US07992211B2
A method of authorising conditional access to an encrypted digital data product, includes storing at least one set of entitlements in a secure device, each entitlement including a product identifier and expiry information, receiving entitlement control messages from a decoder system including a device for decrypting encrypted digital data products using control words, each entitlement control message including a product identifier, and in a first mode, returning at least one control word in response to an entitlement control message including a product identifier if the product identifier corresponds to a product identifier in a stored entitlement including expiry information indicating the entitlement to be valid, and, in a second mode, progressively adjusting a counter to a pre-determined value and returning at least one control word in response also to entitlement control messages including a product identifier if the product identifier corresponds to a product identifier in a stored entitlement including expiry information indicating expiry of the entitlement and if the counter is at a value between an initial value and the pre-determined value. The counter is set to an initial value to commence operation in the second mode upon receiving an entitlement control message including a product identifier corresponding to a product identifier in a stored entitlement that includes expiry information indicating expiry of the entitlement.
US07992207B2
A method for curing a virus of data used in a mobile terminal communicating with a server through a mobile communication network is provided. The method includes forming an antivirus program database on the server and continuously updating the database with antivirus programs; comparing state information of object data requiring virus checking by the updated antivirus programs among existing data stored in the mobile terminal with state information of the updated antivirus programs; and checking and curing the virus of the object data selectively.
US07992201B2
Dynamically selecting an endpoint for a tunnel into an enterprise computing infrastructure. A client dynamically selects a gateway (which may alternatively be referred to as a boundary device or server) as a tunnel endpoint for connecting over a public network (or, more generally, an untrusted network) into an enterprise computing infrastructure. The selection is made, in preferred embodiments, according to least-cost routing metrics pertaining to paths through the enterprise network from the selected gateway to a destination host. The least-cost routing metrics may be computed using factors such as the proximity of selectable tunnel endpoints to the destination host; stability or redundancy of network resources for this gateway; monetary costs of transmitting data over a path between the selectable tunnel endpoints and destination host; congestion on that path; hop count for that path; and/or latency or transmit time for data on that path.
US07992190B2
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that provide a centralized model to assign, monitor, and manage security on home electronic devices. A three-dimensional security matrix uses a role-based model that allows users to map security into groupings. Users can be assigned security levels based on application role (what activity is involved), user role (what each family member or guest is allowed to do), and device role (what this device is allowed to do while preserving system integrity). An authorization service determines whether a particular activity requested by the user should be granted or denied based upon whether the user has authorization to access the particular activity and whether the particular device can support the particular activity without comprising the security of the network.
US07992189B2
A system and method for authorization to adaptively control access to a resource, comprising the steps of providing for the mapping of a principal to at least one role, wherein the at least one role is hierarchically related to the resource; providing for the evaluation of a policy based on the at least one role; and providing for the determination of whether to grant the principal access to the resource based on the evaluation of the policy.
US07992181B2
An information presentation system includes an imaging unit, a peripheral information acquisition unit which acquires peripheral information, a storage unit which stores registered information, an analytic basic information construction unit which constructs analytic basic information from the registered information stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the peripheral information acquired in the peripheral information acquisition unit, a pertinent information acquisition unit which acquires information pertinent to the image from the image obtained from the imaging unit and the analytic basic information obtained from the analytic basic information construction unit, and a presentation unit which presents the pertinent information acquired in the pertinent information acquisition unit. The analytic basic information construction unit changes the analytic basic information on the basis of at least one of a time, date, season, weather, temperature, humidity, place, surrounding brightness, average color/color distribution of the acquired image, surrounding sound and model.
US07992178B1
Process for receiving files sent by a central server to an audiovisual data reproduction system, managed by an operating system and linked to the server, by means of a data transfer link, characterised in that the process comprises: a step consisting of initialising a link between the central server and an audiovisual data reproduction system, a step consisting of storing files sent by the central server on storage means of the audiovisual data reproduction system, each file comprising specified information representative of the type of data contained in the file, a step consisting of searching, for each file received, a specific reception function, this search step being carried out by means of the specified information representative of the type of data contained in the file, a step consisting of processing each file by the corresponding reception function, the processing comprising copying of the file received to a specified storage area.
US07992176B2
An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data interfaces for effectively performing a wireless network transmission process. A transmitted stream from the wireless television system may be received via wireless network processing for viewing local-area network data, wide-area network data (such as Internet data), or television data by flexibly utilizing various electronic devices such as a notepad personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a handheld TV remote control device.
US07992160B2
In a motor including a chucking device for detachably holding a disk, the chucking device has a center case to which a central opening of the disk is inserted; resilient members received within the center case; and claw members for holding the disk in place. Each of the claw members has a claw portion having a disk holding surface for holding the disk in place and a pair of wing portions extending radially inwardly from the claw portion. Further, each of the wing portions has a spherical contact surface contacting with a underlying part arranged axially below the wing portions.
US07992158B2
According to one aspect, an optical recording and/or reproducing device for reading and/or writing an optical disc includes a base, optical pickup head, and a moving mechanism for slidably moving the optical pickup head. The moving mechanism includes a worm gear, a motor for rotating the worm gear, and a rack disposed between the worm gear and the optical pickup head for transferring motion from the worm gear to the optical pickup head. The rack includes a fastening portion for fixing the rack to the optical pickup head, an engaging portion for engaging with the worm gear, a restricting portion connected to the engaging portion for preventing the engaging portion from running out of the worm gear, and a connecting portion for connecting the fastening portion with the restricting portion.
US07992143B2
The system and methods of the present application comprise one or more computers that generate and maintain a plurality of software-simulated computers. Each software-simulated computer is adapted to efficiently run an installed application program. Additional security layers provide access to the installed application through a remote user interface installed on a user's computing device. The system generates a new copy of the software-simulated computer for each user session, that prevents configuration problems from interfering with the proper operation of the application program, thereby consistently running the application in an optimized fashion, regardless of changes made to the software-simulated computer by the user or a virus. These software-simulated computers are unaffected by changes a user makes on their own client device. To this end, the system provides robust, web accessible capabilities to application software that may not have been adapted for use on the Internet.
US07992140B2
A compiler supporting a language in which selected semantic objects are represented as data objects. The data objects may be used in multiple ways to expand the capabilities of the programming language. Data objects may be passed to applications and used to create executable instructions for that application. In this way, instructions written in the native language of the compiler may be used to control applications that accept programs in a language inconsistent with the native language of the compiler. The syntax checking and variable binding capabilities of the compiler may be used for those instructions that will be executed by an application separate from the object code generated by the compiler. The semantic objects represented as data objects may be selected based on express operations included in the source code or may be based on implicit type conversion.
US07992133B1
Techniques are disclosed for debugging heterogeneous applications in a distributed environment. In one embodiment, an architecture for debugging heterogeneous applications in a distributed environment is configured to enable both location transparency and dynamic exposure of service state. Regardless of where the physical application state resides, the architecture describes or otherwise provides a mechanism that allows seamless debugging and troubleshooting of distributed applications. The location of the state is transparent to the debugger and the application being debugged. In addition, the architecture enables an individual service to expose its state dynamically at run-time. It is possible for the service to expose its state in a self-describing fashion, allowing service state to be exposed in the architecture regardless of the service environment. The architecture allows for all the capabilities of debuggers running in non-distributed, homogeneous environments in a distributed heterogeneous environment.
US07992129B2
A user may utilize a prototyping environment to create a sequence of motion control, machine vision, and/or data acquisition (DAQ) operations, e.g., without needing to write or construct code in any programming language. For example, the environment may provide a graphical user interface (GUI) enabling the user to develop/prototype the sequence at a high level, by selecting from and configuring a sequence of operations using the GUI. The prototyping environment application may then be operable to automatically, i.e., programmatically, generate graphical program code implementing the sequence. For example, the environment may generate a standalone graphical program operable to perform the sequence of operations.
US07992125B2
Method and system for simulating state retention of an RTL design are disclosed. The method includes receiving a netlist description of the circuit represented in a register-transfer-level (RTL) design environment, receiving power information specifications of the circuit, identifying one or more power domains of the circuit using the netlist description and the power information specifications, associating the one or more power domains and the power information specifications in the RTL design environment, where the one or more power domains are controlled by a set of power control signals through a power manager logic, and simulating state retention behavior in response to variations in power applied to the power domain.
US07992122B1
A method, algorithm, software, architecture and/or system for placing circuit blocks and routing signal paths or connections between the circuit blocks in a circuit design is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of placing and routing can include: (i) routing signal paths in one or more upper metal layers for connecting circuit blocks; (ii) adjusting the circuit blocks based on electrical characteristics of the signal paths; and (iii) routing in one or more lower metal layers connections between the circuit blocks and the upper layers. The circuit blocks can include standard cells, blocks, or gates configured to implement a logic or timing function, other components, and/or integrated circuits, for example. Embodiments of the present invention can advantageously reduce power consumption and improve timing closure in an automated place-and-route flow.
US07992105B2
A system, process and logic element are provided which can generate and manage an application framework by simultaneously managing the graphical user interface structures and corresponding data structures. In addition, it is possible to produce at least one list data structure which corresponds to the composite pattern data structure using an in-order sequencing procedure. At least one composite pattern data structure can be created from the corresponding list data structure based on such in-order sequencing procedure. The list data structure can be recorded in a database, a file and/or a persistence data storage arrangement. The copy of the composite pattern data structure and the corresponding instance thereof can be modified without affecting the original version of the composite pattern data structure as it existed prior to the modification.
US07992103B2
A method and system are provided for displaying icons in accordance with user preferences. The method includes providing a user with a size selection mechanism for selecting an icon size from a range of sizes. The method additionally includes searching a set of stored resources related to the underlying file and generating the icon in the selected size based upon the stored resources. The method may additionally include selecting an icon type including one of an image icon, a detail icon and a generic icon based on at least one of the user's size selection and the represented file. Furthermore, the icon display system of the invention positions labels and overlays in the vicinity of the icon based upon the selected size of the icon.
US07992100B2
Systems and methods for generating images of respective patients from multi-dimensional medical image data sets include a processor circuit in communication with a display having a graphic user interface (GUI), the processor circuit configured to define at least one grouping of a subset of slices selected from slices in a medical data stack, then generate and display at least one slabbed view based on the at least one grouping of slices.
US07992092B2
An information processing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a plurality of objects, a first movement unit configured to move one or more of the plurality of objects to one or more movement destination areas on the display unit in response to a user's operation, a determination unit configured to determine an extractive selection condition from incidental information of the object moved by the first movement unit, an extractive selection unit configured to select one or more from among the plurality of objects based on the extractive selection condition determined by the determination unit, and a second movement unit configured to move, to the movement destination area, one or more objects selected by the extractive selection unit.
US07992078B2
A computer readable storage medium comprises a publication definition module to create and define properties for a publication object. The publication definition module includes executable instructions to associate a set of static documents and a set of report templates with the publication object. Executable instructions define a conditional delivery rule for the publication object. The conditional delivery rule specifies a condition for the inclusion of a report template from the set of report templates to be merged with a static document from the set of static documents.
US07992072B2
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a determination is made that a first data array in a plurality of data arrays has to be repaired to replace a failed storage device within the first data array. A storage device is selected from a selected data array of the plurality of data arrays to replace the failed storage device, wherein a data value corresponding to the selected data array is less than the data value corresponding to the first data array.
US07992067B1
Methods and apparatus for coding a digital data string to represent a sequence of acoustic frequencies to be transmitted as an acoustic signal by a genuine acoustic authentication device; related to providing for improving the rate of successfully detecting a valid data string contained in the acoustic signal transmitted by the device. Each of a plurality of groups of bits of the data string are coded to represent a respective frequency value set of one or more acoustic frequencies to be transmitted acoustically to represent the respective group of bits. The number of acoustic frequencies in a frequency value set is less than the number of bits in the respective group of bits that the frequency value set represents. For each of the plurality of groups of bits of the data string, the respective frequency value set is selected according to a predetermined frequency assignation pattern that provides for probabilistic transition coding used for error correction of the acoustic signal.
US07992066B2
A method of encoding and decoding using an LDPC code is disclosed, by which encoding and decoding performance can be enhanced and which can be effectively applied to a communication system employing a variable data rate. In encoding or decoding an input data using a parity check matrix H, the present invention is characterized in that the parity check matrix H has a configuration of H=[HdI Hp] (H is (n−k)×n dimensional, k is a bit number of the input data, and n is a bit number of a codeword), wherein the parity check matrix H includes a first part having a column weight of wc and a second part having a column weight of Wc+Wa (Wa/Wc≠0).
US07992062B2
A logic device includes a data input, a scan test input, a clock demultiplexer, and a master latch. The clock demultiplexer is responsive to a clock input to selectively provide a first clock output and a second clock output. The master latch is coupled to the data input and to the scan test input and includes an output. The master latch is responsive to the first clock output of the clock demultiplexer and the second clock output of the clock demultiplexer to selectively couple the data input or the scan test input to the output.
US07992057B2
A recording medium and a method and apparatus for managing a defective area on the recording medium are provided. The method includes detecting an existence of a defective area within the data area of the recording medium; replacing the defective area with a replacement area in the spare area if the defective area is detected; writing in the spare area defect management information which cumulatively includes defect list information associated with the defective area detected in the step (a) and any defect list information previously written in the recording medium; and writing onto the recording medium positional information of the defect management information.
US07992052B2
A data processing system and method includes a data processor and memory that are coupled to debug circuitry that generates debug messages including address translation trace messages. A memory management unit (MMU) includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) for implementing address translation to translate addresses between virtual and physical forms. The debug circuitry includes message generation circuitry coupled to the MMU for receiving notice when TLB entries are modified and generating both an address translation trace message and a corresponding program correlation message containing at least one of branch history information and instruction count information. The branch history information is a history of direct branch instructions that are executed and whether, when executed, the direct branch instructions were taken. The instruction count information is a count of one or more data processing instructions executed up to a point in time when a new TLB entry is established in the TLB.
US07992050B2
A method and apparatus for comparing two computing platforms installed with instances of an application, a portal or another computerized unit, wherein one computerized unit malfunctions when executed by the corresponding computing platform.The method and apparatus query the two computing platforms and the two instances for a multiplicity of values associated with a multiplicity of parameters that may influence the functionality, compare the parameter values and report the differences to a user, in order to enable the user to locate the root cause of the problem. The parameters may relate to the instances as well as to the computing platforms and their environment.The parameter retrieval and comparison can be performed by the apparatus, or by components of the instances for handling proprietary data types.
US07992043B2
A breakpoint packet is dispatched to a Network On A Chip (NOC). The breakpoint packet instructs one or more specified nodes on the NOC to place the specified nodes, or a core or hardware thread within a specified node, to execute in “single step” mode, in order to enable a debugging of a work packet that is dispatched to the specific node.
US07992035B2
A response of a disk device during rebuild can be sped up. A disk array control device determines whether or not there is a normal read request during rebuild. If there is a read request during rebuild, data is read by sequentially switching a plurality of disk devices in a certain block size unit lower than a block size in which each disk device reads data during normal read.
US07992033B2
Corrective actions are managed for differing preferences among multiple sharing customers by a repository inquirer which, responsive to receipt of a fault event or out-of-limits condition for a shared resource of a first computing system domain, queries a customer requirements repository, determines affected application programs for the customers sharing the resource, determines affected customers on behalf of which affected application programs are being executed, and by a preference extractor which, responsive to the inquirer, extracts preferences for each affected application programs; and a corrective action instigator which, responsive to the extractor, performs two or more corrective actions according to the extracted preferences, wherein the corrective actions comprise at least two different actions, and wherein at least one corrective action comprises moving execution of an application program from a first computing system to a second computing system.
US07992027B2
The power supply device of the present invention supplies power individually to a plurality of disk drives by rendering a plurality of DC/DC converters redundant. One redundant power supply substrate is assigned to a plurality of normal power supply substrates. One redundant power supply substrate supports the outputs of a plurality of normal power supply substrates. The main DC/DC converters in the normal power supply substrate correspond with the subgroups on a one-for-one basis. The secondary DC/DC converters in the redundant power supply substrate each correspond with all of the respective subgroups and are able to supply power to a predetermined single disk drive among the respective disk drives in the subgroups for each of the subgroups.
US07992024B2
In an integrated circuit (IC) may have several functional blocks adapted to be inactivated independently from each other. At least one firewall cell may be embedded independently of other firewall cells in the vicinity of one functional block. The firewall cell may be electrically isolated from the functional block and may be powered by a constantly supplied voltage source in the IC. Firewall cells may be embedded in free locations on the IC in the functional block domain according to a design that may be free of constraints such as firewall cells array of firewall cells mini-island.
US07992023B2
A method and system for managing peripheral connection wakeup signaling in a processing system supporting multiple virtual machines provides a mechanism by which ownership of a peripheral having system wakeup capability is transferred between virtual machines. The power management event signal is connected to a service processor input that in turn signals a hypervisor to direct the wakeup activity to a particular logical partition in which the virtual machine was last executing. The hypervisor can then determine whether or not to wake up the entire system, or portions thereof and can direct the power management event to the appropriate virtual machine. In particular the peripheral may be an Ethernet adapter supporting Wake-On-LAN capability. State initialization, which is typically ensured by system power cycling is provided instead by controlling power to the standby power source or in some instances by forcing an indication of a disconnect/reconnect of the wakeup signaling connection.
US07992016B2
According to one embodiment, a data transmitter includes a radio receiver, a power distributor, a storage module, a radio transmitter, and a power supply. The radio receiver receives a radio signal from an external device. The power distributor distributes power from the radio signal received by the radio receiver. The storage module stores information and is supplied with the power distributed by the power distributor to be readable when no power is supplied from a main power supply. The main power supply supplies power to the entire data transmitter. The radio transmitter is supplied with the power distributed by the power distributor and transmits the information read from the storage module as a radio signal to the external device. The power supply is capable of switching power to be supplied between the power distributed by the power distributor and the power supplied from the main power supply.
US07992015B2
A processor performance state optimization includes a system to change a performance state of a processor. In an embodiment, the system to change a performance state of the processor includes a processor and a step logic sub-system operatively coupled with the processor and is operable to communicate a performance state change request to the processor. A core voltage regulator is operatively coupled with the step logic sub-system. An end performance state sub-system to determine a desired end performance state is coupled with the step logic sub-system. And, an enable sub-state transition sub-system to enable sub-state transitions is coupled with the step logic sub-system.
US07992013B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for automatically tracking and controlling the capacity ratings of UPS units. The methods and systems provide a central server or repository for storing the capacity ratings, grant kVA and grant code authorized for each UPS unit along with a unique security key for each unit. When a customer purchases a capacity upgrade, the server updates the capacity rating for the customer's unit and issues an upgrade grant that includes the new rating and the grant code. The upgrade grant may thereafter be downloaded by a service technician and used to upgrade the unit. Alternatively, the upgrade grant may be downloaded directly to the UPS unit, and the unit's software and/or firmware may perform the upgrade automatically. In either case, the upgrade may be performed through a software modification, thus eliminating the need for the technician to physically swap out hardware. Such an arrangement helps ensure that only authorized capacity upgrades are performed.
US07992010B2
The present invention generally is directed to systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for securing sensitive information involved in database transactions. Embodiments of the present invention selectively encrypt only portions of transactions involving sensitive data, thereby reducing or eliminating the processing overhead resulting from wastefully encrypting non-sensitive data. The sensitive data may be identified by a document. The document may be accessed by a requesting entity to determine which portions of a query should be encrypted prior to sending the query to a database server over a network. The document may also be accessed by a database server to determine which portions of query results should be encrypted prior to sending the query results to the requesting entity over the network.
US07992005B2
The Pattern Based Password Tool provides a user with a unique, single-use password that is hard to steal, but easy for the user to remember. The Pattern Based Password Tool assigns a password to a user, wherein the password specifies a spatial position of at least one element of a plurality of elements on a matrix. The Pattern Based Password Tool populates the plurality of elements on the matrix with randomly generated characters. After reading a password entry, the Pattern Based Password Tool verifies that the password entry is a correct combination of the characters from the plurality of elements on the matrix that correspond to the spatial position of the at least one element as specified by the password.
US07992001B2
A method, system and computer program product for partitioning the binary image of a software program, and partially removing code bits to create an encrypted software key, to increase software security. The software program's binary image is partitioned along a random segment length or a byte/nibble segment length, and the code bits removed, and stored, along with their positional data in a software key. The software key is encrypted and is separately distributed from the inoperable binary image to the end user. The encrypted key is stored on a secure remote server. When the end user properly authenticates with the developer's remote servers, the encrypted security key is downloaded from the secure remote server and is locally decrypted. The removed code bits are reinserted into the fractioned binary image utilizing the positional location information. The binary image is then operable to complete execution of the software program.
US07992000B2
A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) authentication method, sends a request message without authentication information to a server end from a client to request for access; sends back a response message, which contains authentication exchange information and DH authentication response information of the server end when the server end receives the request message; authenticates the received response message by the client and sending a request message, which contains authentication information of the client, to the server end after the authentication is passed; authenticates a user according to the received request message by the server end, and sends back a response message which contains the authentication information of the server end; authenticates the legality of the server end by the user according to the received response message, which contains the authentication information of the server end.
US07991992B2
Disclosed herein are SOC devices with peripheral units having power management logic.
US07991990B2
A memory access system for accessing a basic input output system (BIOS) program is provided. The memory access system includes a flash memory, a CPU, a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) slave, an address converter and a flash memory controller. The flash memory stores a number of BIOS data of the BIOS program, and each BIOS data corresponds to a default BIOS address and is allocated in a flash memory type BIOS address. The CPU delivers a BIOS access instruction. The BIOS access instruction corresponds to a default target address of the default BIOS addresses. After the PCI slave interprets the BIOS access instruction, the address converter converts the default target address into a flash memory type target address, which is one of the flash memory type BIOS address. The flash memory controller accesses the BIOS data allocated at the flash memory type target address accordingly.
US07991989B2
A method for provisioning a boot image includes receiving authentication information from an information handling system (IHS) over a network. The authentication information is associated with a user. The authentication information is sent to network services. Boot image information is received from the network services. The boot image information is associated with a boot image. The boot image is provisioned to the IHS over the network.
US07991988B2
A method for updating firmware in a communication device storing an original firmware in a first data area of a non-volatile memory includes receiving and storing a new firmware in a second data area of the non-volatile memory. The method comprises assigning a firmware other than the new firmware as a boot firmware for the communication device before verification of the new firmware. The new firmware is loaded and executed in response to a boot procedure of the communication device. If the new firmware is executable and causes the communication device to satisfy a predetermined boot up condition, the new firmware passes the bootability check, and the new firmware is assigned as the boot firmware. The new firmware is not assigned as the boot firmware if the new firmware does not pass the bootability check.
US07991951B2
A data storage network is provided. The network includes a client connected to the data storage network; a plurality nodes on the data storage network, wherein each data node has two or more RAID controllers, wherein a first RAID controller of a first node is configured to receive a data storage request from the client and to generate RAID parity data on a data set received from the client, and to store all of the generated RAID parity data on a single node of the plurality of nodes.
US07991938B2
A display device communicating with a microcontrol unit by data, including: a panel with a plurality of pixels; and a display driver operating to drive the panel, in which the display driver includes: a data bus with a plurality of widths; a register storing an index and parameter input from the microcontrol unit through the data bus; and a bus width control circuit selecting one of the plurality of widths with reference to the index and parameter stored in the register and conducting data communication with the microcontrol unit by means of the selected bus width. An index or parameter is introduced for transferring information to configure a data bus width, so that it is possible to reduce the number of mode set pins for determining the data bus width.
US07991934B2
A multiprocessor system is provided, comprising a baseboard, for arranging peripheral equipments; and a plurality of processor modules, each equipped with a processor and a board-to-board connector; wherein the plurality of processor modules are stacked up, with board-to-board connectors being electrically connected between the processor modules and between the processor modules and the baseboard; the processors communicate with the peripheral equipments in accordance with a specific bus specification; and the operations of the plurality of processor modules are coordinated by routes provided between the processor modules and between the processor modules and the baseboard.
US07991930B2
A tape drive unit has a data compression engine coupled to an incoming data stream. A buffer memory stores data of the incoming data stream. A control module enables or disables the data compression engine in response to a function of the data occupancy level of the buffer memory.
US07991926B1
Packets or cells of variable lengths arriving at a multitude of input ports of a crossbar switch are stored in the input buffers associated with the input ports. Each input buffer includes a number of banks defined by a ratio of a preselected size to the smallest packet size. Each bank is configured to store a packet having the smallest size. The packets so stored in the buffers are subsequently transferred and stored in a memory shared by all the input and output buffers. The packets are stored along the depth of the shared memory, therefore, during each packet transmission period, a portion of each one of the packets is transferred and stored in the same addressable storage location of the share memory. Each portion includes one or more bits carried by the packet.
US07991909B1
Method and apparatus for communication between a processor and processing elements in an integrated circuit (e.g., a programmable logic device is described. In an example, a first lookup table is configured to store first information representing which of the processing elements is capable of performing which of a plurality of instructions. A second lookup table is configured to store second information representing which of the plurality of instructions is being serviced by which of the processing elements. Control logic is coupled to the processor, the first lookup table, and the second lookup table. The control logic is configured to communicate data from the processor to the processing elements based on the first information, and communicate data from the processing elements to the processor based on the second information.
US07991908B2
A method for managing the delivery of multimedia contents to users' communications terminals over a communications network includes transcoding the multimedia contents to be delivered. The transcoding includes: determining a transcoding method based on historical information of previous transcoding operations; performing a transcoding of the multimedia contents to be delivered according to the determined transcoding method to obtain transcoded multimedia contents to be delivered, and updating the historical information according to the performed transcoding of the multimedia contents to be delivered.
US07991901B2
Data about computer network traffic is collected as user website visit recording sessions. The data captured is analyzed and organized with sufficient level of detail or granularity to determine a single request from a server. Each data request is analyzed to determine if it comes from a server with which an ongoing end user interaction or open site visit is occurring. If not, a new site visit is created as a general proposition. If the data request is part of an open site visit, then the time is compared to the time of the last interaction and if the interval is sufficiently small, the data request is treated as a continuation of the visit. If the interval is large, a new site visit is created.
US07991896B2
Described is a technology by which a gesture made with a source device (e.g., a cellular telephone), such as a throwing or pointing motion, is used to automatically set up a connection with another device to which the gesture is directed. Audio signals output during the gesture, e.g., such as at the start and end of the gesture, are detected by candidate (listening) devices. The device having the least time difference between detection of the start and end signals is the device that is generally best aligned with the throwing or pointing motion, and thus may be selected as the target device. Once selected, a connection such as a network connection may be set up between the source device and the target device for further communication, such as for application data exchange.
US07991892B2
Methods, devices, services and program products are provided for selecting a printer from a plurality of printers as a function of a printer resource consumption attribute where there is a network environment comprising a plurality of printers, each of the plurality of printers having a resource consumption attribute value. A user invokes a print operation through the network environment and a processing means compares weighted resource consumption attribute values for each of the plurality of printers. Processing means automatically select at least one destination printer from the plurality of printers having a lower resource usage requirement for performing a print operation relative to at least one unselected printer of the plurality of printers. Processing means also automatically choose a destination printer as a function of an availability of each of the destination printers.
US07991887B2
A system for distributing content in a network comprises memory that stores content. A provider network device communicates with the memory and wirelessly communicates with a requester network device that requests a copy of the content. The provider network device determines a local/remote status of the requester network device, transmits a key request to the requester network device when the requester network device has a local status, receives a key from the requester network device, encrypts the content with the key and transmits the encrypted content to the requester network device.
US07991886B1
An individual-centric Internet is provided with a personal base process on a computer system. The computer system is equipped with multiple nodes that are interconnected to facilitate the communication between the nodes. The personal base service includes a personal base instance that is typically in software on at least one of the nodes of the computer system, such as a network. The personal base instance is designed to communicate with a user by any digital or analog device, such as a telephone, personal computer, personal digital assistant, or the like. A personal base server is instantiated on at least one of the nodes on the computer system and is in operative communication with the personal base instance. The personal base server is used to communicate with other personal bases or other nodes on the computer system or network in order to insulate the user from other elements of the computer system.
US07991877B2
A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for discovering an unauthorized router in a network. The process in the illustrative embodiments first obtains a physical address of a suspected router or destination device. A data packet is created which comprises at least a destination media access control field, a destination internet protocol field, and a time-to-live field, wherein the destination media access control field comprises the physical address of the destination device, wherein the destination internet protocol field comprises a bogus internet protocol address, and wherein the time-to-live field comprises a value indicating the data packet has exceeded a time limit. The data packet is sent to the destination device using the physical address in the destination media access control field. If a time exceeded message is received from the destination device, the destination device is determined to be enabled for routing.
US07991864B2
A data processing apparatus comprises instructions to perform sending and receiving one or more messages conforming to a network routing protocol, such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF); obtaining one or more information elements that specify one or more capabilities of the apparatus; creating a particular routing protocol message comprising an opaque advertisement that includes the one or more information elements; and sending the particular message on one of the network interfaces. For example, a router or switch that implements a network routing protocol can use OSPF Opaque Link State Advertisements to advertise and discover services and capabilities of other routers or switches.
US07991859B1
Techniques are described for providing managed virtual computer networks whose configured logical network topology may have one or more virtual networking devices, such as by a network-accessible configurable network service, with corresponding networking functionality provided for communications between multiple computing nodes of a virtual computer network by emulating functionality that would be provided by the networking devices if they were physically present. The networking functionality provided for a managed computer network may include supporting a connection between that managed computer network and other managed computer networks, such as via a provided virtual peering router to which each of the managed computer networks may connect, with the functionality of the virtual peering router being emulated by modules of the configurable network service without physically providing the virtual peering router, including to manage data communications between computing nodes of the inter-connected managed computer networks in accordance with client-specified configuration information.
US07991847B2
A method of ordering a plurality of messages received from a sender to be sent to a receiver in a sequence based on the dependency of one message on one or more other messages, the method comprising the steps of: receiving one or more messages from a stream of messages and storing them in a database; identifying a characteristic (P-Key-Order) of each message which is common to a group of messages; identifying a message dependency for the messages in the group of messages from a parameter of the message; reviewing a particular stored message in the database to determine if the stored message can be sent by; determining whether the stored message is dependent on a previous message and determining a status of the previous message; updating the status of the stored message based on the status of the previous message; sending the stored message after acknowledgement that the previous message has been sent.
US07991844B2
A method of processing a plurality of electronic mail files is disclosed, wherein each electronic mail file includes a subject field having one or more strings comprising the steps of establishing a list of strings, checking the first string in the subject field of each electronic mail file to determine whether the first string matches any of the strings in the list, removing any first strings that match a string in the list and replacing the first string elsewhere in the subject field, and sorting the electronic mail files according to their subject field.
US07991843B2
A system for managing a plurality of identities of a user includes a network entity capable of operating a user naming system (UNS). The UNS is capable of receiving, from an application, a request for an identity of a user. The UNS is also capable of automatically selecting a predefined identity based upon the application and at least one user preference independent of user input to the application. The UNS can then provide the selected identity to the application. More particularly, the UNS can receive a request for the identity of a user from a trusted application. Then, the UNS can select an identity further based upon a status of the user. The UNS can alternatively receive a request for the identity of a user from a non-trusted application. Then, the UNS can select or generate a pseudonym, which the UNS can provide to the application.
