US07810164B2
Information entered by a user at the time of logging on is also used in a check to be performed in response to a request for use/edit of a program or data related to an additional function. Authentication information of the user using a program or data related to the additional function is included in advance in the program or data, so that, when the user has made a request for using/edit the program or data, it is checked whether or not the user is a user authorized to use the additional function, using the information entered by the user at the time of logging on and the authentication information. To perform user management for creating an account of a user using an apparatus or software and setting authorization of a user in using the apparatus or software, a plurality of users have parent-child relationships with a highest-position, root user at the top. Each user as a parent is allowed to add a child user, and each parent user is allowed to set authorization of a user lower in hierarchical position than the child user. The parent-child relationships of the users are displayed on a display. Each of the users can give any settable user authorization equal to or lower than its own user authorization.
US07810152B2
Systems and methods that may securely control access to device functions are disclosed. A request is received to enable a feature of the device. In one embodiment, the device may be a set top box, for example. The device determines whether the feature is disabled, whether the feature can be enabled with authorization and whether a requester is authorized to enable the feature of the device. If the feature is disabled, if the feature can be enabled with authorization and if the requester is authorized to enable the feature of the device, then the feature of the device is enabled.
US07810149B2
Mobile clients can execute IPv6 applications in an IPv4 environment without the need for any specialized IPv6 hardware or upgrades to the network infrastructure. The architecture provides a seamless, disruption-free connectivity experience for mobile clients. Mobile clients are automatically connected to other mobile clients irrespective of their network connectively, whether wireless, wire line, IPv4, IPv6, public or private. Mobile clients communicate with other mobile clients using a secure, end-to-end IPv6 tunnel. This creates a persistent VPN connection between two clients using software.
US07810145B2
A method and system for storage and retrieval of data, such as personal data. In an embodiment of the invention, a distributed network for storage and retrieval of data comprises a plurality of data origin servers, a plurality of credential servers, and an authentication server. Each data origin server is configured to store items of data and corresponding credentials, each credential at least in part identifying an owner of the corresponding item of data. Each credential server is configured to store associations between credentials and data origin servers on which data corresponding to a respective credential is stored. The authentication server is configured to register and authenticate each user based at least in part on the user's associated credential, and to link each authenticated user to respective credential servers storing associations for the user's credential.
US07810129B2
The present invention has an object to operate a reproduction apparatus (an apparatus from which video is inputted) using only a remote control of a video display apparatus. A video display apparatus which displays video includes: a first display unit which displays a menu screen of the video display apparatus; a switching unit which switches a current input to an input from an input source device from which video is inputted when the input source device is indicated in the menu screen displayed by the first display unit; and a second display unit which displays a menu screen of the input source device when the switching unit switches the current input.
US07810126B2
A method and apparatus for improving the performance of the running of a stored interactive application on a de-coding apparatus is disclosed. The recorded program which is associated with the stored interactive application is run, wherein the program and interactive application are stored in a storage device. The running of the stored interactive application is controlled using a second application.
US07810123B1
A high capacity interactive multimedia system is provided that can deliver large number of concurrent video on demand and high speed data streams in an integrated fashion to a plurality of subscribers located at one or more subscriber sites. A video server module in the system generates a plurality of video on demand streams, which are transported via a high capacity transport system to a plurality of clients located at a subscriber site. A web server in the system stores data, such as web pages, which are also transported via the high capacity transport system to the clients. By accessing the web pages, a plurality of subscribers interact with the system via the clients. The interactive multimedia system controls and monitors in a centralized fashion the hardware and software components of the system, thus assuring the quality of the video and data services provided to the subscribers.
US07810111B2
An optical pickup that can incline an objective lens in the same direction as that of a bend of an optical disc is provided.The optical pickup includes a lens holder that holds an objective lens, focusing coils attached to the lens holder, a yoke to which magnets are attached, and inner yokes disposed opposite to the magnets via the focusing coils, and the optical pickup is structured so that a cross-sectional area of the inner yoke disposed toward the outer periphery of the optical disc is greater than a cross-sectional area of the inner yoke disposed on the inner periphery of the optical disc.
US07810110B2
A disc changer having a swing arm as a reproducing device in a disc drive unit can prevent an arm front end from being fluctuated when the swing arm reproduces the content of a disc or when a disc is mounted. The disc changer takes out a desired one disc from a stocker using the swing arm, and reproduces the information with an optical head. The disc changer has a holding projection that holds the bottom surface of the front end of the swing arm at a disc take-out position. The disc changer also has an auxiliary arm that supports a part of the swing arm near the front end of the swing arm when the swing arm is rotated to the disc reproduction position.
US07810100B2
A set of embodied Application Program Interface(s) (112) are provided for facilitating a method of presenting a presented user-interface shell (UIS) (114) that cooperates with a servicing user-interface shell (UIS) (116). The method includes receiving data indicative of one or more tasks to be completed, coordinating the completion of said one or more tasks, and returning control to said presented UIS (114).
US07810098B2
A method (300) and a corresponding system for allocating resources in a hierarchical data processing system are proposed. The system includes a plurality of nodes that are arranged in a tree. Each leaf-node, or client, controls corresponding local resources, while each intermediate node, or domain manager, controls global resources that are visible to all its dependent nodes; the global resources defined on a root node, or master domain manager, are then visible to all the nodes of the system. Whenever a job, being submitted (306) on a generic client, requests a set of resources for its execution, the request is sent (309,318,327) through the tree to the master domain manager. The master domain manager allocates (339) the corresponding global resources as soon as they are all available; this event enables (345) its child node (in a path to the client) to perform the same operations, and so on down to the client itself. Once the client has allocated (357) the corresponding local resources, the execution of the job can be launched (360).
US07810088B2
A wireless communication device capable of downloading a software update file from a wireless network. The wireless communication device comprises a non-volatile memory that is re-programmed by sectors. The non-volatile memory stores: i) a target file to be updated, ii) the downloaded software update file, and iii) a journal comprising a plurality of entries, each of the entries containing status information associated with a re-programmed sector of the non-volatile memory. The wireless communication device also comprises a random access memory and a main processor that replaces target code in the target file with replacement code from the downloaded software update file. The main processor creates a first block of replacement code in the random access memory and re-programs a first target sector of the non-volatile memory by storing the first block of replacement code into the first target sector. The main processor updates first status information in a first entry in the journal associated with the first target sector.
US07810086B2
A compiler can perform aggressive code motion optimization by respecting value dependence of safety values inserted into the intermediate representation of a computer program. In one embodiment, the present invention includes converting a computer program into an intermediate representation, the intermediate representation containing at least one safety check ensuring the safety of at least one dangerous instruction. In one embodiment, the invention further includes defining a safety value in the intermediate representation as the safety check and including the safety value as a safety argument of the dangerous instruction. In one embodiment, it is determined that the safety check is redundant. In response, in one embodiment, the invention includes updating the safety argument of the dangerous instruction, and eliminating the safety check from the intermediate representation during the safety check elimination optimization. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07810079B2
A system and method for determining execution path differences in a computer-implemented software application is provided herein. A software application under analysis is executed at least twice, thereby generating first and second call tree data and associated first and second sets of execution data describing the at least two executions of the software application. This data is then compared to determine a set of differences between the first and second executions of the program, the set of differences comprising one or more nodes that are either called differently in the first and second execution paths or executed differently in the first and second sets of execution data. For each node identified in the set of differences, the first and second call trees are then analyzed to identify at least one parent node that is the root cause of the difference in the execution data.
US07810078B2
A method and supporting application-development tool are provided for building such a set of application flows. The method includes the steps of (a) a developer obtaining a “generic” flow model for the application; (b) the developer specifying the set of targets; (c) automatically creating a specialized flow model for each of the targets; (d) the developer modifying at least one of the generic flow model and the specialized flow models; (e) automatically generating specialized applications corresponding to the specified specialized flow models; and (f) deploying the specialized applications on the corresponding targets.
US07810063B1
According to various embodiments of the invention electronic circuit design information can be presented to a designer by determining an electronic circuit comprising at least two gates and by determining a distance of one gate relative to another gate in a stage. A visual indicator for the stage can be calculated based on the distances between at least two gates in the stage. The visual indicator can then be displayed. The visual indicator can be a color and the relative distance can be indicated by brightness, hue or saturation, etc. Alternatively, the visual indicator can be a pattern and the relative distance between at least two gates can be indicated by darkness of the pattern.
US07810062B2
A method for eliminating negative slack in a netlist representing a chip design uses a contrived timing environment to overlay information onto the design environment during logic and physical synthesis phase. The overlaid timing information determines which netlist transformation provides a maximum leverage for the negative slack elimination and a way for creating a dynamic transformation recipe tuned for each design. The method further provides upper bounds on the negative slack elimination to prevent the netlist transforms from being applied to situations exceeding the capabilities for improving the design.
US07810061B2
A method of determining a useful skew for a circuit design includes computing a slack value for each sequential cell in the circuit design, identifying modifiable sequential cells in the circuit design, and computing a target delay for each modifiable sequential cell. One or more sequential cells are discarded based on the slack values. A target slack value for each remaining sequential cell is determined. The remaining cells are sorted based on the target slack values to determine a minimum target slack value, and a delay for each cell is determined based on the minimum target slack value.
US07810053B2
The present invention relates to a novel active leakage power reduction technique, referred to as the dynamic power cutoff technique (DPCT). The DPCT method of the present invention can reduce active leakage, standby leakage, and dynamic power by applying the dynamic power cutoff technique to a circuit. In the method and system for dynamic power cutoff for active leakage reduction in circuits of the present invention, a switching window is determined for each gate, during which a gate makes its transitions. For example, the switching window can be determined by static timing analysis. Then, the circuit is optimally partitioned into different groups based on the minimal switching window (MSW) of each gate. Finally, power cutoff transistors are inserted into each group to control the power connections of that group. Each group is turned on only long enough for a wavefront of changing signals to propagate through that group. Since each gate is only turned on during a small timing window within each clock cycle, this significantly reduces active leakage power.
US07810044B2
A calculator comprises a display screen configured to display a graphical representation of at least a portion of a dataset and a module configured to display an interface on the display screen to enable a user to perform at least one adjustment function for the displayed graphical representation.
US07810042B2
Graphical user interfaces for computer display devices include a page bar control element that allows a user to easily and quickly navigate among the pages of a multiple page electronic document and/or among the pages of a plurality of electronic documents. In some examples, the page bar control element displayed on the computer system provides a visual representation of a multiple pages of the document(s), wherein the visual representation includes several tabs or markers, each marker representing one or more pages of the document(s). In some examples, the markers are rendered in colors that enable quick identification of the current page and/or the page being viewed as well as pages viewed in a riffling action. The page bar control element also may include a visual “flag” that helps users quickly locate text that they have previously flagged or that the system has automatically flagged for them.
US07810041B2
A method of provisioning a device through a command interface is described. A command interface capable of displaying a plurality of outputs is generated. A request is sent to a device and feedback from the device is received. The feedback is used to generate an output. Graphical display for the output is generated for display integral with the command interface.
US07810034B2
A backup reporting framework Graphical User Interface (GUI) comprises a combination of components that make it possible to display a Reporting GUI to the customer on the customer's desktop. The framework includes three main components, a server component, a wag-server middleware component, and a monitor server middleware component. The Server Component handles all the operations necessary to start the GUI or Command Line Interface (CLI) interaction with the Middleware Components. The WAG Server Middleware component provides a mechanism for the client application to interact with the server. The WAG Server component gives the client side applications access to data resident on the server and allow for command and control from the client side. The monitor server middleware component also provides a mechanism for the client application to interact with the server. It gives the client side application access to data resident on the server and allows for command and control from the client side. The middleware allows the GUI to get data about the current state of EDM, and display the information graphically.
US07810032B2
A method and system for computing statistical parameters for sets of data items, by executing instructions of a computer program that is coded within a spreadsheet. Each set is generated in a time sequence that is specific to each set. For each time sequence, each data item is one data value or a pair of data values. The data items appears one-at-a-time in only one cell structure of the spreadsheet at each time in the time sequence. The one cell structure is a single cell or two cells. A loop of iterations is performed for each set. In each iteration, a command is responded to by updating the statistical parameters based on the latest data item in the one cell structure in the spreadsheet. The updated statistical parameter are stored in a parameter field of the spreadsheet assigned to each statistical parameter.
US07810026B1
A method for optimizing a source document comprising a plurality of pages of content, comprising each of the following, is presented. A source document is obtained. An optimized document is created corresponding to the source document. Thereafter, for each page in the source document, the following are applied. A page record is created for the page. Each page record comprises a word table comprising a list of the page's words in the order that they appear in the page's content. Each page record further comprises a paragraph entry list for the page including a paragraph entry for each paragraph in the page. Each paragraph entry includes a reference to the first and last word of that paragraph in the word table. The page record is compressed using a compression technique. Thereafter, the compressed page record is stored in the optimized document.
US07810022B2
An information processing method displays information including at least one processing region subject to processing and displays a cursor on the displayed information. The method includes assigning the processing region to an operating element of an operation input device in accordance with a positional relationship between a cursor display position of the cursor on a display screen and the processing region, in the processing region on the display screen, displaying an operating element image representing the assigned operating element, and, in response to an operation input from the assigned operating element, executing processing corresponding to the processing region assigned to the operating element.
US07810009B2
A system and method is provided for transmitting packet data in a base station of a wireless communication system using a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) scheme. The method includes determining a HARQ scheme for use, from among a plurality of HARQ schemes including a Synchronous HARQ (SHARQ) scheme and an Asynchronous HARQ (AHARQ) scheme for transmission packet data, and transmitting the packet data along with control information including information indicating the determined HARQ scheme.
US07810008B2
A method is disclosed. The method includes performing a first read operation at a tape drive, determining if a minimum number of data bytes have been recovered in the first read operation to perform error correcting codes (ECC), performing a second read operation if the minimum number of data bytes to perform ECC have not been recovered, determining if a minimum number of data bytes have been recovered in the second read operation to perform ECC, combining the recovered data bytes from the first read operation and the second read operation to form combined recovered data bytes, determining if a minimum number of data bytes are included in the combined recovered data bytes to perform ECC and performing ECC if the minimum number of data bytes are included in the combined recovered data bytes.
US07810001B2
A method and a system for defining groups of tests that may be concurrently performed or overlapped are provided. Channel-independent test groups are determined such that each group includes tests that the input/output channels may be utilized simultaneously without conflicts. The channel-independent test groups are divided into block-under-test (BUT) conflict test groups and total-independence test groups. The total-independence test groups may be performed concurrently. Performance of the BUT-conflict test groups may be overlapped such that the input/output channels are used concurrently, but the execution of the tests by the blocks of the device-under-test (DUT) is performed sequentially.
US07809999B2
An apparatus for use in obtaining a value from a device includes a first comparator to receive a reference high signal and a device signal, where the first comparator provides a first output signal to indicate whether the device signal is above or below the reference high signal, and a second comparator to receive a reference low signal and the device signal, where the second comparator provides a second output signal to indicate whether the device signal is above or below the reference low signal. Also included in the apparatus is circuitry (i) to adjust at least one of the reference high signal and the reference low signal based on the first output signal and the second output signal, and (ii) to output the value if a difference between the reference high signal and the reference low signal meets a predetermined criterion, the value being based on the difference.
US07809981B2
Provided is a storage system superior in fault tolerance. This storage system is composed of a controller having a plurality of processors and other units. When an error occurs in any one of the components in the controller, the storage system cuts off an I/O path of the controller, specifies the failed component in the cutoff status, and invalidates such failed component. Further, after invalidating the failed component, the storage system determines whether it is operable only with the normal components, cancels (releases) the cutoff of the I/O path when it determines that it is operable, and resumes operation by rebooting itself.
US07809979B2
In a system for dispersively storing data and parity in a plurality of storage devices, information in a first storage device is restored by using information stored in the storage devices other than the first storage device when the first storage device fails. And information in a non-restored area in the first storage device and information in a second storage device are restored by using information stored in the storage devices other than the first and the second storage devices when the second storage device fails while the information in the first storage device is being restored.
US07809978B2
Data in a storage medium is scanned while a storage device is in an idle state. A proportion of scanned data in entire data in the storage medium is compared with a threshold value. If the proportion of the scanned data is less than the threshold value, an unscanned data in the storage medium is scanned during a time interval between commands received by the storage device from outside. The process is repeated until the proportion of the scanned data is equal to or more than the threshold value.
US07809975B2
A computerized system includes two storage processors having respective local write caches configured to mirror each other. When a first storage processor becomes unavailable and mirroring of the local write caches is prevented, the computerized system continues to attend to write operations from an external host in a write-back manner by caching write data from the write operations in the local write cache of the second storage processor. In response to a failure of the second storage processor, the computerized system preserves the write data within the local write cache of the second storage processor. Then, upon recovery of the second storage processor from the failure, the computerized system continues to attend to further write operations from the external host in the write-back manner by caching additional write data in the local write cache of the second storage processor while the first storage processor remains unavailable.
US07809973B2
A method, apparatus or system for generating a clock signal that includes determining a transmission frequency within a first frequency range for receiving or transmitting a data stream, locking a clock to the transmission frequency during a packet exchange and tuning the clock to one or more frequencies within a second frequency range after the packet exchange. The clock may be variably tuned to multiple frequencies within either the first or second range.
US07809970B2
A method, computer program product, and system are provided performing a Message Passing Interface (MPI) job. A first processor chip receives a set of arrival signals from a set of processor chips executing tasks of the MPI job in the data processing system. The arrival signals identify when a processor chip executes a synchronization operation for synchronizing the tasks for the MPI job. Responsive to receiving the set of arrival signals from the set of processor chips, the first processor chip identifies a fastest processor chip of the set of processor chips whose arrival signal arrived first. An operation of the fastest processor chip is modified based on the identification of the fastest processor chip. The set of processor chips comprises processor chips that are in one of a same processor book or a different processor book of the data processing system.
US07809958B2
A method for guaranteeing freshness of results for queries against a non-secure data store extends a read operation to include steps of: receiving a read instruction for application data to be read; determining a location within the data store for the application data to be read; validating a message authentication code contained at the location; parsing data contained at the location into the application data and control information, the control information including: a timestamp, a link to a check entry, and a message authentication code; authenticating the control information for each check item associated with the primary item along a path from the primary item to a root each time a primary item is read from the data store by following links; and transmitting the application data to a calling application.
US07809955B2
A trustable community for a computer system includes multiple software components that have security interdependence. A trustable community attempts to stop malware from compromising one software component within the community by conditioning operation of the software component upon a determination of present trustworthiness of itself and other software components within the community. Present trustworthiness may be determined through hash checks and application of community rules defining conditions under which software components are trustworthy.
US07809953B2
A system and method of distributing authentication information for remotely accessing a computer resource. A request for authentication information, including identity information, is received from a user of a remote device. When the user is authenticated based on the identity information, requested authentication information is retrieved and returned to the remote device. The authentication information, or information generated from the authentication information, is then used for remotely accessing the computer resource.
US07809943B2
A method and system for establishing trust in a peer-to-peer network is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises receiving a certificate associated with content from a peer in a peer-to-peer network. A file certificate associated with the content is received wherein the file certificate includes a hash. The validity of the content is determined with the file certificate. The authenticity of the content is determined with the file certificate.
US07809940B2
A system for managing security certificates on a plurality of remote computers comprises a certificate manager that can determine in accordance with at least one preestablished criterion whether a security certificate on a remote computer is to be managed. The system also includes an installer module that can access an account of the remote computer to manage the security certificate. Methods of using the system are also provided.
US07809939B2
A method and apparatus provides for trusted point-to-point communication over an open bus. An embodiment of a computer includes a first software environment, with the first software environment being a trusted environment. The first software environment includes one or more trusted applications, and provides for the generation of trusted data packets in an open bus. The computer also includes a second software environment, with the second software environment being an un-trusted environment. The computer includes a trusted interface for an open bus, the trusted interface being accessible only to the first software environment. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07809935B2
A invented computer system has a plurality of computer boards; a plurality of terminals, each of which is coupled to each of the computer boards respectively via a network; a storage device having a plurality of storage areas, which is coupled to each of the computer boards; and a management computer; and wherein the management computer manages a correspondence between a user information and the storage area, and when a use request of the computer board is transmitted from a terminal, the management computer selects a usable computer board to turn on a power, reads information necessary to start the computer board from the storage corresponding to the transmitted user information, allows the computer board to start based on the read information, and notifies the terminal of information on the started computer board and identification information on the network allocated to the started computer board.
US07809932B1
Processor pipeline controlling techniques are described which take advantage of the variation in critical path lengths of different instructions to achieve increased performance. By examining a processor's instruction set and execution unit implementation's critical timing paths, instructions are classified into speed classes. Based on these speed classes, one pipeline is presented where hold signals are used to dynamically control the pipeline based on the instruction class in execution. An alternative pipeline supporting multiple classes of instructions is presented where the pipeline clocking is dynamically changed as a result of decoded instruction class signals. A single pass synthesis methodology for multi-class execution stage logic is also described. For dynamic class variable pipeline processors, the mix of instructions can have a great effect on processor performance and power utilization since both can vary by the program mix of instruction classes. Application code can be given new degrees of optimization freedom where instruction class and the mix of instructions can be chosen based on performance and power requirements.
US07809921B2
A page table mechanism translates virtual addresses to real addresses. In a first aspect, page table entries are contained in equal-sized blocks, the entries within each block corresponding to contiguous pages of virtual address space. Preferably, the common high-order portion of the virtual address is contained in segments distributed among multiple page table entries of the block. In a second aspect, the virtual address indexes a binary tree definitional structure. Decode logic traverses a binary tree defined by the definitional structure by testing selective bits of the virtual address to reach a leaf of the binary tree, which defines the location of data defining the real address.
US07809915B2
Handling multi-rank pools and varying degrees of control in volume allocation on storage controllers
Techniques are disclosed for optimizing volume allocation on storage controllers that may have varying degrees of control over directing storage on ranks of pools attached storage components. A performance-based volume allocation algorithm can optimize allocation for such various controllers in a smooth, uniform manner allowing changes from one degree of control to another without incurring costly code changes and re-architecting costs. Where control is not available a surrogate set of possible ranks where the allocation could be made is developed and employed to calculate an adjusted utilization cost. In turn, the adjusted utilization cost is used to calculate a space limit value limited by a target performance threshold.
US07809914B2
A system and method are provided for pooling storage devices in a virtual library for performing a storage operation. A storage management device determines a storage characteristic of a plurality of storage devices with respect to performing a storage operation. Based on a storage characteristic relating to performing the storage operation, the storage management device associates at least two storage devices in a virtual library. The storage management device may continuously monitor the virtual library and detect a change in storage characteristics of the storage devices. When changes in storage characteristics are detected, the storage management device may change associations of the storage device in the virtual library.
US07809911B2
Exemplary methods, systems, and products are described that operate generally by moving subroutine return address protection to the processor itself, in effect proving atomic locks for subroutine return addresses stored in a stack, subject to application control. More particularly, exemplary methods, systems, and products are described that write protect subroutine return addresses by calling a subroutine, including storing in a stack memory address a subroutine return address and locking, by a computer processor, the stack memory address against write access. Calling a subroutine may include receiving in the computer processor an instruction to lock the stack memory address. Locking the stack memory address may be carried out by storing the stack memory address in a protected memory lockword. A protected memory lockword may be implemented as a portion of a protected content addressable memory.
US07809906B2
In a storage subsystem, performance tuning is performed with respect to whole logical devices including external storage subsystems that are not directly connected to host computers.Physical storage units presented by the external storage subsystems are defined as logical devices of the storage subsystem itself, and I/O processing requests from the host computers are relayed to those logical devices. At the time of relaying, I/O processing conditions are monitored. When there exists an external storage subsystem whose load is high, then, operating conditions of ports and processors are examined. In the case where the load can be reduced by changing the configuration of those ports and processors, the configuration is changed to reduce the load. In the case where the load can not be reduced, data is migrated from a logical device having a high load to a logical device having a sufficient performance.
US07809905B2
There is provided a data migrating method including the steps of: calculating, in a case where data stored in a volume is migrated to another volume, a required period of time for migrating the data based on a size of data to be migrated and volume configuration information on the volume in which the migrated data is stored and the volume to which the data is to be migrated; determining a start time at which the data migration starts to generate a volume migration plan; setting a priority of the generated volume migration plan; prioritizing, in a case where a periods of time during which the generated volume migration plan is executed and a period of time during which an existing volume migration plan is executed are overlapped with each other, and changing the start time of at least one of those volume migration plans having a lower priority.
US07809902B2
Provided is a system and method for de-interleaving a data stream stored in a buffer having a plurality of memory locations. Each location has a memory width of (W) bytes and the data stream is formed of a number of data words each including (N) number of data bytes, and (N) is a non-integer multiple of the width (W). The method includes storing the data words into respective memory locations and appending each of the stored data words with number (X) of dummy bytes, a sum of (N)+(X) being an integer multiple of the width (W). The appended dummy bytes are then stored in the respective memory locations.
US07809883B1
Embodiments of the invention may improve read operations for fully cached workloads on storage systems with limited processing or CPU-cache resources. Some embodiments employ an indicator such as a counter to indicate when the use of readahead analysis steps, such as resource, intensive predictive processing, is undesirable. In these embodiments, the counter is incremented for each buffer cache read that is successfully performed without the need for a disk input/output operation. When the counter variable exceeds a threshold such as, for example, a maximum readahead size, then the system advantageously foregoes predictive processing steps of the readahead analysis phase, and further foregoes a readahead execution phase. The foregoing results in a net performance benefit for the system based on a reduced likelihood of a need for an input/output operation, and further, based on a reduced likelihood of a need for predictive processing relating to readahead analysis and/or execution.
US07809881B2
A recording medium, such as a high-density and/or optical recording medium including segment information recorded thereon, and apparatus and methods for recording to and reproducing from the recording medium, in order to improve data protection, data management and/or reproduction compatibility. The recording medium may contain at least one segment area which is an area on the disc controlled by a plurality of valid PACs and if the designated segment areas overlap with one another, control information of the respective PACs which control the overlapped area may be applied to control the overlapped area.
US07809867B2
An apparatus and method for de-bouncing keypad inputs is disclosed including interrupting a processor upon detecting a key press, reading input signals from the key pad to determine an initial port value and starting a timer. A keypad interrupt is disabled and processing resumes until expiration of the timer. The timer interrupts the processor and the input signals are read a second time and combined with the initial port value to determine a key identifier. The timer is started again and processing resumes. Upon expiration of the timer the processor checks for key release. If release is not detected, the timer is again started. If release occurs, the timer is disabled and the keypad interrupt is enabled.
US07809862B2
A Multi-Media Card/Secure Digital (MMC/SD) single-chip flash device contains a MMC/SD flash microcontroller and flash mass storage blocks containing flash memory arrays that are block-addressable rather than randomly-addressable. MMC/SD transactions from a host MMC/SD bus are read by a bus transceiver on the MMC/SD flash microcontroller. Various routines that execute on a CPU in the MMC/SD flash microcontroller are activated in response to commands in the MMC/SD transactions. A flash-memory controller in the MMC/SD flash microcontroller transfers data from the bus transceiver to the flash mass storage blocks for storage. Rather than boot from an internal ROM coupled to the CPU, a boot loader is transferred by DMA from the first page of the flash mass storage block to an internal RAM. The flash memory is automatically read from the first page at power-on. The CPU then executes the boot loader from the internal RAM to load the control program.
US07809860B2
A network architecture in accordance with the present invention includes a communication network that supports one or more network-based Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). The communication network includes a plurality of boundary routers that are connected by access links to CPE edge routers belonging to the one or more VPNs. To prevent traffic from outside a customer's VPN (e.g., traffic from other VPNs or the Internet at large) from degrading the QoS provided to traffic from within the customer's VPN, the present invention gives precedence to intra-VPN traffic over extra-VPN traffic on each customer's access link through access link prioritization or access link capacity allocation, such that extra-VPN traffic cannot interfere with inter-VPN traffic. Granting precedence to intra-VPN traffic over extra-VPN traffic in this manner entails special configuration of network elements and protocols, including partitioning between intra-VPN and extra-VPN traffic on the physical access link using layer 2 multiplexing and the configuration of routing protocols to achieve logical traffic separation between intra-VPN traffic and extra-VPN traffic at the VPN boundary routers and CPE edge routers. By configuring the access networks, the VPN boundary routers and CPE edge routers, and the routing protocols of the edge and boundary routers in this manner, the high-level service of DoS attack prevention is achieved.
US07809852B2
A system and method for converting low-jitter, interleaved frame traffic, such as that generated in an IP network, to high jitter traffic to improve the utilization of bandwidth on arbitrated loops such as Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loops. Embodiments of a high jitter scheduling algorithm may be used in devices such as network switches that interface an arbitrated loop with an IP network that carries low-jitter traffic. The high jitter algorithm may use a separate queue for each device on the arbitrated loop, or alternatively may use one queue for two or more devices. Incoming frames are distributed among the queues based upon each frame's destination device. The scheduling algorithm may then service the queues and forward queued frames to the devices from the queues. In one embodiment, the queues are serviced in a round-robin fashion. In one embodiment, each queue may be serviced for a programmed limit.
US07809840B2
A system and method of enabling transmission control protocol (TCP) splice between a client application and a server, while maintaining control of the connections by a content-based charging proxy. The system framework includes a TCP splicing module for splicing connections between a client application and a server, an application proxy (e.g., content-based charging proxy) for redirecting a request of the client application, and a content-based charging engine for determining the classification of the data flow between the client application and the server. If the data flow has a predetermined classification or a triggering event has been detected, the content-based charging engine transfers control of the connections to the application proxy. The application proxy, for example, can redirect the client application to a predetermined service or source based on the classification of the data flow.
US07809832B2
A method and system for processing a data flow in a multi-channel, multiservice environment is described. In one embodiment, a socket is dynamically allocated, the socket including a dynamically allocated service. Further, the server processes the data flow based upon the type of data being processed.
US07809830B2
The invention distributes bitstreams by a server to a plurality of client devices connected to the server via a network, in which the server device transfers a bitstream via the network to a client device belonging to the plurality of client devices, and in which the bitstream may be transcoded according to a plurality of predetermined transcoding methods. In the invention, a rate associated with each of the bitstreams is calculated after application of at least one of the plurality of transcoding methods. Each client device is classified, and a determination is made, among the plurality of predetermined transcoding methods, those which are acceptable for each client device, depending on the calculated rates and the classification. A global selection of a set of transcoding methods is then performed, each method being associated with a client device of the plurality of client devices, among the acceptable methods, depending on predetermined criteria comprising at least taking into account bandwidth of the network.
