US08117666B2
File system interaction with digital rights management (DRM) is facilitated by enabling one or more file system components to be DRM-aware. These one or more file system components may be part of a computer operating system. An exemplary system implementation includes: one or more processors; and one or more media in operative communication therewith, the media storing one or more file system components that are configured to provide content having DRM controls to a requesting program in either a raw form or a decrypted form in dependence on whether the DRM controls comprise simple DRM content controls or complex DRM content controls. In another exemplary system implementation, the one or more file system components are configured to provide files with simple DRM content controls to requesting applications in a decrypted form and to provide files with complex DRM content controls to requesting applications in an unaltered form.
US08117664B2
A user can receive content relating to a common topic, such as a project, through a radio-type interface. A frequency or other indicator associated with the project can be selected on a user device. The common topic can be presented to the user, based on the selected frequency and/or an authentication. Presented information can also be provided in a common format requested by the user or as a function of the rendering device. The common format can be facilitated by a conversion component that can change information from a first format to at least a second format. The information can also be presented in more than one format.
US08117663B2
A computerized system and method for allowing restricted access to patient healthcare information is provided. Upon determining that one or more users are assigned to the location where an order for a patient is to be performed, the method allows one or more users restricted access to the order. The system includes an order entry module, an access evaluation module, a location entry module and a user module. The access evaluation module includes an assignment determination sub-module for determining whether one or more users are assigned to the specified location where an order for a patient is to be performed. The assignment determination module also includes a restricted access sub-module coupled with the assignment determination module and configured to allow restricted access to one or more users assigned to the specified location.
US08117659B2
A malware analysis system for automating cause and effect analysis of malware infections is provided. The malware analysis system monitors and records computer system activities. Upon being informed of a suspected malware infection, the malware analysis system creates a time-bounded snapshot of the monitored activities that were conducted within a time frame prior to the notification of the suspected malware infection. The malware analysis system may also create a time-bounded snapshot of the monitored activities that are conducted within a time frame subsequent to the notification of the suspected malware infection. The malware analysis system provides the created snapshot or snapshots for further analysis.
US08117657B1
A network switch detects at least two simultaneous connections on a single network port. The simultaneous connections use different protocols despite using the same port. The network switch mirrors network traffic associated with the simultaneous connections to a security management device on the network. The security management device then determines a source or destination of the network traffic.
US08117655B2
A method, system and apparatus for detecting anomalous web proxy activity by end-users are disclosed. The techniques include analyzing records from a web proxy log and determining whether the records contain anomalous end-user activity by inspecting a uniform resource locator and a connect instruction included therein. The techniques also include generating an alert in response to the analysis.
US08117653B1
Electronic processing and management of electronic project data is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, project data including incentives data is processed for a plurality of different projects, using authentication to control data communication and access. Incentive-related data fields are automatically updated upon the receipt of project data, and authenticated users are provided access to the data in real-time.
US08117648B2
A system for secure information storage and delivery includes a vault repository that includes a secure vault associated with a user, wherein the secure vault is associated with a service level including at least one of a data type or a data size limit associated with the secure vault, the secure vault being adapted to receive and at least one data entry and securely store the at least one data entry if the at least one of a size or a type of the at least one data entry is consistent with the service level. A mobile vault server coupled to the vault repository creates a mobile vault on a mobile device based on the secure vault and is capable of authenticating the mobile device based on user authentication information. The mobile vault server includes a mobile device handler that communicates with the mobile device. A synchronization utility determines whether the at least one data entry on the secure vault is transferable to or storable on the mobile vault based on at least one of the size or the type of the at least one data entry and transfers the at least one data entry from the secure vault to a corresponding data entry on the mobile vault if the at least one data entry on the secure vault is determined to be transferable to or storable on the mobile vault.
US08117633B2
In a network including a source of video contents and a playback terminal to receive video contents distributed from the source of video contents and play back the video contents, information on viewing state of video contents is collected and the collected information is stored. Then access right of the playback terminal for the video contents is set based on the stored information on viewing state.
US08117632B2
A chuck pin and a disk chucking device equipped with the chuck pin are disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the chuck pin fastening a disk by compressing an inner circumference of the disk includes a protruding part, which presses against the disk, and a body, in which a front part of the body is coupled to the protruding part and an inclined part is formed on a lower surface of the body such that the front part of the body can be rotated about a back part of the body as a pivot when pressure is applied to an upper surface of the protruding part. With this configuration, the chuck pin is kept from floating when the disk rotates, and the chuck pin can be easily tilted downward when the disk is loaded.
US08117628B2
An apparatus of dynamic anti-vibration for a storage device to support a storage device in a housing is provided. The apparatus includes a base board for holding the storage device, a plurality of damping elements coupled to the base board and the housing which have damping characteristics to dissipate kinetic energy and reduce the vibration of the base board, and at least one actuator coupled to the base board and the housing. The actuator electrically connected to the control unit is driven by the control unit, so as to generate a force to neutralize the vibration of the base board.
US08117623B1
A system and method provides messages received from a program to a user in an area used for displaying messages from multiple programs. The message may be received with an indication that the user is to be notified upon receipt of the message, however the user can disable or enable such notifications.
US08117613B2
A virtual machine management system may perform a three phase migration analysis to move virtual machines off of less efficient hosts to more efficient hosts. In many cases, the migration may allow inefficient host devices to be powered down and may reduce overall energy costs to a datacenter or other user. The migration analysis may involve performing a first consolidation, a load balancing, and a second consolidation when consolidating virtual machines and freeing host devices. The migration analysis may also involve performing a first load balancing, a consolidation, and a second load balancing when expanding capacity.
US08117603B2
An operation synthesis system includes a pipeline structure creating section for automatically creating, based on a state number assigned to a skip statement described in a high-level language in a transition to a pipeline operation and the number of cycles required to supply a pipeline with one loop designated by a user or automatically set by the system, a state transition including a loop controller and a loop leaving controller which are capable of conducting pipeline operation. It is therefore possible to transform a loop description described in a high-level language into a description of a circuit in a practical size for pipeline operation.
US08117567B2
A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium used in a design process includes computational memory device having an array of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, and a pair of read word lines associated with each row of the array. The array is configured to implement, for a given cycle, either a read operation of data contained in a single selected row, or one of a plurality of different bit wise logical operations on data contained in multiple selected rows.
US08117566B2
A mechanism to compress manufacturing awareness into a small representation and to enable the router to consult the representation without performing, or understanding, detailed process analysis, is disclosed.
US08117562B2
The present invention provides ways for application programs to allow users to dynamically update data that is presented in a GUI element. In one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided that receives a command when a GUI element is displayed for the purpose of updating one or more data item(s) presented in the GUI element. In response to receiving the command, the method causes the updated data to be obtained from the user and stored in a database. Then the GUI element is “refreshed” so that the updated data is available in the GUI element for selection by the user.
US08117561B2
A storage unit is configured to store screen element data on screen elements included in an operation screen of each apparatus. A receiving unit is configured to receive screen design data on the screen elements that forms the operation screen and setting data on settings for each apparatus. A screen drawing unit is configured to draw the operation screen by obtaining required screen elements from the screen element data based on the screen design data and the setting data. The receiving unit accumulates log data received from the apparatus. The screen drawing unit updates the screen design of the operation screen based on the log data and the screen element data.
US08117554B1
A method, system and computer program product recorded on a computer-readable medium for execution on at least one processor, for seamless integration of a non-native application into a host OS, including launching a first Virtual Execution Environment (VEE) on a computing system that has a host operating system and a host desktop displayed to a user; displaying a window corresponding to the VEE on the host desktop; upon a user invoking a user application that is non-native to both the host OS and the first VEE, (a) installing a second VEE that is compatible with the user application, (b) installing the user application into the second VEE, (c) launching the application inside the second VEE, and (d) displaying the non-native application window within a window of the second VEE. The VEE can be a Virtual Private Server or a Virtual Machine.
US08117546B2
A method for displaying pictures during a digital picture slide show includes receiving a plurality of pictures, determining display characteristics of the plurality of pictures according to weighting values of the plurality of pictures, and displaying the plurality of pictures according to the display characteristics of the plurality of pictures.
US08117533B2
A method (and system) for editing rules contained in a first document, where the rules define a transformation of data on a second document and where the first document and second document have elements constructed in a tree structure having nodes, each rule having a template structure including at least one match condition, the match condition being an expression in the template that describes a subset of tree nodes, includes selecting at least one rule in the first document and checking a match condition of the user-selected rule with the tree nodes from the second document to determine which structures in the second document match the selected rule.
US08117526B2
A method for extracting an original message from a received signal including data bits representing the original message or an inverted version thereof, an indicator indicating whether the data bits represent the original message or the inverted version thereof, and a check information which depends on the data bits and the indicator, the method including determining a check information based on the received data bits and the received indicator, comparing the determined check information with the received check information and extracting the original message based on the result of the comparison.
US08117525B2
An apparatus and method for supporting PCI Express is disclosed. A physical layer has a PCI Express interface for receiving data from a PCI Express compatible communication medium. The data is in the form of a packet. A data link layer is disclosed for verifying a CRC value and a sequence number received within the packet. A transaction layer is disclosed for receiving the packet from the data link layer and for processing thereof. The transaction layer processes at least some of the packet data in parallel to the data link layer.
US08117523B2
Digital communication coding methods are shown, which generate certain types of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes built from protographs. A first method creates protographs having the linear minimum distance property and comprising at least one variable node with degree less than 3. A second method creates families of protographs of different rates, all having the linear minimum distance property, and structurally identical for all rates except for a rate-dependent designation of certain variable nodes as transmitted or non-transmitted. A third method creates families of protographs of different rates, all having the linear minimum distance property, and structurally identical for all rates except for a rate-dependent designation of the status of certain variable nodes as non-transmitted or set to zero. LDPC codes built from the protographs created by these methods can simultaneously have low error floors and low iterative decoding thresholds, and families of such codes of different rates can be decoded efficiently using a common decoding architecture.
US08117521B2
Methods for recycling unused error correction code (ECC) during flash memory programming, comprise generating ECC from user data to form a syndrome and storing the syndrome into volatile memory. ECC is re-encoded corresponding to the syndrome read from the memory with new user data. Re-encoding ECC comprises comparing new ECC with the most recent ECC of the previous syndrome, correcting a bit error in the new ECC, and indicating if the new ECC has failed.
US08117518B2
In a data recovery processing, the conventional overhead, primarily, latency due to a rotational recording media is removed. Secondary, in a signal processing or in a recording and reproducing apparatus, reliability of data reproduction is improved by repeatedly processing data. These processing are achieved that input signal, i.e., raw analog signal read from the recording media is digitized to be stored in a secondary storage such as a memory or a FIFO memory. The apparatus includes a signal processing circuit to repeatedly process the stored digital signal in the secondary storage. When detecting data, operation of the circuit is efficiently controlled by a change over detector parameters, in which characteristics for the detecting performance. Resultantly, data recovery processing speed is increased and reliability of data reproduced is improved.
US08117515B2
A system comprising a plurality of channel detectors (CDs) receiving quantized and equalized ISI channel information indicative of an LDPC codeword. The channel information is split for input to the CDs, such that each CD receives channel information indicative of a portion of the LDPC codeword. Each CD outputs at least first soft information for bits of the codeword portion of that CD. The first soft information for the codeword is received by an LDPC decoder, which uses the soft information to produce a user bit sequence and second soft information about the user bit sequence. The system can cause the second soft information to be input to the plurality of CDs, such that iterative processing can occur for the codeword. Other aspects include a system providing clocking of one or more CDs at a frequency selected to balance codeword throughput of the CDs with codeword throughput of an LDPC decoder clocked by a second clock, and methods according to each system.
US08117491B2
A method for an error recovery process in a disk-drive device. The method includes starting the error recovery process in response to an error which has occurred in a process corresponding to a command from a host to access a disk. The method also includes receiving a new read command from the host during the error recovery process. In addition, the method includes interrupting the error recovery process in accordance with preset conditions and reading out data from the disk at an address designated by the read command. Furthermore, the method includes transferring the read-out data to the host.
US08117489B2
A disk drive. The disk drive includes a non-volatile memory that is incapable of being overwritten more than a limited number of times, a disk and a controller. The controller includes a memory management table used to manage a correlation between a logical block address (LBA) and a physical address of the non-volatile memory. In the absence of a replaceable region in the non-volatile memory and in response to an occurrence of a failure to write data in a region, defined as a failure region, in the non-volatile memory at a first physical address correlated with a first LBA, the controller is configured to write the data at a second physical address correlated with a second LBA of the non-volatile memory different from the first LBA, and is configured to correlate in the memory management table the first LBA with the second physical address.
US08117488B2
Database server instances in a database server cluster broadcast, to other instances in the cluster, information concerning certain problem events. Because each server instance is aware of problems that other server instances are experiencing, each server instance is enabled to make more intelligent decisions regarding the actions that it should perform in response to the problems that the server instance is experiencing. Instead of terminating itself, a server instance might opt to wait for a longer amount of time for an operation to complete. The server instance may do so due to the server instance having received information that indicates that other server instances are experiencing similar problems. Whenever the information received from other server instances makes it appear that a problem is unlikely to be solved in the cluster as a whole by terminating a server instance, that server instance may continue to wait instead of terminating itself.
US08117486B2
Methods and systems for detecting one or more anomalous devices are disclosed. For each of a plurality of devices, semi-structured data may be received from the device. For each pair of devices, of the plurality of devices, a similarity measurement may be determined between semi-structured data from a first device of the pair of devices and semi-structured data from a second device of the pair of devices. One or more anomalous devices may then be identified and one or more remedial actions may be performed for the one or more identified anomalous devices.
US08117479B2
The present invention relates to an electronic apparatus and an auto wake-up circuit thereof. The electronic apparatus comprises a main module for performing a main function of the electronic apparatus and generating a first control signal when the electronic apparatus enters a sleep mode; an auxiliary module, coupled to the main module, for performing an auxiliary function of the electronic apparatus and generating a second control signal; and a wake-up circuit module, coupled to the main module and the auxiliary module, for generating a third control signal based on the first control signal and the second control signal. The auxiliary module maintains the auxiliary function based on the third control signal while the electronic apparatus is in the sleep mode.
US08117473B2
A noise reduction apparatus and method of a processor to which a dynamic power management technique is applied. The noise reduction apparatus includes a mode setting unit for detecting a use state of a processor and setting an operation mode; and a power supply unit for supplying voltage corresponding to the operation mode set by the mode setting unit. The operation mode includes a general mode in which the processor normally operates; a sleep mode in which activity of the processor is suspended; and a low frequency mode in which the processor operates at voltage and clock frequency lower than those of the general mode and higher than those of the sleep mode. The mode setting unit changes between the general mode and the sleep mode, wherein the processor is set to the low frequency mode as an intermediate step.
US08117472B2
Semiconductor device reduces power consumption of total display system. A display memory 12 is operated by a power RVDD and stores display data WD at a determined timing based on various signals from a logic section 11. The display memory 12 outputs the stored display data WD as display data RD to a source driver 15 based on the various signals from the logic section 11. A bias circuit 14 detects a memory write signal MAW and a memory read signal MAR of the logic section 11 to the display memory 12 and controls bias of a power section for memory 13a based on detected result. The power section for memory 13a is configured by an analog amplifier and steps down voltage of a power terminal VCC and keeps constant and supplies the constant voltage as the power RVDD to the display memory 12. A driving capacity of the power section for memory 13a can be varied by changing a bias current by controlling the bias circuit 14.
US08117471B2
A power management method for a handheld electronic device is provided. In the present method, a G-sensor is used for detecting a normal vector of a plane of the handheld electronic device. The normal vector is then determined whether being directed toward a downward direction. When the normal vector is determined as being directed toward the downward. Accordingly, the handheld electronic device can be controlled to enter the power saving mode timely according to the positioned state of the device without going through complicated procedures such as operating a menu, so as to provide a more intuitive and convenient way for power management.
US08117468B2
An exemplary microelectronic device is made up of two or more functional units, which are all disposed on a single chip, or die. The functional units on the die do not all need to be operational at a given time in the execution of a computer program that is controlling the microelectronic device. The present invention rapidly turns on and off the functional units of the microelectronic device as required by a program being executed. This power down can be achieved by turning off clock inputs to the functional units, interrupting the supply of power to the functional units, or deactivating input signals to the functional units. This results in a very significant reduction in power consumption and corresponding heat dissipation by the microelectronic device as compared to the conventional approach of keeping all functional units operational all of the time.
US08117464B1
A network storage server receives write requests from clients via a network and internally buffers data blocks written by the write requests. At a consistency point, the storage server commits the data blocks to nonvolatile mass storage. In the consistency point process, a storage operating system in the network storage server compresses the data blocks, encrypts selected data blocks, and stores the compressed and (possibly) encrypted data blocks in the nonvolatile mass storage facility. Data blocks can also be fingerprinted in parallel with compression and/or encryption, to facilitate deduplication. Data blocks can be indexed and classified according to content or attributes of the data. Encryption can be applied at different levels of logical container granularity, where a separate, unique cryptographic key is used for each encrypted data container. To facilitate deduplication, the system creates an additional, shared encryption key for each data block duplicated between two or more logical containers.
US08117463B2
An information device includes a unit that stores an encrypted content whose use requires a license. The information device also includes a unit that stores the license. The information device further includes a unit that stores user data including (a) grouped device identification information for grouping and identifying a plurality of information devices that includes the information device and whose information devices are configured to decrypt the encrypted content, (b) key information for decrypting the encrypted content and which is commonly provided to a device group that includes the plurality of the information devices, and (c) a group identifier provided to the device group. The unit that stores the user data stores the grouped device identification information and the key information together with the group identifier. The information device also includes a unit that performs a process of decrypting the encrypted content, based on the license and the user data.
US08117454B2
The present invention performs a Binding Update or a Location Update message authentication independently and terminal-specifically in a home SAE gateway. A key, which is derived in a home AAA server from an initially set long term key, is given to a visited network for encrypting the update messages in Proxy Mobile IP. In Client Mobile IP, the key is transmitted to a mobile node for update message encryption. When the update message is received in the home SAE gateway, the key can be derived independently in the home SAE gateway without any key requests between the gateway and the home AAA server. Thus, it is possible to authenticate the binding or location update messages by verifying the two signatures. The present invention can also be implemented on a lower hierarchy of the system. The invention can be implemented in 3GPP standard releases enhanced with LTE technology, for instance.
US08117450B2
A system for secure data transmission comprises a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a string generator stored in the memory and executable by the processor. The string generator is adapted to generate a character string. The system also comprises a hashing engine stored in the memory and executable by the processor. The hashing engine is adapted to generate a hash key using the character string and a private key. The system further comprises an encryption engine stored in the memory and executable by the processor. The encryption engine is adapted to encrypt the data using the hash key. The processor is adapted to transmit the encrypted data, an identification key related to the private key, and the character string to a recipient.
US08117448B2
An information processing apparatus includes a storage section that stores, for a management entity for which a memory area is to be formed, an authentication key and an encryption key. The information processing apparatus also includes a communication section that transmits an identifier of the authentication key, an identifier of the encryption key, and an area 0 key. The communication section receives, upon an authentication based on the authentication key and the area 0 key, data encrypted by the encryption key. The data indicates a size of the memory area. The area 0 key is stored in an area 0. The information processing apparatus further includes a forming section that forms the memory area starting from the area 0, based on the size of the memory area.
US08117444B2
The object of the present invention is to provide an authentication system capable of achieving suitable authentication processing while guaranteeing the maximum convenience for the customer.A first communication terminal PD1 is built into a television TV that can be connected to the Internet, and communications with an authentication control company BS are possible via the first communication terminal PD1. The authentication control company BS is, for example, a telecommunications company, and performs authentication control for a plurality of product supplier companies SP1 to SP3 according to the product purchase status on the television TV.Furthermore, the present invention simplifies the appropriate procedures by setting authentication levels for authentication control.
US08117441B2
At computer device power on, the operating system of the computer device initiates a monitor. The monitor assigns a monitoring program to each program and object (collectively, “program”) running on the computer device to monitor the activities of the program. When the monitoring program is assigned to a program, the monitoring program is assigned an integrity and/or privacy label (collectively, “integrity label”) based on predetermined criteria applied to the monitored program. The monitoring program, in turn, assigns an integrity label to the program monitored by the monitoring program. The integrity label assigned to the monitored program is less than or equal to the integrity label of the monitoring program. The monitor enforces an integrity policy of the computer device based on the integrity label assigned to monitored programs and the integrity label associated with data, another program, or a remote network resource that the monitored program is seeking to access.
US08117440B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus that provides routing services between a red network and a black network. The apparatus includes a red router within the red network, a black router within the black network, and an IP encryptor having a red side IPv4-only interface and a black side interface, with the red side interface operatively coupled to the red router and the black side interface operatively coupled to the black network. The apparatus is configured to provide unified IPv6/IPv4 OSPFv3 routing over IPv4-only interfaces using cross-layer extensions.
US08117438B1
A method and apparatus for providing an automated SMS registration mechanism to support authentication, authorization, creation and maintenance of PKI related tasks using web authentication that is keyed by corporate Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a LDAP is protocol that organizes directory hierarchies and interfaces to directory servers that can be used by an end user to access directory listing to locate people, addresses, phone numbers, and other resources in a public Internet or a corporate intranet.
US08117433B2
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for processing instructions by a processing unit. An instruction set is dynamically set for the processing unit using a selected instruction map. The selected instruction map is selected as one being different from a normal instruction map for the processing unit. The instructions are processed at the processor using the instruction set. A set of authorized instructions are encoded using the selected instruction map.
US08117432B2
A method for controlling a boot sequence of a server includes the following steps. A boot image is created, and a first proxy server program is placed into the boot image. The first proxy server program communicates with a management server. The boot image is restored on a rewritable removable storage device, so as to enable the rewritable removable storage device to boot a managed target server. A second proxy server program is installed and executed in the management server. A basic input/output system (BIOS) of the target server is set to enable the rewritable removable storage device to act as a first boot device. Boot files in the rewritable removable storage device are modified through the first proxy server program or the second proxy server program according to a boot instruction received from the management server, thereby controlling a boot sequence of the target server.
US08117423B1
Instructions asserted in the instruction pipeline (3) of the microprocessor are accompanied by control information, comprising a group of bits, asserted within a control information pipeline (15) of the processor. The control information pipeline is synchronized to the instruction pipeline so that the control information for an instruction progresses in synchronism with the instruction. The control information may identify, directly or indirectly, the type of operation called for by the instruction and, if the operation is to be performed in parts, indicate the part to be performed. Means are included in the processor, such as a number of functional execution units (7), to interpret that control information and take appropriate action. Applied in a VLIW processor to an atom operation that requires multiple cycles to complete, in which the first part of the operation is permitted to complete and the atom then reasserted, the control information identifies the second assertion of the atom as the second part of a multi-cycle operation.
US08117420B2
A buffer management structure for processing systems is described. In one embodiment, the buffer management structure includes a storage module and a control module. The storage module includes a read position and can store a bit indicating a valid state of a transaction request in a write entry. The control module can receive an invalidation request and modify the bit to indicate an invalid state for the transaction request and discard the transaction request when the transaction request is in the read position.
US08117412B2
A system comprises a general-purpose memory, a lockable memory, a memory management unit, and a processor. The general-purpose memory includes data for a first set of addresses. The lockable memory includes data for a second set of addresses. The memory management unit selectively writes data to one of the general-purpose memory and the lockable memory and selectively locks the lockable memory by preventing writes to the lockable memory. The processor instructs the memory management unit to unlock the lockable memory before requesting a write to one of the second set of addresses.
US08117407B2
A recording/reproducing apparatus is configured to record a replacement block by logical overwrite (LOW) for updating data recorded on an information storage medium in a first area of the medium, record a replacement block for replacing a defect block generated on the medium in a second area of the medium, and record a second replacement block for replacement by defect of a first replacement block in the second area if the defect is detected while the first replacement block is being recorded in the first area to perform the logical overwrite of an original block recorded in a predetermined area of the medium, generate a defect list (DFL) entry including location information of the original block and location information of the second replacement block in order to indicate the replacement state, and move location information of the first replacement block in the second replacement block.
US08117403B2
A computing system uses specialized “Set Associative Transaction Tables” and additional “Summary Transaction Tables” to speed the processing of common transactional memory conflict cases and those which employ assist threads using an Address History Table and processes memory transactions with a Transaction Table in memory for parallel processing of multiple threads of execution by support of which an application need not be aware. Special instructions may mark the boundaries of a transaction and identify memory locations applicable to a transaction. A ‘private to transaction’ (PTRAN) tag, directly addressable as part of the main data storage memory location, enables a quick detection of potential conflicts with other transactions that are concurrently executing on another thread of said computing system. The tag indicates whether (or not) a data entry in memory is part of a speculative memory state of an uncommitted transaction that is currently active in the system.
US08117401B2
According to at least one embodiment, a method of data processing in a multiprocessor data processing system includes a requesting processing unit initiating an interconnect operation including a memory access request that indicates an acceptability of a variable amount of data to service the interconnect request for data. In response to snooping the memory access request on an interconnect, a snooper selects an amount of data to supply to the requesting processing unit and transmits the selected amount of data to the requesting processing unit. The requesting processing unit receives the selected amount of data and utilizes at least some of the selected amount of data to service a processor request.
US08117397B2
A cache memory includes a cache array including a plurality of congruence classes each containing a plurality of cache lines, where each cache line belongs to one of multiple classes which include at least a first class and a second class. The cache memory also includes a cache directory of the cache array that indicates class membership. The cache memory further includes a cache controller that selects a victim cache line for eviction from a congruence class. If the congruence class contains a cache line belonging to the second class, the cache controller preferentially selects as the victim cache line a cache line of the congruence class belonging to the second class based upon access order. If the congruence class contains no cache line belonging to the second class, the cache controller selects as the victim cache line a cache line belonging to the first class based upon access order.
US08117393B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that selectively performs lookups for cache lines. During operation, the system by maintains a lower-level cache and a higher-level cache in accordance with a set of rules that dictate conditions under which cache lines are held in the lower-level cache and the higher-level cache. The system next performs a lookup for cache line A in the lower level cache. The system then discovers that the lookup for cache line A missed in the lower-level cache, but that cache line B is present in the lower-level cache. Next, in accordance with the set of rules, the system determines, without performing a lookup for cache line A in the higher-level cache, that cache line A is guaranteed not to be present and valid in the higher-level cache because cache line B is present in the lower-level cache.
US08117386B2
A performance history management method and system are disclosed, in which the time-series performance history such as a volume included in a storage device is managed as one time-series performance history at the time of data rearrangement or device change. The data-oriented performance history providing the logical place of storage of the data stored in the volume is generated using the storage performance monitor program based on the rearrangement history information providing the information on the history of transfer of the data stored in the rearrangement history table and the volume of the storage device by the storage structure information acquisition program, the storage structure information stored in the storage structure information table and the performance history of each volume stored in the storage performance history table by the storage performance information acquisition program. The performance history can be displayed or the performance change detected to display an alert.
US08117384B2
A method includes searching a content addressable memory based on a comparand. The comparand includes a collection of bits. A modified comparand is generated by modifying the comparand. The modified comparand is based at least in part on a comparand overlay data value. The content addressable memory is also searched with the modified comparand.
US08117383B2
A method for searching within a data block for a data chunk having a predefined value, the method includes: fetching, by a processor, a data block search instruction; fetching, a data unit that includes multiple data chunks; wherein at least one data chunk within the data unit belongs to the data block; deciding whether to use a mask for data chunk level masking; searching, by a hardware accelerator, for a valid data chunk within the fetched data unit that has the predefined value; wherein the searching comprising applying a mask; wherein a valid data chunk in an non-masked data chunk that belongs to the data block; and determining whether to update the value of the mask and whether to fetch a new data unit that belongs to the data block.
US08117382B2
A data writing method for a non-volatile memory is provided, wherein the non-volatile memory includes a data area and a spare area. In the data writing method, a plurality of blocks in a substitution area of the non-volatile memory is respectively used for substituting a plurality of blocks in the data area, wherein data to be written into the blocks in the data area is written into the blocks in the substitution area, and the blocks in the substitution area are selected from the spare area of the non-volatile memory. A plurality of temporary blocks of the non-volatile memory is used as a temporary area of the blocks in the substitution area, wherein the temporary area is used for temporarily storing the data to be written into the blocks in the substitution area.
US08117373B2
A virtual-machine host responds to a guest operating system's initiation of a page swap by transferring a page from host-but-non-guest-addressable RAM to host-and-guest addressable RAM.
US08117371B2
A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupled to the memory hub through a first portion of a memory bus on which the memory requests from the memory hub controller and memory responses from the memory hub are coupled. A second portion of the memory bus couples the memory hub to the processor circuit and is used to couple memory requests from the processor circuit and memory responses provided by the memory hub to the processor circuit.
US08117369B2
An I/O module configured to operate in a memory module socket and method for extending a memory interface are generally described herein. The I/O module may include a serial-presence detection (SPD) device to indicate that the I/O module is an I/O device and to indicate one or more functions associated with the I/O module. The I/O module may also include a serial data controller to communicate serial data in accordance with a predetermined communication technique with a configurable switch of a host system over preselected system management (SM) bus address lines and unused system clock signal lines of the memory module socket. The predetermined communication technique may include a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe), a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA), a Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface (SAS), a universal-serial bus (USB) or a switched-fabric (InfiniBand) communication technique.
US08117351B1
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to techniques involving transitioning serial data into a serial parallel interface.
US08117350B2
The described embodiments provide a system for accessing values for configuration space registers (CSRs). This system includes a CSR data storage mechanism with an address input and a CSR data output. The CSR data storage mechanism includes a memory containing a number of memory locations for storing the true or actual values for CSRs for functions for corresponding devices. In these embodiments, the memory locations are divided into at least one shared region and at least one unique region. In these embodiments, in response to receiving an address for a memory location on the address input, the CSR data storage mechanism accesses the value for the CSR in the memory location in a corresponding shared region or unique region.
US08117347B2
An computer program product, apparatus, and method for facilitating input/output (I/O) processing for an I/O operation at a host computer system configured for communication with a control unit. The computer program product includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes the host computer system obtaining a transport command word (TCW) for an I/O operation. The TCW specifies a location of one or more I/O commands and a flag. The flag is set to indicate that the location is an indirect address. The host computer system extracts the location of the one or more I/O commands and the flag from the TCW. The host computer system gathers the one or more I/O commands responsive to the location specified by the TCW and the flag, and then forwards the one or more I/O commands to the control unit for execution.
US08117324B2
A system and method for determining the resources available or used in a remote device is disclosed. The system can be used to determine whether the remote device is using expected resources as originally configured or to determine whether resources are available to support new or extended services. The method can be used to configure or reconfigure the remote device for its intended use or as reconfigure a remote device for new, different or extended purposes.
US08117316B2
The present invention relates to a terminal control system, and more particularly, to a system and a method which allows a user to shift an IP service from a terminal to which the service is currently provided to a user's other terminal, thereby enabling the user to continuously using the IP service without disconnection. The system comprises: an authentication authorization accounting (AAA) interface unit which receives unique information having fixed properties with respect to a terminal authenticated by a subscriber terminal authentication system and a user of the authenticated terminal; a terminal interface unit which receives status information having variable properties with respect to the authorized terminal and a currently used service; a unique information managing unit which stores and manages the unique information; a status information managing unit which stores and manages the status information; and a terminal shift management control unit which provides information regarding terminals available for the current service with reference to the unique information and the status information, when there is a terminal shift request, generates service session information which is required when the currently used service is sent to a terminal selected from the information and sends the generated service session information to the selected terminal to which the service is to be shifted. Accordingly, the user of the terminal can conveniently change the terminal to continuously use the IP service without disconnection while using the IP service.
