US07823138B2
A new method is provided for using distributed computing for computing process testing. The method includes distributing a feature testing tool, computing feature builds, and data sets to client computing systems. The feature testing tool is run on the client computing systems during times when the client computing system is not otherwise in active use. The feature testing tool prompts the computing feature build to process the data sets, and collects results from the processing of the data set, including any erroneous results. The results from processing the data sets on the client computing systems are provided to a managing computing system. The managing computing system may try to reproduce the erroneous results on other client computing systems with alternate hardware-software configurations, to send erroneous results to an investigation queue to isolate their cause, and to report useful information on the erroneous results to developers working on the computing feature.
US07823136B2
A JAVA Database Connectivity (JDBC) subsystem includes a connection pool and prepared statement cache, which allows application to interact with a database. The JDBC subsystem can include a profiling component and a statistics monitoring component that maintain profile and statistics information concerning components of JDBC subsystem, such as the connection pool and prepared statement cache. A client application can register a diagnostic callback with the JDBC subsystem, for use with requests from that client application to methods of the JDBC driver being executed.
US07823130B2
Systems and techniques for testing machine-readable instructions. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a subroutine in a set of machine-readable instructions that can request a service from a service provider, modifying the identified subroutine to convey a description of a service request to a recorder, and storing the modified subroutine so that the modified subroutine is accessed during subsequent data processing activities and the description of the service request is conveyed to the recorder in response to a request for the service from the service provider during the data processing activities.
US07823129B2
An apparatus and method are provided for the dynamic instrumentation of code to minimize system perturbation during tracing of the execution of the code. With the apparatus and method, “hot spots” in the execution of the code are dynamically determined during tracing of the execution of the code. These “hot spots” are dynamically instrumented, i.e. an event hook is inserted, to cause control to be passed to a handler that determines a caller of the “hot spot” method. The method that called the “hot spot” method, or “caller” method, is identified from a call stack and is dynamically instrumented for an appropriate metric so that the next time the calling method is executed, the dynamically inserted hooks are executed. The execution of the hooks in the caller method is continued for a predetermined period, e.g., number of invocations, to get an understanding of the caller method's characteristics. A list of callers of instrumented methods is maintained and used to determine one or more calling methods of the instrumented caller method. One or more of these calling methods may be instrumented and the hooks inserted in the instrumented caller method (called by the one or more calling methods), are removed. In this way, the call graph of the hot spots of a program execution is “walked up” and characterized over time.
US07823126B2
An open distributed processing structured robot control software architecture is enclosed, which makes it possible to manufacture a user-oriented robot through combination of independent heterogeneous functional modules. The invention involves an open software framework for integrated operation and production of distributed software of the modules, and an autonomous robot control architecture suitable for distributed environments. The software framework indicates underlying software components for robot control and service creation. The invention makes it possible to mass-produce autonomous robots in units of interoperable functional modules. It is also possible to meet various demands of consumers, achieve specialization, and accelerate technology development since the development procedures are specialized in an independent manner and are suitable for manufacturing a wide variety of robot products in small quantities.
US07823122B1
A system and method are provided to enable a user to specify function signatures for automated code generators to generate code based on a model representation. The method for automatically generating a function based on the model representation includes providing at least a portion of the model representation. A function signature is received for the model representation. The function signature is generated by a user. The function is generated based on the model representation and the function signature. A user interface can be provided to enable the user to enter the function signature and also to present a preview of a function that results from the function signature as modifications are made to the function signature. The user can enter the function signature using regular expressions, if desired.
US07823114B2
A method of designing a wiring structure of an LSI is capable of reducing a capacitance variation ratio ΔC/C or a resistance-by-capacitance variation ratio Δ(RC)/(RC) of the wiring structure. The method sets a process-originated variation ratio (δP) for the wiring structure, a tolerance (ξC) for the capacitance variation ratio (ΔC/C), and a tolerance (ξRC) for the resistance-by-capacitance variation ratio (Δ(RC)/(RC)), evaluates a fringe capacitance ratio (F=CF/CP) according to a fringe capacitance CF and parallel-plate capacitance CP of the wiring structure, and determines the wiring structure so that the fringe capacitance ratio (F) may satisfy the following: For Δ C C ≤ ξ C , F ≥ δ P ξ C - 1 ( 1 ) For Δ ( RC ) RC ≤ ξ RC , F ≤ ( 1 - δ P ) δ P δ P - ξ RC - 1 ( 2 ) The method employs an equivalent-variations condition defined as |ΔC/C|=|Δ(RC)/(RC)| to determine the shape parameters of each wire of the wiring structure.
US07823110B2
A method and system for processing geometrical layout design data in a computation network. The method includes assigning one or more partitions of the geometrical layout design data to one or more computing devices. One or more partitions are assigned based on first predefined parameters. The method further includes receiving a minimum-hierarchy representation of the geometrical layout design data and a partition information corresponding to one or more partition assigned. The partition information corresponding to a partition assigned includes a spatial information corresponding to the partition. Further, the minimum-hierarchy representation includes a plurality of cells. Each cell in the minimum-hierarchy representation may include zero or more bounding box information and zero or more cell-references. Further, the method includes retrieving one or more fragments based on each of the partition information and the minimum-hierarchy representation. A fragment can include one or more parts of a cell of the geometrical layout design data.
US07823096B2
System, method and program for inductance analysis for reducing time for analysis, to cope with increase in the system size, to achieve high accuracy in the analysis. Information on a power supply plane, in a state in which a beginning point of non-coupled current of return current accompanying a signal current is placed in the vicinity of a signal through-hole on the power supply plane, based on position information of said signal through-hole, is received. Potential distribution in the power supply plane is determined and output. The non-coupled inductance from the signal through-hole to the power supply through-hole in the power supply plane is evaluated. In the potential analysis, non-coupled inductance L from the signal through-hole to the power supply through-hole is represented by resistance R. The relationship that a voltage increment ΔV is represented by the product of the non-coupled inductance L and the rate of time change of the current, ΔV=LΔI/Δt, is replaced by the relationship that the voltage V is represented by the product of resistance R and non-coupled current I, V=R×I. Potential analysis is performed by analyzing two-dimensional heat diffusion in the power supply plane assuming that a heat source is placed at a beginning point of the non-coupled current.
US07823092B1
An electric design automation (EDA) tool for generating a design of a system on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) includes a graphical user interface to create a block based schematic. The EDA tool includes a library that includes a parameterizable filter block selectable by a designer to include in the block based schematic to represent a component in the design that filters data. The EDA tool includes a design adjustment unit to automatically modify previously programmed and selected components and wires in the block based schematic without input from the designer upon determining a change made to the parameterizable filter block by the designer.
US07823084B2
A note-type personal computer according to the present invention has an LCD for displaying information stored in an internal storage provided therein, and an external storage or an external picture server connected thereto, via the internet. And, operation for the information stored in the respective storages is performed by the user in the same procedure using operation units such as a keyboard, a touch pad, with indication on the LCD confirmed. When the information stored in the picture server is displayed, the LCD displays auxiliary information indicative of this notice. The LCD displays the auxiliary information using a different folder name, or displays the auxiliary information on the background of a display area of the LCD. So, the user can confirm contents on the internet easily without the need of performing complicated operations.
US07823080B2
In a personal broadcasting system, a user terminal vertically divides a window serving as a main screen into separate elements corresponding to a plurality of functions on a display screen and causes a display unit to display the separate elements side-by-side, the separate elements being a plurality of independent panel windows.
US07823077B2
A system and method for user modification of metadata in a shell browser. A group of items and associated metadata values are displayed in a window of the shell browser. An edit control permits user modification of metadata values displayed in the window. The user can modify metadata associated with a welcome pane, a selected item, or multiple selected items. A data structure stored on one or more computer-readable media contains metadata associated with items displayed in a shell browser, including user modifiable metadata which is also displayed in the shell browser.
US07823065B2
A method and apparatus for detecting the occurrence of new ideas in documents or communications. The method is comprised of three processes. The first process lexiconizes all words or symbols in a set of documents. The second process compares all words in a second set of documents to the words in the lexicon. Words not already in the lexicon are presented to a user who takes one of two courses of action, 1) lexiconizes the word, or, 2) declares it a “fad” indicating that the word is to be further analyzed. The third process measures the spatial and temporal spread of said fad by searching a third set of documents and computing metrics based on additional occurrences of said fad, said metrics being used to determine when a fad has achieved a level of interest denoted as a category. When a category is detected, a user is notified.
US07823058B2
The present invention provides electronic methods and apparatus for interactively authoring, sharing and analyzing digital video content. Methods for authoring include displaying visual data, defining each traversal as a time-based sequence of frames and annotating and storing a record of the traversal and its associated audio records. Defining the traversal includes interactively panning the visual data by positioning an overlay window relative to the visual data and zooming in or out by resizing the overlay window. In alternative embodiments, the visual data may be displayed in a rectangular layout or a cylindrical layout. The methods are practiced using an integrated graphical interface, including an overview region displaying the visual data, a detail region displaying current data within the overlay window, and a worksheet region displaying a list of previously stored annotated traversal records.
US07823055B2
A method and system are provided for tagging, indexing, searching, retrieving, manipulating, and editing video images on a wide area network such as the Internet. A first set of methods is provided for enabling users to add bookmarks to multimedia files, such as movies, and audio files, such as music. The multimedia bookmark facilitates the searching of portions or segments of multimedia files, particularly when used in conjunction with a search engine. Additional methods are provided that reformat a video image for use on a variety of devices that have a wide range of resolutions by selecting some material (in the case of smaller resolutions) or more material (in the case of larger resolutions) from the same multimedia file. Still more methods are provided for interrogating images that contain textual information (in graphical form) so that the text may be copied to a tag or bookmark that can itself be indexed and searched to facilitate later retrieval via a search engine.
US07823054B2
A user interface and methods for accessing document presentations are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method of the invention allows a user to directly snapback to a previous accessed document presentation without having to select from a menu of items or go through the intermediate pages. In this method, when a first document presentation is accessed, a first location of the first document presentation is recorded, automatically or manually. Subsequently, when a sequence of additional document presentations originated from the first document presentation is accessed, in response to a first input, without having to select from a menu of items, the first document presentation is directly retrieved from a recorded first location and displayed in a window. In one particular embodiment, a second document presentation is accessed and a second location of the second document presentation is recorded, where the recordation of the second location resets or supercedes the recordation of the first location. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US07823047B2
There is disclosed a base band signal generation device and others for processing transmission data so that a reception side can restored the data without recognizing whether the data has been subjected to a processing and transmitting the data with an appropriate efficiency corresponding to the communication quality. A transmission device T judges the communication quality of a transmission path L. When the communication quality is preferable, a four-value FSK symbol is generated from the bit of the most significant part of the encoded voice data and the bit of the least significant part. When the communication quality is not preferable, a four-value FSK symbol is generated from the bit of the most significant part of the encoded voice data and a redundant bit of “0”. However, a symbol containing a redundant bit is set to the maximum value or the minimum value of the four values which the symbol value may have. Moreover, each bit of the encoded voice data has a value “0” when indicating that no component corresponding to the bit is present.
US07823045B2
An error correction device includes a decoding unit, an error buffer, an error classifying unit and an error correction unit. The decoding unit reads data from a main memory and performs error detection on the data to generate error values and error addresses. Then, the error buffer temporarily stores the error values and the error addresses. The error classifying unit classifies the error addresses stored in the error buffer into a plurality of subclasses, where error values and error addresses which correspond to the same row of the main memory are classified into the same subclass. Finally, the error correction unit performs an error correction on the data stored in the main memory according to the plurality of subclasses. The error correction device therefore can reduce the amount of the change-row operations of the main memory so that the memory efficiency is increased.
US07823040B2
A method and apparatus for identifying optimal redundancy version (RV) sequences for HSDPA transmissions based on extensive search. In a first embodiment of the present invention, in HSDPA QPSK mode, the transmitter retransmits according to the RV sequence [0 7 3 4 1 6 5 2] and in HSDPA 16QAM mode, the transmitter retransmits according to the RV sequence [0 1 3 4 5 6 7 1]. In a second embodiment of the present invention, in HSDPA QPSK mode, the transmitter retransmits according to the RV sequence [0 7 3 4 1 6 5 2] if the initial coding rate is greater than or equal to 0.5 and [0 4 3 6 2 1 6 2] if the initial coding rate is less than 0.5. In HSDPA 16QAM mode, the transmitter retransmits according to the RV sequence [0 1 3 4 5 6 7 1] if the initial coding rate is greater than or equal to 0.5 and the transmitter retransmits according to the RV sequence [0 4 5 6 0 4 5 6] if the initial coding rate is less than 0.5. In a third embodiment of the present invention, the transmitter retransmits according to the RV sequence according to each specific initial coding rate. In a fourth embodiment of the present invention, the transmitter retransmits according to the RV sequence according to a specific initial coding rate and a specific mother code rate. An SNR tracking algorithm is provided in conjunction with the optimal sequences for robust HARQ operations.
US07823036B2
Plural scan test paths (401) are provided to reduce power consumed during testing such as combinational logic (101). A state machine (408) operates according to plural shift states (500) to control each scan path in capturing data from response outputs of the combinational logic and then shifting one bit at a time to reduce the capacitive and constant state power consumed by shifting the scan paths.
US07823030B2
A memory system comprises first memory that includes memory cells. Content addressable memory (CAM) includes CAM memory cells, stores addresses of selected ones of the memory cells, stores data having the addresses in corresponding ones of the CAM memory cells and retrieves data having the addresses from corresponding ones of the CAM memory cells. An adaptive refresh module stores data from selected ones of the memory cells in the CAM memory cells to one of increase and maintain a time period between refreshing of the memory cells.
US07823027B2
A configuration is such as to change a mode setup of other crossbars influenced by an error occurring in one of plural crossbars from a first mode to a second mode for operating each of them independently (i.e., in a singularization mode) in the case of placing plural crossbars (i.e., crossbar units) for connecting incorporated units (i.e., processing units) and operating the plural crossbars in the first mode (i.e., a dualized mode) for dualizing them, thereby continuing an operation of a system by using a normally operable part when an error occurs in a part of the system.
US07823026B2
Redundancy of data and/or Inline Power in a wired data telecommunications network from a pair of power sourcing equipment (PSE) devices via an automatic selection device is provided by providing redundant signaling to/from each of the pair of PSE devices, and coupling a port of one PSE device and a redundant port of the second PSE device to respective first and second interfaces of a port of the selection device. The selection device initially selects one of the two PSE devices and communicates data and/or Inline Power to a third interface of the selection device. A powered device (PD) coupled to that third interface communicates data and/or Inline Power with the selected one of the first and second PSE device through the selection device. Upon detection of a condition, such as a failure condition, the selection device may select the other of the two interfaces.
US07823022B2
An embodiment relates generally to an apparatus for debugging. The apparatus includes a memory configured to store data and an arithmetic logic unit configured to perform logical and arithmetic operations. The apparatus also includes a control unit configured to interface with the memory and arithmetic logic unit and to decode instructions. The control unit is configured to write a data state designated to be overwritten by a currently executing instruction to a buffer allocated in the memory in response to a trace debug flag being set.
US07823018B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for CPU signaturing to aide in performance analysis. Exemplary embodiments include a performance analysis method including identifying a workload having one or more testcases, assigning a CPU signature to each of the one or more testcases, calling a CPU signature application programming interface that toggles the CPU to generate the CPU signature, passing four parameters to the CPU signature application programming interface, prior to running each of the one or more testcases of the workload, generating the CPU signature, dynamically determining a run order of the one or more testcases at a run time of the workload and reviewing performance data during the running of each of the one or more testcases, each of the one or more testcases being identifiable by its respective CPU signature.
US07823016B2
A message analyzing apparatus includes a pickup unit that extracts an error message group from a message file obtained from an input device, a grouping unit that groups the error message group according to physical path, a narrowing down unit that narrows down the error message group, an error-location detecting/identifying unit that selects an error-location identifying message, a suspect-component identifying unit that selects a suspect-component identifying message, a group integrating unit that integrates plural groups, an operational-state identifying unit that selects an operational-state identifying message, and an output unit that generates and outputs the message analysis results to a display device.
US07823006B2
A method of analyzing problem data from a computer application is disclosed. The method evaluates a memory dump, identifying call stacks within the memory dump that are related to application failures, creates a hash of the identified call stack and adds the hash to a database. The database may then be evaluated to look for trends in the error data such as whether the same call stack is causing problems.
US07822999B2
A computer system and a method for controlling a processor thereof are provided. A processor management unit (PMU) is programmed by the processor itself or by another processor according to a change of the operating condition of the processor. Then, a notification signal is sent to the PMU by the processor when the processor is entering a standby mode. Upon receiving the notification signal, the PMU adjusts the operating condition of the processor according to the change. Finally, a completion signal is sent by the PMU to the processor after the change of the operating condition of the processor is stabilized. Therefore, the unpredictable behavior caused by premature awakening of the processor during the adjustment of the operating condition can be avoided.
US07822998B2
A method and system provides dynamic power control based on thermal sensitivity of a processor system. The method and system includes a circuit that reduces the clock frequency for the processor system in response to thermal characteristics satisfying a pre-determined threshold that allows maximal thermal temperature limit utilization without substantially degrading processor performance.
US07822994B2
The present application relates to a data bus line to secure secrecy of digital data without a complicated exchange of hardware and decreasing processing speed.
US07822987B2
A method of verifying a pair of correspondents in electronic transaction, the correspondents each including first and second signature schemes and wherein the first signature scheme is computationally more difficult in signing than verifying and the second signature scheme is computationally more difficult in verifying than signing. The method comprises the step of the first correspondent signing information according to the first signature scheme and transmitting the first signature to the second correspondent, the second correspondent verifying the first signature received from the first correspondent, wherein the verification is performed according to the first signature scheme. The second correspondent then signs information according to the second signature scheme and transmits the second signature to the first correspondent, the first correspondent verifies the second signature received from the second correspondent, wherein the verification is performed according to the second signature algorithm; the transaction is rejected if either verification fails. The method thereby allows one of the correspondents to participate with relatively little computing power while maintaining security of the transaction.
US07822985B2
A method for real-time validation of an electronically signature generated onboard a mobile system. The method includes maintaining a ground mobile user account management (GMUAM) module user database to have up-to-date authorized user account information. The GMUAM is hosted by a stationary central computer system (CCS). The method additionally includes transferring the up-to-date authorized user account information stored on the GMUAM user database to a mobile user account management (MUAM) module user database, thereby updating the MUAM user data base with up-to-date authorized user account information. The MUAM module is included in an onboard computer system (OCS) hosted by the mobile system. The method further includes evoking a signature validator module communicatively connected to the MUAM module to access the MUAM database and verify whether user account information included in an electronic signature initiated by a secure data application (SDA) is authorized user account information. The SDA and the signature validator module hosted by the OCS.
US07822976B2
The invention presents a network data security system and a protecting method applied in network data transmission. Meanwhile the network data security system includes a client, an authentication dispatching server and a number of distributed servers. The authentication dispatching server includes a first determination device and a user certificate generator; and each distributed server includes a second determination device, a second user certificate generator and a processor. The method for protecting data of the present invention introduces the authentication dispatching server providing the client with a user certificate in a valid period of time and further introduces an updated certificate mechanism for preventing the user certificate from being stolen and further preventing network data from being let out.
US07822974B2
Techniques for establishing implicit trust of authorship certification are provided. A message's domain is validated in response to a valid domain certificate. A message's author is validated in response to an author identification, which is acquired from the message and which is supplied to a domain service of the author. The domain service is implicitly trusted based on the domain being validated via the domain certificate. The domain service uses the author's identification to traverse to a specific location within the domain that houses an author certificate for the author. The author certificate is compared against a message certificate that accompanies the message in order to establish trust with the author and the author's message.
US07822970B2
A method and apparatus for regulating access to a computer via a computer network is provided, in which a local computer has an application program, a proxy program, and a firewall program. The proxy program monitors the communication between the application program and the computer network, and is able to detect when the application program requires a remote computer to initiate a new connection to the local computer. Upon detecting such a need, the proxy program changes the settings of the firewall program so that the remote computer is able to establish the new connection.
US07822967B2
Network architecture, computer system and/or server, circuit, device, apparatus, method, and computer program and control mechanism for managing power consumption and workload in computer system and data and information servers. Further provides power and energy consumption and workload management and control systems and architectures for high-density and modular multi-server computer systems that maintain performance while conserving energy and method for power management and workload management. Dynamic server power management and optional dynamic workload management for multi-server environments is provided by aspects of the invention. Modular network devices and integrated server system, including modular servers, management units, switches and switching fabrics, modular power supplies and modular fans and a special backplane architecture are provided as well as dynamically reconfigurable multi-purpose modules and servers. Backplane architecture, structure, and method that has no active components and separate power supply lines and protection to provide high reliability in server environment.
US07822959B2
The present invention relates to a method for the safe shut down of an operating system. The invention utilizes a shutdown-monitoring program that is running in an initiator operating system to periodically transmit and pass-through SCSI command to a SCSI target to determine if a shutdown operations is to be performed upon the operating system. In response to the SCSI command the SCSI target returns data back to the initiator operating system, wherein the shutdown-monitoring program analyzes the data. In the event that the shutdown-monitoring program determines that the operating system is to be shut down, then an operating system shutdown is initiated using at least one appropriate API that is provided by the operating system.
US07822956B2
A computer system includes a system CPU responsive to a control signal to load a first operating system or a second operating system. The first operating system is run by the computer system in a first operation mode and the second operating system is run by the computer system in a second entertainment mode. A PC operating in an entertainment mode may operate a variety of entertainment software applications. A quick boot process is also provided. The quick boot process may include an accelerated BIOS boot process that defers and delays appropriate tasks. The quick boot process may also include: detecting a condition; performing a BIOS boot process; loading an image file associated with the condition; and executing the image file associated with the condition. The condition may be that associated hardware is unchanged from a previous boot. A parental control system is also disclosed.
US07822954B2
A branch prediction algorithm is used to generate a prediction of whether or not a branch will be taken. One or more instructions are fetched such that, for each of the fetched instructions, the prediction initiates a fetch of an instruction at a predicted target of the branch. A test is performed to ascertain whether or not the prediction was generated late relative to the fetched instructions, so that if the branch is later detected as mispredicted, that detection can be correlated to the late prediction. When the prediction is generated late relative to the fetched instructions, a latent prediction is selected by utilizing a fetching initiated by the latent prediction such that a new fetch is not started.
US07822950B1
The present invention provides a computer pipeline control mechanism enabling a nonstalling pipeline despite the presence of pipeline hazards. The present invention detects the presence of predetermined pipeline hazard conditions, cancels the thread which contains the instruction encountering such pipeline hazard and then recirculates the program counter of the instruction having hazards for re-execution. The present invention guarantees the deterministic execution of threads in a computer pipeline.
US07822946B2
A computing and communication chip architecture is provided wherein the interfaces of processor access to the memory chips are implemented as a high-speed packet switched serial interface as part of each chip. In one embodiment, the interface is accomplished through a gigabit Ethernet interface provided by protocol processor integrated as part of the chip. The protocol processor encapsulates the memory address and control information like Read, Write, number of successive bytes etc, as an Ethernet packet for communication among the processor and memory chips that are located on the same motherboard, or even on different circuit cards. In one embodiment, the communication over head of the Ethernet protocol is further reduced by using an enhanced Ethernet protocol with shortened data frames within a constrained neighborhood, and/or by utilizing a bit stream switch where direct connection paths can be established between elements that comprise the computing or communication architecture.
US07822940B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for managing mapping information of a nonvolatile memory, in which a time period required for a request for access to a logic sector of the nonvolatile memory is minimized. The apparatus includes an extractor which extracts a logical sector mapped with each physical sector in physical units mapped with a predetermined logical unit, a mapping information generator which generates mapping information of logical sectors belonging to the logical unit including the extracted logical sector, and a mapping information memory which stores the generated mapping information.
US07822930B1
A system calculates the optimal allocation of two or more resources provided by a resource provider to a task within a computer system from a plurality of possible allocations. In doing so, the system calculates the total volume of an N-dimensional cube, where N is the number of resources provided by the resource provider, representing the respective amounts of resources available to be allocated. The system also calculates the average volume of the N−1 dimensional shapes forming the sides of the N-dimensional cube. The system then calculates, at least partly from the ratio of the total volume to the average volume, the balance resulting from the allocation of resources represented by the N-dimensional cube. The system then calculates the imbalance resulting from the allocation of resources at least partly from the balance and determines the smallest imbalance as the optimal allocation of resources.
US07822923B2
There is provided a storage control program, a storage control apparatus, and a storage control method capable of improving a random read performance for a logging operation.A storage control program allows a computer to control a storage apparatus and causes the computer to execute: a data write step that logs data to the storage apparatus based on a write request from outside; and a position information control step that can write position information in a cache apparatus connected to the computer through a network. The position information is equivalent to correspondence between a logical position specified by the write request and a physical position in the storage apparatus where the data write step logs data.
US07822921B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for optimizing I/O operations performed by a storage server operating on behalf of multiple clients to access data on a plurality of storage devices (disks). Embodiments of the present invention eliminate the need for selected read operations to write new data to physical data blocks by zeroing the physical data blocks to which new data will be written. Additionally, the need for reading old parity to compute new parity is eliminated. Instead, new parity is computed from the data to be written without the need of old parity or the storage server sends a command to a disk that stores parity. A module implemented at the disk that stores parity executes the command without reading, by the storage server, old parity. Eliminating the need for reading old data and for reading old parity eliminates some rotation latency and improves overall system's performance.
US07822920B2
Disclosed herein is a mass prefetching method for disk arrays. In order to improve disk read performance for a non-sequential with having spatial locality as well as a sequential read, when a host requests a block to be read, all the blocks of the strip to which the block belongs are read. This is designated as strip prefetching (SP). Throttled Strip Prefetching (TSP), proposed in the present invention, investigates whether SP is beneficial by an online disk simulation, and does not perform SP if it is determined that SP is not beneficial. Since all prefetching operations of TSP are aligned in the strip of the disk array, the disk independence loss is resolved, and thus the performance of disk arrays is improved for concurrent sequential reads of multiple processes. TSP may however suffer from the loss of disk parallelism due to the disk independence of SP for a single sequential read. In order to solve this problem, this invention proposes Massive Stripe Prefetching (MSP). MSP includes an algorithm that detects a single sequential read at the block level. When a single sequential read is detected, prefetching is aligned in a stripe, and the prefetching size is set to a multiple of stripe size. Accordingly, the parallelism of disks is maximized.
US07822918B2
A method, system and computer program product for managing preallocated disk space are presented. The method includes placing a plurality of requests for preallocated disk space on a disk space request queue, wherein each preallocated disk space is preallocated for a fixed amount of disk space and a fixed length of time, and wherein an application using an issued preallocated disk space for more than the fixed length of time results in the application being barred from further current use of the issued preallocated disk space. The requests are sorted in the disk space request queue according to a priority algorithm that establishes a priority level for each of the requests, and preallocated disk space is allocated to requesters according to the priority level established by the priority algorithm.
US07822917B2
A mass storage system usable with a storage device is described. The mass storage system includes a housing, a device interface, a user interface, a controller, and a connector. The device interface is operatively coupled with the housing for connecting with a storage device. The user interface is connected with the housing and operatively coupled with the device interface for accessing information about a storage device connected via the device interface. The controller operatively coupled with the device interface and the user interface for controlling the mass storage system. The connector is connected with the controller for coupling the mass storage system to an external processing device.
US07822911B2
A memory device includes an on-board cache system that facilitates the ability of the memory device to interface with a plurality of processors operating in a parallel processing manner. The cache system operates in a manner that can be transparent to a memory controller to which the memory device is connected. Alternatively, the memory controller can control the operation of the cache system.
US07822906B2
A bridge capable of preventing data inconsistency without degrading system performance is provided, in which a buffering unit comprises a plurality of buffers, a first master device outputs a flush request to flush the buffering unit, and a flush request control circuit records the flushed buffer(s) in the buffering unit when receiving the flush request and outputs a flush acknowledge signal to indicate to the first master device that the buffering unit has been flushed when all the plurality of buffers have been flushed once after the flush request has been received.
US07822903B2
A processing system and method for transferring data in a processing system. The processing system includes a bus mastering device, a plurality of slave devices, and a bus interconnect configured to switch the bus mastering device between the slave devices. Each of the slave devices has a plurality of addresses. The bus interconnect includes a DMA controller configured to transfer data from a first one of the addresses to a second one of the addresses in response to a single bus command from the bus mastering device.
US07822901B2
A system for connecting a console device to computers comprising a graphic user interface menu apparatus for controlling the computers. The system comprises a user-side circuit, a central crosspoint switch, a plurality of computer-side circuits, a menu generating unit and a first switching device. The user-side circuit coupled to the console device receives electronic signals produced by the keyboard and cursor control device and creates a data packet. The central crosspoint switch is coupled to the user-side circuits, receives the data packets and routes the data packets. The computer-side circuits coupled to the central crosspoint switch and the computers receive the data packets from the central crosspoint switch for supplying the data packets to the computers. The menu generating unit generates a menu to be displayed. The first switching device alternately outputs a video signal of the menu data and a video signal from the computers to the video monitor according to a vertical synchronization signal.
US07822894B2
The present invention unitarily manages the configuration change of a storage system so as to know the latest configuration, and evaluates the reliability in advance when the configuration is changed so that the generation of a failure is suppressed. When the host 1 is connected to the switch 2, the attribute information of HBA 1A and the attribute information of the switch 2 are stored in the connection information storage unit 2C by FDMI (Fabric Device Management Interface) (S1, S2). Each attribute information is associated with each other and is managed as combination information. The storage device 3 acquires the combination information from the switch 2 (S3, S4), and requests the management device 4 to judge the reliability of this combination (S5). The management device 4 judges the combination of the HBA and the switch (S6), and notifies this judgment result to the storage device 3 (S7). When the configuration of the storage system is changed, the reliability of the configuration can be confirmed before starting operation with the configuration after change, and therefore the generation of a failure can be decreased.
US07822893B2
An Advanced Technology Attachment or AT Attachment (ATA) compatible data transfer system includes a system processor having system memory, the system processor configured to issue a programmed input/output (PIO) type command to effect data transfer between a peripheral device and the system memory through a host controller and an ATA controller. The host controller accesses data to/from the system memory directly. The host controller and the ATA controller complete data transfer between the peripheral device and the system memory by executing the PIO type command without requiring interrupt servicing by the system processor.
US07822891B2
A system and method for storing a multidimensional array of data, such as a two dimensional (2-D) array of video data, in a non-contiguous memory space. The system and method maps individually indexed elements of a multidimensional array of data from a source device into blocks of non-contiguous memory available in a destination memory system, even when the destination blocks are small and/or their size does not correlate in any way to the dimensions of a source buffer. In particular, the blocks of non-contiguous memory may be as small as a single element of the data indexed in the 2-D array.
US07822890B2
A bidirectional repeater and data multiplexer for serial data has A-side 12C port devices A1-A4 coupled to comparators 302-308 and pull-downs to ground 316-322. Comparator outputs are coupled responsive to select lines S1-S4 of N:1 Select 310 to terminal A1 of bidirectional control 210 to control pull-down to non-zero low voltage Vp 206 at B-side device B. An inverting comparator 208 coupled to terminal B1 of bidirectional control 210 responds to input threshold voltage Vt less than low voltage Vp, to prevent data lockup due to data flowback to devices A1-A4. Output data from comparator 208 is coupled responsive to select lines S1-S4 of 1:N Select 312 to control pull-downs 316-322. This selectively repeats routing of device A1-A4 data to device B. Data from device B is selectively routed to pull-downs of devices A1-A4.
US07822888B2
An operation apparatus includes a sequencer controlling states of a plurality of operation devices and a configuration memory storing therein configuration information as setting information for each state in the operation device. In the operation apparatus, a path which requires a data buffer and another path which requires no such a data buffer are provided for inputting data to the operation device, a data buffer control part is provided for controlling selection from these two paths and operation of the data buffer, and contents of path selection and operation control of the data buffer carried out by the data buffer control part are set according to the configuration information.