US07809829B2
Network flows are identified by analyzing network traffic and network host information. The network host information may be collected by network host monitors associated with network hosts. Network traffic and network host information are evaluated against network flow profiles to identify network flows. If a network flows are identified with high certainty and are associated with previously identified network applications, then network flow policies can be applied to the network flows to block, throttle, accelerate, enhance, or transform the network flows. If a network flow is identified with lesser certainty or is not associated with a previously identified network application, then a new network flow profile can be created from further analysis of network traffic information, network host information, and possibly additional network host information collected to enhance the analysis. New network flow profiles can be communicated with a service provider for analysis and potential distribution to other networks.
US07809823B2
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for verifying the integrity of web server content. A client-side integrity verification of a web page communicated from a web server to a client computer is received. A server-side error in the web page is received from the web server. The results of the client-side integrity verification are merged with the server-side error. The results of the client-side integrity verification and the server-side error are presented.
US07809821B2
A solution for evaluating trust in a computer infrastructure is provided. In particular, a plurality of computing devices in the computer infrastructure evaluate one or more other computing devices in the computer infrastructure based on a set of device measurements for the other computing device(s) and a set of reference measurements. To this extent, each of the plurality of computing devices also provides a set of device measurements for processing by the other computing device(s) in the computer infrastructure.
US07809814B2
In order to manage requests in at least two distinct classes, relating to multimedia data, exchanged by a communication apparatus and at least one data source connected through a communication network, at the communication apparatus: at least one request in at least a first class of requests is enabled (E505, E510), the enabling taking account of the multimedia data received from at least a second class of requests, the requests of the second class being predictable in time; a priority (E512, E507) is allocated dynamically to each of the enabled requests, in accordance with characteristics of said enabled requests; and a priority (E512) is allocated dynamically to each of the enabled requests of the second class in accordance with the time remaining until the next request of the second class.
US07809813B2
System and method for providing content-oriented services to content providers and content consumers
A content service network for providing content-oriented services over the Internet or similar networks comprises a service delivery overlay having a plurality of application servers and a content delivery network overlay having a plurality of service-enabled proxies in content delivery paths between content providers and content consumers. The service delivery overlay and the content delivery network collaborate to provide content-oriented processing, such as adaptive video delivery, content personalization, language translation, etc. The content service network accepts subscriptions from content providers and content consumer. For each subscription, service instructions including service binding data for binding the subscribed services with the subscriber's identity are generated and distributed to the service-enabled proxies. When a service-enabled proxy detects that a message passing therethrough requires a subscribed service, it retrieves service instructions for the service and renders the service either by making a remote call to an application service or by invoking a local execution module.
US07809804B2
An image processing apparatus transmits data via a network to a server equipped with a function for distributing an image received from a terminal apparatus over the network to another terminal apparatus over the network and a function for transmitting a track back notification with respect to a track back destination address. The image processing apparatus includes an image reading unit capable of reading an image from an original, a determining unit that determines a track back address that is used in correspondence with the image read by the image reading unit, and a data transmitting unit that transmits both image data indicative of the image read by the image reading unit, and address data indicative of the track back destination address determined by the determining unit to the server.
US07809803B2
A method of transferring data to a portable electronic device includes providing a link for pushing data to the portable electronic device, receiving a selection of the push link, receiving an identifier of the portable electronic device for delivery of the data thereto, and transmitting the data to the portable electronic device.
US07809801B1
Users who visit a network site typically visit other sites in the same session. The surfing pattern or “trail” through the pages may be significant once aggregated, because it outlines the underlining relationship between those pages or sites. Once such user navigational trail data is available, the relationship between network sites on such user trails may used to make various decisions regarding advertising and keyword management. Additionally, the relative popularity of each trail may be used to rank or compute relative weights for the various user trails. Such information may then aid in keyword suggestion and advertising decisions.
US07809800B2
The present invention presents a method for providing the location information of a mobile station(MS) by selectively using a DBM-based method and a TCP/IP-based method on a global positioning system(GPS) in a mobile telecommunication network constituted of a client server, a mobile positioning center(MPC), a home location register(HLR), and a position determination Entity(PDE).By selectively using a DBM-based method or a TCP/IP-based method according to the type of requested service, the present invention enables to reduce the time required for obtaining the accurate location. Moreover, it can provide the requested location based service(LBS) on an MS even when the MS is on-line or on stand-by mode.
US07809793B2
A system is disclosed by which the load when a user tries to selectively communicate through a network with a person having information useful to the user from among a large number of persons can be distributed suitably on the network without the necessity for a large-scale network server. The user transmits profile information from a user apparatus to a plurality of different apparatus of different users. Each different apparatus uses the profile information and profile information of the user of the different apparatus to calculate correlativity between the users and sends back a result of the calculation. The user apparatus selects, from the results of the correlativity calculation from the different apparatus, an apparatus of a communication opposite party who exhibits a comparatively high correlativity, and issues a notification of or receives utilization information to or from the selected apparatus by communication.
US07809792B2
A conference information processing apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts partial conference audio and/or visual information from conference audio and/or visual information. The partial conference audio and/or visual information has one or more physical events of a conference participant. The apparatus also has a providing unit that provides an index for the partial conference audio and/or visual information in accordance with a functional action abstracted from the one or more physical events.
US07809791B2
A utility is provided for managing exchanges of information within a context involving multiple users, for example, multi-user network collaboration. The invention enables automatic enforcement of a policy regarding sensitive information. The policy may be negotiated among the users and expressed as multiple rule sets that govern access to a use of sensitive information. The utility also logs activities involving sensitive information to ensure compliance with the policy. These logs can be audited by a third party or automatically processed for audit compliance by the utility. In this manner, an environment of trust is created which encourages fruitful collaboration.
US07809786B2
An apparatus and method for remotely controlling household appliances connected to a home network. A power line and a network processor is installed in each household appliance, enabling a household appliance user to remotely control the appliances from a place outside of as well as inside a home. Information about all conditions of the household appliances can be displayed on a screen displayable household appliance so that the user can recognize the operations of the appliances even during spare moments. A low-price built-in server is installed in each household appliance to assign the corresponding appliance a unique IP address simply over the Internet to be controlled according to an external user control command. A home server is connected to each of the household appliances such that the corresponding appliance receives a control command, sent in transit by a user from a mobile terminal.
US07809775B2
The data structure on the recording medium includes a navigation area storing an information file. The information file includes a first playback indicator that identifies a navigation command field for execution at first playback of the recording medium. The identified navigation command field is also stored on the recording medium, and the identified navigation command field includes at least one navigation command.
US07809774B2
A distributed file system including a plurality of compute nodes and a plurality of input/output (I/O) nodes connected by an interconnection network wherein the system is adapted to use a common data representation for both physical and logical partitions of a file stored in the system and wherein the partitions are linearly addressable. Also provided is a method of operating a distributed file system including a plurality of input/output (I/O) nodes and a plurality of compute nodes, the method including partitioning a file into a plurality of subfiles distributed across a plurality of I/O nodes; logically partitioning a file by setting a view on it, computing mappings between a linear space of a file and a linear space of a subfile, computing the intersection between a view and a subfile, and performing data operations.
US07809773B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to filtering comments presented to users in connection with multimedia content, such as video and audio content. In a particular implementation, there are two types of users of this system. A writer comments on sections of a real-time multimedia stream, while readers or viewers observe the discussion embodied by the comments that are displayed.
US07809772B2
There is provided a data change device that includes a storage unit that stores a manipulation explanation data set and a result explanation data set related to each other, the manipulation explanation data set including at least an instruction acceptance image indicating an instruction acceptance unit for accepting an instruction to the data change device or an external device and a manipulation explanation image for explaining a manipulation of the instruction acceptance unit, and the result explanation data set indicating a phenomenon that results from a manipulation indicated by the manipulation explanation data set, a change acceptance unit that accepts a change to be made to the instruction acceptance unit, and a manipulation explanation data change unit that changes the manipulation explanation data set in accordance with the change if the change is accepted by the change acceptance unit.
US07809770B2
A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage, distribution, and/or the like. The method includes storing model and model variable data within a relational database system, receiving a request from a user interfacing with the system via a web interface, extracting search criteria and presentation preferences from the request, formulating and executing one or more queries on the database to retrieve the required data, formatting the data in accordance with the request, and returning the data to the requesting user in the form of a web page.
US07809765B2
The present technique provides for the analysis of a data series to identify sequences of interest within the series. Specifically, in accordance with one embodiment of the present technique, a method is provided comprising generating a data structure that stores characteristics about a plurality of sequences present in a data series. One or more sequences are identified based upon the contents of the data structure. In accordance with other aspects of the invention, more than one heuristic is calculated for each sequence under review. The plurality of heuristics associated with each sequence are evaluated to identify a sequence of interest.
US07809761B2
A system and method of tracking a data object of a data management system. A tracking object is associated with a first data object, the tracking object including a first status data having a first status value representing a status of the first data object. Upon the creation and/or modification of a second data object that is associated with the first data object, the first status data is automatedly updated with a second status value based on the creating and/or modifying of the second data object.
US07809756B2
A data protection system that integrates a database with Windows Explorer in the Microsoft Windows 9X and NT Environments that mimics the Windows Explorer user interface, enabling the user to apply already known use paradigms. The data protection system appears as an extension to Windows Explorer and visibly appears as a folder item called the data vault. The data vault is a virtual disk that represents the underlying database. The database creates records and stores information about files backed up to removable secondary storage medium. Files may be backed up manually or automatically. A schedule can be set up for automatic protection of selected files and file types. The database can be searched to find files for restoration purposes without having to load secondary storage medium. Once a file or files are selected, the data protection system indicates which labeled removable secondary storage medium must be loaded for retrieval.
US07809755B2
A content management system includes a conversion a section, a display data storing section, a field section, an operation section and a management section. The conversion section converts content data into display data which is to be written into an electronic paper. The display data storing section stores the display data. The field storing section stores field data which includes identification information of a first user belonging to a field and identification information of the display data. The operation section accepts a request from a second user. The management section that allows, when the identification information of the first user contained in the field data coincides with identification information of the second user contained in the request accepted by the operation section, the display data indicated by the identification information contained in the field data to be written into the electronic paper.
US07809754B2
A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for representing service relationships of a business process. A plurality of services are read, and first and second services of the plurality of services are selected. An output and effect of the first service is compared with an input and precondition of the second service. Responsive to the comparison, an evaluation is made to determine if the first service is related to the second service. Related services may then be linked by directed edges in a graph.
US07809747B2
A method of improving the speed with which a sample such as a biometric sample can be fuzzily matched against records in a database, comprises extracting characteristics from the sample, and using those extracted characteristics as indexes (70) to address a lookup table (25). Each row within the lookup table points to an individual record occurrence list (28, 30, 32) which contain details of not only the stored records from which the given characteristic can be extracted, but also those records having an extracted characteristic which are within a defined proximity to the said characteristic. Characteristics are extracted from the sample record, and a given stored record is identified as being a possible match with the sample if it appears in a required number of record occurrence lists.
US07809745B2
The present invention provides for the generation of structured query results using lexical clustering which includes collecting one or more search queries and data associated with the one or more search queries. The present invention further includes preprocessing the one or more queries into a canonicalized form of each of the one or more queries. The canonicalized form of each of the one or more queries may be accomplished using stemming, punctuation, pluralization, word order or other canonicalization rules. The present invention further includes building a lexical index of the one or more search queries and data associated with the one or more search queries and mining the lexical index of the one or more search queries and data associated with the one or more search queries in order to generate a structured query result set.
US07809736B2
A system and method of obtaining an importance ranking for a hierarchical collection of objects. The hierarchical collection of objects is represented as a tree containing a plurality of nodes, and each node to be ranked is represented as a respective leaf node of the tree. To obtain the ranking of the respective leaf nodes, the system and method locally ranks nodes contained in one or more sub-trees of the tree, in which each sub-tree has a depth equal to one. Next, the local rankings are effectively propagated up the tree, and the local rankings are aggregated at each level of the hierarchy, until a final importance ranking for the leaf nodes is obtained.
US07809720B2
Improved data content determination techniques are disclosed for use in accordance with information-seeking systems. For example, in one illustrative aspect of the invention, a technique for determining data content for a response to a query comprises obtaining a user query, and dynamically determining data content suitable for generating a response to the query, wherein data content determination is modeled as an optimization operation which attempts to balance context-based selection constraints. Further, the step of dynamically determining data content may further comprise modeling the context-based selection constraints as feature-based metrics. The feature-based metrics may be formulated using contextual information. Still further, the step of dynamically determining data content may further comprise performing the optimization operation such that one or more desirability metrics are maximized and one or more cost metrics are minimized, thus balancing the various constraints.
US07809719B2
Embodiments are provided to predict and suggest one or more candidates. Words, acronyms, compound words, phrases, and other textual and symbolic representations can be predicted and suggested to a user as part of an input process or other user operation. In an embodiment, a number of textual candidates can be predicted based in part on user input and data stored in a store component. The number of predicted textual candidates can be suggested to a user as a number of suggested textual candidates. Embodiments enable a user to select an appropriate textual candidate from the number of suggested textual candidates, while reducing a number of associated user operations.
US07809714B1
Enhancing queries for information retrieval that automatically finds the preferred, first ranked matching term usage subject area (“TUSA”) from a prior query. The process automatically finds alternative TUSAs for the prior query, ranked by degree of match or preference, and provides an option to switch among the alternative TUSAs. It is required that a TUSA for the query be passively accepted or actively selected from a presented list based on the prior query. Using means prepared in advance from data sets of messages collected for each TUSA and general vocabulary the process also ranks and presents to the user alternative and additional query terms and phrases reflecting specificity and relevance to the query and the TUSA. Significantly relevant terms and phrases are presented for query refinement and ranked by relevance permitting the user to select and deselect query terms and effect a new search based on the enhanced query.
US07809704B2
Data clustering is performed by executing a spectral technique, embedded within a probabilistic technique. In one embodiment, the probabilistic technique is performed by a generative model, and the spectral technique is performed within the generative model. In another embodiment, the probabilistic technique is performed by an aspect model, and the spectral technique is performed within the aspect model.
US07809699B2
In a system for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment, meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients of the system and stored separately from the digital assets, such as at a central location. A computer system operating under control of an operating system performs categorization of the digital assets using an agent operating in user space of the computer system. The agent receives an I/O request identifying a digital asset and applies categorization information to the identified digital asset based on the received I/O request without intervention by an end-user of the computer system, and the categorization information is stored as part of an asset identification tag associated with the digital asset.
US07809696B2
A system and method for matching similar master data using associated behavioral data, for example transactional data. Matching accuracy is significantly increased. Master data may be thought of as nouns. Behavioral data is associated with master data as verbs are related to nouns. Specifically, behavioral data is data associated with an action taken by a master data object. Behavioral data may include temporal and non-temporal data. Temporal data for example may include time and/or duration that a behavior occurred. Non-temporal data may include a physical location, a product, a phone number or any other quantity other than time. Using behavioral data in duplication testing adds another dimension to de-duplication that is not achieved through comparison of master data object fields alone. For example, a duplication test on two similar “person” records with similar “name” field values is improved by comparing associated “behavior” data, (phone numbers called by each “similar person”).
US07809695B2
Many companies provide online search facilities that enable users to conduct computerized searches for documents. Unfortunately, these searches frequently provide results that include duplicate documents—that is, documents that are completely or substantially identical to each other. This problem is particularly vexing when searching news stories, for example. Moreover, the duplicate documents are intermixed in the search results, leaving users to manually manage the complexities of identifying and/or filtering them. Accordingly, the present inventors devised systems, methods, and software that facilitate the identification and/or grouping of duplicate documents in search results. One exemplary system includes a signature generation module which generates document signatures based on length, temporal, and/or content components; a real-time duplicate detection module which uses the document signatures to identify “exact” or “fuzzy” duplicate documents; and a user-interface or presentation module which controls how duplicate documents are presented or suppressed in search results.
US07809694B2
Analyzing performance data from a relational database to discover poorly performing SQL statements includes creating event records of performance data for query statements executed by a relational database management system, and condensing the performance data in the event records. A performance summary can be generated for each condensed event record. The performance summaries can then be analyzed based on performance characteristics to identify poorly performing SQL statements.
US07809690B2
A method and apparatus for selecting one or more instances to perform database recovery is provided. According to one aspect, one or more performance metrics are determined for each instance on each node in a cluster. Based on these performance metrics, which may be weighted to give one or more metrics more significance relative to the other metrics, an overall score is determined for each instance on each surviving node when a node in the cluster fails. One or more instances with the highest of these scores are selected. The selected instances are assigned the task of performing the database recovery process. Because instances best able to handle to database recovery process are selected, the database recovery process consumes less time, thereby making data accessible in less time after a node fails.
US07809687B2
Systems and methods are provided for searching. In one implementation, a method is provided. A current view of a search application is displayed in a user interface. The current view of the search application includes a search result including one or more elements. A first user input is received while the current view of a search application is displayed. The first user input requests that a history view associated with the current view of the search application be displayed. The history view includes search results based on a search of system data from an archive. The history view is displayed in response to the first user input, the history view including search results having a first item not present in the one or more elements.
US07809686B2
A computer investigation system and method that conducts electronic discovery of desired files across a live network in a forensically sound manner. The investigation entails an examining machine electronically identifying, collecting, and preserving evidence from target machines that is responsive to a set of investigation criteria. The set of investigation criteria is associated with an investigation subject that is identified by a global unique identifier (GUID). As the investigation subject is applied to the various files, the responsive files are stamped with the GUID and preserved in a container file referred to as a logical evidence file (LEF). The GUID allows the results of an investigation to be easily and reliably traced to the particular investigation subject that was applied.
US07809675B2
A method and apparatus for sharing state information among a plurality of servers is provided. A first server receives a request to perform a file operation, such as a NFS file system operation. Thereafter, the first server updates state information to reflect a change in state associated with processing the request. The first server then causes state update information, which identifies the change in state that was made at the first server, to be propagated to a second server. The second server updates state information, stored at the second server, to reflect the change in state associated with processing the request at the first server. Advantageously, a client may send a series of stateful file operations to either the first server or the second server, even if processing any one of the stateful file operation requests requires knowledge of the state of processing prior requests in the series of requests.
US07809669B2
A rule processing apparatus includes modules for defining/entering attributes, enumerations, and/or relationships; packaging the definitions in a reduced canonical form suitable for propositional logic manipulation using zero-suppressed binary decision diagrams (Zdd) to produce a prime Zdd; and/or (iii) executing the rule by applying a series of user inputs to the prime Zdd to determine a result that preferably includes conflict and selection advice to guide the user to satisfaction. Elective events, such as but not limited to the display of messages or the performance of calculations, may optionally be packaged along with the prime rule or components thereof, and presented during execution to help guide the end user to satisfaction or compliancy when choosing among possible selections. The apparatus automates determination of a complex rule having a combinatorial exploded number of rule components, or a combinatorial number of possible outcomes, exceeding computational capacity of present day computing systems.
US07809656B2
Systems and methods that enable historians (e.g., micro-historians) to function as proxies, to supply plant level data, (e.g., history data) back to the controllers. Accordingly, typically such micro historians can function as clients/servers, to provide higher level data to the controllers (e.g., from third part databases). The historians can create a proxy that image an object on a server associated with controllers (e.g., programmable logic controller.) Such objects can contain data; pieces of code; attributes; operations or combinations thereof, for example.
US07809654B2
This invention relates to a mail handling system intended for printing postal indicia on a mail item, comprising a franked label dispenser allowing the print of postal indicia on a label intended thereafter to be stuck on the mail item, and a control computer terminal intended to remotely control print of the postal indicia on the label. It also preferably comprises electronic scales for previously determining the weight of the mail items having then to be printed, control of these scales being effected remotely from the control computer terminal and the remote control from the computer terminal is advantageously effected by short distance radio link, preferably of the Bluetooth or like type.
US07809648B2
A software licensing system includes a license generator located at a licensing clearinghouse and at least one license server and multiple clients located at a company or entity. When a company wants a software license, it sends a purchase request (and appropriate fee) to the licensing clearinghouse. The license generator at the clearinghouse creates a license pack containing a set of one or more individual software licenses. The license generator digitally signs the license pack and encrypts it with the license server's public key. The license server is responsible for distributing the software licenses from the license pack to individual clients. When a client needs a license, the license server determines the client's operating system platform and grants the appropriate license. The license server digitally signs the software license and encrypts it using the client's public key. The license is stored locally at the client.
US07809645B2
In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses sequester content receiving content for use in an application; review the content; automatically sequester the content from the application based on the reviewing; and form a reason associated with the sequestering the content. In another embodiment, the methods and apparatuses receive content for use with an application; determine whether the content is one of acceptable content and unacceptable content; remove the unacceptable content from the application; form an explanation for the unacceptable content; and store the unacceptable content and the explanation in an off-line storage device.
US07809641B2
A system and method for funding a collective account such as a charitable account includes issuing a plurality of financial instruments, linking the financial instruments to the collective account, aggregating individual financial instrument usage, calculating a bonus or other reward based on the aggregate financial instrument usage and funding or distributing the reward to the collective account. According to the invention, members of a civic, charitable, political or other entity may generate collective rewards or other benefits which may be attributed to the designated organization.
US07809639B2
Methods and systems for servicing requests made from any of multiple user interfaces associated with a user are provided. A request from one of the plurality of user interfaces is received. Information associated with each of the plurality of user interfaces is retrieved, and based upon the retrieved information and the received request, a set of features to be included in a user presentation is selected. The user presentation is then generated based on the selected set of features, and transmitted to the user interface from which the request was received.
US07809635B2
A computer-based method of updating a client loan portfolio with information on secondary liens relatable to portfolio properties includes inputting property data from the portfolio, monitoring a secondary lien database for secondary liens relatable to the property data, and notifying the client if a secondary lien is detected. Notifying the client may include generating a secondary lien report containing an AVM score or a CLTV ratio, and updating the portfolio by generating a new version of the portfolio that includes secondary liens detected during monitoring. A system may include a client station for inputting data for monitoring, an FTP server for uploading the data from the client station, and a mainframe server for standardizing the data, searching databases for secondary liens, calculating the AVM score and CLTV ratio, and generating the secondary lien report for delivery to the client station via the FTP server.
US07809634B1
The invention relates to the business disciplines known as Enterprise Risk Management, or ERM and with the addition of this invention, Strategic Risk Management, or SRM. It specifically relates to the quantification or measurement and validation of the historical impact of all risks and risk management activity on an organization. The invention provides a methodology to measure, baseline, track and benchmark the total cost of all historical risk events, including both positive and negative events, and risk-related activities that impact the earnings of an organization.
US07809629B2
A system and method of allocating rights for quoting issues on a trading facility such as an exchange is described. The method may include providing market participants such as remote market makers with a listing of issues available for remote quote streaming where the available issues are ranked according to predetermined trading parameters. A market participant requests allocations of rights to certain issues and the request is filtered according to a value associated with the ranking of the selected issues. The system includes an issue selection database having a listing of issues available for trading where each issue is ranked based on a trading parameter. An issue selection communication module communicates with the issue selection database and is configured to list available issues and rankings. An issue allocation filter receives a market participant request and compares the selected issues in that request to one or more exchange-based rules.
US07809626B2
A method for comparing, creating and optimizing investment portfolios is provided. The utility function for an investment is characterized, and the optimization problem for the utility function is stated based on investor preferences and risk tolerance. According to one embodiment, the measure of relative performance of investment portfolios is calculated based on the investor utility function. According to another embodiment, guidelines for generating an optimized portfolio for the investor from the plurality of asset classes available, are mapped out.
US07809620B2
A system and method is provided for administering a tax-managed, buy-write investment fund having a plurality of units available for sale to the public. An index representing a first portfolio of assets having desired performance characteristics is identified. A second portfolio of assets is configured to have performance characteristics similar to those of the index, while having less than 70 percent overlap therewith. Shares of the second portfolio are purchased, while call options against the index are written.
US07809619B2
A method for a financial services provider to securely process corporate payment requests includes a step of issuing a primary digital certificate to a primary certificate holder of a corporation. The primary certificate authorizes the primary certificate holder to designate a plurality of holders of secondary digital certificates that are derivative from the primary certificate, each of the primary and plurality of secondary certificates including unique identifying information and/or an indication of authority of the holder of the certificate. Pending corporate payment requests are collected for clearing against the account of the corporation, and a pending payment statement is periodically generated, the statement including the collected pending payment requests. Thereafter, each of the collected pending payment requests is required to be validated by an authenticated primary or secondary certificate holder having the authority to validate the payment requests and only the validated corporate payment requests of the pending payment statement are cleared (paid) against the corporate account.
US07809610B2
A system that facilitates publishing and consuming information that is of time sensitivity, for example, price information. Methods are employed to achieve completeness and freshness in information for a given domain. A preferred embodiment is a shopping site that is capable of comparing prices, purchasing bundled products and dealing with coupons.
US07809609B2
When a user receives an online service by accessing a plurality of sites in turn, the user is immediately notified that the user cannot obtain the service since a certain site is out of service. A communication terminal accesses a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus in turn to execute communication, thereby obtaining the service. When a service intermediation apparatus receives a request for a service from the communication terminal, the service intermediation apparatus detects an operating state of the second information processing apparatus. Then, for example, if the second information processing apparatus is in operation, a link to the first information processing apparatus is provided as a response to the communication terminal. If the second information processing apparatus is out of operation, the link thereto is not provided.
US07809607B2
A system for providing product pricing information is disclosed. The system includes a mobile client configured to allow a user to issue a request for pricing information on a specified product, a price research server configured to receive the request from the mobile client and generate pricing research results on the specified product in response to the request, the pricing research results including pricing information with respect to the specified product collected from one or more merchants, and a merchant server configured to receive the pricing research results and generate a response for delivery to the mobile client, the response including an offer.
US07809606B2
A method of publishing a work of literature includes storing the work of literature on a first computer being coupled to a network, the work of literature containing a plurality of keywords including all unique words in the work of literature; freely transmitting the work of literature to other computers on the network in response to display requests from the other computers; receiving a purchase request for a keyword in the work of literature from a second computer via the network; and updating the work of literature on the first computer to contain an indication that the keyword has been purchased for each appearance of the keyword in the work of literature.
US07809598B2
The present invention provides a computer-implemented method, tool, and program product for scheduling an IT migration. Specifically, under the present invention, migration information for the IT migration is received in an electronic database. A schedule to perform the IT migration is the generated based on the migration information using an IT migration tool. Thereafter, messages such as email messages that contain the schedule are generated and sent to corresponding device owners using the IT migration tool. In addition, purchase orders for components needed for the IT migration based on the migration information can be generated using the IT migration tool.
US07809595B2
A system and method for assessing the risk associated with Outside Service Providers. A decision engine is provided to assess monitor and manage key issues around the risk management capabilities of the OSP. The system creates a core repository that manages, monitors and measures all OSP assessments across an institution (e.g., a corporation). The system and method employs automated questionnaires that require responses from the user (preferably the manager of the OSP relationship). The responses are tracked in order to evaluate the progress of the assessment and the status of the OSP with respect to compliance with the enterprise's requirements for OSPs. Once a questionnaire has been completed, the OSP can be given an overall rating of exposure to various forms of risk. Areas of risk can be acknowledged, prompting a sensitivity rating, such as severe, negligible and so forth. Once risk is acknowledged, a plan for reducing the risk or bringing the OSP into compliance can be formulated, and progress towards compliance can be tracked. Alternatively, an identified exposure to risk can be disclaimed through the system, which requires sign off by various higher level managers and administrators.
US07809589B1
A recurring automatic payment date may be set for an insurance policy premium based on customer preference. A server may receive a customer-specified day of a month and/or a request for bimonthly withdrawals, such as may be entered via a user interface on an insurance company webpage. The customer specified day(s) may be analyzed against data associated with the insurance policies to determine whether the day is disallowed. The day may be disallowed, for example, because it would result in falling behind an earned premium curve and thereby require a double bill or short bill to stay ahead of the earned premium curve.
US07809586B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems for estimating liability for a vehicle accident are provided. In one embodiment, the theoretical paths of a straight traveling vehicle and of a turning vehicle may be estimated. In certain embodiments, the turning vehicle may be merging into the same lane as the straight traveling vehicle. The opportunity of at least one vehicle, traveling at a specified speed, to avoid the accident may be assessed. In an embodiment, a contribution to liability to at least one vehicle may be estimated based on the opportunity of the vehicle to avoid the accident.
US07809579B2
Polyphonic signals are used to create a main signal, typically a mono signal, and a side signal. A number of encoding schemes for the side signal are provided. Each encoding scheme is characterized by a set of sub-frames of different lengths. The total length of the sub-frames corresponds to the length of the encoding frame of the encoding scheme. The encoding scheme to be used on the side signal is selected dependent on the present signal content of the polyphonic signals. In a preferred embodiment, a side residual signal is created as the difference between the side signal and the main signal scaled with a balance factor. The balance factor is selected to minimize the side residual signal. The optimized side residual signal and the balance factor are encoded and provided as encoding parameters representing the side signal.
US07809576B2
A unit for providing an interactive, light-activated, voice recorder unit for a book wherein said interactive voice recorder unit automatically initiates a playback mode when the front cover of a book is opened and light enters the unit.
US07809573B2
A voice output apparatus, enhancing a robustness of an interface between a user and the apparatus by transmitting, information to the user via text message and voice message. The voice output apparatus including a display unit (107) displaying a text message that is apparatus-transmitting information to be transmitted to the user, a delay unit (105), and a voice output unit (106) estimating a delay time necessary for an action taken by the user to visually identify the text message displayed by the display unit (107), and outputting, via voice message, the apparatus-transmitting information, when the delay time (T) passes after the text message is displayed.
US07809567B2
A speech recognition application including a recognition module configured to receive input utterances and an application module configured to select a recognition from the speech recognition module using output from a first iteration to select a recognition result for a second iteration. In one embodiment, the application module eliminates a previous rejected recognition result or results from the N-Best list for recognition. In another embodiment, the application module rescores N-Best entries based upon N-Best lists or information from another iteration. In another illustrated embodiment, the application module uses a limited grammar from a current N-Best list for subsequent recognition, for example for rerecognition using a recorded input from a previous iteration.
