US07793824B2
A system for enabling a user to access information, said system comprising: a printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data indicative of a region identity associated with the substrate and of a plurality of locations on the substrate; and a sensing device comprising: an optical sensor for sensing at least some of the coded data when the sensing device is operatively positioned or moved relative to the substrate; a mode selector for allowing the user to select a mode of operation; a processor for generating mode data using the selected mode and interaction data using the sensed coded data, said mode data being indicative of the selected mode, said interaction data being indicative of the region identity and at least one position of the sensing device relative to the substrate; and means for communicating the mode data and the interaction data to a computer system, wherein the mode data together with the interaction data determine a response in the computer system.
US07793822B2
An advertisement device for direct mail delivery from a sender to a recipient. The advertisement device includes a synthetic panel having a front side, a back side, an advertisement on at least one of the front side and the back side, and a thickness sufficient to maintain integrity of the synthetic panel. The advertisement device also includes a response panel for responding to the advertisement. The response panel has information responsive to the advertisement thereon and is adapted to receive delivery information thereon. The response panel is attachable to the synthetic panel for direct mail delivery to the recipient with the synthetic panel, is detachable from the synthetic panel, and is adapted for direct mail delivery from the recipient to the sender.
US07793803B2
The present invention provides an assembly of bellows part and a part against which unrolling takes place (the unrolling part), comprising a bellows part with a flexible wall of a predetermined shape and thickness variation which co-operates with an unrolling part with a stiff outer wall along which the flexible wall is movable, wherein the unrolling part has a predetermined diameter variation and/or the flexible wall has a predetermined thickness variation so as to cause a desired development of force.
US07793795B2
A water storage and delivery assembly includes stackable compartments, each compartment having a planar bottom wall, opposed side walls, and opposed end walls, forming a reservoir. Frusto-conically shaped conduits having open large first ends are fixed to peripheries of openings in the bottom walls, and open smaller second ends are disposed below upper edges of the side and end walls. The assembly further includes a bottom-most compartment of the same construction but having no openings in the bottom wall thereof. Water poured into a first conduit is flowable through a plurality of first conduits to the bottom-most compartment while air escapes upwardly through a series of second conduits, the water rising until all the compartments of the assembly are filled. Each compartment is provided with an outlet operable to permit the water to travel from a compartment to an exothermic mass.
US07793794B2
A hoist for a low space crane is disclosed, which comprises a hoist frame in which a load point transferred to a girder is positioned at a vertical surface of one side of the girder, and a balance of a biased load is maintained for thereby decreasing an entire weight of the system, and an equal distribution unit which installed between the hoist frame and the guide rail for absorbing an impact load transferred to the hoist frame and equally distributing the entire vertical load. A buckling phenomenon does not occur at the girder even when a relatively heavy object is transferred by providing the first and second support wheel parts on the first vertical surface of the girder.
US07793784B2
A child resistant package for tablets is disclosed. The package includes an outer sleeve and a blister package. The blister package is designed to fit within the outer sleeve, and is capable of being slid from a closed position to an open position. The blister package includes a blister sheet and a lidding material sheet that is peeled from the blister sheet to access the tablets.
US07793779B2
A carton for cooperating with a packaging material to contain a plurality of articles and a package formed thereby. The carton comprises a plurality of panels comprising a central panel, a first side panel, and a second side panel. The side panels are positioned relative to the central panel to at least partially form a space for receiving the articles. A handle is in at least one of the side panels. The handle is adapted for grasping and carrying the carton.
US07793775B2
A system for detecting wear in a gripper chain of a chain conveyor is provided. The system includes an optical sensing system having a detection path located vertically beneath a portion of the gripper chain at a predetermined location. The detection path is located such that, when the gripper chain becomes elongated and droops a predetermined amount due to wear of the gripper chain, the sensing system senses the presence of the gripper chain in the detection path.
US07793770B1
A conveyor wheel sliding system for efficiently positioning the wheels upon a conveyor unit to a transporting position and also to an in use position. The conveyor wheel sliding system generally includes a conveyor unit including a frame, wherein the frame extends along a longitudinal axis of the conveyor unit, an attachment assembly to engage the frame, wherein a substantial portion of the attachment assembly is positioned below the frame and wherein the attachment assembly slidably adjusts about the frame and along the longitudinal axis of the conveyor unit and at least one wheel mechanically connected to the attachment assembly opposite the conveyor unit to engage a ground surface.
US07793767B2
A four-wheel drive center disconnect electric actuator is provided. The actuator includes a one-way motor that actuates a cam mechanism for causing engagement and disengagement of the center disconnect. The actuator achieves improved reliability and efficiency through a less expensive construction than conventional actuators.
US07793766B2
The front fork (100) includes a fork main body (3) in which an inner tube (2) is inserted into an outer tube (1) to enable free expansion and contraction, a damper (10) generates a damping force when a rod (5) moves within a cylinder (4) as the fork main body (3) expands and contracts, an air chamber (15) delimited by a free piston (16), which compensates for variation in the internal volume of the cylinder (4) caused by invasion and retreat of the rod (5) into and from the cylinder (4), a pressurizing spring (19) housed in the air chamber (15), which biases the free piston (16) in a direction for enlarging the air chamber (15), and a sub-spring (30) which biases the free piston (16) in a direction for shrinking the air chamber (15) in opposition to the pressurizing spring (19).
US07793763B2
A vibration damped elevator system is provided that includes a damper or dampers attached to the elevator cable. The damping coefficients of the damper or dampers are chosen to provide optimum dissipation of the vibratory energy in the elevator cable. A method of determining the optimum placement of the damper or dampers and their respective damping coefficients is also provided.
US07793756B2
A device as hearing aid to be worn in the ear or in or at the auditory canal comprises at least a sound or acoustic exit opening with a protection element (10) to prevent the contamination of the device. The protection element (10) comprises a thin, at least almost flexible or elastic membrane (15) made out of a thermoplastic polymer.
US07793750B2
Restraining torque TF of an electronic controlled front limited slip differential (5) arranged between right and left front wheels is controlled in accordance with controlling right-left wheel rotational speed difference ΔNF, which is the rotational speed difference between the right and left front wheels, while restraining torque TC of an electronic controlled coupling (8) arranged between the front and rear wheels is controlled in accordance with controlling front-rear wheel rotational speed difference ΔNC obtained by subtracting ½ of the rotational speed difference between the right and left wheels (|ΔNF|/2) from the rotational speed difference (ΔNCT−ΔNCD) between the front and rear wheels.
US07793748B2
A vehicle can include a horn able to produce an effective sound volume. The vehicle can be a motorcycle. The horn of the motorcycle can be positioned relative to parts of the motorcycle in such a way that an effective sound volume can be produced by the horn, while obstruction by the horn of cooling airflow is reduced or eliminated. In particular, at least a part of the horn can be displaced laterally from front forks of the motorcycle, in a position where the horn overlaps with an inner panel of a cowl of the motorcycle in a front view.
US07793739B2
Overload protection device for agricultural appliances, such as for example agricultural implements with a joint connecting the agricultural tool to the carrier frame, having two joint parts held together by spring load and mutually supporting, of which one is mounted on the agricultural tool and the other on the carrier frame. On both joint parts at least one upper support arrangement and at least one lower support arrangement are arranged as spaced from one another, with the lower support arrangement (9, 20) having at least one pivot bolt (10, 23) extending horizontally and transversely to the working direction and at least one joint retainer (11) supported on the pivot bolt (10, 23) and having a V or U-shaped cross-section.
US07793737B2
Improvements to a portable fire extinguisher are disclosed. The improvements allow for frequent and simpler untrained and automatic self servicing of a fire extinguisher. The improvements include an anti-bridging mechanism that can be articulated from the exterior of the chamber to fluff, mix or stir the powder within the chamber to keep it in a liquefied state. Additional improvements include a larger opening to more quickly fill and inspect the powder within the chamber. Another improvement includes the use of a CO2 canister located external to the chamber to allow easier servicing or replacement of just the CO2 canister as well as the ability to maintain the chamber in an un-pressurized condition, allows for non-HASMAT shipping. These features will extend the service intervals while maintaining the fire extinguisher in a ready condition.
US07793735B2
A combination of a liquid fire extinguishing composition including potassium salts or aluminum salts of an organic acid, resulting in a viscous liquid, is finely divided by a nozzle into droplets which may be applied to a fire or fuel therefor or form a cloud of droplets which settle onto such fire and/or fuel which is particularly effective for fighting fires where fuel is at least initially contained such as oil and grease fires in cooling utensils being heated on stoves. Propellant is contained and not entrained in the dispensed fire fighting composition to avoid at least spreading of the fuel beyond the containment.
US07793734B2
A flexile shoe to protect a horse's hoof, made of a moldable composition, and reinforced throughout with pliant metal, and further reinforced with a hard wear insert at the toe of the shoe. A method of molding the shoe, and of bonding the shoe to the hoof with adhesive.
US07793730B2
A lubricator system for receiving the intervention tool string includes a tubular body defining a tubular bore, and the tubular bore having a wall portion defining an aperture with a tool guide disposed in said aperture. A first sleeve surrounds the tubular body and is moveable between a first position where said aperture is covered by the first sleeve and a second position where said aperture is uncovered whereby access is provided to said tubular bore via said aperture. The system also includes a seal to allow the lubricator system to withstand operating pressures when the first sleeve is in the first position.
US07793726B2
A marine riser system for transferring fluid between a well on the seafloor and a vessel floating on the surface of the sea. The riser system has a turret buoy capable of connecting to a floating vessel; two or more hybrid risers, each of the hybrid risers having a vertical riser, a riser buoy attached to the upper portion of the vertical riser and a flexible jumper connecting the riser buoy to the turret buoy, and wherein the hybrid risers are secured to the seafloor. A flowline may connect a lower portion of each of the vertical risers to a subsea manifold, which interconnects the flowline and a subsea well. The subsea manifold is capable of controlling the flow to or from a subsea well. The hybrid risers are positioned about the turret buoy so that the turret buoy is horizontally balanced while disconnected from a vessel. In another embodiment, the marine riser system is capable of directing a fluid from the floating vessel to a subsea export flowline. In another embodiment, the present invention discloses a method of producing hydrocarbons from a subsea well, utilizing the marine riser system.
US07793724B2
An improved subsea manifold system that is capable of being used in an early production system for producing hydrocarbons from a plurality of wells from a common riser system. The subsea manifold is able to control the fluid from a multiple of subsea wet-tree wells while at the same time giving the operator the option to isolate production from a single subsea well for production evaluation. The subsea manifold also includes a pigging loop which enables efficient pigging of the flowline(s) of the early production system.
US07793723B2
An offshore system allows a vessel (12) to sail to a predetermined sea location (14), quickly set up a loading system and start the transfer of hydrocarbons to or from a pipeline (22), and then quickly disconnect and sail away. The vessel is a DP (dynamic positioning) vessel that does not require mooring or anchor lines, so the only apparatus to install is a conduit (30) that can be picked up by the vessel to extend between a stationary pipe end (24) that lies at the sea floor and the vessel. The conduit includes primarily a flexible hose (70) that extends in a sine wave with two loops (80, 82). The conduit includes a rigid reinforced hose section (34) that is pivotally connected to the sea floor. A chain (114) can be provided with a portion of the chain lying on the sea floor, to help the disconnected hose coupling (42D) remain at a stable position above the sea floor.
US07793721B2
An apparatus and method for radially expanding and plastically deforming a tubular member. The apparatus includes a support member, an expansion device coupled to the support member and at least one of a cutting device coupled to the support member, an actuator coupled to the support member, a sealing assembly, or a packer assembly coupled to the support member. The apparatus may further include a gripping device for coupling the tubular member to the support member. The expansion device may be used for radially expanding and plastically deforming the tubular member which may be coupled to the support member. The cutting device may be used for cutting the tubular member. The actuator may be used for displacing the expansion device relative to the support member. The sealing assembly may be used for sealing an annulus defined between the support member and the tubular member.
US07793704B2
An upper surface of a skirting base section 6h of a sand core 6 is provided with a projection 14 of a column shape. When a slide mold 3 is slidingly moved in a mold clamping direction, a sliding contact section 15 of a holding recessed section 13 of the slide mold 3 is brought into sliding contact with the projection 14 to hold the projection 14 while scraping away part of the sand of the projection 14. The upper surface of the skirting base section 6h adjacent to the projection 14 is also provided with a recess 16 for recovering the scraped sand, wherein the width of the recess 16 is larger than the diameter of the projection 14 in the longitudinal direction. The projection 14 can be formed in a prismatic or semispherical shape.
US07793699B2
A device for mounting a tire on a wheel that includes a locking ring to hold the tire in place on the wheel, where the device includes a locking member which locks to the rim of the wheel and includes a cross bar with depending feet, which is connected to the locking member and is movable toward the locking member with the depending push bars engaged with the locking ring to press the locking ring into locking engagement with the wheel.
US07793698B2
A bonding device that is not affected by heat and that maintains wafers to be bonded parallel to each other so as to increase the accuracy with which the wafers are bonded. Spaces are formed between a first block member and a first pressure shaft and between a second block member and a second pressure shaft. In this way, little heat is transferred from the first block member and the second block member to the first pressure shaft and the second pressure shaft and a substantially uniform temperature is maintained inside the first block member and the second block member. Stresses caused by a difference between thermal expansion of the first block member and the second block member and thermal expansion of the first pressure shaft and the second pressure shaft are relieved by deflection of the first support pillar members and the second support pillar members.
US07793695B2
There is provided a pneumatic radial tire for a motorcycle whose turning stability is improved by achieving both grounding performance and lateral rigidity at high level. A mono-spiral belt (MSB) (3) includes steel cords whose tensile break strength is 5.9 Pa or more. A value Tc of a number of driven cords in the MSB (per 25 mm in width) at an equator of the tire and a value Ts at shoulder parts thereof meet requirements of 17≦Tc≦24 and 0.6≦Ts/Tc≦0.9. A disposed width BW of the MSB meets a requirement of 0.6≦BW/TW≦1.0. At least one textile-reinforcing layer having tensile break strength of 5.9 Pa or more is disposed at both ends of the MSB while overlapping with the MSB. An overlap of the MSB with the textile-reinforcing layer is 4 to 10 times of the diameter D of the steel cords in the MSB.
US07793693B2
This invention relates to a pneumatic tire provided at its bead portion with a rubber chafer (4) and covered at its inner surface with an innerliner (5), wherein a toe rubber (6) is further arranged on a toe end part of the bead portion so as to overlap with the rubber chafer (4) and the innerliner (5) and locate at least outside the innerliner (5) at the overlapped portion with the innerliner (5), and a rubber composition A containing at least one of butyl rubber and halogenated butyl rubber as 20-40 mass % of a rubber component is used in the toe rubber (6).
US07793691B2
An insulator for a drum of a concrete truck is provided. Because temperature is a factor in the time in which concrete cures, thermal conditions during transport are of paramount concern. There have been efforts to alleviate this problem by providing insulating blankets that control temperature better. However, until now, a durable system that effectively insulates concrete while in transport has not been available. Furthermore, construction of an insulating system large enough to cover a concrete mixer gives rise to numerous fabrication difficulties. With the introduction of a polyethylene foam interposed between truck tarp material, a convenient system that is easily coupled and decoupled from a truck is available that is both durable and cost effective.
US07793681B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided for performing a fluid process within a machine having a fluid system including at least two reservoirs of different types of fluids. The method includes the steps of identifying a first reservoir for use in performing a fluid process; (a) adjusting a configuration of a valve system operatively coupled to the fluid system to permit a fluid evacuation process to be performed for the reservoir, (b) subsequently performing the fluid evacuation process for the reservoir, (c) subsequently adjusting the configuration of the valve system to permit a fluid refill process to be performed for the reservoir, (d) subsequently performing the fluid refill process for the reservoir; and, subsequently identifying an additional reservoir and performing at least one of the steps (a), (b), (c) and (d) for the additional reservoir, wherein the first reservoir includes a fluid of a type which is different from a type of a fluid of the additional reservoir. Various system and computer-readable media embodiments are also provided. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR § 1.72(b).
US07793680B2
The electromechanical regulator for passenger oxygen is a hybrid oxygen regulator that provides for electronic or mechanical regulation of oxygen flow. The electronic portion of the regulator consists of an inlet solenoid valve, an outlet solenoid valve, a cabin pressure transducer, a regulated output transducer and a PID based controller, and the solenoid valves are normally biased so that in the event of an electronic system failure or a power supply failure the system will automatically revert to mechanical operation.
US07793671B2
An apparatus for cleaning substrates includes a substrate support that is configured to support a plurality of substrates horizontally as spaced regularly one above the other, a rotating device for rotating the substrate support and a liquid supply system for dispensing cleaning liquid onto the substrates. The substrate support has a base plate and support rods extending upright on the base plate. The support rods include fixed rods and at least one movable rod. The movable rods is movable between an open position to provide a passage that allows the substrates to be placed between the support rods, and a closed position at which the substrates are held by and between the support rods. Once the substrates are supported in this way, the substrates are rotated. Then, the cleaning liquid, such as a chemical solution(s) followed by a rinsing liquid, is dispensed onto all of the substrates as the substrates are being rotated.
US07793643B2
An ejecting toy mainly includes a cylinder body with a receiving chamber. A front end of the cylinder body is covered by a front cover. A vent hole is formed at a middle position of the front cover and at least one air inlet hole is formed at a periphery of the front cover. A front end of the vent hole is sealed by an elastic object. A rear end of the front cover is arranged by a valve, a periphery of the valve has a diaphragm portion with flexibility which is capable of sealing or unsealing the air inlet hole while suffering a force. A handle has a rod body having a piston in a front end of the rod body. The piston can slide back and forth inside the receiving chamber. When the handle is pulled backwards, the diaphragm portion will deform to unseal the air inlet hole to inflow air into the receiving chamber. When the handle is push forwards, the diaphragm portion will deform to seal the air inlet hole so that the pressurized air can only be vented from the vent hole thus the elastic object sealed the vent hole will be ejected out. A shooting activity is thus performed and enjoyed.
US07793642B2
In a fuel supply apparatus, a fuel pump draws fuel from a fuel tank, and discharges the fuel to a high-pressure fuel system. A filter unit has a filter element located on a downstream side of the fuel pump to remove foreign matters contained in the fuel discharged from the fuel pump. A jet pump has a nozzle that is installed in a fuel supply passage between the fuel pump and the filter element. The nozzle injects the fuel to a downstream side of the nozzle in the fuel supply passage. The introducing passage introduces excessive fuel from the high-pressure fuel system to the downstream side of the nozzle.
US07793641B2
A fuel control system for regulating fuel to cylinders of an internal combustion engine during an engine start and crank-to-run transition includes a first module that determines a plurality of step-ahead cylinder air masses (GPOs) for a cylinder based on a plurality of GPO prediction models. A second module regulates fueling to a cylinder of the engine based on the plurality of step-ahead GPOs until a combustion event of the cylinder.
US07793640B2
An injection valve of an internal combustion engine is actuated at least once by at least one specified control value of an actuating variable for metering at least one specified minimum quantity corrected by a correction value. The correction value for the control value is adjusted according to a deviation of an expected response value of an actuating variable from an actual response value of the response variable, as a result of the actuation of the respective injection valve, that is to say by way of a reduction of the deviation between the expected response value of the response variable and the actual response value of the response variable. If the correction value undershoots a specified negative correction threshold value or overshoots a specified positive correction threshold value, a fault is detected in a component which is affecting the exhaust gas in the cylinder assigned to the respective injection valve.
US07793636B1
A rotary apparatus with an enclosure formed by a hollow curved housing along with two sleeves, with two vanes within the enclosure, where one vane is fitted on each sleeve and the space within the enclosure is partitioned into two segregated volumes by the vanes which can rotate along with the sleeve that the individual vane is fitted on, by use of the timing devices, couplings, brakes and shaft, resulting in a sequence of alternate, independent or simultaneous rotation and stopping of vanes that leads to increase and decrease of volume of the segregated spaces, in a fashion that results in a thermodynamic gas cycles with Variable Compression ratio.
US07793635B2
The rotary piston type internal combustion engine (E1) comprises an output shaft (1), a rotor (2), a housing (4), an annular operation chamber (5) formed by the rotor and housing on at least one side of the rotor in the axial direction of the output shaft for constituting an intake operation chamber, a compression operation chamber, a combustion operation chamber, and an exhaust operation chamber, a pressuring/pressured member (6) provided to the rotor for partitioning the annular operation chamber, two operation chamber partitions (7, 8) provided to the housing for partitioning the annular operation chamber, biasing mechanisms for biasing the operation chamber partitions toward their respective advanced positions, an intake port (11), an exhaust port (12), and a fuel injector (14), wherein the pressuring/pressured member (6) is constituted by an arc-shaped partition having first and second inclined surfaces and the operation chamber partitions (7, 8) are each constituted by a reciprocating partition reciprocating in parallel to the axis of the output shaft.
US07793625B2
A variable valve actuating apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an intake valve operating angle varying mechanism, and an intake valve timing varying mechanism. The intake valve timing varying mechanism includes a housing rotating in synchronization with a crankshaft, and a vane member coupled to a drive shaft for intake valve operation, and movably mounted in the housing. The vane member includes a vane defining first and second fluid pressure chambers on first and second opposite sides of the vane. A hydraulic circuit is arranged to rotate the vane member relative to the housing by supply and return of a brake fluid to and from the first and second fluid pressure chambers so as to change the intake valve maximum lift phase. Coil springs are arranged to bias the vane member relative to the housing in a direction to retard the intake valve maximum lift phase.
US07793623B2
The invention relates to a piston cam engine used in different field of the mechanical engineering, as internal-combustion engines compressors, pumps etc. The cam engine comprises cylinders (13) with pistons (20), a cylindrical tubular 3D cam (3) having a cam groove on the inner cylindrical surface and at least two guides (10) which are guide columns. The cam (3) is composed and includes two coaxial bushes (3a, 3b), each one having corrugated cam section (95a or 95b) from its one side and flange (35) from its other side besides the bushes (3a, 3b) are positioned against each other with its corrugated ends at a distance from each other, and further comprises spacer (37) between the flanges (35) of the bushes (3a, 3b), so as to form the cam groove having a constant section.
US07793616B2
Animal litter for animals which consist of a plurality of granular materials, wherein the granular materials contain aromatic granular materials each of which has base material which generates heat by absorbing water and an aromatic component adsorbed onto the base material. According to the present invention, the animal litter for animals, which are not emitting a strong scent regularly, but emit a strong scent by absorbing an animal's excrement, and thereby effectively restrain the stench emitted from the excrement, can be provided.
US07793611B2
An apparatus for depositing a solid film onto a substrate from a reagent solution includes a reservoir of solution maintained at a low temperature to inhibit homogeneous reactions. The solution contains multiple ligands to control temperature stability and shelf life. The chilled solution is periodically dispensed onto a substrate positioned in a holder having a raised peripheral structure that retains a controlled volume of solution over the substrate. The solution is periodically replenished so that only the part of the solution directly adjacent to the substrate is heated. A heater maintains the substrate at an elevated temperature at which the deposition of a desired solid phase from the solution may be initiated. The apparatus may also dispense excess chilled solution to cool various components within the apparatus and minimize nucleation of solids in areas other than on the substrate. The apparatus is particularly suited to forming films of II-VI semiconductors.
US07793605B2
The invention relates to a mooring system with a first vessel for containing hydrocarbons having at its bow and/or stern a transverse arm and a fluid transfer mechanism of a duct connected to a tank on the first vessel and a coupling end for connecting to a second vessel. The second vessel is moored alongside the first vessel and is attached via at least one cable, extending from its bow in the length direction of the vessel, to a mooring end of the arm. The mooring end of the arm is situated at or near a longitudinal centerline of the second vessel. The arm, during use, is in a fixed position and a pulling force element is attached to the cable for applying a pulling force on the cable upon relative movement of the second vessel with respect to the arm. The force element allows a predetermined maximum displacement of the second vessel.
US07793601B2
An apparatus for gasifying solid organic fuel includes a refractory-lined oxidation chamber, fuel storage, a transfer connecting the fuel storage with an inlet into the oxidation chamber for transferring in an upwardly inclined direction the solid fuel from the fuel storage into the inlet to form an upwardly mounded fuel bed. An oxidant is supplied into the fuel bed to gasify the organic materials in the fuel to produce a gaseous effluent from the fuel bed, thereby leaving a residue of the fuel. The residue drops through an opening under the oxidation chamber onto a residue removal transfer. The oxidant is supplied through a plurality of perforated air distribution members extending across the fuel bed cavity in the oxidation chamber so as to introduce air into the interior of the fuel bed to thereby promote evenly distributed gasification, evenly distributed through the fuel bed.
US07793599B2
Device for position locking of folding modular systems, in particular mobile structures, containers, shelves, means of transport etc., comprising substantially parallel planar units of which at least one bears a jointed tilting frame accommodating, at a distance from the tilting axis, at least one arm whose other end swivels upon one of the planar units. The length of arm (5) is adjustable and its position can be locked.
US07793594B2
The invention is directed to a crane which comprises a traveling gear which comprises a plurality of traveling gear groups for moving along rails, each traveling gear group having at least two wheels which are rotatably mounted at a subframe so as to be spaced apart in longitudinal direction of the respective rail and are connected to an end carriage by a central joint having at least degrees of freedom for rotating the traveling gear group relative to the end carriage around a vertical axis and for swiveling the traveling gear group relative to the end carriage around a horizontal axis extending at right angles to the rails. According to the invention, the central joint is constructed in vertical direction as a floating bearing so that only horizontal forces can be transmitted by this central joint, and a respective traveling gear group is further connected to a respective end carriage by two connecting rods which are arranged on opposite sides of the central joint viewed in transverse direction of the respective rail and which are connected to the traveling gear group on one side and to the end carriage on the other side by joints lying one above the other, which joints can transmit compressive forces as well as tensile forces and which have at least degrees of freedom for swiveling the connecting rods relative to the traveling gear group and relative to the end carriage, respectively, around a horizontal axis extending at right angles to the respective rail and around a horizontal axis extending parallel to the respective rail.
US07793593B2
A gantry crane comprising a bridge communicating with a trolley. The two ends of the bridge are connected to a main column whose lower end is connected to rollers. Various hinged joints allow for movement of the components towards and away from each other which allows the crane to be assembled or disassembled without the need for elevated or hoisted operations.
US07793589B2
Cloth feed control unit of a cleaning device for printing machine cylinders. Provided is a position sensor (30), which generates signals linearly in proportion to the radial variations in the distance of the peripheral surface of a cleaning roller (8, 10) from the position sensor (30). The signals can be used to calculate the length of a cleaning cloth that is on a cloth roller and/or to control the cloth feed. The cloth feed control is carried out preferably in combination with signals of an encoder (44), which detects the rotation-increments of a cloth roller.
US07793584B2
There is provided a hydraulic damper including a receiving space formed between a rod guide of a cylinder and an insert metal, for temporarily retaining a working fluid leaked out from an oil chamber through a sliding gap of a rod. The hydraulic damper further includes a communicating path for communicating between a reservoir and the receiving space, and a check valve for allowing a flow of the working fluid only from the receiving space to the reservoir. Either one of a lip part of the check valve or a seat surface provided on the rod guide is formed with a sealing projected part protruding from a mutual contact surface.
US07793583B2
A mechanical tappet (101, 201, 301, 401, 501, 601, 701, 801, 901, 1001) is provided, in particular for actuating the lifting of a pump piston (39) of a fuel pump of an internal combustion engine, with a sleeve-shaped tappet housing (102, 202, 302, 402, 502, 602, 702, 902, 1002) constructed as a shaped sheet-metal part and with a driving roller (6) supported so that it can rotate. Here, a bolt (4) supports the driving roller so that it is centered, and end sections (7) of the bolt projecting from the driving roller are supported in bolt eyes (8) of the tappet housing.
US07793582B2
A swash plate pivot bearing is provided having roller bearing segments (15) arranged between a hollow cylindrical bearing surface (12) for a swash plate (10) in a housing (3) and a cylindrical bearing surface (11) on the swash plate (10), held in curved cages (17) whereby elements are provided for controlling the cages which prevent the cage (17) accommodating the roller body (16) from slipping out from the optimum position thereof in the pivot bearing. The cage control elements are integrated into the roller bearing segments (15) so that at least one roller body (23, 23.1, 23.2) of cylindrical form has a positive engagement with the hollow cylindrical bearing surface (12) and the cylindrical bearing surface (11). It is thus possible to prevent the escape of roller bearing segments (15) from the bearing gap (22) due to the effects of vibration.
US07793576B2
A machine and method for applying braid by means of a braiding machine to a mandrel, where the mandrel has a shape that approximates a wheel but has an irregularly varying radius of curvature. The machine includes drive/positioning wheel assemblies that are used to continuously reposition a cross-section of the mandrel relative to the braiding machine such that a center point of cross-section of the mandrel is maintained to be coaxial with a braiding point of the braiding machine as the mandrel 18 is rotationally advanced by the drive/positioning wheel assemblies. Repositioning of the drive/positioning wheel assemblies is controlled by a computer numerical control (CNC) controller, based on information describing one or more radiuses of curvature for sections of the mandrel and a current position of the mandrel relative to the drive/positioning wheel assemblies.
US07793575B2
A cutter including a base, a holder, a cutter blade portion, and a laser generator. The holder is supported on the base portion in an upright posture. The cutter blade portion supports a moving blade. The cutter blade portion is supported on the holder movable between an upper position and a lower position. The cutter blade portion is moved into the lower position to cut a workpiece supported on the base using the moving blade. The laser generator is attached to the holder or the cutter blade portion in an orientation to direct at least a portion of the laser light onto a position on the workpiece that is directly beneath the cutter blade portion when the cutter blade portion is in the upper position. Alternatively, a holder has a shaft support portion, and a slide shaft is axially slidably supported by the shaft support portion. A front end of the slide shaft has a hinge holder which pivotally supports the cutting blade portion. A laser generator is fixed to a front side of the hinge holder.
US07793570B2
A hand tool having first and second plier units attached to one another where a jaw region is operatively configured to have a work piece to be placed therein and a handle region is configured to be used by the user of the tool to grasp the work piece. A tension member is provided to be positioned past a dead point axis so as to apply a clamping force upon the jaw member and the hand tool maintains a grip upon the work piece without continuous interaction with the user of the tool.
US07793567B2
A clamping device for clamping a rotatably supported shaft, is provided with a thin-walled sleeve arranged such that a gap is provided along a circumferential direction of the shaft. The clamping device clamps the shaft by deforming the thin-walled sleeve towards the shaft.
US07793566B2
A pedal system includes a housing, a pedal lever pivoted to the housing for rotation, and a hysteresis mechanism located above the pivot axis when mounted in a vehicle so that it is positioned in a protected position from environmental dirt and debris, and further is positioned in a more open region less subject to conflicting special requirements within the vehicle. The housing defines a closed end and an open end. The pedal lever is adapted to fit into the housing with the hysteresis mechanism already mounted on a free end of the pedal lever. A pivot pin extends through side walls of the housing and also through the pedal lever to retain the pedal lever in the housing, and is accessible for attachment of an electrical sensor for sensing angular position of the pedal. In one form, the hysteresis mechanism includes a pedal-mounted rub pad and a mating hysteresis-lever-mounted rub pad, at least one being a lubricant-impregnated material, both including angled mating surfaces for providing sliding hysteresis friction.
US07793562B2
Transmissions in which the mechanical gear shift arrangements are replaced by electro-hydraulic operated shift mechanisms that have to be able to be neutralised positively to ensure a proper operation. An arrangement and method are provided to determine the position of the shift rail so a shift can be made only if the conditions are right. To prevent engagement of two shift members at the same time and consequent damage in case of electronic failure, mechanical safety features such as detents are included.