US08117304B2
Applications generating events, and system facilities generating events, send notifications of the events to a system event sink. The event sink is preferably associated with an operating system, and provides an application programming interface for registering listeners. (In one alternative approach, the event sink operates as a centrally-accessible or network-accessible entity, where it may concurrently interact with more than one client.) Upon receiving a notification of an event, the event sink forwards the notification to any registered listeners. Optionally, filters may be used to specify criteria to be met before a notification is forwarded to the listener. An event does not rely on a particular application for displaying the event to an end user. As one example, notification of a newly-arrived e-mail message might be presented in a chat window of an instant messaging client.
US08117302B2
A method, system and computer program product for buddy list pruning for instant messaging system performance enhancement. In one embodiment of the invention, a buddy list pruning method for instant messaging system performance enhancement can include comparing buddy list name entries in a buddy list to entries in a network directory used to authenticate users into a network supporting the instant messaging system. The method further can include characterizing selected ones of the buddy list name entries as either invalid where a buddy list name entry cannot be matched to an entry in the network directory, or as valid where the buddy list name entry can be matched to an entry in the network directory. Finally, the method can include performing presence awareness only on valid buddy list name entries in the buddy list.
US08117294B2
An exemplary embodiment of a management apparatus can be provided. For example, the exemplary managing may include a profile device/arrangement and a process device/arrangement. The profile device/arrangement can include at least one process profile. Furthermore, the process device/arrangement can generate, by using the at least one process profile, a process description. For example, the generated process description may be a description of a physical process. Further, the generated process description may be executed in order to control the physical process in accordance with the generated process description. In addition, method, program arrangement and computer-accessible medium can be provided to perform certain procedures to generate the above-described process description.
US08117291B1
Internet web technology is used to register wireless access customers without the need of a programmable smart card or SIM (subscriber identity module) or a fixed line wired connection by providing an anonymous session connection between a special registration web server and the user equipment.
US08117282B2
A media player configured with a first removable memory reader, such as a DVD drive, and a second removable memory reader, such as a flash memory reader, adapted to communicate with a removable memory containing filter data. The media player is configured to allow filtered playback of a multimedia presentation, such as a movie. Filtered playback causes certain portions of the multimedia presentation to be skipped, muted, blurred, cropped, or otherwise modified to eliminate or reduce potentially objectionable scenes, language, or other content. The second memory reader provides a convenient medium for the loading of filter information, whether data files, executable program code, or the like, to local memory of the media player to employ during filtered playback. Alternatively, the filters may be accessed from the removable storage media during playback rather than loading to local memory.
US08117277B2
An operating system to componentize file sharing is described, in which a file transport send object is executable on the operating system to designate a shared file for sharing, and in which a notification send object is executable on the operating system to notify of the shared file. An operating system to componentize file sharing is described, in which a file transport receive object is executable on the operating system to receive a shared file, and in which a notification receive object that is executable on the operating system to notify of the shared file.
US08117272B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for matching of individuals to one another using a matching model. The matching model matches social network users based on ratings given by users one to another, as well as, as appropriate and available, explicit attributes indicated by users and other data such as location data and system usage data.
US08117265B2
The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications. For example access to a user's online presence may be restricted based on the known people such that access to presence is provided only to those people that the user knows.
US08117264B1
A system and method are disclosed for providing interaction with mail data on a server. Providing interaction with mail data on a server comprises receiving mail information from the server; updating data structures in a client using the mail information received; operating on the mail information at the client and displaying operation results on the client; sending operation information to the server so that the same operation may be executed on the server.
US08117263B2
A method for displaying content of a time-sensitive e-mail message to a recipient, wherein the content displayed is based on when the recipient opens the time-sensitive e-mail message. A sender of the time-sensitive email message establishes content and a rule set for delivering the e-mail message. The rule set contains a predefined time limit for allowing the recipient of the time-sensitive e-mail message to open it. If the recipient opens the time-sensitive e-mail message within the predefined time limit, the content within the e-mail is delivered to the recipient. If, however, the recipient fails to open the time-sensitive e-mail message within the predefined time limit, then the time-sensitive e-mail message is either deleted from the recipient's mailbox or an alternative message is displayed.
US08117262B2
In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses include requesting an expert during a collaboration session; determining a subject matter of the collaboration session; detecting a potential participant to serve as the expert; and inviting the potential participant to join the collaboration session.
US08117260B2
In a computer system having a memory, a processor, and a network interface, a method for listening on multiple conferencing interfaces having the steps of loading a set of transport components into the memory; initializing each transport components of the set of transport components to listen on a particular conferencing interface using the network interface, each transport component of the set of transport components listening to a different conferencing interface; receiving an incoming call signal on the network interface having an incoming conferencing interface; processing the incoming call signal to detect the incoming conferencing interface; and launching an application based on the incoming conferencing interface.An apparatus for listening on multiple conferencing interfaces having a set of transport components coupled to the network interface, each transport component of the set of transport components having the capability of receiving a signal on a different conferencing interface; a conference component coupled to each component in the set of transport components; a call processing module coupled to the conference component; and, a process manager coupled to the call processing module; the conference component containing a circuit for causing the call processing module to cause process manager to activate a conferencing application upon detecting a call from one transport component of the set of transport components.
US08117258B2
A method for operating a host layer of a distributed computing system on a wide area network includes attaching an autonomous agent to a client-requested carrier, such as web content. The method includes the steps of receiving a request for specified content from a client node via the wide area network, and sending the content and an embedded agent to the client via the wide area network. The agent has program instructions configured to execute autonomously on the client node to perform a processing function. The processing function is configured to operate on raw data to produce process data, according to instructions determined by a solution algorithm of the distributed computing system. The method further includes sending the raw data to the client node and receiving the process data from the client node as it is processed by the agent. The host layer may comprise a web server hosting a web site containing consumer-oriented web pages, and the carrier may comprise an HTML page containing user content. The agent may comprise a web page-enabled application embedded in the HTML page, such as a Java™ applet.
US08117255B2
Embodiments consistent with the principles of the invention provide client-server application problem-solving capabilities at sites remote from the operational site by supplying server response data to a copy of the client-side application running at the remote site. The client-side application running at the remote site receives the same inputs as the operational site application, allowing application problems and behavior to be reproduced at the remote site. Debugging tools, expertise, and other resources may be more efficiently applied at the remote site to solve problems and explain behavior than would be the case at the operational site.
US08117254B2
A user information management service including features and/or methods for user information mapping.
US08117251B2
A computing method and circuit for computing a modular operation with at least one operand having a binary representation. Iteratively for each bit of this operand, doubling the value of an intermediate result stored in a first memory element by shifting the bits of the intermediate result towards the most significant bit and, while the most significant bit of the intermediate result is one, updating this intermediate result by subtracting a modulus stored in a second memory element.
US08117250B2
The invention suggests a novel pipeline FFT/IFFT architecture that not only produces time-domain samples (after IFFT) but also pushes time-domain samples into FFT in a time-based sequential order. This reduces external memory requirement for buffering the time-domain samples. Also the design is based on a mixed radix-2 and radix-22 algorithm aiming at reducing number of multipliers and adders. Compared with other FFT/IFFT design methodologies such as radix-4, it achieves the minimum multiplier use, the minimum adder use and the minimum operating memory use. On the other hand, the design architecture not only can support different FFT/IFFT size required by different VDSL2 profiles but also utilizing a novel pipeline control mechanism to reduce logic switching at low-speed profiles. This effectively further reduces the power consumption at lower profiles and enables our VDSL2 digital chipsets to compete with ADSL2+ systems in terms of power consumption.
US08117243B2
A virtual configuration system, comprising a virtualization engine and a configuration engine, for the dynamic instantiation of configuration files is disclosed. A mechanism is disclosed that allows for transactional updates to a repository of configuration settings comprising multiple files. Configuration entries are stored in a first memory location and a copy of the entries is stored in a second memory location. A virtual configuration file that includes a virtual configuration for each entry is created and used to provide the operating system with path and location information regarding the configuration entries. Simultaneously and during run-time of the computer, the configuration entries stored in the second memory location can be modified. Once the modifications are complete, a second virtual configuration file is created referencing the configuration entries stored at the second memory location. The first virtual configuration file is thereafter atomically replaced by the second virtual configuration file.
US08117240B1
A method, system, and computer readable medium for controlling user access from a segmented network to shared remote applications stored on a remote server. The method begins by generating a folder/file structure for a remote application that is to be shared on the segmented network. A file server drive mapping to a linking infrastructure data is generated for the remote application and an icon associated with the remote application is retrieved. An application launcher file is generated for the remote application. Then, an application linker file associated with the application launcher file for the remote application is generated. A command file is generated for copying the application linker file to a user's desktop. The linker file is updated to point to the file server drive. A folder for user access to the remote application is then deployed that includes the remote application icon, the application linker file, the application launcher file, and the command file.
US08117225B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for focusing a search. In operation, a first search is performed. Additionally, first search results of the first search are displayed. Further, at least one term of the first search results is identified. Still yet, a second search is performed, based on the at least one term of the first search results. In addition, second search results of the second search are displayed.
US08117213B1
A method and apparatus for fast similarity-based query, self-join, and join for massive, high-dimension datasets have been disclosed.
US08117208B2
A system has a processor coupled to access a document database that indexes keywords and instances of entities having entity types in a plurality of documents. The processor is programmed to receive an input query including one or more keywords and one or more entity types, and search the database for documents having the keywords and entities with the entity types of the input query. The processor is programmed for aggregating a respective score for each of a plurality of entity tuples across the plurality of documents. The aggregated scores are normalized. Each respective normalized score provides a ranking of a respective entity tuple, relative to other entity tuples, as an answer to the input query. The processor has an interface to a storage or display device or network for outputting a list including a subset of the entity tuples having the highest normalized scores among the plurality of entity tuples.
US08117195B1
A device identifies a search result document based on a search query, and searches a blog post repository to identify a blog post relevant to the search result document. The device also rejects the blog post if the blog post has insufficient length, contains outgoing links located a predetermined distance from the beginning of the blog post, has a large out-degree, was created before or after a predetermined time, or has incoming links with a low link-based score. The device further provides the blog post in connection with the search result document if the blog post was not rejected.
US08117192B1
A computerized system and method for generating patent data summary reports for a target entity identified by the user. The information system contains a database containing patent document records. After a user selects the target entity, the system issues a query to the database to identify all entities having a association with patent documents associated with the specified target entity. For example, the user may wish to receive a report on all the clients of a specific attorney. The system would search the database to locate all assignees of all patents prosecuted by that attorney and return a ranked list of such assignees to the user. Optionally, the system may generate a graphical representation of the information in the report and provide it to the user. The report provided to the user may be interactive in a sense that various items of information within the report may be connected by way of links to additional reports with more specific information on those particular items. Additionally, the system may automatically update the patent document database with new records as they become available.
US08117185B2
A computer implemented method and system that generates a video playlist having recommended videos based on a user query object is disclosed. A user query object is used to search for a number of web pages. Summaries are generated for the returned web page search results. Valuable terms and phrases from those summaries may be extracted and used to search video storage sites based on the original user query. Playable videos returned from the video storage sites may be compared to the user query or to the extracted terms and phrases in order to rank the videos, and the most relevant videos may be returned. Those videos may be displayed to the user as a playlist in an Internet browser having an embedded video player.
US08117182B2
An apparatus and method for optimizing descendant path evaluation in XPath/XQuery includes generating a list of unique paths in a tree structure of an XML document. Each unique path includes one or more nodes of the tree structure. A query is received specifying a descendant node for retrieval from the tree structure. From the list, unique paths are identified that include the descendant node. A navigation aid is then generated to assist in traversing the unique paths that include the descendant node. Using the navigation aid as a guide, descendant nodes in the tree structure may be retrieved by traversing only unique paths that include the descendant node.
US08117179B2
A directory shell references one or more directories. Each directory comprises a plurality of directory objects each having object attributes and attribute data. One or more categories in the directory shell is associated with one or more directory objects and at least a portion of the associated object attribute. A user interface is operable for a user to query the categories in the directory shell. A directory interface is operable to send a search request to the directories in accordance with the query and receive data from the directories that satisfy the search request.
US08117178B2
The present invention relates to a natural language based service selection system for complementing incomplete queries, which comprises a semantic analyzing device which analyzes an incomplete query from a user semantically, a service selecting device which complements the incomplete query based on the semantic-analyzed query so as to acquire the corresponding selected service, and a retrieving device which retrieves an answer according to the selected service. The present invention also relates to a natural language based service selection to method as well as a service query system and method thereof, and thus can process an incomplete query from a user and provide a selected service.
US08117170B2
A method (and an article of manufacture having computer readable program code to implement the method) is disclosed to version a node range and locate a versioned node range in a storage architecture, wherein the method comprises: maintaining a set of node ranges, with each node range being formed from a range of node ID values assigned to each node among a plurality of nodes, receiving a node modification request for a node range from a database system, versioning the node range by copying (to a storage) a node range to which the node modification request is to be made, labeling the copied node range with a timestamp, locating the labeled node range via the timestamp and a hash on the node range, and outputting the located labeled node range. Optionally, versioning is done by shadowing nodes in the range to a version hash table based on a range identifier.
US08117163B2
A method of defining a backup state of a file system is provided. A change in an electronic file stored on a computer system is detected. If the change is detected, a backup state of the electronic file is updated using an overlay icon associated with the electronic file. The overlay icon is presented in a user interface displaying the file system of the computer system. The backup state indicates that the electronic file is selected for backup processing if the change is detected. If the backup state indicates the electronic file is selected for backup processing, a copy of the electronic file is sent to a second computer system accessible by the computer system using a network.
US08117159B2
Data entities in a client-server system are accessed. The client-server system comprises a set of clients, a server system, and a repository for storing a plurality of data entities. The server system comprises an inter-transactional cache, the inter-transactional cache being accessible for each client of the set of clients. A first client of the set of clients comprises a first intra-transactional cache. If a copy of a first data entity is in the inter-transactional cache, a version identifier of the original first data entity is read from the repository. If the copy of the first data entity is to be accessed with an exclusive lock, a copy of the copy of the first data entity is added to the first intra-transactional cache. The copy of the copy of the first data entity in the first intra-transactional cache is accessed for further processing of the first data entity by the first client.
US08117158B1
A method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for taking snapshots of a storage volume. According to aspects of one method, each snapshot is represented as a unique sequence number. Every fresh write access to a volume in a new snapshot lifetime is allocated a new section in the disk, called a provision, which is labeled with the sequence number. Read-modify-write operations are performed on a sub-provision level at the granularity of a chunk. Because each provision contains chunks with valid data and chunks with invalid data, a bitmap is utilized to identify the valid and invalid chunks with each provision. Provisions corresponding to different snapshots are arranged in a linked list. Branches from the linked list can be created for storing writable snapshots. Provisions may also be deleted and rolled back by manipulating the contents of the linked lists.
US08117154B2
A method is provided for replicating transaction data from a source database to a target database wherein the transaction data is communicated from a change queue associated with the source database to the target database. An initial path is provided between the change queue and the target database for transaction data to flow. The initial path has a maximum transaction load capacity. It is then detected whether the current transaction load is close or equal to the maximum transaction load capacity of the initial path. If so, another path is provided between the change queue and the target database. Also, a method is provided of replicating transaction data from a source database to a target database wherein an associated with the target database has a maximum transaction threshold limit. The applier normally posts transaction data to the target database only upon receipt of a commit step or operation associated with respective transaction data. First, it is detected as to whether the maximum transaction threshold limit of the applier has been reached. If so, a commit step or operation is prematurely conducted on at least some of the transaction data in the applier, thereby causing the transaction data to become posted to the target database and deleted from the applier.
US08117153B2
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide managing a distributed database cache. A database cache is provided. The database cache is distributed over at least two data processing systems.
US08117151B2
In a cluster type NAS, it is necessary to copy file data between disk devices of servers upon migration of a file system or a part of the file system. A server includes a control table for managing a file system or a part of the file system, and a mapping table for managing a relation between a logical device of a disk subsystem and a logical unit recognized by a server, and in response to an instruction to execute migration of the file system from a first server to a second server, the mapping table is referenced to send an instruction to update the relation between the logical device and the logical unit to the second server, and the second server newly recognizes a logical unit and updates a management server identifier of the control table.
US08117150B1
A method of ocean property forecasting. The method includes generating one of a magnetic field prediction and an electric field prediction between a first observation point and a plurality of uniform ocean cells by generating a vector sum of magnetic field contributions from a plurality of magnetic field vectors and a vector sum of electric field contributions from a plurality of electric field vectors, respectively. The method further includes generating one of a magnetic field forecast and an electric field forecast of the ocean volume at a second observation point in the ocean volume by re-using the magnetic field vectors and electric field vectors and scaling one of the plurality of magnetic field vectors and the plurality of electric field vectors by a plurality of tri-axial equivalent electrical currents with identical geometry to the first observation point.
US08117148B2
An automatic updating apparatus includes a start instructing unit that outputs an analysis start signal at given intervals, an access count analysis unit that calculates an access count for each of menus indicated in a menu list on a network in response to the analysis start signal, calculates predictive evaluated values based on a variation in the access count within a unit time for each of the menus indicated in the menu list, and outputs a start signal unless the predictive evaluated values are arranged in order of a magnitude relation, and a menu updating unit that acquires the predictive evaluated values according to the start signal, and updates contents of the menus indicated in the menu list according to respective magnitude relations of the predictive evaluated values.
US08117145B2
A solver framework for use with an analytical model. The analytical model includes multiple model parameters and includes definitions for analytical relationships between the model parameters. The solver framework coordinates the processing of multiple specialized solvers. In particular, the solver framework identifies which model parameters are input model variables and which are output model variables. The solver framework then analyzes dependencies to determine a solve order to solve for the output model variables. The solver framework then charged the specialized solvers with performing portions of the solve operation such that the specialized solvers solve for the output model variables in an order which considers the dependencies. In one embodiment, additional or replacement solvers may register with the solver framework to thereby make the specialized solver available for solving for output model variables in the future.
US08117137B2
Accelerator systems and methods are disclosed that utilize FPGA technology to achieve better parallelism and flexibility. The accelerator system may be used to implement a relevance-ranking algorithm, such as RankBoost, for a training process. The algorithm and related data structures may be organized to enable streaming data access and, thus, increase the training speed. The data may be compressed to enable the system and method to be operable with larger data sets. At least a portion of the approximated RankBoost algorithm may be implemented as a single instruction multiple data streams (SIMD) architecture with multiple processing engines (PEs) in the FPGA. Thus, large data sets can be loaded on memories associated with an FPGA to increase the speed of the relevance ranking algorithm.
US08117134B2
A system calculates appropriate billing within an imaging pipeline. An input component receives an image that is described as a plurality of pixels. A PDL component receives the image and determines a location, a color and a designation for each of the one or more pixels. A marking engine modifies the one or more pixels based at least in part on the location and the color provided by the PDL component and places each of the one or more pixels as a monochrome or a composite pixel on a substrate. An analysis component counts the number of monochrome and composite pixels placed on the substrate by the marking engine, the number of composite pixels that include a designation are counted as monochrome. A billing component calculates the cost for placing each of the monochrome and the composite pixels counted by the analysis component.
US08117124B2
Apparatuses and methods to transfer funds electronically via premium messages. In one aspect, an apparatus to electronically transfer funds from a customer to a supplier includes: a server component connected to a network; and a database component coupled to the server component. The server is configured to transmit a plurality of premium rate mobile terminating text messages to the mobile cellular telephone to effect a payment from the customer to the supplier after the customer has placed an order with the supplier. The server component is configured to populate the database component with an identification of the customer telephone number. The server component is configured to prompt the customer to supply additional personal data. In response to the additional personal data, the server component populates the database component with the additional personal data.
US08117123B1
A mobile device is disclosed. The mobile device comprises a display, a memory, and an application. The memory contains wireless communication service account information comprising at least one of an identification of a service plan, a terms of the service plan, a date of the service plan, a current count of consumed service minutes, a current count of consumed text messages, a current count of unused service minutes, a current count of unused text messages, and a record of a plurality of most recent communication sessions. The application, when executed on the mobile device, receives updates of the wireless communication service account information and writes the updated wireless communication service account information to the memory. The application, when selected by an input, also presents at least some of the wireless communication service account information on the display.
US08117119B2
A method of trading individual, closed residential mortgage loans without loans being presented in a structured pool. The method includes authorizing a file associated with an individual, closed residential mortgage loan to be made available to a plurality of potential buyers and converting information in the file into electronic file data for submittal to the plurality of potential buyers. The information in the file includes information of importance to the potential buyer in understanding the loan. The method also includes making the electronic file data available to the plurality of potential buyers for review and purchase without pooling or averaging the electronic file data prior to making it available to the plurality of potential buyers, and prior to bidding, thereby making the risk of the individual, closed mortgage loan transparent to the plurality of potential buyers; receiving a bid from one or more of the potential buyers on the individual, closed residential mortgage loan; accepting the bid and forwarding a note associated with the file to a clearing agency for delivery to the potential buyer; and receiving funds from the clearing agency into a seller account as payment for the individual, closed residential mortgage loan.
US08117118B2
Methods for soliciting and enrolling customers for a retailer payment instrument are disclosed. For example, a method is disclosed for enrolling a customer for a retailer debit card which includes receiving enrollment data from the customer, establishing a check writer rating for the customer based on a history of checks associated with the customer and stored by the retailer, adjusting a validation threshold score based on the check writer rating, and denying enrollment of the customer if the validation score is less than the adjusted validation threshold score. Other associated methods and systems are also disclosed.
US08117104B2
Embodiments of the present invention can be used to assign policies to assets and enforce the policies in a dynamic environment. In one embodiment, the present invention includes discovering a plurality of assets using a plurality of distributed software interfaces over a network, each asset being having a plurality of attributes. A user can input receiving a group filter criterion, which can then be used to create and display a plurality of virtual asset groups to the user, each virtual asset group containing representations of assets having the same attributes for the received group filter criterion. In one embodiment, the present invention provides the ability to apply policies directly to virtual asset groups, and the policies are applied to virtual asset group members dynamically.
US08117102B1
A data feed is monitored to determine whether a condition is satisfied. If the condition is satisfied, an alert is initiated to attract a user's attention. Thereafter, playback mode is entered causing the example system to playback a short period of time-compressed data that occurred just prior to the event occurring to set context for the user. Once the playback signal has caught up with the real-time data feed, the data is output at normal levels. Other configurations, which are described herein, are also possible.
US08117097B2
A method and system is provided that evaluates several pieces of information associated with bank accounts at the time they are opened in order to assess the level of fraud risk that the new account creates for the bank. When a new customer establishes an account the various information collected during the account establishment process is analyzed using a logic algorithm that makes a risk assessment. The logic algorithm assigns a risk level wherein the highest risk accounts may be refused immediately while the next highest risk tier is flagged for further monitoring. Once flagged for monitoring, the account is subject to increased scrutiny based on various customer attributes to identify any problematic patterns. If all transactions are normal, the scrutiny flag lapses. If risky transactions continue, a hold is placed on the account and additional investigation is undertaken to either clear or close the account.
US08117096B1
A private equity accounting and reporting system and method are provided herein.
US08117094B2
A system to facilitate royalty tracking is provided. The system includes at least one tag to identify a portion of a creative work. A distribution component tracks the portion of the creative work and a crediting component reports usage of the creative work when the portion is detected in a larger body of work.
US08117079B1
The environmental impact of various transactions can be reduced or offset by determining the impact of various shipping and packaging options, and providing these options to customers. Customers then have the ability to select options that reduce the environmental impact of each transaction. A customer also can purchase environmental offsets to offset the determined impact. Customers can be provided with environmental impact information determined or tracked for each item viewed by the customer, such that each customer can be informed of the additional impact of each individual when making a selection. The selections and/or actions of a customer can be tracked such that environmentally friendly options and suggestions can be provided for subsequent transactions.
US08117075B1
A facility for identifying purchasing opportunities within a set of purchasing opportunities that are similar to a distinguished purchasing opportunity is described. The distinguished purchasing opportunity has descriptive information associated with it. For each of several terms occurring in this descriptive information, the facility generates a term score. Each term score reflects the extent to which the occurrence of the term and the descriptive information associated with the distinguished purchasing opportunity differentiates the distinguished purchasing opportunity from auto purchasing opportunities in the set. The facility then selects as key words the terms occurring in the descriptive information associated with the distinguished purchasing opportunity that have the highest term scores. The facility identifies purchasing opportunities of the set containing the selected key words, and establishes a purchasing opportunity score for each identified purchasing opportunity by summing the term score of the key words occurring in information associated with the identified purchasing opportunities.
US08117066B1
An estimated conversion rate for a desired advertisement term is calculated. A total number of conversion events for terms having a conversion rate is determined for each of a plurality of conversion rates, and data is generated that describes a first distribution function representing the conversion rates and the associated numbers of conversion rates. Additionally, data describing a second distribution function representing the probability of a given number of conversion events occurring is also generated. Based at least in part on the first distribution function and the second distribution function, the estimated conversion rate for the desired advertisement term is computed.
US08117064B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for an optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, an integrated contact center comprises: a content recorder configured to record content of plurality of agent interactions; an analytics component configured to perform speech analysis on at least a portion of the agent interactions, and further configured to evaluate the interactions based on a plurality of criteria, producing a score; and a quality monitor configured to associate the analyzed interactions with interaction metadata.
US08117048B1
A system for managing electronic health records, including: an interface element in at least one specially programmed general-purpose computer for receiving data regarding at least one environmental condition, at least one symptom related to physical or mental health, and background for the patient; a memory element for the computer for storing the data; and a processor in the computer for: generating, using the data, information regarding at least one concern with respect to the physical or mental health of the patient; and generating, using the data, at least one action item for addressing the at least one concern. The interface element is for transmitting at least a portion of the information regarding the at least one concern for the physical or mental health of the patient and the at least one action item for display and receiving data regarding compliance with the at least one action item.
US08117042B2
A system supports, adaptively processing HL7 compatible transaction message data of different HL7 version as well as conversion of transactions between HL7 versions and operational validation of transaction messages. A system for processing HL7 protocol compatible data comprises an interface for establishing a communication link enabling acquisition of HL7 compatible transaction messages. An acquisition processor acquires multiple different HL7 compatible transaction messages including healthcare data using the communication link. An HL7 data processor automatically parses an HL7 compatible transaction message to identify HL7 items indicating type of information conveyed at a location in the transaction message identified in response to a predetermined message location identifier. The HL7 data processor automatically adaptively routes acquired HL7 compatible transaction messages to multiple different storage destinations based on the identified HL7 items indicating type of information conveyed in response to predetermined information associating HL7 items and type of information conveyed with corresponding storage destinations.
US08117037B2
An adaptive advertising apparatus and associated methods. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a computer readable medium having at least one computer program disposed thereon, the at least one program being configured to adaptively present (e.g., display) advertising-related content (e.g., audio, video, images, etc.) that is contextually related to inputs provided via an input device such as a for example touch-screen display device. In one variant, the at least one program analyzes user input to determine a context of the input, and selects advertising related to the context for presentation to the user.
US08117035B2
A method and device for verification of an identity of a subscriber of a communication service on a telecommunications network is provided. The communication service requires authentication of the subscriber. The verification includes comparing a reference biometric with at least one biometric characteristic detected from a biometric sample of the subscriber, in order to provide the subscriber with access to the restricted communication service. The reference biometric can be adapted and used for verification purposes based on the different security requirements of the various communication services provided on the telecommunications network.
US08117029B2
Provided is a transmission apparatus for matching sound quality measurement sections of a variable bandwidth multi-codec. The apparatus includes a measurement section setting unit setting a measurement section, which is to be measured for sound quality, in units of time; a first conversion unit converting the measurement section into a measurement section in units of samples; and an information synthesis unit synthesizing information regarding the measurement section in units of samples with a digital original sound and outputting the synthesis result. In addition, provided is a method of matching a measurement section of a reference sound, based on which the end-to-end sound quality measurement of the variable bandwidth multi-codec is performed, and a measurement section of a sound produced by the variable bandwidth multi-codec in a real-time Internet multimedia service. Therefore, distortion of measurement results due to un-matching measurement sections can be reduced.
US08117016B2
The invention relates to a method of performing production operations. The method includes identifying a plurality of simulators from a group consisting of a wellsite simulator for modeling at least a portion of the wellsite of the oilfield and a non-wellsite simulator for modeling at least a portion of a non-wellsite portion of the oilfield, defining a first strategy template comprising a first condition defined based on a first variable of the plurality of simulators and a first action defined based on a control parameter of the plurality of simulators, wherein execution of the first action during simulation is determined based on the first condition in view of a logical relationship, developing a first strategy for managing the plurality of simulators during simulation, wherein the first strategy is developed using the first strategy template, and selectively simulating the operations of the oilfield using the plurality of simulators based on the first strategy.
US08117013B2
An apparatus, method and program storage device for determining high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest. Boundaries are defined for calculation of a high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest; the high-energy neutron/ion transport to the target of interest is calculated using numerical procedures selected to reduce local truncation error by including higher order terms and to allow absolute control of propagated error by ensuring truncation error is third order in step size, and using scaling procedures for flux coupling terms modified to improve computed results by adding a scaling factor to terms describing production of j-particles from collisions of k-particles; and the calculated high-energy neutron/ion transport is provided to modeling modules to control an effective radiation dose at the target of interest.
US08117003B2
A method of monitoring an electrochemical second order half-cell (1, 101) is provided, as is a measuring probe with at least one electrochemical second order half-cell (101), a control- and/or regulation unit (7) to close an electrochemical contact between the half-cell and a measuring medium (8), and with at least one temperature sensor (9, 10). The half-cell includes an electrolyte (4) and a first conductor element (2) in contact with the electrolyte and which holds a first electrical potential (E1). The half-cell also has a second conductor element (3) in contact with the electrolyte, the second conductor holding a second electrical potential (E2). The two conductor elements (2, 3) comprise the same metal. The first conductor element has a coating (6) of a low-solubility salt of the same metal. The control- and/or regulation unit includes a program for executing a method of monitoring the electrochemical half-cell.
US08116998B2
A battery state of health estimator and similar method, system and computer product is disclosed providing for a estimate of a state of health (SOH) of one or more batteries, comprising, estimating a sampling of internal resistances of the one or more batteries, generating a time history of the internal resistance over a predetermined amount of time, generating a cumulative internal resistance histogram from the time history, calculating a final estimate of internal resistance of one or more batteries which represents the calculated SOH of one or more batteries and comparing the calculated SOH to a predetermined critical resistance threshold. If the calculated SOH is less than the predetermined critical resistance threshold, the battery is in no worse than a “Blue Monday” condition, and if the calculated SOH is greater than the critical resistance threshold, then the one or more batteries has failed.
US08116997B2
A battery-capacity supervisory control device includes a DC current/DC voltage detecting loop, a microprocessor and a display unit. The DC current/DC voltage detecting loop is connected between a battery and a power inverter for detecting a first voltage value before the battery electrically discharges, and a second voltage value as well as an output current value of the battery after electrically discharging for a time unit of the battery, to calculate the available capacity of the battery and to calculate the available time of the battery under loading according to the available capacity of the battery through the microprocessor. The display simultaneously displays the available time of the battery under loading and the available capacity of the battery. Therefore, a user effectively supervises and assures the battery is in the usable state.
US08116990B2
A method and system for performing continuous (real-time) physics based prognostics analysis as a function of actual engine usage and changing operating environment. A rule-based mission profile analysis is conducted to determine the mission variability which yields variability in the type of thermal-mechanical loads that an engine is subjected to during use. This is followed by combustor modeling to predict combustion liner temperatures and combustion nozzle plane temperature distributions as a function of engine usage which is followed by off-design engine modeling to determine the pitch-line temperatures in hot gas path components and thermodynamic modeling to compute the component temperature profiles of the components for different stages of the turbine. This is automatically followed by finite element (FE) based non-linear stress-strain analysis using an real-time FE solver and physics based damage accumulation, life consumption and residual life prediction analyses using microstructural modeling based damage and fracture analysis techniques.