US07809561B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for verification of speaker authentication. A method for verification of speaker authentication, comprising: inputting an utterance containing a password that is spoken by a speaker; extracting an acoustic feature vector sequence from said inputted utterance; DTW-matching said extracted acoustic feature vector sequence and a speaker template enrolled by an enrolled speaker; calculating each of a plurality of local distances between said DTW-matched acoustic feature vector sequence and said speaker template; nonlinear-transforming said each local distance calculated to give more weights on small local distances; calculating a DTW-matching score based on said plurality of local distances nonlinear-transformed; and comparing said matching score with a predefined discriminating threshold to determine whether said inputted utterance is an utterance containing a password spoken by the enrolled speaker.
US07809559B2
A method for removing periodic noise pulses from a continuous audio signal generated in a pressurized air delivery system includes the steps of: detecting, in a time-windowed segment of the continuous audio signal generated in the pressurized air delivery system, a plurality of the periodic noise pulses having a pulse period and being representable in the form of a plurality of signal components combined by convolution; deconvolving the plurality of signal components to generate a plurality of deconvolved signal components; and removing at least a portion of the periodic noise pulses from the time-windowed segment of the continuous audio signal using the deconvolved signal components.
US07809555B2
Provided is a speech signal classification system and method. The speech signal classification system includes a primary recognition unit for determining using characteristics extracted from a speech frame whether the speech frame is a voice sound, a non-voice sound, or background noise and a secondary recognition unit for determining using at least one other speech frame whether a determination-reserved speech frame is an non-voice sound or background noise, if it is determined according to a primary recognition result that an input speech frame is not a voice sound. The system reserves a determination of the input speech frame, stores characteristics of at least one other speech frame to determine the determination-reserved speech frame, calculates secondary statistical values from characteristics of the determination-reserved speech frame and the stored characteristics of the other speech frames, and determines using the calculated secondary statistical values whether the determination-reserved speech frame is an non-voice sound or background noise. Accordingly, if an input speech frame is not a voice sound, the input speech frame can be more accurately classified and output as an non-voice sound or background noise, and thus errors, which may be generated in determination of a signal corresponding to an non-voice sound, can be reduced.
US07809554B2
An apparatus, method, and medium for detecting a voiced sound and an unvoiced sound. The apparatus includes a blocking unit for dividing an input signal into block units; a parameter calculator for calculating a first parameter to determine the voiced sound and a second parameter to determine the unvoiced sound by using a slope and spectral flatness measure (SFM) of a mel-scaled filter bank spectrum of an input signal existing in a block; and a determiner for determining a voiced sound zone and an unvoiced sound zone in the block by comparing the first and second parameters to predetermined threshold values.
US07809553B2
A system and method of creating and using compact linguistic data are provided. Frequencies of words appearing in a corpus are calculated. Each unique character in the words is mapped to a character index, and characters in the words are replaced with the character indexes. Sequences of characters are mapped to substitution indexes, and the sequences of characters in the words are replaced with the substitution indexes. The words are grouped by common prefixes, and each prefix is mapped to location information for the group of words which start with the prefix.
US07809542B2
A system and method for analyzing power glitch in circuits includes simulating a circuit to provide waveform responses at positions of interest in the circuit. Each waveform response is processed to determine glitch power by comparing optimal energy to actual energy for the waveform. The circuit is adjusted to reduce loss due to the glitch power.
US07809538B2
Systems and techniques, including computer programs, for monitoring and controlling thermal recovery involve generating input parameters for use in real time monitoring and controlling of a thermal recovery operation for a reservoir. The input parameters to a thermal generator are generated using a reservoir simulator and an economic model, and the input parameters have a corresponding predicted output of the thermal recovery operation. Data indicative of actual output from the reservoir is received, and the reservoir simulator is automatically updated based on a comparison of the data indicative of the actual output with the predicted output.
US07809537B2
A computer-implemented process simulates production of oil and gas from hydrocarbon reservoirs. The process is used to help forecast the optimal future oil and gas recovery from large hydrocarbon reservoirs. At the same, this process is flexible to allow for further addition of new options; robust and reliable; and easy to use. The process is also comprehensive in that it allows a forecast of future performance of a wide range of reservoirs and future operation scenarios. By using the high-resolution models provided, a reservoir can be described much more accurately.
US07809533B2
Different designers of a structure exchange information on their plans (models) with each other. This information is exchanged by reference data which may be in another format than what the designer's application is using. To facilitate a designer to maintain correspondence between his/her model and models handled by different designers, when the reference data is read and an entity is recognized in the data, geometric characteristics of the entity are calculated, and an identifier is formed for the entity by means of the geometric characteristics. The identifier is stored in the model, and it can be used to identify the entity as long as the entity remains unchanged although reference data is updated.
US07809529B2
A center-side processing system and monitoring processing systems of monitoring objects are connected through a network. The center-side processing system includes a module for producing monitoring and diagnostic algorithms of the monitoring objects, software producing module for producing monitoring and diagnostic software from the monitoring and diagnostic algorithm, a module for producing a transmission schedule of the monitoring and diagnostic software, transmitting module for transmitting software according to the transmission schedule, a module for correcting and changing the monitoring and diagnostic software from data received from the monitoring processing system, and verification module for performing verification before the transmission of the monitoring and diagnostic software. Each of the monitoring processing systems includes a module for receiving the monitoring and diagnostic software, execution processing module for executing the monitoring and diagnostic software, a module for automatically verifying the monitoring and diagnostic software, and transmitting module.
US07809527B2
A centralized maintenance system for aircraft which includes line replacement units (LRUs). The system includes at least one digital database whose data are information relating to the LRUs; and a device for updating the data of the database. The lifetime information for the LRUs is known and contained in the digital database. The database includes a mean time between failure (MTBF) data of each LRU. The MTBF data is able to be modified and updated, according to at least one event modifying the failure probabilities for at least one LRU.
US07809525B2
A system or method which accesses or otherwise receives collected performance data for at least one server application, where the server application is capable of performing a plurality of transactions with client devices and the client devices are geographically dispersed from the server in known geographical locales, which automatically determines from the performance data which of the transactions are utilized by users of the client devices, which selects utilized transactions according to at least one pre-determined selection criteria, which automatically generates a transaction playback script for each of the selected transactions substituting test information in place of user-supplied or user-unique information in the transactions, which designates each script for execution from a geographical locale corresponding to the locale of the clients which execute the utilized transactions, which deploys the playback scripts to robotic agents geographically co-located with client devices according to the locale designation, and which executes the playback scripts.
US07809520B2
Test equipment includes a memory to which a test plan that includes a plurality of sub-test plans is loaded and a system controller that, when the test equipment actually examines a device-under-test (DUT), loads the test plan to the memory by the unit of the sub-test plan and supplies a test signal to the DUT by interpreting the loaded test plan.
US07809516B2
There is provided a probability density function separating apparatus that separates a predetermined component in a given probability density function. The probability density function separating apparatus includes a domain transforming section that is supplied with the probability density function and transforms the probability density function into a spectrum in a frequency domain, and a deterministic component computing section that multiplies a multiplier coefficient according to a type of distribution of a deterministic component included in the given probability density function by a first null frequency of the spectrum in the frequency domain and computes a peak to peak value of the probability density function with the deterministic component.
US07809515B2
A protection device for detecting electricity is composed of a control unit, a set of input ends for sampling, a display unit, an acoustic signal generating unit, and a power unit. The aforementioned control unit includes a microprocessor (CPU), a clock pulse wave generator, a first memory, a second memory, an input/output port, and a timer. The microprocessor processes defects in sampled electrical data, such as voltage and current, to display power consumed and accumulated time of use, such that a user can be aware of the electricity information at any time for preparation. The sampled data are compared with each setting value pre-stored in the second memory, and if any one of the data exceeds the setting value, the microprocessor will output a warning signal or shut down the power, to maintain safety.
US07809508B2
A method for conducting density measurements in downhole environments corrects for high standoff, by adding a second correction term to the spine and rib method. This second term is a correction based on an apparent standoff estimated using the photo electric effect of the mud. This correction is term depends on the mud properties, both in terms of apparent standoff and correction and therefore requires property calibration for each well. The calibration can be done using the azimuthal information available with LWD tool when the tool is turning. At each depth in homogeneous formation, there can be a succession of density measurements with various tool standoff when the tool is not centered in the borehole. All this information is used to build up a standoff correction fitting perfectly the mud properties.
US07809506B2
A driving intention estimation, driver assistance and vehicle with the driver assistance for providing a stable estimation of a driver's driving intention even if detection of a relationship between an own vehicle and lane markers is lost. A plurality of imaginary drivers of a first type and a second type, each being given a respective driving intention, are provided. When detection of lane markers is reliably kept, a driving intention by a real driver is estimated based on a comparison between an operation of the real driver to operations of the imaginary drivers of the first type that are calculated based on the relative positional relationship of the own vehicle to the detected lane marker. When the detection of lane markers is lost, operations of the plurality of imaginary drivers are calculated based on the relative positional relationship of the own vehicle to a preceding vehicle. In response to the status of detection of the lane marker, either the imaginary drivers of the first type or the second type are selected.
US07809498B2
A system for data unloading including a computer on board a motor vehicle provided with a memory support whereon data are to be recorded, and a data storage medium, external to the vehicle, from which the data are unloaded. The memory support stores an index, the index being modified during data unloading. In case data unloading from the external storage medium is interrupted, the unloading may be resumed for those data of the external medium identified by the index as not having been recorded on the memory support of the computer. A computer onboard a motor vehicle is designed to be used in such an unloading system.
US07809497B2
Navigation systems, methods, and programs provide appropriate driving guidance to a driver according to the level of the driving skills of the driver. The navigation systems, methods, and programs identify that the vehicle is in a predetermined specified condition based on information detected by a condition detecting device and detect an actual vehicle control state under the specified conditions based on information detected by an actual state detecting device. The systems, methods, and programs specify an appropriate vehicle control state according to the specified conditions. The systems, methods, and programs determine the level of the driving skills of a driver of the vehicle under the specified conditions based on the actual vehicle control state and the appropriate vehicle control state and output driving guidance according to the determined level of the driving skills under the specified conditions.
US07809490B2
A fuel control system of an engine system comprising a pre-catalyst exhaust gas oxygen (EGO) sensor and a control module. The pre-catalyst EGO sensor determines a pre-catalyst EGO signal based on an oxygen concentration of an exhaust gas. The control module determines a dither signal. The control module determines a fuel command based on the pre-catalyst EGO signal and the dither signal.
US07809489B2
A method for estimating the cylinder interior pressure of an internal combustion engine from a cylinder pressure model having at least the input variables load, speed of rotation, and crank angle (Ppressure model), which forms the cylinder interior pressure (Pgas) to be determined, corrected by a pressure correction value (ΔPgas). The pressure correction value (ΔPgas) is determined from an observation of the alternating moments at the crankshaft. The modeled value of the cylinder interior pressure from the pressure model is obtained as a pre-control value, and corrected with a correction value formed from the measured value of the non-uniformity of rotation.
US07809487B2
A motive power system of a vehicle is controlled based on a driving style of a driver of the vehicle. Parameters related to a state of the vehicle are used as inputs to a fuzzy controller in order to characterize the driving style of the driver of the vehicle.
US07809479B2
A navigation system takes a graphical input and translates it into an alpha-numeric entry generally including latitude and longitude information. The system interprets the graphical entry, determines if a waypoint already exists or is depicted at the geographical location identified by the graphical entry and creates a new waypoint if no waypoint already exists or is depicted at the geographical location.
US07809469B2
A system and method integrates the functions of manipulating foods/beverages and the interactions of the information related with the manipulation. The system includes a remote server, and a foodstuff equipment operation system. The operation system further includes a foodstuff equipment comprising an operation circuit; a display panel; and a computer control system comprising a network interface, an input interface, a data processing unit, and a circuit control unit. The integration system receives users' commands via the input interface, and delivers the commands to the data processing unit. The data processing unit interprets users' commands, and then requires the circuit control unit to make the operation circuit to manipulate foods/beverages, meanwhile, the data processing unit also sends out information to the remote server for analyzing. The remote server delivers multimedia data to the foodstuff equipment operation system, for displaying information related to foods/beverages while the equipment is idle.
US07809468B2
A server includes a communication section which receives event information from an event detection device which detects a plurality of types of events occurring in a plurality of temporary storage devices provided at different locations, and transmits transportation load display information to a PC, a storage section which stores lot state data indicating states of lots and storage state data indicating states of the temporary storage devices, an update section which updates the lot state data and the storage state data based on the event information, and an information generation section which generates transportation load display information for notifying a lot transportation state to the user based on the lot state data and the storage state data.
US07809461B2
In estimating a curved surface model by approximating the shape of the board surface of a circuit board, auxiliary measurement spots are set other than measurement spots on the board surface, eligibility as a sampling displacement magnitude in estimating a curved surface model is determined according to a difference in a displacement magnitude from a work reference surface. When the sampling displacement magnitude is determined to be ineligible, a new measurement spot is reset. By this operation, a local increase and decrease in the displacement magnitude due to a discontinuity of the board surface exerts no influence on the estimation of the curved surface model, and the curved surface model approximated more closely to the shape of the actual board surface is estimated, leading to an improvement in the work quality with the working height adjusted to the proper height.
US07809455B2
A die is produced based on die model data. The produced die is corrected. The corrected die is three-dimensionally measured by a measuring tool to produce measured three-dimensional die data. A polygonal surface represented by the measured three-dimensional die data and a model surface represented by the die model data are compared with each other. The polygonal surface is brought into proximity to the model surface, and the absolute values of the distances between a plurality of pairs of measuring points on the polygonal surface and corresponding points on the model surface are calculated. The die model data are corrected based on the absolute values of the distances.
US07809452B2
A system and method of delivering synchronized audio and audio/video signals in the form of analog signals and streamed data over networks such a hybrid power line communications network is described. Signal magnitude matching by monitoring directly feed audio outputs is also provided.
US07809443B2
The disclosure describes a method and system for applying electrical stimulation to a genitofemoral nerve or a genital branch of a genitofemoral nerve of a patient. The system includes electrical stimulators that apply electrical stimulation for alleviation of pelvic pain. The system may apply electrical stimulation for pelvic pain in men or women. The electrical stimulators may comprise various types of electrodes such as cuff electrodes, electrode leads, and microstimulators implanted at various locations proximate to a single or both genitofemoral nerves and the genital branch of a single or both genitofemoral nerves of a patient. When implanted proximate to a genital nerve branch, the electrode may be implanted proximate to the genital nerve branch. In a male patient stimulation may be delivered proximate to the spermatic cord, which contains a portion of the genital nerve branch.
US07809442B2
Devices and methods of use are provided for treating a person having a hypoglossal nerve and an upper airway. In one embodiment, a method may include providing a nerve cuff electrode including a cylindrical cuff body. The method may further include chronically implanting the nerve cuff electrode on a portion of the hypoglossal nerve. The method may also include delivering a stimulus to the hypoglossal nerve via the nerve cuff electrode to mitigate obstruction of the upper airway.
US07809438B2
Methods and apparatus for cardiac pacing, cardioversion and defibrillation rely on delivering ultrasonic or other vibrational energy in combination with electrical energy to the heart, usually after the onset of an arrhythmia. A vibrational transducer and suitable electrical contacts may be combined in a single housing or distributed among various housings, and will usually be implantable so that the vibrational transducer can be directed at a target portion of the heart. Alternatively, external systems comprising the vibrational transducer and electrical contacts are also described.
US07809435B1
An adjustable, wireless electromyography (EMG) sensor includes a first sensor portion and a second sensor portion. The first sensor portion includes a first measurement attachment point, a wireless transmitter, and a control circuit. The control circuit controls the wireless EMG sensor. The second sensor portion includes a second measurement attachment point. The wireless EMG sensor may also include an adjustable connector that connects the first sensor portion and the second sensor portion. The control circuit controls collection of EMG measurements between the first measurement attachment point and the second measurement attachment point, and controls the wireless transmitter to transmit the EMG measurements having been collected. The control circuit may also control power saving by the wireless EMG sensor.
US07809431B2
The present invention relates to a method of optically imaging at least one biological tissue, in particular to define areas of interest of tissue(s) to be analyzed by tomography.The method according to the invention comprises the following steps: a) introducing at least one fluorescent marker into the tissue(s); b) exciting the marker by incident light and detecting emission bands relating to fluorescence emitted by the marker in response to that excitation; then c) analyzing the fluorescence in these emission bands; and the step b) comprising: sequentially exciting said marker at n different incident excitation wavelengths λi, said marker being adapted to be excited by at least two of the wavelengths λi and to emit in response to each wavelength λi a series Si of m simultaneous emission bands Bj having different maximum wavelengths λ′j that are substantially the same from one series Si to another; and detecting these series Si in order to deduce therefrom an estimate of the three-dimensional location of said marker in the tissue(s) and/or the mean absorption coefficients of the tissue(s) for the excitation wavelengths λi.
US07809425B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed, for examining a substance of a given volume to characterize its type, with an integrated sensing head. The method comprises applying locally to the substance of the given volume a polarizing magnetic field, with a component defining a polarizing axis; applying locally RF pulses to the substance of the given volume, the RF pulses having a B component, orthogonal to the polarizing axis, such as to invoke EI response signals corresponding to the electrical impedance (EI) of the examined substance of the given volume, and magnetic resonance (MR) response signals corresponding to the MR properties of the examined substance of the given volume; detecting locally EI response signals from the substance of the given volume; and detecting locally MR response signals from the substance of the given volume. Two or more sensing heads may be used, both applying locally the RF pulses and detecting. Alternatively, one of the sensing heads may operate as a transmitter, while the other or others may operate as receivers.
US07809421B1
A method for calibrating a medical system capable of generating a magnetic field for tracking a position of a medical device has various steps such as defining a mapping volume within the generated magnetic field and placing a metallic object within the mapping volume. A sensor is aligned at a first point within the mapping volume and the magnetic field at the first point is measured with the sensor to establish a first coordinate position (Xi, Yi, Zi). An interpolation technique in one embodiment and an extrapolation technique in another embodiment are used in the calibration method.
US07809419B2
Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods that relate to a sensor with memory. Specifically, one embodiment includes a sensor comprising a light emitting element configured to emit light, a light detecting element configured to detect the light, and a memory storing at least one patient-specific parameter, the memory providing access to an oximeter monitor to read the at least one patient-specific parameter.
US07809416B2
A method of non-invasively determining a concentration of an in-vivo component such as blood sugar level (glucose) of a subject is provided. An absorption spectrum of the subject is measured by use of near-infrared light. The concentration of the in-vivo component is determined by use of the absorption spectrum of the subject and a calibration curve. The calibration curve is prepared by determining a plurality of difference absorption spectra that are differences between a plurality of near-infrared absorption spectra of a living body and a reference absorption spectrum selected from the near-infrared absorption spectra, determining a plurality of synthetic absorption spectra, which are obtained by synthesizing each of the difference absorption spectra with a previously measured reference absorption spectrum of the subject, and performing a multivariate analysis with use of the obtained synthetic absorption spectra.
US07809410B2
A software defined radio includes a radio circuit powered by a battery and formed as a pair of radio subsystems having radio components that draw power from the battery. An executable radio software system conforms to the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) specification and defines an operating platform environment that allows a waveform application to operate with the radio circuit. A power management service is operative with the pair of radio subsystems to coordinate the power among the radio components.
US07809402B2
It is an object of the present invention to improve the convenience for users by enabling messages during call out from the user of the communication terminal on the outgoing side to the user of a communication terminal on the incoming side, which are transmitted from the communication terminal on the outgoing side, to be checked by the user of the communication terminal on the outgoing side when calling out. The outgoing terminal 10a includes a display device 11, a call connection establishment unit 12 that transmits call out signals for calling out to the incoming terminal 10b, a transmitted information setting and adding unit 13 that adds display information that is displayed in the incoming terminal 10b to the call out signal, and a display control unit 14 that displays on the display device 11 the display information added to the call out signal when the call out signal is transmitted.
US07809401B2
The present invention provides a mobile terminal having a camera unit that images a subject. The mobile terminal includes a movement determination unit determining the direction and distance in which the body of the mobile terminal moved on the basis of the shift between images sequentially captured through the camera unit in a mouse mode, a short-range wireless communication unit, and a control unit controlling the short-range wireless communication unit to transmit information representing the direction and distance, determined by the movement determination unit, by short-range wireless to an operated apparatus which includes a display unit and controls a pointer displayed on the display unit on the basis of the received information representing the direction and distance.
US07809400B1
The present invention is directed to a system and method in which real-time ubiquitous imaging is feasible in local areas, such as inside a clinic, hospital room or doctor office. This is achieved by designing a wireless network having a central processing server with, for example, distributed broadband acquisition and video bus capability. Remote access is possible using store-and-forward image transfer over a wide area network. With these capabilities, a physician can use a handheld transducer (such as an ultrasound transducer) as a basic tool to facilitate diagnostic decisions similar to the way a stethoscope is used today.
US07809395B2
A method and system for determining synchronization status in a wide band CDMA (WCDMA) network may comprise calculating a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH) based on a plurality of transmit power control (TPC) bits received via the downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH), wherein the value of at least one of the plurality of TPC bits is not known when at least one of the plurality of TPC bits is received. The transmit circuitry may be controlled based on the calculated signal to noise ratio. The transmit circuitry may be disabled if the calculated SNR of the plurality of TPC bits is below a first channel threshold. The transmit circuitry may be enabled if the calculated SNR of the plurality of TPC bits is above a second channel threshold.
US07809394B1
Transmit power control techniques are provided for use within a wireless system. The transmit power control techniques may be used in, for example, a wireless network implementing spatial division multiple access (SDMA). In at least one embodiment, a unique transmit power control packet exchange is provided for use in delivering transmit power control information to individual client devices within a network.
US07809385B2
In a cellular communications system having a centralized radio processing portion (a base station hotel) in communication with a plurality of remote air interface radio portions (or radio heads) over a transport medium, the centralized radio processing portion compensates for a fixed delay associated with the transport medium coupling the centralized radio processing portion and one of the remote air interface radio portions when evaluating a time period corresponding to a variable delay between transmission by a mobile in communication with the one of air interface radio portions and receipt of the transmission by the centralized radio processing portion. The variable delay may relate to time out periods or time slot synchronization.
US07809380B2
A presence server for determining presence of a mobile station in a mobile network, including structure and/or function to: receive a request for a presence indication that the mobile station is active; send a first query into the mobile network based on the request; receive a response to the first query; and, if the response indicates the mobile station is active then: provide the presence indication; if the response indicates the mobile station is not active then: send a second query into the mobile network for establishing a notification trigger; receive a second query response based on the notification trigger; the second query response including the presence indication and being based on short message service (“SMS”); and provide the presence indication based on the second query response.
US07809378B2
A location visit detail service, typically provided by a wireless carrier to a subscriber, includes a portable wireless device, a location identification means and a central processor. The central processor periodically receives location data generated by the location identification means. The central processor data transforms the location data into time and position data pairs that identify the location of the portable wireless device at a particular time. Through a geographic information system database, the position data is converted to street address data. The details data is provided by the wireless carrier to the subscriber, which can use the details data to provide a summary report describing the activity of the service person. This summary report can be used for preparation of bills or for gathering statistics on (individual or group) service person efficiency. Alternatively, the wireless carrier can prepare the report that is then transmitted to the subscriber.
US07809374B2
System for reception, demodulation and processing of location finder modulated signals to demodulated processed location finder baseband signals and processing a voice or data signal with demodulated location finder signal. System for non-quadrature and quadrature modulation of voice and data signals and system for processing, modulating and transmitting of voice, data and video signals. Processors for providing cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase filtered signal and processing CDMA and TDMA signals into cross-correlated voice, data or video signals. System for processing video signal into OFDM signal and transmitting OFDM video signal. Touch screen provided signal for selection of OFDM, cross-correlated CDMA or TDMA signals for transmission by non-linearly amplified or linearly amplified transmitters.
US07809346B2
A digital audio system including a digital audio amplifier with reduced AM interference. The digital audio amplifier includes a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) processor in which a digital datastream is upsampled by an interpolation filter. A sample rate converter resamples the upsampled datastream to produce a datastream at a converted sampling frequency, or PWM frame rate. The converted datastream is then applied to pulse-width-modulation circuitry which generates a PWM signal at the PWM frame rate. The sample rate converter resamples according to a sample rate conversion ratio associated with the AM tuned frequency. For example, the sample rate conversion ratio can be selected so that the PWM frame rate and its lower harmonics avoid an AM tuned frequency, any intermediate frequency in the AM tuner, and also an image frequency in the tuner.
US07809334B2
The present invention provides a signal emitting and receiving circuit and the operating method thereof. The circuit includes a signal receiving unit, a first signal generator and a second signal generator. The signal receiving unit receives a first signal and a second signal. The first signal generator generates the first signal. The second signal generator, which is couple to the signal receiving unit, generates the second signal. There is a phase difference between the first signal and the second signal such that in the signal receiving unit the two signals eliminate each other's power.
US07809332B1
A method and device for providing a service record for an application (e.g., a legacy application) running on a virtual serial port of a wireless transceiver device, such as a Bluetooth-enabled device. The virtual serial port emulates a serial connection (e.g., a serial cable) for the application. The virtual serial port for the application is opened by a virtual serial port driver. In accordance with the present embodiment of the present invention, the virtual serial port driver also provides the service name of the application. The virtual serial port driver can derive the service name from the name of the application, or the virtual serial port driver can use a default name. Thus, the virtual serial port driver performs the additional function of automatically providing a service name for a application, thereby introducing a standard, efficient and user-friendly approach for providing a readily-identifiable service name for a legacy application.
US07809326B2
A system and method for time-shifting a live broadcast, and facilitating the purchase of live or time-shifted broadcast content. The device records broadcast content being listened to by user, which gives the user the option to replay content. The device and method also provides a preview service that allows the user to experience fresh media content on a regular basis, even where a live signal is not available. The broadcast source broadcasts new content on a regular basis to avoid providing users with stale content. The user identifies content using the device and data is stored that corresponds to the identified content. The broadcast source or a third-party content provider uses the corresponding data to provide the identified content to the user. In addition to audio content, the device also provides and facilitates the acquisition of video, graphics, text or any other media content.
US07809323B2
A device, method and program for automatically adjusting a paper curl of media in an imaging device are provided. The imaging device includes a decurler having two rollers defining a nip. A first roller has a substantially uncompressible surface, and a second roller has a substantially compressible surface. The first roller penetrates the second roller at the nip. The amount of curl of the media is adjusted at the nip by automatically adjusting the penetration of the second roller into the first roller. The amount of penetration of the second roller into the first roller is based on a set of factors and conditions. A penetration value based on the factors and conditions is used to adjust the position of the first roller and the second roller respective to each other, which in turn, will alter or reduce the media curl to a target curl.
US07809322B2
An image forming apparatus, using a developer including toner particles and carrier particles, includes a developing unit, a cleaning unit, and a conveying unit. The developing unit contains the developer and develops an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrying member as a toner image with the toner particles. The cleaning unit contains the developer and mixes the developer with the toner particles collected from the image carrying member after transferring the toner image. The conveying unit conveys a mixture of the collected toner particles and the developer from the cleaning unit to the developing unit.
US07809321B2
A cleaning brush configured to remove toner from a surface of a member of an image forming apparatus; wherein the cleaning brush includes a plurality of fibers having an inside part formed from a conductive material and a surface part formed by an insulating material.
US07809309B2
It is an object to prevent distortions and deviations of images caused by the eccentricity of a driven gear mounted to a rotational shaft of a photosensitive drum. There are provided a driving gear which is secured to a rotational shaft of a rotational driving power source and is rotated at a constant peripheral speed, a driven gear secured coaxially to a rotational shaft of a cylindrical-shaped photosensitive member, a phase control gear having the same diameter as that of the driven gear and having the same rotational speed variation characteristic as that of the driven gear, and a transmission gear, and a driving force from the driving gear is transmitted to the driven gear through the phase control gear and the transmission gear.
US07809307B2
To provide a cleaning apparatus capable of maintaining high cleaning performance even if surface roughness of an image carrier is increased due to wear and a wet image forming apparatus installing the concerned cleaning apparatus, thereby enabling to form images of a stable quality. The cleaning apparatus for removing liquid developer remaining on the surface of a latent image carrier and an intermediate transfer member, which are an image carrier of the image forming apparatus for forming images with the liquid developer including toner particles and carrier liquid, includes three stages of cleaning sections such as a preliminary cleaning member for making contact with the image carrier and suspending the toner particles adhered to the surface of the image carrier in the carrier liquid, a toner particles removing member for removing the suspended toner particles by electrostatic force, and a carrier liquid removing member for removing the remaining carrier liquid.
US07809304B2
A duct for an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material, the duct includes a discharge opening for discharging air; a fan, mounted to a neighborhood of the discharge opening, for discharging the air; first and second openings for suction of air; a first guiding portion, having first and second openings, for guiding the sucked air; a separation member, provided in the first guiding portion, for separating a flow of the air sucked by the first opening and a flow of the air sucked by the second opening; a second guiding member, disposed overlapped with the first guiding portion, for guiding the air guided by the first guiding portion; a first interconnection opening for feeding the air from the first opening to the second guiding portion; a second interconnection opening for feeding the air from the second opening to the second guiding portion, wherein the first interconnection opening is disposed closer to the discharge opening than the second interconnection opening, and wherein the first interconnection opening has a size smaller than the second interconnection opening.
US07809298B2
An image forming apparatus having a display unit for displaying a program which can be executed in the apparatus has an input unit for inputting a program into the image forming apparatus. A display control unit controls a process for displaying select keys including a plurality of select keys to instruct a selection of a desired one of a plurality of programs stored in the image forming apparatus onto a display screen displayed on the display unit. A discriminating unit discriminates whether or not the select key to instruct a selection of the program inputted by the input unit can be further displayed onto the first display screen to display the select keys corresponding to the programs registered in the image forming apparatus in response to the input of the program from the input unit.
