US07849716B2
A drum type washing machine is disclosed. An object of the present invention is to provide a drum type washing machine having a preventing member which can structurally prevent the laundry from coming between a tub and a drum. When the drum is stopped or rotated at a low speed, an end of the preventing member is in contact with a drum door or the tub. When the drum is rotated at a high speed, the preventing member is separated apart from the drum door or the tub by centrifugal force.
US07849711B2
A titania-doped quartz glass containing 3-12 wt % of titania at a titania concentration gradient less than or equal to 0.01 wt %/μm and having an apparent transmittance to 440 nm wavelength light of at least 30% at a thickness of 6.35 mm is of such homogeneity that it provides a high surface accuracy as required for EUV lithographic members, typically EUV lithographic photomask substrates.
US07849708B2
Insulated containers which conform relatively closely in size to the payload size, which contain a payload and phase change material and/or a refrigerated gel are all placed in a larger insulated shipping container, which may house additional phase change material and/or refrigerant. The combined insulating effect of the inner and outer containers allows minimizing the use of phase change material inside the inner container for the payload itself, and the presence of the phase material, together with the use of frozen gels inside the outer container, provides for only a small difference in temperature between the interior of the inner container and the interior of the outer container. The inner containers can be less insulated and lower cost, and the outer containers can be recycled.
US07849706B2
An indoor unit of an air conditioner includes an indoor unit casing having a first suction port, a panel, a moving mechanism, and a control unit. The panel opens the first suction port by moving so that the panel is spaced apart from the indoor unit casing, and closes the first suction port by moving so that the panel is proximate to the indoor unit casing. The moving mechanism moves the panel so that the first suction port is opened to a desired degree of opening. The control unit controls the moving mechanism. Furthermore, the control unit is capable of modifying the degree of opening of the first suction port to a desired degree of opening.
US07849696B2
An annular combustion chamber comprising axial walls interconnected by a chamber end wall having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is different from that of the axial walls, the chamber end wall being provided with a plurality of inner and outer fastener tabs secured by fastener systems to the end portions of the axial walls. Each fastener system comprises a bolt, a nut tightened onto one of the ends of the bolt, and a slideway bushing disposed around the bolt between the nut and the end portion of the corresponding axial wall, a determined amount of radial clearance being provided between the nut and the end portion of the axial wall so as to enable the chamber end wall to expand radially freely in operation relative to the axial walls.
US07849695B1
A rocket thruster of this invention includes a nozzle and a valve assembly. The valve subassembly includes a pintle with a head portion, which has a truncated substantially conical surface region facing and concentric with converging and throat regions of the nozzle to provide a variable effective throat area therebetween. The truncated portion of the head portion has an outer edge defining a bleed passageway opening communicating with a primary bleed passage leading through the head portion to a bleed cavity located on an opposite side of the head portion. During activation of a rocket motor to which the rocket thruster is coupled, gases imparting a load on the head portion pass through the primary bleed passage to the opposite side of the head portion for counterbalancing loads acting on the head portion. A thrust control subassembly moves the pintle axially for changing the effective throat area.
US07849692B2
A segmented heat exchanger system for transferring heat energy from an exhaust fluid to a working fluid. The heat exchanger system may include a first heat exchanger for receiving incoming working fluid and the exhaust fluid. The working fluid and exhaust fluid may travel through at least a portion of the first heat exchanger in a parallel flow configuration. In addition, the heat exchanger system may include a second heat exchanger for receiving working fluid from the first heat exchanger and exhaust fluid from a third heat exchanger. The working fluid and exhaust fluid may travel through at least a portion of the second heat exchanger in a counter flow configuration. Furthermore, the heat exchanger system may include a third heat exchanger for receiving working fluid from the second heat exchanger and exhaust fluid from the first heat exchanger. The working fluid and exhaust fluid may travel through at least a portion of the third heat exchanger in a parallel flow configuration.
US07849687B2
A solar panel carrier T is provided at a sub-structure U such that it can be rotated and tilted by means of hydrostatic rotation and tilt motors M, M′. In an electrohydraulic adjusting device for the solar panel carrier T a motor pump aggregate 8 is connected to the hydrostatic motors. Within working lines A, B of the tilt hydrostatic motor M at least one tilt control system K is provided, which comprises valve components and a pilot pressure circuit. The tilt control system K comprises pressure actuated blocking valves or load holding valves LHVA, LHVB. For automatically adjusting a protected position S of the carrier T a suction line N is provided at the side of the hydrostatic tilt motor facing to the blocking valves or load holding valves. The suction line N is surveyed by a monitoring solenoid 18 and is opened depending on initial pressure conditions in case of switching off the electric power and/or in case of an electric breakdown. In this fashion the protected position S of the carrier T can be adjusted without consuming primary energy by use of the weight load of the carrier T itself.
US07849686B2
A valve assembly (2) forming a bridge circuit and a hydraulic actuator comprising at least one valve assembly (2) are disclosed. The valve assembly (2) is fluidly connectable between a fluid source (3) and a fluid drain (4). The valve assembly (2) comprises a first valve (8) fluidly connected between the fluid source (3) and a first diagonal point (12) of the bridge circuit, a second valve (9) fluidly connected between the fluid source (3) and a second diagonal point (13) of the bridge circuit, a third valve (10) fluidly connected between the first diagonal point (12) and the fluid drain (4), and a fourth valve (11) fluidly connected between the second diagonal point (13) and the fluid drain (4). The valves (8, 9, 10, 11) are such that in the case of a power cut off, flows of fluid away from the diagonal points (12, 13) are prevented. Thereby a hydraulic servomotor (5) connected across the diagonal points (12, 13) will be hydraulically locked in its instantaneous position, and a safety feature is accordingly provided. The first valve (8) and the second valve (9) are furthermore of a kind which is closed in an energized state. Thereby it is possible to control the valve assembly (2) in such a manner that a piston member (14) of a servomotor (5) connected across the diagonal points (12, 13) can be moved at a high velocity, thereby providing a servomotor (5) having a quick response time.
US07849681B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for utilizing engine-generated heat in a NOx-adsorber system. The apparatus may comprise a combustion device generating a heated exhaust stream. The apparatus may include a catalytic component that initiates at least one exhaust conditioning reaction within the heated exhaust stream. The catalytic component is fluidly coupled to the engine with a downpipe segment configured to preserve a minimum temperature at the catalytic component inlet based on specified operating conditions for the combustion device. The apparatus may also include a NOx-adsorber fluidly coupled to the catalytic component with a second downpipe segment.
US07849675B2
A medium supply system of an exhaust gas cleaning device for treating the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine comprising a storage tank and a supply line which is connected to the storage tank for supplying the medium to a dosing unit connected to an exhaust pipe and to a recycling line for recycling the medium to the storage tank. The supply line and/or the recycling line are provided with at least one conduit area comprising at least one first and second parallel partial channels for the medium circulation, wherein said partial channels exhibit different insulation properties. An exhaust gas cleaning device comprising the inventive supply system and a method for the operation thereof are also disclosed.
US07849674B2
A NOx reduction catalyst and an ammonia slip oxidation catalyst are disposed in an exhaust system in this order, and also, an electric fan is disposed on piping which communicates an upper space of a storage tank storing therein a reducing agent with the exhaust upstream of the NOx reduction catalyst. Then, when the temperature of the ammonia slip oxidation catalyst reaches or exceeds the temperature for activating a catalyst thereof, the electric fan is operated for a predetermined period of time, so that the gas (ammonia series gas) in the upper space of the storage tank is forcibly discharged to the upstream side of the NOx reduction catalyst. Further, a discharge-forcing device, such as an electric fan or the like, forcibly discharging the gas in the upper space of the storage tank, an adsorbing device temporarily adsorbing thereto the forcibly discharged gas and an oxidation catalyst oxidizing the gas desorbed from the adsorbing device, may be disposed to the storage tank in this order.
US07849672B2
An object of the invention is to diagnose a failure of an addition valve provided in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine. To achieve the object, post injection through a fuel injection valve of the internal combustion engine and reducing agent addition through the reducing agent addition valve are performed at different timings, the quantity of fuel injected through the fuel injection valve when the post injection is performed and the quantity of reducing agent added through the reducing agent addition valve when the reducing agent addition is performed are estimated based on a same parameter, and it is diagnosed that the reducing agent addition valve has a failure on condition that the difference between the estimated fuel quantity and the estimated reducing agent quantity exceeds a predetermined quantity.
US07849669B2
A turbofan jet engine design that utilizes aerodynamic coupling to transmit power from a high-speed engine core to a lower speed fan, thereby simplifying the design and improving the thrust-to-weight ratio compared to previous turbofan designs. The engine uses a low speed co-rotating power turbine located upstream of the engine core to drive the fan. The high-speed core uses a centrifugal impeller to pressurize the inlet flow, the flow exits the high-speed impeller without diffusing its high-speed angular momentum and enters directly into the low speed co-rotating power turbine impeller. The incoming flow is then turned by the low speed co-rotating turbine impeller and exits the turbine opposing its direction of rotation, thereby extracting power from the flow to drive the fan. The exit flow from the low speed power turbine then enters the combustor inlet. This engine configuration enables the power turbine to be constructed from high strength, low-density materials (that are not suitable for use in higher temperature power turbines) thereby reducing the weight of the engine. This engine configuration also eliminates the need for the core compressor diffuser, the power turbine nozzle guide vanes, and the low speed shaft that connects the fan to the power turbine in conventional turbofans.
US07849665B2
Apparatuses and methods for separating grass clippings from air in a recirculating bagging apparatus for a lawnmower can include a grass-collecting compartment for collecting grass clippings discharged from a lawnmower and an air discharge channel in communication with and disposed below the grass-collecting compartment. The grass-collecting compartment can have a non-breathable bottom floor for receiving and supporting collected grass clippings. The air discharge channel can be adapted for passage of air discharged from a lawnmower through the grass-collecting compartment and out of the bagging apparatus.
US07849661B2
The present invention is directed to a method of making a teeth treatment device, the method including the steps of passing a substrate through a container having melted wax therein to form a wax saturated substrate; applying a quantity of bleaching solution to one side of the wax saturated substrate; joining a thin plastic sheet to the one side of the wax saturated substrate to form a plastic coated wax saturated substrate having a quantity of bleach; cutting the plastic coated wax saturated substrate having a quantity of bleach into individual strips having a predetermined configuration; and packaging the individual strips.
US07849654B2
Flooring blocks which can be easily joined to each other and removed have a square-shaped main body and have, on the sides of a square-shaped main body, concave portions and convex portions. In the block main body, block main body side pin insertion paths are perforated along the sides on which the concave portions are formed, and in the convex portions, convex portion side pin insertion paths are perforated. In the block main body side pin insertion paths, pin main bodies of lock pins are inserted slidably between joining positions and housed positions, and the block main body side pin insertion path is partially formed into an open groove opened to the block main body surface, and the open groove is provided with a first lateral groove and a second lateral groove, and block main bodies adjacent to each other are joined to each other by sliding the pin main body of the lock pin in a state that the concave portion and the convex portion are engaged with each other.
US07849645B2
A flood protection system for a building employs waterproof flexible sheeting (26) of a size at least sufficient to cover a region to be protected on one or more faces of a building. The sheeting is capable of withstanding water pressure at least with a head as great as the difference in height from the lowest to the highest point of the region. The sheeting has a first side and an opposite side on the side of the sheeting opposite the first side. The first side is arranged to bear against the surface of the building at least around the periphery of the region and an opposite side. A frame of similar dimension to the sheeting is used to mount the sheeting with its first side against the face of the building. The frame co-operates with compressible sealing means (23, 24) which bear against the opposite side of the sheeting to thereby press the first side against the face of the building. Fixing means mount the frame to the surface of the building without the fixing means piercing the sealing means.
US07849643B2
A riser is formed by a structural sandwich plate member in the run or tread portion but a simple steel plate in the rise portion. This riser is cheaper and simpler to manufacture than risers in which both the run and tread are formed by structural sandwich plate members.
US07849634B2
It comprises a housing (3) configured for attachment to a panel (4) for a vehicle door, a toothed component (2) which is jointed to the housing (3) and comprises a toothed portion (2′), a toothed gear (5) which meshes with the toothed portion (2′) of the toothed component (2), at least one arm (1), which comprises a first end for supporting the window and a second end attached to the toothed component (2), the gear, the toothed component and the arm being connected so that, as the gear turns, it moves the first end of the arm and a retaining element (7) configured and installed so that it may move between an operational position, in which it locks the toothed component (2), and a non-operational position, in which it does not lock the toothed component (2).
US07849632B2
An automated system for sampling seeds generally includes an automated sampler operable to remove a tissue sample from a seed, a seed tray configured to receive from the automated sampler the seed from which the tissue sample is removed, and a sample tray configured to receive the tissue sample removed from the seed. A table supports the seed tray and the sample tray, and an index mechanism is operable to move the table to bring the seed tray into position for receiving from the automated sampler the seed from which the tissue sample is removed, and to bring the sample tray into position for receiving the tissue sample removed from the seed.
US07849631B2
Method for avoiding frost damage in crops (35) and/or for improving the fructification at low temperatures, characterized in that it consists in periodically heating and cooling the air on the site of the crops (35) between a minimum and a maximum temperature with a minimal temperature variation of 0.2° C.
US07849628B2
A launcher system and method for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), wherein the launcher system comprises a barrel comprising a prepackaged internal pusher cup configured behind the UAV housed within the barrel; an expansion chamber operatively connected around the barrel, wherein the barrel extends out of a first end of the expansion chamber; a muzzle adapter operatively connected to a second end of the expansion chamber, wherein the first end of the expansion chamber is positioned opposite to the second end of the expansion chamber; a rifle slip-fitted to the muzzle adapter; and a stand operatively connected to the expansion chamber, wherein a triggering of the rifle causes the internal pusher cup to push the UAV out of the barrel at a predetermined launch velocity in order to attain a predetermined self-propelled flight trajectory.
US07849625B2
A lock for a gun barrel has plugs insertable into the chamber and muzzle. The plugs impinge against existing stops on the barrel so as to limit travel of the plugs toward each other in the barrel. Once the plugs are in the barrel, a linkage connects them so that each stop prevents removal of the opposite plug from the barrel. Preferably the stops, such as the chamber diameter reduction and the muzzle choke seat, are inside the barrel and the length of each plug is coordinated with the distance to its in-barrel stop so that no part of the gun barrel lock is exposed to out-of-bore tampering. A lock prevents unauthorized disengagement of the linkage from the plugs. The gun barrel lock is of adjustable length and the plugs may have interchangeable diameter adapters to accommodate a variety of gun barrel lengths and calibers.
US07849619B2
Enhanced identification appliance for verifying and authenticating the bearer through biometric data
An enhanced identification appliance, such as a wristband, bracelet, patch, headband, neckband, ankleband, legband, card, sticker, or other wearable appliance, may have a biometric, chemical, optical, heat, pressure, humidity, electromagnetic, and/or acoustic sensor, various opto-electronics and/or various security features such as tamper-evident and tamper-resistant features. The sensors may obtain wearer-related information such as a fingerprint, retina, iris, blood, DNA, genetic data, voice pattern, temperature and other characteristic. Security features include a fastener on the identification appliance, which indicates whether the appliance has been attached to a wearer and if so, enables circuit functions. If one tampers with the appliance, circuit functions may be disabled, certain data erased, and/or evidence of tampering made apparent. The appliance may monitor the location or determine the identity of vehicle passengers for an airplane, train, boat, bus, etc. Alternatively, the identification band may contain a person's immigration status.
US07849617B2
A self-righting post assembly includes an elastomeric hinge tube and an elastomeric inner member is disposed in the hinge tube. In one embodiment, an extension post is disposed over the hinge tube. A sign panel can be secured to the extension post. In one embodiment, the inner member is free of any engagement with the hinge tube. In one embodiment, the hinge tube is secured to a base, preferably with a vertically oriented fastener. A method of assembling the post assembly is also provided.
US07849613B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for heating the handle(s) of power equipment using exhaust produced by an internal combustion engine, including a machine powered by an internal combustion engine, an operator grippable handle, with an interior, and a tubular structure routing the exhaust produced by the internal combustion engine to the interior of the handle. One or more adjustable apertures provide regulation of exhaust in communication with the interior of the handle, wherein the heating of the handle is selectably controlled.
US07849610B2
An orthopedic appliance includes a slab configured to be placed underneath a big toe, forward of and not extending under a head of a first metatarsal, and wherein the slab has a predetermined height and is configured to deflect a proximal phalanx upwardly relative to the first metatarsal. A method for improving stability of a foot during ambulation includes placing an orthopedic appliance, having a predetermined height, under a big toe such that the orthopedic appliance is located forward of and does not extend under a head of a first metatarsal of the big toe; and deflecting a proximal phalanx upwardly relative to the first metatarsal.
US07849603B2
A tool comprising a scissors, the scissors including two handles, each handle including an aperture therethrough is disclosed. The tool includes a comb attached to the scissors. The comb includes a handle portion and a comb portion. The handle portion of the comb includes a plurality of extensions therefrom, the extensions for engaging the aperture of one of the handles of the scissors, wherein the comb can be removed from the scissors by disengaging the extensions.
US07849602B2
A convertible vehicle having a roof moveable between a stored position to a closed position, and method of manufacturing said convertible vehicle. The roof is supported by a pair of lateral main support units fixed to opposite sides of the vehicle body. Each lateral main support unit has a fastening flange movable along a portion thereof for securing the roof to pins disposed on the vehicle body. The convertible roof is manufactured such that the main support units and the linkage parts are assembled upside down on a fixture replicating the vehicle body. Thus alignment of the roof to the vehicle body is ensured. Furthermore manufacturing tolerances are accommodated by moving the fastening flanges along a portion of the lateral main support units such that the fastening flanges are registered to the pins.
US07849594B2
A manufacturing method for integrating a passive component within a substrate is disclosed. The manufacturing method comprises the steps of: providing a circuit layer, wherein a positioning blind hole is formed in the circuit layer; forming a conductive material in the positioning blind hole; positioning the passive component in the positioning blind hole of the circuit layer and electrically connecting the passive component to the circuit layer via the conductive material in the positioning blind hole; and laminating a core layer, the passive component, and the circuit layer as the substrate.
US07849591B2
A configuration according to the invention includes at least one wired base material configured with an insulating base material having an adhesion property, and an electric conductive layer formed on one side of the insulating base material, a plugging electrode made of an electric conductive paste, connected to the electric conductive layer, and penetrating the insulating base material, and an IC chip having a re-wiring portion, the IC chip being buried in an interlayer binding material, with the re-wiring portion connected to the plugging electrode, having a supporting board disposed on an opposite side to the re-wiring portion of the IC chip, with an adhesion layer in between, and having a re-wiring layer configured with the wired base material and the re-wiring portion.According to the invention, therefore, it is allowed to provide a multi-layer printed wing board with highly defined components implemented, allowing for a fabrication by facile processes, without causing, among others, increased costs or decreased yields.
US07849581B2
Provided are fabrication, characterization and application of a nanodisk electrode, a nanopore electrode and a nanopore membrane. These three nanostructures share common fabrication steps. In one embodiment, the fabrication of a disk electrode involves sealing a sharpened internal signal transduction element (“ISTE”) into a substrate, followed by polishing of the substrate until a nanometer-sized disk of the ISTE is exposed. The fabrication of a nanopore electrode is accomplished by etching the nanodisk electrode to create a pore in the substrate, with the remaining ISTE comprising the pore base. Complete removal of the ISTE yields a nanopore membrane, in which a conical shaped pore is embedded in a thin membrane of the substrate.
US07849580B2
Articles and methods for installing hook bolts on bridge decks constructed of timbers and structural steel members. A tether is lowered through a hole in a timber, captured below the bridge deck, and drawn upward around the timber or between timbers. A hook bolt is engaged with the end of the tether that was lowered through the hole and drawn upward, then lowered under the bridge deck and drawn upward through the hole in the timber. The hook bolt engages with a flange on a structural member of the bridge deck.
US07849578B2
Numerous embodiments of a method to form a base plate for a hard disk drive are described. In one embodiment, a blank base plate is advanced through plurality of die stations and parts of the base plate are press worked to form a disk drive base plate. In one embodiment, the blank base plate may be press worked by stamping the base plate with a progressive die assembly. In an alternative embodiment, the blank base plate may be press worked by stamping the base plate with a transfer die assembly.
US07849576B2
An apparatus and method for manufacturing a slide fastener. The apparatus may provide a chain transfer path inclined downward for transferring a fastener chain, a chain cutting portion disposed at a middle of the transfer path and a feed portion disposed on an upstream side of the chain cutting portion of the chain transfer path. A control portion may also be provided for a) stopping to transfer the fastener chain by the feed portion and b) operating the chain cutting portion. A pivoting section may also be provided, which pivots the chain cutting portion by a predetermined angle on the chain transfer path around an axis line orthogonal to the transfer path.
US07849575B2
A seal removal tool includes a hollow cylindrical member, an advancing device, and a extracting device. The cylindrical member has an open, circular first end with a barbed knife-edge that has a perimeter with a diameter substantially equal to an inside diameter of an inner circular edge of an annular seal fitting snuggly around an exposed end of a shaft. A second end of the cylindrical member is partially closed with an enlarged threaded opening therein. The advancing device comprises a first threaded elongated rod element and a pressing portion for pressing against the partially closed second end. The extracting device comprises a second threaded elongated rod element having an enlarged tip for engaging the exposed end of the shaft after disengaging the advancing device. The enlarged tip is configured to screw into an enlarged threaded opening in the cylindrical member and to advance axially and press against the exposed end of the shaft as the second threaded elongated rod element is rotated.
US07849567B2
A fastener comprises two engagement springs on opposite sides of the fastener. Each engagement spring has an elongated rib. The elongated ribs may have a substantially rectangular shape, or any suitable shape, and they may protrude away from the opposite side of the fastener. Additionally, the elongated ribs may have same or different slopes at each end of the ribs. According to one embodiment, the elongated rib increases the removal to insertion force ratio as compared to such ratio when the engagement springs do not have the elongated rib.
US07849565B2
The water-resistant or waterproof zipper includes first and second profiles which are interlocked or separated by the movement of a slider. The first sidewall of the slider is generally planar while the second sidewall is generally curved so that the sidewalls are relatively closer together at the closing end and generally further apart at the opening end. A triangular island and separating plow are formed at the opening end to separate the first and second profiles. The slider includes various channels which engage corresponding rails in the profiles in order to properly position the profiles. The slider further includes various protrusions and a flange to properly position the profiles.
US07849564B2
A mobility assistance device for providing support to a user is disclosed. The mobility assistance device may include a handle having a plurality of rungs to be grasped by a user. The handle may be pivoted to various support positions as desired.
US07849562B2
An arrangement in a screen for substantially continuous adjustability and parking of the screen in a desired position, including an upper hinge and a lower hinge. The lower hinge includes a conical element for achieving a braking effect against pivoting of the parts in relation to one another.
US07849560B2
A window roller apparatus comprising a cradle, a housing pivotably installed in the cradle, and at least one roller wheel rotatably installed in the housing. Cradle side walls are formed with opposite inwardly-opening cradle side wall recesses, and respective housing side walls are formed with opposite inwardly-opening housing side wall recesses and with opposite outwardly-projecting bosses configured to pivotably engage the respective inwardly-opening cradle side wall recesses. The at least one roller wheel has an axle that engages the housing side wall recesses. A resilient pad is positioned on the cradle bottom wall between the cradle and the housing, the pad being of a sufficient size and thickness to at least partially engage the housing and effectively bias the housing toward a parallel orientation relative to the cradle while allowing for non-parallel operation of the housing relative to the cradle as dictated by operational constraints on the window roller apparatus.
US07849558B2
A cleaning head for a suction cleaner, the head including a body; a rotatable tool connected to the body by support means; driving means; and transmission means providing a driving connection between the driving means and the tool; wherein the support means contains the transmission means, and provides for movement of the tool upwardly and downwardly relative to the body in use.
US07849553B2
The invention concerns a wiper device, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising a wiper arm (10a-10c, 10k, 10l) including a wiper rod (12a, 12c, 12k) for fixing a wiper blade, a fixing element (14a-14c, 14k, 14l) connected free of articulation to the wiper rod (12a, 12c, 12k) and at least one partial zone (16a-16m) having spring elasticity. It is proposed that the wiper arm (10a-10c, 10k, 10l) can shift essentially elastically from an operating configuration to at least one first stable configuration, wherein the wiper blade can be mounted and dismounted when the wiper arm (10a-10c, 10k, 10l) is in a mounted state.
US07849549B2
An oral hygiene device having two toothbrushes connected or connectable to the end of a handle, the one or more toothbrushes providing a desirable fit about the teeth and/or gums and/or providing a desirable brushing action. An oral hygiene device hereof may provide for mechanically providing the brushing movements of the professionally recommended manual tooth-brushing method known as the “Bass” or “Modified Bass” technique to thus reduce or eliminate the element of human error associated with the brushing of a user's teeth and gums.
US07849542B2
Mattresses and methods for manufacturing mattresses that have a flame resistant panel, such as a flame resistant border panel. The systems and methods include mattresses that have a flame resistant panel that, in certain embodiments, includes a fire barrier layer made of a batting material and being disposed over a thermoplastic fire barrier layer. The first and second fire barrier layers provide a fire barrier that reduces the transfer of oxygen to the mattress core, thereby reducing the presence of oxygen, which is needed to support combustion of the padding material. Additionally, the invention encompasses methods for manufacturing mattresses.
US07849539B2
A patient-support apparatus includes a patient-support deck having a head deck section, seat deck section, and foot deck section each of which is supported on a frame. The head deck section pivots and translates relative to the frame when driven. The drive systems of the deck sections are configured such that movement of links driving the deck sections occurs above the lowest point on the frame.
US07849536B2
Underlay for single use for protection of e.g. chair cushions, bedclothes or changing tables, having a liquid-receiving coversheet intended to face away from the object requiring protection, a liquid impermeable backsheet intended to face the object requiring protection upon use, wherein the underlay can be attached to the user.
US07849534B2
A vented sleeping bag comprising an elongate shell defining an inner volume sized and shaped to receive a user therein. The shell has a head end, a foot end, left and right sides extending longitudinally of the shell, an overlying portion which overlies the user, and an underlying portion which underlies the user. The overlying portion of the shell has at least one vent. A closure is selectively movable between a closed position for closing the vent and an open position for creating a vent opening for ventilating the inner volume of the shell.
US07849523B2
A stirrup for securing the end of a pant leg to the foot of a wearer. The stirrup has a base web and at least three arms projecting therefrom. Each arm has a fastener such as alligator jaws style, for engaging the pant leg at at least three points about its circumference, to avoid bunching. The base member may comprise an elastic fabric and may include a length adjusting mechanism. Alligator jaw fasteners may instead comprise buttons, hooks, hook and loop material, or snaps. The stirrup may be made from denim, leather, cotton, satin, lace, or nylon. The base web may optionally form a sock.
US07849521B1
A fingertip manipulation device is provided which gives the user the ability to manipulate items such as small controls on consumer electronic products while wearing gloves. The fingertip manipulation device includes a mounting disk that is placed inside a glove preferably at the fingertip, a projecting member extending substantially perpendicularly from the mounting disk and configured to extend through the glove material, and a tip that is attached on the exterior of the glove to the distal end of the perpendicular projecting member. A method of conveniently inserting the device into a glove fingertip, as well as an insertion device, is provided. While wearing gloves to protect the hands, the tip of the fingertip manipulation device is easily used to engage or manipulate switches, buttons, or items.
US07854016B2
A process manufactures a probe intended to interact with a storage medium of a probe-storage system, wherein a sacrificial layer is deposited on top of a substrate; a hole is formed in the sacrificial layer; a mold layer is deposited; the mold layer is etched via the technique for forming spacers so as to form a mold region delimiting an opening having an area decreasing towards the substrate. Then a stack of conductive layers is deposited on top of the sacrificial layer, the stack is etched so as to form a suspended structure, formed by a pair of supporting arms arranged to form a V, and an interaction tip projecting monolithically from the supporting arms. Then a stiffening structure is formed, of insulating material, and the suspended structure is fixed to a supporting wafer. The substrate, the sacrificial layer, and, last, the mold region are then removed.
US07854014B2
A method and apparatus for allowing evaluation of digital content stored on a computer readable medium without unsealing an enclosure containing the medium. The storage medium containing this first digital content is disposed within an enclosure along with non-volatile memory hardware containing second digital content preferably related to the first digital content. The enclosure is sealed to prevent access to the first digital content. However, the non-volatile memory hardware may communicate with the external device without breaking the seal on the enclosure, such as through a communication port or via wireless transmission. Accordingly, the consumer may access the second digital content as a preview of the first digital content prior to unsealing the enclosure or package.
US07854006B1
Differential scanning is disclosed. A scan collection period is determined. A system is monitored to detect object events during the scan collection period, and a scan list may be updated with information regarding objects to be scanned, based on some of the object events. Objects are scanned based on the information in the scan list. Information regarding objects associated with object events occurring outside the scan collection period may be removed from the scan list.
US07854005B2
A system and method are disclosed for generating fictitious computer file system content. A template is created. A collection of data items available to be inserted into the template is provided. The template is populated with at least one data item from the collection.
US07853999B2
Techniques and apparatuses for scanning a computing device for malware are described. In one implementation, a trusted operating environment, which includes a trusted operating system and a trusted antivirus tool, is embodied on a removable data storage medium. A computing device is then booted from the removable data storage medium using the trusted operating system. The trusted antivirus tool searches the computing device for malware definition updates (e.g., virus signature updates) and uses the trusted operating system to scan the computing device for malware. In another implementation, a computing device is booting from a trusted operating system on a removable device and a trusted antivirus tool on the removable device scans the computing device for malware. The removable device can update its own internal components (e.g., virus signatures and antivirus tool) by searching the computing device or a remote resource for updates and authenticating any updates that are located.
US07853993B2
A facility for performing an access control check as an integral component of an operating system and utilizing a centralized policy store is provided. The facility executes as an integral part of an operating system executing on a computer and receives an authorization query to determine whether a principal has authorization to access a resource. The facility applies a policy maintained in a centralized policy store that is applicable to the principal to determine whether authorization exists to access the resource. If authorization does not exist, the facility denies the authorization query and records an indication of the denial of the authorization in an audit log. The facility may trigger events based on the auditing of authorization queries. The facility may also record an indication of authorization to access the resource in the audit log. The facility may additionally determine whether the authorization query is a request for authorization to perform an inherently dangerous operation, and record an indication of an authorization to perform the inherently dangerous operation in the audit log.
US07853991B2
A data communications system for executing on-demand data communication between a client and a server is provided. The client includes a client request section, and a client response section. The server includes a first server response section, and a second server response section.
