US07797757B2
An atomic force microscopy sensor includes a substrate, a cantilever beam and an electrostatic actuator. The cantilever beam has a proximal end and an opposite distal end. The proximal end is in a fixed relationship with the substrate and the cantilever beam is configured so that the distal end is in a moveable relationship with respect to the substrate. The electrostatic actuator includes a first electrode that is coupled to the cantilever beam adjacent to the proximal end and a spaced apart second electrode that is in a fixed relationship with the substrate. When an electrical potential is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode is drawn to the second electrode, thereby causing the distal end of the cantilever beam to move.
US07797754B2
A system for managing authorization to access Internet services. A session object is created when a user logs onto a web site. The session object includes authorization-privilege information for N services. The user selects the service desired from the web site, at which point the server checks the session object. If the session object does not include authorization to access the selected service, the server consults a directory service. If the user is authorized according to the directory service, authorization-to-access information is incorporated into the session object. When authorization is conditional, a listener object is created within the session object. The listener object registers with a broadcast object and receives information germane to conditions of authorization. The listener object analyzes the information according to conditions of authorization, and terminates access to the selected service when conditions of authorization are not satisfied.
US07797753B2
A method for providing a menu for a device, by providing a GUI for an administrator to select and lock-down device driver setting profiles, and providing a GUI for displaying to a user the locked-down profiles and permitting the user to select only from the listed profiles. Allowing a user to choose only from the pre-defined profiles makes for convenience and avoids waste from setting errors by novice users. The computer system detects the current system and job information (time, date, printer status, application, user information, etc.) using WMI and SNMP, applies mapping rules defined by an administrator, and displays only those profiles that are applicable to the current system and job status. Methods also include defining new profiles; alerting the user when no profiles are available, with mapping explanation and suggestion; profile detail display; and printer support.
US07797748B2
A tangible medium embodying instructions usable by a computer system to protect a plurality of guest virtual machines (VMs), which execute via virtualization software on a common host platform, from malicious code is described. A scan engine is configured to scan data for malicious code and determine a result of the scanning, wherein the result indicates whether malicious code is present in the data. A driver portion is configured for installation in an operating system of a target VM, which is one of the guest VMs. The driver portion intercepts an access request to a file, that originates within the target VM. The driver portion communicates information identifying a location of the data to be scanned by the scan engine without sending a copy of the data to the scan engine. The scan engine executes within the virtualization layer outside a context of the target VM.
US07797742B2
Embodiments are described for blocking the opening of a file. Some embodiments include receiving a request to open a file. In response, a portion of the file's data is examined to determine a true file format for the file. A determination is then made as to whether the true file format of the file has been set as blocked. Based on the determination that the file format is blocked from opening, the file is prevented from being loaded into memory and from being accessed. A message is then displayed to a user indicating that the file has been blocked from opening.
US07797741B2
Provided are a system and method for coping with encrypted harmful traffic in hybrid IPv4/IPv6 networks. The system includes: an encryption key manager collecting encryption key information from a user terminal connected to the hybrid IPv4/IPv6 networks, and storing and managing the information in an encryption key database; an encryption traffic collector collecting encrypted traffic from traffic in the hybrid IPv4/IPv6 networks; an encryption key searcher searching for an encryption key used to decrypt the encrypted traffic from the encryption key database using a source IP address and a destination IP address of the encrypted traffic; a harmful traffic determiner decrypting the encrypted traffic using the encryption key and determining whether the decrypted traffic is harmful traffic; and an encryption traffic processor, if the decrypted traffic is determined to be harmful traffic, blocking the harmful traffic and, if the decrypted traffic is determined to be normal traffic, encrypting the normal traffic, and transferring the encrypted traffic to a user terminal corresponding to the destination IP address, thereby detecting and blocking an attack pattern using the encrypted harmful traffic in hybrid IPv4/IPv6 networks which cannot be detected by a conventional firewall system and more effectively protecting the networks.
US07797739B2
A method for verifying correctness of an Information Technology (IT) structure instance D of an IT structure R, a method for detecting an unauthorized change in an operating instance X of an IT structure R, a method for verifying conformance of an IT structure to an IT delivery environment, associated computer program products, and associated processes for integrating computing infrastructure. The method for verifying correctness of an IT structure instance D determines whether a reverse specification RD for D differs from R. The method for detecting an unauthorized change in an operating instance X of an IT structure R determines whether authorized changes in R have occurred. The method for verifying conformance of an IT structure to an IT delivery environment verifies compliance of the IT structure relating to: product standard compliance, compliance of software elements of the IT structure primitive composition, software application type compliance, and network traffic compliance.
US07797731B2
A method of centralized identity authentication for use in connection with a communications network includes registering users of the communications network such that each registered user's identity is uniquely defined and determinable, and registering a plurality of vendors having a presence on the communications network. The registered vendors selectively transact with registered users, wherein the transactions include: (i) the registered vendor selling goods and/or services to the registered user; (ii) the registered vendor granting the registered user access to personal records maintained by the registered vendor; and/or (iii) the registered vendor communicating to the registered user personal information maintained by the registered vendor. The method also includes each user's identity being authenticated over the communications network prior to completion of transactions between registered vendors and registered users.
US07797727B1
An original identifier of an application in a computer system is changed to a new identifier. An attempt is made, using the original identifier, to run the application. In response to the attempt, the application is then launched in a restricted user account on the computer system using the new identifier.
US07797724B2
A method of securely accessing at a client device content from a server without using the non-volatile memory of the client device is disclosed. The bypassing of non-volatile memory lessens the security risk of unauthorized viewing of the server originated content. An transport mechanism is initiated on a client device and creates a document container. Downloaded documents from a server are mapped into the document container and saved within the document container in volatile memory. Substitute menus are generated within the container to replace application menus. User documents are saved directly to the originating server via the substitute menus. The downloaded copies in volatile memory automatically delete when the document container is destroyed thereby reducing security concerns of unauthorized viewing of the content at the client device.
US07797720B2
An implementation of trick mode methodology receives a first request to stream media for presentation at a first normal playback rate; streams a first media stream configured to the first normal playback rate; receives a second request to stream the media for presentation at a second greater playback rate; and performs one of the following responsive to receiving the second request: switching from streaming the first media stream to streaming from an appropriate position in a second media stream that corresponds to the second greater playback rate; or in an event that a second media stream corresponding to the second greater playback rate is not available, then streaming the first media stream at a higher bit rate in an attempt to comply with the second request.
US07797712B2
A system and method for displaying an electronic program schedule guide is provided. The system has areas for displaying program schedule information. In addition, the system also has areas that may be used for advertising programs, products or services. In another embodiment, the system has areas for displaying messages to the user.
US07797702B1
A legitimate process utilizes thread local storage (TLS) functionality to prevent a malicious thread from executing in its address space. The legitimate process includes a thread white list that identifies the entry point addresses of threads executed by the process. When executed on a computer, the process interacts with the TLS functionality provided by the computer's operating system. The operating system sends the process a message each time a new thread is executed in the process's address space. Upon receiving the message, the process determines the entry point address of the new thread and checks to see if the address is in the white list. If the thread entry point address is not in the white list, the thread is probably malicious and the process therefore terminates the thread's execution.
US07797694B2
A method of upgrading the system capability of a communications network is provided. The method involves initiating a transfer of at least one set of upgraded system capability software machine-coded instructions to a host card, instructing the host card to begin an upgrade process, determining whether at least one set of system capability software machine-coded instructions on the host card is valid, and completing the transfer of at least one valid set of system capability software machine-coded instructions to the host card, wherein the system capability is upgraded without affecting operation of the network.
US07797691B2
Systems and methods are described for automatically transforming essentially sequential code into a plurality of codes which are to be executed in parallel to achieve the same or equivalent result to the sequential code. User-defined task boundaries are determined in the input code to thereby define a plurality of tasks. It is then determined if the essentially sequential application code can be separated at at least one of said user-defined tasks boundaries and if so at least one code of the plurality of codes for at least one of said tasks is automatically generated.
US07797686B2
Code will switch to secure code via an exception only. All PC and data trace will be turned off during secure code. This will occur regardless of trace being in standard trace mode or event profiling mode. Timing, if on, will switch to standby mode. On return from the secure code, the switches that were already on will switch back and turn on. The address reported in the end sync point will be the address 0x01. Since this is an illegal address, this information is sufficient to indicate an end sync point was caused in secure code.
US07797684B2
Sweeping through the code development options of a code development command allows diagnosis of a failure resulting from execution of the code development command on a given code. Successively modifying the code development command, such as successively removing code development options, automatically allows efficient examination of a failure. Executing each modified version of the code development command and recording results of the executions generates information that can expeditiously identify correspondence between a failure and one or more of the code development options.
US07797680B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method may include obtaining a list of active life cycle test objects in a test run from a life cycle test object controller, and obtaining a list of active central activity test objects in the test run from a central activity test object controller. While a test period remains in the test run, the method may continue selecting a next test period, requesting the test step initialization controller initialize the next test period, requesting all central activity test objects associated with the next test period to execute their beginning central activities, requesting all life cycle test objects associated with the next test period to execute their test activities, and requesting all central activity test objects associated with the next test period to execute their ending central activities.
US07797676B2
A method and system for automated code generation in a call flow builder (10) can include a display coupled to a processor. The processor can be programmed to select a real code (database connection) or a prototype code using a graphical interface (20) to provide a selected code and develop a call flow using the selected code. The processor can be programmed to select the prototype code as the selected code, test the call flow in a local development environment and further enable the switching of the selected code from the prototype to the real code to complete a database connection. The processor can be further programmed to enable specification of a default or range of values. Additionally, the processor can be programmed to use a database connection code that replaces a prototype assignment of values to variables when the real code is the selected code.
US07797674B1
The present invention provides systems and methods for providing two or more parameterization functions which are associated with a single graphical language environment. Such an arrangement allows for modeling of complex models with interaction across multiple domains. In the present invention, the graphical language environment include components, represented by nodes, that have multiple parameterization functions associated with them, yet operate within a single graphical language environment. A change in one parameterization function associated with one or more nodes is propagated across all associated nodes within the domain.
US07797666B1
Systems and methods are provided for mapping logic functions from logic elements (“LEs”) into synchronous embedded memory blocks (“EMBs”) of programmable logic devices (“PLDs”). This technique increases the amount of logic that can fit into the PLD. Where area savings are significant, smaller PLDs may be selected to implement a particular circuit. One aspect of the invention relates to methods for identifying sequential cones of logic that may be mapped into synchronous EMBs. After the sequential logic cones are identified for mapping into a synchronous EMB, the logic cone may be selected, expanded, restructured, and retimed, as necessary, to implement the mapping. Another aspect of the invention relates to techniques for handling architectural restrictions of synchronous EMBs, such as the inability to implement the asynchronous behavior of synchronous logic.
US07797660B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device which is improved in wiring efficiency and area efficiency. Metal layers having respective portions protruding out from an N-type diffusion layer and a P-type diffusion layer in plan view toward respective sides of the diffusion layers opposed to each other are formed over the N-type diffusion layer and the P-type diffusion layer, respectively, and contact portions are formed over the upper surfaces of the protruding portions of the metal layers such that they extend parallel to a power supply line and a ground voltage line. This produces empty spaces over the regions of the upper surfaces of the metal layers, which makes it possible to arrange a large number of conductive traces, and enhance wiring efficiency and space efficiency.
US07797652B2
A method for implementing integrated circuit yield estimation includes computing Voronoi regions for an original integrated circuit layout; for each bisector segment of the Voronoi regions and one or more failure mechanisms, computing a failure probability based on geometric parameters of corresponding Voronoi edge regions associated with the bisector segment, using pre-computed failure probabilities as a function of edge orientation and spacing for the failure mechanisms; for each segment of a design edge bounded by bisectors, computing a change in the failure probability based on the geometric parameters of the Voronoi regions, using pre-computed change in failure probabilities for the failure mechanisms; encoding the computed failure probabilities for each Voronoi region in a manner suitable for visual differentiation by a user; and encoding the computed change in failure probabilities by directional displacement of a layout edge segment that would result in a decrease in failure probability.
US07797650B2
A system and method for re-executing a test case and modifying the test case's effective addresses, effective segment identifiers (ESIDs), and virtual segment identifiers (VSIDs) in order to fully test a processor's SLB and TLB cells is presented. A test case generator generates a test case that includes an initial set of test case effective addresses, an initial set of ESIDs, and an initial set of VSIDs. The test case executor uses an effective address arithmetic function and a virtual address arithmetic function to modify the test case effective addresses, the ESIDs, and the VSIDs on each re-execution that, in turn, sets/unsets each bit within each SLB and TLB entry. In one embodiment, the invention described herein sequentially shifts segment lookaside buffer entries, whose ESIDs are in single bit increments, in order to fully test each ESID bit location within each SLB entry.
US07797647B2
Hardware threading optimizes use of hardware resources in a dynamic workload environment. Unutilized hardware resources are dynamically borrowed to increase throughput performance and/or power savings by enabling parallel processing of application pipeline stages.
US07797645B2
A sidebar UI of an application program provides access to the application program's functionality while occupying a reduced amount of real estate on the screen when compared to conventional UIs. The sidebar UI comprises an icon or multiple icons, and each icon references a pane that provides its user the ability to access and utilize a function and/or feature of the application program. Selecting an icon in the sidebar UI causes the referenced pane which provides access to, for example, a feature of the application program to be displayed on the screen. “Clicking off” the pane causes the pane to close.
US07797634B2
The invention relates to methods and associated systems for displaying network fabric data for managing electronic networks, such as computer networks, storage area networks (SANs), and the like. In one aspect, the invention provides a method for displaying parameters of a plurality of devices in a network for comparison, where each device has a plurality of parameters, including determining and storing values for a plurality of parameters for each of a plurality of devices, and displaying a table of said stored parameter values, where the parameters form a first dimension of the table and the devices form a second dimension of the table. As an example, methods may further include determining if values for a common parameter among devices are identical, and displaying the table without the parameter if all the values for the parameter are identical.
US07797629B2
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with a disambiguation routine that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to perform a spell check routine during input of a text entry. The spell check routine subjects a text entry to a sequentially ordered series of spell-check algorithms and ceases subjecting the text entry to further spell-check algorithms upon identification of a predetermined quantity of spell-check language objects.
US07797621B1
A method for altering data in a first data cell during a navigation between the first cell and a second data cell includes: (a) a user selecting the first cell; (b) the user indicating navigation from the first cell to a second cell; (c) posing a query to the user inquiring whether the user wants to alter a first element in the first cell for transfer to the second cell; (d) if the user desires to alter, providing an opportunity for the user to indicate a desired alteration; (e) the user entering an factor for the alteration; (f) employing the factor for the alteration to generate a first altered element and a second altered element; and (g) before the user effects completion of the navigation, entering the first altered element in the first cell and entering the second altered element in the second cell.
US07797619B2
A task analysis system includes: a document display that displays a document image and retains unit identification information identifying the document display itself; and a task management apparatus that manages a task, the task management apparatus including: a task associating unit that previously determines the unit identification information of the document display used to carry out the task; a acquisition unit that acquires the unit identification information and document identification information of a document displayed on the document display, the document identification information identifying the document; and a task analysis unit that determines the document used to carry out the task based on the document identification information, the document identification information being acquired corresponding to the unit identification information determined in the task associating unit.
US07797617B2
Provided is an interleaving method that can reduce error occurring during transmission at a receiving end in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. According to the interleaving method, transmitted data bits are recorded in an interleaving memory; and the stored data bits are read based on a predetermined sequence to perform symbol interleaving, tone interleaving and cyclic shift simultaneously. Also, to simplify the logic of the OFDM system, the data bits transmitted from an interleaver go through Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) mapping, and the FFT mapped data bits are modulated. In short, the logic can be simplified by performing FFT mapping followed by modulation.
US07797614B2
An algorithm for a non-redundant multi-error correcting binary differential demodulator simplifies error detection and reduces memory requirements in circuits embodying the same. The demodulator includes a differential detectors (DD) module, an error signal generator (ESG) module, and an error detection-and-correction (EDAC) module. The DD module receives modulated binary input at each of (k+1) differential detectors, each producing (k+1) outputs. The ESG module combines the (k+1)2 output signals with k corrected feedback signals to derive syndromes orthogonal to an erroneous bit to be corrected and generates 2k error signals from the syndromes. The EDAC module generates a correction factor from the 2k error signals and combines the factor with the output of the first order detector delayed by k bits to correct an erroneous bit. The k corrected feedback signals may be derived by successively delaying the corrected erroneous bit. Simplified higher order demodulators may be constructed using a nested hierarchy of lower order demodulators based on the algorithm.
US07797613B1
An iterative error correcting decoder is provided. In one implementation, the iterative error correcting decoder includes an equality constraint node and a parity check node, the parity check node. The parity check node includes parity logic configured to receive input data bits from the equality constraint node and determine a first minimum value and a second minimum value associated with the input data bits using a MinSum algorithm. An enhancement function is performed on the first minimum value and the second minimum value. The enhancement function compares each of the first minimum value and the second minimum value with a first pre-determined constant value, and responsive to the first minimum value and the second minimum value being smaller than the first pre-determined constant value, the enhancement function passes the first minimum value and the second minimum value without any changes as output of the MinSum algorithm.
US07797612B2
The present disclosure provides a method for generating RAID syndromes. In one embodiment the method may include loading a first data byte of a first disk block and a first data byte of a second disk block from a storage device to an arithmetic logic unit. The method may further include XORing the first data byte of the first disk block and the first data byte of the second disk block to generate a first result and storing the first result in a results buffer. The method may also include iteratively repeating, loading intermediate data bytes corresponding to the first disk block and intermediate data bytes corresponding to the second disk block from the storage device to the arithmetic logic unit. The method may additionally include XORing the intermediate data bytes corresponding to the first disk block and the intermediate data bytes corresponding to the second disk block to generate intermediate results and generating a RAID syndrome based on, at least in part, the intermediate results. Of course, many alternatives, variations and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.
US07797604B2
A codeword retransmission/decoding method and transmission/receiving apparatus uses feedback information. When a failure to decode data received from a receiving node occurs, the feedback information including success/failure information of the decoding and retransmission information are transmitted to a transmission node. The retransmission feedback information is configured by the receiving apparatus repeating code-bits of the codeword just previously transmitted so as to demodulate the retransmission part.
US07797603B2
Disclosed below are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems used to generate test patterns for testing integrated circuits. Embodiments of the disclosed technology can be used to provide a low power test scheme and can be integrated with a variety of compression hardware architectures (e.g., an embedded deterministic test (“EDT”) environment). Certain embodiments of the disclosed technology can reduce the switching rates, and thus the power dissipation, in scan chains with no hardware modification. Other embodiments use specialized decompression hardware and compression techniques to achieve low power testing.
US07797598B1
A method of evaluating a design under test (DUT) can include executing a testbench involving the DUT and, during execution of the testbench, estimating an amount of time needed to perform a first transaction with the device under test according to resolved variables. The method also can include setting a timer with the estimated amount of time needed to perform the first transaction and invoking the first transaction with the device under test. Responsive to expiration of the timer, an indication as to whether the first transaction completed execution can be provided.
US07797592B1
A physical layer device includes a coding circuit to transmit first data, and to receive second data, at one of a plurality of data rates. A communication circuit transmits first signals representing the first data, and receives second signals representing the second data, over one or more of a plurality of channels. A test circuit determines a condition of the channels. A control circuit selects the one of the plurality of the data rates, and selects the one or more of the plurality of the channels, based on the condition of the channels determined by the test circuit.
US07797591B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit has a memory circuit having memory cells, a first register, a second register, a register selection circuit having an input to which an output of the first register and an output of the second register are connected, a memory bypass circuit which is located between a first switching circuit and a second switching circuit, and connected to the inputs and the outputs of the memory circuit. The register selection circuit is switched to the output signals of the first register when performing testing by way of the memory circuit, and switched to output signals of the second register when performing testing by way of the memory bypass circuit.
US07797589B2
A detector for detecting information carried by a signal having a sawtooth-like shape. The detector includes a first band-pass filter with center frequency around a first frequency value for filtering the signal and generating a first filtered signal, a second band-pass filter with center frequency around a second frequency value for filtering the signal and generating a second filtered signal, a first comparator for comparing the first filtered signal with a reference level and generating a first compared signal, a second comparator for comparing the second filtered signal with the reference level and generating a second compared signal, a clock generator for generating a reference clock having a frequency close to the first frequency value according to the second compared signal, and a detection module for generating a bit signal representing the information according to the first compared signal and the reference clock.
US07797572B2
This invention provides a method of controlling switching of computers according to a cause of failure without preparing one standby node for each active node. For n active nodes (200), m standby nodes (300) of different characteristics (in terms of CPU performance, I/O performance, communication performance, and the like) are prepared. The m standby nodes (300) are assigned in advance with priority levels to be failover targets for each cause of failure. When a failure occurs in one active node (200), a standby node that can remove the cause of the failure is chosen out of the m standby nodes (300) to take over data processing.
US07797563B1
A system includes a plurality of processors and a monitor coupled to each of the plurality of processors. The monitor is located in a location separate from the plurality of processors. At least some portions of one or more of the plurality of processors enter a power-conservation mode after the one or more of the plurality of processors request one or more resources. The system further includes a power-management controller. The power-management controller is operative to cause the at least some portions of the one or more of the plurality of processors to enter the power-conservation mode after the one or more of the plurality of processors request the one or more resources.
US07797561B1
An embodiment of the invention includes receiving an indicator of an activity-level of a functional block within an electronic chip. The functional block is included in a processing pipeline having a plurality of functional blocks. Each functional block from the plurality is configured to receive a clock signal from a clock signal generator. A status of the functional block is determined based on the activity-level. The clock signal to at least a portion of the functional block is disabled when the status is an inactive status.
US07797560B2
A system and method for integrated thermal monitoring in Power over Ethernet (PoE) applications. Headroom in a particular cable installation is identified using ambient temperature measurement alone or in combination with determined cable characteristics. In calculating an amount of headroom for a particular cable installation, the current capable of being carried over the cable would not be limited by worst-case cable assumptions.
US07797552B2
A method and apparatus that selectively pairs a receiver (132) configured to receive a media program encrypted according to a media encryption key and a conditional access module. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a security module (508) for receiving and modifying the media encryption key, and a transport module (412), comprising a decryptor (524) for decrypting the media program. The media encryption key has a portion indicating a first state in which the media program is to be viewable by a set of receivers or a second state in which the media program is to be viewable only by a subset of the set of receivers.
US07797551B2
One or more methods and systems of authenticating or verifying a set-top-box chip in a set-top-box are presented. In one embodiment, a set-top-box incorporates a set-top-box chip used to decode or decrypt media content provided by a cable television operator or carrier. The set-top-box chip incorporates a decryption circuitry, a compare circuitry, a hash function circuitry, a key generation circuitry, a back channel return circuitry, a linear feedback shift register, a timer reset circuitry, a modify enable status circuitry, a one time programmable memory, and a non-volatile memory. The cable TV carrier validates a set-top-box chip used in a set-top-box by way of a verification sequence that requires a successful verification by the set-top-box chip.
US07797550B2
Systems and methods that securely buffer content are provided. In one embodiment, a system may include, for example, a processor and a memory. The memory may be coupled to the processor. Before content leaves the processor for the memory, the processor may secure the content. After the secured content enters the processor from the memory, the processor may recover the content from the secured content.
US07797532B2
Disclosed herein is a device authentication system capable of authenticating devices efficiently using the common key system. When a CE device requests service offerings from a service server, the service server in turn requests the CE device to be authenticated by a device authentication server. Given the request, the CE device causes the device authentication server to perform device authentication on that device and transmits the result of the device authentication to the service server. Upon receipt of the device authentication result from the CE device, the service server causes the device authentication server to check that the authentication has been performed correctly and then starts offering services to the CE device. The CE device and device authentication server share a pass phrase, and each of the two parties checks that the other party indeed retains the pass phrase for mutual authentication.
US07797531B2
A wireless ad-hoc communication system in which an attribute certificate can be independently and dispersedly issued is provided. A terminal (B200) transmits a beacon (2011) for participating in a network in the wireless ad-hoc communication system. The beacon (2011) indicates whether or not the terminal (B200) has an attribute certificate. Upon receiving the beacon (2011), a terminal (A100) checks the beacon. If it is determined that the terminal (B200) does not have an attribute certificate, the terminal (A100) transmits an attribute-certificate issuance suggestion message (1032) for suggesting an attribute-certificate issuing request to the terminal (B200). When the terminal (B200) transmits an attribute-certificate issuance request message (2041) in response to this message, the terminal (A100) transmits an attribute-certificate issuance message (1052) to the terminal (B200).
US07797530B2
This invention pertains to the field of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). This invention allows a secure connection of a user client station to a base unit. The secure connection comprises the use of authentication and encryption means. The base unit comprises a switching unit, at least one firewall, an authentication/encryption unit and at least one port device. The invention also provides a secure roaming scheme when a roaming is performed by a wireless user.
US07797527B2
Computing device deployment and configuration using a mass storage device is provided. A generic computing device is provided to a customer or end user. A mass storage device is used to distribute configuration information to the generic computing device. The configuration information includes customer-specified or ordered software applications or other features. The configuration information can also include updates to the computing device system software. The customer or end user couples the mass storage device to the generic computing device in order to load the configuration information into the computing device. After the configuration information is loaded, the computing device is configured for the customer's use. Further features, such as creating customized images, are also provided.
US07797526B2
A method for updating the contents of a BIOS ROM includes disconnecting a host system from the BIOS ROM, transferring data from a service processor to the BIOS ROM, and updating the contents of the BIOS ROM using the transferred data. A BIOS update system for a computer system, includes a BIOS ROM containing BIOS instructions, a service processor that contains update data for the contents of the BIOS ROM, an LPC bus that transfers the update data from the service processor to the BIOS ROM, and quick switches that disconnect a host system from the LPC bus.
US07797515B2
A multi-processor system includes a plurality of unit processors that operate in parallel. The system includes a suspension prohibition section for, in response to a request from at least one of the unit processors, prohibiting suspension of processing only in the requesting unit processors for which prohibiting suspension has been requested. The suspension prohibition section limits the number of unit processors for which the suspension is prohibited at the same time to a certain limited number or below.
US07797514B2
A high performance sequencer/synchronizer controls multiple concurrent data processors and dedicated coprocessors and their interaction with multiple shared memories. This sequencer/synchronizer controls multi-threading access to shared memory.
US07797506B2
An information handling system includes a processor having access to a system memory. The system is operable to detect a thermal alert and identify an associated portion of system memory. The system may then modify memory allocation information used by an operating system to allocate system memory. When the thermal alert indicates a rising memory module temperature that exceeds a specified threshold, the modification of the memory allocation information causes the memory to appear to be more “distant” from the system processor(s) and thereby allocated less preferentially than other memory. If the temperature continues to rise beyond a higher threshold, a second modification of the memory allocation information is performed to simulate a “hot eject” of the memory module. As the memory module cools, the memory allocation information can be restored to simulate a hot add of the memory module and to restore the proximity of the memory module.
US07797505B2
Systems, methods, and device are provided for program stack handling. One method embodiment includes recognizing that a fault has occurred because a particular address range in a memory stack has been accessed. The method includes evaluating a current utilized size of regions in the memory stack. A particular address range between the current utilized size of regions in the memory stack is then relocated.
US07797504B2
A device for processing information and the working method of the same are provided. The device for processing information comprises: a memory in which logic for driving a firmware is stored; a connector for connecting the memory to an external device; and a control unit for providing an interface with a host, for communicating with the host through the connector, and for reading and recording data on the memory. The control unit comprises: a first storing device in which a routine for calling the firmware logic stored in the memory is stored; and a processor for executing the firmware logic, stored in the memory, using the routine stored in the first storing device.
US07797502B2
A method to control access to a sector of a flash type memory of an electronic module. The method includes receiving a write request to write data to an area of a partition, wherein the partition is located within the sector and, prior to writing to the data, determining whether an owner of the data to be written has write access to the partition of the sector and permission to erase the entire sector in which the partition is located.
US07797500B1
Described are techniques for migrating data from a source device to a target device. A source device descriptor of the source device including source device geometry parameters and a source device partition definition structure is received. Target device geometry parameters are received. The source partition definition structure is translated and a mapped partition definition structure in accordance with the target device geometry parameters is generated. A target device descriptor including the target device geometry parameters and the mapped partition definition structure is generated. The target device descriptor is stored on the target device. Data for one or more partitions of the source device is migrated to the target device.
US07797499B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for uninterrupted storage configuration. The apparatus for uninterrupted storage configuration is provided with a plurality of modules configured to functionally execute the steps of generating a temporary location for storage configuration information, saving the storage configuration information to the temporary location, and copying the storage configuration information from the temporary location to a storage medium in response to a determination that the storage medium is physically configurable. In one embodiment, these modules include an initialization module, a storage manager interface, and a storage medium interface. Beneficially, such an apparatus, system, and method would streamline the configuration process, improving the efficiency of a typical storage manager, and allowing a storage system administrator to focus his attention on other tasks.
US07797497B1
Some embodiments provide for a method of mapping a user design to a configurable integrated circuit (IC). The method is for a configurable IC that implements a user design with an associated user design clock cycle. The IC operates on a sub-cycle clock that has multiple sub-cycle periods within a user period of the user design clock cycle. The method identifies multiple port accesses to a first multi-port memory defined in the user design. The accesses are in a single user design clock cycle. The method maps the multiple port accesses to the first multi-port memory to multiple physical-port memory accesses to a second physical-port memory in the configurable IC during multiple sub-cycles associated with a single user design clock cycle.
US07797496B2
A multiprocessor system comprises a first processor (P1) and a second processor (P2) each having an input/output set up for the connection of a tightly coupled semiconductor memory. Furthermore, the multiprocessor system comprises a shared tightly coupled integrated semiconductor memory (101), which can be accessed by both processors (P1, P2) via their input/output.
US07797495B1
A system and method for a distributed directory cache in a computing system. A system comprises a plurality of nodes including at least a source node, home node, and one or more target nodes. The source node is configured to convey a request to a home node for a coherency unit, wherein the coherency unit corresponds to a super line which comprises a plurality of coherency units including the requested coherency unit. Prior to conveying the request, the source node is configured to indicate that the request is a non-probing request responsive to determining that none of the plurality of coherency units of the super line are cached in any of the other nodes. In response to receiving the request, the home node is configured to initiate the conveyance of one or more probes to one or more target nodes, if the response does not indicate it is a non-probing request, and inhibit the conveyance of the probes if the request indicates it is a non-probing request.
US07797489B1
A system and method for managing space availability in a distributed striped file system is provided. A master data server is configured to send space availability detection messages to a plurality of data volumes servers hosting constituent volumes of a striped volume set. If one of the constituent volumes in the striped volume set has a low-in-space flag set, then the master data volume instructs all of the constituent volumes to set a low-in-space required flag, and no further writes are accepted for the striped volume set. The low-in-space and low-in-space required flags represent two states, and these states are returned in response to subsequent space availability detection messages from the master data server. A procedure for utilizing reserved space to complete an accepted cross stripe write operation is also provided.