US07793560B2
A transmission generally includes a shaft member having a continuous cylindrical surface portion longitudinally disposed next to a cylindrical outer surface portion interrupted by longitudinal grooves. A first gear assembly has a first clutch spring that holds a first set of rolling members between lobes that extend from a first output gear. A second gear assembly has a second clutch spring that holds a second set of rolling members between lobes that extend from a second output gear. The first gear assembly and the second gear assembly are configured to move longitudinally along the shaft member to a position where at least one of the first gear assembly and the second gear assembly is engaged for rotation with the shaft member when a value of torque at the shaft member is below a torque threshold value.
US07793555B2
A correction system provides at least one of a compensated mass flow rate measurement and a compensated density measurement of a coriolis meter. The correction system includes a gas volume fraction (GVF) meter, which may include an array of strained-based or pressure sensors, to measure the speed of sound propagating through the fluid passing through the coriolis meter to calculate at least the GVF of the fluid and/or the reduced natural frequency. The calculated gas volume fraction and/or reduced frequency is provided to a processing unit for determining an improved mass flow rate and/or density for the coriolis meter. The improved density is determined using analytically derived or empirically derived density calibration models (or formulas derived therefore), which is a function of the measured natural frequency and at least one of the determined GVF, reduced frequency and speed of sound, or any combination thereof.
US07793553B2
A specimen grip assembly which can be used with a relatively light-weight jaw in a materials testing system. The specimen grip assembly illustratively contains a grip shell and a pair of wedge-shaped specimen grips. The shell has a truncated, frusto-pyramidal exterior shape with two outwardly facing inclined surfaces, both inclined at an angle and which matingly abut and slide against complementary inclined interior surfaces of the jaw. The grips are oriented in a recess within the shell such that inclined surfaces of the grips abut against interior complementary surfaces of the shell. The shell, containing the grips and specimen, is suitably positioned within the jaw, with the shell and grips then jacked into a fixed position. The shell substantially eliminates any noticeable compliance from the specimen grips that might otherwise arise from tensile and/or compressive forces applied to the jaw and specimen grip assemblies during a test program.
US07793549B1
A pressure gauge locking structure of a paintball gun includes a rear cap and a pressure gauge. The rear cap is screwed to a rear end of a gun body and has a first end and a second end. The first end is formed with a recess for the pressure gauge to be secured therein. The second end is provided with a piston block which has a stepped hole therein. The stepped hole is disposed axially and interconnected with the recess. The pressure gauge has a guiding rod which has a threaded hole for insertion of a screw member. The pressure gauge has an air passage for interconnecting with an air passage of the piston block so that the pressure gauge is unable to be dismantled from its exterior and the user reads the pressure gauge easily.
US07793547B2
A vibration excitator is described, comprising: a main body (2); a stinger (3) which is adapted to move relative to the main body (2), in a particular working direction; an actuator (5) coupled to the main body (2) and the stinger (3); wherein the stinger (3) has a first end (3a) that is coupled to the main body (2), and an opposite second end (3b) that is intended for attachment to an object (V) to be examined; wherein the stinger (3) has an elastic centre point (Me); wherein the main body (2) has a centre of gravity (G); and wherein L1=L3 applies, wherein L1 is the distance between the elastic centre point (Me) and the second stinger end (3b), measured along the said working direction; and wherein L3 is the distance between the centre of gravity (G) and the second stinger end (3b), measured along the said working direction.
US07793544B2
An inertial sensor provided with a detection structure sensitive to a first, a second and a third component of acceleration along respective directions of detection, and generating respective electrical quantities as a function of said components of acceleration. The detection structure supplies at output a resultant electrical quantity obtained as combination of said electrical quantities, and correlated to the value of a resultant acceleration acting on the inertial sensor, given by a vector sum of the components of acceleration. In particular, the detection structure is of a microelectromechanical type, and comprises a mobile portion made of semiconductor material forming with a fixed portion a first, a second and a third detection capacitor, and an electrical-interconnection portion, connecting the detection capacitors in parallel; the resultant electrical quantity being the capacitance obtained from said connection in parallel.
US07793532B2
A protective sheet loader may comprise a first roller, a second roller, a sheet of material spanning between the first and second rollers, and a loading mechanism. A portion of the sheet of material may be loaded into the crimping chamber of an apparatus for reducing the size of a medical device. A medical device may be placed within the crimping chamber such that the sheet of material forms a barrier between the walls of the crimping chamber and the medical device and prevents cross-contamination between the medical device and the crimping device. After a crimping step is completed, the medical device and the contaminated portion of the sheet of material may be removed from the crimping chamber, and a clean portion of the sheet of material may be loaded into the crimping chamber.
US07793531B2
An adjustable die set and method for forming corrugations in a sheet in which pairs of elongated forming bars are detachably mounted parallel to each other in respective holders driven by upper and lower press members. One pair is more closely spaced than the other and moves between the forming bars of the other pair to form a corrugation. The spacing and depth of the bar is varied to produce corresponding varying configurations of the corrugations.
US07793522B2
An intermediate preform is formed in a process of manufacturing an optical fibre by forming a sol containing a glass precursor; pouring the sol in a mold containing a set of elongate elements; aging the sol to obtain a gel body; removing the set of elongate elements from the gel body to create a corresponding set of holes in the gel body; and removing the gel body from the mold. The method further provides imparting a motion of the set of elongate elements during aging of the sol to avoid adhesion of the gel to the elongate elements, the motion being preferably a rotation about the respective axes or an alternate translation along the respective axes. An apparatus with means for carrying out the method is also described.
US07793518B1
A clothes gathering clasp (10) is provided that is used for gathering and retaining a portion of a clothing garment. The clasp consists of an outside member (20) having a jewelry decorated external surface (22) and an internal surface (24) containing an imbedded a first magnet (26). A chain (40), or other flexible retainer, is attached onto the outside member on one end and to a jewelry decorated inside member (52) on the other. The inside member contains a second magnet (54) imbedded in its internal surface (52). The clasp functions by placing the outside member on an outer surface of a garment then gathering the material with the chain while placing the inside member opposite the outside member on an inner surface of the clothing garment. The portion of the garment gathered with the chain is then retained by the chain in conjunction with the opposed magnets that magnetically bind each other together through the garment material.
US07793499B2
An exemplary center housing rotating assembly includes a turbine wheel, a compressor wheel, a center housing with a through bore extending from a compressor end to a turbine end, a lubricant inlet and a lubricant outlet, a pair of bearings disposed at least partially in the through bore of the center housing, a bearing spacer and a shaft rotatably supported by the bearings and having a rotational axis coincident with a rotational axis of the turbine wheel and a rotational axis of the compressor wheel where the center housing includes bearing lubricant paths to direct lubricant from the lubricant inlet to the pair of bearings and a shaft lubricant path to direct lubricant from the lubricant inlet to the shaft in a manner dependent on rotational position of the bearing spacer in the through bore of the center housing. Various other exemplary devices, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
US07793493B1
An engine (FIG. 1-1) comprising of multiple cylinders designated (2-5) combustion cylinders and (2-6) for heat recovery steam cylinders, each cylinder having a piston connected to a common crankshaft. The combustion cylinders operate on a four stroke cycle and the heat recovery steam cylinders operate on a two stroke cycle. The exhaust gas from the combustion cylinders is pressurized by a compressor, driven by a turbine, before entry into the heat recovery steam cylinders. This happens during the intake/power stroke of the heat recovery steam cylinders, as the intake valve closes, after top dead center, heated pressurized water is injected into the cylinder and spontaneously turns to steam driving the receding piston down. This heated exhaust gas and steam is expelled from the heat recovery steam cylinders to drive the turbine which in turn drives two compressors, one to compress the exhaust gas and one to compress the intake air.
US07793489B2
An oxygen storage capacity (OSC) monitoring system for a vehicle having a catalytic converter includes an inlet oxygen sensor that generates an inlet sensor signal (ISS) based on an oxygen content of exhaust flowing into the catalytic converter. A control module receives the ISS, increases a closed loop fuel control gain during a first period and determines a fuel control factor based on the ISS during the first period. The control module determines an OSC when an average value of the fuel control factor is greater than a first value and is less than a second value during the first period.
US07793488B2
A casing for a gas turbine includes a construction providing improved structural efficiency. Improved load paths and means for transmitting loads in the engine case are disclosed.
US07793485B2
A case adapted to contain absorbent articles includes an outer surface having a bar code, a product code, and a single brand display having a trademark in logo, wherein the brand display defines a brand display area of less than 4 inches by 6 inches. A method of providing absorbent articles includes providing a case in a branded condition, wherein the case includes a brand display having a brand display area of no more than 4 inches by no more than 6 inches. The method includes converting the case, or instructing a customer to convert the case, from the branded condition to a discreet condition by covering the brand display with a discretion mask or cleanly removing the brand display.
US07793483B2
A ventilated quarter round molding or shoe molding can be used, in combination with a water impervious underlayment to dissipate water vapor which is often generated from subfloors. Such water vapor can damage certain flooring, and the invention allows for the installation of devices to limit or eliminate such damage without significant cost.
US07793472B2
Mounting assembly for adjustably mounting a frame part, such as for example a reveal part of a door frame or window frame or the like, onto a wall or onto a reveal wall of a wall opening. The mounting assembly comprises a holder element having attachment member on which the frame part can be attached and adjustment member for adjusting the orientation of the holder element with respect to the reveal wall, and a fixing element for fixing the holder element onto the reveal wall. The mounting assembly comprises a single fixing element which is provided for fixing the holder element on a single location to the reveal wall. The fixing element comprises a pivot which enables the holder element to pivot with respect to the reveal wall.
US07793466B2
An arrangement for a building (10), in particular a housing unit (18) mobile between two positions, one supported on the ground and the other floating, including a frame (12), floating elements (14) and guiding elements (16), designed to be installed in a flood-risk area. The guiding elements (16) include at least two masts (32) fixed in the ground and arranged in the median plane of the construction along an axis F substantially parallel to the flow direction of the water and collars (34), designed to slide along the masts (32).
US07793462B1
A combination cemetery vase and flag holder adapter attaches to the mounting ring of an invertible type cemetery vase to hold the invertible vase in an upright or inverted position and has a laterally spaced smaller aperture for mounting a flagstaff and flag. The adapter has an elongate body with generally flat top and bottom surfaces, a larger aperture near a first end, and a smaller aperture near a second end. Depending lugs on the bottom surface surround the larger aperture and engage slots in the vase mounting ring secured to a gravestone surrounding an underground receptacle. Slots in the top surface and side wall of the larger aperture receive and detachably engage peripheral lugs on the base of the vase in an upright or inverted position. Slots in the top surface and side wall of the smaller aperture receive and detachably engage peripheral lugs of a collar at the bottom end of a flagstaff for supporting a flag a distance outwardly from the vase.
US07793460B2
An animal trap include, a housing having an open end, a door pivotally mounted to the housing and movable between an open position and a closed position, the door including a slit therein at a lower portion of the door to form an elastic portion below the slit, a close latch provided on the housing near the open end, the close latch cooperable with the elastic portion to retain the door in the closed position by latching the elastic portion between the close latch and the door stop.
US07793458B2
The invention is a fishhook threading device mounted on the rod of a fishing pole and utilizing opposing diverging funnel-shaped passages in the main body of the device. One passage is for mounting the eyelet of a fishhook therein while a line is threaded through the opposing passage to be guided into the eyelet of the fishhook. After the fish line is threaded through the eyelet, the end thereof can be grasped by the fingers of the fisherman to remove the hook and line from the threading device and allow any desired knot to be tied to permanently attach the fishhook to the fish line.
US07793456B1
A gun sight reticle includes a plurality of adjustable sighting marks disposed vertically below the central sighting mark. The shooter can adjust the BDC sighting marks so that they more accurately correspond to the correct aiming position for targets that are disposed at various distances from the shooter.
US07793455B1
A nozzle for lubricating an internally threaded rifle breech. The nozzle has a body containing a bore, with an inlet end adapted to receive a supply of lubricant. The body has an opposed end portion having a cylindrical wall and an enclosed free end. The cylindrical wall has a number of lubricant exit apertures. The body may be L-shaped, and the inlet may be threaded for connection to a lubricant container. The cylindrical wall of the end portion may have an external diameter less than an adjacent portion diameter, so that a shoulder is formed to limit insertion depth. A cap may be provided to cover the exit apertures so that the body may remain attached to the lubricant container.
US07793453B1
A rapidly-adjustable butt stock assembly comprised of a butt stock, a buffer, a slot cylinder, a key cylinder, and keys. The butt stock has a cylindrical recess with key grooves longitudinally therein for receiving the slot and key cylinders. The key cylinder is rigidly attached to the buffer. The slot cylinder has at least one longitudinal slot with a plurality of transverse slots extending therefrom. The key cylinder carries one or more keys, which keys extend through the key cylinder and the slot cylinder and into the key grooves of the butt stock. To adjust the length of the assembly, the user rotates the slot cylinder so that the keys rotate out of the transverse slots and into the longitudinal slot of the slot cylinder thus permitting the key cylinder to move axially with respect to the butt stock.
US07793449B2
A clip is described that includes a clipping part for clipping to an object, and a tab part arranged to extend from the clipping part. The tab part includes a first plastics material and a second rubber material. This allows the tab part to be marked with ink from a conventional pen.
US07793448B1
A display module includes a first light guide plate, a first light shielding sheet disposed above the first light guide plate, a first light source positioned adjacent to the first light guide plate, a second light shielding sheet disposed under the first light guide plate, a second light guide plate disposed under the second light shielding sheet, and a second light source positioned adjacent to the second light guide plate. The first and second light sources emit different color light. The first light shielding sheet defines a first light transmitting pattern. The second light shielding sheet defines a second light transmitting pattern according to the first light transmitting pattern. An area of the second light transmitting pattern is less than that of the first light transmitting pattern.
US07793442B2
An avoidance system for a mobile earthmoving machine is disclosed. The avoidance system includes a sensor system configured to periodically detect a position of a cable tethered from the machine within a worksite and generate a position data set in response thereto. A controller is associated with the sensor system and configured to determine a cable avoidance region based on the position data set.
US07793437B2
Shoe sole that promotes a natural walking gait by promoting the natural step motion of a barefoot person walking in sand. The shoe sole has is a single-shot injection molded sole that has a continuously, irregularly curved lower surface and a multi-contoured upper surface. The lower surface has a radius of curvature in the heel area that is smaller than the radius of curvature in the toe area. The upper surface has an arch support, a depression for cradling the ball of the foot, and flex zones that promote flexing of the shoe sole in the longitudinal and transverse direction.
US07793428B2
An article of footwear includes an upper and an upper plate secured to the upper and having a plurality of apertures formed therein. A removable midsole has a plurality of projections extending from a lower surface thereof, with each projection extending through one of the apertures of the upper plate.
US07793427B2
A footwear construction including an upper secured to a platform defining an aperture, a cushion at least partially in the aperture, a California construction joined with the upper that wraps the platform, and an outsole. The California construction can terminate short of the heel, and the upper can join the platform via another construction, for example, by adhering the upper to the platform, in the heel. The cushion insert can define one or more recesses, such as concave contours in which the toe(s) of a wearer can rest to reduce the profile of the toe(s) above the cushion insert. A method for making the footwear is provided, including: joining an upper with a platform defining an aperture on a last; placing a cushioned insert within the aperture; wrapping a California flange around a portion of the platform; and joining an outsole with the platform, the cushioned insert and/or the upper.
US07793423B2
A piping alignment tool suitable for locating where an extension of an existing pipe must pass through obstructions such as walls. The tool has a tubular shape with oppositely disposed ends. Each end is formed to have multiple coaxial sets of different-sized pipe threads that allow the tool to be threaded onto a pipe having one of the pipe thread sizes formed on the tool. The tool is also equipped to generate light beams from each end, so that the light beam can be emitted from an end of the tool opposite a pipe onto which the tool has been threaded. By threading the tool onto a pipe and emitting a light beam from the end of the tool opposite the pipe, the location of an obstruction beyond the existing pipe is illuminated by the emitted light beam.
US07793418B2
A blade for mounting to a scraped surface heat exchanger drive shaft by pivotal connection with a mounting pin has a blade body having a first side and a second side, and a scraper edge and a hinge edge. At least one mounting hole extends through the blade body generally proximate at the hinge edge. An L-shaped locking track protrudes into the first set of the blade, having an entry track extending from the hinge edge and an intermediate track extending from the entry track to the mounting hole. An L-shaped locking track also protruding into the second side of the blade, has an entry track extending from the hinge edge of the blade and an intermediate track extending from the entry track to and past the mounting hole.
US07793416B2
A method for manufacturing a hardened casing for a vane pump is disclosed. The method includes providing a vane pump casing; hardening the casing by (i) cleaning the casing with a high pressure fluid containing abrasive material, (ii) loading the casing in a furnace, (iii) purging the furnace with an inert gas followed by purging the furnace with ammonia, (iv) conducting a first heating of the casing in the furnace at a first temperature of about 1200° F. for a time period of about 4 hours, (v) conducting a second heating of the casing in the furnace at a second temperature of about 1000° F. for a time period of about 4 hours, and (vi) cooling the casing and purging the furnace with an inert gas before removing the casing.
US07793410B2
A method of making a plurality of flow sensors is provided, each flow sensor having a substrate with a sensing element and flow channel aligned over the sensing element. The sensing element senses at least one property of a fluid. The flow channel is aligned by one or more guide elements formed in an alignment layer. The flow channel across the sensing area is accurately and precisely aligned due to the guide elements provided at the wafer-level, facilitating reliable, low-cost, and consistent results among multiple flow sensors. The flow sensor is adapted for use in harsh environments.
US07793406B2
A method for manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic write head having a trailing shield and with a tapered step. The method includes forming a write pole with a non-magnetic trailing gap and first and second non-magnetic side gap layers. A mask is formed having an opening over a portion of the write pole that is configured to define a non-magnetic bump. A non-magnetic bump material is deposited into the opening in a manner that defines a non-magnetic bump having a tapered front edge. A magnetic wrap around shield can then be formed over the non-magnetic bump, so that the bump forms a tapered stepped feature on the wrap-around magnetic shield. The bump location can be controlled by an electric lapping guide, which is defined to be aligned to the bump front edge.
US07793402B2
A method for fastening two substantially coplanar edges without a weld. The method includes: configuring a dovetail feature on a first edge; configuring a complementary dovetail feature receptacle on a second edge to receive the dovetail feature therein; disposing the dovetail feature within the complementary dovetail receptacle; and swaging an interface defined between the dovetail feature in said first edge and said complementary dovetail feature in the second edge to swage mating edges defining the dovetail feature and the dovetail receptacle at at least six swage contact points.
US07793397B2
A portable, fold-over post for use in fencing systems on both outdoor and indoor surfaces includes a vertical member; a first spring removably connected to the vertical member, the spring having a mounting spike integrally formed therewith for insertion into a soft, outdoor surface, and the spring allowing the post to fold over upon impact; and a foot assembly interchangeable with the spring and suitable for supporting the post on a hard surface.
US07793395B2
A film bulk acoustic resonator, and a method for manufacturing the same. The film bulk acoustic resonator includes a substrate, a protection layer vapor-deposited on the substrate, a membrane vapor-deposited on the protection layer and at a predetermined distance from an upper side of the substrate, and a laminated resonance part vapor-deposited on the membrane. Further, the manufacturing method includes vapor-depositing a membrane on a substrate, forming protection layers on both sides of the membrane, vapor-depositing a laminated resonance part on the membrane, and forming an air gap by removing a part of the substrate disposed between the protection layers. Accordingly, the membrane can be formed in a simple structure and without stress, and the whole manufacturing process is simplified.
US07793394B2
A plurality of drive sections are defined by forming a plurality of slits in a plate-shaped member. Then, a plurality of piezoelectric layers are formed in the drive sections respectively by depositing particles of a piezoelectric material onto the plate-shaped member. Subsequently, after forming individual electrodes on the piezoelectric layers respectively, the drive sections are bent in a direction orthogonal to a plane direction of the plate-shaped member. Thus, there is provided a method of easily producing a piezoelectric actuator including the drive sections which are bent-shaped and on which the piezoelectric layers are formed respectively.
US07793389B1
An adjustable handling apparatus comprising an object to handle and at least one detachable handle. The object comprises at least one attachment part. Each of the handles comprises one handle body or a plurality of connected handle bodies. Each handle body comprises a gripping part and at least one attachment part. Attachment parts comprise a predetermined number of engagement components. Each of handle engagement components is adapted to engage with each of predetermined object engagement components allowing the handle to be oriented about the object differently for maximum comfort. The density of the engagement components limits the number of positions the handle can be oriented about the object. Once the handle engagement components are engaged with the desired object engagement components, the handle is locked to the object automatically. The handle must be unlocked manually in order to be detached from the object.
US07793380B2
An exterior rearview mirror for a motor vehicle has a mirror housing, a wiper motor, and a wiper arm which is driven by the wiper motor via a wiper mechanism and bears a wiper blade for cleaning a mirror surface. The wiper mechanism generates an essentially parallel reciprocating movement of the wiper blade. It is essential here to the invention that the wiper mechanism has a first L-shaped pivot arm and a second L-shaped pivot arm which are respectively mounted rotatably in a fixed position at their elbows and are mounted rotatably, at their limbs on the wiper side, on an inner parallel wiper arm. Furthermore, an outer parallel wiper arm which is connected to the inner parallel wiper arm and bears the wiper blade is arranged on the inner parallel wiper arm. The two pivot arms are driven by the wiper motor to which they are connected in terms of drive at their limbs on the drive side.
US07793375B2
A powered toothbrush having a curved neck and a flexible shaft within said neck is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a powered toothbrush having a curved neck of a constant radius, a flexible shaft and a clutch mechanism to disengage the flexible shaft from a drive mechanism upon overload is provided.
US07793374B1
As typically embodied, the inventive ramp system for bridging between structures (e.g., marine vessels) includes a hydraulic elevator device and a ramp unit. The ramp unit includes three adjoining planar members, the ramp member (the main ramp body) being pivotably connected at each end to one of the two platform members. The hydraulic elevator device includes the coaxial combination of a cylinder and a piston, the piston being translatable along and pivotable about the axis. The cylinder-piston combination is secured, axis vertical, to a first structure, with one of the ramp unit's platform members attached atop the piston. In order to position the other (unattached) platform member upon a selected (e.g., horizontal) location of a second structure, the ramp unit is configurable in terms of the attached platform member's height, the ramp unit's horizontal rotation angle, and the respective vertical rotation angles of the ramp unit's two pivotable connections.
US07793369B2
A bed is disclosed having a retractable side barrier that is retractable by moving in rotation and in translation, and that is controllable using one hand only, by means of a handle incorporated into the barrier. The barrier element is associated with a deformable-parallelogram mechanism including a deployment bar provided with a cam profile with which a latch co-operates that is actuated by a handle in order to release it from said cam profile, said latch co-operating with abutments of said cam profile to define at least one stable position for said deformable-parallelogram mechanism.
US07793362B1
A toilet seat lift system for a toilet having a toilet bowl is disclosed. An illustrative embodiment of the toilet seat lift system includes a seat connecting shaft adapted for attachment to the toilet bowl, a toilet seat carried by the seat connecting shaft, a cover connecting rod extending through the seat connecting shaft, a toilet cover carried by the cover connecting rod, a seat handle carried by the seat connecting shaft and a cover handle carried by the cover connecting rod.
US07797751B1
A multiple field nonce particularly suited for use in encryption algorithms associated with data storage has at least one field unique to each data storage device to avoid the possibility of the same nonce value being used to store more than one data string. Additional fields may be based on the number of times at least one encryption key is associated with the storage device and on a number assigned to the particular string of data.
US07797745B2
An apparatus and method for providing a security function of frames transmitted between optical network terminals (OLTs) and optical network units (ONUs) in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) providing media access control (MAC) services are provided. The apparatus includes: a frame classifier distinguishing the type of a frame, and based on the logical link identifier (LLID) of the distinguished frame, determining whether or not the frame is a security link to which a security function is to be applied; a bypass unit delaying a no-security-function frame so that a processing time for converting the security-function-applied frame classified in the frame classifier into an encrypted frame is the same as a time for processing the no-security-function frame; and a parameter generation unit transmitting in relation to each of the LLIDs, a parameter set value including a security-function-application setting signal used in the encryption, decryption and authentication of the frame, a frame decryption signal, an encryption mode selection signal, and an authentication intensity adjustment signal.
US07797744B2
A method and device for detecting intrusion on a computer system utilizes a target server running software that is executed for a client only upon receiving authorization from a monitoring server to execute the software. When an attempt to execute software on the target server by a client is not authorized, monitoring server notifies the system administrator of the unauthorized attempt.
US07797743B2
Embodiments are described for removing malicious code from a file in a first file format by converting the file into a converted file of a second file format. In embodiments, converting the file eliminates malicious code embedded within the file from being stored in the converted file. The conversion is performed within a restricted computer process that has restricted privileges limiting its access to an operating system and an underlying computer system. As a result, even if malicious code embedded within the file executes while the file is being converted into the converted file, the damage to a computer system is mitigated because of the limited privileges provided to the restricted process.
US07797737B2
A method and apparatus provide security for a network-connected vehicle (or other networked environment) in which a predefined set of permitted operations relating to protected resources can be initiated remotely from elsewhere in the network, while security is maintained for the protected resources (for example, an engine performance optimization control unit or air conditioning control unit within a vehicle) by preventing remote initiation of any other operations on a data processing unit which is connected to the protected resources. One of a pair of gateway components runs on each of two data processing units within the vehicle (or other environment), the first processing unit being connected to the vehicle's device control units and the second processing unit being connected to the external network. The gateway components control the types of communications which can be passed from the network-connected side to the first processing unit such that only permitted operations can be requested and no unauthorized operations can be initiated remotely.
US07797729B2
The invention provides a method for providing enhancements to a BIOS system without using replacement hardware in a microprocessor-based device. The microprocessor-based device boots from a BIOS procedure and interrupts the BIOS procedure to read information from an information module inserted to a information module reader connected to the microprocessor-based device. The information read from the information module is used to selectively alter the BIOS procedure.
US07797726B2
A method is presented for enforcing a privacy policy concerning management of personally identifiable information in a centralized manner through a privacy proxy agent. A proxy intercepts a message from a first system to a second system, e.g., from a server to a client, and determines whether the message is associated with an operation on personally identifiable information; if not, then the proxy sends the message to the second system, but if so, then the proxy determines whether the operation on the personally identifiable information is compliant with a privacy policy and with user preference information with respect to the privacy policy for a user who is associated the personally identifiable information. If the message is compliant with the privacy policy and user preference data, then the proxy sends the first message to the second system; otherwise, an error indication is returned to the first system.
US07797715B2
The present invention provides a method of providing a user information-based search using a get_Data operation in TV-ANYTIME service. In the user information-based search provision method of the present invention, a user information (PersonalInformation) element is added as an element of the get_Data operation. A request message of the get_Data operation is received. User information is extracted from the user information (PersonalInformation) element in response to reception of the request message. A user information-based search is conducted using the extracted user information. Results of the user information-based search are transmitted using a response message of the get_Data operation. Accordingly, the present invention is advantageous in that a client provides user information to a service provider using a get_Data operation, and the service provider can search for contents suitable for each user in consideration of the user information.
US07797705B2
The objective is to facilitate leasing of excess computing resources of a processor when computing resources of other processors are deficient, thereby making distributed computing more efficient.A computing resource of a processor is clustered into sub processors, and the operating status of each of the sub processors is monitored by a management processor, so that a task is assigned to a sub processor that is operated according to the magnitude of the load of information processing requested. When a request for resource leasing is made from another computer via I/O interface, a computing resource of a idle sub processor is leased.
US07797701B1
Method and apparatus for detecting a bit sequence in a data stream is described. In one example, a first memory is configured to process pairs of bit-patterns in the data stream to provide respective pairs of codes from a code table stored in said first memory. A second memory is configured to process pairs of codes from the first memory to provide combination codes from a combination code table stored in the second memory. A third memory is configured to generate detection data in response to a sequence of the combination codes output from the second memory. The first, second, and third memories may be dual-port synchronous memories, such as block random access memory embedded in an integrated circuit. The data stream may be a serial digital interface (SDI) data stream and the bit sequence may be a timing reference signal.
US07797700B2
Systems and methods are provided for processing different concurrent tasks by a subsystem managed by a central processor. Each tasks is comprised of successive messages including a first message, intermediate messages, and a last message. Each intermediate message comprises a subtask parameter and a link to the next message that indicates the time when the next message is to be processed. The central processor and the subsystem are connected to a storage memory and several counters associated with respective tasks. The system and method reduce task disruptions of the system.
US07797699B2
A method for managing IO requests from a virtual machine to access IO resources on a physical machine includes determining a request priority associated with an IO request. The IO request is placed in an appropriate queue in response to determining the request priority.
US07797693B1
A network with mobile devices supports update of firmware and/or software from one version to another version, the firmware or software being stored in non-volatile memory of the mobile handset, such as a NAND flash memory. In one embodiment, a firmware stored in the NAND non-volatile memory is updated by an update agent in a fault tolerant mode.
US07797690B2
System, process and program product for optimizing a computer program during run time. During run time, a determination is made whether the computer program calls a method which includes a conditional evaluation of a variable which is fixed and the evaluation of the fixed variable does not result in anything productive being accomplished except to return to execution of the computer program. If so, the call to the method which includes the conditional evaluation is deleted from the computer program for subsequent iterations of the computer program. Consequently, the subsequent execution of the computer program will yield a same result as if the conditional evaluation was executed. If the evaluation of the fixed variable results in something productive being accomplished, the call to the method which includes the conditional evaluation is not deleted from the subsequent execution of the computer program.
US07797683B2
Systems and methods of managing threads provide for supporting a plurality of logical threads with a plurality of simultaneous physical threads in which the number of logical threads may be greater than or less than the number of physical threads. In one approach, each of the plurality of logical threads is maintained in one of a wait state, an active state, a drain state, and a stall state. A state machine and hardware sequencer can be used to transition the logical threads between states based on triggering events and whether or not an interruptible point has been encountered in the logical threads. The logical threads are scheduled on the physical threads to meet, for example, priority, performance or fairness goals. It is also possible to specify the resources that are available to each logical thread in order to meet these and other, goals. In one example, a single logical thread can speculatively use more than one physical thread, pending a selection of which physical thread should be committed.
US07797678B2
A license package generator for use with a solution builder tool having behavioral model instances for system solution components, the instances being configured by behavioral and interface parameters by user inputs, the package generator accessing and obtaining a license code for each configured behavioral model instance for which a license is available in a data repository, creating or modifying an electronic license information package file to include list of license numbers associated with the license codes and notes selected regarding license serial number, a software package enabling code, a software package unlocking code, a granting source of a license, a component feature description, and an issue date of a license, and storing the electronic license package file stored in a computer memory.
US07797677B1
A method of passing data among modules of a heterogeneous software system can include identifying a scripted function to be executed within the heterogeneous software system and building a wrapper script by embedding a call to the scripted function and an XTable object associated with the scripted function within the wrapper script. The method further can include executing the wrapper script thereby causing the scripted function to execute and receiving a result from execution of the scripted function.
US07797671B2
A computer software architecture for an embedded computer system. The architecture includes a hierarchy of software object classes. One classification contains object tables which capture device control law behavior expressed in statecharts. Another contains objects which collaborate to function as a logic engine for processing statechart information encoded into object tables. In order to promote reusability, the architecture is layered in increasing levels of system abstraction.
US07797670B2
Mounting and populating a mirrored version of at least a portion of a file system of a recruiter machine at a volunteer machine performing one or more data processing tasks for the recruiter machine is disclosed. In some embodiments, an input stored in such a dedicated file system for the recruiter machine at the volunteer machine may be locally retrieved and reused, if still consistent with a corresponding input stored in a file system at the recruiter machine, when performing a data processing task for the recruiter machine at the volunteer machine. In some embodiments, if an input required by the volunteer machine to perform a data processing task for the recruiter machine is not cached in such a dedicated file system for the recruiter machine at the volunteer machine in a state that is consistent with a corresponding input stored in a file system at the recruiter machine, the input is obtained from the recruiter machine.