US07853985B2
Network elements in telecommunications networks are managed via an operating system which is connected to the network elements. The operating system is formed from a large number of manager applications which communicate with the network elements. In the course of such communication, it is possible to provide for the authentication of a manager application to be checked by means of a network element. According to the invention, this authentication check is carried out centrally in the network element for various communication protocols, with access being made to a central authentication databank 10.
US07853983B2
A computer architecture for enterprise device applications provides a real-time, bi-directional communication layer for device communication. An identity-based communications layer provides for secure, end-to-end telemetry and control communications by enabling mutual authentication and encryption between the devices and the enterprise. A unique identity is assigned to each device, user and application to provide security services. Telemetry data is communicated between a data producing device and a data receiving device. The telemetry data sent from the data producing device is identified using the identity identifier of the data producing device.
US07853977B2
A display device including a communication function for performing wireless communication of data with each of a plurality of devices, and a display function for displaying and outputting information. First, reception quality of each device is obtained (S 100). Next, based on the reception quality of each device, average reception quality of each room in which each device is placed is obtained (S 101). Next, based on the average reception quality of each room, the size of an image indicating each room is obtained (S 102), and based on the obtained size, the image indicating each room is illustrated on a display screen (S 103). Next, based on the reception quality of each device, the size of an image indicating each device with respect to each room is obtained (S 104), and based on the obtained size, the image indicating each device is illustrated on the display screen (S103).
US07853969B2
Set top box logs are received from a television provider and processed to compensate for broadcast latency and generate normalized log data, e.g., log data that are indexed to a relative time. Channel tunes and the channel tune times of the normalized log data can be compared to expected air times of television advertisements on channels, and an impression values, e.g., projected viewers, can be generated for each television advertisement.
US07853965B2
A disk drive includes: a cartridge holder that holds a disk cartridge including a disk, and has a holder opening, through which the cartridge is inserted and ejected; two guide walls arranged near the holder opening to define a direction in which the cartridge is inserted; a disk motor for rotating the disk mounted; a head for reading and/or writing information from/on the disk; a base for supporting the head and motor; first and second guide grooves cut through the holder; and first and second guide members movable along the first and second grooves, respectively, and engaging with respective portions of the cartridge. The first and second guide members move along the first and second grooves, respectively, and engage with the cartridge so as to leave a gap narrower than a gap between the walls when the cartridge is inserted but to leave a gap broader than the gap between the walls when the drive gets loaded with the cartridge, thereby opening a window in the cartridge so as to allow the head to access the disk and allow the disk motor to mount the disk.
US07853960B1
Completion interrupts corresponding to I/O requests issued by a virtual machine guest, which runs on a host platform, are virtualized in such a way that I/O completion interrupts to the requesting guest are delivered no faster than it can stably handle them, but, when possible, faster than the nominal speed of a virtual device to which a virtual machine addresses the I/O request. In general, completion events received from the host platform in response to guest I/O requests are examined with respect to time. If enough time has passed that the virtual device would normally have completed the I/O request, then the completion interrupt is delivered to the guest. If the nominal time has not elapsed, however, the invention enqueues and time-stamps the event and delivers it at the earliest of a) the normal maturity time, or b) at a safepoint.
US07853952B2
Methods and apparatuses allowing for dynamic partitioning of a network resource among a plurality of users. In one embodiment, the invention involves recognizing new users of a network resource; creating user partitions on demand for new users, wherein the user partition is operable to allocate a portion of a network resource; and, reclaiming inactive user partitions for subsequent new users.
US07853950B2
Provided are a method, system, and program for executing multiple threads in a processor. Credits are set for a plurality of threads executed by the processor. The processor alternates among executing the threads having available credit. The processor decrements the credit for one of the threads in response to executing the thread and initiates an operation to reassign credits to the threads in response to depleting all the thread credits.
US07853944B2
A method for managing firmware of a removable media device, which includes detecting a key value of the removable media device, checking whether or not the detected key value is stored on a computer that the removable media device is connected to, determining if a version of firmware stored on a server connected to the computer is later than a version of firmware on the removable media device, if the detected key value is stored on the computer, and installing the version of the firmware stored on the server onto the removable media device when the determining step determines the version of the firmware on the server is the later version.
US07853940B1
Creating a reference to data used to construct a computer-aided design model includes storing model data with tracking data, where the tracking data identifies the model data. A reference is created and the tracking data is associated with the reference to enable the reference to refer to the model data. A modeling operation is executed, which retrieves the tracking data associated with the reference, traverses a data structure defining the computer-aided design model while attempting to match the tracking data associated with the reference to the tracking data stored with the model data, and returns geometric data stored in the model data.
US07853932B2
System, method and computer program product for checking a software entity, the method includes: providing a direct acyclic graph representative of possible execution paths of the software entity; wherein multiple successor nodes that succeed a certain parent node are associated with different execution probabilities; randomly selecting a successor node out of the multiple successor nodes in response the execution probabilities; and checking the software entity in response to the selection.
US07853931B2
A method and system automatically generate a flow diagram displaying a process flow between configuration files and application files in a predefined process. An indication of a location of the configuration files and the application files is received. Flow information is extracted from the configuration files and from the application files. The flow diagram displaying a process flow between the configuration files and the application files is then generated.
US07853917B2
A method, system and computer program product for building decision diagrams efficiently in a structural network representation of a digital circuit using a dynamic resource constrained and interleaved depth-first-search and modified breadth-first-search schedule is disclosed. The method includes setting a first size limit for a first set of one or more m-ary decision representations describing a logic function and setting a second size limit for a second set of one or more m-ary decision representations describing a logic function. The first set of m-ary decision representations of the logic function is then built with one of the set of a depth-first technique or a breadth-first technique until the first size limit is reached, and a second set of m-ary decision representations of the logic function is built with the other technique until the second size limit is reached. In response to determining that a union of first set and the second set of m-ary decision representations do not describe the logic function, the first and second size limits are increased, and the steps of building the first and second set are repeated. In response to determining that the union of the first set of m-ary decision representations and the second set of m-ary decision representations describe the logic function, the union is reported.
US07853903B1
An improved method and mechanism for verification of an electrical circuit design is provided. The method and system simultaneously provides the coverage advantage of formal verification with the scaling efficiencies of simulation. In one approach, the method and system generates an intelligent set of test vectors off a resolution proof. The intelligent set of test vectors can be used to simulate the circuit design for complete coverage without having to test the entire set of possible variable assignments for the CNF formula corresponding to the circuit design.
US07853893B2
Improved graphical user interfaces suitable for reviewing, browsing, previewing and/or purchasing media items are also disclosed. The methods and graphical user interfaces are particularly useful for a system that provides purchase and distribution of media in a client-server environment. The graphical user interfaces can be presented to a user at a client (client machine). In one embodiment, the methods and graphical user interfaces can assist users in locating media to be browsed, previewed or purchased. The media can, for example, be audio, video and/or image data. The methods and graphical user interfaces are particularly useful for reviewing, browsing, previewing and/or purchasing classical music.
US07853892B2
A method for displaying a resized window includes receiving a resizing message, generating a window having a second size according to the resizing message and a window having a first size and located at a position corresponding to a first reference point, and displaying the window having the second size at a position different from the position corresponding to the first reference point. After generating the windows, the window having the second size is not displayed at the position corresponding to the first reference point.
US07853891B2
Methods and apparatuses to display windows. In more than one embodiments of the invention, a window is closed automatically (e.g., after a timer expires, or when a condition or criterion is met, or a system input is received) without user input. In some examples, the window is translucent so that the portion of another window, when present, is visible under the window. In some examples, the image of the window is faded out before the window is closed and destroyed. In some examples, the window does not close in response to any input from a user input device. In some examples, the window is repositioned (or hidden) automatically when another translucent window is displayed. The degree of translucency, the speed for fading out, the discrete levels of translucency for fading out, the time to expire, and/or other parameters for controlling the display of the window may be set by the user or adjusted by the system (or application software programs) automatically according to system conditions or other criteria.
US07853890B2
An address bar user interface control includes a plurality of interactive segments, each segment including one or more filters or selection criteria for selecting content from physical and/or virtual locations. A segment may include two or more filters or selection criteria which are logically combined such as by a logical “OR” operation. A user may select a child control associated with an interactive segment, i.e., a parent segment, to provide a list of selectable child filters or selection criteria. In response to selection of a child filter or selection criteria, an interactive segment representing the child filter or selection criteria is added to the address bar succeeding the parent segment and the interactive segments subsequent to the parent segment are removed.
US07853885B2
A system and method for automated processing requests for reviewing and approving business development materials, such as marketing flipbooks and request for proposals, etc., for compliance and performance approval employs an application server that presents a web-based request form. A requestor uses the request form to enter information regarding the approval request and to select reviewer. The application server then generates a request document and sends it with the business development materials to the selected reviewer(s). The request form and marketing presentation materials are archived in a database to allow real-time monitoring and future auditing.
US07853881B1
In a multi-user online real-time network in which users access content associated with a plurality of social networks related by common communities of interest, an interactor client application is embedded in content pages accessed by a user, and the user is provided a list of other users and the content pages in the related social networks that they are accessing. The inteactor client application cooperates with an interactor server application on a network server to enable a user to view the content being accessed by multiple selected ones of the other users, and to interact with the other users online and in real time.
US07853879B2
An image display method and apparatus for displaying a plurality of items of moving image data on a screen include determining a virtual radius of a circular display area displaying one item of moving image data, and determining display positions of the plurality of items of moving image data on the screen such that another item of moving image data is not displayed within a circular display area having the determined radius centered at a display position of one item of moving image data. Each of the plurality of items of moving image data is displayed at the determined display positions.
US07853878B2
A method is provided for controlling an image storing system comprising an external storage device including a plurality of storage processors, and an image processing apparatus connected with the external storage device and storing a received video signal in the external storage device. The method includes storing data about operation state of the plurality of storage processors of the image processing apparatus by the image processing apparatus; and generating a user interface menu representing the external storage device as a plurality of storage device items on the basis of the stored data about the operation states of the plurality of storage processors when a storing operation for the video signal is selected.
US07853871B2
A robust, lightweight, bottom-up segmentation method for Internet content. According to the present invention, individual segments are created based upon weights assigned according to document structure and markup elements and semantics. Smaller segments are then merged into larger segments by determining which portions of the content page are related to each other. The remaining segments are then intelligently divided based upon device constraints.
US07853867B2
A graphical application developing and managing environment is described capable of representing and editing program modules using multiple display formats, which include embedding source code written in a functional language into a spreadsheet-like format. Methods are described for enabling the sharing of program modules by defining standardized interfaces into program modules and existing documents and by centrally locating module definitions. A patchwork mechanism is described requiring only basic spreadsheet editing skills on behalf of the user, enabling a user of the environment to connect external documents and program modules into a new program application. The invention allows complicated programming and simple end-user programming to be achieved within a unified environment and allows the execution of program modules and tracing of variables simultaneously with the writing of a program application. The invention defines methods for representing the various parts of a source code, defining a program application, along with the application icon as determined by a user creating the application and thereby making parts of the source code accessible to end-users for run-time execution.
US07853862B2
A method for forming a plurality of parity check matrices for a plurality of data rates for use in a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoder, comprises establishing a first companion exponent matrix corresponding to a first parity check matrix for a first data rate, and partitioning the first parity check matrix and the first companion exponent matrix into sub-matrices such that the first parity check matrix is defined using a cyclical shift of an identity matrix.
US07853861B2
A data protection method of a storage device, applied in a computer having a storage device, is provided. The storage device is consisted of a plurality of blocks. The method includes the following steps. When a data containing a plurality of bit data is stored in the storage device in the computer, the stored bit data is checked bit by bit. If an incorrect bit data is checked, the data in the block containing the incorrect bit data is backed up to a reserved block. Therefore, the memory capacity of the storage device is not occupied while backing up data, so as to improve the reliability of the computer.
US07853860B2
A programmable signal processing circuit has an instruction processing circuit (23, 24, 26), with an instruction set that comprises a depuncture instruction. The instruction processing circuit (23, 24, 26) forms the depuncture result by copying bit metrics from a bit metrics operand and inserting one or more predetermined bit metric values between the bit metrics from the bit metric operand in the depuncture result. The instruction processing circuit (23, 24, 26) changes the relative locations of the copied bit metrics with respect to each other in the depuncture result as compared to the relative locations of the copied bit metrics with respect to each other in the bit metric operand, to an extent needed for accommodating the inserted predetermined bit metric value or values.
US07853848B2
Disclosed are embodiments of a system, method and service for detecting and analyzing systematic conditions occurring in manufactured devices. Each embodiment comprises generating a unique signature for each of multiple tested devices. The signatures are generated based on an initial set of signature definitions and the values for those signature definitions that are derived at least in part from selected testing data. A systematic condition is detected based on commonalities between the signatures. The systematic condition is then analyzed, alone or in conjunction with additional information, in order to develop a list of underlying similarities between the devices. The analysis results can be used to refine the systematic condition detection and analysis processes by revising the signature definitions set and/or by modifying data selection.
US07853847B1
Various methods and apparatuses are described for a system that includes some on-chip components, e.g., I-Os, test processors, soft wrappers, etc., an external testing unit that provides Parametric Measurement Unit (PMU) capability, and various tests performed on the I-Os by the on-chip testing logic, the test vector patterns supplied by the external testing unit.
US07853837B2
A system, among other embodiments, includes a memory controller having an integrated BER circuit and a plurality of memory devices. The memory controller also includes a control circuit and an interface having at least one transmit circuit to provide write data to at least one of the memory devices and at least one receive circuit to receive read data from at least one of the memory devices. The BER circuit includes a request generator circuit that outputs a request for a memory transaction. A request multiplexer selectively outputs a memory request to the interface from the request generator circuit or the control circuit. A data generator circuit outputs corresponding write data. A first write multiplexer selectively outputs the write data to the interface from the data generator circuit or the control circuit. A read multiplexer selectively receives read data from the receive circuit. The data generator circuit also outputs corresponding write data to a comparator circuit via a second write multiplexer. The comparator circuit outputs an error signal in response to a comparison of the received read data and corresponding stored write data. A counter outputs a count value indicating the number of errors (or bit errors) in response to the error signal. A register interface accesses the count value in the counter and a register that output one or more select signals during a mode of operation. The register interface also allows for controlling the data generator and request generator circuits.
US07853827B2
The present disclosure is directed toward a method for restoring a computer processor to a previous state. Described is a processor/memory architecture that may store successive instructions/data into a pushdown stack. As instructions are loaded and executed, the loading and executing of new instructions may be suspended. The instruction execution and memory stack then may be restored to a previous processor state in terms of instructions, processor memory state, register values, etc.
US07853824B2
The present invention is to provide a computer for backup and being fault-tolerant comprising a CPU connected to an I/O port, a dual-port memory, a memory address decoder, a bus tri-state buffer, and an arbitration circuit, where the CPU can access data of the dual-port memory based on a decoded memory address of the memory address decoder, first and second ports of the dual-port memory are connected to input and output of the bus tri-state buffer respectively, and an output of the arbitration circuit is connected to an enable terminal of the bus tri-state buffer. Thus, when two identical computers are connected together as a dual computer system, both computers can perform the same operations, compare and change operation data each other via the I/O port and the dual-port memory, and control an output value of the arbitration circuit based on the comparison results for causing the bus tri-state buffer to enter a bi-directional communication state or a high impedance disconnected state, forcing either malfunctioned computer to surrender its control of the system bus.
US07853822B2
Enhancements to the functionality of a file system are provided. A file system can provide an additional level of error correction, in addition to the error correction provided by a data storage device. An extension to the metadata area in a file system can store index information about data files that the file system can use to reduce the time it takes to access the files. A file system can use extended metadata to store conditional access information for data files stored in the file system. A data storage device can also examine and characterize the data being stored in order to categorize a user's files automatically. Modules can be loaded into a file system to provide new functionality to the file system. The modules can load additional modules to extend their functionality.
US07853803B2
A method (200) and program (100) for inhibiting attack upon a computer (120) is provided. The address (104) of a process (106) is produced (612), and encrypted (616) to produce an encrypted address (518), which is then stored in memory (128). When needed, the encrypted address (518) is retrieved (702) from memory (128) and decrypted (704) to reproduce the original process address (104). The reproduced process address (104) is then verified (708). If the process address (104) is determined (708) to be valid, i.e., there was no attack, then the process address (104) is placed (712) in the program counter (318), and a valid process (106) is executed. If the process address (104) is determined (708) to be invalid, i.e., there was an attack, then the address (108) of a crash and terminate process (110) is placed (716) in the program counter (318) and the computer (120) crashes. A nonce value (512) may be generated (602) and encrypted (616) and decrypted (704) in conjunction with the process address (104). The nonce value (512) may then be verified (710) independently, thereby increasing security.
US07853800B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for retrieving and playing back a secure, captured data in a customer center. In another embodiment, the method comprises: transmitting a request by a retrieval component to retrieve stored, encrypted data from a recording subsystem; establishing a secure communication between the retrieval component and the recording subsystem to retrieve the stored, encrypted data; receiving the stored, encrypted data by the retrieval component; transmitting a request to retrieve electronic keys for decrypting the stored, encrypted data; receiving the electronic keys by the retrieval component; decrypting the stored, encrypted data using the electronic keys; and playing back the decrypted data.
US07853795B2
A system, method and computer program product for guaranteeing a data transaction over a network are disclosed. When a data transaction between at least a server and a client is detected on a network, data transmitted via the network between the server and client during the data transaction is captured. At least one identifier is associated with the captured data. A timestamp is also generated for the captured data. The timestamp includes information therein identifying at least a portion of the identifier(s). The captured data, the identifier(s) and the timestamp are stored in one or more data stores. The identifier(s) associated with the stored captured data is also mapped to an entry in an index to permit retrieval of the stored data from the data store via the index.
US07853788B2
The invention provides a secure Wi-Fi communications method and system. In an embodiment of the invention, unique physical keys, or tokens, are installed at an access point and each client device of the network. Each key comprises a unique serial number and a common network send cryptographic key and a common network receive cryptographic key used only during the authentication phase by all components on the LAN. Each client key further includes a secret cryptographic key unique to each client device. During authentication, two random numbers are generated per communications session and are known by both sides of the wireless channel. Only the random numbers are sent across the wireless channel and in each case these numbers are encrypted. A transposed cryptographic key is derived from the unique secret cryptographic key using the random numbers generated during authentication. Thus, both sides of the wireless channel know the transposed cryptographic key without it ever being transmitted between the two.
US07853781B2
A load balancing SSL acceleration device. The device includes a processor, memory and communications interface. A TCP communications manager capable of interacting with a plurality of client devices and server devices simultaneously is provided, along with a secure communications manager. The apparatus further includes an encryption and decryption engine instructing the processor to encrypt data from a secure communications session and direct it to said second communication session. Still further, the apparatus includes a load balancing engine associating ones of said client devices with ones of said servers for a communications session based on calculated processing loads of each said server. In a further aspect, a method for performing SSL acceleration of data communications between a plurality of customer devices attempting to communicate with an enterprise having a plurality of servers is disclosed.
US07853778B2
A method includes, in a processor, loading/moving a first portion of bits of a source into a first portion of a destination register and duplicate that first portion of bits in a subsequent portion of the destination register.
US07853772B2
A method for re-allocating memory partition space is provided. The method comprises determining when a first memory partition is full or has reached a threshold value, determining that a second memory partition has unused storage space that can be allocated to the first memory partition, and assigning the unused storage space from the second memory partition to the first memory partition. A memory controller embedded within the mass storage device and having an interface to an external host assigns the unused storage space from the second memory partition to the first memory partition.
US07853770B2
There is a need to improve access speed for a file in a storage system that is provided with multiple storage units having different access speeds.The storage system (10) includes an access frequency acquiring part (14) that divides a past constant accessed data acquisition period into multiple unit periods, and obtains an access frequency for file stored in any of the multiple storage units (30 and 31), a similarity degree calculating part (16) that obtains, for each file, a similarity degree between the access frequency to the file for each unit period, and the access frequency to every other file for each unit period, a grouping process part (17) that groups one or more other files having a similarity degree equal to or higher than a predetermined value, in an identical group, and a file relocation part (18) that places a file belonging to the identical group into a storage unit (30) having a high access speed, when the file stored in the storage units (30 and 31) is accessed and there exists any other file within the identical group to which the file belongs.
US07853764B2
A Virtual Tape (VT) server residing on a network is connectible on its front end to a plurality of heterogeneous backup hosts, with different operating systems and/or backup applications, and on its back end to one or more disk storage devices in an open systems environment. The VT server responds to tape storage commands sent by the backup host as if it were the intended tape storage device and then emulates the desired tape storage activity on the one or more disk storage devices. In a described implementation, the host and server act as SCSI initiator and target and communicate over a Fibre Channel connection.
US07853756B2
In a method for controlling a processor which accesses information of a storage device through cache memory, when reading information stored in a target address or an address range of the storage device, it is monitored whether there is an update access to the address or address range from another processor, and also the processor is entered into a suspense status, which is released using the occurrence of the update access to the storage device from another processor as a trigger.
US07853740B2
The present invention provides an intelligent, modular multimedia computer management system for coupling a series of remote computers to one or more user workstations to allow each user workstation to selectively access and control one or more remote computers. The computer management system incorporates a centralized switching system that receives keyboard, cursor control device, audio, and auxiliary peripheral device signals from the user workstation and transmits and applies the signals to the remote computer in the same manner as if the keyboard, cursor control device, audio input source, or auxiliary peripheral device of the user workstation were directly coupled to the remote computer. Also, the user workstation receives audio signals and auxiliary peripheral device signals from the remote computer. In addition, the multimedia computer management system transmits video signals from the remote computer over an extended range for display on the video monitor of the user workstation.
US07853734B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for a bus, link or interface. More specifically, systems and methods are discloses for a bus, link or interface adapted to transmit data and control information to at least one processing module and provide synchronization between the data and the control information without requiring the transmission of blank pixels or timing information.
US07853733B2
An operational circuit for performing an operation of an arbitrary number of input data pieces by using a DMA transfer according to a descriptor control and output results. The arbitrary number of input data pieces are divided into a plurality of pieces to perform an operation processing without performing the operation of the arbitrary number of input data pieces at a time. The operational circuit once stores an intermediate result for each of the divided operations in an external storage device, performs an operation processing read with an intermediate result in the next operation processing, and obtains a final result by repeating these operation processings. The operation is performed at a cyclic unit of processing corresponding to the number of address registers provided in the operational circuit.
US07853731B1
The method of the present invention includes loading a selected set of preset parameters into a source device and a sink device of the DisplayPort device of an embedded system. Link training is then performed between the source device and the sink device utilizing the first set of preset parameter and the link status (bit lock, symbol lock and inter-lane alignment) of the DisplayPort device is then read. If the link status indicates that the link training is successful, a link is established between the source device and the sink device, or if the link status indicates that the link training is unsuccessful, a different set of preset parameters is loaded and link training is then performed again. The steps of loading, performing and reading are repeated with each of the plurality of sets of preset parameters until the link status indicates that the link training is successful.
US07853726B2
A method for performing a data exchange between an initiator and a receiver in a fiber channel protocol (FCP) is provided. A control flag is set in a write command to indicate the presence of an identifier. The identifier is copied into a command descriptor block (CDB) of the write command and appended to a data frame. The write command and data frame, including the identifier, is sent from the initiator to the receiver.
US07853724B2
Methods, apparatuses, and articles for exchanging by a first computing device with a second computing device indicia of one or more interfacing definitions supported by at least one of the first computing device and the second computing device are described herein. In various embodiments, the first computing device may also facilitate communication with the second computing device based at least in part on said exchanging and on one or more priority rules. In some embodiments, the indications of the interfacing definitions may include a unique identifier for each interfacing definition. Other embodiments are also disclosed and described.
US07853722B2
A method for synchronizing a mobile device with a central computer system is provided. The method includes coupling the mobile device to an application server of the central computer system over a network, defining a sync list that includes a candidate object type for distribution, synchronizing a relevant object of the candidate object type to the mobile device, determining a referenced object type from the relevant object type, and synchronizing a referenced object of the referenced object type to the mobile device. The sync list can be defined from meta-data that associates a user of the mobile device with one or more candidate object types, where the candidate object types serve as a starting point for the distribution process. Referenced object types can be determined from the relevant object types through additional meta-data.
US07853720B2
A method and system can access local network access devices whose IP (Internet Protocol) addresses are not registered to a DNS (Domain Name System) server using domain names. For this, a local network gateway registers the IP addresses and the domain names mapped to the IP addresses thereto. If a domain name contained in a received DNS query packet is registered to the local network gateway, the local network gateway changes a DNS query packet into a DNS answer packet containing an IP address corresponding to the registered domain name and then transmits the DNS answer packet to a local personal computer. Otherwise, the local network gateway passes the DNS query packet to an external network as it is.
US07853718B2
In an information delivery system including a plurality of node devices mutually communicable through a network, transfer destination node information is respectively memorized in the node devices, and at least one piece of delivery information is distributed and stored therein, and a registration message including storage source node information indicative of one node device storing the delivery information is sent out and transferred to a node device for managing delivery information location through relay node devices in accordance with the transfer destination node information, and the storage source node information is memorized in the relay node devices and the node device for managing delivery information location, wherein the relay node device includes: a memory means; a node information change detection means; a storage source node information extraction means; a reregistration message generation means for generating a reregistration message including the storage source node information; and a reregistration message sending means.
US07853708B2
Techniques for providing remote access to a service provider network include exchanging multiple Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) formatted messages instead of any Point to Point Protocol (PPP) message to provide all PPP functions for accessing a service provider network from a customer node. The service provider network is on provider premises and the customer node is on customer premises different from the provider premises. The DHCP format is used to exchange authentication messages, user profile data on Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) servers, or session keep-alive echo messages, alone or in some combination. When all are message types are combined, these techniques provide a remote access server (RAS) with the capability to perform all functions presently provided by PPP processes. In some combinations, these techniques allow a modified DHCP server to replace a legacy AAA server.
US07853705B2
A method for on demand session provisioning includes receiving a first packet from a user at a service selection gateway. The service selection gateway provides the user with access to one or more services. The first packet is associated with a selected one of the services. An access request is sent to an authorization server. A temporary user session is created to allow the user to temporarily access the selected service pending authorization. Subsequently received packets are forwarded while the temporary user session is valid. An authorization response is received from the authorization server. If the authorization response indicates that the user is authorized to access the selected service, a permanent user session is created to allow the user to access the selected service. Otherwise, the temporary user session is terminated.
US07853703B1
In one embodiment, device presence enables persistent access to a set of resources, which may be data or services. Unique device identifiers are assigned to different computers of a user to identify the computers of the user of a network. For example, a device identifier is specific for a user and specific for a messaging system. Some time-consuming and device-specific tasks, such as synchronization of photo albums, transmitting files, sharing a printer, etc., may be interrupted temporarily, such as when the computer is restarted. Using the device identifiers, the messaging system can uniquely identify the devices involved in the tasks and detect the presence of the devices so that, after the interruption, the tasks can be resumed without user intervention.
US07853701B2
A system, method and computer readable medium are provided which include a server which can be connected to a set of other servers using a connection pool of connections. When information is to be sent to one of the set of other servers, the server can obtain a connection from the connection pool.
US07853699B2
Network proxies reduce server latency in response to series of requests from client applications. Network proxies intercept messages clients and a server. Intercepted client requests are compared with rules. When client requests match a rule, additional request messages are forwarded to the server on behalf of a client application. In response to the additional request messages, the server provides corresponding response messages. A network proxy intercepts and caches the response messages. Subsequent client requests are intercepted by the network application proxy and compared with the cached messages. If a cached response message corresponds with a client request message, the response message is returned to the client application immediately instead of re-requesting the same information from the server. A server-side network proxy can compare client requests with the rules and send additional request messages. The corresponding response messages can be forwarded to a client-side network proxy for caching.
US07853693B2
A method for utilizing networked devices can include a step of receiving a network job associated with a network user. A location of the network user can be automatically determined. One of many possible networked devices can be dynamically selected based upon the determined user location. The network job can be assigned to the selected device.
US07853690B2
Non-invasive collection of data is presented. A server segments a web page into regions and sends the segmented web page along with a data collector program to a client in response to receiving a client request. The client displays the web page and loads the data collector program which initiates particular event handlers to monitor user event activity corresponding to the displayed web page. When the user performs a user event, such as moving his mouse into a particular web page region, the data collector program collects user event data and associates the user event data with the particular web page region. When the user event is complete, the data collector program sends the collected user event data to the server.
US07853688B2
A method of proactively monitoring the coherency of distributed cache. A cache comparison utility selects a set of cache keys from a replica cache connected to a main cache via a network. The cache comparison utility selects a first cache key from the set of cache keys and fetches a first cache value from the replica cache that corresponds to the first cache key. The cache comparison utility generates a first checksum value corresponding to the first cache value and the first cache key and stores the first checksum value in a first checksum table. The cache comparison utility creates a first total checksum value that corresponds to the first checksum table and compares the first total checksum value with multiple total checksum values that correspond to the main cache and one or more additional replica caches, thereby identifying replica caches that are not identical to the main cache.
US07853686B2
A system and method for providing content over a network. In particular, the system and method is capable of providing content, such as broadband streaming multimedia and Internet Protocol (IP) data, to network devices, including mobile devices, with interactive functionality. The network employs at least one core and a plurality of clients. The core and clients each comprise a plurality of modules that cooperatively communicate with each other to monitor and control the delivery of content and to allow for interactive functionality by a user.
US07853682B2
A system and method for out-of-band network management is provided wherein one or more different management interfaces are converted into a common format management data. The system may encrypt the common format management data. The system may also authenticate each user that attempts to access the management interfaces.
US07853680B2
Real routable external addresses may be pooled rather than assigned to nodes and may be dynamically bound to connections by a proxy or gateway device in ways that spread apparent identity of individual nodes across multiple of the external addresses. In general, these spread identity techniques may be employed at one end or the other of a connection, as well as at both ends. In a typical double-ended configuration, the architecture and associated techniques provide “double-blindfolding,” wherein true identities (addresses) of communicating peers are always hidden from each other. In some double-ended configurations, dynamic binding may be employed at a fine level of granularity, for instance allowing individual packets associated with given connection to bear different apparent source addresses and/or different apparent destination addresses. In some single-ended configurations, a spread identity proxy is interposed between an information server and a plurality of requesters. The proxy redirects individual inbound connection requests for information from the information server to distinct addresses of a pool and establishes corresponding network address translations thereby dynamically spreading identity of the information server across multiple distinct addresses of the pool.
US07853674B2
A system and method are provided for provisioning component applications for retrieval by a device. The system includes an application gateway server, which includes a message broker for communicating between the system and the device. The application gateway server is configured for communication with a provisioning server and a discovery server. The provisioning server includes a provisioning service for servicing a provisioning request and a provisioning depot for storing packaged component applications. The discovery server stores and manages component application bundles. The system further includes a packaging application in communication with application gateway for retrieving a component application bundle, selecting elements from the component application bundle in accordance with the device for which the component application is being provisioned, creating a component application package using the selected elements, and making the packaged component application available to the device.