US07809290B2
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which can promptly detect whether or not a jam has been removed in the case of occurrence of the jam such as a paper jam. A paper feeding apparatus 1b includes a paper feed tray 11, a pickup roller 61, a paper roller 63, a sorting roller 64, feeding rollers 66a, resist rollers 67, a paper ejection roller 73, a passage detection sensor 69, an overlapped feeding detection sensor 68 and a second detection apparatus 71. An image processing apparatus 100 includes a position detection portion 41 for detecting a location of a jam which occurs during feeding of recording paper, a determination portion 42 for determining a jam state based on a detection result of the position detection sensor 69, an examination portion 43 for examining whether the jam has been resolved and a resuming portion 44 for resuming the processing when an examination of the jam location by the examination portion 43 is finished. If the position detection sensor 69 detects the occurrence of the jam (S2), the determination portion determines the jam state and simultaneously provides notification of the occurrence of the jam (S4). If clearing work is finished (S5), the examination portion 43 feeds a test sheet (S6). It is detected whether or not the test sheet passes through the jam location (S8), and the processing is resumed if it is detected within predetermined time (S10).
US07809283B2
An optical transmit and receive circuit that includes a single control module that controls the transmit and receive operational behaviors in multiple transmit and receive data paths of the optical transmit and receive circuit. By having a single control module control operational behaviors of multiple electro-optic transducer drivers, and multiple post-amplifiers, the size of the overall combination may be reduced.
US07809276B2
A method for two or more optical transceivers coupled to each other by an optical link to optimize communication over the optical link. A first transceiver generates electrical data that represents an operational parameter for optimization. The transceiver then converts the electrical data into an optical signal and transmits the optical signal over the optical link to a second transceiver. The second transceiver recovers the electrical data from the optical signal and uses the recovered electrical data to change characteristics of the optical signal transmitted by the second transceiver.
US07809269B2
Systems and methods for multiplexing two or more channels of a quantum key distribution (QKD) system are disclosed. A method includes putting the optical public channel signal (SP1) in return-to-zero (RZ) format in a transmitter (T) in one QKD station (Alice) and amplifying this signal (thereby forming SP1*) just prior to this signal being detected with a detector (30) in a receiver (R) at the other QKD station (Bob). The method further includes precisely gating the detector via a gating element (40) and a coincident signal (PN1′) with pulses that coincide with the expected arrival times of the pulses in the detected (electrical) public channel signal (SP2). This allows for the public channel signal to have much less power, making it more amenable for multiplexing with the other QKD signals.
US07809265B2
An apparatus includes a time-domain wavelength-interleaved optical network that connects a plurality of edge nodes. Each of the edge nodes is configured to receive optical communications from others of the edge nodes on an associated wavelength-channel. The number of edge nodes is larger than the number of the wavelength-channels.
US07809264B2
A diagnostic and prescriptive system and method for management of a combined optical and RF cable plant system. In an exemplary embodiment the method and system uses optical receivers in a hub or headend to determine a variety of cable plant parameters such as the OMI of the received signal and automatically facilitated prescriptive service through prioritization and automatic recalibration. In another exemplary embodiment the method allows doing such signal OMI measurements in a closed loop system (that is a fully operational system). In addition, a further exemplary method and system allows storing of standard receiver calibration information such that from thereon signal OMI measurements that can be performed without signal interruption.
US07809259B2
A first recording layer for recording information of an optical disk and a second recording layer of the optical disk on which a visible image can be recorded are disposed at an interval of 0.5 mm or more. Thus, even when a high power laser is used on one of the layers, data on the other layer will not be destroyed.
US07809252B2
Systems and methods are provided for caching media data to thereby enhance media data read and/or write functionality and performance. A multimedia apparatus, comprises a cache buffer configured to be coupled to a storage device, wherein the cache buffer stores multimedia data, including video and audio data, read from the storage device. A cache manager coupled to the cache buffer, wherein the cache buffer is configured to cause the storage device to enter into a reduced power consumption mode when the amount of data stored in the cache buffer reaches a first level.
US07809250B2
The recording medium includes a graphic information area having at least one graphic image information segment and at least one palette information segment recorded therein. Each palette information segment provides color information. Each graphic image information segment provides reproduction information for reproducing one or more graphic images.
US07809249B2
Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or is necessary for decoding of the access point following a given access point are recorded on the video information recording medium. Random access is possible even if the GOP interval is lengthened.
US07809245B2
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information storage medium. This realizes a data structure that causes the recording and deleting places on the information storage medium to correspond spuriously to places on a single tape, such as a VTR tape. Use of the data structure provides users with an easy-to-use interface.
US07809244B2
A recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing and recording text subtitle streams are disclosed. Each text subtitle stream includes a dialog style segment defining a set of region styles and at least one dialog presentation segment, each of which contains one or more regions of dialog text. Each region of dialog text is linked to one of the set of region styles defined in the dialog style segment, and includes at least one pair of an inline style and a text string. The inline style is configured to change one of region presentation properties specified by the linked region style for the text string.
US07809243B2
The recording medium includes a navigation area storing navigation control information for managing the reproduction of at least video data from the recording medium. The navigation area, according to one embodiment, stores at least one navigation control object that includes an attribute field indicating at least one attribute of the navigation control object and a navigation direction number field indicating a number of navigation directions. Each navigation control object includes at least one navigation direction.
US07809238B2
An after recording method comprising a first step of reading the original data including at least a video bit stream from a digital recording medium (1), a second step of decoding the original data, a third step of encoding audio data in synchronism with the decoding of the original data thereby to form a new audio bit stream, and a fourth step of writing the new audio bit stream in an area of the digital recording medium 1 corresponding to a time point substantially equal to the recording area of the original data. The sound after-recorded can be easily reproduced in accurate temporal agreement with the original image.
US07809237B2
A lens for reforming radiation from a light-emitting diode having a first convex surface for admitting radiation path from the light-emitting diode that is close to the axis of the diode and a cylindrical surface for admitting radiation that makes a wider angle with the axis of the diode, a conical surface disposed to receive and totally internally reflect radiation admitted by said convex surface and re-radiate it at an angle substantially normal to the axis of the diode and a curved surface for receiving and re-radiating at an angle substantially normal to the axis of the diode radiation admitted by the cylindrical surface.
US07809234B2
A housing including a plurality of openings for receiving fiber optic connectors and protecting the polished end face of the connectors from damage while the connectors are stored within a telecommunications connection cabinet. A module with a plurality of optical fiber cables connected to a first optical fiber cable and terminated by a fiber optic connector. Each of the connectors are inserted within openings in a connector holder for storage and protection until the cables need to be connected to a customer equipment cable.
US07809226B2
A method and apparatus for imaging using a double-clad fiber is described.
US07809225B2
A method and apparatus for imaging using a double-clad fiber is described.
US07809222B2
Frequency standards based on mode-locked fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers and fiber-based ultra-broad bandwidth light sources, and applications of the same.
US07809220B2
A printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the printed circuit board are disclosed. The printed circuit board can include: an optical waveguide, in one side of which a circuit pattern and a pad are buried; an insulation layer stacked over one side of the optical waveguide; a first insulating material stacked over the insulation layer; a first electrical wiring layer stacked over the first insulating material; a second insulating material stacked over the other side of the optical waveguide; a second electrical wiring layer stacked over the second insulating material; and a via penetrating the optical waveguide. Certain embodiments of the invention enable the efficient transmission of optical and electrical signals, reduce loss in the optical signals transferred to the photoelectric converters, and allow more efficient designs for the wiring in the board.
US07809219B2
An acoustic sensor includes at least one photonic crystal structure having at least one optical resonance with a resonance frequency and a resonance lineshape. The acoustic sensor further includes a housing mechanically coupled to the at least one photonic crystal structure. At least one of the resonance frequency and the resonance lineshape is responsive to acoustic waves incident upon the housing.
US07809218B2
An object of the present invention is, in an optical modulator, to increase the production yield by enhancing the patterning accuracy of the electrodes, as well as to reduce the electrode loss by increasing the thickness of the electrodes. An optical modulator has a substrate 5 made of an electro-optical material; a modulation electrode 2A, 3A, 2B provided on the substrate 5; and an optical waveguide 1c provided on the substrate 5. Light propagating through the optical waveguide 1c is modulated by applying a modulation voltage to the modulation electrode. At least a part of the modulation electrode includes a base 2a, 3a formed on the substrate 5 and a projection part 2b, 3b having a width narrower than that of the base.
US07809215B2
Embodiments include a method, a manual device, a handheld manual device, a handheld writing device, a system, and an apparatus. An embodiment provides a manual device operable in a context. The manual device includes a writing element operable to form a mark on a surface in response to a movement of the writing element with respect to the surface. The manual device also includes a controller operable to encode information corresponding to the context of the manual device by regulating the formation of the mark.
US07809208B2
An image sharpening technique with halo suppression is presented. Generally, one implementation of this technique completely suppresses the haloing effect typically caused by image sharpening by restricting values to within the local minimum and maximum intensities of the unsharpened image. Thus, if the sharpened value is below the local minimum, it is replaced with the local minimum. Similarly, the local maximum is taken if the sharpened value exceeds it. In other implementations of the technique, haloing caused by image sharpening is suppressed but not completely eliminated, thereby producing a subtle haloing effect.
US07809206B2
An image processing apparatus generates a sub-self-similar set F, which is a subset of a self-similar set A with respect to contraction maps f1, . . . , fn and forms an image expressing the sub-self-similar set F. The apparatus includes a base-address-set designating section, a generation-rule acquiring section and a sub-self-similar set generating section. The base-address-set designating section selects m addresses each of which formed of infinite sequence of {1, . . . , n} and generates a base address set M including the selected addresses. The generation-rule acquiring section acquires a rule of generating a hypothetical sub-self-similar set G, which is a subset of a hypothetical self-similar set B with respect to n hypothetical contraction maps g1, . . . , gn, by using the generated base address set M. The sub-self-similar set generating section generates a sub-self-similar set F, which is a subset of the self-similar set A.
US07809190B2
A general framework to enhance performance of automatic segmentation of a plurality of structures in medical imaging applications incorporates inter-structure spatial dependencies in to existing segmentation algorithms. Ranking the structures according to their dependencies allows a hierarchical approach to automatically segmenting multiple structures that improves each individual segmentation and provides automatic initializations.
US07809185B2
A method and system for generating a detector to detect a dominant color of an image is provided. A dominant color system trains a detector to classify colors as being dominant colors of images. The dominant color system trains the detector using a collection of training images. To train the detector, the dominant color system first identifies candidate dominant colors of the training images. The dominant color system then extracts features of the candidate dominant colors. The dominant color system also inputs an indication of dominance of each of the candidate dominant colors. The dominant color system then trains a detector to detect the dominant color of images using the extracted features and indications of dominance of the candidate dominant colors as training data.
US07809183B2
A multi-layer graph for dense stereo dynamic programming can improve synthesis of cyclopean virtual images by distinguishing between stereo disparities caused by occlusion and disparities caused by non-fronto-parallel surfaces. This distinction can be leveraged to reduce image artifacts, such as “halos”. Distinguishing at least between these two types of disparities allows improved matching of left and right pixel data, which increases the amount of correct pixel information used in constructing the cyclopean virtual image and minimizes occlusion artifacts.
US07809181B2
A pattern inspection apparatus includes a first unit configured to acquire an optical image of pattern, a second unit configured to generate a reference image to be compared, a third unit configured to calculate elements of a normal matrix for a least-squares method for calculating a displacement amount displaced from a preliminary alignment position, a forth unit configured to estimate a type of the reference image pattern, by using some of the elements of the normal matrix, a fifth unit configured to calculate the displacement amount based on the least-squares method, by using a normal matrix obtained by deleting predetermined elements depending upon the type of the pattern, a sixth unit configured to correct an alignment position between the optical image and the reference image to a position displaced by the displacement amount, and a seventh unit configured to compare the optical image and the reference image.
US07809176B2
A device and a method are disclosed for automated planning of an access path for a percutaneous, minimally invasive intervention on an area of the body, in particular on the lungs. In the method, 3D image data of the body area are prepared, from which bones and elements endangered by the intervention are automatically segmented. In a display of the 3D image data and/or of image data derived therefrom, a target position is marked in the 3D image data by a user. On the basis of one or more predefined path geometries, the target position and the segmented data, a planning module automatically determines one or more access paths to the target position which do not run through bones and which do not intersect any elements endangered by the intervention, or intersect only a minimal number of elements endangered by the intervention. The one or more access paths are presented to the user on a monitor for information and/or interactive selection and/or correction in a display of the 3D image data or of image data derived therefrom.
US07809173B2
When detecting a face included in an input image by use of at least two inclinations of the face to be detected, a first detection process is performed if the inclination of the face to be detected corresponds to a first inclination where a relatively high face detection probability is expected, and a second detection process having a relatively low face detection probability and a relatively short processing time compared with the first detection process is performed if the inclination of the face to be detected is other than the first inclination. When an input image is scanned to enable the change in face detection processes according to the position of the face to be detected, a different detection process is used according to the face detection probability of the position of the face to be detected.
US07809162B2
A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at least some portion of the digital image. Values are adjusted of the one or more parameters within the digitally-detected image based upon an analysis of the digital image including the image of the face and the default values.
US07809160B2
Apparatus and method for eye gaze tracking in human or animal subjects without calibration of cameras, specific measurements of eye geometries or the tracking of a cursor image on a screen by the subject through a known trajectory. One embodiment includes one uncalibrated camera for acquiring video images of the subject's eye(s) and optionally having an on-axis illuminator, and a surface, object, or visual scene with embedded off-axis illuminator markers. The off-axis markers are reflected on the corneal surface of the subject's eyes as glints. The glints indicate the distance between the point of gaze in the surface, object, or visual scene and the corresponding marker on the surface, object, or visual scene.
US07809159B2
3D model storage stores the 3D shape data of a target object and illumination base data in advance. A comparison image generator generates, as a comparison image, a reproduced image with the target object being arranged in the position/posture of the current estimation value under the same illumination condition as that for the input image on the basis of the 3D shape data and illumination base data. An image displacement distribution detector segments the comparison image into sub regions and detects the image displacement distribution between the comparison image and the input image for each sub region. A posture difference calculator calculates a position/posture difference value on the basis of the image displacement distribution and 3D shape data. An end determinator outputs the current position/posture estimation value as an optimum position/posture estimation value when determining that the position/posture difference value is smaller than a predetermined threshold value.
US07809157B2
A system, method and computer program product for managing documents. The system includes a document manager that is configured to search for application services providers (ASPS) over a network and based on a user input. The document manager can search documents within the ASPs, retrieve documents and URLs, store documents, and data, format documents, generate and issue unified bills from a plurality of bills from a plurality ASPs. The document manager can also manage, e.g. create, receive, transmit, store, merge, watermark information for documents managed by the document manager. The document manager can request that a document be merged with a corresponding watermark information so that the document be printed with an embedded watermark. Alternatively, the document manager can merge the watermark information with the document and can transmit the merged document data to a printing entity.
US07809155B2
A result higher resolution (HR) image of a scene given multiple, observed lower resolution (LR) images of the scene is computed using a Bayesian estimation image reconstruction methodology. The methodology yields the result HR image based on a Likelihood probability function that implements a model for the formation of LR images in the presence of noise. This noise is modeled by a probabilistic, non-Gaussian, robust function. The image reconstruction methodology may be used to enhance the image quality of images or video captured using a low resolution image capture device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US07809153B2
The present system combines image morphing technology, exercise programming, supplement sales, and motivational techniques into one product. Users begin by entering their current measurements, measurement goals and current picture into the system, preferably via a Web site. The picture is segmented into body components, and each affected segment is morphed based upon the measurements, goals, and the segment's responsiveness to weight loss in order to create a modified image representative of the user in a post-regimen condition. This system helps health and fitness businesses obtain new members and retain existing members by showing the members how they will look after following a specific regimen of diet and/or exercise. The system also predicts health risks of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke associated with the user's pre-regimen and post-regimen conditions.
US07809152B2
Techniques for determining authenticity of analog forms such as packaging or documents (117). One of the techniques determines whether the analog form has been made directly from a digital representation (903) or by photocopying or scanning an analog form. The technique makes the determination by comparing (911) an original digital representation of a portion of the analog form with a digital recording (203) of the portion from the analog form and measuring differences in features that are affected by the operations of photocopying or scanning. The original digital representation (105) and the analog form may have a “noisy”, i.e., random or pseudo random pattern. Such noisy patterns may further be used for other authentication purposes, such as determining whether the portion of the analog form that has the noisy pattern has been altered and to carry hidden messages. The noisy pattern may carry a logo or may be part or all of a barcode.
US07809148B2
A loudspeaker of improved construction includes a frame and a toroidal magnet that is affixed to the rear of the frame. The toroidal magnet has a central passageway that opens into the frame. A cap is affixed to the rear of the magnet and closes the central passageway. A guide rod is affixed to the cap and projects forwardly from the cap into the central passageway. A tubular former is slidably positioned upon the guide rod. A voice coil is wound about, and is affixed to, the tubular former. A forward cone has a narrow, rear end that is affixed to the tubular former and a wide, front end that is affixed to the front of the frame. A rearward cone has a narrow, rearward end with a central opening that loosely receives the tubular former between the rear of the frame and the rear end of the forward cone. The rearward cone also has a wide, forward end that is affixed to the frame rearwardly of the front end of the forward cone. A rearward spider is affixed to the rearward end of the rearward cone and is affixed to the rear of the frame. A forward spider is affixed to the rear end of the forward cone and is affixed to the forward end of the rearward cone.
US07809141B2
A method and an element for ciphering with an integrated processor data to be stored in a memory, including applying to each data block to be ciphered a ciphering algorithm which is a function of at least one key specific to the integrated circuit, and before applying the ciphering algorithm thereto, combining the data block to be ciphered with the result of a function of the storage address of the ciphered block in the memory, and/or of combining the key with the result of a function of the storage address of the ciphered block in the memory and of a digital quantity different from the ciphering key.
US07809137B2
In a job allocation control apparatus, whether or not a job has security setting is discriminated, if it is decided that the job has the security setting, this job is set to a scheduling target to a clean device, and if it is decided that the job does not have the security setting, this job is set to a scheduling target to a non-clean device. When a process of the job having the security setting as a scheduling target to the clean device cannot be executed, the job having the security setting is set to the scheduling target to the non-clean device. Whether or not the non-clean device satisfies a predetermined condition is discriminated. If the predetermined condition is satisfied, the job having the security setting is transmitted to the non-clean device.
US07809125B2
A method and apparatus route telecommunication calls in a communication system based on media type by detecting a requirement for a special media type for a telecommunication call; and selecting a subset of a plurality of gateways wherein only the subset of gateways is capable of providing communication for the special media type.
US07809123B2
A system and method are disclosed for determining independent authorization levels. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controlling element that manages operations of a virtual private network. The controlling element manages operations of a virtual private network (VPN) by validating that a call belongs to an ISDN access type of the VPN, retrieving from a look-up table a private number associated with a switch identifier, a trunk group identifier, and an Originating Station Number (OSN) corresponding to the call in response to determining that the call belongs to the ISDN access type of the VPN, and identifying a first authorization level associated with the private number. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US07809122B2
A telecommunications service implements an account code reporting feature by storing an account code associated with a subscriber at a service control point (SCP) in the public switched telephone network (PSTN). When a call is initiated from the subscriber's terminal, the SCP receives outgoing call data, including the subscriber's telephone number, a called party number and an account code entered from the subscriber's terminal. The SCP determines whether the call is subject to the account code reporting service and, if so, stores the call data. The SCP transmits the call data to a service management system accessible by the subscriber via a graphical user interface through a packet switched data network and an interactive voice response through the PSTN. The call is subject to the account code reporting service when the called party number is in the same local access and transport area as the subscriber's telephone number.
US07809118B2
The method and apparatus is for converting messages and responses between text messages of a user and voice responses of at least one agent in an automatic contact distribution system having a plurality of agents. In one embodiment, the method includes sending a text message in a text format from first location via a network; receiving the text message from the network at a second location; and converting the text message from a text format to a voice message in a voice format. The method further includes converting a voice response in the voice format from an agent to a text response in the text format, the voice response being in response to the text message; and sending the text response from the second location to the first location via the network. Thus, the user appears to communicate with the agent on a text basis, and the agent appears to communicate with the user on a voice basis.
US07809109B2
An apparatus and method for inspecting personnel or their effects. A first and second carriage each carries a source for producing a beam of penetrating radiation incident on a subject. A positioner provides for synchronized relative motion of each carriage vis-à-vis the subject in a direction having a vertical component. A detector receives radiation produced by at least one of the sources after the radiation interacts with the subject.
US07809107B2
Methods for developing and using treatment plans with improved modulation for radiation therapy are disclosed. The methods involve adding an extra component to the patient-related objective function in order to make the optimization algorithm used to develop the treatment plan arrive at a solution with increased modulation. The extra component may take many forms. For example, the user may specify that the treatment plan favor solutions using a range of monitor units. The present invention is particularly useful in conjunction with radiotherapy systems having multileaf collimators for beam shaping, and in connection with advanced radiotherapy techniques, such as IMRT and arc therapy.
US07809106B2
The invention relates to a medical diagnostic system having two C-arms which are adjustable with the aid of two drive means and serve as retaining devices for one medical measuring system in each case. At least one evaluation unit and at least one display element are provided for each medical measuring system. The first measuring system is an X-ray measuring system comprising an X-ray emitter and an X-ray detector and has a high spatial resolution. The second measuring system is a nuclear medicine measuring system for visualizing tissue functions. Accurate and rapid medical diagnoses and interventions are possible based on image information generated by both measuring systems.
US07809101B2
A modular x-ray source for an imaging system includes an electron source mounting plate, two or more electron sources each mounted on and electrically coupled to the electron source mounting plate, and a target block positioned proximately to the two or more electron sources. The source includes two or more targets mounted on and electrically coupled to the target block, each target positioned opposite a respective one of the two or more electron sources to receive a respective beam of electrons therefrom.
US07809098B2
A system for exchanging a control rod drive of a nuclear reactor is provided. The system may include an integrated drive exchange assembly system (IDEAS). The IDEAS may include a trunnion cart attached to a tower assembly. The tower assembly may include an integrated extension carriage assembly.The IDEAS may also include a control rod drive adapter; and a lead cart connected to the trunnion cart assembly.
US07809096B2
The present invention provides a method of processing radio frequency (RF) bursts dependent on a speech mode associated with data contained within the RF burst. Different voice modes, full rate, half rate, and adaptive multi-channel rates each may require different signal to noise ratio (SNR) conditions in order to be successfully processed. To improve the equalization of the received RF burst(s), the SNR associated with the burst is estimated. Then based on the SNR or other related conditions (i.e. the presence or absence of colored noise, and the estimated channel profile) a decision can be made as to whether or not an interference cancellation burst process should be implemented. For example, the presence of colored noise may indicate the presence of interference requiring the cancellation of such interference, the channel profile as described by the channel length and other associated properties may help determine when an interference cancellation process should be utilized as well, and if there is insufficient SNR, i.e. the SNR is below the predetermined threshold, all indicate that it may be desirable to implement interference cancellation to improve the processing of the received burst(s).
US07809094B2
A device and method for canceling or attenuating harmonics noise without distorting the incoming signal. An exemplary device includes the use of an estimation loop to generate an artificial signal to eliminate or attenuate the influence of harmonics. The estimation loop includes a mixer adapted to produce a mixed signal by processing or combining the incoming signal and the artificial signal. The estimation loop includes an error detector, a low-pass filter, a parameter estimator, and a numerically controlled oscillator. The parameter estimator produces information relating to the phase, frequency, and amplitude of an incoming harmonics spur and will be used by the numerically controlled oscillator to generate the artificial signal. If the mixed signal contains relatively low levels of harmonics residuals, the mixed signal is produced at the output in lieu of the incoming signal.
US07809093B2
To provide a mobile terminal capable of shortening the time required for deciding whether a terminal is located within the range of an area frequency at the time of the terminal power switched on, and securely performing location registration to a cell producing a large electric field intensity by recognizing an area frequency in advance.
US07809091B2
Aspects of a method and system for decoding single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) and redundancy processing adaptation using frame process are provided. A receiver may decode video, voice, and/or speech bit sequences based on a first decoding algorithm that may utilize data redundancy and that may impose physical constraints. The receiver may also decode a bit sequence based on a second decoding algorithm that utilizes SAIC. The first and second decoding algorithms may be adapted to perform in parallel and a decoded received bit sequence may be selected based on a redundancy verification parameter. The first and second decoding algorithms may also be adapted to be performed sequentially where the subsequent decoding operation may be conditioned to the initial decoding operation. Moreover, either the first or the second decoding algorithm may be selected for decoding the received bit sequence. The selection may be based on noise and/or interference measurements.
US07809089B2
A de-correlating discriminating system of code division multiple access signals including a system structure composed of a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of cells including a base-station and a plurality of user-stations, each of the user-stations including a user-transmitter and a user-receiver, communicating through a multi-access channel with the base station which includes a base-station receiver and a base-station transmitter, and the user-transmitter is capable of transmitting a data symbol to convey a data with a spreading sequence and a pilot symbol that is the spreading sequence to identify a channel from the user transmitter to the base-station receiver and the base-station receiver includes a minimum means square error detector to analyze an input vector that is a received signal containing both multiple users specific data responses.
US07809087B2
A wireless communication device may include a receiver coupled to a modem. The receiver may receive a wireless packet according to a wireless networking protocol such as a protocol in the IEEE 802.11 family of wireless protocols. Upon receiving a packet, the receiver may processes the packet according to a selected one of a plurality of discrete gain states. The modem coupled to the receiver may select the gain state used to process the packet such as by sending one or more signals to the receiver to reduce the gain state after determining that the current gain state is too large. The modem may implement a plurality of power detection modules in order to detect signals at varying power levels. The implementation of a plurality of power detectors may allow the gain state selection process to be performed very quickly as required by some wireless networking protocols.
US07809085B2
A high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) receiver recovers high speed encoded data which are transmitted differentially over data channels of a lossy cable, along with a clock. Inter symbol interference, high-frequency loss, skew between the clock and data channels, and differential skew within a differential signal are compensated by analog circuits which are automatically tuned for best performance by observing the quality of the recovered analog signal. Oversampling is used to provide a 24-bit digital representation of the analog signal for determining the quality of the signal.
US07809084B2
In a signal receiving circuit there are provided N input detection circuits 2a to 2n for receiving clock signals S1-c to SN-c included in N channels of signals S1 to SN. Each of the input detection circuits 2a to 2n detects the transition of the input signal of the corresponding channel and further confirms that the signal of the corresponding channel is being received after the transition detection to thereby detect the input of the signal of the corresponding channel. The selection circuit 3 selects and outputs the clock signal and the data signal in the signal of the channel of which the input is detected. The selected output signal is successively subjected to input processes through one each of the phase synchronization circuit 4, the serial/parallel conversion circuit 5, etc., which are shared by N channels.
US07809080B2
An approach for determining corrective predistortion functions includes maintaining a history of recent estimations of a plurality of corrective predistortion functions. Each of those functions corresponds to a respective signal characteristic. By determining a feature of each of those functions from the history, one of the corrective predistortion functions is selected for a next estimation based upon which of the functions has a feature within the history that satisfies a selected criteria. In a disclosed example, the function having the lowest number of estimations within a recent history is selected as the function to have the highest priority for a next estimation.
US07809071B2
A wireless communication receiving device includes an initializing section for obtaining a temporary solution from a transmission route estimation value and a reception signal, a solution candidate calculating section for obtaining a solution candidate for each dimension existing inside a search area around the temporary solution, a solution candidate selecting section for deleting a solution candidate a cumulative distance of which is large when the number of solution candidates exceeds a specified resource number, a distance calculating section for obtaining a partial distance between the temporary solution and the solution candidate for each dimension, and a cumulative distance of the obtained partial distances, and a distance comparing section.
US07809068B2
An apparatus according to one embodiment may include an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include a plurality communication channels. The integrated circuit may be is capable of communicating with at least one remote node external to the integrated circuit, via at least one of the communication channels, in accordance with at least one communication protocol. Each of said plurality of communication channels may provide a communication path between a host system and at least one remote node. The integrated circuit may be further capable of operating each communication channel independently of each other and independently of the host system. Of course, many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.
US07809063B2
A method and system for adaptive motion estimation, which sets a search range in a previous frame in order to find a corresponding macroblock in the adaptive search range according to each macroblock of a current frame and to accordingly determine a corresponding motion vector. A motion vector is first determined by referring to a target macroblock of a current frame and reference macroblocks in a search range of a previous frame. Then, a compression mode is determined according to the target macroblock, the reference macroblocks and the motion vector, and a mode data is outputted corresponding to the compression mode. Finally, a search range is determined according to the mode data and the motion vector. Thus, the required computational amount and bandwidth can be saved and also the high-efficiency image compression is obtained.
US07809061B1
Data is shared across several simultaneous software video encode/compressions sessions with a common input video source. This reduces the amount of work done by each individual encoder by intelligently sharing/reusing data between encoders at various stages of encoding. Each encoder may use the data from another encoder “as-is” or may further minimally process the data. This data sharing reduces the overall encoding time of the streams significantly by reducing the duplicative work that would otherwise have to be performed by each encoder. Data sharing thus enables production of more simultaneous unique compressed video streams per encoding station. To allow sharing and reuse of data between encoders, various modules in the encoding pipeline operate in a hierarchical manner and use each other's output data, and cooperate to produce multiple unique video streams that may differ in format, bit rate, resolution, frame rate, or other video characteristic.
US07809057B1
A method for compressing a video stream including the steps of: (1) encoding at least two pictures of the video stream as a first intra picture and a second intra picture, where the first intra picture occurs temporally before the second intra picture, (2) encoding another picture of the video stream as a first inter picture, where the first inter picture (a) occurs temporally (i) after the first intra picture and (ii) before the second intra picture and (b) uses (i) the second intra picture and (ii) one other picture occurring temporally before the first inter picture as references, (3) encoding another picture of the video stream as a second inter picture, where the second inter picture (a) occurs temporally (i) after the first intra picture and (ii) before the second intra picture and (b) uses (i) the second intra picture and (ii) the first inter picture as references and (4) encoding another picture in the video stream as a third inter picture, where the third inter picture (a) occurs temporally after the first intra picture and (ii) before the second intra picture and (b) uses (i) the second intra picture and (ii) the second inter picture as references.
US07809053B2
A device for scaling and quantization of digital soft output values (sk) from an equalizer has a control loop for controlling a statistical parameter (θ) for the scaled and quantized soft output values (sD,k), which contains a calculation unit (4) for calculation of the statistical parameter (θ), and a control unit (5) for calculation of a scaling factor (c) for scaling the soft output values (sk) from the equalizer on the basis of the statistical parameter (θ).
