. The nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite particles also find use in tissue engineering applications, for example bone and tooth engineering and repair applications.
US07776594B2
A method and apparatus for preparing a bone graft composite using an infusion chamber. A modular tube having a porous material contained therein and having removable end caps is provided. Bone marrow aspirate or other bone morphogenic protein containing suspensions may be infused into the tube. A filter on one end of the tube prevents the fluid from escaping while permitting air to be expelled from the tube as it is filled with bone marrow aspirate. Once infused into the tube, the bone marrow aspirate is allowed to settle to a putty or paste-like consistency, the putty and material together forming a bone graft composite.
US07776592B2
The present disclosure provides human renal stem cells. Also described are human renal stem cells isolated from the papillary region of the human kidney and methods of isolating the same. Also described are methods for culturing, characterizing, and differentiating the same, including methods for identifying human renal stem cells that are positive for Nestin and CD133, and methods for allowing the cells to differentiate into neurons.
US07776590B2
A stable eukaryotic cell line that expresses hERG and exhibits a stable current under electrophysiological test conditions is provided.
US07776578B2
Provided in the present invention is an alkaline protease wherein an amino acid residue at (a) position 65, (b) position 101, (c) position 163, (d) position 170, (e) position 171, (f) position 273, (g) position 320, (h) position 359 or (i) position 387 of SEQ. ID NO:1 or at a position corresponding thereto has been selected from the following amino acid residues: position (a): proline, position (b): asparagine, position (c): histidine, aspartic acid, phenylalanine, lysine, asparagine, serine, isoleucine, leucine, glutamine, threonine and valine, position (d): valine and leucine, position (e): alanine, glutamic acid, glycine and threonine, position (f): isoleucine, glycine and threonine, position (g): phenylalanine, valine, threonine, leucine, isoleucine and glycine, position (h): serine, leucine, valine, isoleucine and glutamine, position (i): alanine, lysine, glutamine, glutamic acid, arginine and histidine.The present invention makes it possible to efficiently produce and provide alkaline proteases having activity even in the presence of a highly concentrated fatty acid, and exhibiting excellent detergency for the removal of a complex stain containing protein, sebum and the like, and therefore being useful as an enzyme to be incorporated in a detergent.
US07776577B2
The invention provides isolated nucleic acids molecules and proteins, designated 27411, 23413, 22438, 23553, 25278, 26212, NARC SC1, NARC 10A, NARC 1, NARC 12, NARC 13, NARC17, NARC 25, NARC 3, NARC 4, NARC 7, NARC 8, NARC 11, NARC 14A, NARC 15, NARC 16, NARC 19, NARC 20, NARC 26, NARC 27, NARC 28, NARC 30, NARC 5, NARC 6, NARC 9, NARC 10C, NARC 8B, NARC 9, NARC2A, NARC 16B, NARC 1C, NARC 1A, NARC 25, 86604 and 32222 nucleic acid molecules and proteins. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing said nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, nonhuman transgenic animals in which a said genes have been introduced or disrupted, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and antibodies to said proteins. Diagnostic and therapeutic methods utilizing compositions of the invention are also provided.
US07776576B2
This invention relates to amylase polypeptides, and nucleic acids encoding the polpypeptides and uses thereof. The amylases of the present invention have been engineered to have more beneficial qualities. Specifically, the amylases of the current invention show an altered thermostability.
US07776568B2
Extended rhodamine compounds exhibiting favorable fluorescence characteristics having the structure are disclosed. In addition, novel intermediates for synthesis of these dyes are disclosed, such intermediates having the structure In addition, methods of making and using the dyes as fluorescent labels are disclosed.
US07776565B2
Methods for manipulating carbohydrate processing pathways in cells of interest are provided. Methods are directed at manipulating multiple pathways involved with the sialylation reaction by using recombinant DNA technology and substrate feeding approaches to enable the production of sialylated glycoproteins in cells of interest. These carbohydrate engineering efforts encompass the implementation of new carbohydrate bioassays, the examination of a selection of insect cell lines and the use of bioinformatics to identify gene sequences for critical processing enzymes. The compositions comprise cells of interest producing sialylated glycoproteins. The methods and compositions are useful for heterologous expression of glycoproteins.