US08116987B2
The present invention concerns a method for prediction and identification of microRNA precursors (pre-microRNA) and microRNA molecules using data processing programs and databases. The invention also pertains to the isolated form of these pre-microRNAs, microRNA molecules and derived nucleic acids there of. The invention also relates to recombinant vector, host cell, support, pharmaceutical composition or kit comprising such microRNA molecules or there of derivated molecules. The invention also applies to the use of such microRNA molecules and/or their identified targets in research, prognostic, diagnostic tools/methods as well as for therapeutic applications.
US08116977B2
An automatic control system for passive, towed implements is described. The system provides a strategy for optimal control of a towed implement using a nudge input to an autopilot-controlled tractor. Implement path-tracking error, as measured by a GNSS receiver, is consistently corrected to zero.
US08116976B2
A satellite based positioning method and system including storing satellite sub-almanac data on a mobile station. Embodiments include using the sub-almanac data to take measurements and calculate a coarse position of the mobile station. Embodiments further include a location server calculating a correction to the coarse position, and the location server determining whether any sub-almanacs used to calculate the coarse position require replacement.
US08116974B2
A system and method are disclosed for conducting searches and generating routes to selected points of interest using a wireless client-server (WCS) navigator. A method includes the step of requesting, at a mobile unit, information about one or more locations meeting certain criteria. Locations meeting the criteria are displayed on the display screen at the location of the user and, if a location is selected, a route to include the selected location is automatically generated. Guidance regarding how to travel to the selected location may also be provided. If the user is already en route to a destination when a route to a selected location is requested, the navigator may generate a route that includes both the original destination and the selected new location. If the user is already en route to a destination when locations matching criteria are requested, along with the locations displayed the navigator may provide information to the user as to the total travel time or distance of a route passing through the original destination and a new location or the additional travel time or distance in comparison to the original route. The method may further include the step of requesting information about a class of locations such as restaurants.
US08116973B2
A vehicle has a plurality of traveling modes. A display device for the vehicle comprises: a display unit displaying map information; and a control unit causing the display unit to display recognizably, at a portion of roads in the map information, traveling modes that correspond to the roads. Preferably, the control unit sets a destination in response to an instruction received from an operator, searches for a traveling route extending from a starting point to the destination, divides the traveling route into segments, and associates one of the traveling modes with each of the segments. More preferably, the control unit causes the display unit to display the plurality of candidate traveling routes, each with the traveling mode overlaid thereon, and selects in response to an instruction of the operator one traveling route planned to be taken among the plurality of candidate traveling routes.
US08116953B2
An active thermal management system and method for selectively warming and cooling transmission fluid in a transmission usable with a vehicular engine is provided. The active thermal management system includes a thermal sensor which measures transmission fluid temperature and signals a valve to selectively communicate transmission fluid flow into one or more discrete fluid circuits.
US08116952B2
A control system for an automatic transmission is provided with a manual shift mode capable of performing a shift command made by manual operation. While in the manual shift mode and during the operation of a downshift command generated by a shift lever, a manual shift control unit calculates a degree of power required by a driver that, for example, takes into consideration an operation intent of the driver and a road condition. A post-downshift shift speed is then determined in accordance with the degree of required power and downshifting performed. By performing only one downshift command through manual operation, downshifting in accordance with the degree of power required by the driver is performed. Downshifting to a shift speed desired by the driver can thus be promptly performed, without the operation becoming a burden.
US08116947B2
A vehicle safety arrangement having a sensor unit (7) comprising at least one sensor (8, 9) responsive to acceleration; an actuator (13) for activating a safety device, the actuator being located remotely from the sensor unit; and a control unit (2) located remotely from the sensor unit and from the actuator, the control unit having no sensors responsive to acceleration and being operable to receive information from the sensor unit and to transmit an actuating command to the actuator to activate the safety device.
US08116945B2
A rotational angle correction controller controls generation of an inverse assist torque using the “phase deviation” due to the correction of the rotational angle θ, thereby performing the rotational angle correction control to smooth rotation of the motor during two phase drive. In addition, the rotational angle correction controller includes an oscillation detection part that detects the occurrence of oscillation in the steering system. When the level of the detected oscillation exceeds the predetermined level, the correction amount in the rotational angle correction control is reduced.
US08116941B2
A method is provided for operating an active chassis system, in which wheels of at least one axle are arranged with a toe-in angle, and actuating elements which interact with supporting assemblies which are arranged between the wheels and a vehicle body. Wheel contact forces of the wheels assume different values as a result of the actuating elements being actuated. A side force is generated at the wheels which have a toe-in angle, and a resulting yaw moment is produced. A desired yaw rate is determined based upon information from a device which is arranged in the vehicle in order to determine the profile of the roadway in a control unit, and the wheel contact forces are set as a function of the desired yaw rate.
US08116940B2
A data collection system for a vehicle is provided. The data collection system includes a first data collection node configured to obtain data from a vehicle subsystem, and a processor communicatively coupled to the data collection node via a wiring system, wherein the wiring system includes a plurality of conductors and an overbraid surrounding said plurality of conductors, said overbraid comprising at least one fiber optic cable integrally woven therein and configured for the transmission of data related to an operational status of the vehicle subsystem.
US08116932B2
A system includes an auxiliary pump that provides pressurized fluid to a transmission during an engine auto stop/start event. A mechanical pump provides pressurized fluid to a transmission during engine operation after the engine auto stop/start event. An auxiliary pump diagnostic system includes a slip determination module that determines slip of a torque converter based on an engine speed and a transmission input speed. A fault determination module diagnoses a fault in the auxiliary pump in response to an engine auto start and based on the slip of the torque converter.
US08116928B2
The present invention discloses an automatic ultrasonic and computer-vision navigation device and a method using the same. In the method of the present invention, the user guides an automatic navigation device to learn and plan a navigation path; next, the automatic navigation device navigates independently and uses ultrasonic signals and computer vision to detect the environment; then, the automatic navigation device compares the detected environment data with the navigation path to amend the physical movement track. The present invention enables ordinary persons to interact with the automatic navigation device without operating the computer. As the present invention adopts computer vision and ultrasonic signals to realize the functions thereof, the manufacturers can save the hardware cost.
US08116923B2
Systems and methods for suppressing an unstable alert when the aircraft is in the process of landing on a temporarily displaced threshold. In an example process, a processor on the aircraft determines the aircraft is on an approach to landing on a runway based on information received from one or more data sources on the aircraft, then retrieves predefined glideslope information for the runway from a memory device that is in signal communication with the processor. Next, the processor determines whether position of the aircraft is above the predefined glideslope by a first threshold amount. If the aircraft is determined to be above the predefined glideslope by the first threshold amount, the processor issues an unstable alert only if a flight path angle of the aircraft is greater than an angle of the predefined glideslope by a second threshold amount.
US08116917B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a system for controlling a power load. In one exemplary embodiment, the system includes a processor capable of receiving a signal from a sensor, where the signal is related to an ambient temperature of the sensor. The processor is further capable of generating a control signal. The system further includes an 802.11X-based transceiver that is operatively connected to the processor and capable of communicating data received from an antenna to the processor. The system further includes a switch that is operatively connected to the processor, receiving the control signal from the processor, for switch controlling activation of a power load.
US08116915B2
A method and apparatus for managing system energy flow. The apparatus includes an energy storage unit to store energy to be used by a system and a power conversion unit configured to be coupled between the energy storage unit and a utility grid. The apparatus also includes a controller to selectively control the power conversion unit to transfer energy between the utility grid and the energy storage unit based at least in part on an anticipated use of the system.
US08116912B2
A control device of a temperature controller, for adjusting the temperature of an environment having at least one active object, includes a first image sensor, a second image sensor, a process unit and a control unit. The first image sensor is for capturing a first image containing the image of the active object. The second image sensor is for capturing a second image containing the image of the active object. The process unit calculates a distance between the active object and the temperature controller according to the first and second images. The control unit controls an operational status of the temperature controller according to the distance calculated by the process unit. The present invention further provides a control method of a temperature controller.
US08116906B2
A system and method provides for a pneumatic tube carrier tracking system having a system control module that captures and presents tracking information associated with sending and receiving carriers. The pneumatic tube carrier tracking system comprises sending and receiving stations connected by pneumatic tubing, and which are configured to securely send carriers, with receiving users optionally being restricted from unauthorized access of carriers. The sending and receiving stations have identifying tag readers configured to scan identifier tags to read carrier delivery, carrier receipt and receiving user information. Destination and intended recipient information are entered at the sending station when sending a carrier and are transmitted to a system control module, which routably delivers and secures the carriers in response the destination and intended recipient information.
US08116903B2
A control system for controlling the display of an injection molding machine (IMM) includes a human machine interface (HMI), a driver, a controller, a timer, and a time display module. The controller controls the driver to drive the IMM to do a plurality of operations. The time display module controls the HMI to display working times of operations that have been done, and the working time of an operation that is in process in the current work cycle. The timer records working time of each operation by starting to time at the beginning of each operation, and stopping timing at the end of each operation.
US08116898B2
A digital garment and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The digital garment is fabricated using a knitting technique. The digital garment comprises a plurality of knitting yarns forming loops at regular intervals and interwoven through the loops, and one or more conductive digital yarns tied to the loops of the knitting yarns to form high-speed information communication circuits. The knitting yarns and the digital yarns are knitted together into a garment. During knitting, the digital yarns are used to form high-speed information communication circuits in a rapid and economical manner.
US08116891B2
Regarding first and second audio data to be reproduced simultaneously within a certain time period, a computer which has a storage device records the first audio data to the storage device within the period while at the same time reproducing only the second audio data, and, after having reproduced the second audio data, reproduces the first audio data while forcing its playback speed to increase with time. Whereby, the computer enables the two sets of audio data being reproduced simultaneously to be output in such a way as to provide a listener with enhanced audibility.
US08116884B2
A cardiac ablation device, including a catheter and an expandable ablation element incorporating one or more balloons at the distal end of the catheter, has a continuous passageway extending through it from the proximal end of the catheter to the distal side of the expandable ablation element. A probe carrying electrodes is introduced through this passageway and deploys, under the influence of its own resilience, to a structure incorporating a loop which is automatically aligned with the axis of the expandable ablation device, so that minimal manipulation is required to place the probe. The probe may have an atraumatic tip with a ball formed at the leading edge. The atraumatic tip prevents any tissue damage such as perforation of heart wall.
US08116882B2
An implantable adjustable body tissue cuff, apparatus and method. The cuff is an elastomeric strap of biocompatible non-conductive material. The strap's tail and head provide adjustable length fastening by a) the tail being formed with longitudinally spaced, laterally paired locking projections and the head being formed with one or more locking apertures; or b) the tail being formed with longitudinally spaced locking apertures and the head being formed with one or more laterally paired locking projections. The locking projection shape allows for passage through the locking aperture, while restricting movement in a reverse direction. The cuff accommodates devices such as tissue stimulators or recorders, with conductive elements attached, imbedded, or printed on the strap body. The cuff is intra-operatively adjusted to optimize placement and contact between conductive elements and body tissue, without tissue damage. This cuff accommodates varying tissue diameters and simplifies manufacture and surgical placement.
US08116879B2
An electrotherapy system for stimulating sensory nerves within skin tissue includes a electrode carrier, a pulse generator, an array of skin-penetrating electrodes and surface skin electrodes, a pulse conditioning circuit, and a power source. The system administers biphasic pulsed current at the surface skin electrodes and monophasic pulsed current at each skin-penetrating electrode. The skin-penetrating surfaces and skin contact surfaces of the electrotherapy system may be sterilized or may be replaceable for outpatient reusability.
US08116877B2
The invention comprises systems and methods for treating nociceptive pain including at least one force-regulatable device in mechanical, electrical, or chemical communication with at least one brain area identified as processing nociceptive pain signals. The force-regulatable device acts to alter the nociceptive pain signals in a brain area to alleviate nociceptive pain.
US08116867B2
The present invention, in illustrative embodiments, includes methods and devices for analyzing cardiac signals in an implantable cardiac stimulus system. Within the analysis, a threshold may be defined related to a cardiac event rate. If the cardiac event rate does not exceed the threshold, filtering of captured cardiac signals occurs, including attenuating T-waves. If the cardiac event rate does exceed the threshold, circuitry for analog filtering or programming for digital filtering is bypassed to avoid attenuating low frequency components of the captured cardiac signals.
US08116863B2
Battery powered systems with long standby times, such as automatic external defibrillators (AEDs), may be required to indicate their operational status to a user by blinking lights or sounding speakers or buzzers. These active status indication activities consume power thereby reducing the battery life of the system. To conserve power and to be more effective in seeking attention from a human operator, the status alerts for the AED produced by an active status indicator (ASI) system can be more meaningful to humans or more unique relative to status alerts provided by conventional devices. Additionally, the ASI system may automatically adjust power consumed by the indicators in response to sensing environmental conditions of the AED.
US08116862B2
A TANK filter is provided for a lead wire of an active medical device (AMD). The TANK filter includes a capacitor in parallel with an inductor. The parallel capacitor and inductor are placed in series with the lead wire of the AMD, wherein values of capacitance and inductance are selected such that the TANK filter is resonant at a selected frequency. The Q of the inductor may be relatively maximized and the Q of the capacitor may be relatively minimized to reduce the overall Q of the TANK filter to attenuate current flow through the lead wire along a range of selected frequencies. In a preferred form, the TANK filter is integrated into a TIP and/or RING electrode for an active implantable medical device.
US08116859B2
Electrocardiologic device for assisted diagnosis, preferably for the diagnosis of Brugada syndrome or Early Repolarization syndrome. This device allows characterizing the ventricular repolarization wave of an ECG signal collected from a patient. Extracting out of the ECG signal, for each heart beat, an ST segment is constituted of a succession of samples of the ventricular repolarization wave, taken within a time window ([QON+80 ms, QON+140 ms]) of a predetermined duration spreading from a moment of window onset defined by a time offset applied to a predetermined temporal origin given by the moment (QON) of appearance of the QRS complex, whose time position is determined on the ECG signal for each heart beat. Quantizing computes an elevation index compared to a predetermined reference level (BL), and analyzing over a succession of heart beats the persistence and/or variation of this elevation index.
US08116858B2
Methods and apparatus for monitoring the heart motion of a subject employ a probe which can be coupled to a portion of the anatomy of a subject such as the aortic arch or the thyroid cartilage. The probe is biased into contact with the subject. The probe detects movements caused by the heart motion. The apparatus may display accelerations and displacements caused by the heart motion. Waveforms from multiple anatomic sites may be acquired, normalized in time and amplitude, and combined to produce resultant waveforms. Combining the waveforms may involve addition or subtraction.
US08116854B2
The attenuation and other optical properties of a medium are exploited to measure a thickness of the medium between a sensor and a target surface. Disclosed herein are various mediums, arrangements of hardware, and processing techniques that can be used to capture these thickness measurements and obtain three-dimensional images of the target surface in a variety of imaging contexts. This includes general techniques for imaging interior/concave surfaces as well as exterior/convex surfaces, as well as specific adaptations of these techniques to imaging ear canals, human dentition, and so forth.
US08116847B2
A method and corresponding system for calculating an optimum surgical trajectory or path for displacing a surgical instrument through the interior of the body of a patient. Upon obtaining a volumetric scan of a patient, such as a CT scan, the surgeon can identify and assign weight values indicating a preference on whether an anatomical area be utilized in plotting an optimum instrument trajectory. Upon providing a starting and destination point for a surgical instrument, an optimum surgical trajectory can be determined in essentially real time and graphically presented to the surgeon by superimposing the proposed trajectory upon the patient's volumetric scan. Furthermore, the system and method is interactive, allowing the surgeon to deviate from the proposed optimum path if desired and choose another path. In response, the system will determine and present, in essentially real time, a new optimum trajectory based on the current location of the surgical instrument.
US08116844B2
In a method and apparatus for acquisition of angiographic data sets of a region of an examination subject, into whose bloodstream a contrast agent has been introduced, a data set of the region to be examined is acquired during a first propagation phase of the contrast agent in the bloodstream as a reference data set to determine reference data, additional data sets of the region to be examined are then acquired, and based on the reference data, variations that are caused in at least some of the additional data sets due to the arrival of a second propagation phase of the contrast agent are determined, and the arrival of the second propagation phase of the contrast agent in the bloodstream is identified based on the determined variations.
US08116841B2
An adherent device to monitor a patient for an extended period comprises a breathable tape. The breathable tape comprises a porous material with an adhesive coating to adhere the breathable tape to a skin of the patient. At least one electrode is affixed to the breathable tape and capable of electrically coupling to a skin of the patient. A printed circuit board is connected to the breathable tape to support the printed circuit board with the breathable tape when the tape is adhered to the patient. Electronic components electrically are connected to the printed circuit board and coupled to the at least one electrode to measure physiologic signals of the patient. A breathable cover and/or an electronics housing is disposed over the circuit board and electronic components and connected to at least one of the electronics components, the printed circuit board or the breathable tape.
US08116838B2
Medical device or instrument for diagnosing pressure ulcers using optical reflectance spectroscopy. The device may comprise a tip and a controller. The tip is pressed against the skin of the patient and collects the optical reflectance data. The controller processes the data to determine whether there exists a pressure ulcer and, if there is one, its depth. The tip may also include a pressure sensor for sensing the pressure at which the tip is applied to the patient's skin.
US08116837B2
A system for adjusting power employed by a medical device incorporating light emitting devices and being used for measuring patient medical parameters, includes a plurality of light emitting devices. A power unit is coupled to the light emitting devices and powers the light emitting devices responsive to respective control signals which determine power to be applied to the light emitting devices. A control unit for provides the control signals and is coupled to the power unit. The control signals intermittently turn off at least one of the plurality of light emitting devices in a power save mode in response to a determination that a patient medical parameter value measured by the medical device, using an active light emitting device of the plurality of light emitting devices, is at a safe level.
US08116836B2
System for processing transportation information using a communication network, comprising a customer communication means for performing a direct call connection to a transportation vehicle; a plurality of communication means provided with the transportation vehicle for performing a direct call connection with the customer communication means; an information database means for storing subscriber information; a host server means in which is operated such that the customer communication means makes a direct call connection to the communication means of the transportation vehicles sequentially according to the predetermined order based on the subscriber information and the connection history information in the information database means; and a data relay means for performing a direct call connection to the customer communication means.
US08116826B2
A device for intelligently adjusting a volume level for call/message alerts includes a processor, an interface(s), a memory, a timer and a volume adjuster. The processor receives a call(s)/message(s) and causes the memory to store data associated with the call(s)/message(s). The processor invokes a timer and instructs a ringer to generate a call/message alert. The processor receives an additional call(s)/message(s) and determines if these calls/messages are sent from the same user of an electronic device as a previous call/message within a time period. If a previous call/message was missed by a user of a terminal, the processor causes a ringer to increase the volume of a subsequent call/message sent from the user of the electronic device. If a previous call/message was rejected by a user of a terminal, the processor causes the ringer to decrease the volume of a subsequent call/message sent from the user of the electronic device.
US08116823B2
The present invention provides a modular headset operable to support both voice communications and voice activated commands. This may involve the use of multiple voice CODECs to process voice communications and voice activated commands. The modular headset includes both a microphone and wireless earpiece. The earpiece may further include an interface, a processing circuit, a speaker, a user interface, a pairing circuit, and a registration circuit. The interface allows the earpiece to communicate with the base unit that couples the modular headset to a servicing network. This coupling to the servicing network and base unit only occurs when the headset is successfully registered to the base unit. The pairing circuit and registration circuit allow the exchange of pairing or registration information between various components. The pairing circuit allows the wireless earpiece and microphone to exchange pairing information which is then compared to determine whether or not a successful pairing can be achieved. Analog to digital converts (ADCs), which may be located within either the microphone or earpiece are operable to process the transduced voice communications in accordance with either a voice CODEC or voice recognition CODEC depending on the selected mode of operation.
US08116822B1
A multiple-antenna system for use in cellular communication and broadcasting. The multiple-antenna transmission system can be controlled, adjusted, configured, or reconfigured to produce desirable radiation beam patterns suitable for different types of applications. A signal distribution network may be provided in the multiple-antenna system. The signal distribution network is embedded in a transmitter and controls the distribution of signals to one or more antennas in accordance with application requirements. Various antenna radiation patterns suitable for different applications can be generated by reconfiguring the connections and gain settings in the signal distribution network. For example, narrow beams may be generated for use in unicast applications, whereas sector beams may be generated for use in broadcast applications. Certain techniques may be employed to manage the transition from one type of transmission mode to another type of transmission mode.
US08116817B2
A method for calibration of RF paths of a frequency hopping adaptive base transceiver station is provided. The method of calibration calibrates a wireless cellular telecommunication system with a frequency hopping adaptive base transceiver station including an adaptive antenna array with two or more RF traffic transceiver apparatus chains. The wireless cellular telecommunication system communicates with mobile units on a frequencies defined by a hop list. The method of calibration includes the step of periodically interrupting a frequency hopping process of the frequency hopping adaptive base transceiver station while calls are in progress. The method of calibration further includes the step of calibrating an antenna transmit path for a RF traffic transceiver apparatus chain at a frequency selected to include one or more frequencies in the hop list to determine a set of weighting parameters for the antenna transmit path at the one or more frequencies. A self-calibrating frequency hopping adaptive base transceiver station is also provided.
US08116811B2
According to one aspect of wireless communication control apparatus and method for a mobile object according to the present invention, the wireless communication apparatus and method include the steps of: collecting communication-state information corresponding to positional information of the mobile object for each of a plurality of communication methods that are used to make a connection to a wireless communication device of the mobile object, and that can be selectively set in the wireless communication device; referring to the communication-state information corresponding to the positional information indicating a current position of the mobile object, and selecting one communication method from among the plurality of communication methods that can be selectively set in the wireless communication device; and setting, in the wireless communication device, control information used for communications based on the selected communication method.
US08116810B2
A multi-mode mobile subscriber station (MSS) composed of several interfaces, and a method for acquiring/updating information in the case of a handover between heterogeneous networks are disclosed. A method for transmitting/receiving control information of a multi-mode mobile subscriber station (MSS) including at least two interfaces, includes: a) requesting first control information, associated with a new access point detected by a link scanning, from a network entity for providing information associated with a specific network; b) acquiring the requested first control information and second control information supplied from the new access point; and c) performing a connection to the new access point according to the first control information and the second control information.
US08116808B2
An end user device includes an application processor, a baseband processor, and a radio transceiver, storage accessible to the application processor, and computer executable instructions, embedded in the storage, for a user agent application. The user agent application includes instructions for transmitting a directory server inquiry in response to entry of a numeric sequence followed by a data termination sequence, wherein the directory server inquiry is indicative of the numeric sequence and the numeric sequence is associated with a targeted entity. The instructions further include instructions for receiving information indicative of at least one service associated with the targeted entity in response to the directory server inquiry and generating a display indicating the associated service or services when the mobile device includes a suitable display.
US08116804B2
A criterion for biasing a binary decision requiring an unequal protection which utilizes a measured signal to interference ratio (SIR). The SIR may be derived from a determination of channel estimation. The SIR is compared against a threshold, the threshold being selected to bias the decision toward a not acknowledge (NACK) as opposed to an acknowledge (ACK) determination. The technique is advantageous for providing biased binary decisions for high speed downlink packets (HSDP) but may be utilized for both uplink and downlink applications.
US08116800B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate controlling reverse link power on a traffic channel. Assignments for reverse link communication can be yielded. Interference from mobile devices in neighboring sectors can be monitored and other sector interference (OSI) indications can be broadcasted. The OSI indications can be obtained by mobile devices to alter delta values employed for delta-based power control. Further, a maximum allowable amount of reduction of a delta value can be allocated per QoS class. Moreover, mobile devices can provide in-band and out-of-band feedback, which can be leveraged for future assignments.
US08116790B2
A method of acknowledging receipt of a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal for performing the same is provided. The method includes receiving a multimedia message, reproducing multimedia contents related to the multimedia message, and sending a reply message indicating whether a complete multimedia message was reproduced, the determination of whether the complete multimedia message was reproduced based on the reproduction time information in the multimedia message.
US08116785B2
Provided is a method for providing a location-based service using a location token. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving an encrypted token message including constraints for location information access from a terminal; b) decoding and storing the transmitted token message in a token database; c) creating a location token accessible to the transmitted token message and transmitting the location token to the terminal; d) extracting a token message number in the location token transmitted from a location-based service server, checking constraints of a user and updating an exception list; and e) acquiring location information of the terminal and transmitting the location information to the location-based service server.
US08116779B2
A base station includes a group determination unit grouping mobile stations residing within a cell and a radio channel condition reception unit receiving information indicative of a radio channel condition transmitted from a mobile station at a transmission timing of the radio channel condition corresponding to a group associated with the mobile station. Each mobile station includes a radio channel condition measurement unit evaluating a radio channel condition, a group determination unit determining a group associated with the mobile station, and a radio channel condition transmission unit transmitting information indicative of the evaluated radio channel condition at a transmission timing of the radio channel condition corresponding to the associated group.
US08116778B2
Mobile station transmits a scheduling request message to base station to request a grant for transmitting packets in a cellular mobile communication network. Base station transmits at least a deactivation scheduling grant message to mobile station to deactivate packet transmission of mobile station. Mobile station fails to receive the first grant message but successfully receives the second grant message. Upon receiving a scheduling grant confirmation message responding the second grant message from mobile station, base station transmits an activation scheduling grant message to mobile station.
US08116777B2
According to a current user location, at least one favorable user location in the vicinity of a respective current user location for a mobile terminal is, as a suggestion for changing location, determined from communications requests for at least one respective application and from available network services in the vicinity of the current user location by virtue of the fact that, in favorable locations, network services can be more efficiently and/or economically used.
US08116773B2
Method and apparatus for facilitating high level handoff decisions performed by a gateway device of a personal area network (PAN) which examines criteria regarding both the devices making up the PAN as well as the enterprise networks which are the subject of the potential handoff.
US08116770B2
Disclosed is a mobile communications system including a plurality of base station apparatuses which are located at geographically dispersed locations and perform a wireless communication with a mobile device. The system further includes a maximum ratio combining unit which performs maximum ratio combining processing regarding a signal the base station apparatuses receive from the mobile device, and a selection combining unit which performs selection combining processing regarding the signal from the mobile device. A selection unit included in the system selects one or both of the maximum ratio combining unit and the selection combining unit according to at least one of an external factor and a change of a distribution state of the mobile device under communication.
US08116768B2
A method for providing a background image on a display of a mobile telephone, whereby the data of one or more background images are stored in at least one memory accessible for the mobile telephone, comprises an automatic selection of a background image to be displayed, a retrieving of the data of the automatically selected background image from the memory, and a displaying of the retrieved background image on the display of the mobile telephone.
US08116764B2
A method and corresponding apparatus and system of controlling access to communication services by a roaming wireless device are described. The method includes receiving a request for roaming wireless device service information related to a roaming user and determining which services the user has access to for the requesting system, if the user is determined to have access to the requesting system. The method also includes transmitting user service information concerning the services to which the user has access. The apparatus includes a memory, a communication system, and a processor. The memory stores: (1) user information including a class of service (COS) identifier and (2) COS restriction information. The processing system, coupled with the communication system and the memory, generates a reply message based on comparing information in a service request message received by the communication system with the stored information in the memory.
US08116763B1
A wireless communications basestation that utilizes a light weight high directivity electronically-steerable antenna mounted on a lighter-than-air vehicle to providing relay broadband communication service among mobile units in a geographic area is provided. The lighter-than-air vehicle carries aloft the antenna; a radio and a switching device for routing. A gateway may also be provided to enable communications with a wide area network. A communication system for a geographic area utilizing the airborne wireless communications basestation is also presented. The system includes a number of user equipment units located in the geographic area in communication with the airborne wireless communications basestation. The user equipment units may utilize omni-directional antennas for low data rate communications, and/or a high directivity antenna.
US08116758B2
Time-varying conditions in a wireless network are simulated using an architecture that includes an enclosure for shielding a wireless device under test (“DUT”) from electro-magnetic interference, including other wireless devices; and at least one of: (1) a communications traffic generating device operable to generate communications traffic having selected characteristics; and (2) at least one dynamically adjustable attenuator in communication with the wireless device and the traffic generator. Embodiments of the architecture include wireless test equipment for testing operating range, roaming and capacity. The attenuator is used to adjustably attenuate signals between the device and the traffic generator over time during a test, whereby motion of the device is simulated. By connecting multiple access points, each associated with a dynamically adjustable attenuator, it is possible to force the DUT to roam between access points. The communications traffic generating device can be used to vary traffic over time during a test in order to test capacity, prioritization and admission control. For example, the communications traffic generator may include phone and data client emulators which simulate different traffic types that can be independently varied over time during a test.
US08116756B2
A cellular mobile communication system employs frequency multiplexing as a multiplexing system and adopts a sector configuration for cells. The cellular mobile communication system includes: a device for determining a scheduling turn of a local sector for a downlink scheduler of a base station apparatus; a device for acquiring assigned frequency information about adjacent sectors; a device for assigning a frequency to the local sector while considering the frequencies not used in the adjacent sectors; and a device for notifying about the result of the frequency assignment for the local sector. Thus, the interference between the sectors can be reduced and the frequencies can be effectively used.
US08116751B2
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for identification verification. Location information is acquired. The location information is compared to historical location information. When the location information favorably compares to the historical location information, then an identity associated with the location information is verified.
US08116750B1
Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for enabling an owner of one or more cellular telephones to select one or more telephone number(s) to which the cellular telephone(s) may place calls, and one or more telephone number(s) from which the cellular telephone(s) may receive calls, the control of the cellular telephone(s) occurring at the wireless network.
US08116749B2
Techniques for facilitating the exchange of information and transactions between two entities associated with two wireless devices when the devices are in close proximity to each other. A first device uses a first short range wireless capability to detect an identifier transmitted from a second device in proximity, ideally using existing radio capabilities such as Bluetooth (IEEE802.15.1-2002) or Wi-Fi (IEEE802.11). The detected identifier, being associated with the device, is also associated with an entity. Rather than directly exchanging application data flow between the two devices using the short range wireless capability, a second wireless capability allows for one or more of the devices to communicate with a central server via the internet, and perform the exchange of application data flow. By using a central server to draw on stored information and content associated with the entities the server can broker the exchange of information between the entities and the devices.
US08116743B2
Devices, systems and processes for accessing and management of voice and other messages. Such devices, systems and processes employ an interface which allows the user to access and manage messages on his or her user device and, furthermore, automatically to access and manage messages on remote devices via radio frequency link. These interfaces may present users with intuitive and direct options for accessing and managing voice mail, such as, for instance, to push a designated forward button when the user desires to forward a voice mail. Such common interfaces promote more efficient and effective use and management of messaging resources because they among other things eliminate the requirement to be conversant in different interfaces, rules and protocols for the different platforms on which messages may be accessed and managed.
US08116736B2
Access verification is adaptively done using an identifier of a first or a second length, by comparing a field of a node address that has the determined first or second length against a locally stored access list. At least the compared field of the node address is either added to a locally stored list of cell selection candidate nodes where the access list is allowed identifiers, or excluded from it where the access list is restricted identifiers. The node identifier is in three sections. The first section is service type, which the UE can use to determine whether or not it is restricted/allowed. The first length is the length of the second section, which is a service area ID of a group of network nodes. The second length is the length of the second section plus the third section, which identifies one node of the group of network nodes.
US08116730B2
Systems and methods are provided to control online transactions via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility to store data associating a first telephone number with a second telephone number; and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of controllers. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats and to communicate with the common format processor in a common format. The common format processor is to receive a payment request including the first telephone number, identify the second telephone number based on the data, and communicate with a mobile phone at the second telephone number for approval of the payment request.