US07822885B2
A channel-less system and method are provided for multithreaded communications with a direct memory access (DMA) controller. The method accepts a plurality of DMA command messages directed to a fixed port address. The DMA command messages are arranged in a first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, in the order in which they are received. The DMA command messages are supplied to a DMA controller from the FIFO queue, and in response to the DMA command message, data transfer operation are managed by the DMA controller. Following the completion of each data transfer operation, a transfer complete message indicating completion is sent. In one aspect, DMA command messages are arranged in a plurality of parallel FIFO queues, and CD sets are stored in a plurality of context memories, where each context memory is associated with a corresponding FIFO queue.
US07822876B1
Systems and methods for time based management of digital content used with electronic devices lacking a connection to a common reference time keeping device are provided. Timing calibrations are used that, when applied to times measured by such disconnected electronic devices, allow the devices to calculate modified time measurements that are approximately equal to that of the reference time keeping device. The calibration time and other calibration information for the disconnected electronic devices may be stored by a digital content service and conveyed with digital content transferred from the digital content service to the disconnected electronic devices via portable data storage devices. In this manner, digital content may be consumed by a user on a plurality of disconnected electronic devices without violating license agreements associated with the digital content.
US07822867B2
A method is provided for sending data packets from a server to a client. A stream of data packets from the server to the client is composed of a main stream P, a retransmission stream R, and an advance stream A. P and A are fixed when R is zero. A is zero and the sum of P and R are fixed when R is not zero or when the client has accumulated data beyond a given threshold. A packet sent by the server but not received by the client is sent again to the client a given time after it was first sent. A packet sent by the server but not received by the client is sent again to the client only if the latter has already previously received a given number of packets sent by the server.
US07822863B2
A method of accessing a data resource identifies the data resource, the data resource accessible through a first device and associated with a resource locator, the first device configured to provide access to the data resource responsive to possession of a whitelisted credential. The method includes receiving a second-device credential from a second device by a personal domain controller, the personal domain controller and the first device within a first trusted relationship and provides, by the personal domain controller, the second-device credential to the first device for whitelisting subject to the first trusted relationship. The method uses, by the second device, the second-device credential to access the data resource responsive to the resource locator.
US07822861B2
System for selecting an architecture (15, 16, 17) dedicated to a communications network (40, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52) in a terminal (10) including a user interface (11). The connection to the communications network (40, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52) is set up by means of a PDP context link via a mobile network. The system controls access to a dedicated architecture manager (19) integrated into the terminal (10) to manage an architecture (15, 16, 17) dedicated to a communications network (40, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52) and to process simultaneously the operation of the dedicated architectures (15, 16, 17) of the terminal (10) connected to a plurality of the communications networks (40, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52). The system can be used for selecting access to a communications network (40, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52) of a set of communications networks each offering a set of services via a dedicated architecture (15, 16, 17) integrated into the terminal (10) which is connected to a public mobile network to which the user is a subscriber.
US07822860B2
The invention provides a software construct, herein termed a Web service container, for managing Web services at a network node and an adaptive model for the dynamic configuration of a plurality of Web service containers distributed throughout a network, such as the Internet or an intranet, in a software and hardware platform-independent manner. Containers can communicate with each other via the network to determine contextual information such as the identity of each other, the capabilities of each other, the operating system or platforms of each others, the contents of the container (i.e., the available Web services at that location), etc. By providing a container framework and the ability to exchange contextual information, the present invention allows servers as well as clients to dynamically exchange Web services software as well as contextual information, such as current workload, so that servers and clients are virtually limitlessly reconfigurable based on context.
US07822859B2
An improved networked computer communications system handles arbitrary streams of data, and transports at varying speeds those streams where intermediate updates can be dropped if they are obsoleted by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of network and node resources. Complex buffering by system server software allows distributed, parallel, or redundant processing, transmission, and storage for performance, reliability, and robustness. Various parameters of the system can be monitored, and the system can be reconfigured automatically based on the observations. Varied techniques reduce the perceived end-to-end latency and take advantage of software and hardware capabilities that assets connected to the system may possess. One conferencing system allows conference participants to share all or a portion of the display seen on their computer screens. The conferees may be at sites removed from each other, or may view a recorded presentation or archived conference at different times. Conference participants are either “presenters” who can modify the display or “attendees” who cannot modify the display. A pointer icon, which can be labeled to identify the conferee, is displayed on the shared image area. Each conferee can modify the position of his or her own pointer, even when not presenting, so that every participant can see what each conferee is pointing to, should a conferee choose to point to an element of the display. These and other features apply to other data streams shared in the conference or in meetings where there is no shared-image data stream.
US07822858B2
Techniques for providing a bulk refresh of sessions in a network are provided. A plurality of session identifiers for sessions that were created are determined. These session identifiers may be included in a bulk refresh message. The bulk refresh message is sent to a device configured to determine if sessions associated with the plurality of session identifiers are active or inactive. The device then sends a response to the refresh requestor. The response can be used to determine which sessions are active or inactive. After the determination, actions can be taken in order to clear the hanging session. For example, the session may be torn down or a BYE message may be sent to end the session on a peer device.
US07822855B2
Combining push and pull protocols, including the steps of pushing approximately a minimal decodable set of erasure-coded fragments to an assembling device, determining the fragment loss at the assembling device, and pulling additional erasure-coded fragments, using a fragment pull protocol, to compensate for the fragment loss. Optionally, the system includes a CDN streaming server and a fractional-storage CDN server, both storing unique erasure-coded fragments associated with segments of streaming content. The CDN streaming server pushes streams of fragments to a plurality of assembling devices, and the fractional-storage CDN server provides fragments associated with recently pushed segments in response to fragment pull protocol requests by the assembling devices.
US07822848B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert management in an activity-centric collaborative computing environment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for activity thread integration of an alert log. In one embodiment of the invention, an alert log activity thread integration method can be provided. The method can include logging a reference to an alert for an activity in an activity thread, and, in response to the selection of the alert from within the activity thread, displaying the content of the alert. For instance, logging a reference to an alert for an activity in an activity thread can include creating a branch of the activity thread for inserting all alerts pertaining to the activity and inserting the reference to the alert in the created branch.
US07822838B2
The invention provides a system, method, network elements, and computer program products, for providing a supplementary service such as an advice of charge, AoC, service requested by a user equipment at a session set-up or during a session of a communication service. For setting up a session of the communication service, a signalling message may be transmitted or received which signalling message comprises a request for a supplementary service and an indication on whether the session setup is to be suspended until said supplementary service has been provided. When detecting that said setting up the session of the communication service is to be suspended until said supplementary service has been provided, the session setup is suspended until after the requested supplementary service has been provided. The setting up of the session is resumed after determining that said supplementary service has been provided.
US07822826B1
A computing device may receive a Web service archive that includes a Web service implementation and a Web service deployment descriptor. The Web service deployment descriptor may specify how the Web service implementation is to be configured on the computing device. The computing device may deploy a Web service based, at least in part, on the received Web service archive.
US07822824B2
The file sharing system of the present invention is capable of starting up a file sharing device and preventing the connection of an external storage medium to an erroneous host using information that is saved in the external storage medium. In cases where the maintenance exchange work for a NAS device is performed, the collection section collects information that is required in order to start up the NAS system section. The saving section stores the collected information in the USB memory as startup information. In cases where the NAS device is returned after the maintenance exchange is complete, the USB memory is attached to the NAS device. The setting section reads the startup information that is stored in the USB memory and sets the communication control section in accordance with an instruction from the startup control section. As a result, the NAS-OS is read from the logical volume in the storage device and the NAS system section starts up.
US07822822B2
An instant messaging service is operated in cooperation with an event plan manager system. Information is received regarding a planned event from an instant messaging client with which an event organizer is associated and, based thereon, information is provided indicative of the planned event to the event plan manager system. Information is received from the event plan manager system indicative of the planned event, as maintained by the event plan manager system. Invitation instant messages are caused to be provided to instant messaging clients with which invitees of the planned event are associated, wherein the invitation instant messages are correlated to the information indicative of the planned event as maintained by the event plan manager system.
US07822815B1
A messaging system is provided for playing a messaging prompt in response to a request for execution of a messaging operation. The request contains calling party number information. The messaging system includes an application runtime environment configured for retrieving for playback as the messaging prompt, a personalized voice message based on a match of the received calling party number information with calling party number information stored in an Internet Protocol (IP) based database server. The personalized voice message corresponds to the matched, stored calling number information of the calling party. Hence, a subscriber can record personalized greeting for preferred callers such that when a preferred caller reaches the subscriber's voice mail, the personalized greeting for that caller is played. If the caller is not a preferred caller, a generic greeting is played.
US07822809B2
Methods for creating an interactive gaming environment are provided. In various embodiments, methods of the present invention may include initializing an interactive game application at a game server which is then characterized as having an active status, notifying a lobby server concerning the active status of the game server, registering the application with a universe management server via the lobby server, and allowing users to join the interactive gaming environment. The users joining the interactive gaming environment may be identified by a server key obtained from the game server.
US07822805B1
A system and method for screening a potential customer and assigning an account number to the potential customer prior to permitting the potential customer to purchase products or services from an automated seller facility over a computer network, such as the Internet, is disclosed. The potential customer enters customer data into a user interface to be received by the seller in the automated seller facility so that the seller can check the potential customer's qualifications. The invention includes performing an initial screening to determine whether the potential customer is qualified to purchase the products or services from the seller. If the potential customer passes the initial screening, an account number is issued to the potential customer. The account number allows the potential customer further access to the automated seller facility so that the potential customer may make an offer to purchase products or services while the automated seller facility performs a complete screening.
US07822798B2
Novel methods for converting coordinates for a position from a first coordinate system into coordinates in a second coordinate system are provided. Linear approximations of trigonometric functions are used to calculate values for the trigonometric functions when a position to be converted is within an acceptable bound of a previous position and more precise values of the trigonometric functions are used to perform the conversion when the position to be converted is not within an acceptable bound of a previous position. The present invention can be advantageously utilized to reduce the computation load in a distributed simulation environment, such as a federation of distributed interactive simulations.
US07822793B2
A method and data structure for separating application data from user data in a namespace. The data structure provides an intuitive profile layout for developers or users while supporting legacy applications. The namespace utilizes a hierarchical structure allowing access by developers or users over a network to information contained in identified public folders and/or a user's profile.
US07822792B2
After a transaction modifying a planning area in a planning system is initiated, it is determined whether there are any change objects in a consistent view of the transaction that are associated with the planning area. If there is a single change object associated with the planning area, then, the logical state of such change object is read. Alternatively, if there is more than one change object for the planning area, it is determined that the planning area must be replanned. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US07822788B2
A condition generating unit generates a hierarchical-type search condition including a search target structure ID and a search result structure ID. A first acquiring unit acquires an object ID corresponding to the search target structure ID to which a vocabulary index is not attached. A candidate generating unit generates a candidate of the search result in which an acquired object ID is associated with the search key as a first constraint condition. A second acquiring unit acquires a search result structure ID complying with a structure constraint. A result acquiring unit acquires an object corresponding to the object ID satisfying the first constraint condition.
US07822784B2
Data cells are described containing an entity identifier (“O”), an entity type (“E”) an attribute type (“A”), and an attribute value (“V”). Cells with identical O and E values constitute a cell set. Pairs of synapse cells relate cell sets, each synapse cell having O and E values of one cell set and A and V values equal to the E and O values of the other cell set. Cell generations store information about attributes, entities, relationships, constraints, and default data formats in the same cell listing as the cells containing the actual real-world data. As a result, the data in a data cell can be considered self-identifying. The present invention also provides a way to normalize data using data pool cell sets. The data cells themselves can be stored in multiple, co-existing storage trees that are specialized for increased data query efficiency.
US07822773B2
The present invention discloses a method for reducing a tree structure in a processing system. The method includes providing a plurality of nodes in a tree structure. The method also includes querying each of the plurality of nodes based upon a threshold value, wherein the threshold is related to relevance; when a count of a particular node matches the threshold then a next child node is queried to determine if the next child node matches the threshold, if a child node does not exist for the queried node when the node is displayed. The method further includes visiting all of the parent nodes based on the querying step until all of plurality of nodes have been queried. The method finally includes displaying the nodes that satisfy the threshold value.
US07822767B2
Modeling and implementing complex data access operations based on lower level traditional operations
A system, method and article of manufacture for data processing and, more particularly, for managing execution of complex data access operations in a data processing system. One embodiment provides a method of managing execution of query operations in a data processing system. The method comprises issuing, by a requesting entity, a request to perform a composite query operation defining an initial query operation and a subsequent query operation to be executed against a data repository of the data processing system, executing the initial query operation, determining an operation status of the initial query operation, and managing execution of the subsequent query operation on the basis of the determined operation status.
US07822764B2
In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect an original search input; detect an excluded term within the original search input; form a modified search input wherein the modified search input includes the original search input without the excluded term; match a plurality of stored terms against the modified search input and forming a modified matched result; and display a suggestion based on the modified matched result.
US07822763B2
A search tool enables users to search for synonyms of, and/or syntactically similar words to search terms that they enter. In at least some embodiments, the search tool is implemented in the context of a web browser for searching web pages. In some embodiments, search terms can be distinctly, visually highlighted on a page, such as a web page, to allow the user to easily identify words that have been found through the search. In at least some embodiments, color coding can be used to uniquely identify exact matches, synonyms and/or syntactically similar words that are identified on a page.
US07822761B2
A groupware computer system comprising a groupware server, a groupware client coupled to the server over a network, a contact information repository configured to store contact data of users in personal contact lists associated to individual users, a messaging system database configured to store statistical information about exchange of messages, a contact management module coupled to the contact information repository and configured to create, modify and retrieve contact data of users, a functional component for automatic determination of contact information (ADCI), and a groupware server computer, groupware client computer, a method, data processing program, computer program product, and computer data signal therefore.
US07822757B2
A data integration method involves a unique method of collecting raw business data and processing it to produce highly useful and highly accurate information to enable business decisions. This process includes collecting global data, entity matching, applying an identification number, performing corporate linkage, and providing predictive indicators. These process steps work in series to filter and organize the raw business data and provide quality information to customers. In addition, the information is enhanced by quality assurance at each step in this process to ensure the high quality of the resulting data.
US07822756B1
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates disassembling a structure tree containing structure information for a document. During operation, the system assigns unique identifiers to nodes in the structure tree. The system also selectively labels each node in the structure tree with a unique pathname from the root of the structure tree, wherein in the pathname specifies the position of the node in the structure tree. Next, the system merges nodes from the structure tree into components of the document, which contain content items for the document, instead of storing the structure tree separately from the components. In this way, the components can be incorporated into or extracted from the document without losing associated structure information for the document.
US07822754B2
A system and method of providing address book listings. The system and method includes determining a weight of each identifier in an address book and sorting each identifier in a descending order or ascending order according to the determined weight. The list is provided to a user based on the sorting of each identifier.
US07822751B2
A system may identify a first document associated with a geographic location within a geographical area and identify a second document associated with a geographic location outside the geographical area. The system may also assign a first score to the first document based on a first scoring function and assign a second score to the second document based on a second scoring function.
US07822743B2
A technique is described for delivering contextual information to end users of a data network which includes at least one client system associated with an end user. According to a specific embodiment, the technique of the present invention provides a contextual-based platform for delivering to an end user in real-time proactive, personalized, contextual information relating to web page content currently being displayed to the user.
US07822736B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing an index arrangement for a directory includes storing a plurality of data values from the directory in an alternate evaluator. The alternate evaluator includes a processor operable to process a directory operation. The method also includes generating a first index corresponding to the plurality of data values, the first index comprising at least one page having a variable size. The method further includes storing a first value in the at least one page and a corresponding pointer to each occurrence of the respective data value stored in the alternate evaluator.
US07822735B2
A system saves browsed data in a database in response to a user request by assigning a predetermined index to the data, wherein the user is not requested for any index. The system sorts indices of the data in the database and displays the sorted indices, then the system retrieves, in response to a selection of an index from the displayed indices by a user, the data corresponding to the selected index from the database. Accordingly if a user wants to save a data currently browsed, he can make store the data in the database easily only by issuing an instruction to save without specifying any index.
US07822720B2
A method and a system of detecting a keyword whose input number is rapidly increased in real time which can estimate a search number at a future point in time by reflecting an input trend of the keyword in real time at a present point in time and can immediately detect the keyword whose input number is rapidly increased according to a criterion value calculated by the estimated search number. Specifically, the method and system of detecting a keyword whose input number is rapidly increased in real time which can estimate the search number for each keyword at the future point in time in real time and can immediately detect the keyword whose input number is rapidly increased according to a criterion value calculated by the estimated search number.
US07822716B2
The present invention relates to a method or an operation for providing a personalized TV-Anytime metadata service. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of deleting user metadata managed by a TV-Anytime metadata server using a SOAP operation, comprising the steps of a) providing an element type of a SOAP delete operation, the element of the SOAP delete operation including at least a first sub-element for designating user identifier information, b) receiving the element of the SOAP delete operation, in which the user identifier information is designated, from a client of a user, and c) identifying the user on the basis of the user identifier information in the received element of the SOAP delete operation and deleting user metadata about the identified user.
US07822715B2
A system includes a primary storage unit connected to a secondary storage unit such that data written to the primary storage unit is replicated on the secondary storage unit. The primary storage unit in at least one exemplary embodiment includes the capability to intercept input/output instructions for routing to a buffer and/or directly to the secondary storage unit. The system in at least one exemplary embodiment includes a backup storage unit for backing up data from at least the secondary storage unit offline and the capability to update the secondary storage unit once it returns to an online status.
US07822712B1
Processes, systems and computer programs for data management. New fact data is received, e.g., at a data warehouse, and the new fact data is aggregated to incrementally update a first version of a materialized view (a pre-computed aggregation of data), the updated materialized view being a second version of the materialized view. While aggregating the new data, the first version of the materialized view is provided for serving by a query subsystem. After aggregating the new data to the materialized view, the second version of the materialized view is provided for serving by the query subsystem thereafter. At least one version of the materialized view is available for serving by the query subsystem even during aggregation.
US07822707B1
A configuration management tool initiates display of a listing of multiple different types of managed resources present in a storage area network environment. Based on user input, the resource manager receives a selection of two or more types of managed resources from the listing. In addition to receiving a select of two or more types of resources in the listing, the resource manager application receives search criteria associated with each of the selected two or more types of managed resources. The configuration manager initiates a search for objects (in one or more repositories) that satisfy the search criteria and are of a managed resource type as indicated by the selection. The configuration manager application then produces a report indicating the objects (i.e., storage area network resources and corresponding management information) that satisfy the search criteria. After receiving the report (e.g., search results) that satisfies the search criteria, the user can select a storage area network resource in the report to view information associated with the selected resource. Further, the user can select from multiple different viewing options to view different types of information associated with the selected resource.
US07822696B2
A “Classifier Trainer” trains a combination classifier for detecting specific objects in signals (e.g., faces in images, words in speech, patterns in signals, etc.). In one embodiment “multiple instance pruning” (MIP) is introduced for training weak classifiers or “features” of the combination classifier. Specifically, a trained combination classifier and associated final threshold for setting false positive/negative operating points are combined with learned intermediate rejection thresholds to construct the combination classifier. Rejection thresholds are learned using a pruning process which ensures that objects detected by the original combination classifier are also detected by the combination classifier, thereby guaranteeing the same detection rate on the training set after pruning. The only parameter required throughout training is a target detection rate for the final cascade system. In additional embodiments, combination classifiers are trained using various combinations of weight trimming, bootstrapping, and a weak classifier termed a “fat stump” classifier.
US07822694B2
A control system and method base on a model of a neurological structure such as the inferior olive of the brain. In one embodiment, individual inferior olive neurons are modeled in hardware, such as in an integrated circuit, and interconnected to form an artificial inferior olive. The artificial inferior olive thus formed can be used in a universal movement control system. An exemplary system for controlling the operation of a six-legged walker is described. The degree of coupling between neurons can be varied. A model is also provided which mimics the interaction between neurons of the inferior olive, the cerebellar nuclei and Purkinje cells via collateral axons. The model accurately describes the qualitative dynamics of cluster formation and spike-train generation in the olivo-cerebellar system. A universal control system (UCS) based on the olivo-cerebellar system is described.
US07822693B2
A data structure, method, storage medium and logic arrangement are provided for use in collecting and analyzing multilinear data describing various characteristics of different objects. In particular it is possible to recognize an unknown individual, an unknown object, an unknown action being performed by an individual, an unknown expression being formed by an individual, as well as synthesize a known action never before recorded as being performed by an individual, synthesize an expression never before recorded as being formed by an individual, and reduce the amount of stored data describing an object or action by using dimensionality reduction techniques, and the like.
US07822689B2
The present invention discloses a method and system for maintaining privacy for transactions performable by a user device having a security module with a privacy certification authority and a verifier. The system comprises an issuer providing an issuer public key PKI; a user device having a security module for generating a first set of attestation-signature values DAA1; a privacy certification authority computer for providing an authority public key PKPCA and issuing second attestation values AV2; and a verification computer for checking the validity of the first set of attestation-signature values DAA1 with the issuer public key PKI and the validity of a second set of attestation-signature values DAA2 with the authority public key PKPCA, the second set of attestation-signature values DAA2 being derivable by the user device 20 from the second attestation values AV2, wherein it is verifiable that the two sets of attestation-signature values DAA1, DAA2 relate to the user device.
US07822688B2
A mobile phone system and method of initializing, at a secure transaction server (STS), a mobile payment software with a software authentication parameter, as an authentic mobile payment software; providing an STS correlation between a personal identification entry (PIE) and the authentic mobile payment software; installing, in a mobile phone, the authentic mobile payment software; and inputting, by a user, the PIE to the installed authentic mobile payment software to generate according to the PIE and the software authentication parameter a transformed secure authenticable mobile phone cashless monetary transaction over the mobile phone network, as a mobile phone wireless wallet of the user of the mobile phone. The mobile phone authenticable cashless monetary transaction is performed according to an agreement view(s) protocol.
US07822678B2
The invention provides systems and methods for intra-day trading of actively managed exchange traded funds (AMETFs). The invention provides creation and redemption structures for AMETF shares that allow arbitrage, intra-day value estimations for AMETF shares, and hedging portfolios for hedging risks associated with trading AMETF shares, all without requiring disclosure of the specific assets underlying the AMETF.
US07822677B1
Price-based inquiry lists for financial interests are submitted, negotiated and traded between investors and dealers over a network or networks. An investor interface for display is provided to an investor. A dealer interface for display is provided to a plurality of dealers. The investor can create a price-based inquiry list via the investor interface containing a plurality of inquiries for a corresponding plurality of different financial interests and can transmit the price-based inquiry list to one or more selected dealers, where an established relationship exists between the investor and the dealers. One or more of the selected dealers may provide responses to the received price-based inquiry list, where the response contains one or more offers/bids on the plurality of inquiries contained in the inquiry list via the dealer interface. The respective offers/bids are displayed in the price-based inquiry list on the investor interface. The investor may receive the best response for each bond on the price-based inquiry list and, if desired, execute one or more trades using the investor interface.
US07822668B1
A method for optimizing risk-adjusted returns of a composite portfolio having a non-variable portion containing at least tangible residential real estate property investments and a variable portion containing other assets having a liquidity profile that is more liquid than the non-variable portion of the portfolio. The other assets in the variable portion of the portfolio are optimized in order to diversify and/or hedge risks associated with the non-variable portion of the portfolio. The optimizing is performed by calculating a mix of assets in the variable portion of the portfolio that maximizes expected returns for the composite portfolio while minimizing risks for the composite portfolio.
US07822667B1
An investment account is managed having associated assets, including shares of different securities, transacted in accordance with a plurality of different investment styles. A cash deposit into such a multi-style investment account and a request for a cash withdrawal from the multi-style investment account are handled differently but efficiently across the different investment styles in the investment account. When cash is deposited into the investment account, the cash deposit is placed into a temporary “cash bucket” in the investment account common across different investment styles. The cash is then distributed individual “cash buckets” each associated with an investment style in the investment account in accordance with a selected cash deposit allocation. When cash is to be withdrawn from the investment account, the cash amounting to the requested amount from individual “cash buckets” each associated with an investment style in the investment account is withdrawn in accordance with a selected cash withdrawal allocation. As a result, the cash can be deposited into the investment account or withdrawn from the investment account with proper allocation across different investment styles.
US07822666B1
Methods for producing and applications for single-use transaction numbers. The transaction numbers are single-use in that the numbers are only valid for a single transaction. The transaction numbers can be generated just prior to being used, minimizing the amount of time during which they can be lost or stolen. The transaction numbers can be generated using encryption technology such as dynamic password technology. The encryption technology makes it very difficult if not impossible to predict what the next transaction number generated will be. The transaction numbers are unique to the user and can be validated or authenticated by an issuing institution that maintains an ability to generate the same transaction numbers issued to the user.
US07822663B2
A real-time, global system and method for controlling payments risk, liquidity risk and systemic risk arising between financial counterparties active in payments-based transactions. The system comprises: a plurality of User Host Applications for use by plurality of Users; a plurality of Third Party Host Applications for use by plurality of Third Parties; and a plurality of Payment Bank Host Applications for use by a plurality of Payment Banks operating a plurality of domestic payment systems. All host applications communicate via cryptographically secure sessions via private communications networks and/or the Internet global computer network. User and Payment Bank access is secured by digital certification. Each Payment Bank Host Application has a mechanism for processing payment messages, including payments instructions to be carried out in its domestic payments system on behalf of a plurality of account holders (including bank correspondents). In addition, each Payment Bank Host Application includes a filter process module for processing payments instructions, prior to being carried out by the domestic payment system. In the event of a counterparty payment failure or insolvency, the Filter Process Module enables instantaneous, automated suspension of all further payments to the counterparty in a multiplicity of chosen currencies. The reduction in payments risk and liquidity risk to predetermined tolerances reduces the likelihood of contingent defaults in the event of payment failure due to bank insolvency or other unforeseen event, and thereby reduces systemic risk to the global financial system.
US07822659B2
A method and system for providing content charging in data networks includes the steps of: when a subscriber having an account with a charging service provider uses services having a content provided by a content provider, the content charges are collected for use of the services via the charging service provider and a value is deducted from an account associated with the subscriber in response to the collected charges. The content provider is paid for the use of the content services by the subscriber after the occurrence of a predetermined event.
US07822656B2
A system an method for providing banks with access to a previously inaccessible existing international infrastructure. A provider bank first establishes on its system, a set of accounts for each of the customers of a client bank. (the client bank environment). The client bank environment has its own Demand Deposit Account (DDA) module to process account entries and calculate interest and its own funds transfer module to initiate and to receive funds transfers. The primary interface into the funds transfer section in the client bank environment is to the funds transfer section of the provider bank environment. The funds transfer section of the provider bank is coupled to the systems which constitute the international banking infrastructure that is able to process banking transactions on a global basis for the customers of the client bank. A customer requests a particular international transaction to be performed by its client bank. The client bank then communicates the requested transaction to the funds transfer section in the client bank environment within the system of the provider bank. Once the client bank funds transfer section has received the requested transaction, it references the customer's accounts in the client bank environment (e.g., to debit the customer's account) and then transmit a transaction message (e.g., a payment message) to the funds transfer section of the provider bank environment. The funds transfer section of the provider bank processes the transaction as a typical correspondent bank payment across the Nostro account(s) of the client bank environment (e.g., a high value wire transfer) through one of the clearing systems. Incoming funds (i.e., credits) intended for accounts of customers of the client bank follow this flow in reverse.
US07822655B1
The present invention relates generally to the field of computer-assisted business methods, and to system and articles-of-manufacture for implementing such methods. More particularly, the invention relates to computer-based methods, apparatus and articles-of-manufacture for supporting the coordination, communication, record-keeping, accounting, security and scheduling needs for the syndicate associated with an initial public offering (“IPO”) or other new financial issue. While the invention is exemplified and discussed herein with reference to IPO's, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention is equally applicable to other types of securities and debt instruments, such as preferred stock, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, etc.
US07822649B2
This present subject matter includes a method for processing product selections by a plurality of consumers operating one or more web browsers, comprising collecting electronic information, including product identifying information, about the product selections by each consumer of the plurality of consumers, the product selections selected by the plurality of consumers from offerings at a plurality of disparate websites, associating information related to a consumer identified with a particular product selection with the product identifying information, associating the product identifying information with a Universal Product Code (UPC) for the product selections, aggregating the electronic information in a database, the information categorized by each consumer and UPC code, processing counts of selections by the plurality of consumers organized at least by UPC code, requesting product fulfillment bids from one or more suppliers using the counts and obtaining one or more product fulfillment bids from the one or more suppliers. Other examples provide a method for processing service selections by a plurality of consumers operating one or more web browsers.
US07822641B2
A bet detection system which may execute on a computer based processing device is disclosed for use with DID tokens to detect unwanted or unfair betting patterns by players. The system utilizes a table equipped with DID token detection antenna associated with the one or more bet spots for the player positions. DID token antenna may detect DID tokens at the dealer position, other bet spots, or chip trays. A dealer interface allows the dealer to provide the game data to the detection system. The detection system processes the game data and the bet data, such as bet amount for the players. Based on this processing, bet patterns may be generated for the players and in relation to deck penetration information, deviations in bet patterns may be detected and appropriate notification provided.
US07822639B2
A super-saturation method for information-media substantially relates to a three-body cooperation to direct information to an electronic media consumer (reader, surfer, viewer, listener, etc.). Embodiments of the present invention facilitate a first media body substantially offering out of context information placement using a second cooperating media body. A facilitator body preferably guarantees that a consumer of the second media is a known consumer of the first media. Accordingly, the second media body presents an out of context information placement. For example, an exclusive members-only Internet site “AAA” is oversubscribed with potential paying advertising content at $100 CPM. This exclusive site then offers unfulfilled advertisers an option to present their advertisements to certified “AAA” viewers, albeit on a non-AAA Internet site, for $50 CPM. The facilitator locates a certified AAA viewer at an Internet site “BBB” that normally charges $30 CPM. A facilitated contract(s) between AAA, BBB, and the facilitator divides a new revenue stream of $20 CPM between them—and each of the three bodies benefit.
US07822638B2
An information providing system includes a database having advertisement information and a bid amount of money of an advertisement stored correspondingly. Corresponding pieces of advertisement information are select from the database responding to a retrieval request from a terminal to decide an advertisement publishing order based upon the bid amount of money of each of these pieces of advertisement information. The advertisement publishing order is decided based upon a probability that is calculated from a ratio of the bid amount of money of each advertisement that becomes an object of display over a sum of bid amounts of money of advertisements that become an object of display. This allows the displaying order not to be uniquely decided with the bid amount of money.
US07822631B1
Techniques are described for managing content by identifying content that has attributes of interest (e.g., content that is useful, humorous and/or that otherwise has a sufficiently high degree of quality) and by determining how to use such identified content. In some situations, a piece of content is automatically assessed in a manner based on automatically assessed levels of trust in users who are associated with the content, such as a user who authored or otherwise supplied the content and/or users who evaluated the content. For example, an automatically assessed level of trust for a user may be based on prior activities of the user and be used to predict future behavior of the user as a supplier of acceptable content and/or as an acceptable evaluator of supplied content, such as based on prior activities of the user that are not related to supplying and/or evaluating content.
US07822629B2
A customer profiling apparatus is provided for conducting customer behavior pattern analysis. The apparatus includes processing circuitry, a data warehouse, a profiling engine, and at least one computer program. The processing circuitry is operative to process customer records. The data warehouse is coupled with the processing circuitry and is configured to store the processed customer records. The profiling engine communicates with the data warehouse and is operative to build and update customer behavior profiles by mining the customer records that flow into the data warehouse. The at least one computer program is performed by the profiling engine, and is operative to define behavior profiles as data cubes and derive similarity measures on patterns extracted from the behavior profiles. A method is also provided.