US07797484B2
A file access manager for scheduling of read/write operations and disk I/O operations for files that must be retrieved from disk storage. The file access manager schedules the operations such that a single file retrieval from disk is required for a plurality of processes to operate on the file. If any of the processes write to the file, a single disk write operation is then performed.
US07797478B2
A data storage apparatus, including a controller that formats a rewritable recording medium in the background, interrupts the background formatting when a host computer requests to store data in the rewritable recording medium, stores the data in the rewritable recording medium after interrupting the background formatting, revises control information stored in a predetermined region of the rewritable recording medium after storing the data, and resumes the background formatting after revising the control information. The data storage apparatus according can revise control information indicating the address up to which the background formatting has been performed and the address of an unformatted recording region in which user data have been recorded, for example, at an appropriate timing during the background formatting.
US07797477B2
In order to manage the various types of attribute information within the storage system, the storage system includes the following databases within a file-access controlling memory: a database for managing index information for managing contents of the files, and an index retrieval program, a database for managing the attribute information on the files, and a database for managing storage positions of blocks configuring a file. When the storage system receives an access request to a file, the utilization of these databases allows the storage system to make the access to the access-target file.
US07797476B2
The present invention describes a flexible routing scheme between masters and slaves in complex digital systems. The routing scheme is optimized for maximum versatility and configurability using switched resources in the form of configurable crossbar switches.
US07797475B2
Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to hypertransport-based switching for multi-CPU systems and provide a method, system and computer program product for flexibly configurable multi-CPU supported hypertransport switching. In one embodiment of the invention, a hypertransport switching data processing system can be provided. The system can include a CPU and at least two I/O bridges. Each I/O bridge can provide a communications path for data driven to a corresponding peripheral device from the CPU. Notably, the system can include a flexibly configurable hypertransport switch. The switch can include a first configuration adapting the CPU to both of the I/O bridges, and a second configuration adapting the CPU to a first one of the I/O bridges and a second CPU to a second one of the I/O bridges.
US07797470B2
A method of storing and searching pictures and apparatus for the same are disclosed, in which the pictures are stored using an abbreviated number in taking a picture and by which the stored picture is searched more quickly. The present invention includes the steps of setting an abbreviated number for an automatic paging to a phone number, setting the abbreviated number for a picture identifying abbreviated number, and storing a corresponding picture identified by the abbreviated number.
US07797469B2
A computer peripheral connects to a host computer such as a PC to assist in a presentation. The peripheral includes a memory and receiver combined within a portable, lightweight housing. Presentation data is stored in the memory, while the receiver receives wireless signals from a handheld transmitter for paging through slides or other segments of the presentation using page up and page down instructions. The memory may be a USB hard drive, for example, or other portable storage media. The peripheral is connected to the host computer using a USB cable and an externally-accessible port in the housing, for example. A hub controller within the peripheral enables the memory and receiver to communicate with the externally-accessible port, thereby providing communication with the host computer.
US07797466B2
When a subject of access of a transaction from an IO device is not any resource allocated to a logical partition to which the device having issued the transaction belongs, a report as an error is sent to a CPU, while the transaction is finished on the IO bus. To prevent a transaction between IO devices from gaining access to any resource in another logical partition, one access permission bit is provided for each combination of all the IO devices, and the access is permitted only when the bit has a predetermined value. A reset signal is provided by IO slot so that only an IO slot allocated to a specific logical partition can be reset without affecting any other logical partition. A transaction issued from an IO device in one logical partition is prevented from gaining access to a resource in another logical partition, while proper error handling can be performed.
US07797451B2
An A/V stream-forwarding system forwarding A/V streams of a data network to an IEEE 1394 network and a method therefor. The A/V stream-forwarding system has a media server having an interface with the data network and providing the A/V streams; a transcoder receiving the A/V streams provided by the media server through the data-network interface, and transcoding the A/V streams into A/V streams in a predetermined format supported by an IEEE 1394 network; and; a display device receiving and reproducing the A/V streams of the transcoder in the predetermined format that is supported by the IEEE 1394 network. Accordingly, the A/V streams of the data network are converted into A/V streams in a predetermined format that is supported by the IEEE 1394 network, regardless of diverse A/V stream formats, codecs, transmission protocols, transmission control protocols, and so on, of the data network.
US07797449B2
A system or network may provide for communication between two or more applications. The communication is achieved by initiating communication between a first and second application. The communication is directed from the first application to a second virtual address of the second application. An actual address associated with the second application is determined. A first data channel is established between a first computer associated with the first application and a second computer associated with the second application over a control channel, to coordinate the communication over the first data channel. The communication is then directed to the actual address associated with the second application over the data channel. Further, the first data channel is taken down and a second data channel is established to maintain communication without the knowledge of the first and second applications.
US07797441B1
One illustrative method for concatenating an unselected content stream (such as advertising) with a selected content stream to create a digital content stream includes interactions between a first server and a second server. The first server can receive a selection of the selected content stream from a hand-held device, transmit the selection to a second server, receive a playlist having location identifiers that identify at least the selected content stream and an unselected content stream, and communicate with a plurality of streaming servers collectively having streaming digital content including the selected and unselected content streams. The first server further communicates to the hand-held device a play time of the streaming digital content, concatenates the streaming digital content from the plurality of streaming servers, and provides the concatenated streaming digital content to the hand-held device as a single content stream.
US07797440B2
Various techniques for a library with a significant number of titles are disclosed. A user may select and order a title whenever desired and play back the title fairly instantly. The library is dynamically updated in accordance with a schedule. According to one aspect of the techniques, whenever an ordered title is played back, a beginning portion of the data pertaining to the title is activated to be played back first. The beginning portion of the data is locally cached while the remaining portion of the data is supplied by other designated devices. To facilitate the management of the remaining portion of data for each of the titles in the library, the titles are partitioned into a number of groups or bands. The amount of the remaining portion of the data to be locally cached for each title is determined by a band the title belongs to. Further, as new titles are added in, the titles in each band are updated by retiring relatively unpopular titles to a lower band.
US07797433B2
A system, method, and computer program product through which address resolution is performed for nodes (101, 103) of a network that are behind a network address translator (NAT). A determination is made upon the initiation of a communication session as to whether one or more of the nodes (101, 103) included in the session are behind a NAT. Based on the determination, information is exchanged (L102, L103) from an independent application server (105) to the nodes (101, 103) included in the session so as to resolve the addressing problems introduced by the NAT. The invention is applicable in applications including, but not limited to, IP telephony, and applications complying with the session initiation protocol (SIP).
US07797417B2
A method for providing services in an IP-based network system to control a plurality of devices connected to one another within the network. The method includes the steps of (a) accessing a service lookup device that notifies services provided by the devices within the network, (b) displaying information on the devices connected to the network, (c) displaying a list of services provided by a device selected from the displayed devices, and (d) performing an operation according to a service selected from the displayed list of services. Accordingly, a user can be provided with services by the devices within the network either through a user interface or through a command.
US07797411B1
A network device is capable of recognizing and blocking network attacks associated with packet flows regardless of whether the packet flows are encapsulated within network tunnels. For example, the network device includes a filter module that receives packets associated with a network tunnel from an ingress device to an egress device. The filter module applies heuristics to determine whether the packets encapsulate encrypted data units. If the data units are not encrypted, the filter module extracts the data units and generates temporary packets for use within the network device. An attack detection engine within the device analyzes the temporary packets to detect any network attacks carried by the encapsulated data units. A forwarding component selectively forwards the packets to the egress device based on whether any network attacks are detected.
US07797400B2
A computer-implemented method of testing interoperability of a web service against a plurality of web services tools may include steps of providing a web services description language file (WSDL) that describes the web service to be tested; selecting at least one of the plurality of web services tools; generating and compiling sets of proxy files for each selected web service tool based upon the provided WSDL file and loading the generated and compiled proxy files into memory; generating an XML test case for each of the generated and compiled sets of proxy files, the XML test case including dummy variables for each operation of the provided WSDL file; populating the generated XML test case with values for at least some of the dummy variables, and invoking a targeted web service from a selected client platform using the populated XML test case and providing results for each invocation.
US07797394B2
A system and method for receiving and responding to issued commands in a storage enclosure is disclosed in which each storage enclosure processor of the storage enclosure is coupled to each expander of the storage enclosure. Each storage enclosure processor receives each interrupt and command issued by another expander of the storage enclosure. In the event of a failure of one of the storage enclosure processors, any interrupts or commands issued by the expander associated with the failed storage enclosure processor will be handled by the operational storage enclosure processor. In this configuration, the storage enclosure processor can also arbitrate or determine the storage enclosure processor that will handle each interrupt and any associated command.
US07797392B2
An intelligent router routes a user request to a storage server that is capable of handling that request natively, without emulation. The request is routed automatically, without any instruction or interaction on the part of the user. The intelligent router includes a storage tank-like computing environment and a set of intelligent routers. The set of intelligent routers appears as a single entity to users by presenting a single network IP address. When the intelligent router receives a request, it examines the protocol type and routes the request to one of the appropriate storage tank clients. The intelligent router does not change the contents of the request message, and thus the storage tank system do not become aware of the existence of the intelligent router. Consequently, any return messages do not need to go through the intelligent router, unless desired.
US07797388B2
A method of managing a shared electronic mail account co-owned by at least two owners includes intercepting electronic mail account configuration settings received from the at least two owners; combining the intercepted electronic mail account configuration settings based on a shared electronic mail account profile so as to generate shared e-mail account configuration settings; and applying the shared e-mail account configuration settings so as to affect the operation of the shared electronic mail account.
US07797387B2
A communication system quarantines text and then automatically transmits the text across a network at the end of a quarantine time period. This text quarantine period gives a user the chance to edit or delete text for a brief amount of time after the text has been entered. This allows editing or deletion of spelling errors, and inadvertent or indiscriminate text responses before the text is sent to a remote user. Since the text characters are automatically transmitted after the quarantine period, normal human communications and interactions are maintained allowing a receiver to interject or interrupt with text comments in the middle of a received text message. Thus, the communication system maintains the interactive advantages of TTY/TDD systems while also providing the editing flexibility of instant messaging systems. In another aspect of the text system, characters are buffered until they form a complete expression. Upon detection of the completed expression, the buffered characters are sent to the destination endpoint.
US07797385B2
An image processing apparatus checks a next job to be executed, and if the job is a firmware rewriting job, accesses a mail server, downloads e-mail, and obtains a job type of a job attached to the e-mail. If the job is a print job, the image processing apparatus extracts image information pertaining to the job from the e-mail, stores the image information, registers the job in a job management table, and ends processing. If there are no print jobs, the image processing apparatus executes the firmware rewriting job, deletes the job from the job management table, and ends the processing.
US07797370B2
Methods and systems are described for providing for messages having parameters to an interface. An exemplary method includes determining whether at least one message is related to one or more objects at a server based on a first parameter included within the message; determining a lifetime of the message based on a second parameter included within the message; determining a severity of the message based on a third parameter included within the message; and processing the message, at the user interface, based the results of the determining steps.
US07797369B2
A method of controlling a transmission of image data from an image source to an image display device is disclosed, wherein the method includes transmitting the image data from the image source to the image display device, receiving the image data in a buffer on the image display device, reading at least some of the image data out of the buffer for processing by the image display device, monitoring an amount of unprocessed image data in the buffer, transmitting a value representing an amount of unprocessed image data in the buffer from the image display device to the image source, and adjusting the transmission of the image data to the image display device by the image source if the value representing the amount of unprocessed image data meets a preselected condition.
US07797363B2
A processor comprises a plurality of arithmetic units, an accumulator unit, and a reduction unit coupled between the plurality of arithmetic units and the accumulator unit. The reduction unit receives products of vector elements from the arithmetic units and a first accumulator value from the accumulator unit, and processes the products and the first accumulator value to generate a second accumulator value for delivery to the accumulator unit. The processor implements a plurality of vector multiply and reduce operations having guaranteed sequential semantics, that is, operations which guarantee that the computational result will be the same as that which would be produced using a corresponding sequence of individual instructions.
US07797360B2
The invention comprises methods for manipulating floating point numbers on a microprocessor where the numbers are sortable. That is, the numbers obey lexicographical ordering. Hence, the numbers may be quickly compared using bit-wise comparison functions such as memcmp( ). Conversion may result in a sortable floating point number in the form of a sign, leading bits of the exponent, and sets of digit triples in the form of declets (sets of 10 bits). In a variable-length version, numbers may be compressed by storing the number of trailing zero declets in lieu of storing the zero declets themselves.
US07797357B1
A client computer system of a cluster may send a request to create a file in a cluster file system. A server may create a file in response to the information and allocate space in a storage to the file. If a request to write to the file is received within a predetermined amount of time, the write may complete without requiring that additional operations be performed to allocate space to the file. If a write to the file is not received within the predetermined amount of time, the space allocated to the file when it was created may be de-allocated. The file system may additionally or alternatively perform a method for opening a file while delaying an associated truncation of space allocated to the file. If a request to write to the file is received within a predetermined amount of time, the write may be performed in the space already allocated to the file.
US07797354B2
A method and system for integrating software application program documents is provided. A request to save documents in an document managements system may be received from application programs, with each document in a format native to the application program that requests that the document be saved. Text data may be extracted from the documents to be saved and converted into a converted data file that is in a common format that is not specific to any application program. The converted data files may then be stored in a memory.
US07797347B2
The present solution addresses the need to carry out reorganization of a database storage. A statistics-based reorganization check procedure is performed on at least first database tables and indexes, resulting in a preliminary reorganization recommendation. Information on workload on tables and indexes of said database storage is received. Based on the information on workload and the preliminary reorganization recommendation, it is decided whether to carry out reorganization of the database storage in accordance with the preliminary reorganization recommendation.
US07797331B2
The present invention is directed to a method for organizing user provided information in a mobile terminal device with meta-information to allow retrieval of the user provided information, and a device configured to perform the method. The user provided information is obtained by any user operation against the mobile terminal device and context information is obtained associated with the User provided information. The meta-information is obtained from the context information and assigned to the user provided information. The meta-information is employed for retrieval of the User provided information by matching request information with the meta-information Further, the method for organizing user provided information employs calendar information for obtaining meta-information. Further, the method for organizing user provided information is adapted to organize user provided audio information. Further, the method for organizing user provided information is adapted to organize User provided audio information by embedding meta-information into the User provided audio information.
US07797320B2
A solution is provided wherein the apparent dimensionality of a data set is reduced by ranking combinations of dimensions and parts of dimensions in terms of their suitability for mapping to the axes of a grid display. A user may then be presented with dense lower dimensional views of the data that are much easier to understand than sparse high dimensional views. The user may then make further refinements, groupings, and analyses as needed.
US07797304B2
A query language has support for rich data types. A query language system contains an application configured to generate queries according to the query language. In addition, the system has a platform for handling queries that are generated using the provided query language. The platform contains an object services layer, a map provider layer, and a bridge layer which may ultimately interface with a variety of commercially available databases.
US07797297B2
An information leakage analysis system is provided. The access route model input device 110 receives an access route model, which represents whether or not to what type of file a user is accessible and represents the corresponding access route. The setting information input device 130 receives the setting information for the verification-intended system 1010. The access route decider 1060 cross-checks an analysis-intended access route, acting as an information leakage decision criterion, and an input access route model. As a result of verification, the setting information identification means 2020 identifies the setting information corresponding to a model matched with to the analysis-intended access route. The information leakage countermeasure proposer 3040 extracts an information leakage countermeasure corresponding to the setting information from the information leakage countermeasure storage 3010 to displays it.
US07797282B1
Information representing a hierarchy of categories is stored. An indication is received that a first case is either a positive case or a negative case for a first category in the hierarchy of categories. The first case is identified, by inference, as a positive case or negative case for a second category in the hierarchy based on relationship of the second category to the first category. A training set for the second category is modified based on the identification by reference.
US07797278B2
A backup system for backing up target data stored in an information processing device comprises a backup program stor for retaining a backup program, a read authentication information stor for retaining read authentication information, a backup function sender which transfers the backup program and the read authentication information to the device, and a data stor which retains the target data to be transferred to the backup system by the device which has executed the backup program, wherein the backup program is invoke-able on the device by a user of the device, and comprises a read authentication mechanism for obtaining permission to read the target data from the device by causing the read authentication information to be authenticated, and a transfer mechanism for causing the device to read the target data and transfer the target data to the backup system.
US07797273B2
A system for synchronizing data between at least two electronic devices. The system includes at least one sending (source) side electronic device having a database and at least one receiving (target) side electronic device having a database, such that each data item has unique local and remote identifiers, wherein the local identifier of one side is the remote identifier of the other side and vice versa, thereby providing reliable, efficient and symmetrical synchronicity between the at least two electronic devices.
US07797267B2
Methods and architectures for context-sensitive reminding and service facilitating are disclosed. The architectures monitor user context and activity, senses or infers relevant reminders, goals, such as those that come from a growing need of the user that should be fulfilled, and computes best reminders, and recommend plans on fulfilling need(s) in an optimum way. Statistical models of a user's knowledge and recall in different settings may be employed. Facilities, services, and merchants can be identified along a route that the user can take, and cost-benefit analysis is performed for determining which merchant(s) to select to fulfill the need(s). Routes may be created as opportunistic modifications of trips underway. Merchants can respond back with offers of sale to the user for all available needed items, and the user can respond with acceptance or denial of the offers. Merchants can also respond in a bidding fashion in order to gain user's patronage.
US07797266B2
An information processing system includes a content providing device (20) providing content appropriate for a user. The content providing device (20) includes: a model storage unit (40) containing a plurality of different models depending on the user attribute; a model determining unit (34) for selecting a model corresponding to the user attribute from the models stored in the model storage unit (40); a Bayesian reasoning unit (30) for reading out the model determined by the model determining unit (34) from the model storage unit (40) and using the read-out model to obtain the content appropriate for the user through probabilistic reasoning; and a recommending unit (22) for recommending the content obtained by the Bayesian reasoning unit (30) to the user. The content providing device (20) further includes a Bayesian learning unit (32) for learning models by using a user response to the content received from an operating unit (24).
US07797246B2
A distributed system (10) for issuing official stamps and/or titles (25), particularly stamps, comprising a central control unit or Service Centre (12), a plurality of local terminals (11) distributed throughout the land for materially issuing the official stamps and/or titles (25), and a plurality of smart cards (21) assigned to the operators of the local terminals (11), in which an initialization programme (40) is provided for initialising, in combination, a given local terminal (11) and a given smart card (21) of the system (10), in order to establish between that given terminal (11) and that given smart card (21) a bi-unequivocal type relationship of correspondence and cooperation, so that the given local terminal (11) and the given smart card (21), once initialised, are enabled within the system (10) to cooperate uniquely between one another to the exclusion of all other terminals and all other smart cards. In particular, this bi-unequivocal correspondence is set up by the initialisation programme (40) by “signing” or encrypting, through a secret key (35a) of the smart card (21), a data string (24a, 24b) defined by the target terminal (11) with which the smart card (21) is intended to exclusively cooperate.
US07797235B2
A method for enabling two individual consumers to complete a transaction that includes payment from one consumer (the payor, or buyer) to another consumer (the payee, or seller). An intermediary typically operates the service over a computer network of nodes, such as the Internet. The buyer has the convenience of paying through a variety of different payment instruments. Likewise, the seller has the convenience of receiving payment through a variety of different disbursement instruments. For a fee, the intermediary collects the payment from the buyer and pays the seller. Although the intermediary may receive payment from the buyer before the intermediary transfers the payment to the seller, the intermediary may choose to pay the seller before receiving payment from the buyer. In this case, the intermediary assumes the risk of nonpayment by the buyer. Alternatively, the intermediary may pay a third party that specializes in processing transactions for the payment instrument chosen by the buyer to assume the risk of nonpayment by the buyer. In this case, the intermediary receives a promise of payment from the third party before the intermediary pays the seller. Such a promise of payment from the third party is referred to as an authorization.
US07797232B2
A risk monitoring system is formed of a client terminal, a risk management apparatus, and a security device. A risk calculation portion in the risk management apparatus calculates the vulnerability of each room inside the workplace quantitatively in terms of three viewpoints: individuals, assets, and space, and calculates a risk value of an internal crime in each room in real time by multiplying the vulnerability by the internal crime probability and the asset value. A risk analysis portion analyzes a risk state on the basis of the risk value thus calculated and the analysis result is displayed on a display portion of the client terminal. It is thus possible to understand a risk situation of an internal crime against assets to protect in real time for enabling an action to be taken appropriately according to the situation.
US07797224B2
A system and method for identifying a candidate set of one or more buy orders associated with an investment account, ordering the buy orders in the candidate set into a chain, determining a back out target value that identifies a fiscal amount by which the candidate set must be reduced, and decrementing an initial asset quantity of one or more successive non-zero quantity buy orders in the chain by a fixed integer quantity to a final asset quantity until the back out target value is achieved. The candidate set of buy orders can then be modified by replacing the respective initial asset quantity with the respective final asset quantity for at least one of the one or more buy orders. The modified candidate set of buy orders can then be provided for trade execution.
US07797219B1
A method, apparatus and system to performing an adjustment to an overall financial goal based on military benefits. The user data may include user information on a number of users. The military data may include military information on a number of military users among the number of users. The military information may include a branch of service, a military rank, a military activity status, a service start date, and a service component. The lookup data may include assumption information used. A financial goal assessment application may receive information from the user data, the military data, and the lookup data and to generate a financial goal assessment for at least one of a user or a spouse of the user.
US07797214B2
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 initialing 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.
US07797205B2
A computer application loaded on a computer readable medium, a computer apparatus comprising the same, and process employing the same, is described herein. The computer application, when executed, causes a computer to optimize, for maximum net profit margin, the product allocation, transportation routing, transportation vehicle/route scheduling and, optionally, blending, of bulk products that are produced by and loaded from supply locations and delivered to and consumed by demand locations, using a heterogeneous fleet of transportation vehicles over a pre-defined period of time.
US07797195B2
A merchant-affiliated direct wholesale marketing and fulfillment system. A computer server receives information from a consumer and from this information assigns the consumer to one of a plurality of independent retail merchants. The server then provides the consumer's remote computer with identifying information for the assigned retail merchant, to be displayed along with information regarding products for sale. Consumers may then purchase products directly from the organization operating the server, with a partial profit from the transaction delivered to the assigned retail merchant. Consumers may also purchase products at merchants' retail locations, in which case a transaction is consummated between the organization operating the server and the merchant, permitting the merchant to resell the purchased item to the consumer. The system may also be used for fulfillment by merchants.
US07797194B1
A method of preparing a server is disclosed that supports a plurality of purchaser systems to transmit over the Internet orders for collectibles being offered for sale on a primary and a secondary market. The method starts by constructing at the server a purchaser history database. Then, an initial placement of a number of lots of selected collectibles are offered for sale on the primary market. Next an account is created for each purchaser transmitting an order to the server. Each account includes a record of the purchasing activity of its purchasers. Then, the lots of selected collectibles are allocated to the successful purchasers. Then at the direction of certain of the successful purchasers, selected of the allocated collectibles are offered for sale on the secondary market. Orders are received from all of the purchasers who placed orders during the offering for sale of the primary market and the offering for sale on the secondary market, and a record for each of the purchasers is created in the purchaser history database. The collectibles may comprise trading cards.
US07797192B2
Systems, methods and program products for automatically generating authenticated electronic receipts at a point-of-sale terminal for both merchants and customers. These electronic receipts can then be used in place of paper receipts for expense accounting, for tax purposes, for routing to accounting and taxation departments, and for real-time analysis of cash-flow and budgeting. The invention prevents loss of paper receipts, always provides a legible receipt, removes employee subjectivity, provides extensive transaction details, removes entry errors, reduces physical storage requirements, promotes continuous expense tracking and eases expense-reporting procedures. In addition, the point-of-sale terminal can integrate the electronic receipt with other available coded data and information about the method of payment such as an image of the check, or the serial number of the paper currency bills used. The other available coded data can make categorization of the data for separation into budget, accounting, or tax categories easier.
US07797189B2
A print demand forecasting system is provided for use with a print production system in which print demand data is collected for each print job processed during a selected time interval. The print demand data is processed with a computer implemented service manager to obtain a first demand series with two or more demand components and a second demand series with one demand component. Each one of the two or more demand components is less than a selected variability level and the one demand component is greater than the selected variability level. The computer implemented service manager is adapted to (1) generate a first demand related forecast with a combination of the two or more demand components, and (2) generate a second demand related forecast with the one demand component if convergent forecasting results are obtainable for the second demand series.
US07797179B2
A system and method for planning outages for a power generation installation comprising a gas turbine power plant. The system and method utilizes a computer to receive requests from users to create maintenance plans for the power plant by generating templates, applying the templates to a database containing gas turbine data for the power generation installation; and receiving data from users to create maintenance package plans. Users can select either modular or turnkey maintenance plans. Modular maintenance package options enable a user to specifically select and obtain price quote information for parts and technicians who perform the maintenance tasks, and to specify particular shift options for the technicians.
US07797172B2
A patient claim data processing system responds to and initiates clinical events and attains early accurate claim data during a patient healthcare encounter cycle to support prompt claim data validation and editing both for individual claim elements and for a completed claim to improve claim accuracy prior to claim submission to a payer. The system submits accurate claims to payers and receives remittance advice from payers and applies rules to the advice. A system processes financial data related to provision of healthcare to a patient in response to clinical events. The system includes an interface processor for receiving a message identifying an event and a related change in healthcare data concerning a patient and also includes a source of rules for determining characteristics associated with reimbursement for provision of an individual service to a patient. A rules processor initiates application of a rule derived from the rules source to process financial data concerning provision of the individual service to the patient in response to receiving the message identifying the event. A result processor initiates an action in response to a result derived by the application of the rule to process the financial data. The rules processor also validates the financial data complies with the rule.
US07797170B2
An opportunity server tracks in vehicle information system wireless web transactions using session identifiers, aggregates transaction records into session data, and uses session data assign cost of network and system usage to a winning bidding party in an online offering system so as to offset costs to the user for usage of the system. Credits are posted to share revenue and offset costs of OEM equipment and network access metered fees, thereby reducing the cost of the transactions by a user and promoting unfettered use of in vehicle information systems for a variety of services, purposes, and transactions.
US07797165B1
A system and method for determining eligibility for reimbursement for medical claims for patients may be implemented with computer software which compares a service provider's patient information against a benefit provider's database of covered persons to determine if the patient is eligible for benefits. The service provider records may be compressed by grouping all of the medical claims relating to a particular patient into one cluster represented by a composite medical claim, which may be used to query the benefit provider databases to determine if the patient is recognized. If the patient is recognized, every record within the cluster may be checked against the benefit provider's database to determine whether one or more patient medical claims are eligible for reimbursement.
US07797162B2
There is provided an audio encoding device capable of generating an appropriate monaural signal from a stereo signal while suppressing the lowering of encoding efficiency of the monaural signal. In a monaural signal generation unit (101) of this device, an inter-channel prediction/analysis unit (201) obtains a prediction parameter based on a delay difference and an amplitude ratio between a first channel audio signal and a second channel audio signal; an intermediate prediction parameter generation unit (202) obtains an intermediate parameter of the prediction parameter (called intermediate prediction parameter) so that the monaural signal generated finally is an intermediate signal of the first channel audio signal and the second channel audio signal; and a monaural signal calculation unit (203) calculates a monaural signal by using the intermediate prediction parameter.
US07797159B2
An integrated voice navigation system 40 is disclosed. The voice navigation system (40) includes a voice messaging system (44), a speech recognition system (46), a voice channel (50) and a control link (52). A caller is connected to the voice messaging system (44) via PSTN (42). The voice messaging system (44) is in turn connected to the speech recognition system (46). Specifically, the voice messaging system (44) and speech recognition system (46) are connected via both the voice channel (50) and the control link (52). The voice channel (50) provides an audio communications pathway between the caller and the speech recognition system (46), while the control link (52) provides an out-of-band communications pathway between the voice messaging system (44) and the speech recognition system (46).
US07797156B2
Presented herein are systems and methods for generating an adaptive noise codebook for use with electronic speech systems. The noise codebook includes a plurality of entries which may be updated based on environmental noise sounds. The speech system includes a speech codebook and the adaptive noise codebook. The system identifies speech sounds in an audio signal using the speech and noise codebooks.
US07797155B2
A technique for computing perceptual noise in an audio signal that is computationally efficient. In one example embodiment, the technique includes computing perceptual noise in an input audio signal. The steps involve pre-computing NER (noise-to-excitation ratio) values associated with critical bands within a frame by zeroing out associated spectral coefficient values before the quantization loop, and also assuming bands with lower spectral energy than the band under consideration are zeroed out during quantization. When a critical band is zeroed out during quantization, the associated NER values which have been pre-computed are used in computing an overall perceptual distortion of the frame.
US07797154B2
Provision to reduce production of musical noise. A noise reduction device includes: means for calculating a rank for each element included in a first region having predetermined sizes in the time axis direction and in the frequency axis direction, depending on a value of the element, in a noise section of an observed signal indicating variation of a frequency spectrum with time; means for calculating a rank for each element included in a second region, depending on a value of the element, the second region having predetermined sizes in the time axis direction and in the frequency axis direction in the observed signal; and means for subtracting, from the values of the respective elements in the second region, values based on the values of the respective elements in the first region whose ranks correspond to ranks of respective elements in the second region.
US07797144B2
A molecular modeling method and system to provide a dielectric function that reflects the plurality of models simultaneously used in molecular modeling. For interactions similar to those used during the development of a charge model, the dielectric is similar to the charge model dielectric. In a second embodiment, an approximation for electrostatic/electrodynamics modeling is provided that analyzes charge distribution and determines groups of charges that can be treated as a whole at moderate distances.
US07797142B2
Methods and systems provide a simulation of cavitation damage. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method simulates a potential for cavitation damage. According to the method, data defining a modeled component is imported to a flow solver tool. The flow solver tool simulates a liquid that flows through the modeled component. Voids created by the flow of the liquid cause a plurality of vapor implosion pressure events. The method further includes displaying a histogram showing a portion of the modeled component. On the histogram, locations of the plurality of vapor implosion pressure events are visually distinguishable on a surface of the portion of the modeled component.
US07797140B2
The adjoint network reduction technique has been shown to reduce 50% of the computational complexity of constructing the congruence transformation matrix. The method was suitable for analyzing the special multi-port driving-point impedance of RLC interconnect circuits. This technique is extended for the general circumstances of RLC interconnects. Comparative studies among the conventional methods and the proposed methods are also investigated. Experimental results will demonstrate the accuracy and the efficiency of the proposed method.
US07797129B2
A method, apparatus and software are disclosed for simulating a running median value for a set of input data values, and for simulating a selected percentile value other than the median. A current estimated value is compared to an input data value. If the input data value is greater than the current estimated value, the current estimated value is increased in accordance with a first adjustment function. If the input data value is less than the current estimated value, the current estimated value is decreased in accordance with the second adjustment function. Different adjustment functions are disclosed for increasing or decreasing the current estimated value. The magnitude of each increase or decreases provided by an adjustment function is independent of the magnitude of the difference between the current input data value and the current estimated value.