US07991838B2
A computer implemented method includes sending to a report server a first request for report content initiated by a first user. The report content is served to the first user. The report content is displayed to the first user. A second request from the first user is sent to the report server to share the report content with a second user. That the second user has permission to view the report content is confirmed. The report content is served and displayed to the second user.
US07991836B2
An approach for managing state information by a group of servers that services a group of clients is disclosed. One server is designated as the primary server and is responsible for generating state information to be used by both the servers and the clients. The remaining servers are designated as secondary servers that help to manage the group, but which do not generate the state information. When the primary server fails or is not available due to a network partition event, one of the secondary servers changes role to become the primary server. With a network partition event, each partition can have a primary server, and when the network partition heals, one of the primary servers changes role back to being a secondary server. As a result, the group of servers maintains a consistent set of state information without being vulnerable to the single failure of a server.
US07991834B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for integrating applets running on a client with the application logic for applications running on a server. The mechanism of the present invention provides two significant advantages over the prior art: the synchronization of state, and the recognition of user actions in the browser including the invocation of the appropriate application logic in the server. Instead of using the FORM element available in HTML, individual active applets are available and may be created that obtain user input (e.g. a checkbox, textbox, button, etc.). A hidden applet called the Applet Group Controller is created which handles communication between the applets on the browser and the application logic on the server. The Applet Group Controller maintains an association with each applet that maintains the keys and values of any parameters and variables for the applet. In a preferred embodiment, upon the invocation of an event, the association instructs an Action Coordinator to invoke an action. The Action Coordinator obtains and transmits a list of all of the keys and their values to the server. The server invokes the appropriate application logic and transmits the keys and their values (as updated during the execution of the application logic) back to the Action Coordinator. The Action Coordinator then pushes the updated values out to the applets (through their Associations) at which time the browser's display is updated with the new values.
US07991833B2
A projection device is provided. The projection device includes a server subsystem configured to generate a projection-device-status user interface presentable to a remote client via a webpage served by the server subsystem. The server subsystem includes: a projection control module configured to adjust a projection setting of the projection device based on control input received from the remote client via the projection-device-status user interface, and a task scheduling module configured to schedule a projection device operation control task to be performed at a scheduled event specified by scheduling input received from the remote client via the projection-device-status user interface, and to automatically initiate the projection device operation control task responsive to occurrence of the scheduled event.
US07991830B2
A method and apparatus for a server capable of supporting multiple sessions with a browser. First session information of a browser is detected. Second session information of the browser is detected. A first session is initiated with a first browser instance of the browser using the first session information. A second session is initiated with a second browser instance of the browser using the second session information.
US07991822B2
Local versions of attributes of a storage object are maintained at a plurality of nodes, wherein a first attribute designates a first node of the plurality of nodes as an owner node for the storage object, and wherein a second attribute includes information to resolve validity of ownership of the storage object among the plurality of nodes. The owner node communicates changes to be made to the local versions of the attributes at other nodes of the plurality of nodes. A second node of the plurality of nodes requests ownership of the storage object. The first attribute is updated to designate the second node of the plurality of nodes as the owner node, in response to determining from the second attribute that the validity of ownership of the storage object allows the second node to inherit ownership of the storage object once the first node surrenders ownership of the storage object.
US07991819B2
The binary coded decimal (BCD) adder circuit adds two BCD encoded operands, with an input carry bit, and produces a BCD encoded sum. The adder has three stages. The first stage receives two BCD encoded operands as inputs, groups the inputs into contiguous blocks of 4-bits each, computes an intermediate sum vector and carry vector without considering the input carry bit, and also computes propagation and generate functions for each 4-bit group. The second stage is a carry look ahead circuit which computes all carries from the input carry, and the propagate and generate functions of the 4-bit groups from the first stage. The third stage adjusts the intermediate sum vector with pre-correction factors which depend upon the input carry and the carries generated from the second stage and the carry vectors from the first stage.
US07991814B2
The invention includes a novel differentiator cell, a novel resample unit cell, and precision synchronization circuitry to ensure proper timing of the circuits and systems at the anticipated ultra-high speed of operation. The novel differentiator cell includes circuitry for combining a carry input signal, a data bit signal and the output signal of a NOT cell and applying the signals as distinct and separate pulses to the input of a toggle flip-flop (TFF) for producing an asynchronous carry output and a clocked data output. The novel differentiator cells can be interconnected to form a multi-bit differentiator circuit using appropriate delay and synchronization circuitry to compensate for delays in producing the carry output of each cell which is applied to a succeeding cell. The novel resample cell includes a non-destructive reset-set flip-flop (RSN) designed to receive a data bit, at its set input, at a slow clock rate, which data is repeatedly read out of the RSN at a fast clock rate, until the RSN is reset. The novel differentiator and resampler cells can be interconnected, for example, to form the differentiator and up-sampling sections of a digital interpolation filter (DIF). Also, the relative clocking of bit slices (columns) in such a DIF may be achieved by using the fast clock signal to synchronize the slow clock which controls data entry. The circuits of the invention can be advantageously implemented with Josephson Junctions in rapid-single-flux-quantum (RSFQ) logic.
US07991807B2
A method and system for garbage collection are provided. A memory allocation request is received for an object. An object identifier is generated for the object. A first memory location is allocated to the object. A translation table is generated storing a map of the object identifier and the first memory location. A data structure is generated for the object. A mark flag is set based on the number of references of the object. Data stored in the first memory location is moved to a second memory location based upon the value of the mark flag. The data is deleted from the first memory location based upon a value of the mark flag.
US07991803B2
Grouping media files via playlists on a computer-readable medium. One or more media files are selected according to a grouping criterion to define one or more playlists from the media files. A folder is associated with the playlists and stores values identifying each of the playlists associated with the folder along with references to each of the playlists.
US07991802B2
An exemplary feature is a method for using XML Schema based standards. The method consists of constructing a reduced schema for a specific interaction from a collection of reusable artifacts. The method further consists of publishing the reduced schema in a repository thereby allowing the reduced schema to be reused.
US07991801B2
A dynamic and synchronized real-time captioning system and method for streaming media. A streaming encoder module can provide a code injection to marry textual data and audio/video (AV) data in order to form a text and/or audio stream. A streaming control module can allow an end-user to specify font format utilized to embed into an AV stream. A delay enhancement tool can be adapted to adjust speed of the text and/or audio stream, which allows the end-user to receive the text and/or audio stream at a proper speed. A customized graphical user interface (CGUI) can be adapted to assist with streaming administration to provide an encoding option, caption source location, delay control and slide control. Therefore, the captioning system can be able to synchronize and deliver the textual data and the AV data for live media streaming at an end-user's system.
US07991800B2
The present invention involves a computer system and method which implements a marketing management system. The computer comprises a processor, at least one database containing marketing information, and a database segmentation manager the segmentation manager is coupled to the processor and database. The database segmentation manager includes a node organizer for maintaining concatenated nodes defining a subset of data from the database. The node organizer includes a dataset node for creating a subset of said database according to query criteria and creating a temp table storing a portion of the fields and rows obtained by the query criteria. The segmentation manager further includes universe display software enabling an external user to view the database and nodes. The computer further has a graphic workflow manager capable of providing a visual representation with a plurality of items from the database and having a place and an order of a plurality of work tasks relating to the database.
US07991797B2
A system and method for maintaining persistent object identifiers across versions of a collection of data. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a first collection of objects is compared to a second collection of objects. If an object in the first collection matches an object in the second collection, a reference is added to the object in the first collection referring to the object in the second collection, allowing the identifier to persist in both collections of objects. Additionally, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the data (or “facts”) associated with the object from the first collection are moved to the object from the second collection. In this way, data associated with matching objects is combined between two collections of objects while maintaining persistent object identifiers.
US07991793B2
A system and associated method for utilizing file names for diagnostic data files generated by a runtime environment. The method employs a file counter base that defines a predefined maximum number of files permitted in a file system, a generation number that indicates an instance of the runtime environment, and a file counter that comprises a file name. The file counter circulates by a cycle equal to the file counter base such that the file system uses only a limited disk space. The method determines the generation number per instance of the runtime environment by examining file counters of existing files in the file system. The generation number initializes the file counter for creating file names in the instance of the runtime environment. The method guarantees a longest life span of a diagnostic data file in a file system that has a limited number of files.
US07991789B2
In a method or system for generation of a document, at least personal data and a characteristic value are stored in at least one data bank, at least the characteristic value being associated with the personal data. Document data are selected dependent on the stored characteristic value, at least a portion of the document being generated with aid of the selected document data. Information about a point in time is associated with at least a portion of the document data. A time span is preset so that the document data are only selected to generate the document when the time span comprises the point in time associated with the document data.
US07991787B2
The present system provides an efficient and reliable method for name searching within an employee records database. The present invention uses a plurality of different searching algorithms such as an exact algorithm and a fuzzy algorithm. The exact algorithm is used to provide a first set of a limited number of results from the entire employee database. The fuzzy algorithm is then used to search through only the first set of results to quickly provide a ranked results list of employee names that is displayed to a user. The user is then able to select the appropriate name from the results list for further processing.
US07991785B1
An improved HII database driver is provided in an EFI environment. The HII database driver is capable of storing extended information regarding an HII component in an HII database at the time the package containing the HII component is parsed for inclusion in the HII database. Extended information for a string may include length of the string in Unicode characters or the length of the string in narrow screen glyphs. The HII database driver also exposes methods through which the extended information may be retrieved from the HII database. The extended information may be utilized to allocate an appropriately sized buffer for storing the string.
US07991784B2
A method, performed in a character entry system involves computing contextual associations between multiple character strings based upon occurrence of character strings relative to each other in documents present in the system, wherein the computing contextual associations involves i) identifying pertinent documents present in the system, ii) creating a list of character strings contained within documents in the system; and iii) creating an interrelationship between the character strings to contents of the system; in response to the user inputting a specified threshold of individual characters, identifying at least one selectable character string from among the character strings used in creating the computed contextual associations that can complete the incomplete input character string in context; providing the identified at least one selectable character string to a user for selection; and receiving, in the system, the user's selection and completing the incomplete input character string based upon the selection.
US07991782B2
The present invention is generally directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for accessing data represented abstractly through an abstraction model. In one embodiment, a data repository abstraction layer provides a logical view of an underlying data repository that is independent of the particular manner of data representation. For each successive query, the data repository abstraction layer is replaced or redefined to provide a restricted logical view of the underlying data repository.
US07991775B2
Described herein are techniques for generating a global checkpoint system change number and computing a snapshot query using the global checkpoint system change number without a need to acquire global locks. In many cases, the need to acquire global locks is eliminated, thereby saving the overhead attendant to processing global locks.
US07991771B2
Disclosed is an evaluation technique for text search with black-box scoring functions, where it is unnecessary for the evaluation engine to maintain details of the scoring function. Included is a description of a system for dealing with blackbox searching, proofs of correctness, as well experimental evidence showing that the performance of the technique is comparable in efficiency to those techniques used in custom-built engines.
US07991764B2
A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of the knowledge packets to plurality of channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment via installable one or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital devise of each of channel node, a network controller registering and providing desired HOS applications and multiple developers developing advance communication and knowledge management applications and each of subscribers exploiting the said network resources by leveraging and augmenting taxonomically and ontologically classified knowledge classes expressed via plurality search macros and UKID structures facilitating said expert human agents for knowledge invocation and support services and service providers providing information services in the preidentified taxonomical classes, wherein each of channel nodes communicating with the unknown via domain specific supernodes each facilitating social networking and relationships development leading to human grid which is searchable via Universal Desktop Search by black box search module.
US07991759B2
When a retrieval keyword that requires contents is transmitted to a server, the server retrieves contents from a database based on the retrieval keyword, and generates page information including retrieved list information of contents, and appending information that displays whether or not the page information is provided with a consecutive reproduction function of making a terminal device consecutively reproduce part of contents included in the list information respectively to the page information, and transmits the page information. The terminal device displays a list of contents on a display unit based on the page information, and displays an icon in case the list is provided with the consecutive reproduction function to demonstrate that the consecutive reproduction is possible.
US07991754B2
Computer configurations, search processors (2), software, and methods of viewing and analyzing information regarding agriculture or land use automatically located relationally-linked agronomic entities with both real (18) and virtual (8) displays. Relational linking exist through broad assessment of commonality information with fuzzy logic heuristics. Dynamic link presentation (6) can exist with congregated and hierarchical information displays (29) such as at the farm level, at a location level, at a physically aggregated parcel level with hierarchical display of farms or agronomic entity ownership, management, organization, and crop usages that afford users an unprecedented series of views into the businesses of land use, food production, and resource conservation. A meta-syntactic agronomic information generator (31) can facilitate imputed information through the integration of multiple databases (32). Predictive and application-specific configurations can allow at-a-glance understanding of agronomic organizations and agronomic decision-making to see where to most optimally devote resources for higher success or efficiency.
US07991752B2
Provided are techniques for savepoint processing. One of a savepoint statement, a rollback to savepoint statement, and a release savepoint statement is received. It is determined whether to propagate the received one of the savepoint statement, the rollback to savepoint statement, and the release savepoint statement to a data source based on an asymmetrical model in which a nested level of savepoints on a federated server side is capable of being greater than a nested level of savepoints on a data source side and wherein a two-tiered data structure is used to preserve savepoint information in the asymmetrical model. In response to determining that propagation is to occur, the one of the savepoint statement, the rollback to savepoint statement, and the release savepoint statement is propagated to the data source.
US07991746B2
A storage system comprising apparatus for consolidating portions of free space from a plurality of remote storage units; and apparatus for presenting the consolidated portions as a single file system.
US07991729B2
A system and a method for automating performance assessments of an exercise or a training activity provide event assessment information in real-time to one or more evaluators in conjunction with unfolding events. The evaluators can wirelessly communicate assessment information to a database for after action review (AAR).
US07991727B2
Some embodiments of a fact type abstraction mechanism of a rule engine have been presented. In one embodiment, a fact type abstraction layer is provided to a rule engine core to allow the rule engine core to access facts of multiple different types. Further, the rule engine core is used to process the facts of multiple different types against a predetermined set of rules without converting the facts of multiple different types into a native type.
US07991726B2
A system and method for analyzing Intrusion Detection System (IDS) alert data associated with a computer network is described. The method includes applying first association rules to obtained IDS alert data associated with a computer network and processing the obtained IDS alert data with the first association rules. Analyst feedback data associated with the processed obtained IDS alert data is received, and a training data set from the analyst feedback data is received. New association rules are determined based upon the training data set, and the new association rules are outputted to a display of a computing device. Outputting the new association rules may include outputting patterns within the IDS alert data of false positive alerts. The new association rules may be applied back to the obtained IDS alert data.
US07991725B2
Systems and methods allowing for the attribution of reputation to data sources (e.g., for the creation of referrals) are provided. In an illustrative implementation scores (e.g., reputation scores) are determined for a target entity connected a source entity on a network on a given dimension. In the illustrative implementation, an entity may be directly linked to any number of other entities on any number of dimensions, with each link having an associated score. Illustratively, each dimension has an associated transitive dimension. A directed path on a given dimension between two entities, a source and a target, consists of a directed link from the source entity to an intermediate entity, prefixed to a directed path from the intermediate entity to the target entity. In the illustrative implementation, links on the path can travel on the transitive dimension associated with the given dimension.
US07991712B1
An evolution approach involves the automatic generation of an evaluation function. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a consensus result from a population of designs is used to evaluate designs in the population for fitness. New designs are evolved using the consensus result as an evaluation function, with newly-evolved designs replacing ones of the population of designs determined to be unfit. With this approach, automatic design evolution is carried out independently from a fixed evaluation function, which is sometimes susceptible to error.
US07991697B2
A method and system to digitally sign a content license associated with content, and to distribute content via a network in a geographically controlled manner, commences when a content requester requests delivery of the encrypted content. A content delivery system performs a content to determine a geographic location associated with the content requester. The content requestor authorization process may also determine geographic access criteria associated with the content, and whether the geographic location complies with the geographic access criteria. The content delivery system will release the content for delivery to the content requestor if the content location complies with the geographic access criteria.
US07991694B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide a mobile electronic commerce system that is superior in safety and usability. The mobile electronic commerce system comprises an electronic wallet 100, supply sides 101, 102, 103, 104 and 105, and a service providing means 110 that is connected by communication means. The service providing means installs a program for an electronic ticket, an electronic payment card, or an electronic telephone card. The electronic wallet employs the installed card to obtain a product or a service or entrance permission. The settlement process is performed by the electronic wallet and the supply side via the communication means, and data obtained during the settlement process are managed by being transmitted to the service providing means at a specific time. A negotiable card can be easily obtained, and when the negotiable card is used the settlement process can be quickly and precisely performed.
US07991690B2
The present invention generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to credit scoring, consumer profiling, consumer behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to risk modeling using the inputs of credit bureau data, size of wallet data, and, optionally, internal data.
US07991684B2
Systems and methods are provided for processing derivative product orders at an exchange. Traders provide derivative product order risk data to the exchange. The order risk data may include maximum delta, gamma and/or vega utilization values for derivative product contracts based on the same underlying product. Before executing a trade, a match system analyzes the trader's current utilization state and the utilization that would result after the trade. The match system may then execute all or a portion of the trade.
US07991679B2
Systems and methods for configurable trading interfaces that allow a trader to quickly and easily submit trading commands to a trading system are provided. Using these systems and methods, a trader can using various trading interfaces to initiate trading commands, configure various display features and default command settings, and control a level of command entry verification that is provided to protect against inadvertent entry of incorrect trading commands.
US07991674B2
The present invention discloses an investment allocation system for managing investment return and risk and method thereof. The investment allocation system comprises a storage unit, a return rate computation unit, a standard deviation computation unit, an operation unit, and an allocation process unit. The storage unit stores a threshold, first data sets, and second data sets. The return rate computation unit transforms the data sets into return rate sequences. The standard deviation computation unit transforms the return rate sequences into standard deviation sequences. The threshold is assigned to the first standard deviation sequence in order to obtain a corresponding kth-quantile thereof. Further, an operation unit locates an object according in the kth-quantile into the second standard deviation sequence. The operation unit further processes the second standard deviation sequence to obtain a robustness index. Also, an allocation process unit allocates assets by processing the robustness indexes.
US07991671B2
The disclosed embodiments utilize hedge ratios to determine the optimal hedge ratio and associated scanning spread. This tells traders what ratios of the quantities of products they should have in their portfolio in order to maintain the status of the portfolios as delta neutral, i.e. be delta hedged, and receive optimal margin credits therefore.
US07991667B2
A margin requirement is computed while trading. The margin requirement may be calculated while trading because the preferred system takes into account working orders to generate the margin requirement. The on the fly possibility allows the preferred system to provide pre-trade risk calculations, but can also be used to provide post-trade calculations. A generic spread number and the maximum number of outright positions are determined. Using the spread positions and the maximum number of outright positions, a spread margin and an outright margin are calculated, which when summed provide a total margin requirement. Limits based in part on the total margin requirement may be imposed on one or more traders.
US07991666B2
Time series consumer spending data, point-in-time balance information, internal customer financial data and consumer panel information provides input to a model for consumer spend behavior on plastic instruments or other financial accounts, from which approximations of spending ability may be reliably identified and utilized to promote additional consumer spending.
US07991659B2
An accounting method and system. The method includes determining by a computing system, that a second entity is dependent on a first entity for a specified time period. The computing system generates a first list comprising initially allowable purchase types list for items available for purchase by a user. The computing system generates a modified list from the first list. The computing system receives from the user, a selection for a purchase type from the modified list. The computing system presents an accounting data input form to the user. The computing system places the purchase type, a selected general ledger account, and a selected organization into the accounting data input form. The computing system stores the accounting data input form that includes the purchase type, the selected general ledger account, and the selected organization.
US07991656B1
A method for delivering objects using at least one onboard mobile processor in communication with a mobile data storage to provide at least one command to a driver is provided herein. The onboard mobile processor can be in further communication with at least one input device. A host processor can provide the libraries and a list of objects to and delivered to the onboard mobile processor. The host processor can be in communication with a host data storage that comprises computer instructions. An output device and an OLI trigger can also be used in conjunction with the onboard mobile processor.
US07991641B2
Systems and methods are provided for evaluating and compensating employees based on performance. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided. According to the method, objectives are received for an employee. The objectives are core requirements set as goals for an employee for a time period. Further, organization and unit indicators applicable to the employee's position are received from a database. Ratings are received from an evaluator for the core requirements and the organization indicators. The method further computes an overall rating that is a weighted average of the rated core requirements and the rated organization and unit indicators.
US07991639B2
The present invention provides a solution that determines the readiness of a target organization to utilize an IT asset. Specifically, under the present invention, baseline criteria for determining the readiness of the target organization to utilize the IT asset are first identified. The baseline criteria are then refined (e.g., via personnel interviews, market research, etc.) to yield readiness criteria. A score is assigned to each of the readiness criteria for the target organization, and then optionally weighted. Using the scores (weighted or un-weighted), a readiness value for the target organization is computed and compared to a threshold value to determine the readiness of the target organization. Based on the results, at least one graphical depiction showing the readiness of the target organization can be generated.
US07991636B1
Instant messaging (IM) entities may be invited to an electronic calendar event using an instant message. Selecting the IM entities as invitees to the event may include dragging and dropping names of the IM entities from a buddy list of an IM application to an event from an electronic calendar application, or vice versa. A method of inviting an entity to a calendar event includes providing a calendar event from a calendar application and recognizing, by the calendar application, an IM entity as an invitee to the event.
US07991635B2
A method for managing an interview process of at least one candidate for a job is disclosed. The method includes selecting a list of attributes pertinent to the job and selecting a list of interviewers of the at least one candidate. The method further includes assigning at least one attribute to each interviewer and generating an interview template for each interviewer based on the at least one attribute assigned to each interviewer, wherein an interview template comprises a list of topics to discuss with each candidate. The method further includes scheduling an interview between each interviewer and candidate and allowing each interviewer to submit, via a Web page, feedback describing each candidate's competency in each of the attributes based on the interview between each interviewer and each candidate. The method further includes automatically calculating, for each candidate, a first value based on the feedback received from each interviewer.
US07991630B2
Likelihood values are determined for one or more closed claims that match an open claim. The likelihood values are displayed as a function of an amount (e.g., general damages amount). The graph may be an x-y graph in which the x-axis is amount and the y-axis is likelihood value. The graph may include a likelihood curve. A band to corresponding a most likely range of amounts is indicated on the graph.
US07991623B2
A method and system for providing ancillary services consistent with the invention includes placing an icon on an item, the icon corresponding to an ancillary service. Once the icon is placed on the item, the item is sent through a delivery system to a first address plant. Upon receiving an indication that the item cannot be delivered to a recipient at a first address, the ancillary service corresponding to the icon on the item is performed.
US07991612B2
Lost frame reconstruction is described. A previous good or reconstructed frame may be analyzed to determine a category for the lost frame. A percentage Pi may be associated with the determined category of the lost frame. A top Pi percent magnitude samples may be zeroed out in an excitation of the previous good or reconstructed frame to produce a reconstruction excitation. The reconstruction excitation may be applied to one or more linear prediction coefficients for the previous good or reconstructed frame to generate a reconstructed frame.
US07991605B1
Method and apparatus for translating a verification process having recursion for implementation in a logic emulator are described. Examples of the invention relate to a method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for translating a verification process for implementation in a hardware emulator of a logic verification system. A recursive task called by the verification process is identified. A copy of the recursive task is incorporated into the verification process. Interface registers are instantiated for the recursive task. Control flow transfer points are defined in the verification process. Calls of the recursive task are converted in the verification process to constructs for accessing the interface registers and transferring control flow among the control flow transfer points. The verification process is reorganized to describe a finite state machine (FSM) configured for implementation in the hardware emulator.
US07991603B2
A method for simulating a complex system including a plurality of constituents is provided. The method includes constructing at least one complex system model, each system model including a hierarchised set of modelled constituents. The construction step includes, for each model, obtaining a multiple instance hierarchical model including at least one instance vector corresponding to a plurality of instances of one and the same modelled constituent, each instance vector being able to be located at any level of a hierarchical decomposition tree of the multiple instance hierarchical model. The construction step additionally includes, for each model, expanding the multiple instance hierarchical model into an expanded model by expansion of at least one instance vector included in the multiple instance hierarchical model.
US07991602B2
The subject invention relates to integrating agents, control logic, and simulations in order to simulate and validate a control strategy for a physical system. The systems and methods integrate agents and control logic with simulations, and utilize the integrated agents, control logic, and simulations to generate a proxy. The proxy can be employed to couple one or more controllers executing the agents and control logic with the simulations. Visualization is utilized to visualize the simulation, including the agents and the control logic. In addition, the systems and methods utilize a synchronization algorithm to synchronize the execution times of the controllers and the simulations. The foregoing mitigates validation through building and testing physical system and/or test beds. Upon validating control strategies, associated agents and logic can be loaded in one or more industrial controllers controlling the physical system, and the simulation can be utilized to represent the physical system.
US07991599B2
Methods of selecting and implanting prosthetic devices for use as a replacement meniscus are disclosed. The selection methods include a pre-implantation selection method and a during-implantation selection method. The pre-implantation selection method includes a direct geometrical matching process, a correlation parameters-based matching process, and a finite element-based matching process. The implant identified by the pre-implantation selection method is then confirmed to be a suitable implant in the during-implantation selection method. Methods of implanting meniscus prosthetic devices are also disclosed.
US07991594B2
A method of designing hearing aid molds is disclosed whereby skeletons, or simplified models, of two ear impressions are used to register the graphical representations of the molds to facilitate the joint design of hearing aid shells. The center points of at least a portion of contour lines on the surface of each ear impression are identified. Then, for each ear impression, by connecting these center points to each adjacent center point, a skeleton that represents a simplified model of an ear impression is generated. Vectors describing the distance and direction from the points of each skeleton to an anatomical feature of each ear impression are identified to obtain a correspondence between the points of each skeleton. Three-dimensional translations and rotations of a feature vector of at least one of the skeletons are determined to achieve alignment of the skeleton of one ear impression with the skeleton of another impression.
US07991591B2
A system and method of interior design is provided having an interface for displaying a design report; providing a selection of predetermined architectural designs which can be selected from the design report; wherein each of the predetermined architectural designs includes a plurality of design elements selected from the group of optional elements, non-optional elements, and selectable elements; providing a choice of at least one of the optional and selectable elements for inclusion in a selected predetermined architectural design; and determining design parameters based upon chosen optional elements, non-optional elements, and selectable elements in the selected predetermined architectural design.
US07991585B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for three dimensional calibration of an on-board diagnostics system. In one embodiment, the present invention is a method for calibrating an on-board diagnostic system for an automobile including the steps of generating a three dimensional surface corresponding to an engine operating under a first condition, generating a three dimensional surface corresponding to the engine operating under a second condition, and generating a three dimensional threshold surface using the three dimensional surface corresponding to the engine operating under the first condition and the three dimensional surface corresponding to the engine operating under the second condition.
US07991580B2
A method for benchmarking diagnostic algorithms for a particular application is provided. The diagnostic algorithms are rank ordered based on a specified criterion so as to weed out weak algorithms, selecting more robust algorithms, defined in some sense, for deployment. This is realized by evaluating various parameters subsequently mentioned. A normalized product entropy ratio parameter is obtained. A performance parameter vector is fixed to define a plurality of sensitivity parameters including a plurality of threshold parameters and a plurality of data parameters. The plurality of threshold parameters and the plurality of data parameters are perturbed to obtain a threshold sensitivity parameter and a data sensitivity parameter.
US07991571B2
Pade Approximant function emulators are used to model the nonlinear offset and/or nonlinear sensitivity behaviors of a sensor relative to temperature sub-ranges and to produce temperature compensating corrections for both offset and sensitivity as desired. In order to avoid use of brute force division for generating the Pade Approximant function signals, in one set of embodiments, feedback is used to provide a corresponding effect. In order to minimize the number of coefficients that are to be resolved and stored, in one set of embodiments, first or higher order Pade Approximants with normalized denominators are used so that each function can be defined with just three coefficients. Embodiments that are more analog in nature or more digital in nature are disclosed. Methods for resolving the Pade Approximant coefficients and calibrating each sensor unit on a mass production basis are also disclosed.
US07991570B2
A determination is made of frequency components associated with a particular bearing or location resulting from sources emitting electromagnetic-wave energy for which a Poynting-Vector can be defined. The broadband frequency components associated with a specific direction or location of interest are isolated from other components in the power spectrum that are not associated with the direction or location of interest. The collection of pointing vectors can be used to characterize the source.
US07991567B1
The present invention features an electrical system comprising a centralized operating meter for energy technologies which comprises one or more of the following features: (1) a central processing and internal memory unit (CPIM), wherein the CPIM electronically communicates with a utility meter and a performance meter, wherein the CPIM sends data information to a display unit which separately displays the power usage registered to the utility meter and the performance meter, (2) a utility meter connecting to a breaker box via a set of wires and a performance meter connecting directly to the set of wires that connects the utility meter to the breaker box, and (3) a switch, wherein upon detection of a disruption of power from a grid the COMET immediately opens the switch to disconnect the electrical system from a grid and allow any generated power from a renewable resource electrical system to continue supplying the electricity.
US07991560B2
A computer program product, and related systems and methods, are described that processes emission intensity data corresponding to probes of a biological probe array. The computer program includes a genotype and statistical analysis manager that determines absolute or relative expression values based, at least in part, on a statistical measure of the emission intensity data and at least one user-selectable statistical parameter. The analysis manager may also determine genotype calls for one or more probes based, at least in part, on the emission intensity data. The analysis manager may further display the absolute or relative expression values based, at least in part, on at least one user-selectable display parameter and/or a measure of normalized change between genotype calls. The measure of normalized change may be based, at least in part, on a comparison of genotype calls and a reference value.
US07991559B2
Techniques for computerized electroporation. An electroporation apparatus may be controlled according to one of a plurality of previously-saved, user-defined processing protocols. A processing log associated with a processing protocol may be generated, and the processing log may include patient or sample specific information. The processing log or a summary of the processing log may be exported to a user. Interactive instructions may be provided to a user. Those instructions may correspond to one or more steps of a processing protocol.
US07991552B2
A system and method are provided to determine the side-impact collision status of a nearby vehicle or vehicles. If a nearby vehicle has been in a collision, responsive systems may be triggered automatically. Responses may include warning the driver of the host vehicle and/or warning drivers of other vehicles or centralized networks by, among other methods, V2V or V2I communications. Responses may also include automatically triggering countermeasures in the host vehicle.
US07991541B2
In a method for improving the running smoothness of an internal combustion engine (1) which has at least one combustion chamber and at least one controllable actuator whose position has an influence on the combustion in the at least one combustion chamber, an irregular running value (f) of the internal combustion engine (1) is determined and compared with a predefined first irregular running limit value (f1thres), and in the event of the irregular running value (f) exceeding a predefined first irregular running limit value (f1thres), the actuator is moved from a starting position into an end position while the combustion in all of the combustion chambers of the internal combustion engine (1) is continued.
