US07797749B2
A combination of more frequent and less frequent security monitoring may be used to defeat worm or virus attacks. At periodic intervals, a risk assessment scan may be implemented to determine whether or not a worm attack has occurred. Prior thereto, an intermediate detection by an anomaly detection agent may determine whether or not a worm attack may have occurred. If a potential worm attack may have occurred, intermediate action, such as throttling of traffic, may occur. Then, at the next risk assessment scan, a determination may be made as to whether the attack is actually occurring and, if so, more effective and performance altering techniques may be utilized to counter the attack.
US07797746B2
Systems and methods for an anti-virus detection module that can detect known undesired computer files in encrypted, compressed, password-protected and/or damaged archives are provided. According to one embodiment, an archive file is scanned without decrypting and without decompressing contents of the archive file. A type and associated structure of the archive file are identified. Then, based on the identified type and the associated structure, descriptive information from the archive file is obtained describing one or more contained files. The descriptive information for each of the contained files is evaluated to determine if any of the contained files are malicious or undesired computer files by comparing the descriptive information to signatures of known malicious or undesired computer files. Finally, an attempt is made to prevent any of the contained files determined to be a malicious or undesired computer file from being opened.
US07797740B2
Provided are apparatuses and methods in a mobile communication and content capturing device for controlling ownership and use of captured content. A mobile device capturing content of a user of a target device may automatically request authorization to use and own the captured content from the target device and user. The mobile device may detect the target device by comparing metadata associated with the captured content with device information of a target device. Alternatively, the capture device may communicate with a server to facilitate the authorization request process. The capture device may further establish a piconet with one or more intermediate wireless devices to detect and request authorization from a target device outside of the capture device's wireless range. Tokens may further be implemented to reduce transmission and processing times of various communication information including authorization requests and content files.
US07797735B2
This invention is directed to provide a method for enabling an administrator to monitor and selectively limit the computer functions available to a user. The method is carried out on a personal computer by an administrator, and administrator decisions can be enforced on other personal computers in a local network. The invention enables an administrator to restrict a user's logon hours, logon duration, access to computer functions, and access to applications based on content rating. In addition, the administrator may temporarily restrict or extend normally allowed access privileges. The invention also allows for the monitoring, auditing, and reporting of a user's computer function usage to an administrator.
US07797732B2
A system for a plurality of users to share resources with access, control and configuration based on pre-defined relationships of trust between the users of the system. A computer-based authority provides the services of authentication, identification and verification of each user within network. Processes are described that leads to the formation of an electronic community, which facilitates electronic communication and transactions in a defined manner.
US07797721B2
A subscription system for providing content by subscription using an Internet connection is disclosed. The subscription system includes a content object store and an interface. The content object store stores a plurality of content objects. The interface is configured to receive a request to initiate a subscription with a first address for a particular account using the Internet. The subscription allows use of the plurality of content objects by the particular account without individually charging for the plurality of content objects. It is verified that a first connection speed is greater than a first threshold value before allowing the subscription, where the first connection speed is over the Internet with the first address. A request to access the subscription of the particular account is received from a second address with the Internet. It is verified that a second connection speed is greater than a second threshold value. The second connection speed is over the Internet with the second address. The second threshold value is associated with at least one of a product or a level of service for the subscription.
US07797717B1
A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within the unified system, parallel processing computer systems, each having an input (e.g., 77) controlling a plurality of computers (e.g., 205), generate and output user information at receiver stations. Under broadcast control, local computers (73, 205), combine user information selectively into prior art communications to exhibit personalized mass media programming at video monitors (202), speakers (263), printers (221), etc. At intermediate transmission stations (e.g., cable television stations), signals in network broadcasts and from local inputs (74, 77, 97, 98) cause control processors (71) and computers (73) to selectively automate connection and operation of receivers (53), recorder/players (76), computers (73), generators (82), strippers (81), etc. At receiver stations, signals in received transmissions and from local inputs (225, 218, 22) cause control processors (200) and computers (205) to automate connection and operation of converters (201), tuners (215), decryptors (224), recorder/players (217), computers (205), furnaces (206), etc. Processors (71, 200) meter and monitor availability and usage of programming.
US07797711B2
A graphical user interface (GUI) is described. The GUI includes first GUI elements that provide a visual representation of the nodes of an audio/video device. In response to user input, a signal is caused to be routed between nodes by manipulating circuitry within the audio/video device. Second GUI elements provide a visual representation of the signals being routed within the electronic device between pairs of first GUI elements (e.g., between nodes). As a result, the user can readily understand which nodes are connected to each other. Thus, for example, a user can easily visualize which source node is providing input to a target node and, by selecting the appropriate GUI elements, can just as easily switch from one source to another or from one target to another.
US07797706B2
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for executing a handler in a multi-threaded process handling a number of threads in a manner that avoids deadlocks. A value equal to the number of threads executing in the data processing system is set. The value is decremented each time a lock count for a thread within the number of threads is zero. A thread within the number of threads is suspended if the thread requests a lock and has a lock count of zero. A procedure, such as a handler, is executed in response to all of the threads within the number of threads having no locks.
US07797704B2
According to at least one embodiment, a method comprises a first thread desiring to perform work using a resource. The first thread determines whether another thread holds a lock on the resource, and if another thread (“blocking thread”) holds a lock on the resource, the work is transferred to the blocking thread for performance of the work by the blocking thread using the resource.
US07797696B1
Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media for dynamically updating a computer system and firmware image utilizing an option ROM (“OPROM”) data structure. When a hardware configuration of a computer system is modified, a corresponding OPROM within the firmware image is modified. An OPROM data structure is created in a firmware image. Each data structure contains identification data corresponding to the data structure as well as an OPROM entry for each OPROM within the firmware image. Each OPROM entry has identification data pointing to the corresponding OPROM and identification data corresponding to the OPROM and associated hardware device. Firmware program modules utilize the OPROM data structure to identify the correct OPROMs for use with the computer system hardware configuration. An application searches for a unique signature associated with the OPROM data structure and modifies OPROM entries as hardware devices and associated OPROMs are added to and removed from the computer system.
US07797689B2
Those files accessed by tools during a build process are invisibly tracked in such a way that the information can then be used to drive an incremental build of just enough files to bring the build fully up to date. The tracking information includes the association between distinct tool processes. Each build tool has its own file activity tracked, each thread of operation within tools are tracked separately and a tracking log is associated with a chain of tool processes so that when the tracking logs are interpreted the context in which they were created is preserved.
US07797673B2
Graphical programming or modeling environments in which a coding standard can be applied to graphical programs or models are disclosed. The present invention provides mechanisms for applying the coding standard to graphical programs/models in the graphical programming/modeling environments. The mechanisms may detect violations of the coding standard in the graphical model and report such violations to the users. The mechanisms may automatically correct the graphical model to remove the violations from the graphical model. The mechanisms may also automatically avoid the violations in the simulation and/or code generation of the graphical model.
US07797661B2
A method and apparatus for describing and managing properties of a transformer coil. A metadata text file is generated which contains metadata describing objects of the transformer coil. The objects are arranged hierarchically and have one or more related properties attached therewith. One or more properties of one object refer to one or more other properties of the same object or of other objects by means of paths defined in the metadata text file. The generated metadata text file is then stored.
US07797658B2
A method and apparatus for executing multithreaded algorithm to provide static timing analysis of a chip design includes analyzing a chip design to identify various components and nodes associated with the components. A node tree is built with a plurality of nodes. The node tree identifies groups of nodes that are available in different levels. A size of node grouping for a current level is determined by looking up the node tree. Testing data for parallel processing of different size of node groupings using varied thread counts is compiled. An optimum thread count for the current level based on the size of node grouping in the node tree is identified from compiled testing data. Dynamic parallel processing of nodes in the current level is performed using the number of threads identified by the optimum thread count. An acceptable design of the chip is determined by the dynamic parallel processing.
US07797651B1
A computer-implemented method of verifying electrical isolation of portions of a circuit design for a programmable integrated circuit (IC) can include translating a circuit design into a circuit design bitstream specifying a plurality of regions, wherein the regions are to be isolated from one another. Routing resources of the programmable IC that are not used by the circuit design can be identified. A fence bitstream can be generated that specifies the unused routing resources. The circuit design bitstream can be compared with the fence bitstream. An indication of whether the plurality of regions of the programmable IC are isolated can be output according to the comparison.
US07797646B2
A method is disclosed for utilizing mixed low threshold voltage (low-Vt) and high threshold voltage (high-Vt) devices in a cell-based design such that a tradeoff of both the circuit speed and power performance may be achieved. Using cells having non-uniform threshold devices for designing circuit, the speed or/and power optimization is comparable to fully custom designs.
US07797642B1
A method, system, and graphical user interface for meeting-spot-related contact lists are disclosed. A “meeting spot” is a specific physical location where two or more people can arrange to meet face to face. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which a computer generates a contact list for a first user, wherein the contact list includes an identifier for a meeting spot and an adjacent list of contact information for other users associated with the meeting spot.
US07797641B2
A mobile terminal has a controller, a display and an input device connected to the controller, and a digital object browser for browsing among a plurality of available digital objects. A first representation and a second representation of each of the digital objects are presentable on a display screen. The first representations of the digital objects are presented along a predefined path on the display screen, the first representation of a focused one of the digital objects being shown in a focus area on the display screen. For the focused digital object, the second representation thereof is presented in a preview area on the display screen. In response to a user input given on the input device, a desired scrolling operation is performed among the first representations presented, thereby shifting the positions of the first representations on the display screen along the path accordingly, updating the focus area to reflect a change in focus from the focused digital object to another digital object by presenting in the focus area the first representation of the other digital object, as well as updating the preview area correspondingly by presenting therein the second representation of the other digital object.
US07797640B2
A method for generating a flexible display field on a monitor includes providing a display field with a main window, into which a plurality of information windows are incorporatable and which has a basic grid with a regular raster, allocating individual grid fields to a respective information window for displaying in an assigned grid field, setting a grid stage of a basic field via a central first user control device for the main window, switching the main window between a regular grid occupancy in which a size of each incorporated information window corresponds to a size of one grid field of the basic field, and an irregular grid occupancy in which a size of at least one information window corresponds to a size of an integral multiple of one grid field of the basic grid, and initiating a switchover of a user by a selection and a change in size of an information window and also a video management system and a software program are provided.
US07797637B2
A multi-layer graphical user interface provides multiple types of information in at least two layers of a common display space, such as a window. In one implementation, a shared network folder includes two layers of display objects to separately represent files contained in the folder and users with whom the folder is shared. The first or top layer may represent the files with conventional words, icons or other symbols. The second or lower level may represent the users with whom the folder is shared with words, icons or other symbols that are dimmed, blurred, or otherwise de-emphasized relative to the top layer.
US07797635B1
Techniques are described for displaying a representation of a list of electronic search results while a user is reviewing content linked to by electronic search results included in the list. While the user is reviewing the search results, the user may jump between content linked to by different search results using the representation of the list of electronic search results displayed. The displayed representation of the list of search results may be updated based on the user's browsing activities in reviewing the search results, user input manipulating the list of search results, and supplemental information added to the list of search results by the user.
US07797633B2
Playing a media file can include receiving input from a user identifying a playback location associated with a media file; downloading media content corresponding to the identified playback location from the media file; displaying a status bar to the user on a display device; and presenting a download indicator associated with the status bar showing an amount of downloaded media content, wherein the downloaded media content comprises a contiguous portion of the media file that includes the identified playback location. Further, playing the media file can include receiving additional input from a user identifying a new playback location associated with a media file; downloading media content corresponding to the new playback location; and presenting a new download indicator associated with the status bar showing an amount of downloaded media content, wherein the downloaded media content comprises a contiguous portion of the media file that includes the new playback location.
US07797630B2
Digital ink is captured using either a digitizer attached to the serial port of the computer or by a tablet computer having a stylus during the detection, capture, storage and association of ink with particular types of information. An ink log stores handwritten notes that are generated during a phone call. Whenever a call is made or received via a regular telephone or an IP Softphone, the number being dialed or that the call is being received from is used in a search to locate a file associated with this number within an ink log. If a file associated with the called or dialed number exists, then the file is retrieved and all prior ink notes associated with this number, including their time stamps, are displayed in a window that is opened. If a file corresponding to the called or dialed number is not present in the ink log, then a new file is created along with an associated blank window, whereby the user can begin “inking” into this file. Alternatively, a user may highlight a phone number and view the InkLog for the particular number. Upon a user selecting a View Ink Log category, the ink log is accessed and all notes, drawings, etc. that a user generated in all previous calls that where either made to the number or calls received from this number are displayed.
US07797618B2
A method (700) and apparatus (600) are described for performing parallel decoding in connection with 2M-1 parallel ACS unit in ACS unit (110), track buffer (112) and voting unit (114) in an Ultrawide Bandwidth (UWB) receiver having a parallel trellis decoder for decoding a message sequence encoded according to a convolutional code. Outputs from the track buffer can be input to a voting unit (114) where a voting scheme can be applied and a decision rendered as to the originally transmitted message sequence.
US07797616B2
A virtual display driver that can be dynamically loaded and unloaded for remote control of a host computing system. The host computing system includes an original display driver that updates an output display of the computing system based on display commands. A remote control executive executes in kernel-mode within an operating environment provided by the computing system and dynamically loads and unloads the virtual display driver as requested by a user. The remote control executive inserts hooks within the functions provided by the original display driver to trap the display commands received by the original display driver and direct the commands to the virtual display driver for communication to a remote client computer.
US07797606B2
The invention relates to a coding method consisting of the following steps: biometric data associated with an individual is obtained; a word, relating to an error correction code, selected in order to correct a quantity of errors in a relation to a statistical quantity of errors between two biometric measurements relating to the same individual, is generated, said word dissimulating information relating to said individual with the aid of a private function; and a combination is created between the biometric data thus obtained and the word thus generated.
US07797583B2
A test adaptor board connects to a personal computer (PC) motherboard that tests a memory module in a test socket. A standard memory module socket is removed from a target DRAM module slot on the component side and the test adaptor board connects to the target DRAM module slot on the reverse (solder) side of the motherboard. The target DRAM module slot is a middle slot, such as the second or third of four DRAM module slots. The first and fourth DRAM module slots are populated with known good memory modules storing the BIOS at a high address and an operating system image and a test program at a low address. The test program accesses a memory module in the test socket to locate defects. The motherboard does not crash since the BIOS, OS image, and test program are not stored in the memory module under test.
US07797579B2
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for identifying unsafe synthetic transactions and modifying parameters for automated playback. Bytecode instrumentation is used to dynamically observe the behavior of application code directly and identify each universal resource locator traversed and parameters passed in a transaction. The bytecode instrumentation may determine, based on the parameters passed, that a parameter in the current transaction is an unsafe parameter, and that the unsafe parameter is associated with a test parameter in a previously overridden transaction. If the unsafe parameter has an associated test parameter, the bytecode instrumentation may dynamically override the unsafe parameter in the current transaction with the test parameter in order to make the transaction safe for synthetic playback. In this manner, transactions may be scheduled for playback as usual, and the bytecode insertion methods ensure that the unsafe parameters in the transactions are automatically overridden for the user.
US07797569B2
System, method and computer program product for monitoring the status of components in a data processing system that improves the accessibility of JMX monitoring information in web content. The system includes a mechanism for acquiring a text representation of component status for display as ALT and TITLE content associated with each status image. Because the component status is displayed in a manner that is indistinguishable from ALT/TITLE text that has already been statically included in an image attribute, user experience is improved for users with and without accessibility needs.
US07797568B2
A relay agent device disposed in one of a plurality of networks each accommodating a terminal and an address leasing device performing an address lease service for the terminal, has a notifying unit notifying a proxy address leasing device, employed in common between the plurality of networks, of an address lease state of the address leasing device with respect to the terminal, a detecting unit detecting a fault in the address leasing device, and a transfer unit transferring a message related to the address lease, which is sent from the terminal, to the proxy address leasing device in order for the proxy address leasing device to take over an IP address lease service provided by the address leasing device when the fault is detected, and transferring a message related to the address lease, which is addressed to the terminal from the proxy address leasing device, to the terminal.
US07797562B2
In an electronic device with a serial ATA interface, upon detection of the issue or reception of a preset command, a confirmation device, such as a CPU, confirms the completion of execution of the command. Upon confirming the completion of execution of the command, a controller, which may also be the CPU, controls shifting of the serial ATA interface to a power saving mode.
US07797557B2
The detector includes a plug for connecting a personal computer through a cable, a battery power supply which provides a constant power supply, and an MCU which receives a specific potential from the personal computer when the latter is connected.
US07797556B2
An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit capable of printing, the printing unit being in a suspended state with power supply being cut off in power-saving mode, and being in a wait state with power being supplied thereto in normal mode; an information storage unit capable of writing and retaining setting information of the printing unit at the time of power supply, the information storage unit being in a suspended state with power supply being cut off in power-saving mode; and a signal control unit that controls power supply to the information storage unit in power-saving mode with a signal transmitted and received by an interface unit from an external terminal device.
US07797554B2
An original data circulation system for storing or circulating original data which is digital information is provided. The original data circulation system includes an issuer apparatus, a user apparatus and a collector apparatus. The issuer apparatus generates originality information including first information corresponding to the issuer apparatus and second information corresponding to data and sends the originality information. The user apparatus verifies the validity of the source apparatus of the originality information and stores the originality information when the validity is verified. The collector apparatus verifies the validity of the source apparatus of the originality information and processes data corresponding to the second information when the validity is verified.
US07797553B2
The present invention provides a memory device that can safely hold much data necessary for using an Application (AP) therein. In the present invention, a memory device includes a first tamper resistant memory 41 that cannot be accessed directly by an electronic device and a second non-tamper resistant memory that cannot be directly accessed by the electronic device. The second memory is used to save data stored in the first memory 41 to. In this memory device, since data necessary for using many APs can be safely held in the device, any terminal device satisfying authorizing conditions can use the data held therein.
US07797549B2
There is a need in the computer software and data industries to protect content from unauthorized access to private information. Alphanumeric passwords have been shown to offer very weak protection. Biometrics (personal traits such as fingerprints and hand-written signatures) offer superior protection, but still have a number of weaknesses. The most significant weakness is that there is no existing way to protect the stored biometric data itself; and once a person's fingerprint data has been obtained by an attacker, the use of that fingerprint can no longer be considered secure. The invention solves the problem by securing the access software application that manages the biometric data using tamper-resistant encoding techniques. These tamper-resistant encoding techniques include: data-flow, control-flow, mass-data and white-box encoding.
US07797546B2
A method of securely storing and accessing personal data (26) relating to an individual (28), said personal data constituting a personal data record, is described. The method comprises: coupling a portable data storage device (42) to a computing device (12) for data transfer between them, the storage device carrying an encrypted personal data record (38) and a decryption means (40) for decrypting the personal data record upon provision of a key (36) not stored on the storage device (42); accessing the personal data record on the storage device (42) and running the decryption means (40) on the computing device (12) to decrypt the personal data record upon input of the key (36) to the computing device; and displaying the decrypted personal data (26) by means of the computing device.
US07797544B2
To establish trust between first and second entities, the first entity sends an attestation message to the second entity, including a code ID, relevant data, a digital signature based on the code ID and data, and a certificate chain. The second entity verifies the signature and decides whether to in fact enter into a trust-based relationship with the first entity based on the code ID and the data in the attestation message. Upon so deciding, the second entity sends a trust message to the first entity, including a secret to be shared between the first and second entities. The first entity obtains the shared secret in the trust message and employs the shared secret to exchange information with the second entity.
US07797540B2
Signatures indicating potential problems can be used by a predictive support component. The predictive support component can check to see if a signature matches data for a data source associated with the software.
US07797534B2
There is proposed a method for executing a workflow, comprising providing the workflow comprising process level activities, at least one process level activity being able to access system resources, the access to the system resources being mediated by a plurality of backend modules. A backend module of the plurality of backend modules carries out the steps of receiving a hierarchical attribute certificate, validating the attribute certificate, checking whether the attribute certificate grants a right to execute the backend module, checking whether a predefined execution path from the process level activity to the backend module has been traversed, and if both checking steps are successful, executing the backend module. Moreover, there is proposed a respective device, computer program medium and computer program product.
US07797529B2
The need for upload security arises during content sharing between users in communication link with each other and a server. In one embodiment, providing the upload security involves the server identifying a mobile device that sends an upload message destined to a user. Providing the upload security further involves the server accessing opt-in parameters predetermined by the user, determining if the identity of the sending mobile device is included in the opt-in parameters, and, if so, allowing the upload to the user's account, otherwise blocking the upload. The opt-in parameters include the identity of mobile devices that are authorized by the user to upload data to the user's account. In one embodiment, the communication link includes a wireless carrier network with capability for security screening of the upload message before it reaches the server based on the identity of the wireless carrier network.
US07797510B1
In a virtual memory system, address translation information is provided using a cluster that is associated with some range of virtual addresses and that can be used to translate any virtual address in its range to a physical address, where the sizes of the ranges mapped by different clusters may be different. Clusters are stored in an address translation table that is indexed by virtual address so that, starting from any valid virtual address, the appropriate cluster for translating that address can be retrieved from the translation table. The clusters are dynamically created from a fragmented pool of physical addresses as new virtual address mappings are requested by consumers of the virtual memory space.
US07797509B2
Extended translation look-aside buffers (eTLB) for converting virtual addresses into physical addresses are presented, the eTLB including, a physical memory address storage having a number of physical addresses, a virtual memory address storage configured to store a number of virtual memory addresses corresponding with the physical addresses, the virtual memory address storage including, a set associative memory structure (SAM), and a content addressable memory (CAM) structure; and comparison circuitry for determining whether a requested address is present in the virtual memory address storage, wherein the eTLB is configured to receive an index register for identifying the SAM structure and the CAM structure, and wherein the eTLB is configured to receive an entry register for providing a virtual page number corresponding with the plurality of virtual memory addresses.
US07797508B2
A method, system and computer program product for managing memory allocation among plural virtual application environments supported by a common operating system. The technique may include establishing a mapping between a virtual application environment (or processes therein) and a mapping proxy that is reachable via a reverse mapping pathway adapted to facilitate identification of virtual addresses associated with a memory page frame. The virtual application environment (or processes therein) may be identified as an allocation recipient of the memory page frame by traversing the reversing mapping pathway to the mapping proxy. The memory page frame may be reclaimed for allocation to another virtual application environment by invalidating data therein or transferring the data to a storage resource based upon memory usage by the identified virtual application environment.
US07797507B2
A virtual machine system includes a physical memory and a virtual machine monitor (VMM). When a kernel image of one guest OS, in startup of the one guest OS, has already been loaded on the physical memory, the VMM starts up one guest OS with the kernel image.
US07797490B2
A system for authenticating a memory card including: a memory card host device including a plural area authentication module which judges whether the memory card has plural storage areas, and an area switching module which switches a storage area subject to access a different storage area from among plural storage areas; a memory card including plural storage areas, at least one internal register which retains a value indicating the number of storage areas, and a controller which transmits the value indicating the number of the storage areas to the memory card host device; and a bus which transmits and receives data between the memory card host device and the memory card.
US07797488B2
A method of creating a multiple of virtual Serial Advanced Technology Attachment ports in a disk array controller, and the method builds a port multiplier in a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment disk array controller by a software method, and the port multiplier defines several slices capable of identifying the address of a computer host system. The port multiplier is connected to at least one disk set, and each disk is divided into several data blocks corresponding to data blocks of another disk of the same disk set to constitute a synchronously updated disk backup system. The software method provides a method of connecting several storage units to overcome the restriction on the point-to-point connection of the Serial Advanced Technology Attachment disk array system, so as to achieve a multi-driving function and a serial bus system.
US07797487B2
A data storage system and associated method are provided wherein a policy engine continuously collects qualitative information about a network load to the data storage system in order to dynamically characterize the load and continuously correlates the load characterization to a command queue depth of data transfer requests.
US07797481B2
A memory system and corresponding method of wear-leveling are provided, the system including a controller, a random access memory in signal communication with the controller, and another memory in signal communication with the controller, the other memory comprising a plurality of groups, each group comprising a plurality of first erase units or blocks and a plurality of second blocks, wherein the controller exchanges a first block from a group with a second block in response to at least one block erase count within the group; and the method including receiving a command having a logical address, converting the logical address into a logical block number, determining a group number for a group that includes the converted logical block number, and checking whether group information comprising block erase counts for the group is loaded into random access memory, and if not, loading the group information into random access memory.
US07797461B2
A programmable controller includes a switching unit that switches functions of a serial port so that the serial port can process a general-purpose communication protocol, a computer link-only protocol, and does nothing based on a command received from outside.
US07797458B2
A data synchronous system synchronizes, between servers each having a shared memory, data which are stored on the respective shared memories. The system includes a data writer which writes data into the shared memory in one of the servers and then generates write state information on the write state of data written in the shared memory; and a data communicator which reads out the written data and positional information about a position on the shared memory of the written data on the basis of the write state information, and transfers the read data and positional information from the one server to another or some other servers.
US07797456B2
An information processor or personal computer is provided having an operably linked terminal which checks out/in in a content to or from the terminal. A device driver detects that a portable device is connected to the personal computer, and when the device driver detects that the portable device is connected to the personal computer, a start-up program reads contents-related data from the portable device and starts up a display/operation instruction program to provide a display corresponding to the read data.
US07797453B2
A computing paradigm where information can be aggregated from multiple services/programs within a ‘cloud-based’ environment is provided. Thus, the system can provide a uniform interface that can combine computational tasks across the multiple services/programs. Thus, the innovation takes advantage of the computing device being a ‘thin client’ which affords greater user comfort to a user without sacrificing data processing capabilities. Accordingly, the mechanisms are disclosed that standardize and/or normalize data across the resources within the cloud.
US07797452B2
The present invention is related to a method and system for facilitating the integration of a plurality of dissimilar systems by allowing networks of integration framework installations and/or other compatible B2B servers to inter-operate across corporate enterprise boundaries to integrate the disparate systems operating within each corporate enterprise.
US07797450B2
A web service broker transforms, at runtime, output data from client applications to the input data form required by various web services. Such transformations are based on data and/or parameter mappings that are accessible to the broker. Further, the broker accesses and invokes particular web services in the manner required by the web services. Such invocations are based on information regarding the access style, such as RPC style of communication, and encoding, such as SOAP, associated with respective web services. The broker provides a generic framework in that it is capable of supporting transformation of different data and data forms from many different applications to respective data that many different respective web services can use.
US07797448B1
An integrated system comprising the Global Positioning System and the Internet wherein the integrated system can identify the precise geographical location of both sender and receiver communicating computer terminals.
US07797445B2
Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for dynamic network link selection for transmitting a message between nodes of a parallel computer. The nodes are connected using a data communications network. Each node connects to adjacent nodes in the data communications network through a plurality of network links. Each link provides a different data communication path through the network between the nodes of the parallel computer. Such dynamic link selection includes: identifying, by an origin node, a current message for transmission to a target node; determining, by the origin node, whether transmissions of previous messages to the target node have completed; selecting, by the origin node from the plurality of links for the origin node, a link in dependence upon the determination and link characteristics for the plurality of links for the origin node; and transmitting, by the origin node, the current message to the target node using the selected link.
US07797439B2
Systems and methods for managing admission of requests to a streaming media server are provided. In certain embodiments, a method comprises receiving a new request for a streaming file to be served by a media server, and determining a cost to the media server for serving the requested streaming file, wherein the cost corresponds to the media server's resources to be consumed in serving the requested streaming file. The method further comprises determining, based at least in part on the cost, whether to admit the new request for service by the media server. In certain embodiments, a method comprises receiving, at a time Tcur, a new request for a streaming file to be served by a media server, and creating a segment-based model of the media server's memory as of time Tcur. And, based at least in part on the segment-based model of the media server's memory, determining whether to accept the received request for service by the media server.
US07797436B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums containing programmed instructions are disclosed for detecting an intrusion in a communications network. Data packets processed by a transport layer of a network protocol associated with the communications network are scanned using signatures from a repository of the signatures. A determination is made if the scanned data packets are malicious. One or more actions are taken if any data packets are determined to be malicious. Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums containing programmed instructions are also disclosed for preventing an intrusion in a communications network.
US07797435B2
A method comprises a receiving system establishing a first connection to a sending system. The method also comprises determining whether the sending system is in an unauthenticated mutually exclusive connection (UMEC) state. The method further comprises foregoing collecting user credentials to establish a connection between the receiving and sending systems if the sending system is in the UMEC state, and collecting user credentials to establish a connection between the receiving and sending systems if the sending system is not in the UMEC state.
US07797434B2
A system is presented for facilitating management of user attribute information at one or more attribute information providers (AIPs), which can manage the user's attribute information in accordance with user-selected or administratively-determined options, including options that are stored in attribute release policies and/or dynamically determined during a transaction. E-commerce service providers (ECSPs), such as online banks or merchants, also maintain a relationship with an AIP such that the ECSP can trust the user attribute information that is provided by the AIP on behalf of the user. The user can complete transactions that require user attribute information at any ECSP without having to have previously established a relationship with that particular ECSP. If the ECSP has a relationship with one of the user's AIPS, then the user will be able to direct the ECSP to an AIP when the ECSP needs user attribute information to complete a transaction for the user.
US07797431B2
An enhanced data exchange and functionality control system and method are provided. A first executable code having core functionality is provided to a computing device. The message includes partial executable code that merges with the first executable code to extend the core functionality as required for the computing device to execute upon data received via the message, via another message, or via another source.
US07797428B2
A system and method for providing an Internet Protocol (IP)-based service in a communication system are provided. In an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) communication system, a menu server generates a service object based on service capability information of a subscriber received from a service provider, and a terminal activates the service object received from the menu server so that the subscriber can easily use services. The user can select one of services from a service menu displayed on the terminal and immediately implement the selected service.
US07797426B1
Managing TCP anycast requests at content delivery network nodes is disclosed. In some embodiments, managing traffic includes receiving a request at a first node of a content delivery network, determining at the first node that the request should be serviced by a second node of the content delivery network, and redirecting the request to the second node, wherein the first node and the second node of the content delivery network comprise endpoints for serving content and wherein the content delivery network is at least in part an anycast network.
US07797419B2
An intra-session network correlation system receives a stream of network events and groups the events into different network sessions according to event parameters and corresponding network address translation (NAT) information. An event in the stream is first matched against any existing session, and then categorized using the information about a NAT device that translates a message to which the event is related. Finally, at a predefined time, a categorized event is processed to identify other categorized events in accordance with a NAT message or an expiry timer associated with the categorized event; the categorized event and identified other categorized events are grouped into the same network session.
US07797418B2
Methods, apparatus, and network oriented systems are discussed for estimating system, e.g. web site, usage removed from the web site, as well as scheduling and directing a data broadcast source to provide content based on web site usage estimates and predictions in a broadcast data stream.