US08116724B2
A safety system comprising a plurality of wearable transceiver devices for operation in independent use with a plurality of a landline-based phone and a cell phone to establish contact between a user of a wearable transceiver device and a central monitoring station. The wearable transceiver devices sense a crash or a fall and notify a monitor by a landline-based phone or a cell phone of this incident and the assisted GPS determined location of the incident. The information is provided to the monitor a short predetermined time following activation unless the device is deactivated by pressing a communication button. When the device has not been activated by a crash or fall, the user may press the communication button to communicate with the monitor to obtain a wide variety of services. A cell phone having reserve batteries, accelerometers, and assisted GPS location capabilities is also disclosed.
US08116709B2
A microwave receiver measures the frequency F of a microwave signal in a band of frequencies whose maximum frequency is Fmax. The receiver has N frequency measuring digital stages E1, E2, . . . Ek, . . . EN providing N ambiguous frequency measurements Fm1, Fm2, . . . Fmk, . . . FmN of the signal received, the signal received being sampled, in each digital stage, at a respective sampling frequency Fe1, Fe2, . . . Fek, . . . FeN. The receiver further includes an ambiguity resolving device (40) receiving the N frequency measurements and providing the frequency F of the signal received. Each frequency measuring digital stage Ek has a one-bit analog/digital converter (50) fed directly with the microwave signal received by the receiver, means for performing a discrete Fourier transform on the basis of the samples output by the one-bit converter, and at least one detector (60, 62) of spectral line maximum of the discrete Fourier transform providing a frequency measurement Fmk of the signal received.
US08116706B1
To calibrate a bandpass filter, a received signal strength corresponding to a received communication channel is determined. A variable element of the bandpass filter is adjusted based on the received signal strength of the received communication channel to calibrate the bandpass filter.
US08116694B2
A system for configuring antenna systems for selecting directional communication signals corresponding to other apparatuses. Apparatuses having activities that require directional wireless communication may search for other apparatuses that can fulfill these requirements. This search may include, for example, the transmission of wireless messages requesting a set of communication beams usable for beam training (for example, one or more beam training sequences). Other apparatuses that are able to satisfy the requirements of the searching apparatus may respond to the request message by transmitting a message that comprises at least information usable for configuring beam training configuration in the apparatus.
US08116685B2
System and method for visual pairing between wireless devices, according to which a first software component is installed on a first WCD with a display screen and a second software component is installed on a second WCD having a camera and then a request to establish an open WCC is sent from the second WCD to the first WCD. If the request is approved by the first WCD, an image with graphically encoded unique one-time information is generated on the display screen using the first software. The image is captured by the camera and the information is decoded in the captured image by using the second software component. This information is used to establish an open WCC between the second WCD and the first WCD.
US08116684B2
Techniques are described that can be used to perform one or more of the following actions in order to reduce signal interference between WLAN and BlueTooth radios that are proximate to one another. One action is to selectively reduce a filter bandwidth in a WLAN radio applied to a received WLAN radio signal to reduce BlueTooth signal interference. An additional or alternative action is to selectively indicate a WLAN radio channel bandwidth larger than a channel bandwidth used for the WLAN radio so that the BlueTooth radio avoids transmitting over the indicated channel bandwidth. An additional or alternative action is to selectively reduce BlueTooth transmitter power in response to antenna isolation between BT and WLAN radio being less than a first threshold in order to reduce the likelihood of WLAN radio front end saturation.
US08116678B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for interacting with ISO 14443-4 and MIFARE® applications on the same wireless smart device during a common transaction are disclosed. According to one aspect, the method includes detecting and communicating with an ISO 14443-4 application located on a wireless smart device that includes an ISO 14443-4 and a MIFARE® application to perform at least part of the common transaction. Termination of the ISO 14443-4 application is detected, and the MIFARE® application located on the wireless smart device is detected and communicated with for performing at least part of the common transaction.
US08116674B2
A system and method for professional development for teachers which includes a structured framework for creating and providing online courses, qualification testing, instructional material, and mentoring teacher access, all subject specific to help teachers gain competency in their individualized teaching assignments and by extension help in the recruitment, development and retention of teachers leading to improved student achievement.
US08116668B2
A toner supplying roller which is used in a developing apparatus and has the following characteristics: (1) an average diameter of a foam cell opening portion on a surface of a foam elastic member is 100 to 800 μm, (2) an unopened cell closed by a skin layer of a film thickness of 50 μm or less is present in the surface of the foam elastic member, and (3) assuming that a surface area of the foam elastic member is A, a total area of the foam cell opening portions is B, and a surface area of the unopened cell is C, the following relationship is satisfied: B A + 0.2 ≦ B + C A ≦ 0.95 .
US08116655B2
A segmented cleaning member for removing particulate from a charge roller of a media processing device. The cleaning member in one embodiment includes a substrate and an open-cell foam cleaning pad disposed onto the substrate. The cleaning pad is segmented by a plurality of cuts into a plurality of longitudinal sections capable of contacting the charge roller for removing the particulate from the charge roller. Various cut patterns made be used to form the sections. The cleaning member can be used in media processing device and cartridge therefor for removing the particulate from the charge roller.
US08116651B2
A printing system and a method of charging to print a document therein. The printing system includes a server and a printing apparatus. The sever includes a storing part in which reference information on a document to be printed, a host communication part which receives a document including relevant information, and a host controller which charges a document registrant corresponding to the relevant information to print the document. The printing apparatus includes a printer communication part which receives the document, and a printer controller which prints the document received through the printer communication part.
US08116646B2
To solve a problem of an increase of kinds of toner patches required for an adjustment accompanying an increase of kinds of half tones to be coped with that results from an intention of acquiring more stable image by forming the toner patches between paper sheets. It becomes possible to form more toner patches and therefore to deal with an increase of kinds of toner patches by correcting a density in a space of a line count obtained by summing up a line count corresponding to a space between paper sheets during a continuous printing operation, a rear-end blank line count of the n-th page, and a leading-end blank line count of the (n+1)th page that is enabled by comparing the size of a recording material and the size of pixel data and thereby by identifying a blank portion of the recording material.
US08116640B2
An apparatus (100) and method (200) that senses photoreceptor failure in a xerographic printing apparatus is disclosed. The xerographic printing apparatus can include a rotatable photoreceptor (110) having a photoreceptor surface (111), a cleaning device (124) for removing marking material from the photoreceptor, and a printing apparatus controller (150) that controls operations of the xerographic printing apparatus. The method can include charging (220) the photoreceptor surface to a fixed voltage. The method can include discharging (230) at least a portion of the charged photoreceptor surface to an exposed voltage. The method can include developing (240) the discharged portion of the photoreceptor surface by providing a cleaning field between the charged photoreceptor surface fixed voltage and a developing bias voltage. The method can include reducing (250) the cleaning field. The method can include generating (260) a developed image on the photoreceptor using the reduced cleaning field. The method can include scanning (270) the developed image after reducing the cleaning field, where the developed image can be scanned using a sensor to generate a scanned image.
US08116632B2
A space-time division multiple-access (STDMA) laser communications (lasercom) system and related techniques. The STDMA system includes a plurality of remote nodes and an STDMA access node which uses precise electronic beam steering and beacons to provide access to each of a plurality of remote access nodes by means of both space and time-division multiple access.
US08116631B2
Providing bandwidth expansion in existing HFC infrastructures. A break in a fiber ring is established. A temperature hardened demultiplexer is coupled at the break to an input side of the fiber ring. A temperature hardened multiplexer is coupled at the break to an output side of the fiber ring. The temperature hardened demultiplexer is configured to pass-through a first predetermined wavelength to the temperature hardened multiplexer and to drop out a second predetermined wavelength. The second predetermined wavelength is extended from the demultiplexer for providing a first predetermined wavelength to an expansion node. The temperature hardened multiplexer is configured to receive the first predetermined wavelength from the temperature hardened demultiplexer and to receive the second predetermined wavelength from the expansion node.
US08116626B2
In an optical transmission apparatus, levels of signal lights obtained by demultiplexing a WDM signal and corresponding to channels are detected, based on which a channel in which a signal is transmitted and a channel in which no signal is transmitted are determined. An attenuation amount of a channel in which no signal is transmitted in a predetermined range from the channel in which the signal is transmitted is set to a value equal to an attenuation amount of the channel in which the signal is transmitted. An attenuation amount of a channel in which no signal is transmitted out of the predetermined range from the channel in which the signal is transmitted is set to a value larger than the attenuation amount of the channel in which the signal is transmitted. The signal lights are attenuated based on the values and multiplexed.
US08116625B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for detecting small span loss changes in fiber optic networks. The present invention utilizes existing equipment without additional hardware to provide span loss measurements in a highly accurate manner. In an exemplary embodiment, the present invention utilizes power measurements associated with an optical supervisory channel (OSC) at both ends of a fiber span. These measurements are periodically sampled taking into account propagation delay along the fiber span. Further, these measurements are integrated or time-averaged to account for temporary fluctuations. The present invention can be utilized for intrusion detection (i.e., unwanted fiber taps), fiber degradation, and fiber aging performance. The present invention satisfies the criteria for a feasible (i.e., makes use of current architecture), cost-effective (i.e., does not require additional hardware), and highly accurate solution (i.e., capable of detecting span loss changes of 0.01 dB or 0.03%).
US08116624B1
Light escaping from an optical path, for example via Raman or Rayleigh scattering, can provide information about how light flows in the path or about the optical path. The path can be a waveguide, an optical channel, or a fiber that may be attached to or integrated with a substrate, for example in a passive or active planar lightguide/lightwave circuit, photonic integrated circuit, semiconductor laser, or optoelectronic element. The escaped light can be color-shifted with respect to the primary light flowing along the path. The escaped light can leave the path at an angle that facilitates detection. Processing or analyzing the scattered light, for example with support of a computing device, can help evaluate the path and/or assess a light intensity pattern thereof, for example to aid design, engineering, testing, qualification, troubleshooting, inspection, manufacturing, etc.
US08116618B2
Heating apparatus, substrate processing apparatus, and method of manufacturing semiconductor devices
A heating apparatus comprises a wall for surrounding and defining a heating space, a heating element mounted on the inner side of the wall, reflecting members for reflecting the heat emitted from the heating element. Also, a moving unit joined to one end of each of the reflecting members for moving the reflecting members. Moreover, pivotal members joined to the reflecting members beside more their respective other side than one side of the reflecting members for controlling as pivots the movement of the reflecting member driven by the moving unit.
US08116615B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program storage medium, and program
An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program storage medium, and a program for permitting the selection of a recording method maximizes the number of consecutive angle change units with priority given to an AV stream rate. A target AV stream rate is acquired, a jump distance is selected, and a jump time corresponding to the selected distance is acquired. A minimum angle change time is calculated from the jump time and a data read rate. The size of a minimum angle change unit is determined from the minimum angle change time and the AV stream rate. The number of minimum angle change units within the jump distance is calculated. The number of recordable angles is checked. The method is selected whereby the largest number of data items can be recorded consecutively on condition that the necessary number of angles is provided. This invention can be applied to recording/reproducing apparatuses.
US08116613B2
On a BD-ROM, PlayList information is recorded. The PlayList information includes MainPath information and SubPath information. The MainPath information specifies one of a plurality of AVClips as a MainClip, and defines a primary playback section (PlayItem) on the MainClip. The SubPath information specifies, among the rest of the AVClips, one AVClip as a SubClip, and defines, on the SubClip, a secondary playback section (SubPlayItem) to be synchronized with the primary playback section. The SubPath information includes In_Time information and Out_Time information which indicate In_Time and Out_Time, respectively, of the SubPlayItem. In_Time and Out_Time of the SubPlayItem match In_Time and Out_Time of the PlayItem.
US08116590B2
The present invention allows for online image processing. A sample embodiment of the method comprises the steps of determining graphical layers (predetermined graphical layers) and steps (predetermined steps) for creating an image. A substitute layer maybe obtained from a remote User. The predetermined steps may be repeated using predetermined graphical layers and the substitute layer, thus, creating a new image. The image may be further delivered to the User. If the User is not satisfied, the graphical layers or steps may be changed and method repeated. Described systems and methods may allow users to create complex digital images using remote servers, without the use of graphical tools on the user's computer. Even users without substantial technical or artistic skills may create complex digital images.
US08116588B2
An apparatus and method to generate an image in which images having different exposure amounts are generated, and by synthesizing the generated images, a high-sensitivity (or quality) image can be generated. The apparatus to generate an image includes an exposure adjustment unit to adjust an exposure amount, an image generation unit to generate a plurality of images of different exposure amounts and different resolutions, and an image synthesis unit to synthesize the plurality of generated images.
US08116583B2
A light modulation panel is inserted into an optical path of an imaging lens composed of an image-forming optical system to make the imaging lens function as a depth-of-field-extended optical system. The light modulation panel has power that makes a peak position of defocus MTF when the imaging lens is used alone to function as the image-forming optical system and a peak position of defocus MTF when the imaging lens functions as the depth-of-field-extended optical system by insertion of the light modulation panel into the optical path of the imaging lens coincide with each other.
US08116576B2
The present invention provides an image processing device which is able to reconstruct a high-resolution (HR) picture from low-resolution (LR) pictures, by modifying instability in the pictures due to movement of hands in capturing the images, and also by preventing increase of a circuit size and processing amounts required for motion estimation between the pictures.In the image processing device, a motion estimation unit reads the LR pictures from a memory, and estimates respective motion vectors between the pictures. A stabilization parameter calculation unit calculates a stabilized global motion parameter based on the motion vector. A motion vector compensation unit stabilizes the motion vectors calculated by the motion estimation unit, using the stabilized global motion parameter. A picture integration unit combines (integrates) a target picture and reference pictures with sub-pixel precision, using the stabilized motion vectors. An integrated picture processing unit generates equally-spaced pixels of a HR picture from unequally-spaced pixels of the integrated picture, and outputs the generated HR picture.
US08116568B2
A ruled-line extraction section can be performed with high precision by providing a main-scanning ruled-line extraction section for determining whether a target pixel of binary image data of a document image is a black pixel or a white pixel, for counting the number of black pixels connected one after another upstream in a main scanning direction with respect to the target pixel of the binary image data and for, when the target pixel of the binary image data is a black pixel and when a value counted for the target pixel is not less than a main-scanning run determination threshold value that has been set in advance, generating ruled-line image data by correcting, to pixel values corresponding to black pixels, pixel values of a predetermined number of pixels connected to the target pixel upstream in the main scanning direction.
US08116566B2
A pattern recognition system compares a set of unlabeled images (or other patterns) having a variation of state in a set-by-set comparison with individual data sets of multiple labeled images (or other patterns) also having a variation of state. The individual data sets are each mapped to a point on a parameter space (e.g., a Grassmannian manifold, a Stiefel manifold, a flag manifold, etc.), and the set of unlabeled images is mapped to a point in the same parameter space. If the point associated with the set of unlabeled images satisfies a distance criterion on the parameter space with regard to one of the points on the parameter space, the data set of unlabeled images is assigned to the class attributed to that point.
US08116561B2
A color processing apparatus includes an input conversion unit configured to convert input data expressed in an input device-dependent color space into data expressed in a device-independent color space, a determination unit configured to determine an attribute of the input data and transmit a result of the determination to a color gamut mapping unit and an output conversion unit. The color gamut mapping unit is configured to perform color gamut mapping on data expressed in the device-independent color space to data corresponding to color gamut information of an output device based on a result of the determination. The output conversion unit is configured to convert the data which is subjected to the color gamut mapping into output data which is expressed in an output device-dependent color space based on a result of the determination.
US08116558B2
A three-dimensional shape data position matching method for measuring a static three-dimensional shape from a plurality of measuring positions, and for combining and position matching the distance data thereof, including: a data inputting step S1 for inputting, into a computer, coordinate values on a three-dimensional shape at a new measuring position; a model structuring step S4 for structuring an environment model that partitions a spatial region in which the three-dimensional shape exists, into a plurality of voxels formed from rectangular solids, of which the boundary surfaces are mutually perpendicular, and stores the positions of the individual voxels; a matching step S5 for setting and recording a representative point and an error distribution thereof, within the voxel corresponding to the coordinate value; a fine matching step S7 for position matching so as to minimize the summation of the distances between adjacent error distributions by rotating and translating a new measured data and error distribution, or rotating and translating an environment model for a new measuring position, relative to an environment model for a previous measuring position; and an outputting step for outputting, to an outputting device, the voxel position, the representative point, and the error distribution.
US08116556B2
In a process for manufacturing a semiconductor wafer, defect distribution state analysis is performed so as to facilitate identification of the defect cause including a device cause and a process cause by classifying the defect distribution state according to the defect position coordinates detected by the inspection device, into one of the distribution characteristic categories: repeated defects, clustered defects, arc-shaped regional defects, radial regional defects, line type regional defects, ring and blob type regional defects, and random defects.
US08116544B2
An apparatus is provided with: a bone region extracting section for extracting bone regions representing bones of a subject within a plurality of axial tomographic images obtained from a three dimensional image representing a portion of the subject from the vicinity of the upper end of the liver to the vicinity of the pubic symphysis; a bone boundary point detecting section for detecting a plurality of bone boundary points representing the boundaries between the detected bone regions and regions positioned toward the interiors of the bone regions within the plurality of axial tomographic images; and an abdominal cavity region extracting section for estimating curved surfaces within the three dimensional image that substantially contact the interiors of the plurality of bone boundary points detected in each of the plurality of axial tomographic images, and for extracting a region surrounded by the curved surfaces as a three dimensional abdominal cavity region.
US08116541B2
A method for determining weights (or coefficients) for synthesizing k-space data for autocalibrated parallel imaging (API) combines training data sets (including k-space data such as autocalibrating signals (ACS)) acquired at multiple successive time points. Combining training data sets from multiple successive time points together to determine a set of weights increases the accuracy of the calculated weights. The weights may be applied to k-space data from a single or multiple time points. The method retains the phase information of the individual time point images and may thus be applied, for example, to phase-sensitive multi-point imaging such as chemical species separation studies.
US08116524B2
A method is set forth for the detection of an object, in particular in a road, in particular of a pedestrian, in the surroundings in the range of view of an optical sensor attached to a carrier such as in particular a vehicle, wherein, from the range of view of the optical sensor, a relevant spatial region disposed below the horizon is determined, a gray scale image is produced by means of the optical sensor which includes a relevant image region corresponding to the relevant spatial region, and a search for a possible object is only made in this relevant image region corresponding to the relevant spatial region disposed below the horizon for the detection of the object.
US08116523B2
An on-vehicle image processing apparatus includes: an image taking apparatus for taking an image of a forward view of a vehicle; an edge detection section for generating a detection image data based on the image data; and a feature point detection section for detecting at least one feature point based on the detection image data. The feature point detection section categorizes the at least one feature point into a lane division line feature point, a branch feature point, and a dead end and obstacle feature point. The detection image data includes a lane division line detection scanning region set in a near region from the vehicle, a branch detection scanning region set in a middle region from the vehicle, and a dead end and obstacle detection scanning region set in a far region from the vehicle. The amount of scanning process can be reduced.
US08116518B2
Enhanced input using flashing electromagnetic radiation, in which first and second images, captured on a first side of a screen, of an object and an ambient electromagnetic radiation emitter disposed on a second side of the screen, are accessed. The first image being captured while the object is illuminated with projected electromagnetic radiation, and the second image being captured while the projected electromagnetic radiation is extinguished. A position of the object relative to the screen based on comparing the first and second images is determined. An application is controlled based on the determined position.
US08116516B2
The present invention relates generally to controlling use of audio (e.g., ambient or digital audio) or image content (e.g., the image content may comprise video). One claim recites a method comprising: receiving data representing audio elements or image picture elements, the audio elements or image picture elements being captured using a sensor; using a programmed electronic processor, analyzing the data representing audio elements or image picture elements to extract identifying information therefrom; communicating extracted identifying information to a database; receiving control information from the database; carrying out an action based at least in part on the control information. Of course, other claims are provided as well.
US08116515B2
A system includes a reading device configured to read an image on an original document, a first writing device configured to write image data read by the reading device into an image storage portion, a communication device configured to communicate with a separately-portable storage medium and a second writing device configured to transmit authentication information to the separately-portable storage medium, which is used to control output of the image data from the image storage portion.
US08116506B2
Arrangement of an internal component (not shown) arranged in the vicinity of the top side is different from that of the hinge side of an image element protective screen (2). An actuator (5) is fixed to the top side of the image element protective screen (2) and an actuator (4) is fixed to the hinge side of the image element protective screen (2). Since Arrangement of the internal component in the vicinity of the actuator is different, different sound pressure frequency characteristics or the like are experienced when each actuator is driven independently. When the actuators (4, 5) are driven simultaneously, sound pressure frequency characteristics and vibration frequency characteristics can be flattened. Isolation between the vibration speed of a vibrator near one actuator and the vibration speed of a vibrator in the region near the other actuator that are produced by respective actuators is set at 10 dB or above.
US08116504B2
An electronic device (20) includes a main board (32), a protective panel (24) defining a main bore (24a), a receiver (28) and a housing (22). The protective panel is joined to an upper portion of the housing, and the housing is joined to the main board to form a chamber receiving the receiver. The housing defines a first opening (22a) corresponding to the main bore of the protective panel. The receiver and the main bore are angled relative to each other such that the main bore is partially overlapped by the receiver to form at least one secondary bore (36) on the main bore.
US08116500B2
In various embodiments, a speakerphone may comprise multiple (e.g., 16) microphones placed in a circular array around a central speaker. The microphones may be mounted vertically in the speakerphone with their respective diaphragms substantially parallel to the top surface of the speakerphone. The centrally mounted speaker may be coupled to a stiff internal speaker enclosure. The speaker enclosure may be made of a stiff, heavy material (e.g., a dense plastic) to prevent the speaker vibrations from excessively vibrating the speakerphone enclosure (which may affect the microphones). The speaker enclosure may also include a raised rim and ridges to increase its stiffness.
US08116499B2
A method of improving the “tight space” usefulness of a unidirectional microphone of the type having an otherwise screw-together headpiece and handle, includes the steps of: (a) fabricating an adapter having male- and female-threaded ends and a cavity of a specified volume that extends between these ends, and where each of these ends has a centerline and these intersect at a prescribed angle, (b) fabricating the adapter's cavity so that its volume is approximately equivalent to that of the volume of handle's acoustic chamber, and (c) connecting the adapter's male-threaded end to the handle and its female-threaded end to the headpiece in such a manner as to not appreciably change the frequency response characteristics of the microphone.
US08116490B2
There is described a method for operation of a hearing device system with two microphones arranged spatially separated from one another and with sound-generating output units assigned to these microphones, in which, by comparison of the microphone signals or of signals derived therefrom, feedback is detected, and on detection of the feedback measures are initiated for reducing the feedback, and with the comparison of the microphone signals or of signals derived therefrom comprising a frequency-selective power comparison. There is also described a hearing device system suitable for this method.
US08116489B2
A system and method that reduces the perceptual effect resulting from ear occlusion include an electro-acoustic feedback network that produces phase canceling sounds in the ear, where a receiver and a microphone are located. A control mechanism controls the response of the feedback network to minimize distortion in the ear while maintaining a desired frequency response for external signals. Devices producing the external signal include hearing aids, personal sound devices, in ear monitors, communications headsets and hearing protectors. The integration of the above with these devices improves a user's perception of their own voice.
US08116485B2
An automatic gain control system maintains desired signal content level, such as voice, in an output signal. The system includes automatic gain control over an input signal, and compensates the output signal based on input signal content. When the input signal level exceeds an upper or lower processing threshold level, or is distorted (e.g., clipped), the system applies a gain to the input signal level. The system may compensate for the gain in the output signal when the input signal includes desired signal content.
US08116483B2
A speaker device comprises a first speaker (SP1) for reproducing an audio signal and a second speaker (SP2) adapted for reproducing an audio signal and spaced from the first speaker horizontally by a predetermined distance. At least one of the first and second speakers phase has varying means (APF1, APF2, . . . ) for varying the phase of the audio signal by a predetermined quantity of phase according to (i) the frequency of the audio signal and (ii) the predetermined distance.
US08116472B2
A noise control device reduces noises respectively arriving in a plurality of spaces which are acoustically independent from each other. The noise control device includes sound output devices, which are respectively provided in the plurality of spaces so as to respectively correspond to the plurality of spaces, each for outputting a sound to a corresponding space. The noise control device also includes a noise detection device, which is provided in at least one of the plurality of spaces, for detecting a noise arriving in the at least one of the plurality of spaces. Further, the noise control device includes a signal generation device which is a single device for generating, based on the noise detected by one noise detection device, a cancellation signal for canceling the noise, and outputting the generated cancellation signal to each of the plurality of sound output device.
US08116467B2
The invention provides a method for manufacturing array microphones. First, signal delays of a plurality of microphones are measured. The microphones are then categorized into a plurality of categories according to the signal delays. A plurality of array microphones are then assembled with a number of component microphones selected from the same categories.
US08116464B2
A method for volume adaptation, a mobile electronic device and a computer program product are disclosed. According to the method for volume adaptation, a sound producing function is started. At intervals, a present first environmental noise is sampled, a present set playing volume of the mobile electronic device is inquired about, and a second environmental noise occurring on setting the playing volume is obtained. Finally, the playing volume is adjusted according to the first environmental noise and the second environmental noise. In this way, the present invention is able to automatically adjust the playing volume thereof in response to the environmental noises of different times, which largely increases the convenience of using the mobile electronic device.
US08116462B2
Method and system of identification of at least one audiovisual advertisement in a data stream, such as a digital television broadcasting, by detecting energy drops in an audio stream of the data stream and comparing a segment of the audio stream starting at the energy drop with an audio segment of the advertisement. The comparison step requires only a few seconds of data to perform the detection. Therefore, the identification of the advertisement is provided before the end of the advertisement in the data stream.
US08116459B2
The present invention is based on the finding that a reconstructed output channel, reconstructed with a multi-channel reconstructor using at least one downmix channel derived by downmixing a plurality of original channels and using a parameter representation including additional information on a temporal fine structure of an original channel can be reconstructed efficiently with high quality, when a generator for generating a direct signal component and a diffuse signal component based on the downmix channel is used. The quality can be essentially enhanced, if only the direct signal component is modified such that the temporal fine structure of the reconstructed output channel is fitting a desired temporal fine structure, indicated by the additional information on the temporal fine structure transmitted.
US08116458B2
An acoustic image localization apparatus according to the present invention that outputs sound from a plurality of speakers so as to localize an acoustic image at a predetermined position on a space as viewed from a listener, the acoustic image localization apparatus comprising: amplitude characteristic adjusting means for adjusting an amplitude frequency characteristic of an inputted acoustic signal such that the acoustic image is localized at a position rotated by a first angle about a position of a listener toward an upper direction from a facing position of the listener; and a plurality of level adjusting means, provided so as to respectively correspond to the plurality of speakers, for adjusting a level of the acoustic signal outputted from the amplitude characteristic adjusting means and for outputting, to a corresponding speaker, the acoustic signal whose level has been adjusted, wherein each of the level adjusting means adjusts the level of the acoustic signal, which is outputted from the amplitude characteristic adjusting means, to a level of the corresponding speaker such that the acoustic image is localized at the predetermined position rotated by a second angle about the position of the listener toward one of directions orthogonal to the rotated directions from the position rotated by the first angle.
US08116455B1
A system and method provides for secure initialization and booting of a security appliance. The security appliance cooperates with a “smart” system card to provide cryptographic information needed to boot the security appliance in accordance with a secure boot procedure. The initialization procedure commences once the security appliance detects the presence of the smart card. The smart card and an encryption processor perform an authentication and key exchange procedure to establish a secure communication channel between them. The system card then loads a twice wrapped master key from a configuration database and decrypts the master key using a key associated with the system card. The wrapped master key is then forwarded via the secure communication channel to the encryption processor, which decrypts the wrapped key using a key associated therewith and enters an operating state using the decrypted master key.
US08116450B2
A method for measuring trust in a transaction over a public key certificate network includes associating each edge KA→KB of an public key certificate network connecting two public keys KA and KB with a probability p that information about KB is reliable, and a confidence c that is a total dollar amount of transactions which have involved using edge KA→KB. One or more authentication paths are formed in the public key certificate network starting from public key KS and ending with a target public key KT. A limit l of an amount of insurance that an owner of KS is willing to provide to a user interested in a transaction with an owner of KT is calculated, and for each amount m
US08116449B2
A digital logger system includes a multichannel interface circuit that: 1. concurrently and continuously-receives audio telecommunication signals for at least two telephone calls from a digital hybrid telephone line; and 2. continuously transmits linearly encoded digital audio data representing the received audio signals. A Universal Serial Bus (“USB”) hub of the system receives the transmitted digital data for retransmission to a USB root hub. A USB root hub of personal computer (“PC”) receives transmitted digital data, and executes PC software which continuously monitors the digital data for embedded line status and signaling information including a telephone line “going off hook.” When a telephone line goes “off hook,” the software records both: 1. an audio header that stores information about a telephone call; and 2. an audio file that stores compressed digital data for the telephone call. Jul. 2, 2009.
US08116446B1
Architecture for providing deductive context to a contact center routing engine is provided. Specifically, when a first interaction or set of interactions is received by a first agent and that agent cannot handle part or all of those interactions, before sending those interactions back to the routing engine, the agent can provide additional information enabling the routing engine to use the information when determining the next optimal resource for the grouped interactions.
US08116437B2
Methods and systems are described for providing a telecommunications services menu accessible via a voice interactive system, such as a voice services node. A subscriber accesses a voice communications menu by accessing a voice services node. The voice services node queries a customer profile database to obtain a list of telecommunications services available to the subscriber. At the voice services node, a voice prompt is constructed for providing the subscriber a voice menu of the available services. After the subscriber receives the voice prompt of menu items, the subscriber may select a service from the provided menu.
US08116432B2
A target for generating x-rays includes a target substrate comprising at least one layer of a target material, a track comprising at least one layer of a track material, the track configured to generate x-rays from high-energy electrons impinging thereon, and a braze joint attaching the target substrate to the track.
US08116415B2
The semiconductor integrated circuit having a transmitter circuit for transmitting a supplied external data signal DIN. The transmitter circuit includes: a transmitter flip-flop circuit having a reference clock CK as an input for holding the external data signal DIN in synchronization with the reference clock CK; a frequency divider circuit for multiplying the frequency of the reference clock CK by n/m (m and n are integers equal to or more than 2 and m>n); a data signal buffer circuit for transmitting a data signal held by the transmitter flipflop circuit; and a clock buffer circuit for transmitting the output of the frequency divider circuit.
US08116407B2
A data recovery system and method is disclosed. Said data recovery system comprises a maximum-likelihood detector, a non-maximum likelihood detector, signal-length calculator, a determining unit and a selecting unit. The maximum-likelihood detector transforms a digital signal into a first binary signal. The non-maximum likelihood detector transforms the digital signal into a second binary signal. The signal-length calculator calculates a length of the first binary signal and a length of one previous to the first binary signal. The determining unit generates a selecting signal when the length of the first binary signal and the length of one previous to the first binary signal meet a criterion. The selecting unit coupled to the maximum-likelihood detector and the non-maximum likelihood detector, selectively outputs the first binary signal or the second binary signal based on the selecting signal.
US08116401B2
A method and system for digital spur cancellation may include removing a spur in a left channel minus right channel (L−R) baseband signal generated from a FM signal. The L−R baseband signal may be generated by demodulating a sub-carrier, for example, by using CORDIC algorithm, in a signal demodulated from the FM signal. An orthogonal signal may also be generated by demodulating a sub-carrier, for example, by using CORDIC algorithm, in a signal demodulated from the FM signal. The phase of the orthogonal signal may be further adjusted to introduce a substantially −90° phase shift to spurs at a specific frequency. Accordingly, the spurs in the L−R baseband signal may be cancelled when the first L−R baseband signal is combined with the phase adjusted orthogonal signal.