US07797116B2
A system and method to detect acoustic signals from fire sprinkler heads discharging water and to locate such devices in a public building, airport, sports stadium or other structure which can include a system to measure speech intelligibility. Time and frequency domain analysis are carried out to establish the presence of signals characteristic of water discharge from a fire sprinkler.
US07797114B2
A front wheel is placed on a lifting table, which is rotated by an actuator together with the front wheel. By rotating the lifting table by the actuator, the front wheel is rotated under constraint of a steering mechanism of an automobile. The rotation angle of an arm with respect to a base is detected by an encoder provided at an end of an extendable rod which pivotally supports the arm in a rotatable manner. The rotation angle of the base is detected by a second encoder to determine the rotation angle θ2−θ1 and rotation radius Lt of the front wheel under constraint of the steering mechanism. Based on reaction force F detected by a load cell, rotation radius Lt, and rotation angle θ2−θ1, friction torque Tt is determined.
US07797112B2
The present invention relates to a FabK (enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase) protein derived from a Thermotoga maritima strain. In the present invention, the active site and the three-dimensional crystal structure of the protein are determined, a novel inhibitor against the FabK protein is screened and/or designed using the three-dimensional crystal structure thereof, and thereby developing a novel active compound, namely active-controlling material with excellent antibiotic activities against strains having a resistance to previous antibiotics.
US07797102B2
A flight management system for an aircraft, for executing a flight plan comprising referenced waypoints comprising a start point, an end point and intermediate waypoints, the said aircraft having a specified fuel quantity at the start of the said flight plan, executes a function of monitoring the fuel consumption with respect to at least one threshold value. The function comprises an operation for estimating if the quantity of fuel remaining on board drops below a threshold at any point in the flight plan included between the start point and the end point, and inserts a corresponding pseudo-waypoint in the flight plan, corresponding to the point where the said threshold is passed. The inserted pseudo-point is displayed on screens for displaying the flight plan.
US07797091B2
A rollover judgment apparatus includes a threshold change functional unit 5 for changing a determination threshold on the basis of a roll angular velocity ω, a tilt angle θv of a vehicle which is acquired by integrating the roll angular velocity ω, a lateral direction acceleration Gy, and a steering wheel angle θs, an ω×θ map judging unit 6 for judging whether or not the vehicle will roll over on the basis of the determination threshold changed by the threshold change functional unit 5, and the tilt angle of the vehicle, a safing functional unit 7 for detecting a tip-up of the vehicle in relation to a motion of the vehicle, and a curtain air bag deploying unit 9 for controlling expansion of a curtain air bag on the basis of an output of the ω×θ map judging unit 6 and an output of the safing functional unit 7.
US07797088B2
A scheduling system and method for identifying and planning for the linked movement of two or more trains.
US07797086B2
The process according to the invention is one of identifying the landing runway for which an aircraft is heading, wherein on the basis of on-board information and at least one database relative to the configuration of the landing airport zone, it is possible to dynamically evaluate the aircraft touchdown point on the ground to identify the runway for which the aircraft is heading.
US07797079B2
An apparatus for controlling a robot and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes: a state interpretation unit determining whether or not a current situation belongs to a preset unstable state by evaluating the current situation based on a plurality of perception information items; and a target generation unit setting a target action of the robot by comparing the current situation and the determination result with a predetermined value system, and then, modifying the target action by receiving a feedback of the action performance result of the robot as perception information. According to the method and apparatus, by inputting a processing procedure and a value system to solve a variety of unstable states that can occur in situations of a user and circumstances surrounding the robot, the robot can actively respond with actions.
US07797074B2
Disclosed are a machine with a grinding wheel and a dressing surface and related method. The dressing surface is movable in at least two axes of translation relative to the grinding wheel. The rotational speed of the grinding wheel and dressing surface preferably are under the control of a computer control system, whereby the speed of rotation of the dressing surface may be adjusted as the diameter of the dressing wheel and as the diameter of the grinding wheel is decreased during use. The machine may be used in continuous or intermittent dressing operations.
US07797073B1
A method and an apparatus for processing semiconductor wafer based upon end-of-line (EOL) parameters. A target end-of-line parameter relating to a semiconductor wafer is determined. An inline parameter relating to processing of the semiconductor wafer is controlled in response to the target end-of-line parameter using a controller. Controlling the inline parameter includes adjusting a target inline parameter that correlates to the inline parameter.
US07797072B2
A prosthetic limb has an outer surface that is a mirror image of an intact limb. The intact limb is scanned and the surface data is manipulated to create a virtual mirror image. The end of the amputated limb is also scanned to obtain socket data. A virtual limb is designed using a computer program based upon the mirror image and end of the amputated limb data. The computer program is also used to design a removable fairing that provides color and texture to the prosthetic limb.
US07797067B2
A computer-readable recording medium recording a production management program that causes a computer to execute: a first process, based on a component table in which a group of components constituting a product is defined and on production planning information of the product, determining component planning information including a required period and a required quantity of each of the components; a second process linking the component planning information relating to each of the components within a certain period to an actual use record and recording it as first history information; a third process calculating a difference in the first history information recorded in chronological order and recording it as second history information; and a fourth process converting the second history information into a markup language and storing it, and searching and displaying the second history information on the basis of a specific component and period designated from outside.
US07797066B2
A digital processing stage-box that may be placed on stage to process audio input from on-stage audio input devices and generate output to audio output devices for playback to an audience. The on-stage audio input and output devices may be connected to the digital processing stage-box using an analog or network cable connection. The digital processing stage-box is controlled from a remote control device preferably connected to the digital processing stage-box via a wireless network connection. This arrangement allows the electronics needed to process audio input and output to be placed on or close to a stage.
US07797063B2
A method is presented for adjusting the steady-state gains of a multivariable predictive control, planning or optimization model with uncertainty. The user selects a desired matrix relative gain criteria for the predictive model or sub-model. This is used to calculate a base number. Model gains are extracted from the predictive model and the magnitudes are modified to be rounded number powers of the calculated base number.
US07797059B1
A system for pericardial lead implantation is disclosed herein. The system includes an implantation tool and a stimulation lead. The implantation tool includes a tubular body, a first lumen, a second lumen, a stylet or guidewire, a first port, and a second port. The first and second lumens longitudinally extend through tubular body. The first port is in communication with the first lumen, and the second port is in communication with the second lumen. The stylet or guidewire is longitudinally displaceable in the first lumen and across the first port. A tissue adhesive is selectively administrable through the second port via the second lumen. The stimulation lead includes a distal end and an engagement feature. Placing the engagement feature in the first port and causing the stylet or guidewire to displace in a first direction across the first port causes the lead to attach to the implantation tool. Displacing the stylet or guidewire in a second direction opposite the first direction allows the lead to detach from the implantation tool.
US07797049B2
In general, the invention provides a transurethral ablation device comprising an electrode for delivery of neurostimulation therapy to a patient to prevent or alleviate pain experienced during the course of a transurethral ablation procedure. The device may include a conductive ablation needle that delivers electrical current for ablation of prostate tissue, as well as neurostimulation current to prevent or alleviate pain encountered in response to the ablation current. In this sense, the ablation needle is integrated with a neurostimulation electrode. Alternatively, the device may incorporate a dedicated neurostimulation electrode independently of the ablation needle, either on the needle or on a catheter body that carries the needle.
US07797046B2
A neurostimulation device includes an external neurostimulator worn by a patient using a bracing element that braces a portion of the patient's body. The external neurostimulator delivers neurostimulation to modulate a cardiovascular function of the patient. In one embodiment, the external stimulator delivers neurostimulation percutaneously to a stimulation target in the patient's body using at least one percutaneous stimulation electrode having a distal end lodged on or near the stimulation target.
US07797043B1
A method of operating an automated external defibrillator, the method being implemented by circuitry and one or more processors of the defibrillator, comprising monitoring a pulse signal from the patient; monitoring an ECG signal from the patient; determining whether it is appropriate to deliver a defibrillation shock to the patient, the determination being based at least in part on the content of the ECG signal and on the content of the pulse signal.
US07797034B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) representation of one or more light sources inside a sample, such as a mammal. Mammalian tissue is a turbid medium, meaning that photons are both absorbed and scattered as they propagate through tissue. In the case where scattering is large compared with absorption, such as red to near-infrared light passing through tissue, the transport of light within the sample is described by diffusion theory. Using imaging data and computer-implemented photon diffusion models, embodiments of the present invention produce a 3D representation of the light sources inside a sample, such as a 3D location, size, and brightness of such light sources.
US07797029B2
An electrode array that is implantable within the inferior colliculus of the midbrain and/or other appropriate regions of the brain of an implantee and adapted to provide electrical stimulation thereto. The electrode array an elongate member having a plurality of electrodes mounted thereon in a longitudinal array. A delivery cannula for delivering the electrode array comprised of two half-pipes is also described.
US07797022B2
A hearing communication device with wireless components is provided. One aspect of this disclosure relates to hearing communication devices, which include, but are not limited to, hearing aids and other hearing assistance devices. According to an embodiment, the device includes an enclosure and at least one microphone within the enclosure. The device also includes an amplifier, a speaker, and a signal processing circuit within the enclosure. In various embodiments, the device includes a power supply, such as a battery, electrically connected to the at least one microphone, the amplifier, the speaker and the signal processing circuit. In varying embodiments, at least one of the at least one microphone, the amplifier, the speaker and the signal processing circuit is adapted to communicate wirelessly. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.
US07797021B2
A print medium is provided which has a surface provided with first coded data in a linear pattern encoding first information and second coded data in a two-dimensional coordinate grid encoding second information. The first and second information are indicative of a print media identifier linked to a product. The print media identifier is able to be determined using a sensor module of a mobile telecommunications device. The product is retrievable from a database using the print media identifier.
US07797014B2
An apparatus and method for uplink (UL) power control in a broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system are provided. In a communication method for a base station (BS), the channel gain, noise power and speed of each MS are determined, and the maximum allowable power of each mobile station (MS) are calculated using the determined channel gain, noise power and speed of each MS. Because the UL power is controlled according to the speed of the MS and the distance from the BS, the method can provide higher system capacity than the conventional power adaptation scheme.
US07797010B1
Systems and methods for supporting group communications are provided. A group list management server (GLMS) stores communications group definitions in documents, such as extensible mark-up language (XML) documents. The communications group can include communication addresses for different types of communication applications, including electronic mail, voice telephone, data, instant messaging, voice dispatch, short messaging service (SMS), and multimedia service (MMS). Various methods for managing communications groups and features provided for communications groups are provided.
US07797009B2
A method and system for providing a network protocol for utility services are disclosed are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises discovering a utility network, wherein a constant powered meter sends network discovery messages to find the utility network. Neighboring meters are discovered, wherein the constant powered meter sends hello messages periodically. The constant powered meter is registered with the utility network. Further, the battery powered meter finds and associates itself with a constant powered meter. The constant powered meter also registers its associate battery powered meter with the utility network. The constant powered meter sends a node registration message to the gateway of the utility network. The constant powered meter can sense outage problems with the gateway and the neighbors of its network, and search and migrate to an alternate network.
US07797006B2
A method and system for guaranteeing a seamless session when replacing a PoC terminal in a PoC system is provided, in which a currently busy PoC client can be replaced in an existing busy PoC session using a PoC compliant client capable of connecting the PoC session, thereby preventing a transmitted media stream of the running PoC session from being lost when the PoC client is replaced. The method includes transmitting, by an arbitrary PoC user, a message for replacing a terminal from a user terminal to a session management server while maintaining the session; receiving, by the session management server, the replacement request message, and transmitting an INVITE message to a terminal to be replaced, or a target terminal; and receiving, by the target terminal, the INVITE message, and media through an existing session. In a situation where there is a need to replace the PoC terminal according to change of the media for the PoC call, request of mobility, etc. by the PoC user, the user is allowed to make a continuous call. Thus, it is possible to improve QoE of the user and expand the markets for the PoC terminal and its services.
US07796998B1
A method and system for providing a service that delivers location information associated with a caller. The service operates in both wireline and wireless networks, providing called parties with the location information of calling parties who use either stationary terminal devices or mobile devices. The service can operate as a stand alone service or can be a part of a calling name delivery service (or caller-ID service), delivering location information in addition to the conventional name, number, date, and time. The primary components of the present invention include a service control point, an address database in communication with the service control point, and a network that tracks the locations of mobile network users. The system further includes a mapping converter if the location data provided by the network is not meaningful to a subscriber.
US07796989B2
A system and method are disclosed for routing telephone calls directed to a wireless unit located in the wireless network to a landline device located in the landline network. The system utilizes a location register in the form of a service control point (SCP) located in the landline network to store certain information pertaining to landline numbers and respective routing numbers associated with landline devices. The SCP is functionally coupled to a Visitors' Location Register (VLR) as well as to a landline network element that facilitates the routing of communications to both landline devices and over to the MTSO and its associated Home Location Register (HLR) in the wireless network. The system provides for the registering of the wireless unit with the landline network by the dialing of an administrative number from a landline device and causes the VLR in the landline network to directly communicate with the HLR in the wireless network to keep both the landline and the wireless networks up to date as to the registration status and specific routing for the various subscribers. The system is thereby able to route calls efficiently and to alleviate the tromboning effect that often occurs when calls are redirected from a wireless unit to a landline device.
US07796986B2
Methods of compensating for interference in communications in a satellite communications system are provided. At a first radioterminal, a measure of an error in communications received through a first service down-link from a satellite is generated. A communications waveform is identified which causes interference to communications through the first service down-link to the first radioterminal when it is transmitted to a second radioterminal at a frequency that is substantially the same as a frequency of the first service down-link. The measure of the error and a measure of the interfering communications waveform are processed to obtain at least one interference compensation value. The at least one interference compensation value is combined with a waveform that is to be transmitted to the first radioterminal to obtain an interference compensated waveform. The interference compensated waveform is transmitted to the first radioterminal through the first service down-link.
US07796985B2
Information content is nonidentically mapped between service link carriers and feeder link carriers at a cellular satellite. A reduced number of satellite feeder link carriers compared to the number of satellite service link carriers and/or a reduced total bandwidth of the satellite feeder link carriers compared to the satellite service link carriers thereby may be obtained.
US07796982B2
A remote wireless device is provided that operates a user interface specific to a particular target application or device. The wireless device receives information regarding the status or operation of the target's application, and uses that information to determine what information and controls to present to the remote user. The remote user views information regarding the target application, and makes desired control selections using the available controls. The wireless device generates a message according to the control selections, and transmits the message to the target device. The target device acts responsive to the control message, and updated operational information may be sent to the remote wireless device.
US07796979B2
A first wireless device controls its visibility by disabling its discoverable mode or modes upon ascertaining that a second wireless device does not require the first device to be in a discoverable mode in order to establish connections therebetween.
US07796976B2
An example communication mediation apparatus mediates communication between networks and involves receiving a packet, from a first communication device belonging to a network under connection, addressed to a second communication device belonging to another network and calculating expected reception time of a packet transmitted next from the first communication device on the basis of reception history of packets from the first communication device and a traffic parameter that is information concerning a communication traffic determined with the first communication device.
US07796973B2
A method and system for monitoring calls being made from a cellular phone and preventing calls being made to unauthorized numbers, as defined by the owner of the cellular phone. A security challenge is issued to a cell phone user when a suspicious, previously unknown telephone number is attempted to be called. Approved/safe numbers and/or area codes are stored within the phone and/or in a subscriber's account accessible and updated via the Internet. If the user is unable to provide the correct security code in response to the challenge, the user is prevented from making the call to the particular number.
US07796972B2
A method for automatically replenishing vehicle calling units is disclosed herein. The method includes selecting, in response to a user input, a call unit rate plan including parameters designating automatic replenishment of calling units for loading into a telematics unit. A calling plan configuration signal is transmitted to the telematics unit, where the calling plan configuration signal is indicative of the selected call unit rate plan parameters. The telematics unit is configured with the selected call unit rate plan parameters. A current cycle of the rate plan is monitored, via the telematics unit, for its expiration; and the telematics unit determines whether an additional cycle is available in a plan duration upon expiration of the current cycle. If the additional cycle is available, the telematics unit automatically replenishes the calling units to a number of calling units available per cycle upon the expiration of the current cycle.
US07796956B2
A front-end architecture and processing method for a receiver in a multi-antenna, multi-band radio. Band-dependent components for multiple frequency bands are not duplicated in each receive chain. In one embodiment, a first receive chain includes band-dependent components for the first frequency band only. A second receive chain includes band-dependent components for the second frequency band only. The receive chains may be dedicated to particular antennas, or a switch may be utilized to route signals from different antennas to the different band-dependent components. Each receive chain may include band-independent components, or a single set of band-independent components may be utilized for the different receive chains by multiplexing the output of the band-dependent component sections.
US07796954B2
In one exemplary illustrative non-limiting aircraft radio communications system, a “POCI” (“Presence Of Communication Interlock”) is comprised of a double balanced low pass LC filter covering the voice range. The voice signals coming from the two VHF's are filtered and processed by an amplifier at an adequate level to be peak detected. The resulting signal is applied to an amplifier with a defined hysteresis and time constant and finally drives the relay interlock circuit that inhibits an ACARS VHF radio from transmitting whenever other on-board comm. VHF transceivers are receiving voice signals. Visual indicators provide information on system operation and system power failure.
US07796948B2
Performance of a radio device is optimized by estimating if the device is inside a building. One or more sensors on the radio device are used to measure an environmental quantities relating to the environment of the radio device. The likelihood of the radio device being inside a building is inferred from these measurements. The operation of the radio device then is controlled accordingly. For example, if the radio device is determined to be inside a building, a low operating frequency may be selected for the radio device if a wide area network connection is required, while a high operating frequency may be selected if a local connection is required. An environmental quantity may be, for example, a satellite signal, ambient light, temperature, RF energy, or the response to a test signal emitted by the radio device.
US07796943B2
A communications system including: a plurality of sub-surface portable transceivers each including: a digital data source, a modulator coupled to the digital data source, a power amplifier coupled to the modulator and a loop antenna inductively coupled to the power amplifier; and a base transceiver including: an electrically insulated ferrite core antenna for receiving magnetic signals, an electric di-pole antenna for receiving ambient noise, a noise canceller coupled to the insulated ferrite core antenna and electric dipole antenna and responsive to the electric-dipole antenna to filter noise from signals received via the insulated ferrite core antenna, a demodulator coupled to the noise canceller and a decoder coupled to the demodulator.
US07796937B2
To automatically annotate an essay, a sentence of the essay is identified and a feature associated with the sentence is determined. In addition, a probability of the sentence being a discourse element is determined by mapping the feature to a model. The model having been generated by a machine learning application based on at least one annotated essay. Furthermore, the essay is annotated based on the probability.
US07796932B2
A fuser assembly is provided comprising first and second fuser structures, drive apparatus and nip engagement and release apparatus. The first fuser structure comprises a heated rotatable member and first structure for supporting the heated rotatable member. The second fuser structure comprises a rotatable backup member positioned adjacent the heated rotatable member and second structure for supporting the backup member. The rotatable backup member is adapted to define a nip with the heated member. The drive apparatus is associated with one of the heated rotatable member and the backup member for effecting rotation of the one member in a selected first direction or a second direction. The nip engagement and release apparatus comprises nip-loading structure adapted to apply a sufficient force to one of the first and second support structures to achieve a desired nip load in response to the one member rotating in the first direction and decreasing the force to the one support structure to decrease the load at the nip in response to the one member rotating in the second direction. The nip engagement and release apparatus applies and decreases the force without the use of a sensor feedback loop.
US07796928B2
An image forming apparatus which can reduce color shift and image blurring caused by increased temperature in the apparatus and form high-quality images without causing an increase in the cost and size of the apparatus. An image sensor unit reads surface patterns of an intermediate transfer belt. A digital signal processor (DSP) controls the movement of the belt in a transverse direction perpendicular to a moving direction thereof based on the surface patterns of the belt read by the image sensor unit.
US07796921B2
An image forming apparatus includes an electrostatic latent image carrier carrying an electrostatic latent image and a development unit that develops the electrostatic latent image. The development unit includes a developer carrier, first, second, and third developer conveyers, and an opening area. The developer carrier is disposed opposing to the electrostatic latent image carrier. The first developer conveyer supplies a developer to the developer carrier. The second developer conveyer conveys the developer, and transports the developer to the first developer conveyer at a downstream side of the second developer conveyer. The third developer conveyer collects the developer, conveys the developer, and transports the developer to the second developer conveyer in a downstream side of the third developer conveyer. The opening area, disposed higher than a lowermost point of the first developer conveyer, allows the developer to drop from the first developer conveyer to the second developer conveyer.
US07796918B2
There is provided an image forming apparatus in which occurrence of defective cleaning is prevented, replacement is easy, and occurrence of toner spillage can also be prevented. A cleaner unit of an image forming apparatus of the invention includes a cleaning member that is brought into contact with a toner bearing body in order to collect toner from the toner bearing body bearing the toner, a toner removal member to remove the toner from the cleaning member, and a waste toner storage part to store the removed toner, the cleaning member, the toner removal member and the waste toner storage part are integrally constructed into a unit structure, and the unit is constructed to be attachable to and detachable from the toner bearing body or a main body of the image forming apparatus.
US07796913B2
A cleaning station for removing particulate material from a moving web in an electrographic printer/copier includes a customer-replaceable web-cleaner device with a support bracket/backup shoe assembly. The web-cleaner has two wiper blades, including one or more profiled metal blades, each having a distinguishment such that the distinguishment distinguishes one wiper blade from the other wiper blade when the blades are locked into the cleaner sump by springs, to facilitate material removed from the web. The wiper cleaning blades and the cover assembly are easily replaceable by the operator in the correct order.
US07796899B2
An image forming system includes: a computer; an image forming apparatus configured to be coupled to the computer; an inquiry unit which inquires, to the image forming apparatus, about a use status thereof; an acquisition unit which acquires the use status from the image forming apparatus, to which the inquiry unit has inquired; and a display unit which displays the use status acquired by the acquisition unit distinguishably whether the image forming apparatus is controllable by the computer.
US07796897B2
A WDM optical transmission system of the invention: detects an optical waveform of an intensity-modulated optical signal adjacent to a phase-modulated optical signal in a wavelength range; calculates a phase modulation drive waveform for canceling XPM of the phase-modulated optical signal affected by the adjacent intensity-modulated optical signal in the optical transmission path, based on the detected result; and additionally phase-modulates the phase-modulated optical signal synchronously with the adjacent intensity-modulated optical signal, according to the drive waveform, to thereby compensate the XPM. As a result, excellent transmission characteristics can be realized.
US07796883B2
An apparatus, with moving parts, having a flexible circuit configured such that its fatigue life is enhanced. The apparatus includes a first component, a second component, and a positioning mechanism between the first component and the second component. The positioning mechanism enables movement of the first component and the second component between at least a proximate position and a spaced-apart position. Also included between the first component and the second component is a flexible circuit that has a first end coupled to the first component and a second end coupled to the second component. The flexible circuit is configured as a compliant spring that can extend and collapse in a predefined shape when the components are spaced-apart and proximate, respectively.
US07796881B2
A camera module (100), includes a lens holder (120), a lens barrel (110) threaded in the lens holder, a lens (112) received in the lens barrel, and a plurality of resilient elements (148) connecting the lens with the lens barrel. The camera module further includes a plurality of shape memory alloy elements (142) with a preset shape. Each of the shape memory alloy elements includes two ends, one end attached to the lens, and the other attached to the lens holder. The shape memory alloy elements and the resilient elements cooperatively move the lens relative to the lens holder.
US07796880B2
A flash device includes a flash module and a color wheel. The flash module includes a flash lamp and a trigger circuit for triggering the flash lamp. The color wheel includes a color filter disk. The color filter disk includes a number of filter segments, wherein each of the filter segments is capable of being inserted into the light-emitting path of the flash lamp by rotation the color filter disk.
US07796875B2
An exemplary focusing method for enhancing resolution of an optical system is provided. The method includes: focusing on an object and obtaining an image of the object by a lens assembly of the optical system, using a designated point within a motion range of an auto focusing (AF) lens in the lens assembly to calculate; determine a first coordinate and a second coordinate of the AF lens according to resolution of the image; obtaining a direction and distance for positioning the AF lens according to the two coordinates, driving the AF lens to move along the direction of motion, and limiting the range of motion of the AF lens to obtain an optimum focusing location to focus on the object according to the motion distance. A related system is also provided.
US07796873B2
An anti-shake apparatus (an image-stabilization apparatus) of a photographing device comprises a movable unit and a controller. The movable unit has an imaging device and is movable and rotatable for an anti-shake operation. The controller controls the movable unit for the anti-shake operation. The controller calculates a hand-shake angle caused by roll. The controller controls whether the anti-shake operation is performed for correcting hand-shake caused by roll, on the basis of the hand-shake angle caused by roll.
US07796872B2
Methods and apparatus for electronically stabilizing an image captured by a device including a motion detection unit are provided. In one implementation, the method includes capturing a first exposure of the image, and capturing a second exposure of the image including using the motion detection unit to ensure that the second exposure of the image has a pre-determined blur property. The second exposure is longer than the first exposure. The method further includes combining the second exposure of the image having the pre-determined blur property and the first exposure of the image to electronically stabilize the image captured by the device.
US07796869B2
A portable photobooth system includes a frame, fabric, a movable curtain, and a digital camera. The frame includes a plurality of tubular members configured to be connected together and capable of disassembly for storage and transport. The plurality of tubular members of the frame includes a substantially vertically-extending first bar and a U-shaped fitting attached to the first bar. The fabric covers at least portions of the frame to define a rectangular box-like enclosure having a doorway. The movable curtain is configured for covering the doorway. The digital camera is supported by the U-shaped fitting.
US07796867B2
A drive circuit of a fan motor is provided. In an embodiment of the drive circuit, a first PWM comparator compares a temperature detection voltage with a cyclic voltage, and outputs a first PWM signal. A second PWM comparator compares a minimum frequency setting voltage indicating a minimum frequency of the fan motor, with the cyclic voltage, and outputs a second PWM signal. The drive circuit combines the first PWM signal and the second PWM signal by a logical operation, to drive the fan motor. The drive circuit includes a first logic gate which generates a logical sum of the first PWM signal and the second PWM signal, and a second logic gate which generates a logical product of the first PWM signal and an inverted signal of the second PWM signal. The drive circuit switches drive mode based on the first logic gate and the second logic gate.
US07796864B2
An information storage medium including AV data; presentation graphics data including subtitle information corresponding to the AV data; and interactive graphics data including menu data; wherein the interactive graphics data further includes a reproducing state change navigation command to change the reproducing state of the AV data and/or the presentation graphics data.
US07796858B2
A mix mode multimedia player having audio scenery and video scenery thereof being controlled individually comprises a playback manager module, and a presentation engine module. The playback manager module for generating audio-format play list, video-format play list, and audio-video interlaced-format play list according to user settings. The user settings includes a plurality of media file's names that user desires to play. The presentation engine module has an audio scene state machine, and a video scene state machine, wherein the presentation engine module provides corresponding play sequences to the audio scene state machine, and the video scene state machine. Furthermore, the audio scene state machine can thus play the media files with audio format and said video scene state machine can thus play said media files with video format. Accordingly, while the media files with audio format playing is forced to “stop” or “pause”, the video scene state machine is not disturbed, while said media files with video format playing be forced to “stop” or “pause”, said audio scene state machine is not disturbed.
US07796857B2
A video playback apparatus includes: video data inputting unit; a ranking data inputting/generating unit that inputs or generates ranking data where scenes in video data are ranked according to importance; a playback scene determination parameter inputting unit that inputs parameters when determining scenes to be played back according to importance; a playback scene determining unit that determines playback scenes based on ranking data and playback scene determination parameters; and a display unit that displays playback scenes. A viewing time of video data that the user desires and a maximum time width of each playback scene are inputted to the playback scene determination parameter inputting unit, and the playback scene determining unit cuts scenes so that the playback time of the playback scenes fits the maximum time width, and determines the playback scenes so that the sum of the playback time of the playback scenes fits within the viewing time.
US07796855B2
An electro-optic waveguide device comprising an electro-optic polymer core and at least one crosslinked polymer clad, wherein the crosslinked polymer clad is comprised of a first constitutional unit derived from a compound having the formula wherein, m=0-6; n=0-1; q=1-3; y=0-3; Ar1 is an aryl or heteroaryl group; and independently at each occurrence p=0-1; R is an alkyl, heteroalkyl, aryl, or heteroaryl group; Ar2 is an aryl or heteroaryl group; and X is a crosslinkable group. The R group may be an alkyl or heteroalkyl group with at least 6 atoms in a straight chain. In some embodiments, the R group is an alkoxy capped oligoalkylene group. Other embodiments include a polymer comprising a first constitutional unit derived from a compound having the formula described above.
US07796846B2
An optical integrated device comprises a substrate and a waveguide formed on a surface of the substrate. The waveguide includes a lower clad layer, a core layer formed on the lower clad layer and having a refractive index greater than that of the lower clad layer, and an upper clad layer formed on the core layer and having a refractive index smaller than that of the core layer. The waveguide further includes a straight waveguide part and a bending waveguide part curved in a plane parallel to the surface of the substrate. The lower clad layer in the bending waveguide part projects from the substrate by a projection height greater than that of the lower clad layer in the straight waveguide part.
US07796842B2
An AC-coupled differential drive circuit for an optical modulator is utilized, where a common “node” is defined between top (or bottom) plates of the modulator arms themselves (the “arms” of a modulator taking the form of MOS capacitors). A low pass filter is disposed between the differential driver output and the modulator's common node to provide the desired AC coupling by filtering out the DC bias voltage of the driver circuit itself without the need for a separate, external AC coupling capacitor. An independent, adjustable DC potential can then be applied to the common node, and will appear in a balanced manner across each arm of the modulator to provide the desired DC bias for the modulator independent of the DC bias of the driver circuit.
US07796841B2
An apparatus which can acquire, readout and perceive a scene based on the insertion, or etching of photosensitive elements into or on a transparent or semi-transparent substrate such as glass. The substrate itself acts as the optical device which deflects the photons incident to the reflected image into the photosensitive elements. Photosensitive elements are interconnected together by a transparent or opaque wiring. A digital neural memory can be trained to recognize specific scenery such as a human face, an incoming object, a surface defect, rain drops on a windshield and more. Other applications include image-perceptive car headlight and flat panel display detecting and identifying the viewer's behavior (gaze tracking, face recognition, facial expression recognition and more). Yet another application includes sliding doors perceiving the direction and speed of an individual coming towards that door. Yet another application includes permanent damage detection (texture change) in dam, bridge or other manmade construction.
US07796840B2
An image processing apparatus having an image sensing unit and a subject detection unit for performing a process of detecting a subject in an image inputted from said image sensing unit, has a detection size operation unit that sets a resolution of a target object to be detected by the subject detection unit, and an image conversion unit that converts a resolution of the input image, based on the resolution of the target object set by the detection size operation unit. The subject detection unit performs the process of detecting the subject in the image whose resolution has been converted by the image conversion unit.