US07797409B1
A system and method are disclosed which utilize a state model for managing a network. A user can define a state model using, for example, a graphical user interface. A user may define one or more poll services that include state model(s) therein to be simultaneously executed, which enables efficient operation of such state models. A most preferred embodiment provides a central management system that is communicatively coupled to one or more distributed polling gateways for executing the user-defined state models to manage network elements. Upon the polling gateway determining that a state transition is proper, the state of the network element is transitioned, and user defined transition actions for such state transition are triggered in response thereto. A user may implement cross-correlation of various different state models in managing network elements. Additionally, a user may dynamically define/modify polling services and/or state models during runtime.
US07797406B2
Network elements provide application-level QoS for application-layer messages processed therein. An application based message is examined upon IP reassembly thereof. Information is accessed about a sender of the message. A credential is assigned to the sender based on the sender information and/or a status validated for a device that sends said message. The message is dynamically prioritized in relation to other network traffic to provide application QoS based on the sender credential and/or the device status. The message priority is changeable on the fly according to the dynamically variable information. Sender information relates to a role or authority level associated therewith and is dynamically variable with respect to time, situation and/or circumstance. Thus, OSI Layer 5, 6, or 7 application message role/status based attributes determine how packets are marked with Layer 2, 3 or 4 QoS values, integrating application-level concepts of order and priority into network-layer QoS mechanisms.
US07797402B2
Buffering data associated with a spatial publishing object data store at a buffer distance proximate a user presence in a spatial publishing object space. The buffer distance comprises a measure based at least in part on: capacity of a communications path between the data store and the user platform; availability of memory at the user platform; movement of a user presence through the space; traffic in the communications path; processing resources available; amount of objects within a distance of the user presence; amount of objects in the space; type of objects; proximity of objects to the user presence; and rate of the user presence movement in the space. Movement of the user presence in the space buffers data such that data for a proximate object is available in the buffer for presenting to the user when the user's presence is a predetermined distance from the proximate object.
US07797401B2
A server includes first logic to receive a message identifying a subscriber device and including information relating to content requested by the subscriber device; and second logic to determine whether adequate network resources exist for providing the requested content to the subscriber device, and to reserve the network resources when adequate network resources are determined to exist.
US07797399B1
The present invention provides a method and system for allowing distributed importing of images in a peer-based photosharing network comprising a peer network server and a plurality of peers. Aspects of the present invention include allowing a peer owner of a destination peer to access the peer network server to set import authorization rights for the destination peer that enables the import of images from a guest. The guest may then access the peer network server from a computer that is not a peer to specify the destination peer for importing using a user ID of the peer owner, and upload one or more images to the peer network server. The peer network server then transfers the uploaded images to the destination peer from the peer network server when the destination peer becomes available on the network, thereby enabling the peer owner to import the images from the guest.
US07797398B2
A communication system includes a host device and a peripheral device which are communicate with each other according to a main communication protocol that allows the command to be transmitted only from the host device to the peripheral device. The peripheral device accepts an input and to generate a trigger that urges the host device to start a target communication event in accordance with the input. The host device issues a trigger report request command to the peripheral device. The peripheral device transmits trigger generation report information containing a presence or absence of a generation of the trigger to the host device in response to the trigger report request command. The host device receives the trigger generation report information, determines the presence or absence of the generation of the trigger and starts the target event if the presence of the generation of the trigger is determined.
US07797396B2
According to one embodiment, a system comprises a network attached storage (NAS) server not having a general-purpose user input device. The NAS server comprises local data storage and a plurality of automated media portals each operable for receiving a direct communicative coupling of a portable storage media and reading data from the received portable storage media for storage to the local data storage. According to another embodiment, a method comprises receiving a direct communicative coupling of a portable storage media to any of a plurality of different automated media portals of a NAS server, wherein the NAS server comprises local data storage and wherein the NAS server does not include a general-purpose user input device. The NAS server reads data from the received portable storage media, and the NAS server stores the data to the local data storage.
US07797390B2
An instant messaging client presents messages and removes the messages from display after a predetermined amount of time. In one preferred embodiment, the predetermined amount of time is agreed upon by all participants during a policy negotiation. Each message may be associated with a display time and when the current time differs from the display time by a predetermined amount, the message is removed from the display. Messages may also be presented in a non-editable display area to prevent manual logging of the messaging content.
US07797376B1
Web content provided by a server includes associated content operation identifiers that identify related content objects. The web server, in response to receiving an HTTP Get request for the web object, retrieves the web object, and concurrently retrieves the content operation identifiers associated with the web object. The server sends the content operation identifiers with the requested web object as part of an HTTP response. The content operation identifiers may be inserted with an HTTP header, or may be added to the web content, for example by prepending HTML tags specifying the content operation identifiers to an HTML page that includes the requested web object. A proxy device receiving the HTTP response can forward the response to the requesting client device, and execute the content operations specified by the content operation identifiers within the HTTP response. Hence, content operations can be performed for relevant content objects based on content operation identifiers within the HTTP response, eliminating the necessity of client side executable resources that may otherwise affect the device performance.
US07797366B2
Techniques for the design and use of a digital signal processor, including processing transmissions in a communications (e.g., code division multiple access) system. Power-efficient sign extension for Booth multiplication processes involves applying a sign bit in a Booth multiplication tree. The sign bit allows the Booth multiplication process to perform a sign extension step. This further involves one-extending a predetermined partial product row of the Booth multiplication tree using a sign bit for preserving the correct sign of the predetermined partial product row. The process and system resolve the signal value of the sign bit by generating a sign-extension bit in the Booth multiplication tree. The sign-extension bit is positioned in a carry-out column to extend the product of the Booth multiplication process. Then, the method and system form a final product from the Booth multiplication tree by adding the carry-out value to the sign bit positioned at least a predetermined column of the Booth multiplication tree. The result is to effectively extend the sum component of the final product with the sign and zero-extending the carry component of the final product.
US07797365B2
A design structure for a Booth decoder is provided. The Booth decoder may comprise three circuits that run in parallel. A first circuit is used to generate a shift control signal output. A second circuit is used to generate a zero control signal output. A third circuit is used to generate an invert control signal output. The first and second circuits receive the three-bit block as an input and generate their respective outputs based on the setting of each of the bits. The third circuit receives only the most significant bit of the three-bit block as its input and generates an invert signal output based on the setting of the most significant bit. In each of these circuits, the number of complex gates and transistors is minimized thereby reducing gate delay and power consumption in generating the control signals for performing a Booth multiplication operation.
US07797356B2
Fields contained in data expressed as tabular data having columns and rows can initially be marked as exceptions, wherein a column within a row can be the potential cause of the exception. A user configurable parameter can be utilized to change the sensitivity or allowable exceptions for each row and/or column, to increase or decrease the number of exceptions detected. As data within each field are modified, added or deleted, or when the configurable parameter is changed, the exceptions marked can be automatically updated. Such updated exceptions can be the same or different from the initially marked exceptions. As such, a user can evaluate data and determine whether various changes within the data will change various outcomes.
US07797353B1
A method and system for enhancing software documentation and help systems. In one embodiment, a virtual library for a selected combination of tools is created. The virtual library is then linked to the tools in the selected combination of tools. In another embodiment, a combination of tools for designing a complex software system is selected from one or more software releases. The one or more software releases comprises a plurality of available tools. The selected combination of tools comprises less than all of the plurality of available tools. Each of the plurality of available tools is associated with one or more documents. Access to only those one or more documents associated with tools in the selected combination of tools is provided.
US07797352B1
In one embodiment, a system and method is illustrated and includes receiving auditing data relating to a piece of digital content, associating the auditing data with the piece of digital content to create audited digital content, receiving a content request pertaining to the audited digital content from a requester, checking a permission associated with the audited digital content, the permission to determine an exchange basis upon which the audited digital content is provided to the requester, and where the exchange basis defines the condition upon which the audited digital content may be accessed, and providing the audited digital content to the requester according to the exchange basis.
US07797350B2
A system for processing downloaded data is provided. The system includes a local server, a database server, an image storage server and a plurality of client computers. The database server, the image storage server and the client computers are connected to the local server. The local server is configured for downloading data from a remote server, parsing the downloaded data and replacing URL information of each image in the downloaded data to a predetermined character string, and changing the character strings to default local URLs that can display the images, when the client computers request to access the downloaded data. A related method is also provided.
US07797344B2
A method for assigning relative quality scores to a collection of linked documents is presented. The method includes constructing a spring network according to a connectivity graph of a linked database and determining the strength of inter-nodal springs based on the link structure of the network and the displacements on end-nodes. The method may further include computing the displacements of the nodes in a spring network through an iterative process and obtaining the quality scores for documents from the converged displacements of nodes. The method may also include obtaining the relative quality scores for groups of documents. The method may further include assigning topic-specific quality scores to documents in a linked database.
US07797337B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata based on a characteristic of the resource are disclosed. According to one method, a metadata association rule is defined for a metadata associator. The metadata association rule specifies a data value to be associated with a resource as metadata based on a characteristic of the resource. A user interface is provided for associating at least one resource with a metadata associator. In response to a resource being associated with the metadata associator via a user interface, the data value is associated with the resource as metadata based on the metadata association rule. The specified data value may be defined prior to the resource being associated with the metadata and independently of both the resource and a file system with which the resource is associated.
US07797335B2
File transitions are identified that are to be tracked and at least one element of metadata is generated that characterizes each identified file transition to be tracked. Upon receiving a request for historical transition information, elements of metadata corresponding to at least two instances of a tracked file are aggregated and information is provided responsive to the request that is derived from the aggregated elements of metadata. The action metadata may follow that history of each tracked file as well as the histories of copies of each tracked file over time. Thus, an operator can manage the infrastructure of a corresponding computing environment with knowledge of the current and historical activities of files.
US07797327B2
A system and method for managing the development and manufacturing process of a pharmaceutical is disclosed. The method comprises capturing and recording the development and manufacturing history of the pharmaceutical drug in order to generate a product history. The product history is stored on a computer and is searchable in multiple data dimensions in order to easily retrieve information. The system automatically provides compliance management procedures in order to comply with regulatory standards for the pharmaceutical industry.
US07797326B2
Disclosed is a method of scanning a data stream in a single pass to obtain uniform data samples from selected intervals. The method comprises randomly selecting elements from the stream for storage in one or more data buckets and, then, randomly selecting multiple samples from the bucket(s). Each sample is associated with a specified interval immediately prior to a selected point in time. There is a balance of probabilities between the selection of elements stored in the bucket and the selection of elements included in the samples so that elements scanned during the specified interval are included in the sample with equal probability. Samples can then be used to estimate the degree of sortedness of the stream, based on counting how many elements in the sequence are the rightmost point of an interval such that majority of the interval's elements are inverted with respect to the interval's rightmost element.
US07797321B2
A system to navigate through a media item catalog using correlation metrics (FIGS. 1,2) from a knowledge base (400) of mediasets (FIG. 4, 1-7). The system uses a knowledge base consisting of a collection of mediasets. Various metrics (Metric 1-Metric m) among media items (m1 . . . ) are considered by analyzing how the media items are grouped to form the sets in the knowledge base (400). Such metrics preferably are stored in a matrix (100) that allows the system to dynamically build appropriate navigation lists (FIG. 3) from media items that a user selects (FIG. 5).
US07797319B2
Systems and methods for data storage and retrieval using data model mapping. Statements may be presented to the system based on different schema and data models. Algebraic relations between data sets may be composed from the statements. Mappings are provided between the different schema and data models to allow algebraic relations based on one schema and data model to be used in providing a requested data set based on a different schema and data model. Algebraic optimization may also be performed to select among algebraic relations to be used for providing the requested data set, including algebraic relations based on different schemas and data models. As a result, optimization may be performed across a broader set of possible algebraic relations to provide the requested data set.
US07797318B2
A social networking service is integrated with a traditional communication service. The communication service may include an instant messaging service, an electronic mail service, a content page management service, or other communication service. The communication service provides one or more interfaces allowing a user to navigate and manage a contact network. A user may access several layers of contacts, and expand their contact list, by selecting additional contacts within additional contact lists.
US07797314B2
A method and computer program product for receiving a search result set including one or more search results, and defining one or more ranking cues based upon, at least in part, ancillary user data. The one or more search results are ranked based upon, at least in part, the one or more ranking cues. The one or more ranked search results are provided to a search user.
US07797308B2
Described are various methods and apparatuses that provide for variants for multiple resource types and efficiently managing these resources by use of common variables and an organized file structure. A file structure is organize by a common variables, such as the $lang variable, and includes resource references such that once the common variable is defined, similar resources can be referenced using the same instruction by the use of modifying the common variable. Multiple resource types, including text, images as well as other resource types may be managed using the file structure disclosed herein.
US07797305B2
A method for utilizing earcons, includes: forming a database of earcons; forming a user profile and preferences database; monitoring user audio content; monitoring the user environment; playing a series of earcons from the database of earcons on a user's communication device; wherein the series of earcons are chosen from the database of earcons based on the user profile and preferences database; and wherein the playing of individual earcons from the series of earcons is based on the monitored user audio content and environment.
US07797303B2
A system suited to self-troubleshooting includes a processor which identifies normalized forms of at least some of the words of a natural language user query input by a user. The user query may describe a problem experienced with a machine, such as a printer. The processor retrieves text strings which may comprise problem statements stored in memory. Each retrieved problem statement includes at least one word with a normalized form which is recognized by the processor as being equivalent to one of the identified normalized forms. Each of the retrieved problem statements may be associated with at least one solution sequence for addressing the problem with the machine. In the event that the stored problem statements in memory are not fully responsive, the processor provides one or more options for refinement of the user query based on tags associated with those words of the problem statements which are responsive.
US07797298B2
The embodiments contemplate a system and method for obtaining related results for a portion of a query and for generating an updated set of queries for a cache of a server. Other queries beginning with the portion of the query may be identified and obtained from a data structure that includes a server cache and a set of common queries. Once the other queries are identified, results for the other queries are obtained from the server cache or from a back-end database. A set of common queries, which may include deleted and additional queries, may be utilized to generate the updated set of queries for the server. Both missing queries and deleted queries that may belong to the server based on an assignment function are inserted into a queue, which is later delivered to the cache of the server. The transfer may occur during a low-activity or idle state.
US07797295B2
Allowing unhosted user content feeds to a public search engine, such as a web search engine, involves a user easily identifying a file as a file the user wants to share with others by, for example, storing the file in a particular directory folder on the user's device. Once identified, the file is scanned and a corresponding entry is inserted into a search index. The storage location on the user's device may be captured, and that information added to the search index for linking to the stored file. The file may be uploaded to a caching server, for serving either primarily from the caching server or secondarily from the caching server when the file is not available from the user's storage. An access policy, which indicates what portion of the public has permission to access the file, may be associated with the shared file.
US07797294B2
Disclosed is a data processing system implemented method, a data processing system and an article of manufacture for testing accessibility of a data processing system program according to accessibility criteria. The data processing system program includes a plurality of objects, at least one object of the plurality of objects usable as a user interface between the data processing system program and a user. The data processing system implemented method includes identifying the at least one object of the data processing system program pertaining to the user interface, determining if the identified at least one object satisfies the accessibility criteria by examining an accessibility description for the identified at least one object, and producing an indication that the identified at least one object does not satisfy the accessibility criteria if the identified object does not contain an accessibility description.
US07797292B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for an alternate lock facility connection path. A request module receives a connection request to establish redundant connection paths between a control unit and a host. A primary connection module establishes a first connection path between the control unit and the host through a first communication channel. An alternate connection module establishes a second connection path between the control unit and the host through a second communication channel. A detection module detects a failure of the first connection path. A redirection module redirects communication between the control unit and the host through the second connection path upon detection of a failure of the first connection path.
US07797291B1
A storage management system comprising a processing system and an interface, wherein the processing system is configured to access a first plurality of data, process the first plurality of data to determine a plurality of entities associated with the first plurality of data, determine a first constraint associated with the first plurality of data, and process the first plurality of data to determine if the first plurality of data satisfies the first constraint, and wherein the interface is configured to transmit a first action request to a first entity of the plurality of entities associated with the first plurality of data in response to determining that the first plurality of data satisfies the first constraint, and receive a first action response from the first entity indicating a first action to be performed on the first plurality of data.
US07797289B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides an enterprise system that automatically executes a rule associated with an event. During operation, the system receives an event object at the enterprise system. Next, the system creates an intermediate event object based on the event object, wherein the intermediate object is an invocation context for the rule. The system also filters a set of rules with the intermediate event object to obtain a subset of rules. The system then selects a rule that is associated with the event from the subset of rules. Finally, the system executes the rule.
US07797283B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that provide an indexing data structure. In one embodiment, the indexing data structure is mirrored index tree where the copies of the nodes of the tree are stored across devices in a distributed system. In one embodiment, nodes that are stored on an offline device are restored, and an offline device that comes back online is merged into the distributed system and given access to the current indexing data structure. In one embodiment, the indexing data structure is traversed to locate and restore nodes that are stored on offline devices of the distributed system.
US07797268B2
Disclosed is a controller that includes a curve matching mechanism. The curve matching mechanism employs Fuzzy Logic to compare input curves to standard curves and to thereby characterize the input curves. Also disclosed in an automotive environment for the curve matching mechanism in which a Fuzzy Controller is used to receive time series data (i.e., input curves) and to present the input curves to the curve matching mechanism. The controller then uses the output of the curve matching mechanism to adjust engine function.
US07797249B2
A method for detecting against unauthorized transmission of digital works comprises the steps of maintaining a registry of information permitting identification of digital copyrighted works, monitoring a network for transmission of at least one packet-based digital signal, extracting at least one feature from the at least one digital signal, comparing the extracted at least one feature with registry information and applying business rules based on the comparison result.
US07797245B2
A protectable content is inspected using both a first technique and a second technique that is different from the first technique. An area of interest in the protectable content is then identified based on the inspections.
US07797243B2
A method and system for content-based billing in IP-networks, carry out and transmit to a control gateway module the authentication and/or service authorization of an IP-node based on the IMSI of the SIM card of the node for HLR and/or VLR of a GSM network and guide the access of the IP node to the content of a network content provider through said control gateway module, control involved costs by means of the nodule on the base of the access target address, detect call detail records according to the IP-node services by a core engine module, detect at least the identity of the IP-node and/or the time and/or a provider of the required services by means of the call detail records during access to the control gateway module, transmit the data to the billing module and compute call detail records and/or clearing data based thereon and/or TAP files through the billing system of a service provider or a financial institution. The disclosure relates, in particular to the mobile IP nodes in heterogeneous networks.
US07797242B2
Methods and systems for network-based purchase and distribution of media are disclosed. The purchase and distribution of media by these methods and systems are not only secure but also controlled. The security restricts access to media within media files during downloads as well as while stored at a server and/or client. For example, a potential purchaser can search and browse through numerous media items on-line that are available for purchase. The potential purchaser can thereafter purchase one or more media items on-line with great ease. Upon purchasing a media item, the content for the media item can be downloaded over the network to the purchaser. The content for the media item is then encrypted for the purchaser's use and stored on the purchaser's machine. Thereafter, the purchaser can make use of the media item (e.g., play the media item). Improved graphical user interfaces suitable for reviewing, browsing, previewing and/or purchasing numerous media items are also disclosed.
US07797234B2
A bank customer of a first bank in a first country has a bank account. The bank provides a banking service whereby customer is able to send cash to a recipient in a second country via a commingled bank account belonging to a second bank. The cash is provided to the recipient in the currency of the second country by a third party payment agent. To effect a transfer, the bank customer in the first country instructs the first bank to debit his or her account and send cash to a designated recipient. In response, the first bank debits the customer's account, sends first payment instructions to the second bank, and transfers funds to a commingled account at the second bank. Funds from this commingled account are used to pay for the cash provided to the recipient. The banking service may be provided free of charge to a banking customer of the first bank.
US07797230B1
A method for one of approving and denying a credit offering to a borrower. The method includes calculating a probability of default rating of the borrower and calculating a loss given default rating for the borrower. The method also includes integrating the probability of default rating and the loss given default rating with other information relating to the credit offering to produce a credit memorandum and automatically outputting the credit memorandum to a user so that the user can recommend one of approval and denial of the credit offering.
US07797221B2
A proprietary position display process includes an ask-side display process for displaying, in a multi-column format, an ask-side entry for a specific security that is offered for sale by a market participant on a securities market. This ask-side entry includes a market participant identifier, a lot size, a reserve size, and an ask price. A bid-side display process displays, in a multi-column format, a bid-side entry for the specific security that is sought for purchase by a market participant on a securities market. This bid-side entry includes a market participant identifier, a lot size, a reserve size, and a bid price. The bid-side display process is configured to display the bid-side entry such that it is essentially a mirror image of the ask-side entry.
US07797217B2
A computer system for monitoring and enhancing the collateral security underlying a set of loans is provided, including a system for calculating the unsecured value of the set at any time and for initiating additional collateral enhancement instruments when the unsecured value exceeds a certain limit. The system may include a variety of modules in communication with a relational database for storing data about the loans and system elements. The computer system may also be configured to allocate, manage, and execute the waterfall or cascade of funds between and among the various participants in a financial plan. The invention also includes a structured finance plan and related methods for enhancing the collateral security of a loan obtained for a life insurance or annuity product, and a system and method for managing a portfolio of such loans in order to obtain favorable financing and to facilitate securitization.
US07797216B2
A financial data management application sets up a placeholder entry for entered current holdings information in which all the historical transactions that led to the current holdings have not been accounted for. Backfill transactions may be entered later on to update the placeholder entry with all or part of the historical transactions that led to the current holdings. If a backfill transaction is entered, the placeholder entry is adjusted to reflect the backfill transaction.
US07797213B2
A data construct represents a financial asset in a data processing system. The data construct comprises description data, a cash flow map, and process instructions. The description data further comprises creation, purpose, and transaction information data describing the financial asset. The cash flow map further comprises information on cash flows that flow into the financial asset. The process instructions include information on cash flow processing for the cash flows that flow into the financial asset.
US07797208B2
The invention encourages users to not only pay themselves first, but to pay themselves first in the largest amounts possible, even if they are not able to fully pay outstanding debts. In general, the invention obtains information related to the user's income, income sources, user's debts (e.g., bills) and user's goals, then provides recommendations related to the prioritization of paying certain bills and the amount to pay for each bill based upon, for example, savings goals, minimum amounts due, due dates and available income. The invention also determines a payment hierarchy which includes transferring funds to the user's savings account prior to paying all or a portion of certain bills.
US07797204B2
A business method utilizing a system comprising one or more distributed computers, application software, off-the-shelf peripheral components including keyboard-and-mouseless data entry (KDE) devices, business processes, human and KDE device readable data, related information on removable data storage media or available from external databases, and existing communications systems for speeding and improving: 1) personal or business automation, efficiency and productivity, goal attainment; 2) improving, speeding and automating the person-computer interface; 3) selection, acquisition, and tracking usage of items acquired from an existing supply chain; 4) marketing items and retaining customers buying the products, controlling their usage, and disseminating information about the products.
US07797200B2
A method, system, and computer program product for providing website management services is provided. The method includes providing technical services for a website including options that are configurable by a representative of the website. The technical services include at least one of: verifying operability of web page links for the website, and monitoring performance characteristics of the website.
US07797187B2
A method and system for protecting prices is provided. The price protection system increases consumer confidence when making purchases by reducing the risk associated with fluctuating prices. The price protection system receives a purchase specification from a consumer. Next, the price protection system determines the risk that the prices of items matching the purchase specification will change and reports a protected price to the consumer that represents the price that the price protection system will protect based on the determined risk for a protection period. Finally, the price protection system receives a request from the consumer to purchase protection of the protected price.
US07797181B2
Systems, methods, distributed networks, and computer-readable media are provided that relate to recruiting and employment services. Background information associated with talent-capability attributes is received from talent. Job description information is received from employers. Prospective matches are identified between employers and talent, and employers and talent are given an opportunity to consent to exchange of talent contact information.
US07797180B2
Method and system for comparing populations of entities to make predictions about business locations
A method and system including software makes predictions about potential business locations. The method includes the steps of providing heterogeneous data including a spatial component, extracting entities from the heterogeneous data, clustering the entities, and making a prediction about the business location using the clustered entities. Entities preferably include stores, people, or other physical objects and each has attributes. Preferably the entities include at least one of the following attributes: Value Ratio, Focal Values, Impact, Revenue Difference, Support, and Baseline Value. In this way, predictions made about the business locations will account for the nature of the business and enable comparison of one business location to another.
US07797175B2
A method for providing a financial product that permits monies dedicated to a medical sub-account within a Dual-Purpose Profit Sharing plan (DPPSP) to maintain compliance with relevant IRS Tax Code provisions. The method comprising the steps of: establishing a document (MEDVAN) with provisions that maintain compliance with relevant IRS Tax Code provisions; add a provision to the document that assures all employer contributions made on behalf of the employee to the employee benefit plan are fully non-forfeitable; add a provision to the document that assures that all benefit payments to the primary and listed beneficiaries are exclusively for medical care; issue the MEDVAN to an employee benefit plan in exchange for a premium; and process payment requests from the MEDVAN based upon the medical needs of at least one employee listed as a beneficiary.
US07797171B2
A drug distribution system and method utilizes a central pharmacy and database to track all prescriptions for a sensitive drug. Information is kept in the database regarding all physicians allowed to prescribe the sensitive drug, and all patients receiving the drug. Abuses are identified by monitoring data in the database for prescription patterns by physicians and prescriptions obtained by patients. Further verification is made that the physician is eligible to prescribe the drug by consulting a separate database, and optionally whether any actions are taken against the physician. Multiple controls beyond those for normal drugs are imposed on the distribution depending on the sensitivity of the drug.
US07797169B2
A party (such as a private entity) obtains (101) information from a plurality of unrelated individuals. This party then identifies (104) candidate information recipients as a function of ancestral relationships to the unrelated individuals and also provides for non-volatily storing (105) the information under conditions designed to preserve the informational integrity of the information for multiple generations. These teachings also provide for maintaining (107) such information in confidence. This entity then provides (111) the information as corresponds to a given one of the plurality of unrelated individuals to respective descendants of the given one who are candidate information recipients. So configured, successive generations of the descendants will have sequential access to the information as corresponds to their respective ancestors while the information remains unrevealed to others.
US07797164B2
An electronic registration system facilitates authorized product returns and reduces the incidence of improper returns. A retailer sales associate is prompted to enter individual product identification information such as an individual serial number. This individual product identification information is then stored in a data base along with the date on which the product was sold and an appropriate UPC code, SKU number or manufacturer code. A check digit algorithm may be used to verify the serial number prior to storage. A sales receipt may be imprinted with at least the date of the transaction and the serial number. When a product is returned, the retailer may cross-reference the serial number on the product with that on the receipt to verify the sales receipt. Otherwise, the database may be searched for pertinent sales information. A customer may also access a return authorization engine via the Internet to obtain return approval, an authorization number, return instructions, etc. to reduce retailer hassle.
US07797151B2
A translation tool that facilitates translation of a software product into multiple target human languages without requiring recompilation of any binary deliverables. The translation tool is installed by an end user who wishes to translate the software product into the target human language. The end user does not need any programming knowledge. The translator tool extracts all the strings from various sources in the software product, and displays them on a UI to a translator or exports them to a spreadsheet file. The translator translates all the strings via the UI or by modifying the spreadsheet file and saves the translations. The translator tool uses an MSI utility to package the translated deliverables into an installer. The resulting set of install files are now in the target language and can be deployed without having to recompile any of the binary files (EXEs, DLLs) or other content not requiring translation.
US07797150B2
A translation system comprises an image reading unit that optically reads an image of a manuscript and generates image data; an inputting unit that inputs a translation target language; a character recognizing unit that generates an original text by performing a character recognition process on the image data generated by the image reading unit; a translation text database in which are associated and stored translation texts, language identifiers which specify the languages in which the translation texts are written, and document identifiers which specify the contents of the translation texts; an extracting unit that extracts the document identifier which specifies the content of the original text from the original text; a searching unit that searches the translation text database for a translation text associated with a document identifier identical to the document identifier extracted from the original text by the extracting unit and a language identifier identical to the language identifier which specifies the translation target language input by the inputting unit; and an outputting unit that outputs the translation text searched by the searching unit.
US07797146B2
A method of simulating interactive communication between a user and a human subject. The method comprises: assigning at least one phrase to a stored content sequence, wherein the content sequence comprises a content clip of the subject; parsing the at least one phrase to produce at least one phonetic clone; associating the at least one phonetic clone with the stored content sequence; receiving an utterance from the user; matching the utterance to the at least one phonetic clone; and displaying the stored content sequence associated with the at least one phonetic clone.
US07797138B2
A computer based system and method for establishing one or more patches related to a seat to be designed is provided. The system method establish a set of environment characteristics, a set of interface characteristics, and a pool of body templates. The pool of body templates are representative of target occupants of the seat. The system and method further establish a seat design as a function of the established environment characteristics, interface characteristics, and body templates by defining a plurality of patches.
US07797135B2
A process for correcting the time stamp of recordings such as photographs, obtained in many locations. An onboard clock records a time stamp for each photograph. GPS tracking data is obtained during movement of the camera. A time correction is sought, to account for an unknown error in the onboard clock, relative to the trusted GPS time data. To this end, an assigned location of each photograph is generated from the location tracking data and from an estimated time correction. Indicators of an appropriate time correction include clustering of the assigned locations, and correlation of the assigned locations to locations of reduced velocity. A GUI can be used to enable user assessment of clustering and/or correlation, and indication of a suitable time correction. Or, algorithmic assessment can be used. The determined time correction can be used to correct each photograph's time stamp.
US07797130B1
According to typical inventive practice, a baseline describing a statistical distribution is established for a set of historical occurrences of an event. Comparison is made between the baseline and at least one current occurrence of the same event. Any current occurrence that is anomalous vis-à-vis the baseline is considered a possible leading indicator. According to some inventive embodiments of graphical presentation of such comparison, at least one graphical baseline comparative display component is rendered that includes a “bar” (describing a historical statistical distribution with respect to a criterion pertaining to occurrence of an event) and a “slider” (describing one or more current occurrences of the event). The bar includes at least one band representing a statistical mean range, and at least one band representing a statistical outlier range. Situation of the slider along the bar indicates whether and to what extent the current occurrence(s) is/are anomalous vis-à-vis the baseline.
US07797126B2
The present invention discloses a method for the online determination of a bulge/upset dimension xST and rivet head end position K of a rivet 3 with a length L in a punch rivet process with the help of a moveable punch 10 and a rigid die 20. The path covered by the punch 10 and the force applied by it are determined and evaluated online during the joining process. The quality characteristics of the joint connection are determined with the help of defined threshold values or a graphical evaluation of force/path data of the joining process.
US07797125B2
A method for determining the roll angle for occupant protection devices and a corresponding device are described. A transverse acceleration and a vertical acceleration of the vehicle are detected, and the roll angle of the vehicle is estimated based on the detected transverse acceleration and the detected vertical acceleration.