US07809048B2
A repeater and method for an ATSC terrestrial digital TV broadcasting service. The on-channel repeater includes: a receiving unit for receiving a Radio Frequency (RF) broadcast signal from a main transmitter; a frequency downlink converting unit for converting the received RF broadcast signal into an intermediate frequency (IF) signal; a demodulating unit for converting the converted IF signal into a baseband signal; an equalizing unit for removing noise and multi-path signals generated from the converted baseband signal; a modulating unit for converting the baseband signal into an IF signal; a frequency uplink converting unit for converting the IF signal into a RF broadcast signal; a high power amplifying unit for amplifying and repeating the converted RF broadcast signal; a transmitting unit for transmitting the RF broadcast signal outputted from the high power amplifying unit; and a signal synchronizing unit for generating the first reference frequency, and generating the second reference frequency based on the first reference frequency such that the transmission/reception signal are frequency-and-phase synchronized.
US07809038B2
In a conventional EA/DFB laser, since the temperature dependence of the operation wavelength of the EA portion is substantially different from that of the DFB portion, the temperature range over which a stable operation is possible is small. In the case of using the EA/DFB laser as a light emission device, an uncooled operation is not possible. An EA/DFB laser which does not require a temperature control mechanism is proposed.A quantum well structure in which a well layer made of any one of InGaAlAs, InGaAsP, and InGaAs, and a barrier layer made of either one of InGaAlAs or InAlAs is used for an optical absorption layer of an EA modulator. By properly determining detuning at a temperature of 25° C. and a composition wavelength of the barrier layer in the quantum well structure used for the optical absorption layer, it can be realized to suppress the insertion loss, maintain the extinction ratio, and reduce chirping simultaneously over a wide temperature range from −5° C. to 80° C.
US07809036B2
A lamp-pumped laser includes a pump light source for optically pumping a laser medium, such as a laser rod, a pump light sensor that detects the optical pumping power of the pump light source, and a control unit connected to receive an output signal from the pump light sensor and to increase the electric power of the pump light source on the basis of the detected optical pumping power and in correspondence with a predetermined rise characteristic of the optical pumping power.
US07809026B1
A system and method is provided for making highly accurate data propagation delay measurements in a serializer/deserializer (SERDES) integrated circuit. The invention detects a selected special character when the special character is present at the input of a transmit data path of the SERDES integrated circuit. The invention also detects the special character when the special character appears at the output of the transmit data path. The invention then counts the number of clock cycles during which the selected character was in the transmit data path. This provides the data propagation delay of the special character through the transmit data path. The invention also makes data propagation delay measurements for a receive data path of a SERDES integrated circuit.
US07809025B2
There is provided a method of operating a computer system. The computer system comprises at least two cabinets and the at least two cabinets have at least one clock signal. The method includes selecting one of the at least one clock signal to serve as a master signal, and synchronizing the computer system to operate from the master signal. Additionally, the method includes altering the capacity of the system while the system is operating.
US07809024B2
An electronic device is provided which comprises an interconnect means (N) for coupling a plurality of processing modules (IP1-IP5) to enable a communication between the processing modules (IP1-IP5). The electronic device further comprises a plurality of network interfaces (NI) for coupling the interconnect means (N) to one of the processing modules (IP1-IP5). Furthermore, at least one time slot allocating unit (SA) is provided for allocating time slots to channels of the interconnect means (N). The time slot allocating unit (SA) comprises a plurality of slot tables (T0-T4) with a plurality of entries. Each entry corresponds to a fraction of the available bandwidth of the interconnect means (N). A first slot table of the plurality of slot tables (T0-T4) comprises at least one first entry of the plurality of entries which relates to a second slot table of the plurality of slot tables (T0-T4).
US07809020B2
A method and an apparatus for detecting the start-of-packet in a wireless receiver operating in a packetized wireless network. One method embodiment includes calculating a plurality of start of packet (SOP) indicators, each for one or more of a plurality of receive chains in the receiver; determining one or more linear combinations of respective pluralities of the calculated SOP indicators to form one or more combined SOP indicators; comparing each of a plurality of SOP indicators or combined SOP indicators, including at least one of the combined SOP indicators to a respective threshold to form one or more respective SOP events; and, in the case there is more than one SOP event, determining a logic function of the SOP events to form a SOP decision event.
US07809010B2
A method and system for fast channel changes of media that is provided by carriers over an xDSL connection to a home. Each customer's subscriber information is stored at the DSLAM that supports the xDSL connection to the home. Also, each DSLAM supports multicast protocols so that only one instance of a channel is provided on the core network regardless of how many customers have requested access to the channel.
US07809008B2
In a first aspect, a first method is provided that includes the steps of (1) providing a pointer that includes a first keytype field and a second keytype field; and (2) assigning a value to the second keytype field of the pointer based on a tabletype field of an updated table. The updated table is an updated version of a first table written in a memory, and the first keytype field of the pointer has a value assigned based on a tabletype field of the first table. The first method further includes the step of employing the second keytype field of the pointer to point to the updated table. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US07809006B2
An approach to introducing adaptive routing into a communication approach for passing messages between nodes over links between the nodes includes forming virtual channels over the links of the system and defining a deterministic routing function over the virtual channels such that the deterministic routing function is deadlock free. Adaptive routing is then permitted at nodes using the existing virtual channels by introducing a constraint on the available virtual channels used to forward communication that arrives at a node for a particular destination. The constraint on the virtual channels is such that the adaptive system is also deadlock free.
US07809004B2
A data processing system includes an interconnect fabric, a protected resource having a plurality of banks each associated with a respective one of a plurality of address sets, a snooper that controls access to the resource, one or more masters that initiate requests, and interconnect logic coupled to the one or more masters and to the interconnect fabric. The interconnect logic regulates a rate of delivery to the snooper via the interconnect fabric of requests that target any one the plurality of banks of the protected resource.
US07809002B2
Apparatus and method for adapting a control plane of a communications network normally using a call session control function (CSCF) in communication with a resource access control function (RACF) by providing a priority service functional element (PS-FE) to handle call admission and priority services.
US07809000B2
Updating the next-expected transmission sequence number (NET) or the receiver window position to ensure that the NET always falls within the receiver window range to prevent unnecessary delays in delivering data blocks in order to avoid stall conditions and achieve high speed data transmission capabilities for a high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) system.
US07808996B2
Disclosed is a packet forwarding apparatus and method for a virtualization switch, applicable to switch environments built by Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) connections. The packet forwarding apparatus comprises a header extractor, a dispatcher, and a forwarding unit. After completion of the authorization for iSCSI session connections, the header extractor receives iSCSI packets and extracts the headers for the iSCSI packets. The dispatcher decides the flow directions for the received packets. The forwarding unit forwards the packets between the client-side connection and the storage-side connection of the virtualization switch, including converting virtual addresses into physical addresses for the received iSCSI packets, building the mapping between the client-side interface and the storage-side interface, and delivering the payload associated with the connections.
US07808992B2
A PVLAN having a primary and secondary VLAN's where the primary and secondary VLAN's have ports and the users connected to those ports. The MAC addresses of those users are learned in the primary or the secondary VLAN's and together with the port designation are stored preferably in tables associated with the VLAN's and the associated VLAN's. Processes are provided that replicate the tables in the other VLAN's so that the information necessary to transfer packets between source and destination ports is available to the associated VLAN's.
US07808989B2
A multiple-domain processing system includes a multi-dimensional switching fabric to provide intra-domain and inter-domain communication within the system.
US07808986B2
A system for controlling the routing of the traffic relating to a mobile node associated with a provider's network, the mobile node being capable of communicating with at least one correspondent node associated with an additional network. For the mobile node and the correspondent node, there is the possibility of communicating in at least a first operation mode through the provider's network and in a second operation mode by an at least partial exclusion of the provider's network. The system includes at least one element associated with the provider's network typically formed by a server acting as a home agent and configured to selectively check the authorization of said mobile node to operate in the second operation mode.
US07808974B2
An apparatus and methods for utilizing a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone with a built-in VPN client is disclosed. A VoIP telephone with an internal VPN client module incorporated into the VoIP telephone establishes a VPN tunnel directly from the VoIP telephone VPN client to an IP-PBX network access point. A VPN session, established in response to keypad input from a user of the VoIP telephone, is conducted over the VPN tunnel to a remote location. In a disclosed method, a secured VoIP telephone communication link is established by receiving a request from a user of the VoIP telephone, processing the request, and sending a signal from the VoIP telephone unit's VPN client over a data interface to a remote location. After exchange of authentication messages between the VoIP telephone VPN client and a remote location's VPN server, a VPN session is established.
US07808973B2
Line-oriented communication devices are coupled by a data network interface to a packet-oriented data network. The data network interface has a data network connection for coupling a data network cable to the data network, as well as a communication network connection for coupling a communication device for setting up line-oriented communication links. The data network interface couples the communication network connection and the data network connection to transmit communication signals on the communication links between the communication network connection and at least one supply conductor, which is provided for supplying voltage to data communication devices in the data network, in the data network cable.
US07808972B2
A method for processing distributed path computation requests includes: storing all path computation requests in an autonomous system, in each of Path Computation Elements (PCEs); and performing a path computation by a PCE in accordance with a path computation request obtained from the all path computation requests.
US07808965B2
A medium access control method is provided in which a control station transmits one specific frame to terminal stations, thereby arranging a schedule of a data transmission time of the control station and each of the terminal stations and allowing a time zone unused by a station for data transmission to be allocated to another station. The control station transmits a schedule frame having defined therein a time occupied by each of the terminal stations, thereby reducing overhead. Also, the completion of the preceding communication performed by another station is detected, thereby effectively using an idle time of a medium and improving transmission efficiency.
US07808964B2
The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for using a new modified dual symbol rate (MDSR) in an uplink direction in mobile communication systems. The communication between the mobile station and the network element may be performed within evolved GSM/EDGE radio access networks. The MDSR can be for example one and a half times a symbol rate of an uplink speech service, e.g., the current GSM/EDGE symbol rate (13/48 MHz) in the mobile communication system, thus the MDSR may be substantially 13/32 MHz or about 405 kHz. The uplink signal with the MDSR may be modulated, e.g., using a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), e.g., 16-QAM with 16 states and/or a quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK, or π/4-QPSK) modulation.
US07808959B2
The present invention is to provide a topology system of wireless network with dynamic balance comprising at least one subsidiary topology system of wireless network each having a plurality of access points and only one access point automatically becomes a root access point which operates on a channel different from others, and dynamically generates an unique derivative group ID different from others as the root access point linked with a wired network; other access points not linked with the wired network join one of subsidiary topology systems of wireless network according to loading and dataflow of the subsidiary topology systems of wireless network, and automatically become either a pure access point or an escape access point, dynamically generate an unique derivative group ID same as those linked with other root access points, and operate on a channel same as those linked with other root access points.
US07808955B2
Apparatuses and methods for transmitting control data on a physical channel between a mobile radio device and a base station in a cellular network. In particular, in a mobile radio network according to the UMTS standard (UMTS=Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) a packet-oriented data transmission between the mobile radio device and the base station is controlled using control data, wherein the control data includes a packet number for identifying a data packet.
US07808935B2
Provided is a demultiplexer capable of improving attenuation characteristic and isolation characteristic of a filter having a lower transmission frequency band among two filters having different transmission frequency bands, outside the transmission frequency band of a high-frequency side. A communication device using the demultiplexer is also disclosed. A first spiral wiring portion (55) and a sixth wiring portion (56) are formed so that an angle defined by a direction of a part (L1) of the first spiral wiring portion (55) and a direction of a part (L2) of the sixth spiral wiring portion (56) on a predetermined virtual plane is, for example, 0 degree and the direction of the current flowing in the part (L1) of the first spiral wiring portion (55) is opposite to the direction of the current flowing in the part (L2) if the sixth wiring portion (56).
US07808932B2
A packet-based data network includes a packet-based network switch, and a plurality of packetised data sources coupled to the network, where the packetised data includes at least one of audio data or video data. The data network further includes at least one destination, being a data handling device for handling packetised data sources, coupled to the network, and a network control arrangement coupled to the network, the network arrangement being arranged to provide virtual circuit-switched connections for transfer of packetised data from sources to destinations via the network switch by assigning multicast group identifiers to the sources, so that the sources launch packetised data onto the network as multicast data packets identified by the multicast group identifiers, and instructing a destination to issue a request to the network switch to join the multicast group of a source so as to receive data packets from that source.
US07808921B2
A method for identifying a bridge node in a network using a processor and memory unit in a specially programmed special purpose-purpose computer including the steps of, for each node in a plurality of nodes in the network: determining a global metric proportional to total traffic flow in the network and through the node; determining a local metric proportional to traffic flow between the node and each second node in the network connected to the node and traffic flow between each second node and each third node in the network connected to a second node; determining a second local metric proportional to the respective traffic flows between each node and each second node; and calculating a respective combination of the global metric and the first and second local metrics; and selecting, a bridge node from among the plurality of nodes based on the respective combinations.
US07808919B2
A method and apparatus for network monitoring using a proxy are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method generally comprises receiving at a proxy, path information for a label switched path (LSP) from a forwarding device located in the LSP, generating a connectivity verification message based on the path information, adding a proxy label to the connectivity verification message, and transmitting the connectivity verification message to the forwarding device. The proxy label is configured to inject the connectivity verification message into a forwarding plane at the forwarding device and the connectivity verification message is configured for transmittal from the forwarding device over the LSP to a destination node to verify a forwarding path associated with the path information received from the forwarding device.
US07808912B2
Devices, software, and methods quantify a burstiness quality of the packet loss in the node of a path. The quantified burstiness becomes a metric for determining the Quality of Service (QoS) offered by a node in retransmitting data through a network. Network routing and rerouting decisions are made according to the improved QoS. The burstiness statistic is determined by counting lengths of episodes of sequentially discarded packets at the node. The burstiness statistic is incorporated as a metric with the other metrics of the QoS of the node.
US07808911B2
Method for protecting an NSP data network against data overflow, according to which the NSP data network is divided to a protected sub-network and an unprotected sub-network. Connectivity to external data networks is allowed through the unprotected sub-network via a set of predefined controlled data ports. A maximum available bandwidth that can be processed by a user is determined for each user and maximal sub-bandwidth is allocated for each router. Whenever the data packet flow intended to the user exceeds the sub-bandwidth at one of the routers, the excess packet flow is filtered.
US07808909B2
A multi-node network that comprises a plurality of nodes, at least one of the nodes comprises a local cache for storing a plurality of matching indications at least some of which associated with a potential node. A receiving node of the plurality of nodes that is configured for receiving a matching request having a requested matching indication associated with an address of an additional node of the plurality of nodes. The receiving node is configured for identifying a match between the receiving node and at least one of the associated potential nodes by matching the requested matching indication and the stored matching indications and for informing one or more of the receiving nodes and the associated nodes about the match.
US07808905B2
Stream data and a command output from a drive device are individually packetized in a first packet processing unit. The stream data packet and the command packet are further multiplexed, and the multiplexed data is transmitted to a transmission path using a synchronous channel. When the command output from a decoding unit is packetized in a second packet processing unit, it is packetized by multiplexing flow control information output from the decoding unit, and is transmitted to the first packet processing unit using a synchronous channel of the transmission path. Based on this flow control information, reading/writing by the drive device is controlled.
US07808902B1
Systems and methods for measuring the performance of a scalable network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system configured in accordance with this disclosure may comprise a packet generator for providing test packets to a network under test; and a packet count unit for counting test packet received from the network under test. The system may be configured to test networks of various bandwidths such as OC-3 and OC-12 level networks.
US07808887B2
A bridge/router and method are described herein that are capable of avoiding packet replication at layer 2 where there is a failure in a network. In one embodiment, the bridge/router is informed about a fault which occurred within the network. Then, the bridge/router makes a determination about whether or not multiple LSPs would be used to flood/carry the same IP traffic out off a single port. If yes, the first bridge/router chooses one of the LSPs to carry the IP traffic out the single port and then prevents the IP traffic from being carried on the remaining LSP(s) out the single port which avoids the packet replication on a link which is associated with the single port. If no, then the first bridge/router allows the IP traffic to be carried on the LSPs out off more than one port.
US07808880B2
A small form factor optical disk drive is provided that incorporates a hybrid solid immersion objective lens (SIOL). The SIOL includes a central aspheric lens portion and a surrounding diffractive optical element portion.
US07808878B2
An optical pickup apparatus and a drive apparatus having the same are provided. Second light-receiving elements or third light-receiving elements for receiving ±first-order diffraction light beams from a polarization hologram are arranged outwardly of a circular region having the optical axis of a zero-order diffraction light beam on a light detector as its center, a radius of which is expressed by (2×t/n)×(f2/f1), where f1 denotes a focal length of an objective lens, f2 denotes a focal length of a coupling lens, t denotes a maximum value of a light transmitting layer thickness, n denotes a refractive index of a light transmitting layer.
US07808877B2
An optical recording device includes a light source, a light-converging optical system, a moving unit, detection unit, and an acquisition unit. In the optical recording device, interference fringes from a recording light are shift multi-recorded as a plurality of pages of holograms within each of a plurality of planes corresponding to a plurality of convergence positions based on light exposure amount of each page, acquired by the acquisition unit, for each of the convergence positions.
US07808862B2
An optical disc device includes a recording section which records recording information in an optical disk, a reproducing section to reproduce the information recorded in the optical disk, a storage section which stores information Po−n to Po+n or Pb−n to Pb+n of a preceding or succeeding position Po±n or Pb±n while a recording start position Po or a recording interrupt position Pb is defined as a reference, the information being reproduced by the reproducing section, when recording of the recording information is started or recording is restarted after the recording has been interrupted, and processing section which comparing reproduction information obtained by reproducing the information Po−n to Po+n or Pb−n to Pb+n again, cache information stored in the storage section, and the recording information, and then, determining whether or not recording has been normally performed on the optical disk when recording of the recording information terminates or is interrupted.
US07808854B2
Systems and methods for reducing the latency of data transfers between memory cells by enabling data to be transferred directly between sense amplifiers in the memory system. In one embodiment, a memory system uses a conventional DRAM memory structure having a pair of first-level sense amplifiers, a second-level sense amplifier and control logic for the sense amplifiers. Each of the sense amplifiers is configured to be selectively coupled to a data line. In a direct data transfer mode, the control logic generates control signals that cause the sense amplifiers to transfer data from a first one of the first-level sense amplifiers (a source sense amplifier) to the second-level sense amplifier, and from there to a second one of the first-level sense amplifiers (a destination sense amplifier.) The structure of these sense amplifiers is conventional, and the operation of the system is enabled by modified control logic.
US07808848B2
In a semiconductor memory having a plurality of memory banks that can be independently accessed, remedying bit registers that are substituted for defective memory cells are respectively provided for memory banks in a one-to-one relationship. Also, means for sharing the plurality of remedying bit registers in each memory bank is arranged.
US07808846B2
A semiconductor memory device to/from which a data signal is input/output in synchronism with a clock, including: an input signal delaying circuit for delaying an input signal to output the delayed input signal; a delayed clock generation circuit for delaying an input clock by different amounts of delay time to thereby generate a plurality of delayed clocks; a plurality of delayed input signal holding circuits for holding the delayed input signal on the plurality of delayed clocks, respectively; an input signal latch timing determination circuit for outputting a determination signal indicating a timing at which to latch the delayed input signal, based on a plurality of held signals held by the delayed input signal holding circuits; and a held signal selector circuit for integrating the plurality of held signals into a single signal.
US07808845B2
Methods and systems to write to redundant storage latches, or storage cells, including soft error upset tolerant latches and feedback-interlocked redundant storage cells, including to write a logic value to one of a plurality of same sense storage nodes, and to write a complementary logic value to a selected one of a plurality of opposite sense storage nodes responsive to the logic value. Remaining storage nodes may be written to through circuitry within the storage cell. Logic values may be output substantially simultaneously with corresponding write operations. A system may include a multiple logic level write circuit to write to the first same sense storage node, and first and second single logic level write circuits to write to the first and second opposite sense storage nodes, respectively.
US07808838B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes an array of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, the array of memory cells having wordlines associated therewith. A wordline voltage controller determines the levels of wordline voltages to be supplied to the respective wordlines and a wordline voltage generator generates the wordline voltages at the determined levels. Related methods are also provided.
US07808832B2
In sensing a group of cells in a multi-state nonvolatile memory, multiple sensing cycles relative to different demarcation threshold levels are needed to resolve all possible multiple memory states. Each sensing cycle has a sensing pass. It may also include a pre-sensing pass or sub-cycle to identify the cells whose threshold voltages are below the demarcation threshold level currently being sensed relative to. These are higher current cells which can be turned off to achieve power-saving and reduced source bias errors. The cells are turned off by having their associated bit lines locked out to ground. A repeat sensing pass will then produced more accurate results. Circuitry and methods are provided to selectively enable or disable bit-line lockouts and pre-sensing in order to improving performance while ensuring the sensing operation does not consume more than a maximum current level.
US07808825B2
When performing a program operation, a non-volatile memory device comprising a multi-plane performs a cache write operation by employing a page buffer circuit of a plane that does not perform the program operation. A data line mux transfers an externally input first data to a page buffer unit of a plane, which will be programmed, according to a plane select signal, transfers a second data to a page buffer unit of a plane on which a program operation is not performed, while the program of the selected plane is performed, and after the first data is programmed, provides a data transfer path between one page buffer unit and the other page buffer unit according to a data transfer control signal.
US07808823B2
Two floating gate devices are arranged in a redundant configuration in a non-volatile memory (NVM) of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag such that stress induced leakage current (SILC) or other failures do not result in a complete loss of memory storage. The redundant NVM may be arranged as a series configuration, a parallel configuration, a single-ended device, a differential device, a simple logic circuit function, and/or a complex logic circuit function.
US07808814B2
The magnetization state of a ferromagnetic material is controlled by applying a current pulse to it while externally applying a weak magnetic field to it. The magnetic state of a ferromagnetic material can be switched between a uniformly magnetized state and a multiple magnetic domain structure by controlling the direction and intensity of the magnetic field applied to it and the intensity and pulse width of the current pulse. When an external magnetic field is applied, the possibility of occurrence of the reversal of the magnetic state upon application of the current pulse shows a hysteresis, and the reversal of the magnetic state can be controlled reliably. The intensity of the magnetic field to be applied may be as weak as a few gauss. Furthermore, by using such magnetic information recording elements, a magnetic information recording device (memory) that can achieve a high degree of integration can be produced.
US07808806B2
In a semiconductor apparatus of the present invention, a plurality of circuit components are provided. A first bus interconnects the circuit components. A second bus interconnects the circuit components. A switching unit outputs a select signal that causes each circuit component to select one of the first bus and the second bus when transmitting a signal from one of the circuit components to another. The second bus has a size larger than a size of the first bus.
US07808802B2
Embodiments disclosed herein describe an isolated switched-mode power supply with its output regulated from the primary side, by generating a sensing current using a sensing element coupled to the output of the power supply, and measuring a scaled version of the sensing current which depends on the output voltage, and calculating an estimate voltage representing the output voltage, and regulating the output of the isolated switched-mode power supply based on the estimate voltage.
US07808801B2
A mounting apparatus is provided for mounting expansion cards. The mounting apparatus includes a rear panel, a retainer, and a clip. The rear panel has a support wall for supporting the bent portion of the cover plate, the rear panel defining an opening for facilitating installing or removing the expansion card. The retainer has a pressing plate pivotally coupled to the support wall. The clip has a resilient member for securing the retainer to the rear panel. The retainer has a fixing member for clasping the bent portion of the cover plate when the retainer is rotated to a first position and unclasping the bent portion of the cover plate if the retainer is rotated to a second position.
US07808797B2
A microelectronic substrate, a method of forming the same, and a system including the same. The microelectronic substrate comprises: a conductive layer; a spacer layer disposed onto the conductive dielectric layer; a dielectric build-up layer disposed onto the spacer layer, the spacer layer being made of a material that has a lower shrinkage than a material of the embedding dielectric-build-up layer during curing, and a higher viscosity than a material of the embedding dielectric build-up layer in its pre-cure form and during curing; and active or passive microelectronic components embedded within the dielectric build-up layer.
US07808790B2
A fastening apparatus for fastening a first device to a second device is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a standoff member disposed through a through hole of the first device; a clamp member having a clamp portion for clamping the standoff member; a sleeve member having a hollow body and enclosing the clamp member, wherein the clamp member is compressed in the hollow body; a resilient member wrapping around the sleeve member; a rotatable cam member pivotly coupled to the clamp member; and a cap member arranged between the rotatable cam member and the resilient member, wherein the rotatable cam member is rotated to a first location to compress the resilient member for causing a first preload force exerted on the second device.
US07808786B2
The manufacturing process of a circuit board includes forming a thermal interface layer on a first metal thin layer of a thermal plate. Joining a second metal layer of a main circuit board comprises at least one opening with the thermal interface layer. Then, reflowing the main circuit board with the joined thermal plate. A circuit board with a cooling function using the foregoing manufacturing process is also provided.
US07808783B2
Disclosed herein is computer system having a first and second multiple chip modules (MCM) and a cooling module. The cooling module includes a first cooling loop associated with said first MCM and a first evaporator. The cooling module further includes a second cooling loop associated with said second MCM and a second evaporator. Each cooling loop is coupled to a common condenser that receives thermal energy from each cooling loop. A controller is coupled to the first and second cooling loop and adapts the operation of the first and second cooling loop in response to variances in operating conditions to provide cooling of the first and second MCM.
US07808782B2
A support device for heat dissipation module provides a frame with four corners thereof extending outward a support part respectively. A mounting opening is disposed at the central area of the frame with two opposite side of the mounting opening having a projection plate respectively. A facial side of the projection plate is provided with fitting pins to fit with a guide heat plate and covering the mounting opening without help of welding. Therefore, thinner guide heat plate can be used for simplifying manufacturing process and lowering production cost.
US07808779B2
A docking system for supporting a portable electronic device with a vertical operational orientation and a horizontal operational orientation is disclosed. The docking system includes a base stand unit that has a flat top surface. Additionally, there is a device support platform that is rotatably mounted to the base stand unit. The device support platform defines a cradle portion that is engageable to the portable electronic device. The device support platform has a first position corresponding to the vertical operational orientation, and a second position corresponding to the horizontal operational orientation.
US07808773B2
To provide electronic parts having a platy terminal secured through a conductive adhesive layer onto a device, which electronic parts are low in ESR and excel in the bonding strength between device and terminal. The conductive adhesive contains a flat conductive member and an organic solvent and is characterized in that through vaporization of the organic solvent in vacuum atmosphere, the flat conductive member has a region standing in the direction of thickness of the conductive adhesive layer. Further, the conductive adhesive is characterized by containing portion wherein the angle between the platy terminal and the flat plane of conductive member is ≧45°.
US07808768B2
An element body has first and second inner electrodes which are alternately laminated. The first inner electrode has a first main electrode, a first coupling conductor extending to a first side face of the element body while being connected to an edge part of the first main electrode, and a first lead conductor extending to a third side face while being connected to the first coupling conductor. The second inner electrode has a second main electrode, a second coupling conductor extending to the first side face of the element body while being connected to an edge part of the second main electrode, and a second lead conductor extending to a fourth side face while being connected to the second coupling conductor. The first and second lead conductors are separated from the first and second main electrodes by gaps, respectively.
US07808762B2
A semiconductor device includes a constant voltage circuit configured to convert an input voltage to a predetermined voltage by controlling an output transistor, and an overheat protection circuit configured to restrict output current of the constant voltage circuit according to temperature of the semiconductor device. The overheat protection circuit includes a diode to detect the temperature of the semiconductor device and a resistor connected in series with the diode.
US07808757B2
Power supply apparatus with overload protection comprising a switch responsive to an input signal for switching between an ON-state for supplying current from a source of power to a load and an OFF-state for interrupting the supply of current to the load, and protection means responsive to an overload condition to switch the switch to the OFF-state. The protection means is responsive to a first overload condition during an initial phase after the switch switches to the ON-state so as to switch the switch back to the OFF-state and maintain the switch in the OFF-state. The protection means is subsequently responsive to a second overload condition if the first overload condition is not detected during the initial phase so as to switch the switch to the OFF-state and subsequently switch the switch back to the ON-state after an interval of time.The protection means is responsive to the current exceeding a first threshold value in detecting the first overload condition, and is responsive to the current exceeding a second threshold value in detecting the second overload condition, the second threshold value being lower than the first threshold value. The protection means is responsive to a temperature of the switch means exceeding a temperature threshold value in detecting at least the first overload condition.
US07808756B2
The present invention discloses a short circuit protection circuit comprising: a first input terminal; a second input terminal; an output terminal; at least two transistors including a first and a second transistors connected in series with each other and electrically connected between the first input terminal and the output terminal; and a voltage source circuit electrically connected with the first input terminal, the second input terminal, the output terminal, and the gates of the first and second transistors.
US07808754B2
A hybrid protection circuit may include a stress detection circuit, a clamp device, and an on-time adjustment circuit. The stress detection circuit may output a detection signal that may be activated when a positive ESD event or a positive EOS event occurs. The on-time adjustment circuit may receive a detection signal and output a clamping signal that may be in an active state until charges generated by a positive ESD event or a positive EOS event are discharged. The clamp device may discharge charges induced by an ESD event or an EOS event. Therefore, a hybrid protection circuit may protect the internal core from both an ESD event and an EOS event.
US07808748B2
A pinned layer of an MR element includes an underlying magnetic layer made of a magnetic alloy layer having a body-centered cubic structure, and a Heusler alloy layer formed on the underlying magnetic layer. A free layer of the MR element includes an underlying magnetic layer made of a magnetic alloy layer having a body-centered cubic structure, and a Heusler alloy layer formed on the underlying magnetic layer. Each of these two Heusler alloy layers is made of a CoMnSi alloy having an Mn content higher than 25 atomic percent and lower than or equal to 40 atomic percent, and contains a principal component having a B2 structure in which Co atoms are placed at body-centered positions of unit cells and Mn atoms or Si atoms are randomly placed at vertexes of the unit cells.
US07808737B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic disk drive capable of controlling write/read positions by a method that takes the disturbance in the circumferential direction of a magnetic disk into consideration, thereby making it possible to improve the positioning accuracy. A magnetic disk drive in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a magnetic recording medium on which information is written to each track thereof, the recording medium having a servo signal formed in the each track at specified intervals; a magnetic head including a read head for reading a signal from the magnetic recording medium, and a write head for writing information to the magnetic recording medium. At the time of writing/reading information by the magnetic head, a servo signal is detected from among signals read out by the read head. Information about intervals of the detection is continuously acquired on the basis of the information about the servo-signal detection intervals that have been continuously acquired. The amount of rotational fluctuations of a magnetic disk is calculated; and if the amount of rotational fluctuations exceeds the predetermined allowable range, specified processing relating to at least one of writing and reading is stopped.