US07822626B2
The present invention offers an extensive suite of tools that facilitate and enhance the capability within a healthcare institution to establish and maintain an evidence-based best practice approach to providing patient care. Using evidence, term vocabulary and default structured content (order sets) embodiments of the invention enable the localization of said content in a well structured environment.
US07822625B2
A system for remotely monitoring an individual. The system includes a server system for generating a script program from a set of queries. The script program is executable by a remote apparatus that displays information and/or a set of queries to the individual through a user interface. Responses to the queries that are entered through the user interface together with individual identification information are sent from the remote apparatus to the server system across a communication network. The server system also includes an automated answering service for providing a series of questions from a stored set of questions for an individual at the remote apparatus to respond to, storing responses to each provided question in the series of questions and providing a service based on the individual's response to the questions.
US07822621B1
A method of populating a knowledge base used in validating medical claims includes creating and/or editing at least one claim element via at least one rule to determine a match between a syntax of the translated edit and a syntax of the rule. A method call is executed responsive to the created or edited claim element resulting in at least one match being determined. The knowledge base is populated responsive to the executing step.
US07822611B2
A speaker intent analysis system and method for validating the truthfulness and intent of a plurality of participants' responses to questions. A computer stores, retrieves, and transmits a series of questions to be answered audibly by participants. The participants' answers are received by a data processor. The data processor analyzes and records the participants' speech parameters for determining the likelihood of dishonesty. In addition to analyzing participants' speech parameters for distinguishing stress or other abnormality, the processor may be equipped with voice recognition software to screen responses that while not dishonest, are indicative of possible malfeasance on the part of the participants. Once the responses are analyzed, the processor produces an output that is indicative of the participant's credibility. The output may be sent to proper parties and/or devices such as a web page, computer, e-mail, PDA, pager, database, report, etc. for appropriate action.
US07822600B2
A function of improving accuracy of the extraction of pitch information in an audio signal including voice and sound signals is implemented. To do this, a morphological operation is used. In detail, an input audio signal is converted to an audio signal in a frequency domain, an optimum structuring set size (SSS) is determined, and a morphological operation is performed using the determined SSS. Then, by extracting the highest peak from a signal obtained through a predetermined fold and summation process as pitch information, the pitch information can be used in all audio systems in the latter part when voice coding, recognition, synthesis, and/or robustness are performed.
US07822599B2
The present invention relates to a method for analyzing speech, the method comprising the steps of: a) inputting a speech signal, b) obtaining the first harmonic of the speech signal, c) determining the phase-difference Df between the speech signal and the first harmonic.
US07822594B2
A method for computing includes specifying a data processing system using a logical system definition, which defines logical system components having respective functionalities and a topology for interconnecting the logical system components. The logical system components are represented using respective logical objects in a hierarchical object model. Physical resources of a grid computer system are represented using physical objects in the hierarchical object model. The logical objects are automatically mapped to at least some of the physical objects, so as to allocate the physical resources to carry out the respective functionalities of the logical system components. The allocated physical resources are configured and activated so as to cause the grid computer system to function as the data processing system, in accordance with the logical system definition.
US07822593B2
A production program creating system creates a production program having a module in which a processing for producing a board is described. The board is produced by mounting an electronic component supplied from a component feeding device onto the board by means of a component mounting device. The component mounting device is described in model form, and a configuration information of the component mounting device is stored in a database. The module is created such that the module works with respect to the component mounting device that is described in model form, and such that the module performs a generalized processing by acquiring the configuration information of the component mounting device from the database.
US07822592B2
In an active system, an actor is able to effect action in a subject system. The actor and the subject system exist in an environment which can impact the subject system. Neither the actor nor the subject system has any control over the environment. The actor includes a model and a processor. The processor is guided by the model. The processor is arranged to effect action in the subject system. The subject system is known by the model. This allows the actor to be guided in its action on the subject system by the model of the subject system. Events can occur in the subject system either through the actions of the actor, as guided by the model, or through actions of other actors, or through a change in state of the subject system itself (e.g. the progression of a chemical reaction) or its environment (e.g. the passage of time). The actor keeps the model updated with its own actions. When the processor is processing according to the model, it updates the model with intermediate actions and with the actions it effects in the subject system.
US07822586B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a computer program product including computer instructions that are executable to receive a set of process parameters, including fluid parameters and heat exchanger parameters, and determine a time for a dispense fluid to reach a target temperature. Additionally, the instructions can be executable to determine a set of process parameters that result in a time to reach the target temperature of below a predefined limit. According to another embodiment of the present invention, a set of computer instructions can calculate the time it takes for a dispense fluid to reach a target temperature for predictive flow control of a heating/cooling fluid.
US07822585B2
The present invention provides a method to construct stable, high-order explicit discretization for the wave equation based on the discretization of the evolution formula. The present invention provides independent computation of discretization in one, two, or more spaces for bulk propagation, near boundaries propagation, and discretization of a projection operator to enforce boundary conditions. More specifically, the method includes an act of discretizing propagation operators LΔt by using an identity that is derived using central differencing in time. The method also includes an act of providing a high-order discretization of a boundary projection operator that enforces boundary conditions independent of the discretization of the propagation operators LΔt. Additionally, the method includes an act of alternating an application of a discretization of an evolution formula having a spatial filtering operator L0 with a boundary projection operation for stepping forward in time to determine wave propagation in the media.
US07822569B2
A specific-condition-section detection apparatus configured to detect a specific condition section in a data signal having a signal level that continues to be closer to a predetermined signal level than a reference level includes a signal correcting unit configured to correct the data signal so that a segment of the data signal is corrected to a level closer to the predetermined signal level than the reference level for a predetermined amount of time starting from the point where the signal level of the data signal changes from a level closer to the predetermined signal level than the reference level to a level further away from the predetermined signal level than the reference level, and a determining unit configured to determine whether the level of the corrected data signal is closer to the predetermined signal level than the reference level.
US07822567B2
A method includes defining a hierarchy of test routines in a test program for testing integrated circuit devices. A first device is tested at a first screening level in the hierarchy. The first device is tested at a second detailed level in the hierarchy responsive to the first device failing the testing at the first screening level.
US07822565B2
A system and method for monitoring RF power is described. In one embodiment the system samples RF power that is generated by an RF generator to obtain RF signals that include information indicative of electrical characteristics at a plurality of particular frequencies that fall within a frequency range. The RF signals are digitized to obtain a stream of digital RF signals that include information indicative of electrical characteristics at the plurality of particular frequencies, and the information indicative of electrical characteristics is successively transformed, for each of the plurality of particular frequencies, from a time domain into a frequency domain.
US07822563B2
A method of calculating a cornering force to be applied to each wheel provided to a vehicle which is cornering, comprising the steps of: obtaining a magnitude of a centrifugal force to the vehicle in a direction substantially orthogonal to a vehicle traveling direction, a contact length of each wheel during the cornering of the vehicle, and an amount of deformation in a wheel width direction at the contact portion of each wheel of the vehicle, calculating a difference between the obtained amount of the deformation and an amount of deformation in the wheel width direction under a straight forward travel condition of the vehicle for each wheel, and calculating a cornering force for each wheel based on the magnitude of the centrifugal force, the contact length, and the difference between amounts of deformation in the wheel width direction.
US07822562B2
Method for removing air wave noise from shallow water controlled source electromagnetic survey data, using only the measured data and conductivity values for sea water (140) and air. The method is a calculation performed numerically on CSEM data and resulting in an estimate of those data that would have been acquired had the water layer extended infinitely upward from the seafloor. No properties of the sub-sea sediments are used. Synthetic electromagnetic field data are generated for (a) an all water model (141) and (b) an air-water model (146-147) of the survey region. These simulated results are then used to calculate (148-150) electromagnetic field values corresponding to a water-sediment model with water replacing the air half space, which represent measured data adjusted to remove air wave noise.
US07822557B2
Methods of determining analyte concentration. The methods use a fraction of the predicted total charge, from analyte electrolysis, instead of using time, for determination of a data collection endpoint. The total charge is then extrapolated from the data collection endpoint. The analyte concentration is determined from the total charge.
US07822552B2
A control device or “bird” for controlling the position of a marine seismic streamer is provided with an elongate, partly flexible body which is designed to be electrically and mechanically connected in series with a streamer. In its preferred form, the bird has two opposed wings which are independently controllable in order to control the streamer's lateral position as well as its depth.
US07822531B2
An aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method and system for reducing emissions and improving knock-tolerance in an engine. Air, including exhaust gas present at levels greater than 20% by total air mass, may be introduced into a combustion chamber having a volume including a piston and a cylinder head. A first amount of fuel and a second amount of fuel may be directly injected into the combustion chamber at various points during the cycle, wherein the ratio of the air, including the exhaust gas, to the first and second amounts of fuel is 14.0:1 to 15.0:1. The first and second amounts of fuel may then be ignited. An electronic control unit may be utilized to time the injections and control the introduction of exhaust gas.
US07822528B2
An engine control system comprises a torque request module, an immediate torque control module, an actuation module, and an expected torque control module. The torque request module generates an expected torque request and an immediate torque request. The immediate torque control module controls a spark advance of an engine based on the immediate torque request. The actuation module selectively reduces the expected torque request based on the immediate torque request and a spark capacity. The spark capacity is based on a difference between a first engine torque and a second engine torque, determined at a current airflow. The first engine torque is determined at a first spark advance and the second engine torque is determined at a second spark advance that is less than the first spark advance. The expected torque control module that controls a throttle valve area based on the expected torque request.
US07822524B2
Vehicular drive system which is small-sized and/or improved in its fuel economy.A power distributing mechanism 16, which is provided with a differential-state switching device in the form of a switching clutch C0 and a switching brake B0, is switchable by the switching device between a differential state (continuously-variable shifting state) in which the mechanism is operable as an electrically controlled continuously variable transmission, and a fixed-speed-ratio shifting state in which the mechanism is operable as a transmission having a fixed speed ratio or ratios. The power distributing mechanism 16 is placed in the fixed-speed-ratio shifting state during a high-speed running of the vehicle or a high-speed operation of engine 8, so that the output of the engine 8 is transmitted to drive wheels 38 primarily through a mechanical power transmitting path, whereby fuel economy of the vehicle is improved owing to reduction of a loss of conversion of a mechanical energy into an electric energy. The mechanism 16 is also placed in the fixed-speed-ratio shifting state during a high-output operation of the engine 8, so that the required electric reaction of first electric motor M1 can be reduced, whereby the required size of the first electric motor M1, and the required size of the drive system 10 including the electric motor M1 can be reduced.
US07822523B2
A seat apparatus for vehicle includes a vehicle state detecting device detecting a vehicle state, at least one position changing device changing a position of a seat, a controlling device controlling the position changing means on the basis of the vehicle state detected by the vehicle state detecting device, and the position changing device tilts an entire or a portion of a right portion of the seat and a left portion of the seat in a forward direction.
US07822519B2
A damping force control device (1) for a shock absorber (Dn) interposed between a sprung member (Bn) and an unsprung member (Wn) of a vehicle (A) comprises a damping force varying mechanism (3) which supplements a minimum damping force (Fdn) that can be generated by the shock absorber (Dn) with a variable damping force (Fcn). The device (1) comprises a control portion (2) which calculates a deviation (εn) between a damping force target value (Fsn) and the minimum damping force (Fdn) (S207), and open-loop controls the damping force varying mechanism (3) using a variable damping force (Fcn) calculated on the basis of the deviation (εn) such that the damping force generated by the shock absorber (Dn) coincide with the damping force target value (Fsn) (S208-S212), thereby optimizing damping force control of the shock absorber (Dn), which has a non-linear damping characteristic.
US07822508B2
The autonomous mobile robot having an openable and closable gripper for gripping goods, cameras, an autonomous mobile means, and a control means for making the robot carry the goods to a destination from an acquisition source, the control means comprising: a grip position recognition means configured to recognize a predetermined position suitable for gripping a carrier container of a predetermined specification configured to place the goods to carry, based on an image of the acquisition source taken by the cameras; a grip control means configured to drive the gripper to the predetermined position of the carrier container and to control gripping the predetermined position; and a grip-success-or-not determination means configured to determine whether or not the gripping is successful, based on an external force acting on the gripper.
US07822496B2
An audio signal processing method and apparatus in which the apparatus includes a plurality of digital filters, each supplied with an audio signal, and a speaker array. Outputs from the digital filters are supplied to speakers included in the speaker array to form a sound field. A predetermined delay time is set in each of the digital filters, to thereby form, in the sound field, a point where the sound pressure is higher than in the surrounding and a point where the sound pressure is lower than in the surrounding. A low-pass filter characteristic is given to the frequency response of the digital filters and a pseudo pulse train is used to enhance the setting resolution of the delay time.
US07822491B2
A method and system for the operation of trains on a rail network, and particularly in the context of long-haul rail networks. The invention provides a method and system which monitors the progress of a train on a long-haul network, calculates efficient control profiles for the train, and displays driving advice to the train crew. The system calculates and provides driving advice that assists to keep the train on time and reduce the energy used by the train by: (i) monitoring the progress of a journey to determine the current location and speed of the train; (ii) estimating some parameters of a train performance model; (iii) calculating or selecting an energy-efficient driving strategy that will get the train to the next key location as close as possible to the desired time; and (iv) generating and providing driving advice for the driver.
US07822490B2
An electrical control system is disclosed for controlling a plurality of variable transmittance windows. The electrical control system of the present invention comprises a master control circuit for supplying control signals representing transmittance levels for the variable transmission windows, and a plurality of window control circuits coupled to each of the master control circuits. Because the window control circuits can sense abnormal load conditions in the variable transmission windows, the system further includes an interface to a security system to inform of a potential intrusion. Each window control circuit controls the transmittance of at least one of the variable transmission windows in response to control signals received from the master control circuit.
US07822485B2
A method for exchanging heat with a patient's spinal column incident to spinal surgery or to relieve a patient for a hypoxia condition of the spine. A closed loop heat exchange catheter is percutaneously advanced into the retroperitoneal space of the patient, and then heat exchange fluid is circulated through the catheter to cool the spinal column.
US07822480B2
An exemplary system for communicating with an implantable stimulator includes a coil configured to transmit a signal modulated with on-off keying (OOK) modulation to transmit control data. The system further includes a first telemetry receiver in the implantable stimulator configured to receive the control data in accordance with the OOK modulation. An exemplary method of communicating with an implantable stimulator includes modulating a signal with control data using OOK modulation and transmitting the signal to the implantable stimulator.
US07822477B2
Connector assemblies for use with implantable medical devices having easy to assemble contacts are disclosed. The connector assemblies are generally formed by coupling a plurality of contact housings, sealing rings and leaf spring contact elements to form a connector having a common bore for receiving a medical lead cable. Contact grooves for positioning the leaf spring contact elements are formed in part by assembling multiple components together.
US07822475B2
Method and apparatus for reducing far-field interchamber interference in an implanted medical device
An implantable medical device comprises at least two sensing channels for receiving sensed first and second location electrical signals originating from two different locations of a heart. A control unit is connected to the sensing channels and is adapted to process sensed electrical signals originating from first and second locations of the heart. The control unit incorporates an adaptive filter compensator adapted to generate an estimate signal for compensating a far-field contribution of the second location signal to the first location signal, thereby generating an output signal representing a near field signal originating from the first location. A gate is connected to the second location sensing channel and is adapted to enable the adaptive filter compensator only if a predetermined signal is sensed via the second location sensing channel.
US07822468B2
The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for the determination of the optical properties of a multi-layered tissue. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for the detection and characterisation of tumors in a tissue.
US07822462B2
A diagnosis device having a device for producing a series of images, such as a computer tomography device or an ultrasound device. There is also a device for the passive movement of an object and a device that can be stereotactically moved independent of the passive movement object, wherein this stereotactial movement object can be driven by a motor. These two devices can be arranged on or in the diagnosis device to perform a treatment or examination. By controlling the diagnosis device, it is possible to produce a series of images in real time during a passive movement of an object or of the device for performing a treatment or examination.
US07822457B2
Apparatus for compressing tissue to be scanned for medical imaging is provided. The apparatus may comprise a compression membrane and a tensioning apparatus coupled to the membrane to apply a tensile force to the membrane to place the membrane in a taut condition during an imaging process. In one exemplary application that combines ultrasound scanning with X-ray mammography, the compressing apparatus enables accurate, reproducible ultrasound images reducing distortion and attenuation, which may otherwise be introduced as a consequence of such a combination of imaging processes.
US07822452B2
The present invention relates to a method for estimating blood glucose levels using a noninvasive optical coherence tomography- (OCT-) based blood glucose monitor. An algorithm correlates OCT-based estimated blood glucose data with actual blood glucose data determined by invasive methods. OCT-based data is fit to the obtained blood glucose measurements to achieve the best correlation. Once the algorithm has generated sets of estimated blood glucose levels, it may refine the number of sets by applying one or more mathematical filters. The OCT-based blood glucose monitor is calibrated using an Intensity Difference plot or the Pearson Product Moment Correlation method.
US07822436B2
A wireless communication terminal includes a radio frequency (RF) transceiver and a baseband processing circuit, which is arranged to detect an indication of a rate of movement of the terminal. The baseband processing circuit is coupled to cause the RF transceiver to scan periodically for access points that are available to communicate with the mobile terminal at a scan rate that is selected responsively to the indication, and upon detecting an available access point, to establish a wireless connection between the terminal and the available access point.
US07822428B1
A system and method is described for providing an interactive rich media information service to users of mobile devices. The rich media information is presented to users in a plurality of interactive rich media channels. A subscriber-specific data stream is received at the mobile device containing channel data for each of the rich media channel that the user has subscribed to. The channel data is separated and stored corresponding to each such subscribed-to channel. An interactive multimedia runtime container (iMRC). is executed on the mobile device for each subscribed-to channel. The rich media channels are played on the iMRC and displayed on the display of the mobile device. Using the user interface elements of the mobile device, the user may navigate through the information on the channels, navigate between different channels, subscribe or un-subscribe to channels, and enter user preferences for further tailoring the information presented in the subscribed-to channels.
US07822427B1
A base station almanac (BSA) includes entries for a plurality of repeaters. An entry for a repeater includes location-determination parameters associated with that repeater, such as (i) a repeater forward link calibration (FLC) value that correct for transmission delay associated with the repeater and (ii) a center point of the repeater's coverage area. A measured power level and a measured phase of a wireless signal transmitted by a base transceiver station (BTS) and received by the mobile station are obtained. An expected received power level is calculated based on the measured phase and the transmit power level of the BTS. If the measured power level exceeds the expected received power level by at least a predetermined amount, then it is determined that the mobile station received the wireless signal via a repeater and one or more location-determination parameters associated with the repeater are used to determine the mobile station's location.
US07822426B1
In one embodiment, an initial estimated location of a mobile electronic device is determined using a location determination method (LDM). An accuracy for the LDM is determined. An initial set of landmarks is determined based upon the initial estimated location and the determined accuracy. For each landmark in the initial set of landmarks, a likelihood is calculated that the mobile electronic device is located about that landmark. A landmark from the initial set of landmarks is selected based on the likelihoods. The location of the mobile electronic device is set to a known location of the selected landmark.
US07822425B2
A SUPL enabled terminal, method and system for processing SUPL are discussed. According to one embodiment, the SUPL enabled terminal includes a processor to process a SUPL location platform (SLP) mode indicator received in a SUPL initiation message, the SLP mode indicator indicating whether the terminal is to operate according to a proxy mode or a non-proxy mode.
US07822424B2
A wireless system (20) and method for determining the location of a fixed or mobile target (31, 32, 33 . . . ) configured to have a transponder (31, 64) on the target (31, 32, 33 . . . ), a transceiver (21, 44) monitoring the target location, communicating between the transponder (31, 64) and transceiver (21, 44), and a processor (40) for finding the target by virtual triangulation based on values of received position information. The processor (40) is configured to determine virtual triangulation based on successive values of the position information using at least three points (P1, P2 and P3) of the transponder (31) respective of the transceiver (21). The present invention discloses methods for finding with virtual triangulation by: (a) finding with virtual triangulation by generating position information in real-time, in the case of (i) stationary and moving target, and or (ii) in the case of the presence of obstacles; (b) finding with virtual triangulation relating to the average speed of the motion of operator; and or (c) finding with simplified virtual triangulation.
US07822423B2
In a telecommunication system communication to and/or from a user equipment is carried on a user plane and messages supporting the communication are carried on a control plane. Information supporting provision of information about the location of the user equipment is also arranged to be carried on the user plane to and/or from the user equipment.
US07822418B2
Implementations related to media playback and storage devices are presented herein.
US07822410B2
A communication system includes a development sector for registering a plurality of wireless devices, a business sector for controlling utilization of an application program and for receiving application data, a service sector for deploying the application program and for providing the application data to the business sector in accordance with communication with at least one wireless device of the plurality; and a mobile sector comprising the plurality of wireless devices, each device for receiving the application program deployed by the service sector, executing the application program in response to the business sector, and communicating with the service sector to support provision of the application data to the business sector. The wireless device, such as a cell phone, personal digital assistant, or palm top computer may include an auxiliary device such as a bar code scanner, a magnetic stripe card reader, or a printer.
US07822399B2
A receiver (20) for use in wireless communications with plural transmitters (22) comprises transmitter selection logic (34); a signal estimator (36); and an image estimator (38). The image estimator (38) is configured to form an estimate of an image signal occurring on the second sub-carrier and attributable to a transmission of the first transmitter. The signal estimator (36) is configured, e.g., to use the estimate of the image signal and a signal received on the second sub-carrier to obtain an estimate of a portion of the signal received on the second sub-carrier which is attributable to the second transmitter. Thus, the receiver (20) is able to determine the portion of the signal received on the second sub-carrier which is attributable to the second transmitter in a way that compensates for the image signal occurring at the second sub-carrier.
US07822387B2
A remote monitoring device is integrated as part of a cell phone or personal digital assistant. By sharing computing resources of a communications transceiver, the cost of a monitoring device can be significantly reduced, while still permitting sufficient functionality to effectively observe an area of interest, such as a child's sleeping area. An alert is generated and transmitted to an observer using a separate transceiver when activity at the monitored area (i.e., sound or video activity) meets a specified threshold.
US07822384B2
A method of operating a mobile electronic device includes detecting at least one other mobile electronic device within a predetermined distance of the mobile electronic device, and determining a spatial relationship of the at least one other mobile electronic device relative to the mobile electronic device. An ad hoc wireless connection is established with the at least one other mobile electronic device based on the determined spatial relationship. Data may be transmitted to and/or received from the at least one other mobile electronic device over the ad hoc wireless connection based on the determined spatial relationship. Related systems, devices, and computer program products are also discussed.
US07822383B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor integrated circuit and a wireless communication apparatus that can be reduced in size without deteriorating a receiving sensitivity and a transmission efficiency. Communication with an external reader/writer and an external non-contact IC card is carried out through a common antenna 211. The signal received from the external reader/writer or the external non-contact IC card through the antenna is supplied to an ASK demodulation circuit 149 and demodulated. The signal received from the external reader/writer is full-wave rectified and smoothed by an full-wave rectification and smoothing circuit composed of diodes 231, 232 and a capacitor 233, and the power obtained from the full-wave rectified and smoothed signal is supplied to respective units of a semiconductor integrated circuit 101. The present invention can be applied to a mobile phone.
US07822379B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a main body discharge tray disposed in an image forming apparatus main body, onto which a sheet with an image recorded is discharged; a main body discharge member that discharges the sheet onto the main body discharge tray; an optional discharge device disposed above the main body discharge member, the optional discharge device having an optional transport path through which the sheet passes and an optional discharge member that discharges the sheet; a postprocessing device that performs postprocessing on the sheet; and a postprocessing transport device disposed above the main body discharge tray, the postprocessing transport device having a lower portion, an upper portion on which the sheet discharged from the optional discharge member is placed and a postprocessing transport path formed between the lower and upper portions, the postprocessing transport path transporting the sheet discharged from the main body discharge member to the postprocessing device.
US07822371B2
A toner container includes a longitudinal container body, a held portion, and a standing inhibiting unit. The container body has a first end and a second end distal to the first end in length direction of the container body. The held portion is attached to the first end and has a toner outlet for discharging the toner contained in the container body. The held portion is held by the toner-container holder. The standing inhibiting unit is provided in the held portion and inhibits the toner container from being stood on a horizontal plane with the held portion directed vertically downward with respect to the container body.
US07822368B2
In a container is adapted to be coupled with another container, a first wall member defines a first storage space adapted to store developing agent for forming an image on a recording medium. A first coupler is adapted to be coupled with a second coupler provided with the first another container. A first communicator is operable to communicate the first storage space with a second storage space provided with the first another container by way of the first coupler and the second coupler, when the container is coupled with another container.
US07822367B2
An image forming apparatus is provided which includes a developing apparatus configured to form a developer image; a supply apparatus configured to supply developer to the developing apparatus; a detector configured to detect an amount of developer consumed during an image forming process; and a controller configured to perform an addition calculation for the amount of developer consumed, and for employing a value obtained by the addition calculation and a supply threshold value to determine whether developer should be supplied to the developing apparatus, wherein the controller sets the supply threshold value in accordance with an operating state of the developing apparatus.
US07822365B2
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus comprising: a plurality of image forming means; a first image forming means; a second image forming means; a belt member to be transferred with the toner image formed on each image forming means; and a plurality of suspending members, wherein said plurality of image forming means are arranged so as to face to a first belt surface between the suspending members; the first and second image forming means are arranged so as to face to a second belt surface different from the first belt surface; and a distance, between adjacent contact portions of the image forming means on the second belt surface side and said second belt surface, is greater than a distance, between adjacent contact portions of the image forming means on the first belt surface side and said first belt surface.
US07822364B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main-body and a process cartridge. A female connector is arranged on a developing roller shaft in the process cartridge. The female connector has an open-ended ring-like space formed between an outer ring and an inner ring. A plurality of track grooves are arranged on the circumference of at least one of the outer ring and the inner ring. One end of a cartridge driving shaft is supported in the apparatus main-body, while the other end thereof facing the process cartridge is movable in a radial direction. A male connector is arranged on the movable end of the cartridge driving shaft. A front portion of the male connector is a cylindrical spherical-body holding portion that rotatably holds a plurality of spherical bodies. When the spherical-body holding portion enters into the ring-like space, the spherical bodies slide along the track grooves.
US07822362B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus body; a first rotating body having a first end supported on the apparatus body rotatably about an axis so that the first rotating body is rotatable between an adjacent state and a distant state in which a second end is more distant from the apparatus body than the adjacent state; an arm having a first end rotatably supported on the apparatus body, and a second end connected to the first rotating body to be slidable in a direction perpendicular to the axis; and an urging member having a first end connected to the arm, and a second end connected to the first rotating body at a position between the axis and a connecting portion to which the arm is connected, the urging member urges the arm in a direction of drawing the second end of the arm toward the axis.
US07822361B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus body; an image forming unit; a first fixing device; and a second fixing device, the first and second fixing device being selectively attached, and the apparatus body including: a first attaching region that is formed by detaching the first fixing device; a sheet-discharging region in which, in a case where the first fixing device is attached to the apparatus body, a sheet subjected to a fixing operation by the first fixing device is discharged into an upper portion of the apparatus body while downwardly directing a face on which the fixing operation is performed; and a second attaching region to which the second fixing device is attached, and that includes the first attaching region and the sheet-discharging region.
US07822360B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a roller detachably attached to/from the main body, a supporting member supporting a rotary shaft of the roller, and a locking unit which includes a locker frame and a locker arm. The locker arm is elastically biased toward the locking position and is moved to a releasing position when a user pushes the locker arm. In addition, the locker arm is movably coupled to the locker frame fixed on the main body, and installed on the main body in a state where the locking unit is assembled in advance. Therefore, assembling processes of the apparatus can be simple, and a user can assemble the apparatus easily.
US07822358B2
An image forming device having an image reading section which is supported in a cantilevered state with a space between the image reading section and a top surface of an image forming section, the image forming device including: a housing of the image forming section; and a first supporting body fixed to a side surface of the housing and supporting the image reading section, wherein the first supporting body has: a first supporting portion fixed to the side surface of the housing and supporting the image reading section; and a second supporting portion extending from the first supporting portion in a same direction as the image reading section which is supported in the cantilevered state, and a receiving portion, which fixes the second supporting portion, and is provided at the side surface of the housing.
US07822355B2
The present invention is related to preventing dust agglomeration on a sharp electrode which is used for generating corona. According to certain aspects, the invention includes a dust shroud which decreases or prevents dust accumulation on the sharp electrodes. The dust shroud changes the gas flow path so as to reduce the amount of gas passing near the sharp electrode. An advantage of the shroud is that it prevents dust from building up on the electrodes. The shroud is a simple, passive addition to the electrostatic pump, such that the pump is otherwise able to operate normally throughout its life. In embodiments, the shroud can be used to protect a corona electrode used in heat sink applications especially in electronics cooling. It can also be used in electrostatic precipitators for cleaning dust or chemical or microbe particles from air.
US07822354B2
A power conservation device includes a detection unit for detecting a status of the power conservation device; a detection unit power source for supplying power to the detection unit; an operation control unit for controlling an operation of the power conservation device according to output information from the detection unit; an operation unit power source for supplying power to the operation control unit; an information processing unit for processing specific information and controlling the operation unit power source; and a monitoring unit for monitoring a change in the output information of the detection unit. The detection unit power source supplies power to the detection unit intermittently when the operation unit power source stops supplying power to the operation control unit. The information processing unit controls the operation unit power source to supply power to the operation unit when the monitoring unit detects the change in the output information of the detection unit.
US07822349B2
In an IR communication network, a method is described to optimize channel performance in the presence of strong and varying IR interference. The method controls of the channel gain based on quantitative measurement of the channel noise.
US07822338B2
An electronic device includes a support structure and a camera carried by the support structure and including a detector surface and a lens having an optical axis, and having a field of view. A display is carried by the support structure in a fixed relation to the camera. The display has a normal viewing angle perpendicular to a surface of the display. The field of view of the camera has a main line of sight extending at an acute angle to the normal viewing angle of the display.
US07822325B2
A water heater including a vessel, a heating fixture (e.g., an electric-resistance heating element, a gas burner) having a rated maximum heating output, and a controller. The controller includes an interface and a temperature sensor. The controller can control the heating output of the heating element based on a sensed temperature of the temperature sensors. The heating output is a defined maximum heating output for the heating fixture. Also disclosed are methods of defining the capabilities of a water hater heater and methods of operating a water heater.
US07822324B2
Embodiments of the invention include a heated load lock chamber. In one embodiment, a heated load lock chamber includes a chamber body having a plurality of lamp assembles disposed at least partially therein. Each lamp assembly includes a transmissive tube housing a lamp. The transmissive tube extends into the chamber body and provides a pressure barrier isolating the lamp from the interior volume of the load lock chamber. In another embodiment, an open end of the transmissive tube extends through a sidewall of the chamber body. A closed end of the transmissive tube is surrounded by the interior volume of the chamber body and is supported below a top of the chamber body in a spaced apart relation. The open end of the tube is sealed to the sidewall of the chamber body such that the interior of the tube is open to atmosphere.
US07822323B2
Fan includes wires electrically connected to the circuit board outwardly extends from a base toward a housing along a rib connecting the base supporting a motor and the housing. The housing includes a wire-receiving section defined by a through hole extending in the housing, and a slit connecting the through hole and an outside of the housing along a direction in which the through hole extends. The wires are inserted into the wire-receiving section via the slit, and then, led outside of the housing through the wire-receiving section. A wire-holding member is then inserted into the wire-receiving section to close the slit to prevent the wires from coming out of the wire-receiving section and to restrict the movement of the wires.