US07797119B2
Apparatus and method for increasing the sensitivity in the detection of optical coherence tomography and low coherence interferometry (“LCI”) signals by detecting a parallel set of spectral bands, each band being a unique combination of optical frequencies. The LCI broad bandwidth source is split into N spectral bands. The N spectral bands are individually detected and processed to provide an increase in the signal-to-noise ratio by a factor of N. Each spectral band is detected by a separate photo detector and amplified. For each spectral band the signal is band pass filtered around the signal band by analog electronics and digitized, or, alternatively, the signal may be digitized and band pass filtered in software. As a consequence, the shot noise contribution to the signal is reduced by a factor equal to the number of spectral bands. The signal remains the same. The reduction of the shot noise increases the dynamic range and sensitivity of the system.
US07797118B2
Real-time clock calibration is accomplished by generating a fast clock signal and a slow clock signal from an uncompensated clock signal; selectively, momentarily, replacing the uncompensated clock signal with the fast and slow clock signal to generate a compensated clock signal; generating from the compensated clock signal a calibration strobe and window trigger; responding to the window trigger to detect any uncompensated clock signal frequency error and responding to the calibration strobe to selectively, momentarily, replace the uncompensated clock signal with the fast or slow clock signal to reduce the clock signal frequency error.
US07797106B2
A system and method for changing the weighting accelerometer filtering based upon motion sensor measurements. Using measurements from motion sensors, one or more features can be extracted. This information is used by an algorithm to assign a most appropriate test feature class to be the class of the state of motion at a particular moment in time. This information is used to provide more accurate positioning information, and can also be used to power down the motion sensor at various times, providing an improvement in battery efficiency.
US07797105B2
A system and method for GPS acquisition in relatively high interference is described. Acquisition is aided by an Advanced Tightly Coupled (ATC) tracking filters that compute a satellite range residuals and range rate residuals for satellites being acquired. Multiple channels are used in parallel to search for the desired satellites. Range residuals from the ATC filters are used to correct the computed receiver offset and thus allow acquisition in the presence of relatively high interference.
US07797104B2
A method is disclosed for representing locations in a geographic database in a manner that facilitates navigation and routing. A core map database includes data that represents public roads in a geographic region. Each of a plurality of location map databases includes data that represent facilities, such as businesses, stores, offices, or other places, that are physically located away from the public network and access to which requires travel on paths away from the public road network. Each of the facilities represented in the location map databases is assigned a location reference code that is associated with data from which a path connecting the facility and the public road network can be determined.
US07797103B2
A navigation apparatus includes an unregistered road detecting means for setting up a detection start point and a detection end point for an unregistered road on registered roads which are respectively located before and behind sections in which matching result data indicates a free state, respectively, the matching result data indicating a matching state when the vehicle is traveling each of the registered roads, for performing a coordinate transformation on a traveling path which is created from positioning data and which is extending between the two points so that the traveling path has coordinates which match with the coordinates of a registered road between them, and for detecting the coordinates of the unregistered road from a portion of the coordinate-transformed traveling path which does not overlap any registered road, and a road data generating means for creating road data about the unregistered road from the coordinates of the unregistered road.
US07797101B2
A road assigned with speed limit information displayed in a display unit is extracted as a determination target road. Whether congestion information for the determination target road is acquired is determined. The determination target road, for which congestion information is acquired, is extracted as a display-switching target road. A display form of speed limit information of the display-switching target road is switched from a usual display form to a congestion display form to thereby inform a user of a presence of the congestion information.
US07797096B2
An engine control system for an engine that drives a generator includes a temperature sensor that generates a temperature signal and a control module that determines a generator torque based on an engine speed and a generator characteristic. The control module determines a torque correction factor based on the temperature signal and determines a corrected generator torque based on the generator torque and the torque correction factor. Various embodiments of the invention utilize engine speed, system voltages field winding duty cycle engine temperature, ambient temperature and/or generator current.
US07797084B2
An energy management system for managing energy such as power consumed in a building in an optimal state to significantly save energy is provided. A computer control system (200) for controlling the energy management system performs program control as follows. Current date and time are acquired, a control pattern for that time is obtained using a control program, so as to determine whether operation of an air conditioner (186) is to be turned ON or OFF, and then output either an operation instruction or a stop instruction. A control signal is then output from a digital output unit (212) to the air conditioner (186). Thus, the air conditioner (186) temporarily stops operation according to a predetermined pattern for the program control. The current operating state is displayed on a display unit (240) and a remote monitoring unit (270).
US07797069B2
A production line is provided for forming a layered product. The production line includes a conveyor configured to convey a substrate. A plurality of elongate printheads extend transverse to the conveyance direction and is configured to print voxels upon the conveyed substrate to form the layered product. The printheads are arranged to form a plurality of sets which are equidistantly spaced apart.
US07797060B2
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates management within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the controller can include two or more controller engine instances executing as processes on the controller. A partition component can organize one or more controller engine instances based upon priority data corresponding to controller engine instance priority in relation with the industrial environment.
US07797057B2
A medical lead for electrical stimulation or sensing. The medical lead has a generally flat paddle on the distal end of the lead body. An electrode array is provided on the paddle. The electrode array having directional electrical field properties relative to the first and major surfaces of the paddle (e.g., the electrodes are exposed through only one of the major surfaces). An orientation marker for determining orientation of the lead, with the orientation marking including fluoroscopically viewable material.
US07797055B2
A device for stimulating a living being having proximal end having an electrical connection to an implantable medical device; having an oblong medial section having a first external diameter, which has at least one first dielectric outer envelope, at least one electrical conductor, at least one electrical stimulation and/or measurement means on the distal end; having distal section having a second outer diameter, which has at least one second dielectric outer envelope and at least one electrical conductor; having distal end having at least one electrical stimulation and/or measurement means; and having a lumen running in the longitudinal direction at least through the proximal end and the medial section. The first external diameter is isodiametric to the second external diameter, the first dielectric outer envelope has the same material properties as the second dielectric outer envelope, and the medial section has a lesser flexibility than the distal section.
US07797052B2
A bi-direction treating device with player function including a power supplying unit, a controller, a displaying unit, an audio outputting unit, an input unit, a multimedia processing unit and a high voltage treating unit where device is supplied by the power supplying unit and is operated by user through inputting operation instructions from the input unit. The controller controls the multimedia processing unit and the high voltage treating unit according to user's instructions. And, through the displaying unit, the audio outputting unit and the high voltage treating unit, the user can enjoy a multimedia acousto-optical effect during treatment.
US07797044B2
The invention presents techniques for making the operation of an automated external defibrillator easier to understand for an operator. The automated external defibrillator includes defibrillation electrodes packaged in a sealed, easy-to-open pouch. Visual cues such as instructive pictures show the operator how to open the pouch, retrieve the defibrillation electrodes and correctly position the electrodes on a patient's chest.
US07797031B1
A method and apparatus are presented for quickly acquiring MR cardiac images in a time equivalent to a single breath-hold. MR data acquisition is segmented across multiple cardiac cycles. MR data acquisition is interleaved from each phase of a first cardiac cycle with MR data from each phase of a subsequent cardiac cycle. Preferably, low spatial frequency data are interleaved between multiple cardiac cycles, and the subsequent cardiac cycle acquisition includes sequential acquisition of high spatial frequency data at the tail end of the acquisition window. An MR image can then be reconstructed with data acquired from each of the acquisitions that reduce ghosting and artifacts. MR images are reconstructed using this interleaved variable temporal k-space sampling technique to produce volume images of the heart within a single breath-hold. Images can be acquired throughout the cardiac cycle to measure ventricular volumes and ejection fractions. Single phase volume acquisitions can also be performed to assess myocardial infarction.
US07797030B2
A method for localizing an internal body structure during an image-guided procedure that includes obtaining a three dimensional image of a body portion containing a targeted structure and selected reference structures; determining a set of landmark point coordinates for defining the location of each of the targeted and reference structures; computing triangulation parameters relating the location of the landmark points for the targeted structure and the reference structures; and, during an image-guided procedure, using the computed triangulation parameters to plot an estimated location of the targeted structure on an intra-operative image in which the reference structures have been identified.
US07797023B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an ad-hoc, autonomous communications network is provided. The method includes activating a power supply for a first article embedded with communications components. The power supply is generated by at least one of a power source of the communications components and a power generator of the communications components that is implemented via active motion of the first article. The method also includes broadcasting a transmission event via the first article for a time period less than or equal to the life of the power supply. The method further includes detecting a communications node within a proximity of the first article, the communications node receiving the transmission event.
US07797020B2
A cellular phone includes a first case and a second case, which are connected in a foldable manner through a hinge. When the cellular phone is in a folded state, a second display unit displays an image with the side (upper side) closer to the hinge as the upper side. Accordingly, the user can hold the second case of the cellular phone in his/her hand regardless of whether the cellular phone is in a folded state or in an open state. The user can easily switch between a folded state and an open state with respect to the first case and the second case.
US07797019B2
There is disclosed a system and method for operating an image database shared by a plurality of users. In an embodiment, each image captured by a user and stored in a shared image database is associating with the geographic coordinates of the location at which the image was captured. A search engine for the image database is configured to accept geographic coordinates as a search criterion for locating at least one captured image stored in the shared image database. The search engine may be configured to accept as a search criterion user specified numeric geographic coordinates, or geographic coordinates generated by user navigation and selection of a desired point on a map. The search engine may also be configured to accept a range of geographic coordinates to locate a plurality of user-captured images within a certain range of a geographic location.
US07797017B2
A system and method for configuring a wireless transceiver are disclosed. As one example, a system for configuring a wireless transceiver is disclosed, which includes a first data storage unit coupled to a configuration bus disposed in the wireless transceiver, a second data storage unit coupled to the configuration bus, a change detection unit coupled to the second data storage unit, the change detection configured to detect a change to a value stored in the second data storage unit, and output a signal responsive to the change, and a third data storage unit coupled to the first data storage unit, the second data storage unit, and the change detection unit. The third data storage unit is configured to store a plurality of predefined configuration data sets, and convey a predefined configuration data set to the first data storage unit responsive to the signal.
US07797016B2
A method for mobile communication includes arranging a plurality of access points in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to communicate over the air with a mobile station using a common basic service set identification (BSSID) for all the access points. Upon receiving at one or more of the access points an uplink signal transmitted over the WLAN by the mobile station using the common BSSID, messages are sent and received over a communication medium linking the access points in order to select one of the access points to respond to the uplink signal. The selected one of the access points transmits a response to the mobile station.
US07797013B2
Radio transmissions to multiple radio terminals are improved using scheduled backoff of a multi-signal power amplifier. A radio channel quality associated with each of the radio terminals is determined. First signals for first radio terminals associated with a better channel quality are amplified by a power amplifier during a first time period resulting in a first composite output signal. Second signals for second radio terminals associated with a lower channel quality are amplified by the power amplifier during a second time period resulting in a second composite output signal. Transmission during the first time period occurs at a first power level, e.g., mean power, that is associated with a lower probability of clipping the first composite output signal. During the second time period, the second composite signal is transmitted at a second power level, e.g., mean power, higher than the first power level which improves reception at the second terminals.
US07797011B2
The present invention aims at permitting users of the equipments to exchange mutually their own wills easily in a PoC service not to take a floor. In a PoC service that attains a half duplex talk session using a packet communication between the plurality of equipments via a PoC server, a PoC server 20 for controlling a communication relay among a plurality of equipments includes a managing unit 20a for managing the user equipments connected to the PoC server 20, an acquiring unit 20b for acquiring a key operation of each equipment as operation information, and a transmitting unit 20c for transmitting the acquired operation information to the equipments that the managing unit 20a manages.
US07797008B2
A method and apparatus for reducing access delay in push-to-talk (PTT) over Cellular (PoC) communication sessions is provided in a wireless communication device (120) including a quality level controller (230) which controls the quality level at which the transmit talkburst controller (226) provides talkbursts to transmitter circuitry (206). A processor (208) signals the quality level controller (230) and the transmit talkburst controller (226) to provide a first talkburst to the transmitter circuitry (206) for transmitting at a first quality level (310), and thereafter signals the quality level controller (230) to adjust the quality level from the first quality level to a second quality level (314) so that the transmit talkburst controller (226) will provide at least one subsequent talkburst to the transmitter circuitry (206) for transmitting at the second quality level (316).
US07797005B2
A method and system provide interactive participation during activity occurring at a college campus venue. Enjoyment for a plurality of enrolled participants is enhanced. Participants employ wireless interactive devices that present a promotional message and include user input and output interfaces. Participants are queried, and enter answers via the user input interface. The promotional messages are preferably related to businesses and other organizations associated with the college campus venue.
US07797000B2
Several techniques for locating wireless devices involve the Mobile Stations (MS) making measurements of the signals transmitted by geographically distributed base stations within a wireless network. If some key site information is known about these transmitters, such as the transmitter location, transmit signal power, signal propagation, and transmit signal timing, measurements of these transmit signals by a MS can be used to determine the position of the MS. An automatic method to detect transmitters, identify key transmitter information, and utilize the base station transmit signals to perform location is presented. In addition, this method facilitates the use of cell site transmit signals that are part of multiple wireless networks.
US07796996B2
The wireless device judges whether information transmitted and received by the user devices is non-realtime system data or realtime system data, acquires a receiving sensitivity of each channel, transmits, to a server, the number of user devices, a notification that the information transmitted and received is the non-realtime system data or the realtime system data, and the receiving sensitivity of each channel, and receives, when transmitting to the server the notification that the information transmitted and received by the user devices is the non-realtime system data, a first channel information sent by the server, and further receives, when transmitting to the server the notification that the information transmitted and received by the user devices is the realtime system data, a second channel information sent by the server.
US07796993B2
A method for providing a location value of a Target (SET) in a location information providing system is provided, wherein an Home Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) Location Platform (H-SLP) also checks a period for a positioning and it transmits a positioning start inducing message to the Target SET if an Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) TRIGGERED START message does not arrive from the Target SET within a specific time interval from a beginning of the corresponding period. Therefore, there is a complementary effect on that the positioning can be performed in the preset period.
US07796991B2
When a Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) receives an indication on Layer 3 (L3) (an L1/L2 indication is also possible) from the User Equipment (UE) that it is switching the High Speed—Data Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) reception to another cell in the active set (AS), the UTRAN sends a reconfiguration message to the UE via the target cell using a pre-configured configuration that UE has taken into use. The message can only include an indication that the pre-defined configuration can be used further by the UE or that a complete new configuration is to be used, e.g., using new HARQ info or even a hard handover (HHO) to another frequency. After receiving the configuration message, the UE responds with a normal reconfiguration complete message.
US07796990B2
The invention relates to a method for the routing of multimedia communication related signaling in a communication system. In the method a signaling message is received to a first network node. The signaling message provides an identity associated with a user. A hash key is computed from the identity. The hash key is matched to a number of key ranges, each key range being associated with a network node. A second network node is determined by detecting that said hash key belongs to the key range of the second network node. A signaling message is provided to the second network node. Subscriber data associated with the identity is obtained in from the second network node. The signaling message is processed in the second network node based on information in the subscriber data.
US07796987B2
Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating synchronization of a mobile station with a radio network in a GSM/EDGE-compatible, cellular communication system. The FCCH is monitored to obtain positional and frequency offset information. Once obtained, the information is used to obtain SCH burst information broadcast upon an SCH. Monitoring of the FCCH continues while the SCH burst information is detected and decoded. If additional FCCH control information is detected that has an associated quality metric value that is better than the quality metric value associated with earlier FCCH, control information, the newly-received information is used to detect the SCH burst information, absent successful decoding of the SCH burst information.
US07796984B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for tagging or identifying bad, faulty or objectionable media resource files in real time, as the media is playing, by users who are exposed to the media. The tagging is simple to use and easy to remember, allowing for increased use of the tagging process to identify, correct and replace bad, faulty or objectionable media.
US07796978B2
There is described a communication system in which data is received by and/or transmitted to a telecommunications apparatus using an acoustic data channel. In embodiments, the data is encoded within the audio track of a media broadcast or other public broadcast. The invention has particular, but not exclusive, relevance to a cellular communication system. There are also described acoustic position detection systems for determining the position of a telecommunications apparatus.
US07796975B2
Disclosed is a method of transferring data files from an internal memory within a portable wireless communication device to an external storage device by means of a wireless communication network. A connection is automatically established between the portable wireless communication device and the external storage device via the wireless communication network when a preset trigger condition within the portable wireless communication device occurs. Data files are automatically transferred from the portable wireless communication device to the external storage device using the established connection.
US07796971B2
An electronic chip has a data input for receiving an input digital data signal with a data frequency, a plurality of switches, and a logic circuit operatively coupled with both the plurality of switches and the data input. The logic circuit controls the switches to be in one of a DAC mode or a mixer mode. The DAC mode causes the switches to convert the input digital data signal into a DAC analog signal having about the data frequency. The mixer mode, however, causes the switches to convert the input digital data signal into a mixed analog signal having a mixer frequency that is higher than the data frequency.
US07796970B2
An integrated circuit (IC) low noise amplifier includes an on-chip balun and an on-chip differential amplifier. The on-chip balun is coupled to convert a single-ended signal into a differential signal. The on-chip differential amplifier is coupled to amplify the differential signal.
US07796952B1
A system for communicating information signals includes a receiver in selective communication with a first antenna and a second antenna. The receiver is configured to selectively receive information signals via the first or second antenna. The system includes a first low-noise amplifier in communication with the first antenna and in selective communication with the receiver. The first low-noise amplifier is configured to amplify a first information signal received by the first antenna to generate a first amplified signal. The system includes a second low-noise amplifier in communication with the second antenna and in selective communication with the receiver. At least the first and second low-noise amplifiers are formed on a monolithic substrate. The second low-noise amplifier is configured to amplify a second information signal received by the second antenna to generate a second amplified signal. Either the first or second amplified signal is selectively applied to the receiver.
US07796949B2
A wireless communications terminal prevents radio interferences caused by other wireless communications concurrent with a contactless communication. A wireless communications terminal receives, in a contactless communication, a command from a reader/writer via a second wireless communications section, and analyzes the received command. The wireless communications terminal controls a wireless communications control section to deactivate or temporarily deactivate the function of a first wireless communications section depending on the analysis of the command. After the function of the first wireless communications section is deactivated or temporarily deactivated, the wireless communications terminal accesses a memory area of an IC card microcomputer system as specified by the command to perform a contactless communication.
US07796946B2
A method, apparatus, and system for automatically sharing data resources between Bluetooth devices. A Bluetooth device is paired with a “trusted” Bluetooth device. When paired devices are found, the Bluetooth device automatically allows the other device to present a virtual representation of data that is shared. The shared data can be selectively downloaded for use by the other device as long as the devices are in proximity. In an alternate embodiment, the devices may share pairing information with a network, so that the same shared resource can be made available at a large number of access points but specifically only for one paired, trusted device.
US07796939B2
A digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) receiver and a method for notifying location information of the receiver is provided. The DMB receiver stores location information of each gap filler matched to a gap filter identification (GFID), and the gap filler relays digital multimedia broadcasting data transmitted from a satellite. The receiver performs receiving digital multimedia broadcasting data from the gap filler, detects the GFID of the gap filler from the received digital multimedia broadcasting data, detects location information of the gap filler by using the GFID and outputs the location information. Therefore, a user in motion may watch DMB without any risk of missing a destination.
US07796936B2
An image forming device in a color printer or the like includes duplex printing. Multiple media sheets are moved through a media path which includes a primary path and a duplex path. Various parameters of the image forming device control the interpage gap between sheets. Parameters include peek-a-boo duplexing, sharing of motors within the drive rollers, and sharing of power supplies.
US07796934B2
An image forming method in which an image carrier that has a surface layer containing a resin having a crosslinking structure is used; a material of a portion of the cleaning blade which portion contacts the surface of the image carrier satisfies 3.92≦M≦29.42, 0>α≦0.294, and S≧250; an absolute value of difference in circumferential velocity between the image carrier and the intermediate transfer member is larger than zero; a polishing agent is present at a contact portion between the image carrier and the intermediate transfer member; M represents 100% modulus; α represents a ratio of a change in stress (Δ stress) to a change in a strain amount (Δ strain amount) from 100% strain to 200% strain in a stress-strain curve; and S represents a breaking elongation measured according to JIS K6251 using a dumbbell type #3 test piece.
US07796930B2
A technique of preventing toner from adhering to a guide which guides a change of a conveying direction of a paper by the paper on which a toner image is formed contacting with the guide is provided. The technique includes: a concave guide, having a concave guide surface, which guides conveyance of a paper so as to change a conveyance direction of the conveyed paper; and a guiding roller provided in the vicinity of a position on the concave guide surface of the concave guide where a front edge of the paper conveyed toward the concave guide abuts so as to have a roller surface project from the concave guide surface.
US07796929B2
An image forming apparatus uses a method of detecting a phase difference of the image bearing members such that an image transferring member receives a reference toner mark and a reference image pattern carried by and a reference image bearing member and corresponding image patterns carried by respective corresponding image bearing members for at least one circumferential length of each image bearing member perpendicular to the moving direction of the image transferring member, a plurality of detectors detect the reference and corresponding image patterns, and a controller controls the image bearing members to have a positional relation of the reference image bearing member and each corresponding image bearing member for which the sum of the elapsed time difference of the image pattern with respect to the reference image pattern is minimum.
US07796926B2
A developing apparatus is provided which can suppress a fluctuation in image density in a discontinuous printing mode provided with a pause period. The developing apparatus includes a developer for developing an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive drum, a developer bearing member for carrying and conveying the developer and a developer layer thickness-regulating unit placed close to the developer bearing member for regulating the amount of the developer carried and conveyed by the developer bearing member, the developer layer thickness-regulating unit being. As the developer, a negatively chargeable, one-component, magnetic toner is used having magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin and a magnetic iron oxide particle, and has a specific saturation magnetization, specific weight-average particle diameter and specific composition. The developer bearing member includes a surface layer containing a binder resin, a quaternary ammonium salt, graphitized particles, and conductive, spherical resin particles, and has a specific surface shape.
US07796922B2
An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a toner supplying device, a toner container, and a developing device. The toner supplying device supplies toners stored in the toner container to the developing device. The toner supplying device includes a toner tank which stores toners discharged from the toner container, a toner carrying section which carries the toners stored in the toner tank in an obliquely upward direction, and a toner dropping route which causes the toners carried by the toner carrying section to drop into the developing device by toner own weight. The toner carrying section controls an amount of the toners to flow into the toner dropping route.
US07796920B2
A developing unit circulates a developer unidirectionally and includes a developer carrier having a magnetic field generator therein. The developing unit further includes a supply part housing a supply screw, a collecting part housing a collecting screw, an agitation part housing an agitation screw, a first opening, a second opening, and a third opening. The developer is transported by the supply screw, the collecting screw, and the agitation screw from the collecting screw to the agitation screw through the first opening, from the agitation screw to the supply screw through the second opening, and from the supply screw to the collecting screw though the third opening in a developer circulation. A height of a bottom surface of the downstream part of the agitation screw is higher than a height of a bottom surface of the supply screw.
US07796919B2
For an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier (31b), besides an operation forming an “image forming electrostatic latent image” used to form the primary image, an operation is executed that forms an “electrostatic latent image for removing developer” for removing developer that resides on a developer supply member (53a) for a predetermined time period onto the image carrier (31b). Thus, developer is nearly eliminated from residing on this developer supply member (53a) in an overcharged state for a long period of time, and generation of a fogged image is avoided as much as possible.
US07796908B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device including a heater to which electric power is fed from a commercial power supply and a temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the heater, an auxiliary power supply that is charged by the commercial power supply and discharges electricity to a specific load, and a control unit that controls ON and OFF of the heater and ON and OFF of charging of the auxiliary power supply. The control unit turns on the heater when a detected temperature of the sensor is lower than a first set temperature and turns off when the detected temperature is higher than the first set temperature, while the control unit turns on the charging of the auxiliary power supply when the detected temperature is higher than a second set temperature higher than the first set temperature and turns off the charging when the detected temperature is lower than the second set temperature.
US07796906B2
The image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a first and a second main conveyance path, a first and a second processing unit, a transfer unit, and a fixing unit. The first and second main conveyance paths come together after having branched apart between a paper supply unit and a paper delivery unit. A recording medium is selectively conveyed along either one of the first and second main conveyance path. Image formation is performed by a method of electrophotography by, alternatively, either the first or second processing unit. Between the first and second main conveyance paths where they are branched apart, the transfer unit generates a transfer electric field between itself and one or the other of the first and second processing unit. The fixing unit controls the temperature of a first or a second fixing roller, which are disposed in the first and second main conveyance path after they have come together, alternatively.
US07796904B2
A developing unit driving apparatus which drives a developing unit having a toner cartridge to accommodate a toner, a developing part disposed in the toner cartridge to develop the toner to a photosensitive body, and a toner supplying part provided in the toner cartridge to supply the toner to the developing part, the apparatus includes: a driving source; a first power transmitter which transmits power supplied from the driving source to the developing part; and a second power transmitter which transmits the power supplied from the driving source to the toner supplying part except when the developing part is driven.
US07796895B2
A dynamic dispersion compensation system and method are provided. The method dynamically compensates for dispersion in an optical signal by recovering a first clock and a second clock from a first polarization component and a second polarization component of the optical signal respectively, determining a delay time between the first clock and the second clock, determining the dispersion based on the delay time and dynamically compensating for the determined dispersion. The system comprises a polarization beam splitter, a clock recoverer, a dispersion determiner and a tunable dispersion compensation module and is operable to dynamically compensate for the dispersion in an optical signal.
US07796878B2
A lens barrel 11 is mounted in a collapsible imaging device 1 and includes a third lens frame 55. The third frame 55 is a lens frame to which correction lenses L5, L6, L7 are mounted and includes a shutter unit 57, a vibration compensation actuator 71, a lens frame main body 95, a focus lens frame 105, and a focus motor 115. The focus lens frame 105 is urged against the lens frame main body 95 toward the image plane side by means of a focus spring 110. A motor section 117 of the focus motor 115 is arranged in a region interposed between two multilayer printed circuit boards 77, 79 when viewed from the image plane side or the object side.
US07796877B2
A focus-controlling apparatus adjusts a focus in an optical system. The apparatus includes a focus detecting unit, a storage unit, a focus area switching unit, and a drive control unit. The focus detecting unit detects de-focusing amounts of the optical system with respect to a plurality of objects that lie in a plurality of focus areas, respectively. The storage unit stores the de-focusing amounts detected for the respective focus areas. The focus area switching unit switches the focus areas, from one to another, in an order based on the de-focusing amounts stored in the storage unit. The drive control unit moves the optical system to a focus position corresponding to the de-focusing amount at any focus area switched by the focus area switching unit.
US07796856B2
An optical disk contains main video data obtained by compressing pictures captured by a video camera at a relatively low compression ratio, low resolution proxy video data obtained by performing compression at a compression ratio higher than that for the main video data, metadata for use in editing. When a state in which the optical disk 2 is loaded into a drive of an optical disk apparatus is detected, the proxy video data and the metadata are read and recorded in a hard disk drive (HDD) without receiving a user's instruction. The proxy video data and metadata recorded in the HDD are used in simple editing before main editing in which the main video data is edited.
US07796851B2
A manufacturing method of an optical waveguide, the optical waveguide including a first clad layer; a core layer formed on the first clad layer and configured to propagate light; a second clad layer formed on the first clad layer so as to cover the core layer; and a light propagation direction changing part configured to change a propagation direction of the light propagating in the core layer; the manufacturing method of the optical waveguide includes the steps of forming a concave part penetrating the first clad layer and the core layer; and inserting the light propagation direction changing part into the concave part so that a light propagation direction changing surface of the light propagation direction changing part forms a predetermined inclination angle to a predetermined reference plane.
US07796850B2
Optical systems comprise one or more optical pathways including lenses that are offset with respect to each other and lenses that are offset with respect to optical fibers.
US07796845B2
Provided is a circuit board which suppresses abnormal formation of plated layer inside a via, caused by core materials of glass fibers or the like projected from a side wall of the via and which helps to improve the connection reliability of the via. An insulating layer, which is formed of thermoset resin and embedded with glass fibers, is provided between a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer. The glass fibers projected into a via hole side from a side wall of the via hole in different positions are embedded into a via conductor in such a state that the glass fibers are jointed with each other.
US07796818B2
Execution commands corresponding to the type of gesture are stored and by acquiring coordinate values of accepted handwriting input including gesture on a display screen, handwriting is displayed. When handwriting input is accepted, display data of handwriting is updated. When handwriting input is not completed, it is decided whether or not handwriting input is gesture input. When it is decided that the handwriting input is gesture input, the type of gesture is decided on the basis of the coordinate values of gesture on the display screen, an execution command corresponding to the type of gesture is read and the fact that the handwriting input is gesture input is displayed. When gesture input is completed, the execution command corresponding to gesture input is executed. Therefore, the user can make handwriting input according to the user's intent without performing mode switching.
US07796816B2
A digital segmentation method and apparatus determines foreground and/or background within at least one portion of a captured image. The determining includes comparing a captured image to a pre-captured or post captured reference image of nominally the same scene. One of the images is taken with flash and the other without. The system can be implemented as part of a digital camera acquisition chain having effective computation complexity.
US07796811B2
Disclosed is a method for designing tooth surfaces of a digital dental prosthetic item existing as a 3D data set using a first 3D model of a preparation site and/or of a dental prosthetic item and a second 3D model, which second model comprises regions which match some regions on the first 3D model and regions which differ from other regions of the first 3D model, the non-matching regions containing some of the surface information required for the dental prosthetic item, wherein at least three pairs (P1, P2, P3) of points (P11, P12; P21, P22; P31, P32) corresponding to each other are selected on the matching region on the first 3D model (A) and the second 3D model (A′), that the positional correlation of the second 3D model with reference to the first 3D model is determined with reference to the at least three pairs (P1, P2, P3), and that portions of the non-matching regions of the first and second 3D models are implemented for designing the tooth surface of the dental prosthetic item taking into consideration the positional correlation of these models relative to each other.
US07796810B2
A method and an apparatus to obtain a surface mapping of a ballistic piece of evidence (BPOE) under examination, such as a bullet or a spent cartridge case, that can be used thereafter as a 3D signature for identifying purpose during ballistic test comparison. The method comprises providing a measurement unit adapted to acquire a relief map of the surface of the BPOE and acquiring with the measurement unit the relief map of the surface to thereby obtain the mapping of the surface of the BPOE. Preferably, the measurement unit of the present invention comprises a confocal sensor such as confocal microscope. Also, the present invention includes acquiring the relief map of the bullet surface or of the cartridge case surface by acquiring and assembling a mosaic of regional reliefs that are partly overlapping with their surroundings regional reliefs.
US07796805B1
A wafer having improved inspection sensitivity to foreign matter on a top-most surface of the wafer, as detected with a surface scanning optical inspection system that uses an inspection wavelength. The wafer includes a substantially homogenous first layer at the top-most surface of the wafer, the first layer having a first thickness. The first layer is at least partially transparent to the inspection wavelength. A substantially homogenous second layer immediately underlies the first layer, the second layer having a second thickness. The second layer is at least partially transparent to the inspection wavelength. A substrate immediately underlies the second layer. The first thickness and the second thickness are set in a combination that produces a local minimum of an electric field at the top-most surface and a local maximum of an electric field within one hundred nanometers above the top-most surface.