US08116399B2
System and methodologies for reduced-complexity signal detection and decoding in a wireless communication system are provided herein. Systems and methodologies presented herein can utilize a relaxed form of the Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) lattice reduction algorithm to reduce the complexity of lattice reduction operations in the context of MIMO detection. Additional systems and methodologies presented herein can apply lattice reduction in the context of a maximum likelihood (ML) detector for spherical or elliptical lattice space-time (LAST) codes.
US08116397B2
A method for determining a symbol boundary of a data packet of a received signal, where the data packet includes a first training field, a guard interval, and a second training field. The received signal is sampled to obtain multiple samples. A first symbol boundary estimate is determined using one or more block auto-correlation values. Thereafter, a second symbol boundary estimate is determined based on the first symbol boundary estimate and using one or more cross-correlation values. The second symbol boundary estimate then is shifted using moving average auto-correlation values for the samples in the vicinity of the second symbol boundary estimate to obtain an accurate symbol boundary estimate.
US08116396B2
Disclosed are a method for re-ordering multiple layers and detecting signals and a receiver using the same to be able to exert performance approaching a maximum likelihood scheme while having lower complexity than that of the maximum likelihood scheme in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna system in a form where each layer is modulated and transmitted with different modulation orders.
US08116390B2
Disclosed is a method for allocating resources in a base station of a wireless communication system that performs communication using frequency resources. The method includes dividing subcarriers into subcarrier sets each including a predetermined number of consecutive subcarriers, and generating a resource index table mapped to consecutive indexes such that a distance between subcarriers in the subcarrier sets is maximized; and determining an amount of resources to be transmitted through a downlink according to a channel condition, for data to be transmitted to each terminal, and allocating resources to the terminal using the index value in the resource index table.
US08116385B2
A method for transmitting a data word, according to which a codeword supply (CV) is provided, the number of individual codewords (C1 . . . C31) of the supply corresponding at least to the number of data positions (#1 . . . #31) of the data word (DW), the codewords being formed from a basic codeword (C1) by means of cyclical shifting, and the cross correlation function of each codeword (C2 . . . C31) with the basic codeword (C1) having a distinct extreme value, the position of which is characteristic of the individual codeword (C2). An individual codeword (C1) which is combined with the respective date (0) of the data position (#5) so as to obtain a combined result (VE5) relating to the individual data positions, is assigned to each data position (#1) of the data word (DW). The combined results (VE1 . . . VE31) relating to the individual data positions are added in order to obtain a sum word (SW) that is cross-correlated with a reference (R) following transmission, said reference (R) corresponding to the basic codeword (C1) or being created from the basic codeword (C1) by means of cyclical shifting. The respective data (0,1) of the data word (DW), which relates to the individual data positions, is reconstructed from the position and quantity of the values of the obtained correlation function (KKF) by allocating in a fixed manner a corresponding data (0,1) to each value (−6;26).
US08116382B2
Systems and methods are provided for reducing pathological conditions in a serial video interface. A sequence of parallel data words that are to be transformed by a data-scrambling algorithm comprise an input signal. The bit order of one or more of the words in the sequence of parallel data words is reversed and the sequence of parallel data words, now including one or more bit-reversed words, is transmitted. The signal resulting from application of a data-scrambling algorithm to the sequence of parallel data words, including one or more bit-reversed words, has a reduced likelihood of including a pathological condition.
US08116378B2
The present invention is to provide a variable length decoding method for decoding complete binary tree code, which is implemented to an entropy coding module for executing the process comprising the steps of: procuring a TabIndex to calculate a value T=└log2(TabIndex)┘; reading T bits from a bitstream to obtain a first result M; determining whether or not the result M is smaller than (TabIndex-(1<
US08116369B2
Provided are a multi-display supporting multi-view video object-based encoding apparatus and method, and an object-based transmission/reception system and method using the encoding apparatus and method. The encoding apparatus includes: a shape abstracting means for receiving right/left-eye image object video and abstracting right/ left object image, respectively, to abstract the shape information of a multi-view video; a data separating means for receiving the right/left-eye image object video, and the right/left shape information, and separating them into odd-field objects and even field objects to transmit only the essential bit streams for a user display mode; a shape compensation means for compensating for the distortion of the shape information separated into odd and even fields; and an object-based encoding means for receiving the object-based information from the shape compensation means and the object-based information from the data separating means, forming four layers, and performing motion and disparity estimation to encode object-based data that are separated into odd and even lines.
US08116367B2
An embodiment of the invention is a technique to equalize received samples. An equalizer to equalize a multidimensional signal transmitted over a communication channel and having a dimensionality of four or higher. The equalizer is adaptively decision directed trained.
US08116366B2
Disclosed is a delayed decision feedback sequence estimator comprising a delayed decision feedback sequence estimator main unit including DDFSE computing unit group including (L+M) DDFSE computing units, equal in number to a length of each of plurality of blocks into which a received data symbol sequence is divided; wherein (L+M) DDFSE computing units are connected in a pipeline configuration to execute delayed decision feedback sequence estimation of the blocks in parallel; and an edge effect detection and correction circuit that detects an edge effect due to processing the delayed decision feedback sequence estimation of the separated block and corrects a relevant bit error.
US08116360B2
A spare receiver in a CMTS is used to prevent loss of service to subscribers during a failure of a receiver. The beginning of a mass modem de-registration event is detected by the operator or automatically by the CMTS. Upon detection of the beginning of the mass modem de-registration event, the spare receiver matrices to the troubled receiver and is configured according the communication parameters of the troubled receiver. The spare receiver sends communications to one or modems normally registered with the troubled receiver to determine if the mass de-registration event is the result of a failed receiver or a connection problem. In the event of a failed receiver, the spare receiver stays matriced with the troubled receiver and passes communications to/from from modems normally registered with it. The cable operator may swap out the troubled receiver and repair the system without significant loss of service to the subscribers.
US08116358B2
A frequency plan is provided for particular use in a transceiver. Advantageously, a single oscillator may be used to generate desired frequency signals. One or more power splitters receive the signal and equally divide the signal into first and second signals having a frequency substantially equal to the original. Multipliers on each arm of the transceiver receive a signal and increase the frequency of the signal. In one exemplary embodiment, multiple signals having different frequencies may be transmitted over the same cable due in part to the generated frequency separation between the signals. In another exemplary embodiment, multiple signals may be transmitted over multiple cables. In another exemplary embodiment, the frequency plan may self correct a transmit signal based on a reference signal, such as the receive signal. Additionally, multiple signals over one or more cables may be transmitted at or below 3 GHz.
US08116357B2
A transceiver circuit having 10 mb and 100 mb transmit and receive circuitries using the power saving methods of the present invention is disclosed. The power consumption of the transceiver circuit can be significantly reduced by providing each defined subcircuit with its own power supply and means of activation and deactivation. However, the method for activating and deactivating digital subcircuits and analog subcircuits are different and therefore different types of control signals and methods are provided. Furthermore, there are two general types of power-saving situations. The first type is near total circuit power-down and the second type is partial circuit power-down. The present invention in yet another embodiment discloses a method for minimizing energy usage during idle period.
US08116350B1
A passive tracking system is provided with a plurality of ultrawideband (UWB) receivers that is asynchronous with respect to a UWB transmitter. A geometry of the tracking system may utilize a plurality of clusters with each cluster comprising a plurality of antennas. Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) may be determined for the antennas in each cluster and utilized to determine Angle of Arrival (AOA) based on a far field assumption regarding the geometry. Parallel software communication sockets may be established with each of the plurality of UWB receivers. Transfer of waveform data may be processed by alternately receiving packets of waveform data from each UWB receiver. Cross Correlation Peak Detection (CCPD) is utilized to estimate TDOA information to reduce errors in a noisy, multipath environment.
US08116348B2
A gas laser device is presented that produces a near diffraction limited round beam exiting the discharge vessel. Through the use of a simple focusing system, additional waveguide strip and a spatial filter in conjunction with the new asymmetric hybrid planar waveguide resonator, a round diffraction limited beam can be produced exiting the discharge vessel. Furthermore, a second and very similar design is presented that allows for spatial filtering to take place directly outside of the discharge vessel, thereby enabling filtering of the beam to be an added option.
US08116340B2
A pulse compressor for compressing many-cycle femtosecond-duration high-energy pulses to near-single-cycle durations uses a single quadratic nonlinear crystal. A pulsed laser beam is controlled and its passage is aligned through the quadratic nonlinear crystal such that the detrimental effects of group-velocity mismatch are avoided, while still allowing enough nonlinear phase accumulation for compression to near-single-cycle pulse durations. To do so, the perturbation to nonlinear Schrödinger-type soliton compression due to group-velocity mismatch is minimized which requires that the soliton order must not exceed an optimal value set by the amount of group-velocity mismatch.
US08116339B2
A system and method for creating and enforcing meta-zones that cross the interface between different network protocols are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of enforcing meta-zones comprises: (a) receiving an Infiniband (IB) packet destined for a Fiber Channel (FC) target device; (b) comparing a partition key in the IB packet to a partition key associated with the FC target device; and (c) converting the IB packet to a FC frame only if the partition keys match. The method may further comprise receiving FC frames destined for an IB target device and converting the FC frame into an IB packet having a partition key associated with the source of the FC frame. Also disclosed are a gateway configured to create and enforce meta-zones, and computer networks having such a gateway.
US08116332B2
A method of providing switch arbitration for the passing of packets between transmitters and receivers in a switch having a plurality of transmitters and receivers, comprises globally distributing information about buffer contents and packet requests between transmitters and receivers.
US08116324B2
A network resource allocation system and method of the same are provided according to the present invention. The system and method are applicable to a wireless mesh network, the method including: programming traffic of connections between routers; exchanging data between neighboring routers, thereby enabling the routers to perform dispersive network resource allocation according to the exchanged data; checking a local time window and a global time window for expiration by the router; and, under the condition of local performance deterioration or local traffic variation, activating a local routing adjustment mechanism by the router, wherein, if global performance deterioration currently exists, then activating a global optimization mechanism by a central controller, and, if not, then resetting the global time window. Accordingly, the present invention is capable of perceiving the traffic status of each connection between routers, thereby efficiently directing traffic to various channels and wireless transceivers.
US08116318B2
A method for scheduling a transmission of ATM cells, the method includes: receiving an indication that a scheduling session should starts; and repeating the stages of: selecting a channel representative queue out of multiple queues that are associated with different quality of service traffic threads that belong to that channel; scheduling a transmission of frames from channel representative queues and from single queue channels; wherein the scheduling comprises processing a scheduling table that comprises multiple sets of entries, wherein each set of entries is associated with a different transmission priority level, and wherein at least one set of entries comprises a link to a transmission parameter table that is associated with a channel representative queue.
US08116305B2
A multi-plane cell switch fabric system prevents a decrease of the effective switching capacity when switching the variable-length packets. Distribution units classify input variable-length packets for each address, arranges the packets by a first division length unit, divides the packets into fixed-length cell payloads by a second division length unit that is an integer multiple being twice or more as large as the first division length unit, and forms a fixed-length cell by providing destination information, a source ID, a sequential number, and packet head tail information to each of the cell payloads. The cells are distributed to all the switching units one by one whenever the cells are collected to be the same number as the plural switching units. The reordering units classify the cells, reorder the sequential number in an original order, and reassemble the packets by the packet head tail information of the cell.
US08116296B2
A communication system for carrying out data communication among a plurality of communication stations is disclosed in which a first communication station for transmitting to other communication stations a Request To Send (RTS) signal for requesting a transmission upon the start of the data transmission; and a plurality of second communication stations transmitting to other communication stations a Clear To Send (CTS) signal for notifying the completion of preparing the reception, wherein the first communication station transmits the RTS signal describing at least each of addresses the second communication stations that are desired to receive the data, and receives a plurality of CTS signals transmitted from each of the second communication stations in order to increase communication capacity.
US08116286B2
The present invention provides a combined user agent, which acts on behalf of multiple packet-based communication clients that may have different media capabilities. The combined user agent allows the different communication clients to cooperate with one another and participate in the same multimedia session. Different ones of the communication clients may support different types of media sessions. The combined user agent may present a single interface, which is associated with a single identification, on behalf of the supported communication clients to remote communication clients. As such, the combined user agent may appear to remote communication clients as a single communication client having the combined capabilities of the supported communication clients.
US08116270B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in a communication system are provided. It is determined whether there is any uplink data to transmit, when a CQI transmission time arrives according to a predetermined CQI transmission period. If there is uplink data to transmit, a part of the uplink data is punctured to insert the CQI therein, and the inserted CQI is multiplexed with the uplink data before transmission. It is determined whether there is any uplink data to receive from a terminal, when a CQI reception time arrives according to a predetermined CQI transmission period. If there is uplink data to receive, the uplink data is received from the terminal, and the received uplink data is demultiplexed to extract the CQI.
US08116269B2
A communications path is established among an ordered sequence of moving nodes, representing vehicles. Available channels may differ from one node to the next node and a node cannot use the same channel for both receiving and transmitting information. Three methods are described that provide an optimal sequence of channel assignments between the nodes. A sequence of channel assignments is called optimal if it establishes a communications path from the first node in the sequence to the last node in the sequence, or, if such a path does not exist, from the first node to the farthest node possible in the sequence. The first method uses a depth-first search starting from the first node in the sequence. The second method uses a “look ahead” scheme in the depth-first search method. The third method requires only a single pass through the sequence of nodes by identifying optimal channel assignments in subsequences of nodes without a need for backtracking.
US08116262B2
Aspects of the present invention provide additional MAC functionality to support the PHY features of a wireless communication system framework. The additional MAC functionality aids in enabling feedback from wireless terminals to base stations. In some aspects of the invention the feedback is provided on an allocated feedback channel. In other aspects of the invention the feedback is provided by MAC protocol data units (PDU) in a header, mini-header, or subheader. The feedback may be transmitted from the wireless terminal to the base station autonomously by the wireless terminal or in response to an indication from the base station that feedback is requested. Aspects of the invention also provide for allocating feedback resources to form a dedicated feedback channel. One or more of these enhancements is included in a given implementation. Base stations and wireless terminals are also described upon which methods described herein can be implemented.
US08116252B2
Apparatus and methods are described for establishing a connection to a subscriber access network, such as a 3G network, over and untrusted network, such as a wireless LAN. A stream ID is assigned to a mobile device upon initialization of the device, and the stream ID remains active until the device powers down, loses WLAN coverage, or de-registers with the network. Both voice and data calls may be routed over the tunnel using the assigned stream ID.
US08116251B2
A mobile phone connected to a telephone network which uses a telecommunication line by way of a communication terminal including: a wireless communication unit; a sound input unit and a sound output unit; a transmission interface unit; a user information memory unit; a memory unit; a detection unit; and control unit transferring user information stored in the user information memory unit and the phone call program stored in the memory unit to the communication terminal through the transmission medium respectively and also changing over a sound data output destination of the sound input unit and a sound data input source of the sound output unit from the communication unit to the transmission interface unit respectively in a case when it is detected by the detection unit that the own apparatus and the communication terminal are connected mutually.
US08116249B2
An access point transmits data frames to a plurality of wireless terminals by MC or BC communication. When the data frames are transmitted, data to identify the presence of the return of an ACK frame as affirmative acknowledgment with respect to transmitted contents is applied to an MAC header. In a case where a Block ACK frame is requested as affirmative acknowledgment with respect to the transmission of a plurality of frames in the MC or BC communication, the plurality of wireless terminals return the Block ACK frame to the access point and the wireless terminals other than the wireless terminal itself by the MC or BC communication.
US08116245B2
A method and apparatus for reducing the power consumption of a wireless LAN device that operates in a wireless network are disclosed. The method for reducing the power consumption includes receiving a high throughput (HT) frame; judging whether the received HT frame is decodable; and if the received HT frame is not decodable, switching the wireless LAN device into a standby mode, and maintaining the device in the standby mode for a duration of the HT frame.
US08116240B2
A bidirectional communications interface is provided that connects a transmitter and a receiver, or a transceiver, to a transmission line. Under an embodiment, the bidirectional interface generates positive and negative polarity data signals using two separate differential amplifiers that receive differential signal pairs from each side of a differential link to the transmission line and the transmitter. The bidirectional interface controls common mode rejection in each of the separate differential amplifiers using bias signals generated in response to an output common mode feedback voltage from each of the differential amplifiers. An output amplifier combines the positive and negative polarity data signals to form single-ended output logic signals. The output logic signals represent data received on the transmission line, and are provided to the receiver.
US08116234B2
A diagnostic tool for identifying a configuration of a private network that may disrupt operations involving communication between two devices on the network. The tool, when run on a device in the network, can identify a “double NAT” configuration in which the device may be separated from other devices on the private network by a NAT device. The tool, when run on a computing device, identifies a NAT device, such as a router, to which the device is connected. The tool then identifies a list containing one or more other devices that may be connected to the NAT device. The tool tests whether these other devices also perform NAT functions and are on the private network. Both the NAT device and the devices that may be connected to the NAT device are identified and a determination is made of whether those devices are on the private network by sending requests using one or more protocols that devices on a private network conventionally use but are not conventionally used by devices on other networks.
US08116232B2
A method and system for changing the extent of data plane resources controlled by a control plane for a network connection which spans a contiguous set of nodes controlled by existing network control resources is disclosed. This is done in a non-disruptive manner. This typically involves two steps: i) Creating a new set of control plane resources for said network connection such that said data plane resources are shared with said existing network control resources; and ii) then terminating the existing network control resources such that said data plane resources are fully transferred to the new set of control plane resources without disrupting said network connection. The existing network control resources can be either a control plane resource or a non control plane resource. An example of a non control plane resource is network management software (e.g., an OSS (Operation Support System)), which forms part of the Management Plane. It should be noted that this does not need to be done for a complete end-to-end connection, but rather can be executed for the portion of the end-to-end connection which is to be controlled by the control plane.
US08116230B2
A method and apparatus is provided for establishing communication pathways between infrastructure devices in a wide area communication network prior to transmission of a group message packet by a source wireless communication device (WCD). In one implementation, the infrastructure devices (IDs) can include a home ID of the source WCD, a first ID and a second ID. A home steward module (HSM) of the source WCD generates a distribution list (DL) for communications from the source WCD to a first communication group (CG), and communicates it to an envoy packet duplicator module (EPDM) located at the first ID. The first CG includes, for example, a first destination WCD. A first network socket of the EPDM is communicated from the HSM to a second envoy module (located at the second ID) for the first destination WCD. The HSM maps a second network socket for the second envoy module to an identifier of the first destination WCD, and communicates this mapping to the EPDM. A first communication connection can then be established between the first network socket and the second network socket.
US08116228B2
A path control device includes a TE database and a local database for storing topology information showing states of use of links in a network, a topology information collection unit collecting the topology information of the respective communication nodes therefrom and updating the TE database by the topology information, a path solution unit determining a path of the network referring to the local database, an internal update unit recognizing a link included in the determined path and updating a local database by information as to said link, and an update determination unit matching the topology information of both the databases by comparing both the databases.
US08116224B2
A system and method for generating alarms based on traffic bursting. Marked packets are received. A determination is made whether the marked packet conforms with a bandwidth profile. The packet is remarked in response to determining the marked packet does not comply with a CIR threshold and an EIR threshold. An alarm is generated in response to remarking the packet.
US08116221B2
A method and apparatus for configuring and managing customer premises equipments (CPE) are disclosed. The method includes obtaining information of the data model supported by the CPE; extracting the CPE data model and the relationship between the CPE data model and the CPE from the obtained information; finding the data model supported by a specific CPE according to the relationship between the CPE data model and the CPE; and configuring and managing the specific CPE according to the found data model of the CPE. The present invention is able to configure and manage a specific CPE based on CPE data model by associating in advance the CPE data model with the device class information of the CPE and finding the data model of the CPE based on the device class information of the CPE.
US08116216B2
To perform scheduling for improving throughput, while suppressing control information amounts notified from communication terminal apparatuses. A communication terminal apparatus (200) that is provided with a receiving section (220) that receives a control signal from the communication control apparatus, a reception quality measuring section (250) that measures reception quality of each of the channels, a reception quality information generating section (260) which selects part of channels as selection channels from the plurality of channels, and generates reception quality information to notify the communication-destination apparatus of selection channel information for identifying selected selection channels and reception quality measurement results in the selected selection channels, and a transmitting section (290) that transmits the generated reception quality information to the communication control apparatus, wherein the receiving section (220) receives a data signal assigned to at least one channel contained in the selection channels from the communication control apparatus (100).
US08116214B2
Method and apparatus for provisioning an e-mail service to a mobile terminal in an e-mail system that uses e-mail addresses comprising a domain part. The apparatus maintains a list of good setting parameter sets versus e-mail domain parts. It receives an e-mail address and user authentication information from a user and compares the domain part of the received address with domain parts in the list of good parameter sets. If a match is found, e-mail service is provisioned with the matching parameter set. If no match is found, the apparatus requests and receives further parameters from the user, including an e-mail server address, and provisions the e-mail service with the further parameters. If the provisioning with the further parameters is successful, the domain part and the further parameters are used to generate a new setting parameter set in the list of good setting parameter sets.
US08116212B2
A line status monitoring circuit receives a frame through one of a number of lines from another node connected through a redundant transmission channel which is made redundant by the lines. The line status monitoring circuit includes a line-specific check frame monitoring unit. If a line-specific check frame having an added dedicated header corresponding to each of the plurality of lines is received through one of the lines from another node, the line-specific check frame monitoring unit determines whether or not a further line-specific check frame corresponding to a frame for checking which is identical to a frame for checking to which the line-specific check frame corresponds is received through at least a predetermined number of lines within a predetermined time. If the further line-specific check frame is not received in this manner, the line-specific check frame monitoring unit discards the frame.
US08116201B2
An apparatus includes a processing system configured to establish a link with any one of a plurality of access points in a mesh network, each of the access points providing the apparatus with a different data path through the mesh network. The processing system is further configured to compute a metric for each of the data paths and select one of the access points to establish the link with based on the metrics. In a centralized mesh network, an apparatus includes a processing system configured to compute, for each of the access points, a metric for each of a plurality of data paths supportable by that access point, and establish interconnections between the access points based on the metrics.
US08116199B2
A method for monitoring communication on a network. The method includes configuring a classifier using a monitoring rule, receiving a plurality of packets from the network; analyzing each of the plurality of packets by the classifier to determine to which of the plurality of packets satisfies the monitoring rule; forwarding any of the plurality of packets that satisfy the monitoring rule to a first hardware receive ring (HRR) located on a first physical network interface (NI), forwarding any of the plurality of packets that do not satisfy the monitoring rule to a second HRR, and transmitting a first number of packets from the first HRR directly to user level memory, wherein the user level memory resides on a host operatively connected to the first physical NI.
US08116193B2
An optical recording medium includes a main-information area in which a metal reflection film is formed on a substrate where a row of pits is formed as main data, and a sub-information area in which is recorded medium identification information, which is used to identify the optical recording medium individually, by removing the metal reflection film partially and forming a plurality of reflection-film removed areas. Information is reproduced by irradiating the metal reflection film with a beam of light. In the sub-information area, a row of pits or a guide groove is formed on the substrate, and a track pitch of the row of pits or the guide groove is at least 0.24 μm wide and at most 0.45 μm wide.
US08116185B2
A holographic storage medium is proposed, and more specifically a holographic storage medium with an integrated phase mask layer. The holographic storage medium has a phase mask layer on top of a holographic storage layer, wherein the phase mask layer has one or more phase pattern areas for coupling-in a reference beam and imprinting a phase pattern on the reference beam, and one or more neutral areas for coupling-in an object beam and/or coupling-out a reconstructed object beam.
US08116178B1
A method of operating a channel module, including: receiving a plurality of sensor signals generated based on at least one detected characteristic of a laser beam of an optical drive; performing computations based on the plurality of sensor signals; generating a computation output signal based on the computations; generating a first control signal and a second control signal; generating a first input signal based on (i) the computation output signal, (ii) the first control signal, and (iii) a first set of filter values; generating a second input signal based on (i) the second control signal, (ii) a second set of filter values, and (iii) an accumulated output signal; generating the accumulated output signal based on a sum of products generated based on the first input signal and the second input signal; and adjusting the at least one detected characteristic of the laser beam based on the accumulated output signal.
US08116174B2
Disclosed is a near field light generating device comprising a first medium layer which transmits light from a light source. This near field light generating device generates near field light by using light irradiating a plasmon probe through the first medium. This near field light generating device is characterized in that a second medium layer having a refractive index lower than that of the first medium layer is formed between the first medium layer and the plasmon probe.
US08116169B2
An active sonar system and associated method combine signals from a plurality of receive beams in order to reduce a noise in a reference one of the signals from the plurality of receive beams.
US08116168B1
A migration method using hybrid one-way and full-way (HOF) wave equation propagation. The HOF method extrapolates seismic wavefields in less complex media with a one-way wave equation propagator and extrapolates seismic wavefields in extremely complex media with a full-way wave equation propagator. For prestack depth migration, the HOF extrapolates source-side and receiver-side wavefields independently. Frequency-space domain and time-space domain imaging conditions are applied to the one-way and the full-way extrapolated wavefields, respectively. A suitable amplitude matching factor is introduced to combine the one-way and full-way images. The HOF method is a cost-effective migration that produces superior image quality with less noises and less computational resources.
US08116166B2
A technique includes obtaining pressure data that was acquired by seismic sensors towed as part of a three-dimensional spread of streamers and obtaining particle motion data, which are indicative of particle motion at locations of the sensors. The technique includes estimating cross-line spectra of the pressure data based at least in part on the pressure data, and the technique includes deghosting the particle motion data based at least in part on the estimated cross-line spectra.
US08116161B2
The present invention provides a system and method for refreshing a DRAM device without interrupting or inhibiting read and write operations of the DRAM device. The system may includes refresh control circuitry that selectively generates requests to perform refresh operations and a refresh address counter that is coupled to the refresh control circuitry and that generates a refresh address in response to receiving a refresh request. The refresh address corresponds to a word line of the DRAM array to be refreshed. Address control and switching circuitry may be coupled to the refresh control circuitry. The address control and switching circuitry selectively transmits read/write addresses and refresh addresses to the DRAM array, in order to perform refresh operations on the DRAM array without inhibiting read and write operations.
US08116154B2
To provide a plurality of write amplifiers that perform a data write operation upon memory cells and a write control circuit that controls a timing of a data write operation performed by the write amplifiers. When a data write operation using another write amplifier is requested while a data write operation using a predetermined write amplifier is performed, the write control circuit suspends the data write operation using the predetermined write amplifier. The suspended data write operation is performed again simultaneously with the data write operation using the other write amplifier. Accordingly, random column access like that of a DRAM can be realized by simple control.
US08116148B2
A shift register includes a shift circuit configured to shift an input signal in synchronization with a shift dock to output an output signal of the shift register, and a clock control circuit configured to enable the shift clock in response to the input signal and disable the shift clock in response to the output signal of the shift register.
US08116146B2
A semiconductor device includes an overdriving control circuit configured to generate a first drive signal and a second drive signal in response to an internal signal of an active command mode, an equalizing signal generating unit configured to generate an equalizing signal which is controlled with an overdriving voltage VPP level higher than a normal drive voltage during a first duration of an activation period and with the normal drive voltage VDD during a second duration of the other activation period after the first duration in response to the first drive signal and the second drive signal, and an equalization unit configured to equalize first and second lines in response to the equalizing signal.
US08116145B2
A method and system for enabling auto shut-off of programming of a non-volatile memory cell is disclosed. The system includes a memory array having a plurality of memory cells, each cell storing one bit of data. During the programming process, programming signals are applied to the target memory cells. A predefined period of time after the programming signals are applied, the auto shut-off system begins sensing an output signal from the memory cell. After the system detects an output signal from the memory cell, the system waits for a second predefined period of time before turning off the programming voltages. The system may be configured to sense an output voltage from the memory cell. The system then compares the output voltage to a reference voltage in order to detect when the cell is programmed. Alternatively, the system may sense an output current from the memory cell. The system then compares the output current to a reference current to detect when the cell is programmed.
US08116143B2
An embodiment of a method of erasing a target memory cell includes grounding a selected word line commonly coupled to portions of a row of memory cells respectively formed on first well regions of a plurality of first well regions of a first conductivity type formed in a second well region of a second conductivity type, the at least one target memory cell coupled to the selected word line and formed on one of the first well regions, the first well regions electrically isolated from each other; applying a first voltage to the first well region on which the at least one target memory cell is formed; and applying a second voltage to unselected word lines, each unselected word line commonly coupled to portions of a row of memory cells not targeted for erasing and respectively formed on the first well regions.
US08116121B2
Static random access memory cells and methods of making static random access memory cells are provided. The static random access memory cells contain two non-planar pass-gate transistors, two non-planar pull-up transistors, two non-planar pull-down transistors. A portion of a fin of the non-planar pull-up transistor is electrically connected to a portion of a fin of the non-planar pull-down transistor by an assist-bar. The methods involve forming an assist-fin between fins of a non-planar pull-up transistor and a non-planar pull-down transistor and between gate electrodes, and widening a width of the assist-fin to form the assist-bar so that a portion of the fin of non-planar pull-up transistor is electrically connected to a portion of the fin of non-planar pull-down transistor via the assist-bar.
US08116119B1
A static random access memory (SRAM) can include a plurality of columns forming a memory array, wherein each column comprises a plurality of memory cells coupled to bitlines and wordlines, and a write replica circuit generating a signal when data has been written to the write replica circuit. A wordline of the memory array is turned off responsive to the signal. The write replica circuit can include an additional column comprising at least one dual port dummy memory cell, and write detection circuitry coupled to the dual port dummy memory cell detecting when data has been written to the dual port dummy memory cell and responsively generating the signal. The signal generated by the write detection circuitry indicates a successful write operation to the dual port dummy memory cell.
US08116115B2
Methods, devices, and systems associated with multilevel phase change memory cells are described herein. One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include operating a phase change memory device by placing a phase change memory cell in a reset state and applying a selected programming pulse to the phase change memory cell in order to program the cell to one of a number of intermediate states between the reset state and a set state associated with the cell. The selected programming pulse includes an uppermost magnitude applied for a particular duration, the particular duration depending on to which one of the number of intermediate states the memory cell is to be programmed.
US08116113B2
A cross-point semiconductor memory device includes: a plurality of first wirings extending in a first direction; a plurality of second wirings positioned on a layer different from the first wirings to extend in a second direction different from the first direction; and memory parts provided in overlap areas of the first wirings and the second wirings, wherein the odd-numbered first wirings and the even-numbered first wirings are arranged on different insulating interlayers in an up-down direction.
US08116105B2
Systems and methods are provided for distributing power to a load by controlling an uninterruptible power supply that has an inverter and a filter, where the filter has an inductor and a capacitor. The systems and methods apply a pulse width modulation control signal to the inverter, sample inverter inductor current and compare the inductor current to a reference current. A duty cycle of the pulse width modulation control signal is adjusted to drive the inductor current at a second sampling time to a value substantially equal to a reference current at a first sampling time. The systems and methods can filter harmonic distortion from output signals and control uninterruptible power supply output.
US08116101B2
An electronic device including a housing, a circuit board, a first non-metal conductive cushion and a fastening element is provided. The circuit board is disposed in the housing. The first non-metal conductive cushion is disposed between the circuit board and the housing. A potential of the first non-metal conductive cushion is equal to a potential of the housing. The fastening element fastens the circuit board and the non-metal conductive cushion to the housing.
US08116091B2
A printed circuit board has a core substrate including a resin substrate having an opening, a capacitor formed in the opening and having a first electrode structure having a portion facing to the upper surface of the core substrate and a second electrode structure having a portion facing to the lower surface of the core substrate, an upper insulating layer formed over the upper surface of the core substrate and having a conductive circuit formed over the upper insulating layer and a via hole electrically connecting the portion of the first electrode structure and the conductive circuit of the upper insulating layer, and a lower insulating layer formed over the lower surface of the core substrate and having a conductive circuit formed over the lower insulating layer and a via hole electrically connecting the portion of the second electrode structure and the conductive circuit of the lower insulating layer.