US07797664B2
With respect to the reconfigurable integrated circuit, a system for configuring an integrated circuit and a configuration method thereof which do not need a circuit overhead for variation correction and diagnosis of variation are provided. A system for configuring an integrated circuit comprises a reconfigurable integrated circuit 101, a memory device for configuring 102 which holds a plurality of different circuit configurations to be realized on the reconfigurable integrated circuit, the circuit configurations having identical functions but having different performance depending on different probability variables, memory device for testing 103 which holds test data to be achieved by the circuit configuration for the respective function, and a test device 104 for performing a test based on the test data.
US07797659B2
For increasing user control and insight into preparing a mixed-signal semiconductor design specification for simulation, there are provided methods responsive to commands that provide control over resolution of disciplines and partitioning of the design into analog and digital portions. In some aspects, the methods provide block-based assignment of disciplines, as well as design partitioning. In other aspects, the methods provide for resolving a discipline to apply in a block from among multiple possible disciplines. In some aspects, error flagging may be available for detecting disciplines different from what provided for assignment in a block. Assignments may be indicated based on instance, cell, terminal, or library names and may be specified with wild cards. In still other aspects, the methods may be embodied by instructions on computer readable media, and in systems comprising general and special purpose computer hardware that may communicate with various storage facilities and over various networks.
US07797655B1
A semiconductor design layout having a deep well structure for routing body-bias voltage is generated using standard pattern tiles and custom pattern tiles. These tiles have a tile shape and a tile size that fit an integer number of times into a grid unit of a grid for the semiconductor design layout.
US07797654B2
A design of an integrated circuit device, in which locations of power wires and memory/logic circuitry are known, is analyzed by at least: identifying intersections of power wires with one another, for power wires that are electrically connected to one another through vias; segmenting power wires, at their intersections; preparing estimates of conductance of vias and wire segments in the form of conductance matrix G; and preparing estimates of current I at each intersection based on power consumed by surrounding circuitry, and current vector “I” and conductance matrix “G” are used to solve for voltage drop ΔV, in a matrix equation GΔV=I, and the voltage drop is displayed, to allow a human to make changes in the design. Pins of unconnected hard macros are temporarily connected to their closest wires, and current therethrough is included in the estimates.
US07797653B2
A circuit to be verified is divided into a plurality of circuit parts. A plurality of programmable devices are provided for implementing functional operation of the divided circuit parts through a simulation. Wiring used in the circuit to be verified for supplying a signal SX to be given at the same time to the plurality of programmable devices is provided so that a maximum skew of time at which the signal SX arrives at the plurality of programmable devices is less than a minimum time required for data transfer between the programmable devices. An input terminal PX for inputting the signal SX from a signal generation device (400) is implemented in each of the programmable devices. The signal SX can be inputted directly from the signal generation device, and a skew can be inhibited from being produced.
US07797648B1
A method for generating a test vector for functional verification of circuits includes providing a representation of a circuit, where the representation includes a control logic component and a datapath logic component. The method also includes reading one or more vector generation targets, and performing word-level ATPG justification on the control logic component to obtain a control logic solution. The method further includes extracting one or more arithmetic functions for the datapath logic component based on the control logic solution, and solving the one or more arithmetic functions using a modular constraint solver. The modular constraint solver is based on a modular number system.
US07797628B2
A directed graph can be used with a browser application. In one embodiment, the browser application can allow the editor to edit and view the edited directed graph without having to change between software applications. A monitor at a client computer can display the directed graph in a format similar to what an actor will see when executing actions requested by the directed graph. In another embodiment, a virtual node can be used to represent a reconnection point for child columns of a row element within a parent column. The virtual node can be used when adding an element immediately after the row element.
US07797627B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing a graphical user interface for creating and editing a mapping of structured information to different structured information, which allows a user to interactively define the mapping. The present invention operates as a user tool by accepting interactive input from a user of a source input, processing the input to display the source input in a format for accepting user commands to create or edit a transformation map of source components to target components. Interactive user input is accepted for selection of an input file to be transformed and selection of a transformation map for the requested transformation. Interactive user input is accepted for processing for selection of individual components of the first structured information format for mapping, and for selection of options for the target components.
US07797626B2
Systems and techniques, including computer program products, for managing different representations of information. The systems and techniques can include a method that includes receiving information identifying a first customization setting, receiving information identifying a second customization setting, and mapping the customized format of the data variable in the first data processing system to the customized format of the data variable in the second data processing system. The first customization setting can describe a customized representation of information in a data variable in a first data processing system. The second customization setting can describe a customized format of the data variable in the second data processing system.
US07797624B2
Methods and apparatus for calculating paragraph layout. A method begins with a first node in a paragraph and calculates an optimal line break scheme for paragraph layout that ended in the node. For every subsequent node in the paragraph, the method calculates an optimal line break scheme for paragraph layout that ends respectively in every subsequent node. Each optimal line break scheme is calculated by minimizing the total of a penalty value of a current line and all preceding penalties of all preceding lines. The preceding penalties of all preceding lines are defined by a previously calculated optimal line break scheme.
US07797622B2
A method for detection of page numbers in a document includes identifying a plurality of text fragments associated with a plurality of pages of a document. From the identified text fragments, at least one sequence is identified. Each identified sequence includes a plurality of terms. Each term of the sequence is derived from a text fragment selected from the plurality text fragments. The terms of an identified sequence comply with at least one predefined numbering scheme which defines a form and an incremental state of the terms in a sequence. A subset of the identified sequences which cover at least some of the pages of the document is computed. Terms of at least some of the subset of the identified sequences are construed as page numbers of pages of the document. Additional page numbers may be identified by considering one or more features of the terms in the subset of identified sequences.
US07797615B2
The present invention relates to an inter-sequence permutation (ISP) encoder. The ISP encoder comprises: a receiving means to receive an information bit sequence input; a first outputting means for outputting a first code bit output; a second outputting means for outputting a second code bit sequence output; a bit-adding means coupled to the receiving means, the bit-adding means processing the received information bit sequence input prior to any subsequent processing in the ISP encoder; a first convolutional code encoder coupled between the bit-adding means and the first outputting means; a second convolutional code encoder; and an inter-sequence permutation interleaver coupled between the bit-adding means and the second convolutional code encoder. The second convolutional code encoder is coupled between the inter-sequence permutational interleaver and the second outputting means. Further, the ISP encoder comprises a third outputting means coupled to the bit-adding means to output a third code bit output or directly coupled to the receiving means. Alternatively, the ISP encoder comprises a fourth outputting means coupled to the inter-sequence permutation interleaver to output a fourth code bit sequence output.
US07797609B2
An apparatus and method for selectively deriving Error Correction Codes (ECCs) or other data integrity information for integration into merged data blocks. First data is merged into second data that is error-protected using an ECC generated by a coding algorithm. Bytes or other data units are identified in the first data to be merged into the second data. It is determined whether each of the check bits of the ECC will differ from its original state in response to merging the first and second data. The check bits of the ECC that have been determined to differ from their respective original states are modified to create a “merged ECC.” The resulting data block includes the merged data and the merged ECC.
US07797608B2
A decoding device is used to deal with an uncorrected data stored in a data storage device, the uncorrected data containing a inner-code parity (PI) direction error data and a outer-code parity (PO) direction error data, the decoding device including: an error correction unit receiving the uncorrected data and correcting the PO direction error data of the uncorrected data according to a PO direction decoding and correcting information, and then outputting a data; a data buffer for buffering the data, after correcting the PI direction error data of the data, then outputting a corrected data; a PI decoding unit for decoding and correcting the PI error direction error data of the data stored in the data buffer; and a PO decoding unit for generating the PO direction decoding and correcting information to the error correction unit according to the data stored in the data buffer.
US07797607B2
A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor pre-processing enhanced data, a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including the pre-processed enhanced data, and a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets. The transmitter further includes an RS encoder RS-coding the multiplexed packets by adding systematic RS parity data to each main data packet and by adding non-systematic RS parity place holders to each enhanced data packet, and a data interleaver interleaving the RS-coded packets. The non-systematic RS parity place holders are placed after the enhanced data within each interleaved enhanced data packet, and a sequence of known data place holders is periodically included in the interleaved enhanced data packets.
US07797605B2
Methods of managing storage of HARQ packets are disclosed. One method includes a wireless device receiving variable length HARQ packets. The wireless device performing an error check on each received variable length HARQ packet, and storing within HARQ memory the HARQ packets that fail the error check. Each failed HARQ packet is stored in the HARQ memory by dividing the HARQ packet into HARQ sub-packets, and storing each HARQ sub-packet. The storage locations and storage order of each of the HARQ sub-packets are recorded for future retrieval.
US07797593B2
A timing measurement circuit inside a memory chip delays balanced test signals for generating delayed test signals. Each of the delayed test signals is input a corresponding input pin of a memory subsystem of the memory chip. By adjusting delay amount of the delayed test signals, AC timing parameters of the memory subsystem are tested and measured. When the timing measurement circuit is in ring oscillation, a resolution thereof is measured.
US07797582B1
A method for tracking changes on a primary volume in a continuous data protection system writes data to the primary volume. A copy of the data is written to a secondary volume, the secondary volume including all writes made to the primary volume. Each write made to the secondary volume is mapped in a data structure, such that the data structure tracks changes on the primary volume between two different points in time.
US07797580B2
A system is disclosed that can determine whether a routine is stalled. The system does not require the developer of the routine to add code for the purpose of detecting whether the routine is stalled. Furthermore, the system can be used to monitor various routines at different levels of granularity, such as at the thread level, method level, or other levels. One embodiment of the present invention allows a user to specify a method and an expected time frame. Code for that method is modified to add additional code that implements a timing mechanism. The timing mechanism is used to detect when a thread enters that method and does not return within an approximation of the expected time frame. Other embodiments are also within the scope of the present invention.
US07797578B2
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 a personal computer motherboard, or an extender card may be used. 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 chip in a test socket on a test adaptor board that is connected to the target DRAM module slot to locate defects. The motherboard does not crash since the BIOS, OS image, and test program are not stored in the memory chip under test.
US07797566B2
A method for load sharing and high availability in a cluster of computers. The cluster includes a first computer and a second computer which perform a task An active application runs in the first computer and a standby application is installed in the second computer. The active application and the standby application are included in an application group. A first plurality of applications is installed in the first computer; the first plurality includes the running active application. The active application performs the task and stores in memory of the first computer state parameters and a policy. A synchronized copy of the state parameters and the policy pertaining to the task is maintained by storing in memory of the second computer. Preferably, the cluster is in a security gateway between data networks and performs a task related to security of one or more of the networks.
US07797564B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed in a data processing system for dynamically modifying operating parameters of processing units included in a processor core that is included in a central processing unit. A next context to be processed is received. The next context includes an identification of all first specialized processing units that will be needed to process the next context. All second specialized processing units are identified that were needed to process a previous context that has just finished being processed by the processor core. A comparison between the first units and the second units is made to generate an identification of third units and fourth units. Operating parameters of the processing units included within the processor core are altered to optimize the processing units to a state where the third units will be used and the fourth units will not be used.
US07797555B2
A processing system may include a first processing unit for a legacy partition and a second processing unit for a sequestered partition. In one embodiment, a first interrupt handler in the legacy partition may support power management for the first processing unit. A second interrupt handler in the sequestered partition may cause the sequestered partition to take control of power management hardware in the processing system when the legacy partition enters reduced power mode. For example, the second interrupt handler may program the power management hardware to route interrupts to the second processing unit. The sequestered partition may relinquish control of power management hardware to the legacy partition when the legacy partition exits reduced power mode. A power policy manager in the sequestered partition may support features such as wake for incoming communications, wake to record, etc. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07797543B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for authenticating electronic messages. A data structure is generated by a computer server which allows for the authentication of the contents and computer server identity of a received electronic message and provides a trusted stamp to authenticate when the message was sent. Data which can authenticate the message, the computer server identity, and the time the message was sent is included into a data structure which is called an Electronic PostMark (EPM).
US07797538B2
The present invention provides a system and method for providing certified voice and/or multimedia mail messages in a broadband signed communication system which uses packetized digital information. Cryptography is used to authenticate a message that has been compiled from streaming voice or multimedia packets. A certificate of the originator's identity and electronic signature authenticates the message. A broadband communication system user may be provisioned for certified voice and/or multimedia mail by registering with a certified mail service provider and thereby receiving certification. The called system user's CPE electronically signs the bits in received communication packets and returns the message with an electronic signature of the called system user to the calling party, along with the system user's certificate obtained from the service provider/certifying authority during registration. The electronic signature is a cryptographic key of the called party.
US07797516B2
A set of low-cost microcontroller extensions facilitates Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications by incorporating a Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) unit in a Central Processing Unit (CPU) of the microcontroller which is responsive to the extensions.
US07797512B1
A virtual core management system including one or more physical cores and one or more virtual cores. Each virtual core respectively includes a collection of logical states associated with execution of a corresponding program. The virtual core management system further includes one or more interrupt controllers configured to send one or more interrupt signals to interrupt execution of a corresponding program associated with at least one of the one or more virtual cores, and a virtual core management component configured to map the at least one virtual core to one of the one or more physical cores and route the one or more interrupt signals to the corresponding physical core.
US07797511B2
A memory device includes a memory array containing a plurality of memory addresses. An input terminal receives a requested one of the memory addresses and a memory controller is configured to refresh a first refresh address in response to a comparison of the received memory address and the first refresh address. In certain embodiments, the first refresh address is refreshed if it does not conflict with the received memory. If the first refresh address and the received memory address conflict, a second refresh address is refreshed. The received memory address is accessed simultaneously with the refresh in exemplary embodiments.
US07797494B2
In an information processing apparatus of this invention having a cache memory, a TLB and a TSB, a second retrieval unit retrieves a second physical address from an address translation buffer by using a second virtual address corresponding one-to-one to a first virtual address, and a prefetch controller enters a first address translation pair of the first virtual address from an address translation table into a cache memory by using a second physical address which is a result of the retrieval, thereby largely shortening the processing time of a memory access when a TLB miss occurs at the time of the memory access.
US07797492B2
A method and apparatus for dedicating cache entries to certain streams for performance optimization are disclosed. The method according to the present techniques comprises partitioning a cache array into one or more special-purpose entries and one or more general-purpose entries, wherein special-purpose entries are only allocated for one or more streams having a particular stream ID.
US07797491B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates load reordering through cacheline marking. During operation, the system receives a load operation to be executed. Next, the system determines whether a cacheline for the load has been load-marked by a thread which is performing the load. If so, the system performs the load. Otherwise, the system obtains the cacheline and subsequently attempts to load-mark the cacheline. If the cacheline is successfully load-marked, the system performs the load.
US07797480B2
Data stored in non-volatile storage is read using sense operations and associated pre-conditioning waveforms. The pre-conditioning waveform provides a short term history for a non-volatile element which is analogous to the conditions experienced during programming when a programming pulse is applied prior to a verify operation. The pre-conditioning waveform can cause electrons to enter and exit trap sites, for instance, so that the accuracy of a probabilistic decoding process is improved. In one approach, multiple read operations are performed, some with pre-conditioning waveforms and some without. Pre-conditioning waveforms with different characteristics, such as amplitude, shape, duration and time before the associated read pulse, can also be used. For probabilistic decoding, initial reliability metrics can be developed based on multiple reads. Tables which store the reliability metrics can then be prepared for use in subsequent decoding.
US07797479B2
A technique includes performing a plurality of write operations to store data in different physical memory locations. Each of the physical memory locations are associated with a logical address that is shared in common among the physical addresses. The technique includes storing sequence information in the physical memory locations to indicate which one of the write operations occurred last.
US07797464B2
A system and method for optimizing the transmission of signals over a group of wires. In a preferred form of the present invention, a multi-wire bus connects a common card to a plurality of line cards. A framing protocol controls transmissions between the common card and the plurality of line cards. The framing protocol includes a frame having a prefix that identifies in which direction a given transmission will occur. The prefix also identifies over which wire or wires a given line card will receive data. Each of the line cards are configured to interpret the prefix so that at any given time data can be transmitted from the common card to one or more of the line cards by either transmission over a single wire or a plurality of wires.
US07797462B2
A system that communicates with an embedded controller within a computing device. During operation, the system queries the embedded controller to obtain information describing an interface for interacting with a functionality provided by the embedded controller. The system then receives a response from the computing device which includes a reference to a metadata object describing the interface. If the metadata object refers to other metadata objects, the system recursively queries the embedded controller to obtain information about the other metadata objects until a complete description of the interface is obtained.
US07797457B2
The leader server proposing commands or sequences of commands to be executed by a plurality of servers according to an asynchronous consensus algorithm, such as Paxos, is replaced with a synchronous virtual leader agreement algorithm executed by each of the servers. The synchronous agreement algorithm used to determine the virtual leader's actions is called the leader agreement algorithm. The asynchronous consensus agreement algorithm performed by the virtual leader and the servers may be the Paxos algorithm. However, any asynchronous Byzantine agreement algorithm may be used. By replacing the leader in the Paxos consensus algorithm with a synchronous virtual leader agreement algorithm, the Paxos algorithm can survive a Byzantine failure of one or more leader server, as long as the servers are behaving synchronously.
US07797454B2
The present invention relates to transcoding devices. Embodiments of the present invention pertain to devices that receive scalable media and scalable profile data. Further, the devices generate transcoded media based on the scalable media and the scalable profile data. The devices also generate new scalable media and new scalable profile data based on the transcoded media.
US07797447B1
A Web browser provides the ability to separate content and hyper-links from a Web page and provides a list of the links for viewing on a mobile device display screen along with links to telephone numbers, addresses, email addresses, and other communication-related information in the Web page detected by a data detector portion of the Web browser to further enhance usability of the Web page information for mobile device users. Further, once a link is selected using the mobile device, a services portal link is provided to the mobile device display to provide selection of services to be performed on the selected link, such as faxing or printing.
US07797444B2
A data transfer apparatus and a data transfer system are provided that can reduce the cost of installing communication equipment compatible with each of several dissimilar communication protocols in one exchange office and can reduce the cost of constructing the network. The data transfer apparatus includes a data reception device (110) that receives packets that comply with dissimilar communication protocols from upstream data transfer apparatuses (51, 52, and 53); a content data extraction device (120) that extracts content data included in the packets; a line selection information storage device (130) that stores the line selection information for selecting communication lines that comply with dissimilar communication protocols; a line selection device (140) that selects the communication line compatible with content data based on the line selection information; and a data transfer device (150) that transfers data to downstream data transfer apparatuses (61, 62, and 63) that are connected to the communication line that has been selected by the line selection device.
US07797443B1
An improved system and method for detecting spam e-mail over a distributed network is disclosed. The distributed network includes multiple servers that receive and process e-mail messages for a multiple remotely located clients. The system includes multiple packet sniffers that are each located on a unique one of servers. The packet sniffers extract originating IP addresses associated with e-mail messages that are communicated to the clients over the network. The system further includes a central monitor that communicates with the packet sniffers and that monitors data regarding originating IP addresses. The monitor determines whether an originating IP address has exceeded a threshold value and may take corrective measures in response, such as generating an alert to a spam analyst or blocking messages originating from that IP address. By leveraging data from several different clients, the system can detect and stop spam messages for an IP address even if a spammer has not targeted a specific customer.
US07797432B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for sharing session state information between the web page generation infrastructures. A web page generation infrastructure receives a request for a web page from a client computer system, where the request is directed to one of the other web page generation infrastructures. The managing web page generation infrastructure accesses a session state container to determine whether session state information for an existing session with the client exists. The computer system transfers the request and the state information to an object configured to interface with the other web page generation infrastructure. The computer system receives a response to the request and modified session state information from the object. The managing web page generation infrastructure copies the modified session state information to the session state container. The managing web page generation infrastructure returns the response to the client computer system.
US07797422B1
A method and data structure for monitoring the progression of a configuration transaction through a communications network is provided. The method includes creating an audit trail associated with the switch-transaction progression, iteratively updating the audit trail incident to an occurrence of a designated transaction-processing substep without overwriting previously stored data, and processing the audit trail so that it is available for access via a user interface. Historical data tracking the configuration transaction's process is preserved rather than overwritten.
US07797413B2
Systems and processes of the present invention allow for digital identity registration. In an example embodiment, a Registrant may access a website to enter a requested digital identity and registration information. The requested digital identity may comprise a piece of client software, a digital certificate, or a URL comprising any combination of characters—perhaps including a domain name that may be owned by the Registrant. A Digital Identity Database may then be searched to determine the availability of the requested digital identity. If the requested digital identity includes a domain name, WHOIS records may be searched to determine whether the Registrant owns and/or controls the domain name. The Registrant's registration information also may be validated. The requested digital identity may then be registered to the Registrant, possibly by adding the requested digital identity to the Digital Identity Database and/or adding the registration information to a Records database.
US07797408B2
A method and system for operating a network server to discourage inappropriate use are disclosed. A server is connected to a plurality of connected client devices, and is configured to transfer information between any selected one of the client devices and a memory for static storage of information. The method comprises the steps of receiving a request to transfer a file between the memory and one of the plurality of client devices, removing a packet comprising a defined number of information bits from the file, transferring the packet between the memory and the client device per the request, then pausing for a defined delay period, and repeating the removing, transferring, and pausing steps in order until all of the file has been transferred. Preferably, the method further comprises increasing the defined delay period after each execution of a packet transfer cycle, thereby discouraging the transfer of unacceptably large files. The delay period may be initiated, and the amount of increase or other adjustment to the delay period during the transfer cycle may be controlled, by selected a predetermined value from a table, or by calculating a value based on variable input parameters such as the file size, server load, network response time, and number of transfer requests from the client device within a defined prior period. The number of information bits in the packet may similarly be initiated, and adjusted during the transfer cycle. The system comprises the server having an application for performing the method according to the invention.
US07797404B1
A method for configuring a new server with a server configuration, such as a storage configuration, backup configuration, etc. The method may automatically detect presence of a new server coupled to a network and then automatically determine one or more attributes, such as available storage, of the new server. The method may then automatically determine one or more server configurations for the new server. For example, software may examine existing server configurations stored in a repository or database to determine if one or more of the existing server configurations are usable for configuring the server, e.g., based at least in part on the determined attributes of the new server. If the user accepts a server configuration, software may then operate to automatically configure the new server accordingly. Embodiments are included for adding server configurations to the repository. A global server configuration repository is also contemplated.
US07797403B2
A system and methods providing the automated configuration management and configuration information communication/deployment for a business process server computing application operating in a distributed computing environment is provided. In an illustrative implementation, a configuration management and configuration information communication/deployment tool operating in a distributed computing environment allows cooperating parties cooperating to operate a business process server computing application to more easily and efficiently update the configuration information of one or components of the business process server computing application responsive to changes in business practice changes between the cooperating parties. In the contemplated implementation, packages are requested by the cooperating parties using the configuration tool. The packages contain information indicative of desired business practice changes and the information required to reconfigure the business application to accommodate such changes. The tool allows for closed loop and real-time testing of the configuration changes.
US07797384B2
The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for dynamically restructuring a named collaborative context. In a system for dynamically restructuring a named collaborative context, a named collaborative space having a composition of collaborators, roles, tools and resources can be coupled to a workflow engine. The workflow engine can be configured to process workflow templates. Restructuring logic further can be included in the system and can be programmed to rearrange the named collaborative space with a different composition responsive to a workflow step change specified by a workflow template for the named collaborative space and processed in the workflow engine. Notably, a portal view can be configured to provide a user interface to the named collaborative space. In this regard, the tools can include logical components embodied in a portlet disposed in the portal view.
US07797383B2
Techniques for dynamically mapping source video streams of sources to the requested destination video streams based on a policy are provided. The source video streams that are mapped to the destination video streams are changed based on events that cause changes in the mapping based on the policy. The mappings may be managed by a media switch remote from the end device or by an event aware stream router associated with the end device. The mappings are used to display images of participants associated with the source video streams where position changes in images displayed are minimized when events occur.
US07797379B2
A system and method for preventing unwanted communications. A communication is received from a sending party. A user input indicating the communication is to be filtered is received. Filtering information is retrieved from the communication. The communication and future communications are filtered based on filtering information. The filtering information is communicated to multiple telecommunications platforms registered with a user. The multiple telecommunications platforms are prevented from receiving the future communications based on the filtering information.
US07797378B2
A system for enabling on-line creation of greeting cards and distribution of the cards with gifts also purchased on-line includes a server system and one or more client systems. The server system is accessible online and enables network users to select and customize electronic versions of greeting cards. The customizations to the cards, as well as data identifying the card, the network user, the card recipient, and a vendor, are transmitted to a client system located at the vendor's distribution facilities. The transmitted information is utilized to print the card in hard copy form for shipment by the vendor to the designated recipient. In the disclosed system, a network user may view the card including any customizations in WYSIWYG format.
US07797377B2
The invention provides a method, system and computer-readable medium for storing images with related information in a relational database and using the information to order available products for a selected image over a network. A unique identifier is generated for each image, allowing different types of searches of the relational database to be performed including product-based and image-based searches. A selection of a returned image causes a cut-down version of the image and all available products to be displayed on a page. If a product is selected, a server enables a transaction for a user to order the selected product. A HTTP Cookie may be employed to store a user identifier, allowing use of user profiles for customization of particular options and displayed products.
US07797374B2
An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a system and method for providing digital messaging services received from multiple sources over a communications network. The system includes a client system, including a display screen coupled to a communications link; a workstation including a web browser, a memory, and a processor, said workstation coupled to said communications link; a hosting system, including a graphics server, a content server, and a scheduling server, each in communication with each other via a communications link; and a workstation and data storage device coupled to the communications link; and a data storage device for storing data utilized by said hosting system.The client system requests and receives digital messaging services from said hosting system under a subscription agreement. Digital messaging services include advertisements procured from said client system, and one or more local content providers, national advertisers, local advertisers, corporate marketing groups, and advertising agencies. Interactive digital messaging services are also available through the present invention. A user accesses these services via a variety of input devices; such as a bar code scanner, a wireless telephone or personal digital assistant, a kiosk with touch screen design, microphone, or other similar input device.
US07797372B2
An application serving system is disclosed that comprises a target client computer that connects to a server system and subscribing institution host Web Server, over a network. Both the client computer Web server and server system implement a network protocol layer to communicate across the network. In a preferred embodiment, network is the Internet, or other public or private network, and the network protocol layers are implemented on top of TCP/IP or UDP/IP. Other network configurations and network protocols layers, however, could be implemented in place or in addition to the Internet such as wireless CDPD, GPRS, or other networks. The target, client computer is preferably a PC.
US07797367B1
The Wireless Integrated Network Sensor Next Generation (WINS NG) nodes provide distributed network and Internet access to sensors, controls, and processors that are deeply embedded in equipment, facilities, and the environment. The WINS NG network is a new monitoring and control capability for applications in transportation, manufacturing, health care, environmental monitoring, and safety and security. The WINS NG nodes combine microsensor technology, low power distributed signal processing, low power computation, and low power, low cost wireless and/or wired networking capability in a compact system. The WINS NG networks provide sensing, local control, remote reconfigurability, and embedded intelligent systems in structures, materials, and environments.
US07797359B1
Recursive data naming is disclosed. A name is provided corresponding to a desired data item. A get procedure is defined, and is used upon the name. The get procedure recursively uses itself upon the metadata name, to retrieve a metadata item associated with the desired data item. The get procedure retrieves the desired data item.
US07797351B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating a data input template. A system captures data objects and event objects communicated between a client and an application program, stores a copy of the captured objects, and generates a template based on the stored objects. The client interface has a hierarchical structure. Each data object includes an address identifier specifying a location within this hierarchical structure with which it is associated, and metadata is generated based on this address identifier. Each event object includes a record of one or more actions performed by a user, and metadata is generated based on this record. The metadata is used in structuring the template, enabling the template to correspond to the hierarchical structure of the client interface. The template can be used to generate a web services description language document, which can be provided to third party users over a network.
US07797349B2
A method for managing a user interface (UI) string table, comprising placing a UI string table at a string table management unit; administrator(s) editing the UI string table through an administrator interface of a UI string table manager; and read-only users (ROUs) accessing the UI string table through a ROU interface of the UI string table manager.The XML-formatted string table manager tool for printers and other devices is used by administrators to maintain the string table and by software and QA engineers to access it, possibly remotely. The result is a more efficient localization process, by eliminating the manual sharing and merging of multiple string tables by the localization team.Methods also include hierarchical organization into top, language, tab, dialog, and string levels; optional string ID number; add, edit, remove, search features; automatic selection and insertion of hotkey character for a new English and Asian language string; and a string table server to which local copies are synchronized.
US07797346B2
A method is provided for encoding string-based data types, which have, for example, a tree-type structure, in such a way that signal bits (flags) for optional sections and/or for length information concerning the codes that are of variable length are placed in a defined sequence at the beginning of the created bitstream, thus accelerating the search for data via a sorting process and bit mask queries. A more efficient encoding is also provided of the #position field by, among other things, the assignment of code fragments for each group of regular expressions.
US07797341B2
In a method of preserving characteristics of desensitized database information for use in database management system benchmarking, at least one column of sensitive data from a database is accessed. The at least one column of sensitive data is sorted into a sorted data representation. Desensitized data is generated by sequentially mapping ascending different values of the sorted data representation to ascending desensitized values generated according to a strictly monotone increasing randomly generated function. The mapping results in a plurality of mapped desensitized values which are associated with the sorted data representation. The mapped desensitized values are unsorted into a desensitized database according to sorting information related to the sorted data representation. As a result of the unsorting, cardinalities of the at least one column of sensitive data are maintained within the desensitized database.
US07797339B2
Embodiments of the invention provide methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for providing security architecture for content management systems. An audit log table separates security concerns in framework code from application concerns in application code. Application developers place database access code in stored procedures. Each stored procedure records a unique identifier for each object involved in the database access code into an audit log, for later security checking by framework code. After executing the stored procedure, the framework code determines whether the stored procedure was authorized by checking the audit log and access control lists stored in the database. If not, an access violation error may be returned and the database may be rolled back.
US07797336B2
A system, method, and computer program product of enabling a user to organize and analyze information in electronic form are described herein. The method operates by searching a first set of documents to thereby generate a second set of documents. The method automatically creates a first group comprising the second set of documents. The method analyzes the first group according to one or more analytical functions to thereby generate a third set of documents. The method automatically creates a second group comprising the third set of documents. The method enables selective iteration of any of these operational steps. The method also generates objects corresponding to process components of this work flow. The user can re-execute the work flow (process) by traversing the objects, or create a new process by modifying the objects.
US07797330B2
The present invention is provided with a text string/material correspondence table in which material data for creating computer graphics is associated with a set of the material names of material data, and a hierarchical structural description which describes a feature of material data in a hierarchical structure. Material data corresponding to the feature is searched using the hierarchical structural description when a feature is input, searched material data is stored, and searched material data and the material name of material data are registered with the text string/material correspondence table. Material data corresponding to the material name is acquired using the text string/material correspondence table when a material name is input, and computer graphics are created using acquired material data.
US07797329B2
A method for committing memory transactions in an application that includes executing a plurality of sections of the application in parallel, logging a plurality of memory transactions that occur while executing the plurality of sections to obtain a plurality of logs and a plurality of temporary results, wherein the plurality of memory transactions that includes a plurality of writes to at least one memory location, comparing the plurality of logs to identify an optimal list of writes from the plurality of writes, and committing memory transactions corresponding to a subset of the plurality of temporary results, wherein the subset of the plurality of temporary results is identified by the optimal list of writes.
US07797324B2
A document retrieval system performing retrieval of electronic documents includes, a document database storing a plurality of pieces of document data, a transposed index storage device storing a transposed index in which the document numbers of the document data containing a keyword string are registered, a document number subsequence search start address table storage device storing a document number subsequence search start address indicating a position where an assigned document group start document number is recorded, a document retrieval managing unit having document number subsequence acquisition request means for transmitting the total number of documents, and a plurality of the document number subsequence acquisition apparatuses having assigned document group determination means for determining a document group in a sequence in accordance with the preset apparatus number of a local apparatus as the assigned document group.