US07991540B2
A control system and method for improving vehicle fuel economy is provided. A base timing module generates a base timing signal. A trim module generates a timing trim signal based on a calibratable compensation factor. A vehicle speed trim module adjusts a calibration parameter (such as engine timing for example) based on the base timing signal and the timing trim signal. According to some implementations, the trim module includes a base trim module and a vehicle speed compensation module and a calibratable compensation factor module. The vehicle speed compensation module generates a vehicle speed compensation factor. The base trim module generates a base trim signal based on the vehicle speed compensation factor or the calibratable compensation factor. The base trim signal can be based on a speed of the engine. The base trim signal can further be based on a quantity of fuel delivered to the engine.
US07991535B2
A portable, palm-sized, Data Acquisition System including an apparatus to measure engine thermo-events, a wiring harness having signals for collecting, recording, and transmitting engine performance data and identifying the engine being monitored, and an acquisition server (DAS) for collecting and transmitting data from the thermo-measuring apparatus and wiring harness, is taught. There also is a Web-server, an Ethernet network interface, software, an SPI bus interface requiring only three signals for communication, and a software system that records, stores, processes, transmits, displays, and analyzes data pertaining to any combustion engine performance and other industrial engine applications. The use of fiber optic cable for electronic communication provides for the DAS to be installed a distance from the engine. The DAS is share-able between several engines, is user friendly, is low cost to manufacture, affordable, and has a flexible signaling feature that works with systems that use, and do not use, telemetry.
US07991527B2
A receiver receives transmission containing information from different vehicle systems and determines an origin of that transmission according to the length of the transmission.
US07991522B2
An imaging system for a vehicle includes an imaging array sensor and a control. The imaging array sensor comprises a plurality of photo-sensing pixels and is disposed at an exterior rearview mirror assembly at a side of the vehicle with a field of view exterior of the vehicle. The imaging array sensor is operable to capture an image exterior of the vehicle. The control may process the captured images and may determine that the imaging array sensor is misaligned when the imaging array sensor is disposed at the exterior rearview mirror assembly at the side of the vehicle. The control, responsive to a determination of misalignment of the imaging array sensor, may at least partially compensate for the determined misalignment of the imaging array sensor.
US07991521B2
An automated guided vehicle and a method of controlling an automated guided vehicle which are capable of varying the travel path of the automatic guided vehicle in order to reduce wear patterns created in the floor of the material handling facility. The travel path of the AGV is varied by intentionally applying a deviation from a selected predetermined route along which the AGV is traveling.
US07991520B2
In a control apparatus for an electric car, wherein an auxiliary power source device, a drive control device and a power storage system are connected in parallel; the power storage system is configured of a DC-DC converter in parallel with which a capacitor is connected, a power storage portion, and a power storage system control portion which performs the controls of the DC-DC converter and the power storage portion, and the power storage system control portion is configured so as to be capable of detecting the service interruption and grounding of an overhead line.
US07991517B2
A method for policing and managing the operation of a flying, unmanned aircraft in the event of usurpation of control of, malfunction of, or ill-intentioned use of, this aircraft includes the steps of (a) detecting inappropriate operation of the aircraft; (b) transmitting a takeover command to the aircraft to interrupt control of the operation of this aircraft by a first pilot and relinquish control of the aircraft to a second pilot; and (c) transmitting control commands to the aircraft to control its operation by the second pilot, until the need for alternate pilot control of the aircraft has ended or until the aircraft has landed safely.
US07991516B2
A system for supervising the landing of an aircraft by a supervisor in a control station, each of the aircraft being incapable of being controlled by any personnel onboard, the system comprises a control station and onboard aircraft control apparatus. The station includes an input device, responsive to the supervisor, for producing a control signal for controlling the landing of the aircraft; and a transmitting device, coupled to the input device, for communication with the aircraft. The aircraft apparatus includes a receiving device for communication with the station; a logic device, coupled to the receiving device, for controlling the aircraft which is programmed to pilot the aircraft to the vicinity of the airfield. The control signal is selected by the supervisor, based on the supervisor's observations of the aircraft and is transmitted to the logic device; in response thereto, the logic device controls the aircraft.
US07991514B2
Temperature readings obtained within a computer system from the location of monitored circuit elements may be oversampled at least three times, and a median average of the three parameter readings rather than the arithmetic mean may be used for controlling a device, e.g. a fan, configured to regulate the environmental parameter, e.g. temperature, a the location of the monitored circuit elements. For example, when a CPU temperature reading is requested by the system comprising the CPU, a thermal monitoring system may acquire at least three consecutive temperature readings of the CPU, discard the highest temperature reading and the lowest temperature reading, and return the median reading to be used in controlling a fan configured to regulate temperature at the location of the CPU, resulting in more accurate temperature readings and more accurate fan control. In various implementations, more than three readings may be considered at a time, and running averages based on median values may be computed in a variety of ways to obtain a temperature control value to control the fan.
US07991513B2
A system that can save energy and reduce electric utility costs is disclosed. The system may include one or more current measurement devices communicating with a processor as well as one or more switching devices for controlling power consumption in response to utility rate pricing systems.
US07991510B2
Systems and methods for liquid flow sensing and control for use with a variety of different types of liquid flow measurement and control systems. The liquid flow sensor system senses a flow signal indicative of the flow rate of the liquid flowing in a sensor conduit and analyzes the flow signal to determine, by detecting characteristic changes in the signal, whether a bubble is present in the sensor conduit. Where the system determines that a bubble is present, it may generate an alarm signal indicative of the presence of the bubble. A flow control system incorporating the flow sensor as a feedback source may respond to the detection of a bubble by temporarily freezing the flow control parameters until the bubble has exited the sensor conduit. The flow control system can implement procedures for clearing a bubble from the sensor conduit where the system detects that the bubble has become stuck.
US07991501B2
A surface machining method for obtaining a planar material of a uniform thickness is provided. This method includes mounting a planar material on a surface plate, setting the coordinate axis in the plane direction of the planar material to X, Y, and setting the coordinate axis in the height direction to Z, virtualizing an XY plane including an origin of the Z direction measured as a distance Z(m,n) from the coordinates (Xm, Yn) of a virtual plane ABCD to the plate thickness center plane S composed of midpoints of segments connecting an upper surface and a lower surface of the planar material, measuring the distance in the Z direction of the plate thickness center plane from the origin in an arbitrary XY plane position, and tilting and cutting the planar material so that the difference between maximum and minimum value of the obtained height data will be minimum.
US07991498B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method for printing a painted three-dimensional object. Each layer of the object is printed so that only the external circumference of the layer contains colored material. The building material used may be transparent, and a white colored material may be used as a barrier between the building material and the colored material.
US07991486B2
A process control apparatus for controlling a control target includes, but is not limited to, first and second control units. The first control unit is designed in a design environment unspecifying any period of disturbance. The first control unit performs a feedback control to the control target by using a setting value of the control target and a measured value of the control target. The first control unit is included in a feedback loop. The second control unit is also included in the feedback loop. The second control unit is designed by using an internal model principle. The second control unit rejects the disturbance, which is applied to the feedback loop, by using the measured value of the control target.
US07991483B1
An implantable device includes at least one electrode comprising a conductive base and polyoxometalate anions disposed on or within the conductive base; and at least one conductor attached to the at least one electrode for conducting electrical energy to the at least one electrode.
US07991467B2
Subcutaneous Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (SubQ ICDs) are disclosed that are entirely implantable subcutaneously with minimal surgical intrusion into the body of the patient and provide distributed cardioversion-defibrillation sense and stimulation electrodes for delivery of cardioversion-defibrillation shock and pacing therapies across the heart when necessary. The SubQ ICD is implemented with other implantable and external medical devices and communicates to provide drugs and therapy in a coordinated and synergistic manner.
US07991466B2
Methods and apparatus to restore central and peripheral disorders/dysfunction caused by edema, ischemia, and nitric oxide (NO) deficiency and to improve or facilitate muscle performance (e.g. endurance and recovery) by utilizing a device which stimulates cell initiated NO activation, promotes interstitial protein clearance, and induces angiogenesis. By use of these methods and apparatus, it is possible to treat a number of disorders/diseases caused by a deficiency of nitric oxide, a lack of proper circulation and vascularity, a build up of proteins and increased tissue water content due to injury; and to improve or facilitate muscle performance (e.g., muscle endurance and muscle recovery.
US07991465B2
The present invention relates generally to a method and device of partial or complete functional restoration of the damaged nervous system by bridging a cavity in the central or peripheral nervous tissue and, more particularly to a system and method for repairing the nerve signal transduction by bridging of the cavity with microelectrode elements more particular microelectrodes for stimulation and microelectrodes for recording.
US07991456B2
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring a cardiac condition of a patient. The system includes a sensor for receiving a patient's heart rate and a processor that is programmable to set a patient's safe heart rate zone. The processor is also configured to determine whether the patient's heart rate has exceeded the safe heart rate zone. In response to determining that the patient's heart rate has exceeded the safe heart rate zone, the processor may reprogram a new safe heart rate zone.
US07991447B2
To control information obtained from inside of a living body with higher precision as compared to that in the conventional technology by controlling a ratio of intensities of light, directed to a trial body, in a plurality of wavelength ranges different in peak wavelength from each other, a measurement error included in information obtained from the living body can be controlled by changing a ratio of intensity of the light in the first wavelength range against that of the light in the second wavelength range. When intensity of irradiated light is limited from the viewpoint of safety to the trial subject, keeping a ratio of the light irradiated to the trial body in the first wavelength range against that of the light in the second wavelength range under a prespecified value and also changing the ratio of irradiated light intensities under the prespecified value.
US07991443B2
A sliding hinge is mounted in an electronic device and has a stationary bracket, a sliding bracket and a resilient element. The stationary bracket connects to a base of the electronic device. The sliding bracket connects to a cover of the electronic device, is mounted slidably on the stationary bracket and has a body. The resilient element is mounted between the stationary bracket and the body of the sliding bracket to provide effectively friction to maintain the cover at any desired position. With the positioning holes and the positioning protrusions are formed on the stationary bracket and the sliding bracket to simplify the assembling procedure.
US07991440B2
A rotatable connecting mechanism (100) includes a cover (10), a base (30), a toothed element (20) and an elastic element (24). The cover is rotatably mounted on the base (30). The toothed element (20) on a surface of the cover (10) facing to the base (30). The toothed element (20) defining a plurality of toothed grooves (222) around a peripheral wall thereof. The elastic element (24) having an engaging portion (2422) formed thereon and configured on a surface of the base (30) facing to the cover (10). The engaging portion (2422) rotatably engages 5 the plurality of toothed grooves (222).
US07991434B2
A Combi-SIM card framework of electronic purse combining wireless transceiver of mobile device is a framework that combines the mobile phone subscriber identity module (SIM or USIM) chip and the electronic purse smart card chip having no wireless induction analog circuit to form a complex subscriber identity module (hereinafter known as Combi-SIM) and further cooperates with a mobile device having multifunction wireless transceiver. Based on the fact that the multifunction wireless transceiver is equipped with the signal path selection functions, the mobile device not only works as a wireless card but also works as a card reader to read exterior wireless card or access the content of electronic purse smart card in the Combi-SIM. Herewith, it provides functions of electronic purse and telecommunication value added service integration. Consumer proceeds electronic purse transaction at anytime and anywhere through the convenience of carry-on mobile device.
US07991433B2
An electronic device accessory includes a housing containing electronic circuitry. A plug extends from the housing and the plug is configured to connect to a receptacle of the electronic device. A member is attached to the housing and is moveable with respect to the housing so as to physically interfere with connection of the plug with the receptacle of the electronic device.
US07991425B2
A mobile terminal device detects current communication environment status of the device and calculates a value of a radio quality index (RQI), and adjusts the roaming threshold according to the value of the RQI. The device further calculates a value of a user movement index (UMI) and adjusts the frequency of the device for scanning object access points. After determining the object access point that has satisfied a roaming threshold, the device ends the communication between the device and the current access point, and establishes a communication between the device and the object access point.
US07991423B2
A system and method for facilitating the authentication of wireless devices in an environment with multiple wireless networks. A user wishing to join an operating wireless network can bring his wireless device within close physical proximity, for example, less than one meter, of a device in the network that he wishes to join. The user then presses an authenticate button, which causes both devices to enter a low transmission power mode. In such case, the devices are only capable of operation within the close proximity. Being in low power mode will diminish the possibility of eavesdropping on the authentication process. Power down mode also reduces the amount of message traffic in the area and saves scarce power and processing resources at the nodes, which are now out of range. Authentication then takes place in low power mode and once completed, both devices resume normal power levels and continue communicating normally.
US07991419B2
When half-duplex many-to-many communication is performed among a plurality of mobile stations having different codecs in a single group, transcoding is performed with a small number of codec circuits. A transcoder manages an SSRC of a received RTP packet, detaches voice information from a jitter buffer, which is identical to a latest SSRC, and inputs the detached voice information to a codec circuit. As the latest SSRC is switched, a voice sending station subject to transcode is switched, and mobile stations using the same codec share the codec circuit. Therefore, in a half-duplex many-to-many communication (group communication) system, called a professional mobile radio system, push-talk, or press-talk, it is not necessary to switch the transcoder until a radio station which takes a talk burst is changed during a single call (call session).
US07991416B2
Systems and methods are provided for setting up a push-to-talk group call in a wireless communications system 100. The call setup information in a call message 400 is established as potential targets 108-114 are identified on a wireless device 106 to reduce call setup time and overall system latency.
US07991412B2
A wireless communication device has a plurality of antennas and has MIMO functions that receive a plurality of spatially multiplexed signal sets, perform an inverse matrix computation using SN ratios of the plurality of the signal sets, based on a transfer function of a transmission path of the plurality of the signal sets, decode a first encoded signal in which is encoded the plurality of the signal sets on which the inverse matrix computation was performed, and output a decoded signal. The wireless communication device includes an encoder that generates a second encoded signal by encoding the decoded signal and a control portion that, if one of the SN ratio and the difference between the first encoded signal and the second encoded signal does not meet a specified standard, shifts the wireless communication device to a reduced power consumption state in which the amount of electric power that is consumed is reduced.
US07991407B2
A method for identifying an appropriate public safety answering point for a mobile unit includes establishing communication between a telematics service provider and the mobile unit. Mobile unit data is received at the telematics service provider. The data includes at least the speed of the mobile unit. The telematics service provider, upon recognition and analysis of the data, predicts a position of the mobile unit during a planned conversation with a public safety answering point. An appropriate public safety answering point is identified based on the predicted position of the mobile unit. Communication with the identified public safety answering point is established from the telematics service provider.
US07991406B2
A device enabling a change of settings of applications is implemented in a mobile terminal. In order to facilitate a change of such settings, the device comprises a storage portion for storing a plurality of configurations. Each stored configuration is associated to at least one location and each stored configuration defines settings for applications implemented in the mobile terminal. The device further comprises a controlling portion for receiving information on a current position of the mobile terminal, for retrieving automatically a configuration associated to a location identified by the position information from the storage portion, and for changing settings of applications implemented in the mobile terminal according to the retrieved configuration. The device can be either a mobile terminal, or a module for a mobile terminal. The invention relates equally to a corresponding system and to a corresponding method.
US07991391B2
A portable communication device may be used so that, in place of speaking into the portable communication device during a telephone call, users may initiate playback of pre-recorded messages to the party with whom the user is communicating. In one implementation, a device may receive, during a telephone call between a first party and a second party, a command from the first party to transmit a pre-recorded message to the second party. The pre-recorded message may be an audible message that was pre-recorded by the first party. The device may transmit the pre-recorded message to the second party in response to the command.
US07991390B2
A wireless communication terminal and program updating method are provided. The method downloads a binary file from a host computer to update a program. The method includes determining, if the wireless communication terminal is booted, whether the wireless communication terminal is in a binary file download mode or if the wireless communication terminal has been rebooted by generation of an undesired event; and if so, setting a start position for downloading the binary file according to the number of occurrences of the undesired event. Thereafter, even when downloading is interrupted by an undesired event, downloading is performed from a position at which it was interrupted, not from the start position of the file, so that the time required for downloading the file can be reduced.
US07991383B2
A method of identifying an emergency call received on a mobile device includes receiving a call from an emergency call center. In association with the call, an emergency signal is received, indicating that the call is an emergency call. Information is displayed on the mobile device to identify the emergency call.
US07991381B1
The disclosed examples of a telematics communication method involves detecting a condition signifying an emergency, and in response attempting a first wireless call directed to a call center of a telematics service provider, using a primary voice communication facility. If the first wireless call attempt fails, an attempt to complete at least one second wireless call directed to the call center is made, using one or more alternate voice communication facilities. Upon failure of the secondary call attempt(s), the method involves attempting to establish a wireless data communication with the call center, using a non-voice wireless communication facility.
US07991374B2
Methods and apparatus for supporting the communication of an information stream using an individual polarization type are described. For example, a first data stream is communicated from a base station sector transmitter using horizontal polarization signals and a second data stream is communicated using vertical polarization signals. A mobile wireless communications device, employing a plurality of dipole antennas associated with different direction polarizations, e.g., a first direction horizontal polarization dipole antenna, a second direction horizontal polarization dipole antenna and a vertical polarization dipole antenna, multiple receiver modules, and a combiner module, facilitates the recovery of horizontal polarization signals without the need for azimuth antenna orienting or repositioning, and also facilitates the recovery of vertical polarization signals. The first data stream associated with horizontal polarization may be, and sometimes is, transmitted concurrently with the second data stream associated with vertical polarization using the same time/frequency air link resources, e.g., segment.
US07991368B2
A frequency conversion apparatus includes a frequency generation circuit, which is based on a first semiconductor material having a first elemental composition and is coupled to generate one or more Local Oscillator (LO) signals. The apparatus further includes a conversion circuit, which is based on a second semiconductor material having a second elemental composition different from the first elemental composition. The conversion circuit is coupled to accept an input signal in a first frequency range and to convert the input signal to an output signal in a second frequency range by mixing the input signal with the one or more LO signals.
US07991358B2
A method for feeding back a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes determining a number of subchannels for which the MS feeds back CQIs based on a preset feedback efficiency factor, selecting the determined number of subchannels in a descending order of channel quality, and feeding back the CQIs of the selected subchannels to a Base Station (BS).
US07991357B2
A system and method for interfacing with sensors using an open architecture and standards based approach is provided. A sensor controller located on each container and any variety of one or more sensors are equipped with complementary short range wireless communications devices. The sensor may adhere to a predefined interface specification such that it may be automatically commissioned into, and operation in conjunction with the sensor controller and the container security system.
US07991355B2
A transmission circuit for an RF inductive link, particularly for an implanted device such as a cochlear implant. In a preferred form, the transmission circuit 1 includes a transmitter coil 24 and a damping device, including an auxiliary coil 4 and switch 6. The switch is operated to close the coil circuit when data zeros are transmitted. This has the advantage of improving modulation depth without placing stress on the RF driver output switches.
US07991350B2
An apparatus and method for outputting audio in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a communication module for transmitting/receiving a call connection request and speech signals during a call connection service; an audio processor connected to at least one audio output device, for controlling the output audio data/speech signals through the audio output device, which is a first audio output device, and checking whether another audio output device is connected; and a controller for checking at the audio processor whether there is another audio device, which is a second audio output device, for outputting the speech signals received while outputting the audio data of an application service through the first audio output device, and when there is the second audio output device, for controlling the output of the speech signals through the second audio output device.
US07991345B2
An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit that executes print jobs in which images are printed on sheets; a sheet discharge tray that receives the printed sheets and partition sheets that partition the printed sheets; a transport unit that discharges the printed sheets and the partition sheets to the sheet discharge tray; a clock that measures the time; and a partition unit that controls the transport unit to discharge the partition sheet during the first interval between print jobs after a predetermined period of time based on the measurement results of the clock.
US07991344B2
A recovery port, through which waste powder is recovered, is formed at one end of a waste powder recovery container. A conveying member for conveying the waste powder, which has been recovered through the recovery port, from one end to the other end is disposed inside the waste powder recovery container. The conveying member includes a first conveying portion positioned on a side of the recovery port, for conveying the waste powder to the other end, and a second conveying portion for dispersing in a widthwise direction the waste powder conveyed by the first conveying portion.
US07991343B2
A photoconductor drum cleaning apparatus in an electrophotographic printer is disclosed which is simple in makeup, which allows a wiping roll to be rotated to follow rotation of the photoconductor drum is rotated and to be serviced for a prolonged life and is capable of performing an improved cleaning operation. To this end, the photoconductor drum 1 comprises: disposed in order from upstream in the direction of the photoconductor drum, a blade scraper 11 contacting with the surface of the rotating photoconductor drum and a wiping roll 12 rotating reversely in rubbing contact with the surface of the rotating photoconductor drum; disposed upstream of an area of rubbing contact of the rotating wiping roll with the photoconductor drum, a squeezing roll 13 rotating normally in pressure contact with the surface of the rotating wiping roll; and disposed downstream of an area of rubbing contact of the rotating wiping roll with the photoconductor drum and upstream of the rotating squeeze roll, a brush roll 14 rotating normally or reversely in pressure contact with the surface of the rotating wiping roll, the brush roll having a portion of its outer periphery immersed in a cleaning carrier solution.
US07991336B2
An image forming apparatus includes a pattern forming unit which forms a light amount adjustment pattern on an image carrier belt, a light amount control unit which controls the amount of light irradiating the image carrier belt and pattern, a detection sensor which detects reflected light amounts from the image carrier belt and pattern with respect to the irradiating light amount and stores the detection results in a storage unit, a calculation unit which calculates the correspondence between the irradiating light amount and the reflected light amounts from the image carrier belt and pattern on the basis of the detection results and stores the calculation results in the storage unit, and a light amount decision unit which decides, on the basis of the calculation results, a light amount at which the difference between the reflected light amounts from the image carrier belt and pattern exhibits a value set in advance.
US07991334B2
A toner container includes a longitudinal container body and a held portion. The longitudinal container body has a first end and a second end distal to the first end in a length direction of the container body. The container body includes a gear configured to engage with a drive gear provided in the main body. The held portion is attached to the first end of the container body and configured to be detachably attached to the toner-container holder. The held portion includes a toner outlet, is configured to be held by the toner-container holder in non-rotating manner, and is biased downwardly by a force applied from the drive gear to the gear when the drive gear rotates.
US07991328B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units for forming a developer image on an image supporting member; a transfer unit for transferring and overlapping the developer image on a medium to form a developer laminated portion; and a fixing unit for fixing the developer laminated portion. One of the image forming units uses transparent developer having a softening point higher than that of color developer used in the other of the image forming units, and having an average particle size larger than that of the color developer.
US07991324B2
A photosensitive unit is described. The photosensitive unit may include a side wall; a drum body rotatably provided with respect to the side wall and formed with an electrostatic latent image; a brake member provided on one end portion of the drum body in an axial direction and having a brake-side inclined surface whose diameter is gradually enlarged or reduced along the axial direction with an axis of the drum body as a center; and an urging member having an urging-side inclined surface surface-contacting the brake-side inclined surface and urging the brake member such that the urging-side inclined surface surface-contacts the brake-side inclined surface.
US07991318B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a developer carrier arranged to face the image carrier to form a developing nip portion, which carries developer containing toner for developing a latent image formed on the image carrier, a developing unit having a developer regulating member that regulates a thickness of a layer of the carried developer, an air sending duct having an air sending path provided on the developing unit, which sends air to the developer carrier and a suction duct having a suction path provided on the developing unit, which sucks air from the developer carrier. The developer regulating member is arranged on an air sending duct side, and the air sending and suction paths are arranged to be connected by forming a space surrounded by a surface of the developer carrier, the developer regulating member and a wall forming the suction path.
US07991315B2
A developing apparatus, including: a developing container which has an opening portion and contains a developer; a developer carrying member which carries the developer at the opening portion; and a rotatable developer supplying member which is in contact with the developer carrying member and has a surface of a foam layer, for supplying the developer to the developer carrying member, the developer supplying member detecting a capacitance between the developer carrying member and the developer supplying member, wherein a surface aeration amount L (liter/min.) of the developer supplying member satisfies 1.8≦L.
US07991314B2
A systems and methods for providing an image forming machine capable of monitoring the absolute charge to mass ratio of toner and dielectric thickness of a photoconductor layer on a photoconductor in an image forming device, and for providing warnings, alerts and process controls when the absolute charge to mass ratio of toner in an image forming device or the dielectric thickness of a photoconductor layer falls outside a predetermined range.
US07991306B2
A sheet transport apparatus of the present invention includes sheet transport means that transports a sheet, an actual position detecting device that detects an actual position of the sheet based on the rotation of a rotating member that is driven to rotate by the sheet transported by the sheet transport means, and a controller that controls a sheet transport speed of the sheet transport means depending on a difference between the actual position of the sheet which is detected by the actual position detecting device and a predicted position of the sheet which is calculated based on the sheet transport speed of the sheet transport means.
US07991304B2
A diagnostic system that provides a service technician with service information during servicing of an image processing apparatus includes at least one counter that is incremented during operation of the image processing apparatus, a pressure detecting unit that detects a pressure at a point in an air flow path on the condition that the at least one counter is reset to zero after initial servicing of the image processing apparatus, a determining unit that determines whether a difference between the detected pressure and a fault threshold pressure is less than a predetermined margin, and a display unit that displays a fault code indicating additional servicing of the image processing apparatus is recommended on the condition that the determining unit determines that the difference between the detected pressure and the predetermined threshold pressure is less than the predetermined margin.
US07991302B2
A method and apparatus for optical signaling. In one embodiment, a laser driver converts a digital voltage sequence to a current signal having a bias mode adjustable by a bias control and a modulation mode adjustable by a modulation control. A laser generates an optical signal responsive to the current signal of the laser driver. In one embodiment, a photo-detector receives an optical signal and generates a single ended current signal. A transimpedance amplifier circuit converts the single ended current signal to a differential voltage signal. A clock recovery circuit generates an aligned clock signal and a sampler circuit uses the aligned clock signal to retrieve a digital voltage sequence.
US07991296B1
A circuit and method to synchronize with a data transmission having a plurality of data transmission frames each with a start boundary identified by a predetermined synchronization pattern, includes comparing sets of data within the data transmission to a predetermined synchronization pattern. A frame tracking signal is assigned to each one of the plurality of comparison results that indicates a match between a data pattern within one of the plurality of sets of data and the predetermined synchronization pattern, including matches that occur multiple times within a known duration of the data transmission frame duration. Based on each frame tracking signal assigned to a comparison result, the start boundary of the data transmission frames is searched. The start boundary may be search by monitoring successive occurrences of the predetermined synchronization pattern in the data transmission at intervals of the known data transmission frame duration for each data matching data pattern. If the predetermined synchronization pattern occurs successively in the data transmission, the associated data pattern is confirmed as the synchronization pattern in the data transmission, and synchronization with the data transmission is achieved.
US07991289B2
A communication system (20) includes a transmitter (22) with (i) a transmitter photonic crystal (30) having a waveguide (40) and multiple cavities (42, 44, and 46) spaced along the waveguide (40); (ii) a light source (32); and (iii) a controller (34) that controls the cavities (42, 44, and 46) to translate multiple electronic data bits to optical data bits simultaneously in respective cavities (42, 44, and 46) illuminated by the light source (32). A corresponding receiver (24) includes a receiver photonic crystal (92) having a data/key waveguide (104) for receiving a data/key signal and a latch waveguide (106) for receiving a latch signal. The photonic crystal (92) also includes data readout cavities (110, 112, 114, and 116) and lock cavities (160, 162, and 164) adapted to compare the key bits to respective lock bits. The data readout cavities (110, 112, 114, and 116) are spaced to read out the data bits simultaneously if (a) the data/key signal and the latch signal are received simultaneously, (b) the data/key signal and the latch signal have the same length, and (c) the key bits in the key/data signal match the lock bits.
US07991288B1
OCDMA systems provide for storage and retrieval of OCDMA data while maintaining OCDMA encoding. One system includes an optical splitter that receives an OCDMA data stream having a multiple wavelengths of light. A plurality of tunable light filters is optically interconnected with the optical splitter. A controller tunes the tunable light filters such that they switch wavelengths of the OCDMA data stream over time. A plurality of light detectors is respectively coupled to the tunable light filters to convert the filtered optical data streams from the tunable light filters to electronic data streams. Each generated electronic data stream is stored with a corresponding storage volume. Retrieval of the OCDMA data is performed by reversing the wavelength switching used to store the OCDMA data stream. The electronic data streams are thereby converted to optical data streams using tunable light generators and subsequently converted into the OCDMA data stream with an optical coupler.
US07991282B1
A circuit and method for charging a super capacitor to an optimal voltage that provides a desired flash diode current value while minimizing power dissipation in circuit elements other than the flash diode. One embodiment uses periodic sampling of the current through the flash diode and termination of the charging upon the super capacitor having been charged to a voltage value that produces the desired flash diode current. Another embodiment includes a current regulator in the flash diode firing circuit that keeps the current at a substantially constant level during the time that the flash diode is being fired.
US07991279B2
An exemplary image stabilization system includes a fixed body having a first receiving cavity therein, a movable unit received in the first receiving cavity, a pivot member located between the fixed body and the movable unit, a motion sensor, a driving module, and a U-shaped magnetic shield. The pivot member is engagingly received in and between the fixed body and the movable unit. The motion sensor is disposed on the fixed body for detecting a movement of the image stabilization system. The driving module is configured for driving the movable unit to rotate around the pivot member to compensate a movement of the image stabilization system based on the motion detection result of the motion sensor. The U-shaped magnetic shield includes a first plate, a second plate, and a connecting plate between the first and second plates. The first vertical is securely mounted on the movable unit. The second plate is located on an opposite side of the first plate to the fixed barrel. The driving module is arranged between the first plate and the second plate.
US07991268B2
A wireless communication terminal includes a wireless communication module and a controller. The wireless communication module is configured to communicate with other communication terminals over a wireless interface. The controller is configured to establish a connection with at least one participant wireless communication terminal via the wireless communication module, and to operate in each of a direct mode and, alternatively, a play list mode.
US07991267B2
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information storage medium. This realizes a data structure that causes the recording and deleting places on the information storage medium to correspond spuriously to places on a single tape, such as a VTR tape. Use of the data structure provides users with an easy-to-use interface.
US07991261B2
The present invention is that of a solar energy system that uses a light-guide solar panel (LGSP) to trap light inside a dielectric or other transparent panel and propagates the light to one of the panel edges for harvesting by a solar energy collector such as a photovoltaic cell. This allows for very thin modules whose thickness is comparable to the height of the solar energy collector. This eliminates the depth requirements inherent in traditional concentrated photovoltaic solar energy systems.
US07991259B2
The present method and kit provide for effective and efficient patching of fiber optic cables. The kit comprises mechanical fiber optic splicers, a fiber optic patch, a splice housing, and a protective housing. The mechanical fiber optic splicers can be used to splice the fiber optic cable and the fiber optic patch. The mechanical fiber optic splicers, the fiber optic patch, and a portion of the fiber optic cable can be enclosed within the splice housing. The splice housing can then be enclosed within a protective housing.