US07796839B2
A method of detecting the orientation of a radiographic image represented by a digital signal representation wherein mathematical moments of the digital signal representation are calculated relative to different reference entities and wherein a decision on the orientation of the radiographic image, for example the position of the thorax edge in a mammographic image, is obtained on the basis of an extreme value (minimum, maximum) of the calculated moments.
US07796836B2
The present embodiments provide methods and systems for use in transforming content, such as multimedia content. Some embodiments provide method for use in image compression. These methods receive digital image data comprising a plurality of pixel data, separate the plurality of pixel data of the digital image data according to color components, condense the pixel data of the same color component defining a plurality of condensed pixel data each corresponding with a color component, cooperate the condensed pixel data defining representative image data, and transform the representative image data.
US07796828B2
An apparatus for filtering malicious multimedia data using sequential processing and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes: a maliciousness classification model training unit extracting a predetermined feature from at least one or more types of moving pictures and then, through machine training, generating a maliciousness determination model for each of at least one or more classes; a malicious data classification unit sequentially inputting input moving pictures for which maliciousness is required to be determined, to the maliciousness determination model, and determining the maliciousness class of the input moving pictures, based on a probability that data at a determination time of the input moving pictures belongs to a predetermined maliciousness class, and an accumulated maliciousness probability to a current time; and a malicious information filtering unit cutting off service if the maliciousness class belongs to a predetermined reference maliciousness class.
US07796827B2
A method performed by a processing system is provided. The method comprises processing a first plurality of pixel values associated with a first face in a first frame of a digital video to generate a first enhanced pixel value, filtering the first enhanced pixel value to generate a first filtered value, and re-mapping at least the first plurality of pixel values with a first plurality of interpolated values generated from the first enhanced pixel value and the first filtered value.
US07796822B2
An analysis and classification tool compares at least a portion of a captured image and a reference image of nominally the same scene. One of the captured and reference images is taken with flash and the other is taken without flash. The tool provides a measure of the difference in illumination between the captured image and the reference image. The tool compares the measure with a threshold and segments a foreground region from a background region based on the measure.
US07796814B2
An imaging device includes a sensor having a cell layout having a plurality of chromatic color pixels and high-sensitivity pixels having higher sensitivity to incident light than the chromatic color pixels arranged in a checkerboard pattern, a white balance block that normalizes the pixel output from the sensor with respect to the chromatic color pixels or the high-sensitivity pixels, a pixel interpolation block that performs interpolation on the phase where a chromatic color pixel is present by interpolating the other lacking colors, and a noise reduction block that is situated between the white balance block and the pixel interpolation block, and performs interpolation on phases of the chromatic color pixels based on the signal component of the high-sensitivity pixels so as to suppress noise in the chromatic color pixels.
US07796809B1
A remote 3-D imaging system which uses a novel angular relationship to establish the relationship of the image features to the system, which is displayed by virtue of calculations. In addition to static surfaces, moving surfaces may be studied and corrections due to turbidity and platform position are also easily compensated for. A pre-test module is also included which predicts and has the ability to re-adjust the instrumentation to the test conditions as predicted by a hybrid Monte Carlo model. The instant system may also contain a plurality of sensing systems based on light, including traditional reflective or elastic scattering and novel fluorescent or non elastic scattering still and video imaging systems, including time-gated systems.
US07796806B2
The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for removing at least singlet and couplet defects from images taken by the electronic device using a second rank order detection and correction mechanism for removing these at least singlet and couplet defects.
US07796803B2
A technique for correcting an image by using frequency division images and decomposition images corresponding in number to reference points is disclosed. An image correction apparatus includes an image divider which divides an inspection reference image into frequency regions to form frequency division images, a decomposition image generator for defining reference points at several locations within at least one frequency division image and for applying weighting with each reference point as a reference to thereby generate decomposition images corresponding in number to the reference points, a model parameter identifier for identifying a model parameter by using 2D linear prediction models of an image being tested, the decomposition images and a frequency division image which is out of the generation of decomposition images, and a model image generator for using the model parameter to generate a model image. An image inspection apparatus using the correction apparatus and an image correction method are also disclosed.
US07796796B2
A controller of an image-generating medical engineering assembly receives a selection of an image valuation method from a user. It subsequently automatically adjusts selection-specific, positioning-independent operating parameters of the recording arrangement and or provides the user with instructions for adjusting the positioning-independent operating parameters. In response to a user's start input the controller captures by means of a recording arrangement of the image-generating medical engineering assembly a sequence of successive two-dimensional images of an iteratively moving object being examined and capturing instants thereof as well as a phase signal of the object being examined and archives the sequence of images, capturing instants and the phase signal.
US07796790B2
A scanner (18) acquires images of a subject. A 3D model (52) of an organ is selected from an organ model database (50) and dropped over an image of an actual organ. A best fitting means (62) globally scales, translates and/or rotates the model (52) to best fit the actual organ represented by the image. A user uses a mouse (38) to use a set of manual tools (68) to segment and manipulate the model (52)1:o match the image data. The set of tools (68) includes: a Gaussian tool (72) for deforming a surface portion of the model along a Gaussian curve, a spherical push tool (80) for deforming the surface portion along a spherical surface segment, and a pencil tool (90) for manually drawing a line to which the surface portion is redefined.
US07796780B2
A technique for video processing includes: receiving video from an overhead view of a scene; detecting moving pixels in the video; detecting line segments in the video based on detected moving pixels; identifying targets in the video based on the detected line segments; tracking targets in the video based on the identified targets; and managing tracked targets in the video.
US07796777B2
A digital watermarking system and method is provided. The digital watermarking system mainly includes a storing unit (30), a text obtaining module (31), a dot matrix determining module (32), an encrypting module (33), and a storing module (34). The storing unit is for storing text information, the text information including one or more dot matrix files. The text obtaining module is for obtaining one dot matrix file to be watermarked from the storing unit. The dot matrix file includes plural dot matrixes, each of which has a matrix margin and includes plural pixels. The dot matrix determining module is for earmarking the dot matrix to be adjusted to obtain a watermark. The encrypting module is for adjusting the matrix margin of the earmarked dot matrix. The storing module is for storing watermarked text information in the storing unit. Related methods are provided.
US07796763B2
Aspects of the invention provide a method and system for securely managing the storage and retrieval of data. Securely managing the storage and retrieval of data may include receiving a first disaster recovery code and acquiring a first password corresponding to the first disaster recovery code. A first disaster recovery key may be generated based on the first disaster recovery code and the first password. Another aspect of the invention may also include generating the received first disaster recovery code based on said first password and the first disaster recovery key. The generated disaster recovery code may be securely stored on at least a portion of a storage device or a removable media. Data stored on the storage device may be encrypted using the first generated disaster recovery key. Additionally, data read from the storage device may be decrypted using the generated first disaster recovery key.
US07796761B2
A system to exchange and authenticate public cryptographic keys between parties that share a common but secret password, using a pair of random numbers, a pair of Diffie-Hellman public keys computed from the random numbers and the password, a Diffie-Hellman symmetric secret key computed from the Diffie-Hellman public keys and the random numbers, and hashed values of arguments that depend upon these elements.
US07796759B2
A method and a circuit of generation of several secret quantities by an integrated circuit according to the destination of these secret quantities, including taking into account a first digital word forming a single identifier of the integrated circuit chip and coming from a physical parameter network, and of individualizing this identifier according to the application.
US07796754B2
An information recording and/or reproduction processing apparatus is provided. The information recording and/or reproduction processing apparatus is provided by which additional information such as copy protection information is recorded as encrypted data on an information recording medium and also a cryptographic key is recorded such that the difficulty in analysis thereof is promoted. Where additional information such as copy protection information is encrypted and recorded and also a cryptographic key for the encrypted additional information is recorded together, a seed is generated based on an error correction code set corresponding to the additional information. Then, a scrambling or bit position conversion process in which random numbers generated based on the seed are applied is executed for the cryptographic key data, and resulting cryptographic key data is recorded on an information recording medium. Upon such recording, the additional information is recorded as pit information while the cryptographic key data is recorded as wobble data. The cryptographic key has an increased difficulty in analysis and allows achievement of an efficient data reproduction process.
US07796752B2
In some embodiments of the present invention, a method and apparatus to perform at least one of a confidentiality algorithm and an integrity algorithm comprising an output from a partial KASUMI block cipher.
US07796737B2
An x-ray tube includes a cathode positioned within a vacuum chamber and configured to emit electrons. The x-ray tube includes an anode positioned within the vacuum chamber to receive electrons emitted from the cathode and configured to generate a beam of x-rays from the electrons, a window positioned to pass the beam of x-rays therethrough, and an electron collector structure attached to the x-ray tube having an aperture formed therethrough to allow passage of x-rays therethrough. The aperture is shaped to prevent diffracted x-rays from combining with the beam of x-rays passing through the window.
US07796735B2
A detector panel having therein an X-ray detector, a signal processing circuit for interface, and a battery for power supply, the detector panel includes a first signal processing circuit for processing the detection signals from the X-ray detector, a second signal processing circuit for processing the output signal from the first signal processing circuit, a first power supply circuit for adjusting the output voltage of the battery by means of switching regulation, to supply the output to the second signal processing circuit, a second power supply circuit for adjusting the output voltage of the first power supply circuit by means of switching regulation, to supply the output to the X-ray detector and the first signal processing circuit, and a switching circuit for switching the configuration of the second power supply circuit between a single connection of one linear regulator and a series connection of two linear regulator.
US07796733B2
The present invention is directed towards processing security images of people subjected to X-ray radiation. The present invention processes a generated image by dividing the generated image into at least two regions or mask images, separately processing the at least two regions of the image, and viewing the resultant processed region images either alone or as a combined image.
US07796729B2
A radiotherapy chamber is provided that comprises a substantially air-tight enclosure adapted to accept a patient; a radiation source disposed inside the enclosure; a patient support system disposed inside the enclosure and in working arrangement with the radiation source; and a screw compressor and an outlet flow modulator fluidly connected to the enclosure. A method for treatment of a subject in need thereof using the radiation chamber is also provided.
US07796726B1
An X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence instrument for analyzing samples having no sample preparation includes a X-ray source configured to output a collimated X-ray beam comprising a continuum spectrum of X-rays to a predetermined coordinate and a photon-counting X-ray imaging spectrometer disposed to receive X-rays output from an unprepared sample disposed at the predetermined coordinate upon exposure of the unprepared sample to the collimated X-ray beam. The X-ray source and the photon-counting X-ray imaging spectrometer are arranged in a reflection geometry relative to the predetermined coordinate.
US07796724B2
An X-ray fluoroscopic system which is capable of highly accurately performing tilting tracking or rotational tracking by a simple operation in an observation work without inputting a distance from the surface of a table and an observed point of an object of fluoroscopy and without performing a calibration operation for obtaining the distance in advance. The X-ray fluoroscopic system having a tracking function of obtaining a moving amount of the table, which is necessary for performing tilting or rotational tracking, and moving the table, based on an arithmetic operation using a distance h obtained by totalizing a distance d from the surface of the table to an observed point V, and a distance z from the surface of the table to an X-ray focal point 1a, a defined value or arbitrary input value is used as an initial value of the distance h, and a shift amount of the observed point V occurred from tracking is used to update the distance h by specifying the observed point V on a screen after tracking, thereby tilt (rotation) tracking accuracy is gradually improved.
US07796723B2
In a known type of tomosynthesis x-ray source and x-ray detector are linearly moved and x-rays images are taken for a large number of positions, the images being reconstructed to give a 3D image record. According to the invention x-ray source and x-ray detector are swiveled and a sequence of x-rays is subsequently taken again, x-ray source and x-ray detector again being moved in a straight line. One drawback of simple tomosynthesis with movement in a straight line is suppressed thereby, the drawback being that the quality of reconstruction is particularly poor in a certain direction.
US07796722B2
A quantum detector module for the quantitative and energy-resolved determination of quantum absorption events, a quantum detector, a method for determining quantum absorption events, a computer program product and a radiation detection device are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the quantum detector module includes a multiplicity of detector pixels. In order to determine the quantum absorption events particularly precisely, in at least one embodiment it is provided that the detector pixels have at least two mutually different pixel apertures.
US07796718B2
A MIMO Decision Feedback Equalizer improves operation of a receiver by canceling the spatio-temporal interference effects caused by the Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) channel memory with a set of Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters in both the feed-forward and the feedback MIMO filters. The coefficients of these FIR filters can be fashioned to provide a variety of controls by the designer.
US07796697B2
A channel equalizer includes an overlap unit, an estimator, a calculator, a compensator, and a save unit. The overlap unit overlaps a group of data packets in a broadcast signal. The group data packets include a head, a body, and a tail, and a known data sequence is periodically included in the body. The estimator estimates a CIR of each data region the body using the known data sequence, and it further estimates CIRs of data regions in the head or tail using the CIRs obtained for the data regions in the body. The calculator calculates equalization coefficients based on the CIRs estimated by the estimator, and the compensator compensates channel distortion of the overlapped data using the equalization coefficients. The save unit saves the compensated data.
US07796688B2
A radio receiver for receiving a signal is provided. The radio receiver comprises an equalizer configured to perform a constant modulus algorithm initialized using a first set of coefficients on the received signal and for generating an equalized signal. The radio receiver further comprises a demodulator coupled to the equalizer for demodulating the equalized signal. The radio receiver further comprises a lowpass filter coupled to the demodulator for lowpass filtering the demodulated signal to detect a spurious signal and to generate an offset signal. The radio receiver further comprises a coefficient generator coupled to the lowpass filter and configured to compare the offset signal to a predetermined threshold, and if the offset signal satisfies a predetermined condition in relation to the predetermined threshold, then to generate a second set of coefficients for re-initializing the constant modulus algorithm.
US07796685B2
Systems and method for minimum power leakage windowing for VDSL using least squares technique are provided. A coefficient vector is defined for the first N samples. The window is then defined in terms of this coefficient vector. The leakage power of the Kth tone is defined in terms of the window. A least squares minimization is performed on the leakage power to determine the optimal value of x. The window is implemented using this value of x, thereby reducing the power leakage in the out-of-band and RFI band regions in the frequency domain.
US07796682B2
A transceiver system is disclosed that includes a plurality of transceiver chips. Each transceiver chip includes one or more SERDES cores. Each SERDES core includes one or more SERDES lanes. Each SERDES lane includes a receive channel and a transmit channel. The transmit channel of each SERDES lane is phase-locked with a corresponding receive channel. The transceiver system has the capability of phase-locking a transmit clock signal phase of a transmitting component with a receive clock signal phase of a receiving component that is a part of a different SERDES lane, a different SERDES core, a different substrate, or even a different board. Each SERDES core receives and transmits data to and from external components connected to the SERDES core, such as hard disk drives. A method of transferring data from a first external component coupled to a receive channel to a second external component coupled to a transmit channel is also disclosed.
US07796681B1
A receiver in a MIMO-OFDM system may process OFDM symbols received on a number (MR) of receive antennas. The system may utilize a MIMO-OFDM frame format that includes additional long training OFDM symbols, for training additional antennas and for link adaptation, and a header with an additional SIGNAL symbol to indicate MIMO-OFDM-specific information.
US07796679B2
A rake receiver includes impulse response measurement means and path allocation means for allocating paths to rake fingers in dependence on the output of the impulse response measurement means, wherein the path allocating means is configured to compare the magnitudes of pairs of peaks, represented in the output of the impulse response measurement means, and ignore the lesser member of a pair for the allocation of paths to rake fingers, if the magnitudes of the pair differ in a predetermined manner so as to exclude spurious paths, the pairs having peaks temporally separated by a period characteristic of the separation of main and side lobes of filters for producing the baseband pulse shape expected by the receiver are used for the allocation of the paths to the rake fingers.
US07796673B2
Apparatus and methods for altering one or more spectral, spatial, or temporal characteristics of a light-emitting device are disclosed. Generally, such apparatus may include a volume Bragg grating (VBG) element that receives input light generated by a light-emitting device, conditions one or more characteristics of the input light, and causes the light-emitting device to generate light having the one or more characteristics of the conditioned light.
US07796671B2
Anisotropic crystals such as Nd:YVO4, Nd:YLF, and Nd:GdVO4 have become preferred gain materials for many laser applications. The anisotropic gain medium without ancillary compensation ensures there is no degradation of laser modes when passing through the gain medium. An optical power amplifier that incorporates an anisotropic gain medium achieves power scaling with multiple passes while also maintaining good mode matching between the laser and the pump during each pass. Preferred embodiments implement for multiple passes of a seed laser beam through an anisotropic gain medium with substantially zero angular beam displacement during each pass. The multi-pass system provides an economical, reliable method of achieving high TEM00 power to meet the demands of micromachining, via drilling, and harmonic conversion applications.
US07796666B2
A structure has a photonic crystal layer comprising a first member made of a material having a first refractive index; and a second member made of a material having a second refractive index, wherein the first member has a plurality of holes periodically arranged, and the second member is placed in each of the holes so that a center of the second member is staggered from a center of the hole on a plane of the photonic crystal layer.
US07796660B2
The three-dimensional photonic crystal light emitting device includes a three-dimensional photonic crystal, and a defect forming a resonator in the three-dimensional photonic crystal. In the three-dimensional photonic crystal, an N-cladding layer formed of an N-type semiconductor, an active layer disposed inside the resonator, a P-cladding layer formed of a P-type semiconductor, a tunnel junction layer, and a first N-conductive layer formed of a first N-type conductor are arranged in this order. Electric conductivity of the first N-type conductor is higher than that of the P-type semiconductor. The light emitting device achieves high carrier injection efficiency and a high optical confinement effect.
US07796658B2
A circuit for driving a semiconductor laser including a semiconductor integrated circuit, which controls the drive of the semiconductor laser, and is connected to one end of the semiconductor laser. Moreover, the driving circuit incorporates a first power source +Vcc that supplies by way of the semiconductor integrated circuit a drive voltage to one end of the semiconductor laser and a second power source −Vcc, which is connected to the other end of the semiconductor laser and supplies a drive voltage to the other end. Furthermore, the drive circuit incorporates a voltage clamp circuit, connected to a connection terminal connecting the semiconductor laser and the semiconductor integrated circuit, for adjusting the electric potential of the connection terminal.
US07796650B2
A direct way to measure network delay of a packet switched network uses a ping signal injected into the voice stream at a source telephone. The ping signal travels together with the voice stream to a destination telephone. The destination telephone detects the ping signal and returns it to the source telephone through the packet switched network. The source telephone detects the return ping signal sent by the destination telephone and calculates the network delay between the two telephones based on the difference between the time of transmitting the ping signal and the time of detecting the return ping signal. As the ping signal travels in the same path as the voice stream, the network delay between the two telephones is calculated directly and accurately.
US07796643B1
A call processing system in a destination network associated with a destination signaling protocol comprises an interface configured to receive first signaling for a call placed by a user from a device in a source network, wherein the first signaling indicates a source signaling protocol associated with the source network, and a processor configured to determine a status for the call, determine an event by which the status is conveyed to the user based on the status, determine a parameter based on the event and the source signaling protocol, and generate second signaling indicating the parameter.
US07796633B2
A range equalization transceiver system (100) for increasing efficiency of a continuous duty communications link includes a first transceiver (105) for transmitting data traffic over a broadband traffic channel and a second transceiver (107) for determining routing information using a discovery channel based on link quality. A controller (103) is used for interpreting routing information from the second transceiver (107) where the controller (103) selects a transmitting scheme based on data traffic conditions on both the broadband traffic channel and link quality channel for sending data over a wireless network.
US07796630B2
A method estimates interim channels in a two-hop multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) amplify-and-forward (AF) relay network including a source station (SS), a relay station (RS), and a destination station (DS). The estimate is according to the overall channel obtained at the DS or the SS. By varying an amplifying matrix of the RS over time, the method establishes a linear equation group with respect to the elements of the interim channels over the first (SS-RS) and second (RS-SS) hops, based on which low-complexity estimation of the interim channels is performed.
US07796625B2
A system and method for purging data packets in a network is provided. The method in one aspect includes monitoring an outbound queue for one or more selected packets to be pulled from the outbound queue. The method may further include waiting for a predetermined amount of time for the selected packets to enter a retry queue and monitoring the retry queue for the selected packets to be pulled from the retry queue. The method may also include determining if the selected packets pulled from the retry queue meet one or more specified criteria and purging the selected packets if the specified criteria is met. The method may further include returning to the step of monitoring an outbound queue if another purge signal is received.
US07796612B2
A network switch and a method thereof for network communications include a first data port interface and a second data port interface supporting a data port transmitting and receiving data at a first data rate and a second data rate, respectively. The switch has a CPU interface to communicate with a CPU and a memory management unit to communicate data from at least one of the first and second data port interfaces and a memory. The switch includes a communication channel communicating data and messaging information between the first and second data port interfaces and the memory management unit and lookup tables, including an address resolution lookup table and a VLAN table. The first or second data port interfaces determine an egress port for an incoming data packet from a search of the address resolution lookup table and the VLAN table using a VLAN ID from the incoming data packet.
US07796607B2
Example scalable multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) based virtual private networks (VPNs) and methods to implement the same are disclosed. A disclosed example spoke provider edge (PE) router for an MPLS-based VPN includes a truncated virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) table containing a first value referencing a hub PE router and a second value referencing a first customer edge (CE) router coupled to the VPN via the PE router, and a forwarding module to forward a packet received from the first CE router to the hub PE router when the packet contains an address referencing a second CE router coupled to the VPN via a second spoke PE router.
US07796587B2
Methods and apparatus for processing a plurality of sets of routing information received from corresponding ones of a plurality of neighbor nodes connectable to a router, the router having a plurality of memory units accessible via separate paths. The method comprises creating a respective plurality of non-identical routing information subsets from each of at least one of the received sets of routing information; accessing the plurality of memory units via the separate access paths; and storing the plurality of non-identical routing information subsets created from a given one of said received sets of routing information in respective ones of the plurality of memory units. By providing a distributed memory architecture for storing routing information, an increase in a router's memory requirements can be met by increasing the number of memory units.
US07796584B2
A gateway apparatus for conducting connection between different types of communication networks, that are a line-switched network and a packet-switched network, there are provided a method and an apparatus in which sound breaks otherwise caused by delay or loss of speech encoded data is eliminated and deterioration of the speech quality is minimized to assure short delay in speech communication. A speech data processing circuit of the gateway apparatus compares the number of speech encoded data actually acquired with an expected value. The speech data processing circuit packetizes the so generated speech encoded data, along with the speech encoded data, to send the packetized data from a transmission circuit to the packet-switched network. The resulting data is sent from a data multiplexing circuit and a line-switched network terminating circuit to the line-switched network.
US07796580B1
A system and method of routing communication signals is provided. A first technique uses a packet switched device that operates using Internet Protocol, the packet switched device determines one or more commands based on a routing request to establish, maintain, restore or breakdown one or more communication paths and a circuit switched device that provides physical switching between a plurality of ports based on the one or more commands from the packet switched device. A second technique for expediting error condition information is also provided. As various error conditions are recognized, information relating to the error conditions is provided directly to the packet switched device to enable the packet switched device to restore communications with minimal delay.
US07796573B2
A terminal for operation within an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio system wherein the system includes a series of radio terminals forming a service group. The terminal having a transceiver for communicating with terminals in the same service group, computer means, and memory for storing program software. Within the system, the terminal establishes a connection with one radio terminal based on time-division access; initiating an outgoing call from the radio terminal including registering with another radio terminal for serving as a node in the call connection by transmitting a registration request; and initially transmitting said registration request on a last time slot (TS) of a respective time frame (TF), said last time slot serving as a configuration channel.
US07796555B2
The present invention relates to a handover method that a current coordinator transfers a coordinating function of controlling a network to a different device configuring the network. The present invention relates to a method of selecting an optimal device as a coordinator in selecting the different device using priority information decided by a prescribed evaluation reference. And, the present invention relates to a method of simplifying a procedure in a manner of transmitting relevant information together with a handover request message. In a wireless network including a coordinator, a secondary coordinator is decided in advance. If the coordinator is suddenly unable to perform a function, the present invention relates to a method of enabling the function of the coordinator to be performed by the decided secondary coordinator. Thus, a process for transferring the coordinating function without the handover process is called a recovery process. The present invention relates to the recovery method and a method of deciding a secondary coordinator to perform a recovery. In the method of deciding the secondary coordinator, a method of deciding a more proper coordinator using information on coordinator priority is provided.
US07796550B2
Method and apparatus for packet scheduling in a wireless network is described. First values for a data transmission rate are measured for each of a plurality of mobile stations over time. Second values for a function of the data transmission rate are computed using at least one of the first values for each of the mobile stations. A rate of change of the data transmission rate is computed for each of the plurality of mobile stations using the second values associated therewith. A stability of the data transmission rate is computed for each of the plurality of mobile stations using the second values associated therewith. A channel quality factor is determined for each of the mobile stations using a current value of the second values, the rate of change of the function, and the stability of the function associated therewith.
US07796549B2
Schemes to time-align transmissions from multiple base stations to a terminal. To achieve time-alignment, differences between the arrival times of transmissions from the base stations, as observed at the terminal, are determined and provided to the system and used to adjust the timing at the base stations such that terminal-specific radio frames arrive at the terminal within a particular time window. In one scheme, a time difference between two base stations is partitioned into a frame-level time difference and a chip-level time difference. Whenever requested to perform and report time difference measurements, the terminal measures the chip-level timing for each candidate base station relative to a reference base station. Additionally, the terminal also measures the frame-level timing and includes this information in the time difference measurement only if required. Otherwise, the terminal sets the frame-level part to a predetermined value (e.g., zero).
US07796547B2
Methods and apparatus for notifying mobile stations in an inactive state of the presence of uplink or downlink channel configuration, broadcast system updates, traffic channel allocations and paging messages are provided. The notification can be provided in an information element in the same channel as the frame, or in a different channel. The information element identifies a subsequent frame which includes broadcast or configuration changes. The notifications for traffic channel allocations can include a first field, which identifies whether there are any traffic channel allocations for any sleep mode mobile station, and a second field for identifying the particular sleep mode mobile stations which are to receive traffic channel allocations. Notifications for paging messages can include a field, which identifies whether there are any paging messages for any idle mode mobile stations, and use second field to identify the particular idle mode mobile stations, which are to receive the paging messages.
US07796539B2
In a network having nodes, N nodes are members of a virtual communications ring for multicast communication among the N Nodes, each of the N Nodes being associated with only an upstream and a downstream one of the other N nodes. One of the N nodes manages changes in ring membership, including requesting the others of the N nodes to participate in measuring distances to a N+1th, node responsive to receiving an insertion request message. The manager node inserts the N+1th node in the communications ring responsive to receiving replies, which includes inserting the N+1th node in a selected location between two selected ones of the N Nodes, such that the N nodes and the N+1th node are enabled to multicast messages around the ring. Due to the selected location of the N+1th node, communication distances for multicasted messages tend to be shorter than such distances that would otherwise occur.
US07796537B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first link state initiation (HELLO) message from a first neighboring router. The HELLO message requests that a recipient node send a unique identifier for itself in a link state routing protocol. In response to receiving the first HELLO message, a first response message is sent that includes a first identifier from an identifier pool. The identifier pool contains for a local node a plurality of network identifiers that are unique among all nodes in the network that uses the link state routing protocol. A second HELLO message is received from a different second neighboring router. In response to receiving the second HELLO message, a second response message is sent that includes a different second identifier from the identifier pool.
US07796536B2
A method to dynamically reconfigure a network by receiving a data packet for transmission from a node in the network at a media access control layer of the node and determining a slot assignment for the data packet based on an application required quality of service. The application required quality of service is determined based on at least one of a number of slots required by the data packet, an application-specified data rate, an application-specified delay requirement and an application-specified number of reserved retries, and application-associated priority values for the data packet. The media access control layer is enabled for time division multiple access.
US07796533B2
An apparatus and method for bandwidth control is provided to keep the bandwidth more stable. The apparatus includes an interval signal generator, a storage unit, and a control circuit. The interval signal generator outputs a plurality of interval signals which are evenly or approximately evenly distributed over a time interval. The value of the storage unit corresponds to a transmittable data size. The control circuit adjusts the value of the storage unit according to the interval signals.
US07796532B2
A device and method provides a means for monitoring a media segment of a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) media stream without interfering with end-to-end monitoring of the RTP media stream. The device includes a media segment monitor to generate segment control messages associated with a selected segment of the RTP media stream transmitted between a source endpoint and a destination endpoint in a packet network. The device further includes an interface to transmit and receive the segment control messages; and a processor to process the segment control messages, the segment control messages including call quality metrics related to the selected segment of the RTP media stream.
US07796525B2
An apparatus for switching connectivity of fans to be sensed includes a primary control board (2) and a secondary control board (4). The secondary control board is connected to the primary control board via sensing lines (3) and control lines (5), and connected to the fans via sensing lines. The secondary control board includes a control circuit (41) that includes a counter, and a switch circuit (42) that includes two data selectors each of which has a channel selection port, input ends and an output end. The channel selection port is connected to an output port of the counter for determining which fan is to be sensed. The input ends are connected to the fans to be sensed in one-to-one correspondence. The output end is connected to the primary control board via one of the sensing lines. A method for switching connectivity of fans to be sensed is also disclosed.
US07796511B2
The embodiment discloses a connection oriented packet network using an MPLS-type label switching technology. The network uses a very fast hardware-oriented self-routing protocol that can expose a path right-of-way and program a connection between a calling and called party at wire speed. The embodiment requires no provisioning and is well suited for mobile and ad-hoc networks. The system and method taught can be applied to other data networks where performance guarantees are important.
US07796506B2
Ethernet hardware is configured to realize a load balancing network by using Ethernet bridging hardware that is VLAN-aware.
US07796505B2
The present invention concerns a method of processing traffic data in Layer 2 of a wireless communications system, whereby the MAC layer is arranged, after receipt of a traffic data volume report from the RLC layer, to process said data volume report and to then issue an acknowledgement message to the RLC layer. The method ensures that the RLC and MAC layers are synchronized with respect to traffic data processing. The MAC layer may be arranged to issue an acknowledgement to the RLC layer only where it determines from processing a data volume report that the RLC layer is not permitted to transmit data in a next or subsequent corresponding TTI. The present invention also concerns a process for data discard in a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer of a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) wireless communications system such as a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). The process involves, responsive to thetriggering of a data discard operation, determining whether the RLC layer is permitted to transmit data. Where it is determined that the RLC layer is not permitted to transmit data in a next or subsequent TTI, the method includes the step of informing the RLC layer that data is not required.
US07796496B2
Plural grooves or lands formed in an information recording carrier include at least a wobbling region and data is recorded wobblingly in this wobbling region by frequency shift modulation while recorded digitally with a single or multiple waves as a channel bit.