US07808733B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving digital information including video information and audio information. The video information is compressed by a first compression method and the audio information is compressed by a different second compression method for transmission on a transmission path.
US07808730B2
A lens assembly has a driving actuator which includes a magnet, a yoke and a coil and is formed along a lens barrel that accommodates a lens unit for focusing and an auto-focus controlling apparatus comprises the lens assembly for camera module. The magnet or the coil has an internal diameter smaller than a maximal diameter of the lens barrel. Therefore, it is possible to manufacture much smaller lens assembly according to the present invention compared to the conventional ones and to reduce the possibility of component damages in the lens assembly in operating the camera module.
US07808715B2
An interferometer includes a means for splitting, at a splitting location, an input light beam into a first beam and a second beam; and means for recombining, at a recombination location, the first beam and the second beam. The interferometer is designed such that the first beam will travel a first optical path length (OPL) from the splitting location to the recombination location, and the second beam will travel a second OPL from the splitting location to the recombination location and such that when the input light beam has bean modulated at a data rate comprising a time interval, then the difference in optical path lengths between the first OPL and the second OPL is about equal to the time interval multiplied by the speed of light.
US07808708B2
An apparatus including an autostereoscopic image selection device and an overcoat opaque material applied to the autostereoscopic image selection device. The autostereoscopic image selection device and overcoat opaque material operate together to provide a self-locating aperture in association with the autostereoscopic selection device. The associated method entails applying an opaque overcoat material to an image selection device comprising a plurality of lenticules and removing selected portions of the opaque overcoat material from the image selection device. The applying and removing operate together with the image selection device to reduce a numerical aperture for at least one lenticule.
US07808705B2
A wavelength-selective switch with a switch unit having a lens array, a first lens and a beam expander, and a branching unit having a second lens, a diffraction grating, a third lens and a mirror, in which the switch unit and the branching unit are accommodated in independent casings, and a confocal point of the light transmitted through the first lens and the light transmitted through the second lens are arranged on a connecting surface of the casing of the switch unit and the casing of the branching unit.
US07808704B2
In a transmission grating as a dispersive element, diffraction efficiency is enhanced and manufacturing costs are considerably reduced. A dispersive element includes resin members for forming a diffraction grating, being composed of a plurality of diffraction grating members having a cross-sectional shape respectively surrounded by two straight lines such as a triangular shape, and metal members as light-shielding members each being formed on corresponding one of the diffraction grating members at one side of the diffraction grating member along any of the straight line and the curved line of the cross-sectional shape of the diffraction grating member formed by the resin member. The metal members are configured to reduce zero-order transmitted light with respect to incident light, and to enhance diffraction efficiency of first-order transmitted light.
US07808702B1
A projection screen apparatus is disclosed for displaying an image projected by a projector. The projection screen apparatus includes a frame and a screen. The frame includes a plurality of frame members and corner members.
US07808700B2
A confocal microscope system capable of observing a bright field image and a fluorescent image together with a confocal image can be achieved with a simple configuration. The confocal microscope system may include a confocal scanner unit having a microlens array disc and a pin hole array disc, for scanning a face of the observation sample by a plurality of beam spots, a relay lens connected to a camera for acquiring observed images; a microscope for holding the observation sample and illuminating an observation light for observing the bright field image and an excitation light for observing the fluorescent image on the observation sample, and having a port part for outputting the observation light acquired from the observation sample to the confocal scanner unit; and a detour light path unit selectively inserted between the port part of the microscope and the confocal scanner unit.
US07808693B2
An electrochromic device includes a first conductive layer, a single-layer or dual-layer ion conductor layer, and a second conductive layer. The layers are deposited using PVD, CVD, PECVD, atomic layer deposition, pulsed laser deposition, plating, or sol-gel techniques.
US07808689B2
In an image forming apparatus in which light fluxes emitted from at least two light sources are brought close to one another to be allowed to enter the rotating reflector 35 to be allowed to scan the photoreceptor 39, the cylindrical lens presser spring 12 provided on the cylindrical lens supporting member 10 is positioned such that the lens presser spring 12 pushes the cylindrical lens at a position so that the light fluxes enter the cylindrical lens at ranges extending toward both strides from the lens presser spring 12.
US07808688B2
A method and apparatus to permit digital capture of images from both transmissive and reflective media. A laser or other source of excitation radiation is coupled to a mounting surface to be in optical communication with a reading window when installed on a scanner. A rear casing is coupled to the monitoring surface to engage a housing of a scanner, the housing defining the reading window.
US07808676B2
A method for converting polarized color measured values to unpolarized color measured values or vice versa uses a computer. The conversion is carried out by the computer by using a pair of reference measured values determined in polarized and unpolarized form.
US07808673B2
A system, method and computer readable medium for capturing check data during a print process is disclosed. The method on a computer system includes observing a print command issued by an application to send check information to a printer. Next, a spool file in a condensed format, such as Extended Metafile Format (EMF), is written to a disk in response to the print command. This spool file read, and subsequently an output file is generated based on information in the spool file. The output file is written in EMF format if the output file contains image information. If the output file does not contain image information, the output file is written in text format. Then, the output file is modified to conform to a template. Lastly, the output file that was modified is sent to an output destination, such as a file storage space, a bank or a printer.
US07808671B1
In an illustrative embodiment, methods and systems are provided for processing facsimiles. A call processing system receives a first message transmitted from a first carrier system regarding a facsimile call to a phone address. The first message includes an identifier associated with the user. The identifier is used to determine if the user is authorized to receive call processing system services. If the user is authorized, a second message is transmitted to the first carrier system, the second message indicating that the first carrier system is to connect the call to the call processing system. The call processing system is connected to the call. A facsimile is received via the call at the call processing system. Information regarding the facsimile call is provided over a network, wherein some or all of the information is displayed in a call log visually accessible by the user.
US07808664B2
An approach is provided for securely printing electronic documents using a portable media. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of contexts and implementations and includes secure direct printing of electronic documents, secure direct printing of electronic documents with remote user authentication and secure printing of electronic documents with remote data management. The particular information provided on the portable media varies, depending upon the implementation. Furthermore, the approach provides varying degrees of security and may be used in conjunction with conventional printing of electronic documents.
US07808663B2
The image forming apparatus receives image data based on multiple document images of various sizes and/or orientations. The apparatus identifies areas that are not yet assigned with document images on a single sheet of paper and identifies whether any document image can be laid out in an identified area. In another aspect of the apparatus, a maximum document image size is detected from multiple document images, and a scale factor is calculated to cause the detected maximum size match with the size of the entire area of the paper or an area obtained by dividing the paper into equal parts. In another aspect of the apparatus, a scaling factor is calculated for each document image to cause the size of the particular document match with the size of an area obtained by dividing the paper into equal parts.
US07808659B2
In order to transmit fixed-image/text drawing data to print a character contained in a fixed image placed at a predetermined position of paper and body-text drawing data to print a body (text) image in a body, a host apparatus gives the unique download (DL) font ID using a numeric value in different numeric area to each text drawing data stored in external memory attached to a printer. The printer stores the text drawing data identified by the DL font ID in the external memory and upon reception of an image formation command, the printer reads the text drawing data from the external memory and forms an image. Thereby, appropriate text drawing data can be used to print.
US07808657B2
A position sensing system for an optical metrology system, includes a plurality of photonic devices distributed on a carrier for providing a photonic response when interrogated with a measuring light, wherein a collective photonic response from the plurality indicates the position of the carrier. A method and an optical metrology system are also provided.
US07808656B2
A displacement sensor employs an electromagnetic radiation source that generates a beam of electromagnetic radiation for measuring a feature of an object. The displacement sensor includes a displacement probe, a multi-dimensional diffraction grating and a plurality of photon detectors. A reflection surface, which is changed when the probe interacts with the object, interacts with the beam from the electromagnetic radiation source and reflects a beam from the reflection surface. The multi-dimensional diffraction grating interacts with the reflected beam and generates a pattern of diffracted beams. Each photon detector senses a different diffracted beam, thereby providing information about the state of the probe.
US07808637B2
Method and apparatus for testing of LCD cells is disclosed. An LCD cell under test (14, 30) may be mounted to translatable table (40) between polarization state generator (10) and polarization state analyzer (16). For each location on cell (14, 30) to be tested, a variety of known polarization states (22) are launched through LCD cell (14, 30) and detected by polarization state analyzer (16). Electrical signals representative of polarization states are acquired by computer (18). Within computer (18), a model (58, 60) of polarization properties of LCD cell (14, 30) is developed based on estimations of what physical parameters of LCD cell (14, 30) are believed to be. RMS differences between simulated polarization properties and measured polarization properties are minimized by iteratively refining (60) modeled physical cell properties, at which point cell thickness and other physical parameters of the LCD cell may be deduced.
US07808634B2
A method and apparatus for automated spectral calibration of a spectroscopy device. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for simultaneous calibration and spectral imaging of a sample by: simultaneously illuminating the sample and a calibrant with a plurality of illuminating photons; receiving, at the spectrometer, a first plurality of photons collected from the sample and a second plurality of photons collected from the calibrant; forming a calibrant spectrum from the first plurality of collected photons and a sample spectrum from the second plurality of collected photons; comparing the calibrant spectrum with a reference spectrum of the calibrant to determine a wavelength-shift in the calibrant spectrum; applying the wavelength-shift to the sample spectrum to obtain a calibrated sample spectrum; and forming a spatially accurate wavelength resolved image of the sample from the first plurality of collected photons.
US07808628B1
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to methods and apparatuses for aligning a scanning probe used to pattern a substrate, by comparing the position of the probe to a reference location or spot on the substrate. A first light beam is focused on a surface of the substrate as a spatial reference point. A second light beam then illuminates the scanning probe being used for patterning. An optical microscope images both the focused light beam, and a diffraction pattern, shadow, or light backscattered by the illuminated scanning probe tip of a scanning probe microscope (SPM), which is typically the tip of the scanning probe on an atomic force microscope (AFM). Alignment of the scanning probe tip relative to the mark is then determined by visual observation of the microscope image. This alignment process may be repeated to allow for modification or changing of the scanning probe microscope tip.
US07808627B2
Methods for facilitating controlled movement of at least one vehicle wheel. The methods include the step of presenting a display of information, such as by visual display or audible signals, to an operator to direct a manual controlled-speed movement of the vehicle wheel. The controlled-speed movement may be a rotational movement such as during a wheel alignment rolling compensation procedure, a steering movement, such as during a vehicle wheel alignment angle measurement procedure, or a rotational movement such as during a wheel assembly measurement procedure on a vehicle wheel balancer.
US07808613B2
The invention relates to a device manufacturing method comprising identifying a substrate to be processed, performing a manufacturing step of a patterned layer on the substrate, and storing a substrate process history for the substrate. The history may comprise a correction map comprising position errors caused by the manufacturing step. Identifying the substrate may be done by reading an identification sign present on the substrate or by reading an identification code of a lot comprising the substrate and determining a sequence number of the substrate in the lot. Alignment of the substrate with respect to a patterning device of a lithographic apparatus may be corrected using information of the substrate process history. Alternatively or additionally, measured overlay errors may be corrected per substrate using information of the substrate process history.
US07808610B2
An image sensing and printing device includes a housing. An area image sensor is positioned on the housing for sensing a viewed image to be printed on media and for generating pixel data representing the viewed image. A printing mechanism is arranged on the housing. The printing mechanism defines a media feed path and includes a printhead assembly that includes a pagewidth printhead having at least one printhead chip that spans the media feed path. A feed mechanism feeds media along the media feed path so that the printhead can carry out a printing operation on the media. A processor is positioned in the housing. The processor includes processing circuitry. An image sensor interface is connected to the processing circuitry for receiving pixel data from the image sensor, converting the pixel data into an internal format and writing the converted pixel data to the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to convert the pixel data to print image data. A printhead interface is connected to the processing circuitry for receiving the print image data from the processing circuitry and for providing signals representing the print image data to the printhead so that the printhead can carry out the printing operation to generate a printed representation of the viewed image.
US07808600B2
An LCD device for repairing to prevent gravity defects by forming a dual seal pattern in a non-display area of an LCD panel and storing surplus liquid crystal in an area between the dual seal patterns, which includes a liquid crystal panel including first and second substrates bonded to each other, and having a display area and non-display area, first and second seal patterns surrounding the display area and spaced apart from each other on the non-display area between the first and second substrates and defining a buffer space therebetween and a metal pattern formed on the first substrate under the first seal pattern, wherein the metal pattern is deformed by laser irradiation to form a path for liquid crystal to flow between the buffer space and the display area.
US07808598B2
A common electrode substrate for use in a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a substrate body, a common electrode disposed on the substrate body, and a peripheral first circuit disposed on the substrate body. The peripheral first circuit and the common electrode are electrically separate from each other, and the peripheral first circuit extends along at least a portion of a peripheral region of the substrate body.
US07808589B2
In a transflective liquid crystal display device, assuming that a narrower angle among angles formed by the initial liquid crystal alignment direction of a liquid crystal layer, and the projection direction of a pixel electrode of a transmissive unit is θt and that a narrower angle among angles formed by the initial liquid crystal alignment direction of the liquid crystal layer, and the projection direction of a pixel electrode of a reflective unit is θr, (1) when the liquid crystal layer possesses a positive-type liquid crystal, the relation of θt>θr is satisfied, and (2) when the liquid crystal layer possesses a negative-type liquid crystal, the relation of θr>θt is satisfied. The relations are satisfied by slanting or bending at least one of the pixel electrodes, and the reflectivity is improved.
US07808583B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display with a polarizing sheet capable of color conversion. The liquid crystal display includes an upper polarizing sheet and a lower polarizing sheet, in one of which is provided with a conversion layer to absorb predetermined spectrum distribution energy of the light provided by the backlight module and to convert it to white light spectrum distribution.
US07808582B2
An illuminating apparatus providing polarized color light and a display apparatus including the illuminating apparatus are provided. The illuminating apparatus includes a light source; a polarization light guide plate (LGP) unit which converts a polarization direction of light emitted from the light source into linearly polarized light, and collimates the linearly polarized light; and a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter which disposed on an upper portion of the polarization LGP unit, and selectively reflects light according to a polarized status and a wavelength of the light.
US07808580B2
In a backlight assembly, a reflector member includes a base sheet reflecting a light and a connecting line disposed on a face of the base sheet and, and transmitting signals. An input pad is disposed at a first end portion of the connecting line and receives the signals, and an output pad is disposed at a second end portion of the connecting line and outputs the signals transmitted through the connecting line.
US07808579B2
Some embodiments provide a device including a first material associated with a controllable refractive index, a second material associated with a first refractive index, and a third material disposed between the first material and the second material, the third material being substantially transparent to a plurality of visible light wavelengths and being associated with a second refractive index greater than the first refractive index. Devices according to some embodiments may be employed as a display in a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a personal digital assistant, a minicomputer, a projection television, a front projector, etc.
US07808577B2
A light source device capable of realizing a color display having the high light-use efficiency with a simple configuration is provided. Provided is a light source device including a prism sheet disposed to face a plane to be irradiated, and to bend an incident light to a direction substantially orthogonal to an incident direction; a light source section separately emitting a plurality of color lights having wavelength regions different from each other so that each of the color lights enters into the prism sheet at a small angle with respect to an extending direction of the prism sheet; and a light source drive means for driving the light source section so that each of the color lights periodically scans the plane to be irradiated so as to perform the line-sequential irradiation operation.
US07808576B2
The present invention provides a backlight of a liquid crystal display device having an inclination surface on a light guide plate and preventing a breakage of a liquid crystal panel, wherein light which leaks from the inclination surface is made to return to the light guide plate and the adhesiveness of the light guide plate and a flexible printed circuit board is increased. In a liquid crystal display device having a backlight which radiates light to a liquid crystal panel, LEDs are formed on a light guide plate formed on the backlight as light emitting elements. Between the plurality of light emitting elements, a projecting portion of the light guide plate is formed, and a reflection member is formed on an adhesive sheet which adheres a projection member and a flexible printed circuit board to each other. By arranging the reflective member and the cushion member close to an inclination surface, light from the inclination surface is made to return to a light guide plate side, and an external force from the outside can be alleviated by a cushion member.
US07808575B2
A matrix-type liquid crystal display device, includes: a liquid crystal panel including: a pair of substrates disposed to face each other with at least one of the pair of substrates having an electrode; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates; a pair of polarizing plates disposed to sandwich the liquid crystal layer, each having a polarizing film and a protective film provided directly or indirectly on at least one surface of the polarizing film; and an optically compensatory film disposed in at least one of spaces between the liquid crystal layer and the pair of polarizing films; a backlight comprising a light source; a first optical member having a light-condensing property; and a second optical member having a surface scattering function.
US07808571B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes an LCD panel to display images, a backlight unit to supply light to the LCD panel, a frame provided with an inverter to supply an alternating current of a high voltage to the lamp, and an inverter cover engaged with the frame to receive the inverter.
US07808570B2
An active matrix substrate has: scanning lines extending in row direction and image data lines extending in column direction, formed in display area; semiconductor islands at each cross point and in peripheral circuit area; a first gate insulating film formed on each pixel semiconductor island; a first gate made of a first wiring layer and formed on said first gate insulating film; a second gate insulating film thinner than the first gate insulating film formed on peripheral circuit semiconductor island; and a second gate electrode made of a second wiring layer and formed on the second gate insulating film, wherein the pixel transistor semiconductor island, first gate insulating film and first gate electrode constitute a pixel transistor, and the scanning line includes a lower layer made of the second wiring line and an upper layer made of the first wiring line connected to the lower layer.
US07808564B2
There is provided a manufacturing method that includes: applying a resin to a region at which the right eye image generating region and the left eye image generating region of the image display section overlap with the right eye polarization region and the left eye polarization region of the retarder, on at least one of an emission-side surface of the image display section and an incident-side surface of the retarder; after the applying, laminating the image display section and the retarder so that the emission-side surface of the image display section faces the incident-side surface of the retarder; and attaching the image display section and the retarder by hardening the resin between the image display section and the retarder laminated to each other in the laminating.
US07808548B1
A method according to one embodiment includes coupling at least one power supply to a power bus comprised in a digital camera. The method of this embodiment may also include allocating power to at least one component of the digital camera by coupling at least one component to the power bus based on at least one power management priority rule. Of course, many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.
US07808542B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate on which multiple pixels are provided, each of the pixels having a photoelectric converting section; multiple insulating films stacked on the semiconductor substrate; a wiring film provided between the multiple insulating films; an intralayer lens provided for each photoelectric converting section between the multiple insulating films; an optical filter provided for each photoelectric converting section on the insulating film; and an on-chip lens provided for each photoelectric converting section on the optical filter, wherein at least one intralayer lenses and on-chip lens has a different structure for each pixel in accordance with the characteristic optical filter.
US07808535B2
To provide a semiconductor device and a driving method of the same that is capable of enlarging a signal amplitude value as well as increasing a range in which a linear input/output relationship operates while preventing a signal writing-in time from becoming long. The semiconductor device having an amplifying transistor and a biasing transistor and the driving method thereof, wherein an electric discharging transistor is provided and pre-discharge is performed.
US07808531B2
An auto white controlling method and apparatus are provided. The method includes providing a plurality of feature points having color features of an image if the image includes an object having dominant chroma; detecting a first illuminant according to the feature points; calculating a mean chroma of data showing a chroma difference within a threshold value with a chroma of the first illuminant among data constituting the image; and providing a second illuminant by mapping the mean chroma to an illuminant locus. The apparatus includes a feature-analyzing module that provides a plurality of feature points having color features of an image; and an illuminant-detecting module that detects a first illuminant by using the feature points, calculates a mean chroma of data showing the color difference within a threshold value with the chroma of the first illuminant, and provides a second illuminant by mapping the mean chroma to an illuminant locus.
US07808526B2
An example-based method and system for electronic display color calibration is provided. By comparing the colors of commonly available objects with a color database under a controlled lighting condition, the user adjusts the gain and offset parameters of the Red, Green and Blue color components of the display. Two different methods are provided, wherein one method involves manipulating the comparison colors in the RGB color space, and the other method involves manipulating the comparison colors in the CIE x-y plane. Two different systems that incorporate the example-based color calibration methods are also provided, wherein one system directly implements the calibration method in the television system, while the other system implements the calibration method as a separate tool for viewers to calibrate the color of their displays.
US07808520B2
An exposure device includes a light emitting element; and an eccentric cam for adjusting a distance between the light emitting element and a light receiving member. The eccentric cam includes a shaft portion and a cam portion arranged eccentrically relative to the shaft portion. The cam portion includes a circumferential surface having a convex surface in an axial direction of the eccentric cam and a circular arc in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction.
US07808516B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a charging apparatus arranged to charge the photosensitive drum, and a developing apparatus arranged to supply toner to an electrostatic latent image in a development region, thereby developing the electrostatic latent image to a toner image. The image forming apparatus further includes a laser unit, an LED array unit which is located downstream of the laser unit in a moving direction of the photosensitive drum and is disposed inside the photosensitive drum to be able to perform exposure within the development region, and a control unit configured to control the laser unit and the LED array unit such that the LED array unit is able to expose the same area on the photosensitive drum which has been exposed by the laser unit.
US07808514B2
Multiplanar reformatting visualization is provided with multiple scrolling speeds. A plurality of buffers is provided. Each buffer stores composites of data from different planes. The amount of compositing to generate a total composite for a visualization may be less since the division into partial composites may reduce addition and subtraction or other compositing operations. One level of partial composite buffers may be used. The total is recomputed for each visualization. In other embodiments, a hierarchal buffer structure is used. For example, a total composite buffer is provided in addition to the partial composite buffers. By re-compositing the partial composites before and after adjustment for scrolling increment from the total composite buffer, the total composite is updated for scrolling. Two or more levels of buffers may be used.
US07808509B2
The invention provides methods of protecting selected regions of an image from subsequent modification during the operation of a graphics application. The methods allow a user to select a region of an image to protect, and to assign a level of protection to the selected region. Subsequent brush strokes in the region are then attenuated according to the assigned level of protection and blended into the image without artifacts caused by overlapping strokes. The invention also provides a method of blending individual strokes into a texture without segmentation artifacts.
US07808502B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products, to provide an image editing application including a perspective editing tool for performing edits in regions of an image having perspective. The perspective editing tool enables the user to identify one or more regions having perspective, i.e., perspective areas. The user can perform various editing operations on an object such that the edited object conforms to the perspective of the perspective area. The image editing application can also automatically create a perspective area from an existing perspective area. The editing tool enables the user to move objects from a source perspective area to a destination perspective area such that the edited object conforms to the perspective of the destination perspective area.
US07808499B2
A PC-based computing system capable of displaying images of 3-D objects during an interactive process between said computing system and a user thereof. The PC-based computing system includes a system memory for storing software graphics applications, software drivers and graphics libraries, and an operating system (OS), stored in the system memory, and a central processing unit (CPU), for executing the OS, graphics applications, drivers. and graphics libraries. The system also includes an CPU interface module, a PC bus, a graphics processing subsystem interfaced with the CPU interface module by way of the PC bus, and a display surface for displaying said images by graphically displaying frames of pixel data produced by the graphics processing subsystem. The graphics processing subsystem includes a plurality of GPUs arranged in a parallel architecture and operating according to a parallelization mode of operation so that the GPUs support multiple graphics pipelines and process data in a parallel manner. A hardware hub, interfaces with the CPU interface module and the GPUs, by way of the PC bus, and has a hub router for (i) distributing the stream of geometrical data and graphic commands among the GPUs, and (ii) transferring pixel data output from one or more of GPUs during the composition of frames of pixel data corresponding to final images for display on the display surface. The CPU interface module provides an interface between one or more software hub drivers and the hardware hub.
US07808492B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body and a display unit that is removable from the apparatus main body. A positional relationship between the display unit and the apparatus main body and a direction are detected by a detecting portion. Based on results of the detection and apparatus conditions, content to be displayed on a displaying portion of the display unit is determined.
US07808490B2
Described is a device and a method for determining a touch position on a sensing area of a capacitive touch panel. In the device and method, an alternating current (AC) scan signal having a frequency and a current value is supplied to each of four corners of the capacitive touch panel. Next, the frequencies of the AC scan signals are each rapidly switched among a group of specific frequencies. The current values of the AC scan signals detected. In response, a group of selected frequencies is selected according to a noise filtering procedure from the group of specific frequencies based on the current values. Final current values are obtained by calculating the current values of the AC scan signals of the group of selected frequencies. Finally, the touch position on the capacitive touch panel is determined based on the final current values.
US07808489B2
A system and method for viewing, entering, and editing information through a transparent screen are described. The invention allows a user to interactively view, enter, and edit information on a transparent window. In one embodiment, the window display device includes a transparent media configured for allowing the user to see through the transparent media; a display module coupled to the transparent media wherein the display module is configured for displaying information to the user; and an input module coupled to the transparent media wherein the input module is configured for receiving an input from the user, wherein the user is capable of viewing through the transparent media while viewing the information.
US07808485B2
A method for controlling a computer cursor involves capturing a plurality of arrays of data in a hand held device representing light entering the device from an environment in which the device resides, processing at least some of the plurality of arrays of data in the device to estimate motion of the device with respect to the environment during each of a plurality of measurement cycles, and sending a series of estimated motion signals to a computer to move a cursor display in response to motion of the device relative to the environment, each such estimated motion signal representing the estimated motion of the handheld device during more than one of the plurality of measurement cycles.
US07808483B2
With respect to a system, device, and method for moving a graphical object, a computer system may include a display device, a processor configured to control movement of a graphical object in the display device, and an input device that includes a sensor for sensing movement of the input device and generating a first signal indicating the sensed movement and an input element for generating a second signal when operated. The input device may be configured to transmit to the processor at least the first signal for instructing the processor to move the graphical object in a direction corresponding to a direction of the movement indicated by the first signal. In response to the generation of the second signal, either responsiveness to the first signal by the processor may be inhibited or correspondence of movement of the graphical object to the movement indicated by the first signal may be reversed.
US07808482B2
A slim mouse includes a first housing, a second housing and a connecting member. The first housing includes a first front part and a first rear part, wherein the first rear part has a first slant. The second housing includes a second front part and a second rear part, wherein the second front part has a second slant. The connecting member includes a rotating shaft for connecting the first slant and the second slant, so that the second housing is rotatable with the rotating shaft and relative to the first housing.
US07808460B2
A display LED drive circuit configured in such a manner that, for example, a constant current circuit, a green display LED circuit, and a red display LED circuit are connected in series and a resistor circuit having a resistor that generates a potential difference identical to the respective display LEDs is connected in parallel to the respective LED circuits. A corresponding switching element of the display LED circuit and a corresponding switching element of the resistor circuit connected in parallel are controlled to be opened and closed in opposite ways, another route connected to a source circuit in parallel is connected to the constant current circuit, a blue display LED circuit connected in parallel to the resistor circuit as described above, and a constant voltage diode in series, and a predetermined voltage is derived from an output terminal by the constant voltage diode and supplied to a control circuit.
US07808452B2
A method for driving a plasma display panel including discharge cells at the intersections of data electrodes D1 to Dm and pairs of scan electrodes SC1 to SCn and sustain electrodes SU1 to SUn. One field period is composed of a plurality of subfields each including a writing period and a sustain period. During the writing period, a writing discharge is generated in a selected one of the discharge cells. During the sustain period, a sustain discharge is generated in the selected discharge cell. A voltage to be applied to sustain electrodes SU1 to SUn in the writing period of the subfield having the lowest display luminance of all the subfields is set higher than a voltage to be applied to sustain electrodes SU1 to SUn in the writing period of the subfields other than the subfield having the lowest display luminance.
US07808445B2
The present invention relates to a portable radio communication device operable in at least a first and a second frequency band, the antenna device comprises a first electrically conductive radiating element comprises a first feeding portion connectable to a feed device (RF) of the radio communication device for feeding and receiving radio frequency signals, a ground plane provided at a distance from the first radiating element, a DC-blocking device connecting the first electrically conductive radiating element and the ground plane at a first position, and a controllable switch connecting the first electrically conductive radiating element and the ground plane at a second position.
US07808438B2
Handheld electronic devices are provided that contain wireless communications circuitry having at least first and second antennas. An antenna isolation element reduces signal interference between the antennas, so that the antennas may be used in close proximity to each other. A planar ground element may be used as a ground by the first and second antennas. The first antenna may be formed using a hybrid planar-inverted-F and slot arrangement in which a planar resonating element is located above a rectangular slot in the planar ground element. The second antenna may be formed from an L-shaped strip. The planar resonating element of the first antenna may have first and second arms. The first arm may resonate at a common frequency with the second antenna and may serve as the isolation element. The second arm may resonate at approximately the same frequency as the slot portion of the hybrid antenna.
US07808429B2
A method and apparatus for steering a beam from a phased array antenna mounted on a mobile platform. Rate sensors mounted on the phased array antenna are used to update lower bandwidth data from the mobile platform, resulting in improved pointing performance.
US07808420B2
Method for organizing computer operations on a system of parallel processors to invert electromagnetic field data (11) from a controlled-source electromagnetic survey of a subsurface region to estimate resistivity structure (12) within the subsurface region. Each data processor in a bank of processors simultaneously solves Maxwell's equations (13) for its assigned geometrical subset of the data volume (14). Other computer banks are simultaneously doing the same thing for data associated with a different source frequency, position or orientation, providing a “fourth dimension” parallelism, where the fourth dimension requires minimal data passing (15). In preferred embodiments, a time limit is set after which all processor calculations are terminated, whether or not convergence has been reached.
US07808417B2
A lookahead pipelined ADC architecture uses open-loop residue amplifiers with calibration. This approach is able to achieve a high-speed, high-accuracy ADC with reduced power consumption. In one aspect, an ADC pipeline unit includes a plurality of lookahead pipeline stages (i.e., an ADC lookahead pipeline) coupled to a calibration unit. The ADC lookahead pipeline uses open-loop residue amplifiers. The calibration unit compensates for non-linearity in the open-loop amplifiers.