US07822320B2
The present invention relates to a method of grouping still pictures recorded on a recording medium for the purpose of efficient management. The present method records still pictures onto a recording medium, groups the recorded still pictures based on their attributes and attributes of recorded audio data associated with respective still pictures, creates management information about each still-picture group, and writes the group management information onto the recording medium. Owing to the recorded group management information, a user can easily and rapidly find many still pictures on a recording medium that have been obtained in the same photographing condition.
US07822317B2
A recorded broadcast program including CM portions is reproduced with CM portions skipped. When an instruction to execute a fast forward operation is entered at the beginning of CM portion and an instruction to execute a reproducing operation is entered at the termination of CM portion while the recorded broadcast program data including CM data is read out and reproduced from a recording unit 111, CPU 110 stores in the recording unit 111 a time length obtained by subtracting a time at which the instruction to execute a fast forward operation is entered from a time at which the instruction to execute a reproducing operation is entered, an image which is being reproduced at the time at which the instruction to execute a fast forward operation is entered, and a title of the image. CPU 110 further compares an image which is being reproduced with the image stored in the recording unit, and skips a reading position on the recording unit 111 based on the time length stored in the recording unit 111, when the compared images coincide with each other.
US07822310B2
There is provided splice trays and splice assemblies that provide convenient access to optical fiber slack within a relatively small area or volume. Some splice trays are adapted for use with microstructured optical fibers to further reduce the size of the splice tray or splice assembly. Some splice trays provide fiber routing devices on the cover of the splice tray. The fiber routing device may be positioned on an inside surface of the cover and/or on an outside surface of the cover. The splice trays and/or splice assemblies may be used with or as fiber drop terminals used within multiple dwelling units.
US07822305B2
An optical transmission assembly consists of an upper cladding; a lower cladding; a specified width core formed between the upper cladding and the lower cladding; a surface light emitting device mounted on an upper surface of the upper cladding, a light emitting surface of the surface light emitting device facing the core; a reflective surface formed at a position in the core facing the light emitting surface of the surface light emitting device, and inclined in a longitudinal direction of the core; a shift area formed by which a beam from the light emitting surface of the surface light emitting device and the reflective surface are shifted in a width direction of the core relative to each other; and a light receiving device mounted on a lower surface of the lower cladding, a light receiving surface of the light receiving device facing the light emitting surface of the surface light emitting device through the shift area.
US07822303B2
A fiber-optical, wavelength selective switch, especially for channel routing with equalization and blocking applications. The input signals are converted to light beams having predefined polarizations (41). The beams are then laterally expanded (43), and then undergo spatial dispersion in the beam expansion plane. The different wavelength components are directed through a polarization rotation device, pixilated along the wavelength dispersion direction such that each pixel operates on a separate wavelength. Each beam is passed into a pixilated beam steering array (48), for directing each wavelength to a desired output port. The beam steering devices can be MEMS-based or Liquid crystal-based, or an LCOS array. When the appropriate voltage is applied to a pixel and its associated beam steering element, the polarization of the light passing through the pixel is rotated and the beam steered to couple to the selected output port.
US07822300B2
An anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguide structure for reducing optical crosstalk in an image sensor and method of forming the same. The method includes forming a trench within a plurality of material layers and over a photo-conversion device. The trench is vertically aligned with the photo-conversion device and is filled with materials of varying refractive indices to form an anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguide structure. The anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguide structure has a core and at least two cladding structures. The cladding structure in contact with the core has a refractive index that is higher than the refractive index of the core and the refractive index of the other cladding structure. The cladding structures act as Fabry-Perot cavities for light propagating in the transverse direction, such that light entering the anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguide structure remains confined to the core. This reduces the chance of photons impinging upon neighboring photo-conversion devices.
US07822295B2
A processing apparatus and method for selecting images, the apparatus and method including displaying a catalog of a plurality of images on an image display device, obtaining information when at least one image is selected from the plurality of displayed images, the information relating to an image corresponding to the selected image, and displaying a menu on the image display device in association with the selected image, the menu including an option for executing searching based on the obtained information.
US07822294B2
In a method for producing three-dimensionally structured surfaces of objects as a reproduction of an original surface, the topology of the original surface is determined, and the data are used for controlling a machining tool. The determined topology and a random topology of a reproduction surface are brought closer to one another via a series of proximity comparisons until all items of height information of the reproduction surface are successively replaced by items of height information from the original surface, and that once an established similarity between the topologies of the reproduction surface and the original surface is obtained, the items of height information of the reproduction surface are provided for controlling the machine tool serving to machine the surface of the object.
US07822293B2
Embodiments of an imaging system and method for generating video data with edge-aware interpolation are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, an edge-aware demosaicing process is performed on image sensor data to generate pixel-edge data, and video output data may be generated by adding the pixel-averaged data to difference data weighted by a correction factor. The difference data represents a difference between pixel-averaged data and the pixel-edge data. The correction factor may be proportional to an amount of edge content in the image sensor data.
US07822290B2
Disclosed is a method and system for processing image data, which may be generated by a scanning subsystem, and the segmentation and treatment of leaky windows or segments within the image. In addition to the identification of window regions or segments having leaky boundaries, the method and system include the subsequent control of enhancement and other image processing techniques applied to such images so as to reduce or eliminate artifacts that result from the processing of leaky window regions.
US07822286B2
A method filters pixels in a sequence of images. Each image in the sequence is partitioned into blocks of pixels, and the images are processed sequentially. The energy is determined for each block of pixels in each image. The energy of each block is based on variances of intensities of the pixels in the sequence of images. A 3D fuzzy filter is applied to each current pixel in each current block during the sequential processing. The 3D fuzzy filter considers the energy of the block, and the intensities of pixels spatially adjacent and temporally adjacent to the current pixel to remove blocking and ringing artifacts.
US07822274B2
A process for segmenting an object of interest from background, comprising: obtaining a master, high-resolution image of an object disposed within a background; applying a first band graph cut process to the master image generating a second image with the object being segmented from the background to a first approximation; and, comparing the second image with the master image to produce a comparison image with pixels identified by the comparison to be background images being removed from the comparison image.
US07822270B2
A color management system is described herein. Various embodiments of a method described herein can include receiving source color content that is associated with a source device, and transforming the source color content into destination color content for rendering on one or more destination devices. Various embodiments of an apparatus described herein can include a color infrastructure transformation engine that further includes a sequential transform component, which is adapted to receive source color content and to create a transform to facilitate mapping the source color content to destination color content. The color infrastructure transformation engine can also include a transform optimization component that is adapted to receive the transform and to create an optimized transform table based on the transform, and a transform execution component that is adapted to receive the optimized transform table and to generate the destination color content based thereon.
US07822261B2
For each teaching image, a plurality of patterns of color pickup regions each include a first region for picking up a color of a first part and a second region for picking up a color of a second part are set, the color of each pixel in the first region and the color of each pixel in the second region are mapped as a target point and an exclusion point respectively, to a color space for each of the patterns of the color pickup regions, a degree in separation between a target point distribution and an exclusion point distribution in the color space is calculated for each of the patterns of the color pickup regions, a pattern of a color pickup region having a maximum degree in separation is selected, a color range which divides the color space and has the largest difference between the number of target points and the number of exclusion points in the selected pattern therein is found, and the found color range is set as a color condition used in a board inspecting process.
US07822256B2
A system for enhancing a digital image. The system includes: means for providing a digital image; means for decomposing the provided digital image into a multi-frequency band representation of four frequency bands as follows: a lowest frequency band image which represents large-sized features in the digital image; a low-to-mid frequency band image which represents mid-sized features of the digital image; a mid-to-high frequency band image which represents the small-sized features in the digital image; and a highest frequency band which represents very fine detail in the digital image; means for manipulating said low-to-mid frequency band image to produce a contrast effect without affecting the overall dynamic range of said digital image; means for multiplying each of said high-frequency band images with a gain factor; means for summing together said unmodified low frequency band image and said modified high-frequency band images to produce a reconstructed digital image; and means for mapping said reconstructed digital image through a tone-scale look-up table to map said reconstructed digital image to optical densities.
US07822255B2
In a method and an apparatus for generation of an x-ray image of an examination subject, a subject image region exclusively reproducing the examination subject is identified in the image field of a first, complete x-ray image. A grayscale value range is identified in an intermediate image encompassing the entire image field and derived from the first x-ray image by digital image processing; and all image points whose grayscale value in the intermediate image lie within this grayscale value range are associated with the subject image region.
US07822249B2
Systems and methods for high-throughput radiation biodosimetry are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a high-throughput methods of analyzing a population for radiation exposure can include, in various possible sequences: marking a first capillary designed to retain a first sample from the population with a first identifier; transporting a plurality of samples to a biodosimetry system; inputting the samples into the biodosimetry system; centrifuging the plurality of samples including the first sample wherein each sample can be retained in a capillary and the first sample can be retained in the first capillary; transferring the plurality of capillaries including the first capillary from the centrifuge to a cutting device using a robotic device; cutting the first capillary; reading the first identifier; transferring at least one portion of the first sample from the first capillary to a well in an array, wherein the array can include one or more filters in a multi-well plate; correlating the first identifier to a location of the array that includes the at least one portion of the first sample; one or more cycles of biological processing, which can include addition of a reagent and/or incubation of a selected temperature such as, for example, 37° C., 4° C., room temperature, and the like; sealing the array; positioning the array adjacent to an imaging element; focusing the imaging element; capturing an image of the first sample in the array; and analyzing the image to determine whether the first sample indicates a level of radiation exposure exceeding a predetermined threshold.
US07822246B2
The system 10 comprises an input 2 for accessing the suitable input data. The core of the system 10 is formed by a processor 4 which is arranged to operate the components of the system 10, it being the input 2, a computing unit 5, a working memory 6. The computing unit 5 preferably comprises a suitable number of executable subroutines 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, and 5f to enable a constructing of a geometric model of the movable body based on the results of the segmentation step, finding a spatial correspondence between the first and second image dataset, mapping the texture image dataset on geometric model, fusing the geometric model and the mapped texture image dataset. The apparatus 10 according to the invention further comprises a coder 7 arranged to code the determined region of interest in accordance to a pre-selected criterion. The criterion may be selectable from a list of valid criteria, stored in a file 7a. Preferably, the coder 7, the computing unit 5 and the processor 4 are operable by a computer program 3, preferably stored in memory 8. An output 9 is used for outputting the results of the processing, like fused image data representing the textured, preferably animated geometric model of the movable body. The invention further relates to a method for integration of medical diagnostic information and a geometric model of a movable body and to a computer program.
US07822242B2
An image processing apparatus is provided for reducing noise from an original image consisting of digital image data. The apparatus has an information calculator, smoothed image producer, weighting-factor calculator, and weighting adder. The information calculator calculates information in relation to a pixel-value change representing a degree that becomes larger with a spatial change in a pixel value averaged each predetermined area on the original image. The smoothed image producer produces a smoothed image by smoothing the original image. The weighting-factor calculator calculates a weighting factor depending on the calculated information in relation to the pixel-value change. The weighting adder mutually performing, using the weighting factor, weighting addition with either the original image or an image modulated from the original image and the produced smoothed image.
US07822238B2
The invention provides a method, system, and program product for transforming a multi-dimensional biometric feature point set. More particularly, the invention provides a method for transforming a biometric image using surface folding of the image. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for transforming a multi-dimensional biometric feature point set, the method comprising: converting the multi-dimensional biometric feature point set to a canonical position and orientation; applying a non-invertible transform function to each of a plurality of points of the biometric feature point set; and providing a transformed biometric feature point set comprising a plurality of transformed points.
US07822237B2
When two images are matched, a partial image S is registered in advance, mutual relative position is obtained when the partial image S and an image I indicate the largest overlap. Based on the relative position, the relative position between the image T and the image I is determined. Thus, it is determined whether or not the image T and the image I match.
US07822232B2
A data security system comprises a host processor, and a plurality of remote computers. Each remote computer provides biometric authentication of a user prior to responding to the user request for data access. The remote computers are handheld when in operational mode. A sensor in the handheld computer captures a biometric image while the remote computer is being used. The biometric sensor is positioned in such a way that the sensor enables the capture of the biometric image continually during computer usage with each request for access to secure data. The biometric authentication occurs in a seamless manner and is incidental to the data request enabling user identity authentication with each request to access secure data.
US07822229B2
A method used in broadcasts of events is disclosed for identifying the coordinates of an object in world space from a video frame, where the object is not on the geometric model of the environment. Once the world coordinates of the object are identified, a graphic may be added to a video replay showing the object. The method may also be expanded in a further embodiment to identify a trajectory of an object over time moving through world space from video images of the start and end of the trajectory, where the object is not on the geometric model of the environment. Once the trajectory of the object in world space is identified, a graphic may be added to a video replay showing the trajectory.
US07822228B2
A system and method of treating the output of moving cameras, in particular ones that enable the application of conventional “static camera” algorithms, e.g., to enable the continuous vigilance of computer surveillance technology to be applied to moving cameras that cover a wide area. A single camera is deployed to cover an area that might require many static cameras and a corresponding number of processing units. A novel system for processing the main video sufficiently enables long-term change detection, particularly the observation that a static object has been moved or has appeared, for instance detecting the parking and departure of vehicles in a parking lot, the arrival of trains in stations, delivery of goods, arrival and dispersal of people, or any other application.
US07822226B2
The present invention relates generally to embedding auxiliary data and data hiding. One claim recites a method including: calculating with a processor or electronic circuitry characteristics of a media signal comprising audio or video; based at least in part on calculated characteristics of the media signal, providing a map of the media signal, wherein the map identifies at least one portion of the media signal in which plural-bit data should be steganographically encoded; transforming at least some portions of the media signal into a transform domain; and steganographically encoding with a processor or electronic circuitry auxiliary data in data representing at least the one portion of the media signal in which the plural-bit data should be steganographically encoded, and wherein at least said act of transforming or said act of steganographically encoding utilizes the map of the media signal. Other claims and combinations are also provided.
US07822220B2
An earphone assembly (100) includes an insulative body (1), an audio plug (5) and an earphone (3). The insulative body (1) includes a main body (11), two side walls (12) located at two sides of the main body (11) and a connecting portion (13) connecting with the main body (11) and the two side walls (12). The main body (11), the side walls (12) and the connecting portion (13) together define a receiving space (10). The audio plug (5) is retained in the bottom of the connecting portion (13). The earphone (3) includes two headphones (31) and two rings (33) respectively connecting with the headphones (31) and the audio plug (5). The side walls (12) respectively form a pair of bulges (14) extending transversely and outwardly. The rings (33) include two resilient sections (331) respectively received in the bulges (14) and capable of elastically moving along the extending direction of the bulges (14) for changing the position of the headphones (31).
US07822217B2
Systems, devices and methods are provided for diotically presenting second-order gradient directional hearing aid signals. The present subject matter provides an improved signal-to-noise ratio, and presents a desired directional signal to each ear. One aspect is a hearing aid system. In one embodiment, the system includes a first microphone system in a first device and a second microphone system in a second device. The first microphone system has a first output signal, and the second microphone system has a second output signal. Each output signal includes a first-order directional signal. The system further includes a first receiver circuit and a second receiver circuit. The combination of the first output signal and the second output signal provides a diotic presentation of a second-order gradient signal to both the first receiver circuit and the second receiver circuit. Other aspects are provided herein.
US07822214B1
An audio power output system with shared output blocking capacitor provides reduced cost and volume in multi-channel audio power output systems. A pair of transducers are series-connected in opposite polarity and a common DC blocking capacitor provides the return path to a power supply rail in common with a pair of audio power output stages having output terminals each connected to one of the other terminals of a corresponding transducer. A signal processing block provides a pair of signals to the inputs of the audio power output stages and process the signals to increase the separation of the audio signals at lower frequencies. The frequency-dependent characteristic of the “widening” between the signals reduces the attenuating effect of the shared capacitor and can be matched to the inverse of the narrowing effect. The signal processing block may be an analog network, or digital signal processing algorithm or circuit.
US07822209B2
Methods, systems and computer readable mediums are provided for recovering keys. A key transport session key is generated, and a key encryption key is derived based on a server master key and an identification associated with a token. The key transport session key is encrypted with the key encryption key as a first wrapped key transport session key. An encrypted storage session key and an encrypted private key are retrieved from an archive. The encrypted storage session key is decrypted with a server storage key as a storage session key. The encrypted private key is decrypted with the storage session key. The decrypted private key is encrypted with the key transport session key as a wrapped private key. The wrapped private key and the first wrapped key transport session key are forwarded.
US07822208B2
A process for creating and managing pairs of asymmetrical cryptographic keys and/or certificates associated with the pairs of keys, each pair of keys and associated certificates being intended for an object managed by a computer system. The process includes creating an individual request for creating and/or certifying at least one pair of keys for an object of the system that lacks a pair of keys or a certificate for its pair of keys.
US07822204B2
An encryption technique allowing use of classic Y-00 scheme performed using classic physical random numbers instead of quantum fluctuation in electrical communication and data storage in recording media, including a first modulation step for multilevel-modulating input data by associating with specific state pairs determined by physical random numbers, a second modulation step for outputting the output of the first step by irregularly associating with another signal by physical random numbers, and a channel coding step for channel-coding the output of the second step into desired codeword and outputting it as encrypted data, wherein the decoded signal obtained by channel-decoding the encrypted data can be discriminated which of specific state pairs the signal corresponds to and demodulated into the input data, and output by the first modulation by state pairs other than the specific state pairs and the second modulation by a physical random number different from the physical random number.
US07822200B2
Exemplary embodiments disclosed herein may include a method and system for creating pair-wise security keys, comprising receiving an identity key from a website, generating a master key, creating a pair-wise symmetric key or asymmetric key pair by utilizing an encryption function of the identity key and the master key, and storing the pair-wise public or symmetric key at the client and the website.
US07822196B2
It is desired to share one circuit by an encryption unit 200 and a decryption unit 500. A normal data transformation unit (FL) 251 and an inverse data transformation unit (FL−1) 273 are located at point symmetry on a non-linear data transformation unit 220, and a normal data transformation unit (FL) 253 and an inverse data transformation unit (FL−1) 271 are located at point symmetry on the non-linear data transformation unit 220. Therefore, the encryption unit 200 and the decryption unit 500 can be configured using the same circuits.
US07822193B2
A method and apparatus for producing an estimate of the acoustic response an environment. The method comprises receiving a first signal, and a second signal including a part of the first signal. The first and second signals are combined to produce a third signal. The first signal is combined with itself to produce a fourth signal. A plurality of weighted means of said third signal are computed and summed to produce a plurality of first summations. A plurality of weighted means of said fourth signal are computed and summed to produce a plurality of second summations. Said estimate is generated from said first and second summations.
US07822189B2
Embodiments for searching multiple directories are described. The searching includes remote searching and local searching. Local searching is performed against the local integrated phonebook on a client device. In contrast, remote searching is performed against one or more directories or directory types of an enterprise server (e.g. corporate directory, etc.). The local directory on the client device therefore effectively functions like a cache of information of one or more of the directories of the enterprise server, where the cache is stored locally on the client device.
US07822188B1
The present invention provides flexible call processing. For example, a call processor system can receive an inbound call intended for a called party and place an outbound call to the called party. The call processing system can provide the called party with a call transfer option.
US07822183B1
Converting a toll calling area to an extended area service (EAS) is provided. The present invention allows customer, regional, and equipment data to be collected into a computing device with a set of assumptions. The data is processed using calculations, regression analysis, and statistics to provide a migration plan in an automatic manner. Results may be derived from the various information detailing an impact of migrating to an EAS.
US07822177B2
Provided is a method and system for back-reflection X-ray diffraction of a specimen that yields the orientation of a crystalline sample in a quick and an automated way. The method includes setting an approximate pre-selected X-ray detector to specimen distance, subjecting the specimen to X-rays, recording the Laue diffraction pattern, calculating the Miller indices of a fraction of the spots in the resulting pattern, averaging the Miller indices, moving a virtual representation of the specimen by a small amount along a line connecting the film to the specimen, changing the film-to-specimen distance, repeating the calculation, averaging and moving in small angular steps until the virtual representation of the specimen has been moved through a small distance range and best fits to the observed data, and determining the optimum film-to-specimen distance resulting in the smallest average Miller index.
US07822171B2
A computer tomography apparatus (100) for examination of an object of interest (107) comprising an electromagnetic radiation source (104) adapted to emit electromagnetic radiation to an object of interest (107), a detecting device (108) adapted to detect electromagnetic radiation generated by the electromagnetic radiation source (104) and passed through the object of interest (107), and a motion generation device (101, 119) adapted to move the electromagnetic radiation source (104) and the detecting device (108) with respect to the object of interest (107) along a first trajectory and along a second trajectory which differs from the first trajectory, wherein the second trajectory is selected in such a manner that electromagnetic radiation detected during performing the second trajectory provides data which complete mathematically incomplete data detected during performing the first trajectory to thereby allow a reconstruction of structural information concerning the object of interest (107).
US07822168B2
Disclosed is a frequency divider including first to fifth FFs(flip-flops), each of which receives a common clock signal and samples and outputs an input signal responsive to an effective edge of the clock, an output signal of the 1st FF being supplied to the 2nd FF, a first logic gate which receives an output signal of the 2nd FF and a first control signal and outputs the output signal of the 2nd FF, when the first control signal is of a first value, and outputs a predetermined value, when the first control signal is of a second value, the output signal of the first logic gate being supplied to an input of the 3rd FF; a second logic gate which receives an output signal of the 1st FF and a second control signal and outputs an output signal of the 1st FF, when the second control signal is of the first value and outputs the predetermined value, when the second control signal is of the second value, the output signal of the second logic gate being supplied to the 4th FF; and a third logic gate which receives an output signal of the 3rd FF and an output signal of the 4th FF and outputs an output signal of a first value, when both inputs thereof are of a second value, the output signal of the third logic gate being supplied to an input of the 5th FF, an output signal of the 5th FF being fed back to an input of the 1st FF.
US07822157B2
A digital communication system includes a generator for generating a plurality of pulse trains, each having a different timing, and pre-compensation circuitry for synchronizing the plurality of pulse trains to a timing signal. The system also includes comparison circuitry for simultaneously comparing a received burst code signal to each of the plurality of pulse trains, where the burst code signal is synchronized to the timing signal, and a detector for detecting which of the pulse trains is a closest temporal match to the burst code signal. The pre-compensation circuitry operates to reduce acquisition time and keep PN code uncertainties within the range of the comparison circuitry.
US07822156B2
A receiver including a channel estimation function in which an initial channel estimate is filtered to increase receiver operation, particularly when the receiver may only have a limited number of channel estimation symbols with which to form the channel estimate. In some embodiments the filtering is performed by transforming the initial channel estimate to the time domain, zeroing some of the samples to filter the time domain channel estimate, and transforming the filtered time domain channel estimate to the frequency domain for use in channel compensation.
US07822153B2
An automatic gain control (AGC) apparatus of a wireless mobile terminal, and method, in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system. A gain amplifier controls an amplification gain of received analog symbols. An analog-to-digital converter converts the received analog symbols into a digital signal. A fast Fourier transform (FFT) unit converts the digital signal into a frequency-domain signal. A power measurer measures power in the frequency domain in units of sub-carriers. A sub-carrier power accumulator detects a sub-carrier carrying a signal, and accumulates its power value. A sub-carrier average power measurer estimates an average power value transmitted per sub-carrier from the accumulated power value. A control means compares the estimated average power value with a reference power value, and generates a control signal used for controlling a gain of the gain amplifier according to the comparison result.
US07822141B2
Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for optimizing the transmitter and receiver weights of a MIMO system. In one embodiment, the weights are optimized to create and steer beam nulls, such that each transmitted signal is substantially decoupled from all other signals between a MIMO transmitter a MIMO receiver. In another embodiment, the weights are selected such that, the signal strength of each weighted signal transmitted through a communications channel along a respective signal path is substantially equivalent, but for which the weighting vectors are not necessarily orthogonal. In a further embodiment, each transmitted signal is coupled only between its own transmitter and receiver antennas with a gain, or eigenvalue, that is a consequence of the weights, and which is bounded to within a desired range of values while at the same time the weighing vectors are orthogonal. Embodiments employing various decomposition techniques are also provided.
US07822137B2
A system and method for symbol rate estimation using vector velocity that does not require any prior knowledge of the signal's structure and is accurate in the presence of frequency offset and noise. An input signal is converted to a symbol constellation path signal, and a velocity signal representing a velocity of the symbol constellation path signal is generated. A first frequency spectrum of the velocity signal is generated by performing a Fast Fourier transform on the velocity signal, and a maximum peak value of the first frequency spectrum, a first bin below the maximum peak value, and a second bin above the maximum peak value are identified. A Chirp-Z transform is performed on the velocity signal using the first bin and the second bin as coefficients, wherein performing the Chirp-Z transform generates a second frequency spectrum including only frequencies within the range of the first bin and the second bin, and wherein the second frequency spectrum presents a higher resolution than the first frequency spectrum. A maximum peak value of the second frequency spectrum is identified, wherein the maximum peak value of the second frequency spectrum corresponds to the symbol rate of the input signal.
US07822133B2
In an OFDM receiver, one of a plurality of antennas is selected based on a ratio X of two moving average integration values (first moving average integration value and second moving average integration value) that are calculated from a non-delay symbol and a delay symbol. It could be said that the second moving average integration value represents excessive false information (that is, whether the state of the transmission line is good). Accordingly, determination of the ratio X between the second moving average integration value and the first moving average integration value and selection of one of the plurality of antennas based on the ratio X enables judgment on whether the state of the transmission line is good even during a period other than a guard interval period Tg, that is, during an effective symbol period Tu.
US07822129B2
A plurality of bits is transmitted by partitioning the bits among n subsets; encoding each subset as a respective symbol; selecting a balancing vector, in accordance with the symbols, from a set of size 2p of codewords of length n in {−1,1}; multiplying each symbol by a corresponding element of the balancing vector; and transmitting the symbols substantially simultaneously. Preferably, the set of codewords has a strength of at most about 2 ln └n┘. The balancing vector is selected either deterministically or probabilistically.
US07822125B2
The invention is related to decoding of block wise coded video pictures. The determination of using de-blocking filtering between coded chroma blocks is based on alternative characteristics compared to the characteristics used in H.264/AVC.
US07822121B2
An apparatus comprising a video decoder, a video memory and a global motion circuit. The video decoder may be configured to generate a decoded video signal in response to a coded video signal. The video memory may be connected to the video decoder. The global motion circuit may be configured within the video decoder circuit. The global motion circuit may be configured to (i) receive one or more warp points and (ii) generate one or more warping addresses presented directly to the video memory.
US07822119B2
The image encoding apparatus of one embodiment of the present invention comprises a coding mode determination unit, a prediction image generation unit, a storage unit, and an encoding unit. The coding mode determination unit determines a coding mode relating to which of the first image prediction processing or second image prediction processing is used for generating prediction image of a partial area of input images. The prediction image generation unit extracts the prediction assist information by the first image prediction processing and generates a prediction image based on the prediction assist information. The storage unit stores the reproduced image that is based on the prediction image. The encoding unit generates a bit stream comprising data obtained by encoding the coding mode information and prediction assist information.
US07822115B2
Systems in accordance with the presently claimed invention use input data to create an output pulse that is a fraction of the width of an input pulse. In some embodiments, the invention accepts input data and an input signal that has pulses of a specific frequency. In some embodiments, the invention uses a phase lock loop to create multiple signals of a higher frequency than the frequency of the input signal. Each of these multiple signals is offset by a certain phase from the other signals. In some embodiments, the invention synchronizes the input data to each of these multiple signals. The invention uses the phase difference between the multiple signals to create an output pulse as a function of the input data that is a fraction of the width of the input pulse.
US07822114B2
A decision feedback equalizer (DFE) and method include at least two paths. Each path includes the following. An adder is configured to sum an input with a first feedback tap fed back from a different path. A latch is coupled to the adder to receive a summation signal as input. The latch includes a transparent state, and an output of the latch is employed as the first tap in a feedback path to an adder of a different path, wherein a partially resolved first tap in the feedback path is employed during the transparent state to provide a soft decision to supply correction information in advance of a hard decision of the latch.
US07822112B2
A method of synchronizing a feedforward filter that receives a signal resulting from the transmission of a series of symbols through a channel, wherein the series of symbols includes a predetermined sequence of symbols includes the step of developing a plurality of samples from the received symbols, wherein a sequence of samples corresponds to the predetermined sequence of symbols. The method may further include the steps of estimating a channel impulse response from the plurality of samples, wherein the channel impulse response estimate is represented by a plurality of correlation values, identifying a maximum correlation value from the plurality of correlation values, defining a window relative to the maximum correlation value, calculating a characteristic of the correlation values within the window, and synchronizing the feedforward filter in accordance with the characteristic.
US07822107B2
A spread spectrum receiver in a communication system compensating channel response, and the method thereof is disclosed. The spread spectrum receiver comprises a multiplier, a filter, a data channel correlator, a delay, and a channel compensator. The multiplier (322) multiplies despread pilots (320) with conjugate of pilot pattern (324) to provide channel estimates. The filter (323) filters the channel estimates from the multiplier (322). The data channel correlator (30) despreads data symbols in a data channel. The delay module (38), coupled to the data channel correlator (30), delays the despread data symbols for a period. The channel compensator (34), coupled to the filter (323) and the delay module (38), compensates the delayed despread data symbols with the filtered channel estimates.
US07822103B2
A code division multiple access base station receives K data signals over a shared spectrum. The base station receives and samples a combined signal having the K transmitted data signals. A combined channel response matrix is produced. A block column of a cross correlation matrix is determined using the combined channel response matrix. Each block entry of the block column is a K by K matrix. A fourier transform of a complex conjugate transpose of the combined channel response matrix multiplied to the combined signal samples is taken. An inverse of a fourier transform of each block entry is multiplied to a result of the fourier transform to produce a fourier transform of the data vector. An inverse fourier transform of the data vector fourier transform is taken to produce data of the K signals.
US07822092B2
A method and apparatus may comprise a line narrowed pulsed excimer or molecular fluorine gas discharge laser system which may comprise a seed laser oscillator producing an output comprising a laser output light beam of pulses which may comprise a first gas discharge excimer or molecular fluorine laser chamber; a line narrowing module within a first oscillator cavity; a laser amplification stage containing an amplifying gain medium in a second gas discharge excimer or molecular fluorine laser chamber receiving the output of the seed laser oscillator and amplifying the output of the seed laser oscillator to form a laser system output comprising a laser output light beam of pulses, which may comprise a ring power amplification stage.
US07822084B2
According to aspects of an embodiment of the disclosed subject matter, method and apparatus are disclose that may comprise adjusting a differential timing between gas discharges in the seed laser and amplifier laser for bandwidth control, based on the error signal, or for control of another laser operating parameter other than bandwidth, without utilizing any beam magnification control, or adjusting a differential timing between gas discharges in the seed laser and amplifier laser for bandwidth control, based on the error signal, or for control of another laser operating parameter other than bandwidth, while utilizing beam magnification control for other than bandwidth control, and adjusting a differential timing between gas discharges in the seed laser and amplifier laser for bandwidth control, based on the error signal, or for control of another laser operating parameter other than bandwidth, while utilizing beam magnification control for bandwidth control based on the error signal.
US07822073B2
A packet flow side channel encoder and decoder embeds and extracts a side channel communication in an overt communication data stream transmitted over a network. The encoder selects more than one group of related packets being transmitted on the network, relates a packet of one group to a packet of another group to form a pair of packets; and delays the timing of at least one packet from each pair of packets The decoder determines inter-packet delays that are the difference in timing between two packets in a pair of packets; determines at least one inter-packet delay difference between two or more determined inter-packet delays; and extracts a bit using the at least one interpacket delay difference.
US07822062B2
Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to receive a command associated with the network management system, define a work flow based on the command, and execute the work flow on a network element. During execution of the work flow, a network management system determines whether a recovery is necessary and performs a recovery based on a determination that a recovery is necessary.