US07796494B2
A method of writing to ferroelectric storage medium includes the steps of applying a first write voltage to a ferroelectric layer for writing a first bit in a first polarization direction and applying a second write voltage to the ferroelectric layer for writing a second bit in a second polarization direction opposing the first polarization direction. The first write voltage having a first magnitude, and the second write voltage having a second magnitude being greater than the first magnitude. The ferroelectric layer having a ferroelectric imprint polarization direction, and the first polarization direction being substantially the same as the ferroelectric imprint polarization direction. The ferroelectric medium contains first bits with a first surface area that is substantially equal to second bits surface area. A probe storage apparatus can use this method and ferroelectric medium.
US07796493B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having a first cantilever structure to move in a vertical direction, including a first plate formed of a conductive material, an insulation beam adapted on a portion of the first plate, and a second cantilever structure adapted on the insulation beam and including a second plate formed of a conductive material, where an air gap is present between the first and second plates. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07796482B2
The invention provides for a method, and related apparatus, of producing a Land Pre-Pit signal during playback of an optical disc and including the steps of obtaining an output signal from an optical detector and from which the Land Pre-Pit signal is to be derived, scaling the said output signal responsive to a determined amplitude of a high frequency crosstalk signal arising during reading of the disc and in a manner so as to increase the said output signal when the Land Pre-Pit identified as corresponding to a mark on the disc, and so as to decrease the output signal when the Land Pre-Pit is identified as corresponding to a space on the disc.
US07796481B2
An information recording apparatus which irradiates a laser light onto a recording medium such as a DVD+R to record information records an adjustment RF signal in a PCA used for calibration of the laser light (OPC process). Thereby, on the recording medium having no recorded area of an RF signal in an entire circumference, such as the DVD+R, it becomes possible that the adjustment RF signal is recorded in the PCA to be read out and a mechanism adjustment and the like are executed. In addition, the information recording apparatus searches the inside of the PCA in order from the area having highly possibility that the adjustment RF signal is recorded. Thereby, the adjustment RF signal in the PCA can be rapidly detected.
US07796480B2
An apparatus for light spot servo signal detection for reading an optical recording medium having a plurality of non-writable areas between writable data areas containing address information. An optical pickup provides a light spot to the non-writable areas of the optical recording medium with a predetermined state according to a control signal, and detects optical reflecting signals from the optical recording medium to generate a detection signal. A signal adjusting module offsets signal levels of the detection signal to an operating range to generate an offset shifted detection signal. An analog to digital converter digitizes the offset shifted detection signal to generate a digital signal. A detection circuit detects the servo detection signal according to the digital signal.
US07796479B2
A servo control system and method is provided, comprising: a controller outputting a parameter control signal; a device having a parameter controlled based on the parameter control signal; a sensing circuit sensing the parameter of the device and generating a parameter error signal; a sinusoidal signal generator generating a sinusoidal signal; and a adder combining the parameter error signal and the sinusoidal signal, wherein the controller includes a servo equalizer that equalizes the added parameter error signal and the sinusoidal signal to output an equalized parameter control signal to adjust the parameter.
US07796476B2
An optical disk device includes a optical pickup head which emits a laser beam to an optical disk and detects light reflected therefrom, a signal output unit which outputs at least a servo signal and RF signal in accordance with the detected light, a gain control unit which determines the type of the optical disk from identification information recorded thereon, and sets first and second adjusted gains for a data recorded region and data unrecorded region, when determining that the optical disk is of a type wherein a light reflectance is higher in the data recorded region than in the unrecorded region, and a gain adjustment unit including a memory storing the first and second adjusted gains, the gain adjustment unit adjusting the gain of the servo signal in the data recorded region, using the first adjusted gain, and in the data unrecorded region, using the second adjusted gain.
US07796470B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining location of a weapon firing incident. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a system for determining the location of a weapon firing incident in proximate position to a region traversed by vehicles. The system includes a first set of sensors associated with a first sub-region of the region, for detecting the weapon firing incident and for generating an output, and a processing component that determines a location of the weapon firing incident based upon the output. Moreover, the system may also include a second set of sensors arranged to detect the weapon firing incident along the travel path traversed by the vehicles and for generating a second output. Other exemplary embodiments may include arrangements of the sensors in patterns is associated with sub-regions and/or travel path as well as weapon fire location processing features.
US07796468B2
Shallow drilling hazards (44), such as karsts, caves, voids and unconsolidated discontinuities, that can pose significant risks to exploration and development well drilling operations are detected employing seismic refraction data on which a series of attribute analyses are performed, the resulting data being further processed to provide a three-dimensional visualization. Refracted wave raypaths (40, 46, 48) are highly distorted by encountering a karst feature with the occurrence of backscattering absorption. The resultant energy recorded at the surface receivers (52) is significantly reduced as compared to refracted waves recorded by other receivers (50) where no karsting is present. Multiple refractors are subjected to a relatively simple and rapid processing using commercially available software to track these differences and to map them in the near surface to improve the siting of wells and to alert drilling engineers and crews to the possibility of encountering the hazard.
US07796466B2
Seabed sensor units, systems including same, and methods for acquiring seabed data are described, one seabed sensor unit comprising a base, the base containing at least one sensor able to detect a seismic signal, electronics comprising a clock and one or more electronic components enabling the sensor to communicate seismic data to one or more memory modules, and a local autonomous power source. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract, which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).
US07796445B1
A device can include 1) a sustained or constantly powered low leakage latch to and from which a volatile state is uploaded and downloaded, respectively, based on an active-to-low signal, and 2) an intermittently powered or de-powerable memory element, coupled to the low leakage latch, from which and to which the volatile state is uploaded and downloaded, respectively, based on the active-to-low signal and a de-powerable voltage across the de-powerable memory element is powered and un-powered, respectively.
US07796444B2
One embodiment of the present invention includes applying a first value to a bit line, boosting word lines associated with the bit line and a common selection line to create a first condition based on the first value, and cutting off a boundary non-volatile storage element associated with the common selection line to maintain the first condition for a particular non-volatile storage element associated with the bit line and common selection line. A second value is applied to the bit line and at least a subset of the word lines are boosted to create a second condition for a different non-volatile storage element associated with the bit line and common selection line. The second condition is based on the second value. The first condition and the second condition overlap in time. Both non-volatile storage elements are programmed concurrently, based on their associated conditions.
US07796436B2
A reading method for a multi-level cell (MLC) memory includes the following steps. A number of word line voltages are sequentially provided to an MLC memory cell. A number of bit line voltages corresponding to the word line voltages are sequentially provided to the MLC memory cell. One of the word line voltages is higher than another one of the word line voltages, and one of the bit line voltages corresponding to the one of the word line voltages is lower than another one of the bit line voltages corresponding to the another one of the word line voltages.
US07796423B2
It is made possible to provide a reconfigurable logic circuit with which high integration can be achieved. A reconfigurable logic circuit includes: a multiplexer which includes a plurality of spin MOSFETs each having a source and drain containing a magnetic material, and a selecting portion including a plurality of MOSFETs and selecting a spin MOSFET from the plurality of spin MOSFETs, based on control data transmitted from control lines; a determining circuit which determines whether magnetization of the magnetic material of the source and drain of a selected spin MOSFET, which is selected by the selecting portion, is in a first state or in a second state; and a first and second write circuits which put the magnetization of the magnetic material of the source and drain of the selected spin MOSFET into the second and first states respectively by supplying a write current flowing between the source and drain of the selected spin MOSFET.
US07796417B1
A non-volatile memory circuit includes a first inverter, a second inverter coupled to the first inverter, a first programmable non-volatile resistor coupled to the first inverter, and a first access device coupled to the first programmable non-volatile resistor. According to some embodiments, a second programmable non-volatile resistor is coupled to the second inverter, and a second access device is coupled to the second programmable non-volatile resistor. The access devices can be, for example, transistors or diodes.
US07796414B2
A memory module, system and method of making the same includes a memory module including a plurality of memory devices having a first portion of memory devices cooperatively forming a first rank of memory devices and a second portion of memory devices cooperatively forming a second rank of memory devices. The first and second portions of memory devices are grouped into a plurality of memory device stacks, wherein each of the plurality of memory device stacks includes at least one of the plurality of memory devices coupled to a first portion of a plurality of DQ signals and at least another one of the plurality of memory devices coupled to a different second portion of the plurality of DQ signals.
US07796411B2
The systems and methods described herein provide for a universal controller capable of controlling multiple types of three phase, two and three level power converters. The universal controller is capable of controlling the power converter in any quadrant of the PQ domain. The universal controller can include a region selection unit, an input selection unit, a reference signal source unit and a control core. The control core can be implemented using one-cycle control, average current mode control, current mode control or sliding mode control and the like. The controller can be configured to control different types of power converters by adjusting the reference signal source. Also provided are multiple modulation methods for controlling the power converter.
US07796409B2
A power converter for converting an input voltage (Vin) into an output voltage (Vout), comprising a first supply potential and a second supply potential established by the input voltage, and at least one primary winding having two terminals, a center tap arranged between the two terminals and connected to the first supply potential, and at least one secondary winding magnetically coupled to the primary winding for providing at least one output voltage (Vout) and a first controllable switch connected between the second supply potential and one terminal of the primary winding and a second controllable switch connected between the second supply potential and the other terminal of the primary winding and a third controllable switch connected between the second supply potential and the one terminal of the primary winding and a fourth controllable switch connected between the second supply potential and the other terminal of the primary winding, and a control unit for controlling the switches such that the first, second, third, and fourth switches are turned on sequentially wherein at any time maximum one switch is turned on.
US07796405B2
A device including a full bridge, a half bridge, a first inductor, and a second inductor. The full bridge has a first pair of transistors being activated when a load applied to the device is above a predetermined level and deactivated when the load applied to the device is below the predetermined level, and a second pair of transistors being continuously activated. The half bridge has a third pair of transistors that are activated when the load applied to the device is below the predetermined level and deactivated when the load applied to the device is above the predetermined level. The first and second inductors are connected between the outputs of the full and half bridges are adapted to cooperate with each other to provide a zero voltage switching of the device at a light load. The first and third pairs of transistors are activated at different times.
US07796399B2
A multichip module comprises a multilayer substrate circuit having conductive patterns on its surface(s) to which microelectronic device(s) are attached. The conductive patterns include a series of electrical contacts adjacent to one edge of the substrate. The substrate is bonded to two rigid frames, one on each opposite surface. Each substrate has a series of castellations on one edge that are aligned and electrically connected to the respective contacts on the substrate, preferably by soldering. The castellations can serve as a self-aligning mechanism when the module is brought into contact with a low-profile pin array, and the module may be held in place on a motherboard by guide rails in a socket that engages the edges perpendicular to the castellated edge of the module. The module may further be provided with protective heat spreading covers.
US07796397B2
Provided is an electronic components assembly capable of effectively dealing with unwanted charge accumulated in a capacitor even when general-purpose components are used. An assembly 10 includes an electrolytic capacitor 1, a coil lead 4, and a circuit mounting board 5. The electrolytic capacitor 1 includes a main body 1a, an anode lead 2, and a cathode lead 3. The coil lead 4 is wrapped around the main body 1a. The circuit mounting board 5 has the electrolytic capacitor 1 and the coil lead 4 mounted thereon. The coil lead 4 is connected to a ground of the circuit mounting board 5.
US07796394B2
An electrical connector assembly is provided for connecting an IC chip (2) to a printed circuit board (3). The electrical connector assembly includes a housing (1) engaging with the IC chip, a heat sink (6), a loading plate (4) and a number of first connecting portions (5). The loading plate is located between the heat sink and the housing and has a number of spring plates (41) extending toward the IC chip. The first connecting portions are provided for connecting the heat sink to the printed circuit board.
US07796391B2
The invention relates to a junction box for solar panels, with which the heat produced in the protecting diodes, MOSFETs or other corresponding power semiconductors of a solar panel can be reliably dissipated. In the junction box, the electronic components are pressed against the housing (1) or into recesses (3) corresponding to the geometry of the components by means of pressure elements, and electrical isolation, preferably a thermally conductive silicone rubber, is provided between the housing (1) and the components.
US07796389B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods and devices for improving the heat dissipating properties of a heatsink to provide increased cooling for electronic equipment, such as power converters. In one embodiment, a heatsink includes at least one fluid cooled portion and at least one heat pipe disposed adjacent to the fluid cooled portion. The heat pipe improves the conduction of heat away from heat sources.
US07796386B2
An electronic device includes a housing, an active fan installed in the housing, and an airflow reversal prevention assembly. The assembly includes a fixed rack secured to the housing opposite to the active fan, a movable rack, a passive fan, a curtain shelter, a shaft, and a resilient member. The curtain shelter is attached between the fixed rack and the movable rack. The shaft is fixedly passed through the movable rack and the passive fan to be rotatably secured to the fixed rack. The passive fan is driven by air from the active fan to rotate, thereby driving the movable rack to rotate relative to the fixed rack by the shaft to allow the curtain shelter being folded up. The resilient member can urge the movable rack to rotate back to allow the curtain shelter being spread open.
US07796374B2
A power switchgear includes a circuit breaker including a container filled with an insulating gas, a stationary contact arranged in the container, and a movable contact that makes a movement to make contact with the stationary contact; an operation unit including a biasing member, and opens and closes the circuit breaker; and a linkage unit that transmits an biasing force of the biasing member to the circuit breaker. The linkage unit includes a rotary shaft, a lever including an engaging hole to be engaged with an outer periphery of the rotary shaft, and a pressing member that presses the rotary shaft onto an inner periphery of the engaging hole.
US07796372B2
A method is for fabricating an integrated circuit formed from a substrate and including several metallic interconnection levels in which, in a same plane parallel to the main plane of the substrate, is a plurality of thick horizontal metallic interconnection lines, as well as one or several MIM capacitors fitted with metallic electrodes that are orthogonal to the main plane of the substrate.
US07796371B2
A micro fluidic device and method for capacitive sensing. The device includes a fluid channel including an inlet at a first end and an outlet at a second end, a cavity region coupled to the fluid channel, and a polymer based membrane coupled between the fluid channel and the cavity region. Additionally, the device includes a first capacitor electrode coupled to the membrane, a second capacitor electrode coupled to the cavity region and physically separated from the first capacitor electrode by at least the cavity region, and an electrical power source coupled between the first capacitor electrode and the second capacitor electrode and causing an electric field at least within the cavity region. The polymer based membrane includes a polymer.
US07796370B1
A lightning protection device is provided. The device includes a lower field coupler, an upper field coupler, a lightning sensor, and a controller. The lightning sensor includes a differential voltage window comparator. The lower field coupler is capacitively coupled to the earth ground, and the upper field coupler is coupled to the local atmospheric electric field. If a ground potential rise (GPR) event occurs, the differential voltage window comparator trips. If the differential voltage window comparator trips or if a power line transient occurs, the controller disconnects the power phase, neutral, and ground wires to isolate sensitive equipment. In some embodiments, the controller also detects power line transients and disconnects the power, phase, neutral, and ground wires if a power line transient is detected.
US07796368B2
A high-frequency power supply system includes an anomaly detector 3 which detects an anomaly occurring in a circuit on the side of a load L as from an outputting end A of a high-frequency power source 1. The anomaly detector 3 includes a first detector 21 which detects a voltage value Vf of a high-frequency forward wave, a second detector 22 which detects a voltage value Vr of a high-frequency reflected wave, a reflection coefficient calculator 23 and a differentiator 24 which calculate a reflection coefficient differential value dΓ/dt from the forward wave voltage value Vf and the reflected wave voltage value Vr, and an anomaly determiner 25 which determines of an occurrence of an anomaly based on the reflection coefficient differential value dΓ/dt. When the anomaly detector 3 outputs an anomaly detection signal to the high-frequency power source 1, high-frequency power source 1 stops its power output operation.
US07796343B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a photomask inspection apparatus which observes a pattern provided on a mask substrate of a mask to inspect the mask including an object lens, and a liquid that is present between a last lens in the side closer to the mask of the object lens and the mask.
US07796336B2
An exemplary lens includes a light pervious substrate, a first optically active part, and a light blocking film. The light pervious substrate has a first surface, an opposite second surface, and a recess defined in the first surface. The recess includes a bottom surface. The first optically active part is formed on the bottom surface. The light blocking film is formed on the bottom surface surrounding the first optically active part.
US07796321B2
A spatial light modulator supported on a device substrate includes a plurality of light modulation elements to modulate a light emitted from a light source. The spatial light modulator and the device substrate further comprises a cyclic structure on a surface of the spatial light modulator and/or the device substrate for preventing a reflection of the incident light from the cyclic structure. In an exemplary embodiment the cyclic structure includes cyclic structural elements having a distance between two cyclic elements shorter than the wavelength of an incident light for preventing a reflection of the incident light from the cyclic structure.
US07796314B2
Dual axis, beam-steering devices are disclosed. An exemplary device includes a support platform having a top surface. A reflective surface is coupled to the top surface of the support platform. First and second galvanometers are coupled via respective linkages to the support platform such that the first galvanometer rotates the support platform about a first rotational axis, and the second galvanometer rotates the support platform about a second rotational axis that is orthogonal to the first rotational axis. The support platform can be simultaneously rotated with respect to both the first rotational axis and the second rotational axis to steer a beam of electromagnetic energy (e.g. light beam) reflected by the reflective surface.
US07796308B2
An image reading apparatus capable of easily detecting the width of a document is provided that can reduce the number of component parts. A surface to be detected of a moving section that moves in linkage with the movement of a document guide is detected using an image pickup device, so that the width dimension of the document is detected. This allows the image reading apparatus to detect the width dimension of the document by using the image pickup device.
US07796307B2
An image reading apparatus including: first reading sensor to read an image of an original document at a first position; a second reading sensor at second position downstream; a circulating transport path; a first switchback provided between the first and second positions; a second switchback provided between the second and first positions; a first gate at a branching point of the first switchback; a second gate at a branching point of the second switchback; a sheet exit; a third gate provided at a branching point of the sheet exit; and a controller, which controls such that: the original document is transported through two switchbacks, both face images are read by the two reading sensors; and in another mode, the original document is transported through one of the two switchback sections, and both face images are read by one of the two reading sensors.
US07796302B2
An image processing apparatus includes a receiving section, an edge detection section and a screen processing section. The receiving section receives image information. The edge detection section detects an edge area from the image information received by the receiving section. The screen processing section performs a screen process, which is based on area coverage modulation, for the image information on a basis of the detection result by the edge detection section. The screen processing section performs a screen process for the edge area detected by the edge detection section with (i) a screen angle, which is equal to that of a screen process performed for a non-edge area other than the edge area, and (ii) a number of lines per inch, which is an integer multiple of that of the screen process performed for the non-edge area.
US07796301B2
A method of improving resolution for an image is disclosed. The method for improving resolution of an image includes loading a first image and creating a first super grid image based on the first image. The method also includes loading a second image and creating a second super grid image based on the second image. The method then arranges the first super grid image and a second super grid image into an unprocessed super grid image having a checkerboard like pattern. Next the method calculates a pixel value from at least two pixel values of the unprocessed super grid image. Then the method will insert pixels into a super resolution image and display that super resolution image on a display.
US07796300B2
A method of printing having the steps of receiving compressed page data that includes both continuous tone (“contone”) data and foreground bi-level data, and decompressing the contone data and the foreground bi-level data in parallel. The method also includes the steps of halftoning the contone data to bi-level color data and compositing the foreground bi-level data over the bi-level color data to create composited bi-level color image data, wherein the steps of halftoning and compositing are performed in parallel. The method also includes the step of printing the composited bi-level color image data.
US07796292B2
A system and method is provided for generating customized documents, such as labels, in a client-server computing environment. A server is communicably accessed by a client, which then retrieves a dynamic link library module configured for use by a client-based application. The client also retrieves an ActiveX control module configured for controlling operational aspects of the application; and retrieves a document structure file. The application generates a document using the dynamic link library and the label structure file. A user may then modify the document using the ActiveX control module, and print the document.
US07796285B2
The present disclosure provides supplemental data for facsimile image data representing an image of a document for transmission. The supplemental data can describe an aspect of the document, such as by uniquely identifying the document that the facsimile image data represents. The supplemental data can be provided with the image of the document, in a manner that will not essentially obscure the image of the document. The supplemental data can be in a machine readable form that identifies the document and that can be separate from the image of the document. The supplemental data permits facsimile transmitted documents to be processed automatically by facsimile connected systems.
US07796284B2
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method for reducing burden of managing documents on a user, the burden being caused when image data is retransmitted and when both a previously transmitted document and the retransmitted document are stored. To accomplish this, a user selects a transmitted document from a transmission history stored in an image processing apparatus and requests a processing status of the selected document to an image processing apparatus on a receiver side. The image processing apparatus on the receiver side determines the processing status, puts output restrictions on the selected document, and transmits the determination result. The image processing apparatus on the transmitter side receives the response and transmits replacing image data. The image processing apparatus on the receiver side replaces the previously received document with the replacing image data and cancels the output restrictions.
US07796283B2
The present invention is a system and method for utilizing excess printing capacity. The present invention utilizes a printing network that consists of a printing service provider, one or more print jobs, a printing distribution system, and printing partners. The printing service provider uses a printing distribution system to distribute standardized print jobs to printing partners at a fixed price.
US07796278B2
A method for precisely measuring position of a part to be inspected at a part inspection station is provided. The method includes positioning a part having a part axis relative to a measurement axis at the part inspection station and scanning the positioned part with an array of planes of radiation so that the part occludes each of the planes of radiation over a measurement interval of the part to create a corresponding array of unobstructed planar portions of the planes of radiation. Each of the unobstructed planar portions contains an amount of radiation which is representative of a respective geometric dimension of the part. The method also includes measuring the amount of radiation present in each of the unobstructed planar portions to obtain measurement signals and processing the measurement signals to obtain a geometric measurement between the axes at the measurement interval. The geometric measurement may be a distance between the axes or angle between the axes. If the geometric measurement is outside an acceptable range of geometric values, the method may further include repositioning the part until the geometric measurement between the axes at the measurement interval is within the acceptable range of geometric values.
US07796276B2
An apparatus and a method for examining a curved surface (5), having a camera (2) and an objective (3) and a lamp (4), is described. The camera (2) can be aimed at the inside of the curved surface (5), and the lamp (4) can be located such that light (7) emitted by the lamp (4) is reflected from the inside of the curved surface (5) into the camera (2). To attain high contrast with a simple arrangement, the lamp (4) is located in the beam path of the objective (3) of the camera (2).
US07796274B2
A measuring system (100) for the optical measurement of an optical imaging system (150), which is provided to image a pattern arranged in an object surface (155) of the imaging system in an image surface (156) of the imaging system, comprises an object-side structure carrier (110) having an object-side measuring structure (111), to be arranged on the object side of the imaging system; an image-side structure carrier (120) having an image-side measuring structure (121), to be arranged on the image side of the imaging system; the object-side measuring structure and the image-side measuring structure being matched to each other in such a way that, when the object-side measuring structure is imaged onto the image-side measuring structure with the aid of the imaging system, a superposition pattern is produced; and a detector (130) for the locally resolving acquisition of the superposition pattern. The imaging system is designed as an immersion system for imaging with the aid of an immersion liquid (171). A structure carrier to be arranged in the region of the immersion liquid is assigned a protective system (125) in order to increase the resistance of the measuring structure to degradation caused by the immersion liquid. A measurement of immersion systems under immersion conditions is thereby possible without detrimental influence of the immersion liquid on the measuring accuracy.
US07796272B2
A position-measuring device is used for measuring the position of an object relative to a tool, the tool having a tool center point. The position-measuring device includes at least two intersected scales displaceable relative to each other in at least one plane of movement, and an assigned optical scanning unit which generates position signals for at least one measuring direction parallel to the plane of movement. Each scale has a neutral pivot, about which a tilt of the respective scale causes no change of the detected position. The scanning optics ensure that the position of the neutral pivots of the two scales correspond. The positioning of the scales relative to the tool center point ensures that the neutral pivots of the two scales and the tool center point lie in a plane which is parallel to the plane of movement.
US07796271B2
The aim is to be able to determine the spatial structure of an ear canal in a simple and reliable fashion. To this end, it is proposed to produce a hologram of the ear canal, by inserting a holography unit at least partially into the ear canal. The data for the shape of a housing shell or an otoplastic can then be obtained from the resulting hologram for automatic manufacturing methods.
US07796262B1
The current invention provides methods for detecting trace analytes in solution or suspension using coupled micro-ring resonators. The methods of the current invention determine the presence and concentration of the target analytes in real time by exposing the micro-ring resonator to the analyte and determining the resulting rate of change of resonance wavelength experienced by a sensing micro-ring resonator as compared to a reference micro-ring resonator.
US07796258B2
A non-sampling-based Q-factor measuring apparatus and method use a power conversion module to transform the power variation of inputted optical signals in time domain into the variation in other domains, such as optical wavelength, optical polarization and different output ports of optical elements. Taking optical wavelength as an example, different levels of power variation respond different outputs of wavelength variation through the use of a power-to-wavelength conversion module. An optical filter then separates the inputted optical signals with different wavelengths. The power average of a wavelength for its corresponding optical signals is further calculated by a photo detector. Thereby, the information of the power variation for the inputted optical signals at levels 1 and 0 can be obtained, and the Q-factor for the inputted optical signals is easily measured.
US07796256B2
A flow chamber, imaging objective, condenser and imaging light source as part of an optical system includes an oil-immersion objective and high numerical aperture condenser matched to a rectangular flow chamber. The oil-immersion objective and flow chamber include a high index of refraction immersion oil so as to enhance the optical resolution and optical coupling therethrough. The imaging light source generates light which passes through the condenser, the flow chamber and then the objective before being focused onto an imaging camera. Fluorescence excitation passes through the objective to the flow chamber where the oil immersion configuration enhances the focus and collection of the light back through the objective.
US07796246B2
Provided are a three-dimensional image measuring method and apparatus for an LCD color filter automatic grinder. It is possible to measure a three-dimensional image of an LCD color filter, even though textures for recovering the three-dimensional image are insufficient, by irradiating illumination passed through a patterned filter to the LCD color filter. In addition, it is possible to measure a three-dimensional image of an LCD color filter by obtaining a plurality of image sequences along an optical axis of a camera composed of CCD or CIS. Illumination is irradiated to an LCD color filter to be measured through a patterned filter.
US07796244B2
A method is provided for measurement of dispersion or other optical and mechanical properties within a waveguide by inducing four-photon mixing at different locations within the waveguide by timing a pump signal to counter-collide with and abruptly amplify or attenuate one or both of a probe pulse and a signal pulse at each location. The measurement of the components of the resulting mixing signal created by each collision is used to calculate dispersion defined by the location at which the collision occurred. By combining the measurements from all of the locations, a spatial map of dispersion or other optical or mechanical properties within the waveguide can be generated.
US07796237B2
A lithography apparatus includes a resist processing apparatus to perform a process of applying a resist on a substrate, a process of heating a resist film on the substrate, and a process of developing the resist film on the substrate, an immersion exposure apparatus including a projection optical system which projects an image of a pattern on a photomask onto the resist film and configured to perform exposure through liquid located on an optical path between the projection optical system and resist film, a transporting apparatus connected to the resist processing and immersion exposure apparatuses to perform transportation of the substrate between the resist processing and immersion exposure apparatuses, and a temperature/humidity control apparatus configured to control at least one of temperature and humidity in at least one of the resist processing and transporting apparatuses based on temperature and humidity or the in humidity the immersion exposure apparatus.
US07796231B2
A liquid crystal display device has a pair of substrates disposed in opposition to one another with a liquid crystal interposed therebetween, active elements formed on one of the pair of substrates, an organic film layer formed to cover the active elements, a light-shielding film formed on another of the pair of substrates, and a sealing material which sticks the pair of substrates together. In the liquid crystal display device, the sealing material is formed integrally along the entire periphery of a display screen, and one of the light-shielding layer and the organic film layer is formed to be extended beyond an area where the sealing material is formed, and the other of the light-shielding layer and organic film layer is formed inside the area where the sealing material is formed.
US07796226B2
An absorption axis of a polarizer on a viewer's side is set to an arbitrary direction to cope with problems attributed to polarization sunglasses or the like. Video lines extend in a reference direction as a whole while being bent locally. Assuming a narrow-side angle out of intersection angles between the reference direction and the extension direction of a portion of the video line as θ1, assuming a narrow-side angle out of intersection angles between the reference direction and the extension direction of the linear portions of the first electrode as θ2, assuming a narrow-side angle out of intersection angles between the reference direction and an alignment axis of the second alignment film as θ3, assuming a narrow-side angle out of intersection angles between the reference direction and an absorption axis of the second polarizer as θ4, and in measuring the angles θ1, θ2, η3 and θ4 within a range from −90° to +90° from the reference direction while setting a clockwise direction as a normal direction, all of a sign of the angle θ1, a sign of the angle θ2 and a sign of the angle θ3 are equal in one sub pixel, the angles θ1 of all sub pixels have the same sign, and the formulae (1) 10°≦|θ1|≦|θ3| and 10°≦|θ2|≦θ3|; (2) 0°≦|θ3−θ2|≦20°; (3) 0°≦|θ1−θ2|≦2°; (4) 10°≦|θ3|≦80°; and (5) 0°≦|θ3−θ4|≦2° or 88°≦|θ3−θ4|≦92° are satisfied in all sub pixels.
US07796206B2
An image displaying apparatus including the housing, and a panel module, having a frame of a rectangular shape in an outer configuration thereof, and a display panel with a display surface which is mounted on the frame, and being attached on the housing. The frame includes a flange portion formed along an outer periphery of the frame and extending in a direction substantially parallel to the display surface of the display panel. The flange portion is provided with a reinforcement portion extending along substantially an entirety of an outer periphery of the flange portion of the frame.
US07796192B2
There is provided an image processing method capable of improving the picture quality. The image processing method comprises: incorporating input frame pictures to be displayed on a display device, on the basis of an input picture signal and an input synchronizing signal which is synchronized with the input picture signal; recording the incorporated input frame pictures in an input frame memory; and producing output frame pictures from input frame pictures, which have been recorded in the input frame memory, by producing an interpolated picture or inserting a black raster picture or thinning out the frame pictures, between input frame pictures corresponding to a picture information of the input frame picture to be displayed, on the basis of the picture information and the input synchronizing signal and an output synchronizing signal.
US07796191B1
One embodiment of an edge-preserving vertical interpolation system constructs a de-interlaced video frame on a pixel-by-pixel basis using an edge-preserving vertical interpolation technique. Pixels within a pixel window centered about a selected pixel determine the direction of an intensity gradient associated with the selected pixel. A first pixel is constructed by interpolating between pixels that are perpendicular to the direction of the intensity gradient and a confidence factor is computed that indicates the likelihood that there is only one edge within the pixel window. A second pixel is constructed using a non-edge-preserving vertical interpolation technique. Interpolating between the first pixel and the second pixel based on the confidence factor generates a pixel in the de-interlaced video frame corresponding to the selected pixel. Unlike prior art techniques, the present invention does not attempt to correlate between pixel features and is therefore more robust to noisy pixel data than prior art techniques.