US07796801B2
A fine pattern, such as a semiconductor integrated circuit (LSI), a liquid crystal panel, and a photomask (reticle) for the semiconductor or the liquid crystal panel, which are fabricated based on data for fabricating the fine pattern such as design data is inspected by a pattern inspection apparatus. The pattern inspection apparatus for inspecting a pattern to-be-inspected uses an image of the pattern to-be-inspected and data for fabricating the pattern to-be-inspected. The pattern inspection apparatus includes a reference pattern generation device configured to generate a reference pattern represented by one or more lines from the data, an image generation device configured to generate the image of the pattern to-be-inspected, a detecting device configured to detect an edge of the image of the pattern to-be-inspected, and an inspection device configured to inspect the pattern to-be-inspected by comparing the edge of the image of the pattern to-be-inspected with the one or more lines of the reference pattern.
US07796799B2
An inspection device for loose objects, for example tablets that may or may not be packaged, including a conveying mechanism for conveying the objects to at least one inspection area. The inspection device includes a mechanical impulse mechanism for moving the objects apart prior to or during transport to the at least one inspection area. This leads in particular to an improved automatic verification of the number, the shape, the color and the size of the tablets, as a result of which fewer errors will occur in the eventual administration of medicines to persons, or patients.
US07796795B2
A method, system, and storage medium for computer aided processing of an image set includes employing a data source, the data source including an image set acquired from X-ray projection imaging, x-ray computed tomography, or x-ray tomosynthesis, defining a region of interest within one or more images from the image set, extracting feature measures from the region of interest, and reporting at least one of the feature measures on the region of interest. The method may be employed for identifying bone fractures, disease, obstruction, or any other medical condition.
US07796787B2
A method is provided for cloning a facial feature template image into an original image including a face to form a new image. The method includes detecting the face and facial features in the original image, reducing the original and the template images, cloning the reduced template image into the reduced original image to form a new image, enlarging the new image, and displaying the enlarged new image. The method may use Poisson cloning where a resulting system of linear equations is solved by applying a Thomas algorithm to determine an initial solution and applying a Conjugate Gradient algorithm using the initial solution to determine a final solution to the system of linear equations.
US07796778B2
A digital watermarking system and method is provided. The digital watermarking system mainly includes a storing unit, a background image obtaining module, a pixel determining module, an encrypting module, and a storing module. The storing unit is for storing text information, the text information including textual information and one or more background images. The background image obtaining module is for obtaining one background image to be watermarked from the storing unit. The background image includes plural pixels, and each of the pixels has a brightness value. The pixel determining module is for earmarking the pixel to be adjusted, an initial brightness value of the earmarked pixel being in a predetermined range. The encrypting module is for adjusting the brightness value of the earmarked pixel. The storing module is for storing watermarked text information in the storing unit. Related methods are provided.
US07796773B2
In a communication device (1) that is designed to deliver sound, in an against the-ear mode, into a space (22) bounded by the ear and, in an away-from-the-ear mode, into an acoustic free space, a loudspeaker (3) is provided for generating the sound and a holding device (2) is furthermore provided, which holding device (2) comprises a first holding-device region (16) via which, in the against-the-ear mode, the sound generated by the loudspeaker (3) can be delivered without hindrance by the ear and which holding device (2) comprises a second holding-device region (15A) that does not comprise the first holding-device region (16) and via which, in the against-the-ear mode, the sound generated by the loudspeaker (3) can be fed to the space (22) bounded by the ear and a first sound-conveying device is furthermore provided with whose aid the sound generated by the loudspeaker (3) can be conveyed, in the away-from-the-ear mode, through the first holding-device region (16) into the acoustic free space, and a second sound-conveying device is furthermore provided with whose aid the sound generated by the loudspeaker (3) can be conveyed, in the against-the-ear mode, through the second holding-device region (15) into the space (22) bounded by the ear.
US07796772B2
A stand on which a flat panel display main body is placed has low-pitched sound speakers built therein and a speaker of the flat panel display main body and the low-pitched sound speakers of the stand are combined together to construct a powerful sound system with large sound volume. The low-pitched sound speakers are located at the back side of the flat panel display main body when the flat panel display main body is placed on the stand. In a flat panel display apparatus composed of the flat panel display main body having the speaker built therein and the stand supporting this flat panel display main body thereon, it is possible to easily realize a powerful sound system using the low-pitched sound speakers (woofers) without requiring any extra space.
US07796751B2
A digital message can be sent from a sender to a recipient in a public-key based cryptosystem comprising an authorizer. The authorizer can be a single entity or comprise a hierarchical or distributed entity. The recipient can decrypt a message from the sender only if the recipient possesses up-to-date authority from the authorizer. Key status queries and key escrow are unnecessary in some embodiments. Other features are also provided.
US07796744B1
A dynamic reporting tool presents conferencing data to customers in a useful and flexible manner. Customers may customize standard reports using dynamic, comprehensive search criteria. Customers may also create custom ad hoc reports as needed. Furthermore, customers may access unbilled usage data and conduct searches on the unbilled usage data.
US07796741B2
The invention provides a call connection control method which can use a conventional telephone as-is and performing linking with a low possibility of mistaking telephones, and a call connection control unit for implementing the method. Upon receiving an outgoing call request from an outgoing-call side personal computer (PC), a call connection control unit retrieves an outgoing-call side IP-telephone linked to the PC, and transmits an incoming call request to the IP-telephone. Upon receiving the incoming call request, the IP-telephone rings. When the caller places the IP-telephone that rings in a starting (off-hook) state, the call connection control unit sends a ring back tone to the IP-telephone and transmits an incoming call request to an incoming-call side IP-telephone. Upon receiving the incoming call request, the IP-telephone rings. When the recipient places the IP-telephone that rings in a starting state, the call connection control unit enables a call between the two IP-telephones.
US07796738B2
A method for providing a E911 edge network. The method includes assigning public safety answering points (PSAPs) to ports located in a network, where each of the ports is associated with a calling party number (CPN) and a geographic location. The method also includes identifying an incoming emergency call from an IP device. The IP device corresponds to a unique code address and the incoming emergency call includes an incoming CPN. The entry port associated with the IP device is determined based on the unique code address and the incoming CPN. The incoming emergency call is connected to the PSAP corresponding to the entry port. The CPN and the geographic location data are transmitted to the PSAP corresponding to the entry port.
US07796731B2
A method of providing intensity modulated radiation therapy to a moving target is disclosed. The target moves periodically along a trajectory that is projected onto a multi-leaf collimator (MLC) plane. The MLC plane is divided into thin slices parallel to the movement of the target. The present invention optimizes the leaf sequence such that, within each slice, if a point receives radiation, all other points in that slice that receive the same amount or more fluence are also receiving radiation at the same time.
US07796727B1
An attenuated soft x-ray neutralizer for neutralizing aerosols. The apparatus includes a soft x-ray emitter that emits soft x-rays into an aerosol conditioning chamber. An attenuating window may be included that reduces the intensity of the soft x-rays that bombard the aerosol, thus generating fewer radiolytically generated particles. Another way to reduce or control the intensity of the soft x-rays is to control emission of the cathode in the soft x-ray emitter. The reduced intensity of the soft x-rays was found by experiment to satisfactorily condition an aerosol stream without substantial radiolytic generation of particles precipitation.
US07796725B1
An x-ray imaging system uses a synchrotron radiation beam to acquire x-ray images and at least one integrated x-ray source. The system has an imaging system including sample stage controlled by linear translation stages, objective x-ray lens, and x-ray sensitive detector system, placed on a fixed optical table and a mechanical translation stage system to switch x-ray sources when synchrotron radiation beam is not available.
US07796716B2
A wireless device receives an input signal representing a signal of interest (e.g., one or more portions of a packet) on a wireless medium. The input signal may, in addition, contain narrowband interference signals. The wireless device removes the signal of interest from the input signal to produce a residue signal, and analyzes the residue signal to determine the presence of any interference bands in which narrowband interference signals may be present. The wireless device then removes the detected interference bands from the input signal. The residue signal may reveal the presence of interference signals, which might otherwise be hard to distinguish in the input signal. Thus, interference signals with power levels much lower than the power of the signal of interest may be detected and removed.
US07796711B2
Aspects of a method and system for decoding single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) and redundancy processing adaptation using burst process are provided. A wireless receiver may decode bit sequences based on a first decoding algorithm that may utilize redundancy in the data and that may impose physical constraints. The receiver may also decode a received bit sequence based on a second decoding algorithm that utilizes SAIC. Received data may be processed in a burst process portion in either decoding algorithm. Burst processed data from one of the decoding algorithms may be selected based on signal-to-noise ratio and/or received signal level measurements. The selected burst processed data may be communicated to a frame processing portion of the corresponding decoding algorithm.
US07796704B2
Method for transmitting information in a telecommunication system featuring multiple frequency bands
A method for transmitting data in a telecommunication system including at least one communication network CNW1 including a group of radio base stations B1 able to communicate with at least one mobile terminal MT through a wireless link, which method includes at least one frequency switching step for switching an operating frequency of the wireless link from a first frequency band to a second frequency band, and a control signal transmission step in the course of which a slot including control data (Cnt, Swrq, Mst) is transmitted through a communication channel established over said wireless link. The method upgrades an existing network by allowing it to use a new band of available frequencies for the operation of the wireless link.
US07796693B2
A sequence of video images represented using multiple related timelines can be searched by identifying a first point on a first timeline associated with the sequence of video images, wherein the sequence of video images is comprised of one or more samples, determining a search range on a second timeline associated with the sequence of video images based on a positive offset and a negative offset associated with the one or more samples, and searching the second timeline based on the determined search range for a second point that corresponds to the identified first point. A display offset can be associated with each of the samples comprising the sequence of video images, wherein one or more of the display offsets can comprise a negative value. Additionally, the search range can be based on a maximum positive display offset and maximum negative display offset associated with the one or more samples.
US07796686B2
In accordance with the present invention, novel methods for adaptive receiver design and related parameter estimation techniques for efficient and non-coherent reception of ultrawideband signals are presented. Efficient estimation of maximum excess delay of the channel for enabling many useful adaptation techniques is additionally provided. Also, noise power estimation which significantly improves the performance of the receivers is presented.
US07796684B2
A transceiver having a transmitting antenna, a receiving antenna, and a substrate having transmitter and receiver dies is disclosed. The transmitter generates an RF signal having a carrier frequency and the receiver detects and amplifies signals of the carrier frequency. The transmitting antenna and/or the receiving antenna includes a first wire antenna loop having a length greater than or equal to one tenth of a wavelength of the carrier frequency. The first wire antenna loop is connected to the transmitter die by a wire bond on a bond pad of the transmitter die. The antenna loop or loops can be encapsulated in an insulating material to protect the loops and fix the loops in space. The transceiver can be configured to operate as a galvanic isolator or a proximity detector.
US07796676B2
A signalling system is provided which can be used to update the prices of goods which are electronically displayed on supermarket shelves. The signaling system may include a first signalling device having an input terminal for receiving electrical message data received from a central computer system, a spread spectrum encoder for encoding the received message data and an electroacoustic converter for converting the encoded data into corresponding acoustic signals and for transmitting the acoustic signals from the transmission medium and for converting the received acoustic signals into corresponding electrical signals, a spread spectrum decoder for decoding the received signals and a message regenerator for regenerating the message data transmitted by the first signalling device from the signals output by the decoder.
US07796669B2
A semiconductor laser diode capable of further improving temperature characteristics while sufficiently preventing a laser beam emission end surface portion from thermal destruction through a window structure is obtained. This semiconductor laser diode comprises an active layer having a window structure on a laser beam emission end surface portion and a p-type layer, formed on the surface of the active layer, containing Mg and Zn as impurities. The impurity concentration of Zn contained in the p-type layer is larger than the impurity concentration of Mg contained in the p-type layer.
US07796663B2
To provide a semiconductor laser device which has no ripple and can afford better FFP having a pattern near a Gaussian distribution upon operation at the high output, the semiconductor laser comprising a laminate structure in which a first conductive type semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second conductive type semiconductor layer different from the first conductive type are laminated in this order, the laminate structure having a waveguide region to guide a light and resonator planes for laser oscillation on both ends, characterized in that the laminate structure has a non-resonator plane on one end side and the non-resonator plane is covered with a shading layer.
US07796657B2
An optical module includes a laser device, a thermal conduction member, a Peltier device disposed between the laser device and the thermal conduction member, a heat radiation part, and a variable thermal-resistance device disposed between the thermal conduction member and the heat radiation part, the variable thermal-resistance device changing a thermal resistance between the thermal conduction member and the heat radiation part according to an ambient temperature.
US07796653B2
A transport stream (TS) demultiplexer has a TS input switch unit and an output switch unit, whereby inputs and outputs can be selected as desired, external output can be easily changed by changing selected information of the TS input switch unit and the output switch unit, without changing inputs. Therefore, the TS demultiplexer receives a plurality of TSs such as MPEG-2 TSs and DSS TSs, and can selectively demultiplex the TSs, and particularly, the TS demultiplexer can store the TSs in a storage medium such as a hard disc drive, or it can easily transmit the TS data over an IEEE1394 bus or a PCI bus.
US07796648B2
An apparatus and method for generating and parsing a MAC PDU in a mobile communication system are provided in which LCIDs of MAC SDUs to be multiplexed are checked, the length of an LF is determined for each of the MAC SDUs, referring to LF lengths predetermined for the LCIDs, a MAC header including the LCIDs and LFs of the determined lengths for the MAC SDUs is generated, and a MAC PDU is generated by attaching the MAC header to payload including the MAC SDUs. During the MAC header generation, if a padding size required for the MAC PDU generation calculated taking into account the absence of a last LF in the MAC header is larger than the length of the last LF, the last LF is included in the MAC header, the required padding size is recalculated, taking into account the inclusion of the last LF, and a padding is added according to the re-calculated padding size.
US07796644B2
The present invention provides for a method for reserving spare bandwidth for a link in a communication network including a plurality of links. The method provides for monitoring the volume of traffic routed through each link of the communication network. A single link failure for each link is then simulated and the volume of traffic which would be rerouted through each link for maintaining communication and the volume of traffic removed from each link are determined for each simulated single link failure. The difference between the volume of traffic which would need to be rerouted through each link and the corresponding volume of traffic removed from each link is then computed, and a maximum difference value is determined for each link for all simulated single link failures. An amount of spare bandwidth equivalent to the determined maximum difference is then reserved for each link.
US07796639B2
Various methods and apparatuses provide unicast channel data acquisition, such as antenna information, from MBMS subframes. A method of operating a wireless communications network infrastructure entity is disclosed comprising transmitting a subframe (300) comprising a unicast symbol (301) in a first predetermined symbol position within said subframe (300), said unicast symbol (301) comprising a first antenna reference information; defining said first antenna reference information as a second antenna reference information; and transmitting a second subframe comprising a second unicast symbol in a second predetermined symbol position within said second subframe, said second unicast symbol comprising said second antenna reference information.
US07796635B2
A transmission terminal measures an error rate by periodically transmitting an error rate measuring packet to all transmission channels and all transmission paths. Content to be transmitted is classified, so that a transmission channel of the best transmission quality is assigned to content requiring real-timeness and a wide transmission bandwidth. According to the type of the content, a required communication protocol is selected to perform processing thereof. The transmission bandwidth for the content requiring a wide transmission bandwidth is assigned at a peak rate, while the transmission bandwidth for the content requiring a narrow transmission bandwidth is assigned at an average rate.
US07796624B2
Connection ports for interconnecting functional modules in an integrated circuit are described. The connection ports provide enhanced functionality based around a common port primitive. This simplifies port design and selection and also allows a common packet protocol to be used for communication of packets across the packet router. In particular, there is improved functionality of target ports which allow out of order requests to be dealt with and out of order responses to be generated.
US07796609B2
Packet processing device with load control mechanism based on packet length and CPU time consumption
A packet processing device that achieves stable operation by alleviating the workload of packet processing. A packet buffer checks a packet length flag and a processing time flag to observe the device's operating condition for a first connection. When neither of the two flags are on, the packet buffer keeps buffering first packets on the first connection. When either or both flags are on, the packet buffer changes focus to a second connection and begins buffering second packets on the second connection. A packet length monitor turns on the packet length flag if a new cumulative packet length is greater than a packet length threshold. A processing time monitor turns on the processing time flag if a new cumulative processing time estimate is greater than a predetermined processing time threshold.
US07796601B1
A network transfers a first packet addressed to a first address and indicating a second address. The network routes the first packet through a first set of routers. The first routers transfer route priority messages indicating the second address to directly linked routers to lower their route priority to the first routers for the second address. The network transfers a second packet addressed to the second address and indicating the first address. The network routes the second packet through a second set of routers. The second routers transfer route priority messages indicating the first address to directly linked routers to lower their route priority to the second routers for the first address. The network routes a first packet flow addressed to the first address through the first routers and routes a second packet flow addressed to the second address through the second routers.
US07796595B2
The objective of the present invention is to perform network grouping without employing a VLAN switch.Communication is performed by using the data structure for an IP packet that includes an IP data portion and an IP header that has an option area, for which a group number area for defining a group, consisting of a plurality of communication apparatuses, is provided as an arbitrary data area following an option end position indicator area.
US07796594B2
A system and method of extending a standard bridge to enable execution of logical bridging functionality are disclosed. In some implementations, a logical bridge may assign source logical port information to a data packet based on characteristics of the data packet, employ the source logical port information to learn the source address and to forward the data packet to a logical egress port, and map the logical egress port to a physical egress port at which the data packet is to be egressed. A tunnel interface may optionally be applied to a data packet upon egress.
US07796577B2
The present invention provides a method for designing operation schedules of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) and a multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modem (MIMO-OFDM modem) thereof. According to the present invention, an operation speed of an FFT operator is set up, a receiving symbol is arranged in an OFDM symbol duration in an FFT after receiving the symbol, a transmitting symbol is arranged in an OFDM symbol duration in the FFT schedule before transmitting the symbol, a transmitting/receiving symbol which has the same timing is inserted into an idle symbol duration of the FFT schedule, an FFT schedule which is good to be deleted is deleted, and symbols of the deleted FFT schedule are re-arranged in order to not have an error occur in transmitting/receiving timing.
US07796574B2
System and method for receiving transmissions in a wireless communications system. A preferred embodiment comprises a receiver (such as receiver 400) that can despread and then demodulate a symbol from a transmitter that first spread and then modulated the symbol. By reversing the processing order, the demodulation can be performed at a lower data rate and therefore reducing computational and power requirements.
US07796566B2
Methods and apparatus to perform dynamic channel management and dynamic bandwidth changes in wireless local area networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises deciding at an access point to initiate at least one of a bandwidth change or a channel assignment change; and sending a frame to initiate the at least one of the bandwidth change or the channel assignment change from the access point to one or more stations of a wireless network, the frame including a first field to identify a first channel and a second field to identify a second channel.
US07796564B2
A base station apparatus is disclosed, which can efficiently process a reception signal from a user with a simpler constitution. The base station includes: a packet data user control unit that controls packet data for a user and transmits the packet data and notifies a user ID of a user who transmits data in an arbitrary frame (packet transmission period) and a number of this frame; and a layer control unit that manages the frame number and the user ID and controls de-spread and demodulation. The layer control unit creates finger/user allocation information indicating to which user a finger is allocated and outputs the finger/user allocation information to a demodulation unit. The demodulation unit performs demodulation processing using this information such that generated phase compensation data is connected with an identical user and an identical path.
US07796561B2
Disclosed is a method of selecting a transmission antenna in a radio communication system. The present invention includes the steps of transmitting data through a sequentially selected antenna and if error occurs in the transmitted data, retransmitting corresponding erroneous data. Therefore, present invention presumes what channel state of antennas is better based on the response signal (ACK or NACK) of the reception party and then transmits data through the presumed antenna, thereby enabling to improve transmission performance more.
US07796552B2
Systems and methods are provided to facilitate efficient communications handoff for access terminals in a wireless network. In an aspect, a method to handoff communications in a wireless network is provided. The method includes decoding assignment messages from one or more sectors in an active set and performing an access terminal handoff based at least in part on the active set.
US07796542B2
In one method and apparatus for blocking unwanted calls in a callback system, parameters associated with a callback request (e.g., the user device to which the call is to be directed, the IP address from which the request originated or an identifier of the source computer from which the callback request originated, the party from whom the call is requested) are tracked for each call. A decision to automatically block the requested callback is made based on one or more criteria based on a combination of these parameters, which may be a total over a period of time. In a second method, one or both of the parties to the callback is queried as to whether the callback is unwanted and, if so, one or more parameters associated with the request are blacklisted.
US07796540B2
In a network including equipment noncompliant to the topology management protocol, a message substitution response system executing substitution response to a message discovered or topology search message in lieu of the noncompliant equipment is provided. The substitution response module generation unit 22 generates a substitution response module which responds to Discover message and topology search message in lieu of each of LLTD noncompliant equipment for every LLTD noncompliant equipment. The network simulation module generation unit 23 generates a network simulation module for simulating message transmission on the home network. The substitution response functional unit 24 simulates message transmission between the home network and each of substitution response modules, and message transmission between each of substitution response modules by said network simulation module.
US07796538B1
A method is described for providing personalized network access and services in a distributed end-to-end broadband transport network having a telecommunication device used by a user having a unique personal identifier, a premises-based broadband access agent (BAA), the BAA connected to and in communication with the telecommunication device, a switch specific to an underlying transport medium, the switch connected to and in communication with the distributed end-to-end broadband transport network, a network access server platform (NASP), the NASP connected to and in communication with the BAA and the switch, the NASP provides personalized network access and services on demand and a call connection agent (CCA) to complete a call placed by the user to a terminating user.
US07796521B2
The invention includes a method and apparatus for policing a home network having a plurality of terminals. At a gateway between the home network and an access network, a method includes monitoring bandwidth usage associated with intra-network traffic, determining bandwidth requirements associated with inter-network traffic, and, in response to a determination that the bandwidth usage prevents satisfaction of one of the bandwidth requirements, transmitting data adapted to reduce intra-network traffic.
US07796517B2
Multiple TRFC connections transport streaming data through a wireless channel, and the difference between measured round trip times of packets and minimum round trip time is used to adjust the number of TFRC connections to fully utilize bandwidth through the wireless channel.
US07796512B2
A session mobility for moving a session held between a switching source device and a communication counterpart to a switching destination device other than the switching source device. The switching source device transmits media data relating to a session by multicast or broadcast prior to device switching. The switching destination candidate device receives the transmitted media data, and thereby switching destination determined device, in replace of the switching source device, outputs media data. Thus, a switching time from a switching source device to a switching destination device can be made fast such that a user cannot perceive it.
US07796510B2
Systems and methods for dynamically controlling bandwidth of connections are described. In some embodiments, a proxy for one or more connections may allocate, distribute, or generate indications of network congestion via one or more connections in order to induce the senders of the connections to reduce their rates of transmission. The proxy may allocate, distribute, or generate these indications in such a way as to provide quality of service to one or more connections, or to ensure that a number of connections transmit within an accepted bandwidth limit. In other embodiments, a sender of a transport layer connection may have a method for determining a response to congestion indications which accounts for a priority of the connection. In these embodiments, a sender may reduce or increase parameters related to transmission rate at different rates according to a priority of the connection.
US07796509B2
A method in a data processing system for managing transmission of pause frames. In response to detecting an overflow condition during a receipt of data from a network, enabling flow control in response to detecting the overflow condition. The flow control is enabled as long as the overflow condition is present. A determination is made as to whether the operating system unavailable after a period of time passes. If the operating system believed to have crashed and flow control is enabled, the flow control is disabled.
US07796484B2
[Problems] To effectively perform optimal tilt adjustment. [Means for Solving the Problems] A tilt adjusting method adjusts a tilt angle of an actual incident light and reflected light with respect to an incident light and a reflected light under optimal tilt when recording and reproducing data onto/from an information recording medium. Two or more output signals having a balance between a signal component and a noise component changing with respect to a parameter of a correction object are extracted from the reproduction signal of the information recording medium and the signal component and the noise component are evaluated for performing signal correction, thereby calculating a first and a second coefficient. When the first coefficient is out of a set reference range, the tilt adjustment is performed by the first coefficient and when the first coefficient in the set reference range, the tilt adjustment is performed by the second coefficient.
US07796473B2
Disclosed is a clock for use in a master/slave clock system, including a system and method for semi-automatically performing diagnostic self-tests on the status and operability of a plurality of components of one or more secondary clocks. The invention addresses a multitude of diagnostic and problem detection issues, including “no fault found.”
US07796467B2
A method and apparatus for predicting a plurality of surface multiples for a plurality of target traces in a record of seismic data. In one embodiment, the method includes creating a file containing information regarding a plurality of pairs of recorded traces. Each pair of recorded traces is substantially closest to a desired shot-side trace and a desired receiver-side trace. The method further includes convolving the pairs of recorded traces to generate a plurality of convolutions and stacking the convolutions for each target trace.
US07796463B2
A memory reading apparatus transfers digital data from a memory array that is independent of external clocking rate, where the data transmission time is not limited by the external clock period, and the internal timing of controls permits flexible column selection and no conflicts in the timing between external clock signals and internal bit line sensing ready signal. The memory read apparatus has a data read path circuit and a memory read control apparatus. The data read path circuit is in communication with the memory to acquire the selected data read from the memory, synchronize the selected data, and transfer the selected data from the memory. The memory read control apparatus is in communications with the data read path circuit for selecting the data to be read from the memory, for providing self-feedback signals for synchronizing the selected data for transfer from the memory.
US07796452B2
A semiconductor memory for maintaining a word line driving voltage includes a cell array and a sense amplifier adjacent to the cell array. A dummy cell is formed at a peripheral portion of the cell array in such a manner that a dummy bit line and a word line intersect. A control circuit switches the connection state between a first section of the dummy bit line passing through the cell array and a second section of the dummy bit line passing through the sense amplifier. The connection state switches according to the operation mode of the cell array. The dummy bit line is floated when the operation mode is an active mode and a precharge voltage is provided to the dummy bit line when the operation mode is a precharge mode.
US07796446B2
A memory die, including a memory array, a memory array data terminal and a data bus that includes a first sub bus and a second sub bus is disclosed. A first bi-directional buffer arranged between the memory array data terminal and the first sub bus and a second bi-directional buffer arranged between the memory array data terminal and the second sub bus is also disclosed. The first and second bi-directional buffers are adapted to couple the first sub bus or the second sub bus to the memory array data terminal at a time.
US07796438B2
A flash memory device may include a memory cell array, a page buffer unit, and a switching element. The page buffer unit may include first and second latches and is configured to program data into the memory cell array and read data from the memory cell array. The switching element enables the first latch during a verify operation of a first program based on a first verify voltage, and enables or disables the first latch in order to execute a verify operation of a second program based on a second verify voltage lower than the first verify voltage depending on whether data to be programmed has been stored in the second latch.
US07796437B2
A voltage regulator is disclosed. The voltage regulator has a voltage generation circuit that outputs a regulated voltage and a load current. The voltage regulation circuit has a sensing circuit that senses a peak magnitude of the load current and stores a peak signal that is based on the peak load current magnitude. The sensing circuit receives at least one signal that is input to the voltage regulation circuit and senses the peak magnitude of the load current. The voltage regulation circuit has a current generation circuit that generates a compensation current that has a magnitude that is proportional to the peak load current magnitude. The current generation circuit generates the compensation current based on the peak signal. The compensation current is provided during a time interval that is defined by at least one signal that is input to the voltage regulation circuit.
US07796432B2
A non-volatile memory device may include a plurality of stacked semiconductor layers, a plurality of NAND strings, a common bit line, a common source line, and/or a plurality of string selection lines. The plurality of NAND strings may be on the plurality of semiconductor layers. Each of the plurality of NAND strings may include a plurality of memory cells and/or at least one string selection transistor arranged in a NAND-cell array. The common bit line may be commonly connected to each of the NAND strings at a first end of the memory cells. The common source line may be commonly connected to each of the NAND strings at a second end of the memory cells. The plurality of string selection lines may be coupled to the at least one string selection transistor included in each of the NAND strings such that a signal applied to the common bit line is selectively applied to the NAND strings.
US07796428B2
A thermally assisted magnetic write memory including of memory points or memory cells, each of which includes a double magnetic tunnel junction separated from one another by a layer made from an antiferromagnetic material, and whereof the stacking order of the layers constituting them is reversed with regard to one another. Each of the magnetic tunnel junctions includes a reference layer, a storage layer, an insulating layer inserted between the reference and storage layers, constituting the tunnel barrier of the magnetic tunnel junction concerned. The blocking temperature of the layer is lower than the blocking temperature of the reference layer of the corresponding magnetic tunnel junction. The product RA resistance×area of the two tunnel barriers is different. Each memory point a way to heat the storage layers to a temperature above the blocking temperature of the layers.
US07796402B2
A radio apparatus includes a first housing containing a first printed circuit board, second housing containing a second printed circuit board and being connected so as to be opened and closed to the first housing, an unbalanced-fed type antenna configured to be fed from one of the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board, and a magnetic material layer arranged to be located between the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board if the second housing is closed to the first housing.
US07796387B2
A heat dissipation apparatus includes a heat sink and a fan. The heat sink defines a recessed space at a center of a top end thereof, and an engaging groove in an inner circumference of the top end of the heat sink surrounding and communicating with the space. The fan includes a frame and an impeller assembled to the frame. A plurality of legs extends downwardly from the frame. Each of the legs includes a hook at a free end thereof. The hooks of the legs engage in the engaging groove of the heat sink for securely mounting the fan in the recessed space of the heat sink. Heat pipes extend through the heat sink and connect with a base.
US07796379B2
An electronic data storage device structure comprises a casing, at least one electronic data storage device, and a cap. The casing has a receiving space and at least one opening, the electronic data storage device is plugged into the opening, the cap is coupled with the casing, and the cap covers up the receiving space. Thereby, the electronic data storage device can store electronic data, and the receiving space can accommodate some beautiful or functional things.
US07796377B2
An ejector mechanism for removing a computer component from a computer housing is disclosed. The computer component may be an energy storage module that includes a first electrical connector that connects the energy storage module to a second electrical connector on a back plane printed circuit board. The ejector assembly is actuated at a location remote from the energy storage module to engage the energy storage module. The ejector assembly partially ejects the module from the housing and disconnects first and second electrical connector parts.