US07797323B1
A file is divided into plural segments, and for each of at least some of the plural segments, plural windows covering different portions of the corresponding segment are defined. According to a predefined criterion, one of the windows associated with the corresponding segment is selected. A representative hash based on the portion in the selected window is calculated for representing the corresponding segment.
US07797316B2
A system determines a freshness of a first document. The system determines whether a freshness attribute is associated with the first document. The system identifies, based on the determination, a set of second documents that each contain a link to the first document. The system assigns a freshness score to the first document based on a freshness attribute associated with each document of the set of second documents or the freshness attribute associated with the first document.
US07797313B1
A method and system for generating ranking criteria used to rank items in a computer system. The ranking criteria is based, at least in part, on storage information related to each of the items to be ranked. The storage information includes a storage parameter and/or a backup parameter. In one embodiment, a list of items is received in which storage information associated with each of the items is gathered. The items are ranked according to a relationship between the determined ranking criteria and at least the storage information associated with each of the items.
US07797312B2
A database comprising a plurality of tables is interrogated by generating a database query, and a data map, the data map describing the structure of table instances implicated in the database query. Next, the database query is submitted to the database. A response is received from the database. The data map is traversed so as to iteratively apply a data extraction process to components of the response corresponding to each table instance associated with the database query, thereby extracting the required data from the response.
US07797311B2
Mechanisms for organizing scenario solution-related information based upon a user's locality are provided. Locality refers to a collection of metadata created based upon scenario solutions executed by a user and/or enablers acquired by a user during scenario solution execution. Such metadata may be stored in association with a scenario solution execution workspace and/or in association with a user-specific information store. Once such information is acquired, a user may desire to share the information, or a portion thereof, with one or more other users, for instance, the members of a user group. However, often times, the user would prefer that the information not be made available to the general public. Thus, mechanisms for controlling access to user-specific information are also provided.
US07797309B2
A system and method for law enforcement query entry that enables universal platform access without requiring specialized platform software by utilizing a keystroke efficient lexicon for data entry that is converted to standardized search commands by a back end server and by displaying search results in accordance with user, platform, network, and data security constraints.
US07797306B1
The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate subscription, delivery, processing, and reception of notification services. A global service framework is provided that operates in conjunction with a notification platform architecture to deliver information from one or more event sources to one or more notification sinks that receive information from the services. The global framework includes discovery and description components that provide information relating to available notification services. Subscriptions can be obtained via subscription events, whereby notifications can be delivered via notification events, wherein such events can be modeled as part of the global service framework. Various communications protocols can also be provided to facilitate communications with the notification services and global services framework. Furthermore, various notification delivery protocols can be provided that operate with structured database technologies to facilitate bulk message delivery and service in a reliable manner while mitigating network problems such as delivering notifications under power-interrupting conditions.
US07797299B2
The invention teaches systems, methods and devices for searching data storage systems and devices. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US07797290B2
A database reorganization program to reorganize a database with minimizing memory consumption. When a command for reorganizing a database is issued, a record reorganization unit sequentially selects a page of a basic area with reference to an index, and moves the records of the selected page into new destination pages of an expanded database with reference to an expansion index. In addition, the record reorganization unit updates a page state table showing a reorganization progress for each page of the database.
US07797287B2
The present invention relates to systems, methods, and user interfaces for browsing a collection of content items saved by a user or by one or more buddies associated with a given user. The method of the present invention comprises saving one or more content items and one or more associated keywords as specified by a user. An interface is generated that displays the one or more saved content items and the one or more associated keywords, as well as the one or more buddies associated with a given user. A user indication of the selection of a given keyword or the selection of a given buddy by the user is received. The one or more displayed content items are filtered according to the selected keyword, buddy, or combination of selected keyword and buddy.
US07797281B1
A system and method for performing a granular restore of data objects from a directory service is disclosed. In one embodiment, at the time a backup of the directory services database is performed, a metadata file with index values for some data objects is created. The metadata file may include an index of the name and an object identifier for each included data object. During granular restore of one or more data objects selected for restoration, the corresponding object identifier is retrieved from the metadata file using the name of the data object. The object identifier is then used to restore the data object in the directory service.
US07797277B2
A document management system acquires a document which is associated to a document ID specified by an access request; generates a new document ID which is associated with the acquired document; and outputs the acquired document and the new document ID to a request origin. The document management system registers associative information on the request origin, the new document ID, and the document ID specified by the access request; generates a new document ID which is associated with a document corresponding to a transferred document ID; replaces the transferred document ID with the new document ID, to cause the new document ID to be transferred to a transfer destination; and registers associative information on a transfer source, the new document ID after replacement, the document ID before replacement, and the transfer destination.
US07797271B1
An arbitrary number of custom catalogs for an arbitrary number of customers can be published from a single database of seller catalog data. Custom browse hierarchies can be generated for each of the custom catalogs. The custom catalogs are subsets of the catalog database, and are generated in accordance with a set of rules that defines the scope of the content of the custom catalog. The rule sets define a series of sequential searches by which a subset of the product SKUs contained in the database are returned. A primary hierarchy is maintained that can have a scope coextensive with the primary database. Custom browse hierarchies can be pruned to render their scope approximately coextensive with each subset. The custom catalog subsets and the custom browse hierarchies are generated periodically through a virtual publication process.
US07797265B2
Documents from a data stream are clustered by first generating a feature vector for each document. A set of cluster centroids (e.g., feature vectors of their corresponding clusters) are retrieved from a memory based on the feature vector of the document using a locality sensitive hashing function. The centroids may be retrieved by retrieving a set of cluster identifiers from a cluster table, the cluster identifiers each indicative of a respective cluster centroid, and retrieving the cluster centroids corresponding to the retrieved cluster identifiers from a memory. Documents may then be clustered into one or more of the candidate clusters using distance measures from the feature vector of the document to the cluster centroids.
US07797264B2
Data expressed as tabular data having columns and rows can be analyzed and data determined to be an exception can be flagged. In addition, reasons for flagging such data as exceptions can be presented to a user to facilitate further analysis and action on the data. A predictive analysis component can utilize a clustering algorithm with predictive capabilities to autonomously analyze the data. Periodic re-analysis of the data can be performed to determine if exceptions have changed based on new or modified data.
US07797262B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that determines the complexity of a transaction between a first entity and a second entity. The system starts by determining a first probability of success for a portion of the transaction which is associated with actions of the first entity. The system then determines a second probability of success for a portion of the transaction which is associated with actions of the second entity. The system next calculates a transactional complexity for the transaction based on the first probability of success and the second probability of success.
US07797258B1
A graphics system includes a transposer. A read scheduler utilizes a minimum cost analysis to schedule a read transfer order for the transposer to minimize the total number of passes required to process a set of input vectors.
US07797248B1
An electronic transit fare payment system is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of mobile devices adapted to store a transit fare payment application and a server in wireless communication with the mobile devices. The transit fare payment application decrements a transit fare funds balance by a fare amount after completing a transit ride, wirelessly requests a top-up of the transit funds balance when the transit funds balance drops below a threshold, wirelessly receives a top-up instruction, increments the transit fare funds balance in response to executing the top-up instruction, and wirelessly transmits a top-up confirmation. The server receives the request for the top-up, charges the top-up to a credit card associated with the mobile device requesting the top-up, transmits the top-up instruction to the mobile device requesting the top-up, receives the top-up confirmation. When the top-up confirmation is not received, the server requests top-up confirmation from the mobile device. When the mobile device does not reply to the request, the server analyzes a transit fare transaction history associated with the mobile device to determine that the top-up has completed. When the top-up is not confirmed, the server rolls-back the charge of the top-up to the credit card associated with the mobile device.
US07797241B2
A system and a method of publishing an product document for clients for the purpose of publicly disclosing an invention to end users on the Global Information Network. The system includes a first Web site system having a publicly accessible database for storing a plurality of product documents received from clients. The Web site also includes a search engine accessible to the end user. The search engine is in electronic communication with the database and can receive a search request the end user, allowing the end user access to one or more of the product documents. The product document preferably includes a primary text file and attachment files which may include drawing files. The product documents may be digitally notarized and time/date stamped.
US07797240B2
An information management system is described comprising one or more workstations running applications to allow a user of the workstation to connect to a network, such as the Internet. Each application has an analyzer, which monitors transmission data that the application is about to transmit to the network or about to receive from the network and which determines an appropriate action to take regarding that transmission data. Such actions may be extracting data from the transmission data, such as passwords and usernames, digital certificates or eCommerce transaction details for storage in a database; ensuring that the transmission data is transmitted at an encryption strength appropriate to the contents of the transmission data; determining whether a check needs to be made as to whether a digital certificate received in transmission data is in force, and determining whether a transaction about to be made by a user of one of the workstations needs third party approval before it is made. The analyzer may consult a policy data containing a policy to govern the workstations in order to make its determination. The information management system provides many advantages in the eCommerce environment to on-line trading companies, who may benefit by being able to regulate the transactions made by their staff according to their instructions in a policy data, automatically maintain records of passwords and business conducted on-line, avoid paying for unnecessary checks on the validity of digital certificates and ensure that transmissions of data made by their staff are always protected at an agreed strength of encryption.
US07797237B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic financial transaction system and method providing a real-time authentication service through a wire/wireless communication network that is provided with an electronic slip processing function and a deposit account, so electronic financial transaction users can authenticate electronic financial transactions in real time. The system and method of the present invention is provided with an electronic slip processing function. Accordingly, electronic financial transaction users can authenticate electronic financial transactions in real time using electronic slips without temporal and spatial restrictions, so electronic financial transactions can be safely, conveniently and rapidly carried out Additionally, an approval authority can approve financial transactions in real time without temporal and spatial restrictions, so a multi-approval function through a mobile communication network is provided to prevent a leakage of information and a misappropriation of money.
US07797231B1
Methods and systems are provided for offering loans to users at a point-of-purchase transaction. Such loans are typically offered upon the decline of a user-tendered payment, for example of a credit or debit card or check, and typically at a retail physical location point of sale and/or at a retail website point of sale. The loan offer process is desirably integrated with the merchant's payment processing system. Term sets can be pre-established between the merchant and the loan offerer. Processing to determine whether to offer a loan and under which set of terms is desirably automated such that the decision can be made in substantially real time to motivate the completion of what might constitute an otherwise failed transaction.
US07797228B2
A system and method are provided for calculating and displaying volume to identify aggressive buying or selling activity. In a preferred embodiment, market information such as the inside market, last traded price, and last traded quantity is received from the electronic exchange and is used to assist a trader in determining the initiative side of a trade, either bid side or ask side. Once a determination is made, the result may be used to assist a trader analyzing the market volume. Other features and advantages are described herein.
US07797226B2
An interactive grid-based graphical trading system for use in securities trading provides a dynamic, visual display of trading data consisting of orders, quotes and indices, for any security and for any number of market participants. The trading data are plotted on a grid consisting of cells arranged in rows and columns, which are associated with specific parameters. Distinct visual presentation styles are used, and differences in the price parameter are represented spatially. The values of the price and other parameters associated with the same orders and quotes are mapped against the values associated with the rows and columns of the grid. A trader may place or modify trading orders by interacting with the trading data displayed on the grid, and with specific GUI objects displayed on the same grid. Trading instructions are generated and transmitted to a market participant, in a manner transparent to the trader.
US07797218B2
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.
US07797215B1
Exemplary systems and methods for analyzing and searching financial instrument data respond to user defined searches using updated financial market data. Potential returns from different investment strategies can be viewed together so that the returns and risks can be compared and contrasted. The effect on various option strategies of a change in the price of the underlying stock can be analyzed. Potential investment opportunities relating to an existing investment position can be identified. Stock repair opportunities relating to a selected stock investment can be identified and implemented.
US07797207B1
A system analyzes multiple financial accounts having a common account holder and identifies a particular attribute, such as interest rate, associated with each of the multiple financial accounts. The system then makes a determination regarding whether an adjustment of funds among the multiple financial accounts would benefit the account holder. If the adjustment of funds would benefit the account holder, then recommending the adjustment of funds to the account holder and offering to perform the recommended adjustment of funds. The system executes the adjustment of funds if the account holder accepts the offer to perform the recommended adjustment of funds.
US07797202B1
A method of selling excess component inventory between manufacturers wherein a provider provides a forum wherein users may sell components anonymously in a closed sale by using a pseudonym or, preferably, a pseudo-account number. Further, other identifying information, such as any part numbers used internally by the seller are masked.
US07797201B2
An order-reception system has: an order-reception subsystem which receives, from a customer, customer order information including order-reception information and/or support request information and customer information; a business management subsystem having a customer-information database storing the customer information including information regarding a price of a commodity purchased frequently by the customer, and a cost of a support requested frequently by the customer, the price and the cost set by a seller; an order-entry subsystem which performs an order-reception processing based on the customer order information; and a delivery subsystem which arranges delivery of the commodity and providing of the support.
US07797196B1
Embodiments of the invention relate to a method, system, and storage medium for providing automated purchasing and delivery services. The method includes performing analysis of electronic activities conducted by a network user, inferring an intent to execute a transaction by the network user, and executing the transaction on behalf of the network user. The analysis includes comparing the electronic activities with previously-conducted electronic activities, and applying user-defined policies to the electronic activities.
US07797191B2
This invention relates to the methods of coordinating and tracking product and service demonstrations. An event coordinator directs event operators to conduct a product or service demonstration event. The event coordinator provides event operators with cards, such as debit cards, credit cards, or smart cards, to purchase items needed for the demonstration. The event operator contacts a card administration system to activate the card. The card administration system verifies that the provided card ID and event ID are valid, and associates an authorized budget of the demonstration event with the card. The event operator then purchases items with the card, and conducts demonstrations. Event data is provided to the parties involved in the demonstration such as a product manufacturer or service provider, the event coordinator, a staffing agency, the event operator, and a retail store. The event data includes, for example, items purchased for demonstration using the card, items purchased by customers during the demonstrations, and time information.
US07797182B2
A method and apparatus for providing a triangulated forecast comprises receiving a sales forecasts from at least three sources, and triangulating the sales forecasts to obtain a triangulated forecast. The method further comprises presenting the resulting triangulated forecast.
US07797177B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for integrated decision support is disclosed. The method includes receiving decision inputs. The method also includes converting the received decision inputs to graph representations and mathematical representations. The method further includes decomposing the converted decision inputs to sub-problems. The method further includes detecting strongly-connected components associated with the sub-problems. The strongly-connected components represent the sub-problems that are coupled. The method further includes solving the sub-problems.
US07797168B2
Participants in an interactive environment implemented by computer networks and other media such as interactive television are recruited to advertise products and brands to the other participants and viewers that are users of the media. Each participant may select from a set of available advertisements, which can be displayed in association with the user's avatar, virtual space and virtual objects within or embodying the virtual world. Participants are given incentives to do this by the availability of rewards, such as coupons, real or virtual money or other resources, which are provided by the advertising sponsors, based on adoption of the advertising by the participant, as well as on factors such as exposure of the selected advertisements to other users. Allowing the users to exercise advertising choice, as participant or viewer, the invention also facilitates collection of data regarding consumer preferences.
US07797167B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods for presenting personalized custom product designs to the customers of a second company. Email content promoting customizable products and containing images of product designs is prepared by the product vendor and supplied to a second company. The second company creates and sends an email containing the content to customers of the second company. If a recipient of the email selects one of the product images presented in the email, an identifier of the selected image and information about the email recipient are forwarded to the product vendor. The received recipient information is incorporated into the selected design to create a customized product design, which is displayed to the recipient for review.
US07797157B2
Channel normalization for automatic speech recognition is provided. Statistics are measured from an initial portion of a speech utterance. Feature normalization parameters are estimated based on the measured statistics and a statistically derived mapping relating measured statistics and feature normalization parameters. In some examples, the measured statistics comprise measures of an energy from the initial portion of the speech utterance. In some examples, measures of the energy comprise extreme values of the energy.
US07797149B2
An embodiment of the present invention describes a method and system for using related data from external systems employing incompatible character sets to affect a business process. For one embodiment, a first external system uses a first character set. A first data set is received from the first external system, the first data set using the first character set. A second external system uses a second character set. A second data set is received from the second external system, the second data set using the second character set. The first data set and the second data set are converted to use a third character set, the third character set a superset of the first character set and the second character set. The first data set and the second data set, as converted and integrated, are then used to effect one or more business processes. For one embodiment, the third character set is Unicode.
US07797147B2
Model-based system monitoring includes accessing a model of a system that includes multiple components and identifying relationships among the multiple components based on the model of the system. A proposed change to at least one of the multiple components is identified. A determination is made regarding an expected impact on the system caused by the proposed change. This determination is made, at least in part, based on the model of the system.
US07797143B2
A method, apparatus and program product to facilitate the analysis and monitoring of stream and river conditions, with emphasis on Natural Channel Design. To this end, the invention uses and processes channel data to provide analysis and monitoring information and optimized channel design information. The channel data is automatically accessed from a database that includes channel data derived from a plurality of geomorphological sources and user inputs. The channel data is located and otherwise determined in response to user input and is used to derive optimized channel design information. This channel design information may be used to implement specific preventive and restorative practices appropriate to realize stable and ecologically appropriate characteristics for a given target reach.
US07797139B2
A method of scheduling cyclic steaming of petroleum-containing wells including: inputting to a production-predictor data describing the past cyclic steaming and resulting production of wells; processing the data in the production-predictor and outputting production predictions for the wells during a future steaming cycle; inputting the production predictions into an optimizer; inputting an initial steaming Optimal Cycle Length schedule for the wells into the optimizer; processing the production predictions and the initial steaming cycle schedule in the optimizer by: determining a ranking for the initial steaming cycle schedule for the production predictions against a pre-determined ranking criteria; producing new steaming cycle schedules based on the ranking of the initial steaming cycle a schedule optimization algorithm; determining a ranking for the new steaming schedules against the ranking criteria; repeating the production of schedules and determining ranking steps until some pre-determined termination criteria is met.
US07797136B2
A method and system to evaluate process objects for acceptability for use. New metrics that measure both object components and their relationships are used. The method selects metrics for the process objects that measure both the components and their relationships, compares measurements of the selected metrics with corresponding metric norms, and, based on the comparison, determines whether the process objects are acceptable. The system includes a memory to store metrics and process objects and a processor to select applicable metrics for the process objects, calculate the measurements of the selected metrics, compare the measurements to corresponding metric norms, and, based on the comparison, determine whether the process objects are acceptable.
US07797128B2
A method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for calibrating rivet height gages. In one embodiment, the process calculates a size of sphere required to create a sphere-based ring gage to simulate a contact point between a rivet height gage and a sharp edge of a specified sharp-edged ring gage. The process identifies an expected protrusion height from a top of the rivet height gage to a reference surface formed by tops of a set of spheres of the size of sphere required to simulate the contact point.
US07797124B2
A dive computer with a free dive mode and/or wireless data transmission capabilities. In one embodiment the invention relates to a diving apparatus including a dive computer having a free dive mode, where the dive computer is configured to calculate a nitrogen loading in the free dive mode using a default value which is the fraction of oxygen in air, and where the free dive mode is used when a diver makes a dive without a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Another embodiment includes a method of operating a dive computer including recording two or more first identifiers, receiving pressure information from two or more pressure transmitters, the pressure information comprising second identifiers and pressure measurements, determining whether the pressure information contains one of the two or more first identifiers, and displaying a message indicative of the pressure information that contains one of the two or more first identifiers.
US07797123B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides systems and techniques to extract assume properties from a constrained random test-bench. During operation, the system can receive a constrained random test-bench for verifying the design-under-test (DUT), wherein the constrained random test-bench includes a statement which assigns a random value to a random variable according to a constraint. Next, the system can modify the constrained random test-bench by replacing the statement with another statement which assigns a free input variable's value to the random variable. The system can also add a statement to the constrained random test-bench that toggles a marker variable to localize the scope of the statement. The system can then generate an assume property which models the constraint on the free input variable. The assume property can then be used by a formal property verification tool to verify the DUT.
US07797115B2
Capacitive detection systems, modules, and methods. In one embodiment, time interval measurement(s) are generated that are monotonic functions of the capacitance(s) of capacitive sensor(s) in a capacitive sensing area. In one embodiment, the generated time interval measurement(s), or any other monotonic function(s) of capacitance(s) of capacitive sensor(s) in a capacitive sensing area, may be analyzed to detect the presence of an object near the capacitive sensing area and/or to detect the position of an object near the capacitive sensing area.
US07797110B2
A Laplace transform system comprising a processor, a measured time domain wavefield, a velocity model, and Laplace damping constants, wherein the processor is programmed to calculate a substantially about zero frequency component of a Fourier transform of a time domain damped wavefield, wherein the time domain damped wavefield is damped by the Laplace damping constants to obtain long wavelength velocity information for deeper subsurface regions.
US07797097B2
When it is determined that fuel in use is low-cetane fuel or a present location point is at a high altitude, a map of rich combustion, exhaust gas fuel addition or a post-injection is rewritten on the occasion of reduction of NOx to inhibit a misfire. Also, deterioration of fuel consumption due to regeneration of a diesel particulate filter is inhibited by suppressing excessive discharge of smoke due to the rich combustion. Thus, an exhaust purification device of an internal combustion engine capable of achieving both of inhibition of the deterioration in the fuel consumption due to the regeneration of the diesel particulate filter and inhibition of torque shock accompanying the misfire during the rich combustion for the NOx reduction is provided.
US07797082B2
An apparatus, method, and computer program for stiction compensation in a process control system are provided. A determination is made as to whether a valve is suffering from stiction. A control signal provided to the valve is adjusted in order to at least partially compensate for the stiction suffered by the valve. Adjusting the control signal could include (i) adjusting the control signal to cause the valve to move into a steady-state position and (ii) adjusting the control signal to cause the valve to remain in the steady-state position. Adjusting the control signal to cause the valve to move into the steady-state position could include (a) adjusting the control signal to cause the valve to move from a current position into a new position and (b) adjusting the control signal to cause the valve to move from the new position into the steady-state position.
US07797077B2
A system and method for managing vending inventory of digital video discs is provided. A plurality of digital video discs are stored in a plurality of storage compartments, wherein each of the compartments corresponds to a type of digital video disc. An inventory descriptor is generated, wherein the descriptor identifies a set of digital video discs. The inventory descriptor is scanned, causing a conveyor to convey the set of digital video discs from the storage compartments to a vending delivery module. The set of digital video discs is secured within the vending delivery module.
US07797075B1
A method of optimizing a flow process in resin transfer molding can include the steps of pre-infusing a vacuum-assisted resin transfer mold with a liquid. A sequence of the mold pre-infusion step is detected, from which a flow inhomogeneity adjacent the auxiliary infusion gate is determined. Such a flow inhomogeneity can include, for example, a region where air bubbles can collect, leaving a dry spot in the mold that is not adequately reached by flowing liquid or resin. A resin infusion sequence can then be created, including an opening of the auxiliary infusion gate following a passage of resin therepast to prevent the formation of dry spots.
US07797068B2
A defect probability calculating method includes assuming a plurality of process conditions containing process variations caused in a process of forming a pattern on a substrate based on a design pattern, acquiring appearance probabilities of the respective process conditions, performing process simulation to predict a pattern to be formed on a substrate based on the design pattern for each of the process conditions, determining whether the pattern predicted by performing the process simulation satisfies preset criteria for each of the process conditions, and acquiring first probability by adding together appearance probabilities of the process conditions used for process simulation of patterns which are determined not to satisfy the preset criteria.
US07797065B2
A digital audio processor for a digital audio receiver having an improved automute sequence is disclosed. The digital audio processor includes automute detection circuitry that monitors the amplitude of digital audio signals before and after the application of digital filters by digital audio processing circuitry. The amplitude of the input signals are compared against a first threshold level, while the amplitude of the output signals are compared against a second threshold level. In response to the amplitude of the input signals for all of the audio channels falling below the first threshold for a selected time period, a gain stage in each channel ramps down the volume to a mute level, and pulse-width-modulation circuitry is disabled. If the output signal amplitude falls below a second threshold for a channel, the pulse-width-modulation circuitry for that channel is disabled. Hysteresis for the input signal amplitude is preferably added into the automute exit determination.
US07797061B2
A redundant fieldbus system provides power and communications in a parallel physical configuration between the host system and attached field devices irrespective of any single point failure in the network. In case of a fault, the redundant fieldbus system automatically eliminates the faulty section of the network, switches power and communications to the healthy portion of the network and terminates the network for signal integrity. A device coupler for the system may include a fault detector coupled to an auto-termination circuit that terminates a fieldbus cable when a fault is detected. The device coupler may include fault detection and isolation coupled to each set of spur terminals used to connect field devices to the device coupler. A field device for the system may include circuitry for deselecting a faulty cable while maintaining connection to a healthy cable.
US07797056B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for occluding or closing a patent foramen ovale of a patient (PFO). The invention includes a catheter carrying an energy delivery element. The catheter introduces the energy delivery element into the patent foramen ovale of a patient's heart. Once appropriately positioned, the energy delivery element applies energy, such as radiofrequency energy, to the tissues surrounding the patent foramen ovale. The application of energy causes the tissues to join together, occluding the patent foramen ovale. The energy delivery element may be removable or permanently implanted in the patent foramen ovale.
US07797051B2
A method of generating a control signal for a cochlear implant based on an audio signal includes calculating first information on an activity pattern over time at a plurality of inner hair cells of an auditory model, which results based on the audio signal, and filtering out activity events described by the first information, based on a recognition of a characteristic pattern in the activity pattern, whereby cleared information is obtained. The cleared information is further used as a control signal for the cochlear implant, or the control signal for the cochlear implant is derived from the cleared information.
US07797045B2
An active implantable medical device of AAI/DDD type, notably a cardiac pacemaker, with improved management of mode commutation schemes in the presence of ventricular events of an uncertain nature. The device is able to pace the ventricle and the atrium; sense ventricular events (R, r), apply a safety window following an atrial pacing pulse; perform mode commutation, conditionally triggering commutation of the device from AAI to DDD mode; and diagnose atrio-ventricular conduction disorders determining the appearance of an atrio-ventricular block based upon a sequence of atrial events (A) not followed, during an atrial escape interval, by the detection of the corresponding ventricular event (R) out of the safety window. The device also is able to discriminate ventricular events, detect the occurrence of at least one ventricular event (r) during the safety window, in the absence of a detected atrio-ventricular block, and allowing to trace mode commutation or to inhibit mode commutation if certain conditions are fulfilled.
US07797039B2
The present invention relates to a method for recognizing and measuring heartbeat in physical training, in which method individual heartbeats are recognized and measured from the electrical signal of the heart, the EKG signal, on the area of waist and/or on the body area below the waist by means of two or more electrodes (2, 3) integrated to an outfit (1) or to a part of an outfit, and/or by means of two or more electrodes integrated to one or several wearable sensors, and for calculating various quantities describing the function of the heart. In the method in accordance with the invention, for recognizing and measuring heartbeat, the signals received from the heart are processed and examined with two or more different ways for improving the reliability of calculation and for decreasing the impact of noises.
US07797035B2
The present invention is directed to a scanning system that uses uniform rotary motion of an optical reflector to create reciprocal linear scanning. The system converts uniform rotation into uniform longitudinal scanning. The system thereby creates mechanical reciprocal linear scanning free of reciprocally moving mechanical parts common in conventional scanning systems. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the scanning system is incorporated within an imaging catheter for medical scanning. The optical reflector is rotatable and includes a spiral reflecting portion. The spiral reflecting portion may be a single uniform reflecting surface or may include several reflection surfaces arranged in a spiral configuration.
US07797032B2
A system for and method of determining and compensating for the effect of a field influencing object on a field sensor, preferably a coil, that is within a navigational domain. The system includes a first and second transmitter to create signals. A signal processor is able to process the created signals. The method can include determining interference and/or a correct signal based on the two signals. Also, a shield can be provided to limit transmission of selected fields.
US07797025B2
The invention provides a communication device comprising: a cover; a printed circuit board; a microphone on the printed circuit board; an antenna located at least in part within the cover; and a RF shield can shaped to fit over the microphone about the PCB. In the device, the cover is shaped to enclose the PCB and the RF shield can. The cover provides pressure on the RF shield can to press inward on the microphone to fixedly attach it to the PCB.
US07797012B1
A method of controlling power with which information is transmitted by a first station (4) to a plurality of second stations (6) on a common channel, different information being intended for different stations, said method comprising the step of transmitting said information in said common channel, wherein information intended for different second stations (6) are transmitted at different power levels.
US07797007B2
A transmission capability of a mobile station that requests to be affiliated with a talk group is received. It is then determined whether to alter a current transmission mode of the talk group based at least in part upon the transmission capability of the mobile station, the current transmission mode of the talk group, and the transmission mode of one or more radio frequency (RF) sites associated with the talk group.
US07797004B2
A method for providing television content to a wireless communication device via a home network includes receiving channel selection information for a selected channel from the wireless communication device over a wireless communication link; tuning one or more tuners of a wireless access device to the selected channel; obtaining television content from a content source in communication with the wireless access device for the selected channel via a communication link; converting the television content for the channel to an appropriate format for the wireless communication device; and sending the television content for the channel in the appropriate format to the wireless communication device over the wireless communication link.
US07797001B2
Methods and apparatuses for responding to a command at a mobile telecommunications terminal based on the geo-location of the terminal are disclosed. The illustrative embodiment determines the appropriate response based on geo-location and optionally, one or more additional factors (e.g., who the user is, the nature of the command, what the data is when the command is a query, the date and time [i.e., “calendrical time”], etc.). Responses based on the geo-location of the terminal (and inferentially, the user) might be desirable in a variety of settings, such as hospitals, banks, military bases, libraries, museums, etc.
US07796999B1
A method and system for setting buffer size on a wireless communication device (WCD). A network entity receives a streaming-media-session initiation message from the WCD. The network entity determines a WCD buffer size, based at least on one or more features of the WCD, and sends to the WCD a directive to use the determined WCD buffer size. In one example, the network entity may determine the WCD buffer size based at least on media player version in use on the WCD and make and model of the WCD.
US07796994B2
The invention describes a method for the optimization of the cell reselection procedure in accordance with the UMTS standard of a mobile network end device, so that an individual adjustment can be made based on the speed of the mobile end device.The invention is characterized in that an optimization of the cell reselection performance is realized through the speed-dependent establishment of the cell reselection parameters, whereby the use of a method of hierarchical cell structures is excluded.
US07796980B1
Systems and methods are provided for controlling a media host device from a mobile voice device. In accordance with a method of the present invention, a call is received from the mobile voice device. A portion of an electronic programming guide is obtained and verbally provided to the mobile voice device in response to the call. A verbal selection associated with the electronic programming guide is received from the mobile voice device and communicated to the media host device through a command encompassing the verbal selection.
US07796968B2
A frequency conversion circuit comprises an input stage composed of one or more transistors, the input stage outputting a current corresponding to a voltage-type RF signal which is input to the gate of the transistor; a frequency conversion stage receiving an LO signal, causing the output RF signal to transit by the frequency of the LO signal so as to output an IF signal, and detecting an output voltage of the IF signal; a bleeding transistor connected to the input stage, supplying a current corresponding to a DC voltage, applied to a gate-source stage thereof, as a bleeding current to the transistor of the input stage, and in an AC manner, operating complementarily with the input stage to control a current flowing in the frequency conversion stage; a common mode feedback circuit comparing an output voltage provided from the frequency conversion stage with a preset reference voltage, adjusting the output voltage such that the output voltage is equalized to the reference voltage, and directly feeding the adjusted output voltage to the bleeding transistor; and a load stage composed of resistors and distributing a power supply voltage to apply to the frequency conversion stage.
US07796967B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a noise removal apparatus, of a simplified configuration, capable of removing a noise. A band separation section 351 separates an inputted digital signal into a digital signal D1 and a digital signal D2 by using, as a boundary, the center frequency of a frequency band of the inputted digital signal. The phase adjustment section 352 adjusts a level and a frequency band of the digital signal D2, and outputs, as a removal signal R, a signal for which the level and the frequency band have been adjusted. The adder 353 adds the removal signal R to the digital signal D1, thereby enabling a signal obtained by removing an in-vehicle noise from the digital signal D1 to be outputted as a corrected signal A.