US07808409B2
A method for converting data includes matching dynamic elements by repeatedly selecting a portion of unit elements among N unit elements according to data and a circulation direction. An existence of a tone generation possibility is determined by comparing a present pointer position with a previous pointer position and by comparing present data with previous data. At least one of the present pointer position and the circulation direction is changed based on the existence of the tone generation possibility. The present pointer position and the present data are stored or the changed pointer position and the present data are stored. Unit elements are sequentially selected by the present data from the stored pointer position in the circulation direction or the changed circulation direction. The present pointer position is moved by the present data in the circulation direction or the changed circulation direction.
US07808392B1
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for removably attaching one or more electronic components to an article of clothing. Opposing magnets and attachment members for the magnets are placed on opposite sides of clothing.
US07808382B2
An anti-theft device comprising a flexible cable provided with two conducting wires which are mutually connected in order to close an electrical contact and are connected, at a first end, to a control unit designed to act in response to the opening/closure of the electrical contact, characterized in that the flexible cable is connected, at the second end, to means for detachable connection to at least one item to be restrained, the detachable connection means comprising security means of the mechanical type which are adapted to prevent the opening of the detachable connection means, a deactivation device being provided which can engage the detachable connection means in order to open the security means.
US07808381B2
A system and method for screening inter-modal shipping containers for the presence of weapons-of-mass-destruction, such as chemical-warfare agents, biological-warfare agents, radiological materials, nuclear material, or explosives, is disclosed.
US07808380B1
A system for customizing indicator information for displaying status information to a user includes a receiver for receiving status information from each of a plurality of devices, and assigning the status information to one of a plurality of classes to generate class information. Each of the plurality of classes is associated with a different characteristic of the plurality of devices. The system includes a plurality of manipulators for altering attributes of the class information for at least one of the plurality of classes. The system includes a logical combiner for combining class information into a plurality of combinational groups to customize the content of indicator information in each of the plurality of combinational groups, each combinational group formed according to a predetermined function. The system can include an information sequencer for modifying the order of indicator information from the plurality of combinational groups to generate a stream of indicator information.
US07808377B2
Systems and methods for direct communication between aircraft for one or more embodiments are adapted to receive tactical and strategic information related to proximate aircraft for improved flight planning. The systems and methods presented herein may be implemented, for example, in a first aircraft having a data link component adapted to process information, a storage component adapted to store information related to the first aircraft, and a communication interface component adapted to directly communicate with a second aircraft via a communication link. The first aircraft may include a user interface component adapted to interact with the data link component to retrieve information related to the first aircraft from the storage component, generate a request message with the information related to the first aircraft, and communicate with the communication interface component to directly transmit the generated request message to the second aircraft via the communication link.
US07808367B2
A method and apparatus for tracking items automatically is described. A passive RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) tag is used with a material tracking system capable of real-time pinpoint location and identification of thousands of items in production and storage areas. Passive RFID tags are attached to the item to be tracked, remote sensing antennas are placed at each remote location to be monitored, interrogators with several antenna inputs are connected to the sensing antennas to multiplex the antenna signals, and a host computer communicates with the interrogators to determine item locations to an exacting measure.
US07808356B2
Integrated high frequency balanced-to-unbalanced transformers and inductors suitable for operation in high frequencies, such as radio frequencies. Embodiments disclosed give consideration to issues related to the layout of the top and bottom inductors for the minimization of capacitive effects between layers. A displacement between the conductive paths of the top inductor and the bottom inductor is shown that provides for superior performance over prior art solutions.
US07808352B2
Wire-holders are provided that confine a single wire over a limited arc section and that are interspersed with ferrite ingots that provide wire-ways for several wires are utilized in the winding of the coils of a transformer. A method for consistently producing windings having accurate wire placement on rotors, stators, and other electrical componentry is also provided.
US07808349B2
An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties correspond to a desired spatial force function where spatial forces between field emission structures correspond to relative alignment, separation distance, and the spatial force function.
US07808324B1
A charge pump power supply for an audio power amplifier integrated circuit has an operating mode selected according to an indication of operating environment and/or a process position of the integrated circuit. The operating mode selects the output voltage provided by the charge pump and may also select efficiency by selecting a frequency of operation of the charge pump and/or the effective size of a switching transistor bank. The selection is made in conformity with an indication of a process position of the integrated circuit and/or an indication of an environment of the integrated circuit, such as temperature, power supply voltage and/or load impedance values, and generally also in conformity with a volume (gain) setting, or a detected signal level, so that internal power consumption of the amplifier and charge pump is reduced when a high signal level is not being reproduced at the audio power stage.
US07808323B2
High-efficiency envelope tracking (ET) methods and apparatus for dynamically controlling power supplied to radio frequency power amplifiers (RFPAs). An exemplary ET circuit includes a switch-mode converter coupled in parallel with a split-path linear regulator. The switch-mode converter is configured to generally track an input envelope signal Venv and supply the current needs of a load (e.g., an RFPA). The split-path linear regulator compensates for inaccurate envelope tracking by sourcing or sinking current to the load via a main current path. A current sense path connected in parallel with the main current path includes a current sense resistor used by a hysteresis comparator to control the switching of the switch-mode converter. The split-path linear regulator is configured so that current flowing in the current sense path is a lower, scaled version of the current flowing in the main current path.
US07808321B2
An amplifier circuit includes first and second transistor circuits, a current supply unit, and a current sink unit. The first transistor circuit is operatively responsive to a first input signal, and the second transistor circuit is operatively responsive to a second input signal. The current supply unit includes at least two symmetrically configured current mirrors connected to a source voltage, and provides a first current to the first transistor circuit and a second current to the second transistor circuit, where a magnitude of the first and second currents is the same. The current sink unit is responsive to an enable signal to sink the first and second currents supplied to the first and second transistor circuits to a ground voltage.
US07808312B2
A broad-band linear amplifier circuit includes a driver amplifier to produce a first amplified radio frequency (RF) signal in a first single RF band in response to a first input RF signal and to produce a second amplified RF signal in a second single RF band in response to a second input RF signal. The first single RF band and the second single RF band reside in a broad band that has a bandwidth more than two times a bandwidth of the first single RF band or the second single RF band. A sensing circuit can sense a power, a gain, or a phase of the first output RF signal and the second output RF signal, and to produce a sensing signal. A gain control circuit controls gain variation of the driver amplifier in response to the sensing signal.
US07808299B2
A switching power converter has at least one electronic power switch. To minimize switching losses and optimize efficiency, the gate drive voltage level used to drive the electronic power switch is optimized. In an aspect, a digital controller generates optimizes the gate drive voltage using efficiency optimization algorithms, which in an aspect are programmed in the digital controller. In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, the switching power supply has at least two electronic power switches coupled in parallel. Optimization algorithms are used to determine the optimum number of switched electronic power switches that are actively being switched at a given time in order to achieve optimized efficiency for condition changes, such as input voltage variation, load and environmental temperature changes. In an aspect, the algorithms are programmed in a digital controller chip. In an aspect, both gate drive voltage level and the number of electronic power switches being actively switched at a given time are optimized.
US07808297B2
A device for controlling a voltage of a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a voltage selecting unit that generates a voltage selecting signal for selecting a voltage to be controlled among a plurality of voltages by using a first control signal, a control step selecting unit that generates a control step selection signal for selecting a control step of the voltage to be controlled by using a second control signal, and a voltage controlling unit that controls a level of the voltage to be controlled among the plurality of voltages in response to the control step selection signal.
US07808288B2
Circuits and methods for an automatic coarse tuning in a phase locked loop (PLL) include observing a variation in a control voltage to disable a fine loop and to enable a coarse loop as the control voltage departs from a specified range. The circuit includes the fine loop, the coarse loop, and a control circuit. The fine loop includes a phase frequency detector (PFD), a charge pump, a loop filter, a VCO and a divider. The coarse loop includes a frequency detector, an up counter, a down counter, and an LC VCO. The control circuit includes a bandgap module, a comparator and other circuits such as a lock detect circuit. The control circuit is used to switch between the coarse loop and the fine loop.
US07808286B1
A driver circuit includes a first and a second voltage rail, a first pre-driver circuit, a power transistor, comparison circuitry which indicates when a voltage level of the first voltage rails is above or below a reference voltage level, a level shift circuit coupled between the first voltage rail and the second voltage rail which provides a level shifted output, a tapered buffer circuit coupled to the first voltage rail and to a first circuit node, wherein the tapered buffer circuit receives the level shifted output and provides a buffered output to a control electrode of the first pre-driver transistor, and a rail voltage adjusting circuit coupled between the first circuit node and the second voltage rail, which, in response to the comparison circuitry indicating that the voltage level of the first voltage rail is above the reference voltage level, adjusts a voltage level of the second voltage rail.
US07808273B2
Sequential circuitry comprising a data input, a data output, a clock signal input and a clamp signal input is disclosed. The sequential circuitry is arranged to clock a data signal received at said data input into said sequential circuitry in response to a clock signal received at said clock signal input, and to output a data signal from said sequential circuitry at said data output in response to said clock signal. The sequential circuitry is responsive to a predetermined value at said clamp signal input to switch to a low power mode and to set said data output to a forced value, while retaining said sequential state within said circuitry, said forced value being selected to reduce leakage power from combinatorial circuitry arranged to receive said output data signal.
US07808270B2
To decrease the circuit scale necessary for the calibration of the output circuit and to decrease the time required for the calibration operation. The invention includes a first output buffer and a second output buffer that are connected to a data pin, and a calibration circuit that is connected to a calibration pin. The first output buffer and the second output buffer include plural unit buffers. The unit buffers have mutually the same circuit structures. With this arrangement, the impedances of the first output buffer and the second output buffer can be set in common, based on the calibration operation using the calibration circuit. Consequently, both the circuit scale necessary for the calibration operation and the time required for the calibration operation can be decreased.
US07808267B2
The present invention relates to a module and method for detecting a defect of a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate, which can detect disconnection of a gate line of the TFT substrate having gate drivers provided with a dual structure in which the gate drivers are provided at both sides of the gate lines. There is provided a module and method for detecting a defect of a TFT substrate, wherein gate lines are separated into two portions by cutting a central region of the gate lines, gate power is supplied to the gate lines of which central portions are cut through gate drivers provided at both sides of the gate lines, and a signal of a negative voltage level is supplied to data lines, so that disconnection of the gate lines can be detected.
US07808261B2
To precisely control behavior of a probe at a portion near a contact, and to provide a probe with small electric capacity which can be used to inspect chips having high-speed and high-capacity signals. A parallel spring probe based on a principle of a link mechanism, the link mechanism including: a vertically extending vertical probe; and a plurality of linear or curved horizontal beams extending in a direction perpendicular to the vertical direction, the beams being fastened to a fixed end at one ends and connected to the vertical probe at the other ends, characterized in that distance between at least a pair of adjacent horizontal beams varies along a direction perpendicular to the vertical direction.
US07808256B2
To provide a resistance measuring device not requiring a long time for the resistance measurement work of a tire and maintaining the accuracy of measurement to assure the electrical conductivity characteristics of the tire and a method thereof.An electrical resistance measuring device for tires 10 comprises first and second probes 2, 3 for measuring an electrical resistance value of a tire 5, wherein the first probes 2 abut on a plurality of portions in an outer peripheral surface of a tread part 6 and the second probe 3 abuts on a periphery of a center part of a tire 5, and thereby an electrical resistance value between the tread part 6 and the bead part 9 is measured.
US07808253B2
It is an object to provide a test method of a process, an electric characteristic, and a mechanical characteristic of a structure body in a micromachine without contact. A structure body including a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer provided in parallel to the first conductive layer, and a sacrifice layer or a space provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer is provided; an antenna connected to the structure body is provided; electric power is supplied to the structure body wirelessly through the antenna; and an electromagnetic wave generated from the antenna is detected as a characteristic of the structure body.
US07808249B1
A physical layer (PHY) device of a network device includes a first module, a first cable-length measuring (CLM) module, and a first control module. The first module determines whether a remote PHY that communicates with the PHY device over a cable is capable of measuring a length of the cable. The first CLM module measures a first length of the cable. The first control module causes the first length to be transmitted to the remote PHY, receives a second length of the cable measured by the remote PHY, and adjusts an operating parameter of the PHY based on at least one of the first and second lengths.
US07808246B2
An open seal check system for a multi-chamber supply container having at least one elongated seal, the system includes: (i) a base configured to support the multi chamber container; (ii) a plurality of electrodes positioned on the base so as to be at least substantially parallel with the elongated seal; and (iii) electronics connected to the electrodes, the electrodes each forming a capacitor with the multi-chamber supply container when the container is placed on the base, the electronics configured to output a single indication of a dielectric associated with each capacitor.
US07808239B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an imaging condition setting unit and an image acquisition unit. The imaging condition setting unit includes an input part for inputting an imaging condition with applying plural pre-pulses. The image acquisition unit performs imaging according to the imaging condition and generates an image based on data acquired by the imaging. The imaging condition setting unit includes a display part configured to display an application region and attribute information of at least one pre-pulse of the plural pre-pulses together with a position of the imaging.
US07808236B1
Apparatus and method for harvesting energy from the environment and/or other external sources and converting it to useful electrical energy. The harvester does not contain a permanent magnet or other local field source but instead relies on the earth's magnetic field of another source of a magnetic field that is external to the sensing device. One advantage of these new harvesters is that they can be made smaller and lighter than energy harvesters that contain a magnet and/or an inertial mass.
US07808228B1
A long range wireless phasing voltmeter determines the phase difference between the time-varying voltage carried on a reference electrical conductor and another, field conductor. The voltage signal from the reference conductor is measured by a reference probe and compared by a first unit in communication with that reference probe to a 60 Hz signal generated from a GPS receiver. The phase difference, in the form of a nine-bit, audible signal using frequency shift keying to modulate the carrier frequency, is transmitted to a second unit perhaps miles away. A receiver in the second unit decodes the signal and uses another 60 Hz signal generated from another GPS receiver to re-create and then forward a surrogate of the original reference voltage signal to a meter probe that is measuring the signal on a field conductor. The meter probe can then compare the two signals to determine the phase angle difference.
US07808227B2
The present invention is directed to various methods and systems for detecting at least one impurity in a bulk fluid. In certain embodiments, the methods are performed in conjunction with a polymerization reactor system such as a gas-phase reactor system.
US07808225B2
A power supply system comprises a parallel arrangement of a first switched mode power supply (1) which has a first system bandwidth (LB 1) and a second switched mode power supply (2) which has a second system bandwidth (LB2) covering higher frequencies than the first system bandwidth (LB 1). The first switched mode power supply (1) is dimensioned to supply a first maximal output power (P1m), the second switched mode power supply (2) is dimensioned to supply a second maximal output power (P2m) being smaller than the first maximal output power (P1m). A control circuit (3) varies a reference voltage (Vr) of both the first switched mode power supply (1) and the second switched mode power supply (2) to obtain a corresponding variation of an output voltage (Vout) of the parallel arrangement.
US07808221B2
The present invention discloses a current regulation module for providing a predetermined current. The current regulation module comprises a linear power conversion circuit, a switching power conversion circuit, a current detector, and a controller. The current detector is used to detect the output current of the current regulation module and output a detected current value. The controller control the switches in the linear power conversion circuit and the switching power conversion circuit in accordance with the detected current value, to strengthen the dynamic response ability to the sudden change in the output current.
US07808216B2
Disclosed is a phase shift circuit. The phase shift circuit comprises a frequency multiplier outputting a square wave signal by frequency-multiplying a reference signal, a frequency synchronizer receiving the square wave signal to output a triangle wave signal, and a PWM nodule receiving the triangle wave signal to output a phase-shifted multi-channel control signal.
US07808212B2
A protection circuit for a battery pack, comprising: a thermistor for indicating a temperature of a cell in the battery pack; a first comparator coupled to the thermistor for determining whether the temperature has exceeded a charge cut-off temperature threshold for the cell, and if so, for turning off a first switch in series with the cell to prevent: charging of the cell; and, a second comparator coupled to the thermistor for determining whether the temperature has exceeded a discharge cut-off temperature threshold for the cell, and if so, for turning off a second switch in series with the cell to prevent discharging of the cell.
US07808209B2
An electronic device has a voltage converter configured to convert output voltage of a battery for supplying power for operating an electronic device into a preset voltage for output, a constant current load unit configured to receive the voltage output by the voltage converter and output a preset constant current, a battery voltage detector configured to detect the output voltage of the battery, and a remaining charge calculator configured to calculate the remaining charge of the battery based on a first battery voltage obtained by the battery voltage detector when operation of the constant current load unit is stopped and a second battery voltage obtained by the battery voltage detector when the constant current load unit is operating.
US07808203B2
A motor control device that includes a first speed estimator estimating the rotation speed of the rotor of a permanent-magnet synchronous motor and that controls the motor so that a first estimated rotation speed estimated by the first speed estimator follows the specified speed value further includes a second speed estimator that estimates the rotation speed of the rotor by an estimation method different from that used by the first speed estimator. The motor control device detects synchronization failure based on a comparison between a second estimated rotation speed estimated by the second speed estimator and the first estimated rotation speed or the specified speed value.
US07808202B2
In a driving system for an inverter that uses a diode rectifying circuit to convert a single-phase or three-phase AC voltage to a desired DC voltage and drives a permanent magnet motor, a DC-voltage pulsating frequency is estimated from a pulsating frequency setting calculated from the power supply frequency of an AC voltage and the detected current values of the inverter, and the resulting estimated pulsating frequency value and detected current values are used to correct the output voltage of the inverter.
US07808199B2
A control apparatus of the present invention comprising a control unit outputting a control signal controlling a servo motor and suppressing natural vibration of a controlled object including a motor and a machine driven by the motor while controlling the controlled object, comprising a frequency analysis unit analyzing a frequency component included in a torque command, an analysis control unit controlling the start or stopping of the frequency analysis unit, a detection unit detecting a natural frequency of the controlled object from an analysis result of the frequency analysis unit, a-band rejection filter receiving as input the torque command, stripping the command of the natural frequency component, and outputting the resultant command to the motor through a current control unit and servo amplifier, and a filter characteristic setting unit setting the frequency to be stripped at the filter based on the natural frequency detected by the detection unit.
US07808198B2
A mechanism for empirically deriving the values of the damping ratio and frequency of the mechanism driven by a servo-controlled control system is disclosed. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, the values of the damping ratio and frequency are continually re-generated based on empirical data derived from sensor feedback of the maximum-amplitude switch and the linear second-order servo. Because the values of the damping ratio and frequency are generated from empirical data, it is not necessary that they be known, and because the values of the damping ratio and frequency are continually re-generated, variances in their values are continually noticed and compensated for.
US07808190B2
A display apparatus is provided with a panel to display a picture thereon. The display apparatus comprises an inverter to convert DC power into AC power. The display apparatus also includes at least one lamp unit comprising a lamp body and a lamp electrode part provided in at least one of opposite ends of the lamp body to receive an electric power. A transformer is arranged adjacent to the lamp electrode part to boost up a voltage of the electric power output from the inverter to supply the electric power with the boosted voltage as a driving power to the lamp unit.
US07808181B1
The invention relates to a high intensity discharge lamp provided with a discharge vessel enclosing a discharge space comprising an ionizable filling including besides mercury a rare earth halide, which lamp emits during stable operation light with a color temperature Tc of at least 7000K. According to the invention the lamp of the type described in the opening paragraph is therefore characterized in that the rare earth of the rare earth halide comprises Tb or Tb and Dy.
US07808180B2
An electrode includes thorium as a minor component for a high-pressure discharge lamp, where the electrode rod is free of thorium/thorium oxide, or comprises thorium/thorium oxide, as a minor constituent. A covering member made of refractory metal, free of thorium/thorium oxide, is circumference coated on the electrode rod in the vicinity of the discharge side tip. The entire surface of the electrode rod is completely coated over the range where the covering member extends. The electrode rod tip of the electrode rod is not, or at least partly, coated with the covering member. The part of the electrode tip, which is not coated by the covering member, is free of thorium/thorium oxide.
US07808176B2
A display unit capable of preventing corrosion of a metal wiring and improving the reliability is provided. The display unit includes a driving panel having a bonding region and a terminal region on a driving substrate and a sealing panel bonded on the bonding region of the driving panel with an adhesive layer in between. The bonding region includes a circuit section, a coating layer covering the circuit section, and a display portion composed of a plurality of display devices. A plurality of metal wirings is electrically connected to the circuit section in the bonding region and extended to the terminal region. The coating layer has at least one separated region between the plurality of metal wirings.
US07808175B2
Provided is a light emitting material of which a light emitting device having high luminous efficiency and high stability and capable of being provided at a low cost can be formed. A light emitting material includes the following partial structural formula (1): wherein at least one of R1 to R10 represents a substituent except a hydrogen atom, a total number of benzene ring structures in R1 to R10 is 3 or more, and R1 to R10 include a trifluoromethyl group, or a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl or alkoxyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms a hydrogen atom of which may be substituted by a halogen atom.
US07808166B2
A spark plug includes a metal shell, an insulator, a center electrode, and a ground electrode. The ground electrode includes an intermediate portion extending in the axial direction of the center electrode in an axial range between an end of the insulator and an end of the center electrode. The intermediate portion has a thickness surface that is perpendicular to a radial direction of the center electrode and defines a thickness of the intermediate portion in a thicknesswise direction that is perpendicular to both the axial and radial directions of the center electrode. The intermediate portion also has a width surface that is perpendicular to the thickness surface and defines a width of the intermediate portion in a widthwise direction that is perpendicular to both the thicknesswise direction and the axial direction of the center electrode. The thickness of the intermediate portion is smaller than the width of the same.
US07808163B2
A multilayer composite includes at least two composites, each composite having a film and an electronically conductive layer. Several composites are laminated to provide an increased conversion between mechanical and electrical energies not only due to the multiplication of the effect of each layer, but also due to the fact that the multilayer structure itself renders the multilayer composite more rigid. In addition, the multilayer structure facilitates application of an electrical field over thinner portions of the structure, thereby requiring much less potential difference between electrodes.
US07808162B2
A stacked piezoelectric element comprising a driving unit and a non-driving unit, and a vibration wave driving apparatus, which are capable of suppressing occurrences of deformation, particularly warping, that are generated during firing and polarization of the stacked piezoelectric element. A driving unit has a first conductive layer and a first piezoelectric layer consisting of a piezoelectric material, which is driven by an application of voltage to the first conductive layer to generate vibration on the stacked piezoelectric element. A non-driving unit has a plurality of second conductive layers and a plurality of second piezoelectric layers consisting of the piezoelectric material, which is arranged to have a thickness that enables generation of the vibration.
US07808154B2
An actuator unit including a friction drive actuator, a driving device for information recording/reading head, an information recording/reading apparatus and a method for driving the actuator unit which can achieve both high precision and high speed is provided by waiting the residual vibration to attenuate or forcibly attenuating the residual vibration to achieve high speed positioning by driving the friction drive actuator in the expansion and contraction mode after a high speed movement in the resonant drive mode.
US07808138B2
A rotor pole crossover connection joint for use in a rotating electrical machine is disclosed. The connection joint integrally couples a bottom rotor coil strap to a rotor pole crossover connector with a single piece connector that reduces, distributes or otherwise tolerates stress concentrations in the connector. A corresponding method of forming a rotor pole crossover connection and a rotor assembly including a rotor pole crossover connection joint are also disclosed.
US07808125B1
A step wave power converter includes a plurality of transformers each configured to receive a Direct Current (DC) voltage from one or more independently generated power sources. Each transformer comprising a primary winding and a secondary winding. A plurality of bridge circuits control different DC voltage inputs from one of the multiple independently generated power sources into the primary windings. One or more processors are configured to use a Phase-Shifted Carrier Pulse Width Modulation (PSCPWM) scheme to operate the bridge circuits in order to produce steps for a step wave Alternating Current (AC) output from the secondary windings.
US07808118B2
The method for creating energy sources for a vehicle drive system includes burning an air fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine and discharging the burned air fuel mixture through an exhaust system of the vehicle. Steam is created utilizing heat of the exhaust system. The steam is passed through a generator, which supplies mechanical or electrical power to an appropriate drive system of the vehicle. Hydrogen can be created utilizing the steam and a catalyst substrate. Wind turbines mounted to the vehicle can also supply electricity to the vehicle as air passes through the turbines due to movement of the vehicle.
US07808117B2
A pad (20) is electrically connected to a first I/O cell (14) while also physically overlying active circuitry of a second I/O cell (16). Note that although the pad (20) overlies the second I/O cell (16), the pad (20) is not electrically connected to the I/O cell (16). Such a pattern may be replicated in any desired manner so that the I/O cells (e.g. 300-310) may have a finer pitch than the corresponding pads (320-324 and 330-335). In addition, the size of the pads may be increased (e.g. pad 131 may be bigger than pad 130) while the width “c” of the I/O cells (132-135) does not have to be increased. Such a pattern (e.g. 500) may be arranged so that the area required in one or more dimensions may be minimized.
US07808109B2
An electrically conductive material coated with a plurality of layers, includes a metal or metal alloy substrate; a barrier layer deposited on said substrate effective to inhibit diffusion of constituents of said substrate to said plurality of layers; a sacrificial layer deposited on said barrier layer effective to form intermetallic compounds with tin; a low resistivity oxide metal layer deposited on said sacrificial layer; and an outermost layer of tin or a tin-base alloy directly deposited on said low resistivity oxide metal layer.
US07808107B2
Circuit elements and wirings constituting a circuit, and first electrodes electrically connected to such a circuit are provided on one main surface of a semiconductor substrate. An organic insulating film is formed on the circuit except for openings on the surfaces of the first electrodes. First and second external connecting electrodes are provided on the organic insulating film. At least one conductive layer for electrically connecting the first and second external connecting electrodes and the first electrodes is placed on the organic insulating film.
US07808099B2
A liquid thermal interface (LTI) including a mixture of a linearly structured polymer doped with crosslinked networks and related method are presented. The LTI exhibits reduced liquid polymer macromolecule mobility, and thus increased surface tension. An embodiment of the method includes mixing a crosslinker with a linearly structured polymer to form a mixture, wherein the crosslinker includes a base agent including a vinyl-terminated or branched polydimethylsiloxane, and a curing agent including a hydrogen-terminated polydimethylsiloxane; and curing the mixture. The crosslinker functions as cages to block linear or branched linear macromolecules and prevents them from sliding into each other, thus increasing surface tension of the resulting LTI.
US07808096B2
A semiconductor package production method includes the step of die-cutting part of a lead side portion of a seal formed by molding and dam bars using a pedestal and punch. The pedestal has an outer surface at a position retreating from a side surface of an upper seal portion as far as possible and an inner surface generally near a side surface of a lower seal portion. Width Wa of the upper surface of the upper surface of the pedestal is smaller than the overhang size of the upper seal portion. Tip end region Ra of the lead side portion which is present right under the overhang portion of the upper seal portion has a slanted surface Fa1which is sloped inwardly from top to bottom.
US07808094B2
A stacked structure of semiconductor chips includes plural stacked semiconductor chips and plural tabular holding members which hold the respective semiconductor chips. At least two holding members among the holding members are arranged in places at ends of the semiconductor chips where inner side facets of the holding members are opposed to each other, at least one semiconductor chip of the two semiconductor chips held by the two holding members, respectively, is held by only one holding member of the holding members at one end of the semiconductor chip, and all or a part of the one semiconductor chip is arranged in the largest space positioned in an inner side of the inner side facet of the other holding member of the holding members, the largest space being formed by a surface including the one surface of the other holding member, a surface including the other surface of the other holding member, and a surface including a surface of the other semiconductor chip held by the other holding member, the other semiconductor chip being closer to the other holding member.
US07808090B2
An ID tag capable of communicating data wirelessly, the size of which is reduced, and where the size of an IC chip is reduced, a limited area of the chip is effectively used, current consumption is reduced, and communication distance is prevented from decreasing. The ID tag of the invention includes an IC chip having an integrated circuit, a resonance capacitor portion and a storage capacitor portion, and an antenna formed over the IC chip so as to overlap at least partially with an insulating film interposed therebetween. The antenna, the insulating film and wirings or semiconductor films forming the integrated circuit are stacked, and one or both of capacitors in the resonance capacitor portion and the storage capacitor portion are formed by this stacked structure.
US07808089B2
One aspect of the invention pertains to a semiconductor package having a die and a die attach pad with a plurality of spaced apart pedestals supported by a web. A die is mounted on the die attach pad such that the die is supported by at least a plurality of the pedestals. Selected edge regions of the die are arranged to overlie recessed regions of the die attach pad between adjacent pedestals. The die is electrically connected to at least some of the contact leads. An adhesive is arranged to secure the die to the die attach pad, with the thickness of the adhesive between the web of the die attach pad and the die being greater than the thickness of the adhesive between the die and the top surfaces of the pedestals that support the die. The die attach pad may have rounded peripheral corners between adjacent edge surfaces of the die attach pad. In another aspect of the invention, a method of packaging integrated circuits is described, wherein the resulting packages include at least some of the aforementioned leadframe structures.
US07808081B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor device and a method of forming thereof, in which a uniaxial strain is produced in the device channel of the semiconductor device. The uniaxial strain may be in tension or in compression and is in a direction parallel to the device channel. The uniaxial strain can be produced in a biaxially strained substrate surface by strain inducing liners, strain inducing wells or a combination thereof. The uniaxial strain may be produced in a relaxed substrate by the combination of strain inducing wells and a strain inducing liner. The present invention also provides a means for increasing biaxial strain with strain inducing isolation regions. The present invention further provides CMOS devices in which the device regions of the CMOS substrate may be independently processed to provide uniaxially strained semiconducting surfaces in compression or tension.
US07808073B2
A network electronic component comprises a network-electronic-component substrate, a thin-film passive element provided on the substrate, and a plurality of external connection electrodes provided on the substrate in connection with the thin-film passive element.
US07808060B2
A MEMS microphone module having an application specific IC and a microphone chip is disclosed. The application specific IC has a plurality of first vias and a plurality of first pads, and the first vias are connected to the first pads. The microphone chip has a resonant cavity, a plurality of second vias and a plurality of second pads, and the second vias are connected to the second pads. The microphone chip is disposed on a first surface of the application specific IC with an opening of the resonant cavity facing toward a first surface of the application specific IC. The second conductive vias of the microphone chip are also electrically connected to the first vias of the application specific IC. By placing the microphone chip on the first surface of the application specific IC, the present invention could reduce the package size and increase the reliability of the package.