US07991255B2
The invention relates to a pump coupler (2) and a manufacturing method. The pump coupler (2) comprises a least one signal fiber (50) for outputting optical energy, multiple pump fibers (31) for inputting optical energy into the signal fiber (50), and a coupling structure (40) for coupling the optical energy of the pump fibers (31) into the signal fiber (50). A signal feed-through fiber (32) goes through the coupling structure (40). In accordance with the invention the coupling structure (40) is a tapering capillary tube (40) having a first wide end (65) and a second narrow end (70), the pump fibers (31) are connected to the wide end of the capillary tube (40), and at least the narrow end (70) of the capillary tube (70) is collapsed around the signal fiber (32).
US07991244B2
A variable skew correction system comprises a de-skew application executable to transform scanned image data of a document exhibiting a variable skew condition to an output model representing a de-skewed image of the document by transferring pixel data for each of a plurality of raster lines of the scanned image data to the output model, wherein a variable spacing between at least two adjacent raster lines of the scanned image data is modified in the output model to correct non-linear distortion of the scanned image data.
US07991242B2
A method and an apparatus suitable for screening a receptacle are provided. An image signal conveying an input image related to contents of the receptacle is received, the image signal having been produced by a device that is characterized by introducing distortion into the input image. A distortion correction process is applied to the image signal to remove at least part of the distortion from the input image, thereby to generate a corrected image signal conveying at least one corrected image. The corrected image signal is processed in combination with a plurality of data elements associated with a plurality of target objects in an attempt to detect a presence of at least one of the target objects in the receptacle. A detection signal is generated in response to detection of the presence of at least one target object in the receptacle.
US07991234B2
An image information-inputting unit inputs image information including position information indicating a position where an image was captured. A reference distance-calculating unit calculates a reference distance from a predetermined reference position utilizing the image information. An image information-classifying unit classifies the image information based on the reference distance.
US07991232B2
There is provided an image similarity calculation system which yields a large value for image similarity between an edited image and an original image. A local region weight calculation means 14 calculates a weight value for each local region in the image as a local region weight value, based on probability of editing each local region in the image. The local region weight calculation means 14 outputs the calculated local region weight value to an image similarity calculation means 122. A small region similarity calculation means 121 compares a feature quantity for each small region resulting from dividing an inquiry image with a feature quantity for each small region resulting from dividing a reference image. The small region similarity calculation means 121 calculates a similarity of feature quantities for the respective small regions. The image similarity calculation means 122 calculates an image similarity between the inquiry image and the reference image by applying a small-region-based weight value to the calculated similarity. This weight value is found from a local region weight value supplied from the local region weight calculation means 14.
US07991231B2
An image processing apparatus and method for capturing an image including characters or graphics, determines whether or not the characters or graphics included in the captured image are prepared by handwriting based on a magnitude of a density gradient in a direction crossing an edge for characters or graphics included in the image, and applies processing to the image in accordance with the result of the determination.
US07991218B2
Solving means is configured of a signal input interface, a data calculation unit, and a signal output interface. The signal input interface allows image data which is obtained by photographing hole patterns, and CAD data which corresponds to hole patterns included in the image data, to be inputted. The data calculation unit includes: CAD hole-pattern central-position detection means which detects central positions respectively of hole patterns included in the CAD data from the CAD data, and which generates data which represents, with an image, the central positions of the respective hole patterns; pattern extraction means which extracts pattern data from the image data; image hole-pattern central-position detection means which detects central positions of the respective hole patterns in the image data from the pattern data, and which generates data which represents, with an image, the central positions of these hole patterns detected from the image data; and collation process means which detects positional data in the image data corresponding to that in the CAD data through a process of collating the CAD hole-pattern central-position data with the image hole-pattern central-position data. The signal output interface outputs the positional data outputted from the data calculation unit.
US07991207B2
A region-extraction method for extracting a contour of a desired region is provided.The method includes: a step (a) for displaying an image; a step (b) for selecting a desired region in the image; a step (c) for selecting an element graphic corresponding at least a partial contour in a partial region in the desired region; a step (d) for approximating the contour of a part of the element image to at least a partial contour in the partial region; a step (e) for repeating the steps (c) to (d) at least twice; and a step (f) for making a first contour by combining at least a part of elements after the approximation.
US07991203B2
A video communication device includes an image capturing module for capturing a video image, and an image processing system. The image processing system includes a face detection module, and a processing module. The face detection module detects a face region and a head region corresponding to the face region in the video image. The processing module generates a processed video image by masking all areas of the video image except the head region, and outputs the processed video image.
US07991202B2
There are provided an image processing method, and an image processing system, an image processing device, and a computer program product capable of detecting a position of a fringe portion of a detecting object such as an outline of a face of a driver with high precision, even when a variation of illuminance occurs locally in a system using, for example, an on-vehicle camera mounted on a vehicle for imaging the face of the driver. Luminance of pixels arranged in a first direction such as a horizontal direction of an image is subjected to quadric differential, and data based on a quadratic differentiation result is accumulated in a second direction such as a vertical direction, and based on an accumulated result, a position in the first direction of the detecting object in the image is detected.
US07991200B2
Processing for judging whether a face is included in a frame is performed, in a predetermined interval, on each of frames included in a moving image of a subject, displayed on a monitor, until the judgment becomes positive. If it is judged that a face is included in a frame, the facial position is detected in the frame, and stored. Then, judgment is made as to whether a face is included in the next frame after predetermined time. If the judgment is positive, the facial position is detected. The previously stored facial position is replaced by the newly detected facial position, and the newly detected facial position is stored. These processes are repeated until photographing operation is performed by operating a release unit.
US07991198B2
Techniques for determining authenticity of analog forms such as packaging or documents (117). One of the techniques determines whether the analog form has been made directly from a digital representation (903) or by photocopying or scanning an analog form. The technique makes the determination by comparing (911) an original digital representation of a portion of the analog form with a digital recording (203) of the portion from the analog form and measuring differences in features that are affected by the operations of photocopying or scanning. The original digital representation (105) and the analog form may have a “noisy”, i.e., random or pseudo random pattern. Such noisy patterns may further be used for other authentication purposes, such as determining whether the portion of the analog form that has the noisy pattern has been altered and to carry hidden messages. The noisy pattern may carry a logo or may be. part or all of a barcode.
US07991185B2
Embodiments of the invention are a novel splicing detection scheme that detects the spliced images by distinguishing image features that are extracted by exploiting both magnitude and phase information of a given image. The image features include the statistical moments of characteristic functions of wavelet subbands of a test image and a prediction-error image. In addition, the approximation (LL) subband at different levels is individually erased by forcing the wavelet coefficients to zero and the inverse wavelet transform is applied in order to produce reconstructed image with enhanced high frequency components. Further, the moments of the characteristic functions of these reconstructed images provide additional image features. Moreover, the statistics (mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis) of 2-D phase congruency array associated with the reconstructed images provide additional image features for splicing detection. These inputs provide a 120 dimensional image feature vector that includes 96 moment features and 24 phase features.
US07991180B2
The present invention is directed to earphone apparatus having a first earphone and a second earphone. The apparatus also includes a distinguishing mechanism for distinguishing the first earphone from the second earphone by the touch of a user.
US07991177B2
A control pad structure (10) with a built-in speaker (40) includes a circuit board (20) disposing a plurality of touch switches (22) thereon; a control pad (30) is provided with a plurality of bulge points (36); and an accommodating space (35) is formed between the circuit board and the control pad for enclosing the speaker therein. The speaker is also provided with a bulge point. When the control pad is operated, the bulge points engage with corresponding touch switches to activate the switches. A plurality of openings (24) is defined in the circuit board between the touch switches.
US07991176B2
The invention relates to a method, a system, a module, an electronic device and to a computer program product for widening a two-channel input. Two audio channels are input and filtered by equalizing said channels. The filtered channels are mixed with their opposite channels in a cross-talk network and output from loudspeakers and by this providing a spatial impression for audio.
US07991167B2
A communication system (e.g., a speakerphone) includes an array of microphones, a speaker, memory and a processor. The processor may perform a virtual broadside scan on the microphone array and analyze the resulting amplitude envelope to identify acoustic source angles. Each of the source angles may be further investigated with a directed beam (e.g., a hybrid superdirective/delay-and-sum beam) to obtain a corresponding beam signal. Each source may be classified as either intelligence or noise based on an analysis of the corresponding beam signal. The processor may design a virtual beam pointed at an intelligence source and having nulls directed at one or more of the noise sources. Thus, the virtual beam may be highly sensitive to the intelligence source and insensitive to the noise sources.
US07991157B2
A device, such as a cell phone, uses an image sensor to capture image data. The phone can respond to detection of particular imagery feature (e.g., watermarked imagery, barcodes, image fingerprints, etc.) by presenting distinctive graphics on a display screen. Such graphics may be positioned within the display, and affine-warped, in registered relationship with the position of the detected feature, and its affine distortion, as depicted in the image data. Related approaches can be implemented without use of an image sensor, e.g., relying on data sensed from an RFID device. A variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US07991155B2
To provide a backup management device that deletes a content so as to be restorable in the future while protecting a copyright of the content, in a case where there exists a backup of the content. In an HD recorder, a first information storage unit stores a content, a second information storage unit stores a backup of the content, a secure storage unit stores a hash value of the content. If receiving an instruction to delete the content so as to be restorable, a control unit deletes the content from the first information storage unit. When the content is played back, an encryption processing unit applies a calculation to the content to generate detection information, and the control unit compares the hash value with the detection information to judge whether the content has been tampered.
US07991153B1
Systems and method of encrypting text using glyphs. Implementations of a first method may include receiving text including one or more characters having an order, altering the order of the one or more characters using a mixer cipher to produce one or more mixed characters, and substituting for the one or more mixed characters one or more encrypted characters using a stochastic cipher. The method may further include generating at least one glyph by associating one or more symbols and a position of the one or more symbols within a perimeter of the at least one glyph with the one or more encrypted characters and writing the at least one glyph to a substrate.
US07991149B2
An information input device is provided which is to make input of information by operating a disk-shaped rotating member. The device includes the rotating member (36) which is rotatable with one main side thereof being operated, rotation detecting means (23, 32) for detecting a rotation of the rotating member (36), a central switch activator (26) provided at the center of rotation of the rotating member (36), a central switch (270) which is activated by operating the central switch activator (26), and a plurality of peripheral switches (27) which are turned on when a portion, apart from the center of rotation, of the rotating member (36) is pressed. Rotating the rotating member and pressing the apart portion makes input of information, and operating the central switch activator sets the information thus entered.
US07991146B2
A howling control structure for a full duplex communication system. The structure is implemented as part of an acoustic echo canceller having a conventional transversal adaptive filter. A second transversal adaptive filter, shorter than the conventional filter, that adapts even in the absence of speech in its reference signal, is provided. The short filter adapts quickly and provides enough echo cancellation to prevent howling from occurring, even if the echo path is changed significantly during silence periods.
US07991139B2
Methods and apparatus to limit ring trees in voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) networks are disclosed. A disclosed example parallel ring policy enforcer comprises a memory to hold parallel ring tree information and a policy checker to enforce a parallel ring policy based on a parallel ring request and the parallel ring tree information.
US07991136B2
A method of providing Voice-Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications can be provided by allowing a VoIP phone line included in a calling group of a plurality of VoIP phone lines to connect to an in-progress call between VoIP phone lines included in the calling group.
US07991133B2
In one embodiment, a subscriber line interface circuit includes circuitry to generate metering pulses for insertion onto a subscriber line. The circuitry includes an audio path and a pulse metering path, where the pulse metering path includes a metering generator to generate a digital sine wave from a plurality of stored values, a first interpolator to interpolate the digital sine wave, a filter to filter the interpolated digital sine wave, and a second interpolator to interpolate the filtered interpolated digital sine wave.
US07991128B2
A computer implemented method and computer program product for managing conversational input. The process authenticates a user on a device in a set of communication devices for manipulating conversation stubs. The process monitors an exchange of conversation for a triggering event on the device in a set of communication devices. Responsive to detecting the triggering event, the process generates a conversation stub that contains information relating to the topic of conversation. The conversation stub is stored in a storage device located remotely to the set of communication devices. Responsive to receiving a selection of the conversation stub, the process presents the conversation stub on a communication device selected from the set of communication devices.
US07991120B2
A multi X-ray generating apparatus which has a plurality of electron sources arranged two-dimensionally and targets arranged at positions opposite to the electron sources includes a multi electron source which includes a plurality of electron sources and outputs electrons from driven electron sources by selectively driving a plurality of electron sources in accordance with supplied driving signals, and a target unit which includes a plurality of targets which generate X-rays in accordance with irradiation of electrons output from the multi electron source and outputs X-rays with different radiation qualities in accordance with the generation locations of X-rays. The generation locations and radiation qualities of X-rays from the target unit are controlled by selectively driving the electron sources of the multi electron source.
US07991114B2
An X-ray imaging apparatus includes a multi X-ray source which includes a plurality of X-ray focuses to generate X-rays by irradiating X-ray targets with electron beams, a detector which detects X-rays which have been emitted from the multi X-ray source and have reached a detection surface, and a moving mechanism for moving the multi X-ray source within a plane facing the detection surface. The X-ray imaging apparatus acquires a plurality of X-ray detection signals from the detector by causing the multi X-ray source to perform X-ray irradiation while shifting the positions of a plurality of X-ray focuses which the detector has relative to the detection surface by moving the multi X-ray source using the moving mechanism. The apparatus then generates an X-ray projection image based on the plurality of X-ray detection signals acquired by the detector.
US07991112B2
The present invention discloses a detecting method of an article detection apparatus composed of an individual DR subsystem and an individual CT subsystem, the method comprising: obtaining a first projection data on ray attenuation coefficient by using the DR subsystem to project an A-layer of an article at a first projection angle, and obtaining a second projection data on ray attenuation coefficient by using the CT subsystem to project an A-layer of the article at a second projection angle different from the first projection angle; and judging whether an A-layer of the detected article contains a dangerous article based on the first projection data and the second projection data so as to obtain a first judgment on an A-layer of the detected article. In the present invention, by combining the projection data of the DR subsystem and the projection data of the CT subsystem, the amount of data information used to judge the detected article is greatly increased, therefore, both the detection accuracy and speed are improved.
US07991108B2
A cardiac cavity region specifying part specifies the position of a cardiac cavity region represented in volume data. An image generation plane determining part determines an image generation plane that includes a rotation axis intersecting the cardiac cavity region. With a direction orthogonal to the image generation plane as a view direction, a first image generator generates three-dimensional image data that three-dimensionally represents a region excluding the cardiac cavity region, based on data excluding data included in the cardiac cavity of the volume data. A second image generator generates two-dimensional image data that two-dimensionally represents a region in the image generation plane, based on the data excluding the data included in the cardiac cavity region of the volume data. An image synthesizer synthesizes the three-dimensional image data with the two-dimensional image data. A display controller causes a display to display the synthesized image.
US07991099B2
Embodiments for clock and/or data recovery may comprise two or more samplers to sample a relatively small number of distinct data sample phase locations of a data pulse relative to an estimate of the location of a center of the data pulse. Signal level values for the sample phase locations may be compared, and sample locations for one or more other data pulses may be adjusted based at least in part on the comparisons.
US07991093B2
A digital filter operates on the basis of a first clock having a first frequency. A stereo modulator operates on the basis of a second clock having a second frequency higher than the first frequency and being asynchronous. The stereo modulator performs a predetermined process on output data of the digital filter. A frequency modulator operates on the basis of a third clock having a third frequency whose origin is the same as that of the second clock, and performs frequency modulation on an output signal of the second digital computing unit. A sampling converter receives output data having the first frequency from the digital filter, converts a sampling frequency to data synchronized with the second clock, and outputs the obtained data to the stereo modulator.
US07991091B2
Multi-carrier transmission is performed without inserting a repetitive signal into guard interval periods. A transmitter provides guard interval periods by using a null signal to save transmission power and prevent the deterioration of the SN ratio. Delayed waves at the head of each received symbol cause high-frequency waves to occur and carriers to interfere with one another. Accordingly, a receiver adds a component following each received symbol to a delayed-wave component at the head of the received symbol. As a result, the delayed-wave component at the head of the received symbol and the added component become continuous in wave form and subcarriers do not interfere with each other.
US07991086B2
A system and method for carrier recovery includes a plurality of carrier recovery modules, each processing the same input symbols, and each having a gain input and an error output. A loop gain control receives errors from the carrier recovery modules and provides gains to the carrier recovery modules. Based upon the errors during a current period, the loop gain control determines which module produced lowest errors, and selects the gain associated with that module as a best gain which is applied to a module which outputs symbols for decoding during a next period.
US07991083B2
A method and system is provided for detecting preambles in a multi-cell communication system. The method detects preambles reliably even in the presence of interference caused by multiple cells reusing the same frequency in the multi-cell communication system. After receiving a signal in the receiving period, the time domain signal is sampled and transformed into the frequency domain vector. The correlation vector is calculated with the frequency domain vector and pseudonoise code of the wireless station. The presence of a preamble is verified if the value in the correlation vector exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US07991072B2
A telecommunication system with a modem having a controlling module coupled to a data transmission module includes a transmitter configured to transmit channels via a communication line. The channels transport user data by use of signals with modulation having a bitload that is modifiable. The data transmission module includes an artificial noise generator coupled to the transmitter and controlled by the controlling module to inject an artificial noise into the transmitter. The artificial noise is used to influence the signals transmitted by the data transmission module to the communication line and may be added to the data signals either in the transmit time domain processing module or in the transmit frequency domain processing module of the transmitter.
US07991071B2
A transmitter includes a polar modulator that creates phase and amplitude signals which in turn drive a power amplifier. To compensate for AM to PM conversion of the amplitude signal into the amplified signal, a compensation signal is generated from the amplitude signal and combined with the phase signal such that when amplified, the compensation signal cancels the AM to PM conversion. The compensation signal may have an offset term, a linear term, a quadratic term, and a cubic term. A second embodiment comprises a technique by which AM to AM conversion may concurrently be addressed using a second compensation signal.
US07991065B2
Techniques for efficiently computing spatial filter matrices are described. The channel response matrices for a MIMO channel may be highly correlated if the channel is relatively static over a range of transmission spans. In this case, an initial spatial filter matrix may be derived based on one channel response matrix, and a spatial filter matrix for each transmission span may be computed based on the initial spatial filter matrix and a steering matrix used for that transmission span. The channel response matrices may be partially correlated if the MIMO channel is not static but does not change abruptly. In this case, a spatial filter matrix may be derived for one transmission span l and used to derive an initial spatial filter matrix for another transmission span m. A spatial filter matrix for transmission span m may be computed based on the initial spatial filter matrix, e.g., using an iterative procedure.
US07991061B2
A transmitting device is provided that generates OFDM symbols by identifying a sampling frequency of input data that is input from an external device, determining a number of inverse Fourier transform sample points and a number of sampling points of a redundant data portion in accordance with the identified sampling frequency, and subjecting the input data to OFDM modulation using the determined number of sampling points. The transmitting device then transmits the generated OFDM symbols.
US07991058B2
An OFDM reception device detects a time at which impulse noise occurs in a received OFDM signal, and specifies a start position candidate period that does not have intersymbol interference and is estimated to have a guard interval signal in a symbol. When setting a FFT window of an effective symbol length in a symbol duration of each symbol, if the impulse noise occurrence time is included in the symbol, the OFDM reception device determines a start position of the FFT window within a range of the start position candidate period so as to exclude the impulse noise occurrence time as much as possible.
US07991055B2
Digital signals, such as image/video signals are converted between a first format and a second format by using Multiple Description Coding, whereby the second format conveys multiple descriptions (D1 to D4; D1′ to D4′) of the digital signals. In combination with MD coding, the signals are jointly subject to an error concealment process. Preferably, the error concealment process takes place in converting said digital signals from the second format conveying multiple descriptions to the first format.
US07991052B2
Methods, medium, and machines which compress, enhance, encode, transmit, decode, decompress and display digital video images in real time. Real time compression is achieved by sub-sampling each frame of a video signal, filtering the pixel values, and encoding. Real time transmission is achieved due to high levels of effective compression. Real time decompression is achieved by decoding and decompressing the encoded data to display high quality images. A receiver can alter various setting including, but not limited to, the format for the compression, image size, frame rate, brightness and contrast.
US07991039B2
A system and method for monitoring the operating parameters of an electric arc furnace having a primary electrical circuit comprising a primary current transformer. The method includes monitoring the furnace's primary current transformer; collecting data therefrom; transmitting the collected data to a server having an operatively connected monitor; and displaying the collected data on the monitor in substantially real-time. The server also collects information about the performance of the furnace from a programmable logic computer and information entered manually by an operator at a furnace monitoring viewer system, which may also be displayed in substantially real-time on the monitor.
US07991032B2
Disclosed herein is a laser driver including a light emission controlling section configured to stop generation of a control voltage by a control voltage generating section, causing a given voltage corresponding to a magnitude of a reference current to be outputted to an input node of a first emitter follower to operate the first emitter follower for a first time period from start of a light emission time period, release stop of the generation of the control voltage by the control voltage generating section, causing the control voltage to be outputted to the input node of the first emitter follower to operate the first emitter follower until end of the light emission time period of the laser, and operate a second emitter follower to discharge electric charges accumulated in the laser for a second time period after the end of the light emission time period of the laser.
US07991027B1
Apparatus and method for generating controlled-linewidth laser-seed-signals for high-powered fiber-laser amplifier systems. In some embodiments, the natural chirp (frequency change of laser light over a short start-up time) of a DBR laser diode when driven by pulsed current is used to broaden the linewidth of the laser output, while adjusting the peak current and/or the pulse duration to obtain the desired linewidth.
US07991015B2
A line terminal for determining operational status of a U interface includes a time presetting module, a current detecting module, a cycle selecting module, a timer, and a synchronization determining module. The time presetting module is for presetting a plurality of time cycles. The current detecting module is for detecting a loop current flowing via the U interface. The cycle selecting module is for selecting a time cycle from the plurality of time cycles. The timer is for timing during the time cycle. The synchronization determining module is for determining if a line terminal has been synchronized with a digital service unit. The operational status of U interface is determined to be working normally when the line terminal has been synchronized with the digital service unit. A method for determining the operational status of U interfaces is also provided.
US07991012B2
In one embodiment, a channel in a frame of the audio signal is subdivided into a plurality of blocks according to a subdivision hierarchy. The subdivision hierarchy has more than one level, and each level is associated with a different block length. At least two of the blocks have different lengths. First subdivision information indicating whether the channel has been subdivided is generated, and second subdivision information is generated if the subdividing has been performed. The second subdivision information indicates the subdivision of the channel into the blocks.
US07991009B2
A method for generating a preamble of a frame for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication begins by, for each transmit antenna of the MIMO wireless communication, generating a carrier detect field, wherein, from transmit antenna to transmit antenna, the carrier detect field is cyclically shifted. The method continues by, for a first grouping of the transmit antennas of the MIMO wireless communication: generating a first guard interval following the carrier detect field; and generating at least one channel sounding field, wherein, from transmit antenna to transmit antenna in the first grouping, the at least one channel sounding field is cyclically shifted, and wherein the at least one channel sounding field follows the first guard interval. The method continues by, when the MIMO wireless communication includes more than the first grouping of the transmit antennas, for another grouping of the transmit antennas: generating at least one other channel sounding field, wherein, from transmit antenna to transmit antenna in the another grouping, the at least one other channel sounding field is cyclically shifted, and wherein the at least one other channel sounding field follows the at least one channel sounding field; and generating the first guard interval prior to the at least one other channel sounding field.
US07991008B2
A method for identifying the TCP stack type of a transmitting node is disclosed in which a SYN packet is identified by the setting of the SYN bit in the packet. Following the identification of a set SYN bit in the SYN packet, the content of the data field includes a code to identify the TCP stack type associated with the node that transmitted the SYN packet.
US07990991B2
The system of this invention for extending address on UTOPIA and the method thereof can extend the single PHY on the ATM switching chip bus to many PHY ports easily without increasing too much cost, and thus increase the application flexibility of corresponding ATM switching chips. Evidently, there would be still many other embodiments of the invention, the people skilled in the art can make a variety of corresponding changes and transformations in accordance with the invention without departing from its spirit and essential, but these corresponding changes and transformations should also be in the protection range of the claims of this invention.
US07990990B2
A circuit including a first data selection circuit and a second data selection circuit for transmitting a data stream is provided. The first data selection circuit having first controllable channels turns on a first operating channel being one of the first controllable channels in an odd-numbered period and turns off the first controllable channels in an even-numbered period adjacent to the odd-numbered period for transmitting a first bit datum of the data stream. The second data selection circuit having second controllable channels turns off the second controllable channels in the odd-numbered period and turns on a second operating channel being one of the second controllable channels in the even-numbered period for transmitting a second bit datum of the data stream.
US07990989B2
An apparatus for selecting one of a plurality of transaction queues from which to transmit a transaction out of a port of a switch. The apparatus includes a group indicator, for each of the queues, for indicating which one of a plurality of groups of the queues the queue belongs to. The apparatus also includes a group priority indicator, for each group of the plurality of groups, for indicating a priority of the group, the priority indicating a priority for transmitting transactions of the queues of the group relative to other groups of the plurality of groups. The apparatus includes selection logic, coupled to the group indicators and the priority indicators, configured to select a queue of the queues, for transmitting out of the port a transaction thereof, based on the group indicators and the group priority indicators.
US07990982B2
Methods and apparatus to bound network traffic estimation error for multistage measurement sampling and aggregation are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises determining a hierarchical sampling topology representative of multiple data sampling and aggregation stages, the hierarchical sampling topology comprising a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of edges, each node corresponding to at least one of a data source and a data aggregation operation, and each edge corresponding to a data sampling operation characterized by a generalized sampling threshold, selecting a first generalized sampling threshold from a set of generalized sampling thresholds associated with a respective set of edges originating at a respective set of descendent nodes of a target node undergoing network traffic estimation, and transforming a measured sample of network traffic into a confidence interval for a network traffic estimate associated with the target node using the first generalized sampling threshold and an error parameter.
US07990980B2
A method and system are disclosed for modeling non-deterministic queues for efficient model checking. In this method and system, a multitude of messages are held in a plurality of queues, and these messages having n priorities. The method comprises the steps of providing (n+1) queues, including a first queue, and n priority queues; passing said messages from a source to the first queue; passing each of said messages from the first queue to one of said n priority queues based on the priority of the message; and passing each of said messages from the n priority queues to a destination based on the priority of the message. One or more non-deterministic waits are introduced into one or more of the passing steps to simplify passing the messages into or out of the n priority queues.
US07990978B1
In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a plurality of queues configured to share an amount of bandwidth, the amount of bandwidth being allocated between the queues in accordance with a plurality of queue weighting factors associated with the queues. The system further includes an admission control subsystem configured to dynamically adjust the queue weighting factors when a predefined condition has been satisfied. In certain embodiments, the admission control subsystem is configured to adjust the queue weighting factors based on a ratio of bandwidth provisioned on the plurality of queues. In certain embodiments, each of the queues is associated with a different class of service.
US07990974B1
A method for packet processing on a multi-core processor. According to one embodiment of the invention, a first set of one or more processing cores are configured to include the capability to process packets belonging to a first set of one or more packet types, and a second set of one or more processing cores are configured to include the capability to process packets belonging to a second set of one or more packet types, where the second set of packet types is a subset of the first set of packet types. Packets belonging to the first set of packet types are processed at a processing core of either the first or second set of processing cores. Packets belonging to the second set of packet types are processed at a processing core of the first set of processing cores.
US07990972B2
A network communication device includes a transceiver module, an address translation module, a control buffer module, an IP routing module, and a processor. The transceiver module is configured for forwarding packets. The address translation module determines if addresses of the forwarded packets need to be translated and translates the addresses of the forwarded packets when needed. Next, the address translation module marks the packets of translated addresses with flags and records the flags in the control buffer module. The IP routing module routes the forwarded packets from the address translation module and sends the forwarded packets back to the address translation module. The address translation module receives the forwarded packets from the IP routing module, determines if the addresses of the forwarded packets have been translated by querying the flags in the control buffer module, and sends the forwarded packets that have been translated to the transceiver module.
US07990965B1
Principles of the invention relate to techniques for transmission of Layer 2 (L2) multicast traffic over a point to multi-point (P2MP) label switched path (LSP) within a multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. The principles of the invention include configuring circuit cross-connect (CCC) switches that transparently cross-connect L2 interfaces to a P2MP LSP within an MPLS network. The transparent cross-connections allow L2 multicast traffic to be encapsulated as MPLS packets regardless of the type of payload the L2 multicast traffic is carrying. A CCC switch may be configured within an ingress router of a P2MP LSP to cross connect an L2 interface to the P2MP LSP. CCC switches may also be configured within each egress router of the P2MP LSP to cross-connect each leaf of the P2MP LSP to one or more L2 interfaces.
US07990963B1
Principles of the invention are described for providing virtual private local area network service (VPLS) multicast instances across a public network by utilizing multicast trees. In particular, the VPLS multicast instances transport layer two (L2) multicast traffic, such as Ethernet packets, between customer networks via the public network. The principles described herein enable VPLS multicast instances to handle high bandwidth multicast traffic. The principles also reduce the state and the overhead of maintaining the state in the network by removing the need to perform snooping between routers within the network.
US07990954B2
Systems and methods for monitoring, making, managing and controlling telephone communications with a computer call assistant with an integrated voice/data communications system are disclosed. A call assistant computer application preferably runs on a personal computer (“PC”) coupled to the integrated system over a packet bus. The call assistant exchanges control and/or status packets with the integrated system preferably over a packet bus. The call assistant enables the user to make, receive and control telephone calls, monitor the status of the user's extension, voice mail, etc., and preferably operates with integrated systems capable of transmitting and receiving voice and data in multiple modes. In preferred embodiments, the computer call assistant operates with systems that are capable of multiple native mode voice and data transmissions and receptions with a communications system having a multi-bus structure, including, for example, a time division multiplexed (“TDM”) bus, a packet bus, and a control bus, and multi-protocol framing engines, preferably including subsystem functions such as PBX, voice mail, file server, web server, communications server, telephony server, LAN hub and data router.
US07990952B2
A traffic prioritization system and method performs a coarse classification of upstream bursts at the physical interface of a wireless communications device. The wireless device monitors and controls communications with a plurality of remote wireless communications devices throughout a widely distributed network, including the Internet. The traffic prioritization system includes a burst receiver that receives and sends the upstream bursts to a classifier. At an appropriate time, the classifier receives the upstream bursts and queries a priority lookup table (LUT) to determine a priority classification. The priority classification is used to separate the bursts into two or more priority levels. The higher priority level is used to designate services having a low tolerance for delay, such as telephony. Upon classification, the upstream bursts are forwarded to one of several priority queues. Each priority queue corresponds to at least one priority level. The headend device services each priority queue such that the higher priority queues are serviced before the lower priority queues.