US07796190B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for adaptive content rendition, the method comprising receiving media content for playback to a user, adapting the media content for playback on a first device in the user's first location, receiving a notification when the user changes to a second location, adapting the media content for playback on a second device in the second location, and transitioning media content playback from the first device to second device. One aspect conserves energy by optionally turning off the first device after transitioning to the second device. Another aspect includes playback devices that are “dumb devices” which receive media content already prepared for playback, “smart devices” which receive media content in a less than ready form and prepare the media content for playback, or hybrid smart and dumb devices. A single device may be substituted by a plurality of devices. Adapting the media content for playback is based on a user profile storing user preferences and/or usage history in one aspect.
US07796187B2
An integrated camera module (10, 10a) for capturing video images in very small digital cameras, cell phones, personal digital assistants, and the like. A lens assembly (24, 24a) is rigidly affixed in relation to a sensor array area (14) of a camera chip (12) by a molding (26). The molding (26) is formed on the camera chip (12), and optionally on a printed circuit board (16, 16a) on which the camera chip (12) is mounted. The lens assembly (24, 24a) is held in place in a recess (29) of the molding (26) by an adhesive (28). The molding (26) is formed such that a precise gap (30) exists between the lens assembly (24) and a sensor array area (14) of the camera chip (12). In a particular embodiment, lens holders (306, 506) are formed entirely on the camera chips (302, 502) before or after they are separated from one another.
US07796179B2
A display device includes: a transmission-type optical image forming element that forms an image based upon image signals; an illuminating device that illuminates the optical image forming element; and a light adjustment device that allows illuminating light emitted from the illuminating device to the optical image forming element to have a specific light quantity distribution.
US07796167B2
A CPU 200 reads out an image file GF from a memory card MC and stores the read out image file GF temporarily in an RAM 210. The CPU 200 acquires shooting information EI from the read out image file GF and determines the noise reduction level according to the ISO speed. When the ISO speed or the shutter speed exceeds a predetermined value, the CPU 200 increases the noise reduction level and executes noise reduction process.
US07796162B2
A method and system for transmitting and displaying venue-based synchronized camera views for live venue activities to remote views. A synchronized camera can include a main camera and at least one slave camera, wherein slave camera movement depends on movement by the main camera. Views captured by a slave camera can be of the same general target as those captured by the main camera. Remote viewers can be venue-based hand held devices or distant monitors. Remote viewers can include hand held devices and digital entertainment monitors (e.g., HDTV). Within a venue, the camera views can be processed and formatted for display on display screens associated with venue-based hand held device. A user can select from more than one view from the synchronized camera that the user wants displayed on the remote viewer, thereby enabling a user of the hand held device to view more than one camera view, at a time or simultaneously, through the remote viewer.
US07796161B2
A control apparatus controlling a state of an imaging apparatus and a method for controlling an imaging device. According to the present invention, when a moving area in shot images are detected and parameter control of an imaging device is performed, if the moving area relates to a predetermined shooting prohibited area, the parameter control of the imaging device is stopped.
US07796158B2
A disk type image pickup apparatus wherein a disk type recording medium is used as a recording medium on which a picked up image is to be recorded, including: a gyro sensor configured to detect impact or vibration to an apparatus body of the disk type image pickup apparatus to be used for camera shake correction and detect a gyro moment arising from a movement of the apparatus body in a horizontal direction; a detection signal decision section configured to compare a level of a detection signal outputted from the gyro sensor with a threshold value and output a signal representing that the level of the detection signal is higher than the threshold value; and a recording control section configured to receive the gyro detection signal from the detection signal decision section to temporarily stop the recording of data on the disk type recording medium for a predetermined period of time.
US07796153B1
A system and method for equalizing an imaging sensor. The system includes at least one image sensor having a plurality of detectors defining a sensor array, each detector being configured to provide an output signal representative of a sensed image. The system further includes an equalization system configured to receive the output signals from the detectors; estimate a distribution for at least one detector based on the respective output signals; compare the distribution for the at least one of the detectors to a given distribution to determine a mapping function for the at least one detector; and apply the respective mapping function of the at least one detector to the output signal of the at least one detector to provide an equalized signal for the at least one detector.
US07796145B2
Electro-photographic press print systems, methods of disposing a fluid onto a substrate in an electro-photographic press print system, and electro-photographic ink primers, are disclosed.
US07796131B2
A method is proposed for virtual endoscopy for medical 3D image display and processing in computed tomography. The method includes providing a first evaluation volume on the basis of a 3D data volume and providing an observer path through the first evaluation volume. To allow automatic calculation of the observer path, even for the case in which no continuous path can be found through the evaluation volume, the present concept has provision for automatic ascertainment of at least one further evaluation volume, which is separate from the first evaluation volume, on the basis of the 3D data volume according to predetermined criteria.
US07796127B2
Provided are an adaptive rendering apparatus and method using a hierarchical structure in a 3D image and a computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for executing the adaptive rendering method. The adaptive rendering apparatus includes a cell data provision unit, which divides an original 3D image into a plurality of lattice cells that are connected to one another in a hierarchical structure according to predetermined rendering conditions and outputs a plurality of cell data of an area of the original 3D image corresponding to the lattice cells, and a rendered image generation unit, which generates a 3D rendered image by arranging the cell data output from the cell data provision unit according to the hierarchical structure. A lattice cell belonging to a particular level in the hierarchical structure is capable of being divided into a plurality of lattice cells belonging to a level directly below the particular level, and each of the lattice cells in the level directly below the particular level is smaller than the lattice cell of the particular level. A lattice cell belonging to a particular level in the hierarchical structure is capable of being divided into 8 smaller lattice cells belonging to a level directly below the particular level. Accordingly, it is possible to adjust the quality of a rendered image and the speed of generating the rendered image and to precisely render both a 3D object image and a 3D scenic image.
US07796122B2
A touch control display screen with built-in membrane antenna array lattice electromagnetic induction layer, including at least a display screen and a shell; wherein an induction layer is provided in the rear of the display screen, the output of the induction layer is connected to an induction control circuit, a display screen control circuit is also provided in the shell; the induction layer is the antenna array printed on the insulation membrane and arranged along the X, Y axes, therein the area enclosed by each lattice unit constitutes one induction cell. Because the electromagnetic induction layer is provided in the rear of the display screen and flexible membrane-type, printed electromagnetic induction array antenna is used as the identifying induction component according to the present invention, the manufacture is easy, the cost is low, and the advantage in cost-cut is prominent in comparison with the prior art when the area of the display screen is larger. The accuracy of identification is high, and the mouse information or handwriting information can be input exactly by means of brush strokes of finger strokes; as a touch screen, the display screen is covered by a protecting film to avoid the physical damage, so it has long operating life.
US07796120B2
A method of detecting image movement is provided. A reference frame is accessed, and a reference window is captured from the reference frame. A sampling frame is then accessed. When the reference window has not reached the margin of the reference frame, a new window is captured from the reference frame to replace the reference window. From the reference frame, a window matching the reference window is searched and a moving vector is calculated. When the sampling window reaches the margin of the sampling frame, the sampling frame replaces the reference frame. Another reference window is also captured from the reference frame, and the step of accessing the sampling frame is repeated.
US07796118B2
A system that integrates navigational device (e.g., mouse) functionality into a cellular telephone or other handheld device (e.g., personal organizer, personal media player). A device can employ existing optics from an image capture device (e.g., camera) as the optics for the mouse. A mouse engine can receive an input from the optics and route the input via a Bluetooth™, or other existing connection (e.g., wired or wireless) to transfer the mouse coordinates to a desktop. In another example, a device can employ a touch sensitive pad to supply motion input to a mouse engine. Further, a device (e.g., personal organizer, pocket personal computer) can utilize an existing touch screen as a touch sensitive input to a mouse engine. A laser pointer can be integrated into a device thereby enabling presenters to use the device to point to slides and other target visuals.
US07796115B2
Bi-stable electrophoretic display device (1) having a normal mode and a scrolling mode, in which image transitions are effected by causing the charged particles (8,9) to toggle between the intermediate optical states (e.g. grey-to-grey) or between an extreme optical state and an intermediate optical state (e.g. white-to-light grey), with a corresponding short update time tscroll. When the device (1) enters a scrolling mode in response to a scrolling command from a user, picture elements are first driven to a special scrolling optical. state, after which drive waveforms for scrolling mode are used for fast toggling between two scrolling states. An increased scrolling speed and very short scrolling time can be realized, without adversely affecting image quality during a normal mode.
US07796113B2
The aim of the invention is to largely prevent certain influences from distributing the luminance of an image that can be reproduced on a panel of a flat screen. To this end, light-permeable parts are arranged between a sensor and a back light illuminating the panel from the rear, the ageing and/or temperature properties of said light-permeable parts essentially corresponding to those of the light-permeable parts of the panel.
US07796112B2
A liquid crystal display and a driving method therefor comprises a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix; data lines and gate lines connected to the pixels; a signal controller processing first image data and a plurality of control signals from an external device and transmitting the processed first image data and control signals; and a data driver connected to the signal controller, wherein the signal controller divides the first image data into and sequentially processes a plurality of sets respectively including the first image data for at least two pixel rows, while delaying the remaining image data excluding the last image data among the first image data of each of the sets, and the data driver applies a charge sharing voltages as impulse voltages to the predetermined number of pixel rows during the delayed time, thereby displaying impulse images. In this way, since impulse images are displayed only by delaying image data within the same time and separate black image data are not transmitted, the data transmission frequency is not increased.
US07796106B2
A liquid crystal display including a substrate, first and second rows of pixels each formed on the substrate and including a plurality of pixels, a first gate line extending in a row direction on the substrate and connected to the first row of pixels, a second gate line extending in the row direction on the substrate and connected to the first and second rows of pixels, a third gate line extending in the row direction on the substrate and connected to the second row of pixels and first and second data lines extending in a column direction on the substrate to transmit data voltages to a pixel group consisting of three columns of pixels.
US07796105B2
A liquid crystal display and method for driving the liquid crystal display are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel assembly including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines, a plurality of switching elements connected to the gate lines and the data lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the switching elements, and a reference electrode opposing the pixel electrodes, a gate driver for applying gate signals to the gate lines to activate the switching elements, a data driver for applying data voltages that are be applied to the pixel electrodes to the data lines, and a reference voltage generator for generating first to third reference voltages to be respectively applied to first to third positions of the reference electrode, the first reference voltage being smaller than the third reference voltage and the third reference voltage being smaller than the second reference voltage, and the first position being closer to the gate driver than the third position and the third position being closer to the gate driver than the second position.
US07796096B2
Provided is a plasma display apparatus. The apparatus includes a plasma display panel having a plurality of discharge cells, and time-division driven by dividing a unit frame into a plurality of subfields, and a driver for supplying a reset signal for initializing the plurality of discharge cells to a scan electrode of the panel in a reset period. The driver supplies gradually rising setup signals to the scan electrode in reset periods of the plurality of subfields. An average slope of the setup signal supplied in a first subfield among the plurality of subfields is different from an average slope of the setup signal supplied in a second subfield.
US07796092B2
A broadband composite dipole array (CDA) includes an array of macro dipoles on a non-conducting substrate adapted to receive radiation at two frequencies. Each macro dipole is an array of micro dipoles adapted to receive radiation at substantially the mean of the two frequencies. The micro-dipoles are coupled to each other by a parallel resonant circuit including a nonlinear element, wherein the minimum impedance of the circuit is a substantially short circuit at the difference frequency f1−f2, and the circuit has a substantially open circuit impedance in the range of frequencies from f1 to f2. The micro dipoles resonate efficiently at both frequencies f1 and f2 with low-loss. The nonlinear element in the resonant circuit generates a signal at the difference frequency which is the resonant frequency of the macro dipole antenna. A composite of macro dipole antennas couple electromagnetically via a cluster of micro-dipole elements to broaden the bandwidth over a range of frequencies from f1 to f2 at which the macro dipole antenna resonates.
US07796090B2
The present invention relates to a compact multiband antenna constituted by a first dipole type element comprising a first conductive arm connected to a second conductive arm having the shape of a box, mounted on a ground plane, the first and the second arms being supplied differentially and a second element of the slot type realized on said ground plane in the extension of said second arm.
US07796085B2
An antenna 1 which is incorporated in a multilayer wiring board 2 has: radiating elements 11-1, 11-2, 11-3, and 11-4 which are laid on faces of A-, B-, and C-layers of the wiring board 2, respectively; power supplying portions 12-1, 12-2, 12-3, and 12-4 which are laid on the faces of the layers, respectively to supply an electric power to the radiating elements 11-1, 11-2, 11-3, and 11-4; short-circuiting portions 13-1, 13-2, 13-3, and 13-4 which are laid on the faces of the layers, respectively to ground the radiating elements 11-1, 11-2, 11-3, and 11-4; and a connecting portion 14 which penetrates the A-, B-, and C-layers of the wiring board 2, and through which the power supplying portions 12-1, 12-2, 12-3, and 12-4 are electrically connected to each other.
US07796084B2
A method for searching satellites in a cold start state. The method of the present invention, a first satellite, which is predetermined or randomly selected, is searched. Then, a second satellite to be searched is selected according to the searching result (hit or missed) for the first satellite and respective interrelationships between the first satellite and the other satellites. In practice, an initial weight factor table is provided. Depending on the searching result, the initial weight factor table is updated according to the interrelationships between the satellites during searching. By using the method of the present invention, the time-to-first-fix (TTFF) can be reduced to a shorter period of time so as to provide a rapid cold start satellite positioning.
US07796080B1
An imager comprising a sphere of dielectric material and a geodesically configured substrate disposed adjacent said sphere. The geodesically configured substrate comprises a plurality of triangularly shaped elements, at least selected ones of the triangularly shaped elements having an array of detectors disposed thereon, the detectors in the array also being disposed adjacent the dielectric sphere for receiving and detecting incoming electromagnetic waves delivered via said sphere.
US07796077B2
An analog to digital converter (ADC) containing a sub-ADC to resolve at least some of the bits using successive approximation principle (SAP), while providing various improvements. According to one aspect, another sub-ADC is used to resolve some of the bits in parallel. According to another aspect, the sub-ADC using SAP is implemented using a charge redistribution principle, while another sub-ADC does not rely on charge conservation. According to yet another aspect of the present invention, a same component operates as a comparator when the sub-ADC using SAP resolves the corresponding bits, and operates as an amplifier when the sub-ADC generates a residue signal.
US07796074B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a switched capacitor digital/analog converter is provided, for example providing gamma correction in liquid crystal displays. The converter includes a plurality of conversion capacitors including first plates connected to an output line and second plates connectable via electronic switches to first or second reference voltages in accordance with the values of corresponding bits of an input word. The converter also includes a plurality of terminating capacitors, at least one of which is switchable in or out of circuit depending on the value of at least one of the bits of the input word. By suitable choice of capacitance values and reference voltages, a wide range of non-linear transfer functions can be provided by the converter.
US07796072B2
Modulation circuits for operating in at least a first and second mode are described herein.
US07796065B2
Incoming decoded data (1), for example from an H264 decoder, is fed to an encoder unit (2) that entropy encodes the decoded data using a parallel encoding scheme that includes context-based arithmetic encoding. The syntax is chosen so that the context does not depend on the immediately previously encoded symbol. The output of the encoder (2) is fed to a FIFO memory whose output is fed to a complimentary decoder (4) whose output produces a delayed copy of the incoming decoded data (1).
US07796062B1
An apparatus and a method for enhancing digital processing implementation using non-power-of-two even count Gray coding are disclosed. The even count encoding device includes a first circuit, a second circuit, and a coding circuit. The first circuit, in one embodiment, is configured to identify a first portion of entries in a table in response to an input number. The second circuit is capable of determining a second portion of entries in the table in response to the input number, wherein the number of the first portion of entries and the number of the second portion of the entries are substantially the same. The coding circuit is operable to concatenate the second portion of the entries to the first portion of the entries to form an output table, which includes a sequence of even count integers wherein the difference between two adjacent integers is one bit position.
US07796058B2
In an apparatus and method of transforming a block of data elements, the order of the data elements is transformed. The data elements are stored in an initial order in respective ones of first and second memory elements, each first memory element corresponding to a respective second memory element. The contents of all respective pairs of the first and second memory elements are compared. The data elements in the second memory elements are shifted to different ones of the second memory elements after each comparison while maintaining the initial order of the data elements. The shifts and comparisons are repeated until every data element has been compared with every other data element. The results of the comparisons are combined after each comparison to provide a result that can be used to order the data elements to a final order.
US07796054B2
A computer implemented function monitors the position of the magneto switch in an aircraft to provide real-time feedback of engine RPM drop during a magneto (mag) check and communicates whether parameters are within limits. The function can also monitor engine and groundspeed/airspeed data in an aircraft to verify the magneto switch is in the correct position during engine start, takeoff and flight and can provide an alert to the pilot if the switch is not in the correct position. The automated magneto check function provides an easy way to test the operation of the aircraft's engine-driven magnetos and provides additional safety by alerting the pilot to unsafe positioning of the switch.
US07796053B2
An improved traffic light includes interval lights which are controlled by a control unit mounted to the light housing. The control unit allows the use of existing wiring and makes the light periods dynamic, that is, the traffic light periods can be responsive to changes in traffic flow as well as to the approach of emergency vehicles in real time.
US07796048B2
A polyphase source detecting circuit configured for detecting a polyphase source having at least two phase sources includes at least two sampling circuit and an alarm circuit. Each sampling circuit has a control switch. A control terminal of the control switch of each sampling circuit is connected to one of the phase sources of the polyphase source respectively. The alarm circuit has a first transistor, a first LED, and a second LED. The anodes of the first and second LEDs are connected to a power supply. The cathode of the first LED is connected to the gate of the first transistor and connected to ground via the control switches of the sampling circuits in turn. The cathode of the second LED is connected to the drain of the first transistor. The source of the first transistor grounded.
US07796034B2
A method and system for controlling lighting in a space reduces energy consumption of the light sources by changing at least one of the color rendering index (CRI) and the correlated color temperature (CCT) while maintaining illumination levels. Preferably, the method and system sense movement of people in the space relative to light sources that light the space, and automatically and individually adjust plural solid state lighting devices that form each of the respective light sources to a first lighting condition when people are in a first position, wherein the lamps respectively emit light of a first illumination level and a first CRI at a first electrical power level, and to a second lighting condition when people are in a second position, wherein the light sources respectively emit light of the first illumination level and a smaller CRI than the first CRI and at a lower electrical power level than the first electrical power level.
US07796030B2
A high power LED Housing consisting of one or more LED to form a LED assembly fitted into a metal body having an upper portion with a gripping means and a lower portion with a fitting means and a base. The LED assembly is connected by electrical wire to a base of the metal body, the base of the metal body having an electrical contact.By means of the gripping means, the LED housing can be installed or removed from a socket shaped to receive the LED housing.The LED housing can be assembled into panels of LED housing which can be fitted with electrical and electronic circuits to monitor and control the operation of the LED housing for various applications.
US07796029B2
An event detection system includes a processor, an electronic tracking device, and one or more transmitters. Each of the one or more transmitters can be configured to be associated with a particular individual of a group of individuals. The processor can be configured to cluster data from the one or more transmitters, and the processor can be configured to analyze the clustered data to determine one or more behavior patterns among the group of individuals. In an embodiment, video data can be combined with the electronic tracking device data in the event detection system.
US07796027B1
Articles of footwear, such as shoes, are worn by personnel whose movements are the subject of a location based human logistics study. The articles of footwear each contain a location determining apparatus, such as a GPS receiver, and a communications module, such as a cellular phone module. The articles of footwear each report their respective locations to a central monitoring station. However, each wearer of each article of footwear has the ability to “opt out” of the monitoring and tracking process whereby his privacy is maintained after work and during breaks. On the other hand management reports can be generated based on triggering events and based upon personnel who have chosen to “opt out” of the monitoring and tracking for extended periods of time.
US07796023B2
Systems and methods for providing registration at a remote site that may include, for example, a monitoring module that may communicate with a remote site. A registration protocol may be used by the monitoring module and the remote site in generating the messages communicated during the registration process. The monitoring module may gather and generate various identification information to be included in the registration protocol messages. The registration information provided by the monitoring module may be stored at the remote site in a database server having a database. A confirmation message may be communicated from the remote site to the monitoring module that may either acknowledge successful registration or report that an error occurred during the registration process.
US07796017B2
A capacitance type seat occupant sensor system of a vehicle includes an AC electric power source, a main electrode disposed at a seat of the vehicle to form an electric field between the main electrode and the body of the vehicle, a guard electrode disposed between a seat frame and the main electrode, a switch unit for establishing connection of the guard electrode to have the same potential as the main electrode to provide a seat occupant sensing mode, an impedance calculating unit for calculating an impedance of a sensing circuit based on the AC voltage and an amount of current flowing through the sensing circuit, a real-part-and-imaginary-part calculating unit and judging unit for discriminating an occupant on the seat based on at least the imaginary part of the first impedance. The impedance calculating unit calculates a first impedance of an electric circuit including the main electrode when the switch means provides the seat occupant sensing mode, and the real-part-and-imaginary-part calculating unit calculates the real part and the imaginary part of the impedance.
US07796016B2
A radio communication system performs data communication by a backscatter system using absorption and reflection of a received radio wave. In the system, a data reading device transmits an unmodulated carrier of frequency fO; a data transmitting device subjects transmission data to primary modulation using a center frequency fS to obtain a primary modulated signal, and subjects the primary modulated signal to secondary modulation by multiplying the primary modulated signal by an input of the unmodulated carrier of the backscatter system to generate a reflected modulated wave in which one of frequencies fO+fS and fO−fS is suppressed; and the data reading device receives the reflected modulated wave from the data transmitting device.
US07796003B2
A multi-parallel magnetic-filed cancellation type transformer includes a plurality of coils which generate magnetic flux during energization and a core having a plurality of magnetic leg portions on which the coils are wound, and bases for fixing the magnetic leg portions. The plurality of coils are wound on the magnetic leg portions in such a manner that the magnetic flux generated from the coils are formed in the directions opposite to each other. A plurality of closed magnetic circuits of the magnetic flux are formed at the magnetic leg portions and the bases. The magnetic resistance of the closed magnetic circuits is homogeneous. Accordingly, the transformer can reduce the size thereof, and prevent the deterioration of electric power conversion efficiency.
US07796002B2
There is provided a magnetic field generator for MRI 10 applicable to a variety of magnetic field generators, and capable of preventing separation of permanent magnets 20 which constitute permanent magnet groups 14a, 14b. The magnetic field generator for MRI 10 includes a pair of permanent magnet groups 14a, 14b. The pair of permanent magnet groups 14a, 14b each including a plurality of permanent magnets 20 bonded to each other, are opposed to each other with a space in between. The permanent magnet groups 14a, 14b have projections 18 projecting more outward than the area of contact with respective pole pieces 16a, 16b. A flange-shaped member 34 is attached to each outer circumferential surface of the pole pieces 16a, 16b, covering a space-facing surface 18a of the projection 18.
US07795996B2
A multilayered coplanar waveguide (CPW) filter unit and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A plate having a capacitance element is formed on or below a CPW layer including a signal line for transmitting a signal and a ground plane. As the filter unit has a multilayered structure, characteristic impedance may be reduced without increasing the width of the signal line. Where an inductor line is inserted between the signal line and the plate, a clear frequency response curve may be obtained without performing an additional process or increasing the area of the filter unit.
US07795977B2
A bootstrapped class AB CMOS output circuit and method for generating a class AB output are disclosed. The bootstrapped class AB CMOS output circuit has a voltage offset circuit coupled to an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor. The voltage offset circuit has a capacitor bootstrapped between the NMOS transistor and the PMOS transistor to establish a voltage offset between the NMOS transistor and the PMOS transistor to effect a class AB output. The method for generating a class AB output in a semiconductor device having a capacitor coupled to the NMOS transistor and the PMOS transistor includes providing a voltage offset across the capacitor to effect a class AB output.
US07795966B2
According to an exemplary embodiment, a balanced amplifier includes an in-phase amplifier coupled to a first input port of an output coupler and a quadrature amplifier coupled to a second input port of the output coupler. The balanced amplifier further includes an impedance termination coupled to an isolated port of the output coupler. The balanced amplifier further includes a protection circuit coupled to the isolated port of the output coupler and configured to limit an amount of power applied across the impedance termination. The balanced amplifier further includes an input coupler having a first output port coupled to an input of the in-phase amplifier and a second output port coupled to an input of the quadrature amplifier.
US07795941B2
A frame pulse signal latch circuit has: a pulse-width expanding unit which outputs a frame pulse signal FPIN having a pulse width longer than a m-clock cycle; a phase adjustment unit which generates a phase-adjusted output clock CLK′; a flip-flop which latches the frame pulse signal FPIN; a racing detection unit which generates signals, which are shifted by one to m clocks with respect to a frame pulse signal FPOUT, and detects a racing state based on a result of an AND operation of the frame pulse signal FPOUT and the clock-shifted signals; and a control unit which sequentially selects and directs different phase adjustment amounts to the phase adjustment unit, determines an optimal phase adjustment amount based on a worst phase adjustment amount of the case in which the racing state is detected, and gives a direction about the optimal phase adjustment amount to the phase adjustment unit.
US07795936B2
A data center tracking circuit includes a clock tree, a sensing block, and a delay compensation block. The clock tree includes a plurality of clock buffers connected in series, buffers a clock, and outputs an output signal. The sensing block senses the phase change of the output signal on the basis of the clock, and outputs a sensing signal. The delay compensation block adjusts current to be supplied to the clock tree in response to the sensing signal, and adjusts the phase of the output signal.
US07795935B2
Provided herein are approaches for controlling remote slave DLL circuits with a master DLL circuit by conveying a relevant bias signal as a current signal instead of as a voltage signal.
US07795927B2
A digital circuit with adaptive resistance to single event upset. A novel transient filter is placed within the feedback loop of each latch in the digital circuit to reject pulses having a width less than T, where T is the longest anticipated duration of transients. The transient filter includes a first logic element having a controllable inertial delay and a second logic element coupled to an output of the first logic element. A first controller provides a control voltage VcR to each first logic element to control a rise time of the first logic element to be equal to T. A second controller provides a control voltage VcF to each first logic element to control a fall time of the first logic element to be equal to T.
US07795925B2
A phase difference detector for detecting a phase difference between input clocks which both have a same first frequency, including: a pulse width conversion unit for converting the input clocks into a phase difference signal indicating by a pulse width a phase difference between the input clocks; and a counter unit which samples a level of the phase difference signal using a reference clock having a second frequency which is slower than the first frequency, and counts the number of levels of the phase difference signal using a first weighting according to the sampled level of the phase difference signal. When the count value of the counter unit transits in a predetermined range, the phase difference between the input clocks is detected according to the first weighting.
US07795910B1
A field-programmable gate-array (FPGA) includes a first memory cell having (i) a plurality of states, (ii) a first end, and (iii) a second end; a first configurable logic block (CLB) having an output directly coupled to the first end of the first memory cell; a second memory cell having (i) a plurality of states, (ii) a first end, and (iii) a second end; and a second CLB having an input directly coupled to the first end of the second memory cell. The output of the first CLB communicates with the input of the second CLB via (i) the second end of the first memory cell and (ii) the second end of the second memory cell based on (i) the state of the first memory cell and (ii) the state of the second memory cell. Each of the first memory cell and the second memory cell includes a single-transistor memory cell of nonvolatile memory.
US07795907B1
A novel implementation of a majority gate and a 2-1 MUX by using both gates of FinFET transistors as inputs is presented. A general methodology of using both gates of FinFET as inputs to implement any digital logic circuit is also presented. Circuits implemented using this methodology have significant advantages over CMOS logic counterpart and pass transistor logic counterpart in terms of power consumption and cell area.
US07795902B1
An integrated circuit device includes an output buffer having a capacitance circuit configurable in a slew rate configuration or a decoupling configuration. In the slew rate configuration, the capacitance circuit electrically couples a capacitor of the capacitance circuit in a feedback path for reducing a slew rate of a buffered output signal generated by the output buffer. In the decoupling configuration, the capacitance circuit electrically couples the capacitor between a power potential and a ground potential of the output buffer for increasing power noise immunity of the output buffer. The output buffer may have more than capacitance circuit, each of which is individually configurable into the slew rate configuration or the decoupling configuration.
US07795898B2
A fan having a function for detecting a fault such as a breakage or a loss of a rotating part of the fan as well as reduction in the rotational speed of the fan, the function being not affected by an operating condition of the fan. The fan includes a stationary part, a rotating part rotatably attached to the stationary part, a first electric circuit arranged on the rotating part, a second electric circuit arranged on the stationary part, the second electric circuit being electromagnetically connected to the first circuit, and a fault detecting circuit electrically connected to the second electric circuit, for detecting a fault of the rotating part.
US07795895B2
A test system for testing operability of integrated circuits includes: a first IC, for modulating a first signal to generate a first modulated signal and transmitting the first modulated signal, and for receiving a second modulated signal and demodulating the second modulated signal to generate a second signal; a first loop antenna, coupled to the first IC, for receiving the first modulated signal and sending the first modulated signal back to the first IC as the second modulated signal; and a tester circuit coupled to the first IC, for generating the first signal to the first IC, receiving the second signal from the first IC, and comparing the first signal and the second signal to determine the operability of the first IC.
US07795894B1
A multiple integrated circuit arrangement within a single package is provided. The arrangement includes a set of dies, which is encapsulated within the single package. The arrangement also includes a built-in-self-test (BIST) arrangement, which is at least partly encapsulated within the single package. The BIST arrangement is configured for at least performing a test on at least a first die of the set of dies.
US07795890B2
A reduced ground spring probe array and a method for controlling the impedance of the signal spring probes in the reduced ground spring probe array. Signal spring probes are positioned in a row-column format across the surface of the spring probe tower. Ground spring probes are positioned in a row/alternating-column format across the surface of the spring probe tower such that one ground probe is positioned between two or more signal probes. In doing so, a void space exists for every other ground probe column such that one or more signal lines may be routed within the void space or the array may be compressed to establish a smaller overall spring probe tower footprint.
US07795886B2
In a surface voltmeter (1), a surface voltage on a measurement area on a semiconductor substrate (9) on which an insulating film is formed is measured while applying light to the measurement area. With this operation, a voltage induced on a main body of the substrate (9) by charge which is charged on a surface of the insulating film is balanced out. Consequently, it is possible to measure a surface voltage on the measurement area with high accuracy. Since an electrode wiring (164) used for application of an electrode voltage to an electrode (12) extends from the electrode (12) in a direction away from the substrate (9) along a vibration direction, it is possible to prevent influences of noises caused by vibration of the electrode wiring (164) in vibrating the electrode (12) and to measure the surface voltage on the measurement area more accurately.
US07795877B2
A power line communication device is provided that in one embodiment includes a parameter sensor device configured to measure a parameter of a power line, a modem configured to transmit parameter data over a power line, and a controller communicatively coupled to the current sensor device and modem. The parameter sensor device may include a current sensor device that includes a Rogowski coil. For measuring the current or other parameter of a higher voltage power line conductor, the parameter sensor device may be configured to provide data to the controller via a non-conductive communication link, such as via a wireless, fiber optic, or radio frequency transponder link. In addition, the parameter sensor device may include an isolated power source and receive power via a fiber optic conductor or inductively from the power line.