US07822050B2
In one embodiment, a telephone locally buffers and then processes received voice data to resolve communication impediments and for other reasons. The locally buffered voice data can be, for example, tonally adjusted to accommodate a hearing deficiency of a listener, translated, transcribed, and automatically or manually slowed down to improve comprehension and for other reasons. As a result of the buffering occurring locally on the telephone, voice data originating from voicemail systems and voice menu systems may be played back for improved comprehension independently of the buffering capabilities provided by those systems.
US07822033B1
A MAC address detector for a networking device is provided, the device configured to present different virtual routers to different end users, classes of service or packets. First addressing logic provides a pool of N potential MAC addresses of the device, wherein N is an integer of one or more. Second addressing logic generates a (N+1)th potential MAC address of the device by combining a permanent or semi-permanent identifier of the device, for example, a chassis identifier, with a virtual router identifier determined responsive to the packet. Comparison logic indicates which if any of the (N+1) potential MAC addresses match the destination MAC address from the packet. Enable logic selectively activates responsive to the packet any of the (N+1) potential MAC addresses. Detection logic asserts a device address detection signal if any activated ones of the (N+1) potential MAC addresses match the destination address from the packet.
US07822023B2
The present invention is concerned with a method and a system for improving the quality of service in wireless networks and in particular in dynamically changing mobile ad hoc networks. The method of routing data packets through a network depending on priority information, which is based on the bandwidth requirements of each packet and the distance to the destination. To achieve a particular quality of service, a priority indicator is used to forward each packet at each node in the network. The priority indicator being determined based on a pre-determined relation between the distance and bandwidth information.
US07822015B2
A method of operatively handling data systems that include communications services, particularly telephone and data services. A computer system executes a service in accordance with a data program and also processes log data. The computer system includes databases, at least one containing a predetermined number of transactions in the form of parts of a data program. The computer fetches from a database transactions that together form a data program for executing a service or a processing function. An interface is provided between an administrative part of the system and an all-embracing part, and an interface is also provided between an operating part of the system and the all-embracing part, wherein the interfaces are mutually the same. The all-embracing part has an executing environment such that execution therein and instructions therefrom to other parts of the system take place through the agency of the transaction.
US07822010B2
Methods and apparatuses are presented for conducting communications over a shared communication medium involving (a) sending a request from a first node, the shared communication medium organized to include (i) a request signal space including a plurality of request segments each having a different location within the request signal space and (ii) a scheduled transmission signal space including a plurality of scheduled transmission segments each having a different location within the scheduled transmission signal space, the request sent in a request segment, (b) obtaining an assignment associating the request with a scheduled transmission segment, (c) from the first node, sending a data transmission in the scheduled transmission segment associated with the request, and (d) wherein a collection of request segments in the plurality of request segments is separated by a guard zone from an adjacent collection of scheduled transmission segments in the plurality of scheduled transmission segments.
US07822002B2
Described herein are one or more implementations for a mesh, peer-to-peer, cluster-tree, hierarchical wireless personal area network (WPAN) technology that uses a new approach to the static network address allocation scheme. As described herein, the new approach employs dynamic redemption or reallocation of free addresses from existing static allocations to other router-nodes in a WPAN.
US07821996B2
A system and method for enhancing service over a high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) service in a cellular communication network includes informing a UE of the cells in an HSDPA active subset of cells. The US makes a measurement of the cells and selects a best cell for switching. The UE determines whether the best cell is an intra-node B cell or inter-node B cell with the serving cell from the network. If the best cell is an intra-node B cell, the UE signals the node B of the best cell, the node B switches to the best cell directly and UE receives the data from the target cell directly, and then Node B reports the switch to a radio network controller (RNC) that completes the final switching to the best cell by the RNC. If the best cell is an inter-node B cell, the UE signals the RNC of the best cell directly, whereupon the RNC sends the UE an acknowledgment without waiting for the completeness of the network configurations. The RNC re-routes data to the best cell, and the UE switches to the best cell after receiving the acknowledgment.
US07821991B2
Provided are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method, which prevent the deterioration of a preamble detecting performance while reducing the collision probability of a RACH. In this radio transmission device, a Signature table storage unit (103) divides the magnitudes of transmission loss levels into individual levels corresponding to the distances from a base station, to cause CAZAC series and circulation shift quantities to correspond to each other at the individual levels, and is provided with a table containing a plurality of Signatures created from the CAZAC series and the circulation shift quantities caused to correspond to each other. A Signature selecting unit (104) selects one of the corresponding Signatures at random from the Signature table storage unit (103), on the basis of the magnitude of the transmission loss level outputted from a transmission loss level deciding unit (102). A RACH signal generating unit (105) generates the RACH signal with the Signature selected.
US07821990B2
The invention relates to a radio system which transmits packet traffic and to a method of transmitting service information flexibly between a network part and a terminal in a radio system which transmits packet traffic and in which a connection set-up process is activated by means of a session management arrangement when a connection is established between the terminal (402) and the network part (400). When service information is transmitted between the network part and the terminal, the party needing service activates the connection set-up process and during activation the party needing service indicates the need for service information and the quality of service with a message (602). The party providing service responds with one or more messages (606) which include service information. The connection set-up process is finished without establishing a connection. This way radio path resources can be saved.
US07821986B2
In one embodiment, a method for facilitating maintaining wireless connectivity and roaming in wireless networks includes estimating a current location of the wireless client and determining a physical route and a wireless access point route based on the current location and a destination.
US07821985B2
Knowledge of the computational context of a computer operating environment, for example, awareness of process threads, is used to route IP traffic in the presence of multiple active network connections. An additional protocol may be added to the network layer of an operating system in order to map certain computational contexts to particular network interfaces. Any process with identification parameters associated with a mapped computational context requesting data transfer via a communication network is bound to the network interface previously associated with the computational context rather than an alternate network interface that otherwise might be the default. Further, process threads created by a parent process thread may be caused to inherit the computational context of the parent thread in order to assign traffic to the same network interface. This routing framework may have particular application with respect to multihomed host devices, for example, mobile computing devices.
US07821981B2
A method for interconnecting a satellite switch and a virtual switch for communication over a network includes transmitting a multicast packet containing a satellite identifier over the network and receiving a response multicast packet containing the satellite identifier, a satellite index associated with the satellite switch, and a virtual switch index associated with the virtual switch transmitting the response packet. The virtual switch index is mapped into a destination address and the destination address is inserted into a satellite packet. The satellite packet is then transmitted over the network to the virtual switch.
US07821977B2
A method includes (1) receiving with a user equipment (UE) information related to an allowed power for autonomous transmission on at least one logical channel mapped to an uplink channel, the uplink channel being set up with a base station and dedicated for packet data transmission, (2) determining, with the UE and in accordance with a scheduling grant received from the base station, an allowed power of scheduled transmission on the uplink channel, (3) determining a total data amount allowed to be transmitted, (4) determining a data amount for the autonomous transmission on the logical channel, the determined autonomous transmission data amount being not greater than an allowed autonomous transmission data amount corresponding to the allowed autonomous transmission power, and (5) determining a data amount for scheduled transmission on the logical channel, the determined scheduled transmission data amount being not greater than an allowed scheduled transmission data amount corresponding to the allowed scheduled transmission power.
US07821976B2
A method and system for controlling the transmission power of a terminal transmitting frames in a wireless communication system, the frames having a frame structure including a header field containing information related to a transmission rate and length of data transmitted in a frame and a data field having the data. The transmitting terminal transmits the header field to a receiving terminal at a maximum transmit power level available to the transmitting terminal so that second terminals other than the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal within the wireless communication system can identify that resources are in use. The transmitting terminal transmits the data field at an optimum transmit power level great enough to allow the data field to reach the receiving terminal.
US07821972B1
A grand computer network is formed from layer 2 (L2) networking technology in which groups of Provider L2 bridges are organized into formations, and different formations are interconnected via network-network interface (NNI) links. Customer sites are coupled to the formations. Customers identify their traffic, e.g., frames, by labeling or tagging it with a Customer Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) Identifier (C-VLAN ID) or Customer Service Instance (CSI). Within the formations, the C-VLAN ID is mapped to a Service VLAN ID (S-VLAN ID) or Provider Service Instance (PSI), and the S-VLAN ID is appended to the customer traffic. The PSIs are hierarchical, such that each PSI belongs to at most one other “outer” or higher-level PSI, but may itself own any number of “inner” or lower-level PSIs. As a given frame traverses through the different formations of the Grand Network via the NNI links, the frame acquires an encapsulation, sheds an encapsulation or exchanges its current encapsulation for a different one. Bridges within the formations run a Hierarchical Spanning Tree Program (HSTP) to block intra-formation loops, and a GARP L2-NNI Registration Protocol (GLRP) to block inter-formation loops.
US07821959B2
In a bandwidth measuring method and device for grasping a traffic general and local trends in consideration of a packet loss, without continuously capturing packets, a simulation is executed by determining a bandwidth limit based on a buffer length, a transmission bandwidth, and a mean packet length collected in an adjoining node or its own node and information of a preset allowable packet loss rate, and by determining an initial value of a transient evaluation type queue simulation for a packet loss rate. An optimum short time interval when the packet loss rate by the simulation approaches the allowable packet loss rate is determined as a packet continuous capture time. Furthermore, packets are continuously captured in the short time interval, and a mean bandwidth of the packets is calculated, so that a general mean bandwidth, or an upper bandwidth or a peak bandwidth is determined from an overall mean bandwidth by repeating the continuous capturing at random within a fixed section.
US07821954B2
A number of features for enhancing the performance of a communication system, in which data is transmitted between a base station and a plurality of subscriber stations located different distances from the base station, are presented. The power transmission level, slot timing, and equalization of the subscriber stations are set by a ranging process. Data is transmitted by the subscriber stations in fragmented form. Various measures are taken to make transmission from the subscriber stations robust. The uplink data transmission is controlled to permit multiple access from the subscriber stations.
US07821947B2
An activity model is generated at a computer. The activity model may be generated by monitoring incoming and outgoing channels for packets for a predetermined window of time. To generate an activity model, an input and an output channel are selected. A probability distribution function describing the observed waiting time between packet arrivals on the selected input channel and the selected output channel is generated by mining the data collected during the selected window of time. A probability distribution function describing the observed waiting time between a randomly chosen instant and receiving a packet on the selected input channel is also generated. The distance between the two generated probability distribution functions is computed. If the computed distance is greater than a predefined confidence level, then the two selected channels are deemed to be related. Otherwise, the selected channels are deemed to be unrelated. The activity model is further generated by comparing each input and output channel pair entering or leaving a particular computer.
US07821943B2
Audio-visual data is provided to a network-connected terminal. First audio-visual data containing first information encoded at a first data rate and second audio-visual data containing first information encoded at a second data rate that is more than the first data rate are received. The first audio-visual data is provided to the network-connected terminal. A condition is identified to the effect that the amount of data being sent to the terminal is less than the available bandwidth. The difference between the data rates of the first and second audio-visual data is calculated, additional data packets are sent to the terminal to determine whether the available bandwidth is large enough to provide the first audio-visual data to the terminal; and if it is determined that the available bandwidth is large enough, provision of the first audio-visual data to the terminal is stopped and the second audio-visual data is provided instead.
US07821942B2
Controlling data flow through a data communications link, the link operating according to a data communications protocol in which a receiver of data communications on the link can suspend data communications on the link for a period of time determined by the receiver, including specifying for the sender a duration for flow control periods; specifying for the sender a number of corrupt communications control packets to be transmitted from the sender to the receiver during a flow control period; determining by the sender whether a flow control message is received from the receiver during a flow control period; altering, in dependence upon whether a flow control message is received from the receiver during a flow control period, the number of corrupt communications control packets; and transmitting, among normal data communications during a subsequent flow control period, the altered number of corrupt communications control packets from the sender to the receiver.
US07821931B2
Disclosed is a system and method for assembling a data packet. The system can be implemented as four memory elements associated with one or more processors. The first memory element stores a sequence number and a sub-channel identifier for an incoming data packet. The second memory element stores a revised packet fragment. The third memory element stores an unrevised packet fragment. The fourth memory element stores a starting address. In the system, the starting address may be the starting address of the revised packet fragment or the unrevised packet fragment wherein the first memory element identifies portions of the fourth memory element associated with the sequence number. The one or more processors are configured to create a modified data packet by combining the unrevised packet fragments and the revised packet fragment, wherein the modified data packet is associated with the sequence number and sub-channel identifier.
US07821928B2
This invention relates to the multiplexing of multiple sources in a multiplexer. A special arrangement is used for calculating an efficient peak capacity value that guarantees good performance for an outgoing link. The invention uses a method with two phases. The first phase precalculates the capacity of the outgoing link with different numbers of incoming links having equal packet size, and forms a table from the results of the precalculation. In the second phase, the peak capacity needed for the outgoing link is calculated using the precalculated tables.
US07821908B2
A single disc is configured to deal with both HD DVD information and DVD information. This invention has the following basic elements (1) a single-sided dual layer optical disc where a light transmission layer, a first recording layer accessed with a first laser beam, an space layer, and a second recording layer accessed with a second laser beam are arranged in that order in the direction in which a laser beam enters, (2) the areal recoding density of the second recording layer is three times or more that of the first recording layer, (3) information indicating that the second recording layer has been formed is formed in the first recording layer, and (4) information indicating that the first recording layer has been formed is formed in the second recording layer.
US07821907B2
An optical disk reproducing apparatus to equalize and reproduce a signal optically read from an optical disk includes a controller to determine a number of regions to divide the optical disk into according to a reproduction frequency variation corresponding to a signal quality variation, and an equalizer to filter signals optically read from the divided regions with a cut-off frequency corresponding to the reproduction frequency variation.
US07821897B2
An information recording method using a read modify write operation includes determining whether a write command is inconsistent or not, on the basis of a unit of a cluster. When the write command onto the rewritable type optical disk needs verification and the read modify write operation is executed, then a verify process is conducted only upon a part of the information, which is written through the read modify write operation. The method achieves an increase in recording speed and an improvement on reliability of recorded information through the read modify write, even when the verify process is unnecessary.
US07821896B2
A recording method of the present invention includes the steps of: receiving a write instruction which specifies at least a logical sector in which data is to be written; determining whether the logical sector specified by the write instruction corresponds to a recorded physical sector or an unrecorded physical sector (S1111); when it is determined that the logical sector specified by the write instruction corresponds to an unrecorded physical sector, writing the data into the unrecorded physical sector (S1112); and when it is determined that the logical sector specified by the write instruction corresponds to a recorded physical sector, writing the data into an unrecorded physical sector other than the recorded physical sector (S1113), generating a remapping table including remapping information which remaps an original address of the recorded physical sector to a remapping address of the selected physical sector, and writing the remapping table on the write-once disc (S1114).
US07821894B2
The method and apparatus can register defective areas in a recording medium not having a dedicated sparing area. A data recording area and a sparing area are not preliminarily divided. When a defective area is found, data is transferred to another area in the recording area, and the defective area is registered as being in a recorded state in a table for managing the recorded state in each of the recording areas.
US07821890B2
An apparatus for writing data to an optical storage media and a servo control unit and a laser diode driver unit thereof. The apparatus making a laser diode emit light includes a servo control unit and a laser diode driver unit. The servo control unit includes a control unit for controlling a burning procedure and a modulation unit for outputting an encoded signal. The laser diode driver unit receives the encoded signal and includes a PLL unit, a write strategy generation unit and a lock/unlock detection unit. The PLL unit outputs at least one of a second clock signal and a second data signal according to the encoded signal. The write strategy generation unit outputs a control signal to control the laser diode according to the second clock signal and the second data signal. The lock/unlock detection unit outputs a lock indicator or an unlock indicator to the control unit.
US07821879B2
The inventive mechanism comprises a series of toothed wheels meshing each with other or by groups and driven by a mobile which is connected to a basic timepiece movement by means of a mobile, wherein each toothed wheel is superimposed by a disc carrying pictures, figures or signs and rotating in a corresponding bore of the timepiece dial.
US07821874B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for multiple reminder and sub-events for calendar items. Exemplary embodiments include a method including creating an event having an event time in the electronic calendar, creating a first reminder associated with the event and configured to activate at a first time prior to the event and creating another reminder associated with the event and configured to activate at a second time prior to the event and after the first time. Additional exemplary embodiments include a method including identifying deadlines associated with the sub-events, setting a reminder for each of the deadlines associated with the sub-events, setting a sound attribute for each of the reminders, and activating the reminder for each of the deadlines associated with the sub-events. An activation two reminders having a common deadline can have a unique sound attribute.
US07821854B2
Address comparison circuits each compare the defect addresses programmed in the redundancy fuse circuits with an access address and output a redundancy signal when a comparison result is a match. A switch circuit is controlled to switch according to a redundancy selection signal output from a selection fuse circuit, and validates in response to the redundancy signal either a corresponding regular redundancy line or the reservation redundancy line. By dividing the redundancy lines into the regular redundancy lines and the reservation redundancy line, each of the redundancy fuse circuits can be made to correspond to one of the plurality of redundancy lines with the simple switch circuit. Therefore, a difference in propagation delay time of a signal can be made small and a difference in access time can be made small between when relieving a defect and when there is no defect.
US07821852B2
A write driving circuit is provided to drive a global input/output line to write same data to memory cells according to a combination of a first test data signal and a second test data signal in a test mode, regardless of input data signals.
US07821842B2
Synchronous memory devices and control methods for performing burst write operations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a synchronous memory device for controlling a burst write operation comprises a first buffer circuit for buffering a first control signal requesting an exit from the burst write operation in synchronization with a clock signal associated with the burst write operation, and a latch circuit for performing a reset in response to the first control signal forwarded by the first buffer circuit, wherein the reset triggers the exit from the burst write operation.
US07821840B2
Systems, methods, and devices that facilitate multi-phase programming of data in a memory component are presented. Received data is programmed to a memory using multiple programming phases based on a predefined program pattern. A program learn is performed by varying drain voltages, as desired, to facilitate determining respective drain voltages related to specified subgroups associated with respective data levels for a first programming phase. A first programming phase is performed using learned drain voltages as initial drain voltages where drain voltage levels are varied during each program pulse to facilitate programming memory cells to respective intrinsic verify voltage levels based on respective data levels. A second programming phase is performed using ending drain voltages from the first programming phase as initial drain voltages where gate voltage levels are varied during each program pulse to facilitate programming memory cells to respective final verify voltage levels based on respective data levels.
US07821839B2
A technique for performing read operations with reduced errors in a memory device such as flash memory. An automatic gain control approach is used in which cells which have experienced data retention loss are read by a fine M-level quantizer which uses M−1 read threshold voltage levels. In one approach, M-quantized threshold voltage values are multiplied by a gain to obtain gain-adjusted threshold voltage values, which are quantized by an L-level quantizer, where L
US07821833B2
A semiconductor device includes sectors having memory cells connected to local word lines, decoders selecting the sectors, and a circuit generating, in erasing of a selected sector, a control signal that causes a corresponding one of the decoders associated with the selected sector to be temporarily unselected. Each of the sectors includes a pull-up transistor that is driven by a corresponding one of the decoders via a corresponding one of global word lines connecting the sectors and drives one of the local word lines, and the pull-up transistor is kept OFF by the control signal.
US07821832B2
A flash memory device includes at least two mats and a row decoder shared by the mats. Each mat includes multiple word lines, bit lines, and blocks that share the bit lines. The row decoder includes a block decoder that generates a block selection signal for selecting a block, a block word line boosting circuit that generates a high voltage block word line signal in response to the block selection signal, a word line driver that drives word line drive signals driving the word lines of the selected block using drive voltages according to an operation mode and the word lines of an unselected block using a first bias voltage, and a string selection line driver that drives a string selection signal of the selected block using a drive voltage according to the operation mode and the string selection signal of the unselected block using a second bias voltage.
US07821826B2
A method for operating a memory (20) includes storing analog values in an array of analog memory cells (22), so that each of the analog memory cells holds an analog value corresponding to at least first and second respective bits. A first indication of the analog value stored in a given analog memory cell is obtained using a first set of sampling parameters. A second indication of the analog value stored in the given analog memory cell is obtained using a second set of sampling parameters, which is dependent upon the first indication. The first and second respective bits are read out from the given analog memory cell responsively to the first and second indications.
US07821823B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor storage device comprising a semiconductor substrate, a first and a second impurity diffusion layer formed in the semiconductor substrate, a gate insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a first gate electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate via the gate insulating film. The gate insulating film has a nitrogen-containing silicon oxide film inside, and a silicon oxide film is so arranged on both sides of the nitrogen-containing silicon oxide film as to sandwich the nitrogen-containing silicon oxide film. In addition, the nitrogen composition in the nitrogen-containing silicon oxide film is increased from the semiconductor substrate side to the first gate electrode side.
US07821822B2
Read/write elements for three-dimensional magnetic memories are disclosed. One embodiment describes an array of integrated read/write elements. The array includes read conductors formed proximate to one of the layers (i.e., storage stacks) of the three-dimensional magnetic memory. The array also includes flux caps formed proximate to the read conductors, and read sensors formed proximate to the flux caps. The array also includes a magnetic pole having a first end contacting the read sensor and a second end opposite the first end. First write conductors are fabricated between the magnetic poles, and second write conductors are also fabricated between the magnetic poles orthogonal to the first write conductors. The first write conductors and the second write conductors form current loops around the magnetic poles.
US07821820B2
An exemplary embodiment of a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) device includes a magnetic tunnel junction having a free layer, a first electrode (first magnetic field generating means) having a first portion that covers a surface of the free layer, and an electric power source connected to the first electrode via a connection that covers less than half of the first portion of the first electrode. Another exemplary embodiment of an MRAM device includes a magnetic tunnel junction, first and second electrodes (first and second magnetic field generating means) directly connected to the magnetic tunnel junction on opposite sides of the magnetic tunnel junction, and an electric power source having one pole connected to the first electrode via a first connection and having a second pole connected to the second electrode via a second connection, wherein the first and second connections are laterally offset from the connections between the first and second electrodes and the magnetic tunnel junction. Methods of operating and manufacturing these magnetic random access memories are also disclosed.
US07821818B2
The magnetic device comprises a magnetic device comprising a magnetoresistive tunnel junction (100), itself comprising: a reference magnetic layer (120) having magnetization in a direction that is fixed; a storage magnetic layer (110) having magnetization in a direction that is variable; and an intermediate layer (130) acting as a tunnel barrier that is essentially semiconductor or electrically insulating and that separates the reference magnetic layer (120) from the storage magnetic layer (110). The potential profile of the intermediate layer (130) is asymmetrical across the thickness of said layer (130) so as to produce a current response that is asymmetrical as a function of the applied voltage. The device is applicable to magnetic random access memories.
US07821816B2
A method of preparing Shmoo plots where both the number of failures and also the failure type is specified at each test voltage measurement point. A method that uses the operational SRAM array circuitry to determine the type of failure that may have occurred at each test voltage measurement point.
US07821815B2
Conventional semiconductor memory devices have a problem of a data read failure caused by a leak current. To address this problem, a semiconductor memory device of the present invention including memory cells each formed of a transfer transistor, a load transistor and a drive transistor. Each of the memory cells includes: a first transfer transistor connected to a connection point of the drive transistor and the load transistor; a second transfer transistor connected between the first transfer transistor and a bit line DB; and a compensation transistor connected between a constant voltage node and a connection point of the first transfer transistor and the second transfer transistor. The compensation transistor is switched to a conductive state exclusively from at least one of the first transfer transistor and the second transfer transistor.
US07821814B2
When threshold voltages of constituent transistors are reduced in order to operate an SRAM circuit at a low voltage, there is a problem in that a leakage current of the transistors is increased and, as a result, electric power consumption when the SRAM circuit is not operated while storing data is increased. Therefore, there is provided a technique for reducing the leakage current of MOS transistors in SRAM memory cells MC by controlling a potential of a source line ssl of the driver MOS transistors in the memory cells.
US07821813B2
A nanowire memory device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A memory device includes: a substrate; a first electrode formed on the substrate; a first nanowire extending from an end of the first electrode; a second electrode formed over the first electrode to overlap the first electrode; and a second nanowire extending from an end of the second electrode corresponding to the end of the first electrode in the same direction as the first nanowire, wherein an insulating layer exists between the first and second electrodes.
US07821812B2
A dynamic random access memory includes: an address latch configured to latch a row address in response to a row address strobe (RAS) signal and latch a column address in response to a column address strobe (CAS) signal; a row decoder configured to decode the row address; an enabler configured to decode a part of most significant bits (MSB) of the column address to locally enable a part of one page area corresponding to the row address; and a column decoder configured to decode the column address.
US07821801B2
An indirect and passive method for AC/DC converter power factor correction is disclosed. The correction is achieved by stabilizing the input impedance of the converter with keeping the inversely proportional dependence between the current iconv(t) and voltage uconv(t) of the output smoothing filter (3). The necessary dependence is achieved by natural characteristics of circuit with passive components. An uncontrolled converter (6) with alternation of parallel and series resonance is used as such circuit. To increase the operating frequency of this converter, a chopper or an inverter is used. The resonant converter decreases the commutation current of the switches. Output voltage is easy to control by pulse width modulation of chopper or inverter. Passive power factor correction results in the total harmonic distortion of main current THDi=10 to 40 per cent. All currents of the converter are limited naturally in all operating modes.
US07821795B2
A multilayered substrate includes a plurality of circuit boards including a plurality of wiring layers including a grounding layer and a power layer, a solid electrolytic capacitor having an insulative oxide film layer, an electrolytic layer, and a conductor layer sequentially formed on one surface or both surfaces of a foil-like metal substrate, and a conductive substance passing through the circuit board across a thickness thereof. The solid electrolytic capacitor is disposed to be held between the plurality of circuit boards. The conductor layer is connected to a grounding electrode formed on the grounding layer, the foil-like metal substrate being connected to a power electrode formed on the power layer.
US07821789B1
A heat dissipating apparatus includes a heat sink, a blower, and a fan. The blower and the fan can be mounted together via a connection element. The heat sink defines an accommodating space. The blower and the fan can be positioned to the heat sink via the connection element, with the blower being accommodated in the accommodating space. The heat dissipating apparatus can achieve an optimal heat dissipating effect.
US07821786B2
A computer includes: computer body enclosing computational circuitry and having a bottom surface; a keyboard disposed on an upper portion of the computer body; a cover supporting a monitor, the cover coupled to the computer body so as to be rotatable about a first axis in relation to the computer body, the first axis being disposed rearwardly of the keyboard; a support member coupled to the computer body so as to be rotatable about a second axis in relation to the computer body, between an open position and closed position, the second axis being parallel to the first axis, the support member including an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein the support member, when rotated into a closed position, is parallel to the bottom surface of the computer body, the support member, when rotated into an open position, extends downwardly from the bottom surface of the computer body, the support member is linearly extendable in a radial direction with respect to the rotation of the support member between a non-extended position and a fully extended position, the height being extendable by moving the lower portion with respect to the upper portion, and the support member includes an expandable portion disposed between the upper portion and the lower portion, the expandable portion spanning a gap between the upper portion and the lower portion when the support member is in the non-extended position and when the support member is in the fully extended position.
US07821783B2
An exemplary double hinge assembly (30) includes a first hinge subassembly (31), a second hinge subassembly (32), a first bracket (35), a second bracket (36) and a connecting member. The first hinge subassembly (31) includes a first rotatable pivot shaft (311). The second hinge subassembly (32) includes a second rotatable pivot shaft (321). The first bracket (35) is fixed to the first rotatable pivot shaft (311), and the second bracket (36) is fixed to the second rotatable pivot shaft (321). The first hinge subassembly (31) and the second hinge subassembly (32) are rotatably mounted to the connecting member respectively. A rotating axis of the first rotatable pivot shaft (311) is substantially parallel to a rotating axis of the second rotatable pivot shaft (321). In addition, an electronic device (50) using the double hinge assembly (30) is also provided.
US07821782B2
A portable computer that is ergonomic and solvent resistant is disclosed. The computer may have an exterior surface that is made from a soft polymer, so that it will shield a user from exposure to heat while providing a positive tactile feel and shielding the computer from impact. The computer may comprise a number of input output devices with distinct controls arranged about the body of the computer so that a user may comfortably operate each the devices with one hand. The housing of the computer may be sealed, so that it will be resistant to liquid and particulate infiltration, and may be easily wiped clean and disinfected.
US07821781B2
A lighting control console for controlling a lighting control system including a digital processor and a digital storage unit. The lighting control console can comprise several control elements, in particular keys, linear regulators and/or induction regulators, which are arranged on the top of the casing and can be used to enter operating commands. The lighting control console encompasses a display device with at least one screen that is arranged on the top of the casing. The data for the user can be graphically displayed on the screen. The lighting control console can include a casing provided with at least one cover, which can be adjusted between a closed position and an open position, wherein the cover covers at least one extra control element arranged in or on the casing in its closed position, thereby protecting the extra control element against external influences in its closed position.
US07821778B2
A monitor assembly includes a monitor, for displaying output of a diagnostic device such as a fluoroscope, to which is operationally attached a bracket that is operative to secure (preferably reversibly) the monitor to the diagnostic device so that an operator of the diagnostic device can view the output while operating the diagnostic device and without interrupting the operation of the diagnostic device. Preferably, the monitor is attached to the bracket by a joint assembly that allows the monitor to be translated and rotated relative to the bracket.
US07821770B2
A multi-layer ceramic capacitor has a temperature characteristic satisfying an X8R property and has a high specific resistance under a high temperature circumstance, in which the dielectric ceramic composition forming the dielectric ceramics is expressed by a formula: BaTiO3+aMgO +bMOx+cReO3/2+dSiO2, wherein MgO represents MgO conversion, MOx represents oxide conversion for 1 atom in 1 molecule of at least one metal selected from V, Cr, and Mn, ReO3/2 represents oxide conversion for 1 atom in 1 molecule of at least one rare earth metal selected from Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Y, and SiO2 represents SiO2 conversion, and wherein 0.4≦a≦3.0 mol, 0.05≦b≦0.4 mol, 6.0≦c≦16.5 mol, 3.0≦d≦5.0 mol, 2.0≦c/d≦3.3, based on 100 mol of BaTiO3.
US07821763B2
The present invention provides a device for preventing electrically induced gas fires involving gas tubing such as Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing (CSST) and gas appliance connectors (GAC). Connectors for coupling the gas tubing to gas lines and appliances are affixed at each end of the tubing. These connectors are made of a conductive material. Conductive wire (i.e. mesh surrounding the gas tubing) provides a direct electrical contact between the end connectors. If an electrical charge goes to ground via the gas tubing, such as from a lightning strike or an appliance short, the current is carried between the end connectors by the conductive wire instead of the gas tubing itself, thereby preventing damage to the gas tubing from the current.
US07821756B2
A power supply apparatus comprises a current limiting unit connected in series between a power source and a power supply circuit that limits output current of the power source; a first switch connected in series with the current limiting unit; a second switch connected in parallel with the current limiting unit; a resistor connected in series between the power source and the current limiting unit; an abnormal current detection unit, connected in parallel with the resistor, that detects the current flowing through the resistor and determines whether or not the detected current is abnormal; and a control unit that turns on the first switch if the abnormal current detection unit detects a current, and, thereafter, turns the second switch on if the detected current is not abnormal, and turns the first switch off if the detected current is abnormal.
US07821749B2
An arc crowbar with electrodes separated by a gap in a protective case. Each electrode is connected to an electrically different conductor of a circuit. A sensor detects an arc flash condition on the circuit and signals a trigger circuit to send an electrical pulse to an arc-triggering device in the arc crowbar gap. The triggering device ionizes a portion of the gas between the electrodes, initiating a protective arc between the electrodes that absorbs energy from the power circuit and trips a breaker, eliminating the arc flash condition. The triggering device may be a plasma gun, especially one that injects plasma of an ablated material into the gap. The sensor may signal a circuit breaker to open in the power circuit. Arc flash sensor types may include a differential current sensor and/or an optical sensor.