US07796965B2
Method and Circuit Arrangement for Field Strength Determination and Integrated Circuit is provided. In the method of the invention for determining the field strength of a carrier signal at an antenna of an antenna circuit of an electronic key, whereby the antenna circuit generates an output value, which is a function of the field strength and a function of characteristic parameters of the antenna circuit, comprises the steps: generation of a reference input value, supplying the antenna circuit with the reference input value, measurement of the characteristic parameters, while the antenna circuit is supplied with the reference input value, storage of the characteristic parameters, measurement of a first output value of the antenna circuit, and determination of the field strength from the first output value and the characteristic parameters, whereby an effect of the characteristic parameters on the field strength is compensated. Use, for example, in motor vehicles.
US07796963B2
Wireless communication device tuning an antenna matching circuit to favor a receive band efficiency over a transmit band efficiency in an acquisition state. Systems and methods are provided that increase the antenna efficiency in the receive band when the wireless communication device is searching for a synchronization message in order to acquire a communication channel. The antenna efficiency may be changed incrementally or may be optimized completely for the receive frequency. The increase in antenna efficiency in the receive band is accomplished by tuning the antenna matching circuit. One way to tune the antenna matching circuit is to apply a voltage to a ferro-electric capacitor in the matching circuit, thereby changing the capacitance of the ferro-electric capacitor, thereby changing the impedance of the matching circuit.
US07796961B2
A Method and Apparatus for Detecting the Presence and Locations of Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices in Real Time. The system will clandestinely detect the presence and location of RCIED's along roadways in real time. This “RCIED Street Sweeper” system consequently allows its users to remove the explosive devices, pre-detonate them, or simply avoid the location so that the weapons cannot be used against a convoy or other important target. The system has the abilities (disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/829,858) to conduct fast wideband scanning of the RF spectrum looking for ambient RF signals as well as RCIED leakage signals. Furthermore the system has the ability to correlate the received leakage signals with the ambient RF signal environment, in order to verify authenticity. Still further, the system has the ability to continually mark and record the precise map location where each of those RF spectrum measurements emanated, including the relative distances between them. Still further, the preferred system will calculate adjusted curve profiles given the real time distance data. Fifth, the preferred system needs to have the ability to correlate sets of trend data with the adjusted curve profiles to determine matches. Further yet, the system alerts the vehicle driver to the presence and location of any RCIED that is detected by the system. Finally, the system is capable of being installed in a low profile, clandestine manner on a mobile platform such as a car or truck, so as not to alert insurgents of its existence.
US07796960B1
A linearizer for a non-linear transmitter includes a tap delay line that provides samples of an input signal at selected times. At least one Volterra tap is coupled to the tape delay line. The Volterra tap includes a lookup table representation of a polynomial. An adaptive controller is coupled to the Volterra tap for modifying values in the lookup table.
US07796955B2
An expandable wireless transceiver is provided. The expandable wireless transceiver includes an antenna, a receiver, a transmitter and a switch connector. The antenna detects an electromagnetic signal in surrounding space and receives a signal with a first central frequency according to the detection result. The receiver receives the signal based on the detection result of the antenna. The transmitter outputs a radio-frequency signal. A third connection terminal of the switch connector provides a connective path to an expansion antenna. According to the coupling condition of the third connection terminal, the switch connector delivers the radio-frequency signal to its second connection terminal or third connection terminal. Thus, the radio-frequency signal with a second central frequency is transmitted to surrounding space through the antenna or the expansion antenna, wherein the second central frequency and the first central frequency are both in a specific band.
US07796953B2
A filtering method, a transceiver and a transmitter are provided. The transmitter comprises a power amplifier amplifying an RF signal and having multiple stages, and a local oscillator, the power amplifier comprising between at least two stages of the power amplifier an impedance circuitry for forming an impedance at a frequency related to the frequency of the local oscillator, and a switch for switching the impedance of the impedance circuitry means to RF frequency.
US07796950B2
A mobile communication device (1000) includes a CPU (1300), a first antenna (1110), a first front-end circuit (1120), a second antenna (1210), and a second front-end circuit (1220). The first antenna transmits and receives first signals. The first front-end circuit, located between the first antenna and the CPU, includes a first switch (1122), a first power amplifier (1124), and a first filter. The second antenna transmits and receives second signals. The second front-end circuit, located between the second antenna and the CPU, includes a second switch (1221), a second power amplifier (1223), a second filter (1222), and at least one third filter (1224). The second switch is connected to the second antenna. The second power amplifier amplifies signals from the CPU. The second filter is connected to the second switch and the second power amplifier. The third filter is connected to the second switch.
US07796947B2
Provided is a display system for transmitting FM signals to an external audio system having an FM reception function. The display system includes: a tuner for receiving an RF signal and dividing the RF signal into a video signal and an audio signal; an audio processor for receiving the audio signal from the tuner; an FM detector for searching usable channels or unused channels among FM frequency bands of a reception area and transmitting information on the unused channels; a microprocessor for setting at least one of the unused channels as an available channel, the unused channels being provided from the FM detector; a memory for storing the available channel under control of the microprocessor; and an FM transmitter for receiving the audio signal from the audio processor and transmitting the audio signal over at least one channel selected among the channels stored in the memory under control of the microprocessor.
US07796941B2
Disclosed are apparatus and method for facilitating a purchase in conjunction with media content information. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a transmission of media content, information regarding the content, and information for facilitating a purchase of at least one of a copy of the content, a good, and/or a service. The content may include broadcast media content and entertainment media content. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to process the information regarding the content and the information for facilitating a purchase of the copy of the content, the good, and/or the service. The apparatus also includes a display device for displaying information.
US07796935B2
A process cartridge includes a latent image carrier, a charging unit, a latent image forming unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit, a rotary brush contacting a curved surface of the latent image carrier to form a nip, and a brush housing including a first tip and a second tip, covering the rotary brush such that a place where the rotary brush contacts the latent image carrier is opened. A downstream end of the nip where the rotary brush contacts the latent image carrier in the rotation direction of the rotary brush is not higher than a center of curvature of the latent image carrier where the rotary brush contacts, and the first tip of the brush housing is downstream of the rotary brush, further toward the latent image carrier than a tangent to the surface of the latent image carrier at the downstream end of the nip.
US07796931B2
A heating apparatus which can increase the temperature of a heating element to a target temperature in a short time and ensures temperature uniformity of the heating element. In the heating apparatus, when the specific resistance of a material of a heat generating layer of a heating roller is ρ (μ′Ωcm), the average thickness of the heat generating layer is 5ρ (μm) or more but not more than 15ρ (μm), and the thickness error is 1.2ρ (μm) or less. For instance, when the heat generating layer is copper having a specific resistance of 1.7 (μ′Ωcm), the average thickness of the heat generating layer is 8-25 (μm), and the thickness error is 2 (μm) or less. Thus, the heating roller having a short heat increasing time and excellent temperature uniformity is provided.
US07796927B2
A color image forming apparatus comprising: a first development device which develops an electrostatic image on a first image bearing member with toner of color other than black; a first transfer member which forms a nip portion for nipping an image receiving member with the first image bearing member; a second development device which develops an electrostatic image on a second bearing member with black toner so as to form a toner image and collects the toner on the second image bearing member; and a second transfer member which forms a nip portion for nipping the image receiving member with respect to the second image bearing member and transfers the toner image on the second image bearing member electrostatically to the image receiving member, wherein the position of the second transfer member to the second image bearing member in the moving direction of the image receiving member is in the downstream side relative to the position of the first image bearing member of the first transfer member.
US07796915B2
A developer cartridge including a frame, a developer housing section, a developer supplying section, a developer electrode, and an input gear is provided. The frame includes a first side wall and a second side wall, and the first side wall and the second side wall extend substantially in a length direction. The developer housing section, for housing a developer, extends from the first side wall to the second side wall in a width direction substantially perpendicular to the length direction. The developer supplying section, for supplying the developer to a photosensitive member, extends from the first side wall to the second side wall in the width direction and houses a developer carrying member. The developer carrying member includes a developer carrying member shaft and a developer carrying member body that is supported on the developer carrying member shaft. The developer carrying member shaft extends in the width direction and is rotatably supported by the first side wall and the second side wall. The developer electrode electrically biases the developer carrying member, and at least a portion of the developer electrode is connected to the first side wall and the developer carrying member. The input gear supplies a driving force for rotating the developer carrying member.
US07796912B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrying member having a movable surface; a charging device including a rotatable charging member which is supplied with a voltage including a direct voltage superimposed with an alternating voltage, and which contacts and charges the image carrying member; an electrostatic latent image forming device for forming an electrostatic latent image on the image carrying member; and a development device for developing the electrostatic latent image. The frequency of the alternating voltage is lower in a non-image forming area than in an image forming area. In the non-image forming area, the image carrying member is charged to a surface potential having a waveform shape in accordance with the alternating voltage, and the potential difference between the surface potential and the voltage applied to the charging member generates an electric field which moves toner adhering to the charging member to the image carrying member.
US07796896B2
A secure optical communication scheme uses differential delay D in an unbalanced Mach-Zehender interferometer to provide two copies of the optical source signal at a remote phase modulator separated in time by D. As D is much bigger than the coherence time source, the two copies of the signal are effectively uncorrelated. Both signals are phase-modulated by the remote sender's data and returned to the unbalanced interferometer. The phase modulator will be converted into amplitude modulation by the action of the interferometer.
US07796893B2
An optical bi-directional transceiver module is disclosed. The optical bi-directional transceiver module is suitable for an optical transmission/reception operation on the condition that an interval between two wavelength bands such as C and L bands is very narrow. The transceiver module manufactures a stable optical-communication light source based on the injection-mode-locked FP LD, such that an improved light source capable of substituting for the conventional high-quality DFB laser can be implemented. As a result, the light source for the WDM-PON system can be manufactured. The optical bi-directional transceiver module can be manufactured even when the light signal having a narrow interval between two wavelength bands is used, resulting in reduction of costs, size, and power consumption of the light source.
US07796891B2
Disclosed is a radio-over-fiber (ROF) system for supporting various services, the system comprising: a central access platform (CAP) for providing time division duplexing (TDD), frequency division duplexing (FDD), and broadcasting services, converting a TDD downward signal and FDD/broadcasting downward signals into optical signals, respectively, transmitting the converted optical signals to a remote access unit (RAU), converting a TDD upward signal and an FDD upward signal, which have been transmitted as optical signals from the RAU, into electric signals, respectively, and using an optical circulator in order to separate upward and downward signals from each other; and the RAU for converting the TDD downward signal and FDD/broadcasting downward signals transmitted from the CAP into electric signals, respectively, converting the TDD upward signal and FDD upward signal to be transmitted to the CAP into optical signals, respectively, and using an optical circulator in order to separate upward and downward signals from each other, wherein the RAU includes a plurality of signal filtering/separating/combining units, which wirelessly emit the TDD downward signal and FDD/broadcasting downward signals, having been converted into electric signals, through an antenna, and which separate wirelessly-received TDD upward signal and FDD upward signal from each other.
US07796887B2
The invention aims to provide an optical transmission system that specifies such a transmission condition so as to obtain high spectrum efficiency and a large transmission distance-capacity product at the same time, and uses low cost and small sized optical senders and optical receivers, to realize a high density wavelength multiplexing optical transmission. For this purpose, a WDM optical transmission system of the invention has a system structure that specifies by calculation the spectrum efficiency at which transmission distance-capacity product becomes a maximum value based on the determination of the type of signal light modulation and the assumption of an equation model expressing transmission characteristics of an optical multiplexer and an optical demultiplexer, and optimizes a bit rate and frequency spacing of signal light output from each optical sender, and the transmission characteristics of the optical multiplexer and the optical demultiplexer, so as to approach the spectrum efficiency.
US07796885B2
Methods and apparatus are described for distribution optical elements and compound collector lenses for a broadcast interconnect. An apparatus includes a broadcast optical interconnect including: a plurality of nodes positioned to define a node array, each of the plurality of nodes having at least one optical signal emitter and a plurality of optical signal receivers positioned to define a receiver array that substantially corresponds to the node array; and a plurality of optics optically coupled to the array of nodes, the plurality of optics positioned to define an optics array that substantially corresponds to the node array and the receiver array, each of the plurality of optics including at least one optical distributing element and an optical collecting element, wherein an optical signal from the optical signal emitter is fanned-out by the at least one optical distributing element of one of the optics and broadcast to one of the plurality of receivers of all of the plurality of nodes by the optical collecting element of all of the plurality of optics.
US07796884B2
A wavelength path switching node apparatus is provided that improves the utilization efficiency of wavelength resources by allocating wavelength paths by following traffic variations in packet units. A node apparatus on the wavelength path start point side includes: a packet distributing section that stores input packets in a buffer, fetches the packets from the buffer and distributes to an initial path and additional paths; a control section that allocates the additional paths based on distribution states of the packet units; and an optical switch that switches wavelength paths based on this control. A node apparatus on the wavelength path end point side includes: a monitoring section that monitors packets distributed to the initial path and the additional paths; a control section that allocates the additional paths based on distribution states of the packet units obtained by this monitoring; and an optical switch that switches wavelength paths based on this control.
US07796879B2
The present invention provides an autofocus system comprising: a lens device interchangeably attached to a camera and provided with an autofocus device which controls focus so that a subject within a predetermined AF area range within the image-taking range of the camera is focused; a controller which is connected to the lens device as an accessory device and which gives AF area information specifying the AF area range to the autofocus device, the autofocus system; an AF area information acquisition device which acquires the AF area information given to the autofocus device from the controller; and an AF area display device which visibly displays the AF area range in a picture taken by the camera based on the AF area information acquired by the AF area information acquisition device.
US07796876B2
There are provided a lens driving apparatus and method for transferring a lens on a plurality of focus positions previously set, in which a physical or mechanical vibration generated by a lens driving actuator when auto focusing is improved. The apparatus includes: a controller controlling the lens to be suspended one or more intermediate focus positions interposed between a present focus position and a target focus position while controlling the lens to be transferred to the present focus position where the lens is presently located to the target focus position that is a target of transferring the lens among the plurality of focus positions; and a driver transferring the lens according to a driving control signal from the controller.
US07796865B2
The present invention relates to editing data streams recorded in a recording medium. At the time of deleting an arbitrary navigation unit from a data stream partitioned by the navigation units and recorded in a recording medium, information is recorded in the recording medium, which, in a recording block including both remaining data belonging to the deleted navigation unit and valid data belonging to the navigation unit right before the deleted navigation unit, the information is used for distinguishing the valid data from the remaining data. By referring to the information afterwards, the remaining data can be prevented from being decoded.
US07796861B2
In a video reproducing apparatus of the present invention, it is monitored during reproduction whether or not there is a change in recording rate of a reproduced video signal. When there is a change in recording rate, a ratio of a reproducing rate to a recording rate is changed. This can realize a video reproducing apparatus capable of always reproducing the video at an appropriate rate to checking of the video regardless of a change in recording rate.
US07796854B2
A hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber polarizer may include a core, an inner cladding surrounding the core, the inner cladding including a plurality of capillaries, and an outer cladding at least partially surrounding the inner cladding. A section of the capillaries distal to the core is asymmetric relative to a section of the capillaries proximal to the core.
US07796853B2
Disclosed are fiber optic cables and assemblies for routing optical networks closer to the subscriber. The fiber optic cables have a robust design that is versatile by allowing use in aerial application with a pressure clamp along with use in buried and/or duct applications. Additionally, the fiber optic cables and assemblies have a relatively large slack storage capacity for excess length. Assemblies include hardened connectors such as plugs and/or receptacles suitable for outdoor plant applications attached to one or more ends of the fiber optic cables for plug and play connectivity.
US07796848B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a first frame and a second frame that are relatively movable; a frame boundary portion that is provided between the first frame and the second frame; a light emitting portion that is provided on the first frame and transmits an optical signal; a light receiving portion that is provided on the second frame and receives the optical signal; and an optical transmission medium that transmits the optical signal between the frame boundary portion and at least one of the light emitting portion and the light receiving portion, wherein an optical transmission between the light emitting portion and the light receiving portion via the optical transmission medium is effected at the frame boundary portion by a spatial optical transmission.
US07796844B2
A temperature-compensated fibet optic strain gauge (10) for measuring strain of a host structure (5), the strain gauge (10) comprising: a mount (20) having a void (19) separating a first section (17) from a second section (18); a first fiber Bragg grating (FBG) (30); a second fiber Bragg grating (FBG) (40); and removable bridging portions (24) adjacent to the void (19) to connect the first section (17) to the second section (18), the bridging portions (24) being removed after the mount (20) is operatively attached to the host structure (5); wherein a right-side failure proof feature is provided by detecting whether a reflection wavelength reverts to an original Bragg wavelength of the first FBG (40) to indicate whether the first FBG (40) has broken.
US07796843B2
A displacement sensor based on the underlying principle that when the outer surface of a quartz fiber (fiber optic cable) is etched to form a series of regularly spaced lines (a Fiber Bragg grating), laser light of a wavelength matching the spacing of the lines which enters one end of the fiber will be preferentially reflected. If the fiber is deformed, causing the line spacing to change, the wavelength of the reflected light will also change. This shift can be accurately measured and so can be related to the magnitude of the deformation of the fiber. This fiber is potted with epoxy resin in a narrow tube fabricated from a shape-memory alloy (SMA), and pre-formed into a curved shape. This not only protects the quartz fiber from direct contact with other objects and excessive bending, but also causes it to deform in a predictable fashion, thereby generating a reproducible response to displacement. Due to the high elastic behavior of the SMA tube, a displacement sensor with a gage length of 40 mm can measure displacements in excess of 3 mm.
US07796838B2
An imaging apparatus includes face detection means for searching image data from at least one direction to detect a face portion in the image data; capture mode search direction instruction means for instructing a search direction of the image data to the face detection means in a capture mode, which is a mode of recording the image data; and monitoring mode search direction instruction means for instructing the search direction of the image data to the face detection means in a monitoring mode, which is a mode of displaying the image data.
US07796837B2
A computer implemented method of processing an image for display on a mobile communication device includes extracting a portion of an image based on an image map. The image map relates to the portion of the image. The method also includes generating a document that comprises the extracted portion of the image and transmitting the generated document to a remote device for display. The method may also include assigning a selectable link to the extracted portion of the image and receiving a request from the remote device for an initial document having the image and image map. Additionally, the method may include storing in a database the generated document and transmitting the stored generated document in response to future requests for the initial document.
US07796835B2
When processing is started, first, ROI (region of interest) is determined by user's specification. A small calculation amount image is generated in response to pointing device operation of the user, and the generated small calculation amount image is displayed. Next, a large calculation amount image in the ROI is generated, and the generated large calculation amount image in the ROI is displayed. Next, large calculation amount image in regions other than the ROI is generated, and the generated large calculation amount image in regions other than the ROI is displayed, and then the processing is terminated. At the above steps, if an image change request is made, calculation is performed again each time.
US07796834B2
A new post-processing methodology reduces the unwanted noise artifacts present in the output images of DCT-based compressed signals. The method determines noise intensity in the region of each pixel of an image and filters each pixel corresponding to this noise intensity. This noise intensity includes ringing intensity and block noise intensity. Determining the noise intensity includes calculating a short range power spectrum and a long range power spectrum. A spectrum is identified as ringing if the short range power spectrum is negative and the long range long range power spectrum is positive. A spectrum is identified as block noise if the short range autocorrelation coefficient is positive and the long range autocorrelation coefficient is positive.
US07796824B2
A video coding device includes: a detecting unit configured to detect a foreground region, a background image and a shadow region reflected on the background image by the foreground region in an input picture; a shadow information compressing unit configured to perform a compression process to compress the information quantity of the shadow region; and a coding unit configured to code the foreground region, the background image and the information on the shadow region subjected to the compression process.
US07796821B2
An approach to clustering a set of images based on similarity measures employs a fuzzy clustering paradigm in which each image is represented by a node in a graph. The graph is ultimately partitioned into subgraphs, each of which represent true clusters among which the various images are distributed. The partitioning is performed in a series of stages by identifying one true cluster at each stage, and removing the nodes belonging to each identified true cluster from further consideration so that the remaining, unclustered nodes may then be grouped. At the beginning of each such stage, the nodes that remain to be clustered are treated as all belonging to a single candidate cluster. Nodes are removed from this single candidate cluster in accordance with similarity and connectivity criteria, to arrive at a true cluster. The member nodes of this true cluster are then removed from further consideration, prior to the next stage in the process.
US07796812B2
A method and apparatus for transforming a first color distribution based on a second color distribution. The method includes the steps of determining, for each of the first and second color distributions, a one-dimensional histogram along a direction in a color space; matching the one-dimensional histogram determined for the first color distribution and the one-dimensional histogram determined for the second color distribution so as to generate a transform mapping; transforming the first color distribution based on the generated transform mapping; and repeating the determining, matching, and transforming steps for other directions in the color space until the generated transform mapping converges.
US07796808B2
A controller (101) designates whether images are integrated or not and image placement mode when integration is implemented. An image integrator (102) creates image data in a format designated by the presence/absence of integration and placement mode. A 3D information generator (103) generates 3D information necessary for 3D image display by formatting the presence/absence of integration and the placement mode. An encoder (104) encodes the image data created by image integrator (102) and generates coded data. A multiplexer (105) converts the encoded data generated by encoder (104) and the 3D information created by the 3D information generator into a predetermined format and outputs the result to the outside. This arrangement enables image data for 3D display to be versatile.
US07796804B2
Methods for generating a standard reference die for use in a die to standard reference die inspection and methods for inspecting a wafer are provided. One computer-implemented method for generating a standard reference die for use in a die to standard reference die inspection includes acquiring output of an inspection system for a centrally located die on a wafer and one or more dies located on the wafer. The method also includes combining the output for the centrally located die and the one or more dies based on within die positions of the output. In addition, the method includes generating the standard reference die based on results of the combining step.
US07796800B2
Determining a dimensional change in a surface of an object is described. At a first time, a first image of the surface is acquired at a first spatial window thereon having a first known position relative to a frame of reference. At a second time, a second image of the surface is acquired at a second spatial window thereon having a second known position relative to the frame of reference. The first image and the second image are processed according to an image displacement sensing algorithm to determine a relative translation of a first point on the surface between the first and second times. The relative translation of the first point, the first known position, and the second known position are used to determine the dimensional change in the surface between the first and second times.
US07796797B2
A apparatus for obtaining an image of a blood cell is described, a representative one of which includes image obtainer for obtaining an image of a predetermined blood cell in a blood sample smeared on a sample holder; an analysis result obtainer for obtaining an analysis result of the blood sample; and a controller for controlling the image obtainer such that the image obtainer obtains the image under a first imaging condition when the analysis result does not indicate a presence of a predetermined anomalous cell, and obtains the image under a second imaging condition to be different from the first imaging condition when the analysis result indicates the presence of the predetermined anomalous cell.
US07796794B2
Method and apparatus for X-ray imaging of a body, employing a support to receive a body to be examined, a source emitting a beam of X-rays, a detector irradiated by the beam, a converter for converting the detected intensities into data, a means for turning the mounted mobile support by an angle of rotation about an axis of rotation with respect to the source and the detector and a suitably programmed computer to average the data acquired for a pair of orthogonal angles of rotation to obtain n column and m line mean values for n and m elementary segments of a band of the detector, to construct an initial image (n, m) with the n column and m line mean values, to adjust the coefficient of attenuation in each n×m elementary zone by a method of least squares taking into account the n column and m line mean values regarded as constraints, to repeat the previous stages for data acquired with different pairs of preferably orthogonal angles of rotation, and to average term by term the adjusted images so as to arrive at a synthesis image expressing coefficients of attenuation of the examined body.
US07796793B2
A method for displaying a mammography image. Digital data of the mammography image is obtained. The mammography image is segmented to identify at least a first diagnostically relevant region comprising an image of the breast tissue and a second diagnostically relevant region. A view type is assigned for the image, either cranio-caudal or medio-lateral oblique view, according to a symmetry index calculated from the segmented first diagnostically relevant region. Right or left laterality is assigned to the image according to a laterality feature calculated according to the relative position of at least the second diagnostically relevant region within the image.
US07796792B2
A method of determining disturbing signal frequencies in a signal representation of radiation image originating from the presence of an anti-scatter grid during image acquisition, the signal representation being generated by an image read out and digitizing process, whereby the digitizing of an image of a simulated anti-scatter grid is simulated and the signal resulting from this simulation is evaluated to determine the disturbing frequencies.
US07796770B2
The invention regards a method for sound processing in an audio device wherein an audio signal is provided and the audio signal is frequency shaped according to the need of a user of the audio device and the frequency shaped signal is served at the user in a form perceivable as sound. According to the invention at least two different frequency shaping schemes are available and a choice is made of the frequency shaping scheme to be used.
US07796769B2
Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which can enhance and/or optimize received audio signals for vibrational conduction to the user. Received audio signals may be processed to cancel acoustic echo such that undesired sounds received by one or more intra-buccal and/or extra-buccal microphones are eliminated or mitigated. Additionally, a multiband actuation system may be used where two or more transducers each deliver sounds within certain frequencies. Also, the assembly may also utilize the sensation of directionality via the conducted vibrations to emulate directional perception of audio signals received by the user. Another feature may include the ability to vibrationally conduct ancillary audio signals to the user along with primary audio signals.
US07796768B2
A loudspeaker system has a primary driver and an active radiator sealed in an enclosure where the active radiator is adapted to vary its operating characteristics to tune the sound pressure level and resultant frequency response generated by a primary driver. The primary driver and the active radiator share the same acoustic volume of the enclosure, i.e., the primary driver and the active radiator share a common acoustic compliance of the internal enclosure volume. The primary driver has electromagnetic components designed to oscillate a flexible cone or diaphragm along the longitudinal axis of the primary driver. The active radiator has electromagnetic components adapted to couple to a number of electrical configuration settings. Each electrical configuration setting may affect the operating characteristics of the diaphragm of the active radiator and is reflected back electro-acoustically, through the shared volume, to the primary driver. This electro-acoustical coupling, in turn provides the tuning mechanism for the primary driver.
US07796762B2
When a common key is updated to a new common key, it is possible to prevent the generation of a period during which not all the general communication apparatuses are enabled to make mutual communications using encrypted data while at the same time reducing the memory consumption of the general communication apparatus. A common key control apparatus 11 transmits a first status transition request R1 to all the general communication apparatuses when all the general communication apparatuses 12 made a transition to a distribution completed status, and transmits a second status transition request R2 to all the general communication apparatuses when all the general communication apparatuses 12 made a transition to an in-transit status. The general communication apparatus 12 makes a transition from the update completed status to the distribution completed status upon receipt of a new common key from the common key control apparatus 11, while it makes a transition from the distribution completed status to the in-transit status upon receipt of the first status transition request and it restores the state to the update completed status from the in-transit status upon receipt of the second status transition request.
US07796760B2
Controlling access to disseminated messages includes implementing one or more key management policies that specify how various encryption keys are maintained and in particular, when encryption keys are made inaccessible. Deleting a particular key renders inaccessible all copies of messages, known or unknown, associated with the particular key, regardless of the location of the associated messages. A message may be directly or indirectly associated with a deleted key. Any number of levels of indirection are possible and either situation makes the message unrecoverable. The approach is applicable to any type of data in any format and the invention is not limited to any type of data or any type of data format.
US07796756B2
The construction of a receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcast from a plurality of broadcasting providers is simplified. In a receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcast from a plurality of broadcasting providers, of the function blocks which constitute the receiving apparatus, a block used in common irrespective of the broadcasting provider is formed as a common block, and a block different from one broadcasting provider to another is formed as an independent block. These blocks are connected to each other through an IEEE1394 interface, and the common block is shared among the plurality of blocks which are not used in common, so that a receiving process is performed.
US07796755B2
A device for locating a DES key value that corresponds to a packet identification (PID) contained at a variable possible location which comprises part only of a 32-bit packet header. A table stored in memory contains for each DES key: (i) a packet header having 32 bits with a PID of either 12, 9 or 8 bits contained at a defined location and with zero values elsewhere, and (ii) a mask value also having 32 bits with ones contained at the said defined location of the PID and zeros elsewhere. The table is divided into regions for respective packet format types. An incoming packet header at an input is combined with a first one of the mask values from the table to provide a combined value that consists of the value held in the input packet header at the defined location and zeros elsewhere. This combined value is compared with the corresponding packet header stored in the table. When they are not equal, the combining and comparison is repeated for the next row of the table. When they are equal, the corresponding DES key value is read from the table and provided as an output. The system can cope with variable PID formats within the packet header without alteration to the hardware but merely with re-programming of the table contents.
US07796740B2
A modem adapter is provided to adapt a modem to operate with a telephone system. The modem adapter includes a conductor detector, a voltage generator, and a dial-tone generator. The conductor detector is configured to detect live conductors on a telephone jack. The voltage generator is configured to generate an on-hook line voltage comparable to that normally expected by the modem and to deliver the generated on-hook line voltage to the modem. The dial-tone generator is configured to generate and deliver to the modem a first dial tone different from the second dial tone delivered by a telephone system to which the modem is attempting communication. A method for adapting a modem to a telephone system is also provided.
US07796715B2
A device (100) includes an AM generating circuit (106) which couples interference (132) into another part of the device (124). A second AM signal (304) is generated, having inverse modulation relative to the first AM signal, and is coupled to the affected part of the device to counteract the interference by reducing the effective harmonic content of the first AM signal.
US07796713B2
An automatic gain control device in a digital broadcast receiver is provided. The device is constructed to include an AGC for receiving an input signal and a predetermined power reference value to thereby obtain a gain error value, determining one of a plurality of operational areas according to a received AGC step control signal, and generating an RF gain control signal and an IF gain control signal according to the gain error value; and a lock detector for receiving the gain error value and the predetermined power reference value and thereby generating the AGC step control signal and an AGC lock/unlock signal.
US07796709B2
Various aspects of a method and system from signal quality measurement based on mean phase error magnitude of a signal are presented. Aspects of the system may comprise circuitry that receives a time phase corrected Bluetooth signal via an RF channel. The circuitry may generate a phase error signal based on the received time phase corrected Bluetooth signal, and generate a mean phase error signal based on the generated phase error signal. A signal to noise ratio (SNR) may be derived based on the generated mean phase error signal, and a data rate may be selected based on the derived SNR.
US07796707B2
A device is disclosed for converting a complex-valued bandpass signal into a digital baseband signal having: a) an analog filter unit to filter the complex-valued bandpass signal to produce only the real component from the filtered signal, and to provide a real-valued bandpass signal, b) one analog-to-digital converter that is connected to the analog filter unit and that is designed to convert the real-valued bandpass signal into a digital signal with sampled values with a width of one bit, c) a digital filter unit embodied as a lookup table, to provide a complex-valued filtered signal such that signal components outside of the useful band are suppressed, d) a sampling rate reduction unit to reduce the sampling rate of the complex-valued filtered signal and provide a reduced-rate signal, and e) a mixer unit to convert the reduced-rate signal into the digital baseband signal.
US07796703B2
A method of processing data by using a plurality of antennas and by applying weight to each signal received via a corresponding antenna in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes estimating a channel matrix corresponding to the received signal and dividing columns of the channel matrix into at least two groups. Here, each group includes at least one column. Furthermore, the method includes applying a Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) scheme to each group.
US07796683B2
An RF transceiver includes a low noise amplifier module, a blocking circuit, a down-conversion module, a processing module, an up-conversion module, and a power amplifier module. The low noise amplifier module amplifies inbound RF signals. The blocking circuit, when enabled, substantially attenuates a blocking signal and passes, substantially unattenuated, desired receive RF signals of the inbound RF signals. The down-conversion module converts the amplified inbound RF signals or the desired receive RF signals into inbound baseband or low IF signals. The processing module converts the inbound baseband or low IF signals into inbound data, converts outbound data into outbound baseband or low IF signals, determines a transmit power level, and determines whether to enable the blocking circuit based on the transmit power level. The up-conversion module converts the outbound baseband or low IF signals into outbound RF signals, which are amplified by the power amplifier module.