US07776563B2
The present invention provides methods and agents for treating subjects who have or are at risk of developing or having cardiovascular disease. Such agents inhibit binding of myeloperoxidase (MPO) to a molecule comprising the MPO binding site of apolipoprotein A-1 (apoA-1) and include a peptide fragment of apoA-1 comprising at least 4 contiguous amino acids in SEQ ID. NO: 2, a modified form of the apo-1 fragment comprising one or more D amino acids, a retro-inverso form of the apoA-1 peptide fragment, an organo-mimetic of the apoA-1 peptide fragment, a peptide-mimetic of the apoA1 peptide fragment, or a nucleic acid encoding the apo A-1 peptide fragment. The present invention also provides methods of identifying or screening test agents for treating subjects having or at risk of having or developing CVD. The method comprises incubating one or more test agents and MPO with a molecule comprising the MPO binding site of apoA-1 under conditions which permit binding of MPO to the MPO binding site and determining whether one or more of the agents inhibit such binding.
US07776559B2
A disposable blood test device comprises a substrate configured for carrying a chemical reagent and circuitry formed on the substrate. The circuitry comprises a sensor portion associated with the chemical reagent to enable measurement of at least one of a presence and a concentration of a blood analyte, and an information storage portion configured to store information indicative of a property of the chemical reagent.
US07776556B2
An improved method for diagnosing autoimmune or genetic diseases is provided in this disclosure. In particular, a method to diagnose diseases affecting the tissues of organs selected from the group of spleen, brain, heart, kidney, thyroid, eye, skin, intestine, liver, pancreas, adrenal gland, prostate and lungs or from the tissues selected from the group of muscles and bones or other tissues. More specifically, the present invention provides an improved method for diagnosing diseases affecting neuromuscular junctions.
US07776540B2
Provided are methods for diagnosing the propensity of a subject to develop skin inflammation, in particular, psoriasis. Also provided are methods of treatment with antagonists of IL-17 and/or IL-23.
US07776536B2
The present invention provides methods of determining relative copy number of target nucleic acids and precise mapping of chromosomal abnormalities associated with disease. The methods of the invention use target nucleic acids immobilized on a solid surface, to which a sample comprising two sets of differentially labeled nucleic acids are hybridized. The hybridization of the labeled nucleic acids to the solid surface is then detected using standard techniques.
US07776531B1
The present invention provides a method for detecting a target analyte by providing a substrate having attached polynucleotides and a stabilization polymer layer; removing the stabilization polymer layer; contacting the substrate with a target analyte; and detecting the target analyte.
US07776527B2
The present invention relates to microbial infection, and in particular, the reduction of apoptosis associated with microbial infection, the screening of agents that reduce apoptosis, and the treatment and analysis of microbial infection in vivo. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to agents including but not limited to reducing the activity of Protein Kinase R.
US07776526B2
Method of dissociating the extracellular haemoglobin molecule of annelids, e.g. Arenicola marina, which can be used to obtain the protein chains forming the molecule. The method includes a step of bringing an extracellular haemoglobin sample from annelids, e.g. Arenicola marina, into contact with at least one dissociating agent, e.g. a mixture containing dithiothreitol (DTT) or tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine (TCEP) hydrochloride or beta-mercaptoethanol and a dissociation buffer for a sufficient length of time in order to separate the protein chains from one another.
US07776523B2
Human endogenous retroviruses of the HML-2 family show up-regulated expression in prostate tumors. This finding can be used in prostate cancer screening, diagnosis and therapy.
US07776522B2
Methods for diagnosis of HPV infection in a subject are provided. HPV infection in a subject can be determined by generating mass profile data for a biological sample from the subject and correlating the mass profile data with reference mass profiles to detect the presence or absence, and/or quantity of at least one biomarker associated with HPV infection. Methods for detecting at least one biomarker associated with HPV infection in a biological sample are also provided.
US07776521B1
Disclosed herein is a newly isolated human coronavirus (SARS-CoV), the causative agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Also provided are the nucleic acid sequence of the SARS-CoV genome and the amino acid sequences of the SARS-CoV open reading frames, as well as methods of using these molecules to detect a SARS-CoV and detect infections therewith. Immune stimulatory compositions are also provided, along with methods of their use.
US07776518B2
The present invention includes a method for diagnosing cancer and predicting recurrent cancer comprising detecting the presence of survivin in the biological fluid of a patient. The present invention also provides kits comprising one or more agents that detect survivin polypeptide or survivin nucleic acid and a container for collecting biological fluid for testing.