US07853672B2
There is provided a server device including a thinning processing unit which, if an object of operation with control instructions received by a reception unit is an application program stored in a storage unit in association with the control instruction, executes thinning processing for the plurality of control instructions received using a thinning processing method stored in association with the control instruction.
US07853669B2
Data files, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be accessed at a device that collaborates in a mesh. The mesh may include any number or type of devices that collaborate in a network. Data, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be stored within a core object that may be shared over the mesh. Information in the core object may be identified with a corresponding user such that a user may use any collaborating device in the mesh to access the information. In one example, the information is stored remotely from a device used to access the information. A remote source may store the desired information or may determine the storage location of the desired information in the mesh and may further provide the desired information to a corresponding user.
US07853661B2
Various embodiments utilize a real-time instant messaging or presence based communications system as a mechanism to remotely control the operation, programming, and/or review of media content on a device or system such as a television, media center, gaming device, digital video recorder and the like. In addition, the use of the instant messaging or presence based communication system opens up various social networking options for users. For example, users can, if allowed, gain access to the viewing habits of individuals in their contact list and exchange information with one another to provide a rich, robust sharing environment.
US07853659B2
A computer implemented method presents a personalized multimedia message to a user. A text based message is received from a sender. Responsive to receiving the text based message, a sender profile is identified within a digital device host registry, the sender profile corresponding to the sender identifier. Responsive to identifying the sender profile within a digital device host registry, a set of corresponding personalized media channels associated with the sender profile is identified. The set of corresponding personalized media channels includes at least one of a voice profile, a static image, and lip synchronization data. The text based message is then augmented with the set of corresponding personalized media channels to create a multimedia message. The multimedia message comprises an audio file of the text message rendered by using the voice profile, a “video” file of text message rendered by using the voice profile, and the static image with the lip synchronization data, or a combination thereof. The multimedia message is then presented to the user.
US07853655B2
Personalized RSS feeds that are created for a user based on information associated with the user are generally unique and initially empty. By creating a generic RSS feed for receiving generic content items, the personalized RSS files can be pre-populated by copying the generic contents into the personalized RSS feeds. In addition, as content is received for a personalized RSS feed, the index files and/or the HTML based content files can be examined to identify expired items and then to delete the expired items.
US07853653B2
A method and apparatus are provided for monitoring a time that an agent of an organization spends responding to an e-mail directed to the organization. The method includes the steps of downloading the e-mail and a monitoring servlet to the agent of the organization and the servlet automatically measuring and reporting to a server of the organization an elapsed time that the agent spends on the e-mail.
US07853650B2
A relationship initiation between devices in a network is described. According to one embodiment, persona information is exchanged between devices in a network. Based upon the persona information, a user of a device may initiate a relationship with another device.
US07853646B2
A method and system for validating calling parameters of a method call. Validation conditions are evaluated utilizing original calling parameters provided by a validation method call by a client, where the call is required to initiate an activity. The evaluating facilitates determining messages to be provided to a user, where the messages are associated with consequences of continuing the activity. A validation object having data structures is created. The data structures include the validation conditions and the original calling parameters. The validation object is sent to the client to facilitate receipt of the messages by the user. The calling parameters are extracted from the validation object to facilitate completing the activity with a set of calling parameters matching the original calling parameters.
US07853642B2
A network system comprises at least one network unit having a variable Internet protocol (IP) address and unique identification information, and an agent server including a database for receiving and storing the variable IP address and unique identification information from each network unit, and a control unit for receiving, from a user, unique identification information of a network unit selected by the user, for searching the database for the variable IP address of the network unit selected by the user on the basis of the received unique identification information, and for enabling the user to gain access to the selected network unit in accordance with the search results. As a result, the variable IP address of the given network unit can be recognized as a fixed IP address, and can be used by the user to access the selected network unit. A method of controlling the network system comprises steps corresponding to the functions just listed.
US07853637B2
Aggressive pipelining allows Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to achieve high throughput on many Digital Signal Processing applications. However, cyclic data dependencies in the computation can limit pipelining and reduce the efficiency and speed of an FPGA implementation. Saturated accumulation is an important example where such a cycle limits the throughput of signal processing applications. A reformulation of saturated addition as an associative operation permits a parallel-prefix calculation to be used to perform saturated accumulation at any data rate supported by the device. The method may be extended to other operations containing loops with one or more loop-carried dependencies.
US07853634B2
An Integrated Circuit (IC) having a single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) is disclosed. The SIMD circuit includes: a plurality of multiplexers controlled by a first opcode; and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) coupled to the plurality of multiplexers and controlled by a second opcode; and wherein the ALU has a plurality of adders, where the plurality of adders are controlled by some bits of the second opcode, and where a first adder of the plurality of adders adds a plurality of input bits to produce first summation bits and a first carry bit; the first adder operating concurrently with the other adders of the plurality of adders.
US07853630B2
Systems and methods are described for performing the dynamic generation of correlation scores between arbitrary objects. When a behavioral event is recorded, that is to say when an end user interacts with multiple objects, relationships between objects are created. These relationships are maintained as a list. When a request for correlated items is requested based upon a seed object, a list of correlated items is dynamically created through the generation of a pivot set and a scoring algorithm to compute the list of correlated items.
US07853625B2
Computer system and program for defining data mappings between data elements in a first data structure and data elements in a second data structure are provided. The computer system executes instructions for selecting a first data element in the first data structure for mapping, suggesting a first possible data mapping definition to a user based on a first previous data mapping definition, the first possible data mapping definition defining a mapping from the first data element in the first data structure to a first data element in the second data structure, and mapping the first data element in the first data structure to the first data element in the second data structure according to the first possible data mapping definition in response to acceptance of the first possible data mapping definition by the user.
US07853620B2
The present invention discloses a system and method for transmitting files over a datacast network while maintaining meta-data associated with the files. The system employs devices programmed to operate according to a protocol that preserves a file's properties such as, for example, its name, type, length, and hierarchical relationship, i.e. the file's absolute or relative location.
US07853616B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for processing messages including structured data, such as objects and business objects. The method may include a receiver inhibiting processing of a first message including a first object referencing a second object, when the receiver of the first message does not include key mapping information for the second object. The receiver may then receive key mapping information determined for the second object, when a second message, received at the receiver, includes the second object without references to another dependent object. The mapping information may be representative of a location of the second object. The receiver may then automatically resume processing of the first message, when the key mapping information is received. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US07853615B2
We present exemplary methods involving hierarchical indexing of an application space, and exemplary techniques for scalable management of shared application state update distribution. The application space is partially replicated at each individual client who controls a limited number of static and dynamic objects of the application space. State updates are generated for each modification of objects' dynamic attributes. Multiple dynamic objects may change state simultaneously, requiring dissemination of the state updates to non-overlapping groups of clients. A client's communication interest is described using multiple dynamic attributes. The communication interest space is represented as an N-dimensional attribute space with coordinates spanning the set of dynamic object attributes contained in the communication interest space. We provide a method for partitioning the application space, creation of communication interest cells and hierarchical indexing of the communication interest space. In addition we provide methods for the creation and dynamic modification of the hierarchical index.
US07853614B2
A reputability analysis system receives a domain assessment request associated with a domain and accesses a database to find a match for the domain. A reputability score is derived according to a hierarchical analysis of a matching domain in the database. Traceability, accountability, and association information associated with the domain assessment request may also be used to adjust the reputability score.
US07853606B1
Methods and systems for displaying search results are set forth. According to one embodiment, a method comprising identifying a user interface native to a client application, identifying a search query, receiving a search result set responsive to the search query from a search application, wherein the search result set comprises a first article identifier associated with a first article and a second article identifier associated with a second article, the first article native to the client application and the second article not native to the client application, and displaying the search result set in the user interface is set forth.
US07853604B2
A method allows a query, which contains an inline view, to be rewritten to use a materialized view. The materialized view has an inline view that is equivalent to the inline view of the query. However, the inline view of the materialized view varies textually from the inline view of the query.
US07853600B2
A system and method of presenting data from a plurality of data sources or objects which simultaneously distributes many sources of such data to many customers. Customer profiles are developed for the recipient describing how important certain characteristics of the data are to each customer. From these profiles, an “agreement matrix” is calculated by comparing the recipient's profiles to the actual profiles of the characteristics of the available data. The agreement matrix thus characterizes the attractiveness of each data to each prospective customer, and is used to produce a series of data which will provide the greatest satisfaction to each customer. The customer's profiles and/or the profiles of the data may be modified to reflect actual usage.
US07853597B2
Methods, systems and computer readable media for extracting product lines from a plurality of product titles are provided. In one embodiment, the plurality of product titles are broken into tokens. Association rules are calculated for individual tokens and pairs of tokens. Brand specific terms and product class specific terms within the product titles are identified. In one embodiment, a token tree is used to identify product lines within the list of product titles using the association rules, the brand specific terms, and the product class specific terms.
US07853594B2
A knowledge Management (KM) tool that allows persons in an organization to more rapidly locate the people and information they need to answer their questions. Identification and visualization of information aggregate founders, including category creators, helps in locating expertise, and additionally helps to reveal and magnify hidden knowledge dynamics within the organization.
US07853585B2
An apparatus and method for monitoring the performance of a computer system via an result size including a result set size of accesses to a database and a page size. Preferred embodiments are directed to a performance monitor that correlates data from existing tools that report data concerning access to the database and the use of system resources. Other embodiments are directed to a performance monitor that is included in an application server associated with the database.
US07853581B2
A data processing system for processing object data of a plurality of standard instances (101), where object identification data (100) and user data (110) in the object data database (20) can be stored and retrieved separately from each other so that no relationship between the object identification data (100) and the user data (110) can be derived from the stored data records alone, where at least one input device is provided which, after input of an allocated security code for the standard instance, permits access to the object identification data (100) of the assigned standard instance and to the associated user data (110), and the security code or a part thereof remains with the standard instance (101), with the recovery instance and if necessary with further instances (50, 60) determined by the standard instance.
US07853569B2
Techniques for operating an archival database, referred to as a historian, are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for synchronizing historical archive files and/or archival data between a primary and a secondary historian used to archive data values from a real-time database. The real-time database may be used to monitor the current operational state of a large industrial system, such as a pipeline. In turn, the historian may be used to archive the data stored by the real-time database. In the event that either the primary or the secondary system (or both) goes down and then comes back online at a later time, embodiments of the invention may be used to synchronize data between the primary and secondary historian systems.
US07853566B2
Systems and methods for navigating within snapshots are provided. In one implementation a method is provided. The method includes receiving, while a current view is displayed in a user interface, a first user input requesting that a history view associated with the current view be displayed. The history view is displayed in response to the first user input, the history view including at least a first visual representation of an earlier version of the current view, the earlier version including a hierarchical structure wherein a first element of the earlier version includes a second element. There is received, while the history view is displayed, a second user input requesting that the current view be modified according to the second element. The method includes modifying, in response to the second user input, the current view according to the second element.
US07853563B2
A system for aggregating and managing PIM data from multiple sources is provided. By aggregating various sources of data, the present system allow for the bridging of networked communities and organizations. Limitations of data aggregation as a result of proprietary and/or protocol concerns are overcome through the development of trusted relationships amongst users of the data aggregation and management system.
US07853554B2
A data warehouse system comprising a warehouse database and a data warehouse manager communicatively coupled to the database. The warehouse manager is to store data to and retrieve data from the warehouse database and perform metadata reconciliation to update metadata of objects in the data warehouse to reflect a change in metadata of a first object in the warehouse by identifying a first set of objects impacted by the change to the metadata of the first object, identifying a second set of objects on which the first object depends, identifying at least one task that has to be completed to propagate the impact of the change in the metadata of the first object to objects in the first and second sets of objects, performing the task, and dynamically computing additional tasks based on whether or not definitions of objects in the first or second sets of objects changes based upon completion of the at least one task.
US07853551B1
A computer implemented method for process data management displays a set of natural language questions and provides an organizational framework for passively and actively collecting natural language information so users can coordinate problem-solving and project development. It addresses the application domain of collaborative group process and/or collaborative intelligence among humans and/or intelligent agents. In one embodiment, the method collects responses to the trigger questions; displays natural language reaction questions relating to collection of reactions to the triggers and receiving responses to the reaction questions; receives inputs of action steps to address the problem based on the triggers and reactions; guides the user to identify conflicts based on the triggers, reactions, and actions steps; generates a navigable map based on the triggers, reactions, actions steps, and conflicts for use to support and track the problem-solving process; and displays prompts for evaluating the problem based on the map.
US07853538B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for monitoring all levels of information technology and computing resources from low-level hardware up to enterprise level applications and their relation to business processes and business services, and alerting responsible personnel by giving them decision support by visual feedback using color cross-fading graphical objects showing parameter status and monitored resource status multi-colored by a scheme, which is determined by applying fuzzy logic to the raw monitored indicator parameter values and derived or propagated status attributes and by triggering events derived from fuzzy logic based analysis of raw measured parameter values and derived or propagated status attributes and raw events raised outside the apparatus.
US07853537B2
A modular franking system including at least one module and a module sensor adapted to sense objects fed to the module. The module can include information on the distance between a position of the sensor and at least one edge of the module, and a location of at least one other module. The modular system can also include a communication system adapted to allow the module to sense objects being transported and communicate information concerning events such as velocity and distance to another module.
US07853536B2
Disclosed is an integrated global shipment system that provides end-to-end visibility of the movement of a package. The integrated global shipment system employs a shipment consolidating application for integrating one or more freight tracking systems with one or more end-delivery systems. As a result, shippers are provided with complete visibility of the movement of their shipments of goods from an origin country to a destination country and till the final consignees. In addition, the integrated shipment system significantly decreases the cost of managing inventories by providing a virtual inventory solution. Under this virtual inventory solution, suppliers are able to bypass distribution centers and delay allocation of goods until after the importation of goods into a destination country.
US07853533B2
A method and system for detecting and preventing Internet fraud in online transactions by utilizing and analyzing a number of parameters to uniquely identify a computer user and potential fraudulent transaction through predictive modeling. The method and system uses a delta of time between the clock of the computer used by the actual fraudulent use and the potentially fraudulent user and the clock of the server computer in conjunction with personal information and/or non-personal information, preferably the Browser ID.
US07853519B2
There are provided new structural default models for modeling the likely default of publicly traded companies. In a first embodiment, the invention is straight-forward to implement and allows the capture of some important ingredients of the actual default, including positive short-term CDSs. In a second embodiment them model is somewhat more versatile and complex. Provided is a very efficient method for dealing with the timing of a default boundary, that is, jumps in the company's value, etc. Further provided is a process using Fast Fourier Transform matrix processing for processing the structural default models in a computationally efficient manner.
US07853517B2
In various embodiments, test trading orders are generated, transmitted and ranked.
US07853512B1
System and method for populating a list with at least one investment vehicle ticker descriptor. A system and method are presented for robustly looking up a ticker symbol for investment vehicle and efficiently adding the ticker symbol to a linked investment list.
US07853504B1
A system and method are provided for defining slop parameters to an individual spread order or a customized group of orders. The system and method may be used to, for example, define inside slop, outside slop, and/or adjustable range parameters to one or more orders. The inside slop, outside slop, and/or adjustable range parameters may be input by a trader, and, among other things, allow a trader to prioritize orders, set parameters so that some orders are re-priced more aggressively than other spread orders. Alternatively, slop parameters associated with a spread order may also apply more restrictive slop parameters to orders within the same adjustable range. Slop parameters associated with a spread order can also be configured and modified by a trader based on the trader's preferences. Other features and advantages are described herein.
US07853503B2
Systems and methods of allocating transactions among business objects are described. Allocation is accomplished using a multi-phase process. In a first phase, allocation of the transactions among a set of business objects is attempted. In a subsequent phase, allocation of transactions that were either unallocated, under-allocated, or over-allocated in the first phase is determined. The second phase includes using a set of allocation rules to identify business objects configured to manually determine allocation of the unallocated, under-allocated, or over-allocated transactions. The invention is applicable to a variety of business objects including people, organizations, accounts, tasks, or the like.
US07853493B2
An integration device retrieves credit reports, and/or other financial data that is available from one or more credit sources, for consumers and extracts financial account information from the credit reports. The integration device may then format and/or translates the account information into a format that is usable by a particular consumer's personal finance software and communicates the account information to the personal finance software. Accordingly, the personal finance software is provided with information regarding each of a plurality of financial accounts that are associated with the consumer so that the account information may be populated in the personal finance software with minimal effort by the consumer.
US07853491B2
A method and system for organizing purchasing data for a plurality of items is disclosed. The method includes receiving purchasing data for the plurality of items, and generating a purchase order list from the purchasing data. The purchase order list comprises a list of the plurality of items and purchasing data for each item. The system includes means for receiving purchasing data for the plurality of items, and means for generating a purchase order list from the purchasing data, wherein the purchase order list comprises a list of the plurality of items and purchasing data for each item.
US07853490B1
A system is provided comprising a plurality of listings, a plurality of labels associated with at least some of the listings. Additionally, a plurality of form inputs are provided, each associated with one of the labels, wherein selection of a form input causes a transition of the associated label from a first state to a second state. The system further includes a link that is made active upon the transition, thereby associating an action with a label wherein a first description is displayed in the first state and a second description is displayed in the second state.
US07853487B2
A method for automatically generating a custom name list for use in an order form which can be submitted to an Internet shopping site to complete an order. The method utilizes address book data, stored primarily online utilizing a third party service. In one method, names and addresses are read from an address book database and incorporated into a form which enables the user to easily select recipients for one or more gifts.
US07853486B2
Methods and systems including an auction method including an auction price-setting process and a fixed price process for purchasing a seller's offering to a buyer. The seller may adjust a seller fixed-price offer during the auction price-setting process. Various embodiments include a network-based commerce system including, a processor coupled to a memory through a bus; and a fixed price-setting process executed from the memory by the processor to facilitate a request for an adjustment of a fixed price offer associated with a listing for an item, the request to be sent to a seller of the listing.
US07853485B2
The present invention is directed generally to providing systems and methods for data analysis. More specifically, embodiments may provide system(s) and method(s) including dynamic user modeling techniques to capture the relational and dynamic patterns of information content and/or users' or entities' interests. Various embodiments may include system(s) and method(s) that are based on, for example, the past history of content semantics, temporal changes, and/or user community relationship. Various embodiments may include modeling and/or analysis of the dynamic nature of an item of interest's value to a user(s)/entity(ies) over time. The dynamic factors may be consider in any manner, such as, individually or combined, sequentially or simultaneously, etc. Further, some embodiments may include, for example, system(s) and method(s) relating to analyzing data to capture user/entity interests and/or characteristics, consider content semantics and evolutionary information, and/or using community relationships of users/entities to thereby analyze information and provide dynamic conclusion(s) (e.g., recommendation(s)).
US07853483B2
Enabling the automatic identification of participants to a common event to enable data sharing between the participants. An event identifier embedded in the content data associates the content data with an event. A content data service maintains a list of event identifiers and a list of participants associated with each event. Each of the participants communicates with the content data service to identify the other participants. The participants communicate with each other to share content data from the common event.
US07853480B2
A fulfillment services provider may offer export services to merchants, including generation of required export documentation; calculation, collection, and remittance of customs duties; and transportation via an international carrier. Such export services may be offered through a registration service, and may be integrated with other fulfillment services provided to registered merchants (e.g., domestic order fulfillment and/or warehousing of inventory), or may be offered to merchants that do not receive other fulfillment services from the provider. Export services may be provided to merchants who certify that all registered or specified items may be legally exported to all (or specified) international destinations, or the provider may verify compliance to export regulations on behalf of registered merchants. The provider may assume the role of Principal Party in Interest for registered merchants or the merchants may retain this role. Registration and provision of export services may be implemented in one or more software modules.
US07853459B2
A machine-implemented method of assisting medical evidence collection for adjudication of a medical disability request is described. In some embodiments, the method includes providing an electronic medical record of a patient, the electronic medical record includes evidence of at least one claimable medical disability condition and locating in the electronic medical record at least one keyword associated with the at least one claimable medical disability condition. In some embodiments, the method further includes processing an inference rule associated with the at least one claimable medical disability condition, such that the evidence of the at least one claimable medical disability condition is identified in the electronic medical record and outputting, to a computer-readable medium, information indicative of (1) the evidence of the at least one claimable medical disability condition, and (2) a location of the evidence in the electronic medical record.
US07853455B2
A system and method is described that enables a health care provider to monitor and manage a health condition of a patient. The system includes a health care provider apparatus operated by a health care provider and a remotely programmable patient apparatus that is operated by a patient. The health care provider develops a script program using the health care provider apparatus and then sends the script program to a remotely programmable patient apparatus through a communication network such as the World Wide Web. The script program is a computer-executable patient protocol that provides information to the patient about the patient's health condition and that interactively monitors the patient health condition by asking the patient questions and by receiving answers to those questions. The answers to these health related questions are then forwarded as patient data from the remotely programmable patient apparatus to the health care provider apparatus through the communication network. The patient data may also include information supplied by a physiological monitoring device such as a blood glucose monitor that is connected to the remotely programmable patient apparatus. When the patient data arrives at the health care provider apparatus, the patient data is processed for further management of the patient's health condition by the health care provider, such as forwarding another script program to the remotely programmable patient apparatus.
US07853449B2
Techniques are provided for generating improved language modeling. Such improved modeling is achieved by conditioning a language model on a state of a dialog for which the language model is employed. For example, the techniques of the invention may improve modeling of language for use in a speech recognizer of an automatic natural language based dialog system. Improved usability of the dialog system arises from better recognition of a user's utterances by a speech recognizer, associated with the dialog system, using the dialog state-conditioned language models. By way of example, the state of the dialog may be quantified as: (i) the internal state of the natural language understanding part of the dialog system; or (ii) words in the prompt that the dialog system played to the user.
US07853448B2
An electronic instrument includes: a display control unit for displaying a control content corresponding to the command information based on the result of the speech recognition; an instruction unit for instructing that a control for the control content displayed by the display control unit, is cancelled; a control unit for performing the control based on the command information based on the result of the speech recognition after a predetermined standby time elapses since the control content corresponding to the command information based on the result of the speech recognition starts to be displayed by the display control unit when the instruction unit does not instruct that the control for the control content is cancelled within the predetermined standby time, and for canceling the control based on the command information based on the result of the speech recognition when the instruction unit instructs that the control is cancelled within the predetermined standby time.
US07853442B2
There are provided a printed circuit board design instruction support method between a circuit design and a printed circuit board design, a printed circuit board design instruction support device between a circuit design and a printed circuit board design, a Web system, a program, an a computer-readable recording medium which improve the work efficiency of the printed circuit board designing and the quality of the printed circuit board design. By selecting a circuit part to which the design rule is applied, a circuit program and a portion-to-be-checked on the printed circuit board are simultaneously displayed by cooperation between the circuit design system and the printed circuit board design system, thereby reducing the time and labor required for check.
US07853436B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems of tracking enterprise gas emissions such as greenhouse gas emissions. The systems and methods relate to collecting or entering data relating to one or more emissions source of an enterprise or an enterprise location, calculating emissions totals, and, according to certain embodiments, generating emissions reports.
US07853431B2
A system and method of monitoring and diagnosing on-line multivariate process variable data in a process plant, where the multivariate process data comprises a plurality of process variables each having a plurality of observations, includes collecting on-line process data from a process control system within the process plant when the process is on-line, where the collected on-line process data comprises a plurality of observations of a plurality of process variables and where the plurality of observations of the set of collected process data comprises a first data space having a plurality of dimensions, performing a multivariate statistical analysis to represent the operation of the process based on a set of collected on-line process data comprising a measure of the operation of the process when the process is on-line within a second data space having fewer dimensions than the first data space, performing a univariate analysis to represent the operation of the process as a multivariate projection of the on-line process data by a univariate variable for each of the process variables, where the univariate variable unifies the process variables, and generating a visualization comprising a first plot of a result generated by the multivariate statistical representation of the operation of the process and a second plot of a result generated by the univariate representation of the operation of the process.
US07853425B1
Provided is a method and system for testing a DUT. The system includes a plurality of testing devices for interacting with the DUT and conducting a plurality of different tests on the DUT, and a computer-readable memory for storing computer-executable instructions defining the plurality of tests to be conducted by the testing device on the DUT. A scheduler component designates at least a first test and a second test from the plurality of tests to be conducted on the DUT in parallel, wherein said designating is based at least in part on content of the computer-executable instructions defining the first test and the second test. And a controller initiates the first test and the second test to be conducted in parallel and initiating at least a third test sequentially relative to at least one of the first and second tests.
US07853419B2
A signal processing circuit and a method for processing an HF input signal are described, having an HF receiver for generating an IF signal on an intermediate frequency from an HF input signal, a frequency divider for generating a signal from the IF signal or a signal derived from the IF signal, with a frequency reduced compared with the intermediate frequency, and a sampling unit for sampling the signal with the reduced frequency by using a sampling frequency, wherein the sampling frequency is smaller than the double intermediate frequency, and wherein the frequency divider divides the intermediate frequency such that the reduced frequency and the sampling frequency are spaced such that the sampling theorem is fulfilled at least for the first odd-numbered harmonic of the signal with the reduced frequency.
US07853417B2
The present invention provides a system including a utility network including a product distribution pathway for delivering a product, a plurality of electronic utility devices associated with the utility network to monitor at least one parameter associated with the product distribution pathway, and a management processor in communication with the devices and operable to poll at least a subset of the electronic utility devices in response to an input to evaluate performance of one of the utility network and the system in response to information relating to the at least one parameter. The evaluation can include a rule-based analysis of one of the parameter and the information relating to the parameter.
US07853414B2
A mirror assembly mountable to a wall includes a mirror platform having a front surface and a rear surface, a chassis engageable with the mirror platform to define a mirror assembly interior, at least one electrical component disposed within the mirror assembly interior, and a mounting structure. The mounting structure includes a support member mounted to one of the rear surface of the mirror platform and the chassis and a hanger member mounted to the other of the rear surface of the mirror platform and the chassis. The hanger member is removably securable on the support member to mount the mirror platform to the chassis.
US07853408B2
A method of designing oligonucleotides useful in molecular biology techniques as PCR primers or in other techniques as identification and/or quantification probes is disclosed. The method permits designing specific oligonucleotides for the identification of a determined sequence in a metagenomic sample. The method includes selecting or constructing a database of reference sequences, selecting a subset of sequences belonging to target organisms, selecting candidate oligonucleotides from such sequences, depurating these candidate oligonucleotides according to hybridization specificity and thermodynamic stability criteria, obtaining a list of designed oligonucleotides that fulfill the hybridization specificity and thermodynamic stability criteria, producing materially by chemical synthesis the designed oligonucleotides, and selecting the oligonucleotides which comply with the requirements of the desired process.
US07853403B2
A navigation system for a vehicle for generating a plurality of routes from a present position of the vehicle to a destination acquires the present position. The system stores map data of a map and storing position detection data. The system displays the map based on the map data. The system forms a factor chart of each of the plurality of routes and the associated one or more factors. The system causes the factor chart of the associated one or more factors of the each of the plurality of routes to be displayed. The system searches for at least one facility located along the each of the plurality of routes based on the position detection data. The system causes the at least one facility to be displayed together with the chart of the associated factor.
US07853394B2
A controller (6) for an internal combustion engine includes: a calculation section (5) for calculating an angular acceleration or an angular velocity; an operational status-determining section (5, 6) for determining an operational status based on the angular acceleration or the angular velocity; a gain-setting section (6, 3a) for setting a gain of torque based on feedback control; and a control section (6) for controlling the gain-setting section so that, when the operational status is a first operational status, the gain-setting section uses the angular acceleration as input data to set the gain (i), and when the operational status is a second operational status, the gain-setting section uses the angular velocity as input data to set the gain (ii).
US07853385B2
In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for controlling transmission downshifting of a vehicle. The systems and methods monitor vehicular conditions continuously throughout vehicle travel such that downshifting may occur during braking along a decline and are not influenced by and do not interfere with road grade calculation systems. In one embodiment, a system comprises sensors that monitor vehicular conditions. The sensors transmit signals indicative of vehicular conditions to an electronic controller that processes the signals. The electronic controller generates instructions for downshifting where the processed signals indicate vehicle travel along a decline and when downshifting would not cause exceeding of a maximum revolutions per minute limit. The instructions are transmitted to a transmission system that downshifts the transmission gear position according to the instructions. The electronic controller cancels the instructions for the downshifting when the degree or duration of accelerator pedal depression exceed predefined values.
US07853384B2
A method and system for controlling a vehicle comprises a torque detector for detecting a first torque level and a second torque level applied to at least one wheel of the vehicle. The first torque level is associated with a lower boom position of a boom and a second torque level is associated with an elevated boom position higher than the lower boom position. A first hydraulic cylinder is capable of raising a boom from the lower boom position to raise an available torque from the first torque level. A second hydraulic cylinder is adapted to upwardly rotate or curl a bucket associated with the vehicle when the detected second torque level meets or exceeds a second torque threshold, for example.
US07853377B2
A method and apparatus for synchronous communication in a control system is disclosed. Within a first time interval, a first source task is executed to broadcast a first destination task, within a second sequential time interval, the first destination task is communicated over a channel to a first destination, and within a third sequential time interval, the first destination task is consumed. Within the first time interval, a second source task may be executed to broadcast a second destination task, within the second sequential time interval, the second destination task may be communicated over the channel to a second destination, and within the third sequential time interval, the second destination task may be consumed. The first source task is allowed to be scheduled ahead of the second source task, and the second source task is allowed to be scheduled ahead of the first source task.
US07853375B2
A system and method is disclosed for monitoring a motor vehicle. The system includes a sensor unit for collecting at least one vehicle statistic and a portable device for displaying the vehicle statistics. The portable device requests the vehicle statistics from the sensor unit at regular intervals or in response to a particular event and displays statistics on a built-in display screen. In one embodiment, the portable device may be attached to the keys used to operate the vehicle being monitored.
US07853374B2
In a first embodiment, an apparatus includes a vehicle turning system; a vehicle moving system; a signal transmitting system with transmitters that measure, and generate signals corresponding to, the locations of two portions of the vehicle; a signal receiving system that receives the signals; and a control system that estimates the orientation of the vehicle, and controls the vehicle moving system and vehicle turning system. In a second embodiment, the apparatus includes a vehicle turning system; a laser system including a laser emitting a laser beam, a mirror attached to the vehicle, and a target plate to receive the laser beam from the mirror; an orientation detecting system including a transceiver with sensors attached to the vehicle, that generate signals, and a reflector that reflects the signals; and a control system that determines the orientation of the vehicle, and controls the vehicle turning system based on the orientation.