US07796365B2
A DC-DC converter includes a chip including an error amplifier and a pulse width modulator (PWM) having an input connected to an output of the error amplifier, and an inductor driven by said PWM in series with an output node (VOUT) of the converter, wherein a load current flows through the inductor. VOUT is fed back through a network including a feedback resistor (RFB) to an inverting input of the error amplifier. A circuit for sensing the load current includes a first operational amplifier, a sense resistor on the chip having resistance RSENSE coupled to an inverting input of the first amplifier; wherein a sense current related to the load current flows through the sense resistor, a dependent current source provides an output current to supply the sense current. A reference resistor is disposed on the chip having a resistance RREFERENCE which is a fixed multiple of RSENSE. A set resistor is provided having a resistance RSET. Tracking circuitry sets a voltage across the reference resistor to be equal to a voltage across the set resistor. A function block is coupled to receive a current through the set resistor and a current through the reference resistor to find their ratio. A current multiplier is provided, wherein an output of the function block is coupled to the current multiplier. The current multiplier provides a measurement current which is proportional to the load current divided by RSET.
US07796362B2
The present invention provides a highly reliable patterned medium without generating an error in recording and reproduction, and a magnetic disc memory device using the same. The patterned medium has a substrate, a soft magnetic layer, a non-magnetic layer, an intermediate layer and a recording layer. The recording layer has a pattern structure of a non-magnetic material and a magnetic material, and the Young's modulus of the non-magnetic material is larger than the Young's modulus of the magnetic material.
US07796361B2
A pole layer has a track width defining portion and a wide portion. The pole layer has: first and second side surfaces located opposite to each other in a first region extending from a medium facing surface to a position at a distance of 10 to 300 nm from the medium facing surface; third and fourth side surfaces located in a second region other than the first region; a fifth side surface located at the boundary between the first and second regions and connecting the first and third side surfaces to each other; and a sixth side surface located at the boundary between the first and second regions and connecting the second and fourth side surfaces to each other. The distance between the first and second side surfaces taken in the track width direction decreases with decreasing distance from the top surface of the substrate. The angle formed by the third and fourth side surfaces with respect to the direction orthogonal to the top surface of the substrate is smaller than that formed by the first and second side surfaces with respect to the direction orthogonal to the top surface of the substrate.
US07796357B2
An object is to provide an information recording and playback apparatus that is capable of reducing, as much as possible, reading and writing errors caused by magnetic leakage flux on the inner peripheral side of a magnetic disk. An information recording and playback apparatus 1 includes a rotor R rotatably holding a magnetic disk 60 and being provided with a permanent magnet 51 on the outer peripheral surface; a stator core 3 fixed to a base member 2, the stator core 3 protruding to the inner side in the radial direction in such a manner as to oppose the permanent magnet 51, the stator core 3 including a plurality of stator poles 3a around which coils 3b are wound; a shield plate 70 disposed between the magnetic disk 60 and the stator core 3 in such a manner as to cover the stator core 3 and to have a small gap 62 between the rotating body R, the shielding plate 70 blocking magnetic flux from the permanent magnet 51 and the stator core 3; and a magnetic head 61 for carrying out recording and playback of the magnetic disk 60 by moving forward and backward between the shield plate 70 and the magnetic disk 60. The magnetic head 61 moves forward and backward on the stator poles 3a.
US07796354B2
A method for controlling data rate of a tape drive is disclosed. The tape drive is connected to a computer system. The tape drive stores data by dividing the data into multiple codeword quads (CQs). A local memory within the tape drive includes drive to iteratively monitor data rate during write operations. If a number of CQ skips exceeds a pre-defined threshold value, the drive code reduces a maximum allowable data rate of the tape drive.
US07796340B2
An illumination system using, in place of a more typical beam splitter, two right angle triangular prisms that are aligned to each other along their respective hypotenuses to form a cube, but without any reflective materials being used at their interface, and with the two halves separated by some distance so as to create an open/air gap between the two halves. When the upper/lower cube faces are normal to an optical axis of the illumination system, the cube structure reflects virtually all of the illumination from a transverse illumination source using total internal reflection so that said illumination is reflected out of the cube along the system's optical axis. However, rotating the cube structure past the critical angle eliminates total internal reflection and allows the cube to transmit almost all illumination entering the cube out of the cube parallel to the system's optical axis.
US07796334B1
A plurality of optically isotropic, parallel dielectric plates of uniform thickness, mutually separated by gaps having a uniform width. The plates are connected by spacers located in the gaps. The gaps are either filled with a gas or evacuated. The plate thickness is on the order of one-half of the wavelength of incident radiation traveling within the medium filling the gaps. Each plate is composed of a transparent material characterized by its index of refraction. The stack of plates should include at least fifteen plates. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract, and is intended to allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR §1.72(b).
US07796329B2
A sighting device couples a sight mark into a viewing beam path and is especially for a handheld weapon (2), a bow or a pump gun. The sighting device includes an optical component (6) having a first optical coupling element (8) for coupling the sight mark from a sight mark source into the component (6) and having a second optical coupling element in the region of the viewing beam path for coupling the sight mark (14) out of the component (6) and into the viewing beam path. The second optical coupling element is configured as a diffractive structure (9). The optical component (6) is configured to be totally reflective for guiding the sight mark beam in the interior of the optical component and is at least partially transmissive for the viewing beam paths in the region of the viewing beam path. In this way, a compact and lightweight illuminated sight is provided.
US07796327B2
To provide a light transmitting electromagnetic wave shielding film which achieves both of excellent electromagnetic wave shielding properties and an excellent near infrared ray cutting function.A light transmitting electromagnetic wave shielding film has a metallic silver part and a light transmitting part, which are formed by exposing an emulsion layer containing a silver salt emulsion formed on a support and then developing, wherein the light transmitting electromagnetic wave shielding film has infrared ray shielding properties.
US07796320B2
An electrode for an electro-optic device has a wetting layer of electrically conductive material formed on a substrate. A second layer of electrically conductive material is formed on the wetting layer of electrically conductive material. The wetting layer has a first wetting ability with respect to a surface of the substrate and the second layer has a second wetting ability with respect to the surface of said substrate. The first wetting ability is different from the second wetting ability and the wetting layer acts to alter an optical property of the electrode due to the wetting ability of the wetting layer on the surface of the substrate.
US07796318B2
A directional display apparatus, comprising a spatial light modulator comprising an array of pixels and a lens array in which each respective section of the lens array is capable of directing light from a group of pixels aligned with the respective section into nominal viewing windows, is arranged such that each respective section is also capable of directing light from at least one adjacent group of pixels aligned with a section adjacent the respective section into the same nominal viewing windows. This may be achieved by a deflection element, such as a prism element or a hologram, or by each respective section of the lens array having at least one lens surface providing: at least one first region capable of directing light from said group of pixels aligned with the respective section into said nominal viewing windows; and at least one second region capable of directing light from said at least one adjacent group of pixels into the same nominal viewing windows. By mixing light from adjacent groups of pixels, striped visual artefacts are reduced.
US07796317B2
Provided are a processing method and a processing apparatus which are capable of suppressing a disturbance attributable to a surface wave in a processing by interfered laser beams, in particular, a processing by the interfered laser beams of a pulsed laser having a pulse width of equal to or more than 1 fs and of equal to or less than 1 ps, in which the wavelength of a surface wave that propagates in a direction of the interference of the laser is made longer than a pitch of the interference of the laser on a surface of an object to be processed to process the object.
US07796315B1
A process for constructing a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device includes etching the topside of a silicon wafer to form a first support layer having asymmetric pads. The backside of the silicon wafer is etched to form a top layer with a mirror, beam structures extending from the mirror, and rotating comb teeth extending from the beam structures. Before or after the backside of the silicon wafer is etched, the topside of the silicon wafer is bonded to a glass wafer that forms a second support layer. Prior to bonding the silicon wafer to the glass wafer, the glass wafer may be etched to form a recess and/or a cavity that accommodates mobile elements in the silicon wafer. Due to the asymmetry of the pads in the first support layer below the rotating comb teeth in the top layer, oscillation can be initiated.
US07796312B2
A holographic recording apparatus 10 realizes multilevel gray-scale recording by: controlling a reflection type spatial light modulator (DMD 18D) via a control unit 24 so that an object beam in an object optical system 18 is reflected in an exposure direction so as to be incident on a holographic recording medium 16 or in a non-exposure direction so as not to be incident thereon selectively pixel by pixel in accordance with a data page to be recorded; and making (N+1) levels of gradation exposure with a single exposure time t1 given by dividing t0 by N, where t0 is an exposure time necessary for rendering a single pixel of the data page as an ON pixel, and N is an integer of not less than 2.
US07796297B2
An image processing system, comprising a scanning device having at least first and second light sources for illuminating an object to be scanned, the second light source configured to emit light at a different frequency spectrum than the first light source, a scanned image of the object generated using light emitted by the first and second light sources, the system further comprising a processor, wherein image data representing at least two images of the object respectively generated using light from the first and second light sources is processed by the processor in order to decompose the images into component data representing respective higher and lower spatial frequency components, and wherein component data relating to at least the lower spatial frequency components for the first and second images is transformed in order to generate transformed data for the low spatial frequency components, and method.
US07796295B2
There is provided an image reader system including an attribute acquisition unit that acquires an attribute of an original that has been detected by an image reader unit that optically reads an image of the original, and an image output unit that outputs the attribute that has been acquired by the image reader unit and image data that are acquired by the reading of the image reader unit with the attribute and the image data being associated with each other.
US07796282B2
An image forming apparatus, printing apparatus and image processing method are provided that enable simple execution of reprinting of an image by selecting a history of a reprintable image from a printing history of a printing apparatus that is displayed on an operations screen. In the case of the printing history of an image that was printed by the copying machine 1001, it is first determined whether or not reprinting of the image that was printed is authorized. When it was determined as a result that reprinting of the image in question is authorized, a URL showing the storage destination of the image is stored and a reprint button 1110 showing that reprinting of the image is authorized is displayed together with printing history information associated with the URL on an operations screen 2013 of a console 2012.
US07796281B2
In an image forming system in which a printing device is communicably connected to a server and a terminal, an automatic determination is performed to determine whether or not print data created by the terminal needs to be stored in a memory for placing the data in a reprintable condition. The print data stored in the memory can be reprinted without need for resending the same print data from the terminal or server to the printing device. The automatic determination is, for example, performed by referring to the header of the print data and determining whether the print data is from the terminal or the server.
US07796267B2
A micromachined interferometer is achieved using a half plane beam splitter. The beam splitter is optically coupled to receive an incident beam and operates to split the incident beam into two interfering beams, each propagating in a different medium. A fixed mirror embedded in one of the mediums reflects one of the interfering beams back towards the half plane beam splitter through such medium, while a moveable mirror, which is controlled by an actuator, reflects the other interfering beam back towards said half plane beam splitter through the other medium. A detection plane detects an interference pattern produced as a result of interference between the reflected interfering beams.
US07796260B1
A system and method of substantially achromatically controlling the intensity of a spectroscopic beam with application in spectrophotometers, reflectometers, ellipsometers, polarimeters or the like systems.
US07796252B2
A novel scanning monochromator uses a PM stepper-motor to directly drive a diffraction grating. By employing interpolated encoder feedback in combination with the PM stepper-motor feedback, a resolution of over 250,000 pulsed steps is available for each revolution of the PM stepper-motor. This translates into more than 20,000 incremental angular-displacement steps over a usable 30° range of dispersion-element rotation. High field accuracy is achieved by a direct PM stepper-driven diffraction grating, and a unique calibration approach based on Wood's anomalies. A plurality of diffracted light beams emerge from the oscillating grating, and these are scanned past a detector for detection, whereby the relative rotation information of the grating can be detected with great accuracy. A number of tolerance-correcting measures are also included to yield an extremely accurate, self-lubricating scanning monochromator that can be economically produced.
US07796236B2
A substrate for a liquid crystal display that includes at least a transparent substrate and a columnar spacer formed on the transparent substrate. The amount of initial deformation A of the spacer measured by a predetermined measurement method is 0.04 μm or more and the amount of plastic deformation B is 0.7 μm or less.
US07796234B2
A device display includes a light guide with an optical fiber embedded in an optically transparent material, a pixel array that has a pixel aligned with a first end of the optical fiber, and a reflective mechanism provided at a second end of the optical fiber. The reflective mechanism is capable of reflecting light, received by the pixel, back to the pixel via the optical fiber.
US07796223B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of data lines each having a plurality of straight line portions and a plurality of curved portions connected to a plurality of the straight line portions; a plurality of gate lines intersecting the data lines; thin film transistors connected to the data lines and the gate lines; and pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors. Accordingly, even in a case where driver inversion becomes column inversion, apparent inversion can become dot inversion. As a result, it is possible to eliminate transverse line flicker and to increase a charging rate of pixels. In addition, uniformity of the pixels can be maintained, so that the inversion driving schemes can be applied to a PVA mode. As a result, it is possible to obtain a wide viewing angle and to improve side or lateral visibility.
US07796222B2
A display device includes a first wiring line group of wiring lines connected to odd-number-th scan lines, a second wiring line group of wiring lines connected to even-number-th scan lines, a first inspection wiring line connected to first wiring lines of the first wiring line group, a second inspection wiring line connected to second wiring lines of the first wiring line group, which neighbor the first wiring lines, a third inspection wiring line connected to third wiring lines of the second wiring line group, and a fourth inspection wiring line connected to fourth wiring lines of the second wiring line group, which neighbor the third wiring lines.
US07796215B2
A liquid crystal display device includes first and second liquid crystal display panels located back to back. The liquid crystal display device further includes a light source provided to a side of a rear substrate of the first liquid crystal display panel, a light source provided to a side of a rear substrate of the second liquid crystal display panel, and a polarizing element provided between the first and second liquid crystal display panels. The rear substrate of the first liquid crystal display panel includes a light guide layer for directing light, incident on the rear substrate from the light source and propagating inside the rear substrate, toward the second liquid crystal display panel. The rear substrate of the second liquid crystal display panel includes a light guide layer for directing light toward the first liquid crystal display panel.
US07796208B2
A display device includes a cover. A back light apparatus, a set of optical films, and a liquid crystal display module are disposed behind the cover. The back light apparatus includes a planar bezel and a light source module. The planar bezel has a lengthwise opening. The light source module has a bar, a light source disposed on the bar, and a fixing member. The bar is partially or totally disposed in the lengthwise opening of the planar bezel and both the planar bezel and the bar are combined by the fixing member. The light source is disposed on the bar and provides the light beam to the liquid crystal display module.
US07796205B2
A polymer film, wherein when any point in the polymer film is taken as a center, a maximum difference between high and low film thicknesses within a range of 60 mm diameter is not more than 1 μm, an RMS value of a film thickness is 0 μm to 0.15 μm or a difference between maximum and minimum values of slow axis angle in any 60 mm×60 mm square in the polymer film is 0° to 0.40°; and a solution casting film-forming method comprising: casting a dope on a support; peeling the casted film, wherein a dry wind of 3 m/s to 15 m/s is applied to the casted film within 15 seconds from the casting, and wherein before the dry wind is applied to the casted film, an air floating on a surface of the casted film has a wind velocity of less than 3 m/s.
US07796200B2
A switchable 2D/3D display includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a switchable barrier. The LCD panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first twisted nematic (TN) liquid crystal layer, a first wide-view film set including a first wide-view film and a second wide-view film, and a first polarizer set. The first polarizer set includes a first polarizer and a second polarizer. Transmission axes of the first and second polarizers are substantially perpendicular to each other. The switchable barrier includes a third substrate, a fourth substrate, a second TN liquid crystal layer, a second wide-view film set including a third wide-view film and a fourth wide-view film, and a second polarizer set. The second polarizer set includes a third polarizer and a fourth polarizer. Transmission axes of the third and fourth polarizers are substantially perpendicular to each other.
US07796193B2
A video signal processing system for slicing binary data transmitted in a video signal is provided, comprising a synchronous separator, a line counter, a slicing signal generator and a comparator. The synchronous separator detects Hsync and Vsync carried in the video signal. The line counter generates an enable signal by counting the number of scanning lines based on the detected Hsync and Vsync, wherein the enable signal is activate when the video signal carrying teletext and/or other binary data. The slicing signal generator further comprises an extreme value detector determining local maximum values and local minimum values of the video signal, and a slicing level determiner generating an adaptive slicing signal based on the local maximum values and the local minimum values. The comparator enabled by the enable signal compares the video signal with the slicing signal.
US07796189B2
According to one embodiment, when portions that should be “strong” are decided not to be “weak” on the 2-2 pulldown pattern of an inter-field correlation, if conditions are not established in which the correlation between the current field and the field before its one field is “strong”, the correlation between field before its one field and the field before its two field of the current field is “strong”, and the correlation between the current field and the field before its one field is “weak”, the decision that the input image signal is a 2-2 pulldown signal continues.
US07796177B2
A CCD for receiving subject light flux that has passed through a photographing lens and outputting subject image signals, and a rear liquid crystal monitor for displaying a moving image of the subject based on the subject image signals, and a release button that is operated in order to instruct execution of an exposure operation are provided, wherein live view display is performed on the rear liquid crystal monitor at a first update cycle until the release button is pressed down halfway, and live view display is performed on the liquid crystal monitor at a second cycle that is shorter than the first update cycle after the release button has been pressed down halfway.
US07796176B2
A temperature detecting unit detects a temperature of an imaging element for imaging an image signal. A storage unit stores phase change of a pulse, which is used by the imaging element when imaging the image signal, involved in temperature change of the imaging element in association with the temperature change. A timing adjustment unit checks temperature information of the imaging element detected by the temperature detecting unit with the phase change stored in the storage unit, and adjusts the phase of the pulse.
US07796170B2
A solid-state imaging device includes an imaging unit, a charge control unit, and a horizontal transfer unit. The imaging unit includes a plurality of pixels arranged into a matrix for performing photoelectric conversion, and a plurality of vertical transfer units arranged in columns for vertically transferring signal charges of the plurality of pixels on a column-by-column basis. In a predetermined operation mode, a predetermined number of columns greater than one are used as a unit, and the charge control unit stops transferring charges from a vertical transfer unit in a predetermined column of the predetermined number of columns, and adds the signal charges transferred from the vertical transfer units in the two or more remaining columns of the predetermined number of columns to output the added signal charges. The horizontal transfer unit horizontally transfers the signal charges output from the charge control unit.
US07796168B1
Methods and systems for mitigating undesirable video flash in infrared camera systems are disclosed. A frame of video can be stored in a buffer and information related to the frame of video can be processed prior to displaying the video such that the processed information facilitates display of the video substantially without flashing. A display of a non-flashed frame can be frozen while a flash event would otherwise cause a flashed frame to be displayed. The shift in a histogram caused by a flash event or some portion thereof can be subtracted from pixels of an image. Thus, image quality can be substantially enhanced.
US07796163B2
In an image taking system such as digital camera, especially when a predetermined objective body such as a face is included, the predetermined objective body is detected from a pre-taken-image or a running image in order to obtain an image reflecting a photographer's intention. Out of image obtaining functions comprising at least one function for setting at least one of image taking conditions in taking the pre-taken-image or the running image, and/or at least one of image taking functions for setting at least one image processing condition to be carried out on the image is set according to the predetermined object body and an image is obtained by the use of only the set image obtaining function.
US07796152B2
An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may include receiving a plurality of left eye rays through a first plurality of separating facets of a lens at an image acquisition plane, and receiving a plurality of right eye rays through a second plurality of separating facets of the lens at the image acquisition plane. Data acquired from the image plane may be used to construct a stereoscopic image, including a moving, panoramic stereoscopic image. Lenses, image capture devices, and projectors may be implemented that operate using multiple viewpoints.
US07796147B2
An optical scanner includes a light source, a polygon mirror, an optical member, a casing, and an exit hole cover. The light source emits a light beam. The polygon mirror rotates and deflects the light beam to be scanned in a scanning direction. The optical member focuses the light beam deflected by the polygon mirror onto a scanning target. The casing houses the polygon mirror and the optical member and includes a first wall portion having a wall inner surface opposing the polygon mirror and the optical member and a wall outer surface opposing the scanning target. The first wall portion is formed with an exit hole through which the light beam is irradiated toward the scanning target. The exit hole cover is formed of a light transmissible member and is disposed on the wall outer surface to cover the exit hole.
US07796142B2
The invention concerns a method for displaying a document on a display screen capable of being subjected to a scroll procedure, involving the following steps: providing the document with an amount of graphic memory to create a buffer memory of the visible part of the document and zones nearest to said visible part; calculating and cutting out into pixmaps said memory; relatively positioning said pixmaps with respect to the entire document and its visible part; filling up the content of the pixmaps, when the document is subjected to a display or scroll procedure, recopying the pixmap content in the display window; and repeating the relative positioning of the pixmaps with respect to the document.
US07796140B2
A projection system includes: an information processing apparatus that carries out image processing on an image of an image source; a projector that projects an image based on an image data signal outputted from the information processing apparatus; and a signal transmission unit that carries signals between the information processing apparatus and the projector. The information processing apparatus compares latest image data with preceding image data, and detects, as a modified part, part of the latest image data that is modified from the preceding image data and generates modified-image data of the modified part by adding color-tone data to each pixel in the modified part. The projector generates a new current-image frame based on the modified-image data from the information processing apparatus. The modified part is detected with an accuracy of not more than the amount of information indicating the color tone of each pixel of the image source.
US07796139B1
Mechanisms for displaying text or image over a background such as a video display frame that automatically improve legibility of text or image displayed against a background by increasing the contrast between text or image and background. The display frame may be a single image, but may also be an image within a dynamic sequence of recorded images such as a movie or other video media, or sequence of images captured in real-time by a camera or other device. In one embodiment, color component values are selected, and complementing and filtering applied to achieve contrast. In another embodiment, selecting a minimally used value for color components in the frame achieves contrast. In some cases both text or image, and background, may be altered to achieve contrast. Another embodiment provides background intensity modulation to achieve varying contrast within altered backgrounds, and smoothing over many frames in dynamic material.
US07796135B1
Coherence of displayed images is provided for a graphics processing systems having multiple processors operating to render different portions of a current image in parallel. As each processor completes rendering of its portion of the current image, it generates a local ready event, then pauses its rendering operations. A synchronizing agent detects the local ready event and generates a global ready event after all of the graphics processors have generated local ready events. The global ready signal is transmitted to each graphics processor, which responds by resuming its rendering activity.
US07796132B1
An objective is to provide an image generation system and program which can overcome the problem of flickering in screen due to the appearance and disappearance of distant objects. A depth cueing processing is executed such that the color of an object being more distant from the viewpoint is made closer to the target color. At the same time, the alpha value is varied such that an object being more distant from the viewpoint is made more transparent. By drawing the most distant background including a color different from the target color, the generated images can be improved in variety. The depth cueing and alpha value varying processings are carried out on condition that the object is positioned within the depth cueing area. The depth cueing value and alpha value for each vertex in the object are varied based on a Z-value for the vertex. Objects to be varied in the alpha value are sorted such that they are drawn sequentially from an object nearest to the viewpoint. This prevents the alpha blending to be executed at an overlap area of the adjacent objects.
US07796126B2
A liquid crystal display device enabling a reduction in size and costs associated with the system as a whole, starting to display images without image distortion at power on time, and turning the screen off without image retention at power off time, a method of controlling the liquid crystal display device, and a mobile terminal incorporating the liquid crystal display device as a screen display. On a glass substrate (11) provided with a display unit (12), peripheral drive circuits such as an interface circuit (13), a timing generator (14), a reference voltage driver (15), a CS driver (18), a VCOM driver (19), and a voltage regulation circuit (20), together with a horizontal driver (16) and a vertical driver (17) are disposed. When a display reset control pulse PCI is supplied from an external source, a predetermined voltage is written into pixels while a CS voltage and a VCOM voltage adjusted to the same level as that of a pixel voltage are applied to a common-electrode-side. This allows the screen to turn white in a normally white type liquid crystal display, and to turn black in a normally black type liquid crystal display. Image distortion at power on/off time can thus be prevented.
US07796125B2
A voltage supply circuit which switches a first voltage supplied to an electrode to a second voltage and supplies the second voltage to the electrode including: a first voltage boost circuit including a switching element for generating a boosted voltage boosted by charge-pump operation; and a charge supply circuit for supplying a charge to the electrode. When the first voltage is switched to the second voltage, the charge supply circuit supplies a charge to the electrode so as to maintain the voltage of the electrode at the second voltage after the boosted voltage has been supplied to the electrode.
US07796124B2
An input device and electronic apparatus are provided. The input device includes a detecting region that is operative to detect a change in capacitance between electrodes. The detecting region extends from an image display region that displays an image and has a predetermined area to a non-display region that is adjacent to the image display region and does not display the image.
US07796108B2
A liquid crystal display device with no flicker and with bright excellent display is provided. A polarity pattern of a conventional frame inversion driving is one kind of display. A polarity pattern of a conventional source line inversion driving is two kinds of display, and a disclination pattern is one kind of display. On the contrary, in a circuit structure of the present invention, polarity patterns are made to have not less than four kinds, and disclination patterns are made to have not less than two kinds. By this, bright display in which flicker is not included and poor display due to disclination is improved, can be obtained.
US07796100B2
An organic electroluminescence display transmits a data driving voltage to a data driving unit to make different a voltage of the data signal outputted from the data driving unit, the data driving voltage being in a different level in every subframe according to the digital data signal, and displaying a desired grey level of an image by allowing a desired subframe to emit light according to the number of bits of the data signal, and a driving method thereof. An organic electroluminescence display includes a plurality of scan lines to transmit a scan signal; a plurality of data lines to transmit a digital data signal; and a plurality of pixels defined by a plurality of power supply lines to supply power, wherein the scan signal is transmitted to a plurality of subframes, and ON signals of the digital data signal have different voltages in a plurality of the subframes.
US07796098B2
A light emitting device is provided which is capable of feeding a reverse current to the defective structural part of a light emitting element, e.g. an organic EL element, without using the power supply voltage as reverse bias. The light emitting device comprises a capacitive light emitting element, e.g. an organic EL element, emitting light upon application of a DC forward voltage. A reverse current can be fed to the light emitting element through a low-resistance defective structural part, for example, only by connecting both electrodes of the organic EL element with the earth after stopping application of the DC forward voltage using a push-pull circuit (5), thereby discharging residual charges of the light emitting element.
US07796097B2
A plasma display panel which includes a front panel having a front substrates on which display electrodes each having a scan electrode and a sustain electrode disposed to each other with a discharge gap in between are provided in a plurality of columns; and a rear panel having a rear substrate disposed opposed to the front substrate, on which rear substrate barrier ribs for dividing a discharge space formed with respect to front panel are formed, an data electrode is disposed between the barrier ribs crosswise to the display electrodes, and a phosphor layer is disposed between the barrier ribs. Rear panel is split into a plurality of areas along the direction parallel to the data electrode and barrier ribs are formed for each of the split areas, an alignment mark is provided in a place out of the display region at the splitting border of rear panel, and an insulation layer covering data electrode is provided with a cut to have the alignment mark disclosed.
US07796086B2
An antenna (10) comprises a substrate (11) having a first and a second opposed side (12,13); a single element for radiating electromagnetic waves (15), wherein the radiating element (15) is formed on the first substrate side (12); a first ground plane (18) formed on the first substrate side (12), the first ground plane (18) being electrically connected to the radiating element (15); and, a second ground plane (19) formed on the second substrate side (13), the second ground plane (19) being electrically connected to the first ground plane (18).
US07796075B2
A method to tune electronic devices in general using R/2R ladder networks to obtain fixed or variable accurate properties that may include, but are not limited to resistance, current, voltage, and/or timing. As a particular application, a method for internally calibrating a digital-to-analog converter is shown in detail. The DAC uses an extended R/2R ladder to improve the converting accuracy by mapping the extended bits into the original bits. A mapping matrix is maintained, which can be rewritten by an internal calibration process.
US07796064B2
A parallel-to-serial converter includes a data input unit configured to receive a plurality of parallel data by using a plurality of clock signals having different phases, and a parallel-to-serial conversion unit configured to sequentially select and output an output signal of the data input unit by using a plurality of clock signals having a predetermined phase difference from the plurality of clock signals used in the data input unit.
US07796060B2
Circuits and methods to minimize nonlinearity errors in interpolating circuits are described herein. A disclosed example circuit comprises first and second voltage-current converter circuits, each including a first transistor and a second transistor, each having a first electrode configured to receive a signal generated by a corresponding current source, a first current source providing a signal to the first voltage-converter circuit and comprising a first error correction circuit to minimize integral nonlinearity error in the interpolation circuit by setting a first current through the first current source to operate the first voltage-converter circuit in a nominal linear operating mode, and a second current source providing a signal to the second voltage-converter circuit and comprising a second error correction circuit to minimize integral nonlinearity error in the interpolation circuit by setting a second current through the second current source to operate the second voltage-converter circuit in the nominal linear operating mode.
US07796059B2
A fast data compression method approximating dynamic Huffman coding for applications with exteremely large data sets is disclosed. The method includes periodic regeneration of the Huffman coding tables and use of precomputed information to speed up encoding and decoding.
US07796057B2
A load control system is operable to control the amount of power delivered to a plurality of electrical loads from an AC power source. The load control system includes a plurality of keypads, which each may include a different button assembly having a different button configuration. Each keypad is operable to determine the button configuration of the button assembly installed on the keypad in response to simultaneous actuations of the top button and the bottom button of the button assembly for a predetermined amount of time. Each keypad is further operable to store in a memory of the keypad data representing the button configuration. Therefore, after the keypad is installed in the field and the button assembly is replaced, the keypad can be easily configured to operate with the new button assembly.
US07796033B2
A method of automatically calibrating a motion detector and a motion detector adapted for calibration using the method. The method comprises setting the motion detector to a calibration mode, waiting a preset period of time for the installer to walk to the furthest distance, receiving a Doppler signal generated by motion at the furthest distance from the microwave motion detector within the protected area, measuring an amplitude of the Doppler signal and storing a motion detection threshold for the microwave motion detector. The motion detection threshold is a proportional to the measured amplitude.
US07796032B2
An interrogating system can include an interrogating apparatus configured to transmit toward and receive from a subject in a subject position, millimeter-wave electromagnetic radiation. Such a system can also include a controller configured to operate the interrogating apparatus, and produce data representative of a characteristic of the subject from received radiation. Some embodiments of such an interrogating system may include interrogating apparatus adapted to be mounted to a vehicle or at a vehicle loading zone, to interrogate passengers and/or other persons prior to boarding or accessing the vehicle. Such embodiments may include one or more controllers positioned within the vehicle or at the loading zone.
US07796021B2
There is provided a system and methods for mitigation of the potential dangers to which at least a child, and passengers, are exposed to prior to, during travel and after travel, when outside and adjacent a vehicle. Potential dangers to which a child is exposed are risks associated with driving and non-driving behavior of the driver, when the child is inside and outside the vehicle, when the vehicle is driven on public roads and on private property grounds, and as a result of deficient of mistaken operation of child and passenger related devices. The system and methods require input commands into an indicator to operate equipment elements aboard the vehicle, including sensors, operable devices and alert systems, and are operative for communication with remote stations, with adjacent-driven vehicles, and with the vehicle owner.