US07990950B2
Send and receive services are operated that send and receive fax messages, respectively, via fax protocols. Each new customer is offered a predetermined amount of the receive service, and a more limited amount of the send service, both free of charge to the customer, as part of a group of services that includes Internet access, Web services, or Internet telephony. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US07990944B2
For an example embodiment, a method for a communication device operating in a synchronous communication system is described. The method includes performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure prior to the start of a downlink subframe of a synchronous frame and determining if a transmission from another communication device of another communication system is detected during the LBT procedure. In the case that a transmission is detected during the LBT procedure, the communication device refrains from transmitting during the downlink subframe. In the case that a transmission is not detected during the LBT procedure, the communication device transmits during the downlink subframe.
US07990934B2
Systems and methods for providing a low power receiver device using fine grained time division are provided. In one embodiment, the receiver device comprises a tuner, a demodulator configured to demodulate at least one sampled signal, a payload processor configured to process at least one demodulated signal into an output format, and a time division control logic configured to generate a control signal to switch at least one component within the receiver device between modes to conserve power. The at least one component may be switched between an active mode, a standby mode, a power off mode, and a low power mode. In further embodiments, the at least one component may be switched between staggered modes.
US07990916B2
A method of wireless communication including a plurality of fixed base stations and a plurality of mobile user equipment with each base station transmitting to any user equipment within a corresponding cell a sounding reference signal sub-frame configuration indicating sub-frames when sounding is permitted. Each user equipment recognizes the sounding reference signal sub-frame configuration and sounds only at permitted sub-frames. Differing cells may have differing sounding reference signal sub-frame configurations. There are numerous manners to encode the transmitted information.
US07990913B2
A mobility manager provides mobility management of mobile nodes in accordance with bandwidth allocated from an access point. The mobility manager receives traffic shaping report messages from a traffic shaper within an access network of which the access point forms part, the traffic shaping report messages reporting on a current use of bandwidth for each of a plurality of different traffic types by one or more non mobility-managed mobile nodes which are not controlled by the mobility manager, and reporting on bandwidth used by one or more of the mobility-managed mobile nodes, which are managed by the mobility manager. The traffic pattern is adapted in accordance with a current use of bandwidth for the different traffic types by the non mobility-managed mobile node and is communicated to the traffic shaper for use in controlling the bandwidth of the access point in accordance with the adapted traffic pattern.
US07990911B2
A method and apparatus to determine whether a transmission was successfully received in a multiple access communication system is claimed. First and second encoded data packets are received and decoded. The first and second data packets are then re-encoded, and correlated to determine whether the first and second re-encoded data packets are the same. If there is a high degree of correlation, an indicator of acknowledgement is transmitted to indicate that there is a high degree of correlation between the first and second re-encoded data packets. If there is a low degree of correlation, a determination is made that the previously transmitted indicator of acknowledgement was correctly received.
US07990897B2
An apparatus and method for a wireless home mesh network with a network topology visualizer is described. In one embodiment, the method may include displaying the network topology of a wireless home mesh network. The mobile nodes and stationary nodes of the wireless home mesh network may wirelessly communicate to share topology information regarding the wireless home mesh network. The topology information may include local connectivity information of a node, such as the direct neighbors of the node and the neighbors' neighbor information. In one embodiment, the local connectivity information is combined with the received node information to form an interactive global topology map of the wireless home mesh network to display for a user. In another embodiment, the combined topology information may be stored for offline processing. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07990892B2
A method is provided for selecting a telephony route for at least one digital stream serving a telephony destination. The method is performed within a first location server belonging to a first IP telephony domain deployed on at least one autonomous system. The autonomous system exchanges IP routing information with its neighbors designating at least one IP destination for updating an IP routing table. The method includes: the first location server searching for the IP routing information, the IP routing information including an identifier of a second IP telephony domain having associated therewith the at least one IP telephony destination, referred to as the destination identifier; and selecting the IP telephony route to reach the at least one telephony destination, applying a predetermined criterion for selecting the second telephony domain as a function of the destination identifier.
US07990888B2
A mechanism for ASBRs to identify the originating node, or router, in an LSP conversant autonomous system (AS), such as an MPLS VPN environment, maintains the identity of the originating node and successive nodes in subsequent autonomous systems along the path to the node to be pinged. The identity of the transporting nodes is stored in a stack or other object associated with the ping request (ping), such that the pinged node may employ the stored identity as a set of return path routing information. Successive ASBRs store their identity on the stack, in an ordered manner, along the path to the destination. Upon reaching the destination (ping) node, the destination node employs the identity of the first node on the stack to send the acknowledgment, or ping response. Each successive ASBR, therefore, pops (retrieves) the next node identity from the stack and redirects (sends) the ping response to the retrieved node.
US07990880B2
A transmitting and receiving section transmits data to which a time measured in a first device is attached, from the first device through a communication line, and receives the data in a second device. A communication abnormality detecting section detects an abnormality in a communication between the first device and the second device on the basis of the received data. A time lag detecting section detects a time lag between the first device and the second device by comparing the time attached to the data with a time measured in the second device at the time of receiving the data.
US07990879B2
The present invention relates to instability problems in circuit switched conferencing, and provides a method for establishing a backup “voice only” telephony link in parallel with a H.320 conference link. The two links between the calling parties is handled as one logical call entity. Audio is muted on the backup voice telephony link when status of the H.320 link is okay. If communication problems are detected on the H.320 link, audio is muted over the H.320 link and switched to the backup voice telephony link instead.
US07990869B2
A method for monitoring data congestion in a computer network with multiple nodes and for controlling data transmission in the computer network. The method includes generating a congestion notification by the node which detects a data congestion and transmitting the congestion notification to the data source which is involved in the data congestion. The method also includes generating in the data source a congestion value which indicates how severe the data congestion is, and storing in a worst case array of the data source those congestion values which indicate the most severe data congestions.
US07990860B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for communicating data over a network to provide Quality of Service. The method includes receiving data over a network, prioritizing the data, and communicating the data based at least in part on the priority. The step of prioritizing the data includes sequencing the data based at least in part on a user defined rule. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for communicating data including a data prioritization component and a data communications component. The data prioritization component is adapted to prioritize data. The data prioritization component includes a sequencing component. The sequencing component is adapted to sequence the data based at least in part on a user defined rule. The data communications component is adapted to communicate the data based at least in part on the priority.
US07990854B1
Apparatus, systems and methods for isolation of traffic composition in performance metrics are disclosed. A change in a performance metric of a content provisioning system is determined. The change in the performance metric is compared to a weighted change expected from the content provisioning system if traffic was not a factor. A traffic independent change is determined from the weighted change. A traffic related change is determined.
US07990852B1
An apparatus and method of a network system between a host and a group of routers using virtual router redundancy protocol (“VRRP”) messages and bidirectional forwarding detection (“BFD”) sessions are disclosed. The network system is capable of facilitating a first communication between a host and a master router of multiple VRRP routers and establishing a BFD session between the host and the master router. When the BFD session fails, the priority of the master router is subsequently lowered and a backup router is activated. In one embodiment, the backup router capable of performing functions of the master router becomes a new master until the BFD session resumes.
US07990839B2
A receiver that employs inherent characteristics of frequency domain representation of the data symbols. By computing a differential-in-frequency function across a large number of OFDM tones, robust estimates of time and frequency offset are obtained. The obtained time and frequency estimates provide control to sampling and frequency offset elements that are interposed between the reliever input and subsequent receiver stages.
US07990833B2
An optical pickup device, which reduces the size of an optical spot formed on an optical disk, and prevents the degradation of a tracking error signal due to coherent light from a layer adjacent a target recording/reproducing layer of the optical disk. The optical pickup device includes a light source emitting light at a designated wavelength; an object lens concentrating the light incident from the light source thereupon and forming an optical spot on an optical disk having multiple recording layers; and an optical detector receiving the light reflected by the optical disk and detecting a data signal and an error signal, wherein at least one diffraction pattern region partially diffracting or intercepting the light, emitted from the light source and being incident upon the object lens, and the light, reflected by optical disk and being incident upon the object lens, is formed on the object lens.
US07990828B2
A method for controlling focus on a label side of a light-scribe disc divides the label side into several zones, finds the maximum SBAD and the corresponding focus volt and spoke during focusing on each zone, approaches a primary focus volt level curve, compensates a predetermined volt to focus on the label side, checks the maximum SBAD and the corresponding focus volt and spoke between the primary focus volt level curve and the compensation volt on each zone, and approaches a calibrating focus volt level curve to reduce errors.
US07990822B2
Recording/reproducing apparatus records attribute information on sound data of a music piece onto a recording medium, and creates a rule table associating the attribute information and DSP program parameters. The recording/reproducing apparatus acquires, from the table, any of DSP program parameters that corresponds to the attribute information, and sets the DSP program parameter in the amplifier apparatus. The recording/reproducing apparatus also detects a recorded level of each succession of sound data to be recorded onto the medium, and then records the detected recorded level onto the medium in association with the sound data. Also, the recording/reproducing apparatus acquires a recorded level corresponding to a succession of the sound data to be reproduced, and adjusts, on the basis of the acquired recorded level, an output level of the succession of the sound.
US07990817B2
A super-resolution material is formed in only a data pit, in a low temperature state of the super-resolution material, reflectivity of each of a pit portion and a space portion and an optical phase difference therebetween are set to be sufficiently small, in a high temperature state, and at least the optical phase difference between the pit and the space is set to be larger than the aforementioned value in an absolute value. Accordingly, by conducting irradiation with an appropriate read power by which substantially only one data track width can be heated to a high temperature state, a good push-pull signal can be obtained even with a track pitch being less than a diffraction limit. At the same time, by an optical device having functions such as a switching means with a DPP type, an offset correcting means of the push-pull signal due to lens shift, a shaping means of the push-pull signal, a learning means of read power, and the like, there is provided an optical disk device that corresponds to the optical disk medium of the present invention and achieves an increase in capacity.
US07990810B2
Disclosed is a data reading module for reading an optical disc with data regions and undesired regions, wherein at least one of the undesired regions is located between the data regions. The data reading module includes: a decoder arranged to decode the optical disc to generate decoded data; a data transferring device arranged to transfer the decoded data; and a controller arranged to control the decoder according to a recorded map indicating the locations of the data regions and the undesired regions; wherein the controller controls the decoder to skip the undesired regions and does not decode the undesired regions while decoding the optical disc.
US07990801B2
A control clock generating unit outputs a clock as a control clock when a column address strobe pulse is input and fixes the control clock to a specific level when an all bank precharge signal or a refresh signal is enabled. An internal pulse generating unit outputs an external write pulse or an external read pulse as an internal write pulse or an internal read pulse in response to the control clock.
US07990792B2
Sense circuits, devices and methods are disclosed, including a sense amplifier circuit that has first and second complementary data lines and a sensing circuit. One of the data lines can be coupled to a memory cell for data sensing and the other data line can be used as reference. The sensing circuit has first and second complementary output nodes and is coupled to the data lines. In a first mode, the sensing circuit can sense a difference between a voltage on the first digit line and a voltage on the second digit line to generate a first voltage differential between the first and second output nodes. In a second mode, the sensing circuit can sense a difference between a current flow in the first digit line and a current flow in the second digit line to generate a second voltage differential between the first and second output nodes. Other sense circuits, devices and methods are also provided.
US07990790B2
A phase change random access memory (PRAM) has a function of evaluating the lifetime and reliability of a cell in a write driver circuit. The write driver circuit of the PRAM includes a normal driver configured to provide a write current for set or reset of a phase change cell connected to a bit line, a test driver configured to share a node with the normal driver, and provide an additional current for a test to the write current through the shared node in response to a test mode control signal, and a mode control unit configured to control an operation according to the test mode by providing the test mode control signal to the test driver.
US07990782B2
A data strobe signal noise prevention apparatus and semiconductor integrated circuit includes a transition protection unit configured to protect a transition of a data strobe signal in response to a control signal and a controller configured to determine when a burst operation completes and to generate the control signal.
US07990777B2
Provided is a method of inverting data that is to be transmitted and transmitting the data in a semiconductor device. The method includes inverting bits of data that is to be transmitted if the number of bit transitions of previously transmitted data and the data that is to be transmitted among sequentially transmitted data exceeds a reference number; indicating in any one of a plurality of data strobe signals that the data that is to be transmitted is inverted; and transmitting the data strobe signal indicating that the data that is to be transmitted is inverted and the inverted data.
US07990776B2
A semiconductor memory device, which performs a refresh operation, includes: a temperature sensing unit for measuring temperature and for generating a temperature controlled voltage and a reference current based on the measured temperature; an analog-digital conversion unit for converting the temperature controlled voltage to an N-bit digital signal; a refresh control unit for generating a refresh signal in response to the N-bit digital signal, wherein, a period of the refresh signal is controlled based on the N-bit digital signal.
US07990768B2
A method and system are provided for coupling a DRAM and a memory controller during driver training to reduce mismatches by controlling impedances within the system environment. A memory device initializes a bit level voltage on a data net. A driver impedance in a driving element in the controller is modified to yield improvements in timing margins.
US07990751B2
A nanogap switching element is equipped with an inter-electrode gap portion including a gap of a nanometer order between a first electrode and a second electrode. A switching phenomenon is caused in the inter-electrode gap portion by applying a voltage between the first and second electrodes. The nanogap switching element is shifted from its low resistance state to its high resistance state by receiving a voltage pulse application of a first voltage value, and shifted from its high resistance state to its low resistance state by receiving a voltage pulse application of a second voltage value lower than the first voltage value. When the nanogap switching element is shifted from the high resistance state to the low resistance state, a voltage pulse of an intermediate voltage value between the first and second voltage values is applied thereto before the voltage pulse application of the second voltage value thereto.
US07990745B2
The present invention discloses an apparatus for controlling an H-bridge DC-AC inverter, comprising an H-bridge DC-DC converting circuit capable of converting unstable DC power into stable DC power and a full-bridge DC-AC inverting circuit capable of inverting DC power output from the H-bridge DC-DC converting circuit into AC power. The H-bridge DC-DC converting circuit comprises: a first active switching element and a second active switching element; an inductor capable of storing energy; a first passive switching element and a second passive switching element; and a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The full-bridge DC-AC inverting circuit comprises: a third active switching element, a fourth active switching element, a fifth active switching element and a sixth active switching element; an output inductor; and an output capacitor.
US07990739B2
A resonant power converter is provided and includes a capacitor, an inductive device, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a control circuit. The capacitor and the inductive device develop a resonant tank. The first transistor and the second transistor are coupled to switch the resonant tank. The control circuit generates a first signal and a second signal to control the first transistor and the second transistor respectively. Frequencies of the first signal and the second signal are changed for regulating output of the resonant power converter. The control circuit is further coupled to detect an input voltage of the resonant power converter. A pulse width of the second signal is modulated in response to change of the input voltage.
US07990738B2
A master fuse module includes a base housing configured to be disposed on a battery, a fuse assembly connected to the base housing, and a cover disposed on the base housing. The fuse assembly includes a first generally planar portion including a first terminal, a second generally planar portion disposed generally perpendicular to the first generally planar portion, a plurality of second terminals, and a plurality of fuses. Each fuse includes a first portion in electrical communication with the first terminal and a second portion in electrical communication with one of the plurality of second terminals. A fuse element is in electrical communication between the first and second portions and provides overcurrent protection by melting when subjected to a predetermined current. A plurality of connectors connects the fuse assembly to the base housing.
US07990728B2
An electronic device includes a main body, a battery, and a battery fixing assembly. The main body defines an assembling groove and a receiving groove communicating with the assembling groove. The battery is received in the assembling groove. The battery fixing assembly comprises a pivot shaft and a fastening member sleeved on the pivot shaft. The pivot shaft is positioned in the receiving groove. The fastening member is capable of rotating on the pivot shaft to engage with the engaging portion of the battery.
US07990709B2
Apparatus and method are provided for facilitating cooling of air passing through an electronics rack. The apparatus includes a heat exchange assembly hingedly mounted above and external to the rack, such that air passing above the rack from an air outlet side to an air inlet side thereof passes through the heat exchange assembly, and is cooled. The heat exchange assembly includes a support structure to support hinged mounting of the assembly above the rack, and an air-to-liquid heat exchanger coupled to the support structure. The heat exchanger has an inlet plenum and an outlet plenum in fluid communication with respective connect couplings which facilitate connection of the plenums to coolant supply and return lines, respectively. The heat exchanger also includes heat exchange tube sections, each of which has a coolant channel with an inlet and an outlet coupled to the inlet and outlet plenums, respectively.
US07990699B2
A heat dissipation device configured for dissipating heat of a memory module includes two fin assemblies pivotally assembled together through a pivot, two heat spreaders adapted for being arranged at two opposite side surfaces of the memory module, and two heat pipes. Each of the two heat pipes includes an evaporation section and a condensation section formed at two opposite ends thereof. The condensation sections of the heat pipes are respectively attached to the fin assemblies, and the evaporation sections of the heat pipes are respectively and thermally attached to the heat spreaders, whereby the heat of the memory module is transferred by the heat pipes from the heat spreaders to the fin assemblies for dissipation.
US07990698B2
A portable extension memory storage device comprises a body and a slide positioning member. The body includes an elastic positioning tongue. The slide positioning member includes a positioning rib to be engaged into a positioning concave in the positioning tongue. With the elastic positioning tongue, the abrasion can be reduced, and the service life can be extended. The positioning concave offers an assured and firm engagement to improve the convenience in use. The assembly of the portable extension memory storage device can be finished without using any other threaded elements or locking elements, thus reducing the material and labor cost.
US07990687B2
A gas-insulated switchgear includes an electric conductor that is housed in a vessel that is sealed and filled with insulating gas, a current transformer that is housed in the vessel, which includes a coil wound around the electric conductor, an electric-field relaxing shield that is arranged in the vessel at a radially inward position relative to an inner side of the coil, and a dielectric insulating member that is arranged on an end portion of the electric-field relaxing shield.
US07990686B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor of the present invention includes: a capacitor element having an anode leading part and a cathode leading part; an anode lead frame connected to the anode leading part and a cathode lead frame connected to the cathode leading part; and an packing resin with which the capacitor element is coated, and the anode leading part protrudes from one end face of the capacitor element. The anode lead frame includes: an anode terminal part having an exposed surface exposed from the packing resin, a rising part connected to the anode terminal part, bent toward the anode leading part located in the upper part of the anode terminal part and extending in the packing resin, and a bent part connected to the rising part and bent along a direction which is parallel to a protruding direction of the anode leading part and connected to the anode leading part.
US07990682B2
An anode element of a solid electrolytic capacitor and a method of fabricating the anode element are improved, so that the step of manufacturing the solid electrolytic capacitor is simplified, reliability is improved, and a withstand voltage of the solid electrolytic capacitor is increased. An anode element including a metal and a coating layer formed on a surface thereof, the coating layer being composed of a hydrated oxide shown as MOx.yH2O in chemical formula (1), where M represents a valve metal and x and y represent an integer or a decimal fraction from 1 to 6, a hydroxide shown as M(OH)n in chemical formula (2), where M represents a valve metal and n represents an integer or a decimal fraction from 1 to 6, or a composite thereof, a method of manufacturing the anode element, and a solid electrolytic capacitor employing the anode element are provided.
US07990672B2
This invention is power supply protection for complex digital circuits employing an external high voltage supply and an internally generated low voltage core logic supply. Precision analog comparators distinguish between short circuit conditions on the internal supply at various ramp down rates including slow brown out decay. Control circuitry protects I/O circuits from exposure to high currents as a result of possible floating gate conditions in the output circuitry.
US07990671B2
An overvoltage protection control circuit includes a voltage conversion circuit, a voltage comparison circuit, and a switching circuit. The voltage conversion circuit generates a first voltage and a second voltage based on a power supply voltage. The voltage comparison circuit generates a control signal based on a comparison between the first voltage and the second voltage. The switching circuit determines whether to apply the power supply voltage to a chip in response to the control signal. The overvoltage protection control circuit is formed inside the chip.
US07990665B2
An EMP protection circuit with a counter has a surge protection circuit capable of suppressing EMP, and also use an extra counting circuit for sensing light emission or variation of magnetic force of the surge protection circuit to count the action times of the surge protection circuit, thereby warning that the surge protection circuit has reached its time-limit of use and has to be replaced. In this way, various kinds of electronic products can be more perfectly protected to avoid higher loss.
US07990661B2
The active shield superconducting electromagnet apparatus includes: a main switching circuit in which first and second main coils, first and second shield coils, and a first superconducting persistent current switch are connected in series; a sub switching circuit in which a bypass circuit, in which a superconducting fault current limiter and a second superconducting persistent current switch are connected in series, are connected to a series circuit of the first main coil and the second main coil in parallel; a first closed circuit in which at least one of the first main coil and the first shield coil, and a first quench protection circuit are connected in series; and a second closed circuit in which one of the second main coil and the second shield coil, and a second quench protection circuit are connected in series.
US07990653B2
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide a perpendicular recording magnetic head whose dimensional dependency on the nonuniformity of magnetic field strength and distribution during manufacture is minimized, with narrowed tracks and without attenuation or erasure of adjacent track data while maintaining high magnetic field strength. According to one embodiment, a magnetic material (trailing/side shield) for creating a steep gradient of magnetic field strength is provided at a trailing side of a pole tip of a main magnetic pole piece and in a direction of the track width. The magnetic head is formed so that a gap (side gap length “gl”) between a side shield and a throat height portion of the pole tip progressively decreases with an increasing distance from an air-bearing surface, in a direction of an element height. That is, side gap length “gl” (2) at an element height position P2 is made smaller than side gap length “gl” (1) at an air-bearing surface position P1 so as to satisfy a relationship of gl(1)>gl(2).
US07990639B2
A mobile event data recorder is described providing a contained environmental control system for a hard drive module for use in, or with, a vehicle. A hard drive housing with multiple hard drives and a vibration isolation system are provided within a hard drive module chassis. The vibration isolation system simultaneously provides triaxial isolation in each of two different orientations of the hard drive module. First and second vibration isolators connect the hard drive housing with adjoining walls of the chassis, the first and second vibration isolators positioned to achieve a natural resonant frequency suitable to isolate frequencies in the hard drive operating range, taking into account the forces that will be applied to the vehicle. The natural resonant frequency can be about 10 Hz or less, in order to isolate the hard drives from frequencies of greater than about 10 Hz.
US07990636B2
Disclosed herein is a lens actuating module. In the lens actuating module, a housing has an installation space therein. A lens barrel is disposed in the installation space of the housing. The lens barrel includes a lens. An actuating means is provided at a first position in the installation space of the housing in an optical axial direction. The actuating means is connected to the lens barrel to move the lens barrel. A base magnet is provided at a second position in the installation space of the housing. A lens magnet is mounted to the outer surface of the lens barrel at a position facing the base magnet to generate a repulsive force between the lens magnet and the base magnet.
US07990634B2
An exemplary lens module includes a substrate, a housing, a carrier, and a barrel. The housing is hollow, and disposed on the substrate. The carrier is received in the housing. The carrier defines a through hole. The barrel is received in the housing. The barrel includes a receiving body, a focusing portion, a connection portion, and a groove. The focusing portion is at a top end of the receiving body. The connection portion is at a bottom end of the receiving body. The groove spans from the top end of the receiving body to the connection body. The receiving body is received in the through hole of the carrier. The connection portion is mechanically connected to the carrier. A top end of the connection portion is exposed by the groove.
US07990629B2
A lens module includes a base to be fixed, a second elastic sheet fixed in the base, a lens sleeve sliding according to the base, a limiting member installed on the lens sleeve, a first elastic sheet, and an upper cover. The lens module includes a covering board with a central hole installed between the second elastic sheet and the lens sleeve. The diameter of the central hole is greater than the outer diameter of the lens sleeve. The covering board is connected to the base to fix the second elastic sheet on the base. Because the covering board to connect to the base, the second elastic sheet can be fixed on the base for decreasing time-consumption, reliable fixation, and decreasing the rate which the second elastic sheet rotates and is deformed.
US07990626B2
Provided is a lens barrel comprising: an optical system including an optical component that moves relative to a fixed cylinder; a holding frame that holds the optical component; a guide axle that is connected to the holding frame and that extends in a direction parallel to an optical axis of the optical system; a scaling drive unit that can move relative to the fixed cylinder and that moves the holding frame in the direction of the optical axis when the optical system scales; and a focusing drive unit that has at least a portion thereof fixed to the fixed cylinder and that moves the guide axle in the direction of the optical axis while facing at least a portion of the guide axle.
US07990623B2
An object is to reduce the effect of defocusing due to the movement of an image plane when a shifting lens group movable in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis for correcting hand jiggling is positionally deviated along the optical axis, thereby maintaining high optical performance at the time of correcting hand jiggling. A zoom lens 1 includes a plurality of lens groups with distances between the lens groups being changed for variable power. A final lens group L5 which is positioned most closely to an image side has a sub lens group GS (G8) having a positive refractive power and a sub lens group GR (G9) disposed adjacent to the sub lens group GS (G8) on the image side and having a positive refractive power. The sub lens group GS is shiftable in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis for correcting image blurs. The sub lens group GS has a lateral magnification βs and the sub lens group GR has a lateral magnification βR, the lateral magnifications satisfying the following conditional expressions (1), (2): βs<1 (1) 0<βR<1 (2)
US07990618B2
A light-diffusing film and screen including same are provided. The light-diffusing film having anisotropy in the diffusion angle includes a translucent support, and a translucent resin layer having irregularities on the surface thereof and being provided on the translucent support. In the light-diffusing film, the maximal value of the loss tangent (tan δ) determined from a dynamic viscoelasticity of the light-diffusing film lies in a temperature range of 0° C. to 60° C.
US07990616B2
An optical multilayer filter having an inorganic thin film composed of a plurality of layers on a substrate includes a fluorinated organic silicon compound film formed on a surface of the inorganic thin film, a low-density formation section forming a part of the inorganic thin film, having one or more layers including the most superficial layer of the inorganic thin film, the one or more layers being formed of at least one of a low-density titanium oxide layer and a low-density silicon oxide layer, and a high-density formation section forming another part of the inorganic thin film, disposed between the low-density formation section and the substrate, having silicon oxide layers with a density higher than the low-density silicon oxide layer and titanium oxide layers with a density higher than the low-density titanium oxide layer in a stacked manner. A total thickness of the low-density formation section is equal to or smaller than 280 nm.
US07990614B2
A projection screen is adapted to reflect the projection light generated by a projector. The projection screen includes a light absorbing layer, a light reflection layer connected adjacently to the light absorbing layer, and a light transparent layer. The light transparent layer is disposed on the light absorbing layer and the light reflection layer, and has a total reflection surface, a light emitting surface, and a light incident surface connected adjacently to the total reflection surface. The light incident surface provides a theoretical light convergence point, and the light convergence point and the location of the light reflection layer are in mirror symmetry relative to the total refection surface. The projection light enters into the light transparent layer through the light incident surface for refraction, and travels to the total reflection surface for totally reflection, and then to the light reflection layer for reflecting to the light emitting surface.
US07990612B2
A hand-held telescope or binocular built into a bottle or consumable drink container includes a high quality objective lens; an adjustable focus eye lens; and, optionally, a connector ring to form a binocular; a jacket, sleeve or cuzzi containing information regarding, for example, sporting or scientific events; a baffle to minimize extraneous light from disturbing observational clarity; and a holographic bottle label that portrays sporting or scientific figures in three dimensions.
US07990599B2
Barcode scanning device (3) includes a rotatable polygon mirror (27) and a first fixed reflection mirror (33). The polygon mirror (27) comprises a first reflection surfaces (c), (e) and a second reflection surfaces (a), (b), (d), (f). The first reflection surfaces (c), (e) reflect laser light and thus emitting first scanning light in a range of ±20° with respect to an optical axis (29). The second reflection surfaces (a), (b), (d), (f) reflect laser light and thus emitting second scanning light in a range larger than ±20° with respect to an optical axis (29). The first fixed reflection mirror (33) reflects the first scanning light and second scanning light forming scanning patterns in an object readable area. These scanning patterns are composed of a plurality of second scanning lines each parallel with other and first scanning lines disposed between the second scanning lines.
US07990598B2
A scan-type image display device which displays an image by scan of laser beam emitted from a light source in one direction and another direction of a light receiving surface includes: a first scan unit which performs scan of the laser beam in the one direction by deflecting the laser beam; a second scan unit which performs scan of the laser beam in the another direction by deflecting the laser beam; and a scan control unit which equalizes the scan width of the laser beam scan in the one direction by using the first scan unit performed at each position in the another direction within the light receiving surface.
US07990588B2
Determination of a grid structure for a set of values in a device color space, in which heuristics are applied to a collection of color sample data in order to determine the structure of a look-up table that best fits the samples. Sampling data is sorted for each channel thereof, and the number of steps in each channel is counted. The data is checked for completeness. Steps are removed if they do not correspond to steps on the axes of a three-dimensional cube. If, as a result of step removal, a full LUT has been obtained, then the structure of the LUT has been determined and the process ends. On the other hand, if a full LUT has not been obtained, then steps are removed if they are under-correlated with other steps.
US07990585B2
A circuit module integrating a light driver and an optical scanner is capable of sensing an image of a document and driving a light source. The circuit module comprises a printed circuit board, an optical sensor and a light driver. Both the optical sensor and the light driver are mounted on and electrically connected with the printed circuit board. The optical sensor is capable of sensing the image and the light driver is capable of driving the light source.
US07990582B2
An image reading apparatus having a color line sensor and a monochromatic line sensor starts to read on the basis of the color reading start position when reading the image of a document in color and starts to read on the basis of the monochromatic reading start position when reading the image of a document in monochrome.
US07990580B2
Scanned images are tiled in a list display area of a display of a touch panel. A model icon and other icons for editing are displayed in an edit icon display area. A scanned image is accepted as an object to be processed by a touch operation to the scanned image. By moving the touched position to the model icon and releasing the touch, an editing process by the model icon is accepted. The model icon is displayed with the scanned image overlapped thereon as the result of the editing process.
US07990576B2
An image forming apparatus capable of observing toner amount limitation with reliability even when two types of developers which have the same have and have different densities is provided. After an inputted image signal is subjected to color conversion processing to make the toner amount limitation, at least one color signal of the converted color signals is converted into signals for a dark color toner and a light color toner by light and dark separation using a single light and dark separation look-up table. Thereafter, the toner amount is determined again for each pixel. In the case where the toner amount exceeds a predetermined value, the light and dark separation of at least one color is made until the toner amount is the predetermined value or less by using another light and dark separation look-up table.
US07990566B2
An image forming device configured as follows. A user is allowed to select desired print data files to be printed from among print data files stored in an external storage. A file list generating unit generates a list of the desired print data files selected by the user. The list includes an order of the desired print data files. A page arrangement unit arranges each page of the desired print data files on each recording sheet based on the list of the desired print data, a print mode and a total number of pages of the desired print data files. Blank pages to be added to complete the arrangement of pages of the print data files with respect to the recording sheets are generated. Page data is retrieved based on the arrangement of pages and is converted to image data, which is printed by an image data printing unit.
US07990562B2
To provide a technology enabling a terminal device to use various functions provided in a data processing device without the use of a device driver. A multifunction device executes a process for implementing a function indicated by instruction data when such instruction data is stored in a shared area of the RAM. Here, the shared area of the RAM in which the instruction data is stored can be recognized by a personal computer connected to the multifunction device as a storage area that can be accessed through the file system, which is a function provided as a standard feature of the operating system. Accordingly, operations of the multifunction device can be controlled from the personal computer end simply by storing instruction data in the shared area via the operating system, eliminating the need for a special device driver to control the operations of the multifunction device.