US07853373B2
A turf device driven by a traction drum. The traction unit is connected to the tool by an articulable joint which allows the traction unit to rotate horizontally (yaw) and vertically (pitch), as well as roll side-to-side in relation to the tool. The articulation allows the tool and the traction unit to follow undulations in the terrain separately and allows the mobile object to turn by yawing the traction member in relation to the tool.
US07853365B2
A system manages an optimal load distribution of a total output of a power plant composed of a plurality of units. Plant specifications data of each unit required for optimal load distribution is input and stored. Optimal load distribution calculating carries out a calculation based on data stored. The result of the calculation is stored. A sending-end characteristic curve, a fuel cost curve, a curve of the load optimally distributed to each unit versus the total output, a fuel cost curve for the total output, and fuel cost curves for comparison between a conventional load distribution and the optimal load distribution based on stored data are displayed. An optimal load distribution schedule displays a power transmission time schedule table, a power transmission time schedule curve, and a fuel cost comparison table for different operating schemes.
US07853357B2
In a robot device, an action selecting/control system includes a plurality of elementary action modules each of which outputs an action when selected. An activation level calculation unit calculates an activation level AL of each elementary action on the basis of information from an internal-state manager and external-stimulus recognition unit and with reference to a data base. An action selector selects an elementary action whose activation level AL is highest as an action to be implemented. Each action is associated with a predetermined internal state and external stimulus. The activation level calculation unit calculates an activation level AL of each action on the basis of a predicted satisfaction level variation based on the level of an instinct for an action corresponding to an input internal state and a predicted internal-state variation predictable based on an input external stimulus.
US07853353B1
Implementations of a public use tag marking kiosk. Aspects associated with particular implementations of a tag marking kiosk comprise, among others, automatically marking two sides of a tag within the kiosk, receiving the tag to be marked from the customer, engaging and aligning the tag to be marked, providing a closeable door between the marking implement and the customer while the tag is being marked, ejecting the tag from a tag holder after the tag is marked, and aligning the tag so that a desired tag side is required to be initially facing up on the tag holder. Housing for the kiosk may surround all of the system parts or may be split into a housing shell and a marking unit that fits inside the shell. Marking implements may be laser, mechanical stylus, paint, or others. Tags may be suspended in a cantilevered manner during marking.
US07853349B2
The geometric characteristics for a plurality of boards that have been completely sawn by a gangsaw are determined. A sawn surface of one of the plurality of boards is then logically associated with one of the plurality of saw blades in the gangsaw.
US07853348B2
During the production of steel, a conversion model is used for the cooling line. Said model is used to calculate the phase fractions, in addition to the temperature of the steel, along the steel strip in real time. A regulating system, which maintains the phase fractions of a steel strip that is wound onto a reeling device at a constant level, is implemented. The method comprises the following steps: in a first step a degree of conversion, for multi-phase steel e.g. the ferrite fraction, is determined from data obtained from the primary data of the steel strip. In a second step, when the strip enters the cooling line, one or more parameters of the cooling strategy, i.e. control values, are adapted online in such a way that the ferrite content of the cooled steel on the reeling device is maintained at a constant level.
US07853344B2
A method and system for analyzing audio files is provided. Plural audio file feature vector values based on an audio file's content are determined and the audio file feature vectors are stored in a database that also stores other pre-computed audio file features. The process determines if the audio files feature vectors match the stored audio file vectors. The process also associates a plurality of known attributes to the audio file.
US07853341B2
A method and system for communicating audio, video, and/or control signals within a home entertainment system. One or more signals are communicated between an input device and one or more output devices via one or more networks. The output device can include loudspeakers, display devices, and headphones. In some embodiments an output device, for example a center channel loudspeaker, transmits signals to other output devices. For example, the center channel loudspeaker can transmit a combined audio signal and control signal to a remote loudspeaker over a first network and transmit a video signal to a display device over a second network. The display device displays the video signal. The networks can be wireless, wired, infrared, RF, and powerline.
US07853337B2
A device is provided for monitoring and controlling a machine having at least two sensors for recording measurement variables, particularly motion variables, and with an electronic control loop for evaluating the recorded measurement variables and correspondingly controlling machine components of which the measurement variables can be influenced.
US07853328B2
A lead is connected to an integrated circuit in an implantable medical device in a lead bonding area that includes a lead-receiving recessed region. At least a portion of a lead conductor is bonded in the lead-receiving recessed region, making an electrical and mechanical connection to the integrated circuit that is strong and potentially biostable. In some embodiments, a filler material is provided around the recessed portion of the integrated circuit that receives the lead conductor, and a metal coating is provided around an outer surface of the filler material for additional mechanical stability.
US07853326B2
A method and apparatus for diagnosing and treating neural dysfunction is disclosed. This device has the capability of delivering the therapeutic electrical energy to more than one treatment electrode simultaneously. In another exemplary embodiment, this device can perform EMG testing both before and after the therapeutic energy has been delivered, to assess whether the target nerve was successfully treated. In another embodiment, the device has the capability to record and store sensory stimulation thresholds both before and after treatment is described, which allows the clinician to accurately determine whether the target nerve has been desensitized. Energy control may achieved by simultaneously comparing the tip temperature of each treatment electrode to a set temperature selected by the operator, and regulating the therapeutic energy output to maintain the set temperature. In another embodiment, EMG, stimulation thresholds, and graphs of temperature versus time can be conveniently displayed on a two-dimensional graphics display.
US07853319B2
A method and system for determining a condition of a selected region of epithelial and stromal tissue, for example in the human breast. A plurality of electrodes are used to measure surface and transepithelial electropotential of breast tissue as well as surface electropotential and impedance at one or more locations and at several defined frequencies, particularly very low frequencies. An agent may be introduced into the region of tissue to enhance electrophysiological characteristics. Measurements made at ambient and varying suction and/or positive pressure applied to the epithelial tissue and/or positive pressure conditions applied to the breast are also used as a diagnostic tool. Tissue condition is determined based on the electropotential and impedance profile at different depths of the epithelium, stroma, tissue, or organ, together with an estimate of the functional changes in the epithelium due to altered ion transport and electrophysiological properties of the tissue. Devices for practicing the disclosed methods are also provided.
US07853308B2
A system and method for positioning a patient for radiotherapy is provided. The method comprises: acquiring a first x-ray image sequence of a target inside the patient at a first angle; acquiring first respiratory signals of the patient while acquiring the first x-ray image sequence; acquiring a second x-ray image sequence of the target at a second angle; acquiring second respiratory signals of the patient while acquiring the second x-ray image sequence; synchronizing the first and second x-ray image sequences with the first and second respiratory signals to form synchronized first and second x-ray image sequences; identifying the target in the synchronized first and second x-ray image sequences; and determining three-dimensional (3D) positions of the target through time in the synchronized first and second x-ray image sequences.
US07853298B2
A radio terminal unit and a radio communication system, enabling power savings, the improvement of the quality of real-time communication such as voice communication, and the reduction of transmission delays which often occur when a plurality of radio terminal units are connected to one radio base station. A radio terminal unit comprises a communication control section for controlling a radio interface section to transmit a control packet using a timer value.
US07853289B2
A mobile communication terminal including a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader includes a base band unit for controlling communications, a Radio Frequency (RF) unit for transceiving a signal representing voice and data communications with an external mobile communication terminal, and an RFID unit for transceiving an RFID signal with a RFID transponder in a high frequency band through the RF unit. An RFID RF block may shares components with the RF unit including an antenna, an antenna switch module and a high output amplifier unit to reduce circuit area consumption. The RFID signal may be transceived over a UHF band to increase an operating range of the RFID.
US07853288B2
The present invention relates to a mobile phone device, more specifically, to a sunlight illuminated and sunlight readable mobile phone device. The display panel opens a transparent window to the ambient light, which allows the sunlight to illuminate the display in both indoor and outdoor applications. A light collecting panel is introduced to reflect or transform the external light with a suitable angle relative to the display panel. A mobile phone with sufficient high contrast ratio, superior readability and ultra wide color gamut has been achieved. The solar light can be utilized as the lighting source in both indoor and outdoor display modes, thus remarkably reduces the power consumption and substantially prolongs the operation time of the rechargeable battery.
US07853276B2
A method for providing convenient switching between modes of character input on a communication terminal in connection with currency input. The method includes in a first mode of input, receiving at least one alphanumerical input character, recognizing at least one alphanumerical input character from a set of predetermined currency identifiers, and switching to a second mode of input.
US07853270B2
A system for geographically contextualizing data items may include an interface, a memory and a processor. The memory may store a database which includes structured data types. The processor may receive, via the interface, a data item. The processor may determine whether the data item is a structured or unstructured data item. The processor may parse the data item into components. The processor may determine a geographic component from the components. The geographic component may be determined using an algorithm if the data item is an unstructured data item. Otherwise the geographic component may be determined by comparing the components to the database which includes the structured data types. The processor may determine a geographic region representative of the determined geographic component. The processor may identify results associated with the geographic region and at least one of the components. The processor may provide the results via the interface.
US07853262B2
Provided are a system and a method for allocating resources in a communication system. The method includes mapping a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) class according to channel information transmitted from a mobile station and service class information of the mobile station; and allocating resources by dynamically configuring a frame based on the mapped TTI class.
US07853257B2
This invention presents a method for fast call setup in a mobile communication system, including the steps of radio resource control (RRC) connection setup, Non-access stratum (NAS) signaling connection setup and NAS signaling interaction, and radio access bearer (RAB) setup. User equipment (UE) sends a RRC CONNECTION REQUEST, which encapsulates NAS, to RNC. In response, the radio resource control (RNC) digests the RRC CONNECTION REQUEST and forwards NAS to the core network (CN), which sends RAB Assignment Request to RNC and starts to send the paging message to the terminal call.
US07853254B2
Modular, portable data collection terminals are disclosed for use in mixed wireless and hard-wired RF communication networks, wherein various radio transmitter modules and associated antennas may be selectively added to a base terminal unit to solve networking problems associated with specific types of business environments. Modularity exists in both the hardware (splitting data collection and processing control circuitry from radio transceiver control circuitry) and software (splitting transceiver-specific, lower level communication protocol from generic, higher level communication protocol). The control circuitry, including associated microprocessors devices, interact to selectively activate communication circuits to perform necessary communication or data processing functions and enter and remain in a power-saving dormant state during other times. To support such dormant or “sleeping” states, a series of communication protocols provide for channel access to the communication network. The disclosed modular design also provides for automatic selection from a variety of available built-in and externally mounted antennas based on the particular type of radio transceiver(s) selected.
US07853251B2
Method and apparatus for controlling the transmission of radio links in a radio-communication system
A method for controlling the transmission timing of a radio link on an air interface between a radio terminal and a radio access node, in a radio access node adapted to transmit a plurality of radio links to a radio terminal with substantially simultaneous transmission timings, is disclosed. It is determined whether predetermined conditions are met so that a substantially simultaneous transmission of a first and second radio links to said radio terminal can be selected. Responsive to this determination, a substantially simultaneous transmission of the first and second radio links is selected.
US07853243B2
A secure telephone call management system is provided for authenticating users of a telephone system in an institutional facility. Authentication of the users of the telephone call management system is accomplished by using a personal identification number, biometric means, and/or radio frequency means. The secure telephone call management system includes accounting software capable of limiting access to the system based on funds in a user's account or other related limitations. The system includes management software capable of implementing widespread or local changes to the system and is further capable of modifying or setting any number of user account parameters.
US07853242B2
A bypass server is placed in an outgoing link between a mobile device server and a relay used to distribute data from the mobile device server to remote mobile devices to which the data is addressed. Where a direct connection is established between a suitably configured network node (such as a personal computer) and a given mobile device, the bypass server may form a local connection with the network node and divert along the local connection those packets that are addressed to the given mobile device. As such, a lower cost/higher bandwidth local communication path between the given mobile device and the mobile device server may be established, when compared to the conventional remote communication path. The local communication path may be especially useful for bulk data transfers.
US07853239B2
A disclosed method tunes a signal from a channelized spectrum having a predetermined channel spacing. A signal of interest having a predetermined maximum bandwidth is mixed with a local oscillator signal, which has a frequency that is an integer multiple of the channel spacing or one-half of a channel spacing displaced from an integer multiple of the channel spacing. The local oscillator signal is selected to frequency translate the signal of interest to within a near-baseband passband whose lower edge is spaced from DC by at least about the maximum bandwidth of the signal of interest. Problems associated with 1/f noise, DC offsets, and self-mixing products are avoided or substantially diminished. Other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US07853237B2
A power line communication modem within a network camera outputs a communication signal to an AC adaptor. Then, a signal superimposition and separation circuit of the AC adaptor separates a received communication signal from a DC voltage and an amplifier of the AC adaptor amplifies a signal level of the communication signal and then outputs the amplified signal to a power line through a plug. The communication signal is transmitted through a DC cable under a state in which a signal level of the communication signal is attenuated. Accordingly, even when the cable length of a DC cable is large, unnecessary radiation can be suppressed.
US07853227B2
A system for providing automatic gain control (AGC) comprises a signal path with an RF input, a plurality of power detectors in communication with the signal path, each of the power detectors operable to measure a total broadband power level of a signal in the signal path, each of the power detectors positioned to monitor a point in the signal path corresponding to a change in signal bandwidth, a control system operable to receive from each of the power detectors information associated with the power level and to adjust attenuation in the signal path in response to the information to achieve desired gain control.
US07853215B2
A communication circuit (10) and method updates an active link set list (50) in an asynchronous wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the communication circuit (10) may be a wireless device (600) or any other suitable communication device. The communication circuit (10) includes candidate reference link determination circuitry (30) to receive an active link set update message (60) and in response, to create the candidate list of reference links (20) from the active link set list (50). The candidate reference link determination circuitry (30) creates the candidate list of reference links based on, for example, an indication in the received active link set update message (60) to retain links from the active link set list (50).
US07853212B2
A multi-mode modulator includes a first data path to process in-phase signals in a quadrature modulation mode, a second data path to process quadrature signals during the quadrature modulation mode, and a first multiplexer to selectively switch polar amplitude data onto one of the first and second data paths in response to a selection signal.
US07853207B2
The present invention is comprised of a communication unit (short-range wireless communication unit 10) for transmitting/receiving a short-range wireless signal to/from one or more devices (devices 61 to 6N) with a short-range wireless communication function, a registration unit (database 18) for adding priorities to the plurality of the devices and registering a prioritization list representing one or more devices sorted by the priorities, and a control unit (processor 8) for dynamically selecting one or more devices based on the prioritization list and controlling connection through the communication unit with the selected one or more devices.
US07853204B2
A method of identifying a relay mobile station in a wireless communication network. The method includes applying an elimination process to candidate relay mobile stations, calculating a Figure of Merit (FOM) for each remaining candidate relay mobile station based on one or more parameters, and selecting the relay mobile station based on the calculated FoMs.
US07853201B1
The transportation system, such as airplane, which comprises the internal wireless communicating system and the external antenna system. The passenger(s) in the transportation system may access network (e.g., the Internet) via the internal wireless communicating system and the external antenna system.
US07853193B2
A method for audibly instructing a user to interact with a function. A function is associated with a user-written selectable item. The user-written selectable item is recognized on a surface. In response to recognizing the user-written selectable item, a first instructional message related to the operation of the function is audibly rendered without requiring further interaction from the user.
US07853190B2
A conveying device includes a cylindrical first roller, a cylindrical second roller that has a surface hardness higher than a surface hardness of the first roller, and a belt placed in a state surrounding either the first roller or the second roller. the conveying device moves an object to be conveyed by bringing the first roller and the second roller in pressure contact with each other via the belt and making the object pass through a nip portion formed of the belt and the first roller or the second roller facing the belt. A length in a lengthwise direction of an outer peripheral portion of the first roller is shorter than a length in a lengthwise direction of an outer peripheral portion of the second roller.
US07853185B2
A toner container installed in an image forming apparatus includes a toner container main body having a predetermined length and in which toner is accommodated, a discharge port through which the toner is discharged from the toner container main body, a shutter which opens and closes the discharge port, a handle provided on the toner container main body, and a pressed portion provided on the toner container main body and which is pressed by the image forming apparatus to project the handle out from the image forming apparatus.
US07853180B2
A toner supplier according to the present invention includes a toner stirrer. The toner stirrer includes a shaft, an auxiliary member, and a fixture. The melting point of the auxiliary member is higher than the melting points of the shaft and fixture. The shaft and fixture are welded to each other with the auxiliary member interposed between them.Because the melting point of the auxiliary member is higher than the melting points of the shaft and fixture, this member is not influenced by heat when the shaft and fixture are welded thermally to each other.
US07853178B2
A method and device for controlling toner transfer during the formation of a toner image within an image forming device is described herein. One exemplary image forming device includes a toner reservoir that stores toner of a first color, a developer member that receives toner from the toner reservoir, a photoconductive member proximate the developer member that receives toner from the developer member, and a driver. While rotating the photoconductive member, the driver selectively rotates the developer member based on a color content of the image. For example, the driver does not rotate the developer member while rotating the photoconductive member when the toner image being formed lacks the first color. Alternatively, the driver lows the rotational speed of the developer member while rotating the photoconductive member when the toner image being formed lacks the first color.
US07853173B2
A system and process for emptying excess toner from repaired or remanufactured laser printer toner cartridges, for use in both magnetic toner and non-magnetic toner after the cartridge has been assembled and post-assembly tested. The removal of excess toner from the cartridge prevents the cartridge from “sweating”, i.e., leaking toner out from the developing roller section of the cartridge and into the shipping packaging box during shipping and storage.
US07853167B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of containers, a container compartment, and a plurality of indicators. The plurality of containers contains developing agent, and may be arranged in parallel with each other in a first sequential order. The container compartment holds the plurality of containers at varied holding heights. The plurality of indicators indicates information of the developing agent in the plurality of containers, and may be arranged in parallel to each other in a second sequential order on the image forming apparatus. The first sequential order of the plurality of containers corresponds to the second sequential order of the plurality of indicators.
US07853162B2
A fixing device capable of suitable fixing even after moving to a print mode by reducing overshoot at moving to a print mode, and an image forming device using this. A mode switching unit informs a set or switched print mode to a calorie control unit and a rotation speed control unit. The calorie control unit controls supply power to a fixing roller, a heating roller and a fixing belt, that is a heating output from a heating means consisting of the fixing roller, the heating roller and the fixing belt according to a print mode informed from the mode switching unit. Therefore, the image fixing temperature of a non-fixed image at the heating means can be maintained at a specified temperature corresponding to a print mode.
US07853161B2
A potential difference between the photoreceptor and the development roller is set at a value at which the normally charged toner on the development roller can be flown toward the photoreceptor in the development phase at the time of compulsorily consuming the toner, and this potential difference is set at a value at which the flown normally charged toner can be returned to the development roller in the recovery phase.
US07853159B2
An image forming apparatus including a plurality of detachable image forming devices each configured to form a color image, an image carrying device configured to carry the color images sequentially overlaid into a single color image, an exchange detecting device configured to detect an exchange operation of the plurality of detachable image forming devices, a test pattern reading device configured to read a predetermined test pattern formed by the plurality of detachable image forming devices on the image carrying device, and a controller configured to instruct the plurality of detachable image forming devices to form the predetermined test pattern on the image carrying device when the exchange detecting device detects the exchange operation, and to perform a color image position adjustment based on readings of the predetermined test pattern by the test pattern reading device.
US07853157B2
The present invention relates generally to the transport and processing of optical communication signals. More specifically, the present invention relates to systems and methods for the polarization insensitive coherent detection of optical communication signals with Brillouin amplification of the associated signal carrier and the polarization division multiplexed transmission of optical communication signals without polarization tracking at the associated receiver(s).
US07853155B2
A method for operating an optical transmitter for transmission of an optical signal over a dispersive fiber optic media to a remote receiver. The method includes the steps of providing a respective bias level of a first RF signal and a second RF signal input to an optical modulator that modulates the optical signal; determining an output level of the optical modulator in response to the provided bias levels and adjusting a bias level of at least one of the first and second RF input signals based upon the determined output level and an expected output level at a configuration set point for the provided respective bias levels.
US07853153B2
The present invention is to provide an optical modulating system for generating a signal of a frequency (f0+2fm) and a signal of a frequency (f0−2fm) and suppressing a signal of a frequency (f0) by a DSB-SC modulator.A fourth harmonic generating system for solving the above problem comprises a first DSB-SC modulator (2) a second DSB-SC modulator (3) and a signal control section (5) for controlling a modulating signal from a signal source (4) for generating modulating signals applied to the first and second DSB-SC modulators (2,3) so that a lower side-band signal (f0) generated by modulating the upper side-band signal of the DSB-SC modulator (2) by the DSB-SC modulator (3) and an upper side-band signal (f0) generated by modulating the lower side-band signal of the DSB-SC modulator (2) by the DSB-SC modulator (3) cancel each other.
US07853145B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, an optical switch comprises: a coupler for coupling a signal light and a control pulse; a first nonlinear medium for amplifying the signal light in accordance with the polarization direction of the control pulse light by nonlinear effect; a first polarizer outputting a component light in a signal light and the control pulse light in parallel with the transmission axis of the first polarizer; a second nonlinear medium for changing status of polarization of the signal light by nonlinear effect; and a second polarizer outputting a signal light and a control pulse light in parallel with the transmission axis of the second polarizer.
US07853144B2
The subassembly includes a laser for emitting signals towards fibers to be monitored, a passive alignment carrier, a photodetector for monitoring reflected laser signals from the fibers and for monitoring laser output power, and an optical fiber. The laser is disposed within the passive alignment carrier. The optical fiber is embedded in the passive alignment carrier, and has an angled fiber facet. The laser emits signals toward and through the angled fiber facet, whereby a portion of the laser signal illuminates the photodetector, and another portion illuminates the fibers that are being monitored and reflects back to the photodetector such that faults on the fibers can be detected.
US07853141B2
A camera cradle apparatus includes an extension connector which connects a camera including a power supply button, a connector which connects an external terminal through a network so as to allow communication, and a control unit which controls a connection state of the connector. At least one of the external terminal and the camera cradle apparatus includes an external power supply button which performs on-off operation of the power supply of the camera. The control unit controls the connection state of the connector in accordance with whether the power supply of the camera is turned on by either the power supply button or the external power supply button.
US07853140B2
The image of a subject is sensed, the image of the subject is displayed on the display screen of a digital still camera and the image of a face is detected in the image of the subject. The image of the subject is shifted in such a manner that the center of the detected face image becomes the center of the display screen, and the image is enlarged and displayed on the display screen. Since the image of the face is displayed in enlarged form, it becomes easier to check the face even if the display screen is small in size.
US07853138B2
A camera is provided which is adapted to receive a photographic lens having a diaphragm. The camera includes a detection unit configured to execute electric charge accumulation for detecting a defocus amount when the diaphragm is in a state having a first aperture value, and a controller configured to, when causing the diaphragm to perform an aperture reducing operation from the first aperture value to a second aperture value, cause the diaphragm to start the aperture reducing operation without waiting for completion of the electric charge accumulation for detecting the defocus amount by the detection unit.
US07853137B2
A means for fixing an auxiliary lens to the outside of the original lens of a camera body includes an annular base, an annular lens mount and an annular abutting base. The inner edge of the base protrudes upwardly to form a wall. The wall protrudes outwards to form a plurality of blocks. The inner edge of the lens mount is provided with a plurality of notches corresponding to the blocks. A first end surface of the abutting base extends to form a plurality of L-shaped elastic arms corresponding to the blocks and notches. The L-shaped elastic arm extends obliquely from the first end surface toward the lens mount. A gap is formed between the L-shaped elastic arm and the abutting base, so that the L-shaped elastic arm can be bent inwardly when compressed. When the camera body is combined with the auxiliary lens by rotation, the blocks pass through the notches to abut and compress the L-shaped elastic arms. At the same time, the L-shaped elastic arms generate a reaction force, thereby enhancing the tightness between the camera body and the auxiliary lens.
US07853134B2
In an imaging device including a mechanical image blurring correction and a sensitivity image blurring reduction, a subject-shake amount is calculated based on a motion vector size acquired during a through image process display. Usage percentages of the mechanical image blurring correction and a sensitivity image blurring reduction are sequentially set based on the calculated subject-shake amount. When shooting a still-image, still-image data is recorded after blurring reduction is performed on the still-image data by the mechanical image blurring correction and a sensitivity image blurring reduction, based on the most recently set usage percentages.
US07853125B2
A BD-ROM playback apparatus for selecting and playing back one among text subtitle streams together with a moving picture. PSR 48-61 store Decode Capability flags whose set values indicate, for each language, whether or not a decode capability is present. Procedure executing unit 20 judges whether each text subtitle stream can be displayed, by referring to each set value of flags. Stream selection unit 17 selects a text subtitle stream judged as being able to be decoded. Here, the decode capability for a language being present indicates presence of rendering capability for converting character codes of the language into bitmaps, and support capability for supporting properties of the language. The b16 to b23 in PSR 30 includes a permission flag indicating whether stream selection unit 17 is permitted to select an unsupported language for which rendering capability is present but not support capability.
US07853122B2
The present invention is relative with a reproducing apparatus and a receiving apparatus for affording the impression or evaluation in line with the intention of a content supplier to the audience. The reproducing apparatus reproduces an optical disc (1) in which the contents and the estimated evaluation values are recorded at the outset. The estimated evaluation values recorded on the optical disc (1) have been set by the content supplier based on estimated impression or evaluation by the audience on the content. As the reproducing apparatus reproduces the content, the apparatus measures the reaction of the audience by a reaction value inputting unit (61), calculates the impression or evaluation by the audience for the content by a recognition evaluation value calculating unit (63) and compares the recognized evaluation values to the estimated evaluation values read out from the optical disc (1) in a control evaluation value calculating unit (53). Based on the results of comparison, a system controller (7) changes the picture brightness or the sound level in subsequent scenes or shots to vary the site or sequence of reproduction of the optical disc (1) to change the ensuing story development. The estimated evaluation values and/or the content can be received by a receiving apparatus over a communication network.
US07853118B2
According to one embodiment, a moving-picture-stream replay apparatus includes a first-replay-start time acquisition section which acquires, in accordance with a replay speed N, a replay start time that indicates a time elapsing from a leading portion of the moving-picture stream data, a transmission section which transmits, to a server, a request signal to request compressed image data corresponding to about 1 second of a replay time of the moving-picture stream data, a storage control section which stores, into a memory, part of the moving-picture stream data sent in response to the request signal, a transfer control section which transfers the reference picture data to a decoder, and a next-replay-start time acquisition section which computes a next replay start time after the reference picture data is transferred to the decoder.
US07853117B2
An information processing apparatus that reliably records data to predetermined recording media and stores the recorded data therein. A HDD recording control block relates recording data with identification information for identifying a DVD and records the data and information to a HDD. A DVD recording control block records the recording data to the DVD. If a trouble occurs on the DVD, the DVD recording control block identifies and reads the recording data related with the identification information of the DVD from the HDD and records the recording data to another DVD.
US07853116B2
A recording apparatus and a record medium for recording a data read time, a seek time, a successive reproduction time, a successive record length, and a correlation among data pieces. An encoding section encodes the data corresponding to a predetermined compressing and encoding system. A converting section converts a data structure of encoded data that is output from the encoding section into a file structure that a computer software program that synchronously reproduces a moving picture and so forth can handle without need to use a special hardware device. A recording section records data having the file structure to the record medium.
US07853114B1
A method and apparatus for controlling simultaneous recording and playing back of data onto a disc medium. In response to a user generated pause-resume command, the apparatus can firstly buffer in a writing buffer a plurality of video object units to be recorded onto a disc medium. In addition, the apparatus can selectively pause the buffering of additional video object units to the writing buffer to prevent the writing buffer from overflowing. Further, the apparatus can secondly buffer these additional video object units in a navigation pack buffer. In one arrangement, the size of the cells containing the video object units can be reduced thereby reducing the capacity requirements of the navigation pack buffer. Moreover, the apparatus can reduce the bit rate of the incoming bitstream containing the video object units. Alternatively, the navigation pack buffer and the writing buffer can be logically combined to form a single data storage medium.
US07853112B2
A telecommunications assembly includes a chassis and a plurality of fiber optic splitter modules mounted within the chassis. Each splitter module includes at least one fiber optic connector. Within an interior of the chassis are positioned at least one fiber optic adapter. Inserting the splitter module through a front opening of the chassis at a mounting location positions the connector of the splitter module for insertion into and mating with the adapter of the chassis. The adapters mounted within the interior of the chassis are integrally formed as part of a removable adapter assembly. A method of mounting a fiber optic splitter module within a telecommunications chassis is also disclosed.
US07853111B2
The present invention provides a two-dimensional photonic crystal in which an absolute photonic band gap (PBG), i.e. a photonic band gap that is effective for both the TE-polarized light and the TM-polarized light within a predetermined wavelength range, is created with an adequate bandwidth. The body 21 is provided with holes 22 arranged in a triangular lattice pattern, where the basic shape of the hole is an equilateral triangle. This shaping and arranging of the holes creates an absolute PBG. Each corner of the equilateral triangle is cut along an arc to leave an adequate distance between the neighboring holes (i.e. an adequate width of the connecting portion of the body). This design makes it possible to enlarge each hole 22 while ensuring an adequate strength of the two-dimensional photonic crystal. This construction creates an absolute PBG having a large width.
US07853103B2
A method comprises: forming an optical device on a device substrate; forming a first optical waveguide on the device or device substrate; forming a second, structurally discrete optical waveguide on a structurally discrete waveguide substrate; and assembling the optical device, first waveguide, or device substrate with the second waveguide or waveguide substrate. The device and first waveguide are arranged for transferring an optical signal between the device and the first waveguide. Upon assembly the first and second waveguides are positioned between the device and waveguide substrates and are relatively positioned for transferring the optical signal therebetween via optical transverse coupling. The first or second optical waveguide is arranged for transferring the optical signal therebetween via substantially adiabatic optical transverse coupling with the first and second waveguides so positioned.
US07853101B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for the transmission of data between an optical bus and an electronic component at a speed independent from a clock speed of the electrical component; the system comprising an optical data storage component communicating with both the optical bus and the electrical component; the optical data storage component being configured to hold data transmitted on the optical bus until said electrical component is available.
US07853098B2
A method (200) of determining at least rotation and scale parameters of a transformation relating two images is disclosed. The method (200) starts by forming a spatial domain representation of each of the images that is invariant to translation of the images. A correlation in the log-polar domain is next performed between the representations. After detecting a magnitude peak in the correlation, the method (200) determines the rotation and scale parameters from the position of the magnitude peak.
US07853082B2
A normal line information estimation device for estimating normal line information of an object from an image of the object. The normal line information estimation device includes an illumination direction estimation section for estimating an illumination direction with respect to the object in the image from a luminance value of the image; a normal line information estimation section for estimating the normal line information of the object in the image based on the illumination direction; and a specular reflection component estimation section for estimating a specular reflection component of the image from the normal line information of the object and the illumination direction with respect to the object. The normal line information estimation section estimates the normal line information again from the image from which a specular reflection component has been removed in the specular reflection component section.