US07796020B2
A warning apparatus acquires traffic light information from outside of a vehicle through a traffic information acquisition unit, and travel information regarding a travel condition of the vehicle through a travel information acquisition unit. Then, the warning apparatus determines whether an intersection is safely passable based on the traffic light information and the travel information. When the intersection is not safely passable, the warning apparatus searches similar traffic light information and similar travel information relative to current traffic light information and current travel information by checking records of past driving operation in a storage unit. Then, the warning apparatus predicts a driving operation of a driver when the driver is warned for determining the warning contents based on the operation information in association with the similar traffic light information and the similar travel information.
US07796015B2
A wireless terminal and a radio frequency identification system for providing additional information and a method of providing additional information using the wireless terminal and the radio frequency identification system. The wireless terminal includes: a tag reader reading tag data from a radio frequency identification tag; a controller generating an additional information request signal with respect to the read tag data; and a communication network interface transmitting the additional information request signal through a communication network and receiving additional information with respect to the additional information request signal. Since the controller of the wireless terminal controls the radio frequency identification reader by optimally setting the information required for determining the time point for the radio frequency identification reader tag to respond, and utilizing the stored address of the additional information providing server, the additional information can be efficiently provided.
US07796010B2
A system for activating an appliance responsive to one of many transmission schemes includes a transmitter, memory holding data describing the transmission schemes, and a controller in communication with the transmitter and the memory. The controller is operable to store a fixed code. If a fixed code is stored, then the controller transmits a sequence of fixed code activation schemes, based on the fixed code and data held in the memory, until input indicating activation of the appliance is received. If no fixed code is stored, then the controller transmits a sequence of rolling code activation schemes, based on data held in the memory, until input indicating activation of the appliance is received. The controller stores in the memory an indication as to which activation scheme activated the appliance based on the received input. The controller generates an activation signal based on the stored indication and a received activation input.
US07796009B2
A managing unit manages an identifier for identifying an authenticated container that is authenticated as a legitimate container. An inquiring unit inquires, before transferring a substance between containers, the managing unit whether both of the containers are the authenticated containers. An approving unit approves a transaction of the substance, upon acquiring a response from the inquiring unit saying that both of the containers are the authenticated containers.
US07796006B2
Suspension inductor devices are provided. A suspension inductor device includes a dielectric substrate and a suspension induction coil. The suspension induction coil includes an input end disposed on the dielectric substrate. A spiral coil is wound from the dielectric substrate to an interconnection. The interconnection is disposed in the spiral coil and connects the input end and the spiral coil. An output end is disposed on the dielectric substrate and adjacent to the input end.
US07796004B2
An ignition coil of a dual ignition type that can prevent outputs from becoming unbalanced due to a difference in floating capacitance on wiring that connects secondary output terminals and ignition plugs together, thus realizing balanced outputs. A coil assembly housed in a housing as a coil case has a primary coil and secondary coils disposed concentrically with the primary coil. The secondary coils are comprised of two coils wound in opposite directions with the center of winding width being a boundary. The center of the winding width of the primary coil is shifted from the center of the winding width of the secondary coils by a predetermined width so as to balance outputs from the two secondary coils. A casting material is filled into a gap between the housing and the coil assembly and gaps which the coil assembly has.
US07796001B2
In forming magnetic blocks, a first permanent magnet may be lowered to the bottom of an upwardly open vessel, the vessel may be already filled or may be then filled with liquid and, while forcefully maintaining the first permanent magnet in that position, further permanent magnets are gradually inserted into the vessel in a direction perpendicular to their resulting joint contact surfaces, where the adjacent surfaces of the superimposed permanent magnets have an opposite polarity, while during insertion of a further permanent magnet, the liquid is drained from the space in the vessel under that inserted magnet, whereby the motion speed of the inserted magnet is controlled as it bears down on the permanent magnet lying beneath it. The equipment for carrying out the method may comprise a vessel whose interior cross-section corresponds with clearance to the outline of the assembled permanent magnets, where sockets with regulating valves may be arranged along the height of the vessel, spaced so that their lower edges always lie above the upper surfaces of the assembled permanent magnets, and where all the parts are of non-magnetic material, while the bottom of the vessel may be furnished with a means for exerting an attractive force on the lowered permanent magnets.
US07795997B2
A sensor senses an environmental condition. The sensor includes a film bulk acoustic resonator that includes a layer of material that causes resonant frequency and/or quality factor shifts of the film bulk acoustic resonator in response to changes in the environmental condition. The environmental condition may be relative humidity and the layer of material may be a moisture absorptive material.
US07795995B2
The present invention provides all organic fully-packaged miniature bandpass filters, baluns, diplexers, multiplexers, couplers and a combination of the above manufactured using liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) and other multilayer polymer based substrates. These devices are manufactured using one or more LCP layers having integrated passive components formed thereon to provide the density and performance necessary for multi-band wireless devices. In the designs involving multiple LCP layers, the LCP layers are separated by prepeg layers. In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, coplanar waveguide, hybrid stripline/coplanar waveguide and/or microstrip topologies are utilized to form the integrated passive components, and the devices can be mass produced on large area panels at least 18 inches by 12 inches with line widths smaller than 10 um.
US07795990B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a power amplifier, comprising tunable impedance matching circuit including a plurality of tunable dielectric varactors and a DC voltage source interface capable of providing voltage to said plurality of said tunable dielectric varactors.
US07795985B2
Implementations of varactor systems compare current data with immediately prior data to determine whether there has been a change in the data, and enable a clock signal for data paths which have changed data.
US07795971B2
An electronic circuit includes: a first amplifying circuit to which a first input signal is inputted; a second amplifying circuit to which a second input signal is inputted; a first drain ground amplifying transistor provided between a first power source node and an output node with control over the gate by the output from the first amplifying circuit; a second drain ground amplifying transistor provided between the first power source node and the output node with control over the gate by the output from the second amplifying circuit; a common load element provided between the output node and a second power source node; a first negative feedback path for negative feedback from the output node to the input of the first amplifying circuit; and a second negative feedback path for negative feedback from the output node to the input of the second amplifying circuit.
US07795970B2
Pulse-width-modulating class D amplifier with an H-bridge output stage, and method of operating the same. in which output stage dead-time is compensated. Offset logic circuitry detects various dead-time-related conditions at push-pull output drivers, and generates an offset signal applied to the amplified differential input signal, to adjust the time at which the voltage at differential signal lines crosses a ramp reference waveform. The offset signal can correspond to the duration of a disturbance (dead-time at one driver in combination with an active signal at the active driver), or the sum of that disturbance duration with a dead-time at the active driver. The offset signal is generated by charging a capacitor for the duration of this disturbance, or disturbance plus dead-time. According to another approach, error is reduced by charging a capacitor for each transition of the signal for a duration of the dead-time of the active driver. Total harmonic distortion is reduced without requiring increased circuit complexity and without shortening the dead-time to unsafe margins.
US07795965B2
The present invention discloses a cryogenic receiving amplifier using a gallium nitride high electron mobility transistor (GaN HEMT) as an amplifying device in a cryogenic temperature environment. The cryogenic receiving amplifier includes an input matching circuit which makes an impedance matching between a gate of the amplifying device and an outside of an input terminal, a gate biasing circuit which applies a DC voltage to the gate of the amplifying device, an output matching circuit which makes an impedance matching between a drain of the amplifying device and an outside of an output terminal, and a drain biasing circuit which applies a DC voltage to the drain of the amplifying device. The cooled temperature is preferably set to 150 K or below, and the GaN HEMT may be illuminated with light of a blue LED.
US07795958B2
A reference generation circuit provided according to an aspect of the present invention generates a reference potential at different levels in the hold phase of different cycles in an input path of a switched capacitor differential amplifier. In an embodiment, for each hold phase, the reference generator provides the reference potential with a magnitude that tracks the magnitude of the input signal applied in a corresponding (preceding) sample phase. In case of a single-ended output, the reference potential generated for each hold phase equals the magnitude of one of the inputs on the differential input path. As a result, the common mode voltage at the input terminals of an operational amplifier contained in the switched capacitor differential amplifier is maintained at a desired level.
US07795951B2
A voltage multiplier (10) including a first clocked multiplier stage (12) having an input and an output and a second clocked multiplier stage (14, 16) having an input and an output is provided. The voltage multiplier further includes an input level regulator (18) coupled to the input of the first multiplier stage. The voltage multiplier further includes a feedback bias control circuit (32) coupled to the input level regulator, wherein the feedback bias control circuit is further coupled to receive the output (50) of the second multiplier stage, and wherein the feedback bias control circuit generates a feedback signal (58) affecting an output of the input level regulator based on a comparison between a voltage proportional to a voltage at the output of the second clocked multiplier stage and a reference voltage.
US07795946B2
A level shifter circuit is provided that is capable of improving current drivability and executing stable operation with a low voltage by boosting a voltage level of an input signal. The level shifter circuit includes a level shifting unit for producing a boosted voltage by boosting an input signal and shifting a voltage level of the boosted voltage to output an output signal.
US07795945B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a signal process circuit in accordance with the present invention includes: a first input terminal via which an input signal is supplied; a second input terminal via which a predetermined signal is supplied; a cross-coupled inverter circuit, including first and second CMOS inverter circuits, in which an input of the first CMOS inverter circuit and an output of the second CMOS inverter circuit are interconnected to each other and an output of the first CMOS inverter circuit and an input of the second CMOS inverter circuit are interconnected to each other; a current control circuit that applies currents to the first and second CMOS inverter circuits in accordance with a timing signal, the input signal, and the predetermined signal; output terminals which are connected to the outputs of the first and second CMOS inverter circuits, respectively, and from which an output signal is supplied; and a reset circuit that resets the output signal based on the timing signal. With the arrangement, it is possible to cause a signal of a small amplitude to be level-shifted and latched at low power consumption.
US07795939B2
An on-chip logic cell timing characterization circuit is provided. Also provided are a method of conducting setup/hold characterization on a sequential cell and a method of characterizing propagation delay on a logic cell. A sequential cell on which setup/hold time is to be characterized is formed in duplicate with one close to the other. A first clock signal is sampled at a transition of a second clock signal on one sequential cell, and a setup time is determined by a state transition in the output signal of the first sequential. The second clock signal is sampled at a transition of the first clock signal on the other sequential cell, and a hold time is determined by a state transition in the output signal of the second sequential cell.
US07795933B2
A timing-signal generator includes a PLL circuit, one or more rising/falling edge generating unit and one or more timing-signal generating unit. In response to a reference signal with a frequency Fref, the PLL outputs M voltage controlled signals with the same frequency Fvco=N*Fref and equally distributed phase differences. The rising/falling edge generating unit is for generating a rising point signal and a falling point signal corresponding to respective ones one of M*P candidate timing points which are defined in a cycle of the reference signal according to the M voltage controlled signals. The timing-signal generating unit coupled to the rising/falling edge generating unit is for generating a timing signal which toggles high in response to the rising point signal and toggles low in response to the falling point signal.
US07795928B2
A selection circuit. The selection circuit comprises a logic circuit, an array of sub-circuits and a switching circuit electrically coupled to each other. The selection circuit is subjected to a first operating condition. The switching circuit selects a group of sub-circuits from the array. The selection circuit generates a first frequency. The selection circuit is subjected to a second operating condition that is different from the first operating condition and generates a second frequency. A first frequency differential between the first frequency and the second frequency is compared to a predetermined frequency differential to determine if the first frequency differential is about equal to the predetermined frequency differential.
US07795923B1
A logic circuit includes first, second, third and fourth transistors. The first transistor is a first type, and has a gate terminal for receiving a control signal representative of one of NAND and NOR operations of at least first and second signals, a first terminal coupled to a first power source, and a second terminal serving as an output terminal of the logic circuit. The second transistor is a second type, and has a first terminal for receiving a third signal, and gate and second terminals respectively coupled to the gate and second terminals of the first transistor. Each of the third and fourth transistors is the first type and has a gate terminal. The gate terminals of the third and fourth transistors are respectively adapted to receive the first and second signals. The series-connected third and fourth transistors are connected in parallel to the second transistor.
US07795919B2
A driver circuit in a high-speed serial communications system changes an input data signal into a differential signal. A first output terminal is connected to a predetermined power supply voltage through a first pullup resistance circuit and to a grounding voltage through a first pulldown resistance circuit. A second output terminal is connected to the predetermined power supply voltage through a second pull-up resistance circuit and to the grounding voltage through a second pulldown resistance circuit. Resistances of the first and second pull-up resistance circuits and resistances of the first and second pulldown resistance circuits are changed according to the input data signal.
US07795918B2
This invention operates to select a drive code for an adjustable drive strength transistor in a drive buffer. The drive code is determined employing a scaled-down drive transistor employing varying drive codes compared with a standard. The thus determined drive code is combined with an offset to generate the drive code for the adjustable strength transistor.
US07795917B2
A buffer circuit includes at least one part that is powered by a supply voltage by means of a first initialization transistor, and connected to the ground by means of a second initialization transistor. The circuit is capable of transferring, between an input and an output, an input signal including at least one rising edge and/or one falling edge. The circuit includes a first CMOS inverter, of which the input is connected to the input of the circuit, and of which the output is mounted in series with the input of a second CMOS inverter, with the output of the second CMOS inverter being connected to the output of the circuit. A circuit creates an overvoltage on one of the two inverters during operation.
US07795911B2
A switch box (2) for a programmable gate array including input ports grouping a plurality of inputs (I, I′) and output ports grouping a plurality of outputs (O, O′), with the inputs and the outputs being connected to a downstream connection tree structure from the inputs toward the outputs and including routing elements (4, 5, 6) organized according to several levels for connecting by a single path each input of all the input ports to at least one output of each output port.Switch boxes, logic units and programmable gate arrays including these, which are so arranged as to define a single path between two points of the array.
US07795908B2
An electronic device includes a reprogrammable logic element, a configuration data storage, a reading section, a dummy data creating section, a skip determination section, a writing section and a control section. The configuration data storage stores configuration data for the reprogrammable logic element. The reading section successively reads the configuration data from the configuration data storage. The dummy data creating section creates dummy data. The skip determination section determines as to whether or not the configuration data is to be skipped. The writing section writes the configuration data or the dummy data into the reprogrammable logic element. If the skip determination section determines that the configuration data is to be skipped, the control section controls the dummy data, which is created by the dummy data creating section, to be sent to the writing section.
US07795903B2
An output buffer includes a final driver formed by first and second MOSFET transistors that alternately couple an output terminal to respective supply voltages. The output terminal is biased to a bias voltage intermediate the supply voltages. The slew rate at which the MOSFET transistors transition the output terminal to the supply voltages is affected by the magnitude of at least one of the supply voltages. The output buffer is driven by a pre-driver coupling first and second control signals to the first and second MOSFET transistors, respectively. The pre-driver adjusts the delay between generating one of the control signals to turn off the MOSFET transistor and generating the other of the control signals to turn on the other MOSFET transistor as a function of the supply voltage magnitude to make the slew rate of the resulting transition substantially insensitive to variations in power supply voltage.
US07795901B1
A defect is automatically isolated in an integrated circuit device having programmable logic and interconnect circuits. A sequence of configurations is created to route data in a pattern through the programmable logic and interconnect circuits. Each configuration within the sequence is determined (e.g., generated or selected from a plurality of pre-generated configurations) as a function of output data from a prior configuration in the sequence. For each configuration in the sequence, the programmable logic and interconnect circuits are configured with the configuration and an automatic test instrument routes data in the pattern through the programmable logic and interconnect circuits. For each configuration in the sequence, the output data from the programmable logic and interconnect circuits is assessed. For each configuration in the sequence, the assessed output data isolates the defect to a portion of the pattern for the configuration that is within the portion for a prior configuration in the sequence.
US07795896B2
Semiconductor lasers are aged to identify weak or flawed devices, resulting in improved reliability of the remaining devices. The lasers can be aged using a high-power optical burn-in that includes providing a high drive current to the lasers for a period of time, and maintaining the ambient temperature of the lasers at a low temperature. After the high-power optical burn-in, the output of the lasers can be measured to determine if the lasers are operating within specifications. Those that are not can be discarded, while those that are can be further aged using a high-temperature thermal burn-in that includes providing a drive current to the lasers while maintaining the ambient temperature of the lasers at a high-temperature.
US07795893B2
A test mode enable circuit for putting a device in a test mode includes a serial-to-parallel shift register reset by a reset signal, a decoder circuit, and a gate circuit. The shift register receives and converts a control signal in serial form to control data in parallel form. The decoder circuit receives and decodes the control data to a test mode enable signal that puts the device in the test mode. The decoder circuit outputs the test mode enable signal to the gate circuit only when the control data matches a predetermined key pattern. The gate circuit outputs the test mode enable signal to the device only when at least one of the control signal and the reset signal has a predetermined voltage level.
US07795889B2
A probe device for testing a semiconductor chip includes a substrate and a balun formed on the substrate. The balun includes first and second differential ports and a single-ended port. The probe device includes first and second probe tips respectively coupled to the first and second differential ports.
US07795887B2
An apparatus is provided for testing microelectronic components on a substrate, including a scanner operative to scan a light beam over a plurality of thin film transistors disposed on a substrate, one transistor at a time, so as to induce a photoconductive response in the plurality of transistors, one transistor at a time; current sensing circuitry operative, synchronously with said scanner, to measure an output induced by the photoconductive response associated with a transistor and to generate photoconductive response output values, the photoconductive response output values representing a photoconductive response induced by the light beam, for one transistor at a time from among the plurality of transistors; and diagnostic apparatus operative to analyze the electronic response output values and to characterize each of the transistors in accordance therewith.
US07795885B2
Current is measured in an ionization device that includes a high voltage supply, and an emitter electrically coupled to the HV supply. An opto-isolator is provided that includes a light source and a light detector. The light source has a current flowing through it. The light source is electrically coupled to the emitter. The output of the light detector is measured. The output of the light detector is related to the current flowing through the light source.
US07795884B2
A method and an apparatus for calculating the number of turns per segment of a transformer coil winding which has a plurality of segments connected in series. The number of turns per segments is computed by assigning to segments predefined parameters related to customer requirements. Then a system of linear equations is automatically generated and the equations are simultaneously solved.
US07795882B2
An electrical characteristic in an operator-sensing circuit having a microcontroller that commands a charge sensor to send a sensor charge signal to a capacitive sensing element. The charge sensor outputs a corresponding raw data signal to the microcontroller that in turn sends a signal that disables the motor of a unit power equipment upon the absence of an operator's hand on a hand-gripping surface of the equipment. Capacitive means for operating within a predetermined charge range that includes preselected values that designate hands-off and hands-on conditions on the hand-gripping surface. The capacitor charge range is effective to distinguish between the presence of an operator's hand and foreign material on the gripping surface for avoiding a false hands-on-signal.
US07795873B2
A method for measuring the electromagnetic response of formations below the bottom of a body of water includes positioning at least one electromagnetic transmitter and at least one electromagnetic receiver in the body of water each at a selected depth below the water surface. A transient electric current is passed through the at least one transmitter. An electromagnetic signal is detected at the at least one electromagnetic receiver. The depths are selected so that substantially all electromagnetic response to the current passed through the transmitter from the air above the body of water in the detected electromagnetic signal occurs before the beginning of a response originating in the formations below the water bottom.
US07795870B2
In one aspect, a method of obtaining magnetic resonance (MR) and radio-frequency impedance mapping (RFIM) data from a region of an object arranged proximate a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) coils is provided. The method comprises detecting nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals emitted from the region to form, at least in part, first MR data, obtaining at least one impedance measurement from the plurality of RF coils to form, at least in part, first RFIM data, and computing a first RFIM map indicating a spatial distribution in the region of at least one dielectric property, the first RFIM map computed based, at least in part, on the first RFIM data and the first MR data.
US07795858B2
In one embodiment, a spectral map for performing nonlinear calibration of a signal path is developed by 1) identifying a set of frequency locations for a set of particular output signal spurs that result from applying one-tone and two-tone input signals covering a bandwidth of interest to the signal path; 2) developing, based on the set of frequency locations, a spectral map for predistorting, in the frequency domain, signals that are applied to, or received from, the signal path in the time domain; and 3) saving the spectral map for performing nonlinear calibration of the signal path.
US07795848B2
A power supply circuit that accurately generates output voltages with the same regulator includes a regulator for generating a first output voltage from an input voltage. A first switch circuit, connected to the regulator, selectively outputs the first output voltage of the regulator as a second output voltage from the power supply circuit. A pre-charge circuit, connected to the regulator and the first switch circuit, generates the second output voltage from the input voltage before the first output voltage of the regulator is output as the second output voltage while controlling the first switch circuit.
US07795846B2
A switching circuit for converting an input voltage into an output voltage has an input terminal for receiving the input voltage. A power switching element is coupled to the input terminal and has duty cycle d controllable to adjust the output voltage with respect to a desired level using inductor current representing current in an inductor element connectable to the power switching element. An average and hold circuit is responsive to a voltage at an output of the power switching element to produce an average switch voltage over an ON phase of a switching cycle of the power switching element. A voltage-to-current converter is responsive to the average switch voltage for producing representation of an average inductor current over one or more switching cycles. A current modulator having a duty cycle equal to 1-d modulates the representation of the average inductor current to produce a signal proportional to an average output current of the switching circuit over one or more switching cycles.
US07795843B2
A method and apparatus for short circuit detection for batteries. Some embodiments of a method include receiving a battery pack in a system, where the battery pack is rechargeable and includes multiple battery cell blocks, each cell block including one or more battery cells. The voltages of the plurality of cell blocks are monitored. Upon shutting down the system, the voltages of the plurality of cell blocks are logged to generate a set of logged voltage values. Upon restarting the system, the current voltage values of the cell blocks are measured. A determination whether any of the battery cells of the battery pack has developed a short circuit is made based at least in part on a comparison of the current voltage values with the set of the logged voltage values.
US07795840B2
A battery charging system which includes an input circuit configured to receive an input power and provide an output power on a first output terminal and a second output terminal. An output circuit has a first input terminal connected to the first output terminal and a second input terminal connected to the second output terminal to receive the output power and configured to condition the output power for a battery charging process. A first conductive plate with a first bus surface extends between the first input terminal and the first output terminal. An insulator plate has a first insulator surface disposed in an abutting relationship with the first bus surface and a second insulator surface. A second conductive plate has a second bus surface which extend between the second input terminal and the second output terminal and is disposed in an abutting relationship with the second insulator surface.
US07795838B2
The present disclosure is a system and method for charging a high voltage battery of a hybrid automotive vehicle which contemporaneously provides a user with a visual display of diagnostic hybrid system information, including but not limited to, battery data and state of charge data through a user interface located internal a cabin of the vehicle. In other exemplary embodiments, the user interface is operable for providing the visual display while also providing access to other features of the vehicle to the user.
US07795834B2
A controller includes a rotating direction detecting unit 34 to detect the rotating direction of a servo motor 6, a reversing distance computing unit 31 to compute a rotating angle of the servo motor 6, a rotation resistance computing unit 35 to compute rotation resistance on the servo motor side 6, and an elastic deformation error amount computing unit 21 to compute a deformation error amount of a ball screw 3. In the controller, when the rotating direction detecting unit 34 detects reverse of the servo motor 6, the rotation resistance computing unit 35 computes rotation resistance based on a rotating angle δθ of the servo motor 6 after the servo motor is reversed. The elastic deformation error amount computing unit 21 computes the elastic deformation error amount δ based on the computed rotation resistance. Thereby, a position command value inputted into the position control unit 14 can be corrected.
US07795830B2
An electric motor (10) which includes an armature (11) with at least two armature phase pair windings (12) and salient pole rotor arrangement (15) having field windings (17) terminating in a selective electrical switch which determines the electrical continuity of said field windings (17). Also included is control means which is configured to regulate the magnetizing of the field winding (17) so that, at any given moment, one armature phase pair is usable for magnetizing the field winding while the other pair is responsible for torque production.
US07795825B2
A method of voltage supply management for an electric drive system includes receiving a voltage signal (1002) indicative of a voltage in a supply link, and one or more condition signals that are indicative of an operating condition of the electric drive system. A difference between a desired voltage value (1008), which is calculated based on the voltage signal (1002) and the one or more condition signals, and the voltage signal (1002) yields a voltage error signal (1014). The voltage error signal (1014) is evaluated to indicate an over-voltage condition or an under-voltage condition. Power is dissipated from the supply link when an over-voltage condition is present and a torque command limit with respect to the one or more electric drive motors (210) is imposed when an under-voltage condition is present.
US07795821B2
A back light unit (BLU) having a plurality of luminous elements, and a control method thereof is provided. The BLU includes a temperature detector to detect a temperature of the BLU, brightness detectors to detect a brightness of the plurality of luminous elements, a voltage supplier to supply a driving voltage to the plurality of luminous elements, respectively, and a controller to perform a first adjustment to adjust the driving voltage supplied to the plurality of luminous elements according to the temperature detected at the temperature detector, and to perform a second adjustment to adjust the driving voltage supplied to the plurality of luminous elements according to the brightness detected at the brightness detectors. Accordingly, the temperature of the BLU can be maintained stable, and the brightness can be controlled uniformly.
US07795809B2
To provide an electro-optical device comprising a thin film having a uniform thickness, which is formed by drying liquid droplets filled in a liquid droplet ejection region surrounded by a partition. An electro-optical device comprises partitions 22 for separating a plurality of regions formed on a substrate 10. Each of the partitions 22 has a lyophilic first partition 43 and a liquid-repellent second partition 44 which is formed on an upper surface portion of the first partition except for a circumferential portion surrounding the region of the first partition 43. The device also comprises a functional layer 45 which is formed on the region surrounded by the partition and includes at least a light emitting layer. The device further comprises a pair of electrodes 41 and 46 with the functional layer interposed therebetween, in which the first partition 43 has the thickness larger than the thickness of the functional layer 45, and a side inclined angle of the first partition 43 is less than the side inclined angle of the second partition 44.
US07795788B2
An IDT electrode (3) on a piezoelectric substrate (2) has an electrode including first metal layers (31a, 31b) formed of titanium or a titanium alloy, or chromium or a chromium alloy and second metal layers (32a, 32b) formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, copper or a copper alloy, or gold or a gold alloy, which are laminated alternately. The orientation degrees in the first metal layer (31a) that is closest to the surface of the piezoelectric substrate (2) in the first metal layers (31a, 31b) and the second metal layer (32a) that is closest to the surface of the piezoelectric substrate (2) in the second metal layers (32a, 32b) are higher than the orientation degrees in the upper metal layers. As compared with the prior art where the orientation degrees in the first metal layers (31a, 31b) and the second metal layers (32a, 32b) are not considered, the power handling capability of the IDT electrode (3) can be significantly improved.
US07795782B2
The invention relates to a miniaturizable motor (1) comprising a rotor (12) that is driven by a hollow cylindrical piezo oscillator (2). Said rotor is effectively connected to a frictional face (13) of the piezo oscillator while a main electrode or counter electrode (3) and excitation electrodes (4, 5, 6) are disposed on the surface of the hollow cylinder. The hollow cylindrical piezo oscillator is made of a monocrystalline material with a trigonal crystal system which is provided with three main electrical axes that are placed at a 120° angle relative to each other as well as an optical axis. Said optical axis encloses a 90° angle along with the point of intersection of the electrical axes while coinciding with the longitudinal axis of the hollow cylindrical piezo oscillator. Furthermore, the axial axis of symmetry of the respective excitation electrode intersects one of the main electrical axes while said axial axis of symmetry extends parallel to the optical axis.
US07795772B2
A motor is basically provided with a stator, a rotor, a low permeability layer and a current control device. The stator includes a magnetic stator core and a stator winding. The rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets arranged to form N and S poles of the rotor. The low permeability layer has a lower magnetic permeability than the rotor core and extends between each of the N and S poles in a direction generally parallel to the magnetic flux paths of the permanent magnets such that the permanent magnets and the low permeability are arranged to obstruct the magnetic flux between the N and S poles to provide a forward salient pole characteristic. The current control device produces a current whose phase is shifted such that the magnetic flux of the permanent magnets intensifies.
US07795765B2
A circuit board heatsink 60 for cooling a regulator circuit board has a flat base portion 61. Fifteen fins 62 are respectively disposed so as to project vertically from a first surface of the base portion and are arranged so as to be parallel to each other. The regulator circuit board is fixed to a second surface of the base portion 61 of the circuit board heatsink 60, and is housed and held inside a regulator circuit board housing portion of a regulator assembly such that the fins 62 face the rear bracket.
US07795762B2
The on-chip power supply noise sensor detects high frequency overshoots and undershoots of the power supply voltage. By creating two identical current sources and attaching a time constant circuit to only one, the high frequency transient behavior differs while the low frequency behavior is equivalent. By comparing these currents, the magnitude of very high frequency power supply noise can be sensed and used to either set latches or add to a digital counter. This has the advantage of directly sensing the power supply noise in a manner that does not require calibration. Also, since the sensor requires only one power supply, it can be used anywhere on a chip. Finally, it filters out any lower frequency noise that is not interesting to the circuit designer and can be tuned to detect down to whatever frequency is needed.
US07795761B2
A power converter having a switched capacitor buck/boost operation has first and second switches coupled to a first switching node, third and fourth switches coupled to a second switching node, a capacitor coupled between the first and second switching nodes, and an inductor coupled to the first switching node. A switch controller controls the switches to operate in voltage step-down mode and voltage step-up mode depending on a difference between converter output voltage VOUT and converter input voltage VIN. In a buck-optimized topology operating in a step-down mode, an output current flowing through the first switching node flows through only one switch at a given time. In a boost-optimized topology operating in a step-up mode, an output current flowing through the first switching node flows through only one switch at a given time. As a result, a more compact and efficient power converter may be realized at lower cost.
US07795754B2
The present invention discloses a slope control device capable of predicting uniform-current-sharing level and method thereof which can be applied in a redundancy or distributed power system for providing better uniform-current-sharing ability. The device comprises a high linearity transconductor circuit, a slope adjusting circuit and an incremental output voltage circuit. The invention applies either a transconductor parameter or a feedback resistor to increase the droop gain and therefore the current deviation between two power supply modules is reduced. The invention further raises the output voltage step by step to ensure that the output voltage meet the requirement of allowable minimum output voltage according to increment of load current.
US07795753B2
To control the receiving power, this invention uses a secondary battery to cut peaks of the receiving power. Further, this invention calculates the load power from the detected receiving power value and command values of the secondary battery in the controller and the power generating facility, and filters the load power to create command values of the fuel cells.
US07795747B2
A method and apparatus for moving magnetic material includes an electromagnet for attaching and detaching the magnetic material where upon release of the magnetic material, the residual magnetic flux of the released magnetic material is reduced. The apparatus includes a generator coupled to the electromagnet. The generator includes a control input and an armature having a voltage output. A controller has an output coupled to the generator's control input and an input coupled to the armature voltage output, whereupon receiving a lift or release material signal from an operator interface panel to lift or release the magnetic material from the electromagnet, the controller transmits a control signal that is at least partially responsive to the voltage output of the armature to effectively maintain the voltage output of the armature to a set-point value.