US07821744B2
A thin film magnetic head substrate includes a plurality of head element portions having read elements and write elements in rows. Adjacent head element portions interpose a read monitor element and a write monitor element that are used as element resistance monitors for the read element and the write element when a lapping process is performed to form a medium-facing surface on the head element portion. A common electrode terminal is connected with the read monitor element and the write monitor element. A pair of individual electrode terminals are each connected to the read monitor element and the write monitor element, respectively.
US07821736B2
Write elements are discussed having a write pole and an associated trailing shield. A leading side of the trailing shield faces a trailing side of the write pole. The leading side of the trailing shield has a shape such that a center portion of the leading side has less of a separation from the trailing side of the write pole than track edge portions of the leading side of the trailing shield. An exemplary shape the leading side of the trailing shield may be a convex shape when viewed from the ABS. The shape of the leading side of the trailing shield causes the trailing shield to shunt less of the magnetic field from the trailing side of the write pole at the track edges so that the written transition at the track edge will not lag behind the written transition at the track center allowing for a straighter transition.
US07821733B2
Provided are a read channel, storage drive and method using a measured error to determine coefficients to provide to an equalizer to use to equalize an input signal. A read channel is incorporated in a storage device to process signals read from a storage medium. An equalizer uses coefficients to equalize input read signals to produce equalizer output signals. A detector processes adjusted equalizer output signals to determine output values comprising data represented by the input read signals. An equalizer adaptor is enabled to provide a reference measured error and coefficients used to produce the adjusted equalizer signals that are associated with the reference measured error. The equalizer adaptor computes new equalizer coefficients to use to equalize input read signals that result in a new measured error from the detector and computes a new measured error for the new equalizer coefficients. The equalizer adaptor determines whether the new measured error is degraded with respect to the reference measured error and saves the new equalizer coefficients and the new measured error in response to determining that the new measured error is not degraded with respect to the reference measured error. The equalizer adaptor provides the equalizer coefficients associated with the reference measured error to the equalizer to use to equalize input read signals in response to determining that the new measured error is degraded with respect to the reference measured error.
US07821723B2
A high power zoom lens system includes, in order from the object side: a first lens group having a positive refractive power and remaining stationary during zooming; a second lens group having a negative refractive power and moving during zooming; a third lens group and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power and being movable relative to each other to correct image plane variation accompanied by zooming; and a fifth lens group having a positive refractive power and including an aperture diaphragm, the fifth lens group being used for forming an image. The second lens group and a composite lens group formed by combining the third lens group and the fourth lens group pass simultaneously through −1× magnification points of the groups during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end. The fourth lens group has at least one aspheric surface.
US07821720B2
An endoscope objective lens for collecting combined bright field (white light) and fluorescence images includes a negative lens group, a stop, and a positive lens group. The lens has a combination of large entrance pupil diameter (≧0.4 mm) for efficiently collecting weak fluorescence light, large ratio between the entrance pupil diameter and the maximum outside diameter (Dentrance/Dmax larger than 0.2), large field of view (FFOV≧120°) and favorably corrected spherical, lateral chromatic and Petzval field curvature for both visible and near infrared wavelengths.
US07821717B2
A lens element comprising: a rear substrate having a front surface provided with a surface relief having a plurality of zones each capable of providing a lens effect; a front substrate disposed in front of the rear substrate and having a rear surface provided with a surface relief having a plurality of zones each capable of providing a lens effect, the zones of the surface reliefs provided on the rear substrate and the front substrate having the same spatial arrangement over the area of the lens element; and solid or liquid, isotropic, intermediate material disposed between the front surface of the rear substrate and the rear surface of the front substrate, the intermediate material having a refractive index different from the refractive index of each of the rear substrate and the front substrate. This construction reduces the degree of Fresnel reflection which would otherwise degrade the optical performance.
US07821713B2
A color light combining system comprises a polarizing beam splitter that includes a reflective polarizer film, a first prism face that receives a first unpolarized color light, a second prism face that receives a second unpolarized color light, and a third prism face that provides a first combined light output that includes combined first color light polarized in a first direction and second color light polarized in a second direction. The polarizing beam splitter includes a reflector at a fourth prism face. A color-selective stacked retardation polarization filter faces the third prism face. The first color selective stacked retardation polarization filter provides a second combined light output that includes the first and second color lights that are combined and have the same polarization direction.
US07821702B2
The present invention relates to an improved EPD which comprises both the traditional up/down switching and the in-plane switching modes. In other words, the improved EPD has dual switching modes. The monochrome EPDs of the present invention are capable of displaying highlight color of choice which is different from the text. For example, white background, blue text, and red highlight can be shown in any selected areas of the display. Furthermore, the full color EPDs of the present invention are capable of displaying high contrast images of high color saturation. Both high quality black and white states are possible in the full color displays of the present invention. The EPDs of the present invention do not need complex circuitry design, and are compatible with low cost and high yield roll-to-roll manufacturing processes.
US07821696B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, an electrochromic rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes an electrochromic mirror having a variable reflectivity, a glare sensor for sensing levels of light directed towards the front element from the rear of the vehicle, an ambient sensor for sensing levels of ambient light, a display positioned behind the partially transmissive, partially reflective portion of the reflector for displaying information therethrough.
US07821693B1
A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) mirror device includes a mirror coupled to an actuator by a first torsional hinge along a rotational axis. The actuator has a body and a group of coils extending from the body. An anchor is coupled another end of the actuator by a second torsional hinge along the rotational axis.
US07821688B2
An original document is scanned, an arbitrary color area in a chromaticity plane is extracted with respect to the scanned original document, coordinate conversion is performed on the extracted color area in the chromaticity plane, and a mask area is determined to be masked, in accordance with the converted color area on which the coordinate conversion has been performed.
US07821686B2
A paper feeder employs a retard roll mounted on a shaft that is controlled by a magneto rheological variable clutch. Current is adjusted to the magneto rheological variable clutch to produce a variable drag torque (from near zero to fully locked) on the retard roll. The current is adjusted based on various inputs, some of which include media type, temperature, humidity, media size, and transport speed. Variable drag on the retard roll results in a reduction in induced skew of sheet passing through a nip formed between the retard roll and a separation roll, as well as, less and more consistent wear of the retard roll.
US07821685B2
An image reading method according to the present invention involves causing an image sensor for reading an image of a document to move from a side at which the document is placed toward a home position of the image sensor, causing to reverse a movement direction at a turn-back position after the image sensor has passed the home position, and causing the image sensor to move to the home position again.
US07821681B2
An image formation device is provided with an image formation section which forms an image on a recording medium, a frame which accommodates the image formation section and is supported at a base surface, an image acquisition section which is disposed at an upper side relative to the image formation section, and a support body which supports the image acquisition section at the base surface and to which a side portion of the frame is attached.
US07821657B2
A job joining capability is used in a Multifunction Peripheral Device (MFP) to conduct continuous Raster Image Processing (RIP) across multiple job boundaries. Print jobs which do not have inter-RIP conflicts are printed back-to-back as a continuous single RIP. This is particularly advantageous for single copy, single page, and other small print jobs.
US07821655B2
An apparatus and process for in-situ measurement of thin film thickness, ash rate, and end point generally include generating and measuring shallow angle interference patterns. The apparatus generally includes a chamber having a first viewing port and a second viewing port. The first viewing port includes receiving optics configured to receive light at a shallow angle from a surface of a substrate processed therein. The second port includes a broadband illumination source and is preferably disposed in a sidewall opposite the receiving optics. The process includes calculating the thin film thickness, ash rate, and end point from the interference patterns.
US07821646B2
A method of ultrasonic testing comprising conditioning a radiation wave from a laser source by efficiently converting the radiation wave's wavelength to a mid-IR wavelength for enhanced ultrasonic testing of a composite. The method includes passing the radiation wave through a first optical frequency converter where the radiation wave is converted into a signal wave and an idler wave, where the idler wave is at a mid-IR wavelength. The method further includes directing the signal and idler waves to a second optical frequency converter where the signal wave wavelength is converted to a mid-IR wavelength which combines with the idler wave to form a generation wave. The generation wave is directed at a composite surface to be tested.
US07821643B2
Provided are common path frequency domain and time domain OCT systems and methods that use non-specular reference reflection for obtaining internal depth profiles and depth resolved images of samples. Further provided is a delivering device for optical radiation, preferably implemented as an optical fiber probe with a partially optically transparent non-specular reflector placed in the vicinity of an associated sample. High frequency fringes are substantially reduced and a stable power level of the reference reflection is provided over the lateral scanning range. The partially optically transparent non-specular reflector is implemented as a coating placed on the interior surface of the optical probe window including spots of a metal, or a dielectric coating, separated by elements of another coating or just spaces of a clean substrate. In an alternative embodiment, the scattering elements are made 3-dimensional, having, for example, a spherical shape.
US07821635B2
A measuring system for in-situ measurements down a well (1) by a spectrometer (4) is provided. The spectrometer (4) includes a radiation source (5) and a detector (6). A probe (15) optically connected to the spectrometer (4) and includes an optical pathway (7) for transmission of a radiation from the radiation source (5) and at least a second optical pathway for transmission of a characteristic radiation from a sample to the detector (6). A positioner is provided to position the probe (15) near a side surface (11) of the borehole (3) and to optically couple the optical pathways (7) to the side surface (11), wherein the probe (15) is traversable up and down the well (1) by way of a guide operatively connected to the probe (15) and to a fixed location at the wellhead. By use of the apparatus and method a concentration of methane or other substance of interest is obtained, and thereby, a potential production of a coal bed methane formation is obtained.
US07821629B2
A device is disclosed for determining the possible presence of contamination of a container with a decorative exterior, for instance provided with a labelling and/or relief patterns, for liquids such as a drink such as beer or a soft drink. The device includes an irradiating device for irradiating the container with at least a first wavelength (for instance visible light, infrared, ultraviolet, x-radiation), and a recording device for recording a radiation sample of radiation after it has had interaction with at least a part of the container. Further, an orientation determining device is included for determining the orientation of the container relative to the recording device, along with a comparing device for comparing the sample to a reference matching the orientation of the container relative to the recording device during the recording to determine the possible presence of contamination.
US07821627B2
Methods and systems for fabricating and testing semiconductor devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of forming a material includes providing a first workpiece, forming a material on the first workpiece using a first process condition, and measuring a defect state of the material using a test that utilizes a monochromatic light source. If the defect state is below a predetermined value, the material is formed on at least one second workpiece using the first process condition.
US07821626B2
By diffracting light emitted from a collimator lens into lights of different orders by a transmission diffraction grating, applying the diffracted lights to a flat surface of an object, forming the light that has been reflected on the flat surface of the object and thereafter retransmitted through the transmission diffraction grating into an image in a position located apart from the optical axis of the outgoing light and measuring the angle of the object with respect to the optical axis of the collimator lens using the image location and the order of the light formed as the image, the angle in a wide range can be measured with a high resolving power.
US07821623B2
A satellite surveillance countermeasure system uses an airborne platform to position a coherent radiation source above a substantial portion of the Earth's atmosphere. The coherent radiation source provides coherent radiation that is directed toward an enemy surveillance satellite, so as to reversibly deny the satellite the ability to image. By positioning the coherent radiation source at such an altitude, atmospheric attenuation and distortion are mitigated. Thus, a smaller, less powerful and less costly coherent radiation source can be utilized. The use of an airborne platform also makes the system more portable and affordable.
US07821618B2
Disclosed is a method and a device for light propagation time measurement, wherein a light signal is transmitted from at least one transmitter into a light path via a retroreflective object to a receiver for detecting the alteration of the first signal, presence, and/or distance of the object, the received signal being determined from the path and compared with a second signal produced without the light path to achieve a comparison value, which regulates amplitude values of the transmitted signal and/or of the second signal, a clock change signal corresponding to the light propagation time between received signal and second signal is detected cyclically, a difference value being determined by comparing change signals between received signal and second signal , the difference value being altered by means of a phase shifter , delay of the phase shifter that occurred given a minimal difference value determining the light propagation time.
US07821609B2
In a liquid crystal display device, each pixel region formed over a liquid crystal side of one substrate out of respective substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween includes pixel electrodes to which a video signal is supplied from a drain signal line through a switching element driven in response to a scanning signal from a gate signal line and capacitive elements which are formed between the pixel electrodes and a capacitive signal line by way of a dielectric film. In such a constitution, the pixel region is divided into a plurality of regions, and video signals are supplied to respective pixel electrodes and capacitive elements in respective regions through paths which are branched from the switching element.
US07821608B2
Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device which can control a viewing angle in up/down and left/right directions without need of forming white subpixels. In the liquid crystal display device which includes a first region having liquid crystal molecules aligned in a slanted direction, and a second region having the liquid crystal molecules aligned in up and down directions or in left and right directions. Voltage is independently applied to the second region from the first region.
US07821602B2
A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display includes the steps of forming pixel electrodes on inside surfaces of a couple of substrates facing each other, each of the pixel electrodes having gaps; sealing, between the couple of substrates with the pixel electrodes formed, a liquid crystal layer containing a light curing material; and exposing the liquid crystal layer through use of a light shielding film having a plurality of openings, under a voltage applied between a pair of pixel electrodes facing each other on the couple of substrates, where the gaps are alternately disposed to form a staggered arrangement between the pair of pixel electrodes and, spacing between adjacent openings of the light shielding film is smaller than spacing, in a substrate surface direction, between the gap of a pixel electrode on one substrate and the gap of a pixel electrode on the other substrate.
US07821594B2
A receiving container includes first to third sidewalls, first and second buffer recesses and a supporting portion. The first sidewall faces shorter first sides of the lower and upper substrates. The second and third sidewalls are connected to end portions of the first sidewall and face each other. The first buffer recesses are disposed in the first and second sidewalls at a region where the first and second sidewalls meet each other, and in the first and third sidewalls where the first and third sidewalls meet each other. The supporting portion is extended from inner surfaces of the first, second and third sidewalls and supports edge portions of the lower substrate. The second buffer recesses are disposed in the supporting portion and at a region of the supporting portion, which corresponds to corners of the lower substrate.
US07821588B2
A thin film transistor substrate includes a substrate, first and second pad sections, a signal wiring and a pixel array. The first pad section includes first and second lines. The first pad section receives a driving signal through at least one of the first and second lines. The second pad section includes a third line extending from the first line and a fourth line extending from the second line. The second pad section receives the driving signal through at least one of the third and fourth lines. The signal wiring in a display area is electrically connected to at least one of the third and fourth lines to receive the driving signal from the second pad section. The pixel array receives the driving signal from the signal wiring.
US07821560B2
In an optical device such as an optical sensor or a solid-state imaging device having a photodiode for receiving light and producing photocharges and a transfer transistor (or an overflow gate) for transferring the photocharge, it is configured that photocharges overflowing from the photo diode in storage operation are stored into a plurality of storage capacitance elements through the transfer transistor or the overflow gate, thereby obtaining the optical device adapted to maintain a high sensitivity and a high S/N ratio and having a wide dynamic range.
US07821554B2
An image sensor includes a base an image sensor chip, and a cooling element. The base includes an opening disposed in the base. The image sensor chip is connected electrically to the base and covers the opening. The cooling element is received in the opening and is connected thermally to the image sensor chip. Heat produced by the image sensor chip can be dissipated in time by the cooling elements in the image sensor. The cooling elements maintain the image sensor chip works under a temperature no more than the rated working temperature of the image sensor chip and therefore extend the life of the image sensor, and improve the image quality of the image sensor chip.
US07821551B2
A solid-state image pickup device is provided that includes coupling capacitors, a memory unit, amplifiers, and a circuit for removing an output offset. The capacitors reduce pixel noise by clamping signals from the pixels. The amplifiers amplify signal voltages from the coupling capacitors and write the amplified signal voltages to analog memory cells of the memory unit. The circuit removes the output offset of an amplifier and an analog memory cell.
US07821547B2
An image sensing apparatus has a first setting unit that sets a charge accumulation period in an image sensor to an integral multiple of ½ a flicker period, a second setting unit that, when a horizontal scan period, which is a period after commencement of reading out a preset line of the image sensor until commencement of reading out a line to be read out next, is changed to be shorter, sets a charge accumulation period of the image sensor immediately after a change in the horizontal scan period to a period that is an integral multiple of ½ the flicker period and is shorter than the charge accumulation period that has been set by the first setting unit, and a timing controller that controls the image sensor to achieve the charge accumulation periods set by the first and second setting units.
US07821545B2
A portable information terminal and an image management program are provided. A portable information terminal includes: a display part which has a screen capable of displaying at least an image; an in-focus value computing part which computes an in-focus value from an original image; an image cutting part which cuts a thumbnail image from the original image based on the in-focus value computed at the in-focus value computing part; a data storage part which stores data of the thumbnail image cut at the image cutting part; and a control part which reads the data of the thumbnail image stored in the data storage part as necessary and displays it on a screen of the display part.
US07821536B2
A personal computer holds data of a plurality of types in a content storage unit and transfers items of data related across the types of data to a digital camera as group data. The digital camera stores the group data, which is received from the personal computer, in a content memory unit.
US07821535B2
Indices are detected from a pattern image including a plurality of indices, and first positions of the detected indices on the captured image are calculated. Using parameters associated with an image capturing apparatus, second positions indicating the positions of the indices on the captured image are calculated. While a parameter of a radial distortion of a lens of the image capturing apparatus is fixed, the parameters other than the parameter of the radial distortion of the lens of the image capturing apparatus are corrected using the differences between the first positions and the second positions. Using the corrected parameters, third positions indicating the positions of the indices on the captured image are calculated. Using the differences between the first positions and the third positions, the parameter of the radial distortion is corrected.
US07821525B2
The present invention provides a display device including a pixel array unit, a first power supply line, and a second power supply line. The pixel array unit is formed by two-dimensionally arranging pixel circuits each including an electrooptic element determining display luminance and a driving circuit for driving the electrooptic element in a form of a matrix. The first power supply line is for supplying a first power supply potential to the pixel circuits. The first power supply line is arranged along a direction of pixel arrangement of a pixel column in the pixel array unit. The second power supply line is for supplying a second power supply potential to the pixel circuits. The second power supply line isw arranged along the direction of the pixel arrangement of the pixel column in the pixel array unit.
US07821520B1
A new, useful, and non-obvious shader processor architecture having a shader register file that acts both as an internal storage register file for temporarily storing data within the shader processor and as a First-In First-Out (FIFO) buffer for a subsequent module. Some embodiments include automatic, programmable hardware conversion between numeric formats, for example, between floating point data and fixed point data.
US07821516B2
A method for a computer system includes receiving a selection of a plurality of assets to be rendered from a user, wherein the selection comprises a plurality of symbolic references, determining respective static references associated with each asset from the plurality of assets in response to the plurality of symbolic references, rendering the plurality of assets in response to asset data associated with the respective static references to form a rendered image, storing the respective static references associated with each asset from the plurality of assets in a pinset file, and associating the rendered image with the pinset file.
US07821515B2
A method is provided for reducing a height of a font character in a nonlinear scaling process. The method includes reducing the height of the character by interacting with hinting instruction to adjust relevant instructions to thereby reduce the overall height of a font character while preserving as much of the integrity of the character as possible. The method includes an iterative process which selectively removes various pixels, defining an outline of a font character while maintaining a removal criteria, which results in a nonlinear height reduction in order to produce a font of a desired height.
US07821508B2
A driving apparatus for a display device includes a signal controller synthesizing first and second signals, respectively, having first and second signal levels to output a synthesized signal having third to fifth signal levels, a signal extracting unit extracting the first and second control signals from the synthesized signal, a gate driver generating gate signals based on the first control signal, and a data driver generating data signals based on the second control signal.
US07821506B2
An input device is provided. The input device includes a first position detection unit having a detection section which detects the absolute position of a predetermined operation tool in a predetermined region. A second position detection unit has a detection section, which detects contact or approach of the operation tool. An input control unit that controls an input operation on the basis of an input signal obtained from the first position detection unit or the second position detection unit, or a complex input signal combining an input signal obtained from the first position detection unit and an input signal obtained from the second position detection unit. The detection section of the second position detection unit is provided to partially or entirely enclose the outer circumference of the detection section of the first position detection unit.
US07821496B2
A method and apparatus for interfacing the motion of a user-manipulable object with an electrical or computer system includes a user object physically contacted by a user. A gimbal mechanism is coupled to the user object, such as a joystick or a medical tool, and provides at least two degrees of freedom to the user object. The gimbal mechanism preferably includes multiple members, at least two of which are formed as a unitary member which provides flex between the selected members. An actuator applies a force along a degree of freedom to the user object in response to electrical signals produced by the computer system. A sensor detects a position of the user object along the degree of freedom and outputs sensor signals to the computer system. Another embodiment includes a host computer system and a local microprocessor, separate from the host computer, for communicating with the host computer and controlling the forces output by the actuators according to a processor subroutine selected in accordance with a host command, sensor signals, and timing information. Another embodiment of the interface apparatus uses voice coil actuators that produce forces in either linear or rotary degrees of freedom using currents applied in a magnetic fields. A friction drive mechanism of the present invention can be coupled between an actuator and a gimbal mechanism. Force from the actuator is transmitted to the gimbal mechanism through frictional contact of members of the friction drive mechanism.
US07821484B2
A data driver in which the size of the data driving circuit is reduced or minimized so as to be applied to a high-resolution panel. The data driving circuit includes a plurality of shift registers for generating first sampling signals; a plurality of sampling latches arranged as first sampling latches and second sampling latches, the sampling latches being adapted to receive data when the first sampling signals are supplied; and a plurality of holding latches controlled by a first source output enable signal and a second source output enable signal, the holding latches being adapted to receive the data stored in the sampling latches, wherein the data stored in the first sampling latches is supplied to the holding latches via the second sampling latches.
US07821464B2
The present invention relates generally to computer devices utilizing removable radio frequency communication devices used for transmitting and receiving information and more particularly to an improved apparatus for connecting an appropriate antenna to the radio frequency communication device using an antenna cap, and to an improved method and apparatus for connecting a communication card device such as a radio or modem to an appropriate antenna or telephone line.
US07821458B2
An apparatus and method for locating a terminal in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus for locating the terminal includes a candidate region determiner, a virtual location determiner, and a final location determiner. The candidate region determiner determines a candidate region of the terminal by using tag signal arrival time information of the terminal provided from a plurality of readers. The virtual location determiner determines a virtual location of the terminal in the candidate region in consideration of a propagation delay of the tag signal. The final location determiner predicts a tag signal arrival time from the virtual location and determines the virtual location as the final location if a difference between the predicted tag signal arrival time and a measured tag signal arrival time is less than or equal to a threshold value. The apparatus and method provide a less expensive and less complex locating system.
US07821445B2
A radar level gauge for measuring a level of a surface of a product in a container has an antenna for transmitting microwaves to the surface and receiving microwaves reflected by the surface, a measurement circuitry for generating said microwaves to be transmitted and for evaluating said received microwaves, a hollow waveguide between the antenna and the measurement circuitry, said waveguide being separated by a gap into a first waveguide member coupled to the antenna and a second waveguide member coupled to the measurement circuitry, and a dielectric barrier arranged in said gap. A dielectric barrier which is simpler in construction and less critical with respect to the wavelength of the microwaves is obtained in that the dielectric barrier comprises a shaft member inserted into the hollow waveguide and extending through at least a portion of the first waveguide member, through the gap and through at least a portion of the second waveguide member.
US07821444B2
A radar level gauging system for determining a level of a surface of a product in a tank, comprising a propagation device arranged to allow microwave signals to propagate towards the surface, and to return a reflection of the microwave signals from the surface and at least two radar level gauge (RLG) units. Each RLG unit includes transceiver circuitry, processing circuitry connected to the transceiver circuitry and adapted to determine the level based on a relation between transmitted and received signals, and a communication interface. The system further comprises a communication link interconnecting the RLG units, for communicating control data between the RLG units, the communication link comprising an isolating interface, ensuring galvanic isolation between the RLG units. One unit may communicate configuration data to the other RLG units which results in a simplified configuration of the sensor system and thus more cost effective compared to the prior art solutions.
US07821440B2
In a particular embodiment, a circuit device includes an input to receive a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal and an output to send a modulated PWM signal. The circuit device further includes a pulse edge control circuit coupled between the input and the output. The pulse edge control circuit receives the PWM signal via the input and includes a control input to receive a modulation control signal. The pulse edge control circuit is adapted to modify the PWM signal to provide the modulated PWM signal with suppressed carrier power and associated harmonics to the output based on the modulation control signal. The circuit device further includes a modulation sequence controller adapted to provide the modulation control signal via the control input. The modulation control signal selectively controls a sequence of the modification of the PWM signal to selectively alter an output power spectrum of the modulated PWM signal.
US07821419B2
A remote control stores a sequence of key strokes in memory for as long as a predetermined key of a plurality of keys of the remote control is held down. The stored sequence of key strokes may then be repeated, for example, upon release of the predetermined key or upon further activation and release of the predetermined key.
US07821410B2
A radio-type transmitting device capable of transmitting information other than information in an internal memory is provided. A RFID tag includes a encoding circuit for digitalizing receiving sensitivity of a radio wave sent from an external transmitting/receiving apparatus and then sending the digitalized receiving sensitivity to the external transmitting/receiving apparatus. Thus, the external transmitting/receiving apparatus can obtain a distance between the external transmitting/receiving apparatus and the RFID tag based on received sensitivity information.
US07821403B2
A system, apparatus (100) and method are described for an electronic article surveillance security tag (102) having a magnetically releasable tack retaining system, and a magnetic detaching device for use with the electronic article surveillance tag. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07821400B2
A system and method for reading multiple items bearing electronic tags, such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, disposed in a read zone wherein a correlation scheme/system, separate (e.g. non-RF) from the electronic reader, is provided for verifying that all the items in the read zone have been successfully read. Typically, the user/operator is then notified whether or not all the items detected by the verification system have been successfully read by the electronic reader.
US07821399B2
A near field communication (NFC) device is capable of operating as an NFC initiator device or an NFC target device for exchanging request and response messages with another similar device in order to determine a secondary transport mechanism suitable for communications between the two devices with bandwidth greater than available for NFC and for determining appropriate roles for both devices without excessive communication. Such determination of roles can be determined by rule or by exchanging information indicating a choice of roles.
US07821396B2
An image forming device including a document tag reader that detects a contactless IC tag (document tag) attached to the document. If the document tag reader detects a document tag attached to a document, the tagged document is recognized as having a high management level, and a tagged recording sheet is fed (selected) from a sheet tray storing tagged recording sheets to which a contactless IC tag (sheet tag) is attached. On the other hand, if the document tag reader does not detect a document tag, the document is recognized as having a low management level, and a not-tagged recording sheet is fed (selected) from a sheet tray storing not-tagged recording sheets to which a contactless IC tag (sheet tag) is not attached.
US07821388B1
Embodiments for lighted see-through displays include a plurality of light elements positioned thereon at select points arranged to convey information. The light elements may be selectively lit to provide fixed or moving information, or may even be programmed to change or even display like a marquee or even a television. Particular embodiments of the invention employ a lightweight, flexible substrate to support the light elements. Other embodiments employ one or more comparatively rigid substrates supporting rows of light elements. Particular applications for the lighted sign embodiments include display in vehicle windows such as police vehicle windows, construction and utility vehicle windows, and school bus and public transportation windows. Global Positioning System and radio signal receiver components allow for regional display of pertinent information in particular embodiments of the invention.
US07821387B2
A display unit includes: a display panel for displaying an information image; a memory for storing a compressed image data element corresponding to the information image; an image memory for storing the compressed image data element transferred from the memory; and a controller for decompressing the compressed image data element stored in the image memory and for controlling the display panel to display the information image based on a decompressed image data element.
US07821373B2
The surface mount magnetic device includes a magnetic element and as planar cover. The magnetic element includes a winding structure and a magnetic core. The planar cover is attached on the magnetic element. When a nozzle at a tip of placement head of a placement machine is placed on a top surface of the planar cover, the nozzle is tightly attached on the top surface of the planar cover. The surface mount magnetic device is vacuum picked up by the placement head due to pneumatic suction of a driving device, so that the surface mount magnetic device is transported from a first position to a second position.
US07821371B2
A planar magnetic device 1 including a first magnetic layer 3, a second magnetic layer 5, and a planar coil 4 disposed between the first magnetic layer 3 and the second magnetic layer 5, wherein magnetic particles 7 having a shape ratio S/L of 0.7 to 1 when a length of a long axis is L and a length of a short axis orthogonal to the long axis is L are filled in a gap W between coil wirings of the planar coil 4. According to the planar magnetic device 1, it is possible to realize a planar magnetic device such as an inductor reduced in height by using fine particles that enable to effectively obtain a large inductance value.
US07821362B2
In a signal communication device, a frequency-selective filter has at least one component that is biased by a control signal to establish a center frequency of the frequency-selective filter. A closed-loop bias generator is provided to generate the control signal and to adjust the control signal based, at least in part, on a comparison of the control signal and a reference signal.
US07821360B2
Multi-channel surface acoustic wave filter device with voltage controlled tunable frequency response
A multi-channel surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter includes a voltage controlled velocity tunable piezoelectric substrate, an input transducer fabricated on the substrate, and an output transducer fabricated on the substrate. The input transducer further includes multiple input sub-transducers that are electrically and physically connected in parallel. The output transducer further includes multiple output sub-transducers that are electrically and physically connected in parallel. Corresponding pairs of input sub-transducers and output sub-transducers form multiple parallel channels for SAW propagation. The input transducer produces a voltage controlled tunable COMB frequency response that is combined with a voltage controlled tunable COMB frequency response produced by the output transducer to produce a SAW filter voltage controlled tunable frequency response. Further embodiments include a multi-channel SAW resonator, a SAW filter device connecting two novel SAW filters in series, and a SAW filter device connecting two novel SAW resonators in series.
US07821346B2
An ovenized oscillator package including at least a heater and a crystal package mounted on opposite sides of a circuit board. Vias extend through the body of the circuit board to transfer heat from the heater to the crystal package. Layers of thermally conductive material extend through the body of the circuit board and are in thermally coupled relationship with the vias for spreading heat throughout the circuit board and other elements mounted thereon.
US07821343B1
A transmitter that includes a first phase locked loop (PLL) and a second PLL coupled to the first PLL is described. In one implementation, the first PLL is an inductance-capacitance (LC) type PLL and the second PLL is a ring type PLL. Also, in one embodiment, the transmitter further includes a PLL selection multiplexer coupled to the first and second PLLs, where the PLL selection multiplexer receives an output of the first PLL and an output of the second PLL and outputs either the output of the first PLL or the output of the second PLL. In one implementation, a control signal for controlling selection by the PLL selection multiplexer is programmable at runtime. In one implementation, the transmitter of the present invention further includes a clock generation block coupled to the PLL selection multiplexer, a serializer block coupled to the clock generation block and a transmit driver block coupled to the serializer block. In one embodiment, the transmit driver block includes only one post-tap pre-driver and only one main-tap pre-driver. The transmitter of the present invention is capable of operating in a wide range mode or a low jitter mode by selecting the appropriate PLL. In wide range mode, a wider frequency range is desirable. On the other hand, in low jitter mode, a low jitter is desirable.
US07821338B2
A drive current direction between first and second amplifiers can be selected using a received indication of an output current in an at least partially reactive load, and an amplified output signal can be produced using the selected drive current direction and the first and second amplifiers. Further, the first and second amplifiers can be configured to alternate between a pull-up mode and a pull-down mode, each amplifying half of a full wave output signal.
US07821332B2
A signal delaying system is provided, including a delay locked loop circuit and a voltage providing circuit. The delay locked loop circuit delays an input signal to generate a delayed signal. The voltage providing circuit provides a control voltage to the delay locked loop circuit for determining a delay time of the delay locked loop circuit when the delay locked loop circuit operates in a first mode; and providing a stand-by voltage to the delay locked loop circuit when the delay locked loop circuit operates in a second mode, wherein the voltage providing circuit further adjusts the stand-by voltage to make the stand-by voltage substantially equal to the control voltage.