US07795874B1
The method of estimation of the state of charge of a lead acid battery comprises measuring the open circuit voltage difference between an integrated liquid junction reference electrode and a negative battery terminal during at least one cut-off period. It further comprises determination of the sign of the current though the battery prior to cut-off and estimation of the state of charge on the basis of the open circuit voltage difference and, according to the sign of the current, respectively of a charge or a discharge calibration curve, previously determined during a calibration procedure. The cut-off period has preferably a duration of at least 5 minutes.
US07795872B2
To determine effect on a magnetic field caused by a lining structure in a wellbore, an array may be deployed into the wellbore lined with the lining structure. The array comprises a plurality of sensors including sensor A configured to operate as a transmitter, sensor B configured to operate as either a transmitter or a receiver, and sensor C configured to operate as a receiver. The array measures magnetic fields using sensor B as a receiver and sensor C in response to activation of sensor B as a transmitter and sensor A. A plurality of lining structure correction factors can be calculated based on the measured magnetic fields, based on the reciprocity of the sensors.
US07795869B1
Techniques for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) including obtaining a plurality of MRI images acquired at different echo times subsequent to an excitation pulse applied to a sample which is being imaged, performing a curve-fitting for a specified variation in each pixel of the MRI images, and using fitted parameters for the specified variation in the MRI images to synthesize the MRI images to form an image at any echo time with reduced noise. Performing singular value decomposition to determine the types of variation in each pixel of the MRI images and using only the most significant variations to synthesize the MRI images to form an image with reduced noise.
US07795868B2
A method for performing magnetic resonance spectroscopy is described. The method generally includes applying a tailored multiband spectral-spatial radio frequency excitation pulse to a sample including a first species and at least a second species having a different resonant frequency than the first species. The multiband excitation pulse excites the first species according to a first amplitude and excites the second species according to a second amplitude that is substantially greater than the first amplitude. Data is acquired from the sample. The acquired data is then utilized to generate a spectroscopic output. By way of example, the spectroscopic output is a spectroscopic image. In particular embodiments, the data for the first and second species is acquired dynamically over an observation window of time.
US07795865B2
A method and device for forecasting and detecting a polishing endpoint and real time film thickness monitoring capable of suppressing to a minimum Joule heat loss due to an eddy current, and precisely forecasting and detecting the polishing endpoint, and precisely calculating a remaining film amount to be removed and a polishing rate. A high frequency inductor sensor is positioned close to the conductive film, and monitors a flux change induced in the conductive film. When a film thickness becomes a film thickness corresponding to a skin depth of the conductive film a method of calculating on the spot a polishing rate and a remaining film amount to be removed is provided.
US07795855B2
Two step driving technique is used to turn on the power switch of a power management apparatus in such a manner that the power switch is weakly turned on first and then goes into a low ON-resistance region. The power switch is so avoided to operate at highest gate and drain voltages simultaneously even a non-uniform turn on happens, and is thereby away from avalanche breakdown. The safe operation region of the power management apparatus is therefore extended with minimum efficiency degradation.
US07795850B2
A voltage regulator coupled to an unregulated DC input voltage source by an input terminal, and to a load by an output terminal is disclosed. The voltage regulator converts an input voltage at the input terminal to an output voltage at the output terminal. The voltage regulator includes one or more slaves, and each slave includes a switching circuit which serves as a power switch for alternately coupling and decoupling the input terminal to an intermediate node. Each slave can include a high-side power transistor having a drain connected to the input terminal and a source connected to the intermediate node, and a low-side power transistor having a source connected to ground and a drain connected to the intermediate node. Each slave can act as a switching circuit to alternate between coupling the intermediate node to the input terminal and between the intermediate node to a ground.
US07795849B2
A control circuit for a synchronous rectification switching regulator including an output terminal, a switching transistor, an inductor, and a synchronous rectification transistor has a control part configured to control switching of the switching transistor to charge the inductor to and set a voltage output from the output terminal to a predetermined voltage, which causes the synchronous rectification transistor to switch reversely to the switching transistor and discharge the inductor, and backflow prevention part configured to block a current flowing in the synchronous rectification transistor to prevent a backflow current that flows in a direction from the output terminal to the synchronous rectification transistor. The backflow prevention part detects a forward current and regulates timing to block the current flowing in the synchronous rectification transistor and to regulate a time period from blocking the current flowing in the synchronous rectification transistor to determining that the forward current is zero.
US07795823B2
The present invention provides an actuation device having a shape memory alloy component. The present invention utilizes a length contraction occurred to the shape memory alloy component during its phase transformation from martensite to austenite. The length contraction causes a slider, a carrier and a base to move relatively. Also, the present invention utilizes thermal conductivity of the base to speed up heat dissipation of the shape memory alloy component, so that response time for actuating the carrier can be reduced.
US07795822B2
A light source controller includes a light source driver, a light amount sensor, a memory configured to store property information indicating a relationship between the drive current and the outgoing light amount for each level of the environmental temperature of the solid-state light source, and a controller configured to control the drive current supplied from the light source driver. The controller obtains the property information corresponding to the environmental temperature of the solid-state light source according to the relationship between the drive current and the outgoing light amount, and controls the drive current according to the obtained property information so as to bring the outgoing light amount close to a target light amount.
US07795813B2
A lamp is provided having terminal pins mounted on and extending outwardly along a longitudinal axis of an end cap of the lamp. The pins are offset relative to one another along the longitudinal axis. The end cap has semi-circular, parallel surfaces with an asymmetrical section or recess at one end, and the pins extend outwardly from the respective semi-circular, parallel surfaces. A barrier wall extends substantially perpendicularly between the semi-circular surfaces.
US07795811B2
A PDP having display electrodes formed on a front glass substrate, a dielectric layer, and a protective film is provided, where the protective film is a metal oxide film which includes magnesium oxide, and the product of the film thickness at any arbitrary point in the protective film and the ratio of the maximum luminescence intensity of light emission having a wavelength between 400 nm and 450 nm to the maximum luminescence intensity of light emission having a wavelength between 330 nm and 370 nm as measured in accordance with the cathode luminescence method at the arbitrary point has variation within a range of ±15% as the distribution within the surface of the protective film.
US07795805B2
An organic light emitting device includes a first electrode for providing holes, a second electrode facing the first electrode and providing electrons, an organic luminescent layer interposed between the first and second electrodes, and an electron transfer layer disposed between the second electrode and the organic luminescent layer, wherein the electron transfer layer is a single layer including electron transfer members so that the electron transfer layer injects and transports electrons to the organic luminescent layer while preventing holes from the first electrode from flowing into the electron transfer layer.
US07795804B2
The present invention provides an organic light emitting display comprising: a substrate; thin film transistors positioned on the substrate and comprising a source electrode and a drain electrode; an organic light emitting diode comprising a first electrode connected to the source electrode and the drain electrode of one of the thin film transistors, an emission layer positioned on the first electrode and a second electrode positioned on the emission layer; and a capacitor comprising a first storage electrode positioned on the same layer as the source electrode and the drain electrode, a second storage electrode positioned on the same layer as the first electrode, and an insulating layer positioned between the two storage electrodes.
US07795798B2
A transparent white fluorescent glass is provided which contains a soda lime glass as a base material, 0.8 to 2.5 wt % of Sn, calculated as SnO, and 0.045 wt % or less of Fe, calculated as Fe2O3, and a transparent white fluorescent glass which contains the soda lime glass as a base material, 0.8 to 2.5 wt % of Sn, calculated as SnO, and 0.02 to 0.14 wt % of Ce, calculated as CeO2. This fluorescent glass can be suitably used for producing at low cost a large plate material having a size that is several tens of centimeters or more that is easy and simple to operate and exhibits satisfactory white fluorescence by ultraviolet ray irradiation.
US07795791B2
A spark plug for igniting gases in an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The spark plug has a center electrode, an insulator, a one-piece shell, and a terminal. The center electrode is in communication with an energy source. The insulator surrounds the center electrode. The one-piece shell surrounds and contacts the insulator for securing the insulator within the shell, wherein the shell has a plurality of threads near a first end and a ground electrode attached to the shell and aligned with a tip of the center electrode at a second end to define a spark gap. Further, a seat is formed in the shell between the plurality of threads and the ground electrode for sealing the shell against the engine. The terminal has a first end in communication with the center electrode and a second end which has a connector portion for connecting to the energy source.
US07795786B2
In an ultrasonic probe in which individual wires led out from multilayered piezoelectric elements are arranged in a staggered manner, short-circuit is prevented. Each of the elements includes: a multilayered structure in which piezoelectric material layers and at least one internal electrode are stacked; first and second flat electrodes; first and second side electrodes; an insulating film formed at a second side surface side of the multilayered structure; a wiring member bonded to the first flat electrode on the one end of the multilayered structure by using a conducting adhesive material; and the wiring member is provided at the second side surface side of the multilayered structure and the insulating film electrically separates the second side electrode and the conducting adhesive material in a first element, and the wiring member is provided at a first side surface side of the multilayered structure in a second element.
US07795784B2
An ultrasound transducer includes one or more microbeamformer integrated circuit chips, an array of acoustic elements, and a redistribution interconnect coupled via conductive elements between the one or more integrated circuit chips and the array of acoustic elements. The one or more microbeamformer integrated circuit chips each include a plurality of bond pads separated from adjacent ones thereof by a first pitch set. The acoustic elements of the array are separated from adjacent ones thereof by a second pitch set, the second pitch set being different from the first pitch set. In addition, the redistribution interconnect couples on a first side of the redistribution interconnect to the one or more microbeamformer integrated circuit chips via conductive elements. The redistribution interconnect couples on a second side to the array of transducer elements via conductive elements. The redistribution interconnect provides an interconnection between the bond pads of the one or more microbeamformer integrated circuit chips with the first pitch set with corresponding ones of the acoustic elements of the array with the second pitch set.
US07795783B2
Transducer assemblies and methods of replacing having a housing, a removable diaphragm, and a sealing diaphragm. The transducer assembly may be used with a spool piece to prevent fluid from escaping from the spool piece when parts of the transducer assembly are removed.
US07795781B2
According to an exemplary embodiment, a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator includes a piezoelectric layer having a disrupted texture region, where the disrupted texture region is situated in a controlled thickness region of the BAW resonator. The BAW resonator further includes lower and upper electrodes situated on opposite surfaces of the piezoelectric layer. The controlled thickness region has controlled electromechanical coupling and includes a segment of material situated over the upper electrode. The segment of material can be a metal or a dielectric material. The disrupted texture region can be situated at an edge of the BAW resonator and can extend along a perimeter of the BAW resonator.
US07795780B2
A phase-locked loop for controlling an electromechanical component comprises a digitally controlled oscillator (10), a phase comparator (20), and a digital loop filter (30). The digitally controlled oscillator (10) has an output (11), at which an oscillator signal (SOSC) can be picked up and which can be coupled to a first terminal (51) of the electromechanical component (50). The phase comparator (20) comprises a first input (21), which is coupled to the output (11) of the digitally controlled oscillator (10), and a second input (22), which can be coupled to the first terminal (51) or to a second terminal (52) of the electromechanical component (50) for feeding a current signal (S3). The digital loop filter (30) is connected between the phase comparator (20) and the digitally controlled oscillator (10).
US07795779B2
A contactless SAW based torque and temperature sensor includes three SAW resonators 2, 3, 4 mounted on a common substrate 1 made of Y+34° cut of quartz. The first SAW 2 has its principle axis inclined at +45° to the X-axis of the substrate, which, in use, is either aligned with the longitudinal axis of a device whose torque is to be measured or is perpendicular thereto, and the second SAW 3 has its principle axis inclined at 135 degrees to the X-axis of the substrate. The third SAW 4 is positioned with its principle axis inclined at an angle, preferably in the range of 0 to 30 degrees, to the principle axis of both the first 2 and second 3 resonators so that none of the SAWs are parallel, the third SAW 4 enabling temperature measurements to be taken.
US07795777B2
Each of first and second pole cores has a boss portion, six core flange portions; and six claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, the first and second pole cores being disposed such that the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions face each other so as to intermesh and leading end surfaces of the boss portions are abutted with each other. The boss portions include coil mount portions in which cross-sectional shapes that are perpendicular to the central axis are hexagons; and abutted portions that have circular cross sections and that are disposed so as to protrude from leading ends of the coil mount portions. Radially-inner surfaces of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions face side surfaces of the coil mount portions and are parallel to the side surfaces of the coil mount portions at the cross sections that are perpendicular to the central axis.
US07795776B2
An oscillation damping system for stator windings is provided which includes a supporting component of an end winding. The supporting component is equipped with damping elements, which are arranged asymmetrically in the circumferential direction in order to suppress excited natural oscillations. Masses or springs and screw-type restraints which connect the supporting component to the stator housing are suitable as damping elements.
US07795774B2
A claw pole type motor includes first and second claw poles opposed to each other and each including a radial yoke portion having an inner diameter side and an outer diameter side, a plurality of pole portions arranged on the inner diameter side, and axially extended, and an outer peripheral side yoke portion extending on the outer diameter side. A stator core is provided having an inner diameter side, and is formed so as to cause the pole portions of the first claw pole to be meshed with the pole portions of the second claw pole. A rotor is arranged on the inner diameter side of the stator core with a circumferential gap being defined therebetween. In order to provide high efficiency while simplifying manufacturing, the first and second claw poles are formed by compacting of magnetic powder.
US07795771B2
A rotor of an electrical machine has at least one hollow-cylindrical, first permanent magnet with axial bearing surfaces that interact with at least one retaining element and with a sensor magnet assembly, and the first permanent magnet and the sensor magnet assembly are retained axially between two retaining elements.
US07795760B2
In accordance with various aspects of the present invention, a method and circuit for reducing power consumption of a power module during idle conditions is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a power module is configured for reducing power during idle mode by disengaging at least one power output from a power input. A power module may include one or more power outputs and one or more power module circuits, with power input connected to the power outputs through the power module circuit(s). The power module circuit may include a current measuring system, a control circuit, and a switch. The current measuring system provides an output power level signal that is proportional to the load at the power output. If current measuring system behavior indicates that a power output is drawing substantially no power from the power input, the switch disengages the power input from the power output.
US07795757B2
A system for managing electrical power has a plurality of storage devices. A plurality of DC-DC power converters are provided wherein one DC-DC power converter is coupled to each of the plurality of storage devices. Outputs of the plurality of DC-DC power converters are coupled in parallel to form a distribution bus. A plurality of sensors is coupled to the outputs of the plurality of DC-DC power converters for power monitoring of the system. A control unit is coupled to the plurality of sensors and to the plurality of DC-DC power converters to regulate an output signal of each DC-DC power converter based on signals received from the sensors
US07795750B2
A method an apparatus for operating an underwater power plant including a support structure; at least one turbine; at least one electric machine configured to be operated as a generator or a motor, the at least one electric machine being in an at least indirect drive connection with the at least one turbine and the at least one electric machine in a motive operation is configured to drive the at least one turbine to produce a propulsive power; and a spacer element between the at least one turbine and the support structure, wherein the at least one turbine is attached to one end of the spacer element and a pivot joint to the support structure is attached to an opposing end of the spacer element, a linkage point of the pivot joint having an eccentricity which is a lateral offset to a force action line of the propulsive power.
US07795749B1
Oceanic tidal energy sources hydroelectric generating system coupled to a primary tidal reservoir through a bi-directional tideway exciting a primary turbine as a diurnal cycle tide waxes and wanes. A secondary tidal reservoir includes a tideway and secondary turbine with flow modulated by a gradated control of a sluice gate to proportionately blend reserve tidewater capacity of the secondary tidal reservoir as a delayed resource of virtual tidal influx and reflux. An aggregate summation of tidal energy acting upon the turbine driven generators delivers a constant flow of electric power throughout the diurnal tidal cycle. A tertiary tidal reservoir operating in alternation with the secondary tidal reservoir optimizes the secondary turbine drive during slack-tide. Shunting excess tidal energy around the turbines during periods of reduced power-demand supplements tidal resources in subsequent phases of the diurnal tidal day when solar-day related power-demand may increase.
US07795722B2
A substrate structure is disclosed. The substrate structure includes a core substrate, an interconnection portion and a solder mask. The core substrate includes a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface. A circuit pattern is disposed on the top surface. The interconnection portion is disposed on the top surface; herein the interconnection portion includes a surface dielectric layer and a surface circuit layer disposed on the surface dielectric layer. The surface circuit layer is electrically connected to the circuit pattern. The solder mask is disposed on the interconnection portion; herein the solder mask includes a hole to identify the substrate structure. Besides, a method for manufacturing the substrate structure is disclosed.
US07795708B2
A magnetic shield is presented. The shield may be used to protect a microelectronic device from stray magnetic fields. The shield includes at least two layers. A first layer includes a magnetic material that may be used to block DC magnetic fields. A second layer includes a conductive material that may be used to block AC magnetic fields. Depending on the type of material that the first and second layers include, a third layer may be inserted in between the first and second layers. The third layer may include a non-conductive material that may be used to ensure that separate eddy current regions form in the first and second layers.
US07795698B2
An image pickup apparatus having plural light receiving areas arranged two-dimensionally, and vertical and horizontal scanning circuits composed of plural unit circuit stages arranged in the vertical and horizontal directions, respectively. The vertical and horizontal scanning circuits are arranged in spaces between the light receiving areas, wherein for unit circuit groups each constituted by two unit circuits of the horizontal or vertical scanning circuits, the unit circuit groups are arranged at a constant pitch.
US07795690B2
The invention relates to a thin film transistor substrate for use in a liquid crystal display device and a method of fabricating the same, and an object is to provide a thin film transistor substrate which can ensure high reliability even though a low resistance metal is used in a material for a gate electrode and a predetermined wiring and a method of fabricating the same. A TFT substrate has a gate electrode in a multilayer structure configured of an AlN film as a nitrogen containing layer, an Al film as a main wiring layer and an upper wiring layer formed of an MoN film and an Mo film. On the gate electrode whose side surface inclines gently, a gate insulating film of excellent film quality is formed.
US07795685B2
A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor substrate includes forming a transistor thin layer pattern, forming a protecting layer, forming a photoresist film, forming a pixel electrode and a conductive layer that are separated from each other, stripping a photoresist pattern to remove the conductive layer using a stripping composition and dissolving the conductive layer. The method of manufacturing a thin film transistor substrate is capable of improving an efficiency of manufacturing process of the thin film transistor substrate. In addition, the stripping composition is recycled.
US07795684B2
An active device array substrate including a substrate, a plurality of pixel units, a plurality of first conductive lines, a plurality of second conductive lines, a lead line, at least one first electrostatic discharge protection circuit, and at least one second electrostatic discharge protection circuit is provided. The pixel units are arranged on the substrate. Additionally, the first conductive lines and the second conductive lines are disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the pixel units respectively. Moreover, the lead line crosses the first conductive lines. The first electrostatic discharge protection circuit is disposed at one side of the lead line, and the second electrostatic discharge protection circuit corresponding to the first electrostatic discharge protection circuit is disposed at the other side of the lead line.
US07795683B2
A structure of a thin film transistor and a method for making the same are provided. The structure includes a strip-shaped silicon island, a gate, and a first and second ion doping regions. The strip-shaped silicon island is a thin film region with a predetermined long side and short side, and farther has a plurality of lateral grain boundaries substantially parallel to the short side of the silicon island. The gate is located over the silicon island and substantially parallel to the lateral grain boundaries. The first and second ion doping regions, used as source/drain regions of the TFT, are located at two sides along the long side of the island and substantially perpendicular to the gate.
US07795680B2
An integrated circuit system that includes: providing a substrate; depositing a dielectric on the substrate; depositing an isolation dielectric on the dielectric; forming a trench through the isolation dielectric and the dielectric to expose the substrate; depositing a dielectric liner over the integrated circuit system; processing the dielectric liner to form a trench spacer; and depositing an epitaxial growth within the trench that includes a crystalline orientation that is substantially identical to the substrate.
US07795674B2
An embodiment of an N-channel device has a lightly doped substrate in which adjacent or spaced-apart P and N wells are provided. A lateral isolation wall surrounds at least a portion of the substrate and is spaced apart from the wells. A first gate overlies the P well or the substrate between the wells or partly both. A second gate, spaced apart from the first gate, overlies the N-well. A body contact to the substrate is spaced apart from the isolation wall by a first distance within the space charge region of the substrate to isolation wall PN junction. When the body contact is connected to the second gate, a predetermined static bias Vg2 is provided to the second gate, depending upon the isolation wall bias (Vbias) and the first distance.
US07795671B2
A high voltage semiconductor device, such as a RESURF transistor, having improved properties, including reduced on state resistance. The device includes a semiconductor substrate; a source region and a drain region provided in the substrate; wherein the source region and the drain region are laterally spaced from each other; and a drift region in the substrate between the source region and the drain region. The drift region includes a structure having at least two spaced trench capacitors extending between the source region and the drain region; and further includes a stack having at least a first region of a first conductivity type, a second region of a second conductivity type, and a third region of the first conductivity type, wherein the stack extends between the source region and the drain region and between the at least first and second trench capacitors and in electrical connection to the first and second trench capacitors. When the device is in an on state, current flows between the source and drain regions through the second region of the second conductivity type; and, when the device is in an off/blocking state, the second conductivity region is depleted four ways into the first and third regions of the stack and into the first and second trench capacitors.
US07795670B2
The semiconductor device includes an active region, a recess channel region, a storage node junction region, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. The active region is defined by a device isolation structure formed in a semiconductor substrate, wherein a lower part of sidewalls of the active region is recessed. The recess channel is formed in the semiconductor substrate under the active region, wherein the recess channel has a vertical channel region and a horizontal channel region. The storage node junction region is formed over the device isolation structure and the semiconductor substrate. The gate insulating film is formed over the active region including the recess channel region. The gate electrode is formed over the gate insulating film to fill up the recess channel region.
US07795669B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a FinFET device includes: one or more fins, a dummy fin, a gate line, a gate contact landing pad, and a gate contact element. Each of the fins extends in a first direction above a substrate. The dummy fin extends in parallel with the fins in the first direction above the substrate. The gate line extends in a second direction above the substrate, and partially wraps around the fins. The gate contact landing pad is positioned adjacent to or above the dummy fin and electrically coupled to the gate line. The gate contact element is electrically coupled to the gate contact landing pad and is positioned to the top surface thereof.
US07795665B2
A flash memory comprising a substrate, a stacked structure over the substrate, a source, a drain and a source-side spacer is provided. The stacked structure includes a tunneling oxide layer, a floating gate on the tunneling oxide layer, an inter-gate dielectric layer on the floating gate and a control gate on the inter-gate dielectric layer. The source and the drain are disposed in the substrate on the sides of the floating gate, respectively. The source-side spacer is disposed on a sidewall of the stacked structure near the source, thereby preventing the tunneling oxide layer and the inter-gate dielectric layer near the source from being re-oxidized, resulting in an increased thickness.
US07795653B2
An electronic device can include a first radiation region, a second radiation region spaced apart from the first radiation region, and an insulating region. The insulating region can have a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The first radiation region can lie immediately adjacent to the first side, and the second radiation region can lie immediately adjacent to the second side. Within the insulating region, no other radiation region may lie between the first and second radiation regions, and the insulating region can include an insulating layer that includes a plurality of openings. In another aspect, a process for forming the electronic device can include patterning an insulating layer.
US07795643B2
A cell array includes a semiconductor substrate including an active region comprising a first region, a second region, and a transition region, the second region being separated from the first region by the transition region, wherein a top surface of the second region is at a different level than a top surface of the first region. The cell array also includes a plurality of word lines crossing over the first region. The cell array also includes a selection line crossing over the active region, wherein at least a portion of the selection line is located over the transition region.
US07795637B2
The present invention relates a technique using a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) in a rail based non-breakdown (RBNB) ESD protection device that protects a micro chip from ESD stress.To this end, an ESD protection circuit of the present invention comprises: a detection unit for detecting a rising time of a signal flowing into first and second power lines; a pre-driver for buffering and outputting an output signal of the detection unit; and a power clamp configured with an SCR operating according to the output signal of the pre-driver and connecting the first and second power lines with each other to control current flow between the first and second power lines; wherein the pre-driver includes: first and second MOS transistors respectively having a gate connected to an output terminal of the detection unit and a source connected to the second power line; and a first bipolar transistor respectively having a base connected to a drain of the second MOS transistor and an emitter connected to the first power line.
US07795633B2
An optoelectronic component having a basic housing or frame and at least one semiconductor chip, specifically a radiation-emitting or-receiving semiconductor chip, in a cavity of the basic housing. In order to increase the efficiency of the optoelectronic component, reflectors are provided in the cavity in the region around the semiconductor chip. These reflectors are formed by virtue of the fact that a filling compound filled at least partly into the cavity is provided, the material and the quantity of the filling compound being chosen in such a way that the filling compound, on account of the adhesion force between the filling compound and the basic housing, assumes a form which widens essentially conically from bottom to top in the cavity, and the conical inner areas of the filling compound serve as reflector.
US07795623B2
A light emitting device includes a p-type semiconductor layer, an n-type semiconductor layer, and an active region between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer. A non-transparent feature, such as a wire bond pad, is on the p-type semiconductor layer or on the n-type semiconductor layer opposite the p-type semiconductor layer, and a reduced conductivity region is in the p-type semiconductor layer or the n-type semiconductor layer and is aligned with the non-transparent feature. The reduced conductivity region may extend from a surface of the p-type semiconductor layer opposite the n-type semiconductor layer towards the active region and/or from a surface of the n-type semiconductor layer opposite the p-type semiconductor layer towards the active region.
US07795619B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, including the steps of: forming a shielding film 38 on a first insulating film 37; sequentially forming a second insulating film 39 and an amorphous semiconductor film 40 on the shielding film 38; melting the amorphous semiconductor film 40 at least in portions to be channels of thin-film transistors by irradiating an energy beam onto the amorphous semiconductor film 40, and converting the amorphous semiconductor film 40 into a polycrystalline semiconductor film 41; sequentially forming a gate insulating film 43a and a gate electrode 44a on the polycrystalline semiconductor film 41 on the channels; and forming source and drain regions 41a in the polycrystalline semiconductor film 41 on sides of the gate electrode 44a, and forming a TFT 60 by use of the source and drain regions 41a, the gate insulating film 43a, and the gate electrode 44a.
US07795615B2
An integrated circuit comprises a chip including a circuit area surrounded by a peripheral area, the peripheral area extending to an edge of the chip. The integrated circuitry is disposed within the circuit area. No active circuit is disposed within the peripheral area. A barrier is disposed within the peripheral area and surrounds the circuit area. The barrier includes a capacitor structure integrated therein.
US07795610B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor light emitting device which generates light by recombination of electrons and holes, and which includes: a first finger electrode for supplying one of the electrons and holes, a second finger electrode supplying the other of the electrons and holes, and spaced apart from the first finger electrode at a first interval; and a third finger electrode electrically connected to the first finger electrode, and spaced apart from the second finger electrode at a second interval which is smaller than the first interval.
US07795609B2
Embodiments provide a quantum dot active structure and a methodology for its fabrication. The quantum dot active structure includes a substrate, a plurality of alternating regions of a quantum dot active region and a strain-compensation region, and a cap layer. The strain-compensation region is formed to eliminate the compressive strain of an adjacent quantum dot active region, thus allowing quantum dot active regions to be densely-stacked. The densely-stacked quantum dot active region provides increased optical modal gain for semiconductor light emitting devices such as edge emitting lasers, vertical cavity lasers, detectors, micro-cavity emitters, optical amplifiers or modulators.
US07795608B2
When to-be-detected light is made incident from a support substrate 2 side of a photocathode E1, a light absorbing layer 3 absorbs this to-be-detected light and produces photoelectrons. However, depending on the thickness and the like of the light absorbing layer 3, the to-be-detected light can be transmitted through the light absorbing layer 3 without being sufficiently absorbed by the light absorbing layer 3. The to-be-detected light transmitted through the light absorbing layer 3 reaches an electron emitting layer 4. A part of the to-be-detected light that has reached the electron emitting layer 4 proceeds toward a through-hole 5a of a contact layer 5. Since the length d1 of a diagonal line of the through-hole 5a is shorter than the wavelength of the to-be-detected light, the to-be-detected light can be suppressed from passing through the through-hole 5a and being emitted to the exterior. The to-be-detected light suppressed from being externally emitted is reflected on the exposed surface of the electron emitting layer 4 and is again made incident into the light absorbing layer 3 to be absorbed. Thereby, a photocathode excellent in light detection sensitivity is realized.
US07795605B2
A block of phase change material located in a semiconductor chip is reset to an amorphous state. The block of phase change material may be connected to an internal resistance measurement circuit that can transmit the measured resistance data to input/output pads either in an analog output format or in a digital output format. Depending on the ambient temperature, the resistance of the block of phase change material changes. By measuring a fractional resistance change compared to the resistance of the phase change material at a calibration temperature, the temperature of the region around the phase change material can be accurately measured. A logic decoder and an input/output circuit may be employed between the internal resistance measurement circuit and the input/output pads. A plurality of temperature sensing circuits containing phase change material blocks may be employed in the semiconductor chip to enable an accurate temperature profiling during chip operation.
US07795601B2
The present disclosure provides a lithography apparatus with improved lithography throughput. The lithography apparatus includes a first lens system; a first substrate stage configured to receive a first radiation energy from the first lens system, and designed operable to move a substrate during an exposing process; a second lens system, having a higher resolution than that of the first lens system; and a second substrate stage approximate to the first substrate stage and configured to receive a second radiation energy from the second lens system, and designed operable to receive the substrate from the first substrate stage and move the substrate.
US07795598B2
A portable appliance intended to detect fluorescent particles excited in the visible spectrum for enabling the authentication of products. The appliance comprises: a light source (2) of excitation provided with at least one electroluminescent diode or a laser for producing a focussed light beam: a box (1) for respectively accommodating the light source (2) and means of electrical supply for supplying the light source (2); and compact optical means, whether integrated or not in the box (1), enabling a user to instantaneously visualise the fluorescence of the marked elements excited by means of the light source (2). The appliance is used as a ground detector for authenticating and tracing products comprising a secret marking by fluorescent particles.
US07795596B2
System including electromagnetic radiation source and electromagnetic radiation detector. Electromagnetic radiation source is configured to excite, with electromagnetic radiation having first source frequency, object configured for suppressing responsive emission of electromagnetic radiation having first source frequency. Electromagnetic radiation detector is configured to receive responsive emission of electromagnetic radiation from object. System is configured to detect presence of object. Method includes exciting, with electromagnetic radiation having first source frequency, object configured for suppressing responsive emission of electromagnetic radiation having first source frequency. Method includes receiving responsive emission of electromagnetic radiation from object and utilizing responsive emission to detect presence of object.