US07776517B2
First, a display panel having a pixel region and a controlling circuit region is formed. Then a plurality of pixels arranged in array is formed in the pixel region. A plurality of orientation patterns that do not overlap the pixels is formed. Finally an input device is provided. The input device has a sensor adapted to detect the orientation patterns and generates at least a signal adapted to input data.
US07776505B2
The present invention addresses many of the current limitations in sub-100 nm lithographic techniques by providing novel resists that achieve high sensitivity, high contrast, high resolution, and high dry-etch resistance for pattern transfer to a substrate. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a polymeric resist comprising an adamantyl component and a photoacid generating component.
US07776492B2
A method of manufacturing a photomask includes: ejecting droplets of a liquid containing a light-shielding material at predetermined positions on a substrate using a droplet ejection method, and drying the liquid to form a light-shielding pattern on the substrate, the light-shielding pattern containing the light-shielding material.
US07776486B2
A separator material effective for decreasing the weight of fuel cells is provided which is lightweight, has good corrosion resistance, and exhibits a minimized increase in electrical contact resistance during use for a long period. Titanium or a titanium alloy is prepared by melting so as to contain not greater than 5 mass % B, thereby forming a titanium-based material in which fine TiB-type boride particles are precipitated and dispersed. The material is then etched in an aqueous acidic solution such that some of the TiB-type boride particles are exposed on the surface through the passive film formed thereon.
US07776478B2
A method and apparatus for making thin-film batteries having composite multi-layered electrolytes with soft electrolyte between hard electrolyte covering the negative and/or positive electrode, and the resulting batteries. In some embodiments, foil-core cathode sheets each having a cathode material (e.g., LiCoO2) covered by a hard electrolyte on both sides, and foil-core anode sheets having an anode material (e.g., lithium metal) covered by a hard electrolyte on both sides, are laminated using a soft (e.g., polymer gel) electrolyte sandwiched between alternating cathode and anode sheets. A hard glass-like electrolyte layer obtains a smooth hard positive-electrode lithium-metal layer upon charging, but when very thin, have randomly spaced pinholes/defects. When the hard layers are formed on both the positive and negative electrodes, one electrode's dendrite-short-causing defects on are not aligned with the other electrode's defects. The soft electrolyte layer both conducts ions across the gap between hard electrolyte layers and fills pinholes.
US07776477B2
A fuel cell includes a reaction layer composed of a catalyst carrier, formed of a compound having inorganic electron conductor units and inorganic proton conductor units in its molecular structure, and a catalyst supported on the catalyst carrier.
US07776475B2
A lithium rechargeable battery includes a positive electrode that intercalates and deintercalates lithium and a negative electrode that intercalates and deintercalates lithium and has a current collector including Cu or a Cu alloy. In addition, the battery includes a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte that transfers lithium ions.
US07776473B2
A silicon-silicon oxide-lithium composite comprises a silicon-silicon oxide composite having such a structure that silicon grains having a size of 0.5-50 nm are dispersed in silicon oxide, the silicon-silicon oxide composite being doped with lithium. Using the silicon-silicon oxide-lithium composite as a negative electrode material, a lithium ion secondary cell having a high initial efficiency and improved cycle performance can be constructed.
US07776467B2
An inter-battery connection device for connecting terminals of two batteries (1a, 1b) arranged with their axes parallel to each other. The inter-battery connection device includes an inter-battery connection plate (11) that connects the battery case bottom (2) and the sealing plate (3) of the two batteries. The inter-battery connection plate (11) includes welding portions (4) at the ends of its base plate (6) for welding to the case bottom (2) and the sealing plate (3), respectively. An intermediate metal plate (7) is joined to the middle part of the base plate (6) between the welding portions (4, 4) to form an intermediate portion (5) having a greater thickness than each welding portion (4). The inter-battery connection device has reduced electric resistance while achieving improved weldability.
US07776459B2
A turbine engine component has a substrate and a thermal barrier coating deposited onto the substrate. The thermal barrier coating comprises a ceramic material having a sodium containing compound incorporated therein. The sodium containing compound is present in a concentration so that when molten sand reacts with the coating, sodium silicate is formed as the by product.