US07796680B2
A mobile communication system capable of improving the reception characteristic using a small circuit size and low power consumption is provided. The channel vector estimating section 181 estimates channel vectors in a method such as a method in which the section 181 multiplies, according to the multipath timings sent from the multipath timing detecting section, the input signal from the base-station receiving section by a complex conjugate of a known pilot signal to average the input signal (to average the input signal by de-spreading the pilot signal in the case of CDMA). The noise estimating section 182 estimates noise power using received signals and generates a Channel matrix by arranging the estimated channel vectors according to the multipath timings. The weight calculating section 184 calculates a weight matrix using the noise estimation value and the Channel matrix and sets the obtained filter weight vectors to the equalizing filter 185.
US07796675B1
A device for site monitoring is disclosed. The device may include a communication interface configured to receive site monitoring data from a site monitoring system. The communication interface may also be configured to wirelessly transmit the site monitoring data to a base station. The site monitoring data may include a device identification. The device also may include a processor and memory. The memory also may include two pseudonoise (PN) codes, namely a first PN code and a second PN code. The site monitoring data may be received from the site monitoring system. The site monitoring data may be spread using the first PN code to provide first spread site monitoring data. The first spread site monitoring data may be spread using the second PN code to provide second spread site monitoring data. The second spread site monitoring data may be transmitted using a burst direct sequence spread spectrum radio signal.
US07796674B2
A cold crucible induction furnace has a slotted-wall with a slotted inner annular protrusion that is disposed around the base of the crucible's melting chamber. The protrusions may be separated from the base by a gap that can be filled with an electrical insulating material. Slots may also be provided in the protrusions and/or the outer perimeter of the base.
US07796656B2
The invention describes the method and apparatus for enhanced efficiency in a laterally-coupled distributed feedback (LC-DFB) laser. In a device featuring the effective ridge design, lateral confinement of the guided optical modes is provided by a surface etched grating, which also serves as a DFB element of the laser. Coupling and quantum efficiency of such a LC-DFB laser both improve with an increase of the lateral mode order. In accordance with this invention, a dramatic enhancement of the laser efficiency is achievable by designing it to operate in one of the higher order modes, notably the first order mode, while all the other lateral modes, including the zero order mode, are suppressed through gain-loss discrimination. In the exemplary embodiment of the invention, this enhanced efficiency technique is applied to the design of a single-mode LC-DFB laser suitable for a monolithic integration with other active and passive functional elements of photonic integrated circuits fabricated by using one-step epitaxial growth.
US07796654B2
Methods and systems are provided to reduce stimulated Brillouin scattering in high power optical fiber amplifiers. In an embodiment, a seed source includes a narrow linewidth semiconductor laser driven with a current ramp that simultaneously sweeps the optical power and the lasing frequency at a rate fast enough to reduce stimulated Brillouin scattering.
US07796641B2
An apparatus for providing a universal high speed link for operation support system data may include a processing element, a protocol determining element and a protocol translation element. The processing element may be configured to receive operation support system data from a first device of a first network in a first protocol. The protocol determining element may be configured to determine a protocol translation for the operation support system data. The protocol translation element may be configured to translate the operation support system data from the first protocol to a second protocol responsive to the determination. The processing element may be in communication with both the protocol determining element and the protocol translation element. The processing element may be configured to communicate the operation support system data to a second device of a second network in the second protocol at a data rate greater than about 320 kilobytes per second.
US07796629B1
A packet switch including input ports and output ports allocates an output bandwidth of each output port among virtual channels based on bandwidth allocations values corresponding to the virtual channels and a bandwidth precision value of the output port. The bandwidth precision value indicates a number of bandwidth precision bits, which may be outside a bandwidth reservation precision range specified in a serial RapidIO standard. The packet switch receives data packets compliant with the serial RapidIO standard at the input ports, identifies an output port for each data packet, and selects input ports based on the output ports of the data packets. Further, the packet switch routes a data packet from each selected input port to the output port of the data packet, and the output port outputs the data packet by using the output bandwidth of the output port allocated to the virtual channel identified by the data packet.
US07796628B2
An expandable exchange apparatus and a backup system thereof are disclosed. The expandable exchange apparatus is applicable to a plurality of terminal devices in a local area network (LAN). The expandable exchange apparatus includes a signal exchange unit having a network connection port and a plurality of terminal connection ports connectable to the terminal devices, a connection unit connecting the LAN to an external network architecture, and a first exchanger connected to the network connection port and the connection unit, the first exchanger selectively connectable to a terminal device that is connected to none of the network connection port and terminal connection ports of the signal exchange unit, wherein, detects whether the network connection port is connected with the terminal device or not, and based on a detected result, correspondingly switches a data transmission path of the network connection port either to the LAN or to the network architecture.
US07796619B1
The present invention is directed to a method and system for deriving traffic demands for a packet-switched network. A novel model of defining traffic demands as a volume of load originating from an ingress link and destined to a set of egress links enables support for traffic engineering and performance debugging of large operational packet-switched networks.
US07796616B2
A network connection apparatus for communicating between a network device located in a first private network and a second private network located outside the first private network. The apparatus includes an address acquisition module capable of acquiring a public IP address of a network management device from a DNS based on a domain name of the network management device of the second private network is provided. A connection management module is provided that is capable of forming a P2P connection to the network device if there is a request for a connection to the second private network from the network device. The connection management module is further capable of forming a virtual private network tunnel with the second private network based on the public IP address transferred from the address acquisition module. The connection management module is further capable of transferring to the network device a private IP address used in the second private network.
US07796613B2
A network device, system and method are provided for detection of mismatched VLAN tags on a port of a network chip and a packet. The network device includes a processor, a memory and a network chip having a number of network ports. One of the ports is tagged with a VLAN membership of at least one particular VLAN and configured to receive a packet. Computer executable instructions are storable in the memory and executable by the processor to detect whether the packet received at the port is untagged with any VLAN. Upon detecting that the packet is untagged with any VLAN, the computer executable instructions determine whether the untagged packet is intended to be untagged on the particular VLAN at the port. If the packet is not intended to be untagged on the particular VLAN at the port, the computer executable instructions send a misconfiguration alert signal to a network management program, and determine either the packet is misconfigured to be sent to the network chip without a VLAN tag or the port of the network chip is misconfigured to be tagged with the particular VLAN.
US07796611B2
A method, system and device for enabling efficient bandwidth utilization of a multipoint network service over an arbitrary topology network that includes a plurality of network elements (NEs). In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises the steps of setting up a full connectivity between the NEs and providing the multipoint network service using the full connectivity, whereby data packets of the multipoint network services are transmitted from a source NE to at least one edge NE through at least one intermediate NE, and whereby data packets that need to be flooded are not replicated or at the source NE. The full connectivity includes an arbitrary combination of a first plurality of point-to-multipoint connections between each source NE and each edge NE and a second plurality of point-to-point connections between each source NE and every edge NE.
US07796610B2
A pipeline scheduler provides a minimum bandwidth guarantee by transporting cells from an input port to an output port in a two-phased approach. Cells that conform to a minimum cell rate (MCR) are selected from queues at the input port and arranged into supercells for transport to the output port, followed by nonconforming cells, to guarantee fairness by using scheduling modules to build the supercells first for conforming cells, and then for nonconforming cells. Reservation vectors are used to permit the same time slot of the next frame to be reserved by a first queue, and the same time slot of the following time frame to be held for reservation by a second queue, to ensure equal time slot access by the first and second queues over successive time frames.
US07796608B2
In one embodiment of the invention, a network system includes a boundary router, a second router, and an upstream link of the second router coupled between to the output port of the boundary router and an input port of the second router. The second router includes an admission control function and a data plane. In response to a request to reserve resources for a flow through the second router, the admission control function performs admission control for both the upstream link and its downstream link. In a preferred embodiment, the second router performs admission control for the upstream link only if the second router is a receiving edge router for the flow. Because the second router performs admission control for its upstream link, the boundary router transmits the request toward an upstream router without performing admission control for the link.
US07796605B2
Apparatus, and an associated method, for selecting a radio subsystem in a radio communication system. Selection is made in a manner that optimizes better the selection for communication of data pursuant to a data communication service. A network capacity analyzer includes a capacity indicia collector that collects metric information associated with communication system capacities. Network information is collected pertaining, e.g., to a backhaul network, a radio access network, and a core network of the radio communication system. The collected information is provided to an aggregate capacity determiner that determines the aggregate capacities of the communication system. Such values are provided to a mobile station. The values are used pursuant to reselection procedures to select a radio subsystem through which to communicate.
US07796597B2
A process for configuring rendezvous points in switch routers of a PIM-SM network that includes static rendezvous point configuration and bootstrap router protocol messaging. A user will input static rendezvous point commands into one of the routers in the network that identifies the rendezvous points for all of the group ranges in the network. The rendezvous commands will include instructions for the router to transmit the static rendezvous point configuration to the other routers using BSR protocol messages, where the messages are designated as special BSR messages.
US07796593B1
In general, techniques are described for flooding VPLS traffic with a network device according to flood groups. The network device resides within a layer 3 (L3) network and includes a control unit that executes a virtual private LAN service (VPLS) protocol that enables a VPLS domain to operate over the L3 network. The network device further includes a plurality of packet forwarding engines, each of which include a plurality of interface cards that receive a layer 2 (L2) message originating from the L2 network. The packet forwarding engines associate the L2 packet with a configurable flood group, wherein the flood group defines criteria to determine which messages to associate to the flood group and indicates a set of the interface cards for forwarding the associated messages. The packet forwarding engines further flood the L2 packet via each interface card indicated by the associated flood group.
US07796592B2
Methods and apparatus including a virtual machine and a compression network platform are provided especially for improving the application of compression algorithms and unique identifiers for bytecode and bytecode packages including associated static dictionaries utilized to advantage in wireless networks. In particular, a given virtual machine need only identify to a receiving virtual machine the unique package identifier for one or more of an algorithm, a static dictionary or a hash for decompressing a received data signal. The receiving virtual machine may advertise what it has locally available to it so that no uploading is necessary. The actuation of bytecode by identifier may be requested at a given destination within the parameters set by RFC 3320. Universal decompressor virtual machines may receive uploaded compression algorithms, bytecode identifiers, package identifiers or static dictionary identifiers and the like from proxy call session control functions of a wireless network, the compressing machine or a compression network platform resource which in one embodiment may comprise an IANA database. The methods and apparatus may find particular application in improving the efficiency of presence/group list management.
US07796586B2
A data stream transmission/reception device manages external devices in at least two groups, assigns independent resources to the groups, and for each group, a connection is made to the assigned hardware resource via a preferentially-used plug. This enables handling a plurality of streams at the same time in the case of being connected to a plurality of conventional external devices that have only one logical plug.
US07796585B2
A network interface device includes a host port, two network ports, and a switch that can direct communications between the host port, and the two network ports. A data processing system includes an information handling system coupled to a first network, and second and third information handling systems. The information handling systems are coupled in series. Communications received by the network that are addressed to the first information handling system are sent to the first information handling system, but not to the second or third information handling system. A method includes directing a communication from an information handling system to a first port when the communication has a target address that is less than the address of the information handling system or to a second port when the communication has a target address that is greater than the address of the information handling system.
US07796583B1
An improved packet handler for VoIP cable modems and other high-speed digital devices includes a direct communication link via hardware among internal processing components. Incoming and outgoing digital information packets are filtered into MAC packets, voice PDU packets, and non-voice PDU packets, such that priority can be given to relaying voice packets and minimizing potential voice delay within the cable network. Hardware components, including specialized logic circuitry, modify voice packets to an appropriate signal form for subsequent signal processing or signal transmission. Proprietary bus communication protocols can also be provided to facilitate relay of packets between a central processing unit (CPU) and a digital signal processor (DSP) within a VoIP cable modem. Line cards including subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC) and subscriber line audio processing circuit (SLAC) components provide analog-to-digital (A/D) and digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion functionality.
US07796576B2
In a code division multiple access (CDMA) communications system including one or more terminals (such as customer premise equipments, CPEs) that communicate with a node (such as an Internet gateway) via at least a random access channel and a reservation-oriented channel, various schemes of managing communications traffic among the channels are provided. Decisions as to the channel on which a given terminal may transmit may be based on: traffic statistics (such as packet size or average data rate over a time period), traffic content (such as packet type), the terminal's output buffer loading (queue state, or “Q-state”), a history of the terminal's output buffer loading (one or more Q-states), and so forth. In one application, decisions in managing traffic in a live user's web browsing sessions may involve intelligent ascertainment of whether a given terminal is busy based on traffic analysis or output buffer loading.
US07796570B1
A system and method for performing continuous accounting on a mobile node within a wireless ad-hoc network, using a sparse matrix method for compaction of the accounting data when forwarding data to a core network. The system and method perform continuous accounting of network traffic on a mobile node, and collected data is periodically transmitted in summary report form to a core network when accessible. During periods when the core network is inaccessible, collected data is maintained for subsequent transmission to the core network once access is re-established.
US07796565B2
Systems, methods, and devices for mixed voice and spread spectrum data signaling with spread spectrum data hiding with CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) for three or more users. The disclosed systems, methods, and devices may be implemented in audio conferencing or video conferencing. Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data and voice mixer, which includes an improved spread spectrum data hiding transmitter. The transmitter may comprise a CDMA chip sequence generator and a spreading encoder. Different users may be accommodated by selecting different initializations for the registers of the CDMA chip sequence generator. Different spreading code may be used for different users which are near orthogonal to each other. In some embodiments, the CDMA chip sequence generator pseudo-randomly selects the chip sequence from one of a plurality of Gold chip sequence generators.
US07796559B2
A method for processing quality of service of a signaling data transport channel in a packet transmission network comprising at least one management node (4), wherein, for a data transport channel, the management node (4) receives a quality of service profile associated with said channel, containing a parameter (SI) indicating signaling, detects (E2) whether, in the quality of service profile, the signaling indicating parameter is activated so as to determine whether it is a signaling data transport channel, and in that case, processes the signaling data transport channel as a priority over any other media data transport channel during execution of at least one quality of service processing mechanism applied to the signaling data transport channel.
US07796557B2
Methods and apparatus for the communication of network capability information over a traffic channel
In one illustrative example, when a mobile station operative for communications in a wireless communication network is engaged in a call, an in-traffic channel message is transmitted from a base station to the mobile station. The message includes information indicative of whether the wireless network supports a predetermined concurrent service or feature. The predetermined concurrent service or feature may be a mobile-requested Quality of Service (QoS) parameter usage feature or a mobile-initiated position location determination feature. The in-traffic channel message may be an in-traffic system parameter message, a general handoff direction message, or a universal handoff direction message, as examples. Preferably, the wireless network is a cdma2000-type network. Since the mobile station is made aware of such information, more efficient operation may be realized.
US07796554B2
The application discloses a method for resource management and a method for traffic guidance in a multimode radio network comprising a plurality of mobile communication networks of different modes that share wideband transmission links and sites of centralized base stations, the centralized base stations of the plurality of mobile communication networks being connected to a common base station controller or a common radio networks controller. A mobile terminal is made to perform real-time handover among different mobile communication networks, or, the allocation of the resources among the plurality of mobile communication networks is adjusted in real time, according to at least one of the following factors or the combination thereof: the multimode supporting capability of the mobile terminal, traffics of cells, operation policies and real-time operating conditions of the plurality of networks.
US07796548B2
Time synchronization method in mobile station based on asynchronous scheme and system using the same
Disclosed is a system and a method for setting an internal time corresponding to a standard time at a current location in a mobile station of an asynchronous scheme. The mobile station of the asynchronous scheme uses a Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP), which is an application of a Network Time Protocol (NTP), allowing the mobile station to easily update internal time information using a synchronized time. The SNTP can provide a time value which can be used to accurately reset an internal time of the mobile station of the asynchronous scheme. By using the SNTP, the mobile station of the asynchronous scheme can obtain exact time information as in a CDMA network and update the mobile station's internal time with the time corresponding to an area in which a standard time is changed.
US07796546B2
An apparatus and a method for supporting multiple links in a multi-hop relay cellular network using at least two frequency bands are provided. A subframe for a link on which a Mobile Station (MS) or a Relay Station (RS) communicates with a Base Station (BS) is configured in a first frequency band, and a subframe for a link on which the BS or the RS communicates with the MS is configured in a second frequency band.
US07796535B2
The embodiments described herein include a system and method for monitoring a packet adapted to traverse a network having a plurality of devices. The system and method enable an operator to efficiently determine the marking of a packet at each intermediate hop and the destination within a network by executing an algorithm through the use of an operating system.
US07796534B1
Trunks in a telecommunications network are monitored. Out-of-service data is gathered from each respective switch corresponding to a current time period for a plurality of trunks connected to the respective switch. Switches that have at least one out-of-service trunk are detected in response to the gathered data. A first plurality of graphic elements is displayed via a web page corresponding to respective switches, wherein each switch detected as having an out-of-service trunk is displayed with a distinguishing visual characteristic. One of the first graphic elements is manually selected for a selected switch. Second graphic elements are displayed for respective trunk groups corresponding to the selected switch, each second graphic element having a respective size proportional to a current number of call attempts directed to the respective trunk group during the current time period and having a color indicative of a health index of the respective trunk group.
US07796531B2
A method, a device and a system for transferring data from a data source (212) over both a wireless communications (210) and a fixed communications (208) network to a destination device (204) such that at least one portion of a data aggregate is transmitted through the wireless communications network (210) via a wireless communications device (202) and at least one another portion is transmitted through the fixed communications network (208). The destination device (204) may reconstruct the data aggregate by joining the received data portions together.
US07796530B2
Method for testing the transmission quality of a bidirectional real speech transmission or multicast connection over an IP network between a first VoIP endpoint and a second VoIP endpoint. A first number of the RTP speech packets transmitted from the first to the second VoIP endpoint, and a second number of the RTP speech packets transmitted from the second to the first VoIP endpoint being detected over a predetermined, sufficiently long time period, and the first and second numbers being subjected to arithmetic processing, as a result of which a value representing the transmission quality is obtained.
US07796529B2
A method and computer program product for performing a latency analysis to determine one or more latency statistics for one or more network links within a distributed computing network. The one or more latency statistics are compared to one or more benchmark latency criteria to determine if at least one of the network links is a latency-compatible network link. If at least one of the network links is a latency-compatible network link, at least one additional network analysis is performed on at least one of the latency-compatible network links.
US07796528B2
An electronic device centralized management apparatus manages a device connected through a network remotely. The apparatus stores information received from the device; extracts information based on a designated attribute of the device from the stored information; and compares a tendency held by the extracted information to a tendency held by the stored information to extract a difference therebetween.
US07796526B2
An analysis device includes a connector, a display, a digital communication circuit and a processing circuit. The connector is configured to connect to a coaxial cable of a communication system, the communication system including a connection to a network employing internet protocol communications. The digital communication circuit is operably connected to the connector and configured to communicate information signals within the communication system via the connector. The digital communication circuit is operable to establish at least two types of connections through the communication system. The first type of data connection employs an internet protocol, while the second type of internet data connection employs a voice over internet protocol. The processing circuit is connected to the digital communication circuit. The processing circuit is operable to obtain diagnostic data relating to each of the first type of connection and the second type of connection. The processing circuit is further operable to cause the display to display information representative of the diagnostic data.
US07796520B2
Systems and methods for announcing and locating services that are shared in a distributed manner within a peer-to-peer packet-based network are provided. One or more network devices maintain a copy of a particular service and the service is shared by any network device in the network that requires the service. Network devices maintain lists of what services are available on the network as well as where the services are located. When a particular service is desired, the network device consults the lists and is able to request acquisition of the service from any network device known to host the service, either locally or on a remote network device. Service location functionality is also capable of allocating resources and/or services in the network based on statistical information gathered and maintained regarding service use in the network.
US07796516B2
A method is presented for adapting the packet size for VoIP communications, determined on-the-fly by the total network delay inherent at the time of packet transmission. If network delays are small relative to the maximum permissible latency for VoIP communications, the payload size per packet may be increased to maximize efficiency for the transmitted call. Alternatively, if network delays are large, the payload size per packet may be decreased in order to assure that the perceived quality of the transmitted call is acceptable.
US07796501B2
The present invention combines switching and control functions on a single module while avoiding requirements to synchronize working and standby switch configuration information. The present invention eliminates the idea of redundant working and standby control/switching modules and instead, distributes the switching/control functions across two (primary and secondary) modules, where in the nominal (not failed) case the primary module contains the active control component and the secondary module contains the active switching component. In the failed case, both the switching and control functions reside on one module.
US07796500B1
Systems and methods are provided for determining if an alarm originating from a component within a communications network impacts service of said network. One embodiment includes scanning a first data structure for faulty network components which may potentially affect network service, determining network components that are supported by the faulty network component, calculating a percentage of the network components indicating a fault, and determining if the percentage of the network components is above a threshold. If the percentage is above the threshold the faulty network component is determined to be service impacting. Finally, communicating to a second data structure that the faulty network component impacts service of the communications network.
US07796499B2
A method of determining whether to generate a video refresh request includes receiving a packet and performing at least one of determining whether the received packet contains an error and determining whether a packet prior to the received packet was lost. Responsive to a determination that the received packet contains an error, an error index is increased. Responsive to a determination that a packet prior to the received packet has been lost, the error index is increased. Responsive to a determination that the received packet does not contain an error and that a packet prior to the received packet has not been lost, the error index is decreased.
US07796491B2
There is provided, in an optical disk apparatus which is capable of recording data to or reading data from a plurality of types of optical disks, a wavelength plate and an optical pickup which can reduce deterioration in signal quality even in the presence of a large birefringence of the substrate of an optical disk. A wavelength plate 6 according to the present invention is a wavelength plate to be placed in an optical path through which rays of a plurality of wavelengths travel back and forth, the plurality of wavelengths including a ray having a wavelength λ. The wavelength plate includes a two-dimensional array of a plurality of birefringent regions, the birefringent regions including first regions D1 and second regions D2 having different optic axis directions from each other. The relationship 240°≦Δ1≦300° is true, where Δ1 is a retardation of the wavelength plate 6 for the ray of the wavelength λ.
US07796490B2
An optical pickup performing recording, reproduction and deletion of information on or from an optical recording medium. The pickup includes light sources for information recording media using a blue wavelength beam, information recording media of DVD family and information recording media of CD family. A single object lens may be used to condense light from any of the light sources. A single aberration correction device may be disposed in a common light path between each of the light sources and the object lens.
US07796488B2
An optical pickup apparatus aiming at reduction of adverse effect on a tracking control signal and a data signal by preventing the reflected light from the adjacent layers of a multilayer disc changing to a stray light. In this optical pickup apparatus, the reflected light from the optical disc including the stray light from the adjacent layer is once focused with a focusing lens and is then reflected with the reflection plate. A flat attenuation element is provided between the lens and the reflection plate parallel to the optical axis with inclusion of the optical axis under the condition separated from the reflection plate. The reflection plate reflects the reflected light from the relevant layer and the attenuation element shields the reflected light from the adjacent layer. The light returning to the focusing lens includes less influence of the stray light. This light is detected with a detector to become a control signal and a data signal.
US07796478B2
The whole reflection signal and a tracking error signal are detected while an objective lens is being moved in the radial direction of an optical disk, and the temporal difference between a time at which the value of the whole reflection signal becomes a maximum and a time at which the value of the tracking error signal becomes zero is detected in a predetermined time period. In addition, a value which is obtained by dividing the temporal difference by the time period of one cycle of the tracking error signal is acquired as a tilt appearance magnitude. Relational information in which a tilt appearance magnitude and a tilt correction magnitude corresponding to the tilt appearance magnitude are associated is read out, and the relational information read out and the current tilt appearance magnitude detected by a tilt-appearance-magnitude detection circuit are compared, thereby to determine the tilt correction magnitude necessary for a tilt correction. The tilt correction magnitude is notified to a tilt correction circuit, and is used in making the tilt correction.
US07796477B2
An optical pick-up device in which two object lenses correct comatic aberration with respect to object lenses. First and second optical systems converge either one of light beams having first, second and third wavelengths onto an optical disc. Object lenses are displaced in three axial focusing directions including a direction perpendicular to the recording surface of the optical disc, a tracking direction radial to the optical disc, and either one of a radial tilt direction in a circular arc form on the axis of the radial direction and a tangential tilt direction in a circular arc form on the axis in a tangential direction perpendicular to the radial direction. Comatic aberration of the second optical system is corrected relative to the first optical system in the other direction of the radial tilt direction and the tangential tilt direction, which is not controlled by the object lens drive unit, is corrected.
US07796471B2
A method for determining position of a mobile electronic device includes emitting an acoustic pulse from the position of the mobile electronic device. The acoustic pulse is detected at a known position at three spaced apart locations along each of at least two lines extending in different directions. The range and phase difference of the acoustic pulse between each of the detecting locations is determined. A relative position of the device with respect to the known position is obtained from the range and phase differences.
US07796469B2
The invention relates to a method for fracture plane reconstruction in a three-dimensional set (20) of values, comprising the steps of providing a computer with the three-dimensional set, display by the computer of a succession of plane sections (10) of the three-dimensional set, selection by the user of points of the fracture plane over some of these sections during their display; and reconstruction by the computer of the fracture plane from the selected points.
US07796465B2
A memory controller provided according to an aspect of the present invention uses a slower clock signal during write leveling compared to when performing write operations thereafter. Due to such use of a slower clock signal, the various desired delays can be determined accurately and/or easily. In an embodiment, the frequency of the slower clock signal is determined based on the maximum fly-by delay (generally the delay between sending of a signal on the shared sequential path and the receipt at the memory unit in the sequence) that may be present in the memory system. For example, if the fly by delay can be M (an integer) times the time period of the clock signal during normal write operations, the slower clock signal may have a time period of M times that of the clock signal during write operation.
US07796458B2
Embodiments provide methods, apparatuses and systems including a plurality of memory cells configured to store bit values while being powered at a power-saving voltage lower than a normal-operation voltage during operation of a host apparatus, and power circuitry coupled to the plurality of memory cells. The power circuitry is configured to selectively power a first subset of the plurality of memory cells at the normal-operation voltage during operation of the host apparatus while concurrently powering a second subset of the plurality of memory cells at the power-saving voltage. The first and second subsets being different subsets of the memory cells.
US07796455B2
Devices controlling a phase change storage element and methods for increasing reliability of a phase change storage element. The invention introduces a first operation mode and a second operation mode. A reference phase change storage element is forced a write current for an ideal conduction period in the first operation mode. In the second operation mode, the invention generates a proper conduction period based on the resistance of the reference phase change storage element, and forces the write current into the controlled phase change storage element for the proper conduction period.
US07796454B2
A sensing circuit of a phase change memory. The sensing circuit comprises a storage capacitor and a reference capacitor, a storage memory device and a reference memory device, a storage discharge switch and a reference discharge switch, and an arbitrator. First terminals of the storage capacitor and the reference capacitor are respectively coupled to a pre-charge voltage via first switches. First terminals of the storage memory device and the reference memory device are respectively coupled to the first terminals of the storage capacitor and the reference capacitor. The storage discharge switch and the reference discharge switch are respectively coupled to second terminals of the storage memory device and the reference memory device. The arbitrator is coupled to the first terminals of the storage memory device and the reference memory device and provides an output as a read result of the storage memory device.
US07796453B2
A semiconductor device includes a column decoder that generates a column selecting signal that selects any of a plurality of bit line pairs to which memory cells are connected according to a column address that is input; a bit line selecting switch that connects by the column selecting signal any of a plurality of bit line pairs and a data I/O line pair that outputs data that has been read from a memory cell to the outside; a data amplifier that amplifies a voltage differential of a data I/O line pair and outputs data that has been read to an output buffer; a data I/O line switch that is provided in the data I/O lines; an I/O line precharge circuit that precharges a data I/O line pair that is not on the side of the data amplifier; and an amplifier precharge circuit that precharges a data I/O line pair that is on the side of the data amplifier.
US07796450B1
A configurable memory device includes an array of configurable memory units arranged into rows and columns. The configurable memory unit includes a memory cell comprising a first storage element configured to store a first value and a second storage element configured to store a second value. The memory unit can be either a single-ended or a differential configuration. In the single-ended configuration, the stored value of each storage element is interpreted as one bit. In the differential configuration, the stored first and second values of the storage elements are interpreted as a differential single bit. An external control signal determines in which configuration the unit is in.
US07796449B2
An integrated circuit having a memory cell arrangement with a plurality of memory cells and a memory cell arrangement controller is provided. The memory cell arrangement controller is configured such that during programming of at least one memory cell of the plurality of memory cells, at least one memory cell, which is arranged adjacent to the memory cell to be programmed, is driven to shield the memory cell to be programmed.
US07796448B2
A trigger circuit for triggering corresponding memory cells of a column redundant circuit includes a determining circuit for generating a determining signal according to an accessed row address, and a plurality of comparing circuits jointly electrically connected to the column redundant circuit for receiving the determining signal, each of the comparing circuits selectively generating a trigger signal to the column redundant circuit according to the determining signal and an accessed column address.
US07796441B2
Provided is a method of reading configuration data in a flash memory device, including a memory cell array which stores configuration data about an operating environment of the flash memory device. The method includes setting a read time of the configuration data to differ from a read time of normal data, and reading the configuration data.
US07796433B2
The unintentional programming of an unselected (or inhibited) non-volatile storage element during a program operation that intends to program another non-volatile storage element is referred to as “program disturb.” A system is proposed for programming and/or reading non-volatile storage that reduces the effect of program disturb. In one embodiment, different verify levels are used for a particular word line (or other grouping of storage elements) during a programming process. In another embodiment, different compare levels are used for a particular word (or other grouping of storage elements) during a read process.
US07796427B2
A method and apparatus for writing data to and reading data from a phase-change random access memory (PRAM) include encoding original data using a predetermined encoding function, selecting data, from among the original data and the encoded data, which require less power when being written to the PRAM, writing the selected data to the PRAM, generating marking information related to the selected data, and writing the marking information to the PRAM. Therefore, power consumption can be reduced when data are written to the PRAM.
US07796425B2
A driver circuit for a PRAM (phase-change random access memory) device includes a write driver that generates a set/reset current in response to a set/reset pulse. In addition, a temperature compensator controls a pulse width of the set/reset pulse in response to a peripheral temperature of the PRAM device. For example, the temperature compensator maintains the pulse width to be substantially constant irrespective of the peripheral temperature. In another example, the temperature compensator decreases the pulse width for higher peripheral temperature.
US07796419B2
The magnetic fields generated by the electric current flowing through the respective lines are pulled into a magnetic yoke whereby the magnetic fields are concentrated on a magnetoresistive element including the magnetosensitive layer. Namely, the opposite magnetic fields are brought close to each other in the magnetosensitive layer in reading of information to cancel each other efficiently.
US07796418B2
A disclosed embodiment is a programmable memory cell comprising an elevated ground node having a voltage greater than a common ground node by an amount substantially equal to a voltage drop across a trigger point adjustment element. In one embodiment, the trigger point adjustment element can be a diode. The trigger voltage of the programmable memory cell is raised closer to a supply voltage when current passes through the trigger point adjustment element during a write operation. The programmable memory cell can comprise a pair of cross-coupled inverters, and first and second programmable antifuses that can be coupled to each inverter in the pair of cross-coupled inverters. Since the trigger voltage of the programmable memory cell is raised closer to the supply voltage, a programmed antifuse can easily reach below the trigger voltage and result in a successful write operation even when the supply voltage is a low voltage.
US07796400B2
An apparatus and method is disclosed that allows for the arranging in a three dimensional array semiconductor chips on a circuit board. A unique chip carrier is disclosed on which any IC chip can be positioned on above the other on a circuit board. Additionally, the carrier allows for the testing of IC chips on the carrier and underneath it without having to remove the carrier and chips from the system even if they are of the BGA or CSP type. The carrier includes exposed test points to allow an on site test.