US07795594B2
A system for reading data is provided. The system includes a detector having an array of first semiconductor devices, an array of second semiconductor devices, and an array of photodiodes. The array of photodiodes is coupled to the array of first semiconductor devices and the array of second semiconductor devices.
US07795579B2
An information obtaining method for obtaining information about a mass of a component of an analyte using a time of flight mass spectrometer and obtaining information about a distribution state of the component based on the obtained information about the mass includes the step of: (1) adding a self-reactive substance to the analyte on a base to facilitate ionization of the component; (2) irradiating the analyte with a primary beam in the presence of the self-reactive substance, thereby ionizing the components and allowing resulting ions to fly; (3) obtaining information about mass of the flying ions using the time of flight mass spectrometer; and (4) obtaining information about the distribution state of the component on the base based on the information about the mass.
US07795578B2
A method for correction of non-uniformity in signal level in different image points in an IR-camera, based on a scene being observed during movement in time of detector elements, of a camera in which the detector elements are arranged and/or of the scene, with deviating output signals for the same energy in the scene measured by different detector elements being corrected for image interference so that they provide essentially the same output signal. Micro-mechanical gyros are introduced that measure the angular velocity parallel to and perpendicular to the optical axis of the scene. The measured movement is used as an estimate for calculating the movement with a movement estimation method based on scene data. The estimated movement is coordinated with an associated image. The difference between the most recent image and the immediately preceding image or the average value of a plurality of preceding images is calculated as offset parameters. The offset parameters are updated by correction of previous offset parameters with the most recent offset parameters. The most recent image is corrected for static noise by applying the most recently produced offset parameters to the most recent image.
US07795568B2
An automated method causes a terrestrial solar cell array to track the sun. The solar cell system includes motors that adjust a position of the array along different respective axes with respect to the sun, wherein a first motor adjusts the inclination angle of the array relative to the surface of the earth and a second motor rotates the array about an axis substantially perpendicular to that surface. The method includes (a) using a software algorithm to predict a position of the sun at a future time; (b) using a computer model to determine respective positions for the motors corresponding to the solar cell array being substantially aligned with the sun at the future time; and (c) activating and operating the motors at respective particular speeds so that at the future time the solar cell array is substantially aligned with the sun.
US07795559B2
A turbulence-controlled vacuum debris removal subsystem safely exhausts particles ejected during photoablation. Nested interconnected chambers provide diminishing sweeping gas partial pressure and diminishing turbulence, ejecting particles from the ablation beam path between pulses, without compromising continuing particle conductance. Removal rate (debris generation rate) depends on conductance and particle sizes. The chambers interconnect through metering holes which enable optimization of partial pressure differentials. Controlled flow accomplishes debris removal, reducing turbulence of the mixture of debris and sweeping gases. A preferred embodiment uses a nest of concentric chambers, providing a clear light path. Another preferred embodiment uses orifices on chamber faces for removal and forming an envelope of gas around the processing region for dynamically containing the ejected particulate matter from the ablation site to the exhaust.
US07795553B2
A hybrid button according to the invention is provided. In one embodiment, the button can be implemented in an electronic device such as a media player. The button can include a metal or other non-plastic portion having a reverse flange and a plastic portion including anti-rotation legs. The legs can prevent rotation at least in part because they are retained by another structure. The plastic portion can be injection-molded onto the reverse flange of the metal or non-plastic portion. As such, the reverse flange fixes the position of the plastic portion with respect to the metal portion. Finally, the metal portion can include an actuator nub that actuates a switch when the button is depressed.
US07795552B2
In a contactor contact piece members can be arranged at a fine pitch, and a contact can be made surely by a small contact pressure. The contact piece members electrically connect an electronic part to an external circuit. The contact piece member is formed of an electrically conductive material in a generally spherical shape. A molecular density of a central part of the contact piece member is lower than a molecular density of a part near a surface. The electrically conductive material may include at least one of an electrically conductive fine particle, an electrically conductive fiber and an electrically conductive filler.
US07795551B2
An electrical distribution apparatus includes a fixed terminal, at least two fingers attached at respective pivot points in the apparatus, and a mechanical spring in operative communication with the at least two fingers, configured to provide tension upon separation of the at least two fingers. According to the apparatus, the at least two fingers are of a different length, length is a measure of the distance from a pivot point of a finger to an end of the finger, and the respective pivot points are each formed between the fixed terminal and each of the two fingers.
US07795548B2
A weighing serving implement is disclosed. The weighing serving implement has a head to serve food and is mounted to a mount at a pivot point. The pivot point provides a mechanical balance and facilities a rugged and washable design.
US07795546B2
Provided is a cover used for a thermostatic apparatus including an inner chamber enclosed with a plurality of walls and a temperature/humidity controller for controlling temperature and humidity in the inner chamber. The cover forms a space with a wall of the plurality of walls by being attached to the wall so as to cover a hole provided in the wall. The cover includes a opening through which a cord-shaped body passes, the cord-shaped body extending from the outside of the inner chamber to the inside thereof through the hole, a peripheral part being in hermetic contact with the wall; a contact part being in hermetic contact with the cord-shaped body in the opening; and a sealant being in hermetic contact with the hole. The cord-shaped body is led through the sealant in hermetic state, and a part of the cord-shaped body is housed in the space.
US07795544B2
An outlet box assembly for installation within a concrete floor, or any other type of poured flooring, includes a housing for accommodating a receptacle assembly with an electrical power and/or data receptacle as well as the wiring connected to the receptacle and the receptacle assembly has a self adjusting attachment ring that accommodates the tapered inner walls of the housing and the receptacle assembly accommodates either a standard electrical outlet or a multimedia outlet with connections for power and one or more of voice data and audio video data.
US07795543B2
The invention relates to an electrical device comprising a supporting substrate (1) which supports electronic components (2) as well as a strip conductor structure for connecting the electronic components (2) and on which an electrically conducting shielding element is disposed that surrounds the strip conductor structure and the components (2). The shielding element is composed of a first pot-type shielding part (7), the edge region of the hole of which rests upon contact areas (5) of a first surface (8) of the supporting substrate (1), said contact areas (5) being connected to a fixed electrical potential, and a second pot-type shielding part (9), the edge region of the hole of which rests upon a second surface (10) of the supporting substrate (1). The shielding parts (7 and 9) can be fastened to the supporting substrate (1) by means of fastening attachments which engage into first recesses (6) of the supporting substrate (1). The supporting substrate (1) is provided with continuous second recesses, through which protrude first spring arms (11) of the first shielding part (7) and second spring arms (12) of the second shielding part (9), the free final zones of which protrude from the second recesses and contact the second shielding part and/or the first shielding part.
US07795537B2
An electrical wire having a conductor and a covering disposed over the conductor wherein the covering is made from a thermoplastic composition. The thermoplastic composition has a poly(arylene ether); a polyolefin, a block copolymer; and flame retardant.
US07795536B2
A cable for the ultra high-speed communication of high-frequency signals. The cable includes a longitudinal conductor and an insulator sheath at least partially covering the longitudinal conductor. The cable further includes an inner conductive sheath disposed about an outer periphery of the insulator sheath and an outer insulator jacket disposed about an outer periphery of the inner conductive sheath. The insulator sheath is manufactured from a high-purity fluorinated ethylene propylene.
US07795528B2
An exemplary solar energy assembly includes a body (10), a solar energy collecting component (20), and a lens module (30). The lens module is movably mounted to the body and is configured for concentrating incident solar radiation onto the solar energy collecting component. The solar energy collecting component is movably mounted to the body and is configured for converting incident solar radiation energy into electrical energy. The solar energy collecting component and the lens module are movable between a first position and a second position. In the first position the lens module, the body, and the solar energy collecting component are stacked on each other. In the second position the solar energy collecting component and the lens module are moved away from the body so as to enable the lens module to concentrate incident solar radiation onto the solar energy collecting component.
US07795524B2
A musical performance processing apparatus that provides better assistance for student's practice. The apparatus includes a main unit in which music data including performance information of right- and left hand parts is stored, and a performance terminal having a keyboard divided into two key ranges by a split point. Each key range is set as a tapping or normal performance key range. The main unit generates a musical tone when input with performance information generated by depression of a key in the normal performance key range, and automatically reproduces performance information of designated part of music data for the number of beats corresponding to key depression, when input with performance information generated by depression of a key in the tapping performance key range. Sounding is stopped, if there is a deviation between a tempo of teacher's tapping performance and timing of student's performance.
US07795523B2
In the invention there is generated a playlist of music files that controls an exercise, each of the music files being associated with at least one parameter. The parameter characterizes the efficiency of the exercise. The user may listen to the playlist while performing an exercise and may have a performance instruction through musical characteristics, such as rhythm.
US07795519B2
An enhanced low-noise drum tympan comprises at least two net bodies which are combined to a drum frame; the net bodies being combined by adhesive and being rolled as an integral body. The net bodies are selected from knitted fabrics nets, woven fabrics nets or the combination of knitted fabrics nets and woven fabrics nets. The knitted fabrics net is formed by only wide fabric strips or narrow fabric wires. The knitted fabrics net is formed by intersection of wide fabric strips and narrow fabric wires.
US07795515B2
A new and improved instrument bow for use with a stringed instrument is provided. A unique new instrument bow is provided that may be constructed with a laminate material and/or composite in combination with a wooded material to form the instrument bow. Additionally, the new instrument bow uses a laminate composite such as carbon fiber to form a single piece construction instrument bow for use in conjunction with a stringed instrument. The instrument bow may be a combination of a synthetic material covered with a wooded material in a single piece construction that will provide the instrument bow with increased resilience and strength without the necessity for reinforcement and/or repair.
US07795507B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean cultivar S07-03JR457071 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean cultivar S07-03JR457071 and its progeny, and methods of making S07-03JR457071.
US07795505B2
A DNA encoding a phosphinothricin acetyltransferase protein obtained from Streptomyces sp. AB3534 strain is described which imparts a resistance to herbicides, particularly the herbicide phosphinothricin (PPT). Plants having a herbicide resistance are constructed by transforming a plant cell with DNA encoding the phosphinothricin acetyltransferase protein and then regenerating the transformed plant cell into a plant. A recombinant protein having the herbicide-resistant activity is also described.
US07795497B2
The present invention provides for a method to circumvent the problem of using antibiotic resistant selectable markers. In particular, target plants are transformed using a plastid vector which contains heterologous DNA sequences coding for a phytotoxin detoxifying enzyme or protein. The selection process involves converting a antibiotic-free phytotoxic agent by the expressed phytotoxin detoxifying enzyme or protein to yield a nontoxic compound. The invention provides for various methods to use antibiotic-free selection in chloroplast transformation.
US07795487B2
Disclosed herein is a process and catalyst for producing a monoalkylated aromatic compound from a polyalkylated aromatic compound, comprising the step of contacting an alkylatable aromatic compound with a polyalkylated aromatic compound under at least partial liquid phase conditions in the presence of a zeolite beta catalyst having a phosphorus content in the range of 0.001 wt. % to 10.0 wt. % of said catalyst, to provide a product which comprises a monoalkylated aromatic compound.
US07795478B2
A fluorine-containing benzaldehyde is reacted with an alkyl Grignard reagent to convert it to a magnesium alkoxide of racemic, fluorine-containing, benzyl alcohol, and subsequently the magnesium alkoxide is reacted with phthalic anhydride to obtain a phthalate half ester of racemic, fluorine-containing, benzyl alcohol, and the half ester is optically resolved by optically active 1-phenylethylamine, and then the ester group is hydrolyzed, thereby producing an optically active, fluorine-containing, benzyl alcohol.
US07795477B2
A process for preparing perfluorovinylethers having general formula: RfO—CF═CF2 (IA) where Rf is a C1-C3 alkyl perfluorinated substituent, comprises the steps of: 1a) fluorinating olefins of formula: CY″Y═CY′Cl (II) where Y, Y′ and Y″, equal to or different from each other, are H, Cl, Br, and are not contemporaneously hydrogen; and obtaining fluorohalogencarbons of formula: FCY″Y—CY′ClF (III) where Y, Y′ and Y″ are as above; 2a) dehalogenating or dehydrohalogenating fluorohalogencarbons (III) and obtaining fluorohalogenolefins of formula: FCYI═CYIIF (IV) where YI and YII, equal to or different from each other, are H, Cl, Br and are not contemporaneously H; 3a) reacting a hypofluorite of formula RfOF and a fluorohalogenolefin (IV), and obtaining the fluorohalogenethers of formula: RfO—CFYI—CF2YII (I) where YI, YII, equal to or different from each other, are Cl, Br, H and are not be contemporaneously H; and 4a) dehalogenating or dehydrohalogenating compounds (I) and obtaining perfluorovinylethers (IA).
US07795468B2
This invention is directed to functionalized higher diamondoids having at least one functional group. Preferably these derivatives have the following Formula I: wherein D is a higher diamondoid nucleus and wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are independently selected from a group consisting of hydrogen and functional groups, provided that there is at least one functional group on the derivative. The functionalized higher diamondoid compounds may also be of the formula D—L—(D)n wherein D is a higher diamondoid nucleus and L is a linking group and n is 1 or more. The functionalized higher diamondoid compounds additionally may be of the formula R38—D—D—R39 wherein D is a higher diamondoid nucleus and R38 and R39 are substituents.
US07795448B2
Provided are compounds of Formula V and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which may be useful for the treatment of cancer or other proliferative disorders.
US07795446B2
The present invention is directed to novel benzimidazole derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of disorders and conditions modulated by the androgen receptor.
US07795444B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds effective as human protein tyrosine phosphatase beta (HPTP-β) inhibitors thereby regulating angiogenesis. The present disclosure further relates to compositions comprising said human protein tyrosine phosphatase beta (HPTP-β) inhibitors, and to methods for regulating angiogenesis.
US07795436B2
The present application describes compounds, including all pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates and stereoisomers thereof, according to Formula I, pharmaceutical compositions, comprising at least one compound according to Formula I and optionally at least one additional therapeutic agent and methods of treating various diseases, conditions and disorders associated with modulation of serotonin receptors such as, for example: metabolic diseases, which includes but is not limited to obesity, diabetes, diabetic complications, atherosclerosis, impared glucose tolerance and dyslipidemia; central nervous system diseases which includes but is not limited to, anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, psychosis, schizophrenia, sleep disorder, sexual disorder and social phobias; cephalic pain; migraine; and gastrointestinal disorders using compounds according to Formula I
US07795433B2
A method for preparing a perylene pigment or perinone pigment involves a condensation reaction between perylene tetracarboxylic acid or naphthalene tetracarboxylic acid, or anhydrides or imides thereof, and amines in the presence of certain metal catalysts, such as ammonium molybdate, molybdenum oxide, and metal carbonyls, such as hexacarbonylmolybdenum, titanium carbonyl, iron carbonyls, and the like. The use of these catalysts provides various advantages, including the reduction of the amount of the catalyst, while achieves high yields, the lowering of reaction temperatures, and the reduction of insoluble sludge in the reaction mixture, thereby making the reaction operation easier and reducing the amounts of hazardous wastes containing heavy metals.
US07795430B2
The invention is reversibly reducible metal complexes and materials and an organic light emitting device, having an anode; a cathode; and at least one organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, made with the complexes of the invention. The reversibly reducible metal complexes are complexes a redox active metal center and at least one ligand; wherein; following a reduction of the complex, adding 1 extra electron to the complex, the extra electron is localized on the metal center. The complexes may function as an ETL or a host material.
US07795428B2
Compounds are provided for use with DPP-IV of the formula: Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising such compounds; methods and intermediates useful for making the compounds; and methods of using said compounds.
US07795426B2
The present invention relates to processes for the preparation of cyclopropyl-amine derivatives of formula (II), as defined in the specification, useful for the treatment of disorders and conditions mediated by the histamine receptor.
US07795424B2
The invention provides a nucleotide or nucleoside having a base attached to a detectable label via a cleavable linker, characterized in that the cleavable linker contains a moiety selected from the group comprising: Formula (I) (wherein X is selected from the group comprising O, S, NH and NQ wherein Q is a C1-10 substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, Y is selected from the group comprising O, S, NH and N(allyl). T is hydrogen or a C1-10 substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group and * indicates where the moiety is connected to the remainder of the nucleotide or nucleoside).
US07795422B2
This invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for modulating hypoxia inducible factor (e.g., HIF1) gene expression using short interfering nucleic acid (siNA) molecules. This invention also relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for modulating the expression and activity of other genes involved in pathways of HIF1 gene expression and/or activity by RNA interference (RNAi) using small nucleic acid molecules. In particular, the instant invention features small nucleic acid molecules, such as short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA), and short hairpin RNA (shRNA) molecules and methods used to modulate the expression of HIF1 genes.
US07795421B2
Efficient sequence specific gene silencing is possible through the use of siRNA technology. By selecting particular siRNAs by rational design, one can maximize the generation of an effective gene silencing reagent, as well as methods for silencing genes. Methods, compositions, and kits generated through rational design of siRNAs are disclosed including those directed to nucleotide sequences for APOB.
US07795419B2
Described herein are novel polynucleotides associated with viral infections. The polynucleotides are miRNAs and miRNA precursors. Related methods and compositions that can be used for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of those medical conditions are disclosed. Also described herein are methods that can be used to identify modulators of viral infections.
US07795416B2
Telomerase repressor proteins and nucleic acid compositions encoding the same are provided. The subject repressor proteins bind to a repressor site in the TERT minimal promoter, e.g., a Site C site, and thereby inhibit TERT expression. Also provided are methods of modulating, e.g., inhibiting or enhancing, TERT expression. The subject invention finds use in a variety of different applications, including therapeutic and therapeutic agent screening applications.
US07795411B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for generating in vivo biotinylated, secreted recombinant polypeptides comprising recombinantly co-expressing in a yeast cell (a) a secreted recombinant polypeptide comprising a biotin accepting site; and (b) a biotin ligase fused to the golgi localization domain so that the biotin ligase is localized to the golgi of the yeast cell where it acts on the biotin-accepting site of the secreted polypeptide as it transits the secretory system.
US07795401B2
The present invention relates generally to a modified hemoglobin with an allosteric effector conjugated which is capable of dynamically regulating the efficiency of oxygen release. The hemoglobin composition provided in the present invention is utilizing maleimide-Polyethylene glycol-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl as a linker to crossbridge the peptide comprising SEQ ID NO: 1 to the surface of a hemoglobin, and hence, it is able to decrease the oxygen affinity through the characteristic of the peptide which could enter into the central cavity formed between β- chains of hemoglobin under an appropriate oxygen concentration.
US07795399B2
The invention relates to storable medicaments produced from pharmaceutical active ingredient preparations which are virus safe. Said medicaments contain at least one intact therapeutic protein obtained from plasma or by means of genetic engineering, as an active pharmaceutical substance. Said active ingredient preparations contain active enzymes, especially proteases, which are either free or bound to the substrates thereof and act against the therapeutic protein(s) present.
US07795398B2
The invention provides isolated nucleic acids from potato encoding LRR polypeptides that confer late blight disease resistance in plants of the Solanaceae family and vectors and transgenic plants comprising the nucleic acids. The invention also provides a method for providing a plant or its progeny with resistance against an oomycete infection comprising providing said plant or part thereof with a gene or functional fragment thereof comprising a nucleic acid, said nucleic acid encoding a gene product that is capable of providing a member of the Solanaceae with resistance against an oomycete fungus.
US07795396B2
The growth hormone supergene family comprises greater than 20 structurally related cytokines and growth factors. A general method is provided for creating site-specific, biologically active conjugates of these proteins. The method involves adding cysteine residues to non-essential regions of the proteins or substituting cysteine residues for non-essential amino acids in the proteins using site-directed mutagenesis and then covalently coupling a cysteine-reactive polymer or other type of cysteine-reactive moiety to the proteins via the added cysteine residue. Disclosed herein are preferred sites for adding cysteine residues or introducing cysteine substitutions into the proteins, and the proteins and protein derivatives produced thereby.
US07795387B2
Disclosed are methods and compositions for early diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of retinal dystrophy, age-related macular degeneration, Bardet-Biedel syndrome, Bassen-kornzweig syndrome, best disease, chroidema, gyrate atrophy, congenital amourosis, refsun syndrome, stargardt disease and Usher syndrome. In particular, the invention relates to a protein, termed 2Rdcvf1,” that is differentially transcribed and expressed in subjects suffering from retinal dystrophies and the like, such as retinal dystrophy and age-related macular degeneration compared with non-sufferers, antibodies which recongnize this protein, and methods for diagnosing such conditions.
US07795379B2
The invention relates to newly identified cancer associated antigens. It has been discovered that each of these molecules provokes antibodies when expressed by a subject. The ramifications of this observation are also a part of this invention.
US07795377B2
A method of preparing a material for use in a manufactured seed is provided. The method includes providing the material having a melting temperature. The method also includes subjecting the material to a heat treatment at a temperature about 10% below the melting temperature for a predetermined period of time.
US07795376B2
A method of isolating a PHA, includes combining the PHA, a first solvent and a second solvent to form a combination, the first solvent being capable of forming an azeotrope with the second solvent; and heating the combination to form the azeotrope of the first and second solvents.
US07795372B2
The present invention relates to a novel polymer film and also polymer fibers and polymers based on polyazoles, which can, owing to its excellent chemical and thermal properties, be used for a variety of purposes and is particularly useful as film or membrane for gas purification and filtration.
US07795367B2
Siloxane copolymers are prepared stepwise by reacting an aminoalkyldiorganoalkoxysilane with a di- or polyisocyanate to form an alkoxysilyl-terminated urea compound, and the urea compound or its reaction product with water is subsequently reacted with a di- or polysilanol-functional polymer to form a copolymer.
US07795363B2
Polymer having a sulfonic group or a sulfonate group and an amide group and method of producing same
A polymer is provided in which a sulfonic group or a derivative thereof is introduced. The polymer includes a unit represented by the following chemical formula (1): wherein R represents -A1-SO2R1; A1 is selected from an alkylene group, a heterocyclic ring, an aromatic ring; and —SO2R1 is a sulfonic group or of a derivative of a sulfonic acid.
US07795358B2
Poly(lactic acid) blends having a relatively high heat distortion temperature can be prepared by simple blending of PLA polymers of opposite stereoforms, followed by processing, e.g. by injection molding, under specific conditions of temperature and pressure, so as to produce a blend which, on differential scanning calorimetry, exhibits two peaks within the melting range of the stereocomplex. Moreover, by careful selection of these conditions of temperature and pressure, it is possible to use PLA polymers of significantly higher molecular weights than previously thought possible.
US07795355B2
The process of the present invention is directed toward conducting highly selective, high yield post polymerization reactions on polymers to prepare functionalized polymers. An embodiment of the present invention comprises conducting click chemistry reactions on polymers. Preferably, the polymers were prepared by controlled polymerization processes. Therefore, embodiments of the present invention comprise processes for the preparation of polymers comprising conducting a click chemistry reaction on a functional group attached to a polymer, wherein the polymer has a molecular weight distribution of less than 2.0. The functional polymers may be prepared by converting an attached functional unit on the polymer thereby providing site specific functional materials, site specific functional materials comprising additional functionality, or chain extended functional materials. Embodiments of the process of the present invention include functionalization reactions, chain extensions reactions, to form mock copolymer linking reactions, and attaching side chains to form graft copolymers, for example.
US07795349B2
The present invention is directed to three-dimensional printing material systems and method, and an article made therefrom. The method of the present invention includes building cross-sectional portions of a three-dimensional article, and assembling the individual cross-sectional areas in a layer-wise fashion to form a final article. The individual cross-sectional areas are built by using an ink-jet printhead to deliver a fluid to a particulate material that includes particulate material.
US07795344B2
A nano-particle composition including a poly(alkenylbenzene) core and a poly(conjugated diene), a poly(alkylene), or a poly(alkenylbenzene) surface layer is provided. The nano-particles have a mean average diameter of less than about 100 nm. The nano-particles can be modified via, for example, hydrogenation or functionalization. The nano-particles can be advantageously be incorporated into rubbers, elastomers, and thermoplastics.
US07795341B2
Adhesives comprising up to about 40 wt % of an ionomer can be applied at low temperatures and exhibit good bond strength. The adhesives are particularly useful as elastic attachment adhesives.
US07795338B2
A baking-drying water damping paint composition from which heavy film-thickness damping paint films can be obtained, heavy film-thickness damping paint films, in which an inorganic filler is filled into the resinous component of paints to higher extent, and which are free from the occurrence of cracks and swelling in the paint films when the paint films are baked and dried.
US07795328B2
Disclosed is a randomly moldable thermosetting paste containing small mineral balls, an inorganic binder or a mixture of such binders, and a fiber moiety. Said paste is characterized in that hollow mineral microballs are used. The paste which cures starting at room temperature is suitable for use as a fire-resistant and heat-insulating material that is provided with great inherent stability in the cured state. The inventive paste is suitable for the production of inexpensive low-density molded parts. Moreover, the invention makes it possible to dispense with the use of organic solvents such that the paste can be used directly by the user.
US07795322B2
A prepolymer having an NCO content of less than 10%, based on the reaction of (a) diisocyanate with (b) polyether alcohol, the (b) polyether alcohol comprising (b1) and (b2) and/or (b3) with the following meanings for (b1), (b2) and (b3): (b1) polytetrahydrofuran having a molecular weight of from 1800 to 2100 g/mol and (b2) polyether alcohol having a molecular weight of from 500 to 7000 g/mol, based on ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide, and/or (b3) polytetrahydrofuran having a molecular weight of from 800 to 1200 g/mol.
US07795320B2
The invention relates to a composition comprising a modified, random copolyetherester containing a modified, random polybutylene terephthalate copolymer block that is derived from a polyethylene terephthalate component selected from the group consisting of polyethylene terephthalate and polyethylene terephthalate copolymers and combinations thereof; and contains at least one residue derived from the polyethylene terephthalate component; and a polyalkylene oxide copolymer block that is derived from a polyethylene terephthalate component and polyalkylene oxide glycol, and contains polyalkylene oxide and at least one residue derived from the polyethylene terephthalate component. Advantageously, the composition has a modulus of elasticity that is at least 80%, as compared to the modulus of elasticity of a copolyetherester derived from (1) polybutylene terephthalate derived from a monomer component selected from the group consisting of terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid, alkyl esters of terephthalic acid, hydroalkyl esters of terephthalic acid, alkyl esters of isophthalic acid, 1, 4-butanediol, (2) polyalkylene oxide glycol, and (3) combinations thereof. The invention also relates to articles made from the composition, methods of making the composition. The invention also relates to copolyetherester containing: a modified, random polytrimethylene terephthalate copolymer blocks, articles made from the compositions, and methods for making such materials.
US07795317B2
The invention provides a process to prepare a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis product from a gaseous mixture of hydrocarbons comprising methane, ethane and optional higher carbon number hydrocarbons comprising the steps of: (a) pre-reforming the hydrocarbon mixture adiabatically, (b) heating the gaseous mixture obtained in step (a) to a temperature greater than 650° C., (c) performing a non-catalyzed partial oxidation by contacting the heated mixture of step (b) yielding a reactor effluent having a temperature of between 1100 and 1500° C., (d) performing a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis using the hydrogen- and carbon monoxide-containing gas as obtained in step (c) as feedstock and (e) wherein from the synthesis product obtained in step (d) a relatively light stream is separated and wherein a first part of the light stream is recycled to step (a) to be subjected to pre-reforming and wherein a second part of the light stream is recycled to the burner of step (c) to be subjected to partial oxidation and wherein the temperature in step (a) is controlled by the adjusting the amount of light stream that is recycled to step (a).
US07795305B2
CDDO-compounds in combination with other chemotherapeutic agents induce and potentiate cytotoxicity and apoptosis in cancer cell. One class of chemotherapeutic agents include retinoids. Cancer therapies based on these combination therapies are provided. Also provided are methods to treat graft versus host diseases using the CDDO compounds.
US07795303B2
The present invention relates to novel active compound combinations of cyclic ketoenols of the formula (I) and active compounds of the formula (II) detailed in the disclosure having very good insecticidal and acaricidal properties.
US07795297B2
Indole compounds corresponding to the formula (I): as defined in the claims, pharmaceutically acceptable addition salts of such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, the process for their preparation, and their use as pharmacologically active substances, especially in the treatment of hypertriglyceridemia, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, endothelial dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory disease and neurodegeneration.
US07795296B2
The present invention provides salt crystals of non-natural stereoisomer forms of monatin and to the use thereof.
US07795287B2
A compound having a structure is disclosed herein. Therapeutic methods, compositions, and medicaments related thereto are also disclosed.
US07795277B2
The present invention relates to the besylate salt of 7-(2-(4-(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyrid-1-yl)ethyl)isoquinoline, to its preparation and to its use in therapeutics. The salt may be represented by the formula (II) below.
US07795272B2
Compounds of Formula (IA) and Formula (IB) where in R1 stands for the following group (the dashed line indicates the point of attachment) and R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Y, Z, X1 and X2 are as defined herein for Formula (IA) and Formula (IB), or a tautomer, prodrug, solvate, or salt thereof; pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, and methods of modulating the glucocorticoid receptor function and methods of treating disease-states or conditions mediated by the glucocorticoid receptor function or characterized by inflammatory, allergic, or proliferative processes in a patient using these compounds.
US07795269B2
Disclosed are novel A2B adenosine receptor antagonists having the structure of Formula I or Formula II: The compounds are particularly useful for treating asthma, inflammatory gastrointestinal tract disorders, cardiovascular diseases, neurological disorders, and diseases related to undesirable angiogenesis.
US07795268B2
The invention is related to methods of treating hepatic fibrosis using A2B adenosine receptor antagonists and utility in the treatment of liver damage caused by alcohol abuse, surgical intervention, viral hepatitis, the ingestion of hepatotoxic drugs, or other hepatic diseases.
US07795267B2
The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula: wherein R1 is —(C═O)—NR7R8 or —(C═O)—OR6, R2 is a hydrocarbon group which may be substituted or the like, R3 is a hydrocarbon group which may be substituted or the like, R4 is a hydrocarbon group which may be substituted or the like, n is from 0 to 4, and X is an oxygen atom, or a salt thereof. The invention also provides a compound which has a TGR23 antagonist activity and thus is useful for prevention and treatment of cancer.
US07795264B2
The invention relates to substituted arylpyrazolopyridines according to the general formula (I): in which A, B, D, E, Ra, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and q are as defined in the claims, and salts thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said substituted arylpyrazolopyridines, to methods of preparing said substituted arylpyrazolopyridines as well as the use thereof for manufacturing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of diseases of dysregulated vascular growth or of diseases which are accompanied with dysregulated vascular growth, wherein the compounds effectively interfere with Tie2 signalling.
US07795252B2
The present invention provides for methods of treating neurological disorders or complications due to stroke or head injury; benign or malignant neoplastic disease, carcinomas and adenocarcinomas; proliferative disorders; and inflammatory disorders using compounds of the following structure: The compounds are therefore useful as neuroprotective and neuroregenerative, anti-proliferative, and anti-inflammatory agents.