US07821327B2
A high voltage input receiver using low voltage transistors is disclosed. In one embodiment, an input receiver circuit includes a comparator circuit and an inverter circuit. The comparator circuit includes a differential input module for generating a control signal by comparing an external voltage and a reference voltage, and a decision module for generating an inverter input signal based on the control signal. In addition, the reference voltage is used to set dc trip point of the input receiver. Moreover, the input receiver includes one or more stress protection modules to protect key components of the input receiver from exceeding their reliability limits.
US07821324B2
Provided is a reference current generating circuit capable of maintaining a constant output level regardless of a temperature variation by the use of a reference resistor having a constant resistance regardless of the temperature variation. The reference current generating circuit includes a reference voltage circuit supplying a reference voltage having a constant level regardless of a temperature variation, and a reference resistor circuit comprising a resistor having a positive temperature coefficient and a resistor having a negative temperature coefficient that are connected in series, the reference resistor circuit having a constant total resistance regardless of the temperature variation. Herein, a reference current having a constant level regardless of the temperature variation is generated by the reference voltage and the resistance of the reference resistor circuit.
US07821321B2
A combined bandgap generator and temperature sensor for an integrated circuit is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention recognize that bandgap generators typically contain at least one temperature-sensitive element for the purpose of cancelling temperature sensitivity out of the reference voltage the bandgap generator produces. Accordingly, this same temperature-sensitive element is used in accordance with the invention as the means for indicating the temperature of the integrated circuit, without the need to fabricate a temperature sensor separate and apart from the bandgap generator. Specifically, in one embodiment, a voltage across a temperature-sensitive junction from a bandgap generator is assessed in a temperature conversion stage portion of the combined bandgap generator and temperature sensor circuit. Assessment of this voltage can be used to produce a voltage- or current-based output indicative of the temperature of the integrated circuit, which output can be binary or analog in nature.
US07821315B2
Techniques are disclosed for adjusting and programming the duty cycle of a signal generated by a circuit. In an embodiment, parallel transistors are coupled between a NAND gate and a supply voltage. Selectively enabling the parallel transistors adjusts the switching point of the NAND gate, thereby allowing control of the pulse width of the output signal. In an alternative embodiment, the size of the PMOS versus the NMOS transistors in the NAND gate is selectively varied to achieve the same effect. Further disclosed are applications of the techniques to calibrating the receiver to minimize measured second-order inter-modulation products and/or residual sideband.
US07821312B1
A clock signal generator circuit that receives periodic signals has a delay circuit, first and second multiplexers, and flip-flops. The delay circuit delays the periodic signals to generate delayed signals. The first multiplexer selects one of the delayed signals in response to a first select signal to generate an output clock signal. The second multiplexer selects one of the periodic signals in response to a second select signal. The flip-flops generate the first and the second select signals in response to the periodic signal selected by the second multiplexer.
US07821308B2
A delay locked loop includes a DLL hold control unit that receives a first control signal and outputs a DLL hold control signal, and a DLL block that receives the DLL hold control signal and generates a DLL clock.
US07821305B1
A voltage buffer with current reuse is described. This voltage buffer can advantageously provide a relatively wide voltage differential using a relatively low current. In one embodiment, a slave branch can be used to minimize potential spikes/glitches in the voltage buffer.
US07821304B2
A semiconductor device stabilizes an operation of an input buffer. A semiconductor device includes an input potential detection unit, an input buffer, and a current sink unit. The input potential detection unit outputs a detection signal in response to a level of an input signal. The input buffer buffers the input signal by differentially amplifying the input signal through a first current sink unit. The current sink unit receives the detection signal, and in response to the detection signal, performs an auxiliary differential amplifying operation with respect to the input signal buffered by the input buffer.
US07821301B2
A method and circuit for static phase error measurement includes a reference clock delay chain having a selectable number of delay elements. A number of the delay elements are enabled in accordance with a select length signal to delay a reference clock signal. A feedback signal delay chain also has a selectable number of delay elements. A number of the delay elements are enabled in accordance with a select length signal to delay a feedback signal. A latch tests phase alignment between the delayed reference clock signal and the delayed feedback signal and outputs a measurement of static phase error.
US07821294B2
Multi-state restore circuitry that allows storage elements of a power-managed functional block to be loaded when the functional block is repowered up so that the functional block is ready for operation virtually immediately after voltage ramp-up of the functional block. The multi-state restore circuitry includes a restore-state detector for determining which one of a plurality of restore states of the functional block is applicable to a particular repowering-up of the functional block. The multi-state restore circuitry also includes restore logic that loads the storage elements as a function of the restore state determined by the restore-state detector.
US07821291B2
A calibration circuit for matching the output impedance of a driver by calibrating adjustments to the driver is described. The calibration circuit includes a driver circuit with a plurality of calibration transistors configured to receive a plurality of adjustment signals. The calibration circuit also includes a comparator circuit, and a binary searcher. The driver provides a signal corresponding to an output impedance to the comparator circuit. The output impedance signal is compared to a target impedance, and the comparator circuit then provides logic signals to the binary searcher representing whether the output impedance is greater than the target impedance. The binary searcher then selects a type of step size and count direction, in response to the logic signals, to count the number of steps for adjusting the calibration transistors of the driver.
US07821287B2
The system for display test includes a driving circuit having integrated circuit (IC) pads on the substrate and the IC pads are electrically connected to the signal lines, respectively. And the first switches are between the first test pads and the IC pads, wherein the number of the first test pads is less than the number of the IC pads.
US07821285B2
Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display apparatus, including, a pixel array section, a first data line, a second data line, a writing unit, a voltage supply control unit, a data line short-circuiting unit, a reading out unit, and a testing unit.
US07821283B2
Disclosed herein are a circuit board device for wafer inspection having high connection reliability, and a probe card and a wafer inspection apparatus, which are equipped with this circuit board device for wafer inspection. The circuit board device for wafer inspection has a board body and a connector device provided on the board body and obtained by stacking a plurality of connector units on each other, wherein each of the connector units has a first anisotropically conductive elastomer sheet, a composite conductive sheet, a second anisotropically conductive elastomer sheet and a pitch converting board, the composite conductive sheet has an insulating sheet, in which a plurality of through-holes have been formed, and rigid conductors respectively arranged into the through-holes in this insulating sheet so as to protrude from both surfaces of the insulating sheet, and in each of the rigid conductors, terminal portions having a diameter greater than the diameter of the through-hole are formed on both ends of a body portion inserted into the through-hole in the insulating sheet in order for the conductor to be provided movably in the thickness-wise direction of the insulating sheet.
US07821271B2
The invention relates to a method for testing a communication connection in a communication network in an aircraft with at least a first controller, a second controller and a third controller. The method includes the steps: generation of a first predefined signal, output of the first signal at a predefined output of the first controller and sending of the first signal to the third controller by the first controller; detection of a first incoming signal at a predefined input of the second controller which is connected via the communication connection to the predefined output of the first controller, and sending of the incoming signal to the third controller by the second controller; comparison of the first predefined signal with the first incoming signal by the third controller and generation of a first identicalness signal if the first predefined signal and the first incoming signal are the same; repetition of the steps with a second predefined signal and generation of a second identicalness signal by the third controller if the second predefined signal and a second incoming signal are the same; output of an enabling signal if the first and the second identicalness signal have been generated.
US07821268B2
An electronics device for a magnetic resonance apparatus has a housing in which one or more electronic components to be cooled are accommodated, with a flat cold distributor provided in the housing that can be supplied with an externally fed coolant, and that is associated with a blower to circulate the air inside the housing.
US07821261B2
A data processing system configured to process acquired image data (e.g., as part of a diagnostic imaging apparatus) uses a signal-power estimating unit for estimating signal power by using reference data containing data different from processing-target data and a data processing unit for processing the processing-target data by using a WF (wiener filter) based on the signal power estimated by the signal-power estimating unit.
US07821256B2
An apparatus for providing a signal related to a position of a part comprises an exciter coil, and a receiver coil disposed proximate to the exciter coil. The exciter coil generates magnetic flux when the exciter coil is energized by a source of electrical energy, such as an alternating current source. The receiver coil generates a receiver signal when the exciter coil is energized, due to an inductive coupling between the receiver coil and the exciter coil. The receiver coil has a plurality of sections, the inductive coupling tending to induce opposed voltages in at least two of the sections. Embodiments of the present invention include linear sensors, rotational sensors, and novel configurations for improved ratiometric sensing.
US07821253B2
A direct current measuring device having at least one first magnetic sensor and at least one second magnetic sensor sensitive to a magnetic field generated by an electric current flowing in a conductor. The measuring device includes a processing unit connected to the magnetic sensors and generates an output signal dependent on measurement signals supplied by the magnetic sensors. The processing unit includes selection means supplying the output signal and is dependent, for weak electric currents, on the first measurement signals from a first magnetic sensor, and is dependent, for strong electric currents, on the second measurement signals from a second magnetic sensor.
US07821252B2
A three-phase current sensor for measuring currents (IPH1, IPH2, IPH3) running in three conductors of a three-phase conductor system comprises a first magnetic measuring device (D1) and a second magnetic measuring device (D3). Each magnetic measuring device comprises a magnetic circuit provided with at least two interleaf gaps and a magnetic field sensor arranged in each interleaf gap. The magnetic measuring devices (D1, D3) are positioned on both sides of a central conductor or cavity, thereby enabling a central conductor to be inserted in such a way that one of three phases of the conductor system is formed.
US07821242B2
A constant voltage circuit for converting an input voltage input from an input terminal, converting the input voltage to a predetermined constant voltage, and outputting the converted voltage from an output terminal is disclosed that includes an output transistor for outputting a current corresponding to a control signal from the input terminal to the output terminal, a control circuit part for controlling operation of the output transistor so that a proportional voltage proportional to the voltage output from the output terminal is equal to a reference voltage, and a pseudo-load current control circuit part for supplying a pseudo-load current from the output terminal when detecting that the output transistor is switched off according to a voltage difference between the input voltage and a voltage of a gate of the output transistor.
US07821234B2
A power supply having a battery (2) that supplies electric power to an electric load (6), a current sensor (4) that detects the current of the battery (2), and a voltage sensor (5) that detects the voltage of the battery (2) includes abnormality determination means for determining that an open failure has occurred in the battery (2) when the voltage detected by the voltage sensor (5) is larger than a first predetermined change amount and the current detected by the current sensor (4) is smaller than a second predetermined change amount, and determining, if an open failure is not found in the battery (2), that an intermediate fixed failure has occurred in the current sensor (4) when the internal resistance of the battery (2) is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.
US07821228B2
A charger includes a battery module, a boosting and charging circuit, a low voltage boosting circuit, and a charging interface. The battery module provides an operating voltage for the boosting and charging circuit and the low voltage boosting circuit. When the operating voltage is greater than a reference voltage of the boosting and charging circuit, the boosting and charging circuit module works and outputs a charging voltage to the charging interface. When the operating voltage is smaller than the reference voltage of the boosting and charging circuit but greater than a starting voltage of the low voltage boosting circuit, the low voltage boosting circuit works and boosts the operating voltage to the boosting and charging circuit, and then the boosting and charging circuit module works and outputs the charging voltage to the charging interface for the mobile phone.
US07821224B2
A voltage estimation system for motor control feedback is described. The system may include one or more control modules which may generate voltage commands. An overmodulation or “clipping” module receiving a voltage command can generate a clipped voltage. Rather than measuring directly, a voltage estimator may estimate the clipped voltage based on the duty cycle command to the inverter. This estimated voltage may then be used by a flux estimator to estimate a flux value. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07821221B2
The invention relates to a two-phase permanent magnet motor which is controlled by a frequency converter. The frequency converter is advantageously provided with a three-phase inverter having six switches that are controlled in such a manner as to minimize switching losses.
US07821218B2
A system controller is provided that includes a communication network for transmitting and receiving information from an installed blower motor controller, and a removable memory device connected to the system controller. The removable memory device includes stored system parameter information related to a particular heating or cooling system, which information includes at least motor related parameters related to one or more types of blower motors. The system controller further includes a processor that receives, via the communication network, identifying information from the blower motor controller that identifies the type of blower motor that is installed. The processor is configured to retrieve motor related parameters corresponding to the specific identified blower motor from the memory device, and to send the corresponding motor related parameters to the blower motor controller.
US07821213B2
Techniques for controlling a charged particle beam are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a charged particle acceleration/deceleration system. The charged particle acceleration/deceleration system may comprise an accelerator column, which may comprise a plurality of electrodes. The plurality of electrodes may have apertures through which a charged particle beam may pass. The charged particle acceleration/deceleration system may also comprise a voltage grading system. The voltage grading system may comprise a first fluid reservoir and a first fluid circuit. The first fluid circuit may have conductive connectors connecting to at least one of the plurality of electrodes. The voltage grading system may further comprise fluid in the first fluid circuit. The fluid may have an electrical resistance.
US07821207B2
Provided is a lighting unit and a discharge lamp each of which is capable of causing a capacitor to break down by heat generated in a heat generating component, so that circuit operation is safely terminated without any additional cost. A compact self-ballasted fluorescent lamp is provided with a lighting unit (50) housed in a case. The lighting unit (50) causes an arc tube to emit light and is composed of a plurality of electronic components, including a rectifier/smoothing circuit portion, an inverter circuit portion having transistors (Q1 and Q2), a resonant circuit portion, and a preheating circuit portion having a positive temperature coefficient element. Among the plurality of electronic components, the transistors (Q1 and Q2) and the positive temperature coefficient element generate excessive heat when, for example, the lamp is operated at the end of electrode's life. Capacitors (C4 and C6) disposed in the vicinity of the positive temperature coefficient element would break down by heat in a short mode.
US07821205B2
A flat display panel comprising exhaust holes in a display region is provided. In the flat display panel, a front substrate comprising X and Y electrodes a rear substrate comprising an address electrode are sealed at a predetermined interval in parallel. Vacuum exhaust and gas discharge are performed on a space between the sealed substrates through the exhaust holes in the display area, thereby reducing a non-radiation area of the panel to less than 1 mm. As a result, the flat display panel is effective in formation of an indefinite extension multi-PDP because a seam between the panels is removed when a multi-PDP comprising a plurality of panels is formed.
US07821188B2
To provide a lighting device capable of a substantial color adjustment and unlimited control of spectral components, a lighting device of the present invention puts a first transparent plate in which a phosphor layer dispersed with a first phosphor is formed in places and a second transparent plate in which a phosphor layer dispersed with a second phosphor is formed in places in a path of light from a light source, and stacks the first transparent plate and the second transparent plate on top of each other. The second phosphor differs from the first phosphor. How much in terms of area the phosphor layers overlap with each other is made variable, and the color tone of the lighting device can thus be controlled. The lighting device uses a blue light source as its light source, a green phosphor as the first phosphor, and a red phosphor as the second phosphor. An intended chromaticity can be obtained by varying how much in terms of area the green phosphor layer and the red phosphor layer overlap with each other and thereby adjusting the green light absorption amount of the red phosphor.
US07821182B2
The invention relates to a device for actuating a sanitary appliances which comprises at least one sensor arranged in a housing and provided with a pressure-sensitive element and is actuatable by applying a force on the sensor sensitive area for deforming said element. The inventive device also comprises a control system which determines the deformation of the element and produces a signal by which the operation of the sanitary appliances is controllable. Coupling means extending perpendicularly to the operating direction of the sensor outside of the sensitive area thereof enable a force which is generated at a distance from said sensitive area to be transferable thereon.
US07821178B2
A direct current electric motor brush and brush housing arrangement which significantly reduces the effect of brush lift in a brushed motor containing viscous fluid. The brush housing enables viscous fluid to avoid momentum transfer into the brushes by providing two or more pressure relief channels that provide the fluid with direct radial exits along the direction of the brush, potentially reducing the brush lift due to the fluid being forced between a rotating commutator and its associated brushes. The pressure relief channels may be located in the housing immediately adjacent to the brush, being radially disposed to the leading face (or leading and trailing faces) of each brush, or in the leading face (or leading and trailing faces) of each brush itself, and may include additional channels in the housing near but not immediately adjacent the brushes.
US07821171B2
A wedge placed between adjacent coils in a generator comprises a wedge body having a generally triangular portion to be positioned at a radially inner location, and a radially outer portion. The radially outer portion includes ends that will be spaced at axial ends of the wedge when the wedge is positioned within a generator. The ends have a first surface spaced a first distance from an apex of the triangle. The end walls extend above the first surface at each of two spaced positions axially inwardly of the ends of the wedge. The end walls are connected to side walls that extend near circumferential edges of the wedge. An open pocket is formed within the wedge body at locations between the side walls and axially between the end walls.
US07821170B2
A DC motor, has a stator housing accommodating a permanent magnet stator; a rotor, rotatably mounted confronting the stator, the rotor having a shaft, a rotor core fitted to the shaft and having laminations forming salient poles, a commutator fitted to the shaft adjacent one end of the rotor core, windings wound about poles of the rotor core and terminated on the commutator, the windings each being wound around a single pole of the rotor; and brush gear comprising brushes in sliding contact with the commutator for transferring electrical power to the windings.
US07821169B2
A series coupling synchronous axial gap type motor where rotors and stators are alternately stacked with required air gaps in the axial direction of a rotary shaft as a main shaft, is provided. The rotors are fixed to the rotary shaft, and the stators are disposed such that they cannot be interlocked with the rotary shaft. A plurality of rotary field bodies are attached to each of the rotor around the axis, and a plurality of armature coils are made to face the rotary field bodies with an air gap therefrom and are attached to each of the stators around the axis such that their magnetic-flux directions are directed toward the axial direction. The armature coils have an empty core, or a core member composed of a magnetic body attached thereto.
US07821160B1
A device is provided and includes an actuator, mounted to a wall box, including a power supply, an electrical load controller and a terminal coupled to the power supply and the controller, an actuator interface disposed on the actuator to receive first commands relating to basic electrical load control by the controller and a separate interface, including a header to communicate with the terminal whereby the separate interface receives power and communicates with the controller, the separate interface being supportable at the wall box and, when the header and terminal communicate, configured to identify a type of the actuator and to receive second commands of a type unique to the identified actuator type and relating to the basic and enhanced electrical load control by the controller.
US07821155B2
In one embodiment, a power system for a plurality of dispensers comprises an AC transformer to receive a line voltage and generate an output voltage of about 2 volts AC to about 50 volts AC; a plurality of dispensers, each housing at least one electrical component operatively configured to dispense product through a dispensing aperture, each of the dispensers comprising a battery compartment; and a plurality of power converters adapted to be at least partially disposed within the battery compartments such that at least one power converter is associated with each dispenser, the converters disposed in communication with the AC transformer such that the power converters receive the output voltage and provide a DC voltage to one or more electrical components housed within the dispensers.
US07821151B2
A solar power arrangement for converting solar energy into electricity comprising; a solar chimney, the chimney having a flared base spaced from the ground the chimney including a transparent surface to allow solar energy to heat air within the solar chimney. A first air turbine drives a first generator, and the chimney including an exhaust. The first air turbine drives an air compressor and wherein the compressor includes an ambient air intake and a plurality of pipes for receiving compressed attached to the solar chimney. A plurality of heliostats focus solar energy on the pipes to heat the compressed air contained therein and a second turbine driven by expansion of the compressed air wherein the second turbine drives a second generator.
US07821150B2
An ocean energy harvesting system utilizes horizontal structural members that rotate in response to wave motion. The structural members are designed to capture energy in a line array that replicates the shape of the waves as they pass through the ocean. A generator platform is placed in the ocean environment or on the shore, and the structural members rotate under the platform or around a pivot post placed in proximity to the platform. The rotation drives a generator shaft due to direct attachment to the structural member or from a cable attached to a structural member some distance from the platform. The structural members can be of substantial length depending on the prevailing wave conditions at the site and the desired amount of energy capture. The system adjusts to differing water levels due to tidal shifts.
US07821130B2
A module includes a metallized substrate including a metal layer, a base plate, and a joint joining the metal layer to the base plate. The joint includes solder contacting the base plate and an inter-metallic zone contacting the metal layer and the solder. The inter-metallic zone has spikes up to 100 μm and a roughness (Rz) of at least 20 μm.
US07821125B2
The invention provides a heat radiating structure which reduces a mechanical stress applied to an electronic part mounted on a printed circuit board including a semiconductor package. The heat radiating structure is constructed by a semiconductor package mounted on a printed circuit board, a thermal conduction sheet arranged on an upper surface of the semiconductor package, and a metal case provided with a heat radiating fin for receiving a heat transmitted form the thermal conduction sheet so as to discharge to an atmospheric air, and the metal case is provided with a concavo-convex structure in a contact portion with the thermal conduction sheet.
US07821122B2
A method and system for fabricating a interconnect substrate for a multi-component package is disclosed. The multi-component package includes at least one die and a package substrate. The method and system include providing an insulating base and providing at least one conductive layer. The at least one conductive layer provides interconnects for at least one discrete component. The interconnect substrate is configured to be mounted on the at least one die and to have the at least one discrete component mounted on the interconnect substrate.
US07821121B2
In a semiconductor device which has through holes in an end face, in which a semiconductor element is fixedly mounted on a face of a substrate which has a wiring pattern, which is conductive to the wiring portion formed in the through hole, in at least one face, in which electrodes of the semiconductor element are electrically connected to the wiring pattern, and in which the face of the substrate which has the semiconductor element is coated with a resin, the through hole has a through hole land with a width of 0.02 mm or more, which is conductive to the wiring portion, in a substrate face, and the wiring portion and the through hole land are exposed.
US07821117B2
A semiconductor package (20) includes an organic substrate (24) and a semiconductor die subassembly (22). A method (50) for making the semiconductor package (20) entails providing (52) the organic substrate (24) having an opening (26) and electrical contacts (36). The subassembly (22) is formed by producing (64) a semiconductor die (28) and bonding it to a platform layer (30). An elastomeric adhesive (38) is utilized (92) to secure the subassembly (22) in the opening (26). Electrical interconnects (32) are provided (106) between the semiconductor die (28) and the electrical contacts (36) of the organic substrate (24). The organic substrate (24), semiconductor die (28), elastomeric adhesive (38), and electrical interconnects (32) are encapsulated (114) in a packaging material (46). The elastomeric adhesive (38) provides mechanical anchoring of the subassembly (22) to the substrate (24) and provides mechanical stress isolation of the semiconductor die (28) within the semiconductor package (20).
US07821111B2
A packaged surface-mount semiconductor device has the outer, un-encapsulated lead segments structured in five adjoining portions: The first portion protrudes from the encapsulation about horizontally; the second portion forms a convex bend downwardly; the third portion is approximately straight downwardly; the fourth portion forms a concave bend upwardly; and the fifth portion is straight horizontally. Each segment has across the width a first groove in the third portion, either on the bottom surface or on the top surface. Preferably, the groove is about 2 leadframe thicknesses vertically over the bottom surface of the fifth lead portion. When stamped, the groove may have an angular outline about 5 and 50 μm deep; when etched, the groove may have an approximately semicircular outline about 50 to 125 μm deep. A second groove may be located in the second segment portion; a third groove may be located in the transition region from the third to the fourth segment portions.
US07821110B2
Back end of line (BEOL) circuit structures and methods are provided for blocking externally-originating or internally-originating electromagnetic interference. One such BEOL circuit structure includes one or more semiconductor substrates supporting one or more integrated circuits, and one or more BEOL layers disposed over the semiconductor substrate(s). At least one BEOL layer includes a conductive pattern defined at least partially by a plurality of elements arrayed in a first direction and a second direction throughout at least a portion thereof. The plurality of elements are sized and positioned in at least one of the first and second directions to block electromagnetic interference of a particular wavelength from passing therethrough. In one implementation, a first conductive pattern of a first BEOL layer polarizes electromagnetic interference, and a second conductive pattern of a second BEOL layer blocks the polarized electromagnetic interference.
US07821096B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit having a diode element includes a diffusion layer which constitutes the anode and two diffusion layers which are provided on the left and right sides of the anode and which constitute the cathode, such that the anode and the cathode constitute the diode. A well contact is provided to surround both the diffusion layers of the anode and cathode. Distance tS between a longer side of the well contact and the diffusion layers of the cathode is shorter, while distance tL between a shorter side of the well contact and the diffusion layers of the anode and cathode is longer (tL>tS). Accordingly, the resistance value between the diffusion layer of the anode and the shorter side of the well contact is larger, so that the current from the diffusion layer of the anode is unlikely to flow toward the shorter side of the well contact. Thus, convergence of the current at the contact holes of the diffusion layer of the anode is reduced, so that the reliability of the diode element improves.
US07821086B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a first write line which is provided in a first direction, a first memory element which is connected to the first write line, a second memory element which is provided to neighbor the first memory element in the first direction, and is connected to the first write line, a first insulation film which is provided on surfaces of the first and second memory elements, and a second insulation film which is provided between the neighboring first and second memory elements and has a lower heat conductivity than the first insulation film.
US07821085B2
A physical quantity sensor includes: a sensor substrate including a first support substrate, a first insulation film and a first semiconductor layer, which are stacked in this order; a cap substrate including a second support substrate disposed on the first semiconductor layer, and has a P conductive type; and multiple electrodes, which are separated from each other. The first support substrate, the first insulation film and the first semiconductor layer have the P conductive type. The physical quantity is detected based on a capacitance between the plurality of electrodes, and the electrodes are disposed in the first semiconductor layer.
US07821071B2
An object of the present invention is to prevent the deterioration of a TFT (thin film transistor). The deterioration of the TFT by a BT test is prevented by forming a silicon oxide nitride film between the semiconductor layer of the TFT and a substrate, wherein the silicon oxide nitride film ranges from 0.3 to 1.6 in a ratio of the concentration of N to the concentration of Si.
US07821064B2
A lateral MISFET having a semiconductor body has a doped semiconductor substrate of a first conduction type and an epitaxial layer of a second conduction type, which is complementary to the first conduction type, the epitaxial layer being provided on the semiconductor substrate. This MISFET has, on the top side of the semiconductor body, a drain, a source, and a gate electrode with gate insulator. A semiconductor zone of the first conduction type is embedded in the epitaxial layer in a manner adjoining the gate insulator, a drift zone of the second conduction type being arranged between the semiconductor zone and the drain electrode in the epitaxial layer. The drift zone has pillar-type regions which are arranged in rows and columns and whose boundary layers have a metal layer which in each case forms a Schottky contact with the material of the drift zone.
US07821063B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device is formed in a body of semiconductor material. The semiconductor device includes a localized region of doping near a portion of a channel region where current exits during operation.
US07821059B2
In a semiconductor device, the side walls are made of SiO2, SiN or SiON, and the top insulating film or gate insulating film is made of an oxide including Al, Si, and metal element M so that the number ratio Si/M is set to no less than a number ratio Si/M at a solid solubility limit of SiO2 composition in a composite oxide including metal element M and Al and set to no more than a number ratio Si/M at the condition that the dielectric constant is equal to the dielectric constant of Al2O3 and so that the number ratio Al/M is set to no less than a number ratio Al/M where the crystallization of an oxide of said metal element M is suppressed due to the Al element and set to no more than a number ratio Al/M where the crystallization of the Al2O3 is suppressed due to the metal element M.
US07821050B1
A transistor fabricated on a semiconductor substrate includes a source and a drain in the substrate; a gate on the substrate, the gate being insulated from the substrate by gate dielectric; barrier layers covering two sides of the gate and the gate dielectric; spacers of high-k material covering the barrier layers; and nitride spacers covering the spacers of high-k material. The spacers of high-k material significantly increase the node capacitance of the transistor and therefore reduce the transistor's soft error rate.
US07821046B2
A method and structure for providing a high energy implant in only the red pixel location of a CMOS image sensor. The implant increases the photon collection depth for the red pixels, which in turn increases the quantum efficiency for the red pixels. In one embodiment, a CMOS image sensor is formed on an p-type substrate and the high energy implant is a p-type implant that creates a p-type ground contact under the red pixel, thus reducing dark non-uniformity effects. In another embodiment, a CMOS image sensor is formed on an n-type substrate and a high energy p-type implant creates a p-type region under only the red pixel to increase photon collection depth, which in turn increases the quantum efficiency for the red pixels.
US07821043B2
An insulated gate bipolar transistor has a p-type emitter layer; an n-type buffer layer provided on the p-type emitter layer; an n-type base layer provided on the n-type buffer layer and having a higher resistivity than the n-type buffer layer; a p-type base layer provided in part of an upper surface of the n-type base layer; an n-type source layer provided in part of an upper surface of the p-type base layer; a trench extending through the n-type source layer and the p-type base layer to the n-type base layer; a gate electrode provided in the trench; and a gate insulating film provided between the gate electrode and an inner surface of the trench. The p-type emitter layer has a thickness of 5 to 50 μm and a dopant concentration of 2×1016 to 1×1018 cm−3.
US07821039B2
An integrated circuit structure includes an integrated circuit structure including a PMOS transistor including a first gate electrode; a first source region; and a first drain region; an NMOS transistor including a second gate electrode, wherein the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are portions of a gate electrode strip; a second source region; and a second drain region. No additional transistors are formed between the PMOS transistor and the NMOS transistor. The integrated circuit further includes a VDD power rail connected to the first source region; a VSS power rail connected to the second source region; and an interconnection port electrically connected to the gate electrode strip. The interconnection port is on an outer side of a MOS pair region including the PMOS transistor, the NMOS transistor, and the region between the PMOS transistor and the NMOS transistor. The portion of the gate electrode strip in the MOS pair region is substantially straight.
US07821029B2
An electrostatic protection element relating to the present invention comprises a P-type semiconductor and an N-type first impurity layer provided in the semiconductor substrate. The first impurity layer comprises a P-type second impurity layer functioning as a gate. The second impurity layer comprises an N-type third impurity layer functioning as a cathode. Further, the first impurity layer comprises an N-type fourth impurity layer spaced apart from the second impurity layer at a distance. The fourth impurity layer comprises a P-type fifth impurity layer functioning as an anode and an N-type sixth impurity layer. Then, in the electrostatic protection element, an impurity concentration of the fourth impurity layer is higher than that of the first impurity layer, and a bottom of the fourth impurity layer is deeper than that of the second impurity layer.
US07821026B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) device and manufacturing methods thereof are provided, wherein the LED device comprises a substrate, a first type conductivity semiconductor layer, an active layer, a second type conductivity semiconductor layer, a transparent conductive oxide stack structure, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first semiconductor layer on the substrate has a first portion and a second portion. The active layer and the second semiconductor layer are subsequently set on the first portion. The transparent conductive oxide stack structure on the second semiconductor layer has at least two resistant interfaces. The first electrode is above the second portion, and the second electrode is above the transparent conductive oxide stack structure.
US07821025B2
A semiconductor light emitting unit is provided which comprises: a support 1 formed with longitudinal side walls 15 disposed opposite to each other for forming a pair of light reflective surfaces 9, and a bottom wall 16 connected to longitudinal side walls 15 for forming a mount surface 3a between light reflective surfaces 9 to form a channel 3 by longitudinal side walls 15 and bottom wall 16 above mount surface 3a. Formed at either end of channel 3 in the longitudinal direction of support 1 is a vertical opening 18 which serves to directly communicate channels 3 of adjacent light emitting units when plural semiconductor light emitting units are lengthwise arranged, so that there is no lateral side wall 15 obstructing path of light radiated from LED chips 2 toward outside to thereby irradiate uniform light to outside along the longitudinal direction of linear light source.
US07821024B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer on the first conductive semiconductor layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer on the active layer, and a roughness layer on the second conductive semiconductor layer. The second conductive semiconductor layer includes a shape of multiple horns, and the roughness layer includes a shape of multiple horns. The second conductive semiconductor layer includes a roughness in which horn shapes and inverse-horn-shaped shapes are alternately formed, and the roughness has a height of about 0.5 μm to about 1.2 μm and a diameter of about 0.3 μm to about 1.0 μm.