US08116089B1
A magnetic device surface mounting assembly includes a specially designed printed circuit board and magnetic device. The circuit board has first and second sets of channels, the first channels having a first end of a first size, a second end of a second size, and first and second sides at least one of which taper inward between the two ends to define an opening smaller than either size. The magnetic device includes a plurality of pins extending transversely with respect to the circuit board, and a plurality of legs extending parallel with the pins and sized to pass transversely through the first end of the first set of channels and to slide laterally through and resiliently engage the opening, but to prevent transverse movement with respect to the second end of the first set of channels.
US08116080B2
A container includes first and second long sides parallel to the container's length. Racks are organized in rows parallel to the container's width. Each rack is receptive to installation of equipment along a height of the data rack parallel to the container's height. Openings are defined within the first and/or second long sides of the container. Heat exchangers may be installed, where each exchanger is installed on a rack to cool air exhausted by any equipment installed on this rack. Each row may include as many of the racks positioned side-to-side, length-wise, and parallel to the width of the container as can fit within the container. The racks of each row may be slidable in unison back and forth along the length of the container, between a first position at which the racks block an opening and a second position at which the racks block another opening.
US08116076B2
The present invention includes several hard disk drive (HDD) enclosures that use pre-stressed polymer compression members to provide integral vibration shock and acoustic noise dampening and isolation. The vibration dampening system has springs of polymeric material located between outer surfaces and existing HDD FRU mounting walls. The suspension system secures the hard drive in a slot in the structure within the polymer springs, isolating the hard drive from the side panels and dampening the vibration internal and external. The minimal structure allows for significant air flow to provide the cooling Beams are designed to consider temperature effects, creep and long term fatigue of the plastics. Multiple beams will be recruited to support the drives and each other to ensure that no individual beam sustains a substantial portion of the load.
US08116071B2
An automatic meter reading (AMR) system device is adapted to be mounted in a utility meter pit. The device includes a housing constructed to at least partially enclose at least one portion of an AMR system device. The housing is integrally formed with at least two different mounting members selected from among: a rod mounting member that includes a port sized and shaped to receive a rod to facilitate mounting of the device in the pit, a wall mounting member that includes a wall-mount provision that facilitates mounting of the device to a wall of the pit, a tie mounting member constructed to receive at least one tie fastener that facilitates mounting of the device to a structure in the pit, and a lid mounting portion constructed to facilitate mounting of the device to a lid of the pit.
US08116069B2
Provide is an aluminum electrolytic capacitor exhibiting low specific resistance and low impedance property and realizing high reliability. An electrolytic capacitor has a structure in which: a capacitor element which is formed by rolling an anode foil and a cathode foil each connected with an electrode extraction lead through a separator and which is impregnated with a drive electrolytic solution is included in a cylindrical outer case having a closed-end; and an open end of the outer case is sealed with an elastic sealing body, in which: the drive electrolytic solution contains a tricyanomethide salt represented by the below-indicated chemical formula (1); and the drive electrolytic solution has a water content of 3.0 wt % or less: where, R represents a cation pairing with a tricyanomethide ion in formation of a tricyanomethide salt.
US08116068B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor includes an anode 2 made of a valve metal or an alloy thereof, a dielectric layer 3 provided on the surface of the anode 2, a conductive polymer layer 5 provided on the dielectric layer 3, and a cathode layer 6 provided on the conductive polymer layer 5. A fullerene layer 4 made of an insulating fullerene is provided between the dielectric layer 3 and the conductive polymer layer 5.
US08116065B2
A dielectric ceramic material is composed of a perovskite compound represented by ABO3 as a main component. In the case where ABO3 is, for example, BaTiO3, the crystal grains include BaTiO3 crystal grains composed of the main component and, as secondary phases, Mg—Ni—Ti-containing crystalline grains composed of a crystalline oxide containing at least Mg, Ni, and Ti and Ba—Si-containing crystalline grains composed of a crystalline oxide containing at least Ba and Si.
US08116062B2
A metal capacitor in which an electric conductivity is significantly improved by applying a metal material for an electrolyte and a manufacturing method thereof is provided. The metal capacitor includes a terminal increase-type metal member; a metal oxide layer being formed on the terminal increase-type metal member; an insulating layer being formed on the main electrode layers and the terminal increase-type metal member to externally expose the first and the second electrode withdrawing portions of the terminal increase-type metal member; a main electrode layer being formed at the through-hole forming portion to fill in the plurality of through-holes formed on the through-hole forming portion of the terminal increase-type metal member; a first and a second lead terminals; and a sealing member sealing the terminal increase-type metal member connected to the first and the second lead terminals to externally expose the first and the second lead terminals.
US08116061B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor that can be miniaturized while maintaining the function for breaking current when excessive short-circuit current flows to a capacitor element. The solid electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body, a dielectric layer formed on the anode body, a conductive polymer layer formed on the dielectric layer, and a cathode layer formed on the conductive polymer layer. The conductive polymer layer contains thermally expandable graphite.
US08116060B2
An ionizer includes a fan for blowing air, the fan being provided in an air blowing port which opens in a case, and a plurality of discharge electrodes for generating positive and negative ions by corona discharge, the discharge electrodes being provided in the case at positions facing the air blowing port. The ionizer also includes a plurality of discharge electrode pairs each constituted by two discharge electrodes for generating ions of different polarities. When a tip-center distance denotes a distance from the electrode tip to the center of the air blowing port, the tip-center distances of the two discharge electrodes in the discharge electrode pairs are different from each other.
US08116056B2
A circuit breaker capable of microcontroller-based fault detection having a backup circuit for causing the circuit breaker to trip in response to a microcontroller fault, including a timing circuit powered by a power supply and a microcontroller. The timing circuit is electrically coupled to an SCR that causes the circuit breaker to trip. The timing circuit includes a BJT coupled to the gate of the SCR. The microcontroller has a first output coupled to the timing circuit and a second output coupled to the SCR. The first output is coupled to a node between a resistor and a grounded capacitor in the timing circuit, and the node is coupled to a gate of the SCR and to a base of the transistor. A voltage develops at the node sufficient to cause the gate of the SCR to turn on unless the microcontroller pulls the first high-impedance output to a logic low state.
US08116048B1
In a conventional differential output circuit, the output terminals are connected to the drains of a differential pair of transistors and the sources of the transistors are connected together at a first node. The bodies of the transistors are connected to a second node having a potential different from that of the first node. In the event of a HBM ESD event, discharge may take place through the differential transistors, leading to destruction of one of them. To reduce the likelihood of such discharge, in a preferred embodiment, switches are provided to connect the body of each of the differential transistors to the first node when an ESD event is sensed. In an alternative embodiment, a switch is provided to connect the first node to the second node when an ESD event is sensed.
US08116046B2
Circuitry includes a terminal for a high-frequency signal, at least two signal lines, a switching unit for connecting the terminal to a signal line, and a primary protection device for protecting against electrostatic discharges. The primary protection device is between the terminal and the switching unit. The primary protection device includes a first element that diverts voltages having a pulse height greater than 200V relative to a reference potential.
US08116042B2
A device capable of exhibiting the extraordinary magnetoresistance (EMR) effect includes an elongate channel formed of silicon. A conductor comprising heavily doped silicon is connected to the channel along one side of the channel so as to provide a shunt. A gate arrangement including a gate electrode is provided on the channel. Applying a bias of appropriate polarity and sufficient magnitude to the gate electrode results in the formation of an inversion layer in the channel.
US08116039B2
A disk drive suspension is provided with a load beam and a flexure including a tongue portion on which a slider is mounted. A pair of bent edge portions are formed by bending regions which extend along opposite side edges of the load beam in a thickness direction. A pair of limiters are formed on those parts of the load beam where the bent edge portions are provided. The limiters each include an arm portion and a retainer portion. An aperture for defining a contour of each limiter is formed in a region which extends along each side edge of the load beam. Each limiter is bent in a direction opposite to that of each corresponding bent edge portion.
US08116034B2
When first and second near-field light-generating portions are irradiated with laser light or other energy rays, near-field light is generated at the tips of both the near-field light-generating portions. By means of the near-field light thus generated, a magnetic recording medium opposing the medium-opposing surface is heated, and the coercivity of the magnetic recording medium is lowered. Since at least a portion of the main magnetic pole is positioned within the spot region including the region between the first and second near-field light-generating portions, the tips of both the near-field light-generating portions and the main magnetic pole can be brought extremely close together, and high-density recording can be performed.
US08116032B2
A perpendicular magnetic recording system has a write head having a main coil (the write coil) and main pole (the write pole) that directs write flux in a direction perpendicular to the recording layer in the magnetic recording medium, and an auxiliary coil and auxiliary pole that injects magnetic flux into the write pole at an angle to the primary or perpendicular axis of the write pole. The additional flux from the auxiliary pole, which is injected non-parallel to the primary magnetization of the write pole, exerts a relatively large torque on the magnetization of the write pole, thereby facilitating magnetization reversal of the write pole. Electrical circuitry is connected to the main coil and the auxiliary coil to generate the auxiliary flux simultaneous with the switching of the magnetization of the write pole.
US08116028B2
A cartridge loading device 10 for magnetic tape cartridges comprises a first member 12, a second member 14 and a guide arrangement 30, 32, 36, 38 for guiding movement of said second member relative to said first member from a first position to a second position. The first and second members cooperate when in the first position to define a first sized opening having a height sized to receive first sized magnetic tape cartridges having a predetermined height and, when in the second position, cooperating to define a second sized opening that has a height that is greater than the height of the first sized opening and is sized to receive second sized magnetic tape cartridges having a predetermined height that is greater than the height of the first sized magnetic tape cartridges.
US08116024B2
A timing detector adapted for timing recovery on a read-channel is disclosed to improve signal quality of an input signal and maintain a small loop latency. The timing detector selects bits within the input signal that are high quality for timing recovery and discards bits that are low quality. The selected bits are used to synchronize phase and frequency of a bit sampler with a read-back analog signal. High-pass and low-pass analysis filters may split the input signal into high-frequency and low-frequency sub-bands and equalizers may re-shape the sub-bands. High-pass and low-pass synthesis filters may construct an output signal from the high-frequency and low-frequency sub-bands. Scaling factors may correct for signal and disturbance variations in the sub-bands. A comparator may eliminate sampled bits within the detector signal that have a magnitude less than a threshold and assign a common magnitude to sampled bits that meet or exceed the threshold.
US08116021B2
A hard disk drive (HDD) including a magnetic disk, the magnetic disk including a data track. The HDD also includes a synchronized rewrite controller for synchronizing a plurality of rewrites of a data pattern on a location of the track of the magnetic disk and the HDD includes a write head controlled by the synchronized rewrite controller for writing the data pattern on the location of the data track and rewriting the data pattern a plurality of times on the location in synchronization with a prior writing of the data pattern on the data track.
US08116008B2
A method for optimizing cost and performance in a lens assembly is disclosed. The method relaxes the constraints of optically correcting lateral chromatic aberration and distortion on the lens assembly and instead electronically corrects for lateral chromatic aberration and distortion. As a result the lens assembly transmissivity and MTF improve dramatically and other aberrations are reduced as a result of re-optimizing the lens assembly merit function. The cost and volume of the lens assembly are reduced as well. The optimized lens assembly could be used in rear or front projection display devices as a well as image acquisition devices.
US08115995B2
Projection screen coating. In at least one embodiment of a coating for a projection screen for displaying an image projected as a combination of primary colors of the present disclosure, said coating comprises one or more primary pigments, each of said primary pigments corresponding to at least one of said primary colors. In at one embodiment of a coating for displaying an image projected as a combination of primary colors of the present disclosure, said coating comprises one or more primary pigments, each said primary pigment corresponding to one of said primary colors, one or more reflective pigments, and a transparent medium.
US08115993B2
A stereo-examination system including an objective arrangement configured to receive an object-side beam bundle emanating from the object plane and to convert the object-side beam bundle into an image-side beam bundle and a selection arrangement configured to select at least one pair of partial beam bundles from the image side beam bundle. The system also includes an image transmission apparatus configured to generate stereoscopic images of an object positionable in the object plane from the at least one pair of partial beam bundles and an illumination arrangement. The illumination arrangement includes a light source, a beam coupler to superpose a beam cross-section of the illumination beam with the image-side beam bundle, and a field of a plurality of state-changing elements. The elements are selectively switchable between a first state directed and a second state in which light of the illumination beam is and is not directed to the object plane.
US08115987B2
An optical device for modulating the intensity of light from an interferometric reflector. In one embodiment, the optical device can include an optical stack having a reflective layer and a partially reflective, partially transmissive layer for reflecting light. The optical device can also include a fluid cell comprising an absorptive fluid and a transmissive fluid. The optical device can also include a mechanism for controlling the portion of the reflector which is shadowed by the absorptive fluid.
US08115982B2
There is provided an iris diaphragm device comprising: two blade members supported on two rotary shafts; a lamp optical path between the two blade members; a motor driving directly one of the rotary shafts; and a means of transmitting power from the one rotary shaft to the other, wherein the motor and the means are disposed off the lamp optical path, and the two blade members revolve respectively to the two rotary shafts whereby a blocked area of the lamp optical path is adjusted, and wherein a magnetic sensor including a plate-like magnetic sensing portion and a plate-like magnet and detecting a rotation angle of the rotary shafts is disposed on an axis line of one of the two rotary shafts and also off the lamp optical path such that facing surfaces of the magnetic detecting portion and the magnet are orthogonal to the rotary shafts.
US08115969B2
An efficient method and system to enhance digital acquisition devices for analog data is presented. The enhancements offered by the method and system are available to the user in local as well as in remote deployments yielding efficiency gains for a large variety of business processes. The quality enhancements of the acquired digital data are achieved efficiently by employing virtual reacquisition. The method of virtual reacquisition renders unnecessary the physical reacquisition of the analog data in case the digital data obtained by the acquisition device are of insufficient quality. The method and system allows multiple users to access the same acquisition device for analog data. In some embodiments, one or more users can virtually reacquire data provided by multiple analog or digital sources. The acquired raw data can be processed by each user according to his personal preferences and/or requirements. The preferred processing settings and attributes are determined interactively in real time as well as non real time, automatically and a combination thereof.
US08115961B2
In the image forming system, there is provided an image processing section which determines a rotation standard for rotating image information so that an orientation of an image which is to be formed on an output medium on which prescribed post processing is not to be conducted agrees with an orientation of an image formed on an output medium on which prescribed post processing is to be conducted, if a booklet division mode is set by the setting section, and which conducts rotation processing on the image information based on the rotation standard.
US08115955B2
A communication device has a reading unit, a wireless tag reading unit, and a transmitting unit. The reading unit reads image data from an original document. The original document has a first wireless tag including wireless tag data. The wireless tag data has data size. The wireless tag reading unit reads the wireless tag data from the wireless tag. The transmitting unit associates the image data with the wireless tag data to transmit the associated image data and wireless tag data to another device.
US08115954B2
When a specific image forming apparatus is selected as an output destination, a CPU reads a printer driver corresponding to the selected image forming apparatus from a printer driver group, and loads the driver in a memory unit or the like. On the contrary, if no specific image forming apparatus is selected as the output destination, the CPU reads a general purpose printer driver from the printer driver group, and loads the driver to the memory unit or the like. Further, the CPU displays a print setting image on a display unit 204.
US08115952B2
A document managing system includes: an image forming device that includes an image forming part, and forms a document on a prescribed output medium; a discarding device that includes a document discarding part that discards the document formed on the output medium by the image forming device; and a discard certificate issuing device that includes a discard certificate issuing part, and issues a certificate of a discarding process in the discarding device.
US08115946B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for imaging device job definition. Some aspects relate to methods and systems whereby device capabilities are communicated and stored with simple and complex compositors. Some aspects relate to method and systems whereby an imaging device job may be described with simple and complex compositors. Some aspects relate to a job definition list that may be constructed with said simple and complex compositors. Some aspects relate to methods and systems whereby an application requests a list of job configuration properties from an imaging device and uses the job configuration properties to create a job definition that may be sent to the imaging device.
US08115943B2
An image forming apparatus is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: an information providing part for providing, to a client terminal, screen data for selecting one or more image forming apparatuses among from a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to a network; and a print request part for distributing print data and a print request to the selected one or more image forming apparatuses.
US08115937B2
Apparatus, methods, and other embodiments associated with measuring multiple Fabry-Perot gaps to determine environmental parameters are described herein. In one embodiment, a system for measuring environmental parameters includes an optical fiber, a first reflective surface, a second reflective surface, a third reflective surface, and a light source. The first reflective surface is positioned proximate to a first end of the optical fiber. The second reflective surface is positioned to form a first Fabry-Perot gap between the first reflective surface and the second reflective surface. The third reflective surface is positioned to form a second Fabry-Perot gap between the second reflective surface and third reflective surface. The light source provides light to the optical fiber, wherein the optical fiber delivers light from the light source to the first Fabry-Perot gap and the second Fabry-Perot gap and the optical fiber receives reflected light from the first Fabry-Perot gap and the second Fabry-Perot gap.
US08115931B2
A photoacoustic detector for measuring a concentration of fine dust particles in gas. The detector includes at least one acoustic sensor for detecting an acoustic signal. Additionally, the detector includes a pulsed light source for providing excitation light having a configurable pulse length and a configurable pulse repetition rate, wherein by changing the pulse length and/or the pulse repetition rate, a size distribution of the fine dust particles can be determined.
US08115922B2
The invention relates to an apparatus and method for adapting conventional spectrophotometer cuvettes for use in a vertical light beam spectrophotometer.
US08115920B2
Provided is a method of making microarrays that includes providing a substrate with discrete first microfeatures that have a first profile, and depositing vapor-coated materials onto the first microfeatures to form second microfeatures having a second profile that is substantially different from the first profile. Also provided is a method of adding a replication material to the vapor-coated microfeatures to form a mold. Microarrays made by this method can be used as substrates for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).
US08115918B2
Encapsulated tissue is contained in an optically transparent cassette (34). The cassette (34) or an endcap (38) enclosing the cassette is marked with a fiducial (40) indicating and corresponding to the location of the excision on the patient's body. An image, which is preferably a representation of a surface of the tissue specimen and the vertical section(s) area of the tissue internal of the specimen and adjacent to a surface thereof, is obtained by an imaging system (10). The cassette is moved, preferably in a stage (22) which rotates the cassette while translating it, so that the head (12) of the imaging system provides a linear scan in a direction perpendicular to the wall of the cassette (also perpendicular to the surface of the tissue encapsulated in the cassette). The imaging system's display (28) indicates the morphology at and in proximity to the surface of the specimen as well as the location thereof.
US08115917B2
A drying nozzle (1) for drying a peripheral portion of an ophthalmic lens (CL), in particular a contact lens, comprises an inlet (30) for the supply of a pressurized gas and a continuous annular outlet gap (11) having a predetermined width (W) through which the pressurized air is capable of being supplied to the peripheral portion of the ophthalmic lens (CL).
US08115912B2
A polishing end point detection method is to detect a polishing end point of a workpiece having a multilayer structure. The method is performed by emitting a first light and a second light to a surface of the workpiece at a first angle of incidence and a second angle of incidence, respectively, receiving the first light and the second light reflected from the surface through a polarizing filter, performing a first analyzing process of analyzing a brightness and a saturation of the surface from the first light received, performing a second analyzing process of analyzing a brightness and a saturation of the surface from the second light received, and determining removal of the upper layer based on changes in the brightness and the saturation of the surface.
US08115910B2
An apparatus for optical analysis of at least one value document (12) in a recording area (38) of the apparatus has an illumination device (36) for illuminating the value document (12) in the recording area (38) and possessing at least one surface emitting laser diode (50), a control device (42) for driving the laser diode (50), and a detection device (40) for recording optical radiation from the recording area (38).
US08115899B2
A method and apparatus for cleaning the inside of an immersion lithographic apparatus is disclosed. A cleaning device may be provided in the substrate table and an ultrasonic emitter may be provided to create an ultrasonic cleaning liquid.
US08115894B2
A transflective type LCD device and a method for manufacturing the same is disclosed, in which an aperture ratio of a reflective part is improved, and manufacturing process is simplified by decreasing the number of masks for forming contact holes. The transflective type LCD device includes a plurality of gate and data lines crossing each other, defining a plurality of pixel regions; a thin film transistor at a crossing point of the gate and data lines; a lower storage electrode formed by one portion of a preceding gate line, and an upper storage electrode above the lower storage electrode having a gate insulating layer in between; a transmitting electrode in contact the upper storage electrode; and a reflective electrode in contact with the transmitting electrode in the reflective part of the pixel region wherein the transmitting electrode is in between the reflective electrode and the substrate.
US08115891B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight device which supplies light to a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight device includes a diffusion plate, a plurality of cold cathode fluorescent lamps, and a reflection plate on which light is reflected. Assuming arrangement intervals of the plurality of cold cathode fluorescent lamps in the direction from a center portion to a peripheral portion as “a”, “b”, “c”, “d”, “e”, and “f” respectively, the plurality of cold cathode fluorescent lamps is arranged to satisfy the relationship of a>b≧c≧d≧e≧f. Such a liquid crystal display device can control the brightness distribution due to the arrangement of the cold cathode fluorescent lamps within the backlight device thus obtaining a high-quality image display without generating brightness irregularities.
US08115886B2
A flexible display apparatus includes a flexible display panel and a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB). The flexible display panel includes a display body and a peripheral circuit. The peripheral circuit is adjacent to the display body, and the FPCB is connected to the peripheral circuit. The FPCB includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is connected between the peripheral circuit and the second portion. Bending modulus of the first portion is lower than that of the second portion. The flexible display apparatus has better reliability. Another flexible display apparatus is also provided.
US08115880B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a common electrode driving circuit and a reverse gain circuit. A storage capacitor electrode is disposed on the first substrate. A common electrode is disposed on the second substrate which is disposed oppositely to the first substrate. The common electrode driving circuit is electrically connected with the common electrode and outputs a common voltage level signal to the common electrode. The reverse gain circuit is electrically connected to the storage capacitor electrode through a connecting terminal and outputs a reverse gain voltage signal to the common electrode according to a voltage signal of the storage capacitor electrode.
US08115877B2
A method for adjusting a viewing angle of a display, includes determining a location of one or more viewers and determining lighting conditions. Additionally, the method includes calculating an optimal viewing position of the display based on the location of the one or more viewers and the lighting conditions and adjusting the display based on the optimal viewing position.
US08115874B2
Memory storage requirements for digital signal processing operations, for example, motion-compensated video scan rate conversion, that produce intermediate output data, which is then used as an input to the operation, are reduced by reordering operations and organizing memory allocations in a special manner to allow intermediate output at a particular execution time, to substantially share the same memory space as the intermediate output of a previous execution time. Such a reduction in the amount of memory required for processing operations advantageously reduces cost and power consumption.
US08115869B2
A method and system for extracting relevant information from content metadata is provided. User access to content is monitored. A set of extraction rules for information extraction is selected. Key information is extracted from metadata for the content based on the selected extraction rules. Additionally, a type for the content can be determined, and a set of extraction rules is selected based on the content type. The key information is used in queries for searching information of potential interest to the user, related to the content accessed.
US08115865B2
A de-interlacing system with an adaptive edge threshold has a motion factor generator to produce a motion factor of a position in accordance with a previous and a next fields. An adaptive edge threshold generator produces the adaptive edge threshold in accordance with a current, the previous and the next fields. A determinator determines which pixels are used to perform an interpolation on the position. When the motion factor is greater than the adaptive edge threshold, a pixel of the current field is used to perform an interpolation on the position. When the motion factor is smaller than the adaptive edge threshold, a pixel of the previous field and a pixel of the next field are used to perform an interpolation on the position.
US08115861B2
An image pickup system causes a first illumination unit to emit light toward a subject at a first angle without causing a second illumination unit for emitting light toward the subject at a second angle different from the first angle, and causes an image pickup unit to capture the image of the subject so as to obtain a first captured image. The image pickup system causes the second illumination unit to emit light without causing the first illumination unit to emit light, and causes the image pickup unit to capture the image of the subject so as to obtain a second captured image. The image pickup system associates the first captured image with the second captured image.
US08115858B2
A system and a method for acquiring a moving image are provided. The system includes an image capturing unit capturing two images having different exposure times at a predetermined time slot, an image storing unit storing at least one of two images which were captured at a time slot previous to the predetermined time slot and which have different exposure times, an output image generating unit generating an output image by synthesizing the two images captured at the predetermined time slot or by synthesizing any one of the two images captured at the predetermined time slot and any one of the two images captured and stored at the previous time slot, an exposure time calculating unit receiving the images captured at the predetermined time slot and setting exposure times for a next time slot, and an exposure time storing unit storing the exposure times for the next time slot.
US08115857B2
A digital camera includes: a photometering unit that measures brightness of a photographic field by dividing the field into a plurality of areas; a reference value calculation unit that calculates, a first value to be used to determine exposure conditions for a photographing operation based upon photometering results provided by the photometering unit and also calculates a second value to be used to set gradation conversion characteristics in conformance to which gradation correction is to be executed on a photographic image photographed based upon the results; an exposure condition determining unit that determines the conditions for the operation based upon the first value; a gradation conversion characteristics setting unit that sets the characteristics based upon the second reference value; and an image processing unit that executes image processing including gradation conversion executed by using the gradation conversion characteristics on the photographic image obtained under the conditions via an imaging unit.
US08115856B2
A camera module includes a circuit board of a grounding pad, a lens module, and a voice-coil motor. The voice-coil motor for receiving and driving the lens module automatically focus comprises a main body, a metallic casing and a grounding structure. The metallic casing covers the main body. After electrically grounding by connecting with the grounding pad of the circuit board, the grounding structure connects with the metallic casing and the circuit board. With the grounding structure, the metallic casing can be grounded. Thereby, prevent external electro-magnetic waves from affecting electrical signals communicated between the camera module and the circuit board.
US08115853B2
An LCD (21) for displaying a plurality of set information items is provided for a digital camera (10). When a plurality of input keys disposed around the LCD (21) are depressed, set information which is displayed adjacent to the input key can be changed. A control portion of the digital camera (10) performs a variety of control operations of the digital camera (10) in accordance with set information. Therefore, the position of the input portion which is used when the setting of the digital camera (10) can easily be understood. Thus, the setting can be changed by performing only a simple operation.
US08115850B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a plurality of pixels generating pixel signals; color filters above the photoelectric conversion elements; a row selecting unit for selecting a plurality of rows of the pixels; a signal line receiving the pixel signal from the pixels of the row selected by the row selecting unit; a plurality of capacitors for accumulating the pixel signal outputted to the signal line; and a plurality of selecting switches connected between the signal line and the plurality of capacitors. During a first adding operation, the row selecting unit adds pixel signals accumulated in a part of the capacitors on the signal line. And, during a second adding operation, the row selecting unit adds pixel signals accumulated in other part of the capacitors with the pixel signals from the pixels of a row different from the row of which pixel signals are added in the first adding operation.
US08115845B2
A counter array and an image sensor including the same may be provided. The counter array may include a controller and a plurality of counter units. The controller may output an operation control signal and a direction indication signal. The counter units hold previous output values or may perform a counting operation in response to the operation control signal and may perform an up-count operation or a down-count operation in response to the direction indication signal when performing the counting operation.
US08115841B2
A method, apparatus and system are described providing a high dynamic range pixel. Operating conditions, including integration time and sensitivity of different photosensors, and signal processing, including gain settings, are selected to provide multiple possible response curves. An output is selected from the possible response curves and used to provide an overall pixel response curve to increase the pixel dynamic range.
US08115839B2
According to the present invention, an image signal processor, comprising a receiver, a mixing block, and an adjustment block, is provided. The receiver receives first, second, and third color pixel signals which an imaging device outputs. The mixing block generates first, second, and third color mixed pixel signals. The first, second, and third color mixed pixel signals are generated by mixing the first, second, and third color pixel signals generated by all the first, second, and third color pixels occupying a space of which the area is a second predetermined area whose the center is in agreement with the center of the first, second, and third color mixed pixel areas, respectively. The adjustment block adjusts the signal levels of the first, second, and third color mixed pixel signals based on first, second, and third pixel numbers.
US08115837B2
An image sensing apparatus has a plurality of pixels arranged two dimensionally, each pixel containing a photoelectric converter that outputs a photoelectrically converted signal in response to a quantity of received light, an output unit containing a clamping circuit, a signal supply circuit that outputs a reference signal to the clamping circuit, a control unit that controls to clamp the reference signal prior to outputting the photoelectrically converted signal from the pixel to the clamping circuit, output the photoelectrically converted signal to the clamping circuit, and then output a noise signal from the pixel to the clamping circuit, and a differential circuit that subtracts the noise signal from the photoelectrically converted signal processed by the clamping circuit.
US08115834B2
An image processing device for performing color conversion processing on a VS (video signal obtained from a color CCD) includes a region defining section, which estimates an amount of noise of the VS, according to an ISO-sensitivity and a white-balance-coefficient, and, based on the estimated amount of noise, defines an AR (achromatic region) of a color space to which the video signal belongs as a region centered on an achromatic axis where saturation is 0, and a color conversion section, which determines whether or not the VS belongs to the AR, and does not perform color conversion processing or performs projection of the video signal onto the achromatic axis if the video signal does not belong to the AR, or performs color conversion processing so that the numerical error between a target color signal and a color signal after color conversion processing is minimized if the video signal belongs to the AR.
US08115830B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus capable of properly setting a photographing condition in consideration of time allowable for each processing; the image processing apparatus capable of properly setting the photographing condition while referring to an actually generated composite image; the image processing apparatus capable of properly setting the photographing condition even by a user who has no background knowledge; and the image processing apparatus capable of determining whether or not image composition processing is properly executed even by the user who has no background knowledge. A setting mode screen displays a composite image based on generated output image data, together with “processing time”, being expected time required for generating one output image data. The composite image is updated every time the output image data is generated.
US08115820B2
An image processing apparatus configured to perform a process to reduce a color blur in a color motion picture image utilizing a first frame image and a second frame image that has been obtained after the first frame image includes a memory configured to store a first color blur reduction amount used for the process to the first frame image, an estimator configured to calculate a color blur estimation amount in the second frame image through a spatial operation to the second frame image, and a determination part configured to calculate a second color blur reduction amount used for the process to the second frame image so that a difference between the first color blur reduction amount and the color blur estimation amount can fall within a predetermined range.
US08115808B2
A coordinate measuring machine is disclosed having an orientor automatically orienting a substrate associated therewith. A control and computing unit is further associated with the coordinate measuring machine, so that self-calibration may be performed on the basis of at least two different and automatically set orientations of the substrate.
US08115807B2
Apparatus for determining the status of hair bulk in an area of a scalp is operative to provide a metric over a sufficiently large area to permit revisiting with only negligible misalignment error. Accurate re-measurement of hair status in accurately identified areas produces a reliable metric for determining degree of hair loss and or the effectiveness of treatment.
US08115806B2
More images than spatial modulation components of a lighting light are acquired, and a least square method is applied to the imaged plurality of images to obtain signal components. Accordingly, a ultra-resolution microscope which uses a spatially-modified lighting light to illuminate a sample, arithmetic-processes acquired images to thereby demodulate a given spatial modulation, and obtains a high-resolution sample image, wherein a high-resolution image reduced in noise components can be obtained.
US08115805B2
A stereoscopic image display that displays a stereoscopic image using a barrier operated by a time division method. A display panel time-divides first and second images having parallax therebetween and sequentially displays the first and second images. A barrier is located in front of the display panel and includes first and second image transmission regions transmitting the first and second images. A barrier driver controls opening and shutting of the first and second image transmission regions in synchronization with first and second video signals input thereto. The barrier driver extracts all video signals displayed on one picture from the input video signals as unit video signals and generates a reference signal for the barrier operation based on the unit video signals.