US07808055B2
The present invention discloses semiconductor devices that can be manufactured utilizing standard process of manufacturing and that can hold information. In accordance with a presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, one or more semiconductor devices can be formed in a well on a substrate where isolation trenches surround one or more devices to create storage regions (floating wells) that is capable of holding a charge. Depending on the charge in the storage region (floating well), it can represent information. The semiconductor devices of the present invention can be manufactured using the standard process of manufacturing (bulk cmos processing).
US07808044B2
The present invention relates to a thin film transistor substrate comprising: an insulating substrate; a source electrode and a drain electrode which are formed on the insulating substrate and separated from each other and have a channel area therebetween; a wall exposing at least portions of the source electrode and the drain electrode, respectively, encompassing the channel area, and formed of fluoropolymer; and an organic semiconductor layer formed inside the wall. Thus, the present invention provides a TFT substrate where an organic semiconductor layer is planarized. Further, the present invention also provides a method of making a TFT substrate of which an organic semiconductor layer is planarized.
US07808043B2
A semiconductor device having an etch stop layer and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor device may include a substrate and a first gate electrode formed on the substrate. An auxiliary spacer may be formed on the sidewall of the first gate electrode. An etch stop layer may be formed on the substrate having the auxiliary spacer. The etch stop layer and the auxiliary spacer may be formed of a material having a same stress property.
US07808034B1
In a non-volatile memory cell, charge is stored in a fully isolated substrate or floating bulk that forms a storage capacitor with a first poly strip and includes a second poly strip defining a control gate and a third poly strip coupled to a read transistor gate.
US07808030B2
The electronic component includes a base material, a capacitor unit, and a wiring portion. The capacitor unit has a stacked structure including a first electrode portion provided on the base material, a second electrode portion including a first surface opposing the first electrode portion and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a dielectric portion interposed between the electrode portions. The wiring portion includes a via portion having a surface on the base material side, and joined to the second surface of the second electrode portion via the surface on the base material side. The surface of the via portion on the base material side includes an extending portion extending outward of the periphery of the second surface of the second electrode portion.
US07808026B2
Provision of a process capable of preferably etching particularly PtMn used for a pin layer of an MRAM is an object: a dry etching method for performing dry etching on a layer including platinum and/or manganese by using pulse plasma and a production method of an MRAM, wherein the dry etching method is applied to processing of the pin layer. The MRAM is configured to have a memory portion comprising a magnetic memory element composed of tunnel magnetoresistive effect element formed by stacking a magnetic fixed layer having a fixed magnetization direction, a tunnel barrier layer and a magnetic layer capable of changing the magnetization direction.
US07808023B2
Imaging devices utilizing sub-wavelength gratings to separate the spectral components of the natural white light are disclosed. This disclosed method and apparatus redirects the light to be collected onto separate photosensors for different wavelengths to provide improved quantum efficiency.
US07808018B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel array comprising a plurality of light receiving elements disposed in a charge transfer direction, the plurality of light receiving elements converting a light signal into an electric signal, a first charge transfer unit and a second charge transfer unit arranged on each side of the pixel array and transferring a signal charge input from the pixel array in the charge transfer direction, a first floating diffusion region connected to the first charge transfer unit, a second floating diffusion region connected to the second charge transfer unit, a wiring layer connecting the first floating diffusion region with the second floating diffusion region, and an output circuit connected to the wiring layer and output a signal voltage in accordance with a potential of the first floating diffusion region and the second floating diffusion region.
US07808017B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit having a first p-type MOS transistor; a first n-type MOS transistor; a second p-type MOS transistors; a and second n-type MOS transistors having fourth gate electrodes disposed so as to be adjacent to the second diffused regions of the first n-type MOS transistor. The semiconductor integrated circuit further having an absolute value of a threshold voltage of the second p-type MOS transistor being higher than an absolute value of a threshold voltage of the first p-type MOS transistor, and an absolute value of a threshold voltage of the second n-type MOS transistor being higher than an absolute value of a threshold voltage of the first n-type MOS transistor.
US07807999B2
An array substrate includes a gate line, a data line, a switching device, a transmissive electrode, a reflective electrode and a compensating wiring. A pixel region includes first and second regions. The switching device is connected to the gate line and the data line. The transmissive electrode is connected to the switching device. The transmissive electrode is formed in the first region. The reflective electrode is insulated from the transmissive electrode. The reflective electrode is formed in the second region that is adjacent to the first region. The compensating wiring is connected to the switching device. The compensating wiring faces the reflective electrode in the second region with an insulation layer interposed therebetween. Thus, both of a reflectivity of the reflective electrode and a transmissivity of the transmissive electrode are enhanced simultaneously, while the liquid crystal display apparatus maintains a uniform cell gap.
US07807995B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory apparatus 25 comprises a semiconductor substrate 11, a lower-layer wire 12 formed on the semiconductor substrate 11, an upper-layer wire 20 formed above the lower-layer wire 12 to cross the lower-layer wire 12, an interlayer insulating film 13 provided between the lower-layer wire 12 and the upper-layer wire 20, and a resistance variable layer 15 which is embedded in a contact hole 14 formed in the interlayer insulating film 13 and is electrically connected to the lower-layer wire 12 and the upper-layer wire 20. The upper-layer wire 20 includes at least two layers which are a lowermost layer 21 made of an electrically-conductive material having a hydrogen barrier property and an electric conductor layer 22 having a specific resistance which is lower than a specific resistance of the lowermost layer 21.
US07807994B2
A thin film transistor comprises a layer of organic semiconductor material comprising a tetracarboxylic diimide naphthalene-based compound having, attached to each of the imide nitrogen atoms, an aromatic moiety, at least one of which moieties is substituted with at least one electron donating group. Such transistors can further comprise spaced apart first and second contact means or electrodes in contact with said material. Further disclosed is a process for fabricating an organic thin-film transistor device, preferably by sublimation deposition onto a substrate, wherein the substrate temperature is no more than 100° C.
US07807987B2
A device for locally resolved control of a radiation dose applied with a pulsed particle beam in particle beam therapy, with a processing unit, which is set up to detect continuously a count rate of x-ray quanta measured with a positron emission tomograph and to determine the applied radiation dose from the pattern of the measured count rate, by determining by computation from the measured pattern of the count rate the time intervals, in which an interaction of the particle beam takes place at the application site and by rejecting these time intervals for the determination of the applied radiation dose.
US07807979B2
A specimen kit for enclosing a specimen is described, including a first substrate, a second substrate and a sealant. The first substrate has a first observation window at which a thickness thereof is smaller than that of the other parts thereof. The second substrate has a second observation window at which a thickness thereof is smaller than that of the other parts thereof, and is disposed on the first substrate such that the second observation window is aligned to the first observation window and an interval is present between the first and the second substrates. The sealant is disposed between the first and the second substrates and surrounds the first and the second observation windows to seal a space between fringes of the first and the second substrate, thus defining a specimen cell between the first and the second substrates.
US07807976B2
In a radiation image detection apparatus for reading out a radiation image signal from the radiation detection unit that detects radiation transmitted through a subject and outputting the radiation image signal as a radio communication signal, the carrier frequency of the radio communication signal is made lower during a reading period in which the radiation image signal is being read out by the read out unit than the carrier frequency of the radio communication signal at a time other than the reading period.
US07807956B2
A current detection circuit detects photoelectric current that flows through a phototransistor, and outputs a current, which is proportional to the photoelectric current, via an output terminal. An input-side transistor is a PNP bipolar transistor, and is provided on a current path for the phototransistor. Output-side transistors are PNP bipolar transistors. The base terminals thereof are connected to that of the input-side transistor so as to form a common base terminal, and the emitter terminals thereof are connected to that of the input-side transistor so as to form a common emitter terminal, thereby forming a current mirror circuit. Each of first switches is provided between the collector of the corresponding output-side transistor and an output terminal. Each of second switches is provided between the collector of the corresponding output-side transistor and the ground terminal. A control unit controls the ON/OFF operations of the first switches and the second switches.
US07807954B2
An optical semiconductor module with a light receiving element with an upper and side light receiving face and a light emitting element mounted on the same mounting carrier. The light receiving element has a light receiving face on an upper face and a side face covered with an antireflection film. The mounting unit has the light emitting element and the light receiving element mounted so that they encompass a positional relationship that the light emitted from the light emitting element is optically connected at least on the light receiving face of the side face of the light receiving element.
US07807947B2
An inert gas dispenser for mounting to a process equipment functional window is provided to dispense an inert gas in a laminar flow at an effective velocity across the exposed surface to form a curtain of inert gas across the exposed surface to prevent a build-up of chemical by-product from the powder material during laser sintering. The gas flow rate is characteristic of a flow geometry having a Reynolds number below the turbulent range. The diffuser is used in a laser sintering system.
US07807941B2
During the production of a swage in a workpiece in which material is removed in layers by means of a laser beam the side walls of the swage are processed by means of a laser beam and/or a processing means and/or ultrasonic waves.
US07807931B2
In an arrangement having at least one substrate, at least one electrical component is disposed on a surface section of the substrate and is provided with an electrical contact area, and at least one electrical contact lug has an electrical connecting area electrically contacting the contact area of the component. The connecting area of the contact lug and the contact area of the component are interconnected so that at least one zone of the contact lug protrudes beyond the area of the component. The contact lug is provided with at least one electrically conducting film while the electrically conducting film is provided with the electrical connecting area of the contact lug. The arrangement is particularly useful for large-area, low-inductive contacting of power semiconductor chips, as it allows for high current density.
US07807926B2
Flexible cables are connected to a movable member at a first end and a fixed member at a second end, each having a curve in between the first end and the second end. The flexible cables each include a first positioning system near the first end in the curve and a second positioning system near the second end in the curve, and they have different distances between the first positioning system and the second positioning system. The first positioning system and the second positioning system are fixed to a first positioning portion and a second positioning portion respectively. The flexible cables are spaced from each other to define clearances thereamong at the curve.
US07807922B2
A vibration resistant cable having a first conductor and a second conductor. The second conductor may be twisted around the first conductor at a lay length configured to cause a locking force between the first conductor and the second conductor. The locking force may be configured to prevent relative movement of the first conductor and the second conductor that may result in bags in the vibration resistant cable. The lay length may be predetermined or may vary a predetermined amount per unit of length of the vibration resistant cable. The lay length may be c1d+c2, where d may be the diameter of the first conductor and the second conductor and c1 and c2 may be constants configured to obtain the locking force to eliminate bags in the vibration resistant cable and provide Aeolian vibration dampening in the vibration resistant cable.
US07807908B1
A method for automatic real-time performance intonation (ARPI) of electronic, digital, or computer-based musical instruments automatically adds the intonation characteristics of a variable-intonation instrument performance to an equal-tempered chromatic instrument performance. The method emphasizes the directional lead-in quality, upwards, or downwards, of certain notes in relation to the musical context. Notes, which are musically desirable to resolve upwards in a harmonic progression receive a slightly raised pitch, and notes that generally are resolved downwards receive a slightly lowered pitch. The method identifies major thirds and major sevenths in the harmonic context and raises their pitch slightly. It identifies minor thirds and minor sevenths in the harmonic context and lowers their pitch slightly. Fourth and fifth intervals are given a pure perfect tuning and octaves are made slightly wide. All is done automatically in real-time by identifying the harmonic context from a few preceding notes.
US07807898B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH020448. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH020448, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH020448 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH020448.
US07807891B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV253048. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV253048, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV253048 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV253048 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV253048.
US07807890B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV552643. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV552643, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV552643 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV552643 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV552643.
US07807886B2
The invention provides seed and plants of the tomato variety designated Picus. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato variety Picus and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety Picus with itself or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing, and also relates to parts of a plant of tomato variety Picus including the fruit and gametes of such plants. The invention also relates to tomato variety FDS 14-2081, and to seeds and plants produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety FDS 14-2081 with itself or another tomato plant. The present invention is also directed to tomato variety FDS 14-2090, and to seeds and plants produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety FDS 14-2090 with itself or another tomato plant.
US07807882B2
Herbicide-resistant sunflower plants, isolated polynucleotides that encode herbicide resistant and wild type acetohydroxyacid synthase large subunit (AHASL) polypeptides, and the amino acid sequences of these polypeptides, are described. Expression cassettes and transformation vectors comprising the polynucleotides of the invention, as well as plants and host cells transformed with the polynucleotides, are described. Methods of using the polynucleotides to enhance the resistance of plants to herbicides, and methods for controlling weeds in the vicinity of herbicide-resistant plants are also described.
US07807879B2
The present invention provides nucleotide sequences and corresponding amino acid sequences for plant cytokinin oxidase proteins. In addition, vectors, host cells, and transgenic plants comprising such sequences as well as methods for stimulating root growth and/or enhancing the formation of lateral or adventitious roots and/or altering root geotropism using such sequences are provided by the present invention. Also provided by the present invention are methods for altering various plant phenotypes including delaying onset to flowering, increasing leaf thickness, reducing vessel size, inducing parthenocarpy, increasing branching, increasing seed size and/or weight, embryo size and/or weight, and cotyledon size and/or weight using cytokinin oxidase proteins and/or nucleic acid molecules encoding cytokinin oxidase.
US07807877B2
The present invention relates generally to a genetic sequence encoding a polypeptide having methyltransferase activity and the use of the genetic sequence and/or the polypeptide to modify one or more phenotypic characteristics of a plant. More particularly, the methyltransferase of the present invention acts on flavonoids, preferably wherein the flavonoid is an anthocyanin. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to a polypeptide having S-adenosyl-L-methionine:anthocyanin 3′-O-methyl-transferase or S-adenosyl-L-methionine:anthocyanin 3′,5′-O-methyltransferase activity. The present invention still further provides a genetic sequence encoding a polypeptide having methyltransferase activity derived from Petunia, Torenia Fuchsia or Plumbago or botanically related plants. The instant invention further relates to antisense and sense molecules corresponding to all or part of the subject genetic sequence as well as genetically modified plants as well as cut flowers, parts, extracts and reproductive tissue from such plants.
US07807874B2
The present invention provides a method and DNA molecules that when expressed in a plant produces transgenic plants with improved abiotic stress tolerance. The invention includes plant expression vectors comprising the DNA molecules, and plants containing such DNA molecules.
US07807868B2
The invention relates to methods and compositions for site-specific recombinase-mediated mobilization of viral replicons and associated DNAs of interest from T-DNA. The methods of the invention comprise Agrobacterium-mediated transfer of T-DNA to a plant cell, wherein the T-DNA contains a viral replicon flanked by directly repeated target sites for a site-specific recombinase and optionally a DNA of interest linked to the viral replicon. The DNA of interest may also contain a non-identical target site for the recombinase. An expression cassette for the site-specific recombinase is present on the T-DNA or the plant genome, or is transiently introduced into the plant cell. Expression of the site-specific recombinase in the plant cell results in excision of the viral replicon and the associated DNA of interest. The viral replicon and DNA of interest are then replicated to high copy number in the host plant cell.
US07807865B1
A novel method is described for the screening of gene elements of interest using hairy roots of chimeric plants transformed with Agrobacterium rhizogenes.
US07807860B2
The present invention provides a reactor design that enables an auto-thermal cracking process to be conducted at any suitable pressure wherein the gaseous reactants are preheated separately before mixing and then presented to the reaction zone in a uniformly distributed manner. In particular, the present invention-relates to apparatus for reacting a first and second gaseous reactant to form a gaseous product wherein the apparatus comprises at least one first supply means for the first gaseous reactant, at least one second supply means for the second gaseous reactant, a resistance zone and a reaction zone, preferably comprising a catalyst, wherein the first supply means comprises a plurality of first outlets for delivery of the first gaseous reactant, and the second supply means comprises a plurality of second outlets for delivery of the second gaseous reactant, the resistance zone is porous, the reaction zone is positioned downstream of the resistance zone with respect to the flow of the first and second gaseous reactants and wherein the first supply means and the second supply means are arranged such that the first gas and the second gas are contacted in an essentially parallel manner and mixed prior to contacting the resistance zone. The present invention also provides a process for the production of a mono-olefin utilizing said apparatus.
US07807855B2
The invention provides a process for producing a hydroxy compound including the following steps: (a) chlorination step: a step of producing a chlorinated hydrocarbon and hydrogen chloride from a hydrocarbon and chlorine; (b) hydrolysis step: a step of producing a hydroxy compound and hydrogen chloride from the chlorinated hydrocarbon and water; and (c) oxidation step: a step of producing chlorine by reaction of oxygen and hydrogen chloride obtained in the chlorination step and/or the hydrolysis step, and (d) recycling at least a portion of the chlorine to the chlorination step.
US07807848B2
Disclosed are methods of removing and/or reducing compounds from oils (e.g., marine oils) and oils prepared by the disclosed methods. Methods of bleaching oils are also disclosed.
US07807845B2
Resistance-repellent and multidrug resistant retroviral protease inhibitors are provided. Pharmaceutical composition comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to treat HIV infections in mammals, are also provided.
US07807844B2
A TGF-β gene expression inhibitor containing a pyrrole-imidazole polyamide having N-methylimidazole unit (hereinafter also referred to as Py), N-methylimidazole unit (hereinafter also referred to as Im) and γ-aminobutyrate unit which can be holded into an U-shaped conformation at the γ-aminobutyrate unit in the minor groove in a double helix region (hereinafter referred to as the target region) containing a complementary chain corresponding to the sequence at the −557 to −536 in the base sequence of a human transforming growth factor β1 (hereinafter also referred to as hTGF-β1) promoter, either as a whole or a part thereof: TAAAGGAGAGCAATTCT-TACAG (SEQ ID NO: 1) wherein a Py/Im pair corresponds to a C-G base pair, an Im/Py pair corresponds to a G-C base pair, and Py/Py pairs correspond respectively to an A-A base pair and a T-A base pair.
US07807831B2
Disclosed are new dihydropteridinones of the formula (I) wherein the groups L, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 have the meanings provided herein, the isomers thereof, processes for preparing these dihydropteridinones and their use as pharmaceutical compositions.
US07807828B2
The invention relates to novel compounds and methods of using them for modulating sleep.
US07807827B2
The invention relates to a procedure for preparing quetiapine by reaction between a compound of formula (II) and a compound of formula (III), in which X means a leaving group and P a protective group of alcohols resistant to alkaline conditions, in the presence of a base, followed by a step of deprotection and, optionally, obtaining a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Said procedure permits the obtaining of quetiapine with a high degree of purity under soft temperature conditions, with short reaction times and avoiding the use of toxic solvents.(Graphic)
US07807825B2
To improve bioavailability of the catalytic metalloporphyrin-based SOD mimics Mn(III) 5,10,15,20-tetrakis[N-ethylpyridinium-2-yl]porphyrin (MnTE-2-PyP5+) and Mn(III) 5,10,15,20-tetrakis[N,N′-diethylimidazolium-2-yl]porphyrin (MnTDE-2-ImP5+), three new Mn(III) porphyrins, bearing oxygen atoms within side chains, were synthesized and characterized: Mn(III) 5,10,15,20-tetrakis[N-(2-methoxyethyl)pyridinium-2-yl]porphyrin (MnTMOE-2-PyP5+), Mn(III) 5,10,15,20-tetrakis[N-methyl-N′-(2-methoxyethyl)imidazolium-2-yl]porphyrin (MnTM,MOE-2-ImP5+) and Mn(III) 5,10,15,20-tetrakis[N,N′-di(2-methoxyethyl)imidazolium-2-yl]porphyrin (MnTDMOE-2-ImP5+). The catalytic rate constants for O2 dismutation (and the related metal-centered redox potentials vs NHE) for the new compounds are: log kcat=8.04 (E1/2=+251 mV) for MnTMOE-2-PyP5+, log k.cat=7.98 (E1/2=+356 mV) for MnTM,MOE-2-ImP5+ and log kcat=7.59 (E1/2=+365 mV) for MnTDMOE-2-ImP5+. At 30 μM levels none of the new compounds were toxic, and allowed SOD-deficient E. coli to grow nearly as well as wild type. At 3 μM levels, the MnTDMOE-2-ImP5+, bearing an oxygen atom within each of the eight side chains, was the most effective and offered much higher protection than MnTE-2-PyP5+, while MnTDE-2-ImP5+ was inefficient. These new porphyrins were compared to Mn(III) N-alkylpyridylporphyrins. While longer-chain n-alkyl members of the series exerted toxicity at higher concentration levels, they were very effective at submicromolar levels. Thus, 0.3 μM Mn(III) tetrakis(N-n-hexyl-pyridinum-2-yl)porphyrin and its n-octyl analogue offered the same level of protection as did >10 μM methyl and ethyl porphyrins. The kcat of methyl and n-octyl porphyrins are identical, but n-octyl is −10-fold more lipophilic. Therefore, the 30-fold improvement in bioavailability appears to be due to the increase in lipophilicity. MnTDMOE-2-ImP5+ and longer-chain Mn(III) N-alkylpyridylporphyrins may offer better treatment for oxidative stress injuries than the previously studied MnTE-2-PyP5+ and MnTDE-2-ImP5+.
US07807817B2
The present invention discloses nucleic acid enzymes and deoxyribonucleic acid enzymes capable of cleaving nucleic acid sequences or molecules, particularly RNA, in a site-specific manner, as well as compositions including same. Methods of making and using the disclosed enzymes and compositions are also disclosed.
US07807811B2
The present invention provides polynucleotide molecules isolated from Oryza sativa and Zea mays and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides expression constructs containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides transgenic plants and seeds containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants.
US07807809B2
Methods for determining whether a tissue sample or an analogue and/or derivative thereof comprises a cell with a chromosome (11:18) translocation associated with malignancies such as mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphomas. The invention further provides insight into a novel mechanism of transformation of primary cells. The mechanism involves expression of a fusion proteinaceous molecule comprising at least apoptosis inhibitor 2 (API2) or a functional part, derivative and/or analogue thereof fused to at least one other proteinaceous molecule. The invention also provides a novel nucleic acid sequence and proteinaceous molecule expressed from the sequence termed “MALT-lymphoma associated Translocation (MLT) protein.”
US07807802B2
Polynucleotides useful for detecting Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a test sample, kits, a nucleic acid amplification method and detection method including the same.
US07807798B2
In accordance with the present invention, there are provided fully human monoclonal antibodies against human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-r). Nucelotide sequences encoding and amino acid sequences comprising heavy and light chain immunoglobulin molecules, particularly sequences corresponding to contiguous heavy and light chain sequences from CDR1 through CDR3, are provided. Hybridomas expressing such immunoglobulin molecules and monoclonal antibodies are also provided. Also provided in accordance with the invention are antibodies that possess one or more of the following functional characteristics: (i) inhibit tyrosine phosphorylation of EGF-r, (ii) do not inhibit EGF-r internalization, (ii) inhibit EGF-r degradation, (iii) inhibition of EGF induced EGF-r degradation, (iv) protect threonine phosphorylation of EGF-r, (v) protect threonine phosphorylation of other molecules, particularly a 62 KD molecule identified by immunoprecipitation, and (vi) inhibit vascular endothelial cell growth factor signal by tumor cells by greater than 50% and endothelial cells by greater than 40% relative to control.
US07807796B2
The invention is directed to purified and isolated novel ULBP polypeptides, the nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides, processes for production of recombinant forms of such polypeptides, antibodies generated against these polypeptides, fragmented peptides derived from these polypeptides, and the uses of the above. ULBP polypeptide can be found on the surface of human B cell lymphomas. Mammalian forms of ULBP polypeptide in isolated or purified forms are provided. In addition, isolated nucleic acids encoding ULBP polypeptides and expression vectors comprising a cDNA encoding ULBP polypeptides are provided. The ULBP polypeptides can be isolated or synthesized and used to prepare antibodies, and in particular monoclonal antibodies, against the polypeptides. The antibodies, in turn, are useful for detecting the presence of ULBP polypeptides in human cell samples, which can be correlated with the existence of a malignant condition in a patient. ULBP polypeptides stimulate IFN-γ production, NK cell proliferation, and CTL activity.
US07807794B2
The invention relates to anti-α2 integrin antibodies and their uses. Humanized antibodies are disclosed that bind to the I domain of α2 integrin and inhibit the interaction of α2β1 integrin with collagen. Also disclosed are therapeutic uses of anti-α2 integrin antibodies in treating α2β1-mediated disorders, including anti-α2 integrin antibodies that bind to α2 integrin without activating platelets.
US07807793B2
Chimeric and humanized IL4 MAbs derived from affinity MAbs, pharmaceutical compositions containing same, and methods of treatment are provided.
US07807792B2
A tumor antigen that comprises, as an active ingredient, a product of the Wilms' tumor suppressor gene WT1 or a peptide composed of 7-30 contiguous amino acids containing an anchor amino acid for binding to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I in said amino acid sequence, and a vaccine comprising said antigen.
US07807791B2
Antibodies immunoreactive to double mutant EPSPS are provided, and in an embodiment the double mutant EPSPS is one in which the wild-type EPSPS is substituted at residue 102 with isoleucine and at residue 106 with serine. Also provided are hybridomas producing the antibodies, as well as methods of making and using the antibodies.
US07807788B2
The present invention concerns immunoglobulins, particularly antibodies which specifically bind human Interleukin 13 (hIL-13). Antibodies of the invention may be used in the treatment of a variety of diseases or disorders responsive to modulation of the interaction between hIL-13 and the human IL-13 receptor. Such diseases include severe asthma, atopic dermatitis, COPD and various fibrotic diseases. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising said antibodies and methods of manufacture are also disclosed.
US07807787B2
The invention generally relates to a bone growth factor, and more particularly to compositions including NELL1, articles of manufacture including NELL1 and methods of using NELL1 to induce bone formation. This invention also provides methods for the expression and purification of NELL1 and NELL2 peptides.
US07807780B2
Compositions and methods are provided that are useful for the delivery of therapeutic agents, including nucleic acids. The compositions can be prepared with components useful for targeting the delivery of the compositions as well as imaging components.
US07807779B2
The present invention provides antineoplastic peptides of formula I, R1R2N—CHX—CO—A—B-D-E-(G)s-K wherein R1, R2, X, A, B, D, E, G, K and s have the meanings stated in the description. The compounds have antineoplastic activity.
US07807775B2
Described are point of purchase displays comprising polyester compositions comprising polyesters which comprise (a) a dicarboxylic acid component having terephthalic acid residues; optionally, aromatic dicarboxylic acid residues or aliphatic dicarboxylic acid residues or ester residues thereof; 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol residues; and 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol residues.
US07807773B2
A biodegradable polyester resin composition which comprises a thermoplastic polymer comprising 100 parts by mass of an aliphatic polyester (A) and 0.01 to 5 parts by mass of a (meth)acrylic ester (B1) and/or a glycidyl ether (B2, and has a gelation index (1) of not lower than 0.1% and a gelation index (2) of not higher than 0.5%.
US07807768B2
A polyolefin which contains the following monomer units: a) not more than 25% by weight of units which are derived from ethene, b) not more than 75% by weight of units which are derived from propene and c) from 5 to 100% by weight of units which are derived from an α-olefin having 4 to 20 carbon atoms, the polyolefin having the following parameters: d) a weight-average molecular weight in the range of from 70 000 to 10 000 000 g/mol, e) a polydispersity in the range of from 4 to 60, f) a melt viscosity, measured by oscillation rheometry at a shear rate of 1 Hz at 190° C., in the range of from 100 000 to 100 000 000 mPa·s, g) a needle penetration in the range of from 3 to 70·0.1 mm, h) an enthalpy of fusion in the range of from 2 to 100 J/g, i) a glass transition temperature Tg in the range of from −15° C. to −80° C. and j) a final melting point of the crystalline fraction in the range of from 85 to 175° C., is compatible both with ethylene polymers and with propylene polymers and is suitable for use in sheets, sealing sheets and shaped articles.
US07807767B2
The present invention provides a method for producing acryl syrup by bulk polymerization, comprising a step of preparing a mixture comprising monomer component and 2,4-diphenyl-4methyl-1-pentene; a step of heating the mixture to the initial reaction temperature; and a step of adding an polymerization initiator having the half-life of not more than 30 minutes at 5-80° C., wherein the initial reaction temperature is controlled so that the polymerization initiator has the half-life of up to 30 minutes. The method of the present invention has such advantages that reaction runaway does not occur, the control of molecular weight and conversion rate is possible even at low exothermic temperature, and a partially polymerized acryl syrup can also be prepared therefrom.
US07807764B2
The present invention relates to a polymerizable composition comprising a) at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer and b) at least one hydroxylamine of high molecular weight, preferably a long chain alkyl substituted hydroxylamine. Further aspects of the present invention are a process for polymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers, and the use of high molecular weight hydroxylamines for controlled polymerization.
US07807760B2
Disclosed is a process for producing an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer excellent in balancing between strength and elongation by continuous multi-step polymerization. The process comprises continuously polymerizing ethylene and α-olefin in a solvent in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst using a polymerization reaction apparatus comprising two or more tanks of polymerization reactors connected in series, said process including a first polymerization step of producing in one tank of polymerization reactor a polymer component under the polymerization condition of a flow state being 1.5 or more tanks in the perfect mixing cell model, and a second polymerization step of producing in one tank of polymerization reactor a polymer component under specific polymerization conditions.
US07807757B2
This invention relates to a process for stabilising and at the same time phase compatibilising plastics or plastic compositions by incorporating polymeric compounds obtainable by reacting a compound selected from the group consisting of the sterically hindered phenols, sterically hindered amines, lactones, sulfides, phosphites, benzotriazoles, benzophenones and 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-1,3,5-triazines, which compounds contain at least one reactive group, with a compatibilisator.
US07807755B2
This invention provides a method for removing certain sulfur-containing groups from polymers, especially those made via RAFT polymerization processes.
US07807751B2
A core-shell particle is formed by a method that includes forming a crosslinked polyorganosiloxane core, reacting a graftlinking agent with the crosslinked polyorganosiloxane core, and polymerizing a poly(alkenyl aromatic) shell around the graftlinking agent-functionalized polyorganosiloxane core. The method produces a core-shell particle with improved adhesion between shell and core. The core-shell particle is useful as an impact modifier in thermoplastic compositions.
US07807746B2
The present invention provides a curable composition capable of giving rubbery cured products having excellent adhesion properties to all-purpose substrates, improved weather-resistant adhesion properties to photocatalyst-coated transparent adherends, low modulus and high elongation and, further, showing high weather resistance without undergoing surface cracking or discoloration even when used outdoors for a long period of time. The curable composition of the present invention includes a vinyl polymer (I) and an antioxidant (II). A main chain of the vinyl polymer (I) is a product of living radical polymerization, and the vinyl polymer (I) contains at least one crosslinkable silyl group.