US07853076B2
The invention concerns a device and a method for creating a saliency map of an image. It comprises the steps of: Projection of said image according to the luminance component and if said image is a color image, according to the luminance component and according to the chrominance components, Perceptual sub-bands decomposition of said components according to the visibility threshold of a human eye, Extraction of the salient elements of the sub-bands related to the luminance component, Contour enhancement of said salient elements in each sub-band related to the luminance component, Calculation of a saliency map from the contour enhancement, for each sub-band related to the luminance component. Creation of the saliency map as a function of the saliency maps obtained for each sub-band.
US07853073B2
A method and apparatus for inverting a color device model. A systematic color device model inversion process restarts a local iterative root finding process with new seeds that are adaptive to the last found solution. Because of the relative simplicity of the logic used, it is more robust and makes less assumptions about the smoothness of the forward model. It is also computationally inexpensive, because a reasonably good seed is chosen from the seed matrix using a fast calculation of distance, instead of running each seed in the seed matrix through the iterative root finding process. In the worst case, including the initial run, N+1 runs of the local iterative root finding process are needed to invert an input point, with N being the number of additional, a posteriori seeds generated.
US07853070B2
The present invention meets the above-stated needs by providing a method and apparatus that allows for X parallax information to be stored within an image pixel information. Consequently, only one image need be stored, whether it's a mosaic of a number of images, a single image or a partial image for proper reconstruction. To accomplish this, the present invention stores an X parallax value between the stereoscopic images with the typical pixel information by, e.g., increasing the pixel depth.
US07853069B2
There is provided a three-dimensional image reconstructing apparatus for reconstructing a three-dimensional image of an object. The three-dimensional image reconstructing apparatus includes an image-capturing section that captures a plurality of transmission-type images each of which is represented by densities of different levels, a characteristic region selecting section that selects a plurality of characteristic regions in each of the transmission-type images, a characteristic region distribution calculating section that calculates a spatial distribution of the characteristic regions based on respective positions of the characteristic regions, in each of the transmission-type images, and a three-dimensional image reconstructing section that, when reconstructing the three-dimensional image which shows the three-dimensional structure of the object and in which the densities of different levels are allocated to the whole object by integrating the transmission-type images, allocates the densities of different levels of the transmission-type images to respective positions, in the three-dimensional image, of the characteristic regions based on the spatial distribution of the characteristic regions, so as to reconstruct the three-dimensional image in which a three-dimensional structure in each of the characteristic regions is shown.
US07853068B2
The pattern defect inspection apparatus is operable to detect defects by comparing a detection image, which is obtained through scanning by an image sensor those patterns that have the identical shape and are continuously disposed on the object under tested at equal intervals in row and column directions, with a reference image obtained by scanning neighboring identical shape patterns in the row and column directions. This apparatus has a unit for generating an average reference image by statistical computation processing from the images of identical shape patterns lying next to the detection image including at least eight nearest chips on the up-and-down and right-and-left sides and at diagonal positions with the detection image being intermediately situated. The apparatus also includes a unit that detects a defect by comparing the detection image to the average reference image thus generated.
US07853051B2
The present invention enables a user's movement indicating his or her intention to be recognized easily and accurately. On the basis of image data taken by a camera 13, a face direction detecting section 14 senses the direction of a user's face and a line-of-sight sensing section 15 senses the direction of the user's line of sight. When the user's face is directed downward, while the user's line of sight is directed upward with respect to the face direction, a nod recognizing section 21 recognizes that the user has nodded. When the user's face is directed rightward or leftward, while the user's line of sight is directed in a direction laterally opposite to the face direction, a head shake recognizing section 22 recognizes that the user has shaken his or her head. The present invention is applicable to an intention checking apparatus that checks the driver's intention.
US07853045B2
A novel database and method of classifying and searchably retrieving measurement data derived from a plurality of rock core and plug sample images that are analyzed to define their principal geostatistical attributes and characteristics, with the resulting analytical data being retrievably stored in a database, the method including calculating spatial variability of images, such as CT scan images, porosity images and other types of available images, quantifying the main image characteristics utilizing multi-azimuth variograms and simplified pattern recognition based on the histogram and variography analysis to thereby provide a means to correlate data from various geographical regions or fields by analyzing data which has the same variographic parameters.
US07853041B2
According to one disclosed method, coordinates in a multi-dimensional space are determined for an image point characterizing a particular object. An equation describing a model in the multi-dimensional space is provided. The model is characteristic of a set of training images of one or more other objects. The coordinates are applied to the equation to determine a distance between the image point and the model. Based on the determined distance, a determination is made as to whether the particular object matches the one or more other objects.A set of training images may be received. A multi-dimensional space (e.g., eigenspace) may be determined based on the set of training images. A set of training points may be generated by projecting the set of training images into the multi-dimensional space. An equation describing a model in the multi-dimensional space that is characteristic of the set of training points may be determined.
US07853039B2
In a workflow management system for managing a workflow processing in which a processing object is document data read and digitized by an image reading apparatus, a technique to improve processing efficiency in the workflow processing is provided.The workflow management system includes a document data acquisition unit to acquire, as the processing object in the workflow processing, the document data made to correspond to reliability information as information indicating reliability of an image reading processing in the image reading apparatus, a reliability information acquisition unit to acquire the reliability information made to correspond to the document data acquired by the document data acquisition unit, and a processing execution unit to execute, based on the reliability information acquired by the reliability information acquisition unit, a specified processing relating to an approval processing in the workflow concerning the document data acquired by the document data acquisition unit.
US07853038B2
A system and a method of obtaining a dimension of a target object in an image comprises receiving coordinates of a number of feature points in the image, receiving coordinates of at least one reference object in the image with a known dimension, performing a calibration to adjust the coordinates of at least one of the feature points, and receiving coordinates of the target object in the image and determining the dimension of the target object based on the coordinates of the feature points. The coordinates of at least one of the feature points are adjusted to increase an accuracy in determining the dimension of the reference object.
US07853025B2
A vehicle overhead audio system, an electromagnetic transducer assembly for use therein and a computer system programmed with a graphic software control for changing the audio system's signal level and delay are provided where a headliner of the vehicle is a loudspeaker of the system thereby replacing many other loudspeakers and being invisible to the occupants. The headliner is driven in multiple zones that effect proper imaging for all occupants. Supplemental high frequency and subwoofer speakers and signal processing circuitry are included in one aspect of the invention.
US07853014B2
A data encryption method performed with ring arithmetic operations using a residue number multiplication process wherein a first conversion to a first basis is done using a mixed radix system and a second conversion to a second basis is done using a mixed radix system. In some embodiments, a modulus C is be chosen of the form 2w−L, wherein C is a w-bit number and L is a low Hamming weight odd integer less than 2(w−1)/2. And in some of those embodiments, the residue mod C is calculated via several steps. P is split into 2 w-bit words H1 and L1. S1 is calculated as equal to L1+(H12x1)+(H12x2)+ . . . +(H12xk)+H1. S1 is split into two w-bit words H2 and L2. S2 is computed as being equal to L2+(H22x1)+(H22x2)+ . . . +(H22xk)+H2. S3 is computed as being equal to S2+(2x1+ . . . +2xk+1). And the residue is determined by comparing S3 to 2w. If S3<2w, then the residue equals S2. If S3≧2w, then the residue equals S3−2w.
US07853006B1
Systems and methods for visualization of call center performance are provided. An exemplary method includes the steps of: obtaining quality performance of agents data that includes information on the quality of service and quality characteristics of the agent, obtaining call center operations data that includes information on statistics and details of a call center, correlating the quality performance of agents data and the call center operations data, identifying correlation-based discovery, and optimizing call center performance based on the correlation-based discovery.
US07852998B1
An automated teleconferencing control system and method reduces conference call setup time by simultaneously out dialing to multiple conferees through a plurality of parallel telecommunications resources. The teleconferencing control system includes the feature of automatically gathering statistics of each connection attempt, as well as many other call aspects, using these statistics to automatically improve the efficiency of subsequent conference call initiations. Gathered statistics are also used to automatically configure the system to cause all of the conferees to be connected to a conference call at substantially the same time. The selection of which telecommunications resources are used for contacting each target conferee is made based on criteria that include the telephone number or Internet address of the target conferee's telephone.
US07852990B2
A beam admission unit is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the beam admission unit includes a plurality of admission segments having at least one admission slit for admitting radiation emanating from a radiation source onto a predetermined admission region. So as to implement a particularly space-saving, robust and reliable design, in at least one embodiment the admission segments are interconnected in an articulated fashion to form an admission plate chain which can be rolled up.
US07852989B2
The rotating anode x-ray tube has a composite outer bearing made from two rings of a high hot-hardness material and a spacer between the two rings made of a constant coefficient of thermal expansion material. The spacer is welded to the two rings providing the composite outer bearing. One inner bearing race is formed from the shaft and the other inner bearing race is a one-piece inner race mounted on the shaft while the two rings have the corresponding outer races.
US07852987B2
The X-ray tube having a rotating and linearly translating anode includes an evacuated shell having a substantially cylindrical anode rotatably mounted therein. The substantially cylindrical anode may be rotated through the usage of any suitable rotational drive, and the substantially cylindrical anode is further selectively and controllably linearly translatable about the rotating longitudinal axis thereof. A cathode is further mounted within the evacuated shell for producing an electron beam that impinges on an outer surface of the substantially cylindrical anode, thus forming a focal spot thereon. X-rays are generated from the focal spot and are transmitted through an X-ray permeable window formed in the evacuated shell.
US07852982B2
To provide a method and device for testing the size and conductivity of a foreign material adhered to a substrate for a liquid crystal display device, there is provided a method of testing whether a foreign material including a metal element is adhered to a substrate for a liquid crystal display device, the method including a first test step of detecting the size and position of the foreign material adhered to the substrate and a second test step of testing whether the foreign material includes the metal element at the position detected in the first test step.
US07852976B2
A bidirectional controlling device is utilized for receiving two input signals, which are respectively provided from a first input terminal and a second input terminal, and for respectively providing two output signals to a first output terminal and a second output terminal, by controlling a plurality of switch sets.
US07852974B2
Data is communicated through two separate circuits or circuit groups, each having clock and mode inputs, by sequentially reversing the role of the clock and mode inputs. The data communication circuits have data inputs, data outputs, a clock input for timing or synchronizing the data input and/or output communication, and a mode input for controlling the data input and/or output communication. A clock/mode signal connects to the clock input of one circuit and to the mode input of the other circuit. A mode/clock signal connects to the mode input of the one circuit and to the clock input of the other circuit. The role of the mode and clock signals on the mode/clock and clock/mode signals, or their reversal, selects one or the other of the data communication circuits.
US07852971B2
Techniques for detecting acquisition of a false channel in a wireless communication system are described. For false channel detection, a peak corresponding to a signal from a base station is initially detected. Frequency acquisition and time tracking of the peak are then performed. The frequency acquisition attempts to determine and correct downconversion frequency error. The time tracking attempts to follow the peak as it moves due to sample timing error and/or changes in channel conditions. Whether the signal is from a desired frequency channel or a false frequency channel is determined based on the time tracking. If a false channel is acquired, then the sampling timing will be either too slow or too fast, and the peak will move at a fast rate. A false channel may be detected based on the movement of the peak.
US07852968B2
A peak to average power ratio signal is generated from a first mapping function that selects the peak to average power ratio signal that corresponds to the data rate or data format of the signal to be transmitted. The selected peak to average power ratio signal is summed with a desired average transmit power signal. The resulting summation signal is input to a second effectively continuously valued mapping function comprising a table that has a plurality of power amplifier control signal values each with a corresponding peak transmit power. Each peak transmit power signal value results in a power amplifier control signal value that achieves the best possible transmitter power efficiency while still meeting out of band spurious emissions and waveform quality requirements. The summation signal value maps to one of the power amplifier control signal value that is then used to adjust a parameter such as bias of the power amplifier.
US07852966B2
A wireless communication base station apparatus that can raise the usage efficiency of the frequency resources of the whole system in a multicarrier transmission. In this apparatus, a separating part (103) separates symbols received from a modulating part (102) into symbols to be assigned to a first subcarriers group and into symbols to be assigned to a second subcarriers group. A setting part (106-1) sets the transmission power of the symbols, which are to be assigned to the first subcarriers group, to a power value as calculated by a power calculating part (105), while a setting part (106-2) sets the transmission power of the symbols, which are to be assigned to the second subcarriers group, to a power value as calculated by the power calculating part (105). Thus, the transmission power control is differently performed between the symbols to be assigned to the first subcarriers group and the symbols to be assigned to the second subcarriers group.
US07852960B2
A path metric computing method applied in a high-speed Viterbi detector and related apparatus thereof are disclosed. The path metric computing apparatus includes a comparator for generating a control signal according a plurality of previous path metrics, a combining circuit for generating a plurality of first output values according to the previous path metrics and branch costs of a plurality of branches of a current state, and a multiplexer, electrically connected to the comparator and the combining circuit, for determining a first path metric of the current state according to the control signal and the output values.
US07852954B2
A method of feeding back channel information in an OFDM or OFDMA radio communications system is disclosed, in which a transmitting side instructs a region for measuring a downlink channel status and in which a receiving side feeds back the channel information to the transmitting side. The present invention includes the steps of transmitting instruction information instructing at least one region of at least two regions within a data frame as a signal measurement region to a receiving side and receiving the channel information estimated by a signal included in the signal measurement region instructed by the instruction information from the receiving side.
US07852952B2
Loading and ordering techniques are provided for one-sided and two-sided vectored line groups, as well as loading methodologies that also can be used on a single line, in communication systems such as Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) binders. In particular, a method for loading bits into a plurality of lines in a vectored DSL system using Discrete MultiTone (DMT) modulation is disclosed. The method iteratively determines two or more of the following sequentially: line ordering for each tone; power spectral density for the transmitted signal of each line; and bit allocation for the signal of each line. In some embodiments, line ordering may include order-swapping which may assign a first line to a first initial position, assign a second line to a second initial position, move the first line to the second initial position, and move the second line to the first initial position.
US07852942B2
A video encoding method includes selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination. A predictive error signal is generated representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal. Encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination is included.
US07852935B2
A video encoding method includes selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination. A predictive error signal is generated representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal. Encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination is included.
US07852931B2
A video encoding apparatus includes selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination. A predictive error signal is generated representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal. Encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination is included.
US07852923B2
A video encoding apparatus includes selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination. A predictive error signal is generated representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal. Encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination is included.
US07852922B2
A video encoding method includes selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination. A predictive error signal is generated representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal. Encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination is included.
US07852919B2
A decoder receives a field start code for an entry point key frame. The field start code indicates a second coded interlaced video field in the entry point key frame following a first coded interlaced video field in the entry point key frame and indicates a point to begin decoding of the second coded interlaced video field. The first coded interlaced video field is a predicted field, and the second coded interlaced video field is an intra-coded field. The decoder decodes the second field without decoding the first field. The field start code can be followed by a field header. The decoder can receive a frame header for the entry point key frame. The frame header may comprise a syntax element indicating a frame coding mode for the entry point key frame and/or a syntax element indicating field types for the first and second coded interlaced video fields.
US07852917B2
A video encoding apparatus includes selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination. A predictive error signal is generated representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal. Encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination is included.
US07852911B2
A method and arrangement for simulating a radio channel. In the solution, a channel having paths is simulated and the delay of each path is formed separately with a low-resolution delay arrangement and a high-resolution delay arrangement in such a manner that the simulated delay of each path is the sum of the low-resolution delay and the high-resolution delay. Low-resolution delaying is performed on each path discontinuously as multiples of a predefined minimum delay. For each signal delayed by a low-resolution delay, at least one fixed, high-resolution delay is selected, which is a predefined part of the predefined minimum delay of a the low-resolution delay. Each signal delayed by a low-resolution delay is delayed by at least one selected high-resolution delay to form a path-specific total delay.
US07852906B2
In a wireless communication apparatus of multi-input system, Fourier transform is used to estimate the frequency response of a received signal and further provide a converted impulse response of time domain, and a window function having a simple lowpass filter characteristic is used to separate the impulse response into channel impulse responses of the respective signals. The window function having the lowpass filter characteristic is relatively simple in arithmetic and receives less influence from the channel statistical characteristic, so that it can realize both a separation of multi-antenna channel impulse responses and a highly-precise channel estimation at the same time.
US07852904B2
A method in a transmitter for data collision avoidance in an uncoordinated frequency hopping communication system is disclosed. The base station (104) first determines (304) that a first data set to be sent to a first device (105) and a second data set to be sent to a second device (107) are scheduled to be transmitted simultaneously on a first frequency of a frequency hop-set. The device then transmits (310) the first data set on the first frequency of the frequency hop-set. The base station delays (312) transmission of the second data set, and finally transmits (316) the second data set on a second frequency of a frequency hop-set.
US07852900B2
A cap 25 having a piece of glass 26 formed at a laser irradiating position and covering a laser irradiating direction and an upper face of a package 24, is mounted onto the package 24 having lateral faces of a frame body 30 formed in three directions other than the laser irradiating direction, so as to reduce the distance between a semiconductor element 22 and the piece of glass 26 and to reduce a radius 32 of the piece of glass 26. The profile of the semiconductor device can be therefore lowered while maintaining the characteristics of a semiconductor laser. In addition, by mounting the semiconductor device, the profile of an optical pickup device can also be lowered.
US07852899B2
Feedback timing control equipment and process for an injection seeded modular gas discharge laser. A preferred embodiment is a system capable of producing high quality pulsed laser beams at pulse rates of about 4,000 Hz or greater and at pulse energies of about 5 to 10 mJ or greater for integrated outputs of about 20 to 40 Watts or greater. The feedback timing control is programmed to permit in some circumstances discharges timed so that no significant laser energy is output from the system. Use of this technique permits burst mode operation in which the first discharge of a burst is a no-output discharge so that timing parameters for each of the two chambers can be monitored before the first laser output pulse of the burst. Two separate discharge chambers are provided, one of which is a part of a master oscillator producing a very narrow band seed beam which is amplified in the second discharge chamber. The chambers can be controlled separately permitting optimization of wavelength parameters in the master oscillator and optimization of pulse energy parameters in the amplifying chamber.
US07852897B2
A semiconductor laser is a distributed feedback semiconductor laser in which the lasing wavelength can be changed, and includes a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor layer portion provided on the substrate and including first and second active layers and an intermediate layer that optically couples the first active layer and the second active layer. The first active layer, the intermediate layer, and the second active layer are arranged in that order in a predetermined axis direction. The semiconductor laser further includes a diffraction grating that is optically coupled with the first and second active layers of the semiconductor layer portion, a first electrode and a second electrode for injecting carriers into the first active layer and the second active layer, respectively, and a third electrode for supplying the intermediate layer with a current. The grating extends in the predetermined axis direction and has a period that is uniform in the predetermined axis direction.
US07852896B2
A VCSEL includes a GaAs substrate; a first semiconductor distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) disposed on the GaAs substrate and including a first part and a second part on the first part; a semiconductor mesa disposed on the first semiconductor DBR and including an active layer; and a second DBR on the semiconductor mesa. The first part is composed of an undoped semiconductor material. The second part includes third III-V compound semiconductor layers composed of a material containing indium and gallium as the group III element and phosphorus as the group V element and fourth III-V compound semiconductor layers composed of a material containing gallium as the group III element and arsenic as the group V element. The third III-V compound semiconductor layers and the fourth III-V compound semiconductor layers are doped with an n-type impurity.
US07852891B2
A nitride semiconductor light-emitting device is provided including: a substrate made of a nitride semiconductor; a semiconductor layer made of a nitride semiconductor containing a p-type impurity, the semiconductor layer being formed as contacting an upper surface of the substrate; a first cladding layer made of a nitride semiconductor containing an impurity of a first conductivity type, the first cladding layer being formed on the semiconductor layer; an active layer formed on the first cladding layer; and a second cladding layer made of a nitride semiconductor containing an impurity of a second conductivity type, the second cladding layer being formed on the active layer.
US07852890B2
In a semiconductor laser, in order to realize a desired oscillation wavelength efficiently by adjusting the oscillation wavelength of the laser with sufficient accuracy even when the oscillation wavelength of a manufactured laser deviates from a design value, for example, due to the manufacturing errors and the like in the manufacturing of the laser, there is provided a semiconductor laser comprising a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor stacking body including a waveguide formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a diffraction grating, wherein the diffraction grating is formed along the waveguide so as to appear in the surface of the semiconductor stacking body.
US07852888B2
A laser source is disclosed with coherent recombination of N spatial monomode laser beams having N phase shifters controlled by a phase-lock device (3). The phase-lock device has an optical device (30) capable of taking at least a portion of each of the N beams. The optical device has an optical element (32) capable of applying a phase deformation, and at least one matrix (M1) of detectors capable of detecting a first image (im) of a wave surface corresponding to the N beams. The matrix (M1) of detectors also detects a second image (imd) deformed by the optical element (32). Processing means (31) are provided for processing the first and second images. The processing means are configured so as to measure the phase pistons between on the sub-pupils (spj) corresponding to the N beams and to apply phase corrections c(φ) to each of the N beams, by means of said N phase shifters so as to minimize the phase pistons.
US07852887B2
A pulsed laser is disclosed comprising an active lasing medium (1), an output coupler (5) and a rear cavity mirror (6). The rear cavity mirror (6) is attached to a mount (21) via an intermediate attachment (15). Heating elements are embedded within the attachment (15). The attachment (15) is heated in order to vary the physical length of the laser cavity in a manner which seeks to stabilise the output energy and wavelength of the laser pulses emitted from the laser cavity.
US07852884B2
According to the inventive method, data from at least one ISDN data link, at least one conventional telephone link and at least one broadband data link, respectively, are transmitted in an SDSL frame of an SDSL data link, with the required control data being transmitted in either the eoc or in one or more Z channels.
US07852869B2
A method and an apparatus for the transmission of data is provided, wherein the data, in a first operating mode, are transmitted in a plurality of first frequency bands and, in a second operating mode, are transmitted in a plurality of second frequency bands. A number of the first frequency bands is in this case greater than a number of the second frequency bands. The first operating mode is used if there is a large quantity of data to be transmitted. If only a small quantity of data is to be transmitted, switchover to the second operating mode is effected, whereby a power saving can be achieved, particularly in digital parts of a transmitting device and of a receiving device.
US07852867B2
An integrated egress/replay memory structure is provided with split rate write and read ports and means for managing at least three types of data moving into, through and/or out of the integrated memory structure, namely: (1) currently egressing packet data; (2) replay data; and (3) to-be egressed data. Additionally, a shared free space (4) is managed between the storage areas of the (2) replay data and (3) the to-be egressed data. The to-be egressed data (PdBx) is allowed to enter into (to be written into) a front-end raceway portion of the integrated memory structure at a rate which can be substantially greater than that allowed for corresponding egressing packet data (PdUx). Thus, even when egressing packet data that is ahead in line is shifting out toward a slow rate egress port; this slowing factor does not slow the speed at which the to-be egressed data (PdBx) can be shifted into the front-end raceway portion. A shared free space memory area is maintained between the storage areas of the replay data (PdAx) and to-be-egressed data (PdBx). When a positive acknowledgement (ACK) is received from the destination of already-egressed data (of the After-Transmission Data, or PdAx), the corresponding replay storage area (the area storing the acknowledged PdAx data) can be reallocated for use as an empty part of the raceway portion.
US07852860B2
There is provided with a protocol conversion apparatus including: a database unit which stores service descriptions, each describing at least one service in accordance with specification of a first protocol, and conversion rule descriptions each describing at least one protocol conversion rule; a database retrieval unit which retrieves from the database unit a service description and a conversion rule description; a virtual processing unit which conducts processing of behaving as if providing the service described in the retrieved service description; a conversion unit which converts an access request to the service to an access request of a second protocol, on the basis of a protocol conversion rule associated with the service; and an access request transmission unit which transmits the converted access request.
US07852853B1
Systems and methods for transmitting video are provided. The system determines the type of encoded video frames. Each of the video frames is then placed in a network transport packet. A priority level of the network transport packet is set based on the determined type of the video frame. The system can apply error correction coding to video frames of a lower priority level.
US07852852B2
A method for a router having a routing table and a forwarding table. In an embodiment, the method includes creating an entry for use in the forwarding table, the entry corresponding to multiple entries of the routing table. The entry may correspond to a set of entries of the routing table which specify overlapping IP addresses and a same next hop router, in one example. In another example, the entry may be an aggregate entry corresponding to a set of entries of the routing table which specify the same next hop router.
US07852841B2
A mechanism is provided by which a transport tree identifier can be generated using one or more identifiers for a multicast datastream. The transport tree identifier can then be used in the process of building a transport tree across a transport network. A transport network egress router can receive a request to join a multicast datastream from a downstream node outside of the transport network. The information contained in the join message that identifies the desired multicast datastream can be encoded in the transport tree identifier. The transport tree identifier can be related to one or more of a multicast group destination address, a multicast datastream source address, and a broadcast domain identifier.
US07852826B2
Techniques to communicate MAP information elements in a wireless network are described. An apparatus may comprise a device to establish a communication channel over a common wireless communication link, the device to communicate an encapsulating MAP information element to encapsulate one or more MAP information elements. The encapsulating MAP information element may indicate that the one or more encapsulated MAP information elements apply to multiple communication frames. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07852818B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of dual-mode wireless communication. Some embodiments include a wireless dual-mode transceiver capable of operating at first and second wireless communication modes during first and second time periods, respectively, wherein at the first communication mode the transceiver is capable of performing wireless-local-area-network communications over a wireless-local-area-network link, and wherein at the second communication mode the transceiver is capable of performing wireless video communications over a wireless video communication link. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07852813B2
A system for performing cell acquisition in a frequency overlay communication system having a first frequency band and a second frequency band including the first frequency band. A base station (BS) generates a reference signal used for identifying a cell using a specific sequence in a predetermined frequency band, and transmits the reference signal. A mobile station (MS) receives the reference signal to determine whether the BS uses the first frequency band or the second frequency band, determines a reference signal having a maximum correlation value through correlation calculation with at least one predefined sequence, and detects a BS identifier (ID) corresponding to the determined reference signal.
US07852810B1
Methods and systems are provided for dynamic adjustment of the forward-link frame error rate (FFER) target. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a base station provides service to at least one mobile station on a carrier in a wireless coverage area using a first FFER target. The base station calculates an Ec/Ior value for the carrier in the wireless coverage area. The base station then selects a second FFER target based at least in part on the calculated Ec/Ior value. Thereafter, the base station provides service to at least one mobile station on the carrier in the wireless coverage area using the second FFER target.
US07852807B2
Provided is a radio communication base station device which can prevent lowering of use efficiency of a channel communication resource for performing a frequency diversity transmission when simultaneously performing a frequency scheduling transmission and the frequency diversity transmission in a multicarrier communication. In the device, a modulation unit (12) executes a modulation process on Dch data after encoded so as to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit (22) executes a modulation process on the encoded Lch data so as to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit (103) allocates the Dch data symbol and the Lch data symbol to respective subcarriers constituting an OFDM symbol and outputs them to a multiplexing unit (104). Here, when a plurality of Dch are used for a Dch data symbol of one mobile station, the allocation unit (103) uses Dch of continuous channel numbers.
US07852804B2
The invention provides a communication apparatus switching method. At first, the method of the invention measures at least one environmental parameter relative to a neighboring region of a mobile communication apparatus and then determines whether the mobile communication apparatus is indoors, based on the at least one environmental parameter. If YES, the following steps are executed. Firstly, the method establishes a wireless communication link between the mobile communication apparatus and an agent communication apparatus based on a wireless communication protocol. Then, the method sends a piece of user information to the agent communication apparatus. Afterward, the method terminates a first radio telecommunication link between the mobile communication apparatus and the base station. Finally, the method establishes a second radio telecommunication link between the agent communication apparatus and the base station based on a radio telecommunication protocol.
US07852799B2
A network node may have a transmitter, a receiver and a controller. The controller may be configured to automatically and repeatedly cause the network node to cycle back and forth between transmitting information on a network with the transmitter and receiving information with the receiver from the network, wherein the lengths of at least some of the transmissions and receptions vary in accordance with a predetermined pattern.
US07852797B2
An apparatus and method for providing relay link zone information in a multi-hop relay BWA communication system, where a BS performs a network entry procedure with an RS during an initial access of the RS to the BS, generates a message including relay link zone information regarding a relay link zone in which the BS communicates with the RS, processes the message in a physical layer, and transmits the processed message to the RS.
US07852795B2
A device for wirelessly communicating a service to user equipment is provided. The device includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a processor. The processor is programmed to promote the transmitter polling to determine whether user equipment desire a service and responsive to receiving, via the receiver, at least one user equipment request for the service, the processor programmed to promote the transmitter providing a point-to-multipoint (PTM) broadcast of the service.
US07852785B2
The preferred embodiments of the present invention can include sampling packets transmitted over a network based on the content of the packets. If a packet is sampled, the sampling unit can add one or more fields to the sampled packet that can include a field for a number of bytes contained in the packet, a packet count, a flow count, a sampling type, and the like. The sampled packets can be analyzed to discern desired information from the packets. The additional fields that are added to the sampled packets can be used during the analysis.
US07852776B2
There is disclosed a technique which can detect a packet routing loop (in particular, a nesting loop formed by MRs (mobile routers). According to this technique, an MR 114 connected as a subordinate to an MR 110 transmits a BU (Binding Update) message, to which added is an ARO (Access Router Option) including an address of a router (MR 110) connected at present, to an HA (Home Agent) 140 to which it pertains. Moreover, an MR 112 is connected as a subordinate to the MR 114 and, when connected to the MR 112, the MR 110 transmits a BU message, to which added is an ARO including an address of the MR 112, to the HA 140. At this time, the MR 112 also transmits a BU message, to which added is an ARO including an address of the MR 114, to the HA 140. Thus, the HA 140 can detect a routing loop formed by connections 120, 122 and 124.
US07852770B2
A RSVP node apparatus and interaction method thereof are provided. The method includes transmitting a first message to a neighboring node of a RSVP-based first node when the RSVP-based first node disables the RSVP HELLO mechanism. When the neighboring node receives the message, it sets a sign indicating that the first node has disabled the RSVP HELLO mechanism and maintains the LSP passing through the first node, according to the disabled status of the RSVP HELLO mechanism of the first node. Prior to transmitting the first message, the first node queries if the neighboring node has enabled the RSVP HELLO mechanism, and transmits the first message only to neighboring node which enables the RSVP HELLO mechanism.