US08115797B2
Systems, methods, and a storage medium for peer-to-peer video calling between first and second devices is provided. The method includes determining a predetermined data communication rate by querying a communication network operably associated with the first and second devices. The method further includes transmitting video calling data from the first device through the communication network to the second device at substantially the predetermined data communication rate.
US08115796B2
In a beltless tandem-type image forming apparatus, a plurality of pairs of transfer rollers are placed side by side at intervals along a conveying direction of sheets. A control section independently conveys sheets in sequence through nip sections of respective pairs of transfer rollers driven by a driving section while sequentially transferring images formed by an imaging section onto the sheets. Conveying speeds of the respective pairs of transfer rollers controlled by the driving section are gradually decreased for every pair of transfer rollers from an upstream side toward a downstream side along a conveying direction of the sheets, and consequently, a driving period for driving the respective pairs of transfer rollers to convey each sheet is gradually increased for every pair of transfer rollers from the upstream side toward the downstream side along the conveying direction of the sheets.
US08115793B2
An optical scanning device includes at least one scanning unit having a deflector for scanningly deflecting a light beam from a light source, and an imaging optical system for imaging the light beam scanningly deflected by the deflector upon a plurality of photosensitive drums, wherein, at each of a plurality of light paths extending from the deflector to the plurality of photosensitive drums, at least one reflection member for turning the light path into a sub-scan direction is provided, wherein the plurality of light paths are different in the number of the reflection members, wherein a polarization direction of a light beam incident on each reflection of the plurality of light paths is S-polarized at an optical axis of the imaging optical system, wherein the reflection surfaces of all the reflection members of the plurality of light paths have the same film structure, and wherein the difference among the plurality of light paths of a total turn angle defined by the reflection surface or surfaces of the reflection member or members in the sub-scan direction at the optical axis of said imaging optical system, is not greater than 40 degrees.
US08115792B2
In a method for producing a permanent mark in an optical element which consists essentially of a material that is transparent in the visible spectral region, a marking region of the optical element is irradiated with laser radiation in order to generate local, near-surface material changes in such a way that a mark of prescribed shape and size is generated. The laser radiation has an operating wavelength λ from the wavelength region between 1.1 μm and 9.2 μm. A thulium-doped fiber laser is preferably used as laser radiation source. The operating wavelength is selected in dependence from the material of the optical element such that the material exhibits a partial absorption with a transmittance between 60% and 98%. The method can be used, in particular, to provide spectacle lenses, contact lenses or intraocular lenses with marks.
US08115790B2
A medium detecting apparatus and an image forming apparatus are supplied capable of making medium move without hitting sensor lever while skew adjustment or medium setting operation. In the image forming apparatus, a medium hit surface of the sensor lever to detect skew holds inclinations in plural directions and a guider to limit the medium is furnished on the inclined side; or a medium hit surface of the sensor lever to detect skew holds inclinations in plural directions and position detections in movement direction of carriage and in conveyance direction of medium are performed by one sensor; or a sheet guider is further furnished and the sensor lever whose medium hit surface holds inclinations in plural directions is used as a sensor to detect a paper setting; or a hand-operated adjustment print function is further furnished and the sensor lever whose medium hit surface holds inclinations in plural directions is used as a sensor to detect a paper setting.
US08115772B2
System and method of customizing animated entities for use in a multimedia communication application
In an embodiment, a method is provided for creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media message from a sender to a recipient. An image file from the sender may be received by a server. The image file may include an image of an entity. The sender may be requested to provide input with respect to facial features of the image of the entity in preparation for animating the image of the entity. After the sender provides the input with respect to the facial features of the image of the entity, the image of the entity may be presented as a personal animated entity to the sender to preview. Upon approval of the preview from the sender, the image of the entity may be presented as a sender-selectable personal animated entity for delivering the multi-media message to the recipient.
US08115768B2
A method for displaying point-of-interest coordinate locations in perspective images and for coordinate-based information transfer between perspective images on different platforms includes providing a shared reference image of a region overlapping the field of view of the perspective view. The perspective view is then correlated with the shared reference image so as to generate a mapping between the two views. This mapping is then used to derive a location of a given coordinate from the shared reference image within the perspective view and the location is indicated in the context of the perspective view on a display.
US08115764B2
Map display systems, map data processing apparatuses, map display apparatuses, and map display methods for general navigation systems are provided. A map data processing section categorizes original three-dimensional map data into scene graph data representing a data structure of a three-dimensional map using a tree structure and rendering data for rendering an object included in the three-dimensional map and processes the scene graph data and the rendering data. A map data display section specifies a display area by referring to the scene graph data and reads and displays the rendering data in accordance with the specified display area.
US08115755B2
Provided herein are methods and configurations for use with systems that drive or otherwise control displays (e.g., LCD displays). Such systems often include devices (e.g., buffers, DACs, ADCs, etc.) that require a sufficiently high bias current to enable the device to have a sufficiently fast slew rate and settling time, which may consume an undesirable high amount of power. Embodiments of the present invention adjust such bias current to reduce power consumption. A first bias current level is provided to the device when an input to, and a corresponding output from, the device are to transition from one level to another. A second bias current level is provided to the device when the input to, and the corresponding output from, the device are not to transition from one level to another, where the second bias current level is lower than the first bias current level.
US08115749B1
A smart phone has a dual touch pad interface that includes a graphical user interface. Further, the smart phone includes a first touch pad, which is operably connected to the smart phone, that has a plurality of first touch pad sensors arranged in at least one first touch pad shaped layout such that each of the plurality of first touch pad sensors corresponds to a letter from a first subset of a set of letters in an alphabet. In addition, the smart phone has a second touch pad, which is operably connected to the smart phone, that has a plurality of second touch pad sensors arranged in at least one second touch pad shaped layout such that each of the plurality of second touch pad sensors corresponds to a letter from a second subset of the set of letters in the alphabet.
US08115744B2
A multi-touch detection system includes a touch-sensitive device, a microcontroller coupled to the touch sensitive device, and an electronic application coupled to the microcontroller. The touch-sensitive device includes multiple electrically isolated conductive regions and the conductive regions are configured to detect multiple contacts from a user simultaneously and generate respective output signals for the multiple user contacts. The microcontroller is configured to receive the output signals from the conductive regions and generate one or more control signals in response to the output signals. The electronic application includes a screen displaying multiple human-machine interactive objects and a signal processor. The signal processor is configured to receive the control signals from the microcontroller and alter the appearance of the human-machine interactive objects on the screen in accordance with the control signals.
US08115735B2
A mouse with adjustable cable direction includes a main body and a cable. The main body has a plurality of positioning grooves formed in a front end portion of a bottom thereof, and each positioning groove extends to an outer edge of the main body. One end of the cable extends into the main body and the cable can be received in the corresponding grooves in the bottom of the main body. Accordingly, the present invention can improve configuration flexibility of the bottom thereof and is convenient for use, and the cable cannot be in the way of other objects and has a good controllability, which is convenient for use.
US08115734B2
There is disclosed an interactive display system comprising an interactive surface for displaying an image and for receiving inputs from remote devices, the system being adapted to detect the presence of at least two remote devices proximate the interactive surface.
US08115731B2
A directional input device for use in a handheld device is disclosed herein. The directional input device provides input to an element of the user interface in response to the inclination of the handheld. The input device can be embedded into any handheld communicating or computing device to provide directional input to an element of the user interface of the handheld without consuming space on the face of the device that could otherwise be used for a larger screen.
US08115724B2
The present invention relates to a driving circuit for a display panel, and comprises a switching module, a buffer circuit, and a plurality of resistive devices. The switching module is coupled to a first power supply and a second power supply. The voltage of the first power supply is smaller than that of the second power supply. The buffer circuit is coupled to the switching module, and is used for buffering a data signal and producing a buffer signal. The plurality of resistive devices is connected in series and coupled to the buffer circuit, and produces a plurality of driving signals between the plurality of resistive devices according to the buffer signal. The driving circuit switches between the first power supply and second power supply sequentially to supply power to the buffer circuit. Thereby, one of the plurality of driving signals charges a capacitor of the display panel for saving power of the driving circuit. Accordingly, the power of the display can be saved.
US08115723B2
The present invention relates to a driving circuit for a display panel, which comprises a pre-charge power supply, a pre-charge switch, a buffer circuit, and a plurality of resistive devices. The pre-charge switch is coupled between the pre-charge power supply and a capacitor of the display panel. The buffer circuit is used for buffering a data signal and producing a buffer signal. The plurality of resistive devices is connected in series and coupled to the buffer circuit, and produces a plurality of driving signals therebetween according to the buffer signal. The driving circuit first closes the pre-charge switch to make the pre-charge power supply charge the capacitor. Then, one of the plurality of driving signals charges the capacitor. Thereby, the driving time can be shortened, and power of the display can be saved by avoiding power consumption on resistors.
US08115722B2
A liquid crystal display having reduced power consumption. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of pixels and a plurality of pixel memories. A pixel voltage is stored in a pixel memory in an on screen display (OSD) region of the liquid crystal display panel for displaying a still image for a long period of time and driving a liquid crystal cell by the stored pixel voltage. Also, the power consumption of the liquid crystal display can be reduced by using a NAND gate or a NOR gate as a circuit element for alternating a voltage between low level and high level so as to store a pixel voltage in a pixel memory of the liquid crystal display.
US08115719B2
Provided is an electro-optical device including: pixel electrodes provided in intersections of gate lines and data lines; counter electrodes provided to face the pixel electrodes with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween; and storage capacitors each of which one end is connected to each of the pixel electrodes, wherein, if data line signals supplied to the pixel electrodes via the data lines correspond to writing of a positive polarity with respect to the potential of the counter electrodes, the potential of the other end of each of the storage capacitors is changed to a high potential side after the data line signals are written and, if the data line signals correspond to writing of a negative polarity with respect to the potential of the counter electrodes, the potential of the other end of each of the storage capacitors is held at a constant level before and after the data line signals are written.
US08115714B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, an active-matrix type display unit, and a drive method thereof are disclosed. Gate-bus lines are provided at both top and bottom sides of each row. Two sub-pixels are formed at a region surrounded by two adjacent source-bus lines and two adjacent gate-bus lines. At the odd-numbered rows, for the left-side sub-pixel of those two sub-pixels, a scanning signal is supplied from the top-side gate-bus line, while a video signal is supplied from the left-side source-bus line. For the right-side sub-pixel, on the contrary, a scanning signal is supplied from the bottom-side gate-bus line, while a video signal is supplied from the right-side source-bus line. At the even-numbered rows, the gate-bus line from which a scanning signal is supplied is reversed to the case of the odd-numbered rows. The gate-bus lines are sequentially selected one by one, and all the video signal polarities are made the same during each horizontal scanning period.
US08115710B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) control circuit is disclosed. The control circuit includes an edge detecting circuit for detecting image edges in each frame of an image data, and outputting an edge data and a non-edge data; a memory for saving the edge data of the frame; a driving decision circuit for generating a driving voltage setting according to the non-edge data of a current frame, and generating an overdriving voltage setting according to the edge data of a previous frame saved in the memory and the edge data of the current frame outputted by the edge detecting circuit; and an output device for outputting the driving voltage setting and the overdriving voltage setting.
US08115707B2
A system and method for driving an AMOLED display is provided. The AMOLED display includes a plurality of pixel circuits. A voltage-programming scheme, a current-programming scheme or a combination thereof is applied to drive the display. Threshold shift information, and/or voltage necessary to obtain hybrid driving circuit may be acquired. A data sampling may be implemented to acquire a current/voltage relationship. A feedback operation may be implemented to correct the brightness of the pixel.
US08115698B2
Methods and systems for displaying or projecting images that may be implemented to provide the ability for a user of an information handling system to view a selected image on a display or projection screen privately, while allowing other images to appear on the display or projection screen which are publicly viewable to other users who cannot see the privately-displayed image. With appropriate intervening polarization, a user may be allowed to view the private image as well as any displayed or projected publicly viewable images, and the private image and publicly viewable images may be optionally simultaneously displayed or projected if so desired.
US08115690B2
Free space antenna structures are presented in which multiple radiating elements are disposed proximate to each other. In a structure containing two radiating elements, the radiating element of shorter wavelength is split into a monopole and a dipole that are electrically, but not physically, coupled to each other. The monopole has a length of λ/4 and is attached to the same feed as the longer wavelength radiating element. The dipole has a length of λ/4 and is attached to the same feed as the longer wavelength radiating element. Non-conductive shields prevent contact between the monopole, dipole, and longer wavelength radiating element. The longer wavelength radiating element is formed in a helix outside of which the dipole, and perhaps monopole, is disposed.
US08115677B2
For transmitter-side processing of information it is decided in which direction of transmission signals for a receiver are to be transmitted, the direction of transmission being a linear combination of one of a number of antenna directional diagrams corresponding to a first plurality. In a baseband processing section (REC), a number of antenna directional diagram signal sequences (X(1),X(2)), corresponding to the first plurality is determined from a signal sequence (T), determined for the receiver by weighting of the signal sequence (T) for each of the antenna directional diagrams with a coefficient (a(1), a(2)) corresponding to each of the linear combinations. Each antenna directional diagram signal sequence (X(1),X(2)) is transmitted by a dedicated logical connection from the baseband processing section (REC) to a high frequency processing section (RE). A conversion of the first plurality of antenna directional diagram signal sequences (X(1),X(2)) to a number of antenna element analogue signals, corresponding to a second plurality different to the first plurality, is carried out in the frequency processing section (RE). Each antenna element analogue signal is transmitted from one antenna element (A) of a number of antenna elements (A) corresponding to the second plurality.
US08115673B1
A UWB RF detector employs a pulsed self-oscillating mixer (SOM) and an output integrator to provide low-noise preamplification, mixing and sampling. The SOM produces short-burst, microwave self-oscillations that are phase-locked to a clock. The self-oscillations are used for mixing. The SOM can also radiate UWB RF pulses. A one-transistor SOM can simultaneously implement both a UWB emitter and a UWB detector in a radar transceiver. A control loop can stabilize the self-oscillations at nanowatt levels. Nanowatt UWB radars and radios can be realized, thereby opening new spectral bands beyond those formally designated for UWB operation.
US08115672B2
The present invention relates to a procedure for measuring distance. It applies notably in respect of short-range radars, but not exclusively. The method uses an electromagnetic wave comprising at least one emission sequence (31, 32, 33, 34, 35) of the FSK type, at least two emission frequencies (F1, F2), emitted successively towards the said target a given number p of times inside the sequence. The gap δF between the emission frequencies (F1, F2) is substantially equal to an integer number k of times the repetition frequency (SPRF) of the cycle of frequencies, the distance measurement being obtained on the basis of the measurement of difference of phases Δφ between the signals received corresponding respectively to a first frequency (F1) and to a second frequency (F2).
US08115670B2
A method of measuring the speed of a vehicle wherein the speed and the distance of the vehicle from a radar system and/or the measuring angle of the vehicle relative to the radar axis is determined by means of a radar measurement so as to characterize or determine the vehicle lane of the vehicle by means of the distance and/or the measuring angle. Knowledge of the vehicle lane makes it possible to unequivocally identify the detected vehicle in a group of vehicles unequivocally.
US08115667B2
Embodiments of the disclosed technology comprise an air-launched antenna system with interference-rejection technology that operates in analog hardware as well as by way of a digital filtering technique. Using an inline analog hardware filter combined with a digital filter, to determine transversal (and/or recursive) coefficients, in a calibration phase, a measurement system may be configured to remove interference and the effects (such as a delay or temperature variation) which result from use of an analog filter. In this manner, the resulting measurements of a composition of road surface are more accurate and useful.
US08115660B2
The present invention, in particular embodiments, is directed to methods, apparatuses and systems that provide an efficient compression technique for data streams transmitted to storage devices or over networks to remote hosts. Local storage as well as network transmission of streams is made more efficient by awareness and utilization of repeated sequences of data blocks. Such data blocks can be placed in a dictionary on persistent storage and shared across all streams. The dictionary is hierarchically indexed (two or more levels of indexing) to combine high efficiency search with efficient access to the stored data blocks. Additionally, data blocks, in particular implementations, are stored sequentially in order to improve overall performance.
US08115657B2
The invention relates to medicine and can be used for persons with paralysis of upper and lower limbs. The inventive device comprises a signal processing and transmitting module (1), a coordinate unit (2), functional contacts (3), control contacts (4) and an elastic base plate (5) which is symmetrical with respect to a longitudinal axis and is provided with an unbendable projection (6) on the front part thereof. The plate consists of a central circle (7), peripheral circles (8) which are radially spaced away from the central circle, connecting straps (9) mating with the central circle (7) by one end thereof, whilst the other end is coupled with the respective peripheral circle (8). The unbendable projection is made in a shape of an equilateral trapezoid adjacent to the central circle by the larger base thereof and is upwardly bent at about 20 to 60° angle with respect to the plate plane. The signal processing and transmitting module is arranged on the top surface of the central circle of the plate. The coordinate unit is arranged on the lower surface of the central circle. Each functional contact is fixed to the lower surface of the respective peripheral circle. The control contacts are fixed to the lower surface of the unbendable projection. The plate together with operating elements fixed thereto is enveloped with a waterproof film (10). The shape of the film matches the external outlines of the plate with edge allowance (11) and the edge thereof is provided with V-shaped notches (12). Said invention makes it possible to improve the operational characteristics, to simplify the production of the device and to reduce the costs thereof.
US08115651B2
A method is provided which transmits information using a plurality of data transmission nodes situated along a drill string. In this method, a first node obtains a transmission status of a second node. When the transmission status of the second node indicates that the second node meets a selected performance threshold, information is sent from the first node to the second node. When the transmission status of the second node indicates that the second node does not meet its performance threshold, then the first node obtains a transmission status of a third node. When the transmission status of the third node indicates that the third node meets a selected performance threshold, information is transmitted from the first node to the third node for relaying along the drill string.
US08115635B2
A glucose monitoring system, includes a glucose sensor strip or package of strips. The strip includes a substrate and a glucose monitoring circuit that has electrodes and a bodily fluid application portion of selected chemical composition. An antenna is integrated with the glucose sensor strip. A RFID sensor chip is coupled with the glucose sensor strip and the antenna. The chip has a memory containing digitally-encoded data representing calibration and/or expiration date information for the strip.
US08115629B2
A collective objects management system for objects such as documents contained in file folders in drawers of file cabinets. Each file folder has an electrical circuit with a visible indicator mounted on the file folder. Each folder circuit has a pair of crystals which are responsive to R.F. signals of specific frequencies, the frequencies of each pair being different for each folder circuit. An associated computer operates an R.F. signal generator to produce R.F. signals at the frequencies of the particular folder circuit of the file folder selected for retrieval. To aid the user, each file drawer has a visible indicator mounted on the front panel, the panel indicator being illuminated when the sought folder is contained in that drawer. The invention can be applied to a wide variety of collective objects management systems, such as supermarkets, automobile parts distributors, and various manufacturing operations.
US08115621B2
A tracking device for tracking an individual or object includes a housing configured to house components for tracking an individual or object. The housing has a first part and a second part. The first and second parts are configured to be joined together to form a waterproof housing.
US08115619B2
An information processing apparatus includes an input section, a position calculation section, a storage section, a log information record section, a display data generation section and a display section. The input section receives document identification information, which are output as output signals from respective transmission portions set to correspond to respective documents, and user identification information, which are output as output signals from respective transmission portions set to correspond to users. The position calculation section calculates document positions and user positions based on the document identification information and the user identification information. The storage section stores the calculated document positions and the calculated user positions. The log information record section records document use histories of the users based on the stored document positions and the stored user positions. The display data generation section generates display data indicating a document position of a document, which was used by a particular user.
US08115618B2
RFID antennas for ingestible devices, such as ingestible event markers, are provided. Aspects of the ingestible devices of the invention include RFID signal transmission antennas with a battery that is activated upon being exposed to fluid in the body. Embodiments of the RFID antennas are configured to emit a detectable signal upon contact with a target physiological site. Also provided are methods of making and using the devices of the invention.
US08115610B2
A tire control system for a vehicle is provided includes an RFID tag mounted to the tire and having a unique tire serial number stored within tag memory accessible to an external reader; a pass-through portal operatively entered and exited by the vehicle; one or more tire-directed antenna positioned within the portal for operatively receiving one or more one data transmissions of the unique tire serial number from the tire-based RFID tag; and one or more tire-directed RFID reader coupled to the tire-directed antennas for operably reading and storing within a tire-based database the unique tire serial number data. A vehicle-based RFID tag is mounted to the vehicle having a unique vehicle serial number stored within tag memory and transmitted to an external reader as the vehicle moves through the portal. A data processing computer is coupled to receive the portal-read unique tire serial number and vehicle serial number and conducts of the portal-read unique tire serial number data and the unique vehicle serial number data against prestored reference tire serial number data and prestored reference vehicle serial number data, respectively.
US08115606B2
A transmitter and a receiver are paired that use the same power line and power module. The transmitter associates an identification number with a command message so that a receiver can ascertain that a command message is intended for the receiver. The transmitter uses the time from the power up to the first zero crossing of the AC signal to generate a matching seed for both transmitter and receiver. The transmitter generates an identification number by incrementing a counter each incremental time interval between power up and the occurrence of the first zero crossing of the AC signal and sends the generated identification number to the paired receiver after power up but before a predetermined time interval. The receiver stores the generated identification number and compares the stored identification number with a received identification number that is received in a subsequent command message.
US08115601B2
It is an object of the present invention to avoid communication congestion and collision by effectively assigning a unit radio channel for transmission and reception to RFID tag readers using the same unit radio channel group. Herein disclosed is an RFID tag reading system for reading an RFID tag using a reader/writer used in a low-output RFID tag reading system capable of using channels 1 to 9 available for a reader/writer used in a high-output RFID reading system and channels 10 to 14 not available for a reader/writer used in the high-output RFID tag reading system. The RFID tag reading system receives an RSSI indicative of a received radiowave strength on each of unit radio channels measured by the reader/writers, and assigns channels 1 to 14 preferentially to channels 1 to 9 based on the RSSI.
US08115599B2
Methods and systems for automatically locating and identifying labware using radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags are described herein. The methods and systems include a plurality of RFID tags (pre-programmed with unique data codes) that are associated with labware (or labware holders). For example, the RFID tags can be embedded within the locating pegs of the labware (or labware holders). The methods and systems also include a plurality of RFID tag readers that mount near known locations of an instrument deck which receives the labware. The RFID tag readers automatically scan for the presence of RFID tags such that when a piece of labware is added to the instrument deck, and then report to a processing device the specific known location on deck where each tag was found, as well as the unique data code of each tag. Using this information, the methods and systems determine one or more of the location, orientation, and identity of the received labware.
US08115593B2
A plurality of modules interact to form an adaptive network in which each module transmits and receives data signals indicative of proximity of objects. A central computer accumulates the data produced or received and relayed by each module for analyzing proximity responses to transmit through the adaptive network control signals to a selectively-addressed module to respond to computer analyses of the data accumulated from modules forming the adaptive network. Interactions of local processors in modules that sense an intrusion determine the location and path of movements of the intruding object and control cameras in the modules to retrieve video images of the intruding object. Multiple operational frequencies in adaptive networks permit expansions by additional networks that each operate at separate radio frequencies to avoid overlapping interaction. Additional modules may be introduced into operating networks without knowing the operating frequency at the time of introduction. Remote modules operating as leaf nodes of the adaptive network actively adapt to changed network conditions upon awaking from power-conserving sleep mode. New programs are distributed to all or selected modules under control of the base station.
US08115589B2
A method for producing an electrical resistor, in particular a current sensing resistor, on a substrate, a resistor blank being placed on the substrate and then being heat-treated to form the resistor. To form the resistor blank, a palladium layer is applied to the substrate and a silver layer is applied to the palladium layer, or a silver layer is applied to the substrate and a palladium layer is applied to the silver layer, and the palladium of the palladium layer is then completely alloyed with the silver of the silver layer by heat treatment.
US08115586B2
Provided are a variable resistive element having a configuration that the area of an electrically contributing region in a variable resistor body is smaller than the area defined by an upper electrode or a lower electrode, and a method for manufacturing the variable resistive element. The cross section of a current path, in which an electric current flows through between the two electrodes via the variable resistor body at the time of applying the voltage pulse to between the two electrodes, is formed with a line width of narrower than that of any of the two electrodes and of smaller than a minimum work dimension regarding manufacturing processes, so that its area can be made smaller than that of the electrically contributing region in the variable resistive element of the prior art.
US08115585B2
In a variable resistance element having a variable resistor between first and second electrodes and changing its electric resistance when a voltage pulse is applied between both electrodes, data holding characteristics can be improved by increasing a programming voltage and programming in a high current density. Therefore, a booster circuit for supplying a high voltage is needed when the variable resistance element is applied to a nonvolatile memory. When the smaller of the areas of the contact regions between the first electrode and variable resistor and between the second electrode and variable resistor is set to the electrode area of the variable resistance element, it is set within a specific range not larger than the predetermined electrode area. Thereby the programming current density can be increased without raising the programming voltage, and the variable resistance element having preferable data holding characteristics even at a high temperature can be provided.
US08115579B2
The micro-electromechanical (MEMS) actuator comprises a hot arm member and a cold arm member. The cold arm member comprises at least two longitudinally spaced-apart flexors. The actuators may also be constructed with at least one among the hot arm member and the cold arm member comprising at least one spring section. The stress in this improved MEMS actuator is more uniformly distributed, thereby reducing the mechanical creep and improving its reliability as well as its operation life.
US08115577B2
An electromechanical switch includes a first beam, a second beam arranged in parallel with the first beam and connected to the first beam through a connecting portion, a first electrode formed so as to have a first gap with respect to the first beam, a voltage applying portion which applies a voltage between the first beam and the first electrode, and a second electrode formed so as to have a second gap with respect to the second beam. The second gap is greater than the first gap. The first beam is displaced when the voltage applying portion applies the voltage between the first beam and the first electrode, so that switching between the second beam and the second electrode is performed in a state that the first beam is not electrically connected to the first electrode.
US08115575B2
An apparatus and method for manufacturing low-cost high-density compact active inductor module using existing DRAM, SRAM and logic process integration. The elements of the active inductor modules are formed by three semiconductor devices including nMOS devices, deep-trench capacitors and a polysilicon or TaN resistor. The active inductor modules can be connected in a parallel and/or serial configuration to obtain a wide range of inductance values. The modular active inductors can be advantageously stored in an ASIC library to facilitate a flexible and convenient circuit design.
US08115571B2
A Passive harmonic filter (F) has an input node (B) for connection to a power supply (1), an output node (C) for connection to a load (15, 17) and an intermediate node (A). A first branch (3, 4) located between the input node (B) and the intermediate node (A) has at least one first inductance (4). A second branch (11, 13) located between the intermediate node (A) and the output node (C) has at least one second inductance (11). A third branch (5, 7, 9) is connected to the intermediate node (A) and has at least one capacitor (9). The first, second and third branch thus build a low-pass T-filter. A damping branch (22, 24) is provided having at least one first resistor (22), where the damping branch is arranged in parallel to the first branch.
US08115570B2
A coaxial phase shifter for very high RF-powers includes an optionally-cooled housing which forms the outer conductor and in which a substantially U-shaped inner conductor made of a tube is arranged which comprises at each of its ends a cooling medium connection for guiding through a cooling medium. The U-shaped inner conductor is externally displaceable for changing its electrical length between a contact-making input-side inner-conductor connection piece and a contact-making output-side inner-conductor connection piece. The inner-conductor connection pieces are disposed coaxially in the outer connection flanges which make contact with the housing.
US08115559B2
An oscillator including a current bias circuit and a ring oscillator. The current bias circuit tracks a temperature change of the oscillator by using a control voltage and generates a plurality of bias voltages to supply a bias current according to the temperature change. The ring oscillator compares differential output signals generated according to the bias voltages and generates an oscillation signal as a result of the comparison.
US08115554B2
According to one embodiment, there is a semiconductor device including a first active element, a second active element connected in parallel with the first active element, and a first stabilization circuit connected between a gate of the first active element and a gate of the second active element and configured with a parallel circuit of a gate bypass resistor, a gate bypass capacitor, and a gate bypass inductor, the first stabilization circuit having a resonant frequency equal to an odd mode resonant frequency.
US08115548B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for controlling output distortions of an amplifier. The apparatus for controlling output distortions of an amplifier, includes a compensation signal generator to predict a fluctuation of a supply voltage of a power supply using a prediction model which reflects fluctuations characteristics of the supply voltage, and to generate a compensation signal based on the prediction, and a compensator to transform an input signal using the compensating signal to control the output distortions.
US08115540B2
To provide, for example, a pulse input type power amplifying apparatus that can be operated at low voltage and low power, effectively suppressing generation of harmonic component.The amplifying apparatus includes at least two amplification circuits, one and other amplification circuits, composed of multiple amplifiers whose output sides are connected to each other, driven at the same frequency. The multiple amplifiers forming the one amplification circuit are configured with a first inverting amplifier M12 inputting and amplifying a reference pulse, and a second inverting amplifier M11 to which an inverted pulse formed by shifting and inverting the phase of the reference pulse is inputted. The other amplification circuit is configured with the first inverting amplifier M14 and the second inverting amplifier M13 to each of which other wide pulse with a width greater than that of the reference pulse is commonly inputted.
US08115537B2
Reducing, suppressing or canceling parallel parasitic capacitance and/or resistive effects that affect the frequency response of components, elements and/or circuits in an electronic circuit or system that exhibit inductance is disclosed. Noise generated by parallel parasitic capacitance and/or parasitic resistance of the components, the physical orientation of the components, and/or the layout of components, devices and/or conductive tracks (board traces) on printed circuit boards within an electronic circuit or system is reduced, suppressed or canceled. The reduction, suppression or cancelation is achieved by adding a current source in parallel with a part or component of the electronic circuit or system that exhibits inductance, the current source being adapted to deliver a compensating current of roughly equal magnitude and roughly opposite phase to parasitic current associated with the part or component.
US08115531B1
A D flip-flop (DFF), a method of operating a DFF, a latch and a library of standard logic elements including standard logic elements corresponding to a DFF and a latch. In one embodiment, the DFF has a data input and a data output and includes: (1) a master stage passgate coupled to the data input, (2) a master stage coupled to the master stage passgate and having a hysteresis inverter with feedback transistors of opposite conductivity, (3) a slave stage passgate coupled to the master stage and (4) a slave stage coupled between the slave stage passgate and the data output and having a hysteresis inverter with feedback transistors of opposite conductivity.
US08115530B2
Configurable time-borrowing flip-flops may be based on configurable pulse generation circuitry and pulse latches. The circuitry may use a self-timed architecture that controls the width of clock pulses that are generated so that the pulse latches that are controlled by the clock pulses exhibit a reduced risk of race through conditions. Latch circuitry may be provided that is based on a pulse latch and an additional latch connected in series with the pulse latch. In situations in which there is a potential for race through conditions on an integrated circuit, the additional latch may be switched into use to convert the latch circuitry into an edge-triggered flip flop. Clock trees may be provide with configurable shorting structures that help to reduce clock skew. Low-contention clock drivers may drive signals onto the clock tree paths.
US08115524B2
A semiconductor device for applying an auto clock alignment training mode to reduce the time required for a clock alignment training operation. The semiconductor device adjusts the entry time of the auto clock alignment training mode to prevent the clock alignment training operation from malfunctioning. The semiconductor device includes a clock division block configured to divide a data clock to generate a data division clock, a phase multiplex block configured to generate a plurality of multiple data division clocks in response to the data division clock, a logic level control block configured to set a period, in which a division control signal is changeable, depending on the data division clock, and a first phase detection block configured to detect a phase of a system clock on the basis of the multiple data division clocks in the period, and to generate the division control signal corresponding to a detection result.