US07795744B2
The objective of the present invention is to provides a cationically curable epoxy resin composition excellent in sealing and adhesive property specifically to glass, excellent reflow resistance property, moisture resistance and water resistance while keeping a good workability intrinsic to a light curable resins. The invention provides a cationically curable epoxy resin composition comprising: (a) an epoxy resin component; (b) a cationic photo-initiator; (c) a cationic thermal-initiator and (d) a filler selected from the group consisting of oxides, hydroxides and carbonates containing a Group II element in the long periodic table.
US07795743B2
A wiring substrate having variously sized ball pads, a semiconductor package including the wiring substrate, and a stack package using the semiconductor package, to improve board level reliability (BLR) of a semiconductor package or stack package mounted on a mother board are shown. Outer ball pads are formed to have relatively greater surface areas at the corners of the semiconductor package as compared to those at other areas and are formed to have the greatest surface area within a designable range. Additionally, occurrence of cracks may be inhibited at junctions of other solder balls by forming dummy solder pads at the outermost corners among the outer ball pads formed proximate to the corners of the wiring substrate. Stress arising during a board level reliability test is absorbed without product failure at junctions between the dummy solder pads and dummy solder balls.
US07795741B2
A semiconductor device which stores a plurality of semiconductor chips, having planar sizes which differ, in the same sealing body in a state in which they are accumulated via an insulating film which has an adhesive property. In the semiconductor device, the thickness of DAF of the back surface of the uppermost semiconductor chip with which the control circuit is formed is thicker than each of DAF of the back surface of the lower layer semiconductor chip with which the memory circuit is formed.
US07795734B2
To provide a semiconductor device composed of a semiconductor element or a group of semiconductor elements, in which a crystalline semiconductor film having as few grain boundaries as possible in a channel formation region is formed on an insulating surface, which can operate at high speed, which have high current drive performance, and which are less fluctuated between elements. The method of the present invention includes: forming an insulating film with an opening on a substrate having an insulating surface; forming on the insulating film and over the opening an amorphous semiconductor film or a polycrystalline semiconductor film that has randomly-formed grain boundaries; forming a crystalline semiconductor film by melting the semiconductor film, pouring the melted semiconductor into the opening of the insulating film, and crystallizing or re-crystallizing the semiconductor film; and removing the crystalline semiconductor film except a portion of the crystalline semiconductor film that is in the opening to form a gate insulating film, which is in contact with the top face of the crystalline semiconductor film, and a gate electrode.
US07795733B2
A semiconductor device includes a first aerial wiring including a first wiring layer which is formed in an air gap and contains Cu as a main component and a via layer which is electrically connected to the first wiring layer, is formed in an inter-level insulating film containing a preset constituent element and contains Cu as a main component, and a first porous film formed on the first aerial wiring. The semiconductor device further includes a first barrier film which is formed to cover the surface of the first aerial wiring and contains a compound of the preset constituent element and a preset metal element as a main component.
US07795732B2
A ceramic wiring board 10 includes a ceramic substrate 11 and a wiring layer 12 formed on the ceramic substrate 11. The wiring layer 12 includes a wiring part 13 and a connection part 14, the wiring part 13 having a base metal layer 15, a first diffusion preventive layer 16 and a first Au layer 17 which are stacked in sequence on a surface of the ceramic substrate 11, and the connection part 14 having a second diffusion preventive layer 19, a void suppression layer 20 and a solder layer 18 which are stacked in sequence at a desired position on the wiring part 13. The void suppression layer 20 is made of, for example, Au or an Au—Sn alloy containing 85 mass % or more of Au.
US07795730B2
The invention includes a first step for forming a first conductive layer composed of a high melting point metal to be in contact with an insulating layer; and a second step for forming a second conductive layer by discharging a composition containing a conductive material so as to be in contact with the first conductive layer. The first conductive layer is formed prior to forming the second conductive layer by droplet discharging, and hence, adhesiveness and peel resistance of the second conductive layer are improved. Furthermore, the insulating layer is covered with the first conductive layer, thereby preventing damage or destruction of the insulating layer.
US07795725B2
The invention includes semiconductor packages having grooves within a semiconductor die backside; and includes semiconductor packages utilizing carbon nanostructures (such as, for example, carbon nanotubes) as thermally conductive interface materials. The invention also includes methods of cooling a semiconductor die in which coolant is forced through grooves in a backside of the die, and includes methods of making semiconductor packages.
US07795723B2
A sensor element is capped by bonding or otherwise forming a cap on a sensor element. The sensor may be hermetically sealed by using a hermetic cap and hermetic bonding material or by applying a hermetic coating. The sensor may be filled with a gas at an elevated pressure. The sensor may alternatively or additionally be filled with a special gas, such as a gas having a density-to-viscosity ratio above approximately 0.2.
US07795716B2
An RF/microwave circuit is configured to eliminate the physical constraint that requires a sacrifice of one output series inductor wirebond for each shunt inductor wirebond. The circuit employs a multi-level metalized substrate as part of its output impedance matching network. The lower level of the multi-level substrate serves as an intermediate connection point for the output series inductor wirebonds as it extends from the output terminal of an active device to an output metallization pad. The upper level of the multi-level substrate serves to support a DC block capacitor and as an intermediate connection point for the shunt inductor wirebonds. The multi-level substrate allows the series inductor wirebonds to be positioned at a lower height, and the shunt inductor wirebonds at a greater height. Because they are at different heights, the physical constraint of sacrificing a series wirebond per a shunt inductor wirebond can be eliminated. This leads to improved power efficiency, higher gain, and greater bandwidth.
US07795699B2
The semiconductor device of the present invention comprises a semiconductor substrate; and a conductive element formed on the semiconductor substrate and capable of being opened when a predetermined current flows, wherein the conductive element turns plurality of times.
US07795695B2
A method of forming a microphone having a variable capacitance first deposits high temperature deposition material on a die. The high temperature material ultimately forms structure that contributes to the variable capacitance. The method then forms circuitry on the die after depositing the deposition material. The circuitry is configured to detect the variable capacitance.
US07795693B2
The description is of a flat substrate with an electrically conductive structure integrated inside the flat substrate or applied to a surface of the flat substrate and/or with a technically improved surface.The invention is characterised in that at least one sensor is integrated inside the flat substrate or applied to a surface of the flat substrate, which generates sensor signals according to deformations occurring inside the flat substrate, at least one actuator is integrated inside the flat substrate or applied to the surface of the flat substrate, which enables the flat substrate to mechanically deform when activated, and a signal unit connected to the at least one sensor and to the at least one actuator is provided, which, on the basis of the sensor signals, generates actuator signals for activating the actuator, so that deformations occurring inside the flat substrate are reduced.
US07795691B2
The invention is a device for controlling conduction across a semiconductor body with a P type channel layer between active semiconductor regions of the device and the controlling gate contact. The device, often a MOSFET or an IGBT, includes at least one source, well, and drift region. The P type channel layer may be divided into sections, or divided regions, that have been doped to exhibit N type conductivity. By dividing the channel layer into regions of different conductivity, the channel layer allows better control over the threshold voltage that regulates current through the device. Accordingly, one of the divided regions in the channel layer is a threshold voltage regulating region. The threshold-voltage regulating region maintains its original P type conductivity and is available in the transistor for a gate voltage to invert a conductive zone therein. The conductive zone becomes the voltage regulated conductive channel within the device.
US07795689B2
A process for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming first contact holes in a dielectric film for a PMOS transistor; depositing germanium on the source/drain regions of the PMOS transistor exposed from the first contact holes; heat treating the germanium with silicon in the source/drain regions of the PMOS transistor to form a germanium silicide film; forming second contact holes in the dielectric film for the source/drain regions of the NMOS transistor; and forming contact plugs in the first and second contact holes.
US07795688B2
A semiconductor device including, on a substrate, a first conduction type MOS transistor having a gate electrode provided in a first trench formed in an insulation film on the substrate, and a second conduction type MOS transistor having a gate electrode provided in a second trench formed in the insulation film, the first conduction type and the second conduction type being opposite types.
US07795681B2
A lateral MOSFET formed in a substrate of a first conductivity type includes a gate formed atop a gate dielectric layer over a surface of the substrate, a drain region of a second conductivity type, a source region of a second conductivity type, and a body region of the first conductivity type which extends under the gate. The body region may have a non-monotonic vertical doping profile with a portion located deeper in the substrate having a higher doping concentration than a portion located shallower in the substrate. The lateral MOSFET may be drain-centric, with the source region and an optional dielectric-filled trench surrounding the drain region.
US07795675B2
A trench MIS device is formed in a P-epitaxial layer that overlies an N-epitaxial layer and an N+ substrate. In one embodiment, the device includes an N-type drain-drift region that extends from the bottom of the trench to the N-epitaxial layer. Preferably, the drain-drift region is formed at least in part by fabricating spacers on the sidewalls of the trench and implanting an N-type dopant between the sidewall spacers and through the bottom of the trench. The drain-drift region can be doped more heavily than the conventional “drift region” that is formed in an N-epitaxial layer. Thus, the device has a low on-resistance. The device can be terminated by a plurality of polysilicon-filled termination trenches located near the edge of the die, with the polysilicon in each termination trench being connected to the mesa adjacent the termination trench.
US07795668B2
A semiconductor device includes a pair of selective gate lines formed above a semiconductor substrate, plural word lines formed above the substrate, plural contact plugs located between the selective gate lines, a first insulator formed in the trenches between the word lines, the first insulator including a first insulating film having a first upper surface flush with the substrate surface, a second insulator formed in the trenches between the contact plugs and including second and third insulating films, and a boro-phosphor-silicate glass film formed on the third insulating film and between the contact plugs. The second insulating film is of a kind same as the first insulating film. The third insulating film has a higher resistance to a wet etching process than the second insulating film. An interface between the second and third insulating films is located between a bottom and an upper end of the trench.
US07795666B2
A semiconductor time switch includes a cell portion and an electron booster. The cell portion contains parallel linear semiconductor layers provided on a substrate as active areas, first and second linear conductor layers alternately formed on the linear semiconductor layers through a gate insulating film as control gates and extending so as to cross the linear semiconductor layers, and floating gates inserted into respective intersections of the linear semiconductor layers and the first linear conductor layers, and coupled to the first linear conductor layers through an inter-gate insulating film. The electron booster is provided on the substrate and includes a MOS transistor having a booster gate electrode connected to the second linear conductor layers. Both ends of the linear semiconductor layers are connected to first and second I/O terminals of the switch, respectively.
US07795664B2
For an embodiment, a memory array has a plurality fins protruding from a substrate. A tunnel dielectric layer overlies the fins. A plurality floating gates overlie the tunnel dielectric layer, and the floating gates correspond one-to-one with the fins protruding from the substrate. An intergate dielectric layer overlies the floating gates. A control gate layer overlies the intergate dielectric layer. Each fin includes an upper surface rounded by isotropic etching.
US07795661B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device that contains at least one trench capacitor and at least one vertical transistor, and methods for forming such a semiconductor device. Specifically, the trench capacitor is located in a semiconductor substrate and comprises an outer electrode, an inner electrode, and a node dielectric layer located between the outer electrode and the inner electrode. The vertical transistor is located over the trench capacitor and comprises a source region, a drain region, a channel region, a gate dielectric, and a gate electrode. The channel region of the vertical transistor is located in a tensilely or compressively strained semiconductor layer that is oriented perpendicularly to a surface of the semiconductor substrate. Preferably, the tensilely or compressively strained semiconductor layer is embedded in an insulator structure, so that the vertical transistor has a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) configuration.
US07795660B2
A capacitor structure includes: a number of conductive regions of metallic and/or semiconducting materials and/or conductive metal compounds thereof, the conductive regions being arranged as stacked layers in a trench structure of a semiconductor device; and a dielectric surrounding the conductive regions.
US07795659B2
In a DRAM device and a method of manufacturing the same, a multiple tunnel junction (MTJ) structure is provided, which includes conductive patterns and nonconductive patterns alternately stacked on each other. The nonconductive patterns have a band gap larger than a band gap of the conductive patterns. A gate insulation layer and a gate electrode are formed on a sidewall of the MTJ structure. A word line is connected with the MTJ structure, and a bit line is connected with one of top and bottom surfaces of the MTJ structure. A capacitor is connected with one of top and bottom surfaces of the MTJ structure that is not connected with the bit line. Current leakage in the DRAM device is reduced and a unit cells may be vertically stacked on the substrate, so a smaller surface area of the substrate is required for the DRAM device.
US07795658B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a supporting substrate including semiconductor materials. The memory device also includes an insulation film provided above the supporting substrate. The memory device further includes a first diffusion layer provided on the insulation film. In addition, the memory device includes a second diffusion layer provided on the insulation film. The memory device additionally includes a body region provided between the first diffusion layer and the second diffusion layer. The body region is in an electrically floating state and accumulates or releases electric charges for storing data. Also, the memory device includes a semiconductor layer penetrating the insulation film and electrically connecting the second diffusion layer to the supporting substrate to release electric charges from the second diffusion layer. Further, the memory device includes a gate insulation film provided on the body region. Additionally, the memory device includes a gate electrode provided on the gate insulation film.
US07795647B2
A curled transistor comprises a coiled semiconductor substrate having a plurality of concentrically curled layers. Source and drain regions are configured on a portion of the coiled semiconductor substrate, and a gate dielectric is positioned between the source and drain regions. A first set of metallic contacts electrically couple to the source region on the coiled semiconductor substrate and a second set of metallic contacts electrically couple to the drain region on the coiled semiconductor substrate.
US07795645B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor integrated circuit having a chip layout that reduces line length to achieve faster processing. A cache comprises a TAG memory module and a cache data memory module. The cache data memory module is divided into first and second cache data memory modules which are disposed on both sides of the TAG memory module, and input/output circuits of a data TLB are opposed to the input/output circuit of the TAG memory module and the input/output circuits of the first and second cache data memory modules across a bus area to reduce the line length to achieve faster processing.
US07795635B2
Disclosed herein is a backlight unit equipped with LEDs. The backlight includes an insulating substrate, a plurality of LED packages, an upper heat dissipation plate, and a lower heat dissipation plate. The insulating substrate is provided with predetermined circuit patterns. The LED packages are mounted above the insulating substrate, and are electrically connected to the circuit patterns. The upper heat dissipation plate is formed on the insulating substrate, and is configured to come into contact with the circuit patterns and to dissipate heat. The lower heat dissipation plate is formed on the insulating substrate, and is configured to transmit heat transmitted through the upper heat dissipation plate. The upper heat dissipation plate and the lower heat dissipation plate are connected to each other by at least one through hole, and the through hole and the upper heat dissipation plate have a predetermined area ratio.
US07795627B2
A plurality of rectangle semiconductor substrates are attached to a single mother glass substrate. A pixel structure is determined so that even if a gap or a an overlapping portion is generated in a boundary between a plurality of semiconductor substrates, a single-crystal semiconductor layer does not overlap with the gap or the overlapping portion. Two TFTs are located in a first unit cell including the first light emitting element, four TFTs are located in a second unit cell including the second light emitting element, and no TFT is located in a third unit cell including the third light emitting element. A boundary line is between the third unit cell and a fourth unit cell.
US07795621B2
A thin film transistor panel including: a transparent substrate; scanning lines made of a light blocking electroconductive material to be formed on the transparent substrate; data lines formed on the transparent substrate to be perpendicular to the scanning lines and made of a light blocking electroconductive material; thin film transistors, each provided with a transparent gate electrode connected to one of the scanning lines, a transparent drain electrode connected to one of the data lines, a transparent source electrode and a transparent semiconductor thin film; and transparent pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors, wherein each of the pixel electrodes is formed to cover at least a part of the gate electrode of each of the thin film transistors.
US07795617B2
It is an object to provide a semiconductor device the data writing of which can be performed except in manufacturing and the counterfeiting of which by rewriting can be prevented. Furthermore, it is another object of the invention to provide a semiconductor device constituted by an organic memory having a simple structure at low cost. A memory cell is constituted by connecting a transistor in parallel or series to an organic element having an organic compound layer, and each memory cell is connected in series or parallel to constitute a NAND memory or a NOR memory. The organic element can change its electrical property irreversibly by application of a current or a voltage, irradiation of light, or the like.
US07795616B2
As a substrate gets larger, time of manufacture is increased due to the repetition of film formations and etchings; waste disposal costs of etchant and the like are increased; and material efficiency is significantly reduced. A base film for improving adhesion between a substrate and a material layer formed by a droplet discharge method is formed in the invention. Further, a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device according to the invention includes at least one step for forming the following patterns required for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device without using a photomask: a pattern of a material layer typified by a wiring (or an electrode) pattern, an insulating layer pattern; or a mask pattern for forming another pattern.
US07795606B2
Method and apparatus for constructing a non-volatile memory cell, such as a modified RRAM cell. In some embodiments, a memory cell comprises a resistive storage layer disposed between a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer. Further in some embodiments, the storage layer has a localized region of decreased thickness to facilitate formation of a conductive filament through the storage layer from the first electrode to the second electrode.
US07795599B2
Apparatus (1) for detecting and/or measuring radioactivity comprising sensor means (5, 6), radiation detector means (4) and signal processing means (10, 11), the sensor means being adapted to provide a measure of one or more characteristics of a medium between the radiation detector means and a source of radioactivity, the arrangement being such that, in use, the signal processing means is configured to compensate for varying degrees of interference from unwanted isotopes by taking into account information received from the sensor means.
US07795597B2
A deflector array in which a plurality of deflectors, which deflect charged particle beams, are arrayed on a substrate. The plurality of deflectors include respective openings different from each other formed on the substrate. Each of the plurality of deflectors includes a pair of electrodes opposing each other through a corresponding opening, and the plurality of deflectors are arrayed such that a length of the pair of electrodes in a longitudinal direction thereof is not less than a distance between centers of two of the plurality of deflectors which are located nearest to each other.
US07795590B2
A PET apparatus comprises a plurality of detector units in the circumferential direction, wherein the detector unit includes a plurality of unit substrates therein, and wherein the unit substrate includes: a plurality of detectors upon which a γ-ray is incident; and an analog ASIC and digital ASIC for processing a γ-ray detection signal outputted by each of the detectors. The analog ASIC includes two slow systems having mutually different time constants, each of which outputs a pulseheight value. A noise determination part of the digital ASIC determines whether a relevant detection signal is an intended γ-ray detection signal or a noise based on a correlation between the pulseheight values, and a noise counting part counts the number of times of noise determination, and a detector output signal processing control part controls the signal processing with respect to an output signal from a relevant detector based on the count.
US07795588B2
The invention is to provide an inspection apparatus causing interactions of plural times between an object and an electromagnetic wave, thereby enabling inspection with a satisfactory sensitivity even for an object of a trace amount. The inspection apparatus detects information from an object 112 based on a change in an electromagnetic wave transmission state caused by plural times of interactions between the electromagnetic wave and the object 112. The inspection apparatus includes a transmission line 16, an electromagnetic wave supplying and detecting unit 111 for supplying the transmission line 16 with the electromagnetic wave and detecting the electromagnetic wave, a reflection unit 110 for reflecting the electromagnetic wave transmitting through the transmission line 16, and an inspection unit 113 for placing the object 112 between the electromagnetic wave supplying and detecting unit 111 and the reflection unit 110, wherein the transmission line 16, the reflection unit 110 and the inspection unit 113 are formed on a same substrate 11.
US07795582B2
A system and method of monitoring with temperature stabilization. The system can include a housing operably connected to a fiber optic cable that provides a light wave thereto, a relay optic for receiving the light wave and being positioned in the housing, a radiation device for processing or producing radiation in the frequency range of 10 GHz to 100 THz from the light wave and being positioned in the housing, a temperature sensor in thermal communication with the housing, and a thermal management device in thermal communication with the housing where the thermal management device adjusts a temperature within the housing based on temperature conditions measured by the temperature sensor. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US07795577B2
An imager apparatus and methods are described. An embodiment of an imager module includes a plurality of groups of optical lenses, a lens frame, and at least one associated lens barrel configured to position and hold the plurality of groups of optical lenses. At least one of the groups of optical lenses is movable with respect to at least one other group of optical lenses for achieving optical focus. The imager module includes an integrated circuit (IC) imager die in proximity to the plurality of lenses, the imager die containing at least one image capture microelectronic device. The imager module includes a modular frame assembly that contains a first portion that holds a plurality of lens barrels, each containing one or more focusing lenses, and a second portion that supports the first portion at a specific distance from the substrate being imaged. The lens barrels are each responsive to different wavelengths or bands of wavelengths. The first and second portions include minimal, partial, or full partition structures between the imaging areas defined by the lens barrels.
US07795567B2
The disclosed system, device and method for guiding a hypersonic kinetic penetrator projectile (300) generally includes a kinetic penetrator body (110, 230) and a slip-over electronic guidance unit (120, 220), where the kinetic penetrator body slidably mounts through the slip-over electronic guidance unit. Disclosed features and specifications may be variously controlled, adapted or otherwise optionally modified to improve accuracy and control of a hypersonic projectile. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention generally provide multi-use slip-over electronic guidance units for hypersonic kinetic penetrator projectiles in 105 mm and 120 mm munition rounds, surface-to-surface missiles, and air-to-surface missiles.
US07795563B2
A technique for the design of 3-D RF welding electrodes by first modeling the surface of the welded part perimeter as a spline in a 3-D CAD program, and then dividing the spline up into multiple, small straight segments. The straight segments are offset simultaneously in opposite directions from the spline, to form two sets of straight segments, each set being equidistant from the spline, with the gap between the two sets equal to the target thickness of the welded package. New die faces are constructed from each of the sets using smoothing techniques, and 3-D models of the die faces are manufactured to check accuracy of the design, making sure that all the corresponding points of the pair of electrodes are equidistant, thereby creating a strong weld with good cosmetic results all along the parts being joined.
US07795558B2
In an electric discharge machining apparatus that machines a workpiece (1) by using a water-based dielectric fluid as a dielectric fluid while a voltage is being applied to a machining gap between an electrode (2) and the workpiece (1), the electric discharge machine includes:an anticorrosive power source section (26) that applies a predetermined voltage by taking the workpiece (1) as a cathode and taking as an anode an anticorrosive electrode (25) opposing the workpiece (1) with an insulator (24) therebetween;a dielectric fluid quality measuring instrument (22) that measures a quality of the dielectric fluid; anda dielectric fluid quality control section (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23) that controls a pH level of the dielectric fluid to be within a range from 8.5 to 10.5 on the basis of the measured result of the dielectric fluid quality measuring instrument (22).
US07795547B2
Method of weight determination of a load carried by a lifter of a lifting device and weighing device
A method of weight determination of a load carried by a lifter (1) of a lifting device (2) is based on at least one upward and one downward displacement of the lifter (1) by means of a hydraulic actuator (7). A pressure signal is provided by means of a pressure transducer (24), and a position signal is provided by means of a meter (23). The weight of the load (27) is determined on the basis of the pressure signal (24) and the position signal (23). The position signal is registered as a function of time, an acceleration dependent parameter is determined on the basis of the variation of the position signal, and the weight determination is performed in dependence of said acceleration dependent parameter. Furthermore, a weighing device is disclosed.
US07795539B2
A process of twinning a pair of polymer-insulated conductors to form a twisted pair, where the polymer-insulated conductors are formed by extruding a uniformly thick coating of polymer onto the conductors. More than one twisted pair is encased in a polymer jacket forming a cable. The twisted pair obtains a desirable average impedance performance using a reduced amount by weight of polymer forming said polymer-insulated conductors by: (i) extruding to form longitudinally running peaks and valleys in the exterior surface of each of the polymer-insulated conductors of the pair of polymer-insulated conductors and (ii) twinning resultant polymer-insulated conductors to nest at least one of the peaks in the exterior surface of one of the polymer-insulated conductors in at least one of said valleys in the exterior surface of the other of the polymer-insulated conductors of the pair of polymer-insulated conductors.
US07795514B2
Disclosed herein is a guitar, which includes a chest rest formed on a back plate of a main body so that the guitar can be gripped in a stable manner and can be played with a comfort of chest. The guitar further includes an arm rest formed on a top plate of the main body so that so that the guitar can be gripped in a stable manner and can be played with a comfort of chest and arm. A method of manufacturing the chest and arm rest is also disclosed.
US07795512B1
Basically, this invention provides for an inbred corn line designated G07-NPID4373, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line G07-NPID4373 with plants of another corn plants. The invention relates to the various parts of inbred G07-NPID4373 including culturable cells. This invention also relates to methods for introducing transgenic transgenes into inbred corn line G07-NPID4373 and plants produced by said methods.
US07795511B1
An inbred corn line, designated SLB28, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line SLB28, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line SLB28 with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line SLB28 with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line SLB28, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line SLB28 and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.
US07795506B1
According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB23Q08. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB23Q08, to the plants of soybean XB23Q08 to plant parts of soybean variety XB23Q08 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB23Q08 with another soybean plant, using XB23Q08 as either the male or the female parent.
US07795496B2
The present invention provides for methods of producing transgenic avians which may include delivering a heterologous nucleic acid to oviduct tissue of an avian wherein the nucleic acid enters a cell of the oviduct tissue and is expressed.
US07795489B2
High-purity 2,6-dimethylnaphthalene is prepared by (1) subjecting a dimethylnaphthalene isomer mixture rich in 1,5-dimethylnaphthalene, high boiling point materials, unreacted 1,5-dimethyltetralin, and low boiling point materials, which are produced from a dehydrogenation reaction of 1,5-dimethyltetralin, to separation, using a distillation column; subjecting the dimethylnaphthalene mixture separated by the distillation column to liquid state isomerization in the presence of an isomerization catalyst; (3) a first crystallization (melt crystallization process) by cooling the product of liquid state isomerization with a refrigerant without a solvent to form crystals; and (4) a second crystallization (solution crystallization process) of mixing the crystals of the first crystallization step with a solvent to form crystals.
US07795488B2
The present invention relates to a process for the removal of oxygenates from a gaseous stream also comprising carbon dioxide, said process comprising: a) providing a first gaseous stream comprising one or more mono-olefin(s), at least 100 ppm (by weight) of one or more oxygenates and at least 0.1 wt % carbon dioxide, and b) treating the first gaseous stream to produce a second gaseous stream comprising one or more mono-olefin(s) and at least 0.1 wt % carbon dioxide with reduced oxygenate content, wherein said treating comprises contacting the first gaseous stream with a first aqueous stream and with a first liquid hydrocarbon stream, and c) subsequently treating the second gaseous stream to remove the carbon dioxide therein.
US07795482B2
Disclosed herein is a process for the preparation of fluorine-containing olefins comprising contacting a chlorofluoroalkene with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst at a temperature sufficient to cause replacement of the chlorine substituents with hydrogen. Also disclosed is a catalyst composition for the hydrodechlorination of chlorofluoroalkenes comprising copper metal deposited on a support.
US07795471B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a compound of the formula: wherein R1 is lower alkyl, R4 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, and Z is optionally substituted lower alkyl, optionally substituted lower alkenly, optionally substituted amino, optionally substituted lower alkoxy, optionally substituted carbocyclyl or optionally substituted heterocyclyl.
US07795463B2
Disclosed is a process for preparing a compound of the following formula (2): including the steps of reacting a compound of the following formula (4): with trityl chloride to prepare trityloxy-acetic acid ethyl ester of the following formula (8): reacting the compound of formula (8) with ethyl magnesium halide to prepare 1-trityloxymethyl-cyclopropanol of the following formula (9): combining the 1-trityloxymethyl-cyclopropanol of formula (9) with diisopropylbromo-methylphosphonate in a solvent in the presence of a base to prepare (1-trityloxymethyl-cyclopropoxymethyl)-phosphonic acid diisopropyl ester of the following formula (10): as a solid form, and converting the trityl group of the compound of formula (10) into a hydroxyl group.
US07795461B2
The present invention relates to novel processes for preparing borylsilylamines, novel amines, novel borosilazane compounds, novel oligoborosilazane or polyborosilazane compounds which have the structural feature Si—N—B, ceramic material and methods of producing and using them.
US07795456B2
N-Substituted sulfoximines are effective at controlling insects.
US07795454B2
Crystalline duloxetine hydrochloride, compositions containing the same and methods for the production thereof.
US07795442B2
A process is provided for preparing compounds having the general formula I wherein R is a range of organic groups and X is a leaving group. The process comprises reacting a compound of formula II with a water-removing reagent. When X is halogen or a sulfonate, the compound of formula I may be prepared by reacting a compound of the formula III with a halogenating agent or a sulfonylating agent. Alternatively, when X is halogen, the compound of formula I can be prepared by reacting a compound of the formula IV where R2 and R2 are defined organic groups, with a compound of the formula halogen-C(—O)—O—C1-C8alkyl, halogen-C(—O)—O-aryl or halogen-C(—O)—O-benzyl.
US07795441B2
Process for preparing imine compounds, in which a carbonyl compound is reacted with a primary amine. The imine compound obtained in this way can be reacted further with a metalalkyl and subsequently a carbonyl compound to form an imine compound.
US07795435B2
The process includes the steps of (i) dissolving finasteride in a substantially anhydrous organic solvent selected among n-butyl acetate, iso-butyl acetate, sec-butyl acetate, tert-butyl acetate, C5 alkyl acetate and mixtures thereof, at a temperature equal to or lower than the boiling point of said organic solvent; (ii) slowly cooling said finasteride solution to a cooling temperature determined on the basis of the chosen solvent; (iii) maintaining the resulting suspension at the cooling temperature for a period of time equal to or less than 16 hours; and (iv) recovering the resulting solid phase containing Form I of finasteride, for example by means of filtration, and removing the solvent, for example by means of drying said crystals. The process allows for obtaining the Form I of finasteride only and in a pure form.
US07795432B2
The invention relates to novel perylenetetracarboxylic acid bisimide derivatives with improved performance properties.
US07795420B2
Efficient sequence specific gene silencing is possible through the use of siRNA technology. By selecting particular siRNAs by rationale design, one can maximize the generation of an effective gene silencing reagent, as well as methods for silencing Bcl-2.
US07795412B2
The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides of the present invention and to methods for producing the polypeptides of the present invention.
US07795400B2
Compositions and methods for preparing Factor IX, Factor IX-containing fusion proteins, and Factor IX-containing conjugates with processing of Factor IX propeptide by PC5, are provided. In one embodiment PC5 is used to process a precursor polypeptide for a Factor IX-Fc monomer-dimer hybrid.
US07795392B2
The current invention discloses nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for novel organic anion transfer proteins (“OATPs”). The invention encompasses the OATPs described herein, together with vectors containing the cDNA sequences, host cells containing the vectors and polypeptides having all or part of an OATP. Also encompasses are uses for OATPs for targeting drugs to specific organs and for modulating the concentration of endogenous substrates.
US07795380B2
Compositions and methods are described for non-viral nucleic acid delivery. A targeting peptide capable of mediating targeting to a cell or subcellular compartment is derivatized with a photoaffinity label. Following an ionic interaction with a polynucleotide, such as DNA, and photolysis, the bioactive peptide becomes covalently attached to the DNA. Upon contact with a cell, the peptide facilities uptake of the peptide-polynucleotide conjugate into the cell or subcellular compartment. Methods for using this system for delivery of structural genes, including reporter genes, and detection of expression using bioluminescence are also described.