US07852761B2
Data packets from a network node may be monitored at a relay station associated with the network that is configured to forward the data packets to a base station. The network node may transmit the data packets according to a first duty cycle. At least one transmission parameter associated with transmission of the data packets from the network node to the relay station may be determined, and then may be related to at least one reference value to obtain a normalized transmission parameter. The normalized transmission parameter may be compared to a set-point value, and a duty cycle change command may be generated for the network node to forward subsequent data packets according to a second duty cycle, based on the comparison.
US07852753B2
An apparatus and method for centrally selecting a control network from redundant control networks is described. In one embodiment of the invention, a network element includes a first control network and a second control network. Each line card implements a bonding interface to bond a first port coupled with the first control network and a second port coupled with the second control network. On each line card, the first and second ports receive a control network selection message from the first and second control networks respectively. A link layer driver on each line card interprets those selection messages and determines which control network is active and reports that control network as up to the bonding interface and reports the other control network as down to the bonding interface. The bonding interface selects the control network reported as up and application software uses that control network.
US07852751B2
A data processing apparatus is configured for initiating a not-via approach for creating repair path information for a first link between the first network node and a second network node; creating a list of other network nodes that the not-via repair path traverses; creating and storing entries in the FIB identifying repair addresses for the network nodes and that cause (a) packets directed to all addresses normally reachable through the first link to be encapsulated to the second node not via the first node, (b) packets directed to a not-via address that is normally reachable through the first link to be encapsulated to the second node not via the first node, and (c) dropping packets directed to a not-via address that is normally reachable through the first link when the not-via address is in the list; repeating the preceding steps for all other links of the first network node.
US07852748B2
A method and system for providing QoS in a network after a network failure are disclosed. The network includes at least one primary tunnel and at least one backup tunnel protecting a segment of the primary tunnel. The method includes receiving notification of a failure within the primary tunnel segment and rerouting received packets onto the backup tunnel. The rerouted packets are marked to identify packets affected by the failure and are subject to a different QoS policy than packets that have not been rerouted due to the failure.
US07852737B2
An optical pickup includes a first objective lens, a second objective lens having a numerical aperture different from that of the first objective lens, and an objective lens holder. The first objective lens is attached to the objective lens holder via a spacer that has a cylindrical shape and is provided with a lens receiving portion of a stepped shape for receiving the first objective lens, a protruding portion having cushioning properties that protrudes from the upper surface, and a salient portion having a spherical shape formed at the lower surface. The protruding portion is formed so that a tip thereof is closer to an optical disc medium than any other part of the objective lens holder.
US07852733B2
An optical pickup apparatus for shining light on and detecting reflected light from an optical disk having two recording layers. The apparatus includes a light source, an optical system situated on a path of a light beam returning from the optical disk, the optical system including a light condensing optical unit, a light beam regulating unit, and one or more photo detectors, situated between a position where the light reflected by the first recording layer contained in the partial light beam is condensed and a position where the light reflected by the second recording layer contained in the partial light beam is condensed, the one or more photo detectors having a first photo detecting section to detect the light reflected by the first recording layer and a second photo detecting section to detect the light reflected by the second recording layer.
US07852730B2
A molding and film forming apparatus 700 molds a disc substrate from a stamper 330 formed from an optical disc disc-master 320 and forms a coating film, for example, a reflective film onto the disc substrate, thereby forming a recorded optical disc 360. A postscript apparatus 200 writes postscript information once onto an optical disc 340 formed by the molding and film forming apparatus 700. As postscript information, a laser beam is irradiated to a predetermined interval of the optical disc 340, a portion which is detected as a pit is formed, and an optical disc 350 on which postscript information 420 has been recorded is formed. Identification information which enables each optical disc 340 to be identified can be postscribed. The postscript information is recorded in a conventional format and the postscript information can be reproduced by an existing reproducing apparatus.
US07852726B2
A recording apparatus includes: a recording device for recording data onto each of a plurality of types of recording media by irradiating a light beam corresponding to each of the types of recording media; a diffracting device disposed on an optical path of the light beam from the recording device to the recording medium, for generating a main beam and a plurality of sub beams by diffracting the optical beam, the main beam recording data and performing a tracking process, the sub beams performing the tracking process, an amplitude of a tracking signal generated by each or one portion of the sub beams and by the main beam being maximum; a controlling device for controlling the diffracting device to adjust a position on which each of the plurality of sub beams is focused, in accordance with the type of the recording medium; and a tracking device.
US07852710B2
A global positioning system (GPS) receiver may be integrated with a tide display device. The GPS receiver receives satellite signals and determines the precise time and geodetic position by trilateration. The precise time and geodetic position is used by the tide display device to determine the appropriate tide information to display. The tide display device displays the tide information to a surfer on a graph display with the ordinate axis representing tide height and the abscissa axis representing time.
US07852708B2
Methods and related systems are described for use with hydraulic fracturing and other oilfield applications. A tool body is positioned in a wellbore at a location near a subterranean rock formation being fractured. The tool body contains a plurality of deployable continuous fibers. At least some of the deployable continuous fibers are deployed into fractures within a subterranean rock formation. Each deployed fiber is continuous from the tool body to the rock formation. The number of deployable continuous fibers provides sufficient redundancy to make at least a target measurement relating to the fracturing process.
US07852698B2
A voltage supply device comprises: a charge pump configured to boost a power voltage and to supply the boosted power voltage to a output line; and a voltage control circuit configured to maintain a voltage level of the output line at a target voltage level; wherein the voltage control circuit comprises a reach-through element including a first region and a second region provided in a well, the reach-through element configured to control the voltage level of the output line, using a reach-through function between the first region and the second region.
US07852689B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a memory, a master interface circuit that performs one of receiving a data transfer request from the memory and outputting a data transfer request to the memory, a slave interface circuit that performs one of receiving data from the memory and outputting data to the memory in response to the data transfer requests, and a delay circuit that delays a data transfer end signal that indicates one of an end of a data transfer from the memory and an end of a data transfer to the memory.
US07852686B2
A circuit and method for a sense amplifier for sensing the charge stored when a select signal couples a memory cell to the sense amplifier. A pull up voltage and a pull down voltage are instantaneously supplied to the sense amplifier to sense the small signal differential input on the complementary bit lines and to simultaneously restore the value stored in the memory cell. A differential output signal generator circuit is provided to instantaneously supply the pull up and pull down voltages. In another preferred embodiment the signal generator provides the pull up and pull down voltages at a first level and subsequently increases the pull up voltage to a voltage greater than the positive supply voltage and decreases the pull down voltage. A method of sensing is disclosed wherein the sense and restore actions are performed instantaneously to provide memory cell sensing with greater tolerance of device mismatches.
US07852685B2
A semiconductor memory device comprises a first exclusive-OR circuit which compares mth N-bit first data with (m+1)th N-bit second data, a majority circuit which generates flag data to invert the second data if a comparison result of the first exclusive-OR circuit indicates that the number of mismatch bits between the first data and the second data is not less than N/2, and generates flag data to noninvert the second data if the number of mismatch bits between the first data and the second data is less than N/2, a second exclusive-OR circuit which inverts or noninverts the second data based on the flag data, a shift register which stores the flag data generated by the majority circuit, and a pad to serially output both the inverted or noninverted second data and the flag data.
US07852682B2
A flash memory and a program method of the flash memory include applying a pass voltage to word lines to boost a channel voltage, which is discharged to a ground voltage. A program voltage is applied to a selected word line and a local voltage is applied to at least one word line supplied with the pass voltage while the program voltage is being applied to the selected word line. The local voltage is lower than the pass voltage and equal to or higher than the ground voltage. The boosted channel voltage may be discharged before the program voltage is applied to the selected word line.
US07852681B2
A verify operation is performed on the one time programmable memory block to determine if it has been programmed. If any bits have been programmed, further programming or erasing is inhibited. In another embodiment, the memory block can be programmed and erased until a predetermined page or lock bit in the block is programmed. Once that page/bit is programmed, the one time programmable memory block is locked against further programming or erasing.
US07852679B2
Systems and methods are disclosed including features that compensate for variations in the magnitude of supply voltages used in memory arrays. According to some aspects, compensation circuits may provide a tunable current-limiting load for data columns, where the load can be tuned to dynamically compensate for variations in supply voltage. In certain aspects, a compensation circuit may employ an operational amplifier configured as a voltage follower. The voltage follower compensates for any variations in supply voltage, forcing a constant voltage drop across the load element(s), thus maintaining a constant load. Other circuits may also be included, such as precharge circuits, clamp circuits, buffer circuits, trimming circuit, and sense amplifier circuits with sensed body effect. System-On-Chip integrated system aspects may include a microcontroller, a mixed IP, and a flash memory system having functionality and blocks that interface and interoperate with each other for load compensation.
US07852676B2
In a three dimensional stacked nonvolatile semiconductor memory according to the present invention, a first block has a selected first cell unit including a memory cell to be read and a non-selected second cell unit not including a memory cell to be read. A read potential or a transfer potential higher than the read potential is applied to the word line in the first block in a state that a ground potential is applied to a channel of a memory cell existing nearer to the bit line side than a memory cell in the second cell unit to which the read potential is applied, after which all the memory cells in the second cell unit are cut off from the bit line, the bit line is set to a precharge potential, and read is performed to the a memory cell to be read in the first cell unit.
US07852665B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to a method and apparatus for sensing a programmed state of a memory cell, such as a spin-torque transfer random access memory (STRAM) cell. A first read current is applied to the memory cell to generate a first voltage. A second read current is subsequently applied to the memory cell to generate a second voltage, with the second read current being proportional in magnitude to the first read current. A comparison is made between the first and second voltages to determine the programmed state of the memory cell.
US07852663B2
Spin torque magnetic logic device having at least one input element and an output element. Current is applied through the input element(s), and the resulting resistance or voltage across the output element is measured. The input element(s) include a free layer and the output element includes a free layer that is electrically connected to the free layer of the input element. The free layers of the input element and the output element may be electrically connected via magnetostatic coupling, or may be physically coupled. In some embodiments, the output element may have more than one free layer.
US07852659B2
A phase change memory device is presented that includes a phase change resistance cell array and a cache register. The phase change resistance cell array includes a phase change resistor configured to sense crystallization changed depending on currents so as to store data corresponding to resistance change. The cache register is configured to store a plurality of data applied externally depending on a register write command and to simultaneously output the plurality of data to the phase change resistance cell array depending on a cell write command.
US07852658B2
Some embodiments include apparatus and methods having a memory cell with a first electrode and a second electrode, and a memory element directly contacting the first and second electrodes. The memory element may include a programmable portion having a material configured to change between multiple phases. The programmable portion may be isolated from the first electrode by a first portion of the memory element and isolated from the second electrode by a second portion of the memory element.
US07852657B2
The present invention relates to a method of programming an array of memory cells such as phase change memory cells. In this method, a selection is made between a first pulse configuration and a second pulse configuration, wherein the first and second pulse configurations are different, and wherein each pulse configuration can write at least two data states to the memory cells of the array.
US07852655B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device capable of realizing reduction in an SRAM unit cell area. Using as a standard configuration a parallel-type SRAM unit cell having each pair of load transistors, driver transistors and transfer transistors, all or a part of the gate electrodes and active regions configuring at least any one of the pairs of the transistors, for example, the pair of the transfer transistors are configured obliquely in a predetermined direction from the standard configuration. As a result, a size in a cell outside part including the driver transistor and the transfer transistor is reduced. At the same time, a distance between the load transistors in the central part is reduced as compared with that in the standard configuration. Thus, area reduction in the whole SRAM unit cell is realized.
US07852651B2
The object of the present invention is to reduce parasitic inductance of a main circuit in a power supply circuit. The present invention provides a non-insulated DC-DC converter having a circuit in which a power MOS•FET for a high-side switch and a power MOS•FET for a low-side switch are connected in series. In the non-insulated DC-DC converter, the power MOS•FET for the high-side switch is formed by a p channel vertical MOS•FET, and the power MOS•FET for the low-side switch is formed by an n channel vertical MOS•FET. Thus, a semiconductor chip formed with the power MOS•FET for the high-side switch and a semiconductor chip formed with the power MOS•FET for the low-side switch are mounted over the same die pad and electrically connected to each other through the die pad.
US07852650B2
An inverter capable of supplying power to utility grids of varying line voltages is described. In some examples, the inverter contains multiple output taps that are selected to output power to the utility grid based on the voltage of the utility grid. In some examples, the inverter includes a multi-pin connector that connects with one of multiple receptacles associated with a desired voltage configuration. In some examples, the inverter is capable of adapting to a defined line voltage in two steps.
US07852647B2
A switching power supply apparatus includes a transformer or an inductor, a switching element connected to the transformer or the inductor and configured to perform switching of an input power supply, and a switching control circuit including a digital control circuit configured to sample voltage values and/or current values and control on and off of the switching element in accordance with the voltage values and/or current values. The number of points of sampling is set to n or more points, where n is an integer greater than 3, in an ON period of the switching element except at around a turn-on point or a turn-off point of the switching element. The presence or absence of magnetic saturation of the transformer or the inductor is detected on the basis of whether or not a slope of change in current value over time is larger than a predetermined value, and circuit operation is protected from the effect of magnetic saturation. Thus, the presence or absence of magnetic saturation can be rapidly and precisely detected without the influence of switching noise.
US07852641B2
A power supply apparatus having multiple outputs, a transformer, a first output circuit generating a first output voltage with respect to power transferred to a secondary side of the transformer, and a first output controller generating a first control signal to control a power supply provided to a primary side of the transformer, the apparatus including: a second output circuit to generate a second output voltage with respect to the power transferred to the secondary side of the transformer; and a second output controller to control an output of the second output voltage, wherein the second output circuit includes a second switch performing a switching operation on current flows of the second output circuit, and the second output controller controls the switching operation of the second switch by turning off the second switch or feeding the second output voltage back to the second switch according to the first control signal.
US07852637B2
A one-piece expansion card retainer may be installed in either of two positions to accommodate both full-height and low-profile expansion cards. The bi-positional expansion card retainer exerts flexional force on an expansion card to help maintain the expansion card in its proper position during shipment of an electronic device.
US07852631B2
A heat sink assembly comprises a base consisting of an aluminum casting and a copper base plate, a heat sink consisting of heat fins, and at least a heat guide pipe; the heat guide pipe has a heat dissipation section passing through the heat fins; the aluminum casting has a hollow receiving space accommodating the copper base plate, and an elongated recess is disposed at the top sides of the copper base plate and the casting for placing the heat conduction part of the heat guide pipe; the copper base plate keeps contact the heat source and the heat transmits to the heat guide pipe and then is dissipated with the heat sink via the base rapidly. In addition, the weight of the heat sink assembly is decreased, and the manufacturing cost is reduced.
US07852615B2
An electrolytic capacitor that contains an anodically oxidized anode that is incorporated with an additional metallic element is provided. More specifically, the metallic element is built into the valve metal pentoxide of the dielectric layer. In one particular embodiment, the addition of the metallic element results in a niobium pentoxide dielectric that contains closely packed units of O atoms, Nb6 octahedral, and metal atoms (“A”) that serve as counter cations. The use of relatively small electropositive metal atoms (A″) helps fill the tetrahedral (e.g., Al, Si, Ti, Mg, or Mn), octahedral (e.g., Nb, V, Mg, or Mn) and trigonal bipyramid (e.g., V, Nb) interstices of the crystals. The stability of capacitor leakage current may be improved by variation in this crystal structure.
US07852608B2
An electrostatic discharge protection circuit and a semiconductor device that prevent the breakdown of a semiconductor device caused by an electrostatic discharge (ESD) which suddenly changes. When voltage which is far higher than VDD1 is applied to a power supply line as a result of an ESD, a great electric potential difference is produced between VDD1 and VSS. At this time an electric current path for making an electric charge generated by overvoltage flow to a grounding line is formed by a clamp circuit. As a result, an electric current flows into GND of a circuit block. This prevents the production of a great electric potential difference between VDD1 and VSS. In addition, at this time a rapid change in the level of the overvoltage applied to a signal line is suppressed by a protection circuit. This prevents the dielectric breakdown of gate oxide films of transistors included in a circuit block which receives a control signal.
US07852600B2
An apparatus and method for reading out data recoded on a tape with a read head is provided. A command processing unit receives a request for reading out old data behind EOD of new data. A channel input/output unit receives, data read out with a read head and a buffer managing unit receives this data. A header information determining unit determines whether this data includes header information of the old data. If it is determined that this data includes the header information of the old data, a data set determining unit determines whether a data set is extractable from this data. If it is determined that data set is not extractable, a move signal output unit outputs a signal for moving the read head in a direction of the new data.
US07852598B1
Systems and techniques relating to writing servo information on a machine-readable medium. A method of performing post-assembly operations in a recording apparatus, including a rotating recording medium, includes writing sloped tracks to the recording medium using a calibrated current profile, and writing servo information to the recording medium using the sloped tracks. An apparatus can include an input; an output; and signal processing circuitry coupled with the input and the output to control a transducer to write to a rotating recording medium, the signal processing circuitry including one or more control units configured to cause performance of post-assembly operations including writing sloped tracks to the recording medium using a calibrated current profile, and writing servo information to the recording medium using the sloped tracks.
US07852597B2
A storage medium driving apparatus includes a head slider opposed to a storage medium, an acceleration detector detecting an acceleration of the apparatus. A control circuit retracts the head slider from above the storage medium according to a result detected by the acceleration detector and selectively executes one or more operations from among a plurality kinds of operations according to an index that is derived from the result detected by the acceleration detector and represents an amount of an impact energy.
US07852590B1
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for easily, quickly and permanently decommissioning an electronic data storage device by thoroughly exposing the device to a strong field of microwave energy thereby eliminating any possibility of retrieving data from the device. The magnetron is operated as peak power and pulsed for the time needed to assure data destruction.
US07852588B1
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk, a head actuated radially over the disk, and control circuitry including a shock detector. The control circuitry is operable to detect a resonant frequency amplitude (RFA) of the shock detector, adjust the shock detector in response to the RFA, and take protective action in response to the shock detector.
US07852573B2
An image taking lens LA comprises an aperture S1, a first lens L1 and a second lens L2 which are arranged in this order from an object side to an image side. The first lens L1 has a positive power and a meniscus shape with a convex surface facing an object; and the second lens L2 has a positive power with a convex surface facing an image. The first lens L1 and the second lens L2 satisfy the following formulae (1) and (2): 0.30
US07852565B2
A color separation/combination prism is disclosed which has an optical film arrangement capable of performing color separation, light analysis and color combination. The prism includes four prism members and at least five optical surfaces as outer surfaces thereof. Each of the prism members has at least three optical surfaces including two optical surfaces which intersect orthogonally with each other at a first side thereof. The four prism members are joined together such that the first sides of the prism members are adjacent to or contact each other. Joining portions of the four prism members are provided with wavelength-selective polarizing films.
US07852564B2
Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a system, which can comprise a beamsplitter. The beamsplitter can comprise at least three distinct light reflection zones. Each zone of the three distinct light reflection zones can be adapted to cause light from one or more light sources to be reflected at a different angle relative to an axis of a camera.
US07852563B2
A lenticular lens medium forms a lenticular lens which comprises a plurality of semicylindrical-shaped or arc-shaped elongated convex parts. The lenticular lens medium has a volume resistivity of 1×107-1×1014Ω·cm and a surface resistivity of 1×108-1×1015Ω/□. The lenticular lens medium including the convex parts has a thickness of 0.3-3 mm.
US07852561B2
An optical compensation layer-attached polarizing plate including a polarizing plate, an optical compensation layer and another optical compensation layer that are laminated in this order, wherein the optical compensation layer has the relation nx1>ny1=nz1, including a resin with a photoelastic coefficient absolute value of at most 2.0×10−11 m2/N, and has an in-plane retardation (nx1−ny1)d1 in the range of 200 nm to 300 nm, the optical compensation layer has the relation nx2>ny2>nz2, including a resin with a photoelastic coefficient absolute value of at most 2.0×10−11 m2/N, and has an in-plane retardation (nx2−ny2)d2 in the range of 90 nm to 160 nm, a slow axis of the optical compensation layer makes an angle of 10° to 30° with an absorption axis of the polarizing plate, and a slow axis of the optical compensation layer makes an angle of 75° to 95° with the absorption axis of the polarizing plate.
US07852553B2
A microscope illumination apparatus, which has at least three kinds of light sources, each of a different emission wavelength region and a different figure and size of the light-emitting section, and supplies emitted light from individual light sources as illumination light for observing a specimen to the microscope body, includes collimator lenses converting incident rays into parallel rays, arranged on the exit sides of the individual light sources; a path sharing means introducing light emerging from the collimator lenses into a common optical path; an imaging lens, placed on the common optical path, forming images of the individual light sources introduced into the common optical path through the path sharing means at a common position; and an optical fiber placed so that the entrance end face of the optical fiber is located at a position where the images of the individual light sources are formed through the imaging lens.
US07852545B2
Improvements in an interferometric modulator that has a cavity defined by two walls.
US07852538B2
At the time of varying the angle of a scan mirror for varying the angle of incidence of a reference beam on a hologram recording material, the angle of a slit is also varied in conjunction, whereby the beam diameter of the reference beam is varied by the slit so that the irradiation range on the hologram recording material will be constant without being varied according to the variation in the incidence angle of the reference beam. This ensures that the area of irradiation of the hologram recording material with the reference beam can always be kept constant, even when the incidence angle of the reference beam is varied at the time of recording holograms by the angle multiplex recording system.
US07852536B2
A method for avoiding objectionable moiré in a color image can include identifying a problematic excitation angle associated with a problematic excitation in a marking process or in the color image and selecting a set of at least two halftone screens for rendering at least two separations of the color image wherein the set of screens is selected to avoid including significant screen fundamental, harmonic and beat frequencies at angles closer than about 1 degree of the identified problematic excitation angle. Halftoning the color image according to the selected set of screens avoids objectionable moiré associated with the problematic excitation.
US07852534B2
Apparatus and method for creating a preview image of an object. The apparatus includes an object type detecting unit for detecting an object to be previewed for determining whether the type of the object is text, graphics, and image, a color matching unit for converting a color signal of the detected object into an image forming color signal by using a color profile corresponding to the detected object according to the detection result of the object type detecting unit, and a preview image creating unit for creating and displaying a preview image for the object converted into the image forming color signal. Therefore, because the preview image is displayed on a monitor according to the type of object (text, graphics, or image), a user can predict the image forming result more accurately. Further, because the colors of objects can be adjusted, a printout with desired color characteristics can be obtained.
US07852526B2
In one embodiment, a sheet separator includes a bias that resiliently biases a first sheet engaging surface in a direction away from a second surface, wherein the second surface engages the edge of sheets upon movement of the first surface. In one embodiment, a method applies opposite forces to a stack of sheets, wherein one of the opposite forces varies based upon a characteristic of the sheets.
US07852509B2
An image forming apparatus includes (A) an image forming section, (B) a document reading section, and (C) a controller. The image forming section is for forming an image. The document reading section is capable of reading a document concurrently with an operation of the image forming section. The document reading section reads the document by successively shifting a reading position. The controller lowers a speed for shifting the reading position in the document reading section when the image forming section carries out a predetermined operation.
US07852507B2
An image description data processing method is provided for execution in an apparatus including a holding unit configured to hold image description data described in an image description language including one of a page description language and a structured language. The method includes acquiring first image description data from the holding unit; extracting a description of a first rendering command from the acquired first image description data; calculating the description of the first rendering command to replace the description of the first rendering command with a description of a second rendering command; and storing second image description data containing the description of the second rendering command in the holding unit.
US07852503B2
Before completion of a print process of a digital image, a user can be informed that a cable can be disconnected from a digital camera or printer, and that the digital camera is ready to photograph. To this end, a photo-direct (PD) printer transmits a JobDataDone command indicating that all digital images to be printed are received in a digital camera. Upon reception of the JobDataDone command, the digital camera displays, on a display, information indicating that a cable can be disconnected from the digital camera or PD printer.
US07852501B2
When a print processing apparatus is in a power saving mode, an information processing apparatus informs, for the print processing apparatus, the user that the print processing apparatus is in the power saving state. It can thus be made known to the user that the print processing apparatus is in the power saving state.
US07852494B2
A job processing method for an image forming system having an image forming apparatus capable of print-outputting additional information of a job on a sheet where image data of the job, stored in a storage unit capable of storing plural page job data, is print-outputted. Information related to an operating condition of the image forming apparatus is confirmed, and based on the information, the image forming apparatus is caused to operate in one of a first mode to print-output additional information, generated without an operator's intervention operation, on the sheet, and a second mode to print-output additional information, generated via the operator's intervention operation, on the sheet.
US07852493B2
There is described a method and an apparatus for the optical 3D digitization of bodies and body parts which reveal non-visible regions which therefore cannot be detected by the 3D digitizer. A mechanical aid is fixed at these regions and protrudes into the measurement space visible for the 3D digitizer. On this visible part, it is provided with marks and is digitized together with the remaining, visible body parts. From the spatial position of the marks of these aids, important geometrical information of the non-visible parts, such as the spatial position, circumferential dimensions, etc., can be calculated, and the 3D model of the body or body part incomplete at these points can be completed therewith. Two applications from the field of orthopedics are described by way of example.
US07852491B2
An environmental sensing device includes an interferometric modulator which permanently actuates, in a visually-detectable manner, in response to being exposed to a predetermined environmental threshold or condition. The device can include a reactive layer, coating, or proof mass disposed on a movable member of the interferometric modulator. The reactive layer, coating, or proof mass can expand, contract, bend, or otherwise move when exposed to a predefined chemical, level of humidity, temperature threshold, type of radiation, and/or level of mechanical shock, causing the interferometric modulator to collapse and permanently indicate such exposure.
US07852488B2
The invention relates to a structure characterising device comprising means which are used for generating a first pump radiation and a second probe radiation and for transmitting different wavelength radiation, means for producing a time offset between said first pump and second probe radiation on the structure by means of detecting means of said second beam after the reflection or transmission thereof to said structure in such a way that an analysis signal is generated, means for processing said signal and identifying an area corresponding to the signal jump, for determining the jump amplitude according to different wavelengths, for comparing said amplitude with a theoretical amplitude variation pattern according to the wavelengths and for determining, for the wavelength characteristic for said theoretical pattern, a characteristic value associated to the structure thickness and to the radiation propagation velocity in said structure.
US07852485B2
Interferometers and autocorrelator based sensors are disclosed that are configured to have multiple sample arms which can be scanned and the backscattered low coherence source light from a sample resolved in a single sweep of one or more variable delays of the sensor. Borescopes and catheters capable of scanning multiple sections or areas of materials and tissues using these sensors are described.
US07852484B2
A light control unit that combines and outputs a plurality of light beams, including: a light emission section capable of outputting three or more light beams swept in wavelength within different wavelength ranges from each other; a wavelength combining section having wavelength selectivity, that combines and outputs at least two of the three or more light beams; and a control section that performs control in the light emission section, or upstream or downstream of the wavelength combining section in the optical path of the light beams to cause at least one light beam is outputted during a time period which is different from a time period in which another one or more light beams are outputted, thereby two or more light beams having different wavelengths from each other are combined and outputted at the same time.
US07852483B2
Certain embodiments of the invention provide a light sensor comprising at least one interferometric element that absorbs light in at least one wavelength. The interferometric element comprises a first surface and a second surface substantially parallel to the first surface. The second surface is spaced a gap distance from the first surface in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first surface. The light wavelength absorbed is dependent on the gap distance. The interferometric element further comprises a temperature sensor. The temperature sensor is responsive to changes in temperature of at least a portion of the interferometric element due to absorption of light by the interferometric element.
US07852482B2
A sensor for detecting the presence of a target analyte, ligand or molecule in a test fluid, comprising a light transmissive substrate on which an array of surface plasmon resonant (SPR) elements is mounted is described. A multi-channel sensor for detecting the presence of several targets with a single microchip sensor is described. A multi-channel sensor including collections of SPR elements which are commonly functionalized to one of several targets is also described. The detectors sense changes in the resonant response of the SPR elements indicative of binding with the targets.
US07852475B2
A scanning optical spectrometer with a detector array is disclosed, in which position of focused spot of light at the input of a dispersive element such as arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) with a slab input, is scanned using a micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) tiltable micromirror so as to make the dispersed spectrum of light scan over the detector array coupled to the AWG. Sub-spectra recorded using individual detectors are concatenated by a processor unit to obtain the spectrum of input light.
US07852474B2
A spectral analytical unit for acting on a parallel light bundle having different wavelengths. The spectral analytical unit includes a diffraction grating on which the light bundle falls, the diffraction grating splitting the different wavelengths through diffraction in first spectral directions defining a light bundle diffraction order 1 without recycle, and the diffraction grating bending the light bundle in second directions defining a light bundle diffraction order 0 without recycle, a detector line made up of a plurality of elements, optics for focusing the split light bundle diffraction order 1 without recycle on the detector line, evaluation electronics connected to the detector line for obtaining data related to a created spectrum, and a deflecting device wherein the diffraction order 0 light bundle without recycle meets on the deflecting device which is so directed and positioned that this light bundle falls on the diffraction grating thereby creating a reflected diffraction order 1 light bundle with first recycle and a reflected diffraction order 0 light bundle with first recycle whereby the diffraction order 1 without recycle and the reflected diffraction order 1 light bundle with first recycle each of a part wavelength range are impressed through the optics on a single element of the detector line.
US07852473B2
An apparatus to measure spatially resolved the luminescence of a semiconductor sample, in particular a semiconductor wafer or any part thereof, includes a rotatable sample holder for the semiconductor sample. This rotatable sample holder is mounted on an xy stage, and a drive mechanism is used to rotate the sample holder rapidly during the measurement. A device excites luminescence light on the semiconductor sample, and an optical device guides a portion of the luminescence light to a detector. The surface of the semiconductor sample is located in the range of a focal point of the optical device. Using a fixation device, it is possible to remove the rotatable sample holder from the xy stage, when required, and to replace it by a cryostat with an optical window and a further semiconductor sample, so that the surface of the further semiconductor sample is essentially located in the focus point of optical device.
US07852468B2
A downhole refractometer apparatus and method include a light source, an optical fiber that receives light emitted from the light source and a fluid cell that receives a downhole fluid. A metalloid interface member is disposed to provide an interface with the downhole fluid in the fluid cell, and a light detecting device detects a light reaction at the metalloid interface member, the downhole fluid property being estimable at least in part based on the light reaction.
US07852465B1
A system for monitoring non-volatile residue concentrations in ultra pure water includes a nebulizer for generating an aerosol composed of multiple water droplets, a heating element changing the aerosol to a suspension of residue particles, and a condensation particle counter to supersaturate the dried aerosol to cause droplet growth through condensation of a liquid onto the particles. The nebulizer incorporates a flow dividing structure that divides exiting waste water into a series of droplets. The droplets are counted to directly indicate a waste water flow rate and indirectly indicate an input flow rate of water supplied to the nebulizer. The condensation particle counter employs water as the condensing medium, avoiding the need for undesirable chemical formulations and enabling use of the ultra pure water itself as the condensing medium.