US08115522B2
A prescaler circuit according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a first flip-flop circuit that detects second output data and outputs the detected data as first output data, and a second flip-flop circuit that detects the first output data and outputs the data as the second output data. The first flip-flop circuit includes a master-side latch circuit that generates intermediate data, a slave-side latch circuit that detects the intermediate data and outputs the data as the first output data, and a control signal switching circuit that selects and outputs the first output data as a control signal in a mode where the frequency is divided by 3, and selects and outputs a predefined fixed signal as a control signal in a mode where the frequency is divided by 4. The master-side latch circuit generates the intermediate data based on the second output data and the control signal.
US08115518B1
An integrated circuit allows for the correction of distortion at an input of a sampling network. The integrated circuit contains a first bootstrap circuit to drive a sampling network transistor and a second bootstrap circuit to separate the back-gate terminal of the transistor from a voltage input by a resistance inserted in series. The presence of the inserted resistance counteracts the effect of the nonlinear back-gate capacitance on the distortion at the input.
US08115513B2
A circuit implementing a soft logical processing network includes an interconnection of analog processing elements, which can include soft logic gates, the soft logic gates including one or more soft logic gates. In some examples, each of the soft logic gates include multiple circuit parts, with each part including an input configured to accept a voltage signal representation of a soft logical quantity, and a conversion section configured to use the accepted voltage representation to form a corresponding current signal. The current signals are combined to form a signal representation of the output of the gate.
US08115511B2
A configurable integrated circuit (IC) system comprising: a first die comprising input/output cells; and a configurable logic second die connected by a first plurality of through-silicon-vias (TSVs) to the first die.
US08115509B2
A chip is provided with a specific signal wire and two adjacent signal wires. Output signals based on a specific signal and two adjacent signals are transmitted to the specific signal wire and the two adjacent signal wires respectively. An adjustment coefficient is stored in a memory. The adjustment coefficient is used for reducing an occurrence amount of crosstalk arising between the specific signal wire and the two adjacent signal wires. An adjustment quantity calculation portion calculates an adjustment quantity representing a degree of decrease of a slew rate of the specific signal, based on the adjustment coefficient, the specific signal and the two adjacent signals. A driver adjusts the slew rate of the specific signal based on the adjustment quantity and to transmit one of the output signals corresponding to the specific signal.
US08115503B2
A device for measuring the resistivity ρc of an interface between a semiconductor and a metal, including at least: one dielectric layer, at least one semiconductor-based element of a substantially rectangular shape, which is arranged on the dielectric layer, having a lengthwise L and widthwise W face in contact with the dielectric layer and having a thickness t, and at least two interface portions containing the metal or an alloy of said semiconductor and said metal, wherein each of two opposing faces of the semiconductor element, having a surface equal to t×W and being perpendicular to the face in contact with the dielectric layer, being completely covered by one of the interface portions.
US08115493B2
A trainline integrity locomotive test device is provided that is configured to provide conventionally provided End-Of-Train (EOT) functionality required for a single locomotive test as well as functionality necessary for troubleshooting electrical problems in trainline electrical conductors, wherein the trainline integrity locomotive test device includes a reduced number of components in comparison with a conventional EOT device. Additionally, the test device is provided in more compact, durable and robust form relative to conventional EOT devices. As part of the transmission of trainline integrity data from the test device to the Head-End-Unit, a communications heartbeat signal is substituted for brake pipe pressure conventionally detected by EOT devices, so as to provide an indication of data communication reliability.
US08115492B2
A lighting system is provided that includes at least one lighting device, at least one connector, and a plurality of external power sources. The at least one lighting device includes at least one lighting source, and an internal power source applying a first electrical current to illuminate the at least one lighting element, wherein the internal power source supplies the first electrical current. The at least one connector electrically connects to the at least one lighting device. The plurality of external power sources include at least first and second external power sources that are adapted to be electrically connected to the at least one lighting device by the at least one connector. Further, a fuel gauging system and method detects an electrochemical composition of a power source, which can be at least one of the internal power source and the external power source, and then determines a state of charge of the power source based upon the determined electrochemical composition of the power source.
US08115489B2
A detector for detecting a buried conductor comprises a plurality of antennas B, T. Each antenna B, T has a winding wound around the antenna, the winding being connected to a current source for providing a predefined current in the winding. When the predefined current is applied to the winding an electromagnetic field is generated at the antenna which induces a test current in the antenna. The test current is compared to calibration data stored in the detector to validate the correct operation of the detector.
US08115487B2
A magnetic resonance imaging system includes a primary magnet and a secondary magnet operable to produce magnetic fields within a sample being imaged. The MRI system further includes at least one RF coil that is operable to receive electromagnetic frequencies from the sample. The RF coil is formed from tubing that serves as a cooling conduit through which flows a cooling fluid provided by a cooling source. The cooling fluid cools the RF coils to improve imaging of the sample.
US08115482B2
In a method to generate an anatomical image of an examination area with a magnetic resonance apparatus as well as computer program and magnetic resonance apparatus for implementation of the method, at least one image data set of the examination area and a parameter value map are loaded. The at least one loaded image data set and the loaded parameter value map are processed into an anatomical image. The processing includes a weighting of elements of the at least one image data set with a weighting factor. The weighting factor depends on a parameter value of the parameter value map corresponding to the respective element of the image data set. The generated weighted anatomical image is displayed and/or stored.
US08115481B2
A method for analytically separating properties of hydrocarbon materials from other materials in a downhole environment, the method including: performing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements downhole; determining a signal for sodium-23 (23Na) from the NMR measurements; and associating the 23Na signal with the other materials. A computer program product, an apparatus and additional methods are provided.
US08115480B2
To provide a magnetic body detector as a means for warning that a magnetic body enters into a room where a strong magnet, such as an MRI diagnostic system, is installed, wherein a magnetic sensor can detect even a small magnetic body without being saturated even in an environment with strong magnetic flux density; and appropriate notification is provided to a user by arithmetic processing for inhibiting the detected value of a magnetic body that does not pass through a gate. By adjusting a solid angle formed with a detection axis of the magnetic sensor and a vertical axis or a horizontal axis to be within 15 degrees, a strong direct-current magnetic flux density to be applied to the detection axis is reduced; a small change in magnetic flux density due to the entry of a small magnetic body is detectable without saturation; the characteristics of a magnetic body that will not pass through the gate is extracted by the magnetic sensors arranged in the front, rear, left and right of the gate; and only a magnetic body in the vicinity that passes through the gate is regarded as a target for detection by inhibiting magnetic bodies that will not pass through the gate by calculation.
US08115469B2
A driver circuit raises an output transistor signal smoothly while suppressing decreases in voltage. A motor driver includes a transistor connected to a buffer of a pre-driver. An external terminal of the motor driver is connected to a regulator to supply first and second transistors with voltage. The gates of the first and second transistors are connected to the drain of the other one of the first and second transistors. The first transistor is connected to a third transistor, which receives an input signal. The second transistor is connected to a fourth transistor, which receives the inverted input signal. The external terminal is connected to the gate of a further transistor. The further transistor has a source connected via a fifth transistor to a buffer, and a drain connected to the regulator.
US08115464B2
The objective of this invention is to provide a boost circuit that reduces power consumption and prevents malfunctioning when the input voltage becomes greater than a target voltage for the output voltage. Control circuit module 5 sets both control signals HCNT2 and LCNT2 to low level “L” when the conditions “output voltage VBoost is higher than voltage OVREF” and “voltage (VIN+VOFFSET) is higher than output voltage VBoost” are satisfied. With this, in boost circuit module 7, switch SWH will be off and switch SWL will be on to forcibly switch to mode B. In mode B, because switch SWH is on, output voltage VBoost will be near input voltage VIN, and the power consumption can be reduced.
US08115460B2
A power converter constituted of: a control circuitry; a first electric coil; a first electronically controlled switch associated with the first electric coil and responsive to the control circuitry, the first electronically controlled switch arranged to charge the first electric coil responsive to a closed state of the first electronically switch; and a second electronically controlled switch arranged to present a substantially short circuit across the first electric coil when the second electronically controlled switch is closed, the second electronically controlled switch responsive to the control circuitry and not arranged to either charge or discharge the first electric coil.
US08115458B2
A driver includes a sensor sensing a driving current and a driving voltage for an external device including a capacitor, a PWM, a PFC, and a controller. The PFC includes a phase angle estimation unit estimating a phase angle variation of an input voltage to the PFC based on a parameter regarding the driving current, a voltage compensator compensating an error of the driving voltage, a first current estimation unit estimating a variation of a charge of the capacitor based on the charge current and the phase angle variation estimated by the phase angle estimation unit, a second current estimation unit estimating a driving current variation, and a calculator calculating a duty ratio for the PWM based on the variation of the charge current estimated by the first current estimation unit and the driving current variation estimated by the second current estimation unit.
US08115455B2
The application relates to a power battery module, including rechargeable cells having a nominal operating charging temperature, greater than 20° C. According to the application, the module includes a circuit for managing charging of the cells which further includes: two external charging terminals for charging of the cells, wherein at least one, called second charging terminal, of the two external charging terminals is distinct from the external use terminals, first interruption/connector between the second charging terminal and one of the use terminals, second device between the charging terminals and the heating element to connect, at least in the first interruption position, the charging terminals to a heating element of the cells.
US08115454B2
Disclosed is a battery having an internally integrated voltage converter module. The battery includes at least one electrochemical cell having an internal bore, a voltage converter module electrically coupled to the at least one electrochemical cell and disposed within a portion of the internal bore, the voltage converter configured to convert a first voltage produced by the at least one electrochemical cell into a second, different voltage, a set of terminals being electrically coupled to the voltage converter, and a bypass circuit coupled between one of the terminals of the set of terminals and the at least one electrochemical cell to direct charging current applied from an external source to the at least one electrochemical cell.
US08115444B2
A motor drive circuit has a converter for coupling to an AC voltage source and an inverter coupled to the converter for providing a drive current for a motor. A common mode circulation loop is coupled to the converter and to the inverter, and circulates common mode current from both the converter and the inverter.
US08115436B2
In a motor control apparatus, apparatus all switching devices of all phases of an inverter are kept fixed at OFF in accordance with a value of an all-OFF control pulse signal Poff outputted by a pulse generator. The pulse generator generates at least twice a pulse causing an induced voltage detection signal Pdet to change to an H level. A terminal voltage of a motor is inputted in accordance with the value of the induced voltage detection signal Pdet. Data of the sampling round in which amplitude of the induced voltage signal is great and the signal is not in saturation is selected from the data so inputted and a rotor position is estimated.
US08115435B2
A control device (2′″) for an AC-DC current converter associated with a polyphase synchronous rotary electrical machine. The AC-DC current converter contains, for each phase, a branch of two power switches in series, known as high and low (25). The control device (2′″) contains means of generating a signal (θ(t)) representing the angular position of the rotor. The control device contains one or more digital tables (20 H, 20 B) addressed by the signal of the angular position of the rotor (θ(t)) and delivering at their outputs binary control signals (200 H- 202 H, 200 B- 202 B), each controlling one branch of power switches (25).
US08115431B2
An inverter control apparatus that controls a three-phase inverter which transforms a direct-current voltage into an alternating three-phase voltage, the inverter control apparatus includes: a voltage command vector generation portion that generates a first voltage command vector for specifying a vector of a voltage to be applied to a three-phase load that is connected to the inverter; a voltage command vector correction portion that in performing overmodulation with the inverter, corrects the first voltage command vector by setting a limit onto a coordinate-axis component of the first voltage command vector on an ab coordinate system to generate a second voltage command vector, wherein the inverter is so controlled that a voltage depending on the second voltage command vector is applied to the load, and the ab coordinate system is a coordinated system that depending on a phase of the first voltage command vector with respect to a predetermined fixed axis on a two-dimensional fixed coordinate system, rotates in stepwise fashion for every 60 degrees in electrical angle with respect to the fixed coordinate system.
US08115430B2
A system is provided for controlling two AC machines. The system comprises a DC input voltage source that provides a DC input voltage, a voltage boost command control module (VBCCM), a five-phase PWM inverter module coupled to the two AC machines, and a boost converter coupled to the inverter module and the DC input voltage source. The boost converter is designed to supply a new DC input voltage to the inverter module having a value that is greater than or equal to a value of the DC input voltage. The VBCCM generates a boost command signal (BCS) based on modulation indexes from the two AC machines. The BCS controls the boost converter such that the boost converter generates the new DC input voltage in response to the BCS. When the two AC machines require additional voltage that exceeds the DC input voltage required to meet a combined target mechanical power required by the two AC machines, the BCS controls the boost converter to drive the new DC input voltage generated by the boost converter to a value greater than the DC input voltage.
US08115426B2
An apparatus and a method for preparing connection of a photovoltaic system (Q1) as a first energy source to a power grid (13) by way of a motor generator set (5, 6, 7) is presented. The DC motor (5) is coupled to a three-phase generator (7) by way of a shaft (6), wherein the three-phase generator (7) can be connected to the power grid (13). It has been observed that connecting this type of apparatus to the small or varying power output of the photovoltaic system (Q1) can be difficult and time-consuming. To enable a clean and quick connection, the DC motor (5) is powered with electric DC current from a second DC current source (Q2), wherein the operation of the three-phase generator (7) is matched to the conditions in the power grid (13) with the help of the second DC current source (Q2), and wherein the photovoltaic system (Q1) is connected to the DC motor (5) and the second DC current source (Q2) is disconnected from the DC motor (5) only after a complete match has been attained. This enables a quick and precise connection of the photovoltaic system (Q1) to the power grid (13) with defined parameters using the three-phase generator (7).
US08115415B2
A backlight unit includes a plurality of light source units arranged in a matrix form, a light source controller outputting a dimming signal to control a brightness of the light source units and a latch signal to control a light source unit row of the plurality of light source units to be sequentially driven according to a predetermined scanning period, and a plurality of light source driving units connected to light source unit columns of the plurality of light source units and supplying driving signals corresponding to the dimming signal to the light source units in the light source unit columns.
US08115411B2
A light emitting diode lighting device and system that can be used for illuminating the interior and/or exterior of vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, signage or buildings is provided. It includes a voltage feedback constant current power supply circuitry and high power LEDs. The printed circuit assemblies are firmly mounted onto a continuous or semi-continuous mounting channel case that also works as a heat sink. By this means, it not only increases the reliability of the LED lighting tube but also it provides sufficient heat dissipation capability for the heat generated by the LEDs. Since the operating temperature of the LEDs is controlled and stays in cool condition, it dramatically increases the LED's lifetime and efficiency. The end caps of this LED lighting device are fully compatible with existing conventional fluorescent light fixtures and can directly replace those fluorescent lighting tubes in vehicles, mass-transit, watercrafts, aircrafts, signage, furniture, equipment or buildings with minimal modifications.
US08115403B2
There is provided herein a method for starting a high intensity discharge lamp and a ballast incorporating the same. In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining a cumulative probability function of breakdown times, P(t), for the lamp at a voltage, V; (b) determining a minimum pulse length, Tp, for a selected probability of ignition, Pign; (c) if the lamp is operable at the minimum pulse length, then operating the lamp with a DC pulse having a duration Tp and voltage V; (d) or alternatively, if the lamp is not operable at the minimum pulse length, then determining a relaxation time, Trel, for a burst mode, selecting a probability of ignition per burst, Pb, calculating a minimum number of pulses, np, in a burst, determining a number of bursts, Nb, for the selected probability of ignition, and operating the lamp in the burst mode with Nb bursts separated by relaxation time, Trel, with each burst having np pulses of voltage V.
US08115397B2
Power is stored in a networked light allowing the networked light to send a message over the network providing information that the networked light is turning off if external power is no longer available.
US08115396B2
An LED lamp protecting circuit includes an LED lamp, a constant current source and a buffer circuit. The constant current source includes positive and negative input terminals, positive and negative output terminals and a switch. The buffer circuit is connected between the negative output terminal and the LED lamp. The buffer circuit includes a charging capacitor, a first NPN transistor and a second PNP transistor. An emitting electrode of the second transistor is connected to the LED lamp. A collecting electrode of the second transistor is connected to the negative output terminal. The charging capacitor is connected between the emitting electrode of the second transistor and a ground. A collecting electrode and an emitting electrode of the first transistor are respectively electrically connected to a base electrode of the second transistor and the ground.
US08115393B2
A tubular LED lighting fixture comprises: a heat sink shell; a printed circuit board supported on the shell and having an upper surface and a bottom surface, longitudinally extending laterally spaced wiring on the upper and bottom surfaces, and, transverse heat pipes running through the printed circuit board; a plurality of LEDs connected in series across the laterally spaced upper surface wiring and spacedly mounted along the printed circuit board; a high frequency electronic driver mounted in the shell and connected in series with the LEDs; voltage limiting devices mounted across the laterally spaced bottom surface wiring of the printed circuit board and in parallel with the LEDs; a lens bonded to the shell covering the printed circuit board for directing and delivering light from the LEDs, the shell and lens forming a tube for enclosing the LED bearing printed circuit board; the tube so formed having sealed ends to form a watertight fixture; and, input wires extending from the high frequency electronic driver through at least one of the tube sealed ends.
US08115392B1
The invention relates to a device for generation of microwaves comprising a coaxial virtual cathode oscillator (1) with an outer cylindrical tube forming a cathode (2) and connected to a transmission line (8) for feeding the cathode (2) with voltage pulses, and an inner cylindrical tube, at least partially transparent for electrons, forming an anode (3) and connected to a transmission device (8) for outputting microwave radiation generated by the formation of a virtual cathode (4) inside an area enclosed by the anode. Through the introduction of a centre conductor (5) arranged to coincide with the centre axle (19) for the cathode's (2) outer cylindrical tube and in electrical connection with the tube a device for generation of microwaves is obtained having improved energy efficiency and better broadband performance.
US08115391B2
A hermetic envelope includes a first plate, a second plate, and a frame provided between the first plate and the second plate to form an interior space. A first bonding part is provided between the frame and the first plate to bond the frame and the first plate to each other, and a first abutting part is provided between the frame and the first plate, and positioned closer to the interior space than the first bonding part. A second bonding part is provided between the frame and the second plate to bond the frame and the second plate to each other, and a second abutting part is provided between the frame and the second plate and positioned closer to the interior space than the second bonding part. The second bonding part is positioned closer to the interior space than the first bonding part.
US08115388B2
There is provided a plasma display panel device using phosphors to improve reliability and color reproductivity or color performance. A plasma display panel includes: a discharge gas for generating ultraviolet light as a result of electric discharge, and a phosphor layer containing a phosphor for emitting light as a result of excitation by the ultraviolet light, in which the phosphor contains an Eu activated silicate phosphor added with at least one element selected from Al, Ga, Y and Gd, represented by the following General Formula (1): M13-yM2Si2O8:Euy (1) wherein M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ba, Ca, and Sr; M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg and Zn; and y satisfies the condition of 0.001≦y≦0.2.
US08115387B2
A plasma display panel includes a first and a second plate facing each other via a discharge space. On the first plate, a first and a second bus electrode are provided which extend in a first direction and are disposed at intervals. In a cell, a first and a second display electrode are provided and coupled to the first and the second bus electrode respectively, and facing each other. In addition, on a dielectric layer covering the first and the second bus electrode and the first and the second display electrode, a plurality of address electrodes are provided which are disposed at respective positions facing first barrier ribs. Then, a protective layer is formed directly on the address electrodes and the dielectric layer, covering a surface of the dielectric layer and the address electrodes, and being exposed to the discharge space of the cell.
US08115386B2
Electrons are prevented from being made incident onto an insulation part of a casing between dynodes to improve a withstand voltage. The photomultiplier tube 1 is a photomultiplier tube which is provided with substrates 20, 40 arranged so as to oppose each other, with the respective opposing surfaces 20a, 40a made with an insulating material, a substrate 30 constituting a casing together with the substrates 20, 40, dynodes 31a to 31j arrayed on an opposing surface 40a on the substrate 40 so as to be spaced away sequentially from a first end side to a second end side, a photocathode 22 installed so as to be spaced away from the dynode 31a to the first end side, and an anode part 32 installed so as to be spaced away from the dynode 31j to the second end side, in which the opposing surface 20a of the substrate 20 is formed so as to cover the dynodes 31a to 31j, and a plurality of conductive layers 21a to 21j set equal in potential to dynodes 31a to 31j which are electrically independent from each other are installed at sites opposing individually the dynodes 31a to 31j on the opposing surface 20a.
US08115385B2
A light source having a lead frame, a body, and a plurality of dies, each die having an LED thereon is disclosed. The body includes a top surface, a bottom surface and a plurality of side surfaces. The lead frame includes first, second, and third sections, the first section includes a die mounting area having a first protrusion that passes through the body and terminates in a pad on the bottom surface. The second and third sections each include a protrusion that is bent to form first and second leads that run along one of the side surfaces. Each die is bonded to the die mounting area such that a first contact is electrically connected to the die mounting area, and a second contact is connected to one of the second and third sections. The first protrusion of the first section provides improved heat transfer.
US08115383B2
An electroluminescent lam including a lamp substrate; a first electrode formed over the lamp substrate device side, one or more layers having light-emitting material formed over the first electrode, and a second electrode formed over the one or more layers, a chiplet having a chiplet substrate separate and independent from the lamp substrate and adhered to the lamp substrate device side, one or more connection pads, a mechanical switch, and a control circuit for controlling the mechanical switch, the mechanical switch electrically connected to one or more connection pads and at least one connection pad electrically connected to the first or second electrode with one or more electrical connection(s); and an insulating and planarization layer formed over at least a portion of the chiplet and the electrical connections so that the chiplet is an embedded chiplet.
US08115375B1
A lighting apparatus includes at least one LED and a chromaticity tuning cavity adapted to capture light from the LED. The chromaticity tuning cavity is defined by a light translucent window and a plurality of backscattering light recycling surfaces. The light translucent window is adapted to backscatter at least a portion of the LED light. A preselected chromaticity tuning member is positioned within the chromaticity tuning cavity. It is selected from a group of chromaticity tuning members adapted to tune the chromaticity of various lighting apparatuses within one quadrangle on a chromaticity diagram. At least a portion of the LED light, having been backscattered and tuned by the preselected tuning member, passes through the light translucent window as warm white extraction light.
US08115374B2
The present invention concerns an illumination system comprising radiation source that when operational emits radiation in wave length range below 280 nm to an emission element that comprises an assembly of oligo atomic metal clusters confined in molecular sieve for converting invisible radiation emitted by a radiation source at room temperature or an higher temperature to visible light and further a transparent envelope said illumination system.
US08115371B2
A spark plug having a front end of an insulating member which projects 2 mm or more from a front end face of a metal shell and a volume of the insulating member which lies within a range from a front end of the insulating member to a position lying 1 mm towards a rear end side is 11 mm3 or smaller. When the positions PA, PB, PC and PD are as defined herein, a parallel displacement amount E by which the straight line BC is displaced parallel until it contacts PD is 0.75 mm or larger. In this manner, the occurrence of lateral spark and inside spark can be suppressed effectively.
US08115369B2
Disclosed is a lighting device. The lighting device includes: a substrate; a light emitting device disposed on the substrate; a heat radiating body radiating heat from the light emitting device; and a pad being interposed between the substrate and the heat radiating body and transferring heat generated from the light emitting device to the heat radiating body and comprising silicon of 10 to 30 wt %, a filler of 70 to 90 wt %, glass fiber of 2 to 7 wt % in terms of weight percent (wt %).
US08115368B2
Disclosed is a cooling apparatus of a discharge lamp for applying a heat spreading plate to a high intensity discharge lamp or for applying both a heat spreading plate and a cooling fan to a high intensity discharge lamp so as to improve the durability of an embedded electronic ballast and to increase an optical output efficiency of a discharge lamp.
US08115353B2
A connection line has a first bent portion bent toward a coil's main body in a vicinity of a stator core's axial length limit line. Furthermore, the connection line at a portion closer to the coil's main body than the first bent portion has a second bent portion bent away from the coil's main body. Furthermore, the connection line has a third bent portion bent away from the coil's main body to have a connection portion along an end surface of the terminal member in contact therewith generally parallel thereto.
US08115352B2
A dynamoelectric machine includes a rotor having a plurality of adjacent coils; a spaceblock disposed between adjacent coils so as to define first and second cavities adjacent the spaceblock and between mutually adjacent coils; and the spaceblock includes a channel disposed in a coil facing surface of the spaceblock for intercepting and redirecting a circulating coolant flow to the first cavity.
US08115350B2
A specific condition for enhancing the power generation efficiency of an oscillation type electromagnetic power generator is disclosed. Solenoid coils constituting the oscillation type electromagnetic power generator are wound in directions opposite to each other with a predetermined coil gap therebetween. Adjacent magnets of a movable magnet are connected to each other via a spacer having a predetermined thickness in such a manner that poles with the same polarity are opposed to each other. A coil pitch which is the total dimension of the coil length of one solenoid coil and the coil gap and a magnet pitch which is the total dimension of the magnet length of one magnet of the movable magnet and the thickness of the spacer are almost equal to each other, and the coil length is shorter than the magnet length.
US08115349B2
A magnetic levitation system includes a levitation-actuator movable element which generates a levitation force applied to a control object; and a levitation-actuator stator which receives a reactive force while the control object is being operated, the levitation-actuator stator being attached to a fixed or movable structure. The levitation-actuator stator includes levitation-actuator stator units connectable to each other in a travelling direction. Each levitation-actuator stator unit includes a coil and an iron core for generating a levitation force between the levitation-actuator stator unit and the levitation-actuator movable element. A length of an end portion of each iron core is equal to or larger than a length of each coil between the ends of the coil so that the cores are continuously arranged without gaps therebetween when the levitation-actuator stator units are connected to each other in the travelling direction.
US08115348B2
The present invention discloses a unit coil, a coil assembly and a coreless type linear motor. The unit coil includes bent subcoils arranged adjacent to one another and disposed on a non-acting side axially. The coil assembly includes tri-phase unit coil modules arranged in an operating direction, and the tri-phase unit coil module is composed of three identical unit coils alternately stacked and sealed by a resin layer, and the unit coil is formed by bending and stacking sub-coils. The bent sub-coils are stacked to a sufficient thickness or arranged to a sufficient width to achieve the desired driving force, and then a magnetic rail is provided to form a coreless type linear motor. In the aforementioned structure, the unit coil composed by an alternately overlapping layout method effectively reduces the required space of the coil assembly, and the sub-coils can be manufactured easily and will not be damaged easily.
US08115339B2
Disclosed is a UPS isolation control high speed transfer switch for switching a power supply path of a UPS to a bypass line and a power supply system equipped with the high speed transfer switch. The switch is isolated from the UPS and detects the output power of UPS, and switches a power supply path from a normal power line to the bypass line, by turning off the transfer switch of the bypass line after turning off an output breaker of a normal power line when the output power is deviated from a preset normal range. Furthermore, the switch performs a switching to the bypass line only when the output breaker of the UPS is actually turned off, after confirming the turn-off of the output breaker when switching the power supply path to the bypass line.
US08115332B2
A solar-initiated wind power generation system includes: (a) at least one support member adapted to support, and being connected to and supporting, a solar canopy above ground level; (b) at least one wind-driven power turbine and generator connected to the at least one support member and to an apex of a solar canopy; (c) the solar canopy, having a periphery and an inner area wherein the inner area is at least partially elevated above the periphery to establish at least one apex with a venturi effect, the solar canopy being connected to the at least one support member, the solar canopy having a major portion being selected from the group consisting of translucent material, transparent material and combinations thereof, the at least one apex of the solar canopy being connected to the at least one wind-driven power turbine and generator.
US08115327B2
There is provided a portable electronic device capable of being immediately operated without the use of a battery even when the battery reaches exhaustion. An electricity generating unit 131 is embedded in the portable electronic device. The electricity generating unit 131 has a mechanism to pull out a pull line 113 wound around a pulley 135 to wind up a spiral spring 133 and a mechanism to transfer torque occurring when the spiral spring 133 is released and to rotate the motor at high speed. An output voltage from the motor 142 is adjusted and smoothed by a constant voltage circuit and is directly supplied as power to power consuming components. The portable electronic device connecting two flips can wind up the spiral spring 133 by opening and closing the two flips.
US08115316B2
A technology is provided for a packaging board adapted to mount a device capable of improving handleability and securing connection reliability. The packaging board includes: a pad electrode formed on a substrate; an insulating layer covering the substrate, having an opening at least in part in an area over the pad electrode; and a joint layer formed on the pad electrode inside the opening. The surface of the joint layer is lower than the top lip of the opening.
US08115315B2
Provided are embodiments of semiconductor chips having a redistributed metal interconnection directly connected to power/ground lines of an internal circuit are provided. Embodiments of the semiconductor chips include an internal circuit formed on a semiconductor substrate. A chip pad is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The chip pad is electrically connected to the internal circuit through an internal interconnection. A passivation layer is provided over the chip pad. A redistributed metal interconnection is provided on the passivation layer. The redistributed metal interconnection directly connects the internal interconnection to the chip pad through a via-hole and a chip pad opening, which penetrate at least the passivation layer. Methods of fabricating the semiconductor chip are also provided.
US08115291B2
Provided is a semiconductor package including a first substrate including a first substrate pad and a second substrate pad spaced apart from each other, first semiconductor chips stacked on the first substrate and having a first side surface and a second side surface, first chip pads disposed on the first substrate pad and adjacent to the first side surface and provided to the respective first semiconductor chips in the peripheral circuit region and electrically connected to the first substrate pad, and a second semiconductor chip disposed toward the second side surface and including a second chip pad spaced apart from the first chip pad and electrically connected to the second substrate pad, and a heat insulation member provided to the first substrate between the at least one first substrate pad and the at least one second substrate pad.
US08115288B2
A lead frame for reducing detrimental effects of burr formation includes a lead frame that has leads where a portion of a top surface is removed from a first lead and a portion of a bottom surface is removed from a second lead adjacent to the first lead to reduce spacing between leads while reducing the detrimental effects of burr formation, such as shorting and the like, caused during singulation of a semiconductor device manufactured with the lead frame.
US08115269B2
A technique for making an integrated circuit package. Specifically, a stacked memory device is provided with minimal interconnects. Memory die are stacked on top of each other and electrically coupled to a substrate. Thru vias are provided in the substrate and/or memory die to facilitate the electrical connects without necessitating a complex interconnect technology between each of the interfaces. Wire bonds are used to complete the circuit package.
US08115262B2
A dielectric multilayer structure of a microelectronic device, in which a leakage current characteristic and a dielectric constant are improved, is provided in an embodiment. The dielectric multilayer structure includes a lower dielectric layer, which is made of amorphous silicate (M1-xSixOy) or amorphous silicate nitride (M1-xSixOyNz), and an upper dielectric layer which is formed on top of the lower dielectric layer and which is made of amorphous metal oxide (M′Oy) or amorphous metal oxynitride (M′OyNz).
US08115259B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, vertical channel structures arranged on the semiconductor substrate in a matrix, a P-type semiconductor layer disposed at the semiconductor substrate to be in direct with the vertical channel structures, and a common source line disposed at the semiconductor substrate between the vertical channel structures. The common source line may be in contact with the P-type semiconductor layer.
US08115258B2
A non-volatile memory devices includes: a substrate including a circuit device and a metal line electrically connected with the circuit device; a diode connected with the metal line in a vertical direction with respect to a surface of the substrate, and including a metal layer disposed on a lower part of the diode facing the surface of the substrate; and a resistor electrically connected with the diode in series.
US08115250B2
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device including: a first conductivity type semiconductor base body; a first conductivity type pillar region; second conductivity type pillar regions; element and termination regions provided in the first and second conductivity type pillar regions, transistors being formed in the element region, and no transistors being formed in the termination region; body regions; a gate insulating film; gate electrodes; source regions; and body potential extraction regions, wherein voids are formed in the second conductivity type pillar regions of the termination region.