US07796392B2
An electronic device having an electrical circuit carrier and a body is specified, in which at least one riveted connection is formed between the electrical circuit carrier and the body. In the case of such a device, the electrical circuit carrier can be mechanically incorporated in a stable manner and with little technical complexity. An electrical circuit carrier having at least one rivet is also specified.
US07796388B2
The disclosure describes directly cooling a three-dimensional, direct metallization (DM) layer in a power electronics device. To enable sufficient cooling, coolant flow channels are formed within the ceramic substrate. The direct metallization layer (typically copper) may be bonded to the ceramic substrate, and semiconductor chips (such as IGBT and diodes) may be soldered or sintered onto the direct metallization layer to form a power electronics module. Multiple modules may be attached to cooling headers that provide in-flow and out-flow of coolant through the channels in the ceramic substrate. The modules and cooling header assembly are preferably sized to fit inside the core of a toroidal shaped capacitor.
US07796385B2
A computer enclosure includes a chassis, a heat dissipation fan, a first duct, and a second duct. The chassis includes a bottom panel with a heat generating component and a side panel a vent defined therein. The first duct is attached between a first side of the fan and the vent of the chassis. The second duct is attached to a second side of the fan and covers the heat generating component. The second duct includes a resilient latch structure latchably secured to the second side of the fan.
US07796381B2
A battery cover latching assembly is for a portable electronic device including a housing, a first cover configured for attaching to a first side of the housing, and a second cover configured for attaching to a second side of the housing. The battery cover latching assembly includes a locking portion, a resisting portion, and a latch. The locking portion is formed on the first cover. The resisting portion is formed on the second cover. The latch is attached to the housing and abutting the resisting portion. The latch includes an engaging portion and a button portion. The engaging portion is engageable with the locking portion so as to lock the first cover and the housing with each other. The button portion is movable so as to disengage the engaging portion from the locking portion, thereby unlocking the first cover from the housing.
US07796366B2
An AC arc fault device and methodology includes acquiring a signal in response to an AC current and defining overcurrent regions that correspond to the alternating directions of the AC current and a normal region. A software module identifies a parallel AC arc event over a selected time period in response to multiple occurrences of the acquired signal moving into one of the overcurrent regions. The software module also determines average current values over multiple selected time periods and identifies a series AC arc event in response to the difference between the average values exceeding a pre-determined threshold.
US07796363B2
A PZT element of the present invention includes a laminated structure which is laminated with electrode layer and PZT layer alternatively to define a thickness direction; wherein each PZT layer is sandwiched between two adjacent electrode layers; and at least one support element provided on a side portion of the laminated structure and substantially extending along a longitudinal direction thereof; wherein the PZT element is bent at least towards a latitudinal direction thereof when being applied an electrical voltage thereon through the electrode layers. The invention also discloses a method of manufacturing the PZT element, a HGA and disk drive unit with the same.
US07796359B2
A magnetic head includes a pole layer, a first and a second shield disposed to sandwich the pole layer, and a nonmagnetic layer disposed around the first shield. The pole layer includes a first portion having an end face located in a medium facing surface, and a second portion that is located farther from the medium facing surface than is the first portion. The second portion is greater in thickness than the first portion. A bottom surface of the second portion is located closer to a substrate than is a bottom surface of the first portion. The first shield has a first top surface portion opposed to the bottom surface of the first portion with the first gap layer in between. The nonmagnetic layer has a second top surface portion opposed to the bottom surface of the second portion with the first gap layer in between. A difference in level is formed between the first and the second top surface portion such that the second top surface portion is located closer to the substrate than is the first top surface portion.
US07796350B2
An interchangeable lens barrel and a program rewriting system, in which a program included in the interchangeable lens barrel is easily changeable, are provided. An interchangeable lens barrel 2 is detachable from a camera body 1, and includes a storage section 36 for storing a first program concerning a function of the interchangeable lens barrel 2, a connection section 38 for connecting to an external input/output device 60, a reception section 32 for receiving a second program concerning the function of the interchangeable lens barrel from the input/output device 60 through the connection section 38, and a rewriting section 37 for replacing the stored first program with the received second program.
US07796348B2
A wide angle lens module includes a first lens and a second lens with negative refracting power, a third lens and a fourth lens with positive refracting power, a fifth lens with negative refracting power, a sixth lens with positive refracting power, and a seventh lens with negative refracting power. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens, and the seventh lens are disposed in order from an object side to an image side.
US07796347B2
A lens barrel has a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, a first support frame for supporting the first lens group, a second support frame for supporting the second lens group, a first driving unit, a shutter unit, and an aperture unit. The first lens group has an overall negative refractive power, and includes a prism. The second support frame is driven along a second optical axis by the first driving unit. The shutter unit has a shutter mechanism, a shutter drive motor configured to drive the shutter mechanism, a neutral density filter, and a filter drive motor configured to drive the neutral density filter. The shutter drive motor and the filter drive motor are disposed flanking the second optical axis when viewed in a direction along the second optical axis.
US07796345B2
A zoom lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, first to fifth lens group respectively having positive, negative, positive, positive, and positive refractive power. When zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the first, third and fourth lens groups move to the object side and the second lens group moves to the image side, whereby a spacing between the first and second lens groups and a spacing between the fourth and fifth lens groups are both increased and a spacing between the second and third lens groups is decreased. The following condition is satisfied: 0 < M G 2 · Y f 2 ≤ 0.05 where MG2 represents the movement range of the second lens group when zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, Y represents a maximum diagonal length of the image plane, and f2 represents the focal length of the second lens group.
US07796339B2
An image display apparatus includes a light source that emits light-source light, an illumination system that makes the light-source light uniform, a color separation system that separates illumination light outputted from the illumination system into color light fluxes, color optical modulators illuminated with the color light fluxes separated by the color separation system, and an optical element having an element surface the film thickness distribution of which is configured in such a way that the film thickness changes in a non-uniform manner.
US07796335B2
The present microlens for packaging and printing includes a package including a body; and a microlens window located on the body to display at least one graphical image in a first portion of the microlens window and the contents of the package through a second portion of the microlens window.
US07796333B2
A method for fabricating microparticles. The method includes providing a removable substrate that has a photosensitive material. The substrate has a plurality of inner regions. Each inner region surrounds a corresponding outer region. The method also includes providing at least one optically detectable code within at least one of the inner regions of the substrate and etching lines into the substrate to create a plurality of microparticles having at least one optically detectable code therein. The microparticles have elongated bodies that extend in an axial direction. The optically detectable codes extend in the axial direction within the microparticles.
US07796331B2
A laser image display device and a laser image display screen used for the laser image display device. The laser image display device is provided with a laser light source for emitting laser beams and a laser image display screen (10) for projecting the laser beams. The laser image display screen (10) is provided with a reflection scattering body (11) for scatter reflecting the laser beams, and a semi-transmissive diffusion layer (12) arranged substantially parallel to the reflection scattering body (11). The semi-transmissive diffusion layer (12) reflects at least a part of the laser beams, transmits the rest, diffuses the transmitting laser beams and projects them.
US07796330B2
A rear-projection screen structure, and an associated method, for creating on the front, image-viewing side of a rear-projection screen structure an anti-speckled, rear-projected, laser-beam image. Methodologically, and as implemented by the structure of the invention, the invention steps include projecting a source laser-image beam toward the rear side of such a screen structure, and while so projecting, introducing relative-motion optical diffusion in the laser beam path which exists between the source laser-image beam and the screen-structure's image-viewing side.
US07796326B1
A method and system whereby a narrow linewidth coherent laser source when transmitted as a plurality of output signals and subsequently detected at a distance appears to produce the uniform illumination characteristics of an incoherent source thereby suppressing laser speckle and environmentally induced scintillation effects. A master oscillator source is split into N signals, each of which is independently phase modulated by frequencies designed to minimize a derived apparent incoherence factor. The signals are then either directed to an object to be illuminated so that they overlap at the object or first recombined and directed to the object.
US07796324B2
A wavelength converting apparatus comprising: a laser resonator; a first wavelength converting element that converts a fundamental wave outputted from the laser resonator into a harmonic wave; a first temperature control element that controls the temperature of the first wavelength converting element; a second wavelength converting element that converts a fundamental wave outputted from the first wavelength converting element into a harmonic wave; a second temperature control element that controls the temperature of the second wavelength converting element; a first detecting portion that detects an output of a harmonic wave outputted from the first wavelength converting element; a second detecting portion that detects an output of a harmonic wave outputted from the second wavelength converting element; and a controller that manages temperature control of the first wavelength converting element by the first temperature control element, temperature control of the second wavelength converting element by the second temperature control element, and current value control of a driving current applied to the laser light source.
US07796322B2
Natural lighting profiles are affected in a building facade and internal transparent membrane using a transparent sheet having one or more pixel elements, wherein each of the pixel elements is capable of being driven to control opacity (by shading). A programmable controller is used to send control commands to control opacity of the pixel elements, wherein the percentage of light transmitted through the display panel forming part of the facade is controlled via the controller.
US07796310B2
An image reading apparatus capable of increasing the detection accuracy of the size of an original and eliminating the need for an image sensor dedicated to detection of the size of an original. A first reading unit has a first light source disposed on one side of a conveyance path of an original for emitting light to one surface of the original. A second reading unit has a second light source disposed on the other side of the conveyance path for emitting light to be received by the first reading unit, an optical opening for causing the light emitted from the second light source and subsequently received by the first reading unit to pass therethrough toward the first reading unit. The original is detected on the basis of the resultant output of the first reading unit upon receipt of the light emitted from the second light source.
US07796305B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first shading correction unit configured to perform shading correction for first image data by using a correction coefficient that is set for yielding an area corresponding to the luminance of a corrected trace, and a corrected trace detecting unit configured to perform first image processing for second image data resulting from correction of the first image data by the first shading correction unit to detect the corrected trace.
US07796304B2
The invention provides for a print cartridge assembly for a mobile handset. The assembly includes a chassis defining a number of slots for operatively receiving ink bearing structures therein, the chassis also defining a plurality of tortuous ink paths for supplying ink from the ink bearing structures to a printhead integrated circuit mounted to said chassis. The assembly also includes a media drive shaft mounted to said chassis, the shaft configured to operatively move print media past the printhead integrated circuit, as well as power and data contacts defined on said housing, the contacts in signal communication with the printhead integrated circuit to facilitate supply of power and data signals from a controller of the mobile handset to the integrated circuit.
US07796299B1
An apparatus, method and computer program product for transforming data from a source device color space to a destination device color space using a source device color profile, a source rendering intent, a destination rendering intent, and a destination device color profile, such that the source rendering, intent and the destination rendering intent determine a method of mapping colors from the source device color space to the destination device color space.
US07796293B2
A desired area, a desired resolution of the desired area, and a desired reduction ratio of an area other than the desired area are specified. An image data of the desired area is extracted from an image data of a document read at the desired resolution. A changed image data is created by changing the image data of the document based on the desired reduction ratio. The image data of the desired area and the changed image data are subjected to multi-page filing and saved as one file.
US07796291B2
An electro-optical device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in association with intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, each of the plurality of pixels displaying a grayscale level corresponding to a data signal supplied to a corresponding data line when a scanning line is selected; a memory that stores upper n bits of input image data in which the grayscale level of each of the plurality of pixels is designated by m bits and that reads the stored n bits of image data, where “m” and “n ” represent positive integers satisfying a condition m>n; an adding circuit that adds lower (m−n) bits to the n bits of image data read from the memory; a selector that selects the input image data when the m bits of image data are input and that selects image data including the (m−n) bits added thereto by the adding circuit when the n bits of image data are read from the memory; a scanning line driving circuit that selects, from among the plurality of scanning lines, the scanning line corresponding to the image data selected by the selector; and a data line driving circuit that supplies the data signal based on the image data selected by the selector to the data line corresponding to the selected image data.
US07796290B2
An image forming device includes: a processing unit that executes a prescribed process; a user interface unit that displays information related to the executed process, and that receives a setting of content of the executed process; a communication unit that is connected to an external device, that obtains process content information and content of the setting in the user interface unit from the external device, and that obtains operator information; a storage that stores the process content information and the operator information so as to be coordinated with each other; a user specifying unit that specifies a user; and a control unit that controls content of a display specified based on the process content information to be displayed on the user interface unit, and considers content of a setting specified based on the process content information to be received by the user interface unit.
US07796275B2
A phase-shifting interferometry (PSI) method and corresponding system including: (i) recording an interferogram for each phase in a sequence of phases between test light reflected from a test surface and reference light reflected from a reference surface, the test and reference light being derived from a common source, each interferogram corresponding to an intensity pattern produced by interfering the reflected test light with the reflected reference light, the interferograms defining an interferometry signal for each of different transverse locations of a cavity defined by the test and reference surfaces, each interferometry signal including a series of intensity values corresponding to the sequence of phases, with the difference between each pair of phases in the sequence defining a corresponding phase shift increment; (ii) calculating an initial phase map for the cavity based on at least some of the recorded interferograms; (iii) calculating an estimate for each of at least some of the phase shift increments based on the initial phase map and at least some of the recorded interferograms; and (iv) calculating an improved phase map based on the calculated estimates for the phase shift increments and at least some of the recorded interferograms.
US07796270B2
Systems and methods for generating data based on one or more spectrally-encoded endoscopy techniques
Exemplary systems and methods for generating data associated with at least one portion of a sample can be provided. For example, according to one exemplary embodiment of such systems and methods, it is possible to provide a particular radiation using at least one first arrangement. The particular radiation can include at least one first electro-magnetic radiation directed to at least one sample and at least one second electro-magnetic radiation directed to a reference arrangement. The first radiation and/or the second radiation can comprise a plurality of wavelengths. The first electro-magnetic radiation can be spectrally dispersed along at least one portion of the sample. The second electro-magnetic radiation measured at two or more different lengths of the reference arrangement with respect to the first arrangement. Data can be generated which is associated with the first and second electro-magnetic radiations obtained at the two different lengths using at least one second arrangement which comprises a spectrometer arrangement.
US07796263B2
Method and apparatus for estimating a downhole fluid parameter include a high-gain semiconductor light emitter device conveyed into a well borehole, a semiconductor light emitter having a gain region that produces light having a first center wavelength responsive to a selected fluid property, the semiconductor light emitter being carried by the carrier. The apparatus may include an electrical current source that applies an electrical current pulse train to the semiconductor light emitter and an analyzer device that analyses a first response of light emitted from the semiconductor light source after emitted light interacts with the fluid, the analyzed first response being used to estimate the fluid property using the first center wavelength. A current modulator modulates the electrical current pulse train to vary a temperature of the gain region to change the first center wavelength in the emitted light to a second center wavelength and a second response of the emitted light is analyzed by the analyzer device after interaction with the fluid to estimate the fluid property using the second center wavelength.
US07796257B2
A measuring apparatus includes a light intensity information acquisition section 40 that acquires light intensity information relating to a measurement light containing a given band component, the measurement light having been modulated by optical elements included in an optical system 10 and a measurement target (or a sample 100), and a calculation section 50 that calculates at least one matrix element of a Mueller matrix that indicates the optical characteristics of the measurement target based on the light intensity information relating to the measurement light and a theoretical expression for the light intensity of the measurement light. The light intensity information acquisition section 40 acquires the light intensity information relating to a plurality of the measurement lights obtained from the optical system 10 by changing setting of a principal axis direction of at least one of the optical elements. The calculation section 50 performs a carrier amplitude coefficient calculation process, and a matrix element calculation process that calculates the at least one matrix element based on a carrier amplitude coefficient and the theoretical expression for the carrier amplitude coefficient including the at least one matrix element.
US07796253B2
A particle detecting device including a light source light reflector to reflect a laser light to make it intersect an observed light path of a light detector plural times at different positions, or a scattered light reflector to reflect the observed light path of the light detector to make it intersect the laser light plural times at different positions is installed on a side of a printed surface of a record medium in the inside of an image forming apparatus.
US07796250B2
An electro-optical measuring device, in particular a hand-held device for contactless distance measurement, has an optical transmission path that includes at least one optical transmitter for transmitting a measurement signal, a reception path with at least one receiving optics for bundling a measurement signal in the direction of a receiver, and an optics carrier, which accommodates components of the transmission and reception path and the is made of plastic.
US07796247B2
A probe for a medical device with source and detector sensors is used to monitor or measure, or both, oxygen saturation levels in a tissue. In various specific implementations, the probe has at least two sources and at least one detector, at least one source and at least two detectors, and at least two sources and at least four detectors. A source of the probe is connected to at least one radiation source, which is external to the probe. A detector of the probe is connected to a photodetector, which is external to the probe.
US07796243B2
Early dental caries detection is carried out by a method that combines optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Raman spectroscopy to provide morphological information and biochemical specificity for detecting and characterizing incipient carious lesions found in extracted human teeth. OCT imaging of tooth samples demonstrated increased light back-scattering intensity at sites of carious lesions as compared to the sound enamel. Raman microspectroscopy and fibre-optic based Raman spectroscopy are used to characterize the caries further by detecting demineralization-induced alterations of enamel crystallite morphology and/or orientation. OCT imaging is useful for screening carious sites and determining lesion depth, with Raman spectroscopy providing biochemical confirmation of caries. The combination is incorporated into a common probe operable without movement to scan the tooth surface and to provide an output for the dentist.
US07796241B2
An avian eggshell egg-check/crack detection system was developed to aide official egg graders. It includes an imaging system and a device to produce negative pressure in an egg chamber.
US07796230B2
A display apparatus includes a display substrate, an opposite substrate, a seal line, a driver chip, a gate insulating layer disposed on the display substrate, a first signal line disposed on a first side of the gate insulating layer, and a second signal line disposed on a second side of the gate insulating layer, wherein portions of the first signal line and the second signal line overlap each other along at least a portion of the seal line.
US07796228B2
A display substrate includes a base substrate having a display area and a peripheral area which surrounds the display area, a pixel electrode formed on the display area, a pad part formed on the peripheral area, an adhesion part formed on the peripheral area and having a plurality of holes formed in an area adjacent to the pad part on the peripheral area and a conductive adhesion member formed on the pad part and the adhesion part to make electrical contact with the pad part and a terminal of an integrated circuit.
US07796227B2
This invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel adapted to prevent corrosion of a pad electrode and reduce a liquid crystal margin area, and a fabricating method thereof. A liquid crystal display panel includes first and second substrates bonded with a sealant; a signal line on the first substrate; a pad formed on a different plane than the signal line; and a contact part overlapping the sealant and connecting the signal line to the pad.
US07796221B2
A sub picture element electrode directly connected to a thin film transistor is disposed between a floating sub picture element electrode capacitively coupled to a control electrode and a gate bus line in order to prevent injection of electric charges from the gate bus line to the floating sub picture element electrode. Moreover, a shield pattern electrically connected to an auxiliary capacitance bus line is formed between the floating sub picture element electrode and a data bus line. This shield pattern avoids injection of electric charges from the data bus line to the floating sub picture element electrode.
US07796217B2
A liquid crystal display panel including two substrates combined together through a sealing material applied to a peripheral portion thereof. A liquid crystal is sealed between the substrates, and there is a picture-frame area on the substrates, outside a display area and inside a region where the sealing material is formed. A light-shield film is formed in the picture-frame area in the form of a frame surrounding the display area, wherein the light-shield film does not overlap the sealing material. A first conductive film is formed in the picture-frame area on either of the substrates, outside the light-shield film, in the form of a continuously connected frame surrounding the display area and in the same layer as a pixel electrode formed at each pixel in the display area. A second conductive film is formed on the other of the substrates, facing the first conductive film.
US07796216B2
The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a liquid crystal display panel 2 containing a liquid crystal having an alignment state which is so controlled that: a transmission intensity at an oblique viewing angle is greater than a frontal transmission intensity assuming a frontal transmittance of 1 for a white display and a transmittance of 1 at the oblique viewing angle for a white display; and a first region and a second region coexist in one or multiple picture element regions constituting a pixel, excess brightness occurring at the oblique viewing angle in the first region, no excess brightness occurring at the oblique viewing angle in the second region. The liquid crystal display device also includes a panel, 3, for use in viewing angle property control setting all or part of the second region of the liquid crystal display panel 2 to either a light-blocking state or a light-transmitting state as viewed from an oblique direction. Thus, the structure, although simple, can switch the liquid crystal display panel between narrow viewing angle properties and wide viewing angle properties.
US07796198B2
In a display control apparatus which is supplied with an input synchronizing signal and an input video signal, and which generates display data from the input video signal on the basis of the input synchronizing signal, and supplies the display data to display means, when a change is detected in a cycle of the input synchronizing signal, the display means is supplied with display data of a frame prior to the occurrence of the change in the cycle, throughout a subsequent predetermined number of frame periods.
US07796196B2
According to one embodiment, in the case where a non-linear correction processing is performed in a direction in which an amplitude level of a luminance signal is heightened, an amplitude level correction processing is performed to a color signal on the basis of a first coefficient read from a first table prepared in advance in correspondence to the case. In the case where a non-linear correction processing is performed in a direction in which the amplitude level of the luminance signal is lowered, an amplitude level correction processing is performed to the color signal on the basis of a second coefficient read from a second table prepared in advance in correspondence to the case.
US07796195B2
A circuit for eliminating abnormal sound includes a video/audio processor, a D/A converter, a front-stage mute circuit, a changing delay device, a front-stage amplifier, a back-stage amplifier, a back-stage mute circuit, and a micro control unit. The circuit is mounted in a display device connected to a DVD player. When DVD player plays the video/audio signal having HDMI standard, the display device will generate an abnormal sound (pop voice or declining voice) during performing an operation such as pause, stop or play. Therefore, this circuit uses the changing delay device, the micro control unit, and the mute circuit to filter out the noise for providing a better outputting quality.
US07796184B2
A camera system includes a camera main body and a camera head mounted to the camera main body. A main body CPU of the camera main body determines whether or not an image signal transmitted from the mounted camera head can be processed by a signal conversion processing section of the camera main body based on ID information and signal conversion processing information downloaded from the camera head upon mounting the camera head. When it is determined that the signal cannot be processed by the signal conversion processing section by the main body CPU, the camera main body sets a RAW data recording mode for recording RAW data on a recording medium by adding a part of the signal conversion processing information of the camera head as data without performing signal processing in the signal conversion processing section.
US07796182B2
An image-taking apparatus is disclosed which can record a still image in sharp focus during moving-image recording without a large change in the focus state of the recorded moving image. The image-taking apparatus includes a signal generator which generates a focus evaluation signal representing a focus state based on an output signal from an image-pickup device, and a controller which drives the focus lens such that an in-focus position is searched for based on the focus evaluation signal in performing moving-image recording, and drives the focus lens in a predetermined scan area to detect an in-focus position based on the focus evaluation signal and drives the focus lens to the detected in-focus position in performing still-image recording. The focus lens is driven in a first scan area in performing still-image recording in a still-image recording mode and the focus lens is driven in a second scan area smaller than the first scan area in performing still-image recording in a moving-image recording mode.
US07796178B2
A camera comprises a reproduction mode changeover unit that changes over between a single image reproduction mode and a magnified reproduction mode; a display position change unit that changes a center coordinate point of an image; a display center storage unit that stores the center coordinate point of the image; an enlargement position flag storage unit that stores either one of a first flag and a second flag; and a control unit that, when the magnified reproduction mode has been changed to the single image reproduction mode in a first operational manner, stores the first flag in the enlargement position flag storage unit, and, when the magnified reproduction mode has been changed to the single image reproduction mode in a second operational manner, stores the second flag in the enlargement position flag storage unit.
US07796173B2
Signals from an object in a field of view are detected by an array of directional sensors and “re-converged” to create a three-dimensional image as the object changes contrast or moves relative to the sensors. Each sensor is oriented along an axis toward the field of view. Sensor signals are converted to logarithms thereof and transients are detected and compared to background signals. Resulting signals are connected in overlapping groups to coincidence detectors in a matrix. Each point in the field of view where two or more sensor axes intersect is represented by a coincidence detector, which is connected to the corresponding group of sensors. If a threshold number of sensors in the group detects a transient, the corresponding point in the image is deemed to be “contrasty” and can be made visible or otherwise perceivable by a human or can be further processed by a computer or other circuit.
US07796171B2
The anti-blooming structure of an image sensor is supplied with varying voltages during different integration periods such that charges generated in response to low level light are fully captured, whereas charges generated in response to a bright light spill over in a controlled manner. Accordingly, sensor's response may be generated to result in higher gains at low light levels and progressively lower gains at the higher light levels.
US07796169B2
An image processing apparatus selects a correction method of a defective pixel in accordance with the type of the defective pixel. The image processing apparatus includes an imaging device consisting of a plurality of pixels, a storage device for storing a captured image output from the imaging device, a first correction processing device for correcting a defective pixel in the captured image based on first corrective data containing address information of a defective pixel in the imaging device in accordance with input of a signal output from the defective pixel in the imaging device, and a second correction processing device for correcting the defective pixel in the captured image stored in the storage device based on second corrective data containing address information of a defective pixel in the imaging device.
US07796164B2
There is provided a signal reading apparatus that reads an output signal from a solid-state image sensing device. The apparatus includes a plurality of measuring means that respectively measures pixel data included in the output signal from the solid-state image sensing device and a timing generator that generates a clock signal showing a timing at which each of the plurality of measuring means measures the pixel data from the solid-state image sensing device and respectively supplies the clock signal to the plurality of measuring means in order to make the plurality of measuring means sequentially measure the pixel data from the solid-state image sensing device by means of an interleaving operation.
US07796160B2
A digital camera of the present invention includes a receiving portion 155 that receives a control signal from a remote controller, and a microcomputer 110 having a live view mode controlling so that image data generated by a CMOS sensor 130 or image data obtained by subjecting the image data generated by the CMOS sensor 130 to predetermined processing is displayed on a liquid crystal monitor 150 as a moving image in real time, wherein when the receiving portion 155 receives the control signal from the remote controller, the microcomputer 110 controls so as to shift the digital camera to a live view mode. Due to this configuration, in a digital camera that includes a movable mirror and is capable of displaying a subject image in a live view through an electronic viewfinder, the operability thereof can be enhanced.
US07796157B2
A system and method for diagnosis of video device performance in the transfer of audio visual data over a video network physically interfaces with the network to receive audio visual data associated with the video device of interest and uses diagnostic tools to access the audio visual data for determination of performance statistics with analysis of the accessed audio visual data, including video device jitter, latency, throughput, and packet loss.
US07796154B2
A system for automatically acquiring high-resolution images by steering a pan-tilt-zoom camera at targets detected in a fixed camera view is provided. The system uses automatic or manual calibration between multiple cameras. Using automatic calibration, the homography between the cameras in a home position is estimated together with the effects of pan and tilt controls and the expected height of a person in the image. These calibrations are chained together to steer a slave camera. The manual calibration scheme steers a camera to the desired region of interest and calculates the pan, tile and zoom parameters accordingly.
US07796149B2
Method for scanner control in at least one scan axis in a laser scanning microscope, the scan field being divided into partial area, a first image of at least one partial area produced by a forward scan being compared with a second image of the partial area produced by a back scan and a correction value for the scanner control determined from the deviation between the first and second image.
US07796144B2
A gamma correction device and method for a display device are provided, which requires fewer look-up tables and small-size driving voltage generating circuits to generate three sets of driving voltages. A plurality of difference values between three gamma curves R, G, and B and a reference curve is stored in the look-up table. According to the look-up table, a selection signal SEL is obtained based on a gray scale signal. Moreover, a most significant bit (MSB) signal is extracted from the gray scale signal. Then, several analog voltages are generated from a voltage source through voltage division. After that, the selection signal and the MSB signal are decoded so as to select one from the analog voltages and convert to a driving voltage. The driving voltage is used to drive the display device.
US07796129B2
A multi-GPU graphics processing subsystem for installation in a PC-based computing system having a CPU and a CPU interface module including a PC bus. The graphics processing subsystem interfaced with the CPU interface module by way of the PC bus, and a display surface for displaying said images by graphically displaying frames of pixel data produced by the graphics processing subsystem. The graphics processing subsystem includes a plurality of GPUs arranged in a parallel architecture and operating according to a parallelization mode of operation so that each GPU supports a graphics pipeline and is allowed to process data in a parallel manner. A hardware hub, interfaces with the CPU interface module and the GPUs, by way of the PC bus, and has a hub router for (i) distributing the stream of geometrical data and graphic commands among the GPUs, and (ii) transferring pixel data output from one or more of GPUs during the composition of frames of pixel data corresponding to final images for display on the display surface. The CPU interface module provides an interface between one or more software hub drivers and the hardware hub.
US07796123B1
The present invention is directed to a touchscreen comprising touch side electrode and device side electrode wherein each electrode comprises an insulating substrate and an exposed electrically conductive layer, wherein said exposed electrically conductive layers are adjacent and separated by dielectric spacers, and wherein only one of the exposed electrically conductive layers comprises carbon nanotubes.
US07796102B2
The display device of the invention comprises a plurality of scanning lines (Wscan and Escan) which are selected successively, a plurality of data lines (Data) to which the writing electric current (Idata) in accordance with brightness information is supplied according to the scanning line selection, and a plurality of pixels (PX) arranged at intersecting points between the scanning lines and the data lines. Each of the pixels comprises a light emitting element (OLED), a driving transistor (TFT4), a capacitor (C) connected to the gate (Nd) of the driving transistor for accumulating writing data, a first transistor (TFT1) which is turned on during writing period in which the scanning lines are scanned and which connects the data lines and the drain of the driving transistor, and a second transistor (TFT2) which is turned on during the writing period and which short-circuits the gate and drain of the driving transistor. With such a structure, the light emitting element can be driven with a driving electric current equivalent to the writing electric current, irrespective of variations in characteristics of the transistors.
US07796095B2
An image processing circuit, such as a graphics accelerator chip or any other suitable circuit, includes display output control logic that is operative to receive a current frame of information from a frame buffer and is operative to process a current frame, such as by providing gamma correction, image scaling, graphics or video overlaying, or other suitable processing, to produce a processed current display frame and stores the processed current display frame back in the frame buffer. Fixed function or dedicated, display type specific temporal processing logic receives the processed current display frame stored in the frame buffer and also obtains at least one previous processed current display frame from the frame buffer and temporally processes pixels from each of the processed current display frame and the previous processed current display frame to produce a temporally compensated display frame for a specific type of display.
US07796088B1
A stretchable antenna assembly and a notebook computer with the antenna assembly thereof, comprising an antenna module and a holder which respectively has a guiding unit corresponding to the antenna module and the holder, and further the antenna module couples to a signal transmission element for activating with a first conductive element disposed at one side of the holder, resulting in preventing the antenna signal transmission from being interrupted whenever the antenna module is open or closed, and in further ensuring the precise locating function, and strengthening the receipt of signal.
US07796087B2
An antenna apparatus is disclosed. The antenna apparatus is structured by a ground plate that is shaped like a plate, and a feeding unit that is formed by a plate-like member, the feeding unit extending from the ground plate generally perpendicular to the ground plate at a predetermined angle to the ground plate for a predetermined length.
US07796082B2
Methods and apparatus to provide Log-Amp-detected radar sea clutter voltage modeled by a polynomial, such as a cubic polynomial, and using that model as a basis for sea clutter reduction filtering. In an exemplary embodiment, a navigational radar includes an STC filter design based on the cubic sea clutter modeling.
US07796076B2
A transformer-isolated analog-to-digital converter (ADC) feedback apparatus and method provides reduction of circuit complexity in high power/high voltage systems having a transformer-isolated sensing circuit. The feedback apparatus is a circuit including an ADC for receiving an analog input signal and a transformer having a first winding that receives a modulated output of the analog-to-digital converter. A second winding of the transformer provides an isolated data output of the ADC. A demodulator is coupled to the second winding of the transformer and demodulates the isolated output to generate a digital representation of the analog input signal. The ADC may be a delta-sigma converter and the demodulator may be the corresponding decimation filter. The circuit further includes an isolation circuit for introducing a clock signal and/or power supply waveform at the second winding of the transformer, so that the ADC circuit is supplied with an isolated clock and/or an isolated power supply.