US07776456B2
The present invention provides an OLED with an emissive region comprising a plurality of sets of organic layers, each set comprising a non-continuous emissive layer and a neat non-emissive layer. The present invention also provides an OLED with an emissive region comprising a plurality of sets of organic layers, each set comprising an emissive layer and a neat non-emissive layer, wherein the energy gaps of the emissive layer and the non-emissive layer are not nested. The present invention also provides a method for making OLEDs by depositing on a substrate an anode, a plurality of sets of organic layers, each set comprising an emissive layer and a non-emissive layer wherein each layer is deposited sequentially, and a cathode.
US07776450B2
A thermal spraying powder contains 30 to 50% by mass of chromium carbide with the remainder being an alloy containing chromium, aluminum, yttrium, and at least one of cobalt and nickel. The thermal spraying powder has an average particle size of 20 to 60 μm. The thermal spraying powder may contain 20% by mass or less of yttrium oxide in place of a part of the alloy. A thermal spray coating obtained by thermal spraying of the thermal spraying powder, particularly, a thermal spray coating obtained by high-velocity flame spraying of the thermal spraying powder is suitable for the purpose of a hearth roll.
US07776447B2
Composite materials, and fuser members incorporating the composite materials comprise a polyimide substrate, a metal layer, and a primer layer between the polyimide substrate and the metal layer. The primer layer comprises metal particles dispersed in a polymer, and adheres the metal layer to the polyimide substrate.
US07776446B2
A multilayer film includes a first layer including a blend of a polyolefin and a diene elastomer, a second layer directly contacting and directly bonded to the first layer, and a third layer directly contacting and directly bonded to the first layer. The second and third layers include a fluoropolymer.
US07776444B2
An optically transparent and electrically conductive single walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) film comprises a plurality of interpenetrated single walled carbon nanotubes, wherein for a 100 nm film the film has sufficient interpenetration to provide a 25° C. sheet resistance of less than 200 ohm/sq. The film also provides at least 20% optical transmission throughout a wavelength range from 0.4 μm to 5 μm.
US07776440B2
A spring with high durability has a coating film composed of an epoxy resin powder coating containing softening agent which contains an epoxy resin and a softening agent comprising a thermoplastic resin for improving impact resistance of the coating film. A method of coating a spring with high durability comprises a coating step of making an epoxy resin powder coating containing softening agent which contains an epoxy resin and a softening agent comprising a thermoplastic resin for improving impact resistance of a coating film adhere to a surface on which the coating film is formed, and a baking step of baking the epoxy resin powder coating containing softening agent adhered to the surface.
US07776436B2
A hardcoat for a plastic substrate film is provided which has good suitability for printing and satisfactory hardness, can prevent influence of the deformation of a plastic substrate film from extending to the hardcoat, and is resistant to cracking and peeling. The hardcoat is produced from a coating component containing one or more organic components having a polymerizable functional group and an inorganic filler, at least one of the organic components being free from a hydrogen bond-forming group. In the hard coat, the content of the inorganic filler in the surface of the hardcoat is higher than that in the interior of the hardcoat. The hardcoat can be applied to antireflection films and hologram labels.
US07776427B2
The invention provides a multi-layered transfer belt for image forming apparatus including a base layer, an elastic layer (intermediate layer) and a surface layer, having a high surface resistivity, an excellent toner releasing property and an excellent non-contaminating property. The transfer belt for image forming apparatus is characterized in including, on the base layer, an elastic layer containing an elastomer and a surface layer formed by a fluorine-containing polymer, and preferably further characterized in that the elastic layer is formed by an elastomer rendered ionic conductive, or in that a binder layer is included between the elastic layer and the surface layer, and that the binder layer is formed by a material having a melting point equal to or lower than a thermal decomposition point of the material constituting the elastic layer and a thermal decomposition point equal to or higher than a melting point of the material constituting the surface layer.
US07776423B2
A decorating sheet comprises a transparent resin substrate sheet 1 and a glossy layer 2 laminated to the back surface of the transparent resin substrate sheet 1, and the front surface of the transparent resin substrate sheet 1 is divided into high-gloss portions H and low-gloss portions L. The transparent resin substrate sheet 1 is thick at the high-gloss portions and thin at the low-gloss portions, and, owing to these portions, the decorating sheet can provide a pattern that is visually sensed as if it were a three-dimensional pattern. This transparent resin substrate sheet 1 is composed of two layers, a crystalline resin layer 11 and a non-crystalline resin layer 12. A decorated molded product Pd can be obtained by laminating this decorating sheet to a resin molded product 5.