US07852464B2
A method for measuring time of flight of radiation comprises emitting modulated radiation in response to a first modulation signal, projecting the modulated radiation onto a scene, receiving radiation, the received radiation comprising a first portion being the modulated radiation reflected by the scene and a second portion being background radiation, converting the received radiation into a signal on a conversion node, the signal on the conversion node having a first and a second signal component, the first signal component being indicative of the background radiation and the second signal component being dependent on the reflected modulated radiation, and determining the time of flight of the radiation based on the second signal component. A corresponding device is also provided.
US07852456B2
An exposure apparatus fills an optical path space of an exposure light beam with a liquid, and exposes a substrate by irradiating the substrate with the exposure light beam via a projection optical system and the liquid. A first optical element of the projection optical system is provided with a removing device for removing foreign matters in a space inside of the concave surface portion. Immersion exposure is performed by permitting the exposure light beam to excellently reach an image plane via the projection optical system and the liquid.
US07852451B2
A manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes forming an upper panel and a lower panel, applying a sealant to either one of the panels, adding a liquid crystal material within a boundary of the sealant, coupling the upper panel and the lower panel, and forming a sensor in an upper part of the upper panel. The LCD includes a lower panel; an upper panel that is coupled to the lower panel by the sealant; a lower resistance film that is formed in a predetermined region of an upper part of the upper panel; a lower contact electrode that is formed in a surrounding part of the lower resistance film; an upper resistance film that is disposed apart from and opposite to the lower resistance film by a spacer; an upper contact electrode that is formed on a lower surface of the upper resistance film that is opposite to the lower resistance film and that is formed in a surrounding part of the upper resistance film; an upper polarizer that is positioned on the upper resistance film; and a lower polarizer that is attached to a lower part of the lower panel.
US07852449B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes first and second substrates facing each other, a plurality of column spacers on at least one of the first and second substrates, each column spacer including first pattern second patterns, the first and second patterns being connected to each other, the second pattern having a contact surface less than the first pattern, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.
US07852444B2
A liquid crystal display with improved viewing angle and uncompromised transmittance is provided, along with a thin film transistor (TFT) array panel usable for such liquid crystal display. The TFT array panel includes a substrate, a plurality of gate lines formed on the substrate, a plurality of data lines formed on the substrate and intersecting the gate lines, and a plurality of thin film transistors. Each of the thin film transistors includes a gate electrode connected to one of the gate lines, a source electrode connected to one of the data lines, and a drain electrode. The TFT array panel also includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, each of the pixel electrodes connected to one of the drain electrodes and having a pair of oblique edges parallel to each other, and covering at least a portion of the drain electrodes.
US07852435B2
A conventional liquid crystal display comprises a number of components, so that a manufacturing cost cannot be reduced. Furthermore, a large-area substrate has problems in shipping. According to this invention, a liquid-crystal panel is prepared by forming individual optically functional films, a TFT device and a light-emitting device on a long thin film and then laminating the film by a transfer process. A base film to be a substrate in a liquid-crystal panel preferably has a thickness of 10 μm to 200 μm, a curvature radius of 40 mm or less as a measure of flexibility and a coefficient of thermal expansion of 50 ppm/° C. or less. Furthermore, it more preferably gives a variation of ±5% or less in mechanical and optical properties to a thermal history at 200° C.
US07852431B2
All of LEDs 12a-12d are switched on in a case of illuminating a main display 21 mainly. Thus, each LED 12a-12d has a lighting region 22a-22d respectively, thereby illuminating the main display 21 entirely. Central LEDs 12b, 12c in LEDs 12a-12d are switched on in a case of illuminating a sub-display mainly. Thus, each LEDs 12b, 12c has a lighting region 22b, 22c respectively, thereby illuminating the sub-display 21b.
US07852430B1
Light guide spacers for backlighting a reflective display. Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a reflective display assembly for an electronic device which is disposed above a backlight device. A light guide extends through the reflective display to conduct light from the backlight device, through the reflective display, and to a top surface of the reflective display. The display assembly may be used with a handheld computer system.
US07852416B2
A control device that interacts with an entertainment system. The entertainment system drives a speaker device. The control device has a user interface that receives a user input identifying an audio selection and a language. At least one module of the control device transmits a control signal adapted to cause playing of audio information corresponding to the audio selection in the language identified by the user input on the entertainment system. The entertainment system may in addition drive a plurality of speaker devices. The control device may receive an additional language selection and cause playing of the audio information in a plurality of languages corresponding to the additional language selection on the plurality of speaker devices. Also for example, the control device may drive a second plurality of speaker devices. The control device may be adapted to receive media guide information and/or language guide information and present such information to a user.
US07852414B2
The method is characterized in that it implements the following steps: random drawing of p candidates from the set of key images, calculation of a cost C for each candidate, selection of the candidate minimizing the cost C, determination of a subset from among the set of key images such that the key images forming the said subset have a distance from the candidate less than a threshold T, determination of a seed from among the key images of the subset such that it minimizes the cost function C for this subset, deletion of the key images of the subset to form a new set of key images for at least one new random draw and determination of a new seed according to the previous 5 steps. The field is that of the selection of shots of interest in a video sequence.
US07852412B1
Circuits, methods, and apparatus for measuring a video signal's noise level. The determination can be made based on pixel values for a single video image frame, for example, by comparing pixel color values, luminance, or other parameter for a first and second group of pixels in the frame. Each group of pixels may be part of a line in the frame, and several such measurements may be made along each line of the frame. These measurements can then be further refined depending on the measure noise level. Once a video noise level is determined, a decision on how to further process the video signal can be made. For example, the picture can be filtered or sharpened. The amount of noise filtering can be made dependent on the amount of noise measured.
US07852411B2
The gist of the invention is a subtitling format encompassing elements of enhanced syntax and semantic to provide improved animation capabilities. The disclosed elements improve subtitle performance without stressing the available subtitle bitrate. This will become essential for authoring content of high-end HDTV subtitles in pre-recorded format, which can be broadcast or stored on high capacity optical media, e.g. the Blue-ray Disc. The invention includes abilities for improved authoring possibilities for the content production to animate subtitles. For subtitles that are separate from AV material, the method includes using one or more superimposed subtitle layers, and displaying only a selected part of the transferred subtitles at a time. Further, colors of a selected part of the displayed subtitles may be modified, e.g. highlighted.
US07852400B2
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of preventing light diffraction from being caused by a density step or a thickness step of a filter, thereby preventing degradation of resolution during still image shooting, and securing the dynamic range of exposure control during both moving image shooting and still image shooting. In the image pickup apparatus, an image pickup element converts light incident thereon from a lens into an electric signal. A diaphragm mechanism changes the amount of light incident on the image pickup element. An ND filter covers an aperture of the diaphragm mechanism such that the aperture can be opened and closed, thereby adjusting the amount of light incident on the image pickup element after passing through the aperture. A controller controls a closing operation of the ND filter for closing the aperture, such that the closing operation is performed at different speeds between when a gradation portion of the ND filter covers the aperture and when a transparent portion of the ND filter covers the aperture.
US07852398B2
An image-taking apparatus which achieves focusing in a reduced time with higher accuracy of an in-focus position search in a TV-AF method to minimize occurrence of unnatural focus changes. The apparatus includes an image-taking element, a first detector which outputs a focus evaluation value signal based on a predetermined frequency component of an output signal of the image-pickup element, a second detector which outputs a detection signal different from the focus evaluation value signal, and a controller which performs first processing of obtaining information for an in-focus position search of the focus lens based on the focus evaluation value signal. The controller performs second processing of obtaining information on an in-focus position based on the detection signal from the second detector, and performs third processing different depending on a comparison result between the information from the first processing and the information obtained from the second processing.
US07852397B2
An image pickup apparatus has an image sensor recording image information; a dustproof glass for keeping hermeticity of the periphery of the image sensor, placed in front of the image sensor; an optical filter removably placed in front of the dustproof glass; and a camera mount placed in front of the optical filter. The image pickup apparatus further has a parfocal adjusting device in which a focal position where the optical filter is demounted can be adjusted so as to be nearly equal to the focal position where the optical filter is mounted.
US07852395B2
A camera includes a first image pickup section, a viewfinder optical system, a second image pickup section, a displaying section, an operation section, and a controlling section. The viewfinder optical system has an eyepiece section that can observe an optical image of a subject with a light flux from a photographing optical path of the first image pickup section. The second image pickup section photographs a view confirming image from an optical path different from that of the first image pickup section. The displaying section provides the eyepiece section with the view confirming image. The operation section accepts from a user a displaying operation to ask for displaying of the view confirming image. The controlling section switches between a first state to provide the eyepiece section with the optical image and a second state to provide the eyepiece section with the view confirming image.
US07852393B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a plurality of block lines to which signals are supplied from the pixels, transfer switches used to supply the signals from the block lines to a common signal line, and a driving circuit configured to drive the pixels, the block lines, and the transfer switches. The block lines have resetting units used to reset potentials of the block lines. With this configuration, a signal reading operation is performed at high speed in the photoelectric conversion apparatus.
US07852392B2
A scintillator layer for converting an incident radiation into a light having a wavelength detectable with a photoelectric conversion element is provided on a sensor substrate on which plural photoelectric conversion elements and switching elements are disposed via a flattening layer.
US07852391B2
An imaging system configured with readout circuit redundancy is disclosed. Pixel data from a particular column can be steered around a defective readout circuit to an operational readout circuit. Thus, larger imaging arrays which are generally more prone to common column circuitry defects are enabled. In addition, imaging systems configured with significant on-chip signal processing, which are also more prone to common column circuitry defects, are enabled. The occurrence of lost pixel data from an entire column is eliminated or otherwise reduced, thereby increasing overall operability and yield of the imaging system. The system can be implemented on a single chip or a chip set.
US07852382B2
A vertical zooming unit vertically resizes image data by a tap number m. A horizontal zooming unit horizontally resizes the vertically-resized image data outputted from the vertical zooming unit by a tap number n. A tap coefficient setting unit arbitrarily sets respective tap coefficients when the vertical zooming unit or the horizontal zooming unit is operated. A memory stores the image data therein. A memory controller controls input and output of the image data among the memory, the vertical zooming unit and the horizontal zooming unit.
US07852369B2
An omni-directional camera (a 360 degree camera) is proposed with an integrated microphone array. The primary application for such a camera is videoconferencing and meeting recording, and the device is designed to be placed on a meeting room table. The microphone array is in a planar configuration, and the microphones are located as close to the desktop as possible to eliminate sound reflections from the table. The camera is connected to the microphone array base with a thin cylindrical rod, which is acoustically invisible to the microphone array for the frequency range [50-4000] Hz. This provides a direct path from the person talking to all of the microphones in the array, and can therefore be used for sound source localization (determining the location of the talker) and beam-forming (improving the sound quality of the talker by filtering only sound from a particular direction). The camera array is elevated from the table to provide a near frontal viewpoint of the meeting participants.
US07852367B2
This printer includes a print head portion having a laser application portion emitting a laser beam, for performing printing by applying the laser beam from the laser application portion in a state bringing an ink sheet and a paper into contact with each other while transporting the ink sheet in a first direction and transporting the paper in both of the first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction.
US07852345B1
One embodiment of the invention is a method of accessing a bindable uniform variable bound to a buffer object that includes the steps of creating a linked program object comprising one or more shader programs, where each shader program includes instructions written in a high-level shader language, and where the linked program object includes a reference to a bindable uniform variable and indicates which shader programs use the bindable uniform variable. The method also includes determining a memory size to support the bindable uniform variable, allocating a buffer object having the memory size, binding the buffer object to the bindable uniform variable, populating the buffer object with values for the bindable uniform variable, and accessing the values of the bindable uniform with one or more of the shader programs in the linked program object.
US07852342B2
A server computer hosts one or more application programs that are accessed by a client computer. Higher-level graphics commands describing graphics images are received from the application programs. The server computer determines whether the client computer is able to generate graphics using the higher-level graphics commands or generates graphics using relatively lower-level graphics commands. The server computer sends higher-level or relatively lower-level graphics commands depending on whether the client computer generates graphics using higher-level or relatively lower-level graphics commands.
US07852336B2
By mapping leaf nodes of a spatial index to processing elements, efficient distribution of workload in an image processing system may be achieved. In addition, processing elements may use a thread table to redistribute workload from processing elements which are experiencing an increased workload to processing elements which may be idle. Furthermore, the workload experienced by processing elements may be monitored in order to determine if workload is balanced. Periodically the leaf nodes for which processing elements are responsible may be remapped in response to a detected imbalance in workload. By monitoring the workload experienced by the processing elements and remapping leaf nodes to different processing elements in response to unbalanced workload, efficient distribution of workload may be maintained. Efficient distribution of workload may improve the performance of the image processing system.
US07852333B2
A volumetric display apparatus, includes: a volumetric shape model having a side surface and an upper surface; a reflection mirror disposed at the side surface; a control device which stores image information of surface textures of the upper surface and the side surface; and a projector that projects an image of the surface texture of the upper surface onto the upper surface and which projects an image of the surface texture of the side surface onto the side surface via the reflection mirror, based on the image information from the control device.
US07852328B2
For a data input method and apparatus capable of latching data from a memory by using a clock of optimal timing, and a liquid crystal display device using the same, a clock of an optimal margin is set by reading out check data stored in a memory, and the check data read out from the memory is latched and generated according to the set clock of the optimal margin.
US07852326B2
A display method used for a display which has a backlight module suitable to provide more than M types of primary color lights, where M=3. The display panel of the display has an array of pixel regions. The display method provides these pixels regions to display multiple image data to be display in multiple frame times. Each of the image data includes (L1N, L2N, . . . , LMN) each representing the brightness of the M primary color light in each pixel region, where N is a positive integer. The backlight module sequentially provides M-1 primary color lights within any two successive frame times, so allow the image data to drive the pixel regions. The first and the Mth primary color lights provide the frame times for these two successive frame times.
US07852323B2
A touch screen control system comprising a touch screen (14) having first (50) and second conductive layers (52) arranged to be brought together by touching of the screen (14). A detection system (20, 30) is arranged to detect a contact position at which the screen (14) is touched by monitoring electrical signals from at least one of the layers (50, 52). The system further comprises an antenna (26), and the detection system includes a proximity sensing signal generator arranged to generate a proximity sensing signal to be transmitted between the antenna (26) and the first layer (50) via a user (40) of the system. The detection system is further arranged to receive the transmitted proximity sensing signal and determine therefrom the distance between a part (46) of the user and the touch screen (14).
US07852322B2
A portable computer includes a main body casing having an opening formed at a center part thereof, and a first panel and a second panel which are provided in opposite sides of the opening, a display part which displays an image through the opening, and a first input button group and a second input button group which are selected from a character input keyboard of a computer interface, and are respectively provided in the left panel and the right panel.
US07852321B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a direction detecting switch which can detect a key operation in every directions of 360 degree, can obtain an accurate click feeling, and can also detect a strength or a speed of the key operation.A direction detecting switch is comprised of a determining key arranged in a center portion; a ring key arranged so as to surround said determining key; a movable electrode arranged so as to be operative in accordance with an operation of the ring key; a fixed electrode arranged so as to face to said movable electrode; and a click operation body arranged in correspondence to said determining key, wherein a key top of said determining key and a ring key top of the ring key are arranged so as to be fixed onto a sheet-like rubber elastic member, wherein said click operation body is pressed in accordance with an operation of the determining key so as to open and close the contact point and is formed as a structure generating a click feeling, and wherein said click operation body is formed as a structure which detects a change of an electrostatic capacity generated between the movable electrode and the fixed electrode and converts the change into an electric signal so as to output, at a time of the pressing operation of the ring key in an optional direction of 360 degree, and a click feeling is always obtainable by pressing said click operation body.
US07852315B2
Systems and methods for a camera and acceleration based interface for presentations are described. In one aspect, a handheld device is utilized capture optical information. The optical information is then used to identify the location of a cursor that is presented on a display surface. While a user moves the handheld device, inertial information corresponding to the movement is accumulated on the handheld device. The optical and accumulated inertial information is used to modify position of the cursor with respect to the display surface.
US07852312B2
A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display panel, a lamp for emitting light to the a liquid crystal display panel, a timing controller for generating a lamp control signal to control a light-on time of the lamp, and an inverter for controlling a light-on and a light-off of the lamp according to the lamp control signal while limiting current and maintaining power supplied to the lamp regardless of the light-on time for the lamp.
US07852304B2
A driver circuit, display system, and method includes a driver circuit that provides driving signals to drive a plurality of display pixel elements arranged in a plurality of rows and columns and coupled to associated row and column lines, respectively. The driver circuit includes a plurality of driver units coupled to associated ones of the plurality of column lines, and a plurality of switching components respectively coupled between outputs of ones of the driver units coupled to adjacent ones of the plurality of column lines. The driver units control associated ones of the switching components to electrically couple the adjacent outputs of the driver units to make the outputs the same or substantially the same when display data signals received for pixel elements coupled to the adjacent column lines are the same.
US07852300B2
An exemplary apparatus embodiment provides a plurality of operating modes for solid state lighting, such as a flash mode and a constant or background lighting mode for use with devices such as cameras. An exemplary apparatus comprises a memory adapted to store a plurality of average current parameters; and a controller adapted to modulate an energizing cycle time period (“T”) for providing power to the solid state lighting as proportional to the product of the selected average current parameter (“a”) and a reset time period (“TR”) for an inductor current to return to a substantially zero level from a predetermined peak level (T∝a·TR). The average current parameter is predetermined as substantially proportional to a ratio of a peak inductor current level (“IP”) to an average output D.C. current level ( “ I O ” ) ( a ∝ I P I O ) .
US07852295B2
A plasma display device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode crossing the first electrode and the second electrode is disclosed. A plurality of first sustain pulses are applied to the first electrode and a plurality of second sustain pulses are applied to the second electrode during a sustain period of a first subfield. A voltage at the first electrode gradually decreases from a third voltage to a fourth voltage after the voltage at the first electrode gradually increases from a first voltage to a second voltage, during a sub-reset period of a second subfield being consecutive to the first subfield. The plurality of second sustain pulses includes a first group and a second group, the second group includes the last one of the second sustain pulses, and a second sustain pulse of the second group has a different characteristic (e.g., pulse width) from a second sustain pulse of the first group.
US07852289B2
A PDP driving circuit is comprised of a power recovery unit for recovering an electric power from a capacitive load by resonance operation with PDP which is the capacitive load Cp, and reusing the recovered power. The power recovery unit includes a recovery inductor for resonating with the capacitive load, a recovery switch element for connecting the recovery capacitor to the capacitive load and recovery inductor, and forming a channel for passing resonance current, a counterflow preventive diode for blocking flow of current in the recovery switch element in reverse polarity direction, and a protective diode for forming a closed current channel including the recovery inductor and recovery switch element when the counterflow preventive diode is changed from ON state to OFF state.
US07852288B2
A plasma display apparatus includes a display panel in which display cells are constituted at least by a set of electrodes including first electrodes extending in a first direction, second electrodes extending in the first direction, and third electrodes extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, a first drive circuit configured to drive the first electrodes, a second drive circuit configured to drive the second electrodes, a third drive circuit configured to drive the third electrodes in conjunction with successive scanning of the first electrodes, and a power-supply circuit configured to generate a DC voltage based on an AC voltage and to supply the DC voltage to the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit, wherein the power-supply circuit and a given drive circuit that is one of the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit are implemented on a single print circuit board.
US07852286B2
A data driver to display an image with desired brightness, and an organic light emitting display device using the same. The data driver includes a register to temporarily store external data; a voltage digital-analog converter to generate a data voltage corresponding to the data stored in the register part; a current digital-analog converter to generate a data current corresponding to the data stored in the register part; a buffer part to supply the data voltage as a data signal to pixels via a data line; a data control unit to receive a pixel current corresponding to the data voltage from the pixel via the data line and to control a digital value of the data stored in the register part; and a selection unit to selectively couple the data line with either of the buffer part or the data control unit.
US07852284B2
A computer system composed of a storage and control unit including components for receiving and processing input data signals and components for producing output signals based on the input data signals; an input/output unit including components for generating input signals and output components for providing a display based on output signals; and a wireless link between the units for conducting data signals from the components for generating input signals to the components for receiving and processing input signals and for conducting output signals from the components for producing output signals to the output components.
US07852276B2
An orientation-independent antenna presents a circular polarization characteristic to incoming waves such that these waves are detected regardless or polarization and angle of arrival. The antenna includes crossed vertical loops and a horizontal loop, with the loops being phased to provide the circular polarization characteristic. In one embodiment, the antenna includes a number of elements on the faces of a cube, or the elements are positioned on the surface of a sphere. In another embodiment, the antenna is given both a right hand circular polarization characteristic and a left hand circular polarization characteristic in two different channels to provide for double the data throughput.
US07852274B2
A mobile satellite communication trailer comprising a frame, an antenna assembly coupled to the frame comprising a feed boom, a reflector dish coupled to the feed boom, and at least one bumper coupled to the feed boom intermediate the feed boom and the reflector dish. A shock isolator is positioned intermediate the frame and the feed boom. The mobile satellite system further comprises at least three adjustable stabilizing legs providing rigid support for said antenna assembly when said antenna assembly is in a transmission position, said stabilizing legs being convertible between said transmission position and said transport position, wherein one of said at least three adjustable stabilizing legs is moveably connected to said trailer front portion and at least two of said at least three adjustable stabilizing legs are moveably connected to at least one of said satellite antenna assembly and said trailer frame proximate said satellite antenna assembly.
US07852266B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for collaborative location awareness based on weighted maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), which is configured to improve accuracy of location awareness between nodes in estimating a location of a blind node. The method includes exchanging location awareness information with a reference node and a location-estimated blind node among peripheral nodes when location awareness is requested, performing location estimation based on weighted MLE, performing location calculation by using the location awareness information and an estimate obtained through the location estimation, and providing location awareness results of blind nodes.
US07852260B2
This application is directed to a virtual radar target generator and a method of operating thereof. The virtual radar target generator includes a transceiver and a controller coupled to the transceiver. The transceiver includes a transmission antenna and is adapted to receive a signal transmitted from a radar antenna, store signal information representative of the received signal within a digital radio frequency memory, and transmit an output signal representative of a virtual target such that at least a fraction of the output is received by the radar antenna. The transmission antenna and the radar antenna are positioned within a space that is at least partially defined by a radome. The transmission antenna transmits the output signal toward the radome such that at least a fraction of the output signal is reflected toward the radar antenna.
US07852256B2
A flat panel antenna used at a wall in a through-the-wall CW radar application is spaced from the wall by a half wavelength to eliminate the effects of energy reflected by the wall back to the antenna. In one embodiment, a ½-wavelength dielectric absorbing material insert is placed adjacent the flat panel antenna, which allows the flat panel antenna to be pressed against the wall for antenna stabilization, with the index of refraction of the material desirably being 3.
US07852251B2
A digital radio system comprises a mixer and an analog-to-digital converter communicative coupled to the mixer. The mixer generates an intermediate frequency signal based at least in part upon a radio frequency signal and a local oscillator signal, wherein the intermediate frequency signal comprises a signal of interest having a particular bandwidth. The analog-to-digital converter generates a digital signal by quantizing the intermediate frequency signal using a sampling frequency that is greater than twice the bandwidth of the signal of interest and less than the frequency of the intermediate frequency signal.
US07852241B2
A demodulating apparatus includes a deinterleave processing unit applying deinterleave processing to supplied data for each of parameters necessary in executing deinterleave processing in a time direction, an acquiring unit acquiring parameters with which the data should be processed, and a selecting unit selecting, from the deinterleave processing unit, the data subjected to the deinterleave processing with the parameters acquired by the acquiring unit.
US07852236B2
An aircraft synthetic vision system (100) is provided for increasing data input to a pilot (109) during approach and landing flight operations, and includes a runway assistance landing system (114) and a plurality of databases (106, 108, 110, 112) which may include, for example, a terrain database (106), an obstacle database (112); and a validated runway database (110). The processor (104) detects the likelihood of an error in determining the altitude from at least one of the runway assistance landing system (114), the plurality of databases (106, 108, 110, 112), and identifies the error. The processor (104) further determines augmented coordinates, and a processor (104) generates symbology commands to a first display (116) for displaying a runway environment in response to data provided to the processor (104) from each of the runway assistance landing system (114), the plurality of databases (106, 108, 110, 112), and the processor (104).
US07852233B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for alerting a driver that a potential hazard is in the vicinity of the driver's vehicle. In general, activation signals transmitted from a vehicle are received at a potential hazard, and hazard signals are, in response, transmitted from the potential hazard to the vehicle. The hazard signals provide an indication of the potential hazard to the driver so that he may be aware of the potential hazard and react accordingly. The indication may be provided to the driver visually, such as on a display of the vehicle, and/or audibly, such as in the form of an audible alert issued by a speaker. The hazard signals may also include one or more characteristics of the potential hazard to provide more information about the potential hazard to the driver, such as the type of potential hazard and/or the degree of danger associated with the potential hazard.
US07852231B2
An electrical control system includes one or more master devices that are adapted to control the operation of one of more slave devices. The master and the slave devices are operably coupled by at least one radio frequency communication interface. The master devices are adapted to assign the slave devices to a delayed off mode of operation, define a time delay associated with each slave device, and activate the delayed off mode of operation. The slave devices include manually operated switches and are operably coupled to corresponding loads. During the delayed mode of operation, each slave device is adapted to delay a transition for the corresponding load from on to off by the time delay associated with the particular slave device.
US07852229B1
An excavation equipment alarm system for providing advance warning to an operator of an excavator of overhead obstacles. The excavation equipment alarm system generally includes a support member attached to the actuator, a guide tube attached to the support member, a guide arm slidably positioned within the guide tube, a mounting post attached to a distal end of a telescoping arm of the actuator and to the guide arm, and a magnetic sensor attached to the actuator to detect a distal end of guide arm. If the magnetic sensor detects the presence of the guide arm, then the warning unit is not activated. If the magnetic sensor no longer detects the presence of the guide arm, then the warning unit is activated to warn the operator of the excavator that the boom of the excavator may be at an unsafe height.
US07852227B2
The present invention relates to an electrically operated device for generating synthetic smoke and also to a hazard detector tester utilizing such a device. The device comprises a collapsible container provided with vaporisable liquid and a tube, one end of which is immersed in the liquid and the other end of which is provided with an electrical heater for vaporising the liquid in the other end of the tub in order to generate smoke. A peristaltic pump is used to pump the liquid through the tube.
US07852226B2
A detection system operating on a scalable Radiation Sensor Unit (RSU) data stream employs a detection module triggering an alarm based on fee dynamic temporal features of gross count. Two spectroscopic buffers, one holding a long-term background and one holding the integrated detection event data are passed on for identification. The detector data incorporates sets of counts measured at channelized gamma energies. Each multi-channel data set is reduced to highly accurate peak locations. The absolute energy of the peaks is determined using innovative techniques and the background peaks and other secondary peaks are eliminated to provide a concise list of corrected source peak locations and intensities. This, together with spectral region analysis results is used with pattern recognition algorithms to identify fee source isotope or combination of isotopes from a standard library.
US07852225B2
A driver alert system for the steering wheel of a motor vehicle includes a vibration module with an eccentric mass and a driving device for rotating said eccentric mass about a rotational axis. The vibration module is arranged such that the rotational axis of the eccentric mass is essentially parallel to the steering column axis.
US07852219B2
Container manifests are tracked using a radio frequency identification (RFID) contents reader affixed to a container in which a plurality of RFID-tagged items are disposed, the contents reader being configured to collect and store identification information from all of the tagged items; and using an active RFID tag emulator affixed to the container which responds to an external reader activation code by receiving the collected information from the affixed RFID contents reader, and by transmitting the identification information to the external reader.
US07852211B2
A mobile surveillance and/or security unit. The unit includes a trailer, a tower mounted to the trailer, a plurality of apparatus positioned on the tower, and at least one power source configured to provide power to the plurality of apparatus. In addition, at least one of the plurality of apparatus is a communication apparatus.
US07852209B2
An identification system combines RF identification tags with ambient condition detectors of a monitoring system. The tags could be carried by individuals in the region(s) being monitored to provide occupancy feedback to first responders in the event of an alarm condition.
US07852207B2
A method for providing power line communications in a multi-unit building is provided. One embodiment includes determining the quality of a communication link associated with each of a plurality of communication nodes, selecting one of the plurality of communication nodes based, at least in part, on the quality of the communication links associated with the communication nodes; and establishing communications with an external network through the selected one communication node. In addition, in some embodiments at least one of the communication links associated with the plurality of communication nodes includes a non-conductive radio frequency coupled segment.
US07852202B2
A display system includes a display device mounted on a vehicle, and a controller arranged to control the display of a plurality of pieces of information regarding the vehicle as an image in the display device. If a display fault occurs in a portion of the display device, the controller performs control to display the information displayed in the display fault area having had the display fault, in a normal display area performing a normal display.
US07852197B2
A method, system and computer program product for inhibiting detection of deactivated tags. The method, system and computer program product include receiving a signal that includes environment noise from at least one tag, extracting signal detection information that includes a signal detection energy value from the received signal, extracting signal deactivation information that includes a signal deactivation energy value from the received signal, and determining a failure to deactivate ratio that corresponds to the signal detection energy value divided by the signal deactivation energy value. Generation of an alarm event is inhibited upon the failure to deactivate ratio being less than the selectable threshold and generating a noise factor to adjust a selectable threshold.
US07852185B2
A transformer integrated on a die, the transformer comprising a set of conductive lines formed on the die within one layer and interconnected among each other so that no two lines belonging to any one winding are nearest neighbors. The set of conductive lines is surrounded by a magnetic material, which may be amorphous CoZrTa, CoFeHfO, CoAlO, FeSiO, CoFeAlO, CoNbTa, CoZr, and other amorphous cobalt alloys. The transformer may be operated at frequencies higher than 10 MHz and as high as 1 GHz, with relatively low resistance and relatively high magnetic coupling between the windings.
US07852172B2
A low-loss Radio Frequency (RF) switch for high-power RF signals. The RF switch includes a first-biasing circuit connected to a first transistor and a second-biasing circuit connected to a second transistor. The RF switch switches its output signal between a first input signal and a second input signal. The first transistor is in a conduction state and the second transistor is in a non-conduction state when the first input signal is to be conducted to the output signal. The first-biasing circuit biases the first transistor at a first voltage for increasing conduction of the first input signal and the second-biasing circuit biases the second transistor at a second voltage for decreasing conduction of the first input signal. Moreover, the second transistor is in a conduction state and the first transistor is in a non-conduction state when the second input signal is to be conducted to the output signal.