US07990558B2
An information processing apparatus acquires print data to be printed by a printing apparatus and restriction information for restricting an output process of the print data. The information processing apparatus converts a format of the acquired print data and the restriction information based on information regarding a processing capability of the printing apparatus. Then, the information processing apparatus sends the print data and the restriction information, the format of which has been converted, to the printing apparatus.
US07990555B2
According to a print system, a printer supplies function information of the printer to a DSC based on a communication link between the DSC and the printer, and the DSC establishes a UI based on the supplied function information to display it on the DSC. The DSC converts image data of an image file according to print conditions set up based on the UI and the function information of the printer and transmits the converted image file to the printer.
US07990527B2
An exemplary refractive-index sensor includes a photonic crystal microcavity structure, a light source, and a detector. The photonic crystal microcavity structure includes a photonic crystal layer having first holes and a second hole defined therein. The first holes are arranged in a regular pattern of staggered parallel rows. The second hole is at an approximate center of the regular pattern, instead of a first hole. A diameter of the second hole is different from that of the first holes. The first holes at each of opposite ends of the row having the second hole are omitted, thereby defining an input waveguide and an output waveguide. The light source is adjacent to the input waveguide. The detector is adjacent to the output waveguide.
US07990512B2
A liquid crystal display module includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight unit under the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight unit includes at least one light emitting diode. The liquid crystal display module further comprises a bottom frame surrounding the backlight unit. The bottom frame comprises a printed circuit board and the at least one light emitting diode is disposed on the printed circuit board. The liquid crystal display module also includes a main frame surrounding the liquid crystal display panel and a top frame surrounding a front edge of the liquid crystal display panel and combined with the bottom frame through the main frame.
US07990511B2
A display apparatus includes a display substrate, an opposite substrate, a seal line, a driver chip, a gate insulating layer disposed on the display substrate, a first signal line disposed on a first side of the gate insulating layer, and a second signal line disposed on a second side of the gate insulating layer, wherein portions of the first signal line and the second signal line overlap each other along at least a portion of the seal line.
US07990508B2
In a liquid crystal display device of an IPS system, to realize reduction of manufacturing cost and improvement of yield by decreasing the number of steps for manufacturing a TFT. A channel etch type bottom gate TFT structure, where patterning of a source region and a drain region and patterning of a source wiring and a pixel electrode are carried out by the same photomask.
US07990498B2
A multi-view image display device adapted to display images different from each other using one screen of a display panel is disclosed. The multi-view image display device includes a display panel inclusive of a first color filter array having a first red sub-pixel, a first green sub-pixel and a first blue sub-pixel that constitute a first image, and a second red sub-pixel, a second green sub-pixel and a second blue sub-pixel that constitute a second image; and a color filter barrier substrate inclusive of a second color filter array that is separated from the display panel with a fixed distance and has red, green and blue color filters. The red color filter of the second color filter array corresponds to the first blue sub-pixel and the second green sub-pixel of the first color filter array. The green color filter of the second color filter array corresponds to the first red sub-pixel and the second blue sub-pixel of the first color filter array. The blue color filter of the second color filter array corresponds to the first green sub-pixel and the second red-sub-pixel of the first color filter array.
US07990495B2
A method for cutting apart a glass substrate is provided whereby scribing of the glass substrate is possible without being affected by the presence or thickness of a deposited film formed thereon and without scratching the deposited film. To treat a glass substrate having a deposited film, such as a thin film or resin film, formed on one surface thereof, there are provided a shaving device, which is a blade that removes strip-shaped portions of the deposited film to expose strip-shaped regions on the glass substrate, and a wheel cutter (14a) that forms scribed lines along the strip-shaped regions exposed on the glass substrate. The glass substrate is cut apart along the scribed lines.
US07990494B2
A peripheral part of a substrate 1A includes a straight line part 1a. Similarly, a peripheral part of a substrate 1B includes a straight line part. A peripheral part of a polarizing plate 2 is formed of a curved part, and includes a straight line part 2a.
US07990492B2
An exemplary light source assembly includes a light guide plate, a printed circuit board facing the light guide plate, and at least two light emitting elements. The at least two light emitting elements are angled on the printed circuit board. Light emitted from the at least two light emitting elements is obliquely transmitted onto the light guide plate.
US07990488B2
A method of forming a liquid crystal device, includes: contacting an aqueous solution comprising a surfactant and a receptor molecule with a top surface of a liquid crystal. The liquid crystal is in a holding compartment of a substrate, and the receptor molecule is adsorbed on the top surface of the liquid crystal forming an interface between the liquid crystal and the aqueous solution. The receptor molecule is different than the surfactant. A method of detecting a compound in a flowing stream includes passing an aqueous solution over a top surface of a liquid crystal in a holding compartment of a substrate. The method also includes determining whether a change in the orientation of the liquid crystal occurs as the aqueous solution is passed over the top surface of the liquid crystal. A change in the orientation of the liquid crystal indicates the presence of the compound in the flowing stream.
US07990472B2
Herein described are at least a method and a system for processing vertical blanking interval (VBI) data such that the VBI data is suitable for transmission to a receiver. The method comprises generating one or more digital symbols at a first frequency, shaping the one or more digital symbols into one or more VBI data samples, first determining a first value that specifies a number of possible points that may be interpolated between two consecutive data samples of the one or more VBI data samples, and second determining a second value that is equal to one plus the number of points skipped before a point of the possible points is selected, and outputting the selected point based on an output frequency. The system may be described as a generalized VBI waveform generator comprising a symbol generator, a shaping filter, and a variable linear interpolator.
US07990471B1
Interlaced-to-progressive conversion with (1) 3-2 pulldown detection, (2) pre-filtering for field motion detection, (3) field motion detection with feedback, (4) field edge detection including direction angle detection by comparison of pixel differences with sets of more than pairs of pixels and a lateral edge detection probability by a lack of non-lateral angle detection, and (5) blending moving pixel interpolation and still pixel interpolation using field uniformity.
US07990467B2
A parallax image pickup apparatus for forming a parallax image train by photographing an object from a plurality of directions includes an image pickup unit in which an image pickup device and an image forming optical system are integrated in order to photograph the parallax images of the object; a rotating unit on which the image pickup unit is mounted and which rotates the image pickup unit in a parallax direction; an image pickup unit moving unit for rectilinearly moving the image pickup unit and the rotating unit synchronously with the rotation of the rotating unit; a control unit for controlling so that a virtual image pickup center portion is always located at the center of a photographed image; and a focal distance control unit for continuously changing a focal distance of the image pickup unit.
US07990466B2
A method of auto-retracting a lens of an image capture apparatus and a control system using the same are applied to an image capture apparatus with a retractable lens. The method includes the following steps. A hardware circuit of the image capture apparatus detects whether an abnormal power failure event occurs or not. The hardware circuit performs a re-boot procedure when detects that the abnormal power failure event occurs. After the hardware circuit performs the re-boot procedure, software in the image capture apparatus utilizes residual power only to perform a control procedure of retracting the lens. After the retractable lens is detected to have been retracted into the image capture apparatus, the software controls the image capture apparatus to be powered off.
US07990465B2
An imaging apparatus for capturing a moving image performs backlight correction of an image and outputs a natural image. The imaging apparatus electronically captures an image of a subject. An optical system has a light amount adjustment function. An imaging unit reads an optical image of the subject that is formed by the optical system. An A/D converter subjects an output of the imaging unit to A/D conversion. A backlight correction unit converts the tones of an image read by the A/D converter using a conversion characteristic selected differently according to a spatial position and at least increases the luminance level of a dark region of the image. An instruction unit instructs to start backlight correction. A control unit operates the backlight correction unit based on an instruction signal output from the instruction unit, and decreases an exposure light amount of the optical system by a predetermined amount.
US07990464B2
A focusing device includes a vertical-synchronization-signal generator generating a vertical-synchronization-signal sequence including vertical synchronization signals, an excitation-sequence generator generating an excitation sequence according to the vertical-synchronization-signal sequence and applying excitation according to the excitation sequence, and a driving module driving a lens of an imaging system according to the excitation sequence. Vertical-synchronization-signal times are formed between two adjacent vertical synchronization signals. A first vertical-synchronization-signal time and a last vertical-synchronization-signal time are formed at a beginning and an end of the vertical-synchronization-signal sequence respectively. Each vertical-synchronization-signal time includes a sub time and an exposure time arranged sequentially. A preceding excitation is only applied in the sub time of the first vertical-synchronization-signal time, a succeeding excitation is only applied in sub time of the last vertical-synchronization-signal time and a phase-fixed excitation is applied in each exposure time of each vertical-synchronization-signal time except the exposure time of the last vertical-synchronization-signal time.
US07990462B2
An imaging acquisition system that generates a picture depth from an auto focus curve generated from picture of a three dimensional spatial scene is described. The auto focus curve comprises a step edge. The system generates the depth based on the step edge and a reference auto focus normalization curve.
US07990451B2
A photosensitive pixel includes a photosensor and an externally loadable flag. The photosensor outputs a signal indicative of an intensity of incident light. The externally loadable flag indicates the pixel reset state, and is preferably stored in an in-pixel memory. Pixel reset logic resets the photosensor in accordance with the reset state and an externally applied reset signal.
US07990442B2
An image pickup device having an electron multiplying-charge coupled device includes a control unit for controlling an electron multiplication factor of the electron multiplying-charge coupled device; an obtaining unit for obtaining signals output from predetermined pixels of the electron multiplying-charge coupled device; and an averaging unit for performing an inter-line averaging process of the signals obtained by the obtaining unit. The device further includes a suppression unit for performing low-level and high-level suppressions on the signal averaged by the averaging unit based on the electron multiplication factor of the electron multiplication factor control unit; an acquisition unit for acquiring image signals output from the pixels other than the predetermined pixels of the electron multiplying-charge coupled device; and a subtractor for subtracting the signal suppressed by the suppression unit from the image signals acquired by the acquisition unit.
US07990436B2
A solid state image pickup device which includes a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix shape and having a mechanism for converting an optical signal into an electrical signal and outputting the resultant signal, a column processing circuit for performing column processing of the signal from the pixel unit, a calculating circuit for calculating a processing result of the column processing circuit, a frame memory unit, an internal interface for connecting the calculating circuit and the frame memory unit, an external interface for connecting an external unit or device and the frame memory unit, and a connection switching circuit for switching a connection of the frame memory unit relative to the internal interface and the external interface.
US07990434B2
In a digital camera, when snapshot shooting is instructed during recording of a moving image, a shot still image is temporarily pushed aside in a memory area for use in pushing aside (7a) in a frame buffer (7). A currently shooting motion image and a still image are displayed in parallel on a display (9), so that a user can confirm a content of a snapshot. The moving image continues to be recorded even during a push-aside operation. After a moving image processing is completed, the still image is processed by an image correcting circuit (4). The frame buffer (7) comprises a plurality of frame recording areas, and is shared on the occasions of a moving image processing and a still image processing. In a normal moving image processing, these areas are utilized in a cyclic manner, and when the still image is shot, any of areas will be utilized. Thereafter, the rest of areas are utilized in the cyclic manner for the moving images. The recording function for the moving image and still image is improved at low cost, it becomes easy to take a snapshot, and the merchandise size is not increased.
US07990430B2
By comparing an image of an observation object (S) acquired at each photographing timing with a previous image acquired at a photographing timing that immediately precedes the photographing timing at which each image has been acquired, the determination as to whether or not there is a change from the previous image in the observation object (S) is performed for each image acquired at each photographing timing. Then, by adding predetermined identification information to either an image for which a change from the previous image in the observation object (S) has been determined to be present, or an image for which a change from the previous image in the observation object (S) has been determined to be absent, it is possible to extract only an image in which a change from the previous image in the observation object (S) is present from among the saved images, on the basis on the identification information.
US07990429B2
An imaging device includes an imaging section, an image segmenting section, and a blur enhancement section. The imaging section images a field to generate photographic image data. The image segmenting section partitions an image of the photographic image data into a first region that is a main subject region and a second region where the main subject is not included. The blur detecting section detects degree of blur of an image of the second region of the image of the photographic image data. The blur enhancement section performs blur enhancement processing on the image of the second region to enlarge the degree of blur of the image after image processing in proportion to the magnitude of the detected degree of blur of the image.
US07990428B2
An optical system, imaging device and high-resolution processing method precisely generate a high-resolution image by using image data with few pixels. The optical system images an optical image in an imaging unit, the imaged image is spatially discretized so as to be sampled and converted into an image signal, thereby being recorded in a recording unit. A timing at which the image is imaged by the imaging unit is recorded in an imaging timing recording unit. A weight coefficient for the image is calculated by a weight calculating unit by utilizing the timing information obtained by the imaging timing recording unit. A high-resolution processing unit generates a high-resolution image by using the weighted information of the image generated by the weight calculating unit.
US07990425B2
The invention relates to an image pickup apparatus (70) comprising an image pickup means (700) for forming a plurality of image signals (S,L) having different exposure conditions, combining means for combining said plurality of image signals (L,S) to form a combined image signal having an extended dynamic range, further comprising display and/or recording means (701) for displaying and/or recording said combined image signal, further comprising a function module (79) correcting at least one of the image signals (L,S) in order to achieve a smooth transition between the image signals (S, L) at a transition point.
US07990398B2
Computer-implemented methods and media bearing instructions for matching movements of objects are described. In one example, the method can include determining a position of a first point in a first coordinate system, converting the position of the first point from the first coordinate system to a second coordinate system, performing a transformation on a second point in the second coordinate system, wherein the second point is initialized to a starting position in the second coordinate system, determining an ending position of the second point in the second coordinate system based on the transformation, converting the ending position of the second point in the second coordinate system to the first coordinate system, and associating the ending position of the second point in the first coordinate system to the first point in the first coordinate system, wherein the associating causes a transformation of the first point to match the transformation performed on the second point.
US07990397B2
A laser scanner scans a scene to form a point cloud representing points on a surface within the scene. The point cloud is used to create a corresponding visual representation of the point cloud from a single eye point that is displayed as an image array, such as a cube map, on a computer screen. Each point of the point cloud is represented on the computer screen as a pixel having a value other than a background value. An offset is determined between a reference position of the pixel and an intersection point, which is the point at which a ray from the point to the scanning position intersects a plane coincident with plane of the computer screen including the pixel. The offset is stored in an offset grid, whereby each pixel of the image array has a corresponding offset value in the offset grid. That is, the invention provides for encoding actual point coordinates with respect to the pixels of the image array by storing depth and angular offsets at each pixel in the image array that has an associated point. If the point spacing in a certain region is wider than the image array pixels, the gaps can be filled with, for example, RGB values to make the displayed image continuous.
US07990395B2
Disclosed is a method for setting a basic display screen in a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal stores a plurality of indicator images corresponding to each of a plurality of status indicators, and a plurality of images which can be used as background elements. A user can set a basic display screen by selecting desired display images of respective status indicators and various background element images. The indicator images changing with the change of status or according to the user's selection are easily readable and give pleasure to the user.
US07990394B2
A panorama viewer is disclosed which facilitates navigation from within the panorama of a larger, structured system such as a map. The panorama viewer presents a viewport on a portion of a panoramic image, the viewport including a three-dimensional overlay rendered with the panoramic image. As the orientation of the viewport within the panoramic image changes, the three-dimensional overlay's orientation in three-dimensional space also changes as it is rendered with the panoramic image in a manner that matches the change in orientation of the viewport.
US07990392B2
White balancing is performed using a mapping that maps the visible gamut's boundary into itself. A predefined color Win is mapped into a color Wout which is a white color or a color perceived as white under some viewing conditions. If Sin is some other color, a corresponding color Pin is determined on the visible gamut's boundary. Pin can be on the intersection of the visible gamut's boundary with a plane containing Sin and Win in a linear color coordinate system. Sin is mapped into a color Sout obtained from Wout and a value of the mapping on Pin.
US07990391B2
A memory system having multiple address allocation methods for graphics data in a computer graphics processing system. The memory system includes a plurality of memory arrays, and a format register having a programmable format flag. The status of the format flag indicates the memory address allocation format in which the memory addresses for each of the memory arrays are allocated. An address decoder is coupled to the format register to obtain the status of the format flag in order to determine the address allocation method for an array being accessed. The address decoder is further coupled to receive a requested address for a memory location in one of the memory arrays and then provide a requested memory address to the memory arrays to access. The requested address is translated by the address decoder to the requested memory address according to the memory address allocation format indicated by the format flag status for the memory array.
US07990389B2
Graphic system comprising a pipelined graphic engine, pipelining method and computer program product
A graphic system includes a pipelined graphic engine for generating image frames for display. The pipelined graphic engine includes a geometric processing stage for performing motion extraction, and a rendering stage for generating full image frames at a first frame rate for display at a second frame rate. The second frame rate is higher than the first frame rate. A motion encoder stage receives motion information from the geometric processing stage, and produces an interpolated frame signal representative of interpolated frames. A motion compensation stage receives the interpolated frame signal from the motion encoder stage, and the full image frames from the rendering stage for generating the interpolated frames. A preferred application is in graphic systems that operate in association with smart displays through a wireless connection, such as in mobile phones.
US07990388B2
Methods and systems of verifying an animation applied in a mobile device may include a timer module that is programmed to time-slice the animation into multiple scenes at predetermined time points along a timeline of the animation. A first capture module is programmed to capture actual data of each scene at each of the time points while the animation is running. A first comparison module is programmed to compare the actual data of each scene with expected data of the corresponding scene to determine whether the actual data of each scene matches the expected data of the corresponding scene. A first output module is programmed to generate a verification failure if the actual data of any scene does not match the expected data of the corresponding scene, and generate a verification success if the actual data of each scene matches the expected data of the corresponding scene.
US07990387B2
The present invention provides a computer implemented method and apparatus to project a projected avatar associated with an avatar in a virtual universe. A computer receives a command to project the avatar, the command having a projection point. The computer transmits a request to place a projected avatar at the projection point to a virtual universe host. The computer renders a tab associated with the projected avatar.
US07990373B2
An exemplary power supply circuit (200) for a liquid crystal display device (2) includes a switch control circuit (28) for receiving a control signal from an external control circuit, the control signal controlling the turning on or turning off of the switch control circuit; a first DC/DC converter (27) for adjusting the direct current voltage from an external circuit, outputting an output voltage. The switch control circuit controls switches the power supply of the output voltage to a liquid crystal display panel (20) of the liquid crystal display device.
US07990372B2
A power supply apparatus capable of reducing power consumption and a liquid crystal display including the power supply apparatus includes a first DC-AC converting unit enabled by a driving signal to convert a DC voltage into a first AC voltage, increase the first AC voltage, and supply the increased first AC voltage as a first power supply voltage; a switching unit which selectively transmits the driving signal in response to a selection signal; and a second DC-AC converting unit enabled by the driving signal selectively transmitted by the switching unit to convert the DC voltage into a second AC voltage, increase the second AC voltage, and supply the increased second AC voltage as a second power supply voltage.
US07990363B2
An exemplary common voltage adjusting method for a liquid crystal display (LCD) (20) includes: providing a positive high level voltage to two sub-pixels of a first pixel unit and providing a negative high level voltage to the other sub-pixel of the first pixel unit in a first frame; inspecting the first pixel unit and generating a first color parameter; providing a negative high level voltage to the two sub-pixels of a second pixel unit and providing a positive high level voltage to the other sub-pixel of the second pixel unit in a second frame; inspecting the second pixel unit and generating a second color parameter; generating a common voltage adjusting parameter according to a comparison result of the first color parameter with the second color parameter; and adjusting a common voltage of the LCD according to the common voltage adjusting parameter for confirming a preferred common voltage.
US07990359B2
Optical detection apparatus, liquid crystal display device using the same and driving method thereof
An optical detection apparatus includes an optical/electric converter to transduce light incident on the optical/electric converter into a current flowing to a ground potential; a current mirror to supply a mirror output voltage to a current mirror output node in response to an enable signal, the mirror output voltage having a magnitude proportional to the light intensity incident on the optical/electric converter; and a switch to connect a driving node of the current mirror to the ground potential through the optical/electric converter in response to the enable signal.
US07990358B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a display module includes a display screen divided in a vertical direction into screen regions in each of which an image can be independently displayed. A control device for controlling an image display operation of the display module includes: upper- and lower-screen data selectors for each dividing an input image signal in accordance with a corresponding one of the screen regions; and upper- and lower-screen time-division gradation conversion blocks for each generating a display signal for each of a plurality of sub-frames from an image signal, corresponding to a corresponding one of the screen regions, which is outputted from a corresponding one of the data selectors. This makes it possible to provide an image display device in which, even when a sub-frame display is carried out, the voltage of an image signal can be applied to a pixel for a longer time so as to be sufficiently applied to the pixel.
US07990354B2
An exemplary LCD (200) includes gate lines (23), data lines (24); a gradation voltage adjusting circuit (26) for receiving the gradation voltages respectively corresponding to the j, j+1, k, and k+1 frames interchanging the j+1 frame gradation voltage and the k frame gradation voltage when a first voltage difference between j frame gradation voltage and j+1 frame gradation voltage is less than a second voltage difference between j frame gradation voltage and k frame gradation voltage; a memory circuit (28) for storing the gradation voltages corresponding to the frames 1, 2, . . . j, j+2, . . . k−1, k+1 . . . h and storing the interchanged gradation voltages corresponding to the frames j+1 and k; and a gate driver (21) for receiving the gradation voltages stored in the memory circuit. A smallest rectangular area formed by any two adjacent gate lines together with any two adjacent data lines defines a pixel unit thereat.
US07990342B2
The present invention provides an image display method that allows displaying a full range of gradation levels while reducing dynamic false contours. In this method, emission pattern information generation circuit in image display device that displays gradation by dividing a single field into a plurality of subfields and combining an emitted state and a non-emitted state for each subfield, generates plural pieces of emission pattern information so that an average emission rate becomes a given value or greater for any subfield with its brightness weight smaller than the maximum brightness weight of the subfield where its average emission rate is not zero. Further, dither generation circuit in image display device performs a time-averaging process and a space-averaging process for the plurality of pieces of emission pattern information.
US07990330B2
A slot antenna is located on a substrate and includes a grounding portion, a radiating portion, and a feeding portion. The grounding portion is positioned on the substrate. The radiating portion is symmetrically octagonal-shaped and defines four trapezoidal-shaped slots on opposite sides. The radiating portion is parallel to the grounding portion. The feeding portion electrically connects the radiating portion to the grounding portion for feeding electromagnetic signals to the slot antenna.
US07990328B2
An antenna having two frequency-selective surfaces is disclosed. The antenna includes a first frequency-selective surface (FSS) having multiple holes to form a mesh, a second FSS having a multiple holes to form a mesh, and a perfect electric conductor located between the first FSS and the second FSS.
US07990320B2
One aspect of the invention relates to an antenna for a wireless device having spring contact elements based on strips (301, 302; 403; 503, 504; 602, 603; 612, 613; 622, 623; 632; 642; 652, 653; 682; 703, 704; 753, 754; 756; 802, 803; 1412, 1413; 1422, 1423) that, before bending, are housed in at least one gap (303, 601, 681, 804, 1411, 1421) in a main body (300, 402, 502, 600, 700, 750, 800 1400) of the antenna. The invention provides for a reduced stamping area overhead while allowing the spring contacts embodied by the strips to be placed close to the perimeter of the smallest possible rectangle that can house the main body. This can be helpful for mounting the antenna close to an edge of a printed circuit board (401, 501, 701, 801) while not extending beyond said edge.
US07990315B2
A shared memory device for a receiver system is disclosed. The receiver system is configured to have a first functional stage and a second functional stage for processing information carried by signals from a first transmitter system and a second transmitter system respectively. The shared memory device has a memory space, allocated to be commonly shared by the first functional stage and the second functional stage, for buffering processing data generated from the first functional stage or the second functional stage.
US07990313B2
An FMCW radar has a variable frequency microwave signal source for outputting a microwave signal, a frequency divider, a phase-locked loop, a loop filter and a reference signal source. The frequency divider is connected between the output of the variable frequency microwave signal source and an input of the phase-locked loop. The loop filter is connected between the output of the phase-locked loop and the input of the variable frequency microwave signal source. The reference signal source is connected to an additional input of the phase-locked loop. The frequency divider is adjustable, in particular digitally adjustable. A method for operating an FMWC radar includes adjusting a variable frequency microwave signal source by way of a closed-loop control circuit which uses a reference signal of a reference signal source, especially of a quartz oscillator, as the reference value, and a frequency-divided output signal of the microwave signal source as the feedback value.
US07990310B2
Disclosed herein is an Ultra-WideBand (UWB) ranging method using a narrowband interference suppression waveform. A transmission signal is transmitted to a target object. The transmission signal, reflected from the target object, is received. A template signal is generated by combining the narrowband interference suppression waveform and a channel estimation signal together. A correlation output signal is generated by convoluting the template signal and the received signal. A distance is calculated using a time delay when the correlation output signal has the maximum value thereof. The narrowband interference suppression waveform is any one of two waveforms that are expressed by the following Equation: wr1(t)=g(t−δ1/2)+g(t+δ1/2) wr2(t)=g(t−δ2/2)−g(t+δ2/2) where g(t) is a basic UWB pulse waveform, δ1=(N+1/2)f1, δ2=(N)/f1, N is an integer, and fi is the center frequency of a narrowband interference signal.
US07990309B2
A method of analyzing return signals of successive range cells in a scene using constant false alarm rate adaptive control comprising, for each successive range cell in turn is disclosed mathematically. The return signal is processed mathematically and averaged over a predetermined number of cells near that cell. A first variable factor and the return signal for that cell, to derive a first result. The first variable is adapted depending upon that first result. A second variable factor is derived in accordance with a predetermined relationship between the first and second factors are mathematically processed. The second factor is mathematically processed. The second averaged return signal and the return signal for the cell, to derive a second result. The second result is used as an indication of the presence of an object of interest in the scene.
US07990305B2
A double-integration signal processing apparatus for pulse width amplification and A/D conversion is provided. The current mode double-integration conversion apparatus includes: a current mode double-integration unit which integrates an input current in a predetermined time interval and outputs an integration voltage; a comparison unit which compares the integration voltage output from the current mode double-integration unit with a predetermined comparison voltage V k and outputs an comparison pulse signal; and a gate logic unit which performs a logic operation by using the comparison pulse signal of the comparison unit and an internal signal and outputs an logic operation pulse signal. Accordingly, the current mode double-integration conversion apparatus can be applied to various sensors.
US07990299B2
A method and apparatus for encoding data. A first pair of optical signals having a first phase difference is generated in response to receiving an input signal having a voltage. A second pair of optical signals having a second phase difference is generated in response to receiving an input signal having a voltage. The first pair of optical signals is combined to form a first optical signal having a first intensity. The second pair of optical signals is combined to form a second optical signal having a second intensity. The first intensity of the first optical signal reaches a peak at a different time from the second intensity of the second optical signal.
US07990292B2
The invention relates to a method to efficiently transmit a digital message over a unidirectional optical link, such as the link between a computer screen and a security token equipped with photosensitive elements. It is an object of this invention to provide a source coding scheme that is optimized for transmissions of alphanumerical data containing frequent occurrences of numerals and less frequent occurrences of non-numerical data. This is achieved by using a modified Huffman code for source coding, consisting of a nibble-based prefix-free binary code. The output of the coder is efficiently mapped onto a 6B4T channel code, wherein unused ternary codewords can be used to signal data-link layer events. This efficient signalling of data-link layer events, in turn, allows for a synchronization scheme based on repeated transmissions of a finite-length message, combined with an out-of-band clock signal.
US07990280B2
An exit alarm system housed in an escutcheon for activating upon movement of an interior latch operator. The system is mounted to the interior side of a door with a latch assembly including an interior latch operator. The system may include an alarm, a trigger, and an electronic module. The trigger is responsive to movement of the interior latch operator. The electronic module may be electrically connected to a power source for providing an input signal to the alarm. Upon motion of the interior latch operator, the trigger may cause the electronic module to send an activating input signal to the alarm. The alarm may be a sound transducer. A switch may be provide to arm the system. A tamper switch may be provided to cause the electronic module to activate the alarm upon removal of the escutcheon. The system may be applied to retrofit an existing door.
US07990274B2
An electronic device and transmitter allowing animal owners to locate their animals by a non-verbal audible output signal and a visual output signal. A method for training animals to elicit a desired behavior based upon stimuli emitted from an electronic device. The electronic device and method enable animal owners to quickly find their animals that might not otherwise respond to verbal commands.
US07990273B2
An inventory control tag comprises a first component, a second component, and a fastening mechanism for fastening together the first component and the second component. The fastening mechanism is configured such that the first component and the second component can be easily locked together and can only be unlocked from each other in normal usage by an external tool. At least one chamber defined by at least one of the first and second components is provided. Further, an electronic device is located in one of the chambers for triggering a compatible sensor and alarm system external to the control tag. A dye container located in one of the chambers designed to fracture and spill dye when the first and second components are forced apart.
US07990271B2
Quantities of movements of human and matter within a detection area are detected, based on the read results of an ID holding unit arranged in the detection area or information obtained from a sensor arranged in the detection area. Parameters are decided in accordance with the detected movement quantity, and by using such parameters, whether the detecting object is within the detection area or not is detected, based on the read results of an ID holding unit attached to a detecting object. A stabilizing process is performed based on the detected movement quantities of human and matter within the detection area by employing such constitution. Thus, detection is stabilized without limiting using environment or using method.
US07990267B1
The present invention describes a restroom attendant system. The restroom attendant system utilizes a notification device placed in a restroom. A patron would select a request for service button when the patron recognizes that the restroom needs servicing. The notification device can include a cancel feature as well as indicators to indicate when a request for service is in process and if the restroom is considered cleaned. The notification device would communicate with either a main terminal or a service person. The main terminal can further monitor the time between cleanings and request that a restroom be serviced should the time since the previous servicing exceeds an acceptable time-span. The information can be stored, printed, and uploaded to a central receiving station.
US07990249B1
RFID tag circuits, tags, and methods are provided for backscattering a received RF wave using a controllable admittance difference between the ON state and the OFF state. The admittance difference is controlled responsive to a control signal. In some embodiments, the control signal is generated responsive to a command. In others, the control signal is generated responsive to detecting the power level of the received RF wave. In those, the inherent behavior of the admittance difference can be shaped as desired. For example, it can be such that the backscatters with advantageously more power when it is away from the reader, and with less power when it is close to the reader, so as to meet regulatory requirements.
US07990247B2
A wiring assembly having a conductor positioned about an axis in a helical-like configuration to provide a repetitive pattern which rotates around the axis. In one embodiment, when a current passes through the conductor, a magnetic field having an orientation orthogonal to the axis changes direction as a function of position along the axis.