US07796069B2
An analog to digital converter (ADC) converts an analog signal to a digital signal. The ADC includes an input channel, a sampling circuit coupled to the input channel, an integrator coupled to the sampling circuit, and a feedback circuit coupled to the integrator. The input channel receives the analog signal. The sampling circuit samples the analog signal. The integrator receives the sampled analog signal and a feedback signal and integrates a superposition of the sampled analog signal and the feedback signal. The feedback circuit generates the digital signal according to an output of the integrator and sends the feedback signal indicative of the digital signal to the integrator.
US07796055B2
Systems and methods for runway status indication and related traffic information displays and filtering are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method for displaying runway status includes defining a monitored volume for each of one or more runways, determining a runway status for each of the one or more runways based on at least one of a state of at least one traffic vehicle and a monitoring vehicle state with respect to each monitored volume. The method continues with selecting at least one runway status for display based on the state of the monitoring vehicle. The method then presents the at least one runway status within the monitoring vehicle. In an additional embodiment, each monitored volume is based on a length of a corresponding runway, a width of the corresponding runway, and a predetermined altitude above the corresponding runway.
US07796052B2
A security device which is a hand held portable remote device such as a key fob that allows a user to interact with a security system using a single button. The security system functions such as arming, disarming, panic, garage door open, lamp on/off, and lamp dimming control will be displayed by the security device as control options and will be selected by a user using a forward, backward, left or right tilting motion and depressing the power on/select button. Once a control option has been selected, the security device will transmit the control option to the security system. The security device has a portable housing, a wireless communication port for interface with a security system, a display panel, an accelerometer device, and processing circuitry. The accelerometer device is used to determine the tilt of the security device and provide a control signal related to the tilt. The security device also has an infrared communication port for downloading control options, and single push button, for turning the security device on and for initiating the transmission of the output signal.
US07796050B2
An abnormality in operation is detected by meticulously monitoring the operation of a monitored device that comprises a state machine. The state number, indicating the state the monitored device is currently in, is output from the device. The upper and lower limit values of current consumption is set for each state number. A monitoring circuit, using the upper and lower limit values for the present state number, judges the value of current consumption detected by a current detection circuit and detects whether there is abnormality in operation.
US07796047B2
An apparatus for fire detection in an electrical equipment rack includes a suction pipe system which communicates with the rack monitored through at least one suction opening and through which a representative air sample is drawn from the rack, an early fire detection module having at least one detector unit for detecting at least one fire parameter in the air sample extracted through the suction pipe system, and a controller for issuing an early fire detection signal in response to the result detected with the at least one detector unit. The early fire detection module is configured as a rackmount to be inserted into the rack.
US07796046B2
A rodent repeller having an elongated body, an end cap, an apex, a power supply, a buzzer, and a buzzer transformer. Connection of the power supply to the audible signal generator via the audible signal generator transformer produces a signal in the form of a chatter sound that mimics a frightened rodent to discourage rodents from remaining in a vicinity of the rodent repeller. The rodent repeller can further utilize solar power.
US07796038B2
A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag according to one embodiment includes a controller, a sensor in communication with the controller, a local power source for providing power to the controller, and a user input device for receiving manual input from a user. A function is selectable by manipulation of the user input device. An RFID tag according to another embodiment of the present invention includes a controller having activate circuitry, the activate circuitry being for detecting a valid activate command in an incoming signal and causing the tag to wake from a hibernate state. An electronic display device is in communication with the controller. A local power source provides power to the controller. A user input device receives manual input from a user. The tag is normally in a hibernate state. Manipulation of the user input device wakes the tag from the hibernate state and/or allows function selection.
US07796036B2
A secure connector is provided. The secure connector comprises a casing; a tamper sensor disposed inside the casing and configured to detect unauthorized tamper events; and one or more conductors configured to carry signals, the one or more conductors passing through the tamper sensor.
US07796026B1
Methods and systems for using one or more radio frequency identification devices (RFIDs), or other suitable signal transmitters and/or receivers, to provide a sensor information communication path, to provide location and/or spatial orientation information for an emergency service worker (ESW), to provide an ESW escape route, to indicate a direction from an ESW to an ES appliance, to provide updated information on a region or structure that presents an extreme environment (fire, hazardous fluid leak, underwater, nuclear, etc.) in which an ESW works, and to provide accumulated thermal load or thermal breakdown information on one or more locations in the region.
US07796024B2
The present invention is an alert system and apparatus that interrupts the operation of sound producing and video display entertainment and communication devices and replaces the signals with an audible verbal annunciation and text message that overlays on the video displayed and initiates an alerting device or devices in connection with attracting the attention of hearing and/or visually impaired persons, persons who are not in close proximity to the area relating to the alert or by person who desire to be alerted by these mechanism.
US07796018B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for designing a health monitor system for a vehicle. A functional model of the vehicle is created. A hazardous condition is identified that can occur during operation of the vehicle using the functional model. A model of causes is created for the hazardous condition and hazard cause controls are identified to avoid the hazardous condition using the model of causes, wherein the controls prevent causes of the hazardous condition from occurring. A set of monitors is identified to monitor the controls.
US07796013B2
A biometrically activated device wherein data derived from detection of unique internal biometric traits are stored within said biometrically activated device to be compared to stored data relative to said internal biometric markers or traits previously scanned from a user of said biometrically activated device. The biometrically activated device may allow or disallow access to information, or provide use of, data or a device protected by the biometrically activated device.
US07796012B2
A method of controlling access to an area accessible by persons, particularly to a space closed by a door, includes providing a first mobile communications unit on which at least one access code is filed, at least one second mobile communications unit and a receiver unit for receiving the access code. The access code is transmitted by the first communications unit to the second communications unit. The access code is transmitted to the receiver unit by this second communications unit. After a successful checking of the access code by the receiver unit the door access is freed.
US07795999B2
A filter includes a first filter that is connected between an input node and an output node and is a surface acoustic wave filter, and a second filter that is provided between the input node and the output node and is connected in parallel with the first filter. The first filter has a total number N1 of pairs of electrode fingers of interdigital transducers and the second filter having a total number N2 of pairs of electrode fingers of interdigital transducers, in which N1 is greater than N2.
US07795994B2
A power line coupler for communicating data signals over a power distribution system having a first and second overhead energized medium voltage power line conductors is provided. In one embodiment, the coupler includes a first lightening arrestor having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the first arrestor is connected to the first power line conductor. The coupler further includes a first high frequency impedance having a first end connected to the second end of the first lightening arrestor and the first impedance having a second end connected to a neutral conductor of the power line distribution system. The coupler may further include a second lightening arrestor having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the second arrestor is connected to the second power line conductor. The coupler further including a second high frequency impedance having a first end connected to the second end of the second lightening arrestor and a second end connected to the neutral conductor. The first high frequency impedance and the second high frequency impedance may each comprise an air core coil that forms an inductor. The coupler may further include a balun having a first winding and a second winding, wherein the first winding is coupled to a communication device, and wherein the second winding has a first end connected to the first end of the first high frequency impedance and a second end connected to the first end of the second high frequency impedance.
US07795993B2
According to one embodiment, a wiring board includes a transmission line provided to perform communications between a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip, the transmission line is formed of a distributed constant wiring portion having a characteristic impedance matched to one of an output impedance of the first semiconductor chip and an output impedance of the second semiconductor chip, and a lumped constant wiring portion which is narrower than the distributed constant wiring portion and shorter than a length which can be regarded as a lumped constant circuit.
US07795983B1
A circuit for generating chaotic signals implemented using heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) and utilized in low probability intercept communications. The HBT chaotic circuit generates truly random analog signals in the GHz range that are non-repeating and deterministic and may not be replicated by preloading a predetermined sequence. A fully differential autonomous chaotic circuit outputs two pairs of chaotic signals to be used in a communication system. As it is impossible to generate identical chaotic signals at the transmitter and receiver sites, the receiver itself sends the chaotic signal to be used for encoding to the transmitter. The receiver includes a chaotic signal generator and digitizes, upconverts, and transmits the generated chaotic signal to the transmitter. The transmitter uses the received chaotic signal to code data to be transmitted. The receiver decodes the transmitted data that is encoded by the chaotic signal to retrieve the transmitted data.
US07795974B2
A digitally variable gain amplifier comprising a front-end stage, a level shifter stage, and an output amplifier stage. The front-end stage comprises a high gain pre-amplifier and a low gain pre-amplifier driven in parallel by a differential input signal. A coarse gain control is realized by enabling only one pre-amplifiers at a time, while the differential input signal remains connected to the inputs of the disabled pre-amplifier. An attenuator following each pre-amplifier provides fine gain control. The enabled pre-amplifier amplifies the differential input signal and outputs a first dc voltage level. The disabled pre-amplifier is placed into a standby ready mode and outputs a second dc voltage level that is greater in magnitude than the first dc voltage level. The level shifter stage performs a minimum voltage selection operation to automatically select and level shift the amplified differential input signal, and further pass the signal to the output amplifier stage.
US07795967B2
There is provided an AGC circuit that has a very small offset voltage and is easy for integration, without using any of external capacities. For that reason, a variable gain amplifying circuit (GCA1) which has a gain controlled by a gain control signal, and whose output DC offset is controlled by an offset compensation signal, an A/D conversion circuit (AD1) for A/D converting an output signal of this variable gain amplifying circuit (GCA1), a level detection circuit (Det1) for performing peak detection of an output signal of this A/D conversion circuit (AD1) to thereby detect an amplitude level, a gain control circuit (Gctrl1) for outputting a gain control signal according to an output signal of this level detection circuit (Det1), an offset detection circuit (Det2) provided with a lowpass filter for taking out a DC component from the output signal of the A/D conversion circuit (AD1), and a D/A conversion circuit (DA1) for D/A converting an output signal of the offset detection circuit (Det2) to thereby output the offset compensation signal are provided.
US07795964B2
A time period control unit controls a time length “TU” of each of unit terms “U” in a variable manner. A pulse-width modulating unit is arranged by a holding unit, a counting unit, and a waveform generating unit. The holding unit holds thereinto a plurality of data “XD” every unit term “U”, which are sequentially supplied, as data “XE.” The counting unit changes a count value “X” during each of the unit terms “U.” The waveform generating unit generates such a pulse-width modulating signal “S” that pulses “P” have been arranged every unit term “U”, while time points when a large/small relationship between the count value “C” and a numeral value of the data “XE” held by the holding unit is inverted are defined as edge portions of the pulses.
US07795959B2
A switched-capacitor circuit includes a plurality of cascaded differential-input, single-ended-output amplifiers. A negative feedback path, from an output terminal of a last of the cascaded amplifiers to an input terminal of a first of the cascaded amplifiers, is configured to exclude, and not be shorted out by, any switches.
US07795956B2
Current generation digital media processors support multi-format video resolutions, SDTV, Progressive Scan and HDTV. Built-in video encoders directly support NTSC and progressive 480P video outputs. These two video formats have different image bandwidth and output gain requirements, but are normally filtered by fixed bandwidth filters. This invention provides adjustable filter bandwidth for improved video filtering and solves the dilemma on filter bandwidth design for multi-format video applications. The invention is applicable to video reconstruction filter applications requiring bandwidth adjustable filters.
US07795955B2
Each of computing units on a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first signal output unit that outputs a first status signal indicating a state of a input/output control unit with regard to an access to a storage unit, a second signal output unit that outputs a second status signal indicating a state of a process control unit with regard to an access to a processing unit, and a power control unit that control ON and OFF of power of the storage unit and the processing unit based on states of the first status signal and the second status signal.
US07795953B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a voltage step-down circuit including: a first NMOS connected between an external and an internal power-supply voltages through a PMOS turned ON during an active state and turned OFF during a standby state; a second NMOS connected between the external and the internal power-supply voltages; and a current control circuit that sinks a current from the internal power-supply voltage to a ground level for a certain period of time after an operation state is switched from the active state to the standby state.
US07795949B2
A circuit including a voltage-controlled transistor to be switched. A first transistor is switched on, mediated by a control signal, and a first current flows through a series circuit and starts to subject a control input of the voltage-controlled transistor to charge reversal. The first current brings about a first potential shift at a connecting node. A second transistor is switched on by this first potential shift and a second current therefore flows through the switching path of the second transistor into the control input of the first transistor, which amplifies the first current. The increasing charge reversal of the control input of the voltage-controlled transistor brings about a second potential shift at the connecting node, the second transistor is switched off by this second potential shift, and the first transistor remains switched on, however, and holds the voltage-controlled transistor in its new switching state.
US07795948B2
A circuit includes a multi-tanh cell having a common-emitter node to receive a bias current, and an extra transistor coupled to the common-emitter node to dynamically divert a portion of the bias current from the multi-tanh cell. The circuit may be arranged as a multiplier with an input network arranged to apply two or more input signals to the multi-tanh cell. A second multi-tanh cell with an extra transistor may be arranged in a feedback loop where the outputs of the first and second multi-tanh cells are coupled together at an integrating node. A buffer drives the final output and feedback cell to cancel nonlinearities in the multiplier cells.
US07795947B2
An integrated buffer device for a switched capacitance circuit having a buffer with an output for an output voltage dependent upon an input voltage that can be supplied by a source to the buffer device; a capacitive switching component that can be switched between a first and second condition and connected, respectively, to the source and to the buffer to transfer the input voltage onto the output; the capacitive switching component provided with a terminal having an associated stray capacitance; a charging and discharging device configured to pre-charge the stray capacitance at a reference voltage before taking up the second condition and to pre-discharge the stray capacitance before taking up the first condition.
US07795937B2
A scalable DLL (delay locked loop) circuit that has a calibration mechanism to auto tune locking precision. The delay locked loop circuit includes a multi-phase phase locked loop circuit for generating a plurality of phase signals according to a system clock, wherein one of the phase signals is a pixel clock; a phase detector for detecting an integral phase error and a fractional phase error between a reference signal and a feedback signal according to the pixel clock; a phase selector for selecting one of the phase signals according to the fractional phase error; and a delay circuit for shifting the phase of the reference signal according to the integral phase error and the selected phase signal to generate an output signal.
US07795930B2
A drive control apparatus controls a drive of an inductive load having a current flowing therethrough. The drive control apparatus includes a drive control device for controlling a variation of the current flowing through the inductive load within a certain period by Pulse Width Modulation control so as to come close to a reference current value, and a reference value control device for controlling a fluctuation period of the reference current value and making the fluctuation period of the reference current value longer than that of the current flowing through the inductive load by the Pulse Width Modulation control.
US07795929B2
Provided is a voltage detection circuit that outputs a detection result when a voltage to be measured exceeds a predetermined voltage or falls below the predetermined voltage at a speed higher than that of a conventional case. The voltage detection circuit according to the present invention includes an input buffer that outputs a detection voltage to be input as an input voltage, and a voltage detection section that accelerates a rising of the input voltage in a transient state where the input voltage exceeds a predetermined threshold value, and accelerates a dropping of the input voltage in a transient state where the input voltage falls below the predetermined threshold value. The voltage detection circuit accelerates a change in the input voltage to output the detection result from an output buffer at high speed.
US07795926B2
A phase detector, including a sampling device, a comparing device, and an output device, is provided. The sampling device samples a data signal according to a plurality of clock signals, so as to provide a plurality of corresponding sampling values. The clock signals have the same frequency and different phases. The comparing device is coupled to the sampling device, and provides a plurality of corresponding comparison values according to comparison results of each of the sampling values comparing with the next sampling value. The output device is coupled to the comparing device, and outputs two of the comparison values in response to edges of the clock signals. The two outputted comparison values serve as a first instruction signal and a second instruction signal respectively. The first and the second instruction signals are referred to in controlling the frequency and the phase of the foregoing clock signals.
US07795922B2
A normally operable decoder circuit is obtained without entailing a delay in decoding operation, an increase in circuit area, and an increase in circuit design cost. An NMOS transistor in a high-voltage circuit portion is inserted between the output of a NAND gate and a node, and receives an input signal at the gate electrode thereof. A load current generating portion in the high-voltage circuit portion includes PMOS transistors coupled in series between a high power supply voltage and the node. One of the PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. The other PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. An inverter receives a signal obtained from the node as an input signal, and outputs the inverted signal thereof as an output signal.
US07795921B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a sampling unit, a delay unit, a first operating unit and a second operating unit. The sampling unit samples an input signal supplied from an external circuit in synchronization with a clock signal, and outputs the sampled input signal as a first signal. The delay unit delays the first signal in synchronization with the clock signal, and outputs the delayed first signal as a second signal. The first operating unit operates whether a signal level of the input signal is sustained equal to or longer than a predetermined period based on the first and second signals, and outputs an output signal in synchronization with the clock signal when the signal level of the input signal is sustained equal to or longer than the predetermined period. A signal level of the output signal is sustained equal to or longer than the predetermined period. The second operating unit asynchronously controls the sampling unit based on the input signal and the output signal.
US07795915B2
A control circuit generates an output based on the first signal and the second signal by encoding the output to be a multi-state signal having at least three states. A magnitude of the multi-state signal generated by the controller varies depending on binary states of the first signal and the second signal. The controller utilizes the output (i.e., the multi-state signal) to control a switching circuit. A driver circuit receives the output generated by the control circuit. In one embodiment, the multi-state signal has more than two different logic states. The driver decodes the multi-state signal for generating signals to control switches in the switching circuit. One signal generated by the driver circuit is a pulse width modulation signal; another signal generated by the driver circuit is an enable/disable signal.
US07795905B2
An On Die Termination (ODT) circuit for performing an ODT operation. The ODT circuit includes a resistor having a first end to receive an ODT enable signal; and a switch unit coupled to a second end of the resistor. The ODT operation is performed in response to the ODT enable signal passing through the resistor.
US07795904B1
A switching circuit includes a first transistor and a driver circuit. The first transistor has a first current electrode coupled to a first power supply voltage terminal to receive a first power supply voltage, a control electrode, and a second current electrode coupled to an output terminal. The driver circuit has an output coupled to the control electrode of the first transistor, the driver circuit for providing a bias current to the control electrode of the first transistor that is proportional to an inverse of a square root of a voltage between the first current electrode and the control electrode of the first transistor. A voltage at the output terminal increases linearly during a turn-on period of the first transistor.
US07795897B1
Provided is a test apparatus that tests a device under test, comprising a driver circuit that generates an output signal according to a prescribed input pattern, and supplies the output signal to the device under test; and a measuring section that measures a response signal output by the device under test to judge the acceptability of the device under test, wherein the driver circuit includes an input gate drive section that selects one of a plurality of input drive voltages supplied thereto, according to a logic value of the input pattern, and outputs the selected input drive voltage; a voltage switching section that includes a transistor and that outputs the output signal according to the drain voltage of the transistor, the transistor having a gate terminal that receives the input drive voltage output by the input gate drive section and a source terminal to which is applied a prescribed reference voltage; and an input drive voltage supplying section that generates the input drive voltages according to the reference voltage, and supplies the input drive voltages to the input gate drive section.
US07795888B2
The invention relates to a contacting device for contacting an electrical test piece to be tested, in particular a test piece provided with tin-plated contacts, comprising at least two guide elements having openings through which contact elements pass essentially axially and which project from the test piece, on a side of the associated guide element facing the test piece, for contacting the test piece. The invention is characterized in that the axial distance between the guide elements or the axial position of the guide element facing the test piece may be adjusted to fit the projecting length.
US07795883B2
A grid sensor including grids of electrode wires for measuring the electroconductivity of flow medium in the cross-section of a pipeline is particularly suitable for applications where the flow medium flows at high pressure and high temperatures. Each of the electrode wires is connected to a spring via an insulating bead, the spring being arranged in a hole in a sensor body of the sensor having an axis which is oriented in a tensioning direction of the electrode wire, and fixed to the sensor body. Each of the electrode wires on the side opposing the spring is covered with an insulating tube arranged in an outwardly guided channel in the sensor body. The insulating tube ends inside the channel, in a cavity filled with a sealing material. Neither the insulating bead nor the insulating tube are located in the cross-section wherein the measurement is to be carried out.
US07795881B2
A capacitive physical quantity detection device comprising a plurality of capacitive physical quantity sensors, wherein each sensor includes: a detection unit having a movable electrode and a fixed electrode; a C-V conversion circuit having a differential amplifier circuit, wherein a first input terminal of the differential amplifier circuit is coupled with the movable electrode, a second input terminal of the differential amplifier circuit inputs a reference voltage and a self-diagnosis voltage therein during a normal operation and a self-diagnosis operation, respectively, and the C-V conversion circuit outputs an output voltage; and a signal processing circuit that performs a signal processing of the output voltage, wherein the reference voltage in each sensor is substantially the same, the plurality of sensors performs the self-diagnosis operation simultaneously, and the self-diagnosis voltage in one of the sensors is a first self-diagnosis voltage that is different in magnitude from the self-diagnosis voltage in another one of the sensors.
US07795880B2
A detecting apparatus for checking a detected item of an electrically conductive fastener attached to a workpiece includes a lower checking member for supporting the workpiece, an upper checking member movably set above the lower checking member, an electrical source, a processor, and an indicator. At least one of the two members includes a checking unit, which touches with the fastener and together with the fastener forms a detecting circuit when the upper checking member abuts against the workpiece. The detecting circuit is connected to the electrical source. A closed or open state of the detecting circuit indicates whether the detected item is eligible or ineligible. The processor controls the indicator to show the checking result according to the closed or open state of the detecting circuit. The detecting apparatus can greatly improve the checking efficiency and reliability, and suits mass production.
US07795879B2
There is provided a test apparatus for testing a device under test including a pre-emphasis circuit. The pre-emphasis circuit emphasizes a predetermined component of an output signal of the device under test and outputs the resulting output signal. Here, the test apparatus includes a filter that eliminates an emphasized component that is generated by the pre-emphasis circuit, from the output signal output from the device under test, and a testing section that measures the output signal output from the filter, and judges whether the device under test is acceptable based on a result of the measurement. The test apparatus can accurately test the pre-emphasis function of the device under test including the pre-emphasis circuit.
US07795871B2
A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) resonator (1; 31) comprising an inductive section (6) and a capacitive section (6a), wherein the inductive section (6) is band-shaped and surrounds a substantially cylindrical volume under investigation (5), wherein the capacitive section (6a) is formed from one or more discrete capacitor(s) (13; 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d), and wherein the ends (7, 8) of the band-shaped inductive section (6) are connected through one or several capacitor(s) (13; 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d) of the capacitive section (6a), is characterized in that the inductive section (6) is formed from a dielectric flexible foil (2) which is conductively coated on both sides and the ends (7, 8) of the band-shaped inductive section (6) overlap, wherein the outer coating (4) of the inner end (7) is electrically conductingly connected to the inner coating (3) of the outer end (8), with one or more through-connections (10) being provided in the area of the inner end (7) of the band-shaped inductive section (6), and the outer coating (4) being connected in the area of the outer end (8) to the inner coating (3) in the area of the inner end (7) via one or more capacitor(s) (13; 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d) and one or several through-connection(s) (10). The inventive NMR resonator for low-resolution NMR has a simple construction and provides NMR measurements of improved quality at low resonance frequencies.
US07795867B2
A method of magnetic resonance analysis of a body having therein at least one molecular species and water is disclosed. The method comprises, subtracting magnetic resonance signals induced by a second radiofrequency pulse sequence from magnetic resonance signals induced by a first radiofrequency pulse sequence followed by a evolution period. The first radiofrequency pulse sequence is selected so as to suppress magnetization for the water while preserving a generally longitudinal magnetization to the at least one molecular species. The second radiofrequency pulse sequence being selected so as to suppress transverse and longitudinal magnetization for both the water and the at least one molecular species.
US07795863B2
A coil for use in an eddy current sensing probe is formed through depositing film traces. The film traces can be directly deposited. The film traces can be deposited on the outer surface of a core or on ends of the core. The film traces can be deposited onto non-planar surfaces other than cores for the inspection of parts having complex geometries. The coil can be used in a single coil probe or in a probe having a sensor array.
US07795859B1
Low cost millimeter wave imagers using two-dimensional focal plane arrays based on backward tunneling diode (BTD) detectors. Two-dimensional focal arrays of BTD detectors are used as focal plane arrays in imagers. High responsivity of BTD detectors near zero bias results in low noise detectors that alleviate the need for expensive and heat generating low noise amplifiers or Dicke switches in the imager. BTD detectors are installed on a printed circuit board using flip chip packaging technology and horn antennas direct the waves toward the flip chip including the BTD detectors. The assembly of the horn antennas, flip chips, printed circuit board substrate, and interconnects together work as an imaging sensor. Corrugated surfaces of the components prevent re-radiation of the incident waves.
US07795856B2
A reference voltage generator includes a first field effect transistor with n-type heavily doped gate structure and a second field effect transistor with p-type heavily doped gate structure. The first transistor is configured to have a gate and a substrate gate connected to ground, one terminal connected to a voltage supply, and another terminal connected to an output node. The second transistor is configured to have a gate and one terminal connected to the output node, and a substrate gate and another terminal connected to ground. The output node outputs a given reference voltage when voltage is supplied from the voltage supply. A voltage regulator that generates a constant voltage based on a given reference voltage incorporates the reference voltage generator.
US07795853B2
Techniques for near zero light-load supply current in switching regulators are described. In one aspect a voltage regulator operating a normal mode is generating an error signal indicating a difference between the output and the regulated voltage. A control signal, at least in part based on the error signal, actively controls the output of the regulator. The control signal is monitored over period of time. The monitoring activates a signal indicating when the control signal is inactive for the period of time indicating a light-load condition. The voltage regulator is then placed in a standby mode when the signal is active and the error signal indicates the output is substantially at the regulated voltage. Portions of the voltage regulator are then disabled permitting the voltage regulator to operate at the minimum current draw.
US07795851B2
System and method for providing frequency control to a power converter. The system includes a controller configured to receive a load signal and generate a first control signal. The load signal indicates an output load for a power converter. Additionally, the system includes a signal generator configured to receive the first control signal and generates at least a first output signal. The first output signal is associated with a first signal strength and a first frequency. The first frequency is inversely proportional to a sum of a first time period, a second time period, and a third time period. The first signal strength increases with the time during the first time period, the first signal strength decreases with the time during the second time period, and the first signal strength is constant with respect to the time during the third time period.
US07795839B2
The present invention is a method and apparatus by which power is controlled in a hybrid electric vehicle such that high levels of performance and efficiency are realized. The present invention includes a method and apparatus developed to optimize the use of energy in a hybrid vehicle application from the hybrid energy storage device. The method and apparatus of the present invention is particularly useful with energy storage devices there the energy state, such as the state of charge, is readily determined by an easily measured attribute. Ultracapacitors and hydraulic storage cylinders are examples of the types of energy storage devices to which the present invention may be applied.
US07795837B1
A portable solar power supply trailer with a security containment area and multiple power interfaces, wherein the trailer has a trailer frame with wheels on axels and a support hitch. An enclosure on the trailer frame covers about 25 percent of the trailer frame and a solar array frame is disposed on the enclosure, and wherein the solar array frame covers the entire trailer frame and the enclosure, and the solar array frame has at least one photovoltaic cell. The enclosure has plurality of power interfaces for access by a user external to the enclosure, a plurality of batteries, a solar controller, a power interface timer in the enclosures for providing power to the power interfaces, and two posts and two supports for supporting the solar array frame.
US07795833B2
A driving apparatus for moving an object. The apparatus includes a first actuator which drives the object in X and Y directions, a second actuator which drives a reaction force counter, which receives a reaction force generated when the first actuator drives the object, and a controller which calculates X- and Y-direction reaction forces and a moment reaction force on the basis of X- and Y-direction positions of the object and X- and Y-direction accelerations of the object, which are to be received by the reaction force counter when the object is driven by the first actuator, and controls the second actuator so as to cancel the reaction forces and the moment reaction force.
US07795829B2
In an electric power tool and a method for operating an electric power tool, a torque limitation of an electric motor reacts when a load moment exceeds a predetermined threshold and in which an output request is carried out by means of a switch. A supply of current to the motor is interrupted when a criterion for the reaction of the torque limitation is detected based on a speed detection of the motor.
US07795826B2
A brushless motor driving circuit includes a deviation detector for receiving a PWM input signal, which issues an instruction for rpm control, and detecting a deviation from duty ratio 50% of the PWM input signal, a determiner for detecting a comparison result at a threshold of duty ratio 50%, and a PWM output circuit for receiving a PWM reference signal having a duty ratio 50%, and producing a PWM driving signal, to be used for driving a brushless motor, in response to the deviation and the comparison result. The PWM driving signal is produced by adding the deviation to the PWM reference signal when the duty ratio of the PWM input signal is over 50%, and by subtracting the deviation from the PWM reference signal when the duty ratio is less than 50%.
US07795819B2
At least one electric discharge lamp capable of generating a broadband output pulse of a range of wavelengths in the visible spectrum, the output pulse having a predetermined time interval and a predetermined total electrical energy input for the pulse, has a drive circuit for delivering energy pulses to the electrical discharge lamp, as well as a sensor for sensing an optical output from the discharge lamp; and a control mechanism for operating the drive circuit in response to variations in optical output detected by the sensor.
US07795818B2
A microwave plasma generator in which the generating amount of radicals can be regulated easily with higher reaction efficiency while reducing gas consumption. The microwave plasma generator comprises an outer conductor (2), an inner conductor (3) arranged in the internal space (4) of the outer conductor, a discharge tube (7) having a double tube structure consisting of an inner tube (5) and an outer tube (6) and penetrating the outer and inner conductors in the axial direction, and a cavity (1) having a means for adjusting the position of the inner tube to the outer tube in the axial direction in the discharge tube. The microwave plasma generator is further provided with a first gas supply pipe (16), which has a first flow control valve (18) and supplies first gas from a gas cylinder (14) to the outer tube of the discharge tube, a second gas supply pipe (17), which has a second flow control valve (19) and supplies second gas to the inner tube of the discharge tube, a microwave generation source (21), and a microwave supplying passage (22) for supplying microwave from the microwave generation source to the cavity.
US07795816B2
A laser beam is modulated at a very high frequency to produce uniform radiant flux densities on substrate surface processing regions during thermal processing. Beam modulation is achieved by passing the laser beam through a plasma which causes phase randomization within the laser beam. This method may be used for any application where intense, uniform illumination is desired, such as pulsed laser annealing, ablating, and wafer stepper illuminating.
US07795814B2
An arc discharge metal halide lamp for providing visible light comprising an arc discharge vessel which has capillary tubes therein in at least one of which there is a first electrical feedthrough extending through an interior passageway to have an interior end of that electrode positioned in the discharge region opposite the other the interior passageway of the other capillary and an exterior end thereof positioned outside the outer end of that capillary tube but joined to a cermet portion inside that tube. In an intermediate stage of fabricating the lamp, a bonding material ring of limited diameter is provided at the end of the capillary tube about the exterior end. In a completed lamp, the first electrical feedthrough has limited extent joints where its components are joined and, alternatively or in addition, has a limited offset between its components at a joint between them.
US07795810B2
A gas-filled discharge gap includes at least two electrodes and an electrode-activation mass that is arranged on at least one of the electrodes. The electrode-activation mass contains K2WO4.
US07795808B2
TFTs are formed on a substrate. An interlayer insulation film is formed on the substrate to cover the TFTs. Lower layer portions of SD lines formed of a multi-layered film which are formed on the interlayer insulation film constitute a lower electrode of an organic EL layer. An uppermost layer of the SD line is formed of a chemically stable metal oxide film, and the SD layer is used as it is. On the other hand, as a lower electrode of an organic EL layer, an upper layer of the SD line is removed and an Al—Si, alloy film of the SD line is used. Due to such a constitution, it is possible to reduce a cost by shortening steps while holding the performance and the reliability of organic EL.
US07795806B2
A display device comprising a thin metal-organic mixed layer (MOML) comprising a metal (containing material) and an organic material, and having a thickness of less than 175 nm. A thin metal-organic mixed layer may be of a single or multi-layer configuration. The percent reflectance of a device may be controlled by varying the thickness of the MOML(s) and the metal component and concentration thereof in the MOML(s).