US07795375B2
It is to provide a compound which has a low vapor pressure and low viscosity, which is less problematic in deterioration during its use and which is useful as e.g. a lubricant, a surface modifier or a surfactant.A fluoropolyether compound represented by the formula (X—)xY(—Z)z, wherein X is a group represented by the formula HO—(CH2CH2O)a.(CH2CH(OH)CH2O)b—(CH2)c—CF2O(CF2CF2O)d— (wherein “a” is an integer of from 0 to 100, b is an integer of from 0 to 100, c is an integer of from 1 to 100, and d is an integer of from 1 to 200), Z is a group represented by the formula RFO(CF2CF2O)g— (wherein RF is e.g. a C1-20 perfluoroalkyl group having an etheric oxygen atom inserted between carbon-carbon atoms, and g is an integer of from 3 to 200), Y is e.g. a (x+z) valent perfluorinated saturated hydrocarbon group, x is an integer of at least 2, z is an integer of at least 0, and (x+z) is an integer of from 3 to 20.
US07795373B2
A polymer of Formula or structure (I) wherein at least one of R1 and R2 is a suitable hydrocarbon, hydrogen, a heteratom containing group, or a halogen; Ar and Ar′ represent an aromatic moiety; x, y, a, b, c, d, e, f, and g represent the number of groups or rings, respectively; and n represents the number of repeating units.
US07795369B2
There is provided an anti-reflective coating forming composition for lithography comprising a reaction product obtained by reacting a sulfur-containing compound having thiourea structure with a nitrogen-containing compound having two or more nitrogen atoms substituted with a hydroxymethyl group or an alkoxymethyl group in the presence of an acid catalyst and a solvent. The anti-reflective coating obtained from the composition has a high preventive effect for reflected light, causes no intermixing with photoresists, has a higher dry etching rate compared with photoresists and can use in lithography process for manufacturing semiconductor device.
US07795350B2
A shape memory polymeric material has a glass transition temperature, Tg, exceeding room temperature and exhibits rubber modulus and elasticity derived substantially from physical crosslinks is prepared by blending components including one crystalline polymer and two amorphous polymers. Methods of preparing the polymeric materials and uses of the polymeric materials, for example, as smart medical devices, are also disclosed.
US07795348B2
Disclosed is a primer composition for coating having excellent adhesion properties to a substrate and comprising a polyolefin resin or acrylic resin, without the use of a chlorine-containing compound, which primer composition essentially comprises a polymer (A) having at least a unit of a (meth)acrylic ester monomer (a) in which acryloyloxy group or methacryloyloxy group is bonded to secondary carbon atom or tertiary carbon atom.
US07795339B2
The present invention relates to a powder which, in addition to a polymer, comprises a flame retardant based on ammonium polyphosphate, to the use of this powder for the layer-by-layer production of moldings, and also to moldings produced from this powder. The moldings constructed using the inventive powder have marked advantages with regard to their flammability, when comparison is made with conventional products, and this permits use in aircraft, for example.
US07795330B2
One aspect of the invention is to provide a composition comprising a titanium dioxide particle having on the surface of said particle a substantially encapsulating layer comprising a pyrogenically-deposited metal oxide; said substantially encapsulating layer having on its surface at least one organic surface treatment material selected from an organo-silane, an organo-siloxane, a fluoro-silane, an organo-phosphonate, an organo-acid phosphate, an organo-pyrophosphate, an organo-polyphosphate, an organo-metaphosphate, an organo-phosphinate, an organo-sulfonic compound, a hydrocarbon-based carboxylic acid, an associated ester of a hydrocarbon-based carboxylic acid, a derivative of a hydrocarbon-based carboxylic acid, a hydrocarbon-based amide, a low molecular weight hydrocarbon wax, a low molecular weight polyolefin, a co-polymer of a low molecular weight polyolefin, a hydrocarbon-based polyol, a derivative of a hydrocarbon-based polyol, an alkanolamine, a derivative of an alkanolamine, an organic dispersing agent, or a mixture thereof. Another aspect of the invention is to provide processes for producing said composition.
US07795319B1
A process for making a carbonous residue from scrap tires is disclosed. Tires are digested in an oil product. Steel and glass fibers are separated. A product enhancing additive comprising halogen based organic or inorganic compounds is added. The resulting carbonaceous material is then cured to create the final product. The produced carbonous residue is well suited for capture of mercury. The present invention has the benefits of providing a use for scrap tires that would otherwise require disposal in a landfill, and also produces a product useful for capturing a harmful element, thereby providing multiple environmental and economic benefits.
US07795311B2
Improved methods and compositions for protecting plants or seeds from soil-borne fungal diseases. The composition may include a triterpenoid isolated from Glycyrrhiza glabra and a polymer. The triterpenoid may be Carbenoxolone disodium salt, and the polymer may be a water-insoluble, water-soluble or flowable, seed coating polymer. The methods may comprise the steps of applying the composition to the plant's seeds, roots, tubers and/or foliage, and may also include applying the composition to the soil surround surrounding the plant. The composition may be applied as an aqueous solution or as dry particulates, and may be used for the treatment of soybean plants and seeds.
US07795302B2
Rosacea is treated with a composition comprising an antimicrobial and at least one of an anti-inflammatory and a non-retinoid inhibitor of at least one of NF-KB, AP-1, MMPs, adhesion molecules, TLRs, and CD14. The composition may further comprise a retinoid.
US07795300B2
The present invention relates to an external preparation for skin comprising a compound, such as centaureidin(5,7-dihydroxy-3,6-dimethoxy-2-(5-hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one); 5,7-dihydroxy-3,6,8-trimethoxy-2-(3,4,5-trihydroxyphenyl)-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one; 3,5-diethoxy-6,7-dimethoxy-2-(5-ethoxy-4-methoxyphenyl)-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one; and 5,6-dihydroxy-3,7-dimethoxy-2-(5-hydroxy-2,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one; and/or salt thereof and 4-n-butyl resorcinol and/or a salt thereof.The present invention provides an external preparation for skin having a function as a substantial lightening cosmetic that exerts whitening action of inhibiting excessive melanin production and keeping natural-looking whiteness.
US07795294B2
This invention is directed to a tetrahydro-2H-indazole pyrazole cannabinoid modulator compound of formula (I): or a form thereof, wherein p, R1, R2 and Ar are as herein described and * represents a chiral center, and a method for use in treating, ameliorating or preventing a cannabinoid receptor mediated syndrome, disorder or disease.
US07795283B2
Compounds of formula (I), and salts and pro-drugs thereof: Formula (I) wherein for example R1 is optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl; Y is a linking group selected from, for example, a direct bond, and a (substituted) alkyl chain; R2 is an optionally substituted aryl, an optionally substituted cycloalkyl or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group; are described. Processes to make such compounds and their use as DGAT inhibitors, for example in the treatment of obesity, are also described.
US07795281B2
The optically active compound (R)-2-amino-1,4-dihydro-6-methyl-4-(3 -nitrophenyl)-3,5-pyridinedicarboxylic acid 3-(1-diphenylmethylazetidin-3-yl) ester 5 -isopropyl ester or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, and a method using the compound or its salt to treat circulatory diseases.
US07795279B2
A method of reducing or inhibiting kinase activity of FLT3 in a cell or a subject, and the use of such compounds for preventing or treating in a subject a cell proliferative disorder and/or disorders related to FLT3 using a compound of the present invention: or a solvate, hydrate, tautomer or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention is further directed to methods for treating conditions such as cancers and other cell proliferative disorders.
US07795270B2
Deoxyuridine derivatives of the formula (I) where R1 is H or various substituents; D is —NHCO—, —CONH—, -0-, —C(═O)—, —CH═CH, —C≡C—, —NR5—; R4 is hydrogen or various substituents; R5 is H, C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 alkanoyl; E is Si or C; R6, R7 and R8 are independently selected from C1-C8 alkyl, C2-C8 alkenyl, C2-C8 alkynyl or a stable monocyclic, bicyclic or tricyclic ring system; G is —O—, —S—, —CHR10—, —C(═O)—; J is —CH2—, or when G is CHR10 may also be —O— or —NH—; R10 is H, F, —CH3, —CH2NH2, —CH2OH; —OHR11 is H, F, —CH3, —CH2NH2, —CH2OH, —CH(OH)CH3, CH(NH3)CH3; or R10 and R11 together define an olefinic bond, or together form a —CH2-group, thereby defining a cis or trans cyclopropyl group; have utility in the prophylaxis or treatment of protozoal diseases such as malaria.
US07795259B2
The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of Aurora protein kinase of the following formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising said compounds and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of various disease, conditions, or disorders. The invention also provides processes for preparing compounds of the inventions.
US07795257B2
The present invention provides compounds of the formula which are activators of glucokinase activity and, thus, may be employed as therapeutic agents for the treatment of glucokinase mediated conditions. Accordingly, the compounds of formula (I) may be employed for the prevention and the treatment of impaired glucose tolerance, type 2 diabetes and obesity.
US07795251B2
The present invention relates 3,4-dihydro-benzo[e][1,3]oxazin-2-ones which are substituted at the nitrogen atom by unsubstituted or substituted (C1-8)alkyl, (C3-8)cycloalkyl, (C3-8)cycloalkyl(C1-4)alkyl, (C6-18)aryl or (C6-18)aryl(C1-4)alkyl and their use as pharmaceuticals.
US07795244B2
Orally bioavailable prodrugs of sulopenem, e.g., and solvates and hydrates thereof, preparation thereof, formulation thereof, and use to treat and prevent infection in mammals such as humans. This abstract is not limiting to the invention.
US07795242B2
Novel antigens are provided herein. The antigens are associated with recognition of CD1 molecules by T cells. These antigens can be used as antigens, adjuvants or as immunomodulatory agents in a variety of therapeutic and prophylactic applications.
US07795241B2
The present invention is a prodrug derivative of ethinyl estradiol according to Formula I:
US07795238B2
This invention is directed to a method for treating a host infected with hepatitis B comprising administering an effective amount of an anti-HBV biologically active 2′-deoxy-β-L-erythro-pentofuranonucleoside or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, wherein the 2′-deoxy-β-L-erythro-pentofuranonucleoside has the formula: wherein R is selected from the group consisting of H, straight chained, branched or cyclic alkyl, CO-alkyl, CO-aryl, CO-alkoxyalkyl, CO-aryloxyalkyl, CO-substituted aryl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, aralkylsulfonyl, amino acid residue, mono, di, or triphosphate, or a phosphate derivative; and BASE is a purine or pyrimidine base which may be optionally substituted. The 2′-deoxy-β-L-erythro-pentofuranonucleoside or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof may be administered either alone or in combination with another 2′-deoxy-β-L-erythro-pentofuranonucleoside or in combination with another anti-hepatitis B agent.
US07795235B2
The invention relates to specific C-Class semi-soft CpG immunostimulatory oligonucleotides that are useful for stimulating an immune response. In particular the oligonucleotides are useful for treating allergy, such as allergic rhinitis and asthma, cancer and infectious disease, such as hepatitis B and hepatitis C.
US07795224B2
The present invention relates to tumor associated antigen (TAA) peptides and to use of same, of polynucleotides encoding same and of cells presenting same as anti-tumor vaccines. More particularly, the present invention relates to tumor associated antigen peptides derived from Uroplakin Ia, Ib, II and III, Prostate specific antigen (PSA), Prostate acid phosphatase (PAP) and Prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA), BA-46 (Lactadherin), Mucin (MUC-1), and Teratocarcinoma-derived growth factor (CRIPTO-1) and the use of same as anti-tumor vaccines to prevent or cure bladder, prostate, breast or other cancers, carcinomas in particular. Most particularly, the present invention relates to tumor associated antigen peptides which are presentable to the immune system by HLA-A2 molecules.
US07795222B2
A method for treating a corneal disorder or for promoting skin wound healing comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a composition containing pharmaceutically effective amounts of (i) a first peptide comprising an amino acid sequence containing the following consecutive amino acids: Ser-Ser-Ser-Arg (SEQ ID NO: 1), or an analog thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and (ii) a second peptide comprising an amino acid sequence containing the following consecutive amino acids with a terminal —NH2 group: Phe-Gly-Leu-Met-NH2 (SEQ ID NO: 2), or an analog thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US07795216B2
The present invention provides a use and method for GM284 to promote the regeneration of a bodily structure comprised of a composite tissue in a subject. Additionally, the present invention provides a use and method for GM284 to promote composite tissue regeneration in a subject. The present invention further provides a use and method for GM284 to promote the regeneration of cells of a composite tissue in a subject. Finally, the present invention provides a use and method for GM284 to treat an injury to a composite tissue in a subject in need of such treatment.
US07795203B2
A method for the prevention or treatment of an eye disease, which includes topically applying to a patient in need of the treatment an aqueous ophthalmic composition which includes N-acetylcarnosine, a N-acetylcarnosine derivative or a pharmacologically acceptable salt of N-acetylcarnosine, in combination with an amount of a cellulose compound or a pharmacologically acceptable salt which is effective to increase intraocular absorption of N-acetylcarnosine or L-carnosine or a derivative of L-carnosine, such as anserine or balenine, in the aqueous humor. A hydrophilic hydrogel contact lens and an ocular polymer insert for topical application of an ophthalmic composition to the eyes of a patient is also disclosed, with the lens or insert containing N-acetylcarnosine, a N-acetylcarnosine derivative or a pharmacologically acceptable salt of N-acetylcarnosine.
US07795202B2
The invention provides methods of treating a subject having a disease, disorder or condition of the central nervous system. The methods include administering TGF-α polypeptides, related polypeptides, fragments and mimetics thereof useful in stimulating progenitor cell or stem cell proliferation, migration and differentiation. The methods of the invention are useful to treat and prophylactically ameliorate neurological tissue injury in vivo.
US07795195B2
There is provided a cosmetic composition, which stably includes disintegrable particles and is excellent in feeling upon use. A gel cosmetic composition, which has a pH of 4 to 9 and includes the following components (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E):(A) disintegrable particles obtainable binding water-insoluble primary particles by use of a water-soluble binder;(B) 15% to 70% by weight of polyol;(C) a thickening polymer compound having a carboxy group;(D) less than 1% by weight of water-soluble salts; and(E) water.
US07795190B2
A process to prepare a stable solution of a borozirconate complex is disclosed and use of the solution in oil field applications such as hydraulic fracturing and plugging of permeable zones. The process comprises contacting zirconium complex with alkanolamine, then water and optionally and preferably a hydroxyalkylene diamine, then with a boron compound. The solution is particularly suitable for use in a cross-linking composition in hydraulic fracturing and plugging of permeable zones of subterranean formations at temperatures of 275° F. (135° C.) and higher in the formation.
US07795189B2
A process to prepare a solution of zirconium-hydroxyalkylated diamine-lactic acid complex is disclosed and use of the solution in oil field applications such as hydraulic fracturing and plugging of permeable zones. The process comprises contacting an alcohol solution of a zirconium complex with an hydroxyalkylated diamine, then with lactic acid to produce a solution of zirconium-hydroxyalkylated diamine-lactic acid complex. The solution is particularly suitable for use in a cross-linking composition in hydraulic fracturing and plugging of permeable zones of subterranean formations at pH of 10 or greater and at temperatures of 275° F. (135° C.) and higher in the formation.
US07795178B2
The present invention relates to a novel active compound combination that is highly suitable for controlling phytopathogenic fungi which contains the known 8-tert-butyl-1,4-dioxaspiro[4.5]decan-2-ylmethyl(ethyl)(propyl)amine (spiroxamine) and other known active compounds.
US07795176B2
The object of the present invention is to provide an adsorbent having an excellent AGEs adsorption ability. The present invention provides an adsorbent for advanced glycation end products consists of a copolymer resin having hydrophilic methacrylate, wherein the constituent unit of said copolymer resin consists of a particular methacrylate compounds and vinyl compounds. Preferably, the copolymer resin having hydrophilic methacrylate has one or more basic ion-exchange groups.
US07795175B2
The invention relates to regenerative, supported amine sorbents that includes an amine or an amine/polyol composition deposited on a nano-structured support such as nanosilica. The sorbent provides structural integrity, as well as high selectivity and increased capacity for efficiently capturing carbon dioxide from gas mixtures, including the air. The sorbent is regenerative, and can be used through multiple operations of absorption-desorption cycles.
US07795174B2
A catalyst for purifying exhaust gases includes a carrier substrate and a catalyst layer which is carried on the carrier substrate and contains a noble metal, a porous oxide and an additional oxide containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Ni, Bi, Sn, Fe, Co, Cu and Zn. Only a downstream section of the carrier substrate, which is located on a downstream side of an exhaust gas stream contains the additional oxide, whereas an upstream section of the carrier substrate does not contain the additional oxide. With this arrangement, in the upstream section of the carrier substrate, the noble metal and the additional oxide do not exist together so that the noble metal is not deteriorated with the additional oxide. As a result, in the upstream section, the purification performance as a three-way catalyst is favorably achieved, thereby restraining the emission of H2S while maintaining the three-way performance.
US07795172B2
A layered exhaust treatment catalyst comprising: (a) a carrier such as cordierite; (b) a first layer deposited on the carrier comprising a palladium metal component, a platinum metal component and an oxygen storage component such as ceria supported on a refractory metal oxide such as gamma-alumina; and (c) a second layer deposited on the first layer comprising a rhodium metal component, a platinum metal component and an oxygen storage component such as ceria supported on a refractory metal oxide such as gamma-alumina. Preferably, the catalyst also includes a bottom layer interposed between the carrier and the first layer. The bottom layer comprises an oxygen storage component such as ceria supported on a refractory metal oxide such as gamma-alumina. The amount of the oxygen storage component of the catalyst may be “tuned”, i.e., adjusted, to meet the needs of a vehicle's on-board diagnostic (“OBD”) catalyst efficiency monitoring system, without adversely affecting the performance of the catalyst.
US07795156B2
Disclosed is a producing method of a semiconductor device comprising a step of forming a tunnel insulating film of a flash device comprising a first nitridation step of forming a first silicon oxynitride film by nitriding a silicon oxide film formed on a semiconductor silicon base by one of plasma nitridation and thermal nitridation, the plasma nitridation carrying out nitridation process by using a gas activated by plasma discharging a first gas including a first compound which has at least a nitrogen atom in a chemical formula thereof, and the thermal nitridation carrying out nitridation process using heat by using a second gas including a second compound which has at least a nitrogen atom in a chemical formula thereof, and a second nitridation step of forming a second silicon oxynitride film by nitriding the first silicon oxynitride film by the other of the plasma nitridation and the thermal nitridation.
US07795150B2
A method for improving the reliability of integrated circuits. In one embodiment, the method includes forming a dielectric layer on a semiconductor wafer. A trench is then formed in the dielectric. Thereafter, a conductive interconnect is formed within the trench, wherein the conductive interconnect comprises copper. The conductive interconnect is then etched using an acidic solution. Lastly, a conductive layer is formed on an exposed surface of the etched conductive interconnect.
US07795149B2
A reticle comprising isolated pillars is configured for use in imprint lithography. In some embodiments, on a first substrate a pattern of pillars pitch-multiplied in two dimensions is formed in an imprint reticle. The imprint reticle is brought in contact with a transfer layer overlying a series of mask layers, which in turn overlie a second substrate. The pattern in the reticle is transferred to the transfer layer, forming an imprinted pattern. The imprinted pattern is transferred to the second substrate to form densely-spaced holes in the substrate. In other embodiments, a reticle is patterned by e-beam lithography and spacer formations. The resultant pattern of closely-spaced pillars is used to form containers in an active integrated circuit substrate.
US07795142B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a dielectric film containing a porogen material above a substrate; removing a portion of the porogen material contained in the dielectric film so as to make a concentration of the porogen material higher in a part on a lower side of the dielectric film than in another part on a higher side of the dielectric film; forming an opening halfway in the dielectric film from which a portion of the porogen material has been removed to leave the dielectric film below a bottom of the opening; removing or polymerizing a remainder of the porogen material contained in the dielectric film; and etching the bottom of the opening after removing or polymerizing the remainder of the porogen material.
US07795126B2
A semiconductor device of the invention includes an integrated circuit formed on a semiconductor substrate having first and second surfaces and a notch region along the edges. The first surface includes electrical contact pads electrically connected with the integrated circuit. The first surface of the semiconductor substrate includes a top protective layer that has a surface portion extending beyond the edges of the semiconductor substrate. The second surface of the semiconductor substrate includes a bottom protective layer with electrical connectors. The surface portion of the top protective layer includes electrical contact pads that are electrically interconnected with electrical contact pad extensions. The electrical contact pad extensions are interconnected with electrical connectors via a backside electrical connector that overlaps the electrical contact pad extensions forming a lap connection. Methods for constructing such devices and connections are also disclosed.
US07795121B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided, which includes forming a gate insulating film on a semiconductor substrate, forming a first layer on the gate insulating film, the first layer containing a first p-type impurity and, an amorphous or polycrystalline formed of Si1-xGex (0≦x<0.25), subjecting the first layer to a first heat treatment wherein the first layer is heated for 1 msec or less at a temperature higher than 1100° C., forming a second layer on the first layer, the second layer containing a second p-type impurity and formed of amorphous silicon or polycrystalline silicon, the second p-type impurity having a smaller covalent bond radius than that of the first p-type impurity, and subjecting the second layer to a second heat treatment to heat the second layer at a temperature ranging from 800° C. to 1100° C.
US07795119B2
A structure and a method for mitigation of the damage arising in the source/drain region of a MOSFET is presented. A substrate is provided having a gate structure comprising a gate oxide layer and a gate electrode layer, and a source and drain region into which impurity ions have been implanted. A PAI process generates an amorphous layer within the source and drain region. A metal is deposited and is reacted to create a silicide within the amorphous layer, without exacerbating existing defects. Conductivity of the source and drain region is then recovered by flash annealing the substrate.
US07795118B2
A gallium nitride based compound semiconductor device including a compliant substrate having a reduced stress and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The compliant substrate included in the gallium nitride based compound semiconductor device is manufactured by heating a substrate and a group III metal including at least one of an aluminum, a gallium and an indium, and a chloride based compound generated by introducing a HCl gas to the melted group III metal reacts with a NH3 gas to form a nitride based thin film on the wafer.
US07795117B2
There is provided a method for suppressing the occurrence of defects such as voids or blisters even in the laminated wafer having an oxide film of a thickness thinner than the conventional one, wherein hydrogen ions are implanted into a wafer for active layer having an oxide film of not more than 50 nm in thickness to form a hydrogen ion implanted layer, and ions other than hydrogen are implanted up to a position that a depth from the surface side the hydrogen ion implantation is shallower than the hydrogen ion implanted layer, and the wafer for active layer is laminated onto a wafer for support substrate through the oxide film, and then the wafer for active layer is exfoliated at the hydrogen ion implanted layer.
US07795106B2
A semiconductor device includes a Si crystal having a crystal surface in the vicinity of a (111) surface, and an insulation film formed on said crystal surface, at least a part of said insulation film comprising a Si oxide film containing Kr or a Si nitride film containing Ar or Kr.
US07795104B2
A method for forming device structures having a variation in electrical conductivity includes forming a device structure and a radiation absorbing layer overlying the device structure. The radiation absorbing layer has a spatial variation and radiation absorbing characteristics, such that upon irradiating the device structure, the radiation absorbing layer attenuates the intensity of the radiation so that a variation in dopant activation takes place within the device structure. Accordingly, device structures are formed having a variation in electrical resistance independent of the physical size of the device structures.
US07795103B2
This invention disclosed a novel method of fully depleted emitter so that the built-in potential between emitter and the base becomes lower and the charge storage between the emitter and base becomes small. This concept also applies to the diodes or rectifiers. With depleted junction, this result in very fast switching of the diodes and transistors. Another novel structure utilizes the strip base structure to achieve lower on resistance of the bipolar transistor. The emitter region of the strip base can be a normal emitter or depleted emitter.
US07795101B2
A method of forming a MOS transistor, in which, a co-implantation is performed to implant a carbon co-implant into a source region and a drain region or a halo implanted region to effectively prevent dopants from over diffusion in the source region and the drain region or the halo implanted region, for obtaining a good junction profile and improving short channel effect, and the carbon co-implant is from a precursor comprising CO or CO2.
US07795100B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes, forming isolation region having an aspect ratio of 1 or more in a semiconductor substrate, forming a gate insulating film, forming a silicon gate electrode and a silicon resistive element, forming side wall spacers on the gate electrode, heavily doping a first active region with phosphorus and a second active region and the resistive element with p-type impurities by ion implantation, forming salicide block at 500° C. or lower, depositing a metal layer covering the salicide block, and selectively forming metal silicide layers. The method may further includes, forming a thick and a thin gate insulating films, and performing implantation of ions of a first conductivity type not penetrating the thick gate insulating film and oblique implantation of ions of the opposite conductivity type penetrating also the thick gate insulating film before the formation of side wall spacers.
US07795099B2
A semiconductor device having a fin type active area includes a plurality of active regions, a first device isolation layer and a recessed second device isolation layer disposed in a direction of gate electrodes of the semiconductor device. A recessed second device isolation layer and a first device isolation layer are disposed in a vertical direction of the gate electrodes. The first device isolation layer and the plurality of active regions are alternately disposed in a first direction of the plurality of active regions.
US07795098B1
An apparatus and method for manufacturing rotated field effect transistors. The method comprises providing a substrate including a first gate structure and a second gate structure, which are not parallel to each other. The method further includes performing a first ion implant substantially orthogonal to an edge of the first gate structure to form a first impurity region and performing a second ion implant at a direction different than that of the first ion implant and substantially orthogonal to an edge of the second gate structure to form a second impurity region under the edge of the second gate structure.
US07795097B2
One aspect of the invention provides a semiconductor device that includes gate electrodes comprising a metal or metal alloy located over a semiconductor substrate, wherein the gate electrodes are free of spacer sidewalls. The device further includes source/drains having source/drain extensions associated therewith, located in the semiconductor substrate and adjacent each of the gate electrodes. A first pre-metal dielectric layer is located on the sidewalls of the gate electrodes and over the source/drains, and a second pre-metal dielectric layer is located on the first pre-metal dielectric layer. Contact plugs extend through the first and second pre-metal dielectric layers.
US07795094B2
A recessed dielectric antifuse device includes a substrate and laterally spaced source and drain regions formed in the substrate. A recess is formed between the source and drain regions. A gate and gate oxide are formed in the recess and lightly doped source and drain extension regions contiguous with the laterally spaced source and drain regions are optionally formed adjacent the recess. Programming of the recessed dielectric antifuse is performed by application of power to the gate and at least one of the source region and the drain region to breakdown the dielectric, which minimizes resistance between the gate and the channel.
US07795090B2
A method of fabricating self-aligned recess utilizing asymmetric poly spacer is disclosed. A semiconductor substrate having thereon a first pad layer and second pad layer is provided. A plurality of trenches is embedded in a memory array region of the semiconductor substrate. Each of the trenches includes a trench top layer that extrudes from a main surface of the semiconductor substrate. Asymmetric poly spacer is formed on one side of the extruding trench top layer and is used, after oxidized, as a mask for forming a recess in close proximity to the trenches.
US07795089B2
A semiconductor device structure is made on a semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor layer having isolation regions. A first gate structure is formed over a first region of the semiconductor layer, and a second gate structure is over a second region of the semiconductor layer. A first insulating layer is formed over the first and second regions. The first insulating layer can function as a mask during an etch of the semiconductor layer and can be removed selective to the isolation regions and the sidewall spacers. The first insulating layer is removed from over the first region to leave a remaining portion of the first insulating layer over the second region. The semiconductor layer is recessed in the first region adjacent to the first gate to form recesses. A semiconductor material is epitaxially grown in the recesses. The remaining portion of the first insulating layer is removed.
US07795086B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device using a salicide process, which includes forming a gate dielectric layer over a silicon substrate including a PMOS region and an NMOS region; forming a first silicon pattern in the NMOS region and a second silicon pattern in the PMOS region; forming a first metal layer that is in contact with the first silicon pattern and the exposed first portion of the silicon substrate; and forming a first gate, a first junction, a second gate, and a second junction by performing a heat treatment to silicify the respective first and second silicon patterns and the silicon substrate.
US07795085B2
Methods are disclosed for forming an SRAM cell having symmetrically implanted active regions and reduced cross-diffusion therein. One method comprises patterning a resist layer overlying a semiconductor substrate to form resist structures about symmetrically located on opposite sides of active regions of the cell, implanting one or more dopant species using a first implant using the resist structures as an implant mask, rotating the semiconductor substrate relative to the first implant by about 180 degrees, and implanting one or more dopant species into the semiconductor substrate with a second implant using the resist structures as an implant mask. A method of performing a symmetric angle implant is also disclosed to provide reduced cross-diffusion within the cell, comprising patterning equally spaced resist structures on opposite sides of the active regions of the cell to equally shadow laterally opposed first and second angled implants.
US07795084B2
Semiconductor devices and a fabricating method therefore are disclosed. One method includes forming a buffer oxide layer and a buffer nitride layer on the top surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a photoresist pattern on the pad nitride layer and forming a trench by etching the buffer nitride layer, the buffer oxide layer and the semiconductor substrate by a predetermined etch using the photoresist pattern as a mask; forming sidewall floating gates on the lateral faces of the trench; depositing polysilicon on the entire surface of the resulting structure; forming a gate electrode by patterning the polysilicon of the resulting structure; removing the buffer nitride layer and forming a poly oxide layer on the exposed part of the polysilicon of the gate electrode; forming source/drain regions by implanting impurities into the predetermined part of the resulting structure; injecting electric charges into the sidewall floating gates; and forming spacers on the lateral faces of the sidewall floating gates and the gate electrode.
US07795072B2
A high-performance, high I/O ball grid array substrate, designed for integrated circuit flip-chip assembly and having two patterned metal layers, comprising: an insulating layer having a first surface, a second surface and a plurality of vias filled with metal. Said first surface having one of said metal layers attached to provide electrical ground potential, and having a plurality of electrically insulated openings for outside electrical contacts. An outermost insulating film protecting the exposed surface of said ground layer, said film having a plurality of openings filled with metal suitable for solder ball attachment. Said second surface having the other of said metal layers attached, portions thereof being configured as a plurality of electrical signal lines, further portions as a plurality of first electrical power lines, and further portions as a plurality of second electrical power lines, selected signal and power lines being in contact with said vias. Said signal lines being distributed relative to said first power lines such that the inductive coupling between them reaches at least a minimum value, providing high mutual inductances and minimized effective self-inductance. Said signal lines further being electromagnetically coupled to said ground metal such that cross talk between signal lines is minimized. And an outermost insulating film protecting the exposed surfaces of said signal and power lines, said film having a plurality of openings filled with metal suitable for contacting selected signal and power lines and chip solder bumps.