US07990242B2
Different configurations of transient voltage quashing (TQ) transformers, harmonic current quashing (HQ) transformers, and transient voltage and harmonic current quashing (THQ) transformers include one or more of: a tertiary winding radially placed between the primary and secondary windings, with a surge suppressors coupled thereto, which quashes transient voltages in the transformer and any output device attached to output leads of the tertiary or secondary windings; and an arrangement of the secondary windings, separated by at least a second type intra-winding insulation, into one or a plurality of output winding groups, each used to provide power to N serially-connected output devices that exhibit known/expected output voltage characteristics. The second type intra-winding insulation has a dielectric strength to withstand the sum of the voltage output of the device being powered by the output winding and the adjacent serially-connected device, such that the output device experiences minimal harmonic currents.
US07990240B2
A relay assembly is provided that includes an intermediate member to aid in coupling a wire to a housing.
US07990232B1
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) resonator designs having support structures that minimize or substantially reduce anchor losses, thereby improving a quality factor (Q) of the MEMS resonators, are provided. In general, a MEMS resonator includes a resonator body connected to anchors via support structures. The anchors are connected to or are part of a substrate on which the MEMS resonator is formed. The support structures operate to support the resonator body in free space to enable vibration. The support structures are designed to minimize or substantially reduce energy loss through the anchors into the substrate.
US07990230B2
A temperature compensation attenuator formed from a base, a serial film thermistor having two ends, a parallel film resistor, an input terminal, and an output terminal. The serial film thermistor and the parallel film resistor are disposed on the base, the input terminal and the output terminal are connected to the two ends of the serial film thermistor. The temperature compensation attenuator features a small size, good RF performance and simple production, and solves the problem of easy detachment of discrete components from the attenuator.
US07990228B2
A technique capable of achieving both improvement of mounting density and noise reduction for a semiconductor device is provided. An LSI mounted on a printed wiring board comprises a grounding BGA ball and a power BGA ball to get power supply from the printed wiring board, and the grounding BGA ball and the power BGA ball are arranged closely to each other. A decoupling capacitor is mounted on the printed wiring board and has a first terminal and a second terminal. The grounding BGA ball and the first terminal are connected by a first metal electrode plate, and the power BGA ball and the second terminal are connected by a second metal electrode plate. The first metal electrode plate and the second metal electrode plate interpose a dielectric film having a thickness equal to or smaller than 1 μm therebetween.
US07990220B2
A reduction is achieved in the primary-side input impedance of a transformer (voltage transformer) as an output matching circuit without involving a reduction in Q-factor. An RF power amplifier includes transistors, and a transformer as the output matching circuit. The transformer has a primary coil and a secondary coil which are magnetically coupled to each other. To the input terminals of the transistors, respective input signals are supplied. The primary coil is coupled to each of the output terminals of the transistors. From the secondary coil, an output signal is generated. The primary coil includes a first coil and a second coil which are coupled in parallel between the respective output terminals of the transistors, and each magnetically coupled to the secondary coil. By the parallel coupling of the first and second coils of the primary coil, the input impedance of the primary coil is reduced.
US07990215B2
Circuit and method for a Class D amplifier. In one exemplary embodiment, an audio amplifier is disclosed. A closed loop configuration for driving high and low side driver transistors is provided, each circuit is compatible with advanced sub micron semiconductor processes. The analog time varying input is coupled to one input of a sigma delta analog to digital converter. A feedback signal from the output is also input to the analog to digital converter. A bit stream is output by the analog to digital converter. A decimator receives this bit stream and downconverts the samples to digital values at a lower frequency. A digital filter with adaptable coefficients is used to filter that signal and a digital pulse width modulator then develops an analog differential PWM signal. A predriver inputs the PWM signal and derives the output gating signals to control the high and low side drivers of a Class D amplifier.
US07990212B1
A modulated amplifier output enable control eliminates audible pops when enabling and disabling an audio amplifier output stage. The output of the audio amplifier is transitioned between an enabled state and a disabled state using a modulated control signal that enables and disables the output of the audio amplifier. Durations of the enabled state vs. the disabled state of the amplifier are adjusted to cause a transition between a fully disabled state and a fully enabled state of the audio amplifier so that the transition between the disabled state and the enabled state of the amplifier output is inaudible.
US07990208B2
In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, a circuit block has a first MOS transistor, and a leakage current control circuit having a second MOS transistor and a current source, a source and drain circuit of the second MOS transistor is formed between the power supply line of the circuit block and a voltage point where operating voltage is supplied. This current source is connected to the power supply line and in a first state, the power supply line is driven to a first voltage by the second MOS transistor. In a second state, the power supply line is controlled at a second voltage by current flow in the current source and, the voltage applied across the source and drain of the first MOS transistor in the second state is smaller than the voltage applied across the source and drain of the first MOS transistor in the first state.
US07990198B2
The invention is related to an apparatus and a method for generating an output clock. The method comprises: receiving a transmitted signal comprising at least one data signal and at least one synchronized signal; producing a reference signal according to the synchronization signal; counting the first reference signal according to a free-run clock outputted by a free-run clock generator to produce a counter signal; and generating the output clock according to the counter signal and the free-run clock.
US07990197B2
An internal clock signal driver circuit includes a delay block that delays a rising clock signal and a falling clock signal, and outputs a delayed rising clock signal and a delayed falling clock signal, a rising DLL clock signal generating block that receives and combines the rising clock signal, the falling clock signal, and the delayed rising clock signal, and outputs a rising DLL clock signal, and a falling DLL clock signal generating block that receives and combines the rising clock signal, the falling clock signal, and the delayed falling clock signal, and outputs a falling DLL clock signal.
US07990195B2
A duty cycle correction circuit includes a duty cycle correction portion that is configured to output a correction signal that is obtained by correcting a duty cycle of an input signal and to output a delayed signal that is obtained by delaying the correction signal, a complementary portion that is configured to output a complementary signal that is the complement of the delayed signal, and a phase interpolator that is configured to phase interpolate the complementary signal and the correction signal.
US07990191B2
A digital phase-locked loop circuit includes: a first counter which counts a first clock; a second counter which counts third clocks into which a second clock is divided; a first phase detector which detects a relative phase difference between the first and the third clocks according to a first comparison result that clocks in which the third clock is delayed are compared with the first clock and a second comparison result that clocks in which the first clock is delayed are compared with the third clock; a second phase detector which measures the period of the second clock; a phase error calculating unit which calculates a phase difference between the first and the third clocks according to the value that the result detected by the first phase detector is normalized by the result detected by the second phase detector and the count values of the first and the second counters; and a DCO which outputs the second clock according to the result calculated by the phase error calculating unit.
US07990179B2
A layout design method in accordance with an exemplary aspect of the present invention is a layout design method for a clock tree circuit, including disposing a first clock distribution circuit in a clock tree circuit, wiring the clock tree circuit in which the first clock distribution circuit is disposed, verifying timing of the wired clock tree circuit, and replacing the first distribution element by a second clock distribution circuit based on a result of the timing verification, the second clock distribution circuit having roughly a same input load capacitance as the first clock distribution circuit and a different delay value from the first clock distribution circuit.
US07990173B1
A circuit for handling single event upsets includes a plurality of digital clock manager circuits. A plurality of counters are respectively coupled by their inputs to the outputs of the digital clock managers and a reset controller is coupled to the outputs of the counters. The reset controller is configured to determine an expected value of the counters. In response to an output value of one of the counters being less than the expected value, the reset controller triggers a reset of the digital clock manager coupled to the input of the one of the counters. In response to an output value of one of the counters being greater than or equal to the expected value, the reset controller continues operation without triggering a reset of a digital clock manager.
US07990169B2
An electrical testing device used for testing an electronic device under test. The electrical testing device includes a cable configured for receiving a test signal and transmitting the received test signal therethrough, and a testing unit connected to the cable and configured for analyzing the test signal. The cable includes a flexible body, a number of first connectors connected to an end of the flexible body configured for receiving a test signal from the electronic device under test, and a second connector connected to the other end of the flexible body configured for transmitting the test signal between the flexible body and the testing unit.
US07990161B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus for measuring the total acid number of oil, an apparatus for measuring the lifetime of oil through the measurement of the total acid number of oil, a method for measuring the total acid number of oil, and a method of making measurements using an oil sensor. According to the disclosed invention, measurement accuracy can be increased through the use of a high-sensitivity conductance measuring sensor, the inventive apparatus can be applied to both lubricant oil and insulating oil, the size of the total acid number-measuring apparatus can be reduced.
US07990149B2
Hybrid circuitry (40, 40′, 40″) for operatively coupling a radio frequency drive signal (70) with a quadrature coil (30) is configurable in one of at least two coil modes of a group consisting of: (i) a linear I channel mode in which an I channel input port (42) is driven without driving a Q channel input port (44); (ii) a linear Q channel mode in which the Q channel input port is driven without driving the I channel input port; (iii) a quadrature mode in which both the I and Q channel input ports are driven with a selected positive phase difference; and (iv) an anti quadrature mode in which both the I and Q channel input ports are driven with a selected negative phase difference. A temporal sequence of the at least two coil modes may be determined and employed to compensate for B1 inhomogeneity.
US07990143B2
The nuclear magnetic resonance machine comprises a device (101) for creating an intense main magnetic field B0 in a useable interior space (109) in the form of a tunnel with axis Z, a device for radio-frequency excitation and processing of radio-frequency signals emitted in response by a body (150) placed in the useable interior space (109), and a set (110) of solenoidal gradient coils for superimposing on the intense magnetic field B0 components of an additional magnetic field, the gradient coils (111-122) being incorporated into tubes that are disposed in a annular cylindrical space (130). Between an exterior cryogenic enclosure (102) and the annular cylindrical space (130) a cylindrical screen (104) is disposed along the axis Z comprising a conductive material of low resistance and low magnetoresistance such that negligible induced currents are generated in the exterior cryogenic enclosure (102) while the eddy currents induced in the cylindrical screen (104) contribute to reinforcing the gradients produced by the solenoidal gradient coils (111-122).
US07990130B2
Provided is a band gap reference voltage circuit having an improved power supply rejection ratio. Owing to a voltage supply circuit (51), a power supply voltage (V5) does not depend on variation of a power supply voltage (Vdd). A voltage (V3−V2) which is generated across a resistor (41) and has a positive temperature coefficient is determined based not on the power supply voltage (Vdd) but on the power supply voltage (V5), and hence the voltage (V3−V2) does not depend on the variation of the power supply voltage (Vdd). As a result, the power supply rejection ratio of the band gap reference voltage circuit is improved.
US07990121B2
A synchronous-rectification-type switching regulator is disclosed that includes a first switching element; an inductor charged with a voltage input to an input terminal of the switching regulator by the switching of the first switching element; a second switching element for synchronous rectification performing switching so as to discharge the inductor; a control circuit part controlling the switching of the first switching element so that an output voltage from an output terminal of the switching regulator is a predetermined constant voltage, and to cause the second switching element to perform the switching inversely to the first switching element; and a reverse current prevention circuit part interrupting a current that flows into the second switching element by cutting off the connection of the second switching element so as to prevent generation of a reverse current that flows in the direction of the second switching element from the output terminal.
US07990119B2
A multimode voltage regulator circuit includes a linear regulator sub-circuit configured to supply current to a load in a low-current mode, responsive to a first control signal from a first control path, as well as a switching regulator sub-circuit configured to supply current to the load in a high-current mode, responsive to a second control signal from a second control path. The circuit further comprises a shared error amplifier configured to generate an error signal based on the difference between a reference voltage and a feedback signal coupled from the load, and a switch configured to selectively route the error signal to the first control path in the low-current mode and to the second control path in the high-current mode.
US07990113B2
A method and a wind power plant are provided for smoothing alternating electric current from a number of power generators. Generators are electrically connected to an electric network. Each power generator includes a transformer with pulse width modulation for converting direct current to pulse width modulated alternating current for feeding to the network. The time for feeding the pulses of the pulse width modulated alternating current is different for each generator in order to achieve a more even alternating current as a sum of respective outputs of alternating current from the generators.
US07990108B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, an apparatus that includes a battery system, which includes at least one cell and a charge enable device to couple the at least one cell to a charging voltage. The apparatus also includes an excessive voltage detector to output a signal to control the charge enable device. The signal prevents charging of the at least one cell if an excessive charging voltage is detected based on an activation of a clamping component.
US07990107B2
An exemplary charging control circuit includes a signal shaping unit, a first switch unit, and a second switch unit. The signal shaping unit receives a control signal, and is capable of reshaping the received control signal to have a time interval transited from a first state to a second state. The first switch unit receives the shaped control signal, and generates a first switching signal. The second switch unit receives the first switching signal, and is capable of being turned on based on the first switching signal for allowing electrical power to be outputted to a battery.
US07990101B2
An energy delivery system includes at least one string of two or more energy delivery modules electrically coupled in series. Each energy delivery module includes one or more energy delivery devices for storing and delivering electrical current, and a module monitor for monitoring and controlling each of the energy delivery devices. Each string of energy delivery modules includes a string communication path accessible to each of the energy delivery modules, wherein the module monitor of each energy delivery module is operable to communicate information associated with its energy delivery module through the string communication path. Each string also includes a string manager device for communicating with each module monitor in the string, through the string communication path. The energy delivery system also includes a system controller for communicating with each string manager device through a system communication path.
US07990098B2
Systems and apparatus are provided for an inverter system for use in a vehicle. The inverter system comprises a six-phase motor having a first set of three-phase windings and a second set of three-phase windings and a three-phase motor having a third set of three-phase windings, wherein the third set of three-phase windings is coupled to the first set of three-phase windings and the second set of three-phase windings. The system further comprises a first energy source coupled to a first inverter adapted to drive the six-phase motor and the three-phase motor, wherein the first set of three-phase windings is coupled to the first inverter, and a second energy source coupled to a second inverter adapted to drive the six-phase motor and the three-phase motor, wherein the second set of three-phase windings is coupled to the second inverter. A controller is coupled to the first inverter and the second inverter.
US07990092B2
A blower motor assembly having a variable speed motor that is suitable for direct, drop-in replacement in a residential HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) system that employs a PSC motor. The blower motor assembly includes at least a neutral input and two hot AC line connections, one for connection to the heating power source and the other to the cooling power source. A sensing circuit senses which of the inputs is energized by sensing either voltage or current on the inputs. The sensing circuit delivers a corresponding signal to a motor controller to control the speed of the variable speed motor. The blower motor assembly may also be equipped with additional hot AC inputs, more than one neutral line, and several sensing circuits for sensing current or voltage in the hot inputs and/or the neutral lines for controlling various aspects of the variable speed motor.
US07990086B2
Seat-assembly movement system, for collecting up and deploying rows of seats (1) at the installation site, by means of sliding on guides (2) arranged in the floor, the movement of the rows of seats (1) being managed by means of a control system comprising a master PLC or a computer unit, for governing the installation, in combination with respective slave PLCs arranged on the carriages (3) carrying the rows of seats and in connection with devices for controlling the position of said carriages (3) on the mounting guides (2).
US07990083B2
A method, for controlling color output of a variable color lighting system (1) capable of emitting light within a color gamut, comprising the steps of receiving (10) a request for a target color (T), converting the target color (T) to a set of lighting system control parameters, and applying (15) the set of lighting system control parameters, thereby controlling the color output of the lighting system (1). The step of converting comprises the steps of determining (11) a target set (DT) of lighting system control parameters corresponding to the target color (T), evaluating (12) the target set (Dτ) of lighting system control parameters with respect to a range of allowable control parameters, thereby determining whether the target color (T) is outside the color gamut, and, when the target color (T) is outside the color gamut, determining (14) an approximation set (DA) of control parameters, the approximation set corresponding to an output color (A1; A2) within the color gamut, the output color (A1; A2) being an approximation of the target color (T).
US07990073B2
A method for operating a fluorescent lamp which is connected to a series resonant circuit with a resonant circuit inductance and a resonant circuit capacitance. The method includes applying an excitation AC voltage at an excitation frequency to the series resonant circuit using a half bridge circuit, which has an output to which the series resonant circuit is coupled, and which has a first and a second switch which are alternately switched on and off on the basis of a frequency signal. A current flowing through the resonant circuit is monitored for the presence of a critical operating state. The switched-on times of the first and second switches are shortened in comparison to switched-on times which are predetermined by the frequency signal, upon detection of a critical operating state.
US07990072B2
A backlighting arrangement constituted of: a driving transformer; at least one balancing transformer; a plurality of luminaires, a first end of each of the plurality of luminaires connected to a high voltage lead of the driving transformer and a second end of each of the plurality of luminaires connected to a unique end of a winding of the at least one balancing transformer, wherein each pair of the luminaires is associated with a particular winding of one of the at least one balancing transformers, and wherein the first end and the second end of each of the luminaires is in physical proximity of the driving transformer and the at least one balancing transformer, the constituent lamps of the luminaires arranged in parallel and generally extending axially away from the proximity of the driving transformer.
US07990070B2
Isolated LED power sources and DC-DC converters therefor are presented in which the DC-DC converter includes a self-oscillating inverter driving an output rectifier for operating an LED array of one or more LEDs, where the inverter uses a control transformer with core having a Curie temperature set to a maximum operating temperature of one or more power supply components to reduce inductances of secondary windings in the inverter oscillation circuitry to lower the power supplied to the load so as to prevent the inverter from overheating.
US07990068B2
In accordance with the invention, there are nanoscale electron emitters, field emission light emitting devices, and methods of forming them. The nanoscale electron emitter can include a first electrode electrically connected to a first power supply and a second electrode electrically connected to a second power supply. The nanoscale electron emitter can also include a nanocylinder electron emitter array disposed over the second electrode, the nanocylinder electron emitter array having a plurality of nanocylinder electron emitters disposed in a dielectric matrix, wherein each of the plurality of nanocylinder electron emitters can include a first end connected to the second electrode and a second end positioned to emit electrons, the first end being opposite to the second end.
US07990064B2
The present invention relates to a photomultiplier that realizes significant improvement of response time properties with a structure enabling mass production. In the sealed container, a photocathode, a dynode unit including at least one dynode set, and preferably dynode sets of two series, a focusing electrode unit arranged between the photocathode and the dynode unit are housed. The focusing electrode unit is set to the same potential as the second dynode arranged at a position where secondary electrons from said first dynode, which emits secondary electrons in response to incidence of photoelectrons, arrive, and is provided with partitioning plates partitioning the second dynode into two in a longitudinal direction of the second dynode.
US07990059B2
The strength of the whole OLED is increased by proposing a new method of fixing OLED panels. To address the problem, an OLED element is formed on a substrate, and a sealing substrate of a structure by which the substrate is sealed is fixed to a lower metallic frame via an elastic sheet. Silicon resin is preferably used as the sheet, and use of a sheet having a heat diffusion function based on radiation is more desirable.
US07990054B2
Organic electroluminescent device with a layer stack for emitting light through a top electrode includes a conductive foil having a carrier material with an upper and a lower side as a substrate and a first metal layer with a thickness resulting in a sheet resistance of less than 0.05 Ω/square on the upper side of the carrier material. The first metal layer act as a bottom electrode, and an organic layer stack is formed on top of the bottom-electrode for emitting light through the top electrode, which is formed on top of the organic layer stack. A partly transparent protection element covers at least the top electrode and the organic layer stack.
US07990049B2
Provided are an organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency and a long lifetime, and a production method of the device. The organic electroluminescent device includes an anode, a cathode, and a stacked body interposed between the anode and the cathode and formed by sequentially stacking at least an inorganic compound layer and an organic emission layer, in which the inorganic compound layer has a hole-transporting ability and a work function of the inorganic compound layer changes continuously in a film thickness direction of the inorganic compound layer.
US07990046B2
A material for electroluminescent devices which comprises a compound in which a heterocyclic group having nitrogen is bonded to carbazolyl group and an organic electroluminescent device having at least one organic thin film layer which is sandwiched between the cathode and the anode and contains the above material in at least one layer, are provided. The material can provide organic electroluminescent devices emitting bluish light with a high purity of color. The organic electroluminescence device uses the material.
US07990045B2
The invention relates to phosphor-conversion (PC) sources of white light, which are composed of at least two groups of emitters, such as blue electroluminescent light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and wide-band (WB) or narrow-band (NB) phosphors that partially absorb and convert the flux generated by the LEDs to other wavelengths, and to improving the quality of the white light emitted by such light sources. In particular, embodiments of the present invention describe new 3-4 component combinations of peak wavelengths and bandwidths for white PC LEDs with partial conversion. These combinations are used to provide spectral power distributions that enable lighting with a considerable portion of a high number of spectrophotometrically calibrated colors rendered almost indistinguishably from a blackbody radiator or daylight illuminant, and which differ from distributions optimized using standard color-rendering assessment procedures based on a small number of test samples.
US07990043B2
A field emission cathode structure includes a dielectric layer, a field emission unit, a grid electrode, and a conductive layer. The dielectric layer is positioned on the insulating substrate and defines a cavity. A field emission unit is attached on the cathode electrode and received in the cavity of the dielectric layer. The field emission unit is electrically attached to the cathode electrode. The grid electrode is located on the dielectric layer, and electrons emitted from the field emission unit emit through the grid electrode. The conductive layer is electrically attached to the grid electrode and insulated from the field emission unit. A field emission display device using the above-mentioned field emission cathode structure is also provided.
US07990036B2
The electric lamp comprises a discharge vessel (1) which has pinched seals (4) of H-shaped cross-section. A pair of metal mounting members (10) are clicked on each pinched seal (4) to allow the lamp to be mounted in a tubular quartz glass sleeve. The lamp may be used to sterilize a liquid which is made to flow past the glass sleeve. The lamp can be easily mounted into and removed from the glass sleeve.
US07990033B2
A display device having a surface with light-emitting regions and non-light-emitting regions, wherein the aforementioned light-emitting regions and non-light-emitting regions are subjected to simultaneous surface treatment selected from: (1) brush treatment; (2) blast treatment; or (3) combined brush and blast treatment, whereby after the aforementioned treatment the surfaces of the light-emitting regions have a 60°-mirror-surface glossiness according to JIS Z 8741 exceeding 20%, while the surfaces of the non-light-emitting regions have a 60°-mirror-surface glossiness according to JIS Z 8741 not exceeding 20%, has good visibility of images reproduced by the display, which is especially suitable for outdoor application.
US07990031B2
A light emitting diode (LED) lamp is disclosed, which comprises: a base; a tube, mounted on the base and configured with a plurality of first openings; a mask, for receiving a portion of the tube inside the same and being configured with a plurality of second openings; a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), each being mounted at the exterior periphery of the tube; and a fan, being arranged connecting to the tube; wherein, the operation of the fan is going to cause air convention between the tube and the mask for dissipating the heat generated from the LEDs with high efficiency.
US07990016B2
A slip ring module (76) for a rotor (40) of an electrical machine (10), in particular, an alternator is disclosed, comprising at least one first slip ring (79) with at least one first connecting conductor (103) held in sections of an insulation material (101) for the slip ring module (76), in electrically conducting connection with at least one first slip ring (79) and with an end (115) of the connection conductor (103), facing away from the first slip ring (79), provided for connection to an excitation coil (61). The invention is characterised in that the slip ring module (76) has a further formed conductor (139) forming a direct electrical connection from the first connection conductor (103) to a surface (142) of the slip ring module (76). An electric machine is also provided, in particular, an alternator for motor vehicles, comprising a rotor (40), supporting an excitation coil (61), said slip ring module (76) providing the power supply to the excitation coil (61). Furthermore, a method for production of a slip ring module (76) for an electric machine, in particular, an alternator, is disclosed, wherein, in one step, at least one connector conductor (103) is bonded to an electrically insulating holder (100), in particular, by means of a injection moulding process and, in another step, the connection conductor is directly connected to an electrically conductible conductor (139) made from a composite material, the composite material comprising electrically conducting and electrically non-conducting regions.
US07990013B2
A stator coil of a slotless motor is disclosed in which the stator coil is formed in such a manner that respective both distal ends of two unit coil bodies, each unit coil body arranged to face each other, are respectively coupled to form a plurality of circular coil bodies, each circular coil body having a different inner diameter, and a circular coil body having a smaller inner diameter is sequentially inserted into an inner side of a circular coil body having a larger inner diameter, whereby a horizontal width of the plurality of unit coil bodies of U, V and W phases is equal there among to cause the strength of the magnetic field of U, V and W phases to be equal, and to allow the stator to be accurately manufactured, thereby catering to a designer's intention and markedly simplifying the assembly processes.
US07990001B2
A terminal structure for a vehicle-mounted motor includes a motor body having a motor terminal 28 connected to a coil, and a circuit body 5 holding a circuit board 18 for controlling a rotation of the motor body and is assembled in the motor body, wherein a stress relaxation section 35 is provided in an intermediate of an intermediate conductor 34, in order to reduce stress acting on the intermediate conductor 34 connecting the motor terminal 28 and the circuit board 18 and to thereby improve the conductive reliability of electrical joint.
US07989985B2
A battery return disconnect (“BRD”) circuit for use with a battery supply having a plurality of electrically parallel inter-connecting batteries. The BRD circuit includes a plurality of DC input ports, a set of OR-ing diodes, a plurality of polarity detectors and a plurality of switches. Each input port includes a DC input terminal and a DC return terminal. Each OR-ing diode is connected to a DC input terminal or a DC return terminal and is forward-biased to when the BRD circuit is connected to a plurality of batteries having substantially the same voltage level. Each polarity detector monitors the bias of an OR-ing diode electrically connected to a corresponding DC input terminal. Each switch is connected to a DC return terminal and a polarity detector. Each switch is closed as long as the monitored OR-ing diode is forward-biased and open when the monitored OR-ing diode is reverse-biased.
US07989983B2
In a general aspect, a power conversion system includes a power converter, a transformer, and a voltage adjustment device. The power converter is configured to receive a variable DC power generated by a power generation device and to convert the received DC power to AC power at a first voltage. The transformer is configured to receive the AC power from the power converter and to deliver AC power at a second voltage to a utility power network. The voltage adjustment device is configured to adjust the first voltage to a target value determined on the basis of a voltage of the DC power.
US07989981B2
A power adaptor and storage unit is configured to simultaneously provide power to a portable electronic device and to a portable power module. In some cases, the portable power module is integrated into the power adaptor. The power adaptor receives power unusable by the electronic device, converts it to a usable form, stores some of the converted power if possible, and supplies the power to the device.
US07989977B2
A power distribution system that can be used in naval ships and submarines includes a first power generation system including at least one power source for supplying power to a first service distribution system that includes at least one dc distribution busbar for carrying a distribution voltage and a distribution current and at least one switchboard that includes protective switchgear with contacts. A zonal power distribution sub-system includes a zonal power supply unit for supplying power to at least one electrical load and a zonal energy store connected to the at least one switchboard of the first service distribution system for supplying power to the zonal power supply unit. The at least one power source is regulated according to a power source foldback and stabilizing characteristic and a power source starting characteristic. The at least one electrical load is regulated according to a load shedding and stabilizing characteristic.
US07989976B2
A system and method for controlling the delivery of power to a powered device in a Power over Ethernet Broad Reach (PoE-BR) application. Cabling power loss in a PoE-BR application is related to the resistance of the cable itself. A PHY can be designed to measure electrical characteristics (e.g., insertion loss, cross talk, length, etc.) of the Ethernet cable to enable determination of the cable resistance. The determined resistance in a broad reach cable can be used in increasing a power budget allocated to a power source equipment port.
US07989968B2
A method, structure, system of aligning a substrate to a photomask. The method comprising: directing light through a clear region of the photomask in a photolithography tool, through a lens of the tool and onto a set of at least three diffraction mirror arrays on the substrate, each diffraction mirror array of the set of at least three diffraction mirror arrays comprising a single row of mirrors, all mirrors in any particular diffraction mirror array spaced apart a same distance, mirrors in different diffraction mirror arrays spaced apart different distances; measuring an intensity of light diffracted from the set of at least three diffraction mirror arrays onto an array of photo detectors; and adjusting a temperature of the photomask or photomask and lens based on the measured intensity of light.
US07989965B2
A system for dispensing an underfill material between an integrated circuit (IC) chip and a substrate includes a platform at which the underfill material is supplied. The IC chip and the substrate are mounted at the periphery of the platform. The platform rotates and facilitates the movement of the underfill material toward the IC chip and the substrate. The system further includes a Bernoulli tube that is located proximate to the IC chip and the substrate. The Bernoulli tube generates a low pressure in the proximity of the IC packages. The low pressure facilitates the dispensing of the underfill material between the IC chip and the substrate.
US07989964B2
On a semiconductor chip in a semiconductor integrated circuit, a plurality of circuit cells each of which has a pad are formed along a first chip side of the semiconductor chip. Among the plurality of circuit cells, one or more circuit cells at least in the vicinity of an end portion on the first chip side are arranged having a steplike shift in a direction apart from the first chip side with decreasing distance from the center portion to the end portion on the first chip side.
US07989959B1
A stacked-die integrated circuit and a method of fabricating same. The stacked-die integrated circuit has circuitry formed in the first surface of a mother die, a plurality of through-die vias with at least one through-die via providing electrical connection between the circuitry of the mother die and the second surface and a plurality of contact pads formed in the second surface of the semiconductor die for mounting a daughter die wherein some of the contact pads are electrically isolated dummy pads.
US07989957B2
Embodiments concern contacts for use in integrated circuits, which have a reduced likelihood of shorting to unrelated portions of an overlying conductive layer due to contact misalignment. Embodiments for forming the integrated circuit include performing a first etching process to pattern the conductive layer, where the etching compound used in the first etching process is relatively selective to the conductive layer's materials. Embodiments also include performing a second, contact related etching process that removes a portion of any misaligned contacts that were exposed by the first etching process, where the etching compound used in the second etching process is selective to the contacts' materials. The embodiments can be used to form vias and other interconnect structures as well. The modified contacts and vias are adapted for use in conjunction with memory cells and apparatus incorporating such memory cells, as well as other integrated circuits.
US07989951B2
An embodiment of a die assembly includes a flange, lip walls, and leads for electrical contact with one or more die mounted on the flange. The flange has first and second opposed flange surfaces and flange sidewalls extending between the surfaces. The lip walls have first and second opposed lip surfaces and lip sidewalls extending between the first and second lip surfaces. The lip sidewalls are positioned adjacent to the flange sidewalls. The leads, which have inboard end portions and outboard end portions, are configured to preserve a seating plane. The seating plane is spaced apart from a plane of the second flange surface. The inboard end portions of the leads are embedded in the lip walls, and extend from the seating plane upward through the lip walls toward the first lip surfaces. The outboard end portions are aligned substantially within the seating plane.
US07989945B2
A connector for electrically connecting to pads formed on a semiconductor device includes a substrate and an array of contact elements of conductive material formed on the substrate. Each contact element includes a base portion attached to the top surface of the substrate and a curved spring portion extending from the base portion and having a distal end projecting above the substrate. The curved spring portion is formed to curve away from a plane of contact and has a curvature disposed to provide a controlled wiping action when engaging a respective pad of the semiconductor device.
US07989942B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package with a plurality of chip capacitors placed on a surface of a die is disclosed. The chip capacitors may be placed on top of the die with an interposal substrate layer. Placing chip capacitors on top of the die may reduce the size of the packaging substrate required. One or more wires may be used to connect the chip capacitors on the interposal layer to the packaging substrate. The IC package may include a lid and a thermal interface material (TIM) placed on top of the die. The lid may be shaped such that a protruding portion of the lid contacts the die directly through the TIM to improve heat dissipation.