US07821022B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device employing nanowire phosphors. The light emitting device comprises a light emitting diode for emitting light having a first wavelength with a main peak in an ultraviolet, blue or green wavelength range; and nanowire phosphors for converting at least a portion of light having the first wavelength emitted from the light emitting diode into light with a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength. Accordingly, since the nanowire phosphors are employed, it is possible to reduce manufacturing costs of the light emitting device and to reduce light loss due to non-radiative recombination.
US07821021B2
A light emitting diode includes a conductive layer, an n-GaN layer on the conductive layer, an active layer on the n-GaN layer, a p-GaN layer on the active layer, and a p-electrode on the p-GaN layer. The conductive layer is an n-electrode.
US07821020B2
A light emitting device includes a metal base, an electrical circuit layer provided at an upper side of the metal base for providing a conductive path, a light emitting device mounted in a second region having a smaller thickness than a first region on the metal base, an insulating layer sandwiched between the metal base and the electrical circuit layer, an electrode layer provided at an upper side of the electrical circuit layer, and a wire for electrically connecting the electrode layer and the light emitting device. The light emitting device package has improved light emission efficiency since the light emitting device is placed on a small thickness portion of the metal base.
US07821005B2
Phosphorus is implanted into a crystalline semiconductor film by an ion dope method. However, a concentration of phosphorus required for gettering is 1×1020/cm3 or higher which hinders recrystallization by later anneal, and thus this becomes a problem. Also, when phosphorus is added at a high concentration, processing time required for doping is increased and throughput in a doping step is reduced, and thus this becomes a problem. The present invention is characterized in that impurity regions to which an element belonging to the group 18 of the periodic table is added are formed in a semiconductor film having a crystalline structure and gettering for segregating in the impurity regions a metal element contained in the semiconductor film is performed by heat treatment. Also, a one conductivity type impurity may be contained in the impurity regions.
US07820994B2
Disclosed herein are a system to test an electronic part and a method of controlling the same, which are capable of automatically detecting a position of a socket according to a variation in a position of the socket to efficiently test the electronic part. The system to test an electronic part using a robot to automatically test the electronic part includes: a distance measuring unit measuring a distance between a socket mounted on a substrate to test the electronic part and a reference block to provide a reference position; a position measuring unit detecting positional information of the reference block; and a controller calculating positional information of the socket using the measured distance between the socket and the reference block on the basis of the detected positional information of the reference block and controlling the robot using the calculated positional information of the socket.
US07820990B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for emitting electromagnetic (EM) energy. A source emits EM energy that is incident on a first material. The first material transmits EM energy to a second material. The second material can have a first surface adjacent to the first material and a thickness and shape selected to stimulate surface plasmon polaritons on the first surface of the second material to resonate the EM energy transmitted from the first material such that the resonated EM energy has an EM wavelength in a narrow field of view with substantially no sidelobes.
US07820987B2
An approach for predicting dose repeatability in an ion implantation is described. In one embodiment, an ion source is tuned to generate an ion beam with desired beam current. Beam current measurements are obtained from the tuned ion beam. The dose repeatability is predicted for the ion implantation as a function of the beam current measurements.
US07820983B2
Substrates, systems and methods for analyzing materials that include waveguide arrays disposed upon or within the substrate such that evanescent fields emanating from the waveguides illuminate materials disposed upon or proximal to the surface of the substrate, permitting analysis of such materials. The substrates, systems and methods are used in a variety of analytical operations, including, inter alia, nucleic acid analysis, including hybridization and sequencing analyzes, cellular analyzes and other molecular analyzes.
US07820981B2
The service lifetime of an ion source is enhanced or prolonged by the source having provisions for in-situ etch cleaning of the ion source and of an extraction electrode, using reactive halogen gases (F or Cl), and by having features that extend the service duration between cleanings. The latter include accurate vapor flow control, accurate focusing of the ion beam optics, and thermal control of the extraction electrode that prevents formation of deposits or prevents electrode destruction. An apparatus comprised of an ion source for generating dopant ions for semiconductor wafer processing is coupled to a remote plasma source which delivers F or Cl ions to the first ion source for the purpose of cleaning deposits in the first ion source and the extraction electrode. These methods and apparatus enable long equipment uptime when running condensable feed gases such as sublimated vapor sources, and are particularly applicable for use with so-called cold ion sources. Methods and apparatus are described which enable long equipment uptime when decaborane and octadecarborane are used as feed materials, as well as when vaporized elemental arsenic and phosphorus are used, and which serve to enhance beam stability during ion implantation.
US07820967B2
An infrared camera including optics and a detector sensitive to infrared radiation is used in conjunction with at least one light source, such as a laser, to locate a reference point on a target. Two intersecting line segments are produced by the one light source or a combination of two light sources to locate the reference point on the target. The infrared camera would display both an infrared image as well as a visible image which can be merged onto a single display. The teaching of the present invention could also be used to determine the distance to the target as well as the area of the target.
US07820952B2
A food supportive device (20) for use in microwave heating or cooking of food (10) including a plurality of food contact areas (21) elevated from and substantially integral to a foundation (28) that enables the support of food directly placed on the contact areas, wherein spaces are formed between the elevated food contact areas (21) and the foundation (28) enable the venting or escape of moisture from the food to prevent the food from going soggy.
US07820943B2
A system and method for forming an arc between an electrode and a workpiece is disclosed. The present invention includes a method of initiating an arc that includes comparing voltage across output terminals of a stick welder to a voltage threshold, and if the voltage across the output terminals is less than the voltage threshold, increasing the voltage across the output terminals to an arc formation OCV. The output voltage of the stick welder will be driven to a lower OCV if an arc is not formed between an electrode and a workpiece within a given period of time.
US07820936B2
A method and apparatus is provided for forming a fusion bond between two materials such as two components of a catheter. The method begins by forming a bond site by positioning a portion of a first body with respect to a portion of a second body so that a fusion bond site is formed. A laser beam is generated that has an intensity profile across its width. The laser beam is directed onto at least a portion of the first and second bodies within the bond site so that a fusion zone having an increased temperature is formed. After the laser beam is generated, the intensity profile of the laser beam that is directed onto the bond site is controllably adjusted by an optical element such as a dynamically-adjustable beam shaping element.
US07820923B1
A weigh-on-the-fly WOF module for weighing a mail piece as it is being sorted by a mail sort machine. The piece is delivered to entry pinch rollers in the WOF module which, in turn, deliver the piece into pinch at an acceleration roller. The thickness of the piece is measured the pinch at the acceleration roller is adjusted to reduce drag on the mail piece during acceleration. The acceleration roller is driven by a constant torque motor at a first known or measured velocity V1 which is increased to second known or measured velocity V2 when the mail piece arrives. The time of acceleration from V1 to V2 is measured. Once the velocities and the time of acceleration are known, the weigh of that particular mail piece can be calculated using the formula: F=ma wherein F=force or torque m=mass or weight; and a=acceleration or (V2−V1)/time.
US07820920B2
The present application discloses a casing and a corresponding mounting device, for protecting pins of an element from melting during a process flow in which the element is soldered on a circuit board, while saving an area required for soldering the element on the circuit board. The casing comprises a hollow body provided with at least one opening.
US07820916B2
A composite ceramic substrate includes a ceramic substrate having surface-mounted components mounted thereon, external terminal electrodes connecting wiring patterns disposed on the ceramic substrate and surface electrodes of a motherboard, and a convex leg portion made of resin and arranged such that an end surface supports the external terminal electrodes, and the external terminal electrodes are connected to the wiring patterns via a via-hole conductor provided in the leg portion.
US07820909B2
A tamper-resistant electrical receptacle includes a cover defining a set of cover apertures; and a slider defining an aperture therein and being movable between a first position blocking the set of cover apertures and a second position not blocking the set of cover apertures, wherein when an object probes at least one and fewer than all of the set of cover apertures, the slider is constrained in the first position. When a set of prongs is inserted simultaneously through the set of cover apertures, the prongs contact a slider surface that is oriented substantially orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the set of prongs such that the slider is urged from the first to the second position. When in the second position the slider aperture aligns with at least one of the set of cover apertures to enable the set of prongs to contact the receptacle contacts.
US07820902B2
Automatic player pianos and internet form a music performance system for a music session on the automatic player pianos through data communication between the automatic player pianos, and a communication time lag and mechanical time lag are unavoidably introduced between the data transmission and the data reception and between the data reception and tone generation; one of or both of the time lags are compensated by employment of an electronic tone generation, presumption of key positions or presumption of key event so that the slave automatic player piano generates the tones almost concurrently with the tones generated through the master automatic player piano.
US07820897B2
A string for a musical instrument of this invention includes a core and a winding wound around the core to have a wound string structure. The winding has a winding body, and a coating film formed on the winding body. The coating film includes a vinyl resin and aminotriazole.
US07820895B1
A novel maize variety designated PH12BN and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH12BN with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH12BN through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH12BN or a locus conversion of PH12BN with another maize variety.
US07820892B1
A novel maize variety designated PHF0D and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHF0D with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHF0D through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHF0D or a trait conversion of PHF0D with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHF0D, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHF0D and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07820883B2
The invention provides methods of identifying herbicidal auxins. The invention further provides auxin-herbicide-resistant plants and genes conferring auxin-herbicide resistance. This invention also provides a method of identifying other proteins that bind picolinate auxins from additional plant species. The invention further provides a method to identify the molecular binding site for picolinate auxins. The invention also includes the use of the picolinate herbicidal auxin target site proteins, and methods of discovering new compounds with herbicidal or plant growth regulatory activity. The invention also includes methods for producing plants that are resistant to picolinate herbicidal auxins. Specific examples of novel proteins associated with herbicide binding include AFB5, AFB4, and SGT1b.
US07820879B2
To investigate the function of ZPT2-3, petunia transformants overexpressing the ZPT2-3 gene under the control of the CamV 35S promoter were generated to investigate the presence or absence of tolerance against desiccation stress treatment. Surprisingly, petunia plant transformants showed significant tolerance against desiccation as compared to the wild type plants. In addition, neither growth abnormality nor morphological abnormality was observed in petunia plants, and thus overexpression of the ZPT2-3 gene was revealed to have no adverse effects on plant growth.
US07820863B2
A process for reducing the levels of undesirable impurities in a mesotrione sample is disclosed, said process comprising the steps of: (i) forming a mesotrione enolate solution in an aqueous solvent, (ii) carrying out one or more purification processes, and (iii) crystallizing the purified mesotrione out of solution.
US07820862B2
Disclosed is a novel asymmetric ligand which can be synthesized by a short process at low cost and is capable of exhibiting higher catalytic activity and enantioselectivity than the conventional ligands derived from sugars. Also disclosed are a method for producing such an asymmetric ligand, and a catalyst using such an asymmetric ligand. Specifically disclosed is a ligand represented by the general formula I below or the like. (In the formula, R1 and R2 independently represent 0-5 substituents; X represents P, As or N; m represents an integer of 0-7; n represents an integer of 0-3; A1-A4 independently represent hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, benzoyl or acetyl, or alternatively A2 and A3 combine together to form a ring.)
US07820860B2
Methods for racemate separation for compound-forming substances. In this method, at least one fraction which is enriched with an enantiomer is produced in one method step. Finally, a preferred crystallization is carried out on the fraction.
US07820850B2
The invention relates to phosphorus-containing mixtures, containing compounds of formula RO—PO(A)-CH2—CH2—CO2H and (I) HO—PO(A)-CH2—CH2—CO2R, (II) wherein A means C1-C18-Alkyl, C6-C18-Alkylaryl, C6-C18-Aralkyl or Aryl, R (D,E)C═C(B, R5) or H and B, D, E each H or C1-C18-Alkyl R5 C1-C20-(—CO—O-Hydroxyalkylen) a process for making these mixtures and their use.
US07820834B2
Compounds useful as immunosuppressive, anti-inflammatory and anticancer agents and methods of their preparation and use are described. The compounds are analogs or derivatives of triptolide and related compounds, modified at the 5- and/or 6-position relative to the naturally occurring compounds.
US07820833B2
Disclosed herein are dithio compounds that include at least one fluorophore. The compounds additionally may include a different fluorophore or a non-fluorophore. The dithio compounds may be used as reagents for detecting thiol-containing compounds.
US07820830B2
The present invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of a compound of general formula (I): wherein R1 is H or C1-4 alkyl and R2 is difluoromethyl or trifluoromethyl, which comprises reacting a compound of general formula (II): wherein R1 has the meaning given above and X is chloro or bromo, with a compound of general formula (III): wherein R2 has the meaning given above, in the presence of a base, a palladium catalyst and a ferrocenyl biphoshine ligand of the Josiphos type, the reaction being carried out in an ether solvent at a reflux temperature of at least 100° C.
US07820829B2
The present invention relates to new bisbenzisoselenazolonyl derivatives of the following general formula (I), wherein R is C4-5-alkylene, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts. The inventive derivatives have antineoplastic, anti-inflammatory and antithrombotic activities.
US07820828B2
This invention relates to electroluminescent metal complexes with triazoles and benzotriazoles, respectively of the formula (I) a process for their preparation, electronic devices comprising the metal complexes and their use in electronic devices, especially organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), as oxygen sensitive indicators, as phosphorescent indicators in bioassays, and as catalysts.
US07820825B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula I and the use thereof for the treatment of a central nervous system disorder related to or affected by the histamine-3 receptor.
US07820814B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula I, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The formula I compounds inhibit the tyrosine kinase activity of growth factor receptors such as VEGFR-2 and FGFR-1, thereby making them useful as anti-cancer agents. The formula I compounds are also useful for the treatment of other diseases associated with signal transduction pathways operating through growth factor receptors.
US07820809B2
Efficient sequence specific gene silencing is possible through the use of siRNA technology. By selecting particular siRNAs by rationale design, one can maximize the generation of an effective gene silencing reagent, as well as methods for silencing genes.
US07820808B2
The present invention provides nucleic acid based polymerase inhibitors and methods for reducing non-specific polymerase extension and amplification in nucleic acid amplification reactions. The polymerase inhibitors provide a double stranded nucleic acid portion that is recognized by a polymerase enzyme as a template for extension but is incapable of being extended by the polymerase enzyme. The polymerase binds to the polymerase inhibitor which sequesters the enzyme until the temperature achieves a level that denatures the double stranded portion of the inhibitor after which the polymerase is released and can then catalyze nucleic acid extension.
US07820805B2
Isolated sulfotransferase nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as are sulfotransferase allozymes. Methods for determining the sulfonator status of a subject also are described. In addition, methods for predicting the therapeutic efficacy of a compound in a subject are described, as are methods for estimating the dose of a compound to be administered to a subject.
US07820799B2
The present application provides methods of purifying polypeptides having a Fc region, for example, antibodies or antibody fusions, by adsorbing the polypeptides to a Fc binding agent, such as, for example, Protein A or Protein G, followed by a wash with a divalent cation salt buffer to remove impurities and subsequent recovery of the adsorbed polypeptides. The present application also features methods of eluting the purified polypeptide as well as the incorporation of the methods within a purification train. Kits comprising components for carrying out the methods and instructions for use are also provided.
US07820780B2
Polymers of naphthalene tetracarboxylic diimide dimmers are provided. The polymers are of the Formula I wherein the A units are selected from and Formula IX The polymers are suitable for use in the active layer of an imaging member and exhibit properties of both a binder and an electron-transporting material.
US07820779B2
A nanostructured hybrid liquid oligomer composition including at least one epoxy-functional component (A), at least one cyclic carbonate component (B), at least one amine-functional component (C), and, optionally, at least one acrylate (methacrylate) functional component (D), wherein at least one epoxy, amine, or acrylate (methacrylate) component contains alkoxysilane units. The composition is highly curable at low temperatures (approximately 10 to 30° C.) with forming of nanostructure under the influence of atmospheric moisture and the forming of active, specific hydroxyl groups by reaction of cyclic carbonates with amine functionalities. According to the present invention, the cured composition has excellent strength-stress properties, adhesion to a variety of substrates, appearance, and resistance to weathering, abrasion, and solvents.
US07820777B2
A composition comprising: a polymerized substance of a compound (I) that contains m numbers of RSi(O0.5)3 units, wherein m represents an integer of from 8 to 16; and R's each independently represents a non-hydrolysable group, provided that at least two among R's represent groups containing a vinyl group or an ethynyl group, and wherein each one of the RSi(O0.5)3 units is connected to another one of the RSi(O0.5)3 units by sharing an oxygen atom in each one of the RSi(O0.5)3 units, so as to form a cage structure, and wherein within a solid component contained in the composition, a polymerized substance formed by a reaction of the compound (I) represents 60 mass % or more.
US07820775B2
The invention provides a TFE polymer capable of providing stretched materials excellent in membrane homogeneity. The present invention is related to a tetrafluoroethylene polymer having stretchability and non-melt-processability and having a standard specific gravity of 2.140 to 2.165, wherein, with regard to the heat-of-fusion curve obtained by subjecting the tetrafluoroethylene polymer in the form of an unbaked polymer to be measured having no history of being heated to a temperature of 300° C. or higher to differential scanning calorimetry at a programming rate of 2° C./minute, the ratio S2/S1 is not lower than 0.90.
US07820772B2
An amine hardener for epoxy resins which comprises an amine adduct (A) and a low-molecular amine compound (B) as major components, wherein the molecular weight distribution of the amine adduct (A), which is defined by the ratio of the weight-average molecular weight to the number-average molecular weight, is 3 or lower and the low-molecular amine compound (B) is contained in an amount of 0.001 to 1 part by mass per 100 parts by mass of the amine adduct (A).
US07820771B2
Rubber composition based on at least one diene elastomer, a polymeric filler as reinforcing filler and a coupling agent for bonding between the polymeric filler and the elastomer. The polymeric filler includes nanoparticles of a polyvinylaromatic (PVAr) carrying a functional group denoted by Z of formula a ≡Si—X, X representing a hydroxyl or hydrolyzable group. The PVAr is especially a copolymer of styrene, ethylvinylbenzene, divinylbenzene and trimethoxysilylpropylacrylate or trimethoxysilylpropylmethacrylate, being in the form of nanobeads, the diameter of which is between 10 and 100 nm. Also described is a method of obtaining such a composition, and use of such a rubber composition for the manufacture of rubber articles, in particular tires or rubber semi-finished products intended for these tires, as well as a masterbatch including at least one diene elastomer and such a polymeric filler, and a method of obtaining such a masterbatch.
US07820768B2
Process for the preparation of polyamidoimide resins, in which the centers of the polyamidoimide resins which are reactive toward moisture are reacted with one or more compounds of the following general H—X—R1, in which, where X=oxygen, R1 is a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms or an aralkyl group and, where X═NR2, R1 is a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms or an aralkyl group or an aryl group and R2 is a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an aralkyl group or an aryl group, or R1 and R2 together form a cycloalkyl radical having 4 or 5 methylene groups, it being possible for a methylene group to be replaced by oxygen or an NR3 group, and R3 being a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and polyamidoimide coating materials which are prepared by the process.
US07820767B2
The present invention relates to a new aromatic polyimide composition containing an aromatic polyimide and a polyarylene of a specific type, and to articles and parts of articles made thereof.
US07820762B2
Disclosed is a resin composition having excellent impact resistance and resistance to whitening by impact without deteriorating excellent transparency of a methacrylic resin. Specifically, an impact resistance modifier composed of a multilayered polymer having at least three layers, namely an innermost-layer polymer derived from an alkyl methacrylate, an intermediate-layer polymer derived from an alkyl acrylate and an outer-layer polymer having its Tg within the range of 20 to 80° C., wherein mass average particle diameter of the intermediate-layer polymer is 200 to 300 nm and the mass ratio of each layer is within an appropriate range, is blended with a methacrylic resin.
US07820761B2
Metallized polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes and metallized polyhedral oligomeric silicates are used as cure promoters, catalysts, and alloying agents for the reinforcement of polymer microstructures, including polymer coils, domains, chains, and segments, at the molecular level. Because of their tailorable compatibility with polymers, polyhedral oligomeric metallosesquioxanes (POMS) can be readily and selectively incorporated into polymers by common mixing processes.
US07820760B2
A curable adhesive epoxy resin composition including (a) an epoxy resin; (b) an amphiphilic block copolymer containing at least one epoxy resin miscible block segment and at least one epoxy resin immiscible block segment; wherein the immiscible block segment comprises at least one polyether structure provided that the polyether structure of said immiscible block segment contains at least one or more alkylene oxide monomer units having at least four carbon atoms; in an amount such that when the epoxy resin composition is cured, the bond strength of the resulting cured epoxy adhesive resin composition increases compared to an epoxy resin composition without said amphiphilic polyether block copolymer; and (c) at least one curing agent. The amphiphilic block copolymer is preferably an all polyether block copolymer such as a PEO-PBO diblock copolymer or a PEO-PBO-PEO triblock copolymer.
US07820757B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a polyamide containing titanium dioxide pigments. Said method is characterized by the fact that titanium dioxide pigments are dispersed in an initial mixture containing water and caprolactam by means of a device comprising a dispersion chamber, a disk-shaped rotor that is disposed inside said dispersion chamber, a stator that is provided with radial openings, is arranged within the dispersion zone of the dispersion chamber, and is connected to the rotor, a substance inlet located on each side of the rotor, preferably with a respective axial duct section such that the two flows of substance are combined in the peripheral edge area of the rotor disk, and a product outlet which is placed on the outer edge of the dispersion zone of the dispersion chamber, by feeding the titanium dioxide pigments to the dispersion chamber through one of said substance inlets while feeding the initial mixture containing water and caprolactam to the dispersion chamber through the other of said substance inlets, whereby a product mixture containing water, caprolactam, and the used titanium dioxide pigment is obtained via the product outlet, and the product mixture is polymerized so as to obtain a polyamide containing titanium dioxide pigments. Also disclosed are polyamides obtained according to the inventive method and the use of such polyamides as a masterbatch.
US07820753B2
Block copolymers comprise a core block formed of hydrophilic monomers and have pendant zwitterionic groups, and at least two terminal blocks, comprising stimulus-responsive groups. The core block has a degree of polymerisation of at least 100, whilst the terminal blocks have an average degree of polymerisation of at least 20. A solution of polymer in a liquid may be caused to change its characteristics, for instance rheology, upon being subjected to a stimulus such as a change in temperature or pH. Examples comprise core blocks formed of 2-methacryloyloxyethyl-2′-trimethylammonium ethylphosphate inner salt (MPC) and terminal blocks formed of 2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl methacrylate. Upon changing the pH from around 2 to around 8, an aqueous solution of the block copolymer gels, the solution becoming mobile again upon lowering the pH. The effect is due to deprotonation of a quaternary ammonium pendant ion to form a non-ionised group and subsequent protonation to form an ionised group. This changes the hydrophilicity of the terminal blocks and allowing formation of a network of micellar structures when the pendant groups are not ionised and relatively hydrophobic and associated in micelles.
US07820746B2
A thermoplastic polymer composition having excellent resistance to heat discoloration has been desired. There is provided a thermoplastic polymer composition characterized by comprising a thermoplastic polymer, phosphites represented by the formula (I), and at least one kind of erythritols selected from the group consisting of pentaerythritol, dipentaerythritol and tripentaerythritol: wherein R1, R2, R4 and R5 each independently denotes a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or the like, and R3 denotes a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; X denotes a single bond, a sulfur atom or a —CHR6 group (R6 denotes a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group); A denotes an alkylene group or a *—COR7 group (R7 denotes a single bond or an alkylene group, and * denotes a bonding hand on the side of oxygen), and one of Y and Z denotes a hydroxyl group or the like, and the other one of Y and Z denotes a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group).
US07820745B2
Disclosed is an aqueous water-repellent/oil-repellent composition containing the following components (A), (B) and (C). Fluorine-containing copolymer (A): a copolymer containing a polymerizable monomer (a1) having a perfluoroalkyl group with 1-6 carbon atoms or a perfluoroalkenyl group wherein the amount of (a1) is not less than 20% by weight relative to the copolymer. Surfactant (B): a surfactant essentially containing a sorbitan ester or an alkylene oxide addition product thereof. Aqueous medium (C): a medium substantially containing water only or water and a water-soluble organic solvent.
US07820741B2
The present invention provides a halogen-free, flame retardant adhesive composition that exhibits excellent anti-migration properties, not only within single layer structures, but also within multilayer structures of much higher density. The flame retardant adhesive composition according to the present invention comprises: (A) a halogen-free epoxy resin, (B) a carboxyl group-containing acrylic resin and/or a carboxyl group-containing acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, (C) a curing agent, (E) a specific polyphosphoric acid-melamine-based compound salt and/or polyphosphoric acid-diamine compound salt, and (F) an ion scavenger and/or a heavy metal deactivator.
US07820740B2
The present invention provides a halogen-free, flame retardant adhesive composition that exhibits excellent anti-migration properties, not only within single layer structures, but also within multilayer structures of much higher density such as copper-clad laminates.The flame retardant adhesive composition according to the present invention comprises: (A) a halogen-free epoxy resin, (B) a carboxyl group-containing acrylic resin and/or a carboxyl group-containing acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, (C) a curing agent, (E) specific phosphinate and/or diphosphonate compounds, and (F) an ion scavenger and/or a heavy metal deactivator.
US07820738B2
A process for the preparation of a readily water-redispersible polymer powder by spray drying of an aqueous polymer dispersion in the presence of a novel spray drying assistant.
US07820735B2
An ink composition for a color filter includes about 100 parts by weight of a pigment dispersion, about 7 parts by weight to about 65 parts by weight of a thermosetting resin having hydroxyl group at a side chain of the thermosetting resin, about 0.015 part by weight to about 1.5 parts by weight of a thermal initiator, about 0.8 part by weight to about 15 parts by weight of an epoxy-based resin containing fluorine, and about 15 parts by weight to about 165 parts by weight of a solvent. A color filter substrate is manufactured using the ink composition for color filter. The ink composition for the color filter improves straightness of ink jetting through an ink-jetting nozzle and prevents the ink composition from spreading to neighboring pixels.
US07820732B2
Methods for modulating and enhancing thermal and mechanical properties and biocompatibilities of coatings on implantable devices are disclosed. Implantable devices containing the enhanced thermal and mechanical properties and biocompatibilities are also described. The implantable devices can be used to treat a medical condition such as vulnerable plaque or restenosis.
US07820730B2
Disclosed are a copolymer of a perfluoropolyether derivative and a photosensitive polymer, a composition for forming banks comprising the copolymer, and a method for forming banks using the composition. Also disclosed is an organic thin film transistor including the composition and an electronic device including the organic thin film transistor. The use of the copolymer may enable the formation of banks by a solution coating process. Because an organic thin film transistor including banks formed by the method may be fabricated without any degradation in the characteristics of the organic thin film transistor, improved electronic properties may be exhibited.
US07820729B2
A process for preparing functionalised microporous polymers (which are also known as micro-cellular polymers or polyHIPE polymers (PHPs)) using intensified internal heating (for example by microwave irradiation).
US07820727B2
Process for the running of a reactor in which reactions take place in multiphase systems, wherein a gaseous phase prevalently consisting of CO and H2 is bubbled into a suspension of a solid in the form of particles (catalyst) in a liquid (prevalently reaction product), according to the Fischer-Tropsch technology.
US07820724B2
Stable, translucent or transparent titanium dioxide sols comprising amorphous titanium dioxide and an organic peptizing agent are provided that are useful in particulate binding applications. Also provided are methods for preparing the inventive sols. The inventive sols are prepared from titanium dioxide precursors including organotitanium compounds and water-soluble titanium salts that are treated to precipitate amorphous titanium dioxide. The amorphous titanium dioxide is re-dispersed and peptized to form a translucent or transparent mixture. The inventive sols are stable for an extended period of time.
US07820714B2
The invention relates to Siglec inhibitors that have an increased affinity for the receptor molecule. The Siglec inhibitors provided by the invention are preferably selective of a given Siglec molecule. The invention further relates to a method for producing Siglec inhibitors and to a method for increasing the binding selectivity for a given Siglec molecule. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions that contain the Siglec inhibitors and to medical indications for the Siglec inhibitors.
US07820713B2
Disclosed and claimed are cocoa extracts such as polyphenols or procyanidins, methods for preparing such extracts, as well as uses for them, especially as antineoplastic agents and antioxidants. Disclosed and claimed are antineoplastic compositions containing cocoa polyphenols or procyanidins and methods for treating patients employing the compositions. Additionally disclosed and claimed is a kit for treating a patient in need of treatment with an antineoplastic agent containing cocoa polyphenols or procyanidins as well as a lyophilized antineoplastic composition containing cocoa polyphenols or procyanidins. Further, disclosed and claimed is the use of the invention in antioxidant, preservative and topoisomerase-inhibiting compositions and methods.
US07820712B2
Methods, formulations, dosing regimes, and routes of administration for the treatment or prevention of arrhythmias, including the treatment or prevention of atrial fibrillation. In these methods, the disease or condition is treated or prevented by administering one or more ion channel modulating compounds to a subject, where the ion channel modulating compound or compounds produce specific plasma levels in the subject. The ion channel modulating compounds may be cycloalkylamine ether compounds, particularly cyclohexylamine ether compounds.
US07820695B2
Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising an inverse serotonin receptor agonist or a serotonin receptor antagonist and an anti-psychotic agent. Disclosed herein are also methods of treating psychotic disorders using the disclosed pharmaceutical compositions.
US07820691B2
Various calcium channel blockers and pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds are disclosed. Calcium channel blockers are compounds capable of inhibiting calcium ion channels. Methods for preparing calcium channel blockers and their use as calcium channel antagonists are also disclosed.
US07820688B2
Many chemical and pharmaceutical compositions are known to produce antinociceptive effects that are helpful in relieving pain and inflammation. Both opioids and local anesthetics serve an important function in providing peripheral pain relief. Topical administration of pain-relieving drugs to the periphery offers important advantages over systemic or local, non-topical administration. The present invention provides topical pharmaceutical compositions, formulated with at least one local anesthetic and at least one opioid analgesic in a topical excipient. The present invention also provides methods for relieving pain in a subject through topical administration of the pharmaceutical composition in an amount and a duration sufficient to synergistically potentiate an antinociceptive response. Synergistic potentiation of analgesia through topical administration of a local anesthetic/opioid pharmaceutical composition provides a new and improved approach to peripheral pain management.
US07820685B2
The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of Aurora protein kinases. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising those compounds and methods of using the compounds and compositions in the treatment of various disease, conditions, and disorders. The invention also provides processes for preparing compounds of the invention.
US07820674B2
The present invention is directed to aminomethyl compounds which are inhibitors of the beta-secretase enzyme and that are useful in the treatment of diseases in which the beta-secretase enzyme is involved, such as Alzheimer's disease. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the treatment of such diseases in which the beta-secretase enzyme is involved.
US07820667B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a therapeutic agent for effectively preventing or ameliorating diseases caused by dysfunction of NOS.The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and/or treating diseases associated with dysfunction of NOS, comprising as an effective ingredient, a compound of the formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 each represents a hydrogen atom or, taken together with each other, represent a single bond, while R3 represents —CH(OH)CH(OH)CH3, —CH(OCOCH3)CH(OCOCH3)CH3, —CH3, —CH2OH, or a phenyl group when R1 and R2 each represents a hydrogen atom, or —COCH(OH)CH3 when R1 and R2 together represent a single bond, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US07820666B2
This invention relates to novel substituted tetrahydrotriazolopyrazines and their derivatives, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, and hydrates thereof. This invention also provides compositions comprising a compound of this invention and the use of such compositions in methods of treating diseases and conditions that are beneficially treated by administering an enzyme inhibitor of dipeptidyl-peptidase IV (DPP-IV).
US07820665B2
The present invention relates to imidazopyridazine compounds of Formula I, such as representative structure A, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, that inhibit phosphoinositide 3-kinase; methods of treating diseases or conditions, such as cancer, using the compounds; and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds.
US07820664B2
This invention concerns to N-(2-aylamino)aryl sulfonamides, which are inhibitors of MEK, methods of using such compounds in the treatment of hyperproliferative diseases, and to pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds.