US07852162B2
Random number generators are used for entertainment in gambling, lotteries and video gaming devices. True Random Number Generators, as are now currently defined, must be actuated by a physical noise source, typically based on the uncertainty of the phase differences of a stable and an unstable autonomous oscillator. In this invention an autonomous random frequency modulated oscillator driven by a self contained pseudo-random number generator outputs three loosely correlated random binary streams. Included in the invention is a hardware method for proving wandering phase differences and also the existence of a colored random distribution of concatenated nibbles.
US07852161B2
An oscillator. The oscillator includes a first ring oscillator having a first plurality of inverters, a first plurality of capacitors each having a first terminal coupled to an output terminal of a corresponding one of the first plurality of inverters, a second ring oscillator having a second plurality of inverters, and a second plurality of capacitors each having a first terminal coupled to an output terminal of a corresponding one of the second plurality of inverters. A second terminal of the first plurality of capacitors is coupled to an output terminal of a corresponding one of the second plurality of inverters. A second terminal of the second plurality of capacitors is coupled to an output terminal of a corresponding one of the first plurality of inverters. The oscillator is configured to provide as an output a differential clock signal.
US07852158B2
An operational amplifier includes, between an input and an output of an operational amplifier (an operational amplification stage) 10, a feedback capacitor 34 connected in negative feedback, a phase control circuit 100 having a resistor element (a resistor unit) 30 connected in series to the feedback capacitor 34. Load capacitors (load units) 32 are connected on the output side of the operational amplifier 10 and driven by an output signal from the operational amplifier 10. In a case that the capacitance values of the load capacitor 32 and 33 are increased and the phase margin of the operational amplifier becomes excessive in comparison with the optimum value, a resistance value RO of the resistor element 30 is increased to control the phase margin of the operational amplifier so as to fall within the optimum range, and thus accelerated settling properties are realized. This invention thus provides a phase control circuit applicable even to a single-stage operational amplifier, and by enhancing the properties of the operational amplifier itself and enabling the phase margin to be controlled, realizes accelerated settling properties even in a case that a transient response is deteriorated.
US07852152B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a circuit comprising a plurality of operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAS) is described. The first OTA has differential input and differential output. The second OTA also has differential input, where a first output of the first OTA is coupled to the first differential input of the second OTA, which is an inverting input. A second output of the first OTA is coupled to the second input of the second OTA, which is a non-inverting input. The first differential output being coupled to a first input of the first OTA and the second differential output being coupled to a second input of the first OTA for negative feedback and current biasing.
US07852141B2
A circuit arrangement is described for selectively generating an analog current output value or an analog voltage output value as a function of an analog input value. Optionally, the analog current output value or the analog voltage output value may also be a function of an input base value or a signed input correction value. The circuit arrangement includes a current control unit, a voltage control unit, a current output source is triggered by the current control unit, and a voltage output source triggered by the voltage control unit. The current output source and voltage output source of the circuit arrangement may be triggered in parallel and are connected in series on the output side.
US07852140B2
An internal voltage generation circuit includes a level detection unit configured to generate a detection voltage corresponding to a voltage level difference between a reference voltage with an internal voltage, an oscillation signal generation unit configured to generate an oscillation signal having a period corresponding to a voltage level of the detection voltage, and an internal voltage generation unit configured to generate the internal voltage in response to the oscillation signal.
US07852133B2
A method for extending a tracking range of a PLL includes the steps of: establishing an initial tracking window of the PLL, the tracking window having a first width associated therewith; and dynamically adjusting the tracking window of the PLL within an extended tracking range when a frequency of an input signal supplied to the PLL is outside of the tracking window, the extended tracking range having a second width associated therewith which is greater than the first width.
US07852125B2
A switching circuit arrangement includes a field effect transistor and circuitry for biasing the gate voltage of the field effect transistor, e.g., forcing the gate voltage of the field effect transistor under a certain threshold. Reverse recovery and gate bounce are simultaneously mitigated. The biasing circuitry includes a biasing diode connected in series to the gate of the field effect transistor to bias the gate voltage of the field effect transistor. A clamping field effect transistor unit is connected between the gate of the field effect transistor and the source of the field effect transistor to force the gate voltage of the field effect transistor under a certain threshold.
US07852119B1
A cross-coupled inverter includes a first inverter and a second inverter cross-coupled such that the input terminal of each inverter is connected to the output terminal of the other inverter. A set signal is input to the gate of a first set transistor, and an inverted set signal is input to the gate of a fourth set transistor. A reset signal R is input to the gate of a first reset transistor of a reset unit, and an inverted reset signal is input to the gate of a fourth reset transistor thereof. The gate of the second set transistor and the gate of the third reset transistor are connected to the output terminal of the second inverter. The gate of the third set transistor and the gate of the second reset transistor are connected to the output terminal of the first inverter.
US07852112B2
A system for controlling the termination impedance of memory device data bus terminals is fabricated on the same die as the memory device. The system includes a termination resistor connected to each data bus terminal, which is connected in parallel with several transistors that are selectively turned on to adjust the termination impedance. The transistors are controlled by a circuit that determines the resistance of the termination resistor and turns on the correct number of transistor to properly set the termination impedance. In one example, the resistance of the termination resistor is determined by directly measuring a resistor of the same type as the termination resistor. In another example, the resistance of the termination resistor is determined indirectly by measuring parameters that affect the resistance of the termination resistor. In either case, the system can maintain the termination impedance of the data bus terminals constant despite changes in the termination resistor.
US07852109B1
A method and apparatus involves operating a circuit having a test circuit interrupt input terminal (INTERRUPT), having a test circuit clock output terminal (DUT_CLK), and having first and second operational modes. In the first operational mode the circuit supplies a test circuit clock signal to the test circuit clock output terminal. The circuit responds to receipt of an occurrence of a test circuit interrupt at the test circuit interrupt input terminal by then operating in the second operational mode. In the second operational mode the circuit refrains from supplying the test circuit clock signal to the test circuit clock output terminal.
US07852105B2
A winding diagnostic system is provided. The system includes a core having a winding to generate a magnetic flux. A retention device for holding the winding in place is provided. The system further includes a sensor disposed in a sensing relation with the retention device to generate signals related to at least one aspect of the winding.
US07852098B2
An integrated circuit includes a heating circuit configured to heat the integrated circuit under the control of a controller. A transfer function with adjustable pole, zero and overall gain is implemented in the controller such that a temperature response of the integrated circuit can be changed by adjusting one or more of the adjustable pole, zero and overall gain.
US07852095B2
A device and method are disclosed for electrical contacting of semiconductor devices for testing. One embodiment provides for testing semiconductor devices or integrated circuits, including a probe card with contact tips for the electrical contacting of the semiconductor devices. The electrical connection of at least one contact tip to the test system is adapted to be switched via a resistively switching memory cell. A resistively switching memory cell in the form of a nano switch is integrated in the electrical connection of the contact tip.
US07852093B2
Calculating resistance correction factors includes contacting the arms of a four-arm probe with a test sample; selecting a first set of first and second arms and a second set of third and fourth arms; applying a first current from the first arm to the second arm of the first set; detecting a first voltage between the third and fourth arms of the second set; calculating a first resistance using the first voltage and current; selecting a third set of first and second arms including no more than one arm of the first set, and a fourth set of third and fourth arms including no more than one arm of the second set; applying a second current from the first arm to the second arm of the third set; detecting a second voltage between the third and fourth arms of the fourth set; calculating a second resistance using the second voltage and current; and calculating a correction factor using the first and second resistances.
US07852089B2
A ground-fault detection system and method for detecting loss of electrical isolation in a vehicle or other system that uses a high voltage (HV) power net. The loss of electrical isolation may be determined by charging HV capacitors, then connecting them at different times between the power-net HV wires and the ground (or vehicle chassis), and measuring their remaining charge after a fixed period. The HV system can be regarded as properly isolated from ground or not as a function of the energy lost by the aforementioned capacitors during their connection to the HV power net.
US07852077B2
Methods and pulse sequences for facilitating nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements in grossly inhomogeneous fields. Methods and pulse sequences according to the invention may be used to accurately measure variables such as transverse relaxation time, longitudinal relaxation time, and diffusion, without the need for data at long recovery time, thereby allowing for faster measurements. In addition, methods and pulse sequences according to embodiment of the invention may allow simultaneous encoding of information in both the amplitude and the shape of echoes, so as to allow a single-shot measurement of multiple variables, e.g., both transverse relaxation time (from the decay of echo amplitudes) and longitudinal relaxation time (from the echo shape). CPMG detection may be used to overcome the often limited signal-to-noise ratio in grossly inhomogeneous fields.
US07852072B2
A test-device system and method for deconvoluting measurements of effects of a sensor-width definition process from measurements of effects of a sensor-stripe-height-definition process in a manufacture of a magnetic sensor. The test-device system comprises a first test device for generating data to characterize a sensor-width-definition process. The test-device system also comprises a second test device for generating data to characterize a sensor-stripe-height-definition process. The test-device system allows independent characterization of a sensor-width parameter and a sensor-stripe-height parameter.
US07852071B2
A control element is provided for a motor vehicle, particularly a rotary actuator, having at least one pivoted control knob, an extension formed on the control knob, and an electrical device to detect the rotary movement of the control knob, whereby the electrical device works together with the extension of the control knob, and whereby the electrical device is formed of at feast two oppositely polarized magnets connected torsion-proof to the extension and by at least two sensors held stationary in the control element and detecting the magnetic field lines of the magnets.
US07852069B2
An angle detector including an annular stator board (1); a plurality of stators (5) provided on the annular stator board (1) independently of one another and forming slots (10) at constant or various intervals; a magnetic core (11) formed on surfaces of the stators (5); stator windings (4) formed around the magnetic cores (11) and composed of excitation windings (4a) and output windings (4b); a magnetic flux return path plateau (12) provided on each of the surfaces of the stators (5) and provided inward or outward of the stator windings (4); an annular rotor board (6) provided on the magnetic flux return path plateaus (12); and a gap forming board (13) provided on an inner surface (6a) of the annular rotor board (6) and having a board inner surface (13a) whose protrusion state changes according to a waveform. The annular rotor board rotates to cause changes in a gap (14) between each of the magnetic cores (11) and the board inner surface (13a) of the gap forming board (13).
US07852061B2
An apparatus comprises a band gap voltage generator circuit for generating a band gap voltage. A temperature invariant current generator is located within the band gap voltage generator circuit for generating a temperature invariant current. A temperature invariant current correction circuit is located within the band gap voltage generator circuit and adjusts the output voltage responsive to the temperature invariant current without altering temperature characteristics of the temperature invariant current.
US07852056B2
A switching regulator includes an inductor, first and second switches, a first rectifier to allow current flowing from a negative voltage output terminal to a connection node between the inductor and the first switch, a second rectifier to allow current flowing from a positive voltage output terminal to a connection node between the inductor and the second switch, a third switch, a first capacitor connected between the negative voltage output terminal and ground, a second capacitor connected between the positive voltage output terminal and ground, and a controller to control switching operations of the first, second and third switches to make each voltages at the negative and positive voltage output terminals to be corresponding predetermined voltages. The control circuit switches the first and second switches on/off simultaneously to make a sum of absolute values of voltages at the negative and positive voltage output terminals a predetermined voltage value.
US07852054B2
An over current protection circuit for low dropout regulator comprises a sense transistor, a sense resistor, an operational amplifier and a first transistor. The sense transistor senses the current flowing through the power transistor. The sense resistor is coupled to the sense transistor and shares the same current flowing through the sense transistor. The operational amplifier outputs a control signal according to the voltage across the sense resistor and a reference voltage. The first transistor controls the power transistor according to the control signal.
US07852051B2
A current-limiting circuit for limiting switch-on currents or transients includes a switch, a diode, an inductance, an input with a first connection and second connection, and an output with a first connection and second connection. The second connection of the input is connected via the switch to the junction of an inductance and the anode of a diode and via the inductance to the second connection of the output. The cathode of the diode is connected to the first connection of the input and to the first connection of the output. The switch is preferably an electronic switch controlled to provide clocked current limitation.
US07852049B2
A dual channel power generation system comprises: a prime mover; a permanent magnet (PM) dynamoelectric machine that has a PM rotor coupled to the prime mover, two multiphase alternating current (AC) stators that develop electromotive force (EMF) in response to rotation of the PM rotor due to the magnetic flux linkage between the PM rotor and the stators, two control coils that each change the magnetic flux linkage of a respective stator in response to the level of a control current that passes through the control coil; a multiphase AC rectifier for each stator that receives AC power from its respective stator to supply DC power on a respective rectifier bus; a current feedback loop for each rectifier bus; a voltage feedback loop for each rectifier bus; a load-sharing controller responsive to both current feedback loops to develop a voltage regulator reference signal for each rectifier bus that is representative of the value of voltage that its corresponding stator should produce to maintain equal values of current for both rectifier buses; and a voltage regulator for each rectifier bus responsive to its respective voltage feedback loop and voltage regulator reference signal to produce the control current for its respective control coil that changes the magnetic flux linkage of its respective stator to maintain the value of voltage that its corresponding stator should produce to maintain equal values of current for both rectifier buses.
US07852041B2
The present disclosure is an energy-efficient rapid battery charger, using inductive windings rather than transformer to charge a battery. The apparatus operates with an AC power source rectifying a high voltage DC output or AC source transformed to a low DC voltage output. The control driver frequencies vary from several hundred Hz to thousand of Hz. A capacitor, inductor, and power line are arranged in a series parallel combination tank circuit that operates over the on and off time of a complete cycle. During on-time, the inductor is charged with electromagnetic power. During off-time, the electromagnetic power in the inductor discharges into the battery.
US07852038B2
An improved single-switch control circuit for use in a multi-phase switched reluctance machine is provided. The control circuit includes at least first and second phase windings, a switch, a capacitor, and a diode. The capacitor may have a polarity opposite that of a power source in the control circuit. The first winding may be connected in series with the switch and connected in parallel with a circuit block comprising the second winding. The second winding may be connected in parallel with the capacitor and in series with the diode. In operation, the switch may be used to redirect current from the first winding to the second winding. The capacitor can become charged by the redirected current until it eventually stores enough energy to essentially discontinue current flow in the first winding. Then, the capacitor can discharge its stored energy as a current through the second winding. In this manner, substantially all of the energy from the first winding can be transferred to the second winding.
US07852033B2
A driving control apparatus for driving a controlled object. The apparatus includes first and second interferometers, each of which (i) detects a position of the controlled object in a predetermined direction and (ii) produces a respective detection value. A control unit obtains a rotation amount of the controlled object based on the detection values produced by the first and second interferometers, at a predetermined measurement timing, to calculate a controlled variable based on the rotation amount and a target value, and to output the controlled variable. A generation unit generates the rotation amount based on a difference value between two average values, one being an average value of detection values that are obtained by the first interferometer between a first measurement timing and a second measurement timing, immediately after the first measurement timing, and the other being an average value of detection values that are obtained by the second interferometer between the first measurement timing and the second measurement timing. The generation unit outputs the generated rotation amount to the control unit at the second measurement timing.
US07852032B2
A selector selects an analog signal group to be used for PWM control out of a plurality of analog signals output by a PWM controlled load. An AD converter AD converts the analog signal group and generates a digital signal group that becomes control data for duty ratio setting in a duty ratio setting register to provide the generated digital signal group to a control unit for controlling a PWM circuit. A duty ratio comparison circuit compares duty ratios set by the plurality of duty ratio setting registers. An AD conversion channel selection circuit controls an analog signal group selecting operation by the selector based on a comparison result of the duty ratio comparison circuit.
US07852027B2
A method for testing a motor having a rotor and a winding is provided. The method includes steps of (a) providing a power to rotate the rotor to a predetermined speed, (b) removing the power, (c) measuring a terminal voltage of the winding while a current within the winding is zero, (d) obtaining a back electromotive force in the winding by compensating the terminal voltage with a performance of the rotor, (e) selecting a characteristic of the back electromotive force and (f) determining a magnetization of the motor by comparing the characteristic with a predetermined parameter.
US07852019B2
An electronic circuit exhibiting synchronization with an external synchronization signal, the electronic circuit comprising: an input connection arranged to receive a synchronization input signal; a triangular waveform oscillator operatively associated with the synchronization signal input connection and responsive to a condition of the received synchronization input signal to initiate a triangular waveform; and a pulse train generator operatively associated with the triangular waveform oscillator, the pulse train generator arranged to generate a plurality of pulse trains having a fixed non-zero phase relationship between them and a frequency responsive to the condition of the synchronization input signal.
US07852017B1
A lighting source ballast utilizes switching and control technology to convert an alternating current (AC) phase modulated dimmer input voltage into an approximately constant drive current to illuminate one or more light emitting diodes (LED(s)). In at least one embodiment, the state of the drive current conforms to a phase delay of the input voltage to facilitate, for example, dimming. The phase delay of the input voltage indicates a particular dimming level. The drive current varies for different dimming levels. However, the light source ballast controls drive current so that the drive current is approximately constant for each dimming level. In at least one embodiment, the ballast emulates a resistive load and, thus, the ballast has an approximately unity power factor. The switching frequency of one or more switches can be modified to spread the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation generated by the ballast.
US07852011B2
A series-type LED lamp strip module includes a first LED lamp strip module and a second LED lamp strip module. The first LED lamp strip module and the second LED lamp strip module both include a power switch controller, at lease one LED lamp strip, a signal output adaptor, a signal input adaptor, a power plug, and a power socket. The power plug of the second LED lamp strip module is inserted into the power socket of the first LED lamp strip module, and the signal output adaptor of the first LED lamp strip module is electrically connected to the signal input adaptor of the second LED lamp strip module so as to connect the first LED lamp strip module and the second LED lamp strip module. In addition, a microcontroller unit outputs a control signal to lighten light emitting diodes in different types to produce multiple brightness variations.
US07852010B2
A lighting device, comprising at least first and second current regulators, each switchable among two settings, and at least first and second groups of solid state light emitters. If the first regulator is in a first setting, a first current is supplied to the first group and a second current is supplied to the second group, and if the first regulator is in a second setting, a third current is supplied to the first group and a fourth current is supplied to the second group. In some embodiments, a ratio of the third current divided by the first current differ's from a ratio of the fourth current divided by the second current by at least 5%. Also, a method comprising substantially simultaneously adjusting current supplied to a first group, and adjusting a current supplied to a second group.
US07852008B2
A dielectric barrier discharge lamp lighting device includes a transformer that supplies a driving voltage to a dielectric barrier discharge lamp from a secondary coil, and a driving circuit that controls an input voltage to the transformer to supply a driving voltage with a driving frequency fd to the dielectric barrier discharge lamp. The self-resonant frequency fr of the secondary coil, which is measured with the primary coil of the transformer being open, is equal to the driving frequency fd or a frequency in the vicinity of the driving frequency fd. This frequency fr satisfies, for example, 0.9 fd≦fr≦1.3 fd.
US07852003B2
Plasma display panel having dimension relationship between width of electrodes and barrier rib pitch
A plasma display panel including a sustain electrode pair comprising an X electrode and a Y electrode that are separated from each other by a discharge gap, and a barrier rib formed on a second substrate facing the first substrate and including first barrier ribs and second barrier ribs that define a discharge cell. Assuming that L is a sum of a width of the discharge gap and widths of the X and Y electrodes, P is a pitch between neighboring second barrier ribs, and H is a height of the first barrier ribs, a value of H satisfies 200×L/P−25≦H (μm)≦200×L/P−5.
US07851990B2
A method for generating low color temperature light and a light emitting device adopting the same, comprise a LED component, phosphor capable to be excited by the emission light of the LED component, and a package colloid for encapsulating the LED component and the phosphor, wherein the package colloid is provided with a electrode lead for connecting the LED component with the external power supply, the peak wavelength of emission light of the LED light is 460-500 nm, the peak wavelength of emission light of the excited phosphor is 580-630 nm. The present invention only use one chip and one kind of phosphor to generate the low color temperature light which is of the same effect as that of the minitype tungsten lamp or the high pressure sodium lamp, and is of advantages including energy saving, low cost and environmental protection, etc. The present invention can be widely used in the manufacturing process of LED lamp of low color temperature, especially in the manufacturing the mini LED bulb.
US07851977B2
A component working with guided bulk acoustic waves includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a layer system between the first and second substrates. The layer system includes a metal layer and a dielectric layer. A ratio of the acoustic impedance of the metal layer to the acoustic impedance of the dielectric layer is greater than or equal to 4.5.
US07851975B2
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) structure and a fabricating method thereof are described. The MEMS structure includes a fixed part and a movable part. The fixed part is disposed on and connects with a substrate. The movable part including at least two first metal layers, a first protection ring and a first dielectric layer is suspended on the substrate. The first protection ring connects two adjacent first metal layers, so as to define a first enclosed space between the two adjacent first metal layers. The first dielectric layer is disposed in the enclosed space and connects the two adjacent first metal layers.
US07851973B1
A target object can be vibrated using actuation that exploits the piezo-electric (“PE”) property. Under combined conditions of vibration and centrifugal acceleration, a centrifugal load of the target object on PE vibration actuators can be reduced by using a counterweight that offsets the centrifugal loading. Target objects are also subjected to combinations of: spin, vibration, and acceleration; spin and vibration; and spin and acceleration.
US07851971B2
A method for fabricating a low frequency quartz resonator includes metalizing a top-side of a quartz wafer with a metal etch stop, depositing a first metal layer over the metal etch stop, patterning the first metal layer to form a top electrode, bonding the quartz wafer to a silicon handle, thinning the quartz wafer to a desired thickness, depositing on a bottom-side of the quartz wafer a hard etch mask, etching the quartz wafer to form a quartz area for the resonator and to form a via through the quartz wafer, removing the hard etch mask without removing the metal etch stop, forming on the bottom side of the quartz wafer a bottom electrode for the low frequency quartz resonator, depositing metal for a substrate bond pad onto a host substrate wafer, bonding the quartz resonator to the substrate bond pad, and removing the silicon handle.
US07851969B2
A driving device includes a plurality of laminated units formed by alternately stacking piezoelectric element layers and electrode layers, a failure detecting unit configured to detect failure of the laminated units, a plurality of switches provided corresponding to the laminated units and configured to enable and disable current supply to the laminated units, and a driving circuit configured to supply a current for driving to a normal laminated unit of the laminated units, on the basis of an output from the failure detecting unit.
US07851966B2
A stator for an electric machine, having compacted and bonded windings and a ferromagnetic core including an active element and a cooling element. The compacted and bonded windings are inserted in slots between teeth in the active element, and the cooling element mates with the active element at the tips of the teeth to close the slots over the windings.
US07851962B1
A motor apparatus has a housing, an outer stator positioned within the housing, an inner stator positioned within the housing and interior of the outer stator, a rotor positioned in the housing between the outer stator and the inner stator, a first squirrel cage affixed to an outer diameter of the rotor in spaced relationship to the outer stator, a second squirrel cage affixed to an inner diameter of the rotor in spaced relationship to the inner stator, and a shaft connected to the rotor such that the shaft rotates relative to a rotation of the inner rotor. The shaft extends outwardly of the housing. A power source is electrically connected to the outer stator and to the inner stator.
US07851948B2
A semiconductor device includes that a first power line supplied with first power supply voltage, a second power line supplied with second power supply voltage, a third power line electrically connected to a internal circuit; a first switch configured to electrically connect or disconnect the first power line and the third power line, a second switch configured to electrically connect or disconnect the second power line and the third power line, and a control circuit controlling the second switch to electrically connect the first power line and the third power line following a predetermined period after the first power line and the third power line are electrically connected each other based on the first switch.
US07851934B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling a wind turbine connected to the utility grid comprising steps of detecting a fault of the utility grid, and controlling one or more rotor blades in a fault mode wherein said one or more rotor blades are pitched in order to stabilize the rotor speed within an over speed range. The invention also relates to a wind turbine and a wind park comprising at least two wind turbines.
US07851923B2
A backside contact structure and method of fabricating the structure. The method includes: forming a dielectric isolation in a substrate, the substrate having a frontside and an opposing backside; forming a first dielectric layer on the frontside of the substrate; forming a trench in the first dielectric layer, the trench aligned over and within a perimeter of the dielectric isolation and extending to the dielectric isolation; extending the trench formed in the first dielectric layer through the dielectric isolation and into the substrate to a depth less than a thickness of the substrate; filling the trench and co-planarizing a top surface of the trench with a top surface of the first dielectric layer to form an electrically conductive through via; and thinning the substrate from a backside of the substrate to expose the through via.
US07851915B2
An electronic component comprising several superimposed layers of materials including a TiCN barrier layer. A process for depositing a TiCN layer in order to obtain an electronic component, where a titanium precursor is chosen from among tetrakis(dimethylamido)titanium and/or tetrakis(diethylamido)titanium and is decomposed on a substrate by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) where the plasma is obtained with a hydrogen-rich gas which can contain nitrogen with at most 5 atomic % nitrogen and at least 95 atomic % hydrogen.
US07851913B2
A semiconductor device exhibits a first metal layer, made of a first metal, with at least one contiguous subsection. At least one second metal layer, made of a second metal, is placed on the contiguous subsection of the first metal layer. The second metal is harder than the first metal. The second metal layer is structured to form at least two layer regions, which are disposed on the contiguous subsection of the first metal layer. The second metal exhibits a boron-containing or phosphorus-containing metal or a boron-containing or phosphorus-containing metal alloy.
US07851909B2
A circuit substrate has one or more active components and a plurality of passive circuit elements on a first surface. An active semiconductor device has a substrate with layers of material and a plurality of terminals. The active semiconductor device is flip-chip mounted on the circuit substrate and at least one of the terminals of the device is electrically connected to an active component on the circuit substrate. The active components on the substrate and the flip-chip mounted active semiconductor device, in combination with passive circuit elements, form preamplifiers and an output amplifier respectively. In a power switching configuration, the circuit substrate has logic control circuits on a first surface. A semiconductor transistor flip-chip mounted on the circuit substrate is electrically connected to the control circuits on the first surface to thereby control the on and off switching of the flip-chip mounted device.
US07851897B1
IC package structures for high power dissipation and low RDSon. The package can be considered an inverted QFN package typically manufactured from a double etched lead frame that is then formed (stamped) to receive the electronic devices for connection and wire bonding to the lead frame leads, followed by potting and dicing. Using a split paddle allows the packaging of multiple, electrically isolated power devices. The package is particularly advantageous for packaging vertical power MOSFET devices. Various embodiments are disclosed.
US07851896B2
A Quad Flat Non-leaded (QFN) chip package including a patterned conductive layer, a first solder resist layer, a chip, a plurality of bonding wires and a molding compound is provided. The patterned conductive layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The first solder resist layer is disposed on the first surface, wherein a part of the first surface is exposed by the first solder resist layer. The chip is disposed on the first solder resist layer, wherein the first solder resist layer is between the patterned conductive layer and the chip. The bonding wires are electrically connected to the chip and the patterned conductive layer exposed by the first solder resist layer. The molding compound encapsulates the pattern conductive layer, the first solder resist layer, the chip and the bonding wires.
US07851894B1
A semiconductor package has a first substrate having a plurality of metal traces. At least one die is electrically coupled to the first surface of the first substrate. A plurality of land pads is formed on the first surface of the first substrate. A mold compound encapsulates portions of the die and portions of the first surface of the first substrate. A conductive coating is applied to the mold compound and electrically coupled to at least one metal trace. A non-conductive coating is formed over the conductive coating and portions of the mold compound. A plurality of vias is formed through the non-conductive coating and the mold compound to expose the land pads.
US07851892B2
A semiconductor memory device has a substrate having a semiconductor layer, an n-type semiconductor region formed beneath a main surface of the semiconductor layer, a plurality of cell gates being aligned at a space from each other and including a gate insulating film formed on the main surface of the semiconductor layer, a charge storage layer formed on the gate insulating film, a charge block layer formed on the charge storage layer and a control gate electrode formed on the charge block layer, an insulating film between cells formed on the main surface of the semiconductor layer between the cell gates, and a carbon accumulation region formed in the insulating film between the cells and has a maximum concentration of a carbon element in a region within 2 nm from an interface between the semiconductor layer and the insulating film between the cells.
US07851891B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a first insulating film on a semiconductor substrate; removing part of the first insulating film; forming a second insulating film having a leakage current density higher than that of the first insulating film on a region where the part of the first insulating film has been removed on the semiconductor substrate; forming an undoped semiconductor film on the first and second insulating films; implanting an impurity into part of the undoped semiconductor film, thereby defining semiconductor regions of a first conductivity type dotted as discrete islands; forming a third insulating film on the semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type and the undoped semiconductor film; and removing part of the third insulating film by wet etching. At least the second insulating film is formed under the semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type.
US07851890B2
By a non-selective epitaxial growth method, an SiGe film is grown on the whole surface of a silicon oxide film so as to cover an inner wall of a base opening. Here, such film forming conditions are selected that, inside the base opening, a bottom portion is formed of single crystal, other portions such as a sidewall portion are formed of polycrystalline, and a film thickness of the sidewall portion is less than or equal to 1.5 times the film thickness of the bottom portion. In this non-selective epitaxial growth, monosilane, hydrogen, diborane, and germane are used as source gases. Then, flow rates of monosilane and hydrogen are set to 20 sccm and 20 slm respectively. Also, a growth temperature is set to 650° C., a flow rate of diborane is set to 75 sccm, and a flow rate of germane is set to 35 sccm.
US07851886B2
The present invention provides a thin and bendable semiconductor device utilizing an advantage of a flexible substrate used in the semiconductor device, and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device has at least one surface covered by an insulating layer which serves as a substrate for protection. In the semiconductor device, the insulating layer is formed over a conductive layer serving as an antenna such that the value in the thickness ratio of the insulating layer in a portion not covering the conductive layer to the conductive layer is at least 1.2, and the value in the thickness ratio of the insulating layer formed over the conductive layer to the conductive layer is at least 0.2. Further, not the conductive layer but the insulating layer is exposed in the side face of the semiconductor device, and the insulating layer covers a TFT and the conductive layer. In addition, a substrate covering an element formation layer side is a substrate having a support on its surface is used in the manufacturing process.
US07851884B2
A FET exhibiting excellent uniformity and productivity and having a low noise figure and high associated gain as high-frequency performance, a semiconductor chip having this FET and a semiconductor device having the semiconductor chip. The FET includes a GaAs substrate on which are built up an i-type GaAs layer, an i-type InGaAs two-dimensional electron gas layer and an n-type AlGaAs electron supply layer. A gate electrode is provided on and in linear Schottky contact with the n-type AlGaAs electron supply layer. A n-type InGaP etching stop layer and then an n-type GaAs contact layer at the same lateral position are built up on the n-type AlGaAs electron supply layer, these being spaced away from both sides of the gate electrode. A source electrode and a drain electrode are provided on the n-type GaAs contact layer and are spaced away from edges of the contact layer as electrodes that make band-shaped ohmic contact.