US07989939B2
Provided is a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package includes a bonding wire electrically connecting a first package substrate and a second package substrate to each other and an insulating layer adhering the first package substrate and the second package substrate to each other and covering a portion of the bonding wire.
US07989918B2
A method and tamper detection circuit for implementing tamper and anti-reverse engineering evident detection in a semiconductor chip, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. A capacitor is formed with the semiconductor chip including the circuitry to be protected. A change in the capacitor value results responsive to the semiconductor chip being thinned, which is detected and a tamper-detected signal is generated.
US07989917B2
The invention relates to an electronic device provided with an electronic component which comprises an integrated circuit arrangement including a semiconducting substrate, active components, and passive components such as capacitors and resistors. The resistors comprise materials of a high resistivity and can be manufactured with resistance values which lie within a narrow tolerance range.The invention further relates to a transmitter, a receiver, an electronic component, a peripheral circuit, a current supply circuit, a filter module, and an integrated circuit arrangement.
US07989915B2
A vertical electrical device includes a region in a substrate extending from a surface of the substrate, the region having an inner wall and an outer wall circumscribing the inner wall. An inner electrically conductive layer is disposed on the inner wall and an outer electrically conductive layer is disposed on the outer wall, with an electrically insulative material disposed between the inner and outer layers. An electrical conductor in the substrate is bounded by the inner electrically conductive layer.
US07989909B2
An image sensor module includes a semiconductor chip. Photodiode units are disposed in an active region of the semiconductor chip to convert light into electric signals. Pads are disposed in a peripheral region formed around the active region and the pads are electrically connected to the photodiode units. A connecting region is formed around the peripheral region. Re-distribution layers are electrically connected to respective pads and extend to the connecting region. A transparent substrate covers the photodiode units and the pads and exposes at least a portion of the re-distribution layers. Connecting layers are electrically connected to the respective re-distribution layers and extend to a top surface of the transparent substrate. Connecting members are connected to the respective connecting layers disposed on the top surface of the transparent substrate.
US07989901B2
A semiconductor structure and methods for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a gate stack on the semiconductor substrate; a SiGe region in the semiconductor substrate and adjacent the gate stack, wherein the SiGe region has a first atomic percentage of germanium to germanium and silicon; and a silicide region over the SiGe region. The silicide region has a second atomic percentage of germanium to germanium and silicon. The second atomic percentage is substantially lower than the first atomic percentage.
US07989900B2
A semiconductor structure, such as a CMOS structure, includes a gate electrode that has a laterally variable work function. The gate electrode that has the laterally variable work function may be formed using an angled ion implantation method or a sequential layering method. The gate electrode that has the laterally variable work function provides enhanced electrical performance within an undoped channel field effect transistor device.
US07989887B2
A trench MOSFET comprising a plurality of transistor cells with a plurality of wide trenched floating gates as termination region is disclosed. The trenched floating gates have trench depth equal to or deeper than body junction depth of body regions in termination area. Each body region between two adjacent said trenched floating gates has floating voltage.
US07989878B2
An n-channel insulated gate semiconductor device with an active cell (5) comprising a p channel well region (6) surrounded by an n type third layer (8), the device further comprising additional well regions (11) formed adjacent to the channel well region (6) outside the active semiconductor cell (5) has enhanced safe operating are capability. The additional well regions (11) outside the active cell (5) do not affect the active cell design in terms of cell pitch, i.e. the design rules for cell spacing, and hole drainage between the cells, hence resulting in optimum carrier profile at the emitter side for low on-state losses.
US07989869B2
Nonvolatile memory devices are provided. Devices include active regions that may be defined by device isolation layers formed on a semiconductor substrate and extend in a first direction. Devices may also include word lines that may cross over the active regions and extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The active regions have a first pitch and the word lines have a second pitch that is greater than the first pitch.
US07989859B2
A backside illuminated imaging sensor includes a semiconductor layer, a metal interconnect layer and a silicide light reflecting layer. The semiconductor layer has a front surface and a back surface. An imaging pixel that includes a photodiode region is formed within the semiconductor layer. The metal interconnect layer is electrically coupled to the photodiode region and the silicide light reflecting layer is coupled between the metal interconnect layer and the front surface of the semiconductor layer. In operation, the photodiode region receives light from the back surface of the semiconductor layer, where a portion of the received light propagates through the photodiode region to the silicide light reflecting layer. The silicide light reflecting layer is configured to reflect the portion of light received from the photodiode region.
US07989858B2
Provided are an image sensor and a method of fabricating the same. The image sensor according to an embodiment includes a semiconductor substrate including a circuit region; a metal interconnection layer including a metal interconnection and an interlayer dielectric on the semiconductor substrate; a plurality of first pixel isolation layers on the interlayer dielectric, each of the first pixel isolation layers protruding above a top surface of the interlayer dielectric; and a light receiving portion between the first pixel isolation layers, the light receiving portion including protruding portions along sidewalls of the first pixel isolation layers.
US07989857B2
An electronic device includes a transistor, wherein the electronic device can include a semiconductor layer having a primary surface, a channel region, a gate electrode, a source region, a conductive electrode, and an insulating layer lying between the primary surface of the semiconductor layer and the conductive electrode. The insulating layer has a first region and a second region, wherein the first region is thinner than the second region. The channel region, gate electrode, source region, or any combination thereof can lie closer to the first region than the second region. The thinner portion can allow for faster switch of the transistor, and the thicker portion can allow a relatively large voltage difference to be placed across the insulating layer. Alternative shapes for the transitions between the different regions of the insulating layer and exemplary methods to achieve such shapes are also described.
US07989854B2
Semiconductor devices include a semiconductor substrate with a stack structure protruding from the semiconductor substrate and surrounded by an isolation structure. The stack structure includes an active layer pattern and a gap-filling insulation layer between the semiconductor substrate and the active layer pattern. A gate electrode extends from the isolation structure around the stack structure. The gate electrode is configured to provide a support structure for the active layer pattern. The gate electrode may be a gate electrode of a silicon on insulator (SOI) device formed on the semiconductor wafer and the semiconductor device may further include a bulk silicon device formed on the semiconductor substrate in a region of the semiconductor substrate not including the gap-filing insulation layer.
US07989852B2
An integrated circuit includes N plane-like metal layers. A first plane-like metal layer includes M contact portions that communicate with the N plane-like metal layers, respectively. The first plane-like metal layer and the N plane-like metal layers are located separate planes. First and second drain regions have a symmetric shape across at least one of horizontal and vertical centerlines. First and second gate regions have a first shape that surrounds the first and second drain regions, respectively. First and second source regions are arranged adjacent to and on one side of the first gate region, the second gate region and the connecting region. The first source region, the second source region, the first drain region and the second drain region communicate with at least two of the N plane-like metal layers.
US07989846B2
The semiconductor device includes first and second common source semiconductor layers respectively extending in a first direction, first and second logic gate circuits respectively composed of at least one three-dimensional P-type FET and a three-dimensional N-type FET. The sources of the three-dimensional P-type FETs in the first and second logic gate circuits are joined to the first common source semiconductor layer. The sources of the three-dimensional N-type FETs in the first and second logic gate circuits are joined to the second common source semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layers of the three-dimensional P-type and N-type FETs in the first logic gate circuit are joined in their drain side, and The semiconductor layers of the three-dimensional P-type and N-type FETs in the second logic gate circuit are joined in their drain side. The dissipation of the FinFET can be improved.
US07989843B2
A method produces a semiconductor by conducting superimposed doping of a plurality of dopants in a semiconductor substrate, which includes evaporating a (2×n) structure by a first dopant and forming its thin line structure on the substrate, then bringing the semiconductor substrate to a temperature capable of epitaxial growth, vapor depositing a second or third or subsequent dopants above the semiconductor substrate where the first dopant has been deposited, then epitaxially growing a semiconductor crystal layer over the semiconductor substrate, subsequently forming a superimposed doping layer composed of the first, second, or the third or subsequent dopants in the semiconductor substrate, and applying an annealing treatment to the superimposed doping layer at a high temperature, thereby activating the plurality of dopants electrically or optically. Superimposed doping of a plurality kinds of elements as dopants is performed to a predetermined depth in the case of an elemental semiconductor.
US07989833B2
Multiple films of red-green-blue (RGB) luminescent silicon nanoparticles are integrated in a cascade configuration as a top coating in an ultraviolet/blue light emitting diode (LED) to convert it to a white LED. The configuration of RGB luminescent silicon nanoparticle films harnesses the short wavelength portion of the light emitted from the UV/blue LED while transmitting efficiently the longer wavelength portion. The configuration also reduces damaging heat and/or ultraviolet effects to both the device and to humans.
US07989830B2
An optoelectronic thin-film chip is specified, comprising at least one radiation-emitting region (8) in an active zone (7) of a thin-film layer (2) and a lens (10, 12) disposed downstream of the radiation-emitting region (8). The lens is formed by at least one partial region of the thin-film layer (2), the lateral extent (Φ) of the lens (10, 12) being greater than the lateral extent of the radiation-emitting region (δ). A method for producing such an optoelectronic thin-film chip is furthermore specified.
US07989822B2
This invention details how a low cost opto coupler can be made on Silicon On Insulator (SOI) using conventional integrated circuit processing methods. Specifically, metal and deposited insulating materials are use to realize a top reflector for directing light generated by a silicon PN junction diode to a silicon PN junction photo diode detector. The light generator or LED can be operated either in the avalanche mode or in the forward mode. Also, side reflectors are described as a means to contain the light to the LED-photo detector pair. Furthermore, a serpentine junction PN silicon LED is described for the avalanche mode of the silicon LED. For the forward mode, two LED structures are described in which hole and electrons combine in lightly doped regions away from heavily doped regions thereby increasing the LED conversion efficiency.
US07989815B2
The protective circuit is formed using a non-linear element which includes a gate insulating film covering a gate electrode; a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer which are over the gate insulating film and whose end portions overlap with the gate electrode; and an oxide semiconductor layer which is over the gate electrode and in contact with the gate insulating film and the end portions of the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer. The gate electrode of the non-linear element and a scan line or a signal line is included in a wiring, the first or second wiring layer of the non-linear element is directly connected to the wiring so as to apply the potential of the gate electrode.
US07989808B2
A display device according to the present invention includes: a planarization layer for insulating between a gate electrode etc. and a data wiring, a drain electrode, or the like of the transistor; and a barrier layer that is formed on an upper surface or lower surface of the planarization layer and at the same time, adapted to suppress diffusion of moisture or degassing components from the planarization layer. The display device adopts a device structure effective in reducing the plasma damage on the planarization layer by devising a positional relationship between the planarization layer and the barrier layer. Also, in combination with a novel structure as a structure for a pixel electrode, effects such as an increase in luminance can be provided as well.
US07989807B2
Contamination is blocked from material of a color filter layer provided on a thin-film transistors (TFT) supporting substrate by sealing over the color filter layer with an inorganic insulating layer. During mass production manufacture, a plasma surface cleaning step is employed after the color filter layer is deposited but before the inorganic insulating layer is deposited. A low temperature CVD process is used to deposit the inorganic insulating layer with a substantially uniform thickness conformably over the color filter layer including conformably into openings provided through the color filter layer.
US07989804B2
A test pattern structure including a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer is provided. The second conductive layer is directly disposed on the first conductive layer and connected to the first conductive layer through a plurality of connection interfaces. The test pattern structure of the present invention can detect the interconnection failure quickly and correctly without SEM identification.
US07989803B2
In a semiconductor wafer that has semiconductor devices arranged in a plurality of device-formation-regions and a TEG placed in dividing regions that define the device-formation-regions, a TEG-placement portion is arranged in the dividing regions partially expanded in width, and the TEG is placed in the TEG-placement portion. Additionally, a protective sheet is stuck to the semiconductor wafer, then plasma etching is performed, and the TEG is removed in a state where it remains in the dividing region and stuck to the protective sheet together with the protective sheet by peeling off the protective sheet, thereby the device-formation-regions are divided into individual pieces, and the semiconductor chips are manufactured.
US07989799B2
Provided is a surface light emitting element having a high productivity, a high light emission output and good response characteristics, as well as capable of suppressing an increase of a forward voltage necessary for light emission. A surface light emitting element according to the present invention is a vertical cavity surface light emitting element including: an active layer 5 in which a quantum well layer 51 and a barrier layer 52 are alternately laminated; and reflective layers disposed both above and below the active layer 5, wherein assuming that a center-to-center distance of a plurality of the quantum well layers is L, a light emission wavelength of the surface light emitting element is λ, and an average refractive index of an optical length of a resonator, being a distance between the reflective layers is n, a condition of λ/(15×n)≦L≦λ/(10×n) is satisfied.
US07989785B2
The present embodiments relate to a gantry for the beam guidance of a particle beam with at least one beam guidance element. A carrier device is rotatably mounted in such a way that the particle beam can be directed by a rotation of the carrier device with the beam guidance element from various angles on to an object to be irradiated. At least one moveable actuating element may adjust a spatial position of the beam guidance element.
US07989784B2
A hydrogen ion implanter for the exfoliation of silicon from silicon wafers uses a large scan wheel carrying 50+ wafers around its periphery and rotating about an axis. In one embodiment, the axis of rotation of the wheel is fixed and a ribbon beam of hydrogen ions is directed down on a peripheral edge of the wheel. The ribbon beam extends over the full radial width of wafers on the wheel. The beam is generated by an ion source providing an extracted ribbon beam having at least 100 mm major cross-sectional diameter. The ribbon beam may be passed through a 90° bending magnet which bends the beam in the plane of the ribbon. The magnet provides intensity correction across the ribbon to compensate for the dependency on the radial distance from the wheel axis of the speed at which parts of the wafers pass through the ribbon beam.
US07989780B2
An ultraviolet (UV) fluorometric sensor measures a chemical concentration in a sample based on the measured fluorescence of the sample. The sensor includes a controller, at least one UV light source, and at least one UV detector. The sensor emits UV light in a wavelength range of 245-265 nm from the light source through the sample in an analytical area. The UV detector measures the fluorescence emission from the sample. The controller transforms output signals from the UV detector into fluorescence values or optical densities for one or more wavelengths in the wavelength range of 265-340 nm. The controller calculates the chemical concentration of the chemical in the sample based on the measured fluorescence emissions.
US07989776B2
A corrective for eliminating the third-order aperture aberration and the first-order, first-degree axial chromatic aberration includes two correction pieces, which are arranged one behind the other in the direction of the optical axis, in which each correction piece has a plurality of quadrupole fields (QP) and at least one octupole field (OP.) Each correction piece is constructed such that it is symmetrical with respect to its central plane (S, S′) with each correction piece having an uneven number of at least five quadrupole fields (QP) and at least one octupole field (OP). Each correction piece is further constructed so that it is symmetrical with respect to its central plane. The central quadrupole field is arranged so that it is centered with respect to the central plane of the correction piece and is electromagnetic. The quadrupole fields of the two correction pieces are antisymmetrical and a transfer lens system is arranged such that it is symmetrical with respect to the central plane of the corrective between the correction pieces. The transfer lens system has two round lenses and the setting of the transfer lens system takes place so that the two round lenses image the central plane of the two correction pieces anamorphically onto one another, in which the enlargement in one main section is the reciprocal of the enlargement in the other main section and with an octupole field superimposed on the central quadrupole field.
US07989771B2
An imaging system (10) includes at least one radiation detector unit (16) disposed adjacent a field of view (20) to detect and measure radiation from the field of view (20). The detector unit (16) includes multiple detection modules (18) which each detects radiation from a prespecified region of the field of view (20), each region being a fraction of the field of view. One or more pinholes (52) are associated with the detector unit (16). Each pinhole (52) receives radiation from the prespecified region of the field of view (20) and transmits radiation to one or more associated detection modules (18).
US07989761B2
Ions obtained through EI process from a first gas are subjected to mass analysis to obtain ion intensities which are stored in a first file, and ions obtained through soft ionization process from a second gas having same concentration of components as that of the first gas are subjected to mass analysis to obtain ion intensities which stored in a second file, and molecular weights are determined based on parent ions from soft ionization measurement data. A mass spectrum corresponding to the determined molecular weight is read out based on an NIST database, and the ion intensity data stored in the first file and the read out NIST data are compared with each other, and component molecules of the first gas are determined based on the comparison results. Qualitative analysis of mixed gas can be conducted in real time with high accuracy by making effective use of the measurement data of both mass analysis based on EI process and mass analysis based on soft ionization process.
US07989760B2
An apparatus, system and method for the continuous flow extraction, collection and analysis of small amounts of energetic substance/s and their reacted/unreacted residue/s in real time are provided. The apparatus includes an agitator that generates a particulate material from a surface. A vacuum gathers particulate material which is provided to a mixing module. The mixing module creates a supercritical matrix containing the particulate matter. A separator separates and removes waste in the supercritical matrix from the supercritical matrix. Concentrated particulate material from the supercritical matrix is provided to a mass spectrometer for analysis and detection of a target material in proximate real-time. In one embodiment, the separator provides the supercritical matrix to a tube arm. The tube arm is heated to reduce solvent in the supercritical matrix. A collector in the tube arm concentrates particulate material, which is volatilized by a laser. Volatilized particulate material is provided to the mass spectrometer. In another embodiment, the separator provides the supercritical matrix to an electrospray or APCI module whose output is provided direct to the mass spectrometer.
US07989758B2
Fragment ion spectra are acquired in Kingdon ion traps that have a potential well for harmonic oscillations of the ions in the longitudinal direction and in which the ions can oscillate radially in a plane between two or more inner electrodes. Metastable ions, preferably produced by laser desorption, are introduced into the Kingdon ion trap close to the minimum of the longitudinal potential well and stored there locally for a predetermined time period. Excess internal energy in the metastable ions causes most of the ions to decompose ergodically to fragment ions. Then the fragment ions and any remaining analyte ions are excited to execute harmonic oscillations in the longitudinal potential well. The harmonic oscillations are measured as image currents, from which a high-resolution mass spectrum of the fragment ions can be calculated.
US07989756B2
Disclosed are, inter alia, optical components that include an optical element (e.g., mirror) and at least three active-isolation mounts mounting the optical element to a frame (e.g., optical barrel or optical frame). An active-isolation mount has a non-contacting actuator connecting a respective location on the optical element to the frame and provides movability of the respective location relative to the frame in at least one direction. At least one displacement sensor is associated with each respective location on the optical element. The displacement sensors are sensitive to displacements of the respective locations in at least one respective direction and reference the displacements to an absolute reference. The actuators and sensors are connected to a servo control loop to provide feedback control.
US07989750B2
An image sensor includes photoelectric conversion elements formed adjacent to each other on a substrate. Two transmission elements transmit charge accumulated in two adjacent photoelectric conversion elements to a first floating diffusion region, and another two transmission elements transmit charge accumulated in the other two photoelectric conversion elements to a second floating diffusion region. The first floating diffusion region is electrically connected to the second floating diffusion region. A plurality of readout elements read out the charge transmitted to the first and the second floating diffusion regions. The image sensor also includes a dummy gate group including at least one dummy gate arrayed substantially parallel to a readout gate of the plurality of readout elements.
US07989749B2
Methods and apparatuses using pixels with shared readout circuits are used to increase pixel fill factor and operation efficiency.
US07989744B2
Methods and apparatus for a missile having an external system operate in conjunction with an airframe and a fluid transfer system. The airframe includes an interior surface defining a substantially enclosed internal chamber. The fluid transfer system selectively connects the internal chamber to the external system, for example to provide pressurant or coolant to the external system.
US07989743B2
A reliable and inexpensive attitude control system uses a plurality of pitch-over thrusters to perform rapid and precise attitude maneuvers for a flight vehicle. The pitch-over thrusters create rotational moments that directly pitch and yaw the flight vehicle. The use of very simple thrusters and control techniques provides for a reliable and cost effective solution. The ability to perform overlapping pitch and yaw maneuvers with single-shot fixed-impulse thrusters provides for high-speed maneuverability. Although this approach is applicable to provide attitude control for any flight vehicle including all types of missiles, kill-vehicles and space craft, it is particularly applicable for smaller highly maneuverable cost-constrained missile systems. One such system is an “Active Protection System” or APS in which a missile system is integrated with a vehicle such as a HumVee or armored personnel carrier to provide defensive counter-measures against possible attack.
US07989738B2
A liquid warming grommet assembly (400, 500) maintains liquids or other materials in a vessel (406) at a desired temperature. The grommet assembly (400, 500) includes a grommet (408) receivable within an aperture in a work surface (404). A heating element (440) is receivable within a casing (410) of the grommet (408), and an upper warmer plate (444) is positioned at the upper portion of the heating element (440) and is substantially flush with the work surface (404).
US07989736B2
Disclosed is a heat treatment system for semiconductor devices. The heat treatment system is used in a heat treatment process for semiconductor devices, such as a crystallization process for an amorphous silicon thin film or a dopant activation process for a poly-crystalline silicon thin film formed on a surface of a glass substrate of a flat display panel including a liquid crystal display (LCD) or an organic light emitting device (OLED). The heat treatment system transfers a semiconductor device after uniformly preheating the semiconductor device in order to prevent deformation of the semiconductor device during the heat treatment process, rapidly performs the heat treatment process under the high temperature condition by heating the semiconductor device using a lamp heater and induction heat derived from induced electromotive force, and unloads the semiconductor device after uniformly cooling the semiconductor device such that the semiconductor device is prevented from being deformed when the heat treatment process has been finished. The heat treatment system rapidly performs the heat treatment process while preventing deformation of the semiconductor device by gradually heating or cooling the semiconductor device.
US07989716B2
A keypad assembly is used for an electronic device. The keypad assembly includes a support member, and a plurality of key strips. The support member defines a plurality of openings and a plurality of cantilever plates, each cantilever plate extending into a corresponding opening. The key strips are received in the openings. Each key strip defines a slot, and each cantilever plate is received in a slot. The cantilever plates provide force to extend one portion of the key strips from the receiving groove.
US07989714B2
A scale can include a low capacity sensing mechanism operatively coupled to a load, wherein the low capacity sensing mechanism may detect movement of the load. A transfer mechanism can be operatively coupled to the low capacity sensing mechanism, wherein the low capacity sensing mechanism may enable the scale to weigh both relatively heavy loads and relatively light loads to a minor division resolution associated with the low capacity sensing mechanism.
US07989707B2
A method of producing a chip embedded substrate is disclosed. This method comprises a first step of mounting a semiconductor chip on a first substrate on which a first wiring is formed; and a second step of joining the first substrate with a second substrate on which a second wiring is formed. In the second step, the semiconductor chip is encapsulated between the first substrate and the second substrate and electrical connection is made between the first wiring and the second wiring so as to form multilayered wirings connected to the semiconductor chip.
US07989702B2
The present invention offers a sealing-end structure for a superconducting cable. The structure performs, through a bushing, the outputting and inputting of electric power between a normal-temperature side and a cryogenic-temperature side, where an end portion of a superconducting cable is placed. The sealing-end structure is provided with a coolant vessel at the cryogenic-temperature side for cooling the bushing. The coolant vessel has a liquid-coolant region filled with a liquid coolant and a gaseous-coolant region filled with a gaseous coolant. The coolant vessel is provided with a contraction-absorbing portion for absorbing the contraction of the coolant vessel when it thermally contracts by the effect of the coolant. The sealing-end structure for a superconducting cable suppresses the deterioration of the sealing performance of sealing members placed at the boundary between the normal-temperature side and the cryogenic-temperature side over a long period of use.
US07989700B2
A cable has a core made of an insulated wire, a shield layer provided at an outer periphery of the core, a reinforcing layer provided at an outer periphery of the shield layer, and a sheath provided at an outer periphery of the reinforcing layer. The insulated wire has a wire conductor and an insulating layer covering an outer periphery of the wire conductor. The shield layer is formed from tinsel-coppers. Each of the tinsel-copper has a core string and a copper foil provided around the core string. The reinforcing layer is formed by braiding fibers.
US07989694B2
The invention provides a photoelectric conversion element and a solar battery having the photoelectric conversion element each of which has a structure with a high carrier generating rate. Further, the invention provides a photoelectric conversion element and a solar battery having the photoelectric conversion element of which high energy converting efficiency. According to the invention, the photoelectric conversion element and the solar battery having the photoelectric conversion element are characterized in that a pair of electrodes sandwich a mixed layer including a charge generating layer and a charge acceptor layer. The charge generating layer is formed of a first organic compound and an inorganic compound. The charge acceptor layer is formed of a second organic compound.
US07989691B2
A dye for a dye-sensitized solar cell according to embodiments of the present invention includes a compound having a silane group. The dye according to embodiments of the present invention may be used in a light absorption layer to improve photovoltaic efficiency and increase open-circuit voltage.
US07989688B2
A pedal has a base, two supporting posts, a pedal plate, a first shaft, a second shaft, a chain assembly and two beaters. The pedal plate is mounted pivotally on the base. The first and second shafts are rotatably mounted respectively on the supporting posts, are connected concentrically together and are capable of rotating independently. The chain assembly connects the pedal plate to the first shaft. The beaters are mounted respectively on the first and second shafts. The concentrically connected first and second shafts serve as a crossbeam between the supporting posts to reinforce the structurally strength of the pedal and obviate additional crossbeams that limit the pivoting range of the pedal.
US07989686B1
A novel maize variety designated PHV7Y and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHV7Y with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHV7Y through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHV7Y or a trait conversion of PHV7Y with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHV7Y, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHV7Y and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07989685B1
A novel maize variety designated PHNAR and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHNAR with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHNAR through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHNAR or a trait conversion of PHNAR with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHNAR, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHNAR and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07989684B1
A novel maize variety designated PHW3G and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHW3G with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHW3G through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHW3G or a trait conversion of PHW3G with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHW3G, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHW3G and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07989674B2
A dressing for promoting healing and pain relief of the body of a living organism having a pathologic condition has at least one layer of conductive material having a resistance no greater than 1000 Ω/cm2. When placed proximate a portion of the body of the living organism suffering from the pathologic condition, the dressing alters the electrodynamic processes occurring in conjunction with said pathologic condition to promote healing and pain relief in the living organism. When used as a wound dressing, the conductive material is placed in contact with tissue around the periphery of the wound and with the wound, lowering the electrical potential and resistance of the wound and increasing the wound current.
US07989669B2
This invention is directed to a process for producing one or more olefins from an oxygenate feed. According to the invention, an oxygenate stream is provided and a recycle stream is added to the oxygenate stream to form a feed stream to an oxygenate-to-olefin conversion system. The recycle stream comprises (i.e., contains) propane and dimethyl ether.
US07989665B2
The present invention relates to the field of catalytic hydrogenation and, more particularly, to the use of Ru complexes with tetradentate ligands having at least one amino or imino coordinating group and at least one phosphino coordinating group in hydrogenation processes for the reduction of esters or lactones into the corresponding alcohol or diol respectively.
US07989661B2
The present invention provides compounds useful for inhibiting the ADAM-10 protein, with selectivity versus MMP-1. Such compounds are useful in the in vitro study of the role of ADAM-10 (and its inhibition) in biological processes. The present invention also comprises pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more ADAM-10 inhibitors according to the invention in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Such compositions are useful for the treatment of cancer, arthritis, and diseases related to angiogenesis. Correspondingly, the invention also comprises methods of treating forms of cancer, arthritis, and diseases related to angiogenesis in which ADAM-10 plays a critical role.
US07989656B2
The present invention relates to biaryl carboxylic acid compounds which inhibit the activity of anti-apoptotic Mcl-1 protein, compositions containing these compounds and methods of treating diseases which express the Mcl-1 protein.
US07989654B2
The invention relates to a compound of general formula (I) wherein A represents deuterium or hydrogen, R represents a group selected from C1-6 alkyl, C3-10 cycloalkyl or phenyl, which can be substituted by C1-3 alkoxy, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, nitro, amino, hydroxyl, oxo, mercapto or deuterium. The C atom marked with a * (star) can be present in an (R) configuration, in an (S)-configuration or a mixture thereof. The invention is characterized in that the above-mentioned compounds are free bases with a degree of purity of more than 97 wt %. The invention also relates to a method for the production of highly pure compounds of general formula (I) and to the use thereof in the production of medicaments.
US07989650B2
Metal carbonyls are used to deliver CO to organs to limit post-ischaemic damage. The organ may be extracorporeal, e.g. for use in a transplant, or may be an isolated organ inside or attached to the body but isolated from the blood flow. The carbonyl preferably has one or more other ligands other than CO, such as amino acids, to modulate the CO release property and solubility.
US07989649B2
The invention provides novel amino acid compounds of use in detecting and evaluating brain and body tumors. These compounds combine the advantageous properties of α-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB) analogs namely, their rapid uptake and prolonged retention in tumors with the properties of halogen substituents, including certain useful halogen isotopes such as fluorine-18, iodine-123, iodine-124, iodine-125, iodine-131, bromine-75, bromine-76, bromine-77, bromine-82, astatine-210, astatine-211, and other astatine isotopes. In addition the compounds can be labeled with technetium and rhenium isotopes using known chelation complexes. The amino acid compounds disclosed herein have a high specificity for target sites when administered to a subject in vivo. The labeled amino acid compounds are useful as imaging agents in detecting and/or monitoring tumors in a subject by Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Single Photon Emission Computer Tomography (SPECT).
US07989646B2
This invention covers a process for making biodiesel from vegetable oils and animal fat with a simple hetrogeneous catalyst providing high yield and reaction rates under moderate conditions. The process is designed so as to enhance the yield by pretreatment step of esterification if required. The process provides gravity separation and any pretreatment/distillation/stripping, if needed before sending Biodiesel and glycerine to storage. The process provides heterogeneous catalysts so as to reduce the waste from the system and also it reduces the utilities and chemical cost. The process is optimized, simple in operation, economical, providing best yields compared to any processes in the market.
US07989644B2
Disclosed are electroluminescent devices that comprise organic layers that contain dibenzofuran compounds. The compounds are suitable components of, for example, blue-emitting, durable, organo-electroluminescent layers. The electroluminescent devices may be employed for full color display panels in, for example, mobile phones, televisions and personal computer screens.
US07989641B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of synthesizing N-hydroxysuccinimidyl-carbonate intermediates from the corresponding sulfones useful in the preparation of 1-(acyloxy)-alkyl carbamate prodrugs.
US07989634B2
The present invention relates a compound of formula 1, and pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, or isomer thereof effective as agonist of melanocortin receptor, and an agonistic composition of melanocortin receptor comprising the same as active ingredient.
US07989630B2
P-glycoprotein transporter (P-gp) acts as a pump at the blood-brain barrier to exclude a wide range of xenobiotics (e.g., toxins, drugs, etc.) from the brain and is also expressed in a tumor in response to exposure to established or prospective chemotherapeutics (a phenomenon known as multidrug resistance). This invention concerns the preparation and use of radiotracers for imaging P-gp function in vitro and in vivo. Radiotracers of the present invention are avid substrates for P-gp and have structures based on N-Desmethyl-loperamide.
US07989625B2
The invention relates to novel thienopyridine derivatives of formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and Y have the meaning cited in claim 1, are HSP90-inhibitors and can be used for producing a medicament for treating illnesses, wherein the inhibition, regulation and/or modulation of HSP90 plays a roll.
